Re: Drive preference in TSM

2016-05-23 Thread Richard Cowen
Kumar, To use LAN-Free, you configure a TSM Storage Agent. On the TSM instance playing the role of Library Manager, you define all the drives and paths to the drives for the Library Manager to use. You also define paths for each of the Library Clients, using the appropriate local devices. The

Re: Drive preference in TSM

2016-05-23 Thread David Ehresman
An all tape storage setup is certainly feasible if you have sufficient tape drives to allow your backups to complete in your backup window. Many of us have used this setup in the past. You can use mount retention on the device class definition to set how long you would like a tape to remain

Re: Drive preference in TSM

2016-05-23 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Kumar,   well, that's not the way TSM is working. There is no strict correlation between a drive and a node or storagepool. But for your setup, it is still not advisableto backup Database-logs directly to tape because of the latency. Logs are relatively small files, and during the start of