The tapes used for backup sets do not live in storage pools, they act more
like database backup tapes. They do not show up as volumes in "q vol", but
will show up in a "q libv" when checked into the library.
The GUI and Web clients cannot restore individual files from backupsets,
only whole file spaces. The command line client can, but only if you know
the exact file name, there is no "pick" function. You can generate a
contents list at the server.
If your active files are spread across a number of tapes, all of the tapes
must be read to generate the backupset.
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Joe Cascanette
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Thanks for your input. I guess it will be a usual trial and error with
TSM to see if it works.
Joe
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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
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