This is coming up in our environment as well.  Do you or has anyone out
there determined what to do in the event a backup exceeds its normal
window, or fails and has to be restarted, or some such eventuality?
Locking VOBS at unexpected times can't be too helpful to the users!

Thanks!

Kathleen




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> Anyone out there running Rational Clearcase? If you are how do you handle
> the backup of the VOBS? Do you use the Rational lock mechanism followed
by a
> regular TSM incremental backup and then unlock the VOBS after the backup
> completes? We are getting ready to do test some restores using this
> approach. Curious what other folks may be doing.

The O'Reilly book "Unix Backup & Recovery" has a chapter on ClearCase.
There is no specific information on TSM, but there is a detailed
discussion of the locking and unlocking procedures needed to obtain
a consistent backup.