Good Afternoon. I have a question on backups and how if you mix full backups and incremental backups the data is stored.
We are running TSM 5.2.2 on all our TSM clients(AIX, SUN, Windows 2000, windows 2003), and the server is AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2. We normally just run incremental for all our machines and over the years the data gets scattered every where(number of tapes and in some cases 30+) so restores can be very slow. We keep all our data for 90 days so with the incremental backups the files expire after 90 days if the file has been backed up(90 day policy/keep up to 90 backups). My question is if I want to do a full backup every 120 days just to better organize my data on less tapes(current data) does it effect the incremental data that is on tape in any way? Does TSM see the backups including a full backup as files and they expire after a given amount of time? >From what I could find that is the case but I do not want to mess up years of data and the users were asking lots of questions on how it might affect them. They would be happy with the possibility of faster restores. Another question came up, is there any way to have TSM organize data already on tape for a specific server so it's on a few tapes instead of spread across many tapes? Just seeing if we could better manage our data. Thanks Eric Jones
