How can TSMManager help you in using backupsets ?

  • It can :
    Schedule the process of backupset generation. Either do ALL nodes or let you decide.
  • Dynamically utilize your drives to the fullest.
  • Control retention based on which month it is. This means that you can set it up to retain the backupsets from january for maybe 60 months, and the backupsets for the other months for maybe 12 months or any other combination you may wish for.
  • After each monthly run, it will generate a status report showing what went OK and what did not.
  • Restart all failed backupsets
  • Restart a single backupset.
  • Here you see the setup window for backupsets:

As you can see, it is pretty straight forward. We designed it with one monthly run in mind. If you wish to create backupsets more often than that, then you can disable the automatic generation and do it manually from the backupset status window seen below:

The data in the status window is not realistic, it is a result of our test with a lot of small test nodes doing 2 backupsets in parallel.

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