No, no way to do it. TSM is acting just as you've told it to do - use the minimal number of tapes for the node. You either need to turn off collocation, or have a separate storage pool for the Oracle backups to go to (new management class, at least, but we put the Oracle/TDP nodes in a different domain all together) that is not collocated. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who laughs last has a good backup. Abdulaziz Almuammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To EDU.SA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc Dist Stor Manager" Subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Collocating and TDP for ORACLE .EDU> 06/21/2004 02:15 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi guys, I have TSM server 5.1.5 with TDP 2.2.0 for ORACLE on AIX 5.1.5. I have 3494 tape library with 4 tape drives and I am using the collocating feature. the DBA uses 4 channels on his script to do the backup The problem is when I turn the collocating on , only one channel will do the backup and the others will wait and when I turn it of all the 4 channels will backup at the same time. Can anyone tell my if there is a way to backup the DB with 4 channels and with collocating on? Regards, Abdulaziz Almuammar
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