Hi Bassam, you can define as many processes as you like, but the limitation is the number of free drives. If you define more procs then you have drives, the migration processes wait until there is a drive available (this also happens if some of your drives are used by other processes). For using more than 2 drives you have to set the parameter "mount limit" in your device-definition to a apropriate value (normally you set this value to 'drives'). You normally set the value maxprocs to a value less then the number of drives, so that other operations can work on tapes too.
Best regards Chris > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Al'shaebani, Bassam [SMTP:Bassam.Al'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 22. März 2002 14:50 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Utilizing All My drives > > Hello TSM'rs, > I have a question. Here's my senario, We backup to disk. Then > Copy/Migrate to tape once the backups complete. > I have 6 3590B drives. When my copy/migration from disk to tape is > running, I only see about > two tapes being mounted, thus I'm only using two out of my 6 drives. I > have increaded the number > MAXPROC to 2, and noticed a considerable change in copy and migration > time. > My question is 1) What is the max number of proc I can assign with 6 > drives? > 2) Is there something esle I should also be doing to utilize more > drives? > your assistance is greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > -bassam > nyc
