Re: upgrade TDP for R3

2003-04-04 Thread Seay, Paul
Works very well. There is a memory assertion error that may not be fixed in this level, but that problem has always been there. -Original Message- From: Dale Gieseke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: upgrade TDP for R3

Re: TSM Server not using maximum number of drives.

2003-04-04 Thread Seay, Paul
Collocation can also cause fewer tape drives to be used. -Original Message- From: Hart, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server not using maximum number of drives. The Resource Utilization parameter in your

Re: Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted

2003-04-04 Thread Seay, Paul
Ever tried maxpgahead? That is why you want JFS. Causes things to fly. -Original Message- From: Emil S. Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at

Re: Errors on 3590 K tapes

2003-03-04 Thread Seay, Paul
This is a problem for all the newer tape technologies. Typically, this is caused by a bad batch of tapes or a case of tapes that has been slammed on the floor or the librarian stacked them and knocked them on the floor. Early in the delivery of K tapes there was a packing problem. Also, make

Re: Errors on 3590 K tapes

2003-03-04 Thread Seay, Paul
This problem was fixed in the F_0295 Level (I think that is right). It is the latest level. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Errors on 3590 K tapes Sounds a lot like what I

Re: TSM API Crashing DB2

2003-03-04 Thread Seay, Paul
I believe at the 4.2.1 level you have to get a special version of the client to run on AIX V5.1. ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/clie nt/v4r2/AIX/v423/AIX51/ -Original Message- From: Jeff Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04,

Re: Tivoli Storage Resource Reporting

2003-03-04 Thread Seay, Paul
I have seen this product demonstrated, pretty impressive. -Original Message- From: Chris Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tivoli Storage Resource Reporting While I couldn't comment in any great deal on this, I have

Re: Fibre Channel Loop Disk and Tape device

2003-03-02 Thread Seay, Paul
This is not a TSM issue it is a FC issue. Are you running your tape on the same HBAs as the Disk containing the Oracle database. This is a no-no if you are running random I/O to the Oracle database at the same time. You will need dedicated HBAs for the tape from the Oracle database client if

Re: TDP for SAP, Solaris 8 Environment, Restore Failures and Conf igur ation Questions

2003-03-02 Thread Seay, Paul
We found the problem, but have not had time to reproduce it for Germany. Back off to the 32 bit API and TDP. Everything will work just fine then. -Original Message- From: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for

Re: Need help with TDP Oracle 5.1.5.

2003-03-02 Thread Seay, Paul
I do not think the first two require the library. Have you check the rights on libobk.a? It may be that world rights are being used because libobk.a is owned by someone other than who's requesting it. I bet world rights are not executable. -Original Message- From: Guy Korn

Re: TSM Upgrade frequency: SAN upgrade 4.2.1.7 to 4.2.1.9

2003-02-20 Thread Seay, Paul
I cannot remember now, but I believe this is one upgrade that absolutely required both to go at the same time. I am thinking it is 4.2.1.8 that required all to be updated. Prior to 4.2.2.0 they did not check the patch level, but since it caused so much grief for support it is now enforced.

Re: password encryption

2003-02-20 Thread Seay, Paul
In encryption speak. The node name is usually called the public key. The private key is what is used to encrypt the message. This is a nice implementation because during password change (which is probably in the message) the new encyption key (password) is not exposed. Paul D. Seay, Jr.

Re: [new] DB Cache Hit Rate Question

2003-02-20 Thread Seay, Paul
If this is a dedicated AIX machine set vmtune maxperm to 20 and minperm to 10 otherwise paging will start happening. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: David le Blanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: too many filesystems to backup

2003-02-20 Thread Seay, Paul
Have you considered using the dsm.opt to contain exclude.fs commands for the ones you do not want to backup and let it just backup everything else. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Jitendra Thakur

Re: TSM Upgrade frequency: Storage Agent Requirement

2003-02-19 Thread Seay, Paul
Not Quite! This used to be true before 4.2.2.0, not any longer. They must match right down to the patch level. I was bitten by 4.2.2.12 and 4.2.2.13. However, TSM Development is promising to make this issue go away. Hopefully, in V5.2. You will have to upgrade all at once then, probably, but

Re: Mixing 3590E and 3590K volumes

2003-02-18 Thread Seay, Paul
If your 3590 drives have the green 2x sticker on the back of them (open the cabinet and look), they can support K cartridges. 3590H drives can support K-Carts. The K carts have a different knotch configuration than the J cartridges. There is no issue with having a mixed bag except it throws off

Re: OS390 SELFTUNEBUFPOOLSIZE yes/no?

2003-02-17 Thread Seay, Paul
I like to set it about 10% higher than the happy point and set it to yes on AIX. Then check it every once and a while to see if it needs adjusting. The problem is you can create a lot of GETMAINs on MVS if you do not set it high enough to begin with. On MVS, you are probably best to set it to NO

Re: Estimating size of backup sets

2003-02-16 Thread Seay, Paul
This will give you the filespace usage, which is the active backupset size except it includes excluded data. It should be good enough for an estimate. select node_name, cast(sum(capacity*pct_util/100) as decimal(10,3)) as MB of Used from filespaces group by node_name However, I am not sure how

Re: TSM 5.2 Question (BMR Again)

2003-02-13 Thread Seay, Paul
No, but there will probably be a V5.2 pre-announcement update at Share in Dallas February 24-28. BMR has been mentioned as part of their intended product plan, but no commitments on when. The issue is Veritas BMR is fine for like configurations, but not disaster recovery where the configurations

Re: Firmware upgrade question

2003-02-11 Thread Seay, Paul
None of these. Install the latest one (D0IF_295) that fixes some nasty problems especially if you are using ES-1000s. D0IF_26E regresses a fix that the previous firware had for ES-1000s. There are also a lot fixes related to bad tapes. There is a change to improve cleaning cycle needs and to

Re: summary-table

2003-02-11 Thread Seay, Paul
This is why it took soo long for them to actually figure out what the problem was. As it turns out, if the session did not exceed the coded server timeout the problem did not show up on any release of the client or the server. It is when it went over. In order to fix the problem, the client

Re: Occupancy from copy_pool primary_pool ??

2003-02-10 Thread Seay, Paul
I think any aggregates that have deleted files in them are still counted as whole. So, if reclamation ever runs against the primary and any copy pools it is highly likely some aggregates in one pool would be reclaimed and in others they may not. The other possibility is you have more than one

Re: tape cartridges with same bar codes

2003-02-09 Thread Seay, Paul
I suspect that you cannot even check both tapes into the library, though I have never done it. This is why. When you check a volume in as scratch it checks the volumes table to make sure the volume is not in the table. This is to protect the volume contents from being destroyed (referential

Re: summary-table

2003-02-07 Thread Seay, Paul
I believe this is more than a server issue. I have been assured it is fixed in 5.1.1.2 and higher, but I have not installed it yet. Apparently, the client needs to be updated as well to get a complete fix. I do not know if there is a client level for 4.2.3.2 and higher that completely

Re: summary-table

2003-02-07 Thread Seay, Paul
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: summary-table At 3:19 PM -0500 2/7/03, Seay, Paul wrote: Apparently, the client needs to be updated as well to get a complete fix. I do not know if there is a client level for 4.2.3.2 and higher that completely eliminates the problem

Re: Three copies of backup data

2003-02-07 Thread Seay, Paul
In V5.1 and up you can specify linked copy pools and actually create the primary and the copy pools at the same time, but you have to have 3 tape drives. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark

Re: backint(tdp) restore (brrestore) process

2003-02-06 Thread Seay, Paul
It processes the files in order of the .anf file. As it turns out they are recorded on the tape in that order. TDP for SAP will rewind and dismount the tape if you do not have a mount point hold time on the device class. So, if you have it set to zero, you will need to increase it a to maybe 2

Re: Sun Solaris server backups not ending

2003-02-06 Thread Seay, Paul
Your ethernet adapter in the SUN machine probably took the default of AUTO and is trying to continually negotiate with the switch. Change it to Full or half as appropriate and the problem will go away. Seen this time and time again. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman

Re: Domino Backup

2003-02-06 Thread Seay, Paul
I recommend TDP for Mail. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Amini, Mehdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Domino Backup We just got a

Re: Move nodedata (removing a filespace from a copy pool)

2003-02-06 Thread Seay, Paul
Yes, but it is ugly. Move the filespace to a new primary pool temporarily, or permanently if you like. Create a new Copy storage pool and run a backup storage pool command of the original storage pool command. The delete the old copy storage pool (you have to delete all the volumes in that copy

Re: Restoring data from Copypool tape

2003-02-04 Thread Seay, Paul
You have to do a CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command with the parameters particular to your library. The tape will automatically come back as status=private even if you specify status=scratch because they are still known to have good data if that is really the case. Now, you are requesting these for a

Re: TSM Question

2003-02-04 Thread Seay, Paul
This is a similar approach to what we use to capture a set of Exchange data. We determine the primary volumes that the data is on that we need. Move those volumes to a new primary pool. Copy that primary pool to a copy pool, database snapshot, eject the copy pool tapes, delete the copy pool

Re: Tape status

2003-02-03 Thread Seay, Paul
The typical cause is the tapes were not labeled. You checked them in, but you should have done a LABEL LIBVOLUME .. CHECKIN=Scratch. Just check them back out and do the LABEL command. This is the normal action TSM takes to get a bad tape marked for no reuse when it is not labeled. Paul D.

Re: NTFS Permission

2003-02-02 Thread Seay, Paul
There were some permission restore issues at this level, I do not remember what they were. This level is not going to be supported after 4/15. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Edgardo Moso

Re: Image backup CPU time.

2003-02-02 Thread Seay, Paul
This is about what I would expect. Eventhough you are using the SAN agent, you could be still using the IP stack internal to the machine to get the data from the client to the SAN agent. And, if this is TDP for Exchange or TDP for SQL, there is even more CPU overhead. Without more information,

Re: management class question???

2003-02-01 Thread Seay, Paul
In the management class you set the primary storage pool. To run the first backup just direct it to the TAPE primary management class that is the NEXTPOOL for the DISK management class. After the first backup, change the storage pool to the DISK management class. Backups are determined by the

Re: 3590 Partitioning

2003-02-01 Thread Seay, Paul
This is an OS support and boot issue. HP has been slow to support open SAN. This ability has only been available on AIX for a little while. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3494 and dsmserv restore db

2003-01-28 Thread Seay, Paul
If you have the 3494 mtlib code installed for Windows you can issue this command and not even go to the library. The command is: mtlib -l [library] -m -x [device serial] -V [volume number] After TSM is done with the tape it will unload it but not put it away. mtlib -l [library] -d -x [device

Re: VERY HIGH %SYS CPU

2003-01-28 Thread Seay, Paul
Check your default IP packet sizes and IP performance implementation. The more packets you have the more overhead to process them. We do not have a SUN TSM server, but we run SAN Storage agents and Clients on SUN. Also, check your TDP for SAP implementation and make sure you are using the most

Re: Scalar 24 remotely

2003-01-27 Thread Seay, Paul
With TSM V5.1 and below a drive has to be defined, visible, and online to the TSM server and the SAN Storage Agent. Essentially, the SAN Storage Agent is a cut down TSM server code set that does its database I/O remotely. You have another option, install the TSM server code where you were going

Re: Backup fails when files fail

2003-01-27 Thread Seay, Paul
Consistent return codes was a Share requirement for years so that production processes could actually be coded and have a determinable consistent result. You may not like the implementation, but it is what was asked for. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information

Re: Some information...

2003-01-23 Thread Seay, Paul
NO NO YES Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Nicolas Savva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Some information... Hi, I need some help for the following: 1. Is TSM

Re: TSM offsite backups

2003-01-22 Thread Seay, Paul
This is exactly what we do. Basically, you run two backup storage pool commands for each primary pool to two different copy pools. Naming conventions become really important here to help prevent mistakes and to use masks. We call our pools like this: DSK_Primary

Re: Tape Requests Never Mounting

2003-01-22 Thread Seay, Paul
, January 22, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape Requests Never Mounting I can't rule out a H/W problem, but...I did upgrade to 5.1.6 and the problem went away. How solid is the tsmscsi stuff in 5.1.5 for Linux? Mitch Seay, Paul wrote: You likely have a marginal SCSI

Re: Windows 2000 System State

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
Yes, but you have to be at 4.1.4 and higher I believe. It may be higher than that. It is called the system object for Windows 2000 clients and contains a lot more than just the registry. It contains dlls and many other files considered part of the system object. The biggest issue right now is

Re: oh great SQL gurus..... statement for validating that all of the NT servers all have valid registry backups

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
The bitfile is only needed to find out what tape an object is on. This is a nasty issue. I am guessing what you really want is to know if a specific machine registry gets broken and is not getting backed up so you can address whatever happened. I think a select of the inactives not in the

Re: Dublicate TSM's DB or Data Tapes (3590, LTO) ... not within T SM

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
This is why I run and incremental and a dbsnapshot every day. And two TSM database backups for every offsite run. And a primary, onsite copy, and offsite copy (DR) for filesystem backups. And, applicaton database and application log file offsite copies to roll forward a bad application backup

Re: Triggered dbbackup doesn't start immediately

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
Apparently, the BACKUP DB command does some pre processing now. Not sure what. My system can take 3 to 5 minutes. I think what is happening is some log commit logic is running for a while to try to unpin as much of the log as possible, but that is just a guess. Then, my backup starts. Mine

Re: 64-Bit Filesystem

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
Which 64 bit file system? Whenever posting a question like this please provide: Client or Server type and OS level. Filesytem type (JFS, JFS2, Veritas, NTFS, XFS, UFS, etc). Often folks just do not bother to respond to a question like this because of the missing information.

Re: Tape Requests Never Mounting

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
You likely have a marginal SCSI cabling problem, missing terminator, tape driver or something like this. This is probably not a TSM issue. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Mitch Sako [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: database reorganisation

2003-01-21 Thread Seay, Paul
Roger, I agree with you on your point; however, there is one consideration which we have found requires and unload/load. We do a lot of delete filespaces because we have a lot of server migrations and are required to keep the old image for 1 year, then delete it. This is also true for filespaces

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

2003-01-19 Thread Seay, Paul
of this response On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Seay, Paul wrote: As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music. The default maxperm is probably killing you. I am guessing you are swapping snip I agree whole-heartedly! I'd go a step further, and knock maxperm down

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

2003-01-17 Thread Seay, Paul
As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music. The default maxperm is probably killing you. I am guessing you are swapping more than you are running and your swap drives are I/O hot, a iostat will tell you, or topas. This value dictates the amount of storage that can be consumed by

Re: Database page size?

2003-01-16 Thread Seay, Paul
There is only one size right now, 4096. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database page size? Hi TSMers What is the

Re: Need some help on sequence of checkin libv ... search comma nds

2003-01-16 Thread Seay, Paul
Tom, you are correct. This is the way we do the checkin commands when DR tapes return because we do a lot of move data commands. What will happen is tapes that have no data on them will end up being marked private in the libvolumes table. However, it is easy to fix. All you have to do is an

Re: Quick expiration question

2003-01-16 Thread Seay, Paul
Files that do not have an active version do not get rebound if you set them to a new policy domain management class. In fact, we have had to create dummy files and run a backup with a special management class to get this kind of data to rebind. I really want a command that I can say rebind to a

Re: TSM database question

2003-01-16 Thread Seay, Paul
It really depends on the hardware you have. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Ruksana Siddiqui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM database question I have TSM

Re: TSM database question

2003-01-16 Thread Seay, Paul
with 2 CPU's and 2 GB memory ( PHYSICAL ). With regards, -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 17 January 2003 10:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM database question It really depends on the hardware you have. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical

Re: Any side effects after upgrading TSM 4.2.1.9 to TSM 4.2.3.0

2003-01-15 Thread Seay, Paul
4.2.3.0 is not good enough. You need to go to 4.2.3.2. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Charakondala, Chandrasekhar R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any side

Re: Errors after upgrade from TSM 4.2.1.9 to TSM 4.2.3.0

2003-01-15 Thread Seay, Paul
You have to be at 4.2.3.2 and there is a special patch you may have to put on if cleanup backupgroups fails at the 4.2.3.2 level. Has a cleanup backupgroups been run? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Michael Moore [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: To Collate or Not to Collate?

2003-01-13 Thread Seay, Paul
How many tapes do you have in the tapepool? Select count(*) from volumes where stgpool_name='TAPEPOOL' How many drives do you have? How many mounts are you getting during a stgpool backup? Do you have maxpr specified on the stgpool backup? What is the device class mount retention? Are you

Re: AIX TSM Server, Client, and StgAgent Recommendation: 4.2.x

2003-01-13 Thread Seay, Paul
4.2.3.2 for the Server and latest client available. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Hokanson, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX TSM Server, Client, and

Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM

2003-01-12 Thread Seay, Paul
Yeah, Roman numeral M is a 40+ year practice that sales people used at the wholesale and manufacturing levels as kind of a shorthand for 1000. As they have migrated to computers this has mostly gone away because the quantity fields only supported ea items standing for each. Paul D. Seay, Jr.

Re: Roman Numerals

2003-01-12 Thread Seay, Paul
] Subject: Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM Seay, Paul wrote: Yeah, Roman numeral M is a 40+ year practice that sales people used at the wholesale and manufacturing levels as kind of a shorthand for 1000. As they have migrated to computers this has mostly gone away because the quantity fields only

Re: Storage Agent Error: ANR9999D shmcomm.c(1690)

2003-01-11 Thread Seay, Paul
I think you will have to run the dsmc as root. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Hokanson, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Storage Agent Error: ANRD

Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM

2003-01-11 Thread Seay, Paul
Unfortunately, our bean counters started using 60K for $60,000. When the mainframe 3380 came out they decided to start counting disk in 1000s and 100s. This has just perpetuated on for disk to make it easy for people to calculate the space required because data records are measured in base

Re: Is there a limit on the amount of data an NT client can backu p ?

2003-01-10 Thread Seay, Paul
Keith, we worked with Tivoli to fix this problem. There was a memory leak in the ACL processing routine. The latest TSM Client for SGI fixed this problem and a previous patch level has the fix. I believe the current level is 4.2.3.0.

Re: move drmedia but tapes werent ejected

2003-01-08 Thread Seay, Paul
What do you mean, they are in the inport. The 3494 should put the tapes away with a category of FF00 and then you just check them in. You should be able to do a mtlib command to see their status. I believe you are getting confused with the J on the tape. That is not part of the serial number.

Re: Gigabit Ethernet speed

2002-12-31 Thread Seay, Paul
:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet speed Hi, Can we use 2 or more gigabit interfaces to increase backup bandwidth? Any experience on this approach? Thanks in advance, António Pires Seay, Paul seay_pd@NAPTHEON

Re: Gigabit Ethernet speed

2002-12-28 Thread Seay, Paul
with CPU utilization. -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 27, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet speed For some reason we forget that IP packet processing on the client and server take a lot of CPU resources. Check your

Re: Gigabit Ethernet speed

2002-12-27 Thread Seay, Paul
For some reason we forget that IP packet processing on the client and server take a lot of CPU resources. Check your CPU utilization on both to see what is happening. My experience is a 450mhz x 4 P660 can process maximum of about 7 kb/sec. When we had only one gigabit interface that is

Re: TDP R/3

2002-12-23 Thread Seay, Paul
Just being able to use the extended SAPDBA utilities that TDP provides the hooks for is a plus. No SAPDBA should leave home without them. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Bill Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Re: incrbydate option

2002-12-23 Thread Seay, Paul
This subject looked like burnt potatoes the last time it was discussed. It is finished being discussed here, the archives are the answer! Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Mark D. Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Select statements syntax: The Answer

2002-12-20 Thread Seay, Paul
Try this on for size. select node_name, cast(platform_name as char(16)) as OS/Name , cast(client_os_level as char(10)) as OS/Level, cast (client_version as char(1)) || '.' || cast(client_release as char(1)) || '.' || cast (client_level as char(1)) || '.' || trim(cast(client_sublevel as char(2)))

Re: Many, almost empty volumes ??

2002-12-20 Thread Seay, Paul
The short answer is probably yes. TSM does some checking of files that span tapes in the reclamation criteria to prevent an endless chain of reclamation. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

FW: Select Statement: The ANSWER (GROUP BY)

2002-12-19 Thread Seay, Paul
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:26 PM To: Seay, Paul Subject: RE: Select Statement: The ANSWER Thanks, I will try the command line. Seay, Paul seay_pd@naptTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3494 libray lifespan??

2002-12-16 Thread Seay, Paul
I think it is more of a question when a VTS replacement would become available and 3590 is significantly slower than other technologies. There is still development going on for the 3494 library itself. There will be a replacement 3590 drive soon. It is not clear if that drive will be in the

Re: TDP Exchange Failing

2002-12-16 Thread Seay, Paul
Try changing the buffers to 64K instead of the default. And, to a number of 4. Everyone that I have suggested this change to and our own site have found that the performance is good and the fragmentation issues with getting 1MB buffers is eliminated. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist

Re: Backup of Tape Pool Still Running!

2002-12-14 Thread Seay, Paul
I have seen this on the 4.2.x.x server code levels. What causes it to hang is a storage pool related command by an ADMIN. If you do a q sesions, you should find a admin that has been running for a long time. Cancel the admin session and the problem will clear. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-12 Thread Seay, Paul
will be proper :-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges And, if you look at a J and a K tape on the notches you will notice that they have

Re: multiple image backups

2002-12-12 Thread Seay, Paul
What have you set resourceutilization in the dsm.opt and mount point to for the node? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: J D Gable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: TSM SERVER 5.1.5.2 Performance Issue

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
PQ68076 is MVS ONLY related to GETMAIN activity, not AIX and there is no equivalent issue on AIX. So, the problem is something else. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December

Re: Management Class and TDP for R/3

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
We have setup something almost identical to what Tom has done. This is an excellent design based on our experiences as well. Our retentions are different, but we use the same concepts. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Kauffman,

Re: Market Share of TSM vs Legato Networker

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
Do not read into anything about market share statistics. Suffice to say, the only two products that get any significant press now are TSM and Veritas NetBackup. They have market share in around the 20 percentile. A large number of Backup Exec licenses exist and are continually sold, but that is

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
And, if you look at a J and a K tape on the notches you will notice that they have a different configuration. So, if you put a K tape in a J only drive, it will kick it right back out. I thought that all B to E upgrade kits were K capable. I did not think that kit came out until the E upgrade

Re: LAN free backup for Novell

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
The reality is this. File system backups of small files are not a good candidate for SAN Tape backups. Netware does not run any large file databases, so there is no SAN Storage Agent requirement. The answer is Gigabit between your TSM server and the client and let the TSM server stream the data

Re: Batch Command and security

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
You have to define them as a ADMIN with no grants. They will get the query commands with that by default. That may be more than you want to give them. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Elio Vannelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Copypool management

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
The best way is to use two different nodes and two different management classes/copygroups/pools. This way your offsite node is the only one used to manage that data. We do some things very similar to this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original

Re: Select Statement: The ANSWER

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
select summary.entity as NODE NAME, nodes.domain_name as DOMAIN, nodes.platform_name as PLATFORM, cast((cast(sum(summary.bytes) as float) / 1024 / 1024) as decimal(10,2)) as MBYTES , count(*) as CONNECTIONS, cast (client_version as char(1)) || '.' || cast (client_release as char(1)) || '.' || cast

Re: Help on TDP for SAP R/3 Oracle

2002-12-10 Thread Seay, Paul
Many do RL compression in the TDP. Some do client compression. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help on TDP for SAP

Re: Select Statement

2002-12-10 Thread Seay, Paul
As it turns out the clients also have to be updated to correct a problem where the summary table statistics are missing. I talked to a TSM Level 2 person about this just last week. I do not know what levels you have to be at to get the problem corrected, but I thought 5.1.5 was good enough.

Re: DB Backup in v5 TSM (5.1.1.6, 5.1.5.2, 5.1.5.4)

2002-12-10 Thread Seay, Paul
My database saves at about 22,000,000 pages an hour. I have taken the messages from the log and they are consistently the same. I do not know what is causing this. There were some performance problems with mirrored databases, but I thought they were fixed at your level. Paul D. Seay, Jr.

Re: Client backup verification

2002-12-10 Thread Seay, Paul
Dwight, there is only one problem with this, SELECTIVE does not update these fields in the database. There was a long discussion about this. The sum of it all was these fields are to support incrbydate. However, I do the same thing you do because we do not use selective backups. Paul D. Seay,

TDP for SQL Server Transaction Log Restores

2002-12-04 Thread Seay, Paul
We have a requirement to restore the transaction logs back to their disk location either on the orginal or an alternate server or to be able to post process the transaction logs as disk files some kind of way before they get deleted after a TDP for SQL Server Backup. My DBAs tell me SQL server

Re: ADSM-L Digest - 28 Nov 2002 to 29 Nov 2002 (#2002-333)

2002-12-04 Thread Seay, Paul
The easiest way is to use two different node stanzas and have 2 different primary pools. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TDP for SQL Server Transaction Log Restores

2002-12-04 Thread Seay, Paul
OK, I see what you mean. I guess I misunderstood what the product is probably doing. The company that has this auditing product is LUMIGENT, www.lumigent.com. The product is Entegra. I have not talked to their developers as yet, but they seem to be interested in retrieving the objects from TSM

3590E MicroCode Back Level Situation (two code paths)

2002-11-25 Thread Seay, Paul
F_026E backleveled a fix from a previous release related to SAN LIP protocols and login that was on, I believe, D_0388. To correct the problem F_027E is the fix. This fix is not generally available yet. If you have McData ES-1000 switches, you are especially exposed. Basically, one drive can

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-24 Thread Seay, Paul
Is anyone monitoring the drive internal logs or looking at them. It sounds like the drive pressure is out of alignment in all the drives. This could be because the CE you have has no idea what they are doing. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original

Re: tape-to-tape performance

2002-11-20 Thread Seay, Paul
The storage pool backup that you are doing could be directly affected by the database performance. Is this 1.6TB a lot of small files? On the IO configuration side, how are your tape drives connected, SCSI or FC? I suspect SCSI. If you have more than 2 drives, on a SCSI adapter that is the

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-20 Thread Seay, Paul
Actually, there are 2 speeds to be concerned with. Data transfer from the host to the 3590 controller. SCSI, depends on length and type of connection (34 was the top on SCSI E1A). 40 MB/sec on FC E1A advertised, but I have seen higher (FC) 70 MB/sec on FC H1A advertised

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