How to exclude a store from TDP Exchange backup?

2009-05-28 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I've been asked to exclude the Public Folder store from one of our Exchange server backups. What I need to know is, do I do that that in the Exchange dsm.opt, or in the excfull.cmd, changing the * to the stores separated by commas. Either way, what would the syntax be for my naming, based on the

Re: HELP

2009-05-27 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
LOL -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] HELP Help - Confidentiality Notice: The information contained

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2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I have a copygroup set up for a domain that is strictly a bunch of nodes for a document imaging application, millions of files each. I am going to change the backups from the incremental-forever to image backups. Also, I am going to change the retention to where I would only keep the active copy

Re:

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
, your existing config will only have a single copy of the data... the current/active version. Dwight -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM

Re:

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
of NIBCO where he was trying to purge an old image backup from his TSM server. Dwight -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Well

Image backup granular restore?

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Has a Windows TSM client version come out that allows you to restore an individual file from an image backup? Or is that available only if you running incrementals along with images? Thanks! God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM)

Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:55 PM To: 'ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU' Subject: I have a copygroup set up for a domain that is strictly a bunch of nodes for a document imaging application, millions of files each. I am going to change the backups from

Re: Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
-Original Message- From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:51 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Well, I'm showing my current config, and further down, I'm asking what would be the best way to do it? One of the problems is that there are 36 NTFS

Re: Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
-Original Message- From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Well, you're close. There are 36 NTFS mount points presented, and the app only fills each up one at a time, sequentially. It is on 21 of 36 right now, I

Re: Experiences with tsmreports.com

2009-03-03 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I use Servergraph for trending. Works for me. :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rafa Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Experiences with tsmreports.com Hello Thanks for the

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I thought the audit was so last year... Is it making a comeback? :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM On Feb

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
in this than This is what we must have done. Make it happen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM

Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

2009-01-26 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
A 700 GB SQL database on Vmware? Your customer sounds, well, never mind... :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Adrian C. Pardo Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free

Re: TSM Syposium 2009

2008-12-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Huh? This is still 2008, isn't it?... :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Syposium 2009 Too bad it happened 3-months ago. LOL

Re: Anybody test Servergraph ..

2008-12-05 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
We just recently purchased Servergraph, and I am very pleased. The demos were better than the competitors, in my opinion, and the reports are not as TSM-database-intensive as IBM's Operational Reporting. Also, there is more comprehensive information than you know what to do with for the novice,

Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

2008-11-14 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Anyone know of an alternative method of backing up VMs, with the ability to run file-level or full VM backups? A product, scripting, anything? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM) Baptist Health System Birmingham, AL

Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

2008-11-14 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
? If you don't want to use the consolidate backup, you can install a client on each virtual machine, and treat is the same way you treat a real physical client. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Friday, November 14

Using TSM for On-Demand Disaster Recovery Data?

2008-11-06 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
My boss is talking about us having a site that will host hardware for our core applications, including TSM. By what he is saying we want to have the most recent backup, and that's all, at the second site at any given time. This would include a handful of Windows clients, several AIX clients, one

Re: Restore testing for Tivoli Storage Manager

2008-10-30 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Yeah, dude. That was kinda harsh. Mike contacted me because of a previous relationship (when I was evaluating Servergraph). I didn't have a problem, but to each his own. Oh well... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lindsay morris Sent:

Re: Restore testing for Tivoli Storage Manager

2008-10-30 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
:^) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore testing for Tivoli Storage Manager On Oct 30, 2008, at 21:56 , Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote

Re: TSM backup on Vista backing up everything, every time?

2008-10-17 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
on Vista backing up everything, every time? Check your management class and make sure it is not set to Always backup files for an incremental backup. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Thursday, October 16

TSM backup on Vista backing up everything, every time?

2008-10-16 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I set up a couple of Vista Enterprise clients with v5.5.1.1, and it appears that they are backing up mostly everything, every night. What's up with that? Has anyone else seen that behavior, or is this unique to me as usual? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified

Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey

2008-09-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Hey, you asked... :) Ha! I'm about ready to use all of this here disposable income that I don't have to pay because of VCB and buy from Kelly. I'm not really happy with our setup... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston

Re: Decommission Procedure

2008-09-22 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I rename them to 'OLD-nodename', and rename them back if necessary (i.e., for restore). I kill/disable any services that they had that once talked to the TSM server. That's probably too simple, but you're looking for obviously distinguishable... :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Filespace update question

2008-09-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
What conditions have to be met for the following things to be updated under a TSM filespace? Last Backup Start Date/Time: Days Since Last Backup Started: Last Backup Completion Date/Time: Days Since Last Backup Completed: I'm wondering because there are some nodes that are running the

Delete filespace question

2008-09-16 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
The messages thrown out into the activity log do not show the amount of data deleted, only the objects. If I didn't note how much data was in a filespace before I deleted it, how can I see it after the fact? We have Servergraph, is there to find out there? Chip Bell

Re: Method to count tapes in I/O slots of IBM3584 library

2008-07-28 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Another way is to activate the 3584 GUI, and give them the link. That's how I enabled our operators to look at various things, such as how many slots are empty in the library, for those days when we get back from offsite more tapes than we have slots for. Ask your IBM tech. You can do all sorts of

Re: ANR1169W - Lock Conflict

2008-07-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Were there any other processes/sessions trying to use the volume in question? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Compton Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR1169W - Lock Conflict

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-11 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
, Look at the PreserveDbOnExit parameter of the tsmjbbd.ini configuration file. As a general reference about JBB, read the FAQ : http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21155524 -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Bell, Charles (Chip

Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I have a machine that has 36 NTFS Mount Points, each with millions of files. Since they are all hosted on the same machines, TSM Support highly recommended setting up a node for each, and to have TSM journal each. Now I am running into a situation where every time that machine is rebooted for

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
-- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Bell, Charles (Chip) a écrit : I have a machine that has 36 NTFS Mount Points, each with millions of files. Since they are all hosted on the same machines, TSM Support highly recommended setting up a node for each, and to have TSM journal each

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
. As a general reference about JBB, read the FAQ : http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21155524 -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Bell, Charles (Chip) a écrit : I have a machine that has 36 NTFS Mount Points, each with millions of files. Since they are all

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
of the tsmjbbd.ini configuration file. As a general reference about JBB, read the FAQ : http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21155524 -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Bell, Charles (Chip) a écrit : I have a machine that has 36 NTFS Mount

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wed 7/9/2008 09:26 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Journaling database retaining upon reboot? I have a machine that has 36 NTFS Mount Points, each with millions of files. Since they are all

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Journaling database retaining upon reboot? On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: ... The application

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Journaling database retaining upon reboot? On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: ... The application (an imaging app) on the host machine writes to a mount point until reaching a 80% utilized threshold, and then begins writing

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-23 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Well, if the information is simply not available, can someone point me to a document saying so? Our brilliant auditors are requiring proof one way or another in our DR documentation. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather

LTO Tape Life

2008-06-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Is there a way to find out if your tapes are nearing their end-of-use? I use a 3584, and unfortunately am still having to deal with LTO-1/2 cartridges. How can I tell, either from TSM (which I doubt) or from 3584 hardware level what the amount-of-times used/mounted is? Normally, between myself and

Deleting tape that belongs to defunct TSM instance from volhist

2008-06-05 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Received the following when a tape would not checkin per normal, so I tried a label libv with overwrite: 06/05/08 15:44:37 ANR2017I Administrator BC03CB1 issued command: LABEL libv 3584_1 search=b labels=b checkin=scr overwrite=y waitt=0 (SESSION: 2)

Re: Deleting tape that belongs to defunct TSM instance from volhist

2008-06-05 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
=today type=remote volume=A00229 force=yes Robben Leaf Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To .COM ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
During our audit, I was commissioned to perform an exhaustively thorough search of the current backup vendors out there, and I included VTL and de-dupe technologies, etc. NBU or CommVault were a couple I was looking strongly at. Our true-up on licensing was THE #1 reason, as it shot a lot of our

LANfree issue

2008-04-02 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Storage agent machine is Windows 2003 SP2, 64-bit. Client v 5.4.1.6, storage agent version 5.4.2 TSM server is AIX 5.3, server v5.4.2. Storage agent config seems to be correct, but the devices under device manager will not start. I have updated them to the correct IBM device drivers. Has

Testing lanfree backups with storage agent...

2008-03-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Receiving the infamous anr8779e with error number 123. I don't get any hits on 123 on the net, unless I'm missing something. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks! Mar 24, 2008 1:18:20 PM ANR8779E Unable to open drive mt2.3.0.1, error number=123. (SESSION: 158277) Mar 24, 2008 1:18:21 PM

The BACKUP VM command is not supported on this client (ANS1184W)

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Receiving this error when first testing TSM backups with VMware's VCB product. Running TSM v5.5.0.4 client on Windows 64-bit OS. TSM server is at v5.4.2.0. I have a ticket open with TSM support, but would like to know if anyone has seen this. I thought that command would be supported by

Re: The BACKUP VM command is not supported on this client (ANS1184W)

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: 2008, March, 21 11:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: The BACKUP VM command is not supported on this client (ANS1184W) Receiving this error when first testing TSM backups with VMware's VCB product. Running TSM v5.5.0.4 client

Re: The BACKUP VM command is not supported on this client (ANS1184W)

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
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Re: The BACKUP VM command is not supported on this client (ANS1184W)

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
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Re: Export Node with 24TB to other TSM on other Site

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
You can use the parameters filedata=all and toserver=otherTSMserverName on the export node command. But that would only go smoothly and quickly as possible if you have a reasonably fast link between the two servers, tape won't be too much of a bottleneck, and the export won't come from a multitude

Re: Export Node with 24TB to other TSM on other Site

2008-03-21 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
, but, it is not fast. I see from 1TB to 7TB per day for different exports ( the bigger, the faster ) over GBit Ethernet. _Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:07 PM To: ADSM-L

Re: Backups failing

2008-03-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Could this be an issue?: The particular folks that I'm supporting in this case are transitioning from TSM to Symantec Backup Exec. Our backups were butting heads apparently, according to their logs. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Backups failing

2008-03-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backups failing I updated the diskcachelocation to a different drive and it worked. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:24 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Backups failing

2008-03-18 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I was just about to ask the same question... I'm running v5.5.0.4 client, v5.4.2.0 server. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backups

Scheduled 'Delete Filespace nodename *'

2008-03-18 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Dumb question, I know, but how would one schedule a delete filespace to run, especially if it prompts me with the Are you sure? when I run it manually? Thanks! God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional Baptist Health System Birmingham, AL

Re: Scheduled 'Delete Filespace nodename *'

2008-03-18 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
OK, I've scheduled them with the 'at' command (TSM is on AIX server) like so: # at 18:30 dsmadmc -servername=tsm2 -id=bc03cb1 -pa=isaiah del fi ehim_archive_28 * Ctrl^D Job root.1205883000.a will be run at Tue Mar 18 18:30:00 CDT 2008. And so on... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

TSM has built-in encryption?

2008-03-06 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I am wondering what level of encryption TSM has as an application, if at all. We are running v5.4.2.0 on the server. We have a 3584 with LTO1 and LTO2, with copies of both going offsite to Iron Mountain. We have a VTL emulating 3592 for onsite use. God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network

Re: tdpsql.cfg

2008-03-06 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Usually, you only have to make changes to FROMSQLServer or SQLServer if it is a MS Cluster or someone named the instance something different than the hostname. Also, some may want to knock LOGPrune down from 60 days. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: tdpsql.cfg

2008-03-06 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
There needs to be duplicate dsm.opt files on each host in the cluster. 'Clusternode yes' should be in each dsm.opt. 'SQLServer' with the SQL cluster network/instance name should be noted in each tdpsql.cfg. I went through this very problem last week, I was missing the SQLServer name from the

Re: Upgrade 5.2.3 to 5.5 directly

2008-03-05 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Another thing we do is deactivate (upd sch xx t=a active=n) any admin schedules that may try to run after coming back up, and we unplug the network cable to prevent clients from checking in before we can get in to disable schedules. Once the server seems to OK without sessions, we plug the

Re: Run expire inventory before TSM Server upgrade

2008-02-26 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Cool, because we run it to completion daily, followed by reclamation processing. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 4:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Run expire inventory

Run expire inventory before TSM Server upgrade

2008-02-25 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Why does the documentation recommend thisà Before migrating the Tivoli(R) Storage Manager server to the new release, perform some clean up by running the EXPIRE INVENTORY command. We are planning to upgrade from 5.3.1.2 to 5.4.0 to 5.4.2, this Thursday. Is there anyone out there that can

Re: Updated List of Recommended Excludes?

2008-02-13 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
trouble with directories other than those, perhaps you could post them back - W On 2/13/08, Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not something I have explored in a while, but there are some files/directories that TSM seems to have trouble with, and I'm thinking of adding some

Updated List of Recommended Excludes?

2008-02-13 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
This is not something I have explored in a while, but there are some files/directories that TSM seems to have trouble with, and I'm thinking of adding some excludes to my client option set for Windows clients. Does anyone know of an updated list of recommended excludes that has been put out since

Re: unsubscribe

2008-02-05 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I'm confused, was I an intended recipient...? DESTROY! DESTROY! PRIVILEGED INFORMATION! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cho.Michael Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] unsubscribe

Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

2008-01-30 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
We also have a web based GUI to view our 3584... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting For our

Re: ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request form memory allocation

2008-01-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Does the ' memoryef diskcachemethod' help for AIX client? I use it for Windows clients, using v5.4.1, and it works great. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:52 PM To:

Manual backup vs. GUI after resolving ANS1063E

2008-01-16 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
In the process of resolving ANS1063E for a couple of clients, I noted something that seemed strange. There was one machine in particular, that I've been running manually, and it would back up a few 100 MB at a time. It was finally able to run a scheduled backup of the drive that it had been unable

Re: Fw: Manual backup vs. GUI after resolving ANS1063E

2008-01-16 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
No, I always verified that missing drive was picked up. I'm confused... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sung Y Lee Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Fw: Manual backup vs. GUI after

Re: Fw: Manual backup vs. GUI after resolving ANS1063E

2008-01-16 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
resolving ANS1063E Chip, every time i've had this issue it turned out to be different permissions between the user accounts running the backups. John On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I always verified that missing

TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Just wanted to know if anyone's made the jump. We just got in a new server and will be moving from v5.3.1.2 to either 5.4 or 5.5. Just wanted to know what your thoughts were on migrating? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional Baptist

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
feedback: problems? plusses? On what platform? Kevin Kinder State of West Virginia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Is it possible to run 'move data' or 'move nodedata' commands from either LTO1 or LTO2 device class to LTO4? What about from LTO1/2 to LTO3? Has anyone done this? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional Baptist Health System Birmingham,

Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration? Is it possible to run 'move data' or 'move nodedata' commands from either LTO1 or LTO2 device class to LTO4? What about from LTO1/2 to LTO3? Has

Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
it, right? :) Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/9/2008 10:28 AM That sounds great! So to confirm, there are no technical gotchas that are going to prevent data movement from one media type (LTO1/2) ton another (LTO3/4)? Anyone else done this? Thanks, Bill! -Original Message

Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
, then you need to delete volume with discarddata option on the OLD offsite pool tapes, or else old tapes will still be there. DL Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/9/2008 10:28 AM That sounds great! So to confirm, there are no technical gotchas that are going to prevent data movement from one

Re: New Redbook and paper - TSM V5.4/5.5 Technical Guide

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I think there was a draft of a new Implementation Guide out there as well... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] New Redbook and paper

Re: Freezing my Email backups and starting fresh

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
is on the tape, but the older backups will continue to expire out of the TSM DB. So, 6 months from now, you don't have anyway to figure out what is ON the backupset or EXPORT tape. This way you can query the DB to see what is in there, if your lawyers need something. Wanda On 1/9/08, Bell, Charles (Chip

Re: New Redbook and paper - TSM V5.4/5.5 Technical Guide

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Storage Manager Version 5.3.2.) Is there a newer one that covers 5.5? Thanks Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: I think there was a draft of a new Implementation Guide out there as well... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather

Re: Freezing my Email backups and starting fresh

2008-01-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
the new registration of your Exchange client) follows regular rules. On 1/9/08, Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I followed through with your suggestions, in order. If I follow them, I would not need to change the copy group retention to nolimit across the board? Just asking...I

Missing File Query

2008-01-03 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I am looking for the quickest way to find multiple files that were apparently deleted by a user. They would like to restore them, but do not know where they are (were). All I have to work with as a starting point is, the files are somewhere under '/opt/emageon/archive/dicom'. Is there a

Re: TSM Client Software for NT

2007-11-27 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
If you happen to have a copy of 5.2.00 or 5.1.5, slap it on there. Just don't have any client issues, because you won't get any help. :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:14 AM To:

Re: ADSM-L Exclude syntax

2007-11-12 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
() Re: ADSM-L Exclude syntax Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:16 -0600 From: Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exclude syntax To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU _Top_of_Message__ ___ Dang! I do need to retain those files

Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I know that the below syntax is incorrect, because I previewed it, but I can't seem to figure it out when I get moments to work on it. I need the below range of subdirectories to be excluded from backup, and apparently it will be changing from day to day. The FileboundImages directory has nearly 9

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Thanks, I'll try it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exclude syntax On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/09/07 12:29 PM I know that the below syntax is incorrect, because I previewed it, but I can't seem to figure it out when I get moments to work on it. I need the below range of subdirectories to be excluded from backup, and apparently it will be changing from

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2007-11-09 11:46:18: On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: Exclude.Backup e:\FileboundImages\0[000-8947000]\* Chip - Presuming

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2007-11-09 11:46:18: On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: Exclude.Backup e:\FileboundImages\0[000-8947000]\* Chip

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2007-11-09 11:46:18: On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: Exclude.Backup e:\FileboundImages\0[000-8947000]\* Chip - Presuming that incorrect form suggests a large range of directories having numerical names, I think you want

Re: ADSM-L Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
14:00:16 -0600 From: Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exclude syntax To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU _Top_of_Message__ ___ Dang! I do need to retain those files. Are there any other ideas? I can try 'memoryefficient

Please help! - Three questions on handing TSM data over to an application vendor

2007-10-02 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I have a vendor asking some application folks questions re: an upcoming data migration. Some I think I can answer, but I would love your input. 1. What is the best way to give the application owner a view of last night's backup? He only wanted last night's backup info, and understands

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Unable to delete volhist entries

2007-10-01 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
But a force works. I just tried it. :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Otto Chvosta Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AW: [ADSM-L] Unable to delete volhist entries Thank you ! In

Re: Library slot count manipulation in TSM

2007-10-01 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Library slot count manipulation in TSM How does TSM know how many slots are available, say, from the output of the 'show slots' command below? I have a Sepaton VTL, and I

Library slot count manipulation in TSM

2007-09-28 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
How does TSM know how many slots are available, say, from the output of the 'show slots' command below? I have a Sepaton VTL, and I would like to expand the slot count from the Sepaton side from 400 to 1000. What could I do from the TSM side to see the 1000 slots and not have to delete

Re: Licensing question

2007-09-26 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Yep, that sounds accurate. And much as I like TSM, we are having to look elsewhere to back up our environment. I know IBM probably doesn't care, but not everyone can afford that. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent:

Re: ANS2050E Password Issues in a Windows Clustered Environment

2007-09-25 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Yep. The Chip in that thread was me, and it did work. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Uwe Schreiber Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS2050E Password Issues in a Windows

Support for SQL 2008

2007-09-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I was just asked when TSM is slated to be able to support backup of SQL 2008. Ball-park? Thanks! God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional Baptist Health System Birmingham, AL -

Re: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-07 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Have you tried exporting the output of the command to a file, as in: export node nodename filedata=backupactive preview=yes filename-with-full-path -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scottcorp Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:29 PM

Online image backup on Win 2003 64-bit

2007-08-08 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Is it not possible? If not, what is my alternative? We have a machine that is going to have 38 NTFS mount points, with millions of files in each, and they were expecting me to able to run an image snapshot. I could run image snapshot when these mount points were being presented through a

Re: Online image backup on Win 2003 64-bit

2007-08-08 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Online Image backup for 64 Bit Windows is only planned for release in TSM 6 which is due for release in the 3rd quarter of next year From: Bell, Charles (Chip) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 08/08/2007 15:26 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Online

DR - find specific volume question with select?

2007-07-30 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
DR testing this week. Question: Assuming that TSM itself restores successfully, and we want to begin restoring some of our AIX machines with Sysback, is there a select statement or something that we can use to find out what volume contains the active version of Sysback backups that we will use for

Re: TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison

2007-07-25 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Interesting. We are doing the same thing, but with multiple vendors, for the EXACT same reason you are. We are generating a single RFI that we will send to each vendor, and get our comparison that way. Not done yet, and I'm not looking forward to it. I like TSM as a product, and I'm not looking

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