True. Seek time is tiny compared to tape mounts. I am just concerned that the TSM db has to keep track of thousands of volume. How much will it increase the size of the db. Ours is already 90G at 70% utilized.
Eliza > > ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the recommended volume size. I have seen someone mentioned 5G, but > > then the number of volumes will explode from about 800 (current # of 3590 > > primary tapes) to thousands. > > Consider, this doesn't really cost you much. Seek time in a directory of > thousands of files is still tiny compared to tape behavior. > > I probably wouldn't go as low as 5G, but 10G (much less than the average size > of my 3590 vols) seems pretty reasonable to me. 20G is getting big, from my > perspective. > > > > > How about keeping the staging space so clients backup to staging then > > migrate to FILE volumes. Then every volume will be filled up. > > > I like this, too. > > > - Allen S. Rout >
