Antony,
Not sure why anyone would want to backup a cache directory (assuming you can 
even get it into a quiesced state so you aren't sitting with a "fuzzy" backup), 
but...

I believe the archive command has a -quiet option that turns off detailed 
logging to the dsmsched.log file.  The downside is that you won't have a log of 
everything that was done (but you probably don't want to read 8 million lines 
of "xxxxx backed up" either).

As far as the TSM db is concerned, 8m objects is going to be 8m objects, 
regardless.  Throw more disk at it.


Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer
Haworth, Inc
Steve.Schaub AT Haworth DOT com
616-393-1457 Desk
616-836-6962 Cell
Siempre Hay Esperanza

>>> aryan AT ICWA.WA.GOV DOT AU 09/24 9:57 PM >>>
We have a cache directory on an AIX server that has about 8 million
objects. We want to archive this maybe twice a week for DR purposes and
only keep one copy. The trouble being it blows out our database with all
the objects and the schedule log blows out the files space where it is
saved to. Does anyone know of anyway to backup/archive this amount of
objects and not blow out both the DB and the filespace?

Any help or comments would be appreciated.

Antony Ryan
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KAZ Computer Services
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