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

2014-02-20 13:08:24
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 18:52:33 +0100
Hi Del,

thanks for your efforts. Our exchange team managed to recover the DB (without 
telling me the details of what they did)…

Op 20 feb. 2014, om 02:43 heeft Del Hoobler <hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM> het 
volgende geschreven:

> Hi Remco,
> 
> As long as you told DP/Exchange to run recovery on the 
> last INCREMENTAL restore (there is an option), 
> it should have run the recovery.
> 
> The service team should be able to assist if you can't
> get it working.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Del
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 02/19/2014 
> 07:10:09 PM:
> 
>> From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
>> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu, 
>> Date: 02/19/2014 07:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: exchange 2007 and TSM for mail 6.4
>> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>> 
>> 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
>> 
> 

-- 

 Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

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

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