Antwort: End of Service

So: when will TSM 4.2 for AIX be available and shipped? Günter -- Günter Essers IT - Service Universitätsklinikum Aachen Pauwelsstraße 30 52074 Aachen Fon: +49 241 80 80027 Fax: +49 241 80 82473 Hauptgebäude UBFT, Erdgeschoß, Gang A, Flur 5,

Re: query inclexcl

try q incl from the baclient command line Andy -Original Message- From: Stormy Maddux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: query inclexcl On Unix and Netware you can issue the TSM command query inclexcl to get a listing of

restore takes so long ... how does it really works !!

Hi restoring a 500 Gb database using backint with 4 parallel sessions seems to take forever. looking at the process a tape is mounted on drive 1 and 2, 3 minutes later the same tape is mounted on drive 2 and so on . does it really dismounts / mounts for every file or ?? environment:

SQL query

HI guys I have a TSM question for you . The output from select * from events and q ev * * seemd to be different . The q ev * * output is acuurate where as output from select * from events does not show nodes backed up before 01:00 a.m.Therfore i am missing the window of 00:00 a.m to 01:00

restore takes so long ... how does it really works !!

Hi restoring a 500 Gb database using backint with 4 parallel sessions seems to take forever. looking at the process a tape is mounted on drive 1 and 2, 3 minutes later the same tape is mounted on drive 2 and so on . does it really dismounts / mounts for every file or ?? environment:

Re: TDP For Oracle, EBU Install

Lots of good EBU information in the Using ADSM to Back Up Databases redbook, SG24-4335-03. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc 630 718 4238 Brian Dade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21/2002

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Yes but it keeps the list locally and sometimes I think it gets confused so it just backs everything up again... -Original Message- From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all my NT files getting

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

The Administrators Guide is a bit vague on the process of determining a file's eligibility due to changes... I assume ADSM uses, file timestamp, filesize as the main items. I'm doubt if it delves as deep as changed inode numbers or fat table entries, as this would produce very large overhead for

Re: restore takes so long ... how does it really works !!

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Re: Antwort: End of Service

Hi Günter! Where have you been lately? ;-) TSM 4.2 for AIX is available for some time, 4.2.1 since September 28, 2001. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: G:nter Essers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 09:23 To: [EMAIL

Re: Antwort: End of Service

On 22-Mar-02 Günter Essers wrote: So: when will TSM 4.2 for AIX be available and shipped? September 2001. Cheers, Henk.

Re: List of tapes in vault

Hi, There is an easy way to administer your tapes even a monkey could do it http://www.tsmmediamanager.nl/index2.html Have a look. Robert -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Benefits of moving to platform other than OS/390

Hi Wayne - and others following this thread with interest Firstly, how big is your current environment on OS/390 as far as TSM is concerned. I really do not see OS/390 scaling like AIX when it comes to TSM... I agree that most of the people running OS/390 have all the

Re: Backing up a large file system for a TSM newbie

Paul further info Tapes are 3590's - two of them! Disks are 18G internal SCSI Versions of TSM are 4.2.1.0 (server and client) n/w between client and server is 100BaseT Direct fibre connections between server and each tape device Other info which may help FTP'ed large (2G!) files between cleint

User groups

Is there an active TSM user group in or around Dallas, Texas?

Re: Backing up a large file system for a TSM newbie

Hi Upgrading at least the client to a newer level such as 4.2.1.20 or 4.2.1.30 would be a good idea. The 4.2.1.0 client has had a lot of performance problems. Another thing to use is the journal-based backup, which probably will save you a lot of time. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman

MMC

Where can I find the Windows MMC plug-ins for TSM? Can I use it to manage our TSM Server on OS/390? Thanks /gjs

Re: Backing up a large file system for a TSM newbie - journal backup

Girl and Guys, lets make it clear - is journal backup feature only available in Windows or I am missing something. If I am not wrong Peter posted in the beginning that is talking about AIX boxes, so journaling TSM feature is not available there. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond

Re: Antwort: End of Service

TSM 4.2 was available and shipped long time ago. Later 4.2.1 came and now is shipping. You can download update to 4.2.1.11. Very soon you should expect 5.1. AIX is shipped together with other platforms according to schedules. If you did not got it why not to check is your company registered on

Return code 195 unknown [ Sun Solaris 2.7 and higher ]

Hello, We are running TSM v3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ML-09. We periodically have scheduled backup failures with some of our Sun Solaris nodes. Consistently the entry in dsmerror.log is as follows. 03/21/02 20:14:06 cuPing: Out of sequence verb: verb: 61

backing up snap servers via nt cleints

we have snap servers mounted to nt servers as for example drive s: i have the domain statement in the dsm.opt file coded as domain c: d: s: This appears in the beginning of the schedule log file Incremental backup of volume 'S:' This appears later ANS1228E Sending of object

Re: backing up snap servers via nt cleints

Just curious Tim, what's a 'snap server'??? -Original Message- From: Tim Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backing up snap servers via nt cleints we have snap servers mounted to nt servers as for example drive s: i

Re: Return code 195 unknown [ Sun Solaris 2.7 and higher ]

Hi Jon! I can't find the APAR in a fixtest either! However, the APAR text lists: USERS AFFECTED: AIX, SUN, HP clients. You could try installing the 4.1 or 4.2 client? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL

audit license

I was going to do an audit license over Easter vacation to update the status of my licenses. I don't want to audit the storage so I was going to do the command: AUDIT LICENSE AUDITSTORAGE I was just wondering if the syntax is correct? I looked it up in the book, but it doesn't really give the

Re: backing up snap servers via nt cleints

is a network attached storage device - Original Message - From: Remeta, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:15 AM Subject: Re: backing up snap servers via nt cleints Just curious Tim, what's a 'snap server'??? -Original Message-

AW: Poor Performance with TDP for R/3

Hi Matthias, you should get more! We backup SAP R/3 4.6C directly to tape and get the following statistics. Our TSM Servers is an AIX box (H50) with 1GB memory. Our network is ATM 155Mb and we use 3590E11 drives in a 3494 ATL. BKI0011I: Number of bytes left to be saved: 0 Bytes (0.0%) of 52.053

Re: Poor Performance with TDP for R/3

Hi Matthias! Have you changed the MAX_SESSIONS and the SESSIONS parameters in your initSID.utl file? The default is just one session. Also check if you have RL_COMPRESSION set to YES. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Matthias Feyerabend

Poor Performance with TDP for R/3

We are trying Tivoli Data Protection for R/3 Version 3 Release 2 on a COMPAQ Proliant 5500R, 2 Prozessoren Pentium Pro 200, 1 GB RAM, Datenbank Oracle 8.0.5.1, SAP R/3 45B, The performance is very poor, 500 KB/s, compared to 5 MB/s for local tape and ftp to TSM-Server with 3MB/s. Is there a

EBU with TSM 4.2

We are currently running Oracle 7(I know needs to be upgraded and were working on it). We are currently running TSM 3.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and looking at upgrading to TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3. My question is can we still use EBU backup from Oracle 7 it we upgrade to TSM 4.2 or will we need to wait till

Re: Backing up a large file system for a TSM newbie

Hello Run a q db f=d What is yor cachehit%? If it is under 99 try to increase the bufpoolsize Also use resource utilization on the client: In dsm.sys add Resour=10 Journal based backup is only for Windows Regards Niklas Lundström -Original Message- From: Peter McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: audit license

How about Audit Lic... -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: audit license I was going to do an audit license over Easter vacation to update the status of my licenses. I don't want to audit

Utilizing All My drives

Hello TSM'rs, I have a question. Here's my senario, We backup to disk. Then Copy/Migrate to tape once the backups complete. I have 6 3590B drives. When my copy/migration from disk to tape is running, I only see about two tapes being mounted, thus I'm only using two out of my 6 drives. I have

Re: Utilizing All My drives

Bassam, I may be confused on this but if you are migrating data from disk to tape then MAXPROC has nothing to do with it! You may be getting that confused with the backup stgpool command which creates your DR copies to take off site. If you want to utilize all 6 drives during a migration process

Re: Utilizing All My drives

You can update the storage pool for more migration processes. Example: UPD STG poolname MIGPR=6 Is the command you would issue to use all 6 drives. Take care, Al Alan Davenport Senior Storage Administrator Selective Insurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306 -Original

Re: TSM server automation.

Do you have an external scheduler that you can do job a before job b, before job c, etc? -Original Message- From: Jason Liang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server automation. Hi *SMers, My environment: TSM 4.2.1.11

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

I've never heard of a journal-based backup causing a backup of the entire machine do we even know whether James is running the journal service? It might help to know how often these full backups occur, and if there is any pattern. Also, is it possible that someone is altering any copygroup

batch-command line interface changed with 4.2.1.0 (scroll prompt )

Sum - we run an external scheduler to do our daily TSM admin cycle: move bkup data from disk to tape, then ba stg, then ba db, then ejects to the vault, etc. We use an external scheduler for this. When we upgraded our ba client (that includes dsmadmc), and it seems because the scroll prompt

backup sets

environment:s/390 v2.10 TSM server v 4.1.3 TSM client NT4.0 Scenario: notified of large scale restore in advance. Usually takes numerous hours. Would it make sense to create a backupset, archive it to tape and then retrieve it? Now, I don't incur the

AW: Utilizing All My drives

Hi Bassam, you can define as many processes as you like, but the limitation is the number of free drives. If you define more procs then you have drives, the migration processes wait until there is a drive available (this also happens if some of your drives are used by other processes). For using

Re: TSM server automation.

Hi Williams, I don't have any external scheduler except cron. Jason Liang - Original Message - From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:24 AM Subject: Re: TSM server automation. Do you have an external scheduler that you can

Re: Utilizing All My drives

Can 1 process write to multiple drives... i.e. maxproc=1 mountlimit=drives? -Original Message- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Utilizing All My drives Hi Bassam, you can define as many

Re: TSM server automation.

Jason, You can use a product like Tivoli Workload Scheduler. There is a redbook on integrating it with TSM. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246030.pdf Implementing TWS Extended agent for Tivoli Storage Manager, SG24-6030-00 Redbook, published March-14-2001 Thanks, Mooney

AW: Utilizing All My drives

Hi, as Demetrius said, its the migpr-Parameter that you can set with your migration. The mountlimit is a parameter in the devclasses-table. You can after setting mountlimit to drives just initiate migration by saying upd stg yourstoragepool hi=0 lo=0 migpr=4 and if there are date from more than 4

linux TSM4.2.1: backup problem w/ ext2

hello all, i have a problem with my linux-client, TSM-server is 4.1.4 [urmel@moby urmel]$ uname -a Linux moby.ae.go.dlr.de 2.4.9-6custom #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 11:41:02 CET 2001 i686 unknown [urmel@moby urmel]$ dsmc Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup Client Interface -

disaster recovery ?

I have been asked the following, if we lost our TSM server and tape library, ATL P2000, with currently 100 slots and 4 drives upgrading soon to 198 or so slots. Would a P1000 work with 2 drives and I believe 100 slots. We are currently managing approximately 140 tapes now. The

Re: Utilizing All My drives

Things that limit migration processes... 1) migproc for the storage pool 2) number of drives in the atl 3) number of unique node's data in the diskpool you are migrating to tape The smallest of these is what will determine how many drives are active... So if you have 6 drives and you upd stg

Re: Disaster Recovery Project

since I was trying to add this and it was kicked back, can we keep this one going. I have been asked the following, if we lost our TSM server and tape library, ATL P2000, with currently 100 slots and 4 drives upgrading soon to 198 or so slots. Would a P1000 work with 2 drives

Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery

Guten Tag, Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Bis einschließlich 01.04.02 bin ich im Urlaub. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andreas Willkomm

Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to get the server to email alerts and failure and specific messages to admins within TSM or without another expen$ive software? My servers are running on Win2000 and AIX. Thanks Etienne

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

Etienne, Here is something similar that I do on my AIX Server. It could probably be written differently (better) but it serves the purpose. It checks if any of three different messages are in the log and if so mails that information to me. Thanks, Jon Martin

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

We run a perl script on w2k that runs the admin program in console mode - it reports on all error messages (exluding a few we don't care about) and warning messages that we care about. It sends us mail and net send messages (we have others that send us pages for important events). Cheap and

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

You're right there are some expensive solutions. I believe ServerGraph has the e-mail notification capability, but in our environment we were quoted $35,000 for the initial installation, plus 15% maintenance. TDS for SMA does not have e-mail notice capablity. If you check the ADSM.org archive

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

We tied notification to our SNMP monitoring system. By enabling the Error, Warning and Informational messages through TSM. It took some time to reduce the flood of codes to the most important. But well worth the effort. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

Just a thought I prepare a number of reports from TSM each morning and present these on our intranet. Using the NT resource kit (SETX) I have introduced a 31 day cycle of these files. (email me if you want to know how to do this easily). The benefits are; wide audience

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

In almost all cases, the worst case scenario is that Journal Based Backup will revert to a traditional progressive incremental backup and no additional objects will be backed up. The one possible exception is when virus protection (or potentially other) software saves objects object attributes

Re: TSM server automation.

search the www.adsm.org site for my name. I put all the scripts required that you are looking for in a message. Joe -Original Message- From: Jason Liang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server automation. Hi *SMers,

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Pete, Due to the virus scan on a non-journaled backup client, would the metadata be updated at the TSM server ? And when a file is listed as updated in the TSM client log how much data is actually being sent ? Last but not least, is this functionality different in other versions of the TSM

Re: disaster recovery ?

That should be fine. You will be rebuilding your server offsite, defining the library there, and checking in whichever tapes you want. That library can be anything you want that supports your drives, or no library at all. A lot of people don't even use a library at their DR site; they just have

Reclamation for copy pools

I'm very confused about running reclamation on copy pools, so here is my set up on TSM: 1. Clients back up to either the disk pool or the sequential access tape pool(onsite) 2. Backup copy disk pool to offsite tape pool 3. Backup onsite tape pool to offsite tape pool 4. Migration 5.

Re: Reclamation for copy pools

I think most people do not leave the storage pool reclamation set to 60%. Usually it is set to 100%. Then when you want to run reclamation you setup a scheduled administration command to set the reclamation to 60%. When you want reclamation to stop you schedule another administration command to

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

What are some error messages and warnings does everyone look for? Thanks!!! Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 Tony Morgan TONY.MORGAN@FORTI To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SBANK.COM

Re: audit license

Do a 'help setopt' on the TSM Server. You'll see 'NoAuditStorage'. A 'q opt' reports the current option value in the 2nd column. Set it before running 'Audit License'. It's not part of the 'Audit License' command. Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

No, I'm not running journaling. I do have Trend antivirus running though - James -Original Message- From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again? Yes but it keeps

TDP R/3 Versioning and Off-site Vaulting

Hi Does anyone have any idea's of how to use copy pools to take only 1 SAP DB Backup version off-site every week? Reason: Primary Pool will hold 4 - 4TB versions of a SAP DB Backup. Thanks Joel E. Tait Joel Tait (E-mail).vcf Description: Binary data

Re: query inclexcl

Interesting. I concur. Here's the HELP from the NT baclient 4.1.1.16 command line. There is on QUERY INCLEXCL. My AIX client 4.1.3.0 shows QUERY INCLEXCL in the HELP. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail The following help topics are available.

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Maybe the Anti-virus software is changing the ' Archive Bit ' ??? -Original Message- From: Louie, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again? No, I'm not running journaling. I

Re: audit license

The AUDITSTORAGE parameter goes in your server options file (such as dsmserv.opt). The default value is YES. If you specify AUDITSTORAGE NO in the server options file, then AUDIT LICENSES won't audit storage. You can use the QUERY OPTION (abbreviated to Q OPT if you wish) command to determine

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

The archive bit is ignored in TSM incremental backup attribute comparison, and in anycase I doubt that virus protection software modifies it (av software tends to preserve any changed attribute data and reset it to the original value). Pete Tanenhaus Tivoli Storage Solutions Software

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Good question. The TSM client won't back up the file again if the archive bit is changed (all other things being unchanged), but it will update the information in the TSM server database. Check the dsmsched.log file to see if the files are actually being backed up, or just updated. Each updated

DSMSERV LOADDB with 2 processors

We've been doing some loaddb testing and have found that when we add a second processor (Intel PIII 1 Ghz) the loaddb takes nearly twice as long to run. The loaded DB resulted in about 17GB being used. Auditdb took about the same amount of time to run with 2 processors as with 1. Tested with

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Looking through the log, I see Normal file Sent for every file. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again? Good question. The TSM client

Re: Reclamation for copy pools

On 22 Mar 2002 at 13:37, Joni Moyer wrote, in part: Reclamation is set for 60 on both the onsite tape pool and the copy pools(offsite). If you have enough tape drives so that reclamations don't interfere with other need for drives, then this is fine. I don't, so my tape pools are set at

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

Just want to set the record straight before misconceptions spread: 1. Servergraph/TSM does a GREAT DEAL MORE than send email; 2. For a single TSM server, the price is MUCH less than what John was quoted for his large and complex site; 3. Every TSM-er has to build a monitoring system just to

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Re: Backup StgPool Issue Discovered

Paul, That is a feature that we rely upon. Our year-end close-out files go to a separate data path through our system. Once I have the first copy from the server, I back up to Copypool for a second copy, then pull both copies for offline storage. I flag both tapes as unavailable and that

OFM Earns 'Tivoli Ready Certification' for TSM

Hi Folks: Just an FYI. Just wanted to pass on the info that Open File Manager (OFM) has earned 'Tivoli Ready Certification' for Tivoli Storage Manager. I guess this is ok, but I'm still sore that IBM let Veritas steal The Kernel Group's Bare Metal Restore (BMR). Anyway, see the release at

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

OK well, if that doesn't explain it, and the other things I or others suggested earlier don't cover it (did you check to make sure no one was turning on the MODE=ABSOLUTE setting in the copygroup?), then I would recommend opening up a problem with IBM support, so we can investigate this more

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Actually another thing occurs to me: is anyone changing security attributes? That is not very outwardly visible, but would cause TSM to back up the file. Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

I don't have the whole thread to refer back to, but is this the SystemObject (c:\winnt\system32\ files) being backed up, or are these user files? I fixed 3 problems today looking at the simple solutions, so I figured I'd ask. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is the tomorrow of

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

Yes, and you can say propogate the change to throughout the directory structure. So, if you started at the top everything looks changed. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

You are doing an INCR instead of a SELECTIVE command right? Forgive me for asking an obvious question, but everyone is lost right now on how to help you with this. -Original Message- From: Louie, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

Hi Tony, I would be very interested in your method of posting TSM information to the intranet. My group IT manager is always asking for TSM info and to post it our intranet would be a great service. Regards Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EBU with TSM 4.2

We are in the same situation. We are just implmenting 4.2. I think EBU works with 4.2 but it DOES NOT work with TDP Oracle 2.2, must stay with 2.1. Will try to upgrade Tivoli with EBU in a few weeks. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/02 08:51AM We are currently running Oracle 7(I know