So, even though I made my change a month or so ago, unless I had actually backed up 
the file(s) in question they could potentially be in the wrong mgtclass?  The rebind 
wouldn't occur until the file was actually touched?

Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>I'm at a DR exercise and have discovered that 
many of the files that we needed
>recovered were in an unavailable primary storage pool. What seems to have
>happened was that a few weeks prior to the exercise we reorganized into three
>storage pools; one with a vaulted copy storage pool for servers that needed to
>be recovered, and two that did not have a vaulted copy storage pool for servers
>we didn't need to recover offsite. The default management class is in one of
>the latter pools. For whatever reason it appears that many critical files are
>in the default management class. What I did was to create three sets of client
>options, each with an INCLEXCL option to assign all files to the appropriate
>management class. The statements all look like "include ?:\...\*
>mgmt_class_name" and the sequence number assigned to the option statement is the
>highest in the list. I thought that this would 1) be the first include
>statement evaluated by the client (it's on the TSM server) and 2) be globally
>applied to all files on the client.

It may be that your change was too recent and insufficiently thorough to meed
the DR needs... Remember that files are not rebound unless the participate in a
backup. The files you needed may be oldies in the original server storage pool.
Another foible in stgpool reorganization plans is data-rich directories (e.g.,
Windows): they are too much to be kept solely in the server db, and so have to
be in a stgpool; and the rule is that in the absence of DIRMc, they go with the
management class with the longest retention - which some customers have found to
be a mongrel MC they had hanging around in their definitions with no expectation
that it would ever be used.

Richard Sims, BU


Joe Howell
Shelter Insurance Companies
Columbia, MO

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