Strange Linux Client problems

2005-11-29 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, We have got several Linux clients (all Fedora Core 1) running the same application (but for different departments). All are performing the same PRESCHEDULECMD succesfully. After the PRESCHEDULECMD one of the clients gives the following error message: 11/28/2005 23:08:24 ANS1814E Unable

CBMR FOR LINUX

2005-11-29 Thread Sandeep Jain
Hi, has anyone tried with CBMR On Linux platform I am facing strange problem while restoring... With Best Regards, Sandeep Jain

Re: Strange Linux Client problems

2005-11-29 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 29, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Richard van Denzel wrote: ...In the ACTLOG there is this message: 28-11-2005 23:08:25 ANR2568E Request for node AIS-NL to start schedule SLTN_PROD at 11/29/05 23:00:00 is denied. Current time is 11/28/05 23:08:25.

Run out of scratch tapes

2005-11-29 Thread Marcelo Barreto
Hi, I´m new in TSM, I´ve 29 tapes and 2 drives, all of my tapes are in private state, some are in filling status and others in full, if I execute the sentence: select volume_name, pct_utilized, status, pct_reclaim from volumes where pct_utilized 20 I get VOLUME_NAMEPCT_UTILIZED

delete filespace command

2005-11-29 Thread Tim Brown
there is a way to delete a filespace by specifying the fsid can someome give me the syntax Tim Brown Systems Specialist Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921

Re: delete filespace command

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Tim, you can find the syntax yourself by issuing the following command: help delete filespace Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli

Re: delete filespace command

2005-11-29 Thread Richard van Denzel
DELETE FILESPACE node fsid Type=any Data=any namet=fsid Or do help del fil Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards, Richard van Denzel. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: dinsdag 29 november 2005 14:49 To:

AW: [ADSM-L] Run out of scratch tapes

2005-11-29 Thread Thomas Rupp
Reclamation should give you a lot of free tapes. Use the undocumented command show mp to display who uses the mountpoint. If you can't determine the process/session holding the tape than you'll have to restart TSM. Then set the reclamation value of your tapestoragepools below 89% and you'll get at

WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-29 Thread Large, M (Matthew)
Hi *SMers, Client - TSM 5.2.4.4 on a W2K SP4 server. Server - TSM 5.2.4.5 on a W2K SP4 server. I'm experiencing a regular backup failure of the system objects and the information returned to me from TSM is not really directing me towards a cause. Dsmerror.log contains: 11/29/2005 13:34:08

Re: CBMR FOR LINUX

2005-11-29 Thread Barnhart, Troy
I have beta-tested and have 9 RedHat 2.1 boxes in production with it... Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701 ph: 605-719-8068 / fax: 605-719-4206 -Original Message- From: Sandeep Jain [mailto:[EMAIL

TSM DB2 Backups

2005-11-29 Thread Bill Dourado
Hello, Soon , we will be backing Db2 databases, using TSM API , and I will need a backup strategy. We currently backup Lotus Notes Domino where we do a full Domino (databases) backup once a week, and incremental rest of the week. We also backup /archiveTransaction logs every 2 hours. Does

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-29 Thread Dearman, Richard
I have about 6TB of san disk space used for nightly backups and the management of it is just a pain. For instance if you are using a vendor such as HP for your san disks the compatibility with IBM equipment is not the greatest. We use HP EMA 12000 with hsg80 san storage controllers. TSM will

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/28/2005 03:57:43 PM: I also agree on the merits of the TSM+ASR Redbook... We've had success with both methods. My only bitch about ASR is that it requires that a DHCP server be within reach of the box being rebuilt. This is not an option

Run Script Query/Control

2005-11-29 Thread Robert R Price
Is there a method to query whether any scripts are running? Is there a method to cancel a running script? Robert R. Price ADSM/TSM Administrator Computer Sciences Corporation Phone: 412-374-3247 Fax: 412-374-6371 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SV: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-29 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Mark, You can build your own Bootable CD on Windows. You are a Enterprise company so you should have access to Windows PE. But for other users you can search for Bart PE. But with this software you can recovery your machine to newer hardware. That's why IBM recommends 3rd part software's for

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
H Try doing the following: 1) Delete the existing c:\adsm.sys directory structure. 2) Add the following to the client options: exclude.dir c:\adsm.sys 3) Retry the system object backup. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development

MacOS X Server supported

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Zarnowski
I know that TSM supports MacOS X Client. Does it also support MacOS X Server? I suspect it does, but I need a definitive answer. Thanks. -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Systems Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY

Re: MacOS X Server supported

2005-11-29 Thread Remco Post
Paul Zarnowski wrote: I know that TSM supports MacOS X Client. Does it also support MacOS X Server? I suspect it does, but I need a definitive answer. Thanks. To be very clear, IBM does support running the TSM client on what Apple calls MacOS X server. No problem. (there is no _real_

Re: Run Script Query/Control

2005-11-29 Thread Prather, Wanda
Enter Q SESSION and look for admin sessions. If someone started a script, you can kill it by cancelling the session. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert R Price Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Run out of scratch tapes

2005-11-29 Thread Gerald Michalak
You have a catch-22 here. You need at least 1 scratch tape to run reclamation. If you don't have any, then you have to create one. Find your least used tape and issue a move data volume stgpool=disk pool to move the data to disk. When that's done, delete the volume, del vol volume , that should

MAXSCRATCH value in tape storage pools

2005-11-29 Thread Dennis Melburn W IT743
I migrated our W2K3 TSM server recently from 5.2.1.3 to 5.3.2.0 and I've had to change the MAXSCRATCH parameter on our tape storage pools from 0 to some arbitrary number like 1000 because migrations, as well as backup storage pool commands have been failing. Any reason why this is? Is 0 a valid

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-29 Thread Leigh Reed
I agree with everything that has been said so far and the performance posting regarding Christie BMR was impressive. However, I'm not sure whether I'd want to shell out the cost per server, however good the results/efficiency. While TSM is not strictly designed to BMR Windows systems back to

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-29 Thread Sergio Fuentes
Question regarding this proposed solution: Is it safe to say that the C:\adsm.sys directory can be safely excluded from all Windows backups? I've had many repetitive failures of that directory in various clients (mainly Win2K3), but the directory exists in other windows versions. I just went

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Is it safe to say that the C:\adsm.sys directory can be safely excluded from all Windows backups? Yes. What the exclude does is exclude it from the backup of your C: drive. But C:\adsm.sys is still backed up as a part of the system object or system state backup. Note that in version 5.3, TSM

Re: SV: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/29/2005 10:04:46 AM: You can build your own Bootable CD on Windows. You are a Enterprise company so you should have access to Windows PE. But for other users you can search for Bart PE. When I talk about creating bootable restore media,

Re: Run out of scratch tapes

2005-11-29 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Gerald Michalak wrote: You have a catch-22 here. You need at least 1 scratch tape to run reclamation. If you don't have any, then you have to create one. More generally, reclamation needs media space. As such, it will utilize an available volume which is in

Re: MAXSCRATCH value in tape storage pools

2005-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Set the total of your maxscratch settings across your storage pool to be equal to the number of tapes you have. That will tell you realistic storagepool utilizations and you'd be able to judge when a storage pool is running out of storage media. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/29/05 1:01 PM I

Re: MAXSCRATCH value in tape storage pools

2005-11-29 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Dennis Melburn W IT743 wrote: I migrated our W2K3 TSM server recently from 5.2.1.3 to 5.3.2.0 and I've had to change the MAXSCRATCH parameter on our tape storage pools from 0 to some arbitrary number like 1000 because migrations, as well as backup storage pool

Can't get TSM client 5.3.2.0 API to install on Solaris system

2005-11-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
In fact, we can't get it off the ground, for some strange, unknown reason. Looking for all suggestions/ideas/thoughts ! It is Solaris 8. Yes, we are root ! Yes there is plenty of space in /tmp # pkgadd -d ./TIVsmCapi.pkg TIVsmCapi Processing package instance TIVsmCapi from

Re: Can't get TSM client 5.3.2.0 API to install on Solaris system

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/29/2005 01:39:55 PM: In fact, we can't get it off the ground, for some strange, unknown reason. Looking for all suggestions/ideas/thoughts ! It is Solaris 8. Yes, we are root ! Yes there is plenty of space in /tmp # pkgadd -d

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Christoph Martin
Allen S. Rout schrieb: The default option is FILEData=None It is no option for us to export the file data. We have about 3 hundred AIT tapes with file data. If you want to retain the backup history now present on your old TSM server, you will need to export and import the nodes. You can do

Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Hitchman
Hi, I am running a tsm client on Solaris. When I execute the dsmc command to backup a group of directories and the files they contain is there a way to include pathnames that have been excluded by an exclude entry in a file specified by the inclexcl option? Thanks Pete

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
No, but your TSM administrator should be able to configure an include-exclude file in dsm.sys (see the INCLEXCL option in the client manual). Considering the ramifications of modifying Include-exclude options, these should be treated as semi-permanent and not changed unless you are looking to

Re: Can't get TSM client 5.3.2.0 API to install on Solaris system

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Roder
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/29/2005 01:39:55 PM: In fact, we can't get it off the ground, for some strange, unknown reason. Looking for all suggestions/ideas/thoughts ! It is Solaris 8. Yes, we are root ! Yes there is plenty of space in /tmp # pkgadd

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Allen S. Rout
== On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:00:26 +0100, Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The decission was to move away from AIX, because we have no sysadmin knowledge with AIX and the machine grew more and more unmanaged. I can sympathize. Though you may have, by this message, incurred a small

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/29/2005 03:52:59 PM: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:00:26 +0100, Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The decission was to move away from AIX, because we have no sysadmin knowledge with AIX and the machine grew more and more unmanaged. I can

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Christoph Martin
Allen S. Rout schrieb: The decission was to move away from AIX, because we have no sysadmin knowledge with AIX and the machine grew more and more unmanaged. I can sympathize. Though you may have, by this message, incurred a small avalanche of consulting aid offers. :) Thanks anyway. Your

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Hitchman
Thanks Andy, My situation is that I have Oracle 7 databases to backup, so no TDP and rman. The system is set so that the areas we store the Oracle datafiles in is ignored. Fine for the Unix backups, but I need to be able to at least shutdown the Oracle 7 databases and do a cold backup. At the same

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Christoph Martin
Mark Stapleton schrieb: I've done a couple of customers in just the same boat you're in, with the added complication that the single library they had was at capacity. They finally decided to create export tapes of their two or three critical servers, and then threw away their entire backup

Re: Migrate TSM Server 4.2.4 on AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 on Linux Howto (retry)

2005-11-29 Thread Bos, Karel
Was there not a level issue between library client and library manager?? I don't think a 4.2 server and a 5.3 server are compatible in a library client-manager config.(see subject..) Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Here are some options you can think about, or you can create your own variations. I'm sure there are other methods, too. * Consider using PRESCHEDULECMD and POSTSCHEDULECMD to stop and start Oracle 7 while the regularly scheduled incremental backup occurs. * If the regular incremental backup

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Hitchman
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. Pete -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: 29 November 2005 22:49 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session Here are some options

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-29 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Richard, I share your pain. We have an EMC Clariion CX500 SAN. We have found that AIX in general, and TSM in particular, can just hose the sucker. Your observations about write cache were echoed by EMC. We had to turn off write-cache on our TSM disk pool LUNs because the SAN storage

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-29 Thread John Monahan
Another option is to use the archive function for those Oracle files. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Andrew Raibeck

3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-29 Thread Gerald
I have a drive that from AIX lists as available. In TSM when i try to define a path to the drive I get an ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occured while accessing drive DRIVE1. and a ANS8001I Return code 15.. Then below is what appears in the AIX error report. I've doublechecked that the

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-29 Thread Aaron Becar
We had a problem similar to yours. We had a problem when we started our TSM server up our drives failed. So I checked the /dev folder and checked to see that the tape drives were there. What happened was our device path had changed, and the new path was /dev/IBMtape0n when it originally was

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-29 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:27:10PM -0800, Gerald wrote: I have a drive that from AIX lists as available. In TSM when i try to define a path to the drive I get an ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occured while accessing drive DRIVE1. and a ANS8001I Return code 15.. Then below is what