Trouble when TSM-database reaches 100Gb?

2005-09-01 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hello, we are experiencing throughput problems on our TSM-installation. Apart from he obvious that we have too few tape drives, bottlenecks in our LAN and an old AIX-box, we got a suggestion to add another TSM-server. The reason was that the performance degrades when the TSM-database reaches about

SV: Trouble when TSM-database reaches 100Gb?

2005-09-06 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hello, I just want to thank you all for the input. It has been really valuable in my discussion with the money people at my work place. Right now we're running TSM on a Bull Esala PL220(power3, 2CPU 2GB memory) and use some left-over Sun jbods disk rack for the database. Expiration takes a

Strange web admin behavior after upgrade from AIX5.2 to AIX5.3

2006-04-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I type a command in the command line. Before the upgrade, the contents of "Object View" or a command was displayed in the same window. Anyone experienced the same thing or have suggestions here? It is not super critical, but any help is appreciated. Regards Hans Christian Riksheim

SV: Preventive Action : Upgradation from 5.2 --> 5.3

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I just received and implemented a tip from Timothy Hughes. Make sure you have a recent fixpack for TSM 5.2 when you are going to AIX5.3 or else you will encounter the problem described in IC47636(TSM web interface starts popping up new windows when it shouldn't). For me, upgrading to fix

Re: poor performance

2006-08-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, before seriously looking into your HW-configuration and disk layout you should rule out any paging space issues and lack of I/O-tuning. Check paging space activity with "vmstat" or "nmon". Consistant activity to and from paging space during dbbackup/expiration indicates you have a memory/tunin

Reclamation and large files

2006-11-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I am trying to understand what TSM does with reclamation of large files. We have a filepool of 10G-volumes and I see the TSM-server moving a 64G file during reclamation. This file is from an Exchange-backup. It seems to me that TSM moves the whole file to other volumes and not just the small

Re: Spreading load across SAN Arrays

2006-11-09 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, you have not told the type of TSM-server you are using, but I guess it maybe is AIX since you already have purchased the disk system from IBM. If you use another OS, ignore the rest of this e-mail as other methods for spreading IO apply(methods I know little about). However, for AIX you can e

Using the DBI::TSM module, memory problem

2006-12-04 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, anybody else using the perl module DBI::TSM? I've recently been using it for reporting purposes and find it quite useful. However I have some problems with the perl memory consumption. This may very well be caused by my lack of knowledge of DBI, but I haven't found a remedy yet. The proble

Re: Using the DBI::TSM module, memory problem

2006-12-04 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
er fashion. Best regards Hans Christian Riksheim Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager på vegne av Richard Sims Sendt: ma 04.12.2006 15:46 Til: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Emne: Re: Using the DBI::TSM module, memory problem On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Hans Christian Ri

Re: Using the DBI::TSM module, memory problem

2006-12-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I have now tried different approaches for my large TSM query: DBI: Allen Rout confirmed my suspicions in a previous post. This one loads the whole output of the sql into memory before processing. For my large query I killed the program when it reached 1GB. ODBC: This one seems to kick off

Equivalent of UNIX "tail/head" in TSM SQL query

2004-10-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I am trying to make some useful reports by queryring the TSM database, but I can not find out how to fetch the first N rows in that query. In the DB2-manuals I find the "fetch" command, but it does not seem to work here. Also tried googling and searching the archives here. Example where I

Re: Equivalent of UNIX "tail/head" in TSM SQL query

2004-10-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
> Install Perl on your (I assume) Windows machine and imbed your select statement within a Perl script that does what you > > want. > > Welcome to an operating system that doesn't come with anything resembling a decent scripting language. Usually Perl is what I use on all platforms, but in th

Re: Equivalent of UNIX "tail/head" in TSM SQL query

2004-10-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Thank you for the information! Since it doesn't work I limit the searches by a 'where' statement. (Btw. any reason for the limitations? Are they afraid we're going to use the TSM-database for other purposes?) Best regards Hans Chr. --- Hans - The TSM database is not an SQL db. The SQL ope

Re: Equivalent of UNIX "tail/head" in TSM SQL query

2004-10-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Equivalent of UNIX "tail/head" in TSM SQL query > Install Perl on your (I assume) Windows machine and imbed you

TDP for SQL 7.1

2014-01-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, can anyone be so kind to point me in the direction of the documentation of this product. Trying to understand the basics of backing up a alwayson cluster and the information center is of little help. Thanks. Hans Chr.

Re: TDP for SQL 7.1

2014-01-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
- > Angela Robertson > IBM Software Group > Durham, NC 27703 > aprob...@us.ibm.com > ---- > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/14/2014 > 07:52:59 A

Re: TDP for SQL 7.1

2014-01-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
-------- > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/14/2014 > 09:39:05 AM: > > > Hans Christian Riksheim > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > > 01/14/2014 09:39 AM > > > > P

TSM 7.1 Silent install

2014-02-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I can not get silent install to work. with the 7.1 BA client for Windows. When I look into the information center for 7.1, the procedure is exactly the same as for version 6 although the paths after unpacking the 7.1 client is vastly different from unpacking version 6. Is the procedure in the inf

Re: Exchange 2010 backup performance

2014-02-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
In my experience there is nothing wrong with the TCP stack in Windows. Especially Windows2008R2 performs very well. For a single stream from a 2008R2 client (dsm sel ) to an AIX TSM-server 500km away over 10Gig directly to LTO5 has a speed of around 200MB/ at our setup. Bottleneck being the drive.

Re: Exchange 2010 backup performance

2014-02-12 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
to:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:04 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 backup performance > > In my experience there is nothing wrong with the TCP stack in Windows. > Especially Wi

Re: TDP for SQL 6.4.1 cross-server restore setup

2014-02-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I agree. With the old GUI I put a link in the Public Desktop-folder for each MSSQL instance. Easy for the MSSQL-people just to double click on a named icon on their desktop which pointed to the correct configfile. Now they are copying cfg-files all around in the tdpsql directory. On one occation

Re: TSM 7.1 Silent install

2014-02-20 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
-35ca-4324-bbc6-ba5db9072dae} x64: TSMCLI_WIN\tsmcli\x64\client\Disk1\ISSetupPrerequisites\{7f66a156-bc3b-479d-9703-65db354235cd Hans Chr. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: > I can not get silent install to work. with the 7.1 BA client for Windows. > > Wh

Re: Redbooks for TSM 6.X or 7.X

2014-03-25 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
It seems IBM has halted the production of TSM redbooks. Also the Certification guides and Technical guides exist no more for the newer versions. The reason for this is that TSM in the recent years has become so easy, intuitive and self explanatory. That was a joke. Hans Chr. Riksheim On Tue, M

TDP for Exchange error code

2014-04-03 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I use 7.1. With /PREFERDAGPASSIVE set it correctly skips the mailboxes on the active node but the return code is 1829. Could this safely be ignored that is if the backup command has RC=1829 I can force the script to return with RC=0? Another thing, should /PREFERDAGPASSIVE not be used when doing

SQL-backup with no config file

2014-06-02 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I noticed that if someone(usually a DBA) accidentally renames or deletes a tdpsql_.cfg file the command still runs and just uses the default config. it will return with no errors. Example: Someone has deleted a configfile which points to a specific instance. tdpsqlc backup * full /configfile

Re: SQL-backup with no config file

2014-06-05 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
b...@us.ibm.com > ---- > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 06/02/2014 > 07:50:08 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > > Date: 06/02/2014 07:51 AM > > Subjec

Re: Restoration Issue in TSM 5.5...

2014-06-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
My advice is to not use the GUI. Until IBM eventually decides to make a working GUI there should be a big red warning stating that if you are going to restore more than a few files the CLI must be used. (And not even then can the GUI be trusted [1] ) I experienced the same as you. Used the GUI whe

Re: SQL-backup with no config file

2014-06-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
PMR. > > Del > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 06/05/2014 > 05:45:50 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > > Date: 06/05/2014 05:46 AM > > Subject: Re: SQL-backup

Re: Exchange and client compression

2014-06-27 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I also wonder about the integrity checker. With DAG isn't the integrity guranteed if replication is working fine and thus integrity check in TSM can be skipped? Regards, Hans Chr. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Steven Harris wrote: > Hi All > > I'm working on a backup design for Exchange 20

TSM BA installer rant

2014-07-04 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
As many has experienced the 7.1 BA client for Windows not only requires a reboot, it will in the middle of the install reboot right into your face without any warning or prompt. On top of this it will do so despite you telling it not to. The same goes for the TDP SQL client btw. Cause is some C++

Re: TSM BA installer rant

2014-08-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
TSM client install. > > > > As for client upgrades I've found that if you make sure to stop any > > of the TSM client services that running (JBB, CAD,Scheduler,...) > > before running the install I don't get asked for a reboot. > > > > > > Bill Boye

Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp

2014-09-08 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I must regularly delete the contents of this directory on the data mover. Usually I do it first thing after things start to fail because of full disk. Any included functionality in TDP for VMware that does any house keeping that could be turned on? The files are of type _manifest.zip I have not b

Re: Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp

2014-09-08 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
SM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 8:30 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp > > I must regularly delete the contents of this directory on the data mover. > Usually I

Re: Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp

2014-09-24 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
of a missing license file. PMR on the way. About time since it has been several days since the last. Best to keep those PMR submitting skills fresh. Regards Hans Chr. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: > Thanks! > > Seems like the fix is just around the cor

BA and TDP for Windows and REBOOT

2014-09-26 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
The 7.1.1 client has been improved so that it won't reboot without warning and cause havoc amongst our customers. Good. But it still needs a reboot because of some components for the GUI. This means that something that should take 5 minutes now can take a very long time: Bureaucratic change proc

Re: Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp

2014-10-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
age- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On > > Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 07:58 > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vmware backup fills up C:\Windows\temp > > > >

Tivoli Storage Manager Support Portal

2014-11-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, once upon a time there was a TSM Support Portal where one could easily navigate to client downloads and APARS. I can not seem to find it now. It does not show up in Google. I have given up finding it through the Support Portal Home page. Alternatively, could someone point me in the direction

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager Support Portal

2014-11-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > On Nov 11, 2014 7:50 AM, "Hans Christian Riksheim" > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > o

Re: BA and TDP for Windows and REBOOT

2014-11-25 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
The RFE was rejected. I guess rebooting servers is no problem if the only servers you are dealing with resides in a lab. Hans Chr. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: > The 7.1.1 client has been improved so that it won't reboot without warning > and

Backup of NFS shares

2014-12-01 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
For CIFS-shares I can put domain "\\cifssever\share" in dsm.opt and everything works fine. Is there any way to do something similar with NFS, like domain "nfssserver:\share" or do I have to mount it to /something, backup /something, dismount /something? Regards, Hans Chr.

Re: BA and TDP for Windows and REBOOT

2014-12-04 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
. Hans Chr. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Remco Post wrote: > it’s windows, those servers reboot every month anyway. ;-) > > > Op 25 nov. 2014, om 15:14 heeft Hans Christian Riksheim < > bull...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > > > > The RFE was rejected.

Restore and mounts

2014-12-17 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I am doing a file system restore. The number of volumes for this node is 35 and is collocated by filespace. In the last 24 hours there has been 700 tape mounts for this restore session. One volume has been mounted 346 times. Total amount restored is about 200 GB. q ses f=d tells me that this is a

Re: Restore and mounts

2014-12-17 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
gt; > > > See this technote with a bit more background. > > > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21669468 > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim < > bull...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I am doing a file syst

Re: Restore and mounts

2014-12-17 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
ec 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Steven Langdale wrote: > > The point of that technote is that you do not need DIRMC anymore. > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:17 Hans Christian Riksheim > wrote: > > > Thanks, Nick. > > > > Of course this was the one TSM server where I for

Re: Who thinks the redesigned PASSPORT site is "easy to use"?

2014-12-19 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Don't worry, you will get used to it. And in 6 months time, when you finally master the new PA, IBM will change it again. Regards Hans Chr. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > NOT ME! > > > I haven't been on Passport for a while. Now, when I needed it the most, I > can't

Size of restore

2015-01-09 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
A user has deleted a folder. How can I quickly get an indication or a number on how much data and how many files will be restored so I can provide a guesstimate of the restore time? I can't remember exactly but I think there was a function for that in the earlier versions of the BA GUI . Regards,

Re: TSM AC and OC and 7.1.1 Was: RE: [ADSM-L] TSM rant

2015-01-31 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We have tried OC twice and are not happy and that is due to its design. Other 3d party monitoring/administration tools we use are completely separate from the TSM server environment and only talks to TSM through an API(dsmcad/SQL). This means that any bug fix or feature enhancement in the administ

Re: TSM AC and OC and 7.1.1 Was: RE: [ADSM-L] TSM rant

2015-02-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
vide more feedback in the future. > > > Rob Jose > TSM OC UI Developer / L3 Support > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/31/2015 > 07:30:16 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 01/31/2015 07:32 AM > &

DP for SQL GUI

2015-02-26 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I have a problem with that. If I mark some row and move the mouse pointer to for example click on some button somwehere else on the screen it will scroll and mark the rest of the list. And it becomes a big mess. Any trick to avoid that? I also think it should be possible to click on the column hea

Re: DP for SQL GUI

2015-02-27 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
on > IBM - Storage management and data protection > Durham, NC 27703 > aprob...@us.ibm.com > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 02/26/2015 > 06:14:07 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim

Re: DP for SQL 7.1.2.0

2015-06-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We are in the process of upgrading from 7.1.1 to 7.1.2 because of bugs. Could you tell us something about the new bugs in 7.1.2? We haven't done the actual upgrade yet since 7.1.2 requires SQL Server 2014 Management Objects despite us running SQL Server 2012. So we had to convince our SQL guys fir

Size of dedup tables in DB2

2015-07-28 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I would like to calculate the savings of doing dedup. DB2 runs on expensive flash, the dedup pool on cheap SATA. Anyone know how to calculate the extra amount of DB space caused by deduplication? Regards, Hans Chr.

Re: Size of dedup tables in DB2

2015-07-28 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
M. We have modified this to fit our environment, > but it is a good starting point. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944 > > Thanks > -Dave > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Aw: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM TDPSQL crashes on log backup

2015-07-30 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Supposedly fixed in 7.1.3 in Q3 which might mean the end of September. When IBM blunders like this I think they could be quicker in correcting it. They should also extend their testing to something that at least faintly resembles a customer environment. Hans Chr. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:43 PM,

Backup VM without quiescing

2015-10-06 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I think I heard somewhere(TSM Symposium maybe) that it should be possible to backup a VM without quiesceing if quiesced snapshot fails. I have looked through the 7.1.3 infocenter without finding anything yet. Anyone know? Best regards, Hans Chr.

Re: Backup VM without quiescing

2015-10-06 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Yep, that was what I was looking for. Thanks, Erwann. Best regards, Hans Chr. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Erwann SIMON wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS ? > > -- > Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي > Erwann SIMON > > - Mail original

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
16 Power8 cores(at least 3.42 GHz) and 192 GB to handle 1000 TB of backup data? One would think there was a potential for code efficiency improvement. Hans Chr. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Andrew Carlson wrote: > That is awesome. Thanks David. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Nixon, C

Include and exclude for VMs

2015-12-16 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I am trying to understand how this works. I want to backup a VM called "abc_template" but want to exclude from backup any other VMs with the name abc. I tried DOMAIN.VMFULL vmhostcluster=X;vm=abc_template;-vm=abc* in the hope that the inclusion preceded the exclusion but that didn't work. The te

Re: Include and exclude for VMs

2015-12-16 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
_6.4.0/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_vmenabletemplatebkup.html > > https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSATMW_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_vmenabletemplatebkup.html > > James. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Include and exclude for VMs

2015-12-16 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, we can assume that the VM that should be included is just an ordinary VM. Manual backup of it works fine. It is the inclexcl rules I am wondering about. They obviously does not follow the same logic as the rules for file backups. Hans Chr. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Sven Seefeld < sven

Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

2015-12-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Well, we always have the info center. Sorry, just joking. Hans Chr. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Rhodes, Richard L. < rrho...@firstenergycorp.com> wrote: > Great Comments! > > I've often wondered if IBM appreciates just how complicated TSM is. > > We had a big discussion the other day about

Very slow backup stg of DIRMC

2016-02-08 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We have a DIRMC management class for directory information. The destination is of type DISK. Backup stg can take up to 10 hours to transfer 500 MB to tape. We have tried different storage for the diskpool but the bottleneck seems to be elsewhere. It seems to hang for long periods of time doing abso

Re: WAN performance

2016-02-18 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I have had luck with setting tcpwindowsize 0 on server and client and letting the OS handle it. Also diskbuffsize 512. Hans Chr. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I thought TCPBUFFSIZE could only go up to 64? It could be that setting it > to 512 actually sets it to the d

Re: WAN performance

2016-02-18 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
) that the client uses when > reading files. The range of values is 16 through 1023; the default is 32. > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim < > bull...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have had luck with setting tcpwindowsize 0 on server and client

Re: Restore using copypool volumes

2016-03-18 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
in offsite status. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:04 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Restore using copypool volumes > > Just n

Restore using copypool volumes

2016-03-19 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Just noticed that some restores are using copypool volumes. No primary volumes are in disorder and there is nothing in the actlog indicating why a tape from the copypool is chosen. I vaguely rememeber that this was a problem for early 7.1-versions of the server. We are running 7.1.3.1. There is a

MSSQL, restore all DBs in an instance

2016-03-19 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We are doing a DR test and will restore a full instance of MSSQL, almost a hundred databases >From the manual I am not sure if this is possible with a single command. Anyone? Hans Chr.

Re: MSSQL, restore all DBs in an instance

2016-03-20 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
ref_cmd_restoresyn.html > > > Thank you, > > Del > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 03/16/2016 > 11:18:47 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 03/16/2016 11

Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

2016-03-21 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We are also getting around 60% in dedup savings. When I compare similar data going to tape I find that simple compression saves us about 40%. Hans Chr. On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:54 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud < arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> wrote: > Michael, Ken and Stephan, > > Thanks a lot for valuable

Preempt

2016-04-08 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Shouldn't a restore have first priority for a tape volume? I have a restore waiting an hour for a backup stg operation. The option NOPREEMPT is at default(No). Hans Chr.

Re: Preempt

2016-04-08 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 11:28 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Preempt > > Shouldn't a restore have first priority for a tape volume? I have a restore > waiting a

Documentation central

2016-06-27 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, can someone tell me where the TSM documentation is at these days? I was getting somewhat used to the Documentation Central concept but I am not able to google myself to it anymore. Thanks, Hans Chr.

Re: Windows Client Upgrades

2016-08-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I would be pleased if IBM set as a design goal that no install or upgrade of TSM client software should require a reboot. Reboot was not needed before 6.3, no reason it should be now. Hans Chr. On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Erwann SIMON wrote: > Hello, > > I encoutered the exact same proble

Re: Decommision VM?

2016-10-04 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
A possible caveat may be using DIRMC. Usually it is set up with a lot longer retention than file data. My decommissioned nodes hang in there with a few MB of directory information while the file data has expired. I have no problem with that. Hans Chr. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Loon, Eric v

Restore with auditlogging

2016-10-06 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I have a list of files I want to restore. With auditlogging on I can see which files was restored. However I see no difference between auditlogging=basic and auditlogging=full, exactly the same information is logged. Occurrences where the file does not exist in TSM are not logged at all. That is p

Re: Restore with auditlogging

2016-10-20 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
ct 6, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: > I have a list of files I want to restore. With auditlogging on I can see > which files was restored. > > However I see no difference between auditlogging=basic and > auditlogging=full, exactly the same information is logged

Rename directory

2016-11-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
A customer wants to move a lot of data from directory OLD to NEW. A new incremental will then backup all files under NEW and the files under OLD deactivated.This will then cause the former active files under OLD to stay on tape until RETONLY effectively doubling the cost for the customer. Any meth

Re: Rename directory

2016-11-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
ion: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Manager > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 2016-11-22 > 05:38:38: > >

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
No more systemstate restore is just bad. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Rainer Tammer wrote: > Hello, > The new support matrix is a BIG joke > Dropping support for Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2! > > Bye > Rainer Tammer > > On 12.12.2016 16:18, Martin Janosik wrote: > > I'm also a b

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I am not sure if I follow. Has Microsoft communicated a change in its support for systemstate restores or is it just IBMs decision to not bother with it anymore? Hans Chr. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Del Hoobler wrote: > Hi Martin, > > It's true IBM Spectrum Protect did support online syst

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-13 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
requests. It led to too many situations where a system > was unstable after a restore. > > > Del > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/13/2016 > 06:42:55 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Rikshei

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
t; > > to > > > deal > > > > with the PE thing that is kind of hard to get over to be honest. > > > > > > > > But yes, I have made those disks and they work but the procedure for > > > using > > > > them isn't very simple

Re: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments version 8.1.0 sets speed records

2017-02-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Upgraded to 8.1. From very slow to very fast restore. Nice. Hans Chr. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Stefan Folkerts wrote: > Alex, I think it's not possible to reply to your mail to the list, I can > reply to others but when I reply to you it gets rejected due to images with > just plain te

DOMAIN.vmfull on multiple lines in dsm.opt

2017-02-21 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Really two questions. We have a lot of exceptions where VMs are not to be backed up and the DOMAIN.vmfull statement is becoming unpractically long: domain.vmfull vmhostcluster=X,Y;-vm=abc*,*def,ghi* (times 100) Any possibility to have that statement span separate lines or some other measure to i

Re: DOMAIN.vmfull on multiple lines in dsm.opt

2017-02-21 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
M: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 02/21/2017 > 03:57:02 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 02/21/2017 03:57 AM > > Subject: DOMAIN.vmfull on multiple lines in dsm.opt > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&quo

Re: 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in Virtual Environment??

2017-03-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Del, we have upgraded to 8.1 and run our vm backups exactly like before. What do you mean that "dsmc backup vm" is legacy? Will this method of doing VM backups be discontinued in future versions of the product? Regards, Hans Chr. On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Del Hoobler wrote: > This is n

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

2017-03-31 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Any reason to set TCPWINDOWSIZE lower than maximum? And on the same note why not let the OS handle it(TCPWINDOWSIZE 0) ? Hans Chr. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Matthew McGeary < matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com> wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Yes, you will need a mountpoint for each stripe. Unlike >

Re: How to determine why a session is in IdleW

2017-03-31 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Does the actlog say anything about the server determining which volumes are required for the NQR restore? That process may take some time with 31 mill objects. 03/31/17 13:06:10 ANR1183I Initial determination of removable volumes required for a restore request from

TSM registry and security

2017-06-12 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I just got tipped that the registry entries for node_id and password are readable by everyone and that means that it is possible for an ordinary user to just copy that information and use it to access backup data from another client connected to the backup network. I have no idea if that is correc

Scalability problems with expiration?

2017-10-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
I have noticed that expiration suddenly takes a lot more time. The first million objects are expired/deleted very quickly but it slows down to an almost hang with the last 10%. The DB has reached 2 TB and server is 7.1.3.100. Any performance enhancements in later levels? Hans Chr.

Re: Scalability problems with expiration?

2017-10-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
.0 and > 6.3.6.0. This code change was implemented in servers 6.3.6.0+ and 7.1.3.0 > to 7.1.7. There have been no reported problems at 7.1.3 or above.* > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim < > bull...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have noticed that exp

Re: Scalability problems with expiration?

2017-10-17 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
gt; to a non-optimized* >> *SQL/Select. A change to this SQL/Select occurred between 6.3.5.0 and >> 6.3.6.0. This code change was implemented in servers 6.3.6.0+ and >> 7.1.3.0 >> to 7.1.7. There have been no reported problems at 7.1.3 or above.* >> >> On Wed, Oct

Backup of file attributes Windows

2017-11-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
When our customers changes permissions on their file servers there is total chaos with new full backup of everything and no practical method to get rid of the extra backup data. I think our customers should be able to do this without paying twice as much for their backups. >From what I have heard

Re: Backup of file attributes Windows

2017-11-22 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
permissions, it's just > storing bytes for the client. > > - > Thanks, > Marc... > > Marc Lanteigne > Accelerated Value Specialist for Spectrum Protect > 416.478.0233 | marclantei...@ca.ibm.com > Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 to 16:00 Eastern > > Follow

Command to only backup and clear archive logs

2018-02-19 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Does TSM/DB2 have that possibility, like Oracle MSSQL? Problem is when the archivelog filesystem goes full we have to wait for the full dbbackup to be finished before archive logs are backed up and cleared. Since we have to disable all sessions and other processes(this generates even more logs) we

Re: Command to only backup and clear archive logs

2018-02-20 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
t; Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Command to only backup and clear archive logs > > you need a bigger archive log, or better backup performance (more recent > versions of TSM allow you to specify the number of parallel sessions in set > dbrecovery). > > > Op 19 feb. 2018, om 10:22 he

VMFolder in VMware backups

2018-07-03 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Any tip to include any sub folder? I have always believed they were included but now I see they are not. Not sure if this behavior has changed with versions. Not helping that the documentation tells nothing about this very important matter and turning yet another simple thing into a research projec

Re: [EXT] [ADSM-L] VMFolder in VMware backups

2018-07-06 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
utrien.com > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 12:21 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [EXT] [ADSM-L] VMFolder in VMware backups > > WARNI

Re: [EXT] [ADSM-L] VMFolder in VMware backups

2018-07-10 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
r-level backups. >> >> __ >> Matthew McGeary >> Senior Advisor, Datacenter >> Information Technology >> T: (306) 933-8921 >> www.nutrien.com >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [

Re: [EXT] [ADSM-L] VMFolder in VMware backups

2018-07-11 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
ependent disk. > > > Del > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/10/2018 > 09:17:00 AM: > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 07/10/2018 09:17 AM > > Subject: Re: [EXT] [ADSM-L] VMFolder in VMware

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