Re: Performance problem on some clients

2000-08-17 Thread William Boyer
One thing I've seen with regard to 100Mb Ethernet is to make sure that the cards are not set to auto-negotiate. Instead set them for the speed and duplex of your network. I have seen cards negotiate to 100Mb, but half-duplex. Both on clients and the TSM servers on different platforms (NT,

Re: A 3.7 bug?

2000-10-09 Thread William Boyer
I'm going to assume you're talking a TSM 3.7 client... I have seen this at a client site where their idletimeout was set too low. These second sessions you're seeing are from the RESOURCEUTILIZATION which defaults to 2. TSM will start a session for session communications and another for

TSM Using Scratch instead of Filling Tapes

2000-10-10 Thread William Boyer
AIX 4.3.1, TSM 3.7.3.0, IBM3494, (2) IBM3590B1A Right now I have 50 tapes in my onsite tape pool and 22 of them are in a 'Filling' state. It seems that TSM is more often selecting a scratch tape instead of a 'Filling' tape. These 'Filling' tapes aren't reclaimed, and I was trying to consolidate

Re: long time move data for dirmc

2000-10-13 Thread William Boyer
A co-worker of mine worked with IBM/Tivoli on this. The symptoms came during the reclamation of the offsite copypool tapes for the DIRMC disk storage pool. The answer he got was that reading from the disk storage pool was done a file at a time and not buffered. They said it was because it was a

Re: Offsite Vaulting

2000-11-06 Thread William Boyer
- First you need to define TSM to CA-1 as an External Data Manager (EDM). This procedure is described in the Systems Programmer book for CA-1 under the heading of define DFHSM. Same procedure, different names. - Install the CA-1 delivered version of the ARCTVEXT. - In your DSMSERV options file

Re: How to stop all Scheduled Jobs

2000-11-22 Thread William Boyer
How about the DISABLESCHEDS YES to the dsmserv.opt and bring up the server. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to stop all Scheduled Jobs

Re: DIRMC - disadvantages only?

2000-11-22 Thread William Boyer
No. DIRMC is used for directories in OS's that have ACL (Access Control Lists) assigned. Like NT permissions. The WIN32 client on NT will use DIRMC as well as the Netware clients. If the OS doesn't have ACL's associated with the directories, then the information is kept in the TSM database only.

Re: DIRMC - disadvantages only?

2000-11-28 Thread William Boyer
Another disadvantage is reclamation of the copypool for the DIRMC disk pool. If the primary pool is a disk pool, then TSM server only reads 1 file/directory at a time during reclamation of the offsite copypool for the DIRMC primary pool. This makes the reclamation process REAL slow! Tivoli says

Re: DIRMC - disadvantages only?

2000-11-29 Thread William Boyer
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Fuhrman Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DIRMC - disadvantages only? On DIRPOOL, what is the setting for "Cache Migrated Files"? On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, William Boyer wrote: Another disadvantage is reclamation of th

Re: OS/390 2.4 to 2.6 and TSM 3.7 performance.

2000-12-04 Thread William Boyer
When we made the conversion to OS/390 2.6, I actually got to talk to one of the TSM server developers. It wasn't related to throughput, but I talked to him about it. According to him, you won't really see a throughput improvement so much as a reduction in TCP CPU utilization. By coding directly

Last Modification Date not changing

2000-12-14 Thread William Boyer
I am having a little problem with the last modification date not being updated for an Access97 database residing on a Netware 4.11 server. I had a user call up to get a .MDB file restored, but TSM showed that the last backup date for that file was over 4-months ago. Looking at the last modified

Re: shared 3590

2001-01-30 Thread William Boyer
If your tape management system is DFSMSrmm, insertion of tapes happens differently than CA-1 or CA-TLMS. If the tape isn't defined to the RMM control dataset (CDS), then RMM adds it to his CDS using the default insertion catagory (private/scratch) defined for that library. So, to prevent RMM from

ODBC Won't run after upgrade to client 4.1.2.0 Win32

2001-02-05 Thread William Boyer
I am running Win2K and I had TSM 4.1 client installed and was able to do all my Crystal Reports with the ODBC driver. I upgraded to TSM 4.1.2.0 client and followed the directions in the INSTALL.TXT for the ODBC driver. I removed all my ODBC definitions, uninstalled TSM ODBC, rebooted and ran the

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread William Boyer
You need to make sure that your CHECKIN commands on each server use the VOLRANGE parameter. When you put tapes in the 3494, they are placed in the insertion catagory and the first 'host' to grab them get them. So you could possibly checkin serverA's tapes in for serverB and write over good data.

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-09 Thread William Boyer
this is done does this completely discount the other tapes from being included in the others checkin procedure. In response to the other e-mail. Both Sun Servers can see all the drives and they are attached through dual brocade switches. Thanks Alex William Boyer

Re: ANR8301E I/O error on 3494 library - kinda urgent!

2001-02-15 Thread William Boyer
parameter in the UPDATE DRIVE command. 2) Delete and then re-define the drive to TSM. Comments: MODULES/MACROS: NONE Problem Conclusion: None. -Original Message- From: William Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANR8301E

Re: Start backup

2001-02-20 Thread William Boyer
Check your no -a options, especially the SB_MAX, TCP_SENDSIZE and TCP_RECVSIZE. Here's the ones I used for my RS/6000 SP backups: no -o sb_max=1310720 no -o rfc1323=1 no -o tcp_sendspace=655360 no -o tcp_recvspace=655360 I got these from many messages in the archives.

Re: SNMP

2001-08-21 Thread William Boyer
I was just looking at the Admin Ref for the OS/390 platform and I see no mention of SNMP support. A 'Q OPT' on my OS/390 4.1.3.0 server doen't show any of the SNMP* options. On the AIX platform I see several SNMP* options plus there is a 'adsmserv.mib' in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory.

Re: SNMP

2001-08-21 Thread William Boyer
I just did a search of the OS/390 Admin guide and reference for 'SNMP' and got no hits. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cook, Dwight E Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SNMP Now I

Re: Long, long, long backup sessions

2001-08-24 Thread William Boyer
Couple other suggestions... 1. Check your no -a settings on the AIX box and your TCPWINDOWSIZE parameters. sb_max, rfc1323, tcp_sendspace, tcp_recvspace. Also your mbuffs. Also since you said it is a 100Mb switch, check to make sure that the adapter is running at 100 full-duplex. There have been

Re: Slow Restores on Netware

2001-08-28 Thread William Boyer
More $.02 ... Are you compressing the Netware volume? Do you have any virus scanner running while the restore is running? Bill Boyer I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere. - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: Long Filename Error

2001-08-28 Thread William Boyer
Without specific error message, I'm going to assume you're getting the same problem we have/had here. The new client is trying to do the short-to-long filename conversion and choking. We opened an ETR with Tivoli and the response was the 4.2 level of BOTH client and server will fix the problem

Re: Desaster Recovery for Win2K Clients

2001-08-30 Thread William Boyer
Also, http://www.coderelief.com/depot.htm has made their site available to upload all kinds of different things for TSM. Scripts...SQL queriesprocedures... Good place to put things and tell the list instead of a flurry of the 'Me Too!' replies. I believe Wanda put her document there. Lots of

ESS and Flashcopy for backups

2001-09-06 Thread William Boyer
Anyone out there using Flashcopy on an ESS for backups? If so, could you contact me offline about your procedures? I'm at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Boyer There's no place like ~ There's no place like ~ - ???

Re: Unable to fix tape volume problem on OS/390 server

2001-09-10 Thread William Boyer
Then just update the volume to access=read/write. TSM will put it back to scratch status. UPD VOL 040042 ACC=READW Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: FTP site

2001-10-03 Thread William Boyer
I've been getting this for about a week now. I'm trying to get the latest patch level of the AIX server code. When I try to change to any of the subdirectories in the /storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/AIX directory I get... ftp cd 4.1.4.3 250- Connection closed by remote host.

Re: How does one remove a cloptset from a node?

2001-10-30 Thread William Boyer
UPDATE NODE CLOPTSET='' Notice the null value for CLOPTSET of just 2 single quotes. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wayne T. Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How does

Re: DMZ and ports to be opened?

2001-11-02 Thread William Boyer
For boxes behind a firewall, I use SCHEDMODE POLLING. That way I only have to open up the 1500 port from the client to the server. The network people further refine it so that only the client(s) IP address can communicate with the specified TSM server address over port 1500. Using POLLING I don't

Re: Missed daily backups during 3 hour schedule

2001-11-13 Thread William Boyer
You need to bump up your MAXSESSIONS. The client level you are at uses the RESOURCEUTILIZATION 2 (default setting) so each client it taking 2 sessions for the backup. When you up the MAXSESSIONS, take a look at what your MAXSCHEDSESSIONS is now at. You may want to increase this percentage. Bill

Re: OS390 Client and AUTOMOUNT

2001-11-13 Thread William Boyer
Thought I remembered some recommendation that you leave them mounted. That way TSM should backup all the mounted mountpoints. Assuming that if the users directory is mounted, they probably changed something. Unless they are going to be logging on to different systems and need they user directory

Re: TSM 4.1 MVS 390 Performance

2001-11-13 Thread William Boyer
I didn't see mention what release of OS/390 they're running. If he's not at the level of TCP where TSm is using the Bpx IP services, then CPU will be high. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: Reporting Statistics

2001-11-19 Thread William Boyer
There's also a new guy on the market. Last week they sent out an announcement on this list. They are http://www.tsmmanager.com. Looks promising. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Mansfield Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:10 PM

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-19 Thread William Boyer
Can you ping the library from that server? Also, have you checked the library manager log? You need to go into service mode, and then it's one of the menu choices. Can't remember which one and I'm at home so I can't check right now. The LM will do a reverse name lookup on the IP address and if it

Re: Delay on script

2001-11-19 Thread William Boyer
Would the MOUNTRetention for his DEVClass be what's happening here? The BA DB command completes, but TSM keeps the tape mounted for MOUNTR minutes. The checkout won't work if the tape is mounted. Maybe, like was suggested previously, the script could schedule the checkout command for NOW+MOUNTR

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
Another problem I had with the LM was by default the @#^$# thing added a route for my subnet to the default gateway. SO, as long as the address was outside of my subnet, I could talk to it. If it was on the same subnet (which was where my TSM server was located) then it was being sent to the

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
I have the same problems. If I use Access or Excel to get the data via the same ODBC connection, the date/times are correct. Also, if you use a utility that Seagate distributes on the CD called SQLCON32.EXE with the same select statement I cut and pasted from my report, it displays correctly. I

Re: Statistics problem with TSM backup.

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
This is the amount of bytes transferred, not the amount of data backed up. They are 2 different animals. I had this issue with one of my Notes administrators. I was telling him that his main Notes server was backing up 50GB/night, but his filespace only showed 24GB used. This number of bytes

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/2001 11:16 Please respond to bill.boyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ODBC

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-21 Thread William Boyer
that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/2001 11:16 Please respond to bill.boyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ODBC

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports) WORK AROUND

2001-11-21 Thread William Boyer
/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/2001 11:16 Please respond

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports) LATEST

2001-11-21 Thread William Boyer
line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/2001 11:16 Please respond to bill.boyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type

Re: Sharing the 3494 with OS/390 and AS/400

2001-11-27 Thread William Boyer
On OS/390 it depends on the tape management system. If you're running DFSMSrmm, then just specify the REJECT ANYUSE(...) for the volser 'range' that is non-OS/390 in your EDGRMMxx parmlib member. If you are using any of the CA alternatives (TLMS, CA-1) then you will have to modify the sample

Re: Script to cancel certain sessions

2001-11-29 Thread William Boyer
Instead of Q SESSION or Q PRO, why not do a select from the sessions or processes table? Here's a little script that runs from cron on my AIX TSM server: dsmadmc -se=cartech_adsm_mvs -id=?? -pa=?? select session_id,client_name from sessions /home/adsm/woodrdg.txt cat /home/adsm/woodrdg.txt |

Scheduler service logon account

2001-11-30 Thread William Boyer
Normally this is set up as using the local admin account, but I've recently gotten a server that needs to backup a remote PC's share point. It keeps failing with ANS1228E Sending of object '\\ntpc1676\sx65db' failed ANS1063E Invalid path specification After searching the archives, it seems

Re: WIN2k server losing the password

2001-12-01 Thread William Boyer
I ran/run into this on some clients. What I found is that if you don't specify the NODENAME in the DSM.OPT file and let it default to the computername of the client...you'll see this problem..IFthe value returned for the computer name is in LOWER CASE characters. Part of my install is to do

Re: TSM, Tivoli, Shark and EMC

2001-12-05 Thread William Boyer
Flashcopy is NOT a Tivoli product. It is a feature of the ESS. There are TDP agents for both ESS using Flashcopy and EMC using TimeFinder, but only in support of Oracle. But scripting some flashcopy tasks to create copy LUNs and bring them online to your backup server wouldn't be too hard to do.

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade-

2001-12-05 Thread William Boyer
Check the MOUNTRETENTION in the device class. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Suad Musovich Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade- Upgraded to 4.2.1.7 (AIX) from 4.2.0.1

Re: dsmadmc OS/390 TSO Abends After UserID/Password

2001-12-19 Thread William Boyer
In addition to making sure that the DSCOPT and DSCLANG are allocated, if this has never worked, I would check the APPLY step for the admin client FMID. Making sure that the DDDEF's are set correct for the TCP and LE options. The SYS1.SAMPLIB(ANRDDEF) member is used to create them. Bill Boyer

Assigning MGMT to SYSTEMOBJECT?

2001-12-20 Thread William Boyer
Going through the readme for the 4.2 client, I found the new option INCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECT ALL mgmtclass to assign the systemobject to a management class. Also reading the Redbook Deploying TSM in a Win2k Environment which states that only 1 copy of the systemobject is kept by TSM. So, assigning

Re: backup file list

2002-01-04 Thread William Boyer
I do believe that the BYTES column in the SUMMARY table is the amount of data transferred. Not necessarily the amount of data backed up. I had a Notes server that only had 25GB of used space, but due to a conflict (the admin was scheduling the COMPACTION at the same time as my backups) it was

Re: TSM 4.2.1.6 not talking to 3584 Library

2002-01-09 Thread William Boyer
I would check to make sure that NT didn't change the actual device names on the reboot. Verify that the LB1.1.0.3 that TSM knows about it really the name NT (still) has for it. Also check out the drives DEVICE= against the NT device names. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From:

Re: DBBackup Tapes never being asked for

2002-01-11 Thread William Boyer
I believe that DRM will only expire DBBackup VIRTUAL volumes, not normal DBBackup tape volumes. This is for server-2-server DB backups. You have to do a DEL VOLH T=DBB TOD=TODAY-n. I have this in a server script that does all my server backup commands: ba db type=full devclass=3590off

Server crash, expiration and then a restore ???'s

2002-01-16 Thread William Boyer
We had a server crash last week, 3-drives in a 16-drive RAID array at the same time. 300GB with 100K's of files. The server remained up, and when the RAID was rebuilt and the drives created...they were empty. Before the restore was initiated, the nightly incremental ran. All those files on the 2

HP LTO drives show as GENERICTAPE

2002-01-18 Thread William Boyer
Win2K TSM Server 4.2.1.9, Qlocic fibre card, Dell Powervault 136T library with the FC Bridge attachment, 3-HP LTO Dell PowerVault 110T tape drives. I see everything, and in the ADSMSCSI drive I see the changer and 3-drives. In the management console, under the driver and Device details, it lists

Re: FC/ SCSI

2002-01-28 Thread William Boyer
Even though you're using a bigger pipe to get to the drives, you're still limited to the speed the drive can read/write data to the heads. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Bach Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:19 AM

Re: Reading client data from a storage pool tape.

2005-02-19 Thread William Boyer
And what about those other backup products that allow you to recreate the database from the tapes. Re-cataloging a tape I think it's called. How secure is that? Then all you need is a copy of the backup product and you can restore anyone's tape/data...even if it's not yours! With TSM unless the

Error while installing ISC

2005-03-04 Thread William Boyer
I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes to about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and this error: [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring

Re: Error while installing ISC

2005-03-04 Thread William Boyer
% with no apperent reason, and searching through the installation log of ISC is something you only want to do on a rainy sunday afternoon. Richard. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04-03-2005 14:44 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Directory path backed up again and again ...

2005-03-08 Thread William Boyer
I believe that TSM backs up the directory, too, if any files have changed in that directory. And unless you specify a DIRMC, TSM uses the management class with the longest retention for DIRECTORY entries. This was a problem people saw before IBM implemented the DIRMC option. For Unix servers,

Re: Tape went back to private without reason (2)

2005-03-16 Thread William Boyer
I use the AUTOLABEL=YES on the library definition. Saves me the headache when operations puts new tapes in without telling they got new tapes! I did find that if a Storage Agent mounts a tape that isn't label'd it will reject it even though AUTOLABEL=YES is turned on for the library. It's still

Re: Move Media DR

2005-03-22 Thread William Boyer
Backupsets are not considered DRMEDIA by DRM. You can't use MOVE MEDIA on them either because they do not belong to a storage pool. You would have to write your own scripts to look for the backupset tapes and then update the volhistory record for that tape with a LOCATION= parameter. You should

Re: ANR8963E - AGAIN

2005-03-24 Thread William Boyer
I've had issues with replacing LTO drives in a 3583 library. Unless I shutdown the Windows server, then power cycled the library and brought Windows back up I would get error trying to define the drive. It would tell me that the ELEMENT= was not found. Have you verified that the MTx.x.x.x

Experience with mixing LTO drives in a single library

2005-03-25 Thread William Boyer
I know it's supported, and the Admin Guide doesn't say very much about the actual mechanics and pros/cons of doing it, but I have a client that has a 3853 with 3-LTO1 drives. They have a very specific application that requires large capacity, but a limited budget. They are looking at adding a

Can I exclude he WinSxS folder on Windows2003 server?

2005-03-29 Thread William Boyer
I have a client with a Windows2003 server with Exchange 2003 on it. Lately he started seeing errors in his nightly non-Exchange backups relating to a file in the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder. I've search the archives and came up dry. No hits on IBM either. I Google search brought up some information

ENCRYPTKEY

2005-03-30 Thread William Boyer
I have a client that is trying to set up encryption for some files. TSM 5.3 client: ENCRYPTIONTYPE AES128 ENCRYPTKEYSAVE The first time he used the GUI to backup the files he was prompted, but there was no indication that the INCLUDE.ENCRYPT files were encrypted. Is there a way

Re: lost volume configuration in my 3583

2005-04-01 Thread William Boyer
I've also found that after doing firmware on the library the default or Extended label option gets reset. That's whether you get 6 or 8 characters of the barcode reported by the library. Check to make sure that the library is configured for the correct option for the TSM tapes. Otherwise TSM

Re: IBM 3583 upgrade to mult-path

2005-04-29 Thread William Boyer
No, part of the upgrade is using a utility the CE has to download from an internal IBM site. As a customer I don't have access to it. A utility called DLCONVERT.EXE. This utility loaded the multi-path firmware, converted from SCSI-ID to LUN mapping. Then just re-cable to library like you would a

FW: TSM 5.3 and the good-old WEBadmin good news

2005-05-05 Thread William Boyer
Forget it.helps if you create the WEBIMAGE directory instead of WEBIMAGES directory. Time for new glasses! :-) Bill Boyer Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield - ?? -Original Message- From: William Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2

Re: Operational Hourly Monitors

2005-05-06 Thread William Boyer
If you go in and look at some of the queries already defined by Tivoli in the default hourly monitor it shows that the SQL WHERE clause compares the date/times BETWEEN '%s and '%s' . I've used this syntax in my own queries and it works fine. I've never found any documentation on it, just a

Re: column width

2005-05-12 Thread William Boyer
Just put SET SQLDISPLAYMODE WIDE Before your select command. Bill Boyer Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:21 AM To:

Re: available slots left

2007-04-12 Thread William Boyer
Using one of the undocumented SHOW commands: SHOW SLOTS libraryname Will list out how many usable slots there are in the library. Then SELECT COUNT(*) FROM LIBVOLUMES Will tell you how many you're using. Simple math from there. You can also make a server script Def scr q_slots 'SELECT

Re: LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

2007-04-13 Thread William Boyer
Just saw this announcement: HP AND IBM PASS MECHANISM COMPLIANCE TESTING FOR LTO ULTRIUM FORMAT GENERATION 4 TAPE DRIVES Brings New Generation of Tape Hardware with Drive-Level Encryption, WORM, Capacity and Performance Enhancements SILICON VALLEY, CALIF. - (April 11, 2007) - HP, IBM and

Re: Remove unwanted files

2007-04-13 Thread William Boyer
If you do that, then the next backup will EXPIRE the backup copies on the TSM server. They will then be managed by the Versions Deleted, Retain Extra and Retain Only parameters. They will not be deleted immediately! There is a technique that has been discussed on this list and I've used on

Re: TSM on Windows Cluster

2007-04-17 Thread William Boyer
Appendix D of the TSM B/A client manual describes the steps necessary to configure TSM to backup cluster resources. I think you're missing the step for the registry key replication. Bill Boyer Law of Cybernetic Entomology - There is always another bug. - ?? -Original Message- From:

Re: ANR1025W Migration process 3433 terminated for storage pool BACKUPPOOL - insufficient space in subordinate storage pool.(PROCESS: 3433)

2007-04-18 Thread William Boyer
How many tapes are in the TAPEPOOL1 storage pool? You have a MAXSCRATCH of 250. If you have 250...then that's your issue. Try updating the stgpool to a higher MAXSCRATCH= value. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM VOLUMES WHERE STGPOOL_NAME='TAPEPOOL1' Bill Boyer Life isn't about how fast you run, or how

Re: BAClient doesn't know my new partition is there!

2007-04-18 Thread William Boyer
Why not just take out ALL the DOMAIN lines from your DSM.OPT and let it default to ALL-LOCAL. Which will get you all local drives (now and in the future!) plus the systemstate,systemservices. If there's a specific drive you DON'T want as part of your domain, it's easier to list what you don't

Re: Client's attributes changing

2007-05-03 Thread William Boyer
Until you get some admin that installs TSM and copies the DSM.OPT from a client that has the NODENAME specified. Once the CAD/Scheduler startsthat nodename now points to this new box and the real NODENAME isn't getting backups anymore. I always pay attention to these messages as they could

Re: TS3310 and 6 character bar codes

2007-05-14 Thread William Boyer
I believe that with LTO3 tapes you don't have the choice of 6 or 8-character tape numbers. You can only use 8. And the TS3310 only supports LTO3 drives. I guess that's why there's no option for 6/8-char volsers. If you're going to have to use the TS3310 for the older tapes labeled with the

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-26 Thread William Boyer
Instead of doing a SELECTIVE backup on a periodic basis, which won't update the last backup date/time of the filespace, use the MODE=ABSOLUTE of the backup copygroup. In your domain, make a copy of the active policy set and change all the management class backup copygroups to MODE=ABSOLUTE

Re: Mixing drive types in logical library 3584

2007-06-03 Thread William Boyer
I have a 3583 with 3 LTO1 drives and 1 LTO3. I have 2 devclass's defined with FORMAT=ULTRIUMC and FORMAT=ULTRIUM3C and stgpools defined to use the specific type. I notice that if I had specified FORMAT=DRIVES, then it was possible that when asking for a scratch that I would get an LTO1 when I

Re: TDP for Mail (Domino) throughput - Multiple mount question

2007-06-07 Thread William Boyer
Try looking at these 2 articles on IBM: 1114638 and1194688. Bill Boyer My problem was caused my a loose screw at the keyboard - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:18 PM To:

Re: ANR8355E-I/O error has brought the tape from Read Write to Unavailable

2007-06-13 Thread William Boyer
Doing a HELP 8355 from the TSM admin command line gives a suggestion that the PATH statements do not correctly point to the right drive(s). Possibly the DEVICE= specified in the PATH isn't the correct DRIVE of the ELEMENT= you specified. Most libraries and TSM today support the

Re: non visible RMAN backups ...

2007-06-18 Thread William Boyer
Did you try putting the filespace name between the {} brackets? q ba {/adsmorv}/* -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: non visible RMAN backups ... hi all, is

Re: Cannot define a path to a drive: help, please?

2007-06-19 Thread William Boyer
I think what you need to do is have the library device in AIX re-initialize. I believe that TSM is only reporting on what the Atape device driver knows about the last time it was initialized at the last boot or cfgmgr. Try stopping TSM and 'rmdev -l /dev/smc(x)' to put it to s defined state, or

Re: Cannot define a path to a drive: help, please?

2007-06-19 Thread William Boyer
Fax: (717) 302-9826 [EMAIL PROTECTED] William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 06/19/2007 10:25 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Cannot define

Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution

2007-06-21 Thread William Boyer
Has anyone just gone through sizing a VTL solution for a library replacement? Is it as simple as taking your current occupancy/retention, applying for some compression and using that figure for the amount of storage behind the VTL? Or maybe I'm just trying to make something harder than it is.

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-06-27 Thread William Boyer
Instead of having to restore each *.LOG file every day, why not just code a POSTSCHEDULECMD that FTP's all the *.LOG files to a central server as nodename.dsm*.log Bill Boyer Life isn't about how fast you run, or how high you climb but how well you bounce - ?? -Original Message- From:

Re: unloaddb/loaddb

2007-06-28 Thread William Boyer
What kind of throughput did you see on the unload/load processes? Bill Boyer Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robben Leaf Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:44 PM To:

Re: AW: [ADSM-L]

2007-07-04 Thread William Boyer
Yes, Include.encrypt does not INCLUDE files for backup processing or assign mgmtclass to files. It only specified files to have encryption applied to them. I just ran in to a similar problem where a user wanted to exclude everything on a drive except for a single directory and have that

Re: Upgrading TSM server 5.2 to 5.3

2007-07-09 Thread William Boyer
This is from the README.SRV from the 5.3.2.1 patch level. If you check out the readme for the 5.3.2.0 base level I'm sure it'll probably be the same: Migration and LAN-free Considerations * Only storage agents Versions 5.2.3, 5.2.4, and 5.3 are supported by

Re: Splitting the TSM Database into three

2007-07-09 Thread William Boyer
If you server has enough resources (CPU, memory, storage...) then put the new instance on the same server. You have to update the clients DSM.OPT file for the ones that backup to the new instance anyway, but instead of chaning TCPSERVERADDRESS you change TCPPORT. You currently have your TSM

ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

2007-08-03 Thread William Boyer
Windows 2003 server, TSM client 5.3.2.0, TSM Server 5.3.2.0 on Windows. The share in question is on a NAS type device called a SNAP! server. We have changed the TSM Scheduler service to use a domain logon that has access to that share. For testing we logged on as that user and were able to map

Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

2007-08-06 Thread William Boyer
, 2007 11:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain Try running dsmc from a domain admin account and see if it's a rights/permissions issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boyer

Question on client side encryption

2007-08-15 Thread William Boyer
I have a client that required certain directories on each file server to be encrypted. We made the changes to the DSM.OPT to enable AES128 and the include.encrypt statemsents and did a selective always backup of those directories so that the active version was an encrypted version and all the

Re: Library manager still shows REMOTE

2007-08-16 Thread William Boyer
The volhist TYPE=REMOTE entries are created when a library client requests a scratch tape and the library manager changes it to status=private and creates this REMOTE entry with LOCATION of the owning instance name. It doesn't have anything to do with MOVE DRM. There is a TYPE=REMOTE for every

Re: open Access files

2007-08-17 Thread William Boyer
Yeah, but unless the Access application opens the database with exclusive use, you can get a backup of an open Access database. And even Microsoft says that's a no-no. I use to have a link to a KB article at Microsoft that said even doing a COPY of an open MDB file would leave the copy corrupt

Re: How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool volume?

2007-08-20 Thread William Boyer
Just do a DEL VOL copypoolvolume DISCARD=YES And the next time BA STG runs the files that were on that damanged tape will be re-copied to new copypool media. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davis, Adrian Sent: Monday,

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

2007-08-22 Thread William Boyer
Only thing with doing a script to stop the services, dsmc incremental, and start the services is, you loose the successful with skipped files for the event. An ACTION=COMMAND schedule either works (rc=0) or failes (rc0). And in your script you have to make allowances for DSMC INCREMENTAL

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

2007-08-22 Thread William Boyer
Maybe being an ex-programmer, but you have no condition code checking to make sure that the NET STOP/START commands completed successfully. If you NET STOP's don't work, do you still want to run the backup? Now if the last NET STOP command fails, then the preschedulecmd will return with a

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

2007-08-22 Thread William Boyer
. If anyone cares to add anything or see any possible errors feel free to let me know. Again Thank you all very much. Tim William Boyer wrote: Maybe being an ex-programmer, but you have no condition code checking to make sure that the NET STOP/START commands completed successfully. If you NET

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