Hi Dennis,
A few questions before I can give you a proper answer:
How many tape drives do you have in total?
You say there are two tape libraries - one for each node.
Has each library got two drives or one?
What type of libraries/drives do you have?
How much dasd have you got for your primary pools?
This may sound like I'm poking my nose in your
config, but depending on your answers to these questions
I'll be able to give you reccomendations as to what you
want to achieve. (BTW, you will be able to do what you
asked in your letter even with a limited configuration)
Regards
Christo Heuer
ABSA Group
South Africa
christoh AT absa.co DOT za
Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> Well, I have finally reached my frustration tolerance level. :^(
>
> We had ADSM installed fairly recently by a contractor. I don't
> believe much of the configuration was done correctly (or, more
> specifically, it does not function the way we would like it to).
> I would like to hear what others have to say about our options,
> and how _you_ might set it up.
>
> Our initial ADSM site is fairly simple. We have:
> SP with two high nodes
> One node has the server and admin. client, the other node
> is a client.
> (2) 3590 drives attached to the server node
> SP switch for communications between the nodes
>
> The way the contractor set this up, each of the drives is effectively
> allocated by one node. There are two tape libraries, two tape pools,
> etc. Each node has one tape library, one tape pool, one backup pool,
> .. well, you get the idea.
>
> We _do_ want backups from both nodes to be capable of running
> simultaneously. We _do_ want to prevent mixing node backups on one
> tape (did I word that right?). But we do _not_ want to be constrained
> in such a way that the tapes intended for a specific node must be
> mounted in a specific drive; and (more importantly) we do _not_ want
> to be unable to do backups when one of the drives is failed (as it
> is right now, for the fourth time).
>
> Do we ask too much? It seems to me that we should be able to pull
> this off. Otherwise, how in the world will we ever survive when we
> begin backing up our 60+ Novell / NT servers via ADSM? 60+
> drives???!!!
>
> I know I can't expect a "here's exactly how you do it" reply from
> this list, but a few pointers as far as capabilities and options
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your tolerance. We have a very small staff for our
> Unix/AIX/Oracle administration, and too little time allocated for
> training in this area. I greatly appreciate the help.
>
> Dennis Lovelady
>
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