Re: Best way to compare the pools ?

This thread got me to checking more closely and I discovered the following
situation.  We daily use 'backup stgpool tapepool4 tapepool5 maxprocess=2'
to our off-site library which happens to be identical to our on-site
library.  During the query below I noticed discrepancies for the old-c$
filespace.  The # of files is the same, but the Physical and Logical space
differs between the two tapepools.  This is different then 99% of the
other filespaces in the report and I'm wondering if it is indicative of a
problem.

I'd thought about doing an Audit Volume but don't know how to find out
what tape volumes the particular node/filespace is on.  Ideas?

So I took another track and just renamed the c$ filespace to old-c$ and
let the nightly backup make a new c$.  The results of that are indicated
below.  All numbers for the new c$ match up as expected.

What other things can be done to manage or fix issues like this?  In most
of the cases from my full report all 3 numbers agree.  A few have a
difference in the Physical space number.  A few others show a difference
in the Logical number.  And a very small case show a difference in all
three numbers.

tsm: TSM>q occ socats

Node Name      Type     Filespace       FSID     Storage        Number of
   Physical       Logical
                                               Name      Pool Name  Files
             Space          Space
                                                                Occupied
Occupied
                                                                (MB)
(MB)

SOCATS         Bkup     SYSTEM             1     TAPEPOOL4        140,409
  19,254.82     19,254.82
                                           OBJECT
SOCATS         Bkup     SYSTEM             1     TAPEPOOL5        140,409
  19,254.82     19,254.82
                                           OBJECT
SOCATS         Bkup     \\socats\-         2     TAPEPOOL4        138,460
   9,759.44      9,538.10
                                           old-c$
SOCATS         Bkup     \\socats\-         2     TAPEPOOL5        138,460
   9,674.01      9,538.09
                                           old-c$
SOCATS         Bkup     \\socats\-         3     TAPEPOOL4         81,268
   4,644.62      4,644.62
                                           c$
SOCATS         Bkup     \\socats\-         3     TAPEPOOL5         81,268
   4,644.62      4,644.62






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On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Vats.Ashok wrote:

> We have primary pool and offsite pool. We run backup from primary
> to offsite pool everyday using cron. I was wondering what is the
> best practice to copy primary to offsite pool ? Also how do I
> compare the two pools to see if offsite is caught up with primary.
> Typically I use q * * stg=primarypool & q * * stg=offsitepool but
> it takes a long time to run these commands & compare the output.

If the primary pool is backed up only to that offsite copy storage
pool (and not also an on-site copy storage pool), you can do 'select
* from auditocc', which is nearly instantaneous.

   Richard Sims     http://people.bu.edu/rbs