Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-12-18 Thread Steven Langdale
/2009 22:47 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] collocation increases tape mounts while backup Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 16/01/2010 On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Steven Langdale wrote

collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-12-17 Thread EVILUTION
We are using an IBM3584 and don't use any kind of collocation. We have found the migration process from diskpool to tape collocates data by node and therefore already does a decent job of grouping node data together. The only time you may see better performance with collocation is with a

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-12-17 Thread Steven Langdale
@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] collocation increases tape mounts while backup Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 16/01/2010 We are using an IBM3584 and don't use any kind of collocation. We have found the migration process from diskpool to tape collocates

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-12-17 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Steven Langdale wrote: In that case you must be using collocation (albeit by accident). Not really... Remember that, within Migpr, migration operates serially by node, and thus you get a certain amount of same-node data clumped together on sequential media.

collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-12-16 Thread chart2
Depending on how you set up your collocation (File Systems, Server or Server Group). If you chose collocation by file system then you would mount a tape for each file sys, if you set by server then a mount per server etc ... Hope that helps.

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-11-24 Thread Huebschman, George J.
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of gardenia28 Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] collocation increases tape mounts while backup Hi, I find by applying collocation concept, the no.of tape mount increases while

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-11-24 Thread David E Ehresman
I am not sure if collocating a copy pool is beneficial. It seems like the copy pool as a disaster recovery pool would be ideal to collocate, but if you send off tapes every day you end up with a fragmented set of tapes for each collocation unit anyway. To clean that up would require bringing

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-11-24 Thread Huebschman, George J.
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] collocation increases tape mounts while backup I am not sure if collocating a copy pool is beneficial. It seems like

collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-11-23 Thread gardenia28
Hi, I find by applying collocation concept, the no.of tape mount increases while taking backup... Could anyone justify it or explain me why it is so? +-- |This was sent by subhashinipanchaksha...@gmail.com via Backup Central.

Re: collocation increases tape mounts while backup

2009-11-23 Thread Mehdi Salehi
The benefit of collocation is in restore time, because tape mounts will be reduces for restoring each client. If there are not enough tape drives defined in TSM server, more tape mount during backup is natural.