Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Monday 3rd September

2007-08-24 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 24/08/2007 and will not return until 03/09/2007. I am away from the office until Monday 3rd September. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Re: TSM Backup - Volume Shadow Copy Failed

2007-03-29 Thread Suad Musovich
Upgrade your client ..there are know VSS bugs (I think anything above 5.3.3) There has been a few discussion threads, in this list, on Shadow Copy problems. There are other things to check beyond this. Go on the mailing list archive and search on the below error ...

Re: Backing up very large GPFS FS

2007-03-21 Thread Suad Musovich
How about virtualmountpoint, for a few folders, in the client options file and have the tape stgpool collocate by filespace. Cheers, Suad -- ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 21/03/2007 09:03:06 PM: Hi everybody, I am trying to backup a very large FS with 32 terabytes,

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

2007-03-20 Thread Suad Musovich
There's not a single tasklist you can work on because of differing environments (are both TSM servers using the libraries themselves? is there non-standard inventory... like backupsets?) The last time I did it, it was something like this. On the old Library Manager (LM)... - Identify(generate a

Re: Total bytes per node ?

2007-03-19 Thread Suad Musovich
something like: select node_name,sum(physical_mb) as Physical MB from occupancy group by node_name order by Physical MB desc You could be more specific and mask on the stgpool name (that is, if you have a consistent descriptive naming scheme for stgpools) TABNAMECOLNAME

Re: IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning

2006-12-21 Thread Suad Musovich
Recommended to use the Automatic Cleaning method. It's in the Planning and Operator guides of both the 3583 and 3584. Cheers, Suad -- ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 22/12/2006 02:14:32 PM: Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on

Re: Compiling db2uext2 on AIX5.3 using gcc

2006-12-18 Thread Suad Musovich
Messages fileset are corrupt. Get the messages filesets from another source (ask your Tivoli rep) Cheers, Suad -- ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 19/12/2006 10:53:07 AM: Hi all, We are right now upgrading from TSM 5.2.3 to 5.3 .. however we encouter this prob ..

Re: Mixed 3592Gen1 Gen2

2006-11-26 Thread Suad Musovich
We opted to logically partitioned the library (within TSM). Drawbacks are managing 2 scratchpools and having to migrate some stgpools from one logical library to another. Haven't had many other problems, apart form that. As Richard says, the Readme covers options in reasonable detail. You have

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Tuesday 9th May

2006-05-07 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 08/05/2006 and will not return until 09/05/2006. I am away from the office until Tuesday 9th May. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Monday 13th March

2006-03-08 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 09/03/2006 and will not return until 13/03/2006. I am away from the office until Monday 13th March. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Monday 13th December

2005-12-02 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 03/12/2005 and will not return until 13/12/2005. I am away from the office until Monday 13th November. Pls contact Bruce Campbell for any urgent enquiries.

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Thursday 4th November

2005-10-30 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 31/10/2005 and will not return until 04/11/2005. I am away from the office until Thursday 4th November. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Tuesday 18th October

2005-10-07 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 07/10/2005 and will not return until 18/10/2005. I am away from the office until Tuesday 18th October. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Monday 8th August

2005-08-04 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 05/08/2005 and will not return until 08/08/2005. I am away from the office until Monday 8th August. Pls contact Rik Foote for any urgent enquiries.

Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-20 Thread Suad Musovich
Why not put in some 3592 drives in the 3494? Unfortunately the number of files is going to be the limiting factor. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 19/06/2005 06:08:42 AM: From the movie Blazing Saddles ... You use your tongue better than a $20 ...you-know-what. Couldn't

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Thursday 5th May

2005-05-03 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 04/05/2005 and will not return until 05/05/2005. I am away from the office until Thursday 5th May

Suad Musovich/New Zealand/IBM away until Tuesday 26th April

2005-04-21 Thread Suad Musovich
I will be out of the office starting 22/04/2005 and will not return until 26/04/2005. I am away from the office until Tuesday 26th April.

Re: Export failure

2004-11-08 Thread Suad Musovich
Sounds like a network issue.. /usr/include/sys/errno.h: #define EPIPE 32 /* Broken pipe */ bit of a bummer. cheers, Suad -- ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2004 09:27:01 AM: Sunday AM, after running 15 hours and transferring 2.5

Re: Storage pool

2004-11-07 Thread Suad Musovich
Are there more nodes/filespaces defined using that stgpool? Maybe you want to switch off collocation for that stgpool. Cant really say beyond that as you have supplied little extra info. Cheers, Suad -- ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/11/2004 02:02:26 PM: Hi all, I have

Re: Storage pool

2004-11-07 Thread Suad Musovich
] Behalf Of Suad Musovich Sent: 08 November 2004 09:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Storage pool Are there more nodes/filespaces defined using that stgpool? Maybe you want to switch off collocation for that stgpool. Cant really say beyond that as you have supplied little extra info

Re: Question for you 3494 gurus -

2004-06-01 Thread Suad Musovich
I had a similar problem, I ended up physically pulling it out, re-inventorizing and checking it back in. The bugs in the 3494 are there but more subtle :) - Original Message - From: Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:50 AM Subject:

Re: WHAt is TRUE LAN FREE backup speeds?

2004-05-07 Thread Suad Musovich
LANfree, effectively, allows you to directly attach the tape device to the client node. So it can run either near the speed you can directly stream to the device (as you would from a TSM server) or however fast the node can push data out in a single stream. Pick the slower of the 2. We have

Getting summary data from SQL Back Track to TSM

2003-11-04 Thread Suad Musovich
a.k.a I dont want to reinvent the wheel. Can anyone suggest an elegant way of feeding SQLBT summary data through to TSM so we can see it on the activity log? Cheers, Suad --

Re: FastT700 with FlashCopy

2003-03-27 Thread Suad Musovich
The FAStT flashcopy is very easy to use. It's the same as most snapshotting features on other storage subsystems. It creates a pseudo volume that utilizes cache area to record any changes in the original volume. You can mount the pseudo volume as you can the original to make a backup copy. For a

Re: moving to a new datacenter

2002-11-22 Thread Suad Musovich
Um, you neglect to say how much gets backed up nightly, how long is you backup window, is all backups going to diskpool, or how many nodes there are. Can you saturate that network connection without guilt?. (It helps if it's full duplex) 150Mbit sounds like an OC-3 connection (155Mbit). I find

Re: Linux as TSM Server; ATA DiskArrays; SSA-diskpool copypool speeds (3 totally unrelated questions for the price of one!)

2002-10-25 Thread Suad Musovich
We are about to set up a 2nd server running Linux. My main issue, so far, is I/O related. I haven't been able to find anyone running sustained high I/O on a IA32 box (except for a NUMA-Q). The new vendor offerings look promising but they have only been able to supply database TPC style stats,

Re: OK IBM _ ENOUGH ALREADY with the IBM/Tivoli TSM website -

2002-10-23 Thread Suad Musovich
I hear your frustration. They have fragmented it in the typical IBM non-intuitive way. The Support Downloads is playing magic roundabout. So you have to go to the client requirement pages. The client requirements/search page has separated the platforms by age and their is no hyperlinks to the

Re: RAID5 in TSM

2002-10-22 Thread Suad Musovich
Realistically, if Array B dies, you lose the Database and recovery log. The mirroring ain 't giving you protection from that. I would separate the recovery log to array A and lose the mirroring on both DB and log(maybe mirror log between arrays). Restoration of a broken DB should only mean a

Re: os/2 a supported client? (other platforms?)

2002-10-22 Thread Suad Musovich
How about other older versions/platforms? Has anyone tested older 3.1/7 clients with the 5.1 server? On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 08:22, Dirk Billerbeck wrote: Sorry, OS/2 (BTW: IBMs OWN operating system!!) is no longer supported! : -(( The latest client version is v3.7.2.27, you can find it here:

Re: Slow DB backups.

2002-10-16 Thread Suad Musovich
Depends if you are running other processes (especially expiration). Also you havent mentioned your HW configuration. On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 04:54, Dearman, Richard wrote: I haven't done aTSM DB backup in the last few days. So I started one today and it is moving very slow I have a 30GB

Re: Different display of output from query

2002-10-14 Thread Suad Musovich
It's probably adjusting to the narrow frame width of the browser. Redirect to a file ( filename) and look at the output. Not sure if you can do this with a browser You can also run a commandline script and use the -commadelimited flag. Cheers, Suad -- On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 07:27, brian welsh

Re: migration: waiting for acccess to tape annoyance

2002-10-10 Thread Suad Musovich
Nice in theory but backup windows tend to stretch over the original boundaries to suit customer needs and balance the external environment (backup demand is now bottlenecking the network). On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:51, Miles Purdy wrote: A better solution is usually to schedule these events so

Re: IA32 TSM servers up to it? When will TSM Server for Linux be available?

2002-10-07 Thread Suad Musovich
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 22:11, Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand wrote: Hi All, this sounds good, and I'd like to test it. Do you have a link to where the software can be downloaded? I couldn't find it on Tivoli's (IBM) ftp site. You won't find any full releases on the ftp site, only updates. They have

Re: 5.1.1.6 Upgrade (cleanup backupgroups)

2002-10-07 Thread Suad Musovich
Just a note, we are running quite happily on 4.2.2.12 (from 4.2.1.9) They fixed some common bugs in parallel on both 4.X 5.X series. You will need to Install baselevel 4.2.2.0, which means not being able to go back (short of a full DB restore). Remember to do a full DB backup immediately

Re: 5.1.1.6 Upgrade (cleanup backupgroups)

2002-10-07 Thread Suad Musovich
Hmm, I tried running the cleanup backupgroups command and got the result: ANR0106E imutil.c(8262): Unexpected error 0 fetching row in table Object.Ids Sigh Seems to be a known problem. (and I'm running 4.2.2.12) Suad -- APAR= IC34375 SER=IN INCORROUT TSM SERVER

Re: AIX/Shark raw volume problem

2002-10-06 Thread Suad Musovich
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 03:34, David Longo wrote: If I understood your note correctly, you still have to put the disk in a volume group, then create Raw LV's on that disk as opposed to Fielsystems. Thats what I was afraid of. Adding another layer of complexity and overhead. Why can't AIX allow

Re: Help requested !!!

2002-10-06 Thread Suad Musovich
To see how many scratch tapes in that pool run; select count(*) from volumes \ where stgpool_name='TECH_TAPE_POOL' \ and scratch='Yes' On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 18:20, Steve Harris wrote: Murthy Check the maxscratch parameter on the tech_tape_pool storage pool with q stg tech_tape_pool f=d

IA32 TSM servers up to it?

2002-10-03 Thread Suad Musovich
Architecturally, Intel based servers have gone a long way in the last couple years to close the gap on their RISC server counterparts. Can they handle the load though? We have a lot of Intel servers deployed in our organization, but none of them are running anything that you could consider the

Re: IA32 TSM servers up to it? When will TSM Server for Linux be available?

2002-10-03 Thread Suad Musovich
It's apparently out now. We are at the mercy of Tivolis blindingly fast distribution network. On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 06:48, West Suhanic wrote: Hello All: Any idea when the TSM server for Linux on an IA32 box will be available? regards, west

Re: Virtual Volumes...

2002-09-09 Thread Suad Musovich
We are planning a similar implementation by using 2nd server specifically for clients with small files (desktop/workstations) as it is choking our main server. The below comment about tracking a lot of smaller volumes is trivial compared with the cost of larger volumes on network load. A

Re: Slow LTO drives

2002-01-29 Thread Suad Musovich
Have you tested it from the OS? Large file test / small file test / mixed files Whats your movebatchsize/movesizethresh set to in TSM? The LTO drives work well with bigger files and start to suffer on small ones. I get only aggregate 5-10 GB/hr when I migrate a stgpool with small

notes from a unloaddb/loaddb

2002-01-27 Thread Suad Musovich
For those that are interested, we just completed a unload/loadformat/load of our TSM database. Our system is a RS6K-F80 running AIX4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.8. The database is 60GB in size with a 97% utilization. Disk is on an ESS connected via FC. We used an LTO drive to run the unload/load. The

Re: LTO tape visible labels

2002-01-11 Thread Suad Musovich
Have a look at the Label Specification document on the 3584 doco page: http://ssddom02.storage.ibm.com/tape/lto/ultrascalable_library/documentation.html As quoted: Human readable characters are allowed provided there isn t a conflict or interference with the automation code. The format, colors

Re: listener not listening

2001-12-16 Thread Suad Musovich
(in the dsmserv.opt file or using setopt). The default value for AIX is 25, which is probably too small for the number of clients you have. Cheers Dmitri - -Original Message- - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] - On Behalf Of Suad Musovich - Sent: Tuesday, December

listener not listening

2001-12-11 Thread Suad Musovich
AIX4.3.3/TSM4.2.1.7 The main listener on port 1500 of our TSM server is open but not acknowledging when clients connect. They hang on SYN_RCVD Actually, it only allows a small proportion of connections. When the TSM server starts up, everything works as normal. But when a volume of clients

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade-

2001-12-06 Thread Suad Musovich
Boyer wrote: Check the MOUNTRETENTION in the device class. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Suad Musovich Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade-

2001-12-05 Thread Suad Musovich
the MOUNTRETENTION in the device class. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Suad Musovich Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade- Upgraded to 4.2.1.7 (AIX) from 4.2.0.1 this morning

Re: Strange sessions - no clientname and no activity log entries ??!?

2001-11-28 Thread Suad Musovich
I've had the same thing happen a couple times before. Restarting dsmserv still shows those phantom sessions. You can do a 'netstat' to see what hosts are trying to connect. I ended up rebooting the system to fix it. I didn't investigate properly as it happened at the most inopportune moment.

Re: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

2001-11-27 Thread Suad Musovich
And make sure you don't have locked ports down in the OS. On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:09:34PM -0600, Davidson, Becky wrote: Make sure that under the dsm.sys they exist and then use dsmadmc -se=servername to connect -Original Message- From: Chan, Kien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Bad Performance in a SAN Environment

2001-11-14 Thread Suad Musovich
Jorge, Please turn off html editing of your e-mail messages, some of us don't have browser capable mail readers. Suad -- On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:01:37PM -0400, Jorge Rodriguez wrote:

Re: HP LTO Drives and TSM

2001-11-09 Thread Suad Musovich
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:43:11PM -0700, Kelly Lipp wrote: What we finally wound up doing was using the HP Win2K driver. Still, the drive reports as TSM Device Type Unknown, but it seems to work just fine. Wow, that damn thing is very fast: ~10 GB in 15 minutes. I'll do more comprehensive

Re: to get HP LTO Drives or IBM's

2001-11-09 Thread Suad Musovich
Look at the cooling requirements of HP drives, apparently they caused problems in some environments that did not have a decent air reticulation environment. Suad -- On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Wu, Jie wrote: we are trying to decide what LTO drives we should purchase: HP's or

Re: reiserfs ext3 (+jfs)

2001-11-08 Thread Suad Musovich
How about jfs ? It is now on Linux ;) Cheers, Suad -- On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:19:26PM +0100, Remco Post wrote: Coolness, thanks for the hint. It is even in the readme, no hint about ext3 there so we must assume ext3 is not yet supported. Luckily ext3 is sort of ext2 release 2.5, so the

Multiple LUNs for stgpool?

2001-11-05 Thread Suad Musovich
Is there any advantage in creating multiple LUNs from a SAN to an AIX host for stgpool volumes? I have created a single large LUN on our SAN and put a bunch of backuppool volumes within the filesystem. As the system is growing I'm finding the need to do some tuning (as things are not as springy

Re: ANR0534W size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtai n

2001-10-31 Thread Suad Musovich
If you reduce the diskpool to 0 utilization before the beginning of the window and keep the hi/lo very low for the first half of the window, with a maximum practicable migpr set, you should be fine. It's a juggling act we have every night. I know we have set it right when I get in the morning

Re: Backup NT Registry

2001-10-31 Thread Suad Musovich
Yep, in dsm.opt file DOMAIN systemobject It will backup the system files as well though. Cheers, Suad -- On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:12:58PM -0300, Christian Astuni wrote: Hello everyone !!! I want to know if exist the way with TSM 4.2 to perform a backup only of REGISTY. Because I haven't

Server-Server Virtual Volumes (philosophical)

2001-10-30 Thread Suad Musovich
to the above sector switch reducing routing overheads for the back-end/private traffic. Does it sound Kosher?? Thanks, Suad -- Suad Musovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Unix Support, ITSS Operations University of Auckland

Re: 4.2.1.6 (was: Re: TSM Server v4.2.1)

2001-10-30 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:59:54AM +0100, Henk ten Have wrote: On 30-Oct-01 Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS wrote: Andy, do you mean 4.1.2.16 and not 4.1.2.6 ? Nope. 4.1.2.6 is now available: You are both dyslexic 4.2.1.6 :) Suad --

Re: Server-Server Virtual Volumes (philosophical)

2001-10-30 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Prather, Wanda wrote: I think backing up desktops is a good thing, but I wonder why are you backing up the System Object if you are only backing up the documents directories? How could you restore the System Objects if you don't also back up/restore

Re: Server-Server Virtual Volumes (philosophical)

2001-10-30 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:24:24AM -0600, George Lesho wrote: Suad, Have you considered a strategy where you give the desktops access to network drives on a few servers that would be backed up incrementally? Trying to back up hundreds of desktops in a small window is a bunch more resource

Re: Tape problems v4.2.1

2001-10-22 Thread Suad Musovich
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:46:22PM -0700, Joshua S. Bassi wrote: I am in the middle of a W2K 4.2 install. After seeing all the problems, I am backing down to 4.2 - can't go to 4.1 because my customer didn't buy 4.1! Most of the problems seem to be from AIX systems, unless someone can say

Re: tsm 4.2.1 licensing

2001-10-19 Thread Suad Musovich
It's a bug, apparently the PTF had been released. APAR= IC30965 SER=IN INCORROUT UNABLE TO REGISTER INDIVIDUAL LICENSE FILES MORE THAN ONCE ON THE TSM 4.2.0 SERVER Status: CLOSED Closed: Apar Information: RCOMP= 5698TSMAXTSM AIX

Re: storage agent?

2001-10-17 Thread Suad Musovich
That will imply 3rd party SCSI copy functionality, which I haven't seen any indication they have incorporated to TSM. The physical data will still have to go through the TSM server, within the SAN environment, before it gets put in a storage pool. Suad -- On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:44:36PM

Re: Select Statement

2001-09-25 Thread Suad Musovich
Have a look on the scripts archives on coderelief. http://www.coderelief.com/depot.htm In the TSM Scripts - Server Monitoring and Admin area there are a bunch of Perl scripts, with a script called tsm-node-check This parses the previous nights logs and e-mails the contact[s] of the

Ultrium tape tabs

2001-09-16 Thread Suad Musovich
I've had several incidents where LTO Ultrium tabs slide to the write-protect side while inside a library (we have a 3584 library, which has a fast robot). The last one I examined the tape and it wasn't firmly switched. It's not a major but the last couple of incidents caused a node backup

Re: help !!!!!!!!!!! offsite requirements.

2001-09-08 Thread Suad Musovich
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:36:59AM +0800, Pothula S Paparao wrote: Hi, where do i get more info. on offsite backup. here are some questions. 1) if i wanna setup offsite backup. how many tapes do i need. presently, we have 3575 tape library with 323 catridges. 40% of its space is occupied.

Re: Version Key needed????

2001-09-06 Thread Suad Musovich
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:48:58PM -0700, Joshua S. Bassi wrote: From what I can tell it is not a bug. Instead IBM/Tivoli no longer ship license files with multiple increments (i.e. 1mgsyslan.lic, 5mgsyslan.lic). Instead there is now just mgsyslan.lic and a flag numberlicenses=the_number (I

Re: SAN - HP - Brocade Switch - LTO Library

2001-09-05 Thread Suad Musovich
HP now are in the process of buying Compaq so never isn't the operative word ;) Suad -- On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:02:50PM -0400, Adolph Kahan wrote: I don't believe that the HP support for IBM LTO is available yet. I could be wrong. Are the drives in the 3584 native fibre drives? If they

Re: Teaching others TSM

2001-07-29 Thread Suad Musovich
My approach is modular, get the person learning one aspect for a few days e.g. anything to do with backup schedules. I lay a whole bunch of tasks in increasing complexity/thought until that person starts being confident in it, then I start with a different one. If you are training several

Re: Tape volume list ?

2001-07-29 Thread Suad Musovich
The easiest way is to put it in a CGI executable directory (in Apache it's a directory with ExecCGI option in the httpd.conf file) and make sure the file has executable permissions set. Cheers, Suad -- On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:00:44PM +0200, Stan Vernaillen wrote: Robin, Thanks for you

Re: LTO Devices

2001-07-22 Thread Suad Musovich
Your questions on the drive don't make sense unless you are talking about a LTO library as most physical interactions with drives usually rely on a couple of buttons(and maybe a lever). Competing with DLT they do well as they are a newer, faster, more economical tape format, but they do have

MediaW slows restore significantly

2001-07-22 Thread Suad Musovich
Has anyone noticed when doing a restore from tape it almost grinds down to a halt when another process/session requests the same tape? We had this happen when an impatient client decided to run 2 restores, where the data on the 2nd restore was on the same tape. The restore slowed from 5MB/s to

Re: Ask for a Linux Mandrake 8.0 Client for ADM 3.1

2001-07-09 Thread Suad Musovich
i don't see a reply, so I can answer. Yes, there is an old ADSM client for linux, which was unsupported but worked OK. Just do a search for it on google. You should be able to run the newer clients but am unsure about licensing issues. Cheers, Suad -- On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:06:24PM -0500,

Open AFS?

2001-06-26 Thread Suad Musovich
Is there any way to backup a Open AFS filesystem? I see AFS support for AIX but I can't tell if it extends to Open AFS. There is also a reference in the developerworks site that you can compile in Support via the TSM api but aren't sure whether that is equivalent to a TDP, or I'm barking up the

Re: VGA monitors

2001-06-24 Thread Suad Musovich
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:55:40PM -0400, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: What EXACTLY do you mean by VGA ?As in 640x480x256colors or anything less than SVGA or XVGA ? Careful, it might be a ploy to supplement their new creative licensing scheme. Suad -- (We use crappy Wyse terminals)

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
The drives are the same as a standalone to a 3584. There have been problems with firmware levels One of the firmware levels gave me errors on a few tapes that did not go away. The drives ended up freezing on 3 and would not go away until they got power cycled. Check you firmware level (latest

Re: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:19:03AM -0400, Magura, Curtis wrote: See a few folks are using ESS. So are we. Does anyone know of a good forum to discuss ESS subjects. We have some questions regarding VPATH's and HACMP. It would be good, but wouldn't discussion be leaning more towards the SAN

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Suad Musovich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library The drives are the same

Re: LTO config

2001-06-05 Thread Suad Musovich
The TSMXX.README.SRV file has the instructions to set up the LTO library/drives. Yes, you should use /dev/smc0 as the library controller device. Suad -- On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Jeff Bach wrote: HELP I need some specific help on defining a new LTO library to

Re: backing up DBs from filesystems

2001-06-01 Thread Suad Musovich
For the archive option I was going to set date specific directories (e.g. /staging/2001/06/02/) rather than unique filenames. Cheers, Suad -- On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:17:23AM -0400, David Longo wrote: One question pops up to consider in the planning. Do the files they put in the staging

Re: Ultrium media

2001-05-31 Thread Suad Musovich
Before we got proper labels we made a bunch of labels on a crappy $200 colour inkjet printer using light card that are stuck on with a glue stick, they are hand cut so they are slightly crooked. I can definitely say they none of them had problems (except a couple labels fell off when we used

Re: LTO drives in a 3584 Library

2001-05-31 Thread Suad Musovich
The install readme says use ultrium or ultriumc. Also, as Richard mentioned, look at the microcode on the drives. Cheers, Suad -- On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:18:23PM +0100, Fab System wrote: All We have 4 LTO drives in a 3584 libary which is connected using a SAN Data Gateway. When I look at

Re: Recovery log utilization does not drop after DB backup

2001-05-30 Thread Suad Musovich
some time ago I complained in a mail to this list that the recovery log utilization is not reset after a database backup. APAR IC30181 was generated for this problem. Its status is open. I complained about the problem too. The response I got was, when the system was too busy it took a while

Re: LTO 3583 drive cleaning

2001-05-29 Thread Suad Musovich
have no idea how the library controller/tape drive communicates with the TSM server, but it works. Cheers, Suad -- Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Suad Musovich [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: TSM configuration questions

2001-05-25 Thread Suad Musovich
You just create different sequential access storage pools. What reason would you want them to handle their own tapes? (..just in case one of them purges their own tapes?) The data on those tapes cannot be used in another server. Have a look at the Tivoli Storage Manager Concepts redbook from

Re: SAN

2001-05-22 Thread Suad Musovich
Suppose that I have an environment with TSM and SAN (Storage Area Network). Can I do backup/restore only with TDPs ? or Can I do backup/restore of files without TDPs? You will have to explain this a little better. Are you talking about backing up _through_ the SAN? i.e. File level Lan-Free

Re: database backup

2001-05-22 Thread Suad Musovich
We have a similar situation.. Incrementals Mon-Sat and Full(+DBS to go offsite) on Sundays. This is done on our DDS drive (created a manual DATclass). The incrementals are DDS2 tapes and the full/DBS are DDS3. (BTW. our DB is 18GB and hasn't filled the tape yet) We have a compressed file

Re: Excessive Read Errors on LTO

2001-05-18 Thread Suad Musovich
Be wary of upgrading the firmware on LTO drives. See the thread last week entitled Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?, there are some major read performance problems in the last 3 releases of the LTO drive firmware. In the past two weeks i've gone from OBN1 to OCE1 to 12U7, and

Re: 5 GB limit on Recovery Log

2001-05-17 Thread Suad Musovich
You only need to run an Incremental backup to reset the recovery log. Our regime is a full backup + DBSnapshot(sent offsite) on Sunday on hi-density tapes and incrementals once a day (or twice, if recovery log fills up during the day) on low-density ones using a 2 week rotation. It is

Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?

2001-05-16 Thread Suad Musovich
I've just had the firmware upgraded to 1550 (don't know the patchname) from 12U7 and, at this stage, it doesn't look like it has fixed the read performance problem I audited 2 tapes with ~25% utilization in a filling state (I don't expect many gaps in data). One took 3 hours the other 5. During

Re: Web archive?

2001-05-14 Thread Suad Musovich
yep http://search.adsm.org On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:54:15AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Is there a searchable archive on the web for this list?

Re: Quantum Snap Appliance

2001-05-12 Thread Suad Musovich
Go to Richard Sims Quickfacts and search for NDMP. Cheers, Suad -- On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:33:13AM -0600, Laura Buckley wrote: Hi, Is anyone out there backing up (and able to restore) a Quantum Snap Appliance? TIA, Laura Buckley SSSI

Re: recreate bitvectors

2001-05-04 Thread Suad Musovich
My tests recreated the bitvector in a matter of seconds, although my disk storage pool volumes were small. If the volumes are large and contain a lot of data I would expect the time to take something in the range of a few hours at the most, not days. This assumes that the server is very

recreate bitvectors

2001-05-02 Thread Suad Musovich
Has anyone run the special recreate bitvectors introduced in a patch recently? I have fruitlessly watch my system for 4 days waiting for the process to end but nothing seems to be happening(system has been sitting at idle) If so, how long did it take? how big was your database? etc... Suad --

Re: Windows Nt clients using subfilebackup option

2001-04-28 Thread Suad Musovich
Get your users to archive their directories weekly (I think this can be automated). It will create a 2nd file that will only backed-up once a week. Also blame Microsoft for using a sucky way of storing e-mail data :) Suad -- On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:46:35AM -0400, Vibhute, Bandu wrote:

Re: LTO performance

2001-04-21 Thread Suad Musovich
I can get 30MB/sec transfer using /dev/zero but it would make sense to use some sort of random data (no /dev/random in AIX) for a more realistic result. I didn't use the timer from dd as it includes it takes for tape negotiation and rewind (I noted it from a throughput indicator from our

Re: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX and LTO 3583 Library problem

2001-04-18 Thread Suad Musovich
Can you run a "q devc","q libr" and a "q dr" to see how you defined them? Suad -- On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:36:10AM +0200, Hrouda Tom wrote: I have trouble with LTO 3583 library and TSM 4.1.3 in AIX 4.3.3. I installed the device driver for 3583 drive and library to AIX system (from

Re: SQL for Amount Backed up Daily:

2001-04-18 Thread Suad Musovich
We parse the Activity log and extract the data that way. (using Perl) Cheers, Suad -- On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:22:09PM -0400, Bill Robb wrote: Folks... I'm running TSM 4.1 on an S390 server, and have 85 clients divided into two domains - Novell and AIX. Many of the clients run multiple

Re: ADSM/TSM Admin pay scale

2001-04-16 Thread Suad Musovich
Have a look at: http://adsmsalarysurvey.8m.com/ Cheers, Suad -- On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:56:47PM -0700, Dwight Wood wrote: Hi everyone, I have searched the archives and found only a few postings about the pay scale of ADSM/TSM Admins. But I didn't see any numbers out there in the

Re: Should LOADDB take this long?

2001-04-15 Thread Suad Musovich
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:17:10PM -0400, Adolph Kahan wrote: I assume you mean 78 million entries for a total of 6.9GB. Then yes it does take that long to do a LOADDB. I've heard of slightly larger databases taking over 48 hours to reload. I'm on 286 Million entries after 73 hours. How do

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