Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Reclamation Tape Count...

2008-08-13 Thread Andy Huebner
for that write, so maybe we get it down to 17 years for parts of the tape. I hope to change tape technology before I reach 17 years. Or 1 full pass every week plus one extra pass every 11 days is about 42 years. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Reclamation Tape Count...

2008-08-08 Thread Andy Huebner
TSM does not keep information on a tape beyond its current use. Not sure about LTO, but they are similar to 3590 which we run to the first write error. In general this takes years, but I have no idea how many mounts. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto

Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!

2008-08-06 Thread Andy Huebner
Perhaps we could request a license for 100,000,000,000. At zero dollars each you do not want to be caught under licensed and that is fairly cheap insurance. Of course the bean counters will see think that there is a gold mine with that many units being licensed... Andy Huebner -Original

Re: New TSM Layout

2008-07-31 Thread Andy Huebner
I would break them up in a way that makes sense with the physical disk layout. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dollens, Bruce Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] New TSM

Re: TSM upgrade to 5.5.1

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Huebner
with a patch), but we have not figured out a way to test that without endangering the data. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Rackoll Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM

Re: iscsi world as it relates to TSM world

2008-07-10 Thread Andy Huebner
Gartner once said that iSCSI would be the dominant way of connecting to storage by 2001. FC is going away as fast as tape drives are. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:14 PM

Re: Does reclamation rewrite data block headers?

2008-06-20 Thread Andy Huebner
The question implies they are not 100% emulating the life of a physical tape. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Large Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 5:38 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Does reclamation

Re: Server stgpool volumes and GPT

2008-06-19 Thread Andy Huebner
a matter of adding or removing a volume. AIX and about 3TB of storage pool volumes. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Server

Re: TSM DB backup - dr, issues and concerns

2008-06-19 Thread Andy Huebner
0) Too Paranoid is not good English 2) We use TSM to mirror the DB and Logs to another array in a different building. 3) We have thought about this, but not done it... 6) 2 DB backups per day to tape. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: TSM DB and SRDF

2008-06-19 Thread Andy Huebner
. If you are running sync SRDF then you will not see a difference while writing if you use TSM DB mirroring. A Symm will wait for the remote Symm to commit the write to cache before returning to the host that the write is complete. TSM may read from either mirror, so that could be a little slow. Andy

Re: Upgrading from 5.2.10 to 5.4.3

2008-06-18 Thread Andy Huebner
We did an upgrade from 5.2.x.x to 5.4.2.0 on AIX. IBM recommended we take the scenic route through 5.3.0 then 5.4.0 and finally the latest patch. I would suggest you call the friendly TSM support team and confirm that is what you should do. The read.me files are hard to piece together... Andy

Re: VTL and TSM - Hyper Reclamation ????

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Huebner
We run ours at 50%. One thing to consider is whether your server and VTL will have the bandwidth to reclaim at those percentages. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:08 PM

Re: Tape Reclaim Question

2008-05-15 Thread Andy Huebner
Full tapes should be within .1 of 100 on the total due to rounding error. Filling tapes will vary. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: STGPOOL migration thresholds

2008-05-14 Thread Andy Huebner
We changed from 80-40 to 80-60 when we installed the VTL. We have not had a reason to change since. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: VSS crashing W2K3?

2008-05-07 Thread Andy Huebner
What version of the TSM agent are you using? Does (nt)Backup also crash the system? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS

Re: Journal Engine install on Windows

2008-05-07 Thread Andy Huebner
service on also happen to be scheduled for regular (weekly, monthly) reboots, but if they were not on a schedule we would stop and start the Journal service on a regular basis. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard

Re: DB Bufferpool sizing - continued

2008-04-28 Thread Andy Huebner
times 3-5 hours. Buffer Pool pages 524,288 @ about 99.1% hit rate. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DB Bufferpool

Re: Copypool Tape Ownership

2008-04-17 Thread Andy Huebner
Is there a paper on this method? How would you split a server that is the Configuration Manager? How would TSM handle the change to the MCs? Would there we issues with retention or rebinding of objects. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Copypool Tape Ownership

2008-04-17 Thread Andy Huebner
Do you use a Configuration Manager in your environment? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Copypool Tape

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM

2008-04-01 Thread Andy Huebner
#1 - A TSM incremental backup is equivalent to a full backup by traditional products. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Top 20

Re: Deleting and Adding nodes.

2008-03-31 Thread Andy Huebner
Depending on your policies you may need to retain the data for a while. We rename the node and keep it for our retention period then delete the backup data. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: Monday

Re: LTO3 Tape Drives Unavailable on AIX

2008-02-27 Thread Andy Huebner
of the HBA's in the same default mode? Fabric vs Arbitrated Loop? 4. Do the HBA's show connected when the drive is defined? 5. Is there light on both ends when they are defined? 6. Have you tried using a switch to see if the results are the same? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: TSM server 5.3.3.0-5.4.1.1...no problem?

2008-02-27 Thread Andy Huebner
We went from 5.2 to 5.3 to 5.4.0.0 to 5.4.1.2 and hit a rare bug that crashes the server during reclamation, we were forced to 5.4.2.0. One of our two servers hit the bug. May yours go better than ours. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Run expire inventory before TSM Server upgrade

2008-02-25 Thread Andy Huebner
We did not run expire before our upgrade last month. We do run expire to completion daily. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 4:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: parallel processes

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Huebner
You need to find the reason a process ended. From what I have seen one of the processes will end because the next tape it needs is in use, it cannot get a tape drive or in the case of migration there is only one node left. I am sure there are other reasons. Andy Huebner -Original Message

ANR8963E ANR1791W

2008-02-12 Thread Andy Huebner
. This whole thing is starting to drive us nuts with paths dropping every day and with IBM not having a solution yet. Does anyone have a solution to these errors? We are stuck and IBM is working on it. AIX 5.3 TSM 5.4.2.0 IBM3494 3590-E drives A very static tape SAN Andy Huebner This e-mail

Re: Recommendations/suggestions for moving a TSM server

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Huebner
have simply turn the old server on. Before the move we did all of the tape drive zoning and installing to reduce our downtime. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:20 AM

Re: TSM on Power

2008-01-18 Thread Andy Huebner
, but it is close enough to not cause a problem. We are upgrading the hardware on Monday to a p550, we figure 6 years is enough to get our moneys worth out of the 6H1. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent

Re: TSM on Power

2008-01-18 Thread Andy Huebner
it depends somewhere, so there it is... Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM on Power It looks like, after many years on the z

Re: Upgrade DB

2008-01-16 Thread Andy Huebner
5.2 to 5.4 works if that helps. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard van Denzel Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Upgrade DB Hi All, Just for the sake

DBPageShadowFile

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Huebner
In a disaster, is the DBPageShadowFile required, needed or useless when using TSM DB and Log mirroring to another data center? The assumption is TSM will be brought up on the mirrors. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you

Re: Documentum EMC TSM

2008-01-11 Thread Andy Huebner
or take 10 million files. The app is down around 15 minutes and the backup runs about 10-12 hours. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Molero Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: Strange difference between Primary and Copypool

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Huebner
primary tapes? I would think the tape count could swing the other way. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Strange

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] DB Audit

2007-12-06 Thread Andy Huebner
this will take. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] AW: [ADSM-L] DB Audit On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Lehmann, Stefan

DB Audit

2007-12-05 Thread Andy Huebner
I am not sure there is an answer for this problem: We are running a test audit before we upgrade our TSM server. The audit appears that it will take about 200 hours to complete. Upgrading the DB and starting TSM took 15 minutes total. The software is AIX 5.3 running TSM 5.4.0.0. The hardware

Re: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP TO DEFINE AN EXCEPTION IN A SCHEDULER

2007-12-04 Thread Andy Huebner
You could also use an enterprise scheduler to issue a Define ClientAction, which is what we do. The node set to prompted should be fine, as the server will prompt the node when it is time to run even if you change schedules once a month. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: TSM Client Software for NT

2007-11-28 Thread Andy Huebner
server version is 5.2.2.4. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Client Software for NT Hello: I have some Windows NT (SP

Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Huebner
Look for filling volumes. Sometimes I find a pool has more filling volumes than I think it should have. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:13 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: internal threads

2007-11-15 Thread Andy Huebner
Look at this site, many of the show commands are listed. http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.funcdir Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent RATAJSZCZAK Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: PROBLEM WITH THE SPACE TRIGGER OF MY TSM SERVER.

2007-11-14 Thread Andy Huebner
Have you looked at the help for update spacetrigger and define spacetrigger? The log does not have an error related to the spacetrigger other than it not being defined. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wladimir

Re: TSM Upgrade to version 5.4

2007-11-08 Thread Andy Huebner
What problem did you find? Is there a known defect list somewhere? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM

Re: TSM Upgrade to version 5.4

2007-11-08 Thread Andy Huebner
Has this problem caused any issues with your server? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Upgrade to version

Re: Running dsmc incremental backup from client schedule versus from crontab

2007-11-02 Thread Andy Huebner
the 'Schedule Randomization Percentage' to 0. Beware that it is a global setting that may cause other problems, such as a busy schedule to start too may jobs at one time. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucia Burke Sent

Re: ANS5250E, ANS1999E and ANS1950E errors in Windows 2003 clients dsmerror.log

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Huebner
When we have VSS issues we first look in the NT log for the error. Most of the time that will lead us to a MS solution. What errors are in the NT log? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Tuesday

Re: How to reclaim FILLING volumes

2007-10-09 Thread Andy Huebner
a scratch tape instead of the filling tape, I am not sure why, but I guess TSM does not want to split an object to the end of one tape and the middle of another. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent

Re: questions on Sessions

2007-09-21 Thread Andy Huebner
It looks like TSM is scanning the node. The server has sent 1.1G. I do not remember seeing more than one session until the node starts sending data. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, September 21

Re: questions on Sessions

2007-09-21 Thread Andy Huebner
I do not know how to tell if a session is alive other than if it is moving data. If your journaled backup is getting slower, that may be a problem with the journal file. When I have this happen I stop and start the journal service to clear the file, but that is another story... Andy Huebner

Re: Comparison

2007-09-12 Thread Andy Huebner
There have not been any fundamental changes between the two in the last 5 years. Both have new evolution type features, no revolutionary type features. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Tuesday

Re: Maximum throughput with Windows 2003

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Huebner
down the VTL and is also harder to manage. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Maximum throughput with Windows 2003 Hi Ian, Great

Re: Maximum throughput with Windows 2003

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Huebner
Are the HBA's PCI Express? If not the max throughput will be the PCI bus. I have two 2Gb HBA's for my VTL and I am not sure it would be much faster with more. Does your VTL have 4Gb ports and does the VTL engine have the bus bandwidth to keep up? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From

Re: Remote Bkups

2007-08-24 Thread Andy Huebner
One way might be to have SQL make a backup to disk then use your favorite file transfer program to bring the file local. The upside is there would be a local backup if needed. The downside is the complexity and extra disk needed. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: First Backup day

2007-08-23 Thread Andy Huebner
If it is Windows, you can look at the default .bmp files if you want to limit the search. So far, Microsoft has not had to patch the .bmp files. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis, Melburn IT7 Sent: Thursday

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

2007-08-22 Thread Andy Huebner
minutes to complete. (I think) Test both batch files from the command line to make sure there are not any dependencies. I know of no simpler way to stop and start services for a backup. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: How does a library choose a drive?

2007-08-22 Thread Andy Huebner
Least Recently Used I think is the management level explanation of how it is done. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L

Re: Multi-Core CPU usage on TSM Linux x86_64 server

2007-08-20 Thread Andy Huebner
or driver problem. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Multi-Core CPU usage on TSM Linux x86_64 server I realize that some

Re: console mode and resource use

2007-08-15 Thread Andy Huebner
the CPU usage of the server while you dump the log so you can show CPU load, if you can spot it... Good luck, and use primary colors. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Warren Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:27 PM

Journaling Criteria

2007-07-31 Thread Andy Huebner
What general rules are used to determine if a client has enough objects to add journaling to the system? We have been adding journaling if there is 1 million + objects and the backups run 5 or more hours. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally

Re: CAD will not start due to pre/post jobs

2007-07-25 Thread Andy Huebner
Try the command postschedulecmd is instead of postchedulecmd. There is a missing S. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ritter, John M Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-13 Thread Andy Huebner
pool. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] separation of copypool tapes On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Haberstroh, Debbie

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Huebner
ATA disks we know it can be done. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian-IT Smith Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:24 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SATA disk? Hi I have been doing some extensive testing

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Huebner
' and node_name = 'NODE_ABC' Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] separation of copypool tapes Deleting all of my copypool

Re: MaxSize on stgpool - how to tell effectiveness

2007-07-05 Thread Andy Huebner
The only thing I found in my log of a server that exceeds the maxsize is the backup session number mounting a tape. I did not see any obvious thing to search for when a backup session mounts a tape. V5.2.2.4 Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Removing file space.

2007-07-05 Thread Andy Huebner
Take a look at move nodedata. One of the options is to move a filespace. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Green Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Removing file space

Re: Dual interface TSM server

2007-06-27 Thread Andy Huebner
have to restart something, NIC or OS, to move the default gateway. Without Etherchannel or something similar, I do believe a human will be needed if the primary NIC drops off the network. Do you trust all of the humans there at 2am, which is the only time NICs are designed to fail? Andy Huebner

Re: IBM3494 Question

2007-06-21 Thread Andy Huebner
Thanks for the help. It seems the AS/400 stole 180 tapes... Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] IBM3494 Question Here

Re: Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution

2007-06-21 Thread Andy Huebner
tapes can be factored in to reduce the error. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution Has anyone

Re: FW: Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution

2007-06-21 Thread Andy Huebner
We created tapes equal to storage and we usually run about 10-15% utilized on disk space. The daring people might be able to go 10% over safely, but we are a little paranoid and have chosen to not over commit. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

IBM3494 Question

2007-06-20 Thread Andy Huebner
I know this is a little off subject, but does anyone have a list of 3494 categories? We have a bunch of tapes that are category 0080 and we are not sure why. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended

Re: Suppress windows space nag?

2007-06-19 Thread Andy Huebner
Look at this page: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/mngntreg/regtw k.mspx?mfr=true Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: How to Incorporate a CDL into TSM environment?

2007-06-15 Thread Andy Huebner
In my case 10TB of type=file will store 10TB of data. 10TB of VTL will store nearly 20TB of data. That is my only reason. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of caldwem01 Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:21 PM To: ADSM-L

Re: How to Incorporate a CDL into TSM environment?

2007-06-15 Thread Andy Huebner
In my world I am limited to 800MB to the VTL because I only have four 2GB fiber connections to the VTL. Migrations are limited to 400MB because I have only two 2GB connections to the disk pools. When the Ins are going to the right Outs I get close to the above speeds. Andy Huebner

Re: How to Incorporate a CDL into TSM environment?

2007-06-08 Thread Andy Huebner
period for attrition to reduce the primary tapes, then moved the rest to the CDL. Reclaiming to a different pool is a really nice feature. This config may change when we do our server refresh this year. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Linux RHELV5

2007-05-18 Thread Andy Huebner
I installed TSM Agent 5.4.0.0 on RHELV5. The command line works fine and the CAD is working, but when the GUI is started I get a main thread, fatal error, signal 11 error in the dsmerror.log. Has anyone seen this before? The only thing I found on the web was something fixed in 5.3.3.0. Andy

Re: How to back up nothing

2007-05-08 Thread Andy Huebner
Can you alter the dsm.opt files? If so change the server option to something like dev.null. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM

Re: Migration process

2007-04-10 Thread Andy Huebner
We run at 80/60. Do you empty the pools during the day? We run migration each day until our disk pools are empty. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Lynch Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:50 PM To: ADSM-L

Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Win2003 Full system restore

2007-04-09 Thread Andy Huebner
attrib c:\boot.ini +r +h +s cd /d c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient dsmc restore {SYSTEM STATE}\windows\system32\catroot\* c:\windows\system32\ -sub=yes -rep=all dsmc restore c:\* -sub=yes -rep=all dsmc restore systemstate dsmc restore systemservices fc /c /l c:\boot.ini c:\bootcopy.ini Andy Huebner

Re: moving/deleting a DB volume

2007-04-04 Thread Andy Huebner
I have done it both ways, the biggest difference I found were the commands used. Both took about the same amount of time. I would suggest doing the move when expiration is not running and when there are not many backups running. And always make a backup first, but you knew that... Andy Huebner

Re: Windows vs. AIX Server

2007-03-14 Thread Andy Huebner
I think of it less of a question of OS, more of a question of hardware. It is very hard to find an x86 server that has the bus structure to handle the 11 HBA's I am using. The first concern for me is what does the hardware need to handle? After that, I was down to non-x86 hardware. If your

Legato Cluster Backup

2007-03-02 Thread Andy Huebner
Does anyone know of documentation on how to backup a Legato Cluster? I only have one that appeared as part of a packaged system so I do not have a place to test and figure it out. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you

Legato AAM

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Huebner
Anyone know of documentation on how to setup TSM backups for a Legato cluster? Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited

Re: Off-topic post related to DST changes.

2007-01-04 Thread Andy Huebner
of me reads the file date, their system will see a time of 08:00 GMT and their local computer will add -05:00 for the local time zone offset. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Re: OT: Old IBM 2109 SAN switches question

2006-12-19 Thread Andy Huebner
Check the firmware version. Older than 2.6.1 and here is an easy solution. http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=845 893 2.6.1 and newer you may need a visit from your friendly local switch repairman. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Huebner
not oversubscribe the available space because we do not collocate. Our setup: 2x AIX 6H1 TSM 5.2.2.4 2x CDL740 (non-redundant) 18x 3590-E drives (off-site tape) 4.3TB per day Disk then fake tape Offsite on not fake tape Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Define ClientAction

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Huebner
=INCREMENTAL options=-optfile='c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.test.opt' DEFINE CLIENTACTION huebner3 DOMAIN=* ACTION=INCREMENTAL obj=-optfile=c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.test.opt Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you

Re: ANS1448E An error occurred accessing NTFS security information

2006-10-27 Thread Andy Huebner
encounters the error will reading the directory. In this case we have asked to exclude to directory. In other cases we have only ever seen this error on the C drive and it seems to be a corrupt disk entry, but we have not confirmed this theory. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Adding Tables to TSM Database

2006-09-26 Thread Andy Huebner
We us an enterprise scheduler to issue a define client action on the TSM server for each node to backup. We use the scheduler to limit the number of active jobs to about 80. The command we use is: define clientaction SERVERNAME action=i wait=yes Andy Huebner

Re: Win 5.3.4.0 DSMCAD not starting

2006-09-16 Thread Andy Huebner
When ever I see: Error starting schedule service: CadSchedName registry value is empty I go the the regestry and verify that the value is correct. The value is under the key for the CAD and the value may be missing or just blank. Andy Huebner From: ADSM

Re: Deleting a tape that doesn't exist

2006-09-12 Thread Andy Huebner
Perfect. I am guessing that volume is an under documented option. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deleting a tape

Re: Deleting a tape that doesn't exist

2006-09-11 Thread Andy Huebner
We have about 800 volumes that are Remote Type. We only need to delete the ones with a specific device class. Is there a way to accomplish this? If we delete all of the remote types from the volhist, will the in use volumes generate new history if we delete their old history? Andy Huebner

Re: Problem deleting disk pool volume.

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Huebner
We have a volume that cannot be deleted, same symptoms you describe. IBM recommended an audit of part of the DB. We have not done the audit yet due to time constraints. If all else fails you may have to call IBM. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto

Re: crawling system

2006-08-07 Thread Andy Huebner
You should only have one default gateway. All other routing can be taken care of with route statements. Having one default gateway will make the system predictable. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney clark Sent

Re: Audit restore storage volume tape

2006-07-28 Thread Andy Huebner
have found out, will not copy an object the has some error, which means the tape in the copy pool with the copy of the object does not get expired and returned to scratch. Andy Huebner From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Ford, Phillip Sent: Fri 7/28/2006

Re: Drive state is UNKNOWN

2006-07-20 Thread Andy Huebner
Any drive taken off-line then brought on-line will have a state of unknown. As long as the path is on-line TSM will use the drive. As soon as TSM uses the drive the state will change to something other than unknown. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Advantages of having backup by versioning...

2006-07-14 Thread Andy Huebner
, if it is not properly setup it can cost a great deal of time due to tape mount waits. The downside is we no longer have 9 copies of an object on tape, we only have two, so in theory the odds of losing an object due to bad tapes is larger, but it is still a number starting with a dot and some zeros. Andy Huebner

Re: Network Domain Name

2006-06-15 Thread Andy Huebner
problems on the servers knows about the problem and understands your solution. We had a restore shutdown a department and the server group took about an hour to find the permission problem. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill

Re: Retention Query

2006-06-09 Thread Andy Huebner
A starting point for TSM data storage needs when moving from traditional backup methods can be calculated with these steps: 1. One full copy on tape 2. The amount of data backed up by one incremental backup multiplied by the greater of versions or the retention period. 3. multiply by 2 if you

Re: Retain only Version

2006-06-05 Thread Andy Huebner
1) 60 days 2) Active forever Inactive, 365 days after the next version was backed up. 3) 60 days after all other inactive copies have expired. You can test by setting up a MC using 1 day and 2 day periods. I would test to make sure it behaves as expected. Andy

CuAt.vc question

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Huebner
We have 2 nearly identical AIX TSM servers; the one that is the library manager has a CuAt.vc file that is 19meg and the server that is not the library manager is 1 meg. Is this caused by TSM? Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Huebner
. The source data is about 40TB, of which TSM has 72TB stored. TSM backs up about 1.2TB per night. To keep LTO3's fed, be sure you have adequate system busses to handle the simultaneous reads and writes from disk, tape, network, DB and Logs. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Export Node

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Huebner
for the week it will take to move the data. Are there any other faster ways to move the data? Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you

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