Database Availability Group backup best practices- To decrease the load on the production Exchange server, specify that the backups are taken from a healthy passive database copy. If no passive copy is available, the backup is made from the active copy of the database. To specify that backups are taken from a healthy passive database … Continue reading TSM for Exchange 6.4: DAG Backup/Restore Best Practices →

I posted a question in a TSM discussion group regarding how to change the retain version of the data that has already been archived. Here is my question: I archived some data last year, and the retain version was set to 365 days. Now I want to keep those archived data for a longer time, … Continue reading TSM: How to change retain version of the archived data? →

I noticed this error still exists in TSM 6.3 – when an I/O error occurs that TSM is unable to access the defined drives, TSM updates the drive path offline and starts polling of the drives. Once the drive is accessible again, the drive is put back online but the drive path is left offline. … Continue reading TSM: Bring Tape Drive Path Online →

As I mentioned last Friday, I can not wait to see how the TSM operation center works. I have installed it in my Sandbox environment. The installation process supposes to be pretty straight if your server is named correctly. In my case, my server does not have a valid name that the TSM Operation Center … Continue reading Install and Configure TSM Operation Center 6.4.1 →

I ran into couple issues when upgrading my TSM server from 6.3.1 to 6.3.4. But I have successfully fixed them and upgraded my TSM. Error 1: Deployment Engine failed to initialize Cause: this was caused by that I forget to run the ‘de_chghostname’ command after I renamed the TSM server name. Fix: Run de_chghostname.cmd comand. … Continue reading TSM Upgrade Failure Troubleshooting →