How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Minns, Farren - Chichester
Hi all, I wonder if you can help. I need to schedule a Mac client to do a daily incrbydate backup. On the client I have created a file called daily-incrbydate.sh with the single line dsmc incremental -incrbydate in. If I run this directly it works fine, but when I try to create a schedule on

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/6/2010 8:09 PM, Richard Sims wrote: Don't use the GUI for major restorals - performance suffers. Use -Virtualnodename for CLI-based cross-nodename operations, as described in the client manual. Richard Sims Thanks Richard! I found the option in the Unix/Linux manual I am assuming

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/6/2010 8:35 PM, David Bronder wrote: Timothy Hughes wrote: one of the sun servers we backup was rebuilt (the os was upgraded to solaris 10) and the client was re-installed with a new name bolton01 to boton0s10 F.y.I - the reason for the new name is because will eventually get rid of

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
Did you follow the quoting specifications documented for the DEFine SCHedule command, to deal with the blank characters in the string?

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Timothy Hughes wrote: On 10/6/2010 8:09 PM, Richard Sims wrote: Don't use the GUI for major restorals - performance suffers. Use -Virtualnodename for CLI-based cross-nodename operations, as described in the client manual. Richard Sims Thanks Richard! I

Re: Upgrade to TSM 5.5.5 causes ANR2914E from SELECT query

2010-10-07 Thread Danny Schmanny
Greetings Matt et al: I thought I had resolved this 18 character limitation in TSM version 5.5.5 by defining the 'from' clause 'Domains' as D, 'Nodes' as N, and 'Occupancy' as O (see Revised SQL below) but the SQL statement chokes saying ANR2906E Unexpected SQL literal token - 'D'. (or

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Minns, Farren - Chichester
Hi Richard I was just using double quotes, so now use single and double. The schedule looks as follows and still fails with ANR2579E Schedule MACSERVERS in domain STANDARD for node CHI-XS02 failed (return code 127). Policy Domain Name: STANDARD Schedule Name: MACSERVERS

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/7/2010 8:19 AM, Richard Sims wrote: On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Timothy Hughes wrote: On 10/6/2010 8:09 PM, Richard Sims wrote: Don't use the GUI for major restorals - performance suffers. Use -Virtualnodename for CLI-based cross-nodename operations, as described in the client manual.

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
Hi, Farren - Making progress... The 127 error is complaining about the path of the command. I don't see that you need the /Server HD at the front of the path spec: have it start with /Applications and give that a try, first doing 'ls -l' on the revised path to verify the file path, and assure

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Meunier, Yann
The virtualnodename option is for use in command line only ! If you want to use an alternate nodename, then make many servername definitions in your dsm.sys whith each nodename -Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] De la part de Timothy Hughes

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
-Virtualnodename should be used on the command line, as it is a provisional execution option, not something that should endure in the options file.

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Use this link to find information about the -virtualnodename option: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolidoccentral/Tivoli +Storage+Manager (I recommend this be bookmarked for future reference.) You can select the TSM version you use, then enter virtualnodename in the search

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Minns, Farren - Chichester
Wonderful, that seems to be working :-) Thank you. One final question though. Can I run this command such that I still see the output as I would in the normal dsmsched.log? Regards Farren -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

tsm question

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Brown
How have others handled litigation issues where one is told to capture all folders for specific servers. You can copy them all to a read only system. You can take a backup of them with a different node name. You can export everything which would include active and inactive. You cant just pull

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Farren, Try to add /some_path/log_file_name at the end of your command. Also, make sure that there is no quiet commutator in your dsm.opt file, or replace it with verbose. Cheers. Arnaud ** Corporate IT Systems

Re: Upgrade to TSM 5.5.5 causes ANR2914E from SELECT query

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew G. Leis
Hello Danny, Try something like this: select DISTINCT occ.node_name,SUM(occ.num_files)/2, SUM(occ.physical_mb)/2, occ.filespace_name from domains dom, nodes nod, occupancy occ where dom.domain_name=nod.domain_name and nod.node_name=occ.node_name and dom.domain_name='DM_PRD' GROUP BY

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Minns, Farren - Chichester
Wonderful, works a treat. Thanks to all for the help. Regards Farren -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of PAC Brion Arnaud Sent: 07 October 2010 14:49 To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to run a command for a Mac

Re: tsm question

2010-10-07 Thread TSM User
It really depends on what's been requested. If you're talking about capturing today's copy as it is on the client now, then backing them up to different node names (in a different policy domain, even!) will probably be easiest for future reference. If you're talking about including historical

Re: tsm question

2010-10-07 Thread Rick Adamson
If the need is for all current active date you could look at the generate backupset command. It is stored as a single object in server storage and only needs a BA client to restore. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of TSM

Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

2010-10-07 Thread Remco Post
Have you considered creating a normal Incremental schedule and using -opt='-incrbydate' flag? This seems to be far less error prone? On 7 okt 2010, at 13:56, Minns, Farren - Chichester wrote: Hi all, I wonder if you can help. I need to schedule a Mac client to do a daily incrbydate

Re: How to monitor Archive Log space in TSM V6?

2010-10-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
I think Q LOG F=D just reports active space usage. My solution was to monitor the usage on the directory containing the archive log files through cron. Once the free space on the filesystem drops below a certain threshold I'll kick off a DB backup using dsmadmc. On 10/01/10 10:45, Vandeventer,

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/7/2010 8:52 AM, Richard Sims wrote: -Virtualnodename should be used on the command line, as it is a provisional execution option, not something that should endure in the options file. Richard Thanks again for your assistance! The restore completed successfully. The manual confused me

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
Andy Thanks for your reply also, I got the restore to work by doing the following I changed the name in the dsm.opt file back to the OLD name ( bolton01) before it was rebuilt. Then did a dsmc so it would except it as that name and then I did the restore. Although I realize i have to get use

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks Yann and David for your replies. I have to work on this virtualnodename option to get it to work. I believe I used the alternate nodename method in the dsm.sys file to get it to restore. regards On 10/7/2010 8:51 AM, Meunier, Yann wrote: The virtualnodename option is for use in

Re: Storage Pool Migration

2010-10-07 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
Have you looked at move data? You can move data from a volume to a pool. We frequently use this to move data when we change storage systems. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul_Dudley Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Timothy, The URL works. It apparently got reformatted so that the URL was broken up onto two lines, and I suspect when you clicked on it, it just picked up the first line. You need the rest of it as well. Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Richard Thanks again for your assistance! The restore completed successfully. The manual confused me with the information below. It say's place the option in the dsm.opt file Glad the restoral worked, but using the Nodename option to do it

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/7/2010 2:25 PM, Richard Sims wrote: On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Richard Thanks again for your assistance! The restore completed successfully. The manual confused me with the information below. It say's place the option in the dsm.opt file Glad the restoral

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
Andy Thanks, Yes it did get broken up (left off the second line part of the url) +Storage+Manager I got it now Best regards Tim On 10/7/2010 2:22 PM, Andrew Raibeck wrote: Timothy, The URL works. It apparently got reformatted so that the URL was broken up onto two lines, and I suspect when

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Just as a precaution anything else I could do to to make sure the password wasn't changed? I usually just physically inspect the TSM.PWD file, seeing if its mtime has changed very recently and, if so, check the internals to assure the ASCII

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/7/2010 2:55 PM, Richard Sims wrote: On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Just as a precaution anything else I could do to to make sure the password wasn't changed? I usually just physically inspect the TSM.PWD file, seeing if its mtime has changed very recently and, if

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Richard, I checked using dsmc query session and it shows the correct reported nodename. I also tried to inspect the TSM.PWD but could not find it. I checked the /etc/security/adsm directory and did not see it. Your platform is Solaris, I

Re: RESTORE HELP

2010-10-07 Thread Timothy Hughes
On 10/7/2010 3:25 PM, Richard Sims wrote: On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Richard, I checked using dsmc query session and it shows the correct reported nodename. I also tried to inspect the TSM.PWD but could not find it. I checked the /etc/security/adsm directory and did

Re: Upgrade to TSM 5.5.5 causes ANR2914E from SELECT query

2010-10-07 Thread Danny Schmanny
Matt: Thanks. Your suggestion worked. The only difference I can see is using dom instead of D, nod instead of N, and occ instead of O. Brilliant. Must be something about single letters it didn't like. The winning SQL is as follows: select DISTINCT occ.node_nameNode Name,

Re: tsm question

2010-10-07 Thread Marcel Anthonijsz
We were once told to hold ALL data of ALL our TSM servers. We put _all_ copy pool tapes and DBbackups (2 for each server) in the archive, together with the printed planfiles. Next we had to order that amount of scratch of course... We made a very happy media supplier that year I dare not to

Getting backup duration in TSM 6.2 select statement

2010-10-07 Thread rennadm
Hi there guys, After much searching and figuring out how to do select statements on TSM 6.2 This is what I have come up with for backups. You can manipulate it to suit you. SELECT substr(char(start_time),1,19) AS START_TIME,timestampdiff(4,char(timestamp(end_time) - (start_time))) AS

Getting backup duration in TSM 6.2 select statement

2010-10-07 Thread rennadm
Hi there guys, After much searching and figuring out how to do select statements on TSM 6.2 This is what I have come up with for backups. You can manipulate it to suit you. SELECT substr(char(start_time),1,19) AS START_TIME,timestampdiff(4,char(timestamp(end_time) - (start_time))) AS

Expiration question

2010-10-07 Thread rennadm
Probably a few months later, any how Have you tried increasing the resources on your expire inventory command? Secondly I'd advise against the upgrade of TSM 6.1.3 to 6.1.4. Too many bugs. I would advise going straight to TSM6.2.1 Pretty stable so far. And the upgrade process is not that bad as

Re: Upgrade to TSM 5.5.5 causes ANR2914E from SELECT query

2010-10-07 Thread robert_clark
If you're going to load the 5.2 IDL (WebGUI), do so before upgrading to 5.5.5. Once you've upgraded to 5.5.5, the 5.2 IDL load fails. [RC] On Oct 05, 2010, at 08:25 AM, Matthew G. Leis matthew.l...@usbank.com wrote: I opened a case with IBM, here are the results: We are encountering the