Re: Reducing fragmentation in disk storage pools of type disk.

2010-05-10 Thread Stefan Folkerts
That seems unnecessary to me, just like running defrag on a filesystem doesn't help it if you delete all the files on it first. >>My question is: Once the volumes in the disk storage pool are empty, would it further reduce any chance for fragmentation in the disk storage pool to remove and re-def

Anyone using DPA?

2010-05-10 Thread Fred Johanson
I know this has been asked before (and not answered), but is there anyone out there using DPA from EMC? Has anyone given it a close look? Fred Johanson TSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464

Re: Anyone using DPA?

2010-05-10 Thread Shawn Drew
We are using EBA/DPA We had a custom report running on EBA that didn't work on DPA, so we are trying to get that worked out before we upgrade. (DPA is being run in a test environment) We've tested Aptare and Servergraph as well, and EMC's product fits our particular environment better than the o

Re: Anyone using DPA?

2010-05-10 Thread Sami Ahomaa
Hi, We are implementing DPA at the moment and I really have noticed difference between IBM and EMC documentation. I thought that EMC provides documents which are even close to those I have seen about TSM... I was so wrong. Our main difficultie is that you can't use collector in clustered environ

Snapshot Backup Best Practices

2010-05-10 Thread citpaj
First, sorry if I've posted this in the wrong forum ... I'm new to this and didn't see a general questions forum. I'd like to know if it's a bad practice to create the volume shadow copies of the volume you're backing up on the same volume that you are backing up? For example, suppose I'm back

Re: Anyone using DPA?

2010-05-10 Thread John D. Schneider
Fred, I would agree with Shawn. I have worked with DPA, and other EMC products, and also with IBM products for many years. EMC often makes good products, but assumes that you don't need good documentation. They will have all the manual titles you could ask for; Quick Start Guide, Administrators

Re: Snapshot Backup Best Practices

2010-05-10 Thread Remco Post
You need to find another forum, this mailing list is about TSM. The forum you think you see is a front to this mailing list. On 11 mei 2010, at 02:49, citpaj wrote: > First, sorry if I've posted this in the wrong forum ... I'm new to this and > didn't see a general questions forum. I'd like to