Re: passwordaccess generate

2002-05-29 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, you are hit by the 0 byte password bug... Your encrypted password is stored in a file. If the encrypted password contains a 0 byte than some TSM clients are not able to handle this. This bug is fixed in the newer clients. Bye Rainer Tammer Tivoli: = DCF Document ID: 1049593 -

AW: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Luscombe John (HS)
Burak, As far as I understand it, the reclamation of offsite copy pool carts is not a DRM function, reclamation is a standard part of TSM where a new tape is produced locally that consolidates the carts offsite that are partly full. The thing that DRM does for you is to manage the movement of

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Salak Juraj
nice configuration, but there is a point with unprotected disks to be tested: I used this configuration under NT4 and tried to pull out one of the unprotected disks out. While this would probably cause no harm to TSM, the operating system itself froze completly (for hours, so not an I/O time-out

Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jane Bamberger I had that problem with expiration - my mail server kept pinning the process - When it finally ran to completion it took 4-5 days, and expired 16M files. Which goes to show that you simply *must* run a

SNMP vs. SCRIPT

2002-05-29 Thread Ha Filip
Hello all, can somebody help me? I have problem with snmp, I cannot use defined own script I can see some information with command: # snmpinfo -v -md ibmAdsm but command doesn't work: # snmpinfo -v -ms ibmAdsmServerScript1.1=q_db_util noSuchName at position 0 - with result 255 return code

How to export 2 nodes with 1 filespace each on only 1 tape

2002-05-29 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, we have to create 1 tape, containing exported data from 2 different nodes. For each node we need only one of the file spaces. Let say we want fsid 1 from node_1 and fsid 12 from node_2 I tried export node node_1,node_2 fsid=1,12 filedata=backupactive devclass=class_name It seems that

Re: AW: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Burak Demircan
So you mean that FILLING carts can be reclaimed when they are offsite? regards, Burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29.05.2002 11:50 Please respond to ADSM-L                 To:    

Re: TSM monitored by TME

2002-05-29 Thread Ran Harel
Nice to have some partners out there But I am talking about the hard way... Rules, man, Rules... Suppose you get a message like a hundred times - connection refusal or something like that. I don't want my operators to get lost in the forest... I am trying to write some. Will share when I'm

Re: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Ran Harel
Hi. Try move data when the backup volume is stiil out of the lib. I didn't try that, but I think it should use the original copy of files same as with reclaimation. Ran. -Original Message- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:49 AM To: [EMAIL

AW: AW: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Luscombe John (HS)
Yes, as far as I understand it. TSM knows what files are on each tape offsite. When expiration is run, some of those datasets become obsolete, so the space on the tape becomes free. When you run reclamation on the copy storage pool with a certain % value, TSM actually uses the primary storage

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
... I rather NOT use RAID-5 for TSM disk pool volumes... Why pay the penalty for calc writing parity when you don't expect to read it more than once?!? This data is so transient (in general, it exists for less than 48 hours) it's not worth sacrificing ANY performance -- we really want to

BACKUP to TAPE, PERFORMANCE

2002-05-29 Thread Francisco Molero
Hi everybody, My question is simple. We are running selective backup through Gigabit, and my STGpool is 3590 Tape Pool. I want to know, how many Gigabytes you backup per hour?? For bigger files I get a 52 GByte/hour. And I think these is very slow. This test is only 1 client and no other

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Quick answer - only one big volume. OK. I will start my thoughts on the subject with single drive example. Which is better for single drive - one volume occupying the whole disk or several files/raw devices defined as DISK volumes? Remember: disk devclass has nothing to do with mount points and

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Salak Juraj
Zlatko, Write rate for RAID 5 is (note) again N times faster than single disk speed but decreases with penalty for recalculation if parity (highly controller dependent) Often this calculation is not correct, since raid-5 will be written in blocks which are typically larger than the size of

Re: How to export 2 nodes with 1 filespace each on only 1 tape

2002-05-29 Thread Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS]
Hi IF i am right the command is as per the help you need to type the following : export node node_1,node_2 filespace=fsid1,fsid12 devc=class_name Thks Sean Ramnarayan EDS (South Africa) -Original Message- From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

Library Device shows nothing TSM Srv 4.2.2.0

2002-05-29 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I just noticed that my Device: in my q libr shows nothing for TSM Srv 4.2.2.0 ? (under AIX 4.3.3) I even updated the library to try to put it in, in case it got lost ??? This really SUCKS ! at least it is still written to the devconfig file... anyone else noticed this ? I mail myself

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Paul Zarnowski
I'm curious if anyone feels that the new AIXDIRECTIO option in TSM 5.1 affects their opinions about how to utilize disk for storage pools. TSM 5.1 also has an Async I/O option (AIX). For more info, refer to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246554.pdf, starting at about page 107.

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Juraj, I completely agree with you. But this is argument against RAID 5. The question is: if we accept presence of RAID 5 as a fact how to proceed further. Read-before-write penalty can be mitigated by tuning blocksize. OTOH TSM is using big writes and this should not pose so big problem for

Re: AW: AW: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread David Longo
Yes. I have used this a lot and that is the way it works. Offsite tapes do not have to be FULL to be reclaimed. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/29/02 05:11AM Yes, as far as I understand it. TSM knows what files are on each tape offsite. When expiration is run, some of those datasets

SQL statement

2002-05-29 Thread Bernard Rosenbloom
I have an immediate need to create a list of all my registered nodes and the storage pool(s) each node backs up to. I know almost nothing about creating an SQL statement so if anyone can assist, I would appreciate it very much. Thank You Bernard Rosenbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Raw Logical Volumes Mystery

2002-05-29 Thread Maura Adams
Hi folks, As part of our TSM installation process (almost two years ago) we set up raw logical volumes for our backup disk pool and archive disk pool. Two weeks ago we installed fiber optic connections to our IBM Shark and everything looked okay after the outage. An hour later we lost our

delete specific data.

2002-05-29 Thread Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ITDSES31
Hi fellow specialists, Today I have been faced with a problem that I do not know how to handle and maybe one of you can help. Someone has decided to archive 1.5 TB (oracle DB) to a management class with 5 years retention period. Some ** idea of a manager. What has happened is that that archive

Mirror Recovery Log DB with RAID-5

2002-05-29 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello! The environment at my company is that we have Hitachi RAID-5 and I was wondering why I need to mirror the DB and recovery log if we have this technology implemented. Does anyone have justification for this? Thanks Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tapes inaccessible after recovery log full

2002-05-29 Thread Steven Bridge
A couple of reclamations were in progress at the time the recovery log became full. These processes were cancelled and client sessions failed and the recovery log recovered itself. The 2 tapes that were being written now seem to be inaccessible for 'move data' or client restore. I tried updating

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Gianluca Mariani1
I agree with what Zlatko and Juraj are saying. I just want to add that in disk subsystems such as ESS that do use RAID5 a lot of care has gone into the introduction of cache destaging algorithms that mitigate the write penalty. that is, writes are held in cache until they can be destaged

Re: BACKUP to TAPE, PERFORMANCE

2002-05-29 Thread Gianluca Perilli
HI Francisco, as far as I know the maximun native throughput of a 3590 drive is 12 MB/s. If you want something to refer to as a rule of thumb,these are the performance of the 3590 library: (Embedded image moved to file: pic19254.pcx) so you can check if you are having good performance in

Re: Library Device shows nothing TSM Srv 4.2.2.0

2002-05-29 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Hmm, I'm at Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.9. Interesting, eh? tsm: TSM_HQ_1q libr Library Name: MODOT3494A Library Type: 349X Device: /dev/lmcp0 Private Category: 300 Scratch Category: 301 External Manager: Shared: Yes LanFree:

Re: Unload/Loaddb Question: what happens after a little time pass es

2002-05-29 Thread Scott, Brian
Andrew, We've run the unload on both Wintel and Sun based TSM backup servers that were about 15 - 20GB in size and 80 - 90% utilized. Our expiration process went from 2 hours to 30 minutes and so far our benefits are good for about a year. We had the Lotus Notes Connect Agent eating up a ton our

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Don France
Zlatko, I can appreciate your imaginary situation; my comments were directed at the typical scenario for incremental backup data, which is easily recovered on the next night's cycle. This is another reason there is no single, correct answer to the question. Every situation requires one to

Re: passwordaccess generate

2002-05-29 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
hi, we solve that using a password beginning with a digit: instead of DDNAME10 , use 0DDNAME1 for the password, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Central Support Center 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43 7+41'21'924'28'88 * K4-117

Re: SQL statement

2002-05-29 Thread Joel Fuhrman
search www.adsm.org and will find hundreds of SQL examples. On Wed, 29 May 2002, Bernard Rosenbloom wrote: I have an immediate need to create a list of all my registered nodes and the storage pool(s) each node backs up to. I know almost nothing about creating an SQL statement so if anyone

Re: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Burak. The Admin Guide, in Chapter 9, Managing Storage Pools and Volumes, the section Reclaiming Space in Sequential Access Storage Pools Reclamation for Copy Storage Pools Reclamation for Offsite Volumes explains what happens. It's on page 156 of my Admin Guide 4.2 for AIX. It basically

Re: unwanted restores

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burak Demircan My copy pool operation continues during the day and if a server administrator starts the restore without informing me, the backup stg operation stops. How can I get an environment that all backup schedules

Re: Include/Excludes revisited - again, for the 5.x client systemobje ct

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Just for the sake of argument, I also tried - in the local DSM.OPT file, Exclude ?:\...\*.dll Exclude ?:\...\*.exe EXCLUDE.FILE ?:\...\*.dll EXCLUDE.FILE ?:\...\*.exe None of which will apparently exclude

q actlog

2002-05-29 Thread Ruksana Siddiqui
Simple question: if I do q actlog and give date 14th may it gets me actlog from 20th may so it's keeping only 2 weeks old. Where do I have to look if I need 4 weeks old log - a flat file may be ! can someone help me. WIth regards CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and

Re: about DRM

2002-05-29 Thread Burak Demircan
Hi Alex, This is the answer what I am looking for. I also noticed the admin's guide reclamation pages. Thank you very much Regards, Burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30.05.2002 02:06 Please respond to ADSM-L