Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

Chip, shameless plugStorServer sell a great product for VCB backups that might do what you want, look at: http://www.storserver.com/main.cfm?menu=2submenu=3detail=include/vcbappliance.cfmoption=appliances /shameless plug Kelly and Laura will be able to ell you everything about the product ;-)

Re: big restore - help!

On 14 nov 2008, at 21:21, Richard Rhodes wrote: I need to perform a full restore of a system. It has the following filespaces listed at the bottom. I pull up the gui and this nice list of filespaces. It's a PIT restore, so I set the date/time. I then select all the filespaces except the the

Re: Best use of disk storage

No I don't. It's just a matter of being prepared for a big restore (many files, many gigs) whenever it hits me, getting the most out of this storage space in terms of service quality with speed of restore being number one. -- Warm regards, Michael Green On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Richard

Re: Best use of disk storage

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Kelly Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would choose 2. Using JBOD disks build a cachepool with enough space for incrementals. I'm surprised you suggest to use JBOD for diskpools (cachepools as you call them) I.e. diskpool volumes spread across

Re: Best use of disk storage

Internally, within TSM there will be DB locks against keys such as ~volume~ and to help avoid lock contention what I like to do is to have as many volumes in a storage pool as I expect maximum concurrent inbound client sessions writing to that storage pool. So if you have a BACKUPPOOL that is to

files bound to management classes

Hi all, I would like to do some cleanup tasks on our 6 TSM servers. One step would be to remove 'old/unused' management classes and 'old/unused' storage pools. Who can I easily find out is there are still backup/archive files bound to particular management classes. Our TSM serve databases

Cacti

Any one using Cacti to report TSM utilization i.e. to graph Tivoli Storage Mangager stats Utilization Thanks

TSM backing up an Oracle RAC

Hello all, is somebody of you aware of a publication how to backup an Oracle RAC ( with Data Guard machine) using TSM and TDPO? Thank you and best regards, Rainer

Re: Best use of disk storage

My comments to the original posters questions are below... At the 2005 Oxford TSM Symposia, Dave Cannon and I did two presentations on this topic: http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2005/papers/Understanding%20Disk%20Storage%20in%20TSM%20(Dave%20Cannon).pdf Is Dave's talk...