Re: Serializing BACKUP STGPOOL / MOVE DRMEDIA

2014-06-03 Thread Skylar Thompson
Thanks for the reply, Wanda. Our RPO is a week (beauty of a research environment), and we do two DB backups every day (one kept onsite, one kept offsite), so whether we get today's or yesterday's DB backups in the MOVE DRM isn't so important to us. I considered doing a day-of-week test in the scri

Re: Serializing BACKUP STGPOOL / MOVE DRMEDIA

2014-06-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
Well, that's a little confusing - Your BACKUP STGPOOLs must be completed and *then* a DB backup created before you send them offsite, yes? And if that DB backup doesn't go, then then copy tapes are useless anyway? You can put WAIT=YES on your BACKUP STGPOOL cmd, and follow that in your mainten

Serializing BACKUP STGPOOL / MOVE DRMEDIA

2014-06-03 Thread Skylar Thompson
We've been suffering with the effects of this APAR for a while, which IBM fixed as a documentation errata rather than fixing TSM itself: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC87352 Basically the issue is that there is a race condition with running MOVE DRMEDIA on tape volumes while

VMVSTORTRANSPORT oddness

2014-06-03 Thread Stackwick, Stephen
Oh VMware gurus: I have a TSM4VE 7.1 datamover on a W2K8 VM that is working great, snapping and backing up around 250 VMs nightly. My VMVSTORTRANSPORT used to be the default, and 6 Windows VMs would backup over NBD, the rest over hotadd, as desired. OK, one of the VMs has an IDE(!) disk, so I u