large TSM server anomolies

2019-04-03 Thread Dwight Cook
So who all out there has TSM servers with DB's in the 3+ TB range that ingest 50+-ish TB's per night into a container storage pool? Doesn't matter if it is 7.1 or 8.1 or AIX or Linux I'm seeing behavior that I would classify as ~odd~ and wondering if others might be too. Dwight E. Cook

Re: Odd ANR2716E messages

2017-10-19 Thread Dwight Cook
Well, all that code is out of date but other than that... make sure SCHEDMODE PROMPT is in the client's dsm.opt file. Also if you are running only a scheduler, look at switching over to the CAD and letting it drive the scheduler. If your backup network is set to use jumbo frames (MTU 9000) check

Re: upgrading 6.3 to 7.1.x

2016-04-19 Thread Dwight Cook
The library manager has to be the highest level of TSM for the environment... Dwight E. Cook Technical Services Prof. Sr. TSM Delivery Architect IBM Cloud (918) 493-4678 From: Zoltan Forray To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/19/2016 12:11 PM Subject:Re:

Re: Select statement for client occupancy by management class...???

2016-04-11 Thread Dwight Cook
Do you use different storage pools for each management class? If no - it is very very difficult to calculate occupancy for each stored object because you must select from backups table. I don?t have select for do it. Efim > 11 апр. 2016 г., в 15:43, Dwight Cook <coo...@us.ibm.com> на

Select statement for client occupancy by management class...???

2016-04-11 Thread Dwight Cook
Does anyone have a select statement for client occupancy by management class (so I don't have to recreate the wheel)? Dwight E. Cook Technical Services Prof. Sr. TSM Delivery Architect IBM Cloud (918) 493-4678

TSM Monitoring/Reporting Cognos

2015-09-04 Thread Dwight Cook
OK, recently IBM created Operations Center but also included ~monitoring & reporting~ through COGNOS. Has anyone been taking advantage of that for anything? I'm looking at setting it up and what I'm hoping it can do is: Trend each individual client's activity over time (backup bytes,

Re: finding possible values for a particular column

2015-04-08 Thread Dwight Cook
You can always use a ~select distinct(field)~ to view what is within your current environment. tsm:select distinct(status) from events STATUS -- Completed Failed Future Missed Severed tsm: Dwight E. Cook Technical Services Prof. Sr. Strategic Outsourcing Delivery (918)

Re: So long, and thank you...

2015-04-07 Thread Dwight Cook
Noo! You will be missed! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 4:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] So long, and thank you... This is my last day at ICF, and the

Re: TDP/ERP slows to a crawl when only one session remains.

2015-03-20 Thread Dwight Cook
Delivery (918) 493-4678 From: Dwight Cook coo...@cox.net To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 03/17/2015 02:21 PM Subject:TDP/ERP slows to a crawl when only one session remains. Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU OK, seeing a strange one. I have a 10 TB DB

TDP/ERP slows to a crawl when only one session remains.

2015-03-17 Thread Dwight Cook
OK, seeing a strange one. I have a 10 TB DB Running 6 sessions with multiplexing of 4 Tdp/erp will run at 300 GB/hr/session lan free until only one session remains. then the through put drops to about 400 MB/hr So I'm moving a total of 1700 GB/hr until the last 4 multiplexed files into a

is there a debug command that shows volumeusage of only active data for a client???

2014-06-22 Thread Dwight Cook
Have a need to try to thin down the query nodedata list of tapes to only the tapes with active data on them for a node if at all possible. Just wondering if anyone knows of one. Dwight

Re: ALL Tapes known to TSM

2014-02-24 Thread Dwight Cook
Did you run a checkin libvol using search=yes to see if TSM finds the extra volume? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of r4mzeso Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ALL Tapes known to TSM

Re: ALL Tapes known to TSM

2014-02-24 Thread Dwight Cook
Default status on a checkin is private so that might be why it came in that way. If you do a q vol volser and nothing is listed, that would indicate it is not part of a storage pool (but could still be a dbb or dbs or export, etc...) but those would show in your volume history file... A query

Re: Massive Restore

2014-01-22 Thread Dwight Cook
Just brew a pot of coffee... I tell folks, just because you can do something doesn't mean its a good idea to do something and that much data, that many files in a single mount point is a poor choice (but I deal with it almost daily so you're not alone). I haven't been dealing with the Win2012

Re: Massive Restore

2014-01-22 Thread Dwight Cook
With the no query restore you are pushing the workload onto the TSM server. The client will still have to transmit the details on all the 7.5M files up to the TSM server. And I believe a simple restore -replace=no -subdir=yes X:\* will trigger a ~no query restore~ by default. OK, interesting, I

Re: While Loop in script not restoring files or subdirectories.

2014-01-14 Thread Dwight Cook
Remember, directories are just special files... Add /* to the end of them and see how that works... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Pasta_Fazole Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L]

Who might be running multiple V6 TSM instances on the same LPAR/system???

2014-01-10 Thread Dwight Cook
Would greatly appreciate any input/feedback on what to look out for, tips, hints, etc. in an AIX environment.

Re: sql query question

2013-11-07 Thread Dwight Cook
Select distinct node_name,type,filespace_name,hl_name,ll_name from backups where node_name='desirednodename' and type=DIR and filespace_name='\\nodename\c$' and hl_name='\' order by node_name, type,filespace_name,hl_name,ll_name It will run a while though... -Original Message- From:

Re: Win2008 with UAC and backing up files that really didn't change... kind'a

2013-10-11 Thread Dwight Cook
AMD Admins? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dwight Cook Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Win2008 with UAC and backing up files that really didn't change

Win2008 with UAC and backing up files that really didn't change... kind'a

2013-10-10 Thread Dwight Cook
OK, so I have a file server with 6 volumes each of 2.5 TB's and each with 1-2.5M files on them. Under Win2008 there is this ~funk~ called UAC such that an administrative id has effective permissions to everything but not really any direct permission. That is, if I go into this server and under

Re: Win2008 with UAC and backing up files that really didn't change... kind'a

2013-10-10 Thread Dwight Cook
describe without the results you describe. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dwight Cook Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Win2008 with UAC and backing up files that really

Re: Maximum TSM nodes per server

2013-08-16 Thread Dwight Cook
Also all the TSM DB overhead How big is your DB and its cache hit % (but I'm thinking you've probably already looked into that end) Are you doing journaling? (which I personally don't like) Or INCRBYDATE (again, which I personally don't like) What about memoryeff diskcache? I should

Re: DR with automated library

2013-08-13 Thread Dwight Cook
Well, all you have to do is start a bare TSM server and define your library, check in your DBB tape, halt TSM, and then do your restore. I like doing it that way rather than using OS commands to mount a tape on a drive and then classify that as a ~manual library~ in order to do my restore. All of

Re: TSM for SAP w/Oracle RMAN

2013-07-09 Thread Dwight Cook
Wanda, Tell them to always run with the exact same multiplexing and restore sessions as they did when backing up (match multiplexing and backup sessions) In the initSID.utl file there is also a MAXBACKSESSIONS and a MAXRESTORESESSIONS etc... your maxsessions and sessions needs to be set at

Re: IdleTimeOut

2013-06-28 Thread Dwight Cook
Is it maybe getting killed because it is waiting on a resource and hitting your resourcetimeout? Like a tdp backup going straight to tape and no tape drives available? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van - SPLXM Sent:

Re: TSM: Backing Up Large Files

2012-07-23 Thread Dwight Cook
Changingretries 50 WOW! OK, that is just the number of times to retry an open/active/changing file... your issues are connection issues... that parm won't help you and honestly, I'd back that way back down to something like 4 or less. Picture sending a 4 GB file 50 times trying to capture a

Re: Another queer error message

2012-04-04 Thread Dwight Cook
I actually saw a flood of these type messages across multiple systems... enough to where I raised a red flag and declared a potential virus attack. Within minutes of sounding the alarm it was discovered that it was actually the anti-virus team performing a vulnerability test of the environments.

Re: TDp and retention settings question

2011-04-06 Thread Dwight Cook
From the tsm server use Q file tdp_node_name Then Show version tdp_node_name fsid nametype=fsid To see the actual file names that TSM is saving your tdp data under... If varies across tdp products but typically the name used in tsm in a unique name each backup. Dwight -Original Message-

Re: Restore of TSM V6 DB on another machine

2011-03-28 Thread Dwight Cook
I would say restore your secondary machine from a mksysb image of your initial machine, then MAKE SURE AND ACTIVATE ASYNC I/O because that won't be restored with the mksysb... then the drm file pretty much works like a charm. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Restore of TSM V6 DB on another machine

2011-03-28 Thread Dwight Cook
] On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 1:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore of TSM V6 DB on another machine I guess I should have mentioned this, but unfortunately this is not an inactive machine waiting for restore. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:32, Dwight Cook

Re: Question about TSM 6 server disaster recovery

2011-03-24 Thread Dwight Cook
I just got through with a DR test where the only entry in my volhist was the single dbb entry I wanted it to use to recover with. Worked like a champ after I figured out that async I/O wasn't activated at the AIX level... that killed me for hours :-( I also totally change around my devconfig

Re: How many disk volumes are too many?

2011-02-17 Thread Dwight Cook
All I can say is what I've observed... Question #4) TSM looks to preallocate space on and direct new inbound traffic to a volume not currently in use within a storage pool. This is why I try to have as many volumes in a storage pool as I expect concurrent inbound sessions (within reason). 1 is

Re: 3494 tape dismount problem

2011-01-25 Thread Dwight Cook
Did you check to make sure the drive is securely tightened down... I had a 3494 that the little screws to tighten the drive's slide rails would be loose and as the gripper would come forward to grab the tape, rather than the tape going into the gripper, it would push the tape drive back just a

Re: Minimum permissions to run dsmadmc.exe?

2010-12-14 Thread Dwight Cook
That sounds more like a case of you don't have something in the dsm.opt correct, like the tcpserveraddress or maybe the routing at the system level. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Tuesday, December 14,

Re: TSM webclient, CAD and scheduler

2010-10-11 Thread Dwight Cook
Yes, you still need to define the client scheduler service but it is started and stopped as required by the CAD. So typically you'll have three items dsmcutil inst /name:TSM Client Scheduler /node:NODE1 /password:NODE1PSWD /autostart:no /startnow:no /schedlog:C:\Program

Re: Exluded file do not work - Can't understand why

2010-09-21 Thread Dwight Cook
From a dsmc session, see what q inclexcl reveals. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Botelho, Tiago (External) Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Exluded file do not work - Can't

Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Dwight Cook
In general computing you will want to have your production data center with all your production servers and your remote site data center functioning as your production fix / test / development / disaster recovery data center. Wise processing practice is to perform monthly production fix refreshes

Re: VSS error

2010-09-16 Thread Dwight Cook
Speaking of COM+ there is also the KB934016 which is required -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS error HI

Re: Using copy pool (device class FILE)

2010-09-15 Thread Dwight Cook
You just have to remember that the directory under which the files will be written needs to be mounted up to your local TSM server. So filesystems /dev_class_file exists on your primary TSM server but is either an NFS mount to /dev_class_file filesystem on your DR TSM server... OR filesystem

Re: Urgent - Library Master mount queue breaking down, tapes going into RESERVED status and never getting mounted

2010-09-10 Thread Dwight Cook
Also have to wonder if maybe the VTL hasn't lost multiple drives in a raid array and is (possibly) working off of parity or at minimum, rebuilding on a spare drive though that would generally happen and be done with (not be seen over and over again) but... if you have a raid array that has lost

Re: why create a 12TB LUN

2010-05-27 Thread Dwight Cook
Honestly Geoff, I think I'd have to tell them to stop smoke'n crack... In reality, people do what is easiest for them and/or their application. I'm sure it will be easier on them to make one big ~container~ for all their ~stuff~ rather than spread it out over lots of smaller areas. They might say

Re: Tcp/ip address not correctly associated to cluster node

2010-04-16 Thread Dwight Cook
If you want to force it to use the cluster ip for the cluster node, set the tcpclientaddress in the dsm.opt file used by the cluster node client acceptor scheduler... but if those follow the cluster OK, it really shouldn't matter if they use the cluster address or the address of the server

Re: How to find what management class is used per node

2010-03-02 Thread Dwight Cook
Try these: select distinct node_name as Node Name ,filespace_name as Filespace Name,class_name as Management Class Name from backups where TYPE='FILE' group by node_name,filespace_name,class_name Node Name Filespace Name Management

Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

2010-01-28 Thread Dwight Cook
You might be running into what I've seen if you are performing your reclamation via RECLaim STGpool. If you have many very low utilized tapes and you do not use an OFFSITERECLAIMLIMIT then it is possible that the reclamation process will only yield another tape going off site and none coming

Re: Log pinned

2009-11-23 Thread Dwight Cook
I've seen that but generally once the log has hit 80% (of a 13 GB log) and TSM is imposing a 2 millisecond delay in transactions in order to try to keep the log from filling and crashing TSM. I only have seen it a few times a year across various very active environments but one thing that seems to

Re:

2009-10-01 Thread Dwight Cook
You will probably see that only one node's data resides in the disk pool still... I've noticed TSM only firing off a single migration process per node for any given storage pool so even if you set migpr=10 and high=1 low=0 you'll still only see a single migration process if you have data from only

Re: end of support tsm 5.5 on z/os ?

2009-09-10 Thread Dwight Cook
Your guide to all software support :) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/ Right now I don't see any end of support date for TSM 5.5 http://www-111.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/PLCDetail.wss?synkey=V6499 76C05962P29-J757048G77027Y87-T956174D94205J68 -Original

Re: Question

2009-06-01 Thread Dwight Cook
You could use the move nodedata to move other nodes off that tape or move the node you want to keep to another tape. Say you have one node's data you want isolated... mark other filling vols in that pool readonly and then just use a move nodedata. If you want to purge just data on that tape for

Re: ANS5092S Server out of data storage space

2009-05-25 Thread Dwight Cook
Where does your directory management class go? It could be the case that the storage location used as the destination of your directory management class is full. That would explain being able to successfully run commands that aren't tied to the DIRMC. The dirmc option specifies the management

Re: using dsmc to retrieving large number files

2009-05-22 Thread Dwight Cook
I've noticed in 5.5.1 server (healthy AIX server running virtual tape library so minimal mount delay, etc...) with 5.4.2 windows clients that if you are performing a restore where over 1.5M files exist within TSM for a single drive, it can take 7-10 days to perform the restore. If you have

Re: using dsmc to retrieving large number files

2009-05-22 Thread Dwight Cook
Sorry... didn't see the initial email earlier... As mentioned by Richard, the details on the TSM server and client platforms code levels would be helpful. I seem to remember older clients only initiating a single thread per mount point on retrieves (but I could be remembering incorrectly).

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-30 Thread Dwight Cook
It isn't the backup that will kill you, it is the restore... Trust me... if you have over 1.5 Million files in a mount point, expect weeks or months to perform a full restore. Remember, just because you can put 20 million files in a mount point doesn't mean it is a good idea... discourage that at

Re: Backup set protection

2009-04-30 Thread Dwight Cook
Simply activate client encryption. The data will be encrypted at the client before it is sent to the server; from that point forward, it will be encrypted no matter where it resides in TSM server storage / media. If you generate a backup set on portable media readable to the client, the data will

Re: Tape Drive SN issue

2009-04-30 Thread Dwight Cook
You are aware that under AIX if any WWN in the path of a drive changes, then that constitutes an entirely new device as seen by AIX. If you replaced GBics, it possibly could have caused the tape drive to take on a new rmt as seen under AIX unless you performed a rmdev -dl rmt_ on the existing

Re: Backup set protection

2009-04-30 Thread Dwight Cook
set restoration if encryption is enable for file system backup.? Sachin C. Dwight Cook coo...@cox.net Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager

Re: Tape Drive SN issue

2009-04-30 Thread Dwight Cook
. Thanks for the suggestions, we have looked at so many things it is hard to recall them all, but we may have missed something simple. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Dwight Cook Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:54 AM

Re:

2009-04-29 Thread Dwight Cook
Can I add a comment... What if you have some form of file system corruption from anything and the file appears to have changed, TSM backs up the corrupt version and purges off the old copy??? If the files are as you say and never change, you won't have any inactive versions as long as active

Re:

2009-04-29 Thread Dwight Cook
out if not... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Dwight Cook Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:40 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can I add a comment... What if you have some form of file system corruption from

Re: Old TSM client for AIX 4.3

2009-04-23 Thread Dwight Cook
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/cli ent/ goes all the way back to 3.7 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of RAYMOND J RAMIREZ RAMIREZ Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:49 PM To:

Re: Green issue: How to avoid leaving clients on all night

2009-04-21 Thread Dwight Cook
Why not just give them a warning/mandate that if they are working late, they need to go out under services and disable the TSM client scheduler until they are done working, then start the scheduler before leaving. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Windows 2003 Registry

2009-04-17 Thread Dwight Cook
Go look in the C:\adsm.sys directory... You should find what you are looking for there... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows 2003

Re: Once again I've a problem on the TSM client side with specifying a path for an object

2009-04-13 Thread Dwight Cook
I've not used image backups on windows machines but by looking at the names, I'm thinking those might be image backups... did you specify OBJTYPE=IMAGE ? If they are regular files, you could use an admin account with full rights, that would show them to you. And you might try adjusting your

Re: Slow System State backups

2009-04-09 Thread Dwight Cook
Look at your other processes... McAfee has an ~on access scan~ and I've seen windows servers have their backup times more than double because the anti-virus software is scanning every file being backed up when it is opened by TSM. Also ck what is running on your TSM server... expiration can put

Re: TSM database information

2009-04-07 Thread Dwight Cook
How long ago and how active is the old system??? As others have suggested, try bringing up a TSM image from a DB backup prior to you deleting the filespace... but first, halt all reclamation on the 5.2 system... (to keep tapes as in tact as possible) Once you get the image up on the other

Re: Backup files to empty tape

2009-04-01 Thread Dwight Cook
Typically in the AIX TSM server environments (can't speak for the others) it will use empty scratch volumes in the order they ~became~ empty/scratch be that from all the data expiring on it, reclamation, or checking into the library so if you had a brand new tape you specifically wanted used, you

Re: Dear Tuscon

2009-03-24 Thread Dwight Cook
If you have multiple TSM servers, just backup to a flat file and push the db backup to your other TSM server. (same with hourly incr db backups) (and please don't go down the ~just use server to server communications with virtual volumes~ road... I don't like using virtual volumes on another

Re: slow restore

2009-03-13 Thread Dwight Cook
How many inactive versions exist??? (what are your retention characteristics and how frequently do the files change) Also, what is the total number of files stored for that file system??? If you have 7 million files in that file system, that can have ugly results... Also, do you have any looping

Re: slow restore

2009-03-13 Thread Dwight Cook
OH... Yea, toss in an Exclude.compress /.../*.Z (and remember to bounce the scheduler) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slow

Re: select output help

2008-12-16 Thread Dwight Cook
You looking for something like this??? select session_id as Sesija,cast(client_name as char(15)) as Node, - cont cast(state as char(10)) as Stanje, - cont current_timestamp-start_time as Proteklo vrijeme, - cont cast((cast(bytes_sent as decimal(18,0)) /

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-12 Thread Dwight Cook
I've seen restores of 1+M files take days due to the delays associated with general system over head (creating directory entries, etc...) and by days I mean 5-7+. And so again, I'll mention... Just because you CAN put a million or more files on a single drive doesn't mean it's a good idea!

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-11 Thread Dwight Cook
Is it lots of little files (I know, silly question with it being a windows file server). Also, how long is over night? Is that compressed client data or is it file space data? Is that a backup or archive? What is your network? 100 Mb/sec fast Ethernet? Gig Ethernet? Teamed NIC's? I'd run

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-11 Thread Dwight Cook
Of Dwight Cook Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data Is it lots of little files (I know, silly question with it being a windows file server). Also, how long is over night? Is that compressed client data

Re: Best use of disk storage

2008-11-15 Thread Dwight Cook
Internally, within TSM there will be DB locks against keys such as ~volume~ and to help avoid lock contention what I like to do is to have as many volumes in a storage pool as I expect maximum concurrent inbound client sessions writing to that storage pool. So if you have a BACKUPPOOL that is to

Re: Labelling mass volume of tapes with Label Libvol

2008-11-13 Thread Dwight Cook
You could have used the search=yes and the volrange to fire up multiple label libvol commands... fire off 25 commands each doing a range of 100 tapes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Collyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008

Re: How to stop data from expiring

2008-11-03 Thread Dwight Cook
Here is a thought... Define a management class with unlimited characteristics... define domain UNLIMITED backret= archret=3 define policy UNLIMITED standard define mgmt UNLIMITED standard UNLIMITED migdest=spacedisk define copy UNLIMITED standard UNLIMITED standard t=b dest=gbdp

Re: WIndows2003 VSS errors

2008-10-17 Thread Dwight Cook
So you folks have the following windows patches installed: WindowsServer2003-KB940349-v3-ia64-ENU.exe WindowsServer2003-KB940349-v3-x86-ENU.exe WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB940349-v3-x64-ENU.exe (based on your platforms) Dwight -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Migration Process Question

2008-08-25 Thread Dwight Cook
Might I ask how you have determined it is going to itself rather than the next storage pool? (by the volume assignment of the destination volume?) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:59 PM

Re: Backup Schedule Status : Uncertain ??

2008-07-31 Thread Dwight Cook
That is probably where the event is so far back that it has fallen off the event history. Event Record Retention Period: 65 Day(s) Use query stat to see your current setting. Additionally, the last thing your client does is send the results to the server, it is possible that the client

Re: New TSM Layout

2008-07-31 Thread Dwight Cook
What I've seen in the past, in general, is that inbound work looking for a place to store data will bind to a defined TSM volume that is not currently in use. Now, knowing that volume name is an internal key within TSM you can prevent excessive TSM DB lock contention by breaking that storage pool

Re: Change retention policy on specific volumes

2008-07-31 Thread Dwight Cook
Data on specific volumes... How do you know what is on those volumes? Need more information... Is this copy pool data? Is it data for a single node and you know what is on it because of collocation? Dwight -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Change retention policy on specific volumes

2008-07-31 Thread Dwight Cook
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwight Cook Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Change retention policy on specific volumes Data on specific volumes... How do you know what is on those volumes? Need more

Re: Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs

2008-04-29 Thread Dwight Cook
If you only have to keep what is there for 10 years and can allow normal processing of new data going forward... set up a new domain with grace periods to fit your needs... for 10 years 3,666 days will work, my example here is where I had to keep everything for an umlimited period of time. (put in

Re: Anr8443e Tape can not be assigned a status of scratch

2008-02-27 Thread Dwight Cook
Probably the library has it assigned a category other than insert or scratch. Use your mtlib command to query the tape... mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qV -VC01861(where # is the proper lmcp1 or lmcp2 etc... that your library is as found via aix command lsdev -Cctape) Look for the category data...

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

2008-02-27 Thread Dwight Cook
I've gone from 5.3.4 up to 5.4.1 and then up to 5.5.0 without issues. I've also gone from 5.3.4 straight up to 5.5.0 without issues. I also went to the latest Atape and atldd at the same time. Atape.10.7.3.0.bin atldd.6.5.5.0.bin The installp commands associated with the Atape atldd

Re: Database move

2007-11-08 Thread Dwight Cook
if your media is portable to your new platform, you should be able to just export/import your data base... then modify your library definition to point to the new device definition... put in new drive definitions... and you are back in business... NOW... for legally required long term data

Re: ANS5020E Out of Archive Space?

2007-11-06 Thread Dwight Cook
I remember seeing something like this before... (~like~) OK, so by your log, the client rolled straight to tape at some point (probably because the disk pool filled or got full enough to where the preallocation couldn't be made). What is the maxnummp for your client? In the past there was

Re: TSM client error ANS1999E

2007-11-01 Thread Dwight Cook
Look into using EXCLUDE.FS on the filesystem you don't want processed. Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced Integrated Storage Management TSM Administration (405) 253-4397 (877) 625-4186 T/L 349-4361 Hi all, I'm working with TSM version 5.3.4 on linux (fedora

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-11-01 Thread Dwight Cook
Geoff, (long time no see... been snowed under but coming up for air) One thing I've notices is that if you have tapes being ejected AND tapes to be inserted... Once you remove all the tapes, you really need to swing the I/O station door closed so the ATL can realize that all the tapes were

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

2007-10-31 Thread Dwight Cook
There are some patches that have to do with VSS issues which are only available by request, they are: Windows 2003 -IA64bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-ia64-enu.exe Windows 2003 - 32bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-x86-enu.exe Windows 2003 SP1 -IA64 bit servers

Re: SNMP and Client Backup Failures

2005-07-15 Thread Dwight Cook
Also remember that on PENDING events that end up as MISSED because the TSM server can't contact node _ on (or is it at) IP address will trigger one of those messages right off the bat at the beginning of its schedule window. Depending on your amount of automation and

TSM going to sleep....

2005-07-07 Thread Dwight Cook
If people notice what is being referred to as tsm going to sleep you might want to check your internal TSM lock count. The debug command show locks will list out all the internal locks, generally this will be less than 25 even on the most busy system. I've noticed that during exports I've seen as

Re: port 1500 anomaly

2005-07-07 Thread Dwight Cook
I've seen it now and again, on Solaris clients. In the dsmerror.log file I see... 07/07/05 08:31:54 Trying port number 1502 07/07/05 08:31:54 Trying port number 1503 07/07/05 08:31:54 Trying port number 1504 07/07/05 08:31:54 Trying port number 1505 07/07/05 08:31:54 Trying port number

Re: Tsm TEC trouble

2005-03-30 Thread Dwight Cook
and things such as an admin sched of BEGIN EVENTLOGGING TIVOLI to run every 24 hours can be very handy... (helps recover from any connectivity problems with your TEC server) Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced Integrated Storage Management TSM Administration (918)

Re: Admin command line problem

2004-12-01 Thread Dwight Cook
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2003. All Rights Reserved. working OK on AIX 5.2 with the 5.2.2.0 admin client Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional,

Re: Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Dwight Cook
Personally I'd look into processing that file system with an image backup. A way to look at that would be Which can you count to faster, 2,000,000 or 1 ? Depending on the data, 250 GB would compress down to 83 GB (if we assume 3/1 client compression) and if the client server processors

Re: GigE Conversion

2004-10-21 Thread Dwight Cook
also are you doing client compression ? Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced Integrated Storage Management TSM Administration (877) 625-4186 Ben Bullock

Re: mtlib and TSM inventory

2004-10-01 Thread Dwight Cook
hope this helps... also use mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -V 002491 to see what the state of the volume is... Volume Data: volume state.00 logical volume...No volume class.3592 1/2 inch cartridge tape volume type..3592 JA Cartridge

Re: Occupancy differences.

2004-09-29 Thread Dwight Cook
occupancy #'s are real time auditocc #'s only update at audit license Dwight E. Cook Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced Integrated Storage Management TSM Administration (918) 925-8045

Re: Export Node Retention question

2004-09-02 Thread Dwight Cook
that is the beauty of export tapes as long as the tape is OK and as long as you have a server version that can read the export tape (probably created on an earlier version) and all the other things that go along with media type and devices to read it you can keep it forever! I keep

Re: INCLEXCL again

2004-08-25 Thread Dwight Cook
nothing wrong with those last three... as long as you have active management classes HOURLY, EACHWEEK, EACHMONTH in the domain to which the node is registered... UNLESS you have an exclude.fs or an exclude.dir statement those are processed initially and (for lack of a better term) will

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