TSM Data Refresh

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Scott
Afternoon all We are currently contemplating the best way forward in a data refresh test at a remote site onto a node that is running the same version of AIX 5.3.* and TSM 5.2.6 Our three scenarios we are contemplating are a backup set, image backup and group backup. The

controling DSMCAD process ?

2006-05-31 Thread goc
hi, i have some troubles with controlling a large number of dsmcad processess on UNIX, i mean in some cases i notice in the morning that some sched has not run and by checking the machine i see that dsmcad is not running ... i start it again and everything is working fine. BUT ... on AIX i can

Re: controling DSMCAD process ?

2006-05-31 Thread Ahomaa, Sami
Hi, We have done it like this in /etc/inittab: dsmc:234:once:/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad /dev/null 21 dsm1:234:once:/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched -se=schedulernodeid /dev/null You must remember that in HP-UX you cannot have more than 4 digits in ID part of inittab file.

Re: Discovered a new secret command -- anyone know what fetch does?

2006-05-31 Thread Large, M (Matthew)
I'm pretty sure these are only issued when the ODBC driver is used to run SQL queries on the TSM server. We get these every day from ODBC queries: Date/TimeMessage -- 05/30/2006 17:23:56 ANR2017I

Re: Discovered a new secret command -- anyone know what fetch does?

2006-05-31 Thread Timothy Hughes
Yes, I only see the messages when the ODBC driver is being used to run SQL queries. Large, M (Matthew) wrote: I'm pretty sure these are only issued when the ODBC driver is used to run SQL queries on the TSM server. We get these every day from ODBC queries: Date/TimeMessage

Length of a Running Process

2006-05-31 Thread Shawn Malone
How can you tell how long a process has been running. For example if I do a q pr from a dsmadmc command line and obtain a process number, how do I see how long it has been running? Thanks Shawn

Migrating TSM (5.3.2.0) to new Windows box

2006-05-31 Thread Dennis, Melburn W IT743
Our old TSM server is EOL and we are replacing it with a new one. They are both W2K3. What is the safest/best way to migrate? I was planning on installing TSM on the new box and then using a recent database copy on tape to restore the db on the new box using a point in time restore (since the

Re: Length of a Running Process

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Sims
On May 31, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Shawn Malone wrote: How can you tell how long a process has been running. For example if I do a q pr from a dsmadmc command line and obtain a process number, how do I see how long it has been running? Thanks Shawn select * from processes

Tivoli Operational Reporting Question-Windows 2000

2006-05-31 Thread Bob Martoncik
Is there a way to produce the operational reports daily and not have it logged to the activity log? Have about 6 reports that produces pages of entries in the log daily? Thanks 05/31/2006 15:28:39 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: SELECT TABSCHEMA, TABNAME,

Re: Migrating TSM (5.3.2.0) to new Windows box

2006-05-31 Thread Remco Post
Dennis, Melburn W IT743 wrote: Our old TSM server is EOL and we are replacing it with a new one. They are both W2K3. What is the safest/best way to migrate? I was planning on installing TSM on the new box and then using a recent database copy on tape to restore the db on the new box using a

Can data be read from scratch tapes?

2006-05-31 Thread Brenda Collins
Does anyone know whether data can be read from tapes that are expired and brought back from off-site? Is there any documentation stating how this data is protected? Brenda Collins Storage Management IBM Global Services Phone: 763-390-5627 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can data be read from scratch tapes?

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Brenda, I'm not certain what the thrust of your question is. If you mean, can TSM read the tapes, the answer is no, at least not unless you restore the database to a point in time where those tapes were known to the server. If the server database is completely destroyed and you have no

Re: Can data be read from scratch tapes?

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Denier
- Brenda Collins wrote: - Does anyone know whether data can be read from tapes that are expired and brought back from off-site? Is there any documentation stating how this data is protected? If the clients whose data is on the tapes were configured to encrypt backup data, the tape

LTO Auto Cleaning

2006-05-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I've been looking for messages from the LTO2 drives stating they need cleaning. I know that the library auto cleaning is turned off and by looking at it through the web interface that is true. I can also see that there is a C on one of the drives looking through the same web interface. TSM is

error or normal message

2006-05-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Having never seen this I was wondering if it looks familiar to anyone and also if it is something to be concerned about. I've seen a few of these in the logs. ANRD dfmigr.c(4488): ThreadId58 Residual reserved clusters as last migration thread exits for pool ARCHIVE_DPOOL(6).(PROCESS:

Re: TSM Data Refresh

2006-05-31 Thread Chris Pasztor
I Believe if you use a backupset, you would not reed to restore the TSM server at all, just install a BA Client and use it standalone using the LOCALBACKUPSET this works for TSM 5.3 do not know about 5.2.6 Chris