AW: Incremental DBbackups

2001-04-25 Thread sal Salak Juraj
No. That´s why I perform incremental db backups to a disk (on another server). regards juraj salak -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 22:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Incremental DBbackups Hello all, A qu

Re: Server out of data storage space

2001-04-25 Thread ABDULSALAM ABDULLA
Ya, stg is set much higher. Thanks, Salam > -Original Message- > From: Chibois, Herve [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Server out of data storage space > Importance: High > > Hi Abdu > > Ok you have scrat

Re: Server out of data storage space

2001-04-25 Thread Chibois, Herve
Hi Abdu Ok you have scratch tapes, but does your STG have the permissions to allocate one more ? Check the MAXSCRATCH param for your sequential STG. rv > -Message d'origine- > De : ABDULSALAM ABDULLA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : jeudi 26 avril 2001 07:47 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clean Archdirectories

2001-04-25 Thread Bert Moonen
Hello, can anybody tell me how I get rid off duplicate archive directory's. I wanted to use the clean archdir command, but I think i don't use the right syntax. When I enter the command on the server; CLEAN ARCHDIR nodename then I get ONE OR MORE PARAMATERS ARE MISSING. What is the right syntax

Server out of data storage space

2001-04-25 Thread ABDULSALAM ABDULLA
Why it's giving [Server out of data storage space] error and skipping for some files. I have more than 8 tapes as scratches. Surprisingly the next schedule went through with no problem!! Appreciate your help, Salam Followings are the type of messages I'm getting 04/25/01 12:57:28 Normal File

David Browne/Louisville/Humana is out of the office.

2001-04-25 Thread David Browne.
I will be out of the office starting 04/25/2001 and will not return until 04/30/2001. I will respond to your message as soon as I return.

What needs to be done - HP TCP/IP tuning when converting from ATM the GB ethernet

2001-04-25 Thread PETER GRIFFIN
The network between a HP client and a SUN server was recently changed from ATM to GB ethernet. Since that conversion the rate of transfer for the backups has become ridiculously slow. We have yet to prove that the change of network topology is the cause though it is the obvious place to sta

Re: Reducing/compressing the database

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Stapleton
"Thomas A. La Porte" wrote: > Is anybody else a little bit distressed that Tivoli's TSM > administrator needs to seek this advice from the list, rather > than from the developers of the product? I think I've read just about enough whining in this thread about how Tivoli 'distresses' people by not

Re: Sams Vantage??

2001-04-25 Thread Stephen Mackereth
Hi Joe, We run it but its not very good. it not as good as TDS (Tivoli Decision Support) for TSM, which can be configured to retrieve different information from the TSM Server. we have outstanding issues with sams where it will just lock up, blue screen or stop collecting information from TSM, w

Re: Help me please !!!

2001-04-25 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
This is one of those "classic" situations where you just gotta listen to elevator music... call Tivoli for support. It may be as simple as upgrade to a module (there's been some history of problems with the dsmperf.dll, could be you just have a down-level version, due to the sequence of your up

Re: Archive retention

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Harris
Ok, so the implication here is that there should be multiple Archive management classes named for say each application, rather than a single set on Archmcs for all applications. I currently have set up arch_1y, arch_9m, arch_6m, arch_3m etc if anyone archives something to say arch_1Y and then w

Re: Incremental DBbackups

2001-04-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
No. Each DB backup, full or incremental, starts a new tape. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Incremental DBbackups Hello all, A question about incremental DBbackups. If I run 10

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
We have been discovering, on a somewhat infrequent basis, tapes that go physically to read-only onthe tab in our 3494. And yet each time I can produce logs that show the file was written on since the last time the robot door was opened/closed. In other words I can only believe that the tab is m

Migrating

2001-04-25 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Hello all again, It's come to my attention that the lease on out RS/6000 will end next May. While it's still early and I have time I'd like to get some suggestions. I'm currently on an H50, but obviously will be upgrading to something else. Does anyone know what kind of migration path I should ta

Re: exporting nodes

2001-04-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
I have. I exported some ADSM 2.? users on VM then binary ftp to aix then imported there on a 3.1 ADSM and it worked!! but they were small 1 to 2 gig users. the critical point is to be sure its a binary ftp. ...joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any top

Re: exporting nodes

2001-04-25 Thread Sam Schrage
Joe, I've done this but never with the amount of data you mention. It's rather simple to set up.Set up a device w/DEVTYPE=FILE. When you EXPORT to this device it creates a file(in our case with a mainframe hi-lev-qualifier of ADSM) and then I ftp it to my other server, /tmp directory, and

exporting nodes

2001-04-25 Thread Joseph Dawes
Has anyone ever exported a node to a file(disk) instead of tape? I'm moving about 700 gig of data. joe

backup performance

2001-04-25 Thread Phillip Guan
Hi all, We did a selective backup to test performance. The environment is: TSM server 3.7.3.0 SUN TSM Client 3.7.2.0 Network 100Mb Ethernet Test data size 17MB. Here is the result: Final Detailed Instrumentation statistics Elapsed time: 7.873 sec Section

Incremental DBbackups

2001-04-25 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Hello all, A question about incremental DBbackups. If I run 10 incremental backups on the database per day will they all be written to the same tape, provided there is room, as long as the tape remains in the library? Thanks for the info, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Qualls, Ted
If the tape is experiencing 'excessive media failures', meaning that the tape can possibly be damaged, it will continue to change status of said tape into 'readonly' state (write protected). Larry Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/25/2001 02:06 PM Please respond to "A

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Have you checked the write-protect settings on the physical media? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/25/01 03:06PM >>> What determines if a tape is write protected? Had discovered that tape were in a status of Private but not being used. I updated the volume and placed in scratch but when TSM attempts

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Alex-WAT011
The tape has a physical write protect mechanism. On 3490s there's a thumbwheel on the tape and if you turn it until the flat surface shows, then it's write protected. Other types of tapes such as 8mm Exabytes may have break-off tabs like those on music cassettes. Also check the access of the t

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
What type of tape? The "write protected" error is because someone has physically flipped the write-protect tab on the tape cartridge. But the tab is in a different place depending on the tape type... -Original Message- From: Larry Way [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25,

Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Larry Way
What determines if a tape is write protected? Had discovered that tape were in a status of Private but not being used. I updated the volume and placed in scratch but when TSM attempts to use as scratch he says that the volume is write protected ? Can't explain why this is happening... Larry

Re: Rebinding archive to management class

2001-04-25 Thread Jeff Bach
make the management class the data has been archived with not the default management class, then make a new default management class. Then change the retention as needed. Jeff Bach > -Original Message- > From: Boireau, Eric (MED) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Re: Rebinding archive to management class

2001-04-25 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Try to do an export of the node and those tape you will kept then 730 days. It is not very useful for restore but it will works I think Regards, Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global

Re: Rebinding archive to management class

2001-04-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I think you are on the right track by using the "grace" retention period. To insure that will work right, I'd set up a domain with say a default archive of a couple of days, archive some data and then roll that node over into this "new" domain and wait a week and view things to ensure the data wil

Re: Anyone have any SQL ideas for these stats?

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Schaub
Paul, I recently needed this same info, so I wrote a Rexx program to take the results of a TSM SQL command and use the data to graphically plot tape drive utilization for all drives across a given span of time. Although we use Aix for our TSM server, the Rexx program runs on our OS/390 mainfr

Rebinding archive to management class

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I know its not possible to rebind previously archived files to a new management class, but I want to try it anyway. My customer has been using the default management class when archiving in the past, but wants to increase the retention period from 180 to 730 days. I can't do th

Re: Help me please !!!

2001-04-25 Thread David Longo
One thing I know about from 3.1 that will cause problems on 3.7 and 4.1 for a CLIENT is the FSTYPES in dsm.opt. This is no longer used and will cause a DR. Watson. I think there maybe one or 2 other obsolete variables that can cause problem. Probably as a Server also. David B. Longo System

Re: Anyone have any SQL ideas for these stats?

2001-04-25 Thread Alex Paschal
Paul, I tried: dsmadmc -id=id -pa=password -comma -out=x:\tempdir\mountlog.mount q act begind=-1 endd=-1 begint=00:00 endt=23:59 msg=8337 dsmadmc -id=id -pa=password -comma -out=x:\tempdir\mountlog.dismount q act begind=-1 endd=-1 begint=00:00 endt=23:59 msg=8468 I then opened both files with Ex

Re: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Uh I would "guess" so... I don't run raid configurations but the install manual (that I wired from) doesn't put any stipulations on the use. I ran in the "higher availability configuration for years, then with all the dasd additions I've ended up going back to straight single cards (since I've

Help me please !!!

2001-04-25 Thread Claudio Cofre Caro
Hi , About 3 weeks ago we made the upgrade from ADSM 3.1.2.90 to TSM Server 4.1.3 on a Win NT 4.0 - Build 1381: SP6. The Server is a IBM Netfinity 5500 with 2 procs: 0: x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~398 Mhz 1: x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2 GenuineInte

Re: Runaway CPU

2001-04-25 Thread Michael Oski
We, as well have experienced this. I have an environment I can occasionally test issues out on and did some research on browsers running on MacOS X and Solaris. Not sure if other platforms experience the same problems with the same browsers, but FYI this is what I found: The correct behavior can

Re: Anyone have any SQL ideas for these stats?

2001-04-25 Thread paul baines
This is cool. But only works in 4.1.x (4.1.2.0) and not in 3.7.3.0 for me. And most of my servers are still 3.7. >This might get you some useful information >from TSM about tape mounting activity: > >tsm> select * from summary where activity='TAPE MOUNT' >START_TIME: 2001-03-26 00:01:00.

Re: not able to contact client

2001-04-25 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
HI Pl see the mannual to set up clients. there is an example u need to start the service also. I think it adsmutil cmd. BALANAND PINNI. PHONE 314-206-5911. EM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PG:1-800-451-6897. -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25,

Re: not able to contact client

2001-04-25 Thread David Longo
Have you set up a TSM "scheduler service" on the NT client and is it running? This has to happen for server to contact client to start schedule. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321

not able to contact client

2001-04-25 Thread Leijnse, Finn F SSI-ISES-21
hello all, I have several NT servers (with different TSM client versions 3.1 and 3.7) for which the backup server is not able to prompt them to start the backup. What happens is that the client can push a filesystem backup to the server so the network is OK and the client is known to the TSM serv

Re: Advice

2001-04-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
SURE ! We use two (or more) subnets in most of our tsm servers... always best to have minimal hops. Our larger clients have multiple interface cards (to multiple subnets) also... We run with a production network for user traffic and a backup network (for backups) On some of the clients we have to

Re: Anyone have any SQL ideas for these stats?

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew Glanville
From: Matthew Glanville This might get you some useful information from TSM about tape mounting activity: tsm> select * from summary where activity='TAPE MOUNT' START_TIME: 2001-03-26 00:01:00.00 END_TIME: 2001-03-26 00:12:30.00 ACTIVITY: TAPE MOUNT NUMBER: 0

Re: Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status.

2001-04-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Look closely at the "q volhist t=dbb" and the libvols that show DbBackup ! you'll probably find the two lists don't match ! ! ! ! I've noticed that IF anything happens during the DB backup (that is, an abnormal termination) that the libvol is left as private with last use of DbBackup BUT the v

Re: Anyone have any SQL ideas for these stats?

2001-04-25 Thread Richard Sims
> I need to see if I can determine: > - # of mounts per individual tape drive > - drive useage - would like to be able to compare when all drives >are in use, for how long, etc, Harold - I'm not aware that TSM tracks such information; but advanced tape drives like the 3590 themsel

Re: Sams Vantage??

2001-04-25 Thread Marc Levitan
I am NOT using it, but here is more info... http://www.cai.com/products/sams/ca_vantage_tsm.htm Joseph Dawes cc: Sent by: Subject: Sams Vantage?? "ADSM: Dist S

Re: Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status.

2001-04-25 Thread Talafous, John G.
Now that you mention it... I have an open incident with the manufacturer of our tape library about mount errors during load/unload on two of the drives. To date, I have been worried about data loss and have been amazed that I am not experiencing any. Then, I notice this Well, at least the tap

Re: Error after upgrading to Tsm3.7.2

2001-04-25 Thread Richard Sims
>Has anyone seen the following error: >ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel from the user >program. >This error occured after upgrading from Adsm 3.1.8 to Tsm 3.7.2 IP21929 - >which is the latest fix level on the 3.7 code. >Where does the Space mgmt kernel extension come from -

Sams Vantage??

2001-04-25 Thread Joseph Dawes
Is anyone using this product ? And are you happy with it?? please advise, thanks joe

Re: Runaway CPU

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Schaub
Sam, We had the exact same problem - caused by Win95 or WinNT desktops accessing the TSM web admin interface using Microsoft InternetExplorer 5.0. Each login spawned at least 2 "phantom" ? sessions, and 3 or more of these would drive our AIX system to 100% and leave it there. Upgrading to IE

Error after upgrading to Tsm3.7.2

2001-04-25 Thread Christo Heuër
Hi, Has anyone seen the following error: ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel from the user program. This error occured after upgrading from Adsm 3.1.8 to Tsm 3.7.2 IP21929 - which is the latest fix level on the 3.7 code. Where does the Space mgmt kernel extension come from - A

AW: LTO Performance

2001-04-25 Thread sal Salak Juraj
Hello, from what I know about currently available tape technologies I guess that AIT-2 technology might be best for TSM, because its performance strongly relies on short search times and on short tape load/unload cycles. Tis technology seems to be reliable and durable enough as well. Can anybo

AW: Reducing/compressing the database

2001-04-25 Thread sal Salak Juraj
Shawn, with the database of this size you might evenconsider splitting it on two TSM instances. There are advantages and drawbacks coupled with that, but it works. >> - Migrate all the client nodes one by one to other machines with >> import/export.  I did it when I moved from OS/2 to NT Server,

AW: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-25 Thread sal Salak Juraj
Hi Mahes, just few thoughts: >> 1. With the RAID 5 at AIX level, should a second, synchronized copy of DB volumes is required. It had been argumented on this forum that TSM mirroring has some advantages over OS-based Raid system. Anyway, an OS-based RAID and only single database vol