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You might try to define a DIRPOOL on the new server with no storage associated with it. Make DIRPOOL read only with a NextSTG set to primary pool where you want this data to land. I think that will...

Is the data in your primary pool deduplicated before it is backed up to copy pool? My first thought is that TSM has to reduplicate the data before sending it to tape. That would generate a lot of I/O...

I am curious if there is a way to do this as well. If I understand the question, it is the same issue I have been asked to investigate. User requests mydoc.doc to be restored. When did we back that...

I will have to look into that. I do know that running a full backup doesn't help this situation, that was the first thing we tried.

I have a number of clients, servers at various remote locations across the country. All of these are file servers, no databases, to email. They vary from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008, all are running...

Well we didn't actually upgrade directly from 5.5 to 6.3.3. We built new 6.3.1 servers and through a combination of exporting nodes or just defining nodes on the new servers and aging out their old...

Since our move to TSM 6.3.3 from 5.5 I have noticed that expire inventory is expiring an very large number of objects on a daily basis. For example,

ANR0987I Process 24 for EXPIRE INVENTORY...

I finally have time to start looking into solutions for backing up our virtual environmnet. There are two products on the floor today that both offier solutions that leverage the vStorageAPI for...

Make sure that the disk pool doesn't have a maximum file size limit set that could force large files to go to the next pool.
Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit

I have run into this problem as well,...

Would disk replication combined with snapshots be a possibility? I have done that before in a NAS environment, replicate to another array and take daily snapshots on the replica. I know this is...

Yesterday I noticed that several reclaim jobs had failed. In looking into this I found some ANR1330E messages, tracked down the volume, ran an audit, found a damaged file which was deleted, and...

Glad I could help. I am no SQL expert, but I generally can mock up a query to get what I need. I learned a lot from http://www.lascon.co.uk/tsm-sql-queries.php.

-Rowl

Not an elegent solution, but I think this will get you what you want....

select MEDIAW from summary where entity='NODE_NAME'

Just in the final phases of upgrading an environment from TSM 5.5 to TSM 6.3. We had a mix of AIX and RH Linux, now we are using only SuSE Linux. While several of us would prefer to use AIX, that...

This sounds like a problem I had to deal with a few years back. Same thing, legal hold for Exchange backups for the court case that never ended. I had ProtecTIER VTL and not Data Domain, but it was...

How much redundancy are you required to have to meet your business requirments? This seems like a tripple failure scenario. (1) Lost data on server (2) can't restore because primary copy is bad (3)...

Are all of the VMs running hardware version 7? If I remember right that was required for CBT.

I know there is an agent to allow one to backup DB2 on AIX with Avamar, but does anyone use it? My mandate is to get all DB backups out of TSM, eliminate virtual tape and LAN free backups (physical...

I was asked a couple questions by management yesterday and I wasn't sure how to reply to these. Thought maybe someone here would have some insights. These are in regards to using devclass=FILE.

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We are going to start a POC with Isilon storage and I was wondering if anyone has experience with NDMP backups using TSM 6.3 for this platform they would be willing to share. One twist I have to deal...

You might want to check out http://www.lascon.co.uk/tsm-sql-queries.php for some good examples. I have found that site very helpful for getting info out of TSM.

-Rowl

Unless these are very lightly used TSM instances I don't think you have enough disk drives for 5 instances of TSM 6.3. I would agree with moon-buddy for the most part. I suggest going with the...

I don't think what you are seeing is a problem to be solved, but functioning as designed. In the past when tape was most common, we would size the tape capacity to be 2x the estimated size of the...

I am also using Data Domain for TSM, using nfs. I have a couple comments on this issue. First, data that TSM has expired on a volume may still be valid data on the Data Domain array because a...

I had to go through this process a few years ago. Had a 400GB DB on AIX, took over 2 weeks to finish and did not resolve the problem. Since I couldn't go that long without backups, I created a new...

It's been a while since I worked with Netware, but isn't there a long file name volume property that needs to be enabled on the Netware volume? I think I ran into that when we started deploying Win95...

I got this setup but ran into a gotcha that I wanted to share with the community. The nfs mount used for the archive logs needed to be mounted with the "nolock" mount option. Without this DB2 created...

I have seen a messages in my activity log like this

ANR0299I A full database backup will be started. The
archive log space used is 83 % and the archive log space
used threshold is 80...

I have an environment where my TSM database is replicated using disk array based replication. The lag time is less than 5 minutes. My backup data resides on a Data Domain array (using nfs) which...

Have you tried to run this with the -outfile=filename option instead of > testfile? I ran across a problem like this once where I had to add
"-outfile=filename.csv -outfile" to the options to get...

Make sure you have a daily process to expire inventory. This will free up space in the DB for reuse.

How about a different spin on this. I have two TSM 6.3 physical servers, one instance on each, lets call them TSM-A and TSM-B. TSM-B suffers a hardware failure. How do I (or even can I?) restore...

Have you looked into the DBMEMPERCENT server option? This allows you to manage DB2 memory usage on multi instance servers.

I was able to restart the server. NFS is only used for the storage pool, the DB and Logs are on an EMC VMAX array.

I did find one error int he /var/log/messages file that is interesting.
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I ran a test on 6.3.1.0 today (SLES 11 SP1). Two of us connected to the TSM server with dsmadmc just before the backups started. Everything looked good on the server side, but we soon found that no...

Should have mentioned that earlier, I had done that with no luck. No errors were found.

I have run into a strange issue and can't find anything online about this error.

05/04/2012 13:45:24 ANR0104E bfaggrut.c(3825): Error 2345 deleting row from
table...

Interesting, I like what this configuration offers. I am not sure I like the added complexity, will have to dig into this some more.

In our TSM 5.5 environment we use EMC SRDF/A to replicate our TSM DB and Log volumes to a DR site. To test recovery, we had a defined partner server that was already running TSM 5.5 where we could...

One of the most frequent issues I have run into are servers that are not excluding directories from backups where backups provide no value, work in progress areas with high change rates, spool space,...

I ran a question about this by TSM support years ago and the response I got was along these lines. The TSM DB releases space during expiration processing, but that is not reflected in the q db...

I have been struggling to get this software installed for some time now and am curious if others have had similar experiences. The install documentation is lacking a bit IMO. I am trying to install...

I have switched companies since this thread started. Now I have an opportunity to work with Data Domain and TSM. I hope to have some test hardware soon where I can try some TSM backups without any...

I know there is an issue with cpu utilization in the 6.3 release if you are running node replication. That was fixed in 6.3.1.

In a previous environment the answer was simple, to provide a shared file system to Oracle RAC clusters without the complexity of a shared SAN file system. NAS performed just fine, in some cases out...