The simplest way is to do full backups everyday and set your expiration to
7 days (Hopefully this will fit on 5 tapes).  Remember you should also
backup the DB from time to time!

Etienne



Hi Rick,

thanks for your answer but in our case we have 5 tapes that shall be
recycled every week...
Another question: What i've to create on the server to do incremental
backups and full backups for about a week retention?



>From: Rick Harderwijk <r.harderwijk AT FACTOTUM DOT NL>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Incremental & full backups
>Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:52:06 +0200
>
>Jean-Baptiste,
>
>I have some rather good news for you: you only do a full backup once.
After
>that, only incrementals. That's the difference with TSM... :)
>
>Regards,
>
>Rick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
>Jean-Baptiste Nothomb
>Sent: woensdag 22 mei 2002 20:08
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Incremental & full backups
>
>
>Hello,
>
>big question by a newbie:
>
>we want to put in place backups with the following scheme: One full
backup
>of client nodes done Friday and the backup during the other days shall be
>incremental. The backups shall be kept for about 7 days.
>How have I to define the policy in ADSM. Can someone give me examples
>because I'm really new to this product.
>Another question: Does ADSM take care about holidays?
>
>Thanks a lot for your help,
>Jean-Baptiste
>
>
>
>
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