Identify Backup Durations

The first decision you should make is how many different backup durations you require for your reports. To determine for how long a report should be backed up you need to know for how long it is currently backed up. You may have audit requirements that detail for how long reports should be archived. Specific users may have different backup requirements. You should consider that the fewer categories of durations, the less tape or cartridge consumption will be.

In the backup mission parameters you can specify time and event dependency information for the execution of the backup mission. Normally, for a backup that runs on a daily basis, you will want it to execute after all the CDAM files for that day have been created. You can use these parameters to control the precise point at which a backup mission should execute.