ADSM-L

generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-13 17:24:36
Subject: generate full backup using backupsets
From: Kurt Beyers <Kurt.Beyers AT DOLMEN DOT BE>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:08:47 +0200
Hello TSM admins,

I've got a TSM setup of:

TSM 5.3.1.x server on Windows2003
backup to disk only (primary storage pool on a SAN and a copy storage pool to a 
remote SAN)

The clients are a mixture of Windows NT/2000/2003, Solaris and Linux servers 
with Notes, MS SQL and Informix as applications that are backed up with a TDP.

Due to SLA agreements a full backup should be taken every month that is stored 
offsite for a year. Of course this does not match with the principles 
'incremental forever' and the versioning defined in the management classes.

I guess that a full backup can be created from the backups already residing in 
the primary storage pool using a backupset.

Would such a setup be feasible for 75 clients (load on the TSM server, required 
time to generate the backupsets, ...)? Can it be used for backups from a TDP 
too? Any howto's for the creation of a backupset?

Are there any other methods that could be used beside a backupset?

thanks for any suggestions or tips/hints,

Kurt Beyers