I have additional questions on the 9840 for anyone who has converted to them.
We are exploring the possibility of moving our adsm data to 9840's but I have
concerns over how the reclamation process will be affected and whether I will
end up holding a lot of partially filled big  (expensive) tapes. We reclaim at
50% now (on E-tapes). When you (anyone) went to 9840's , did you modify your
percentage for reclaim at all? Did you do reclaims any more or less often? (we
schedule reclaims on both saturday and sunday, after an expiration on Friday
night). Did you consider changing from or to collocation in either the backup
pools or the copypools? (currently we collocate on the backuppool  but not in
the copy pool). And while we're  at it, how many drives is the minimum you
think it is reasonable to get away with? We are trying to configure just two,
since most of my processes use only two drives today. But we also have a one
minute mount retention today, that we would probably have to do away with, while
insuring we don't do multiple tape processes concurrently. Ideally I'd ask for
four drives, but since we have no money in the budget and are trying to convince
management to do it anyway,both decrease our tape library and improve the tape
performance, we are attempting to do this on a shoe-string. Thanks for any
feedback...

   Marian Dalton
   Storage Administrator
   Central Maine Power

"Jones, Bernard" wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
>
> A few questions,
>
> 1 )  ....
> 2) I'm also in the process of using 9840 tapes under ADSM for the first
> time.  Has anyone implemented 9840 long-tapes under ADSM ???  Was the
> implementation process difficult ???  And again is this documented anywhere
> ??
>
> Any/all help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bernard A. Jones
> Manager Storage Administration
> (201) 703 - 7009
>
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