Damage tape again .....

2003-12-10 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hello I need to be sure about the correct steps to manage a damage tape and the fastest way: 1. Did I need to make a MOVE DATA and AUDIT VOL fix=yes instead to do right away a RESTORE VOL from the copypool (I think I will gain time .) and a DEL VOL of the damage tape. 2. If during a

Re: SQL TDP configurations

2003-12-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
I personally prefer the mixed scenario: - using include/exclude list of the API client metadata is sent to a dedicated disk pool (which *does not* migrate to tape) - full and differential backups go direct to tape - transaction log backups go to another disk pool which in turn migrates to tape As

Re: Replacement of Tape Library

2003-12-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Let me first ask a question before answering yours: why are you going to *downgrade*?? Are you going to use 3583 somewhere else? It can be upgraded with Ultrium 2 drives. You can read from and even write to existing tapes without paying attention what is the name of the new library. You can

Re: Backsets To Removable Media

2003-12-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
mkisofs + cdrecord Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Renee Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09.12.2003 23:11 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Backsets To Removable Media

Re: Unixware client error

2003-12-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
As any other v4.1 client this one is out of support. Even if it was supported, I would expect some change after SCO's attempt to squeeze some money from IBM :-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09.12.2003

Re: Replacement of Tape Library

2003-12-10 Thread Crawford, Lindy
Hi We are going to use that existing 3583 library at a new site. We purchased the 3582 with u2 drives for existing site, as this site has fewer nodes and the data capacity is more. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2003 10:42 AM

Re: SQL TDP configurations

2003-12-10 Thread Yiannakis Vakis
Willem, what I can see from the accounting log is that the backup has an enormous amount of media wait. There are two records for that backup which I interprete as the two mount points. One mount point should be for the tape that has the meta data and the other mount point for the data itself.

Re: Damage tape again .....

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Smoldt
Robert, 1. No, you don't have to do the move data first. You might not even have the original tape if it were lost or broken. Before you do the restore volume, you must mark it destroyed, however. The reason for the move data is to save time if you have the original and some data is restorable

Re: Damage tape again .....

2003-12-10 Thread Richard Sims
I need to be sure about the correct steps to manage a damage tape and the fastest way: 1. Did I need to make a MOVE DATA and AUDIT VOL fix=yes instead to do right away a RESTORE VOL from the copypool (I think I will gain time ...) and a DEL VOL of the damage tape. 1. No, you don't have to

Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Kamp, Bruce
I just upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2 from 5.1.1.6 on AIX 5.1ML5 64bit. One thing I noticed is that when I do a Q PR it is not formated correctly on the screen. Has anybody else seen this is there a fix for it? Also is there anything else I need to watch out for? Thanks,

TDPOSYNC

2003-12-10 Thread Kamp, Bruce
I want to run TDPOSYNC on one of my Oracle DB's. TSM ver is 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.1. TDP ver 2.2.0 with Oracle 8.1.6 8.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3. I have noticed that the old backups archivelog backups are not being expired. These is my settings: Policy Domain Name C1_ORA_AGENT Policy Set Name ACTIVE Mgmt

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Hooft, Jeroen
I have seen this during upgrade to 5.1.1 Did you install using ALL AVAILABLE SOFTWARE in smitty? You might miss the messages-file. (tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server) -Original Message- From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 10 december 2003 13:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TDPOSYNC

2003-12-10 Thread Hooft, Jeroen
Did you set Backdelete=yes in the node definition? -Original Message- From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 10 december 2003 14:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDPOSYNC I want to run TDPOSYNC on one of my Oracle DB's. TSM ver is 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.1. TDP ver

Re: SQL TDP configurations

2003-12-10 Thread Del Hoobler
Yiannakis One thought... you should send the meta data to a disk only storage pool. These meta data objects are always very small (less than 100K)... and to put them to a tape is not good for performance. You do that by binding the meta objects to a management class that points to a disk only

Preventing re-backup of NT drive copied with scopy

2003-12-10 Thread Steven Bridge
A drive on an NT 4 fileserver which was mapped to a RAID unit containing about 120 GB of data has been copied to a new RAID unit with greater capacity. The data was copied using scopy using appropriate flags to preserve permissions and modification dates. The original drive letter was then

Re: Damage tape again .....

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Smoldt
Sorry, Richard, you are correct that the tape does not need to be marked destroyed before the restore is run. It is, however, good practice to immediately mark a tape destroyed if it has been destroyed physically or you simply can't find it. I have a customer who is going through this situation

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Bullock
Yes, we upgraded to 5.2.1.3 on AIX and have the odd formatting in the q proc output. No fix that I know of, luckily it is just cosmetic as far as I can tell. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamp, Bruce Sent: Wednesday,

TSM 4.2 on AIX 5.2?

2003-12-10 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hello all, Can anyone verify (e.g. has anyone got it) that TSM 4.2.x will run on AIX 5.2? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel Consultant IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant Solution Professional Services B.V.

Re: BSOD: STOP: 0x000000B8

2003-12-10 Thread Greyling Leigh
HI Guys Mark, did you ever get this problem solved, 'cuase I'm now sitting with a similar problem? When I attempt to read data of a cartridge with a bad block, the server goes belly up. I've upgrade from 5.1.5.0 to 5.1.8.0, along with the device driver. I'm sure this problem only started after

AW: Preventing re-backup of NT drive copied with scopy

2003-12-10 Thread Salak Juraj
I guess: have a look at TSM - assigned Filespacename: Query Filespace your_nodename This gives you a view what TSM found to be different and maybe an opportunity to change it. I recall that with NT4 and an older version of TSM the LABEL of the disk/FileSystem made the difference as

Re: Linux client pathology

2003-12-10 Thread Lloyd Dieter
5 Million files on ext2? Hope you never have to fsck that monster. You may want to talk to the admin about using reiserfs -Lloyd On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:49:39 -0500 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:29:59 -0500 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Robin Sharpe
This is a problem that keeps getting fixed and then coming back in almost every release! IMHO, the real problem is the way the STATUS field is formatted in the PROCESSES table. It's formatted to be readable by humans. It's very difficult to parse in scripts because it contains new lines to

Re: TSM 4.2 on AIX 5.2?

2003-12-10 Thread Remco Post
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:23:48 +0100 Richard van Denzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Can anyone verify (e.g. has anyone got it) that TSM 4.2.x will run on AIX 5.2? why would you want to install an ancient, unsupported version of TSM? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Remco Post
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:58:01 -0500 Kamp, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2 from 5.1.1.6 on AIX 5.1ML5 64bit. One thing I noticed is that when I do a Q PR it is not formated correctly on the screen. Has anybody else seen this is there a fix for it? Also is there

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Mr. Lindsay Morris
Amen to that! - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robin Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread Tammy Schellenberg
We can't remember what the file name is that the license registration is looking for. Can anyone help? Tammy Schellenberg Systems Administrator, MCP Prospera Credit Union email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DID: 604-864-6578 Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done. This email and any files

Re: TDPOSYNC

2003-12-10 Thread Kamp, Bruce
Yes - Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (954) 987-2020 x4597 Pager: (954) 286-9441 Alphapage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (954) 985-1404

Re: Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread Ted Byrne
We can't remember what the file name is that the license registration is looking for. Can anyone help? Look for *.lic files in the server installation directory.

Re: Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread Renee Davis
On the TSM server admin command line the format to register is REGISTER LICENSE FILE=. NUMBER=x You get those file name in the bin directory of the tsm server All are listed with the extension .lic For example, msexch.lis is for exchange Or mssql.lis is for Microsoft SQL Renee Davis

Re: Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread Tammy Schellenberg
Thanx I think I got it. Tammy Schellenberg Systems Administrator, MCP Prospera Credit Union email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DID: 604-864-6578 Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done. -Original Message- From: Renee Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 10, 2003 9:40 AM To:

Re: Backsets To Removable Media

2003-12-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
The vendor of the DVD-RAM drive normally provides the software to write to the DVD. -Original Message- From: Renee Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backsets To Removable Media We are testing the feature on TSM that

TSM server restore

2003-12-10 Thread Don Flathau
I'm having a hard time finding a good reference for doing a restore of the TSM server itself without using DRM. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I think I have looked through every redbook and white paper out there. Thanks in advance.

Re: Upgraded to TSM 5.2.1.2

2003-12-10 Thread Kamp, Bruce
Yes tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.2.0.0C FIBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server Messages, US English - Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial

Re: Version compatibility with baclient and SQL TDP?

2003-12-10 Thread Mcnutt, Larry E.
Thanks Del and Matt for your inputs. It turned out to be a password problem that would only be resolved using dsmcutil updatepw. Larry McNutt Timken Company -Original Message- From: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:05 PM To:

Re: Backup doesn't confirm completion.

2003-12-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
Did you try manual backup of just the system object? When I've seen that happen, it was always something in the backup of system objects that was hanging it. Only solution was to upgrade, but we are at 5.1.6.2 and running OK. -Original Message- From: Debi Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Backing up DBs around the globe

2003-12-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
All I can recommend is that you do some TESTING (you can use FTP) as soon as possible . You won't likely be able to achieve the full 100-Mbit/sec throughput, and will you have the full bandwidth dedicated to you? And there can be many pieces of hardware (hubs routers gateways, oh my) beween you

NDS Backup error

2003-12-10 Thread Kamp, Bruce
I am backing up my NDS tree on one server but I keep getting the following errors: 12/09/2003 20:14:52 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=SBHD.OU=ICU3' failed 12/09/2003 20:14:52 ANS1304W Active object not found 12/09/2003 20:14:52 ANS1228E Sending of object

Re: Backup doesn't confirm completion.

2003-12-10 Thread Debi Randolph
Your right Wanda, it is something with the system object. I did a 'backup systemobject' and it just sat there after the successful completion of the backup of the RSM Database. It's been 1 hour and it's still just sitting there. The active sessions are gone from the query session. The

Re: NDS Backup error

2003-12-10 Thread Coyle, Jack
Bruce, One of our W2K / NT / NetWare gurus researched this very problem at our site. For completeness, I have included his entire report to our group on the problem. The bottom line is that it is a Novell issue. Hope the attached helps. Regards, Jack Coyle Rex Healthcare (919) 784-3792 [EMAIL

Re: Backup doesn't confirm completion.

2003-12-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Debi, Well I'm glad you at least found the culprit. You can expand the SYSTEM OBJECT and back up the pieces one at a time to find which one is really hanging, but I'm not sure that will help you. You can: 1) try to fix it with a new patch level (This is the first time I've heard of this

TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive Client

2003-12-10 Thread Michael, Monte
What is the most current TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive client available? Where can I download it from. My normal download site only has 5.2.0 client code available for download. I can't believe there is not a newer release than this. Thank you for your help, ...Monte This communication is

Re: Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread French, Michael
You can also do a help reg lic and it will list every license file with a description of what it is. Michael French Savvis Communications IDS01 Santa Clara, CA (408)450-7812 -- desk (408)239-9913 -- mobile -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive Client

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Bullock
Hmm, the service.boulder.ibm.com seems to be having a problem right now, but last time I checked the 5.2.0 version for AIX was the latest available. Typically I get it at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/ client/v5r2/ We are in the process of

AIX GUI question

2003-12-10 Thread Tom Melton
First the facts: AIX level 4.3.3-11 Client level 4.1.3.0 Server level 4.1.4.0 Here is the problem, when using the AIX BA GUI, I do not have any data in the rightmost pane of the GUI when I select a directory to backup or restore. IE, no files show under the directory. If I click the find

Re: AIX GUI question

2003-12-10 Thread Renee Davis
In your selection process, are you clicking on the name of the directory and not the selection box for that directory? When you click on the directory name, it sometimes takes a while before the GUI populates the right window with information depending on the amount of files at the top of that

Re: AIX GUI question

2003-12-10 Thread Tom Melton
Yes, I was clicking on the directory name, but found the problem, I needed to click on the tiny gray box to the left of the directory name, and not just the name. User error. -Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/10/03 03:41PM In your selection process, are you clicking on the name of the directory and

Navision

2003-12-10 Thread Joe Crnjanski
Hello All, We have prospect customer with Microsoft Navision database. Does anybody know if we can backup these files with regular Backup/Archive Client or we need some kind of TDP agent. Another thing is; on service.boulder.ibm.com there is a folder 5.1.8.1 for TSM Windows server for couple

Re: TSM server restore

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Denier
I'm having a hard time finding a good reference for doing a restore of the TSM server itself without using DRM. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I think I have looked through every redbook and white paper out there. Thanks in advance. The Protecting the Server part of the

Errors using tapes on H-drives in 3494

2003-12-10 Thread brian welsh
Hello, TSM 5.1.7 on AIX 5.1, Library 3494 and 4x 3590 H-drives FC-attached. We are in the process of taking into production 4 new 3590 H-drives. We were using E-drives. Last weekend we set all the tape (1100) to read-only status, and check-in some new scratches (using collocation). Now we need

Exabyte X200 Library

2003-12-10 Thread Scott Figgins
Has anyone had any experience with a Exabyte X200 Library? I am trying to install it on a p660 with AIX 5.1ML4 and TSM 5.2.1.3 . When we try to define the library path we get an error saying that the device is not in the correct state to complete the task. All devices show up as available when you

Re: Backsets To Removable Media

2003-12-10 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Newer versions of AIX come with the Linux Toolbox, and on that are the mkisofs/cdrecord utilities (may be under the cdrtools package...can't recall). That's what smitty uses to generate mksysb's to DVD-RAM. That may do what you want. -Lloyd On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:05:16 -0500 Prather, Wanda

Re: Errors using tapes on H-drives in 3494

2003-12-10 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Have those new scratch tapes been labelled? -Lloyd On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:15:34 +0100 brian welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello, TSM 5.1.7 on AIX 5.1, Library 3494 and 4x 3590 H-drives FC-attached. We are in the process of taking into production 4 new 3590 H-drives. We were using

Re: Solaris client oddity

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen E. Bacher
Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To upgrade a Solaris package you have to delete it and then install the new one. If those files were left in the usual place, they would be deleted with the uninstall and you'd lose your customisations. By linking to /usr/bin they are left alone. Fine, but

Re: Errors using tapes on H-drives in 3494

2003-12-10 Thread Richard Sims
... When we start move data with a tape written on an E-drive, it moves the data to a scratch volume. So far so good, but when the scratch tape is defined in an storage pool we see the message anr8359, Media fault detected and status is changed again to read-only. ... Brian - I think we need to

Re: Preventing re-backup of NT drive copied with scopy

2003-12-10 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Steven, Make sure that SCopy preserved the *inheritance* security properties. We've migrated Windows servers in the past using either SCopy or XCopy /O. On the target server, the files and folders had the correct permissions, but they were applied rather than inherited. I'm not sure which tool

Re: Preventing re-backup of NT drive copied with scopy

2003-12-10 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Steven Bridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, it now looks like TSM ( client 5.1.0.1 , server 5.1.6.3 ) is backing up everything in the drive again. With a throughput of only about 1 GB an hour, it looks like it is going to take several days to complete. 1GB/hour is manifestly