Hallo Moses,

I although have to make a daily and a monthly backup on the server with
different retention periods.
I solve the problem by creating to policy domains dayly_pd and monthly_pd
where are different management classes.
On the node I use two different nodes <hostname>_day and <hostname>_mon
which are backed up in the responding policy domain with the responding
management class.
I have to use two dsm.opt files when i start the two schedulers
Use export DSM_CONFIG=$DSM_DIR/dsm.opt or export DSM_CONFIG
=$DSM_DIR/mon_dsm.opt in Script to start the two schedulers.

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Ralf Behrendt
mailto:ralf.behrendt AT wgz-bank DOT de

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> schrieb am 29.06.2004
18:00:44:

> Hi people,
> I have a burning question which hopefully somebody can provide an
> answer to. Have been asked to backup SQL servers daily using TSM . The
> details and instructions for how these backups are performed and any
> characteristics are contained in the respective management class of the
> policy set in the policy domain. I also need to backup these servers at
> monthend and some every five weeks. What I am trying to find out is if it
> is possible to have more than one backup copygroup under this management
> class. The reason is because the period backups will have different
> retention times to the dailys and possibly different retain only version
> values.

> Is it feasible to create two separate backup copygroups to manage this ?
> If so how would you get the server to differentiate between if a backup
is
> run daily or at the end of periods.

> Once again any help would be gratefully received, examples would be even
> more gratefully received.