TSM does not lock the total required space for a backup in a storage
pool before the actual backup starts or while in progress. TSM fills
the defined devices for a management class in order of definition until
the storage pool is full or the backup completes. Fill your disks and
TSM moves on to the tape pool or some other defined device.

Bruce....

If the MAXSIZE threshold on your disk pool is set to 200GB (which is
excessive) and you have 133GB available there is no reason the backup
isn't ending up on disk. Double check your management class for both
the backup and archive copy pools. TDP for Oracle uses the 'BACKUP'
copy group which in your case should point to the disk pool. TDP does
not use the 'ARCHIVE' copy group. I have been bitten by this one in the
past.

Regards,

Greg


On May 24, 2004, at 8:53 AM, Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS) wrote:

Bruce,

You should make sure that the percentage utilized in your storage pool
is 0% prior to running your backup.  Also, are any other backups
running.  Keep in mind that once TSM sees that it's going to need
133Gig of disk to backup the Oracle db, it will attempt to lock that
amount of the stg pool.  If the full amount is not available, it will
go to the "next" stg pool.

Regards, Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Kamp, Bruce
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TDP Oracle Question


That is set to 200G.....


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-----Original Message-----
From: Hooft, Jeroen [mailto:Jeroen.Hooft AT ATOSORIGIN DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:30 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TDP Oracle Question

Maybe setting on disk storagepool: "Maximum Size Threshold"?

Jeroen


-----Original Message-----
From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:bkamp AT MHS DOT NET]
Sent: maandag 24 mei 2004 14:00
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TDP Oracle Question


I'm trying to give enough disk to my Oracle backups but have not been
successful.  My management classes point to disk.  How do I find out
how
much disk TSM is looking for to backup straight to disk?  I looked on
the
system & saw that the dbf files added up to about 133G I have given it
200G.
Or is there something else that could be pointing to tape instead of
disk?
I'm running TSM 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.1.  The client is running TSM
5.1.5.11 &
TDP Oracle ver 2.2.0.1 with Oracle 8.1.7.4.


Thanks,
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Memorial Healthcare System
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