Re: Deleting database snapshot

2006-07-12 Thread Neil Schofield
Chip There *is* an easy way that I picked up from reading these lists, but for obvious reasons it's not documented. If you really want to override the essential protection that TSM is providing you, you can delete the most recent database snapshot by specifying FORCE=YES on the DEL VOLHIST

Job Failures

2006-07-12 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi Chaps, Another newbie question. Having some jobs fail over night but can't for the life of me see why. There's nothing in the logs on the client baclient folder and all I have in the logs is 2006-07-11 22:29ANR0403I Session 34 ended for node WSSDCCT01

Re: schedule problem ?

2006-07-12 Thread goc
hmm, i think i know the solution i changed QUERYSCHEDto 48 any ideas please ? - Original Message - From: goc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: schedule problem ? hi all, i have an schedule problem whitch includes a very

Re: schedule problem ?

2006-07-12 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, Queryschedperiod will not make the 07/09/06 05:37:49 ANS1815E Either the window has elapsed or the schedule has been deleted go away. As the message says, look at the duration of your backup schedule, and update them as needed: DURation Specifies the number of units that define the

Re: oddevaix:/home/archivedb2 backup db archive online use tsm SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media, Reason Code: 137

2006-07-12 Thread IG Coolen
Hi Nancy, I was just figuring this out yesterday. Had the same problem, until they changed into reason code 184. But this is what i figured out so far. In order to do online backups, your logging configuration in DB2 should be set to archive logging. But your DB2 admins will probably know about

Re: schedule problem ?

2006-07-12 Thread goc
hi, thanks a lot ... you are right, but the problem is i changed the duration to 2 days (48 hours) and i still got the sam message ... the preschedulecmd works fine but in the mean time this error pops out from nowhere ... # cat dsmerror_sdb.log 07/05/06 10:50:04 ANS1092W No files matching

Re: schedule problem ?

2006-07-12 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, What is the ITSM server actlog saying about this schedule and node? And what does a q event * * begind=-X endd=today tell you? Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: woensdag 12 juli 2006 11:17 To:

Re: Multiple nodes on linux with dsmcad ?

2006-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 12, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Brian Ipsen wrote: Hi! How do I run multiple nodes/schedulers on linux, if I want to use DSMCAD ? In my batch file, I've tried to use: export DSM_CONFIG=/test/dsm1.opt dsmcad sleep 2 export DSM_CONFIG=/test/dsm2.opt dsmcad But for some wierd reason this doesn't

Re: schedule problem ?

2006-07-12 Thread goc
hi, q event says Failed 12 - Original Message - From: Bos, Karel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:37 AM Subject: Re: schedule problem ? Hi, What is the ITSM server actlog saying about this schedule and node? And what does a q event * *

Re: Job Failures

2006-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Matthews, Gary wrote: Another newbie question. Having some jobs fail over night but can't for the life of me see why. There's nothing in the logs on the client baclient folder ... Gary - See Schedule, missed in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ ADSM.QuickFacts for

backup directory structure but not the files ?

2006-07-12 Thread Timothy Lin
Hi fellow ADSM-L'ers My manager wants me to backup directory structures of a server but not the files, since all files can be recreated easily but the structure has to be backup'ed somehow because it's difficult to recreate. I'm scratching my head and couldn't quite figure out how to do this,

Re: DB Backup Trigger

2006-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:43 PM, William wrote: As far as I know, once the db backup completes, the log utilization should be clean to zero. But in the activity log, I did find it was not true. Can anybody tell me why? William - See Out of recovery log space in the TSM Problem Determination

Re: backup directory structure but not the files ?

2006-07-12 Thread Dirk Kastens
Timothy Lin schrieb: Hi fellow ADSM-L'ers My manager wants me to backup directory structures of a server but not the files, since all files can be recreated easily but the structure has to be backup'ed somehow because it's difficult to recreate. I'm scratching my head and couldn't quite figure

Re: backup directory structure but not the files ?

2006-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
The DIrsonly option. On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Timothy Lin wrote: Hi fellow ADSM-L'ers My manager wants me to backup directory structures of a server but not the files, since all files can be recreated easily but the structure has to be backup'ed somehow because it's difficult to recreate.

Re: backup directory structure but not the files ?

2006-07-12 Thread Timothy Lin
Dirk, That does the trick, thanks a bunch! Tim. Dirk Kastens wrote: Timothy Lin schrieb: Hi fellow ADSM-L'ers My manager wants me to backup directory structures of a server but not the files, since all files can be recreated easily but the structure has to be backup'ed somehow because it's

Linux vs. Windows TSM Server Environment

2006-07-12 Thread Dennis, Melburn W IT743
My upper management wants me to provide them with some pros/cons of switching from our current Windows 2K3 TSM server environment to a Linux based one. Is there anyone here that could provide me with a list of pros/cons of both these systems, or know where I could find documentation on this?

Missing LAN free data in dsmaccnt.log or how to monitor TDP lan free sessions ?

2006-07-12 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi List, Tried today to insert displaylfinfo yes into dsmserv.opt (TSM at 5.3.3.2 on AIX 5.3) to get some information in dsmaccnt.log regarding LAN free sessions, but I still don't get any entry in field 6 looking like NodeName(StorageAgentName). Did anyone succeed in getting this working ?

Choosing a TCPPort number.

2006-07-12 Thread Mcnutt, Larry E.
TSM 5.3.3.0 AIX 5.3 ML4 I need to choose a TCPPort number for a second TSM instance. Initially I was thinking of using 1501, but then I discovered that 1501 is the default for the TCPCLIENTPORT. But the documentation says that if port 1501 is busy, the scheduler will use another available

Bad latest link on FTP site

2006-07-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Who do we report errors to, pertaining to service.boulder.ibm.com ? When I went to get the latest AIX server upgrades, under /storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/AIX, the latest symbolic link points to the 5.3.2.3 updates, not 5.3.3.2, the current/latest !

Does the IBM 3584 support autosense for drive element number?

2006-07-12 Thread Kauffman, Tom
I'm trying to clean up my D/R scripting, and this is one area that would help -- but I'm having a heckuva time trying to track down the answer. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended

SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media, Reason Code: 137

2006-07-12 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Hi Ig, We tried the following steps this morning... 1 Delete the *.pwd file for the client nodename in the /etc/security/a dsm directory.. 2 Update the password for the client nodename to a different password than the old password. (run this on the tsm server) 3 Re-Run the DSMAPIPW to

Re: Choosing a TCPPort number.

2006-07-12 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
We use 1501 and have no problems. If you are not using the TCPCLIENTPORT, I wouldn't think that it would cause troubles, but I'm no expert. But from client side, if you want to go to the first instance, 1500, or the second, 1501. That is what we've done with no problems whatsoever. But it needs to

Re: Does the IBM 3584 support autosense for drive element number?

2006-07-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
I don't know where that is documented. But I didn't have to specify element numbers for mine, TSM figured it out. (We are connecting via Winders, however.) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: Wednesday, July 12,

Re: Linux vs. Windows TSM Server Environment

2006-07-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
Here's a con: Linux is UNIX, from TSM's point of view. So there is no easy way to switch a TSM server platform if you need to retain existing data. You can't restore a Windows TSM data base to a Linux TSM server. If your client situation is such that you can crank up a Linux server and point

Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We've never used the DRM module in TSM -- it was far too expensive when we first started, so we rolled our own procedures (which work quite well, I might add :-) but I'd like to look at DRM now that it's part of the suite. So -- for those of you using DRM -- how do you get the plan file and

Re: DB Backup Trigger

2006-07-12 Thread William
Thanks Richard. On 7/12/06, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:43 PM, William wrote: As far as I know, once the db backup completes, the log utilization should be clean to zero. But in the activity log, I did find it was not true. Can anybody tell me why?

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Park, Rod
We do a daily sysback to tape which also goes offsite which has all of the DRM info and volhist,devconfig,dsmserv.dskall pertinent files needed for restore. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: Wednesday, July 12,

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
I don't use the scripts. For someone as experienced as you, I find them more trouble to modify them than to do without them. (E.G, the paths in the planfile won't be right; the UPDATE VOL script is downright silly when you can do that with 1 command now; will want to use RAW volumes at the

LVSA removal

2006-07-12 Thread Michael S Irish
I am in contact with an end user who appears to have successfully removed LVSA on the client end and is still getting errors. See below. 07/06/2006 22:26:04 ANS1327E The snapshot operation for 'D:' failed. Error code: 659. 07/06/2006 22:26:04 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\wrobuff3\d$' failed

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Rick Saylor
Tom, I email the DRM plans to my office and home email accounts. Just make sure you send it somewhere that will be accessible during a disaster. That is why I send a copy to my home email account. Also, a copy is sent to systems administrators and other key personnel just in case I happen to be

Re: LVSA removal

2006-07-12 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I know I'm asking the obvious, but has the client been rebooted? It has to be rebooted to install LVSA, and I believe it does upon removal as well. I would also clean out any 'include.fs' lines from my dsm.opt if I were using pre-5.3 clients. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Lawrence Clark
Although we have the DR license, because our primary storage pool and copypools are in different locations we do not have to do any sort of checkout / vaulting. However, we do backup the DB twice daily 4AM after backups and 1PM after migrations and copypool creations. That tsm db backup is done to

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:04:30 -0400, Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) print it 2) mail it to a desktop that does have a floppy 3) mail it to yourself (and other key players) on your home email address so you can download it at your hot site 4) FTP it to your hotsite server 5) I

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/12/2006 01:47:01 PM: So -- for those of you using DRM -- how do you get the plan file and associated scripts off-site? I'm running on AIX; the system has the TSM tape library and a DVD-RAM drive. The hotsite system is in the same boat --

Multi Stream Restores and RMAN TDP

2006-07-12 Thread Charles A Hart
Our Oracle DBA's want to do multi stream restores using TDP for Oracle. I have read in other posts using TDP for SQl all you have to do is set the dest stgpool to Collocate by filespace. Ok, sounds easy but I don't think that would work for the Oracle DB Backups. I say this as in the TDPO.opt

Re: Choosing a TCPPort number.

2006-07-12 Thread Mcnutt, Larry E.
Chip, Thanks for the information from your experience. It looks like using 1501 is a valid choice. Larry -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Choosing a TCPPort number.

2006-07-12 Thread Maurizio Teruzzi
Hello, for me no... This is the default port used by prompted schedule mode, for me I too confusing... Tecnically is ok but in firewalled environ could be wrong handled, I esperience that! Cordiali saluti / Meilleures salutations Maurizio Teruzzi http://www.teruzzi.ch ftp://ftp.teruzzi.ch

Re: Multi Stream Restores and RMAN TDP

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Bartl
Charles, from what I remember, the main restriction always has been the number of parallel streams you've used to create the backup. If you had two streams you won't get them back in 3 streams. When backing up TDP-Ora directly to your tape library, you get the streams put onto different tapes.