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We did also have a presentation of Commvault's solution and i must say it looked pretty interesting. Pricing, at least for us was pretty on par with what IBM charges for TSM...The difference being...

/home/array/

I think you are missing the / at the end.


Back up all files in the /home directory and all its subdirectories.
dsmc incremental /home/ -subdir=yes See Subdir for more...

Oh, Good point! :) That actually could be it...

Mvbatman, could you clarify? Also, what version of TSM are we talking about? Do you have a TSM server in your DR site?

You could define certain scratch tapes to be "assigned" to the Storage Pool that your "Database backup" belongs too...

What i do here, is create a Storage Pool for specific usages...For example,...

Data is still on that tape, that is not an issue. You just need to check that tape in by reading its label, not scanning it. That way, it will read the label written on the tape (B00532) and not...

Hey Mikeymac.

Don't know if you've had answers to your questions from somewhere else, but i'd be interested in your thoughts on Commvault. We are looking into a possible replacement as well and...

I've removed everything that was cron scheduled related for backups...

All rman "archive" backups are scheduled and started by TSM. Some of them are running every 30mins. some hourly etc...
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Reclaim needs to run to see any gains...

Data deduplication in Tivoli Storage Manager is a two-phase process. In the first
phase, the server identifies the duplicate data in the storage pool. As...

I had a TSM 5.5 server that we have been chugging along for the past 6 years...When it was time to move to 6, i built a new TSM 6.2 server (we actually built 2 after some design discussions) and...

You'll want to issue a "backup stgpool" of your primary stgpool to your defined copy stgpool. Assuming your copy stgpool exists, you would issue a "backup stgpool My_PRIMARY_POOL MY_COPY_POOL" where...

Technically, L2 tapes are LTO2 tapes which are 200gb native tapes. They can be read by a LTO4 drive, but not written to...

Did you glue L2 labels on LTO4 tapes? If so, what was the thinking...

dsmadmc -id=abcd -password=xyz query stgpool YOURSTORAGEPOOLNAME f=d

It is listed as "Reclamation Threshold". You could grep for it i guess.

Same here. I had tons of LTO3 tapes that were readonly (from a migration to LTO4) and once they were emptied out returned to scratch after their delay. I had to "catch" them before since i did not...

You would do a:

dsmadmc -id=abcd -password=xyz update stgpool YOURSTORAGEPOOLNAME reclaim=60

We try to keep it set to 60, but it is adjusted once in a while higher depending on the load of the...

Have you configured it? Once you install your agent, you need to configure it and at the same time, it will authentify your node within your tsmserver.

query drive shows 6 of 10 or shows 10 drives with only 6 online?
query path shows all 10 paths or only 6?

AIX or Windows TSM server? Fiber drives on SAN switch? Port Online on switch?

Hi Wesd.

I have a similar setup, running on AIX 6. TSM 6.2.2 with 6gb of ram and 10gb of paging for one server and the other with 8gb of ram. We are in the process of migrating from a single TSM...

Hello all.

I was wondering what most of you use as far as Tuning options on your TSM servers running AIX? I am running TSM 6.1.4 with TSM 6.2.2 installed. I am testing with a 4 CPU 8gb of RAM...

If it is same TSM installation (server/db), you could physically check in your LTO2 tapes into your new library and set access to read only for those tapes. Then issue move/reclaims to "migrate"...

Question though, doesn't an "image" backup lock the filesystem? doesn't that cause a problem to your apps or users?

Usually, you'd want to exclude the mountpoint where your DB is located at the very least. What we have typically, is a mountpoint for our DB (/db01), /oraarch, /oraredo, /oraundo and /backup.

I...

Well that is just fine then...I'm already ahead! :)

I already am a SAN admin / TSM Admin (dedup and vtl included) / UNIX Admin...

Why not use a new label? That way the library will not complain it is the same tape...

I remember using this site: http://tapelabels.librelogiciel.com/ to create labels for my cleaning a while...

PITDate
Specifies that files that were active on the specified date and that
are still stored on the Tivoli Storage Manager server are to be
included in the backup set, even if they are...

Uses that date and time to set the active files to backup. So whatever was active at pitdate/time is what will be backed up. But only "that" version.

I don't think that can be done, at least as far as i know... A backupset is a set of all "active" files at a specific moment.

To checkin a tape used for a backupset, you check it in as a...

Query volume VOL# queries volumes that belong to storage pools which backupsets don't belong to. Query libvol will show you though that it is a backupset volume just like it would show you it is a...

select backupset_name,node_name,date_time,retention,devclass,description from backupsets
or
query volhistory type=backupset

If i am not mistaken, q libvol shows volumes that are IN the the...

You could, if possible, replace all your LTO2 drives by LTO4 drives. Then set all your LTO2 volume in ReadOnly mode. That way, your LTO4 drives could read your LTO2 volumes and migrate them to LTO4...

Our Operators do check ins (scratch or "restore" tapes) and check outs, label new tapes when asked to and keep an eye out for server availability though we get paged anyway if server was to crash......

Hi Guys.

I have 2 TSM servers, A and B both at 6.2. They are in different server rooms/buildings.

I have server A configured with a Primary disk pool for daily backups, which are migrated to a...

Hi folks.

I know i can run 2 instances of TSM on the same physical server but can i run 2 different version of TSM on the same box? I would guess that as long as my installation path, env path,...

You should through your Passport Advantage website...But i would guess it would be part of the "server install" download?? Not a standalone i think

Update...

resetting through the set dbrecovery command indeed got rid of my "warning"...Thanks.

Well let's see then... :)

if just issued a "Set dbrecovery S2S_DEVCLASS_DBBACKUPREMOTE" on my server without any issues...
Let's see how the next backup goes...

Thanks.

Ed: Yes, i've removed my original devclass and replaced it with a new one...If i could have just renamed it, i would have but that option is not available.

Tony: So you think that if i just...

ANR4976W The device class S2S_DEVCLASS_DBBACKUPREMOTE is not the same as device class S2S_DEVCLASS_DBBACKUP defined for the serverbackup node $$_TSMDBMGR_$$

I am getting this warning when backing...

Do you have an account for Passport Advantage? You should be able to download your new TSM version with licensing from there...

I've tried to work with the new ISC but it just won't do it for me. I've been working with TSMManager for a while now which i find to be much more intuitive and of course some CLI as well as i am...

Your backup stgpool will be fully hydrated (reconstructed). Only your primary pool that is dedup enabled will stay deduped...

I am messing around with dedup has well and find this annoying... :) ...

That is exactly the setup i did with my TSM DB backups process where i backup my "delhi" db onto Tokyo and viceversa (that is taken from the redbook). BUT, now that i want to setup bkp stgpools, i am...

So the NODE is the one defined within the "server" definitions correct? So i would need to create as many "servers" with specific nodes for each domains then? (i have my domains as "os/application"...

Hummm...

Does it mean, for example, that i'd have to create "source/target" servers for each setups?

I have a "source/target" server setup already defined for my TSM database backups. These...

Hi guys.

I am trying to setup backups of certain storage pools remotely to another server. I have 2 servers A and B and i'd like to be able to backup my "StoragePoolAIX" that is on my server B...

Thanks for the feedback Timgren.

So the way i see it, it is only somewhat useful for a setup where you keep your LTO library in the loop as to keep the cost of long term retention of data low. ...