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Consider dividing up the imports leveraging the FROMDATE/TODATE capabilities.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
Additional Email Correspondance from PMR 17658,215,616:
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Hi Greg,
Yes I realise Chris is not probably available at the moment.
And you are correct; we have not had the opportunity to increase the log at the moment. At the time of that recommendation we were 60% through reading tapes from a media import which had taken 8 days to progress. So to increase the log up to the maximum was going to be an outage to the server and disruption to both the import and to other backup services. Also, due to the sheer size of the node being imported, increasing the log to the maximum may not have provided enough additional log space to still complete the remaining media import and I couldn't afford the 10+ days to find out.
So, we are now managing the import via a separate server to server export (as apposed to the original media import). We can suspend and restart the export when required, to free up the log space which is more practical (see results below). I think what I've realised throughout this whole process is that you can spend all this time exporting node data to a large set of media and NEVER be able to completely import it, even with the log set to the maximum as if the log fills (which it eventually will on a large import) the process will be cancelled and the only way to start again is to read all the tapes from tape sequence #1 and consequently have the log fill again. Because of this particular issue, I have raised a RFE to allow a SEQuence parameter to be added to media import process to allow a large media import to be forcibly start on any tape sequence other that the first tape (which would have solved my issue 3-4 weeks ago)