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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 14, 2011

Need a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup

is there is a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup ? since we will use numstream for dbbackup we will consume lots of tape witout filling them up to their high capacity

further explanation:
Using the numstream option at DB backup operation, we will use more tape to store dbbackup. Even if the dbbackup is higly critical resource, we'd like to have the possibility to append incremental db backup on the same tape when possible.

exemple:
DB backup full numstream=2 ( will use TAPE01 and TAPE02 )
on our infrastructures we made every 2 hours an incremental db backup, it would append data on TAPE01 .... then on TAPE02 when TAPE01 is full , then on a New tape when TAPE01 and TAPE02 are full

Idea priority Medium
  • 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