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
Try q act se=Process ID begind=date begint=time Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: g.solonovi...@bkme.com Please consider the environment before

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.
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 that it is working as designed. I have not had experience with false success in

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Johnny Lea
I run a script every morning to look for failed files by issuing a select statement that looks for msgno's 4005, 4007, 4018, 4037, 4042, and 4987. Johnny Huebschman, George J. gjhuebsch...@lmus.leggmason.com 10/15/2009 8:46 AM Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
We are running VSS based backups (SYSTEMSTATE, etc). Quite often there are VSS problems during backups. We are installing VSS patches, but VSS is still a source of problems. TSM Client gives normal completion in this case and event is mensioned as successfull. I have found only one way to

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Roger Deschner
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 F=D. I have written a script

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