Re: Why the wait time on this export?

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Evans, Bill wrote: This Export finally completed, however, I can't figure why it was waiting so long for a volume. (Waiting for input volume(s): B00580L3,(58779 Seconds)) ... It was waiting for some process or session which had that sequential tape volume actively

TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Adrian Compton
Hi Has anyone had any issues with TSM Manager causing locks in the TSM Database from the Collector service. The collector runs on Windows Server 2003. TSM 5.3.5.2 on AIX 5.3 LPAR I have logged an PMR with IBM and they found from my actlog extracts that there are multiple selects and

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Young
First question is have you asked JamoDat, the authors of TSM Manager? Jim - Original Message - From: Adrian Compton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:51 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Manager Issue Hi Has anyone had any issues with TSM Manager

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Adrian Compton
Hi Jim,, I have, and they are as confused as I am, as TSM Manager only performs queries and selects from the collector side. Awaiting more info from IBM. I will post the result in case any others are interested once I resolve it. Thanks Adrian Compton IT Baan Operation/ Group IBM Tivoli Admin

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Sims
Adrian - Beyond using caution to avoid excessive database demands, one thing I would check is for there being a substantial amount of contiguous free space at the end of your database, to support the Select activity, so as to avoid that further complication in all the activity. Beyond that, IBM

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Adrian Compton
Hi Richard By contiguous space, I presume there should be enough from the table below AvailableAssigned Maximum Maximum PageTotal Used Pct Max. SpaceCapacityExtensionReduction Size Usable Pages Util Pct (MB)

Advice - DB Restore without tape

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Young
Hi, Need some quick advice. I have to test the server upgrade to V5.5 from V5.3.2.0. I have a basic vanilla install of 5.3.2.0 on AIX but have no access to a tape drive to restore the TSM database from the live environment. Whats the easiest way to get a DB backup to this server to restore

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Adrian Compton
Hi Richard Based on your experience, would any of the OPTIONs have an effect. tsm: TSM-PLZq opt Server Option Option Setting Server Option Option Setting - - CommTimeOut 300

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread David E Ehresman
I don't know if it relates to your problem or not, but I have had IBM support tell me that too many selects were the cause of TSM server crashes we were seeing. David Adrian Compton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/2/2008 8:51 AM Hi Has anyone had any issues with TSM Manager causing locks in the TSM

LANfree issue

2008-04-02 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Storage agent machine is Windows 2003 SP2, 64-bit. Client v 5.4.1.6, storage agent version 5.4.2 TSM server is AIX 5.3, server v5.4.2. Storage agent config seems to be correct, but the devices under device manager will not start. I have updated them to the correct IBM device drivers. Has

Delete volume problem

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. We are in the process of migrating some of our offsite copies to newer tape technology. Yesterday I finished backing up all the data in one of our primary tape pools to a new copy storage pool. This morning I started deleting the volumes

Re: Delete volume problem

2008-04-02 Thread David Longo
I think there is an occasional problem with Delete Volume at that TSM server version that can hang things. I seem to recall is fixed in TSM 5.3.5.x or close. David Longo Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/2/2008 2:02 PM We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. We are in the

Re: TSM Manager Issue

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Adrian Compton wrote: Hi Richard Based on your experience, would any of the OPTIONs have an effect. ... Adrian - Your TSM server options values look reasonable to me. And I'd expect TSM Support to immediately want to check a value if they knew of one which

GPFS question

2008-04-02 Thread Bjørn Nachtwey
dear all, we're running a bunch of Linux machines using a shared GPFS-SAN-volume and having all a shared DNS alias (done by round robin change). I want to backup as well each machine with it's own IP name (as nodename) and the GPFS volume. my idea is to backup the GPFS volume using the DNS

Something special with a LTO Volume

2008-04-02 Thread Jacquelin Bouchard
Hello, When i execute the following request for a particular volume (A00043) select - volumes.volume_name as VOL_NAME,- volumes.stgpool_name as STGPOOL_NAME,- volumes.est_capacity_mb as EST_CPCTY_MB,- volumes.pct_utilized as PCT_UTIL,-

Re: Something special with a LTO Volume

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Denier
-Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: - When i execute the following request for a particular volume (A00043) [SQL deleted] this result is printed and everything is OK VOL_NAME: A00043 STGPOOL_NAME: TPCE_BCK_DATA_COPY EST_CPCTY_MB:381468.0 PCT_UTIL: 0.1 STATUS:

3592 scratch pools

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. It will be upgraded to 5.4.2.0 in the next few weeks. We currently have 3592J drives used for all primary tape storage pools and a few copy pools. We have 3590 drives used for most of the copy pools. We are preparing to order some TS1120

Re: Delete volume problem

2008-04-02 Thread Mcnutt, Larry E.
We have a database corruption problem that apparently was a result of a failed delete volume. We are at version 5.3.3.0. The effects we experience are that expiration logs a few thousand errors daily, and we cannot run delete file for some defunct nodes. The solution from TSM support is to

Re: Delete volume problem

2008-04-02 Thread Wanda Prather
No good way around it, except to run your DELETE VOLUMES serially and with NOTHING ELSE going on. Or upgrade past the bug. Search www.ibm.com: IC50659 On 4/2/08, David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is an occasional problem with Delete Volume at that TSM server version that can

Re: Something special with a LTO Volume

2008-04-02 Thread Jacquelin Bouchard
Hi Thomas, The 2 commands give the same result: ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. The LTO is a copy in vault of something in a tape storage pool; maybe, it will be necessary to recreate all the copies for vault of this originating tape storage pool. Jacquelin

Re: GPFS question

2008-04-02 Thread Wanda Prather
Look in the TSM client manual for Unix/Linux 5.4 or 5.5. Search for the term PROXYNODE and GPFS. On 4/2/08, Bjørn Nachtwey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, we're running a bunch of Linux machines using a shared GPFS-SAN-volume and having all a shared DNS alias (done by round robin

multiple tapes being detected as WRITE PROTECTED in SL500 library

2008-04-02 Thread John C Dury
We have an SL500 tape library with 50 tapes in it and 4 IBM Ultrium LTO4 drives. One of the drives consistently is detecting tapes that get mounted to it as WRITE PROTECTED. We have replaced the fiber between the drive and the DS-4900 SAN switch and also moved it into a new port in the SAN switch

Re: 3592 scratch pools

2008-04-02 Thread Gee, Norman
TS1120 and J1A drives will have to be in different logical libraries similar to having two different types of LTO drives in the same physical library. I don't believe that different logical libraries can share scratch tapes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM

2008-04-02 Thread Clark, Margaret
My favorite is the customer who believes their every backup is on their own private tape, and will we just send it to them? - Margaret Clark, San Diego Data Processing -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday,

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM - send me my tape

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Harris
On a related note, there must be some sort of audit requirement floating around out there. Every time someone retires a server that has had financial data on it I'm told we've made the final backup, send me the tape and they *won't* take no for an answer. Most often at that point the server