Re: ANR8855E ACSAPI(acs_mount) response with unsuccessful status, status=STATUS_LIBRARY_FAILURE

2010-03-05 Thread Wanda Prather
from back in 2000 where someone seemed to be witnessing the same: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2000-08/msg7.html Does anyone have any pointers as to where I might look next or any other info that might be handy to dig out? TIA, /David Mc London, UK -- Wanda Prather

Re: SV: TSM support for VADP

2010-03-05 Thread Wanda Prather
: p...@cornell.edu -- Wanda Prather | Senior Systems Integration Specialist | 410.539.1135 | wprat...@icfi.com | www.jasi.com ICF Jacob Sundstrom | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202

6.1.x Migration hang fix for APAR IC62884

2010-02-22 Thread Wanda Prather
The apars fixed in this release doc for 6.1.2.1 and also 6.1.3 says there is a fix for IC62884 (migration hang). I'm at 6.1.2.1, and still see the symptoms documented in the APAR. Can anybody tell me whether this really IS fixed in 6.1.3? If yes I'll go there, but I'd rather not if there's no

Re: Changing destination drive for systemstate backupds

2010-02-20 Thread Wanda Prather
Andy, Does this change the location for adsm.sys? Thanks, Wanda On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi Gary, Check the C: drive properties. There is a tab called Shadow Copies. There, I believe, is where you can change which drive will be used for

Re: ANR9999D_2590516390

2010-02-19 Thread Wanda Prather
This is very bad. magic errors usually indicate physical corruption in the data. It can be due to a physical I/O error on the media, or software, or firmware. I suggest you open a severity 1 PMR with IBM right away, because your backups may be creating MORE unreadable data all the time. IBM can

Re: ANR9999D_2590516390

2010-02-19 Thread Wanda Prather
on that article data domain upgrade the OS from 4.3 to 4.7 and but no luck. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 8:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANRD_2590516390

Multiple TSM servers with EMC Centera

2010-02-17 Thread Wanda Prather
Customer has an e-mail archiving application that uses TSM archiving to an EMC Centera on the back end. They want to split the TSM server into 2 servers to spread the load. I've searched the TSM site and found doc on having 1 TSM server use multiple Centeras, but nothing on having 2 TSM servers

Re: Syntax of select statement

2010-02-12 Thread Wanda Prather
Well, for one thing, * is not a wildcard in a select statement, it's %, and you need LIKE, not = where filespace_name LIKE '/root_vdm_4/HMCH1015_E%' On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.comwrote: Hello everyone, I would like to find all tapes that are within

Re: VSS and system state failures on windows 2003 clients

2010-02-12 Thread Wanda Prather
Of Wanda Prather Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:47 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS and system state failures on windows 2003 clients There are s many things that can go wrong with VSS. (MS tells Tivoli to call a bunch of different VSS writer API's to back up

Re: VSS and system state failures on windows 2003 clients

2010-02-11 Thread Wanda Prather
There are s many things that can go wrong with VSS. (MS tells Tivoli to call a bunch of different VSS writer API's to back up system state, but obviously, ntbackup does it a different way. Coincidence? Conspiracy?) There are so many MS patches for VSS, it's hard to figure out which one is

Re: Virtual TSM

2010-02-02 Thread Wanda Prather
Yes, you can restore a TSM data base to a new TSM server. However, think twice before virtualizing - Tivoli doesn't support the TSM server on a VM if you have tape drivers (i.e., physical tape or VTL). See below.

Re: TSM Fastback for Bare Machine Recovery

2010-01-21 Thread Wanda Prather
It's comparable, but it only works with a Fastback server, not a TSM server. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Johnny Lea j...@dis.umsmed.edu wrote: Anyone use this? Is it comparable to Cristie's BMR? Thanks, Johnny Individuals who have received this information in error or are not

6.1 out of log space ANR0130E

2010-01-15 Thread Wanda Prather
TSM 6.1.2.1 on Windows. Msg is ANR0130E rdbdbc.c, server out of log space. Activelogsize is 81G, but the log actually grew to 99.5 G and filled up the activelogdir, which is a 100G lun. The doc says you can expand the active log space by changing activelogsize and activelogdir in dsmserv.opt and

Re: Dsmserv Restore DB -k?

2010-01-14 Thread Wanda Prather
I ran into that a while ago. It just plain doesn't work like it should. Got some responses from this list, but lost my test server and never got around to trying it again: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg76823.html On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Christian Svensson

Re: Turning Encryption Off/On

2010-01-13 Thread Wanda Prather
[mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Turning Encryption Off/On Is your encryption application-managed (controlled by TSM) or library-managed (controlled by EKM/TKLM)? If application managed

Re: Encryption

2010-01-12 Thread Wanda Prather
Encryption with the client is very CPU intensive, both on backup and on restore. If you have LTO4 or 3592 tape, or STK tape drives that encrypt, it is far, far better to do it in the hardware. W On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.comwrote: Hello everyone, I

Re: Turning Encryption Off/On

2010-01-12 Thread Wanda Prather
Is your encryption application-managed (controlled by TSM) or library-managed (controlled by EKM/TKLM)? If application managed, IBM is correct, you just need a different devclass that specifies drive encryption OFF, pointing to the same library, and a new storage pool that specifies the

Re: Client compatibilities

2010-01-12 Thread Wanda Prather
I have a 6.1 system with clients ranging all the way back from 5.2 to 6.1. 5.4 and 5.5 clients are still supported with a 6.1 server. Older clients aren't officially supported by Tivoli, but still work. W On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Baker, Jane jane.ba...@clarks.com wrote: We are

Re: Turning Encryption Off/On

2010-01-12 Thread Wanda Prather
things simple for me. Thanks. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Turning Encryption Off/On Is your encryption application

Re: Trouble with Java GUI on Windows

2010-01-11 Thread Wanda Prather
If you have any advice/documentation for what is needed to provide the untangled Java set up, I would appreciate your passing it on. I can't find any doc that explains what the Java requirements are. And when it doesn't work, it just doesn't work, and I resort to the dsmmfc.exe version. Thanks

Re: Website with all removed and new TSM 6.1 commands?

2010-01-10 Thread Wanda Prather
TSM 6.1 Technical Guide Redbook, SG24-7718-00, Chap. 4. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Christian Svensson christian.svens...@cristie.se wrote: Hi *SMers, Does anyone know a good webpage where I can find a summery of all commands that has been removed and added to TSM 6.1 Admin Command

Re: Using system z as a TSM server/

2010-01-08 Thread Wanda Prather
Ditto what Nick said! Some other things to consider: Pros: On z/OS, TSM integrates seamlessly with your mainframe tape management. You don't need to use DRM on the mainframe; your mainframe tape management system vaulting will pick up and handle your TSM tapes for you automatically. The

Re: VMWare and TS1130 tape drives

2010-01-07 Thread Wanda Prather
Well, a simple justification: Tivoli's statement of support for TSM, says they do not support the TSM server on any machine that has tape drivers. That means either physical tape, or VTL's (which are emulating tape).

Migration choosing output volume in the SAME POOL?!?

2010-01-06 Thread Wanda Prather
Oh, my head hurts. Haven't seen this before. TSM server AIX 5.5.2 with no disk pool. Clients back up to a VTL (which is an EMC CDL) The VTL migrates to an LTO tape pool. So the data flow is clients = CDLPOOL = TAPEPOOL CDLPOOL has MIGPROCESS=4 MIGRATE STGPOOL CDLPOOL kicks of 4 migration

Re: Migration choosing output volume in the SAME POOL?!?

2010-01-06 Thread Wanda Prather
[mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of | Wanda Prather | Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:52 AM | To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU | Subject: [ADSM-L] Migration choosing output volume in the SAME POOL?!? | | Oh, my head hurts. | Haven't seen this before. | | TSM server AIX 5.5.2 with no disk

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Wanda Prather
I could quibble - they have to do all that anyway, right, across the various clients? I don't think so. Consider, how would you map an ACL for a UNIX file in say, an AIX DFS filesystem, to an ACL for a Windows file system? The client is supposed to honor those ACL's, and restore them along

Re: alternatives to TSM due to license costs

2009-12-30 Thread Wanda Prather
If you have a lot of Windows clients, look at TSM's FASTBACK. It is also disk only, but I believe is cheaper than straight TSM. Does incremental-only, block-level backups. Might save you $$ and not be as drastic a conversion. You could keep your non-WIndows clients as they are. ALso consider

Re: NFS as a storage pool volume

2009-12-29 Thread Wanda Prather
You don't say what kind of beast this network attached storage hardware actually is - are we talking Netapp, EMC, other? You need to run the performance tools that are available with it and look at how busy its NIC card is and what kind of performance you are getting from its cache. I have seen

Re: Tivoli resource Password Changes when migrating to other server in Windows cluster group

2009-12-28 Thread Wanda Prather
Appendix D in the Windows Client manual covers what has to be done to make both services aware of the automatic password changes; in the 5.5 manual it's p. 614-615. YMMV depending on what version of the client you have installed. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Timothy Hughes

Re: IBM bureaucracy strikes again

2009-12-22 Thread Wanda Prather
OK. Can someone on the list, or someone from Tivoli who monitors this list, give us a contact point within IBM where we can take these complaints? We should be bombarding them directly... On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Kelly Lipp l...@storserver.com wrote: I particularly enjoy the ten

Re: TSM 5.x DB and hardware replication

2009-12-16 Thread Wanda Prather
: Wanda, In TSM v5, do you find hardware replication to work better than TSM mirroring for replicating the TSM DB and log to a DR site? David Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com 12/15/2009 12:40 PM In prior TSM server versions, replicating the TSM DB and log using hardware replication works

Q about TSM 6.1 DB and hardware replication

2009-12-15 Thread Wanda Prather
In prior TSM server versions, replicating the TSM DB and log using hardware replication works fine as long as the DB and log are in a consistency group. Any issues with hardware replication of the TSM 6.1 DB and log? With appropriate changes to dsmserv.opt, will a DR TSM server be able to open

Re: AW: 6.1 experience so far

2009-12-14 Thread Wanda Prather
1) When you say hang: if you enter q session, do you see a hung session for the admin id the reporter uses? 3) If you look at the actlog, is the last query the Daily Reporter issues before it hangs a SELECT against the EVENTS table? If so it may be a known bug querying the events table, I can

Re: Backing up ORACLE without using RMAN

2009-12-10 Thread Wanda Prather
No. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi all, Can I configure TDP for Oracle to backup Oracle databases WITHOUT using RMAN? Mario

Support for Exchange 2010?

2009-12-10 Thread Wanda Prather
The online page for TDP for Exchange says it supports Exchange 2003 and higher for 32bit Windows, but Exchange 2007 for 64bit Windows. What does that mean, if anything, for Exchange 2010 support? Exchange 2010 just became GA in Nov. Does the current TDP work, sorta work, run at your own risk,

Re: Support for Exchange 2010?

2009-12-10 Thread Wanda Prather
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/10/2009 12:27:10 PM: [image removed] Support for Exchange 2010? Wanda Prather to: ADSM-L 12/10/2009 12:27 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: archive bit vs. journaling

2009-12-05 Thread Wanda Prather
No, journaling has nothing to do with the archive bit. When you configure the TSM journal engine, it installs an additional Windows service. That service is a file-system monitor that watches for changes in the filesystem. The journal data base retains a list of all the files that change. When

Re: TSM 6.1 De-dupe + NDMP

2009-12-03 Thread Wanda Prather
Is the NDMP backup going via TCP/IP and into the same storage pool as your other backup data? How can you tell it is not getting deduped? On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian P. Boyd boydb...@duke.edu wrote: Hello, Currently we are using TSM 6.1 to do NDMP backups of our EMC Celerra. We

Re: TSM 6.1 De-dupe + NDMP

2009-12-03 Thread Wanda Prather
_wouldn't_ de-dupe? Thanks! Brian On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Wanda Prather wrote: Is the NDMP backup going via TCP/IP and into the same storage pool as your other backup data? How can you tell it is not getting deduped? On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian P. Boyd boydb...@duke.edu

Re: ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE.

2009-12-02 Thread Wanda Prather
When you have MANAGEDSERVICES set to Schedule, the TSM Scheduler service stays shut down. THe dsmcad service stays on (set to Automatic). It will start and stop the Scheduler service itself at the time the backup should run. Look at the output of the dsmcad in dsmwebcli.log. If it looks OK,

Re: ADSML-Issue with devclass associating a library not present with the same name/devclass type

2009-11-17 Thread Wanda Prather
What is the actual error? Should be able to just modify the maintenance script On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eric Vaughn evau...@stevenson.edu wrote: If anyone has any ideas on how to solve this I would appreciate any assistance. Here is my issue. I have a devclass of the following on a

Re: Who is using Admin Center ? Specifics, please re: AC improvements

2009-11-16 Thread Wanda Prather
Gergana, Thank you for your concern. I will forward specifics with screen shots to you separately. I hope others take the time to do it as well! Regards Wanda Prather On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Gergana V Markova gmark...@us.ibm.comwrote: Francisco, can you be more specific and provided

Re: tape library for TSM

2009-11-15 Thread Wanda Prather
And in most cases, look for a library with more than 1 I/O slot. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, madunix madu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Mehdi Salehi iranian.aix.supp...@gmail.com wrote: What are the essentials of a tape library to fully work with TSM? - enough

Re: different cartridge sizes in one library

2009-11-14 Thread Wanda Prather
That will work fine. The LTO standard says that any drive can read *and *write one generation back, can read 2 generations back. So LTO4 drives can both read and write LTO3 cartridges. (You still get the speed and capacity of LTO3 on those cartridges.) Your LTO4 drives can read LTO2

Re: SV: Problem with Journaling

2009-11-13 Thread Wanda Prather
If it stopped due to an error, there will be entries in the jbberror.log file in the baclient subdirectory. W On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com wrote: Check how long the Journal service has been up or how big the JDB is. We have a server

Re: Client based encryption issues

2009-11-07 Thread Wanda Prather
Step3: run a very small backup Make sure your users run a very small SELECTIVE backup (or in the GUI specify ALWAYS BACKUP). If they run an incremental backup, and the client finds nothing to back up (because it has been backed up already), you will not get the prompt for the encryption key. W

Re: de-dup on tapes

2009-11-07 Thread Wanda Prather
TSM dedup is actually limited to sequential type=FILE storage pools, on disk (A pool with type=DISK is a random-access pool.) AFAIK, no vendor is doing dedup on tape; when data gets moved out from disk to tape, it is reduped or reinflated, or whatever you want to call it. This actually is

Re: Win2008 System State

2009-11-07 Thread Wanda Prather
is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/05/2009 02:29:10 PM: [image removed] Re: Win2008 System State Wanda Prather to: ADSM-L 11/05/2009 02:29 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: Win2008 System State

2009-11-05 Thread Wanda Prather
Yes, systemstate backups have always been fulls. (I believe there was some mumbling about Win2K3 changing something to make it possible to do incrementals instead of fulls, but I've never seen any difference, and no further mumbling has ensued...sort of like the mumbling that told us Vista would

Re: Win2008 System State

2009-11-05 Thread Wanda Prather
. The exception is the AD clients which keep 180 versions or 108 Gb for current Windows, which translates to 1.25 Tb in new Windows. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:29 PM

ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-11-04 Thread Wanda Prather
Here's a different issue, ISC 6.1 running on Win2K3, TSM server 6.1.2, browser running on WinXP SP3. I created a new cloptset with exclude filters through the ISC a couple of weeks ago. When I try to modify the cloptset, either by modifying an existing exclude filter, or adding more exclude

Re: 3592 drives no compression

2009-10-29 Thread Wanda Prather
Try this: q actlog begindate=today-2 search=compress You can see very quickly if any of your client systems are doing compression. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Lars-Erik Öhman larsa.oh...@carnegie.sewrote: No change at all with a new tape deviceclass. I did set the compression to the

TSM 6.1: Can I remove the log mirror?

2009-10-28 Thread Wanda Prather
Can I remove the log mirror for my 6.1.0.2 (Windows) server? Is it as simple as removing it from dsmserv.opt? (Can't find anything in the manual...)

Re: TSM 6.1: Can I remove the log mirror?

2009-10-28 Thread Wanda Prather
? Wanda Prather to: ADSM-L 10/28/2009 01:59 AM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Can I remove the log mirror for my 6.1.0.2 (Windows) server? Is it as simple as removing it from dsmserv.opt? (Can't find

Re: How big is your V6.1 server log file?

2009-10-27 Thread Wanda Prather
Zoltan, My server is Windows, but had the exact problem - clients failing with ANS1316E when the server recovery log is obviously not full, and the server doesn't go down (which it would if truly out of log space). Look at IC63373. Local fix (which is to reset a DB2 variable) seems to have

VMWare, VCB, and System state backups....opinions?

2009-10-26 Thread Wanda Prather
If you run your VMWare file level backups using VCB, it appears you don't get a backup of System state in the usual VSS way, but you get a backup of the C: drive, including the files that are normally locked, correct? You aren't going to be able to use the TSM client to do a SystemState restore

Re: VCB fullvm Proxy Server - opinions?

2009-10-22 Thread Wanda Prather
, which seems about right for the size proxy we have. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, Windows BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:07 PM

Re: Will db2sysc ever calm down?

2009-10-19 Thread Wanda Prather
What does db2sync do, anyway? Don't have a process by that name on 6.1.2 Winders W On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.eduwrote: Yeah, I tried just kill and then kill -2 (someone from IBM told me to try that on something - can't remember what) first, with no

Re: ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-10-15 Thread Wanda Prather
I have seen some odd things happen on the ISC for 6.1 (not specifically the ones you mention) that change or disappear in a different browser. If you are using IE, try Mozilla; if you are using Mozilla, try IE, or a later version/different platform for Mozilla. Java is evil, IMHO. W On Thu,

Re: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB

2009-10-08 Thread Wanda Prather
Colin, Thank you VERY much for taking the time to give us this info. IC62978 may explain a lot of what I'm seeing, but I had not hit on it in my searches. BTW, can you tell me where to find the mentioned db2diag.log file on a Win2K3 server? If it's in there, I can't find it. I'll look forward

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Wanda Prather
Instructions here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21114873 On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Brian G. Kunst bku...@u.washington.eduwrote: For security reasons, we're trying to identify what tapes a file is residing on. I've found the object_id of the file we're looking for,

Re: AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB

2009-10-07 Thread Wanda Prather
OK, here's my good news/bad news for the informal poll: Production 6.1 server: New TSM 6.1.2 installation with a wompin powerful Win2K3 box, lots of external SAN disk Running 76 schedules of daily incrementals: Most clients are relatively small Win2K3 servers, all TSM client 6.1 A few Linux

Re:

2009-10-01 Thread Wanda Prather
See answers below. My questions: 1) Since this is an auto migration process kicked off by the thresholds, does it have to complete before any new migration processes can start? Yes (for the same pool) Is there any way to change/override that if that is the case? You can try: update

Re:

2009-10-01 Thread Wanda Prather
AM, Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com wrote: See answers below. My questions: 1) Since this is an auto migration process kicked off by the thresholds, does it have to complete before any new migration processes can start? Yes (for the same pool) Is there any way to change/override

Re: Open Letter to TSM Product Mangement. Was Per terabyte licensing

2009-09-29 Thread Wanda Prather
I would like to add: Whatever you decide is fair for licensing the client - whether it be cores, or TB stored, or wombles, or hooha's, the client should REPORT BACK to the server how many wombles or hooha's it is using. The current system is most unfair to the customer, in that it requires an

VCB fullvm Proxy Server - opinions?

2009-09-29 Thread Wanda Prather
TSM server is 6.1.2 on Windows Win2K3. I have a customer who has tested running VCB fullvm backups of VMWare guests, using the TSM 6.1 client running on a Win2K3 Proxy server. No problem getting the fullvm proxy backups to work. They are planning to virtualize the entire server farm, so in the

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2009-09-25 Thread Wanda Prather
Download the 5.4-5.5 Technical Guide redbook SG24-7447 from www.redbooks.ibm.com. Read Chap. 24, which covers the features up through the 5.5 client. The 6.1 client adds direct support for fullvm backups. W On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Minns, Farren - Chichester fmi...@wiley.com wrote:

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2009-09-25 Thread Wanda Prather
Whether you use VCB or not, does not affect your licensing. You pay licenses based on the physical processors on the machine, no matter how many guests you run. So if you have many guests, you may get a significant reduction in license costs. You can do file-level backups by installing the b/a

Re: SV: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-22 Thread Wanda Prather
Question: Does TSM support multi-reader function of FILE devices with a VTL? In other words, can you get the same tape vol mounted multiple times - ONCE for WRITING and multiple for READONLY? Or, just multiple READONLY mounts? This would be great at our DR site for DR restores. No. A

Re: VCB Documentation?

2009-09-21 Thread Wanda Prather
You'll find good planning info and detailed setup instructions in the TSM 5.4-5.5 Technical Guide redbook, SG24-7447, chapter 24. Download from www.redbooks.ibm.com. Note however that it only covers the TSM 5.5 functions, which did not fully support fullvm backups. The 6.1 client includes

Re: TSM architecture

2009-09-18 Thread Wanda Prather
FWIW, When you upgrade to 6.1, your TSM server will be running Websphere (for the ISC) and DB2, plus TSM. I think your current way of stacking via LPARs is a better choice. W On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Shawn Drew shawn.d...@americas.bnpparibas.com wrote: All of this depends on the

3584, VIO, TSM, and bad eject behavior...

2009-08-30 Thread Wanda Prather
Well, Im confused again. Just set up TSM for a customer with a TS3500 (3584). Three logical partitions in the library, one for a for VTS, 1 for mainframe, 1 for TSM. ALMS installed, VIO enabled. TSM partition has 4 drives, 255 VIO slots. Have assigned the TSM tape volser range to the TSM

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

2009-08-27 Thread Wanda Prather
the api is configured. I normally don't do wizards, but IBM did a good job on this one. Bill Colwell Draper Lab -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:40 AM To: ADSM-L

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

2009-08-26 Thread Wanda Prather
Been there done that. Go to www.ibm.com, in the search window put: *1390301* ** That says what you need to do to get the problem fixed. What it omits to say, is that you must be logged in with the DB2 userid when you do it. ** On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Stefan Folkerts

Re: Administrative roles in the ISC 6.1 ISC

2009-08-25 Thread Wanda Prather
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:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:13 AM

Re: Large disk concerns/alternatives ?

2009-08-24 Thread Wanda Prather
Sumthin' wrong with those numbers. If you have a GigE pipe, you should be able to send 70-80 MB/sec. thats 400+ MB/min, 240+ GB per hour, 4+ TB in 24 hours. So, either - your clients are having performance issues with their own disks - maybe you have compression or something else slowing down

Administrative roles in the ISC 6.1 ISC

2009-08-22 Thread Wanda Prather
Can somebody point me to doc on the definitions for authority roles for administrative users in the new 6.1 ISC? The choices are numerous: Administrator,Operator, Configurator,Monitor,Deployer,adminsecuritymanager,

WIn32 6.1.0 client and PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE

2009-08-18 Thread Wanda Prather
The Win2K 32bit 6.1.0 client config wizard on 3 clean installs (machines that have never had a client before) did not put PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE into the newly created dsm.opt file. Doesn't seem to be in the fix list for 6.1.0.2. Anybody else run into this? Got a workaround other than

Re: ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

2009-08-17 Thread Wanda Prather
The big difference between using TSM library/client architecture vs. letting the TS3500/ALMS do it, is whether you want to share DRIVES between TSM instances. If you just use ALMS partitioning, drives have to belong to one library partition/TSM instance or the other at any given point in time.

Re: db availability for DR

2009-08-13 Thread Wanda Prather
I've forgotten what hardware platform you have, so modify the suggestions based on what you have available; I have different customers using different means; several things work. Just remember to TEST the results at your DR site. And now matter what your method, it's going to depend on having

Re: TSM for Windows 2008 CLuster

2009-08-13 Thread Wanda Prather
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27016259 There is a link to download the .ppt and a link to replay the audio/vido. W On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Yudi Darmadi y...@niagaprima.com wrote: Dear TSM'ers I want to set up a TSM Scheduler Service for TDP Exchange in a

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-08-06 Thread Wanda Prather
=practice customers who've done this! I hope they lurk here, read this and make the change. Thank you! -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal www.tsmworks.com 919-403-8260 lind...@tsmworks.com On Jul 24, 2009, at Jul 24, 8:34 AM, Wanda Prather wrote: Here's adding my 2c

Re: Backup Stgpool using 2 drives taking too long

2009-08-03 Thread Wanda Prather
Ditto what everybody else said- can be lots of things. But I've seen this behavior at exactly ONE customer with LTO4 drives in a TS3310. 2-drive processes would sometimes take hours. No errors recorded anywhere, just very, very slow. Peering through the TS3310 window, I could see (with

Re: TSM server crash

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
If your server is down, I strongly recommend you open a severity 1 call to Tivoli Support. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM, ashish sharma ashishsharm...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, MY TSM server has crashed.This is my library Manager also for 8 Client TSM servers.Can anyone give me the step by

Thumbs up/down for a new install for TSM 6.1 on Windows?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
Looking for opinions... I'm about to install a TSM server for a new customer who has never had TSM before. Very standard TSM config - - Plenty powerful Windows host - 100 mostly windows clients, back up to diskpool, migrate to 3592 tape drives, copy to 3592 tape and vault. - 2 TB of

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM creates the checksum and saves it in the DB. To detect a problem, you then need to run an AUDIT on the volumes. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Skylar Thompson skyl...@u.washington.eduwrote: Michael Glad wrote: A quick

Fwd: [ADSM-L] Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
a huge environment, and I didn't monitor the DB closely. But I didn't notice any impact on the DB size. And it's certainly easy to implement. W On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Skylar Thompson skyl...@u.washington.eduwrote: Wanda Prather wrote: My understanding of the function is that if you

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
Oh, so it's stored with the data. My mistake, good to know. No impact on the DB at all! On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Michael Glad g...@cs.au.dk wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Wanda Prather wrote: My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM creates

TSM Fastback for Windows VM's....

2009-07-30 Thread Wanda Prather
Anybody implemented Fastback for Windows VMWare guests? Am I correct that it would eliminate the need to use VCB? If Fastback can do full system restores (aka BMR on a physical machine) I wouldn't need to create fullvm snapshots of the guests, right? Anybody tried a Fastback full system restore

Re: raw backup with TSM

2009-07-28 Thread Wanda Prather
In TSM you can do an image backup, at the filesystem (unix) or drive(Windows) level. Check the client manual. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ashish sharma ashishsharm...@gmail.comwrote: By raw backup, i mean physical disks like /dev/dsba, /dev/sdbb... On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM,

Re: TSM gui

2009-07-25 Thread Wanda Prather
I agree, the 6.1 Admin Center is genuinely better than previous releases. BUT for the command-line pop-up java window. The problem isn't the queries, it's the java window processing it. I usually keep the AC open for configuration, and an admin command line open for On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at

Re: TSM gui

2009-07-25 Thread Wanda Prather
I agree, the 6.1 Admin Center is genuinely better than previous releases. EXCEPT for the command-line pop-up java window. The problem isn't the queries, it's the java window processing it. I usually keep an AC window open for configuration tasks, and an admin command line open for queries.

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-07-24 Thread Wanda Prather
Here's adding my 2c to the confusion: I agree with Lindsay; setting DOMAIN D: is dangerous, because that way all you get is D:, and if someone adds an E: drive later, it will be skipped. So I recommend using Bill's notation: Domain ALL-LOCAL -C: or Domain ALL-LOCAL Domain -C: Domain

Re: TS3200 library encryption

2009-07-22 Thread Wanda Prather
Neil, This is from the TS3200 setup and operator guide: The LTO Ultrium 4 Tape Drive supports host Application Managed Encryption (AME), Library Managed Encryption (LME), and System Managed Encryption (SME), using T10 encryption methods, for SAS and Fibre Channel drives only. Data encryption is

Re: How to move data between 2 nodes (1 decomissioned/1new)

2009-07-16 Thread Wanda Prather
The easiest way, before you start backing up the new server, rename the node and filespaces in TSM to the new server and filespace names. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Alexander Födisch foedi...@eva.mpg.dewrote: Hi, are there the same filespaces (mountpoints) on the new server? Then there

Re: VTL setups

2009-07-15 Thread Wanda Prather
Well, in theory you would need as many tape drives defined as you have concurrent backups running at any one time (plus any drives needed for background processes, but you want to avoid background processes that use the VTL during the busiest part of your backup window if you can). However,

Re: VSS: Unexpected error calling routine MoveFileExW on Win2k3 Client

2009-07-14 Thread Wanda Prather
If this is a systemstate backup error, it's not surprising. Even with all the MS patches on, and with VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS showing no error, you'll occasionally have issues with VSS doing system state backups. It will either clear up on its own, or you'll have to schedule a reboot to make it go

Re: Archive to scratch tape

2009-07-14 Thread Wanda Prather
Whatever tape pool you are writing to, update any volumes in FILLING status to ACCESS=READONLY. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi list, How can I tell TSM to put the data in a SCRATCH tape in a Archive operation, either from the client or from a

Re: Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries...

2009-07-10 Thread Wanda Prather
Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 Original Message Subject: [ADSM-L] Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries... From: Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com Date: Thu, July 09, 2009 8:33 pm To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: SV: Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries...

2009-07-10 Thread Wanda Prather
Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] f#246;r Wanda Prather [wprat...@jasi.com] Skickat: den 10 juli 2009 03:33 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

  1   2   3   4   >