Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Jurjen Oskam
Hello everybody, When you upgrade the firmware in your drive and/or library, is it necessary to (under AIX) 'rmdev -dl' the library and drives and (in TSM) 'delete drive' and 'delete library' after updating the firmware? The drives went from 22T4 to 25D4 and the library went from 2.72.0012 to

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
It ought to be not necessary. Do you have any problem? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Jurjen Oskam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12.12.2002 12:21 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Burak Demircan
no it is not necessary. i just halt TSM server (not machine just tivoli storage server ,server) then i restart after upgrade regards, Burak Demircan CEO / ITT MERCEDES-BENZ TURK A.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+90 212 482 35 00 (4676) fax :+90 212 481 11 54

restore crashes on memory

2002-12-12 Thread Michelle Wiedeman
hi! AIX 4.3.3 server memory 4GB pagingspace 8GB 4 processors 750Mhz tsm client 4.1.2 tsm server adsm 3.1 I'm trying to restore a 26 GB progress database which is devided into parts of 2 GB each. the restore is from one AIX 4.3 server to another TSM client version is 4.1 server version is adsm

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Lars Bebensee
Hi, Not at all. The devices just have to be reset, ie you do a rmdev -l followed by a mkdev -l for the appropriate devices. After, you should confirm with lscfg -v -l that the new firmware level is correct. Bye Lars On 12.12.2002 11:21:38 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hello everybody, When

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:23:44PM +0200, Zlatko Krastev/ACIT wrote: [rmdev/delete drive/delete library on firmware update] It ought to be not necessary. Do you have any problem? We are currently doing an initial DR-test, and received an RS/6000 and 3584 library with four drives to do

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:01:11PM +0100, Lars Bebensee wrote: Not at all. The devices just have to be reset, ie you do a rmdev -l followed by a mkdev -l for the appropriate devices. After, you should confirm with lscfg -v -l that the new firmware level is correct. Thanks everybody for the

3590 under Linux

2002-12-12 Thread Lars Bebensee
Hi guys and girls, I am currently busy testing a TSM server (5.1.5.4) under Linux (RH7.2). I have a 3590-B11 attached to the machine. The only device that shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi is: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: 03590B11 Rev: A429 Type:

Re: Upgrading firmware on 3583 library and 3580 drives

2002-12-12 Thread Burak Demircan
most of those problems we had on 3583 library were due to magazines. after firmware upgrade and changing of magazines to Revision B everything went ok. regards, Burak Demircan CEO / ITT MERCEDES-BENZ TURK A.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+90 212 482 35 00 (4676) fax :+90 212 481 11 54

Re: restore crashes on memory

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
...No I've tried doing it all at once (which is of course ridiculous) and it crashed on being out of memory. Specific error messages always help us to help you. You did not say if you had boosted or unlimited your Unix Resource Limits in undertaking the AIX-based restoral. You must ALWAYS be

Re: Management Class and TDP for R/3

2002-12-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
BUT tdp/r3 doesn't use the backup copy group of the management class, it uses the archive copy group. the reason for 4 (or more) is so if you go straight to a tape drive... like this... Storage Device EstimatedPctPct High Low Next Stora- Pool NameClass NameCapacity

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
and if you've ever had a notch tab fall out and get lost...in a pinch you can (for a K tape) get the bottom one from a J tape and the top one from a cleaning tape. The colors will be all out of whack but the slots will be proper :-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul

Re: tsm server monitoring products

2002-12-12 Thread J M
Servergraph Storserver Tivoli ISRM (includes 300 reports from Trellisoft) and new reporting functionality in TSM 5.2 is coming in q22003 From: Justin Bleistein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tsm server monitoring products

Deleting dbvol takes long

2002-12-12 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
I just deleted a 2GB DB volume. It took 2 hours to complete. The deleted volume resided on an SSA disk. The server CPU is not a bottleneck. Can anybody tell me why it is taking so much time? I first hoped it would do some DB reorg on the fly. But it obviously doesn't. Best regards Gerhard ---

Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is replaced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Thach, Kevin
The other day I had to replace one of the drives in my 3584 library because a tape was jammed in it. This tape was being written to by a migration process when it jammed (during daily processing). The procedure went on to complete successfully, but a q libvol shows that the tape is still in the

Re: Deleting dbvol takes long

2002-12-12 Thread Manuel Schweiger
Gerhard, If you delete a db volume that has data on it TSM has to move all the data to another volume. 2 hours seems way to high for me for 2GB though. Bottleneck on that is usually the disk and no, TSM does indeed no reorg on the DB. regards, Manuel - Original Message - From: Gerhard

Re: Bocada .v. Servograph/TSM .or. alternatives??

2002-12-12 Thread Tony Morgan
Roger, Many thanks for the reply I have been down with 'flu so was not able to reply earlier! Cheers Tony -Original Message- From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 09:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bocada .v. Servograph/TSM .or. alternatives??

Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is repla ced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Ford, Phillip
For this reason we run a backup stg from the primary disks to copytape pool before we do migration. If the copytape is damaged by a tape drive, the data is still on disk. If the primary tape is damaged during or after migration then there is the good copytape. So the question is do you have a

SQL Backtrack and TSM

2002-12-12 Thread Rob Hefty
Hello all, We have a SQL Backtrack process that invokes a TSM retrieval and has been aborting with the error: ANS1314E (RC14) File data currently unavailable on server. To remedy this we created a management class that would move this data directly to our primary diskpool instead of pooling up

Re: Question about Veritas Cluster and filespace name

2002-12-12 Thread Peter Bjoern
You know, there seems to be a similar issue with filespace naming with the new Netware cluster aware client. We're awaiting a server upgrade to pursue it further. Seems as it the 'getservername' API call is at the heart of this. Yes, it seems TSM is not savey of any cluster soloutions except

Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is replaced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
I basically need to know what procedures / commands need to be executed once a tape has been destroyed... Become familiar with the Administrator's Guide, whose guidance is invaluable in proceeding with server guardianship. The topic Recovering a Lost or Damaged Storage Pool Volume most

Re: tsm server monitoring products

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Cowen
Blatant self-serving advertisement follows. === CNT offers a TSM Reporting Tool as part of our TSM Consulting Services. Interested parties can contact me or John Duffy for more details. Except from collateral: Key elements of TSM Monitoring Service The

Re: scratch tapes not recognized

2002-12-12 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there a reason not to set maxscratch high say for all storage pools, One reason not to set maxscratch high is that if you set it realistically (based on the number of tapes you have minus a cushion), you can use the storage pool percent utilized figures to let you know when you are going

Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is repla ced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Large, Matthew
tsm help restore volume Matthew Large TSM Infrastructure Engineer Lavington Street Int: 7430 4995 Ext: +44 207 902 4995 -Original Message- From: Thach, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 December 2002 13:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Procedures to follow after a drive with a

SQL select for finding which node uses which mgmt-class

2002-12-12 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi *SM'ers, All is in the title : I would like to find all management classes that where used by a node for making either backups or archives. I suppose I could make it while querying the backups table, but maybe there is a faster way ! TIA Arnaud

Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is repla ced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Thach, Kevin
I have the volumes necessary to restore the destroyed volume onsite. I checked them into the library using the command: checkin libvol ibm3584a search=bulk status=private checklabel=barcode They checked in okay, but I started my restore volume and it still says they are unavailable or offsite.

Re: restore crashes on memory

2002-12-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev
what is the result of: lslpp -L bos.rte.\* I suspect you are at AIX 4.3.3ML9 which had a memory leak in fclose(). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Michelle Wiedeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12.12.2002 12:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist

BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupsets

2002-12-12 Thread Schwarz Werner
I need help, please: Can me tell somebody to solve the problem described in the following example? begin example assumption: I have 2 backup_versions time: day_00 The 1st time I create a backupset, all 1000 active backup_versions are consolidated on tape_01 {bds000.1,bds001.1, ...

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-12 Thread Seay, Paul
Is this kind of like the hyperjump they demonstrated at the end of the movie, SuperNova? Does the tape end up pregnant? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002

Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is repla ced -- 3584 library

2002-12-12 Thread Robert L. Rippy
Update the volumes access to READO. They are probally maked as access=offsite. Thanks, Robert Rippy From: Thach, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/12/2002 11:25 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Procedures to follow after a

Re: restore crashes on memory

2002-12-12 Thread Wells, William
Are you aware of a fix for this problem? William Wells AIX Systems Administrator Atos Origin Work# +1-817-264-8560 Cell# +1-817-233-9479 Pager# +1-817-432-2062 -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupsets

2002-12-12 Thread J M
We are looking at ways to reduce tape consumption in our 3494 library- which is being managed by 2 AIX TSM 4.2.2 servers. In general- we want to write archive data (separate management classes and storage pools) to disk and then directly to a tape copy pool, and then eject the media out of the

Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupset s

2002-12-12 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, John. First, if you don't have copies, you risk losing data if a tape goes bad. Second, you can define a primary pool to be managed by DRM with: set drmprimstgpool primarypoolname Then you can get those ejected for you and put them in a closet, and you have your copypool to send offsite.

multiple image backups

2002-12-12 Thread J D Gable
Hello all, Does anyone know the best way (if any) to run multiple image backups from one client at once? We have 8 drives available to us, but we can only seem to get one image (raw device) backup to kick off at a time. Meanwhile there are 7 drives sitting idle. Any assistance would be greatly

Re: Question about Veritas Cluster and filespace name

2002-12-12 Thread Joshua Bassi
Yes, it seems TSM is not savey of any cluster soloutions except Microsoft's. That an HACMP. -- 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

Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupset s

2002-12-12 Thread J M
Alex- Thanks- you make some great points and this helps-- Cheers, John From: Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupset s Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:46:48

Re: TSM in a MS Cluster environment

2002-12-12 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey gang, I'm thinking about using the TSM web client for a customer of mine. I understand how to set up the 1581 port and what not. The only thing I'm confused about is the following. On this one server they have two oracle databases which we back up with two different server instances and

Re: multiple image backups

2002-12-12 Thread Seay, Paul
What have you set resourceutilization in the dsm.opt and mount point to for the node? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: J D Gable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Exchange Restore-Help Urgent

2002-12-12 Thread Amini, Mehdi
Trying to restore Exchange to another server with same node name Getting error: AND1245E (RC122) Format Unknown What is this message telling me? Pleas help. Thanks Mehdi Amini LAN/WAN Engineer ValueOptions 12369 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite C Reston, VA 20191 Phone: 703-390-6855 Fax:

Re: Network drive backup with Storage Agent

2002-12-12 Thread Christo Heuer
Hi Jin, Something similar to what we've done - except we didn't go the LAN-Free route. We installed the 32Bit Windows client for netware - mapped the Netware volumes to 2000, and then did a TSM Lan backup to our TSM server. I'm not too sure if the storage agent on Windows will be able to work

Re: LAN free backup for Novell

2002-12-12 Thread Christo Heuer
Hi Paul, I agree with you on the small files and LAN-Free - BUT - we have a few Netware servers with large btrieve databases - so I'm sure there is a need for Lan-Free on Netware - bringing me to the 2nd part of Netware and backups - the unfortunate thing with Netware and small files is this: You