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onbar/ism to filesystem only

Posted in 2003

Topics: Backup & Restore, Storage & Space Management, Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

ANDREAS KUTSCHE — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hello, question for migration to ONBAR/ISM: Today we are doing database backups with ontape or onarchive into the file system only. Later the database backup files get copied to tapes with the normal file system backup every day. Now we want (ontape) or must (onarchive) change to ONBAR/ISM as backup tool. Has anyone experience with such a configuration (backup of the databases to file system first)? How should we clean the ONBAR/ISM pools on the disks - simply delete old files or 'unmount' the volumes (directories), move them and 'label/mount' a new one? There is not enough disk space to hold many backup versions - in some cases there is only enough disk space for one level-0 backup per IDS instance. Regards, Andreas Kutsche SPAR Oesterreichische Warenhandels AG

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BRIAN GRELLINGER — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Onbar/ISM has a provision for filesystem backups. You can backup to filesystem devices and then "clone" them to tape using ISM utilities. You clean the files by unmounting & labeling the device.

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