Rajesh, you can set the COPYSTG option in your primary storage pool. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh < rajesh.lakshminaraya...@dfs.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Your theory seems to be correct. I just queried my activity log to > check how my admin schedule to copy the primary stg to copy pool is > working. It indeed submits three separate processes and works in > parallel. > > One of my client node pushed 300Gb of data to primary pool and when > I ran backup stg, I saw this behavior. > > Is their a work around to copy single node data to tape pool in > parallel because I see my resource(tape) not getting fully utilized, > other than changing the primary pool to file dev class. > > > Regards, > > Rajesh > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Remco Post > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:02 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Strange Behaviour: backup STG <primary storage > pool > > > Hi Rajesh, > > could it be that you only have data for a small amount of nodes in your > server? Or that there is one exceptionally large node? IIRC bacup stg > for DISK works by node, so if one process is working on the data of the > last node, the other process will finish if there is no data of other > nodes to backup. This is different for FILE and tape volumes, there > backup stg works per volume. > > On 2 nov 2010, at 07:04, Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When I trigger "backup stg <primary stg pool> <Tape copy stg pool> > > maxproc=2" command I see two processes getting submitted to backup the > > primary storage pool (Disk dev class) to my tape copy pool. > > > > After a while one of the processes gets completed normally while > the > > other keeps running for a while till it fully creates a copy in the > > secondary storage pool (copy). > > > > I use MAXPROC=2, to speed up my work, but I don't see that > > happening. I don't have any issues with the mount point. I have the > > needful tape mount point available during this backup. > > > > It would be great if some one can share your exp. Or is it a bug > > with TSM. > > > > My environment details: > > > > TSM: 5.4.1.2 (tsm server running in aix 6 TL5). > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rajesh > > -- > Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, > > Remco Post > r.p...@plcs.nl > +31 6 248 21 622 > -- __________________________________ Leandro Mazur
