Re: 2 fibre interfaces per drive

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Foster
to the server. I hope 'normal' SAN failover works, because IBM are suggesting it for us in their latest upgrade offer! Richard Foster *** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino 5.1.5.1

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Foster
logs (especially huge SAP databases). Richard Foster *** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential or privileged information. If you

Re: Antwort: Re: TDP for Lotus Domino 5.1.5.1

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Foster
into crontab, but it's much easier to keep an overview if all jobs are in the TSM scheduler, and you still lose the return code to TSM. But as I said, we run scripts and do the return code checking ourselves. It's the only way to go for us. Regards Richard Foster

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino 5.1.5.1

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Foster
and filesystems), otherwise disk areas for archive logs fill up, as you predict. You lose the return code in TSM, but if you write a script you can monitor that yourself. See the ADSM-L archives for many discussions of this. Richard Foster

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Foster
levels are lost (and are physically blanked off in our library). It's an open question why IBM chose to do it that way, because it was surely possible to program the control PC to use the appropriate gripper for these levels. Probably that nice warm feeling of redundancy. Richard Foster

Migrate disk pool with disk failure

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Foster
, or do you get an error? Our system is TSM server 5.1.6.4 on AIX 4.3.3, but I hope the answer is release-indepedent. Regards Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa *** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous

Re: Archive dir mgmt class?

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Foster
not understand it fully ;-) For those interested, I've so far had APARs IC37149, IC37150, IC37210 and IC37448 opened, and there could be more on the way. Richard Foster *** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents

StgPool CRC

2003-08-08 Thread Richard Foster
Oracle DB files)? - Does it give you anything that the tape-drive's builtin error correction doesn't? - And of course the 64,000 krone/pound/dollar/euro question: Have you ever caught an error by using CRC? Ie, is it worth the effort? Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Archive dir mgmt class?

2003-08-08 Thread Richard Foster
- the default class for the policy domain (presumably not rebound). Which one is correct? We run TSM server 5.1.6.4 on AIX 4.3.3, and client 5.1.5.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1 (and other combinations). Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: sql for available drives?

2003-08-01 Thread Richard Foster
In tsm v5 where path and drive status are stored seperately, can anyone help with a sql query that would return the number of drives that are EMPTY and where the drive is online and the path to the drive is online. Try select count(*) from drives, paths where drives.online='YES' and

Re: Recreating initsid.bki file

2003-06-04 Thread Richard Foster
Does anyone know how to recreate the initsid.bki file If you're running TDP for R3, aka BACKINT, try backint -f password -p utl-file in the foreground and it'll prompt you for a password. When you enter it, it'll be stored in the file. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro

Re: I/O wait on NFS very high.--Help.

2003-04-01 Thread Richard Foster
pages in error (ie, it has to page them straight back in again in order to continue). There is a fix for AIX 5.1 (IY34604) and IBM are working on a fix for AIX 4.3.3 (IY42425). Our PMR number is 87678,001,806 if you want your support to follow it that way. Good luck Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: I/O wait on NFS very high.--Help.

2003-04-01 Thread Richard Foster
told this is a general NFS problem, not just with NetApp. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa -- This e-mail with attached documents is only for the intended recipient and may contain information that is confidential and/or privileged

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Foster
documents). And the few changes that do take place are not critical - in the extreme, we can always recreate the server from other sources. Thus we do not care too much if we miss a few changes. But not everyone will want that. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Foster
out unnecessary events. But I can't remember where they define which bit corresponds to which event. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa -- This e-mail with attached documents is only for the intended recipient and may contain

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Foster
Andy This is also documented in the client manual, in the appendix that deals with configuring the journal service. But only for v5.1+ It wasn't there for v4 (when we needed it ... moan, moan) Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Foster
spread over about 700,000 directories (I know, I know - I didn't design it). There is extremely low update activity on this server. It took 20 hours to backup before journalling, and about 5 minutes after. Magic! Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Foster
, and you'll probably find other suggestions in the archives. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa -- This e-mail with attached documents is only for the intended recipient and may contain information that is confidential and/or privileged

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
first exceeds the total count. This should give you some error msgs, but if not you'll at least get a timestamp so you can look in the TSM log. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa -- This e-mail with attached documents is only

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
always be able to find some error msgs which may indicate the problem, but if not you'll at least get a timestamp so you can look in the TSM log. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa -- This e-mail with attached documents is only

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
Ruud ANS0326E (RC41) Node has exceeded max tape mounts allowed. indicates that you are trying to use too many tape drives simultaneously. Probably the node's definition in the new server isn't an exact copy of the old one. You can either a) (easiest) on the new server, update node

Re: DB2 configuration and backup

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Foster
Nettie We had something similar. It had to do with us mixing up 64-bit and 32-bit code. DB2 was installed with 64-bit, but the TSM client was only 32-bit, I think. If you need details, e-mail me offline and I'll dig them out if I can. Richard Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED

NT exclude problem

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Foster
the incremental, I have 15 active files registered in the TSM DB from this directory. Is it me, or is it a bug? Richard Foster Norsk Hydro ASA -- This e-mail with attached documents is only for the intended recipient and may contain

Re: NT exclude problem

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Foster
that. It showed what I expected. My * or ? had been changed to a #, which I took to be TSMs own wildcard. #:\...\saparch\...\* But it still didn't work. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro -- This e-mail with attached documents is only

Re: NT exclude problem

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Foster
a single char and the other's multiple, but here that shouldn't be significant) Richard Foster Norsk Hydro -- This e-mail with attached documents is only for the intended recipient and may contain information that is confidential

Re: NT exclude problem

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Foster
Aren't Oracle files .ora? This works for me. Exclude *:\...\*.ora SAP's version of Oracle isn't quite standard Oracle. The files in this directory have various extensions, mainly *.svd and *.001, but it's an idea. I can try these specifically. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro

Re: SAP TDP Restore

2003-01-03 Thread Richard Foster
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Re: Transaction logs to a different mc

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Foster
You need the various extensions (nsf, ntf and box) to cover all the different Domino DB types. I'm not sure why you need the upper/lower case combinations, or even if you *do* need them - I inherited the setup. But it works fine for us. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro

Re: timeout value for processes

2002-12-18 Thread Richard Foster
to become available. We just run a script which cancels all Reclaim processes, whether they are active, waiting for tape mounts or waiting for drives. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro mountwait parameter in devclass definition regds Raghu Hi all

Re: MAXNUMMP question

2002-12-18 Thread Richard Foster
and the others: have you had to increase this value? Richard Foster Norsk Hydro

Setting up DIRMC seq pool on disk

2002-12-14 Thread Richard Foster
, will the DIRMC info be taken into account and directories automagically moved back into DIRPOOL/DIRFILE pools, or am I too optimistic? Our server is TSM 4.2.2.7 on AIX 4.3.3, but if there are any applicable features newly available in TSM v5 I'd be interested, as we're planning to upgrade. Richard

Re: TDP R/3 failures

2002-11-14 Thread Richard Foster
Geoff We've seen something similar when the TDP software (ie, backint) didn't match the Prole program. I see you're running backint 3.2.0.12, which is quite new. Did you upgrade prole together with backint? Did you restart prole process when you did so? Richard Foster

Re: SAP TDP Multiple Storage Pools

2002-10-28 Thread Richard Foster
the required retention periods - scehduled commands back up the primary stg.pools as required Robert should be your uncle. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: Transaction Log Restores

2002-10-23 Thread Richard Foster
Marc Sorry to hammer this home, but ... I didn't do anything differently except copy the log files after the applylogs command was issued. I'm guessing that what you're saying is that - you issue the applylogs command - the command waits until you copy a log file into the folder - it applies

Re: Transaction Log Restores

2002-10-23 Thread Richard Foster
Marc I've found that this is possible to restore a database with the log files placed back in the restore area as you say. I did also find that I had to copy these log extents into the folder after issuing the applylogs command, a NOTES.RIP file was created if the log files were already

Re: Transaction Log Restores

2002-10-21 Thread Richard Foster
? Just a thought. Regards, Richard Foster

Re: ANS1017E (RC-50) Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure

2002-09-04 Thread Richard Foster
upgrading to BA client level 4.2.x.x we haven't seen the problem. BTW, we're also on TDP 3.2.0.8, but I don't think that that was the problem. I seem to remember that the BKI9001E msg disappeared when going to 4.2.x.x even with 3.2.0.4 Regards Richard Foster

TDP for R/3 SAP upgrade - problems

2002-05-14 Thread Richard Foster
machine. If anyone else thinks this is a problem, you can try to add your vote to this DCR, or create a new one and refer to ours if that's what Tivoli wants. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro asa

Re: Return code 99 on scheduled operations

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Foster
We get RC 99 from a backup of a NetWare client that starts inside its schedule window but finishes outside it. Could this be it? Richard Foster From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 2002-04-04 21:34 ZE10 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Our log fills up and server crashes

2002-04-03 Thread Richard Foster
now switched to Logmode=normal, but I'm not sure it'll help. Setup: TSM server 4.2.1.11 running on AIX 4.3.3 plus ML9 and patches. Clients on NetWare, Windows, Unix (various flavours), plus TDP for R/3. Any comments, suggestions, etc received gratefully. Richard Foster

Re: Our log fills up and server crashes

2002-04-03 Thread Richard Foster
look at for tips? Richard Foster

Re: Our log fills up and server crashes

2002-04-03 Thread Richard Foster
We have both of the suggested scenarios: an Irix server with Irix clients, and out TDP for R/3 backs up files of up to about 6 GB. So you've given me plenty to look at. Thanks for the help so far. Any further comments are welcomed - I'm still in the dark about why this is happening. Richard

Re: NEED HELP CONTROLLING SCRIPT OUTPUT, FIELD LENGTHS

2002-03-27 Thread Richard Foster
Try the -commadelimited parameter. This gives a single line of output per row in the table. It's in standard comma-delimited format, which is understood by most PC spreadsheets, although not easily by humans. I'm not sure about SAS. Regards Richard Foster