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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Product functionality
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 27, 2015

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IMPORT an EXPORT on TAPE

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In some cases, customers need to keep client nodes as they were on a monthly, or yearly basis.
To meet this requirement, we use the EXPORT NODE command :
EXPORT NODE node1,node2,…nodeX
When access to exported data is requested, we use the IMPORT NODE command to retrieve the filespace data and complete the request.
We were fully satisfied with this way of working until it happened on LTO6 media.
When importing data from LTO6 media, it seems TSM is reading the whole EXPORT tape, even if the data to be restored is located at the beginning of the tape.
When nodes are exported on LTO6 tape, the IMPORT scan can be very long (more than 10 hours for instance) : during all this time, the import process is still considered as running.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 12, 2020

    This request has been delivered into a previously released version of the product, or imminently in the next available release.
    See Retention Sets.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

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