Duane, I have a similar "year end" problem. Here's how I handle it.
I have a dedicated data path through my system consisting of a little HP 418 DLT autoloader. I have a special "year-end" management class that points to it. When the end-of-year files are ready for backup, I archive them to the primary pool defined on the little HP. That gets me the first copy. My copypool is a four-drive HP 4/40 DLT library. At any given time, I have four DLTs within it that are "filling". I set all four to access=RO. Then I backup the primary pool on the HP 418 to the copypool. Because all the filling tapes are RO, TSM will pull in a scratch tape and copy the primary tape to it. That gets me the second copy. I check out both tapes, and flag both tapes as "unavailable." That keeps them out of the reclamation processes. I put one copy on the shelf in our office for immediate access. The other copy goes to the vault. Then I set the RO filling DLTs back to RW. Then TSM continues its daily activities as if nothing happened. Hope this helps. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation "Ochs, Duane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/11/2002 02:35:50 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Point in Time Backups In my experience a backupset is more for server recovery than file restoration and does not offer the ability to restore individual files, plus the entire server would be included on the backupset, there is no way to exclude certain directories from it unless there was a complex method they were backed up. (i.e. different server names for specific data types or directories) Archiving presents a similar problem and has it's own deficiencies when running backups and archives at the same time. I have been in touch with Tivoli on a number of occasions trying to figure out a way to get a "monthend". Yes there are many ways to do it, but my main concern is the data already resides in the jukebox it would be ideal to be able to copy all data for a specific server to a tape, based on a date and time, that can be retained for "X" days, months or years and have the data on that tape restorable on an individual file level. Two answers I have received, "That functionality has been requested many times and is be reviewed for a future release" or "That functionality is not what TSM was ever intended to do and it is unlikely to be developed". The ability to do so would be more of a marriage between standard backups daily, weekly, monthly and incremental always. If anybody knows of any development in this area or has figured out a way to do this I would like to know. I have some engineering servers that are in the 300 - 400 GB range and a full backup is unfeasible, but would be ideal to have. These servers have not been migrated from Veritas to TSM yet, specifically due to the inability to provide this type of support. Just my 2 cents worth. Duane Ochs Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375 -----Original Message----- From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Point in Time Backups Dave, I am puzzled, but willing to learn--Why do you say that backupsets and archiving are not viable ways of doing PIT backups? Backupsets are more oriented to a PIT restore, but they do provide a snapshot of what the active files are at a given time. And archives seem like the arch-typical PIT snapshot to me. - Kai >Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:06:20 -0000 >From: "Frost, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Point in Time Backups > >Cheri >This is our biggest headache with TSM which has NO suitable facility to >provide what you want. Backupsets and archiving are not viable ways of doing >it. > <snip>
