Katja,
one of the central features in ADSM is "incremental forever". Within the
ADSM server it does not make much sense to force a fullbackup every 180
days. You won't get any further versions of the files on your drives.

I guess, your customer does not see the logical difference between ADSM
and other Backup Products like BackupExec or ARCserve. They simply want
to get a version fixed twice a year so they can access this defined
state without caring about management classes and inactive versions. You
can do this by using the archive option in ADSM. Just define an
additional schedule for this task for each node.
You don't know which drives to backup? Use the option "DOMain all-local"
(Using the Backup Archive Client, Ch.6, page 75, Manual SH26-4078-01) to
get all local volumes backed up. Just get sure that your customer does
set the volume label of each new filespace uniquely on each server. I
recommend using names that are unique in the whole network (e.g. we use
HEBE_C, HEBE_D, HEBE_E... when the servername is HEBE). ADSM cannot
backup drives that have no volume label.

Regards,
Michael Bartl
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Michael H. Bartl
Michael H. Bartl
ADAC e.V. (Rechenzentrum, Produktionsplanung und Organisation)
Tel.: (089) 7676-4063, Fax: (089) 7676-8161
EMail: Michael.Bartl AT Zentrale.ADAC DOT de

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> Von:  Katja Maus[SMTP:katja-k.maus AT DB DOT COM]
> Gesendet:     Dienstag, 14. Juli 1998 08:24
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      New in ADSM-World - Problems with the understanding of
> the management classes
>
> Hey everyboy,
> I am new in the ADSM World and should implement the ADSM on an OS/390
> V2.4 Host
> with NT, OS/2 and AIX Clients. I have installed the ADSM V3 and
> everything works
> fine. The problem i have, is an understanding problem. I know that for
> every
> ADSM Professional it is a silly question, but I read the books since 3
> days and
> i can't find a way to get around with it.
> Here the question:
> The customer will every 6 month a full backup. He want this full
> backup trough
> the central schedule. He don't want to change anything in the DMS.OPT
> File for
> this backup. He just want to have this full backup every 6 month and
> every day
> an incremental.
> Also, he want to implement new directories or disk without give a
> notice to us
> (he just want to put them in the DSM.OPT Member and they will be
> backuped -
> incremental and full).
>
> I have thought about the archiving version for that, driven by the
> central
> scheduler function of ADSM. but with this solution i have to know
> which
> directories and disk he want to backup (archiv). This is not
> acceptable.
> I started about thinking to a second managementclass with MODE
> ABSOLUT, but i
> can't see a way to manage this.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Greetings,
> Katja Maus
>