Thanks for the answers on the full/incremental backups.
I did some research on the move node but it looks like you move from one
pool to different pool(could be very confused).  I would like to move
within the same pool but combine all the backups from a node(20+ tapes)
to 1 or 2 tapes within the same pool to help with restores.   Some of
the machines have been backed up for years and the data is spread across
so many tapes.  Can the pools be the same (FROMSTGPOOL and TOSTGPOOL)?
Never used this command before and a little nervous.

Thanks for all the help,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
John Black
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:28 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup question - Full and Incremental

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
>