TSM Performance 5.5 vs 6.2

2011-10-27 Thread Daniel Sparrman
First off, to determine if your hardware is enough, it would be useful to know the size of your envinvironment (db size, amount of daily data, total amount of data). As for 6.2 in general, the internal housekeeping of TSM is alot faster. One of the main issues for alot of people during 5.5 was

Re: FODC (First Occurrence Data Capture) dumps

2011-10-27 Thread Steven Langdale
Zoltan These are DB2 dumps. Assuming you don't need them, and by the dates you don't, they are OK to remove Steven On 25 October 2011 15:17, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I have been looking around on our servers to cleanup large/unnecessary files and came upon the

Failing cifs backup on Isilon NAS

2011-10-27 Thread Stefan Folkerts
Hi guy's, A customer of ours got themselves a new NAS system and need to make backups using the ba client (they don't want an ndmp solutions just yet). I am using a user account that can access/copy/delete data on the cifs share I am trying to backup but running a TSM backup doesn´t work. Now I

comm/idle/resource timeout values

2011-10-27 Thread Richard Rhodes
Hi Everyone, In working with support on a couple issues we've realized that we have different values for commtimeout, idletimeout, and resource timeout. We have: 2 dedicated library manager instances 7 tsm instances for BA client file backups 2 tsm instances for BIG

Re: FODC (First Occurrence Data Capture) dumps

2011-10-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the confirmation..gave me back 30GB From: Steven Langdale steven.langd...@gmail.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/27/2011 04:04 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] FODC (First Occurrence Data Capture) dumps Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

comm/idle/resource timeout values - take 2

2011-10-27 Thread Richard Rhodes
(I had the values for commtimeout and idletimeout values backwards! fixed below) Hi Everyone, In working with support on a couple issues we've realized that we have different values for commtimeout, idletimeout, and resource timeout. We have: 2 dedicated library manager instances

Re: Failing cifs backup on Isilon NAS

2011-10-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
Can you backup over NFS instead? We do that for our Isilon clusters and it works surprisingly well. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine On

Re: comm/idle/resource timeout values - take 2

2011-10-27 Thread Remco Post
Hi Richard, which version of TSM are you running? In some version (6.3 ???) of TSM the SCSI reservation method changed. SO if you mix various levels, you might find yourself in trouble, of if you don't set the SCSI reservation key correctly. Also, there is a bug in TSM 5.5.2 and lower for NDMP

Re: comm/idle/resource timeout values - take 2

2011-10-27 Thread Richard Rhodes
We are: all tsm servers are v5.5.2 storage agents are v5.5.1 and v5.4.1(being upgraded to v551) We do not have any NAS/NDMP backups. We found one possible cause of a reservation conflicts - we had one of the TSM instances with a device class with mount wait 0 Every other instance has

Can you restore a SystemState backup when you have the HP OpenView problem?

2011-10-27 Thread Lindsay Morris
Hi, all. I have a customer running the 6.2.2.2 client on Windows boxes that have HP OpenView installed. (See APAR IC72446, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC72446 .) As the APAR says, they see a lot of dsmsched.log messages like this: ANS1417W Protected system state file