Re: Expanding ProtecTIER Library

2013-08-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
If your expanding the library dimensions (drives and slots) you'll want to do 1) An audit lib once you bring that lib mngr back up of course making sure there's no libr activity. (I like to leave the lib mngr down during the process. 2) Def drives and paths That should do it - the audit

Re: determining wwpn for a fibre channel adapter

2013-04-29 Thread Hart, Charles A
You may need to load Atape -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] determining wwpn for a fibre channel adapter RHEL v 6. Hp dl585 server. I

Re: Deduplication candidates

2013-01-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also the Files Per Set parameter in Oracle will really get you - Protectier Recommends no more than a setting of 4. We have seen 10 and we went from 10:1 to 2.5:1 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday,

Re: Restore symantec backup with TSM???

2013-01-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can convert it with a product known as Butterfly http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/butterfly_software/ Looks cool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:59 PM To:

Re: Battles with TSM for VE

2013-01-08 Thread Hart, Charles A
Interesting ... we have experienced a very similar issue where our DB (Oracle etc) restores were coming off the Copy pool. We opened a PMR and found out this was due to the way TSM was designed to take the least path of resistance for restores meaning if there are less copy pools volumes required

Re: NetApp for Primary Disk Pool

2012-08-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
This would be interesting to hear about as we have started to look at other NAS devices to use a TSM backup[ Target, we all know DataDomain and Soon Protectier does the NAS mount + Dedupe, but would / could you get better pricing or performance from a non Backup Appliance? Netapp Dedupes, HDS

Re: migrating tape storage pools

2012-08-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can only do move data's with in a copy pool, not from copypool a to copy pool b which would be nice, but I suppose for a media change you can mark the orig copy pools vols to RO then put your new media in and copy with in the same pool but to your new media which is set to read write. We've

Re: Passport Advantage failure?

2012-07-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
Looks fine on this link https://www-304.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/softwareandservices/authentica te/Registration?caller=PAC -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:06 AM To:

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
DataDomains. It might be 10,000 paths ultimately, but when you define them a few hundred at a time, or fewer, it's not so overwhelming! Nick On Jul 10, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Hart, Charles A wrote: The IBM one, the reason I said overhead and complexity 1) We have 40 VTL's for 2) 5120

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
The IBM one, the reason I said overhead and complexity 1) We have 40 VTL's for 2) 5120 Configured Vtape Drives 3) More than 10,000 TSM Tape Drive Paths 4) 100 TSM Instances that share all the above It would seem that if we used a VTL that has NFS we would still have 40 Devices but not he 15K

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RMAN direct to NFS 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

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
This would be interesting to hear .. we were looking at it to reduce the VTL overhead and complexity... Our DBA's diudnt want to do cause theyd have to manage their backup space. ar -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of bkupmstr

Re: VTL's and D2D solutions

2012-07-02 Thread Hart, Charles A
With Gary's point below using the PT Gateway you can slide in Encrypted disk underneath the other appliances don't support encryption. With using your own disk you can leverage your volume purchasing power with your existing disk vendor as well. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Application called Teradata

2012-06-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
We have one and it has Netbackup Wrapped up in side with its own tape library. We don't manage the backups terradata does ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:30 AM To:

Re: Mega-Exchange backup

2012-05-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
We also stager full / incrs every other day, If you're backing up 1.2TB in 14hrs you're only achieving 22MBS, you may have a performance opportunity such as checking Disk I/O on your backup server as well as the Exchange host for constraints, mutli stream your backups one thread per stggroup and

Re: LTO4 Tape Volumes with different Estimated Capacity

2012-01-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
All based on data types and compression, so if you have a SQL DB backup you'll be able to compress more data on a tape than Windows bianries or image type files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Botelho, Tiago (External) Sent:

Re: Can a TSM server admin purloin client backups?

2011-10-25 Thread Hart, Charles A
Nothing, it's a policy challenge if they has TSM Sys Admin rights. Kind of like a Cop that sells evidence or takes a bribe, a priest that protects the young ... at some point you have to trust your admin or fire them. In my exp a node pw can be overridden with a Sys admin user and pw. Maybe I

Re: Defining Multiple filesystems to one FILEDEVCLASS in TSM v5.5

2011-10-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
We did it see below, we alos share it with multiple instances on a physical hosts, so far so good! define devclass sql-file devtype=file directory=/tsmstgsql-lv1,/tsmstgsql-lv2,/tsmstgsql-lv3,/tsmstgsql-lv4 maxcapacity=50G MOUNTLimit=128 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Tsm client for exchange perfornce question

2011-10-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
To Multistream Legacy non-vss Exchange backups setup a tdp backup cmd per Exchange stggroup. So if you have 4 Exchange Stggroups you could have 4 streams. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday, October 05,

Re: vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-09-26 Thread Hart, Charles A
Take in to consideration that the VTL's have limited bandwidth regardless of Fibre connectivity so lets say you have a VTL head with 4 x 4gig fibre ports 1600MBS of bandwidth but your vtl head maxes out @ 500-1000MBS. Then think of in a LAN free env, you have one VTL head provide LAN free mount

Re: TSM using vSCSI adapters

2011-08-31 Thread Hart, Charles A
I'm not the most AIX savvy, but we did recently build a p7 750 using NPIV / VIO, still seperating the disk and tape data paths. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Molerio Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:40 AM To:

Re: tsm and data domain

2011-06-17 Thread Hart, Charles A
Has anyone used the DD NFS mount point for Devclass type of File? If so to what degree? How hard could you push it? 1, 2 or 3 TBH? (10Gige = approx 2.25TBH) We have a fairly robust backup server platform I ask as we like the idea of no tape / robot devices from OS to app layer(TSM).

Re: LTO5 performance

2011-05-03 Thread Hart, Charles A
Few things to consider 1) Are the HBA's for the LTO5 Drives dedicated or do they have other devices. 2) How many LTO drives per HBA? 3) Speed of Fibre 2/4/8Gb -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Bowers Sent: Monday,

Re: Stopping access to a filepool

2011-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
Maybe take a diff approach... Current Disk-Pool Next Stgpool=Data Domain DD - Under Maint Disk pool next Stgpool (other media tape disk etc ) ex tapepool We do this often if we are upgrading a VTape appliance we will always have our backup and archive copy groups set to a destination of a

Re: Stopping access to a filepool

2011-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
A scratch tape will only be requested from the devclass that's in the path ... It the Stgpool next inline from the disk pool. There's always more than one way to solve your challenges with TSM. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: How do you allocate costs for deduplicated data?

2011-04-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
It appears by doing a select on the occupancy table; the full amount of data is reported in the Logical Column, and reporting is deduped tsm: TSMLAB1select NODE_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, NUM_FILES, PHYSICAL_MB, LOGICAL_MB, REPORTING_MB from occupancy where STGPOOL_NAME='DISK-DEDUPE' NODE_NAME

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
We've run in to the same conundrum, do you let the device replicate the deduped data and create the situation described below or do you just let TSM handle the Offsite copy and end up transferring all the backups data from the prior night, this assumes you have adequate bandwidth to your remote

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
There is a limit to the number of sessions the DD can handle concurrently (150) Is this limit based on a particular model of DD? Seems a bit constrictive for anything larger than a SMB. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
Can someone expound on that limit... Is it 150 concurrent streams like a stream per proc core? Do the queued request time slice? Has it become an Achilles heal for anyone? Thank you for your insight! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: Blocking Archive from TSM Client

2011-03-16 Thread Hart, Charles A
May not be the most pretty way, but have the archive copygroups point to a stgpool that's empty or doesn't exist, or don't create a Arc copyg at all... They'll get an out of stgspace msg or no copyg error but they wont be asrchiving and you it's OS indepenant. -Original Message- From:

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also is you add the parameter Reconstruct=yes - It should move the data and not the white space ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
The number of cartridges in use by the pool goes up and up Do you have collation on? Check stgpool with f=d, if you don't have Collocate Set to NO it will default to Group then if no Colo Group exists it defaults to Node. So every Client Filespace gets a tape. -Original Message-

Re: 1024 DB2 database connection limit on AIX

2011-03-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
How many mount points / streams per client are you allowing for 750 Clients? Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of deehr...@louisville.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Deletion Backup Client Object with a FileList

2011-03-04 Thread Hart, Charles A
We are trying to script the deletion of old RMAN backup objects (we'd use TDPOSync if it wasn't ver 2.x and didn't core dump) so we were going to delete the RMAN objects from the dsmc cmd line then RMAN would do a crosscheck to drop the orphans from the RMAN catalog. When you display the q

Re: Reduce DB in 6.2.2.2

2011-02-03 Thread Hart, Charles A
Doest DB2 do Online Re-oirgs? Or was the intend to clean up a 5.x DB for a migrate to 6.2? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Exchange 2010 and TDP / VSS

2011-01-26 Thread Hart, Charles A
Thank you Del, Yes I meant quiesced just couldn't type. Really appreciate the insight. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Exchange 2010 and TDP / VSS

2011-01-25 Thread Hart, Charles A
I browsed the fine manual but was hoping to gain a little insight from other experiences. I understand that it's no longer a streaming backup, it's a VSS software snap. Does anyone know how long the Exchange DB's are in a guessed state? Does it depend on the DB size or does VSS get a snap and

Re: TSM OR Replacement

2011-01-07 Thread Hart, Charles A
Its unfortunate that the Op Reporting has gone, prior to the Op Reporting there use to be a package called Tivoli Data Wherehouse that would report on Tiovoli, again a monsterous footprint (db2, webshephe cognos). We eventually ended up buying Bocada's Backup Reporting product as you could

Re: Why won't objects show up as expected for Restore?

2011-01-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also make sure the user that backed them up is the same user as performing the restore, or a user with admin auth on the TSM server. Ex If root backs up files abc only root can restore or a tsm admin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: Query for Disk Volume Mounts

2010-12-21 Thread Hart, Charles A
Might have to do a select from the actlog .. Summary table records Tape Mount but I didn't see anything that represented a device file mount other than the act log. 12/21/10 03:16:26 ANR8340I FILE volume /tsmstgsqllv16/00032D63.BFS mounted. (SESSION: 841673,

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can also try a journal based backup, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=/com .ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_jbbwin.html Maybe use / try Virtual volume mount concept to break it up in smaller chunks assuming its one big vol

Re: Configuring IBM 3584 library

2010-12-13 Thread Hart, Charles A
If it's a IBM lib type with LTO / 3592 all you need is the atape driver, not the TSM device drivers -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 6:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Configuring IBM 3584 library

2010-12-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
3584 is considered a SCSI Lib - so just use the define lib cmd and use the parms for SCSI lib. You can do a h def library on the TSM cmd line for the options -DEFine LIBRary--library_name- .-LIBType--=--MANUAL---.

Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] LanFree very low performance

2010-11-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
A couple questions 1) How is this 5TB laid out, 1,2,3,4 or more file systems? 2) How many streams do you see when the backup is running? (Resource utilization / mutli streaming is by File System for flat file backups. 3) Are the tape drives on dedicated HBA's? 4) Are you sure that the

Re: GE Centricity Cardiology INW backups

2010-11-17 Thread Hart, Charles A
Interesting 1)TSM 5.2.2 - No IBM Client support / bug fix - Usually TSM clients do fine. We use to run OS/2 Client @ 3.x against a TSM 5 Server. It's a support risk . Id ask them what issues were there with more current TSM clients. 2) 'Tivoli doe not require a client on the server'. What

TSM 6.x / DB2 Best Practive Layout

2010-10-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
We are looking for some best practices for the DB2 layout for TSM. We've asked IBM Premium Support and their answer was RTF DB2 Manual. That's fine and we were also told no you don't need to be a DB2 DBA... Ok I'm past that now and am looking for advise as to a good DB2 layout.. Other than the

Re: Lousy performance on new 6.2.1.1 server with SAN/FILEDEVCLASS storage

2010-10-20 Thread Hart, Charles A
Dumb statement, but isn't the whole Idea of the File Devclass is it is sequential. Can one be more sequential than the other? If its not then its random. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread Hart, Charles A
you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
This may be a dumb response but this behavior is similar in Windows and or Solaris, I thought if the person that zoned the device enabled persistent binding these devices would not re-order on but as it scans the FC. Did I completely miss it? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Using copy pool (device class FILE)

2010-09-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
I may be oversimplifying, but all you need to do is create a Copy pool using the Devclass file... Of course you have to have a FCIP connection or configure TSM to TSM server to server with virtual volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: Using copy pool (device class FILE)

2010-09-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
this Email -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Using copy pool (device class FILE) I may be oversimplifying, but all you need

Re: Data Domain: Data Domain, and SQL-Backtrack with Sybase databases

2010-08-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
adapters and switch ports . . . . h. Rick Hart, Charles A charles_h...@uhc .COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager ads...@vm.marist Subject .EDU

Re: TDP Compression

2010-08-02 Thread Hart, Charles A
1) Q node nadename f=d see if Compression set to Yes ort Client if client then check dsm.sys options 2) Your act log TDP summary job will. Let uyou know it says compressed at the end 08/02/10 14:03:08 ANE4991I (Session: 8215330, Node: DBSS-ORACLUSTER)

Re: Could someone explain how TSM Licenses work

2010-04-01 Thread Hart, Charles A
It in the books, but you'll need the base software package which has the lic keys, then upgrade the code to the level you were at. Or if AIX a sysback assuming your TSM code is in a patch Sysback gets, or other OS baremetal backup / restore -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: create new Filespace

2010-01-29 Thread Hart, Charles A
Two ways. 1) Rename existing FS on tsm server 2) Change Client TDPO.opt fs name This may create recovery challenges on the pre-exsting name with RMAN ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, January 29,

Re: create new Filespace

2010-01-29 Thread Hart, Charles A
in advance. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Hart, Charles A charles_h...@uhc .COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist

Am I Shoe Shining My LTO4's?

2010-01-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
We push our 2nd copy over individual FCIP links with write acceleration enabled, we use to trunk 6gige links together but ran in to latency issues without write acceleration enabled and the technology did not allow for write acceleration and trunking so we end up with 3-4 LTO4 drives down 1gige

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-13 Thread Hart, Charles A
Any compressed/ encrypted data will not de-dupe well or if at all. (Compressed / Encrypted Data have unique signatures every time) In regards to client side compression, that feature tends to be of value on a small remote site or if you have a 10Mb lan. You can force the client compression off

Re: Reclamation Processing won't start

2009-11-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
Seen this to - adjust reclaim percent and # of processes (TSM 5.5.2) yet no reclaim runs. I did get it work and it seems the only way I get it to work is make sure there are no other processes running against those pools like a backup stgpool or migration (depending if you're reclaiming primary

Re: TSM Disaster Recovery with VTL

2009-11-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
I'm pretty sure that once you make a VTL to VTL replication TSM wont know about the copy you created because it wasn't copied by TSM (i.e. not in the TSM DB). The only way to access is if you are replicating the TSM DB and Logs to the offsite as well so TSM will be aware of those VTL vols.

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

2009-07-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
Dumb ? - But I was under the impression that the TS3500 (3584)'s drive Serial Numbers were tied to the Drive Cage (rail) so the SN and WWN were static... Maybe I'm thinking 3494 w/ 3592 Drives. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Separating the Oracle TDP Cfg - from the OS cfg ..

2009-06-24 Thread Hart, Charles A
Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120-6099 rasmu...@us.ibm.com From: Hart, Charles A charles_h...@uhc.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/23/2009 12:47 PM Subject: Separating the Oracle TDP Cfg - from the OS cfg .. Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU We

Separating the Oracle TDP Cfg - from the OS cfg ..

2009-06-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
We are wondering if its possible to separate the TDP Oracle Cfg so it uses its own dsm.sys instead of the base dsm.sys The reason we ask is our Oracle DBA's use TSM to clone DB's and not all our Unix team member know how to cfg the TDP client and all the stanza's associated with DB Cloning

Re: optionset

2009-05-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
Upd node blahhh clopt=(Space between quites, sometimes no space needed) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] optionset Hello forum,

Re: TDP FOR SQL

2009-05-20 Thread Hart, Charles A
Your IBM rep? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:44 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP FOR SQL Hello Everyone, Does anyone know where I can get the trial

Re: SV: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-04-30 Thread Hart, Charles A
] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SV: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G) As many say your mileage may vary You can positively impact the Dedupe factor by ... 1) No Client Side Compressions (Compressed files always have

Re: TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

2009-04-14 Thread Hart, Charles A
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- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L at VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Friday, March 20

Re: TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

2009-04-14 Thread Hart, Charles A
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- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L at VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:30

Re: TSM 6.1 : Database replication Feature

2009-04-03 Thread Hart, Charles A
Mmm Federated ... See now if you could have a Master / Federated DB you could really get that DE-Dupe in to the Enterprise as opposed to just de-dupes for smaller TSM env ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent:

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-26 Thread Hart, Charles A
. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G) On 21/03, Hart, Charles A wrote: It works well if you

Recall: [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
Hart, Charles A would like to recall the message, [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G). This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
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 Hart, Charles A Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G) It works well

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-21 Thread Hart, Charles A
It works well if you understand your data and how you can push to it with in reason before you deploy another. The IBM product likes more CPU cores ... Understand these are x86 boxes... We see up to 500MBS Writes to one of our VTL's that ingests Exchange Backups via the TSM TDP. -Original

TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

2009-03-20 Thread Hart, Charles A
We currently have your Oracle TDP Clients setup as a Separate node in separate a separate domain down to the storage pool hierarchy. That said we are having challenges with DBA's and their RMAN delete scripts for various reasons. According to the TDP for DB manual its recommended to have the

Re: SV: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-19 Thread Hart, Charles A
As many say your mileage may vary You can positively impact the Dedupe factor by ... 1) No Client Side Compressions (Compressed files always have unique Sig) 2) No Client Side Encryption (TSM or OS) - Encrypted Data is always unique like compressed data. 3) If you have more than one VTL

Re: TSM v6 -announcement

2009-02-13 Thread Hart, Charles A
Couple folks just came back from pulse and one of the Labs was the TSM Upgrade, apparently some Beta testers are seeing a 40GB upgrade DB taking 28Hrs on avg hdw -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Friday,

Re: TSM v6 -announcement

2009-02-13 Thread Hart, Charles A
:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 -announcement Hello, Hart, Charles A wrote: Couple folks just came back from pulse and one of the Labs was the TSM Upgrade, apparently some Beta testers are seeing a 40GB upgrade DB taking 28Hrs on avg hdw is this is true than

Re: TDPO problem - can't delete old tdpo backups

2009-02-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
Depending on the How long you need to keep the history of the old backups, if not visible in the RMAN cat is to rename the tdpo FS on the Backup Server - then the next RMAN backup will create new one based on the name in the tdpo.opt ... You then wait x days for your retention then go back to the

SQL Select Stement Subtracting Time from Summary Table

2009-01-16 Thread Hart, Charles A
Is there a way to have a select statement perform much like the function of the q act begint=-8 ? I'm writing a SQL query to determine OS Backups are backing up DB files systems by doing a select from the summary table, with nodename, sched name, bytes recvd 50GB etc, but need to find a way to

Re: SQL Select Stement Subtracting Time from Summary Table

2009-01-16 Thread Hart, Charles A
Ticket the Unix team for include Exclude challenges --- SELECT START_TIME, END_TIME, SCHEDULE_NAME, ENTITY, BYTES FROM SUMMARY WHERE ACTIVITY='BACKUP' AND (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-END_TIME)HOURS = 16 HOURS and (SCHEDULE_NAME Is Not Null) and (BYTES = 600) -Original Message- From: Hart

Re: Question on DB2 expiration

2009-01-02 Thread Hart, Charles A
As I remember in db2util ver 7 to 8 db2 when db2util passes a delete its like oracle in that its gone ... You may still see the occupancy if expiration and aud lic hasn't run since they passed a delete... Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

RMAN - Oracle Deletes

2008-11-21 Thread Hart, Charles A
Hope everyone is well in these trying times. Does anyone know if there's a way other than tracking occupancy to see if RMAN is passing deletes to TSM for Oracle TDP clients? We've had many challenges with our Oracle group and their delete backup script not working. Thank you Have a great

Re: Cacti

2008-11-17 Thread Hart, Charles A
Cool .. We are using Cacti for things like FCIP and other FC link's . What mechanisms are you using to track TSM related info, is it a select statement that dumps data to a file that cacti graphs? Getting the Session count would be really cool, among other things. Appreciate your insight!

Oracle TDP and Server Side Retention ...

2008-11-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
We are having a challenge with our Oracle DBA's in that they are not passing RMAN deletes per our standards. That said, what are the implications if we set the copy group to a retention other than the recommended 1-0-1-0 ? I'm guessing it will create a disconnect in the DBA's RMAN catalog.

Re: Several simultaneous backups of an AIX client

2008-10-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
If multiple file systems you could make sure there's a stream for each, you could break it in small chunk with more stream using the Virtual Mount point option then increase the Resource Util and Maxnummp for the CLIent, other wise tar up all the files and send to TSM but you may end up backing up

Re: Configure Shared Library in TSM...

2008-10-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
Yes as long as you have more than one tape drive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiran Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Configure Shared Library in TSM... Hi, How to configure

Re: Backup VMS on IA64?

2008-09-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
There's a third Party TSM client ... http://www.storserver.com/main.cfm?menu=3submenu=3detail=include/abcov erview.cfm -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:58 AM To:

Migration Process Question

2008-08-25 Thread Hart, Charles A
We noticed today that a migration for a virtual tape pool was migrating to itself not the Next Stgpoool ? Has anoyomn seen such a thing? Thanks, Charles This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity

Re: Fantasy TSM

2008-05-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
There's a new NDMP Option with TSM 5.4 where you can perform an IP based backup to a TSM Storage Pool, which then should allow you to process as any other TSM Data hitting a stgpool... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis

Re: Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs

2008-04-29 Thread Hart, Charles A
Thanks for input, we've done the same thing for the Exchange Environment, but I was under the impressions that once data is Archived using the TSM ba client archive function that you could not extend the retention on exiting archives... Example Client A Archives data to a 2yr Mgmtclass (Archive

Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs

2008-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
Ok, we have a requirements to retain all Backup / Archive data that exists in our TSM environment today for 10 years. There's a few ugly options, but would it be possible to do the following? Export node from Existing TSM servers to New TSM Server with Archive And Backup Copy Groups set to 10

Re: Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs

2008-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
of content management application is usually more appropriate. You get some indexing and some organization and some search capabilities for the data, not just the host name and filenames for client nodes that no longer exist... W On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Hart, Charles A [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-20 Thread Hart, Charles A
1) With the acquisition of Diligent will the TSM Dedupe still be part of 6.x? With the Diligent Device you can have multiple TSM instances to get a better overall De-Dupe. Example we have one p570 with two TSM Instances (Unix Prod w/Oracle and the Non-Prod with Oracle and go to the same

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Reset platform value in nodes table

2008-04-19 Thread Hart, Charles A
Best approach is register a TSM client for your TDP. You then have two node registrations and the OS client will always reflect the OS version and visa versa for the TDP client node name... TDP Backup - dbsp0001-ora OS Backups - dbsp0001 This allows you the flexibility to break out your TSM

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-16 Thread Hart, Charles A
To the point below, Twin Cities have been going from NBU to TSM... There's a shortage of TSM talent in the state on MN -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Re-Creating a ClientOption Set

2008-04-13 Thread Hart, Charles A
changes but you can export/import using a file as well, and I use the export as the basis of my macros to satisfy the change people. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Hart, Charles A [EMAIL PROTECTED] .COM To Sent

Re-Creating a ClientOption Set

2008-04-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
We are doing Server Side Incl/Excl's using Clopts. There were inconsistencies from TSM instance to instance so to have them consistent we renamed the existing CLOPT Intel to Intel. Save, then deleted the original Intel CLOPT , and then re-created the Intel CLOPT on the Instances and noticed that

Re: Multiple Backup Streams with exchange.

2008-04-04 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can run a TDP Backup Stream per Message store... You just have to do tdpexe backup cmmds for each. Works well -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: TSM server 5.3.3.0-5.4.1.1...no problem?

2008-02-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
We upgraded from 5.3.4 to 5.4.1.2 Library Manager / Client Cfg (AIX 5.3ML3) and when turning on the SANDiscovery Option we ran in to ANR1791W HBAAPI wrapper library /usr/lib/libHBAAPI.a(shr_64.o) failed to load or is missing. IC51982: ANR1791W OCCURED WHEN SANDISCOVERY IS SET TO OFF (The

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
Interesting, thank you for sharing. Our challenge was the bottleneck was that the Data Domain Device using Ethernet, (not sure if the device has capable multiple gige's to trunk). I thought I heard that Data Domain now offers a FC based device ... (i.e. FC to Disk ) As far as compression

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