Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-15 Thread Cameron Hanover
, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet tanen...@us.ibm.com Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 08/08/2012 12:05 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] snapshotroot for scheduled backups

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 08/07/2012 03:20 PM, Paul Zarnowski wrote: It seems that the snapshotroot option would be perfect for doing this, except for the fact that it only seems to work for 'selective' or 'incremental' backups run from the command line. I don't see a way to do this for scheduled backups. Paul,

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 08/08/2012 09:54 AM, Paul Zarnowski wrote: Allen, No, I'm sure you could put -snapshotroot=xxx in the options argument to the client scheduler. But your response made me realize that I left out one relevant point: We are backing up several NAS volumes via the scheduler, not just one. We

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Thanks Allen. At 10:05 AM 8/8/2012, Allen S. Rout wrote: You're in the position that the snapshot you want to use has a stable name. There are folks who have snapshots named related to the date of consistency-point. As it turns out, NetApp / nSeries snapshots do have predictable/static names.

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Allen, No, I'm sure you could put -snapshotroot=xxx in the options argument to the client scheduler. But your response made me realize that I left out one relevant point: We are backing up several NAS volumes via the scheduler, not just one. We use the pre- and post- scheduler exits to

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
to it From: Paul Zarnowski p...@cornell.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 08/08/2012 11:57 AM Subject:Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Thanks Allen. At 10:05 AM 8/8/2012, Allen S. Rout wrote: You're

Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-08 Thread Shawn Drew
...@us.ibm.com Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 08/08/2012 12:05 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] snapshotroot for scheduled backups Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm thinking that if I want to do this, I'll probably abandon the TSM Scheduler

snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-07 Thread Paul Zarnowski
NetApp / nSeries backup question (non-NDMP backup): Has anyone else wanted to use the snapshotroot option for scheduled backups run from a NAS client? We run scheduled backups from NAS clients for shares on a vFiler. snapdiff backups are not supported on vFilers, so we would like to do