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Re: [ADSM-L] First Backup day

2007-08-23 12:12:18
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] First Backup day
From: Fred Johanson <Fred AT UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:10:23 -0500
Why not use the gui to look up some unchanging system file, as in the
OS?  The creation date should show when first backed up. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Dennis, Melburn IT7
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:05 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] First Backup day

There are two ways to find this information.  The first option is the
easiest.  By default TSM retains the session summary of backups
(scheduled and unscheduled) for 30 days.  If you know that the backups
for these nodes were within that period then you can query the 'summary'
table to see the earliest day of backup for a specific node.  If the
backups began earlier than that, then you will be forced to query the
'backup' table (which is a pain as the archive and backup tables in TSM
are the largest and can usually take a really long time to query) and
look for the oldest backup date of the files that node contains.  Here
are the examples of the two queries mentioned:

Querying the summary table:

        select entity,start_time from summary where activity='BACKUP'
and entity='NODENAME' order by start_time

Querying the backup table:

        select node_name,backup_date from backups where
node_name='NODENAME' order by backup_date

Hope this helps!


Mel Dennis
Backup Systems Engineer
 
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc.
PGST Data Center Operations
4400 Alafaya Trail
MC Q1-108
Orlando, FL 32826
Tel.: 407-736-2360
Mob: 321-356-9366
Fax: 407-243-0260
mailto:melburn.dennis AT siemens DOT com
www.usa.siemens.com/it-solutions



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Shawn Drew
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:48 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] First Backup day

We have a request to provide the first day backups were run for a list
of nodes.  The registration date isn't good, as there is a several day
lag from registration to first backup.
These dates are older than the age of the event and activity log.  Can
anyone suggest a select statement for this?


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Shawn Drew
Data Protection Engineer
Core IT Production
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Mobile: 917.774.8141

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