Owen,

Do NOT take an image of the SAP System using the ADSM Archive. SAP has a
many symbolic link files. ADSM Archive does NOT restore symbolic link file.
I am looking for alternative solution.

At 09:01 AM 9/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>At 08:16 AM 9/4/96 -0400, Jerry Lawson wrote:
>>Because of it's design, and the use of the Data Base, it is not a requirement
>>to do full backups.
>
>Thanks for this info, it helps explain things re: regular file backup, but
>I should have said more about my situation. I'm doing backups of multiple
>Oracle servers which are part of an SAP system.
>
>The servers can only afford to be brought down once a week and fully backed
>up. The full backup uses backing Then the transaction logs are backed up
>daily for an "incremental" approach. This is the main system I'm trying to
>work with.
>
>>The design lets
>>you always get to the latest copy of the files, thus allowing ADSM to go
>>directly to the files that made up your disk the last time it was backed up.
>
>This is great if I want the latest copy, but what if I want one from a
>month ago when I know that virus wasn't a problem (or when that important
>spreadsheet wasn't corrupted)? Or if I need a full system image from
>January 1, 1994 for that tax audit? That's why I want weekly, monthly, and
>yearly backups. If I'm reading you correctly, I'll have to set my retention
>to 365*7 days and make it keep unlimited copies of each file (i.e. each and
>every instance of a file), right? These tapes hold a lot, but not that much.
>
>>As they said in Star Trek 5 "Let go of your pain....."
>
>It's not really a pain, just a nagging cough <G>.
>
>Thanks again for the great info,
>Owen
>
>
Michael Louie
Varian Associates
415-424-5055