yup, it will do.
It will cause the tsm server grow NOLIMIT as well :-)
Alternatively,
you can offer incrementals to files keep 6 or 7 months only
and do archives with deletefiles option for older files.
this differntiates from the upper solution in that:
- you would be responsible for deleting files, not the custommer
(responsibility move, more service from you)
- there would be 100% security that only files backed-up are deleted
- TSM storage usage and media maintenance, redundancy etc. could be easily
differentiated for young and old files
- at later timer, you could delete portions of your customer?s archived
files (in contrast to incremental
where you only can delete backup of whole file system easily)
- on the other side, only the very last version of files would be kept
forever, not the last two
- assumption: there is an easy way for you/tarchive sm to determine which
files are to be considered to be over 6 months old
regards
Juraj
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Von: Yiannakis Vakis [mailto:yiannakis.vakis AT ITD.BANKOFCYPRUS DOT COM]
Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Marz 2004 10:15
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: Retaining Deleted files
Hi,
I have the following situation and I need a confirmation here. System
information is : TSM 5.2. on Windows 2000, TSM BA client 5.2. on Windows
2000.
I'm backing up a folder with the "incremental" option, that contains a
complex subfolder tree. The contents of the subfolders are mainly
transaction files from various applications. The user wants to keep the
transaction files for 6 months on disk and then deletes the older ones (the
6th month) to make space for the new month. This is a user task and here I
don't have any involvement.
The user doesn't want to lose the deleted transaction files, because he
might want to restore something for investigation reasons.
I have set up a special policy for this. The backup copygroup definition is
as follows:
Policy Domain Name TSM_DOMAIN
Policy Set Name ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name TSM_MGMT_CLASS
Copy Group Name STANDARD
Versions Data Exists 2
Versions Data Deleted 2
Retain Extra Versions NOLIMIT
Retain Only Version NOLIMIT
Copy Mode MODIFIED
Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC
Copy Frequency 0
Copy Destination 3590STGPOOL
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Last Update Date/Time 2004-03-12 12:37:03.000000
Last Update by (administrator) YIANNAKIS
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I have specified NOLIMIT on retain extra versions and retain only version so
that I don't lose the deleted files. Is that correct ?
Thanks
Yiannakis
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