I share Mark's sentiments... on TWO points: - if this was resolved, for both users in the discussion, let's share the results; - if DIRMC is no longer relevant, I'd sure like to know why! Win2K is becoming ever more prevalent, and most data center customers go wild with lots of permission groups (causing the ACL's to grow too large to be contained in the TSM db -- I used to think!)
As far as I can tell, DIRMC is still a very significant issue, most notably with Win2K servers using typical data center permissions definitions. If you create the disk pool and management class, and see it get populated with any data -- that seems pretty conclusive, to me. The question that's left is whether a given restore will be just as fast (NQR or classic) since dir's are now more readily backed up -- and, if that's true, what about point-it-time restores that would get a mix of dir's restored, to match the state of a time further back than the most recent backup?!? Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:don_france@;att.net Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark D. Rodriguez Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Directories written in the wrong pool, although using dirmc option Andrew Raibeck wrote: >Responded to offline. > >Andy Raibeck >IBM Software Group >Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development >Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS >Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply) > >The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. >The command line is your friend. >"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. > > > Andy, I certainly appreciate you being on this list and I look at all of your posts. I am not sure why you decided to take a couple of these off-line I was interested in following this discussion, but it is certainly upto you to decide. Anyway on another note, the IBM/Tivoli education material has been stating for sometime now that the DIRMC attribute is effectively obsolete. The material states that all directory information is kept in the DB now. The only reason I used DIRMC in the past was to store my directories on a disk based storage pool to improve restore performance. I have now real way of verifying this information. I guess I just beleived the material, as such I no longer bother with this attribute and I have not had any noticable problem. Can you please clarify this for us? -- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. ============================================================================ === MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE ============================================================================ ===