From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MC Matt Cooper (2838) > We are backup up a 3TB DB2 data warehouse but it is taking almost 11 >hours, end to end... > Ideally we would like to back it up hot, seems to big and active. >There is too much data for mirroring or FLASHCOPY. Has anyone tried >just backing upthe RAWS seperatly?
If you could, would you *really* trust the quality of the backup? How would you test the restore? (Particularly on 9840s--it would take a mountain of them. Yeep!) It comes down to a non-technical answer. If you are going to work with enterprise-scaled infrastructures, you are going to have to stage the backup to disk (for example, flashcopy) and then move the offline copy to tape. Remember Rule #3 of Enterprise Operations: You can have it good; you can have it fast; you can have it cheap. But you can only have two out of three. -- Mark Stapleton
