Different sequential access storage pools need also
different disk storage pool, right?
The reason is that I am the Unix guy, also in charge
of this AIX TSM server.  I have enough system work on
my daily duties. At this point, I can see myself
spending a lot of time everyday sending tapes offsite,
eventually responsible recalling tapes for restores,
etc.  There is no operator in this shop. Do you have
any suggestions?

Thank you.

--- Suad Musovich <suad AT CCU1.AUCKLAND.AC DOT NZ> wrote:
> You just create different sequential access storage
> 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
> --
>
> 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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