Please check the image backup.
The problem with that that you can't restore single files from image backup.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Skylar Thompson
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:15 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Archiving 50tb data with millions of files

How many millions of files? A worst case would be 2000 bytes/file in the
DB when you upgrade to 6.2, which isn't so bad. For reference, we're
tracking around 280 million files in our TSM 6.1 server and it's only
~360GB.

On 11/03/10 19:13, sanman2010 wrote:
> Need to archive 50tb of data with millions of files, here is the caveat, tsm 
> db at 220gb, planning on upgrading from 5.5 to 6.2 in the near future, but 
> currently waiting for newer hardware, how would one accomplish this without 
> causing too much db bloat? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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