On 15-Jul-99 Mark Kimelheim wrote:
> ADSM employs an "incremental forever" backup paradigm.  However, we'll be
> performing maintenace on a client this weekend, and so the there will be a
> increased risk of data loss.  Would it be prudent to take a selective
> rather than an incremental backup in anticipation of that maintenance?  Has
> anyone adopted this practice?

  Yes, it would be very prudent, specially if you don't use 'collocation=yes'.
  If you have to restore some (or all) of your filesystems, all your data
  is backup-ed (by your selective backup) on a couple of tapes (instead
  of all your data is spread out over 'I don't know how much tapes').

  Cheers,
  Henk.