Richard Sims wrote: > On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Remco Post wrote: > >> ...Audit is a single threaded proces, so if you even have to, >> you'll be >> off-line for a serious amount of time (weeks ?). I'd say you'll >> want to >> stay under 100 GB for now... >> > > A complex area... Database audits should not be initiated by > customers: a customer should open a problem report with TSM Support, > who will then direct efforts to try to correct the problem, with > minimized disruption.
True. Audits are not things you do for fun, not even on a 'small' db of 'only' 50 GB ;-) > An unqualified Audit can indeed take a very > long time; but Support knows of targeted audits and how to best > utilize them. And some auditing can be performed with the TSM server > online. The time to conduct a full-blown database recovery, in any > form, is indeed a consideration in deciding how large to allow the > TSM db to get, as a worst-case decision point. as for targeted audits... all are fast except for the one 'audit storage' > > Richard Sims -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams