Some ideas: * I assume that you have reclaimed those tapes contained in the library so that you dont have too many with lots of "wasted space".
* Identify those tapes that are archives, and remove those. If your archives are mixed with your backups, then now is the time to "redesign" and take the archives out - they are "generally" used least for restores. * Now that you have been using TSM for some time, you may have an idea of which systems you do more frequent restores to than others. Again with the redesign, have those systems go to their own set of tapes, and take them out. (Maybe not straight away, but after a period of time). How do you manage them? * You check them out as "mountable but not in library", put them in a safe place and update TSM with their new location (then if you are hit by a bus, somebody else knows where they are :-) * Which ones do you take out? Identify the ones above, then identify the full ones that havent been written to for the longest time, then beg and grovel for a bigger library. (TSM will generate a mount request, if it needs a tape that is mountable but not in the library, so have a process that can capture that mount request as well, so you dont have mount requests sitting their for hours and then the tapes go unavailable because it wasnt satisfied within the mount limit times.) ...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/11/2003 10:06:59 AM: > Ask the boss exactly what he would like not to be backed up :) > > > Seriously, make it his problem, not yours. > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/11/2003 5:57:21 >>> > Does someone have a procedure or pointer to one that would > allow me to set up a procedure for managing Out of the Library > tapes for a local tape pool? > > Yes, I know, 'Just Buy a Bigger/Additional Library and go on with life.' > This is not an option right now. > > We have a IBM3583/L18 that is expanded fully (now has 12 slot door, > 60 slots internally, and 6 drives. And I have run out of space to > keep my local tape pool tapes and need to remove some, but I need > to know how to MANAGE these tapes, how to see if tapes need to be > put in, how to choose which tapes to remove and what to put in, > etc, etc. > > Suggestions, pointers, sympathy, hardware, documentation, etc > are all appreciated. > > (I requsted a 3284 be put in the budget for next year, but my boss > did not even submit it to his management.) > > ... TIA, JC > > BTW... Using TSM 4.2.3.1 on Win2KServer, with NT clients on 5.2.0.1, > 5.1.6.0 and 5.1.1.0 and Novell 4.11 clients on TSM 4.2.2.0 > > > > *********************************************************************************** > This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential > and for the sole use of the intended recipients(s). This > confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are > not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. > > Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review > of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty > of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. > > If you are not the intended recipients(s), or if you have received > this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender > by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e- > mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. > ***********************************************************************************
