I would like to keep 2 drives unused at all times for restores and
labeling scratch tapes.

TSM 5.5/AIX/Atape
We have 18 Drives, 1 library manager and 5 library clients.

The "classic" method is to set the "Mount limit" in the device class.
However, we also have NDMP clients which are configured so there is more
than one device class pointing to the same library.

- I can't limit the NAS and LTO device classes each to 16 Drives because
some of the time, jobs to both device classes will be running at the same
time so the individual classes won't reach 16.
- I can't limit each to 8, because the NDMP jobs definitely need more than
8 drives when they are running at night, and the other device class needs
more than 8 during the day.

Can anyone suggest an alternate way to accomplish this?


Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn Drew



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