The best I can remember you can't "migrate" into a copypool.

However, I would highly recommend, *depending on your environment*, to
do these tasks during the day instead.   I would assume your clients all
do their backups at night, therefore doing these backup processes during
the day gives the TSM server a little more time to commit to them.

You can run 1 and 3 simultaneously, and then run 2 giving it all the
time it needs.  However, there are other solutions.  
Here are some reasons why the example solution below may not help you:
1.  If you do not have any data getting backed up directly to the
tapepool, and you have no migration processes that auto kick off during
the night/day then I'd wonder why the tapepool -> copypool process is
taking so long.
2.  In your proposed solution you are not running a backup of the
tapepool, and therefore that data will never go offsite.
3.  Once you "backup" all the data to a copypool from the VTLpool there
would be no reason to "migrate" it to the same location, and as I said
above I don't believe you can "migrate" into a copy pool anyway.

I guess the main question here is what problem are you trying to solve,
and what is happing that's making this an issue?  (errors, failed
backups, etc.).

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Orin Rehorst
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:20 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup order
> 
> Our TSM was set up to nightly:
> 
>       1. backup the VTLpool to copypool
>       2. backup the tapepool to copypool
>       3. migrate stg VTLpool (to tapepool)
> 
> Step 2 is tape-to-tape and therefore slow.
> 
> Could I change to eliminate the tape-to-tape and still get the job
> done?
> 
> For example:
> 
>       1. backup the VTLpool to copypool
>       2. backup the VTLpool to tapepool
>       3. migrate stg VTLpool (to copypool)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Orin
> 
> Orin Rehorst
> 
> * e-mail:  rehorst AT poha DOT com
> ( Phone:  (713)670-2443
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