Flavio You didn't say what your client machine is. How about an image copy and a complete incremental on the weekend and a incremental-by-date on other days. For a full restore you can restore the image and then apply the incrementals. This should be reasonably quick. Incremental-by-date is the fastest form of incremental backup, but is not complete, hence you need a normal incremental periodically.
I'm a little perplexed by your stated need for a full backup. Most TSM installations do not bother with fulls, as they are unnecessary. Using a separate storage pool for this node, or a shared but collocated storage pool will provide the necessary restore speed. If that is not sufficient consider an active pool, and if that is still not fast enough you can go with the image plus incremental. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, looking for work, Sydney Australia Flavio Junior wrote:
Hi Steve... Well, my backup windows is something like 10 12 hours, size of a full backup is near of 2TB and incremental per day not bigger than 20G. My idea is to perform a full backup on thursday (to keep a copy off the office on weekend) and incremental/differential during the week. OK, new thing, I've TWO TS3100, so I'm going to make a copy of the tape on another library, but I think this is not a problem with my backup windows as it will be copied from library to library without prodcution server involved, right? Thanks again folks...
