Re: DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Raibeck
There is no way to modify TSM behavior as you describe. In fact, your statement about excluding the files is exactly one of the reasons why TSM behaves as it does: so you can evaluate the reasons for the missed files, and take the necessary actions. We feel that it is better to flag the backup with

Re: DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Raibeck
The return codes from dsmc are the same as those reported via the scheduler. See the client manual chapter on "Automating tasks" for a discussion of the return codes (I'm talking about version 5.1 and up). Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Developme

Re: DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Justin Bleistein
it's still there in 5, if we're talking about the same thing here... On the server side there already is a return code for this it's return code: "4". If you type in: "q event * * node=node_name f=d" you will see it under RESUlT. Now if your kicking it off from dsmc which I think u are that maybe a

Is backup systemobject redundant on Win2K?

2003-06-26 Thread Joe Howell
If I am doing an incremental backup of a Windows 2000 server client, is also performing a "backup systemobject" command redundant? My reading of the TSM Client reference leads me to believe that it is but I could use some reassurance. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO --

Re: Move Drmedia ... Remove=BULK asks for a reply

2003-06-26 Thread Coats, Jack
I have suspected I saw it on occasion. But not well enough to document. I have a 3583, 6 LTO1 drives, 60 slots, and door with 12 slots. TSM on Win2K is 4.2.3.1 -Original Message- From: John Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Move Drmedia ... Remove=BULK asks for a reply

2003-06-26 Thread John Schneider
Greetings, We recently installed 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 library has the 10 i/o slot option. The server and library work great, except for one quirk. When we go to check out our

Re: DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Henschell, John
We've seen this problem go away once we started using the 5.1.# client code. -Original Message- From: Andy Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DSMC Exit Code Question I had an intersting question posed to me today and I d

DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Andy Carlson
I had an intersting question posed to me today and I don't have an answer. This person is checking the return code on the dsmc command to determine if the backup needs to be looked at or not. What he is coming across is files that are in the directory when the directory is scanned, but gone when

Re: Management Class Problem.

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Raibeck
What is the RETONLY setting for nt_brass_mc and nt_default_mc. Directories will be bound to the management class with the larger RETONLY value. That is one likely explanation. If that doesn't explain it, then run dsmc q inclexcl To see what your include/exclude list looks like, in case INCLUD

How to EXPIRE/REMOVE specific EXPORT tapes

2003-06-26 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Yes I have dug through and tried to RTFM but I may be missing something. I have old tapes used for EXPORT processing. They are in the VOLUME HISTORY. I need to delete/wipe/clear/remove the contents of these tapes so I can reuse them. How do I do this ? I only want to do this to a few specif

Management Class Problem.

2003-06-26 Thread Pearson, Dave
I have TSM Server Version 5.1.6.1 on AIX 5.1. This is involving a client node TSM Client 5.1 on Win2000 We wanted to have the client node to have an independent management class. I created one. (nt_brass_mc. The old default mc is nt_default_mc) We made a change in inclexcl for nodename (Brass)

Re: Curious - Any Suggestions

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Sims
My experience is similar to David Longo's, but with a 3494 & 3590s: a few tapes have very problematic, but not fatal, media issues, such that protracted retries occur in reading or writing. There is no external indication except stasis, where it takes a vey long time to move on to the next fil

Re: Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Here is a great presentation I was just pointed to yesterday on troubleshooting TSM bottlenecks from SHARE. It looks like it's a year old, but it was new to me. Most of the information I was aware of, but this is a good concise presentation of how to do trace functions and inter

read_errors

2003-06-26 Thread Mark Bertrand
We run a daily report that list all tapes with read and/or write errors > 0. Once we get a report we put the tape through an audit. Once the tape completes is there a way to clear the read_errors log for a particular tape. TSM Server 5.1.6.3

Re: Curious - Any Suggestions

2003-06-26 Thread David Longo
Looking at your data briefly, I have seen this happen a couple of times. It was with an IBM 3575-L32 library with C-XL drives connected to Rs6000 F50, AIX 4.3.3. and TSM 3.7.4.0. Tapes would sit at a spot for long time (hour or so) but there would be no errors in actlog or AIX errpt - no messages

Re: Hard Drive Failure

2003-06-26 Thread Camilo A. Marrugo
Thanks Richard, I followed the admin procedures and I am back online. Thanks for the advice on simultaneous images. Camilo Marrugo On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:44, Richard Sims wrote: > >This morning during a data center migration, one of the hard drives that > >holds a volume for the TSM database wa

Re: A query and some code...

2003-06-26 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Allen, 2 points: 1. reclamation can busy out your tape drives in a very artificial way. That is, if you set the reclamation threshold very aggressively, the library will copy tape-to-tape continually trying to squeeze out wasted space. 2. If mount retention is set to 60 minutes (the default), then

A query and some code...

2003-06-26 Thread asr
I'm trying to collect data on what "average" utilization rates are on tape devices. I'm attempting to support or erode the case "We need more" :) One thing that would be an interesting number (I decided) was the percent utilization of tape mount points. So I whipped out my PERL, and... Submitte

Curious - Any Suggestions

2003-06-26 Thread Mahesh Tailor
Hello, everyone! ITSM 5.1.6.4 AIX 4.3.3.10 IBM pSeries 6M1 w/8GB RAM & 6-processors Diskpool: 455GB Tape Library: IBM 3494 w/6 - 3590H1A-FC drives; each drive is direct attached to 6M1 Nightly backup: 1-2TB - 1.5TB Running a backup stg tapepool copypool maxpr=2 and have this strange situation: t

Re: Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Miles Purdy
You rock, thanks! Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26-Jun-03 1:03:07 PM >>> >Recently I've done several upgrades, and today I'm getting terrible >archive performance ... Be sure to read the White Paper on Archiving that was posted 6/11: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP10

Re: Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Sims
>Recently I've done several upgrades, and today I'm getting terrible >archive performance ... Be sure to read the White Paper on Archiving that was posted 6/11: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100254

Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, Recently I've done several upgrades, and today I'm getting terrible archive performance, although I don't do a lot of archives. My environment is: TSM server on AIX TSM server 5.1.6.4 32-bit, with 64-bit device support AIX 5.1 ML04 64-bit kernel TSM client on AIX TSM client 5.1.5.15 A

Re: Windows 2000 Active Directory Restore Problem - Please Help!! !

2003-06-26 Thread Consiglio, Tony
Jacques, Sorry I got to this late, I hope you do not mind I reply directly, besides, its faster this way and I know you will see the answer. Before this question gets answered, a few questions: 1.) Is the entire AD corrupt? why are you trying to restore only one DC's AD. I ask this because

Immediate Action Schedule on Managed Domain?

2003-06-26 Thread Nancy R. Brizuela
Hello All, We have a managed server with managed policy domains (OS/390, TSM V4.2.1). When I try to define an immediate action schedule on the managed server, it gives me the error message: ANR3200E DEFINE SCHEDULE: Command cannot be executed - domain IT-DESKTOP-TSS is a m

TDP Exchange backup

2003-06-26 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
Running TDP 5.1.5, here is the command from the excfull.cmd. start /B tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=excsch.log /logprune=7 >> excfull.log If my logfile=excsch.log and I can prune that with the logprune=7, does anyone know a way to prune the excfull.log??? Thanks, pattie

Re: WIndows 2k server restore

2003-06-26 Thread Consiglio, Tony
Joe , There are two things that I would add to this. They are as follows: Step #1 = If this is a member server in AD, then I would re-install W2K as the same machine name but DO NOT install it into the AD domain. I install it to a workgroup 1st with the same machine name. Why? because the

Re: SQL output format

2003-06-26 Thread Remco Post
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:54:38 +0200 Geert De Pecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't find a command for outputting the result of an SQL > as a delimited file, e.g. pipe characters between the fields. > This should allow an external formatter program to be used. > > Geert > >

Re: What does "SHARE" stand for?

2003-06-26 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Evan, There is a difference between a "skeptic" and a "cynic". As a reporter you're expected to be a skeptic. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram LLC "Koblentz, Evan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/26/2003 10:14 AM Please respond to "ADS

Re: What does "SHARE" stand for?

2003-06-26 Thread Adolph Kahan
Evan, it stands for the Sharing of information - that is why the party line is "SHARE isn't an acronym, it's what we do!". The attendees SHARE their experiences, they SHARE information Adolph Kahan AK Consulting Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PR

What does "SHARE" stand for?

2003-06-26 Thread Koblentz, Evan
Hi all, I'm a reporter at eWeek. Trying to find out what the spelling of "SHARE" (the IBM user group; www.share.org) actually stands for -- or perhaps what it once stood for but no longer does. The party line is, "SHARE isn't an acronym, it's what we do!"... LOL, can't get much more Dilbert-esqu

Re: SQL output format

2003-06-26 Thread Aaron Durkee
or dsmadmc -tabdelimited -outfile >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/26/03 11:06AM >>> dsmadmc -comma ? is what you'r looking for? > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Geert De Pecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: donderdag 26 juni 2003 16:55 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: SQL output f

Re: SQL output format

2003-06-26 Thread Karel Bos
dsmadmc -comma ? is what you'r looking for? > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Geert De Pecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: donderdag 26 juni 2003 16:55 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: SQL output format > > > Hi, > > I couldn't find a command for outputting the result of an

Re: retain incremental backups

2003-06-26 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
Hi, I don't understand why the incremental backups should be expired if you set the backup copy group to retain data for 30 days. If you make that, you will keep all the backups for 30 days : 4 or 5 full backups and as much incremental backups than the file was modified. But I think you haven't un

SQL output format

2003-06-26 Thread Geert De Pecker
Hi, I couldn't find a command for outputting the result of an SQL as a delimited file, e.g. pipe characters between the fields. This should allow an external formatter program to be used. Geert Geert De Pecker - SOFICO NV Fraterstraat 228-

Re: deleting old files

2003-06-26 Thread Karel Bos
If you have excluded these files from your back-up, you have marked them as deleted on the TSM server side. These files should expire as specified in de policy of the managementclass their bound to. Regard, Karel > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Eddie Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > V

deleting old files

2003-06-26 Thread Eddie Jones
Hey gang. I am running tsm 5.1.6.3 on a win2000 server. On my domino server I am running the tdp client. While I was testing the backups and restore I was backing the database and tranaction logs with the tdp client and the tsm nt client. When testing was complete and the domino admin was happy

Re: retain incremental backups

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Sims
>We make a full backup on every Saturday and incremental backups on weekdays. >We would like to keep also the incremental backups for a month. However, if >I set the Backup Copy Group to retain the backups for 30 days, only the full >backups will be preserved and the incrementals will be expired. >

backup systemobject hanging on win2k

2003-06-26 Thread Joe Howell
I'm running TSM 5.1.5 on OS/390 and backing up Win2K servers running the 5.1.5 client. I issue a "define clientaction nodename action=command object='dsmc backup systemobject'" from the server to each of my clients at the beginning of my backup cycle, followed by a "define clientaction nodename

retain incremental backups

2003-06-26 Thread Hegedus György
Hi, We make a full backup on every Saturday and incremental backups on weekdays. We would like to keep also the incremental backups for a month. However, if I set the Backup Copy Group to retain the backups for 30 days, only the full backups will be preserved and the incrementals will be expired.

TDP Domino - ZFS Performance Poor

2003-06-26 Thread Robin Lowe
Hi Does anyone use TDP for Domino backing up ZFS files ? I am testing performance for ZFS as against HFS and find ZFS some 8-12% slower when running a domdsmc sel command. Our environment : Zos 1.1 Zos TSM Server 4.2.3.0 TDP/Domino 1.1.2.0 TSM OEMVS Client 4.2.1.0 We took a sample 500

Re: HSM can't migrate files

2003-06-26 Thread Remco Post
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:00:48 +0800 ÀèÃ÷ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi£¬all,I'm doning a TSM HSM test now.I had installed the HSM client and > BA client,I update the dsm.opt and dsm.sys use the same TSM server.Now > ervery time when I want to migrate a filesystem,the error message is: > ANS9094W

Re: Multiple ACSLS servers?

2003-06-26 Thread Remco Post
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:38:33 -0700 Alex Paschal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Are you using the Gresham EDT software? If so, you can definitely use > multiple ACSLS servers. There is information in the EDT Users Manual on > how to go about it, you basically set up your rc.edt to talk to mul

AW: WIndows 2k server restore

2003-06-26 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
One important thing is to install the special hardware dependent agents before doing the restore with TSM. I had trouble doing BMR without installing Compaq Agents with the same level. Also some information in pnp Database where e.g.. teamingconfig of networkadapters is stored gets lost. Despite of