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I know this was a year ago, but why did you define a library path for the library client? The only paths library clients should get are drive paths.

The bigger issue is migration being automatically triggered. Add more disk to the pool. Running migration during the backup window is on the short list of the worst things you can do if you want to...

There is a SQL query that you can run, which if you do a search here you'll find. I've run it to locate and clean up some unused management classes and it takes about an hour to run the query. I...

You will need to consult the TSM documentation for more information on this, but essentially you'll create a copy storage pool, then run a daily script to backup primary storage pool to copy storage...

With a 3494 library it could be a network issue as well, since the library communicates via TCP/IP. With any library issues I was always troubleshoot outside of TSM. Use ITDT or tapeutil to try and...

More craziness from these Blackberry servers…

Here’s the filespace view:
tsm: TSM01>q files BES01

Node Name Filespace FSID Platform Filespace Is Files- Capacity Pct
...

I can't believe the entire system is changing everyday....the bytes inspected and the bytes backed up are identical...that doesn't jive with only 963 out of 150K being backed up.

It's been doing this forever...schedule is setup as incremental, copy group is set to modified

Wouldn't a serial script do the trick...
SERIAL
migrate stgp large_slow_disk_pool lo=0 wait=yes
backup stgp large_slower_tape_pool large_slower_copy_pool

Existing client...just discovered this when auditing some daily backup totals.

I have a Blackberry Enterprise Server running Windows 2008 and it appears to be doing a full backup every night, since the utilization on the server is about 130GB.

I’m a little confused why it...

Update: The above parameters don't appear to be valid for the GUI interface.

I found a Flashcopy Manager User and Install Guide and in the reference section it says you can use /CONFIGfile= and /FCMOPTfile= parameters to point to alternate paths for files. This was using the...

Thanks for the reply. I've tried using the older methods of doing this, but the new TDP GUI is now flashcopy manager, so these options don't seem to work.

For a SQL cluster it's recommended that you put the configuration files in a shared resource. How do you configure the TDP GUI to recognize this. If you move them out of C:\Program...

A couple on notes some responses here.

You don't have to export all versions, you can do an export with filed=active, which will only export the active data. Once your new environment has been...

For TSM v5.5 as long as your log size isn't maxed out you can create and remove DB and Log volumes dynamically. For example if you have 5gb log file called c:\tsmdata\log1.dsm, create another 5gb log...

You'll want to put some thought into how you're going to use these different media types in your environment and how that effect DR strategy.

What does a q volh type=dbb show?

No, the library and tape drives can be root owned.

I figured it out. If you use '' single quotes in the db2 update statement it works (ie. db2 update db cfg for tsmdb1 using MIRRORLOGPATH '')

I have a customer that installed their Windows TSM server with all four log files under the same drive letter. Obviously, the two optional ones serve no benefit from being located here, so I want to...

Yes, but that will backup the two passive copies. I only want to backup one of the passive copies. Apparently IBM is aware of this issue and are working on a resolution.

I have customer where I'm configuring backups for Exchange 2010. They have a DAG where the 12 Exchange DB’s are replicated across three servers. Each server will typically have 4 active DB’s and 8...

Are you also having issues with expiration completing? There is a known issue with how TSM handles the system state for Win2K8. Essentially the root cause is the system state for Win2K8 is 10x larger...

Has anyone done a TSM v5 to v6 upgrade where the server was configured to backup a EMC DiskXtender environment? I know very little about DiskXtender other than it's managing stub files similar to...

I think you're probably seeing multiple active management classes.

Actually if you setup TSM correctly you wouldn't have monthly backups.

Ideally you'll want to split that 1 TB into seperate drives for Stgpool, DB, Log and Archlog.

The best advice is check the server requirements before starting and follow the Install guide. I've...

Is there a way I can seamlessly switch from using 6 character volsers to 8 character volsers? I currently have LTO2 and LTO4 libraries that were setup using 6 character. I'm replacing the (2) LTO2...

You can run a SQL query to find what nodes are bound to each management class. This is query can take about an hour to run depending on the size of your DB. If you do a search on here for SQL select...

I've got the instance home directory 90% moved, there's just one directory structure I haven't been able to relocate.

I am trying to clean up a customer's site, where they put the install home...

I thought I'd post the resolution. It turned out there was an upper limit of slots with our configuration. The upper limit was 8000. I know you can do 10K or more to Linux or Aix, but Windows with...

My guess is you updated your media from LTO-2 to LTO-4 or something similar? Just update the device class to read LTO-4 media and you're good to go. There really is no good reason to change the...

If you make start date for the schedule Jan 1, 2011 and make the period unit month it will schedule the backup for the 1st day of every month.

Try querying the volhist file for references to the volumes. You may need to delete them before you can reuse them.

Keep in mind only primary tapes in Full status are eligible for reclamation. For offsite volumes they can be in any status.

I am completing an install of TSM 6.2 on Windows 2k8 for a customer. They had configured the DD 880 emulating a STK L180 w/ 40 drives and 2500 slots.

I wanted them to increase the slot count to...

It's using some 3rd party software (ABC) to do the backup.
There is no summary data at session closure.

Yes I did a search for this node specifically and nothing. I can see them when I run select * from backups where node_name=nodename

I have a customer who runs some OpenVMS backups outside of TSM scheduling and the backups are not being captured in the summary table.

We were able to find some statistics in TSM Manager, but...

What does a ps-ef|grep <PID> show? They should be running scripts which should clue you into what process ID is tied to which dsmserv.

Additionally, can you do an fuser on the PID to find out...

How would I go about doing that? I'm a novice when it comes to scripting. :-)

I'm having an issue running this script on TSM v6.2. This is a ksh script which setting some input variables to be used for sql summary query.
Anyone seen this error?

The error I get is:
...

This what we use in the parmfile:

# sample parmfile for SendSMTP
# lines starting with # or ; are comments
# blank lines are ignored
to=you@email.com
from=me@email.com
host=xx.xx.xx.xx...