Re: Strange Exchange backup issues

2019-01-24 Thread Nick Laflamme
Have you looked for jumbo-frame (lack of) configuration everywhere? That reminds me of failure modes I’ve seen in due to missing (or not compatible) jumbo frame support. Is the new server on a new switch? Does the new server support a larger jumbo frame size that might be rejected between it and

Re: DEVCLASS=FILE - what am I missing

2015-02-13 Thread Nick Laflamme
FILE allows deduplication; DISK doesn't. My impression after some experimenting is that FILE wasn't meant to replace DISK; it was solely meant to replace tape device classes. We didn't need to, so those experiments quietly ended. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Zoltan Forray zfor...@vcu.edu

Re: Teradata backup

2015-02-05 Thread Nick Laflamme
This is the second flashback to one of my former jobs that Richard has given me this week. A Fortune 50 retailer built a special infrastructure to back up their Teradata. As you say, it had to be a Windows server for the client. In this case, I think it was six storage agents. The storage pool

Re: size of objects in the backups table

2015-02-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
I used to work with BACKUPS and CONTENTS a lot when auditing how well some DBAs were policing their own backups. I don't have those scripts any longer, but my recollection is that techniques I developed using those tables in TSM 5.5 were unusable on TSM 6.1 and early TSM 6.2 servers. They were

Re: Printing labels locally for LTO tapes (physically)

2015-01-19 Thread Nick Laflamme
amateurish looking lables. I've only ever done them on a laser printers though. Getting them to stick (and stay) on is always the most challenging bit! Steven On 16 January 2015 at 12:01, Nick Laflamme n...@laflamme.us wrote: Does anyone have any experience with trying to produce

Printing labels locally for LTO tapes (physically)

2015-01-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
Does anyone have any experience with trying to produce labels in-house to relabel physically LTO tapes? We’re going to start using different series of barcode labels as we start working with outside customers; I want to know just by looking at a tape whose data should be on that tape. My

Re: checkin libv command

2014-12-23 Thread Nick Laflamme
I haven’t seen an answer to another Nick’s suggestion, which this Nick endorses. On Dec 23, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Nick Marouf mar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jeannie, Would trying search=bulk make a difference? label libv XXX search=b checkin=scr labels=b overwrite=y waitt=0 On Tue,

Re: Taking Drives Offline during PD

2014-12-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
You refer to both a library manager and a TSM server. I assume the TSM server shares tape drives with the library manager. If the paths from the TSM server to the drives are still on-line, that may explain part of what you're seeing. I would have thought off the top of my head that taking the

Re: maxscratch

2014-10-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
When I had dedicated VTLs, I routinely ran with an arbitrarily large maxscratch value and used the amount of tapes defined as the limiting factor detect run-away situations. You don’t have to keep them synchronized in any particular manner as long as MaxScratch is larger. On Oct 9, 2014, at

Re: How to setup dedicated tape drives for storage agent

2014-09-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
When I worked in a TSM/DD shop with Data Domain VTLs, we did something a little different: we defined for each TSM server both a normal VTL instance and a LAN-free library for any storage agents. The TSM master server needs access to the LAN-free library so it can mount tapes and validate tape

Re: How to setup dedicated tape drives for storage agent

2014-09-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
I never said 32 drives. In fact, they routinely defined 48 drives per library, although I don't think they ever had that many in use. Larger numbers let more large clients (databases, mostly) use more streams (drives) concurrently, but at some point, the SAN becomes a limiting factor, if the

Re: Can't delete a volume

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Laflamme
Call it in to IBM; those messages clearly are not, business as usual. Even if I thought I recognized them, I still would worry that they don't mean the same on your system as mine. It reminds me of a problem I saw on a 6.2 system last fall. Lots of undocumented commands were dictated by IBM

Re: VTL label unreadable, I'm stuck.

2014-04-24 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: My thoughts too! HOW can that happen in a VTL? Unless there is real physical damage? I'd sure check the back end for any warning lights/alerts/logs. It happens. In a recent life, using two different technologies from

Re: Re: Relabel/checkin Tapes marked as empty

2014-04-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
I'll bet today's lunch money that what's going on is that these aren't scratch volumes; they're volumes that were assigned to the pool with a DEF VOLUME command. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM, David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.eduwrote: If it were the REUSEDELAY setting, the volume would

Re: File retention

2014-03-24 Thread Nick Laflamme
? How do I get backups to go to the disk first while still having different expiration for each? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Nick Laflamme n...@laflamme.us To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 03/21/2014 02:50 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM

Re: File retention

2014-03-21 Thread Nick Laflamme
It doesn't work that way. If you want to keep a copy of inactive files on tape forever, you need to have a primary storage pool on tape (call it ONSITE for the purpose of this note). So, BACKUPS will migrate data to ONSITE. You'll also use BACKUP STG to populate OFFSITETAPE, mostly from BACKUPS,

Re: File retention

2014-03-21 Thread Nick Laflamme
set up as a primary pool... If I do not have more disk space to make a new active pool would I need to wipe out the current disk primary pool in order to make this new active data pool? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Nick

Re: TSM 6.2 library replacement

2014-03-20 Thread Nick Laflamme
Check the path to your library device; it sounds like that's the wrong device, or it's not working correctly. When you look at the new library directly, are the tapes there and in storage slots, not input slots? HTH, Nick On Thursday, March 20, 2014, D'Antonio III, Vincent E (N-Aerotek)

Re: Fwd: [ADSM-L] Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-03-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
I agree, these kinds of function are common. My concern was how to trigger them when running in a virtual machine running Linux with no vendor support for that configuration. I was told over the weekend that Linux has a SigQuiesce signal that fires in this situation. That at least points me

Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
I apologize for introducing a tangent, but I need some help defining a problem. Those of us who have studied (or used!) TSM for VE know that the TDP for SQL Server can receive a signal from Windows Server that something is about to take a backup. The same signal should trigger any pending writes

Re: Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
: **/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Michael Prix On 02/28/2014 03:14 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote: I apologize for introducing a tangent, but I need some help defining a problem. Those of us who have studied (or used!) TSM

Re: Oracle rman - specify management class

2014-02-04 Thread Nick Laflamme
I no longer have any Rman clients, but I'd do a Q CONTENT to see if there's a naming convention you can exploit for an INCLUDE rule to specify the management class. As I recall, it was trivially easy to identify full backups in a prior environment, and Rman/TDPO honored the management class

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Nick Laflamme
I’ve never been at a site that used more than one policy set. But if I had been at either of two sites that had to implement infinite “legal holds” when that order actually came, I’d have used a new policy set to do exactly that. That’s the only situation in which I’d use that option. Nick

Re: empty offsite volume can't be reclaimed

2013-12-29 Thread Nick Laflamme
I’d go straight to opening a PMR. I haven’t seen a problem like yours on a TSM 5.5 system, but I saw something similar on a TSM 6.2 system. TSM Support had a very specific set of steps to validate the cause and to resolve the issue. It might not be the same as your current issue, but it’s

Re: Communication server to server

2013-12-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
I think that on SERVER1 you should be trying to define SERVER2 if you want PING to work, and vice versa. Or have you already done that? I’m confused why your ANR0561E message refers to TSMSERVER2, not SERVER2. Nick On Dec 10, 2013, at 9:53 AM, mik tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi

Re: Communication server to server

2013-12-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
Did you issue SET SERVERPASSWORD on each server before doing the DEFINE SERVER commands? That’s probably a silly question, but if you didn’t, that would explain things. When you look at the activity logs on each server, can you see the other server trying to connect? Does it ever work?

Re: Question Tapepool

2013-12-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
Rick has already brought up MIGRATE STG, which probably is the normal way to do this. Remember that MOVE NODEDATA can also move data among primary storage pools (including back to a random access storage pool, good for when you anticipate an important recovery operation). You can even set up

Re: Patch this TSM Server vulnerability now

2013-12-05 Thread Nick Laflamme
The fix seems to be to install TSM Server 6.3.4-- which has been out for so long, I installed it a month ago for unrelated reasons. Oddly, the list of APARs fixed in 6.3.4 doesn't include IC82487. Presumably IBM wasn't discussing this APAR until something happened. At least I can tell my current

DSMCAD deprecated?!?

2013-12-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
A colleague insists that TSM service once told him that DSMCAD would be deprecated and that we need to convert to using the TSM Scheduler routinely. The TSM 6.3 client manuals, however, refer to both techniques as valid choices. Has anyone ever been told by IBM that DSMCAD had been or will be

Re: DSMCAD deprecated?!?

2013-12-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:; Subject: [ADSM-L] DSMCAD deprecated?!? A colleague insists that TSM

ANR1229W: when?

2013-12-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
BACKUP STG will issue the ANR1229W message if a volume in the source storage pool is UNAVAILABLE, even if there's nothing on that volume that needs to be backed up. There was an APAR against 5.5 and 6.1 to change this behavior, but it's back in 6.3.4, with nothing in PM06004 (from memory) saying

Re: test

2013-11-12 Thread Nick Laflamme
Isn't it also a demonstration? On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, Jeanne Bruno wrote: Hello. this is only a test. Jeannie Bruno Senior Systems Analyst jbr...@cenhud.com javascript:;mailto:jbr...@cenhud.com javascript:; Central Hudson Gas Electric (845) 486-5780

Re:

2013-11-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
the address you want is lists...@vm.marist.edu, not adsm-l@vm.marist.edu. I used to be a Listserv postmaster, a couple of decades ago. It’s always been an FAQ. Nick On Nov 9, 2013, at 10:32 AM, btim...@yahoo.com btim...@yahoo.com wrote: REVIEW ADSM-L Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G

Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
Does anyone have much experience with active storage pools? My current customer isn’t allowed to reclaim tapes, so their inventory of primary storage volumes is much larger than their ATL. This makes client restores prone to failure because of the number of primary volumes that need manual

Re: Can't find node

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
Also, look for errors about failed scheduled backups. It may be trying to prompt a client to back up -- and TSM doesn't expose those particular settings. Nick On Friday, November 8, 2013, Huebner, Andy wrote: Look for a node with the TCP/IP name of xxx. select node_name, tcp_name from nodes

Re: Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
Forgive me for asking, but is this based on experience? I ask because some administrative processes aren't that graceful about unavailable tapes. (RECLAIM STG comes to mind.) On Friday, November 8, 2013, Shawn DREW wrote: I would just mark all the tapes that are not in the library as

Today's self-inflicted wound: IC90735

2013-11-06 Thread Nick Laflamme
After a few uneventful upgrades from 6.2 to 6.3 TSM servers in my most recent TSM shop, my first such upgrade for my current client hit IC90735: some clients using encryption don't correctly change to AES-128 and thus are rejected for invalid passwords. The APAR led to client changes, not server

What's New in TSM 7.1?

2013-10-30 Thread Nick Laflamme
It's surprisingly hard to find a What's New in TSM 7.1 page or list on IBM's web site. It's not in the TSM Wiki, and it's not on the product pages that I can find, although the data sheets refer to 7.1. I'll muddle through, but this shouldn't be hard, should it? (Y'all heard that they announced

Re: How much active data?

2013-10-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
. (I don't understand why doing it the server-to-server way DOES trigger mounts with PREVIEW=YES). -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

How much active data?

2013-10-24 Thread Nick Laflamme
COPY ACTIVE has a preview option to tell me which volumes I'd need, but is there a simple way to compute how active data I have? QUERY OCCUPANCY doesn't have a useful parameter for that. For some reason, EXPORT NODE tries to mount each volume, even with PREVIEW=YES, which doesn't help me -- I'm

Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008

2013-10-23 Thread Nick Laflamme
If it's auto-excluded, does that imply it's in the system state? (No, I'm don't know how to exploit that.) On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, Steven Langdale wrote: Hello all I have a requirement to backup scheduled tasks on a couple of windows servers. I though I may be able to get away with

Re: How to track transaction stats for TSMVE backups?

2013-09-27 Thread Nick Laflamme
Remember that the 6.4 TDP for SQL Server is VE aware, or so I've read. Just a thought, Nick On Friday, September 27, 2013, Prather, Wanda wrote: In my case it appears to be DB related, lots of small (over 100) SQL DB's. With the combination of the DB's, plus the DBA's (reasonably) creating

Re: How to track transaction stats for TSMVE backups?

2013-09-27 Thread Nick Laflamme
, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: AFAIK, all that does is let the VE backup VSS snap also truncate the logs. But won't help with the change rate. Thanks! W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday

Re: www.ibm.com/support TSM client downloads

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Laflamme
That's the page I remember. I guess I need to bookmark it, because finding it again is always a challenge. Thanks, Nick On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Shawn DREW shawn.d...@us.bnpparibas.comwrote: I always use this link for client code and server updates. I find it convenient because they

www.ibm.com/support TSM client downloads

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Laflamme
IBM has changed their support portal again; they now are trying to restrict customers only to software downloads to which they're entitled. I can't figure out how to get them to offer me client code, and I can't figure out how to get them to offer me 6.2 code. Does anyone have any suggestions

Re: Windows Clients and Non-Supported OS Levels

2013-09-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
Your users install .0.0 code?!? On Monday, September 16, 2013, Zoltan Forray wrote: I guess it must be at 6.4.0.1+ since 6.4.0.0 is what is installed!

Re: 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives

2013-09-14 Thread Nick Laflamme
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 11:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives After three years in a data center in which actual physical tapes were forbidden, I'm now doing

3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives

2013-09-13 Thread Nick Laflamme
After three years in a data center in which actual physical tapes were forbidden, I'm now doing penance in a smaller data center using a honest-to-god 3584 with ALMS. To my surprise, I'm seeing entries in an AIX 6.1 error report that some of my tape drives need cleaning, and I'm finding

Re: 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives

2013-09-13 Thread Nick Laflamme
is that when the 3584 was set up autoclean the drives, it caused one or two entries in the errpt when it did a drive clean. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 11:08 AM

Re: ANR1817W when exporting node to another server

2013-09-11 Thread Nick Laflamme
What happens if you specify a specific node name that hasn't been exported yet? On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com wrote: I have tried several combinations of the following and they all fail with the output listed below. export node toserver=LINUXSERVER

Re: $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ session with negative wait time

2013-09-04 Thread Nick Laflamme
QUERY SESSION # F=D should show you when the first data was sent for that session. If you look in the activity log around the time of that first data being sent, I expect you'll find a BACKUP DB command starting that never finishes. The userid you're seeing is what your intra-TSM DB2 instance uses

Re: Manual or redbook for TDP for MSSQL

2013-09-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
Without any specific knowledge about MS SQL Server 2012 or the TDP for Databases, I would assume two things: 1) There is a manual in the info center, probably with the latest and greatest TSM release. 2) The manual will say nearly the same thing as the Information Center, because the

Re: Move node to new domain

2013-08-20 Thread Nick Laflamme
The most alarming thing I see about Tim's question is the discrepancy between Q NODEDATA and Q CONTENT. Q NODEDATA says that there's data for that user in that volume; Q CONTENT contradicts that. He doesn't show the full output of the Q CONTENT command, but if what he says is true, I'd suggest he

Re: expire inventory seems to be hanging and not processing all nodes

2013-08-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
How long have you been at 6.3.4.0? I've seen this on slightly older servers when Windows 2008 Server clients (and similar era Windows desktop, from what I hear) back up their system states. You get huge numbers of small objects, and expiration takes a long, long time to process those with no

Re: Question about library type of SCSI or VTL

2013-08-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
Off the top of my head: 1) dsmserv will auto sense drives and paths for devtype=VTL 2) Some waits for operation completion are shortened when you tell TSM it's all virtual, not real. The latter is the larger benefit, of course. I haven't seen any drawbacks to VTL. Nick On Friday, August 2,

Re: Deduplication/replication options

2013-07-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 26, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Steven Langdale steven.langd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Stefan Have you got cases of this? I ask because I have been specifically told by our rep that any dedupe saving for capacity licensing is TSM dedupe only, regarless of the backend storage. During our last

Re: Deduplication/replication options

2013-07-23 Thread Nick Laflamme
I'm surprised by Allen's comments, given the context of the list. TSM doesn't support BOOST. It doesn't support at the server level, and it doesn't support for a client writing directly to a DataDomain DDR. This may be obvious to everyone, but I fear for the people who are TSM-centric and haven't

Re: Relabaling empty volumes in DataDomain VTL

2013-07-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Grigori Solonovitch grigori.solonovi...@ahliunited.com wrote: I have found the way to re-label existing scratch volumes in VTL: checkout libvolume library volume remove=no - for all scratch volumes label libvolume library search=yes labelsource=barcode

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
If you absolutely need for nodes to be isolated on their own media, why aren't they in their own individual domains which point to their own storage pools, all of which might share a library? Frankly, I like that TSM will override collocation preferences when its at MAXSCR for volumes in a

Re: Using pools during restore

2013-04-14 Thread Nick Laflamme
UPDATE STG pool1 ACC=UNAVAIL would tell TSM not to try to use that particular storage pool. That might be heavy-handed in normal operations, but it works well in DR situations. What problem are you really trying to solve? :-) You're going to have the same rehydrate performance penalty

Re: Using pools during restore

2013-04-14 Thread Nick Laflamme
Architect Ahli United Bank Kuwait www.ahliunited.com.kw Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: 14 04 2013 12:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM?

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Laflamme
I'm not sure if I'm late to the show or a relatively early adapter, but I have to ask: Does anyone have a starter kit for extending Tivoli Monitoring for TSM beyond the initial configuration? We're doing a proof-of-concept with it now, trying to see what it gives us compared to what we have

Re: Tivoli Monitoring for TSM?

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Laflamme
I got an off-line response that there's also a System Management Central Wiki developers page on IBM's site that is supposed to have helpful articles on Tivoli Monitoring for TSM. I haven't dove into that yet, nor have I gone off to the Cognos Info Center to figure out how I'm going to write my

Re: Restoring for a specific date?

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
I don't work with the TDP for SQL, but one thing caught my eye: Do you really need to repeat the /RELOCATE term twice? If your command is being truncated because it's too long, what happens if you leave out the second /RELOCATE term? On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:08 PM, felymich

Re: Tape library possible replacement - push/pull

2013-01-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jan 26, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Zoltan Forray zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: With 7-TSM servers (with more TSM servers in my future to address the need to backup many thousands of faculty/staff/student desktops) transferring data from disk-to-tape, all day long, I need spindles not necessarily storage

Re: How to schedule new task in case of previous one completed

2012-12-24 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Dec 24, 2012, at 12:31 PM, nkir tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thank you! I know about these options. But how exactly I can apply them? How to check that DB backup was successful and I can proceed next task? +--

Re: Inactive/deleted file backup not expiring

2012-11-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
This is probably a silly question, but are you sure expiration is running for the node in question? With Version 6, expiration can now be granular, and its results are reported in a granular manner. You can run expiration on just this node, if only to see if anything weird happens as a

Re: Q about TSM notification in a widely-distributed environment

2012-11-06 Thread Nick Laflamme
Every day, our EMC Data Protection Advisor server processes the data it collects overnight from our dozens of TSM servers and blasts out to the client administration teams a listing of the servers who haven't had a good scheduled backup in at the past 24 hours. As long as the client

Re: select for % used

2012-10-25 Thread Nick Laflamme
Off the top of my head: select volume_name from volumes where pct_utilized10 You may also want to test for status='filling' compared to status='full' while you're at it. On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Geoff Gill avalnch...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Anyone have a select that will show all

Re: Strong TSM Passwords?

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Laflamme
Were you hoping for change in 6.3 because you've submitted an enhancement request and were led to believe it would happen soon? Or were you just figuring that someone else has probably requested this enhancement already? Nick On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Kevin Kettner wrote: Does anyone

Re: Moving to TSM Capacity based licensing from PVU - experiences

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
When we first started renegotiating our last deal, about a year ago, the discount for ProtecTier was talked about a lot, but I don't know if it was part of the final package. We went with capacity-based licensing for two reasons: 1) no one liked dealing with PVUs, and the TSM server team

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
I've seen Oracle propose backups from RMAN to NFS-mounted file spaces as the best solution in a proposed configuration. This was an Exadata configuration, but, RMAN is RMAN. Sigh, Nick On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Grigori Solonovitch wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but RMAN is not able to backup

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
This is more about VTLs than TSM, but I have a couple of questions, influenced by my shop's experience with VTLs. 1) When you say 40 VTLs, I presume that's on far fewer frames, that you're using several virtual libraries on each ProtecTier or whatever you're using? 2) I see that as 128 tape

Re: VTL's and D2D solutions

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 3, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Chavdar Cholev wrote: I would say Data Domain de-dupe ratio == 24:1 or protecTier 7650G de-dupe ratio = 34:1 What application are you using to get a dedupe ratio of 24:1 on a DataDomain? We've got about 25 DataDomains or DataDomain replication pairs set up;

Re: VTL's and D2D solutions

2012-07-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Kevin Boatright wrote: We are currently looking at adding a Disk to Disk backup solution. Our current solution has a 3584 tape library with LTO-5 drives using TKLM. We have looked at Exagrid and Data Domain. Also, I believe HP has a solution. We will need to

Re: select or other command

2012-06-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
Considering that I've gone the other direction, from the contents of a tape to the backup date of every object on the tape, it should be possible, but it might not be practical; the TSM V6 DB tables aren't indexed very well for this kind of work. Complications might include inactive copies of

Re: Admin Center Issues

2012-06-22 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Robert J Molerio wrote: Do yourself a favor and don't use the admin center. Is this based on recent experience, or is this just a knee-jerk reaction based on old experiences and old wives' tales? I'm not a fan of IBM's recent attempts to making TSM easy to use

Re: Teaching Problem Solving?

2012-06-06 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Leonard, Matthew wrote: Nick, Tell them one word...GOOGLE! The main thing here is the person must contain the skillset to be able to troubleshoot an issue. Some people in IT do not contain this Skill which is difficult to have them move past. But if there

Re: Oricle backups

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Laflamme
There's a TDP for Oracle; some of my Oracle clients are on Linux on Intel. I'm not sure if any of our Oracle clients are black box back ends, but it just plugs into rman, so even for the black boxes, it should be simple enough. Nick On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Lee, Gary wrote: Well, I have

TSM Administrator Opening

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
Experienced TSM administrators currently out of work, under-employed, or just ready for a change may be interested to know that The Home Depot has posted a position for a TSM administrator in Austin, TX. The position is on a team of four responsible for ~40 TSM servers in two data centers and

TSM for z/OS Media Server

2012-01-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
Is anyone working with the TSM for z/OS Media Server component of TSM 6.3 yet? It seems tailor made for us; we have about 12 TSM images on z/OS that we'd like to replace with TSM on UNIX(-like?) platforms. On the other hand, our only z/OS staff member with much TSM knowledge just resigned, so

Re: 6.2.2 Backup Stgpool Performance issue?

2011-11-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
I have no reason to suspect a DB2 interaction, but at the same time, with our V6 systems, our second instinct is to look in db2diag.log, just in case. You might check your db2reorg settings, just because. On Nov 26, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Prather, Wanda wrote: OK, here's another oddity.

Re: Stupid question about TSM server-side dedup

2011-11-21 Thread Nick Laflamme
I'm sure Wanda has thought of this, but since she didn't explain why she ruled it out, I'll throw it out just in case: BACKUP NODE allows for a management class. I presume the customer is doing a mix of full differentials and fulls. Why not do an extra differential with a different management

Tape or NFS? (DataDomain specifically)

2011-11-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
We've been told by consultants (these particular consultants shouldn't throw stones) that DataDomain customers running TSM are far happier running NFS than VTL, because DDRs are built primarily as file servers and the VTL function is an add-on. I can see the financial motive for staying with

Re: Tape or NFS? (DataDomain specifically)

2011-11-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
in front to handle the hundreds of incoming streams and to handle incoming data when the DD is down for maintenance. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:45 AM

Re: V6.2.3.0 lb device stops working with DataDomain STK L180 virtual library

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
Your DataDomain VTL has more than 4400 slots in it. If you can, reduce it to 4400 slots, and it will resume normal behavior. You'll need to delete and recreate the library for this to take effect, but it will work. I've got a PMR open with IBM and a Case open with DataDomain on this issue. I

Re: cross setup libray master/client setup

2011-10-25 Thread Nick Laflamme
I've run that way at least once in past shops. This was back in 5.3 days, but I can't imagine why it'd have changed. Nick On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Stefan Folkerts wrote: I have never build this setup before and I was just wondering if there is any reason a cross library master/client

Re: Can tsm resore winodws cluster printer defs

2011-10-17 Thread Nick Laflamme
I don't work much with Windows client support, but I'm surprised at how broad that statement is. Are there limitations about the TSM client level (at the time of the backup or the time of the recovery) or the Windows version? Nick On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Francisco Molero wrote: If the

Re: vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-09-29 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Sep 29, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Daniel Sparrman wrote: I'm not fully aware of how the DD replicates data, but if you have 15-20TB/day being written to your main DD, and that data is then replicated to the off-site DD, how much data is actually replicated? With a 1Gbs connection, you could

simultaneous access to data

2011-09-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
for multiple simultaneous reads. Can anyone confirm that TSM will use an available copy pool volume rather than make the session wait for a primary tape volume? Thanks, Nick --- Nick Laflamme (512) 977-2344 The information in this Internet Email is confidential

Re: Updating a script within a script

2011-09-23 Thread Nick Laflamme
The problem with Delete/Define is that if your script is subscribed to a profile for distribution to other TSM servers you manage, you've just deleted from the profile implicitly and not re-associated it with the profile. Oddly enough, I hit a very similar problem today with UPDATE SCRIPT; the

Re: The volume has data but I get this: ANR8941W

2011-08-14 Thread Nick Laflamme
Just to be very safe, I'd also try an AUDIT LIBRARY, just to make sure there isn't something funky going on with which volume is where. Nick On Aug 14, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Daniel Sparrman wrote: Hi What result does audit vol give you? No label on the tape/blank tapes usually points

Re: SQL query - large files

2011-07-17 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote: Is it possible to interrogate the TSM database with an SQL query to display the list of backed up files whose size is larger than - for example - 160 Mbs? I understand that this will be a query that will take a while to run so I am prepared

Re: Reporting and BIRT in TSM 6.2

2011-07-07 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: I've avoided getting into BIRT, because I was told by a Tivoli person that 6.3 will switch the reporting from BIRT to COGNOS. But I haven't heard anything else, so that is just a rumor. Anybody know if the rumor is true? W While I

Re: Linux Server upgrade - 6.1.4.3 to 6.1.5.0

2011-07-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jul 3, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: Are there any issues performing this maintenance update? Anything to be concerned with? I am hitting numerous issues that are supposedly addressed in the 6.1.5.0 maintenance release. We hit major problems with our test install of

Re: tsm and data domain

2011-06-17 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Paul Zarnowski wrote: At 05:59 PM 6/16/2011, Nick Laflamme wrote: We need to do a bake-off -- or study someone else's -- between using deduplication in a DataDomain box and using both client-side deduplication and server-side deduplication in TSM V6

Re: tsm and data domain

2011-06-16 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Tim Brown wrote: Any one use emc's data domain devices for storage pools and replication Would like to here positive and negative issues. My current employer has dozens of DataDomain DD690s and DD880s, all arranged in pairs in which one is primary and one is a

Re: bare machine recovery for mainframe operating systems

2011-06-15 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Hi, Is the concept of bare machine recovery applicable for z/OS and other mainframe operating systems like zLinux? z/VM and, as far as I know, z/OS come with utilities designed to be booted when the system is down; think of a boot floppy or

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jun 11, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Hi, Has IBM any plan to release TSM 6 for MVS? Considering that TSM V6 installs an instance of DB2 and expects it to be the only DB2 on the system, and considering that z/OS isn't anything like Windows or an UNIX server in how DB2 would be

Re: VEREXIST for image backups and TDP backups

2011-05-22 Thread Nick Laflamme
On May 22, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Hi, When we backup files to TSM, number of versions makes sense in paramteres like VEREXISTS, VERDELETE and so forth. How does the versioning concept apply for filesystem backups and backups coming from TDP? Databases have their own full and

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