Re: Using pools during restore

2013-04-15 Thread Karel Bos
Hi, Sadly there is no normal way to tell tsm what stg pool to use during restore. Tbh the automatic way seems to be bugged (as it happely seems to use slow storage pools, lan based with higher volumes to be mounted over fast lanfree capable pools). The documented work around is to update all

TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread Zoltan Forray
I am trying to prepare for the move from our 3494 to a TS3500/3584. With the 3494, it needed port 3494 open on the host system that was the library manager, for the ibmatl program to function. What ports are needed open through the firewall of the Linux servers that are library managers (is it

Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread Thomas Denier
-Zoltan Forray wrote: - I am trying to prepare for the move from our 3494 to a TS3500/3584. With the 3494, it needed port 3494 open on the host system that was the library manager, for the ibmatl program to function. What ports are needed open through the firewall of the Linux servers

Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks for the reply but I need more details than that. Does it need it's own fibre connection or does it piggy-back on one of the drives, in this case TS1130? What does it look like on a server? Does it have a separate drivers? For instance, my drives appear as /dev/IBMtapenn due to

Re: Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread David Bronder
TSM controls the library via a second LUN on one or more of the tape drives. By default (or by the IBM CE at installation time), the first drive in the library has the control path enabled, but you can enable it on additional drives (I believe lin_tape should handle failover for them). On AIX,

Re: Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks - This plus a few other bits-and-pieces of info has cleared up much of the fog in my brain.. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.eduwrote: TSM controls the library via a second LUN on one or more of the tape drives. By default (or by the IBM CE at