Richard,

I have found that professors with research on toasted
harddrives are very willing to wait an extra day or two to
have me stage their backups from non-collocated tape (a false
economy if there ever was one) to disk.  Then tehy think that
TSM is such a nobrainer as their drive is resotred in one
easy stream.



---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:09:57 -0500
>From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Pre-fetching a restore?
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
>Jim - Pre-fetching for a restoral is something that isn't
done.
>
>Where you know ahead of time that a file system may be
jeopardized by
>scheduled system maintenance, you could perform a full
backup of it
>so as to have its data fresh and contiguous on TSM server
media.
>
>In unpredictable failure situations, your chosen storage pool
>architecture comes into play, where recent data is available
on in a
>higher level, fast-access storage pool in the hierarchy,
with older
>data having migrated to slower, more economical storage
pools below.
>The product provides various opportunities to have most-
needed data
>most readily available for recoveries.
>
>   Richard Sims
Fred Johanson