Tom, #1 just UPD STG diskpoolname HIGH=1 LOW=0
     #2  complicated... but you could have say CRON kick off the cmd that
     would do the dsmadmc -id=blah -pass=blah backup stgpool primary
     copy... then capture the process # initiated, have a loop that sleeps
     x minutes and when it wakes up do a (here is where I find out if you
     read an earlier post)
     cmd 'q pro' | grep $proholdvar
     if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then exit (the sleep loop)
     now update stgpool high=1 low=0
     give it time to start the migration process(es)
     like another sleep then
     upd stg blah high=xxxnormalxxx low=xxxnormalxxx

     And since I saw RAID mentioned I'm guessing you are in an AIX
     environment, please tell me you are...
     later
          DWight


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Subject: Forcing migration for a disk pool
Author:  ADSM-L at unix,mime/DD.RFC-822=ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:    2/11/97 2:40 PM


I've created a staging area on a RAID device attached to my ADSM
server. I have sufficient space on the device for a little more
than one day's worth of backup files, so I would like to
configure my backups to go directly to the disk pool.

In the morning (i.e. after the nightly backup), I would like to
backup the disk pool to a copy storage pool, followed by a
migration of the disk pool to the tape pool which is the next
storage pool in the hierarchy.

I have two questions:

 1) how do I go about *forcing* the migration of data
    from the disk pool to the tape pool?

 2) is it possible, via the ADSM scheduler, to start
    a migration when the backup of the disk pool
    has completed? i.e., is it possible, using the
    ADSM scheduling mechanisms, to make one action
    begin when another action completes?

Thanks. -- Tom

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