Re: VMware backup questions

2010-11-11 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Wanda, interesting post So we can back up the VDR backup store to TSM for offsite/DR purposes. What about restores? do we have to restore the whole VDR storage to a point in time in order to run a restore where TSM has a longer retention than VDR? Can we just restore a part of it and if so

Ang: SV: TSM and DB2

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Jeannine We're backing up several hundreds of them on AIX/Solaris/Linux and Windows platforms. What kind of feedback are you looking for? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Christian Svensson

Re: TSM and DB2

2010-11-11 Thread Jacques Van Den Berg
We only use the DB2 API to backup our DB2 databases to TSM Kind Regards, Jacques van den Berg TSM / Storage / SAP Basis Administrator Pick 'n Pay IT Email : jvandenb...@pnp.co.za Tel : +2721 - 658 1711 Fax : +2786 - 5134272 Mobile : +2782 - 653 8164 Living on Earth is expensive,

Re: API for TSM Admin commands

2010-11-11 Thread Wolfgang J Moeller
Several filters for dsmadmc output (both -tabdelimited, and with standard headings(!)) can be found at http://www.gwdg.de/~moeller/tsmutils/ See the file README there, for rudimentary documentation. Together with a general-purpose (unix) 'dsmadmc'-wrapper, they are good at (sometimes

Report Writing Tools, or Business Intelligence, and the TSMer

2010-11-11 Thread Nick Laflamme
(skip ahead to the phrase problem statement if this e-mail looks too long but you still care.) Prologue: My current shop prefers to use EMC's Data Protection Advisor product to do our TSM reports and data collection for trend analysis. Several of us who have very technical backgrounds (think

Re: Strange Behaviour: backup STG primary storage pool

2010-11-11 Thread Leandro Mazur
Rajesh, you can set the COPYSTG option in your primary storage pool. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh rajesh.lakshminaraya...@dfs.com wrote: Hi, Your theory seems to be correct. I just queried my activity log to check how my admin schedule to copy the primary

Re: VMware backup questions

2010-11-11 Thread Prather, Wanda
So we can back up the VDR backup store to TSM for offsite/DR purposes. What about restores? do we have to restore the whole VDR storage to a point in time in order to run a restore where TSM has a longer retention than VDR? As far as I know, yes. Can we just restore a part of it and if so

Re: Report Writing Tools, or Business Intelligence, and the TSMer

2010-11-11 Thread Roger Deschner
Hi Nick! I've been using SPSS for this purpose for some time, and now it's also been acquired by IBM. The base program is now called IBM SPSS Statistics 19, and traces its lineage back to 1968. The report-writing facilities are quite easy to use, for either production or ad-hoc reports. Having