Re: Sybase

2002-08-20 Thread Ochs, Duane
No Sybase agent yet. But ... We do a sybase dump local to a remote system and ftp them to a second offsite location. This Sybase dump is completed 1, 2 or 3 times a week depending on how critical the database is. Also all the Trans logs are sent to the second location as they are closed. On

Re: Restoring Data - Server doesn't exist anymore.

2002-08-20 Thread Ochs, Duane
Take an existing NT system and add a line or change the line, in your dsm.opt, for NODENAME to the name of the old system. Then you should be able to access your old system data. You may have to change the client password on your TSM server. Make sure you either change the NODENAME option back

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-15 Thread Ochs, Duane
I would have to agree that the export node is probably the best overall method. Negatives: Tape requirements would grow at a huge factor. There is no commingling of systems. Even if you have servers with an archive name and a backup name each name would have to be exported separately. They can

Deleted filespace

2002-08-02 Thread Ochs, Duane
Is there any way to recover a deleted filespace ? I have set my tape pool to reclaim=100 to prevent reclamation.

Re: MS Exchange backup fails

2002-08-02 Thread Ochs, Duane
I would recommend doing a full backup first then continue with incremental. Maybe an Exchange log was damaged during the upgrade or some other type of problem occurred, but the full backup has helped in tests. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375 -Original

Re: MS Exchange backup fails

2002-08-02 Thread Ochs, Duane
You won't be able to call support unless you have extended maintenance... TDP for MS Exchange went out of service 3-31-2002. I got a quote for it : $99,500 for 3 years. (3 year retention on our mail systems due to legal issues.) After some complaining, I pointed out that TDP for Exchange 1.1

Re: TSM and MS Exchange (MailBox Restore and Exchange 2000 Improv ements)

2002-07-17 Thread Ochs, Duane
In testing this with our original Exchange 5.5 deployment the brick level backup and restore takes up far more resources than your typical MS Exchange API backup. Let's say your Infostore on your 5.5 machine is 30gb in size. Your backup will probably exceed double that size because every mail box

Re: VMS 7.2-1 backups with ABC client

2002-07-17 Thread Ochs, Duane
I use ABC it works very well. But a batch job will have to be created. I wrote my own, there is one that is included with the product, very generic. But a normal command looks like this: ABC incremental /summ=(append,file='summfile') 'device': 'params'/ignore=interlock /class='man_class'

Error code and RC #s

2002-07-01 Thread Ochs, Duane
Before I place a call, can anyone shed some light on this error. I can not find a reference on IBM. ACN3521rc=306 Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375

Export node information.

2002-06-24 Thread Ochs, Duane
Has anyone run an Export node for Exchange data ? For instance: I have a node that had the incorrect MC assigned in the opt file. My deletion process that runs on the TDP client deletes excess backups but keeps 1 per month for 18 months. I ran a q occupancy and found that there were 360 backup

Filespaces, rebinding and scripts.

2002-06-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
I am using TSM Server 4.1.1 on Aix 4.3.3. NT client version 4.1.3 MC_current is defined as versions exists 21, versions deleted 21, retain extra 21, retain only 90 and set as the default management class. NODE1 does not have an include so it defaults to MC_current My retention requirements

TDP for Exchange.

2002-05-23 Thread Ochs, Duane
Over the last week or so I have noticed a huge reduction in free tapes in my jukebox, I have done a lot of searching and found the following. Node Name TypeFiles Space Space OccupiedOccupied SXEXSSWV1_EXCH DIR Bkup114

Re: TDP for Exchange.

2002-05-23 Thread Ochs, Duane
Please disregard, I checked the setup on each box and the admins did not specify the Exchange Management Class I have set up, they were using a standard MC. Thanks for listening. -Original Message- From: Ochs, Duane Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM

Binding files to a new management class.

2002-05-23 Thread Ochs, Duane
Is there a way to bind files to a new management class from the TSM server ? I have 6 Exchange systems that no longer exist and we need to rebind the DB backups to a different MC. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375

Has anybody else seen anything like this ?

2002-04-24 Thread Ochs, Duane
Process starts with session # 51170 10:35 and finishes 14:28. But it reports 201 hours in elapsed time. I have looked at the logs for the last two weeks and have not seen anything like this. TSM Client 4.2.1.26 NT 4.0 SP5 04/22/02 10:35:17 ANR0406I Session 51170 started for node NODE1 (WinNT)

Re: windows 2000 cluster backup performance?

2002-04-16 Thread Ochs, Duane
I am only in the testing phase of clustered NT backups, but I have a few questions. Is the W2K cluster local to the TSM server ? Does the TSM server also have a 100Mbit nic ? Are there any other backups running to the TSM server at the time ? Is there other LAN traffic at the time of the

Re: NetWare, Compression Slow Backups

2002-04-11 Thread Ochs, Duane
Something to keep in mind for compression. In areas with limited bandwidth the compression of files can speed up your backups considerably. The drawback, which I have encountered and just have to deal with, is that when compression increases the size of the file it is not sent. That is good,

Re: Help Urgent!

2002-04-11 Thread Ochs, Duane
Make sure you have wait for tape mount checked. -Original Message- From: Amini, Mehdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help Urgent! While restoring Win2K systemobject, I got messages Data unavailable to Server What does

Re: auditing tape libraries again

2002-04-09 Thread Ochs, Duane
I have seen the same thing. Even if a tape is loaded in a drive the audit will sit there and do nothing. I came across it once when a DLT tape drive had a broken leader and a tape loaded. -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Re: TDP for Exchange follies

2002-04-08 Thread Ochs, Duane
I'm not sure what you mean. We currently use long term retention for legal issues and have never had a problem with any of our restores. Like wise we have done many full server recovery tests that work with no problems at all. As a matter of fact in our test W2K lab we have done entire 5.5

Script information

2002-04-08 Thread Ochs, Duane
Does anyone have a script out there that produces the following output ? Nodename: Schedule: Start Time: End Time: Bytes Transferred: Transfer Time: Transfer Rate: Elapsed Time: Aggregate Rate: Based on an input time. This is kind of a merge between a q event and a q actlog. Duane

Re: TSM Client Agent randomly stopping on Windows 2000 SP2

2002-04-03 Thread Ochs, Duane
Hi Tor, Is there anything that is being displayed in Event Viewer in either Application logs or System Logs that corresponds to the same time as your Scheduler Service failures ? Also, unless you have a particular requirement for retaining your logs for more than a week you could try setting

Re: Nohup Scheduler Service.

2002-03-28 Thread Ochs, Duane
Check to make sure there are no errors in your log file and that a schedule was successfully pulled. If a schedule is being pulled the scheduler was running successfully. If there is no schedule being pulled your scheduler may be dying for a different reason. The command I use. nohup dsmc sched

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

2002-03-22 Thread Ochs, Duane
We tied notification to our SNMP monitoring system. By enabling the Error, Warning and Informational messages through TSM. It took some time to reduce the flood of codes to the most important. But well worth the effort. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

2002-03-22 Thread Ochs, Duane
backs everything up again... -Original Message- From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again? I thought journaling creates a list of changed files and prevents

Re: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
I use version 1.2-9 total of 23 clients for 7 months now. VAX, ALPHA, cluster servers and standalones. We are performing daily incremental backups with monthly archives for historical and legal requirements. After initial implementation , we have had no problems. I do not used the supplied .COM

Re: W2000 client passwords

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
When you wrote that you tried dsmcutil, you mean you used dsmcutil showpw /node:nodename. Also, verify that there is not a nodename specification in your DSM.opt that is different than what you are expecting. -Original Message- From: Weeks, Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
Available through Storage Solutions Specialists,INC.Website : WWW.STORSOL.com . They also have a few other TSM related products that work very well. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375 -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Message ANR8214E every 30 Seconds

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
Are you seeing any errors on the Client side ? dsmsched.log or dsmerror.log . Duane -Original Message- From: Gerd Bentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Message ANR8214E every 30 Seconds Hi, have anybody the same

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
In our environment, I have seen this when a checkdisk has been performed, a drive has been swapped, defragmenting a drive can cause the defragmented data to be sent, moving disks in a SAN. I would have to guess that breaking a mirror set and bringing up the mirror instead of a primary drive could

Re: Why are all my NT files getting backed up again?

2002-03-21 Thread Ochs, Duane
I thought journaling creates a list of changed files and prevents the system from scanning every file that didn't change in order to find the ones that did change. Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375 -Original Message- From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Data Retention

2002-03-15 Thread Ochs, Duane
I had to do something similar a couple of years back. But after exhaustive research the best practices are very expensive and require additional personnel to make sure all the steps are followed. First: You need a starting media, 12 years ago it was 9-track tape, which under the best conditions

Backup systemobjects

2002-03-13 Thread Ochs, Duane
Good morning, I am running TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3 with NT clients running 4.1. We will be migrating to Win2K some time this year and I will need to backup system objects. So far, want I can determine is that my server will need to be at 4.2 as well as my clients. Has anybody completed this

Re: Sybase TSM

2002-03-11 Thread Ochs, Duane
Hello Henk, We have dozens of Sybase, Oracle and MSSQL servers. We incorporated a solution utilizing a second server with a large amount of diskspace. Then performed scheduled native SYBASE dumps and moved the dumps and transaction logs to this DB store server and performed our archives/backups

TDP for Exchange 2.2 .

2002-03-06 Thread Ochs, Duane
I am testing for our migration to W2K and E2K. The proposal for our E2K servers is clustered system with 4 Storage Groups and 4 DBs in each, should total somewhere around 80 - 100 GB per E2K site. 4 sites in all. What I am looking for: 1) I have tested the Scheduler and utilizing the command

Re: Tape Library Experiences

2002-03-06 Thread Ochs, Duane
I currently have three of the L700-380 w/ 8 DLT7000 drives. In the two years we have had them I have had one robotic failure. That seemed to be due to a possible shipping issue. I have had a couple of tape drive problems but those were due to a bad lot of DLT tapes. The L700 jukebox itself seems

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