ANR9999D admabbk.c on restore DB

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Bassi
AMENG ANRD admdbbk.c(4216) : Error 272 creating device class 359CLASS1 I have tried several variants of this command to no avail. Any ideas? TSM 4.1.4.0 on Windows NT 4.0 Joshua Bassi

Re: TSM 5.2

2003-06-20 Thread Joshua Bassi
I am have installed and ran TSM 5.1 on POWER4 machines running both AIX 5.1 and 5.2 w/out any real problems. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831) 595-3962 -Original Message- From:

Re: Schedule

2003-06-18 Thread Joshua Bassi
Day of Week: Any Expire: Never -Mensaje original- De: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 17 de Junio de 2003 08:05 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Schedule That's fine as long as 1) the dsmcad process keeps running and 2) you have a TSM client

Re: Schedule

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Bassi
You must use both the client scheduler (scheduler listens for connections) and the TSM Server central scheduler which is actually initiating the scheduler. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell

Re: Schedule

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Bassi
Minutes Duration: 1 Hour Period: 1 Day Day of Week: Any Expire: Never but, I obtain the status pending in the Event Central Scheduler why? Janeth -Mensaje original- De: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 17 de Junio de 2003 06:27

Re: Schedule

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Bassi
in the client machine obtained: ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE. I restart the dsmcad -Mensaje original- De: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 17 de Junio de 2003 07:56 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Joshua Bassi
I would say run the TSM server on AIX since u have it in house already. W2K would be the next choice with the AS/400 being last on the list for sure. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831)

SQL Exchange Agent License Checksum Errors

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, My customer did not receive all of their installation media so I had to download the SQL and Exchange agents. After installing them, I attempted to run the agents and on each system the agent wouldn't run (either GUI or CLI) because it said the license file was corrupt. I thought the

Move from Primary Pool Doesn't Remove from Copy Pool

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, My colleague issued a move data command from a primary stg pool to a new primary stg pool. He then backed up the new stg pool. After this was done, there were actually 3 copies of the data (1 in the new primary stg pool, 1 in the new copy stg pool, and 1 in the original copy stg pool). My

Re: Move from Primary Pool Doesn't Remove from Copy Pool

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
why not just delete the volumes in the copy storage pool you want to get rid of? Because the data isn't collocated. If my customer was on 5.2 I could collocate the specific node in question and then delete it, but I'm not at that level. Thanks anyway! -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified

TSM Client Scheduler on Windows

2003-06-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, Has anybody seen issues with the new TSM 5.1.6.0 client scheduler being started by the dsmcad process? I installed the scheduler service and the dsmcad service as always, but this time the dsmcad process isn't able to start the scheduler. In the error log it says that the schedule name is

Re: server free available in TSM for AIX yet? solved

2003-06-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
Joshua Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, TSM Server free data movement is definitely supported on the IBM Shark (been there, done that). -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831) 595-3962

Re: server free available in TSM for AIX yet? solved

2003-06-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
of that setup from ESS to LTO tape. Did you use TDP for Hardware? Did you require any data mover device? inotzki Joshua Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This setup is at one of my customer accounts. Server free in this case is going directly to LTO tape. To backup server less to disk, which doesn't make

Re: ANS1357S Session rejected: Downlevel client code version

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
For some reason TSM thinks the client connected at a higher level than the one that you are tying to connect with now. The easiest thing I can think of to fix this would be to install a newer version of the client. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert

Re: TSM AIX compatibility

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
The one issue I can think of is that you will need to upgrade your TSM DB to a newer version since TSM 4.2 is only supported on older versions of AIX. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831)

Re: server free available in TSM for AIX yet?

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
Server free is and has been available since 5.1 (or was it 4.2). On AIX server free supports the IBM Shark and on Solaris it supports EMC Symmetrix. I think that is the extend of the support as of TSM 5.1, not sure if 5.2 has new device support or not. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified

Re: server free available in TSM for AIX yet?

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
serverfree status=on command. when i do q status it outputs serverfree status - not supported. Am I doing something wrong? inotzki Joshua Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server free is and has been available since 5.1 (or was it 4.2). On AIX server free supports the IBM Shark and on Solaris

Re: server free available in TSM for AIX yet? solved

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
Again, TSM Server free data movement is definitely supported on the IBM Shark (been there, done that). -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831) 595-3962 -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: Linux server dsmserv.idl and webimage files

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
The only way I have ever seen these packages was within the complete installation image. -- Joshua S. Bassi Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Cell (831) 595-3962 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: 5.1.6 Fix

2003-01-15 Thread Joshua Bassi
My customer here encountered that. The only time we have seen it core dump was when an admin went in through the web browser, drilled down to nodes and clicked on a specific node. Again, IBM/Tivoli aren't following the strictest QA methodology in verifying stability of this product. -- Joshua

Re: Is upgrade DB required?

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua Bassi
No, an upgrade DB should not be required. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: How is the *.PST freed?

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua Bassi
I have never been able to backup a PST file while Outlook was open. You might want to double-check on that because I believe Microsoft puts a lock on the file ANYTIME it's open. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert

UNISYS Client

2003-01-10 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, Does anybody know if there is a UNISYS 3rd Party client (like SSSI's VMS client)? Back in the day there was a page of the IBM ADSM web site that listed all the 3rd party client packages, but I can't seem to find it on the Tivoli site. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN,

Re: How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly

2003-01-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
Q libvol will show you how many scratch tapes you have in your library. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
I have a customer with 9 TSM servers and around 20TB of disk pool storage. We use a device class of DISK because data does not stay on disk, instead it moves off to tape daily. If you plan to use this large diskpool to permanently store your backup data, then you should definitely use a devclass

Re: Password expire questions.....

2003-01-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
2) The closest you can get would be to update the node definition with a password expiration of 1 day. The day after you update the node, the client will need to change the password at login. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
Unfortunately disk pools with a device class of DISK get fragmented and will incur a higher overhead penalty the longer they exist (without data moving off to tape). I had a customer try this configuration and it ended up blowing up in their face. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L,

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
Disk Pool Management would occasional move data (from disk to disk) not resolve this fragmentation issue? regards juraj Salak -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Disk Pool

Re: Objects compressed by

2003-01-08 Thread Joshua Bassi
That is exactly what it means. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

LTO Cleaning Cartridge Mount Points

2003-01-08 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, Does anybody know offhand the estimated number of cleanings an IBM LTO cleaning cartridge supports before it should be disposed of? Thanks in advance. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX,

Re: 3494 Library Sharing

2003-01-07 Thread Joshua Bassi
If you are trying to dynamically allocate drives, then you will need to setup a library manager (the existing TSM host) and a library client (new TSM host). Then whenever hostB needs access to a tape drive it will make a request to hostA for a mount point. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX

Re: Unmounting volumes...

2003-01-02 Thread Joshua Bassi
Peter, I would anticipate the only way to get these drives back online would be to bounce the TSM server. Having tapes stay at In Use even though there is no process associated with it would appear to be some sort of a product defect. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark

Re: storage agent use

2002-12-13 Thread Joshua Bassi
If the data to be backed up is not on the SAN, it is my understanding that the SAN agent will send it over the IP network (traditional backup). -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP,

Re: FW: storage agent use

2002-12-13 Thread Joshua Bassi
the data from the SAN or not from the SAN it will backup using LAN FREE or through the fiber. Thanks, Robert Rippy. -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: storage agent use If the data

Re: FW: storage agent use

2002-12-13 Thread Joshua Bassi
locally. It doesn't matter where the data is. Thanks, Robert Rippy. From: Joshua Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/13/2002 04:04 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: FW: storage agent use Then how is that considered LAN-free

Re: Question about Veritas Cluster and filespace name

2002-12-12 Thread Joshua Bassi
Yes, it seems TSM is not savey of any cluster soloutions except Microsoft's. That an HACMP. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL

Re: LAN free backup for Novell

2002-12-11 Thread Joshua Bassi
It is my understanding that LAN-free backup works only with Windows and UNIX clients. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

2002-12-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
You must first install 5.1.0.0 and then upgrade to 5.1.5.x. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: AIX 5.1

2002-12-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
Yes, 4.2.x works on AIX 5.1 -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

TSM Uptime Success

2002-12-06 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I have a TSM server here has been running fine for 6 months without a system reboot or a TSM server reboot. The TSM session numbers were into the millions and my customer wanted to reboot the box. No telling how long the server would have ran before it needed to come down. Configuration:

Re: migrating from AIX to W2K with 349x lib

2002-12-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
Yes, you should connect the 3494 to the LAN. You will need to install the Atape and atldd device drivers on your W2K machine (just as you did on the AIX box). -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP

Re: 98 Workstation backup problem

2002-12-05 Thread Joshua Bassi
Commtimeout is actual 60 by default. A number pretty much every customer out there should increase. Both 600 and 1500 seconds have worked well for me in the past. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP

Re: ADSM-L Digest - 28 Nov 2002 to 29 Nov 2002 (#2002-333)

2002-12-03 Thread Joshua Bassi
You mean a host database and not the TSM server database correct? -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: TSM updates

2002-12-03 Thread Joshua Bassi
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/mainten ance/v5r1/server/ -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL

Re: device name mt124.1.2.8

2002-11-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
Is it really an IBM Magstar MP 3570? You must be in a near line environment where data access time is relatively low. I have installed plenty of those autoloaders in the past, but it seems to be somewhat obsolete for a NEW TSM installation. I would recommend installing the latest version of the

Re: devices and location code question in aix

2002-11-27 Thread Joshua Bassi
Take a look at the PCI Placement Reference. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Backing up Exchange

2002-11-26 Thread Joshua Bassi
I would recommend using the Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange agent. It provides the mechanism to backup Exchange messaging systems online without bringing the application down. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems

Re: select command to get old scheduled events

2002-11-22 Thread Joshua Bassi
What you are looking for is in the summary table. You can issue a 'select * from summary' to dig further form there. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell

Re: Migration from AIX to Solaris

2002-11-22 Thread Joshua Bassi
Are you saying that the internal format of the db changes between OS's? Yes, the format is absolutely different. Install ITSM on Solaris Export filesystems on AIX containing db and log areas NFS mount those filesystems to Solaris Update dsmserv.dsk on Solaris to point to NFS db and log

Re: Help Urgently needed

2002-11-20 Thread Joshua Bassi
That doesn't look good. I would recommend calling support at this point. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tape-to-tape performance

2002-11-20 Thread Joshua Bassi
Take a look at the movebatchsize, movesizethresh and bufpoolsize. These 3 options have a direct corrolation for tape to tape copy processes. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage,

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-20 Thread Joshua Bassi
No, they both can use either the J (standard) or K (extended length) type tapes. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: audit volume

2002-11-20 Thread Joshua Bassi
My understanding of the audit volume process is that it doesn't actually read the data on the tape. Instead it reads the checksum information that TSM puts on the tape periodically. This bit me once when I was auditing a disk volume. The audit volume deleted some files out but failed to find

Re: VERITAS BMR (was CA - Brightstore Resource Manager for TSM)

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
Amen to that!!! IBM/Tivoli: Please, hurry to develop your own DR solution for TSM!! But one that works!!! -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831)

Re: description indicator of private volumes

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
Unfortunately you cannot change the last-use column - this is strictly controlled by the TSM server. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962

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2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
Server-free backup is a way to send data across the fibre channel SAN utilizing the SCSI 3rd party copy function instead of having the client spend it's CPU resources encapsulating data and sending it across the LAN. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark

Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
Take a look at the TDP for Oracle for UNIX Installation User's Guide V4R2 manual. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backupsets and DB2

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
No, you cannot take a backupset of API data. Backupset only work on file system data backed up though the B-A client. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell

Re: Migration NSM to TSM

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
I have done the hands-on work to perform this migration in the past. From the technical side I have it, but I am not familiar with this new big discount Tivoli has going on. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert

Re: path length?

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
I believe it is 255 actually. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Integrating Legacy Systems with TSM

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
I believe SSSI www.storsol.com has a VMS client. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: Multiple sessions per tape

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
It is restricted to one. The best way to backup your data is to a disk pool first, then bleed the diskpool to tape and you will get much better performance out of your single session than you would if you backed up directly to tape. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli

Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM

2002-10-30 Thread Joshua Bassi
Is it possible to run both a B-A client and a TDP client on the same machine both listening on port 1501? Can I have the dsmcad process listening for 2 different schedules (an incremental backup and a command execution) and start the TSM Client Schedulers at different times? -- Joshua S. Bassi

VERITAS BMR (was CA - Brightstore Resource Manager for TSM)

2002-10-29 Thread Joshua Bassi
Lisa, at least the CA people are smart enough to know when they are beat. I had a customer here in the Bay Area call VERITAS to have a presentation on BMR. The response from VERITAS was that the only way this customer could use BMR is if they moved off TSM and used NetBackup exclusively. Has

Re: Archiving Help!

2002-10-29 Thread Joshua Bassi
Okay, if the archive copy group is in the default management class and the node is associated with this domain, then no future action is needed on the server (as long as you updated your policy set). From the client run the dsm process and you will see the GUI come up. You can click on the

Re: TSM 5.1 Upgrade Entitlement

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
You can upgrade your clients at any time free of charge. Upgrading the server requires authorization from Tivoli/IBM. There is a one year upgrade protection that comes with the product when it was purchased. If it is outside of the 1st year then contact your IBM or Business Partner to discuss an

Re: Insufficient mount points

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
Are you sure you are not encountering a read or write error while accessing the tape defined to the newly created stgpool? -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant

Re: In TSM (Tivoli storage manager) 5.1 querying its databse thorugh java code

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
There is no JDBC interface that I know of for TSM. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

TDP for Oracle Version Expiration

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, Here is the script directly out of the TDP for Oracle manual: To remove an old backup, issue this command from the RMAN prompt: run { allocate channel for delete type 'sbt_tape' parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=c:\RMAN\scripts\tdpo.opt)'; change backupset primary_key delete; } Note: To enter a

Re: TDP for Oracle Version Expiration

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
Joshua Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TDP for Oracle Version Expiration Manager [EMAIL

Re: TDP for Oracle Configuration

2002-10-28 Thread Joshua Bassi
Any client can be registered in any domain. Looking at your current configuration, the TDP for Oracle backups will work the way you anticipate. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP,

Re: Share permissions lost while restoring data

2002-10-25 Thread Joshua Bassi
The reason your share permissions are gone is because Microsoft does not store share info within the directory structure. Share info is kept in the registry. The only way to get the share settings back is to restore the entire registry. This is fine if you are restoring to the original server,

Re: Varying tape drives offline

2002-10-24 Thread Joshua Bassi
I don't think you can put the drive offline while it has a drive mounted and in-use. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TDP for RMAN Config Files

2002-10-24 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I need to install several TDP for Oracle agents and I do not have sample config files. If anybody out there can send me a sample dsm.opt, RMAN scripts (full and incremental hot backups), environment variables, etc I would greatly appreciate it. I am implementing this on both HP-UX UNIX and

Re: Offsite Vaulting with Locked Canisters

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
I will be trying to make the locked canister based approach work using the move data commands. I will record which volumes are in which containers and after a set period of time, I will move all data left on these tapes onto tapes in the next canister. I see value in a locked canister

Re: NT 4.0 100% CPU Usage

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
What version of the TSM client are you running? I remember some of the early 3.1 and 3.7 clients had issues with releasing memory (not sure about pegging the CPU though). -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert

Re: NT4.0 IE 5 Requirements

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
IE is not a requirement for the backup-archive client. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: NT 4.0 100% CPU Usage

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
[mailto:ADSM-L;VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gallerson,Charles,GLENDALE,Information Technology Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NT 4.0 100% CPU Usage Importance: High Joshua, TSM client version is currently 5.1 crg -Original Message- From: Joshua

Re: can't delete old node because of SYSTEM OBJECTS

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
Try to run the 'delete filespace nodename * which should get everything for the node including the System Objects. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831)

Re: Please advise: IBM 3583 tape drives

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
I have installed a dozen 3583 tape libraries and they all have worked well. The SCSI based drive interface is much easier to setup, but I believe long-term the native Fibre Channel interface is the way to go. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -

Re: TSM v. HP Openview Storage Data Protector 5.0

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
If it is anything like OmniBack, I can understand why it's not very prevalent in production. I have several accounts I have moved from OmniBack to TSM. Needless to say the customers were very impressed with the TSM product set after the implementation was completed. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM

Re: NT 4.0 100% CPU Usage

2002-10-23 Thread Joshua Bassi
Usage Importance: High Joshua, 5.1.0.0 -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:jbassi;IHWY.COM] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NT 4.0 100% CPU Usage 5.1.1.0 or 5.1.0.0? -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli

Offsite Vaulting with Locked Canisters

2002-10-22 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I am looking for feedback on using locked canisters for offsite vaulting. I have setup DRM for several accounts who used open containers and I have setup poor man's tape rotation without DRM with open canisters, but I have never implemented a locked canister solution. The problem as I see

Re: os/2 a supported client?

2002-10-21 Thread Joshua Bassi
The latest OS/2 client was 3.7.2.0. http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/mainten ance/client/v3r7 -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant

Re: ADSM to TSM

2002-10-21 Thread Joshua Bassi
I have several customers running this type of configuration. It's not really an issue. I would recommend using the latest revision of the client though that supports that specific OS version. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer

SMF Records

2002-10-21 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, Does TSM write to SMF records during startup on OS/390? If so, which SMF records does it right to? -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962

Re: Dowload urls

2002-10-17 Thread Joshua Bassi
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: Multiple sessions backup and archive?

2002-10-16 Thread Joshua Bassi
Absolutely, you can ) launch 2 separate TSM sessions, 2) have the back and archive copy groups point to either the disk or tape pool respectively. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP,

Re: 4.2 install and help

2002-10-15 Thread Joshua Bassi
What exactly is the problem with the display output? What platform are you on? -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windows Blue Screen after 5.1.5 Client Install

2002-10-12 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I watched my customer load the 5.1.5.0 client over a 5.1.1 on a Dell 2550 W2K SP2 system. He performed a reboot as requested by the installer and when the system tried to IPL it crashed with a Blue Screen of Death: *** STOP: 0x07B (0x85DCC1B0,0xC102,0x,0x)

Re: What does a TSM incremental backup exclude by default?

2002-10-11 Thread Joshua Bassi
I know for sure it doesn't backup /tmp by default. I not sure about /usr/spool or /proc though. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL

Re: after ML10 upgrade

2002-10-11 Thread Joshua Bassi
What I typically do in this situation is to delete ALL the tape drives and adapters from AIX rmdev -dl rmt* and rmdev -dl fcs* Then I run cfgmr to pick up the new devices. I have never run into the situation where there was a drive disappearing such as this after a simple ML upgrade. --

Re: Update AIX/TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Joshua Bassi
It is a good practice to restart your system after doing a maintenance level upgrade. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Syntax

2002-10-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
What you need to do is to launch the Backup-Archive GUI interface (dsm) and from there select Show Active and Inactive Files. From there you will need to scroll through all the files backed up for that specific node. Hopefully your user knows in what general area that file was backed up in.

Re: Disk storage pool too small?

2002-10-09 Thread Joshua Bassi
If you look through your activity log you will see when the disk storage pool fills up it will automatically get migrated to tape based upon the low and high water migration values. Ideally you would like to have enough disk space to backup all your clients to disk w/out triggering a migration

Re: 3583 FC Problem

2002-10-08 Thread Joshua Bassi
these kind of errors I always reset the SDG. Fixes the problem mostly. Jeroen -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3583 FC Problem Thanks, but the device names haven't changed from what I have

Re: 3583 FC Problem

2002-10-08 Thread Joshua Bassi
Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3583 FC Problem From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joshua Bassi I have already read this Redbook. I have been working with IBM Level 2 support to resolve the issue

Re: 3583 FC Problem

2002-10-08 Thread Joshua Bassi
PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3583 FC Problem From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joshua Bassi I tried that for a couple hours yesterday. There are two drives, I disabled one

Re: when is dsm.opt read?

2002-10-07 Thread Joshua Bassi
I believe it gets read when the service starts. I would recommend starting and stopping all your TSM client services on the node you change the dsm.opt on. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX,

3583 FC Problem

2002-10-07 Thread Joshua Bassi
All, I have a new install of TSM 5.1 on a Windows platform. After the initial installation by one of my colleagues, backups were working fine. After a week though, communication to the tape library/drives failed. Now we are not even able to checkin or checkout tapes from the library. All

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