Skylar,

   Sorry for the delayed response! No client side compression enabled. 


Jennifer



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Skylar Thompson
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 2:49 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Question on Collocation

Hi Jennifer,

Do you have client-side compression enabled? I'm not familiar with what the GUI 
reports, but dsmc will show this in the "Objects compressed by"
line.

On 11/03/2017 02:06 PM, Drammeh, Jennifer C wrote:
> I use collocation and I have a node where the System Admin has requested that 
> his data from a particular node be isolated on tapes by itself. I created a 
> collocation group and have associated this one node with the new group. This 
> node had previously been backing up to a different collocation group. I 
> created a new Policy Domain and associated the node with it as well. This 
> policy domain is set to send the data direct to tape instead of going to our 
> diskpool. I also modified the settings on the server to allow this system to 
> have 2 mount points.
>
> I had the SA launch a "full" manual backup from the GUI - using the "Always 
> Backup" option. Here are the problems I am seeing.
>
>
> 1.       I can see that the system state data when to a tape that was already 
> used by other nodes (which tells me the collocation is not working)
>
> 2.       It only mounted 1 tape in a drive while performing the backup
>
> 3.       The metrics at the end showed that it inspected 283 GB of data and 
> only transferred 175 GB which means it did not actually perform a full backup.
>
> Any ideas to help get a FULL backup of this data alone on a single 1 
> or 2 tapes and ideally using multiple tape drives to speed things up? 
> (for backup and restore)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Jennifer


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