In article <20030913.223619.816304.NETNEWS AT VM.SAS DOT COM>, Ken Sedlacek
<Ken_Sedlacek AT KYRUS DOT COM> says:
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>Len, can you give us the TSM versions of your TSM server and clients?
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We were on tsm server 4.1 and then 4.2 for a long time. I was a little worried
about the catalog conversion problems. But on the advice of the tsm tech
support folks, we upgraded to tsm 4.2.3 then 4.2.3.x and this cleaned up
the catalog issues with no mess. The expire inventory that ran after the
upgrade just had a fair amount of extra work.
We just made the jump to 5.2.1.1 server and things seem to still be working.

Our clients are 4.2 to 5.2. I will be trying to move all of the windows clients
to 5.2 to pick up the fix for restore of files whose sum of the size of the
base and delta parts exceed 2gig.

>Are you on 5.2??

Yes now, but not at the time of the last post.
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>Has any of these "limitations" changed on 5.2?

Not that I know of, I suspect that ITSM dev puts this in the new feature
group and not in the bug group. So the more votes for same the better the
chance that it happens.

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>Thanks for your info.
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>Ken Sedlacek
>AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator
>ksedlacek AT kyrus DOT com
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>IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support
>IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP & PSSP 3
>Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
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>Len Boyle <SNOLEN AT VM.SAS DOT COM>
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>Re: TSM subfile backup vs TSM incremental ?
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>We use the TSM subfile backup for backing up windows 2000 servers over a
>WAN network. And it helps, really helps.
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>We have run into four problems, Three of them are design issues:
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>1) The subfile cache, which is located on the client to store the
>checksums
>for each block of a backed up file. This cache has a max size of
>1024megbytes
>and we have cache's that max out. I am not sure what effect this has on
>the
>subfile functioning, but it does take a bit of disk space.
>It would be nice to know what effect on the subfile  backup process maxing
>out the subfile cache has.
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>2) The max file that can be handled by the subfile backup is 2gig, and we
>have
>folks who have larger files. It would be good if IBM could lift this
>limit.
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>3) If the delta file grows beyond a fixed size of the base, the file is
>backed up again to create a new base. This puts a hurt on the network. It
>would be good if the TSM server could build a new base file on the server
>using
>the old base and the delta.
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>4) We had a problem with a couple of restores, when the size of the base
>file
>and the delta file exceeded 2gig the restore would fail. This is fixed in
>the
>latest client levels.
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>This was a great new feature for TSM. I hope they keep up the work.
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>len