Device drivers for L700.

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Morgan
Hi, Can someone tell me what AIX device drivers are required for the StorageTek L700 or if any StorageTek device drivers are required ? Config is AIX 4.3.3 HBA's FC 6778. L700 containing 6 9840 drives which are fibre attached to SAN . The robot arm is scsi attached to the server. The scsi

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Magura, Curtis
Tried Wanda's idea last night. Backup completed in what we expect the normal time to be. This is using my logon (admin auth on the local NT resource domain) and opening a window with the command dsmc sched. Not sure what this tells us though I'm thinking this is still in the foreground vs.

Re: TSM

2002-01-30 Thread Jim Taylor
Nazir The tape status is full. Once a tape is full it will not be written to again until it is reclaimed. The value of 30.4% represents the amount of data on the tape that has not been expired in accordance with the policies that you have set through the management classes in which you ran

Re: Question about data protection for Oracle

2002-01-30 Thread Bill Mansfield
If you are intent on shutting down your database first, you don't need the TDP, and in fact the TDP needs to run with the DB up. You will do offline full backups. The TDP uses RMAN, which is included with Oracle 8. RMAN implements incremental backups, among many other things. The TDP allows

Symbolic Link Question.

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Morgan
Hi all, If a directory has been archived and the archsylinkasfile option has not been set, is there an option that can be set on the retrieve to only restore the symbolic links. Many thanks Jason

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2002-01-30 Thread Philippe ZANNI
Dear listers I have a this message : ANS8015E File 'DD:DSCOPT', error code 109 from options processing. what's mean error code 109 ? Anybody can help me ? Thanks Cordialement P.ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01 44 93 21 66

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Seay, Paul
What Resourceutilization number are you using? -Original Message- From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery Tried Wanda's idea last night. Backup completed in

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Bill Mansfield
Depending on circumstances, this might be a candidate for adaptive differencing, TSMs version of a block level incremental. You will still have to at least once do a complete backup of the big files though. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology,

Tape Error

2002-01-30 Thread Christian Astuni
Hi ...all I have a question with the tapes. I have 4 Compaq DLT 7000 in TSM 4.2.1.9 in Windows NT. My server have only one SCSI adapter and only 3 of the 4 DLT work fine, but one doesn't work. This tape work fine in Windows NT (NT Backup). When I try to write I received this error messages:

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Robin Sharpe
Curious indeed... did you try falling back to the older client? If you do, i would suggest setting up a temporary node on the server and test under that name... there may be some incompatibilities between backups from different client levels, and you probably don't want to be flipping back and

ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OVERNIGHT' failed after ANS4018E file name too long

2002-01-30 Thread Tomes, Paul
We run TSM V4.1 server under OS390 V2.9. A Windows NT4 client is doing a scheduled backup of the C, D and E drives. The C drive backup completes ok but the D drive backup fails with ANS1228E Sending of object xxx failed and ANS4018E Error processing

Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I'm currently migrating from a 3494 to a 3584 library. When I use the Next Storagepool option only one migrate starts. I have two drives in the 3494 and 6 drives in the 3584, so I have enough capacity for two concurrent migrates, but I cannot find a way to control this. Is there any

Re: Tape Error

2002-01-30 Thread Joe Cascanette
I had the same problem with my DLT8000 drives. I had one at the end of the chain that had problems from the start. I checked the cables and all, but nothing. I then went into the TSM Admin config gui, (deleted all the drives first) and then readded them. Works fine now.. TSM server 4.2.1.6 on

Re: Tape Error

2002-01-30 Thread Christian Astuni
Thank you very much Joe for your answer, I will try this because I don't have the machine in this site. I try and then let you know. Regards.

Re: Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi John! The migproc parameter is not valid for sequential access storage pools... Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 15:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migration

Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Frost, Dave
Hi *SM-ers Rather than use TSM to backup systemobjects we are using NTBACKUP to backup systemstate. This allows us to do a bare metal restore which TSM doesn't support. However we appear to have no option but to backup systemobjects with TSM because we feel much safer specifying all-local rather

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Dirk Billerbeck
Hi Curtis, do you have LARGECOMMBUFFERS set to YES in the dsm.opt? If so change it to NO and try it once again. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Met vriendelijke groeten, With best regards, Bien amicalement, CU/2, Dirk Billerbeck Dirk Billerbeck GE CompuNet Kiel Enterprise Computing

Re: Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread John Naylor
update stg yourpool migpro=2 Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/30/2002 02:13:02 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Migration for a sequential access storage pool Hi *SM-ers! I'm

Re: ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OVERNIGHT' failed after ANS4018E file name too long

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Regarding the long file name issue, you should refer to APAR IC27346. This APAR has a fairly detailed explanation of the problem and should answer most of your questions on this subject. If you have access to looking up IBM APARs, you can go that route. Otherwise try looking in the ADSM-L

Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Using TKG BareMetalRestore for TSM can do a fully automated restore of a machine, and it's easy to use. We have two customers running this, and a restore of a 20GB machine takes aprox. 30-40 mins(depending on network and so on). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman

Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Remeta, Mark
Wasn't TKG just bought out by Backup Exec??? -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup Hi Using TKG BareMetalRestore for TSM can do a fully

Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Yes, but Tivoli still has contracts with TKG to deliver products. And I don't see why Veritas would mind selling the product to TSM. The only thing irritating me, was that Veritas was ahead of Tivoli. Tivoli should have bought TKG a long time ago. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman

Next Storage Question

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi My question is I have a primary storage pool DISK1 and is next storage pool is DISK2 and the next storage is TAPE1 If my DISK1 became full (lo=30 hi=95) it will migrate the data to DISK2. Now I want to migrate everything (DISK1 + DISK2) to TAPE1. Did I have just to lo=0 hi=0 for DISK1 or

Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Remeta, Mark
Well I can see support for Tivoli in TKG products waning in the future now that Veritas owns it -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

Re: Philippes ANS8015E problem

2002-01-30 Thread George Lesho
Philippe, Please Please Please use a subject line. With the many emails I receive each day, keeping track of threads is a nightmare when posts to the board come through with no subject line. In any case, you failed to mention which platform client was displaying the error, the TSM server or

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Using Adaptive Differencing means that it's not the whole file that is backed up because it has changed, only the changes in the file are backed up. This mean that if your 1.8GB file is changed with 50MB each day, only the 50MB is backed up each night. Adaptive Differencing is an included

Re: Next Storage Question

2002-01-30 Thread Kelly Lipp
Both of them in order to ensure that all of the data winds up in TAPE1. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original

Re: Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Dirk! Thought about that, but it requires a lot of manual intervention. I was hoping for a automated solution, but I'm beginning to think there isn't one... Thanks anyway! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Dirk Billerbeck [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Burak Demircan
I have one full backup. What could be the solution? The files change with minor changes every day but 1.8GB file is backuped up from scratch every day. Regards, Burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30.01.2002 16:39 Please respond

Re: Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread Dirk Billerbeck
Hi Eric, what about multiple move data volumename stgp=3584pool processes (I'm assuming you don't want to use the 3494 any longer. If you want to use both libraries together and just extend your storage pool hierarchy then forget my idea). Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Met vriendelijke groeten, With

Re: EXT3 files

2002-01-30 Thread John Bremer
Like with OS X many of us are waiting for EXT3 filesystem support Maybe now that Lou is leaving the helm at IBM we will see more development in the Tivoli area. At 01:30 PM 1/29/02 -0500, you wrote: I just installed 4.2.0.0 on a Linux86 box with 2.4.7-10 version. I am getting ANS1149E No

Re: EXT3 files

2002-01-30 Thread Steve Roder
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, John Bremer wrote: Like with OS X many of us are waiting for EXT3 filesystem support Maybe now that Lou is leaving the helm at IBM we will see more development in the Tivoli area. At 01:30 PM 1/29/02 -0500, you wrote: I just installed 4.2.0.0 on a Linux86 box

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Magura, Curtis
We are running with the default of no per the TSM Performance and Tuning guide that I'm looking at. Curt Magura Lockheed Martin EIS Gaithersburg, Md. 301-240-6305 -Original Message- From: Dirk Billerbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OVERNIGHT' failed after ANS4018E f ile name too long

2002-01-30 Thread Tomes, Paul
Thanks for the info Andy. However, I cannot see which PTF fixes IC27346 and which level of the client code incorporates the fix. The Support Centre in the UK does not have this info! Thanks. Paul William Tomes IS / TSG UISL Bournemouth, England Tel: 01202-407568 Original Message-

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Curtis, I'm still clueless, but I think it has to be a Windows thing. Ask one of the NT guys to look at your account and the SYSTEM account on the machine and see what the differences are. I'd also try turning off any virus checking software (temporarily) and see if that makes a difference.

Re: Migration for a sequential access storage pool

2002-01-30 Thread Kauffman, Tom
Eric, I went through a similar process last year. There are a couple of things you can do. The immediate fix is to update your 3494 pool and change MIGPROCess to 2; the default is 1. You could also do multiple Move Data processes. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc. -Original Message- From:

Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Norback, Jan
Hi, I have been asked by my customer if it is possible to mix SCSI and SAN attached drives on TSM servers that are to perform LAN free backup. I know that I need to drivemapp all the SAN drives but what will TSM do with the SCSI attached drives, is it cleaver enough to make sure that it doesn't

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Dirk Billerbeck
Hi Curtis, what is the value of the TCPWINDOWSIZE parameter in the dsm.opt? According to Tivoli for Windows NT it shouldn't be greater than 63 (KB). Other values aren't supported by NT and would cause the TSM client to use the default value of 32. And another thing you can look for (in the

ANS8015E problem

2002-01-30 Thread Philippe ZANNI
Sorry for the subject line There is a TSM server on OS/390. When TSM start, there is the error ANS8015E with error code 109. I don't know why ! P.ZANNI -Message d'origine- De: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mercredi 30 janvier 2002 16:45 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANS8015E problem

2002-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
Being on OS/390, check your TSOADMIN.OPTIONS and ANRSERV.OPTIONS files, you have something set incorrectly in one of these. If you want to, include them in a return message. Thanks, Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philippe ZANNI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Davidson, Becky
Jan Not a problem at all. TSM does not care how they are attached. TSM depends completely on the operating system for the intelligence on the attaching. The 3494 is also intelligent enough to know if someone else is using the drive that it can't. Drive map all the SAN drives??? What you could

Re: ANS8015E problem

2002-01-30 Thread George Lesho
I certainly am not an OS/390 expert but the error code ANS prefix indicates it is a client problem specifically with the client option file. I would figure out which client option file was causing the error and replace it. If it is a Windows client, save it as a DOS type text file and remove any

Odd error in TSM errorlog

2002-01-30 Thread George Lesho
I have a TSM server (Win2K 4.1.5) and it also has a TSM client (4.1.3) installed. The error log looks great except for a recurring entry with no error code as follows: 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event . 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

2002-01-30 Thread Magura, Curtis
Thanks Dirk. TCPWindowsize is set to 63. We do run with Shareddynamic but the retry count is set to one. The part that just baffles me is that all of the various parameters that have been suggested by the list are (or least should be) the same. It's the same dsm.opt file, same disk, same

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Matthew Glanville
From: Matthew Glanville You might want to turn on TSM client side compression... In my experience notes databases can get at least 50% compressed. Your backups will most likely go down to 2 hours, or even more. TSM: update node node_name compress=yes Give it a try. For low bandwith lines I

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Norback, Jan
Becky, the fact that TSM doesn't care how the drives are attached is the part that scares me. To me it sounds like: -TSM might mount a tape in driveX, which could be SCSI attached -TSM tell the storage agent to use driveX (which it doesn't have a clue about as it is SCSI) and the backup will

Re: Windows 2000 and systemstate backup

2002-01-30 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Actually, they were bought by Veritas Software. -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

Re: Odd error in TSM errorlog

2002-01-30 Thread Alan Davenport
You will see that each time the Win2K box is re-booted. My belief is that is the scheduling service reporting that is has been told to shut down by the OS when the system is shutting down. You can safely ignore it. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Odd error in TSM errorlog

2002-01-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
In the 3.7 and 4.1 client you see that message whenever the scheduler is stopped. If you know the system was rebooted or someone stopped/started the scheduler service, then it's normal. If not, check the Win2K SYSTEM and APP event logs to see if the scheduler died unexpectedly (it could have

Re: ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OVERNIGHT' failed after ANS4018E f ile name too long

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Paul, The problem was fixed in version 3.7.2 starting with 3.7.2.16. The problem was fixed in version 4 starting with version 4.1.1 and up. Be sure to read the APA R text carefully! If you are running 4.1.3, then the problem should be fixed there, unless your file names are exceeding the TSM

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Orville L. Lantto
The StorageAgent can only map drives which its operating system knows about! The mapping process maps StorageAgent RMTs to TSM server logical drives. Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. 121 Cheshire Lane #700 Minnetonka, MN 55305 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] V: 952-931-1203 F:

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Kelly Lipp
This is one of those questions that has an obvious answer: of course TSM knows which drives it's working with. The mapping is set ahead of time and the library manager knows what drives the storage agents can and cannot see. It won't attempt to mount a tape in a drive the storage agent can't

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Matt, Are you running two, maybe 3 compression routines. i.e. once at the client, once at the server level (you'll see if you q devclass f=d on a sequential storage device) and once at the hardware level (micro code). If so, have you kept check on the amount of data in your stgpool. I

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Matthew Glanville
From: Matthew Glanville Joe, I do not believe there is such a thing as 'server' level compression. My understanding is that the device class compression settings are reflecting the hardware level compression settings, they can override what the microcode may have set the 'default' to. We have

3995 Utility

2002-01-30 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
SMers, Does anybody out there know any utilities that can be run from AIX for the 3995 optical drive. Utilities like tapeutil or mtlib (3494) If so could please email me ...Thanks in advance. Demetrius

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Matt, Don't be so sure... my MVS folks are telling me that there is no way TSM is over riding their micro-code hardware level compression. (but I will double check with them and again as well as with Tivoli). With regard to compressing data twice, I disagree. There's something very

Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Hunley, Ike
HI, I need HELLLP!! TSM backup processes that last week took 51 minutes, now take 8 - 28 hours. We know of no changes to the TSM 4.2.1.9 Server running on OS/390 V2R9. It looks like the servers are ready to send data and TSM is ready to receive. The routers are indicate very low

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
Do you mean TSM sessions, client backing up to TSM server? or processes, TSM server copying or migrating data to tape? Ryan -Original Message- From: Hunley, Ike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help with TSM

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Hunley, Ike
Thanks for your response. I mean TSM sessions, client backing up to TSM server? or processes, TSM server copying, migrating data to tape and archiving. -Original Message- From: Miller, Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
Take a large file (at least 100 MB, preferably larger) and FTP it from one of your servers to your OS/390 host. See how long it takes. Do it 3 or 4 times until you can get consistent timings. Then try backing up that large file with TSM 3 or 4 times, see how long it takes. (Preferably use the

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread George Lesho
Ike, I don't know much about your environment but if there were no changes to TSM configuration, I would look at the client corresponding to the slow session. If your client is AIX, run entstat (actually entstat -d ent0) to check your network interface. If there are large error totals, you may

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Hunley, Ike
Tivoliv has me changing BUFPOOLSIZE to 1/2 the region size. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns Ike, I don't know much about your environment

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Hunley, Ike
When a session is in idle wait, what could it be waiting for? Per Tivoli I increased BUFPOOLSIZE. It seems not to have had much affect. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., and its subsidiary and affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this e-mail message. Any

Re: low bandwitdth and big files

2002-01-30 Thread Seay, Paul
Compression is set at the OS level in the mainframe. So, whatever your MVS folks say is what it is. -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: low bandwitdth and big files

Re: New install of TSM and MMC

2002-01-30 Thread E Mike Collins
Date:Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:55:17 -0500 From:Bruce Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New install of TSM and MMC Is this mgmt console only in ver 4.2 or is it also available for 4.1? Bruce Kamp Bruce, A TSM snap-in was included with 4.1 but its function was limited to the local

Can't cancel command line admin session

2002-01-30 Thread Raymond Chao
Hi TSMers, We are running TSM 3.7.4.0 on AIX 4.3.3 . I tried the command cancel session PID=9465 but had no luck. Normally, the admin session is cancelled when we exit but ocassionally it remians there. This only happens spasmodically and is from the command line backup client