Re: TSM as application on windows cluster

2004-10-15 Thread James Choate
I have one customer in Idaho that is running TSM on AIX with HACMP 5.1. They are quiet pleased with the configuration. I haven't seen anyone do TSM server on a Windows cluster. Let us know what you decide to do as you move forward. James From: ADSM:

TDP for Informix anomaly

2004-10-06 Thread James Choate
Two questions: 1)Why won't my license file register? 2) Why is the size of my filespace 0 after the backup completes successfully? Here are the details. (I have a call open with IBM, but just wondering if anyone else has seen this.) I am backing up informix (Informix Dynamic Server

Re: TDP for Informix anomaly

2004-10-07 Thread James Choate
Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Choate

TDP for Mail (Exchange)

2004-11-02 Thread James Choate
. Thanks in advance, James Choate

Re: SQL Help

2004-11-30 Thread James Choate
Try this. select date(pending_date), count(*) from volumes where - status='PENDING' - group by pending_date From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of David E Ehresman Sent: Tue 11/30/2004 6:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL Help I'm trying to get

Re: Select Statement Help for Volume Breakdown

2004-11-30 Thread James Choate
Matt, The scratch column is case sensitive. Looks like the yes no are capitalized. The status column is YES|NO|NULL james From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims Sent: Tue 11/30/2004 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Select

Re: FASTT SOFTTWARE

2004-12-07 Thread James Choate
The name has changed. The FaStT 600 is now a DS4300. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ds4300/downloading.html The latest Storage Manager is 9.1. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Lepre, James Sent: Tue 12/7/2004 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: SV: Best OS for a TSM server

2005-05-04 Thread James Choate
Richard, How did you get the old WEBadmin running again. I upgraded to TSM 5.3 a couple of weeks ago. The ISC installation failed, and I have been unable to access the TSM server via a gui to administer it. Not a big deal for me, but we have some folks in operations that relied on the gui

Restore Times

2007-05-23 Thread James Choate
Does anyone have any general information that they have collected on restore time? Were trying to do a restore, and but we're not sure what to expect, and we don't have anything to compare it to. We are currently restoring 8.17GB to a Windows 2003 server. The client is running on IBM x345

Re: Restore Times

2007-05-23 Thread James Choate
, 23 May 2007 06:17:30 -0600, James Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone have any general information that they have collected on restore time? General timing information is nearly useless; not really. Some of the questions I'll ask below will amplify that. :) Were trying to do

TDP for Mail (Domino) throughput

2007-06-06 Thread James Choate
Is this as good as it can get for backing up Notes. or is 6MB/s just as good as it gets. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. I've been looking at this all day with the AIX sys admin, And the Notes admin, and we can't seem to make any headway. We're pushing 11 hours to back up this Notes

Re: TDP for Mail (Domino) throughput

2007-06-07 Thread James Choate
We did the test with a 2 GB file. We ran an ftp 4 times and our results yeilded file transfer speeds of 29MB/s. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Molero Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0

2008-04-16 Thread James Choate
I have a 5.4.3.0 TSM server running running on Windows 2003 server. My client in Windows 2000 sp2 server with ba client 5.2.4.0 My schedule SQL_SERVER_SCHEDULE fails because I get an ANS1512E error in my dsmsched.log file. However when I review the log file, it appears that everything was

Re: ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0

2008-04-17 Thread James Choate
2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0 anything in the dsmerror.log? are you running Pre or post schedule commands? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANS1512E

Journal Engine install on Windows

2008-05-07 Thread James Choate
What does that mean based on me having installed the journal engine after I had already done a full backup? Does that mean I need to delete my filespaces, and do a brand new full incremental? If anyone can clairify this for me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, James Choate

Re: Journal Engine install on Windows

2008-05-07 Thread James Choate
to see a longer than normal backup take place. Cool, huh? Those guys at IBM... Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Choate

Re: SQL select question

2003-10-30 Thread James Choate
William, Have you ever looked into ITSRM. Here is a brief description of its capibilities, one of which is the ability of file level analysis. Managing Storage Resources Across the Enterprise Tivoli SRM is designed to manage the heterogeneous storage environments found in most

Damaged volume

2003-11-04 Thread James Choate
Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 09/10/03 18:14:30 more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) Thanks in advance, James Choate

Query Event for Previous day shows status In Progress

2003-11-05 Thread James Choate
Can someone tell me what is going on with a client(s) that has a status of In Progress when I query the event? When I query the event for the previous day, the status indicates that the event is in progress. When I query the event for the current day, the event status shows future. When I

Re: Query Event for Previous day shows status In Progress

2003-11-05 Thread James Choate
. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Query Event

Re: How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume

2003-11-18 Thread James Choate
Did you restore the volume by update the volume and setting the access=destroyed, and then performing a restore volume? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to remove a 'Destroyed'

Re: what tape is in a drive?

2003-11-18 Thread James Choate
Try query mount -Original Message- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what tape is in a drive? TSM 5.1, 2K server, overland neo 4100 with 2 X LTO2 drives. I'm trying to find a select or query

Re: 3583 LTO Library

2003-11-19 Thread James Choate
Lindy, We are currently seeing a similar issue. Ours is actually with a 3584 LTO library. A couple questions: Do you see any errors recorded at the OS level? In your TSM activity log, do you see tapes get marked unavailable, or read-only right after the error in your tsm actlog? What brand of

Re: Howto erase data on volume, without deleting volume.

2003-12-02 Thread James Choate
Take a look at the DELETE VOLUME command. First take a look at the MOVE DATA command to move the data off of the volume. Then you can delete the volume. -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: SQL TDP configurations

2003-12-09 Thread James Choate
Hi William Can you email me a copy of you Excel spead sheet that interprets the dsmaccnt.log? Thanks in advance, James -Original Message- From: Willem Roos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SQL TDP configurations

Re: Scratch volumes not used

2003-12-12 Thread James Choate
bring the volume back onsite. update the access mode to readw. -Original Message- From: rh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scratch volumes not used Hi ITSM'ers I'm running TSM 4.2 with a 3494 library. During TSM start

Re: TSM Schedule

2004-04-14 Thread James Choate
do you have any nodes (clients) associated with this schedule? query to check q associ policy_domain schedule_name -Original Message- From: jianyu he [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/14/2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

2004-08-02 Thread James Choate
What is your reuse delay set to on BACKDESKPOOL storagepool? -Original Message- From: fred johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch Volume Name: UC0262

Re: restore db to new host (LPAR) and ESS dsmfmt'd stg volumes?

2004-08-16 Thread James Choate
Exporting your volume group is the easiest way to move any storage that is on the ESS. The only thing to watch out for as far as the TSM server is concerned, is to make sure that you TSM server database and log files are not in rootvg. -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert

Re: Recommendations for library ?

2004-08-17 Thread James Choate
Same as Wanda. I work for an IBM business partner and we service the 3583 and 3584 throughout the US. 85% of of customers are using one of these two libraries. Most customers are transitioning to LTO2. The only problems we have had was one of our customers tried to use a lower quality tape.

licensing question

2004-09-03 Thread James Choate
when I do a q lic, my licensing is valid. But when I look in my nodes table, I see I have 90 client nodes registered. Why the discrepancy? tsm: q lic Last License Audit: 08/13/04 01:52:47 Number of space management clients in use: 0

Re: TDP vs. FlashCopy thoughts

2004-09-14 Thread James Choate
To add to what Wanda is saying: When a FlashCopy is initiated, the DB/Mail server that you are flashing should be quiesced prior to the FlashCopy being initiated. FlashCopy can also be expensive. -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: TDP vs. FlashCopy thoughts

2004-09-14 Thread James Choate
/StorageManagerforHardware5.2.1.h tml Regards, Samiran Das -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?

2004-09-23 Thread James Choate
Hi Jack, what is the reclaimable % on those tapes? if you run the following from the administrative client and return the results, that would be helpful. select stgpool_name,pct_reclaim,pct_utilized, count (*) from volumes where pct_reclaim60 - group by stgpool_name

fioScanDirEntry error messages while backing up a windows file server

2006-04-24 Thread James Choate
Any one seen this before? We just started backing up a new windows file server. The windows client is 5.3.0 Our TSM server is AIX 5.3 ML03 TSM server 5.3.1 We're getting the following error in the dsmerror.log file on the client node. The Windows client (hqfile -- servername) is scheduled to

Re: 3584 Library

2006-06-08 Thread James Choate
Geoff, I would rmdev the smc devices and the rmt devices that are showing up as Other SCSI devices. Install the Atape driver. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX/ Then for your multiple smcs, if you don't have multiple paths defined, you could have a zoning issue. -Original

Mixed drives in a library

2006-10-04 Thread James Choate
or suggestions are welcomed. The tsm server is 5.2.7.3 Os aix 5.2 ML8 Lto2 drives : SCSI Lto3 drives : fibre Thanks, James Choate

Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?

2006-10-20 Thread James Choate
Ever look at Data Domain. It is disk stgpool that you define to look like tape. A good way of electronic vaulting. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

ANR8984E error message

2006-10-24 Thread James Choate
We are receiving the following ANR message from TSM. I can't find any references to the message in the messages and problems guide. Nor the IBM web site. I even tried google :( with no responses. We get the message when we turn on migration from our disk storage pool to our newly defined

Re: ANR8984E error message

2006-10-24 Thread James Choate
error message On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:00 PM, James Choate wrote: We are receiving the following ANR message from TSM. I can't find any references to the message in the messages and problems guide. Nor the IBM web site. I even tried google :( with no responses. James - Try the most intrinsic

Re: Inventory expiration suddenly grew by order of magnitude.

2006-11-03 Thread James Choate
George, What version of TSM are you running. You said 5.3.? Have you recently upgraded your TSM server? We recently ran into a problem with expiration. We were on version 5.3.1.0. TSM support recommended we upgrade to 5.3.4.0. Snippet from TSM support APAR IC46523 about similar

Re: Daylight Savings patch?

2007-01-18 Thread James Choate
Here is the blurb from IBM for the different OS levels: AIX O/S updated to support 2007 Daylight Saving Time change - (default) October 25, 2006 The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58) was passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005 and signed into law on August 8,

Re: change in reusedelay value and time it take for tapes to change status

2007-02-21 Thread James Choate
Barbara, I'm sure your aware of this little bit of info on reuse, but in case you didn't know: You should set the reuse delay equal to the expiry period of your database backups. For example, if you are using DRM and your DRMDBBackupexpiredays is set to 6, or you run delete volhistory

ANR1134W warning on migration

2005-06-17 Thread James Choate
I updated a the hi/lo threshold on a storage pool to 0/0 to force a migration. I received the following warning message. ANR1134W. Here is the resolution from the messages guide: ANR1134W Migration terminated for storage pool storage pool name - insufficient number of mount points

ANR1134W

2005-06-21 Thread James Choate
Can someone give me a little insight on resolving this warning? ANR1134W. How do I make more mount points available? I updated a the hi/lo threshold on a storage pool to 0/0 to force a migration. I received the following warning message. ANR1134W. Here is the resolution from the

TSM license files

2005-10-24 Thread James Choate
Does anyone know where TSM stores the license files that are currently registered on a TSM server? Are the licenses stored in an internal table within the database, or are they stored in an external file. The reason I ask, is that I moved a TSM server from older hardware to newer hardware, and

Error accessing 7212 tape library within TSM

2005-10-27 Thread James Choate
Hi, I have a small TSM server using a 7212-312 vxa tape library. The library has one tape drive and 10 slots. I am currently getting the following errors trying to communicate with the tape library and can not for the life of me figure out the problem. I currently have a PMR open with hardware

Re: Error accessing 7212 tape library within TSM

2005-10-31 Thread James Choate
accessing 7212 tape library within TSM From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Choate I have a small TSM server using a 7212-312 vxa tape library. The library has one tape drive and 10 slots. I am currently getting the following errors trying to communicate

Re: Copy Pool

2008-06-04 Thread James Choate
You can create another copy pool for offsite that is LTO4, and then backup your primary pools to the LTO4 offsite copy pool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dollens, Bruce Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:15 AM To:

Re: 3494 Partitioning

2009-02-17 Thread James Choate
Nick, I'm not sure if you have seen this redbook. It has a lot of specifics for the 3494 an z/OS. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244632.html?Open

Re: Tape performance (was: Re: Preferred TSM Platform)

2009-03-02 Thread James Choate
The fcstat was introduced in AIX 5.3. It is included in the devices.common.IBM.fc.rte fileset. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wallace.Dwight Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 7:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Tape

TSM 6.1 New features to backup GPFS

2009-04-07 Thread James Choate
from one GPFS storage pool (for example, fast RAID) to another GPFS storage pool (for example, slower SATA disks) while the filename will remain the same, including its directory and filesystem name. Any information you have, would be greatly appreciated. James Choate S1 IT Solutions

Failed Admin Center upgrade on AIX 5300 - 08-05-846

2009-05-05 Thread James Choate
I recently tried to upgrade my admin center from 5.4.0.0 to admin center 5.5.0.0. My platform is AIX 5300 - 08-05-846 on a p5 51A. I have 4GB of memory on the box. 2 - 2097 MHz processors. /opt is at 2GB with 700MB available. /tmp is at 1GB with 650MB available. My ISC is at 6.0.1.1. The

Re: Failed Admin Center upgrade on AIX 5300 - 08-05-846

2009-05-06 Thread James Choate
For those of you interested: If you upgrade your ISC/AC, it is important to remember the username/password with which the ISC/AC was installed with. If you forget your username/password combo [usually (iscadmin/iscpass)], you could have potential problems of not successfully being to upgrade.

Register Node or create client schedule fails using ISC

2009-05-06 Thread James Choate
I am running TSM 5.5.2.1 on AIX 5.3 TL8 When I register a new node, or create a client schedule using the ISC logged in as iscadmin, I get the following error from the ISC. Create Client Node Exception Type PortletException Message

Re: Register Node or create client schedule fails using ISC

2009-05-06 Thread James Choate
Thanks, That was it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Carol Trible Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Register Node or create client schedule fails using ISC The missing

Re: TSM for Oracle

2009-06-04 Thread James Choate
Do you have to use the RMAN catalog, or can I use 'tdposync' against the control files? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Neil Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM for Oracle

Change backup copy group settings

2009-08-13 Thread James Choate
I changed my backup copy group setting for a Policy domain that has one test node in it from Versions Data Exists: 35 Versions Data Deleted: 35 Retain Extra Versions: 35 Retain Only Version: 60 To: Versions Data Exists: 7 Versions Data Deleted: 7 Retain Extra Versions: 7 Retain Only Version: 14

Re: HSM Node Failing

2009-09-02 Thread James Choate
Danny, Are you are using HSM and Jorurnaling on this particular client? It looks like the journaling for the H: drive on the client is having issues. Have there been any recent changes made to this client, ie,. HSM implemented, Journaling implemented?

Re: emptying disk pool

2009-10-06 Thread James Choate
Tuncel, I'm not sure I'm following what you are wanting to do. To help me understand what you are trying to do, can you explain why you are deleting you primary disk storage pool and the underlying disk volumes daily. And you also mentioned that some data stays in the primary disk pool that

Re: Multiple instances on the same server

2010-03-23 Thread James Choate
The following reference states that running multiple instances of TSM on the same physical server is supported, but there are considerations:

How are primary sequential storage pools allocated?

2010-04-09 Thread James Choate
TSM 5.5.4.1 On Windows 2003 I have a primary disk storage pool that is 500GB called DISKPOOL and a primary sequential storage pool called ONSITE that is defined as the NEXTSTGPOOL for DISKPOOL. What I am noticing is that as I migrate data from DISKPOOL to ONSITE, the tapes are getting

Re: How are primary sequential storage pools allocated?

2010-04-09 Thread James Choate
and for all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] How are primary sequential storage pools allocated? TSM 5.5.4.1 On Windows 2003 I have

Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-16 Thread James Choate
Has anyone seen this error? I can't figure out whats going on and the messages guide isn't to helpful in resolving this error. Below are the client OS, BA client version, Server version, dsm.sys from the client, error in the dsmsched.log, dsmerror.log and a snippet from the srvr actlog file.

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-18 Thread James Choate
Hi Richard Len, Thanks for your input. I made the recommended change to the dsm.sys and took out the virtual mount point. I also added an exclude.dir /public . This is the latest message. 2010-04-17 18:21 ANR2579E Schedule PROD_6PM in domain PROD for node CLLINUX1 failed (return code 12).

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-18 Thread James Choate
I have attached the dsmsched.log dsmerror.log Dsmsched.log file 04/17/2010 18:08:35 TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 2.0 04/17/2010 18:08:35 Querying server for next scheduled event. 04/17/2010 18:08:35 Node Name: CLLINUX1 04/17/2010 18:08:35 Session established with server

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-19 Thread James Choate
04/19/2010 08:38:26 04/19/2010 08:38:26 Schedule Name: TEST_SCHEDULE 04/19/2010 08:38:26 Action:Incremental 04/19/2010 08:38:26 Objects: 04/19/2010 08:38:26 Options: 04/19/2010 08:38:26 Server Window Start:

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-19 Thread James Choate
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:45 AM, James Choate wrote: 04/19/2010 08:56:26 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN TEST_SCHEDULE 04/19/2010 08:40:00

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-19 Thread James Choate
backups are great for sniffing out filesystem problems. ;-) Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 9:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Linux Client failing with ANS1999E

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-23 Thread James Choate
. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2010-04-19 17:40:57: [image removed] Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error James Choate to: ADSM-L 2010-04-19 21:09 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor

Simple Admin Center 6.2install question

2010-05-03 Thread James Choate
I am getting ready to install TSM EE 6.2 on AIX 6.1 TL4 . As I was preparing to install the admin center as root, I received a warning that admin center should be installed under a different user id. I could not find reference to this in any of the documentation on installing the AC. Is

Re: time needed to upgrade to tsm 6.x?

2010-05-20 Thread James Choate
My answer would be, it depends. Depends on how much preparation you do ahead of time. Depends on if you are staying on the same box or moving to a new box. Depends on the size of the box. A couple different variables could change the total time. I just upgraded a 5.5 TSM server on AIX

Re: Probably easy tsm client install question

2010-06-16 Thread James Choate
TSM 6.2 has automatic client deployment for Windows clients. Automatic backup-archive client deployment IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2 can deploy backup-archive client code to workstations that already have the backup-archive client installed. You can now deploy backup-archive client code to

Re: Need info on how to SCP on AIX without being prompted for password

2010-06-25 Thread James Choate
Jim, You are almost there. Once you run ssh-keygen you should have created a public/private keypair in your .ssh directory. If you cd to ~/.ssh you should see an id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. Your next step should be to scp your id_rsa.pub to the server you want to scp in the future (you will be

Re: drive path offline

2010-12-14 Thread James Choate
You can update the path for the drive to bring it online. One of the parameters to the update path command is online=YES. I guess I would be curious as to why the path is offline. Did you have an error with the drive, did something happen with your fabric, or did someone take the path

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread James Choate
I would investigate journal based backups for AIX. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_jbbunix.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Tuesday,

TDP for Mail Exchange 2010 error (ACN0515E Invalid DSMAGENT )

2011-02-17 Thread James Choate
I am getting the following error when trying to run a TDP 4 mail (Exchange2010) backup to my TSM server. I can't seem to figure out what an Invalid DSMagent node configuration found means. If anyone can provide guidance I would appreciate it. Error message from TDP gui recorded in the

Re: TDP for Mail Exchange 2010 error (ACN0515E Invalid DSMAGENT )

2011-02-17 Thread James Choate
Del, I am in the process of updating the BA client to 6.2.2 and rebooting the client. One question I have relates to the userid=none parameter as referenced in the TDP install guide: Register your Data Protection for Exchange node name and password with the Tivoli Storage

Re: TDP for Mail Exchange 2010 error (ACN0515E Invalid DSMAGENT )

2011-02-17 Thread James Choate
Issue resolved. For those that are interested: After updating my baclient to v6.2.2 and rebooting, I removed my node (exchange2010_tdp) from the TSM server and recreated it. 1.Register TDP for Exchange Node Register Node EXCHANGE2010_TDP Domain=STANDARD Contact=''

Re: ftp site for tsm

2011-07-12 Thread James Choate
You are going to love it.It is now on Fix Central. www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral follow the links for Tivoli -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: ftp site for tsm

2011-07-12 Thread James Choate
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ftp site for tsm You are going to love it.It is now on Fix Central. www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral follow the links for Tivoli

Re :vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-09-29 Thread James Choate
Good questions: We are currently working on a project that is using ProtectTIER. The ProtectTIER 7650G is does dedup. It looks like a TS3500 w LTO drive. We will be getting another 7650G at a second data center. The idea is to to cross-replicate between data centers. -Original

Re: Label volumes in a scsi library?

2011-10-07 Thread James Choate
How did tape Q0 get into the library? Did you manually load a batch of tapes in this library without checking them in thru the bulk I/O? If that is the case, you can just checkin the tapes. You can try: Check in volumes that are already labeled: checkin libvolume NAS_QI6000 search=yes

Re: Label volumes in a scsi library?

2011-10-12 Thread James Choate
Directory: On-Line: Yes If anyone has any suggestions/ideas as to what I might be doing wrong I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Friday, October 07

Re: Issue wit IBM Library

2011-11-18 Thread James Choate
Can you post the details of the error message? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Swartz, Jerome Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Issue wit IBM Library Hi Chistian, We have tried all

Re: TSM 5.5 actlog size..

2011-11-18 Thread James Choate
Upgrade to 6.2.3. Much faster :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ajay Patel Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.5 actlog size.. Hi, On one of my tsm server Activity Log

Re: AIX DST patch: anyone else apply?

2012-03-06 Thread James Choate
If you are running AIX 7 TL1 at SP 2 or SP3 or AIX 6 TL4, TL5, TL6, or TL7 at the latest service pack level there is a potential problem with the Daylight Savings Time transition. Symptom would be a early transition to DST from standard time See

Re: Admin Center Issues

2012-06-26 Thread James Choate
I just recently tried to install admin center 6.3.0.0 for a customer. I spent a couple days and three failed installs before I opened a PMR. It took over 2 weeks for support to assist us and get us to the point we could use TIP/AC. In regards to other tools that are out there, I have been

Re: ibm hsm for windows download

2012-09-12 Thread James Choate
Gary. The latest version I have found on the IBM site is under v6.1.5. ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v6r1/Windows/x64/v615/HSM/ Can you pull a 6.3 version from Passport advantage? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: issue with offsite reclamation

2012-12-04 Thread James Choate
Hi David. When you run reclamation on your offsite volumes, what is the command you run? You also said you get a few tapes back, but that you get error. What error message are you constantly getting? And, last but not least, you mention that a lot of the offsite volumes have a percent

Re: upgrae from 5.5.4 to 6.2.4

2013-02-27 Thread James Choate
We have done the same thing as well. If you want more detail on the plan, I would do the following: .1 Only needs to be done once, but load the upgrade utilities on the server to be upgraded .2 Backup 5.5.4 Database 4 extract the database .(when I extract the db I always

Re: 5.5.4 to 6.2.4 upgrade problem

2013-02-28 Thread James Choate
The commands you ran would be helpful, as well as the following from the dsmserv.opt MIRRORLOGDirectory/? ACTIVELOGDirectory/? ARCHLOGDirectory/? Also, keep in mind that after you dsmserv removedb TSMDB1, the directories that contained the db2 db, db2 log, db2 log mirror, db2

Re: Moving TSM server from AIX to Linux

2013-04-04 Thread James Choate
Is it really as easy as just installing a new server on the new platform and then restoring a db? I wasn't aware that you could restore a db across platforms. I thought you would have to export/import the nodes out of the AIX server into the Linux server. -Original Message- From:

Re: Export to tape, Import on another platform

2013-04-09 Thread James Choate
Or. If you have server-to-server communication between the Windows TSM server and the AIX TSM server, you can export/import without going to tape. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-05-14 Thread James Choate
For Windows there is an IBMtape driver that needs to be loaded. Check this URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21428656 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:45 AM To:

Re: Long pause for password prompt

2013-07-31 Thread James Choate
I have run across this problem on Power7 with AIX clients and specifically with TSM 6.3. I'm not sure what version of TSM you are running, or what platform you are experiencing the problem on, but if your platform is AIX, check this out.

Re: Question

2013-12-05 Thread James Choate
Mickael. Have you thought about doing upgrading the server from 5.5 to 6.3 vrs exporting all of the nodes? Depending on the size of your database it might be faster to just upgrade. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of mik Sent:

Re: Moving TSM instance to new hardware

2014-04-09 Thread James Choate
I have done this recently on Windows, AIX and Linux. We treated it like a DR exercise and basically installed TSM (same version) on new hardware. Made sure I migrated storage pools to 0. Ran a prepare. Put the volhist, devconf, dsmserv.opt in the proper place. Took care of zoning with the

Re: So long, and thank you...

2015-04-03 Thread James Choate
Wanda. Enjoy your retirement. You will be missed! ~james -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 3:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: So long, and thank you... This is my last day at