Re: Interesting...

2007-01-19 Thread Levi, Ralph
I had a similar problem with tapes volumes and the AUDIT VOL xxx FIX=YES repaired it. This might be an avenue to search further. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Svetoslav Tolev Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:44 PM To:

Data expiration

2006-08-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am still working understanding why my TSM DB continues to grow and think I may have come upon something. I have many retention policies in the management class for all my file servers. The goal was to keep most data for only 90 days after it was deleted and to keep 90 versions if it was a file

Re: Data expiration

2006-08-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
Can anyone please tell me if there is a command to look at all my nodes and display which might be using a particular management class's backup group ? Thanks, Ralph _ From: Levi, Ralph Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:00 AM

TSM catalog growth

2006-07-20 Thread Levi, Ralph
Good day all. Do anyone have a script that will dump or analyze the tsm catalog (tsm 5.2.7 - aix 5.3). My catalog is growing about 1% daily currently 45MB and I have not changed any management classes. My servers being backed up are mature so they reached the point the generally when

Re: TSM catalog growth

2006-07-20 Thread Levi, Ralph
extra versions - 90 retain only version - 90 (for the 9 day retention, change 90 to 9). Backups of databases and incrementals of everything else are run nightly. _ From: Levi, Ralph Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:39 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist

Communications Protocol Error

2006-07-11 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi All, I am running TSM 5.2.7 on AIX 5.3 and a remote client running 5.3.4 on W2K. I have two problems that are probably related. Perhaps someone has seen this and could help clue me in. My nightly incremental backup always fails with the following message: dsmsched.log --- SCHEDULEREC

archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
In an attempt to tune our system (AIX 5.3, TSM 5.2.7) we changed the following AIX parameters and now several archive jobs tend to just die and hangout until they timeout. sb_max = 2097152 tcp_sendspace = 262144 tcp_recvspace = 262144 udp_sendspace = 131072 udp_recvspace = 131072 rfc1323= 1

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
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Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
Gbit LAN. 40 GB/hour is rather the order of magnitude for a dedicated 100 Mbit LAN, but tranferring a lot of small files will cause rather a lot of overhead. Best regards, Kurt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
Thanks Dirk. Here is what I get. Am I missing some kind of driver perhaps ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # lsattr -R -l ent0 -a media_speed 10_Half_Duplex 10_Full_Duplex 100_Half_Duplex 100_Full_Duplex Auto_Negotiation Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
rather than prevailing setting. Use: lsattr -E -l ent0 -H Whereas the initial goal was to achieve greater throughput with gige, pursue Jumbo Packets if you haven't already. Richard Sims On May 2, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Levi, Ralph wrote: Thanks Dirk. Here is what I get. Am I missing

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
- From: Levi, Ralph Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:02 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: archive hangs Here is the result: attribute valuedescription user_settable alt_addr 0x Alternate ethernet address True busintr147 Bus

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
Subject: Re: archive hangs On May 2, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Levi, Ralph wrote: ANS1809E Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. Ralph - That message form makes the situation even more interesting... The last time we saw that form of the ANS1809* message was in TSM 4.2

Re: archive hangs

2006-05-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
as a too-small timeout value. If the server didn't do it, then it's the networking in between the two, which returns us to your changed server OS settings. Richard Sims On May 2, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Levi, Ralph wrote: Hi Richard, We are running one 4.x client and all the others at 5.x. Sorry I

rebinding file backups

2006-04-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running a tsm 5.2.7 (AIX) server and W2K3 client w/tsm 5.3 . I originally was backing up everything with a 90 day retention class but now I have some specific files that I only want keep for 9 days. I added an include statement for just the 2 directory structures I want changed and left the

Re: rebinding file backups

2006-04-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
an incremental to make them get rebound to the new MC. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: rebinding file backups I am running a tsm 5.2.7 (AIX) server

Re: Tape Question 3592 and 3590 drives

2006-02-15 Thread Levi, Ralph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape Question 3592 and 3590 drives Hi All, Sorry to drag this back up but I

Re: Tape Question 3592 and 3590 drives

2006-02-14 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi All, Sorry to drag this back up but I don't see a final answer. I have just added an additional frame to my library containing 3592 (Jaguar) drives. I added an additional devclass to support the new drives. I defined the new drives and paths. Both drives and paths are online. When I try to

Multiple backup sessions spawning

2006-01-09 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running tsm 5.2.6 on AIX 5.2 backing up a W2k server with 5.3.013 client. This is a huge file server running with journaling turned on. For some reason it spawns multiple sessions during the backup process. I've seen as many as 21 started throughout the backup session. I do not have

Concurrent primary and copy pool backup

2006-01-04 Thread Levi, Ralph
I remember reading about being able to do backups to a primary and copy storage pool concurrently but I can't find this info anymore. Is anyone doing this ? Can you please point me to the manual / command to set this up. I am running TSM 5.2.6 (AIX) with 5.2 and 5.3 clients (AIX, Windows and

Lock conflict on move data

2005-12-28 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running tsm 5.2.6 on AIX 5.2 and keep getting the following messages. (node in question is w2k - tsm 5.3.015) ANR1171W Unable to move files associated with node WDBSSFS03, filespace \\wxxx03\d$ fsId 2 on volume 003431 due to restore in progress. (SESSION: 56199, PROCESS: 1793) ANR1153W Move

Re: Invalid verb received causing rc=12

2005-09-30 Thread Levi, Ralph
Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Invalid verb received causing rc=12 I just upgraded

Invalid verb received causing rc=12

2005-09-29 Thread Levi, Ralph
Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this error. I don't see anywhere what the object is that could be causing this problem or and indication of some other issue on the system. Client - w2k running 5.1.7 Server - AIX 5.2 running 5.2.6 TSM 09/29/2005 00:39:33 sessRecvVerb(): Invalid

Re: Invalid verb received causing rc=12

2005-09-29 Thread Levi, Ralph
). _ From: Levi, Ralph Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:10 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: Invalid verb received causing rc=12 Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this error. I don't see anywhere what the object is that could be causing

TAPE EMERGENCY

2005-09-21 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi All, We recently upgraded from TSM 5.1.x to 5.2.6 (on AIX 5.2) and now notice that our tape library is about to run out of space. I did a manual inventory and compared it to the storage pools and see that there about 250 more tapes in the physical library than TSM is accounting for (storage

Re: TAPE EMERGENCY

2005-09-21 Thread Levi, Ralph
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: woensdag 21 september 2005 16:23 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TAPE EMERGENCY How about an audit library ...? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent

backup failing with protocol error

2005-09-15 Thread Levi, Ralph
Has anyone seen something like this ? It does not consistently occur on this particular file. Today it could be this and tomorrow it could be another file. I can back up this file if I select it by itself or with other files. This failure occurs when doing an incremental. In fact, the file

Exports and Volhist

2005-08-05 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running TSM 5.1.9 on AIX 5.2 and did some EXPORT NODEs to save some important data forever. When I went to retrieve it 5 months later it was gone. The tapes were overwritten. No info was in volhist either. I run: DELETE VOLHIST TYPE=ALL TODATE=TODAY-90 to keep the volume history

Linux - vmware problem

2005-04-27 Thread Levi, Ralph
Has anyone seen this running TSM 5.2.3 Linux client on vmware server (Linux host server backup) 04/27/05 14:40:58 TransErrno: Unexpected error from open, errno = 16 04/27/05 14:41:00 ANS1028S Internal program error. Please see your service representative. 04/27/05 14:41:00 ANS1512E

Windows 2003 systemstate backup

2005-03-11 Thread Levi, Ralph
I know that client systemstate backups are not supported with Tivoli Storage Manager 5.1 but has anyone found a way around this ? I am stuck on TSM 5.1 for a few more months but need to get systemstate backups from my W2K3 clients. Thanks for any help, Ralph

ANS5186E Server is downlevel

2004-12-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
I just installed a tsm 5.2 client on a Windows 2003 box and get this message. ANS5186E Server is downlevel, System Services and System State backup disabled for this session. My TSM server is running 5.1.9 (AIX 4.3.3). I found a comment on google to use backupregistry no but that didn't help.

Long-term data backup strategy

2004-11-12 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am looking for suggestions for saving data (db's and the like) for long periods of time. Our problem is servers go EOSL (end of service life) and we build newer ones but usually with different names, and can't do a simple rename in TSM because both old and new server will coexist for an

disable administrative schedules

2004-11-11 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am at a disaster recovery site (doing a test thank goodness) and I need to stop all the administrative schedules from running. Can someone please pass along the commands to do so. I don't have a pc / gui on the system at the moment to do it that way. TSM 5.1.9 - AIX 4.3.3. Thanks, Ralph

reclamation question

2004-10-28 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi all, It appears my offsite non-collocated tape pool has more filling tapes than it has in the past. Does anyone know if tapes in a status of filling are being reclaimed or are only tapes in full status put in the reclamation process? I run reclamation with a threshold of 70 and there are

disaster recovery test

2004-10-04 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi all, I am currently at a disaster recovery test and am having a problem finding my TSM DB tape. The DRM plan is calling for a tape that doesn't appear to be here. I just upgraded a month ago to tsm 5.1.9 (AIX 4.3.3). Does anyone know what the command is to see what tapes are DB backup tapes

Re: disaster recovery test

2004-10-04 Thread Levi, Ralph
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disaster recovery test Hi all, I am currently at a disaster recovery test and am having a problem finding my TSM DB tape. The DRM plan

migration question

2004-09-09 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running TSM 5.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 . My primary disk pool is 490GB with the himig=95, lowmig=90 and migprocess=1 . Occasionally, I hit the 95% mark before the normal scheduled migration takes place. When that happens the automigration starts and I would expect it to stop once it gets below the

Re: TDP for Exchange 5.5

2004-09-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
Also note that the TDP has its own scheduler task that reads a dsm.opt file from the tdpexchange subdirectory. This scheduler task is in addition to the regular tsm scheduler. Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent:

Re: determining which files will be copied to copy stgpool

2004-09-01 Thread Levi, Ralph
Rick, You might want to check your Maximum Size Threshold on your disk storage pools. If files are larger than the max, they will go directly to your primary sequential pool and bypass the disk pool (and therefore not get to the copy tape pool until the tape to tape runs). Ralph -Original

tsm audtdb

2004-08-17 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running: dsmserv auditdb diskstorage fix=yes (told to do so by the support center). I keep getting the same message ANR4306I without anything incrementing. Has anyone seen this? Am I in for a long day? Running TSM 5.1.9.0 on AIX 4.3.3.10 . ANR4140I AUDITDB: Database audit process

Re: tsm audtdb

2004-08-17 Thread Levi, Ralph
Richard, Thanks for the quick response. This sure sounds like my problem as I am at the 5.1 level. I guess I have no choice but to kill (cntl-c) out of the audit and make sure my system comes back up. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: archive attribute - windows 2000

2004-08-13 Thread Levi, Ralph
Good morning. I picked one file from yesterday afternoon's backup that is consistently being backed up but not changing. I ran this command this morning: dsmc incremental e:\Install\ShipNet\qrp\letter\Inv_sea2.qrp -traceflags=policy,fioattribs -tracefile=dsmc.trc It backed it up again.

Re: incremental backup question

2004-08-13 Thread Levi, Ralph
Good Morning Richard, I don't see anything pertinent in the dsmerror.log or dsmsched.log. The opt (tsm server) and inclexcl looks clean but I attached them if you want a peek. My search continues. Thanks for the hints however. Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

incremental backup question

2004-08-12 Thread Levi, Ralph
Does anyone know why I am seeing these messages: 08/12/2004 03:48:43 Successful incremental backup of '\\server001\e$\Users\NRodier\WoodMac CAT\*' 08/12/2004 03:48:58 Successful incremental backup of '\\server001\e$\Users\PCampisi\tsy\*' Instead of: Successful incremental backup of

Re: incremental backup question

2004-08-12 Thread Levi, Ralph
I've been looking and looking but don't see how they are being targeted even before I sent out my question. The schedule is squeaky clean. I even created a brand new schedule just for this one and ran it this afternoon. The same thing happened. I will keep looking and thanks for responding.

archive attribute - windows 2000

2004-08-04 Thread Levi, Ralph
Has anyone seen a situation where the archive attribute gets turns on but the data hasn't changed ? I have a server that appears to have this problem. I don't see any scheduled tasks running that could cause this. It happens weekly and causes havoc on my incremental. I also see files that have

Re: archive attribute - windows 2000

2004-08-04 Thread Levi, Ralph
Here is an example of what I am seeing. I can't explain why it is backing up everything over and over and over again. (fyi..The date April 28 is significant because the server was rebuilt on that day.) Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Tape issue

2004-07-30 Thread Levi, Ralph
Try doing: audit vol xxx fix=yes Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: July 30, 2004 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape issue I have a tape that says it is empty if I do a 'q content', but it will

Re: slow running windows 2000 client backup

2004-07-14 Thread Levi, Ralph
I tried the trace but didn't get any output from it. Here are the statements I used: testflag instrument:detail testflag instrument:api I see the dsminstr.report file but it has 0 bytes in it. Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

slow running windows 2000 client backup

2004-07-12 Thread Levi, Ralph
I have a windows 2000 clients (v5 sp 4 build 2195) running tsm 5.1.7 who's incremental backup never ends. Using the timestamps next to message: ANS1898I , it is taking between 5 minutes and 1 hour to parse through 500 files. I have 100+ other servers that take about 2/100 of a second to pass

Re: slow running windows 2000 client backup

2004-07-12 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi Richard, Thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately we reviewed everything that is running on the box and came up with nothing. We also ran performance monitor all night and all we see (especially during the long waits) is that nothing is going on (memory, processing etc). Once we start

ANR0102E error

2004-07-08 Thread Levi, Ralph
Hi all, I am running TSM 4.2.1 server on AIX 4.3.3 (yes, I know I am off support) and I am getting these errors trying of migrate from disk storagepool to tape copypool. 07/08/04 02:07:38 ANR0102E asalloc.c(5006): Error 1 inserting row in table AS.Segments.

Re: ANR0102E error

2004-07-08 Thread Levi, Ralph
* -Original Message- From: Levi, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANR0102E error Hi all, I am running TSM 4.2.1 server on AIX 4.3.3 (yes, I know I am off support) and I am getting these errors

TDP for Exchange

2004-06-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
I need to keep a single backup for legal reasons of our oldest Exchange DB full backup. Does anyone know how I can keep this without changing my existing management class and normal backup retention ? Thanks, Ralph

Re: TDP for Exchange

2004-06-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange From: Levi, Ralph [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to keep a single backup for legal reasons of our oldest Exchange DB full backup

Re: TDP for Exchange

2004-06-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: June 07, 2004 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange From: Levi, Ralph [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to keep a single backup for legal reasons of our oldest

Re: TDP for Exchange - The answer is not nice!

2004-06-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: 07 June 2004 18:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange From: Levi, Ralph [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to keep a single backup for legal reasons of our oldest Exchange DB full backup. Does anyone know how I can keep this without changing my existing

Re: TDP for Exchange - The answer is not nice!

2004-06-07 Thread Levi, Ralph
it would. Best Of Luck Tony -Original Message- From: Levi, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2004 18:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange - The answer is not nice! Hi Tony, Thanks for the response. I think I will try the export server methodology first

retryperiod for DMZ server

2004-04-01 Thread Levi, Ralph
I have a W2K client running TSM 5.1.6 located in a DMZ. We open our TCP port for a given time period for the client to send its incremental to the TSM server. After the port is closed I get the expected ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure except that I have coded a retryperiod

TSM DB cleanup

2004-03-02 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running TSM 4.2.1 (upgrading in a month after our next disaster recovery test) and noticed that our DB is now 95% full. I don't want to have to expand it before the upgrade. Is there a utility that can be run to make sure it is clean ? Thanks, Ralph

scheduled command

2004-02-20 Thread Levi, Ralph
I have some application commands that must be run before backing up a client (w2k server) and it's DB. I run this out off a .bat script that I execute through the tsm backup schedule. The normal commands to shutdown the db, the dsmc backup command and the db startup work just fine in the script.

Re: Reclamation Pr. Hanging

2003-11-25 Thread Levi, Ralph
Try to do a checkout. I suspect it will not be found either, meaning your tsm DB is not in sync with your library. Manually take the tape out of the library and then check it in. You may also have to do an audit on it once you check it in. Ralph -Original Message- From: Merryman, John

Re: Reclamation Pr. Hanging

2003-11-25 Thread Levi, Ralph
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Levi, Ralph Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclamation Pr. Hanging Try to do a checkout. I suspect it will not be found either, meaning your tsm DB is not in sync with your library. Manually take the tape out

TDP for R/3

2003-09-09 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am using the TDP for R/3 and would like to see how many tapes are being saved each night and ensure that the retention is set correctly (and that the old database backups are expiring). Is there a command that can be issued or gui option available? Thanks, Ralph

Re: Reclaimation of Copy Dirs

2003-08-14 Thread Levi, Ralph
You might want to check and see that dirmc is set in your dsm.opt . You may have many directory entries but not alot of data out there. Ralph -Original Message- From: Debi Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 05, 2003 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclaimation of

Re: Exclude all?

2003-07-23 Thread Levi, Ralph
try : exclude.dir c:\backup* Ralph -Original Message- From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 23, 2003 6:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exclude all? Hello, What is the correct exclude/include statement if I want to exclude everything files, folders and