You just create different sequential access storage pools.

What reason would you want them to handle their own tapes?
(..just in case one of them purges their own tapes?)
The data on those tapes cannot be used in another server.

Have a look at the "Tivoli Storage Manager Concepts" redbook
from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

Let the administrators worry about data/access/scheduling/
versioning/expiry etc. You worry about tape handling for all
(even if you do end up creating seperate storage pools per
platform).

Suad
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote:
> I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM
> as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool
> and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making
> offsite storage copies.  My questions are:
>
> If I am doing backups using this configuration, my
> daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first
> go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool.
>  Data on the tapes will consist of information from
> all platforms, mixing together, right?  I was
> uncomfortable
> with this data mixing idea.  I called TSM support and
> they assured me everything would be alright.  However,
> If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one
> platform only, are there ways to configure the system
> to do that?  My purpose of doing this is to have NT,
> Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their
> own tapes.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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