Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
Does anyone have much experience with active storage pools? My current customer isn’t allowed to reclaim tapes, so their inventory of primary storage volumes is much larger than their ATL. This makes client restores prone to failure because of the number of primary volumes that need manual

Re: Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Steven Harris
:41 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote: Does anyone have much experience with active storage pools? My current customer isn’t allowed to reclaim tapes, so their inventory of primary storage volumes is much larger than their ATL. This makes client restores prone to failure because of the number of primary

Re: Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Shawn DREW
comments about not expiring data in TSM here Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew -Original Message- From: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Active Storage Pools

Re: Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
Forgive me for asking, but is this based on experience? I ask because some administrative processes aren't that graceful about unavailable tapes. (RECLAIM STG comes to mind.) On Friday, November 8, 2013, Shawn DREW wrote: I would just mark all the tapes that are not in the library as

Re: Active Storage Pools

2008-09-30 Thread fastweb
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Unsubscribe* cpreston ha scritto: Howard Coles wrote: 1. Is anyone on the list here actually using it? 2. Is there a way just to copy a node's data (not

Re: Active Storage Pools

2008-09-30 Thread Bos, Karel
It would be that more pratical if you could just update your diskpool with something like upd stg XX cache=yes activestorage=yes, leaving just cached copies of the active version on disk. cpreston ha scritto: Howard Coles wrote: 1. Is anyone on the list here actually using it? 2. Is there

Active Storage Pools

2008-09-26 Thread cpreston
Howard Coles wrote: 1. Is anyone on the list here actually using it? 2. Is there a way just to copy a node's data (not all the nodes in a domain or storage pool) to the active pool? Looks like the answer to #1 is No. ;) I've tried to talk a number of TSM admins into this, and so far

Active Storage Pools

2008-09-11 Thread Howard Coles
I have a couple of questions about this feature as I'd like to take advantage of it. 1. Is anyone on the list here actually using it? 2. Is there a way just to copy a node's data (not all the nodes in a domain or storage pool) to the active pool? See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer