Hi,
I'm not quite sure if I'm answering your question here, and I may be
opening a can of worms into a larger and much discussed topic, but might
an 'export dump' to a flat file of your databases (into a .csv or |
separated or similar format) which can then be given the TSM Archive
treatment and kept strictly to your retention requirements help you
here?
Being in a universal format it will generally mean that, in the event of
a restore in x years time, you'll be able to get at your data
irrespective of database platform or version, without having to rebuild
the system to how it may have been at the point in time your backup was
originally made. If security is also an issue here, as long as you are
diligent with your key management, you could enable encryption (56bit
DES) on the client, which is more than you can currently do with normal
TDP/API based backups in TSM which don't at the moment support
encryption.
Hope that helps,
David McClelland
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Consultant
Operations Backup and Recovery Projects
Shared Infrastructure Development
Reuters
85 Fleet Street
London EC4P 4AJ
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Levi, Ralph
Sent: 12 November 2004 14:21
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Long-term data backup strategy
I am looking for suggestions for saving data (db's and the like) for
long periods of time. Our problem is servers go EOSL (end of service
life) and we build newer ones but usually with different names, and
can't do a simple rename in TSM because both old and new server will
coexist for an extended time. Ultimately, it is time to delete the old
server from TSM and unfortunately, all the data goes bye-bye.
I prefer not to discuss the reality of what good is this data if the
underlying application or DB version is obsolete. The users just "want
their data saved" despite that we tell them it is nearly useless.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks,
Ralph
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