>Once more a question concerning the 'always incremental' backup behaviour of TSM. > >I'm examining a TSM setup done by a thirth party and he has done something strange.
Yes, he is clinging to the past... >He performs a selective full backup in the weekend and the normal incremental >backups during the week. But if a file A changes on friday and you take a selective >backup in the weekend, won't the file A be included in the incremental backup >on monday as well? ... No; incremental is always incremental. Selective is "forcible backup". The IBM Systems Journal article on TSM that I cited about a week ago goes over "old thinking" concepts about backups vs. how TSM operates. >I'll switch to an 'incremental' only backup, as this is how TSM was setup. Good man, Kurt! Richard Sims, BU
