Re: Upgrade TSM 4.1 to TSM 5.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ??

2004-07-19 Thread Gordon Woodward
Jesse, I don't use AIX sorry so can't help you there but Paul Zarnowski talked about his upgrade back in February which sounds similar to yours. Checkout the following link for more info: http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0402/236.html Hope it helps. Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support

Using multiple client interfaces

2004-07-19 Thread Cheese Machine
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can offer any advise about the following:- We have a single TSM server with a gigabit interface. (x.x.1.102) The major backup client is a Solaris machine running four Lotus Domino server instances, each instance allocated it's own port on a quad ethernet card.

Operational reporting

2004-07-19 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Hi, TSM server 5.2.2.5 on Win2k . I repeatadly get this error from Operational reporting at the same time every day (almost... 3 out of 5 days.) Application popup: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library : Runtime Error! Program: C:\xyz\UTILS\tsm\console\tsmreptsvc.exe This application has

Re: Operational reporting

2004-07-19 Thread Muhammad Sadat
Hi Henrik, Eventhough I never encountered such problem, but it sounds like something about APIs. Try installing BA Client again, the APIs of which are also used while we are talking to TSM. Operational reporting is normally installed on machines other than TSM server, check to see if that other

Re: Using multiple client interfaces

2004-07-19 Thread Richard Sims
I wonder if anyone can offer any advise about the following:- We have a single TSM server with a gigabit interface. (x.x.1.102) The major backup client is a Solaris machine running four Lotus Domino server instances, each instance allocated it's own port on a quad ethernet card. We have four

txnbytelimit lto2

2004-07-19 Thread Joni Moyer
Hey Everyone! I have been looking into tuning client and server parameters for when I move to an AIX 5.2 TSM server at 5.2.2.5. I noticed that in an environment with LTO2, the clients txnbytelimit should be 2097152. Is the TSM Performance and Tuning Guide correct? Thanks!

RES: txnbytelimit lto2

2004-07-19 Thread Paul van Dongen
Hello all, I usually don't use this number, since I have a lot of retries due to changing files and so on, and I would have a huge amount of re-transmitted files. However, I've been testing (with LTO1, but I will do it again with LTO2) and found out that you should not set this to a number

Re: Upgrade TSM 4.1 to TSM 5.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ??

2004-07-19 Thread Lawrence Clark
5.1 will run on AIX; but I don't believe 5.2 will... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/19/2004 2:07:27 AM Jesse, I don't use AIX sorry so can't help you there but Paul Zarnowski talked about his upgrade back in February which sounds similar to yours. Checkout the following link for more info:

Re: RES: txnbytelimit lto2

2004-07-19 Thread TSM_User
We have found success using: txnbytelimit2097152 *Use for LTO, DLT and 9940 drives. We use txnbytelimit 25600 * Use for 9840 and 3590 Paul van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I usually don't use this number, since I have a lot of retries due to changing files and so on,

Re: RES: txnbytelimit lto2

2004-07-19 Thread Joni Moyer
Ok. Thanks! It's nice to hear that people are successfully using these parameters! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] TSM_User [EMAIL

Win2k, tsm client 5.2.2.0, ANR0444W all over the place

2004-07-19 Thread MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Hello, I am runing TSM 5.1.8.1 server on z/OS. We have many WIN2K servers that just had their TSM client code updated to 5.2.2.0. from 5.1.6.x. Many of them are getting the following messages. Allong with a lot of the server being backed up correctly. I thought I had seen a discussion on

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread asr
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was another management requirement that all production servers be backed up in full once per year and that snapshot be kept forever - there is no reasoning with this, its one of those stupid mandates that applies to

Database tapes

2004-07-19 Thread Mark Heynes
Guy's Can someone tell me the easiest way to copy a database tape and then delete the record of it from TSM. What I'm after is creating a copy of the database so that we can test some recovery procedures off site but want to be able to just wipe the tape at the end rather than return

Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I was wondering if anyone was multiplexing backups to a single tape. Recently I attended a Veritas class, our other new backup system, (yes I did ask to stay completely with TSM) and they really touted this as what seemed like a very good means of backup. Unless you have the newer faster

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Some considerations for long-term archive: - Much of today's data, as it is used from day to day, exists in some product-specific format. If you were to retrieve that data, say, 10 years from now, would you have software capable of reading that data? - Even if you archive the software, will

Re: Database tapes

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
delete vol VOLUMEID discarddata=yes should handle it. ... -Original Message- From: Mark Heynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database tapes Guy's Can someone tell me the easiest way to copy a database tape and

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Shannon Bach
For us, it is the beginning of the Sarbanes-Oxley overhaul. I ask those same questions to people all over my company and their response? Well you (me) had better make sure that the data moves with whatever new Technoloogy comes in! They don't care if we have the software capable of reading this

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. I was wondering if anyone was multiplexing backups to a single tape. Recently I attended a Veritas class, our other new backup system, (yes I did ask to stay completely with TSM) and they really touted this

Re: Database tapes

2004-07-19 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Heynes Guy's Careful. There are some highly capable *women* on this mailing list as well. Can someone tell me the easiest way to copy a database tape and then delete the record of it from TSM. Just let your

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
My info is old, but my guess it hasn't changed much since I used to work for a VAR and we sold both TSM and Veritas NetBackup: Veritas multiplexes blocks from various backup clients on the tapes when this is being done. It works, and is very effective. They basically used a hacked version of

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
I havn't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, it looks like we need to have a good business best efforts to keep readable for whatever retention period we publicize. In working with older tape technology in storing archive tapes, we found that 20% of the tapes were not

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
For us, it is the beginning of the Sarbanes-Oxley overhaul. I ask those same questions to people all over my company and their response? Well you (me) had better make sure that the data moves with whatever new Technology comes in! My personal (not necessarily that of IBM's) opinion: this

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I haven't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, it looks like we need to have a good business best efforts to keep readable for whatever retention period we publicize. In working with older tape technology in storing archive tapes, we found that 20% of the tapes were not

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Bill Boyer
The new release of NetBackup 5.0 has disk backup capabilities. They call is a DSSU...Disk something Staging Unit. Backups can be directed to the DSSU and are then de-staged to tape by the media server as time permits. It is also cache'd on the DSSU, just like CACHE=YES on a storage pool. I don't

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Mike Bantz
In our case, this is going to be used to back up and archive file servers - NOT operating systems. As for how to read/use the data, here's the directory structure: \\toaster\is\documentation - contains docs, for instance \\toaster\installs - contains setup files for all apps used in our

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Dale Jolliff
Speaking from having just moved from a client that for some bizarre reason thought that moving from TSM to Veritas would be a good move, I can assure you that you don't want to be part of that train wreck. Just the crippling administrivia alone will give you permanent migraines. God help you if

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Kauffman, Tom
As someone who has migrated from Burroughs Medium Systems (B3900) to Honeywell (DPS-8) to IBM (4381, 3090, 9672 - MVS, MVS-XA, MVS-ESA) to IBM RS/6000, I have to agree with Andrew. Any long-term archiving mandated by the business MUST include archiving of the data in an UNLOADED format - either

LANFree backups in MSCS environment

2004-07-19 Thread Bill Boyer
Anyone out there using LANFree backups with clusters? The environment is SQLServer in an ACTIVE-ACTIVE configuration. It's already configured with the B/A client on each node and the TDP SQL agent scheduler service as a cluster resource. If I add the storage agent to each node, up and running not

RES: LANFree backups in MSCS environment

2004-07-19 Thread Paul van Dongen
That is the way I usually configure it. Works fine. Paul Gondim van Dongen MCSE IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2 VANguard - Value Added Network guardians http://www.vanguard-it.com.br +55 81 3225-0353 -Mensagem original- De: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
IMHO, if you must move from TSM to Veritas NetBackup, (typically a bureaucratic or economic reason, not technically based) just start using NetBackup and stop using TSM. Then keep TSM running on a 'warm' server, and test restores and migtating from tape to tape occasionally. You can pretty much

Re: Database tapes

2004-07-19 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack delete vol VOLUMEID discarddata=yes Er...no. A DELETE VOLUME command will not get rid of database backups. Only a DELETE VOLHISTORY will. -- Mark Stapleton

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Harris
Thanks for your input Andy, yes these are all valid points. The requirement that we have is to be able to go back to the time of a decision and have available all pertinent information so that the same decision could be made again. I don't know who the optimist was who wrote the requirement,

TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-19 Thread CORP Rick Willmore
Hello All, I wanted some input concerning TSM's DR module and its capabilities. I used BMR many years ago as a DR solution and was planning on using it with TSM. I am currently working with a Veritas Backup Exec guy who is touting the IDR agent that Veritas has and was wondering what my

Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-19 Thread Muhammad Sadat
Hi J, TSM's DR is primarily concerned with the TSM server restore in case it crashes. TSM is certified by Cristie BMR solution (www.cristie.co.uk) and is capable of same features that Veritas IDR provides. Kind Regards, Muhammad SaDaT Anwar Product Specialist Systems Management Data Management