Yes it can, if it is just one filesystem you will have to manually split it in the TSM BA configuration but this can also be done. I am not sure if it is going to be faster than a backup via disk, that will depend on the size and the amount of the files to be backed up I think. How many files are there and what is your changerate on the data in amount of files and TB's? I am sure you know about the BA journaling feature, that could be a life saver when you have large amounts of files and you are on a supported filesystem & platform.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Can a TSM client (BA or TDP) be configured to use multiple tape drives > concurrently? A filesystem with tens of Terabytes of incremental data > should be backed up which evidently takes lots of hours with a single LTO4 > drive. Say there are enough ports/paths/ISLs available to support at least > two parallel backup sessions from the client to the library. The source > disk's read performance is approximately twice the write performance of a > tape drive. > > Thank you >
