TDP warning

2002-01-02 Thread Gianni Garda
Happy new year TSMers, I have this warning when I start a SAP backup. Warning: Can not open the message-catalog 'backintv3.cat'. Make sure that you have the correct $NLSPATH and $LANG environment settings and that the 'backintv3.cat' file is installed in the correct place. Now we use the

Linux support.

2002-01-02 Thread Pothula S Paparao
anyone using TSM client 4.1.x on Linux Red Hat 7.2 to backup filesystems and Databases on TSM 4.1.2 running on AIX. Does TSM support Red Hat Linux 7.2. Thanks and regards sree.

Re: Linux support.

2002-01-02 Thread Koen Willems
Dear Sree, We use redhat 7.2 for My SQL, Apache and as a filer, We installed TSM 4.2. and it works fine. Do not forget to stop and start databases when jou want to have a clean back-up of the database. Greetz, Koen. "Every brilliant

Re: Restore error message

2002-01-02 Thread Remco Post
Hi, Did you maybe change te compression settings on this client? If so, change them back to be able to restore these files... Help on a restore. I have a unix admin who sent me this message: That's right, I'm not yet sure if I really have a problem, but on 95% of the files I'm restoring

WinNT Defrag and TSM Volume

2002-01-02 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Hi all, First of all, I whish you a happy new year. Does anybody has already perform and Win2000 Defrag disk on a TSM Server ?. My database file containt about 100K Fragments (Info coming from Win2K Server Mgmt). In a general way could we defrag using (W2K Defrag) any kind of TSM Volumes (DB,

Re: WinNT Defrag and TSM Volume

2002-01-02 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Eric! W2K defrag will be finished very quickly. Defrag performs defragmentation on the file level. Since your logvolume contains just one file (the TSM recovery log file) there isn't much to defragmentize. Same goes for the storage pool volumes. A TSM database defrag utility is something on

Re: TDP warning

2002-01-02 Thread Jolley, Bill
Make sure file backintv3.cat resides in /usr/lib/nls/msg/en_US and /usr/lib/nls/msg/En_US. -Original Message- From: Gianni Garda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 3:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP warning Happy new year TSMers, I have this warning

Re: TDP for MSSQL

2002-01-02 Thread Del Hoobler
Our TDP for MSSQL backup is failing.. this is a newly installed clustered win2k server.. I'm not sure whats happening here. I see the one error below in sqlsched.log but would that cause it to hang? It seems to hang and not complete it's backup. At 7:30 it giving up and marks it as failed.

Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Henrik Hansson
Hello, Just need some advice to push me in the right direction. I am currently running ADSM 3.1 (stoneage I know) with a IBM3570 Magstar. We have bought TSM version 4.2 and IBM3583 that I will install. What would the advice be to upgrade the old version of ADSM or to make a complete new

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Juan Manuel Lspez
Both systema are very diferent, so I would do a new installation. The other cuestion: Yes, you can run several tsm servers on the same network, please read the information about enterprise server on TSM guide 4.2 Good luck! Juanma.

Re: Please Explain (again)

2002-01-02 Thread Miles Purdy
Ok I found the summary info: START_TIME: 2002-01-02 03:00:14.00 END_TIME: 2002-01-02 03:00:54.00 ACTIVITY: BACKUP ENTITY: UNXR EXAMINED: 234 BYTES: 16321897 START_TIME: 2002-01-02 03:00:21.00 END_TIME: 2002-01-02 04:20:10.00 ACTIVITY: BACKUP ENTITY: UNXR

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Upgrade or new install depends on whether you need any of your old backup data or not. Typically when I do an ADSM to TSM upgrade (I am in the midst of one now for a customer) I do a combination of an upgrade and a new install. What I mean by that is that I save the ADSM/TSM database and

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Bazuin R. (Ronald)
Hello, I suggest an new install. The database engines in version 3.1 are very bad. So you will have an bad performance when you upgrade to 4.2. It is possible but not recommended. For the second question you'll need to reed the manuals. I think it is possible. The installations wil be in

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
How to run multiple TSM Server on 1 machine: - create a new directory for the dsmserv.opt - copy and adjust the dsmserv.opt - format and initialize new db and log volumes - DSMSERV_DIR environment variable points to server executable directory - Make sure TCPPORT (1502) and HTTPPORT (1582) are

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Bazuin R. (Ronald)
Hendrik, So maybe you should upgrade first an then start an second TSM-server. Then migrate all your servers to the second one an finally delete the old tsm-server. Ronald Bazuin Fortis Insurrance NL -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Jeff Bach
You may need to also define a seperate scratch and private category for the new ADSM server. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Bazuin R. (Ronald) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade or new install??

FW: WinNT Defrag and TSM Volume

2002-01-02 Thread Scott, Brian
Eric, The closest thing out there is the UNLOAD/LOAD command for the database. I did that for a 10GB database with 72 million objects and the performance enhancement was incredible. But Eric van Loon is right... a defrag for the database volume would be nice. Happy New Year! Brian Scott EDS -

WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?

2002-01-02 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Hi Happy new year to u all. Can u pl help me with this question. I have seen sometimes Idlewait time keeps incrementing in spite of client getting backed up. Thanks in advance. tsm: TSMquery session Sess Comm. Sess Wait Bytes Bytes Sess Platform Client Name Number Method State

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
When we upgraded our server a year and a half ago, we also upgraded our Tivoli from ADSM Ver. 3.1X to TSM Ver. 3.7X The method we chose was: 1. Performed a fresh install of Ver. 3.7 to the new server from the CD, and applied the latest PTF. 2. Set up database volumes, log volumes, defined the

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?

2002-01-02 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
-BALANAND- Session 2,763 is the Producer session which remains in an Idlewait state because it obtains a list of file information from the TSM server for the files that have previously been backed up for this client and places them in memory on the client machine. It places this list of files in

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?

2002-01-02 Thread Pavan, Ron
I believe your answer would be that your idle session is your Hunter session. This is the process that is scanning the files for which ones to backup. This session finished scanning but the data mover session is still transferring data. The idle session is waiting for the data mover to finish

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?

2002-01-02 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
This is because the server is waiting on the client to respond to the last request for data. During this time the client is not sending data to the server. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?(reply)

2002-01-02 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
But I see that recv data gets incremented .That's the surprise ? Then why was data getting geting xfered. -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?

Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Denis L'Huillier
Hello- I am having a memory problem. I am runnning AIX 4.3.2 on a H50. TSM is the only application running on the server. When I run vmstat I get the following... kthr memory page faultscpu - --- ---

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?(reply)

2002-01-02 Thread Andrew Raibeck
The idle wait applies to session 2763, while the bytes received applies to session 2764. These are two separate/independent sessions, so there is no direct relationship between what happens on one session and what happens on the other session. However, there is an *indirect* relationship. Based

unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Joe Cascanette
Happy new year all... I was freeing up some tapes today and noticed the unreadable bytes number was not zero. Is there any way to determine what files had a problem. The move data's are completing successfully according to the act log. Thanks Joe Cascanette The Cumis Group Limited Server -

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Have you tried tsm q content volname f=d ? -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unreadable bytes Happy new year all... I was freeing up some tapes today and noticed the unreadable

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
I also found a VERY old APAR which sounds similiar: APAR= PQ06541 SER=IN INCORROUT QUERY PROC SHOWS NUMBER OF UNREADABLE BYTES 0 BUT 10 FOR TAPE TO TAPE MIGRATION Status: CLOSED Closed: 07/18/97 Apar Information: RCOMP= 565511901

Bare metal restore Instructions on SGI ???

2002-01-02 Thread Keith Kwiatek
what does everyone else do for bare metal restores on SGI? Keith - Original Message - From: Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: Re: TSM 4.2 dsmc errors on irix 6.5 client. Yeah, I caught that. I do not know of a way to

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Joe Cascanette
I tried it, however it does not show what files had problems moving to another tape. -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unreadable bytes Have you tried tsm q content

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Kelly Lipp
I've seen this for a couple of versions. I'm a bad boy in that I have not reported it. I think there is some slight bug when a move data starts: a counter is not being zeroed as it should be before the processing starts. As long as the number of unreadable files stays zero I believe you're OK.

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Bill Mansfield
The pi and po columns are pretty normal for AIX, since it uses memory for I/O buffer space. The SR to FR ratio is what you look at for memory overcommitment. You start to work when the ratio is 5 or more. The only outlier is the wait I/O which is very high and should be fixed as Richard

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Joe Cascanette
Yep seen that one too, but the bytes are around 140,000,000 (140 megs!), but the move data is still showing completed successfully. I have opened a call just to make sure.. Joe -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
I'd trust more experienced help, but here are my thoughts . . . pi + po indicate you are constantly paging. This probably means you need more memory, but could be caused by aggressive aix filesystem caching. If so, vmtune can help limit filesystem caching. Your cpu is hardly being hit. us +

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Hi Pl use crush to solve memory leak problems. CPU utilization problems CAN BE ELIMINATED WITH ps aux cmd because its the application. Use TOPAS cmd also which is GUI tool . Balanand -Original Message- From: Denis L'Huillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Denis, I think your using too much memory for file caching. Here's why: a couple of things: your box is out of 'real' memory, 'fre' column. ignore 'r' and 'b', for now any number in the pi and po columns are bad The 'sr' search column is how many pages in the list where searched before 'fr'

Server media mount not possible

2002-01-02 Thread Ronald Palm
Hello, Can anyone help me with this error. Receiving ANS1312E Server media mount not possible while running backups. The error is intermittent, not receiving it on all backups. I am currently running TSM 4.1.3.0 and the client is 4.1.0.0. We are backing up straight to tape, and all drives are

FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME

2002-01-02 Thread Mike Crawford
Good Afternoon, A client is having trouble locating archived files using dsmc q ar. The problem seems to be that the filespace_name and hl_names differ between the files, even though they were archived from the same place. Server: AIX, ADSM v3.1 Client: SunOS, ADSM v3.1 An example: select

Re: FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME

2002-01-02 Thread Vo An Nguyen/Quebec/IBM
Hello Mike, In UNIX, a filespace for ADSM is a filesystem. So in this case, it looks like the /work is the filespace unless you have mapped a directory like /work/data as a nfs at the time of the backup or perhaps you have used the client option virtualmountpoint. Hope this helps. Regards, Vo

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

2002-01-02 Thread Vo An Nguyen/Quebec/IBM
Hello Tom, Are these sessions created by the admin command line or by the web? This could be caused by the APAR IC30203: ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND-LINE SESSIONS MAY HANG ON THE TSM SERVER IF THE SESSIONS ARE CANCELLED WHILE AWAITING SERVER RESPONSE The APAR is fixed in the 4.1.5.0 server

Re: Bare metal restore Instructions on SGI ???

2002-01-02 Thread Wayne T. Smith
On 2 Jan 2002 at 14:29, Keith Kwiatek wrote, in part: what does everyone else do for bare metal restores on SGI? Bare metal restores? I walk the beach, enjoy the sunsets... What? Oh. You didn't mean St. George Island, FL? Never mind. (sorry) Happy New Year to all, wayne Wayne T. Smith

Re: moving data between pools

2002-01-02 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
If the volume is a database backup, Export, or scratch tape that was checked in as private, it will not show using a q vol. Check your volume history file to see if it shows up there. -Original Message- From: Marc Levitan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002

Re: WHy Idle wait keeps incrementing?(reply)

2002-01-02 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
What I wanted to know was is it is normal for idle session to scan which is doing nothing for 3hrs. And still I see data xfer on recv state session. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cluster setup

2002-01-02 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I'm working on setting this up on a new cluster. The redbook that Tivoli directed me to is a bit out of date. I can tell because when I tried to install the first service it gave errors of missing options. Maybe someone can help me a bit on this. The cluter name is CP-ITS-SQLCL01 the node names

Re: unreadable bytes

2002-01-02 Thread Neil Schofield
Kelly I've seen this for a couple of versions. I'm a bad boy in that I have not reported it. I think there is some slight bug when a move data starts: a counter is not being zeroed as it should be before the processing starts. As long as the number of unreadable files stays zero I believe

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Anderson F. Nobre
Hi Denis, It's too early to determine if you need a memory upgrade. First let's analyze the situation... At first look your CPU seems to be overcommited because the idle column is about 11%. But if you sum the columns user and system it's about 23%. This is your real CPU utilization, so it's too

Re: Server media mount not possible

2002-01-02 Thread TAZ
Does the backup complete after logging the ANS1312E error msg? If so has the backup been tested by restore? Any intermittent issues when backing up the Database? Sam. - Original Message - From: Ronald Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:05