TAPE Drive Priority
Is there a configuration option to control the usage of tape drives? We are using TSM 6.3 running on Linux (RHEL6) and we have a 3584 Library with 10 (TS1120) drives. Some of the drives are very old...
View ArticleLow performance in TSM 6.3 with W2K8 R2 OS
Hi everyone. Few weeks ago I've implemented TSM 6.3 in my IT environment. Hardware components used are listed below: TSM Server: IBM X3650 M3 (16 GB RAM, Proc. Intel Xeon E5649 2.53 Ghz) Storage: IBM...
View ArticleJoined or Nested SQL Statement
I need to develop an SQL select statement that gives me the occupancy of each node as well as the platform name. Since this information comes from 2 different tables, I would have to join or nest the...
View ArticleVM restore to different host
Hello Gurus, I am a newbie to TSM and am still figuring out the different configurations needed. I recently tried a VM restore from tape, the restore works fine when I put the VM at the same host, but...
View ArticleArchive schedules using -archmc
Hi All, If you're defining an archive schedule for a client and you want to bind it to a specific archive copy group, do you do that an option to the schedule? Perhaps I'd enter it as an option...
View ArticleAPTARE Backup Manager Supports Symantec NetBackup to Optimize Deduplication
APTARE Backup Manager Supports Symantec NetBackup to Optimize Deduplication and Protect Enterprise IT More Visibility Is Offered for NetBackup Deduplication in Complex Data Center Environments...
View ArticleArchived data - standard practices
Hi all, I'm wondering how others in the TSM community here are handling archived data written to tape. I'm going to need to turn on archives (some of them NOLIMIT archives) for a group of clients, and...
View ArticleCombining two SQL statements into one
Hello I have two SQL statements that I need combined into one statement, here are the two statements: SELECT NODE_NAME, TYPE, FILESPACE_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, NUM_FILES, PHYSICAL_MB FROM OCCUPANCY WHERE...
View ArticleTraining and certification
All, I'm wondering if IBM or any other vendor in the US supplies a course that culminates with the TSM 6.x Adminstration certification test on the final day. I've looked for it in the past. Have not...
View ArticleGeneral NDMP backup question
Hello all, Really hoping someone can help. I was briefly considering doing a monthly NDMP full backup complimented by differentials in between for one of my NetApp filers. At some point thereafter, I...
View ArticleDataDomain - Replication VS Offline Pool - Need info from admin who have DD...
Hi all We are looking to upgrade our 5 year VTL to a Data Domain boxe and another to our DR site and using replication ( TSM or Datadomain we dont know yet) i'm reading EMC best practice using a data...
View ArticleEntendendo a tabela EVENTS - TSM
Friends, What is the meaning of the column to the table EVENTS RESULT? For a query on this table with a particular server RESULT realized that this column only has filled his field for 8 and querying...
View ArticleArchived SQL backups
Hi all, I have a need to archive some SQL full backups. Normal full/incremental schedules are of action type "cmd". Arhive schedules would need to be of action type "Archive", I'm assuming ... but will...
View Articlereclamation problem
hi all, i'm having problem when running the reclamation. i have set up a storage pool with device class of "FILE" with max scratch of 5 and reclamation is set to 60% which is the default. The file...
View ArticleBuffers and performance tuning
Friends, Could you explain about setting below the TDP for SQL: 3 buffers BUFFERSIze 1024 SQLBUFFers 0 SQLBUFFERSIze 1024 What would be the ideal parameters for backup and restore? Thank you for your...
View ArticleIs it possible to backup only a single file
I have a file that I'm referencing by symbolic link /tmp/archiveDir/some_file but underneath that filesystem (/tmp is the filesystem's name, archiveDir is a symbolic link and some_file is the filename)...
View ArticleMix two databases in the same server
Hello! I need to know if I can mix two Tivoli Storage Manager databases on the same server. one of this databases has information of 2011 and the other has information 2012. But in the two databases...
View ArticleHow To Trace the API (Windows, Linux or Solaris)
Hi friends! I like to trace what the user is doing when the need to perform manual backup of a particular server, how do I? What are the steps? Thank you for your attention, Ramon
View ArticleSQL mdf/ldf files excluded from TSM
Installed TSM win client 5.5.3 on windows cluster which uses SQL Have noticed that .mdf .ldf SQL dbase files are excluded from backup. When you go into backup GUI the 'No entry' sign is displayed for...
View ArticleMPIO to a tape library?
Hello everyone, I have an old 2 Gbps fabric switch that i have connected to my windows2003 TSM server and to a tape library with 4 fiber drives. After running an archive job over the weekend writing to...
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