Re: Multi-threading backups

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Al, I think that's because summer is so short up there they give them the 
whole week off.  We tried to send some poor sob off to WAS training up 
there.  Turned out they could never fill a class in January and kept 
cancelling the class - go figure.

Jim,  We are using TSM (which is the IBM product you paid for when you 
bought the enterprise package) to back up other servers and clients to our 
i5 disk and tape.  And, yes, it will drive a couple of tape drives at the 
same time, like both drives in one 3582.  I bet BRMS (which I think also 
comes with the Enterprise Package - along with some training vouchers) 
will do it for what you want to do.  Failing that, you could break it up 
by object.  Bear to restore but doable.  We have a library where each of 
the objects is several gig.  We fill up a data queue with size descending 
and two different tape drives read that data queue and do a SAVOBJ.  When 
the first job gets the *END dummy data queue record it dies.  When the 
second job gets nothing, it restarts the process that was stopped to start 
the backup.

Rob Berendt