Re: Still have issue with not able to use Scratch LV tapes

2020-03-26 Thread Steven Harris
. There are messages in actlog when this happens. I realize these are worm carts, but one way to check is to attempt a DB Backup to the devclass. Cheers Steve Steven Harris Admin Dogsbody Canberra Australia On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 23:17, Lucian Vlaicu wrote: > tsm: ARDTSM1>migrate s

Slack Channel?

2019-11-13 Thread Steven Harris
a channel. Cheers Steven Steven Harris System Administration Dogsbody Canberra, Australia

Re: ISILON storage/FILE DEVCLASS performance issues

2018-05-14 Thread Steven Harris
; > > > > I'm finding that the heavy NFS load has other knock on effects, e.g. > > > TSMManager keeps reporting the instance offline when it's very busy as > it > > > gets a network error on some of its regular queries, but these work ok > when > > > load is

Rebinding Exchange Backups

2016-11-10 Thread Steven Harris
Hi guys I have some exchange backups that were bound to the wrong management class because of incorrect VSSPOLICY statements. Will correcting the VSSPOLICY statements cause the old backups to be rebound? Thanks Steve Steven Harr TSM Admin,Canberra Australia Hit me up with any consulting

Off topic post - Consulting in TSM

2016-10-20 Thread Steven Harris
to my private email please and not to the list. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Consultant, Canberra Australia

Re: Upgrading servers from 6.3 to 7.1

2016-09-20 Thread Steven Harris
remotely mounted tapes. Since they are LMs-only the databases are quite small. By using server-to-server I get around the mutual dependency. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Subject Matter Expert, Canberra Australia Looking for work, contract, permanent, or consulting Steve at stevenharris dot

Re: Backupset for Oracle DB?

2016-09-16 Thread Steven Harris
Export node to tape with fromdate and todate. Not sure how you set up RMAN in case of a restore though. Regards Steven Harris Redundant TSM Admin, Canberra Australia On 16 Sep 2016 10:39 pm, "Stefan Folkerts" <stefan.folke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let rman backup to disk en

Using ssl comms with api

2016-09-15 Thread Steven Harris
of ideas.. and there appears to be no doc for this. Even if there were its hard to find because DB2 can use SSL for its own traffic and so has gskit bundled as well, and this confounds google searches. All help appreciated Steve Steven Harris For the moment TSM admin Canberra Australia

Fwd: [ADSM-L] Invoking dsmadmc from powershell

2016-09-04 Thread Steven Harris
Many Thanks Thomas and Art. just what I was looking for. > >

Invoking dsmadmc from powershell

2016-09-01 Thread Steven Harris
mmand -FilePath $dsmadmc -ArgumentList '-se=$SVR -id=$id -pa=$pass -tabd -dataonly=y "q st"'' But thats not substituting as I would like. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia

7.1.3 Decomm changes

2015-09-27 Thread Steven Harris
in keeping the data and we might as well just delete. Can someone walk me through a restore scenario? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM SME Canberra, Australia

Re: TSM Monitoring/Reporting Cognos

2015-09-04 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Dwight, Not perhaps what you are looking for, but Tsmmanager has reports to do all of those out of the box. Just not sure if you can automate the last one, you may be able to, just have never had the need myself. Regards, Steve Steven Harris, TSM admin, Canberra, Australia On 5 Sep 2015

Re: Storage Agent Path

2015-08-13 Thread Steven Harris
The library manager needs access to the control path anf data path as it mounts tapes and reads labels. Storage agents only need access to the data path because they only read and write data. On 13 Aug 2015 2:28 am, S Kumar our@gmail.com wrote: Hi Team, I have mixed library filled with

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Steven Harris
) for however long the restore takes you. But it is a lot of work and a lot of fiddling about. Regards and good luck. Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 14/04/2015 10:10 PM, Gregor van den Boogaart wrote: Dear List, the retention settings in the copygroup were to strict

Re: catching the current tsm sched and error logs

2015-04-11 Thread Steven Harris
Gary Try running your script by postschedule command wrapped in an at command. If your script is loghandle.sh then something like echo '/my/scripts/loghandle.sh' | at now +2 min should do the trick Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Third party apps for mysql

2015-03-31 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I've just been hit with a new app to run on RedHat 7 and mysql. There are a number of third party products out there to back up mysql to TSM, may I have your recommendations please? Any horror stories or products to avoid are also appreciated. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin

Re: AIX large pages with TSM

2015-03-19 Thread Steven Harris
Richard I just edit a copy of the rc.dsmserv script. As I recall I had to anyway as there was an error in it, something to do with setting the home directory under AIX. I just added the LDR_CONTROL variable to the line where dsmserv is invoked. On 19/03/2015 12:13 AM, Rhodes, Richard L. wrote:

Client option set include/exclude syntax

2015-03-13 Thread Steven Harris
in this domain. Initially I didn't have the * in there, but the manual states if you specify this option, specify all as the pattern so I added it in. Has anyone got a working version they could share? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Re: AIX large pages with TSM

2015-03-12 Thread Steven Harris
available and so the number of locks to be taken and released drops dramatically for the typical 256KB tape transfer. I'm not sure whether this reasoning applies to Linux. If it does then a larger page size might be beneficial there. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 12

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

2015-03-11 Thread Steven Harris
the dollars. It may be worth a look. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 10/03/2015 1:08 AM, Rick Adamson wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback/ideas! They reaffirm my initial thoughts that there was no single solution, but collectively it appears that I can marginalize

Re: AIX large pages with TSM

2015-03-11 Thread Steven Harris
Yep implemented this on my new v6 servers. Seems to work as advertised. They aren't CPU stressed enough yet to see any real difference though. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia. On 11/03/2015 10:15 PM, Rhodes, Richard L. wrote: I've been in meetings/training

Re: Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Steven Harris
Arrrgh! I have been working through a stack of changes to implement the last set of updates for security issues on dsmtca. This is about 20 changes over 4 months, and the workload imposed by this is considerable. I now find I have to go back and do most of these again! (I could rant about the

Domino Support gap.

2014-12-18 Thread Steven Harris
in this situation (as has happened previously with extended support arrangements for Solaris 8 and Windows 2000) But can find nothing. Have I missed something? or is installing an out-of-service API my only option? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
, but it will require an outage and hence change control. Does anyone have any ideas, references I could look at or practical advice as to how to get this to perform? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

multi-threaded Solaris backups

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
these issues. Is anyone aware of any plans for such a beast? Has anyone wrestled with the problem and be willing to share some insights? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Access to VE api

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
the amount of change or number of deltas gets too large. However, looking at the API Docs, I see no exposure of the VE API. Anyone know of plans to make the VE API publicly available? Regards Steve Steven Harris Dreamer of programming way beyond his ability Canberra Australia

Re: LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
IT Client Services On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Hi All I have a TSM 6.3.4 server on newish P7 hardware and AIX V7.1. HBAs are all 8Gb. The sans behind it are 8Gb or 4Gb depending which path they take as we are in the middle of a SAN upgrade

Re: Load balancing when you have many virtual tapes?

2014-10-15 Thread Steven Harris
) and subsequent mounts have been on the alternate path. HTH Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 14/10/2014 4:08 AM, Rhodes, Richard L. wrote: What kind of drive are they emulating? Are they emulating IBM drives with Atape driver? My understanding (I've been trusting this for years

Re: Load balancing when you have many virtual tapes?

2014-10-15 Thread Steven Harris
for each tape drive? Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:24 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Load balancing when you have many virtual tapes? Rick I

Exchange Backup return codes

2014-09-18 Thread Steven Harris
that normal OS files are not compressed, and there is not a lot of guidance on that. Has anyone cracked that problem? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: How to setup dedicated tape drives for storage agent

2014-09-15 Thread Steven Harris
stgpools use the other deviceclass and can use any 32 of the 64. Not only that you can change these easily as needed, you could even change them via a schedule so that the TSM Server has drives when it needs them and the lan free clients have drives when their peak is. Regards Steve Steven

Re: dsmtca

2014-08-25 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks Erwann The removal of dsmtca implies that all access requests will have to be made by root. That's a problem for all my TDP for oracle/SAP clients as these need to run under different ids. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 25 August 2014 12:58, Erwann SIMON

dsmtca

2014-08-24 Thread Steven Harris
as possible and remove this irritation? Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: VIO virtual machine for TSM

2014-07-30 Thread Steven Harris
to the usual root user or the usual commands and you will not be able to get support. Not a good idea. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 31/07/2014 2:10 AM, Saravanan wrote: Hi TSM folks, What is the disadvantage of using AIX vio client for TSM library client

TDP for MSSQL VSS and best practice

2014-07-24 Thread Steven Harris
that yet, but the writing is on the wall) Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT0dU5AAoJENyzJ5R4j0ydwIIIAKUo6HIXeG76Q5yveRi19UnZ

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

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Harris
Solutions Professional 916-458-5726 (Office 925-457-9221 (cell phone) email: *ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com* ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com From:Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info To:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date:07/15/2014 06:55 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] Lun versus logical volume

Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.

2014-07-15 Thread Steven Harris
And as a bonus, ndmp storage pools cannot be reclaimed and this means that they hold tapes until the last data has expired. TSM format storage pools can be reclaimed, and if they are file storage pools can be deduped as well. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 16

Lun versus logical volume for DB volumes

2014-07-15 Thread Steven Harris
logical volumes have the same effect. Does anyone know or can tell me where to look? Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: Exchange Incremental Expiry

2014-06-30 Thread Steven Harris
Many thanks Del That is exactly what I needed to know Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 30/06/2014 9:16 PM, Del Hoobler wrote: Hi Steve, Domino and Exchange are different, so don't try to manage their backups in exactly the same way. You can certainly have

Re: Exchange and client compression

2014-06-29 Thread Steven Harris
healthy copies (primary + more than 2 replicas) to skip integrity check? - seems like overkill: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l%40vm.marist.edu/msg90709.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Friday, June 27

Re: Exchange and client compression

2014-06-27 Thread Steven Harris
Christian Riksheim wrote: I also wonder about the integrity checker. With DAG isn't the integrity guranteed if replication is working fine and thus integrity check in TSM can be skipped? Regards, Hans Chr. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Hi All

Exchange and client compression

2014-06-26 Thread Steven Harris
of compression on restore won't be an issue. Is anyone using client compression on Exchange (2007 or later) and if so what sort of compression rate and cpu impact are you seeing? Is there any impact on throughput? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Exchange Incremental Expiry

2014-06-26 Thread Steven Harris
then there is no point in a different retention for incrementals. Please chime in if you know Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Re: getting tam client for mac

2014-06-17 Thread Steven Harris
Gary A couple of older FTP sites are still around but are no longer getting updated. Its very confusing. try public.dhe.ibm.com, specifically for the mac 7.1.0 client ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v7r1/Mac/v710/7.1.0.0-TIV-TSMBAC-Mac.dmg On

Re: Can't delete a volume

2014-06-06 Thread Steven Harris
many thanks for calling this out Wanda. Another one to keep in my Useful TSM tidbits collection. Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 6/06/2014 12:53 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: Christian, Agreed, you need to open a ticket. Also, do you know about the special audit script you

Re: Lib client mounts and firewall timeouts.

2014-05-29 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks for that Thomas. libkeepalive appears to be able to compile on AIX, and if I can get it past the right people we may have a solution. Steve. On 28/05/2014 12:03 AM, Thomas Denier wrote: -Steve Harris wrote: - I have a situation that is causing me grief. As part of a V5 to

Lib client mounts and firewall timeouts.

2014-05-27 Thread Steven Harris
help me as half of the clients are still TSM 5.5 for the next six months or so while we cut them over. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Fwd: [ADSM-L] looking for experiences with the ibm 3584 library

2014-05-06 Thread Steven Harris
Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Ancient Domino client issues.

2014-05-05 Thread Steven Harris
if unsupported. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Re: AW: Drive utilization

2014-03-31 Thread Steven Harris
If you are using IBM hardware there is a free tool for monitoring library utilization. There is also the tape portion of the TPC storage management product if your shop uses that. Regards, Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On Apr 1, 2014 5:53 AM, Michael malitz michael.mal...@mm

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-27 Thread Steven Harris
new V6.3.4/AIX 7.1 servers with these params and hope to actually get the rated speed out of my LTO5s. Nearly there. Should have load in a month or so, if change control smile upon me. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 27/03/2014 12:31 PM, Prather, Wanda wrote

Re: Moving Oracle and DB2 nodes between servers.

2014-03-13 Thread Steven Harris
Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving Oracle and DB2 nodes between servers. Hi All I'm planning a slow, node-by-node migration from V5 to V6 for one of my customers. The database is too big to do anything else. For most types of node

Moving Oracle and DB2 nodes between servers.

2014-03-11 Thread Steven Harris
how to tell DB2 that it is there. Has anyone wrestled these particular demons, and how did it work out? The DBAs are way outside their comfort zone and I'm just as uncomfortable. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

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

2014-03-03 Thread Steven Harris
Nick, are you aware that Oracle has ALTER DATABASE SUSPEND/RESUME and DB2 has SET WRITE SUSPEND/RESUME for DATABASE ? These allow you to stop io while you take a snapshot, and resume afterwards. I assume any mature DBMS would have something similar to these. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM

Re: TDP for SQL 6.4.1 cross-server restore setup

2014-02-13 Thread Steven Harris
, but this is exactly the sort of reason why they leave. Spleen vented, submerging again, Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 13/02/2014 5:04 AM, Del Hoobler wrote: Hi Steve, See if this helps: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21597023 BTW... this is a known

Re: Prevent client backups from failing over to tape stgpools

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Harris
. It doesn't spill like a disk pool does should it fill up. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 31/01/2014 8:24 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: If the tape pool is in a separate device class from other storage pools, you could set the mount limit on the device class to 0. That's

Re: Maintenance script schedule problem

2013-12-28 Thread Steven Harris
days yet. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 27/12/2013 6:15 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: Yes, We have recently set up TSM from scratch and I am finding it daunting to learn its inner workings... I am new to it, and it is new to us. I am configuring a brand new

Re: Active Storage Pools

2013-11-08 Thread Steven Harris
a COPY ACTIVEDATA against the new pool daily and you will get only new data into the active pool. If desired, you can catch up on the pre-existing active files by running selective backups on each node as resources permit. HTH Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 8/11/2013 10

Re: Library Manager/Client compatibility problem

2013-10-12 Thread Steven Harris
Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Library Manager/Client compatibility problem Hi all I've painted myself

Library Manager/Client compatibility problem

2013-10-09 Thread Steven Harris
is not supported with the 6.3.4 library manager. It really would be a better option to go straight to TSM for VE if that can be done. Is anyone out there successfully running V5 lib client against V6.3 lib manager? Anyone got horror stories to tell? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: Windows Clients and Non-Supported OS Levels

2013-09-17 Thread Steven Harris
Of course those of us with long memories will remember that *exactly the same thing* happened with Windows 2000 and 5.4 client. In that case you didn't realize there was a problem until you tried a restore. Have they tried one Zoltan? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: TS3310 Tape Library Cleaning Slot

2013-08-20 Thread Steven Harris
by the restart to match the new reality. The restart also does an audit for you. I wish there was an easy way to close and reopen the library without a shutdown. I've seen the AUDIT extensions in V6 and can't wait to get there. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 20/08/2013 9:47

Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes

2013-07-09 Thread Steven Harris
suspect. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 9/07/2013 10:08 PM, Ehresman,David E. wrote: From the messages, TSM is using 6 character tape labels. Is that your intent and has it always been so? Is your tape library and OS also using 6 character tape labels or might

Re: List of Nodes fr specific STG

2013-07-05 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Robert That is an easy one select distinct node_name from volumeusage where stgpool_name='Your_storage_pool' Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 5/07/2013 6:14 PM, Robert Ouzen wrote: Hi to I tried to figure a way to known the current nodes on a specific STG

Re: Re: LTO-5, TS3310 and dual-port

2013-06-22 Thread Steven Harris
Beware instatape -A deletes and redefines all your tape devices, so you can't use it if you have tapes in use. HTH Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 22/06/2013 7:27 AM, David Bronder wrote: Or just: /usr/lpp/Atape/instAtape -a (That gets SMC devices, too.) (Disclaimer

Re: TSM for VE sizing vs standard incremental forever

2013-05-16 Thread Steven Harris
, and that was not otherwise my preferred option. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 16/05/2013 2:57 PM, Prather, Wanda wrote: Below are stats from a real-world run: TSM/VE 6.4, incremental-forever. All were incrementals in this run (usually we have at least 1 new VM, but not today

TSM for VE sizing vs standard incremental forever

2013-05-15 Thread Steven Harris
can give me is better than a stab inthe dark. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

tape release behaviour in V6

2013-05-09 Thread Steven Harris
as at the moment I have lots of capacity, but I can foresee a situation where this might be an issue in a full library. Does anyone have any insight? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: Equating current 3494 configuration to TS3500 - drive sharing

2013-04-24 Thread Steven Harris
that this could work with drives varied on to both libraries simultaneously, and the sharing controlled by SCSI reserve/release, but I already have this shared with a library manager, I don't like SCSI reserves and I'm not willing to try hardware level sharing. Hope this helps Steve Steven Harris TSM

Re: TSM for VE questions

2013-04-04 Thread Steven Harris
://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfeCR_ID=33195 Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 2/04/2013 5:43 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: I've been waiting to respond here, hoping somebody would chime in who knows the answer for sure to your first question. I'm glad you've

TSM for VE questions

2013-03-28 Thread Steven Harris
it similarly invoke Flashcopy for VMware? As always.pointers to the right parts of the manual are appreciated if I've missed something. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: Backupset restore error

2013-03-13 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Tim in your command there is no space between the backupset name and the -subdir=yes. Could that be the issue? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 14/03/2013 4:44 AM, Hughes, Timothy wrote: Hi, I am trying to restore a backupset from a TSM server to a Windows

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Harris
.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21365583 Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 13/03/2013 7:43 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: We're running x86_64 Linux servers, with plenty of RAM (48GB in one server, 64GB in another, no dedupe or node replication) and still get

Re: Tape library possible replacement - push/pull

2013-01-26 Thread Steven Harris
. Using ALMS you can partition the library your 3592E06 (TS1130 format) tapes are in one partition and the 3592E07 (TS1140) tapes are in another. This is the recommended way to deal with mixed formats. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. Yep, pretty much that simple. Check

Re: TDP for SQL gui takes 20 min to display inactive

2012-12-22 Thread Steven Harris
account for the large number of objects you are seeing. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia. On 22/12/2012 12:26 AM, Schaub, Steve wrote: Tsm server 6.2.4.0 Tsm client 6.2.3.0 Tdp client 6.3.0.1 Windows 2003EE x64 Our DBA's are complaining that when they have to use

Re: Fix TSM/AIX from 5.4.0.0 to 5.4.1.2

2012-12-06 Thread Steven Harris
? The download is in /storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/AIX/5.4.6.2 backup your database shutdown tsm apply the code using smitty bring up TSM check the actlog to see that the database was upgraded on start. See the install guide if it was not. Hope this helps Steve Steven Harris

Re: Stable Version of TSM 6

2012-12-01 Thread Steven Harris
nasty 6.2 deduplication bugs come to mind. This goes for client levels too. I was flabbergasted to come across one bug earlier this year where a simple client function that was available for years had been messed with in a recent client version and no longer worked. Regards Steve Steven Harris

Re: Learning resources for VMware

2012-11-15 Thread Steven Harris
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Learning resources for VMware Hi Gang I have a customer who is bursting to get TSM for VE 6.4 up and running. So its

Learning resources for VMware

2012-11-13 Thread Steven Harris
such info? Yes I've done some searches, but for example one document that looked promising turned out to be dated 2006, and in this fast-moving environment that is positively stone-age. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

TRIM Document repository

2012-11-13 Thread Steven Harris
and lessons learned? I'll summarize and report back to the list. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Re: Odd client behavior

2012-10-19 Thread Steven Harris
Thomas A distant possibility is that the tree being backed up has a different management Class and that has had its copymode set to absolute. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 19/10/2012 6:26 AM, Thomas Denier wrote: I have obtained a copy of dsmsched.log from one

Re: Nodes per TSM server

2012-10-11 Thread Steven Harris
the consolidation or roll your own, but until then run what you have. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 9/10/2012 7:01 AM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] wrote: There are all kinds of measures involved in setting up a TSM server; processor, RAM, disk I/O, stg pool design

Re: Disk/Volume/mountpoint access for TSM 6.3 on Windows

2012-09-13 Thread Steven Harris
with is one big physical LUN, use Windows Device Manager to carve it into multiple logical LUNS, so it will appear as different drive letters. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 8:30

Disk/Volume/mountpoint access for TSM 6.3 on Windows

2012-09-09 Thread Steven Harris
that they would be willing to share? RTFM is a valid response if you tell me which manual to read. I've already tried the obvious without finding what I'm looking for, but may have overlooked some clue. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia.

Re: DB from Linux to Windows

2012-08-17 Thread Steven Harris
Harderwijk wrote: Steven, Is it possible to do subfile backup on .PST files only? Or is that something fro v6.x and up? Cheers, Rick On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.infowrote: Thanks for weighing in Allen and Wanda We couldn't get NDMP diffs taken by the filer direct

Re: DB from Linux to Windows

2012-08-15 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks for weighing in Allen and Wanda We couldn't get NDMP diffs taken by the filer direct to tape to copy using backup stg. Some sort of subtle bug between Filer firmware, TSM level and the altitude of the machine room :) Tried support channels for 4 months with no luck. Also discovered the

Re: Reducing SCSI timeouts?

2012-07-05 Thread Steven Harris
is and operators whose expertise amounts to being able to open the CAP on a library and remove the tapes and you have an ironclad case for the old way of doing things. Please, make this change. Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, not trusted by the Unix team Canberra Australia On 5/07/2012 7:53

Re: FW: Backup retention methods - TDP for SAP

2012-06-25 Thread Steven Harris
that parameter on the client and you will have no idea that it has happened. They seem happy to change paramateres that are configured, but not ones that are not. My experience is that most basis admins have no idea how the TDP works and indeed don't seem to want to know. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM

Re: Application called Teradata

2012-06-16 Thread Steven Harris
, and things may have improved. If you go that way, I'd suggest linux rather than windows. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 16/06/2012 2:04 AM, Hart, Charles A wrote: We have one and it has Netbackup Wrapped up in side with its own tape library. We don't manage

Re: Schedule Question

2012-05-13 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Robert I usually handle this by having a schedule that runs every hour, and two subsidiary admin schedules. One sets the hourly schedule to expiration=N to start it running. the second sets the hourly schedule expiration to a date in the past to stop it from running. Regards Steve Steven

TSM 6.3 NAS Filer backup stg issues

2012-04-25 Thread Steven Harris
that they have co concept of what the problem is. they thought backup stg produced an NDMP backup. Has any one else seen this problem? Does anyone on the list know how to get traction on these sorts of issues from Nseries hardware support ? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: AIX vs Linux 2012

2012-04-22 Thread Steven Harris
to work on a problem, they will be hard pressed to find them within IBM. My $0.02. Your mileage may vary. Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 21/04/2012 3:50 AM, Robert A. Clark wrote: There was an embarassingly bad TCP window size scaling bug in RHEL 5.4. It wasn't acknowledged

Re: CIFS shares user permissions

2012-04-03 Thread Steven Harris
is now working. Mind you I am not using snapdiff. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 3/04/2012 11:31 AM, Grant Street wrote: The user has to be a domain admin of the domain that the filer is trusted member of. The user also needs to be a member of the backup operators

Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks Guys My AIX Guru said that WPARs are more trouble than they are worth and there are complexities as each instance is on a different subnet, but the WPARs must all be on the same subnet. Thus we have shelved that idea for now. Regards Steve. On 25/01/2012 9:13 PM, Steven Langdale

Re: TSM for VE, Lan Free and GPFS

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Harris
windows but now they do, with restrictions. Is anyone using GPFS sharing files across Unix and windows? Problems, gotchas? Even in a high performance computing context rather than TSM some information would be better than none. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 10/01

Re: Restoring (DB2) API data using the BA client

2011-12-13 Thread Steven Harris
/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/core/r0002077.htm Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia On 13/12/2011 10:03 PM, Andrew Raibeck wrote: Actually there is limited ability for the backup-archive client to operate on data backed up or archived by the API. See the chapter on Backup-archive

Re: Windows Batch for Admin Jobs.

2011-12-08 Thread Steven Harris
My two cents Install cygwin and run your AIX scripts pretty much as they are. I used to use UWIN for this but there were a couple of maintenance upgrades that were buggy. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin On 8/12/2011 8:20 AM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote: Sorry, I should have

Re: Migrating from AIX to Linux (again)

2011-11-16 Thread Steven Harris
. Other than that take a look at www.butterflysoftware.com Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia On 17/11/2011 8:43 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: I am not of any help here but you say you are moving to Linux because it is cheaper. Our Power servers running TSM accounts

Re: Dedup for DB's?

2011-10-20 Thread Steven Harris
transaction. Its a little disappointing that such limits exist. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia

Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] the production date of a cartridge

2011-10-01 Thread Steven Harris
on a regular basis as technologies change so that it can still be accessed when required. Try reading an 8 inch floppy today and you will have trouble, even if the data on it is still good. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia. On 1/10/2011 9:48 PM, Mehdi Salehi wrote

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