AW: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-13 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
Hello Christian and Phil, I also would be very interested in your procedures. Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373

TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape...

2004-02-13 Thread Niklas Lundstrom
Hello I've been running a backup of a SQL server db but I took too long so I increased the stripe-parameter to 2 so it would utilize 2 sessions and 2 tape drives for the backup. However when the backup starts both sessions wants to write to the same volume, leaving one of the session in a

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The idea of moving off of OS/390 is because we are taking too much CPU and weekly IPLs. Why weekly ipls? One of the big advantages of mainframe technology is that ipls are (should be) infrequent If your TSM is in a sharing lpar the TSM dispatching priority can be set so

AW: Bare Metal Restore Intel [Virus checked]

2004-02-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Thanks Phill! Question to restoration step #1: Ensure server has same name and IP details as the live server But it should not be a member of the original domain at this time, correct? best regards Juraj Salak

Re: TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape...

2004-02-13 Thread goran
if its same node with collocation turned on it might be max mount points value that should be increased (im not sure if this is aplicable for SQL TDP) goran. - Original Message - From: Niklas Lundstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:04 AM

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel [Virus checked]

2004-02-13 Thread Phil Jones
Gooday Krzysztof, this is an abridged version of our official doc: (See attached file: Win2K DR Bare Metal Restore abridged.doc) It has been tested from Dell to IBM and vice versa and works ok, you may have to run a Win2k install\repair at the end if all else fails. Hope it helps Phil

SV: TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape...

2004-02-13 Thread Niklas Lundstrom
Hello No problems with moutpoints ,and the pool is collocated. Perhaps I should change it to collocate by filespace instead. Thats sounds like a solution actually /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För goran Skickat: den 13

TSM showing 2 tapes in one drive...?

2004-02-13 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
We are having lots of problems with LTO1 drives across a SAN, one particular strange thing I have seen is the following with a q mo; ANR8330I LTO volume PH0492 is mounted R/W in drive DRIVE06 (/dev/rmt14), status: IN USE. ANR8330I LTO volume PH0494 is mounted R/W in drive DRIVE04 (/dev/rmt13),

Re: TSM showing 2 tapes in one drive...?

2004-02-13 Thread goran
maybe misconfigured home element addresses in tape paths configuration ? check them out ! have you been having problems with switches ? goran. - Original Message - From: Warren, Matthew (Retail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:20 PM Subject:

Re: TSM showing 2 tapes in one drive...?

2004-02-13 Thread Hooft, Jeroen
We encountered this before, also in a san-environment. (TSM 5.1.1.0) ANR8330I 3590 volume DCE142 is mounted R/W in drive V2_3590E1A_13_AD471 (/dev/rmt3), status: IN USE. ANR8330I 3590 volume DCE208 is mounted R/W in drive V2_3590E1A_13_AD471 (/dev/rmt3), status: IN USE. With query drive f=d or

Re: TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape...

2004-02-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Niklas, Goran is correct. You need to make sure that MAXNUMMP for the NODENAME you are using for your SQL backups is set to at least to the number of stripes you are using. Also, turning on collocation by filespace will ensure that data for different stripes remains on different tapes so that

Re: Solaris backup performance

2004-02-13 Thread Stapleton, Mark
There has been a lot of discussion in the last year on this mailing list about using raw LVs vs. mounted filesystems, both for the Solaris TSM server and Solaris TSM client. Also, check your routing tables. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message-

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-13 Thread Claudio Almeida
Hi all One best difference of TSM running on OS/390 or Z/OS is that his cpu hungry. Use WLM giving a fraction number of SRU service units and all will be good. Claudio Almeida Favor responder a ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado Por: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL

Re: TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape...

2004-02-13 Thread goran
thank you - Original Message - From: Del Hoobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: Re: TDP SQL sessions wants to write to same tape... Niklas, Goran is correct. You need to make sure that MAXNUMMP for the NODENAME you are using for

Server schedmode query

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
All our backups should run schedmode prompted. OS390 2 10 server runningTSM 4.2.4 Two problem Winnt 5.0 clients running TSM 4.2.3 Every night the scheduled backup kicks in as per normal for both clients, but in both cases an earlier unscheduled backup is already running. Both clients have

TSM archive behaviour

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas Eifert
Hello, I'm currently trying to convince the TSM developers of adding a different behaviour to the archive functionality. We intend to use our TSM environment not only for backup purposes, but also for archival. Archiving, from our point of view, is a user centric service that should enable the

adsm restore problem

2004-02-13 Thread Roland Priest
we have a problem restore a back from adsm this morning the is using adms the gig card.. root su - sbl2008v db2 restore db db2008v use adsm. ( into db2008v redirect) this error we get SQL2032N The 14 parameter is not valid. what does this mean thanks Roland Priest

ODP: adsm restore problem

2004-02-13 Thread Sebastian Szumczyk
use tsm instead adsm -Wiadomo oryginalna- Od: Roland Priest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wysano: 13 lutego 2004 14:41 Do: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Temat: adsm restore problem we have a problem restore a back from adsm this morning the is using adms the gig card.. root su - sbl2008v db2 restore

Re: Help!! dsmserv.dsk not readable

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Sims
I am running Windows 2K cluster, TSM 4.2. Early yesterday morning the server crashed and would not start (on either node of the cluster). When I try and start it manually I get: ANR0212E. Unable to read disk definition file: dsmserv.dsk ... The reason for the crash may be spilling over into

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
I use the following shell script function to wail until the number of backup processes are down to a specified number: # # waitonbkp function - waits until fewer than $maxconcurrent # bkps are running; # checks after 15 seconds then every 5

Re: ODP: adsm restore problem

2004-02-13 Thread Roland Priest
does not work.. Roland Priest AIX Administrator email [EMAIL PROTECTED] office 856-489-4255 office 1800-767-5822 ext.4255 Cell 856-296-6086 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/04 08:46AM use tsm instead adsm -Wiadomosc oryginalna- Od: Roland Priest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wyslano: 13 lutego

Re: linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-13 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
I thought the BA was required, and I'm not sure why the download site has the API, but not the BA. Can I use the x86 BA with the 64-bit API? Will that work on a RHEL3 AMD64 machine? Thanks, Alex On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: That has only TIVsm-API.x86_64.rpm. Still doesn't

Re: TSM Gui

2004-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Does the userid running the GUI have the same authorization level as the CLI that did the archive? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2004 11:17:56 AM I'm running TSM 5.1.6 client on W2K. TSM Server is v5.1.1.6 running on Unix. I have archives running command line on the client. When I try to retrieve

Re: TSM Gui

2004-02-13 Thread Eddie Jones
Make sure the gui is using the same option file. Eddie Jones 770-953-1959 ext.2824 The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: ODP: adsm restore problem

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Sims
we have a problem restore a back from adsm this morning the is using adms the gig card.. root su - sbl2008v db2 restore db db2008v use adsm. ( into db2008v redirect) this error we get SQL2032N The 14 parameter is not valid. what does this mean It will help us help you

Re: TSM Disaster Recovery Testing

2004-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Run the DRM command, prepare Then look at its output. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2004 7:45:36 PM We are in the process of setting up to do a test of our disaster recovery server. does anyone out there know what I run to find out what tapes I would need to restore a specific server? we

ESS model 27

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
People, Environment Z/os 1.4 TSM 5.1.6 We will be moving our TSM server environment from ESS F20s (18 gb disks) to ESS 800s (146gb disks) in the near future Currently I have 99 addresses, all emulating 3390-3 disks that provide for database volumes, recovery logs and storage pools. With the

Here is MS article on controlling .pst lock time OUTLOOK 2000

2004-02-13 Thread MC Matt Cooper (2838)
I received this in response to a question to IBM on possible solutions. I did not know that MS had published this. It applies to OUTLOOK 2000. We are currently working with MS on getting this to work with OUTLOOK 2003. Currently in our environment OUTLOOK 2003 NEVER lets go of the .pst files. I

exclude questions

2004-02-13 Thread Wholey, Joseph (IDS DMDS)
Why, in the Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide v5.2 for Unix does it recommend having the following as a minimum in the backup.excl file. exclude /unix/yet to come across a directory called unix on solaris, aix or linux.. so what do these two unix

mountlimit=drives

2004-02-13 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: Sessions and processes seem to be sinlge threading using a single drive in a 4 drive library. the dev is set to mountlimit=drive. anyone know what else might cause this bottleneck? As shown below, library with 4 drives only shows a mount waiting on a volume when another is dismounting. tsm:

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2004-02-13 Thread Amar Vibhute
Greetings! Anybody have piece of information on compatibility of NS600 backups on TSM 5.1?

Solaris 8 client dsm.sys file question.

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Bullock
Folks, I was looking through our documentation and I find that I have not documented a good example of what a dsm.sys file for a Solaris client should be. It looks like on our systems our txnbytelimit, tcpbuffsize tcpwindowsize are all over the board. Anybody have a good

IC27346 and message ANS4018E

2004-02-13 Thread Bill Boyer
Windows 2000 5.2.2.0 client Windows 2000 TSM server 5.2.1.2 During the backup of a network attached drive, we see ANS4018E messages in the error log on the client. Looking in the help and the latest Messages manual doesn't show this message. Searching on IBM only gave me 3 hits that were old.

Re: ESS model 27

2004-02-13 Thread David Nicholson
Hi John, I can't give you specific TSM mod 27 experience, but we use mod27's heavily on our 800 for DB2 and it screams. No performance problems, but you should know we are using dynamic PAV's. I would have no hesitation using mod27's for about anything. Dave Nicholson John Naylor

TSM Server 4.2.2.10 from AIX 4.3 to TSM Server 5.2 on SUN Solaris 9

2004-02-13 Thread Juan Jose Reale
Hello I need to know how to migrate TSM Server 4.2.2.10 from AIX Operating System to TSM server 5.2 on Sun Solaris 9 Operating System. We currently have TSM Server 4.2.2.10 (32 bit) on AIX 4.3. I believe we should do the migrate from TSM server AIX to Sun Solaris first, then go from TSM

LAN free backup giving timeout error on drive

2004-02-13 Thread bab
I have 3584 library on one client window 2000(TDP for SAL)is configured on lan free,sometimes I am getting these errors on actlog: 2/11/04 21:30:37 ANR0408I Session 440 started for server STORAGESQL (Windows) (Tcp/Ip) for library sharing.

Re: TSM Server 4.2.2.10 from AIX 4.3 to TSM Server 5.2 on SUN Solaris 9

2004-02-13 Thread Douglas Currell
About a year ago I was involved in moving a 40GB TSM database from AIX 4.3 to Solaris 8. The first thing that we did was upgrade the TSM on the AIX box to the, then, current TSM version which was 5.1. A server-to-server export would have taken, quite literally, months. So the previous the

Re: IC27346 and message ANS4018E

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Sims
During the backup of a network attached drive, we see ANS4018E messages in the error log on the client. Looking in the help and the latest Messages manual doesn't show this message. ... Bill - You must not be using a Macintosh workstation... ;-) The msg is in the 5.2 Messages manual that I'm

Re: Solaris backup performance

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Bullock
Bill, It sounds like we are fighting a similar problem. We upgraded the last of our TSM servers from AIX4.3.3/TSM5.1.1.0 to AIX5.2ML2/TSM5.2.1.3 on Tuesday. This TSM server has the largest load of our servers. Both the TSM server and this particular client have GB interfaces (the

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-13 Thread asr
= In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2004 10:37:15 AM I would like to run two different backup stgpools and check every so often, if there is only one process running start another backup stgpool. When all my storage ppols are

Tape mount failures result in schedule failure

2004-02-13 Thread Zhu, David
Hi, The environment is TSM/StorageAgent/Win2000 5.2.2, IBM 3584 LTO library. Activity log indicate that session 237 failed to mount a tape volume 293AGHL2 in drive mt3.0.0.3, showing repeated ANR8779E (Session: 237, Origin: SP02B_STA) Unable to open drive mt3.0.0.3, error number=2. (SESSION:

data move question

2004-02-13 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
TSM 5.1.6.5 server on windows 2K server SP4. Adaptec 29160 controller. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 X LTO-2 SCSI drives. 31 LTO2 tapes. One of our drives, MT1.0.0.3, keeps going offline with the following error: 02/13/2004 12:00:39 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive MT1.0.0.3

Performance Comparison of JFS vs RAW STGPools

2004-02-13 Thread Amar Vibhute
Greetings! Does anybody have Stgpool bigger than 4TB? If so how is it laid out? Amar

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-13 Thread Forrest Payne
In order to restore Win2K or Windows 2003 you have to know about the In-Place Upgrade process. This is run when you boot from an Install CD and then pick the Repair option that is after you press F8 to accept the license agreement. This is very important because if you pick Repair before the

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Why not just kick off all the work you need to do? Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for restores and/or ad hoc backups.

Re: data move question

2004-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Leave MT1.0.0.3 offline and reissued the move data. It will then have to pick another drive to try the mount. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/13/2004 2:14:14 PM TSM 5.1.6.5 server on windows 2K server SP4. Adaptec 29160 controller. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 X LTO-2 SCSI drives. 31 LTO2 tapes. One of our

9940B drive performance question

2004-02-13 Thread TSM_User
We are implementing some 9940B drives and have just begun testing. I was wondering if anyone might share what speeds they are seeing in MB/s or GB/hr for large file backups directly to tape and tape to tape transfers of large files? We are hoping to see 85 - 90 GB/hr or better when backing up

Re: 9940B drive performance question

2004-02-13 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering if anyone might share what speeds they are seeing in MB/s or GB/hr for large file backups directly to tape and tape to tape transfers of large files? We are hoping to see 85 - 90 GB/hr or better when backing up

Re: 9940B drive performance question

2004-02-13 Thread TSM_User
No, the Data transfer rate for 9940B uncompressed is 30 MB/s or ~105 GB/hr. The Data transfer rate compressed is 70 MB/s or ~ 246 GB/hr. See http://www.storagetek.com/products/product_page38.html#specifications if you have any questions on this. The reason I mentioned that the data was not

Re: Tape mount failures result in schedule failure

2004-02-13 Thread Jim Neal
Hi David, With regard to the ANR1401 Error, when a TSM volume fills up on an LTO Generation II drive, the drive does not reset its EOT (end-of-tape) flag. Subsequently, when a scratch volume is being mounted in the same drive and TSM tries to write the BOT (beginning-of-tape) information, the

Re: Tape mount failures result in schedule failure

2004-02-13 Thread bab
Hi Neal, I am also getting same errors, my storage node is windows2000(TDP for SQL)backup is through LAN free,how to know frivesare gen1 or gen2? my microcode is: $ lscfg -vl rmt0 DEVICELOCATION DESCRIPTION rmt0 1D-08-01 IBM 3580 Ultrium

Re: Tape mount failures result in schedule failure

2004-02-13 Thread Jim Neal
Hi Bab, Based on the machine type and model of the tape drive that you supplied, your drive is an LTO2 model. You will want to verify your firmware level and update it if needed. If your firmware is at the correct level, then you will want to check other factors such as bad tape, faulty

Re: mountlimit=drives

2004-02-13 Thread Jim Neal
Hi Lawrence, This may sound basic, but have you checked to make sure that the other drives are online from a Tivoli perspective? If you issue the q drive command, tivoli will show you the drive statuses. J. Neal From: Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

FW: TSM 5.1.7.0 Missing STK L700 Library

2004-02-13 Thread Jones, Kelli
In reference to original post, we finally were able to redefine library and drives (addresses had all changed). Now we're getting these 'Changer Failure' errors. Has anyone seen these before? They are show-stoppers apparently, because we are dead in the water. 02/13/2004 04:01:25

Re: Question on Restoration from DBSNAPSHOT

2004-02-13 Thread Mike Wiggan
Milton, We recently introduced disaster recovery, and I pondered this for a while. The outcome is that we store the DBSNAPSHOT off site, as one can recover to a point in time. In our case VIA a SAN to another robot. We keep the full backup + any incremental within the local robot to avoid time