ADSM-L

Re: Tapes getting opened and closed hundreds of times during disk-bac kup

2006-09-14 11:56:00
Subject: Re: Tapes getting opened and closed hundreds of times during disk-bac kup
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:54:54 -0400
On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Jim Hatfield wrote:

...
As any client backs up, along with writing to the disk stgpool, it
also
opens and closes an LTO tape in my main tape pool hundreds of times...

Jim -

Obviously, query the contents of the tape, using a negative count
value to see the most recent entries first.  This may be Windows
backups, with directory entries going to the management class with
the longest retention.

   Richard Sims