Re: Serializing BACKUP STGPOOL / MOVE DRMEDIA

2014-06-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Skylar. Have you tried setting your MOUNTWAIT to 0 or 1? It seems to me that should allow the operator request to time out and your processing to continue. On 6/3/2014 2:12 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: We've been suffering with the effects of this APAR for a while, which IBM fixed as a

Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008

2013-10-23 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Steven. There are some drawbacks to backing up the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory, especially with regard to passwords, but necessary, you should be able to back up those *.job files by using a prescheduled command to copy the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory

Re: NFS only supported on AIX.

2013-10-07 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello, Grant. I'm certain NFS filesystems are supported on clients other than AIX. In fact, the URL below links to the UNIX BAClient manual, which contains the sentence: Note: On Solaris and HP-UX, the nfstimeoutoption can fail if the NFS mount is hard.

Re: Windows Clients and Non-Supported OS Levels

2013-09-16 Thread Alex Paschal
I can definitely understand the gripe. However, I think I should have the option of installing something in an unsupported fashion, if I that's how the risk/reward equation balances out for me. For those submitting RFEs, please consider also mentioning a --unsupported or --noprereqcheck for

Re: V6.3.4 conversion issue and Dell PowerEdge R720 and Throttling

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Zoltan. See the Cucisan post, Dec 17, 2012, 04:47 PM. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1785211.html Hopefully this gives you a direction to start researching. On 6/21/2013 11:05 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: This is a little OT but wondering if someone could help/offer some

Re: LTO-5, TS3310 and dual-port

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Bill. Honestly, there's no link required. You simply cable and zone. Atape will handle the multipathing for you. Here's a command to enable alt_pathing on all your tape devices: lsdev -Cc tape | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n1 -I asdf chdev -l asdf -a alt_pathing=yes Note: that -I is a

Re: migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Stef. There is only a loose correlation between the devclass directory and the volume directories. Would you please post the output of: q vol /home/app/tsm/diskpool/diskpool13/diskpool/297D.BFS On 4/17/2013 2:42 AM, Stef Coene wrote: Hi, We have a strange storage pool problem.

Re: Addressing log pinned condition on V6 server

2013-04-16 Thread Alex Paschal
Back in the day, it almost always used to be a duplex mismatch. Get off my lawn! :-) On 4/16/2013 6:36 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: But, how do you address/resolve this kind of problem? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu wrote: On 04/16/2013 08:59 AM, Zoltan Forray

Re: Implementing Encryption

2013-04-10 Thread Alex Paschal
Managed Encryption (AME)* TSM generates encrypts and stores the key in the DB with other meta data - Provides interface to key services - Associates correct key with file On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alex Paschal apasch...@frontier.com wrote: Oh, sorry, rest of the question. It's easy

Re: Implementing Encryption

2013-04-09 Thread Alex Paschal
The real question is: are you allowed to send the unencrypted keys (in the unencrypted dbbackup) offsite in the same truck as the encrypted tapes? Or will you have to ship the dbbackup tape separately? Or if you want to dodge that gotcha, I suppose you could simply scp the dbbackup to some

Re: Implementing Encryption

2013-04-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Oh, sorry, rest of the question. It's easy to convert from AME to LME - create new library partition, new devclass, set up for LME. Rename some stgpools and recreate them using the new devclass so you don't have to modify your daily maintenance scripts or copygroups. Then attrition, reclamation,

Re: Implementing Encryption

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Paschal
Be sure to create a Windows task or crontab script that copies your EKM keystore periodically and remotely. And preferably not to TSM. :-) On 4/5/2013 6:30 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: Unfortunately, after discussing the choices with management, they decided to choose LME vs AME. So they want me

Re: Script for automated config of TDP for MSSQL (fcm based)

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Marice. Did your setup log give you any hints as to why it didn't create the directory? On 4/5/2013 2:41 AM, Maurice van 't Loo wrote: Friends, To have standard installation and configuration of the TSM clients and to keep the installation and configuration easy as possible for Wintel

Re: TSM 6.3.3

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Jerome. I've found IBM's quote of 5GB/hr is pretty accurate across a variety of hardware architectures, OSs, and disk arrays. Figure your 200GB database would take 40-ish hours to upgrade, possibly less if you feel a reorg would shrink your database significantly. That means you'd

Re: How to load via a commandline a second TSM Storage Agent - part 2

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Robert. I think this is the point of confusion. tcpport is the TSM Server's listener port. lanfreetcpport is the port on which the stg agent listens. Between your two instances, tcpport should be the same if both instances are talking to the same TSM Server. The two

Re: Odd server activity attached to no session or process, and deleting filespaces from very large nodes...

2013-01-15 Thread Alex Paschal
Are those 40mil spread across several filespaces? I've seen situations on TSM-classic (i.e. pre-6) where doing smaller workloads, like deleting one filespace at a time, worked better than deleting the whole node. Would that be practical in this case? On 1/15/2013 10:04 AM, Allen S. Rout wrote:

Re: Deduplication candidates

2013-01-11 Thread Alex Paschal
I second Wanda on the logs. When you think about it, logs are unique data, being entirely made of transactions in the order in which they come in. If they were identical to some other data, I'd start looking around for Twighlight Zone cameras. On the other hand, I suppose I could imagine a

Re: Deduplication candidates

2013-01-11 Thread Alex Paschal
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deduplication candidates I second Wanda on the logs. When you think about it, logs are unique data, being entirely made

Re: Battles with TSM for VE

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Neil. Have you considered changing VMCTLDISK volumes into one big honkin' volume? Granted, it's not ideal, but it might solve the problem. On 1/8/2013 11:24 AM, Neil Schofield wrote: We've been using TSM for VE in production for about 6 months now and although it generally works well,

Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

2013-01-02 Thread Alex Paschal
operation for the pool that has the data to prevent contention. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 4:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation

Re: TDP for SQL gui takes 20 min to display inactive

2012-12-28 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Steve. If restoring a file takes multiple small volumes in one pool, but only one large volume in another pool, TSM will choose the pool with the fewest volumes/mounts required, even if the smaller volumes are significantly faster. This causes some problems with restores choosing real tape

Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

2012-12-28 Thread Alex Paschal
Pierre, Jim, having read your observation of read performance impact with your Data Domain and your DXi, do you guys have thoughts on how you might handle a full server recovery or other large restore during your backup window? Do you think you might be forced to stop all backups in order to

Re: tsm scripts time of day

2012-12-18 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Jeannie. No, actually, there isn't. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is a built in function that returns the timestamp of the current time. DB2 has DATE and TIME functions for getting pieces of the timestamp. Here is a good URL for basic DB2 time functions. Some subset of these apply to TSM's selects.

Re: Multiple stanzas unusable: /usr/bin/dsmc already running.

2012-12-12 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello, Ethan. I've not seen this. Do they run if you start them manually? How about if you remove 6.2.4.4 and backlevel to 6.2.0.0 to match the working box? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Günther Sent: Wednesday,

Re: DR scenario

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, David. You can create a replication statistics file from the PTManager Replication menu. Open that with Open/ApacheOpen/LibreOffice Calc, and compare source time for last sync point against the last_write_date from the VOLUMES table in TSM. Any volumes with last_write_date later than the

Re: hypothetical situation with dedup turned on

2012-11-15 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, David. You can still do as you're already doing: audit volume fix=yes to find the damaged blocks, then do a move data against the good data. That would leave the unreadable data on the volume. If the copypool volume is unavailable for a restore volume, then the only thing you could do is

Re: AUDIT VOL with WAIT=YES ?

2012-11-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Roger. I don't have one already made, but this should get you started. Hopefully there won't be too many typos. #!/usr/bin/ksh dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa audit vol /path/file1 sleep 10 while dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa -comma q pr | grep -qi audit ; do sleep 10 done dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa update

Re: consolidating file type primary pools

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Paschal
I agree with the lazy move. The best sysadmins are lazy bastards. ;-) To optimize your migration (minimize time and data movement), you can take the list of those E: volumes and use some scripting or Excel wizardry to get a count of how many carts there are per date-last-written. Chart that

Re: ANS8810E setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

2012-10-04 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, John. Typically, instead of setting this variable globally, you would set it in a script before it calls dsmc, that way the variable's only set until the script ends. Only if you're running this as a dedicated service user, or only if it doesn't break anything, would I recommend setting the

Re: Stopping backups from running during certain hours

2012-09-26 Thread Alex Paschal
As far as killing those sessions goes, something like this might do the job. Just put it in a script, cron it for 7am. dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa cancel session all Heheh - talk about a big stick. If you need it to cancel only certain nodes' sessions, you could try something like this. Put the node

Re: Stopping backups from running during certain hours

2012-09-26 Thread Alex Paschal
Out of curiosity, when you cancel the sessions manually, how do you stop them from restarting? On 9/26/2012 11:15 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: All of this discussion is great but the bigger picture/issue is being missed. Yes, I would like to automate it but isn't really possible since it is

Re: OT: OS/2 file format

2012-09-25 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Zoltan. I don't know that it will work, but 7zip is worth a try. It's a pretty good can-opener. However, I suspect you will have to install eCS, maybe in a VM, in order to get access to the loadram utility. http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/ On 9/25/2012 7:24 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote:

Re: Occupancy for each platform type

2012-08-24 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello. Hans Chr. I don't have one to look at right now, but I didn't see any responses so I figured I'd toss in a question in the hope that it might be helpful: might the filespace names or name formats give you any clues? Or do they look like regular drives under vss/proxy? Also, back in

Re: copy stg has more files than the primary one!

2012-08-11 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi. A file can be stored on one volume in the primary pool and span two volumes in a copy pool, or vice versa. You might obtain better results by summing occupancy data by stgpool. On 8/11/2012 2:54 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Hi, There are two LTO pools in this TSM server, one primary and the

Re: migrating tape storage pools

2012-08-10 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Kurt. The way you're doing it sounds fine to me. In fact, it sounds like the only real problem is offsite slots. Are those very expensive for you? But this implies that the copy storage pool from generation LTO_Y needs to be rebuild from scratch. Which is time consuming - Alex: Not

Re: New message ANR1626I

2012-08-06 Thread Alex Paschal
server to 6.3.1.0 the -CONSOLE is ONLY showing me the ANR1626I messages. Nothing else. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] New message

Re: New message ANR1626I

2012-08-03 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Bill. I used to keep a file of message regular expressions I didn't want to see. Then I would: dsmadmc -console -id=me -pa=secret | grep -uivf file You could even alias it you don't have to type it all the time. alias startconsole='/usr/bin/dsmadmc -console -id=me -pa=secret | grep -uivf

Re: Export backup data between LC

2012-07-31 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Ruud. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck - but latency can be problematic. A somewhat workable option would be to perform an export node filedata=all to tape, then FedEx the tapes next-day. Once you import the data on the target server, you can then do an export toserver=

Re: Moving Archive data between *nodes*

2012-07-17 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Rick. As an aside, if you rename those nodes, have you thought about how you'll find those archives later? Most people start with, I need data. It lived on xyz server. On to your question. Do you need them to have the same node name? What about naming them ArchiveNode1 and ArchiveNode2,

Re: uninstalling tsm

2012-07-13 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Gary. You'll need to remove the DB2 catalog. It's a directory called NODE, typically in ~tsminst1or ~tsminst1/tsminst1. On Windows, it'll typically be in c:\server1, or whatever directory to which you set dftdbpath. Alternatively, you can probably use DB2 commands to uncatalog the

Re: Select or Query help

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Margaret, Geoff. If you select the key sequence for the backups table, you can optimize your select so it doesn't kill your TSM instance. v5: select colname, index_keyseq from syscat.columns where tabname='BACKUPS' v6: I think it's keyseq instead of index_keyseq If you then add clauses to

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Alex Paschal
Wow. Charles, do you mind if we grill you about your environment? Is it simply size that pushes you to scale to that many VTLs and TSM instances, or is it some other consideration? On 7/10/2012 10:29 AM, Hart, Charles A wrote: The IBM one, the reason I said overhead and complexity 1) We have

Re: Reducing SCSI timeouts?

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Sascha. I don't know how to reduce the timeout, but IPLing the drives should allow the process to cancel. I used to just walk back into the datacenter and flip the power switch, it got me up from my desk, but you can IPL the drive from the 3584 Web Specialist also. On 7/2/2012 7:26 AM,

Re: TSM V6 tape labels

2012-06-28 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Victor. You can pre-define volumes into storage pools with the define volume command. Set those stgpools to maxscratch=0 and you should be able to avoid having the wrong volsers used in the wrong pools. See the Admin Guide, Chapter 2, Concepts, for Defined volumes and scratch volumes

Re: Changed SQL behavior under server 6.2.3.1

2012-06-21 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Margaret. What error are you getting? Taking a stab in the dark, explicitly using NODES and FILESPACES in your predicate can cause unexpected results (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21380830). I would guess failing with the addition of the word NOT could be construed as an

Re: Does TSM supports backquote command like linux???

2012-06-19 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello. As of 6.2, the UNIX BA Client actually does. It has a provision for using an environment variable in the JBB JournalExcludeList wherein %EnvVar% expands the EnvVar environment variable. Unfortunately, you would still have to write a script to build your inclexcl list for your occasional

Re: restore an image backup using -imagetofile

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Robert. Windows images are called WIM files (*.wim). I don't know off the top of my head if the TSM image file is the same thing, but it seems reasonable that they could be. You might take a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766067%28v=ws.10%29.aspx. It tells about

Re: More on Library Manager/Library Client

2012-06-07 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Geoff. This isn't comprehensive, but hopefully it's enough to get you started. 1. What are some of the daily issues you see related to the manager/client setup/communication if any and what commands do you run to see if everything 'looks good? Not too many daily issues specific to library

Re: Teaching Problem Solving?

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Nick. Oh, boy, does it resonate. I've had to pass on troubleshooting skills several times. I'll boast around a 60% success rate, but I'm sure it's lower once you correct for positive bias. :-) The method I use is something like this: 1) Wait for a simple (!!!) 5-minute trouble ticket to

Re: Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Geoff. Congrats. Let's see if we can get you hitting the ground running. Because I'm often on customer computers without access to the Internet from my own laptop, I Google: tivoli storage manager 6.3 information center I take the first option, and when the infocenter comes up, I

Re: ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Paschal
From the TSM server: telnet hla lla Example: telnet servera 1501 If it hangs and eventually times out, you have a firewall problem, as David mentions. If it says Connection Refused or similar, the CAD is not listening on that port. If it connects, your plumbing is fine. Some other things

Re: TSM-Client 6.2.2.0 and Server 5.5.6.0 -preschedulecmd

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Guenther. Instead of redirecting the output /dev/null, I would recommend redirecting it to a file so you could take a look at it. /usr/bin/su - appuser -c '/appdir/2/admin-tools/backup/bin/onbkup -x 1/tmp/outfile 21' Hopefully this will give you more troubleshooting information. Alex

Re: TSM Disaster Recovery with VTL

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Paschal
if a file is expired, the volume it resides on is not reclaimed until it falls below the RECLAIM of the stgpool. This means the volume may not be reclaimed for quite a while after the expiration of the file in which you are interested. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions

Re: SV: backing up and restoring two different filesystems problem on one node

2009-09-24 Thread Alex Paschal
Is the second restore waiting for access to the cartridge that the first restore is using? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SV:

Re: ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Paschal
plan to use. (Although TSM is hands-down the best. :-) Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Identify HSM Migrated files on Windows

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Paschal
a print function, you can print it to a tiff file or something and then do OCR on it. /facetious Yuck. :-) Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better

Re: Scheduled Exc backup failing on -1073741819

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Paschal
. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday

Re: TSM 6.1 DB Backups

2009-06-04 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Steve. Don't hang up the TSM hat yet. I'll bet one dbbackup to tape and two to disk would resolve that issue. Or heck, do all three to disk and xfer one offsite via network (ftp, rsync, something) and you can save that last dbbackup tape as well. Alex

Re: 50 ways

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, George. A quick Google search turned this up. Is this it? http://open-systems.ufl.edu/node/197 Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better. -Original

Re: Tape Drive SN issue

2009-04-30 Thread Alex Paschal
. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH

Re: UNIX BA client trigger a Windows Server action

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Paschal
a ssh server on the Windows server. This is fairly easy with Cygwin/sshd. The UNIX script ssh's with rsa key authentication to the windows server to execute the batch/cmd scripts that stop and start the application. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI

Re: Configuration manager

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Paschal
a data-moving TSM server act as a config mgr is that config mgr is such a low-overhead service that having a stand-alone config mgr may be a waste of hardware and admin time. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office

Re: tsm odbc driver nust excel ??

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Paschal
to determine whether it can operate with only SELECT capability. Good luck! Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM

Re: Sql question

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Gary. To expand it to handle a set of nodes, you can use something like: ... where node_name in ('NODE1','NODE2','NODE3') Or you can use a sub-select: ... where node_name in (select node_name from [some_table] where yatta) Alex Alex Paschal Storage

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-20 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Sabar. I couldn't find a TS7569G via Google, but on the TS7650G, also a deduping VTL, after data goes through the factoring (dedup) algorithm it is run through a compression algorithm. You probably won't see much deduplication, but on the first backup you should see a decrease in size

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-20 Thread Alex Paschal
, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: volumes in a collocation group?stg

2009-03-19 Thread Alex Paschal
, 2009 11:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] volumes in a collocation group?stg On Mar 15, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Alex Paschal wrote: Nick, if you really want to mix data on tapes (I have no idea why you would want to, but the beautiful thing about TSM is you can do nearly anything

Re: volumes in a collocation group?stg

2009-03-19 Thread Alex Paschal
of is to temporarily reduce MAXSCRATCH (or temporarily disable collocation), set to Unavailable the volumes you do _not_ wish to write to, then issue move [node]data. Alex Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators

Re: volumes in a collocation group?stg

2009-03-15 Thread Alex Paschal
move [node]data. Alex Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme

Re: Tape performance (was: Re: Preferred TSM Platform)

2009-02-27 Thread Alex Paschal
| grep | awk, sleep , and a subtraction will give you bytes/second numbers. Heck, it'll even give you cool stuff like IP over FC bytes if you use it. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business

Re: viewing logs on TSM instance startup

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Paschal
can read more about dsmulog in the TSM for AIX Admin Reference. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: Mainframe/TSM Question

2009-02-20 Thread Alex Paschal
A better question might be: how are they justifying converting everything to netbackup? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L]

Re: Mainframe/TSM Question

2009-02-20 Thread Alex Paschal
] Transfer/transition netbackup data to TSM Good luck. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:45 AM

Re: My Scheduled Exchange backups fail on Windows Server 2008

2009-02-16 Thread Alex Paschal
Also, you might try redirecting your stdout and stderr to a log file. This is a good troubleshooting practice. ... object=' c:\path with spaces\file.bat c:\temp\file.out 21 ' As Bill mentions, note the use of the single quotes and the double quotes. Alex Paschal

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Alex Paschal
in use - it should just say device busy or something like that. Note: You will probably have to do this on all your TSM servers' hosts. lsdev -Cc tape | grep IBM | awk '{print $1}' | while read DEV; do echo testing $DEV rmdev -l $DEV mkdev -l $DEV done Alex

Re: reading tape wirthout tsm

2009-02-11 Thread Alex Paschal
, yes, while it is possible to read the data from tape, it will be prohibitively expensive/difficult to recover the data in a usable format. I hope this answers your question. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators

Re: AIX networking issue

2009-02-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Steven. Use tcpdump to sniff the connection attempt. This may provide clues to what is happening. In the past, I've found circular routing problems this way. WireShark can help analyze the tcpdump output file. Good luck! Alex Paschal Storage Solutions

Re: How to tie VOLSERs to specific storage pools.

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello, Nicholas. You could use the define volume command to forcibly define volumes into the storage pools instead of using random scratch volumes. I hope this helps. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators

Re: Backup of share will not work with schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Alex Paschal
on net use. Good luck! Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919 - Office (503) 539-8361 - Cell Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Server Restore success!!

2008-12-10 Thread Alex Paschal
Hello, Tim. Congratulations on your successful test. More importantly, congratulations on getting resources for the test. I often see customer sites where acquiring time/materials is the major battle. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems

Re: HI! WHY dsm.sys dsm.opt why not a single file on client side

2008-11-26 Thread Alex Paschal
. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of srinivas ryiad Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:19

Re: TSM Library manager v Gresham

2008-11-24 Thread Alex Paschal
. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Smith Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:00

Re: Audit part of a library?

2008-11-24 Thread Alex Paschal
knows a similar way to dd the internal label from a Windows machine, I'd be interested in hearing it. Thanks! Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message

Re: command to query how much data is stored

2008-11-11 Thread Alex Paschal
didn't take the time to test it, but it should work with minimal troubleshooting. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto

Re: Enable verbose time/date logging on interactive dsmc commands?

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Robert. If you use the AUDIT traceflag with timestamp, it might get you close to what you're looking for. Other than that, I have done the same kind of Perl thing you did. On a related note, does anyone know how to get the TSM server's stdio to have timestamps? On AIX I can pipe the output

Re: stdio and baclient?

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Tim. It sounds like ADSMPIPE might be the solution you're looking for. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3980.html?Open http://tsmwiki.com/tsmwiki/Adsmpipe Good luck! Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators (503) 943-6919

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-11 Thread Alex Paschal
Oh, I wish I could take credit for out-of-box thinking, but I got the idea from DB2 Datalinks which fails writes if DB2 is down. It's another example of a database that has to be synchronized with a filesystem. Have fun! Alex -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?

2008-07-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Andy. Maybe add an option to the journal service setup that could have the filesystem filter driver fail writes to the filesystem if the journal service is down? Of course, this would have the obvious serious drawback, but maybe in some horrendously large filecount environments users might

Re: Fantasy TSM

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Paschal
Something like readline used for the command line client, so we could get vi-style-editing (ok, fine, or emacs for the heathens) history search/recall/edit. Why embed? Instead of just Ruby, how about the ability for the server to execute a given shell- or perl- (or even ruby- :-) script. Then

Re: Which TSM tables contain

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Jim. This should do it for you. select tabname from syscat.tables where tabname like '%EVENT%' Have fun. Alex Paschal Storage Solutions Engineer MSI Systems Integrators Your Business. Better. -Original Message

Re: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers

2004-05-07 Thread Alex Paschal
command recognise the format written in the tape. Also as I know, dbbackup restore mandates the availability of the dbbackup on the catridge. Thanks and Regards Anoop T.Das Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Andy.....What is Imperfect Collocation???

2004-05-05 Thread Alex Paschal
. I don't know why you'd run out of stgpool space in a collocated stgpool unless all of your tapes are full _and_ you're running into maxscratch. Thanks, Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: David Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers

2004-05-05 Thread Alex Paschal
latency, for all I know. grin Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Anoop Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers Hi all I have two TSM

Re: unix tsm client automation?

2004-04-30 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Justin. Look into the EXPECT utility. Because dsmc does tty swapping for user name and password, you need a utility like EXPECT to script that stuff. You can get it from Sun at http://cgi.sun.com/freeware/package?id=4011 Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail

Re: Delete obsolete directories only?

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Paschal
directories, rebind, delete, etc. Good luck! Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Weeks, Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Delete obsolete directories only? Thanks Steve

Re: Rebinding backups of deleted files.

2004-03-30 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Alan. A bit of C hacking and you can use the API Client to rebind anything you want. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: 9940b tape device class

2004-02-09 Thread Alex Paschal
Wira, If you use the Gresham Advantape driver for the 9940b's, you use the generictape device class. If you use the Tivoli driver, you will use the ecart device class. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Wira Chinwong [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Directory mc definition

2004-01-23 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Gary. If you use the GUI restore tool and do a Point In Time restore, it won't let you navigate into a directory who's Point In Time version has expired, despite the fact there are unexpired files in it. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message

Re: Are 2 interfaces per drive necessary?

2004-01-22 Thread Alex Paschal
be, including extra maintenance, extra administration, etc. I hope this helps. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Are 2 interfaces per drive

Re: Taking an end-of-year snapshot

2004-01-08 Thread Alex Paschal
this is a much better way to go, but I've never been able to get it to fly with Management. Hmm... Maybe paper. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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