> Maria - I accumulate such tips in my ADSM functional directory,
>         at http://people.bu.edu/rbs.
>
> You say that you have "collocation turned on" - but what kind?
> Collocation by node is insufficient for your purposes.
> From my tips:
>
> Parallelize backups                     Going to a disk pool first is one
way;
>                                         then the data migrates to tape.
>                                         To go directly to tape: You may
need to
>                                         define your STGpool with
>                                         COLlocation=FILespace to achieve
such
>                                         results; else *SM will try to fill
one
>                                         tape at a time, making all other
>                                         processes wait for access to the
tape.
>   Richard Sims, BU