Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

[Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.]

We use no agent, backup code is included within DB2. The client Plateform
comes as R3DB2UDB in the node definition.

Our disc pools have Caching enabled NO.

What else could I check ?

Thanks,

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:57 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      AW: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2
> 
> Do you backup the DB files as flat files or do you use a TDP agent?
> 
> We use the TDP agent to backup our ORACLE DB an we had to be careful
> when setting the DSMO_AVG_SIZE environment variable.
> We have caching enabled for the disk storage pools so they are always
> "full".
> When TDP tries to write to disk it acquires n megabytes (as defined with
> DSMO_AVG_SIZE)
> and therefore clears n megabytes of disk space (or maybe more as complete
> filespaces are
> removed). When the first n megabytes aren't enough TDP tries to acquire n
> more megabytes.
> Unfortunately this time cached space isn't released. As TDP now cannot
> find
> the required 
> space on disk the backup data is sent to tape.
> 
> This is how I was told - now we backup directly to tape
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Kind regards
> Thomas Rupp
> Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
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> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von:  Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Gesendet am:  Donnerstag, 05. Oktober 2000 17:38
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> > Betreff:      Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2
> > 
> > Hello,
> > we run adsm server 3.1.2.50, base client 3.7.2.0 and DB2 6.1.1 on AIX
> > 4.3.3
> > 
> > All DB backups start and immediately ask for mount of 1 tape / session.
> > They
> > should go to the disc storage pool !
> > 
> > Why? I checked disc pools ( all have NO SIZE LIMIT), I checked all
> backup
> > and archive copy groups, no one has a tape pool as destination pool.
> > 
> > Please give me any clue about why these backups want to mount tapes...
> > 
> > Tanks a lot,
> > 
> > René Lambelet
> > Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
> > 55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
> > *+41(021) 924 3543  7 +41 (021) 924 4589  * B 133
> > Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com
> > 
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