Just do these steps and you won't have to do anything from month to month to
get full backups:

1. put all these nodes in their own policy domain
2. copy the policy set in that domain to a new name.
        copy po standard standard standard-full
3. for each management class in the standard-full policy set, change the
backup copygroup to MODE=ABSOLUTE
        upd co standard standard-full <mgmtclass> t=b mode=absolute
4. On the day you want to run the "full" backup, schedule and administrative
schedule that runs:
        def sched schedule-full t=a cmd='act po standard standard-full' ....

You will now get a full ( MODE=ABSOLUTE ) backup for all those nodes the
next time the schedule runs. No having to specify OBJ= on separate schedules
for each node. Just let it run the normal nightly ACT=INCREMENTAL schedules.
The MODE=ABSOLUTE will take care of the rest

5. Create another admin schedule for the following day to set it back to the
normal MODE=MODIFIED
        def sched reset-mode t=a cmd='Act po standard standard'
blah-blah-blah

Then from month to month there will be no changes on your part to get fulls.
For all the nodes you put in this policy domain, you'll get full backups.



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:36 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler.

Hi Richard,

      I tried following options;

Scenario 1:

        Policy Domain Name: WORKFLOW
                 Schedule Name: TEST_FULL_BKP
                   Description:
                        Action: Selective
                       Options: -subdir=yes
                       Objects: *
                      Priority: 5

Result: only files under "c$\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\"
directory got backed up. "DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL" was specified in the dsm.opt
client node.

Scenario 2:

        Policy Domain Name: WORKFLOW
                 Schedule Name: TEST_FULL_BKP
                   Description:  Incremental Backup Of WorkFlow Servers
                        Action: Selective
                       Options: -subdir=yes
                       Objects:

Result: I am getting error message saying "ANS1079E No file specification
entered".



     Am I missing out anything.



Regards,

Rajesh Lakshminarayanan


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:01 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler.

On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
>    Thnx for your suggestion... Domain option is specified in my client

> dsm.opt file. But still my schedule ends  with failure message(RC-12)
> ....
>
>    Should I need to remove the drive name specified in the object
> parameter in the scheduler when the domain option is specified in the
> dsm.opt file....

Yes; the Objects list will cause the DOMain statement specs to be
disregarded, much like performing 'dsmc incremental a: b: c:'.  The point of
the DOMain option is to allow each client to have a drives list which is
specific to its environment, given that computer disk complements can vary
so much.

And: In your backups, be certain that you really want a Selective backup
rather than Incremental, to avoid bloating your TSM server storage pools.

    Richard Sims