We are running TSM 6.1.3.4 on AIX with a 3494 library and 8 TS1120 (E05) tape drives. I keep thinking there should be a way to do this, but I'm coming up dry. We are about to implement NDMP for several large filesystems. I was thinking it would be nice (and cheaper) to use the higher capacity JB tapes specifically for NDMP, since there will be a lot of large full backups. We chose to originally go with JA tapes on the theory that we would end up with less wasted space. My problem is I can't think of a way to segregate the larger tapes from the smaller ones to enable their use only for NDMP. The only thing I can think of so far is a new DEVCLASS that only specifies 3592-2,3592-2c and point the storage pool at that device class, but that still doesn't give me any way of getting the data to only the 3592JB tapes.
Anyone have any ideas, or should I just bite the bullet and just let them mix. Thanks Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668
