Hi O. 1. try to convince your management that there is no point in doing monthly backups. When was the last time that you successfully restored from one? What was the impact of that data not being restorable? Management always insist on a ROI argument from you, insist on one from them. 2. When you lose that argument, stop doing the weekly backups. Instead, change your daily retention policies so that you keep data for a month. TSM is far more efficient than other backup systems, you can easily keep one or two or three months data. 3. If you simply *must* have a monthly backup, either expand the TSM database to the required size to accomodate archives, or do a monthly export of active data, or a monthly backupset of each node, or set up a new node that gets backed up monthly. See the archives at www.adsm.org. This is probably our most frequent issue.
Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/08/2002 18:42:56 >>> Hi all, Iam few problem with TSM setup i have right now. The current setup is --> TSM Server (4.1.3.0 ) running on NT4.0 SP6a. LTO library (3583 L18) is connected through SCSI interface. Currently I'am backing up 24 (NT and Solaris clients) total of 500 GB client data I have configure 3 policy domains one for Notes mail server(Retention 4+1) and another for NT servers(Retention 2+1) and another for Sun Solaris (Retention 2+1). The requirement given for data retention is current +2 for all clients and for Notes 4+1 All this works fine But when it comes to Weekly and monthly backup i face trouble. As per the policy we need to retain the weekly (Sunday ) backup for one month and Monthly Backup (last Sunday of the month) For an year. To archive this I'am archiving the all client data in to archive pool. This increases my TSM database size dramatically. and managing the tape volume is also not easy. Is there any better way of doing it?. (with out DRM). Can any of u suggest an better way ?. Regards O.Senthil System Administrator Ph: 2540888 Ext :2121 ********************************************************************** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **********************************************************************
