Orin,

  This may be a simple answer, or not, depending on what your USER really
wants.

If he simply desires that a full backup be done monthly, then kick off
selectives for each of his hard drives.

If your USER really wants a monthly full that is kept for a specific amount
of time then you have several options.  This has been discussed in detail
on this forum in the past and these discussions (as well as info. on a
whitepaper someone wrote) you can extract them from the listserv archives.

However, here are some of the options.
1) An easy options is to archive the data.  If the USER wants this data
kept for more than a month, then you will have multiple copies of the same
file in ADSM's DB and storage, which is inefficient and contrary to one of
ADSM's design features (don't send or store the same data more than once).
For one user, this may not be a major concern.  Another concern is that
extra effort must be made to get individual file(s) back from an archive.

2) You can run a backup monthly using another nodename.  By specifying
another node, the daily backups and monthly backups will not interact with
one another, so to speak.  This solution is handy if your user simply wants
the ability to recover to a backup as it was taken at month-end.  The data
stored on ADSM will be doubled due to the multiple nodes, but this may be
more efficient than the archives, depending on the desired retention
period.

I hope this helps.  If you want it, I have some copies of the
 e-mail/jcl-esque message you send to the listserv server to do searchs.


Good luck,
  Dan T.

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> From: Orin Rehorst <rehorst AT POHA DOT COM>
> From: Orin Rehorst <rehorst AT POHA DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Full backups
> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 3:34 PM
>
> Have one user who wants a full backup once a month (and he's got the
> clout to get 'em). How is that done, please.  (OS is Win95)
>
> TIA
>
> Orin Rehorst
> MIS Project Manager
> Port of Houston Authority
> Technical Coordinator, TOPAS, and EDI standards committee
> rehorst AT poha DOT com
> Phone: (713)670-2443
> Fax: (713)670-2457
> http://www.neosoft.com/~rehorst/home.htm