Re: CDL: Cannot seem to checkin virtual tapes, please help!

You can also add 'waitt=0' to your label libvol command; this suppresses the prompt and the subsequent need for a reply. Here's the label command we use for our 3584: label libvolume lib-name search=bulk labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch waitt=0 Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT

Re: Orphaned filespaces

Ahh...I hadn't thought of using the backup_date column from the backups table. I'll have to see if I can get away with running a query like this; if so, it'd make my 'cleanup old filespace' processing more thorough. Thanks! Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Ian Smith [EMAIL

Re: Orphaned filespaces

goes away, new PC comes in and filespace name changes) or not. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Richard Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2007 9:36 AM I've come at orphaned filespaces from a little different angle. What I do is get a list of filespaces that have not been backed

Re: Error writing volume history file

of the available space in /var? Dumps? Logs? Something else? -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2007 1:43 PM -Mark Stapleton wrote: - Does the directory exist? Yes. Is there room in the /var filesystem? The file system has about 240

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

this; I think that if you get the tape checkouts/checkins correct, then it's not needed (and if you don't get them correct then you've got some problems!), but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to do one anyway, just to be sure. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Zoltan

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

and monitoring the server log for success/failure messages. With SCSI-type tape libraries, there's a lot more work to be done by people and/or scripts than there is with a 3494. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/06 11:32 PM I'm

Re: Some strange tape related issues?

was made will be lost when that backup is restored. So I would expect the new server to think that whatever tapes were involved in the drm move offsite were still in the library...that's what its database says. Or do I misunderstand what's wrong in question 4? Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn

Re: rebinding file backups

, then delete the empty files you just created. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07/06 11:45 AM If the files still exist on the client, then they will be rebound to the new management class. If the files no longer exist

Re: Migrating to a Library Manager

of tapes physically present in the library. The two lists can be edited to turn them into 'checkout libv' and 'checkin libv' commands for use in steps 1 and 4 above. Of course, there are a lot of details I'm leaving out, but this was the general method I used. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn

Re: Fiber attached tape drives

thru rmt7, and to make the drive names match the physical order of drives in our 3584. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/06 2:11 PM I have fiber attached 3590 tape drives in a 3494 library. I am running TSM 5.3.2.0 on AIX 5.2 ML6. The WWN

Re: 5.3.2.2 volume question

This sounds like APAR IC47950. If so, then until a fix is available, you can just update the volumes in question to scratch status via 'upd libv'. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/16/06 7:52 AM I recently upgraded to 5.3.2.2 server level, about

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

processing and the start of script processing, then at the end of script , put: del sch run_ type=a def sch run_ t=a cmd=run active=yes startt=NOW+0:05 peru=o Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/06 8:53 AM Wait=yes option

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

. That 'another_script' could in fact do some things and then schedule itself to run again in the future. (BTW, the PARALLEL and SERIAL commands you mentioned are only valid *within* a script, not on the command line that runs a script.) -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

To be more specific, set up the schedule with something along the lines of this: def sched queryproc t=a desc=query processes cmd=q proc startt=13:59:00 dur=15 duru=m day=any per=1 peru=hours active=yes Which will run the script every hour at (roughly) xx:59:00 -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

Sorry...obviously, one should substitute cmd=run script-name for cmd=q proc but you all knew what I meant. :-) To be more specific, set up the schedule with something along the lines of this: def sched queryproc t=a desc=query processes cmd=q proc startt=13:59:00 dur=15 duru=m day=any

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

I think that's correct; if you want the scripts to run in parallel, you'll need multiple admin schedules. If you want the scripts to run serially, you could kick off the first script via an admin schedule, then have that script run the second script, and so on... -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn

Re: move data script

to reclaim tapes; using reclamation thresholds and/or the new (5.3) 'reclaim stg' command will do just fine. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/08/06 11:49 AM We move data manually and it is a pain .I was wondering what is the best practice out

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

occurring. With only two drives, and depending on the mount retention period specified on the device class, I could believe that an awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with tape mounts, idle drives, etc., and not actually writing data. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

specified on the device class, I could believe that an awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with tape mounts, idle drives, etc., and not actually writing data. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 It also wouldn't hurt to verify

Re: volumes being marked seen as write protected

don't bother with that - just mark 'em read/write as soon as I see the ANR8463E messages. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Hi All, Wondering if anyone else has seen this yet? Volumes scratch and private are being seen as write protected and either marked as unavailable

Re: Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Pugliese, Edward wrote: Instead of multiple versions on the same server, could you run different versions on separate LPARS in a library client/manager arrangement ? I do run multiple servers on one AIX partition but they are on the same level. Yeah, based on your and

Re: Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

structure, and anything else that's required to accomplish this? Thanks very much, Bill -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:34:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Bill Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM discussion list ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Multiple versions of TSM server

Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

repository for locale en_US_tsm5230(-1). Using default message repository. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Am I even on the right track?? Or is there another/better way to accomplish my goal? Thanks in advance, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Threshold on Copypool relcamation

set to 7. Wouldn't the tape empty after 7 days? Only if all the data on the tape has gone inactive (files deleted from the client machine's disk, or newer versions of files backed up). Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: 3583 Meltdown

guess). Maybe if everyone who's seeing these messages contacts IBM support, they'll have a better chance of figuring out what's going on. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Problems with TSM and tapes

question'. Anyone else getting such grief from their 358x tape system?? Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John E. Vincent wrote: Recently we've started seeing these messages pop up when we try to run our nightly db2 backup: 03/10/2005 02:24:25 ANR8337I LTO volume

Re: Changing library manager servers

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Paul Zarnowski wrote: It is not necessary to run the Library Manager server on a separate physical server. If you know how to setup multiple TSM servers on the same AIX box, then you can just run an additional TSM server image to be the shared library manager. We have

Changing library manager servers

out how dense I'm being about this and how I'm missing the obvious. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: by-hand reclamation question...

of thing. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

with it some more before deciding it really needs to be replaced. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jurjen Oskam wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:26:42PM -0600, Bill Kelly wrote: A few months ago, we experienced several of the 'corrupted tape

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

. Thanks! Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

LTO2 corrupted index question

assuming that the firmware update *really* fixed the problem...it's been out for several months with no subsequent updates. Any insight would be appreciated! Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Performance

somewhere around 25 MB for me. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT

Re: SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS Question

I think the behavior you're expecting only happens when the recovery plans are being stored at another TSM server. We use a shell script to clean up old recovery plan files. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Sung Y Lee wrote: Currently in our TSM

Re: migration question

threshold yet. So if that node has enough data on disk, it could easily account for this behavior. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Levi, Ralph wrote: I am running TSM 5.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 . My primary disk pool is 490GB with the himig=95, lowmig=90

Re: Problems with binding mgt class to file

version. The 'q b -ina' command can be useful for building a list of the files you need to fiddle with in this manner. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

during the next expiration process. As I said, I may well not understand what the problem for you is, so this posting may be a waste of people's time. If so, sorry! I'll go back to lurking. :-) Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Gretchen L. Thiele

Re: Files bound to wrong mgtclass

an effect). A scheduled 'dsmc backup systemobject' will result in the system object being backed up regardless of what domain statement is in effect, and it will go to the mgt class specified on the 'include.systemobject' statement. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Backup of all-local -systemonject

. I hope I'm wrong on this, and if so, I'd love for someone to correct me! Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Backup of all-local -systemonject

with the 'let them back it up, then throw it away' approach, which has its obvious drawbacks in terms of wasted resources. *sigh* Regards, Bill -Original Message- From: Bill Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup of all

Re: Number of Sessions?

Bill Kelly Auburn University

Re: Number of Sessions?

-reporting of our problem. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University

SQL to determine what offsite volumes are needed for move data

to solving this problem? Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

Re: SQL to determine what offsite volumes are needed for move data

to mount, since we back up the disk pools just before migrating. My goal here is to minimize the number of tape mounts and the time that the tape drives are tied up, whether it's in 'move data' processing or 'backup stgpool' processing. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

User access list information

anything in the list archives, either... Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

Re: ITSM V5.1.6 for MVS/OS-390

crossed. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917 I have been watching the list closely for any MVS/OS-390 ITSM v5.1.6 server upgrades that have been successful. I have not noticed any. Is there anyone out there who has upgraded and used the MVS v5.1.6 successfully? April 15th

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

that will get the 'Freeheld bytes' (and presumably the 'buffers free') numbers into a reasonable range. Perhaps if I can do that, I'll be able to stop this insane cycling of the server every 5-8 hours. Thanks for your help and insight! Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu