Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-07 Thread Keith Arbogast
Adrian, I must be expressing myself badly because you do not understand me. My copypool tapes are housed in an offsite tape library. They never leave there unless they go bad. The move nodedata's run there, on the offsite library-- on its drives. We do not use a courier to move tapes between our

Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-06 Thread Davis, Adrian
rage -not- a another library. Many Thanks, =Adrian= -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: 05 February 2009 13:27 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to

Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-05 Thread Bob Levad
e'll just have to live with it. Best Regards, =Adrian= -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: 04 February 2009 13:05 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can mixed incremental/selective backups be

Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-05 Thread Keith Arbogast
Adrian, Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do, but 'move nodedata fromstg= ...' is legal. I have used it several times. My copypool is on an offsite tape library. Best wishes, Keith Arbogast

Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-05 Thread Davis, Adrian
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: 04 February 2009 13:05 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data? Adrian - The key word "collocation" do

Re: Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Sims
Adrian - The key word "collocation" does not appear in your question. That's the architectural solution to keeping related data together. Collocation is conventionally used for onsite volumes, but not for offsite volumes, given the substantial tape management complications that would occur with

Can mixed incremental/selective backups be used to consolidate "offsite" data?

2009-02-04 Thread Davis, Adrian
I have a number of filesystems on various servers which fragment badly in my offsite (copy) storage pool when using progressive incremental backups. The filesystems aren't particularly large, but files are frequently created/modifed/deleted. For local volumes I can simply "move nodedata" occasiona