Re: TSM Incremental Hot Backups

"Ethan Post" <Blah_at_Blah.com> wrote in message news:<cFtw7.42428$Xk4.3169378_at_news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com>...
> Anyone know if it is ok to do incremental backups on a datafile in hotbackup
> mode using TSM?
>
> Something like
>
> dsmc incremental

Hi Ethan,

I don't know, does it only backup the files that are changed ? In that case it will always backup all files from a live database. Using rman in combination with tsm or adsm you can do incremental blocklevel backups. I think that makes more sense. We use this in a few systems. Make sure the tsm timeout parameter is set high enough. It takes some time for rman to collect the changed blocks ...

Ronald.