==> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:32:46 -0000, James Marcinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have a small lab environment which I'm in the process of deploying TSM and > I have some concerns that I'm hoping that someone could help me out with. I > don't have a lot of disk space to alot to storage pools and I believe that > my initial backups will exceed the space available. The disk pools should be > adequate from day to day backups though. From the disk, the data will go > straight to tape. Will there be any issues if my initial backups exceed the > space on the disk pool? I'll only be adding one system at a time to the > backup policy. Once the initial has been done for each system I should be > OK. You might find that on initial backup you fill up the disk, and then mount a tape, and write to the tape at a rate which is slower than your disk rate (because it's hard to keep a tape streaming). But you shouldn't see problems except in how long it takes. - Allen S. Rout
