Re: SV: TSM ASR

2003-11-18 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Perfect, tnx! Christian Svensson [EMAIL

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Ian Smith
A recent version of Atape is required for dual path support. We use Atape 8.3.1.0. You also need to enable alternative pathing support on the rmt device which, I think is set to off by default: i.e. chdev -l device -a alt_pathing=yes Then when you make the devices available to the host you will

Can I use IBM 3583 SCSI with HPUX 11.0 ? I Can´t

2003-11-18 Thread Juan Manuel Lopez Azañon
Hi All. I have got to run a new proyect to my company: An alternative site to recover all machines in case of disaster. My TSM Server run actualy over hpux 11.0 64 bits on a A Class machine, connected by fibre channel ( Tachyon cards ) to IBM 3584 library. The other site outsite the build is

Backup summary whilst backup is in progress?

2003-11-18 Thread David McClelland
*SM Stalwarts, I *really* like the 'summary' table in TSM - it's great for pulling out historical data about how your backups, restores, processes etc have been performing. However, I've an instance at the moment where I'd like to be able to know the status of a backup *whilst* it's still going.

TSM can't delete files on Netware Server

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Schrijvers
Dear all, since our upgrade from Netware5.1 PS6 up to Netware6 the following schedule does not work properly. The archive is not the problem. The option to delete the archived files is! E.g. file to delete: EUFILE200311181238.TXT (perhaps filename to long ???) Schedule Schedule Name

Antwort: Backup summary whilst backup is in progress?

2003-11-18 Thread Christian Demnitz
try sh session Christian Demnitz www.witzeserver.de -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese

Re: Symposium papers

2003-11-18 Thread Shannon Bach
This looks like a great resource but for some reason when I click on one of the Topics I get the following error; There was an error opening this document. This viewer cannot decrypt this document. The viewer being referred to is ACROBAT READER 4.0. Any ideas? Thank you for making this

Tivoli Field Guides

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Sims
A lesser-known information source for registered IBM customers is found in the Tivoli Field Guides - yet another area in the amazing information store created and maintained by IBM. Here you can find explorations of various topics such as HSM, Windows cluster service database backup and restoral,

Re: Symposium papers

2003-11-18 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Shannon! Yep! You are using a rather down-level reader. You should use Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher. Look at http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/28966.htm http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/28966.htm for more information. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Re: AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Anyone have problems of this sort? The client level is 5.1.0.1 (I know..upgrade!) Yes, you inadvertently answered your own question :-) This could be APAR IC33389 that you are experiencing. You can go to http://www.ibm.com and search on the APAR number for details. Fixed in 5.1.5 and up (I

attempt to free unknown pointer

2003-11-18 Thread Hubble, Frank
running tivoli storage manager for mvs version 5 release 1 level 6.2 tsm client running on suse sles8 service pack 2 Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.5 error in tsmerror.log : all the linux clients get the following error. 11/06/03 14:40:20 Attempt to free unknown

Re: Antwort: Backup summary whilst backup is in progress?

2003-11-18 Thread David McClelland
Christian, Yeah, I've looked at the 'show session' output, but I'm not sure I understand the output. As 'show session' output might look like this: ... ... Session 81: Type=Node, id=NODE-NAME Platform=WinNT, NodeId=105, Owner= SessType=4, Index=5, TermReason=0 RecvWaitTime=0.000

Re: AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Bill Boyer
There are months worth of these 10MB EDBx.LOG files. Is there an easy way to remove them? I can upgrade the client today to 5.1.6.7. Will the next backup cause AD to remove these old log files? Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
We are having a similar problem and 5.1.6.7 did not resolve the problem. We are currently testing 5.2.0.3 on one of our problem Domain Controllers. So far so good. -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Symposium papers

2003-11-18 Thread Shannon Bach
Thanks! Shannon

Re: Symposium papers

2003-11-18 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, you need Acrobat Rreader 6.0. Bye Rainer Tammer --Original Message Text--- From: Shannon Bach Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:54:14 -0600 This looks like a great resource but for some reason when I click on one of the Topics I get the following error; There was an error opening this

Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Pasquale, Joe
We multiple file servers with large amounts of files. We would like to perform a full-incremental backup everyday with full backups every month. We found that with the large amount of small files, the TSM catalog size can grow exponentially, especially if full backups are done every month. Is

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Karel Bos
And use the archive option to do long term data management (= not the same as oh lets archive everything once a month).. Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 18 november 2003 17:04 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re:

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Pasquale, Joe
Full backups are required because of retention requirements set by government regulations, so the incremental forever philosophy is NOT a solution. -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

TDP Domino 5.1.5

2003-11-18 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
Does anyone know if there are any problems with TDP Domino 5.1.5 running with Lotus version 6?? Windows 2000 client. Thanks+

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Pasquale, Joe
Doesn't the archive option insert an entry into the TSM catalog for each file? -Original Message- From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Catalog Size and large number of files And use the archive option to

Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
Hi TSM-ers, How do you backup your server based Windows user profiles? I have to backup a W2K server with a 160GB disk where the Windows XP User profiles are stored - about 1.5 million files and 20GB. These files have spread over a lot of tapes - a restore of a user profile just took 4 hours due

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Merryman, John A.
We have a similar scenario For short term retention (5 years or less), we use dual node names Node_ARC and send their data to a backup management class that functions for an incremental archive. The downside is our database and dirmc size will continue to grow for 2 years. For long term

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you thought of creating/using BACKUP SETS ? Pasquale, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2003 11:07 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Catalog Size and large

5.2 Client download

2003-11-18 Thread David E Ehresman
The windows and netware 5.2 clients have patch levels 6 and 3 respectively available but I can not find a patch level directory for AIX, just the 5.2.0 code under the maintenance directory. Does this indicate a failure on my part to find the AIX patches or are there no AIX 5.2 64 bit client

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Otto Schakenbos
How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? If your tapes are really that small consider a hardware upgrade. an option to consider is image backup (when you have bigger tapes) this will not help you with single file restores but in case of total disaster it will be time saver (and job maybe). one

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread David E Ehresman
In that case, zip or tar the data up into a single file and archive that file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2003 11:07:52 AM Full backups are required because of retention requirements set by government regulations, so the incremental forever philosophy is NOT a solution. -Original Message-

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Karel Bos
It should but its an and + and story. And you have to get control of you back-up data (lowering # versions and #days) and still meet long term data storage requirments. So, if for some reason, you have to have day/month/year requirments than I would take a look at: - Storing daily back-ups as

Antwort: TDP Domino 5.1.5

2003-11-18 Thread Markus Veit
Hi, we are in the middle of testing, will let you know how it goes Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Markus Veit

Re: TDP Domino 5.1.5

2003-11-18 Thread Eduardo Esteban
No known problems, just make sure you run TDP Domino 5.1.5.1 Eduardo ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/18/2003 08:08:18 AM: Does anyone know if there are any problems with TDP Domino 5.1.5 running with Lotus version 6?? Windows 2000 client. Thanks+

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Karel Bos
We didn't, and stopped the back-up of user profiles permantly. Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 18 november 2003 17:11 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Backup User profiles Hi TSM-ers, How

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Karel Bos
Just let the back-ups run over time to a non-collecated storage pool with quiet a lot of clients and you will see. It will spread over all the tapes in a storage pool. Regard, Karel (Seen on LTO1 tapes) -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Otto Schakenbos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden:

Re: AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Khan, Khalid B.
I sent a message to Bill Boyer yesterday, but not sure if he got it or not. Here is the message again: I don't have the problem but I am backing the SYSTEM OBJECTS without any problems on a W2K DC. My client option.dsm has the exclude for ntds dir, which is recommended by TSM guide. My SYSTEM

AW: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
Thanks for your reply, How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? A User profile is restored as an entity. It's spread over so many tapes because some files in a profile change daily and some never do. On the tapes the profile data is mixed with the rest of the drives data (the user profiles

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Otto Schakenbos
Thomas wrote Node Collocation is enabled so i asumed it should be on only one tape Otto Schakenbos PC-Support TEL: +49-7151/502 8468 FAX: +49-7151/502 8489 MOBILE: +49-172/7102715 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TFX IT-Service AG Fronackerstrasse 33-35 71332 Waiblingen GERMANY Karel Bos wrote: Just

Re: AW: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Otto Schakenbos
then you can - partion your disk (or buy new disk) and create a different filespace. or - create a second node on your client. With nodeA you backup all files except the profiles and with nodeB you only backup the profiles. (different node , different tape) It doesn't even cost anything. ( well a

Empty tape will not reclaim

2003-11-18 Thread Conko, Steven
Strange problem. AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1.5.4. Im trying to run reclamation on our copy storage pool. There is only one tape left, and reclamation continually starts and ends successfully for it without moving any data and no time passing: 11/18/03 06:53:26 ANR0984I Process 2215 for SPACE

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Coats, Jack
Thats right. Eventually, given time, to do a full system restore, we have to mount basically all the tapes. So a full system restore is a pain. TSM was built on the concept that we mainly back it up. Restore must be reliable, but speed of restore is not the primary goal. longwinded analogy I

Re: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Sims
How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? ... Perhaps a lot of active files and insufficient Reclamation.

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Roder
For the below to work, the book says that the devices have to be directly attached to the HBA's. Has anyone tried configuring alternate path support for SAN attached 3590-H's? The book says that it is not supported. A recent version of Atape is required for dual path support. We use Atape

AW: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
The problem is with the disk layout (not done by myself). The 160GB disk (seen by TSM as one filespace) is filled with 20GB of profiles and 140GB of programs and other files. We keep this files for 4 months so now this data is spread over 88 3590 cartridges. So I think the only solution to save

AS/400 TSM client

2003-11-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We have an AS/400 system we would like to backup with TSM. We read that the OS/400 we have is downlevel so we have ordered and scheduled an upgrade of the OS. However, now there is the issue of BRMS !Is is absolutely required ? When I read through some of the readme files, the only software

Re: AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
We have defragged AD, and it does not reside on the boot partition. I am checking now to see if virus scanning is hitting the NTDS directory. -Original Message- From: Khan, Khalid B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Empty tape will not reclaim

2003-11-18 Thread Alan Davenport
Audit vol J00840 fix=yes That usually clears these issues up. Al Alan Davenport Senior Storage Administrator Selective Insurance Co. of America [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306 -Original Message- From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:53

AD Circular Logging and TSM backups

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Dile
The MS KB issue documented in 272425 is the reason why we specify the following info in our readme and website http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7q=uid=swg21052221loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en+en under Client Requirements for Microsoft Windows that Windows 2000

TSM ASR

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Dile
The desktop.ini files in the locations you indicate should have been restored with the hidden attribute set. As Andy Raibeck indicated there's an APAR in the works for that problem. You don't need to delete the files. You can hide the files again via attrib +h or the properties tab of the

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Rhodes
Our 3590H's are dual attached to our TSM server via separate FC switches. It does work as described below. I checked the atape manual . . . it describes exactly what we've implemented. Rick Steve Roder [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Roder
Our 3590H's are dual attached to our TSM server via separate FC switches. It does work as described below. I checked the atape manual . . . it describes exactly what we've implemented. Ok. Cool. But, I am looking at Pub GC35-0154-11 (IBM TotalStorage Tape Device Drivers Installation and

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Prather, Wanda
My sentiment, as well. Backup set is made from the data already on the server, you don't have to transmit it again. Downside, it is more difficult to restore a single file from a backup set. You could also 1) Use a different node name for the monthly archive 2) Run the full backup to that node

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Prather, Wanda
Also, (and I've forgotten from the beginning of this thread what client type is involved here) for AIX or Windows you can make an IMAGE backup of the filesystem. Manage the image backups with a different management class, even a differen storage pool so that tapes can be removed from the library

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Joni Moyer
Could you provide me with the direct link to this manual? I can't seem to find it... I'm using Google, but I'm not having any luck. Thanks! *** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 **New as of 11/1/03

How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume

2003-11-18 Thread admin
TSM 5.1.6.2 running on AIX 5.1 Hi, I recently had a bad tape. I was able to restore the volume successfully from the offsite-copy tapes. The bad tape was marked 'Destroyed' subsequently. From what I read, I thought this tape would be removed by TSM after the data was restored to other volumes,

Re: How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume

2003-11-18 Thread James Choate
Did you restore the volume by update the volume and setting the access=destroyed, and then performing a restore volume? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to remove a 'Destroyed'

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Foster
This function is not supported for devices that are attached through an IBM San Data Gateway. I have a feeling that a SAN data gateway is an extra piece of equipment that is used only for server-free data movement. A SAN switch is something different, and is the normal way to connect drives to

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Prather, Wanda
A San Data Gateway is a device that converts SCSI protocols to fibre protocols. For example, if you have SCSI LTO1 tape drives in your 3583, and you want to connect them to your SAN, they gotta go through the gateway to get to a SAN switch. So if your devices are fibre already, the SGD isn't

Is there any way to move archive data between management classes

2003-11-18 Thread Martinez, Matt
Hi all, Here is my problem; I need to change retention policies for data for some of the nodes already archived in a specific management class but leave the rest of the data in that same management class unchanged. Is this possible, Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Thank

Re: How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume

2003-11-18 Thread admin
Yes, I updated it to 'Destroyed' before I proceeded to restore the data, but finding out that the restore process would also update the tape to destroyed before restoring data. Chuck Quoting James Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you restore the volume by update the volume and setting the

Cliente ADSM 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Lopez Janeth
HI, Does TSM Server 5.1 support client ADSM 3.1? what is the lower nivel of client supported by TSM servir 5.1? thank you JL

what tape is in a drive?

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
TSM 5.1, 2K server, overland neo 4100 with 2 X LTO2 drives. I'm trying to find a select or query statment that will tell me what volume is in a drive. The only thing close is the drive_state in the drives table, but that only tells me if it is loaded or not, whereas I need to know what volume is

Re: what tape is in a drive?

2003-11-18 Thread James Choate
Try query mount -Original Message- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what tape is in a drive? TSM 5.1, 2K server, overland neo 4100 with 2 X LTO2 drives. I'm trying to find a select or query

Re: AW: Backup User profiles

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Harris
If its only 20GB, why not run a selective backup once per week/fortnight/month on just that directory? That will give you an extra copy and may push old inactive versions into the bit bucket, but you get a single consolidated tape. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane

Re: How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume

2003-11-18 Thread admin
Hi, I was just able to that bad volume by doing delete volume x discarddata=yes. Thank you. Quoting James Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you restore the volume by update the volume and setting the access=destroyed, and then performing a restore volume? -Original Message- From:

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2003-11-18 Thread Himanshu A Madhani
Thanks !!! Himanshu Madhani Tivoli Storage Manager - Device Driver Development Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (408) 256 6120 T/L : 8 276 6120 Fax: (408) 256 4183 T/L : 8 276 2513

Re: AS/400 TSM client

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Harris
Zoltan As I understand it you need either BRMS or Robot/Save (a third part product) to connect to TSM. The problem with BRMS is that it treats TSM as a virtual tape drive, so a lot of TSM facilities are bypassed. In particular BRMS can do incremental backups, but TSM can only expire the

Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Sims
Could you provide me with the direct link to this manual? I can't seem to find it... I'm using Google, but I'm not having any luck. Thanks! As documented in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts : IBM TotalStorage Tape Device Drivers: Installation and User's Guide, (GC35-0154) (a

Re: what tape is in a drive?

2003-11-18 Thread Ted Byrne
How about using query mount? -Ted At 04:15 PM 11/18/2003 -0600, you wrote: TSM 5.1, 2K server, overland neo 4100 with 2 X LTO2 drives. I'm trying to find a select or query statment that will tell me what volume is in a drive. The only thing close is the drive_state in the drives table, but that

Slow DB2 backups and IBM says I'm too old for support.

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff Rogers
We have what appeared to be a simple problem, we installed a new DB2 server and the backups (API) are slow, like 27 hours to backup a 100GB database. We have been backing up this database for years from a different server in less than two hours. The main difference between the two servers? The