Mustafa, This sounds great. The state of Virginia thanks you. Do you run a daily script that reads the pool of scratch tapes and select the K tapes to define to the primary pools? It shouldn't be that difficult since my J tapes run from 300001 to 301200 and K tapes run from 301201.
Eliza > > Hi Eliza , > We have 4 onsite pools and 2 copypools.I have defined our K tapes to all onsite >pools as private .J > tapes are still scratch. > TSM use only K types for onsite operations , copy storage pools operations use only >scrach volumes > and they all are J tapes. > > > > Eliza Lau > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .VT.EDU> cc: (bcc: MUSTAFA BAYTAR/ATIM/ICECEK) > Sent by: Subject: Re: replacing all 3590 with >3590 extended > "ADSM: Dist > Stor Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > RIST.EDU> > > > 12.06.2002 > 21:49 > Please > respond to > "ADSM: Dist > Stor Manager" > > > > > > Yes, but how? There is only one scratch pool and tapes are allocated from > this scratch pool as needed when the primary tapepool is backed up to the > offsite tapeback. Is there a way to define 2 scratch pools and allocate > primary tapes from the Kscratch pool and offsite from the Jscratch pool? > > Eliza > > > > > Hi Eliza, > > Define K tapes to onsite storage pools and J tapes to offsite pools. > > > > > > > > Eliza Lau > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > .VT.EDU> cc: (bcc: MUSTAFA BAYTAR/ATIM/ICECEK) > > Sent by: Subject: replacing all 3590 with 3590 >extended > > "ADSM: Dist > > Stor Manager" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > RIST.EDU> > > > > > > 12.06.2002 > > 17:57 > > Please > > respond to > > "ADSM: Dist > > Stor Manager" > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi TSMers, > > > > We are looking into replacing 1200 3590 J tapes with 600 3590 extended length > > K tapes to make room in the 3494. While the state is cutting 9% of the > > University's budget, it is a tremendous waste to throw away 1200 perfectly > > fine tapes. Now my boss wants to know if there is a way we can use the > > J tapes for the offsite storage pool only. I looked throught the Admin > > Reference and there doesn't seem to be a way to do: > > > > backup stgpool tapepool tapeback scratch=no volumenames=file:listof3590 > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 > > tape library: 3494 > > > > > > Thanks, > > Eliza Lau > > Virginia Tech Computing Center > > 1700 Pratt Drive > > Blacksburg, VA 24060 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
