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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2011

define snapdiff and other snap options on a per filesystem basis rather than per backup command

When running an incremental backup be able to define the snapdiff or other snap option on a per filesystem basis rather than for the whole backup incremental job.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
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    Sep 18, 2014

    Thank you for your suggestion however we will not be implementing a solution to your request in the next two years. If you would us to reconsider your request after the delivery of our next release, then please reopen the enhancement request or submit a new one .

  • Guest
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    Sep 15, 2011

    Server 64bit RHEL5.6 TSM 6.2
    Client 64bit RHEL5.6 TSM 6.2
    when doing a scheduled backup you can only stipulate one option set which is applied to all filespaces.
    so if you have a client which has the following mounted
    /mnt/netapp/vol (snapdiff capable NFS mount)
    /mnt/standardnfs/vol (non snapdiff capable NFS mount)
    /mnt/localfs/vol (non snapdiff capable local mount)
    I cannot create a single schedule that would back up all those mounts. I would have break it up into two schedules one for the snapdiff volumes and one for the non snapdiff volumes.
    what I suggesting is either an option like
    -snapdiff=available
    where it would attempt a snap diff and if it couldn't would go back to a standard incremental
    or
    be able to define some thing like the following in the options file
    SNAPDIFF /mnt/netapp/vol
    similar to the automount or domain options.

    Impact
    As well as increasing the number of schedules, it also means it is trickier to run pre and post scripts for backups of the machine as a whole. eg if the DB data and logs are spread across these volumes it makes it trickier to put the db in backup mode and then into normal mode as you never know for sure which one will finish first.

  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2011

    Thanks for submitting this enhancement request, we did not see enough details in this requirement to have a significant discussion and a meaningful response, please provide more details about this requirement including the business reason (impact to SLAs, reduced RPO, simpler management etc.), technical functionality (what are you trying to achieve, and why do you think it should be done in this specific way, are you talking about a single server that has one filesystem residing on a netapp box, other local filesystems etc.), reason why current implementation and best practices aren't meeting those requirements and some additional details about their current environment (for example a TSM 6.2 server running on AIX, the client is running on RHEL etc.) we need these details to fully understand this requirement