I believe the client estimates the size of the backup and if that size
exceeds the available size of the initial pool then it tries the next pool
in the migration path and so on.

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Dombrowski [mailto:neil AT EBUILT DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange not working


Del,
        Thank you, Exchange appears to be backing up right now. Strange,
though, all my other backups go to the backuppool on my TSM server's
disk, and get flushed from there to tape. The Exchange backup is going
directly to tape (I can see the tape writing while the backup is going).
Is there a setting to make this backup go to the same route, or is the
backup direct to tape for some purpose I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
        Neil

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:21, Del Hoobler wrote:
> Neil,
>
> This sounds like your backups are being directed to tape.
> You need to indictate that you are willing to wait
> for tape mounts.  Try this command:
>
>    TDPEXCC SET MOUNTWait=Yes
>
> Then issue
>
>    TDPEXCC QUERY TDP
>
> to make sure the setting is set to YES.
>
> At that point, retry the backup.
> If it still fails with the same message,
> then you will need to look closer at your
> TSM Server to make sure there are tapes
> assigned and available to the storagepool that
> these backups will be directed to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Del
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Del Hoobler
> IBM Corporation
> hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> - Never cut what can be untied.
> - Commit yourself to constant improvement.
>
> ============================================================
>
> > I'm a UNIX guy who just got strapped with backing up Exchange. Installed
> > TDP for Exchange, tried a backup, got this in my actlog. Haven't found a
> > reference to this yet, anyone know what this means? The client says
> > "Requested data is offline", but everyone is accessing their mail.
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