Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-14 Thread Curtis Preston
De-gaussing is the only practical way to erase a significant quantity of tapes, and degaussing will render a number of modern tape formats useless forever. One of them is LTO. Not sure about 3x9x. (It's because, in addition to removing the data, degaussing also removes the servo tracks on the

Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config

2007-12-14 Thread Hans-Joachim Renger
Hello Sachin, before you continue on this path: You are using infinite logging, which is not recommended for an SAP environment. Unless you definitely need it, I'd suggest to switch to Archive Logging db2 update db cfg for SID using LOGSECOND 40 and see if that works. Mit freundlichen Gruessen /

Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config

2007-12-14 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Are you seeing anything in the server activity log? One issue that I ran into was that the logs and database should be stored in different storage pools when using the include logs option. Otherwise the backup can preempt itself doing a log retrieval...there's a technote that describes the

sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Park, Rod
I have a dba that has one sql server that has tsm hang issues according to him. They have a full backup job that backs up 7 sql db's. The size is about 80GB total. Sometime it backs them all up with no issues, sometime it says waiting on tsm server but if I look at q se there are no active

Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config

2007-12-14 Thread Lloyd Dieter
I haven't heard this before...can you elaborate on this? Is it documented anywhere? -Lloyd On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:44:52 +0100 Hans-Joachim Renger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello Sachin, before you continue on this path: You are using infinite logging, which is not recommended for an

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Del Hoobler
Did you examine the TSM Server activity log closely? Was there a problem where a tape did not get mounted in time? How many stripes are you using for the backup? If you are using multiple stripes and one of those stripes is waiting for the TSM server to mount a tape, it can cause this. I have seen

Re: Strange difference between Primary and Copypool

2007-12-14 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Larry! Aparently... We don't use collocation (see my erlier post to Helder today). Here is the output from the q devclass: Device DeviceStorageDevice Format Est/Max Mount ClassAccess PoolType Capacity Limit Name

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Park, Rod
I don't see anything in the activity log. The backups are going straight to diskpools and the backups are single threaded. I did add disk space to my diskpool this week in case that was the issue. Looking at my diskvols, data doesn't seem to be striped across all disk evenly, would that be that

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Fred Johanson
This sounds like PMR#64846-122, which is still open after months of work. The last thing in the traces we ran is a TCPFLUSH. After that things hang forever. Fred Johanson TSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-14 Thread Gee, Norman
The servo track holds true for all 359x tapes. 3480 and 3490 can be safely degauss and reused -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Any market

Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-14 Thread Schneider, John
Curtis, 3590 tapes are where IBM servo tracks were first invented (unless it was 3570, I may be mistaken). 3592 and LTO are follow-on technologies built from those first ones. De-guassing shouldn't be the only way this could be done. It ought to be possible to write multiple

Re: Strange difference between Primary and Copypool

2007-12-14 Thread Dominique Laflamme
I'm working without the benefit of a set of doc PDFs at the moment, but I have a fairly specific recollection that when Group Collocation was introduced in 5.3, the default behavior for collocation on an new storage group changed. I could be wrong, but if Eric has any new storage pools, they might

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Schaub, Steve
I would look at your network connection first. Based on the throughput stats, I'm guessing you have a nic/switch mismatch between either the speed or duplex setting. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-535-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) ***public***

Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-14 Thread Len Boyle
The tape erase function is written up in the tape driver prog ref. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_Tape_Driver_PROGREF.pdf But it does not talk of HIPPA. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent:

Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-14 Thread Curtis Preston
I didn't say it was the only way. I said it was the only practical way. The erase function takes too long per tape to be used in bulk. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Avy Wong
Rama, In the Windows client, you can go to the GUI and under 'View policy Information' , when you click on it you can see all the po,do , version, etc., how can one find out these info on a Linux environment? Thanks, Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Avy Wong wrote: Greg, we did not install webclient of Linux or AIX boxes. Is there a file in the sys that shows that? Use the CLI... Commands like 'dsmc q mgm -detail' Richard Sims

Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Avy Wong
Hello, Is there a quick way to find out on a node ( relating the nodename to the query), to find out the po, do, mgmt class, versions Data Exists, versions data deleted, retain extra versions, retain only versions. When I do a 'q node f=d', all there is 'Policy Domain Name: DB2' shown on

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Choudarapu, Ramakrishna (GTI)
Avy, There is no direct way of finding a node's management class bindings, as it is defined at the client's include-exclude list. Also, A node's data can be bound to multiple management classes. Regards, Rama -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Greg Lynch
Avy, You can get the same information form the web client of the Linux host. Greg *** Gregory Lynch Lead Programmer Analyst IT Infrastructure/Systems Administration Stony Brook University Medical Center HSC Level 3, Room 121 ZIP

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Avy Wong
Greg, we did not install webclient of Linux or AIX boxes. Is there a file in the sys that shows that? Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Greg Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Versions Data Exist

2007-12-14 Thread Avy Wong
Thank you Richard and all the gents that responded. I appreciate your help. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:

Re: Data Domain Question

2007-12-14 Thread Curtis Preston
Really! What did they say? They've been rather tight-lipped elsewhere. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent:

Re: Data Domain Question

2007-12-14 Thread Colwell, William F.
Curtis, the Oxford 2007 presentations are available at http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2007contributions.html Review the ones by Dave Cannon and Freddy Saldana, they are very good with lots of information about possible future tsm features. Bill Colwell -Original Message- From:

Re: Data Domain Question

2007-12-14 Thread Curtis Preston
Charles, The one thing to be aware of with any dedupe offering is that when using a dedupe system with TSM, you will get significantly smaller dedupe ratios than those customers using it with Grandfather-father-son-based software (e.g. NBU, NW, CV) due to the progressive incremental nature of

Re: Data Domain Question

2007-12-14 Thread Curtis Preston
Thanks, Bill! That's great stuff. It's good to see that they see dedupe as a key feature. As he says, it won't benefit TSM customers as much as others, but it will still benefit them. It's interesting to see that they're going to do server-side dedupe first. They'll already have that with the