Re: Export feasibility

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Harris
Of course the big gotcha with backupsets is that they don't support TDP data. With no disrespect intended to those who developed this aspect of the product, they've always seemed to me more of a sales tool rather than a really useful feature of the product, enabling the concerns of a prospect used

Re: tape mount problem

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Harris
Muthy, When you moved the tape in the library, did you do it manually or by the library's control panel or web interface? For a 3494, TSM audit only asks the library for a download of its own information. So, if the library doesn't know, TSM can't know. You may have to physically remove the tape

Re: If we all complain, do you think they will add the WEB gui back?

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Harris
Mark, That is a great post from you, and yes ISC is Version 1 and will improve with time and use. But, if you will allow me to reiterate a previous post: There is a new DSMAPI admin api that is used by the ISC to perform TSM comands. One additional way forward would be to expose this api, so

Re: tape mount problem

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Harris
Mut, The correct procedure for a 3494 is to place any tape moved in this way into the recovery slot, which is the top left slot of the library manager frame. If you watch the robot, this slot is always the first one checked when the library goes online. The library recognizes that this slot

Re: Volume sequence

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Harris
Norita, It sounds like your management is attempting to impose a standard derived for a less sophisticated product onto TSM. What they want, as I read it, is an assurance that they know what is on any given tape, in case of a disaster recovery - if that is the case, then they need an offsite

Re: TSM/Veritas on the same library

2005-05-06 Thread Steven Harris
I've gotta ask Geoff, Why, with a 3494 and LTO library would you move TSM to LTO? My first option would be to move veritas to the 3494. 3494 is industrial strength and plays well in multi host and multi application environments. Use 3592 drives and you'll have capacity to burn. Also, second-hand

Re: Novell Groupwise Online backup

2005-05-09 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Mario You don't say what environment groupwise is running on - I'll assume netware 6 The issue is that the underlying groupwise files are mostly a hashed file structure and so every file changes every day, also, there are internal links between the components. In my last position we were

Re: Keeping Disk Copies of Files - Storage Pool Cache or ????

2005-05-10 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Christopher, As far as I am aware there is no way to do what you are asking other than keeping *all* versions of a file on disk. The only tool that you have to hold data in a primary storagepool is the migdelay parameter, and this is does not differentiate between active and inactive data. It

Re: Re: Migration process

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Harris
Well David, TSM will always choose the node with the most data to migrate first, and won't check again till that is done. If you have one node with much more data than any other, that could explain why the lowmig value appears to have little effect. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM

Re: Trouble connecting to 3494 library

2007-04-12 Thread Steven Harris
Gary Try a commit statement before the line that is hanging, or run the script on a session that was started with itemcommit. I think its probably a lock problem on the database. HTH Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia Lee, Gary D. wrote: Configuration as follows Tsm

Re: How to back up nothing

2007-05-04 Thread Steven Harris
it with dsmadmc -noconfirm -dataonly -itemcommit macro delgen.mac 'NODEA','NODEB','NODEC' I might be off with a few details, but you get the idea If you are using unix, commadelimited and awk might be the way to go in a shell script to skin the cat another way. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM

TS3310 and 6 character bar codes

2007-05-14 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I've just finished migrating a customer from a 3583 with LTO2 drives to a new TS3310 with LTO3 drives. As the customer planned to have both libraries attached at the end of the process I had no trouble with copying everything again using the 8 character tape labels on the new library,

Re: Server migration

2007-05-16 Thread Steven Harris
of posts on this topic in the archives. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia Moving to Sydney soon and Still no job offers Lawrence Clark wrote: The current status of everything is kept in the database and some config files: /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.opt

Re: Server migration

2007-05-17 Thread Steven Harris
On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:56:58 +1000, Steven Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There is no escaping it - the server to server move of each node will require a copy from tape to server1 / across to server 2/ back on to tape. The only other option is to just start backing up the nodes to the new

5.4 report card

2007-05-27 Thread Steven Harris
give the client until 5.4.1 to get its act together. Use 5.3.4 client instead. My 2 cents - ok a buck fifty this time Steve Steven Harris AIX an TSM Admin Brisbane Australia Moving to Sydney soon - any job offers gratefully considered.

Just how does a VTL work?

2007-06-11 Thread Steven Harris
secret? Thanks Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator Brisbane Australia Moving to Sydney Mid July - Offer me a job now and avoid the rush!

Suppress windows space nag?

2007-06-18 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I have a customer running TSM 5.4 server on Windows 2003. He had some old, slow disk lying around so I configured this as sequential pool and this is working reasonably well. I have set up the device class to use the I: J: K: and L: drives and allow the system to allocate scratch

Re: upgrade of 200 GB DB

2007-07-18 Thread Steven Harris
client code level have no issue. I assume that they will terminate after the large commtimeout value is reached, but I've since moved on from that company and can't verify. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia Kathleen M Hallahan wrote: ... Of greater concern

Re: Client connection makes TSM server neurotically talk to itself.

2007-09-13 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I've got some new windows nodes just defined on two different AIX TSM servers, and they are getting ANR8214E errors with the 127.0.0.1 address on their overnight schedules. This is the same issue that Allen Rout posted about on July 31 (post included below). Now the funny thing is that I

Re: Size of TDP backup

2007-09-16 Thread Steven Harris
: 948123) Maybe you could collect and parse these messages. HTH Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia Daad Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L

ITDT and library microcode updates

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I'm doing microcode updates from AIX on several tape libraries during the coming weeks, and I've just done the first one on a TS3500/3584. Using the tapeutil tool's tape drive service aids (because there is no ethernet connection to the library - I know!) the library upgrade took 25

Subfile backup 2GB

2007-10-10 Thread Steven Harris
facility except that the snapshots are over 2GB in size. Has there been any notion to increase the size limit on subfile? Is it even possible ir is there some 32bit limitation in the architecture of the facility. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia

Re: Scheduling a full archive of data once/month

2007-10-22 Thread Steven Harris
backupactive server to server. with the fromdate/fromtime option. The mgmtclasses on the receiver would have to have the same names as the sender, but with different retentions. Hope this Helps Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney, Australia Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Shrinking the SQL logs after TDP full backup

2007-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
Rick, I don't normally take this line, I like to be helpful, but Why is this your problem? We have our areas of expertise, DBAs have theirs. Big logs falls neatly into theirs IMO. Or are you in one of those one-man-band shops? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia

Re: Backup schedule syntax?

2007-11-07 Thread Steven Harris
system admins will find your class and decide it would be a good idea to back stuff up for 7 years - and you will have no idea that it is happening. HTH Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 08/11/2007 08:39:57 AM: To expound

Re: RES: chamado 02652 / TDP Domino em Linux

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Harris
. Yes there is an alias, but it takes very little to upset that. Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia. Vinicius Fraga [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: migrating to different tape technology (2 libraries)

2007-11-21 Thread Steven Harris
will go to the new technology. Run mig stg on the old primary pool whenever you have spare cycles/drives. Finally clean up. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Gill, Geoffrey L. GEOFFREY.L.GILL

Re: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP TO DEFINE AN EXCEPTION IN A SCHEDULER

2007-12-03 Thread Steven Harris
Why do you say polling mode Robben? That is the big advantage of prompted - you don't have to wait for the next poll to pick up your changes. You certainly don't have to restart the cad or scheduler process to pick up a schedule change, only for DSM.SYS/OPT changes. Steven Harris TSM Admin

Re: Vista oddness

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Harris
time to quiesce before the TSM backup starts. Exclude systemstate from the TSM backup (or maybe put it in a class with freq of 14) , but turn on subfile backup for the split backup files. Voila - poor man's dedup. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin - Sydney Australia Paul

Re: Vista oddness

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Harris
. Voila - poor man's dedup. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin - Sydney Australia Paul Zarnowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager

TDP for Domino Upgrade procedure

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Harris
Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin - Sydney Australia

Re: VCB Integration, specifically how to do incrementals

2007-12-18 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Steve I can't help with your query, but are you using the new facilities of 5.5 client? If so I would be most grateful if you could post your experiences here when you have some to share. Thanks Steve Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on

Atape Driver ANR8779E and Windows 2000

2008-01-02 Thread Steven Harris
, is it possible to revert to an earlier version of the driver that doesn't exhibit thr problem. I'm floating in an unsupported sea here and looking for a life preserver! Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia

Re: SV: Suggestion for Archive?

2008-01-03 Thread Steven Harris
of month step only has to copy one day's data. It will use some database space, and even the deletion of the volumes is resource intensive but it might be manageable. Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/01/2008 03:44:37 AM: One issue

Re: NetWare Client full backups running when incremental is selected

2008-01-17 Thread Steven Harris
Kevin, Are you sure that someone hasn't set the mode to absolute in your backup copygroup? Some places run a weekly full by setting the mode to absolute via an admin schedule and then back to modified in another schedule. If yours does this could the change back have failed? Regards Steve

Re: Another archive/expire query

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Harris
the drive you want. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 23/01/2008 08:45:37 AM: I am busy helping an external supplier understand his own Tivoli system, which has become full. We plan to archive certain drive letters

Re: Another archive/expire query

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Harris
filespace would remove backup AND archived copies. Is that incorrect? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: 22 January 2008 22:54 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Another archive/expire query Angus

Re: Fw: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores?

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Harris
Since only the nodes we want are in the domain with the ACTIVEDATAPOOL parameter specified, will not only data from those nodes be copied? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, SYdney Australia ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 23/01/2008 11:38:17 AM: For this scenario

Re: ANR8963E ANR1791W

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Harris
it. All I know is if I put it back on line I get woken up sometime in the early hours - so its staying offline for now :) Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Andy Huebner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ONLABS.COM

Failed files in summary on backup stg

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Harris
storage pool and that came up empty. Any ideas as to where to go next? Tech support search shows nothing relevant. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

Re: TS3500 vs 3494 strengths and weaknesses.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Harris
is insufficient and it doesn't get immediate operator attention. It may well be better when ALMS is installed, but none of my customers have felt the need to make the additional expenditure ALMS should be standard with an advanced library IMO. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney

Re: Find Management Class and copy group info per filespace

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Harris
1. Use the web gui, start a restore, navigate to a sample directory and scroll right to see the management class that each file is bound to 2. Use the dsmc command on the client and run a q backup on a sample directory Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

Weekend Fun! and ANR0259E

2008-02-17 Thread Steven Harris
volumes. There were four good logs and four good DB volumes, and the bad log volumes had been formatted but never used, so that should be easy to check. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the REAL startup check is? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney, Australia

Exchange monthly yearly

2008-03-09 Thread Steven Harris
practices. I can see the COPY backups, and they might be useful to do a monthly, and I'm considering an an annual export of the appropriate monthly filespace with filedata=backupactive to handle the yearly requirement. Am I on the right track? Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia

Re: backing up a client direct to tape

2008-03-12 Thread Steven Harris
Mario Run a selective if you like, but there is no real need to. Then run a generate backupset on the node. This will put all of the active data on to a tape. Print out the detail of the backupset (q backupset) and send it with the tape to the customer. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM

Exchange Surgery - Help needed.

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I have a customer with a small TSM Setup on windows , DB is only 3GB. TSM is 5.3.4 Last August the legal eagles decreed that all expiration was to stop, and my predecessors did this. We are now at breaking point with a tape library that is about to burst, and finally someone (me)

Exchange Surgery - Help needed.

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Harris
Sorry about that - take 2 Hi All I have a customer with a small TSM Setup on windows , DB is only 3GB. TSM is 5.3.4 Last August the legal eagles decreed that all expiration was to stop, and my predecessors did this. We are now at breaking point with a tape library that is about to burst, and

Re: Exchange Surgery - Help needed.

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Harris
Poor form to reply to my own post, but I couldn't sleep till I found a solution. Its nearly 4am now and I think I have one! Someone suggested directly to me that I could select from the backups table and run the unsupported delete objects command on each file. I tested that on a single file and

Re: What tells Q DRM?

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Harris
Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Wanda Prather [EMAIL PROTECTED] M To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor

Re: Off-topic: AIX p520 question

2008-03-23 Thread Steven Harris
Bill Newer AIX machines have default serial port settings of 19200/8/1/none rather than the traditional 9600/8/1/none. See if that makes a difference Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Gradually forgetting all my AIX. Bill Boyer [EMAIL

TDP for Oracle upgrade query

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Harris
oracle instances on the box one at a time. How do you normally do this. Regards Steve. Steven Harris Tivoli Storage Manager SME Backup Recovery Team Storage Services Group Cumberland Forest Phone: IBM Internal :70-75130 External:02 9407 5130 Mobile: 0422 932 065

Re: ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] AIX/Linux Lpar, Vio Server and Lanfree

2008-03-28 Thread Steven Harris
Francisco, How about installing a small TSM Server on one of your LPARs. It would be a library management client to your main TSM server and back up itself and the other LPARs across the virtual ethernet. The only local disk you would need is the TSM DB and log, backups could go straight to

Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM - send me my tape

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Harris
only work for TDPs under TSM Express, don't they? Export active should work for those. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Clark, Margaret [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent

Multiple Backup Streams with exchange.

2008-04-03 Thread Steven Harris
. I've tried searching but obviously haven't come up with the right set of keywords. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia.

Re: Re-Creating a ClientOption Set

2008-04-11 Thread Steven Harris
changes but you can export/import using a file as well, and I use the export as the basis of my macros to satisfy the change people. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Hart, Charles A [EMAIL PROTECTED] .COM

Re: TSM server scaling/sizing for lots (20000) nodes

2008-04-28 Thread Steven Harris
backups can be trickle fed all day reducing impact on the Campus WAN. I'm looking forward to the final design. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, SYdney Australia Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ANS9999E Win32 RC 1450

2008-04-30 Thread Steven Harris
think of at this point is a series of backups of various subtrees, Thanks Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

Fantasy TSM

2008-05-03 Thread Steven Harris
client/or server level incrementals. eg RMAN sends entire DB, TSM sends and stores only the changed blocks. What would you line to see? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney, Australia

Re: two tapedrive in one library

2008-05-07 Thread Steven Harris
Hello Yudong you need to create two libraries, both of type manual, with one drive in each Regards Steve (Liu Huan to my Chinese workmates) Harris TSM admin, Sydney Australia Yu Dong Dong (ITD) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape Reclaim Question

2008-05-15 Thread Steven Harris
reclaimed, but not before. Now this was a while ago and I can't be certain what version of TSM it was - probably 5.2, but I do remember it happening that way. I wonder if this changed in 5.3? Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Richard Sims [EMAIL

Re: Long Term Data Retention - off topic

2008-05-16 Thread Steven Harris
is another in order to write some code to produce the final XML. It would however take the sort of analytical accountant/actuary mindset to successfully do this and that is not my style. I hope that has given you some insight Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

Schedmode Polling behaviour

2008-05-22 Thread Steven Harris
for a fix, just an explanation as to how the schedule can be set to run outside the first half of the window as this does not gel with the explanation in the manuals. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

Re: Schedmode Polling behaviour

2008-05-23 Thread Steven Harris
to run outside the first half of the window as this does not gel with the explanation in the manuals. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia This message and any attachments (the message) is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

2006-03-15 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Richard How about this? Backup your disk stgpool to a separate, distinct copypool (just for ease of restore you could use your regular copypool) When you get to the new system, mark your old volumes as destroyed, define your new disk volumes and add them to the stgpool, then run a RESTORE

Re: SQL2025N An I/O error -50 occurred on media TSM.

2006-03-22 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Jaques Commtimeout of 60 is very short. Try 600 to start with and go from there. You will see that if you have to do a big DB2 restore, the session is started, the tapes are mounted and then DB2 formats its tablespaces before restoring any data. If this takes longer that the commtimeout,

Re: HELP! MAJOR ISSUE!: NEW Info. Please help!

2006-03-23 Thread Steven Harris
Joni If that doesn't work, maybe you could try to migrate without migrating by using move data on the diskpool volumes to move them to tape. A different code path might avoid the error you are seeing. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia -Original

Re: TSM Journal Based Backup for AIX

2006-03-26 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Amos Journal backup only works on windows. There is generally no need on unix systems as they are fairly efficient. What is the problem you are trying to solve? There may be some tuning you can do. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator On 26/03/2006, at 7:00 PM, Robert Ouzen Ouzen

Re: TSM SERVER MIGRATION from STK ACSLS tape library to IBM 3584

2006-03-27 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Laura The 3584 is defined as a scsi library. Its all fairly straightforward. There is no reason why several libraries cannot coexist. Just remember that tapes that were written in one library can't easily be moved to another library, even with the same drive type, when they have data on

Re: Deleting RMAN catalogue file

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Harris
Richard, Try using braces {} around the filespace part of the file name when accessing API filespaces from the BA client. I don't have an oracle TDP available to me at the moment, but this has worked for me in the past. I have also used it extensively when working with ADSMPIPE - created

Re: register node question

2006-04-16 Thread Steven Harris
Geoff I think you'll find that the password is positional and must come immediately after the node name. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator On 16/04/2006, at 4:23 PM, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: On TSM 5.3.3, when using the command line I'm not able to register a node, I

LTO3 Woes

2006-04-19 Thread Steven Harris
, so its a bit hard to isolate the problem. The tapes are all new Imations - I could not get IBM branded ones in a timely manner. Has anyone had problems with new LTO3s? Any suggestions as to what to do next are welcome. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator

Re: LTO3 Woes

2006-04-23 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks to those who replied. It looks like a dodgy tape drive, and I just needed to gather enough data to confirm this. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator On 21/04/2006, at 2:27 PM, Gubarkov, Anton wrote: Hi, Checking the windows system log for scsi errors like parity

Serveronly node loses address

2006-04-23 Thread Steven Harris
the right HLA and LLA, but the scheduler is ignoring it. The short term fix is to run an admin schedule 5 minutes before scheduled backup that sets the HLA and LLA on the node. Has any one else run across this? Client is windows 2000 Server 5.3.3.0 Server is Windows 2003 5.3.3.0 Steven Harris AIX

Scheduling image backups

2006-04-23 Thread Steven Harris
editor, so I shouldn't have needed this. Finally the penny dropped backup image D: (note the capital drive letter) works like a charm. Is it a bug - maybe- what do you think? Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator

Re: Serveronly node loses address

2006-04-24 Thread Steven Harris
that can be repeatedly attacked because it is always open. Steve. On 24/04/2006, at 9:08 PM, Richard Sims wrote: On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:54 PM, Steven Harris wrote: I have a new client with a requirement that a box in the DMZ have no open ports through the firewall. We can do that I said

Re: Migration questions

2006-04-30 Thread Steven Harris
. The data is migrated in descending order of the amount of data from this node in the pool. Regards Steve. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator On 01/05/2006, at 12:05 PM, Paul Dudley wrote: We have TSM 5.2 I would like some advice as to what can automatically trigger a migration

Re: TSM DB backup

2006-05-03 Thread Steven Harris
Hello Jacqueline Just a few thoughts Have you ever run a tape operation in this library before? It may be that the device name of the drive (rmt0, rmt1...) doesn't match the path definitions e.g you have set up drive0 as rmt0, drive1 as rmt1 , but rmt0 might be a local dds drive and not in

Fwd: Populating DRM information

2006-05-03 Thread Steven Harris
for dragging relevant OS data from clients and building the TSM DRM commands (define machine, insert machine in particular) that DRM will need? Even skeleton stuff is better than doing this by hand. Thanks Steve. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator.

Re: SQL Select commands

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Harris
housekeeping script on the 9th of every month. The function is DAY. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-28 Thread Steven Harris
Robin, If I recall correctly a while back you were stuck with having to keep everything forever. Is that still the case and is that why your database got to 530GB? If it is still the case I'd be interested in how you handle this, problems encountered and so on. Regards Steven Harris AIX

Re: Migrating from JFS to Raw Database

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Harris
Its very simple Rich, use Define DBvol and define dbcopy to add your new volumes backup the database in full and note the tape number. use del dbcopy and del dbvol to move the data one volume at a time to the new volumes backup the database, maybe an incremental will do. delete the underlying

Re: TSM-ASR and BladeCenter

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Harris
Jim One of my colleagues swears that he has done this sucessfully. He suggests that DHCP is a prerequisite and not having this may be the source of your problem. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin AndersenIT, Brisbane Australia www.andersenit.com.au -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Tape Drive Choices: What, and why?

2006-08-03 Thread Steven Harris
Steven Harris AIX and TSM admin Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape Drive Choices: What, and why? Hi, all. I'm

Re: TSM server on Linux x86 64 bit

2006-09-01 Thread Steven Harris
David, Get two quotes, one from an IBM partner for a Series P/AIX solution, and one from a *different* IBM partner for a Series X/Linux solution. I suggest two partners because if you use one they might try to skew the decision one way or the other, depending on their sales quotas this month :)

Re: Gig utilization during backups

2006-09-09 Thread Steven Harris
machine to the new one, the nic numbering may be different to what it was, so per nic tuning might no longer apply correctly. Etherchannel and other virtual nic layers may also complicate the picture. Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin. Brisbane Australia [I haven't gotten right into the nic

AIX Bare Metal Recovery - A cautionary tale

2006-09-13 Thread Steven Harris
someone. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia

Re: MUMPS style database backup

2006-10-03 Thread Steven Harris
just went with dump to file then back that up. Sorry. Steve. Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia

Re: Script to cancel a process

2006-10-24 Thread Steven Harris
Tim, The problem is that there is no reasonable way to get the process numbers from a server side query substituted into a script that you can run. Thus you are pretty much limited to client side scripting. Don't forget, though, that your server machine can also run a client. If its a

Re: Way to redirect a TSM Data Protection for Exchange restore to an alternate location?

2006-11-13 Thread Steven Harris
/Oracle clients a while back with success and restores went from 8GB/hour to 52GB/hour. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia Orin Rehorst wrote: Trying to restore Exchange database to a recovery group on same server. The restore runs but is s slow it's

Usinmg NTUTIL

2006-11-16 Thread Steven Harris
is needed to get the inventory. Can anyone confirm that this is the case or suggest a way around it? Thanks Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM admin Brisbane Australia.

Re: RMAN without TDP.

2006-11-27 Thread Steven Harris
individual dump areas on every database server. At that point management will leap at the savings in their ever expanding disk farm and your DBAs won't have leg to stand on. TSM wins the war again. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia William Sherrill wrote: Larry

3582 Microcode levels

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Harris
Hi all, I have a customer with a 3582 and LTO2 drives. He's been having an occasional problem with tapes not unloading from drives and being marked unavailable, so I thought I'd check out his microcode levels. Now the web page for 3582 is at

Re: remove namespace

2006-12-12 Thread Steven Harris
. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia Avy Wong wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me why so? OMRON is current backing up the following(see below). I would like to take \\mro1\e$ out of OMRON 's filespace so that it does not need to back it up anymore. Instead I am

Re: Litigation! Wish

2006-12-26 Thread Steven Harris
favourite ruby. I've taken a brief look at writing a library interface to ruby, but it is somewhat difficult - especially for an old COBOL programmer like me - why does everyone have to write in C anyway! Has anyone on the list done any work along these lines? Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM

Re: Off-topic post related to DST changes.

2007-01-03 Thread Steven Harris
Daylight saving in Australia is a dog's breakfast (ie a disgusting mess) It is controlled by the various states, and so each lot of regional politicians has its own barrow to push. The easternmost states are all stacked north/south, Tasmania starts a month early but finishes with the rest,

Hardware Info for IBM xSeries

2007-01-14 Thread Steven Harris
Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia

Re: IBM 3582 and HP MSL 6060 on 1 TSM Server

2007-01-15 Thread Steven Harris
the used volumes into the 6060 as private. Check in some scratches. Resume normal operations. As the data expires off the old LTO2 tapes, eject them from the library and replace with LTO3. You might have to use MOVE DATA after a week or two to clean up the last few LTO2s. HTH Steve Steven Harris AIX

Adding new reports to TSMOR

2007-01-16 Thread Steven Harris
Hi all, I've tried looking for detailed info on TSMOR but haven't been able to find anything. Google, redbooks, quickfacts have nothing Very frustrating. I'm trying to add a new report to TSMOR reporting. I've worked out the sql that I want and run it with reasonable success. The problem I'm

Re: Query MGMT Class Membership?

2007-01-23 Thread Steven Harris
in place at the time the backup was made (or when the last rebind occurred if the file still exists on disk). So, there is no easy way to do what you ask, and there is no real validity to that data even if you could get it. Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM admin Brisbane, Australia Doug

Re: Option other than a Backupset: Help!

2007-01-23 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Joni 1. What about image backups? They will give you the same thing in a different way. You can also do an image +incremental restore to get the restores right up to date. 2. Set up a second TSM Server, direct your backupsets to virtual volumes on the second server. The virtual volumes

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