I can help you with a couple of these things.

We do a yearly archive on 10 CADD servers in our company.  They're NT servers
and our ADSM server is on the VM mainframe.

Because they're NT servers, we can run the archive as an NT service.  We use
the DSMCUTIL command to create a separate NT service for the yearly backup.
We created a separate management class for the yearly archives and at the top
of all our EXCLUDE  statements in the options file we have an INCLUDE
statement which reads:

INCLUDE *:\...\* CEDCADY

Keep in mind, though, that depending on how many machines you're backing up,
this can be a huge amount of data going across your network at a possibly
very busy time of year.  If your major concern is not losing data, I'd make
the extra effort to get exclude statements in there for anything and
everything you don't need to archive.

where CEDCADY is the name of the management class for the yearly archive.

If you're not backing up NT servers, then you'd have to initiate another
scheduled session with ADSM or use whatever other scheduler you're using.

Hope this helps
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6/99
02:04 PM ---------------------------


Michael A Cernak
12/06/99 01:51 PM
To: Betsy Moir/LAKE/CHMS/ABBOTT@ABBOTT
cc:
Subject: archive (gotta get it all)

Betsy, do you think our experience with CED archives would help this guy?  It
also sounds like he doesn't comprehend the magnitude of the task due to
volume of data.
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ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu on 99-12-05 06:45:40 AM
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Subject: archive (gotta get it all)

We have been told that the Insurance Commisioner in our state (MA), has
informed us insurance companies that we need to have "static backups of
vital records" at the Y2K rollover.

I'm trying to set up a special scheduled archive run for all participating
client nodes (we are mainframe-based server).  I'm wondering if anyone has
tried and true "objects" all-inclusive for a scheduled task that will get it
all (  maybe  *:*   ?)

I'm wondering what other companies are doing in this regards?

Dave Sanders
Sr. Technical Consultant
MassMutual / The Blue Chip Company
1295 State St, E060, Springfield, MA 01111
413-744-5095