Bill,

Is the SUBST-command an option in "taking a directory and make it a drive
letter" ?

Ton


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup of large server (15+ Million objects)


>From what I'm reading and understanding (which may be 2 entirely different
things!!) junction points just let me create a link between directories. Kinda
like hard/soft links in Unix (ln  command). Mount points let me take a drive
and mount it on a directory instead of a new drive letter.

I want to go the other way...take a directory and make it a drive letter or a
new filesystem to TSM. Even if I could split this 15million object filespace
into 3 or more separate filespaces I think I could get a backup done in a
reasonable time...or even get it done! Right now it just plain doesn't finish.
Mostly the scheduler service dies and the backup fails.

IMAGE backups aren't an optoin with 3590E drives and "K" media. I would be
here forever doing the backup and then I couldn't carry all the tapes! :-)

Any ideas or suggestions?? One optoin they are looking at is just replicating
this volume to another location instead of or in addition to backups (if I can
get it to run).

Bill

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> Actually with both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 you can create what is like
a
> mount point in Unix land. Search MS's site for "junction point" OR "mount
> point".
>
>
> Bill Boyer wrote:
> This is a single drive letter, G:, so I can't separate it into multiple
nodes or
> even schedules. Plus virtualmountpoint is only valid for Unix's, not
Windoze.
>
> Thanks.
> Bill
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> > Hi Bill
> >
> > 1. Separating it into multiple TSM nodes, for example one node per
> > filespace
> >
> > 2. Using the virtual mount point option
> >
> > Both theese options should decrease the time TSM spends on inspecting the
> > filespaces.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Daniel Sparrman
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> > Backup of large server (15+ Million objects)
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> > Windows 2000 server with TSM client 5.3.0.8.
> > TSM server 5.2.2.0 on Windows2000
> >
> > Configured the journal service with a larger notify buffer, but we just
> > can't get the first incremental to complete. We see in the server
> > activity log that the session was terminated by the client. Running in
> > managed services mode.
> >
> > Any suggestions on backup strategies on this large of a server?
> >
> > Bill Boyer
> > DSS, Inc.
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