Mike

I've got few unusual DBMSs to deal with that have no TDP.  (Sybase, Reality, 
Cache)  

Sometimes we can back up to disk and then to TSM (Sybase, MSSQL and oracle at 
the moment as we've only just got the TDP licences)

For Reality, I've cranked up the adsmpipe utilty

But for Cache, its backup facility  wants real tape hardware and resists being 
sent to a pipe.  In this case we have to create two databases, primary and 
shadow and for backup, quiesce the shadow, back up the underlying files and 
then play forward the logs.

As the DB gets large, this may need to be done with a Flashcopy and hence TDP 
for hardware. 

HTH

Steve.

>>> mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX 15/09/2004 1:41:48 >>>
Given that TSM has TDP for many databases and that TDP can do
incremental backups at the record level. What are the thoughts
for using TDB vs. using FlashCopy on an ESS/Shark? The FlashCopy
must backup the entire database each time, unless the backup
database could be mounted to a secondary server that could then
start TDP on the backup copy...?

Mike



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