Antw: Re: Novell-Server abends with TSM Client 4.2

Hello, the version of the TSA nlm is 4.17 (23 August 1999) running on Netware 4.11 with TSM server 5.1 and TSM client 4.2. Greetings, Torsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05.06.2003 14:29:43 What are your versions of Netware (also TSA nlm's), TSM server client? --

Re: StorageTek L40 with Generation 2 LTO

Actually, that page is slightly misleading. Because StorageTek can equip their libraries with any vendor LTO drives you may need different driver and the site specifies only one of them. For STK with IBM LTO drives, OS native IBM driver should be used. For STK with HP or Seagate drives, TSM driver

Peter Hadikin/BCIT is currently on vacation

I will be out of the office starting 06/16/2003 and will not return until 06/20/2003. Please contact me upon my return. Peter

Strange copypool volume behavior

TSM Server 5.1.6.5 on AIX 4.3 I did MOVE DATA on an offsite copypool volume. Move data finished and issued these messages: 06/15/2003 14:59:19 ANR1141I Move data process ended for volume B0010. 06/15/2003 14:59:19 ANR0986I Process 74 for MOVE DATA running in the

Re: StorageTek L40 with Generation 2 LTO

Hector, on ftp.software.ibm.com/storage and look then for devdvrv (exact spelling may be differant) here you can find the LTO drivers. If you can not find let me know,then I can email the drivers directly to you. Peter At 23:58 15-6-2003 -0400, you wrote: Thanks, Peter. I have trouble download

Locale problem

Hello. I'm using TSM Version 5 , Release 1 , Level 5.0 to back up my RedHat 9.0 Linux. All working wonderful beside my Hebrew filenames directories, when I use the GUI or the command line to back it up - all working well, but when I use the scheduler I get in the dsmerror.log : Unrecognized

Re: StorageTek L40 with Generation 2 LTO

I found that I had to login to see this list, strange also that someone needs an ID to see what hardware is working with a software product. Anyway, I saw several descriptions of the STK libraries with the differant tapedrive vendors mentioned. Did you also saw the list with a key symbol on the

Re: Moving from OS/390 to AIX network questions.

Not quite the idea you are considering but what we have implemented on AIX is to have 2 * gigbit ethernet interfaces configured as one device using an etherchannel config (supported by AIX at 4.3.3 but switch needs to support capability). One of the advantages is that if either card goes down then

Re: StorageTek L40 with Generation 2 LTO

Yes, I've opened the list and followed the link for L700 before to submit my post. Just checked to see was it changed recently. No detailed info and having Base on the list can easily mislead to usage of TSM driver. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Peter Pijpelink - P.L.C.S. BV Storage

Re: StorageTek L40 with Generation 2 LTO

Agree, but if you look at the http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Supported_Devices_for_AIXHPSUNWIN.html#LTO%20Tape%20Drives page you see a seperate section about other drives in a library., since th TSM device driver controlls the library, then the drives section

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

Yes, we have seen the same behavior. Have you opened a call with IBM? Ken -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maria Ilieva Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 05:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange copypool volume behavior TSM

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

Yes, an audit vol fix=yes clears the problem. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Maria Ilieva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 16 juni 2003 11:09 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Strange copypool volume behavior TSM Server 5.1.6.5 on AIX 4.3 I did MOVE DATA on an offsite

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

... 06/15/2003 14:59:19 ANR1163W Offsite volume B0010 still contains files which could not be moved. ... Maria - You can refer to http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts in supplementing the Messages manual... ANR1163W Offsite volume __ still contains

Re: v5.1.7.0 - so far, so good

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 Gretchen L. Thiele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had v5.1.7.0 in test for a bit and went live with it on two servers this morning. I was pleasantly surprised (and pleased) that I could now delete filespaces and nodes that had been problematic earlier (see

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

I already did an audit volume fix=y Here is the result: 06/16/2003 13:47:47 ANR4132I Audit volume process ended for volume B0010; 5 files inspected, 0 damaged files deleted, 0 damaged files marked as damaged, 0 objects updated. 06/16/2003 13:47:47

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

... However, I decided delete this volume with discarddata=y and make another backup stg. But that may have been the only surviving instance of those files in TSM server storage. Richard Sims, BU

Re: Strange copypool volume behavior

There are no destroyed or unavailable volumes. Right now this tape is in pending status, so I have some time to enjure that there is another copy of these files. If there is a way to find their names . when even query content didn't work before delete volume. Maria Ilieva - Original

Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Hi all, during last weeks I did interesting findings at one of production LTO 3583-L18 library. There are 2 drives and both was changed past series of media faults (one of them twice) past about 1 year of operation. We have about 20 historicaly touched tapes with average 3-4 write faults. Media

Re: TSM Decision support 4.2.0 tools

Is that also a separately priced product from TSM? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/03 01:09AM From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem: Loaded TSM Decision Support V4.2.0 Loaded and configured and populated a MSSQL DB with the 1st set of data. Tried installing Decision Support for

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Hi, we have exactly the same problem, about 2 -3 tapes / day with write error, 2/3 of capacity. Only on Imation tapes, not on IBM ones... We spend our time to do MOVE DATA ! Ren LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence

Re: AW: MediaW

Richard, I'm glad you mentioned VirtualMountPoint. Is there ANY way to simulate that in Windows? Gosh, Tab, are you still using the world's last wholly proprietary operating system and enduring all the pain of System Objects?? ;-) I'm not aware of any way in Windows to achieve the same

UPDATE VOLUME

Hi, Until today, if we had to cancel a data movement and a large file was in the way we did an update of the input or output tape to get the process to kill itself. Today we upgraded our TSM server to version 5.1.7.0 and now we get this message: ANR2405E UPDATE VOLUME: Volume 193 is currently in

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

We have it on both IBM and Imation tapes (we had first 20 tapes in initial order with library from IBM and 20 Imation tapes bought 1/2 year later). Fault tapes are mixed. Tomas -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Could any of you supply your drive firmware level, so we can all compare notes? thanks, bob On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Tom?? Hrouda Ing. wrote: We have it on both IBM and Imation tapes (we had first 20 tapes in initial order with library from IBM and 20 Imation tapes bought 1/2

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

we have exactly the same problem, about 2 -3 tapes / day with write error, 2/3 of capacity. Only on Imation tapes, not on IBM ones... Interesting. LTO divides its tracks into four bands, which it writes from inner to outer (analogous to optical media). See

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Very Interesting. I have a 10-drive 3584 library that came with 380 tapes about 22 months ago. So far, two tapes have locked in drives (which seems to have been a firmware issue corrected quite some time ago) and one of the tapes was flawed enough that the drive would die while trying to label

SV: Antw: Re: Novell-Server abends with TSM Client 4.2

Hi Torsten Just to point it out... the latest client officially supporting NetWare 4.11 was Client version 4.1.3.99! But have you tried to upgrade your client to version 4.2.2?? Regards Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Torsten Strecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 16. juni

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

drive firmware level - 25D4 IBM LTO tapes Regards Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Bob Booth - UIUC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16.06.2003 16:02 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Drive FW 25D4, library 2.80.41 (I think). Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Booth - UIUC Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom Could any of you supply your

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

So, we use drive code 28V0, library code 3060, sorry, for the percentage we do not have 70 but between 20 and 40% as percentage utilized at time of the write error, René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

OK, with percentages, I think it depends on setting of estimate capacity in deviceclass. I tried to set it as near as possible to real utilization, when tape goes full, to better gues real tape utilization during filling process. Some time ago I has 200G estimated and when I re-count percentages

Antwort: Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Hi, I was wondering which server hardware do you use. We had a sort of similar problem with LTO tapes ( Fuji) on Compaq HW, after disabling the SCSI monitoring agents the problem disapeared Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Markus Veit _

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

Hi Similar problem here. Bought four Imation tapes into IBM 3584 with drive firmware 3481 and library firmware 3060, got write error on all four tapes at around 38% of 190734.0GB estimated cap. Kind Regards, Stefan Thor Hreinsson -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC

NDMP Backups using TSM

Hi, We are currently using NFS based backups for backing up our neap filers. I am wondering if NDMP Backups with TSM now allow us to do file/directory level restores. Also is 3-way NDMP backups possible with TSM ? IS NDMP backups for TSM using the same backup software [TSM 5.1.6.2 etc] with just

Re: new TSM Client Pricing

I've heard the same thing about the number of cpu's in a server. Eddie Jones 770-953-1959 ext.2824 The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT)

Re: AW: MediaW

Richard, Thanks. Gosh, Tab, are you still using the world's last wholly proprietary operating system and enduring all the pain of System Objects?? ;-) Yes. Even though we sometimes have to spend as much as $2500 for a new server, and only about 98 out of every 100 job applicants know anything

LTO Fibre tape performance under AIX 5.1

Greetings, We are installing a new TSM server on a pSeries 650 using TSM 5.1.6.5, and a 3584 Tape Library with a L32 and D32 frames with 15 LTO Gen 1 Tape drives. The 650 has 4 2Gb/sec FC ports; two go one McData Spherion 4500 switch, and to go to another. Half the tape drives are go to one

Re: AW: MediaW

Tab, I'm thinking you could have a script/cmd file that shares out the directories on the drive, then assigns drive letters to the shares, and another script that undoes this, and have them as your pre and post-sched commands. Or even a script that would share a directory, attach to it, back it

Re: select statement and tape update command

Similar situation really, *except* we want to automate the checkout of backupset volumes, which do not belong to a specific Stg_pool. I think the only way to achieve this is through passing the result of a select statement (select volume_name from libvolumes where last_use='BackupSet') into a

[Fwd: LTO Fibre tape performance under AIX 5.1]

As a followup to my earlier message, one issue that came up is the TSM database and logs are on the same disks. In other words, we have the first copy of the database and the log on one disk, and the database mirror and log mirror on another disk. They are all using separate filesystems. I

Maximum number of DB volumes

We have TSM version 4.2.1.15 (moving soon to a 5... level) running on AIX 4.3.3. Another TSM manager told me that there should be a maximum of 16 DB volumes. They said that there could be more but that they had heard that there is system degradation if one was to use more that 16 DB volumes.

Re: Maximum number of DB volumes

Not 100% sure about running on AIX, but we run 17 TSM servers on OS390 and have some running 30 DB vols at 2.4 GB per vol, we have no degradation from it. We have been running this way from all v 4.1 up to v 5.1.6. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli

Re: LTO Fibre tape performance under AIX 5.1

We are installing a new TSM server on a pSeries 650 using TSM 5.1.6.5, and a 3584 Tape Library with a L32 and D32 frames with 15 LTO Gen 1 Tape drives. The 650 has 4 2Gb/sec FC ports; two go one McData Spherion 4500 switch, and to go to another. Half the tape drives are go to one Spherion

Re: Maximum number of DB volumes

According to the training manuals for TSM 4.X and 5.X, you should not have more than 12 DB volumes. Yet we have 16, and at one point we had 32 and saw no performance degradation. There seems to be no end to the debate on this issue. We are on AIX 4.3.3 and have been with this config from 4.2.X

JVM and web admin GUI

I use Mozilla as my browser and I currently have J2RE 1.4.1_03 installed. I get Java errors with the web admin GUI. What version of the JRE works with TSM 5.1. Eric

Anyone using 3494 and Windows 2000 Server?

Is anyone running TSM server on a Windows 2000 server connected directly to a 3494 with (2)3590 drives (SCSI)? IBM says it's supported but we spoke with some IBM tech reps and they said they have never seen it implemented. Just curious Mark Cini Systems Administrator CorrFlex Display Packaging

Re: select statement and tape update command

Hi, I've been banging my head against the same brick wall - for checking out tapes in an onsite tape pool. Anyway, here's my script that I use to do it. I run a query of volumes I want to work on to a file and then read in the file and pass each parameter into a TSM command. The parameter

Re: JVM and web admin GUI

I tried Firebird with JVM 1.4 and got the same thing. I then tried a clean build of NT 4 and IE. IE asked me to download java 1.3.1_01. I figure that's because there's something in the applet that tells IE to do this? And it still crashed! I get this: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:

Re: Maximum number of DB volumes

From: Ford, Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We have TSM version 4.2.1.15 (moving soon to a 5... level) running on AIX 4.3.3. Another TSM manager told me that there should be a maximum of 16 DB volumes. They said that there could be more but that they had heard that there is system

Re: Netware restore problem

From: Brecton Whitten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When using the Web client to restore a directory to a new, empty location on the same client I get overwrite requests that will not be replied to. The only response it will accept is a skip or cancel. Is this a known issue or has anyone