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It should be L180 emulation from DD side. so for changer you need to use TSM device drivers.

You can follow the steps given below to detect it on AIX.....
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Harry_Redl, Yes- Thanks for this. I will be doing the same.

rowl, Thats terrible...2 weeks and still the issue was not resolved. Anyway thanks for sharing this

Hi Brian,

I have also tried to search this a lot and checked with EMC. To my knowledge based on the feedback from different parties - Sales, Support from EMC and other Vendors - no it is not...

Hi All,

Looks like I have some issues with the TSM DB. The expiration is failing for last few days. And TSM DB is growing unexpectedly because of this.
TSM Server version is 5.5.4.3 running on...

How long do you retain your DB Backups?
You may keep old ones on LTO3 and let them expire on its own - start taking new TSM DB backup on new library/drive.

I am not aware of any such certification - where did you get this info from?
When I talked to IBM - they say "if the EMC can emulate the libr and configure a VTL that is a supported library by TSM,...

I am using DD880 with TSM 5.4 on AIX 5.3 with physical FC adapter.

With TS3200 emulation - I got a lot of I/O errors, paths were going offline, audit library does not work when adding new tapes...

Yes, I can see it is present.

Do you think Uninstall and Install of TSM device driver (devices.rte and devices.rte64) will help?

I am trying to use TSM device driver however can not detect any devices.(TSM Server 5.4.2 on AIX 5.3 - Library Storagetek Library - drives properly zonned with server)

I use Smitty -Devices...

You may try disabling de-dup(do not run identify process).
I do not remember exactly - may be this helped me till I patched my server.

upgdare or patch the TSM sever

If you must migrate to P6-520........
Not sure if this approach suits your environment.

You can 'freeze' backups on current server/library and redirect them to new server/library.

Rename the...

I also inherited one environment with this setup.
I faced a problem recently. Serialization was set to dynamic.
After restoration we found out that one of the dbf files size was not what was...

Yes...it does look good.

It is also written that it has source side data de-duplication....

I think you will have to schedule the command "dsmc backup systemstate" if you want to backup systemstate.

Thanks for the information ...

Sorry, I am still not able to understand this totally.....


For Example: In my paper, If I have

1) Quantity is 240
2) IBM TSM EE 10 PVUs license + SW subscription + support 12mths
(( Also...

Yes, IBM has provided a diag sever which is working fine at the moment.

I am not sure about this.

However I am not able to use select statement from two tables on TSM 6.1 (combined)
Where select form these two individual tables works fine.

you can check other...

I have used de-dup in my environment for 4-5 TB of data.
Till now I am fighting to get it work properly.

De-dup works fine but it makes expiration to hang. When this happens all other processes...

Select from individual table works fine for me.

However select from two or more tables displays nothing.


For example :

select * from drives and
select * from paths

BBB is right.

Naugrim, I have not tested your scripts, however you can give extra '/' at the end or/and '-subdir=yes'.

(example: dsmc archive /fs1/ /fs2/ /fs3/ -subdir=yes)

What BBB is saying is right.

Create a temp TSM Server or use existing one (if there is any) at the site where you have windows machine.
Backup your windows machine and then export the node from...

Sorry I missed the previous one............

I tried everything and finally gave up ... :( :( :down:

Not using TSM for GPFS now.

Which version of TSM Server you are using?

Also can you show following outputs?

tsm > query devc f=d

tsm > query volhist t=dbb

To backup systemstate ONLY, You can create a different schedule with action=command and object="dsmc backup systemstate"

Make sure you define proper client variables on Windows client machine to...

As far as I remember, I have seen lan-free restore from copypools.

Hope you have already verified lan-free settings, paths etc.

Hi,

I am running TSM Server 6.1.2.0 on AIX 5.3 with FILE volumes and De-Dup is active.
Running Identify process daily for some duration.

Since last couple of days my expiration is hanging.
It...

Policyset can be considered active, not management class.

In you case, there are 2 mgmtclasses under active policyset for AIX policydomain

AIX ACTIVE DAILY Yes
AIX ACTIVE ARCH2WKS No

Both...

In my TSM 6.1.2.0, I can see it.


TSM>q sta
Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.0

TSM>select * from drives

LIBRARY_NAME: LIBRARY01
DRIVE_NAME: DRIVE01

Backupset can be considered if you only have data from Backup/Archive clients and the requirement is to keep only the latest backedup data.

What is the version of your TSM Server?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC60975


You can increase the NUM_LOG_SPAN using db2 command.

I would say upgrade TSM Server to...

From TSM 6.1, server directory is changed to /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin.
Also there is no "dsmfmt" under this.

You can not define database or log volumes as it is taken care by DB2.
For stgpool...

Not sure how permission works for the Windows and if you have already checked this out...(this is for unix)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21386130

1) Just removing node from backup schedule will not delete any data from TSM storage.


2) You might want to create a different storage pool and then move the data to this pool's tapes. Let the...

Working with TSM 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

Recently implemented 6.1.2 (fresh install and no upgrade)

Can you see any error in the installation log file under /var/tivoli/tsm/?

· del sch start_onsite_reclaim type=a
· def sch start_onsite_reclaim type=a cmd="run start_onsite_reclaim" active=yes startt=now+0:20 peru=one


I guess it will reschedule the reclamation...

I was trying to search compatibility matrix for TSM,TDP for mySAP(Oracle) and SAP/ecc version.
Could not get much information about this. ECC version is not mentioned anywhere.

It just gives...

Hi,

We have production GPFS Linux systems (22 in cluster).
We take falshcopy for GPFS filesystems (DS8K) and mount it to a dedicated Linux mounting server(1 node GPFS cluster) for TSM to backup....

You can use "update stgpool" command to change collocation settings.

I would say to read help of this command -- "help update stgpool"

...

Mikeatkc,

you must give Log and DB vols at the same time...

Example: dsmserv format 1 log1.dsm 2 db1.dsm db2.dsm

Hi,

after uninstalling TDP 5.5 and reinstalling 5.3 everything is working fine....

again if i install TDP 5.5...getting the same error....

I used the same TDP 5.5 binary to install on...

Hi,

Recently upgraded TDP for SAP (Oracle) to 5.5.0.0 and client to 5.5.1.0 on AIX 5.3
TSM Server is 5.5.1.0

After that it started giving following error

Data Protection for SAP(R)...

Are you sepcifying any directory under "PASSWORDDIR <dir name>" in dsm.opt ?
Did you check for permission / space for this directory?
I hope you are using "Administrator" id.....