Allan, We have no choice in this matter. We inherited the client and they had pooling set up already. My question about adding volumes to the pool do I need to add it as BACKUP or SPILL?
--- On Mon, 3/21/11, Staller, Allan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Staller, Allan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FUZZY ABOUT SPILL VOLUMES To: [email protected] Received: Monday, March 21, 2011, 5:34 AM IMO, dfHSM pooling of tapes is a *BAD* idea(ADDVOL,,,,) . If you really need to segregate dfHSM tapes from the "other" tapes, use your tape management system to provide the appropriate scratch pool support. Check the values for SETSYS TAPEDELETION and SETSYS SELECTVOLUME. There will be several other SETSYS commands needed to complete the migration to tape manager scratch pooling. I don't know if you can get the recycle report to show only backup volumes, however, spill volume can also be recycled, so I would not exclude them. HTH, <snip> I am fuzzy about SPILL volumes. I checked the PRIMER doc and it is very not clear about what SPILL actually does, it says something to the effect that HSM moves older backup versions to other volumes or SPILL volumes. If I understand it correctly, HSM moves the DAY backup to SPILL and this is done via RECYCLE. My question is 2 fold. If I am running low on SPILL tapes should I need to add tapes to the SPILL Backup or to DAILY BACKUP i.e ADDVOL BKP002 UNIT(3590-1) BACKUP(SPILL) THRESHOLD(85) or ADDVOL BKP006 UNIT(3590-1) BACKUP(DAILY(1)) Also, I ran a report to check what BACKUP tapes are eligible for recycle - HSENDCMD RECYCLE DISPLAY BACKUP I noticed in the report it has both the BACKUP and SPILL VOLS. Is there a way of just getting the BACKUP volsers? I executed the report again for SPILL - HSENDCMD RECYCLE DISPLAY SPILL and the report only listed the SPIL vols. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
