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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims
Sent: Thu 2/16/2006 12:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Fulls vs. incrementals for TSM DB



Allen - The elevated number of tapes would be the biggest issue...

That poses more of a burden on your scratch supply.
There's also more jeopardy for recovery if one of the incrementals is
missing at recovery time. In human terms, it's also more confusing at
recovery time to deal with more than one tape. Whereas db backups are
principal participants in DR procedures, there's more tape juggling
in the going out and coming back.

But db incrementals do work well, so there's no functionality problem.

    Richard Sims