I haven't tried this setup but that makes sense. So you would ensure MAXNUMP would be equal to the number of backup sessions you wanted. (You want to update MAXNUMP for restores anyway when restoring from file device class.)
I asked the presenter of the Disk Only Backup Technical Exchange about collocating file stgpools and he said it made no sense. I tend to agree. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D2D on AIX Yes, you would still get the multi-session backup, but only to the limit of your MAXNUMMP,right? What if you're running the FILE stgpool as collocated? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rushforth, Tim Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D2D on AIX Yes that is basically what we are doing. We are doing it more for fault tolerance. Our file storage pool is on a different disk subsystem. If there were major problems with that we could still do the nightly backups. Note that if you went directly to a File storage pool you would get multi-session backup also - you don't need a DISK pool for that. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D2D on AIX What about combining both worlds...have the DISK storage pool for your daily backups to get the multi-session backups and faster backups, then migrate to a FILE storage pool for retention. Now you'll get the multi-session restore, less overhead than the large DISK pool, but still have to do reclamation. Just substitute FILE for the onsite TAPE. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc.
