SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Eric, With Quantum DXi (VTL) can you do the same thing. The DXi has both a VTL part and a NAS Disk part and both have De-Dup working. The NAS part can you connect as local disk via iSCSI. But how good iSCSI is for DISKPOOL do I don't know. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 157

Re: SV: backing up and restoring two different filesystems problem on one node

2009-09-22 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Yeah, I did the same

SV: backing up and restoring two different filesystems problem on one node

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
You need to run # dsmc restore image /fs1 /MYNEWPATH -virtualnodename=node1 Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu]

SV: TDP for SQL error

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Sanju, Have you configure your node with BACKDEL=YES? TSM for SQL need access to delete it own data. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Man

Re: SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Wanda Prather
> > > Question: Does TSM support multi-reader function of FILE devices > with a VTL? In other words, can you get the same "tape" vol mounted > multiple times - ONCE for WRITING and multiple for READONLY? Or, just > multiple READONLY mounts? This would be great at our DR site for > DR restores. >

Re: Limiting number of drives used

2009-09-22 Thread Bill Boyer
I'm pretty sure that Autolabel will work on a shared library. Bill Boyer "TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself." - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:59 PM

Re: Limiting number of drives used

2009-09-22 Thread Shawn Drew
Hehe, just as a thought experiment... Presuming our instances are of equal size, they would be equally running jobs at the same times. So they would all equally have a couple drives available to be pre-empted. In reality, our instances are not equal in size and it is the large ones that would te

TDP for SQL error

2009-09-22 Thread Sanju Chacko
Any one has come across this error? Client os = Windows 2003 x64 TSm version 5.5.2 TDP version 5.5.2 TSm server 5.5.3 I tried re-installing both tsm and tdp but didn't help. Ran chkdsk too. 09/09/2009 12:09:38 ACO5436E A failure occurred on stripe number (0), rc = 418 09/09/2009 12:09

Re: Limiting number of drives used

2009-09-22 Thread Remco Post
I _Almost_ agree with Kelly. A restore will preempt any process running on the same server, but with 6 TSM instances, chances are that your restore is running on a TSM instance that has nothing to preempt, while other instances are busy with eg. reclamation or other less essential tasks. On 22 se

Re: Limiting number of drives used

2009-09-22 Thread Shawn Drew
HA, perfect! I never knew about the AUTOLABEL option.And wouldn't you know it, we have it enabled already. I also just found out about "SET DRMCHECKLABEL". I think that will take care of everything. Thanks! Shawn Shawn Drew Internet l...

DR recovery between server-server communication

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Vaughn
Anyone with some input would be greatly appreciated. Here is my set up and my issue at hand. Currently we are using server-server communication with vaulting. Main location is a blade hs21 with fiber attached SAN storage running win server 2003 r2 with TSM extended edition 5.5.3. Second location

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Green
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Kelly Lipp wrote: > I don't think it's an either/or decision.  I believe that tape will always > have a place but that using some file pool will offer very nice RTO/RPO > combos for some data structures.  The allure of very inexpensive tape storage > should alwa

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Kelly Lipp
I don't think it's an either/or decision. I believe that tape will always have a place but that using some file pool will offer very nice RTO/RPO combos for some data structures. The allure of very inexpensive tape storage should always be there (and perhaps increase again with LTO5) while the

Limiting number of drives used

2009-09-22 Thread Shawn Drew
I would like to keep 2 drives unused at all times for restores and labeling scratch tapes. TSM 5.5/AIX/Atape We have 18 Drives, 1 library manager and 5 library clients. The "classic" method is to set the "Mount limit" in the device class. However, we also have NDMP clients which are configured so

Re: SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Rhodes
> The only reason why I should sale a customer a VTL is if they wanna run a LANFree backup to disk. It seems that the value-add of a VTL over FILE devices on plain DISK is Lanfree, compression and de-dup. Given the much greater cost of a VTL over plain disk, we keep looking for how to achieve thes

Re: RPFiles are not being deleted

2009-09-22 Thread Shawn Drew
I ran into this just a few weeks ago. I was backing up the RPFiles to a library manager which didn't have any storage pools (previously) So I wasn't running expiration on the destination side. If the files are marked for deletion, just make sure your expirations are running on the destination TSM

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Rhodes
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 09/22/2009 10:16:54 AM: > Hi! > Before they were taken over by EMC, some guys from DataDomain >were visiting us a few months ago. They presented their DD boxes, >which offer hardware based dedup, compression and defragmentation. > They told us about customers who

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Loon, EJ van - SPLXM
Hi! Before they were taken over by EMC, some guys from DataDomain were visiting us a few months ago. They presented their DD boxes, which offer hardware based dedup, compression and defragmentation. They told us about customers who allocate a DISK (not FILE!) storage pool in a DD box and just le

backing up and restoring two different filesystems problem on one node

2009-09-22 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, node1 has /fs1 and /fs2 filesystems. image backup of /fs1 exists in TSM server and the image backup of /fs2 is in progress. From another node node2 the following restore command is virtually unsuccessful: # dsmc restore image /fs1 -virtualnodename=node1 it does not fail, actually it transfers s

SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Rick, What do you wanna know about VTL? If you looking at Quantum or EMC (Who is OEM parts of Quantum VTL and FalconStor) is basically a Linux OS and running Quantums own Filesystem called NextFS or something like that, if I don't remember wrong. NextFS is a great file system if you have large

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Rhodes
"ADSM: Dist Stor > Hi TSM-ers! > At this moment we are using a diskpool with a VTS-like (DL4106 by EMC) > storage pool as nextpool. > I too am looking at a FILE pool to replace this in the future, just to > prevent a vendor lock-in for our TSM environment and of course the > possibility to use de-d

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Green
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: > Hi TSM-ers! > At this moment we are using a diskpool with a VTS-like (DL4106 by EMC) > storage pool as nextpool. > I too am looking at a FILE pool to replace this in the future, just to > prevent a vendor lock-in for our TSM environme

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Mehdi Salehi
I think the amount of time that filesystem check takes depends on the number of files (i-nodes) and not directly on the size of a filesystem.

SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Eric, If I where you should I start searching for much better Filesystem to run FILECLASS on such EXT4, TUX or something similar. And also split your FILECLASS to multiple LUNs. If a filesystem crash happened you will get a minimal check disk time. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-7

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Loon, EJ van - SPLXM
Hi TSM-ers! At this moment we are using a diskpool with a VTS-like (DL4106 by EMC) storage pool as nextpool. I too am looking at a FILE pool to replace this in the future, just to prevent a vendor lock-in for our TSM environment and of course the possibility to use de-dup. The only problem I see fo

Re: RPFiles are not being deleted

2009-09-22 Thread Efim
hi Try to run on source server: query rpfile devclass=* f=d and see fields "Marked for Deletion" If it is Yes, you must run on source server : REConcile Volumes * Fix=yes Efim

SV: the purpose of "file" device class

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi, DISK is much better for you because it will allocate all blocks at the same time. The only way to avoid the fragmentation with FILE is to pre-define all volumes. Another thing I don't like with FILE is that you need to create more or same number of volumes as clients and then set number of d