Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-17 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Allen S. Rout wrote: Having the backups "elsewhere" is good, but having them at all is critical on a minute-by-minute basis for the running of your server. For what it's worth, we rsync our DB backups to a computer offsite, using ssh preshared keys. --Jim

Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
Mm, I'm getting the list traffic again, how nice. :) >> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:19:37 -0500, Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Do not use a local filesystem. The FILE volumes used for DB backup > should reside on an NFS-mounted filesystem, which can also be > mounted by some other system.

Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Eric Bourgi wrote: > Used for years - and using it to rebuild my tsm server at a DR site - > never had any problem Idem for us. We never used tape cartridges, but always a FILE class. If the TSM server is running on AIX, we put the FILE class on rootvg and use mksysb to

Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-10 Thread Eric Bourgi
Used for years - and using it to rebuild my tsm server at a DR site - never had any problem -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM DB backup to

Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-09 Thread Wanda Prather
Been there. Done that. Works peachy. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As part of a major upgrade, I am considering moving some TSM DB backups > to FILE volumes. LTO4 tapes hold a terrabyte, and the incrementals, in > particular, are wasting a LOT of tape

Re: TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Roger Deschner wrote: As part of a major upgrade, I am considering moving some TSM DB backups to FILE volumes. LTO4 tapes hold a terrabyte, and the incrementals, in particular, are wasting a LOT of tape. I'm thinking of doing full DB backups to tape, and incrementals

TSM DB backup to FILE vols - safely

2008-07-09 Thread Roger Deschner
As part of a major upgrade, I am considering moving some TSM DB backups to FILE volumes. LTO4 tapes hold a terrabyte, and the incrementals, in particular, are wasting a LOT of tape. I'm thinking of doing full DB backups to tape, and incrementals to disk FILE volumes. The manual says you can back u