Useunicodnames YES or NO

Hi, we have directories with accented characters in our directories names and also in file names. What should be coded in the dsm.opt, using TSM client 4.2.1.20 for W2K and TSM server 4.2.1.7? Same question using TSM server 4.1.2.4 ? Is it USEUNICODNAME YES or NO ? What are the main reasons for

Re: Netware 5.0 Critical Error

Jesse, Update Your TSA to TSAup8 availble by Novel at there website. And Don't use the base code client 4.2.1.0, check for the patch level 19 or higher. It works fine with me (nw 5.0 with sp6a) Regards Marco Sjerps UMG IT Benelux Universal International Music Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FLASH - Configuring TSM/Win2K for fibre channel LTO

A FLASH has recently been published on configuring TSM/Windows 2000 for fibre channel attached LTO library and drives. The FLASH is accessible at the Technical Support website. The URL for this FLASH is: http://w3-1.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/PubAllNum/Flash10151 Sam Giallanza.

Tape Library comparisons...

Hi guys, Do you have documents or do you know any sites regarding the comparison in terms of remote management, connectivity(FC/SCSI/Gigabit), drives (LTO), capacity, speed (access, searching, inventory), durability availability, easy for future expansion, etc. about the following libraries. -

Re: Session limiitation

Virus software takes a lot of memory and can really slow things down if it is checking the system at the time of the backup. -Original Message- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Session limiitation I

Re: shrdynamic still skips a file

Do you see messages in the log saying it retries 4 times? If not your CHANGINGRETRIES is not what you think it is. If you do see it, then they need to slow down how often they update the file or you need to put it on faster disk, faster network connection, etc so that you can save it faster.

Re: Tape backup verification

Tivoli is going to deliver Check Sum support in a future release. But, you have no way to read the tape back to verify the tape is good based on my understanding of the solution provided. The checksum is verified during the restore process or a copy from one storage pool to another. So, if you

Re: LAN Free backups

It is not in the Storage Agent. It is in the dsm.opt of the backup archive client. -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LAN Free backups Yes, the TSM Client (4.2.1.20 windows2000)

Re: LAN Free backups

On 08-Mar-02 Joe Cascanette wrote: H...Another item I will have to purchase from Tivoli. im sure my company will love me now. I heard last week that SANergy will be part of TSM, starting with TSM 5.1, which will be announced April 9th. Cheers, Henk (who can't wait)

Include.systemobjects, which TSM version ?

Hello, please tell me which version supports the new include statement INCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECTS class_name I tried using TSM server 4.2.1.7 (AIX) and TSM client 4.2.1.20 (W2K), unfortunately every system object remains bound to the DEFAULT management class ! Result: much too many inactive system

Re: Point in Time Backups

This may be totally unsuitable for your environment, but actually, I had been thinking about the properties of 'REUSEDELAY' and database backups recently, and I think maybe it could be used to create something to this effect for your customers at large; I wouldn't know how to drill it down to

Re: HSM + GPFS/HACMP

HiIf you mean running ordinary TSM HSM on a aix machine, all RS/6000 and P-Series servers supports this.However, I don't know the limitations when running HSM on a HACMP cluster environment.We're running HSM on two standalone clients, one P-Series 640, and one P-Series 610. This works very

Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback?: TDP for Solaris/EMC/Oracle, how it works

I do not know how this perception got going, but I will see if I can straighten it out. The TDP for Solaris/EMC for Oracle has nothing to do with the TSM Server OS. The TDP runs on the Solaris machine and uses either the LAN client to send the data over the network to the TSM server or the SAN

Re: Select Stmts. in TSM: Manuals

We are going to submit a requirement to Tivoli to provide a SQL Statements Manual solution. -Original Message- From: ARhoads [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Select Stmts. in TSM Holly, I use the DB2 SQL docs from the

TDP for Lotus Notes

Hi i am searching for the TDP Client for Lotus Notes. I have the lic file but i need the program. where can i download the latest update? Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified

Scheduled archive shell script returns no error, but archive script failed !

Hi Gurus ! I noticed a strange behaviour of our TSM server (v 4.1.3.0, on AIX 4.3.3) : I defined a client schedule loking like this Policy Domain Name: SP Schedule Name: SERVER_MIGRATION Description: server move 4 og. to 1 ug. Action: Command Options: Objects: /home/tsm/dsmc_archive.sh

Re: Inspecting over 200,000 objects with WinNT2000 client ( takes 8 ho urs)

Hi, we had the same problem in our WinNT (file-server Intel Pentium pro 2*200MHz) environment, but the problem was located in the LAN. In the end the switches to our HOST (OS/390) were to slow for the traffic. Since we use the OSA-channel to store to our TSM-Servers in OS/390, the aggregate

Re: Useunicodnames YES or NO

Hi René, with both the server and the client on 4.2 level, it seems that unicode gets always used (at least with new nodes). That's fine as all problems we had with national characters should be fixed now. There's a problem with displaying the filespace names in dsmadmc (q files resulted in ...

Jeroen Cromsigt/D268525/IS/DLVG is niet op zijn/haar kantoor.

Ik ben niet op kantoor vanaf 09-03-2002 tot 03-04-2002. Ik zal uw bericht doornemen wanneer ik terug ben. Voor ADSM, TSM, ESS, LTO, HSM of andere storage zaken, benader mijn collega's Luuk Kleibrink tst 020-594 2043 of Sierk Andela 020-594 2472.

Tape Library Capacity Requirement.

Please help me to calculate the require capacity of the tape library. I have 3.7 TB of data and 4 versions of Archive (with 30 days retention period) and 1 version of backup (full backup) will be implemented. How can i calculate the required capacity? Thanks for your help in advance. Zosi

Re: Select Stmts. in TSM: Manuals

On the 3rd ADSM Workshop in Karlsruhe 1998 there was a fine lecture on the SQL interface by Andy Raibeck. All handouts from this Workshop are available at http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/Uni/RZ/Dienste/ADSM/WORKSHOPS/3rd/handouts/ Andys handouts:

Re: AS/400 TSM

I wrote: Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400 backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance? Last week I heard there will be a AS/400 backupclient in TSM 5.1. Is that true Tivoli guru's? Cheers, Henk ten Have.

Re: Sybase TSM

Hello Henk, We have dozens of Sybase, Oracle and MSSQL servers. We incorporated a solution utilizing a second server with a large amount of diskspace. Then performed scheduled native SYBASE dumps and moved the dumps and transaction logs to this DB store server and performed our archives/backups

Re: Session limitation

Hi William, Apart from the normal - memory/Cpu constraints that you must stay aware of - remember that your Tsm client makes use of a netware userid to do the backups - make sure this ID can open enough sessions to support what you want from the client - so yes there IS a session limitation

Sybase TSM

Does anyone has experience with Sybase and TSM? I know there exists SQL-BackTrack for Sybase, but that seems to me quite expensive. Cheers, Henk ten Have

Re: Point in Time Backups

Hi Only difference between Tivoli and Legato/Veritas in this case is that you don't want to have to remove tapes from the library every day. It is fully possible to make, as you put it, full backups so that you can create a point-in-time backup. If you would like to be able to restore any file,

Re: Point in Time Backups

I appreciate all of the ideas that were posted on the list, and will send an update out to the group when we make our final decision on how to handle this. For those on this who think PIT restores are the answer While I certainly see the value in PIT restores and in fact use them myself, I

Re: Scheduled archive shell script returns no error, but archive script failed !

[Material deleted] But I found there was an error in our /home/tsm/dsmc_archive.sh shell script, that caused it to fail. The script looks like : dsmc archive -archmc=migartion_archive -subdir=yes -quiet -archsyml=no \ /sapmnt/T21/ dsmc archive -archmc=migration_archive -subdir=yes -quiet

Re: HSM + GPFS/HACMP

jf , We run HSM on a 53 SP node, 3 attached S7A(s) and 2 S80(s), 2 6H1(s) environment with GPFS .. + HACMP... The code is different between GPFS JFS ... If and when you decide what you want to do, I will give you this advice, when you are configuring HSM give your clients/nodes the hsm

Re: HSM + GPFS/HACMP

Hi I also use prefixes, even for TDP:s such as NODENAME_SQL and so on. This to keep track of filespaces, which nodes that are running backups and so on. Also use _HSM for prefix for HSM clients. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm

Re: HSM + GPFS/HACMP

We run HSM on a 53 SP node, 3 attached S7A(s) and 2 S80(s), 2 6H1(s) environment with GPFS .. + HACMP... The special thing about our configuration is that we run GPFS with HACMP instead of GPFS with PSSP. The installation scripts for the HSM client for GPFS expects some PSSP tools (and

Re: AS/400 TSM

Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400 backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance? Last week I heard there will be a AS/400 backupclient in TSM 5.1. Is that true Tivoli guru's? This is not true. We are planning for a 4.2.1 level of

Re: MVS SMF Records

I have received responses and help from various list members. They have pointed me in the correct directions for SMF analysis. Thank you all for your time. - Forwarded by Keene R. Hallenbeck/BHNSM/ISHSG/DIVADMIN/DOH on 03/11/02 11:00 AM - Keene R.

Re: Include.systemobjects, which TSM version ?

Hello Rene, with your level of server client, you should be fine. However, the syntax of the include statement needs to be corrected. You are missing the all keyword, i.e, INCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECTS ALL class_name That should work. Regards,

Re: Sybase TSM

Hi, Having used both flat files for dumps and SQL-back track, I prefer to use files. What I mean is I dump the database to files first, then backup the files to TSM. This is what I do: DUMPTIME=`date +%d%b%Y.%H:%M` DUMPNAME=$DEVNAME/$SERVER.$DATABASE.$DUMPTIME $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin/isql -X

Re: HSM + GPFS/HACMP

Yep, PSSP 3.2 Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza Jan-Frode MyklebustTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AS/400 TSM

THERE IS a TSM client for AS/400! You can configure BRMS/400 to backup to TSM server instead to drive the tape. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: TDP for Lotus Notes

Hi i am searching for the TDP Client for Lotus Notes. I have the lic file but i need the program. where can i download the latest update? Petur, I assume you are asking about TDP for Lotus Notes and not TDP for Lotus Domino... (TDP for Lotus Notes works with Domino R4 and TDP for Lotus

Re: AS/400 TSM

Hank, I don't know what TSM 5.1 will bring but for now you have to either use Robot/Save (3rd party) or BRMS. Robot/Save will require enough local disk space to backup the system to disk before it send it to TSM (you might be able to do some break-down but we couldn't see a way on the

Slow Reclamation from disk

I have old TSM server 3.7.4.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with 3575-L32 library with C-XL drives. New server is TSM 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 ML09 and IBM 3584-L32 library with 8 FC-AL drives. Having the 3584 running for about 6 weeks now, I see what some of the talk about slownes in the last year actually is. On

Re: AS/400 TSM

Here is a little information that I had sent to someone else. As far as the AS400 to TSM backups, I feel that it works if you can through the hardware (from the AS/400 side) at it. Attached is timings from last night. This will give you an idea of how long transfer times are. All of the

IBM Director TSM

Anyone backing up IBM Director. We are getting the following files in use during backup. IBM support isn't any help what these are used for and if they can be excluded from the backup... esntevt.dat netdom.ini netnodes.ini wayne This message and any included attachments are from NOVANT

Re: Slow Reclamation from disk

Hi How is your diskpool configured? Is it placed locally on the machine, or is it SAN attached? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51

Re: Slow Reclamation from disk

Yep, it is a design flaw! Apar IC15925 describes this issue. ERROR DESCRIPTION During an offsite reclamation process; where files are being transfered from disk to tape. ADSM fails to group the files together into transaction

Re: Slow Reclamation from disk

That's it, alright! That APAR was from ADSM 2.1 closed in July 1997!! I guess the fix is on the back burner. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/11/02 11:33AM Yep, it is a design flaw! Apar IC15925 describes this issue.

Question about include.exclude.

If an include/exclude file points to a management class that does not exisit and the file uses the default management class, what happens when the correct management class is put in the include/exclude file ? Does the file get rebound to the new management class ? Thanks in advance. Jason

Re: Slow Reclamation from disk

We went round-and-round with Tivoli on this issue. They say it's working as designed. Here's what's happening... When the location of a file is on DISK which is RANDOM access, then TSM processes the files ONE AT A TIME instead of batching them together like on SEQuential media. We first

Re: Sybase TSM

Yes, I have SQL-BT 4.2.00 with OBSI 2.5.00 on an AIX client with Sybase ASE 12.0. Have nearly 15GB database and growing. Have had SQL-BT for about one year. Backups work fine, haven't had to do a restore yet. Had some minor problems initially setting it up, lot's of config steps. But when you

Re: AIX client fails direct to tape backup

I think it was introduced in the 3.7 server. Depends on server level, not client level though; I've still got some WinNT clients running 3.1.0.6, and they have MAXNUMMP set (although as I recall there was an issue when I first moved to that server level, that clients which had NEVER had their

Retrieving archives from directory that became to be a mount point.

Hello List - I have problem with retrieving archives from directory that became to be a mount point. I can see my files when I use QUERY ARCHIVE command like this: tsmq archive /opt/*/IMAGUI-100*.tar.Z Size Archive Date - TimeFile - Expires on - Description

TSM to backup windows

Hello there, Can anyone give me advice on which command to use to logout active users from Windows or W2K ? Some users left their Windows application connected, so backup job fail. I would like to issue a command to force a logout of these users before a backup job. Don't need to worry about

Performance problems when upgrading AIX 4.3.3

Hi, We are runnning TSM version 4.1.3.0 on AIX 4.3.3. When we upgraded AIX to maintenance level 9, we started experiencing severe performance problems when running the normal TSM backups. We then applied the following additional upgrades to AIX, but it did not help. If anyone has any

TDP for Domino

Yesterday, I converted one of my Domino server from an NT 4.0 to a Windows 2000 Advanced server. I have 3 schedules setup for doing a log backup, incremental back, and inactivate log files. These three schedules are setup in the services to automatically start when Windows starts. I notice

SAN , fibre drives

Hi Can someone pls tell me , how this works first and foremost If I have 2 fibre drives connected to SAN via fibre switch does this mean, these fibre drives will be recognized as local drives to the client server? Please let me know Thanks This e-mail may

Re: Slow Reclamation from disk

That's it, alright! That APAR was from ADSM 2.1 closed in July 1997!! I guess the fix is on the back burner. I know it's not Friday, but this is even funnier then all the I'm not here in about 8 languages;-) Cheers, Henk.

Re: AS/400 TSM

Steffan, I don't know what TSM 5.1 will bring but for now you have to either use Robot/Save (3rd party) or BRMS. Robot/Save will require enough local disk space to backup the system to disk before it send it to TSM (you might be able to do some break-down but we couldn't see a way on the

Re: Sybase TSM

At 07:42 PM 3/11/2002 +0100, you wrote: I also got a letter from BMC saying the Sybase support is going up some ridiculous amount like 30%. Well, that's good knews too, I mean, good to know. Another reason not to start with SQL-back track Thanks! Cheers, Henk. On the

Clientoption Sets not binding proberly to a management class

Hello, I'm having trouble using client option sets. I want to bind all files in the /web/prod/web_logs directory on a unix server to a specific management class called 8YR_CLASS. When I do a backup all Directories are binding to this 8YR_CLASS but the files are going to the default mgm class. I

Re: TSM server buffering client IP address ?

Arnaud, Yes, the server does remember the last address the client accessed it from. After you change the client address, and reboot the client to make sure the new address is firm, you want to run some query like dsmc q sched or dsmc q ses to make the most recent contact come from the new

Re: Point in Time Backups

Dave, I am puzzled, but willing to learn--Why do you say that backupsets and archiving are not viable ways of doing PIT backups? Backupsets are more oriented to a PIT restore, but they do provide a snapshot of what the active files are at a given time. And archives seem like the arch-typical PIT

Re: with AIX TSM 4.1 can you reset maxsessions without bouncing t sm

From admin command line: setopt maxsession #_of_sessions No server cycle needed! :-) Check with 'q opt' - Tom Walker Technical Supprt Analyst EMI Recorded Music, NA -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:40 AM To:

Re: SAN , fibre drives

so basically, any other backup tool, besides TSM agent will attempt a backup on the client server? -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SAN , fibre drives Hi Yes,

Re: IBM Director TSM

I don't know about esntevt.dat, but netdom.ini and netnodes.ini contain the groups and systems you have defined. How easily you can recreate these definitions would determine your need to back them up. John Johnson IBM Global Services - WMI Spearman, Wayne

RESOURCEUTILIZATION - NT client 4.1.2.12

Has anyone experienced greater backup throughput by setting the RESOURCUTILIZATION parameter greater than the default value on an NT CLIENT? When you increase the resourceutilization on a client, are there any server settings that need changed as well? TSM Environment information: AIX SERVER -

Re: LAN Free backups

I do not believe that is the case... -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Henk

Re: check the tape integrity

Check the audit volume command. I do audit volumes on any tape volume that hasn't been mounted in 60 days, unless of course it is offsite. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System

Re: Point in Time Backups

How about month-end exports? You can keep them for as long as you need, but there is the extra step of re-importing them to be able to restore from them. When I'm confronted by someone trying to do a traditional full-incremental-incremental scheme with TSM, explain how TSM works, starting out

Re: how does TSM / sql backtrack use management classes?

We have a management class called SQLBACKTRACK and the copy class has the following attributes: vere=nolimit verd=0 rete=nolim reto=0 In the include/exclude file we point the SQL Backtrack backup to the management class: include /BACKTRACK:*/.../* sqlbacktrack In

Re: Point in Time Backups

Duane, I have a similar year end problem. Here's how I handle it. I have a dedicated data path through my system consisting of a little HP 418 DLT autoloader. I have a special year-end management class that points to it. When the end-of-year files are ready for backup, I archive them to the

Re: Point in Time Backups

Here's a thought. What if evey month you were to rename the filespaces of a node to a name containing the month? e.g /data becomes /Feb02_data on 1 Feb. Then, the next incremental would be a full on the /data filespace. Delete the renamed filespace whenever the appropriate retention period

Re: Useunicodnames YES or NO

Hi Michael and Rene, USEUNICODEFILENAMES, while aptly named for what it does internally, is not very well named for what it is intended for. Perhaps a better name would have been ENABLEMACFILESUPPORT, or something like that... :-) From DOC APAR IC30744, which better describes the purpose of

Informix API 3.7.1

Hi all *SM's, I need some help please. We are running TSM Server 4.2.1.6 with TSM Client 4.2.1.0 and API 3.7.1.0 on aix 4.3.3.0. We have successfully been backup up the Informix Database (Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC7) until last Sunday when I received the message 10-03-2002

Re: Tape Library Capacity Requirement.

hi daniel, currently we're using ADSM 3.1 and IBM 3494 TL, we're planning to upgrade or change the backup tape library solution, so, we're still evaluating the solution. we selected 3 backup solutions from the list (TSM, LEGATO, VERITAS)with there own proposed tape library. Since, we have that

Re: SAN , fibre drives

Yes, if they have a zone configuration that allows them to be seen by the client server. -Original Message- From: Selva, Perpetua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAN , fibre drives Hi Can someone pls tell me , how this

Re: LAN Free backups

This was not what was presented at Share. I believe Joshua is correct. -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LAN Free backups I do not believe that is the case... -- Joshua S. Bassi

Re: Useunicodnames YES or NO

Andy, I am not so sure about MAC only use of the parameter. Under TSM server 4.1, we had serious problem restoring NT directories with accented letters in their names. Problem was solved coding USEUNICODEFILENAMES NO in the dsm.opt's ! Thanks for your explanation anyway. René Lambelet

Re: Question about include.exclude.

Yes, if it is still an active file (both active and inactive versions will be rebound). Inactive (deleted) files do not get rebound. -Original Message- From: Jason Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about