Backing out of a container storagepool

2017-08-02 Thread David Ehresman
We have some data in a container storagepool and now have the need to move it back to a virtual tape pool. Is there anything other than updating the copygroup to point to the vtl and do full backups that I can do to move the data out of the container pool to a primary vtl pool? David

Re: Tables in TSM database

2017-06-02 Thread David Ehresman
tsm: ULTSM>q script q_tables f=raw /* -*/ /* Script Name: Q_TABLES */ /* Description: Display the TSM DB2 database*/ /* tables available for selects*/ /* Parameter: None*/ /* Example: run

Cloning a TSM instance

2017-06-01 Thread David Ehresman
I am running TSM 7.1.7.100 on AIX 7.1. I have done a mksysb backup of my TSM machine and restored it to a different but similar machine. I've given it new tsmdbs, tsmlog, and tsmarchlog. When I try to do a dsmserv restore db or a dsmserv format, I get what appear to be db2 errors. Any

Re: Tape mounts and VE backups.

2017-05-22 Thread David Ehresman
If it's a VTL, why not just increase the number of "tape" drives? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 9:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape mounts and VE backups. HI all

TDP for Exchange

2017-03-28 Thread David Ehresman
Does Resourceutilization control the number of threads for TDP for Exchange or is there a TDP setting for that?

7.1.7.1

2017-02-13 Thread David Ehresman
TSM server 7.1.7.1 is available. Does anyone know what changes/fixes it has compared to 7.1.7.0. David

Active data

2017-01-11 Thread David Ehresman
In a TSM 7.1.7 server, can a container stgpool be used as an activedata stgpool? David

Re: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments version 8.1.0 sets speed records

2017-01-09 Thread David Ehresman
Did you upgrade your server to TSM 8.1 when you upgraded VME to 8.1? Or is the server still running 7.1? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 1:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

TSM DB spaces

2017-01-06 Thread David Ehresman
staying with a smaller number of much larger filespaces? The filespaces are SAN attached XIV with the data spread over 180 drives. David Ehresman

Storage container replication

2016-12-01 Thread David Ehresman
If you are doing directory based storage containers and using "protect stg" to replicate data from a primary site to a secondary site, what kind of throughput are you getting on the data movement? David

Re: VMware Full And Incremental Backup

2016-11-07 Thread David Ehresman
In the Options section of the schedule, they can use " -MODE=IFFull" for the Full backup schedule and " -MODE=IFINCR" for the incremental schedule. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of S Kumar Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2016

Re: Prompted Clients Missing backups

2016-10-24 Thread David Ehresman
IF You have an outstanding schedule pending AND IF You then restart the CAD, the CAD will start a scheduler run to see what is the next scheduled event. If one is currently pending, that scheduler run will run that pending schedule. In this case, the TSM server has not reached out to the

Re: Help to Operational Report.

2016-10-07 Thread David Ehresman
Can you post-process your output with sed 's/(SESSION:.*$//' -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bo Nielsen Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 5:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Help to Operational Report. I try to

Re: server script to find what schedules a node is associated with?

2016-10-04 Thread David Ehresman
DEFINE SCRIPT Q_SCHED DESC="List all backup schedules associated with a node" UPDATE SCRIPT Q_SCHED "select domain_name,schedule_name,node_name from associations - " UPDATE SCRIPT Q_SCHED " where node_name like upper('$1%') " -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Decommision VM?

2016-10-03 Thread David Ehresman
EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Decommision VM? could share the output for: query copygroup ???? Bests regards 2016-10-03 11:49 GMT-05:00 David Ehresman <david.ehres...@louisville.edu<mailto:david.ehres...@louisville.edu>>: > I decommissioned a VM on 9/1/2016. We have

Re: Decommision VM?

2016-10-03 Thread David Ehresman
space" commands on a deletion date negotiated with the client system administrator (usually 60 days after the last backup session). Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Mond

Decommision VM?

2016-10-03 Thread David Ehresman
I decommissioned a VM on 9/1/2016. We have a 30 day retention of data. The filespace still has not been removed even tho it is now 10/3/2016. Why not? Output from a q file shows the filespace is decommissioned. Platform: TDP VMware

re-initializing a tsm instance

2016-10-03 Thread David Ehresman
Is there a procedure for re-initializing a tsm instance? I want to reuse existing tsm db and log filespaces but re-initialize it as a fresh empty instance. I'm thinking I can just erase all the files in the db and log directories and then rerun the initial initialize gui. Am I missing

Re: occupancy

2016-09-16 Thread David Ehresman
A "delete filespace" will delete the filespace from all storage pools. If it were me, I'd do a "move nodedata DINO from=DEVT_PRIM to=WIN2K_PRIM" to move the remaining data from the one stgpool to the other and let normal TSM expiration sort out what needs to stay. David

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

2016-09-14 Thread David Ehresman
Which leads me to ask. Where (on AIX) does the tsmdb1 instance reside? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Richard L. Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]

Removing containers

2016-09-07 Thread David Ehresman
My container storagepool has a reuse=0. I have some containers marked as state-unavailable. I did "audit containter" with "action=scand" followed by "action=removed". That was yesterday but the containers are still there. When will they be removed? David

Re: Which process generates ANR1423W messages?

2016-09-01 Thread David Ehresman
Mu guess is that the time specified for reuse delay on the stgpool the volume has expired for that volume. When a vol goes scratch, it starts a reuse delay timer and after that expires it is normally deleted. If the volume is offsite, it is not deleted until it comes home. -Original

Re: How to delete a node/filespaces when target replica server is unavailable

2016-09-01 Thread David Ehresman
On the source server, try "remove replnode NODENAME", then try deleting its filespaces. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 8:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L]

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-24 Thread David Ehresman
that is affecting our system. David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Richard L. Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool I'm

Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-23 Thread David Ehresman
> > compression was introduced in 7.1.6. > > Kind regards, > > Eric van Loon > > Air France/KLM Storage Engineering > > > > -Original Message- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On > > Behalf Of David Ehr

Re: Basic select help

2016-08-23 Thread David Ehresman
I think this should do what you want: select node_name from nodes where node_name not in (select node_name from filespaces) David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:00 PM To:

Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-22 Thread David Ehresman
> Kind regards, > Eric van Loon > Air France/KLM Storage Engineering > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On > Behalf Of David Ehresman > Sent: maandag 22 augustus 2016 15:12 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >

Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-22 Thread David Ehresman
Of David Ehresman Sent: maandag 22 augustus 2016 15:12 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: deleing data from a containerpool At the most recent levels of TSM, it both dedups and compresses but make sure you are at a level that does both. There was a level that only did dedup

Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-22 Thread David Ehresman
At the most recent levels of TSM, it both dedups and compresses but make sure you are at a level that does both. There was a level that only did dedup but not compression. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rhodes,

Windows Client Upgrades

2016-08-18 Thread David Ehresman
Can one upgrade a Windows 7.1.x client to a 7.1.somethinghigher client without a reboot or do all Windows 7.1 upgrades require a reboot? David

Re: query auditocc question

2016-07-28 Thread David Ehresman
d terabyte licensing for TSM. Thanks & Regards Paul -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 11:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] query auditocc question Perhaps the fo

Re: query auditocc question

2016-07-27 Thread David Ehresman
Perhaps the following query would give you better data: select node_name,sum(reporting_mb) as "TOTAL_OCCUPANCY" from occupancy group by node_name -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul_Dudley Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 9:35

Re: trouble with db backups inside scripts

2016-06-23 Thread David Ehresman
Gary, It might be useful to turn on server side tracing before the db backup begins and turn it off after it finishes. That way you would have a trace file to look at the next time it fails. The following link deals with a db backup issue which does not seem to fit your case because yours is

Re: query occupancy shows DELETED filespaces

2016-06-21 Thread David Ehresman
What is the REUSE parm set at for the storagepools in question? My observation is that at TSM 7.1.5.1 & 2, the space shows as DELETED until the REUSE period is up and expiration has run. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Proctect Stgpool

2016-06-07 Thread David Ehresman
If you are using container stgpools, how are you using the "protect stgpool" command? Are you running it throughout the backup window or after backups have completed? When and how often do you run the "replicate node" command? Are you using the forcereconcile option? Why or why not? I'm

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-03 Thread David Ehresman
Tom, I'm asking the obvious, but are you saying there are no entries in the dsmerror.log in the baclient folder of the datamover? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Alverson Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 11:55 AM To:

Re: TSM4VE 7.1.3 - Backup report for a specific VM?

2016-06-01 Thread David Ehresman
On a datamover node, run: dsmc -asnode=XXX q vm YYY -inactive where XXX is the "datacenter node" that is used to record the VME data and YYY is the VM node in question. You can add -detail to the query for more verbose output. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Drive preference in TSM

2016-05-23 Thread David Ehresman
An all tape storage setup is certainly feasible if you have sufficient tape drives to allow your backups to complete in your backup window. Many of us have used this setup in the past. You can use mount retention on the device class definition to set how long you would like a tape to remain

Re: TSM/VE Return Codes

2016-05-04 Thread David Ehresman
/VE Return Codes Can yoy tell US when was the last backup, try to share the complete log for backup day ... El 4 may. 2016 8:40, "David Ehresman" <david.ehres...@louisville.edu> escribió: > Does anyone know where/if TSM/VE return codes are documented? > > Specifical

TSM/VE Return Codes

2016-05-04 Thread David Ehresman
Does anyone know where/if TSM/VE return codes are documented? Specifically, I am looking for what the following error is trying to tell me other than the VM did not backup: ANS4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine failed with RC=6577 mode=Incremental Forever David

Re: TSM server on RedHat 7

2016-04-22 Thread David Ehresman
My server install bin directory has a dsmserv.rc script which it says to copy to the name of your instance owner in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ That's how I start my TSM instance on Linux. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan

Re: Hold VM Snapshots

2016-04-21 Thread David Ehresman
] Hold VM Snapshots We are using 7.1.0.01. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 3:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Hold VM Snapshots What version of TSM for VE

Re: Hold VM Snapshots

2016-04-20 Thread David Ehresman
What version of TSM for VE are you running? We used to have this problem but have not seen it on v7.1.2. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 2:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: missing dsmlicense

2016-04-13 Thread David Ehresman
Is a TSM 7.1.1 server license sufficient for TSM server 7.1.5 or will I need to download 7.1.3 to get a new license for the 7.1.5 code base? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016

container to FILE?

2016-03-28 Thread David Ehresman
Is there a way to move data from a container to a FILE based storage pool?

TSM for SQL client license

2016-03-24 Thread David Ehresman
Does anyone know if a 7.1.0 TSM for SQL license is sufficient for the TSM for SQL 7.1.4.0 update or do I have to pick up a new license somewhere? David

Re: Directory-Container Storage Pools - Export/Import

2016-03-23 Thread David Ehresman
If your v6 tsm is a different server than your v7 tsm, then you only need to do step 1 of the procedure below. It is only if you are trying to get the data back to the original server that you have to go to a second server then back again. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: SSL 256 on Server version 7.1.4.100

2016-03-22 Thread David Ehresman
I just noticed that apar IT12010: SERVER-TO-SERVER SSL COMMUNICATION FAILS USING CA-SIGNED CERTIFICATES is fixed in TSM server 7.1.5.0. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bjoern Rackoll Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:10

Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

2016-03-22 Thread David Ehresman
Del, After upgrading to 7.1.5 is there a way to get pre-existing container data compressed? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 5:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]

TSM/VE and Containers

2016-03-18 Thread David Ehresman
How does TSM/VE fit into a containerized world? I assume I can write the data to a container. What about the vmctl metadata; can it be stored in a container or does it have to stay in a file based storagepool? If both the data and the metadata are in a container and that data is replicated

Re: TSM/VE and Containers

2016-03-18 Thread David Ehresman
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Namens David Ehresman Verzonden: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 1:38 PM Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] TSM/VE and Containers How does TSM/VE fit into a containerized world? I assume I can write the data to a container. What about

Re: Fixing level for ASNODENAME vulnerability

2016-02-24 Thread David Ehresman
I read the table to say that there is a fix for TSM 6.1 but it is not available for general download and that you have to contact support to get the fix. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Wednesday,

Rebalance the TSM DB filespaces

2016-02-22 Thread David Ehresman
The tsmtutorials.com web page says you can rebalance space usage after adding a new DB filespace by issuing the following commands: * Perform the rebalance activity during a quiet time. Logon as the server instance owner and execute the DB2 commands below. (on Windows, you need to run

Replicate node to container storage

2016-02-18 Thread David Ehresman
Anyone doing replicate node from non-container storage to a target server storing the data in a container? I'm in early days and am getting about 500G/12 hours. I was hoping for better than that. Neither source nor target server appeared to be stressed. What kind of throughput are you

Re: Migration should preempt reclamation

2016-02-18 Thread David Ehresman
Could you reduce the "Reclamation Processes" count on the storagepool by one leaving a tape drive free for migration? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 PM To:

TSM Server 7.1.4.0

2016-02-08 Thread David Ehresman
If anyone is running TSM server 7.1.4.0 code level, I have been told that it has been withdrawn due to a potential data loss problem TSM 7.1.4.1 is said to be available with a fix for the bug. David

Re: Include and exclude for VMs

2015-12-16 Thread David Ehresman
DOMAIN.VMFULL vm=abc_template Should back up just the template Why do you want to back up templates on a different schedule instead of everything at once? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Thorne Sent: Wednesday,

Client Management Service

2015-11-18 Thread David Ehresman
Does anyone know what IBM Passport is calling the 7.1.3 version of Client Management Service (CMS). I don't see a download file that sounds like it fits the description. David

Re: TSM Expired Objects List...

2015-11-18 Thread David Ehresman
] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: dinsdag 17 november 2015 15:29 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Expired Objects List... Add the "quiet=no" option to the command. At my level of TSM, 7.1, it is the default but if you explicitly request it you should get details. Also check th

Re: TSM Expired Objects List...

2015-11-17 Thread David Ehresman
or Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 7:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Expired Objects List... If you run expiration explicitly (recommended) with the "expire inventory" command, the details are written

Re: TSM Expired Objects List...

2015-11-17 Thread David Ehresman
If you run expiration explicitly (recommended) with the "expire inventory" command, the details are written to the activity log. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kiran.839 Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 5:01 AM To:

Re: TDM4VE on linux

2015-10-29 Thread David Ehresman
Remco, Have you checked for firewalls between your workstation and the vCenter and the machine where the TDP VMware is running? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 9:59 PM To:

TSM for VM CTL data

2015-10-27 Thread David Ehresman
I'm trying to determine if I can reduce the amount of TSMVE CTL data I have to restore at my DR site. I did a select against the backups table to count how many active and inactive files I had. It told me that all the files in that storage class were active and there were no inactive. How

dsm.sys

2015-10-23 Thread David Ehresman
On AIX, can I put dsm.sys in a directory other than the ba install directory? If so, how do I point to it? David

Migrating VME from vCenter5 to vCenter6

2015-10-15 Thread David Ehresman
is 7.1.3 and my TSM server is version 7.1.1.300 running on AIX 7.1. David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

2015-10-09 Thread David Ehresman
On VMware backups, delete filespace will delete all of the backups for the VM, not just the newly excluded volumes. Excluding the Hard Disks will make current backups for those disks inactive and they will age out based on your retention policy. I do not think you can delete them otherwise

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

2015-09-09 Thread David Ehresman
From the v7.1 AIX server installation manual: Restrictions: v A single server cannot be both a hub server and a spoke server. v Each spoke server can be assigned to only one hub server. v Each hub server requires a separate instance of the Operations Center, each of which has a separate web

Re: going to all random disk pool for tsm for ve

2015-08-21 Thread David Ehresman
Gary, TSMVE 7.1.2 makes file level restores a reality. You may want to work with them a bit before deciding if you want to go to all random disk. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015

Query Activedata

2015-08-03 Thread David Ehresman
Is there a way to query the size of the activedata per node/per storagegroup/per tsm server? I'm not asking the size of an activedata storagepool, there is none, but the size of the currently active, as opposed to inactive, data TSM is storing. David

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread David Ehresman
AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: dinsdag 14 juli 2015 16:50 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Virtualmountpoint not working I'd try a backup. I'm pretty sure it is just

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread David Ehresman
VGs are cheap. Why does your AIX admin want to reduce the number of VGs? David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Disk

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-14 Thread David Ehresman
Try dsmc q opt|less or just dsmc q opt|. On my Linux TBMR systems the /dev is on the line following VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT: in the q opt output. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-14 Thread David Ehresman
the whole line (through vi) and recreated it (also through vi), just to prevent special characters or crlf's, but to no avail... Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent

Re: Tape Encryption

2015-07-08 Thread David Ehresman
The TSM Redbook found at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247505.pdf has a chapter on TSM managed tape encryption and how it is handled. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent: Wednesday, July

TSM VE 7.1.2 Mount Proxy Pairs

2015-06-19 Thread David Ehresman
The 7.1.2 doc indicates I need Proxy Pairs for VE mount and instant restore. But I can't find the doc that tells me how to set them up. I appear to need a Windows and a Linux server. Do they have to be dedicated? Can I/should I use a data mover as one of the proxies? Do I need to install

Re: server out of storage space when really not missing vmware backups

2015-06-08 Thread David Ehresman
Maxscratch defines how many scratch volumes you can have in a storagepool. When you reach maxscratch, assuming you do not have volumes predefined, you are by definition out of data storage space regardless of how much space is in your filesystem. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread David Ehresman
Keith, What a good idea! We do the same. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] including

Re: sql time

2015-05-04 Thread David Ehresman
impotence. --Mahatma Gandhi On Apr 30, 2015, at 8:53 AM, David Ehresman david.ehres...@louisville.edu wrote: I'm having trouble with sql time again. I am trying to get current_timestamp-backup_end from the filespaces table to display as days and fractions of days. Any ideas? David

VME filespace rename

2015-05-04 Thread David Ehresman
If you rename a VME filespace using the force=yes parameter to match a renamed VM name, will it still force a Full on the first backup of the renamed VM? David

sql time

2015-04-30 Thread David Ehresman
I'm having trouble with sql time again. I am trying to get current_timestamp-backup_end from the filespaces table to display as days and fractions of days. Any ideas? David

Re: TSM/CMS

2015-04-15 Thread David Ehresman
movers, I could install the code on a dozen machines and review the logs of hundreds of VMs. Very much more bang for the buck. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Jose Sent: Tuesday

TSM/CMS

2015-04-14 Thread David Ehresman
Is TSM/CMS supported for TSM/VE Windows Datamover nodes? David

Re: ANS9397W ... why?

2015-03-30 Thread David Ehresman
The normal issue would be that you have INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS statements for VMs that are not running Exchange or MSSQL. Those are the apps that are supported for TSM application protection. Are the VMs getting backed up? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: ANS9397W ... why?

2015-03-30 Thread David Ehresman
really explain every case of the error, *thank you!* Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Services On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:14 AM, David Ehresman david.ehres...@louisville.edu wrote: The normal issue would be that you have INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS statements for VMs that are not running Exchange

Re: Terabyte license

2015-03-17 Thread David Ehresman
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery can be licensed for AIX servers and does include TSM for Databases (including Oracle). -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Abdelwahed RABBAB Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 7:36 AM

Re: VSS SystemState issues

2015-03-13 Thread David Ehresman
Is IC92873 fixed in TSM 7.1? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS SystemState issues Hi Karel, A somewhat related

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-02-26 Thread David Ehresman
We backup about 350 VMs with a retention period of 30 days. We have a 400G VMCTL storage pool which is 50% utilized. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:11 PM To:

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1.1 exclude vm question

2015-02-24 Thread David Ehresman
You need to put the VM excludes either in each of datamover dsm.opt or put them in the schedule that the datamover is associated with. We put them in the schedule because I can update them without logging onto each of the datamovers. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Query syntax

2015-02-04 Thread David Ehresman
What is the select statement syntax for concatenating client_version,client_release,client_level,client_sublevel from the nodes table into a single string, e.g. 7.1.1.3? David

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-29 Thread David Ehresman
I've been admin TSM since the V3 days if memory serves, and sometimes it doesn't so much anymore. I've had a lot less problems with TSM since the move to DB2. We are now at 7.1.1. I do not know DB2 and have not had a need to learn it. We back up about 400 servers, 350 VMs, 100 databases, and

Re: req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC

2015-01-28 Thread David Ehresman
ANR4578E Database backup/restore terminated - required volume was not mounted. (PROCESS: 13) Thanks Regards, Srikanth kola Backup Recovery IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai Mobile: +91 9885473450 From: David Ehresman david.ehres...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L

Re: req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC

2015-01-28 Thread David Ehresman
Recovery IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai Mobile: +91 9885473450 From: David Ehresman david.ehres...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/28/2015 06:48 PM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC Sent by:ADSM

Re: req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC

2015-01-28 Thread David Ehresman
Try running: select library_name, - count(*) from libvolumes - where lower(status)='scratch' - group by library_name to make sure TSM thinks you have scratch tapes. Does the actlog show any tape mounts after the start of the backup db command? David -Original Message- From: ADSM:

TSM Scheduled SQL Backups

2015-01-14 Thread David Ehresman
Has anyone done TSM Server Scheduling of SQL backups where there are multiple SQL databases on a single server, each using a unique TSM node name for backups? Any hints? I'm a TSM server admin but know next to nothing about SQL or TSM for SQL. David

Re: checkin libv command

2015-01-05 Thread David Ehresman
Here is a script that I picked up at SHARE years ago that lists PRIVATE tapes that are not in fact in use: tsm: ULTSMq script q_lost_tapes f=l Name Line Command Number -- -- Q_LOST_TA- 10 select

Re: breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes

2014-12-16 Thread David Ehresman
Update stg STOAGEPOOL_NAME MIGPRocess=XXX where XXX is how many threads you want for your migration process. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes

2014-12-16 Thread David Ehresman
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part de David Ehresman Envoyé : 16 décembre 2014 15:31 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes Update stg STOAGEPOOL_NAME MIGPRocess=XXX where XXX is how many threads you want

Re: SQL for highest volume label in library

2014-12-11 Thread David Ehresman
Or select library_name,max(volume_name) FROM libvolumes group by library_name -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL for

TSM 7.1.1 on AIX

2014-12-10 Thread David Ehresman
Anyone upgraded to TSM 7.1.1 on AIX? I'm getting the following out of the installer: Loading fixes... Validating package prerequisites... . Finding compatible package groups... = IBM Installation Manager Install Location Incompatible existing package groups: 1. IBM Tivoli Storage

Re: TSM 7.1.1 on AIX

2014-12-10 Thread David Ehresman
Do I have to uninstall tsm 7.1.0 before I can install 7.1.1? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.1 on AIX Anyone upgraded

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