Hi Bobby One past employer had a requirement to do monthly archives and I found, as you have that the admins would change the filesystems on nodes without notifying anyone.
My solution was a perl script that went through the filesystems table for all BA client nodes and checked the last backup date. This identified all the current filesystems as discovered by the daily incremental backup, and so it was a simple matter to generate an archive schedule for each system with an approprate -domain= operand. However, these days I would not perform a monthly incremental. It increases your tape and database usage dramatically for no good reason. A separate monthly node with a single monthly incremental is more manageable. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Seeking work, Sydney Australia bobby wrote:
The TSM admin configures the backups as per the requirements recieved from the system admins. I am doing the task in absence of the TSM admin. The issue is that our archives are not consistent with the incremental backups. The archive and the incremental are not necessarily backing up the same drives, whereas it should back up the same drive. This is as i mentioned because of the different reference point for TSM. I wanted to know a way to configure archive schedules so that it refers to the clients opt file for drive letters. Hope i make sense. :? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by mohd.ras...@emirates.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.90/2200 - Release Date: 06/24/09 12:49:00
