Hi Mark Why would the use of for example a USB connected drives be unusable? Only thing you would have to know to restore a file device backupset(for example e:\backupset\00444333.vol) is the name of the sequential file.
What I ment was, generate a separate backupset for each node on a removable media(on a USB disk for example, you could have multiple backupset volumes, which would eliminate the issue with having 1 400GB LTO-2 volume for each node). This would mean every node has it's own sequential file volume stored on your USB disk, which would make it possible to restore the node using a local backupset as long as you know which sequential volume associates with which node(stored in volhist.out, could also be written to the USB disk). Am I missing something out, or was I wage in my description? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ----------------------------------- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 2005-02-23 17:24 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume? >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Weinstein, Stephen >Do not specify COLLOCATION on the tape storage pool. Then all >node will get put on one tape, or as few tapes as possible. > > >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Anders St|hlbom >I want to create backupsets with several nodes to as few >volumes as possible, the deviceclass in this case it LTO2. >Is that possible at all? > >My task is to create one complete set of data on 50 nodes and >a lot of the nodes is just about a couple of gigs, and spoil >them with one LTO2 volume per node doesn't make sense. >Or is there another way to fulfil this task? >One of the requirements is that it should not be dependent of >the TSM database. You could (theoretically) stack up backupsets by using the method by using the method described by Daniel (use of DVD blanks, etc.), but there would be no way to actually *use* such backupsets. Also, collocation and storage pool parameters have nothing to do with backupsets. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627