Bassam, I may be confused on this but if you are migrating data from disk to tape then MAXPROC has nothing to do with it! You may be getting that confused with the backup stgpool command which creates your DR copies to take off site. If you want to utilize all 6 drives during a migration process from disk to tape then:
upd stgpool <stgpoolname> migproc=6 Regards, Demetrius Malbrough UNIX/TSM Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Al'shaebani, Bassam [mailto:Bassam.Al'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Utilizing All My drives Hello TSM'rs, I have a question. Here's my senario, We backup to disk. Then Copy/Migrate to tape once the backups complete. I have 6 3590B drives. When my copy/migration from disk to tape is running, I only see about two tapes being mounted, thus I'm only using two out of my 6 drives. I have increaded the number MAXPROC to 2, and noticed a considerable change in copy and migration time. My question is 1) What is the max number of proc I can assign with 6 drives? 2) Is there something esle I should also be doing to utilize more drives? your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -bassam nyc
