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This is strange. Your error message returns a different object ID than the object ID you entered. I don't know how that could happen. Does the delete command work for any of the objects you want to...

Excellent idea cilesiz. I'll give it a try

I discovered that a lot of my Oracle and SQL servers had TDP backup "objects" stored on tape that were way past the company retention period. Some of the Oracle ones were due to the crosscheck not...

I currently have the following script defined and scheduled to run every morning:

DLY_TASKS 5 /* TSM Daily Admin Tasks */
10 BAckup STGpool DISKPOOL OFFDATA...

Moon-buddy,

I still need to migrate data from the primary disk storage to tape. Was thinking that since SATA performs sequential I/O pretty well, was really just wondering if TSM and SATA disks...

This might be like asking which motor oil is the best to use, but I'll ask anyway. I am looking for recommendations for the configuration of primary storage pools. Do I go with DISK or FILE, and...

Ok, I find myself in need of moving the DB2 DB and logs. Since the v6 versions of TSM require that you shut it down, why not simply XCOPY the DB and log files to their new location and rename the...

I bumped my diskpool to 12TB and that seems to have stopped the clients from requesting a drive. Seems like about 2X the amount that this server backs up on a daily basis. I still believe that...

Thanks everyone. So far no luck. The minimum file size is set to no limit. The diskpool is now at 10TB and for the past week the daily total backed up averages between 4-6TB. If TSM was operating...

I know that IBM does not support FCoE and TSM, and TS1140's are also not yet certified for TSM, but has anyone got FCoE and/or TS1140's to work with TSM?

Just set up a new v6.3.3 TSM server in...

Is there a way to prevent a client from bypassing the diskpool and writing directly to tape? I would prefer that my TDP clients not directly mount a tape. For some reason my TDP clients...

mikeymac,

Thanks for the info. I will investigate my restore issue as a problem and not normal operations.

How do you set the sessions for the restore? All of my nodes have a mount point of...

I understand that incremental backups will place files all over the tapes in a collocation group. I don't understand why TSM does not seem to be able to pre-process the restore and efficiently...

I am running TSM server v6.2 on a W2K8 server. Have about 270 nodes on this TSM server split into four collocation groups. After the nightly backups complete I begin the DISKPOOL to TAPEPOOL...

Thanks for the reply Moon-buddy. That did help reduce the fluff in my logs.

I need to delete a few thousand objects from the TSM database with the command "delete object 0 nnnnnnnn". Is there a way that I can open dsmadmc once and pipe the list of commands to it?

My...

I had to cap the size on the DB2 bufferpools. Although I was running the TSM server with out-of-the-box settings, this was IBM's response:

You have STMM (Self Tuning Memory Manager) enabled and...

domino, thanks for the info. After rereading the SW requirements I think I will abondon the silent install approach.

I think its time for me to start looking at alternative DB backup...

I am trying to do silent installs of the v6.3 TDP for SQL client. This new version requires more baggage than ever before and I can't get a script to install this thing silently. Using IBM's...

Has anyone used the Automatic Deployment feature in the ISC to upgrade Windows TSM clients? I am looking for a way to upgrade 100's of clients and this sounded like a good idea, if I could only get...

I recently stood up four v6.2 TSM Windows servers on new IBM xSeries servers. My existing two v5.5 TSM Windows servers move data to tape a lot faster than my beefy new v6.2 TSM servers. The servers...

I have a 2 node PolyServe cluster and a database that is normally hosted and backed up on nodeA. If node A fails the databases get hosted and backed up from nodeB. I need to recover the database from...

Typo in the dsm.sys ... thanks for making me take another look.

Folks,

I have a UNIX server with Oracle installed. To backup the OS files I have a TSM client installed and it backups up to serverA. To backup the Oracle databases I have a TDP client installed...

I realize that this is an old thread, but Jeff, if you are still watching I am curious about what size file you defined for your FILE device class? Also, does your nightly backup fit in the 1TB...

Must be missing something, this should be easy for backup software as fancy as TSM.

I need to test writing to specific tapes, and if successful, discard the data on the tape. Any suggestions on...

Did you run the install logged in with the DB2 account credentials?

Received some 3592 tapes from our Mainframe buddies and tried to re-label them. Getting the following error when issuing the label command:

ANR8311E An I/O error occurred while accessing drive...

We have a newly staged TSM 6.2 W2K8R2 server that has become very unstable. Noticed that after a restart the DB2SYSCS service slowly begins consuming RAM until there is 0 free memory available. After...

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but in Windows should the journal service startup setting be set to 'manual'? I am using the v6.2 client GUI setup wizard to setup journaling on some W2K3 and W2K8...

Chad, I believe you are correct. Ended up scripting a process to export a list of clients, set the exported client's password on the new TSM server to a known password, then issue the command...

bkhalil, I am using the default 'admin' account on both servers and the password is the same.

Ash777, that works, but I have hundreds of clients to migrate and don't want to have to log in to each one and enter a pw. I think I could script something to do it, but was under the impression the...

I am trying to export node definitions from my old 5.5 server to my new 6.2 server using the following command:

export node servervm232 filedata=none toserver=BIGDOG_SERVER1
The TSM server...

I would like to try something similar. Didn't want to "upgrade" my existing 5.5 server to 6.2 so I stood up a new 6.2 server and plan to migrate the non-tdp clients from my old TSM server to the new...

Hogmaster,

Quoting IBM's recommendations for setting up DB2: Use file systems instead of raw devices and create one file system per LUN.

I am not 100% sure what they mean, but I read that as...

gimlet,

I would agree that the DB wouldn't need the entire disk capacity from the 20-30 disks, but I am pretty sure IBM is recommending that the spindles are not being shared with...

I believe what Tiger22 was asking about was is there any advantage to presenting multiple LUNS to store the DB2 database as opposed to one large LUN. My IBM rep said there is no advantage to creating...

Sorry, I didn't explain very well. My disk pool is used as the primary pool, from there the data is migrated to my tape pool. I do not do reclamation on the disk pool only migrations. After adding...

I inherited a TSM system that had a primary disk-based storage pool using about 40 9G volumes. About a month ago I more than doubled the size of the pool by adding about 60 additional 9G volumes to...

Does the select statement return the "Front End" number or the "Back End" number that is mentioned in the PDF?

In the attached chart, if my select statement returns 100TB does that mean I will...

Jeff, curious to know what MS said about these files. Should I add exclude statements to my dsm opt files for these files?

Thanks,
Daryl

Yes, the fileshares listed in my original post show the same size as the disk that they reside on. For example, all of the filespaces in red are on the E$ drive, and all of the green filespaces are...

I was browsing the filespace listing today and noticed that TSM appears to be backing up data more than once. Here is a list of the filespaces for one of my servers:

select...

Thanks everyone...I am going to give it a go on all my servers with over 1 million files.