Soapbox time.
The media is not important - any sane retention policy will require that the
information be copied at least annually, with enough copies for redundancy.
BUT -
to be able to PROCESS the data 25 years from now imposes additional
requirements.
First and formost -- the data will
What's available?
There used to be a client but I'm not having much luck finding anything
currently.
We're apparently looking at SAP's Enterprise Search product, and I'm not
getting any warm fuzzies about it.
Supported OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (OK, been there, can do that)
Supported
for cartridge assignment policy strings?
IIRC, CAP typically looks at the first 6 characters. Do these volsers
conflict with cleaning tapes?
[RC]
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Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10
Not enough of a problem to be worth reporting, but a bit of a curiosity, and
I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this.
We have a 3584 logically partitioned by ALMS into two libraries: gobi, with 10
LTO-4 drives and around 150 LTO-4 tapes; and sahara, with 6 LTO-2 drives and
about 250 LTO-2
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Of Dwight Cook
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Once again I've a problem on the TSM client side with
specifying a path for an object
I've not used
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Dwight Cook
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Once again I've a problem on the TSM client side with
specifying a path for an object
I've not used
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Howard Coles
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Once again I've a problem on the TSM client side with
specifying a path for an object
Have you
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Mario Behring
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:15 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Backup files to empty tape
That´s right...but, how can I assure that this data will be readable
If you're allowed to answer it.
With the new database design and the new architecture, is it possible to
terminate a process before it finishes the file it is processing?
Explicityly, can I kill a reclaim or storage pool backup immediately, without
waiting for the current file to be finished.
of a process.
See Ya'
Howard
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:07 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Question for the TSM 6.1 beta testers
If you're allowed to answer
Um -- why are you using the drives?
Use -checklabel=no on the checkout and -checklabel=barcode on the checkin and
bypass the label chack on the tape. We've had a 3584 with LTO drives of one
type or another for seven years now, or thereabouts, and NEVER check the labels
on checkout/checkin -
.
Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Friday, March
@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Dear Tuscon
How big is your TSM db?
If it's not too big and you have extra disk space at both sites, you could:
tsm db backup to local file devices
compress the file devices
copy/rdist/rsync to the dr site
Kauffman, Tom
kauffm
I go a step further - I want the ability to cut two matching copies of the
database backup to two tapes simultaneously. I'm currently running two backups
back-to-back, but I'm unable to have sessions disabled for 40 minutes, so they
are NOT identical backups.
Tom
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If there's a disk pool in the chain, migrate it to tape.
Update all tapes in the storage pool with a filling status to an access of
readonly.
Run the exchange backup.
Check the resulting tape out of the library.
You now have a tape with nothing on it but the Exchnage backup; it may be used
For fiber-attached tape drives - use snmp to monitor the fiber switch ports.
I use mrtg to acquire the data from my two tape-oriented SAN switches; this
feeds my hobbit (renaming, currently, to xymon) monitoring package. I get to
see the activity for each tape drive (one per switch port) and
Yup.
It boils down to Wanda's statement: I/O, I/O, it's all about I/O --- Wanda
Prather
If you can do the work with LTO-1 or -2 drives, or DLT-7000, or similar
speed/capacity, then Windows will work. When you get into
high-speed/high-capacity drives the Intel/AMD architecture comes unglued. A
Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com
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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform
Yup.
It boils
We started with TSM back in the ADSM 2.1 days, when the D/R module was
extra-cost and a bit pricey. We came up with an in-house script to copy the
volume history and the device config file to a floppy daily - and we strapped
the floppy to the database backup with a heavy-duty rubber band.
We
is almost always higher, I expect 3-3.5:1.
I've seen DB2 compress at 6:1.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Kauffman, Tom kauffm...@nibco.com wrote:
I'll admit to not having a good grasp of the PCI-E architecture, but I'll
stand by my statement that you'll need PCI-E to get maximal performance
We don't.
OK?
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc.
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Lindsay Morris
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 8:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: HEY! All you lurkers on ADSM-L! (was: Tracking who owns a node)
A
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- part 2
Is cache=yes on that pool? Are you talking about percent utilized
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- part 2
What's the collocation on that pool set for? If it's collocated
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kauffman, Tom kauffm...@nibco.com
wrote:
Specifically, I'd like to get the byte-count backed up to my off-site
copygroups by node name withing storage pool.
The file count would be nice, but I'll setlle for the byte count.
Boy, I shouldn't post things late
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 3:54 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on
storage pool backup and can't seem to find them
I'm looking at 'first causes' for my off-site copy imbalance in my primary
archive pool - and I've run into something 'interesting'.
Some background -
The archive pool (called ARCHIVEPOOL) has 5 disk volumes, all at 8 GB. Max file
size is 5 GB. Migration threshold is 60%. Maxproc is 2.
So
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Of Wanda Prather Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on
storage pool backup and can't seem to find them
I get frustrated when I see something like this:
ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive DRIVE_02 (/dev/rmt0) with volume
444035L4(OP=LOCATE, Error Number= 110, CC=0, KEY=03, ASC=09, ASCQ=00,
SENSE=70-
.00.03.00.00.00.00.58.00.00.00.00.09.00.36.00.78.B5.78.B5.00.01.34.34.34.30.33-
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of Gee, Norman Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:19 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)
What is your opinion of placing the DB2 database on a DS8300 or any
other high end SAN?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Windows 2000 restore and long file names
TSM doesn't restore the folders with the same 8 character unicode
name.
We had an event last night that we REALLY don't want to go through again -
we're still trying to figure out why/what happened, but the short form is that
our AD DNS entries all disappeared.
Luckily we had a Linux box running a slave DNS that we could restore to the
previous day and convert to
Our VAR says they went over this extensively with Tivoli (several iterations)
and the result:
You only need to license the CPUs of the proxy server if you back it up; you
MUST license all the cpu cores of the VMWare hosts that are backed up via the
proxy server.
We just started to migrate to
You're correct, you do need to take the library offline.
Update the path to offline=yes; then you should be able to delete the path and
the device.
Tom
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard
Rhodes
Sent: Wednesday, September 24,
You CAN delete an off-line storage pool volume; you will need to specify
'discard=yes' to do it (I do it all the time at D/R).
My approach, as a semi-paranoid admin, would be to start by marking all the
disk storage pools read-only. Then migrate them to the next pool. And then
update them to
You mean something like this?
#!/bin/sh
DBUTIL=`dsm_cmd.pl select pct_utilized from db | tail -2`
echo Database is $DBUTIL% full\n
exit 0
columbia:-:/home/kauffmant ./dbutil.sh
Database is 67.0% full
Just a two-minute hack, could use a bit of cleanup.
Dsm_cmd.pl is part off the
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On 26 aug 2008, at 17:04, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
You mean something like this?
Yes, something like that, but entirely within TSM, so a real TSM
server script
Check the disk pool to see if the High Mig Pct got set down to zero. (q stg
poolname). And check to see if the Maximum Size Threshold got set to some
incredibly small number (q stg poolname f=d).
Tom
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I built a stupid little script to compute the time in minutes from 'now' to our
designated end-time. It then fires off reclaim stg commands with the calculated
duration. Works OK for us.
Tom
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn
As it says --
Is the problem in our backup process, or the restore?
TSM server 5.5.0.0
TSM Client 5.4.1.2
Windows Server 2003.
TIA
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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of the domain when you checked the permissions?
Are the groups/accounts local or global?
Andy Huebner
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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:18 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L
Zoltan -
I wouldn't touch this configuration with someone else's sharp stick.
For one thing, to run expiration in a realistic manner you'll be limited to one
run per day unless you change the date on the test server.
I'd break the testing into at least two stages -- one as a stand-alone,
Ah - A light dawns.
You have a TSM server, 'A', on host 'A' that has connections to a library,
disk, and other such. You are now building a new copy of the TSM server 'A' on
host 'B'. If host 'B' does not have physical contact with the library AND your
new server 'A' does not have a server
FWIW, we use multiple networks for TSM backups/archives - and we use DNS.
My TSM server is columbia; it also answers to columbia-pri (our 'private'
network for SAP only); columbia-adm (administrative); columbia-bu1,
columbia-bu2, columbia-bu3, and columbia-bu4 (gigabit dedicated backup
Well, given this from IBMSubCap:
ILMT can only be used to determine the number and types of processor cores for
TSM's PVU-base licensing on the managed servers via a manual effort. In other
words, ILMT won't see the TSM code on the TSM managed server, but if you know
the servers that TSM is
If this has a heavy enough footprint to not warrant running on a
workstation or desktop, theres no way on earth I'd allow it on any of
my
servers.
But didn't somebody say that they heard it was going to be mandatory?
Fortunately, we don't have anything currently that requires this, nor are we of
I couldn't find a link there either. My suspicion is that we'll still need to
go through the 'passport advantage' website to get it. Nope, not there either.
Looks like it has to be ordered.
I did go look at the install instructions; this is no lightweight reporting
tool. The server will be
pathing ASAP.
Thanks for the suggestions!
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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance
Two items
How are your tape drives attached to your TSM HBAs? Presumably by SAN switch,
so how do you have the drives zoned? Ideally, every drive should be visible on
every fiber and alternate path support should be enabled (chdev -l rmtx -a
alt_pathing=yes) (do NOT do for the SMC if you do not have path
.
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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance
How are your tape drives attached to your TSM HBAs? Presumably by SAN
As a long-time IBM customer -- I've got to agree with you.
OK, I got the wrong group; just tell me that, and forward the problem to the
right group, OK?
Tom
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Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008
Is this, as a 'driver' considered to be under the hardware support group? Or,
since the only actual use of the Atape driver I'm aware of is to tie TSM to IBM
tape libraries and drives, is this a part of TSM?
I just moved TSM from a P5-550 to a dedicated LPAR on a P6-550. In the process
we went
All I can offer is a rule of thumb -- if you get write errors that are not the
result of a dirty drive, throw it out. If you get read errors on the same tape
on two different drives, throw it out.
We ran about 130 LTO-1 tapes in both LTO-1 and LTO-2 drives for slightly over
seven years and I
Which headers?
IIRC, TSM uses ANSI-standard tape labeling. So the VOL1 (tape label) is created
when the tape is initialized and doesn't get updated/re-written from then on.
Each file should have a 'HDR1' label; this belongs to the file, so it will get
written to the 'new' tape. From what I've
I've only got one TSM server, so most of your options aren't available to me.
We run our off-site storage pool backups with a script. At the end of the
script we run two database backups to tape, one right after the other, and then
run the automated checkout script which checks out BOTH backups
You have two options:
Partition the library, with LTO1 drives and media as one logical library and
LTO4 drives and media as the second. If you have ALMS, you can over-commit
slots in both libraries. If not, I'd check out as many LTO1 as possible before
partitioning and swap tapes as you
Up front, I'm not sure if this will work with Linux -- I run TSM on AIX. I'm
also running a 3584. And not having much in the way of issues with LTO2.
I vary the path to the drive offline, then mark the drive offline.
IBM swaps the drive.
I set the drive online, then the path online.
And TSM
One other way to address the restore issue -- if the customs delay looks to be
too large to meet the 'restore' window. Restore the duplicate system, then
remove and ship the disk drives, appropriately packed and honestly labeled as
used disk drives. This might clear customs faster.
Tom
Offload issue (and I think that is only for Win2K3 SP2).
So: what is different about the 36GB file vs. the 206 GB file!?? Is the
output destination on the same physical drive?
On 3/11/08, Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll have to look -- I *think* they're both on the same tape
I'm loosing the battle on this one; /opt is a directory, not a file system. I
have a backup of it on the server.
And I get this when I try to do a restore:
tsm rest -pick -subdir=yes /opt/
Restore function invoked.
ANS1395E The destination filespace or drive letter is unavailable. The
Yes. This seems like it will work:
tsm rest -pick -subdir=yes /opt/* /logvol/opt/
Restore function invoked.
TSM Scrollable PICK Window - Restore
#Backup Date/TimeFile Size A/I File
1. | 12/16/02
directory on linux
Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I'm loosing the battle on this one; /opt is a directory, not a file system. I
have a backup of it on the server.
And I get this when I try to do a restore:
tsm rest -pick -subdir=yes /opt/
Restore function invoked.
ANS1395E The destination filespace
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:04 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Problems with TSM and the /opt directory on linux
Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I'm loosing the battle on this one; /opt is a directory, not a file system. I
have a backup of it on the server.
And I get this when I try
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von Kauffman, Tom
Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2008 15:05
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Betreff: Interesting problem in MS-Win restoer -- anyone seen
something like this before?
We've been trying to restore a 38 GB file to a Win2003 SP1 server; the
restore
on it, the first thing I would do is copy that tape
to a different tape and then try the restore again.
W
On 3/11/08, Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We managed to restore a 206 GB file to the same server with no issues or
errors; the admin of the box determined we didn't need the 38 GB file, so
We've been trying to restore a 38 GB file to a Win2003 SP1 server; the restore
comes to a near halt at 31.8 GB.
At the TSM server side (5.5.0.0) we see 'sendw', and if we leave everything
alone the restore continues at an incredibly slow pace (20 MB in 8 hours).
On the client side - CPU
Well, for what it's worth --
I have a 3584, 16 LTO drives (10 LTO4, 6 LTO2), and two SAN switches.
I have all the odd-numbered drives in switch 1 and all the even numbered drives
in switch 2.
My TSM server has 8 fibers for tape access - 4 in each switch. I've set up 4
zones in each switch -
We're a smaller site --
2 frame 3584 with 16 drives (10 LTO4 6 LTO2)
64 drive paths
200 LTO4 390 LTO2 tapes
1 TSM server at 5.5.0.0
Back up approx. 3 TB per night, copy 2.4 TB to go offsite (the entire
5.4 TB processed between 18:30 and 06:00)
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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The eclipse plugins are used to build your own online documentation
server, so you don't have to rely on IBM's server being available.
I've been burned in the past by IBM taking systems down for maintenance
at the same time I'm doing maintenance or upgrades. As a result, I've
come to the attitude
I *may* have screwed up the math here -- but IF you can drive some number of
LTO4 drives at maximum compression and full rated write speed of 350 MB/Second
for the 800GB per tape, I get 1,322 tape drive days or 3.6 tape drive years for
the first pass. Not counting mount/dismount time. 1,322
Among other things, mail in a PST is probably no longer ON the Exchange server.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik
Wahlstedt
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re:
Richard --
To Roger's point, I have yet to figure out how to highlight, annotate,
and/or add post-it type notes to a pdf. I usually end up printing
subsets and scribbling all over them. If I can grab the text and do a
copy/paste, I'll go that route.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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really want a printed copy of the v5.5
Administrator's Guide.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
admin reference and not having any luck
I'm looking for the eclipse plugins for the TSM 5.5 admin guide and
admin reference and not having any luck. If' they are in the media pack
they're well hidden.
TIA
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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We're looking at moving from 5.3.2.0 in the next six weeks; we've got a
new TS3500 on the floor with LTO-4 drives we need to support.
We'll be knocking together a test server in a few days, validating it,
and then upgrading it. Then we'll do what testing we can (our problems
have historically
I may be wrong -- but I thought the ASR process required a DHCP server
be available to provide an IP address to the system for the restore
process.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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Robert Ouzen Ouzen
Sent:
From past experience, moving from Burroughs to Honeywell to IBM
mainframe to IBM RISC --
ALL archival data will be flat-file database unloads, with the entire
key structure required on each data record; the records will be
display-format ASCII or Unicode UTF-16; the records will be fixed
length,
Unless things have changed in a more recent firmware than I'm running
(always possible) there are three ways to partition a 3584; the web
interface, the operator panel, and the barcode labels.
The web interface and the front panel both work the same -- how many
drives, starting with number 1, are
What type of library?
We've had instances with a 3584 under TSM 5.3.2.0 where the library
would start a tape move to the I/O door and find the door full -- and
the gripper just sits there with a tape in it's mouth until we pulled
some tapes from the I/O door. And with the gripper occupied, no
The PCI bus on a P5 will saturate at 400 MB/Sec; you'll need to go to
the P6 to exceed that. That, and the $8,000 per end cost are the
reasons I have 4 independent gigabit backup networks. (At the lat time I
looked, the IBM card was $8,000 and a populated 8-port board for our
Cisco switch was
I'm beating my way through the Tivoli TDP for Mail web sites and coming
up dry. Does the current version of TDP for Mail support MS-Exchange
2007 on a 64-bit Win2003 R2 platform?
If not, is there any announcement of when?
TIA
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:35 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TDP for mail, MS-Exchange flavor
Hello,
That is supported.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=669context=SSTG2Ddc=DB540;
uid=swg21259779
Best regards,
Igor Yakovenko
Kauffman, Tom
The approach I've found usefull is to back into your TSM configuration.
Which systems are most important to recover, and is there a preferred
order?
Answering that may lead you to having co-located offsite copys; it may
also lead to having several off-site pools -- which require multiple
on-site
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Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:40 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for suggestions to speed up restore for a
Windows server
We had our
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:40 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for suggestions to speed up restore for a
Windows server
We had our fall D/R hotsite test last week and all went well -- except
for the recovery of our primary Windows 2003
We had our fall D/R hotsite test last week and all went well -- except
for the recovery of our primary Windows 2003 file sharing system. It
just takes WAY too long.
Part of the problem is the sheer number of files/directories per drive
-- I'm working with the Intel/Windows admin group to try some
One relatively minor change to Richard's statement --
Keep in mind the basic principle that an object remains in the
copypool ONLY as long as it the original object remains in _a_ primary
pool, a tenet which you can use to advantage.
I've seen the same thing -- as long as the data is in a
I've been there -- and in reality, the process is to create TWO new
copypools. One for the new primary pool and a new pool for the original
primary pool. Start doing backups to both copypools, and THEN delete the
volumes from the old, no longer needed copypool.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
OK, I'm Intel-challanged and I admit it. Is a Celeron considered a
Pentium? I know it's not a Xeon.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO Inc
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Kevin Boatright
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Well, that would be a good start, except that it's about $26/CPU too
high a price. And if it requires any of the rest of the Tivoli
monitoring structure to work, it wouldn't be viable anyway.
It does prove that someone at IBM was able to build a tool to report
this information and I feel the
Hmm -- all my rs-6000 systems that have useable (non-rootvg) disk are
already running Oracle. Does this run (using 'run' loosely here) in a
Linux environment?
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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Bill Mansfield
The KPMG type is dinging me for when I will get the revised spreadsheet
back to him -- so I looked at it again -- and my brain broke.
They want the count of _processor chips_ and the number of cores on
each.
The straight answer for the RS-6000 is I just don't know.
We ordered some number of
And that's the claim for the RS-6000 environment, as well.
Which (again) points out how stupid a per-cpu license is for a data
backup/archiving product.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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IIRC, if they're all on the same logical network (10.x.y.z) then TCP
will use the lowest-numbered address to start sessions.
To get what you want, you need to have all the nics on the same physical
network (wire, that is) and put aliases for different logical networks
on each nic -- and matching
We don't currently have any multi-core Intel systems in use (that we are
aware of), and our MS staff is unaware of any good way to find this out
-- but it looks like you can install linux on the box and get the info.
This is from a system that should cut over in a month or so:
Command: less
Geoff --
Audit Library on a 3584 does NOT scan the tape barcodes -- it gets the
library manager catalog that was created the last time the library
initialized, with current updates from tape movement. If you want a
re-scan you will need to re-initialize the library (pause it, then open
and close
I don't have anywhere near as many Intel systems. But I don't have
access to any of them.
I just got hit with a follow-on to the KPMG survey (they want CPU count
etc. on a set of dummy nodes I have in TSM, as well as CPU type core
count this time).
I'm advising them that the next such
TDP for R3 has always been a bit of an ugly child. Rather than use a
platform-specific install process, it has historically used the SAME
install process on all platforms.
You will need the JRE; you do not need a gui on the platform if you have
an X-station available. Just set your display
Yup. And I am NOT a compliance officer. I'll do best effort, but if IBM
wants accuracy, the software needs to handle it.
And I agree with Dirk ... the curent maintenance/support/licensing
startegy is (and has been since back in the 3.x days) stupid to the
point of incompetence.
Let me propose
Yeah -- I blew off about six hours filling it in. I'm waiting to see if
I get any feedback.
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Remeta, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:15 PM
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Subject: Question for you
Has
Just for what it's worth - an observation.
I run about 2.4 TB of data through my 3584 on a daily process, between
archives, backups, and off-site copies. I've had the same 4 cleaning
tapes in place since my first 3584, with LTO-1 drives, just over 5 years
now - and one tape has had a count of
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