From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Cargill, Bill
> Does anyone know how to easily force a full backup? I know 
>about changing the management class attribute copymode to 
>absolute. What I'm trying to do is run a monthly full backup 
>to improve our restore performance. What we're running into 
>are many tape mounts doing a point in time restore even in a 
>co-located storage pool.  

Rather than force full backups (with all the traffic and tape issues
that entails, try using the MOVE NODEDATA command to periodically move
all of a node's data to one (or more tapes).

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
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