Question: V6.3 or V7.1 for a new system?

2014-01-31 Thread Nachtwey, Bjoern
Dear all, reading the discussion about TSM 7.1 - should I upgrade or not seems to give me the answer for the question which version should I take for a completely new installation: for a new installation take TSM 7.1. but -- maybe some remarks are not given, what if so? therefore I do ask:

Re: Question: V6.3 or V7.1 for a new system?

2014-01-31 Thread Marouf, Nick
I would go with 7.1, I have it on 4 Windows 2008 R2 servers without any problems. The DB improvements are great, and the use of the Ops Manager has already provided to be very useful. :) All the best with the upgrade. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Bad tape question

2014-01-31 Thread mik
Hi roger, Thanks for the reply, i don't have another drive (the other is HS) I'am trying to do the fix=no and come to the result. Regards, Mickael +-- |This was sent by bobpatrick808...@yahoo.fr via Backup Central. |Forward

Re: Question: V6.3 or V7.1 for a new system?

2014-01-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
For us, we're growing quickly enough that it's always easier to upgrade/install the newest version today than it is tomorrow. If you think your site will be significantly bigger in the next couple years, I would go with v7.1 and save yourself the upgrade hassle. We went with v6.1 on our new TSM

preschedule / postschedule cmds for linux

2014-01-31 Thread Tim Brown
Can any one share the syntax for preschedule / postschedule cmds for linux Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.commailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax:

Re: preschedule / postschedule cmds for linux

2014-01-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
Each option takes a path to an executable, which could be compiled code, Perl, shell, etc. It runs with the same environment as the scheduler so you can access all the environment variables that the scheduler process itself sees. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 06:46:52PM +, Tim Brown wrote: Can any

Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Prather, Wanda
The TSM books show that you can have multiple policysets per domain. I don't mean just the active vs inactive, but you can have multiple policysets like NORMAL, OFFHOUR, WEEKEND, within one domain, and switch them back and forth. I've never done that, or had a reason to. Seems inordinately

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
We have the minimal STANDARD (writable) and ACTIVE policysets for our domains. Domains are assigned by billable unit (lab, institute, cost center, etc.). I've never come up with a purpose for multiple policysets, so I also would be curious to know if one exists. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at

Re: nformal Poll: General question about use of policyset

2014-01-31 Thread Keith Arbogast
Hi Wanda, It's an interesting question, and I hope you get many interesting answers. We only have one policyset per domain, partly from a lack of understandng of what's possible, and the other part from a lack of imagination. We try not to create a smorgasbord of TSM backup types and cycles.

Re: nformal Poll: General question about use of policyset

2014-01-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
When it comes to backups, simplicity is good. I try not to design anything that I cannot document succinctly. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:35:12PM -0500, Keith Arbogast wrote: Hi Wanda, It's an interesting question, and I hope you get many interesting answers. We only have one policyset per

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Wanda, Scenario 1: I am making multiple changes to my policy set. However, in case I mess something up, I'll first make a backup copy (of the inactive policy set) which will let me throw away my changes if I mess something up. copy policyset standard standard standard_2014-01-31 Scenario

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
Ah, that's a great idea. I've always captured the old settings to a file before making changes, but this makes it much faster and more reliable to recover. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:48:25PM -0500, Andrew Raibeck wrote: Hi Wanda, Scenario 1: I am making multiple changes to my policy set.

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Bill Boyer
Only come across a need once in 16-years of working with *SM. This customer wanted to do periodic full backups. So I had a policy set with set to the default MODE=MODIFIED and another set to MODE=ABSOLUTE. They would activate the full policy set when they wanted to do the complete refresh. And

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Nick Laflamme
I’ve never been at a site that used more than one policy set. But if I had been at either of two sites that had to implement infinite “legal holds” when that order actually came, I’d have used a new policy set to do exactly that. That’s the only situation in which I’d use that option. Nick

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-01-31 Thread Colwell, William F.
I have 2 policysets in each domain. They are identical except for the copygroup destination parameter. This is the design I came up with to implement 6.1 with dedup. Backups come into an ingest pool on hi-speed disk (bkp_1a) while policyset set_a is active. At 5 am, a schedule/script

Re: Prevent client backups from failing over to tape stgpools

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Harris
Brian TSM will only move a backup to the next pool when the pools are disk and sequential, not when sequential and sequential, so I suggest adding a dummy sequential pool with no volumes assigned in the middle. disk - dummy - tape I've come across this when using an intermediate file pool. It