>010Date: 13-Jan-97 21:39:31 +0000
>From: ARW @ SMTP (Alan R.White) {arw AT TIPPER.DEMON.CO DOT UK}
>To: ADSM-L @ SMTP (Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L) {ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST 
>DOT EDU}
>001Subject: Incremental backups to two different management classes
>
>Quick question for those who know better than me.
>
>Our user requirement for one application is daily backups, twice a day,
>keeping 32 days. On top of that they want a weekly backup, same files as
>the daily but the end of week position being retained for 12 months. Then
>they want a monthly backup, retention 7 years.
>
>In ADSM speak this looks like use the default management class backup copy
>group to specify the daily backups retention and run dsmc to perform the
>backup at the specified times during the day (before and after end-of-day
>processing), i.e. incrementals. For the other two requirements it looks
>like archives to specified management classes with different retention
>periods.
>
>As most of the files involved are static, i.e. a large proportion of the
>executables, scripts etc don't change very often, we would like to run an
>incremental backup for the weekly backups also, keeping the required twelve
>months history thus saving on database space, runtimes and all the other
>good benefits of incrementals.
>
>The problem is there doesn't seem to be a way of incrementally backing up
>every day with a 32 day retention and at the weekends backing up only the
>files which have changed since the last weekend, keeping the copies for
>twelve months if they have changed during that week. A means of
>implementing this would be to be able to specify a  management class for
>incremental backups but this isn't allowed.
>
>Anyone any ideas or can this be added to an ADSM wish list?
>
>Thanks
>Alan

Hi Alan,

I do not have a reply to your question, but a question of my own.  When you
post a question, do you get back an email with help and ? after each line
of the email?  Are you simply sending email to the above address?