Re: selective backup prior to client maintenance?
1999-07-15 15:40:59
It's a cost-benefit thing.
If you have your management classes/copy groups set to keep n versions of
each file, remember that when you do a selective you may be bumping off
older versions that are unique, to create duplicates of files that dont'
really need backing up because they haven't changed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kimelheim [SMTP:Mark_Kimelheim AT SBPHRD DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:02 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: selective backup prior to client maintenance?
>
> ADSM employs an "incremental forever" backup paradigm. However, we'll be
> performing maintenace on a client this weekend, and so the there will be a
> increased risk of data loss. Would it be prudent to take a selective
> rather than an incremental backup in anticipation of that maintenance?
> Has
> anyone adopted this practice?
>
> Thanks.
> Mark.
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