The factor to decide: If you somehow had a TSM data base crash, or corruption in the TSM data base, how far would you be willing to restore your data base backwards in time?
If you think you would never use that 30 day old TSM DB backup, you don't need to keep it. I think a DB retention of 5-10 days is more common. And no, you can't put the TSM DB backups in a storage pool. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vats.Ashok Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TSM DB backup question Hi List, We have tsm 5.3.00 on AIX. We run TSM database backup which runs once / every day consumes media from scratch pool. We keep these backups for at least 30 days. consuming almost 30 *200 GB tape media. Our data base is about 161 GB so my question is can we reduce the retention time of TSM db backup to 7 days. I am not sure what are the factors which decides how long we need to keep these volumes around. Also Does anybody have a storage pool defined for TSM DB backups. is it possible to do that ? Thanks, Ashok
