Ok, I agree it´s a nice workaround.. But in Hoa´s case with a buch of 3592
drives it seems like you have a .... small budgett if you cant afford ~7
more tapes...

And keep in mind that you should be able to track thoose db backup tapes so
dont point your file deviceclass to your standard tapepool.

And last, why dont you keep it simple and live with your half full
tapes?!?!?


//Henrik





                                                                                
                                   
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Hi Hoa,

now this sounds interesting: I suppose I willhave to define a "FileDrive"
device, since I belive that only device classes are allowed targets to the
dbbackup command. And then set up a nice small storagepool so the file
gets instantly transferred to tape...

Thanks for all responses to my question

Regards, Lucian





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Lucian,

This is what we're doing to save 3592 tapes:

Incremental backup and full DB backup go to flat files, shift those files
to offsite or
onsite to Disk Storage Poll and let migrate functions put them on tapes.
(We have servers onsite & offsite 11 miles away for disaster).

Hoa.



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Hi list,

I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first
client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem
System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one IBM-LTO2.
Basically, the system works.
Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to
write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an
earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is not).
Can someone point me to the right direction?

Regards, Lucian Greis
MKV GmbH




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