Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > > In that environment, then, what does it all mean? You never have all of > > your files backed up into any one location at any one time anyway! So > > it becomes a point-in-time thing: at this point in time, everything is > > as good as it can possibly be... > > > > For Wind

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
In that environment, then, what does it all mean? You never have all of your files backed up into any one location at any one time anyway! So it becomes a point-in-time thing: at this point in time, everything is as good as it can possibly be... For Windows clients, try the journaling option. T

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > Skylar, > > In our systems, we backup stg first and then migrate so we know we have > one done before the other. In your case, you synchronize theses > processes (our STORServer Manager product does this for you) by creating > scripts. > > I guess I don't really worry too much

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Robert Clark
On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: Kelly Lipp wrote: Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on each pool. S

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Bos, Karel
Sent: donderdag 19 oktober 2006 17:54 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup Kelly Lipp wrote: > Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one > primary and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool > to set this. This

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Skylar Thompson wrote: Is there a way to guarantee that data is backed up to a copy tape pool before being migrated to the primary tape pool? We want to avoid any tape-to-tape transfers before we have two known-good copies that we can recover from. Note that you can enable

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
Skylar, In our systems, we backup stg first and then migrate so we know we have one done before the other. In your case, you synchronize theses processes (our STORServer Manager product does this for you) by creating scripts. I guess I don't really worry too much about a tape failure before the

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary > and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set > this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on > each pool. So if the primary pool is collocated and the copy

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on each pool. So if the primary pool is collocated and the copy is not, the correct thing