ADSM-L

Re: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

2004-09-15 10:55:36
Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?
From: Doug Thorneycroft <dthorneycroft AT LACSD DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:55:38 -0700
It's Ok to backup your database to disk, but you can't
use the backup/archive client to protect that file. 
If your database is corrupted, you won't be able to restore 
any files until you first restore the database. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Lucian Greis [mailto:lgreis AT MKV DOT DE]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:24 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?


Hi Hoa,

now this sounds interesting: I suppose I willhave to define a "FileDrive"
device, since I belive that only device classes are allowed targets to the
dbbackup command. And then set up a nice small storagepool so the file
gets instantly transferred to tape...

Thanks for all responses to my question

Regards, Lucian





Hoa V Nguyen <nguyenhv AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Gesendet von: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
15.09.2004 16:06
Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

        An:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Kopie:
        Thema:  Re: each dbbackup to new tape?


Lucian,

This is what we're doing to save 3592 tapes:

Incremental backup and full DB backup go to flat files, shift those files
to offsite or
onsite to Disk Storage Poll and let migrate functions put them on tapes.
(We have servers onsite & offsite 11 miles away for disaster).

Hoa.



Lucian Greis <lgreis AT MKV DOT DE>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
09/15/2004 08:13 AM
Please respond to
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc

Subject
each dbbackup to new tape?






Hi list,

I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first
client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem
System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one IBM-LTO2.
Basically, the system works.
Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to
write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an
earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is not).
Can someone point me to the right direction?

Regards, Lucian Greis
MKV GmbH