Re: Script attached to archive a directory on AIX

2003-03-06 Thread Hamish Marson
Miles Purdy wrote: Hi folks, thought I'd give back a little, we have many directories on our UNIX servers that contain application development code, some of it is very old of course. And of course we can't just delete it. So I wanted a quick a dirty way to save it to TSM. I wrote a little script

Re: AIX Client automatic start for dsmcad

2003-02-27 Thread Hamish Marson
Anders Stehlbom wrote: Hi, Where is the best place for starting dsmcad during boot on AIX 4.3.3? Like /etc/rc.d/rc.local for Linux Several ways. Pick the one you like best. You could 1. Edit /etc/rc.tcpip run it out of there 2. Create a new /etc/rc.local and put that in /etc/inittab

Re: keepalive between server and storage agent

2003-01-15 Thread Hamish Marson
Kunio Miyazawa wrote: Thank you for your reply. Unfortuenately this method doesn't work in our case. Only the specific connection will be disconnected by idle 1H even we ping every 5 mins from server to storageagent. That's because an ICMP packet isn't the same connection as your TCP data.

Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM

2003-01-12 Thread Hamish Marson
Seay, Paul wrote: Yeah, Roman numeral M is a 40+ year practice that sales people used at the wholesale and manufacturing levels as kind of a shorthand for 1000. As they have migrated to computers this has mostly gone away because the quantity fields only supported ea items standing for each.

Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM

2003-01-10 Thread Hamish Marson
Braich, Raminder wrote: I cannot imagine how people reach 1000 kb or 1000 mb figure. These are always calculated as 2 ^ x where x=0...infinity. I believe every calculation in software is done using the power of 2. 1000 could be used by sales as others suggested but how come they justify 1000 kb

Re: www.tivoli.com gone???

2002-11-01 Thread Hamish Marson
Friemel, Norbert wrote: is anybody able to connect to the Tivoli website?? The connection attempt times out and the error message says something like www.tivoli.com has no DNS entry??? Try http://216.140.178.15 Norbert Friemel Temporary glitch? Works fine today (Didn't work yesterday

Re: Multiple sessions per tape

2002-10-31 Thread Hamish Marson
Conko, Steven wrote: why does having the diskpool in between improve performance? The latency is lower on writing to disk when you aren't writing at the same speed as the media. If you're writing to a tape slower than the tape can process it, you have to stop/start the media all the time.

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2002-10-31 Thread Hamish Marson
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Re: SCSI-2 tape drives

2002-10-29 Thread Hamish Marson
Zlatko Krastev/ACIT wrote: All SCSI devices conforming to the standards are backward-compatible. Thus you can use Ultra160 HDD with SCSI-2 F/W controller or connect a SCSI-2 device to Ultra2 controller, etc. The transfer speed in the lowest supported by both controller and device. Small

Re: How does AIX SysBack compare to AIX TSM?

2002-10-10 Thread Hamish Marson
Ken Sedlacek wrote: For TSM AIX only. I just recently saw the IBM web site on AIX SysBack System Backup and Recovery program. Can someone who either knows both, or uses both of them, point out the differences/similarities between AIX SysBack and AIX TSM?? TIA. About the only similarity

Re: High Comm Wait (slow network speed?)

2002-09-13 Thread Hamish Marson
Cook, Dwight E wrote: well, how bad... I've seen about every sun box here not negotiate duplex correctly with their switch so we've had to force set all sun 100 Mb/sec fast Ethernet interfaces to full duplex, 100 Mb AND force set the switch ports they connect to also. If auto negotiate is

Re: AW: Antwort: Web Admin Interface - grrr

2002-08-12 Thread Hamish Marson
Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) wrote: Well, not really meaning to be on either one side or the other, 1-valid point for the web version is not needing to install the gui on every machine you may want to use to administer the server(s). That's why I'm dreaming of a Java Applet. Tivoli has done it for

Re: AIX Question!

2002-07-10 Thread Hamish Marson
Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote: Hello All, I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too long' message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with program*. There were too many files, so I had to

Re: AIX storagepool format

2002-07-04 Thread Hamish Marson
David E Ehresman wrote: I am moving from an MVS server to an Aix server. When a do a DEFINE VOL stgpool filename FORMAT=nnn the Aix box stops responding until after the format is done. A monitor shows 100% i/o busy on the disk. Is this normal Aix behavior? You could (At the expense of peak

Re: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

2002-06-28 Thread Hamish Marson
. Mark -Original Message- From: Hamish Marson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm Hi. reading a recent post on why people love tsm vs networker brought back a lot of memories. Most of the great, but one

Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

2002-06-27 Thread Hamish Marson
Hi. reading a recent post on why people love tsm vs networker brought back a lot of memories. Most of the great, but one that I just can't forgive. There STILL appears (6 years after I broached the subject with the adsm developers) to be no way to monitor in real-time what each of the tape

Re: Backups through a firewall

2002-05-22 Thread Hamish Marson
Rick Harderwijk wrote: Hi, Wanda wrote: All the firewall guy had to do was create a rull that allows TCP/IP traffic through the firewall for port 1500 for the particular client address. If you use SCHEDMODE PROMPTED, I believe you also have to enable port 1501. If you want to use the

Solaris 8 on Sparc 3

2002-05-22 Thread Hamish Marson
Hi all. Can anyone tell me which version of the client are supported under Solaris 8, running on a SParc 3 processor? 4.x doesn't appear to run, 3.x does (Well, it doesn't die immediately), but what is supported? TIA Hamish. -- I don't suffer from Insanity... | Linux User #16396

LInux dsmc client fails to find filesystems

2002-05-15 Thread Hamish Marson
Hi all. I'm trying to get the tsm client to work on my laptop running standard Kernel 2.4.17 (Not the mdk kernel), on a Mandrake 8.1 base, with ext3 filesystems, and dsmc just keeps saying either no domain, or invalid filesystem... e.g. [root@ballbreaker bin]# df -k Filesystem

Re: LInux dsmc client fails to find filesystems

2002-05-15 Thread Hamish Marson
for believing documentation... regards H Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Hamish Marson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 15:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LInux dsmc client fails to find filesystems Hi all. I'm