Using system z as a TSM server/

2010-01-08 Thread bob molerio
Anyone using TSM for zOS? I would like to know what the pros/cons/experiences are. Reply privately if you wish. Thank you, Bob Molerio    

Re: Using system z as a TSM server/

2010-01-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:05 AM, bob molerio wrote: Anyone using TSM for zOS? I would like to know what the pros/cons/experiences are. My current employer does in one data center; my immediately previous work experience was to move another customer from z/OS to AIX for TSM. I'm not a MVS guy, so

Re: Using system z as a TSM server/

2010-01-08 Thread Wanda Prather
Ditto what Nick said! Some other things to consider: Pros: On z/OS, TSM integrates seamlessly with your mainframe tape management. You don't need to use DRM on the mainframe; your mainframe tape management system vaulting will pick up and handle your TSM tapes for you automatically. The

Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Howard Coles
Ladies and Gents, I have a very perplexing problem. I have 3 Exchange servers that backup in two ways. They each have a -exch node name for daily backups for DR purposes and general purpose restores. Then they also have a -weekly node name for weekly backups for archival purposes (yea,

Re: Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Del Hoobler
Howard, Your backup strategy will not work correctly. The fact that you are doing incrementals for each nodename is causing a serious problems because a restore scenario requires a Full and ALL incrementals in order to restore correctly. An Incremental will truncate logs, and that is where the

Re: Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Howard Coles
This is a strategy I inherited, and would love to get rid of. What you're saying makes sense, like the SQL DB Backups we do. However, I'm not an exchange admin, so I just have to roll with what I know. :-D I'll forward this info along to our Exchange Admins and see what we can do. See Ya'

Trouble with Java GUI on Windows

2010-01-08 Thread Roger Deschner
As people start installing Version 6.1 clients, we're starting to get a lot of problems and complaints about the new Java GUI Client. 1. If you don't have your Java configuration just right, it won't work at all. I've gotten quite tired of coaching users through untangling their Java setups which

Re: Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Hello Howard, I tottaly agged with Del. Your strategy is wrong. And your Echange admin have to understand this. There is no way to restore any data except full backups. I would recommend youExchange admin to implement option 1, but time between full weekly and full daily backups has to be as

Re: Trouble with Java GUI on Windows

2010-01-08 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Hello Roger, We were suffering a lot from TSM Client 6.1. We started from 6.1.0.0, then upgraded to 6.1.0.2 -- 6.1.2.0 -- 6.1.3.0. I have seen a lot of different problems whith these versions, but I never have problems with Java. We have mainly 32/64 bit Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise/Standard