Re: TSM client machine renames

2011-06-02 Thread John Underdown
i used dsmadmc has a backend for a CGI script. used perl modules DBD::TSM and DBI, but you can call dsmadmc directly. Access was controlled thru clear text file that was no way related to TSM access and deleted after we were done. Timing was key but well documented for users to follow. Hope

Re: Raid 1 vs Raid 5

2010-08-09 Thread John Underdown
i use raid 5 for all my storage pools. i stripe the arrays across as many spindles as possible, for our hardware that is 15 1TB drives with the 16th used as a hot spare. i use a 256kb stripe size and align the OS partition at a 512 sector offset. rebuild time is about 6 hours for the 15 drive

Re: tsm server port listening?

2010-03-23 Thread John Underdown
try; netstat -ln Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:15100.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:15800.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0

Re: Disk full error while restoring but there is enough space

2009-06-28 Thread John Underdown
this is only a guess, but i've seen this error when running a restore with an user account that didn't have write permissions to the volume. admbackup tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com 06/28/09 2:30 AM Hi. I am having a problem making a restore in an AIX server. I performed a full backup last week

TSM Client Version 5 Release 4 Fix Pack 3 (5.4.3)?

2009-06-27 Thread John Underdown
i found TSM Client Version 5 Release 4 Fix Pack 3 (5.4.3) was released yesterday 6/26/09. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r4/Windows/x32/v543/ information security wants me to update our current client from 5.4.2.4 to 5.4.2.7 to address

Re: Another question about backing up a filesystem with a large number of files.

2009-01-30 Thread John Underdown
i found memoryefficientbackup needs to be set to diskcachem. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:01 PM, in message 49833270.6040...@cmich.edu, David Jelinek david.jeli...@cmich.edu wrote: I have a filesystem on a windows server that has a very large number of files in it. I have been using journaling

Re: Unexpected behavior - Win2k3, TSM 5.4, NTFS permissions

2009-01-21 Thread John Underdown
Steve, what size files do you backup using subfiles? we have disk only storage. Thanks, john On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:14 AM, in message 24321581.1232550860564.javamail.r...@postx1.bcbst.com, Schaub, Steve steve_sch...@bcbst.com wrote: We've used subfiles successfully for large

SQLsafe and TSM?

2008-11-04 Thread John Underdown
Our DBA's are looking into using Idera's SQLsafe with TSM and i was wondering if anyone has experience with this product used in a TSM environment. right now the DBA's aren't using TDP for SQL but are backing up to disk and then calling dsmc to backup the files to TSM. any comments will be

ANR1291E on AuditDB?

2008-10-07 Thread John Underdown
Hey Everyone, i'm in need of some help again. once a month i restore and run a auditdb of my production db on my test TSM server. this time i got a bunch of ANR1291E's, see below. is there any way to correct this on the production server without bringing it down or are these errors even a

Re: New TSM Layout

2008-07-31 Thread John Underdown
for STG pools, i create the raid group large enough for 2 LUNs (4TB), and assign each LUN (2TB) to a different STG pool. then migrate or reclaim the STG pools separately. extra effort, but well worth the extra performance. rule of thumb is when the number of spindles doubles performance will

TDP for SQL Excludes?

2008-05-01 Thread John Underdown
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to come up with an TDP for SQL exclude for any database name beginning with nobackup on sever CO-AFSFRAUD1. I'm putting the excludes in the client options tlogs on the TSM server and they're the first to be evaluated. Here's what I've tried so far: q clopt tlogs ...

Re: Fw: Manual backup vs. GUI after resolving ANS1063E

2008-01-16 Thread John Underdown
Chip, every time i've had this issue it turned out to be different permissions between the user accounts running the backups. John On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I always verified that missing drive was

Re: Exclude syntax

2007-11-09 Thread John Underdown
Chip, i believe excluding the directories will delete them from TSM. is that the intent or do you want to use journaling instead? john Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/09/07 12:29 PM I know that the below syntax is incorrect, because I previewed it, but I can't seem to figure it

Re: lingering copypool copies?

2007-05-16 Thread John Underdown
what i've done in the pass is to make sure there no processing going on in the copy pool, flag all filling volumes as read only, and then do a move data for the node on the copy pool. the data will be moved to new volumes where it can be deleted. u can create a collocgroup to do mutliple nodes

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-28 Thread John Underdown
Patrick's right that the perfromance problem is probably due to the swappiness setting. the 2.4 kernel didn't have this option but a swappiness value of 0 gives the 2.6 kernel something close to what 2.4 is running. the default is 60 and no matter how much ram you have TSM will be swapped out to

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread John Underdown
Mark, if you decide on Linux, make sure you have plenty of RAM and set vm.swappiness=0, else TSM will be swapped out to disk and performance will really suffer. BTW, TSM on the IBM OpenPower really rocks. the biggest issue with Linux is support, mainly the lack of it. our environment is; One

Re: Group collocation

2005-10-15 Thread John Underdown
I'm scheduling the following scripts to automatically assign new nodes to a copy group. Utilities available with TSM 5.3 server when dealing with collocation groups. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=100q1=collocate+groupuid=swg21205433loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en john underdown [EMAIL

Win2k RSM conflict with TSM device driver.

2003-08-14 Thread John Underdown
Greetings to all, has anyone encountered this problem before? Whenever the TSM device driver is loaded the OS gives the following error and i lose access to the CdRom: RSM cannot manage library CdRom0. It encountered an unspecified error. If i unload the TSM device driver i regain access to

Re: anyone using ATA disk systems

2003-06-10 Thread John Underdown
, john underdown SYNOVUS Phone:706-644-7592 -Original Message- Date:Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:04:07 -0400 From:Talafous, John G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anyone using ATA disk systems Mr. Raibeck, I appreciate your feedback and, being involved in IT for some 30 years, I understand

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-02-21 Thread John Underdown
Manuel, The remote copypool ended up being NetWare 6, i can serve up a 8TB volume to TSM with Novell Storage Services (NSS). NetWare's Common Internet FileSystem (CIFS) allows TSM access without loading a NetWare client on the TSM server. i chose this approach because copypools can only

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-31 Thread John Underdown
have also starting looking at an all disk backuppool for the future. I am curious how you handle: 1) backups of your DB 2) disaster recovery planning/offsite backups Thanks! Wanda Prather Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab -Original Message- From: John Underdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-10 Thread John Underdown
Mark, We been using a all disk backuppool for a number of years now. It's grown to 4TB, we just keep adding disk expansion to the server as we need more storage (We are now looking at the new ATA Raid Expansion Cabinets 3TB for $10,000). We backup 377 servers (80 to 100 GB total) nightly and

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-10 Thread John Underdown
handle storage pool fragmentation? With 377 servers at 100gB nightly it seems you would fill your 4TB with about 40 day retention, correct? Thanks a lot for your help, Mark -Original Message- From: John Underdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Help!!!!!!!! What does CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP do????????

2002-09-25 Thread John Underdown
is 5.1.1.6. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Underdown wrote: Joel, Like a stupid i ran CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP with out knowing what is does. It's now running and my TSM Database is shrinking! Should i PANIC? I have backups if i need to restore. i've just upgraded to TSM 5.1.1.6. And can't find any info

Re: ADSM-L Digest - 22 Sep 2002 to 23 Sep 2002 (#2002-264)

2002-09-24 Thread John Underdown
Abdulaziz, Officially TSM doesn't support MetaFrame. I found the main problem to be the remapping of the drives, TSM seems to be hard coded to backup system objects from drive c:. If i don't remap drives on MetaFrame, TSM seems to work fine. john [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 12:05AM Date:

Re: Script timing issue with MOVE DATA WAIT=YES

2002-05-20 Thread John Underdown
Here's how i wait on a process to finish. Basically i query the process and if it's still running i re-spawn the schedule for ten minutes later. If you have any questions please let me know. john [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-11 Thread John Underdown
Pat, We been using a all disk backuppool for a number of years now. It's grown to 3TB (4 expansion cabinets with 14 73GB drives each and each set to raid 5), we just keep adding disk expansion to server as we need more storage. We use a small LTO library for the copypool. We backup 360

Re: NetWare, Compression Slow Backups

2002-04-11 Thread John Underdown
Flemming, If you try to recompress a file it will grow in size on you plus over work your CPU, the TSM client is smart enough to know the difference between a file that's already compressed and one that is not. COMPRESSION YES COMPRESSALWAYS NO (Always!) Also, if compression is set to yes,

Re: Library

2002-04-08 Thread John Underdown
would not accept commands. I can query the drives and they are on-line and I can query the library. Does anyone have any suggestion on what the problem could be? TSM only sees two of my 6 drives, I have checked my connections. Thanks, -- John Underdown 03/27/02 08

Re: Copy Stgpool and Migrations

2002-04-02 Thread John Underdown
Here's how i wait on a process to finish. Basically i query the process and if it's still running i re-spawn the schedule for ten minutes later. If you have any questions please let me know. john [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: TSM server automation.

2002-03-25 Thread John Underdown
Here's how i wait on a process to finish, i check every 10 minutes. i like to backup the DB first thing just incase /*DAILY*/ /*backup db*/ delete schedule chkproc type=admin q process if(rc_notfound) goto cont def schedule chkproc cmd=run daily active=yes startd=today

Re: Archive and keep last accessed date.

2002-02-07 Thread John Underdown
. Be sure to set 'nww no' in the dsm.opt file. www.adsm.org and search for: 'Archiving Perl Script'. Later, john underdown Synovus Financial Corporation

Re: Novell GroupWise

2001-12-18 Thread John Underdown
question, please let me know. john underdown Synovus Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:01:28 -0500 From:Mark Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Novell GroupWise I need to know if anyone is backing up Novell's GroupWise and if so what = are the parameters in backing it up. Such as does it have

Re: Netware 6

2001-12-14 Thread John Underdown
Tivoli told me NetWare 6 would not be supported until TSM 5, due out late first quarter 2002. Later, John Underdown Date:Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:32:20 -0500 From:Jim Kirkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Netware 6 What version of client? I'd also be curious as to the rev

Message: Thank you for using TSM

2001-06-21 Thread John Underdown
RTFM, see below: Nwwaitonerror The nwwaitonerror option specifies that the client program responds in one of the following ways, if an error occurs while exiting: Display an error message and wait before returning to the NetWare console. Return immediately to the NetWare console. Note:

Archiving Perl Script.

2001-02-05 Thread John Underdown
know what you think. John Underdown Synovus Financial Corp. - dsmarch.pl - #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $root = "DATA:/"; #my $root = "SYS:/"; my $days = "360"; my $startime = localtime; my $deltime = ti

Re: Netware backups with 4.1.x ... help me ... I'm drowning!!

2001-01-26 Thread John Underdown
s a member of the SMDR Group. Good Luck, John Underdown -Original Message- From: Peter Hadikin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Netware backups with 4.1.x ... help me ... I'm drowning!! Hello group, I am about ready to give

Re: Automate NT client

2000-09-22 Thread John Underdown
let me know. john underdown Synovus Technologies, Inc. Soon.exe, shutdown.exe, and etc are from NT Resource kit, see rktools.hlp for details on these utilities. Make sure scheduler service running with an account that has rights to do all this. Interesting enough, the first reboot