Sorry for the confusions. What happened is
one of our clients use SAP, DB2 running on AIX.
They use TSM as their backup software and I configured
the DB2 to do online backup using TSM. They have been
performinging their backups(40 - 50 GB daily) that
way.

They called me yesterday and told me they were made to
purchase TDP for R/3 and they asked me how they can be
benefited by using it. All I know about TDP for R/3 is
from manual "Tivoli Data Protectio for R/3
Installatio &User  s Guide for DB2 UDB". So I need
somebody who has TDP for R/3 experience give me some
points.

Thanks a lot!

Bill

--- "Nelson, Doug" <DNelson AT CHITTENDEN DOT COM> wrote:
> Sorry Bill, you've lost me there. I don't follow
> either of your questions. -Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Zhang [mailto:aicc_us AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:48 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: TDP R/3
>
>
> Doug,
>
> Can a online backup backup open database files?
>
> Can parallel backup paths, multi-thread be one of
> the
> benefits?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill
>
>
> --- "Nelson, Doug" <DNelson AT CHITTENDEN DOT COM> wrote:
> > TDP can backup open database files. In a 24x7
> > environment, TDP is essential. If you have quiet
> > periods where you can do a dynamic backup (and
> this
> > is appropriate), or an export and backup, then you
> > don't need it.
> >
> > Douglas C. Nelson
> > Distributed Computing Consultant
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Zhang [mailto:aicc_us AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:01 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: TDP R/3
> >
> >
> > Can somebody explain me why use TDP for R/3 to
> > backup
> > SAP DB2 database while you can backup DB2
> > offline/online directly to TSM?
> > What are the binifits?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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