TSM 5.5.6 LTO-5 slow speed - Input vol issue?
Hi guys, long time lurker first time poster. We recently had to replace an old tape library at a satellite site with a new Scalar i40 with an LTO5 drive. I upgraded from 5.5.0 to 5.5.6.100 and...
View ArticleNDMP Backup Improvements on V6.3 - Question
Hello, we are going to be upgrading our TSM Server up from V6.3.1 in a few months and we were trying to find out if there is any improved functionality regarding NDMP backups on the available higher...
View ArticleFCoE and/or TS1140's anyone?
I know that IBM does not support FCoE and TSM, and TS1140's are also not yet certified for TSM, but has anyone got FCoE and/or TS1140's to work with TSM? Just set up a new v6.3.3 TSM server in Windows...
View ArticleBuffalo device used as a storage pool...?
Does anyone know if its possible to get a Buffalo device assigned to the Windows OS so you can then define a storage pool and volumes to it? I'm pretty sure that me just network mapping a drive letter...
View ArticleClient backup failing due to file input/output error
Hi all, I am having tsm client backup failing due to below error for the /usr file system. /usr file system is on rootvg. We rebooted the server with single user mode and unix team says once rebooting...
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Different Media changer Device name on TSM windows cluster
Hi, we have installed tsm 6.3.0 on windows 2008r2 cluster mode, my tsm server was working properly in previous day, but due to some windows mantinance we have taken the server reboot one by one and...
View ArticleMigrate DISK storage pool to next storage pool before UPGRADE
Hi Everyone, I need your help. I will be restoring a tsm 5 db to a new system/server and then upgrade tsm 5 to tsm 6 My preffered method would be to "flush" a disk storage pool by migrating all the...
View ArticleWhen to replace media
I am trying to find a query that will list volumes and the number of times they have been mounted. Also, what is a good number to use in order to proactively replace an LTO3 volume in TSM? I have...
View ArticleAny Known Issues with IBM DataMirror CNC and TDP SQL?
Having issue in my company with a new TDP SQL install. I am being told it's effecting CDC due to markers written into SQL by TDP. I assume any backup product would do the same. But these DBs have been...
View ArticleTSM Client Acceptor stuck in "Stopping" state
Hi All, I have a remote box (WinNT) I administer. I want to bounce the TSM Client Acceptor because I made a change to the dsm.opt file (I changed the TCP Server Address). However, when I call up the...
View ArticleNetapp & sql flat file backups to tsm
We are entertaining creating a DB BACKUPS shared folder on our NetApp NAS. The plan is to give the DBAs 20TB of sata disk (with dedupe and compression) and tell them to dump whatever they want there....
View ArticleProblem setting up new library
Hi all, I am new to tsm and of course i have some problems. I installed a tsm and a tivoli server and managed to configure till the step where it should see the tapes and add them to volume, and i...
View ArticleREAL LIFE performance with TSM Server 6.4 and IBM 7650G (single node & DS4700)
Hi Admins, sorry for the long title but I wasted many hours searching online to find "case studies" of people with unlimited resources. Actually I have: IBM 7650G + DS4700 (16 x 1TB disks)HP server...
View ArticleCompression: Client and Server side ?!?
Hi, Regarding compression... I have my TSM server devclass configured this way: Device Class Name : DISK Device Access Strategy : Random Storage Pool Count : 1 Device Type : Format : Est/Max Capacity...
View ArticleTSM restored DB on new server, restored data is not current
Hi All, I restored my tivoli database to a different server to test for some DR drills. I was able to do the restore succesfully and TSM comes up but the weird thing is it only shows data upto 07/12. I...
View ArticleRestore VM backed from a different node
Hi guys, I am trying to restore some VMs that I backed up on a different node which is no longer active but keep getting this error when I enter the other node as the user ID- ANS1370E The user ID...
View ArticleReplication performance issues
We're trying to replicate two servers, running 6.3.3.100, but we're seeing quite low performance. Our average speed is about 31 MB/s, even though both servers are on 10 Gbit links and the storage is on...
View ArticleFastback - a dying product?
Hello together, this is my first post to this forum so I'm not really sure if this is the right place for my question. I work in a company in germany as backup responsible. We are using several TSM...
View ArticleTSM proxy errors - rc 12 error ANS4013E
Hi All, Receiving the following errors on a windows node acting as a proxy agent for data on NAS: anyone seen and resolved these before? 03/08/2013 08:09:30 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\server\share'...
View ArticleTSM Client Scheduler not starting at correct time
Good morning, I have a client node that is not starting its daily incremental at the correct time. The text below is from the client's dsmwebcl.log and shows that even though it sees that the next...
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