Hi Justin,

There is a setting on the disk storage pool called maxsize.  This value
(which is no limit by default) specifies the maximum size for a physical
file in the storage pool.  You must specify the scale factor (K,M,G,T)
when setting this attribute (i.e. update stg diskpool maxsize=4G)
otherwise it defaults to bytes!

Laura Buckley
STORServer, Inc./SSSI
buckley AT storserver DOT com
www.storsol.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Justin Bleistein
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:54 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: tsm backup question


      Now I've noticed sometimes when I backup a file which is
considered large compared to others it goes right to tape. Here's my
situation. I have a SUN system which has an Oracle database on it. When
it backup the normal O/S files it backsup right to disk perfect real
quick. Now when it hits a DBF which is only: "12 meg" mind you, it hangs
there and says: "waiting for mount of offline media....". Now there's
plenty of room in the storage pool, migration doesn't need to run,
there's like 200 gig in the disk stgpool free and the copy group is set
for it to go right to disk. Now it's just not on Oracle DBF files
sometimes it's on other application files..etc. It's like if  a file is
over a certain size regardless of the current disk storage pool
utilization percentage it will still mount a tape and backup to tape?.
Any ideas?. Is there something I'm missing? It's a problem because I do
a backup for this client and I see there's more then enough disk storage
pool space freed but not enough tape drives in the time they want it
ran. No big deal I figure because I have more then enough disk space.
WRONG, I kick the backup off and it still trys to mount a tape?????. Any
ideas would be appreciated thanks!.

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing)
Desk: (856) 866 - 4017
Cell:    (856) 912 - 0861
Email: justin.bleistein AT sungard DOT com