Eric, To organize your data, the following command should do the trick: *move nodedata; *when you have a chance, please research. Additionally, yes, full (selective) backups are seems as files. And as such, the normal copy group retention periods apply. I hope this information was beneficial --MG
On 11/14/05, Jones, Eric J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
