Re: Throttle a Windows client?

2008-06-10 Thread Henrik Vahlstedt
Hi, No, you can not limit the bandwidth within Windows for one application. However some application have their own setting for throttling ex. Backup Exec. By design TSM client is set to use as much resources it needs during backup ex. cpu, memory and network. Regarding network traffic, IBM

Re: Backup retention question

2008-06-10 Thread Tim Brown
Steve I responded wrong I meant You are deleting all backups of a file 7 days after being deleted from the filesystem What if a user deletes a file and needs it back after 7 days. Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven

Re: Backup retention question

2008-06-10 Thread Steven Harris
Yes, that was the spec that Bruce Dollens originally posited. Tim Brown wrote: Steve I responded wrong I meant You are deleting all backups of a file 7 days after being deleted from the filesystem What if a user deletes a file and needs it back after 7 days. Tim -Original

Re: Backup retention question

2008-06-10 Thread Tim Brown
Steve What about What if a user deletes a file and needs it back after 7 days are they out of luck ? Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Backup retention question

2008-06-10 Thread Steven Harris
Sure are. Tim Brown wrote: Steve What about What if a user deletes a file and needs it back after 7 days are they out of luck ? Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:43 AM To:

Re: Throttle a Windows client?

2008-06-10 Thread Laughlin, Lisa
I have, in essence, throttled wintel clients by decreasing the resourceutilization, decreasing the tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsize and setting tcpnodelay yes. It's not elegant, but it works. thanks! lisa -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Stop Systemstate backup

2008-06-10 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi *, I am having a problem trying to locate the exact synatx to exclude the systemstate backups on a Windows box. Does anyone know what the syntax is ? Rich Standard Life : 175 ans au coeur de nos vies Standard Life: Part of our lives for 175 years

Re: Throttle a Windows client?

2008-06-10 Thread Richard Rhodes
In a few cases where we have been desperate, we turned on client compression to throttle a client. - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this

Re: Stop Systemstate backup

2008-06-10 Thread Henrik Vahlstedt
Hi, With w2k3, use Domain -SystemState -SystemServices in dsm.opt. //Henrik -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: den 10 juni 2008 15:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Stop Systemstate backup

Re: Stop Systemstate backup

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Ouzen Ouzen
Rich In the domain statement add -systemstate Regards Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Stop Systemstate backup Hi *, I

Quota for clients?

2008-06-10 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, Does anyone know if it is possible to implement some kind of quota per client, so that it will not be possible to exceed a certain amount of data to be backupped (eg. 2GB max. data to be backupped to the TSM Server). The server and client will both be on 5.5. Met vriendelijke

NetApp as direct client

2008-06-10 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, Has anyone exprience in using a NetApp as a direct attached client in TSM. I know this is possible since 5.4/5.5, but I can't find any good documentation on it. Does someone have some implementation guidelines or knows where to find a manual/redbook/field guide? Met vriendelijke

Re: Stop Systemstate backup

2008-06-10 Thread Adrian Compton
DOMAIN SYSTEMSERVICES DOMAIN SYSTEMSTATE - (this line not used on clients older than 5.5) Adrian Compton Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth tel: +2741 4072855 Fax: +2741 453 7452 Cell: +27823204495 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: NetApp as direct client

2008-06-10 Thread Anil Maurya
What you mean by direct attached client ? THX -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard van Denzel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NetApp as direct client Hi All, Has anyone

Re: Quota for clients?

2008-06-10 Thread Richard Sims
Schemes to limit client activity are contrary to the overall purpose of TSM, where denying a department the ability to safeguard its data can result in losses which would be painful to the organization. But, TSM server administrators do have to deal with pests at various times. Where social

Re: Quota for clients?

2008-06-10 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Maybe you should have whoever is responsible for the system give you a list of the files they need backed up, not to exceed XXX Mb's. And just backup up what's on the list. That way at least they will know what they have protected. You could limit the size of each backup by assigning the node

Re: Quota for clients?

2008-06-10 Thread Dominique Laflamme
There are times when a nearly trivial change replicated across a file system (I'm thinking of NTFS permissions changes; I'm sure there are others) will force unusually large backups. In cases like that, I'd like the TSM backups to continue to run into normal business hours but in a way that

Re: NetApp as direct client

2008-06-10 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Richard, If you mean performing NDMP dumps via ethernet to a TSM server it is relatively simple. If you desire a non-root user on the NetApp to run backups otherwise just enable NDMP and use the root user account on the NetApp. On the NetApp Create a backup user Generate an

[OFFTOPIC] Announce online generator for LTO barcode labels

2008-06-10 Thread daniel996
Hi Jerome, Just a quick note to say your utility rocks! Saved me from spending several hundred $$ on pre-printed labels, thankyou! Cheers Dan +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Announce online generator for LTO barcode labels

2008-06-10 Thread Jerome Alet
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:11:54PM -0400, daniel996 wrote: Just a quick note to say your utility rocks! Saved me from spending several hundred $$ on pre-printed labels, thankyou! Thanks a lot ! If you don't mind please could you tell us where you purchased the blank labels and, if possible,

3494 tape libraries and 3590 drives available to take from New Haven, CT, USA

2008-06-10 Thread James R Owen
In case someone might be interested to take and reuse... Yale University recently decommissioned 4 * IBM 3494 tape libraries and will recycle them for scrap metal before June 30th, unless some other institution would like to take and reuse them. The libraries and 3590 drives were maintained by

After upgrading to 5.5.0.3

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Ouzen Ouzen
Hi to all I just upgrade my Tsm server Version 5, Release 5, Level 0.3 on an AIX-RS/6000 and got few problems that never occur before: 1. I got this message trying to delete a tape with the data on it (discardd=yes) ANR2229W Discard data process terminated for volume