Hi,

Currently i am the new administrator of TSM in my organization.

I have a request for backing up a windows 2000 server (backup domain C and
D) and i must be able to restore data up to two years ago.

Please find below the solution i am going to implement for the above
request
and let me know:

1.Every day i will run incremental (progressive) backup with the following
Backup Copy Group: (keep incremental backup for one year)

   VEREXISTS=NOLIMIT
   VERDELETED=NOLIMIT
   RETEXTRA=365
   RETONLY=31

2. At the end of the year (30/12/2004) i will perform an archive and keep
it
for 730 days.

3. What about backing up the system state of a windows 2000 server?
Is it ok to perform "dsmc backup systemstate" or is better to use NTBackup
utility and save the backup file on the disk and then backup that file with
TSM.

I would appreciate to have your comments on the above issues.

Thanks for your time
Nicolas Savva

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