Re: Canceling processes

2004-06-04 Thread Tom Kauffman
write errors part way into a 9.6 GB file. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Canceling processes You've missed the point. He's in a Deadly Embrace situation because

Re: To Audit or Not to Audit.......that is the question !

2004-05-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
Eric seems to have left out one item -- the audit does not run while tapes are mounted in drives, so you may have been waiting until that last tape dismounted. At least that's the effect I've seen up through TSM 5.1.6 with SCSI libraries. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From

Re: To Audit or Not to Audit.......that is the question !

2004-05-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
found in slot ' if the library manager and TSM are really out of sync. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: To Audit or Not to Audit

Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)

2004-05-05 Thread Tom Kauffman
Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: goran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly) what is larrd and where to get it ? thanks - Original Message - From: Tom Kauffman [EMAIL

Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)

2004-05-04 Thread Tom Kauffman
Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely. See http://bb4.com/ Or contact me directly . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX question (off topic

Re: TDP for ERP (SAP R/3 on Oracle)

2004-04-21 Thread Tom Kauffman
the third procedure -- which runs to 25 steps total. My documentation is designed to be complete enough to allow anyone with a base unix/aix knowledge to do the complete process. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Janusz Wiszniowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April

Question on LTO-2 dual-path fiber attach drives (AIX platform)

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Kauffman
in the real world? We currently have two 2019-F16 switches and will be adding two more with the tape drives. We also have just the one TSM server and are not currently planning on running anything LAN-free. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc

Re: Question on LTO-2 dual-path fiber attach drives (AIX platform )

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Kauffman
Thanks for the clarification, Orville. This looks like an option I can easily justify not buying as it doesn't do as much as I thought it did. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Orville Lantto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: LTO tape cartridge(200GB/400GB) stores data 500GB+.

2004-04-16 Thread Tom Kauffman
on the client -- and I get between 485 GB and 521 GB per tape. So - you should get at least 190 to 200 GB per tape on the LTO-2; you MAY get considerably more than 400 GB. We'll be going LTO-2 in five months, and I'm looking forward to seeing how much SAP database I can fit on one tape. Tom Kauffman

Re: Management Classes

2004-04-16 Thread Tom Kauffman
storage pools to start with the D/R requirement and work my way backward. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Sam Rudland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Management Classes Thanks for your information/ideas guys

Re: Third stgpool question

2004-04-15 Thread Tom Kauffman
if the files are being washed through disk on the way to tape. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Third stgpool question Is it possible to copy specific node data to a third

Re: Server IP controls

2004-04-13 Thread Tom Kauffman
as the server address; some use tsm-bu2; a few use tsm-pri; and a couple access tsm on the public network. Access on all of the nodes is by way of the dsm.sys definition. HTH Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: Taking an end-of-year snapshot

2004-01-08 Thread Tom Kauffman
down the road . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Taking an end-of-year snapshot All, We are running TSM 5.1.6.1 on AIX 5.1 What I want to do is to take

Re: How do I expand my 3584 LTO library

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Kauffman
All you should need to do is shut down and re-start the TSM server; it'll check the library at start-up. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Michael Gell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I expand my 3584

Re: Offsite volumes

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Kauffman
on the offsite volume. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Kevin Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite volumes What happens to data on offsite volumes when the time has come to expire the data from TSM

Re: TSM restore media list

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Kauffman
as airline carry-ons in international orange, with the tapes in the original plastic boxes. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: ZENG Brian (800043) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM restore media list

Re: disaster recovery question

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Kauffman
This should work -- we do much the same with our TSM server on AIX for D/R. When TSM fires up it marks all the disk pools off-line if they cannot be accessed or are not properly formated. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Kauffman
and instructed to not come back. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Pearson, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges Thank Richard, I take it that you company do

Here's an intersting event . . . Part 2 (longish)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Kauffman
their forehead into the keyboard. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you

Here's an intersting event . . .

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Kauffman
) and watch it fail -- at the same place as step 17 (but different from step 10) 23) audit volumes (all of 'em) and get no errors . . . I'll let you know what happens when I use the tsm 5.1.6.x API and TDP_R3 3.3.x (2?) tomorrow . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any

Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

2003-10-13 Thread Tom Kauffman
discount the autochangers would run about $1,300 less over the three-year life of the system, not counting administrative overhead (and the way our outfit works, salaried employees are 'free' so there is no additional administrative overhead). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From

Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

2003-10-13 Thread Tom Kauffman
Mine too -- but I'm not the one doing the cost justification. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

Re: TSM and storage pools

2003-10-08 Thread Tom Kauffman
convention helps my batch scripts (q vol stg=*copy acce=reado,readw for copy pool tapes to check out, as an example). HTH Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Brian L. Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM

Re: Tape Verification

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Kauffman
is readable/useable BEFORE it comes out of the library to go off-site? This is, to my thinking, the single biggest hole in the entire TSM functionality; I want to be able to validate that backup OR write multiple concurrent identical backups WITHIN TSM. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message

Re: TSM and DR

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Kauffman
that anything done in the last three months is of no value . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM and DR Say for a moment you're faced with recovering

Re: TSM and DR

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Kauffman
to :-) Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and DR You guys are reading into the question WAY more then need be =). It was a scenario question and all time

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Tom Kauffman
with the D/R team and tapes crashes on the way to the D/R hotsite? I can't help them on that (hint: sell!) but I can at least have a second copy to roll off-site prior to the takeoff of the D/R TEST team. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (IDS DMDS) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IP question

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Kauffman
to think about. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP question Hi gang, Found a gotcha and thought y'all would be interested in this. When we changed our

Re: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Kauffman
For what it's worth, we brought in 380 tapes with our library two years ago. They were all Fuji tapes. We haven't had any problems with them that couldn't be traced back to drive or drive firmware issues. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How have you got your fiber-attached LTO drives connected to your TSM server?

2003-09-11 Thread Tom Kauffman
hardware. I will be isolating the tape and disk to seperate HBAs. My TSM server is also my SAP DB HA fallover system, so I'll have two HBAs for SAP and two for TSM tape drives. This should keep us going until the next major server swapout two years from now. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original

How have you got your fiber-attached LTO drives connected to your TSM server?

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Kauffman
of fiber hubs in somewhere, and hook half the drives to each hub? Ah, yes, it's that wonderful time of year when the leaves start to turn -- and the next year's budget projections are due :-) Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive

Configuration question

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Kauffman
SAN backups in the near future (and if I did, the maximum drive count would be 5 as our clients are currently configured). TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you

Re: IBM is not eating their own dog food

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Kauffman
for AIX. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM is not eating their own dog food I am not asking for advice or help but want to discuss am I the only person seeing

Re: HELP! My lost TSM DB

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
I think the restore process is valid . . . but I don't know if you're going to get anywhere until you determine why the drives are missing. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HELP! My lost TSM DB

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
probably delete/define/reload time. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP! My lost TSM DB Hi folks, TSM server 5.1 on AIX 5.1 (This may a little more of an AIX

Re: 3584 Library issues

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
If you haven't already done so, stop and restart the TSM server. You may also need to run an audit library afterward. Tom Kauffman NIBCO Inc. -Original Message- From: Bradberry, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3584

Re: bACKING UP A SERVER WITH 500gb

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Kauffman
of anything that will run faster than LTO-2 that would have the capacity you need, except a big disk array. What is the nightly backup window for this file, and what type of system does it sit on? Would client-side compression be viable? Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Tim Brown

Re: copy storage pool implementation

2003-08-04 Thread Tom Kauffman
of the other systems need to be recovered 'as soon as the hardware we need to support them has arrived' -- so as soon as SAP and MS-Exchange are up, I start recovering my primary storage pools (several of which are co-located). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Zosimo

Re: 5.2 bug?

2003-07-21 Thread Tom Kauffman
FWIW -- invalid format code in the top right search box at www.ibm.com (which, in my case, resolves to www.ibm.com/us) returns what Richard describes. Note double quotes and all lower case. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc PS -- Mozilla 1.4 on MS-Win2K -Original Message- From: Jolliff, Dale

Re: Loading DR tapes into an automated library

2003-07-11 Thread Tom Kauffman
=barcode 9) Checkin libv libname search=yes status=private checklabel=barcode For 7 thru 9 to work, your library definitions need to be correct in TSM, and I'm not sure how that works in a Win2K envirnment as our TSM server is AIX. HTH -- Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From

Re: Loading DR tapes into an automated library

2003-07-11 Thread Tom Kauffman
as a primary objective for the next D/R test (a Primary Objective that we cannot make work becomes a D/R test failure that shows up in a LARGE number of reviews). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Michael Swinhoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:50 AM

Re: Recovering a TSM 4.2.1 server

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Kauffman
Quick answer to part of this -- the tsm volser doesn't include the 'L1' so you would use vol=SU3689 in the restoredb process. I'm not sure about doing a 'dsmserv display dbbackupvolume' -- never tried it. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Kauffman
abrasive, the idea is to not use them if they aren't required. I've decided to not worry about cleaning tape usage until I start seeing tape I/O errors in my logs. Tom Kauffman NIBCO Inc. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:49 AM

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Kauffman
, while others (MS-Exchange) tend to fill at 101 GB (Oracle is mostly empty, the MS-Exchange db is pre-compressed). My tapes are all 'IBM', actually OEM'd by Fuji as I understand. Based on the above -- I'd suggest getting a couple of Fuji tapes and seeing if you run into problems with them. Tom

Re: TSM on Linux poll.

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Kauffman
Linux/TSM system using older, lower-cost (Ebay, anyone?) equipment for a couple of special-purpose environments. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Deon George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM on Linux poll

Re: GIGE revisited

2003-05-30 Thread Tom Kauffman
networks); traffic does not route between any of them, and I have no problems using the gig-e for backup/restore. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (IDS DMDS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GIGE

Re: GIGE revisited

2003-05-30 Thread Tom Kauffman
generate SCHEDLOGNAME /var/adm/log/dsmsched.log SCHEDMODE prompted SCHEDLOGRETENTION 10 ERRORLOGNAME /var/adm/log/dsmerror.log ERRORLOGRETENTION 10 Thames-pri is on the private 100 Mb net and gets used for some of the other backup processes I run on the box. Tom Kauffman NIBCO

Re: Clear text passwords. Was: Automating dsmserv

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Kauffman
with google today, and adsm.org is running spotty for me as well. If someone would point me to our generally accepted common duping ground for scripts and such, I'll put Owen's original files up. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent