Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-19 Thread Tribe
Roger Deschner wrote: This is always a puzzle, and the best I've come up with is the backup completion timestamps for each filespace, as reported by either: * Linemode Client QUERY FILESPACE command (This valuable information is not available in the GUI client - why?) * Server Q FILESPACE

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Gary Bowers
Probably the biggest gripes that I have against TSM. Having dealt with other Backup vendors, Tivoli is very good at batching things, but it is difficult to follow a single process, or backup for that matter through to completion. You may be used to other tools that allow you to see completion

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Boyer
Why not just look at the QUERY EVENT command. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Yudi Darmadi Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Querying status of a finished process Try this: q

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
printing this Email -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tribe Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
TSM's query events will report success even though the backup may have skipped some files that were locked or open. I think many people ignore skipped files. But when building Servergraph, we added thorough skipped-file analysis, and were surprised at what our customers found. It turns out that

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Richard Sims
Lindsay offers good advice on skipped files, and the part they play in how a backup went. Too often, sites try to evaluate backups from standpoint of the TSM server. That's unhealthy, and can result in many missed files - which come dramatically to light when a crunch occurs and restore doesn't

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Huebschman, George J.
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tribe Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However, I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation, so

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Johnny Lea
, 2009 8:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However, I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation, so here's my question: I'm using TSM 5.5 and want to run all commands

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
, George J. [gjhuebsch...@lmus.leggmason.com] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show false success for scheduled backups. I have had experience

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Roger Deschner
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show false success for scheduled backups. I have had experience with the summary table showing success for backups where the actlog shows failure. IBM tells me

Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-14 Thread Tribe
Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However, I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation, so here's my question: I'm using TSM 5.5 and want to run all commands through the dsmadmc command line. I'm backing up and restoring NAS nodes. I found ways to

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-14 Thread Yudi Darmadi
Try this: q actlog orig=client search=node_name or using select statement: SELECT START_TIME,END_TIME,ACTIVITY,ENTITY,EXAMINED,AFFECTED,FAILED,BYTES,SUCCESSFULL FROM SUMMARY WHERE ENTITY='node_name' Rgrds, Yudi Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However, I