Think of it this way Paul. (and please excuse me if I pitch this at too
low a level)
You are trying to create an offsite point of consistency every day. So,
you run your backups overnight, then copy the data to your copypool. At
this point you should create a DB backup - I prefer to use the
: [ADSM-L] Copypool storage pool questions
Thanks for the reply but one thing I am still confused about are these copypool
tapes sitting in my onsite tape library. Given that the primary reason for this
copypool is for offsite tapes, should these copypool tapes currently residing
in my tape
Thanks for the reply but one thing I am still confused about are these copypool
tapes sitting in my onsite tape library. Given that the primary reason for this
copypool is for offsite tapes, should these copypool tapes currently residing
in my tape library (created by reclaimation processes) be
2010 12:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Copypool storage pool questions
Running reclamation is not an issue. Generally I run it when my scratch
tapes go below my threshold limit.
Is BKPLTO4POOL stg pool is it a copy pool or primary pool?
Regards,
Rajesh
No I do not have collocation turned on for that storage pool. Offsite tapes are
coming back when they are defined as empty after the reclaimation and
expiration processes have done their work. However as part of the reclaimation
process on that storage pool it is using tapes onsite that are in
On Oct 10, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:
A lot of these have a status of Full however they are only 50/60/70% used.
...a reflection of files on the filled tape expiring over time, which
reclamation will combine with other data to fill a new tape. Surrogate
reclamation tends to be
Each weekday morning we run the following command backup stg BKPLTO4POOL
COPYPOOL_LTO3 to backup the data that has been backed up overnight onto LTO3
tapes and then checkout these LTO3 tapes and send them offsite. I have a
reclaimation process running on a daily basis for the COPYPOOL_LTO3
] On Behalf Of
Paul_Dudley
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 8:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Copypool storage pool questions
Each weekday morning we run the following command backup stg
BKPLTO4POOL COPYPOOL_LTO3 to backup the data that has been backed up
overnight onto LTO3 tapes
Assure that you aren't collocating on the offsite copy pool tapes, and that
partially filled tapes are not going offsite - that will certainly eat
scratches fast. Obviously, offsite tapes need to come back to provide a
replenishing tape supply. Be careful about checking in offsite tapes, as
