Versioning

Hi, We are currently implementing Tivoli as our backup soltuion for all our AIX and Windows servers. As far as versioning, is there some sort of guideline most people are using as far as number of verisons of a specific file to keep ? We are primarily a software production house and I'm trying

Re: Versioning

Systems Engineer -Original Message- From: Richard Mochnaczewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2004 19:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Versioning Hi, We are currently implementing Tivoli as our backup soltuion for all our AIX and Windows servers. As far as versioning

Re: Node will not delete

Hi Joni, I had the same problem with a ghost filespace. Do what Guillaume suggests and you should be OK. Sometimes the filespace does not appear in the listing, but a del fi nodename * did the trick for me. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Registering client for Informix data protection setup

Hi, I'm trying to setup the Informix Data Protection client on an AIX 5.1 64-bit machine. I'm following the Data Protection for Informix Guide and I'm trying to register the client with the server but I keep getting the following : root:stxqa tdpipswd

Informix and Tivoli

Hi Everybody, I'm currently testing our my Informix TDP and Tivoli setup and I get the following issue. I initiate the onbar command and the backup begins but looking at the onbar log I see the following : 2004-10-26 11:23:20 1437942 3235868 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs. 2004-10-26 11:23:20

AIX server scripts

Hi Everybody, Is there a way in Tivoli to call an AIX script as part of a backup ? For instance, let's say that for server XYZ I want to unload 10 Informix databases through a script to flat files and then have the data backup for server XYZ back them up. Is this possible ? Rich

Accessing a retired server's backup on Tivoli server

Hi Everybody, We've recently retired a server that was being backed up using Tivoli. However, how can I restore individual files on the TSM server for this retired node ? The filespaces have not been removed and don't know what is the best way to access the data. Rich

Re: Accessing a retired server's backup on Tivoli server

to a unix machine with a pretty compatible file system Wanda Prather * I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O * -(me) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: available slots left

We have a 3494 library. In AIX, you can run the following command : mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL /dev/lmcp0 is the name of the library device which is FC attached to our TSM server Output will be similar to the following then scroll down to the available cells left line : Library Data:

Renaming a TSM instance

Hi *, Is it possible to rename a TSM instance by doing some sort of export/import ? We have two TSM instances running on AIX and have decided to rename one of them. Rich

TSM sever name issue

Hi *, While restoring my TSM server at the latest DR, I noticed something strange. I have two TSM instances running inhouse , where one is library sharing with the primary. I was only restoring my primary instance and when I ran a q server to check the server , I saw that the servername was

Export Node and OS Migrations

Hi *, We are currently in the middle of migrating our Novell file servers to Windows 2003. We will be doing a copy of all our Novell file server data to our Windows 2003 machines and then eventually deleting the Novell machine in the future. In the meantime, we will be running low on slots in

Collocation by group

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 was a Full incremental . I

Re: Collocation by group

-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Collocation by group Richard Mochnaczewski wrote: Hi *, I am trying to setup collocation by group

Re: Collocation by group

to TSM, and my answer makes no sense on that context. I apologize for the resulting confusion. Nick Richard Mochnaczewski wrote: Actually, on my tape pools I had to enable collocate by group instead of node. I don't see the point in doing a move nodedata. Why would I want to collocate all my

TSM and Windows Cluster Environment

Hi *, Has anyone successfully implemented TSM in a Windows Cluster environment ? We are running into various problems when trying to configure the TSM client on certain servers in the cluster and IBM is not being very helpful. TSM Server : 5.3.3.0 running on AIX 5.2 ML9 Rich

Re: dsmadmc console + timestamp

That sounds like a good idea. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Llano, Martin Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsmadmc console + timestamp Please, it will be great!!! Regards

Re: TDP for Oracle question.

RMAN backups using different storage pool 1) Verify the TDPO_FS entry in the tdpo.opt file. The standard entry is called adsm-rman. This is a virtual filesystem used by RMAN. It doesn't exist physically on the client system, but if I run a query filespace on a node in TSM that is using

DB@ and SQL Backups

Hi *, Does anyone know if the DB2 API and TDP SQL backups manage their own expiration like RMAN does i.e RMAN does not follow the rules of the management class it is bound to ? Rich

Re: TDP for Oracle question.

. -Original Message- From: Richard Mochnaczewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Oracle question. RMAN backups using

Re: TSM - Oracle RMAN restore

You will need to do the following on the server where you will be doing the restore: 1) Copy the password file TDPO.XX from the /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin of the source server to the target 2) Modify the /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt TDPO_NODE variable to point to the

Strange Windows Cluster Backuo Behaviour

Hi *, We have been running TSM backups for a while now in a Windows clustered environment. We are running into a problem and it appears a whole volume has what seems like a full incremental backup being taken when it shouldbe an incremental. IBM has confirmed that if you enale Microsoft

MySQL and Windows Backups

Hi *, I've read the IBM redbook on using adsmpipe for Linux MySQL backups. Can the same be done for Windows ? If so, has anyone done so successfully ? What procedure did you use ? Rich

Re: How to view Oracle TDP files from TSM server

Oracle TDP uses a virtual filesyatem name called /adsm-rman. You will see it on the server if you do a q occ on the node in question. To check the TDP files TSM has, on the client run the following command : dsmc q backup /adsm-rman/*/df* /tmp/tdp_check.out The data files all have df in the

Deleting inactive copies in Netware

Hi *, We recently decommissioned a Netware server and would like to delete all inactive backups and keep the last active for 90 days. The server has been removed from the network, and I read in client version 5.3.4 there is an option to Delete Inactive files. When I try to setup a virtualnode

Linux Cluster Backup

Hi *, I'm currently setting up a Linux Redhat 5 env with 4 servers in a cluster environment ( 1 failover server for the other 3 servers ).I've downloaded the document from the IBM website entitled Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup Archive Client in Cluster Environments on UNIX and

TSM and Commonstore

Hi *, We have 10 tape drives, and two instances with a total of 16 onsite and offsite tape pools. In addition, we use Commonstore for mail. We get frequent complaints from users that their mail retrievals are very slow. Most of the time, they go back a few years and this data is on tape. When

Re: What volumes contain node backup data

Use the following : select distinct volume_name from volumeusage where node_name='SERVERNAME' SERVERNAME should all be in uppercase . Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:33 AM To:

TSM and ACSLS

Hi *, We are currently migrating from a 3494 library to an SL8500 library ( TSM Server 5.3.5.2 running on AIX 5.3 ML4 ) . Has anyone done this ? If so, how did you deal with the ejection of offsite tapes ? It appears there is a lot of manual work that needs to be done regarding tape handling

Re: migration vs move data

Hi Rick, I'm just about to write such a script ( moving data from a 3494 library to a SL8500 ). Can you send me a copy of it ? Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:51 AM To:

Re: Tape Drive Block Size

Thanks for the info. Does anyone have any performance benchmarking procedures or utilities that can be used to verify tape drive performance ? We are running TSM 5.3.5.2 on AIX 5.3 ML4 using a SL8500 using ACSLS. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM

The difference between a backup and an archive. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM #1 -

TSM 5.4 End of Life

Hi *, Does anybody know when the end of life for regular support of TSM 5.4 is ? I checked the Tivoli portal on the IBM site and cannot find it. Rich Standard Life : 175 ans au coeur de nos vies Standard Life: Part of our lives for 175 years

Re: Journal Engine install on Windows

IBM states that once you install journal based backups that they are NOT meant to replace incremental backups. They recommend running a regular old fashioned incremental to make sure all files are backed up on a regular basis ( once a week or once every tow weeks ). Journal based backups are

Installing Tivoli Informix Backup Agent for TSM v5.2.2

I'm currently encountering some issues trying to install the Tivoli Informix backup agent. Some background info on the server: Server runs AIX 5.2 64-bit Currently have a backup agent already installed and running. 1) When trying to run tdpipswd to register , I get the following error

Missed schedule ?

Hi Everybody, I've set myself up in Tivoli to be sent the summary report of the previous night's backup.When I checked the mail, it informed me that I had missed 5 schedules for 5 different servers, each one an incremental backup. However, when I view the dsmsched.log, I see that the backup went

Re: Missed schedule ?

I checked, and the dsmcad was running on all five missed servers. I have two schedules, one for the AIX backup and one for Windows. But according to my origianl post, the tail of the dsmsched.log shows as the backup having executed ?!?!?!? -Original Message- From: David Longo

Informix Storage Agent

Hi, I currently testing the Informix storage agent on AIX and would like to know if anyone can point me to a good procedure on how to setup the Informix side to use onbar with Tivoli ? I have installed the Informix agent as per the Tivoli Data Protection for Informix manual,but it only covers the

include/exclude statements

Hi, I'm setting up my include/exclude statements dsm.sys file on all my AIX servers, and I'm running into problem with the excludes. I want to exclude the following filesystems : / /usr /var /tmp I'm using the following statements in my dsm.sys : exclude.dir / exclude.dir /usr exclude.dir /var

Re: include/exclude statements

/var * FS for file system good luck Luc Richard Mochnaczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-08-23 11:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject

Retrieving files from an archive backup

Hi, I'm currently creating a simple archive of an AIX server as I will be reinstalling it. How would I retrieve files from the archive if the server doesn't exist anymore ? From the TSM server ? Rich This e-mail may

Informix Data Protection

Hi, Does anyone have any good documentation on how to use the Informix Data Protection agent ? I was able to install the Data Protection agent on one of my test AIX servers but I'm not totally clear on how to use onbar as the backup scheme. I'm familiar with onload/onunload and doing level 0

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

There are a number of things to check : 1) Is the TSM database spread out over multiple disks ? Having the database spread over multiple disks will result in faster read/writes to disk and improve the performance. 2) Check the top ten processes on the server when the paging space is high : ps

Manual collocation

Hi Everybody, We have a bunch of old 3590 tapes that we would like to get rid of and replace by higher capacity tapes. Instead of just moving the data off the old tapes to new, I want to do a manual collocation by consolidating data by server on the old tapes to new. Has anyone done this ? How

Library sharing

Hi Everybody, I'll be upgrading from TSM 5.1.6 to 5.2.6.4 this weekend. I will also up updating the tivoli.tsm.devices.aix5.rte fileset ( it was at aix43 because I upgraded from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.2 ML6 a few weeks ago and didn't update it ). From what I've read, updating this fileset will mess up

Deleting RMAN catalogue file

Hi, I'm having some trouble trying to delete a few RMAN recovery catalogue logfiles. My DBA is unable to delete them in Oracle, but I would like to delete the in TSM. I know I can use the expire command to do so but because of the RMAN virtual filespace in TSM I'm unable to. Info : Filespace

DRM module changes in TSM 5.3.2.3

Hi Everybody, I just upgraded from TSM 5.1.6 to TSM 5.3.2.3 on AIX. Does anyone have a link or information other than the redbook regarding changes in the DRM module ? Rich

Strange issue with dsierror.log

Hi Everybody, We are seeing some weird behaviour regarding the dsierror.log file and DB2. We are trying to debug a backup problem and see if anything gets written to dsierror.log. The file size is 0 bytes. However, when I try to manually populate the file , I see that the information gets

Re: Problems with 5.3.3 fix files on AIX?

Did you run inutoc on the directory to get the table of contents listing for AIx to know there is installable filesets in the directory ? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:57 AM To:

Re: TSM reporting tool - unable to email reports

Try using the IP address of your mail server ( or you may have a mail relay going on which you may need to specify ). Check to see if you can telnet to the mail server on port 25 from a DOS prompt to see if you can establish connectivity with the mail server. I had problems trying to email the

Re: Restore DB without effect

Increase your recovery log. It looks like you did not assign enough space. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Szymon Kacprzak Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:42 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore DB without effect

Restore of AIX/Linux servers at DR test

Hi Everybody, We are investigating ways of improving the way our servers can be restored at a DR test. For AIX/Linux servers once the server's OS has been restored, how has everyone's experience been at restoring application filesystems on UNIX based systems ? For instance, let's say you have

Migrating from JFS to Raw Database

Hi Everybody, I'm running TSM 5.3.2.3 on AIX 5.2. I would like to move a TSM instance off using JFS flat files to raw logical volumes for its database and logs . Does anyone have a procedure on how to accomplish this ? Rich

Error reading label

Hi Everybody, We recently had a new rack addition installed in our 3494 library this Sunday. Since that was done, we have been getting about 75 scratch tapes since Monday being changed from scratch to a private state because of errors reading the label. I've checked about 30 of these tapes and

Mount and write to a specific tape

Hi Everybody, I am having a strange problem where some newly labelled and initialized tapes once they are taken from the scratch tape pool process get errors regarding the label and the tape is changed to inaccessable and becomes private. I've checked out the tape and checked it in and would

Batch script in Windows to create filelist

Hi, I need to create a filelist of files that exist in a directory that have been updated in the past 7 days and have the list of files backed up by TSM. Does anyone know how tis can be done be commands native to Windows without requiring any third party software ? Rich

Database backup during day

Hi Everybody, We are looking into scheduling a database backup during the day as the last database backup we have for our nightly process is done at around 4:00 AM in the morning. If something should happen in the afternoon, then we can go back to the latest database backup which we would

Re: Database backup during day

. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Database backup during day Hi Everybody, We are looking into scheduling a database backup during

Re: Database backup during day

backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Database backup during day Here is a part of my log : Here is an excerpt from the logs

Using Backup Image Option

Hi *, We are trying to increase the recover times of our servers ( a mix of AIX, Linux and Windows boxes ) during our yearly DR tests. Is anyone using the Backup Image to do, from what I've read , snapshots of the filesystems and then do a restore image plus incrementals to bring the servers

Re: Daylight Savings patch?

Yes, the entry in /etc/environment is valid for AIX 4.3.3 machines. ML 9 has the patch. Although the entry does work ( we tested it on an AIX 5.2 server ), IBM will not support this. We are almost done updating all our AIX 5.2 servers to ML9 in preparation for the DST change. Rich

Syntax for archiving from the command line

Hi *, I'm encoutering some errors when trying to archive from the command line in AIX. I have two directories I want to archive and all subdirectories : /exp1 /exp2 I've created a file called filelistarchive and have put the following entries : /exp1 /exp2 but it will only archive the

tdposync on Linux

Hi *, Does this utility exist in Linux ? My AIX boxes have this utility installed but it seems to be missing from my Linux boxes. Rich

Re: DST change/TSM/Java/OS

Does anybody known when this was first posted on the IBM site ? I checked back in late December and early January ( and called into IBM support ) and was told that there were no specific patches required for the DST change. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Collocation and offsite tapes

Hi *, I've recently turned a non-collocated server to collocated by creating a new management class and also executing a move nodedata command of the node's onsite data to my collocated disk pool. What happens to the offsite data that I collocated onsite ? Now that I've collocated the data, I

Backing up full primary stgpool

Hi *, During DR, we would like to restore one of our primary storage pool but not just the incremental of the last night's backup but as it looks with all its cached data. Aside from not running a migration to tape which puts us at risk of losing data that hasn't been backed up to tape, is

Re: Backing up full primary stgpool

stgpool From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Mochnaczewski During DR, we would like to restore one of our primary storage pool but not just the incremental of the last night's backup but as it looks with all its cached data. Aside from not running a migration to tape which puts us

Tape Housecleaning

Hi Everybody, Does anyone have any thoughts on saving on the number of tapes TSM uses ? After auditing our backups and finding that the backups are clean i.e backing up only what is needed, and the correct number of versioning is being applied to files, and reclamation is used, if there is a

Tape history

Hi Everybody, Does anyone know how to the history of checked in tapes i.e. when a tape was checked in , the capacity of the tape ? Rich

Strange Netware problem

Hi Everybody, I'm seeing a strange issue with our nightly backups. There is one whole folder that is not being backed up. We get the following errors : 07/12/2005 12:25:55 (TSAFS.NLM 6.50.11 265) This file is flagged Execute Only and cannot be opened. 07/12/2005 12:25:56 ANS1228E Sending of

Windows 2003 reconnection/session lost errors

Hi Everybody, I have a Windows 2003 server running a 5.2.2 client ( TSM server is at 5.1 Level 1.6 ). Why am I getting the following reconnection/session lost errors in the log ? It only occurs for the files under c:\adsm.sys. Directory-- 0 C:\adsm.sys [Sent]

Server is downlevel error

Hi Everybody, I'm encoutering another strange issue with my Windows 2003 boxes. I get the error ANS5186E Server is downlevel, System Services and System State backup disabled for this session when trying to connect using the Web GUI. I did some more research , and found the following :

TSM/Novell related question

Hi Everybody, This is a TSM related question. I got some great info on how to fix a strange Execute-only file permission issue in Novell . Unfortunately, the fix works great for a test we ran in a development machine but not on the production. While I'm investigating apply the latest service

Windows server imaging

Hi Everybody, I've been reading up on the various image/restore methods for Windows servers . What do users favour ? Rich

Deleting filespace

Hi Everybody, I would like to clean up my filespaces for a AIX certain node on my TSM server. Is there any way I can pass the filesystem to the dsmc delete filespace command ? I have quite a few filespaces on this server ( over 50 ) which I would like to delete. I can only get the numbered

Re: Deleting filespace

Hi, Thanks Andrew. I knew you could do it from the Admin server, but I thought maybe there was a way of doing it from the client just in case I had overlooked something. I have admin access to the server, and I can script it there. Rich -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

SQL and delimiting fields

Hi *, I need to audit some backups we have on our TSM server running 5.1.6 and AIX 4.3.3. I have a flat file and I run an SQL to query the TSM database for a specific node's archive and redirect output to a file. I've read up on the Administrator's Reference quide and see that I can use the

preschedulecmd questions

Hi, Is there a way to run different commands before and after different schedules on the same client? Also, it is possible for the commands to be conditionally based on certain criteria ? Rich

TSM migration

Hi Everybody, I currently have a TSM 5.1.6 ( AIx 4.3.3 ) server which will be migrated to a new server running TSM 5.3 ( AIX 5.2 or 5.3 ). Has anyone done such a migration and if so, what was your experience like ? Rich

MAX_IO_SIZE and Oracle

Hi Everybody, In order to improve performance of Oracle backups using TSM, I've read of a MAX_IO_SIZE parameter for other OS versions i.e. Solaris, Linux. Does such a parameter exist in AIX ? If not, is there an equivalent ? Rich

Oracle TDP question

Hi Everybody, I have an interesting scenario. I'm using RMAN backups for my Oracle database. We are in the process of moving a database from one server to another. Unfortuantely, the Oracle tdpo.opt and dsm.sys RMAN stanza were pointing to the incorrect server when an Oracle archive backup was

Oracle TDP/RMAN and storage pool question

Hi Everybody, I would like to direct my RMAN backups to a different storage pool other than the one I'm using in my current policy domain. Is there any way to have RMAN point to a different storage pool without having to create a new policy domain specifically for my RMAN backups ? Rich

Missed schedules

Hi Everybody, Has anyone ran into problems with missed scheduled ? I know that a few missed schedules a night may be normal, but we are getting several , more than 20, a night . Most of the missed schedules are Oracle related backups i.e. archives and hot backups missing their schedules . We

Oracle RMAN compression ratio

Hi Everybody, Is it possible to determine the compression ratio of a database backed up using RMAN to TSM ? I would like to see some stats for the backup size of the database when having compression enabled or disabled on the client. Rich

Check files in storage pool ?

Hi *, I've created a new management class to point to a differnt storage pool already exisitng. I've emptied out the storage pool and have run a backup and have seen the percentage used increase. Is there any way of looking into the storage pool to see what files currently reside on there ?

Storage pool usage

Hi *, I have a 300Gb storage pool which I used last night to send a 306Gb Oracle database using RMAN ( no compression on the backup ). I checked the usage of the storage pool after the backup, and it only shows 60% used. However,I checked the activity log and I condfirmed that 306Gb of data

Re: Storage pool usage

where entity='nodename' and number=session number Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: 17 November 2005 15:57 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Storage pool usage But I never saw any tapes

Delete subdirectory in an filespace

Hi *, I have an archived filespace in NT . Is there a quick way in TSM to delete a certain subdirectory and all its contents within this archive ? Rich

Backup of node onto how which volumes from last night's backup ?

Hi Everybody, Does anyone have an SQL to check what tape volumes were used by a specific node backup that ran between 6:00 PM and 1:00 AM the previous night ? Can it be naroowed down to a filespace name ? Rich

Upgrading from TSM 5.1.6 to 5.3

Hi Everybody, I will be involved in upgrading our TSM server from AIX 4.3.3 server running TSM 5.1.6 to AIX 5.3 running 5.3 in the new year. Has anyone done this and what were your experiences, good, bad or ugly ? Rich

Novell backups

Hi Everybody, Is there a way to schedule multiple Novell backups to run simultaneously for one node ? We are having trouble with our backups completing in a timely manner as we have thousand of files which are being scanned for backup. What we would like to do is have the volume on the node

Reducing database volume

Hi Everybody, I've created and extended my database in TSM version 5.1.6. I now realize that I would like to remove it for various reasons. I've checked the administrator's guide , and I know I can do a delete dbvolume dbname . Now, just to be sure, will this move the data from the dbvolume

Sequential storage pool tape usage

Hi Everybody, I'm running TSM 5.1.6 and I have a sequential storage pool for my Exchange backup disk pool ( EXC_TAPE ). This morning, while checking the activity logs, I saw about 30 scratch tapes being brought into the EXC_TAPE pool. What would trigger these tapes to be brought into the pool

TSM Upgrade from 5.1.6 to 5.3

Hi Everybody, I'm currently planning an upgrade of TSM 5.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3 to TSM 5.3 on AIX 5.2 . Since this will be an inplace upgrade on the same server, is TSM 5.1.6 supported on AIX 5.2 ? I know that IBM does not support 5.1.6 , but I have a very tight upgrade window and need to do the

Requirements for Administration Center server for TSM 5.3

Hi Everybody, I've read the IBM site regarding the specs they recommend for a server for the Administration Center running on Windows. What are the specs on the server setup you are currently running ? Do you suggest adding as much memory as you can afford, faster CPUs etc ?? Rich

Increasing bufpoolsize issue

Hi Everybody, I have two instances of TSM 5.1.6 running on my AIX server . I added 1Gb of physical memory and increased the bufpoolsize in both instances by 512Mb . After the reboot, one instance came up fine and the other one complained about not enough memory available . Why would it

Re: Increasing bufpoolsize issue

. But if the second instance starts up after adding some additional swap space, you know that it was the bottleneck. Will TSM itself allocate the buffpoolsize in the physical memory anyway? regards, Kury Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens Richard Mochnaczewski Verzonden

DB2 version

Hi Everybody, Does naybody know how I can determine what my DB2 TDP client version is on AIX ? I know there is a command called tdpoconf showenv in Oracle which shows what version of TDP client I have installed . Is there a similar command for DB2 ? I need to audit all my clients just to make

Oracle RMAN and TSM

Hi Everybody, I have a dedicated disk pool for one specific Oracle RMAN backup using 8 channels of a database at 300Gb. The backup takes about 2 hours, but if I clean the cache on the pool, I will see no storage space usage until the channel session has ended. So, at the end of the backup, the

Backup stgpool peculiarity

Hi Everybody, I have one server using a 300Gb storage pool for its Oracle RMAN backups for one large database. After the backup is done, I want to do a backup storage pool to my offsite tape pool as quickly as possible by launching the backup stgpool command and the number of tape drives to

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