>Leo,
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>Its my understanding from previous traffic on this list that having 3
clients on
>one machine, whilst it requires you to REGISTER three client licences, you
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>only have to pay for one.  Do you know differently?
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>Steve Harris
>AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy
>The Wesley Hospital
>Brisbane Australia
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>Leo Humar <lhumar AT BIGPOND.NET DOT AU> on 07/10/99 23:24:31
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>Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Subject: Re: incr backups with varying mgm (2nd)
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>G'day Ralf,
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>We do a daily incremental and a monthly incremental with two separate
>clients on the same node.
>Files are bound to a management class and you can't change from one
MGMclass
>to the next without losing backup versions. To achieve your goal you will
>need three clients on the same node ( three client licenses).
>We are saving a lot of space on the tapes and the other benefit is when we
>have to restore a large client there are fewer tape changes required.
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>Leo Humar
>LCS Pty Ltd
>lhumar AT bigpond.net DOT au
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>No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Masa, Ralf <masa.ralf AT COMBIBLOC DOT COM>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>Date: 7 October 1999 16:55
>Subject: incr backups with varying mgm (2nd)
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>>Thanks for your response so far...
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>>I will try to explain what we want to do and what we expected from ADSM to
>>do:
>>May there be a file, which changes every day, so every backup will lead to
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>>new active version of that file. Although we need to hold some inactive
>>versions of that file for 1 year, we do not want to hold all 365 versions
>>(we do not have the storage capacity for that...).
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>>If we do backups without versioning (i.e. nolimit) for example on weekdays
>>with a retention period of 7 days, at Sunday with a retention period of 30
>>days and at every 28th with a retention period of 365 days we expect, that
>>the different bindings of the inactive files (-> 7, 30 or 365 days ret.
>>per.) will never change, independent from the varying binding of the
active
>>file.
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>>I hope I could figure it out a little bit...
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>>TIA for any response
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>>R. Masa
>>masa.ralf AT combibloc DOT com
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