How do I backup symbolic file ?

2001-04-16 Thread 321 880053
I want to backup symbolic file on UNIX . How do I do to make it work ? for example: /home/explink /data/ /data is a directory I want to backup /data/*.* when I execute the command: dsmc inc -subdir=yes /home/ Otherwiles , if I create new symbolic in /homeI,for

Re: Exclude List for NT 4.0

2001-04-16 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
be carefull Don, the show inclexcl lists top-down ! R. Lambelet, Nestl Vevey -Original Message- From: France, Don G (Pace) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vendredi, 13. avril 2001 23:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exclude List for NT 4.0 Check your clientopts... or,

Re: Library audit

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
try running an inventory on the library itself... if the tape(s) are actually outside the atl, this will update the info you see with the "mtlib" command. ALSO you need to note the status with which the tapes show up in the output of the "mtlib" command... if they show up with a FFFA that is a

Database Size

2001-04-16 Thread Marco Supino
Hello. I would like to know from some of you what is the Database size, and how many pages does it contain ? i want to see if my Database is not normal by size. Thanks. Marco. begin:vcard n:Supino;Marco tel;cell:972-54-983653 tel;fax:972-9-9509118 tel;work:972-9-9708721 x-mozilla-html:FALSE

Re: Can not checkout the tape through scheduled job

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
some tasks are just not allowed to run through the scheduler... If you must, you could set up a ksh script that would perform a dsmadmc -id=blah -pass=blah CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME LIB0 TSK071 CHECKLABEL=NO FORCE=NO REMOVE=NO and run it from cron on the tsm server... -Original Message-

Re: ADSM database backup to a file.

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Uhm I might just have to put me together a sun box try this... Dwight -Original Message- From: France, Don G (Pace) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM database backup to a file. There are specific-path

Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please

2001-04-16 Thread Palmadesso Jack
One of our older ADSM servers DB hit 98% over the weekend. I am putting together a proceedure to grow its DB. As far as I can tell these are the steps I need to take. First here is the hardware and software levels. RS6k F30 ADSM 3.1.2 level 40 (has been running smooth as silk for

Client restore requires multiple tapes from OVL location

2001-04-16 Thread Anton Gubarkov
Dear colleges, I need to restore a server and I suppose it requires many media mounts. (I cannot afford collocation because I have only 13 slot library). How can I estimate what volumes are needed for this restore to check them in from overflow location before the restore starts and asks me for

Re: Question on del volhist

2001-04-16 Thread Glenn MacIntosh
Wanda, The issue that I THINK I have, is that I am using scratch tapes for all pools (copypools as well). Are your copypools private or scratch ?What I think happens, is that when a DR tape becomes empty (through expiration/reclamation), and changes from VAULT to VAULTRETRIEVE, that

Re: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OOOPPPSss with raw logical volumes you can't run dsmfmt against them... you just do a define dbvol define dbcopy with the /dev/rblah I've used raw volumes in the past for db log vols, that works... now though, I tend to go ahead and use JFS files for db log and raws

Re: Database Size

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I have 9 production AIX TSM servers, here are my numbers... as you see they vary greatly, so my favorite answer applies here "It depends" (that is, I don't think anything can be called "normal") hope this helps later, Dwight Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used

Re: AIX Gurus.. .Help Needed..

2001-04-16 Thread Shawn Raymond
How about an oslevel -q ? -- Shawn Raymond Sr. Technical Consultant Synergy, Inc. 518-782-3457 Shekhar

file name too long when?

2001-04-16 Thread Andy Raibeck
APAR IC27346 discusses this problem. This was fixed in an earlier 3.7.2.x patch, and the permanent fix went in to the 4.1.1.0 (and later) versions. I recommend that customers use either 3.7.2.19 or 4.1.2.12. I have included the text of the APAR below. Note that in the "RECOMMENDATION" section of

Re: Library audit

2001-04-16 Thread David Longo
If your actlog goes back that far, I would search the actlog for those volume numbers and see what the sequence of events was with them. With out IBM 3575 Library the operators soemntimes get in a hurry when processing out the DRM offsite tapes and issue a reply before they have emptied the

Re: Can not checkout the tape through scheduled job

2001-04-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
Some admin commands are not allowed for scheduling as admin schedules. However, you CAN schedule a RUN command that executes a TSM server script. . So if you put your CHECKOUT command in a named TSM server script, you should be able to schedule the script as "run scriptname". I schedule my

Library audit (AGAIN)

2001-04-16 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
This is truly a surprise to find this happening so soon after the problem I listed last week. That one I still haven't fixed. The first problem is tapes in the library: U00288 0064 00 10 00 U01063 0064 00 10 00 U01076 0064 00 10 00 U01077 0064 00 10 00 that are supposed to be in the vault,

Re: Question on del volhist

2001-04-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Glenn, Yes, all my tapes, primary and copy pools, are managed as SCRATCH. When a DR/copy pool tape becomes empty through reclamation, if is a stgpool tape and you have a REUSEDELAY set on the stgpool, it first becomes PENDING. It's DRM status is still VAULT. It stays in PENDING state for

Re: Should LOADDB take this long?

2001-04-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
There was a bug that caused TSM to hang coming up at "Recovery log mount in progress". And it just never comes up. I know it hit the NT server and AIX server at 3.7.2, and was fixed in 3.7.4. Not sure about OS/390, but check into it. I expect you need to upgrade to 3.7.4, or you will be

Re: Should LOADDB take this long?

2001-04-16 Thread Thomas Denier
Quoting William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TSM 3.7.3.0 running on OS/390 2.9 Last night our automated processes to shut the system down didn't take into account that TSM would take a few extra minutes to halt due to reclamation running. The automation script ended up taking TCPIP and

Re: file name too long when?

2001-04-16 Thread Short, Anne
Sorry, Andy, but you've just confused me. Per the "TSM Manager for Windows Using the Backup-Archive Client" manual, in Chapter 8 - Setting Common Options: - LANGUAGE - AMENG (American English) is the default - USEUNICODEFILENAMES - NO is the default So how can the statement in the APAR text

Re: TDP for Domino problems with TSM server?

2001-04-16 Thread William Degli-Angeli
TDP for Domino should not abend the TSM server no matter the level(s). Are you sure the abend was not caused by the volume errors? You may want to pursue this via the normal service stream... Thanks, Bill William Degli-Angeli IGS TDP Development Endicott, NY (607) 752-6749 Internet

Re: move a tape library between servers

2001-04-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
No, you can't do either: move the library with it's data to the new server, nor move the database of the old server to the new without destroying data. You could run two instances of TSM on the new server: one talking to your new hardware and the other talking to the old. However, in this setup,

Re: file name too long when?

2001-04-16 Thread Andy Raibeck
Anne, the book that is wrong. See APAR IC29922. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked." "Short, Anne" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/16/2001 08:18:20 AM

Re: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please

2001-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
actually you should be able to vary offline a storage volume... if you have clients currently accessing your server (pushing data) the proper way to set a stg volume to readonly so you may move data off it and delete it would be vary offline some_stg_vol upd some_stg_vol acc=reado vary online

Re: Library audit (AGAIN)

2001-04-16 Thread Maria Paz Gimeno
You can find the mtlib command in the following book: IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device Drivers: IBM_scsi_tape_iug.pdf from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/ Regards Maria

Tape Library errors

2001-04-16 Thread Long Nguyen
Has anyone ran across these errors??? The errors re-generate when a process tries to access it. Thanks. 04/16/01 07:47:08 ANR8300E I/O error on library AUTOLIB (OP=C0106C03, CC=315, KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0D, SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.00.00.0D.00.00.00.00.3B.0D.00.00.00- .00.3B.0D.00.,

Re: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please

2001-04-16 Thread Palmadesso Jack
Thanks to everybody who helped out today. The Db extend went great and was actually quicker than doing this with a jfs file system because you don't have to do a dsmfmt. Here are the steps I took: chose 2 stg vols on different disks. made sure no sessions or processes were active that could

Re: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please

2001-04-16 Thread Lindsay Morris
TSM development recommedns using JFS, not raw - but Jack's right, it sure is quiker using raw. Anybody have a summary of the pros and cons? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Palmadesso Jack Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 4:36 PM To:

LAN Free Backup to Diskpool

2001-04-16 Thread Bill Mansfield
Does anybody know whether it is/will be possible to do LAN Free backup to a server diskpool? The disk pool in question is SAN attached to the TSM server, and the SAN could be extended to the client. Also, when will the Backup/Archive clients for NT, AIX, etc be enabled for LAN Free?

Re: Autosys and ADSM???

2001-04-16 Thread PETER GRIFFIN
Have at look at Control M from BMC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/13/01 01:43am We currently have Autosys scheduling a series of ADSM backups or Oracle databases as well as numerous batch jobs all of which are running on AIX client mahines on an SP system. The Autosys server currently resides on a

Re: move a tape library between servers

2001-04-16 Thread Davidson, Becky
We did this moving from an SP Node to an S7A on AIX. We had the database on external disk so we did a database backup, shut everything down, varyed off the disk with the log and db on it. Ftped the other important files. Cabled the disk to the new machine, imported the adsm volume groups and

Re: Restoring AIX (was Restoring Linux and Solaris)

2001-04-16 Thread Steve Harris
Nice try Ray. I'm aware of your product, and I've passed details to a local var, so that he can include it in an upcoming tender. This being govrnment that won't be complete for at least 6 months. Regards Steve. Ray Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/04/2001 6:06:50 Steve, I work for The

Error in NT Event Log of ADSM server

2001-04-16 Thread Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST)
Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea what these errors from NT event log of adsm server? The description for Event ID ( 7 ) in Source ( AdsmScsi ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): \Device\mt0.0.0.5. The description for Event ID ( 11 ) in Source ( AdsmScsi )

ADSM/TSM Admin pay scale

2001-04-16 Thread Dwight Wood
Hi everyone, I have searched the archives and found only a few postings about the pay scale of ADSM/TSM Admins. But I didn't see any numbers out there in the reply responses. So I am hoping that everyone out there can assist me with this one. I have been working with ADSM for 2 1/2 years, the

Re: ADSM/TSM Admin pay scale

2001-04-16 Thread Suad Musovich
Have a look at: http://adsmsalarysurvey.8m.com/ Cheers, Suad -- On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:56:47PM -0700, Dwight Wood wrote: Hi everyone, I have searched the archives and found only a few postings about the pay scale of ADSM/TSM Admins. But I didn't see any numbers out there in the