Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: Re: Full backup whit client NT
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    6/9/97 10:26 AM


Wouldn't the next backup (selective or incremental) just cause the objects
to then rebind to the that management class, thereby undoing the extended
retention?  I thought that previous discussions led to the conclusion that a
weekly or monthly backup done in addition to incrementals would have to be
done via archive because of this binding issue.
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From: dan thompson
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Full backup whit client NT
Date: Saturday, June 07, 1997 1:29PM


Santiago,

  You have stated that you need a monthly archive of each of your NT
clients in their entirety.  Is an acceptable alternative would be to run a
monthly selective backup of all files to a management class with different
retention rules?  If so you can set up a standard batch file on all your NT
clients that does this selective backup and then schedule this backup
monthly.  If you want to use the ADSM client to schedule this backup than
this needs to be run as a Command event.

To get this to work you need to have an options file that specifies all
files go to a management class with your required retention specs.  Then
create a batch file that sets the environment variable of DSM_CONFIG to
that special option file and then runs the command you require.  Below are
some examples of the batch file and option files include statements.

As many of the ADSM gurus on this forum would probably point out, there is
rarely a reason to do archive or full backups as this goes against ADSM's
design.  I am curious about the customer requirement that is driving your
intention to run a montly archive.  There is most likely an easier method
of providing this.

Anyway, here are the examples I promised:

Batch file example
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@echo off
@echo Monthly ADSM Full Backup Begins
@set dsm_dir=c:\adsmdir
@set dsm_config=c:\adsmdir\monthly.opt
dsmc sel ?:* > c:\adsmdir\logs\monthly.log
@echo Monthly ADSM Full Backup Completed. (Good or bad? who knows)
@exit

Include parm in monthly.opt
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include ?:* monthlymc



Good Luck,
  Dan Thompson
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> From: Santiago Crespo <british.sac AT MAD.SERVICOM DOT ES>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Full backup whit client NT
> Date: Friday, June 06, 1997 4:37 AM
>
> Hi,
> I have ADSM 2.1 running in the server AIX 4.1
> Now I am running a incremental daily backup,but I need a archive full of
> all files of my client NT once at monthly.
> I don't know do this, and I need do this from schedule.
> How can I do this?