Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Markus Engelhard
cite: ...I do this by creating a virtualfs called "Filesystem_01YEAR" and point that to the same file system... Brilliant Idea, Shawn! I really love the elegance of your solution, which totally avoids tinkering with nodes and such, potentially adding confusion and complexity. Thanks! I have bee

Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thanks for the tip, I"ll try tinkering with multiple nodenames. (And I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion of NDMP - it's embarrassingly bad...) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:46 PM

Re: Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Shawn Drew
t me know if you want more detail. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet david-bron...@uiowa.edu Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/04/2011 05:21 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Re: Policy for NDMP d

Re: Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread David Bronder
Gee, Norman wrote: > > You can assign a different management class to full and differentials. > I have defined them to different tape storage pools. That would work for storing the different NDMP images in different storage pools. But my experience matches Remco's: each "backup node" command that

Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Gee, Norman
You can assign a different management class to full and differentials. I have defined them to different tape storage pools. One policy domain with multiple management class define backup node emcnode /vfs mode=full wait=yes mgmt=full-class backup node emcnode /vfs mode=DIFFerential wait=yes mgmt

Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Remco Post
you can specify the mc on the command-line for backup node, but, all of your data gets rebound tot that MC, including all of the fulls. You might tinker with using different node names for fulls and diffs, of make extra fulls for the basis of the diffs complementary to the fulls you want to ret