I feel silly asking this question but I know the answer would be known to you all. My company does mainly full/selective backups and does not use incrementals. I recently wished to change this policy to take advantage of TSM's ability to handle incrementals (besides our tsm DB is getting large). We do incremental backups of a flat file database to disk and those expire after a period of one day. This is a "just in case" backup. I wish to do incremental backups but to a different disk pool. I just read about an option that can be put in the dsm.sys file DIRMC. Would this be the option I need for placing my incrementals into a different management class (ie .. different disk pool)? I say yes but I would like confirmation. The other question that I have is that in planning for a DR do I just follow the old rule of incrementals daily and a weekly selective and if you have a disaster get the weekly and the incremental and restore. I know none of you know what are retention or backup policy's are but I want to know if this jives with the "normal" TSM procedure or if there is a better way that I am not aware of. The classes dont cover policy's very well and what is the best method so im relying on everyone's experience here.
Thanks for the assistance all, Rick.
