ADSM-L

Re: replacing all 3590 with 3590 extended

2002-06-13 09:20:31
Subject: Re: replacing all 3590 with 3590 extended
From: Eliza Lau <lau AT VTCAT.CC.VT DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:18:38 -0400
Mustafa,

This sounds  great.  The state of Virginia thanks you.  Do you run a daily
script that reads the pool of scratch tapes and select the K tapes to define
to the primary pools?  It shouldn't be that difficult since my J tapes run
from 300001 to 301200 and K tapes run from 301201.

Eliza

>
> Hi Eliza ,
> We have 4 onsite pools and 2 copypools.I have defined our K tapes to all 
> onsite pools as private .J
> tapes are still scratch.
> TSM use only K types for onsite operations , copy storage pools operations 
> use only scrach volumes
> and they all are J tapes.
>
>
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>                     Eliza Lau
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> Yes, but how?  There is only one scratch pool and tapes are allocated from
> this scratch pool as needed when the primary tapepool is backed up to the
> offsite tapeback.  Is there a way to define 2 scratch pools and allocate
> primary tapes from the Kscratch pool and offsite from the Jscratch pool?
>
> Eliza
>
> >
> > Hi Eliza,
> > Define K tapes to onsite storage pools and J tapes to offsite pools.
> >
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> >                     Eliza Lau
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> > Hi TSMers,
> >
> > We are looking into replacing 1200 3590 J tapes with 600 3590 extended 
> > length
> > K tapes to make room in the 3494.  While the state is cutting 9% of the
> > University's budget, it is a tremendous waste to throw away 1200 perfectly
> > fine tapes.  Now my boss wants to know if there is a way we can use the
> > J tapes for the offsite storage pool only.  I looked throught the Admin
> > Reference and there doesn't seem to be a way to do:
> >
> >    backup stgpool tapepool tapeback scratch=no volumenames=file:listof3590
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3
> > tape library: 3494
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eliza Lau
> > Virginia Tech Computing Center
> > 1700 Pratt Drive
> > Blacksburg, VA 24060
> > lau AT vt DOT edu
> >
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