Onbar/ TSM / logcal log tape mounts

We have been using ontape processing and are now wanting to move to using onbar with Tivoli. Everything seemed simple to get going and I have been successful in doing test backups and recoveries. The problem is that it appears I will be unable to use it in production due to the onbar continuous logging process holding a tape mount. Our ten production instances would consume all the tape mounts for the whole organization supported by our TSM. How has your shop gotten around this bottleneck? IDS 9.4.fc6 TSM 5.2.1 TIA, Rogers

Use the alarmprogram in $INFORMIXDIR/etc "ROGERS PATT...." <rogers.patterson @mail.state.ar.us To > ids@iiug.org Sent by: cc ids-bounces@iiug. org Subject Onbar/ TSM / logcal log tape mounts [6503] 03/14/2006 03:53 PM Please respond to ids@iiug.org We have been using ontape processing and are now wanting to move to using onbar with Tivoli. Everything seemed simple to get going and I have been successful in doing test backups and recoveries. The problem is that it appears I will be unable to use it in production due to the onbar continuous logging process holding a tape mount. Our ten production instances would consume all the tape mounts for the whole organization supported by our TSM. How has your shop gotten around this bottleneck? IDS 9.4.fc6 TSM 5.2.1 TIA, Rogers ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Don't do continuous backups ... use the alarmprogram.sh located in $INFORMIXDIR/etc ... that will fire off a backup each time a log is switched. PDL "ROGERS PATT...." <rogers.patterson@mail.state.ar.us> Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org 03/14/2006 03:53 PM Please respond to ids@iiug.org To ids@iiug.org cc Subject Onbar/ TSM / logcal log tape mounts [6503] We have been using ontape processing and are now wanting to move to using onbar with Tivoli. Everything seemed simple to get going and I have been successful in doing test backups and recoveries. The problem is that it appears I will be unable to use it in production due to the onbar continuous logging process holding a tape mount. Our ten production instances would consume all the tape mounts for the whole organization supported by our TSM. How has your shop gotten around this bottleneck? IDS 9.4.fc6 TSM 5.2.1 TIA, Rogers ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Rogers, The way we did it at a client site was to configure Tivoli to backup to a disk pool and Tivoli handles sending it to the tape therefore no tape drives are being held by the onbar process. You need to configure your disk pool for Tivoli accordingly. Talk to your TSM administrator about this. Sincerely, Jeffrey J. Filippi 104 Cottonwood Dr. Streamwood, IL 60107 630-842-3608 630-497-1762 (Fax) jeff.filippi@itdataconsulting.com www.itdataconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of ROGERS PATT.... Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:53 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Onbar/ TSM / logcal log tape mounts [6503] We have been using ontape processing and are now wanting to move to using onbar with Tivoli. Everything seemed simple to get going and I have been successful in doing test backups and recoveries. The problem is that it appears I will be unable to use it in production due to the onbar continuous logging process holding a tape mount. Our ten production instances would consume all the tape mounts for the whole organization supported by our TSM. How has your shop gotten around this bottleneck? IDS 9.4.fc6 TSM 5.2.1 TIA, Rogers **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.