I understand your point but my issue is that I have to make it work with
what I have. Being short of resources is a fact-of-life for me.

It is going to have to go directly-to-tape. Now way around it. I am just
trying to figure out how to make it perform, the best.

Besides, I don't think it is reasonable to expect to have 1TB of
landing-zone just in case you might hit that mark (or higher) once a week
while the rest of the week I mostly have 200-300GB used, daily. Not going
to happen.  I have been asking for more tape drives (only 4-3590E and
2-LTO shared among 3-TSM servers with 100+ clients including the weekly
400GB notes backups) for more than a year and should finally get 4-more
3490E (ATL) drives.

We are a poor university !

Thanks for your help.




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
>Can I assume you really ment something more reasonable like
>500MB not 5GB, since our mailbox limits are usually under 300MB ! ?

It depends upon what you mean by "reasonable". I've got a customer that
sets their first level of storage pool "overflow" to 20GB, and a second
level of 200GB.

>I still don't/won't have enough disk space to handle something
>like this !
> The backup stream would overrun the disk landing-zone (200GB)
>way before it has a chance to dump it to tape !

This is a situation where you appear to not have enough resource to
handle the load you're being asked to handle. A well-built TSM system
should have enough disk storage pool to handle a full two days of
backups. (After all, your library might be down for as long as 48 hours
waiting for parts.)

Disk is cheap(er) these days.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627