Re: TSM Migration Question

2016-09-21 Thread Gee, Norman
Is it migrating or reclaiming at 70% as defined. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 8:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Migration Question Nothing out of the normal,

Re: Tape predictive failure data : What do you use to read the LTO CM ?

2016-08-21 Thread Gee, Norman
There is also third party hardware reader and software. http://www.mptapes.com/veritape/index.html This is not an endorsement. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX] Sent:

Re: IBM LTO4 Tape chip read in an IBM 3584 Tape Library

2016-07-28 Thread Gee, Norman
Not really the full content of the tape chip, but from the TS3500 web GUI, you can select cartridges, data cartridges, download mount history.csv. This will give you mounts, MB reads and writes, error counts etc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-02 Thread Gee, Norman
At one point I had exclusion with wildcards in the VM names and all of the sudden that stop working after the TDP got updated. My exclusion list now list all of the exact VM names. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom

Re: Restore using copypool volumes

2016-03-20 Thread Gee, Norman
I ran into this many times, the only way I found that would speed it up after the fact is to increase the mount retention time on the tape device class. To avoid this I had to keep my copy pools in offsite status. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Backup VM without quiescing

2015-10-06 Thread Gee, Norman
I have been putting this at c:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Tools tools.conf <- file name [vmbackup] vss.disableAppQuiescing = true -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 3:02 AM

Re: Upgrading BACLIENT to 7.1.2.2 broke TSM for VE ???

2015-07-28 Thread Gee, Norman
I have just upgraded one of my servers from 7.1.1 to 7.1.2.2 because of the support needed for VSphere 6.0 and I am experiencing some of the same problems. I have open a PMR with IBM on this. I was attempting the backups manually with Dsmc -asnode=datacenter Backup vm a -vmbackuptype=fullvm It

Re: ANR2033E Command failed - lock conflict

2015-07-07 Thread Gee, Norman
I have been running 4 streams in parallel against a single NAS server. There are parameters within the NAS server that specified how many background tasks that can be started. I use a single master script that in parallel start 4 other scripts that run sequentially. I am not at 7.1.1.300 yet,

Re: Finding backup tapes

2015-06-23 Thread Gee, Norman
* APAR IT07321: RESTORE SESSION MOUNTS PRIMARY AND COPYPOOL VOLUMES CONCURRENTLY THEN TOGGLES BETWEEN THEM AS INPUT VOLUMEShttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT07321myns=aparmynp=DOCTYPEcomponentmync=Ecm_sp=apar-_-DOCTYPEcomponent-_-E The record has been closed. A

Re: NDMP

2015-04-01 Thread Gee, Norman
Try listening to this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041348 Look for Configuring NDMP Filer to Server Backups (Also known as 3-way NDMP Backup) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent:

Re: DEVCLASS=FILE - what am I missing

2015-02-13 Thread Gee, Norman
I front end several of my file device class pool with a disk device pool which will migrate to the file device pool and control the number of filling volumes. Volume that are in filling status will not reclaim, but you can manually move the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Stopping a client backup

2015-02-10 Thread Gee, Norman
Go to the client and stop the scheduler process On Feb 10, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Vandeventer, Harold [OITS] harold.vandeven...@ks.gov wrote: I had tried to cancel by deleting the schedule; but sessions continued to re-fire. I'll try this on my workstation node, where breaking things is a

Re: Availability of 7.1.1.200 server code

2015-02-04 Thread Gee, Norman
After this switching between copy pool and primary pool, I changed the mount retention on the device classes affected. This speeded up the restore and ended the constant mount and dismount of the same tape volumes over and over and over again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM server upgrade questions

2015-01-28 Thread Gee, Norman
Apparently not all clients are affected by POODLE. I asked about the Solaris client and IBM said it was not affected. This was because many of the fixing levels was not available for Solaris. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: TSM Tape utilization Issue...

2015-01-21 Thread Gee, Norman
I had a similar problem with copy pool tapes at server level 7.1. It had to do with a new client setting splitlargeobject. I started a backup stgpool before the client backup was completed. After the backup stgpool complete, it invalidated part of the backup. I had to run the command again.

Re: Printing labels locally for LTO tapes (physically)

2015-01-18 Thread Gee, Norman
There is a software product that you can buy call netc label system. We used it before to produce labels for 3480/3490 tapes ( ancient history) but it can produce labels for any tape cartridge currently made. It is not a cheap solution. On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Tyree, David

Re: breaking up tsm for ve backups into different nodes

2014-12-16 Thread Gee, Norman
My default destination is file not disk and I was able to get multiple streams to VTL. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: breaking up tsm for ve

Re: TSM server 7.1.0.100 patch - readme MIA?

2014-08-12 Thread Gee, Norman
At least 2 of the items causing me grief. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT02571 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT02717 I also heard that 7.1.1.0 is schedule for end of September. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Wrong estimation for VTL

2014-08-07 Thread Gee, Norman
I have a storage pool on VTL with Data Domain that shows numbers in the opposite direction. My tapes are define as 50 GB each and 30 tapes in the pool, therefore should hold 1.5 TB. The estimated capacity is 105 GB. Data domain reports the tapes as full after storing 500 to 800 MB on the

Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.

2014-07-15 Thread Gee, Norman
I found out that this is true a long time ago, but it does not stop you from manually doing a move data to empty out a tape volume. It is just a very manual form of reclaim. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent:

Re: TSM 7.1 upgrade aftermath

2014-07-14 Thread Gee, Norman
know if it's documented anywhere but that hit us as well. That, and our datamovers aren't purging the c:\windows\temp directory after a backup operation. Ah, the joys of being on the bleeding edge. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Gee, Norman

Re: Exchange Incremental Expiry

2014-06-27 Thread Gee, Norman
So the question becomes When is the incremental backup marked inactive? Does it even make sense for an incremental to have a different retention to a full? When the next full is done. No it does not make sense to be different. For example My full backups will expire x days after the next full

Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication

2014-06-12 Thread Gee, Norman
Be prepare for your database size to double or triple if you are using TSM deduplication. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and VTL

TSM 7.1 upgrade aftermath

2014-06-05 Thread Gee, Norman
I am not sure if this is documented, but after I upgraded my TSM servers to 7.1 code. Somehow the passexp setting for all of my TDP nodes got change from 0 (zero, never expire) to blank, which means they now will take the server default settings. Where is this documented? Other issues are a

EMC NDMP folder exclusion

2014-05-20 Thread Gee, Norman
Is they a way to exclude certain sub-folders on an EMC NDMP backup using TSM? Within the EMC configuration there is a way to set environment variables to exclude directories, but TSM is ignoring the environment variables.

Re: Can't cancel restartable restore

2014-04-15 Thread Gee, Norman
Cancel restore -1 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Can't cancel restartable restore That is the problem. There is no active session on the

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-26 Thread Gee, Norman
Are these the original 3592-J1A? They max out at 40 MB per second transfer rate with 2 gig fiber channel. 200 GB backup on LTO4 takes about 20 minutes. I have both and could not take the thru put of 3592 on really big items. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-26 Thread Gee, Norman
This is when we need a product to gather 24X7 SAN performance data and report on every connections. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Kettner Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:24 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Setting up NDMP with TSM 6.1.4.5

2014-03-20 Thread Gee, Norman
There is also this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041348 Using Tivoli Storage Manager to Backup Network Attached Storage This STE will: Provide an overview of the Network Storage (NAS) backup environment. It will also cover configuration details for Network Data Management

Re: Tape Drive compatibility

2014-03-11 Thread Gee, Norman
From the TS 3500 web GUI, expand cartridges, click on Data Cartridges, click on mount history(.csv). This will list the last 100 mounts and on which drive. With ALMS, set up 2 different logical libraries. One for E05 and the other for E06. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

TSM 7.1 support of z/OS USS client

2014-03-05 Thread Gee, Norman
I am trying to figure out if TSM server 7.1 will support 6.1.5 z/OS client. This is the last client available and IBM web site says 6.2 Client compatibility statements include the V6.1-level z/OS USS Client 6.3 Client compatibility statements include the V6.1-level z/OS USS Client My IBM

Re: License problem

2014-01-23 Thread Gee, Norman
You will only see the current version 7.1 unless you also check You will see downloads for the most current version. In addition: If available, would you like to see previous versions of this product? YES -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: DISK vs FILE DevClass

2013-09-19 Thread Gee, Norman
I am not sure if this is an issue with file device class, but I define the max capacity as 2 GB and started backups direct to file device class. Many of my clients has excessive media wait the next morning report. After that I move them back to a small disk device class that migrate to a file

Re: Deduplication/replication options

2013-07-24 Thread Gee, Norman
This why IBM is pushing their VTL solution. IBM will only charge for the net amount using an all IBM solution. At least that is what I was told. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van - SPLXM Sent: Tuesday, July 23,

Re: TSMVE vmcli syntax

2013-06-11 Thread Gee, Norman
I get the same sort of errors, unless I startup the Microsoft Windows command window with run as administrator. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Domain.vmfile

2013-04-25 Thread Gee, Norman
Is there a way to just include the Linux hosts only? It is very easy to only include the Windows hosts but not Linux.

Re: Odd Migration Behaviour

2013-02-14 Thread Gee, Norman
What about placing this problem node into its own collocation group. Everything else should migrate. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of white jeff Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

sending active data pool offsite

2013-02-12 Thread Gee, Norman
How does one automate the process of sending active data pool media offsite in a TSM 5.5 environment? The SET DRMACTIVEDATASTGPOOL command is not available in 5.5.

Re: BA STGP question

2011-12-17 Thread Gee, Norman
My experience with AIX 5.5.4, the answer is no. My daily maintenance routine process the BA STGPOOL a second time to catch data that got missed the first time. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent:

Migrating to VADP with vAPP services groups

2011-08-31 Thread Gee, Norman
I have setup a new proxy server with TSM 6.2.2. Custom install with VMware support. The VMware placed a number of VMs into vAPP services group. I can backup these VMs with my older VCB configuration, but the TSM 6.2.2 configuration cannot find these VMs. Does VADP support vAPP pools of VMs?

Re: Exhange database backup with TDP

2011-07-09 Thread Gee, Norman
This needs to be coordinated between the exchange administrator and the TSM administrator. You can have multiple Storage Group backups in parallel. It depends on the command file. Incremental or full is dependent on the Exchange administrator expectation. Let say with 2 storage group, you

Re: Policy for NDMP dumps

2011-05-04 Thread Gee, Norman
You can assign a different management class to full and differentials. I have defined them to different tape storage pools. One policy domain with multiple management class define backup node emcnode /vfs mode=full wait=yes mgmt=full-class backup node emcnode /vfs mode=DIFFerential wait=yes

TSM archive syntax

2011-04-04 Thread Gee, Norman
What is the proper syntax to archive the entire root file system? DSMC archive /* wants to archive the entire server. TIA

Re: TSM VM Backup

2010-11-02 Thread Gee, Norman
In the middle of page 135 of the 6.2 backup archive client manual The file-level backup type is only available for virtual machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The full VM backup technique is the only backup method allowed for virtual machines running non-Microsoft Windows

Re: Saving a day of EXCHANGE

2010-07-27 Thread Gee, Norman
I have play with the export and import of nodes to handle this sort of request. I export the exchange TDP node with a date range. Rename the existing node to temp node name. Import the exchange node back in. rename the imported node. Rename the temp node name back to the real node name. Make sure

Re: backup files larger than tape cartridge size

2010-07-20 Thread Gee, Norman
Yes, if you watch it closely. Sometimes you can see the migration or backup STG ask for a scratch tape during the process. When it reaches the end of tape, TSM will ask for a new tape to place the rest of the file on the new tape(s). I have a single NDMP backup that is over 4 TB that is backup

Re: PVU

2010-06-28 Thread Gee, Norman
How would you account for multiple VM running on a single physical machine? Assuming that each VM has a TSM client installed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:03 PM To:

Re: NAS vs traditional fileservers

2010-06-23 Thread Gee, Norman
I am using NDMP on EMC Celera. I have done reclaim and movedata, but not migrate. Expires on NDMP runs very fast as it only looks at whole backups (full or differential). Instead of looking at hundreds of thousand little files, in expires the entire backup. -Original Message- From:

Re: Celerra NDMP

2010-06-10 Thread Gee, Norman
IBM - Tivoli Storage Manager: Overview, setup, and usage of NDMP ... AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows. Software version: All Versions. Reference # : 7010609. IBM Group: Software Group. Modified date: 2007-12-20 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010609 EMC Power link Home

Re: distance between TSM client and server

2010-04-25 Thread Gee, Norman
You don't have to buy your cables from IBM. Any number of cable makers can make your cables. Just tell them custom lengths, types of ends, micron size of cables etc. and they will give you a quote. Even your IBM reseller can get you custom length cables if you ask, just won't be from IBM.

Re: Question on multiple schedules and multiple nodes on same box

2010-02-17 Thread Gee, Norman
TDP for exchange does not have its own scheduler. You have the BA client scheduler start a command to backup exchange. If you want to the BA scheduler does not have to wait for exchange to finish backup. The same goes for TDP for Oracle. There is no included scheduler. Our DBA setup a crontab

Re: Question on multiple schedules and multiple nodes on same box

2010-02-17 Thread Gee, Norman
] On Behalf Of Gee, Norman Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Question on multiple schedules and multiple nodes on same box TDP for exchange does not have its own scheduler. You have the BA client scheduler start a command to backup exchange. If you

Re: tsm version support z/os

2010-02-12 Thread Gee, Norman
From the IBM sales manual Program Number VRM Announced Available Marketing Withdrawn Service Discontinued 5608-ISM 5.05.0 2007/11/13 2007/11/16 - - 5608-ISM 5.04.0 2007/01/23 2007/01/26 - - 5608-ISM 5.03.0 2004/12/14 2004/12/17 - 2008/04/30 5608-ISX 5.05.0

Re: TSM administration difference between z/OS and open systems

2010-02-01 Thread Gee, Norman
Learn JCL and batch scheduling. Create linear VSAM files for all TSM pools. Each TSM pool file will be limited to 4GB on a 3390 volume. Forget everything you learn about TSM library manager, most mainframes will have RMM or equivalent to manage the Tape library. Cannot use LTO or DLT tape drives.

Re: New to TSM on AIX and using TSM as Library Manager

2010-01-22 Thread Gee, Norman
I did the same thing 3 years ago. I was using RMM instead of CA-1. z/OS with a TMS would automatically check in volumes. I have schedule a administrative command to run once a week to check in the volumes checkin libvolume library-name search=bulk checklabel=barcode status=private waittime=0

Re: Data retention period 60days

2010-01-21 Thread Gee, Norman
We let RMAN handle the deletion of backup sets and pieces. Every backup has an unique set and piece name and will never be duplicated. RMAN will tell the TSM server when to expire the backups. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-13 Thread Gee, Norman
There are certain data that should not be compress again by the client. Files that are already compress. Any backups that are done by the various TDP components. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Wednesday,

VMFULL delete

2009-12-17 Thread Gee, Norman
Is there a way to delete a VMFULL backup? For example, a VM full image is taken and some time later, the VM is deleted from the VMware complex. This last backup will never be mark inactive. Is there a way to later delete this backup? It is part of the VMFULL filespace.

Windows server 2008 UAC

2009-12-07 Thread Gee, Norman
Does having UAC enable affect the schedule? I have several Windows 2008 servers and most of them have UAC turn off and the scheduler works, but the only server with UAC on, I can't get it to run a schedule. Is there something else that can be wrong?

Re: end of support tsm 5.5 on z/os ?

2009-09-10 Thread Gee, Norman
But there are no other options for us mainframe bigot as TSM 6.x server does not exist on z/OS. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: end

Re: Used 3494 / 3590 equip

2009-07-25 Thread Gee, Norman
What would 3490-C2A worth. Less than nothing? They are probably worth less than the annual maintenance cost. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM gui

2009-07-17 Thread Gee, Norman
The admin gui is the ISC/Admin Center. Many of us preferred the CLI using dsmadmc There are other commercial products available to manage TSM. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tchuise, Bertaut Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:32

Re: Replacing tape drives (or there has to be a better way)

2009-07-08 Thread Gee, Norman
When IBM replace my drives on maintenance (3592-J1A and LTO4), they unloaded the VPD from the old drive and downloaded the VPD to the new drive. They also place a sticky label indicating the original serial number. IBM also has to keep their records correct for field maintenance. Our

Re: NDMP backup of non-qtree data

2009-06-16 Thread Gee, Norman
I don't have knowledge of Netapp NDMP, but I have EMC NDMP and I created virtual file systems. I have a VFS name which points to a real file system on the EMC. I have one large partition and I created 8 virtual file system from it. I backup each VFS one at a time. -Original Message-

Re: 6.1 ordering issues

2009-06-06 Thread Gee, Norman
again. In the past one was able to connect a z/os client to a non-z/os server. The more interesting question is there a 6.1 z/os client. If not will there be one. len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gee, Norman Sent: Friday

6.1 ordering issues

2009-06-05 Thread Gee, Norman
I am license for TSM server on z/OS. Since there is no 6.1 server available, I can't see how to order just the 6.1 client piece on shopzseries and not get charge again.

Windows GUI client with virtual node option

2009-05-28 Thread Gee, Norman
With my 5.5 client I can type in dsm -virtualnode=anothernode and log in with an administrator account and do what ever I want With the 6.1 client when I type in dsm -virtualnode=anothernode and log in with an administrator account to do something, it wants to log in again with the administrator

Re: Changing media type on a primary pool

2009-05-26 Thread Gee, Norman
Create new T10k primary pool, Set migration to new T10k primary pool change reclaim on 9940 pool to reclaimed to T10k pool as the reclaim pool After a while move data from pool to pool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Fiske,

Re: backup DB2 for z/OS on TSM for AIX?

2009-05-19 Thread Gee, Norman
Yes it does, TSM on z/OS will backup all of these. I am not sure about LAN-free data movement. z/OS will only support ESCON or FICON attach tape drives and not Fibre channel tape drives. 3590 and 3592/TS1120/TS1130 requires tape controllers. LTO of any flavor are not supported by z/OS. TSM on

NDMP expiration weirdness

2009-05-19 Thread Gee, Norman
I have notice that whenever I run expiration on a server with NDMP backups on it, that the NDMP data does not get deleted the first pass thru. If I start expiration again immediately after the first expiration finish, it will expire my NDMP backups. Any one else experiencing the same weirdness

What ever happen to the doc CD (DVD)?

2009-05-11 Thread Gee, Norman
Its been a while since TSM provided the customers with a document CD and now with 6.1, there is still no document CD. Actually all of the TSM 6.1 media came on DVD instead, but I like to have a complete copy of all of the documents locally. Any chance of IBM bringing the document CD back?

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-30 Thread Gee, Norman
What options are there when journaling runs out of memory on a 32 bit Windows server? I have about 10 million files on one server that the journal engine runs out of memory. With memory efficient disk cache method and resource utilization 5, its runs out of memory, resource utilization of 4 runs

Re: Object size query

2009-04-21 Thread Gee, Norman
Not really an answer, set max file size of primary pool to 1GB and force it to a next large file pool. Check what files ends up in the large file pool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Re: TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

2009-03-20 Thread Gee, Norman
You will have to let RMAN do its job. Every RMAN backup piece and sets have unique file names and will never place a prior backup into an inactive status. How would you expire a RMAN backup since every backup piece is still active? Short of mass delete on filespace. -Original Message-

VCB backups

2009-03-19 Thread Gee, Norman
After an update of the ESX server software, my VCB files backups has started failing. My VMware administrator want me to changed the VCB mount command from -a ipaddr:server to -a name:server. This command is automatically issue from the TSM client and I don't see how I can change it. Is there

VMware VCB and non windows OS

2009-03-05 Thread Gee, Norman
How does one backs up a non Windows OS in a VMware environment? The TSM client (5.5.1) in the VCB explicitly states that the BACKUP VM command will only backup a Window OS. Would one install the appropriate TSM client inside the VM and schedule the VM directly? Any other options?

Re: VMware VCB and non windows OS

2009-03-05 Thread Gee, Norman
Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] f#246;r Gee, Norman [norman@lc.ca.gov] Skickat: den 6 mars 2009 02:52 Till: ADSM-L

Re: How to define Library2

2009-02-26 Thread Gee, Norman
NDMP support. You have 2 choices for NDMP, Lan-free or TCP;/IP. You need to read carefully to understand the differences. Obviously, Lan-free keeps the traffic off your LAN. But there are consequences. You get special NDMP tapes this way, and you can't copy them- you have to vault your

Re: TSM v6 -announcement

2009-02-12 Thread Gee, Norman
I have read announcement letter 209-004 multiple times and was looking at the server documentation that was available and there were no mention of TSM version 6 for z/OS server. There were documentation for z/OS BA client and API. Is this a subtle hint that TSM version 6 for z/OS server is not

Re: TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage

2009-02-11 Thread Gee, Norman
It is official, announcement letter 209-004 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 products deliver next generation unified recovery management capabilities to help protect today's enterprise data center IBM United States Software Announcement 209-004 February 10, 2009

Re: OS/390 or z/OS as Tivoli Clients

2009-02-05 Thread Gee, Norman
This client only backs up the Unix Subsystem and not the traditional MVS datasets. You will not be able to get to the DB2 datasets. Regular MVS backup tools does not allow individual file restore from the Unix Subsystem. I have TSM for z/OS, both client and server. The TDP for database (Oracle,

Re: 2 Windows 2003 clients with huge # of files consistently failing

2009-01-16 Thread Gee, Norman
I also have 2 problem child's like these. I turn on journaling, but the journaling ran out of memory (virtual). My only other option was to turn on memory efficient disk cache method to get thru the memory issue with journaling. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Scratch volumes - TAPE - DB

2009-01-09 Thread Gee, Norman
Delete Volhistory Todate=Today-n Type=DBBackup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ramiro Ruiz Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Scratch volumes - TAPE - DB Hello, We setup TSM 5.5.1 a few

Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

2008-12-21 Thread Gee, Norman
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server) On 21 dec 2008, at 08:56, Gee, Norman wrote: I guess with the rumor conversion to DB2, it would no longer be feasible

Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

2008-12-20 Thread Gee, Norman
I guess with the rumor conversion to DB2, it would no longer be feasible to place the database on JBOD mirror by TSM. The recommendation may be RAID 5 or 6 storage with fibre channel disks and not SATA disks. Am I close? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: NAS NDMP backups using a copy pool

2008-12-04 Thread Gee, Norman
My NAS backup scripts looks like serial backup node NAS /fs1 mode=full wait=yes . backup node NAS /fsx mode=full wait=yes backup stgpool nasprimary nascopy The NAS unit backups over the SAN and creates the copies over the SAN. The NAS unit creates the copy and not TSM -Original

Re: Centera or better yet NAS restore help

2008-12-04 Thread Gee, Norman
If you use a windows base client and sign in to the TSM server using a privilege account. You will see in the GUI for restore the expansion tab for nodes. You will see the NAS nodes and then the windows nodes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Where is the missing 38GB?

2008-12-02 Thread Gee, Norman
The dreaded DSMSERV DUMPDB and DSMSERV LOADDB (not recommended) DSMSERV LOADDB (Reload the database) Use this command to reload a Tivoli Storage Manager database in optimal order. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan

Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

2008-11-14 Thread Gee, Norman
Different schedules types (macro and incremental) with different pre and post commands. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Quality

Re: ?how to force NDMP LAN-free backups to fill one tape before writing on another?

2008-11-13 Thread Gee, Norman
Did you backup each filespace sequentially or all at once? I.E. serial backup node nas /fs1 mode=full wait=yes backup node nas /fs2 mode=full wait=yes backup node nas /fs3 mode=full wait=yes backup node nas /fs4 mode=full wait=yes backup node nas /fs5 mode=full wait=yes backup node nas /fs6

Re: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

2008-11-11 Thread Gee, Norman
For the Celerra, the NDMP manuals is at powerlink.emc.com, requires powerlink account Under support, technical documentation and Advisories, Hardware/platforms Documentation, Celerra network server, installation/configuration scroll down for NDMP -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

2008-11-11 Thread Gee, Norman
There are 2 webcast which may be helpful Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup Considerations with Nseries http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2077context=SSGSG7dc=DA41 0dc=DA450dc=DA430dc=DA440dc=D600dc=D700dc=DB510dc=DB520dc=D800d

Re: There are not enough scratch volumes available

2008-09-09 Thread Gee, Norman
You can change the definition of the storage pool and allow it to use more scratch volumes -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lopes Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: There are not enough

Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

2008-07-01 Thread Gee, Norman
Single migrate process of compress data from DS-4200 to LTO4 ~ 300 GB per hour. 4 Gb fabric, No ISL. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Please

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Gee, Norman
The TS3500 internal web server provides some information about the cartridges. Not sure what they really means. It does tell you the number of read and write errors for both LTO and 3592 cartridges from the cartridge memory. Go to your TS3500 library internal web server Expand +Cartridges Select

Re: Throttle a Windows client?

2008-06-09 Thread Gee, Norman
Not exactly the same but the resourceutilization options will limit the number of threads created at backup time I imagine this topic would have been covered, but can't find anything on it. I don't think you can do it within TSM (correct me if I'm wrong) but does anyone know how to limit the

Re: STGPOOL migration thresholds

2008-05-15 Thread Gee, Norman
I have enough disk cache to handle these large backups, but the problem I have is the log file filling up and not emptying fast enough to handle this deluge of data especially the amount of directory information coming in from Windows file servers. I have the log file allocated at 13 GB with 12

Re: 3592 scratch pools

2008-04-02 Thread Gee, Norman
TS1120 and J1A drives will have to be in different logical libraries similar to having two different types of LTO drives in the same physical library. I don't believe that different logical libraries can share scratch tapes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

2008-03-28 Thread Gee, Norman
Apparently some of the manuals are on the quick start CD that comes when you order the media. It includes the various servers installation guides and the clients installation and user guides. It is missing the various Admin guides and references. Subject: Re: Where can I find the downloadable

Re: Off-topic: AIX p520 question

2008-03-23 Thread Gee, Norman
One method might be to get one of those small network hub/switch, a couple of network cables and a laptop and/or desktop. Attach both the p520 and the laptop/desktop to the network switch using the network cables. Set the laptop/desktop IP address to an address within the subnet range of what was

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