NDMP and TSM 6.1 TOC support

backup Note in TSM6.1 TOCs are not supported with NDMP If using TOC - Don't upgrade Has anyone seen similar information about these changes? Are TOCs no longer supported in TSM 6.1 server. Thanks. John Bremer

Re: NDMP and TSM 6.1 TOC support

it. Thanks again. John Bremer Howdy, The TSM support for NDMP backups using TOC's was disabled at the GA for 6.1.0.0 due issues that were identified with performance. Those issues are being worked on and are expected to be resolved in a fix-pack for TSM V6. At the current time, this fix

Oracle TDP restore performance

hints or tips on how to speed up a pure disk Oracle RMAN/TDP restore? Is the solution that we should flush the db backups to tape in order to be able to make use of ResourceUtilization and MaxMountPoints settings? John Bremer LANS LLC, Tivoli Backup

Re: Inactive Version

select count(*) from backups where state='INACTIVE_VERSION' and node_name='YOUR_NODENAME' warning that trolling through the backups table can be very time consuming and expensive. John At 03:33 PM 1/15/2009, you wrote: Hello Everyone, Is there a select statement that will tell me how

NDMP and dsmcad

that it will work ... it seems there is another requirement that only Windows clients can perform this function. Initial testing bears this out. Can anyone confirm this? Thank you. John Bremer

symbolic links

Greetings, Does anyone know if symbolic links are distinguishable as objects in the TSM Database backups table (they look like regular FILE entries), or if they are distinguishable at the client (save for the fact they are tiny)? Thank you. John Bremer

file sizes

Greetings, Does anyone know what TSM Server table we can find file (object) sizes in? We can see a file size with the show invo command, but would rather use a documented, supported method. TSM Server 5.3.4 AIX 5.3 Thank you. Regards, John Bremer

Re: Help needed

tsmhelp define sched At 07:27 AM 9/28/2006, you wrote: Hi, Could anyone help me on how to define/add 2 client schedules. It would be great if someone could list of the steps on how to go about these. For eg: Schedule 1: INCR --For Incremental Backup on a daily basis Schedule 2: FULL

co-location question

. Regards, John Bremer

Re: TSM Database Reorg

[TSM database reorganization] recommended. Problem is there is another dba up there, who has some TSM experience, who says she used to do it painlessly. Anyone want to weigh in? Been running TSM (ADSM) more than 10 years, more than 20 TSM servers, DB sizes from 6 GB to 250 GB and

TSM configuration manager

, but should I not expect the configuration manager to be able to update existing domains, etc. across my complex? Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong, or if I have the wrong expectations? Thank you. John Bremer

backupsets TSM TDP products

. I'm throwing this out to the reflector hoping someone might have some idea about restoring files from these backupsets, even though it is not supported by standard TSM products. Thanks. Regards, John Bremer

5.3.3 server

Greetings, Can anyone tell me if TSM 5.3.3 server is released yet? If so, where? I'm looking at: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server/v5r3/AIX/ Thanks. Regards, John

damaged files

Greetings, Does anyone have a way to find damaged files on tape volumes without querying content of every volume ( for example: q content xx damaged=yes ) ? Thank you. Regards, John

Re: damaged files

--- -- -- FDB1 Bkup/backup 35 /rman/p817/ 2006-03-18_020001_level0_0uhe7vlq_1_1 Thanks again for your response. Regards, John At 09:32 AM 3/21/2006, you wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:22 AM, John Bremer

Re: ndmp limitations

Greetings, We've been using TSM with NDMP for over a year, and while we want our customers to use our service rather than Legato (the predecessor), there are some limitations: (1) There are situations where TSM (or NetApp/NDMP) does not translate certain file/path names properly, and TOC builds

NDMP TOCs

All, I would appreciate hearing/reading other experiences with NDMP TOC builds and using your TOCs through the TSM Java GUI interface, or just querying the contents of your TOC. We're running a dedicated NDMP TSM server 5.3.1.3, pSeries 615, dual processor, 4GB memory, AIX 5.2, 65GB DB,

Re: Backup of a NAS Device - which options do I have?

Anton, You can do both, we have a mixture in our complex. We prefer our customers use NDMP, since it has been faster. Depending on your data retention policies in your backup storage pools, and frequency between full and incremental backups on NDMP, our NDMP clients accumulate a *lot* more

Re: NDMP file report?

Joni, If your TOCs are being created successfully, you can QUERY NASBACKUP nodename /vol/-whatever- to find the creation date and time of the TOC, then try something like this : dsmadmc -COMMADELIMITED -se=$server -id=$admin_id -password=$admin_pw q toc nodename /vol/-whatever-

Re: Who has the oldest TSM installation?

only by a little: Server Name: DSMSERV2 Server host name or IP address: dsm-server2 Server TCP/IP port number: 1500 Server URL: http://dsm-server2:1582 Crossdefine: On

Re: The end of the TSM FAQ list as we know it

Thanks Mark for keeping up your FAQ for as long as you did. It was a very generous contribution of your time, and much appreciated. John At 09:21 AM 7/1/2005, you wrote: I have decided that the FAQ list that I've been posting is made redundant by the most excellent web site ADSM.QuickFacts

Re: TSM Macintosh client ...out of memory

:Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:24:22 -0600 From:John Bremer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Macintosh client ...out of memory *SMers, Running tiger 10.4.1 from an external disk -- thought I'd try TSM. Running TSM v 5.2.3 This is on a 15 AlBook with 2 GB RAM. I copied the preference files and TSM

TSM Macintosh client ...out of memory

*SMers, Running tiger 10.4.1 from an external disk -- thought I'd try TSM. Running TSM v 5.2.3 This is on a 15 AlBook with 2 GB RAM. I copied the preference files and TSM launched and logged in, finding all my drives. BUT, no matter how many or how few partitions I select to back up the client

TSM Linux v5r3 client GUI

Greetings, We copy our client maintenance from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client I tried installing the Linux86 v530 client and can not invoke DSM. It doesn't seem to be installed. DSMC works fine. I went back to v523 and installed that client

Web Client w/ XP Pro SP2

Hi, Trying to access my TSM client (5.2.3 on Windows XP Pro SP2) remotely via Web Client. Have TSM Acceptor and Remote Client Agent services running on client mycomputer. Read Andy's message and reference to SP2 firewall. Have firewall on, dsmcad exception enabled. From remote client,

backupset volume list

Dear List, Would anyone know if there are plans for the generate backupset command to accept a volume list file, the same way that export or backup database do currently? It is getting to be tedious to update every script every time I need to add volumes, and eventually we are going to run out of

backup failures with ANS1028S ANS1512E rc=12

All, I'm seeing consistent failures on scheduled backups with Window 2K machines, all with three volumes. The scheduled backup fails with above return codes after successfully backing up one drive. Can the failure to backup objects in use by other processes be fatal? TSM client 5.2.3 TSM server

quarantined files

All, When a file is quarantined in Symantec AntiVirus, does that prevent TSM from getting access to and backing up that file? Thanks. John

ASR and SYSTEM OBJECT

All, I am seeing unusual behavior on my Windows XP backup, wherein ASR and SYSTEM OBJECT do not backup by default, either from the command dsmc i or on the scheduler. There are no domain, include/excludes, just barebones defaults in my config file: PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE TCPPORT 1506

systemobject

*SMers, I believe this question has been reviewed in this forum before, but I can't find the answer in the archives. On Windows 2K I need to exclude volumes d: and e:, but want to backup c: and systemobject. There are plenty of references to excluding system object, however, is: domain c:

Re: Delete a single file on TSM

run a select * from backups with the required node_name, filespace_name, etc to find the object id, then delete object 0 x At 09:13 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote: Is there anyway to delete a single file/s from the TSM Database? Use the client EXPire command, or do backups of a dummy surrogate to

adsmpipe

*SMers, Does anyone know if there is a version of adsmpipe that has been built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Thanks John Bremer

Mac Panther Server

*SMers, Anyone out there tried the TSM (5.2.0.3) client on Mac OS X 5.3 Server? Thanks. Regards, John

Macintosh OS X 10.2 Backup client behavior

Mac Users, Here I go again, another mystery with TSM Mac OS X Backup Client: Macintosh OS X 10.2.0 TSM Client 5.2.0.3 TSM Server 5.1.6.2 Some new files are not being backed up by the TSM Scheduler. Five files exist in folder Users:Owner:Documents:Folder XXX and only 4 of those files backup

Macintosh OS X include/exclude domain list

Greetings, TSM Server 5.1.6.2, AIX 5.1 Mac OS X 10.2 TSM Mac OS X client 5.2.0.0 I'm trying to exclude the Macintosh HD domain and backup only one folder from the drive. The GUI is not very cooperative in Edit Preferences. Documentation says : DOMAIN -Macintosh HD: in TSM User Preferences

Re: expire inventory not looking at all files

expire inventory is only looking at inactive versions of files. At 04:27 PM 6/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: I think I may have an issue. When Expire inventory runs it does not appear to run through all of my files. When I run the following sql statement I see many files but the expire inventory

Solaris TIVguid

download area. Thanks for your assistance. John Bremer

Mac client scheduler

Macintosh *SMers, Can any of you please share you experience and advice on the best and most reliable method for starting the TSM Scheduler on Mac OS 9 and OS X? The installer is sets up an alias to the daemon in startup folder. Have any of you done differently, for example, to use the

Re: TSM manuals - good entry point

thanks richard (and others who responded). you are correct, this works. john At 06:17 PM 2/3/03 -0500, you wrote: agreed. I still haven't found a solid link, since Andy's directions led to here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/software/main/inc/css/swg_ns1.css John - Could you fully explain

Re: TSM manuals - good entry point

agreed. I still haven't found a solid link, since Andy's directions led to here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/software/main/inc/css/swg_ns1.css ...you have reached a webpage that is no longer supported At 09:56 AM 2/3/03 -0600, you wrote: This is an awful place to try to find manuals. It

Linux client

*SMers, Does anyone out there have any experience running the current Tivoli 5.1.5 Linux client on Linux kernel 2.5.x ? I realize the documentation states support is at Linux kernel 2.4.x. Thanks. John

NT 4 to Win2K

All, An administrator needs confirmation that in migrating from NT to Win2K are there problems with file/directory access privileges being restored from prior TSM backups (of the NT server). Would any of you have experience with this? Problems? Thanks. John

Re: UNLOADDB Operational Questions

involved was 16 hours unload, 7 hours reload, and if an audit had been necessary, another 92 hours there. Why such a heavy price for something that would help us all? This is a sad state of affairs (my opinion). John Bremer

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

At 10:55 AM 9/24/02 -0400, you wrote: Hi Fred, I've seen the SYSTEM OBJECT problem, it's especially pretty when you can't run expiration for six weeks. It's a pain, I've got a routine set up to find the oversized SYSTEM OBJECT filespaces and then delete them, but I have two servers with

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

Gretchen, I've looked at our servers and have over 1.2 terabyte in system object data, and 11,700,000 files. This from 1400 nodes. Do you mean to say by delete them you actually go out and del fi * SYSTEM OBJECT? I looked at one object and there were 14 inactive versions...we keep 4 and run

recall task priority

*SMers, TSM Server 4.2.2.0 on AIX 4.3. Three tape drives. Two migration processes running, one reclamation process pending, waiting for mount point. Client requests restore of file. Client message - Data unavailable to server. Server activity log message - ANR0567W Retrieve or restored

Re: NAS backup

Dave, On this subject, would you explain briefly the TSM backup solution that can be ordered with the IBM NAS (300G) product line? It is my understanding that it is also not an NDMP solution, however a special (?) integrated client that is shipped with the product. Is the IBM NAS client no

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

I've decided to create something that's been missing from the list. Mark - I applaud your efforts here. Thanks. John Bremer LANL

domain statement

*SMers, Does anyone know if there is maximum length, or maximum number of entries, to the DOMAIN statement in client options file? Thanks. John

RH Linux 7.3

*SMers, Anyone out there tried our TSM 5.1.1 Linux client on the latest RedHat release (with success)? We are getting an install error: rpmdb: Item 212 on page 1116 hashes incorrectly error: db4 error(-30979) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed then DSMC fails with

Mac OS X client

wonder if any others out there have had similar experiences, and further, whether IBM/Tivoli intends to address these problems? Thanks. Regards to all. John Bremer

Re: Journaling

Just trying it on a couple of Win2K machines, I don't see such a dramatic performance boost. However these are clients with only several thousands of files, not millions. At 09:43 AM 6/3/02 -0500, you wrote: Can anyone share their thoughts, opinions, war stories on Journaling for Windows NT4.0

Re: CFS NAS considerations on TSM

No. The NDMP agent does volume level backup/restore only. I don't know if you can restore in parallel with your six drives, probably, but they need to be attached to your NAS device. We backup our NAS devices through a TSM client who mounts the filespaces, thereby getting file level

TSM 5.1 - RH 7.2 Linux client

dependencies: libApiDS.so is needed by TIVsm-BA-5.1.0-1 Can anyone out there supply a reason for this dependency? Thank you. John Bremer

Re: TSM 5.1 - RH 7.2 Linux client

in this case it's suddenly necessary.. Gerald Wichmann Sr. Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 w 408.836.9062 c -Original Message- From: John Bremer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 5.1 - RH 7.2 Linux client

online image backup

Hi all, Just experimenting with this new 5.1 feature, using the Logical Volume Snapshot Agent (LVSA). First, when configuring the LVSA Configuration Wizard, I am not presented with the appropriate panels to configure this feature. The Wizard goes from the Install choice panel, directly to

Re: windows XP client?

looks like a 4.1.2.20 version at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/clients.html#xp At 09:28 AM 4/1/02 -0600, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: is there a windows XP client that works okay? ive been trying to use v3 r1 level 0.8 on XP and it causes a lot of program errors. (memory access

Re: RH Linux 7.1 automounted filespaces

NFS At 09:29 AM 3/27/02 -0600, you wrote: What type of filesystem are you automounting? ( NFS, CDs? ) -ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/03/26 05:41:37 PM ...excuse me, I forgot to mention the TSM client level is 4.2.1 and Server AIX 4.3 TSM 4.1.4.0. Thanks.

RH Linux 7.1 automounted filespaces

behavior on RH Linux 7.1 automounted filesystems. Does anyone else share this experience, or have information about the problem? Thank you. John Bremer

RH Linux 7.1 automounted filespaces

...excuse me, I forgot to mention the TSM client level is 4.2.1 and Server AIX 4.3 TSM 4.1.4.0. Thanks.

Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?

You're right there are some expensive solutions. I believe ServerGraph has the e-mail notification capability, but in our environment we were quoted $35,000 for the initial installation, plus 15% maintenance. TDS for SMA does not have e-mail notice capablity. If you check the ADSM.org archive

TSM client options

client GUI in Preferences, Backup tab Backup all local filesystems is checked. I would have expected to see allLocal Yes in the above DOMAIN OPTIONS. Does anyone offer an explanation for this? Thanks. John Bremer

JFS2, GPFS, HSM and TSM 5.1

Greetings, At the recent SHARE we saw the TSM roadmap update for 5.1. In extended platform support it was said that HSM on 64-bit AIX would be available. Does anyone know if greater than 1 TeraByte files would be supported on HSM with TSM 5.1 on AIX? Thank you. John Bremer

backupsets - blocksizes

better. John John Bremer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/07/2002 11:07:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: restoring backupsets *SMers, We're trying to restore a backupset from 9840 media. Our tape

restoring backupsets

at 10 MB/sec. THanks. John Bremer

Re: Domino TDP

Thanks Del. You're a master. That's twice in a year you have been spot-on. John At 07:39 AM 2/5/02 -0500, Del Hoobler wrote: Is it indeed true that there is no bitfile object, as the query inventory indicates the size of this object id is 0.0? Or does TDP store the bitfile object in a

Domino TDP

not looking? Q OCC shows this particular node has 900 files in 170 Gigabytes. Thanks. John Bremer

Re: EXT3 files

Like with OS X many of us are waiting for EXT3 filesystem support Maybe now that Lou is leaving the helm at IBM we will see more development in the Tivoli area. At 01:30 PM 1/29/02 -0500, you wrote: I just installed 4.2.0.0 on a Linux86 box with 2.4.7-10 version. I am getting ANS1149E No

Re: anyone else notice, log doesn't clear during expiration...(even w ith logmode normal)

Yes this has bitten us on a few occasions and requires the usual temporary log extension, re-start, database backup, log reduction, etc. At 09:25 AM 11/8/01 -0600, you wrote: anyone else notice that with the server Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0

RedHat 7.2 ext3 filesystems

the work on TSM Mac OS X client? Thank you John Bremer

RH Linux 7.2

of RH Linux. Any thoughts from this forum? Thank you. John Bremer

ANR0480W - client connection severed...

Greetings *SMers, I am seeing the above error frequently, and mostly from Mac clients. My servers are at TSM 4.1.3 and clients are at TSM 4.1 or TSM 4.2 Clients have alias to scheduler daemon in startup folder, and on boot, I see the connections established to sync the scheduler. Then during

Win2K Security policies

setting to take ownership of files and other objects, and that also fails. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. John Bremer

TSM Win2K/NT scheduler

clients, we're running TSM 4.1.3 on AIX servers. So I wanted to put this out to the Forum to see if there is any shared experience here, and if anyone has any insight into probable causes and repairs. Thank you. John Bremer LANL

RH linux 7.1

gurus, TSM Linux client 4.1 supports up to RH 7.0. Will this client work with RH linux 7.1? Thanks for any comments/experience on this issue. John

AIX 5

Greetings, Does anyone out there know about plans for Tivoli client support for AIX 5L version 5.1? I called Tivoli support, who recommended speaking with our marketing rep, who then could contact Tivoli development...though I would ping this forum as well. Thanks. John Bremer LANL

Re: 4.1 Server/3.1 Clients

They're supported. Of course Tivoli would recommend you upgrade your clients also. At 01:00 PM 5/21/01 -0700, you wrote: We're getting ready to move our TSM server from an SP node to an H70 (AIX 4.3.3). We are currently at 3.72 on the server and running a mixture of 3.7 and 3.1 clients. Are

Re: Error Log

Tim, I sometimes go here: http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgt/adsm/pubs/v3pubs/em/aix/pdf/admmsg/a45cms04.pdf perhaps there's a version 4 maual out there. this manual has it's short-comings in that the message descriptions are very cryptic. John At 04:21 PM 5/16/01 -0400, you wrote:

Re: 5 GB limit on Recovery Log

Wanda, I believe the limit is 5.4 Gig. It can get stressful, I know. John At 04:37 PM 5/16/01 -0400, you wrote: I've lost track - has the 5 GB limit on the size of the recovery log been lifted in the V4.1 server? The 5 GB limit is killing me here - it would be a good reason for me to

Re: Network Appliance

It turned out to be a great conference. One of your top vice presidents gave a good keynote speech. check it out here: http://www.tivoli.com/news/planet_tivoli/pt2001/ At 07:00 AM 5/10/01 -0500, you wrote: What is Planet Tivoli? Linda Seeba Phone: (314) 234-5190

Re: tsm clients

As I understand it, TSM clients run two sessions: a control path and a data path. We don't see either of the sessions hanging around if the scheduler is used to run backups. If the client runs from the GUI, and doesn't close the GUI, the control session hangs around - in our instance for 60

Re: Network Appliance

Geoff, Tivoli announced that TSM version 4.2 should provide backup and restore of NAS filers - 3Q 2001. Tivoli Data Protection for NAS is a specialized client that interfaces with the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). Full volume image backup/restore will be supported. File level

Re: Network Appliance

: John Bremer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Network Appliance Geoff, Tivoli announced that TSM version 4.2 should provide backup and restore of NAS filers - 3Q 2001

Re: Network Appliance

frustratingly discusses NDMP support in the present tense. -- Tom Thomas A. La Porte DreamWorks SKG [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 May 2001, John Bremer wrote: Geoff, Tivoli announced that TSM version 4.2 should provide backup and restore of NAS filers - 3Q 2001. Tivoli Data Protection

Re: How are you guys doing bare metal restores on TSM 4.x clients???!

Tivoli is partnering with the Kernel Group to market Bare Metal Restore software for some clients (currently Solaris, AIX, NT, HPUX). I think Win2000 is coming soon. It's expensive, though. At 02:16 PM 5/9/01 -0700, you wrote: How are you guys doing bare metal restores on TSM 4.x clients???!

MOVE data to new copy pool

copy storage pool to another copy storage pool. Has anyone attempted this kind of data migration, and if so how was it accomplished with out having to recopy all of the data from the primary storage pool to the copy storage pool? Thanks to anyone for any input to this problem. John Bremer LANL

Lotus Domino Error ACD0106E

TSM/ADSMers, Has anyone out there come across this error, and found an explanation? Thanks. Subject: Error ACD0106E To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.6 December 14, 2000 : Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:27:05 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on DominoMail/LANL(Release

Re: client notification

Indeed it is too bad TSM (or Veritas or Legato) doesn't supply a notification mechanism. It's pretty simple for our UNIX clients to notify themselves, but for others, not so easy. We load a DB2 database every morning with info from TSM server databases (we've got 8 servers). Then we run a

Win2000 system objects

run e-mail notification scripts off these date/time fields, and they're going to fail without these completion statistics. Nothing unusual in the dsmsched.log. In fact, the last message is "Successful incremental backup of Registry". Thanks to anyone for any input to this problem. John Bremer LANL