Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Gary Bowers
Probably the biggest gripes that I have against TSM. Having dealt with other Backup vendors, Tivoli is very good at batching things, but it is difficult to follow a single process, or backup for that matter through to completion. You may be used to other tools that allow you to see completion

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Boyer
Why not just look at the QUERY EVENT command. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Yudi Darmadi Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Querying status of a finished process Try this: q

Re: Date, time and number format

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
* LANGuage * * Specifies the language to use for help and error messages. Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: g.solonovi...@bkme.com Please

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Try q act se=Process ID begind=date begint=time Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: g.solonovi...@bkme.com Please consider the environment before

DIRMC

2009-10-15 Thread Bill DOURADO
Hi All, Is DIRMC still useful ? Or should I ditch it. Windows clients only. Storage Management Server for Windows - Version 5, Release 4, Level 2.0 Many Thanks Bill Dourado

Re: DIRMC

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Yes, I am still use DIRMC to prevent holding directories in management class with the biggest expiry period in domain. Do you have any information about IBM plans for DIRMC? Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East

Re: DIRMC

2009-10-15 Thread Bill DOURADO
Grigori, No I don't have any information about IBM plans for DIRMC? Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: 15 October 2009 10:20 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC Yes, I am still use

Re: DIRMC

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Raibeck
It really depends on your retore needs. Directories are a special case of small files. Restore performance from tape, especially for lots of small files, will vary depending on whether you collocate by file space or node, or if you don't collocate at all; plus how well tapes are managed via

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
TSM's query events will report success even though the backup may have skipped some files that were locked or open. I think many people ignore skipped files. But when building Servergraph, we added thorough skipped-file analysis, and were surprised at what our customers found. It turns out that

Remote Netware connectivity software

2009-10-15 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello All I need to install the Novell Tivoli Client on 3 servers, Does any know of any FREE, Remote software the I can install on my PC to connect to Novell Servers Remotely. Thanks in Advance for any help!

Formating SQL query

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
I am not very cool in SQL and I need help. I have query like select distict a,b from c group by a,b Response on this SQL query in TSM Server is: A1 B1 A1 B2 A2 B3 A2 B4 A2 B5 I would like to have: A1 B1 B2 A2 B3 B4 B5 I know exactly it is possible in Oracle SQL*Plus. Is it possible

Re: Formating SQL query

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Green
A year ago I attended an introductory 5-day SQL*Plus course where we were told that usage of 'distinct' is discouraged, use 'group' by instead. My 5ยข. -- Warm regards, Michael Green On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Grigori Solonovitch g.solonovi...@bkme.com wrote: I am not very cool in SQL

Re: Formating SQL query

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Thank you very much, but this an answer on my question? Is it enough to remove distinct? Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail:

Tivoli Client Readme pages

2009-10-15 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello All, Can anyone get to the Readme's for the Tivoli Clients Readme's ? ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r5/Windows/x64/v552/5.5.2.1-TIV-TSMBAC-README_enu.htm I am getting the following message The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Richard Sims
Lindsay offers good advice on skipped files, and the part they play in how a backup went. Too often, sites try to evaluate backups from standpoint of the TSM server. That's unhealthy, and can result in many missed files - which come dramatically to light when a crunch occurs and restore doesn't

Re: Tivoli Client Readme pages

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
The same me, but http://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r5/Windows/x64/v552/5.5.2.1-TIV-TSMBAC-README_enu.htm is working fine. Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East

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2009-10-15 Thread Peters, Neil G
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Tivoli Client Readme pages The same me, but

FW: [ADSM-L] Remote Netware connectivity software

2009-10-15 Thread Laughlin, Lisa
FYI-- thanks! lisa -Original Message- From: Twehus, Terry Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:08 AM To: Laughlin, Lisa Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Remote Netware connectivity software No but this is what we used -

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Huebschman, George J.
Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show false success for scheduled backups. I have had experience with the summary table showing success for backups where the actlog shows failure. IBM tells me that it is working as designed. I have not had experience with false success in

Re: Tivoli Client Readme pages

2009-10-15 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks Grigori..That works! Tim Grigori Solonovitch wrote: The same me, but http://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r5/Windows/x64/v552/5.5.2.1-TIV-TSMBAC-README_enu.htm is working fine. Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect

Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Remote Netware connectivity software

2009-10-15 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks Lisa! Tim Laughlin, Lisa wrote: FYI-- thanks! lisa -Original Message- From: Twehus, Terry Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:08 AM To: Laughlin, Lisa Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Remote Netware connectivity software No but this is what we used -

VSS Hotfix list for Windows 2008

2009-10-15 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Hi all, We're running Windows 2008 to serve Exchange in a clustered environment. Nodes on the cluster have intermittently crashed during the TSM 5.5.2 client backup run (or immediately after). This run backs up the C: drive and system state. I have suspicions that VSS is the culprit (and

Re: VSS Hotfix list for Windows 2008

2009-10-15 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Sergio, What specific error messages pertaining to TSM do you see in the dsmerror.log file? While running vssadmin list writers, are there any writers that show state of failure? Thanks. BERTAUT TCHUISE TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator Legg Mason Technology Services *410-580-7032

TSM v5 to v6 database insert

2009-10-15 Thread Xav Paice
Hi, I've been working on upgrading a client's system from V5.5.2 to v6.1.2, on a new server (Win2k3 x64, SP2), and have got to the point of running the insertdb to get the database from the old machine's extract to the new machine. The insert ran for 7.5 hours and did 29GB of data, dismounted

Re: Formating SQL query

2009-10-15 Thread Colwell, William F.
Grigori, I assume the sql*plus feature you use is the break statement which by default does outlines on break columns. Besides submitting sql and retrieving results sets, Sql*plus includes a lot of report writer functions which are not strictly SQL. So I don't know any way to do

Create holes in data

2009-10-15 Thread Strand, Neil B.
I have a question - please do not ask for an explination - it is what the customer wants. Environment: -TSM Server 5.4 on AIX -TSM BA client on Linux, Solaris and Windows (various flavors) -TS3500 tape library with TS1120 drives (+1TB on each tape) The customer desires me to convert the last

Another approach to my problem...

2009-10-15 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Thanks for your help on migration strategies. I think it's doable by us (me, really) with only a few things to be ironed out. However, I've also been asked to look at moving to a different solution entirely. Has anyone here been asked to do this? The new solution is yet to be determined,

ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-10-15 Thread Sam Sheppard
We have installed TSM 6.1.2 server on a new AIX box along with the 6.1 version of the Administration Center. I don't know if there is something we missed on the config of the ISC or if these are just bugs, but we have had a number of incidents of bad behaviour when trying to define stuff with this

Re: ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-10-15 Thread Wanda Prather
I have seen some odd things happen on the ISC for 6.1 (not specifically the ones you mention) that change or disappear in a different browser. If you are using IE, try Mozilla; if you are using Mozilla, try IE, or a later version/different platform for Mozilla. Java is evil, IMHO. W On Thu,

Re: VSS Hotfix list for Windows 2008

2009-10-15 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
The only indication that it's a VSS issue is the fact that the crash or hang happens during or immediately after the System state backup. There's nothing in the logs because the crash occurs abruptly. Even Window event logs don't show any sort of error message or STOP event. The hotfixes I

Re: VSS Hotfix list for Windows 2008

2009-10-15 Thread Cory Heikel
Sergio, Let me know how you make out with this. We are experiencing similar problems which my gut kept telling me had to do with the vss. We have an open ticket with IBM, but no real answers yet. One thing we did find was that if you add -systemstate to the opt file thei system doesn't hang or

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Johnny Lea
I run a script every morning to look for failed files by issuing a select statement that looks for msgno's 4005, 4007, 4018, 4037, 4042, and 4987. Johnny Huebschman, George J. gjhuebsch...@lmus.leggmason.com 10/15/2009 8:46 AM Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show

Re: ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-10-15 Thread Carol Trible
Hi Sam, Most of your problems look like they are related. The DEDUP one very much looks like a known problem with FireFox, some of the 3.5.x versions, where it looses check boxes. If you go to the sessions tab, go to the advanced settings tab, and back to the sessions tab you will see that the

Re: Remote Netware connectivity software

2009-10-15 Thread Neilly, Ron
Yes. There are many ways, all free, to get to the NetWare console remotely. 1. Novell Remote Manager (aka NoRM). This is a web based management interface with a lot of capabilities, one of which is a console access capability. The service listens on port 8008/8009 by default. It is

Re: Create holes in data

2009-10-15 Thread Steven Harris
Neil, I feel your pain. I've been thinking my way 'round this one for a while, but I see no easy solution. All I can suggest to give them precisely what they want is a restore to point-in-time followed by an archive. However this will produce 9 full copies of the data and is likely to use up

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
We are running VSS based backups (SYSTEMSTATE, etc). Quite often there are VSS problems during backups. We are installing VSS patches, but VSS is still a source of problems. TSM Client gives normal completion in this case and event is mensioned as successfull. I have found only one way to

Re: Formating SQL query

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Bill, Thank you very much. I do not think it is a good idea to use direct interface to DB2. I do not want to be DB2 database administrator. I had some not very good expirience with DB2-based IBM MERVA application in the past (similar to SWIFT). As far as I understatnd, IBM does not advise to

Re: ISC 6.1 Quirkiness

2009-10-15 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Hello Sam, Have you tried to use something much more simple and useful for TSM administration? For example, TSMExplorer from www.s-iberia.com. Spend a few minutes to downolad and install demo version, try and enjoy easy life. Look also for TSMManager, if you do not like TSMExplorer. Grigori

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-15 Thread Roger Deschner
This is always a puzzle, and the best I've come up with is the backup completion timestamps for each filespace, as reported by either: * Linemode Client QUERY FILESPACE command (This valuable information is not available in the GUI client - why?) * Server Q FILESPACE F=D. I have written a script