Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Why not just archive the data to management class with retver set to nolimit? Seems a whole lot easier. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schaub Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Schaub
Because the underlying need is to preserve all the backup versions as they are as of today, not just to take a snapshot of the current data. Richard also responded to my question, and his point is that my step 3 would not rebind the inactive versions to the new domain, only the active ones. So,

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Hart, Charles
We had something similar. 1) Created a new domain with all set to Nolimit, 2) Then upd the node to be in that dom. 3) renamed the original node name to something like xxx.old 4) regged a new node name using the orig node name in its orig dom. Onlly downside is that doing restores prior to

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Bos, Karel
Export node? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schaub Sent: woensdag 16 maart 2005 14:11 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schaub Because the underlying need is to preserve all the backup versions as they are as of today, not just to take a snapshot of the current data. Richard also responded to my question, and his point is that my step 3

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread John Naylor
Steve, I presume you don't want to use export As for expiration, the Admin Guide states If a file is bound to a management class that no longer exists, the server uses the default management class to manage the backup versions. When the user does another backup, the server rebinds the file and

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Schaub
Charles, Were you able to confirm that all of the inactive versions, including ones of deleted files, rebound correctly, so that nothing expired from that point? -steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Hart, Charles
Just spoke to our Exchange Admin and he stated he was able to see all the old data we reassociated. This process came from our Tivoli CE who confirmed with Tivoli. Wish there was an easier way, but it works. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
See responses below: Can anyone comment on modifying this procedure by following these steps: 1.Create a domain called Freezer with only one mgmtclass - bu/ar copygroup settings all at nolimit 2.upd node water domain=freezer 3.run an incremental on water to rebind all data to

Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Schaub
All, I found this thread and it fits a situation I have, where I need to freeze the data that has already been backed up on certain nodes, but new backup data can be allowed to expire normally. The following post from Robin Sharp is exactly what I was considering attempting, except that I want