Re: New 6.2 servers

2011-07-28 Thread David E Ehresman
I'd recommend 4 vg's for the data base, a vg for the active log, and a vg for the archive log. Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com 7/28/2011 11:50 AM Does anyone have any under documented tuning tips for TSM 6.2 on AIX? We are going to build new systems next week. AIX 6.1 P6

Re: Rman not deleting old backups

2011-07-25 Thread David E Ehresman
Yes, that's what I was looking for. Thanks, David Ehresman David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.edu 7/22/2011 8:18 PM David E Ehresman wrote: Awhile back someone shared on this list their commands/scripts for verifying that rman was not leaving any old backups on the TSM server. I can't seem

Rman not deleting old backups

2011-07-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Awhile back someone shared on this list their commands/scripts for verifying that rman was not leaving any old backups on the TSM server. I can't seem to find it now. Ring a bell with anyone? David

Re: How do you deal with the 7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012--9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 file

2011-07-20 Thread David E Ehresman
Andy, Is there any indication in the Windows client dsmsched.log that VSS shadow copy was used to backup the local drives when the SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS is used? David Ehresman University of Louisville Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com 7/20/2011 10:08 AM Hi Zoltan, Your questions are

Systemstate

2011-07-20 Thread David E Ehresman
If a Windows client (v6.2) excludes a file is part of the Systemstate backup, is that file still backed up as part of the systemstate? David

Re: NetApp NDMP backups to TSM server?

2011-07-15 Thread David E Ehresman
Paul, Look at BACKUP NODE in the TSM Admin Reference. David Ehresman Paul Zarnowski p...@cornell.edu 7/15/2011 9:14 AM I thought I read somewhere that you could configure NetApp servers to direct their NDMP backup data stream to a TSM server (over IP network) instead of to an attached tape

copygroups

2011-07-14 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there a way to tell if a given copygroup is actually being used on TSM 6.2.2? David Ehresman

Re: copygroups

2011-07-14 Thread David E Ehresman
; bad idea otherwise. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] copygroups Is there a way to tell if a given copygroup is actually being used

Re: Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch

2011-07-06 Thread David E Ehresman
Have you done an audit library on the 6.2 server? It almost sounds like it has a different view of your scratch tapes than the LM does. David Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 7/6/2011 12:17 PM Servers are RH Linux 6.2.2.2 and 6.1.4.3 Last week, we had some strange issues (don't ask -

Re: Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch

2011-07-06 Thread David E Ehresman
), I killed it. From: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/06/2011 02:19 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Have you done an audit library on the 6.2 server? It almost

Re: Deduplication and Collocation

2011-06-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Client side dedup is only done to a dedup storagepool which means the storagepool has to be a FILE type storagepool. Roger Deschner rog...@uic.edu 6/22/2011 2:37 AM Back to client side dedupe, which we're about to deploy for a branch campus 90 miles away in Rockford IL. The data is sent from

Re: EMERGENCY QUESTION: RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

2011-06-17 Thread David E Ehresman
And TSM only keeps one version of unix permissions. So once a backup is done with the changed permissions, there is no TSM way to restore them back to what they were before. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 6/17/2011 1:45 PM Hi Everyone, I was just contacted and told that

Re: Performance in 6.2.2.x with Win2k8 64bit?

2011-06-16 Thread David E Ehresman
I've not had any problems with the 6.2.2.x 64b client on Windows. Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 6/16/2011 12:32 AM Can anyone who has converted from V5 to V6.2.2.0 or V6.2.2.2 on Win2K8 64b confirm for me that you are running OK? Have a customer who did the conversion from V5 on Win2K3 32b

Re: bare machine recovery for mainframe operating systems

2011-06-15 Thread David E Ehresman
FDR (and probably other mainframe backup products) support BMR. Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@gmail.com 6/15/2011 5:49 AM Hi, Is the concept of bare machine recovery applicable for z/OS and other mainframe operating systems like zLinux? Thank you, Mehdi

Re: TSM dedup stgpools

2011-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
To see if the frequent TSM server crashes will stop. Stefan Folkerts stefan.folke...@gmail.com 6/11/2011 2:34 AM ( mailto:stefan.folke...@gmail.com ) May I ask you what the reason is you are turning of dedupe?

TSM Suite for Unified Recovery

2011-06-10 Thread David E Ehresman
I haven't heard anyone talking about this recently announced offering. Is IBM finally responding to complaints about their pricing structure? Is it really likely to contain costs? http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS211-201/ENUS211-201.PDF

TSM dedup stgpools

2011-06-10 Thread David E Ehresman
What happens when I update a stgpool that has DEDUP=YES back to DEDUP=NO? Does the dedup data stay deduped and the new data is stored in full? Or does TSM invoke a reconstitute process to inflate the data back to its original form?

Capacity based license

2011-06-09 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there anyone who has switched to capacity based licensing that would be willing to talk to me about their experience? If so, contact me at deehr...@louisville.edu David Ehresman University of Louisville

Backup of dedup pool stalled

2011-05-31 Thread David E Ehresman
I am running a backup stg ex-dsk ex-ofl maxpr=2 against a dedup FILE storagepool. One of the processes is stalled: 655 Backup Storage Pool Primary Pool EX-DSK, Copy Pool EX-OFL, Files Backed Up: 233013, Bytes Backed Up:

Re: TSM server hang on 6.2.2.2/AIX

2011-05-31 Thread David E Ehresman
YES. Our problems were 'del vol' not macros, and were tied in with the win 2008 systemstate issues. TSM server 6.2.2.30 helped a lot. David Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 5/31/2011 11:38 AM Anybody had issues with the TSM server 6.2.2.2 hanging when running a macro, or running delete vols

Re: ANR8420E messages

2011-05-26 Thread David E Ehresman
My guess is there is a problem talking to the library controller. I would try setting the library path offline and then online. David Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org 5/25/2011 4:06 PM We have been testing a TSM library manager. It is a TSM 6.2.2.0 instance running under

VMWare backups

2011-05-26 Thread David E Ehresman
Anyone using the new VMware features in v6.2.2 to do a backup vm using the vstorage APIs and using the VMHOST= option to specify the VMware server to back up? If so, how's it working for you? Are the backups multi-threaded or does it backup just one VM at a time? What resourceutilization and

Re: Identify Duplicates Idle vs Active state?

2011-05-25 Thread David E Ehresman
What does the %1A. in like ''%1A.%active%'' having count(*) 1 ' test for? Colwell, William F. bcolw...@draper.com 5/25/2011 11:17 AM Hi Harold, I am running 6.1 with dedup and have coded scripts to check the id dup processes before proceeding. Here is a snippet - upd scr start_migration

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

2011-05-16 Thread David E Ehresman
Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com 5/16/2011 2:04 PM Some things that can pin the recovery log: - NDMP backups that span more than one tape (the pin occurs at the time the first tape starts to rewind and another tape is needed) At what point does the NDMP induced pinning get released?

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

2011-05-12 Thread David E Ehresman
Eric, Pointing out the obvious here, but if you really can't afford to move to TSM v6 then its time for you to start planning your move to something else. Support for TSM 5 will be dropped sometime and I suspect the move from TSM to something else will take some planning. David Loon, EJ van -

Re: Expiration causes backups to hang

2011-04-25 Thread David E Ehresman
Where might one find the 6.2.2.30 patch? Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/24/2011 7:46 AM 6.2.2.30 is out as an official patch. On Apr 24, 2011 7:33 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is resolved. We upgraded from 6.2.2.0 to 6.2.2.25(6.2.2.2 patch + efix) and

Re: Expiration causes backups to hang

2011-04-25 Thread David E Ehresman
//storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/Linux/6.2.2.30/6.2.2.30-TIV-TSMALL-Linuxx86_64.bin On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 AM, David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: Where might one find the 6.2.2.30 patch? Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/24/2011 7:46 AM 6.2.2.30 is out

Re: Expiration causes backups to hang

2011-04-25 Thread David E Ehresman
-management/patches/server/AIX/6.2.2.30/6.2.2.30-TIV-TSMALL-AIX.bin On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: OK. I was only checking for the AIX version which is still not posted. I do see the Linux version now that I looked for it. David Zoltan Forray zforray

TSM on AIX and Linux

2011-04-21 Thread David E Ehresman
Can a AIX 5.3 TSM v 6.2.2.0 DB backup be restored to a Linux RedHat system? David

Re: TDp and retention settings question

2011-04-08 Thread David E Ehresman
is that the case? tdp manages the inactivating of the prior full on the TSM side? so this can be related to be akin to similar to a file backup where once the file is deleted (or marked inactive by TDP) the backup falls under the 30 day expiration window. With rman and TSM for DB (oracle),

Re: TDp and retention settings question

2011-04-06 Thread David E Ehresman
but typically the name used in tsm in a unique name each backup. Which means that to TSM they are all active backups and TSM will therefore not expire them. They have to be expired/deleted from the TDP side, e.g. rman for oracle. David Dwight Cook coo...@cox.net 4/6/2011 11:56 AM From the

Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server

2011-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
Never mind. You said Windows. Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 4/4/2011 1:18 PM Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5)

Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server

2011-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
Do you have the appropriate lintape drive installed? David Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 4/4/2011 1:18 PM Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape

Client Autodeployment

2011-04-01 Thread David E Ehresman
Anyone tried Client Autodeployment? I'm running TSM 6.2.2.0 server on AIX 5.3. I tried my first autodeployment test yesterday. The autodeployment schedule did NOT have the allow client restart box checked. But the client was auto-restarted at the end of the install. Anyone experienced this

TSM for DB password expiration

2011-03-25 Thread David E Ehresman
Has anyone had problems with TSM for DB (Oracle), aka TDPO, and password expiration? We are running TSM for DB v5.5.1.0 with TSM api 6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3 to a TSM server at 6.2.2.0 also on AIX 5.3. We are running with password generate. Last night we got two ANR0425W password has expired messages

Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration

2011-03-25 Thread David E Ehresman
a new password for the node, and then use tdpoconf to update the stored password on the client machine. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration

2011-03-25 Thread David E Ehresman
: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum: 03/25/2011 15:41 Ärende: TSM for DB password expiration Has anyone had problems with TSM for DB (Oracle), aka

Re: TSM v6.2.2 and Automated Reorgs

2011-03-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Pam, In Feb, Dave Canan gave a TSM v6.2.2 Technical Update where he discussed, among other things, reorgs and how to tell if they are happening. You can download the presentation from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020797 David Pagnotta, Pam (CONTR)

Re: Scripts Doubling up

2011-03-16 Thread David E Ehresman
But at v6.2.2.0, a select * from processes does show a STATUS field. David Clark, Margaret mcl...@sddpc.org 3/16/2011 2:52 PM Syscat columns doesn't show a STATUS in the PROCESSES table any more. - Margaret Clark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Cloning a Windows Server using TSM

2011-02-24 Thread David E Ehresman
For WIn 2008, I believe you are going to need the TSM Win v6.2.2.x client. Then follow the instructions in the TSM Windows Client v6.2.2 documentation. David Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com 2/23/2011 8:56 AM Hi all, How can I clone a Windows 2008 Server on a x32 machine with TSM BAC

Re: Cloning a Windows Server using TSM

2011-02-24 Thread David E Ehresman
You may also want to look at pages 22-26 of the linked pdf below of a STE webinar earlier in the week on this topic: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020797aid=1 David David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu 2/24/2011 11:20 AM For WIn 2008, I believe you are going to need

Re: TSM for Windows (2008 R2) client 6.2.2.0 and ForeFront 2010 upd.2

2011-02-11 Thread David E Ehresman
This is a classic description of a firewall blocking tsm from reaching the client cad. Unless you have a webports statement in you client options (dsm.opt for windows), dsmcad uses a random port. So in a firewalled world, you have to use webports to specify the port and then allow that port in

Re: Windows 2008 System State Backup: Incremental

2011-02-03 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM client 6.2.2.0 works well for system state incremental backup. Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 2/3/2011 1:31 PM Hi Everyone, Does anyone know what version of the TSM Windows Client is needed in order to only do an incremental system state backup? And does anything special need to be

Re: Windows 2008 System State Backup: Incremental

2011-02-03 Thread David E Ehresman
with the 6.2.2.0 client? Or does it just do it automatically? Thanks again! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Windows 2008 System State

TSM v6.2.3

2011-01-14 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there an ETA for TSM Server v6.2.3? David

Re: TSM 6.2.2 CPU requirements

2011-01-12 Thread David E Ehresman
V6 expire processing pretty much pegs my cpu on a AIX 5.3 p5 machine. David Paul Zarnowski p...@cornell.edu 1/12/2011 11:01 AM We are just migrating our instances to TSM 6.2.2.0 (from 5.5.4.2). Our limited experience shows us that DB2/TSM6 is hammering our CPU (mostly in db2sysc processes).

Percent log utilization

2011-01-11 Thread David E Ehresman
On TSM v6, how are folks tracking %log utilization? David

TSM v6 active log filespace

2011-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
Under what conditions will tsm try to increase the size of the active log? I thought it was preformated and then did not change in size? The reason I ask is that I got a file system full error in errpt (AIX 5.3) for my tsm active log file system for a TSM that has been in use for a couple of

BMR restore of Win 2008

2011-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
With the loss of ASR for Win 2008, what are folks doing for BMR of these machines? Is the loss of ASR a TSM thing or a Microsoft thing? What is Microsoft recommending for BMR of 2008? David

Re: TSM v6 active log filespace

2011-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 active log filespace Under what conditions will tsm try to increase the size of the active log? I thought it was preformated and then did not change in size? The reason I

Re: TSM v6.2.2.0 database errors

2010-12-31 Thread David E Ehresman
IBM says that my problems are the result of exceeding 1024 db connections while running on AIX. The workaround, which they provided, is to use TCPIP for the database connections. David Amos ADSM amos.a...@gmail.com 12/30/2010 2:39 PM On 30/12/2010 06:36, David E Ehresman wrote: 12/29/2010 22

TSM v6.2.2.0 database errors

2010-12-29 Thread David E Ehresman
While I'm waiting on a call from support, has anyone seen database errors like these. I just upgraded to TSM v6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3-12.02 and started getting these errors 15 minutes after the start of my backup window: 12/29/2010 22:14:15 ANR0171I dbiconn.c(1514): Error detected on 0:1026,

dsmqsan

2010-12-13 Thread David E Ehresman
IC70085: SANDISCOVERY MAY TRIGGER MANY DSMQSAN PROCESSES was projected to be fixed in TSM server versions 5.5.5 and 6.2.2. Does anyone know if the fix actually made it in those versions? David

Email Archives

2010-12-09 Thread David E Ehresman
Is anyone using the email archive solution from Messaging Architects? If so, would you be willing to talk to me about how you back up the archives? David Ehresman University of Louisville

Warning: TSM 6.2.2 server with 5.5.2 Admin client

2010-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Last Tuesday, I upgraded a test AIX TSM server from TSM 6.2.1.0 to TSM 6.2.2.0. After the upgrade ran to completion, I immediately begin receiving ANS0101E Unable to open English message repository 'dsmclientV3.cat'. from dsmadmc. I recognized this as the missing dsmclientV3.cat problem that has

Re: TSM for DB

2010-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 11/22/2010 11:52:13 AM: From: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 11/22/2010 11:54 AM Subject: TSM for DB Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Is there a TSM for DB v6 client? The latest I can find

TSM v6.2.1.0 - v6.2.2.0 upgrade on AIX

2010-11-23 Thread David E Ehresman
Should I/can I just apply the new filesets with smit or do I need to run install.bin? David

TSM for DB

2010-11-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there a TSM for DB v6 client? The latest I can find is TSM for DB v5.5 David

TSM v5 SQL help

2010-11-18 Thread David E Ehresman
The following script worked at TSM v5.5.3.0: Q_OFFLINE 1 select cast(drives.library_name as char(6)) as LIB, - 5 cast(drives.drive_name as char(10)) as DRIVE, - 10 cast(source_name as char(15)) as PATH, - 15 cast(drives.online as char(5))

Re: Cost of moving to collocation by filespace

2010-11-12 Thread David E Ehresman
In a collocated world, the number of concurrent operations you can run are limited by the number of tape drives you have. Evans, Bill bev...@fhcrc.org 11/12/2010 12:26 PM Does anyone have an real world example of moving from a single storage pool to collation by filespace? TSM 5.5, AIX 5.3

Ang: Re: Linux backup won't run

2010-11-10 Thread David E Ehresman
Because the problem firewall might be running on the client Linux box rather being a darkroom firewall. Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparr...@exist.se 11/9/2010 3:37 PM I'm trying to figure out why the TSM server would be located on the outside of the firewall while the client is on the inside?

Re: Linux backup won't run

2010-11-09 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client svbser1 using type 1 (xx.xx.xx 4325. (SESSION: 2865) I've seen this when a firewall was active between TSM and the client. It that case you need to use a WEBPorts option

Re: Linux backup won't run

2010-11-09 Thread David E Ehresman
will look at the Webports option to try. btw- I forget to mention we can do manual backups Tim On 11/9/2010 2:44 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client svbser1 using type 1

Re: Linux backup won't run

2010-11-09 Thread David E Ehresman
there is no firewall however, I will look at the Webports option to try. btw- I forget to mention we can do manual backups Tim On 11/9/2010 2:44 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client

Novell on Linux?

2010-10-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Does TSM support Novell TSA (Target Service Agent) on Linux the way it does on Netware? Is anyone using TSM to backup Groupwise on Linux? David

Re: TSM + VTL and physical tape library

2010-10-15 Thread David E Ehresman
Capo tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com 10/15/2010 4:35 AM Hi all, I'm involved in a TSM + VTL project but, unfortunately, I'm quite new in TSM world: please apology me if I make trivial questions: My customer has currently got 4 TSM instances copying to a small disk pool and then to an IBM Tape

Re: TSM and XIV

2010-09-29 Thread David E Ehresman
How full is your XIV frame? It is my understanding that the XIV performance is significantly better with a full frame than a frame. Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl 9/29/2010 7:47 AM Hi all, I'm currently testing TSM 5.5.4 on AIX 5.3 with an IBM XIV box. When I use dd or other tools to copy data

tivoli.tivguid

2010-09-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Does anyone know where I can download fileset tivoli.tivguid 1.3.2.1 for AIX 5.3?

Re: tivoli.tivguid

2010-09-29 Thread David E Ehresman
PM, Richard van Denzel rden...@sltn.nl wrote: Have you tried through Fix Central? Met vriendelijke groet, Richard van Denzel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: woensdag 29 september 2010 16:25 To: ADSM

Upgrading from TSM 5.5 to 6.2

2010-09-09 Thread David E Ehresman
What Redbooks or other documentation do you recommend in preparing for a 5.5 to 6.2 upgrade?

Re: Upgrading paht from TSM 5.5 to 6.1

2010-09-03 Thread David E Ehresman
Wanda, Can you do a incremental import/export to a 6.2 server after pointing clients to an new empty DB and running for awhile? David Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 9/2/2010 11:01 AM It's a judgement call. Tivoli's estimate for doing the DB conversion/upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 is to

Re: LAN-free backup in a logical partition

2010-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
With VIOS v2, VIO servers can virtualize HBAs. So it is possible to run LAN-free via a virtualized HBA. I haven't done it yet, so can't speak to performance. David Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl 8/19/2010 5:32 PM VIO servers can't route tape

TSM Admin Center Upgrade

2010-08-16 Thread David E Ehresman
Has anyone tried to upgrade from TSM Admin Center 6.2.0 to 6.2.1? I don't see any upgrade instructions other than run the install wizard and that appears to try to do a full install which fails because it detects that there is already code in that directory. Any ideas? David

TSM Server 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 upgrade

2010-07-29 Thread David E Ehresman
After running ./install.bin to upgrade, am I suppose to run dsmupgdx as indicated in the message given at the end of the install process: To upgrade an existing server instance, log in as root user or administrator and start the upgrade wizard, dsmupgdx, located in the server installation

Shutting down TSM 6.2

2010-07-28 Thread David E Ehresman
Does issuing a halt when logged on as an admin to TSM 6.2 server completely shutdown TSM, including the db2 database? Or are there additional commands that have to be issued to shutdown db2? David

From mynot...@stg.events.ihost.com

2010-07-27 Thread David E Ehresman
From mynot...@stg.events.ihost.com 1. Tivoli Storage Manager: News - TITLE: TSM Server 6.1.4 and 6.2.2 may use less TSM Server database log disk space. - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21439105myns=swgtivmynp=OCSSGSG7mync=E - ABSTRACT: With TSM Server 6.1.4 and 6.2.2 only

Re: Probably easy tsm client install question

2010-06-16 Thread David E Ehresman
Gary, Any plans on going to TSM 6? I'm told it has a client distribution feature. Has any one on TSM 6 used this feature? Lee, Gary D. g...@bsu.edu 6/16/2010 10:40 AM Working on silent installs for our windows tsm clients. Is there a way to only extract the install images from the downloaded

Re: DocAve TSM for Microsoft SharePoint

2010-06-02 Thread David E Ehresman
Its been working well for us for a couple of years. Billaudeau, Pierre p.billaud...@saq.qc.ca 6/1/2010 2:49 PM Hi, Has anyone of you have TDP for SharePoint widely installed in your TSM environment ? I could only get feedback from 2008 experiences and it was not so positive. As our

Re: Mixed media in 3494

2010-05-20 Thread David E Ehresman
Back when we had a 3494 with two types of tapes, we controlled who wrote to what by making two separate devclasses. One type of tape was all explicitly defined volumes to one of the devclasses, the other type of tape were used as scratch tapes in the other devclass. David Sheppard, Sam

Re: TSM Scheduler problem with Windows 2008

2010-05-03 Thread David E Ehresman
A schedule that runs when the service is restarted but not otherwise sounds like a classic firewall issue. When the service is restarted on the client, the client starts communication with the server and the schedule can run. But when then next cycle comes around TSM initiates the

Re: Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes

2010-04-12 Thread David E Ehresman
Does this CLI only work in Windows or does in work in AIX also? David Khanh Ngo khanhvi...@gmail.com 4/8/2010 7:00 PM First, the TS3500 CLI team would like to thank you for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated as we have all intentions to continue to make the tool better. After taking

Re: Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes

2010-04-12 Thread David E Ehresman
Does this TS3500 CLI interface work on AIX or just Windows? David Khanh Ngo khanhvi...@gmail.com 4/8/2010 7:00 PM First, the TS3500 CLI team would like to thank you for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated as we have all intentions to continue to make the tool better. After taking your

Re: Sql query help

2010-04-07 Thread David E Ehresman
Does this do what you want? tsm: ULTSMq script q_stgsum f=l Name Line Command Number -- -- Q_STGSUM 1 select stgpool_name, - 5 devclass, - 10

Re: ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes

2010-03-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Where did you find TS3500WebInterfaceCLI which is apparently needed by this interface? Marcel Anthonijsz marcel.anthoni...@gmail.com 3/19/2010 4:08 AM Curious as I was, I just tried it and it shows the clean remaining: *java -jar TS3500CLI.jar -a lib1 --viewCleaningCartridges* View all

Re: 3584 SMI-S agent

2010-03-11 Thread David E Ehresman
if that would cost you or not). It's not a very well understood thing, but I've been through that loop myself. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

3584 SMI-S agent

2010-03-10 Thread David E Ehresman
I just upgraded the firmware on my 3584 tape library from 7xxx to 8900. This firmware is suppose to supply support for an onboard SMI-S agent. But I still don't see the SMI-S option under the Access option on the 3584 web interface. Any idea what I have to do to get that option to show up?

Re: Changing attributes

2010-03-09 Thread David E Ehresman
Two different ips, 128.135.19.3 and 128.135.19.5, both using the same tsm node name. Could result in an interesting restore scenario. David Fred Johanson f...@uchicago.edu 3/9/2010 3:02 PM I've got a client that generates this 5-6 times a night: 03/09/10 03:29:03 ANR1639I Attributes

Re: Long running backup pinning log

2010-03-05 Thread David E Ehresman
Try incrementbydate and/or journalling Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 3/5/2010 4:26 PM I recently started having issues with my log going over 80% (5.5.3). Doing a show logpinned usually points to a long (18-hours) running backup session for one particular node. This is starting to

External tape labels for 3592

2010-03-04 Thread David E Ehresman
Does anyone print their own external tape labels for 3592 cartridges? I have a few damaged external labels I'm trying to figure out how to get new labels for. David

System State Backup Performance

2010-02-02 Thread David E Ehresman
IC63094: SYSTEM STATE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ENHANCEMENT This is a development APAR to improve the efficiency of the method the TSM client uses to query the TSM server database for information about system state files. Additional Keywords: systemstate Local fix Problem

Re: Am I Shoe Shining My LTO4's?

2010-01-29 Thread David E Ehresman
nmon is also available for Linux http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu 1/29/2010 10:07 AM On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:35 -0600, Hart, Charles A charles_h...@uhc.com said: We push our 2nd copy over individual FCIP links with write acceleration enabled, we use to

Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

2010-01-27 Thread David E Ehresman
What level are you setting for reclamation. I have found that in a catch-up situation, it is best to set the reclamation level high (e.g. 99 or 98) and get the easy (almost empty) tapes first, and then step the value down over time until you get caught up to a level you want to be at. This

Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

2010-01-27 Thread David E Ehresman
No. That reclaim process would process a maximum of tapes (if there are that many 98%+ empty) and then stop. You would have to repeat the command to do the next four. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 1/27/2010 2:55 PM Hi Andy, If I set the offsitereclaimlimit to 4 and then I set

Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

2010-01-27 Thread David E Ehresman
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools No. That reclaim process would process a maximum of tapes

Re: 6.1.3 Server pulled?

2010-01-19 Thread David E Ehresman
1. Tivoli Storage Manager: Flashes - TITLE: Patch 6.1.3.1 for Tivoli Storage Manager to be delivered on or before January 22, 2010 to replace fix-pack 6.1.3.0 - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417521myns=swgtivmynp=OCSSGSG7mync=E - ABSTRACT: The fix pack for Tivoli

archive convert

2010-01-14 Thread David E Ehresman
On unix client tsm 5.5, ballpark how long should I expect it to take to convert 2 filespaces, 2311 directories, and 22532 files after getting ANS5148W The server needs to do a one-time conversion of your archive data before you can continue. This

Re: TSM 5.3.4 Policy problem

2009-12-17 Thread David E Ehresman
If you REALLY want to keep data in TSM for 60 days, you need Update copygroup DOM_SRV ACTIVE MC_90DAYS type=backup verexists=nolimit verdeleted=nolimit retextra=60 retonly=60 Otherwise, multiple backups run during a day can result in files expiring in less than 60 days. David William ZHANG

Lib Manager question

2009-12-16 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a library manager that is sharing a 8 drives in a 3584 library to two tsm instances. All are TSM 5.5.3.0. If I update the path between a drive and one of the instances offline, will the lib manager then not use that drive when allocating drives to that instance? Or will it allocate

Re: TSM 5.x DB and hardware replication

2009-12-16 Thread David E Ehresman
Wanda, In TSM v5, do you find hardware replication to work better than TSM mirroring for replicating the TSM DB and log to a DR site? David Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com 12/15/2009 12:40 PM In prior TSM server versions, replicating the TSM DB and log using hardware replication works fine

Re: ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE.

2009-12-02 Thread David E Ehresman
Your log shows that at 11:32, the CAD tried to start the scheduler and the scheduler failed to contact ther tsm server. Check the logs to find out why. What does dsmerror show for this time frame. Then it shows CAD was restarted at 11:45, but this time only in Webclient mode; in this mode,

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