From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Murray, Jim > Does this mean that any server attached to a SAN will do a FULL backup of > the files on the SAN vice an incremental? Isn't this the API > behind the TSM > incremental forever philosophy?
No. What it means is that you can't do journaling on non-local disks. This means backups cannot take advantage of what journaling gives--the ability to do directory scans prior to backups. On very large filesystems it takes TSM some time to do the directory scan required for a backup. I've seen directory scans on very large file servers (admittedly NetWare servers) take as much as two hours before a single byte is backed up. Journaling circumvents this and gets data moving across the wire much faster. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
