Re: mixing 3590J & 3590K's in a 3494 for ADSM

2000-09-29 Thread Joe Faracchio
Richard, thanks ... that's interesting. Sounds like I'm close. So if I try it again with 400 / 403(404) might it work? Everything else seemed to fall in place except the scratch conflict. thanks joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Fri, 29 Sep 2

Re: what is dsmserv.dsk

2000-09-29 Thread Don Prince
I'm new at this. Do you have a dsmserv.dsk.smp file or your own example? What are the key words? This is on a test system that I just install AIX 4.3.3. TIA Don Prince

Re: what is dsmserv.dsk

2000-09-29 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
ASCII text - just list each TSM database and recovery log volume (flat files or raw logical volumes in there. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: what is dsmserv.dsk

2000-09-29 Thread Don Prince
Okay What's the format? I have looked in all my docs and on the web! > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 29 21:00:52 2000 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Micros

Re: what is dsmserv.dsk

2000-09-29 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
That file lists your database and recovery log volumes. Without it you cannot initialize your *SM server. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D

tsm: what is dsmserv.dsk

2000-09-29 Thread Don Prince
Just my first attempt to get Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000 Version 3, Release 7, Level 0.0 to work! This is what I get ... # cd /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin # ./dsmserv ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 16:19:10 on Aug 24 1999. Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000 Version 3, Release 7, Lev

Re: Question on event logging and exceptions.

2000-09-29 Thread Leo Humar
You could try "Q act msg= " instead of " q ev" Leo Humar LCS Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -Original Message- From: Daniel Swan/TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Tracking restores?

2000-09-29 Thread Lindsay Morris
I think the only place you can find the actual filenames restored is on the client. The restore session will print a list of filenames to stdout (like what's in the dsmsched.log file on the client), and if you can capture that, you're home. Only thing is, it's up to the user doing the restore to

Cached Storage Management...

2000-09-29 Thread George Cardoza
Scenario: S80, AIX 3 IBM3995-C68 fully dressed Optical Jukeboxes 4 management classes representing different file types (audio, video, tiff, and pdf) 1 800GB Cached Storage Pool. Next Storage Pool is long term storage on opticals. I set the backup storage pool migration max and min to zero to

Re: Redbook Announcement: SG24-6110-00 Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3.7.3 & 4.1: Technical Guide

2000-09-29 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Excellent book. I reviewed the draft. Learned lots of good stuff. A must read for the serious TSMer. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com --

Re: Tracking restores?

2000-09-29 Thread Daniel Swan/TM
Regarding restores, I'd like to thank everyone for their input. I have no found out how to determine when a client asked for a restore, and how much data was transferred, but I am unable to tell WHAT was transfefred, and hold old the data restored was. Is there any way to glean this data from a

Re: Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
I can't speak for AIT-2, but I have 2 46120's with AIT-1 drives. Now, my libraries are 4+ years old (upgraded once from exabyte to ait1), but they do not have any ability to auto-clean drives. You need your bkup program to control this. As far as self cleaning, I found that if I didn't clean th

TSM V4.1.0 Install

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Heath
Problem resolved. HOT1140 is sup'd by HOT6608. Didn't look far enough. Sorry... Larry - clip While doing the apply-check for the TSM S/390 API and for the TSM S/390 Backup-Archive Client, I rec'd an error msg that fmid HOT1140 was missing. We have fmid HOT6608 (we are on 2.8) in an

Re: W2K backup missing a volume

2000-09-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
There is nothing in any log to indicate there is an error. It did not even attempts to back it up. Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: "ADSM: Dist Su

Re: Oggetto: Checkout cartridge Scratch .

2000-09-29 Thread Juan Fernando Meneses
Allessio , Richard No Proccess has it at this time adsm> Q LIBV Library NameVolume NameStatus Last Use Home Element ----- 3494LIB 040076 Scratch adsm> Q VOL 040076 ANR2034E QUERY V

Re: W2K backup missing a volume

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>But G: is clearly a LOCAL HARD DRIVE. ... >Why did it skip G: ? Is there a size issue ? Maybe what we've seen in the past applies... This normally is a permissions problem. Check the scheduler service via control panel / services. See what account the service logs in as. If

Re: Checkout cartridge Scratch .

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>ANR8442E CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME: Volume 040076 in library 3494LIB is currently in >use. This usually indicates that the volume is mounted, or is dismounting. Do a 'Query Mount' and see if it is, or the corresponding mtlib command.

Re: exclude statement

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>ANS1036S Invalid option '/home/hosp.../data/.../*.TMP' Nothing in TSM generates more confusion than specifying exclusions with wildcards. We all dread having to deal with it, particularly as it doesn't exactly conform to any common wildcard conventions we're used to. The B/A manual says that w

Question on event logging and exceptions.

2000-09-29 Thread Daniel Swan/TM
To keep on top of backup failures, I have written a small perl scrip that does a "q ev" every ten minutes, and pages me if there is an exception. It has just ocurred to me, however, that often backups do not become marked as an exception until long after they were expected to start. In the case

Oggetto: Checkout cartridge Scratch .

2000-09-29 Thread Alessio Prodon
Hi Juan You cannot delete it if It isn't in private state. before to Retry you must detect if any process are active. Dismount the tape and then you retry. Good luck!! Alessio Prodon Juan Fernando Meneses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> il 29/09/2000 16.37.33 Per favore, rispondere a "ADSM: Dist St

Checkout cartridge Scratch .

2000-09-29 Thread Juan Fernando Meneses
Hi TSM-ers, I have ADSM 3.1.2.55 on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 library and 2 3590- B11 drives. After making Audit to a volume, supposedly the process finishes succesfull and thanks to this it is able some data that were in that cartridge to move . The cartridge is with zero data and I make checkin to t

Re: WINT4.0/METAFRAMES

2000-09-29 Thread Estee Chen
what did dsmerror.log say? >From: "Selva, Perpetua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: WINT4.0/METAFRAMES >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:09:09 -0400 > >Can someone please let me know why i am encountering 'the adsm scheduler >

Re: exclude statement

2000-09-29 Thread Estee Chen
Kai, exclude /home/hosp.../data/.../*.TMP This syntax is invalid, use 'show inclexcl' will show you that. * # dsmc show inclexcl ANS1036S Invalid option '/home/hosp.../data/.../*.TMP' found in options file '/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl' at line n

W2K backup missing a volume

2000-09-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
A department just moved lots of stuff to a new W2K server. The machine is a big Dell server with a raid disk box (more that 70GB). Just installed TSM 4.1.1 client. The DSM.OPT file has DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL in it. Here is the problem. The backup only checked and processes drives C:, D:, E: and H: dr

Redbook Announcement: SG24-6110-00 Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3.7.3 & 4.1: Technical Guide

2000-09-29 Thread Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM
Everything you need to know about latest TSM release ... (Embedded image moved to file: pic31102.pcx) Form Number: SG24-6110-00 Title:Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3.7.3 & 4.1: Technical Guide Can now be downloaded as a PDF file and ordered in hardcopy two weeks foll

Re: exclude statement

2000-09-29 Thread Kai Hintze
> Hi, > > Is this exclude statement valid? > **inclexcl*** > exclude /home/hosp*/data/.../*.TMP > I believe it should be exclude /home/hosp.../data/.../*.TMP The directory wildcard is "..." not "*". - Kai. > I still getting this error : > > ***dsmsched.log > 09/27/00 20:02:54 AN

backint sortfile

2000-09-29 Thread Ken Chamberlain
A pre TDP for SAP question: Any body using the ADSM BACKINT SORTFILE option? Our database is on an AIX box. We have spread the database over 4 volume groups. Each volume group contains 4-6 hard disks (SSA disk of various sizes). A given Oracle datafile is in only one filesystem, which is in one

TSM V4.1.0 Install

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Heath
While doing the apply-check for the TSM S/390 API and for the TSM S/390 Backup-Archive Client, I rec'd an error msg that fmid HOT1140 was missing. We have fmid HOT6608 (we are on 2.8) in another CSI. Has anyone been here and resolved this problem?? If yes, how did you resolve it?? TIA .

Re: Winframes/Nt and ADSM

2000-09-29 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Can someone please let me know why i am encountering 'the adsm scheduler stopping' while starting a backup with Adsm.? We are currently using NT4.0 with Metaframes and Winframes applications.. Thanks in Advance

Re: Bulk slots and checkout of Tapes

2000-09-29 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Those in i/o station are still not-mountable till the status changed to 'courier' or 'vault'. ..Please verify if this is correct ... Thanks in advance -Original Message- From: Estee Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

WINT4.0/METAFRAMES

2000-09-29 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Can someone please let me know why i am encountering 'the adsm scheduler stopping' while starting a backup with Adsm.? We are currently using NT4.0 with Metaframes and Winframes applications. Thanks in Advance Perpetua Selva ARBC Dominion Securities Inc. Technical Analyst Global Markets Tel: (4

Re: Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>Just a side note: I thought the press releases for AIT-2 technology = >stated that these drives are self-cleaning. If this is true, why does = >Sony make cleaning tapes? >From www.sony.com/ait : Active Head Cleaner reduces need for cleaning tapes. In the event that contamination build-u

restoring files from another user

2000-09-29 Thread Sergio Cherchyk
Hi! I have problems trying to restore files from an AIX box to another. I'm following the instruccions given in "Using the Backup-Arching Clients", v 3.7, chapter 3 (Authorizing Another User to Restore/Retrive Your Files and Restoring or Retrieving Another User's Files). What I do is: 1) In the

Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Dean Winger
Can anyone help with this? I have a Qualstar 46120 tape library outfitted with four AIT-2 drives. I would like to set up a schedule for cleaning the drives. Any recommendations on how I should do this? I am using TSM 4.1.1 for Windows NT. I do not think that this library has the built in cap

ADSM 3.1.2.5x and 3590 Extended Length?

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
The ADSM 3.1.2.5x server level supports 3590E, double-track drives. The doc does not say if it supports double-length cartridges (which I suspect that it does, as that would seem more transparent than track-switching). Could an ADSM 3.1.2.5x server customer verify this for me, as we are thinking o

Re: Backing up DB for offsite

2000-09-29 Thread Maria Paz Gimeno
We do a checkin with search=yes because we have an script prepared for that, this way I do not need to check the volume label, and I can use the same script every day. Maria - Original Message - From: Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 29,

When will ADSM support NDMP?

2000-09-29 Thread Purdon, James
When will ADSM support NDMP? Thanks, Jim

Re: Backing up DB for offsite

2000-09-29 Thread Sean Duffy
As soon as I run any kind of DB Backup I check out the tape from our library and place it in our fire safe. I keep db backups for about 1 month and then delete them. I track these using the Q volhist type=dbb (TSM 3.7.0.0 server) Sean Duffy Network Analyst Alcatel Canada, TA

Re: Backing up DB for offsite

2000-09-29 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: We do in fact define a device c;lass of file and back up the DB and critical config files to a directory, which is then written to an 8MM tape outside the 3494 library and taken offsite daily. I've wondered what would happen if we lost the database and TSM and we could use the tape library

Re: Backing up DB for offsite

2000-09-29 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi Maria: Why do you do a checkin search=yes instead of a checkin on a specific vol? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/28/00 05:24PM >>> In my customer they also move DB backup tape to offsite everyday. We expire the cartridges for db backup after 7 days. We have created an script with a query volhistory

Re: mixing 3590J & 3590K's in a 3494 for ADSM

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>1. define second Library with same private category but a 'new' scratch >category, that's pointing to original library: (Name changed only from >LIB to L2B.) > >def libr 3494L2b libt=349x device=/dev/lmcp0 privatecat=400 > scratchcat=402 ( 401 is the original scratch category) As the model n

TSM Server Installation

2000-09-29 Thread Hoelscher, Hans-Peter
Hi all out there, I have just installed TSM V4.1 over my ADSM V3.1.2.50. All went fine until I tried to start the new TSM Server. The WinNT 4.0 services for the TSM-Server were not installed during the install process. What can I do ? Can I define the WinNT services manually ? Hans-Peter Hölsche

ADSM to TSM migration

2000-09-29 Thread Valeriano Bassi
Hi there, is it possible to move directly from ADSM v3.1.2.50 to TSM v4 ? Or do I have to install TSM v3.7 ? Server is on OS/390 system Thanks in advance and best regards. Valeriano Bassi