Re: Upgrading servers from 6.3 to 7.1

[Roger Deschner]

My understanding is you can do almost any combination of versions as
long as the Library Manager servers are always at an equal or higher
release than their Library Client servers. You should be able to upgrade
the Library Managers one at a time, unless they are clients of one
another, which I'm not sure is possible.

It gets trickier when you have multiple TSM servers on a single OS
image, one of which is a Library Manager. This is my configuration. (It
seemed like a good idea at the time...)

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=


On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Zoltan Forray wrote:

>Just a few questions to confirm my upgrade process.
>
>I have 6-RH Linux TSM servers.  All are at 6.3.5.100.  2-of these servers
>are Library Managers for my TS3500.
>
>>From what I understand, I will have to upgrade BOTH LM servers to 7.1.3.x
>(and then jump to 7.1.6.1) at the same time BEFORE I can upgrade the rest
>of the servers/Library Clients to 7.1.6.1.
>
>Since this is a big jump and I am having lots of problems with replication
>(most of which are addressed in 6.3.6), I am going to upgrade to 6.3.6
>first and then do the 7.1 upgrades at a later date.
>
>Anything else I should be concerned with or do differently?
>
>--
>*Zoltan Forray*
>TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
>Xymon Monitor Administrator
>VMware Administrator (in training)
>Virginia Commonwealth University
>UCC/Office of Technology Services
>www.ucc.vcu.edu
>zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
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Upgrading servers from 6.3 to 7.1

[Zoltan Forray]

Just a few questions to confirm my upgrade process.

I have 6-RH Linux TSM servers.  All are at 6.3.5.100.  2-of these servers
are Library Managers for my TS3500.

>From what I understand, I will have to upgrade BOTH LM servers to 7.1.3.x
(and then jump to 7.1.6.1) at the same time BEFORE I can upgrade the rest
of the servers/Library Clients to 7.1.6.1.

Since this is a big jump and I am having lots of problems with replication
(most of which are addressed in 6.3.6), I am going to upgrade to 6.3.6
first and then do the 7.1 upgrades at a later date.

Anything else I should be concerned with or do differently?

--
*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Xymon Monitor Administrator
VMware Administrator (in training)
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
www.ucc.vcu.edu
zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will
never use email to request that you reply with your password, social
security number or confidential personal information. For more details
visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html

Re: disadvantages / limitations to using Exchange restores from VE backup?

[Stefan Folkerts]

Nobody using this and willing to share some experiences?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Folkerts 
wrote:

> Thanks Lee but I would think those are more VE issues in general and not
> really specifically related to using VE backups for Exchange restores right?
>
> I'm wondering what experiences people have with using VE data for Exchange
> restores via the "open .edb file" option in the Exchange TDP.
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Lee, Gary  wrote:
>
>> The major things I've run into are
>>
>> 1. if vmware is using nfs for its storage, after a vmotion, the next
>> backup of that vm will be a full, including unused disk space. CBT doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> 2. same as one, but occurs if disk volumes are added.  Same cause.
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Stefan Folkerts
>> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 4:28 AM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: [ADSM-L] disadvantages / limitations to using Exchange restores
>> from VE backup?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking into using VE-based backups for Exchange restores via the TDP.
>> I've never used this before but it seems pretty great since you don't have
>> to do any full backups (VE incremental forever) or reserve the space for a
>> recovery mailstore to be restored on disk.
>>
>> Anybody using this that can give some practical tips or limitations for
>> implementing/using this?
>>
>> Or anybody that looked at this and decided not to go ahead with it willen
>> to share the reasons to not use it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>Stefan
>>
>
>