I don't do it all the time but I've used it for a lot of things... One was when we were moving an environment from one location to another 15 miles away. We had two servers but didn't have two libraries (and we had big diskpools to hold multiple day's backups) Anyway, I backed the db up to a disk file, ftp'ed it over to the other server, restored the db over there, brought up the environment, allowed the clients to start accessing the server, then had IBM move the ATL. Worked slick as a whistle !
PS If you are going to back the DB up to disk, I'd make sure the disk were protected by either Raid-5 or mirrored, then I'd want another TSM server to back that file up to... (or at least another system to FTP it over to) Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DB backups Is anyone doing db backups to disk using devclass type FILE? I know, it's not necessarily a good thing, but right now we have a db that is large enough that the log can fill before a full db backup can run. Before I set this up, I'm wondering if anyone else is doing this.
