Re: Document storage (ignore the first paragraph if you like)

2012-06-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Remco, Can we see/have your script? We came up with a similar solution and would like to compare notes. By san discovery, do you mean the TSM server option? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu -

Replacing tape drives with higher-capacity/different model

2012-06-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Our 3494 ATL has 15-drives, 5-TS1120 and 10-TS1130. We have just purchased replacements/upgrades to replace the TS1120 with TS1130 drives plus add 2-new drives. We currently have 2-TS1120 drives that are starting to act up and thus need to be yanked. 2-of my new TS1130 drives have appeared.

What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do?

2012-06-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
A recent SAN system upgrade sort-of killed 19TB of storage volumes, making them read only. Since we are having pathing issues, plus we need to perform fsck on these volumes due to the journal being screwed-up, I wanted to disable use of these disk volumes without killing the server, if possible.

Re: What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do?

2012-06-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
not attempt to mount the volume. If the volume being updated is an empty scratch volume that had an access mode of offsite, the server deletes the volume from the database. Cheers, Rick On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.eduwrote: A recent SAN

Re: Tsm versions in production

2012-05-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
All of my 6.x servers are a mix of the levels you mentioned, all in production. 6.1.5.100 (RHEL5), 6.2.3.100 (RHEL6), 6.2.4 (just upgraded from 6.2.3.100-RHEL5), 6.2.3.000 (RHEL6) and just put up my first 6.3.1.000 on RHEL6 (saw too many discussions about 6.3.0 so jumped to the latest before

Re: Tsm 6.2.3 readme question

2012-05-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I didn't see/do anything special. Just did the normal backupDB, volhist, devconfig - shut down - ran ./install.bin -i console (I don't use the GUI stuff much, if I can avoid it) The readme for the 6.2.4.1 level points to a generic installing a Tivoli Storage Manager server fix pack page at:

Re: SQL restore to a different machine

2012-05-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
From my SQL guy: Sure, we do it all the time. 32bit and 64bit and the version of SQL don't matter as long as you're going up a version (you can't restore to a lower version of SQL). Same goes for TDP actually, as long as you're restoring to a higher version it should be fine. And if they don't

Neutering a test server

2012-05-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Recently, for migration/testing purposes, I did a full conversion of a 5.5 server to 6.2 on my test TSM server. I would like to continue using this server to test additional upgrades without having to wipe and rebuild. Unfortunately, since it is a copy of a real server, whenever I fire it up,

Re: Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool

2012-05-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
on 2012-05-08 16:00:40: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2012-05-08 16:03 Subject: Re: Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu This is becoming a constant, daily problem

Re: Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool

2012-05-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
/phishing.html From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/03/2012 04:23 PM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU MIG STG BACKUPPOOL LO=0 Yes

Re: Upgrading to 6.3: can I restore my 6.2.3 DB after installation

2012-05-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Well, it did it again. Over the weekend, things got all hung up due to nodes not being able to backup to the disk LZ (all the tape drives were busy). Q STG showed 22% migratable but 100% utilized so the hi/lo values never kicked in for auto-migration. What the heck is going on. None of my

Re: Upgrading to 6.3: can I restore my 6.2.3 DB after installation

2012-05-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/07/2012 08:42 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading to 6.3: can I restore my 6.2.3 DB after installation Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Well, it did it again. Over the weekend, things got

Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool

2012-05-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have a very odd situation on my new Linux 6.2.3.100 server/disk pool, as described in the subject. Here is the Q STGPOOL 1:30:21 PM FIREBALL : q stg backuppool f=d Storage Pool Name: BACKUPPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device

Re: Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool

2012-05-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I thought about that too (should have mentioned it). We just recently rebooted the server (network issue - don't ask...) and there are no active backups/sessions. No processes other than the movedata I just started. I did a Q CONTENT and all of the disk volumes show something in them from

Re: Pct Migr=0.0, Caching=No but there is data in the disk stgpool

2012-05-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
MIG STG BACKUPPOOL LO=0 Yes the stgpool has thresholds set (see my original post/below). WHOA - Something just changed. I have been running various move data to empty the individual volumes. I just did a q stgpool and now it shows Pct Migr - 100%. Really bizzare... Zoltan Forray TSM

Re: server to server dbbackup

2012-05-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
First define the server-to-server connection. Be sure to define it as a node for the virtual-volumesfor the server you want to backup (source). Source Server DEFINE SERVER HADES serverpa=*** hla=IP-address-or-DNS lla=1500 pa=*** del=0 noden=HADES Then do the same in reverse from the target

Re: server to server dbbackup

2012-04-30 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
V5.5 (and probably older - I don't have anything older) and higher have always been able to do this.. I have 5-onsite servers that daily do a SNAPSHOT backup of the database (plus other things like devconfig, volhist but that is another story) to an offsite TSM server that does nothing but hold

Re: V5.5 - V6.2.3 Move - Chicken-and-Egg Question

2012-04-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
No, I will not be running both at the same time. I will perform the full DB back as the last task (along with backup devconfig, volhist, etc) and disconnect old server from the network. I wonder if I change the IP and hostname on the new server to the same as the old BEFORE restoring the DB,

Re: V5.5 - V6.2.3 Move - Chicken-and-Egg Question

2012-04-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Best Regards Chavdar On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I am having difficulty reconciling which order to do what based on documentation that says not to do it the way I have/need to do it. I am getting ready

V5.5 - V6.2.3 Move - Chicken-and-Egg Question

2012-04-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am having difficulty reconciling which order to do what based on documentation that says not to do it the way I have/need to do it. I am getting ready to do a complete migration from an old 5.5 server (Linux) to a brand new box (both hardware and OS). I need to restore the 5.5 DB, volhist,

Re: V5.5 - V6.2.3 Move - Chicken-and-Egg Question

2012-04-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
so I cannot help with the message. Hope that helps... Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] V5.5 - V6.2.3 Move - Chicken

Linux server 5.5.5.2 - 6.2.3.100 conversion/upgrade questions

2012-04-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Going through testing of converting/upgrading a server and have a few questions as well as seeing some oddities. Doing this on a test server since we will be moving everything to a new machine for the actual move. This is what I did (following the instruction in the book): 1. Installed server

Re: Is IBM dropping TSM client support for Solaris x86?

2012-04-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
IBM seems to be distancing itself from Solaris in general. We run Domino on Solaris Sparc (just starting to move to Google for Education - yea!) and with 6.3 they did not update the TDP and said 5.5 was the end of the line for the Solaris TDP. 6.3 for Domino only supports Linux, AIX and Windows.

Re: Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2012-04-17 16:22:13: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2012-04-17 16:24 Subject: Re: Why are my temp files being backed up? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Andy, Thanks for the reply

Re: Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2012-04-17 16:22:13: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2012-04-17 16:24 Subject: Re: Why are my temp files being backed up? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Andy, Thanks for the reply. No includes

Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Windows 2003 server - 6.3 client. This machine is very memory constrained. 43M files. Using journaling and MEMORYEFFICIENT DISKCACHEMETHOD. When I use the CLI and do a q inclexcl, I see: snippage Exclude All *\temp\* Server more snippage Exclude All

Re: Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 2:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Why are my temp files being backed up? Windows 2003 server - 6.3 client. This machine is very memory constrained. 43M files. Using

Re: Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
the case, then check the log again tomorrow. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Why are my temp files being backed up

Re: Why are my temp files being backed up?

2012-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2012-04-17 14:43:11: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2012-04-17 14:46

Re: Oricle backups

2012-04-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Gary, Reply to me off-list. We use Banner/Blackboard and backup everything with TSM/TDP for Oracle. I can connect you to one of the folks who handle all things Oracle backups. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services

Migration duration default?

2012-04-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Linux Server - 6.1.5.100 Is there a default value for manual Migration, that I am not aware of? I never use the DUR value. Yesterday around 14:40, I started a manual migration (mig stg backuppool lo=0). This morning at 7:26am I see the message: ANR4925W Migration process 1727 terminated for

Re: Migration duration default?

2012-04-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Migration duration default? Linux Server - 6.1.5.100 Is there a default value for manual Migration, that I am not aware of? I never use the DUR value. Yesterday around 14

Re: Migration duration default?

2012-04-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
from. Query the script using: q script script-name f=l And check the lines regarding migration ~Rick Adamson Jacksonville, FL. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:51 AM

Start Schedule Is Denied

2012-04-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have a curious situation with one or two clients issuing the following message: 4/9/2012 10:52:32 PM ANR2568E Request for node SASBICOMP.VCU.EDU to start schedule BANNER at 04/10/2012 10:00:00 PM is denied. Current time is 04/09/2012 10:52:31 PM. Trying to figure out what is going on. The

Re: Start Schedule Is Denied

2012-04-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.eduwrote: I have a curious situation with one or two clients issuing the following message: 4/9/2012 10:52:32 PM ANR2568E Request for node SASBICOMP.VCU.EDU to start schedule BANNER at 04/10/2012 10:00:00 PM is denied. Current time is 04/09/2012 10:52:31 PM

IBM 3592/TS1130-E06 fibre ports - can they be split

2012-04-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are in a major project to completely reorganize/replace our SAN switches used by tape drives for all TSM servers. We are hoping to transition to the new switches, gradually, vs all at once. This depends on how the tape drives use the dual-ports/fibre connections. Currently, we only use 1 of

Re: IBM 3592/TS1130-E06 fibre ports - can they be split

2012-04-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
| (716)645-3564) On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: We are in a major project to completely reorganize/replace our SAN switches used by tape drives for all TSM servers. We are hoping to transition to the new switches, gradually, vs all at once. This depends on how the tape drives use

Occupancy discrepency between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

2012-03-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Doing some reorganization, we recently moved (server-to-server export) some nodes from a 6.1.5.10 server to a 6.2.3.0 server. Now, the occupancy numbers on the 6.2 (71mb) server are lower than the 6.1.5 (83mb) server, eventhough the file/object counts are identical (static file system)? All of

Re: Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

2012-03-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Draper Lab -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Occupancy discrepency between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server Doing some reorganization, we

Re: Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

2012-03-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 03/07/2012 01:24 PM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Occupancy discrepancy between

Re: Deployment Engine Failed to initialize

2012-02-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
WOW - such harsh words about 6.1 ! I don't agree..my main production 6.x system is 6.1.5.10 with no issues. At least it hasn't had this wacky, problem my other 6.2.x servers have had with a DB backup randomly, intermittently failing with no discernible reason(note, there are docs that

Re: Deployment Engine Failed to initialize

2012-02-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
me, I am not interested in reorging the tables. In any case 6.3 doesn't solve all the reorg issues, see apar ic81261 and flash 1580639. Thanks, Bill Colwell Draper Lab -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC

Server DB restore from offsite TSM server SNAPSHOT

2012-02-21 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am trying to experiment with doing a V5 to V6 conversion by first restoring the V5 server to a test server. We have very little experience doing DB restores and none involving an offsite TSM server. My first attempts failed. I think I know how to fix it but the docs on how to perform a DB

Re: Server DB restore from offsite TSM server SNAPSHOT

2012-02-21 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
server-server comm will be down again because out-of-sync issues. Regards, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Namens Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Verzonden: dinsdag 21 februari 2012 15:45 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] Server

Re: Linux client questions

2012-02-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
All of the Linux clients, to date, are labeled x86 as part of the name. No x64 client versions as far as I can tell Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim

Re: TSM 6.3 installation issues.....

2012-02-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
4GB of memory for a DB2 based server install? The specs call for a minimum of 8GB and usually 16GB is preferred/suggested. I have one Linux server running V6.2.3 with 8GB and it is an offsite DR type server that houses nothing but DBSnapshot backups. No production machine is less than 16GB and

Moving archlog folder

2012-02-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
One of my servers is having disk issues and it happens to be where the tsmarchlog folder is. The Linux Administrators Guide says to: Moving only the archive log You can move only the archive log from one directory to another. 1. Halt the server. 2. Create an new archive log directory. For

DB Backup failures

2012-01-30 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Folks, I am randomly seeing these message on all of my 6.x (6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.100) servers and have no clue why. 1/30/2012 12:00:18 PM ANR4588E A database backup configuration might be incorrect 1/30/2012 12:00:18 PM ANR1893E Process 1304 for Database Backup completed with a completion state of

ILMT help

2012-01-26 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Anyone know of an ILMT listserver/forum I can get some help from? I had a working 7.2.2 ILMT server but due to problems with some clients and the agents, I decided to upgrade to 7.5 (the 7.5 agents require 7.5 server). After doing an upgrade, I could not signin to the admin center. Did a

Re: Deleting STG POOL

2012-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Eventhough they don't show any content, you could always do a delete volume ... discarddata=yes for each volume. From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/20/2012 02:17 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL Sent by:

Testing conversion of V5.5 to V6.3

2012-01-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am going through the docs preparing to do my first test of converting a V5 server to V6.3 on a test server/machine. I am looking for details on EXACTLY what the DSMUPGRD PREPAREDB does. Since this is a test/dry run, I don't want to do this against a live server, just a copy of it's databases.

Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

2012-01-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Anyone have experience with installing and configuring Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Version 6.3. We are taking a serious look at this TDP but haven't found any cookbooks and the IUG is very thin on specifics/details. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

2012-01-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Ken, My VMWare guy has the most questions. Can I forward your direct email address to him? I too will have questions from the TSM/server side since I have never setup anything like this. Seems like LAN-FREE is the way to configure but I have never done anything like that, either. Zoltan Forray

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

2012-01-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Some questions that we could not easily glean answer from the docs: 1. What are the specs/requirements for the vStorage/Backup Server that we will have to build? 2. What network requirements are there? Our TSM backup servers are on a completely different subnet then the VMWare servers.

Re: Firefox users with TSM 6.2 Admin Center

2011-11-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
That is as ridiculous as telling people to keep IE6 around since their applications don't work on anything newerbut at least you CAN have multiple version of FF... From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date:

Re: Firefox users with TSM 6.2 Admin Center

2011-11-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you tried ILMT? Does not work with anything but IE! FireFox is totally unusable and Chrome, while better than FF, is still problematic/distorted! Come on IBM.get with the times. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of

Re: tsm services hung on red had linux

2011-11-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you tried killing with extreme prejudice as in kill -9 4938? From: Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/10/2011 01:47 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] tsm services hung on red had linux Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Server is

Re: dsmc in linux

2011-11-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
OPT and SYS have different purposes/uses on Linux vs Windows. DSM.SYS on Linux does what DSM.OPT does on Windows. DSM.OPT is used for very few parms - one is to select the appropriate stanza in a DSM.SYS file. For example, here are lines in a DSM.SYS - note the servername SErvername

Re: Ang: Re: Help tracking down spurious Failed 12

2011-11-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We had the same problem with a Windows box when the client was upgraded from 6.1 to 6.2. The help file from the previous version was left behind and caused errors. Replaced it with the same version installed by the newer client (but into a different sub-directory) Zoltan Forray TSM Software

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
as on the windows platform so no need to write zeros on all blocks on unix anymore. Hans Chr. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on a Linux server. In the past, when creating and formatting storage

Re: Windows 6.3 client install problem

2011-11-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have installed this on a couple of W2K8R2 servers with no issues. IIRC, during the install process it does make you update a C++ re-distributable library. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu -

When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on a Linux server. In the past, when creating and formatting storage pool volumes, a 300GB volume would normally take an hour or more. I could watch the space being allocated, piece-by-piece until it reached 300GB and then

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
a week otherwise. I guess it does the same as on the windows platform so no need to write zeros on all blocks on unix anymore. Hans Chr. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on a Linux

Re: When hours become seconds

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
for me when I had to format 40 TB of disk/file on a new server. Would have taken a week otherwise. I guess it does the same as on the windows platform so no need to write zeros on all blocks on unix anymore. Hans Chr. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I

V6.3 TDP for Oracle on Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Anyone here started playing with this TDP? We can't get it to install. Most folks here use a terminal window and the -i console option has always worked in the past. With 6.3 it tried to kick in a GUI/Java session and thus fails since it can't start an X-Windows session

Re: Linux TSM Server discovering scsi tape drives

2011-10-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you installed the lin_tape drivers and/or daemon? https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21397283 From: Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/28/2011 02:13 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] Linux TSM Server discovering scsi tape drives Sent

Re: FODC (First Occurrence Data Capture) dumps

2011-10-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Zoltan These are DB2 dumps. Assuming you don't need them, and by the dates you don't, they are OK to remove Steven On 25 October 2011 15:17, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu wrote: I have been looking around on our servers to cleanup large/unnecessary files and came upon the /dumps

FODC (First Occurrence Data Capture) dumps

2011-10-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have been looking around on our servers to cleanup large/unnecessary files and came upon the /dumps/FODC_Panic_ folders with many gigs of cores and such. Any need to keep these around and can they be deleted? Some of them date back to 2009. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware

Re: TDP for Databases 6.3 -- Documentation

2011-10-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Speaking of 6.3, I downloaded all clients and TDPs and noticed the lack of a Domino TDP for SOLARIS, which happens to be the main platform we use for the biggest Domino servers. Is this platform being discontinued/non-supported ? If so, any docs/notices I can point our Domino admin to? We have

Re: TDP for Databases 6.3 -- Documentation

2011-10-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Frank, Thanks for the confirmation and documentation. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to

Re: expiration

2011-10-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
and, if you deleted a file/object and ran a backup, all previously inactive copies are flushed (up to the value set in your Management Class) and the last n-copies become inactive and are kept for the number of days specified in your MC retain only value. From: Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu To:

Re: First Solaris node

2011-10-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Welcome to the world of mixed operating systems.. Don't take this the wrong way but what does the OS have to do with things like compressability? Compressability is based on your data. For instance, I have dozens of Notes/Domino servers that are both Solaris AND Windows. Domino databases

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

2011-10-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Well, now that we have multiple filesystems in this storage pool, we need to remove one without removing the already allocated volumes. The second filesystem we added to this FILEDEVCLASS just had a major error and has remounted itself as READ-ONLY (ext3 journling failed). So, how do I do this?

Linux 6.2.2.30 Linux server - DB backup keeps failing - 2043

2011-10-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Within the past week, the DB backups have been failing on this server. Looking in the db2diag.log file, I am seeing: 2011-10-06-10.31.30.820265-240 E5649679E455LEVEL: Info PID : 14396TID : 47256765983040PROC : db2sysc 0 INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000

Re: Linux 6.2.2.30 Linux server - DB backup keeps failing - 2043

2011-10-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu Sender: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:44:29 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Reducing/Reclaiming tsmlog space

2011-09-30 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I recently expanded the log size from 60GB to 120GB to allow for an expected increase in transactions (was deleted 190M objects). Now that this is over, I need to shrink it back down to 60GB since the filespace it is using is shared by the DB and now I get a daily messages that the DB is running

Re: LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing

2011-09-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/05/2011 01:21 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I am trying to backup

DB Usage spike after turning on ALLOWTABLEREORG

2011-09-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
6.1.5.10 server. Back when there were issues with log usage due to table reorgs, I like many folks turned off ALLOWTABLEREORG. Recently, I did some big purging (moved a node with 189M objects to another server). Since the DB has grown to over 200G, I decided to reactivate ALLOWTABLEREORG this

Re: Moving tapes offsite

2011-09-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
When I remove nodes for good and someone wants a copy kept forever, I create 2-exports and then delete from TSM. That way on the off chance they want something, I simply import back into a TSM server. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office

Re: Moving tapes offsite

2011-09-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
But, if it isn't in the database or a transportable format (export of backupset), you won't be able to restore from the tapes. No, it doesn't delete the data/tapes physically - just removed the DB info. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University

Re: TSM 6.2 installer

2011-09-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Dumb question.Did you have the correct permission/root? When I had a similar issue, it was because I wasn't root or the filesystem owner. From: Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/13/2011 10:09 AM Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 installer

Disk storage pool 100% utilized but NOT cached

2011-09-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I think I know the answer to this question but figured it would be a good question to ask, This morning I was getting reports that backups were failing due to backups not being able to get space in the disk stgpool. When I did a Q STG, this is what I get: 9:25:34 AM MOON : q stg Storage

Re: Disk storage pool 100% utilized but NOT cached

2011-09-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
] De la part de Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Envoyé : 13 septembre 2011 10:23 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] Disk storage pool 100% utilized but NOT cached I think I know the answer to this question but figured it would be a good question to ask, This morning I was getting reports that backups

Re: DB2 requirements for RedHat Linux 6

2011-09-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
and only install the RPM for license with the 6.2.1 installer from Passport Advantage ? Or just install the RPM for license which is missing in the 6.2.3 fixpack with the RPM command. Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Le 09/09/2011 16:50, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU a écrit : So I

DB2 requirements for RedHat Linux 6

2011-09-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are building a new server and decided to go with RedHat 6. DB2 Requirements page says RHEL 6 is valid for DB2 9.7 with Fix Pack 4. When we try to run the installation for base 6.2.1 (couldn't find a 6.2.3 in Passport), it chokes saying we are missing Linux compat-libstdc++ (libstdc++so.6)

Re: LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing

2011-09-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I don't think there is a firewall. Well, it got further (700GB) before being killed by the TSM server. 9/6/2011 12:05:04 PM ANR0524W Transaction failed for session 59224 for node ACIPENSER.VCU.EDU (TDP MSSQL Win32) - data transfer interrupted. 9/6/2011 12:05:05 PM ANR0487W Session 59224 for node

LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing

2011-09-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am trying to backup a LARGE SQL (4TB) database via the SQL TDP, without success. It will run for a while and then die - usually with the error: ANS1017E (RC-50): Session Rejected : TCP/IP communications failure. The last try backed up 125GB before failing. I have greatly increased the server

Poll: What Windows client features do you install by default

2011-08-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I would like to get some idea of what features of the Windows client do you install, by default, when doing a brand-new client install. Folks here are just starting to realize the benefits of using the Journaling feature (yeah, I know, it is not a new feature - I have been trying to get folks

Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] Poll: What Windows client features do you install by default

2011-08-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
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Re: Ang: [ADSM-L] Poll: What Windows client features do you install by default

2011-08-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum: 08/24/2011 16:27 Ärende: [ADSM-L] Poll: What Windows client features do you install

Re: Poll: What Windows client features do you install by default

2011-08-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2011-08-24 10:27:06: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 2011

Windows server rename causing full backups

2011-08-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We had an incident this morning that ended up being caused by a Windows server that was renamed (internally) and connected to a domain (previously standalone), thus initiating a full backup of an 8TB volume/space, since TSM now sees it as new filespaces. How do I handle this to avoid a full

Renaming a Windows node - where does it get the nodename if no nodename statement?

2011-08-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that if a Windows node does NOT have a NODENAME statement in it's dsm.opt, it simply asks the OS for the hostname and uses that. This value is also used for the filespace names. So, if this Windows node has been backing up without a

Re: Renaming a Windows node - where does it get the nodename if no nodename statement?

2011-08-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thomas, Thanks for both of your responses. You have confirmed what we are seeing. We rooted through the registry and see the keys with the old node name and encrypted password. The box was renamed and rebooted but the GUI was never bought up. As soon as we bought up the GUI, it grabbed the

Re: Renaming a Windows node - where does it get the nodename if no nodename statement?

2011-08-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Of course, even with a NODENAME statement and reworking the scheduler, the filespace names are still based on the hostname. We have renamed plenty of other servers that had nodename statements and the first backup was brand-new. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Keith, Thanks for the suggestions. Fortunately we don't use lots of virtual volumes. Sounds like the Reconcile command was added as a quick-fix to resolve inherent problem somewhere deep inside. From: Keith Arbogast warbo...@indiana.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 08/02/2011 08:59 AM

Re: delete volumehistory

2011-08-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sure - Let the force be with you (sorry - couldn't resist ;---) DELETE VOLHISTORY todate=today volume=your-volume-number type=remote force=yes You still might need to change the volume status to scratch on the LM after your deleted it. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Hmm - is the RECONCILE command I should run, regularly? I just ran it on all 5.5 servers (they perform daily DBSNAPSHOT backups to an offsite server) and all of them had errors to reconcile. The 6.x servers didn't have any errors. As for these ghost volumes/storage, reconciling its

Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-07-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Back a while ago, one of my smaller servers kept overflowing it's disk LZ and couldn't access tape drives. To handle the overload, I setup virtual volume backups defining a storage pool on another TSM server that had plenty of disk space. When the tape drives were accessible, I migrated these

Re: Expire Inventory errors after upgrade to 6.1.5.10

2011-07-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Mark, Any way to suppress these harmless/annoying messages? Since they are harmless, am I right in guessing someone forgot to turn off some debugging code/messages? While I don't mind opening up a PMR, I would assume there is going to be a quick update (6.1.5.11?) to address it? Zoltan

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