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Poor Performance Followup
As a follow-up to the previous poor performance post I thought I'd post what the outcome was. As it turns out we checked performance tuning settings in TSM and AIX and no performance increase was seen....
View ArticleLearn From My Mistakes
We recently did a DR test and ran into a serious issue with the recovery of the TSM instance. The DR test was to restore the TSM DB from data center A (DC-A) to data center B. The DC-A instance had...
View ArticleSpectrum Protect 8.1 New DB Functions Supported
I upgraded some of my 6.3.4 servers to TSM 8.1 recently and have found the newer DB2 version (v11.1) offers some added functions for SQL queries. I have been trying to build a report to track an...
View ArticleTSM Menu - Bash Shell Scripting
For years I have maintained a shell script on our jump server that was a menu for accessing all the TSM servers in our environment. It was a nice interface and great for noobies. It allowed for you to...
View ArticleTSM SQL TDP Better Backup Script
On a call today I had an admin complain that the TSM SQL TDP was issuing failed backup errors when the script encountered a database that was offline. So I asked if he had searched Google for an...
View ArticleTSM/Spectrum Protect 7.x Client Issue
I ran across an issue with the TSM/Spectrum Protect client recently that through investigation showed that the issue has not been patched and the supposed resolution works....sometimes. The issue is...
View ArticleSpectrum Protect 8.1.0 vs. 8.1.2 Client Issue
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a compatibility issue with the Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client with the 8.1.0 server. If you upgrade the client to SP 8.1.2 and your server is at 8.1.1 or...
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Stay Away From The Spectrum Protect For Windows 8.x Client
I wanted to make everyone aware that starting with the 8.1 Windows Client, IBM has deprecated the System State restore process so that any restore attempt will require the use of a WinPE environment....
View ArticleAudit Occupancy Issue
1/24/2018Update IBM Support contacted me and stated that the developers said the issue was actually a defect (APAR IT23153) and that you can fix the issue by logging on the SP server as the instance...
View ArticleSpectrum Protect Server 8.1.4 DB Issue
Recently we ran into a situation where our Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 server started to crash. We reviewed the db2diag.log file and identified the error as ANR0131E Server DB space exhausted. Upon review...
View ArticlePersonal Back Ups!
I have been doing this backup/archive work for almost 20 years and I can't go a week without some acquaintance asking me about backing up their personal data. It used to be large portable USB drives...
View ArticleDB2 Select Example In TSM/SP
While trying to create a specific report that a manager requested I realized I needed something more powerful. Well now that TSM/Spectrum Protect runs on DB2 we have all the power we need. Here is an...
View ArticleSpectrum Protect Server 8.1.x Paging Space Issue
I thought I would pass this along...I have two Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 instances on the same AIX 7 LPAR that since their upgrade to this version has had frequent exhausting of paging space crashes. We...
View ArticleWin2K & Win2003 - Data Currently Unavailable On Server
This past weekend we performed a DR test on quit a few servers and discovered a situation that was a wake up call for anyone still using Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. The issue is that when we ran a...
View ArticleActive Data Report
So me an a coworker have been hounding IBM for a way to generate an active data report for management. For various reasons they want to be able to see how much data a server would require for...
View ArticleQ STATUS Question
The company to which I am employed was recently acquired by another company that is a heavy Netbackup user. They bill not based on overall occupancy but on the "Front End Usage" of their servers. I...
View ArticleQ STATUS UPDATE!
So it turns out that TSM is calculating Front-End usage automatically when you install Ops Center or have SET STATUSMONITOR ON. I had installed Operations Center when I installed the latest SP and...
View ArticleIBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.6 Tier to Cloud by State
A coworker recently did a presentation on Amazon S3 with Netbackup and I went searching for the capabilities available with TSM/Spectrum Protect. It appears as of 8.1.6 they have added some additional...
View ArticleError Upgrading to 8.1.8.0
I performed an upgrade today on a server going from 8.1.0.0 to 8.1.8.0 and after the upgrade we encountered the following errors in the actlog as the system was starting.08/14/2019 11:59:59...
View ArticleEnd of the Road?
For those of you who come here periodically and are wondering why content has been lacking, I wanted to let you all know that it is due to my current employment situation. Currently my employer is in...
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