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Re: generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-13 17:50:50
Subject: Re: generate full backup using backupsets
From: William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:50:38 -0400
How do I go about running a "full archive" on each box such that it gets 
everything on each drive? Can I use "?:*.*"  as my
filespec?

An archive won't work for the TDP agents, either.

You can't use backupsets for TDP data. Sure, you can generate a backupset for a 
node/filespace that contains TDP data, but the TDP
agent does not understand restoring from a backupset.

I had a client with this type of requirement and what we did was to  backup 
each server each month under a different nodename that
was registered in a domain where the policy was to keep inactive versions for a 
year. And to make sure that it was always a FULL
backup and not an incremental over last month, the copygroups specified 
MODE=ABSOLUTE.

Be warned that your TSM database will grow a lot!

I would very much like to use an ARCHIVE for this, but haven't figured out how 
to make it do all drives without having to code them
in a command script or in the OBJECT= for the schedule.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: generate full backup using backupsets

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Kurt Beyers
>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?

A suggestion:

Run a full archive of 3 clients each day for a month, so that you can spread 
out the 75 full backups. Set your archive management
class to keep any given archive for a year. Send those archives to a (small) 
disk pool which in turn is migrated to an archive tape
pool. Once a month check those archive tapes out and vault them. After a full 
12 months in the vault, that month's tapes can come to
the TSM server as scratch tapes.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical 
Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627