Hello -

 I'm very new to the ADSM world and have a question concerning backing up
clients (in my case other AIX servers)
directly to high performance 3590 tape drives in a 3494 library.

I've noticed that when I backup to my disk storage pool located in a 8 way R30
with 2 gig of memory and 120 gig of
SCSI disk space, that backups take about twice a long as going directly to one
of my primary tape pools, has anyone experienced this?

Is there any advantage of going direct to disk rather than to tape (other than
speed of recovery of files, i.e. no mount
wait time)?

Thanks for any input.

Tom Stewart
HONE/IBMLink AIX Support
Boulder, Colorado
8/347-2786
tstewart AT us.ibm DOT com