Re: Damaged Files

2017-05-04 Thread Plair, Ricky
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Damaged Files Hello, Have you tryed to restore from copy pool? On Thursday, 4 May 2017, Plair, Ricky <rpl...@healthplan.com> wrote: > Hey All, > > I have a Windows TSM server running 6.3.4.300. This server has > thousands of damaged files from a power o

Damaged Files

2017-05-04 Thread Plair, Ricky
Hey All, I have a Windows TSM server running 6.3.4.300. This server has thousands of damaged files from a power outage we had a few months ago. Is there any way to delete these files or get rid of these files? If they are damaged they can't be used for anything like a restore anyway. There

Re: DR Rebuild please chime in.

2017-04-28 Thread Plair, Ricky
_ > Matthew McGeary > Senior Technical Specialist - Infrastructure Management Services > PotashCorp > T: (306) 933-8921 > www.potashcorp.com > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Plair, Ri

DR Rebuild please chime in.

2017-04-27 Thread Plair, Ricky
All, Our last DR was a disaster. Right now, we do the TSM server to TSM server replication and it works fairly well but, they have decide we need to fix something that is not broken. So, the idea is to upgrade to SP 8.1 and install on a zLinux machine. Our storage is on an IBM V7000, and

Re: Some DISK volumes will not mount.

2017-02-28 Thread Plair, Ricky
the /mnt/ddstgpool3 isn't mounted? Can you see the file on the DD? Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Some DISK volumes

Some DISK volumes will not mount.

2017-02-27 Thread Plair, Ricky
Has anybody had this problem, I hope someone has an answer, I'm dying here trying to figure this out. ANR1893E Process 288 for SPACE RECLAMATION completed with a completion state of FAILURE. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume /mnt/ddstgpool3/DA46.BFS - mount failed. My TSM server is

Re: TSM Migration Question

2016-09-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
elaw...@us.ibm.com Storage Services Offerings From: "Plair, Ricky" <rpl...@healthplan.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/21/2016 08:57 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Migration Question Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>

Re: TSM Migration Question

2016-09-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
in the activity log for the errant migration processes? On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:28:53PM +, Plair, Ricky wrote: > OLD STORAGE POOL > > tsm: PROD-TSM01-VM>q stg ddstgpool f=d > > Storage Pool Name: DDSTGPOOL > Stora

Re: TSM Migration Question

2016-09-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
nesday, September 21, 2016 11:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Migration Question Can you post the output of "Q STG F=D" for each of those pools? On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 02:33:42PM +0000, Plair, Ricky wrote: > Within TSM I am migrating an old storage pool on a DD42

TSM Migration Question

2016-09-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
Within TSM I am migrating an old storage pool on a DD4200 to a new storage pool on a DD4500. First of all, it worked fine yesterday. The nextpool is correct and migration is hi=0 lo=0 and using 25 migration process, but I had to stop it. Now when I restart it the migration process it is

Re: AW: TSM Replication

2016-07-25 Thread Plair, Ricky
ld complete with a failure state. > > But again that's more of a logical assumption, I have to defer to > gurus at IBM for clarification > > > > -Rick Adamson > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-

TSM Replication

2016-07-22 Thread Plair, Ricky
Happy Friday to everyone! Can some tell me if there is a command, script or another way to find out the summary of how much data was replicated during the replication process on the TARGET server? Once replication has completed, I can go into the logs on the TSM SOURCE server and find out how

VM Reporting on newly created VMs using TDP for VE.

2016-07-20 Thread Plair, Ricky
Hey Everyone, Quick question, is there a way within TDP for VE to get a generated report emailed of newly created VMs and show that they are being backed up. Problem is, we have new VMs being created almost every day. TDP for VMs supposedly picks them up automatically for backup. But, how

Restore TSM data with no TSM database.

2016-06-14 Thread Plair, Ricky
All, I'm currently in a DR test, and the following scenario has raised an ugly question. We have a production Data Domain replicating to a DR DD. All the data is backed up to the production DD using TSM. The question is, can we restore the TSM data at the DR location from the DD if we

Re: Restore Individual File from NDMP COPYPOOL

2016-05-12 Thread Plair, Ricky
tape marked as offsite/offline (I know all of my offsite tapes are marked as such) On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Plair, Ricky <rpl...@healthplan.com> wrote: > HELP PLEASE! > > I have an EMC Ision that I'm backing up with TSM 7.1.10. > > Using TSM I can restore a fi

Restore Individual File from NDMP COPYPOOL

2016-05-12 Thread Plair, Ricky
HELP PLEASE! I have an EMC Ision that I'm backing up with TSM 7.1.10. Using TSM I can restore a file back to the Isilon, with no problem. My problem is, if I take the tape media that TSM used during the successful restore to the Isilon from the primary pool and change it unavailable, TSM

Re: Hold VM Snapshots

2016-04-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
because it was still mounted). Since version 7.1.2 I have not seen that anymore. What version are you running? Met vriendelijke groet, Marcel Anthonijsz > Op 20 apr. 2016 om 20:29 heeft Plair, Ricky <rpl...@healthplan.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > I was wonderi

Re: Hold VM Snapshots

2016-04-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
used to have this problem but have not seen it on v7.1.2. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 2:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Hold VM Snapshots I was wondering

Hold VM Snapshots

2016-04-20 Thread Plair, Ricky
I was wondering if anybody else was having a problem with the proxy not releasing snapshots? We have 11 proxies that backup VM each night to a Linux server running TSM 7.1.1.0. But, for some reason one of these proxies will not release all the snapshots and it eats up storage. This happens

Spectrum Protect Encryption

2016-03-25 Thread Plair, Ricky
Can anyone tell me what type/version of encryption that the new IBM Spectrum Protect uses. Is it the same as the older versions AES 128? I appreciate the help. Ricky M. Plair Storage Engineer HealthPlan Services Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273 Mobile: 813 357 9673 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Get rid of old encryption key on tapes.

2015-11-04 Thread Plair, Ricky
Need a lot of help with this one. We have changed from using IBM Encryption Key Management to IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager for encrypting tapes in our TS3310 library using TSM 7.1.1 on a Linux system. The problem is all the tapes have been encrypted by the old EKM and now we are using

Re: Activate SKLM on existing TS3500 partition

2015-10-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
Hey Maurice, Did anyone reply to your email? We are performing about the same thing. We have the SKLM server built and we are migrating from EKM. Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Maurice van 't Loo Sent: Wednesday,

Linux restore dry-run

2015-05-21 Thread Plair, Ricky
All question? On a Linux system, is there a way to perform the restore command, where TSM will show you all the files that are going to be restored for that command but. you can cancel it out so, TSM does not restore them. Our Linux Team calls this a sort of Restore Dry-Run. I guess in

Define volume

2015-03-25 Thread Plair, Ricky
Good Morning, I have a TSM server version 7.1 that I'm using to backup our ISILON via NDMP. I'm trying to set up the TOC and I'm running the following command. tsm: PROD-TSM01-VMdef volume nastocpool /tsminst1/toc_volume formatsize=10240 Below is how the

TSM EXPORT NODE TO NODE

2015-03-03 Thread Plair, Ricky
Good Morning All, We have exchange data on an old TSM server that we are trying to decommission. What I need to do is, export the exchange data that still exists on the old TSM server to our new TSM server that was just built approximately 6 months ago. So my question is, can I export the

Node Replication

2014-11-10 Thread Plair, Ricky
Can someone tell me if there is a TSM command/script out there that will show you which nodes are replicating and which ones are not replicating. I appreciate your time. Ricky M. Plair Storage Engineer HealthPlan Services Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273 Mobile: 757 232 7258 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

TDP for VM

2014-08-08 Thread Plair, Ricky
All, I have created a new VM proxy to backup our VM Cluster. This VM Cluster has already been backed up numerous times by a different VM proxy. The problem I'm having is, the new proxy doesn't see any of the backups that have been completed on the old proxy and therefore wants to perform a

ISILON backing up directly to TSM server.

2014-07-28 Thread Plair, Ricky
Good Morning All, I have an ISILON that is backing up directly to a TSM server. The library is mounted to the TSM server, not the ISILON. My question is, I have a stgpool created that the data format was NAS but, I had to change the data format to NATIVE to get the backup to work. Now, when

Question about NDMP and TSM.

2014-07-15 Thread Plair, Ricky
I have been asked to look into backing up our EMC Isilon using our TSM server. Everything I read, seems to point to backing this NDMP device to tape. Problem is, we do not use tape to backup production. I have researched and found a few articles about backing the NDMP device to tape but,

SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS

2014-06-18 Thread Plair, Ricky
Question, I am running TSM 6.3 and running out of database space with nowhere to get more at the moment. My DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS is set to 60 days. I really don't think I need 60 days. I would like to change this number to 30 days and get some space back. What is a norm or an expected amount

Wasted Storage on VM's

2014-04-29 Thread Plair, Ricky
We have our VM's backing up to our TSM server with a retention, q co 30/NOLIMIT/NOLIMIT/0 and we have over 100 TB of space used by these rules. How are others maintaining storage for VMs? Thanks! Ricky M. Plair Storage Engineer HealthPlan Services Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273 Mobile: 757

Using a VM for a TSM Server

2014-04-22 Thread Plair, Ricky
Has anyone every used a VM system for their TSM backup solution? If so, are there any pros? I would also like to hear the cons. Ricky M. Plair Storage Engineer HealthPlan Services Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273 Mobile: 757 232 7258 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Question about restoring a tsm db.

2014-03-12 Thread Plair, Ricky
Yesterday my TSM server crashed and lost the db. Our TSM DB is approx. 1.5 TB on a windows system. I started a TSM DB RESTORE last night around midnight and it's still running this morning. Is there any way to know how long it will run or follow the progress other than the scrolling console?

Re: TDP Oracle issue: thousands of near simultaneous sessions per node

2013-05-29 Thread Plair, Ricky
Rick, How many channels do the DBA have set in RMAN to use for the backups. Also how many max sessions are set up on the server node and resourceutilization in the dsm.sys file on the client -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

2013-05-07 Thread Plair, Ricky
Sure could have used this in the past! Got my vote! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Got it. Voted.

Re: HP/UX SAP authentication problem

2013-04-24 Thread Plair, Ricky
Hey Andy, It has been a long time since I have worked with SAP on Tivoli but, it seems I had the same problem and the DBA's had to correct there UTIL file. It seems like they just commented out the password line. Anyway, Good Luck. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager