Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files

Hi How do you set-up management classes for Informix backups using the Xopen API. I need to keep the Informix logical logs and the Level1 and Level0 backups for 40 days. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:23 PM

Re: TSM Client version 4.2.1

Hi Bill 4.2.1 or 4.1.2 for your client ? the RC=11 code is : dsmrc.h:#define DSM_RS_ABORT_NO_STO_SPACE_SKIP 11 Do you have enough space in all your STGs ? rv Jolley, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 2001-11-20 23:41:28 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL

Re: backing up non clustered drive

You cannot do a back-up of the system partition when configered as clusternode! In short. One dsm.opt does the cluster controlers and one dsm.opt does the cluster. So remove the clustercontroler drives from the cluster dsm.opt. DOMAIN D: Q:, whereis d: clusterdata. Its al in the readbooks.

Re: Reporting Statistics : will it work for AIX

I had gone through www.tsmmanager.com. , found that its useful for TSM on WINDOWs. is there any version like this for AIX also. regards sreekumar. William Boyer bill.boyer@ve To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rizon.net cc:

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

If it serves your needs it is good. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 20 november 2001 15:20 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: One server, two ip-addresses We have one that uses three (3). Two fast ethernet one GB.

Re: Reporting Statistics : will it work for AIX

Hi Sreekumar, I did the same as you, and asked the same question to Jan Mortensen (the guy who made this product, I believe) : it seems the collector part of his software has to be installed on a Windows system, but then it can virtually monitor any type of TSM server (inclusive AIX boxes). I

Re: backing up non clustered drive

James, When you are going to install TSM on an cluster it you should install TSM in the normal way for the non-cluster disks. So there is an dedicated service running for this disks. Then for each clusterdisk you have to make an other service in the cluster resource wich is managing that

Re: Dumb Exchange question

If you are referring to Exchange 5.5, then no. You still have to create a new server and dump the information store to it. If you are referring to Exchange 2000, then no... You need to set the retentions in Exchange 2000 to give you individual mail support (deletion) and mailbox deletion. Heads

Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

Actually, this particular node is still running ADSM 3.1.0.8! :-( If it was up to me it would already be upgraded to 4.2.1.0 but you have certain processes to follow... Thanks -Original Message- From: ORNESS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: BMR for Win2k: Use of NTBACKUP

Yes, I do think the TCO is dependent on the number of machines you have to protect, and to some extent the way you administer them. For example, if you build all your machines the same way, with the drives and partitions clearly defined (i.e. disk0 is 18 GB and it is divided into a 4 GB C: FAT32

Re: dsmfmt question

Hi Eric, I re-read TSM implementation guide Redbook a couple of minutes ago, and they don't speek about any overhead space for a data volume, what they specify is that if you want to format a db volume, then the allocated file size is always a multiple of 4 MB plus an additional 1 MB for

Re: dsmfmt question

1 MB overhead Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/21/2001 09:53:38 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist

dsmfmt question

Hi *SM-ers! I will replace my 9 Gb. SSA disks in the very near future. The new disks (36 Gb. 10.000 rpm) will have to be added to the diskpool one by one. I remember from the last time that it was quite difficult to allocate a disk file which fills the disk completely. If you have, for instance,

Does 4.2 client have to constantly back up win2000 system DLL's ?

Hello, It seems the new 4.2 client backs up the win2000 system dll's constantly even though they have not changed any way around this? Keith

Re: Reporting Statistics : will it work for AIX

I did install the TsmManager on a Windows system and used a second Windows system as viewer. Our TSM Server runs on a OS/390 system. It works fine. I am still doing some tests but it works and looks fine although I did leave some comments to Jan Mortensen that could be used to extend the

Re: dsmfmt question

Hi Eric, I experienced that it is not possible to fill the disk completly. If I had 1000MB free space, i'll be able to fill it j.l. to 981MB. Even there is some space left, if i try to make the file 985MB, it said that it is not possible. Don't ask me why Most of the times i need to keep

Re: dsmfmt question

It does require a 1MB overhead! e.g. root@ / dsmfmt -m -data /tsm/stgpool/backup1 200 AIX Server DSMFMT Extent/Volume Formatting Program Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 1997. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use,

Re: dsmfmt question

In the Admin Reference for v3.7 it says... the allocated file size is always a multiple of 4MB plus an additional 1MB ofr overhead). Don't know how much that will help answer your question. Thanks, Jon -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: dsmfmt question

For data volumes, there is no 1 MB overhead. You asked for 200 MB, and that is what you got! 200 MB * 1,048,576 Bytes/MB = 209,715,200 Bytes Isn't this the amount of space it says it allocated? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development

Re: TSM doesn't want to release licences from deleted nodes (2nd try...)

Hi *SM'ers Using TSM 4.1.3.0 on an AIX 4.3.3 system, I'm facing a little license problem: I recently found that our server was not in compliance with licensing terms, and then decided to remove some nodes that where not in use anymore. I deleted the filespaces that where associated with

Re: dsmfmt question

I just experienced this same problem this weekend when re-defining some disk storage pools. I was using the DEFINE VOLUME command instead of the DSMFMT utility. The command would fail but there would still be 408000 512-byte blocks left in the filesystem. The number of blocks left in the

TSM doesn't want to release licences from deleted nodes (2nd try...)

Hi *SM'ers Using TSM 4.1.3.0 on an AIX 4.3.3 system, I'm facing a little license problem : I recently found that our server was not in compliance with licensing terms, and then decided to remove some nodes that where not in use anymore. I deleted the filespaces that where associated with this

Re: dsmfmt question

H my Admin reference for 3.7 (and 4.2) says has the words For database and recovery log files in front of the allocated file size is always ;-) Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew

Re: TSM doesn't want to release licences from deleted nodes (2nd try...)

Arnaud, I entered 'help 2289' in the cmdline admin client, here is the result - adsm help 2289 --- ANR2289I Administrative userid admininstrator name defined for authority over node node name has not been removed.

Re: dsmfmt question

There's also the overhead of the JFS filesystem. When you create with Large File also don't use defaults, use Number of Bytes per inode of at least 32768 and this will give you a few more hundred MB of space. After FS is created, use df -k to see what you actually have available and use

Re: Which TSM client version is most stable

Hi fellow TSMers At present I am running a TSM 3.7.3.8 Server attached to 23 client (Solaris, OS/2 and NT). Most of the client are the 3.7.2.0 release. In the near future we will need to upgrade our server to be in compliance with support, but I figured it would be a good idea to upgrade

Which TSM client version is most stable

Hi fellow TSMers At present I am running a TSM 3.7.3.8 Server attached to 23 client (Solaris, OS/2 and NT). Most of the client are the 3.7.2.0 release. In the near future we will need to upgrade our server to be in compliance with support, but I figured it would be a good idea to upgrade the

Re: TSM doesn't want to release licences from deleted nodes (2nd try...)

We had the same problem Last week. We are using TSM 4.1.0.7. I did everything you did and finally called Tivoli Support. This is a known problem, The APAR for the license problem is IC30965 You need to upgrade to 4.2.1.7. We are planning to do this next monday or tuesday. Dave Pearson IS

Re: dsmfmt question

Hi Eric, For your question, the answer is: ' dsmfmt -data ' creates a XX+1MB file If your 36 GB disks are for disk pools, did you ever think about using RAW devices instead. Perfs are better because you have not the JFS overhead. In counterparse, you need to migrate you disk data everyday to

select * from events - only today's events

Am I missing something? I have Eventretention set to 90 days. I can use query event to see event data from days past. But if I use select * from events I only get events from today, no historical data. Shouldn't the Events table have previous days results in it? Thanks... Ken

Re: Reporting Statistics : will it work for AIX

For a more industrial-strength system, look at www.servergraph.com. Or click through the banner ads on www.adsm.org. (some of us actually PAY to advertise!) - Mr. Lindsay Morris Principal Applied System Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 859-253-8000 Fax:

Afiong K Oboho/Lexington/IBM is out of the office until 11/26/2001

I will be out of the office starting November 21, 2001 and will not return until November 26, 2001. I am out of the office from 11/21/2001 returning 11/26/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

Re: Tivoli Decision Support

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:39:43 -0800, it was written: Anyone using Tivoli Decision Support and how do you like it? *I* like it. The installation is non-trivial (have your dba handy), but once set up properly, it's a joy to get nicely formatted reports that you can upload to your web server and

winNT client failure

I have a 4.2.1 WinNT2000 Client that is failing it's backup with a return code of 4.. Is it just me or does it seem abnormal for the client to fail the backup simply because it failed to backup a few files that were open at the time of the backup? My understanding was that the backup would

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

PMR 64904-519-000 is now opened with Tivoli support. I also have incident #1521275 opened with Seagate CrystalCare. I'll post if/when I get answers/resolution. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck

Re: Tivoli Decision Support

Servergraph/TSM (www.servergraph.com) goes TDS one better, I think, because it not only REPORTS things, it can also AUTOMATE a lot of chores for you. And it's all web based anyway, so there's no uploading needed. I'd love to chat with you offline about pros and cons... call or write, Mark.

Re: select * from events - only today's events

Ken, Try this q ev * * begind=xx endd=today xx = how many days back do you want to go If you want to see only failures add ex=y to the end of the statement. There is also begint = begin time endt = end time Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support

Re: Does 4.2 client have to constantly back up win2000 system DLL's ?

Keith, What does your include/exclude list have set ? I'm not an NT wizard, but I believe dll(s) would fall under the system type files that I would want to exlcude, like pagefile.sys .. I exclude my Winnt dir and Program Files dir If I am not mistaken TSM will back up any file that has been

Re: Which TSM client version is most stable

I just got done going through this (because of the support issue) and went from 3.7.3.6 to 4.1.4.5. It was a snap. Upgrade took about an hour. Nothing much needed to be done except install the new code from smitty and register the new licenses. I have never had a client related support issue (am

Re: winNT client failure

It seems that as of version 4.2.1 the entire backup session is Failed if some objects fail to back up (for all client platforms). Whether it's abnormal or not is subject to debate. One advantage is that it is easier to spot files that are open during backup and take action (e.g. put them in the

TDP for SQL

Earlier I posted a question concerning TDP for SQL to restoring incrementals. The error I was getting was Waiting for SQL server while I was trying to do a restore. It turns out that the problem was that we were running MsSQL7 without any service packs. After we installed the SQL7 service pack

Re: winNT client failure

Do a search in the list archives at http://search.adsm.org/ You will see that this is a bug in 4.2.1 and is fixed in 4.2.1.15. -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: winNT client

Re: select * from events - only today's events

Gabriel, the query event part works fine, I'm able to see historical event data. It is when using select, which is more useful than query when feeding data to scripts, that I can't get history. I assume that selecting from the events table should provide the same data as using query event.

Re: winNT client failure

Gerald, That's the way it works. Veritas does the same thing, the return code is 1 though. I will give you some advice, exclude the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log , these files are written to when a backup is happening. No need for them to be backed up (my opinion) your backups

Re: winNT client failure

You probably missed all the fun a few weeks ago... :-) ...so please allow me to set the record straight. The failed status when files are skipped is a *bug* in 4.2.1.0, and there is no debate about it. This problem is documented in APAR IC31844 and fixed in patch 4.2.1.15 for the NT-based

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports) WORK AROUND

I uninstalled the 4.2.1.0 ODBC driver, and installed the previous 4.1.3.0 ODBC driver. Now things are working just fine. I'll stick with this configuration for the time being. I will update the PMR with this information to see if Tivoli would like to pursue it. Bill -Original Message-

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports) LATEST

OK, worked with Crystal and using their sample ODBC database, date/time fields display correctly. The reponse from Tivoli was less than inspiring: Start PMR Unfortunetly after further investigation the only way that I can support this type of problem is if the customer is using TDS and has

Re: winNT client failure

I noticed it too. I think it's a bug in the latest release. It never use to work that way, only on a hard failure, not files that failed to backup because they were open or changed during backup. Mark -Original Message- From: Gabriel Wiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Help please with collocation

What benefit can bring to you the copy pool collocation : - Faster restore of primary pool volume on media failure - Faster restore of a node from copy pool when primary pool volume is (again) faulty First scenario can happen more often (I think) but involves only the TSM team and is not time

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

It should also work with force-install (OVERWRITE same or newer versions in smit or -F option of installp). I am too lazy to waste time on uninstall. When I was young my mother was saying Ask a lazy man to do some work and you will get several good ideas `-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant

Re: Dumb Exchange question

Hi All I have to disagree about some things here, (not all). I run a large TSM site, Three TSM server's in production all Microsoft NT server clients etc, I like TSM, but we have removed TSM exchange backups to a product called Galaxy(Comvault), you should look at what it can do, and yes I know

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports) WORK AROUND

Backing off to the 4.1.3 ODBC driver works for me also. Hopefully I don't run into lost functionality by backing off to an older version, but for now this will work. Tivoli's first level support needs to look a little deeper at some of these reported problems before throwing up their hands.

Re: select * from events - only today's events

Even if I boost the number of hours in your select to 60, I still only get today's events. Am I correct in assuming that when I use query event the data I receive is from the events table that I'm running select against? Mahesh Tailor MTailor@CARI

Re: select * from events - only today's events

Ken: Select * from events only shows events for the current day. See http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0009/619.html for an explanation. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: select * from events - only today's events Am I missing something? I have

Re: winNT client failure

This problem has been fixed for weeks. Put on 4.2.1.15. -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: winNT client failure I have a 4.2.1 WinNT2000 Client that is failing it's backup with a

Re: dsmfmt question

In addition to the 1MB of overhead, I think you have to round down to make the file small enough to fit into the partition size. On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Malbrough, Demetrius wrote: It does require a 1MB overhead! e.g. root@ / dsmfmt -m -data /tsm/stgpool/backup1 200 AIX Server DSMFMT