From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Etienne Brodeur > Is it possible if I have a one drive library to use a copy storage pool > for my backups?
Yes. > I can backup to disk, then backup the diskpool to the copypool. (this way > I should have all my data onsite and offsite). Exactly. You backup from diskpool to offsite pool, and then you migrate from diskpool to primary tape pool. > How do I then reclaim my copypool volumes? You can't. TSM doesn't support a disk-based reclamation pool for reclamation of offsite tape pools. > I can't reclaim to disk like I > do with my onsite volumes for some reason (I don't see why not since the > DB can track which file is on which onsite tape mount it and copy it to my > reclaimpool on disk. Once that is done it can mount a scratch or copypool > volume and the offsite volumes would be reclaimed no? One-drive libraries are pretty much worthless. Particularly if you have large-capacity tape volumes, your disk-based reclamation pool needs to be at least 40% of the maximum size of the tape volume. In the case of LTO tapes, that means 80GB of disk space for the reclamation pool. Do yourself a BIG favor. Get a three-drive library. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
