Re: Question about Deduplcation feature with TSM6 - part 2

2011-11-02 Thread Stefan Folkerts
This is correct, unless you specify *DEDUPEREQUIRESBACKUP NO** in the dsmserv.opt file.* On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: I believe a deduped primary storage pool has to be backed up to a copy pool before the reclaim process will discard the

When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on a Linux server. In the past, when creating and formatting storage pool volumes, a 300GB volume would normally take an hour or more. I could watch the space being allocated, piece-by-piece until it reached 300GB and then

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 11/02/2011 08:49 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on a Linux server. [...] So, what gives? Is there some dramatic change in 6.2.3.0 (this is my first server upgraded to this level) effecting the behavior of creating

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Yes, this was finally fixed for the UNIX platforms in 6.2.3. This update was released just in time for me when I had to format 40 TB of disk/file on a new server. Would have taken a week otherwise. I guess it does the same as on the windows platform so no need to write zeros on all blocks on

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the confirmation. I too am getting ready to format 20TB+ on 2-other servers so I guess I will have to update the servers to 6.2.3.0 first (or jump straight to 6.3) I wonder if this will effect FILE devclasses/processing? I have tried to use FILE devclasses numerous times and always

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Speaking of 6.2.3, I just noticed a 6.2.3.100 patch but none of the links in the README.htm file work. Anyone have the list of what is fixed for this patch? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu -

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
Bummer, I just formatted 30TB of disk spool on v6.2.2.2 and it took days... -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine On 11/ 2/11 06:47 AM, Hans

V6.2.3.0 lb device stops working with DataDomain STK L180 virtual library

2011-11-02 Thread Costa, Justino
Hi, I've just upgraded a V6.2.2.2 TIVsmSdev pkg on Solaris x86_64 to v6.2.3.0 and the DataDomain virtual library stopped working ! After downgrading back to v6.2.2.2, it starts working again with no single error whatsoever. The errors I get (in hundreds) with TIVsmSdev v6.2.3.0, after starting

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Remco Post
Hi all, I guess that IBM started using the posix fs call to allocate storage. The command finishes in seconds, but at least on AIX the actual I/O still lasts forever. Some operating systems might be able to allocate disk space a lot quicker. It all boils down to the particular unix flavor

V6.3 TDP for Oracle on Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Anyone here started playing with this TDP? We can't get it to install. Most folks here use a terminal window and the -i console option has always worked in the past. With 6.3 it tried to kick in a GUI/Java session and thus fails since it can't start an X-Windows session

Virtual Volume Compatibility between server versions...

2011-11-02 Thread Allen S. Rout
I've been digging through the compatibility matrices at e.g. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7uid=swg21053218loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en which I'll parenthetically note were reasonably straightforward to find, and reasonably simple to parse. Nice. But I didn't see a

Re: V6.2.3.0 lb device stops working with DataDomain STK L180 virtual library

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Laflamme
Your DataDomain VTL has more than 4400 slots in it. If you can, reduce it to 4400 slots, and it will resume normal behavior. You'll need to delete and recreate the library for this to take effect, but it will work. I've got a PMR open with IBM and a Case open with DataDomain on this issue. I

Re: V6.2.3.0 lb device stops working with DataDomain STK L180 virtual library

2011-11-02 Thread Support - US
Such problems do not exist when you use an externally managed library. With an External Library Manager TSM is not aware of the slot count of a library, thus removing any dependence on TSM having pre-existing knowledge of library model architecture. This approach also allows for infinite

Re: V6.2.3.0 lb device stops working with DataDomain STK L180 virtual library

2011-11-02 Thread Remco Post
To make things very clear, there is no relevant design limitation in TSM, this is is just a bug. Of course Gresham software is just as vulnerable to human error. These things happen to the best of us. Don't believe the FUD that commercial software vendors spread. On 2 nov. 2011, at 23:52,

Re: Ang: Re: Help tracking down spurious Failed 12

2011-11-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
We have the same issue. In our case, it's caused by a corrupt or mismatched dscenu.txt file, causing ANS0106E message index not found for message... in dsmerror.log. To fix it, we stop the TSM scheduler (no need for that if you're using CAD I guess), replace the dscenu.txt file with a good one

Re: Can you restore a SystemState backup when you have the HP OpenView problem?

2011-11-02 Thread Lindsay Morris
Andy, the whole point of VSS is to freeze the activity and get a consistent SystemState backup. Right? So, if this HPOVO issue is going on, then certain files can't get enumerated to VSS. OK. Then the safety-net feature backs them up to the drive instead of to some VSS writer. But aren't they