Ok.. Thanks for your responses Mark! Ive been looking into this since your last post...
lets see if I understand this correctly.. According to the admin ref guide for version 5.2.. "Simultaneous Write to a Primary Storage Pool and Copy Storage Pools To simultaneously write data to a primary storage pool and one or more copy storage pools, you can specify a list of copy storage pools in a primary storage pool definition using the COPYSTGPOOLS parameter. When a client backs up, archives, or migrates a file or when the server imports a file, the file is written to the primary storage pool and is simultaneously stored into each copy storage pool." Presumably, this means that if I upgrade to 5.2 or above I can achieve my goal.. which is... to write backups to two different pools (one primary, one copystg pool) in two different locations (all connected by fibre) simultaneously.. ie read the data from each client ONCE, and then write it to two locations simultaneously. Do you agree? Thanks Jon -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: 02 September 2005 14:57 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Dual write to multiple copy storage pools I should clarify my answer. There is no automated way to send initial backups to a primary storage pool (DISKPOOL, for example) *and* multiple different copy storage pools. You can modify a primary storage pool definition to concurrently write to 1 primary and 1 copy storage pool concurrently: upd stg diskpool copystg=offsitetapepool As to whether future release will allow automated writing to multiple copy storage pools: probably not. Why? I have seen dozens of TSM environment; not a single one of them used multiple copy storage pools for the same data. (This is not to say they don't exist; I have just have never seen one.) Why should Tivoli invest coding and debugging time to such a feature when they have their plates full with more pressing matters? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627 >-----Original Message----- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Timothy Hughes >Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:45 AM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: Dual write to multiple copy storage pools > >Hi Mark, > >Do you know if it will be possible to do this later TSM versions? > >"Stapleton, Mark" wrote: > >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Jon Evans >> >can I do the same with my management class and specify in the backup >> >copy group that the initial backup goes to two storage pools >> >concurrently? >> >> Nope. >> >> -- >> Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional >> Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 >> IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX >> Office 262.521.5627 >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message.
