Um, for tape drives and stuff, I don't think the accounting log will help much, unless you look at media wait times. What I would do is use the dsmulog utility to write the dsmserv stdout to files, and implement a cronned utility that keeps those files. I have my dsmulogs (roughly the same stuff as the activity log) going back about a year, so trending tape drive usage gets a lot easier if you write a script to go through and collate mounts and dismounts. I also have a cronned process that does q pr, q sess, q mo, and q stg and stores it in a circular alog.
I'd post some of my scripts, but I don't have the time to go through legal's release process. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Historical data from a backupset/archive (eg. September 2001) Hello TSM'ers Anybody successful in getting historical data from dsmaccnt log or a backupset. We are trying to do some trending with old backup data (to see the justification of new drives). I need to have what it would take for a full restore of a client in Sep/01, Jan/02, and current. Right now I have the current in all kinds of ways, it is the history that I am having trouble putting together. Any ideas out there. Thanx in advance for y'all's help.
