Hello,
Using TSM 5.1.6.2 on Solaris 8 with a Sun L20 Tape Library (using DLT8000
drives) how can I check if TSM uses the hardware compression of the drives?
We use the TSM driver to access the drives (so there's no special driver
for using the drives in compression mode). The only way to configure hw
compression in TSM I found is to configure the approbate drive format in
the device class (DLT35C or DLT40C) (Is there another way to configure
the hardware compression?) I did this but TSM still only writes about
37.000 MB on 35/70 GB DLT IV Tape. This is independent from the kind of
data written. We use the server only for a Copy Storage Pool of our
primary server. The data to backup is mostly Oracle DBs, Filesystem
backups, Domino Data backups, etc.
Some TSM output:
tsm: TSM2>q volume
Volume Name Storage Device Estimated Pct Volume
Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Status
(MB)
------------------------ ----------- ---------- --------- ----- --------
/tsm/01/archive/archive- ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 20,000.0 0.0 On-Line
pool_vol001.dsm
/tsm/01/backup/backuppo- BACKUPPOOL DISK 20,000.0 0.0 On-Line
ol_vol001.dsm
ARZ00016 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 38,621.3 94.1 Full
ARZ0003 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 35,305.2 100.0 Full
ARZ0004 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 71,680.0 19.4 Filling
ARZ0005 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 31,060.1 100.0 Full
ARZ0006 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 71,680.0 26.7 Filling
ARZ0011 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 45,654.5 100.0 Full
ARZ0013 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 37,968.0 100.0 Full
ARZ0014 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 37,125.2 100.0 Full
ARZ0015 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 33,276.5 100.0 Full
ARZ0016 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 40,359.1 100.0 Full
ARZ0017 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 38,636.0 99.7 Full
ARZ0018 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 37,670.3 100.0 Full
ARZ0019 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 37,165.9 100.0 Full
ARZ0021 LIBRARYL20 DEV1 33,153.4 100.0 Full
tsm: TSM2>q devclass dev1 f=d
Device Class Name: DEV1
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 1
Device Type: DLT
Format: DLT35C
Est/Max Capacity (MB): 71,680.0
Mount Limit: 2
Mount Wait (min): 60
Mount Retention (min): 60
Label Prefix: ADSM
Library: L20
Directory:
Server Name:
Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
Last Update Date/Time: 09/04/03 12:13:27
Looking at this output I think, that TSM does not use the hardware
compression at all. Or am I wrong?
TIA
Bernd
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