Re: Storageworks / AIX / TSM

[J M]

Has anyone setup TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 using Cambex HBAs and compaq
storageworks disk for the disk pool ? Any luck out there?

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Re: Mobius Interface to TSM API

[J M]

Does anyone have information about or experience with the Mobius View Direct
Application interface to the TSM B/A API? It is an interface built to
automate archive/restore between a document mgmt. application and TSM.
Thanks, John

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Re: BareMetalRestore

[J M]

For those interested in NIM for AIX BMR--please reference Chapter 11:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246844.pdf



>From: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:45:35 -0400
>
>AIX has NIM: Network Install Manager, which lets you keep bootable images
>on
>a remote network drive.
>Other OSes may have similar functionality (does HP Ignite let you keep the
>bootable image on a remote network drive?)
>
>So, make that bootable image monthly (say), then back up that remote
>network
>drive with TSM, and you have bootable images within TSM.  TSM cannot
>directly manage tape volumes written by mksysb or Ignote, etc. -  a shame,
>because TSM does the off-site vaulting, etc.  But TSM *CAN* manage mkysysb
>images built like this.
>
>I think some people are using this technique today with good success.  It's
>simple enough - you should be able to automate it without too much effort.
>
>-
>Mr. Lindsay Morris
>CEO, Servergraph
>www.servergraph.com
>859-253-8000 ofc
>425-988-8478 fax
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > McDonald, Rick LDB:EX
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:54 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: FW: BareMetalRestore
> >
> >
> > Ignite has the capability to do this, if you have more than 1
> > HPUX machine.
> > A "Golden Image" can be created and stored on an Ignite server.
> > This server
> > can then be used to push the image to the target machine.
>Alternatively,
> > the target machine can be booted using a network reboot(Interrupt the
>boot
> > process, and choose the network option for the boot source.)
> > Then from the
> > server machine complete the install using the Ignite GUI.
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:51 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore
> >
> >
> > If you can figure a way to put Ignite tape to a file (Hmm, re-directed
> > output?), then figure out how to move that file to 4mm/8mm tape
> > when/if you
> > need to recover the HP box, the daily backups could be swept during
>normal
> > incrementals -- We use a central NFS server for all the
> > mksysb/Ignite/jumpstart images, then when a server needs
> > recovery, the most
> > recent version is still on disk -- just gotta solve the reverse of the
> > re-direct to get put the image back to a tape for the HP system boot.
> > Similar approach for Win2K...  run NTbackup for System State to a file,
> > backup the file (weekly mgmt class used, to avoid doing 250 MB for every
> > server every day).
> >
> > Don France
> > Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
> > Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
> > San Jose, Ca
> > (408) 257-3037
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Professional Association of Contract Employees
> > (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com)
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Robin Sharpe
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:58 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: BareMetalRestore
> >
> >
> > I'd be happy if TSM provided a means of managing the media
> > containing my HP
> > Ignite-UX images...  currently, that has to be done manually.
> >
> > Robin Sharpe
> > Berlex Labs
> >




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Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

[J M]

Does anyone have a clever technique / method to perform a dsm.opt file edit
(ie. a new exclude statement) across 100's of Windows clients at one time?

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Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit

[J M]

yeah, we could write something in perl-- Thanks very much for the input-


>From: "Nelson, Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: mass Windows client dsm.opt file edit
>Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:21:06 -0400
>
>The only way I can think of is to write a program and have it executed by
>the login script. It would be easy to do that way, and you can drop a
>sentinel file in there to make sure it only executes once. Do you know C++
>or Perl?
>
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12 12:48 PM >>>
>Does anyone have a clever technique / method to perform a dsm.opt file edit
>(ie. a new exclude statement) across 100's of Windows clients at one time?
>
>_
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>Distributed Computing Consultant
>Alltel Information Services
>Chittenden Data Center
>2 Burlington Square
>Burlington, Vt. 05401
>802-660-2336




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Re: serverfree - lanfree ?

[J M]

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid5_gci809457,00.html

for more info on server-free vs. lan-free (current as of 6/2001)


>From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: serverfree - lanfree ?
>Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:28:49 +0300
>
>Chris,
>
>I try to explain to my customers in the following order:
>1. Normal behavior (LAN) is in three steps - Node storage -> TSM Client ->
>TSM Server -> Tape
>2. LAN-free transfer reduces them to two steps eliminating one by
>combining last two in one - Node storage -> TSM Client/Storage agent ->
>Tape (last step requires SAN-shared tape)
>3. server-free eliminates one more step, skipping both TSM server (as in
>LAN-free) and TSM client (new add-on) - Node storage -> SAN-tape
>The last "single-step" is accomplished using SAN data mover, i.e. device
>on SAN capable to perform data transfer between a disk (Node storage) and
>tape (TSM server storage) without any host involvement (neither server nor
>client).
>Currently supported data movers are IBM SAN Data Gateway (2108-G07 and
>same module in IBM 3583) and Pathlight 5000.
>Hope this helps to you to understand. This will prove my "customer"
>explanation :-)
>
>Zlatko Krastev
>IT Consultant
>
>
>
>
>Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>cc:
>
>Subject:serverfree - lanfree ?
>
>Hi All
>
>Can someone please explain the difference between serverfree and lanfree
>backup?
>
>My understanding is that LAN free still involves the clients they just
>send
>their data over the SAN, and Serverfree uses some method to backup without
>involving the client.
>
>What software/clients/agents do you need to achieve both of these
>solutions?
>
>Working on a big implementation at the moment, including win2000, HSM,
>2000
>clusters, Exchange clusters new SAN, new storage etc etc etc.  I think you
>going to be hearing a lot from me over the next couple of months, ! !!
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>Have a look at http://www.geocities.com/rees_chris
>
>
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Re: TSM 4.2 - 5.1 Upgrade

[J M]

We are thinking about upgrading our TSM server (AIX 4.3) and clients (WinNT,
AIX, Solaris) from TSM 4.2 to TSM 5.1. Has anyone encountered upgrade
issues? All feedback is very much appreciated. Thanks, John

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Re: TDP Archiving

[J M]

Hi folks--

We're interested in archiving output from the TDP agents for Exchange and
SQL Server. In both user manuals under Policy Recommendations, Tivoli says
that 'archive copy groups can exist but are not required'. Does that mean
that you can create an archive copy group under the existing management
class to create archives w/ TDP? All feedback is very much appreciated--
Thanks, John


>From: Raghu S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: TSM Database backup
>Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:44:34 -0700
>
>yes you can
>
>1.define a devclass with devtype=file
>
>  >define devc  devtype=file directory=directory>
>
>Make sure that sufficient freespace is available for destination directory
>specified in the devclass definition
>
>2.take the database backup
>
>  >backup db type=full devclass=
>
>Regards
>
>Raghu S Nivas
>Consultant - TSM
>DCM Data Systems Ltd
>New Delhi
>India.
>
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> "Ganu Sachin, IBM"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ENS.CO.IN>cc:
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist  Subject: TSM
>Database backup
> Stor Manager"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> 10/06/2002 11:20 PM
> Please respond to
> "ADSM: Dist Stor
> Manager"
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi
>
>Can I redirect full database backup of TSM to a file level on the disk
>instead of tape ?
>
>Regards
>
>Sachin Ganu
>IBM Global Services (I) Pvt Ltd.




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Re: License Pricing

[J M]

I think all large TSM sites should leverage CA, Legato, and Veritas
competitive price quotes so that IBM wakes up to smell the reality-- large
businesses are not printing cash and the bottom line still matters!





From: "Kelly J. Lipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:17:48 -0700
From a sales standpoint, this makes sense when taken in the larger context.

In the old days...

We paid for Extended Library, DRM, etc.  Basically paid all this money on
the server side rather than the client side.
In the new days, we pay $625 for the server and then $625 per
processor/client.
For moderately sized sites, say up to 50-75 clients/processors, it works
out
to be about the same.
For small sites, TSM is now much less expensive.

For large sites, TSM is now much more expensive.

What needs to happen, and what those of us who sell TSM are trying to
influence, is a sliding client price scale.  Or perhaps the elimination of
the per processor nature of this pricing.  Most systems have two processors
now so the real cost is $1250 per client which is probably outrageous.
There is the Server Lite variant of this.  This is for small TSM server
environments: 40 slots, 3 drives or less, no DRM.  Per processor client
price is much less than $625.
Clearly this needs to shake out a bit.  In the meantime, IBM recognizes the
problem (so why don't they fix it?) and will discount when you scream.
I believe they need creative input on this issue rather than the rants they
are getting.  They must compete, but they must do so on an even footing.
The way TSM was priced before did not compete well.  The cost of entry was
too high.   Now the cost is born on the client side where it should have
been all along, but it now needs tweaking.  Let's help our friends at IBM
work this out.
Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing
I'm probably going to be looking at new NT licenses soon -- and if they
think they're going to get this kind of vigorish from us, they're crazy.
We'll end up running NT Backup to on-board CDR drives -- the drives are
around $100 and you can get 100 disks from OfficeMax for the cost of sales
tax and a stamp if you watch the sales flyers.
I always thought the ADSM 2.x price of $100 per NT *box* was a good fit --
and I haven't seen ANYTHING in TSM 4.x or 5.x that would justify a 500% (or
higher -- would a 4-way box go for $2,112?) price increase.
Somehow I see a "come to glory" meeting with my CIO, my IBM Marketing rep,
my Tivoli marketing rep, and our preferred VAR in my future.
And I *still* want to see a comprehensive, easily understood price list,
readily accessible, WITHOUT registration or a customer number. Discounting
may be customer specific and proprietary, but in this day and age, price is
not and trying to hide it just means you no longer want to sell to ME. I
won't do an NDA on prices and I won't accept an NDA on prices.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing
Yes, I just purchased a single processor license, it was $528 or so USD.
The ones
I purchased just before year end were about $218USD.
Unless new customers are coming in with huge discounts, I think that TSM is
now
priced out of the market.
As a consultant (in a former life) I would be seriously considering taking
my customers
to other products, if I could find one that fits.
I love the TSM concept, but economics is what rules.  And there is not
enough difference
in the technological differences to make up the economic ones at this
point.
> -Original Message-
> From: Cahill, Ricky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:46 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  License Pricing
>
> Just got a quote back for some Win2k licenses and was rather surprised
at
> the massive increase in price, ok I've not bought a license for a couple
> of
> years but this is bonkers..
>
> single processor server #391.98 + vat per server
> dual processor server   #783.96 + vat per server
> quad processor server   #1567.92 + vat per server
>
> Anyone know if a license bought prior to this stupid per cpu idea is
valid
> for one server or one cpu??
>
>
>..Rikk
>
>
>
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Re: Database backup strategy?

[J M]

Has anyone tried doing a TSM DB backup to file to a NFS mounted filesystem
(with the NFS host machine being at another site with a big fat pipe in
between?).
It's something we will probably do with our CWDM/Gigabit cross campus
solution, but I'm curious to know if anyone else is doing this as a
supplement to DB backups to tape (DR for TSM, Fast DB Restore, yadda yadda
yadda).

From: Matt Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Database backup strategy?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:43:06 -0500
At 11:25 AM -0500 3/13/03, Sias Dealy wrote:
If TSM was doing a full backup twice a day. I would suspect,
the reason on why two backups are done is to keep the recovery
log from over committing. That is if TSM is in rollforward mode.
Since both the backups are scheduled in the morning, I don't think
that was the reason.  If recovery log was the issue, they probably
would have spaced the backups more evenly.  I think somebody just
thought it was a good idea to have an onsite copy and an offsite copy.
Must be nice to have a remote disaster recovery site that is
less than a 5-minute walk.  ;)
That's not the recovery site; it's just where the DR tapes are
stored.  But it's still "nice";  if we have a disaster, we just have
to walk over there and find the tapes to ship them to the hotsite.
--
Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as fast
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Re: archive failure (continued)

[J M]

Hey TSMers-

We have archive jobs that repeatedly fail or run for long periods of time on
our large file servers (200 GB, NT, TSM 4.2 Client, TSM 4.2 Server). The
jobs will not run in parallel with daily backups- so we are looking for a
better solution-
We are considering moving from 100 Mb to Gigabit, and possibly creating a
separate schedule/nodename for archive processing. Also- since archive
retentions are going to dramatically increase due to regulatory rules, we
are considering implementing a dedicated Archive processing TSM server-
mainly to avoid bloating the TSM databases which currently handle
backup/recovery.
All thoughts or tips are welcome on these ideas--

Many Thanks,

John






From: Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: archive failure
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:57:41 -0700
If you are referring to the ARCHIVE_DIR and ARCHIVE_INCLUDES variables,
you won't find anything in the TSM doc about these. These are arbitrary
environment variables created by your user.
After the environment variables were created, was the scheduler restarted
so that it would pick them up? Also, have you confirmed that these are
indeed system (and not user) variables? If they are user variables, then
unless the scheduler is using the same account, the scheduler's
environment won't have these defined.
If none of the above addresses the issue, then you can modify the script
to include some diagnostics. My suggestion:
   @echo off
   set diagfile=c:\diagfile.txt
   REM *** Confirm environment variables
   echo *** ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES *** > %diagfile%
   set >> %diagfile%
   REM *** Confirm current directory
   echo *** CURRENT DIRECTORY *** >> %diagfile%
   cd >> %diagfile%
   cd /d "%ARCHIVE_DIR%"

   REM *** Confirm current directory
   echo *** TSM DIRECTORY *** >> %diagfile%
   cd >> %diagfile%
   REM *** Run the archive
   echo *** RUNNING ARCHIVE COMMAND NOW *** >> %diagfile%
   dsmc archive %ARCHIVE_INCLUDES% -subdir=yes -archmc=month-mgt >>
%diagfile% 2>&1
   set tsmrc=%errorlevel%
   echo *** ARCHIVE COMPLETE RC = %tsmrc% *** >> %diagfile%
Let the scheduler run the command, then check c:\diagfile.txt to see what
it shows.
Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)
The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.


Someone here has gone off and created their own cmd file that TSM launches
to do an archive. I can't seem to find anything in the help file on these
variables. Maybe someone more familiar with variables can please tell me
if
this will work. From what I can tell looking at the return codes it looks
like it is saying it found nothing to backup and reports a failure.
I'm told if they run this cmd file manually from the server it works. Why
then would TSM have a problem with it when all it's doing is calling the
same file?
MonthArchive.cmd
chdir /D "%ARCHIVE_DIR%"
dsmc.exe archive -subdir=yes -archmc=month-mgt %ARCHIVE_INCLUDES%
System Variables
ARCHIVE_DIR=E:\Tivoli\TSM\baclient
ARCHIVE_INCLUDES="C:\SAIC\*.*" "E:\NOTES\*.*"
dsmerror.log excerpt
02/01/2003 17:59:14 ANS1079E No file specification entered
02/01/2003 17:59:15 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
02/01/2003 17:59:15 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'NOTES-MONTH' failed.  Return
code = 12
dsmsched.log excerpt
01/31/2003 19:26:20 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN
01/31/2003 19:26:20 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END
01/31/2003 19:26:20 Next operation scheduled:
01/31/2003 19:26:20

01/31/2003 19:26:20 Schedule Name: NOTES-MONTH
01/31/2003 19:26:20 Action:Command
01/31/2003 19:26:20 Objects:   c:\commands\MonthArchive.cmd
01/31/2003 19:26:20 Options:
01/31/2003 19:26:20 Server Window Start:   18:00:00 on 02/01/2003
01/31/2003 19:26:20

01/31/2003 19:26:20 Waiting to be contacted by the server.
02/01/2003 17:59:12 TCP/IP accepted connection from server.
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Querying server for next scheduled event.
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Node Name: CP-ITS-NOTESMTA
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000
02/01/2003 17:59:12   Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.2
02/01/2003 17:59:12   Server date/time: 02/01/2003 18:00:24  Last access:
01/31/2003 19:27:32
02/01/2003 17:59:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN
02/01/2003 17:59:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Next operation scheduled:
02/01/2003 17:59:12

02/01/2003 17:59:12 Schedule Name: NOTES-MONTH
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Action:Command
02/01/2003 17:59:12 Objects:   c:\commands\MonthArchive.cmd
02/01/2

Re: AW: Copy DBBackup tape to disk (AIX)

[J M]

We've considered using either FTP (or NFS mounted filesystems if performance
is acceptable) to accomlish the same thing for copying all of our critical
server objects/files to an alternate site- the DB backup to file should make
this all relatively easy--

From: Horst Scherzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AW: Copy DBBackup tape to disk (AIX)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:19:23 +0200
Salak Juraj wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> no idea about your DD problem,
> but why do4nt you simply perform an out-of-bound backup to a disk
(device
> type=file) instead?
>
> If you can afford the extra CPU and disk last generated through
additional
> backup process,
> you will have supported configuration without extra external steps
> during backup and during restore.
>
To clarify the situation: DB assigned is 90GB, DB used is 63GB, full
database
backup lasts for +/- 3 hours; cartridge is ejected and vaulted to another
physical location by operations staff. But not so during weekends.
TSM Disks and tape storage reside physically side by side so a db backup to
disk
at the same physical location doesn't make really sense.
The idea was simply to "virtually" vault the db backup cartridge by the
means of
OS to remote disks via Gigabit ethernet.
And getting cheap copies of db backups is also a charming approach.

Gtx,
--

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Universitaetsstr.7  Cellular:   (+43) 0664/60 277  14053
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Re: archive failure (continued)

[J M]

>On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:16 pm, it was written:
>>You could try running monthly incrementals under a
>>different nodename (ie: create another dsm.opt file
>>eg: dsmmthly.opt) to your TSM (same or even dedicated)
>>server.
BTW, running monthly incrementals will not facilitate your long-term
storage nearly as nicely as an archive will.
This is very true for our environment, since we will need to keep some data,
literally forever, and some data 1-10 years. So the vital records
retention/archive is definitely a requirement for us- and having accurate
snapshots will be key.
The original poster commented that he could not run archives and backups
off the same client; I'd be interested in seeing what is going on with
his TSM environment.
The problem is that some archive jobs are taking a very long time to finish,
and end up overlapping with daily backup processing jobs. Part of our issue
is likely DB I/O Disk Contention (70 GB TSM DB AIX on 3 36 GB SCSI disks!).
From: Steven Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Have you considered creating a monthly BackupSet tape for
>each of your file servers?
>
>BackupSets have several advantages over a "full archive"
>for monthly retention:
>
>1/ The file server doesn't need to send any additional data
>for the "monthly" retention. There is no need for a
>"special" monthly backup. The backupset is
>created from existing incremental backup data already in the
>TSM server.
>
>2/ The BackupSet contents are indexed on the backupset tapes,
>and not in the TSM database. Therefore your database doesn't
>need to grow as you retain the monthly backupsets.
As big a fan of backupsets as I am, I feel the need to point out the
disadvantage of backupsets: you can't browse through them if you don't
the name of a desired file or its directory location. You can run Q
BACKUPSETCONTENTS, but then you'll have to grep through a *very* long
output.
In our environment, a backupset would be ideal to keep our TSM DB from
growing constantly due to archives, except for the fact we are limited in
the number of tape drives available to process the backupset data migration
tape-tape. Any ideas to circumvent this physical limitation would be much
appreciated-
Many Thanks-- John

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Re: Off Topic, AIX Mail

[J M]

Gill-

There was a recent security bulletin about sendmail vulnerabilities on unix
platforms-- so some shops are removing it and relying on FTP and other
utilities. I think on AIX it is a default part of the install-
John





From: "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Off Topic, AIX Mail
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:27:27 -0800
Sorry for sending this here but I know there are a lot of AIX folks out
there listening so I thought I'd ask here. The TSM server is mine, along
with the AIX O/S. Been to a few classes to get some knowledge but still
learning to say the least.
By deafult how is mail set up on AIX after an install? Are there any
security configuration changes I should make? The server is only used for
TSM, with so far, nothing but local mail notifications although I might be
implementing something to send notifications outbound at some point.
Thanks,
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154


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Re: Possibly off topic

[J M]

AIX is known for it's security attributes...but one fix I can think of is
the sendmail vulnerabilities on many unix platforms-- it's worth looking
into for AIX as well-

From: "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Possibly off topic
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:06:58 -0700
I am wondering if some of the AIX folks can help with this. It's a bit off
topic but is related to a TSM server nonetheless.


If a TSM server running on AIX, is in the DMZ, what might someone use to
"harden it" if you will. What software packages are available to help keep
out intruders?
Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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Re: Auditdb timing - FYI

[J M]

I agree- we have tried to run unload/load DB and audit DB to either conserve
space or cleanup the database and found in both cases that the time required
(we have 100 GB databases) was not worth the effort. R.Sims comments on this
make sense too, since DB space is random, however we still face 1.3 hours
for DBS backup daily--
It would certainly be nice to shrink the overall daily timeframes down with
an advanced DB backup function above and beyond the full+incremental
variants that we use today- wouldn't it be cool to have multi-session DB
backups that allow you to backup/restore the DB to/from multiple volumes at
once like DB2 or UDBEEE.
Also- a DB merge utility would be brilliant- where someday in the future if
you loose one TSM server(failure,scheduled maintenance, disasters), the
other TSM server instance could still access it's data stores (like a big
parallel database setup where any instance can get to any data...).
Ok- 'time to pass the crack pipe

John


From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Auditdb timing - FYI
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:25:38 +0300
rhetorical answer to a rhetorical question:
I am under impression that TSM DB and DB2 are some sort of cousins -
derived from same SQL/370 design or code. Thus the answer to your question
might be "when TSM DB is going to catch up with recent improvements on
DB2/Informix front".
I still remember (and can find in my archives) the Roger's post on the
thread "rollforward vs. normal mode" nearly a year ago. TDP for TSM is not
so silly as it sounds. But if an add-on product is developed allowing
multi-stream TSM DB backups/restores and better access to DB contents for
queries, it might be sold separately as DRM was in v4.2 and before
(regardless the name).
Wake up IBM/Tivoli Marketing, developers and support are good but you have
to be inventive too. And better not by changing licensing schema on each
version or changing prices every quarter.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




Fred Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
06.06.2003 22:08
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Auditdb timing - FYI
...

My real question, rhetorical of course, is when is TIVOLI going to supply
us with a tool kit for identifying and working thru  DB problems?  Why do
I
have to write some code to identify an object in the DB?  Why are there no
functions available to do this?
Wouldn't it be nice if V5R3 or V6R1, whichever comes first, were devoted
to
the care and feeding of the TSM DB.
My $.02 anyway.

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Re: AIX quota Question

[J M]

Sorry for the off TSM topic question- but given the amount of AIX smarts on
this list I decided to post this question--
We are testing AIX as a file server alternative to Win2K with the following
configuration:
AIX 5.1
JFS Filesystem
TSM+HSM
Samba
Sophos Antivirus
Native AIX quotas
Can anyone provide links to good resources for setting up and running AIX
quotas? The IBM docs are thin in this space (at least what we know of) and
we have yet to find a good listserv with the content we need. All help is
appreciated!
Thanks,

John

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Re: AIX quota Question

[J M]

Thanks Bob-


From: Bob Booth - UIUC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIX quota Question
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:59:19 -0500
A good resource for aix questions is the following listserv:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

There is an archive of the list here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2

There is a FAQ here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq

Another resource is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  and you can sign up www.userblue.org

good luck.

bob

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:54:30AM -0700, J M wrote:
> Sorry for the off TSM topic question- but given the amount of AIX smarts
on
> this list I decided to post this question--
>
> We are testing AIX as a file server alternative to Win2K with the
following
> configuration:
> AIX 5.1
> JFS Filesystem
> TSM+HSM
> Samba
> Sophos Antivirus
> Native AIX quotas
>
> Can anyone provide links to good resources for setting up and running
AIX
> quotas? The IBM docs are thin in this space (at least what we know of)
and
> we have yet to find a good listserv with the content we need. All help
is
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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Re: Solaris dsm.opt

[J M]

Hey all-

Bear with meI'm not solaris savvy one...

I'm trying out the solaris 5.15 client for the first time here and ran into
a question that I need help on:
Here is the dsm.opt file:
SERVERNAME AIXTSM2
SUBDIR  YES
*Domain /tmp
Domain  all-local
The initial backup went great- but it only backed only root (/). Since root
is "ufs" and all other file systems are veritas file systems (vxfs) I i'm
trying to sort out if I have a syntax error in the dsm.opt file.
   Here are ufs file systems:
/dev/vx/dsk/rootvol /
/dev/vx/dsk/var /var
/dev/vx/dsk/opt /opt
/dev/vx/dsk/home01  /home01
These are the veritas file systems (some of which we'll exclude for Oracle):

/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/orahome  /u01
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/altarchlog   /u02
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oratables1   /u03
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/mixtables/u07
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oraindex1/u08
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oratables2   /u04
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oraindex2/u09
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oratables4   /u06
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oratables3   /u05
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oraindex3/u10
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/tempsegs /u12
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/rollbacksegs /u11
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oraredolog1  /u13
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/oraredolog2  /u14
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/priarchlog   /u15
/dev/vx/dsk/oracle/dumpfiles/u16
Any help would be appreciated !

Thanks,

John

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Re: AIX Upgrade from 4.3.3 to 5.1

[J M]

The only gotcha's we found in our upgrade from 4.3.3 to 5.1 were the
following:
Compaq Secure Path device driver does not work in 64bit mode, unless you
de/re-install it in 64 bit mode
A-Tape Driver issue mentioned in other response

There is an apar for network latency on AIX 5.1.x that needs to be applied
(I think this is in ML4). APAR IY36925
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/Flash10205



From: "Kamp, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX Upgrade from 4.3.3 to 5.1
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:57:55 -0400
I'm going to be upgrading my TSM server from 4.3.3 ML10 to 5.1 ML?.  My TSM
version is 5.1.1.6.  Has anybody had any problems with ML4?
Thanks,
--
Bruce Kamp
Midrange Systems Analyst II
Memorial Healthcare System
E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
P: (954) 987-2020 x4597
F: (954) 985-1404
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Re: TSM 5.1.6.3 on AIX 5.1 ML4 or ML3

[J M]

The continued case for why TSM and AIX should be jointly administered

Our AIX admins are claiming that TSM has a memory leak. We are claiming we
need adequate paging space (ie. 6 GB of memory, not 100 MB of paging space)
and that VMTUNE maxperm needs to be roughly equivalent to numperm (along
with a slew of other variables that makes sense).
Anyone know of a memory leak on TSM 5.1.6.3 on AIX? If so- I'd be happy to
find that out as the root cause of AIX dropping telnet requests due to low
memory conditions.
Thanks,

John

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Re: Reclamation Setting Survey

[J M]

Just out of curiosity- what are you using for reclamation settings for
primary tape pool data?

Currently we have over 100 WinNT platforms (all in one policy domain)backing
up data (1+ TB incremental) to large primary disk pool, which migrates to
primary tape, tape copy, etc... The data is a mix of filesystem incrementals
and TDP backup objects (database/exchange). Currently we have our
reclamation threshold set to 60, but we're curious to know what other
similar environments are successfully using?

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Re: BCV Backup Procedures

[J M]

We are working on automating the backup of EMC BCV's (3 NT/Oracle hosts)
which are mounted to a NT server(dedicated to mounting bcv volumes and
running the TSM backup client).

The overall process includes:

Mount volumes (job dependencies based on successful mounts per host group)
Run Scheduled TSM backup job
Unmount volumes
Notify Application team of successful job for all BCV volumes

So- as we are refining the process, I've started to search for documented
procedures or best practices for this kind of environment. There is not much
in terms of Redbooks or whitepapers, so I was wondering if the TSM community
knows of any good resources--

Thanks for all of your help and input! John



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Re: Drive upgrade and Media Migration Plan

[J M]

We are considering upgrading from 3590-E1A drives to 3590-H1A drives...the
media write challenge is on the horizon...i.e. you can write 384 tracks on
scratch tapes but not on older K tapes that have 256 tracks.

So the question is- when you have limited budget and time (i.e. you don't
want to buy 2x the drives to do a speedy move data type migration to the new
drives), what are some of the best practices for upgrading drive technology,
migrating data for the new tape drive/media writes, without creating havoc
for day to day operations?

We could just upgrade the drives and write all new data to scratch tapes-
but this seems wasteful & risky

All ideas, commentary, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John






From: "James, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tivoli Call Logging Website
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:09:04 -0800

This is the site to submit problems.

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/support/probsub.html

Philip A. James, Systems Software Specialist
Software Services Unit
Information Technology Services Division / Data Center
California Public Employees' Retirement System
Phone: (916) 326-3715
Fax: (916) 326-3884
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


-Original Message-
From: Nelson Kane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli Call Logging Website


Hello All,
Does anyone know the website to log TSM issues
with TSM instead of using the phone?
Regards,
-kane



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Re: tsm server monitoring products

[J M]

Servergraph
Storserver
Tivoli ISRM (includes 300 reports from Trellisoft) and new reporting
functionality in TSM 5.2 is coming in q22003







From: Justin Bleistein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tsm server monitoring products
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:32:28 -0500

Like "servergraph" does anyone have a list of anymore products for this
purpose. I'm trying to compile a list of products so that I can review them
for our environment?. Thanks!.

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing)
Desk: (856) 866 - 4017
Cell:(856) 912-0861
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupsets

[J M]

We are looking at ways to reduce tape consumption in our 3494 library- which
is being managed by 2 AIX TSM 4.2.2 servers. In general- we want to write
archive data (separate management classes and storage pools) to disk and
then directly to a tape copy pool, and then eject the media out of the
library for long term storage-- without having redundant copies of the
archive data sitting in a primary tape pool.--

Are there any suggestions on how to accomplish this-- since you can only
route disk pools to primary tape pools first? TSM 5.1 allows synchronous
writes to disk/tape/copy pools, but for TSM 4.2 I'm hoping to find a simple
solution--

All feedback is very much appreciated- - John







From: Schwarz Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupsets
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:15:14 +0100

I need help, please:
Can me tell somebody to solve the problem described in the following
example?


 begin example
assumption: I have 2 backup_versions

time: day_00
The 1st time I create a backupset, all 1000 active backup_versions are
consolidated on tape_01 {bds000.1,bds001.1, ... ,bds999.1}.

time: day_01
Incremental backup creates 10 newer backupversions {bds000.2,bds001.2, ...
,bds009.2}.

time. day_02
I create a 2nd backupset, all 1000 active backup_versions are consolidated
on tape_02 {bds000.2,bds001.2, ... ,bds009.2,bds010.1,bds011.1, ...
bds999.1}.

Question_1:
I suppose, that all 1000 versions on tape_02 are copied from the inventory
of incremental backup_versions. Is this true?

Question_2:
Is it possible to do the following:
copy {bds010.1,bds011.1, ... bds999.1} from tape_01
copy {bds000.2,bds001.2, ... bds009.2} from incremental backup_versions
this would be more efficient in my environment.
 end example


Thanks everybody who can give me some useful comments

kind regards,
werner



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Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupset s

[J M]

Alex- Thanks- you make some great points and this helps-- Cheers, John







From: Alex Paschal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate backupset
s
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:46:48 -0800

Hi, John.

First, if you don't have copies, you risk losing data if a tape goes bad.

Second, you can define a primary pool to be managed by DRM with:
set drmprimstgpool primarypoolname
Then you can get those ejected for you and put them in a closet, and you
have your copypool to send offsite.  You're much better off regarding
maintaining data integrity.

Third, as you archive into your diskpool, you don't have to go to primary
tape pool first.  You can copy your diskpool to copypool tape with:
backup stgpool diskpool copypool
You can then migrate diskpool to primary tape pool as per the Second point.
Otherwise you'll have those primary versions cluttering up your diskpool.

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail


-Original Message-
From: J M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BackupSet: Is there an efficient method to generate
backupsets


We are looking at ways to reduce tape consumption in our 3494 library-
which
is being managed by 2 AIX TSM 4.2.2 servers. In general- we want to write
archive data (separate management classes and storage pools) to disk and
then directly to a tape copy pool, and then eject the media out of the
library for long term storage-- without having redundant copies of the
archive data sitting in a primary tape pool.--

Are there any suggestions on how to accomplish this-- since you can only
route disk pools to primary tape pools first? TSM 5.1 allows synchronous
writes to disk/tape/copy pools, but for TSM 4.2 I'm hoping to find a simple
solution--

All feedback is very much appreciated- - John



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Re: DR test - which volumes to take

[J M]

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246844.pdf


Much can be found on this topic in the TSM/DR redbook. Tape vaulting
companies/couriers should be able to deliver tapes to a recovery site (at a
cost) or they should probably not be used to support disaster recovery
operations--. It might be a good idea to review those contracts!

Cheers, John





From: "Braich, Raminder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DR test - which volumes to take
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:15:12 -0500

Hi,
  TSM Server is 4.1.2 (to be upgraded shortly), clients are 4.1.2 and 4.2.
We would be doing our Disaster Recovery test shortly. DRM has not been
implemented. The plan calls for to request courier deliver the necessary
tapes back and we take these tapes to the recovery site. We run SAP R/3
with
Oracle DB on WIN NT platform. All the systems are windows based. I have
identified the requirements to restore the TSM server as follows:
1. Device Confiuration file.
2. Server Options file.
3. Volume history file.
4. Output of q dbv f=d and q logv f=d.
5. TSM Database backup volume.
 The servers we are going to restore are going to be SAP R/3, Mail, File
Server and Oracle DB server(outside of SAP R/3).
We do not have collocation turned on. My question is how can I know which
tapes to request back from offsite to restore SAP R/3 which is backed up
via
TDP for R/3, Exchange(Mail) which is backed up via TDP for Exchange and
File
Server which is backed up incremental and Oracle DB server which is backed
up via TDP for Oracle. The requirement is to know all the tapes which are
going to be needed before hand. It has been implied that the courier is not
going to deliver the tapes to the recovery site (which sounds silly to me).

 What are other folks doing for this kind of situation? Are there any best
practices to follow.

Thanks,
Raminder Braich.



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Re: Gigabit Jumbo Frame Settings (AIX 4.3.3; TSM 4.2)

[J M]

We are implementing a dedicated VLAN for gigabit-ethernet traffic and jumbo
frames, primarily for backup/recovery TSM traffic. Do the following settings
make sense for TSM/AIX servers in a large (2TB per backup window)
environment? Any recommendations for network switch settings (i.e. keeping
MTU size high, etc.)? Other considerations?

Thanks and Regards, John

AIX Gigabit Ethernet Settings:

Transmit and Receive jumbo frames YES
Software transmit queue size 1024
Maximum IP Packet Size for this device 9000
AIX no options
rfc1323=1
sb_max=1048578
thewall=524340

TSM Settings:
TCPWindowsize 65536
TCPBufsize 16384



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Re: Restore performance W2K file-server

[J M]

We are considering the use of Journal Based Backups and Collocation=Yes for
these kind of environments. The only drawback to collocation may be a
limitation for multi-session restores...







From: brian welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Restore performance W2K file-server
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:31:48 +0100

Hello,

TSM server 4.2.2.8 and AIX 5.1, client Windows 2000 Server SP3 and TSM
client 5.1, long directorypaths, a lot of (little) files, about 800 GB.

I was wondering how other sites are handling big W2K file servers in case
of
a full-restore.

Client 5.1 can use multiple restore sessions, so that's a pro.
Maybe a seperate DIRMC to restore directories first and then files, or
something like that?
Parameters in the dsm.opt?

Everything is welcome.

Thanks,

Brian.




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Re: Restore performance W2K file-server-sql query

[J M]

In measuring restore performance, or developing estimates, does anyone have
a SQL Query to show the volumes required to restore all active data for a
client or filespace? This could be useful in developing DR SLA's, building
policies, storage pool design, etc.

Many Thanks,

John







From: brian welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Restore performance W2K file-server
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:31:48 +0100

Hello,

TSM server 4.2.2.8 and AIX 5.1, client Windows 2000 Server SP3 and TSM
client 5.1, long directorypaths, a lot of (little) files, about 800 GB.

I was wondering how other sites are handling big W2K file servers in case
of
a full-restore.

Client 5.1 can use multiple restore sessions, so that's a pro.
Maybe a seperate DIRMC to restore directories first and then files, or
something like that?
Parameters in the dsm.opt?

Everything is welcome.

Thanks,

Brian.




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