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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Databases
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 15, 2011

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TDP for SQL RESTORE VERIFYONLY option

Customer Societe Generale is one of our top 5 TSM banking customer in France. Recently, they encountered a data corruption situation on ORACLE database backups due to hardware issues. They want to implement a process to check regularly (by sample) that Database backup integrity is correct. They do not want to setup TSM CRC controls on all storage pools (too much resource consuming for dozens of managed TB) and also do not want to use validate protocol on TSM client/server sessions (hundreds of session each day).

So far, ORACLE and DB2 environments provide convenient ways to checks integrity thru RMAN (for ORACLE) and DB2 options. The customer wants a similar behavior for his SQL Server environment, and thus expect our TSM for Database/TDP for SQL Server agent to implement the "RESTORE VERIFYONLY" option available from MS SQL server (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188902.aspx).

Also, the customer does not want to be obliged to restore physically the SQL Database and then check integrity with a tool (which would require a complex environment setting not convenient to check randomly database backups).

So this requirement is to implement "RESTORE VERIFYONLY" option available in MS SQL server on the TSM for Database/TDP for SQL agent and also BACKUP with chekcsum option (I opened another requirement for that).

Idea priority High
  • 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

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 1, 2014

    This support has been delivered in TSM DP for SQL v7.1.1 which is available today.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2012

    thanks for submitting this enhancement request, we plan to provide the RESTORE VERIFYONLY in a future version of TSM for Databases

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