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We are entertaining creating a DB BACKUPS shared folder on our NetApp NAS. The plan is to give the DBAs 20TB of sata disk (with dedupe and compression) and tell them to dump whatever they want there....

You can kill the dsm process using task manager.

I agree. Heck I would love a part time remote access opportunity.

We managed to pull it off using the webclient. I had to log in using my admin ID. I could then browse the AIX filesystem and restore to the Linux server. Thanks!

I gave that a try using the following format/command.... but it didn't find any data.
dsmc res "/var/adm/wtmp/*" /tmp/newdest/ -virtualnodename=shocbs01_TIL_16nov12 -ina -pick -fromdate=MM/DD/YY

Here's the scoop. We eliminated AIX at our company but we have some AIX backups that may at some point in time need to be restored. At the time of decom we decided that in the event of restore...

What version of DocAve are you running? We had timeout errors due to running older code. DocAve uses Sqlite to store the index file. And the Sqlite is configured in a UNC path even if it is local...

All you need to do is stop the services, install the new code, update the dsm.opt file and restart the services.

Easy to script and to run.... we've done it on more than 500 servers... the only...

We are rolling aout 6.2 servers. We like to keep our database below 200GB just because we can. We are backing up about 500 run of the mill windows servers to each instance. Now.... we have a...

No problem... I feel lucky to have NetApp resources familiar with TSM and such to reach out to. Personally I feel we over bought for the intended implementation. We are configuring two 6210s...

Currently we aren't using VE. We treat all VMs just like physical machines with a full BAClient (6.3.0.0). We have about 2k servers and are 80% virtualized so we use it for just about everything...

Well.... what if I ran it as an archive?

I guess the CIFS idea sounds the best because you can restore to any device. This is really only a belt and suspenders approach I HOPE I DONT have to...

We have a large san with 2 fully populated VMAX's as well as a few clariions. The filer will be just that and maybe leveraged for some test VMWare or VDI.

Well.... I didn't want it either. I wanted Isilon but I'm not the VP and that is who made this call.

I'm open to positive or negative feedback on the filer. Are there any got-yas I need to...

We finally purchased a NAS to replace our DFS file server farm. Even though we plan to use snapshots to provided file level DR for up to 30 days we would like to take a monthly "full" backup and...

Are you guys doing anything special to make the custered resource services dependent on other services or are they stand alone?

I have NODE0 = Cluster Node with dsm.opt and log files on the...

Just thought I would bring this back from the dead. Last year we moved to the TB of primary storage licensing approach. We are currently at 400TB of primary storage. Did the easy math and that came...

We dumping transaction logs and log backups to disk as well. They all land in the DBBackup folder with the flat files. Then once a day we come through and sweep up all those files.

We have...

I'm trying to find out how mid sized companies are handling their database backups.

Currently, on each server, we provide the DBAs with a chunk of SAN disk where they spin off a copy off a flat...

Any updates to this? My best customer... the DBA ... would like to use active directory to control who can do what with TSM on their servers.

The tweek we made to ours was to add:

TESTFLAG SKIPVSSASR

Why not just open a PMR and ask the question?

I have a TSM server that needs to move to new hardware and thus it will get a new server name as well.

These are windows 2008 servers.

Can I simply physically move the database and config files...

That is great news thanks!

We are in the process of shifting to the capacity based licensing. We have approx 1800 servers and we have 600TB of primary occupancy. We ran their script on all of our TSM servers and sent the...

About how many nodes do you have on that instance?

I may have to give that a try as I'm still troubleshooting this password issue.

I am attempting to recover a remote office TSM server at my home office. The recovery will use virtual volumes that are onsite at the home office. I am using new hardware to recover the server.
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We limited our 5.5 databases to 150GB but I've been told 6.2 and above can grow as large you are comfortable growing it based on recover time objectives.

I'm curious if any of you have gone...

Any updates on this?

Funny.... we have gone the opposite direction. We are moving everything to Windows 2008 64 bit servers running TSM 6.2.

As it turns out.... the problem is caused by backing up a 6.x clients to 5.5 servers. This has been verified by IBM and resulted in this:
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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21470662

Believe it or not I am working on my first MS windows 2008 clustered DB server. The configuration is as follows:

Node A and Node B both have local TSM clients installed that backup the C: drive...

Thanks everyone! (sarcasm)

Someone must have some daily processing admin script examples to share.

LOL owned!

Until recently we were using custom scripts to perform all daily maintenance. This was when using TSM 5.5.

Well our scripts no longer work with TSM 6.X and we aren't willing to invest the time to...

We are using sychronous SRDF to replicate the TSM DB but as expected the storage pools are copied via TSM process.

We are running 5.5.5 on all production backup servers. We do have one 6.2 server in test but it's not servicing clients. Our backup window runs from 1800-0600 and we have about 1600 nodes total. ...

This is what we are using for all 2003/2008 servers. We have different tweaks depending on type of storage they are going to but this is contains all options.


LANG AMENG
COMMmethod TCPIP...

We have 18 physical TSM servers supporting our infrastructure DR needs. The newest servers are on very high end 64bit 2K8R2 servers. Normally we run only two instances and load them up to nearly...

You can try launching two jobs at the same time. For example you start backing up sites from A-N and N-Z both at the same time. If the hardware can support it you should get double throughput.

I'd love to see those docs as well!

Have you gotten any answers about local account vs domain admin? All of our backup operators are admins and we prefer to set the instances up to run under the system account. So far I've only...

I'm still looking at options and would love some helpful guidance.