Just curious what size of file volumes are you using?  We were originally
using 25 GB, and then I listened to the "Disk Only Backup Strategies"
Technical Exchange where they recommended 2-4 GB volumes.

Thanks,

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-----Original Message-----
From: TSM_User [mailto:tsm_user AT YAHOO DOT COM]
Sent: July 27, 2004 6:41 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: D2D vs. tape backups with TSM?

Funny, we set ours down to 25% as well just to see what would happen.  This
worked but we have since set all of the ATA Pools to 50% and we just leave
them there.  Theoredically what could happen is we could be wasting twice as
much space but the fact is the volumes were going from 25% to 50% in a
matter of days and when we looked at how many volumes were between 25% and
50% in our enviornment we determined there was no need to reclaim down that
far.  From all outword signs there was no issues with reclaiming down to 25%
we just didn't think it was worth doing the extra work to get back such a
small amount of disk.  Disk is cheap, right! lol


"Rushforth, Tim" <TRushforth AT WINNIPEG DOT CA> wrote:
We've set ours at 25%. We are just piloting an all disk backup pool for
some clients on one of our servers and for small files on another.