Adding a new volume in Tivoli Storage Management
How to add new volume in TSM

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2011  10:25 AM
IBM Tivoli, TSM, TSM Backup

Avamar vs. TSM – an Avamar scale to a large enterprise datacenter environment?
We’re a large TSM shop. But we also have a large distributed environment where we’ve recently implemented EMC’s Avamar backup solution.  We’re now being asked to look at the TCO of replacing TSM with Avamar in our datacenter environment.  We’re only looking at our VMware and NAS areas right now.  My question is, who out there has any [...]

Answer Question   |  November 19, 2010  4:49 PM
AIX, Avamar, Backup and Recovery, Backup and recovery software, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, EMC, Linux, TSM Backup

TSM error – Object could not be sent to TSM server
We use TSM Client V5.5 on our iSeries systems to do backups to a TSM server. We have a number of weekly saves that don’t always complete successfully. The TSM error code is 157. I have contacted our TSM Server support group but they never see anything in the logs on the TSM server that would explain [...]

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2010  2:45 PM
Backup, iSeries, iSeries backup, TSM, TSM Backup

Looking for Backup solution for VMWare environment
We’ve started adding VMWare servers to our data center, and we need a backup solution that works. We’ll have a mix of ESX4.0 and ESX3.5 hosts along with vCenter 4.0. Host will have Windows 2003, Windows 2008, RedHat 4.x and 5.x. Some hosts will have MS SQL 2005 and Oracle DB. We have TSM deployed [...]

Answer Question   |  August 11, 2010  2:09 PM
ESX4, SQL 2005, TSM Backup, Veeam, Virtualization in 2010, VMware Server

Restoring an Exchange 2003 backup to Exchange 2007
We used to have an Exchange 2003 environment that backed up full storage groups va Brightstor to tape. we have recently rolled up to Exchange 2008 with out an issue (And are now backing up to TSM yeppy – no more Brightstor.) Just been asked to restore a users mail box that left a few [...]

Answer Question   |  December 16, 2008  1:00 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, BrightStor, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 Backup, Exchange 2007, Restore, TSM Backup

Impact on TSM backups after an upgrade to SQL Server 2005
What would the impact be on TSM backups if I undertook a side by side upgrade of SQL Server 2000 SP4 to SQL Server 2005 SP2?

Answer Question   |  September 12, 2008  5:24 PM
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server upgrades, TSM, TSM Backup