Jon, The reason I don't recommend this is that your offsites are your disaster recovery media which will then have even more clients competing for tapes in a disaster recovery mode.
Steffan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin, Jon R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:55 AM Subject: More than one storage pool backing up to a single copypool. > All, > > Is it possible to have two storage pool's backup to the same copy > storage pool? I don't see anything in the manuals saying yes or no. > > We currently have a 'TAPEPOOL' which is backed up to a 'COPYPOOL' . > Then the 'COPYPOOL' tapes are sent offsite. The original intention of our > TSM installation was for backup of 'server' data only. The 'TAPEPOOL' uses > collocation. > > Recently a growing number of executives have "asked" to have their > desktops installed as TSM clients. My problem is that right now each of > these desktops will "hog" an entire volume because of the collocation. > > What I would like to do is create a 'TAPEPOOL_PC' which has > collocation turned off and does a backup to the existing 'COPYPOOL'. > > > Thank You, > Jon Martin
