Acronis vs. Tivoli FastBAck

2010-01-20 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, The following link shows how IBM advertises Acronis: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/gsdod/solutiondetails.do?solution=28728expand=truelc=en Here is my question: What are the features of Acronis that Tivoli Fastback lacks? Thanks

Incremental Image Backup issue

2010-01-20 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi all, UltraBac and Tivoli FastBack are interesting software that can do incremental image backup and send it directly to TSM. Does it mean they utilize the incremental-forever feature of TSM for images? If so, one full image backup of a filesystem would be enough forever. Thanks

LAN-free support for Data Protection for DB2

2010-01-20 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Dear all, If you look at the first table in the following link, DB2 is not listed in the list of data protection clients that support LAN-free. Could it be because DB2 has built-in awareness of TSM or it really does not support LAN-free? Thanks, Mehdi

Re: LAN-free support for Data Protection for DB2

2010-01-20 Thread Mehdi Salehi
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663uid=swg21053348

Re: LAN-free support for Data Protection for DB2

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Sims
See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246247.html

Re: Tsm license problem

2010-01-20 Thread Howard Coles
IF you're wanting to know how many tsmee licenses you have registered, (i.e. how many nodes *can* connect to the TSM server the command is: q lic If you're wanting to know how many nodes TSM has registered you can either: q node OR select count(*) from nodes If you're wanting to know how many

ANS1301E Server detected system error

2010-01-20 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello all, We have a AIX Client that continues to fail with the following ANS1301E Server detected system error I checked and can't seem to find what could be causing this error. any suggestions? 01/20/10 01:27:53 Total number of bytes transferred:4.75 GB 01/20/10 01:27:53 Data

Re: ANS1301E Server detected system error

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Hello all, We have a AIX Client that continues to fail with the following ANS1301E Server detected system error I checked and can't seem to find what could be causing this error. any suggestions? Tell us what you checked... Look in

Re: Encryption

2010-01-20 Thread Scott Bellew
Hi Joni, We use Application Managed Encryption, with IBM 3584 library and LTO4 drives. This only works for a storage pool with DRIVEENCRYPTION=ON. It does not encrypt the db backup tape. TSM handles the keys. We use this for off-site archive tapes. Currently in the process of recalling all

5.5.3.0 -- 5.5.4.1 upgradedb running long?

2010-01-20 Thread Keith Arbogast
Our TSM server is on RHEL 5. We are upgrading it from version 5.5.3.0 to 5.5.4.1. Our database size is about 185 GB. It is on Hitachi AMS2300 SAS disk. Upgradedb has been running for about 35 minutes so far. Is that what should be expected, or should upgradedb be finished within a few

Re: Encryption

2010-01-20 Thread Howard Coles
Good question, I was about to ask that same thing. We're about to put in LTO4's at our main DC (wanted to go VTL or Disk, but . . . ). My boss has already spec'd and priced out getting the Hardware encryption, but I'd like to know if that's the best route. The question is if we did that how

Re: ANS1301E Server detected system error

2010-01-20 Thread Timothy Hughes
Richard Thanks, I checked the clients dsmerror.log no errors. The only thing I see in the dsmsched.log is 01/20/10 01:27:53 ANS1301E Server detected system error 01/20/10 01:27:53 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END MIDNIGHT 01/20/10 00:00:01 01/20/10 01:27:53 ANS1512E Scheduled event

Re: Encryption

2010-01-20 Thread Len Boyle
We are working on setting up encryption with LTO4's and we are using multiple backup products so there are several different methods to control encryption. Several emails in the recent past talk about how to encrypt or not using the tools within TSM. If you are not using tsm's application

Re: 5.5.3.0 -- 5.5.4.1 upgradedb running long?

2010-01-20 Thread Keith Arbogast
The answer to this question, in our case, is 'No'. I found a core file in /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin that was created when the upgradedb began, and now have a sev 1 service request open. Keith

Re: 5.5.3.0 -- 5.5.4.1 upgradedb running long?

2010-01-20 Thread Keith Arbogast
The resolution of this was that after 3 1/2 hours the UPGRADEDB process was still getting time, but there was no dsmserv.err file, and given other indicators, TSM Support made an educated guess and recommended that I kill it and start dsmserv. That was successful. We are now on release 5.5.4.1.

SV: 5.5.3.0 -- 5.5.4.1 upgradedb running long?

2010-01-20 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Keith, I don't understand your question really. But I did the same thing and upgrade a end-users database from 5.5.0.3 to 5.5.4.0 and it took over 24 hours on a 200 GB Database until I killed the session. When I boot up the TSM Server it looks like they where running 5.5.4.0. When I look