SV: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Flemming Hougaard
smime.p7m Description: application/pkcs7-mime

Re: Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Yes, but there are many unsupported clients which work fine. And for many not-so-popular OSes the client is not available for the current version. In fact TSM is not very multi-platform, ADSM was. TSM can just use ADSM clients. My opinion, nobody else's. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Just a point TCPWindowsize parameter is measured in kilobytes not bytes. And according to Administrator's reference it must be between 0 and 2048. If not in range on client complains with ANS1036S for invalid value. On server values out of range mean 0, i.e. OS default. However this are side

Antw: Re: TDP 2.2 for Exchange remote control

2002-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Herkenrath
Thanks for information. Have a nice weekend! Wolfgang There is no remote client like the TSM web client for the TDPs. We know about the requirement and it is logged in our requirements database. It is on our list of things to do. Until then, you will need to use remote utilities like Terminal

tdpoconf error ANU2534E

2002-05-17 Thread Luis Tapia
Hi List, I`ve been trying to install TDP for Oracle for AIX 2.2.1 in a AIX 5.1 box, but I can not make the utility TDPOCONF work, it seems that my tdpo.opt file is not right but I cant not find where the problem is, when I issue and tdpoconf showenv or try to set the password I get an ANU 2534E

Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
You can setup backupcopy group to point the disk pool but archive group to send direct to tape. Isn't this an option? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reclaim_ANR1092W

2002-05-17 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH
Hi all Reclamation for a Volume does not work, ANR1092W will be showed. I did a audit vol yesterday. Today the Volume is not longer under TSM Control ! Do i realy need to call the service representative, like explained in the message 1092? How about to clean up the table entry in the TSM DB?

Re: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Sjerps, Marco
Stephen, You may add these parameter these will improve speed The will increase the comm buffers TXNBYTELIMIT25600 TCPWINDOWSIZE63 -Original Message- From: Firmes, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 17 mei 2002 0:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slw Novell

Re: SV: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Ignacio Vidal
Hi: I would like to know where to get more info about that parameters (txnbytelimit/txngroupmax/tcpbufsize/etc...) and tuning them (of course). Thanks Ignacio -Mensaje original- De: Flemming Hougaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Viernes, 17 de Mayo de 2002 07:59 Para:

TSM Cient 4.2.1.20 + NT4 Cluster

2002-05-17 Thread Uwe Schreiber
Hello, i'am using TSM client version 4.2.1.20 for several NT4 SP6a and W2K clusterd environments. There is no problem with the functionality for backup/archive etc. But during the scheduled backup for the disks of a cluster group resource i receive the following message within the according

a serious problem with HSM

2002-05-17 Thread rachida elouaraini
Hi all; It's a question for people who know the products : TSM/HSM and GPFS (Global Parallel File System). It's a problem with HSM : Tivoli Space Manager. When the product HSM is associated with GPFS , it causes a great increase of memory utilisation on the machine TSM server. In few days, the

Re: Hi, help me!!

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Herfried, yes, he did. Maybe you missed it because this was explained in other thread (Client shceduler). If the date is not accepted the server will run as the date/time is not changed at all and there would be no problem. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Performance again!!!

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Backup direct to tape involves the communications. Migration is purely server process. So its check can eliminate some TCP bottlenecks (if any). For local client there should be no big difference. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

multipath 3575

2002-05-17 Thread Nicolas Duchene
Hello, does anybody knows how to disable multi-path feature on IBM 3575 library? I have big troubles with this feature; the id of the lib manager is the same of the drive 1, and there seems to be communications problem. I'd like to have different ids and the only way to do it is to disable

Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?

2002-05-17 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, please could you describe the problem. I am in the middle of an update to TSM 4.2 and currently I am using the AIX 4.2.2 client on a couple of boxes. Bye Rainer Tammer On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:16:50 -0700, Jim Smith wrote: Bob, We have determined that there is a problem with the 4.2.2

netbackup site?

2002-05-17 Thread Nicolas Duchene
Hello TSMers, Do you have any idea if a netbackup site like this one exists? Thanks. Nicolas DuchĂȘne Telematics Services Europe Advanced Technical Services Secured Storage Services Boulevard E. Paepsemlaan , 18E 1070 Brussels Rue du Commandant Naessens, 23 4431 Loncin BELGIUM Tel:

Re: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Firmes, Stephen
I made the tcpip performance changes to the dsm.opt and I am still getting slow transfer times. I tested via ftp and was able to tranfer 40,000 files in a few minutes. So it appears that the TSM client is still not working. here are the stats from my last selective backup: Total number of

Re: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Brandon Eckmann/NS/WSC
Try moving your TCPBUFFSIZE to 512 instead of 32. Brandon Eckmann Network and Technology Services Wayne State College Wayne NE. |-+ | | Firmes, Stephen| | | Stephen.Firmes@STORAGENE| | |

recovery log and ckpt

2002-05-17 Thread chris rees
Hi all Firstly let me thank those who helped me out last night getting my server back up after the recovery log filled.much better than IBM support...! I have found the culprit that caused the log to fill. It seems that when the incremental backups are running for a win2k cluster the log

Re: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Kirkman
How much of this data are you trying to send direct to tape? That's what it looks like your includes are trying to do, and that will obviously be slower that going to disk. Are you ftp'ing to disk but backing up to tape? I think, to get all the objects (files and folders) in sys: and

linux client on zseries 390

2002-05-17 Thread Jolliff, Dale
I have an admin that is trying to get the TSM client (TSM420_LINUX390.tar.Z) running on: 3. The version of linux we are using is a 64-bit implementation of red hat linux 2.4.7 called ThinkBlue. It was done by Millenux which is a partner with IBM Germany in its porting and is specifically

Re: multipath 3575

2002-05-17 Thread Ford, Phillip
I don't know how to go back but when we went from single path to multipath the ROM chips in the library had to be changed. So I assume that to go back you have to get single path chips. The robot should be set to a different lun but same target as a drive. What type of problem are you having?

Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool

2002-05-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Make a new device class, set a max drive limit for it, and change your copypools to use that device class.

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-17 Thread Ignacio Vidal
Zlatko: OK: tcpwindowsize is in KBytes (actually my setting is 1280). I have the same question (why client is idling?). We have users working on that server from 9:00 until 22:00 (every day...), backup jobs start about 00:15/01:15 I've monitored the nodes in disk i/o operations and network

Re: multipath 3575

2002-05-17 Thread David Longo
Refer to the IBM manual Magstar MP 3575 Tape Library Dataserver OPERATOR GUIDE GA32-0381. Chap 2 explains how to change this stuff from the LCD panel. Also after making changes, halt TSM and restart so it will read new config. May need to make some OS level changes also (devices) and

Re: Sloooow Novell Backups

2002-05-17 Thread Sjerps, Marco
Stephen, Did you check on the half / full duplex setting on the network card ? Full-duplex advised If possible.. Did you also try to backup a large single file size ca 10mb's or larger, what is the performance then ? Regards marco -Original Message- From: Firmes, Stephen

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
I am sure TSM will wait. And while we're on this subject, we are looking at Disaster Recovery plans and the path we must take using TSM to recover a couple hundred servers. It looks bleak. We are finding that, due to incremental forever backups, recovery times are extremely long because of tape

Please Help Me !!!

2002-05-17 Thread Frederic Rigoulay
After a very bad manipulation several nodes as well as their associated filespaces was destroyed. I make a migration forced with my diskpools on my tapepools every evening I make a backup of my diskpools on one short_tapepool every evening I make a copy of my tapepool on one long_tape pool every

tdpoconf, error, ANU2534E

2002-05-17 Thread Neil Rasmussen
Luis, I apologize, that is a pretty useless message (and not very helpful). But regardless, I think I can help you out. First off, are you using the tdpo.opt in the installation directory or are you defining it in your own directory? To start, I would use default installation directory

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread David Longo
It will wait for the tape. Normally that is. If there is a problem with the tape (access=unavailable for instance) it will skip it. If another client is currently restoring from this tape, it will wait till tape is free. If tape is not in library, generally TSM will issue a request for the

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Walker, Thomas
And using another backup solution won't result in many tape mounts as well? TSM might be more mounts than others, but you only have to do one restore. Remember, not using incremental forever means that you must resotre a machine at least two times. How about using backup sets if time is that much

Re: Hi, help me!!

2002-05-17 Thread Jin Bae Chi
Hi, all, I need to say big thank-you to all of you. Thanks for your advice and patience with a novice with me. Everything is backing up normally. I'm learning a lot! Thanks. Gus. Jin Bae Chi (Gus) Data Center 614-287-2496 614-287-5488 Fax e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/02

Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Carlson
I am not privy to why it is not out there, but the AIX 4.2.2 client has big problems. About 1/3 of all the files it backed up were rejected for filenme too long. I suspect that is why it is gone. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist

Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?

2002-05-17 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Well, that certainly explains that problem. Does anyone have a word if this problem is fixed in 5.1? I had plenty of people reporting that problem with Linux after upgrading to 4.2.2. Big whoops! thanks, bob On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:43:06AM -0500, Andrew Carlson wrote: I am not privy to

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
An idea to think about: We are looking at the possibility of changing our hardware config to take care of this issue. We are considering MOVING our TSM server out of the data center into a different building. With today's fiber connections the technology exists to do that. The primary pool

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Selva, Perpetua
AS far as tsm is concerned , when there is no copy pool tape at the disaster recovery site at time of restore will result in request of mount tape until it is provided to that site! is this what I'm hearing? it will skip unless it is unavailable Thanks -Original Message- From: David

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread David Longo
I would say that technically, that sounds good. Except for one thing. How close are the two buildings? I wouldn't want all my eggs on the same campus. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/02 12:49PM An idea to think about: We are looking at the possibility of changing our hardware config

Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Smith
The problem is reported in IC33645 and is only a problem with the TSM 4.2.2 backup/archive client; it has been addressed in TSM 5.1.0. We are working to provide more information about the specifics of the problem. Thanks, Jim J.P. (Jim) Smith TSM Client Development Well, that certainly

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
Yes, they are on the same campus. And I agree, if we were in an earthquake zone, that wouldn't be far enough away. But that's really a management decision - what disaster coverage do you require? Currently, our copy pool tapes are stored in the other building, and management believes that

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Nikolai Sonin
Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235 Talafous, John G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/2002 07:33 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL

Reclamation is not happening - HELP!

2002-05-17 Thread Coats, Jack
My tape use is going up, but nothing is being reclaimed from my copy pool. I must have done something wrong, but where do I go to look for whatever is wrong first? What am I missing? I can find nothing in the activity log, and even when I do a update stg copypool rec=5 and it should

TSM 5.1 Techinical Guide

2002-05-17 Thread Mahesh Tailor
JFYI, there is a new RedBook: Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.1: Technical Guide. Here's the link. http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246554.html?Open Mahesh

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Alex Woick
AT my DISASTER REC.SITE we have a smaller lto library as compared to the one on our production site if its looking for a tape while restoring and not able to do so, does it wait till the tape is mounted before proceeding with the rest of the client restore? or does it skips restoring that

TSM FLASH: UNIX BACKUP-ARCHIVE CLIENT V4.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Smith
Problem Description: The TSM 4.2.2 UNIX backup-archive clients may produce error messages similar to the following when performing incremental backup of files with hard links: ANS1228E Sending of object 'filename' failed ANS4018E Error processing 'filename': file name too

Expanding our system

2002-05-17 Thread Tyree, David
We currently have a 3494 library with two 3490E1A drives attached to a WinNT4 box running quad Xeon 550's and a gig of RAM. TSM is version 4.2. We have about 30-40gig of data coming in over about an eight hour time window each evening and night. Things are fine for now. We are looking

Ordering license upgrades

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a TSM 4.2.1.9 server running under OS/390. We are about to order more client licenses. The last time we did this IBM and/or Tivoli required us to tell them how the new licenses would be divided among different platforms: how many for Windows NT, how many for AIX, and so on. The charge per

Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000

2002-05-17 Thread Julie Phinney
Thanks, Tim, What's a Q systemobject? That command doesn't seem to produce anything, do I have it wrong? Thanks, Julie Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IPEG.MB.CA cc:

Re: Expanding our system

2002-05-17 Thread Nikolai Sonin
Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235 Tyree, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/2002 12:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL

Re: TSM FLASH: UNIX BACKUP-ARCHIVE CLIENT V4.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Seay, Paul
Jim, I would like to thank you for publishing this information. We got bit by the windows client at 4.2.1.20 and 4.2.1.26 failing half way through a backup because of a locked file and the backup looking successful. The result was we lost many backups for about 10 days without realizing it. The

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Kirkman
In North Carolina we've been advised that 7 miles is an 'adequate' distance for off-site storage for DR. And Wanda, be careful about how you view a 'hurricane zone'! Here in Chapel Hill, NC we're some 200 miles inland and got whomped by Hurricane Fran in '96. Power was out on campus for 3 days.

Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000

2002-05-17 Thread Rushforth, Tim
From the Backup/Archive Command line clinet (dsmc), enter q systemobject. It should show you the last backup date of all system objects. tsm q systemobject Size Backup DateMgmt Class A/I File ----- ---

Re: Ordering license upgrades

2002-05-17 Thread Nikolai Sonin
Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/2002 12:35 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-17 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Reading thru this thread, no one has mentioned that backup will be slower than archive -- for TWO significant reasons: 1. The standard progressive-incremental requires alot of work in comparing the attributes of all files in the affected file systems, especially for a LARGE number of

Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Smith
Julie, To add to Tim's comments. The TSM B/A client processes all system objects which are active on the machine; there are now a total of eleven of these system objects (added the WMI db support in TSM 5.1.0) of which only a subset will be valid on a given machine. This subset depends both

Re: TSM FLASH: UNIX BACKUP-ARCHIVE CLIENT V4.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Paul (or anyone), I'm not aware of the problem you ran into. Do you know if it was fixed in the 4.2.1.30 Windows client? Is there an APAR for this problem that I could look at? Thanks. At 04:31 PM 5/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: Jim, I would like to thank you for publishing this information.

Re: Reclamation is not happening - HELP!

2002-05-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
Jack, As TSM ages backup and archive data, the files only get 'marked' for deletion. You must run an EXPIRE INVENTORY command to actually flip the switch from 'marked' for deletion to deleted. Then your storage pool reclamation should work. That is, unless I am missing something too!!! 8-)

Re: Ordering license upgrades

2002-05-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
'cause there is no published rule how to convert points to processors. I am trying to find the answer since the announcement of new licensing scheme but still without success. Just ask them for NN processors or MM points. In both cases you have the right to use them on different platforms.

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-17 Thread Bern Ruelas
Hi Don, I looked for incrbydate in the installation guide and reference manual for this option but haven't found it. Can I use this for Solaris clients? -Bern Ruelas Cadence Design Systems - Storage Sr. Systems Engineer -Original Message- From: Don France (TSMnews) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: tdpoconf error ANU2534E

2002-05-17 Thread Luis Tapia
Hi, thanks for your help, I`ve tried doing the modifications you suggested me but with no luck, i keep getting the same messages in the tdpoerror: ANU2603E The option 9 in file tdpo.opt ANU2537E Error found while parsing options in TDP for Oracle options file ANU2534E Option file error I`m

Re: Ordering license upgrades

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
And while we're on the subject of licenses and upgrades, I was informed by my reseller that Tivoli has withdrawn the TSM Enterprise Edition from marketing. All of the constituent parts are still available, but you can not purchase the bundle. Word is that it was too confusing to end users. I hope

Re: TSM FLASH: UNIX BACKUP-ARCHIVE CLIENT V4.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Seay, Paul
That may be why we did not see it on all of our clients. It may turn out that 4.2.1.30 does not have the problem. However, this problem did not crop up until we put on 4.2.1.15 TSM server. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Paul