Re: StorageTek L700E library TSM question

2002-11-06 Thread HEMPSTEAD, Tim
Wayne, Its hard to tell as our L700 is windowless as its upgraded to have no windows but lots of slots etc. From what I remember from last time I did things with it onsite instead of remotely it did not inventory the CAP when the tapes were entered into it and the CAP closed. The silo only

Re: Volume not available?

2002-11-06 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
I agree. And a restart of TSM as Bob suggested can also solve the problem. Yesterday i got this message 'ANR8442E CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME: Volume 000141 in library STK9710 is currently in use.' There were no processes, mounts or sessions but I still couldn´t checkout my volume before i restarted TSM?

Re: Client Scheduler stopping/ TSM 5.1.5.1

2002-11-06 Thread Gianluca Mariani1
my feeling is that Resource Timeout will not change the situation.it should help in giving insight in the lock status. I am seeing this elsewhere but we have not yet found out the culprit. at least in EMEA. one workaround with the NT scheduler is to use AT commands to stop/start it remotely if you

Client Schedules won't work

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Dourado
Hi , I am in the process of upgrading my NT clients from 4.1.1.0 to 4.2.3.1 as a fix for daylight saving problem. My TSM Server is 4.1.4.1 I cannot get scheduled backups for 4.2.3.1 clients to run successfully , 4.1.1.0 clients work OK as always. Error MSG: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not

Re: Troubleshooting performance issues

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
--- TCPWindowsize 64512 TSM Reference Manual: TCPWINDOWSIZE Specifies, in kilobytes, the amount of receive data that can be buffered at one time on a TCP/IP connection. ... 3. A window size larger than the buffer space on the network adapter might degrade throughput due to resending packets that

Re: A headachy question!TSM language is not the same as my OS language.

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Try to do export LANG=en_US before starting dsmadmc/dsmc. I have no idea how is the Chinese keyboard layout but in our Bulgarian (Cyrillic) there is a way to switch between cyrillic/latin alphabets. Check what happens when Alt-LeftShift Alt-RightShift is pressed (do not use right Alt/AltGr

Re: Troubleshooting performance issues

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Kindermann
hello, the reason for slow backup or archiving is in my expierience mostly a mismatch in switchport speed. On the other hand i had very backupperformance after there had been a new virusscan engine installed. In this case the W2k Servers show no influence but the 4.0 NT Servers did. In this

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2002-11-06 Thread Tim Brown
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Backing up remote filesystems

2002-11-06 Thread Charles F. Fisher
I've got a user who wants to back up an NFS mounted filesystem from an SGI box. He's using the 4.2.2 client, the server is at 4.2.2. He can back the filesystem up manually, but it does not back up at when the backup is run by the scheduler. I'm missing something he needs to set; what do I need

Re: Backing up remote filesystems

2002-11-06 Thread Frost, Dave
The default domain for unix is all-local.In order to backup nfs mounts, they need to be specified in a domain statement: A statement like this should do the trick: domain all-local /nfs_mnt1/nfs_mnt2 Of course if you don't want _any_ of the host, take out the all-local. Regards

Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I want to add them to TSM. However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes. Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log volumes and not for diskpool

Re: Client Schedules won't work

2002-11-06 Thread Olli
Hi Bill, which IP Adress does TSM try to contact if you get the ANR Message. Does it really try to contact the correct host? Try removing the TCPCLIENTADDRESS Option or set it to the correct ip address. (Localhost usually means 127.0.0.1 and will tell TSM the wrong Adress) Olli Bill Dourado

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Karel Bos
You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss. -Oorspronkelijk

IBM WEB once more interested ...

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Hrouda
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Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Karel! You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old. I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell the RMAN

Re: Client Schedules won't work

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Dourado
Olli You are right, by changing TCPCLIENTADDRESS(DSM.OPT file) to client node name or its IP address fixes the problem Bill Dourado Olli adsmtsm@GMX.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE cc:

Re: Help on DB2 restore USE TSM

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Boyer
That's all configured and working. I'm trying to verify the whole process by doing a restore and rollforward. The backups and log archives are flowing with no problems. When I run the RESTORE DB command, I see the sessions with the TSM server, but I don't see any that go into MediaW state for a

Re: Fun with a bulk door on a tape library

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Pendergast
Congratulations, I know somewhat where you are. Life changed greatly when we added the 12slot door to our 3583 nine months ago. My checkin script (written in kornshell for AIX) does some different thing than you have listed. For the most part when I changed my script to search=bulk, I was not

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Karel Bos
Hi Eric, We use caching for that reason on our diskpool. Gr, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon;KLM.COM] Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:33 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring Hi Karel! You are right,

Re: Volume not available?

2002-11-06 Thread David E Ehresman
Are any of your drives offline? Do you have any drives available? What happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes? No dirves offline. Lots of drives available. The audit vol fails with a ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume 700270 - storage media inaccessible David

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Karel! But when you disk crashes, your data is gone too, cached or not. That is if you haven't been able to backup you storage pool before the crash occurs. Also, TSM caching has it's performance penalty... Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message-

Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Karel Bos
Hi Eric, Yep, and if there is a fire and your copy tapes aren't in the bunker yet and so on. It is just a matter of how safe you want to be. Performance isn't a issue, not that we could find out. We turn cashing on and of and back on, without finding the famous performance degradation we

mutiple backup paths for TDP R/3 to one server

2002-11-06 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDSES64
Hi When I try to use multiple backup paths for TDP R/3, I receive the following error message when trying to connect to the same TSM server on two different Network Adapters: BKI1214E: TSM Error: 'Server not found in configuration file.' configurations: root@pat0110 # more dsm.sys * MEGACENTER

Safe to backup DB while client backups running?

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Simpson
We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database, one onsite and one offsite. The scripts check to see if any backup sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to try again in 10 minutes.

Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM

2002-11-06 Thread Christy Wu, T.F.
Brian, I did all steps in the TDPO setup guide. As to the libobk.a, I've linked it to /usr/lib/libobk.a which in turn pointing to the library file of TSM. Chris - Original Message - From: Brian Dade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:28 PM

Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Karel! As a matter of fact I don't have copy tapes in the bunker, they are written to a copy library in another building. I'm not implementing mirroring to be safe, we just don't want the hassle of recovering the failed disk. Like I mentioned before, it took a considerable amount of time for

Re: Dell PV136T and general Media Management

2002-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
- Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste. Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes? These

Re: Volume not available?

2002-11-06 Thread David E Ehresman
1. check the tape out of the library with remove=no option. 2. Open up the library and put the tape in the recovery slot. 3. Check the tape back into the library. I had already tried a checkout remove=yes followed by a checkin and that had not helped. I tried your way but I am still getting the

Re: mutiple backup paths for TDP R/3 to one server

2002-11-06 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Put the hostname and IP in etc/hosts and try again. If u have DNS entry use nslookup server name to see that its properly registered. Balanand Pinni SBC Services Inc. Work:314-206-5911 Pager:1-800-451-6897 Email ID :[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.mail pager -Original Message-

Re: activity log turning on help in TSM (Tivoli storage manager) 5.1?

2002-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
Any ideas how to turn activity log on so that activity log file generated in Tivoli Storage Manager. When I set the location for the activity log through client GUI, the log file not generated after backup. There are two common pitfalls in this area. The log file defined in the client

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Good reason for IBM ESS Storage ;-) for diskpool volume mirroring just use AIX mirroring... Dwight -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon;KLM.COM] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Diskpool volume mirroring Hi

Re: Backing up remote filesystems

2002-11-06 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 14:16, Charles F. Fisher wrote: I've got a user who wants to back up an NFS mounted filesystem from an SGI box. He's using the 4.2.2 client, the server is at 4.2.2. He can back the filesystem up manually, but it does not back up at when the backup is run by the

Safe to backup DB while c

2002-11-06 Thread Sam Sheppard
Top of message -- 11-06-02 09:06 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Safe to backup DB while c I have never heard of or seen any restrictions or problems with backing up the DB while backups are running. Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp.

Re: Client Scheduler stopping/ TSM 5.1.5.1

2002-11-06 Thread Joel Fuhrman
re: missed backups because schedule service is stopped I have this problem. The most cases occur because the service fails to start after a reboot. There are other cases where it stops for no apparent reason. I've modified the recovery property for the scheduler service to restart the service.

TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

2002-11-06 Thread Keith L. Huff
We are currently using TSM v.4.2.2 with the TSM server on OS/390 R2.10. For our messaging platform we use Lotus Domino R6 running on Linux Intel-based servers. In order to get a good backup, we are currently shutting down Domino, using TSM to backup all the files, and starting Domino back up

Re: Safe to backup DB while c

2002-11-06 Thread David Longo
In fact there are some sites that have no window to do backup DB with nothing else happening. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/02 12:08PM Top of message -- 11-06-02 09:06 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Safe to backup DB while c I have

Lotus Notes- Restore mail file with space?

2002-11-06 Thread Zig Zag
Good after noon, Has anyone ever ran accross this situation? Have a mail file with what appears to be a space(maybe 4) in it? Tried the unsupported dsmnotes q contents command, no luck to many lines to dig thru. Node Name Filespace FSID Platform Filespace Is Files- Capacity Pct

Error 1067

2002-11-06 Thread Amini, Mehdi
What is Error 1067 when I try to Stop and Start Central Scheduler services? Mehdi Amini LAN/WAN Engineer ValueOptions 3110 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 703-208-8754 Fax: 703-205-6879 ** This email and any

Re: TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

2002-11-06 Thread Del Hoobler
Keith, The new version of ITSM for Mail Data Protection for Lotus Domino, version 5.1.5 supports Domino R6 on Linux. Data Protection for Domino 5.1.5 supports Turbo Linux 6.0, Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, and SuSE 7.2 but Domino R6 only supports RedHat 7.2 and SuSe 8.0. So, for Domino R6 on Linux, Data

TSM version 5

2002-11-06 Thread Luciano Ariceto
Hi I would like to know about TSM version 5 (good or bad things). Nowadays we are running version 4.1 and we are planning move to v5. If you have any comments or experince about it I will appreciate. Thanks a advanced Luciano Ariceto Technical Support International Paper do Brasil Ltda.

Re: Dell PV136T and general Media Management

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Boyer
Instead of doing multiple backups of 0-byte files, what we do is assign them to a management class that doesn't retain anything. We've created a ZERO managment class as: Versions Data Exists: 1 Versions Data Deleted: 0 Retain Extra Versions: 0 Retain Only

Re: Safe to backup DB while c

2002-11-06 Thread John Wright
DB backups seems to work ok and I have run them alongside clients sessions. This how I understand it works, similar to and Oracle backup really. The DB backup seems to 'freeze' database activity even if client sessions are active and generates its image to backup. While the database activity is

Re: TSM version 5

2002-11-06 Thread bbullock
We are in the process of moving our 8 TSM servers from the very-stable,I-never-wanna-change Version 4.1.4.0, to the it-scares-me-to-death-to-change Version 5. FYI, we have 8 TSM servers running on AIX 4.3.3 ML10, ~800 clients (NT, AIX, Solaris, Linux VMS) running with TSM client

Re: TSM version 5

2002-11-06 Thread Pearson, Dave
Hi all, I called Tivoli Support and asked them which is the most SAFEST, less BUGGY verion to go to. They said 5.1.1.0. That where we are going to upgrade too. DavePearson -Original Message- From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:31 AM To:

Re: IBM WEB once more interested ...

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The funny part is that 31.03.2001 is valid. We've cut 31-st March only from this year somehow. But if you disable Javascript then 29 February 2002 will become valid :-) even 30-th and 31-st !! ,-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Tomá? Hrouda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: volumes inaccessible

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Simpson
I've lost the messages that were discussing it, but some people were discussing a problem similar to one we've been having, where some volumes mysteriously become inaccessible. I searched on IBMLink, and found several APARs describing this problem. IBMese is sometimes hard to read, so I haven't

Re: Safe to backup DB while client backups running?

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Can we think again from idea/design/code reuse point of view. Most of us know how the client is performing backup - first it creates list of files to backup and then starts transferring them. So lets think in same manner about (I)TSM DB - it first creates list of DB pages to be backed up and the

Re: System Object / Mgmt. Classes / Policy Sets / Backup Groups - - Wh at's the best way??

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Todd, may I correct you. In TSM it is called rebinding: - you have several backups made using one class (be it default or not) - somehow (dsm.sys/dsm.opt, optionset) you change include/exclude list and a object (in TSM terms - file, TDP stream, SystemObject, etc.) is now bound to another class -

Re: Co-location

2002-11-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
--- We turned on co-location on the onsite tape pool a couple of weeks ago, because we just started using the SQL TDP, and the doc recommended colocation. We turned it back off this morning, because we were running out of tapes and had a lot of them that were only 5% full. There is another very

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2002-11-06 Thread Baldenegro, Raymond - Perot
I'm kind of new at TSM but, is there a script that can tell me what pool each node is going to? Raymond Baldenegro Analyst CHW Enterprise Storage Management perotsystems 3033 N 3rd Ave. Phoenix, Az 85013 Fax (602) 798-5310 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SQL Statement

2002-11-06 Thread Baldenegro, Raymond - Perot
I have an immediate need to create a list of all my registered nodes and the storage pool(s) each node backs up to. I know almost nothing about creating an SQL statement so if anyone can assist, I would appreciate it very much. Raymond Baldenegro Analyst CHW Enterprise Storage Management

Re: TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

2002-11-06 Thread Greg Redell
We are running an R5 environment on Win2K using TDP for Domino 1.1.2 and it is working great. No downtime for backups. Just make sure to read the manual on the policy settings, the sample scripts that come with TDP work very well. Greg Redell Great-West Life Annuity Insurance Co. Phone:

Re: Volume not available?

2002-11-06 Thread Seay, Paul
David, I have run into a problem with SAN clients where this can happen. Looks like it takes a bounce of the server to recover. The problem appears to happen if you shutdown a SAN agent and a drive still has a tape mounted for it and a thread gets reused that did not get cleaned up properly. If

Re: Data rebinding to non-default management class.

2002-11-06 Thread David Fosdike
Thanks very much - it worked very well. One further question: Without doing another full backup, how can we change the management class of previously backed up objects? We need to reduce the size of a collocated copy pool but can't move the objects off the collocated pool because they are still

Re: Help on DB2 restore USE TSM

2002-11-06 Thread asr
= On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:43:44 -0500, Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's all configured and working. I'm trying to verify the whole process by doing a restore and rollforward. The backups and log archives are flowing with no problems. When I run the RESTORE DB command, I see the

Re: SQL statement

2002-11-06 Thread Joerg Pohlmann
Raymond, there are different aspects to your question: 1. If your question is where will the data go if my node were to back up/archive/space manage something is almost impossible to answer with select statements. It depends on the design of your TSM environment - which management classes are

Re: SQL Statement

2002-11-06 Thread Seay, Paul
The issue is a node connects to a policy domain that connects to a management class and in the management class is the copy group, but the decision as to what management class is used in the policy domain is a client include/exclude or a clientopt decision unless the default management class is

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I want to add them to TSM. However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes. Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only