Wanda, Thanks very much for the help, seems to be working well.
One question, Do you have reclaimation turned on for the copy tape pool?
Well really two, HAve you been able to automate the ejecting of copy tapes for
vaulting?
Thanks,
Paul
"Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU> on 01/12/2000 10:04:50 AM
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Subject: Re: DRM and NT ADSM SERVER with STK 9710
If you are migrating to tape, then you must already have your "primary" tape
pool defined.
Your first step for creating offsite tapes is to create a COPY pool.
If you are using the GUI admin window, just click Storage Pools, Edit, then
ADD.
That just creates the definition.
If your tapes are checked into your library as SCRATCH, then you don't
assign specific tapes to the primary and copy pools; ADSM will just get a
scratch tape from the robot when it needs one.
Now to actually make the copies, you run this command:
BACKUP STGPOOL primarytapepoolname copytapepoolname
ADSM will check the data base, find any files that are in the primarypool
but not the copypool, and start putting them on copy pool tapes.
Note that this is a LOGICAL copy, not a physical copy; the copy pool tapes
are NOT images of the primary tapes.
That means you can kill and restart the BACKUP STGPOOL command if you need
to.
The second day you run BACKUP STGPOOL, it will only pick up the new stuff;
anything that already exists in the COPY pool will not be copied again.
A simple thing to do is to set up and ADMIN SCHEDULE that runs the BACKUP
STGPOOL command at the same time each day.
What I do is run two commands:
BACKUP STGPOOL diskpoolname copytapepoolname
BACKUP STGPOOL primarytapepoolname copytapepoolname
The first command gets all the files that are still on disk and puts them in
the copy pool; the second command picks up any files that migrated to tape
already. Making your COPY pool copies from data that is still on disk saves
a lot of tape mounts.
See if you can get this process to work.
Once you get the copy tapes made, you can use MOVE DRMEDIA commands to get
them out of the 9710, but that's step 2.....
Hope this helps,
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu
"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Brown [SMTP:pdbrown AT ASHLAND DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:52 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: DRM and NT ADSM SERVER with STK 9710
>
> I ADSMERs, I am working on a new small ADSM (Tivoli) system install
> running on
> an NT server connected
> to an STK 9710 with 9840 tape drives. Everything is working well, but I
> am
> having a hard time getting
> DRM to automatically create a copy tape for vaulting as the migrations
> fill the
> primary sequential
> tape pool that is on 9840 tape. My documentation is not very complete and
> from
> what I have I am not
> sure I can automate a process to create a second tape copy of the primary
> for
> ejection and vaulting.
> I am not interested in the Recovery Plan File at this time.
>
> Anyone out there tackled the task of creating tape copies for vaulting in
> an
> automated library?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
> PDBrown AT Ashland DOT com
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