ADSM-L

Collocation tape management

2015-10-04 17:59:02
Subject: Collocation tape management
From: Kenton Maguire <Kent_Maguire AT ALLIANZLIFE DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: 23 April 1998 22:29
>We are backing up some of our larger system to a storage pool that is
>utilizing collocation with hopes of reducing the number of tape mounts
>required for complete recovery,  i.e. disaster.  While this model works
>well, it does consume a tremendous amount of scratch tapes in our 3575 tape
>library.
>
>Is there any method that would allow us to reduce and/or control the number
>of clients stored on each tape rather than dedicating a tape to each
>client?  I've been told that by reducing the number of 'max scratch' tapes
>for the storage pool, it would force ADSM to 'stack' client data.  However,
>I haven't seen any documentation describing this method.
>
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