Larry, thanks for your reply, but:
Per the TSM 5.4 Admin reference: If you backup up at an attached library you need to create a copypool with the same NDMP data format...in your case NETAPPDUMP. In other situations, the format needs to be NATIVE.
I backup directly to the TSM server. There is no library or drive attached to the filers.
verexists refers to active copies. What is your retain extra set for? The full may still exist as an inactive file. If you want a full and two incrementals active you'll have to change your verexists value. Do a query with inact=yes to see if the full is still available for restore.
The "q nasbackup" command doesn't have an "inactive" option. When I set the verexists=2 option, after the first backup, the full image is the active version. After the second backup, the full image changes to inactive and the differential is the active version. After the third backup, the first differential changes to inactive and the second differential is active. The full backup has disappeared from the list, although it must be there because the differential depends on the full backup. I don't see a command that can list the expired full backup. On the other hand, I don't want to keep 14 differential backups until I make the next full backup. I just want to keep (and see) the full backup and the last two differentials.
Scheduling full backups every two weeks: Use a separate schedule for full backups with a perunits=weeks period=2
Yes, but I don't want to backup the whole filer once every two weeks. I want to backup vol1 on Monday, vol2 on Tuesday, and so on, what means, that I had to define a single schedule for each filesystem. My idea was to set an options on a filespace that automatically arranges a full backup after a defined number of days. So I only need one schedule with the "backup node" command, TSM looks up the date of the last full backup of each filesystem and handles the next full backup dependent on the defined option. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470
