Okay. I got it.  It is a pain to manually define the volumes, but it can be
done.  I also received your pdf file.

Thanks to everyone who answered,
Eliza

>
> It depends upon how you configure things.  For dynamic allocation of
> volumes, then yes you are limited to the size of the file system that
> you mount on that mount point.  However if you define the stgpool
> volumes explicitly using the DEFINE VOLUME command, you can place the
> volumes across as many file systems as you want.  I will email you a PDF
> presentation IBM has on Disk Only backups.
>
>
> H. Milton Johnson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Eliza Lau
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: D2D on AIX
>
> Our 3494 with 3590K tapes in 3 frames is getting full.  Instead of
> adding another frame or upgrading to 3590H or 3592 tapes we are looking
> into setting up a bunch of cheap ATA disks as primary storage.
>
> The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2 has a
> max file system size of 1TB.  Does it mean the largest stgpool I can
> define is 1TB?
>
> My Exchange stgpool alone has 8TB of data.  Do I have to split it up
> into 8 pieces?
>
> server: TSM 5.2.2.5 on AIX 5.2
> database 90GB at 70%
> Total backup data - 22TB
>
> Eliza Lau
> Virginia Tech Computing Center
> lau AT vt DOT edu
>
>