Problem in Archive...

2009-02-11 Thread KIRAN-SYSTEMS
Hi, I am getting the following error while Archive ANS1008E No Archive Copy Group Please suggest. Regards, Kiran M Disclaimer: This email message (including attachments if any) may contain privileged, proprietary, confidential information, which may be exempt from any kind of

Re: Problem in Archive...

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Sims
The description of the ANS1008E message in the Messages manual, of via 'dsmc help' explains the problem. You're missing an Archive type copy group in your management class. Go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244877.html and download that redbook to read and gain an understanding of

reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Hana Darzi
Hello, Can I read TSN backup/archive client tape without tsm database. I need delete archive files that maybe on the tape, and I do not have Database . Is it any utility? Thank you, hana _ Hana Darzi Computation Center, Ben-Gurion

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Hana Darzi wrote: Can I read TSN backup/archive client tape without tsm database. I need delete archive files that maybe on the tape, and I do not have Database . Is it any utility? You might be able to physically read data from TSM tapes, depending upon

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Loon, EJ van - SPLXM
Hi Hana! No. Without a database it's impossible to restore files. Kind regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hana Darzi Sent: woensdag 11 februari 2009 13:27 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: Hi Hana! No. Without a database it's impossible to restore files. You can read the data from tape. Check out this post: http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/179/47/ and this utility: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsmtape I never

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Hana Darzi
Hello, That was my question can I read this files without tsm and how??? Win2003 Lib scalar i500 Lto3 with compression tapes Thank you, hana -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:39 PM

cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
Hello all, My TSM server version is Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 3, Level 5.0 on AIX. The issue i am facing is that when i try to give command like q path or q mount the command hangs as shown below * tsm: TSMLMq mount

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Kamran Rao
As root - run lsdev -Cc tape and see if your drives and medium changer are showing up as available - if shows up as defined then you might have a device problem. You have not mentioned what kind of library and also if it is a direct connect as scsi or via FC adapter etc etc? Regards, Kamran

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
Hello, The o/p of command is as below: # /usr/sbin/lsdev -C -c tape -H name statuslocation description rmt0 Available 1Z-08-00-0,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive rmt1 Available 31-08-01 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP) smc0 Available 31-08-01 IBM 3584 Library Medium

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Baker, Jane
You need to run q pr from the TSM interface to see processes. Jane. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of ashish sharma Sent: 11 February 2009 16:02 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cannot run command Hello, The o/p

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Coles
q proc works as well. I use it all the time. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Baker, Jane Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cannot run command

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Coles
What other sessions are running when you issue the command? I've known some processes kind of hold the storage in what seems like limbo for a while. Does this box do anything else besides TSM? Oh, and q path and q drive to see where they stand. See Ya' Howard -Original Message-

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
Hello Howard, There are a total of 37 sessions running,some are user sessions and some are of library clients.this box is running two other tsm server instances . q path again hangs while q drive is perfect. On 2/11/09, Howard Coles howard.co...@ardenthealth.com wrote: What other sessions

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Kamran Rao
I agree q pr will detail which drives in use, as well as I have seen that certain processes will reserve the drive, cancelling the session or process will release the drive. Regards, Kamran Rao -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
Hello Kamran, q pr gives nothing and also i am unable to cancel the session using cancel session command.It show cancel as seccess but when i do q sessioni can see the session again wityh same session number. On 2/11/09, Kamran Rao kamran@grhosp.on.ca wrote: I agree q pr will detail which

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Coles
What are the other two TSM instances doing? I'm assuming they share the Library and drives right? It could be that this TSM instance is just waiting for access to the drives. Also what state were some of the sessions in? Like media wait running etc. I usually see this behavior when something

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
yes.howard,you are right.I am attaching the o/p of sessions in a file and i dont see them as waiting fro something. On 2/11/09, Howard Coles howard.co...@ardenthealth.com wrote: What are the other two TSM instances doing? I'm assuming they share the Library and drives right? It could be that

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Coles
I meant to mention if you have a 3584 you should be able to access the web interface and see which drives have tapes mounted. That will give you an idea of how busy the library is. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf

Re: TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage

2009-02-11 Thread Gee, Norman
It is official, announcement letter 209-004 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 products deliver next generation unified recovery management capabilities to help protect today's enterprise data center IBM United States Software Announcement 209-004 February 10, 2009

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Coles
No, we're not sugarcoating anything. The Library itself has a web interface, that displays pretty much everything and anything you need to know about it. It will display drive error numbers, mounts, cleaning tape usage, etc. It may be you have tape drives that are needing to be cleaned, and are

Re: AIX 5.1.1.0 Client install fileset issue

2009-02-11 Thread Clark, Robert A
I ran into this problem recently. In a nutshell, you can't install both the required gskta and tivoli.tsm.client filesets in one pass. (Chicken and egg dependency problem?) The workaround I found was to make two passes through smitty installp. The first time select and install the gskta filesets.

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello, Ashish. I've seen this before in library manager environments. Usually I recommend people bring down all their TSM servers, then on each TSM server's host, delete their device files (rmt* and smc*), run cfgmgr to redetect, restart TSM, and update their paths. It's the surest fix. If you

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Hana. Yes, you can read the tape. However, recovering files from the data you read will be so difficult that recovery is infeasible. You will have to mount the tape, then use some kind of utility to read the tape to a big file. In UNIX, we would use dd. I have no idea what similar

subfile size limit

2009-02-11 Thread Joe Crnjanski
Hello, I remember long time ago file size limit for subfile backup was 2GB file size. I'm wondering if this limit has been removed. I searched TSM support size, but couldn't find anything. Regards, Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Web:www.infinitynetwork.com

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Asish, One other issue I have seen is where the drive on the control path gets a tape stuck in it. TSM (or the driver) continually retries on the drive, and until each retry attempt times out the control path is unresponsive to commands, The indicator here is repeated entries in the AIX

Version Interoperability...

2009-02-11 Thread Ochs, Duane
Hi all, Is there a rule of thumb for version interoperability ? I'm prepping to upgrade my three TSM servers to 5.5.1.1 from 5.4.3.0 I'm going through and upgrading my clients to 5.5.*.* and found some W2K boxes running 5.2.2 and some AIX 5.2 boxes running 5.2.2 . Neither of those are listed

Re: subfile size limit

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Sims
The most recent documented limit value that I see is in Technote 1157331. That's something that should be in the Windows client manual, but seems not to be. Richard Sims

Re: subfile size limit

2009-02-11 Thread Mark Stapleton
That limitation is still in place. I *think* it's an OS limitation, but I wouldn't bet the farm on that. -- Mark Stapleton System engineer, CDW -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Re: AIX 5.1.1.0 Client install fileset issue

2009-02-11 Thread Timothy Hughes
Robert, Timothy, Richard, Mark and Erwann Thanks for your Responses! After serveral tries I was Finally able to install the client. I looked at the installed software and noticed the following gsksa.rte 7.0.3.30C FAIX Certificate and SSL Base Runtime ACME Toolkit gskta.rte

Re: subfile size limit

2009-02-11 Thread Joe Crnjanski
Hi Richard, I found this tech note before I posted this question. Technote is dated dec/2005, that's why I was hoping that limit has been increased. Regards, Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x226 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web:www.infinitynetwork.com

Re: Version Interoperability...

2009-02-11 Thread km
On 11/02, Ochs, Duane wrote: Hi all, Is there a rule of thumb for version interoperability ? I'm prepping to upgrade my three TSM servers to 5.5.1.1 from 5.4.3.0 I'm going through and upgrading my clients to 5.5.*.* and found some W2K boxes running 5.2.2 and some AIX 5.2 boxes running 5.2.2

Re: Version Interoperability...

2009-02-11 Thread Ochs, Duane
That's what I figured. 5.3.6 is the last TSM client version that states it supports W2K. 5.4.3 is the last TSM client version that states it supports AIX 5.2 Thanks. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: Wednesday,

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Conway, Timothy
Ashish: Your situation is somewhat familiar to me. I've had the server process become selectively and increasingly unresponsive, to the point where sometimes the only way to get it down is with a kill -TERM. It most often happens when I do storage-related queries while waiting for a tape

TDPO RMAN problems

2009-02-11 Thread Allan Mills
Have just installed TDPO 5.3.3 64bit on solaris 8 64bit with oracle 9.2.0.4 This is part of a enterprise wide migration from NetBackup to TSM everything appeared to install ok, relinked the libobk.so as per manual running the following test script gives the output below cat y.y rman

Re: TDPO RMAN problems

2009-02-11 Thread De Gasperis, Mike
Found this old posting from Richard, sounds like you just need to update your permissions so you can write to the dsmerrorlog/schedlog Goran - See that msg in the TSM Wiki or ADSM QuickFacts. The 106 should be API error DSM_RC_ACCESS_DENIED, meaning denied due to improper permission. Richard

Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Abdullah, Md-Zaini B BSP-IMI/231
Hi TSM expoertise, I have an issue when creating a FILE device with miltiple directories locating in different filesystems. Please advise. from AIX --- r...@bspsap11 # df -k|grep /file /dev/fstlv_filedev1 103546880 1031263201%4 1% /filedev1 /dev/fstlv_filedev2

Re: Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Kelly Lipp
Get rid of the double quote before the /filedev1 and the space after the , and you should be fine. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Abdullah, Md-Zaini B BSP-IMI/231
Hi Kelly, Still having error. TSMdefine devclass FILE_DEV_HR devtype=file directory=/filedev1,/filedev2 SHAREd=yes MOUNTLimit=2 MAXCAPacity=40G ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter. ANS8001I Return code 3. rgds, Md.Zaini Hj.Abdullah Seria Head Office Jalan Utara,

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread ashish sharma
Hello Guys, I will try the things today in ofice and will let you know the status asap.For sure, i am confident that rebooting and restarting the tsm server will solve the issue but at this point of time i am not in favour of this. On 2/12/09, Conway, Timothy timothy.con...@jbssa.com wrote:

Re: Version Interoperability...

2009-02-11 Thread גדעון בראון
Hi All, I am working with 5.4.1.3 client on W2K machines. TSM server is 5.5.2.0. Gideon Brown System Administrator 03-5319085,052-8395641 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:57 PM

Re: Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Remco Post
What kind of filesystem are you on? shared=yes? are you very very 1000% sure? On 12 feb 2009, at 06:09, Abdullah, Md-Zaini B BSP-IMI/231 wrote: Hi Kelly, Still having error. TSMdefine devclass FILE_DEV_HR devtype=file directory=/filedev1,/ filedev2 SHAREd=yes MOUNTLimit=2 MAXCAPacity=40G

Re: Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Abdullah, Md-Zaini B BSP-IMI/231
oslevel AIX 5300-04 TSM Version 5, Release 2, Level 6.0 /dev/fstlv_filedev1 /filedev1jfs2 Feb 12 08:55 rw,log=INLINE /dev/fstlv_filedev2 /filedev2jfs2 Feb 12 08:57 rw,log=INLINE Md.Zaini Hj.Abdullah Seria Head Office Jalan Utara, Panaga, Seria KB3534, Brunei Darussalam

Re: Defining FILE Device class

2009-02-11 Thread Remco Post
in that case you want shared=no shared=yes on file type devclasses is very rare, only supported on sanergy and well, basically you don't want it. On 12 feb 2009, at 08:26, Abdullah, Md-Zaini B BSP-IMI/231 wrote: oslevel AIX 5300-04 TSM Version 5, Release 2, Level 6.0 /dev/fstlv_filedev1

Re: OS/390 or z/OS as Tivoli Clients

2009-02-11 Thread Mehdi Salehi
In open systems the total amount of data we need to backup is about 15TB and in z/OS about 5TB. IBM does have Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS. What does this product do? Does it backup DB2 data on z/OS? Thanks On 2/7/09, Wanda Prather wanda.prat...@jasi.com wrote: You cannot back up DB2 for