Hi there,

I have a question about which devclass to use for a storagepool
that is exclusively used as DIRMC destination.

The server originally was set up with a large enough DIRPOOL
of type DISK. Later, DIRPOOL was reduced in size, and a DIRFILE
stgpool was added that consists of FILE volumes. Clients still
back up to DIRPOOL, but that pool is migrated daily to DIRFILE.

Is this sort of setup still necessary with TSM 5.3 on AIX 5.2?
I remember DIRFILE being set up because of performance problems
with offsite volume reclamation (mainly due to sequential volumes
being able to handle many files in one large chunk).

Also, ADSM.QuickFacts says that sequential volumes have advantages
in a database restoral situation.

Would it be a good idea to return to a large DIRPOOL of type DISK
and eliminate DIRFILE, on TSM 5.3 and AIX 5.2?

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