We have 80gb databases on 4 x IBM NSM's (COO, H50's, SSA disk 1gb Memory
etc)

They take over 4 hours to back up. We recently migrated a TSM database from
one NSM to another and
it took 18 hours to restore...far far too long if faced with disaster
recovery.

Its not an easy probelm to fix.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Zarnowski
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:41 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: TSM database maximum recommended size
>
> At 12:08 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, Scott McCambly wrote:
> >How many sites are running with databases this large or larger? On what
> >hardware?
>
> Our DB is now 116GB assigned (92% full).
> Hardware is RS6000/M80, 2GB RAM, SSA disks (db is mirrored by TSM)
> As others have said, "it depends".  If your requirement is to be able to
> restore a database quickly, then your max size will be smaller.