You need a TSM database backup roughly after step 2.  I would prefer to
see migration later in the day, so that restores have a greater chance to
come from disk.

Regarding offsite volume reclamation:  this generally applies only to
copypool volumes; you don't want to have primary volumes offsite.  The
file copies on a copypool volume are present also on primary pool volumes
(disk or tape).  When reclaiming an offsite copypool volume, TSM finds the
matching files on primary pool volumes and creates a new copypool tape
containing them.  This tape is sent offsite, and after the reuse delay the
(empty) offsite volume is returned for reuse.  Voila!



_____________________________
William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc





Joni Moyer <joni.moyer AT HIGHMARK DOT COM>
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03/20/2002 01:19 PM
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        Subject:        Procedures for TSM


I've been studying the TSM manual and changing administrative schedules by
trial and error, but I just wanted to know if I have the order of
procedures down right.
1. Backup disk to offsite tape pool
2. Backup onsite tape pool to offsite tape pool
3. Migration of the disk pools
4. Expire Inventory
5. Reclamation
6. Client Backups (run at night)

I was also a little confused about reclamation on offsite storage pools.
How can reclamation run on an offsite tape when it cannot be mounted on a
tape drive?  (On a daily basis I have a job that marks tapes full and
offsite so that they are ejected from the silo and taken to our offsite
vault)  When I looked in the book it stated that reclamation for an
offsite
volume obtains the active files from either an onsite pool or offsite pool
and then writes the files to a volume on the original copy pool.  I'm
trying to understand this process, but it's not making much sense to me.
Any explanations?

Thanks!!!

Joni Moyer
Associate Systems Programmer
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
(717)975-8338