Thanks for the advice!  I was just wondering what you meant by group
collocation?  Also, the reason why I'm so granular on copypools is that
that is what we use for disaster recoveries and so far they haven't been as
successful as I would like them to be.  Some servers, especially Windows,
aren't completing the restore at disaster recovery and I wasn't quite sure
how to give them better offsite restore performance but also not collocate
offsite storage pools and waste tapes.  Is there a site where I can see
what the new features and functionality of TSM 5.3 would be and the release
date?

Thanks again!

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Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
Work:(717)302-6603
Fax:(717)302-5974
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Joni Moyer
>I know that this is a common sense question concerning storage
>pools, but I was just hoping that there is some type of
>logical answer.  In the beginning I was going to create 5
>domains by platform and have a disk pool, onsite tape pool and
>offsite copy pool for each.  Now I am beginning to wonder if I
>don't want to get even more granular than that.  Due to the
>fact that we cannot afford to have our copy pools collocated,
>but we do need the data stored in a less fragmented format.
[snip]

Think about this:

How often in the last year have you used a tape volume from your copy
pool, other than to possibly run one or two RESTORE VOLUME commands on
bad primary pool tapes? Is your need to be that granular really
practical?

If you're still nervous about non-collocated copy pools, how about
running a MOVE NODEDATA on the copy pool copies of files on your 3-5
most critical servers?

Also keep in mind that group collocation will (hopefully) be in TSM 5.3,
which is scheduled to GA in December.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627