Yes I created new tape pools. It took me about 6 months? I let some happen on its on through reclamation & expiration. When I had some time I would move data manually. Yes I lost some tapes because of small nodes but I think it is definitely worth it. Especially during restores. When did this I think I started with about half the number of scratch tapes as I had in my tape pool. Then as time went on I added tapes as needed. I never documented how tapes I started with & ended with....
-------------------------------------- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How was your scratch tapes. Did you loose tapes to inefficiency? since collocation will not be tape effecient. Also, did you create a new tape pool (collocated) as you were migrating your backups? How bout timewise, what kind of time line am I looking at? Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD "Kamp, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist Stor Subject: Re: Collocation from nocollocation Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 07/29/2003 11:38 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" I did that about 2 years ago. Not quit as big as you at the time... I did not move everybody at once. Moved AIX nodes then my Novell then my NT/2000 then Oracle & MS SQL nodes because that is the way I broke out my storage pools. Depending on what version of TSM you are on should be easier (if you are high enough to have move nodedata command). It was no fun because the tapes that had more then 1 node on it I had to move it to a temporary disk pool then the final tape pool. One thing you will gain is all your new tapes will be nice & compacted! Hope this helps! -------------------------------------- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi TSM'ers Has anybody out there gone from 3 years of nocollocation and then changed to collocation for better restores. We are currently at 2-3+ TB of info on 540 tapes (this is all in our 1 TAPEPOOL). We have about 410 scratch tapes and the uppers are worried about making the global switch to collocate will cause TSM to crash due to no scratch tapes. Also if there are any other gotcha's I would be greatly appreciated. Maybe even send you, some of our greatest pizza haha. Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD