Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Anders St¦hlbom
Hi, I need to stage data in a copy storage pools. My intention is to store OFFSITE copy data as stage 1 in a TSM server located in other side of town as virtual volumes on disk, but today with version 5.4.0.3 it is not possible to have a NEXTSTORAGEPOOL on a copy pool to migrate data from stage

Re: Expiration process is running but Data inside tape not deleted (expire)

2007-07-11 Thread hshahizul
Hi Dr. TSM I have check my TSM Server TSM 5.3.0.0 AIX 5.2.0.0 ML 01 I have check on the DEACTIVE_DATE from query and I found out a lot of filespace backup. DEACTIVATE_DATE is 1900-01-01 Please advice. Tq. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Anders St¦hlbom
Hi Pierre The size is 23 TB data in the copy pool, thats why I want to stage it first to disk and then to tape. The disksize is 9 TB so the quickdata with retention less than 15 days will never go to tape. //Anders |-+--- | | CAYE

Re: Expiration process is running but Data inside tape not deleted (expire)

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:46 AM, hshahizul wrote: Hi Dr. TSM Well... I'm an EMT: the doctors are residents at IBM. :-) I have check my TSM Server TSM 5.3.0.0 You're running base-level code, which is asking for problems. Never do that, when v.r.m.0 maintenance is available. I strongly

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/11/2007 02:39:52 AM: version 5.4.0.3 it is not possible to have a NEXTSTORAGEPOOL on a copy pool to migrate data from stage 1 DISK to stage 2 on TAPE, it is also not possible to make a script to use move data command to move data from

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread CAYE PIERRE
Hi Try move nodedata which can move data's even from copystg to another copystg Pierre -Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Anders St¦hlbom Envoyé : mercredi 11 juillet 2007 14:36 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L]

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-07-11 Thread Kevin Boatright
Not to beat a dead horse. Our rep sent us the following link to calculate value units https://www-112.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/valueunitcalculator/vucalc.wss It’s up to us to determine what we have. Kevin _ From: Bell, Charles

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread CAYE PIERRE
Sorry.. I made a mistake : it is not possible to move nodedata thru copystg... Just within the same stg. Pierre -Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Anders St¦hlbom Envoyé : mercredi 11 juillet 2007 14:36 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet

Maximum Capacity for a File Device Class

2007-07-11 Thread Joni Moyer
Hey Everyone, I recently upgraded to TSM 5.3.4.2 on an AIX server. Prior to this I had set the maximum capacity to be 63 GB, but would anyone happen to know where I can find the maximum setting for a file device class at this TSM version? I have found everything but the info. that I actually

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Kelly Lipp
Do you keep all of your Copy Pool tapes in the library? If so, why not move data? Email me off line about how our STORServer Manager product can help out here. Or why not simply start a new copy pool and leave the old one to expire (perhaps not completely, but enough to make the load on the

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/11/2007 10:34:18 AM: Do you keep all of your Copy Pool tapes in the library? Yes, the copy pool is offsite from the primary, but connected via DWDM. All tapes are within the libs - no manual tape movement. So we have a onsite 3584/3592

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-07-11 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Behalf Of Kevin Boatright Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Lost in TSM licensing Not to beat a dead horse. Let's do! How wonderful for IBM to have a tool that will calculate value units but STILL no tool for us to easily gather what we need to input to

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-07-11 Thread Kauffman, Tom
OK, I'm Intel-challanged and I admit it. Is a Celeron considered a Pentium? I know it's not a Xeon. Tom Kauffman NIBCO Inc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Boatright Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:05 AM To:

Re: Maximum Capacity for a File Device Class

2007-07-11 Thread Robben Leaf
We are now at version 5.3.5.0, and we still have the 63 GB limit on file devclass maximum capacity. Figured it out the hard way. Robben Leaf Enterprise Storage Backup and Retention 651-962-2698 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARK.COM

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:00:57PM +0200, CAYE PIERRE wrote: Hi Try move nodedata which can move data's even from copystg to another copystg I wish it did this! In my current 5.3 server, I would love to be able to move copy storage pool volumes to another copy storage pool. There is no

cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Avy Wong
hello, This is a Linux environment. I am learning as I go how to move around in there. Can you tell me how I can track down where this pending restartable restore session is? In the windows gui is easy to get rid of pending restore but not sure how to get rid of that on Linux.

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Avy, You can use the query restore command. Also you should be able to set up the windows admin gui for an Linux TSM server, unless they have changed something that I missed. len -help query restore - tsm: ADSMNT04help query restore QUERY RESTORE QUERY

Re: Maximum Capacity for a File Device Class

2007-07-11 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, Help upd devcl For example, MAXCAPACITY=5G specifies that the maximum capacity for a volume in this device class is 5 gigabytes.The value specified should be less than or equal to the maximum supported size of a file on the target file system. Think that the part be

Re: 3494 LAN port initialization

2007-07-11 Thread Keith Arbogast
Zoltan, Thank you for that. I missed your previous reply, and could not find it in the Archives. The Service menu is an interesting and scary place to be. We were able to get the port to initialize finally. The key seemed to be getting the IDENTIFIER paramter in /etc/ibmatl.conf to match the

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Haberstroh, Debbie (IT)
If you query restore on the TSM server you should see restartable restores listed, they will have a negative session number. You can then use the cancel restore session# to cancel the job. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong

Library manager frozen

2007-07-11 Thread Mari, Julien
Hello, We are using TSM in a shared environment. We have several TSM instances sharing drives which are managed by a library manager. All TSM servers and Library manager are at version 5.3.5 running on AIX (recent atape driver too) I had a drive in an unknown state and a q dri f=d showed

Re: LTO4 support?

2007-07-11 Thread Gee, Norman
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663uid=swg27009625 TSM 5.4.1 hopefully by end of month. Or TSM 5.3.5.1. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Lawrence Clark
We plan to. Raid-5, why not? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2007 3:01:16 PM Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
I thinking the speed (7200 RPM) may be a problem. Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/11/2007 1:04:40 PM We plan to. Raid-5, why not? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2007 3:01:16 PM Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? Individuals who have received this

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:01:16PM -0500, Johnny Lea wrote: Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? We use 7200RPM SAN attahced SATA arrays for our TDP primary pools, 1.5TB. No problems so far. hth, bob

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/11/2007 02:01:16 PM: Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? I've been using some SATA disks for a primary staging pool for a few months. It was the only storage we had at the time . . . so I used it.

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Avy Wong
Hello Len, Thanks for the pointer. Now I found the session, I would like to cancel it . I am inside the node where the restartable pending restore session is. I tried to cancel the session but it says my syntax is incorrect. Where did I goofed? Thanks. tsm q restore --- Restartable Restore

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:40:48 -0400, Richard Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While not what you are trying to do, next year I'm going to have a similar copy pool issue. Next year we plan to replace our old 3494 libs (3590 drives) by expanding our new 3584 libs (3592 drives). The 3494 libs

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Len Boyle
I believe that you want cancel restore 1 Or if you want to cancel all restore sessions cancel restore all -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:39 PM To:

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Sims
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA for good summary of the state of evolution and things to be aware of in proceeding with this. Richard Sims

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:09:31 -0500, Johnny Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I thinking the speed (7200 RPM) may be a problem. Good cache obviates that. SATA is good for serial workloads, so if you're sending few (maybe 10) streams to it simultaneously, you should be good. It'll suffer faster

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
Lots of good responses. Thanks everyone. Kelly Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/11/2007 2:03:53 PM Allen is correct: lots of write back cache and you are good to go. The better solution IMHO is to use some fast SAS or FC disk as traditional disk device class pool fronting a bunch of SATA file

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Avy Wong wrote: Len, I tried them both but it still says the same error. But when I try 'cancel restore' it says no restartable restore. The strange thing is if there is no restartable restore why does it say ... tsm cancel restore 1 ANS1038S Invalid

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

2007-07-11 Thread Avy Wong
Thanks Richard and Len. You are right Richard, silly me. So 'Cancel Restore' is the command.. 0 - Summary of Changes 1 - Using Commands 2 - Select from the commands listed below: 3 - ARCHIVE 4 - BACKUP DB2UDB 5 - BACKUP GROUP