Good or bad idea?...offsite disk.

2007-04-02 Thread Johnny Lea
One of my TSM servers is using disk only for onsite pools and tape for offsite. I am considering putting a SAN offsite to mirror my onsite diskpools thereby doing away with tape all together. This server has about 12TB of storage. I have a dedicated fiber link to my offsite location. Is this

SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
I thinking the speed (7200 RPM) may be a problem. Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/11/2007 1:04:40 PM We plan to. Raid-5, why not? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2007 3:01:16 PM Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? Individuals who have received this

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Johnny Lea
719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SATA disk? On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:09:31 -0500, Johnny Lea [EMAIL

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Johnny Lea
) will slow the write down even more, RAID 5 may present a 30 hour + period of exposure to data in the pools. Ian Smith --- Johnny Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 11/07/2007 19:01 Please respond to ADSM

Re: TDP Management class

2007-09-24 Thread Johnny Lea
I think everybody gets it. BEYERS Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/22/2007 4:26:41 PM Daad, Use the following command to see which mgmt class is used for the TDP backups: show versions TDP_NODENAME * regards, Kurt Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens Daad Ali

Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots

2007-11-27 Thread Johnny Lea
I used the overflow location once with success when I was in this same situation. Just long enough to put in some scratch tapes and move data. I wouldn't recommend it for normal occasions though. Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager Division of Information Systems University of MS Medical Center

TSM dream setup

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Lea
I'm looking for some ideas for upgrading/replacing my tsm servers and libraries. I backup about 800GB per night and have about 250 client nodes. I have a 7 year old Sun server connected to an IBM 3494 with six 3590 drives and a Dell 6800 with 22TB of disc connected to a LTO3 library. I've

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-14 Thread Johnny Lea
. Johnny Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager Division of Information Systems University of MS Medical Center 601-984-6398 fax 601-815-3222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hart, Charles A [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/08 10:59 AM That's the challenge we're not sure where the issue is, we do know with STK SL8500 Microcode

IBMtape / kernel problem

2008-02-27 Thread Johnny Lea
Has anyone tried to install IBMtape with a kernel newer than 2.6.9-42? I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9-67.0.4 and can no longer get IBMtape to install. I can't find a IBMtape version newer than IBMtape-3.0.5-2.6.9-42. Is that the latest? Thanks, Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager

Re: IBMtape / kernel problem

2008-02-28 Thread Johnny Lea
Thanks to all. I found the lintape driver late last night after I posted this question. I'm glad to hear a confirmation about that being the (fix). Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager Division of Information Systems University of MS Medical Center 601-984-6398 fax 601-815-3222 [EMAIL

Re: Win32 client won't start

2008-03-10 Thread Johnny Lea
Check to see if you have anything in the dsierror.log. Also look in your Event Viewer for errors. There may be a problem in your dsm.opt file. Johnny Large, Matthew : Barclays Wealth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/10/2008 9:03 AM Hi ADSMers, I've not seen this kind of problem before - I have a

Dell tape library

2008-06-24 Thread Johnny Lea
Anyone using the Dell ML6020 library? I believe it's a re-brand of the Scalar i500. I have this library on one of my TSM servers but thinking of expanding it and upgrading the drives to use it exclusively for my enterprise library. It would be a lot cheaper than going with a new IBM TS3500.

Re: VCB fullvm Proxy Server - opinions?

2009-10-01 Thread Johnny Lea
You may run into a problem if there is a vm migration occuring and at the same time the migrating node is backing up to the first proxy server. The second proxy could attach to the new vm and try backing it up as well. Not sure what would happen then. Johnny Lea CNE Disaster Recovery

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: TSM journaling

2009-10-26 Thread Johnny Lea
Will not the PreserveDBOnExit=1 setting keep the journal active during a failover and prevent a full backup? I hope so cause I just set up journaling on a cluster and was counting on this. Johnny Howard Coles howard.co...@ardenthealth.com 10/26/2009 9:40 AM We tried this for a while, and I

Re: SV: Problem with Journaling

2009-11-13 Thread Johnny Lea
I had this same problem earlier this week. I restarted the journal service and it started journaling again. I'm still looking for the cause. Johnny Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com 11/13/2009 11:29 AM Check how long the Journal service has been up or how big the JDB

TSM Fastback for Bare Machine Recovery

2010-01-21 Thread Johnny Lea
Anyone use this? Is it comparable to Cristie's BMR? Thanks, Johnny Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they are

BMR for Exchange server

2010-01-27 Thread Johnny Lea
I'm lost trying to come up with a bare metal restore product for our Exchange servers. Cristie's CBMR says it treats Exchange data as plain files with nothing to handle the internal structure of Exchange. Not sure about Cristie's TBMR. (my IBM re-seller tells me he talked to Cristie and they

Re: BMR for Exchange server - Fastback

2010-02-02 Thread Johnny Lea
and a couple of other vendors' enterprise products. With friendly regards, Josh-Daniel S. Davis From: Johnny Lea j...@dis.umsmed.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wed, January 27, 2010 1:20:50 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] BMR for Exchange server I'm lost trying to come up

Re: Log issues and scheduled commands and CHANGINGRETRIES

2010-04-08 Thread Johnny Lea
I'm having the same problem and IBM sent me to this site for a perl script to collect data. It's very easy to alter for your site. Let me know if you find an answer. So far I haven't. Johnny -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Log issues and scheduled commands and CHANGINGRETRIES

2010-04-08 Thread Johnny Lea
Sorry. Forgot to add linkDOOH! http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21265179 Johnny -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Johnny Lea Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 11:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: reclamation no longer working

2010-05-07 Thread Johnny Lea
Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ Richard, from time to time I've had to do this. After checking in the tapes and updating them to r/o or r/w TSM doesn't always

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-21 Thread Johnny Lea
I am using file class on datadomain albeit 5.5.3. Initially I set the maxcap at 25GB. This seemed to work OK except my reclamation is getting out of hand. For example a 200GB file stored across several volumes is requiring the entire 200GB being moved instead of only the part of the file on

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-21 Thread Johnny Lea
hope to implement as a duplex/simultaneous operation with 6.2.x) From: Johnny Lea j...@umc.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/21/2010 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux) Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I am using

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-22 Thread Johnny Lea
On Friday 17 September 2010, Stef Coene wrote: When we changed the FILE based storage pool to 5 GB volumes, the result was much better. There was less reclamation needed because it is less likely that a volume has a status Filling. Interesting concept Stef...just the opposite of what I did to

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-22 Thread Johnny Lea
My idea was to create volumes large enough to hold all or large portions of entire files of this size. I haven't been doing this long enough for mass expirations to take effect yet so I don't know for sure how it's going to turn out. I don't use any diskpool buffer. I send data straight to a

Client option set

2010-11-05 Thread Johnny Lea
Is it possible to override an exclude in dsm.opt with an include in the client option set? I have not been able to make it work. Richard's TSM page indicates that FORCE=YES will not work with additive options such as INCLEXCL. Thanks, Johnny Individuals who have received this information in

Anybody not happy with TSM V6?

2011-01-20 Thread Johnny Lea
I know I should probably upgrade to v6 but I've been really happy with 5.5. When version 6.1 came out I played around with it but couldn't get everything working properly and didn't spend a lot of time on it and at the time didn't see any advantages to upgrading. But I think I just ran across

Re: 3494 tape dismount problem

2011-01-25 Thread Johnny Lea
I haven't used them in a while but there may be a mtlib command that could check to see if the 3494 still shows the tape mounted in the drive after you get the ANR8468I message. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda

Re: Dedupe Storage Appliances Question

2011-02-25 Thread Johnny Lea
I use Datadomain and love it. Johnny Lea -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of woodbm Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Dedupe Storage Appliances Question Hello all, I am sure

Re: Stopping access to a filepool

2011-04-28 Thread Johnny Lea
If I need to take my restorer DD down for any reason I just disable sessions, since all my nodes backup via NFS to the DD. If it's going to be down for any length of time I will unmount the restorer and mount the replica to keep TSM going. The DD 'filesys fastcopy' command run on the replica

exefull.log locked in Exchange 2010

2011-09-08 Thread Johnny Lea
We are moving to Exchange 2010 and backups have been running fine since setting them up. Initially I did not allow enough maxscratch in the stgpool so the backups failed a couple of nights ago. I increase the maxscratch but now the tdpexcc backup command (tdpexcc backup /excludedagactive

TSM 6.3

2011-11-16 Thread Johnny Lea
Trying to install TSM 6.3 Server on a RHEL 6.1 server. I got the server installed but when installing the 6.3 client I get errors fileconflicts with file from package TIVsm-API-6.2.2-0.i586. The 6.2 packages were installed by the 6.3 server install. Tried installing the client rpm with

Re: TSM 6.3

2011-11-17 Thread Johnny Lea
+known+issuesq2=TSM+6.3uid=swg21568281loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en You can remove the old API and install the latest one 6.3. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Johnny Lea j...@umc.edu wrote: Trying to install TSM 6.3 Server on a RHEL 6.1 server. I got the server installed but when installing the 6.3

Re: DB Backup failures

2012-01-30 Thread Johnny Lea
I had this problem but it was not random. My problem turned out to be that in the .../client/api/bin/dsm.sys, the PASSWORDDIR path was not correct. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, January 30,