What you sent looks OK, but it would be helpfull if you could give some more
background.  Are you going to have disk pools after the 3380s go away?  It
sounds as though you won't, but that shouldn't be a problem as long as you
remember that backups will now require a tape drive to be initiated -
therefore you need one drive for each concurrent session you expect to
support.  Also, do you collocate the pools?

If you are planning on having only tape, you wouldn't necessarily need a
second tape pool - the only reason I can think of having separate pools is
either if the media types are different (disk and tape, or 3480 and 3590,
etc.)  Perhaps someone else can supply a reason why they have two pools for
the same data on the same device type.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: moving from disk to tape
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    7/28/97 1:04 PM


        I am in the process of moving all the data which resides on disk(3380's)

off to tape.We are doing this because the 3380's are going 'bye..bye'./Has
anyone ever moved off on to tape only? I need some help on how I should set
up the secondary stg pools..Here is what it looks like now..




Storage      Device       Estimated  %Util  %Migr  High   Low  Next
Pool Name    Class Name    Capacity                Mig%  Mig%  Storage
                               (MB)                            Pool
-----------  ----------  ----------  -----  -----  ----  ----  -----------
NOVELL_DISK  DISK           5,180.0   77.3   77.3    85    30  NOVELL_TAPE
NOVELL_DISK  DISK           5,180.0   77.3   77.3    85    30  NOVELL_TAPE
NOVELL_TAPE  CARTRIDGE     20,394.9   28.1   67.0    50    20
NOVELL_TAP2  CARTRIDGE          0.0    0.0    0.0    50    20
UNIX_DISK    DISK           5,180.0   58.2   58.2    85    30  UNIX_TAPE
UNIX_TAPE    CARTRIDGE     61,594.2   23.5   48.6    50    20
UNIX_TAP2    CARTRIDGE          0.0    0.0    0.0    50    20




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