Re: Migration question

2007-10-01 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 02/10/2007, at 2:35 AM, Dollens, Bruce wrote: I have a question that I feel a little stupid in asking. What is the difference between migration and backup primary (disk) to copy (tape)? Other people have already answered, so I won't bother. :) I am working on changing my scheduling up

Re: Possible to delete folders within a filespace?

2007-09-04 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 04/09/2007, at 10:34 PM, Angus Macdonald wrote: Many thanks Richard. That looks like it'll do what I need. Can anyone point me to a redbook or other document that covers operation of the client command-line? I can't seem to find one anywhere. I'm looking right now at the IBM Tivoli

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

2007-08-22 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 23/08/2007, at 12:29 AM, Głębicki Jakub wrote: Hint :) use short version of path (Progra~1 instead of Program Files) in P*SCHEDULECMD options, otherwise schedule will fail. A small trap for young players: the short name is defined by the order of directory creation. So if the server dies

Re: Why virtual volumes?

2007-08-22 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 23/08/2007, at 7:29 AM, Nicholas Cassimatis wrote: And a TSM DB Backup takes (at least) one volume, so with physical cartridges, that's a whole tape. With VV's, you're only using the actual capacity of the backup, which is more efficient on space. At the cost of some reliability. What

Re: TDP for SQL question

2007-08-02 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 03/08/2007, at 2:53 PM, Paul Dudley wrote: I have been told that if I want to create an archive backup of an SQL database via TDP for SQL, then I should create a separate node name in TSM (such as SQL_Archive) and then backup using that node name once a month (for example) and make sure to

Re: TSM performance very poor, Recovery log is being pinned

2007-07-31 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 29/07/2007, at 10:03 PM, Stapleton, Mark wrote: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Craig Ross TSM is installed on Solaris 10 This is something that popped right out for me. Do you have your storage pools located on raw logical volumes or mounted filesystems? If the latter, that

Re: Sharing a 3583 library

2007-07-26 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 27/07/2007, at 1:43 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: Thanks for the reply. I already have things configured like this. What I was hoping for was zOS/MVS sysplex sharing smarts (for you mainframe folks). With a properly configured sysplex, the drives are configured and online to all systems

Re: TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison

2007-07-25 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 26/07/2007, at 2:54 AM, Schneider, John wrote: Greetings, We have been a TSM shop for many years, but EMC came to our management with a proposal to replace our TSM licenses with Legato Networker, at a better price than what we are paying for TSM today. This came right on the heels of

Dealing with defunct filespaces.

2007-07-13 Thread Stuart Lamble
Hi all. Whilst investigating something else, we discovered a number of nodes that have old filespaces still stored within TSM - eg: Node Name: (node name) Filespace Name: /data Hexadecimal Filespace

Re: Mixing drive types in logical library 3584

2007-05-30 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 31/05/2007, at 3:38 AM, Chris McKay wrote: Hi all, I have been told by IBM that fibre LTO2 drives are no longer available. We wish to expand the number of drives in our 3584 library from 2 to 5. The current 2 drives are fibre LTO2 drives, would it pose a problem by adding an additional 3

Re: Continuity of Data Backup

2007-05-17 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 18/05/2007, at 5:01 AM, Avy Wong wrote: Hello, We have two instances TSM_A and TSM_B, Currently we want to move some nodes from TSM_A to TSM_B. Once the nodes are moved to TSM_B, the filespaces will be backed up over TSM_B. Is there a way to keep continuity of the backed up data ? Do

Moving the TSM configuration manager

2007-05-14 Thread Stuart Lamble
A bit of background: to keep the database size down, we have several TSM instances. One of these instances acts as a configuration manager; the others are all configuration clients (so to speak). For various reasons, we intend to create a new TSM instance dedicated solely to library management

Re: More on fssnap on Solaris

2005-08-10 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 11/08/2005, at 6:21 AM, Mark D. Rodriguez wrote: Stuart, I am not a Solaris expert so please bare with me on my suggestions. First of all you might try backing the filesystem up by using a virtualmountpoint, this option has worked for me in the past on unsupported file systems in Linux.

More on fssnap on Solaris

2005-08-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
I've done some experimentation. So far, I've found that TSM will not backup a filesystem image for a fs mounted from /dev/fssnap/N, but it will backup the image as a raw image. This then raises the question of consistency -- making sure that a given filesystem is backed up with the same name

Using fssnap for image backups on Solaris?

2005-08-04 Thread Stuart Lamble
Just wondering: there are a couple of instances within the university where a system has large filesystems with a large number of small files. (eg: our mail spools have a single file for each email message ...) This is, obviously, a worst-case scenario for both backups and restores. I notice in

Archives missing from archive list.

2005-05-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
Greetings all. This one has me baffled, and whilst I'd normally spend more time investigating, I'm going on leave tomorrow for three days, and other parties view this as sufficiently urgent that I want to resolve it if possible before then. Basically, we have a number of applications based around

Re: Archives missing from archive list.

2005-05-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 09/05/2005, at 1:34 PM, Ian Hobbs wrote: Make sure you are doing the q archive as the same userid (oracle perhaps) that performed the archive in the first place. Nice try, but I get back the exact same results: absolutely no mention of the (for instance) CDUT_WEEKLY_07/05/05 01:00 archive, even

Re: Archives missing from archive list.

2005-05-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 09/05/2005, at 2:35 PM, Ian Hobbs wrote: This could be a really long shot. try dsmc q archive {insert the source filespace name here}/* - subdir=yes | grep CDUT_WEEKLY_07 It appears that the request is for any archive off the root filespace. Possible. I'm quite away from a unix system at

Re: Export feasibility

2005-03-10 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 11/03/2005, at 6:25 AM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: --On den 10 mars 2005 16:18 +1100 Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/03/2005, at 8:15 AM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: [snipping] I think that the most logical way to accomplish this with TSM is to do a complete export like export server

Re: Export feasibility

2005-03-09 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 10/03/2005, at 8:15 AM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: We don't want to give up storing away a complete snapshot of our systems off site every few months, over time maybe reusing the off site tapes so that we finally save a snapshot a year. I think that the most logical way to accomplish this with TSM

Export node direct to managed server problems.

2005-01-24 Thread Stuart Lamble
Hey guys. We have four TSM servers (long story, don't ask) across two sites, setup with one as a config manager, the other three all subscribing to the config pushed out by the manager. For various DR reasons, we're wanting to do data exports from those four servers to a fifth server, located at a

Re: Export node direct to managed server problems.

2005-01-24 Thread Stuart Lamble
On 25/01/2005, at 11:31 AM, I wrote: I've defined the server links and the requisite administrators. I've also -- by way of experimentation as much as anything else -- set up the fifth server to subscribe to the same config pushed to the other servers. I'm now finding that, whenever I try to

Selectively duplicating client data across servers

2004-08-25 Thread Stuart Lamble
Hey ho. Here's the skinny. We will, eventually, have a number of clients backing up to a TSM server on a regular basis (we're still setting up the SAN and other ancillary things that are needed to support the TSM server). Some of them will be filesystem backups; others will be database backups

Re: Selectively duplicating client data across servers

2004-08-25 Thread Stuart Lamble
(Once more, this time with the _right_ From address. Sigh.) On 26/08/2004, at 12:40 PM, Steven Pemberton wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:19, Stuart Lamble wrote: Hey ho. Here's the skinny. We will, eventually, have a number of clients backing up to a TSM server on a regular basis (we're still