Len - You guessed it - the 2nd library is in a remote DR location as the off-site electronic vault. We no longer transfer tapes. This method has been working great for years with the 3583's and we now need additional space as we are adding additional backup clients to the mix. Oh, btw, we are not using ALMS - I probably shouldn't have used the word partition. Each library is just a single entity unto itself.
Larry Peifer AIX System Administrator Tivoli System Administrator Oracle DBA San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Len Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 12/21/2006 05:35 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning Larry, If you use the ALMS feature of the 3584 library, then you are locked in to the library doing the cleaning. An ALMS is a pretty nice feature to be using. PS Can I ask why you have two single partition libraries instead of one with 2 partitions. Unless they are in different locations. And maybe a third partition for test use. len -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Peifer Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host library or the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server. We are configuring two 3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries. Our environment is TSM 5.3x server on AIX 5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2 tapes in the libraries with each library configured as it's own single partition.
