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Re: [ADSM-L] exchange 2007 and TSM for mail 6.4

2014-02-19 19:12:42
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] exchange 2007 and TSM for mail 6.4
From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:10:09 +0100
Op 19 feb. 2014, om 20:50 heeft Del Hoobler <hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM> het 
volgende geschreven:

> Hi Remco,
> 
> It's difficult to see what might be going on here.
> My first suggestion is to open a PMR to get the ball rolling on that.

Hi Del,

thanks. I’ve opened the PMR and will ask my colleagues in the mail team to 
focus on letting support help them.

> 
> While that is progressing, you could try to use the RESTOREFILES command:
> 

that does seem useful, also the q tdp to see what’s going on.

> 
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/dpe_ref_cmd_restorefiles.html
> 
> to get the database file and all of the transaction logs into
> the directory of choice. Then, make sure there are no gaps
> in the sequence of log files. 
> At that point, your Exchange admins probably know how
> to create a recovery database and point to the
> restored files to get the database recovered and mounted.

as far as I can tell the TDP does restore the DB and all logfiles… it seems to 
be just a matter of letting exchange know that everything is there. 
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about exchange and my exchange colleagues 
don’t know enough about the TDP in the new version… In any case, that’s why I 
opened the PMR, to allow support to assist us in the recovery...

> You shouldn't need to do this normally, but I was giving
> you something to try while the PD was being done for the real restore.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Del
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 02/19/2014 
> 02:24:29 PM:
> 
>> From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
>> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu, 
>> Date: 02/19/2014 02:27 PM
>> Subject: exchange 2007 and TSM for mail 6.4
>> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> we’ve recently upgraded our TSM for Mail from 6.1 to 6.4 on our 
>> exchange 2007 servers.
>> 
>> To facilitate long-term retention of the monthly backup we take an 
>> extra full backup of the exchange DB once a month using a different node 
> name.
>> 
>> With the old client this was not an issue in case of recovery. We’d 
>> just first restore (into a recovery database) the full from the 
>> ‘month’ node, then subsequent incremental back-ups using the ‘daily’
>> node and replay the lot.
>> 
>> Now, the first restore using the new client version is causing us 
>> major headaches, no matter what we do, Exchange will not replay the 
>> logs and the recovery database is impossible to mount. For some 
>> reason it’s looking for log files with names starting with R while 
>> all we have are log files with names starting with E.
>> 
>> Our exchange specialists have tried everything in their book as well
>> as everything google can come up with, but so far no success.
>> 
>> Anyone has any hints? Everything is appreciated. (yes, the monthly 
>> full backups will become copy backups soon).
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,
>> 
>> Remco Post
>> r.post AT plcs DOT nl
>> +31 6 248 21 622
>> 
> 

-- 

 Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.post AT plcs DOT nl
+31 6 248 21 622