I think two points need to be made clear before these questions can be appropriately answered. There have been a few misconceptions about Tivoli.
1.) TSM should not be used as a BMR D/R product it's not sysback or a Veritas product, although there are new Tivoli enhancements currently out there for this it's not really meant to restore an entire O/S from failure. It's primarily used for user data. Like if Donna looses her "phone.txt" file. Another thing would be database restores it's also good for, if the proper TDP or database procedures are in place for the backups of course. 2.) TSM is "incremental forever", which means that there is no such thing as an INCREMENTAL backup which means TSM backs up data which has changed since the last incremental backup not since the last FULL backup. TSM has an option called: "OBSOLUTE" backups which is basically an archived marked in the TSM database as a backup. Also a selective will backup everything at one time as if it was a FULL. So the answer to that question is you could use incrementals to restore an entire "filesystem" but keep in mind the versioning while you do so a good restore command is always: # dsmc restore "/full_pathname/*" -subdir=yes -inactive -replace=no = For full restores, on a newly empty volume. --Justin "Amini, Mehdi" <Mehdi.Amini@VALUEO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PTIONS.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Backup question Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] DU> 10/24/2002 01:19 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Due to the fact that we are moving to a new location and will not have access to our ATL system, we are looking at changing the way we do backups. In this new building we will have a new TSM server and a 3590 E11 attached to it. As I said before, we will not have access to our existing TSM Server nor the ATL library. We will have about 65 Clients to backup nightly. I know that the first backup I run on the new server will backup everything. We are looking into doing incremental backup Monday-Thursday and either a Selective or Archive on a weekly starting on Fridays and letting it run for how ever long it takes. And rotating the Incremental tapes every 5 weeks. My question is that if we do a Selective or Archive backup, we'll we be able to use those tapes Plus the incremental to recover a server including the OS. Will the Selective or Archive backup the System State information? if the answer to the two questions is no, then what is my other options. Thanks Mehdi Amini LAN/WAN Engineer ValueOptions 3110 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 703-208-8754 Fax: 703-205-6879 ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by email, delete and destroy this message and its attachments. **********************************************************************