Swan Song

2013-05-14 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
I'll be retiring in a few weeks, and just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who participates on this list. I still see posts from some names I've seen since I first joined this list around 1998. I was running Adstar Distributed Storage Manager, Version 2 back then. Once again, thank you

Re: Tapes required by backup stgpool

2013-04-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You could look at the last written date, any tape written to since the last backup backup stgpool was completed Should be needed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Benhayoune Khalid Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:35 AM To:

Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] tsm reclaim of copy pool

2013-02-07 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
It's also possible that a necessary volume was in use by another process or restore. As Ullrich said, run the reclaim again. Or you can use Move data for the volume. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ullrich Mänz Sent: Thursday,

Re: Permissions needed for restores

2012-12-21 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Make sure that theaccount doing the restore has the Manage auditing and security logs user right. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 1:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Select or Query help

2012-07-12 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
This information is available from the Client Command line. dsmc q backup -nodename=bpsnt91 '{\\bpsnt91\c$}\*' -subdir=yes -fromdate=10/17/2011 -todate=10/17/2011 c:\filelist.txt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff Gill

Re: Tsm command line admin client and windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
It might be windows7 User Account Control. try right clicking the shortcut and selecting Run as Administrator. Or you can set UAC to its lowest setting. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, February 29,

Re: TSM 5.5 : NAS share folder backup from TSM client

2012-02-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Check to make sure that the account that the backup client runs under has the following local rights on the server with the share being backed up. Back up files and directories. Restore files and directories. Manage auditing and security logs. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Best way to check size of TSM Client ?

2012-02-15 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
If you're still running Version 5 clients, just use the GUI to select the drive or sub folder you want to know about and click on estimate. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Horst Scherzer Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Re: Deleting STG POOL

2012-01-20 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Try running an audit volume on each of the volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting STG POOL I'm confident they're

Re: disabe/enable a sched via command line

2011-12-14 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You could update the start date or expiration date. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: disabe/enable a sched via command line The

Re: Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-10-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Here's an article on the odds of a collision occurring in a hash only environment for Anyone who is interested in more information. http://www.backupcentral.com/mr-backup-blog-mainmenu-47/13-mr-backup-blog/145-de-dupe-hash-collisions.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

TSM Compatbility between windows 32 bit and windows 64 bit instances.

2011-04-20 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Does anyone know if a database backup created from a server instance running on a Window 64 bit system be restored to an instance running on a windows 32 bit system? Assuming both server are running the same TSM version and patch level.

Re: Problem running a script from TSM client

2011-04-01 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Make sure the account the TSM Scheduler is running under has permissions to run The script. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk S. Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem running a

Import Node

2010-11-23 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Is it possible to export a node, then import the node back to a Different domain on the same server. If so, will inactive versions of files with no active version be controlled by the policy of the new domain?

Re: Asking for suggestions to eliminate tapes from our operations.

2010-08-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You might do some research on hosting.com I think they might provide the type of service that you are looking for. This is not a recommendation, I just happened to see them at a symposium a couple of weeks ago, Don't know if they are good or not. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Restore question

2010-06-15 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You can start dsm or dsmc using the virtualnodename option to run as the powered off node dsmc -virtualnodename=Nodename -password=password -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:02 AM To:

Re: TDP for SQL vs SQL dumps

2010-06-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
That's the way or DBA prefers it. He schedules the dumps with the database tools, and I just back up the dump files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: why create a 12TB LUN

2010-05-28 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front. Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player for storage. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 3:46 AM To:

Re: Windows 2000 client

2010-05-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
This is the latest Windows 2000 client ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client /v5r4/Windows/Win2000/

Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPUS

2010-05-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
I found a freeware utility called WinAudit.exe It collects system information on Windows Servers, including processor information. It took me about 20 minutes to automate the collection on all my clients using a simple batch file run from my workstation. The utility collects a huge amount of

Re: SV: [ADSM-L] define drive without defining a library

2010-02-02 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
DEFINE LIBRARY LIBNANE LIBTYPE=MANUAL DEFINE DRIVE LIBNAME DRIVENAME DEFINE PATH SERVERNAME DRIVENAME srctype=server desttype=drive library=LIBENAME DEVICE=MT#.#.#.# -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Monday,

Re: Move data from copystgpool volumes to a new copystgpool

2010-01-14 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
One way is to define a new copy pool using the LT04 and then backup your storage pools to The new pool. When done, you can delete the old volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010

Re: Problems backing up CIFS

2009-12-23 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Try running the Scheduler service under the same account that you use to sign on when you are able to successfully manually run the backup. It that works It's a permissions issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebschman,

Re: Never ending reclamation process

2009-07-21 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Update reclamation to a high value, then cancel the process. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Never ending reclamation process Hi list, I have

Re: Backup error I can't find What to do for.

2009-06-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Did you check the DSMSCHED.LOG on the client? Looks like the error occurred during the system state backup. I have seen these occasionally, but so far they haven't been persistent errors. Sometimes caused by a hiccup with the volume shadow copy service. -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: Copypool using more tapes then primary tapepool

2009-04-17 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Issue a query occupancy, and send the output to a spreadsheet. You can figure out how much data is in each of your storage pools. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Huebschman, George J. Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:48 PM To:

Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive

2009-04-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Yes you can, see Reclaiming Volumes in a Storage Pool with One Drive in the Admin Guide. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Jerome Alet Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and single LTO2 drive

Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive

2009-04-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
time, it should be possible to justify a small tape library. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: john.schnei...@mercy.net -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent

Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client

2009-03-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 01:55:12 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 02:06 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor

Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client

2009-03-02 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Hello, I'm trying to issue a query backup for a filespace that is backed up as a UNC, and can't get the syntax right. The filespace is a shared drive on a remote drive using the UNC in the domain statement. Backup is run on Node CT100 the share I'm trying to query is on CT120 the domain

Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client

2009-03-02 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 01:02:02 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 01:06 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

2008-11-14 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
If you don't want to use the consolidate backup, you can install a client on each virtual machine, and treat is the same way you treat a real physical client. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Friday, November

Re: Labelling mass volume of tapes with Label Libvol

2008-11-13 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Use the search=yes option -LABEl LIBVolume--library_name +-volume_name---+ '-SEARCH--=--+-Yes--+---+-+--LABELSource--=--+-Barcode+-' | '-| A |-' |

IBM Mainframe Client?

2008-11-13 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Is there such a beast as an IBM Mainframe client (VM) that will backup to a Windows TSM Server?

Re: Scheduling client backups

2008-11-12 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You can set up an admin schedule, or a bat file to run on Mondays that issues the following command: update schedule domain-name schedule-name Dayofweek=weekday Then on Thursday, run update schedule domain-name schedule-name Dayofweek=thu -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: TSM Database 83.5 % Full

2008-10-28 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Look up define dbvolume in the Admin guide -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yee, Julie Y. Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Database 83.5 % Full Can you give me the exact command for

Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version

2008-10-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
select node_name as node, CLIENT_OS_LEVEL as OSVer, client_version as v, client_release as r, client_level as l, client_sublevel as sl from nodes order by v,r,l,sl c:\Outputfilename.txt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent:

Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version

2008-10-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To CSD.ORG ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent

Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version

2008-10-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Avy, if you have access to the remote computers from a PC running XP xpprofessional, you can run the command: systeminfo /s computername(computername being the network name of machine you are quering) This will list all the servicepack and uptates on the machine. I think that the command only

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
With TSM, it doesn't really make sense to make two copies of a tape, since things are managed at the object level. Copy Pools are used instead. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:56 AM To:

Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey

2008-09-29 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just issue q lic and pay X$ for each Managed System, or to issue a q auditocc, sum up the Total Storage Used column and multiply by X$ per MB or GB or TB. There must be some way for IBM to set a well defined, and easy to understand licensing plan, based on easy

Re: backing up mapped drives

2008-07-25 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
The unc should work, and it does show up with the local drives. You might need to tweak the permissions on the account that the scheduler is running under. A local account probably won't have access across the network -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Can the PreserveDbOnExit be changed on the fly so that it can be turned on as part of controlled reboot, then left off in case of a crash? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:48 AM To:

Re: Backing up NT4

2008-06-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Depending on what needs to be backed up on the machine, it might be easiest to share the drives/directories needing backup and backup the share from another node. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Bloch Sent: Wednesday, June 18,

Re: Quota for clients?

2008-06-10 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Maybe you should have whoever is responsible for the system give you a list of the files they need backed up, not to exceed XXX Mb's. And just backup up what's on the list. That way at least they will know what they have protected. You could limit the size of each backup by assigning the node

Re: VTL and TSM - Hyper Reclamation ????

2008-06-04 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Our reclaim settings vary with the storage pool. The storage pool that I point our database servers to gets a lot of large files each night, but also expires a lot of large files each day. I keep it set at 70%, Occasionally, a volume will stall and just sit there day after day at 40 or 50%.

Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey

2008-05-29 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Uh gee Kelly, I was hoping to use STORServers agent to manage VMware Consolidated Backup. Please don't tell me there's a better way! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:22 PM To:

Re: Tape Reclaim Question

2008-05-15 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Are the onsite tapes full or filling? Onsite tapes are not eligible for reclamation until they are full. A filling tape with only 1% used has 99% of it's space left to fill. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent:

Re: Scheduled backups running twice/day

2008-04-29 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You will get that message if you start a client session using the -nodename=node switch from a machine other that the client machine. Then again when the client next contacts the server. the ANR1639I Attributes changed message should give you the machine name where the client sessions was run.

Re: Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs

2008-04-29 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
I can't help but to wonder if a company that wants to keep all their data for 10 years has a functioning legal department. Are they aware that all that data is subject to e-discovery?

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
When you send the tapes offsite, do you update them to access=offsite? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Offsite tapes not being brought back. I have

Time to reclaim LTO tapes

2008-04-23 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
We may be going to LTO 3 or 4 in the near future. How long does it take to reclaim a LTO3 tape at 50% full, and how long for a LTO4? Doug Thorneycroft Senior Systems Analyst Computer Technology Section County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County 1955 Workman Mill Road Whittier, CA 90601

Re: Query to list .pst files

2008-04-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
dsmc q backup -nodename=NODE_NAME '{FILESPACE_NAME}\*.pst' -subdir=yes -inactive -detail C:\Output.txt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Angus Macdonald Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Query to

Re: ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0

2008-04-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
anything in the dsmerror.log? are you running Pre or post schedule commands? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client

Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume

2008-04-04 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Give it a try, Ive done this in the past, and on an empty volume, the audit process never requested a mount, but wouldn't start until the tape was updated to readw. If the audit does request a mount, just cancel it. (The cancel process might hang for awhile, because the system is waiting for a

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM

2008-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
If you or your bosses insist on a Grandfather-father-son backup rotation, buy a product designed for it, not TSM. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so)

Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume

2008-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
How can i delete a volume with access mode offsite? update vol A00043 access=readw -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem is still there with

Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume

2008-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Update vol to access=readwrite and try the audit again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume Hi

Re: Long Wait for Disk Pool Volumes

2007-12-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Do you ever migrate the data from the diskpools, if not, you could be severely fragmented. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Long Wait for Disk

Re: Select statement for space occupied by type of file?

2007-10-19 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
dsmc q backup -nodename=node '{\\node\d$}\directory\*.pst' -subdir=yes c:\path\output.txt Load the output into excel as fixed width text. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thach, Kevin G Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:20 AM To:

Re: How to reclaim FILLING volumes

2007-10-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Are your disk pools large enough? If your diskpool fills, then your backups will write direct to tape. Check you activity log to see what is happening around the time that the extra filling tapes are defined to the storage pool. What process or session is first grabbing the tape, and what other

Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on it

2007-10-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Try running an Audit Volume (Fix=yes) on one of the volumes and see if that takes care of the problem. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: I

Re: Archives across Wan Best practices

2007-09-25 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Have you thought about mirroring the remote data to local storage, then backing up the local. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Lane Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Archives across

Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

2007-08-06 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Try running dsmc from a domain admin account and see if it's a rights/permissions issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANR1076E Path not found on

Re: Rename filespace

2007-07-26 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
, so you should get a simple incremental. I've done this many times in Unix. Richard Sims On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote: Hello, I need to move some data from one drive (E:) to a new larger drive on the same server (J:) The TSM Filespace name for the E: drive

Re: Rename filespace

2007-07-26 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Thanks again Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Rename filespace On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote: Thanks Richard

Rename filespace

2007-07-25 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Hello, I need to move some data from one drive (E:) to a new larger drive on the same server (J:) The TSM Filespace name for the E: drive is \\servername\e$ with FSID 4 The J: drive does not yet exist on the server. After moving the data to the J: Drive, if I rename filespace \\servername\e$

Re: Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution

2007-06-21 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You have to consider that just like a real tape library, you have to allow for reclaimable space. Take a look at your present tape library and see how much of your occupied space is reclaimable. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William

Re: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk

2007-06-19 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Set your Sequential access pool as next pool on your random access pool, then migrate the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving one nodes date

Re: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk

2007-06-19 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
with that, is that it will migrate all date, not just this one nodes data. On 6/19/07, Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set your Sequential access pool as next pool on your random access pool, then migrate the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: LTO2 autoloader

2007-05-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Can't we all just get along, and get back to business? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LTO2 autoloader SIGH As I SAID ALREADY... I simply

Re: Millions of files failed... Wha?

2007-05-15 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
What does the error log show? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Millions of files failed... Wha? I've a client on windows 5.3.0.0 (He's thinking about

Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on?

2007-05-02 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
The Ramifications really depend on the nature of what is being backed up, your network speed, client processor speed, memory, etc. I have one 8 GB database that stores jpg images. Trying to compress the already compressed data causes it to grow by 35%. On another database, storing mostly text,

Re: Test Message, Please ignore

2007-04-30 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Now I've seen everything, Curtis Preston asking to ignored? Can't be true! Must be an imposter! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 6:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Test Message,

Re: from SEZ

2007-04-10 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
If the original filling tape is in use, and another session or process needs to write, The system will select a new scratch. Look back in your activity log to see your tape mount activity. You can probably find the answer there. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: TSM DB Restore

2007-04-04 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
The HBAAPI vendor library might be Host bus adapter API Vendor Library, Could this be software/hardware installed on the source machine, but missing from the target? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of TSM User Sent: Wednesday, April 04,

AIT5 Tape Drives

2007-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Is anyone using AIT5 tape drives? I don't see them listed on the device support list.

Re: AIT5 Tape Drives

2007-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AIT5 Tape Drives Is anyone using

Re: scratch tapes

2007-04-03 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
If you're really really sure you don't need the data, you can issue delete volume vol_name discarddata=yes But, make your boss sign a guarantee that you won't lose your job if someone decides later that they need the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Contents of Copy Storage Pool ?

2007-03-27 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You can run q occ to see how many files and bytes each node is storing in each storage pool. You can compare how much data is in the primary pools with how much in in the copy pools to see if anything is being missed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Shrinking scratch pools - tips?

2007-03-23 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Are your tapes mostly full, or are there a lot of filling volumes?

Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y

2007-03-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Just a note, Only active files will be backed up, you'll lose all inactive versions. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Booth Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ramifications of delete vol

Re: NO SLOTS

2007-03-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Try doing q libvol libraryname if the volume is listed as private, and the last use column is blank, then the volume is probably scratch. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:35 AM To:

Re: Cannot backup mapped drive contents

2007-02-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Make sure the account has the following rights. Backup Files Restore Files Manage Auditing and Security Logs (Normally when we see that message, it's the Manage Auditing and Security Logs right that's missing) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: size of each node on TSM

2007-01-31 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Q occ and Q AUDITOCCUPANCY (Before you run q auditoccupancy, you should run 'audit license') -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: size of each node on TSM

Re: Disposition of Failed Storage Devices

2007-01-26 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You might take a look at this site, their members specialize in totally destroying things like tapes and disk drives. (National Associating for information destruction) http://www.naidonline.org/ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: delete by filespace number?

2007-01-24 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Type 'help delete filespace' for the syntax. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: delete by filespace number? to delete files by filespace number,

Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?

2006-10-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
, build a RAID array, and use it to replace my primary tapepool, correct? What would be the disadvantages of that vs. a VTL? TIA Orin Rehorst -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:18 AM

Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?

2006-10-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
That's what we are doing. Our primary is a 6.4 TB VTL. So far, it's working very well. Excellent performance. Main concern is if the device fails, how long will it take to restore all those terabytes of primary storage from offsite volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

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2006-10-12 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You might also try running an Audit Volume before the restore volume command. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit

2006-10-11 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Do you have your TSM device driver set to start at boot? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Richard, The device

Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit

2006-10-11 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit No. But, just out of curiosity, is there any difference if it is started at boot time or not ? Mario - Original Message From: Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:38:52 PM

Re: TSM and Junction Points

2006-09-25 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount

Re: TSM and Junction Points

2006-09-25 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount point is backed up and restored as an empty

Re: TSM and Junction Points

2006-09-22 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount point is backed up and restored as an empty directory. the drive that is mounted, and the data in it is stored as a separate filespace. (We don't use DFS) Take a close look at q filespace for

Re: Migrate Inactive Files Feature Proposal

2006-09-18 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
I put out this idea a couple of years ago, It didn't generate a whole lot of interest then. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Orville Lantto Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Migrate Inactive

Re: Mount and write to a specific tape

2006-08-21 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You can define an additional copy pool, use the define volume command to assign the volume to the new pool, then backup a primary storage pool to the new pool. Since this is an additional copy pool, you can delete the volume when done testing. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: restore -ifnewer isn't working

2006-08-14 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Does the account running the restore have sufficient rights to overwrite the file? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Troy Frank Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: restore -ifnewer isn't working

Re: VTL Sepaton vs SUN/STK(FalconStor)

2006-08-11 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
A few VTL's are on TSM's supported devices list) In theory, a VTL will work with TSM, as long as it emulates a TSM supported library, but it's comforting to know that the one you buy has been tested in a TSM environment. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: restore directly from copy pool tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
You can update all the primary tapes to unavailable -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Hammersley Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: restore directly from copy pool tapes I'm working on a

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