Helder, you have to use 'copy activedata' first. But then 'backup stgpool' will, on the same day, copy only active data, because that is all there is until the next nights backups occur. But this is no different than backing up from the standard backuppool. After that, time marches on and the copypool tapes, regardless of which pool is backed up, will develop holes of inactive versions.
On first hearing, active-data only sounds great, but there isn't any magic to it. Bill Colwell Draper Lab -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helder Garcia Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Active Only Storage Pools for DR Which command did you use? "copy activedata" or "backup stgpool"? On 2/16/07, Colwell, William F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a little test of active-only pools and they do have inactive files > in them. > The way they differ from ordinary pools is that during reclaim all > inactive > versions will be squeezed out, whereas with ordinary pools only expired > versions > are. Except at the very start of the AOP implementation there will > always be inactive versions. > You just can't reclaim that quickly. > > You copypool will still have inactive version too unless you reclaim it > aggressively. > > The feature is mis-named; it should be 'almost active-only if > aggressively reclaimed'. > > I hope someone else will run some simple test of this. When I did mine, > query contents > of the volumes showed the inactive files until the reclaim was done. > > Bill Colwell > Draper Lab > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > TSM_User > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:02 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Active Only Storage Pools for DR > > For years I've been asked by my customers if they could have many > versions for files in their primary pools while limiting the versions in > their copy pools to 1 for disaster recovery. > > In reading up on the new TSM V5.4 feature "Active-Only Storage Pools" > it looks like this is now a reality. I could create an Active-Only > storage pool (limited to backup data, no archive data). This new pool > would now become my new destination pool for my backup storage pool > command. I could even go one step further and choose to collocate this > data by node. The end result would be a set of tapes at DR that would > not have to skip over any files when performing a restore. > > I realize great consideration has to be done before implementating > something like this because if the active file is corrupt you wouldn't > be able to recover a previous version. Still, in the case of DR I know I > have many customers that would accept the risk in order to reduce the > amount of data they have offsite and to speed up their restores. > > I know that you can set a tape in an active only storage pool to > offsite so I'm assuming that it will be included with move drm. I still > haven't completed testing myself yet though. > > I'm wondering if anyone out there is considering this as well? > > > --------------------------------- > Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. > Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. > -- Helder Garcia