Same here, we are about to go "live" on a new 6.3.1 server expecting client and 
server side deduplication.  Any additional information about the environment 
would be helpful. 

Steve DeGroat
Storage Manager
ITS Production Services
Yale University
203.436.4540

"If you build it, they will come."


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
Steven Langdale
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:24 AM
To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DATA Corruption using Deduplication in TSM 6.3.1.1 WARNING

Ray,  on top of what Remco posted, woudl you also post your call ref?

I'm about to implement a new 6.3 environ using dedupe so would like to press 
our IBM technical rep on the issue.  You never know, with a few people asking 
about it, it mya get fixed quicker.

Best of luck with your issue though!

Steven

On 30 May 2012 07:08, Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl> wrote:

> Hi Ray,
>
> Thanks for the warning.
>
> I was wondering if you could tell us a bit more about this TSM server. 
> Is it a converted 5.5 server? At which 6.x level did you start using 
> TSM version 6 for this server, 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3? Do the errors occur 
> with any particular kind of data? Is it 'old' data, or fresh data 
> recently written to TSM? Are you able to restore the files from 
> copypool if this error occurs?
>
> On 29 mei 2012, at 20:46, Ray Carlson wrote:
>
> > Or as IBM called it, "Orphaned deduplicate references".
> >
> > We are running TSM 6.3.1.1 on a Windows 2008 Server, and using the
> Identify command to do deduplication on the Server, not the client.
> >
> > Interestingly, everything seemed to be mostly working.  We had a few
> volumes that would not be reclaimed or moved because it said the 
> deduplicated data had not been backed up to the copy pool, but that 
> was jut an annoyance.
> >
> > Then we discovered that we could not do restores of various servers.
>  The error we got was:
> > "05/21/2012 20:52:45 ANR9999D_2547000324 bfRtrv(bfrtrv.c:1161)
> Thread<129>: Error 9999 obtaining deduplication information for object
> 254560532 in super bitfile 664355697 in pool 7 (SESSION: 8235, PROCESS:
> 375)".
> >
> > A Severity 1 trouble ticket was opened with IBM back on 5/21 and 
> > various
> information was gathered and provided to IBM.  So far IBM has not been 
> able to identify the root cause or provide a fix.  They have 
> transferred the ticket to the Development team.
> >
> > So here I sit, not knowing which servers, if any, I could restore if
> needed.  Unfortunately, most operations appear to be fine and report 
> Success.  Only when I try to do a Generate Backupset, or do a Restore, 
> do I discover that there is a problem and the job fails.  Also, it 
> doesn't just skip the file/files that it can't restore and restore 
> everything else, it simply stops the restore and says it failed.
> >
> > I'm wondering how many other people are in the same situation, but 
> > do
> not realize it.
> >
> > BEWARE Deduplication
> >
> > Ray Carlson
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,
>
> Remco Post
> r.post AT plcs DOT nl
> +31 6 248 21 622
>