Problem tape

2002-11-04 Thread Chuck Lam
TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3 Hi, Attached to this server is a StorageTek L700 tape library, after running flawlessly for over a year. I have begun seeing problem tapes popping up here and there. There is this one tape of which I could not mount it for anything, the TSM just gave it up by

Handling bad tapes

2002-10-29 Thread Chuck Lam
System: TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3 I have several tapes that TSM keeps switching the ACCESS from 'READWRITE' to 'READONLY' because of media fault. What do I need to do to replace these tapes? Please advise. TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs -

Re: upgrade from 4.1.4 to 5.x

2002-10-05 Thread Chuck Lam
Thank you for the info., Johnn.. --- Johnn D. Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We just went from TSM Server 4.1.3 to 5.1.1.6 You do not need to stop at 4.2 along the way. Here's the conceptual overview of what we did -- obviously, tailor it for your environment: 1) stop TSM from doing

upgrade from 4.1.4 to 5.x

2002-10-04 Thread Chuck Lam
Hi I have TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3. I like to upgrade TSM from my current level to 5.x. Do I need to upgrade it to 4.2 before I can go to 5.x? Can anyone who has done the upgrade give me some advices please? Thank you in advance. __ Do you

Re: Moving DB, LOG, DiskPool from SAN to local drives

2002-06-20 Thread Chuck Lam
/,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Chuck Lam wrote: Hi, I have TSM 4.1.4 running off AIX 4.3.3. All my TSM Data(DB, LOGs

AIX client dsmsched.log stopped recording

2002-06-18 Thread Chuck Lam
Hi, I have an AIX client(4.3.3) backing up to a TSM server running 4.1.4. I noticed the dsmsched.log the dsmerror.log stopped recording since 2/13. The backup is still going on everyday and the client have been rebooted a few times since February. Why the client's log files stopped recording

creating scripts running outside of TSM - password issue

2002-06-14 Thread Chuck Lam
Hi, I have TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3. Whenever I created scripts running outside of TSM, I needed to hardcode my admin account and its password in within the TSM command to get it to run. Although it is not a problem, because no one else has access to this TSM server at this point. It

q libv showed 'private' STATUS but blank LAST_USE

2002-06-05 Thread Chuck Lam
TSM 4.1.4 running in AIX 4.3.3 After I came back from the Memorial weekend, I noticed a bunch of tapes with 'private' Status but blank Last_Use when I did a 'q libv'. 'q vol volume_name' on these tapes returned with 'NO MATCH'. There were problems with one of the tape drives over that weekend

search in q actlog

2002-05-22 Thread Chuck Lam
Hello, TSM 4.1.4 running in AIX 4.3.3 If I want to search error and fail in 'q actlog', is there any way I can put multiple searching strings in one command, rather than one at a time? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience

Not able to use additional cartridge slots

2002-05-15 Thread Chuck Lam
Good morning, TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3 I recently upgrade my StorageTek L700 tape library slot capacity from 216 to 384. When I tried to add tapes beyond the old storage space, I was getting ANR8314E Library is full message. Does any one know how to make TSM to recognize and use the new

'q libv' question

2002-05-02 Thread Chuck Lam
Hi - List, TSM 4.1.4 runs on AIX4.3.3. I noticed the following when I do 'q libv' recently: Three of the tapes were marked 'Private' under STATUS, but were blank under LAST USE. Usually when a tape is scratched, the LAST USE then becomes blank. A Private tapes is associated with DATA under

NT restore on TSM 4

2002-04-16 Thread Chuck Lam
Our TSM is 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3 NT client is running 4.1.2 Our NT admin tried to restore files last week, but found out the process took very long time, and eventually he found out his NIC on that NT box accumulating hugh number of CRC errors. He later found out all his NICs on all other

Re: Creating backupset for a client node on TSM 4.1

2001-08-04 Thread Chuck Lam
vaulting of the backupsets you create, if you are using that product instead of DRM for vaulting. -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating backupset for a client node on TSM 4.1

Creating backupset for a client node on TSM 4.1

2001-08-02 Thread Chuck Lam
Hello-List, Does anyone have experience creating 'backupsets' for a client node on TSM 4.1? Because there are so many small files on the Novell servers, I was asked to see if we can perform a 'full' system backup on those servers every two weeks in case we have to do a full system restore. I

TSM client Solaris startup error

2001-07-31 Thread Chuck Lam
I installed TSM client 4.1 on a Sun box running SUNOS 5.7. When I typed 'dsm', it started up with the following messages: Warning: Cannot convert string KeyHome,_Key_Begin to type VirtualBinding Warning: Cannot convert string KeyF1,_Key_Help to type VirtualBinding Warning: Cannot convert string

TSM client installation on SUN, errors starting up

2001-07-26 Thread Chuck Lam
Just installed TSM 4.1.0 on a Sun Sparc running Solaris 2.7. Installation showed no errors. When I typed 'dsmc', I got the following errors: ld.so.1:dsmc:fatal:relocation error: file dsmc: symbol _ex_register64: referenced symbol not found Killed. Reinstallation still produced the same

archives for this list

2001-07-12 Thread Chuck Lam
Hello, Would someone kindly show me how to look up archives for this list? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: TSM server performance help

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Lam
they get sourced into your current environment (by logging out back in, or just running these 2 lines) and then stop and start the ADSM service. Ben Bullock Unix system manager Micron Technology Inc. -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday

Recreate a DiskPool

2001-06-20 Thread Chuck Lam
Hi-All, On a newly configured TSM(v4.1) server(AIX4.3.3), I configured a 100GB DiskPool consisting of six 18GB virtual drives in a SAN. Things are working for a while. Now I was told to make a DiskPool of 550GB. If I use the current setup, I would need over 30 18GB virtual drive. Obviously this

Ejecting tapes from StorageTek L700 tape Library

2001-06-06 Thread Chuck Lam
I am trying to get StorageTek L700 tape library to work on a newly configured TSM4.1 running on AIX4.3.3. In the morning, I backup the tapepool to a copypool called drmpool. As the result, I have a few tapes sitting in the 'drmpool' every morning. My intention is to eject those tapes to the

TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Chuck Lam
I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will

Re: TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Chuck Lam
Thank you. I looked into that option, but TSM support person was telling me that if Colocation was enable, it would be one node, one tape, would not be able to put different nodes of one platform on one tape. --- Alan Davenport [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to do colocation. Colocation

Re: TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Chuck Lam
. You worry about tape handling for all (even if you do end up creating seperate storage pools per platform). Suad -- On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote: I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool

Re: TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Chuck Lam
)666-4285 (fax) -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool

Re: Antwort: TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Chuck Lam
(such as databases). Greetings Rolf Meyer Info Business Systems GmbH Chuck Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 25.05.2001 11:21:23 Bitte antworten an ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] An:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Rolf Meyer/Satisfactory) Thema: TSM configuration questions