Re: windows / ANE4987E

2005-12-22 Thread goc
hi, thanks ... i'll forward this message to my windows administrators ... i'll get back to you :-) goran - Original Message - From: TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:59 AM Subject: Re: windows / ANE4987E I saw the posts telling

TSM on AIX Insufficient log space: Server not starting

2005-12-22 Thread Gaurav Marwaha
Hi, When I try to start the dsmserv I get this: ANR0900I Processing options file /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.opt. ANR7811I Direct I/O will be used for all eligible disk files. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 10160 megabytes.

Re: AUDITDB hangs

2005-12-22 Thread Karl Rößmann
Quoting Oscar Kolsteren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Karl, I've seen this several times before and let it go, after a while it finished successfully. I think I read this issue before in this list and the answers were that this is a normal behavior for the TSM server doing an audit. So there's still

Re: Estimate tape usage

2005-12-22 Thread Norita binti Hassan
Yes, that's my major problem. Is there any alternative solution rather than upgrade my tape drive?? ~ Norita Hasan ~ ICT Div. -Original Message- From: VOJTA Othmar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: AW: [ADSM-L]

Re: TSM on AIX Insufficient log space: Server not starting

2005-12-22 Thread Krzysztof Kus
Hello. dsmfmt -m -log /usr/Tivolilog 9 dsmserv extend log /usr/Tivolilog 8 Regards

Re: TSM on AIX Insufficient log space: Server not starting

2005-12-22 Thread Gaurav Marwaha
Thanks, for the help -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krzysztof Kus Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM on AIX Insufficient log space: Server not starting Hello. dsmfmt -m

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Leigh Reed
Alex I hate restores that don't go as fast as I want them to, especially when it's 3 o'clock in the morning, so I'll have a stab at what might be wrong. The nature of your problem does seem very intermittent and the fact that some times you do achieve an acceptable speed makes it difficult.

Re: Estimate tape usage

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 20, 2005, at 9:48 PM, Norita binti Hassan wrote: Yes, that's my major problem. Is there any alternative solution rather than upgrade my tape drive?? Sure... With tape, you have infinite capacity, as it's a removable medium. You just have to engage in library emulation as you have an

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
Thanks for the responses all, but it's not a tape mounting issue. I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but I am watching the actlog while the restore is taking place, and I'm sitting next to the library, so I can tell when it's doing anything: remounting, rewinding, etc. What I'm saying is

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Sims
Alex - Thanks for that isolated example...good to see that kind of thing. I would caution against attributing the speed variation to the server or tape drive until you have a bunch more information. I'm no Windows expert, but this kind of pulsing behavior might be an OS issue where TCP buffers

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Sung Y Lee
Any other ideas? To isolate a possible networking issue, in the past, I have ftped some files between the TSM server---Client just to verify network is cool. Sung Y. Lee ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/22/2005 08:09:23 AM: Thanks for the responses all, but it's not a

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Leigh Reed
Sorry Alex, I understand the deal now. I have restored SQL and Exchange databases from LTO tape to NTFS filesystems (of similar size to same filesystem) and also monitored the IP network throughput and FC throughput during this operation. I have found the performance to be uniform across the

NBARS Offsite Backup Facility Outage

2005-12-22 Thread Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT) [C]
There appears to have been a problem overnight with the offsite backup facility that the ADSM (NBARS) server uses to make copies of backed up files. Repair technicians are at the site to correct the problem. I will notify the list when I get word that the problem has been resolved. Please note

Re: NBARS Offsite Backup Facility Outage

2005-12-22 Thread Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT) [C]
Please ignore this message -- it was sent to the wrong list. ** Robert P. Klein, Contractor _ From: Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:28 AM To:

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread Allen S. Rout
== On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:09:23 -0600, Alexander Lazarevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for the responses all, but it's not a tape mounting issue. I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but I am watching the actlog while the restore is taking place, and I'm sitting next to the

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread David W Litten
Is there a way to check for write errors on the tape, where it maybe had to skip sections of bad media when creating the file on tape? or, possibly read errors when trying to get the file from tape? Allen S. Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:

Re: restore speed question

2005-12-22 Thread David W Litten
Have you checked for fragmentation on the NTFS drive to which you are restoring? It could be that it has a large chunk of free contiguous space on the drive that allows it to restore that portion quickly but then has only small fragments of free space available for the remainder of the 32gb. If

Upgrading from TSM 5.1.6 to 5.3

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi Everybody, I will be involved in upgrading our TSM server from AIX 4.3.3 server running TSM 5.1.6 to AIX 5.3 running 5.3 in the new year. Has anyone done this and what were your experiences, good, bad or ugly ? Rich

Backup error

2005-12-22 Thread Marcelo Barreto
Hi, I´ve one server that cannot backup, in dsmerror.log file I see: 12/22/2005 05:55:15 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 12/22/2005 11:19:01 sessSendVerb: Error sending Verb, rc: -50 12/22/2005 11:19:01 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen

TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Sergio Fuentes
We currently have an AIX 5 ML6, TSM 5.2.6 server backing up most of our clients. We also have an IBM z/OS mainframe, V1R4 which has been independently backing itself up using (i believe) dfshsm straight to some ancient 3490E drives. We're running into problems fast with this backup scenario,

Re: Backup error

2005-12-22 Thread Ochs, Duane
Verify the IP address is correct (192.168.10.65), try to ping the IP address from the client, try to ping the TSM server by name from the client. Restart the TSM client service and see if the connection is working afterward. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Sam Sheppard
Top of message -- 12-22-05 09:18 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)ADSM-L] TSM Client for z The TSM client for z/OS is for the Unix System Services (USS) component of the z/OS operating system only, which is typically a very small percentage of

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Gee, Norman
The MVS FMID is HDN5532 for the client and HDN5533 for the API. This will only backup your HFS and ZFS that are mounted to Unix Services. This will not backup any MVS datasets. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergio Fuentes Sent:

Re: Backup error

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Marcelo Barreto wrote: Hi, I´ve one server that cannot backup, in dsmerror.log file I see: 12/22/2005 05:55:15 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 12/22/2005 11:19:01 sessSendVerb: Error sending Verb, rc: -50 12/22/2005

Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
In a MSCS cluster, an admin of one of our higher profile client machines failed over from one machine (OLALPHA) back to other (OLBRAVO) after BRAVO crashed this morning. Since I've been having a devil of a time with a MSCS cluster resource that serves as the scheduler for the cluster drive on

Re: Backup error

2005-12-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Also, if this happens regularly, check to see if the client is trying to backup through a firewall. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Backup

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread John Monahan
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/22/2005 11:53:11 AM: In a MSCS cluster, an admin of one of our higher profile client machines failed over from one machine (OLALPHA) back to other (OLBRAVO) after BRAVO crashed this morning. Since I've been having a devil of a time

dsmaccnt.log

2005-12-22 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Question: Can the dsmaccnt.log be pruned without causing problems? I'd like to free up the space and don't see a need for this file to grow out of proportion. I'd save the file first to a save location in case those records are needed in the future. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Well, I figure they were set up properly, because they have been working properly before this most recent failover. By the way... TSM server, AIX 5.2, TSM v5.3.1.2 TSM client v5.3.0, W2K I mean, if it was not done right from the start, why would it have worked this long (2+ years)?

Re: dsmaccnt.log

2005-12-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Yep. You can delete it, rename it, whatever. TSM will create a new one the next time it needs to write something. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Uwe Schreiber
hi chip, i'am faced with this problem sometimes too. i solved it always using the follwing way. 1. stop the service configured in the cluster as a generic service normaly already done by the failure. 2. within the configuration for this generic service - delete the configured

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread John Monahan
How many times have you failed over in those 2 years? It always works great if you never failover :-) __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Oh, I should've also said that we have had many downtimes with many failovers (not TOO many), and I haven't seen this problem. Thanks for the help though... :^) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Thursday, December

AW: [ADSM-L] Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Rupp
Did you have a look at the Windows eventlogs? Sometimes (not always) you get some additional information so you know where to start searching. Thomas Rupp -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Bell, Charles (Chip) Gesendet:

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Sergio Fuentes
The 3490E drives are having I/O problems with our tape cartridges. Rather than spend several hundred thousand to replace the numerous cartridges that we have, we're looking to explore other options, such as a 3590 upgrade. But with the rate of problems that we're having, we would need a solution

AW: Normal # of failures on tape libraries

2005-12-22 Thread Salak Juraj
I agree with previous answers, and I second to envirinmental note: Is your environment fine? Stable temperature humidity within allowed limits, no vibrations, dustless, pure sinus stable voltage mains? Evere tried another tape manufacturer? regards J.S. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

AW: manual tape drive

2005-12-22 Thread Salak Juraj
this one is trivial, but..: when labeling tapes check the activity log for success/unsuccess messages. Maybe overwrite=yes is missing, or the write-protect tab is set. regards Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
No. Mainframe catalog/filesystem structure is too totally different from open systems file structure. Open systems backup products do not understand mainframe legacy filesystems. Mainframe backup products do not understand unix windows filesystems. Period. The open systems HFS on the mainframe

Off topic AIX question

2005-12-22 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sorry for the off topic question but since a lot of folks use AIX I have a question. I was wondering if someone knows what log type files might be growing on /usr that I can delete or prune to free up some space. Since this server is only used for TSM nobody would be on the system except me. Are

Re: Off topic AIX question

2005-12-22 Thread Mike
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Gill, Geoffrey L. might have said: Sorry for the off topic question but since a lot of folks use AIX I have a question. I was wondering if someone knows what log type files might be growing on /usr that I can delete or prune to free up some space. Since this server is

Re: Authentication problems :^(

2005-12-22 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
BEAUTIFUL! This worked like a charm! I was confused by the generic service's ability to start after removing the registry key, and then staying up after adding it back, but I'll take it! Thanks, very much! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-12-22 Thread Egon Blouder
Dear Rafa, could you me an invitation to get a gmail account? Thanks --.. -Original Message- From: Rafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:24:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Network settings and poor backup performance. On 11/30/05, Ray

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

2005-12-22 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Sergio The z/os binary can work with your aix server, but only backs up hfs files on z/os. IBM, really a 3rd party reseller as IBM does not like to sell things anymore, told us to use the 3584 with the mainframe, one would have to buy a 3494 like control box, switches, at least one new