hi adrian, if no space within of your storage-pools is available, the data will be send to the according "Next Storagepool". if this is a sequential tape-pool and their are not enough tape-drives available, you will see a lot of mount-requests by your clients during their backup/archive-operation.
the OVFLOcation is only used if you checkout cartridges in case of to less slots in your library, and you need to checkin scratch-tapes. ----- snip ----- OVFLOcation Specifies the overflow location for the storage pool. The server assigns this location name to a volume that is ejected from the library by the command. This parameter is optional. The location name can be a maximum length of 255 characters. Enclose the location name in quotation marks if the location name contains any blank characters. Note: This parameter is not available for storage pools that use the following data formats: + NETAPPDUMP + CELERRADUMP + NDMPDUMP ----- snap ----- you can define an additional primary storage-pool based on disk-volumes defined on another filesystem and define this storage-pool as the next-storagepool of your defect-pool. regards uwe schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 26.09.2006 12:29 Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject FSCK problem on TSM Hi Yesterday my TSM server (p500 LPAR AIX 5.3) had the TSM Logs run out of space. In hind sight, the Server was bounced and I now have fsck running forever almost as if in a loop. At present it would take days as the filesystem concerned is 1.150TB. Apparently we need to patch the OS as the FSCK gets into a loop, and has to complete the checks of the superblocksbefore it can be mounted. This filesystem contains my DISKPOOLS. My questions are/ 1. Will any clients that normally go to DISPOOL now automatically go to overflow until the filesystem comes backup. 2. what is the recommended max filesystem size to prevent this long FSCK. 3. Is there any other way to resolve this long wait for the check to complete. Regards Adrian Compton