ADSM-L

Re: Directory management class

1997-04-17 20:29:07
Subject: Re: Directory management class
From: Rusty Byrne <rbyrne AT MNSINC DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:29:07 -0400
        Hi Tom, just a thought, but after you made your changes, have the
schedulers on the clients been stopped/restarted?  Any changes to the
options file won't be seen until the schedulers are stopped and restarted.
Hope that helps..

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> From: Thomas A. La Porte <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com>
> From: Thomas A. La Porte <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Directory management class
> Date: Thursday, April 17, 1997 6:04 PM
>
> I'm getting confuse as to how the direcotry management class
> option works.
>
> After running backups for several months, during which time all
> backups were going to tape, I added a storage pool for directory
> management class information on a disk volume.
>
> I've added a "DIRMC" line in the options files of all my clients,
> yet after several weeks there is very little in the disk volume
> of the storage pool to which dirmc information is supposed to be
> sent. The peculiar thing is that almost all of the information
> that *is* stored on that volume comes from the three or four
> Windows NT machines that we backup, with a negligible fraction of
> entries coming from a single IRIX box and a single OS/2 client.
>
> In all cases, the copy group in the directory management class
> has the longest "retain only" value.
>
> I had hoped that by defining this, all of the directory
> information would eventually be stored on disk, instead of tape,
> but I just don't see that happening and I'm anxious to figure out
> what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. -- Tom
>
> "If I could dot the 'i' in a Michigan     Thomas A. La Porte
>  game and the good lord came to take me   Archivist, Feature Animation
>  the next day ... at least I could        DreamWorks SKG
>  die happy." - Beano Cook, ESPN           <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT 
> com>
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