Questions tagged [tsm]
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM or ITSM) is a centralized, policy-based, enterprise class, data backup and recovery package. The software enables the user to insert objects not only via backup, but also through space management and archive tools. It also allows retrieval of the same data via similar restore, recall, and retrieve methods. This product is part of the IBM Total Storage suite of products and is unrelated to Tivoli Framework.
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TSM Can't Restore to Another Node
I have a server setup here which has been running for more than eight years. The servers are starting to fail, so the ability to restore from backup is becoming critical. I have a machine which has ...
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Server becomes unresponsive [closed]
Our database-server sometimes become unresponsive. It runs a fully updated Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Notable non-vanilla software running on it are Nimbus, TSM and Oracle. About once a day, it becomes ...
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SQL Server VSS writer interfering with VMWare snapshots
After changing to TSM for the VMWare backups, we've started experiencing an odd issue with our Snapshot backups. We take system drive snapshots as a backup solution for the machine states. All the ...
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How can I see the expire date of a file in Tivoli Storage Manager?
If I understand correctly, when I do an incremental backup and a file has been removed from the client, the server marks it as inactive which makes it eligible for purging when the expire time has ...
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Segmentation fault diagnoses
I am trying to diagnose a segmentation fault issue that started to occur after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 (32 bit). I am running a TSM client 6.2.5-4 which worked fine up to the upgrade. I tried to ...
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Tivoli storage manager installation. The system does not meet the recommended memory requirement
I have Windows server 2012 and I want to install Tivoli storage management server. My first attempt to install it gave me an error that: "The system does not meet the recommended memory requirement ...
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How to avoid Tivoli Storage Manager error ANS4042E: "Object name ... contains unrecognised characters and is not valid."
We are using the Tivoli TSM Backup/Archive client to back up user files on a largish multi-user system. Users come from different countries and thus can create files according to multiple locales. ...
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Tivoli Data Protection for Exchange Restore Error ACN0101E Invalid argument
I'm trying to restore a single mail database into a recovery database on exchange 2010 using a differential backup from 10/04/2013. I have created a recovery database in exchange 2010 named RDB1. I ...
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TSM Backup Fails with VSS
Since we rebuilt our servers to windows servers 2008 x64 r2 we have perpetual problems with scheduled backup (shadow copy). In the Application event log, the following events are logged on both ...
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Error code 610 backing up DB2 to TSM
I'm trying to back up a DB2 database using Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), but it's erroring out. I'm now getting this error message: [db2inst1@hostname ~]$ export DSMI_CONFIG=/etc/adsm/dsm.opt [...
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Tivoli Storage Manager Include Specific Directories
In the Tivoli Storage Manager dsm.opt file, how do I tell it to include two specific directories, but exclude everything else. For example, I want to backup the "E:\File Storage" and "F:\Documents" ...
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TSM TDP for Exchange backup - ANS0326E
Heres the stack Server - AIX - 5.3.0 BAclient - NT 32 bit 5.5.2.0 TDP for Exchange - 5.2.1 Backups are failing with ANS0326E (RC41) This node has exceeded its maximum number of moint points ...
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Change TSM Archive Date for a file
Is there any way to either insert a file into a TSM archive with a given date, or change the archived date on an existing file in the archive?
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Bare-Metal Restores of Linux Servers with Tivoli
We currently use IBM Tivoli to back up our Linux servers and we are looking for suggestions on the best way to restore to bare metal. I've read IBM's doc on this issue. Is that still relevant or is ...
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Skipping hardlinks when using TSM Backup
We need to backup a filesystem with lots of hardlinks. Since there are several hardlinks for each "true" file, we would like to skip all the hardlinks when backing up the filesystem to avoid n exact ...
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Backing up SQL NetApp Snapshots using TSM
In our environment we have a 3 node SQL 2005 Cluster which is on NetApp storage. We are currently using SMSQL (NetApp SnapManager for SQL) to take Snapshot backups of the data. This works great, but ...
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