Thanks for your input. I guess it will be a usual trial and error with TSM to see if it works.
Joe -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:32 PM To: Joe Cascanette Subject: [Fwd: Archives vrs Backup Sets] Joe, Saw your post... > > >From what I am reading I am able to perform this operation at the TSM > server and it directs the output to scratch tapes. The GREAT thing about > this is it does NOT touch the serves to retransmit all the data to the > archive storage pool, and then to tape (which is alot of traffic!). The > Backups sets would use more tapes (kind of like collocation turned on > right?!). So after the daily incremental running at night, I will be > able to create the backup sets ( for a monthly archive) using the > current data just backed up from that node. (right?!) So far so good. > > One question is when doing a backup set, does it also save all the > inactive files? or just the active ones? Nope...just the active files, or at least that's all it does currently. > > Is there a way to direct all the backup sets to another copy pool to > utilize tape consumption and to keep the tapes separate from the other > copypools for easier search? (just a thought - but this would be a lot > of extra work. No way to do that that I'm aware of. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. The only other thing I'd add is that there a lot of posts regarding problem restoring from backupsets earlier this year on the list. As I recall, the command line syntax is pretty arcane. I haven't tried it myself. I have a couple of customers experimenting with it, but no production environments yet. Test carefully! Regards, -Lloyd -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lloyd Dieter - Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260 fax:716-389-1267 -----------------------------------------------------------------
