LOGARCHMETH & TSM

Question

Hi,
What is the best practice for the Log File management w.r.t to TSM,
Whether LOGARCHMETH1 can be put to TSM? and providing FAILARCHPATH option?
or
LOGARCHMETH1 can be put to Disk LOGARCHMETH2 to  TSM? and providing FAILARCHPATH option?
or
LOGARCHMETH1 to disk and have some mechanism to backup th elog files to TSM?
Is there any other way to backup the logs to TSM with out specifying the LOGARCHMETH parameter?
Regards,
CS

Answer 1

Hi,
I agree to Jens' recommendation but have also a little comment.
Because you are using TDP for your database backup I would recommend to archive the logs with TDP too. This have two advantages.
1) You are using one product to protect your data
2) TDP is able to do a automated version control of the backup images it creates (you can cutomize this with the TDP profile parameter MAX_VERSIONS). Here, a complete set of backup data will be handled: database backup images as well as its corresponding archive logs.
To setup DB2 to use TDP for archiving the logs you should setup either LOGARCHMETH1 or LOGARCHMETH2 with the following value:
VENDOR:<TDP install directory>/<TDP library name>
Further, either LOGARCHOPT1 or LOGARCHOPT2 has to be updated containing a file with the TDP environment (see the TDP manual for details on that)
Hope, that answers your question.
Regards,
Thomas