Has anyone verified that TSM and ADSM clients behind SOHO DSL/cable modem
firewalls (e.g., the Linksys BEFSR41 or BEFW11S4) works just fine? I
presume that since the client initiates the connection to the server, the
firewall won't blink, but it would upset some users if I give the go-ahead
for
counter-intuitive, or worse.
Can anyone wave their hands for a few minutes and explain why collocation
retards creating backup sets? :-)
Joe Cascanette
The Cumis Group Limited
Nick Laflamme
speaking for no one these days
PS - each backup set will use its own tape(s), I have a PRM (and others do
I seem to have orphaned several tape volumes in a shared library. They
had been defined to storage groups on servers that don't manage the
library but had recently been reclaimed in the normal course of
business. Since we were low on scratch tapes these storage groups had
several volumes in EMPTY
We're moving data from un-collocated storage groups to storage groups
that will be collocated by group (OK, so we're not quite leading edge!).
We had a system before of small storage pools that mimicked collocation
by groups, so any particular group's data is grouped tightly.
If I use MOVE
I wrote:
If I use MOVE NODEDATA COLLOCGROUP= how clever is TSM in how it
copies data from the current tapes? Will it take all the data from a
tape in one pass, or will it make one pass per tape per node?
I'm relieved to report that based on a small test involving two nodes
with data on some
Frankly, your signature, Curtis, strikes me as more commercial than
Joe's offer. And, yet, we haven't run you off yet.
Not that anyone has died and made me list czar, but the LISTSERV lists
I've been on for more than a decade, including ADSM-L, have a long
history of users offering up surplus
(Apologies if I've asked this before; I can't find any trace of an
answer, let alone that I sent the question, although I've thought of
asking in the past.)
We may have new requirements from a user that are a better match for
TSM's archival functions than its backup functions. Can anyone point
Richard Mochnaczewski wrote:
Hi *,
I am trying to setup collocation by group ( running TSM 5.3.3.0 on AIX 5.2 ML9 ). I created the
collocation group and added a new node to to it which has been backed up in TSM before but not
using collocation. The first backup as a collocated group menmber
I misread your note, and I apologize. What I wrote made sense if you
were asking about a node that was already known to TSM but hadn't been
in the collocated pool before you added it to the collocation group. But
you're describing a situation with a new node to TSM, and my answer
makes no sense
running TSM 5.3 on AIX, if that matter, but for something that
Richard describes as a tenet, one would hope this goes back to WDSF on
VM days. :)
Richard Sims
Nick Laflamme
We haven't done a good job of keeping balanced the number of nodes on
our farm of TSM servers, so we're looking at manually moving some of
them off of a server whose DB is close to full and can't be easily
extended. I can't find, though, any TSM queries that would show me how
many files or other
Our TSM server has several storage pools on disk, DP1-DP6. There's a
primary sequential storage pool, TP-ALL, and a sequential copy pool,
CP-ALL. Each of the six disk pools migrates to TP-ALL, and all of the
disk pools as well as TP-ALL are backed up to CP-ALL.
If the disk pools are sized
Kelly Lipp wrote:
It can be thought of as the just in case backup operation. You may
well have had migrations.
I'm not sure if data that gets migrated, cached or not, is backed up
from disk or from tape. I'm thinking that if it has been migrated and
is cached, the backup will occur from the
Larry Clark wrote:
But I think the question was why are these files not in the copypool.
If they were migrated and a backup stg (of the pool disk files are
migrated
to) copypool was scheduled, they should be.
So his problem suggests they have a scheduled backup to the copypool
from the primary
Nicholas Rodolfich wrote:
I have TSM server 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 with an IBM 3584 library with 16
drives. In my offsite pool I have approximately 300 volumes with very
low utilization but they are in the FILLING state, I would expect them
to be in the FULL, EMPTY or PENDING state. Is there a way
This isn't strictly a TSM question; if there are TS3500/3584 user
support lists or conferences, feel free to point me toward them.
We're about to introduce LTO3 drives to our 3584, now calling itself a
TS3500 after the last licensed code upgrade. Because these drives will
be fronted by Decru
OK, I get to read about bar code labels and try to make this work for
us. It's nice that it's possible; if not so nice that the granularity on
how slots are assigned is a bit more coarse and that it'll be some work
putting labels and clips into place. Oh, well!
Thanks for pointing me in the
William Boyer wrote:
Why the Datafort device and not LTO4/TS1120 drives? Just curious, not
critisizing your decision. You need to make sure you have a Datafort for your
D/R site. I had a client looking in to this and Sungard said that they would
have to purchase an 2nd Datafort to keep at
My first attempt at MOVE DRMEDIA kicked out more DBSnapshot tapes than I
meant, so I have four tapes outside a library that should be in the
library as if nothing had happened.
Is this problem easily fixable, or is it time to get out the
not-so-delicate tools like CHECKIN LIBVOL?
Sigh,
Nick
Our TS 3500 tape library can be configured to report volume labels as
six digits or eight. We've used six digit identifiers all along, but as
I read materials on mixing LTO drive (and tape) levels in the same
partition, I suspect we should have gone to eight volume labels all
along so TSM has the
Wanda Prather wrote:
TSM doesn't know anything about the technology level of the media just
because you are using the 8 digits. TSM doesn't care, in fact. If it
did, it wouldn't be happy sticking an LTO2 cartridge into an LTO3
drive (which is a legitimate thing to do).
The LIBRARY uses the
What are people using for storage pool migration thresholds these days?
Do the speed and capacity of modern secondary storage make it more
practical to have a very low threshold?
In particular, I'm expecting a large number of large backups as some
WinNT file permissions get updated en masse. If
At 12:34 AM 4/1/2006 +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
Uhm, may I ask *why* you'd want an off-the-shelf product instead of
your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly? What
problem are you trying to solve?
I can't speak for the original poster, but I've worked for shops that
preferred
Is there an easy way to figure out which media go with which backup sets
(and in which order?), or do I have to be really rigorous about culling
the information from the server logs? I can see from Q LIBVOL which
media are backupset media, but I don't yet see a way to see which tapes
go with each
OK, that would have taken some time for me to find!
Thanks, it works well enough.
Thomas Denier wrote:
- Nick Laflamme wrote: -
Is there an easy way to figure out which media go with which backup
sets (and in which order?), snip
The 'query volhistory' command and the 'volhistory
TSM 5.2, AIX servers
I'm a little unclear about the intricacies of using more than one
copypool with a storage pool. There are allusions in the 5.2
Administrator's Guide to problems restoring files when no copypool has a
complete copy of a storage pool's contents. I'm a bit unclear how such a
in both storage pools
and copy the data that are in the primary pool and not yet in the copy pool.
best regards,
Kurt
Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens Nick Laflamme
Verzonden: do 11/05/2006 21:41
Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] Multiple storage
Mike wrote:
I have come to like TSM, but I do not have the budget for a 3494 or other tape
changer, or for the software for that matter.
Does this exist somewhere or someone have a better idea?
A former colleague who is fond of TSM has been known to recommend Amanda
to Linux sites that
TSM 5.2.3.5
AIX
One of our TSM servers has a somewhat different layout than our three
other production TSM servers, reflecting a somewhat different purpose
for this server. Where three servers have Domain names like DP1 through
DP6 and primary storage pool names like DP1 through DP6 and TP1
Lee, Gary D. wrote:
3. pointers to documentation. I don't mind reading, just where to start.
The Linux-390 list, also at Marist, might be a good place to start. If
you would be running under VM, there's also an IBMVM-L list at
listserv.uark.edu.
Is the Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli Storage Management
redbook from November of 2002 still the definitive work on using TSM for
bare metal restorations of non-Windows clients? We've got a Linux client
with a balky HDD, so we're trying to come up to speed on this aspect of
TSM under a
How common is it for sites to cluster TSM servers?
I'm looking for my next TSM position and have found at least one
situation, perhaps two, where the would-be client wants TSM
administrators who are familiar with CSM in an AIX/p-series
environment. As far as I can tell, that implies setting up
Is there an option for the dsmadmc administrative client to set how long
the client should wait before giving up on a response from a server?
I'm trying to automate some routine health checks of our servers, and
there are times that not getting a prompt response tells me more than
enough.
Doug Thorneycroft wrote on 11/13/2008 04:02:28 PM:
Is there such a beast as an IBM Mainframe client (VM)
that will backup to a Windows TSM Server?
No, and that's probably a sore subject in the VM community. Heck, they
(we) are still annoyed that the last ADSM server for VM was in the 3.x
On Dec 26, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Cheung, Richard wrote:
Hi...
So if i wanted these to be kept offsite AND onsite, do I need to
issue a
manual copy command?
The following is speculation, but I'll bet a beer at SCIDS that the
premise is valid.
If you want two backup sets, run the command twice.
On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Mark Stapleton wrote:
TSM treats files as whole entities. When you change permissions on a
file, TSM will back it up again.
I'm surprised Mark didn't at least allude to the SKIPNTPERMISSIONS
option for Windows client. It's a brutal way to address exactly this
A client's TSM server has the following copygroup settings:
tsm: SERVER1q copygroup * active f=d
Policy Domain Name: OPEN_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT
Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name: BACKUP_SHARK
Copy Group Name:
Just in case this ever keeps anyone else from banging their head
against the wall for a few minutes/hours:
Lots of TSM manuals and IBM manuals about using tape libraries with
open systems refer to GC35-0154 as a must-have manual.
It's been superceded by GC27-2130.
I'm sure the rest of you are
Can anyone refer me to the parameters options for partitioning a 3494 ATL?
It's easy to find that a 3494 can support two VTS partitions; I'm
questioning how we add TSM on AIX to the existing z/OS non-VTS use and a VTS
partition for z/OS.
We have new 3592s to coexist with the z/OS's 3590s, so
Thanks for the explanation, Wanda. I'll get wrapped around this new paradigm
yet.
OK, category codes it will be.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Wanda Prather wanda.prat...@jasi.comwrote:
There is no real partition for the 3494 like you are used to with the
3584.
Cartridges are mixed in
We're seeing repeated errors on our z/OS console, too, from the tape
acceptance exit (my wording; take it with a grain of salt), for each 3592
volume we have checked into the ATL, too. For the moment, we've removed the
3592 volumes until we're ready to have TSM ask the 3494 for its tapes.
Our IBM
On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:02 AM, cLAUDE GRIVEGNEE wrote:
Dear firend,
Hello.How are you doing recently?Some days ago, I came across a
wonderful electronic company on the web and had a pleasant chat with
the sales manager who can offer various kinds of digital
products,such as the phones, PSP,
z/OS TSM 5.4.3.0
AIX TSM 5.5.1.1
MIGRATE NODE doesn't seem to preserve collocation group membership.
Is this WAD or a bug? (I can see arguments about how complex it gets if the
target node doesn't have the collocation groups defined, but this doesn't
even try!)
Also, MIGRATE NODE yyy TOS=xxx
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Strand, Neil B. nbstr...@lmus.leggmason.com
wrote:
Nick,
If you just want to preview - don't use the TOS= parameter and no
tape mounts will be done.
OK, I'm making progress.
There are two similarly named options on EXPORT NODE. 'PREVIEWI,' Preview
Import,
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Strand, Neil B. nbstr...@lmus.leggmason.com
wrote:
Nick,
If you just want to preview - don't use the TOS= parameter and no
tape mounts will be done.
Sadly, no:
ANR0554E EXPORT NODE: The PREVIEWIMPORT parameter is only valid if the
TOSERVER parameter is
Setting up a new TSM server (5.5.1.1 on an AIX server) to replace an
existing server (5.4.3.0 on z/OS), I'm trying to implement DIRMC support for
the first time. I'm also using FILE storage pools, not DISK storage pools,
as the initial landing spots for the clients' backup data. DIRMC is being
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Sparrman
daniel.sparr...@exist.sewrote:
The down size of using a file device is that it requires mount points
unlike diskpools.
Have you checked that your client has enough mount points set? Each backup
session from the client will require its own
On Mar 14, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Larry Clark wrote:
Hi,
Would someone have a query that returns all the volumes in a
particular
collocation group (within a copypool)?
QUERY NODEDATA COLLOCG=grpname STG=stgname
I suspect your mental model of how collocation works is a bit tangled,
because other
On Mar 14, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Larry Clark wrote:
What you say is curious..only nodes that are in a
collocation
group should have data on the volumes in that collocation group. At
least
that is my understanding.
Your saying more than one collocation group can store data on the same
On Mar 15, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Alex Paschal wrote:
Nick, if you really want to mix data on tapes (I have no idea why you
would want to, but the beautiful thing about TSM is you can do nearly
anything you want), the first way I can think of is to temporarily
reduce MAXSCRATCH (or temporarily
I have my copypools set up to deliver most data to FILE device storage
pools. I used to use DISK, but FILE seems to replace DISK in many ways, so
I'm using that for a new server.
Alas, during backups, my consoles get over run with ANR8340I, 0511I, and
0514I messages
03/18/2009 09:50:37 ANR0514I
My heart leapt when my RSS reader presented me an article in the TSM
udpates feed from IBM with the heading, Keeping more than one TSM
server database backup on a tape. As I'm implementing a new server
using 3592 drives, I haven't been happy with my options for this
particular issue. Maybe, I
On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:05 PM, David E Ehresman wrote:
Gee. Our 3592 tapes cost somewhere around 100 dollars. We keep 5
days worth of TSM DB backups. $500 is real cheap in order to keep a
copy of our most important DR resource on our most reliable backup
medium.
Everyone's different. When a
On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Ochs, Duane wrote:
Good day everyone,
Does anyone have any experience sharing a single library with multiple
TSM servers?
Several of us do; it's a common configuration -- although it may be
more common to share two libraries, one for primary storage pools and
one
On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Remco Post wrote:
On Apr 26, 2009, at 12:10 , Peter Buschman wrote:
Apologies if this is a well-known question but I am scratching my
head trying to answer it.
Basically, what I want to know is if a migration job in TSM job will
also migrate expired data on the
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
The cleanest way to handle these huge files, if I'd anticipated this
corner case when I started, would be to arrange for the big files to
be in their own separate storage heirarchy. I'd never even reclaim
the copy stgpool volumes from there:
Try a storage pool of the device class FILE, not DISK. It is FILE that
is supported for deduplication, although I haven't had a chance to use
deduplication yet, and my experience with FILE is fairly limited.
On Apr 29, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Grigori Solonovitch wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I am testing
On May 11, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Shawn Drew wrote:
- The Management Class on the receiving server (I.E. Import server)
determines where the data will end up
- Storage pools can be named whatever you want them to be. As long
as the
management class matches the name
- Nothing needs to be the same on
TDP clients can be configured to use storage agents, just like regular
clients can. Installing a storage agent doesn't automagically make the
clients use them (I've got a DBA now who's learning that the hard
way), but it can be done.
On Jun 6, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
Hi all,
Does
Is dsmserv running as root, or as some other user? If not root, you
might try changing the ownership of dsmserv.dsk.
On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Mario Behring wrote:
Sorry...I´ve already changed that...the result is the same...without
the SHAREDMEN error...
Tivoli Storage Manager for
On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Steven Harris wrote:
One possibility would be to install TSM for SAN on the partitions
that need
it, but there is some administrative overhead with doing this, and
we are
finding that drive sharing is not as error free as we would like
with only
a 5 way split. We
Off the top of my head, Wanda, I wonder if Gresham's library
virtualization software can make those four T3100s look like one
larger library?
This, of course, would be the responsibility of the DR site, not your
client, assuming the client's contract with the DR site is well
written
Just a
A colleague solemnly assures me that clients who use DSMCAD to manage
their schedule activities don't see any randomization in their
schedule start times. Now, on the one hand, I have so little
experience with DMSCAD, who am I to argue with someone who claims to
have experience? On the other
On Jan 2, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Keith Arbogast wrote:
The first Call Home of the new year for our 3584 had a 2016/01/01
date stamp on it.
That's what I call pro-active service!
rimshot
Nick
Does it annoy or hinder anyone else that the tcpserver and tcpport options
supported by the Windows version of dsmadmc aren't supported by the Unix
clients?
This seems to be a deliberate choice by IBM; the 5.5.2 levels of the client
make a point to quit with an error message if I try to use
Got it in one, LIndsay, got it in one.
Nick
On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Lindsay Morris wrote:
Right, but then Nick has to keep dsm.sys files up to date on all his
clients.
Ick.
What he wants is a central way to issue dsmc commands and point them to a
different TSM server, with no
On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:05 AM, bob molerio wrote:
Anyone using TSM for zOS?
I would like to know what the pros/cons/experiences are.
My current employer does in one data center; my immediately previous work
experience was to move another customer from z/OS to AIX for TSM.
I'm not a MVS guy, so
On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Kelly Lipp wrote:
We have a customer that insisted on buying one of these for his TSM
environment. Promised 20:1 dedup. He saw about five to one. He was in our
Level 2 class telling the story. At the end he said he wouldn't buy it
again. I made him repeat
On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
Thanks,
What is control path? Do you mean the path to send library manger commands?
FC or IP?
Yes, that's what he means. For 3584s, it's FC (it's IP for 3494s). On AIX, it
shows up as an /dev/smc_ device.
I need a sanity check. We're trying to implement new virtual tape devices on
new devices with our existing set-up, including some storage agents and a
handful of NDMP clients. The storage agents, no problem. We know how to do
storage agents. The NetApp filers? No problem; they're just like
(about 4 or 5 years ago though). No promises, but I'll see if I can
dig something out from how we did it when I'm in front of my PC again.
/David McClelland
(from my iPhone somewhere in) London, UK
On 19 Mar 2010, at 21:55, Nick Laflamme dplafla...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a sanity check. We're
On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:38 PM, David McClelland wrote:
Hi Nick,
I did have a look for my old notes earlier today but I'm afraid I'm drawing
a blank (they'd be from over 5 years ago...).
In summary (from what I remember) the customer had a TSM Server library
manager instance for a Quantum
I've been using QUERY FILESPACES and comparing the start of backup and end
of backup times, as well as a QUERY PROCESS. If the NAS Backup processes
aren't running, then QUERY FILESPACES will show filespaces that were backed up
with end times that are the same as or later than the begin times.
On May 19, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Steven Harris wrote:
Hi All
I'm looking at a Spectralogic T950 tape library instead of another Sun
one to replace our aging Sun L700s
Has anyone good or bad stories to tell about this? How does the
user-replaceable spares offering work in practice? Are the
On May 20, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Sam Wozniak wrote:
Your email filtering settings are set too stringent. You changed my life and
I will no longer be a participant of the adsm mailing list. I bet this email
also gets blocked according to your wonderful filtering and banning settings.
Have you tried to verify that the devices your paths point to are still the
same? Or, better yet, deleted all your paths from all the library clients and
regenerated them from scratch?
We haven't run with a real 3584 in a while, but whenever I get weird errors
with library managers and shared
On Jun 7, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote:
I'm not sure that a dismantle will solve your problem, but your problem
sounds similar to a couple situations we've had where it did resolve the
problem.
Your SAN consultant is correct - it shouldn't be necessary!
I don't know about
On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:29 AM, Christian Svensson wrote:
Hi,
I have a TSM Server 6.1.3.4 running on a Windows Server 2008 R2.
When I run Expire Inventory on my server it seams to hang on a unique node
and I think I have found the exact node it hangs on.
My question is.
How can I solve this?
My current shop has a collective memory of bad things happening when old
Admin userids are removed from TSM servers. Memories are a bit vague, and all
of us have been doing TSM for a long time in a variety of shops, but the
general anxiety is that removing the userids of admins who have moved
Thanks for the responses, people. Fortunately, we've been implementing
centralized management slowly, and as a byproduct of that, the administrative
schedules have all been updated recently by current staff members. The rest of
the issues, like scripts outside of TSM that query TSM, have been
On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
- Do I still need TCP/IP for library manager commands in 3500? I mean is it
out of band like 3494?
A 3584 should present a library controller device as well as drives to a client
system once zoned up in a SAN. The smaller 3500s should do the
It's fairly well documented that MOVE DRMEDIA will execute CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME
under the covers to make safe any copypool volumes and DB backup volumes that
are allegedly on their way off-site.
Is it documented anywhere if MOVE DRM will execute CHECKIN LIBVOL commands?
At the root of my
It looks like some of my predecessors set up some rather liberal retention
policies for some archive management classes. Of particular interest are our
management classes for DB2 clients, who only use archiving for their database
transaction logs. We've talked with the DBAs, and they agree that
On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Richard Sims wrote:
On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
Hi everyone,
stg1 has stg2 as copy pool and they are synced. If you set the copystg of
stg1 to null, why stg2 still has copy data of stg1? Why doesn't TSM
delete/expire the copy data?
On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:26 AM, cc1702004 wrote:
Hello, I'm new to TSM. I've been doing some reading on this TSM progressive
incremental backup. My understanding with this backup, there is only one full
backup (the base) and then incremental after that. Suppose I've been backing
up a new
(skip ahead to the phrase problem statement if this e-mail looks too long but
you still care.)
Prologue: My current shop prefers to use EMC's Data Protection Advisor product
to do our TSM reports and data collection for trend analysis. Several of us who
have very technical backgrounds (think
On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Roger Deschner wrote:
I've been using SPSS for this purpose for some time,
I love Roger's sense of humor. He knows I used to install SPSS and SAS under VM
in academia, where PhD candidates in several disciplines learn how to use SPSS
or SAS to crunch numbers in
On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote:
If you have a VTL from a non-ibm vendor and choose to emulate a IBM lib,
do you have the right to use the IBM drivers? There might
be a vtl in our near future and I've wondered about this.
Rick
Yes, you do. The tape drivers are part of
On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:10 PM, gizmoprof wrote:
The documentation suggests that a file space is a drive (logical or
physical), but it leaves room for additional meanings. In TSM terms, what
is a file space?
It's whatever the TSM client considers to be a logical unit to manage.
The
Is there a way for a TSM server administrator to deduce reliably which features
clients are using? Features like journaling backups or VSS support are things
I'd to know figure out at some basic level: have my users found them, or do I
need to start some sort of education campaign for my client
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:42 PM, somu321 wrote:
Hi All
Previously in our setup we used to take manual backup and do the read test of
tapes for a particular backup. But after migrating to TSM we are not getting
the idea for how to perform the readtest of aparticular backup. Please help.
On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:29 AM, TSM wrote:
Hello,
We use tdp for oracle with no catalog database.
We set the oracle parameter control_file_record_keep_time too low.
So the delete obsolete removed nothing, because oracle removed the
entries earlier from the controlfiles.
Now we have to
How are those of you who run TSM servers or storage agents on Linux on Intel
doing with disruptions with SAN-attached tape devices or the SAN fabric itself?
In my current shop, we run TSM servers on AIX (and MVS, but that's another
story), but we have storage agents on AIX, Windows, and Red Hat
We're wrestling with this same question now.
Our Oracle guys know, when they say media server, in our environment, they
really mean TSM server, using an IP connection.
Given the size of our projected Oracle DB, 7 TB, we're encouraging them to have
rman write directly to a backup appliance
On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:
I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60%
utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this
copypool, set to 50.
Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer
It's been a while since I've worked much with off-site copypools, but my next
suggestion is to work with DRMedia. Do you have some volumes (that have been
reclaimed) in VAULTRETRIEVE status? I don't remember how they show up in your
volume list (I half expect 'EMPTY' status, but as I said, it's
On Apr 17, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Steve Harris wrote:
For anyone looking to go to TSM server 5.5.5.0, be aware of a nasty bug
that requires SQL identifiers to be 18 characters or less in length and
may break your scripts. IC71586 was fixed at 5.5.5.1
And 5.5.5.2 was just released; this has, among
The last time I tried using FILE class storage devices, admittedly more than
two years ago, just this situation led me to make small DISK pools to receive
incoming data and then migrate to FILE storage pool volumes. This reduced --
but did not eliminate -- the volume of those message triplets.
On May 21, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
One of our clients uses Acronis for Windows bare/metal. Although we have
implemented TSM over there, they are sticking to their old solution and
ridiculously send the output of Acronis (which are large images) to TSM.
They deny the snapshot
On May 22, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
Hi,
When we backup files to TSM, number of versions makes sense in paramteres
like VEREXISTS, VERDELETE and so forth. How does the versioning concept
apply for filesystem backups and backups coming from TDP?
Databases have their own full and
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