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Poll Results
The TSM Server usage poll closed Jan 1st and the results were interesting. See for yourself, but I thought the usage of 6.3 and 7.1 over 6.4 was interesting. I guess it's not worth going to 6.4 seeing...
View ArticleTSM Rumor Mill
So I was talking with an IBM source about IBM's recent layoffs and she stated that many groups were being restructured and TSM was affected. According to my source she said that TSM is possibly going...
View ArticleRumor Mill Update!
So my source at IBM was right except for the name, but she was close, in that IBM is going to be restructuring its storage software group under the Spectrum Storage moniker (Specter was close but...
View ArticleData Domain Compression
I currently manage 7 Data Domain's (890's and 670's) and none of them are seeing compression above 5x. We obviously need to do some cleanup to get rid of data that is a bad candidate for dedupe, but...
View ArticleA Better Q MOUNT?
I was playing around with my QDRV script which I feel gives a better showing than Q DRIVE and realized that I could technically produce a better Q MOUNT display than the built in TSM command provides....
View ArticleQ MOUNT Research
So in yesterday's post I spoke of a "better Q MOUNT" using a script I wrote. The problem is the Q MOUNT command does not reference a accessible TSM table. It appears to gathers the information on the...
View ArticleTSM 7.1 Discussion
I was asked by a former colleague to start a discussion on the merits of TSM 7.1. I use TSM 7.1 currently on my newer TSM servers and don't see a huge difference from our 6.4 servers. I know there are...
View ArticleBest Desktop Linux Distro
Ok not a TSM subject, but I am running Linux (Kubuntu 15.04) on an old Sony laptop and while I like it, something is missing. I want a launcher bar but didn't like Unity. Anyone out there suggest a...
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RHEL 6.6, non IBM devices and UDEV rulesFew days back we had to move one of our TSM servers and its library - which is a shared one. Did it before with TSM version 5.x and everything was fine that day....
View ArticleRemote Site Backup
Ok here is the scenario, we have a 2.8TB Windows file server at a remote location and we have to back it up over the WAN. We can't put a TSM server locally due to many issues (one is that it's not...
View ArticleTSM (Spectrum Protect) Symposium 2015, Dresden again
Ready, steady, ... TSM2015: Promising FutureWill anyone go from here? Chad? Harry? or anybody else?
View ArticleValue Replacement in Select Statements
When working with the TSM DB there are times you might want to change/replace a returned value for easier reporting. I am finding that with TSM now using DB2 more SQL functions are available to use...
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TSM (Spectrum Protect) Symposium 2015, Dresden (in pictures)
We made it:About 340 people!!! Norbert Pott (IBM Germany), Tommy Hueber (Rocket Software, The Netherlands, http://www.tsmblog.org/), meMatt Anglin (IBM USA)Who always knows everything and tells the...
View ArticleOracle RMAN Catalogue Cleanup - Revisited
Over a Decade ago I wrote an article on Object cleanup due to the issues with RMAN and our DBA's not keeping it sync'd with TSM. I then revisited it in 2007 and since then have not had to use it much....
View ArticleFind WWN's in AIX
So I use the following script to find WWN's in AIX. Does anyone have a better script they'd like to share?#!/usr/bin/kshCSV="," for FCSX in `lscfg | grep fcs | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort`do echo...
View ArticleDR Test - Things learned
I just did a DR test from one data center to another involving TSM and our Data Domain (DD) which we have configured for NFS and VTL usage. Things to know...We backup the TSM DB to the DD NFS file...
View ArticleRestoring TSM Without A Volhist
Someone in the comments to an old post just asked for directions/instructions on restoring TSM without a volume history or devconfig file. Well, I got some bad news and some not so bad but not fun...
View ArticleTSM Explorer
I've been notified by the developer of TSMExplorer that a more current free edition is available for anyone looking for a GUI based management tool for TSM. Below is a brief note from the...
View ArticleWhy Are You Not Using Google & YouTube?
I had an OS Admin contact me through LinkedIn and G-Mail asking for help on trying to find his archived data. He didn't have much experience with TSM and was looking for information on how to find the...
View ArticleWhy Are You Not Using Google & YouTube?
I had an OS Admin contact me through LinkedIn and G-Mail asking for help on trying to find his archived data. He didn't have much experience with TSM and was looking for information on how to find the...
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