On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:11, Jim Zajkowski wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on our internal "late night admin guide," and one of the
> things I'm thinking of is how can I get TSM prepared to do a restore.
>
> Here's what I mean: let's say I know that there is going to be some
> filesystem maintenance on a client.  Since we've been burned by that
> kind of operation in the past, I'd like TSM to prefetch the
> appropriate data from tape and have it ready to go (on disk) for a
> restore.
>
> Archives would do the trick except that uses the client, potentially
> during business hours.
>
> Backupsets look like they might work but they're kind of rigid... can
> a backupset be restored followed by restoring the latest
> incrementals?  So I could create a backupset on Friday before the
> procedure on Saturday, and then be able to restore the incremental we
> took before beginning the disk operation after that?
Yes.
You can also do a full backup (if the backup window allows this) on friday and
put the data in a diskpool or on a single tape.  Ones the drive is streaming,
it will go fast.

My "dream" is a way to keep all active data on a diskpool and all inactive
data on a tape pool.  I know there was some work in this area, but I don't
know what the status is.


Stef