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Re: [ADSM-L] Limiting backup data amount
2009-07-23 07:49:29
On 23 jul 2009, at 13:31, Björn Rackoll wrote:
Hi TSM'ers,
we have a policy that we have to be notified by a client beforehand if
there's more than 500 GB to backup. One of our clients uses version
5.4.2.7 of the tsm client on Macintosh (server: 5.5.1.0 on AIX). Is
there any possibility for him to limit a backup to 500 GB or at
least to
estimate how much data is about to be transferred?
estimate: it'll be hard to backup more than 500 GB of data of a 500 GB
disk.....
of course, on a normal workstation, people have to work really hard to
generate over a few MB of text documents. So there must be a reason
for him to worry...
On macos, if you are really worried, you could run a "find -
ctime" (lookup the manpage) to find the changed files and then
calculate...
BTW, IMNSHO, your TSM environment might be to much backup-centric and
to little recovery-centric if you need a policy for clients to notify
you if they accidentally backup a bit more than average once in a while.
Regards,
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Bjoern Rackoll
University of Hamburg
Regionales Rechenzentrum
Zentrale Dienste
Schlueterstr. 70
20146 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 - 63 11
Fax: +49 (0)40 42838 - 62 70
E-Mail: backup AT rrz.uni-hamburg DOT de
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Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,
Remco Post
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