In my copies of the Win Admin Guide for 5.2 and 5.2.2, I don't find the command which you quote in your first paragraph. For better or worse, there is no Formatsize parameter for the definition of mirror copies in 5.2.x. (It's obviously a programming deficiency for the attempt to simply ignore the bad keyword and plow ahead with the portion of the command that it did recognize.)
You'll need to proceed with the external dsmfmt, as you surmised - which is more awkward but healthier than the "trick" method. Or, you could buy into TSM 5.3, where there *is* at last a Formatsize parameter for mirror copies. :-)
Richard Sims
On Apr 24, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Henrik Wahlstedt wrote:
Hi,
Windows admin guide 5.2 says that you can define a dbcopy or logcopy with "define dbcopy(logc) vol1 e:\dbvol\vola formatsize=25". So I tested it on my 5.2.2.5 server.
TSM:SERVER1> define logcopy E:\TSM\TSMLOG\log01.dsm E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM formatsize=2500 ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: DEFINE LOGCOPY E: \TSM\TSMLOG\log01.dsm E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM formatsize=2500 ANR9969E Unable to open volume E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM. The most likely reason is that another TSM server is running and has the volume allocated. ANR2404E DEFINE LOGCOPY: Volume E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM is not available. TSM:SERVER1>
Help define logcopy doesnt show any information about the formatsize parameter? Obviously the failure is because I havent formatted a mirror volume. Should "define dbcopy vol1 e:\dbvol\vola formatsize=25" work?
And, will this differ in TSM? dsmfmt -db E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM 2500 DEFINE LOGCOPY E:\TSM\TSMLOG\log01.dsm E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM
With
define logv E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM formatsize=2500 del logv E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM DEFINE LOGCOPY E:\TSM\TSMLOG\log01.dsm E:\TSM\TSMLOG\LOG01M.DSM Not the most practical way to do it, I know, but it works from web gui............
//Henrik
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