We had the same problem on TSM 6.3.4 on Windows, never found out why.
Stopped using archive overflow because of it.
Once the DB backup is done, just delete the extra files.

 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Roger Deschner
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 8:27 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Archive Log Overflow never empties

We have four instances of TSM Server 6.2.5 on AIX, which basically behave 
pretty well. But on all of them, we occasionally get a little bit of data 
overflowing into the Archive Overflow Log filesystem. I don't know why, because 
as far as I can tell the Archive Log filesystem has never been allowed to fill 
up. But anyway, it never empties out. Full database backups reliably free space 
in the Archive Log filesystem, but the Archive Overflow Log just gradually 
fills up. One of them is up to 20%, over a period of a year. I saw somewhere 
that it takes two full database backups, but there have been many dozens of 
full backups.

Any idea how I can get the Archive Overflow Log to empty out?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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