I was told by a Tivoli Engineer at one time that you shouldn't let them grow much over 50 gb. Primarily, because of the reason you state here about having the capability to restore. In a disaster, you need to take into consideration how much time it is going to take you to restore that database just to get the TSM server up and running. That time would have to be added to the SLA requirements you might have in place to get any application servers back up and running.
Paul Zarnowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RNELL.EDU> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: TSM database maximum recommended Stor Manager" size <[EMAIL PROTECTED] U> 04/03/2002 06:41 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" At 12:08 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, Scott McCambly wrote: >How many sites are running with databases this large or larger? On what >hardware? Our DB is now 116GB assigned (92% full). Hardware is RS6000/M80, 2GB RAM, SSA disks (db is mirrored by TSM) As others have said, "it depends". If your requirement is to be able to restore a database quickly, then your max size will be smaller.