Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

2004-12-09 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Stephan, You wrote : I'm not sure if you were on the Technical Exchange this week on TSM Disk Only solutions but there are reasons not to use large disk pools alone. There were also some tips on how best to setup storage pools using file device classes. I will send you a pdf of the

ANR0480W Connection with client severed

2004-12-09 Thread Danesh Sheikh
We run TSM on a Windows server to backup various operating systems i.e Linux servers,Tru64 Unix servers and Windows. On the TSM server we are running version 5.1.5. On the client we run TSM verison is 5.1.5. I'll start with our Linux server (Red Hat version) known as PHOBOS. In the activity log

Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

2004-12-09 Thread Cory Heikel
Arnaud, If you find where to download this, lease send me the address. I would like to gt a copy as well. Thank you, Cory *E-Mail Confidentiality Notice* This message (including any attachments) contains information intended for a specific individual(s) and purpose that may be

United Linux

2004-12-09 Thread Paul van Dongen
Hello everybody, I have to answer a question of a possible customer who wants to use TSM to backup some servers to a Intel machine running United Linux. The clients will be United Linux on Intel, Netware 6.5, W2K and iSeries running SLES 8 and RedHat AS 3.0. I've read the READMEs and found

Re: ANR0480W Connection with client severed

2004-12-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danesh Sheikh We run TSM on a Windows server to backup various operating systems i.e Linux servers,Tru64 Unix servers and Windows. On the TSM server we are running version 5.1.5. On the client we run TSM verison is 5.1.5.

RMT vs MT block sizes

2004-12-09 Thread Dameon White
Does anyone know where or if you can change the block size for the mt devices? Via smit or chdev I can change the rmt devices, but no matter what I set the rmt device block size to the mt devices are built with a 1024 block size. tsmserver:/=lsattr -El rmt0 block_size 64

Re: RMT vs MT block sizes

2004-12-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Dameon White wrote: Does anyone know where or if you can change the block size for the mt devices? Via smit or chdev I can change the rmt devices, but no matter what I set the rmt device block size to the mt devices are built with a 1024 block size. ... If you are

Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread Hart, Charles
We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library I'm hoping that some one could clarify what we are seeing... Libvol Info : States its Provate but no data - Its in the Library tsm: MSPSTG5q libvol 3494lib1 i01448 Library Name

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread Curtis Stewart
I've seen the same thing, with versions of *DSM as far back as 3.7. Do a q contents on the volume to see what's in there. I've just leaned to live with and work around it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hart, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/09/2004 08:58 AM

TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread Timothy Hughes
I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture) under Tape Drives (best practices) Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus throughput when attaching tape drives to systems most protocal/tape combinations can accommodate 2-3 tape, drives per

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Hart, Charles wrote: ...We are also wondering how this may have happened... The definitive source of info on this is the Activity Log. Customers should make sure they are retaining the log long enough to cover such research needs. Richard Sims

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread fred johanson
This has appeared several times here. Again, I append, with credit to Paul Seay, a script to identify all volumes: select volume_name from libvolumes where status='Private' and libvolumes.volume_name not in (select volume_name from volumes) and libvolumes.volume_name not in (select

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library I'm hoping that some one could clarify what we are seeing... tsm: MSPSTG5q libvol 3494lib1 i01448 3494LIB1 I01448

Newbie having NetWare issues

2004-12-09 Thread Emeric, Mitchell
Hi. I just set up a Novell 5.1 server with SP7. Followed the following steps to install DSMC Client on server... 1. TSM Desktop Client disc version 5.1.5 2. mounted CD as volume 3. loaded NWConfig Product Options Install a product not listed 4. path chosen

Migrate to Linux

2004-12-09 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Everyone, I got an ITSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on my Windows 2000 Server. But now will change the old hardware with new hardware and because we want to get out as much as possible from our servers so we are going to install our new ITSM Server 5.2.3 on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Edt 3 I get

LTO2 cleaning options

2004-12-09 Thread David Benigni
Hello, Within tivoli the cleaning frequency option can be specified as asneeded does any one know if the TSM can handle the asneeded' option with LTO2 drives? Here are the system specs: TSM : 5.2.3.1 OS : Windows 2000 Server (with IBM LTO2 drivers) Library : Qualstar TLS8433 TIA, Dave

Re: Newbie having NetWare issues

2004-12-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emeric, Mitchell Hi. I just set up a Novell 5.1 server with SP7. Followed the following steps to install DSMC Client on server... 1. TSM Desktop Client disc version 5.1.5 2. mounted CD as volume 3. loaded

LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are having issues with TDP using TCP/IP to communicate with the Storage Agent. It has been suggested to switch to shared memory. Does anyone have experience and any recommendations or gotchas using shared memory instead of TCP/IP? Thanks, Fred Oracle: 9.2.0.4 TSM/StorageAgent: 5.1.7.2 TDP:

Re: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

2004-12-09 Thread Rob Jones
I will be out the office from Wednesday, December the 8th thru Friday, December the 10th.

Re: Migrate to Linux

2004-12-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson I got an ITSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on my Windows 2000 Server. But now will change the old hardware with new hardware and because we want to get out as much as possible from our servers so we are going to

Re: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

2004-12-09 Thread Patrick Miller
Did you start having problems after upgrading to AIX 5.2 ml4 ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory We are having issues with TDP using TCP/IP

AW: Migrate to Linux

2004-12-09 Thread Peter Sternecker
If have old and new servers up and running, look at the 'export/import' tools (Server, Policydomains, Nodes, with or without Data) with Version 5.x.y - servers you can export/import direct from server-old to server-new. Runs fine. Peter Sternecker R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG *

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

2004-12-09 Thread Hart, Charles
Thank you all for your Responses!!! Again its much appreciated... I query the contents, try the select statement provided in a previous response and based on results hopefully be able to return them to scratch. Thanks Again! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello all, Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I have been backing up each night say for the last week or two? or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps? I would like to increase my disk pool and would like to check each nights backup say for the last couple days or

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Curtis Stewart
$1 and $2 are parameters you pass when you run the script. Adjust the numbers to fit what you want to see. select nodes.domain_name,summary.activity,sum(cast(summary.bytes/1- 024/1024/1024 as decimal(6,2))) as GB from nodes, summary where (end_time between current_timestamp - $1 hours and

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Terry McColgan
TSM Operational reporting should do the trick - only runs on a Win client though - t -Original Message- From: Timothy Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is there a way to check past backup totals Hello all, Is

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Bennett
Here is one I use that creates the following output: Q_BU_SIZE 10 ENTITY Elapsed TimeAvg Obj Avg Bytes Session Count -- - - --- --- ADBACKUP 00:05:29 1938 251.417 Mb 9 ADJNU1

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them - Update

2004-12-09 Thread Hart, Charles
Here's what we found in the actlog... So we have verified no contents, changed to scratch and reworet the label! Sweet! 12/06/04 04:44:21 ANR8778W Scratch volume I01623 changed to Private Status to prevent re-access. (SESSION: 8826, PROCESS: 634)

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 09 December 2004 19:08, Timothy Hughes wrote: Hello all, Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I have been backing up each night say for the last week or two? or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps? I would like to increase my disk pool and would

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread David Nicholson
I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have (15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each server. I'm sure in a lab somewhere that my single adapter could be shown to be a bottleneck when trying to stream data to all those drives...however

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks David, One thing I forgot to mention is that our TSM servers are now attached to a (IBM p670). David Nicholson wrote: I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have (15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each server. I'm sure in

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks Curtis,Terry, Steve and Stef for your replies! Terry, I have operational reporting but it only covers a 24hr period. So I can check last nights total, but what if I want it to check say the previous nights GB total. Or the night before or each night of last weeks backup total GB. Can I

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them - Update

2004-12-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Hart, Charles wrote: Here's what we found in the actlog... So we have verified no contents, changed to scratch and reworet the label! Sweet! 12/06/04 04:44:21 ANR8778W Scratch volume I01623 changed to Private Status to prevent

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Curtis Stewart
Can I configure it to show the past? If you put it on a box running IIS you can send the reports to a directory and keep multiple versions. Or, you can do what I do and just have the report sent to you via e-mail. Then keep as many versions as you want. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

image restore with incrementals using flash copy

2004-12-09 Thread Paul Zarnowski
We are attempting to design a backup/restore solution that covers a few different restore scenarios. One of them has a low RTO (restore time objective). We are considering using a combination of image backups in concert with file-level incrementals. This would allow us to perform an image

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread Kauffman, Tom
The short answer is that you can't get there from anywhere. The slightly longer answer is that this becomes an exercise in moving the bottlenecks and choke points around. The IBM documentation on the 6228 fiber card (200 Mbyte or 2 Gbit) in the Subsystem Device Driver manual indicates that one

Re: image restore with incrementals using flash copy

2004-12-09 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Wouldn't this work? dsmc restore x:\ -subdir=yes -fromdate=mm/dd/ -fromtime=hh:mm:ss -replace=all where -fromdate and and -fromtime are the date/time that the image was taken. Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Harris
Well said Tom, Also add into the mix your san environment. eg host is on one switch but disk and multiple tape drives are connected into a second san switch, but there is only one inter switch link. We do make things complex, don't we? Regards Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2004 6:18:01

use of preallocated files in disk stgpool using devtype of file

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Bennett
We are supplementing our existing ATL with a 6TB SATA. Clients will continue to backup directly to the TSM server's local SCSI disk which will get migrated to the SATA stgpool which will migrate to the ATL. Since our W2K TSM server is limited to 2TB file systems we will be allocating 3 filesystems

Re: use of preallocated files in disk stgpool using devtype of file

2004-12-09 Thread Lloyd Dieter
I'm quite certain that it does the former...although I don't have any hard evidence to support that. As I understand it, volumes for devclass=file are treated pretty much like tape volumes. If there's room at the end, and your collocation settings allow it, I think it appends to the volume.

Schedule is error on Linux

2004-12-09 Thread nghiatd
Hi, I install TSM ver 5.1.5 server on Win2K and TSM ver5.1.5 client on Linux. I can backup data manual and access through Web client. But I got error message following when I used schedule : cuGetAuthResult: Authorization failed. Result code: 2 ANS3004E Session for user RMQG_LINUX terminated

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I have been backing up each night say for the last week or two? or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps? I would like to increase my disk pool

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

2004-12-09 Thread john stephens
Here is one select statement that will give you the last 7 days summary in MB. select entity, cast(sum(examined) as integer)as Objects_Examined, cast(sum(failed) as decimal(18,0)) as Objects_Failed, cast(sum(bytes) as decimal(18,0)) as Bytes_Backed_up, cast(sum(affected) as integer) as