There are THREE "sure" ways to trigger a (traditional) FULL backup:

1 - run "dsmc i" (incremental command) but use a management class which maps
to a copygroup which specifies "absolute" (rather than modified) for "mode",
AND frequency=0 (to allow on demand);  this is the "easiest" way to force
FULL (for data mapped to the appropriate management class, via INCLUDE
specs.);

2 - use the archive command (but you must specify each file system);

3 - selective will also work, but you must specify each file system.

That should do it.


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
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Hello,

Is there an easy way to do a full command line backup.   I have an NT
client
version 4.2.15 and I would like to do full backups instead of incremental.

Thanks

Chad
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