Would using private volumes (that would allow for easy migrate vol commands in housekeeping scripts) together with a cron/shell script that checks for the filling of these volumes and start extra migrates when needed do the trick?
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Paul Zarnowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Wanda, > I understand your dilemma. We are working on deploying dedup now, and are > trying to figure this out too. Like you, we want to have fast and slow > pools, but we want a safety valve in case the fast pool fills up. We > haven't figured out how to do this, short of allocating extra space to try > to ensure that a safety valve is never needed. > > Let us know if you figure something out! > > ..Paul > > At 12:18 AM 9/25/2012, Prather, Wanda wrote: > >Need some help understanding the mechanics here, TSM 6.3 on Windows > server with DEDUP. > > > >I have a TSM file pool called FASTDEDUP with deduplication on, and > NEXTSTGPOOL points to a second dedup filepool called SLOWDEDUP. > >DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP is set to yes. > > > >So the first pool FASTDEDUP ran out of space, and BACKUP STGPOOL had not > run, so it couldn't run reclamation with dedup or migrate to SLOWDEDUP. > That I understand. > > > >I tried a MOVE DATA from FASTDEDUP to SLOWDEDUP, and got ANR1534I > (below). I figured out that's WAD, because the doc says move data does > cause data reduction, which is forbidden by DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP until after > the backup stgpool has run. > > > >So then I tried a MOVE DATA from FASATDEDUP to a tapepool, and still got > ANR1534I. Why is that? I'm asking to move data that hasn't been deduped > to a non-dedup pool. If this is WAD, can somebody explain the rationale? > > > > > > > >ANR1534I > > > >Process process ID skipped Num Files deduplicated files on volume Volume > name because copies of the files were not found. > > > > > >Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | [email protected] | > www.icfi.com > >ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | > 410.539.1135 (o) > > > -- > Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 > CIT Infrastructure / Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 > 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [email protected] >
