Eric,
 To organize your data, the following command should do the trick: *move
nodedata; *when you have a chance, please research. Additionally, yes, full
(selective) backups are seems as files. And as such, the normal copy group
retention periods apply. I hope this information was beneficial
 --MG


 On 11/14/05, Jones, Eric J <eric.j.jones AT lmco DOT com> wrote:
>
> Good Afternoon.
>
> I have a question on backups and how if you mix full backups and
> incremental backups the data is stored.
>
> We are running TSM 5.2.2 on all our TSM clients(AIX, SUN, Windows 2000,
> windows 2003), and the server is AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2.
>
> We normally just run incremental for all our machines and over the years
> the data gets scattered every where(number of tapes and in some cases
> 30+) so restores can be very slow. We keep all our data for 90 days so
> with the incremental backups the files expire after 90 days if the file
> has been backed up(90 day policy/keep up to 90 backups). My question is
> if I want to do a full backup every 120 days just to better organize my
> data on less tapes(current data) does it effect the incremental data
> that is on tape in any way? Does TSM see the backups including a full
> backup as files and they expire after a given amount of time?
>
> From what I could find that is the case but I do not want to mess up
> years of data and the users were asking lots of questions on how it
> might affect them. They would be happy with the possibility of faster
> restores.
>
> Another question came up, is there any way to have TSM organize data
> already on tape for a specific server so it's on a few tapes instead of
> spread across many tapes? Just seeing if we could better manage our
> data.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric Jones
>