Trying to collect backup history of clients

2004-03-31 Thread Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
hi, We have TSM 5.1.6.2 on Solaris 2.8. I am trying to collect the backup history attempts for my clients. I have my activity log stored for 14 days. Most of my backups are scheduled but some are scripted from the client side. also we have randomization enabled. What would be the most

Backupset question

2003-11-14 Thread Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
Hi, We have a few old multi tape backupsets. The database on these tapes have since been destroyed And we have a peculiar situation where we need to identify tapes that are sequence 2/3 on these backupsets. We have about 500 old tapes so I was wondering if there is an easy way of identifying

what is the equivalent of virtualmountpoint option in unix for windows?

2003-10-23 Thread Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
Hi, In unix tsm clients I could use a virtualmountpoint option int the dsm.opt file to make A directory look like a separate mount point. This option does not seem to work when I put it in my windows dsm.opt file. I was wondering if there is a similar command for windows. Thanks Bala

NDMP Backups using TSM

2003-06-16 Thread Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
Hi, We are currently using NFS based backups for backing up our neap filers. I am wondering if NDMP Backups with TSM now allow us to do file/directory level restores. Also is 3-way NDMP backups possible with TSM ? IS NDMP backups for TSM using the same backup software [TSM 5.1.6.2 etc] with just

TSM Server not using maximum number of drives.

2003-03-28 Thread Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
Hi, I have a TSM Server (version 5.1.6.2) with a library having 6 drives. I have defined Maximum mounts allowed for one of my clients to be 4. The Mount Limit in DEVCLASS is set to DRIVES. However when this client backs up (Direct to Tape) it uses only 2 Drives instead of 4, Even though there are