Can you explain what you mean by:

"Also, as others have mentioned before, there's no need to make these
 monthly/yearly backups a selective(full).  You can just make a 12
 version & 5 version management policy for the monthly & yearly backups,
 respectively.  All the backups can be incremental this way, and you
save
 bookoo tapes & DB entries (not to mention faster backups)."

As I have a similar issue.

Thanks
Paul Dudley


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Troy Frank
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 8:06 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Weekly, Monthly, Yearly Selectives
>
> This sounds like a classic request from management that doesn't
> understand TSM works differently from typical backup software, and
> they're trying to shoehorn it into behaving as they're used to.  If
you
> make your normal retention policy 30 versions or more, you can at
least
> get rid of the weekly/monthly full backups.  In our case, we do 60
> versions held for 60 days.  So if/when we do longer term archives, it
> would have to be at most bi-monthly.
>
> Also, as others have mentioned before, there's no need to make these
> monthly/yearly backups a selective(full).  You can just make a 12
> version & 5 version management policy for the monthly & yearly
backups,
> respectively.  All the backups can be incremental this way, and you
save
> bookoo tapes & DB entries (not to mention faster backups).
>
>
> >>> bscott AT EDS DOT COM 9/12/2006 4:12 PM >>>
> Fellow TSM'rs,
>
> I have been tasked to provide a backup schedule to provide weekly,
> monthly, and yearly full backups for a 5 year duration. The weekly
would
> be retained for a month, monthly for a year, and yearly for 5 years.
> I've created separate policies, nodenames, etc. to keep the policy
> retentions separate. The problem I have is the actual TSM client
> schedule on the server.
>
> How do I keep the weekly selective backup from running at the end of
> the month when the monthly selective is supposed to kickoff? Same
thing
> for the monthly at the end of the year when the yearly selective will
> kickoff?
>
> I'm running TSM server 5.3.3.0 and BA 5.3.4 and I see the Enhanced
> Schedule capability to provide DAYOFWEEK and WEEKOFMONTH to which I
> can
> set Saturday as DAYOFWEEK and First,Second,Third as WEEKOFMONTH
> but some
> months have 4 weeks while others have 5. Also, I can't set the weekly
to
> be every Saturday BUT the last Saturday of the month and the montly to
> be every last Saturday BUT the last Saturday of the year.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
> Brian Scott
> EDS
> Global Client Engineering-GM
> MS 3234
> 4594 W Nancy Dr.
> Kankakee, IL 60901
>
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