On the 16th and 17th of July, we will perform a major upgrade operation on one of our tape libraries, IBMLIB2, in order to increase its capacity. During this time (8:30 of the 16th 'till 18.30 of the 17th) backups of some TSM users (those who are registered to servers TSM5**) will be diverted transparently (although they might be a bit slower than usual) to the other tape library, however restores will not be possible for those users. We apologize for this downtime and we appreciate your understanding.
16/07/2013 10:30 UPDATE: the intervention will take longer than previously foreseen. The current termination time is 18.30 of the 18th of July (Thursday). Apologies for the prolonged downtime. The backups will still continue to be diverted to the other library.
This upgrade is necessary to increase the capacity of our tape library to cope with the growth of the data being backed up.