> Hi there,
>
> You mentioned "PITDATE" options on the backup sets...  Has anyone hear if
> this is actually being done in the near future?  I was shocked to see that
> point-in-time options were not supported in the first place and I was
> planning on submitting it as a feature request.  I can't understand why
you
> shouldn't be able to generate a backup set using essentially any of the
> non-interactive options that you can use from the client side.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott.
>
> At 07:41 PM 12/14/99 -0000, you wrote:
> >Hi Kelly
> >
> >Mmm not possible when you have 400 machines backing up to one ADSM server
> >and they all want a end of month archive. Current implementation of
> >backupsets (aka 'instant archives' - name is awfully misleading) requires
> >the backupset generation to finish before the next incremental backup.
Also
> >uses loads more tapes too. Backupsets do have their place though - will
be
> >much more usable when they put a pitdate and pittime parameter on the
> >command though.
> >
> >With the proposed method there is absolutely no additional processing -
> >except perhaps for expiration - maybe we don't want that tinkered with
for a
> >while after it being broke for all of version 3 until 3.1.2.42.
> >
> >Regards
> >Alan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Kelly J. Lipp <lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM>
> >To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 4:38 PM
> >Subject: Re: Wishlist [was: Re: Archives]
> >
> >
> >> I've not been following this thread, but what about Instant Archive
> >instead
> >> of actually moving the data again?
> >>
> >> Kelly J. Lipp
> >> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> >> PO Box 51313
> >> Colorado Springs CO 80919
> >> (719)531-5926
> >> Fax: (719)260-5991
> >> www.storsol.com
> >> lipp AT storsol DOT com
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> >> Behalf Of
> >> Alan R. White
> >> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 3:04 PM
> >> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >> Subject: Wishlist [was: Re: Archives]
> >>
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be cool if the policy copygroups contained additional
> >facilities
> >> for specifying that a revision of a file which corresponds to a weekly
or
> >> monthly 'view' of a filesystem should be retained for an alternative
> >length
> >> of time? Expiration would have to get more intelligent (groans) so it
> >> doesn't expire these 'views' of data until the specified time.
Reclamation
> >> etc would work as normal.
> >>
> >> I'm going to submit this as a request through the usual channels. This
> >means
> >> it won't get done unless everybody hits them with it. Anyone else think
> >this
> >> change would be a good idea?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Alan
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Franco Martini <franco.martini AT RAIFFEISEN DOT CH>
> >> To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 2:18 PM
> >> Subject: Archives
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi
> >> > We have the policy to make every week an archive and every
> >> > month one (different management classes).
> >> > So we decided to make every saturday morning a week archive
> >> > and every first day of the month a monthly backup.
> >> >
> >> > Now we have the problem that sometimes it happens that saturday is
the
> >> first of
> >> > a month
> >> > and so ADSM makes two archives of the same data. :(
> >> > Thats a waste of network bandwith and Tapes.
> >> >
> >> > Is there a possibility to tell the ADSM Server if he makes a monthly
> >> archive
> >> > we dont want a weekly archive?
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Franco
> >> >
> >>
>
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> >> > 9001 St. Gallen
> >>
>
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> >
> >
> Scott McCambly
> AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> (613)799-9269