Re: Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
Do you have paths for both the library and drive defined for tsmu on tsmlibm? Becky -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Shared Tape Library I have

Moving 3995 optical libraries

2005-01-11 Thread Davidson, Becky
We are moving both of our 3995 optical libraries from Missouri to Ohio. Has anyone ever done this? If you have is it absolutely necessary to check out each and every optical disk or is there some better more time efficient way? I am going to call IBM support but often there is knowledge here

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2005-01-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
For what it is worth we just moved our 3584 from St Louis MO to Cincinnati Ohio. We left all of the tapes in the library and added some that we had been storing onsite also to the library. When we brought things back up we did a audit library and then a checkin search=yes status=private. It

Re: Include/Exclude Question

2004-09-01 Thread Davidson, Becky
My finding is that if you have several stanzas Server A ... Server B And you do a dsmc it will automatically connect to server B and not server A. That is important to us because if we have an oracle database connecting with one node name and the client files being backed up as a different node

Re: dsmadmc using non-root id access

2004-08-09 Thread Davidson, Becky
Yes no problem. We wrote a shell menu that opens at the tail end of the .profile which the options we want them to do. A combination of logging in, running a console session, checking in tapes, labeling tapes, etc. When they exit the menu it automatically exits the machine. -Original

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

2004-08-02 Thread Davidson, Becky
Is there more information in the activity log about what this return code 14 is? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fred johanson Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to

Re: Tape Reclamation Failing

2004-07-26 Thread Davidson, Becky
How many tapes do you have in the onsite primary pool and the offsite pool? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape Reclamation Failing I'm getting the

Re: TSM 5.1 on AIX 5.2

2004-07-01 Thread Davidson, Becky
We haven't had a problem. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 5.1 on AIX 5.2 We originally decided to put TSM 5.2 on the AIX 5.2 system for the

TDP for Oracle discovery

2004-06-28 Thread Davidson, Becky
More a discovery then a problem. We are running Tivoli Data Protection for oracle version 5.1.5.0 on aix 5.2 We discovered last week that we had data going to tapes that we did not expect. After a great deal of research we discovered the problem. In the Redbook and manual for TDP for Oracle

Re: anyone have script for multi-session/multi-filespace restore?

2004-06-23 Thread Davidson, Becky
We were told that the best way to do this at least with Tivoli Data Protection for SAP R/3 was to have each thread go to a different storage pool that way no thread will ask for a tape that another thread is using. We thought that was silly and pushed back. Hopefully it will be fixed. Becky

Re: Common Store and Tivoli

2004-06-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
We are using it for SAP documents and archiving. It has it's own tsm software server but shares a physical server with 2 other tsm software servers and the commonstore server instances (4). We have disk pools, optical pools, and tape pools. We have a domain for each Commonstore Instance. I

Re: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL communications failur es

2004-05-24 Thread Davidson, Becky
Any chance there is another system out there with the same ip address? Good luck Becky -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Possibly OT: How to

Re: Library sharing

2004-03-31 Thread Davidson, Becky
make sure that /dev/rmt1 on source server is the same drive as /dev/rmt1 on the client server We discovered that they didn't always come in the same. It sound like the server to server communications is working fine. Becky -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Question about recovery log

2004-03-25 Thread Davidson, Becky
Define the new and add it and then delete the old. Don't forget to mirror. -Original Message- From: Thach, Kevin G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about recovery log I'm confused about how I should go about

Re: TDPO for Oracle

2004-03-23 Thread Davidson, Becky
We had an issue with this and discovered that it was looking in the api directory for the dsm.sys and not the ba/bin directory so we just put a link in api to bin and it worked. -Original Message- From: Josh-Daniel Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:20 AM To:

Re: TDPO for Oracle

2004-03-23 Thread Davidson, Becky
an INCLEXCL file, hence, you'll backup everything on your client server during your regular client backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Davidson, Becky Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDPO

db snapshot to recover

2004-01-09 Thread Davidson, Becky
Can you use a db snapshot to recover a database in a dr situation? I can't think of why not but I would rather be safe then sorry. Thanks! Becky Davidson Data Manager EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group voice: 314-259-7589 fax: 314-877-8589 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3494 and tapes

2003-11-26 Thread Davidson, Becky
Try long term archive tapes. Mark them as offsite when you send them to overflow so they can't be pulled. If you know that your retention is 2 weeks then take out the tapes written yesterday. It is a matter of reviewing your retentions and storage pool configurations to see what tapes won't be

Re: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup

2003-10-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
did they create the link to the correct libobk.a from I believe $ORACLE_HOME/lib to /usr/tivoli/tsm/...? -Original Message- From: Dale Gieseke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup Greeting all, My DBAs

Re: Antwort: Re: Del volume on library manager that belongs to li brary client

2003-10-07 Thread Davidson, Becky
If you do a q vol 10L1 what result do you receive? Can you check the tape in as scratch now that it is owned by lib_manager? -Original Message- From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 2:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Re: Del volume on

Re: Del volume on library manager that belongs to library client

2003-10-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
update libv libname volname status=scr do this on the library manager. I just did it on a 5.1.x server and had no problems. -Original Message- From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Del volume on library manager

Re: backint restore core dump b008b

2003-10-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
I know that when we tried to restore a SAP database via backint on a different machine then it was backed up from we needed to make the hostname the same name as it was on the original machine. I don't know if this is exactly what you are trying to do or if this was the same error we received.

Re: How have you got your fiber-attached LTO drives connected to your TSM server?

2003-09-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
We have 21 lto drives that connect to 3 8 port hubs (each in the lto cabinet they service) that connect 1 1 gb switch We then have 3-4 paths to each of the hosts. We have 21 drives on the other side of the room from the switch so this made it cleaner for us to make changes. Becky -Original

Re: Unix TSM

2003-08-19 Thread Davidson, Becky
Yes I have 1 AIX server with 2 tsm servers on it with 4 libraries attached. 1 3494 was SCSI now fibre, 1 3584 always fibre, 2 3995 optical libraries both SCSI. The 3494 and 3584 are shared between the two tsm servers and one other. The 3995s are only used by one of the tsm servers. Becky

Re: Polling sessions Commonstore

2003-08-14 Thread Davidson, Becky
Are you seeing anything in the CommonStore logs? If you do an archadmin it will show what CommonStore is doing. Becky -Original Message- From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Polling sessions Commonstore Hello,

Re: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?

2003-08-12 Thread Davidson, Becky
How large is your SAP database? Is the tsm server on the same physical server as the SAP database? If not what kind of network do you have between the two? Are you using multiplexing in TDP for R/3? Is your CPU maxed on the SAP database server during the backups? What kind of disk is your SAP

Re: TSM Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.x questions

2003-03-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
We went straight from 4.1.2 to 5.1.5 with no stop at 4.2.x and few if any problems. We were at AIX 4.3.3 ML 9 -Original Message- From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.x questions

Re: inaccessible tapes

2003-03-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
Are you getting any errors in the activity log? There may be problems with those tapes. Do a search with those tapes in your activity log and see if there are tape or drive errors. -Original Message- From: Wojciech Zukowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:18

Re: Tape Library Sharing 2nd Time

2003-03-24 Thread Davidson, Becky
You do checkins and checkouts on the library server. To let the library manager know that a tape belongs to a client do an audit library from that client. I don't remember if the path function came in 4.2 or 5.1 but if you have paths then you only define on the server not the client. Steps 1 -

Re: IBM/TSM web site errors

2003-03-20 Thread Davidson, Becky
They have a link on the front page of the software site that says they have network issues. I think most of IBM is down because I can't get documentation on SAN microcode. -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Tape sharing - how does TSM handle duplicate device file name s

2003-03-18 Thread Davidson, Becky
You just need to know which drive equals which drive. When you define the drives and/or paths make sure that if drive 1 is /dev/rmt/0stc on the master that drive 1 on the slave is /dev/rmt/8stc. If they don't match you will have problems. Becky -Original Message- From: StorageGroupAdmin

Re: Offsite Volumes

2003-03-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
Do you include the database tapes in reporting and bringing back? -Original Message- From: Mahesh Tailor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite Volumes Hello! TSM 5.1.6.2 on AIX 4.3.3.10 I am running DRM and I am seeing

Re: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades

2003-01-22 Thread Davidson, Becky
If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32bit to Aix 5.1 64bit then do Aix and then Tivoli but you must do Tivoli before you do your first backup so essentially at the same time. If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32 bit to Aix 5.1 32bit then you have flexibility and you can do it for the most

windows 2000 archive

2003-01-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
I did an archive on a Windows 2000 system using tsm client 5.1.5 We then uninstalled the software that had been running as part of a disaster recovery test I then did a retrieve of everything I archived. We seem to be missing the registry information. Do archives not back that up? I have looked

Re: AIX question

2003-01-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
Delete the two hdisk again. Run cfgmgr again. Check it and if you see the same type of pattern of 1 vpath showing 4 and the other 2 showing only one then the shark guy needs to recheck his configuration. If you see a different pattern try running cfgmgr again. There was a problem awhile back

Re: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror

2003-01-02 Thread Davidson, Becky
How are your dbv defined? Are they files or logical volumes? Can you get in from another server or is all contact into the server hosed? When you say you are having a problem with a disk what kind of problem are you having? Is it SCSI, SSA, NAS or SAN attached? Becky -Original

Re: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror

2003-01-02 Thread Davidson, Becky
on logical volumes. And they are SCSI attached. Diana At 12:52 PM 1/2/03 -0600, Davidson, Becky wrote: How are your dbv defined? Are they files or logical volumes? Can you get in from another server or is all contact into the server hosed? When you say you are having a problem with a disk what kind

Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files

2002-12-19 Thread Davidson, Becky
Another thought is that when they deleted the files the files were still open so there is still some link to them. If you can unmount and remount the filesystem the problem may go away. Becky -Original Message- From: Alexander Verkooyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December

Re: Atape Help

2002-12-18 Thread Davidson, Becky
They are normal yet they mean you took some hit on a tape drive. You will probably notice that the date time stamp on the files matches errors in your errpt. If you have a series of them for one drive they definitely point to a problem. We get them every so often. We don't get alot unless a

Re: TSM Certification

2002-12-18 Thread Davidson, Becky
I know there is or at least was Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation which would make you a Tivoli Certified Consultant. That is what I have done. Becky -Original Message- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX 5)

2002-12-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
Lisa for whatever reason the manual are still on tivoli.com Here are the Oracle ones http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/DataProtectio nforOracle2.2.1.html and here are the rest http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TD_PROD_LIST. html you have

Re: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX 5)

2002-12-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
a different name (libobk64.a) than the one that has always been. Do I relink it the same way with the same old name, or do I use the new name? And, the 5.1.5 manual is for MS SQL onlyit's time for my medication, now. thanks Becky, lisa Davidson, Becky

Re: Management Class and TDP for R/3

2002-12-11 Thread Davidson, Becky
For my SAP systems I have 4 management classes SID_saplog1 SID_saplog2 SID_sapincr SID_cold this is for tsm cold backups and restores. I also use the TSM expiration but we have been thinking about using TDP versioning but it is one of those don't fix what isn't broken. TDP uses the archive

Re: 3494 Partitioning or TSM Library Manager

2002-12-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
I have implemented the TSM Library Manager feature. I have 14 drives shared among 4 TSM servers. When I tried the categories and use whatever was available if tsmsvr1 tried for drive 1 a couple of times and tsmsvr2 was using it then tsmsvr1 marked it offline. It made for a huge mess. Now I

Re: HELP NEEDED : can not recall data from 3584 library

2002-11-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
I think the first thing I would do is move the data off the tapes to another tape. Then I would try the recall again. It appears the tape is going bad. -Original Message- From: rachida elouaraini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devices and location code question in aix

2002-11-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
Go check out the PCI guide on the IBM web page for your machine. hdisk0 and hdisk2 are scsi internal hdisk1, hdisk5, hdisk14, hdisk4, hdisk8, hdisk11 are attached to one adapter and are probably in the same drawer but that is easier to tell in diag under task selection, ssa service aids, link

Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool

2002-11-07 Thread Davidson, Becky
One of your drives is offline. Try bringing that back online and see how things go. You only have 2 drives and if the other is busy then it will fail. -Original Message- From: Kempadasiah, Umesh [mailto:u.kempad;SOUTHERNCO.COM] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool

2002-11-07 Thread Davidson, Becky
for configuring Tape storage pool I rectified the drive problem, both drives are online.still I am getting the same error. Did I miss anything ? Thanks and regards Umesh K -Original Message- From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:Becky.Davidson;SLBG.COM] Sent: Thu 11/7

Re: Volume not available?

2002-11-05 Thread Davidson, Becky
Are any of your drives offline? Do you have any drives available? What happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes? becky -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01;LOUISVILLE.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Volume not

Re: Does IBM want us to make local client libraries?

2002-10-31 Thread Davidson, Becky
I would disagree with their lack of communications. With the Tivoli news information was sent out on almost a weekly basis. They also offered a free online class introducing people to the new web area. I was the only one on the conference call I attended so I got a personal tour of everything.

Re: tape missing under q libv (HELP)

2002-10-29 Thread Davidson, Becky
have you tried doing and audit vol on the volume? -Original Message- From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:Chetan.Ravnikar;SYNOPSYS.COM] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tape missing under q libv (HELP) Hello I have a strange situation, when doing a

Re: TDP for SAP R/3 versus BMC SQL Backtrack

2002-10-25 Thread Davidson, Becky
We used to run SQL Backtrack and we now run TDP for SAP R/3. In my opinion here are the differences SQL Backtrack Benefits - great compression ratio - seems to handle well large databases Disadvantages - licenses are based on size of database if you grow alot (which we do) you spend alot of

Re: Transferring data from an old server to a new one.

2002-10-22 Thread Davidson, Becky
Tim From what kind of server to what kind of server? What kind of disk are you on and how is it attached? Can you attach your old tape hardware to the new one? We moved servers but we were moving AIX to AIX and could just disconnected the disk tsm was on and then reattach to the new server.

Re: Oracle and TDP issues

2002-10-22 Thread Davidson, Becky
We used to for our SAP databases but our databases grow to fast to support the constant size change license purchases from SQL Backtrack. We switched to TDP and it has helped because we lost the finger pointing between BMC and Tivoli when we had a backtrack problem. Becky -Original

Re: Sizing for 2 TB Oracle DB backup

2002-10-15 Thread Davidson, Becky
We are just under 2TB with SAP. We are sitting on a shark. We are using 10 3590E1A drives attached to 2 San Data Gateways attached to 2 2109 S16 switches with 4 fibre adapters on the host. Our tsm server and database server are the same server. We backup in around 7-8 hours for a full backup.

Re: Slow (1 MB a minute) brrestore from LTO

2002-10-09 Thread Davidson, Becky
As for shared memory I don't think TDP For Sap R/3 supports shared memory anymore. In our testing we have been turning off compression and been getting better performance. TDP's compression only removes white space. What performance issues have you seen with 3.2.0.11? We have experienced some

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-22 Thread Davidson, Becky
How many threads and multiplexing? What kind of machine is the SAP db and what is the TSM db on? What kind of drives? We are at 1.5 with 7 hours and are always looking to tune -Original Message- From: Clarence Beukes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:52 AM

lto specialist

2002-08-21 Thread Davidson, Becky
Has anyone else experienced the need to on an almost weekly basis reboot their IBM 3584 so that you can get access to the LTO Specialist again? Everything else seems to work fine I just can't get into the gui. I am running at library code level 2460. Any thoughts or wisdom would be greatly

Re: failed brrestore deleted my entire SAP database

2002-08-11 Thread Davidson, Becky
What are your expiration parameters for both tdp and tsm? When was your last backup? -Original Message- From: J Sorensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failed brrestore deleted my entire SAP database I ran the brrestore

Re: Expiring TDP for Oracle data

2002-08-02 Thread Davidson, Becky
check what your archive class looks like too. I know for TDP for SAP R/3 that is what is uses. -Original Message- From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiring TDP for Oracle data Hello; I've been

Re: expire inventory question

2002-07-23 Thread Davidson, Becky
What about retv for t=a. I know that on TDP for SAP is it does everything as archives so it may actually be your archives that aren't going away. You do need to make sure that retv is greater then or equal to how long you keep them in TDP. Becky -Original Message- From: Rob Schroeder

Re: experience in DB Adm

2002-07-18 Thread Davidson, Becky
If you do a q db then you will see a line that shows the Maximum Extension then just do an extend db number with the number being a number the same size or smaller then the available space in the extension column. -Original Message- From: Luciano Ariceto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch

2002-07-12 Thread Davidson, Becky
Another thing to look at is q stg name f=d at what the reclamation level is -Original Message- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch Hi Zbyszek, Just try this one

Re: SAP Backup Recovery During a Media Failure

2002-06-11 Thread Davidson, Becky
If you are using TDP and have the retries set it will just retry on a new tape. At least that has been my experience Becky -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAP Backup Recovery During a

Re: LTO don't need clean up?

2002-06-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
I have had the same concern. I also have had two drives replaced because tapes were stuck. It is an interesting theory...instead of fixing the drive when a tape is stuck they just replace it. Definitely different from the 3590s. Becky -Original Message- From: Kauffman, Tom

Re: ANU2508E Wrong write state- any ideas?

2002-05-31 Thread Davidson, Becky
We received an error similiar to thisdid you receive any operating system errors? Ours was shark attached and ended up being an fibre apar. -Original Message- From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANU2508E

Re: Mirrored DELETE DBVOL, LOGVOL?

2002-05-09 Thread Davidson, Becky
create a third mirror. Create it and then delete the other thus you are not exposed -Original Message- From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mirrored DELETE DBVOL, LOGVOL? Oh, I guess it's just my paranoid

Re: TSM Database Location

2002-04-25 Thread Davidson, Becky
Ilja We have some of our database volumes on the shark and I still mirror my db volumes. You mirror not only to protect from disk errors but also to protect from corruption. I believe that there was a discussion recently of someone who had a corrupted database volume. A shark will not protect

Re: dbvol create error on AIX

2002-04-12 Thread Davidson, Becky
is /var/adsmdbl the filesystem? I think the only ways you can do it is the logical volume which would be /dev/radsmdbl in this case or a file /var/adsmdbl/filename but not as a filesystem. Becky -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12,

Re: AIX Disk questions

2002-04-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
Go in to diag, task selection, ssa service aids, and link verification. Scroll down to the adapter that they are connected to and see if you can see all of them and they have numbers in either a1 and a2 or b1 and b2. You may be having problems with a cable. Let me know the results. Becky

Re: tdp r3 and versioning

2002-04-08 Thread Davidson, Becky
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davidson, Becky Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tdp r3 and versioning Has anyone out there used the tdp for r3 versioning instead of expiration? How does it work with disaster recovery? What are the bonuses or detriments? Thanks Becky

tdp r3 and versioning

2002-04-05 Thread Davidson, Becky
Has anyone out there used the tdp for r3 versioning instead of expiration? How does it work with disaster recovery? What are the bonuses or detriments? Thanks Becky Davidson Data Manager/AIX Administrator EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group voice: 314-259-7589 fax: 314-877-8589 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Optical media storage

2002-03-21 Thread Davidson, Becky
We have some worm optical media that we want to start storing outside the optical silo. I want to protect it with some sort of case but I don't have enough of the sleeves that they come in to store them in that. I also need some sort of shelving. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can

Re: 3494 Volume Stealing

2002-03-15 Thread Davidson, Becky
What are the categories used? I would imagine if it didn't do it in 3.7.3 it won't in 4.2.1 I know what we had in 3.1 transferred fine to 4.1.2 Becky -Original Message- From: Orville L. Lantto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple TSM Servers on Same Machine

2002-03-14 Thread Davidson, Becky
We ran option 1 for a long time both with twintailed scsi and a san but have now mostly switched to option 2. We shared all of the drives and frequently ran into problems where tsmsvr1 had a drive and tsmsvr2 tried for awhile to use it and then marked it unavailable until I marked it online.

drm and a shared 3494

2002-03-05 Thread Davidson, Becky
We have a 3584 with 6 3580 (LTO) drives and 3494 with 14 3590E1A drives shared between 3 AIX servers containing 4 TSM servers. The 3590 drives are SCSI attached to 2 san data gateways which are attached to 2 brocade switches and the AIX servers are also attached to the brocade switches. I have

Re: server won't come back up!

2002-03-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
vary on/off volume_name wait=yes/no Try doing a lsvg -p on the volume groups that contain your tsm db and log volumes to make sure that the volumes are available. Did you boot the box between the shutdown and start up of TSM? Becky -Original Message- From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: OFF TOPIC: Oracle DB on ESS.

2002-03-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
What we did was put the indexes, data, log, and rollback in their own filesystems. We then determined what were the hot datafiles and indexes. From that we determined the disk sizes. We used 10.5 for our large filesystems, 5.3 for medium size, and 1.5 for hot small. We then spread the

Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

2002-02-07 Thread Davidson, Becky
I want to say that if you go through the San Data Gateway pages in IBM land there is a link to that off of the documentation pages. I will look closer in a bit but that might help. Becky -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February

Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

2002-02-07 Thread Davidson, Becky
Did you try your fibre channel adapter software? Still looking for other info but I think we installed off of the cd's we received with our adapters. Becky -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Who else got 'Job Spam'?

2002-02-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
Initially I felt left out but I received a copy later...have time you will probably get yours too. She is great for the ego though -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who else got

defining lto drive not looking correct

2002-02-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
Due to other issues I deleted all of my lto drives and library and am redefining them. I am following through multiple redbooks and manuals that say def library ltolib libt=scsi device=/dev/smc1 and then for the drive def drive ltolib ltormt17 device=/dev/rmt17 element=257 but when I do a q dr

Re: defining lto drive not looking correct

2002-02-06 Thread Davidson, Becky
: Davidson, Becky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:14 PM Subject: defining lto drive not looking correct Due to other issues I deleted all of my lto drives and library and am redefining them. I am following through multiple redbooks and manuals that say

Re: TSM Restore Using 349X lib fails.

2002-02-04 Thread Davidson, Becky
Did you install atape and atldd? Before using tsm make sure that mtlib can talk to it. You can test that by simply doing an mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qL This will tell you if the machine can talk to the tape library. If it can't make sure that you can ping it and that the /etc/ibmatl.conf is

Re: 3494 Tape Library

2002-02-01 Thread Davidson, Becky
We have a 3494 and it works great. We also have a 3584 which works well. What kind of purpose are you going to use it for? Becky -Original Message- From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494 Tape Library

Re: TDP questions

2002-01-31 Thread Davidson, Becky
Depending on how you do expiration TDP keeps as many backups as your archive management class has specified and the frequency you run expiration. You can check to see a successful backup either via the Administrative Assistant if you purchased it or looking at the log files. I know for TDP for

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

2002-01-30 Thread Davidson, Becky
Jan Not a problem at all. TSM does not care how they are attached. TSM depends completely on the operating system for the intelligence on the attaching. The 3494 is also intelligent enough to know if someone else is using the drive that it can't. Drive map all the SAN drives??? What you could

Re: Server media mount not possible error condition

2002-01-18 Thread Davidson, Becky
Ken Try a q node f=d to check to make sure that you have mount points greater then 0 Becky -Original Message- From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server media mount not possible error condition Hi ALL: I

Re: dsmserv initialization fault

2002-01-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
There aren't any errors here. How long did it stop there or did it just die? Have you checked to make sure your recovery log volumes are available? Becky -Original Message- From: Manoel Braz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Long-Term Storage

2002-01-08 Thread Davidson, Becky
Depending on the form of archiving you are doing but we archive to cd's with no problem. Becky -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long-Term Storage Good Afternoon, I am

Re: Which conference do you recommend?

2001-12-17 Thread Davidson, Becky
Last year I went to Share and the Storage Symposium. For me at least the Storage Symposium was of more use. Alot of the Share stuff (I went to the UserBlue segment) focused on operating system and performance things which are not things that I focus on. My job is storage on midrange which is

Re: running multiple servers on one AIX machine

2001-12-10 Thread Davidson, Becky
What I do an it may take up more space but it gives me a little more flexibility is I have /usr/tivoli/tsm/tsmsvr2 /usr/tivoli/tsm/tsmsvr4 /usr/tivoli/tsm/server I keep a copy of everything regarding each machine in it's own directory tree including the code. Then I have a rc.adsmserv2 and

Re: Poor Performance in SAN with TDP for R/3 AIX

2001-11-29 Thread Davidson, Becky
How many threads are you using? What multiplexing are you using? Are you using compression? Becky -Original Message- From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Poor Performance in SAN with TDP for R/3 AIX

Re: CommonStore for SAP and TSM

2001-11-28 Thread Davidson, Becky
We are using CommonStore for SAP with TSM. I can't think of a way to configure CommonStore to store 2 copies in parallel to 2 different TSM Servers but it is an interesting thought. We just use the normal backup storage pool idea. As far as TSM is concerned this is just another client. As far

Re: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

2001-11-27 Thread Davidson, Becky
Make sure that under the dsm.sys they exist and then use dsmadmc -se=servername to connect -Original Message- From: Chan, Kien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing TCP and HTTP ports Sensitivity: Private Hi TSMers.

Re: TSM Server locking

2001-11-19 Thread Davidson, Becky
Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Davidson, Becky [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/13/2001 06:14:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TSM Server locking

2001-11-19 Thread Davidson, Becky
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Davidson, Becky Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server locking I am currently in the state of my TSM Server is locked. I can do all commands but things like q dr q libv q

Re: TDP R/3 Restore Problem

2001-11-16 Thread Davidson, Becky
The BKI1208E is The object 'filename' will be retried meaning there was an error with the object and it will try to restore again. Any errors in the tsm act log during this time frame? The BR errors are sapdba errors and you have to go to OSS on them. Are you restoring from before the upgrade?

TSM Server locking

2001-11-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
I am running tsm server 4.1.2 aix 4.3.3 12 3590E1A in a 3494 TDP for R/3 3.2.06 This past weekend at 16:00 my backup started by backing up my archive logs to disk. It opened 10 of 11 threads and then did absolutely nothing else. Other processes started during the night and anything that did not

Re: TSM/TDP-R3 Question

2001-11-09 Thread Davidson, Becky
Do you get any BKI messages or any additional messages? What do your dsm.sys and dsm.opt files look like? -Original Message- From: Rosa Leung/Toronto/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM/TDP-R3 Question -We are

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