>We are required to maintain historical information for numerous entities
>and reasons. We also need this to be stored off site.
>
>We have been trying to get a month end " snapshot" of our data to no avail.
>ADSM support has advised us to do an archive.
>The first time run we captured 300gb. After our second monthly archive was
>only 150gb, support indicated the archives were probably incrementals and
>suggested we run an export node. They also advised us that we could only
>run this once a month. We have tried to complete an export node several
>times only to have some problem occur that failed the job. (System crashes,
>and loss of power and such.)
>
>It would seem reasonable that backup requirements and processes that have
>occured for decades should be easily handled by ADSM.
>
>Is anyone generating these types of backups for historical off site
>storage??
>
>Wayne
>