Thanks for your response. This user has a dp
background and doesn't want his files "spread over many tapes", making a
tape failure more likely to effect him. That's why he wants a "full
backup" about once a month. Also, what does "then kick off selectives
for each of his hard drives" mean?
TIA
Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
(713)670-2443
Fax: (713)670-2457
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Thompson
[SMTP:thompsod AT USAA DOT COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 1998 2:58
PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Full backups
Orin,
This may be a simple answer, or not, depending
on what your USER really
wants.
If he simply desires that a full backup be done
monthly, then kick off
selectives for each of his hard drives.
If your USER really wants a monthly full that is
kept for a specific amount
of time then you have several options. This has
been discussed in detail
on this forum in the past and these discussions
(as well as info. on a
whitepaper someone wrote) you can extract them
from the listserv archives.
However, here are some of the options.
1) An easy options is to archive the data. If
the USER wants this data
kept for more than a month, then you will have
multiple copies of the same
file in ADSM's DB and storage, which is
inefficient and contrary to one of
ADSM's design features (don't send or store the
same data more than once).
For one user, this may not be a major concern.
Another concern is that
extra effort must be made to get individual
file(s) back from an archive.
2) You can run a backup monthly using another
nodename. By specifying
another node, the daily backups and monthly
backups will not interact with
one another, so to speak. This solution is
handy if your user simply wants
the ability to recover to a backup as it was
taken at month-end. The data
stored on ADSM will be doubled due to the
multiple nodes, but this may be
more efficient than the archives, depending on
the desired retention
period.
I hope this helps. If you want it, I have some
copies of the
e-mail/jcl-esque message you send to the
listserv server to do searchs.
Good luck,
Dan T.
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> From: Orin Rehorst <rehorst AT POHA DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Full backups
> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 3:34 PM
>
> Have one user who wants a full backup once a
month (and he's got the
> clout to get 'em). How is that done, please.
(OS is Win95)
>
> TIA
>
> Orin Rehorst
> MIS Project Manager
> Port of Houston Authority
> Technical Coordinator, TOPAS, and EDI
standards committee
> rehorst AT poha DOT com
> Phone: (713)670-2443
> Fax: (713)670-2457
> http://www.neosoft.com/~rehorst/home.htm
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