From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
It has become a habit of mine, on any major upgrade of the TSM server,
to start the TSM server in the foreground first and watch for unusual
messages. Then if everything comes up fine, halt it and start it
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Mochnaczewski
Does anyone have any performance benchmarking procedures or utilities
that
can be used to verify tape drive performance ? We are running TSM
5.3.5.2
on AIX 5.3 ML4 using a SL8500 using ACSLS.
Real-world
Just Monday, I upgraded a customer's twin TSM servers from 5.3.2.2 to
5.4.2.0. Multiple instances of TSM existed on each physical server, and
the TSM installation process automatically upgraded all existing
databases. There were two 130GB databases, and the upgrade on each of
them took about 5
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Anker Lerret
We're about to upgrade from TSM server 5.3.3.0 to 5.4.1.1 on 2 TSM
servers.
I would suggest you go all the way to 5.4.2.0. Going to a patch level is
rarely a best practice unless you're trying to fix a specific
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Rodolfich
We have a WIndows 2003 server running the 5.4.0.2 TSM client. The
nightly
scheduled backups have been failing due to the following error.
ANS1378E: The snapshot operation failed. The SNAPSHOTCACHELocation
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Collins, Brenda
It was true that the backdelete was not set to yes. I did change that
now
but db2 does not recognize that old data. When there are deactivated
backups that db2adutl does not seem to be able to delete.
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Collins, Brenda
I have another issue that I haven't run across previously. I have
seen
threads on it in the listserv but not with the resolution I need to
find.
ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume C01861 in library
Query occupancy node_name stgp=stgpool_name type=archive
Query occupancy node_name stgp=stgpool_name type=backup
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
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From: ADSM: Dist
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Longo
I have a W2003 R2 Std. ED.- SP2 server. This server went live about 3
months
ago. Had TSM 5.2.x client on it. (Server had been around a while
before
it went live.)
Started backup and went fine for a month,
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sam Sheppard
We believe we need to define a LAN host to the Library Manager, but
when
we attempt to do an Add LAN Host at the library manager operator
panel, we are not given the opportunity to add anything and just get
back
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Hi Dude..
How are the experiments on the NAS backups going?
When do you want to get together again?
I'm out of town next week, but I'm free Feb 26, 27, 29...
Wanda, Wanda, Wanda. While this is a very
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
We are runing a 5.3.4.0 TSM server under zLinux and are planning
to upgrade to 5.4.2.0. We currently have licenses for some hundreds
of processors. How will the existing licenses be converted to the
new
There is no one-to-one correspondence between filespaces (or nodes) and
management classes. There is a one-to-one correspondence between nodes
and policy domains, and a policy domain has one DEFAULT management
class, but can have many.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between individual files
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Johnny Lea
I do have a question on something someone mentioned and that is de-
deduplication. Are many of you using it and do you consider it an
extra
level on potential problems? Just curious.
It's highly overrated with
Search the ADSM-L archives for VMWare and virtualmountpoint
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Howard Coles
Here's a question, other than better running software what does the
person/company get for all this free testing work they provide IBM?
If you're a business partner or consultant, you get a big jump start on
new
From searching the IBM site:
http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=ANR7837Sv=16lang=encc=usen=utfSearch=S
earch
See if any of the descriptions match your environment. You may have a
pinned recovery log.
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN
A couple of things:
1. Delete all your path and drive definitions and rebuild them.
2. Make sure that your HBA drivers are up-to-date.
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
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Remember that 800GB is the *average* maximum amount. The amount of
compression you get on a given tape is entirely dependent upon the type
of data you back up. Text files compress more than binary files, and
database files compress depending upon how full the file is.
500GB is about the
Roundabout way: create a second TSM instance, share your library out to
the new instance, run EXPORT NODE TOSERVER=new_instance, delete the
export volume history entries you want, then run EXPORT NODE
TOSERVER=original_instance.
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Christian Svensson
But when you do a BMR with TSM only you don't have all the flexibility
with Dissimilar Hardware and the speed that CBMR have to recovery the
OS.
Of course you can do a Image backup with TSM but in that case
A hypothetical question occurred to me one dark night:
You normally create the Windows service called TSM Server 1 (or 2 or
whatever) through the TSM Management Console when you first set up a TSM
server. Does anyone know how you could create the service through an OS
command-line interface?
TSM can be used as a BMR tool, but it does require some scripting,
particularly if you have clients aside from Windows 2000/2003.
The available BMR packages that I'm aware of either perform poorly, or
are rather expensive. Why buy additional software when TSM can do the
work, with a little
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Minns, Farren; Chichester
Disk BACKUPPOOL migrating to 3592 TAPEPOOL with a 3590 COPYPOOL.
I needed to create a new 3592 COPYPOOL as the number of 3590 off-site
tapes being sent each day was getting too large.
I marked
That was going to be MY suggestion. Similar nonsense happens with
corrupt Windows filesystems.
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
TSTLTDTD
Try exporting and importing
Yes. In fact that's the only way you'll be able to do that. Be prepared
to tie up at least one tape drive for each pool for long periods of
time. I would suggest that you use the
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kevin P. Kinder
Server: TSM running on z/OS 1.7
Just upgraded to 5.5
My NetWare clients are now running full backups instead of the
incrementals which are specified. It looks as if every Netware server
that I
Good rule of thumb: if you can't get inventory expiration done within 6
hours, you've got a degraded environment. You should seriously look at
1) a more robust disk environment for your database
2) the database should be split into multiple instances.
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System
Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the process of resolving ANS1063E for a couple of clients, I noted
something that seemed strange. There was one machine in particular,
that I've
been running manually, and it would back up a few 100 MB at a time. It
was
finally able to run a
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Just wanted to know if anyone's made the jump. We just got in a new
server
and will be moving from v5.3.1.2 to either 5.4 or 5.5. Just wanted to
know
what your thoughts were on migrating?
The upgrades from 5.3.X upward should
Shove the tapes into the library directly.
Run
checkin libv library search=yes status=private checkl=barcode
update volume * wherestg=copypool access=readwrite
The last line assumes you've put all copypool volumes into the library.
There you go.
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a
Zoltan, read the IBM SWG note you pointed at below. It explained why the fix
works.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 8:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L]
That'll work...as long as the SYSTEMSTATE backup is less than 2GB, and
as long as Vista supports subfile backups.
Let us all know how that works.
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Maura Adams
Thanks for the info. I just heard back from IBM support and because
our
second frame to the library was added after our original install, TSM
does not see it. We need to take an outage and delete/define all
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Geoff - See if Technote 1246364 explains your occurrence.
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
I must be an idiot. I'm either in the wrong place or don't know how to
perform a search, and as usual the IBM
By opening the TSM backup/archive client GUI, browse through the RESTORE
list to find the file in question. If you choose to View
Active/Inactive, you can see all the different times the file has been
backed up.
There are security reasons why server and client functionalities are
separated.
--
Licensing:
1 license per physical processor.
Different kinds of processors have varying costs. See your dealer.
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
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on a Single
Machine
thanks,
Daad
Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Licensing:
1 license per physical processor.
Different kinds of processors have varying costs. See your dealer.
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Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park
Storage agent version, release, level, and sublevel must match the TSM server's
exactly.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Stefan Folkerts
Sent: Tue 8/7/2007 6:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L]
Some of the issue depends on how the DBA did the fix. If they started
expiring the backups, TSM would automatically catch the expiration notices and
handle them.
However, if the DBA just disconnected and then reconnected the catalog to get
of the backups, you will have to manually delete the
Habits of use. I've had issues with storage agents, and Tivoli support's first
response is make 'em match!
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Rhodes
Sent: Tue 8/7/2007 2:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Craig Ross
TSM is installed on Solaris 10
This is something that popped right out for me. Do you have your storage pools
located on raw logical volumes or mounted filesystems? If the latter, that
might be your problem. Solaris has traditionally had
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
In reference to my previous posting, I am moving my 3583 LTO libraries
from AIX ownership to Linux ownership (as well as the newest 5.4.1
server
level).
I just checked in some scratch tapes to the Linux
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have never shared a 3583 library and drives between multiple TSM
servers
that will act as library managers/owners. I have only done this with
my
3494.
Is there anything special about how I should
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Whitlock, Brett
I have a slightly different situation. I would like to replace a
server
without causing a full backup. I want to replace server NAS1 with a
new
box named SRV1. We have an (M:) drive on NAS1. We are removing
There is a lesson here: do not perform an upgrade to any code (TSM or
otherwise) until there is at least one maintenance level available, unless
there is a specific reason to use a patch level to fix a particular problem.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Speaking from experience running HSM on AIX JFS for many years:
Applied to a file system, HSM turns it into the slowest you've ever
experienced, even on the fastest RS/6000 and disk systems.
I just want to toss
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Clark
a q node would show those clients that have not accessed the system
in
some time.
Yes, but if only a subset of filespaces are stale, QUERY NODE won't
differentiate them.
A select statement is the best bet, and
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
We had a password issue last night when one of our clients moved its
backup
to a different server last night. It was moved back this morning where
the backup
completed successfully.
The DSM.OPT file which
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Loren Cain
We are building a new TSM installation for a client and I have been
asked if TSM can use LDAP to authenticate the admin userids. They
don't want to have to maintain a separate userid/password mechanism
just for the
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Roger Deschner
Short of a poison pill daemon that does a HALT at 95% log full, what do
others do to positively protect the Log from filling up?
Off the top of my head, an incremental TSM backup to disk? Not sure if
that'll
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Henrik Wahlstedt
I havent read anything about resource utilization on TSM server 5.3. My
questions are. Will 5.3 use/need more memory, CPU and/or I/O?
Most of the times when I upgrade my systems one or more HW components
need
(from the ADSM-L mailing list)
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Del Hoobler
Subject: Data Protection for SQL 5.2.1.03 - Adds SQL Server
2005 Support
Who:
Data Protection for SQL customers running
on Microsoft SQL Server 2005
What:
Yesterday,
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Farren Minns
Is there a way to ascertain what tape volumes will be required for a
file/dir restore before actually running it?
This has been discussed many times; see the mailing list archives.
The short answer is no. The
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Richard Sims
From what I've read about 64-bit Windows, it boosts the process
memory limit from 2 GB to 8 TB, which should take care of that
issue. Technology marches on.
...save for the fact that there is no 64-bit RDAC for
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Choate
I have a small TSM server using a 7212-312 vxa tape library. The
library has one tape drive and 10 slots. I am currently getting the
following errors trying to communicate with the tape library
and can not
for
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Laura Mastandrea
Can someone share with me a Windows script that will verify files in a
directory have been successfully backed up within TSM?
There is no easy way to do that. Queries against the BACKUPS table will
take a
Have you taken a look at ANS1378E? It appears regularly in your posting.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Berbee Information Networks
Office
Well, you can't restore the old Windows files directly to the new
server. If the old Windows-based Domino server is still up and running,
you should be able to move restored files from the old server to the new
one--I think Domino has some administrative tools to do so.
Otherwise, ditch the old
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
That's weird because I run a 'label libvol' for all new tapes that go
into the library. And yes, the vol belongs to a storage group. Here are
the vitals...
What to do, then?
You can run a LABEL LIBV with
Keep in mind that if you checkin in a tape with the CHECKL=NO or
CHECKL=BARCODE flags, the tape header is not checked.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Scott Foley
I have files available to be restored that, based on the backup copy
group settings, should no longer be available for restoration. If I
assume that my expiration of files is up to date and that I understand
the
This one is easy. You never ran a LABEL LIBV on A00328; the hint is in
the fact that the header is not readable per the error messages. The
volume doesn't belong to a storage group, does it?
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Helder Garcia
I have TSM 5.3.2 running on AIX 5.3 and installed the old web admin
interface. First I had problems receiving Page Not Found errors. I
reloaded the aix.idl and it seems to work now.
But when I click some menu link
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Spearman, Wayne
Does anyone have a list of the undocumented Show commands
available with TSM 5.3?
Please refer to Richard Sims' ADSM.QuickFacts web site at
http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gary Osullivan
I am currently using tsm 5.1.6 client on a windows2000 machine.
Does anyone know how to code the INCLUDE in the option file
when you want TSM to backup a mapped drive.
example of what I have tried with no
...and if that doesn't do it, you may have a funky date/time stamp on a
backup of one of the system state or system service files. One way to
fix it, per Tivoli support, is to completely remove the filesystems
containing those files followed by an immediate backup of same. That
seems to fix the
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I take a storage pool and change it to GROUP from NO
collocation, what
about the data for nodes that ARE NOT in collocation groups ?
Does their
data get collocated or not ? Will I all of a sudden go from 1-2 daily
LTO2 mounts to 30 ?
From: ADSM: Dist
is large enough).
Best regards,
Kolbeinn
Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
14.10.2005 01:39
Please respond to
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
To
ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
cc
Subject
Re: Group collocation
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Farren Minns
It certainly looks like the only way forward would be to set
up a new TSM
environment and keep the old one for restores until such a time as the
remaining data on the clients can be exported/imported to the
new
RC of -50 is a network connectivity issue. You may have mismatched
speed/duplex issues, bad NIC driver, poorly designed network, or some
such. This is not a TSM issue.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Richard Rhodes
Question: Is it possible to use TSM for ERP/SAP/Oracle with
split-mirror
backups
with EMC disk systems if we code scripts to perform the
split/import/mount/deport/re-sync
stuff ourselves? In other words, does
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mario Di Pede
Do you see this error?:
ANR0106E imarqry.c(4655): Unexpected error 2 fetching row in table
Archive.Objects
I' have tsm server versione 5.2.6 HP-UX
When display retrieve date from client gui from client 5.2.4
on
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tim Brown
Has anyone seen this error on a Windows 2003 client
10/04/2005 20:33:58 VssQuerySystemWriters(): pAsync-QueryStatus()
returns hr=E_UNEXPECTED
10/04/2005 20:33:58 ANS1948E Query system components via Microsoft
Volume
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mario Di Pede
Do you see this error:
ANR0106E imarqry.c(4655): Unexpected error 2 fetching row in table
Archive.Objects
I' have tsm server versione 5.2.6 HP-UX
When display retrieve date from client guy from client 5.2.4
on
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Horst Scherzer
I have to upgrade ITSM Server from 5.1.6.1 (to 5.1.10) to add
3592 support,
platform is AIX 5.2.3/32Bit.
Due to license/migration issues we will stay at 5.1.
Are there any hints/drawbacks in doing this
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Becar
Currently running TSM 5.2 on Fedore Core 3
The server starts up fine, and the server webclient works fine, only
when working on the server itself.
When I try to connect to the server from a Client Node, a Windows
Networks
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From: Aaron Becar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:24 PM
To: Stapleton, Mark
Subject: TSM testing
Mark,
Thanks, however, this is a new client on Windows 2003 and when
I first open the client it asks what
To: Stapleton, Mark
Subject: TSM testing
Mark,
Thanks, however, this is a new client on Windows 2003 and when
I first open the client it asks what would you like to do, and
i choose the first one, configure backup archive client. It
then asks the name of the Node, and then the server, and the
port number
Please, please consult the IBM site when seeking answers.
Here's what you get when go to www.ibm.com and search for
cuGetBackQryResp: Unknown objInfo header:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC40841
It refers to a different level of TSM, but I suspect the problem is much
the
The 3582 handles its own cleaning. You need to insert the cleaning tape and
then load the tape from the library's front panel, rather than checking it in
with TSM.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM
This all goes back to a general question about redirected restores of
databases. You have to allow time for the db application to format the
space where the restore will go.
We have had numerous threads here about this issue with MSSQL redirected
restores, and you have to up your timeout
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Spearman, Wayne
I'm trying to see what Clients are using what management classes. For
instance, server1 is using management class 1week and 1year. I can't
seem to find the right tables or selects. Any help would be
appreciated.
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Survoy, Bernard J
Looking for feedback on TSM server migrations from AIX to
Solaris (SPARC
based). Any issues, problems, special considerations?
About the same as almost any migration from one OS to another:
You cannot just
Because checking in a tape with CHECKIN that was checked out with MOVE
DRM still has offsite as its access. You need to run
upd volume volname access=reado
on every copy pool volume you check back in.
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich
Now I'm confused. We bought 5.1.0 from a reseller, and we do
have passport
advantage. But I can't find 5.3.0 anywhere on the ftp site at
all. Are you
saying it's on there somewhere? Or are you saying that
No guarantees, but you might try an asterisk * instead of a question
mark ?.
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627
-Original
, September 13, 2005 8:42 AM
To: Stapleton, Mark
Subject: Re: Novell backup performance
Mark,
Thanks for the reply. One final question. Can I use the same
strategy if I have just one volume on the server? For example:
DSM1.opt
Exclude *:/.../*
Include SYS:Apps/.../*
DSM2.opt
Exclude
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich
Excellent Information, thanks Ruth. However, I do have one question: in
both the install guide and the TSM server upgrade tech note (1177863),
they say to run the command Cleanup Backupgroups on TSM 5.1
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Evans
Following on from this... If you had a failure of one of the libraries
(say it burnt!) and the primary storage pool is lost, would it be
possible to have a second TSM server (other than the one that owns the
storage
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kurt Beyers
Due to SLA agreements a full backup should be taken every
month that is stored offsite for a year. Of course this does
not match with the principles 'incremental forever' and the
versioning defined in the
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of William Boyer
I would very much like to use an ARCHIVE for this, but haven't
figured out how to make it do all drives without having to code them
in a command script or in the OBJECT= for the schedule.
...and the problem with
I have several customers who use it. It works very well at virtualizing
heterogenous storage systems so that what you get is one large cloud
of disk with the same manageable characteristics.
Highly recommended.
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kevin Kinder
So, to follow up, should RESOURCEUTILIZATION never be set
higher than the number of NetWare volumes being backed up?
And in the case of a server with a single NetWare volume being
backed up, is there a way to
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Durkee
We have TSM 5.3.1.4 running on a pseries, AIX 5.3 located in
the main data center with most of the servers and a 3584 tape
library, site a.
We want to install a new pseries running the same version of
aix and
This issue is discussed regularly, both within Tivoli and among Tivoli,
business partners, and users.
The largest technical issue with doing this is the issue of aggregates.
When TSM backs files up, it does so by aggregating files together and
sending those aggregates to storage pools. To be able
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Thomas Denier
When we see this kind of problem at our site it is frequently the result
of using the wrong account. Under Unix, retrieving or even listing
archived files normally requires being either root or the owner of
the files. I think there are
No, there is no migration path for data from Veritas directly to TSM.
You will either have to keep your Veritas installation in place, or retrieve
the files to a staging server and re-archive them into TSM.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ray Louvier
Does anyone have a select or query command to list copy pool tapes that
are in the library only.
q drm * wherest=mountable
(This will include any TSM db backups still in the library)
q vol stgp=copypool
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Evans
can I do the same with my management class and specify in the backup
copy group that the initial backup goes to two storage pools
concurrently?
Nope.
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IBM Certified Advanced
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