How many different management classes are defined for use within your TDP/R3 configuration file ? (are all the management classes the same one ? ) For example, we have a different management class used for the logs because they are more important than the db files themselves... that is, if you have the redo logs, you can restore a table space from a backup other than the most recent and bring it back to current by applying redo logs BUT if you don't have the redo logs, you can't even get current from your most recent copy of a table space. So with that said, we push our logs into a management class using a storage pool that has a copy pool associated with it (to protect against data loss due to media failure) and all the .dbf's go into a management class using a storage pool that is only one tape copy. (we have more data than could be copied in a day... TB's of compressed data daily)
just a thought... Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session. Hi All... I4m using TSM 4.2, TDP for R3 3.2.0.6 in a SAN environment. When the backup with TDP begins, TSM mounts a tape and all the database data is backed up, after the DB backup TSM dismounts the tape and mounts another one to backup control data (logs, aff). The second 100 GB LTO tape just have 500 KB of occupancy. It occurrs in the same backup session. The backup is using two tapes in the same session. Thanks for the help... Jorge Rodrmguez Caracas-Venezuela _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com