nice activity from you, Andy!
>
> 1) I use DIRMC in my environment ...
>
> a) to ensure that GUI restores will accurately show files
> available for restore (NO)
>
> b) to ensure that directory backups do not go directly to
> tape (NO )
>
> c) to ensure fast restores from disk (YES)
The experience was very slow restores and
some tapes beeing read twice during restore
(well, I am not quite sure about the TSM version from then, it might
have been 2001)
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> d) for other reasons (NO)
>
>
> 3) I have other comments about DIRMC
a) it is important and good that you have designed and implemented
DIRMC at all!
b) For my purposes I´d find following settins of DIRMC usefull:
either system-wide setting:
DoYourBestTryToAlwaysKeepDirectoriesInRandomAccessStoragePoolsForever=YES/NO
or an attribute of a primary random access storage pool:
DoYourBestTryToAlwaysKeepDirectoriesInThisStoragePoolForever=YES/NO
which would usually prevent directories from beeing migrated from
random access storage pools to tapes to tape storage pools.
I would not await it to work 100%, e.g.
MOVE DATA
could remain unchanged, ignoring this new setting, no problem for me.
But it´s a nice2have only - you all in Tucson are doing a damned good
job anyway!
Juraj
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> 4) TSM development can contact me if they have additional
> questions about my answers (YES / NO)
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>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes
> e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail:
> storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTi
> voliStorageManager.html
>
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
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