I share Mark's sentiments... on TWO points:
- if this was resolved, for both users in the discussion, let's share the
results;
- if DIRMC is no longer relevant, I'd sure like to know why!  Win2K is
becoming ever more prevalent, and most data center customers go wild with
lots of permission groups (causing the ACL's to grow too large to be
contained in the TSM db -- I used to think!)

As far as I can tell, DIRMC is still a very significant issue, most notably
with Win2K servers using typical data center permissions definitions.  If
you create the disk pool and management class, and see it get populated with
any data -- that seems pretty conclusive, to me.

The question that's left is whether a given restore will be just as fast
(NQR or classic) since dir's are now more readily backed up -- and, if
that's true, what about point-it-time restores that would get a mix of dir's
restored, to match the state of a time further back than the most recent
backup?!?


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Mark D. Rodriguez
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 12:53 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Directories written in the wrong pool, although using dirmc
option


Andrew Raibeck wrote:

>Responded to offline.
>
>Andy Raibeck
>IBM Software Group
>Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
>Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
>Internet e-mail: storman AT us.eyebm DOT com (change eye to i to reply)
>
>The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
>The command line is your friend.
>"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
>
>
Andy,

I certainly appreciate you being on this list and I look at all of your
posts.  I am not sure why you decided to take a couple of these off-line
 I was interested in following this discussion, but it is certainly upto
you to decide.

Anyway on another note, the IBM/Tivoli education material has been
stating for sometime now that the DIRMC attribute is effectively
obsolete.  The material states that all directory information is kept in
the DB now.  The only reason I used DIRMC in the past was to store my
directories on a disk based storage pool to improve restore performance.
 I have now real way of verifying this information.  I guess I just
beleived the material, as such I no longer bother with this attribute
and I have not had any noticable problem.  Can you please clarify this
for us?

--
Regards,
Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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