Steve, a more important question (assuming these are mksysb or sysback
images) -- can you boot and restore from these partitions? At D/R, will you
have a good way to tell (a) which tape has the backups, and (b) which
partition is system X?
I feel your pain on using an entire tape for a couple of gig -- to the point
that all my AIX systems now have an internal 4 mm DDS drive used ONLY for
mksysb. Even at $2500 (US) per system, I didn't have much trouble selling
this to management. We have a 3584 with LTO drives for the TSM library (and
no SAN yet, but it is on the way this year).
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Harris [mailto:Steve_Harris AT HEALTH.QLD.GOV DOT AU]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3590 Partitioning
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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