See Ya'
Howard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Remco Post
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:47 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Repetition 1st - 3rd week
> 
> On 14 apr 2009, at 04:51, Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am wondering, would it be possible in TSM Schedule if we want to
> > create weekly full backup happens on the 1st  until 3rd ? (using 1
> > backup schedule)
> >
> 
> weekly full backup? are you really thinking TSM Enterprise Edition? Or
> are you thinking of your random favorite competing backup product?
> 
> Look at the advanced schedules, you can do a lot of things, probably
> even specify a duration of 3 weeks, if this is really what you want.
> But IMNSHO, people talking about full backups (of normal filesystems!)
> don't know what they are talking about ;-)
> 

Actually Remco, he may very well know what he's talking about, it maybe
the luser app admin, or the vendor who are requiring this.  We do full
Exchange, Oracle, and SQL TDP backups on a regular basis, as he
describes above.  And, we have apps where the "Vendor requirement" was
weekly fulls.  I told the vendor we were covered and for them not to
worry about it, then did what I normally do.  Hehe.  

He doesn't mention whether this is for a TDP application, or Straight up
File Backups.  I wouldn't assume either until we get more info.  You are
right, if he's thinking "full" for File backups either he, or the folks
requiring it, don't understand how TSM works.  More often than not, it's
not the TSM guy such as ourselves, who get this wrong, it's the
"Management", or the paranoid application Admin folks who don't
understand the Tech behind TSM.

And, as Remco says, you have to play with the Advanced Schedules.
However, what I'm interested in, is the reason behind just one schedule.
Why not two or three or even four? As long as the intended goal is met.
I have SQL Server nodes that are routinely associated with three
schedules.  1 that does a weekly full,  1 that does a daily diff, and 1
that runs a log backup every 4 hours with truncate.  I have others that
are associated with 5, the three mentioned above, plus 1 for Quarterly
full, and 1 for monthly full, these are kept for an extended periods of
time (10 years and 5 years verses the normal 30 days) that the normal
routine isn't.  (medical regulatory reasons).