Please join us Wednesday, May 16, 2007 for the next meeting of TSMUG, the
TSM User Group for Baltimore, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia (and a
lot more of the Mid-Atlantic!)
We have a terrific lineup of speakers planned, and as usual we'll have our
TSM Roundtable where you can bring up your
Doh!
Thanks to Bill Boyer for pointing out that I omitted our terrific speaker
lineup from the TSMUG meeting announcement!
TSMUG MEETING AGENDA
CCBC Disk Pool Tuning Experience
- Tim Dobrowolsky, Community College of Baltimore County Best
Practices for Backup Reporting and Management with
If anybody has gotten their 3584 (TS3500) library set up to talk to the
EM7 SNMP receiver, I would appreciate some help.
I know to set up a 3584 to talk to NetView, it's just a matter of opening
the 3584 web interface, putting in the community name and the IP address
of the SNMP receiver and
This makes me nuts, because the for purposes of licensing, they use the
term CLIENT and SERVER in a completely different way than the TSM product
itself does.
If you have a machine you want to back up that is a standalone machine
that provides NO SERVCIES to other machines (e.g. a desktop; or a
I'm signed up for my support, and the last TSM notice I received
included this:
Customers can now provide feedback to Tivoli Development by completing an
assessment survey. Your input can help shape future Tivoli products.
http://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/studies/consumabilitywebform.htm
Not to mention that it's just Too Silly.
The client already reports back to the server what platform it is.
It's not like the client doesn't know, or can't find out, the information
that the server needs to have.
W
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:19:44 +0100, Matthew Warren
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Personally, I don't see the point of using the SQL management studio AND
the TDP together.
The SQL Maintenance plan creates an exported copy of the SQL data base(s)
into the SQL BACKUPS directory. These are unlocked, flat files that the
regular TSM backup client can back up just fine.
IF you
I think so (not being an SQL guru I'm now sure what shrink means exactly.)
Look at the TDP for SQL book, there are some parms you can add after the
backup * full that determines whether the log is reset or not.
We currently perform SQL database backups using TDP (using the tdpsqlc
backup *
I have 5.3 TSM servers with the 5.3 ISC.
Can I upgrade the ISC/Admin center to 5.4 without upgrading my TSm servers?
WOW!!
I always wondered if it wasn't possible to do this without the failover.
Thanks!
We deal with enough Windows clusters that we have developed a batch file
to
run on each potential failover host of a vnode within the cluster, to get
the services set up (you still need to manually
Preach It Guys!
I have some customers with good SATA disk implementations that are very
happy.
I have some customers with some bad SATA disk implementations that are in
a very unhappy place.
It's all about understanding the performance characteristics of what you
buy, and matching it to your
What kind of script is it? perl?
I have a Windows 2003 server that backs up several qtrees from a netapp.
To enable these jobs to run at the same time, the sys admin has scripted
the jobs which are kicked off using the task scheduler. Unfortunately the
logs that are generated do not show
I don't understand the relevance of the pgs per hour query on Expiration.
My understanding from an STE presentation is that TSM doesn't necessarily
walk all the pages in the DB during expiration; it knows when it has
nothing to expire in a given area and doesn't go there.
Anybody got evidence to
I'm not familiar with Networker except in it's old i-just-do-full-dumps form.
How does it deal with mixed retention requirements?
Can you set up one directory to be retained for 7 years and another to be
retained for 90 days like you can with TSM/
On 26/07/2007, at 2:54 AM, Schneider, John
In the TSM admin guide for AIX, look up raw volumes.
It has examples.
Evening I have been watching these comments with interest as we are
currently in the process of building a new TSM server.
Discussing with colleagues we are baffled by how you create the TSM log
or DB on a raw presented
The document you reference is peculiar. It says the server may have to
be restarted or the library audited or possibly redefined, but it doesn't
make clear the cases where it needs to be redefined.
AFAIK, when you change the number of slots in a TSM SCSI library, you have
to delete the library
LTO3 can read, but not write, LTO1 cartridges.
So that config's a no-brainer; pop in your LTO3 drives, mark all you LTO1
carts as READONLY. You can create a new stgpool for LTO3 (or it's easier
to rename the old pools to poolname-OLD, use the original poolname for
LTO3, then you don't have to
Hi All,
I have a Windows 2003 node A
with filespace \\A\C$ \\A\E$ and \\A\F$.
I must migrate server A to new server B (Same OS, same architecture).
Node A will dissappear.
Node B has the same data, but reorgaized.
On server B is no \\A\F$ filespace.
I want to (in tsm):
rename all
I agree with Paul.
There are 2 technical reasons to split clients into domains:
1) Dividing authority: you can create TSM administrators with Policy or
domain-level authority. They don't have the ability to modify TSM storage
pools or devices, but they can create nodes, passwords, and
Hi Bill,
I asked that question a while back to TSM support, and got this in response:
To trace encryption, add to dsm.opt:
tracefile \path\traceit.txt
traceflag encrypt
In the resulting traceit.txt file, the encryption lines are VERY obvious.
I was doing this in an early 5.3 client though, and
The client's IP address is saved as part of the node definition (do a q
node f=d and you'll see it.), so that isn't a problem.
However, test the move on ONE client before you flop the IP addresses.
All the client data will move fine with an EXPORT, but it used to be that
if your server platform
Depends on what is causing the problem. If it's one GIANT DB that is
causing the problem, this may not help.
But if the db's aren't too big, I've had good luck turning over the
backups to SQL Enterprise Manager. It's very easy to set up local
backups to disk. You tell it to keep a minimum
Always test first, but:
1) Since the 5.3 (or maybe it was 5.2, don't remember) Windows client, you
can do online image backups. The MS VSS facility (if it's having a good
day) is used to snapshot the volume.
2) I don't think there is a problem with restoring an image to a different
host, if you
Kelly,
I have more than 1 customer considering a de-dup VTL product.
It's true that for regular file systems, TSM doesn't redump unchanged
files, so people aren't getting AS LARGE a reduction in data stored (of
that type) as would a user of an old style full dump- incremental -
incremental -
It depends.
Just another thing to think about:
Yes, it sounds cool to reduce the footprint of all those XP files if you
have hundreds of XP systems.
But, at a site where we were backing up about 200 desktops along with
Windoze severs, I sat down and actually spent a bunch of time looking at
If we currently have 6 3590-h drives in the 3494 library, do you think can
we get by with 4 LTO-4 drives in the new libraries given that speed and
storage capacity is so much better with LTO-4 drives? Most of the tape
activity is backups only. Occasionally we have a file restore or two.
It
If possible, try backing up that instance with the SQL Enterprise manager
to local disk. I have had cases where the TDP could not back up a data
base, but Entprise Manager failed as well, due to some sort of lock on the
DB.
Thanks Del,
I have checked that now, and the userid does in fact
Bill,
My customers running 3310 haven't reported that exact symptom.
But FWIW, also check that you have the latest IBM driver (I'm assuming
this is Windows).
I know that sounds weird, and the TS3310 support page doesn't say anything
about teh versions of the driver required. But we added an
When encryption is done by the client, the key is stored somewhere on the
client machine (with Windows, it's encrypted and stored in the registry.
For *IX, I think it's in /etc somewhere, also encrypted).
If you try to restore a file(s) to the same machine, the TSM client gets
the encryption key
I have a vendor asking some application folks questions re: an upcoming
data
migration. Some I think I can answer, but I would love your input.
1.What is the best way to give the application owner a view of last
night's backup? He only wanted last night's backup info, and understands
Wednesday, November 7 2007 is the date for the next meeting of TSMUG, the
TSM User Group for Baltimore, Washington, and Northern Virginia (and a lot
more of the Mid-Atlantic!)
We are planning to have a presentation on a real life TSM disaster
recovery, a presentation on a Kinder, Gentler way to
TSM server 5.3.4 0 on AIX
Client 5.4.0.0 on Solaris 10
The TSM client on Solaris appears to ignore the zfs filesystems during
scheduled backup. Non-ZFS filesystems back up OK, zfs filesystems can be
backed up manually.
Any idea whether this relates to a permissions thing or if TSM treats them
Is this AIX or Solaris?
Greetings,
I have a situation where the TSM client seems to be ignoring
some mounted filesystems.
I have a need to have a TSM preschedule command which imports
some volume groups and mounts their filesystems. (This data is an EMC
disk clone of another
To prevent the problem in the future, in dsmserv.opt, add SANDISCOVERY ON.
(the default is off). With that enabled, TSM can usually reset the
element/serial numbers on the fly.
Hello All,
Thanks for your help!!
We have TSM 5.3.5/AIX 5.3.5/ IBM pSeries 55a/IBM 3584 (8-LTO1 8-
LTO2) drives.
This may not be your problem but:
1) You should have gotten the ASR files for THIS particular client on the
floppy, not just any client
2) the MS ASR procedure assumes you are going back to the same physical
machine
3) The MS ASR procedure assumes that all the drivers you need are on the
Windows
Another thing to consider:
Backup software is designed to be able to restore your systems to CURRENT
state. TSM stores backup data organized by the filsystem and hostname
where it was backed up.
No way is that organization going to last for more than a few years -
you'll be changing servers,
Well, ignoring the syntax issue for a moment,
exclude.backup won't keep the client from re-scanning the directories.
Exclude.backup excludes FILES, not directories; TSM will still scan each
of the subdirectories and try to match each filename it finds against the
EXCLUDE.
To keep TSM from
Yep!
(and 5.3 goes out of service as of April 30, 2008).
5.5 ? is this a major release? already?
homas Rupp wrote:
5.5 will be out in 2 days:
See:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=877letternum=ENUSZP07-0476
Thomas Rupp
I'm located in the Mid-Atlantic; I have 3 customers who have asked me
recently about formal training classes for new TSM admins other than the
IBM offerings (which aren't offered very often locally).
I also know about the excellent classes taught by StorServer, but they are
geographically
Instead of running your commands as a macro, have you tried running them
as a TSM script? With scripting there is some basic-level IF-THEN
functionality where you can check return codes.
Look in the ADMIN GUIDE under automating server operations, and Using
Logic Flow Statements in a Script.
Same result, less work for you (in my opinion):
Set up your new devclass and tape pools, do whatever testing you want to
do to make yourself comfortable that the hardware is OK.
-Switch your DB Backupsto the new devclass
-RENAME your old primary pool to PRIMARYNAME-OLD
-RENAME your old copy pool
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 last 2 digits, I think, to
Don't know myself, but someone else posted a while back that the System
State on Vista is many GB.
That is consistent with what you are seeing - a scheduled backup will do the
System State, whether things have changed or not. And selecting the C:
drive will not do the system state.
As a test,
Win XP Pro desktops that I'm
backing up and see what the numbers look like.
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There is also no guarantee that you can export/import from 5.2 to 5.5.
It ought to work, but there have been issues in the past with
export/import across server release levels.
The upgrade from Windows 5.2 to 5.4.1 is fast and easy (haven't tried 5.5).
I recommend you do the upgrade in place,
Yes, but in this case the TSM backup client is actually running on a Windows
host, yes?
Can journaling be implemented in this case?
On 12/7/07, Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Netapp (or EMC NAS) devices do not allow to run journaling agents.
Regards
Stefan Holzwarth
Our TSM server runs under SLES 9 Linux on a zSeries mainframe. The
server level is currently 5.3.4.0, but it will probably be upgraded
to 5.4 in the next few months.
Is it possible to use library managed encryption with our combination
of library and server platform? Is it possible to use
The only way to guarantee that your stuff will not expire, is to change the
copy group retention to NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM.
SO here's what I would do:
Copy the domain EXCHANGE to a new domain EXCHANGE-FREEZE
Update the copy groups in that domain to verexist=NOLIM, retextra=NOLIM, etc
etc
Been there done that lots of times. But the answer depends on what you
mean.
If you have both LTO1/LTO2 and LTO4 drives in the same physical library, the
LTO4 drives will be in a different device class, different logical library,
differen storage pools. You can run MOVE DATA, MOVE NODEDATA, or
I'm confused.
The 3592-J1A drives (the original 3592s) require an upgrade to support
encryption.
The 3592-E05 drives are now called TS1120 drives; I thought ALL those drives
shipped with encryption.
The question may be what type of library you have, and whether the library
requires a firmware
Thanks Charlotte!!
On 1/2/08, Charlotte Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI all
check out new draft Redbook Tivoli Storage Manager V5.4 and V5.5 Technical
Guide - describes the new features of these releases.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247447.html?Open
Also, a paper
everything
forever.
:)
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The only way to guarantee
Q DRM * gives you the list of tapes in the COPY pool that aren't marked
OFFSITE.
(By default it also includes the DBBACKUPS, unless you specify something
else on the Q DRM)
Depending on when you run the Q DRM, it MAY be the same as the tapes
created that day.
It will USUALLY be the tapes created
Agreed.
I tell my customers NOT to install OFS unless they have a reason, and only
on systems where they know what the reason is.
It triggers a LOT of unncessary and pretty unintelligible VSS errors, and is
usually doing nothing worthwhile.
Look at your TSM daily reporter output on clients
space, most desktops are running Outlook and the users typically leave
their mail open at night.
Elana Samuels
Tier 1 Data Solutions Inc.
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Dude,
Let's get simple.
Just download the .pdf version of the manual you want, put it on a CD, and
take it to your local Kinko's/Fedex copy center.
They will print from the pdf for you, double sided, B White or color,
prepunched.
I do it, when I need to.
You can even log on and mail it to them so
MARTHA!!
It's cool we finally get to TALK to you on the list!
MANY THANKS for all your work keeping ADSM-L working for us!
I've done the 3494 retrofit before from Mainframe z/OS to Open systems
(UNIX or Windows).
You don't say what type of drives you are using, that may make a difference.
You
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client question...
Agreed.
I tell my customers NOT to install OFS unless they have a
reason, and only
on systems where they know what the reason is.
It triggers
I agree that the 2 relevant criteria are
1) can you get everything you need done in a 24 hour period and
2) how long is it going to take your to restore your DB if you have to?
Generally if you can back it up in 35 minutes, assume it will take 70 min to
restore (not including the time to format
Oooh, what a great question!
I'd guess if client encryption is on and working, the dedup ratio should be
about 1:1; because the data should never encrypt the same way twice.
On 1/23/08, lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do archive
I agree about client encryption wrecking dedup ratios.
FWIW however, if you turn on both COMPRESSION and ENCRYPTION on the client,
the client is also smart enough to compress first, then encrypt, so you get
the compression benefits.
However, that of course takes a lot of cycles on the client,
Yes and no.
All the data backed up by a client in encrypted format stays encrypted, it
can only be decrypted by the original client (or a client with the original
encryption key). If you turn on encryption on the drives that's OK, if
client-encrypted data gets sent there via MOVE DATA, reclaim,
None of the 5.1 and 5.2 BA clients are formally supported by IBM anymore,
so you should plan on upgrading them soon.
But they all continue to work just fine with 5.4 servers.
(Storage Agents for Lan-Free are the only type of client you need to worry
about.)
On 1/24/08, Mladen Portak [EMAIL
Ooooh, what an INTERESTING problem to have!
I'm not aware of any VTL that even approaches being able to handle this
amount of data.
It's a pretty daunting problem. If you take LTO4 (at 800 GB per cart),
assume with compression and some un-reclaimed space you'll average about 1
TB of valid data
Another product to look at: www.aptare.com
You can't tell a lot from their website, but they do a very good web demo if
you contact them.
On 1/29/08, Howard Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should also look into Servergraph, which can send email alerts when
things like this go wrong. I
Well, you didn't need to create the new primary tape pool; you could have
just created the 3592 copy pool and do backup stgpool 3592_tapepool to
3592_copypool.
But yes, you can use MOVE DATA to get data from your old 3592 primary pool
to your new 3592 primary pool. Or you can set the NEXTSTGPOOL
Just think of it as an opportunity for a DR test.
First, TSM does not SUPPORT restoring a TSM DB from a lower level TSM to a
higher level server. (does not support means they don't test it. I'm
sure some people have gotten it to work, but the recommended way is quick
anyway.)
But the
server,
without breaking your old one. Great opportunity to test!
Wanda
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Yep, assuming your target TSM server has a compatible drive.
EXPORT NODE blah look up the applicable parameters devclass=tapedevclass
Will take the .9 TB of data backed up to TSM and put it in a portable format
on n tapes.
You then enter an IMPORT NODE command to load it into the DB and storage
I think just about every one of my customers is using somewhat different
criteria to decide, depending on
- what particular circumstance they are concerned about,
- what laws apply to their industry, if any
- who is involved in the discussion (tecchies or lawyers or compliance
Should either
1) solve the problem or
2) make them go away, which will
3) solve the problem!
On 2/8/08, Allen S. Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:11:47 -0500, Wanda Prather [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
For the onsite stuff, tell the people who want the stuff physically
Ack. I feel your pain.
(Those are the same people who will argue with you that AES256 encryption
just isn't secure enough.)
But the L word (litigation) trumps everything, as far as I've been able to
determine.
Isn't there an ERASE command that works on the 359x hardware?
You can't access it via
Chip,
Walk thorugh the Setup wizard for one of the newer Windows clients; one of
the options (I think since the 5.3 client release) is to put a list of
recommended excludes into the dsm.opt file.
If you are having trouble with directories other than those, perhaps you
could post them back -
W
I've got customers using both LTO4 and 3592 (now called TS1120) drives.
Both sets of customers are happy.
The TS1120 drives are fabulous - they are fast and have a really high duty
cycle. 3592 cartrdiges are more durable than the LTO4's.
The LTO4 drives are also excellent for the price.
The
Read the mysql admin guide; they explain how to do backups.
In 99% of cases, no special agent is necessary because the mysql data bases
are actually comprised of 4 (I think) flat files each. They back up just
fine as flat files, and you can restore them as flat files.
The only time you will run
Yes, files larger than 2 GB are backed up individually when you have subfile
backup turned on.
However (don't shoot the messenger here), I'll save you some time and
confusion by pointing out that you aren't going to get any significant
benefit from implementing subfile on a large file server.
Hi Dude..
How are the experiments on the NAS backups going?
When do you want to get together again?
I'm out of town next week, but I'm free Feb 26, 27, 29...
Wanda
with the DBBackup on it, from?
Do I need to fully configure the new server with cross communications with
the library manager server ?
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Well, he's a little off, but there are replication techologies that work:
To continue seamlessly on without a TSM server, you are talking about
replicating the client's LIVE data, not its backups. Check into the
replication capabilities of the DS8000; and you are correct you can also do
that
Hi Bill,
Don't know what the limit is, but it isn't 7 - I've gone to 8
On 2/27/08, Ochs, Duane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stop and start the service through the report services tab. I've had
this hang up from time to time.
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up on tape somewhere! - ??
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Hi Bill,
Don't know what the limit is, but it isn't 7
The TSM clients (including TDP's) can encrypt at AES 256. You take a hit on
performance for both backup and restore; you need to also turn on
compression on the client, as encrypted data can't be compressed by the tape
drive.
If you want to encrypt using the backup client, I STRONGLY recommend
You are of course correct. It is AES 128.
My apologies!
W
On 3/7/08, Michael Stempf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe TSM can only encrypt up to AES 128 DES 56, I do not believe it
has been updated to support AES 256.
Michael
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Wanda Prather [EMAIL
And 402 is a common return code from a TDP client such as TSM for SQL or
Exchange - those return codes are different from the ones issued by the
basic backup/archive client.
Look them up in the TDP for x books.
On 3/8/08, Avy Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Richard. I will go poke
I've used it. I don't find the setup interface to be all that intuitive,
but it works.
The reason to use it is to get ALL changes to files, presumably on a
desktop/laptop.
e.g., you want your WORD document backed up every time you save changes to
it.
The initial backup actually occurs to a
Hey Tom,
THAT is an interesting bit of information.
What media is that 38GB file on? Do you know the volser?
If I were going to work on it, the first thing I would do is copy that tape
to a different tape and then try the restore again.
W
On 3/11/08, Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's complaining about the destination for the restore, not the
files you are trying to restore.
I would try specifying a temp directory as the restore target, see what
results you get.
On 3/12/08, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Where the filespace name within a directory
is showing 99% CPU usage in System Idle Processes (and I'd love to
kill the MickeySoft idiot who decided to report network overhead as 'system
idle').
Tom
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Subject: Re: AW: Interesting problem in MS-Win restoer -- anyone seen
something like this before?
Good point - I assume a tape error (one of those cases where TSM is doing
lots and lots of retries to read the same
Usually it takes both.
Expiration is what causes the %utilization and %reclaimable values for your
tapes to be updated. If you aren't running reclamation, those values won't
change (unless you delete a filespace, that takes effect at once).
When space reclamation kicks in, it will process any
I've got customers doing a few trans-atlantic backups.
TCP/IP is a pretty forgiving protocol; there really isn't much difference in
the issues doing a backup across 7K compared to 1K. It's all about the
amount of data and the size of the pipe.
I assume they already have I/P connectivity to you
Try this:
Start the backup/archive GUI client on any system that you can get to, with
files you think had a lot of versions under the old default rules.
Click the big RESTORE button.
Navigate to some files you think had a lot of versions under the old default
rules.
Scroll to the far right,
checkout libv libname volname remove=no
On 3/21/08, David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there anyway to force TSM (5.4) to checkout volumes from a library that
is no longer powered on? Can I delete a library from TSM if q libvol says
it still has tapes in it?
David
Anybody using RetroStor as an HSM solution?
Looks like the advantage would be that it supports multiple platforms and
doesn't tie the migrated data to a particular host forever -
Care to post a review? Inquiring minds want to know.
Wanda
On what platform?
On 3/31/08, David Hensley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please let me know what components I need to download to be
able to install TSM server 5.5.0.0. Thanks.
Dave Hensley, Technical Analyst
Information Services
McNeilus Companies, Inc.
PO Box 70, 524 County
No good way around it, except to run your DELETE VOLUMES serially and with
NOTHING ELSE going on. Or upgrade past the bug. Search www.ibm.com:
IC50659
On 4/2/08, David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there is an occasional problem with Delete Volume
at that TSM server version that can
Look in the TSM client manual for Unix/Linux 5.4 or 5.5.
Search for the term PROXYNODE and GPFS.
On 4/2/08, Bjørn Nachtwey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear all,
we're running a bunch of Linux machines using a shared GPFS-SAN-volume
and having all a shared DNS alias (done by round robin
If you don't delete the volhistory, it grows forever.
If you do a PREPARE command, or send your volhistory file offsite for DR, an
enormously large volhistory becomes a nuisance.
OTOH, if you create backupsets or EXPORT tapes, you don't want to do the
delete volhist with TYPE=ALL; that will get
Mario,
Look in the TSM Admin Guide for your platform.
Chapter: Monitoring the IBM TSM server
Topic: Logging IBM TSM events to Receivers/Logging events to a File
Exit
On 4/4/08, Mario Behring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I have to send TSM events to Patrol Enterprise Manager
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