I am currently experiencing a problem in regards to directory management.  I
have introduced
co-location in our company.  We have separate storage pools defined for
co-located data and have defined the appropriate rules/management classes to
direct data from co-located nodes to the relevant co-located pools.  The
process we have in place is as follows:

1.      Data is backed up to storage pool BKUPPOOLC1
2.      After all nodes have backed up process BKUPCC1LOCAL executes to
backup all data stored in disk storage pool 'BKUPPOOL1' and copy it to tape
storage pool 'C9840COPYC1'
3.      Data stays on disk throughout the day and at 18:00 hrs every evening
an administrative process executes to move the data from disk storage pool
'BKUPPOOLC1' to co-located cartridge storage pool 'C9840PRIMC1' and empties
the disk storage pool

The problem is that directories from non colocated nodes are appearing in
the cartridge storage pool 'C9840PRIMC1' this should not be the case.  The
manual states the following:

" For directories, the client can specify a management class by using the
DIRMC option in the client options file. If no management class is specified
for a directory, ADSM chooses the management class with the longest
retention period in the backup copy group (retention period
for the only backup version).  "

We have not specified the DIRMC option on the client nodes DSM.OPT file, but
the default management class with the longest retention is a non colocated
class, therefore I would expect the directories to go our non colocated
storage pools.

Strangely enough when I do a Q contents of our disk storage pool only the
nodes that I have colocated appear in this.  But when the data is
transferred to cartridge directories appear from non colocated pools?



John Doherty.   Tel:   +44   (0)   141 275 7793
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