NDMP over IP

2003-02-13 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Hi, We are currently using two backup solution TSM 4.2 (1300 Clients, upgrade to 5.1 planned) and Atempo Time Navigator 3.6 (40 Clients). We plan to migrate TiNa to TSM. But TINA is used to backup NetApp with NDMP over IP (Module Tape Server). Does someone knows it is possible to do the same

Re: TSM 4.2.2.x Problem using Dell Powervault 136T

2003-02-13 Thread Jon Evans
I had such a bad experience with Dell firmware on the 136T that I sent it back. I suggest you do the same and buy another box. Both the Adic scalar 100 and the IBM 3583 are the same box, with different firmware and work fine. (the IBM one has IBM drives) In my experience, Dell's firmware updates

TDP2.2 SQL error ANR2579E return code 418

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas, Matthew
ITSMers, We've got a TDP 2.2 client (NT4 sp6) backing up to a TSM server (AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.2) which is failing as below. 02/09/03 23:30:43 ANR2579E Schedule JUNO_SQL in domain JUNOSQL for node SQLJUNO1032_TDP failed (return code 418). The TSM error message isn't

NpPeek : no data with journaling

2003-02-13 Thread chris rees
Hi All Following on from the previous mails regarding journaling and pipes, thanks Pete, I am getting the following scenario on a win2k client, TSM client 5.1.5.2 The incremental starts and uses the journal. I then get loads of NpPeek : No data messages and the backup does not finish. The

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Has TSM 5.2 allready been announced? I can't find any info on the TSM website. Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Tivoli/IBM is already developing their own BMR software, called ITSM System Recovery. It will be based on IBM SysBack, and the latest I heard is that it will support AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, XP and .NET. System Recovery for AIX is already available, and Solaris and HP/UX should be out soon. I

Re: TSM 5.2 Question (BMR Again)

2003-02-13 Thread Seay, Paul
No, but there will probably be a V5.2 pre-announcement update at Share in Dallas February 24-28. BMR has been mentioned as part of their intended product plan, but no commitments on when. The issue is Veritas BMR is fine for like configurations, but not disaster recovery where the configurations

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Christian, you have been sending mail regarding Christie PC-BAX, marketing it as a BMR software for TSM. I have some considerations when it comes to PC-BAX(which I have installed both at customer locations, and in our own demo environment): 1. Does PC-BAX support AIX, Solaris, HP/UX and other

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Everyone! What Tivoli has done and going to do is Unix : Sysback who

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Christian 1. Does PC-BAX handle the TDP? Or does PC-BAX do its own, off-line backup of SQL, Exchange and so on? As far as I know, PC-BAX doesnt support restoring SQL and Exchange using Tivolis TDP. 2. I would really like to know who you have been talking to in Sweden regarding the NEW

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
It´s nice to see a cat fight with two local (Swedish) consultants... Oops now its time for real work again... //Henrik Daniel Sparrman

Re: Exchange Restore/Expiration Question

2003-02-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Bruce, When doing a full backup, Data Protection for Exchange will inactivate any previous incrementals that exist. I would guess that your policy settings are set up in such a way that those incrementals are still being retained. From the policy section in the User's Guide: - Incremental

Re: TDP2.2 SQL error ANR2579E return code 418

2003-02-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Matt, RC=418 means that there was a TSM API error. Look in the tdpsql.log and/or dsierror.log to find out the cause. You are correct, all of the returns codes are not currently documented. We are working to get these into the documentation in the future. Thanks, Del

Re: NT4 Client Level Recommendations

2003-02-13 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, we use 5.1.5.9, René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center Information Technology Av. Nestlé 55 CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) tél +41 (0)21

Re: set servername

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Roder
Can any damage be caused by changing this value? In other words, could it make a client unable to restore older versions of files? ... ... sudo dsmc restore -se=lorenz -pick /home/staff/tks/lps/Mail/myub /tmp/ No - the absence of the -INActive operand on the dsmc command line does that.

Re: set servername

2003-02-13 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, be carefull, we got severe password issues doing a servername change, we had to re-initialise all password on all clients (NT at least), René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center

Re: set servername

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Sims
I am now wondering if TSM is confused, as /home used to be a filesystem, and now, /home/staff/tks/lps is on root. Get into the habit of putting braces {} around the filespace portion of the path to make that unambiguous to TSM in servicing the query.

Re: TSM 5.2 Question

2003-02-13 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Daniel! Our software CBMR (Old name PC-BaX) does support more then only TSM.

System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Dameon White
My TSM server is at 4.2.3.0 and we want to upgrade to 5.1.x of TSM. But we have over 50 million orphaned SYSTEM OBJECTS that we have been trying to delete via the CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS command. We tried to upgrade with the orphans and after 72 hours we backed out. Now we are tryng to delete the

Re: set servername

2003-02-13 Thread Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand
Not so strange considering how TSM client makes a registrykey like this (under which the password is stored); HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\BackupClient\Nodes\MYNOD E\TSMSRV001 where the last is the name of the TSM server (TSM servername). Updating alot of clients can be done

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Hart, Charles
Dumb question, what version is the CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS in? I ask because there is no output from h CLEAN BACKUPGROUPS on 4.1 or 5.1.5 Thank You! -Original Message- From: Dameon White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Exchange Restore/Expiration Question

2003-02-13 Thread Kamp, Bruce
This is the management class I'm using for Exchange: Policy Domain Name EXCHANGE_AGENT Policy Set Name STANDARD Mgmt Class Name EXCMGMTCLASS Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists 3 Versions Data Deleted 1 Retain Extra Versions 60 Retain Only Version 120 Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy

TDP monitoring

2003-02-13 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Tyring to get a general survey of how TSMers managing large scale deployments of TDP for Oracle. Since it's a client driven process (in our environment), the success or failure is difficult to monitor. Also, TDPOSYNC requires information only the DBAs would know. e.g.Catalog user name

TSM ISSUE

2003-02-13 Thread Laura Booth
I receive the following errors referring to the WMI Databse. WMI directory has been excluded in the options file... Anyone else have this problem and maybe a resolution? 2/03/2003 01:14:51 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\hyperion\c$\ADSM.SYS\WMI\WMIDBFILE' failed 02/03/2003 01:14:51 ANS1448E An

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Niklas Lundstrom
Another dumb question...what is Orphaned system objects Regards Niklas Lunström Swedbank -Original Message- From: Hart, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 13 februari 2003 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups Dumb question, what

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Boyer
I think the doc is in the readme for the 4.2.3.x server releases. It recommends going to the latest 4.2.3.x patch to get all the fixes. I ran mine originally on a 4.2.3.2 server level and it all worked fine. Took 14-hours, but then it's a small server. We have since moved to 4.2.3.3 patch level

LTO 3583 doesn't end audit lib

2003-02-13 Thread Humberto Gómez López
Platform: W2k, TSM 5.1.6, San Data Gateway 2108 R03. I keep getting this on actlog after submitting audit lib, could anyone help on this? 40:04 ANR0609I AUDIT LIBRARY started as process 5. 02/13/2003 09:41:30 ANR8941W The volume from slot-element 4098 in drive

Re: TSM ISSUE

2003-02-13 Thread John Naylor
Laura, Do a query inclexcl on the client to see whether the exclude is actually doing what you think I receive the following errors referring to the WMI Databse. WMI directory has been excluded in the options file... Anyone else have this problem and maybe a resolution?

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Kyle Payne
Did you run help clean or help cleanup? Kyle -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups Dumb question, what

Re: TDP monitoring

2003-02-13 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Bill, How would you pass this info on the command line as it prompts you for it when you execute TDPOSYNC. Catalog user name Catalog Password Catalog Connect String -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: set servername

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Roder
I am now wondering if TSM is confused, as /home used to be a filesystem, and now, /home/staff/tks/lps is on root. Get into the habit of putting braces {} around the filespace portion of the path to make that unambiguous to TSM in servicing the query. Cool. That works. I looked around in

Tivoli pubs email address evaporated

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Sims
Could someone in IBM/Tivoli fix this gross error... The front of each TSM manual says to send feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried that twice this morning and got: ... while talking to smtp2.tivoli.com.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed

ANR9999D and ANR0197E

2003-02-13 Thread Conko, Steven
sorry... i tried to search for this but i cant seem to get connected to adsm.org. any idea what is happening with these errors? TSM V4.2.2 running on AIX 4.3.3 ML10 connected to 3494 Library with 3590 Tape drives we have seen this error before... this time happens to be during a backup stgp

q act output

2003-02-13 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Server is AIX 4.3.3 TSMServer is 5.1.5.2. Been doing a bunch of things and just ran a q act, via the web, to look at the last 60 minutes. It's 7:40 AM now and q act shows me the log from 6:48 to 7:02. The time on the server is Thu Feb 13 07:44:17 PST 2003. Seems to be ok through the cli

Re: Tivoli pubs email address evaporated

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Richard, I've forwarded your note to the pubs folks. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply) The only dumb question is the one

Re: ANR9999D and ANR0197E

2003-02-13 Thread John Naylor
Steven, I am os390 TSM 4.2.2, but I think this problem extends to AIX 4.2.2 as well When I queried it with IBM, they referred me to APAR PQ61001 and suggested I needed to audit the database to resolve. as you can imagine I wasn't very happy to do that, well I read the apar and replied I have

improving performance on solaris 2.8

2003-02-13 Thread Lee, Gary D.
We have tsm server 4.2.1 running under solaris 2.8 on a sun 3500. Had plenty of memory (2gb) and a reasonable amount of disk. However, performance even with a gigabit ethernet was less than adequate. Acting on a couple of replies received from this list, I modified the vfstab and changed the

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Hart, Charles
yep tsm: MSPSTG5help clean CLEAN Command CLEAN Command Use the CLEAN DRIVE command to clean a drive in a SCSI library for Storage Manager. CLEAN DRIVE (Clean a Drive) tsm: MSPSTG5help cleanup ANR2306E No help text could be found for this command/subcommand: CLEANUP. ANS8001I Return code

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Denier
Can I delete the SYSTEM OBJECT filespaces all together and gamble that I won't have to restore the registry that day? Will deleting the good system objects help with the orphans? There is a less draconian version of this strategy that some sites have used successfully. Execute 'rename

AW: TSM 5.2 Question (BMR Again)

2003-02-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Windows-BMR Announcement for TSM 5.2 was restricted to Windows versions XP and higher, as far as I now. regards Juraj Salak -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2003 13:59 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: TSM 5.2

Update Q act

2003-02-13 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Needed to go back a few hours to find some things so I just changed the Begin Time on the WEB interface to NOW-3:00. It's 8:55AM and the query only returned info from 6AM to 7AM. Very strange. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migration processes: very strange message ANR0986I

2003-02-13 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hello, since upgrading to 5.1.5.4, one of our AIX TSM server (only one of the 4 having been upgraded) gives strange migration messages: 02/13/2003 15:36:20 ANR1001I Migration process 552 ended for storage pool BACKPOOL. 02/13/2003 15:36:20 ANR0986I Process 552 for MIGRATION running in the

Some one what to buy Legato?

2003-02-13 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi! Do everyone know that Legato is fore Sale?

Re: System Objects and Cleanup Backupgroups

2003-02-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
If you want to avoid the gamble, just RENAME the SYSTEM OBJECT filespace to something else. After the next client backup, you'll have a new, clean SYSTEM OBJECT filespace. After a couple of days, delete the old one. Or if you have a disaster in the meantime, you can rename ithe old SYSTEM OBJECT

TDP for R_3 restore

2003-02-13 Thread Tait, Joel
Hi, Has anyone had the following troubles? On a large restore (1.3 TB) SAP database using TDP for R/3. First issue - session with a SendW wait time that continues to increment until the CommTimeOut is reached then terminates the connection? The byte count never increases and the tape drive and

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-13 Thread Alan Davenport
Hello All, many thanks to all who responded to my inquiry. It looks like Mark's response, item #2, was the answer. I had my region size at 1280M and TSM was running just awful. I had a phone conversation with Mark and afterwards, I tried his suggestion of REDUCING the region size. Note the

Re: improving performance on solaris 2.8

2003-02-13 Thread Marco Supino
Hi, Thanks for the info, what about logging for file systems ? does it impact on the performance ? Marco. Lee, Gary D. wrote: We have tsm server 4.2.1 running under solaris 2.8 on a sun 3500. Had plenty of memory (2gb) and a reasonable amount of disk. However, performance even with a

Re: Tivoli pubs email address evaporated

2003-02-13 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:44:12AM -0500, Richard Sims wrote: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) This obviously needs to be investigated by Tivoli, both to fix it and find out what procedures are awry to allow such a thing to happen. They will probably

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kelly
Hi, We seem to be experiencing symptoms similar (identical?) to Alan's. We're at z/OS 1.2, running on a 2066-002 w/ 8GB of memory and virtually no paging; TSM is at 4.2.3.0.; database is 55% of 106 GB. Network connectivity is via GB ethernet. Disk pool is 190GB on an ESS. Nightly backup load is

NpPeek : no data with journaling

2003-02-13 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
As mentioned, NpPeek messages in the b/a errorlog indicates that the b/a client didn't receive an expected response from the journal daemon, and if the backup didn't complete it probably means that contact with the journal daemon was lost for some reason (and possibly that the journal daemon

Windows OS Level

2003-02-13 Thread Dameon White
Does anyone have a x-ref of Windows OS level to TSM's OS level in the node table. I think NT 4 is oslevel=4.0 and win2k is oslevel=5. How about xp,98, or 95? Thanks for your help. Dameon

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-13 Thread Alan Davenport
Hi Bill, Another thing that came up in our discussion was that the DB buffpoolsize should not exceed 131072 (128K). You might want to try that was well. Sounds like you have little to lose, like I did when I tried reducing the region size. Another observation. My cache hit ratio has

NT restore to different hardware revisited......

2003-02-13 Thread Raminder Braich
A few weeks ago I sent an email asking if anyone could give me some directions on how to restore WINNT on different hardware. Thanks to everyone who responded. I was able to accomplish the restore. It is a little tricky but not hard. If anyone else likes to know the process, please send me an

Re: Windows OS Level

2003-02-13 Thread David Longo
NT4.0is 4.00 95 is 4.00 (To a 3.7.4.0 server) 98 is 4.10 (don't know if regular or SE edition) W2K is 5.00 All above except Win95 viewed from 4.2.2.10 TSM server. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/03 03:41PM Does anyone have a x-ref of Windows OS level

Re: Windows OS Level

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Raibeck
XP will show 5.01. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply) The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line

Re: Windows OS Level

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Win95 will show client_os_level of 4.00; Win98 will show 4.10, and WinMe will show 4.90. These match the versions of the OS as shown by the VER command. (You may need to look at the computer properties to see this version info for 9x, but for the NT platform, VER will work.) Regards, Andy Andy

A query about NDMP support

2003-02-13 Thread Jelinek, David G.
I would like to ask for some expert opinions from this group. We use MiraPoint's e-mail appliance for our student e-mail. We would like to back it up using ITSM. MiraPoint has said that it intends to qualify with TSM. They want us to push IBM/Tivoli for 3-way NDMP support in TSM. I have no idea

Tape Reliability Recommendations

2003-02-13 Thread Colby Morgan
We are currently running TSM 5.1.5 on Win2k with an IBM Mammoth-2 drive for offsite copypools. We have had problems with both our onsite M2 and offsite M2 drives at our disaster recovery center. IBM has replaced the drive more than a dozen times in the last two years and Exabyte has replaced

Estimating size of backup sets

2003-02-13 Thread Graham Trigge
TSMers, Is there anyway people know of to estimate how large a backupset is going to be? I have close to 700 nodes I want to generate backupsets for and I want to know what sort of space I will be using up with them. I am assuming it will be some sort of SQL statement looking at active files, but

Setting up Shared Libraries

2003-02-13 Thread Jason Lee
Hi, I'm attempting to setup a shared 3494 library between linux boxes. I'm running 5.1.5.4 on all the boxes. Drives are Fibre channel 3590s. I've defined server to server communication etc., the library and drives on the manager, and the library on the clients. However, when I go to define the

A query about NDMP support.

2003-02-13 Thread Jelinek, David G.
I would like to ask for some expert opinions from this group. We use MiraPoint's e-mail appliance for our student e-mail. We would like to back it up using ITSM. MiraPoint has said that it intends to qualify with TSM. They want us to push IBM/Tivoli for 3-way NDMP support in TSM. I have no idea

Re: TDP for R_3 restore

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Harris
What is the underlying database? Are you restoring over the SAP instance created or cloning one instance into another? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/02/2003 3:56:37 Hi, Has anyone had the following troubles? On a large restore (1.3 TB) SAP database using TDP for R/3. First issue - session with a

Re: Tape Reliability Recommendations

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Bennett
Colby, We have been using the Exabyte M2 drives and tapes for a couple of years now. We did have lots of problems and wore out several drives before we found out that that running our four drive library on one 29160 interface was causing the drives and tapes to wear out. We reconfigured and now

Re: Estimating size of backup sets

2003-02-13 Thread Joerg Pohlmann
Graham, an estimate is the sum of (capacity * percent utilized) for the filespaces for a given client if you are including all filespaces in your GENERATE BACKUPSET. Realize that if you are using a tape device class, the minimum amount of media is one tape cartridge per backupset. So, for small

Re: Exchange Restore/Expiration Question

2003-02-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Bruce, Are both log backups and full backups going to this same management class? If so, that explains it. Since logs are uniquely named, once DP for Exchange marks them inactive, they abide by the Retain Only Version rule... which you show below as 120 days. So that means they will stay around

Antwort: Setting up Shared Libraries

2003-02-13 Thread Markus Veit
Hi Jason, I may be wrong, but have you set up the path to the drives for the client on the LIBRAY MANAGER, if not do so Markus An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie:

Re: Estimating size of backup sets

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Harris
Don't forget that you are not supposed to backup your client while creating the backupset. This limits their usefulness IMO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/02/2003 12:37:05 Graham, an estimate is the sum of (capacity * percent utilized) for the filespaces for a given client if you are including all