Hello,

difficult to understand what they are going to restore older than a few days
back!!

I would do regular backups, keep them for 2 weeks and keep all the DB data
online. Then, on each new year, I would archive (DB purge) old data, for
instance older than 2  or 3 years, using a package like IBM Commonstore.

But...

Regards,

Rene Lambelet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Turner [SMTP:jason_turner AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 3:56 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:
>
> How would a person configure Tivoli Storage Manager to
> keep a weekly full backups of a 120GB Oracle database
> for 7 years.
>
> Specifically they would be using Tivoli Storage
> Manager 3.7 with Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle.
> They want to performing daily incremental backups, and
> weekly full backups.  They need to keep the weekly
> full backups/archives for 7 years (and yes they are a
> financial institution).  They thought they could
> perform an instant archive although I don't believe
> this is available for the agents.  The fact that
> Oracle doesn't "archive data" and that EBU/RMAN
> controls the inventory of backups this seems to make
> things more difficult.  What do you recommend or what
> have other customers done in the past?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
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