Replace my primary storage pool
Again, I plead guilty to being a newbie... I have inherited a somewhat sick TSM.. I have an opportunity to at least correct what I believe is a problem... Today I have a storage pool "BACKUPPOOL" that...
View ArticleSQL "cast" rounding for tsm v 5 vs v6
Hello , I am running the following script to get the nodes throughput within a time interval SELECT cast(a.entity AS varchar(9)) AS "Node name", - CAST(sum(a.bytes/1024/1024) AS decimal(8,2)) AS "MB...
View ArticleIssue with mount request for the library manager
Hi Here is our situation: TSM servers 5.5.5.0 Library manager 6.3.1.0 We are having problems with mount requests. If a TSM operation needs a tape to be mounted in the library and is not in the library,...
View ArticleParallel processes for pool migration
Hello, Here is our setup: AIX 7.1 TSM 6.3.2 Primary pool - FC storage Next pool - Data Domain NFS (device class file) Network - dedicated 10G NIC for NFS connectivity to Data Domain I am trying to...
View ArticleEncrypt DB2 backup
I have a requirement to encrypt DB2 backup using TSM. I'm unclear on how to setup the correct INCLUDE.ENCRYPT statement. I can get the encryption to work using INCLUDE.ENCRYPT /.../* but that means I'm...
View ArticleOrphaned tapes ?
Hi, at the moment we have 1210 LTO4-tapes overall. I think, that this is too much for our backup/archive. We have two server, one for backup and one for archiving. We do a space relamation ervery day....
View ArticleHow to register license on TSM 6.3 in windows server
Hi Team, i am the new on TIVOLI Please can you suggest me what is the procedure of register license on TSM server 6.3 on windows mode and please suggest the full procedure of registration of license...
View Articledsmc archive -subdir=yes D:\* doesn't work
Hi There I need to archive D drive which got 3 million files and GUI just get stuck so I tried command line as under but -subdir=yes is not working ? dsmc archive -subdir=yes -optfile=C:\dir\dsm.opt...
View ArticleTsm server crash :anr9999d
Hi folks, I'm running tsm 6.2 on windows , recently I see tsm crashes with below error from the application log. TSM Server Diagnostic: ANR9999D: ADSM Exception Information: file = pkthread.c, line =...
View ArticleReturning offsite tapes not being picked up.
Hello, We seem to be having an issue with a few TSM windows servers (6.2.1). We have approximately 7 of them, they are all setup the exact same. 3 of the servers seem to be having issues with returning...
View ArticleNew TS3100 tape library
We have just purchased a new IBM TS3100 tape library with 2 x LTO5 tape drives. All the pre-configuration work is done and the device zoned into out fibre fabric. The TSM server can see the new drives...
View ArticleExpiration Strangeness
TSM server 5.5.4.1 I have seen occasions where I may launch a manual expiration process, it completes in a very short time frame, examining a few hundred or a few thousand objects, deleting a few...
View ArticleTSM active log
HI, While i issue q log f=d i am getting result as Total Space(MB): 65,024 Used Space(MB): 149 Free Space(MB): 64,558 Active Log Directory: /opt/tivoli/logvol Archive Log Directory: /opt/tivoli/logarc...
View ArticleTKLM encryption questions
Hello to everyone here in the Forum, I have a new customer who is currently using server side encryption with a TS3500 single partition library. They have purchased TKLM, ALMS, and the transparent LTO...
View ArticleChanging a Management Class for a TDP Exchange Node
We use MC with VERE + VERD=Nolimit and RETE + RETO=30 days, weekly full backups, daily incrementals. We want to keep already backed up files longer than 30 days. What happens if we replace this MC for...
View ArticleLoad on TSM Server
Is there any way to determine how many sessions are running & how many drives are in use at any given time on a server? I am not referring to DB & Log. I know we can achieve this with simple...
View Articlescheduler issue
Hi, I am trying to setup a scheduler to handle DB2 backup. I have setup the env in root user' profile as below, this setting also included in db2's userprofile. export...
View ArticleTSM scheduler & ZFS snapshot
TSM scheduler and ZFS snapshot are not good friends as we are not able to pass the parameter snapshotroot when in the scheduler. To resolve this problem, I've written 2 scripts: - dolly - tzm-sched...
View ArticleNBU Tape occupancy
Is there a method to examine the occupancy of tapes written by NBU? I was looking to determine % free on LTO4 media when a volume was marked FULL. TSM can sometimes eat up tapes by marking them FULL...
View ArticleNeed to restore AIX file --- BUT --- no longer have AIX hardware
Here's the scoop. We eliminated AIX at our company but we have some AIX backups that may at some point in time need to be restored. At the time of decom we decided that in the event of restore request...
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