Hello all, I am facing a challenge:
I have a situation where I must take backups (image backups) of some 4000 raw LVs on AIX. These LVs are mounted FlashCopy volumes, so I don have to worry about snapshots and so on. They were being backed up to a disk storage pool (!) with a MAXSIZE of 900MB, so the LVs smaller than this size would goto disk, and the others to tape. I am trying to reduce the disk usage, so I thought: let's send all of this to tape. I reused the exiting shells which: 1. split the LV list in 20 LVs chunks (one file per 20 LVs) 2. Spawns up to 8 dsmc processes at a time with command lines as: dsmc backup image `cat <20 LV list filename>` I noticed, though, that for each of the LVs in the file, a new session gets opened on the server. Result: much slower backup than before. Is there some way to make the client backup all the 20 LV images in one session? Any other thoughts? More info: TSM Server 5.5.1 on AIX 5.3 ML6 TSM client 5.5.1. Client and server are on the same machine, that gets the FlashCopy LVs mounted COMMMETHOD is TCPIP Thanks in advance, ___________________________________________________ Paul Gondim van Dongen IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2006, 2007 & 2008 IBM Certified Deployment Professional - ITWS 8.2 IBM Certified Storage Administrator - ITSM V5.4 SNIA Certified Professional ITIL Foundation Certified ___________________________________________________ VANguard Value Added Network guardian +55-81-34198094 http://www.vanguard-it.com.br