Susie, 
I figured I would reply direct to you since I am new to TSM and not
really sure if this is on target, but here is an article on TOC (and
Backup sets) when using NAS backups.  

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Bac
kup+set+and+Table+of+Contents+support+in+Tivoli+Storage+Manager+Version+
V6.1

Looks like this problem (IBM reference: IC62418) was fixed w/ interim
fixes in 6.1.3.x and 6.1.0.x, but had trouble finding original IBM
article.  Here is the cached google article for IC62418:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M_O_nqX7ZIYJ:www-01
.ibm.com/support/docview.wss%3Fuid%3Dswg1IC62418+Reenable+BACKUPSETS,+us
e+of+TOC%27s&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I'm not really sure if this helps you upgrade path problems, but maybe
it gets you a little closer.


Regards,
Ken Naugle
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-----Original Message-----

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Stout, Susie (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP - TOC? upgrade?

Environment:  AIX 6.1, TSM 5.5.4

We've been backing up a couple of NAS filers via NDMP for around 18
months but recently find that sending the data to a storage pool of 12
500G rlv-formatted disks has been diagnosed by L2 as the cause of
occasional problems with the recovery log when it changes volumes --
holding the recovery log too long and crashing the instance.

The rlv disk data has been moved off in preparation to rebuild the disks
as FILE devclass volumes...but think I remember reading something about
TOCs being troublesome/incompatible with that config?  Since one of
these NAS boxes has millions (literally, I'm told) of small documents --
versions of which are required to be kept forever -- TOC is a a
'must-have' for file level restore, else we would have to restore the
whole filesystem, the largest of which has about 5-6TB in use.

Is anyone using NDMP writing to file devclass with TOC successfully?
(any suggestions on MAXCAP?  default is 4M which seems 'small')

Side issue:  think I heard there's no data export upgrade path for
NDMP...'take a fresh full backup' isn't going to work for millions of
keep-forever documents...we are planning to move to AIX 7.1 and TSM
6.2.x later this year when the new hardware arrives so this will be upon
us soon.  Any comments/ideas?

Thanks, Susie