So long, and thank you...

2015-04-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
This is my last day at ICF, and the first day of my retirement! I'm moving on to the next non-IT-support chapter in life. I can't speak highly enough of the people who give of their time and expertise on this list. I've learned most of what I know about TSM here. You all are an amazing

Re: Changing domain of CIFS backup server

2015-03-24 Thread Prather, Wanda
Zoltan, If you are talking about Windows domains, it's all about permissions. If you are talking about TSM domains, it's all about retention/backup copy groups. Which kind of domain are you referring to? Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: NAS storage

2015-03-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Yep. From Windows you can use a CIFS share, or from Unix an NFS share. TSM Windows services have to run under a network account, not a local account, but that's easily fixed. Then your DEFINE VOLUME commands (from Windows) just use UNC names instead of X:\ local drive names, like this: define

!RE: Node cleanup

2015-03-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
Don't see the purpose of renaming it-- If you just do: exclude.dir e:\data That has the same effect. It excludes them from backup, the existing backups get marked inactive on the next backup run, and the countdown clock starts for the number of days to keep the last version. If it's a lot

Re: Linux permissions not restored

2015-03-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
Also an interesting contradiction, since in Windows this type of change *does* trigger a new backup. Massive ones. Which is then its own problem. Wanda Prather TSM Consultant ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

2015-03-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
Rick, It's a problem, everywhere, no matter how you do it. * The simplistic answer to your question is yes; the external scheduler is running a list of tasks; after the last task it could call a perl/ksh/python/yourfavorite script that invokes dsmadmc and does a delete/define schedule

Re: VE 7.1.1.1 backup freezing a VM question about megablocks

2015-03-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
We had a situation yesterday where 2 VE backups were causing the VM's to go unresponsive. No response to ping, unable to RDP, etc. As soon as the backup finished (or was killed in one case), the servers picked back up where they left off. They never rebooted, but you can actually see in the

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-03-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
class is valid and and when I query the copy group it is STANDARD. Now, the documentation says that it must be STANDARD but this doesn't make much sense to me. Thanks, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-03-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
McWilliams -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 10:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error Well, your Q CO shows that you have a management class VMDATA, and it has

Re: Is TSM for VE 7.1.1.1 pagefile aware? Is it contrained to a single process per datamover? What constitutes a successful backup?

2015-03-02 Thread Prather, Wanda
There's no mention of pagefile 'awareness' in the documentation, so it's safe to say that the backup will consist of all changed blocks, regardless of what's stored on them. Ditto. We've found that that the backup GB per day for VE can be significantly higher than it would be if the machines

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1.1 exclude vm question

2015-02-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
You are correct. With TSM/VE, you can only exclude at the hdisk level, or the VM level. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Each backup session backs up some control information, and that information is restored for use during the next backup. (You can see the restores happening if you watch the server during the backup, or if you look in the accounting info.) I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the data

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error Each backup session backs up some control information, and that information is restored for use during the next backup. (You can see the restores happening

Re: DEVCLASS=FILE - what am I missing

2015-02-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
Probably just bad luck…. When I set up FILE pools for customers, I usually have to tweak them a couple of times to get the sizing right, depends on the load, the number of concurrent sessions, etc. Been there, done that, got the scars. Assumptions you should change: • Unlike a disk

Re: Duplicate include/exclude option error

2015-02-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
Perhaps someone put these into a client option set? Q NODE nodename F=D Look for optionset: If it's non=blank, then you need to investigate the contents of the optionset, that's where your conflict is coming from. If that is not revealing, from the client machine: start the command line

Re: Duplicate include/exclude option error

2015-02-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
should have hired you instead! - - - - - - - - - - Kevin Kinder State of WV -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 3:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Duplicate

Re: Duplicate include/exclude option error

2015-02-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
to dive into the registry? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Duplicate include/exclude option error Perhaps someone put

7.1.1 TDP for Exchange 2010 backup Task Details not updated?

2015-02-02 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM 6.3.4 on Win2k8-64 Exchange 2010 on Win2k8 64 This is not a show-stopper, just in the annoying and mysterious category. Installed Exchange 7.1.1 TDP for a customer today. The beautiful FCM interface popped in all the pre-reqs, VSS testing ran, I set the appropriate passwords and proxy

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
The bug is IT02929; for us it affects Exports as well as restores (so I'm guessing would affect backupsets as well). And yes, hits any copypool, LTO or not. OTOH, it's not necessarily hard to live with, depending on your situation. More details of that below. What you get with 7.1.1 that may

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-29 Thread Prather, Wanda
FWIW, I've also been through a lot of problems with dedup, it has been disappointing. On TSM servers not using dedup I haven't seen many problems at the latest levels. Curious to know what you just installed? On 7.1.1 on Windows, select * from processes works just fine... Wanda Prather TSM

TSM AC and OC and 7.1.1 Was: RE: [ADSM-L] TSM rant

2015-01-29 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Jeanne, We are in a transition as the OC is getting more function with each release, but doesn't yet have everything the AC had. The OC is the new/current admin GUI. The 7.1.1 version has client scheduling in it now, so it can do more of the admin tasks you need. In the 7.1.1 version you

Re: basic DR questions

2015-01-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hm. TSM 5.5. Reinstall Windows Reinstall TSM It will create a tiny db and tiny disk pools by default. Look at the dsmserv.dsk file; it will point to the new DB and log. I would try doctoring that file to point to the original DB and logs, then restart TSM and see if it will talk to them.

Re: basic DR questions

2015-01-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
Oh yeah, after you reinstall Windows TSM, you'll need to reinstall your tape driver, whatever that was. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM on Linux Box Dunno what version of the client you are installing, or what version of Linux

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
for linux right now. But I will find the redhat book for 6.4.1 and see there in instructions for the auto startup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
That message ended up missing a CR ; should have been: chkconfig --add dsmcad (that's a space and 2 hyphens) service dsmcad start -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:05 AM

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
book for 6.4.1 and see there in instructions for the auto startup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM on Linux Box Dunno

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
Dunno what version of the client you are installing, or what version of Linux? But the client manual says how to do it on Linux now if it's relatively recent. All I do on Redhat is follow these instructions from the book below. I do the :hkconfig --add dsmcad (those are 2 hyphens), then

RETRY takes forever on LTOx drives - any solution?

2015-01-20 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM 6.3.5 on Windows, LTO6 drives in a TS4500. Customer had an LTO4 drive go bad and damaged a dozen tapes (maybe more!) before we figured out which one was doing it and mothballed that drive. Now trying to MOVE DATA, restore vol, audit, restore stgpool and otherwise fix the damaged tapes using

Re: ANR1890W root-only restriction message

2015-01-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thank you Kurt for that information! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of BEYERS Kurt Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 11:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR1890W root-only restriction message Hello everybody, Please

Re: tsm for ve, nfs datastores and cbt

2015-01-18 Thread Prather, Wanda
My reading of that technote is that the *first* backup will include all allocated space rather than just the used space; but that subsequent backups will use CBT and be true incrementals (and the extra allocated space will all be empty, so it should compress or dedup out). If you are getting

Re: Changed SQL behavior under server 6.2.3.1

2015-01-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
Oooh, that's evil. Had a consult with the in-house DBA. This works for me on V7.1.1: select count(*) from nodes where node_name not in (select node_name from filespaces where node_name is not null) In V6-7 there is 1 filespace with a NULL node name - looks to me like something created by

Re: Filespace level migration? was: breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes

2015-01-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
level now; so you still get only 1 stream if only 1 filespace left to be migrated.) Big help for our environment. W -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:33 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: Filespace level migration? was: breaking up tsm

Re: Tsm for VE restore question

2014-12-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
There are 2 GUI's for 7.1.1. On the system where TSM for VE is installed, If you do start programs Tivoli Storage Manager TSM for Virtual Environments, you will see there is a TSM for VMWare UI, and also the TSM Recovery Agent 7.1.1 The TSM for VMWare UI doesn't have all the VM-level

Filespace level migration? was: breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes

2014-12-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
Didn't I read that there were supposed to be changes in the 7.1 server to make migration run at the filespace level? Which would make this a multi-thread process - anybody with experience? I have a 6.3.5 customer with the same issue, but don't have a 7.1 customer in production to verify.

Re: Client node replication

2014-12-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
And you can do Windows to Unix flavors!. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Client node replication No they don't. I have

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
I've never had a problem defining multiple TSM (logical) libraries on one device address (but I can't say I've tried it since 6.2, and that was on Windows). What you can't do is have one device class pointing to 2 different libraries, so you'll also have to do some juggling there, create some

Re: Administration Center Future

2014-12-11 Thread Prather, Wanda
Does IBM have some document or website that describes the future of Administration Center? Don't know where to find the document, but have been told in presentations: Will it ever be upgraded to keep in lockstep with the TSM version and functionality? No. It is stabilized at 6.3.4, but if you

Re: TSM level for deduplication

2014-12-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Thomas, I agree, don't even think about using dedup at 6.2.5. Too many performance and data handling bugs. We're deduping 4.5-5 TB a day (Windows TSM server) and even had issues at 6.3.4. Have seen no issues at all so far at 6.3.5 (and it should be easy for you to get there from 6.2.5). W

Re: Archive Log Overflow never empties

2014-11-24 Thread Prather, Wanda
We had the same problem on TSM 6.3.4 on Windows, never found out why. Stopped using archive overflow because of it. Once the DB backup is done, just delete the extra files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent:

Re: Backing up Isilons with TSM

2014-11-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
It's awful. Only saving grace in my case is that the data is mostly images and doesn't change much. I assume you've had experience setting up proxy relationships - use many proxy machines to back up the individual shares on the Isilon, so you can have them all working at once. Then back up

Re: Backing up Isilons with TSM

2014-11-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
a dumb server to act at the backup box for the CIFS shares like we do with lots of other EMC storage/mounts (we have one right now running 40+ TSM node/clients purely for CIFS backups). As for *NIX users/mounts, no idea how they want proceed on that. Z On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Prather

Re: Cristie BMR vs Tivoli Fastback for BMR

2014-11-20 Thread Prather, Wanda
it would be other than a 2nd or 3rd safety-net.. Anybody out there using FastBack BMR? On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: Fastback is also a separate server, which backs up to disk only. It uses your regular TSM server to replicate to, but it's

Re: Cristie BMR vs Tivoli Fastback for BMR

2014-11-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Fastback is also a separate server, which backs up to disk only. It uses your regular TSM server to replicate to, but it's really reinventing the wheel if you already have regular TSM clients in place. Fastback BMR isn't something you add on to your normal TSM clients. -Original

Re: TSM VE Backup Fails for 1 Guest

2014-11-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
115 is just a failure to snap. Log on to Vcenter and see if you can snap it manually from VCenter. If it won't snap from Vcenter, TSM can't snap it either, and you will have to treat it as a VMware problem. If it will snap manually (and I'm assuming this is a Windows guest), then the problem

Re: exchange 2010

2014-11-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
Del, Can you elaborate a little more? How is the separate invocation as you showed below different from doing TDPEXCC BACKUP * FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE ? Thanks Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
Correct. You can do a VM full backup with the basic client, without TSM/VE. For incremental forever you need the VE license. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Alverson Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:36 PM To:

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Did you upgrade VE to 7.1.1 first? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Alverson Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question I have a number of data

Re: TSM 7.1 usage of volumes for dedupe

2014-10-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Martha! Has the storage pool been backed up to a copy pool? If the DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP option is set to YES (default), reclaim can't happen until the BACKUP STGPOOL is done. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Roesch

Re: TSM 7.1 usage of volumes for dedupe

2014-10-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Don't believe that. I have seen it before - if you can do a MOVE DATA, it isn't really empty. I think it has to do with dedup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Martha M McConaghy Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:06 PM To:

Re: verify management class

2014-10-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
I believe it will be the default management class of the domain where the data lives when expiration runs, not the domain where it originally backed up. So your first idea will work. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hanover,

Balt MD, Wash DC, NoVA TSM User Group meets Nov 19th 2014

2014-10-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
Please join us Weds, Nov 19, 2014 for the next meeting of the Baltimore-Washington-NoVa TSM User Group We have a lot to talk about! Tentative agenda: TSM 7.1.1 Enhancements and Tips - Ken Bury, IBM TSM Operations Center Update and Demo - Tivoli Development TSM Cognos Reporting

Upgrade from 6.3.4 to 7.1.1 on Win2K8 fails at DB2 upgrade

2014-10-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM 6.3.4 on Win2K8 64 Trying to run the upgrade to 7.1.1, the package fails after uninstalling 6.3.4 and DB2 and fails during the DB2 install. Message: ANRI1020E The DB2 installation failed. To review errors and correct any issues, review C:\ProgramData\IBM\Installation

Load balancing when you have many virtual tapes?

2014-10-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM 7.1.1 on AIX So I have a customer putting in a VTL, which will have 96 virtual drives. Those virtual drives will be spread across 4 HBA's. What sort of strategies to people use to keep TSM from starting a BACKUP stgpool process and picking 4 virtual drives all on the same HBA? Is it

Re: Load balancing when you have many virtual tapes?

2014-10-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
... drive 5 on hba 1 and so on). I prefer doing this at VTL level using mapping policy (i.e access groups on Data Domain). Le 13 octobre 2014 18:28:36 CEST, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com a écrit : TSM 7.1.1 on AIX So I have a customer putting in a VTL, which will have 96 virtual drives. Those

Re: maxscratch

2014-10-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
Just pointing out a more common use of maxscratch that I see at smaller customers, which is in conjunction with collocation. If you have collocation set to node (or filespace), then TSM is going to try and put each node (or filespace) on a separate cartridge. So if you have a smaller library,

Re: Counting VMs

2014-10-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
There are reports in the TSM/VE plug in that will show you that stuff. But if you want to create your own reports, simple way is to use the timestamp on the filespace: Backup status of all your VM's in TSM/VE, order by name (1) or timestamp(3) as you want : select substr(filespace_name,9,18)

Re: TSM based encryption

2014-10-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
No problems with the export/import. But, if you are talking about encryption that is done by the TSM client, it is encrypted before being sent to the server, and when it's transmitted to the new server it will still be encrypted. If you are talking about the TSM server managing encryption

Re: TDP for Exchange 7.1.1 and RDB

2014-09-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
The first and last ones are the new ones. If you don't see them, then I suspect that the upgrade did not complete as expected. Thank you, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 09/25/2014 07:12:11 PM: From: Prather, Wanda

Re: TSM Table Index

2014-09-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
They used to tell us that for the V5 DB. I think it went away with TSM V6. You would have to ask a DB2 person how to go into DB2 and look there. And the problem there, a bunch of the tables are created on the fly, so I don't have a clue how you would find those. Anybody got a DB2 DBA in the

TDP for Exchange 7.1.1 and RDB

2014-09-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Upgraded from TDP for Exchange 6.4 to TDP for Exchange 7.1.1 Exchange 2010, Windows TSM server 6.3.5. The doc for 7.1.1 says: The following parameters are available options in the MMC when you select Show Restore Options from the Recover tab: - Set the /KEEPRDB parameter option to Yes to retain

Re: tsm administration via web

2014-09-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
The ISC is on the FTP site, under Maintenance\admincenter. But I don't recommend it. You should know it has been stabilized at 6.3. There is a 7.1 version on the site which has been patched to work with a 7.1 server, but it has no 7.1 function and it will never be updated any more. It also

Re: tsm administration via web

2014-09-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
not been updated with 7.1.1 informations yet. Le 23/09/2014 19:17, David Ehresman a écrit : Can the 7.1.1 OpCenter be run with pre-7.1 servers? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12

Re: tsm administration via web

2014-09-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm administration via web For all the things they are adding into the TOC (TSM Operations Center), they had to add new tables and functions in the TSM server itself (Which is why it has some cool stuff

Re: tsm administration via web

2014-09-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
in the -DBYPASS_TSM_REQ_CHECKS=true flag is required and must be added on a new line after the -vmargs flag. ../Installation Manager/eclipse/ibmim.ini Erwann Le 23/09/2014 21:52, Prather, Wanda a écrit : For the 7.1 package there is a parm to bypass the min requirements on install, I'll see if I can find

Re: Backup STG expected throughput from 50G FILE devclass to LTO4 tape

2014-09-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
Been there done that. BACKUP STGPOOL for a sequential-dedup-pool-which-hasn't-deduped-yet performance is a nightmare. Have been fighting this for a year. We ingest and dedup 4-6 TB of data per day, in a 45TB sequential pool. We had to back off and land the data on a random pool, backup stgpool

7.1.1 Announcement; GA for download Sep 12

2014-09-02 Thread Prather, Wanda
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAappname=gpateamsupplier=897letternum=ENUS214-340pdf=yes Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.commailto:wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.comhttp://www.icfi.com/ | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF

Orphaned archive logs (was: tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups)

2014-08-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
=wLQwo6jEM4gBohY6PaUggUKrw4TZKeuDMgOs7FtRQdQ%3D%0As=37a9c6f9d2e7c472c894e68ee88ab04eb74a4c87016a83326c058eb0e36cd30d] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, 26 August, 2014 12:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups That usually means your activity log is enormous

Re: tsm for ve backup question

2014-08-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
It's not the schedule. There are several things that can cause VE to do the whole enchilada, rather than only the used space. One I specifically remember is you have to be at Hardware level 7 on the VM; another is a missing license file for VE. And there are also some VM's guests where VMware

Re: tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups

2014-08-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
What version of TSM? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups ANR0299I A full database backup

Re: tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups

2014-08-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
] tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups 6.3.1 Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, 26 August, 2014 10:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm archive log full, causes repeated

Re: tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups

2014-08-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, 26 August, 2014 11:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm archive log full, causes repeated backups You could have a reorg running and pinning the log. Try: q

Re: TSM Export / Import to FC SAN Disk?

2014-08-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Yep. It's not export to tape, but to sequential media. So anything you set up as sequential media will work. You'll need to create a devclass of type FILE that points to the directory, and use the filename as the volume name to export to. (I think it's actually easier to just create the

Re: ETA on V7.1.1 Server?

2014-08-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
At Edge the target was 3rd quarter. So worst case, 9/30 23:59? :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:39 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ETA on V7.1.1 Server? I know it

Re: Possible performance issue with TSM 7.1.0.x / DB2 10.5.x in large dedup environment

2014-08-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thanks. If you would post the APAR # back here when it becomes available, I would appreciate it. Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bent Christensen Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Wrong estimation for VTL

2014-08-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
The estimated capacity shown in Q STGPOOL output is pretty much useless/misleading for sequential pools, as it's based on the MAXSCRATCH value for the pool, plus other factors. See the admin ref pages for Q STGPOOL output field descriptions. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

2014-08-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange TDP and Export weirdness - it's a primary volume - what TOC/metadata would be called for by an EXPORT of 1 Exchange TDP filespace? I've done a select

Re: TDP for VE clientschedules

2014-08-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
We have about the same number of virtual machines, and use 1 VM as a datamover. It's on a 10G network, we move about 4 TB of incrementals per night. The TSM for VE plug in creates the schedule as you show below. But as you said, that becomes unwieldy when you have a lot of VM's.. You aren't

Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

2014-08-04 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM server 6.3.4 on Win2K8 64 Exchange 2010 in a DAG configuration, 22 DB's TDP for Exchange 6.4.0 We run fulls on Saturday, incrementals Sun-Fri. Trying to Export a set of Exchange backups for *one* DB/filespace to sequential media for legal hold. Here's the command: EXPORT NODE x-dag1

Re: Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

2014-08-04 Thread Prather, Wanda
@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Street Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 9:24 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange TDP and Export weirdness On 05/08/14 07:14, Prather, Wanda wrote: TSM server 6.3.4 on Win2K8 64 Exchange 2010 in a DAG configuration, 22 DB's TDP for Exchange 6.4.0 We

Re: Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS

2014-07-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
Yup. I haven't had this problem with Win2K8 yet, but had it all the time on Win2K3. And we do exactly as Karel said, use a presched .cmd file to dump the system state to a flat file, then add DOMAIN -systemstate to the dsm.opt file so TSM won't call VSS to do the system state backup. Only

Re: deduplication status

2014-07-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
39 is actually not a great number; it means you are getting less than 2 for 1 dedup. Unless you have backups running hard 24 hours a day, those dedup processes should finish. When you do Q PROC, if the processes have any work to do, they show as ACTIVE, if not they show IDLE. I'd think that

Re: TSM/AC and CommandLine

2014-07-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Bill, The AC only supports IE7 and IE8. Some parts of it work with IE9, and some don't. Try this: Press PF12 That brings up the IE9 debug window Change both Browser and Document mode to IE8 emulation; if that doesn't' work try IE7 emulation. (On some machines I get *faster* response with IE8

Re: Fwd: [ADSM-L] Lun versus logical volume for DB volumes

2014-07-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
DB2 doesn't know whether it's an actual LUN or not. It only sees the filesystem. Whether you use dedicated LUNs is a performance question. On XIV type disk where I/O is striped every which way and everything is spinning all the time, it's a whole different question than if you put 8 filesystems

Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.

2014-07-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
Interesting point about NDMP and dedup. Do you have any experience with it? What kind of dedup ratios did you see? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM 7.1 upgrade aftermath

2014-07-14 Thread Prather, Wanda
Does anybody have the APAR number for the PASSEXP problem so I can track it? Thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 10:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1

Re: TSM and AS/400

2014-07-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
I have been asked to evaluate the possibility to take a backup from AS/400 (Power720 - v6.1) to TSM (I don't know anything about AS/400). I looked on the info and I understand we need something called Backup Recovery and Media Services for iSeries, I have a few questions: Been there done

Re: Tape corruption

2014-07-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Eric - Was it a real write error like: ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (mt0.0.0.5) with -blah- blah - ASC=FF, ASCQ= FF, -glub - Or an unexpected error like an ANRD? TSM believes that VTL drive is a real tape drive. And like you, I would expect a legitimate error to result

Re: Restoration Issue in TSM 5.5. and NQR..

2014-07-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 8:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoration Issue in TSM 5.5... My advice is to not use the GUI. Until IBM eventually

Re: TSM 7.1 and dedup chunking issues

2014-07-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
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2014-07-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
Just trying to get a clean email. Seriously, there is nothing in here that should cause a barracuda to burp.

Re: TSM BA installer rant

2014-07-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
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Re: TSM BA installer rant

2014-07-04 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thanks for the warning; I wasn't aware of this and it's going to save me some grief! I just looked in the client install guide, and it says As part of the Windows client installation process, one or more Microsoft C++ redistributable packages are installed, if they are not already installed on

Re: TSM 7.1 and dedup chunking issues

2014-07-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
:32 AM To: Prather, Wanda Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 and dedup chunking issues Hi Wanda, The below is what got through of your response to TSM 7.1 and dedup chunking issues on the TSM list server :-) It is really a pain that you don't receive a copy of what you put up on the list

Re: TSM 7.1 and dedup chunking issues

2014-07-02 Thread Prather, Wanda
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Re: Exchange and client compression

2014-06-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
You are saying there must be FOUR healthy copies (primary + more than 2 replicas) to skip integrity check? - seems like overkill: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l%40vm.marist.edu/msg90709.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: bind all files except .pst to new management class?

2014-06-24 Thread Prather, Wanda
That will work. But, if they really want *all* non-pst files bound to the new mgmt. class, just change the copy group/retention settings for the default mgmt. class. Then all you need is: include ?:\...\*.pst meager-mc That would have a slight advantage, in that files that are inactive

Re: 3584 upgrade: 3592-E05 to 3592-E07

2014-06-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
I agree. As long as there are lots of JC tapes on the scratch list, I believe the default algorithm is to round-robin the scratch list, so the old tapes that free up will likely be at the bottom of the scratch list and will likely not get used before you check them out. And I like the idea of

Re: Backup job status

2014-06-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Install the TSM Operations Center 7.1 when you install the 7.1 server. (Not available with 6.2) Very small footprint, free with the server. Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l0wtmCmwkA -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: Server upgrade

2014-06-18 Thread Prather, Wanda
Rename the systemstate filespace on the server end to something else, I think will take care of it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Swartz, Jerome Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

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