>Another approach might be to occasionally >(every three months maybe) do a "full" backup (by changing mode to >"absolute" to force even unchanged files to get backed up)... this should >effectively "defragment" the tape pool and put all active versions on one >(or a couple) tape. We did this once with an additional machine that we >DR'ed and it worked quite well. Some people don't like this concept >because it defeats TSM's "progressive" backup methodology, but I think
>its >an acceptable compromise. > An alternative which does not involve client resources is to do a move nodedata command to consolidate a node's data onto a set of tapes. David Ehresman
