sysback help needed !

2006-04-03 Thread goc
hi all, i'm doing an test restore of rootvg from TSM via classic network boot the communication is fine and everything seems okay except this ... it simply hangs on following ... --- Type menu item number and press Enter

Re: Impact of APAR IC47731

2006-04-03 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Thomas! For your information: IBM just released all 5.3.3.0 servers on their FTP sites. I checked for you: it contains the fix for APAR IC47731. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Nick Laflamme
At 12:34 AM 4/1/2006 +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote: Uhm, may I ask *why* you'd want an off-the-shelf product instead of your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly? What problem are you trying to solve? I can't speak for the original poster, but I've worked for shops that preferred

Re: sysback help needed !

2006-04-03 Thread Joe Pendergast
Perhaps I am reading this wrong, but here are some hints that I have learned over the years: 1) The bootp server must be at or above the oslevel of the restored server: AIX 5.3 can be used as a bootp server for AIX 5.2 AIX 5.2 cannot be used as a bootp server for AIX 5.3 This sounds like a show

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Thomas Denier
- Jurjen Oskam wrote: - Uhm, may I ask *why* you'd want an off-the-shelf product instead of your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly? What problem are you trying to solve? Management objections to the current script seem to center on two issues: 1.None of the other

5.2 and 5.3 ba clients - recommended defaults

2006-04-03 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Where do I find the recommended defaults for AIX and Window ba clients at client versions 5.2 and 5.3 on the IBM website. AIX client - TSM client version 5.2.2.0 dsmerror.log 04/02/06 04:38:38 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen proced ure. 04/02/06 04:38:39 ANS1809W

Re: 5.2 and 5.3 ba clients - recommended defaults

2006-04-03 Thread Bob Martoncik
Do a search for the redbook Sc32-9101-02. Thsi should have everything you need. Bob Martoncik Lucas County Information Services 419-213-4633 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/3/2006 11:25 AM Where do I find the recommended defaults for AIX and Window ba clients at client versions 5.2 and 5.3 on the IBM

Re: 5.3.2 server

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Glanville
I'm still having 5.3.2.3 repair volume hanging problems when it repairs offsite volumes during reclaimation. Matthew Glanville Eastman Kodak Company Worldwide Information Systems (WWIS) 343 State Street Rochester NY 14650 585-477-9371 Privacy/Confidential Disclaimer: The information contained

errno=11 with EDT, ACSLS, TSM

2006-04-03 Thread Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1
Hi world, I am experiencing some problems ocasionally with the dismount of the volumes coming from TSM. It happens with the reclamation process, and yesterday with the backup of the databases. It seems that TSM finish his operations normally and close the volume, but the process fails in

Re: 5.2 and 5.3 ba clients - recommended defaults

2006-04-03 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Note that in 5.3, many client default settings have been changed to recommended values that, in general, will perform better out of the box than prior default values (see Summary of changes for Tivoli Storage Manager near the beginning of the client manuals). Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM

Re: errno=11 with EDT, ACSLS, TSM

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Schofield
Iban We too are having problems with something like 1% of dismounts on our externally managed libraries using EDT. I posted on it back in January but didn't see any responses. The problem started following an upgrade from EDT 6.4 to 7.4. Are you seeing any LH_ERR_TRANSPORT_BUSY errors in the

lto drive swapout oddity

2006-04-03 Thread Troy Frank
TSM server v5.2.7 on Windows2003 I swapped out our HP LTO-2 drives for HP LTO-3 drives this weekend, which mostly went ok. Did have an issue where the tsm 5.2.7 device driver didn't recognize the drives, but that was fixed by installing the tsm 5.3.2.4 device driver. I also updated the LTO

How do TSM decide need to copy tape

2006-04-03 Thread Frank Tsao, email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had an interesting situation: A volume in primary pool had a read error. I used q vol f=d and found the last date of data written is around January. Since then, I had several good backup on this tape. However, I found on March 26, it had requested to make copy of this tape. Since this tape is in

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 09:52:52 +0200, Jurjen Oskam [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:46:00PM -0500, Allen S. Rout wrote: Speaking as someone buried in my own PERL up to my nose: [snip: quite a good argument] I don't think I could be as effective with a third-party product

Re: How do TSM decide need to copy tape

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 3, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Frank Tsao, email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an interesting situation: A volume in primary pool had a read error. I used q vol f=d and found the last date of data written is around January. Since then, I had several good backup on this tape. However, I found

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:48:13AM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote: 2.I am spending significant amounts of time on enhancements to the script. Yes, that would be a reason to consider an off-the-shell solution. The Perl-automation here runs more or less autonomic and doesn't require much

Migrating to a Library Manager

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Rhodes
Does anyone have any suggestions on the steps to migrate from a standalone TSM instance with a 3584, to a library manager instance to control the library and the origional TSM instance as a library manager client. I found a redbook that I've started working through, but thought I'd see if anyone

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: I'll allude to a bit of logical pedantry by suggesting a google of 'beg the question' :) Darn, I /thought/ I got that right. From a Google search: If you're not comfortable with formal terms of logic, it's best to stay away from

Re: Migrating to a Library Manager

2006-04-03 Thread Bill Kelly
I went through this about a year ago. The only way I know to get the inventory of tapes moved out of tsm2t and into tsmlm2 correctly is to: 1) check the tapes out of tsm2t 2) delete the library (and drives and paths) from tsm2t 3) define the library (and drives and paths) in tsmlm2, and as a

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Roger Deschner
Back in the days of VM, my favorite automation tool for ADSM was Host Management Facility. Unix cron is a poor substitute, but it's what we've got to work with. I do a majority of my scheduling from within the TSM server with administrative schedules that trigger TSM Scripts. This is a rather poor

Re: Migrating to a Library Manager

2006-04-03 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:32:22 -0500, Bill Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) check the tapes out of tsm2t 2) delete the library (and drives and paths) from tsm2t 3) define the library (and drives and paths) in tsmlm2, and as a shared library in tsm2t 4) check the tapes in to tsmlm2. What he

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-04-03 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:00:52 +0200, Jurjen Oskam [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Our TSM environment is too small to justify that niceness, since the Perl-code keeps everything running virtually maintenance-free. But yes, I think there are many installations where these off-the-shelf products really

Policy and DRP question

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Dudley
We have TSM version 5.2 I have changed the standard policy so that we now keep the 10 latest versions of each file rather than 7. I have also changed our del volhist to tod=today-10 where it was previously 7. I have been told that previously we had to keep the 7 latest copy tapes and db tapes