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Re: generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-14 08:18:58
Subject: Re: generate full backup using backupsets
From: TSM_User <tsm_user AT YAHOO DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:18:39 -0700
You could write a script that runs as part of a preschedule command which gets 
a list local drives and then compares that to the list of drives that is in the 
command file.  It could then send you an e-mail if any are missing.
 
We have to do this for our cluster servers. Because there currently isn't an 
"ALL-CLUSTER" we have to hard code the drives to backup in our cluster dsm.opt 
files. So I run a script with every backup that lists out the cluster drives 
and then compares that to the drives in the dsm.opt file.  When some are 
missing we get an e-mail. An e-mail is just one of the many ways you can alert.
 
Or, you could build the cmd file that does the archive on the fly. It could get 
a list of all the local drives and archive them all.
 
K
William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET> wrote:
If you want to maintain all the schedules that go with the correct node with 
the correct drive letters for his 75 nodes.... And when
an admin adds a drive to a node without letting you know? Or removes one and 
now your schedules fail because D:\*.* doesn't exist?
Whose fault does that end up being when they can't restore the data you said 
you were archiving for them?

And if your requirements are that you be able to BMR a box to a monthly state, 
archive is out of the question.

I would sooner use archive, don't get me wrong, but there's just not a DOMAIN 
that you can specify to archive and have it pick up
everything in that DOMAIN. Like backup. With changes when those pesky admins 
change things and don't communicate it back to you.


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 9:53 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 
William Boyer
>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.

...and the problem with that is...?

--
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

                
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