Versions data deleted

2007-06-13 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
Short question, because I'm not shure: Does versions data deleted=0 mean: If file is deleted its backup version is also immediately deleted during next backup/expiration - despite the duration-setting for retain only backup version? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth

Re: Versions data deleted

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 13, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Stefan Holzwarth wrote: Short question, because I'm not shure: Does versions data deleted=0 mean: If file is deleted its backup version is also immediately deleted during next backup/expiration - despite the duration-setting for retain only backup version? Yes.

Storage Pool Parameter: Migration Delay question

2007-06-13 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi Everyone, I would like to have 30 days of data retained within the cdlb_aix (onsite cdl) storage pool before it gets migrated to the tape_aix pool (onsite physical tape). I have defined the migration delay parameter to be 30 and I just want to make sure that I understand what I have defined.

ANR8355E-I/O error has brought the tape from Read Write to Unavailable

2007-06-13 Thread zareyna salim
Hi all, I encountered an error on the tape while doing a TDP for Exchange backup. The error was ANR 8355E I/O error reading label for volume A000122. After the unsuccessful backup finished, some of the tapes that were mount during the backup has changed from readwrite to unavailable. I

Re: Storage Pool Parameter: Migration Delay question

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 13, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Joni Moyer wrote: Will the data remain in cdlb_aix for 30 days unless the pool hits its 90% full mark? Basically. The server counts the number of days from the day that the file was stored in the storage pool or was last retrieved by a client, whichever is more

Re: ANR8355E-I/O error has brought the tape from Read Write to Unavailable

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, zareyna salim wrote: I have update all the unavailable tape to read write status and run the back up but still I encountered the ANR8355E error and the tapes again change the status to unavailable. Experienced causes of that message are in

Re: ANR8355E-I/O error has brought the tape from Read Write to Unavailable

2007-06-13 Thread William Boyer
Doing a HELP 8355 from the TSM admin command line gives a suggestion that the PATH statements do not correctly point to the right drive(s). Possibly the DEVICE= specified in the PATH isn't the correct DRIVE of the ELEMENT= you specified. Most libraries and TSM today support the

Re: Storage Pool Parameter: Migration Delay question

2007-06-13 Thread Remeta, Mark
You have to set Migcontinue to No and it should work the way you want. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Storage Pool Parameter: Migration Delay question

Re: Fw: How to Incorporate a CDL into TSM environment?

2007-06-13 Thread Johnson, Milton
The VTL is a Sepaton S2100-ES and yes it is disk only. I don't see the benefit that a tape backed system would bring, how does that really differ from a physical tape ATL with TSM providing a DISKPOOL front end? Fewer tape-head-hours: I understand your confusion, there was no way to reduce

Re: ANR8355E-I/O error has brought the tape from Read Write to Unavailable

2007-06-13 Thread zareyna salim
Hi there, Previously the backup ran successfully until we change the active server to passive server on 25 May. Since then we receive intermittent backup unsuccessful due to ANS1315E RC15 Unexpected Retry request and had made the tape status change to unavailable.The paths were define correctly

Adding Archiving to the Mix?

2007-06-13 Thread Nick Laflamme
(Apologies if I've asked this before; I can't find any trace of an answer, let alone that I sent the question, although I've thought of asking in the past.) We may have new requirements from a user that are a better match for TSM's archival functions than its backup functions. Can anyone point

How do you backup your Celerra NAS ?

2007-06-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Looking for feedback on how folks backup there EMC Celerra NAS ? Are you using NDMP ? Just regular backups via Windoze nodes ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Technology Services University Computing Center e-mail:

dsmcad for TDPO

2007-06-13 Thread goc
hi all, i'm trying to set up schedulers for TDPO nodes on AIX using DSMCAD , the problem is that (at least i think so) if i want to use /api/bin64 directory as configuration path with dsm.sys and separated dsm_INSTANCE_tdpo.opt files i have to set up

Migration of a Server TSM

2007-06-13 Thread TSM User
To migrate a server TSM from a platform to another (AIX to Windows) Recommended strategy to migrate DB? DSMSERV DUMPDB ??? Export ??? Thanks.

Restore Linux system from TSM

2007-06-13 Thread David Browne
I have a VMware virtual Linux server that had its DASD on an iSCSI device. There was a failure of the iSCSI NAS device and the virtual image files were lost. I have started over by creating a very basic out-of-the-box Linux server (i.e. no service pack, no add-ons, etc.) I was just wondering

Re: dsmcad for TDPO

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, goc wrote: another thing is what about PASSWORDACCESS Prompt for TDPO ? if i want to use dsmcad the PASSWORDACCESS has to be generate, right ? otherwise i'm getting ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt because the process is running in

Re: Restore Linux system from TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Wojtek Pięcek
Uh, if You have vmware, it's simple - install linux + tsm client, create empty disc (for new machine), boot and mount somewhere new FS connect to tsm, restore into 'somwhere' filesystem, create new machine, re-connect this FS. That's all. 2007/6/13, David Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a

Re: Migration of a Server TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 13, 2007, at 11:07 AM, TSM User wrote: To migrate a server TSM from a platform to another (AIX to Windows) Recommended strategy to migrate DB? DSMSERV DUMPDB ??? Export ??? Use Export, as described in the Admin Guide. Technote 1137678 emphasizes using Export. And, my sympathies

Re: Migration of a Server TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Wojtek Pięcek
And, ofcourse, You must migrate data from tape from aix to windows. 2007/6/13, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 13, 2007, at 11:07 AM, TSM User wrote: To migrate a server TSM from a platform to another (AIX to Windows) Recommended strategy to migrate DB? DSMSERV DUMPDB ??? Export

Re: internal error detected

2007-06-13 Thread Jacquelin Bouchard
Hi Andy, At the time the error appeared, i din't see any other messages related to this; yesterday, i tried to query the activity log for that period in two different ways and here are the results:

AW: [ADSM-L] Restore Linux system from TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Thomas Rupp
I've been looking for such a beast as well. There is a document for Windows (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21164812) but none for Linux. What we did to BMR a normal linux box is: * create a bootable linux CD (Knoppix) with a TSM client on it * boot from this cd * mount the disk

Re: Poor TSM server performance on Sun.

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims On May 20, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Michael Bartl wrote: But the good thing is, that (even without a reason) the problems were gone when we started to use raw devices instead of filesystems. ... Makes one wonder if excessive, delayed file system

Re: Storage Pool Parameter: Migration Delay question

2007-06-13 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi Mark, I went out and looked at the definition for migration continue and if I set it to no, then it will only migrate files if they have been residing in the storage pool for 30 days and with no exceptions. If I leave that parameter as yes, then when the storage pool reaches 90% it will

AW: How do you backup your Celerra NAS ?

2007-06-13 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
2 virtual machines W2k3 R2 x64 doing incr backup (with compression) each night of complete NAS (~8 mio files and ~ 4,5T Byte). Each vm has 5 TSM nodes defined, that backup a part of each filesystem e.g. first directories starting with a-f then second g-i, j-o, p-u, ... That gives very well

ALL Tapes known to TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Daad Ali
a couple of newbie questions, 1- How can I list ALL the tapes that are known to TSM (onsite, offsite, drm, scratch ..etc)? 2- If a tape shows as STGNEW, will the data in it be recoverable? To give a little bit of history... I have a bunch of tapes, I am told used to

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Restore Linux system from TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Michael Green
On 6/13/07, Thomas Rupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we did to BMR a normal linux box is: * create a bootable linux CD (Knoppix) with a TSM client on it AFAIK, Knoppix is a close relative of Debian which makes use of .deb, not .rpm. How do you install the client on it? (Do you extract RPM

Re: ALL Tapes known to TSM

2007-06-13 Thread Robben Leaf
Welcome to the community, Daad! 1- TSM classifies tapes in three partially-overlapping ways: LIBVOL's are the tapes that TSM knows about in an attached tape library; a Q LIBVOL will show these volumes, including scratch tapes, and other tapes in the library that aren't in storage pools. VOL's are

Extend db question

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Dudley
This morning we received a TSM alert: The database utilization is too high. Condition (85.1 85) Recommendation: Consider a database space trigger or increase the size of the database. Going back through my daily TSM reports I have seen that the database utilization has increased from 60% to 85%

Re: MacOS client failing with rc 12 troubleshooting

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
Dave - - Exclude the dsmerror.log itself from backup. - Exclude temp areas (and browser caches, if possible). - Code CHAngingretries with a reasonable value. The ANS1802E message means that the backup did finish. This is just a matter of iteratively tuning your backup options to skip the

Re: Extend db question

2007-06-13 Thread David Longo
That note in manual means the size of an individual DB Volume, not the DB as a whole. There are more automatic extensions of disks, filesystems, etc. these days - and more to come. After you have formatted a DB volume with TSM, you shouldn't monkey with it at the OS level. Extend DB is what you

Re: Extend db question

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Dudley
OK - when I run a q db the available space in MB is 32,768, the assigned capacity in MB is 32,768 and the maximum extension in MB is 0. I assume that this means that I have to run def dbvol to create another database volume file before I can run extend db? Regards Paul -Original

Re: Extend db question

2007-06-13 Thread Allan Mills
sure does Allan Mills | AIX and TSM Administrator Business Technology Services | New South Wales Police 8835 9286 (internal 29286) Mob: 0408 860 046 Paul Dudley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 14/06/2007 11:35 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

2007-06-13 Thread Gee, Norman
With TSM on the mainframe, I have access to console message automation and tape media management with CA-1 or RMM. I understand that with AIX, I will no longer have these functions provided for me. On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe products. TSM on z/OS has no knowledge