Re: need help with TSM for nz backup

2016-07-12 Thread Stef Coene
On 07/12/2016 10:26 PM, Jeanne Bruno wrote: Hello. I will try that I read on one of the ibm tsm sites to use the single quotes. Let me try double Just remove all the quotes and 'sh'. Just specify the script, but the first line of the script should be #!/bin/sh Stef

Re: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

2016-01-14 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, There is one question not asked: do you have a backup of the dedup pool? Per default, TSM will only reclaim volumes after the data is copied to a copy storage pool. You can overrule that in the dsmserv.opt config file. Stef

Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

2015-12-12 Thread Stef Coene
I have a better idea: bring me back a basic version of TSM based on the old DB. Stef

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-11 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 11 December 2015 10:22:55 you wrote: > 16 Power8 cores(at least 3.42 GHz) and 192 GB to handle 1000 TB of backup > data? One would think there was a potential for code efficiency improvement. I have a copy of our production TSM running on a standby TSM server. I remove almost all

TSM troubles

2015-12-10 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, Some time ago I mailed in frustration that using DB2 as TSM backend was a bad idea. Well, here I'm again with the same frustration. This time I just want to know who is using deduplication successful? How much data do you process daily? Client or server or mixed? We are trying to process a

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 10 December 2015 07:37:38 you wrote: > Hello Stef, > > Since your active log is filling, do you have the SAN capacity to increase > it? We use the maximum active log size of 512GB, which is overkill for > our intake but might be exactly what you need. I'd also think that with > that

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 10 December 2015 14:19:07 you wrote: > According to the 7.1 blueprint you are a large deployment (for server side > dedupe) > > CPU: 16 core Power 8 > Memory: 192GB > Directory for the active log: 300 GB > Directory for the archive log:4 TB What's your database size? Stef

Re: expire inventory and delete filespace hangs

2015-08-13 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 13 August 2015 14:10:16 you wrote: Just went from v6.3.5.100 to v7.1.1.300. The procedure went smoothly, but so far I'm not impressed with the client backup - slow to start, slow to run. I'd hate to think that the only solution for the performance is a bit of sleight of hand to

expire inventory and delete filespace hangs

2015-08-10 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, We have a V7 TSM server (upgraded from V6). Expire inventory hangs after running a few hours and we also found a filespace that we can not delete. The delete filespaces command just hangs. The only way to cancel the expire inventory and the delete filespace is to halt TSM. The TSM database is

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 09:31:10 you wrote: Hi guys! I have a Linux client with Cristie TBMR installed on it. TBRM requires that /dev is backed up which is normally excluded by the Linux BA client. To force this backup I need to add the virtualmountpoint parameter to the dsm.sys file which I

Re: TSM server V7.1.1.300

2015-07-07 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 07 July 2015 07:00:42 you wrote: Hello all Consider to upgrade my TSM servers to version 7.1.1.300 , want to know if someone already did it and have any issues ? I did an upgrade last week and as a result, expire inventory never ends. We have to halt and restart the TSM server

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-30 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, It's clear that I'm not alone with my issues. I wonder how TSM will be able to survive in a backup world where other vendors are delivering high-end technology that works. Yes, TSM can do VMware backup, dedup, data synchronisation, monitoring, scalability, ... Looking at the feature list and

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-29 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 29 January 2015 21:14:08 you wrote: 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

TSM rant

2015-01-29 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, I don't get it. Back in the good oldays of TSM 5, you could have a normal server (basic CPU, 8 GB RAM, normal disks) and run TSM without any problem. The command line interface was nice, the web based GUI was basic, but you could do everything with it. You needed some extra scripts of

Re: Waiting for mount point in device class

2014-10-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 09 October 2014 18:58:05 you wrote: Check the number of mount points for the node. I have multiple processes waiting for mount points, not nodes. Stef

Waiting for mount point in device class

2014-10-09 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, I have multiple processes waiting for mount points in a FILE devclass. And I can not figure out why :( Server Version 6, Release 3, Level 3.200, running on AIX. The fileclass is 7 file systems, each 20 TB. Right now, only 6 volmes are mounted and 5 processes are waiting for a mount point. 3

TSM database backup

2014-07-09 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, How do you take a backup of the TSM database ? Before it was DB2, we wrote the backup to disk. And this backup was written with other relevant data (mksysb on AIX) to a remote drive or a simple tape streamer. We also used usb sticks but they fail very often.And they are not big enough.

Re: TSM database backup

2014-07-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 12:13:46 you wrote: There are several ways, I choose to add it to my maintenance script so I can control other processing. You will need to define a device class (see command (define devclass) From your comments below it should be a file type device class which allows

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-22 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 22 March 2014 08:55:08 you wrote: Thanks to all. AIX migraepv is the make/break mirror method. We will probably proceed that way during the relative calm of Spring Break. I prefer mirror / unmirror. If you mirror the vg without background sync, you can start the sync manually with

Re: TSM for VE for SQL machine -solution

2013-05-17 Thread Stef Coene
By the way did someone do it too with an Oracle database ? An oracle database has no integration with VSS so that will not work. Stef

migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, We have a strange storage pool problem. POOL48 is next storage pool of DISKPOOL. Both are from type FILE. The output of q stgp is not very clear, but you can see that POOL48 is next storage pool of DISKPOOL: Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next

Re: migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 19:09:31 you wrote: Hi, the output is very interlaced and so not that easily readable. Which command did you use to migrate the data from one pool to the other one? Either an update stgp with low and high parameter or migrate stgp triggers the same result. The

Re: Restore symantec backup with TSM???

2013-01-11 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 11 January 2013 03:46:21 you wrote: Hello, I've several media with a full backup previously made with Symantec Netbackup Enterprise Server v7.1.0.4... is it possible to import, catalague and restores that bakcup with IBM TSM? No. Stef

Re: netezza nzbackup connector for TSM

2012-10-31 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 31 October 2012 12:05:20 you wrote: Stef, Much appreciated, 5.5.4 did the trick. Just one question. For now I have to share the netezza backups with other nodes in the same storage pool . I plan on eventually having netezza in its own domain. The documentation refers to

Re: netezza nzbackup connector for TSM

2012-10-29 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 29 October 2012 18:00:08 you wrote: I followed the admin guide and my first error was that tsm was not configured right, now just native nzbackup fails Even without tsm. Did you have to configure tsm to run as service or just have netezza call it natively. Netezza calls it natively

Re: Any other ideas?

2012-02-12 Thread Stef Coene
On Sunday 12 February 2012 09:33:40 you wrote: Hi, We just upgrade a customer from one library to another library. With the new library did the customer also buy approx 2000 new LTO-5 Tapes. But now when we are labeling them in TSM it takes forever to run label libvol. Sure it runs

Re: Upgrade from 5.5.6 to 6.3

2011-11-15 Thread Stef Coene
On 11/15/2011 02:19 PM, Adrian Compton wrote: Hi all I have read in the upgrade PDF that you CANNOT go from AIX to LINUX (SUSE Ent 11) when migrating TSM to a new platform and upgrading it? 2 Questions: 1. Is this really true or merely a warning? Its true 2. Can I migrate to an AIX

Re: TSM on AIX and Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 21 April 2011, you wrote: Can a AIX 5.3 TSM v 6.2.2.0 DB backup be restored to a Linux RedHat system? No. The platform has to be the same. Stef __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-22 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 17 September 2010, you wrote: From the few responses I got about 6.1.4.x vs 6.2.1.1 for a new server, the responses leaned to 6.2.x. With that decision made, the next is laying out the structure of storage pools and such. Most discussions/directions from here/IBM say that

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-22 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 22 September 2010, you wrote: On Friday 17 September 2010, Stef Coene wrote: When we changed the FILE based storage pool to 5 GB volumes, the result was much better. There was less reclamation needed because it is less likely that a volume has a status Filling. Interesting

Re: TSM 6.2 server AIX installation issue

2010-06-21 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 21 June 2010, you wrote: Euh Stef, Just to correct: first you did an du -ms of an executable and for TSM6 a du -ms of an entire directory. So that's not completely fair. As Grigor posted, the TSM server itself is not much bigger: TSM 6.1: du -ms /opt/tivoli 1791.64 /opt/tivoli du

Re: TSM 6.2 server AIX installation issue

2010-06-19 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 19 June 2010, you wrote: This is a Friday afternoon, just about to go home guess: If your AIX box doesn't have the X11 libraries installed, (for example if it is headless), you may need SWING, which needs AWT, which comes in one of the X11 filesets. If installing X11 filesets

Re: TSM 6.2 server AIX installation issue

2010-06-19 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 19 June 2010, you wrote: Iocp fileset is installed on system , I will try installing X11 fileset and try reinstalling the tsm server again You also have to 'enable' iocp. You can check it with 'lsdev -C | grep iocp'. The iocp0 device should have status Available. rant I don't know

Re: TSM Active Log --- Trouble

2010-04-05 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 05 April 2010, you wrote: I am using TSM v6.1.2 on WIN 2003 R2 Server with 12 client nodes . The active log defined in TSM options file is 10 GB but it is using 39 GB space on the file-system and i had done several DB backups for 10 days now ,still the active log size does not reduce

Re: TSM 6.2 upgrade problem on AIX

2010-03-31 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, you wrote: Richard van Denzel I'm not quite sure this is the exact problem you're having that Richard Sims is reporting here. I just ran into this same issue here when upgrading my TSM 6.1 Windows Server to TSM 6.2. I found the answer on the following url: See

lost sqllib directory after upgrade

2010-03-25 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, Yesterday I tried to upgrade our test TSM server from TSM 6.1 to 6.2 (AIX 6.1). The installer crashed in the middle of the installation. I redid the installation and the second time, everything was ok. Except that the sqllib directory is missing from the home-directory of the tsm user

Re: lost sqllib directory after upgrade

2010-03-25 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 25 March 2010, you wrote: On 25 mrt 2010, at 07:59, Stef Coene wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to upgrade our test TSM server from TSM 6.1 to 6.2 (AIX 6.1). The installer crashed in the middle of the installation. I redid the installation and the second time, everything

Re: tape drive usage priority between storage pools

2010-03-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: Say there is not disk storage pool and two clients from the two tape storage pools accidentally sent their backups exactly at the same time. Which one graps the tape drive first? The first one. There is aways 1 that will the first. A restore will cancel a

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-02 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 02 January 2010, ashish sharma wrote: Hello Richards and Howard, The paths are ok, as i can run migration and i used checkin libvolume command and it works fine. The only concern is the volumes which are containing data and are in unavailable status in library. I can update the

Re: Who is using Admin Center ?

2009-11-07 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 07 November 2009, Grigori Solonovitch wrote: I never reported it, but after downooad TSM files from IBM sites for AIX (the both are products of IBM) I often see unbelivable file extentions like *.bin (it is not clear what to do at all with this file in terms of AIX) or

Re: Colorful console mode output

2009-08-21 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Michael Green wrote: If you are like me and find it helpful to have administrative client running in console mode (dsmadmc -console) while performing administrative work on your server, you might find this little script (below) handy. I also have a habit of leaving

Re: How to recover a deleted filespaces?

2009-05-15 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 15 May 2009, Norita binti Hassan wrote: I've deleted a filespaces and now I need to restore it. How can I do this. If I need to create a second instance for my TSM, how can I do it. Anyone.. help me Restore a database backup from before you did the delete and hopely that the data

backup performance on intel server

2009-04-30 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, I have a non-TSM related question, but I think it is the same for all backup software. We need to backup 28 TB for a cutsomer with daily changes of appr 8 TB. If you take a backup window of 8 hr, this is 1 TB/hour. This is also 280 MB/s so 3,5 LTO4 tape streamers (if you take 80MB/s per

Re: backup performance on intel server

2009-04-30 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 30 April 2009, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote: 1 Gb Ethernet is about 100Mb/sec Maybe nick picking, but for me: 100Mb = 100 Mbit, 100MB is 100 MByte. LTO4 is about 120Mb/sec + compression Mhh, I was counting 80 MB/s up to 160 MB/s with compression ratio 2:1. A good SCSI or FC

Re: Deleting primary storage volumes

2009-03-05 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Remco Post wrote: On 5 mrt 2009, at 16:12, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote: If you delete a primary volume TSM also deletes the data from the copy pool. not true. Euh, wrong. You delete all primary pointers to the file and this deletes also all copy storage pool

Re: VMware VCB and non windows OS

2009-03-05 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 06 March 2009, Gee, Norman wrote: I was looking at Linux and Solaris x86. Both of these OS have TSM clients available, but apparently cannot be backup by using the VCB. I figure I can backup the VMDK image file, but not the individual files in the zfs. I was trying to find out

Re: Cloning a TSM

2009-03-04 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, David E Ehresman wrote: Has anyone tried to clone a TSM by using a TSM dbcopy volume as the db file for the cloned TSM? If so, would you be willing to discuss the steps you went thru. Yes, I did this on 01/01/2009 as year backup. The primary storage is all disks,

Re: Tape performance (was: Re: Preferred TSM Platform)

2009-02-27 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 27 February 2009, David Bronder wrote: Wanda Prather wrote: And there is NO instrumentation in Windows to give you any idea whatever about what is going on performance-wise on a bus with tape drives attached. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any real instrumentation in

Re: Tape performance (was: Re: Preferred TSM Platform)

2009-02-27 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 27 February 2009, David Bronder wrote: In my environment, at least, only fibre HBAs with disk connected to them appear in the nmon 'a'dapter screen, so my HBAs dedicated to tape drives are not listed. With 8 HBAs, 2 for LUNs and 6 for tape drives, I only see the 2 used for disk

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: Hi Hana! No. Without a database it's impossible to restore files. You can read the data from tape. Check out this post: http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/179/47/ and this utility: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsmtape I never

Re: Is TDP for Oracle LAN/Server free?

2009-02-05 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Hi, Correct me if I am mistaken: 1- Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle (TDPO) sends RMAN backup to storage pools via SAN (it is LAN-free). It depends. It is the TSM API (not the normal TSM backup client) that receives the data for rman. It

Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

2009-01-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 26 January 2009, Adrian C. Pardo wrote: We need to backup a SQL database Using TDP and Lan Free on a VMware machine (the database size is 700Gig Aprox) Any sugestion?? Not possible. The client can not access the hardware for SAN access. Stef

Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

2009-01-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 26 January 2009, Mark Stapleton wrote: You'd be surprised on what little difference there can be between LAN and SAN backups. However... Your next best bet is to do a dump of the database to a flat file, and then using the LAN-free storage agent to back that up across the SAN (to

Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

2009-01-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Steven Harris wrote: Hi Stef. Everyone seems to forget that the TSM for SAN client does not have to be on the same box as the data being backed up. How about (ie this is an idea, not proven) installing TSM for SAN on the physical hardware on which your VMWare

Re: tsm server supported under ESXi??

2009-01-21 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 21 January 2009, TSM wrote: hello, is tsm server supported under vmware ESXi, no drives or libraries will be attached, only a lot of disk. No support for server or client. I tried to install the client, but I was getting errors in reading file system information so I gave up.

Re: How to Restore Data From Other Servers

2008-11-24 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 24 November 2008, Henrik Vahlstedt wrote: No, I ment.. On server A: Use dsm.exe in command line and type 'dsm.exe -virtualnodename=serverB' You have to supply your TSM admin ID and PW. Then in GUI restore serverB´s data to serverA. Btw Martin, why would I want to change things

Re: LAN-free storage agent backing up other clients?

2008-11-20 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Curtis Preston wrote: Stef Coene said: Yes, we do [backup other clients to a LAN-free storage agent] We have to backup data over a remote SAN and we don't have enough licenses for each client. Meaning you don't have enough storage agent licenses, right? So you

Re: LAN-free storage agent backing up other clients?

2008-11-20 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 20 November 2008, Curtis Preston wrote: Stef, I also forgot to ask what happens if the storage agent that a given client is assigned to is down? Does ITs backups go to the TSM server too? Fall back to LAN. Stef

Re: LAN-free storage agent backing up other clients?

2008-11-19 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Curtis Preston wrote: 1.Have I interpreted this correctly? Yes 2.If not, what did I get wrong? 3.If so, does anyone use this feature? Yes, we do. We have to backup data over a remote SAN and we don't have enough licenses for each client. 4.If

Re: TSM open file option question

2008-10-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Elana Samuels wrote: I was recently told by IBM that their new product TSM Fastback will be eventually replacing the TDP's. Unfortunately it doesn't currently work directly with TSM's database. It allows you to replicate the data and then you can backup the

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Stef Coene
First, let me verify what I was told TMS _could_ do. I was told that during the initial backup (if you went straight to tape, such as with a large dataset), TSM could write to two tape drives simultaneously, making two copies in the time it takes to make one. Is that part true? Yes.

Re: SQL querying

2008-07-23 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: Hi *SM-ers! I'm trying to create an SQL query to extract failed files from the activity log. When I do a select * from actlog all goes well, but as soon as I replace the * with things like nodename, date_time, message to filter the

Re: Beta Test

2008-07-21 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 21 July 2008, Christian Svensson wrote: Hi Guys, As many probably know has Cristie release a new version of Bare Machine Recovery tool that is 100% based on TSM BA Client and you don't need to run a separate DR Backup on top of the TSM Backup. Cristie is only install a small plug-in

Re: Tricky conversion problem

2008-07-08 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Martha McConaghy wrote: On a hunch, I've tried creating a server connection between old and new TSM server. Then, I exported a filespace to a virtual volume (devclass=server) on the new server. It sits on a 3592 tape right now. However, the new server will not allow

Re: Who at IBM is the support group for the Atape driver?

2008-06-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Kauffman, Tom wrote: Is this, as a 'driver' considered to be under the hardware support group? Or, since the only actual use of the Atape driver I'm aware of is to tie TSM to IBM tape libraries and drives, is this a part of TSM? I just moved TSM from a P5-550 to a

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-20 Thread Stef Coene
Fourth question :  In my opinion VTLs provide not too much possibilities, in general VTLs aren't matures but it is ideal for lanfree backup.  Speeking of lan free, if a VTL can emulate a tape drive, why can't TSM do this? If TSM can simulate a tape drive to the client, the client can do LAN

TSM + AIX + DS4800

2008-01-03 Thread Stef Coene
Happy new year to all ... I have 2 new identical TSM setups. The server will be running on AIX and the primary storage will be a DS4800 with 4 GB cache. The disks are 750 GB sata disks with total usable space 60 TB. No SAN backup. Daily backup: appr 1,7 TB. The backup has to go over the LAN.

Re: TSM + AIX + DS4800

2008-01-03 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 03 January 2008, Richard Sims wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Stef Coene wrote: ... For the storage, help :) I want to biggest possible backup speed and more important, restore speed. Most imporant data is oracle database, so big amounts of data (not much small files

Re: Vista oddness

2007-12-06 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Tyree, David wrote: Anybody got a idea what's going on here? Maybe the System Objects (I don't know how it is called in vista) is using all that space. This is each time a full backup of all dll's and all other windows stuff. Try to backup the System

Re: How to view Oracle TDP files from TSM server

2007-09-20 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Nicholas Rodolfich wrote: Hello All, Thanks for your help!! Is there a way to verify or list of particular files from Oracle TDP backups on the server. I am caught in a chasm in DBA land. I don't fully understand the TDP and the DBA doesn't understand TSM or

Re: Backup on VMWARE ESX

2007-08-29 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Richard van Denzel wrote: Hello Pierre, It depends on wether your ESX Server will be 2.x or 3.x. The consolidated backup is for 2.x only. On ESX 3.x servers the way VM's are deployed is completely changed and there is AFAIK no way to backup the VMDK files. I

Re: Backup on VMWARE ESX

2007-08-29 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Wojtek Pięcek wrote: For backup of the vmdk files, I adapted my custom script for ESC 2.x to 3.x (in stead of redo logs you have to snapshot) so I can online backup the vmdk files. Works flawless. For a all-in-one backup script, google for vmbk. Why not use

Re: First Backup day

2007-08-23 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Shawn Drew wrote: We have a request to provide the first day backups were run for a list of nodes. The registration date isn't good, as there is a several day lag from registration to first backup. These dates are older than the age of the event and activity log.

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-06-27 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Kevin Boatright wrote: Is there a different way they are licensing VMWare ESX host? For vmware, you need licenses for the box just like it's one big host. The number of guests is not important. Idem for tdp licenses. Stef

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-06-27 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Kauffman, Tom wrote: And that's the claim for the RS-6000 environment, as well. Which (again) points out how stupid a per-cpu license is for a data backup/archiving product. It's nice to have a 32 cpu p590 with an lpar with 1 cpu (hard limited to 10% of a cpu) and I

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Restore Linux system from TSM

2007-06-14 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Michael Green wrote: On 6/13/07, Thomas Rupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we did to BMR a normal linux box is: * create a bootable linux CD (Knoppix) with a TSM client on it AFAIK, Knoppix is a close relative of Debian which makes use of .deb, not .rpm. How do

Re: Open file support for Unix clients ?

2007-04-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Ronald Le Large wrote: Hi, I am annoyed by the many skipped log files during the daily incremental backups of the Unix clients. Unix has no problem backing up open files. Are you sure the setting on the copygroup is ok ? SERialization Specifies how the server

Re: Shrinking scratch pools - tips?

2007-03-23 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 23 March 2007, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: Since this a GREAT place for info, etc., I though I would ask for tips/how-to's on tracking down why my scratch pools are dwindling, for LTO/LTO2/VTL. My guess is I have a couple of clients that are sending out a vast amount of data to

Re: FS declared backed up succesfully, but nothing happens.

2007-02-01 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:44, Richard Sims wrote: Code file system names without a trailing slash. And how can I backup the / file system ??? ;) For a file system, it should not mather if you and it with a / or not. For a directory, you HAVE to end it with a /. This what I found out

Re: 3592 Path Failover for Dual Ports

2007-01-31 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 08:37, Herrmann, Boris wrote: Hi everyone, we have a complete new TSM evironment: -AIX 5.3 -TSM 5.3.4 -Library 3584 -8 x 3592 Tape Drives with Dual Port (recommendend from our Sales Assistant to handle Failovers of Cables, Ports, ...) -Atape Driver 10.3.5.0

Re: Mark a volume as full

2007-01-30 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:06, Marc REYNES wrote: Hello the list For validation purposes, i'm interested in changing the status of some volumes to FULL. As i'm using LTO3 tapes, i would like to avoid the burden to fill them with data. Is there a way to do this ? No. But you can mark

Re: JR- using virtualnodename

2007-01-05 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 05 January 2007 19:30, JR Trimark wrote: I am trying to restore data from server_b to server_a using a GUI (web or java if available), server_a has crashed and is unavailable. I need to do this for NetWare 6.5, 2K/2K3 Windows and 5.2 AIX; I am using the 5.2 client for AIX and the

Re: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:53, Dearman, Richard wrote: One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new server. The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used in our

Re: ANS1017E TCP/IP connection failure issue

2006-12-02 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:39, RODOLFICH, NICHOLAS wrote: Another attempt was to increase MAXCMDRETRIES. I think it defaults to 5 but I reset it to 10. That made the schedule take longer to fail but no resolution. Now they want to change it to 20. I think 10 is enough, but I am

Re: duplicate backup

2006-11-24 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:43, Richard Sims wrote: On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Sasho Sterjovski wrote: I have TSM5.3 on AIX and LTO3573 TS3100 My customer wants to duplicate backup-data.I don't have DISK Storage and only 1 tape drive, so I can have only primary storage pool. Can I

Re: duplicate backup

2006-11-24 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 24 November 2006 16:00, Angus Macdonald wrote: Even without Disk storage? You need to configure the disk storage as type FILE and not type DISK. FILE mimics tapes, DISK is for random access. Stef

Re: Sloooow Restore

2006-11-03 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 03 November 2006 14:55, Orin Rehorst wrote: TDP for Exchange backs up at 8 MB per second. It restores at 8 MB in 56 seconds! What may be wrong? Maybe the SAN Maybe the LAN Maybe the TSM server version Maybe the TSM client version Maybe the tape library Maybe the disk pool

Re: Using FILE instead of DISK devclass to avoid disk under-utilization

2006-10-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:29, Allen S. Rout wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:34:31 -0500, Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You probably want to avoid RAID5 for disk storage pools, whether sequential or random. That can really slow client backups, because RAID5 is quite slow for

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2006-10-12 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 12 October 2006 19:15, RODOLFICH, NICHOLAS wrote: windows server admin is trying to configure his client to backup only a specific directory on his c: disk. Server = AIX 5.2.7 on AIX 5.3.4 Client = Version 5.3.3 on Windows 2003 He is using the following dsm.opt file. Try

Re: SAN Switch question

2006-10-06 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 06 October 2006 19:43, Luc Beaudoin wrote: Hi all I know it's not a TSM question .. but I take a chance ... I want to connect a new IBM 2005B16 SAN switch into a existing IBM 2109-F16 SAN switch to have a Fabric of 2 switches I put 2 different domain ID, IP address is

Re: AIX Bare Metal Recovery - A cautionary tale

2006-09-14 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:22, Steven Harris wrote: Lessons: 1. Always keep a green screen terminal on hand - actually a null modem cable into hyperterm would have done the trick. 2. AIX 5.2 and above require you to generate a new boot CD after every maintenance update. 3. If you

Re: TSM monitoring

2006-08-02 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 18:53, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: I'm curious what folks are using to monitor TSM and send alerts for missed and failed backups. Custom written perl scripts with web-based frontend. Stef

Re: Disk-to-Disk Backup

2006-05-16 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 15:43, Christoph Pilgram wrote: Hi all, Because we have problems to hold our service level agreements with the customers for restoring big file-servers (10 Mio files, 1TB disk-space in one filesystem), we are thinking about storing the backups not anymore on tape but

Re: Linux vs. Windows TSM servers

2006-05-16 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 20:07, Dennis, Melburn W IT743 wrote: My upper management has asked that I compare the performance of a Linux-based TSM server to a Windows-based one in terms of throughput. We currently use Windows TSM servers. Before I start doing any in depth testing and research,

Re: TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

2006-05-13 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 13 May 2006 21:37, Dan Foster wrote: I've got: TSM 5.1.9.6 server on AIX 5.2-ML7 TDP 5.2 for MSSQL (Windows 2003 Server running MS SQL Server 2000) The strange thing is: tsm: SERVERq lic [...] Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in use: 3 [...] But I only have two

Re: TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

2006-05-13 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 13 May 2006 23:02, Dan Foster wrote: Does anybody know how I can delete the TDP registration for the incorrectly registered client? Don't worry. The license information in TSM has nothing to do with how many licenses you have to buy. You can recount the number of licenses with audit

Re: TSM Linux client backup

2006-04-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 10 April 2006 16:21, Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to backup a Linux server with TSM 5.3.3 client and, i don't know why, the client don't backup the directories /dev , /sys and /proc; all the other directories in / are backed up. Also, i don't see those

Re: TSM Linux client backup

2006-04-10 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 10 April 2006 17:46, Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: Thanks to all, Stef, i run the mount command on my system and i see what you say for these directories (/proc and /sys): none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) but i don`t see a similar line for /dev except

Re: Tivoli-Client: Debian (Ubuntu 5.10) Kernal 2.6

2006-03-17 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 17 March 2006 10:07, Volker Maibaum wrote: Hi, I think you can use alien to convert the rpms to dep packages. You can also install rpm (apt-get install rpm) and install the rpm's with rpm -ihv --nodeps rpm file. Stef

Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

2006-03-07 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 08:42, Volker Maibaum wrote: Hi, I would also agree to that! The opening of the API to the community would be the best IBM could do. We have here one TSM Server and I (as the administrator) do most of the work in the command-line. We have some people in the operating

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