Detecting Hold on archives

2012-02-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
With 6.1 clients, we can use set event to put an archive on hold, stopping the clock for expiration. I need to find any archived items where someone has done this. But I don't see where, in the TSM database, an archived item is marked for hold. Any wisdom? -- Lindsay Morris TSMworks, Inc. 859

Re: Ang: Re: Help tracking down spurious Failed 12

2011-11-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
from a client that is NOT giving you RC 12s, and restart the scheduler. Works for us anyway. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com wrote: An in-use file should not cause an RC

Re: Can you restore a SystemState backup when you have the HP OpenView problem?

2011-11-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
they still open and in use at that point? Thus potentially giving us an inconsistent SystemState backup? Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi Lindsay, 1. The ANS1417W

Re: Can you restore a SystemState backup when you have the HP OpenView problem?

2011-10-28 Thread Lindsay Morris
support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2011-10-27 21:28:34: From: Lindsay Morris lind...@tsmworks.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 2011-10-27 21:30 Subject: Can you

Can you restore a SystemState backup when you have the HP OpenView problem?

2011-10-27 Thread Lindsay Morris
wisdom. -- Lindsay Morris TSMworks, Inc. lind...@tsmworks.com 1-859-539-9900 -- Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: How to perform Readtest in TSM ??

2011-03-13 Thread Lindsay Morris
We think testing restores is good idea, and it sounds like that's what you're trying to do. We have software that helps with that. Contact me off-line if you wish. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:42 PM, somu321

Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Lindsay Morris
on Tuesday. The TSM admin then doesn't know how to recover to Wednesday's backup. So I'm with Richard (and most storage auditors): you need to test restorability. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 skype:18595399900?call lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Sep

Re: Select statement to only list backups with particular event status

2010-06-29 Thread Lindsay Morris
://www.tsmworks.com/art. Hope this helps. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 skype:18595399900?call lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.comwrote: Hi Richard, Is there any other way to do a report that would list missed

Re: PVU

2010-06-28 Thread Lindsay Morris
Well ... you have to install the free ILMT on each node. Right? So it costs no dollars - but a couple of weeks of time... Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Abbott, Joseph jabb...@partners.orgwrote: Yep

Re: PVU

2010-06-28 Thread Lindsay Morris
Nice! Was that all-Windows, or a mix of platforms? And would you care to share the script? Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Abbott, Joseph jabb...@partners.orgwrote: ILMT can be configured without going

Re: incremental backup of many millions of very small files

2010-06-24 Thread Lindsay Morris
You say Been there, done that. You mean with Fastback, not TSM? When you talk about NQR, No Query Restore, I don't think you're talking about Fastback anymore. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Zoltan

Re: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

2010-06-14 Thread Lindsay Morris
Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge difference on some web apps. You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun

Re: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

2010-06-14 Thread Lindsay Morris
I guess you could watch dsmadmc -console output and see how long TSM is taking to respond to the query. Maybe THAT's the bottleneck. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org

Re: Securing TSM Client

2010-05-11 Thread Lindsay Morris
Maybe you could lock all the nodes during the day (LOCK NODE...), and unlock them at night for your scheduled backups ... ? Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Leandro Mazur leandroma...@gmail.comwrote

Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

2010-04-23 Thread Lindsay Morris
There's ITLM, IBM Tivoli License Manager. It's kind of bear to install, I hear. (Has anybody done it?) But nobody else has a fully automated solution AFAIK. Contact me off-line and I can give you some other options. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-20 Thread Lindsay Morris
...) Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: Running a report on what files will expire in the next sixty days

2010-04-13 Thread Lindsay Morris
And like Michael implied, running a select from the BACKUPS table on a production server is liable to kill its performance for a good while. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, John D. Schneider

Re: How are primary sequential storage pools allocated?

2010-04-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
volumes and you have a chance of restoring them all in parallel. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, James Choate jcho...@chooses1.com wrote: TSM 5.5.4.1 On Windows 2003 I have a primary disk storage pool

Re: Query for inactive data summary

2010-03-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
Debbie, I think the new storage reports on our ART product will help you: http:downloads.tsmworks.com/ARTProductDemo.ppt, slides 27-29. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) habe

Re: Query for inactive data summary

2010-03-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
Sorry, meant that for Debbie, not the list. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Lindsay Morris lind...@tsmworks.comwrote: Debbie, I think the new storage reports on our ART product will help you

Re: SErvername stanza in dsm.opt in Unix systems

2010-03-23 Thread Lindsay Morris
to use. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@googlemail.comwrote: Thanks for the info, but why B/A client for Windows doesn't have such a flexibility to separate system-wide and user-wide

Re: ANR9999D_2590516390

2010-02-19 Thread Lindsay Morris
I've heard of this happening due to library firmware mismatch. The old computer joke: WOM, Write-only media. Another argument for restore testing. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Wanda Prather wanda.prat

Re: Virtual TSM

2010-02-03 Thread Lindsay Morris
Typical of vendors not to support their own product.. !! A little harsh, I think. TSM works in a very complex environment, and people who use (that's us) it try all kinds of tricks. Some corner cases doubtless get exposed, where support rightly refuses to help. Lindsay

Re: SQL Query find nodes associated with management class

2010-01-28 Thread Lindsay Morris
. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Huebschman, George J. gjhuebsch...@lmus.leggmason.com wrote: The only way I know to get that directly is from the backups table. Running a select against the backups table for all nodes

Re: SQL Query find nodes associated with management class

2010-01-28 Thread Lindsay Morris
are you really after, reducing wasted storage? tuning up retention policies? What? Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Huebschman, George J. gjhuebsch...@lmus.leggmason.com wrote: That is true. The dsmc

Re: pct idle wait 100

2010-01-13 Thread Lindsay Morris
. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi Keith, Go to the link in sig and do a search on idle wait 100 and you should get a hit relevant to the issue you describe

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-06 Thread Lindsay Morris
We're all right, but not shedding a lot of light at this point. I hope Nick finds a solution to his original problem. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Schaub, Steve steve_sch...@bcbst.comwrote: While we're quibbling

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Lindsay Morris
Right, but then Nick has to keep dsm.sys files up to date on all his clients. Ick. What he wants is a central way to issue dsmc commands and point them to a different TSM server, with no client-side setup required. Right, Nick? We don't have a good answer for this either. Lindsay Morris

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Lindsay Morris
). (Cross-platform problem means: from a WINDOWS dsmc client, you can successfully connect to a TSM server, and use -asnode=some-UNIX-node to masquerade as another node; but then query filespaces comes back empty. And vice versa. ) Just grumbling. We dealt with it. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Lindsay Morris
unix at leadt), and for no good reason, AFAIK. Lindsay Morris TSMworks, Inc. 1-919-403-8260 www.tsmworks.com On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Jánský Vítězslav vitezslav.jan...@t-system S.CZ wrote: TSM is quite good in cross platfrom restores to be honest. Unix-to- unix

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Lindsay Morris
I could quibble - they have to do all that anyway, right, across the various clients? But you're right about other things being more important for the normal TSM user. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Richard Sims r

Re: Multiple backup scenarios !

2009-12-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
of tape drives and not so many files it'll balance out. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Roger Deschner rog...@uic.edu wrote: The basic principle of backup is that it must be separated from its source. Anything else

Re: Multiple backup scenarios !

2009-12-08 Thread Lindsay Morris
? Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: I just want to emphasize the importance of having multiple backup scenarios. This includes TSM incremental, image and VCB backups for VMWare servers. We

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

2009-10-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
statistics are for one particular session only. I don't have time to look through your log, but are you quite sure it only has the one session in it, that matches the statistics? I bet it has many sessions, like David said. Look at the dates in it. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539

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

2009-10-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
for dsmaccnt.log in the ...tsm/server/bin directory, and write scripts to parse it, per the documentation in the TSM Administrator's Guide (or is it the Reference?) (Or get Servergraph to do it for you.) Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Re: TSM journaling

2009-10-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
then, reboot windows nodes weekly, if they are using the JBB trick. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM, David McClelland t...@networkc.co.ukwrote: If nobody has pointed it out already, perhaps this is the article

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
this, given a process id? Thanks, Jan +-- |This was sent by m...@janseidel.net via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Lindsay

Re: instrumentation for the server?

2009-10-12 Thread Lindsay Morris
-- Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB

2009-10-05 Thread lindsay morris
in advance. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Oct5, at 2:25AM, Stefan Folkerts wrote: I have been a member of the TSM 6 in production club since 6.1.2.0 and I am not happy with this release. I am also seeing strange db errors right from

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Re: Time to register for TSM Symposium 2009

2009-09-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
Looking at the schedule, you need a name for my exhibitor session: Trimming Junk Storage, Lindsay Morris. Is this my only speaking slot? I thought I had an hour on Monday or Tuesday also. Do I? Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks, Inc. 1-919-403-8260 www.tsmworks.com

Re: when a file has only inactive version in TSM server?

2009-09-17 Thread lindsay morris
, so it does NOT kill TSM's performance.) -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Sep17, at 9:07AM, Tchuise, Bertaut wrote: When there is no active version of the file :-) On a serious note, the TSM server will only have inactive versions

Re: when a file has only inactive version in TSM server?

2009-09-17 Thread lindsay morris
the extreme retention policies that cause this situation. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Sep17, at 12:16PM, John D. Schneider wrote: Lindsay, I agree that keep everything forever is an extremely expensive policy, even at the relatively

Re: Colorful console mode output

2009-08-24 Thread lindsay morris
, not the I /E /W letter. I just don't want people thinking they can safely ignore the W-messages. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Aug 24, 2009, at Aug 24, 9:02 AM, Andrew Raibeck wrote: I took a crack at playing with Michael's script

Re: Summarizing Tape Utilization

2009-07-29 Thread Lindsay Morris
George, aren't you a Servergraph user? Doesn't it give you what you need? I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here, but Servergraph handles the usual culprits... Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks, Inc. 1-919-403-8260 www.tsmworks.com On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:52 PM

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-07-24 Thread lindsay morris
. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jul 24, 2009, at Jul 24, 8:34 AM, Wanda Prather wrote: Here's adding my 2c to the confusion: I agree with Lindsay; setting DOMAIN D: is dangerous, because that way all you get is D:, and if someone adds an E

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-07-23 Thread lindsay morris
it. Better to use exclude of C:, IMHO -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jul 23, 2009, at Jul 23, 10:05 AM, km wrote: Even easier (no OS involvment) would be to use: virtualmountpoint c:\dir domain c:\dir in dsm.opt -km On 23/07

Re: Full tapes with low percent utilization

2009-07-23 Thread lindsay morris
Run reclamation. They're FULL because TSM wrote all the way to the end; they're less than 100% because TSM expired some data, so there are effectively holes in the tape. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jul 23, 2009, at Jul 23, 10:24

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-07-23 Thread lindsay morris
practice. Agree? Disagree? -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jul 23, 2009, at Jul 23, 10:54 AM, Bill Boyer wrote: I prefer to exclude it from the DOMAIN. That way you won't get the directories on the C: drive. This is from the help

Re: TSM vs Avamar

2009-06-24 Thread lindsay morris
on the West coast, it's easy to screw up the timezone when you're changing the schedule on an Avamar server that's on the East coast. You have to manually compensate for the three-hour difference. There's no community of customers like this one. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919

Re: Dedupe

2009-06-24 Thread lindsay morris
Short and clear answer about de-dupe: It depends. Hope this helps. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jun 24, 2009, at Jun 24, 11:33 AM, goc wrote: somewhat right but still over the top in my humble opinion ... so, whatever ...you

Re: Making sure clientactions start

2009-06-23 Thread Lindsay Morris
University phone: 765-285-1310 -- Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: Internal compression?

2009-06-11 Thread lindsay morris
. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jun 11, 2009, at Jun 11, 3:30 PM, Shawn Drew wrote: Wow, it's amazing how much data is caught up in retries. On one of our larger instances, the amount transferred is 2.8TB but only 1.3TB was a part of the storage pool

Re: Windows excludes

2009-06-08 Thread lindsay morris
Do you need quotes around the directory names? I think yes. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jun 8, 2009, at Jun 8, 12:20 PM, Fred Johanson wrote: I'm trying to bring up to date all our cloptsets . I've had some success

Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

2009-06-04 Thread Lindsay Morris
The ISC experts say that it's a lot better as of 6.1: better workflow, smaller footprint. So if you've gotten a bad impression in the past, try to keep an open mind. Or are your complaints about the version bundled with 6.1? Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks, Inc. 1-919

Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

2009-06-04 Thread Lindsay Morris
Right, GUI doesn't thrill us command-line bigots, does it? Servergraph has web-based management of TSM where you can see what commands it's issuing behind the scenes. Best of both worlds IMHO. (Don't flame me, I no longer work for Servergraph. Thanks.) Lindsay Morris

Re: Matching Node_name to Class_name

2009-05-15 Thread lindsay morris
Use the b-trees: add node name and filespace name. select * from columns where tabname='BACKUPS' shuold show you (index_keyseq) where the b-trees are; use as many as you can but always the first one. Hope this helps. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind

Fwd: [ADSM-L] Website and Call for Papers for TSM Symposium 2009

2009-05-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
Sorry, meant that as private; OTOH, I suppose we're all interested in how it's looking... -- Forwarded message -- From: Lindsay Morris lind...@tsmworks.com Date: Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Website and Call for Papers for TSM Symposium 2009 To: ADSM: Dist

Re: Website and Call for Papers for TSM Symposium 2009

2009-05-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
M M Fon: 0221 478 5580 /I\ Fax: 0221 478 86845 MiMiMiM Snail-Mail: Robert-Koch-Str. 10, 50931 Koeln MIMiMiM -- Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind

Re: Servers supported on virtual machines--anything new?

2009-03-03 Thread Lindsay Morris
We run TSM 5.4 on a Linux VM under VMware. It's just for our test lab so we don't have any stressful throughout stats to report, but it works fine. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mar 3, 2009, at Mar 3, 11:23 AM, Nancy R. Brizuela

Re: Experiences with tsmreports.com

2009-03-03 Thread Lindsay Morris
Servergraph forecasts when you'll run out of space in your storage pools, database, and tape library. This is a step beyond trending, and I don't think the other reporting tools do that. Fwiw. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks, Inc. 1-919-403-8260 www.tsmworks.com On Mar 3

THANKS! All you lurkers on ADSM-L - RESULTS (was: Tracking who owns a node)

2009-02-27 Thread Lindsay Morris
EMAIL_ADDRESS field 5 5. We use home-grown spreadsheets or databases or shell scripts 4 6. We use 3rd-party apps like Servergraph, or Bocada, etc. 6 7. None of the above -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Feb 23, 2009, at Feb 23, 8:50

Re: How do you keep track of DB Backup

2009-02-26 Thread Lindsay Morris
we sell (shameless plug) Good luck with your product; Dan Kim would love to have your banner ad on adsm.org. You're no longer allowed to complain about getting emails from my sales guy. ;-} -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Feb 26

HEY! All you lurkers on ADSM-L! (was: Tracking who owns a node)

2009-02-23 Thread Lindsay Morris
=ojC0QfiSbYEcc2B246nO_2bA_3d_3d And thanks! -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com _ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10

Re: AIX to RHEL command

2009-02-20 Thread Lindsay Morris
Every unix user should know about the Rosetta Stone! http://bhami.com/rosetta.html On Feb 20, 2009, at Feb 20, 8:12 AM, Keith Arbogast wrote: Larry, This Website is a UNIX command translation table. http:// www.opennet.ru/soft/linux2unix.html . It cross references commands' syntax for AIX,

Tracking who owns a node

2009-02-19 Thread Lindsay Morris
-grown spreadsheets or databases or shell scripts 6. We use 3rd-party apps like Servergraph, or Bocada, etc. 7. None of the above __ Thanks! -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal http://www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: arbitrary schedule start

2009-01-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
an annoying mystery to me. I bet Mr. Raibeck might have an answer. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jan 9, 2009, at Jan 9, 2:17 PM, Keith Arbogast wrote: Richard, Thank you for the suggestions. We corrected the Managedservices option

Re: arbitrary schedule start

2009-01-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
Hmmm. Bet you haven't seen the end of this yet. I mean, I could always get the schedule to start up immediately if I bypassed dsmcad and ran dsmc sched on the client. -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jan 9, 2009, at Jan 9, 2:53 PM

Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on storage pool backup and can't seem to find them

2009-01-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
grouping. So does this give you what you want, which I'm guessing is a verification that each node is indeed completely backed up off-site? -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jan 9, 2009, at Jan 9, 3:45 PM, Kauffman, Tom wrote

Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on storage pool backup and can't seem to find them

2009-01-09 Thread Lindsay Morris
Bingo, Wanda! -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jan 9, 2009, at Jan 9, 4:01 PM, Wanda Prather wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kauffman, Tom kauffm...@nibco.com wrote: Specifically, I'd like to get the byte-count backed up

Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Morris
notify us immediately, and delete the original message. -- Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com

Re: The Intergrated Solutions Console BAD performance.

2008-12-16 Thread Lindsay Morris
The 6.1 version is supposed to be much improved, both in performance and in usability. Guess that doesn't help you today... all I got though. -- Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Dec 16, 2008, at Dec 16, 9:29 AM, Minns, Farren - Chichester

Re: Restore Testing stories

2008-12-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
on, folks: got more? -- Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Dec 12, 2008, at Dec 12, 5:53 PM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote: The product looks intriguing. The paper did not address my biggest problem, restoring the Windows OS. Our issue

Re: Restore Testing stories

2008-12-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
So, Bob, are you saying that your back-level TSM client failed to restore your Active Directory? Even though it backed it up OK? And was this a known problem with the TSM client? -- Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Dec 15, 2008, at Dec 15, 10

Re: Anybody test Servergraph ..

2008-12-05 Thread Lindsay Morris
moves the most data, etc - good for load balancing). etc. My 2 cents. -- Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 5, 2008, at Dec 5, 10:23 AM, km wrote: I would recommend waiting for TSM 6.1 and evalutating the new included reporting tool. On 05/12

Re: Offsite reclamation problem

2008-11-04 Thread lindsay morris
the drive. So the user has to sit waiting for far too long (in some cases). -- Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 4, 2008, at Nov 4, 12:21 PM, Bos, Karel wrote: No :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why does this Exclude not work?

2008-10-31 Thread lindsay morris
If you can get to the client to create a file, can't you just run dsmc query inclexcl ? Oh, I see - Richard's trick lets you see what the CURRENTLY RUNNING client used, when it woke up a month ago or whenever. But you could just restart dsmc and try again. -- Lindsay Morris Principal

Re: Restore testing for Tivoli Storage Manager

2008-10-30 Thread lindsay morris
Remco, it's me. Lindsay Morris. We've met, in Amsterdam a few years ago. Mike's working for me. Sorry I didn't email you personally. I think it's OK if we contact people I've met and worked with to tell them I have a new product. But we'll take you off the list. Sorry to have ruffled you

Re: SNMP on Windows2003

2004-07-06 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
this helps. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6137 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Ipsen Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...

2004-05-04 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
impact the TSM server's performance. Servergraph uses the accounting log extensively for these reasons. Rock solid data there, because it's written by the TSM server, not by the client software. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6137 ext 105

Re: Querying only errors?

2004-03-17 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
an ANRxxxE message - an error - but it's NOT really an error that matters. OTOH, when a tape drive dies, THAT's and ANRW message - just a warning, but most of us would prefer to treat it as an error. So you might try developing something like that. - Mr. Lindsay

Re: Anyone using Servergraph?

2004-02-24 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karel Bos Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone using

Re: Anyone using Servergraph?

2004-02-20 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
has been available for a few months now; perhaps it was not ready when he/she called. Growing pains ... but we always appreciate customer feedback. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 --- rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Amen to that! - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robin Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: last backup info

2003-12-01 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
to get accurate backup status reporting - contact me offline if that's your concern. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey

Re: [tsm] Summarizing use by unix group?

2003-11-10 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
). - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Audley Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [tsm] Summarizing use

Re: Summarizing use by unix group?

2003-11-09 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
I think not, at least not without expensive queries against the contents table. Still, if this is only a monthly snapshot, that might be doable. Are you looking at doing chargeback by unix groups? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138

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2003-11-07 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Winchester IO is really any block-device IO: disk or tape. So it's not abnormal to see that; but it does look pretty high. Are you getting the performance you expect? Does vmstat say you're paging at these times? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com

Re: Perl TSM daily reporting script.

2003-11-06 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Nice job! Hope you aren't planning to add real-time alerts, trending/predictions, backup status without q events, graphical display of server info, and stuff like that... ;-} - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original

Re: Query Event for Previous day shows status In Progress

2003-11-05 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
, for example, usually stays open/locked, so TSM misses it. The event status is Completed, because it's only one file...!!) This is old news to some people, but maybe useful for others. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105

Re: TSMManager vs. TSM Operational Reporting

2003-06-30 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
The Operational Reporting beta-testers (of which we are one) work under a confidentiality agreement, so detailed comparisons might not be available. But to us, the two products look pretty similar. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138

Re: A query and some code...

2003-06-26 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
% the low end. If there's enough interest, I'll go count - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

Re: Verify lan-free transfer???

2003-06-24 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
like that. You can use our viewacct program to turn the accounting log data into something more readable. http://www.servergraph.com/techtip3.htm Hope this helps. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message

Re: Verify lan-free transfer???

2003-06-24 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
and paste it into each email. Maybe I should put it on coderelief, or adsm.org somewhere. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

Re: Work arounds for files deleted in flight?

2003-06-23 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
. If you did that, do you think you'd want to see (for the Locked list ,say) all 132 files, or just the file NAMES that differ - that is, cut off the directory part? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message

Re: SELECT equivalent for QUERY EVENT

2003-06-23 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SELECT

Re: Work arounds for files deleted in flight?

2003-06-23 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
it now is exactly what you want. Contact me off-line if not, and we'll discuss. Thanks. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garrison

Re: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month

2003-06-20 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Curtis, if I may ask: how can you monitor backup status (ie success or failure of all your nodes) if you use autosys? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month

2003-06-20 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
) - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Schedule for the last day

Re: TSM Decision support 4.2.0 tools

2003-06-12 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
before you go too far down this path. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:24 PM

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