On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:11, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm working on our internal "late night admin guide," and one of the > things I'm thinking of is how can I get TSM prepared to do a restore. > > Here's what I mean: let's say I know that there is going to be some > filesystem maintenance on a client. Since we've been burned by that > kind of operation in the past, I'd like TSM to prefetch the > appropriate data from tape and have it ready to go (on disk) for a > restore. > > Archives would do the trick except that uses the client, potentially > during business hours. > > Backupsets look like they might work but they're kind of rigid... can > a backupset be restored followed by restoring the latest > incrementals? So I could create a backupset on Friday before the > procedure on Saturday, and then be able to restore the incremental we > took before beginning the disk operation after that? Yes. You can also do a full backup (if the backup window allows this) on friday and put the data in a diskpool or on a single tape. Ones the drive is streaming, it will go fast.
My "dream" is a way to keep all active data on a diskpool and all inactive data on a tape pool. I know there was some work in this area, but I don't know what the status is. Stef
