Re: DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

2005-01-17 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:02:08PM -0600, Stapleton, Mark wrote: Storage pools that act as DIRMC management class destinations [...] contain redundant data; the normal client data destination pool also contains a copy of all directory and file structure data. I wasn't aware of this. Is this

Re: DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

2005-01-17 Thread Rushforth, Tim
The server originally was set up with a large enough DIRPOOL of type DISK. Later, DIRPOOL was reduced in size, and a DIRFILE stgpool was added that consists of FILE volumes. Clients still back up to DIRPOOL, but that pool is migrated daily to DIRFILE. Is this sort of setup still necessary

Re: DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

2005-01-17 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:51:55AM -0600, Rushforth, Tim wrote: Also, ADSM.QuickFacts says that sequential volumes have advantages in a database restoral situation. Yes. This is also documented in the 5.2/5.3 ADMIN guide describing difference between DISK and FILE pools. I asked this here,

Re: DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

2005-01-16 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jurjen Oskam I have a question about which devclass to use for a storagepool that is exclusively used as DIRMC destination. The server originally was set up with a large enough DIRPOOL of type DISK. Later, DIRPOOL was reduced

DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

2005-01-14 Thread Jurjen Oskam
Hi there, I have a question about which devclass to use for a storagepool that is exclusively used as DIRMC destination. The server originally was set up with a large enough DIRPOOL of type DISK. Later, DIRPOOL was reduced in size, and a DIRFILE stgpool was added that consists of FILE volumes.