We are moving off of one disk array onto another, and I have 3 windows machines that have filesystems that need to be moved. We have come to the conclusion that using TSM to move the data will be the simplest and most straight forward way to do it. I am trying to decide whether to do a plain restore, create a backupset and restore it, or use archive. I am reading the ADSM Quick Facts file to learn about performance issues.
The clients are all 5.2.2.0 The server is also 5.2.2.0 on AIX. We have LTO2 tapes in a robot with 6 drives. Each disk volume to be moved is 39.9 G. One is 20% full, one is 50% full, and one is 95% full. Since my tapes hold 200G, if I use a backupset, I will have only 1 tape mount. However, if I use a regular restore, I can have the restore multiple threads and drives (given that maxnummp is high and mountretention is low). I do not have collocation on, but I could change that and "force" a full backup of the filesystems that need to be moved, so they would be collocated, but that wouldn't be much different than using a backupset, would it? Any advice? Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860
