We have 2 storage pools, one for small clients and one for large ones. We use 9840 tapes so any client with less than 12 gb of stored backups goes on the small pool. We save about 40 tapes this way.
Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada brian welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 2003-02-19 15:42:51 Veuillez répondre à "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé par : "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pour : [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc : Objet : Question about collocation on/off Hello, AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8 en 3494 ATL with 700 volumes (used about 620 volumes), and about 300 nodes. Three months ago we turned collocation off because we have about 200 client-nodes with less then 3 GB's data stored, and every node was using min. 1 tape, so we had a lot of tapes with low utilization, long migration. Now tape-utilization is much better, migration is much faster, but yesterday there was a restore of an web-server (WinNT) and we restored almost 2 GB and it took 6 hours and there were almost 70 tape-mounts. Before we set collocation off such restores took half an hour. Now we are thinking of setting collocation back on, but that implies we have to buy and checkin about 350 new tapes, because move data will take weeks or more. Now I was wondering how other sites are dealing with collocation, and what are they doing to get better results during restore, when collocation is off. We are thinking of make a full back-up once a month to get data of one client on less (or one) tape(s), or putting collocation back on, or... Curious to your reaction! Thanx, Brian. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl
