Re: Using subfile backup for specific filetypes ?

2004-04-29 Thread TSM_User
Remember that the include exclude list is read from the bottom up. So based on what you typed the include for subfile backup would not happen. The order should be as follows: Domain D: SubFileBackup Yes Exclude * Include d:\MyFolder\...\* exclude.subfile d:\MyFolder\...\* Include.subfile

AW: Scheduler fails on Windows 2000 and 2003 without a message

2004-04-29 Thread Christian Wadl
Hello, I would also try to bring the scheduler in controll of a client acceptor deamon, so that its restarted as needed, if it runs all the time, sometimes it happens that it hang up... reg Chris ---Disclaimer--- The information in this email is for the confidential use of the individual(s)

AIX 64 bit und TSM 32 bit

2004-04-29 Thread Karin Dambacher
Hello we have AIX 5.1 32 bit installed on the TSM server machine (TSM 5.2.2 32 bit). We want to update AIX to 64 bit version. Does this affect TSM or can I run the same version as before? Thanks and best regards, Karin Diese e-Mail einschließlich ihrer Anhänge ist vertraulich. Wir bitten, eine

AW: SuperFiles

2004-04-29 Thread Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
Hi, we use a two-step approach to get this information. After all data has been backed up and migrated to tape we check the contents of this tapes. 1) Get a list of tapes used during the last backup. You should change the start and end time and the names of the tape storage pools. 2) Scan this

Antwort: AW: Scheduler fails on Windows 2000 and 2003 without a message

2004-04-29 Thread Karin Dambacher
Hello Christian and how to install? Regards, Karin |-+ | | Christian Wadl | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | HELLO.AT| | | Gesendet von:| | | ADSM: Dist Stor

LANFree and Microsoft Clusters

2004-04-29 Thread Bill Boyer
I just got a client that will have a SQLServer running in active/active mode and they want to be able to run the TDP agent LANFree. Has anyone done this before? How do you make sure that the drive mappings are the same on each node of the cluster? The hardward platform is IBM x440 servers with

Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter

2004-04-29 Thread Bill Boyer
Just got a new client that wants to do some LANfree backups, but they don't believe me when I tell them that the recommended way is to have a separate HBA for disk and tape. They don't think that mixing the 2 will be a performance issue. I remember a couple years ago this was an issue of data

Re: Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter

2004-04-29 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Bill Just check out the readme-files that comes with the patch/maintenance package. It clearly states that Tivoli recommends connecting the tape drives on separate adapters from the disk. From the readme-file of the TSM StorageAgent for SUN v5.2.1.3

Re: Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter

2004-04-29 Thread Richard Sims
Just check out the readme-files that comes with the patch/maintenance package. It clearly states that Tivoli recommends connecting the tape drives on separate adapters from the disk. Just to add reinforcement to Daniel's fine reference: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21110140

Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Lars-Erik Öhman
Evironment: Server OS: Windows 2000 TSM ver: 5.1.7.0 I have an old tape that was used for a database backup once, that I want to make a scratch tape of, but it wont work. Can anyone help me with this? There is no problem if I do it on another tape. q libvol LB6194ABCL1

Re: Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Hi, Try a DELETE VOLHISTORY TODATE=TODAY-(X days) TYPE=DBBACKUP //Henrik Lars-Erik Öhman

Re: Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
for the data tapes try: delete volume vol_name discarddata=yes once you do that then try to re-label the tape for scratch again. for the dbbackup tapes you'll have to delete volhistory on it. thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein |-+ | |

Re: Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Richard Sims
I have an old tape that was used for a database backup once, that I want to make a scratch tape of, but it wont work. ... As the ANR8443E msg description stipulates, you can't simply change the status of a volume, when it contains TSM data: you have to do something about that data. DbBackup

Re: Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi According to the information you have supplied, it looks like this is the only database backup that you have. Is this correct? There can be multiple reasons to why you cannot delete a database backup volume from the volume history: 1. The database is the last database backup that you

Re: DRM Procedures

2004-04-29 Thread David Benigni
Steve, Our Tivoli setup was actually done by an outside group. Here is how it is currently run: backup clients to disk where possible tape where not backup diskpools to copypool backup tapepools to copypool migrate disk to tape. backup DB expire inventory The problem with this is that what

Re: Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter

2004-04-29 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
Hi, No whitepapers or the like, just experience: we are running a RS/6k with 4 HBA's with mixed disk and tape. Each ESS disk runs through each HBA (e.g. each vpath has 4 hdisks). Each HBA also runs 2 LTO-1 drives from a 3584 library. This setup is running for over 4 years now without any

Changes in authentication method for web client 5.2 ?

2004-04-29 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi list, On previous versions of TSM I used to create new nodes specifying none in User ID for remote Access field, to avoid polluting the server with lots of administrators, and had the possibility using the node_name and it's password for authenticating during web based backup or restore

Re: Help on Tdpsql command

2004-04-29 Thread Del Hoobler
Robert, Your question is slightly confusing... but I think you are asking if there is a way to query full backups for a certain date. The answer is no. If this is something you need, you could most likely write some TSM Server SQL queries to get access to that information. If you are asking a

Re: DRM Procedures

2004-04-29 Thread Johnson, Milton
Dave, If you make a slight change in order you should solve your problem: 1) backup clients to disk where possible, tape where not 2) backup diskpools to copypool 3) backup tapepools to copypool 4) backup DB to tape *NOTE: At this point ALL of your data has been copied to your copypool and

Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Anyone looking at Cristie BMR for Linux? If so, what do you think? If not, what are you doing for Linux BMR? David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread Graham Stewart
We're using MKCDREC http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/ It suits our purposes (identical Dell Servers running RedHat) well. It creates an .iso file which can be written to a bootable recovery CD containing compressed copies of the filesystems you specify. Filesystems are rebuilt by scripts run during

Re: Select Commands

2004-04-29 Thread David E Ehresman
grep your accounting log for the nodes you are interested in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/28/2004 7:21:13 AM Does anyone know a select command to pull out how much data was backed for an individual Node for that night. Yea I know you look at logs and find it but it would be much easier to setup a

V5.2.2 Server for Windows, missing the CHM files for online Documentation

2004-04-29 Thread Mark D. Rodriguez
Hi, I just upgraded from ITSM Server V5.1.8 to V5.2.2 and during the process it seems I lost (or actually did not get) the files needed for the online documentation. I looked in the doc directory and only found the .chm files for the BA client. BTW, I did upgrade the client code and it updated

Re: V5.2.2 Server for Windows, missing the CHM files for online Documentation

2004-04-29 Thread Richard Sims
I just upgraded from ITSM Server V5.1.8 to V5.2.2 and during the process it seems I lost (or actually did not get) the files needed for the online documentation. I looked in the doc directory and only found the .chm files for the BA client. BTW, I did upgrade the client code and it updated the

Re: AW: SuperFiles

2004-04-29 Thread Mark D. Rodriguez
Hi, I might try a different approach. You could just use the MAXSize parameter. You would have to set a couple of admin scripts up that would change your NEXTstgpool so that when you do migration it would point to where you really want to migrate to. The when not migrating, i.e. when

Re: Antwort: Re: Scheduler fails on Windows 2000 and 2003 without a message

2004-04-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Karin, OK, so journal based backup is in the picture. That adds a whole new dimension to your situation. I would recommend that you have a look at the Journal Based Backup FAQ on the IBM web site, http://www.ibm.com. Also make sure your client levels are current (5.2.2.9 is the latest), as

Re: DSM.opt vs CLOPT

2004-04-29 Thread Prather, Wanda
We put everything that is common to a group of clients in a cloptset on the TSM server, just because its easier to manage if you have only 1 copy and don't have to physically visit the clients. Things that are unique to one particular machine, go with that machine. Just that simple.

Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Jay Cee
Hi Folks, I have changed the Migration Destination on a Management Class to a new pool, but the backup continues to go to the old pool. I tried changing the client's MC to something else and then back, and I have even rebooted the client with no luck. (AIX server, Windows NT client). How can

Log pinned again - right now!

2004-04-29 Thread Roger Deschner
My log is pinned again, as I type. It's only 38% full, and not filling up all that quickly, so I have the luxury of time to poke around and figure out why this is happening. (No steaks on the grill...) SHOW LOGPIN indicates a Windows XP client backup session that appears to have been hung for

Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread Otto Schakenbos
we use a bootable linux cd (a customized superrescue cd) with a tsm client installed.. After booting you create the filesystems by hand using fdisk and mkyourfavoritefilesystem, mount, then start the restore from the tsm server. After this is done you have to install the bootloader and create a

Re: Database and log format question.

2004-04-29 Thread Andy Carlson
You are correct, there is no log information. What is happening is, as someone here surmised, the DB is being formatted. I normally get messages while it is formatting, if I remember right, but it does take a long time. I am on AIX though, not Windows. Andy Carlson On Wed, 28 Apr 2004,

Re: DRM Procedures

2004-04-29 Thread David Benigni
I just updated our scripts to reorder the functions. I'll see in the morning how it goes. Thanks for help! Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/29/2004 10:33:17 AM Dave, If you make a slight change in order you should solve your problem: 1) backup clients to disk where possible, tape where not 2)

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Prather, Wanda
Did you remember to ACTIVATE the policy set for the management class after you changed the migration destination? -Original Message- From: Jay Cee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing Migration Destination target pool

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Ben Bullock
Migration destination is only for HSM managed files. If you are hoping to change the location of where the backup or the archive data goes, you need to change the destination on the copygroup. If you are using the web GUI, drill down into the management class to the backup and

DSN-Less Connection String for TSM ODBC

2004-04-29 Thread Peter L. Buschman
Subject line says it all... anybody know how to properly format a connection string for use with the TSM ODBC driver so that you don't need to create a DSN beforehand? --PLB

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Richard Sims
I have changed the Migration Destination on a Management Class to a new pool, but the backup continues to go to the old pool. ... You changed policy values... Did you also do VALidate POlicyset and ACTivate POlicyset? Richard Sims

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Thomas Denier
I have changed the Migration Destination on a Management Class to a new pool, but the backup continues to go to the old pool. I tried changing the client's MC to something else and then back, and I have even rebooted the client with no luck. (AIX server, Windows NT client). How can I get the

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Jay Cee
Did you remember to ACTIVATE the policy set for the management class after you changed the migration destination? Yes, the pool I want is displayed in the Migration Destination of the STANDARD ACTIVE xx-MC. This is the same MC that the client's Include-Exclude screen points to, but

Read block size discrepancy between LV image and B/A client backups

2004-04-29 Thread Ted Byrne
AIX client v. 5.1.5.5 AIX server v. 5.1.8.0 AIX version 5.2.0.0 We have a customer who is experiencing discrepancies in performance between large-file cold backups of Oracle data and LV image backups, both sent over the SAN to LTO-2 tape drives. On the lv image backups, they are getting about 70

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Ben Bullock Migration destination is only for HSM managed files. If you are hoping to change the location of where the backup or the archive data goes, you need to change the destination on the copygroup. If you are using the web GUI,

Can you compress some things and not compress other things?

2004-04-29 Thread Debi Randolph
TSMer's I have a remote Windows 2000 client that contains a large number of Images that grow with compression and a large database dump that really needs to be compressed. I'm currently running the backup without compression because it never completes with the images attempting to compress, and

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Jay Cee
I am new to TSM and did not phrase my post quite right... The Copy Destination was changed in the Copy Group, then the policy set was Validated and then Activated. received message: Policy set STANDARD activated in policy domain STANDARD. It now looks like this: Backup Copy Groups : STANDARD

Re: Changing Migration Destination target pool

2004-04-29 Thread Ben Bullock
Rats, just when I thought I got a question right :-) How about this? When you change the setting of where the data goes to, it will only impact the backup of any ~new~ data. The old data that was already backed up to that storagepool will remain in that old pool, only

Network config issues

2004-04-29 Thread Steve Harris
A question for all you network gurus. I don't really understand all this modern network stuff ( - ah SNA - there was a technology I could grok :) ) So apologies if I make any obvious mistakes. Our main data centre has just growed over the years. Currently each application has more or less