It's Ok to backup your database to disk, but you can't use the backup/archive client to protect that file. If your database is corrupted, you won't be able to restore any files until you first restore the database.
-----Original Message----- From: Lucian Greis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape? Hi Hoa, now this sounds interesting: I suppose I willhave to define a "FileDrive" device, since I belive that only device classes are allowed targets to the dbbackup command. And then set up a nice small storagepool so the file gets instantly transferred to tape... Thanks for all responses to my question Regards, Lucian Hoa V Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet von: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15.09.2004 16:06 Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: Thema: Re: each dbbackup to new tape? Lucian, This is what we're doing to save 3592 tapes: Incremental backup and full DB backup go to flat files, shift those files to offsite or onsite to Disk Storage Poll and let migrate functions put them on tapes. (We have servers onsite & offsite 11 miles away for disaster). Hoa. Lucian Greis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/2004 08:13 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject each dbbackup to new tape? Hi list, I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one IBM-LTO2. Basically, the system works. Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is not). Can someone point me to the right direction? Regards, Lucian Greis MKV GmbH
