Re: HELP!!! EMERGENCY!!!

2003-04-04 Thread Sias Dealy
Joni, I have this happen with TSM 4.1.5 on AIX. You may or may not like the answer. Stop and restart the TSM server. This is the only way to clear up the sessions. Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more

Re: server onto another server

2003-04-03 Thread Sias Dealy
Long, Its been some time since I have move the TSM server from one system to another. If I missed a step I hope someone will correct me. On source server A. Migrate all the data from the diskpool to the tapepool. Backup the database. Backup the volhist. Backup the devconfig. Backup the

Re: Dumb License Question

2003-04-01 Thread Sias Dealy
Charles, If you register the wrong license or too many license. There is not a remove or a delete license command. If you want to see this feature in future release of TSM, need to call IBM TSM Support and submit a design change request. To change the license. Need to locate the nodelock file.

Re: Problem with audit DB

2003-03-27 Thread Sias Dealy
ANR0102E asalloc.c(6428): Error 1 inserting row in table AS.Segments. This is a known error with TSM 4.1, APAR IC33270 , such that when a volume becomes emptied, not all the pointers get deleted, and an audit volume fix=yes may or may not correctly delete them either. It is a volume-related

Re: Comparison doc

2003-03-24 Thread Sias Dealy
Joseph, This is all I have. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/tivoli/library/whitepapers/ ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/tivoli/whitepapers/wp-tsm- comparing.pdf Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Sias Dealy
Matt, In my shop, we do full backups of the TSM database. That is because the TSM database will fit on one tape. When the TSM database span across two tapes, then we will be thinking about doing incremental backup of the database. Keep in mind that you can only do so many incremental backup of

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Sias Dealy
the Full+Incremental+Log chain. Look at the Administrator's Guide: A snapshot database backup is a full database backup that does not interrupt the current full and incremental backup series. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Sias Dealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Error 1711. An error occurred while writing installation information to disk

2003-03-11 Thread Sias Dealy
Lisa, Thanks for the solution. A hung msi process. Hmmm. I'll make a note of that in case it happens again. Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On, Lisa Cabanas ([EMAIL

Re: Error 1711. An error occurred while writing installation information to disk

2003-03-10 Thread Sias Dealy
Lisa, I had the same issue with the 4.1 client. I can not remember which solution solved my issue. 1. In the readme file it mentions about some value to change in the setup.ini file. 2. Run the file called instmsiw.exe that's within the directory of the TSM install files. It's going to

Re: TSM AIX server upgrade 5.1.1.0 to 5.1.6.2

2003-03-04 Thread Sias Dealy
Going from 5.1.1.0 to 5.1.6.2 you do not need to worry about the upgradedb. The nomanclature is version.release.modification.patch . If you are going from one version to another is when you would encounter the upgradedb. Technically this is suppose to happen automatically during the upgrade. For

Re: Backup Retention Question

2003-02-21 Thread Sias Dealy
If the file was backed up and if the file have not changed. The file will remain an active copy. The active copy does not expire. If you did a full backup 600+ days ago and the file have not changed. When you restore the file, it will be the original file when it was backed up 600+ days ago. It

Re: about tsm database backup problem

2003-02-20 Thread Sias Dealy
I do not know how many dbbackup volume that you want to keep or want to delete. If you only have one dbbackup volume this can not be done. This is a fail safe. Sias From the Admin Ref. Manual, here is a basic syntax. delete dbvolume todate=XX TODate (Required) Specifies the date to use to

Re: 5.1.6.2 is out

2003-02-19 Thread Sias Dealy
Geoff, I know of a company that once lay off IBM hardware and software and went with another company. The first month or so everything seem to be fine. Then the hardware started to have some problems and then everyday there was a problem with the hardware. The hardware tech practically lived in

Re: ERROR MESSAGE

2003-02-19 Thread Sias Dealy
Laura, I got the same message. I do not know if the message is related with the journal service or not. When we stop the journal service on the server, the message went away. Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more

Re: how to expire only version?

2003-02-11 Thread Sias Dealy
Tony, Are you talking about Retain Only Version that is in the copygroup setting? You can change that by issuing: update copygroup domain name policy set name class name RETOnly=# this is days I think that you can skip this step. I always activate the policy when I make changes in the policy or

Re: TSM manuals - good entry point

2003-02-03 Thread Sias Dealy
I agree! There is also a selection to BUY the manual! Ju$t another way that IBM/Tivoli can add to their bottom line! Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On, Orville Lantto

Re: PIT restore question

2003-02-03 Thread Sias Dealy
Hans, Since VEREXIST=10 is set to 10 and the rest No Limit. TSM is keeping 10 versions of the file. When the file changes again, TSM will be keeping 11 versions now. The oldest version (the 11th version) of the file will be expired. Like you said the file have been backed up more than 10 times

Re: Is upgrade DB required?

2003-01-15 Thread Sias Dealy
David, Upgrading from 4.2.1.9 to 4.2.3.0 there should be no need to issue the upgrade db command. If you were upgrading from ADSM 3.X or TSM 3.7 to TSM 4.2.X. During the upgrade the database should be automatically upgraded but sometimes this does not happen. When you start the TSM server you'll

Re: Retention policy for inactive files

2003-01-09 Thread Sias Dealy
Arthur, There is not a parameter that you can set to say all inactive files expire on this date. Here is a work around. You can set up an admin schedule to run on that specific day. You are going to have three admin schedules. 1. The first schedule is to change the verdelet, verexist, retextra,

Re: TSM backup command line

2003-01-09 Thread Sias Dealy
Bernard, I can't think of a direct way to prevent a node from performing an incr backup. Here is a work around. From the TSM server lock that node. This will prevent the node from accessing the server. Set up an two admin schedule. First schedule to unlock the node, so that schedule backup can

Does TSM Client 5.1 support Intel based Solaris 2.8 ?

2003-01-09 Thread Sias Dealy
Hello TSM'ers Does TSM Client 5.1 support Intel based Solaris 2.8 ? I remember there use to be a web page that show what operating system is supported by the TSM Server and Client. Does anyone have that link or URL? Thanks, Sias Get your own

Re: Win2K Excludes

2002-12-31 Thread Sias Dealy
Jack, This is a basic exclude that I have for my Windows system. Sias exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\* exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\* exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* exclude *:\...\ea data. sf exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys exclude

Re: BackupSet on CD?

2002-12-23 Thread Sias Dealy
Jack, On my Windows test box I have Easy CD Creator 5 with a built in program called Direct CD. This program makes the CDR act like a floppy drive. In TSM, define the drive as a removable storage. This is one way of putting the backupset on a CD. I have not tried putting a backupset on a CD but I

Re: rest dbmax and reset logmax

2002-12-20 Thread Sias Dealy
Raghu, The reset dbmax reset the maximum utilization statistic for the database. The reset logmax reset the maximum utilization statistic for the recovery log. Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more

Re: Is there a tsm client that will run on a sequent box DYNIX/ptx(R) V4.4.4

2002-12-18 Thread Sias Dealy
Dwight, No, your not going blind. There is no TSM client that will run on DYNIX/ptx. Here is the URL that shows what platform are supported by TSM http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr/platforms.html Sias Get your own 800 number

Re: Audit db

2002-12-13 Thread Sias Dealy
Mario, Audit library is to check the server library volume inventory consistance with the volumes that are located in an automated library. Since you do not have an automated library, the audit library will not work. I have heard some horror story about auditdb. I do not know if TSM 5.1 have

Re: Client COMMAND schedule weirdness

2002-12-13 Thread Sias Dealy
Zoltan, I have a test box with Windows 2000 running TSM 4.2.2.0 . When I use the Web Admin. I can set up a schedule with out any problem. It is when I update the schedule through the Web Admin. It looks like the update took but when I look at the schedule again nothing have changed. Funny thing,

Re: version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

2002-12-09 Thread Sias Dealy
Greetings! If you installed TSM 5.1.5.0, the code from the ftp site. The code will work for about 60-90 days. After this time in the actlog there will be a message about the code not being license. To get the license code. You have to buy TSM 5.1.0.0 and then install just the license

Re: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same server?

2002-12-09 Thread Sias Dealy
George, There is nothing wrong with TSM clients on AIX, Solaris, Windowns, Mac., or Novell backing up to one TSM server. There is one thing that need to be kept in mind. What is the client growth rate? How many clients are you going to be adding in the next 6 months to a year? How many clients

Re: aix client installation

2002-12-06 Thread Sias Dealy
Thomas, Have you thought about using the nohup command? nohup dsmc sched /dev/null 21 /dev/null I have a file called tsmsched with the above command. I the inittab have something like this: tsm::once:/usr/bin/tsmsched I can't remember but with AIX 4.3 or 4.2 there was an issue with the

Re: Library Full

2002-12-04 Thread Sias Dealy
Raghu, I had a simular issue with TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3, with 3575 Tape Library. This is what I did. Re-create the library in TSM: - checkout libvols remove=no - delete library - create library - checkin libv On another simular box I had the same issue but this time the issue was solved when I

Re: AW: TSM updates

2002-12-04 Thread Sias Dealy
Hello! I was able to get to the ftp sits without any problem (knock on wood). I agree with Thomas, check your firewall and make sure that the port is not blocked. Are you able to reach the ftp site on another machine? Here are some mirrored site. When I can't access the service.boulder or

Re: Réf. : Upgrade ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2

2002-12-02 Thread Sias Dealy
Eric, One way to migrate the clients from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 . On the client, in the dsm.sys file, change the serveraddress that is pointing to the ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 . Since the system with TSM 4.2 is not aware of the client, when the client does its first backup to the TSM 4.2 it will be a

Re: IBM ftp site down?

2002-11-27 Thread Sias Dealy
Ken, I can get to the ftp site with IE, Netscape and CuteFTP. Here are some mirrored sites that I have bookmarked in case I can not get to the main ftp site. You may find some old ADSM/TSM code in addition to the latest code. ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de(mirror - Germany) ftp.wu-wien.ac.at

Re: netware client on aix tsm server

2002-11-21 Thread Sias Dealy
Michelle, Sometime ago, I think that someone mention on this board that TSM stop supporting IPXSPX communication. I want to say that TSM 4.1 was the last version that could use IPXSPX. I could be wrong on this. I know that for TSM 4.2 the valid communication method is HTTP, TCPIP, SNMP and

Re: ANS1025E Session rejected: Authentication failur

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
Reginald, If the password for the node is updated on the TSM server. Check the dsm.opt file on the client. Do you have passwordaccess generate or password password? If you have passwordaccess generate, just start up the client and issue some command like q fi or q session where the client will

Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
Murali, To increase the storage pool, need to define a volume to that storage pool. define volume pool name /path/volume name formatsize=# The formatsize value is in megabytes and you only have to put a number. If you get a message that the diskpool is out of storage, check the actlog to see

Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
was created through the Device Configuration wizard on the Server GUI. Thanks -murali From: Sias Dealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:02:13 -0500

Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
/tag On, murali ramaswamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I am not mapping a drive. I added the IP address in the field while creating the NODE for the other machine. Thanks -murali From: Sias Dealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: murali ramaswamy [EMAIL

Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
server and client on my machine and a client on another machine in network that I want to backup. Thanks - murali From: Sias Dealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM Date: Tue, 19

Re: TSM skipping some local drives

2002-11-19 Thread Sias Dealy
Dave, Your right that domain all-local is the default. Since you are able to backup the local drive manually but not via the schedul. I would check the permission for the schedule service to see if it have the proper permission to access the local drive. I had a simular issue about a year ago.

Re: TSMV3.7 AND ADSM V3.1

2002-11-14 Thread Sias Dealy
Thando, Could you be a little more clear. Are you using an ADSM 3.1 client that is backing up to a TSM 3.7 server? Are you trying to restore a TSM 3.7 data base to an ADSM 3.1 server? Also what operating system are we talking about? Sias Dealy

Re: Seeking 3.7.5 -gt; 5.1 upgrade advice..

2002-11-12 Thread Sias Dealy
TSM'er I agree with Wanda. Stick with plan A. When migrating from TSM 3.7.X to 5.1.X, the data base should be upgrade during the migration. When you try to start the dsmserv process and you recieve an error message complaining about the database, then issue the dsmserv upgradedb command. You can

Re: Upgrade Server 4.1.4 -gt; 4.2.3

2002-11-12 Thread Sias Dealy
down the message. I ended up uninstalling TSM. Then install TSM 4.2 and restore the data base. My brain seem to have a memory leak. I can't remember if we uninstall TSM and then did a fresh install of 4.2 on AIX. I would check the readme file. Sias Dealy

Re: Server AIX vs NT

2002-11-11 Thread Sias Dealy
does not act like the way it should, I reboot the NT box and this clear things up. Then again some one else may not experience the amount of reboots as I have with the NT. Also I don't suppose any one know if there is a TSM server for Linux? Sias Dealy

Re: TSM cost cutting measures...

2002-11-11 Thread Sias Dealy
to convince my company to get VMware. We save money by not getting another system for testing purpose. I have multiple virtual test/training machines. Sias Dealy Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag

Re: restore to diff. client

2002-11-07 Thread Sias Dealy
Michelle, If both of the TSM client are the same version and on the same operating system, Unix. You can use the -virtualnodename parameter. On client B, where you want to do the restore. You can issue the following: dsmc restore -virtualnodename=Client A node name source filespace target file

Re: restore to diff. client

2002-11-07 Thread Sias Dealy
one client to another. Sias Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On, Charles F. Fisher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:04:03AM -0500, Sias Dealy wrote

Re: TSM Tech support not responding as quickly!

2002-06-01 Thread Sias Dealy
Zlatko, I forgot that this list-serv is global. For some reason in the US, the support center is not taking live calls any more. The tech are now calling the customer back. I got so use to talking to a tech right away. When the support for TSM 3.7 expire last October, but my support contract

TSM Tech support not responding as quickly!

2002-05-31 Thread Sias Dealy
I was wondering why TSM tech support was taking a long time to respond. Someone gave the following URL: http://www.ibmemployee.com/ Sias __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Re: Always full backup !!!! Please help

2002-05-20 Thread Sias Dealy
Robert, On the ADSM/TSM server check the copygroup. There is a parameter call 'mode' if this is set to 'absolute' all your backups will be full. Need to change this to 'modified.' Sias --- Robert Ouzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a Netware 5 with tivoli backup client 5.1.0.0 every

Re: Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??

2002-05-16 Thread Sias Dealy
If the operating system is not listed at the following URL, the operating system is not supported. http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-enterprise/platforms.html Sias --- rachida elouaraini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's an urgent question, thank you very much for giving me

Re: Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??

2002-05-16 Thread Sias Dealy
Since OS Unicos is not listed at the following URL http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-enterprise/platforms.html The answer is no. Sias Dealy --- rachida elouaraini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's an urgent question, thank you very much for giving me an answer. I would

Re: Is there a 5.1 client for Solaris?

2002-05-16 Thread Sias Dealy
If you are looking for 5.1 client code for the Solaris you can get it at the following: ftp://service.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/ Under the patches direcotry are just correction and the code are not fully tested. Sias --- Bern Ruelas [EMAIL

Re: Where does one get gzip ?

2002-05-09 Thread Sias Dealy
You can also get gzip at http://www.gzip.org Sias --- Mahesh Tailor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download from http://www.bull.de/pub/. These applications here are precompiled for the various versions of AIX. Select the AIX version from the left side panel. Mahesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I omitt files from being backed up for one time only?

2002-02-25 Thread Sias Dealy
Opps! I sent my reply to the directly to mrkirra2001 rather than to the listserv. The only way that I can think of to achive this is to have two nodes. Node A backing up everything else but the directory. Node B excluding everything but the directory. Sais

Re: Identifying client schedule mode.

2002-01-24 Thread Sias Dealy
Jon, Bad news, you can not see what the schedmode for the client on the server. Because the parameter is set in the dsm.sys file (Unix) or the dsm.opt file (Windows). If you do not see the schedmode parameter in the file then the default is being used. I believe the default is polling. Sias

Re: Which tape is the DBBACKUP?

2002-01-18 Thread Sias Dealy
To know which tape(s) contains your DBBackup. You can issue restore db preview=yes you are going to get a listing of tapes but nothing will be restored. You can also look at the volhist file, that is if you did a backup volhist. Its easier to issue restore dbbackup preview=yes to know what

Re: Laptop message

2001-12-12 Thread Sias Dealy
Orin, What is the message? And what version of the TSM client and what version is the TSM server and running on what platform? Sias Dealy --- Orin Rehorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system tries to connect via VPN. We suppose the TSM Scheduler service is trying to pick up scheduling

Re: Passwordaccess generate

2001-12-12 Thread Sias Dealy
support on this any they had me try a different password until one works. By now I think that there is a fixtest about this issue. Sias Dealy --- Tom Melton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange TSM issue concerning passwordaccess. First, the levels. TSM server is on AIX running 4.3.2

Re: copying scripts between tsm servers

2001-11-30 Thread Sias Dealy
Here is some food for thought. If we want to get a script from system A to system B. Just FTP the script and then from TSM on system B issue: run script path/script_name Sias Dealy --- Joerg Pohlmann/CanWest/IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or - set up enterprise administration between

Re: AiX client password problem

2001-11-28 Thread Sias Dealy
* PROBLEM CONCLUSION: The problem was related with an incorrect way of the password record writing. It should be written as the binary data rathe than the string. TEMPORARY FIX: Try to use another password or another node Sias Dealy --- Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive' had