All,

First time poster, fairly new to the whole thing, so help much appreciated.

We've got a TSM server on which we've just upgraded the disk array, from 1TB
to 2TB. It also has a Spectralogic Treefrog unit with two AIT2 drives and a
15-slot robot.

We're looking to keep the current generation of files from our main file
server in the diskpools, so that we (in the event of a meltdown of the
fileserver) won't have to resort to tape. The amount of storage on the file
server is roughly 1TB - the other servers are only a small fraction of that.

We've kept the old diskpools, and created new ones to catch new data.

The file server currently has its storage divided into two partitions. I'm
reconfiguring the array on the file server to add space, and I'm going to
switch to a single large partition, and change the drive letter so that the
TSM server will pick up all of the files on the reconfigured array as new.
(I've got a copy of the data on a test machine, done with robocopy, to
retain all of the ACL information, and will be copying the data back after
the production file server is reconfigured.)

Is there some way 1) to fix those files in their diskpools, or 2)  get
notification if they start to migrate to tape and/or 3) get notification if
space in the diskpools is such that files from the file server are likely to
migrate to tape?

The version for TSM shown at the CLI interface is "Version 5, Release 1,
Level 5.0".

Thanks,

Kurt Buff
Sr. Network Administrator
Zetron, Inc.
kbuff AT zetron DOT com