Re: TSM Suite for Unified Recovery

2011-06-12 Thread David McClelland
No, it is still there - your version of the link is missing the .PDF extension of David's original. Interesting how, as well as formalising this capacity licensing arrangement, IBM has also gone to lengths to include the PVU information gathering mechanism into TSM 6.3 - perhaps acknowledging

Re: Tsm server possibly limiting backup performance

2011-05-27 Thread David McClelland
To make sure we're all talking the same language here, can we agree that 'b' means 'bit' and 'B' means 'byte'? This conversation could get very confusing otherwise... /DMc On 27 May 2011, at 15:09, Richard Rhodes rrho...@firstenergycorp.com wrote: A little more explanation is going to be

Re: Client Autodeployment

2011-04-05 Thread David McClelland
I did try client autodeployment in the lab and, frankly, found it rather disappointing - tricky to troubleshoot and no way of automating it from the command line that we could work out. Didn't experience any random reboots because we couldn't get the damn thing to work! /David Mc Sent from my

Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] LanFree very low performance

2010-11-23 Thread David McClelland
Peppix, It may be helpful if you are able to send to the list the output of a backup session summary report from the client for a backup operation which exhibited this poor performance. Rgds, __ David Mc, London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: SQL mgmtclass rules

2010-11-09 Thread David McClelland
when the dba's remove a data base If your DBAs have gone ahead and deleted a database from the SQL Server end, TSM/TDP will never get a chance to inactivate the object and it will hang around forever as an 'active' object on the TSM Server. Take a look here to see how to deactivate a backup

Re: Change rate performance question

2010-10-26 Thread David McClelland
If you're using Windows or Linux, have you considered what the TSM FastBack product offers in this area? Its block-level incremental-forever volume snapshot backups and instant mount/instant restores may be of appeal to users suffering from traditional backup issues associated with

Re: Restore data from Tivoli Fastback DR-Hub

2010-10-18 Thread David McClelland
Take a look at the IBM FastBack Redbook in section 5.4.3 Hub Server Recovery - in essence, connecting to the DR Hub with FastBack Mount is identical to when you connect to the FastBack Server with FastBack Mount. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247685.html HTH, _ David Mc

Re: No drives are currently available in library

2010-10-04 Thread David McClelland
What does the output of `Q PATH` look like? Is there anything in the activity log (`Q ACT`), around the time that you first encountered the problem, that indicates why they've gone from working to not working? /DMc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Data Domain: Data Domain, and SQL-Backtrack with Sybase databases

2010-08-26 Thread David McClelland
the recommendation cited in this is, Do not enable compression on the TSM Client. __ David McClelland London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: 26 August 2010 21:50 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L

Re: FILE Device class over NFS

2010-08-04 Thread David McClelland
I couldn't see the original posting in this thread, but I'm interested - the only TSM statement I could find in the docs which looks like it might be NFS-related was: Tivoli Storage Manager supports the use of remote file systems or drives for reading and writing storage pool data, database

Re: guide for sizing storage pools

2010-08-04 Thread David McClelland
reclamation is that you don't have to do). ___ David McClelland London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: 04 August 2010 22:41 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] guide for sizing storage

Re: Export server error

2010-07-18 Thread David McClelland
'TSM_SOURCE' was not able to establish a connection. ANS8001I Return code 4. Everything seems to be properly configuredwhat could be wrong or missing? Any help is aprreciated. Mario From: David McClelland t...@networkc.co.uk To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent

Re: Export server error

2010-07-16 Thread David McClelland
Hi Mario, What does a `PING SERVER TSM_DEDALUS` from the source TSM Server admin CLI give you - is this successful? Cheers, //David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: 16 July 2010 22:44 To:

Re: Export server error

2010-07-16 Thread David McClelland
TCPIP xx.xx.xx.xx 15001 Yes Regards, Mario From: David McClelland t...@networkc.co.uk To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 7:56:06 PM Subject: Re: Export server error Hi Mario, What does a `PING SERVER

Re: Downloading client updates - problem with index.storsys.ibm.com

2010-06-14 Thread David McClelland
Hey Farren, Are you using a different browser than before? Google Chrome perhaps? I've come across this before: Notice the pesky space between the /tivoli-storage-management/ and the maintenance? Try removing that space (manually in the address bar) and see if you can browse then - it gets old

Re: Running TDP full db backup and TDP Log backup

2010-06-09 Thread David McClelland
Hi Jody, You don't actually say what database/TDP you're using here - TDP for SQL Server, Oracle etc? //DMc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jody WP Sent: 09 June 2010 13:11 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L]

Re: why create a 12TB LUN

2010-05-28 Thread David McClelland
As coincidence would have it, I'm writing a piece on the UK's Centre for Computing History and paying them a visit this weekend (I'm also donating to them the Compaq Deskpro 8086 which started this digression yesterday). Here's an interesting timeline from their site:

Re: why create a 12TB LUN

2010-05-27 Thread David McClelland
I can beat than - I have a 20MB 'Winchester' HDD inside a working original Compaq Deskpro 8086 from c 1985. Fired her up last week for some photos, still works a treat. (No TSM client for it though...) /DMc Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Strand, Neil

Re: Restoring v5 database from DEVCLASS=SERVER

2010-05-25 Thread David McClelland
However, not sure how fast 400GB will do across a GIG-E (or slower) connection. That is the sum total of 5-server databases Used pages You could always consider cutting down on the overall load by strategic use of incremental TSM DB backups? //DMC London, UK -Original Message- From:

Re: what filespaces are candidate for migration?

2010-05-17 Thread David McClelland
As always, this basic stuff is easily accessible the IBM Docs http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmaix n.doc/anragd55295.htm#idx921 How Server Selects Files to Migrate //DMc, London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: what filespaces are candidate for migration?

2010-05-17 Thread David McClelland
Thanks for the link. No problem. P.S: Nobody is born as expert. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to push myself as more or less an expert than anyone else on here, and I apologise if it came across otherwise. My point is simply that I feel it is polite and good etiquette to the other

Re: Application-side disaster/recovery and DRM

2010-05-05 Thread David McClelland
Does it make sense to include them in DRM process. In case of disaster, these applications are already running in DR site and no need to recover by TSM. That could depend upon the nature of the application and failure (or failures) - if an application or service needs to be recovered to an

Re: Strange error on TDP Oracle with DELETE OBSOLETE

2010-05-05 Thread David McClelland
Bill. Weird. Just a thought though... Is the TCPSERVERADDRESS in your dsm.sys stanza a hostname or an IP address? Could a name lookup of the TSM server be crazily failing from time to time, particularly evident when opening and closing lots of sessions (making lots of name server lookup calls) in

Re: E-mail addreses for TSM administrators

2010-05-05 Thread David McClelland
I was curious about this so I looked it up. Technically speaking, an email address (the user, or local mailbox segment before the @domain.com) *is* actually case sensitive (cf RFC2821 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html) and handling of this is managed by the SMTP server. However, in all my

Re: Unknown error, don't know where to fgo from here

2010-04-29 Thread David McClelland
What is the filesystem you're looking to back up here Gary? Is it a remotely mounted file system? Did it only recently stop working, or has never worked? /DMc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: 29 April 2010

IBM Fix Central - needs fixing

2010-04-29 Thread David McClelland
Grr. Sorry if this has already popped up on here - looks like ftp.software.ibm.com, or at least part of it, is disappearing ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/FTPSITE_IS_SUNSET.html Unfortunately, the IBM Fix Central site - http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ - that I get

Re: del archive log...

2010-04-15 Thread David McClelland
You may want to put the filespec and wildcard in quotes otherwise the shell will expand this first - for example: del arch /vol08_800/* etc... /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of M KIRAN KUMAR Sent: 15 April

Re: Archive completed but not big enough.

2010-04-06 Thread David McClelland
Am I correct in that below it looks like you've performed a `DEL FILESPACE ADOCGWC_10-16-09 *`? This will remove *all* of the data that you've either backed-up or archived belonging to this node. /DMc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: open and close one volume again and again on one session

2010-04-01 Thread David McClelland
William, It looks to me as though this node NETAPP (and judging by the ANR0406 message this is a Linux client local to the TSM Server) started writing its backup data directly to tape about 9 and a half hours into its session (rather than to DISK etc first - perhaps due to a DISK storage pool

Re: Virtual Volumes won't die!

2010-03-31 Thread David McClelland
Shawn, I can't find the reference, but if I remember right (which is always suspect) Virtual Volumes are stored using an archive copy group on the target server, but ignores the Retain Version of the copy group. I'd been hunting for confirmation of this too - here goes:

Re: Issue with TSM Windows BA Client

2010-03-30 Thread David McClelland
Simply perform Google search (* other search engines are available) with the error number you received and the top hit instructs you how to remove it: http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3578highlight=ANS1377W /David Mc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: query node vs select * from nodes

2010-03-26 Thread David McClelland
Fraustratingly, you'll need to use an absolute date (rather than relative date as below) when selecting from the events table. /David Mc --Original Message-- From: Guenther Bergmann Sender: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ReplyTo: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject:

Re: TSM macro vs. script

2010-03-25 Thread David McClelland
I think you'll find this link very useful in general, do feel free to take a look and have a quick search here before posting questions to the list: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp For example, here is information on Scripts and Macros:

Re: TSM macro vs. script

2010-03-25 Thread David McClelland
. /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:t...@networkc.co.uk] Sent: 25 March 2010 09:44 To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] TSM macro vs. script I think you'll find this link very useful in general, do feel free to take a look and have a quick

Re: Archive backup set from location to another

2010-03-24 Thread David McClelland
Hi Timothy, I'm not that hot on Novell, but is your command a little malformed? dsmc arc -optfile=file =C:\dsm.optfile... If this is right, then I've learnt something new today :O) On a Windows client it would be '-optfile=c:\dsm.optfile' has anyone used use the archive command to archive

Re: Archive backup set from location to another

2010-03-24 Thread David McClelland
:\dsm.optfile... You are correct that would be for Windows Thanks David McClelland wrote: Hi Timothy, I'm not that hot on Novell, but is your command a little malformed? dsmc arc -optfile=file =C:\dsm.optfile... If this is right, then I've learnt something new today :O) On a Windows client

Re: Archive backup set from location to another

2010-03-24 Thread David McClelland
backing up the real one we are backing up a copy but the archive doesn't know its a copy it thinks it is the real one. so somehow we need to tell the archive domain to back it up anyway. Tim David McClelland wrote: The OS definitely seem to think that the files they are a-changing - I'd consider

Re: Error in sqlserver backups

2010-03-24 Thread David McClelland
This one has appeared on here before: Search for 'merge test' in here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21230975 Changing backup management classes The following message may appear when changing management classes for backups: ANS0328E (RC45) The specified objects failed the

Re: SErvername stanza in dsm.opt in Unix systems

2010-03-23 Thread David McClelland
Unix is inherently a multi-user system. dsm.sys is the 'system'-wide options file - dsm.opt is the user-specific options file and points to a particular stanza in the dsm.sys file. Potentially, every user on a multi-user on a Unix system could have a different dsm.opt file (pointed to by the

Re: Celerra NDMP Sanity Check

2010-03-23 Thread David McClelland
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Celerra NDMP Sanity Check On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:38 PM, David McClelland wrote: Hi Nick, I did have a look for my old notes earlier today but I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank (they'd be from over 5 years ago...). In summary (from what I remember) the customer

Re: SErvername stanza in dsm.opt in Unix systems

2010-03-23 Thread David McClelland
You might have to ask IBM that one, I'm sure it's a hangover from the days when ADSM was first kicking around when Windows was much less of a multi-user system than now. Instead, as already stated elsewhere, Windows provides the -OPTFILE option. /David Mc London, UK -Original Message-

Re: Expiration Questions

2010-03-23 Thread David McClelland
Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David McClelland Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:07 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expiration Questions Hi Eric, When you say, We have a 30 day policy, could you send

Re: Multiple instances on the same server

2010-03-22 Thread David McClelland
For Windows users, there was also something about the TSM Management Console MMC snap-in not supporting more than 4 instances of TSM Server at once. This wouldn't stop you from *running* more than 4 instances, but you wouldn't be able to manage more than four from the Management Console

Re: Celerra NDMP Sanity Check

2010-03-22 Thread David McClelland
, the basic configuration was pretty much as per the TSM NDMP docs, nothing much sticks in my mind as being Celerra-specific. Keep in mind that my info might be a little out of date now, but I'm sure any major game-changes would be clear in the IBM docs. Hope that helps, /David McClelland London, UK

Re: Expiration Questions

2010-03-19 Thread David McClelland
Hi Eric, When you say, We have a 30 day policy, could you send the output of a `Q COPYGROUP` for the relevant management class? Cheers, David McClelland London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: 19 March

Re: Domain to kill all extra versions while waiting to remove node

2010-03-18 Thread David McClelland
Hi Gary, So, in summary the business end of this copygroup is like this to my understanding: VerExist 1 (i.e. TSM will retain a single version of any objects which have been modified (and still exist) upon the client) VerDelete 0 (i.e. TSM will remove all references to any objects deleted (and

Re: finding out information deletion of file

2010-03-18 Thread David McClelland
ACTIVE to INACTIVE (i.e. modified or deleted). However, I'd always go with Wanda's suggestion first - much less onerous all around to check out the client's dsmsched.log if it's available. Rgds, /David McClelland London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: NDMP file level restore

2010-03-17 Thread David McClelland
Sam: out of interest, what is your NAS box here? /DMc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Sheppard Sent: 17 March 2010 18:02 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP file level restore We are testing NDMP/TOC in TSM

Re: force cancel session

2010-03-10 Thread David McClelland
Have you tried `CANCEL SESSION SESSION_NUMBER` from the TSM Server administrative command line? /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: 10 March 2010 08:38 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Long running backup pinning log

2010-03-08 Thread David McClelland
Zoltan, It's the large gap between Systemstate backup finished and d$ finished that interests me. Particularly as '72,395 total objects inspected' doesn't seem like a very large number (for a Windows server, that's probably not a whole lot more than the standard system files), and almost

ANR8855E ACSAPI(acs_mount) response with unsuccessful status, status=STATUS_LIBRARY_FAILURE

2010-03-04 Thread David McClelland
Hi Guys, I'm hoping someone with a little more ACSLS experience than I might be able to point me in the right direction with this one. Fundamentally, I'm witnessing seemingly random failures when mounting volumes in an ACSLS-managed STK L700 library. A cart which fails to mount in one

Re: Incrasing the amount of system data stored in the TSM database

2010-02-20 Thread David McClelland
Not sure if this is what you're looking to keep - take a look at the SET SUMMARYRETENTION and SET EVENTRETENTION commands: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmmsm unn.doc/b_adminref_solaris396.htm#dqx2r_cmd_summaryretention_set

Re: Implementing LANFree data Movement - WIN Storage Agent Server Requirements

2010-01-14 Thread David McClelland
Yes, you'll certainly need Fibre Channel cards for your Storage Agent client - the whole point of LANfree data movement is that data is being moved (backed up/restored) does not traverse the LAN but instead moves directly between the host and the data storage device (be it tape or, more rarely,

Re: TSM license per TB

2009-12-31 Thread David McClelland
I'm seeing it being offered to various customers in the UK as well too over the last few months. /David Mc London, UK --Original Message-- From: Grigori Solonovitch Sender: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ReplyTo: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM license per

Re: tsm tdp oracle rman backups

2009-12-30 Thread David McClelland
Agreed, I can't see how a RETEXTRA of above 0 will benefit you as, without some hacking around, you wouldn't be able to use RMAN to recover that data from TSM. Depending upon the size of your database backups, it could be substantially adding to your storage footprint. Has anyone else come

Re: Copy Tape pool for a selected set of tapes

2009-11-25 Thread David McClelland
Storage pool backups take place at the storage pool level - to achieve what you're after, this node would need to be migrated to its own primary storage pool hierarchy and a backup storage pool operation run against this. So, you'd have to: create a new storage pool hierarchy for this node (and

Re: TDP for Oracle in AIX - Problem

2009-11-13 Thread David McClelland
Hi Wellington, Is anything showing up on your TSM Server actlog at the same time? I'm wondering if you have enough mount points allocated for that client node (e.g. UPDATE NODE NODE_TDPO MAXNUMMP=4). Also, for RAC config best practices, check out this useful article from IBM.COM:

Re: TDP for Oracle in AIX - Problem

2009-11-13 Thread David McClelland
But, I need to allocate two channels coz it Oracle 9i RAC DB(2 nodes)... That statement doesn't ring true with me - cards on the table, I'm not a DBA (so I may be missing a finer point of your Oracle config), but from working with quite a few RAC DB backups (and restores) using RMAN/TDPO over the

Re: different cartridge sizes in one library

2009-11-11 Thread David McClelland
There's a link for that: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmaix n.doc/anragd55108.htm#mixdevtype In fact, there are a few links - another: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246502.pdf (section 5.11 - Mixed Media Libraries). Briefly, yes, you can

Re: Which is the truth? Inconsistencies between Scheduler Log Summary and collected events

2009-10-26 Thread David McClelland
Hi Gernot, just to confirm, you've only one backup logged (i.e. relating to this summary below) in this logfile, not a whole week's worth of backups? I wasn't sure if that's what you meant by There is only one scheduler protocol in the file. /DMc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM journaling

2009-10-26 Thread David McClelland
If nobody has pointed it out already, perhaps this is the article that you're looking for: Steps required to setup the TSM Journaling Service in a MSCS environment http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019context=SSSQWCcontext=SSG

Re: MPIO for tape libraries

2009-10-12 Thread David McClelland
: David McClelland [mailto:t...@networkc.co.uk] Sent: 11 October 2009 18:18 To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] MPIO for tape libraries I'm not quite sure I know what you mean by 'defining logical tape drives', without a VTL or somesuch. Can you expand technically upon what you mean

Re: Migration for Windows-based installation

2009-10-12 Thread David McClelland
Are you looking purely at a lift and shift hardware change here, or at a clean installation of TSM Server (at 5.5.3 for example) and migrating clients into the new instance? Cheers, /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: Migration for Windows-based installation

2009-10-12 Thread David McClelland
that answer your question? Kurt On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18, David McClelland t...@networkc.co.uk wrote: Are you looking purely at a lift and shift hardware change here, or at a clean installation of TSM Server (at 5.5.3 for example) and migrating clients into the new instance? Cheers

Re: MPIO for tape libraries

2009-10-11 Thread David McClelland
Yes: for example, the IBMtape/Atape etc device driver can help your host to manage data path failover (DPF) for your drives and control path failover (CPF) for the library's robotics. It can also help with its dynamic load balancing feature as it tries to ensure that, if multiple paths exist from

Re: MPIO for tape libraries

2009-10-11 Thread David McClelland
I'm not quite sure I know what you mean by 'defining logical tape drives', without a VTL or somesuch. Can you expand technically upon what you mean? From my experience, the majority of failures involving tape drives have been down to drive/head mechanics failure or tape cartridge errors (although

Re: MS-SQL TDP log restore question

2009-10-08 Thread David McClelland
I haven't done this myself, but I'd hazard a guess that if there's no standard way of doing it from the TDPSQL GUI (I don't have it in front of me, but I don't recall that there is...) the standard TSM BA Client might be a useful place to take a look if it's possible (configured to use the TDPSQL

Re: LAN-free question

2009-10-06 Thread David McClelland
Yes, it can read from local storage - you'll be writing/reading it directly to/from tape, not sending it over the LAN to the TSM Server: that's the functionality that the SAN Storage Agent software on your client allows. /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: LAN-free question

2009-10-06 Thread David McClelland
My experience pre-6.1 is that it's separately a licensed product and, as far as I'm aware, is packaged on a different TSM media disk - most customers who I work with these days tend to download their TSM code from IBM Passport Advantage, where it's available as a separate download package. I

Re: TSM SAN Storage Agent on HP Blade - sharing disk and tape?

2009-09-30 Thread David McClelland
(0)7876 216782 ü Conference: +44 (0)208 609 7400 Code: 331817 + Email: steven.langd...@cat.com David McClelland t...@networkc.co.uk Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 29/09/2009 14:01 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM for Databases

2009-09-30 Thread David McClelland
I recently downloaded a 5.5.1 TDP for Oracle for Solaris package (C1CQ0ML.tar.gz) from IBM Passport Advantage, and there's a 5.5.1.1 patch also available on the IBM FTP site (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/tivoli

TSM SAN Storage Agent on HP Blade - sharing disk and tape?

2009-09-29 Thread David McClelland
Hi Guys, A customer has just come up with a request to run the TSM SAN Storage Agent on a dedicated blade within an HP BladeSystem c7000 blade chassis. Is anyone running with a SAN Storage Agent (it'll be Linux x86 with TSM 5.5) in this kind of config? I'm concerned about shared HBA/fibre

Re: TDP SQL Backup error

2009-09-25 Thread David McClelland
Does anything else get logged into the SQL Server error log Bill? A quick search on the rc = 428 bit brings up something that might be worth looking into: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg35535.html /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-21 Thread David McClelland
Just to be uber-picky, FILE volumes now do allow multiple sessions/processes to read/write concurrently to a single FILE volume from TSM 5.5 onwards (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmms munn.doc/anrsgd5515.htm#wq28). The big picture as I've read it is that

Re: Calculate total data backed up on tape

2009-09-18 Thread David McClelland
Joni, Various ways to skin this cat. Is there a naming convention that links together your tape storage pools? Getting stuff from the OCCUPANCY table might be pretty accurate - this query splits up PRIMARY and COPY tape usage, based upon a convention of *TAPE and *COPY naming convention. select

Re: TSM architecture

2009-09-18 Thread David McClelland
Immediate quick thought is that whilst much of the client backup activity for a TSM Server may well be overnight, most TSM Servers perform their not-insignificant essential housekeeping during the day which, depending upon the load of your TSM Server, may be a considerable drain on the system's

Anyone using ZFS and TSM Server on Solaris?

2009-09-17 Thread David McClelland
Hi Team, A kind-of follow up to my post from earlier this week (http://adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2009-09/msg00115.html) around the use of TSM Server with ZFS volumes on Solaris 10. I'm curious as to whether anyone else out there is using ZFS for DB, log or stgpool volumes (either raw or

Solaris TSM Server and ZFS for raw partitions

2009-09-15 Thread David McClelland
Guys, I'm scratching around trying to find out if TSM/ZFS play ball when it comes to raw volumes for DB and Log volumes. The published IBM recommendation for Solaris DB, Log and Stgpool volumes is still to use raw partitions for 5.5, but I'm not seeing anything specific in the way of support

IBM Passport Advantage unavailable?

2009-09-11 Thread David McClelland
Anyone else having problem connecting to IBM Passport Advantage to download TSM software: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/index.html It's been unavailable all morning here with a 504 Gateway Timeout error - is there another way in? /David Mc London, UK

Re: IBM Passport Advantage unavailable?

2009-09-11 Thread David McClelland
And what do you know - after being offline all morning, it's *magically* started working again within 10 minutes of me sending this email. Perhaps it's like the online Apple Store and there'll be some new goodies on there for me now to take a look at :O) /David Mc London, UK From: David

Re: HSM Node Failing

2009-09-02 Thread David McClelland
At first glance, the errors below look to me like more of an issue regarding the TSM Journaling Engine on this client, rather than any HSM component. When you say 'client is failing', can you give a little more description of the symptoms which suggest this failure, perhaps some output from your

Re: HSM Node Failing

2009-09-02 Thread David McClelland
there is an issue on the node itself. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:43 AM, David McClelland t...@networkc.co.ukwrote: At first glance, the errors below look to me like more of an issue regarding the TSM Journaling Engine on this client, rather than any HSM component. When you say 'client is failing', can

Re: LTO4 and compression

2009-08-27 Thread David McClelland
What are your device class settings for the 'LTO4CLASS' device class? `q devcl LTO4CLASS f=d` might show that your device class configuration isn't enabling compression at the moment. It also depends completely upon the nature of the data being stored on tape - already compressed data (e.g. media

Re: ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

2009-08-17 Thread David McClelland
Hi Keith, I've worked with ALMS on customer sites in the past where a 3584 needed to be shared between multiple TSM Servers and having a single TSM Server instance (i.e. the TSM library manager) as a single point of failure wasn't deemed acceptable. Also, partitioning of physical library into

Re: Change backup copy group settings

2009-08-14 Thread David McClelland
on volume of data managed from before, then run an 'AUDIT LIC' and then run the 'Q AUDITOCC TESTNODE' once again to give you the delta. HTH, /David McClelland London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: 14 August 2009 00

Re: Export NODE from Windows TSm Server to AIX TSM Server

2009-08-12 Thread David McClelland
from 2nd TSM server or exporting node dirextly to 2nd server. Thanks Sandeep - Original Message - From: David McClelland david.mcclell...@networkc.co.uk To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Export NODE from Windows TSm Server to AIX TSM Server

Re: Export NODE from Windows TSm Server to AIX TSM Server

2009-08-11 Thread David McClelland
Hi Sandeep, yes this is perfectly possible. /David Mc London, UK Sent from my iPhone On 11 Aug 2009, at 10:55, Sandeep jain sandeep.j...@dcmds.com wrote: Hello friends Is it possible to export node from windows TSM Server to AIX TSM server. I have got one situation where we have to merge

Re: Another perspective on ridiculous retention

2009-08-04 Thread David McClelland
Questions flood into my head along the lines of 'what's the difference between a backup and an archive' (obviously not in a TSM sense) and if/ how should they be treated differently practically with TSM (e.g. a seperate TSM Server instance for archival purposes, as some places do etc). /David Mc

Re: SV: tsm server help

2009-08-03 Thread David McClelland
Hi Lori, Okay, back to basics here: I have the backuppool set to 5 migration processes. Although 5 are running, only one tape drive is being used Are you sure 5 migrations processes are running? The one useful output I don't see here is a that from 'Q PROC' - what else is contending for the

Re: SV: tsm server help

2009-08-03 Thread David McClelland
Good spot, that'll want to be the first thing you fix! /DMc London, UK Sent from my iPhone On 3 Aug 2009, at 17:18, Michael Green mishagr...@gmail.com wrote: Lori out of 5 drives, 2 drives (4 and 5) are unavail, and Paths to drives 1-3 are offline. So you have only 1 drive accessible (Drive

Re: TSM 5.5 using LANFree backup really slow

2009-08-01 Thread David McClelland
What is the nature of the data that you're backing up here? Large files/objects or lots of smaller files/objects? The classic recommendation for SAN backups direct to tape is that it's best used only for larger objects (eg database backups, TDPs or disk image etc) to ensure optimal

Re: dsmcutil invalid argument

2009-06-11 Thread David McClelland
I can see it, I think. Your /optfile: doesn't have a terminating after the path to the options file. /David Mc London, UK http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcclelland -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Large Sent: 11 June 2009

Re: Internal compression?

2009-06-11 Thread David McClelland
Not according to my mail client you didn't Kelly, Richard just pipped you! ;-) David McClelland London, UK http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcclelland -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: 11 June 2009 19:41 To: ADSM-L

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2009-06-03 Thread David McClelland
Yup, it's a sticky alright, had a look earlier. /David Mc London, UK Sent from my iPhone On 3 Jun 2009, at 17:00, Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:42:05 +0100, Steven Langdale steven.langd...@cat.com said: Did I misread the OP? It looks like he is requesting that

Re: Old Web interface

2009-06-02 Thread David McClelland
Hi Yudi, You should be able to grab it from here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/tools/unix/R EADME_TSM52Admin.html Cheers, David McClelland London, UK http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcclelland -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: SV: List of files in filespace

2009-05-29 Thread David McClelland
Try 'BACKUPS', rather than 'BACKUP' as your table name and that should see you right. /David Mc London, UK http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcclelland -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Arthur Poon Sent: 29 May 2009 16:43 To:

Re: TDP Oracle failures

2009-05-28 Thread David McClelland
Hi Matt, Does the TSM Server activity log reveal anything - any of the associated nodes attempting to log in by being denied? Also, do you have any 'special characters' in the password? I understand this has caused problems in the past. And, of course - has this TDP client ever worked? Or has

Re: using dsmc to retrieving large number files

2009-05-21 Thread David McClelland
Any chance the data has been consolidated onto fewer volumes between the archive and the retrieve taking place? Migration, reclamation etc? /David Mc London, UK Sent from my iPhone On 21 May 2009, at 19:00, rwoods tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I archived 1000 files from a single file

Re: using dsmc to retrieving large number files

2009-05-21 Thread David McClelland
Okay, just checking the obvious stuff: the archive went directly to tape (four tape drives), not via a disk storage pool? And I presume that a search in the TSM activity log during the retrieval shows (at least) four separate tapes being mounted to service the retrieve request? /David Mc London,

Re: How to read TSM content without TSM??

2009-05-20 Thread David McClelland
According to the UK's judiciary system, these days the meaning of 'life' is about 4 years (with good behaviour). Sorry, no technical value to add to this discussion whatsoever, only a sideswipe at the UK lawlords. /David Mc London, UK -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

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