And with DISK device class there is no multi-session restore. ....
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Hobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D2D on AIX Question, Why not use the DISK device class with RAW volumes? Personally, I find FILE classes a pain for user storage because you DO have to perform reclamation on them. Ian Hobbs On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:48:07 -0400, Eliza Lau wrote: >Okay. I got it. It is a pain to manually define the volumes, but it can be >done. I also received your pdf file. > >Thanks to everyone who answered, >Eliza > >> >> It depends upon how you configure things. For dynamic allocation of >> volumes, then yes you are limited to the size of the file system that >> you mount on that mount point. However if you define the stgpool >> volumes explicitly using the DEFINE VOLUME command, you can place the >> volumes across as many file systems as you want. I will email you a PDF >> presentation IBM has on Disk Only backups. >> >> >> H. Milton Johnson >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Eliza Lau >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:11 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: D2D on AIX >> >> Our 3494 with 3590K tapes in 3 frames is getting full. Instead of >> adding another frame or upgrading to 3590H or 3592 tapes we are looking >> into setting up a bunch of cheap ATA disks as primary storage. >> >> The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2 has a >> max file system size of 1TB. Does it mean the largest stgpool I can >> define is 1TB? >> >> My Exchange stgpool alone has 8TB of data. Do I have to split it up >> into 8 pieces? >> >> server: TSM 5.2.2.5 on AIX 5.2 >> database 90GB at 70% >> Total backup data - 22TB >> >> Eliza Lau >> Virginia Tech Computing Center >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Ian Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================= "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience." -Dilbert
