I am not sure what kind of emails you are archiving, but would it be
possible for you to zip or compress bunches of files.. like once a day.
then do the backup.
That way instead of backing up thousands of files, you only have to backup
one zipped or compressed files. Then when you do have a problem and need
to restore you can restore volume faster.
Sung Y. Lee
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 02/16/2005
10:49:34 AM:
> Background:
> TSM Server 5.2.3.5
> AIX Op System 5.2.2.0, P650 box
> Library -ADIC I2000 Scaler, LTO 2 Drives
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> Looking for feedback from the group.
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> We have currently have a partioned library, 10 drives for all our system
> backup. The other library partition, with 2 drives for content manager.
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> We are using content manager, via common store for email archiving. The
> problem is when there is a problem with the tape, there are thousands of
> small files on tape..and the restore of the tape is taking 20 hours to
> move the data off a tape. Seems that using LTO tape is not the answer
> with all of thousands of individual emails on one tape. Business SLA for
> email archiving is 24 hours. We are looking at increasing our disk
> pools, and keep all data on the disk...and of course, still keep offsite
> copy for DR purposes at this point.
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> Interested in any suggestions? What are you doing for email archiving?
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> Nancy Backhaus
> Enterprise Systems
> Backhaus.Nancy AT HealthNow DOT org
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