): you cannot restore the old permissions without
reverting to older versions of the file (if there are any).
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:11:34PM -0400, Lawrence Clark wrote:
tdpoconf password -TDPO_OPTFILE=/home/oracle/ts
You should point to the optionsfile itself, not the directory containing
it. This means: tdpoconf password -tdpo_optfile=/home/oracle/ts/tdpo.opt.
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available on the TSM server. If there are files in TSM which RMAN
doesn't know about, it can delete those files on the TSM server.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
management
classes, so another scenario would be to change the retention parameters
of the existing management classes. If this is done, those new parameters
will be used in the next EXPIRE INVENTORY operation.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
doing this sort of thing. Also, make sure you *test* your
procedures.
Good luck,
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
for individual backups. See the RMAN documentation for this,
it's not complicated.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
machine, show the output of the above commands
on that machine as well. Does the error also occur on that machine?
Does this error only occur when attempting to do image backups? If yes,
do those backups succeed or fail?
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means: No such file or directory.
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your primary pools back using RESTORE
STGPOOL. A lot of activity going on there.
Regards,
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
as
large as your RAM-argument. You hear it all the time, and when someone
asks why, all you get is: eeehm, because everybody does it)
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isn't worth doing.
What reasons does the DBA provide for his recommendation?
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for sequential access volumes?
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
a symlink yourself. (I already reported
this to IBM)
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
behaviour (TapeAlerts)
even after we installed correct microcode. The fix for this was to
use 'Space to End of Data' in tapeutil: this apparently clears or
reinitializes the chip in the tapes.
(Even now, we sometimes get a TapeAlert This tape is not data-grade
on a rarely used volume.)
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is also archived at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=adsm-l. The search capabilities
of MARC are (IMHO) quite good.
(Of course, I don't mean to say that gmane is a bad idea (I don't
even know it), but there is an alternative for adsm.org)
Regards,
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Savage's Law of Expediency
,
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
) consequences, it's silly not to think about how to prevent
either the error or the consequences.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
, because those
people are in the room next to the library.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
operations will hang until the door is
closed. So you might want to require a manual action when kicking
off this command.
(The way I solved this is to check for the library requires manual
attention error. If it occurs, scream loudly. :) )
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want
also assuming that if the 1 hour time set elapses without the port
clearing will also result in an incomplete process.
It's all quite clearly explained when you type HELP MOVE DRM. The 3584 is
a SCSI library, but I assume you know that.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You
.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
before running it's backup. I think the more
typical solution is to just run the tsm backup client within the os of
each virtual machine.
You can run the TSM client on ESX Server, it's just Red Hat 7.2. You can
use the add redo feature to back up running virtual machines.
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Savage's
that was listening on 1581. The dsmcad that you left running was
listening on an unknown (by the TSM server) port.
The TSM server then tried to contact the dsmcad process on its default
port, but on that port nothing was listening so communication failed.
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Savage's Law of Expediency
.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
products really are quite benificial to have. (I guess the vendors are
quite happy with the ISC/AC-behemoth :) )
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
configurations which
you don't even use. Homegrown code has only the complexity you need.
As a side note: it would really *really* be nice to have a documented
API to enter dsmadmc commands
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
want an off-the-shelf product instead
of your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly?
What problem are you trying to solve?
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
, it looks like someone from your Legal Department escaped and
came too close to a computer again. Please be more careful with them
in the future.
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sitation though...
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slots
being unexpectedly full and TapeAlerts about the library inventory
being inconsistent.
Thanks,
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inventory using the front panel, *all* tapes are detected,
*including* the ones that the library didn't see just seconds earlier.
This is consistent behaviour: inventory triggered by powerup/front
door -- tapes invisible, inventory triggered manually -- all tapes
visible.
Weird.
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:33:00PM -0500, Kathleen M Hallahan wrote:
Is this something you folks are seeing in all frames, or in just one?
Both. Our 3584 is just one frame. :)
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. Something
was causing schedmode prompted to not work, and that something is still
there. It's probably wise to look into this, because that something might
also cause other things to fail.
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. However, when the default
port is already used by another application when dsmcad starts up, it
will pick another one and the TSM server can't reach the client.
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. When I then
rm -rf the directory on the host and restore it using a point in time
restore from *before* the chmod, which permissions will the restored files
have? (This is assuming a large enough retver c.s. parameter)
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is.
Yes, I know this. (This can also be seen by performing cat on a directory.)
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* depending on what kind of input dsmadmc expects.
And this wouldn't even be a problem if dsmadmc rejected input like nyes
or y^Hn.
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-question, is IMHO not quite correct.
What do you think?
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to tape by using the RMAN FORMAT parameter and the
INCLUDE-option in the TSM API configuration.
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:46:11PM -0500, Muthukumar Kannaiyan wrote:
Separately, how do we specify management class while backing up from
RMAN?
As Kurt Beyers already stated: you don't. Point your Oracle DBA's to the
KEEP option in RMAN.
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mean by unloading dsmcad?
If, by pure chance, you're running dsmcad on Linux, and you see several
dsmcad processes: that's normal. Those aren't processes, those are threads
belonging to one dsmcad process. Don't kill them.
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: sorry, I can't help you. I have exactly zero experience
with Netware. :)
Good luck,
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I right?
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:51:31PM -0500, Stapleton, Mark wrote:
Telnet, ftp, and ping all use their own TCP ports, as does ssh. You need
Minor nitpick: ping doesn't use TCP but uses two types of ICMP packets.
This could be relevant when dealing with firewalls.
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?
Thanks,
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
I have a problem with a scheduled command. The TSM server is 5.3.1.4 on AIX
5.3 ML2,
the affected client is 5.2.2.0 on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 (i386).
SCHEDmode is PROMPTed, the client has MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT
), it's not supported by IBM (also first hand
experience). Which means: if it breaks, you get to keep the pieces. :-)
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, the
indicated capacity of a tape is an estimate, *until* the tape is
filled up. At that point, you know the exact amount of data written
to the volume, so TSM changes the capacity to that amount.
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.
That being said, why are you planning to do this? If you use TSM for
Databases you don't need to make a backup in a staging area and only then
send it to TSM.
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:00:31AM -0300, TSM User wrote:
If I delete a volume of a primary SP (discard data = yes) that happens
with the data that are in the copy SP
You can find out with the command HELP DELETE VOLUME.
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:59:03PM +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
The 5.3.0 client package does only contain a 64-bit API client and no 64-bit
BA client. Does anybody know why that is?
Yes I do, and so do the creators of the accompanying README file... :-)
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with one of those, I
don't think I can help there.
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, resulting in bad performance with that
tape (but no I/O-errors), and genuine TapeAlerts on that volume from then
on. Not letting TSM report the TapeAlerts would only have masked the
problem, since no hard errors occured..
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already a CLI user, and TSM is no exception: when
upgrading to 5.3, I didn't even *try* to bother installing the ISC. :-)
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also tried the command with /oracle/ and still
getting nothing. I retried and now the directories did show up!
What was the cause? Instead of using query archive, I used delete
archive -pick earlier on, but I failed to realise that -pick only
shows files. D'oh!
Thanks,
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of archived packages
to choose from.
What I would like to know is how to achieve something like this
(pseudocommand):
dsmc delete archive -des=gl-2004*
This would then delete all archived data with a matching description,
even when only directories are present in a package.
Thanks,
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encountering end-of-volume. The description given in the PMR seems to fit
the symptoms quite well.
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capacity, hardware compression and the
block or header sizes dictated by the actual device.Because of
these conditions, the waste seen on a FILE volume may not have the
same impact or even noticeable on tape volumes.
So your mileage may vary, I guess...
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could be generous was that
directories were so small that it wouldn't matter a lot. With the new
handling of sequential volumes, it does start to matter (and sometimes
a lot).
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, which migrated to the affected FILE pool)
In TSM 5.2 and earlier, this wasn't a problem. In 5.3 (and presumably
later), each tiny object now takes up 256 KiB at a minumum, causing
a *huge* overhead.
The solution was to stop using FILE volumes for this pool, but only DISK
volumes.
Regards,
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a problem. (Of course, in some cases, a document about how to properly
*read* a bugreport would be handy as well.)
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:09:45PM -, Iain Barnetson wrote:
I can tell you that the procedure as it is now DOES NOT work.
Read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for
more info about how to effectively solve your problem.
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E-mail has just erupted like
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:16:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If MOVE NODEDATA had a preview=yes, then we could parse the output of that
command in a fairly straightforward manner.
Then you might be interested in QUERY NODEDATA, a new command in TSM 5.3.
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E-mail has just
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
K 458 NodeAIX TRIDW1
15,278 Tcp/Ip IdleW 2 S 63 4 Node
I have opened a PMR about this, but I wondered if somebody here
encountered this problem and might have a workaround. The client
version is 5.2.2.5.
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. Again without any real errors.
We're now on firmware level 4AP0, which should contain a fix for our
silly TapeAlert and tape directory corruption problem.
Are TapeAlerts enabled in your setup? If not, try enabling them and
look in the TSM log for any TapeAlerts.
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E-mail has just
system)
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
sparse files are in the same
place as the holes in the original files.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
reclamation started issuing errors reporting it couldn't access
onsite versions of the objects it was reclaiming on offsite volumes.
All the objects it couldn't access on onsite volumes should have been
in the affected stgpool.
IBM has reproduced this problem and is analyzing it.
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E
limit.
Nice features on the client side: the ability for the TDPs to plug-in
into the Web-interface of the standard client, so you can do TDP for
Domino-restore from the regular Web-client.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write
to the TSM
server (SIGPIPE). Test this well.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
primary tape pool takes place. Nothing fancy needed here.
So the data from the DIRMC pool ends up on a sequential primary pool?
Am I correct in concluding that such a configuration does not result
in problems, e.g. performance-issues when doing offsite reclamation?
Thanks,
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E-mail has
, and (historically) for the
offsite reclamation performance problems (but this is no longer a
valid reason).
Thanks,
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
)
encountering end-of-volume? At least, that is the problem I'm encountering.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
files in one large chunk).
Also, ADSM.QuickFacts says that sequential volumes have advantages
in a database restoral situation.
Would it be a good idea to return to a large DIRPOOL of type DISK
and eliminate DIRFILE, on TSM 5.3 and AIX 5.2?
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed
using stdin/stdout/stderr
instead of its own console magic. Now I have to use Expect when scripting
dsmadmc stuff; it would be *much* handier if I could just open a pipe to
and from dsmadmc.
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when
. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy
up the flower pot.
What is the reason the Installation Guide tells us to do kill -9?
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto
. (In our setup, the backup piece
size is quite large, much larger than the typical archivelog
backup. Choosing a correct value for MAXSIZE wouldn't be too
difficult.)
Thanks,
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for Oracle,
but apparently I wasn't clever enough to think of them. :-)
Thanks again,
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it has the backups, while TSM expired them.
So: configure TSM to not ever expire any backups made with RMAN. This is
quite easy, and is explained in the installation documentation of the TDP
for Oracle. Let RMAN take care of the database retention policy. That's
what it's designed to do.
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:19:15PM +0100, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
2nd quarter 2004. But I don't see any TDP (for Oracle) clients for Linux
platforms.
It does exist, we downloaded ours from the Passport Advantage-site. It's
in the same archive as the other platforms.
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, this is probably totally unsupported. :-) )
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
.
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Volume?-line. If it says yes there, that volume is originally was a
scratch volume, and uses up a MAXSCRATCH slot.)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get
.
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
(AIX 5.2) to crash hard
several times. (Fortunately this is solved now, but now we're getting
nonsensical TapeAlerts from the 3584. This case is now open for several
months.)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands
and attaching from TSM that way?
Well, we thought about it, but decided it wasn't worth the trouble. :-)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead
FlashCopy (or your storage
system's equivalent) as a way to restore your datafiles (in case of a
database) very fast. By restoring them from the FlashCopy, you don't need
to restore them from TSM.
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would
something.
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
a call open with IBM. That call is progressing at glacial
pace however, and they make me jump through several hoops. So, I'm
interested in any experiences of other people.
Thanks for reading this far. :-)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties
known-good media and backups.
You cannot trust anything on that machine now, unfortunately.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance.-MS Q308417
into.
While I fully agree with you, it *is* frustrating that a somewhat common
response to a problem is works as designed, and the impression is left
that feedback is not something IBM support is waiting for.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
by default, so kill dsmserv pid
should work.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance.-MS Q308417
for the copy storage pools as well?
Yes. Keep in mind that MOVE NODEDATA is not very useful for offsite
copypools, since it requires the copypool-volumes to be onsite and
available. (It doesn't work like e.g. MOVE DATA does, which gets the
files from the primary pool)
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Avoid putting
into this, the more I am inclined to never use more than
one copy pool for any given TSM server.
Especially so with a MOVE NODEDATA that would work on offsite volumes.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need
)
Otherwise, you could check with truss to see what dsmcad is doing.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance. - 308417
much more likely to get an answer to your question on the AIX
Toolbox mailing list. If you read that list, you would've seen that I had
the same issue and that upgrading to the SSH released by IBM on May 4 fixed it.
:-)
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive
://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/lto/3584.html
There is a nice Firmware link and after 2 clicks you can download any
firmware you want for your library.
And, yet again, the latest versions on that page are 38D0 and 3480. *The
original poster already *has* those versions*.
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).
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance. - 308417
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