>I have a situation in which a critical BACKINT database backup initiated
>by a scheduler on an AIX server. (ie not the ADSM scheduler).
>Today the backup goes to disk, but the backup is growing quickly and
>exceeds the size of the disk based storage pool. Migration to tape slows
>everything down unacceptably. So I intend to backup directly to tape by
>adjusting the maxfilesize parameter of the storage pool or possibly by
>changing the destination pool to a tapepool . My concern is that no drives
>may be available for this critical backup. How can I guarantee that the
>backup to tape will happen without delay? Is there anyway to preempt other
>operations?

Eric - My first inclination would be to simply add more disk: it's a cheap
       commodity these days.  If you must go directly to tape, you'd have
to either reserve a tape drive or schedule to avoid other sessions/processes
if you must avoid that job waiting on a tape drive.
    Richard Sims, BU