Backup/Archive our Document Management System

2007-07-03 Thread Herrmann, Boris
Hi all, I'm searching for a good idea how to backup up or archive our important Document Management System (AIX JFS2). Today we have backed up about 190 Million Files. The Filestructure is the following: There are Filesystems (40 GB) for every mandant on this system: mandant-a/1

Re: Backup/Archive our Document Management System

2007-07-03 Thread Richard Sims
Boris - If the data is as important as disaster for our company suggests, then the file systems should be mirrored, rather than the apparent current configuration where there is a single disk copy in existence with attendant calamity when the disk develops problems. Computer center

TDP for Oracle Solaris V5.4.1 restores slooooooowwwwwww.........

2007-07-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We have upgraded one of our Solaris 10 Oracle servers to the latest TDP - 5.4.1 and have noticed the restores are taking forever, vs identicle servers still using the 5.2.0 version of the TDP. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Oracle is V9. The base TSM client is also 5.4.1

Re: Backup/Archive our Document Management System

2007-07-03 Thread Orville Lantto
As you are seeing, dealing with the metadata for so many files takes an excessive amount of time. The best solution is to forego TSM (or any other file level backup product) and use replicating storage, which does block level backups. Snapshots on the storage device will allow you to

Manage backup of MS SQL 2005 server with TDP from SQL

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Rupp
Hi TSM-ers, I have to backup our MS SQL 2005 server with TDP and was asked how TDP can be integrated in the MS SQL Maintenance Plans. Our SAP backups are scheduled by SAP Our Oracle backups are scheduled by OEM Our SQL backups should be scheduled by the MS SQL Management Studio I'm no MS SQL

Re: Manage backup of MS SQL 2005 server with TDP from SQL

2007-07-03 Thread Wanda Prather
Personally, I don't see the point of using the SQL management studio AND the TDP together. The SQL Maintenance plan creates an exported copy of the SQL data base(s) into the SQL BACKUPS directory. These are unlocked, flat files that the regular TSM backup client can back up just fine. IF you

Re: Manage backup of MS SQL 2005 server with TDP from SQL

2007-07-03 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
We are thinking about reviewing all of our SQL clients and setting up maintenance schedules for those that are applicable (regardless if SQL 2000 or 2005). We have been asked to back up SQL in some cases, and in some cases, apps are completely vendor supported. Therefore, where applicable, we plan

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Denier
As I noted in a previous posting, I did some experiments where I collected processor count information remotely by executing a command with a return code equal to the number of processors. I have gotten a request to share the code I used. My experiments were done in 2004. I don't know whether all