Re: Side note on SNMP security alert !

2002-02-28 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Dwight, et al CERT warned of these SNMP flaws more than 2 weeks ago ... but they were discovered last year, and Microsoft just issued patches for some of the Windows operating systems, etc. http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,4167,STO68242_KEY73,00.ht ml -Original

Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage

2002-02-13 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Jeff and Kelly ... Don't look to the Tivoli software to solve all the issues involved in long-term data storage. Hardware obsolescence must be considered, as well as media life, and having redundant copies, at multiple locations, such as would be recommended in a real DR plan. Kelly, mixing

Re: LTO/Magstar/STK

2002-02-12 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Rick ... There's an excellent presentation by Dick Replogle on this topic from the 2001 TSM Symposium at Oxford ... http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/Replogle.3590andLTO.pdf Judge for yourself ... -Original Message- From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

LTO/Magstar/STK

2002-02-12 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Sorry for the mix-up in the URL ... Here's the correction : http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/Replogle.3590andLTO.PDF -Original Message- From: Dmochowski, Ray Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail) Subject: RE: LTO/Magstar/STK Rick

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

2002-02-12 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Kelly ... Why didn't YOU post a response to the article? -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! Where's the Air Support?

file permissions AIX

2002-02-04 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
To: Andy Raibeck, et al Where can I find documentation about how TSM 4 deals with files permissions when interacting between client and server machines when each is hosted on AIX ? On the client side, for example, where users share files with others in their group-id, any member of the group

Long-Term Storage

2002-01-08 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Jon ... In a recent Computerworld white paper, entitled The Economics of a Storage Strategy http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/wp/story/0,,NAV63-130_STO65180,00.html Randy Kerns writes that the #1 issue with storage is the cost of administration! IMHO, don't concern yourself about cost of tape

Re: automating UNIX or Windows scripts ...

2001-11-26 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
To all Re: automating UNIX or Windows scripts ... http://tcl.activestate.com/man/expect5.31/autoexpect.1.html is documentation for Auto-Expect. Autoexpect is an application to create an application! Autoexpect itself is part of the Expect distribution. Once you start autoexpect, you then

Re: Optical Drives

2001-10-30 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
How old must a technology be to be classified as mature ? Magneto-Optical is a ten year-old, high-performance re-writable technology using cartridge-based media for secure export, handling, and long-term offline archiving ! It is no more proprietary than most tape technologies! Unfortunately,

Re: how can inactive old backup data ???

2001-07-30 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Claudio, et al ... May I suggest this is a Records Management issue more than a technical issue Is the 'backup' data of any ongoing value to the enterprise? What's the real value of the 'archive' data? What data, if any, is still required for legal, financial, scientific or cultural

TSM database documentation ?

2001-07-20 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
While we await an update to the ER diagram for TSM, can anyone direct me to current documentation about the tables in the TSM Database, including descriptions of each, with the names and descriptions of each data coulmn included in the tables? Ray Dmochowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] (908) 740-3261

FW: TSM database documentation

2001-07-20 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
To: Richard .. David.. Wanda ... others .. Thanks for your help and great advice! but I was wondering if there was any IBM, Tivoli, or other documentation, manuals or redbooks about the DB? -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001

Re: updated ER diagram of the TSM tables?

2001-07-17 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Lisa ... Although I'm a newbie to TSM, I'm sure I won't be alone in welcoming your efforts to provide an updated Entity-Relationship diagram for TSM tables. Please continue, with all haste .. Much thanks ! Ray Dmochowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] (908) 740-3261 Schering-Plough Research Institute

Unload / Reload Information

2001-06-15 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
The SHARE Conference proceedings can be found at http://www.share.org/proceedings/sh96/share.htm see the .pdf file for session #5726 - Ray Dmochowski -Original Message- From: Rajesh Oak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Offsite storage of tapes

2001-06-08 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
All: Visit the web page at: http://www.storage.ibm.com/media/products.html#3570 It lists a #59H4449 Transport/Storage Case for #3570 media. Has anybody tried to order them from IBM ? -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:18 AM

FW: HP-3000

2001-06-01 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Mahesh Tailor ... TSM currently does NOT support MPE/XL on the HP3000 as a client platform. HP-UX, on the other hand, is supported as both a client and server platform. The HP3000 O/S is POSIX compliant, however. Maybe you could look to offload HP3000 stuff to a HP-USX box - and then have the

Re: 500GB Backup

2001-04-30 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Hey, people ! Are we comparing apples to apples? Is the 10 MB/s to disk compressed? Or is a 3:1 tape hardware compression ratio clouding the issue ? -Original Message- From: Burton, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

LTO Tape Drive Performance

2001-04-27 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
To all A new performance paper by Progressive Strategies is posted on the Tivoli site - SEE ANALYST REPORTS: Tape Drive Performance Comparisons-Using Tivoli Storage Manager http://www.tivoli.com/products/solutions/storage/storage_related.html Ray Dmochowski Schering-Plough Research

Re: Long Term Archive for Databases

2001-04-09 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Richard Sims ... How do YOU perceive implementing a "neutral" archive format given that most storage formats vary from platform to platform anyway (e.g., MVS to AIX), and sometimes from one drive architecture to another, because of changes in recording density, etc ? Ray Dmochowski

Re: Long Term Archives

2001-04-09 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Doesn't anybody have a pragmatic approach to using *SM for long term archive? Bypass compression? Bypass encryption? What are the realities of using optical media (WORM)? Who performs "refreshing" (i.e., media migration) on a regular schedule? Has anyone successfully migrated all their

Why do we need to archive ?

2001-04-05 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
To All: Records should be retained if they have cultural, economic or scientific value! Records should be retained if there are legal mandates, such as IRS rules, or they can serve as evidence in legal disputes (e.g., copyrights, patents, etc.). Regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, usually

long-term archive and retrieve

2001-04-04 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
Hi, *SMers Does anyone have any experiences, best practices, etc. they'd like to share about long-term retention (archiving) of vital records. What to do to support expeditious retrieve? If you can point me to any references or URLs that would also be greatly appreciated. Ray Dmochowski

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-12 Thread Dmochowski, Ray
IBM Canada recently presented an overview of the architecture for the open tape marketplace. Visit the November 16, 2000, presentation at: http://www.cartagena.com/naspa/issues.html#IBMLTO1 for description of IBM's implementation of LTO, review of features and benefits of IBM LTO, some