Yes, that worked great.  An occupancy gives you the totals, and this gives just 
the active.  

Just for curiosity I created a sql cmd to join contents and backups for a 
single node with very little data.  It never returned, as expected.

Rick



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jeanne Bruno
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 5:00 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: size of objects in the backups table

Hello.  I tested this and got the output:

ANR0986I Process 206 for EXPORT NODE running in the BACKGROUND processed 37,158 
items for a total of 10,206,832,635 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 
16:58:30.

So I have 37,158 active items for this particular node, correct?

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
TH
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 12:21 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] size of objects in the backups table

Maybe a different way would be suitable for you - try to do EXPORT NODE xxx 
FILEDATA=BACKUPACTIVE PREVIEW=YES

The end of process will give you a total size of active data for a node.

Regards,

Tomasz Hubicki


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Data: Tue Feb 03 2015 15:25:52 GMT+0100

> We are on TSM v6.2.5.
>
> We keep running into the normal question that seems to come up when we start 
> analyzing our backups.  We can tell the number of active/inactive files from 
> the backups table, but not the size, which is in the contents table.  Does 
> anyone have a way to get the active/inactive objects and their size without 
> killing your system with a massive SQL join?  Maybe some kind of SQL join for 
> a specific node.
>
> I just can't believe TSM doesn't provide this info easily from the server!
> (I suppose this belongs under the "Rant" thread!)
>
>
> Rick
>
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