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Official End of Support Date for TSM Server V5.5 - See link

Hi all,

Haven't posted for a while. I'm guessing for those lucky enough to be working with V6 this is irrelevant. For thos still on V5 -

APTARE Granted Patent For Cataloging the Metadata for Billions of Files

The United States Patent & Trademark Office has Granted APTARE a Patent For Cataloging the Metadata for Billions of Files

APTARE StorageConsole is EMC VSPEX Labs Validated

Integration with EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Provides Enterprises with Visibility Across Both Data Center and Cloud Storage
CAMPBELL, Calif.,

SQL for sessions running during a specific time frame

I need a select statement that can give me a list of sessios (output should look like q sess) but for a specific date and time range. i.e.: today between

TSM 6.2 Multiple DB backups with difference in expiration days

Hello everyone,

First time posting here since I couldn't find what I'm looking for using the search tool.
Not sure if what I'm trying

Format HH:MM:SS field

Hello all, I have this script that is working except that in the hours, minutes and seconds fields when any of them have a leading zero the zero gets

AS400 As a TSM client Help request

Hello To all in this forum,

I have a perspective customer who is using BRMS for backup to a stand alone tape drive. They want to use their

Different policies same storage pools?

Hi, i have a new server that i want to backup using daily monthly and yearly schedules (different node and policy of course).
Can i use the same

data won't expire for specific domain

Hi all, I created a new domain named pd_xxx_vmnoad without active data (because i have no space on disk)
Hi moved into this domain 45 nodes but

5.3 and Windows 2008?

I have a site that just purchased a 64-bit Windows 2008 server to replace their 32-bit 2003 server. The 2003 server is currently using 5.3.6.0. I've done

Backup Missed - TCP/IP connection with address

Hi All,

Some servers backups getting missed due to the below issue. Could you please let me know what could be the issue and how to solve

Management Console on v 6.2.5

Hi,

I recently upgraded my TSM server from 6.2.2 to 6.2.5 and now I noticed that my management console is no longer there. I don't know

Backup to new Mgmtclass

Hi,

we defined a new Policy domain and Management Class on our TSM-Server (linux) and then we assigned it to a host. But when i run a backup

Script to combine tape serial number with special device name on LINUX OS.

Does anyone have a script that does this?
Just need to list all the /dev/tape# with the matching SN.

List Drive
ls -l /dev/IBM*

TSM database backup best practices

Hi.

I am currently checking up on our TSM database backup setup. We are currently running full+incremental backups to a NAS. But we want

TSM 6.3.3 AIX 7.1 ANR2981E Database backup terminated DB2 sqlcode -2033 sqlerrmc 106

OK,

I'm in the process of building a few TSM 6.3.3 servers on AIX 7.1.

My first instance works perfectly, but the second

Archive Retrieval

Hi Admins,

I have a requirement to test our old archives stored in Tapes for the purpose of Internal Audit. Below is my requirement.

Proxy Value? Opt file for exchnage command line?

Hello,

I have installed TDP for Exchange in the folder C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange.
I have a dsm.opt in this folder...

Backup up multiple instances with TDP SQL 6.3

Hi,

I know this has been answered before but with the new 6.3 I'm wondering if there are any new instructions or "best practices"

TSM 6 Conversion Progress / Duration

Solaris 10

Does the TSM 6 DB conversion process give a summary of duration without my having to monitor it and time it manually?

ANS0326E (RC41) This node has exceeded its maximum number of mount points.

Hoping someone can help. I know what this message means, however, the dba insists he's not launching more sessions than the assigned mount points. I'm

Backup of share hangs

Hi all,

We are backing up a share as an example:

\\share\files\

The domain statement is simple:

DOMAIN

Which compression to use for Data Domain?

I see that Data Domain supports three different compression levels, each with varying degrees of cpu demand and compression efficiency. Does anyone have

Drive Offline

I keep noticing a Drive within the media library Keeps going offline;

q path
Source Name Source Type Destination Destination

Rman

HI,

how to restore the tdporacle?

BA GUI wont start. TSM 6.3.0 client x86 on Windows 2003 no service pack.

Hi,

has anyone come accross an issue when installing the x86 6.3 client on a Windows 2003 server with no service pack installed?

Tsm lan free backup - performance tuning tips required

Hi Team,

We are implementing TSM LAN Free backups for few of our AIX Clients .

However we dont see much improvement in the

No IBMTape or IBMChanger devices in Linux

Hello,

Im running RHEL 5.9 and I have installed lin_tape and lin_taped successfully. In DMESG I have the following:

qla2xxx

IBM tape driver LTO 4 problems after Windows updates installed

Hi,
yesterday I installed latest Windows updates on my TSM server and vm backup proxy which uses LANfree data movement. When I reboot the machine

Compression - RMAN vs TSM vs Tape Drive

Has anyone done any analysis on compression rates? We compress at the tape drive level as most do, and have several Oracle DBs that backup LAN-Free.

TSM Enhancement

If there is a way to do it, a useful feature would be an inclexcl option to allow files on a path and directories on the same path to go to different

After Upgrade to TSM server 6.3.3 Unable to open GUI from dsmj

Dear All,
i need an urgent support.
in our environment we upgrade tsm server 5.5 to tsm server 6.3.3 on windows server.
currently we

Unable to install ISC console in New windows OS

Hi,

In our organisation we are planning to install the ISC console version 6.0.2 but its showing attached error. We have checked & installed

DD Boost and RMAN

Can someone point me to a guide that shows how to configure Boost/RMAN

Command to get out of DDOS and to the native operating system command line

Does anyone know the command to run to get out of the DDOS menu and to the native command line? I am running DDOS 5.2

I am interested in

Is it possible to start manual backup of a savesets from a client node using command?

Hi I am trying to start a manual backup using savegrp command from a client node,But its not happening I am getting below error.

C:\>savegrp

DD and TSM compression

We have a new DD and currently getting 3X compression, after talking to EMC support they said it could be data bein compressed before it's sesnt/oracle

Data Domain permission

I am new to DD and trying to fast copy using filesys but it throws out an error saying "This command is not available for this user." what permissions

Convert Pools to MTree

Hello all,

Has anyone recently converted VTL pools into MTree's? I am curious how this migration was and what kind of configurations were

ST0-202 Exam Help?

I tried ST0-202 exam last month, bt I found a little difficult for me to pass. Anyone has the latest ST0-202 exam training material?

NetBackup Engineer Wanted

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Good pay and benefits. May pay relo for correct candidate.

Enterprise Environment with Data Domain.

Simple command line?

Is there a simple command line to create a text file to display all the NBU clients known to the master and their current client code level?

Catalogue using two tapes

Hi,

Recently, our catalogue backups are consuming two LT05 tapes. I can't imagine that the catalogue is that big. Has anyone ever run into

Restore of Exchange 2003 database ends with error 2826

Hi,

I am restoring an Exchange 2003 database and I am getting the above error. I am running Exchage on a cluster and I am initiating