I respond offline to customers when I need to obtain detailed information
regarding a problem, such as traces, system information, etc., that in and
of themselves are of very little use to the ADSM-L community at large.
If/when a resolution is reached, you can be sure that I (or the person who
originally reported the problem) will post the information.

As to DIRMC being obsolete... not to the best of my knowledge. I just did
a small test this morning, backing up several files to disk, then looked
at the contents of the volume, and I can clearly see that directory
information is there as well.

Regards,

Andy

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.




"Mark D. Rodriguez" <mark AT MDRCONSULT DOT COM>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
10/26/2002 10:53
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        cc:
        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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