mi-court-buadmin
ADSM.ORG Member
I've inherited an existing TSM installation with DRM, which runs nicely and I'm learning fast. Here's my question: "When is the best time to perform the full database backup for DRM?"
Currently, the daily maintenance script does (among other things) the following:
Backs up the Disk pool to the Copy Pool
Backs up the Tape pool to the Copy pool
Performs a full DB backup to tape
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...
Expires inventory
Reclaims the Tape pool
Reclaims the Copy pool
Once these are complete, we check out tapes and take them off site.
Does it make sense to backup the database before doing the expiration and reclaims? Won't the database backup have the wrong metadata about where files are located on the tapes unless it is done AFTER the expire and reclaim tasks? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.
Currently, the daily maintenance script does (among other things) the following:
Backs up the Disk pool to the Copy Pool
Backs up the Tape pool to the Copy pool
Performs a full DB backup to tape
...
...
Expires inventory
Reclaims the Tape pool
Reclaims the Copy pool
Once these are complete, we check out tapes and take them off site.
Does it make sense to backup the database before doing the expiration and reclaims? Won't the database backup have the wrong metadata about where files are located on the tapes unless it is done AFTER the expire and reclaim tasks? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.