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You can look at investing in a LTO reader like the FujiFilm DC Analyser.
http://www.fujifilm.ca/products/storagemedia/accessories/dc_analyser/index.html

I was offered a demo of it once but didn't...

Yes, the

Here is a good place to bookmark.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp

Click on "IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases" / "Data Proection for Microsoft SQL...

That download will not include the license file required to run TSM for Databases.... it's just a patch.
You'll need to download the base client via Passport Advantage first, then install the patch....

You need to download the TSM for Database "gold" clients via Passport Advantage, updates are available from the FTP site.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/pao_customers.htm...

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/358x/3580/

I would recommend building a net new server running 6.2 and migrate to the new environment verses an in place upgrade.
Your old server will be still in tact if the upgrade fails.

Your 5.5...

A simpler way is to create another schedule, use incremental however in the objects field specify the directory you want to backup.
This will keep all your files on a single node.

I use this for...

Have you taken a look at IBM Director, chances are you're already licensed for it with the purchase of your System P box.

I use Director to monitor the hardware/OS... and Operational reporting to...

Installation guide
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/topic/com.ibm.itsm.srv.install.doc/b_srv_install_guide_aix.pdf

Chapter one: Planning
Chapter two: Installing

Good luck.

It just needs to be a start-up item.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_sched_autotasks.html

When you perform the restore, do you have replay logs selected?

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/ans6000051.htm?path=1_1_3_5_8#configlvsa

Look at the link I sent in my first reply.

Watch the last video.

The software will recover the entire database and logs to a specified location, then you use the extraction utility to export whatever data you want either directly into a mailbox on the exchange...

I ran into this exact same issue, and we ended up purchasing a 3rd party product from Ontrack called PowerControls.

We have a 2010 server now and I can still recover from my 2007 and 5.5 Exchange...

When you updated the client, did you manually uninstall the older client or did you let the new software package uninstall it for you?

I had that issue on a number of servers and I resolved it by...

The exclude.dir c:\windows is all you need.

Have you restarted the TSM Scheduler (or CAD) after making those additions?

Sorry, didn't notice the TDP.

A simple solutions could be:
- create two separate dsm.opt
- set the different management classes for the storage groups
- use the /TSMOPTFile flag to call the...

A simple solution we use is on the file system just create multiple folders and set retentions based upon the requirements.

\backup\normal
\backup\1year
\backup\7years

In the dsm.opt set the...

I use TSM Manager for that purpose.
http://tsmmanager.us/take-the-tour/overview/alertreporting

You have to download it via passport advantage.
http://www.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/paocustomer

Sorry... You're on 6.x ... disregrad my "concern".

The only concern would be the size of your logs... Post the output of 'Q LOG F=D"

You TSM server has an automatic database backup trigger 'Q DBB' and if your logs usage exceed the parameters set,...

Issue a 'query node alpha' on the TSM server.
Check to see if the TCP/IP Address is correct.

If you need to change it... update node alpha LHAddress=x.x.x.x

You could also add TCPCLIENTAddress...

EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\windows\serviceprofiles\localservice\a ppda ta\*.dat"

The above line has spaces so it is required...

In the includes I wrote there is no spaces in the directory...

You have two options... you could just leave the exclude d:\*\...\* in the dsm.opt and create 3 schedules that call 3 different scripts.
Each script would simple backup one directory at a time.
...

I typically place the includes above the excludes.
TSM processes the dsm.opt file in a bottom-up manor... so just make sure that anything new you add will not negate or be negated by entries below....

include * sql_servers
include e:\...\* sql_db
include f:\...\* sql_log

You'll need to add an include and an exclude in an options file to accomplish what you want.

exclude d:\a*\...\*
include d:\a*\*.*

Unfortunately this question really comes down to you own shop.

If you do monthly fulls and daily incrementals... you can save on capacity costs... however in the event of a restore you'll need to...

After install DB2, two groups are created (DB2ADMNS and DB2USERS).
Have you added your user to those groups?

Refer to page 135 on the "Server Upgrade Guide" for more details.

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC58281

What user are you executing the dsmc command from on AIX?
Log in as that user and see if you can navigate the /data/*/* file system.

You current solution seems very complex, you may want to consider simplifying it by:
- Run a Full backup on Sunday and M/T/W/T/F/S incremental, set a one month retention policy.
- Run an...

delete volume 'volume_name' discarddata=yes

exclude *
include *.pst
include *.gho
include *.ghs

I investigated the exact same situation... we have 4 Exchange nodes sharing the load.

However the MAJOR stumbling block we ran across was the licensing of the TDP client. If you have the TDP...

Take a look at the Fujifilm DC Analyser. I was shown a demo on this once before but don't remember if it tells you the age of the tape, but will will tell you the condition of it which may be a...

Hi GregE.. A couple of point on your last comment.

1. Firewalls are generally set to allow traffic outbound, however limit inbound traffic. So in your case, if the node initiates the request and...

Any chance this new server is a 2008 R2 with the firewall enabled? I had similar issues in the past and had to resort to setting the schedmode to polling.

In Server 2008 the quorum disk does NOT follow the active node as it did in 2003.
Pick another disk resource like shadow copy...

In the dsm.opt file...

CLUSTERNODE YES
CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO...

If your looking on a per node basis...

select msgno,nodename,sessid,message from actlog where msgno in (4961) and date_time between '2010-11-23 13:00:00' and '2010-11-24 13:00:00' and...

Can you just script the TDP backup process and run it in a pre schedule command? This way TSM will always wait for the backup process to complete then proceed with a incremental backup.

Another...

Great! I'm glad I am not the only one completely confused by "clusterdisksonly no". The only thing I can think of is TSM is not properly recognizing the disks as cluster disks... but I really can't...

Add to your local dsm.opt file...
clusternode no
clusterdisksonly no

Add to your cluster dsm.opt
clusterdisksonly no

I fumbled around for a while with the same issue and that was my solution.