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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Product functionality
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 10, 2011

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TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis.
With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is "data fragmentation."
Scheduling full backups via the TSM scheduler turns out to be problematic as the standard daily and periodic full schedules conflict with each other. Tivoli Level II concurs after reporting the conflict. (pmr 65117) So the only way to do both daily incremental and periodic full is to schedule daily backups from TSM and quarterly backups from the OS. There may be other ways to do this via TSM, but the logistics will be very complicated.

One way to counteract these complications is if the TSM schedulers could take into account the fact that a duplicate node name could be configured in separate stanzas. These nodes need to be acted on exclusively within the schedulers when they have completely separate and exclusive schedules. Currently, TSM schedulers tend to trip on each other when encountering identical node names in separate stanzas.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     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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