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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 13, 2013

Backup STGPOOL multiple processes for individual node

When running backup stgpool, I use 8 processes, however, if you have one very large node, it will not use multiple processes to backup that node, and when you're down to only one node left, it's a single-threaded process, using only one tape drive.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 12, 2015

    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

  • Guest
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    Jun 18, 2014

    Not sure how the use of the file device class will help here, to my knowledge backup storage pool (and migration as well) can only have one process per node?

  • Guest
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    Apr 16, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. At this time we cannot commit to delivery of this enhancement in the next release or two. As an alternative, using file device class would be recommended to provide the parallelism desired. If, after our next release of TSM, you would like this requirement to be re-considered, please resubmit the RFE. Thank you for your commitment to TSM and for your support in moving the product forward.