Re: TSM Linux client backup

2006-04-11 Thread Dirk Kastens
Jacquelin Bouchard schrieb: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3) Since client version 5.3. you can test the backup using the preview command. Enter the following command: dsmc preview backup /dev/* and examine the dsmprev.txt file. This contains all files that will be

Re: Update - Re: [ADSM-L] Some strange tape related issues?

2006-04-11 Thread Farren Minns
Hi all Regarding the fact that the SCRATCHCATegory value for 3590 tapes is the value of the 3490 tapes plus one, how does TSM cope with this? In my situation, with the SCRATCHCATegory set to 301(12D), and the Hex value within the library being 12E(302) surely it should not be able to see the

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi Geoff, I'm finding that the more I use the console the more I dislike it. Yea sure, I know all about progress but I think this particular change came in one fell swoop. Yes, I'm sure most of us will agree with you ! To avoid this I installed the old-style web based GUI, which may not offer

Unable to start ISC 6.0.1 service on restarting AIX 5.3.0.0

2006-04-11 Thread Pranav Parikh
Hi, Can anyone help?. ISC 6.0.1 service did not get started on restarting AIX 5.3.0.0. /ect/inittab do have require entry, however it does not start and we need to manually run from command prompt every time server is restarted. Regards Pranav

Re: Unable to start ISC 6.0.1 service on restarting AIX 5.3.0.0

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Pranav Parikh wrote: Hi, Can anyone help?. ISC 6.0.1 service did not get started on restarting AIX 5.3.0.0. /ect/inittab do have require entry, however it does not start and we need to manually run from command prompt every time server is restarted. Don't be

3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a cart is? Our 3494 is starting to eject tapes as they are inserted complaining about unknown media type. These are tapes that have been in use for a number of years and are being reinserted into the 3494 after coming back from the

Re: ANR8300E - I/O error on library desc= the destination slot or drive was full in an attemt to move a volume

2006-04-11 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Just an update... I had already tried auditing the library with checklabel=barcode for a first fix attempt and still saw the error.Yesterday afternoon working with ADIC tech support we ran an inventory process from the library side and then reran the audit on TSM server

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
You should keep ALL of your copypool tapes offsite. You should keep TSM db backup tapes offsite to match your 'del volhist'. You should set your reuse delay for your offsite copy storage pool to match the length of time you keep your tsm db backups, in your case 10 days. This last requirement of

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: I'm finding that the more I use the console the more I dislike it. All I can say is: embrace the command line admin tool, because it didn't barely changed between 5.2 and 5.3, and is much more flexable over a slow link. --Jim

What are the High/Low Level addresses?

2006-04-11 Thread Jack Coats
ANR4740W Either the high level address, low level address, or both were never entered for the specified node( H6540N1 ) and the session initiation status is being changed. I received this message, and I have seen the fields on the client update screen. But the documentation and helps leave me

Re: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 11, 2006, at 8:23 AM, David E Ehresman wrote: How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a cart is? Our 3494 is starting to eject tapes as they are inserted complaining about unknown media type. These are tapes that have been in use for a number of years and are

Re: ANR8300E - I/O error on library desc= the destination slot or drive was full in an attemt to move a volume

2006-04-11 Thread Jack Coats
I hope it worked for you. In the past I have cached out the volume where a problem was reported (both the one in the 'real slot' and the one that TSM says should be in the slot). Sometimes I had to check out several until there were no more 'unknown' tapes in the library. Then check them all

AW: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread Heinz-Joachim Staerke
David, check the Magstar 3494 Tape Library Operators Guide GA32-0280-11 Chapter 6 , page 162, handles Volser Rages for Media Types A volumes's media type is determined by using the following rules: . The media type that the vision system returns is the first choice . If the vision system

Re: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread Farren Minns
I have also seen this from time to time, and a good rub of the sticker on the leg usually does the trick :-) Farren |-+---| | Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Sent by: ADSM: Dist

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread Jack Coats
The question is: does this mean that we have to now keep the 10 latest tapes offsite for complete DRP? From what I am seeing it says you are now defining the process to keep 10 tapes un-used. If you keep them off site, so much the better for disaster preparedness. You do not have to change

ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Tim Brown
Windows 2003 5.3.2 client receiving message ANSE amsgrtrv.cpp(422): Message 14969 could not be found at end of dsmsched.log after scheduled backup. Anyone seen this ? Tim Brown Systems Specialist Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Files being skipped during backup/archive

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Such a document for Unix probably doesn't exist... I am not aware of any function in Unix that is analogous to the FilesNotToBackup registry key in Windows. Just to be clear... the document you cited is with regard to files that the Windows client omits by design, which is not related to the

Re: What are the High/Low Level addresses?

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Jack, did you do HELP 4740 to get help for the ANR4740W message? If so, you'll notice that the User Response section suggests the UPDATE NODE command. HELP UPDATE NODE should explain what is meant by the high- and low-level addresses. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage

Re: ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Tim, Did you try to look up the help text for ANSE? (Hint: use dsmc help or see the TSM Messages manual.) 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: What are the High/Low Level addresses?

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
You need to do an update node specifying the ip address and port number the client is listening on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/11/2006 8:39:39 AM ANR4740W Either the high level address, low level address, or both were never entered for the specified node( H6540N1 ) and the session initiation status is

Re: ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Neil Schofield
Tim We're seeing this on more and more of our Windows clients following upgrades of the B/A client. For some reason the install is not replacing DSCENU.TXT in all cases. Check the date stamp on the file DSCENU.TXT in the BACLIENT directory and if it doesn't match the binaries, that's probably

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/11/2006 07:32:20 AM: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: I'm finding that the more I use the console the more I dislike it. All I can say is: embrace the command line admin tool, because it didn't barely changed between 5.2

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Lawrence Clark
can the web admin still be used under 5.3? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/06 10:42 AM ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/11/2006 07:32:20 AM: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: I'm finding that the more I use the console the more I dislike it. All I can say is:

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Farren Minns
I am not using 5.3 so can not really comment. But on the CLI vs GUI debate, whilst I agree that a working knowledge of the command line interface is a necessity, the GUI can be very useful for admins like me for whom TSM admin is just maybe 10% of my job and keeping up with all parameters and

Re: TSM Linux client backup

2006-04-11 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:32:00PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:47:20PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 16:21, Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to backup a Linux server with TSM

Re: TSM Server 5.3.3 Experience?

2006-04-11 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Orville Lantto wrote: Has anyone tried server maintenance 5.3.3? Any problems? Orville L. Lantto Glasshouse Technologies, Inc. 5.3.3 on Linux. No problems so far. :-)

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Lawrence Clark wrote: can the web admin still be used under 5.3? Yes. snip

Re: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread Gee, Norman
We had similar problem every so often. Our 3494 is over 14 years old and many of the upper middle cartridge slots sags a little, especially column C. The laser sometimes has a hard time reading the barcodes of those slots. How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a

Re: ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Neil, When you perform your client upgrades, do you (a) make sure to stop all instances of the client, including interactive instances and NT-style services? And do you reboot if/when prompted (or when doing silent installs)? If any instances of the client are running and the system is not

Re: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread Prather, Wanda
Been there done that. If cleaning the barcode sticker doesn't fix it, do this: Put your rejected tape back in the I/O station, and WATCH what slot the robot tries to put the tape in. As you may know, the 3494 doesn't read the barcodes while the tape is in the I/O door. It grabs a cartridge,

Re: 5.3 questions

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 11, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Lawrence Clark wrote: can the web admin still be used under 5.3? Yes. Many past postings on this. Find it and notes at... ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/tools

SV: Preventive Action : Upgradation from 5.2 -- 5.3

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I just received and implemented a tip from Timothy Hughes. Make sure you have a recent fixpack for TSM 5.2 when you are going to AIX5.3 or else you will encounter the problem described in IC47636(TSM web interface starts popping up new windows when it shouldn't). For me, upgrading to

Re: TSM Linux client backup

2006-04-11 Thread Jacquelin Bouchard
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:57:10AM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:32:00PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:47:20PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 16:21, Jacquelin

Re: Clustered Servers and Tivoli

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Ferris
Hi John, We have about 30 clustered volumes so I typically get unimaginative and call the nodes a variation of NetWare volume name and then either server or cluster. For example, admin_server or print_cluster. We're a smallish shop in TSM terms and all in one location so I can keep things

Re: Re: 3494 Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread David Bronder
Richard Sims wrote: On Apr 11, 2006, at 8:23 AM, David E Ehresman wrote: How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a cart is? Our 3494 is starting to eject tapes as they are inserted complaining about unknown media type. We've seen the same thing here, with J

Re: ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Neil Schofield
Andy I only usually get involved with the client installations if something doesn't work. Our procedures say stop *all* TSM client processes, but we run with the Scheduler managed by the Client Acceptor, so if people are expecting only the CAD to be running they may not have been diligent about

Re: ANS9999E ?

2006-04-11 Thread Neil Schofield
Andy Sorry the last line should have read from 5.3.0.8 to 5.3.2.2 Regards Neil Andy I only usually get involved with the client installations if something doesn't work. Our procedures say stop *all* TSM client processes, but we run with the Scheduler managed by the Client Acceptor, so if

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread Ben Bullock
I'll take a stab at this. You now keep 10 versions of a file and you do a daily backup. It sounds like you want to be able to guarantee your ability to roll back or recover the TSM the server to 10 days ago. If that is the case you would need to make sure that: - The delete

ports required for tsm via firewall

2006-04-11 Thread Tim Brown
Need to confirm ports required for TSM client access through firewall. Currently have TCP Ports 1500, 1501, 1580 and 1581 Does TSM use UDP ports ? Tim Brown Systems Specialist Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax:

Re: ports required for tsm via firewall

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 11, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Tim Brown wrote: Need to confirm ports required for TSM client access through firewall. Currently have TCP Ports 1500, 1501, 1580 and 1581 Does TSM use UDP ports ? Tim - I haven't seen any UDP usage in the TSM product. It likes sessions, and so uses TCP, which

TSM User Group meets May 18th for Baltimore, Washington DC, No.Va.

2006-04-11 Thread Prather, Wanda
Got SOX? Got lots of data? Got TSM 5.3? Come talk about how to manage today's TSM environment! Please join us Thursday May 18th for the next meeting of TSMUG, the TSM user group for the Baltimore, Washington DC, Northern Virginia. Please REGISTER, and please forward this invitation to

Re: TSM User Group meets May 18th for Baltimore, Washington DC, No.Va.

2006-04-11 Thread Laura Mastandrea
Is there a TSM User Group for Chicago, IL? Thank you, Laura Mastandrea Information Technology/Infrastructure Services Ph: 847-719-5040 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BROADSPIRE Services, Inc. www.choosebroadspire.com To

Re: TSM User Group meets May 18th for Baltimore, Washington DC, No.Va.

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Laura Mastandrea wrote: Is there a TSM User Group for Chicago, IL? Laura - See: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups.php?ugtype=Stor Richard Sims