re-evaluate TSM

2002-09-09 Thread Michelle Wiedeman
Everyone, thnx for your help It's been quit usefull. There are some more questions though which cannot be found in the manuals and redbooks which I need an answer to. What are the concequenses if the Bufpoolsize and the logpoolsize would be enlarged? are there any sideeffects to it? btw, we run

delete filespace problem with w2k clients

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Stahlberg
Hi everybody, I got an bitfile error if I want to delete the filespace of a W2K client. I cannot remove the 'System Object' filespace. I got following error: ANR0800I DELETE FILESPACE: * for node DTMDC01 started as process 171. ANR0802I Delete Filespace * (backup/archive data) for node DTMDC01

Re: Virtual Volumes...

2002-09-09 Thread Suad Musovich
We are planning a similar implementation by using 2nd server specifically for clients with small files (desktop/workstations) as it is choking our main server. The below comment about tracking a lot of smaller volumes is trivial compared with the cost of larger volumes on network load. A

Re: Exchange TDP backups with weekly/monthly/yearly snapshots

2002-09-09 Thread Del Hoobler
I'm afraid I already know the answer to this question, but since I'm a novice with the TDP for Exchange product, here goes... One of my clients wants to start using TDP for Exchange, and has asked for an archiving capability for weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshots as well as the nightly

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Cahill, Ricky
Take a look at www.tsmmanager.com this will do exactly what you want and in a graphical format, you can download it and use the evaluation license to get the info you need. To be honest after now using this for a couple of months I can't see how anyone could do without it. It's especially good at

Re: Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
And the next step is: you can squeeze out the empty space within aggregates by using reclamation or (at least on recent versions of TSM) MOVE DATA. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original

Réf. : Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Guillaume Gilbert
Hi Dale I run this query to see how many mounts and bytes for every drive : select distinct(drive_name) as Drive,count(*) as # of mounts,sum(bytes/1024/1024),sum(end_time-start_time) as Total Time,avg(end_time-start_time) as Avg Time - from summary - where activity='TAPE MOUNT' and -

Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread David E Ehresman
On the output from a Query Occ command, what is the difference between the Physical Space Occupied and the Logical Space Occupied figures? David Ehresman

Files Missing in TSM Client

2002-09-09 Thread Phillip Wise
I have a W2K server that I loaded the backup client (5.1) on. When I open the backup client, and select the files to backup, not all files are visible in the window. Specifically, I can't backup ntoskrnl from the \winnt\system32 directory. It is not visible in the window to select, and it is

WIN2000 size again

2002-09-09 Thread Large, Matthew
All, As a follow up to my last how big is a W2000 professional install question (and I thank you for your responses) can I now ask how many files are there on a fresh W2000 Professional install? forgive me for these mind-numbing questions - I have no kit to examine. Regards Matthew Large TSM

Re: Files Missing in TSM Client

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phillip Wise I have a W2K server that I loaded the backup client (5.1) on. When I open the backup client, and select the files to backup, not all files are visible in the window. Specifically, I can't backup ntoskrnl from

Re: Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
David, From the Admin Guide: Logical space occupied The amount of space used for logical files. A logical file is a client file. A logical file is stored either as a single physical file, or in an aggregate with other logical files. Physical space occupied The amount of space used for physical

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Jolliff, Dale
In the long run, we are attempting to quantify exactly how busy our ATLs/drives are over time for a number of reasons -- capacity planning, adjusting schedules to better utilize resources, and possibly even justify the purchase of new tape drives. At this point I have been asked to simply come

Re: Copy of contents of volume

2002-09-09 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Ike! I don't know if the return code is a TSM return code or an AIX return code. If it is a TSM return code it means: DSM_RC_AUTH_FAILURE137 /* authentication failure*/ Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Ike Maurice

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Thorson, Paul
Hello Dale, I had a similar requirement at American Express (to track drive utilizations of 3494 ATLs). I realize the following does not track individual drives, but I found this quite useful. I used the following SQL query (imbedded in a korn shell script) to sum the total mount time for the

Re: Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E
You have to go down a ways in the help to find this but here it is... Physical Space Occupied (MB) The amount of physical space occupied by the file space. Physical space includes empty space within aggregate files, from which files may have been deleted or expired. Logical Space

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
TSMManager doesn't do predictions of when you're going to run out of space. Servergraph/TSM is better for serious capacity planning. Should some impartial third party review the various TSM monitoring products and send the list a write-up? Paul Seay? Dwight Cook? Wanda Prather? Somebody? We, of

Need help on how to Truncate MS SQL

2002-09-09 Thread Hugo Badenhorst
Hi I need help on a command on how to truncate a database for MS SQL We are running SQL 6.5 and SQL 7 on a NT platform agents I have is v1.1 and v2.2 Hugo Badenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

Re: 3494 Utilization, and other Reporting Concerns

2002-09-09 Thread Richard Cowen
If the List doesn't mind occasional vendor self-interested posts, I would like to offer one for CNT's TSM Reporting Service. This is just one aspect of a more encompassing offering of TSM consulting and implementation services, but it may be germane to this thread. If we get a volunteer

Re: Mobius Interface to TSM API

2002-09-09 Thread J M
Does anyone have information about or experience with the Mobius View Direct Application interface to the TSM B/A API? It is an interface built to automate archive/restore between a document mgmt. application and TSM. Thanks, John _

Re: 3494 Utilization, and other Reporting Concerns

2002-09-09 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Some people on the list DO object to vendor self-interested posts - so there is an advertising-related place at www.adsm.org. Refresh it a few times (5?) and you should see all the banner ads. It's a dilemma for us, certainly - we're big fans of TSM, and want to support the TSM community with

Re: Need help on how to Truncate MS SQL

2002-09-09 Thread Del Hoobler
I need help on a command on how to truncate a database for MS SQL We are running SQL 6.5 and SQL 7 on a NT platform agents I have is v1.1 and v2.2 Hugo, Do you mean how do you truncate the log? After a successful full or log backup, the SQL database transaction log is truncated... ...unless

adsm.org

2002-09-09 Thread Large, Matthew
I'd just like to show my gratitude to the owners of adsm.org. It spent sometime in surgery and now has a pretty face as well as useful guts ;) thanks and Regards Matthew Large TSM Infrastructure Engineer Lavington Street Int: 7430 4995 Ext: +44 207 902 4995

Re: NAS backup

2002-09-09 Thread Jin Bae Chi
Dave, Thanks for your information. I was curious about EMC NAS products and found what they say about their EMC Clariion FC4700 backup support with TSM. Could you help me to understand what EMC says about backup or shouldn't I trust them at all? Thanks again. Here is the link:

Re: BareMetalRestore Media Management in TSM

2002-09-09 Thread Tony Sinclair
Paul and others; I have been following this discussion on BMR with avid interest, because our organization is in the process of evaluating what is avaiable and best for us to use to accomplish the situation of making a backup of the system for recovery purposes, with rapid recovery capabilities.

Exchange backup failing with undocumented message

2002-09-09 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, can anyone give me details about possible cause of this error (backup stops, nothing transferred): - The specified network name is no longer available. (see listed TdP log below) - in the actlog, I found ACN3502E saying a backup error occured during a restore. Please correct the manual !

Re: Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread Carlos Silesky
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, David E Ehresman wrote: On the output from a Query Occ command, what is the difference between the Physical Space Occupied and the Logical Space Occupied figures? David Ehresman By doing help q Occ within dsmadmc, you can find the following further down: Storage Pool

FW: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-09 Thread McDonald, Rick LDB:EX
Ignite has the capability to do this, if you have more than 1 HPUX machine. A Golden Image can be created and stored on an Ignite server. This server can then be used to push the image to the target machine. Alternatively, the target machine can be booted using a network reboot(Interrupt the

Re: Exchange backup failing with undocumented message

2002-09-09 Thread Del Hoobler
can anyone give me details about possible cause of this error (backup stops, nothing transferred): - The specified network name is no longer available. (see listed TdP log below) - in the actlog, I found ACN3502E saying a backup error occured during a restore. Please correct the manual !

Absolute Management Class

2002-09-09 Thread Gent, Chad E.
Hello All, I would like to do a full backup of a particular directory each night. So to accomplish this I would do the following. * Create a copy group with the mode equal to absolute and a frequency set to 0. This will perform a backup each day regardless if the data has changed or

Re: ACSLS Lock error

2002-09-09 Thread Schmitt, Terry D
In its normal initialization sequence, TSM locks all of its library resources under a common lock id. On rare occasions, TSM has been known to initialize resources with a second lockid after existing resources had been locked under a different lockid. In this situation, intervention will be

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-09 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
AIX has NIM: Network Install Manager, which lets you keep bootable images on a remote network drive. Other OSes may have similar functionality (does HP Ignite let you keep the bootable image on a remote network drive?) So, make that bootable image monthly (say), then back up that remote network

Re: Exchange backup failing with undocumented message

2002-09-09 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Del, how can I get the proper values to use, we are in production and we cannot just try/retry. Actually we use buffers=3, buffersize=1024 Should I ask Microsoft for explanation about the message The specified network name is no longer available ? Lastly, what about the modification in the TSM

Client problems -- still

2002-09-09 Thread Simeon Johnston
A while back I asked about a client that my server was unable to access due to several different errors. The problem basically is that it can't find the client OR it can't access the client because it's unavaible i.e. busy (which it is NOT). I've found that right after booting or restarting the

lto speed

2002-09-09 Thread Rick W
Hi all, I have some speed questions concerning LTO and an ADIC scalar 100 with 2 drives. I am able to archive 29GB in about 5.5 hours. I was wondering what kind of speed I should notice (no compression). If im not giving enough information please let me know.. If anyone has suggestions on what

Re: Exchange backup failing with undocumented message

2002-09-09 Thread Del Hoobler
Del, how can I get the proper values to use, we are in production and we cannot just try/retry. Actually we use buffers=3, buffersize=1024 Should I ask Microsoft for explanation about the message The specified network name is no longer available ? Lastly, what about the modification in

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-09 Thread J M
For those interested in NIM for AIX BMR--please reference Chapter 11: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246844.pdf From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:45:35 -0400 AIX

Re: ODBC access to TSM from VBScript

2002-09-09 Thread Ung Yi
Thanks, this looks good. Yi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/06/02 11:35AM Actually now that think about it, I don't think my response below really answered the question about created a linked server. The procedure I outlined shows how to import TSM tables into MS SQL. This just goes to show how

Error allocating SBT_TAPE device

2002-09-09 Thread Christy Wu, T.F.
Folks, Wonder if anyone out there ever came across problem with Oracle RMAN utility? How did you solve it then? The OS is AIX 4.3.3 M10 and Oracle is ver8.1.7. TSM is ver5.1.1 and TDP for Oracle is 2.2.10 RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate

Accessing a NETAPP Filer

2002-09-09 Thread prasanna S ghanekar
Hello All, I'm trying to access a network drive mapped to a NETAPP filer from TSM Backup Archive client and I get Access Denied message. B/A client is running on a windows 2000 machine. This mapped drive could be accessed through windows explorer without any problem. The Netapp filer is

additional speed lto information

2002-09-09 Thread Rick W
Ultra 160 scsi connection for the tape library data is located on the same machine as the tape library Total number of objects inspected: 108,246 Total number of objects archived: 108,246 Total number of objects updated: 0 Total number of objects rebound: 0 Total number of

DELTA: Error generating the delta file

2002-09-09 Thread Bruce Lowrie
All, Receiving this error DELTA: Error generating the delta file (reported to the DMSERROR.LOG). Has anyone else seen this error? I cannot find any documentation on this error. Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Absolute Management Class

2002-09-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
Yes, you are correct... -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Del Volh t=dbs is not working.

2002-09-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
It should be 'del volh t=dbb todate=-1' -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: lto speed

2002-09-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
LTO is rated at 15MBps native and 30MBps compressed. I am not sure what type of tape drives you are running in your Scalar 100. I believe you can have either LTO, DLT, SuperDLT or AIT in that library. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -

failing DB restore

2002-09-09 Thread Aree Hagopian
Hi all Last Friday one of my TSM servers crashed since the recovery log filled, so obviously it has not performed any backusp over the last few days. Since the recovery log in question is at its max capacity, I tried to restore the database to its last known good config (The DB backup is stored

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Steve Harris
Dale, Why not run mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qM once a minute, tack on a timestamp with awk or something and save that? That will show you mounts from all sources and won't unduly burden the server. You can even set it up to run on another machine that doesn't even have physical tape connnection

Re: adsm.org

2002-09-09 Thread Chetan H. Ravnikar
same here, it looks way better.. hats off Cheers.. On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Large, Matthew wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:23:22 +0100 From: Large, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: adsm.org I'd just like to show my

URGENT - Quick Procedure Needed for using DSMSERV RESTORE DB with a 3590 DB Backup tape in a 3494 Library

2002-09-09 Thread Kent Monthei
TSM documentation states somewhere that DSMSERV utilities (RESTORE DB ?) only support manual libraries. If I want to use a 3494 library tape for the restore, what steps must I take to load the DB Backup tape into a drive before I issue the DSMSERV RESTORE DB command ? Do I need to put the

Re: URGENT - Quick Procedure Needed for using DSMSERV RESTORE DB with a 3590 DB Backup tape in a 3494 Library

2002-09-09 Thread Fred Johanson
In V5R1, it doesn't matter, but for earlier versions, I always keep a config file that includes a manual library. I've used mtlib to actually mount the volumes. Quoting Kent Monthei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TSM documentation states somewhere that DSMSERV utilities (RESTORE DB ?) only support

Re: Del Volh t=dbs is not working.

2002-09-09 Thread Mark D. Rodriguez
Joshua Bassi wrote: It should be 'del volh t=dbb todate=-1' -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original