I typically run a 'backup stg diskpool offsitepool' first and then a migration to the onsitepool. From my experience this has enabled a faster of data to the offsitepool and freed up other tape drives since I am not backing up tape to tape.
-- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backups missed In addition to: BACKUP STGPOOL onsitetape offsitetape I recommend you do: BACKUP STGPOOL diskpool offsitetape Because at any point in time, some of your backup data is in the disk pool, some in the tape pool. This makes sure that if there is any data left in the disk pool that has not migrated to tape yet, it gets copied to the offsitepool. (If there is none left in the diskpool, then the second BACKUP STGPOOL costs you nothing...) (In fact, you can save a WHOLE LOT of tape mounts if you do these in the reverse order. BACKUP STGPOOL diskpool offsitetape FIRST; then your offsite tapes get made using only ONE tape mount for the output tape, instead of mounting INPUT and OUTPUT tapes. :>) Here is something else you can do: select stgpool_name, sum(physical_mb)/1024 as physical_GB from occupancy group by stgpool_name order by stgpool_name This shows how many GB of data are in your disk and tape pool. The sum of your diskpool and onsitetape pool should = the GB in your offsite tape pool. It doesn't prove that EVERY file made it to the offsite tapes, but if this looks OK when I arrive in the morning, I'm happy.. -----Original Message----- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backups missed Hello, I have TSM on the mainframe. I have just taken it over and I am still learning. The previous administrator had administrative schedules migrating the data from disk to an onsite tape pool and then doing a tape to tape copy from onsite to offsite tapes. I was wondering how it is possible for data to not be copied to the offsite pool? If the data is moved to tape and then it is copied offsite, how is this possible? I know that you get a message at the end of the job if it was successful or not and how many files were missed. My problem is I don't have access to the client side of the servers. I am only in charge of making sure that things are backed up and running smoothly. Is there an easy way to monitor if everything is being copied from onsite to offsite tape? Are there certain error messages that I should be searching for on a daily basis? I'd appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks!!!!! Joni
