Small Sites

2004-05-19 Thread Douglas Currell
Has anyone deployed TSM in a very small site? When I say a small site I mean something like this: 4 or 5 workstations 2 or 3 servers very limited bandwidth available from WAN - assume 56k (yes) NO local administration NO budget for tape library TSM sharing a physical server with

AW: Small Sites

2004-05-19 Thread Salak Juraj
Hi, as far as I understand you, you only want to backup this site into an existing large TSM server elsewhere. I not, GOTO (2) A small TSM Server per site, if necessarey at all, is not practicable without both local administration and tape library. I have few site like this (with the exception

Re: AW: Small Sites

2004-05-19 Thread Douglas Currell
Juraj, I should state that my organization currently has a couple 100-user sites using local Windows TSM Servers with 2-drive tape libraries and they are administered remotely. Physical visits to the sites are no more than twice per year. Full backup of the Domino server, is required, by

Reconcile Volumes fails

2004-05-19 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hi all, On my two TSM-servers (AIX 5.1, TSM 5.1.7.3) we use server-to-server virtual volumes for the copy_pools. Since some time when the daily reconcile-volumes runs I get the following error : 05/18/04 15:57:49 ANRD admserv.c(2337): ThreadId72 Unable to get volume attributes. 05/18/04

Re: moved file on Netware ?

2004-05-19 Thread Richard Sims
We have a question on an issue that came on a Netware box, that a user moved some of directory tree from the original backup tree to another tree. Then we had a restore request for the original tree which was moved. So we could not find any files to restore. We had the default backup copy group

Re: TSM on Tru64 and TruCluster

2004-05-19 Thread Amos Hagay
TSM Not supported TruCluster, I manage to Install it, with the regular concept of a cluster, I create for each cluster member a node e.g. NODE-A NODE-B Each of them was running the dsmc sched , But in each dsm.opt file I create another stanza server_b which points to the virtual node, I had

MS SQL question

2004-05-19 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
If we do a full database backup on sql server, then a log backup hourly, would we need to do a differential backup and why? Kevin M. Lipscomb/Michael Lovern Dan River Inc. Systems Engineering

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Gary Oborn
Thanks for replying. When I attempt to query the backup it refuses to show anything. Can you tell me if I'm on the right track? [root:prod] / dsmc Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2002 All

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Oborn Thanks for replying. When I attempt to query the backup it refuses to show anything. Can you tell me if I'm on the right track? [root:prod] / dsmc Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface

Re: Data organization on tape storage pool?

2004-05-19 Thread Ben Bullock
Look in the manuals about collocation. It is turned on at the storagepool level. Look also in the archives as there are a lot of threads about pros and cons about using it. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Bill Boyer
I always use the -VIRTUALNODENAME= parameter on the DSMC command. I believe that if you use the -fromnode= the nodename you are currently logged in as needs to be givin access to the -fromnode's data. And from Mark's reply, the output of the data just shows the objects, size, date/time and unless

Re: Using open file support for PST files

2004-05-19 Thread TSM_User
I have completed a lot of OFS tests with the V5.2.2.9 client. The primary file that I used for those tests was an Outlook 2003 PST. I also ran tests with older versions of Outlook PST's. For all of my tests the file was backed up and could be restored. I did not loose any mail items with my

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer And from Mark's reply, the output of the data just shows the objects, size, date/time and unless you know exactly what you're looking at, yes it is meaningless. But this will show you the objects and allow you to

Re: restore of systemobjects (windows 2000), new user variables still there ?!

2004-05-19 Thread TSM_User
Was the enviornement variables part of the user or system environment settings. The user variables are part of the profile and are in NTUSER.DAT. This file may not have been backed up directly due to being open and locked. You can determine this by looking in the GUI under restore and seeing

Re: Restore TSM database

2004-05-19 Thread TSM_User
I'm not sure why you have to pass those parms. The backup volume should be in your volhist file. All you should have to do is run dsmserv restore db todate=today totime=now if that was the last backup you ran. But... If you really want to perform the restore that when then... Looks like you

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Bill Boyer
Here's a link to a thread just a couple months ago doing the same thing to list TDP Oracle backup data http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0403/541.html. Here's the output of doing one on my system for a TDP SQLserver node: tsm q fi Num Last Incr Date TypeFile Space Name ---

Re: TDP for Informix expiring backup files

2004-05-19 Thread Steve Harris
Mark, I believe that you can use braces to access information about API backup and archives. I do this for DB2 and adsmpipe backups. See the Client guide eg. $ /opt/adsmpipe/adsmpipe -c -B -s /test -f test CLOG040511-03 $ dsmc IBM Tivoli Storage Manager *** Fixtest, Please see README file

Re: Virtual Tape Library

2004-05-19 Thread Gee, Norman
I tried using the IBM 3494-B18 VTS with TSM on the zSeries (z/OS) and decided it was not a good fit. TSM recalls partially fill tapes to finish filling it. The recall time was about 4 minutes. Reclaim processing took forever to bring in reclaimable volumes. Restores took forever with double