ADSM-L

Re: Preparing a tape storage pool volume for reuse

2005-03-30 11:46:34
Subject: Re: Preparing a tape storage pool volume for reuse
From: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:46:18 -0600
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:11:38 -0500, Rob Berendt <rob AT dekko DOT com> wrote:
> Judging by one of your other emails, is reclaimation a process to merge
> partial tapes together?  If so, that really doesn't interest us.  It
> doesn't fit into our backup strategy.

May I suggest that perhaps your backup strategy doesn't fit the
operational model of TSM?  You really can't force TSM into an
old-fashioned full-and-incremental strategy, at least not well, and if
you're dead-set on trying to do that, then perhaps you should
reconsider your choice to use TSM.

Kelly