John, A suggested process to do a monthly backup is to back up the guest to a different datacenter node name (asnodename)using the option -mode=iffull. The iffull backup should not reset the CBT.
The daily backups continue to the original datacenter node name using the option -mode=ifincr. See example below: (hope the formatting comes out ok) Datacenter Node Month 1, days 1-30 Last Weekend of Month Month 2, days 1-30 Last Weekend of Month etc... Daily_backup_node -mode=ifincr -mode=ifincr Monthly_bakcup_node -mode=iffull -mode=iffull etc.. Let me know if this does not work or if there are any problems. Mike Hedden ________________________________ From: John Monahan <john.mona...@us.logicalis.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 5:54 PM Subject: Re: TSM for VE and "monthly fulls" I only had to do a one-time backup so I never did come up with something else. I'm going to ask about this at Edge. _______________________________________ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 3:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM for VE and "monthly fulls" OH, bimps. Glad to know that before I did all the work, you just saved me a lot of effort and I thank you. So when you got down that road, what did you end up doing instead? Only other thing I can think of is to install the BA client in the guest and do an incremental once a month? W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE and "monthly fulls" If you backup to a different nodename you will reset the CBT info. So you can do that monthly full backup to the different nodename, but when you switch back to the original, it will also require a full. So in essence you need to do 2 back to back fulls to get this done. I've been down this road. _______________________________________ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM for VE and "monthly fulls" Would like to know if anyone has solved the conundrum of TSM VE and customers who want "monthly fulls" in the vault for a year or more. Now I know that's a bad idea, and it doesn't play well with TSM incremental-forever. But still there are customers who insist, or have managers with ill-thought-out pseudo-requirements for it, or parent firms who insist on it. And I can work those issues with backupsets or exports or nodename-monthly node owners or sometimes even archives for other types of data. But I have not been able to do an export on deduped VE filespaces. It takes so long and puts on so many locks it has to be cancelled. So I'm pondering the idea of doing a true VM full, to a different datamover with a different filespace owner. But I don't really like that idea either because the full will have the snapshot outstanding for a long time, and the scheduling will be tricky so we don't overlap the incremental snapshots. SO, anybody else have insight into this particular can of worms? Thanks Wanda **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com<mailto:wanda.prat...@icfi.com> | www.icfi.com<http://www.icfi.com> | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md |443-718-4900 (o)
