Colin and Remco,

Thank you for your responses.

Were the "issues that were identified with performance" the excruciating
length of time to load a TOC (even from disk) to the TSM database?

I hope we will be given a mechanism to retain a TOC in DB2 when it is
created for as long as we need it.

Thanks again.

John Bremer

Howdy,

    The TSM support for NDMP backups using TOC's was disabled at the GA for
6.1.0.0 due issues that were identified with performance.  Those issues are
being worked on and are expected to be resolved in a fix-pack for TSM V6.
At the current time, this fix is expected in the 6.1.2.0 fix-pack which is
tenatively scheduled for delivery the end of June.  Please note that the
schedule and target fix-pack are our current projections and may be subject
to change at IBM's discretion.

    The other server function that utilized TOC's is BACKUPSETS.  The
support for BACKUPSETS was also disabled at TSM 6.1.0.0 GA and is also
being worked on.  This is also expected to be fixed in the same fix-pack as
mentioned above.

Thanks,
Colin

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Colin Dawson
TSM Server Development
colind AT us.ibm DOT com



  From:       john bremer <jbremer AT LANL DOT GOV>

  To:         ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

  Date:       05/06/2009 11:45 AM

  Subject:    [ADSM-L] NDMP and TSM 6.1 TOC support






All,

One of our NDMP backup customers recently sent us an announcement from
NetApp detailing the integration of NetApp SanPirror to Tape and
Snapshot technologies with IBM TSM 6.  The enhancement will greatly
speed up what used to cumulative Differential backups with NDMP to TSM.

Later, the following was sent to my customer regarding the same
announcement:

======
"Faster full image backup with new Network Data Management Protocol
(NDMP) integration SnapMirror to Tape integration enables backup of
large filesystems to secondary media for disaster recovery.

Extremely fast incremental backup
Note in TSM6.1 TOCs are not supported with NDMP
     If using TOC - Don't upgrade"

================

Has anyone seen similar information about these changes?  Are TOCs no
longer supported in TSM 6.1 server.

Thanks.

John Bremer