You might be looking for different retention periods for these
point-in-time backups from the rest of your data.  You can do this handily
with archives, or you can use multiple nodenames per system to manage
different incremental series.  This has been discussed at length before,
check the archives.



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William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc





"Thomas A. La Porte" <tlaporte AT ANIM.DREAMWORKS DOT COM>
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03/07/2002 03:42 PM
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If you manage your RETVER and VEREXISTS and RETONLY parameters
properly, this can be accomplished with point in time *restores*,
rather than point in time backups.

-- Tom
Thomas A. La Porte
Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Cheri Howard wrote:

>I have numerous customers who are requesting that, in addition to their
TSM
>daily incremental backups, I also provide them with  "point in time"
>backups of their data on significant days like month end, quarter end,
etc.
>
>I would guess there are numerous ways this can be accomplished with TSM.
>I'm looking for input from those who are doing this successfully and
would
>be willing to share what method they're using to accomplish this and the
>pros and cons of their chosen method.
>
>Thanks in advance for your input!
>
>Cheri Howard
>Lead Storage Analyst
>Aid Association for Lutherans/Lutheran Brotherhood
>4321 N. Ballard Road, Appleton, WI  54919-0001
>http://www.aal.org
>