HI All,

This is  a 3590 question  rather than TSM as such, but this is the best forum 
for it.


I need to take system images of several AIX boxes each week to SAN Attached 
3590E drives in my 3494.
It seems like overkill to devote a whole 3590 tape to each image as they  will 
only be a few gig each.

I stumbled across some doc which implies that a 3590 tape can be partitioned 
into smaller segments which can then be used independently. (see items 36 and 
38 on the tapeutil menu).  However, this is old doc, and I assume the feature 
is from the early days of 3590 when 10GB was an enormous amount of storage.

Has anyone used this partitioning feature? in what circumstances?
Are there any gotchas?

Thanks

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia.




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