"Hagan, Patrick L" wrote:
>
> I need some advice. We are merging three ADSM aix servers into one new
> Solaris server. This new server will be a SUN E450 with 4 cpu's, 2GB of
> memory, and internal disk drives. We will be using an fibre raid box (1TB)
> for stage pools. The tape device will be a stortek 9710 with 10 dlt7000's.
> We are backing up about 600gb of data an night. My questions are:
>
> - It looks like I can run solaris7 and TSM 3.7 with not problem?
> - I assume I should put the db and log files on the internal disks
> (mirrored)  in the E450 and not on the raid box.
> - Does this system seem big enough to handle 600gb per night?
> - Should I make one big stage pool or a few smaller ones?
>
> Please answer slowly, and use small words, I am very very new to the *sm
> world.
>
> Patrick Hagan
> BPAmoco

We are running solaris7 and TSM 3.7 with no problem BUT I too am
new to TSM and have not really deployed it yet - still in test phase.
As far as the 600GB - TSM only backs up what has changed (incremental),
so as long as you can get the 1st backup, everyone after that will
be much smaller.