Dan, It looks like you're going to have a very, very fun time. Your 3.1.2.50 version of ADSM is way backlevel and out of support. I don't even know if the documentation is still available for it. Maybe someone on the list has it. Anyway, I highly suggest calling your Tivoli representative, or if you don't have one, Tivoli, to find out what your options are to get to a supported level. You will most likely have to buy the new base level (3.7, 4.1, or 4.2) so you can apply maintenance to it. The support web site is http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.
Maintenance levels live at http://www.tivoli.com/ ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance Patches live at ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches TCPWIndow/Solaris, Sorry, don't know The "exclude.dir /opt/foo" should be good enough. If you want it to scan the directory, "exclude /opt/foo/.../*" will scan it, but exclude everything. Remember, it reads this list from bottom up to match, so the following _will_ backup /opt/foo/foo2/importantfile. exclude /opt/foo/.../* include /.../importantfile Server name - set servername NAME (help set servername) Paging - I haven't been able to get that to work, so anything I don't want paged I generally run command line and comma or tab delimit. dsmadmc -id=id -password=password -comma -out=myoutfile query filespace f=d dsmadmc -id=id -password=password -tab -out=myoutfile query filespace f=d Potentially helpful tip/pointer/summary-of-all-knowledge site, thanks to Richard: http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts Good luck. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need some ADSM pointers Howdy - I'm a new ADSM admin, but not new to the world of backups or system administration with about 10 years of in-depth admin experience and having done some very basic work with ADSM in the past, as well as Legato Networker, BRU, tar, dump, etc. Know my way around AIX pretty well. I've effectively inherited a setup from the previous ADSM administrator who was pretty good but now I have some questions and just need some pointers. (And he's no longer here.) Current ADSM server version is 3.1 Level 2.50 on an AIX 4.3.3 ML09 machine. * Where can I find documentation pertaining to my version of ADSM server? All I have right now is literally a big README file which seems more geared toward listing changes or new features rather than describing server functionality and options. Any PDF files? Web sites? Text files? * Where do I obtain latest ADSM and TSM server and client fixes? Is there a FTP or WWW site? * Is there a way on Solaris boxes to adjust sliding windows? TCPWINDOW doesn't seem to work in dsm.sys on the Solaris-based clients. * What's the appropriate way to exclude a directory and everything under it? Currently, I have this in my inclexcl file: exclude.dir /opt/foo exclude /opt/foo/* exclude /opt/foo* exclude /opt/foo/... exclude /opt/foo/.../* That seems a bit redundant ;) Trying to figure out what is required to weed out the redundant lines. * Is it possible to rename the ADSM server's name? (Not machine hostname, but its ADSM name) Or am I just out of luck short of a total reinstall? I poked around with the online help for update and rename commands, and didn't seem to see anything which makes me think I may be out of luck. * Is there any way to temporarily disable paging (ie, <ENTER> to continue) within dsmadmc when wanting to gather data for easy copy-n-paste? At least one command's output looks very poor when done in batch mode with stdout redirected to a file. Thanks for any suggestions, pointers, or information! -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
