HiIf Windows is everything UNIX would like to be, how come Windows has something called a blue screen? Haven't the UNIX programmers had the time to develop this yet?And, on Windows, there's a new security patch each day. Is this just to tighten security, or is it bugs? UNIX doesn't have something
I have expirience in both AIX and Windows and I would recomend to you to
have Your TSM Server in the environment you are confortable with, But.
AIX works and performs better than Windows but that´s mainly because the
Backup system was written for the AIX environment and then compiled over to
Hello fellows
I have a bit of a problem, the scenario is as follows.
We are running AIX 4.3.3 and have recently moved from ADSM 3.xx to TSM 4.2.
Attached is a IBM 3583 Ultrium tape robot.
The 3583 is working fine and I can do backups.
For my database backups I used the internal 4 mm tape
During testing i realized, that i can only restore files (with
subbackup-parts) to with i have full NT access rights. (I am working local
as administrator)
Typicaly i do not have that rights for private (pst) files.
Is this right?
Regards Stefan Holzwarth
P.S i found the testflag issue in a
Well this is not the case Daniel. I do have Unix experience. With Sun's
version of Unix before it became Solaris, SunOS, with SCO Unix, with DEC
Ultrix and another company who's no longer in business Convergent. I don't
remember what they called it. I've used X-Terminals on my desktop before
Maybe its because the DEVICE TYPE in the DEVICE CLASS and the DRIVE
DEFINITION differ ( 4MM vs GENERICTAPE) ?
Henrik Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 18.01.2002
10:51:52
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Hi TSM'ers,
i have a client with 3 associated client schedules. Now i am in the need to
define a PRESCHEDULECMD and a POSTSCHEDULECMD for one particular schedule. These
commands should not be executed before/after the other two schedules. AFAIK, the
PRESCHEDULECMD/POSTSCHEDULECMD entries in
Hi TSM'ers,
(this ones a little long winded, sorry :) )
I have a customer who wishes to assess the maximum risk he would incurr in
the following situation;
We have a copygroup for backup set for 31 day point-in-time recovery. We do
not have nolimit for any copygoup parameters - we assume
Hi,
ADSM server 2.1.5.19 (Yep! some of us are a long way behind.)
Does anyone know of a way to move tape volumes between storage
pools, without having to do a move data operation on each tape ?
Regards
Michael Benton
ADP Ltd, UK
I'm running support pack 3 with the latest tsa's
tsands.nlm v10110.39e 11/14/01
tsa500.nlm v5.05 9/12/01
smdr.nlm v5.06 8/20/01
Client 4.2.1
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From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
On 18-Jan-02 BENTON Michael wrote:
ADSM server 2.1.5.19 (Yep! some of us are a long way behind.)
Does anyone know of a way to move tape volumes between storage
pools, without having to do a move data operation on each tape ?
Six years ago I should have known the answer;-)
Cheers,
Henk
Hi,
2 solutions:
have 2 different schedules, one with 1 node , one with 2 nodes or
code empty scripts/batch as PRESCHEDULECMD and POSTSCHEDULECMD on the 2
nodes where you want no commands.
Regards,
René Lambelet
Center Information System, Nestec Ltd
the preschedulecommand can be specified in the options of the defined schedule.
Code something as:
Policy Domain Name: ...
.
.
.
action: inceremental
options: -preschedulecmd='/admin/local/scripts/before_bu.sh'
objects:
.
.
.
TSM Consultant
Devoteam Belgium
Guenther
Reclamation is the only other thing that can cause a tape to return to the
scratch pool so the tape will move to another storage pool that I know of.
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From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Hi
I'm guessing you want to move volumes along with the data stored on them?
In this case, it's not possible.
If you're meaning that you wish to move volumes between libraries with the
same format, that shouldn't be a problem.
Best Regards
Daniel Sparrman
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From: Hugo Badenhorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:04 AM
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Subject: Need info on Tivoli v Backup Exec
We have some very large oracle databases. Most of these compress very well.
We did test with and without client compression. The rule we used for best
is the total elapsed time. These were going to disk pools. We always got
better results with client compression than without. As an added
The MTLIB command is all that can manage a tape that TSM does not know about
or manage. Unfortunately, the tape was in what is called a unprocessable
state when a CE does something like this. The 3494 Library Manual and the
its procedures were the ticket here.
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From:
Hi All,
I'll try to keep this short... In setting up a schedule for a TDP exchange
database backup in TSM, if I select the action to be INCREMENTAL but my
Objects line launches my .cmd script which reads:
start /B tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=excsch.log
excfull.log
Which
We thought about that. But the archived set uses the default Mgmt Class
which is used by several other archive jobs. The need was to selectively
change the retention of this set of files to over 1 year.
It's not a big deal to re-archive it as the set is not that large to handle.
Thanks.
- Kirti
Hi,
I have a customer who wishes to assess the maximum risk he would incurr in
the following situation;
We have a copygroup for backup set for 31 day point-in-time recovery. We
do
not have nolimit for any copygoup parameters - we assume there will only
be
a single backup each day.
The
Hello All,
I have a TSM Client 4.2.1 on Windows NT 4. I would like to exclude all PST
files in my backup. (exclude ?:*.pst) But now management has requested that
we backup these files once a week. Is there a way in my option file or on
the TSM Server that I can set this up to backup my pst
In case you missed it, I got the attached alert in my email from Tivoli regarding TSM
4.x on Windows and Ultrium tape storage.
Hope it helps.
Mahesh
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To see alerts from the past weeks, go to
https://www.tivoli.com/secure/Tivoli_Electronic_Support/supnews.nsf/webalertnews
Zlatko, Jason, Daniel, Wanda, Tom, Dylan (who started this thread),
regards!
Yes, I have trouble with the multiframe SP requiring multiple licenses as
well. One small point is that the whole SP is managed by IBM under one
serial number. Perhaps this is the key?
Regarding the IBM 1600 ... this
Hi Robin
There is two things that probably is needed to upgrade
First of all, this is a bug in earlier versions of TSM. It has been solved
in the latest release of the client.
Second of all, you should upgrade the CLIB, TSA and SMDR modules. This is
easily done by downloading tsa5up8 from
I have performed this procedure below in our TDP for Domino environment and
it works fine. Just bring up a temp. server with Notes 4.5 or 4.6 and
restore the databases, then copy them to your production servers.
Shawn Tullier
ITS Technical Design
Laitram Corporation
(504) 733 - 6000 x 1618
I would use archive
Now with an archive you have to be disk specific but you could do something
like this for each drive attached...
archive -subdir=yes C:\*.pst
archive -subdir=yes F:\*.pst
using the -subdir=yes ~should~ force TSM to go down the tree find all .pst
files on the
I've always thought of NTBackup as the push scooter. I think Backup Exec
is more like a Vespa (with apologies to Vespa owners). Much cheaper and
easier to operate than TSM for one user, only able to move one type of
cargo (NT data, and that in small quantities), and much more likely to
cause
Never mind I've answered my own question, the action must be set to command
to run the script, but I still need to know how to write the script to run
incrementals instead of full?
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Mark Bertrand
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:52 AM
Hello Chad,
create new management class (newmgmt for example) for .pst files and use
include ... statement to assign this mgmt class to them.
include ?:\...\*.pst newmgmt
In newmgmt class set frequency parameter in copy group definition to 7
(if you want backup pst files once a week).
Thats
I'll try to keep this short... In setting up a schedule for a TDP
exchange
database backup in TSM, if I select the action to be INCREMENTAL but my
Objects line launches my .cmd script which reads:
start /B tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=excsch.log
excfull.log
Which
Hi
The line should read something like c:\program
files\tivoli\tsm\tdpexchange\excdsmc * incr
Best Regards
Daniel Sparrman
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Chad:
You could set up a separate mgmtclass that uses the frequency paramater.
Then add an include in your client option file to bind the pst files to that
mgmtclass.
FREQuency
Specifies how frequently TSM can back up a file. This parameter is optional.
TSM backs up a file only when the
If you're trying to move the data, not the tapes themselves, you can set
the NEXTPOOL parameter on your storage pool to the desired target pool,
then lower your migration threshold to have ADSM move the data for you.
Same effect as running MOVE DATA on each volume, but without having to
monitor
O.k sounds great. But Where do I set up the management class? Is it in the
client option file or on the server?
Chad
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From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excluding Files from backup
Win2K TSM Server 4.2.1.9, Qlocic fibre card, Dell Powervault 136T library
with the FC Bridge attachment, 3-HP LTO Dell PowerVault 110T tape drives.
I see everything, and in the ADSMSCSI drive I see the changer and 3-drives.
In the management console, under the driver and Device details, it lists
If you specify action of INCREMENTAL it will run an incremental backup of
the objects you specified. IE, it will run an incremental backup of your
.cmd script.
To run an Exchange Incremental, you would specify action of COMMAND, and
your command script would run an incremental backup.
Hi ALL:
I have a situation here as follows:
One TSM server 3.7.3
Two RS/6000 H70s at 4.3.3,
Two TSM clients 3.7.3
One shared Magstar 3570 20-cartridge library.
This configuration has been running well for many moons.
We only backup our Oracle dbs + AIX server environments with TSM.
I
Thanks,
but, the mechanics of the failovers etc.. is fine. only 1 machine will be
failed over at any one time.
I'll try and clarify;
M1 and M2 share some common filespace / dirpath names. M3 is failover
machine.
Normal; M1 backs up to tsm under node M1, M2 backs up to TSM under node M2,
M3
We do this (for another TDP) with two different schedules. One is starting a DOS
batch script for full backups and the other is doing incremental backups. The
commands you specified in the objects line are specified in the batch scripts.
The full name (pathname + filename) is specified in the
Ken
Try a q node f=d to check to make sure that you have mount points greater
then 0
Becky
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From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Server media mount not possible error condition
Hi ALL:
I
Hi
The description you gave tells me there is something wrong with your
configuration.
Normally when you set up TSM to handle clustering, you have one TSM
nodename for each clusternode(M1,M2,M3). These nodenames are only for
backing up local files on the node. Then you have either one nodename
I did VMS support for about 20 years...
NT grows on you.
You don't need a mouse - but it is a useful tool.
Most of us in teckyland have high speed comms.
Does unix have a worthy dial up telnet app included as standard??
Can you see the console output as if
Tony Tony Tony... Do I long for the good ole days of VMS
I use to love programming in DCL.. hehe
Every time I hear people bragging about clustering (Microsoft or Novell) I
can't help thinking back to VMS and laugh... now that was a cluster...
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From: MORGAN TONY
and what's wrong with using a mouse???
I happen to like my little mouse...
I even have a nickname for it :)
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From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
To know which tape(s) contains your DBBackup.
You can issue restore db preview=yes you are going to
get a listing of tapes but nothing will be restored.
You can also look at the volhist file, that is if you
did a backup volhist.
Its easier to issue restore dbbackup preview=yes to
know what
Yeah, we still run an old VMS cluster that the are dreaming about replacing
with Microsoft Cluster.
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From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:46 PM
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Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Tony
Actually, you could really use the SAN client in your environment.
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From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Software/Hardware compression?
Importance: High
WOW !
be careful on
On the Server, see DEFINE MGMTCLASS and DEFINE COPYGROUP.
-Original Message-
From: Gent, Chad E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excluding Files from backup on Different Days.
O.k sounds great. But Where do I set up
Exactly, while im not doing TSM on my clusters (yet) Daniel is correct.
In my MS-clustered environment, I have the following entries in DNS
SRV01
SRV02
CLUSTER1
DB2-01
the last 2 are a logical name of the cluster resource. This allows the resource to
be managed separately from the
Run a local backup on M1, M2, and M3 that backs up the data that is not
failed over.
Run a shared1 and shared2 backup on all systems that backups up the data on
the system it exists on.
ie: M1 /usr /var / /opt
M2 /usr /var / /opt
M3
shared1 /u /shareddata run a script to
A console switch shows the console output as if local for UNIX.
They work for NT also.
Trouble shooting for NT: reboot, reboot, rebuild... come on ... am I
wrong ?
Jeff
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From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:46 AM
To:
Yeah, and I call our pet hampster at home the rat-dog
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From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
and what's wrong with using a mouse???
I happen to like
Management Class is defined in the same policy domain with the node, it is
just not the default one. Then in the inclexcl (either a file or in the
dsm.opt) you specify for a include \...\*.pst [management-class]
It is all documented in the admin reference
-Original Message-
From: Gent,
Another option that we are considering.
Create a Copy Pool for each of the cycles that are important to you. Do a
copy of the primary pool to each of those copy pools on the schedule that
you want. Yes, you have all the data in each of these copy pools at that
interval of time. And, it will
We have unearthed a wide spread problem due to ongoing ANS1872E errors on
Novell Clients (that have been widely discussed here).
We are aware of the problem, and are taking steps to address the root cause.
However, we have discovered the problem is more widespread than we first
realised due to
Hi,
Environment:
3494 Library with three B1A drives
Two Solaris 8 Servers with TSM 4.1.4.5
SCSI connections from both servers to each drive, so that they are
shared between the two servers. Our problem is that when we start three
sessions directly to tape on Server 1 the drives go to polling
Hi,
The mx series are not supported in 4.2.1 or 3.7. I
believe the drives in these libraries are 9.1GB
optical drives which also are not supported in 4.2.1
and 3.7.
H.Kershaw..
--- Diego Fdo. Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello!
Anyone using HP SureStore 1200mx or HPSureStore
200mx with
Think of backup environments as sorted by size. As a rough guesstimate, and
I'm sure people have different opinions on sizing,
NTBackup is for 1 machine.
Backup Exec is good for 1-10, maybe even 20 machines.
Veritas NetBackup is good for 10-50 machines. (Is anybody having a good
time with it
I have a lot of experience with Netbackup and TSM. What Alex has said here
would be a common opinion of someone that fully understood and successfully
implemented all of these products. Veritas would argue that Netbackup is
capable of many more machines, but they do not tell you how they get
For those who had not registered and obtained Tivoli CustomerID the page is
just link to
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/flash_hba.html
BTW: Mark, just another argument against TSM on Windows - this and alert in
October were Windoze only. And the previous was about the nice Plug'N'Pray
You already have the answer - log mode is normal. In this mode log is used
only to rollback a transaction. On commit the log is cleaned. So when there
is no activity the log must be 0% (or at least very close).
The drawback is that any transaction after last DBB is lost in case of
major failure.
Mark,
Lets compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. What could you
say in response to that:
Your sluggish Windows 3.1 even does not have own TCP/IP stack but I do
have IPSec in AIX 4.3.3
How many years have passed since Compaq bought DEC and even now HP buys
Compaq (alright, they
Kirti,
If the retension period change has to be performed for all nodes in this
domain (I hope those nodes are Oracle only) the copygroup has to be
updated.
If only one node needs this change I would suggest you to define new domain
with appropriate ARCHRETension setting, rename the node to
If I understood your question right - you have enough disk space on the
server to hold *ALL* backups and want this copied to tape and single tape
cartridge can hold all backups too.
If this is the case you can define COPY Storage pool on the tape library
(be it manual library, i.e. standalone
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