There is more to be done here than can be truly provided by a technical advice forum (you've already seen the pushback by a few people who don't consider it appropriate to straighten out an entire implementation over the lists). They may be right, though it has been done before.
I'd really seek out some expertise for direct involvement with you, one-on-one. Most everyone on this list can provide you with a good advisor/consultant who can help you get your configuration into a position that doesn't hurt you and is manageable for your current resources. (I know Wanda helped me a huge amount!!) Really, once you're in a good position, where you can breathe, you'll be able to pick it up. It is a steep learning curve and a radically different mindset, but 'incremental forever' is really easy, when you think about it. You're only ever doing incrementals. You just have copies and retention to figure out, and your consultant will help you figure that out -- that's their job. Would everyone be able to provide input as to their favorite people to contact? I know mine. Wanda Prather, on this list, and she responded to your notes. She may not have bandwidth, nor anyone she works with, but she may be able to direct you to someone who does. And if your company doesn't want to enlist the aid of a consultant, you might ask if they want this wonderful software to work properly or to kill their business. Probably a bit more gently than that, but essentially that. Good luck! Bruce T. >>> Bruce T. Harvey AIX Network Engineer ego3456 <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 08/10/10 01:08 PM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] NBU guy in TSM shop and I need help wow, so it really is as clear as mud.. :D my assumption of the retention taking that many tapes was understood by me to be a function of not only the shelf life (retention) but the reclamation (no we don't use collocation, which I'm well aware we should) shotgunning those data bits across a large number of tapes; if all this is true, without a large increase in tape library capacity (we have 252 slots) or a large increase in disk resources, is there an easy way to fix it? If not, I'm inclined to scrap it all and put in NBU for backups going forward. saving the argument on which is better, I'm an NBU guy and a staff of one, and my inclination is if I'm spending buckets of cash, I'm doing it in a way I'm familiar. My first whack though is to try and save this thing so I'm hoping someone out there can provide a panacea or at least an incremental improvement that is free and time efficient. am i spitting in to the wind? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or copy without permission of the sender. This message may contain an advertisement of a product or service and thus may constitute a commercial electronic mail message under US Law. The postal address for PNC is 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. If you do not wish to receive any additional advertising or promotional messages from PNC at this e-mail address, click here to unsubscribe. https://pnc.p.delivery.net/m/u/pnc/uni/p.asp By unsubscribing to this message, you will be unsubscribed from all advertising or promotional messages from PNC. Removing your e-mail address from this mailing list will not affect your subscription to alerts, e-newsletters or account servicing e-mails.
