Re: Label volumes in a scsi library?

2011-10-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Joni, The SENSE information is described on page 78 of the Quantum SCSI Reference Guide for the Scalar i6000 byte –code = description 0 -70 = Response Code 1 -00 = reserved 2 -05 = reserved or sense key 3-6 are all zeros = information 7 - 0a = additional sense length (0a indicates the

Re: 3592 cartridge jewel case

2011-10-10 Thread Strand, Neil B.
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Re: Getting unix permissions back from TSM

2011-09-16 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You might want to look into the AIX commands: lppchk and/or tcbck Thank you, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: confused about deduprequiresbackup

2011-09-07 Thread Strand, Neil B.
See page 286 in the AIX admin guide Quote: Attention: By default, the Tivoli Storage Manager server requires that you back up deduplication-enabled primary storage pools before volumes in the storage pool are reclaimed and before duplicate data is discarded. The copy storage pools and

Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] Backupset restore question - different server OS's

2011-08-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
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Backupset restore question - different server OS's

2011-08-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I am currently running TSM V5.5 on AIX. I am setting up a TSM V6.2 server on Linux at a new data center. I would like to use backup sets to transfer client data from the old to the new data centers. This backupset data will be used to populate the newly built clients - not as a backup data

Re: Error: Unable to open drive issue

2011-06-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Since you replaced the drive, the WWPN may also have changed. Verify the SAN zoning is still valid. EFFECTIVE 7/16/2011, MY NEW PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS WILL BE: 410-454-3372 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202 Thank you, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410)

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

2011-05-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Eric, Regarding TSM as being the right product. You may want to assess it as part of your entire storage infrastructure and the services this environment provides to the business and end users. Last year I had an issue that almost resulted in my having to recover several (~30) TB of user

Re: Find Lost Files

2011-05-05 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Brian, You may be looking for a file in a directory that has the same name as a filesystem. Assume that /var is a filesystem with a directory named /var/junk and has been backing up for a few years. Someone comes along and creates a new filesystem named /var/junk and mounts it over the

Re: DR Copy of TSM v6 Database

2011-03-17 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Pam, This is a link to a presentation I did about a year and a half ago that explored snapshot recovery (and using NFS) I haven't had time to get the mirroring component working. There are references at the end which may provide you with a good starting point.

Re: Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

2011-02-28 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Wanda, If it is a 32 bit system, the most memory that can be addressed is 4G. 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 bytes 4,294,967,296 / (1,024 x 1,024) = 4,096 MB = 4GB Moving to a 64bit system would allow additional memory to be fed to the beast. If the windows servers are not running the application but

Re: Test, please ignore

2011-02-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
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Re: copypool-only TSM server on a VM

2011-02-02 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Keith, A few thoughts Putting a TSM server on a VM may have advantages in performing a quick recovery of the TSM server in the event of a corrupted DB or other nasty event. Not sure how DB2 would integrate with VM snapshots but it sounds interesting. If you are backing up VMs or data

Re: Tivoli TSM replacement options

2010-12-16 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Tim, You may want to approach the problem from the opposite direction. Consider your recovery needs and available options and work from there to determine what product/technology/processes meets your objectives. Trying to recover a few TB of data within a couple of hours is nearly impossible

Re: Lousy performance on new 6.2.1.1 server with SAN/FILEDEVCLASS storage

2010-10-21 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Zoltan, Is your database/logs on separate disks and separate HBAs from your filedevclass disks and are the disk HBAs separate from tape HBAs? Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power

Re: Lousy performance on new 6.2.1.1 server with SAN/FILEDEVCLASS storage

2010-10-21 Thread Strand, Neil B.
number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Strand, Neil B. nbstr...@leggmason.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/19/2010 01:50 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Lousy performance on new 6.2.1.1 server with SAN/FILEDEVCLASS storage

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread Strand, Neil B.
The zoning process simply associates a server HBA port on the server with the HBA port on the disk device. Persistent binding is a function of the OS and HBA drivers on the server. Within the server configuration, the HBA must be told that a device with a particular ID (i.e. /dev/rmt1) is always

Re: Lousy performance on new 6.2.1.1 server with SAN/FILEDEVCLASS storage

2010-10-19 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Zoltan, You may need to increase the queue depth for the individual disks and/or the HBA attached to the disks. Monitor both the server (iostat/vmstat) and the storage (EMC voodoo application) for latency and compare the results for consistency. You may need to adjust the striping of your

Re: Feature or bug?

2010-10-05 Thread Strand, Neil B.
If you define a bug to include flawed logic or reasoning then yes - this is a bug. It demonstrates a level of shallow thought usually associated with toys and simple games where there are a small, finite number of outcomes. If you define a bug along the line of Adm. Grace Hopper's reference - as

Re: TSM and XIV

2010-09-29 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Something we have noticed is that when an AIX server is zoned to the same FC port(s) on the storage device as a windows or Linux server, the AIX server tends to have reduced throughput when both servers are accessing the storage. It appears that the AIX is given a lower priority of service. I

Re: TSM and XIV

2010-09-29 Thread Strand, Neil B.
AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and XIV General advice is to have one initiator in each zone definition... Regards, Rajesh Lakshminarayanan -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Wednesday

Re: Need to understand TSM restoration concept.

2010-09-27 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Cc, An important consideration in restoring a file is understanding the retention settings of a copygroup and the distinction that two settings affect HOW MANY copies of a file are kept after they change or are deleted and two settings affect HOW LONG files are kept after they are changed or

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-09-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Zoltan, Look at how udev config and rules are configured. It may be that the PowerPath installation affected the configuration. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and

Re: single drive restore possibilities

2010-09-09 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Depending on the size of the restore, you might consider replacing the single tape drive with a small NAS disk device with deduplication such as a Data Domain, Quantum or Netapp. This device could be configured to contain an active data pool for the MC servers as well as a backup of the TSM

TSM Server migration

2010-08-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I have a TSM V5.5 server on AIX. I need to get all of the data to a Windows or Linux TSM environment on x86. Export node will work well for everything EXCEPT a NAS node (you have to really love these little caveats and exceptions). A backup/restore or unload/load will probably fail due to

Re: FILE Device class over NFS

2010-08-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I did some NFS testing last year: = Test 1: I wanted to determine the feasibility of using a Deduplication device that was NAS attached to the server Equipment TSM V6 on AIX6 DataDomain - DDR510 1Gb Ethernet I was using 2GB File devices on an NFS mount from the DDR

Re: FILE Device class over NFS

2010-08-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
My current environment consists of 2 physical locations separated by 200 miles. Each environment has a TS3500 with 10 frames. 10 TS1120s in one library, 16 TS1120s in the other. Both sites have a TSM library manager, the smaller site has a total of 4 TSM servers, the larger site has a total of 9

Re: SNAPDIFF problems

2010-07-30 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Sam, There may be a problem with the language set on the NetApp volumes. We had a similar problem when we implemented snapdiff 2 years ago but I cannot recall the exact fix. Review the attached link for further info. http://communities.netapp.com/thread/8392?tstart=0 Neil Strand Storage

Re: Not technical more managerial question

2010-07-29 Thread Strand, Neil B.
In addition to technical proficiency, an Architect should be aware of business processes, be able to effectively communicate both up and down the food chain and be an experienced team leader who is able to coordinate the efforts of persons from various business and technical proficiencies to

Re: why create a 12TB LUN

2010-05-27 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Gill, This sounds like an interesting environment. Could you share some of the particulars such as what storage device is providing the LUN, what server OS is using the LUN and what the general reason was for choosing the LUN? Historical note - My first hard disk in my home PC was 20GB

Re: Database corruption

2010-05-20 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Eric, I ran into a similar problem 2 years ago - Corrupted DB. Fortunately, I had a spare server that I quickly set up and moved all backup operations to that server. It took a few days to run through the DB fixes on the corrupt server. After the DB was fixed, I just did server-server exports

Data conversion Unix-Windows issue

2010-05-17 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I have a client which would like a copy of their backup data in the least expensive form and capable only of restoring - no future backups to TSM are required. Currently their data is backed up to an AIX server attached to a TS3500 library with TS1120 drives using TSM 5.4. Backups have ceased

Snapdiff with NetApp OnTap 7.3.3

2010-04-13 Thread Strand, Neil B.
FYI. For those who use the TSM client snapdiff functionality to backup their CIFS shares on a NetApp filer, I have been advised of the following which affects those who upgrade their NetApp to the latest O/S - OnTap 7.3.3: If you have any customers using the snapdiff functionality to

Re: Snapmirror to tape

2010-03-26 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Sam, If you are backing up a CIFs share, I would encourage you to investigate the -snapdiff option run from a windows server. This will create a snapshot of the volume on the filer and then you only backup the snapshot (or what has changed since the last snapshot) - like an incremental backup

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Howard, I have a pair of DDR410s and pair of DDR510's that are configured for NFS. The 510's are being used to store vRanger backups of a VM environment. Compression/deduplication is incredible for this application. 47TB(terabytes) are stored on 811GB (Gigabytes). Now realize that there is a

Re: Does TSM support 3-way NDMP backups?

2009-10-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Shawn, You can set up NDMP backup destination to a TSM server via ethernet which is nice in that the data can be put in a regular storage pool and an offsite copy created. You can also set the NDMP backup destination to a tape drive(s) physically attached to a filer. I suspect that you may

Re: Does TSM support 3-way NDMP backups?

2009-10-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I think there may be a lack of clarity with the reference to the link that Tribe provided. Does TSM support 3-way NDMP backups as described here? http://www.ndmp.org/info/faq.shtml#9 As I understand it, the TSM server is the NDMP client, the filer is the NDMP DATA server which then directs

Create holes in data

2009-10-15 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I have a question - please do not ask for an explination - it is what the customer wants. Environment: -TSM Server 5.4 on AIX -TSM BA client on Linux, Solaris and Windows (various flavors) -TS3500 tape library with TS1120 drives (+1TB on each tape) The customer desires me to convert the last

Re: JR-LAn-Free Restore

2009-09-24 Thread Strand, Neil B.
JR, Another method of determining if lan-free is working is to perform a query mount on the lan-free client. You can do this from the TSM server console using server to server communications to the client: storageagentname: q mount The data being restored must be accessable from the

Re: HSM over NAS.

2009-09-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Fran, Have you enabled ASIS on your NetApp? We are seeing deduplication resulting in 15-40% amount of space saved - i.e. 850GB of data is using 665GB of space for a 21% savings. Your mileage will vary depending on the type and amount of data stored. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer -

Re: Windows TSM server 6.1.2.0 after clean install : ANR2968E Database backup terminated. DB2 sqlcode: -2033.

2009-08-26 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Stefan, From the TSM V6.1 Problem Determination Guide - GC23-9789 Note - Adjust the following for your Windows environment == DB2 SQLCODE -2033 SQLERRMC 406 SQL error message code 406 requires that the following issues are resolved: - The DSMI_CONFIG

Re: Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Shawn, In your virtual volume devclass definition you might try to set a maxsize equal to that of the real storage behind it. This should prevent stacking. Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has

Re: V6.1.2.0 server has arrived

2009-08-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
See: Backup set and Table of Contents support in Tivoli Storage Manager Version 6.1 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21396430myns=swgtivmynp= OCSSGSG7mync=E Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.

TS3200 library encryption

2009-07-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I am setting up a small environment for one of our affiliates - P520 SAS attached to a TS3200 with LTO4. Does anyone know if a TS3200 with SAS LTO-4 drives can provide library managed encryption using IBM's EKM? I ran across an IBM web page that said Library managed encryption is supported on FC

Re: Dedupe

2009-06-25 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Ditto on Lindsay's it depends For my NetApp devices, observed NAS filesystem dedupe renges from 10% to 70% depending on the data. VMware NFS shares typically show a good ratio. We for our VM environment, we split our OS apart from data and paging space as depicted below: Filesystem

Re: How do I check IBMTape and lmcpd driver levels?

2009-06-18 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Farren, pkginfo -l IBMTape should list detailed information You may also want to check out the IBM Tape Device Driver Installation and User Guide - GC27-2130-02. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.

Re: Backing up running VM's

2009-06-17 Thread Strand, Neil B.
EJ, Have you reviewed TSM V6.1 Windows BA documentation? It looks like it coordinates backups through VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). And allws for both image and file level backups. We will be investigating this feature within the next few weeks as our virtual environment is rapidly

Re: Backing up running VM's

2009-06-17 Thread Strand, Neil B.
TSM license is for the hardware platform. So, if you have 5 VMware servers, you need 5 TSM licenses, no matter how many virtual servers you have running. A 4 processor, quad core license is more expensive than a 2 processor, single core license, but, TSM/IBM does not care how many servers are

Re: NDMP backup of non-qtree data

2009-06-16 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Ken, If the N-series is providing CIFs shares, you should consider backing up with a windows server mounting the shares and then using the -snapdiff option in TSM V6 client. This greatly simplifies recovery as it is nearly identical to regular client recoveries. NDMP backups are

Re: Snapdiff option with V6.1 Windows client

2009-06-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Paul, NDMP uses a full/differential method which does not fit well with our long retention requirements. Running daily differentials with a weekly full on 30TB of data would fill my library in less than 100 weeks with no consideration for any other backup data. The process for performing a

Snapdiff option with V6.1 Windows client

2009-06-11 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Has anyone put this into production use yet? Our initial testing is very positive. Currently we have to keep all user files for 7 years. I have 2 NetApp filer clusters with about 35 million files in 130 CIFS shares. NDMP backup is unworkable. It takes slightly over 24 hours to perform one

Re: TSM 6.1 Installation Problems

2009-06-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Grigori, If deduplication is your driving force, you really need to evaluate if a VTL or NAS appliance may be a better solution for your environment. There are several out there and some have evolved to provide primary storage dedup. I agree that the massive increase in resources is

Re: How to read TSM content without TSM??

2009-05-20 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I second this suggestion ... Google responded with 42 in about 2 seconds which is much quicker than the 7.5 million years that Deep Thought took to compute the same answer to the Ultimate Question. Cheers to Google! Have a nice day Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410)

Re: backing up a Windows 2003 Client running DB2

2009-05-19 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Tim, See: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r5/index.jsp Look under Database administration for Data recovery DB2 uses the TSM API. Just remember that everytime you change the TSM configuration files you need to restart DB2 in order to read in the new configuration. Neil

Re: NAS Restore

2009-05-15 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Bruce, You might designate a basic windows server as a backup server and have it mount the CIFS shares from the vfiler and then run a regular backup. This way, you could restore to any windows server. If you are using NFS do the same with a basic linux or unix box. Cheers, Neil Strand

TSM with DiskXtender

2009-04-27 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Is anyone using TSM as a media device for DiskXtender? - If so, would you be willing to share your experience? I am looking at using TSM as a cost effective alternative to adding disk storage to our growing DiskXtender environment. Thank you Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore,

Re: Delete a storagepool

2009-04-24 Thread Strand, Neil B.
EJ, If you are running an older version of TSM you will want to upgrade prior to manually deleting. Reference: IC50659: AE IC47491 FIX COMPLETION - TSM SERVER HANG AFTER DELETE VOLUME COMMAND(S) ISSUED Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can

Re: Backup files to empty tape

2009-04-01 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Mario, You have several options 1. generate backupset . Scratch=no vol=x - This allows a client to restore directly from the media or from another TSM server - self contained allows data mobility to another TSM server or directly to a client - tape and data not tracked in TSM - only

Re: Dear Tuscon

2009-03-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Tom, If you have more than one TSM server you can have multiple copies of the same backup just by using virtual volumes to another TSM server. - Backup to virtual volume on server A - storage pool A - Create offsite copy of storage pool A on server A - Create a second copy if you are really

Re: MIGRATE NODE oddities

2009-03-06 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Nick, If you just want to preview - don't use the TOS= parameter and no tape mounts will be done. Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From:

Re: Cloning the Encryption Key manager for DR

2009-03-03 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Bill, On AIX you need to do the following: 1. Ensure the java5 SDK is installed 2. Set the environment variables for the user running the ekm process: # java sets for EKM export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java5/jre P8=/usr/java5/jre/bin P9=/usr/java5/bin export CLASSPAT=H/usr/java5/jre/lib export

Re: Preferred TSM Platform

2009-02-25 Thread Strand, Neil B.
If you are going to consider Solaris or HP for a TSM server, pause and think when was the last time that these companies participated in a lovefest? Trying to troubleshoot a driver, hba or performance issue would be like asking a Nancy Pelosi to throw a birthday party for George Bush. Life is

Re: ANS1217E Server name missing?

2009-02-18 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Tim, you need to add the following to the top of your dsm.sys SErvername TSMSERVERA Then the commethod, tcpport etc. will be part of that SERVERNAME stanza. This allows you to define several different configurations in a single dsm.sys and refer to each by sourcing a different dsm.opt.

Re: NAS 'Archive'

2009-02-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You could set up NDMP over ethernet to the TSM server. This dumps the data to a normal storage pool that can be managed just like all other storage pools(including offsite copies). Alternatively, set up a windows/unix server to act as a backup proxy and backup the NAS filesystems mounted on that

Re: Transfer/transition netbackup data to TSM

2009-01-20 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Geoff, To add to Wanda's point #6 regarding recoverability in 10 years. It is relatively simple (but time consuming) to transfer old data to new media by simply creating a storage pool for that new media and running a move data command. If you upgrade to a new TSM server, it is also simple

Re: Setting up crossbackup datacenters with TSM

2008-12-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Rolf, I am sure the tape library can handle the data load. Where most problems happen is in the communications between the data centers. If your data centers are 200KM apart and connected by a 1Gbps link, your bottleneck is the WAN link due to latency, cost and competition with other data

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You could attach forty 7 port USB hubs each with 8GB thumb drives in a 10d:1p RAID 5 configuration and simply copy the data. :-))) Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and

Re: Setting up crossbackup datacenters with TSM

2008-12-11 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Rolf, Have you verified that the link between the data centers can handle the data traffic generated during client backups? Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic.

Re: Cacti

2008-11-17 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Cacti works like a champ for trending. We use it to trend db, log, storage pool, session count drive mounts. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original

Re: TSM on Solaris cluster

2008-11-13 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You may want to review the Migrating Servers thread from last week for a TSM Server on Solaris perspective. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original

Re: Changing a library dev on lib path

2008-09-24 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Richard, If you have Atape multipathing enabled, you may not have to do anything. Check using: lsdev -Cc tape To enable alternate pathing (From IBM TotalStorage and System Storage Tape Device Drivers Installation and User's Guide - GC35-0154-17) command: /usr/lpp/Atape/instAtape -a This will

Re: TSM library problem caused by IBM3584 virtual I/O

2008-09-05 Thread Strand, Neil B.
John, It almost sounds like something is moving the tapes without telling TSM. Is your VTL attached to the library? Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic.

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Curtis, I'm not sure if these fall into managing a system category, but they are things that I have dealt with on a periodic basis. Customer service - Gary calls and leaves a voice message asking for a restore of the file veryimportant.txt in his home directory because he accidently deleted

Re: TSM Server on AIX cluster

2008-08-14 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Mario, You may consider the implication of a future upgrade to TSM V6 which is running DB2. Do you really think that Oracle and DB2 will co-exist on the same box? Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.

Re: LTO4 encryption in an I2000?

2008-08-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Speaking of encryption, I noticed a wonderful little readme on IBM's software download site regarding TS1120 firmware levels and encryption posted on July 18th. ftp://service.software.ibm.com/storage/3592/ See the D3I1_D16.readme.pdf file = Snippet from the PDF

Re: Removing volumes that TSM doesn't see

2008-07-10 Thread Strand, Neil B.
John, If TSM thinks that the cartridges are already offsite, then you should be able to remove them from the library using library commands. See publication 96845 Chapter 4, Export Data Cartridges: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/L700.tape#hic Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Export / import nodes with shared library

2008-07-01 Thread Strand, Neil B.
the volumes stay PRIVATE forever) Any other idea(s) ? Thank you ! Otto -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Strand, Neil B. Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 16:39 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] Export / import nodes

Re: Export / import nodes with shared library

2008-06-27 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Otto, - You should be able to just update the libvol owner on the library manager to the new server. - You may also consider using server-server export which transfers data through the ethernet from the source to target server. This process allows for concurrent export/import and reduces the

Re: Restore performance puzzler

2008-06-26 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Shawn, Is there an ethernet accelerator or compression engine (i.e. Riverbed) between the TSM server and client? We have noticed sometimes adverse affects when compressing the data on the client in this case. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491

Re: IBM p 520 vs. p 570

2008-06-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
The p550's work well. They have better I/O expansion than the p520 and are less expensive that the p570. When you are specing out your system, keep in mind the throughput of your tape drives and add I/O if your budget allows. The p550 also makes it easier to physically relocate a server where

Re: NetApp as direct client

2008-06-10 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Richard, If you mean performing NDMP dumps via ethernet to a TSM server it is relatively simple. If you desire a non-root user on the NetApp to run backups otherwise just enable NDMP and use the root user account on the NetApp. On the NetApp Create a backup user Generate an

Re: Licensing for Core 2 Duo processors

2008-05-08 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Thomas, You could just plug the name of the processor into this handy perl pvu calculator: === #!/bin/perl # print Enter processor type: ; $PROCESSOR_TYPE = STDIN ; $INPUT = length ($PROCESSOR_TYPE); $pvu = int(rand($INPUT) * 10); print You need to purchase . $pvu

Re: Scheduled backups running twice/day

2008-04-29 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Roger, Could you have two clients with identical node names? Look for ANR1639I messages showing different an attribute change for the suspect nodes. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You could run a move data offsite_vol to empty the volumes. Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-18 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I looked at the TSM V6 beta and found there will be a license module that determines how many licenses your system will need. After a bit of debugging and reverse engineering, I obtained a snippet of the source code - Now remember, this is beta, so it may or may not make it into the shipping

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-16 Thread Strand, Neil B.
The VTL can compliment a TSM installation where you have a real tape library (RTL) manager and RTL clients. Adding a LAN-Free agent to a RTL client is greatly simplified when the RTL client is also attached to it's own VTL. The RTL client can be the library manager for the VTL and share the

Re: Drive Encryption (3592)

2008-04-15 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Boris, Library managed encryption is controlled by the TS3500 library communicating with the Encryption Key Manager application and TSM has no awareness of any encryption occurring. No TSM configuration is required when performing library managed encryption. I strongly recommend that you

Re: Don't embed tabs in script commands

2008-04-04 Thread Strand, Neil B.
It is well documented. See page 42 of the TSM Programers Guide to the Galaxy Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM for a Disaster

2008-03-25 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Joni, That sounds great! What disk storage and replication are you using? Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM for a Disaster

2008-03-25 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Phone Number: (717)302-9966 Fax: (717) 302-9826 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strand, Neil B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 03/25/2008 09:42 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Anr8443e Tape can not be assigned a status of scratch

2008-02-27 Thread Strand, Neil B.
If the label dosen't work, first do the following to remove it from the volhist on the lib mgr. Delete Volhistory Todate=TODAY Type=REMOTE Volume=volser FORCE=YES Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness

Re: Server password

2008-02-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
You could just set the servername, password, hl and ll address and also set crossdefine=on on the new server. Then just go to the old server and define the new one with crossdefine=yes Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-14 Thread Strand, Neil B.
We migrated from an L700/ACSLS/LTO3 to TS3500/TS1120. Since that migration, we have been able to stop troubleshooting library/server/tape issues and focus on client issues. The TS3500/TS1120 combination (with encryption) just plain works. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason

Re: Backing up PST files

2008-02-14 Thread Strand, Neil B.
:25 -0500, Strand, Neil B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Have you looked into ndmp from the filer to your tsm server? If you are at TSM V5.4 you can do this over ethernet and handle the data just like any other node - move, copy etc. It also minimizes impact on DB size. The trick is to recognize

Re: Internal error TBUNDO012 question

2008-02-14 Thread Strand, Neil B.
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Internal error TBUNDO012 question I have a TSM instance v5.3.4.0 running on AIX 5.3 ML4 The TSM instance has crashed

Re: Backing up PST files

2008-02-13 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Sam, Have you looked into ndmp from the filer to your tsm server? If you are at TSM V5.4 you can do this over ethernet and handle the data just like any other node - move, copy etc. It also minimizes impact on DB size. The trick is to recognize ndmp full/differential methodology in the TSM

Internal error TBUNDO012 question

2008-02-12 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I have a TSM instance v5.3.4.0 running on AIX 5.3 ML4 The TSM instance has crashed with the following: 2/12/2008 10:15:21 ANR7838S Server operation terminated. 02/12/2008 10:15:21 ANR7837S Internal error TBUNDO012 detected. I recovered the server yesterday and all appeared fine but this

Re: Question on TSM environment sizes

2008-02-07 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question on TSM environment sizes 1900 drive path statements? 13 Libclients x 72 Drives = 936 paths + 72 for the lib mgr Neil Strand Storage

Re: Question on TSM environment sizes

2008-02-06 Thread Strand, Neil B.
1900 drive path statements? 13 Libclients x 72 Drives = 936 paths + 72 for the lib mgr Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: TSM performing full backups where incremental specified

2008-01-29 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Kevin, Have you verified that the MODE parameter of the copygoup is not set to Absolute? Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM:

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