Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

Hi Steve (and other who replied)! The risk of fragmentation sounds reasonable. I will keep that in mind, thanks! Yes, I'm running two storage pool backups at the same time (my copypool library only has two drives) and buying more drives is not an option, since it's a 3494 frame. Expanding requires

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

Hi Steve! I'm not, I run my backup stgpools early in the morning, right after the client backup window. But now, I have to wait with migration for the backup stgpool to finish. Since we only have two 3590 drives and the total amount of backup data produced during the night is over 1 Tb. per day,

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: We only ran into a nasty bug when using the file device class, so I hope IBM will turn my PMR in an APAR and fix it as soon as possible... Let me guess: FILE volumes only store a tiny bit of data before (incorrectly)

DIRMC stgpool: DISK or FILE?

Hi there, I have a question about which devclass to use for a storagepool that is exclusively used as DIRMC destination. The server originally was set up with a large enough DIRPOOL of type DISK. Later, DIRPOOL was reduced in size, and a DIRFILE stgpool was added that consists of FILE volumes.

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

Hi Jurjen! No, that's not what I'm seeing. I have seen that TSM does not handle allocation failures properly. I removed file volumes and directories after creation and started a new backup. This backup runs into a rc 2 (File or directory not found) which is correct, but the volumes are never

Failing incremental Oracle RMAN backups

Hi all, I have been browsing through the archive and haven't found anything on my particular problem. Setup: TSM 5.2.1.2 server on Solaris 9 Oracle TDP 5.2.0 32-bit and 64-bit TSM 5.2.2 client on Solaris 9 Oracle 9.2.0.5 32-bit Oracle 9.2.0.5 64-bit Oracle 8.1.7.4 32-bit StorageAgent 5.2 (for LAN

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

I played with caching a while ago. It filled up 7% of my storage pool, then I turned it off. I flush the storage pool every day, but the files cached remain in cache. In other words I Migrate to zero, and everything gets written to tape, yet the storage pool will not go down To zero percent

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

move data -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Weinstein, Stephen Sent: vrijdag 14 januari 2005 13:07 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping I played with caching a while ago. It filled up 7% of my

Errror During Mksysb

Good Day, I have tried to do a mksysb backup of my aix5.2 tsm server 5.2 to tape and I keep getting the following error:- 0512-017 mksysb: Cannot write to the device /dev/rmt2. Either write protected or in use. I have tried to delete tape devices and only configure the dat

Re: Errror During Mksysb

Lindy Have you done all the normal AIX checking using the following commands: lsdev -Cctape (Check if the tape drive is available and not defined) errpt -a |grep rmt (check to see if the tape drive has had any errors) fuser /dev/rmt2 (to see what, if any other process is using the device

Re: Errror During Mksysb

On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Crawford, L. (Lindy) wrote: I have tried to do a mksysb backup of my aix5.2 tsm server 5.2 to tape and I keep getting the following error:- 0512-017 mksysb: Cannot write to the device /dev/rmt2. Either write protected or in use. I have tried to delete

Re: Errror During Mksysb

Yes, Ive done all that Thanks Kind Regards. Lindy Crawford There is no such thing as luck. Success comes from actually doing it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Fergusson Sent: 14 January 2005 02:27 PM To:

Re: Errror During Mksysb

Thanks...I realise its not the AIX - L, I only posted it here as I thought it might have to do with the fact the this is the tsm server...as I have no problems using the same external tape drive and tape somewhere else. Thanks again. Kind Regards. Lindy Crawford There is no such thing as

Re: Move TSM Operational REporter to a different server

Normally I just move the .ext files as well, and if you have exported the mail/net send list you can grab that. I haven't come up with a good way to move the schedules yet. -Lloyd On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:35:34 -0500 Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Anyone know of procedures for

Re: SV: V5.3 client and Netware 6.0

Netware 6 is scheduled for End of Life on 11/1/05. Since it's still got almost a year left, I'm a little curious why it's not supported also. http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/forecast.html Troy Frank Network Services University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation 608.829.5384 [EMAIL

SELECT statement crashes server

Hallo *SM'ers AIX 5.2.0.0 TSM server 5.2.2.3 I have discovered a select command that will crash our server instantly every time.. Could anyone confirm they get the same behaviour, or that it's just a quirk of our site. I originally tried this; select volume_name,pct_reclaim from (select *

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

Additionally, our DB and LOG stats are as follows - I believe there is plenty of DB space for the select to complete; DB Available Space (MB): 136,688 Assigned Capacity (MB): 126,688 Maximum Extension (MB): 10,000 Maximum Reduction (MB): 8,940 Page

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

We use the following select with no problems. AIX 5.1 TSM 5.2.2.4 select volume_name,stgpool_name,pct_reclaim,est_capacity_mb from volumes where pct_reclaim = 50 order by stgpool_name Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

86% is bit high for pct.utilized. I had the same problem, and it went away with adding more space to the tsm db.I am not sure how much temporary space it requires to complete a fairly large output of an select statement, but I believe you need more than what you have. I also believe that its

Data Flow

Can some point me in the right direction or quickly summarize the process of: 1. TSM backing up data to disk cache 2. Disk Cache hitting the high watermark (during backup) and ultimately when it moves it to tape to reduce the watermark. Is that when you typically have co-location configured in

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

Hallo, I have noticed the actual select statement is incorrect The one that crashes the server; select volume_name,pct_reclaim from ( select * from volumes where stgpool_name='UKS_NORM_PRIM') where pct_reclaim=90 should read select volume_name,pct_reclaim from volumes where volume_name in

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

Hallo, 86% util on a DB of 126GB still leaves upwards of 14GB free to work out a select query, on a stgpool that has less than 60 volumes in it, so I'm not sure that's it. And, as it goes, I never use the GUI! .. as an aside, I've been smiling to myself at all the cafuffle caused by the switch

Re: Data Flow

Do a 'query storage f=d' You are normally concerned with diskpool, tapepools, and (tape) copypools. Normally disk and copypools do not have co-locate, but the tapepool does, if you have sufficient resources. You can have multiple tape pools, with co-locate on some, not on others. The purpose of

Re: Data Flow

In general do a 'query sys' to become familiar with how your system is configured. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/2005 10:29:32 AM Can some point me in the right direction or quickly summarize the process of: 1. TSM backing up data to disk cache 2. Disk Cache hitting the high watermark (during backup)

Re: Backup IMAGE on a WIN2K server

Thanks Richard ... I'm not using the DISASTER RECOVERY MANAGER yet I just registered for the IBM Tivoli Disaster Recovery manager 5.2 course in 2 weeks After that course I should be able to understand more the concept ... Thanks again Luc Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

My recommendation: 1) Using the specifics of the crash (I imagine you get a stack trace, or other messages when the crash occurs), go to http://www.ibm.com and try searching for any matching APARs. 2) If you don't find a hit, contact IBM support for additional assistance. The server should not

Re: Data Flow

Okay one last follow up question. When is reclamation used? David A. Chapa | ADIC | 720.272.8452 cell | http://www.adic.com Sr. Technical Advisor -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005

Re: Backup IMAGE on a WIN2K server

DRM is not the same as DR. DRM helps you to manage your disaster recovery media, but is not directly related to the recovery of specific client machines. If you search www.ibm.com for article 7005204, you will find Tivoli Field Guide - Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Techniques Using Windows

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

Andy, No output occurs on the CLI interface when the crash occurrs, other than TCP/IP timeout, RC -50, re-issue the command. On the AIX system, there are no messgaes in dsmserv.err. On the windows system we get the following; (As this has also been confirmed by others now, I will be raising a

Re: Identifying session holding a drive

Thank you, Lloyd. S pozdravem / Best Regards, Martin Trcka, IT Consultant Tech. Support Department GC System a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep. mob: +420 602 452 361 fax: +420 543 537 333 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lloyd Dieter napsal(a): Here's a select/script that I use to pull that

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

For the error, you need to use =90 , not =90 Also, why are you making the select harder than it needs to be? select volume_name,pct_reclaim from volumes where stgpool_name='UKS_NORM_PRIM' and pct_reclaim=90 Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who laughs last has a good backup.

Re: SELECT statement crashes server

This was pointed out to me :) I know its redundant, it's just habit. A bad one though, I guess.. _-'-_ -|- -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Cassimatis Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Migrating Data Centers

Did a quick query on the list, but not quite finding what I'm looking for. IN the near future we may be migrating our primary DC to a new location across town. The DC migration will be a phased approach over 1-3yrs. We plan on purchasing a New Backup Server and 3494library (Similar Cfg as

Re: V5.3 client and Netware 6.0

Hi Flemming, Troy, and Zoltan, and other ADSM-Lers, Briefly, when planning for TSM 5.3, we had to determine the benefits of continuing to support NW 6.0 in 5.3 versus the cost of development, test, and support. With end-of-life for NetWare 6.0 coming relatively soon (less than a year after TSM

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

Eric, Ok, you got my attention now! What bug should I be losing sleep over? -steve -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping Hi Steve

Re: Exchange TDP 5211 Storage Group Failing

I am now getting the same errors. We have tried restarting exchange and then rebooting the Exchange server, no luck. In the event viewer we are getting a event id of 217. We found this in the Microsoft knowledge base See the issue under cause. Can this be the problem with TDP for Exchange

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

Eric, Oh, THAT bug. Yes, it bit us once as well when our hp-ux system lost its san connection to the file class luns and expiration went on its merry way, deleting scores of volumes from the tsm db, even though it could not actually touch the underlying filesystem. That was a fun weekend of

Management class issue.

Simple version: Is there any way to rebind Archives? More Detailed Version: I have an AIX 5.1 server with TSM 5.2.1.1 currently installed. And a mixed environment OS and client version wise. The overall goal of this project I am in is to simplify the current management class and storage pool

Failed Files

Anyone know of a different method in which I can determine the failed files of my clients without having to actually look at the schedlog ? R.

HELP finding ITSM for Storage Area Networks Managed Systems for SAN V5.2.2

Can anybody give me a URL to get the 5.2.2 LAN free storage agent for AIX. I thought the 5.2 storage agent would workit isn't. Thanks in advance. Dave

Re: V5.3 client and Netware 6.0

Thank you for the reply. However, from the technical aspect, what is different enough between NW 6.0 and NW 6.5 that makes the 5.3 client incompatible ? I didn't think there was that much of a difference. They both use the TSA modules for the backup process ! They both run NSS ! Are there

Re: Failed Files

You can review the server activity log messages, or consider installing the TSM Operational Reporting feature. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Failed Files

Doesn't the server log also show the failed files ? You could get a product like TSMManager which produces reports with this info (plus much, much more), daily ! That is what I use to bug people on issues with their backups having problems/issues ! CORP Rick Willmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Failed Files

You may write a script to look for error message ANR2579E ...failed. Hoa. .. Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/14/2005 02:03 PM Please respond to

Re: V5.3 client and Netware 6.0

Hi Zoltan, In theory, you are probably correct (at least for the most part...). But we cannot simply assume that because it works on 6.5, it also works on 6.0 and thus claim support. Regarding version 5.2.x: we release interim fixes (formerly known as patches or fixtests) as necessary to fix

Re: Failed Files

We use home grown scripts that spit the failed output to either email or pager when it errors out and writes to the log. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Exchange TDP 5211 Storage Group Failing

Norman, This looks like a direct hit. This is an issue with the Exchange Server 2003 SP1 new optimization feature. It applies to any backup application that uses the Exchange Server backup and restore API for performing online backup. That is why Microsoft put out a hotfix for Exchange Server for

Min Password Length

If I set the minimum password length to 8 from 0, will this make clients with short passwords fail? Or will it simply create longer passwords when they expire? I use passwordaccess generate for 95% of my nodes. But, you just never know when you have hundreds of clients. Thanks in advance.

Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date

I just ran a test and noticed the exact same thing. The Modified column on the web client doesn't fill in for some reason. Barth, Terry (MBS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:We recently upgraded a few window nodes to 5.3 so that we can use the new journaling options as we have active/active clusters.

Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date

Thanks. Looks like I will be placing a call into support. Others may want to do the same if you upgraded. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Web

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

Thanks for the idea - by collocating the offsite, does that mean that you eject one tape per node every day? Yes, for our important collocated nodes. That one tape per node contains the results of the most recent reclaim (actually a MOVE DATA) and the current nights backup. Our schedule goes