Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Reinhold Wagner
That's why we run ADSM on AIX instead of NT: so we don't need periodically recycle the machine. Reinhold Wagner, Zeuna Staerker GmbH & Co. KG

What happened to instant archive?

2000-10-12 Thread Christo Heuër
Does anybody know what happened to the instant archive functionality that was going to be introduced in Tsm? I've searched to find info on when and how it would be made available but was unable to get any info from the redbooks or web. Thanks Christo

Re: STK Library, ADSM 3.1.2.50, and Label Libvol

2000-10-12 Thread Orville Lantto
The error message (I forget the number) just refers to a previous error, which is not in the log. Also, scratches are set at . Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. "Price, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/00 10:17 AM Please

Re: 3590e drives - What's your best *realistic* throughput?

2000-10-12 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
I have setup environments where I have seen backup storage pools run 37GB per hour. So that is just over 10.5 MBps. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On B

3590e drives - What's your best *realistic* throughput?

2000-10-12 Thread Paul Fielding
I'm looking to know what I could *realistically* expect from a 3590e drive during a *restore*, assuming the tape drive is the bottleneck, ie. disk is fast enough, bus is wide enough, everything is local attached, machine is super zippy, and restoring BIG files. Certainly the theoretical max is so

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Tom Melton
DRIVE is supposed to work the same as 3590E-C (I said below 3590-C, but 3590E-C is the correct value). What level of ADSM are you using? I think it was 3.1.2.30 or .40 that added support for the 3590E drives. -Tom >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/00 07:52PM >>> Hi Tom and all, Cool! I'll change i

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Phillip Guan
Hi Tom and all, Cool! I'll change it to get big capacity. What will happen if I change the setting? It is a production system and have about 1TB data on it. Thanks, Phillip -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Melton Sent: Thursday,

Re: recovering copypools

2000-10-12 Thread Dennis Berestecki
I tried this, today, and it didn't work. Dennis Berestecki Jim Sporer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/12/2000 03:10:18 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Tom Melton
Hi Phillip (and all), We use 3590E model drives in a 3494 ATL, and the vollowing is a Q VOL from my system: ANS8000I Server command: 'q vol stgpool=off2' Volume Name Storage Device EstimatedPct Volume Pool NameClass Name Capacity Ut

Re: recovering copypools

2000-10-12 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
How do you know it didn't work? You wouldn't really have any indication of it except that the number of tapes you moved offsite today might be greater than normal. If you deleted a copy storage pool volume and then did a backup stg on each of the pools that were using the copypool, a copy will b

Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
We have never seen any issues with long running ADSM servers (note we're further down level than you are!): tsm: DLADSM>q stat ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 1, Level 1.5 Server Name: DLADSM Server Installation Date/Time: 08/06/199

Re: STK Library, ADSM 3.1.2.50, and Label Libvol

2000-10-12 Thread Carl Makin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Orville Lantto wrote: > One of my clients has ADSM 3.1.2.50, a STK library with 9840 drives, on an > AIX box under 4.3.2. Under 3.1.2.40 all was well with labeling tapes, but > now the label process fails without a meaningful error. Make sure you have 'Fast Load' enabled on

Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>> > A couple of weeks ago I ran into a problem that the >server couldn't >> > successfully backup the database and my log file filled >up...I solved >> it by >> > cycling the ADSM server. Then two days later BMC told us >that we need to >> > cycle the ADSM server on a regular basis. What ar

Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Rick Saylor
Don't believe it. Both AIX and ADSM are designed to run without out the need for re-boots. Rick Saylor Austin Community College At 04:57 PM 10/12/00 +, you wrote: >I've never seen any evidence that a periodic restart is needed. > >Pat Wilson >Dartmouth College >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Phillip Guan
Hi Maria/Richard, No, we didn't turned on compress on the client. Thanks for the info. Phillip -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maria Paz Gimeno Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RV: 3590 tape c

Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Pat Wilson
I've never seen any evidence that a periodic restart is needed. Pat Wilson Dartmouth College [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am running > AIX 4.3.3 on an S80 > ADSM 3.1.2.40 (yes I know I am trying to get us to upgrade but you ever see > anything move fast in corporate world?) > > A couple of weeks

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread Alex Paschal
I'm curious. What do you mean, "duping the data through switches and bridge?" The Emulex website says it should be able to do multiprotocol IP over the FC SAN. If it's not working, I would suggest talking to the manufacturer's tech support. They should be able to help with configuration of tho

RV: maximum size of recovery-log

2000-10-12 Thread Maria Paz Gimeno
I got this answer from a previous entry in the forum. Hope it is what you are lloking for. Regards Maria Recovery log, maximum size: Per APAR IC15376, the recovery log should not exceed 5.5 GB (5440 MB). But APAR IY09200 says that the maximum size is 5420 MB; and the max usable is 5416 MB, allowi

RV: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Maria Paz Gimeno
Do you have compresion turned on in the client? In that case the hardware can not compress more. Regards Maria

Re: recovering copypools

2000-10-12 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM
delete vol volser discard=yes The next backup storagepool will recopy the data from these volumes. If you want to get that data backed up as soon as possible (rather than wait for the backup storagepool to run) you can run move data volser stg=offsitepool This will use the onsite versions of t

maximum size of recovery-log

2000-10-12 Thread Gerd Becker
Hi *sm'ers, does anyone knows the maximum size of the recovery-log? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Gerd Becker EMPRISE NETWORK Consulting GmbH Albstr. 14 70597 Stuttgart Tel.: 0711/990083-0 oder Mobil: 0172/4036581 Fax: 0711/990083-9 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h

maximum size of recovery-log

2000-10-12 Thread Gerd Becker
Hi *sm'ers, does anyone knows the maximum size of the recovery-log? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Gerd Becker EMPRISE NETWORK Consulting GmbH Albstr. 14 70597 Stuttgart Tel.: 0711/990083-0 oder Mobil: 0172/4036581 Fax: 0711/990083-9 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h

periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-12 Thread Davidson, Becky
I am running AIX 4.3.3 on an S80 ADSM 3.1.2.40 (yes I know I am trying to get us to upgrade but you ever see anything move fast in corporate world?) A couple of weeks ago I ran into a problem that the server couldn't successfully backup the database and my log file filled up...I solved it by cycl

Re: recovering copypools

2000-10-12 Thread Jim Sporer
Use a delete volume discardata=yes, to delete the tapes from the copypool and adsm will recreate the tapes the next time you backup your primary storage pools. Jim Sporer At 03:54 PM 10/12/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Anyone had any experience with recovering copypool (offsite) data. > >Apparently the

recovering copypools

2000-10-12 Thread Fluker, Tom R
Anyone had any experience with recovering copypool (offsite) data. Apparently the manager of our offsite storage location has lost several tapes that ADSM considers part of the offsite copypool. upd vol xxx access=destroyed only works for primary storage pools How do I tell ADSM that tapes/data

3590 tape compress question

2000-10-12 Thread Phillip Guan
Hi all, We have a 3494 tape library installed with 2 3590 tape drivers. We use 40GB tape cartridges ( compressed to 120GB). Here is the info: tsm: >q dev DeviceDevice Storage DeviceFormat Est/Max Mount Class AccessPool Type

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread Leos Stehlik
George, try to look at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246132.html, it's still a redpiece, but we cover there the most question you mentioned. Now, just a few notes: - LAN-free data transfer provided with the Storage Agent - which comes with the TSM4.1 server - is right now supp

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread George Yang
Alex, In fact, the test that we did is duping the data through the switches and bridge, the Card is Emulex LP7000. That only let you transfer data through the FC. The backup client has to have at least 2 card one for FC one for LAN. We can install Emulex driver, but how can we know the data backe

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi. Actually, depending on your fibre card and drivers, you can bind a TCP/IP stack to a fibre card and have your TCP/IP client data go across your san. At the Emulex website, the lb8000 card says it has the capability of multiprotocol TCP/IP and SCSI over fibre. I haven't tested it yet. You mi

Re: Search the archives

2000-10-12 Thread Lawrence Clark
http://vm.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?ADSM-L found in under help / tsm web access / in the MS-SQL GUI >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/00 12:49PM >>> What is the URL that should be used to search the archives of the list. Thanks in advance for the help. Frank Frank McClean [EMAIL PROTECTED] 916.658.

Re: Search the archives

2000-10-12 Thread James W. Doll
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?ADSM-L or WWW.adsm.org

Fixes

2000-10-12 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Hi all , I can`t download TSM fixes from the following URL , Any idea? ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/serv er/v3r7/AIX/LATEST/

Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
ACSLS 5.3.0 works fine with SUN2.6 and 2.7 , while installing you get a message saying that ACSLS May Not be supported on SUN 2.7 , But I installed SUN 2.7 and ACSLS on alternative Sun box , tested, works fine.. also dont need restoration of ACSLS database on new sun box , just run audit

Changing Device Class Name

2000-10-12 Thread Diana J. Noble
I would like to change the name of my device class for a sequential storage pool. The device itself will be the same, I would just like the class name to be more descriptive of the type of drive and whether this name allows for compression or not. The update command doesn't seem to allow this.

Search the archives

2000-10-12 Thread McClean, Frank
What is the URL that should be used to search the archives of the list. Thanks in advance for the help. Frank Frank McClean [EMAIL PROTECTED] 916.658.1353

Re: Web Client for MS Cluster

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Connor
Thomas, Make sure when you run dsmcutil to install the second CAD and Remote client agent service that you specify the /optfile switch to point to the DSM.OPT file for your cluster node. Jeff Connor Niagara Mohawk Power Corp "Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/1

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Dennis Berestecki
I think that this question is one for the CIA. Let's ask them, and ALL of us wait for an answer. My e-mail is filling up... ; {> Dennis B. "Warren, Matthew James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/12/2000 10:09:07 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Unfortunately today LAN-free backup only works with your agent programs such as SQL Server, Exchange, SAP - backup-archive clients are not yet supported. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor M

Macintosh files on NT server

2000-10-12 Thread Stephanie canon
Hi, We have a NT server with macintosh files on it. We use ADSM to backup this server. When we want to restore a file, some macintosh directories doesn't appear in th Graphical Interface. To make them appear, we had to backup only one file in these directories, then all the files of the directori

Re: Export to different server level

2000-10-12 Thread paul baines
As part of the testing I would also recommend strongly that you try restoring/retrieving data for a client you have imported. In versions round about the 3.1.2.40 level this has caused problems. I'm about to try exporting from OS/390 TSM 4.1 and importing to AIX TSM 3.7. We'll see what happens.

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Daniel Swan/TM
Although I agree with the seniment of throwing it out, you may want to trade it in... I know we keep out tapes, as some manufacturers guarantee forever, and will replace (At least from what I have been told). At $100 per tape, it's a quick way to save some ADSM bucks. Daniel Swan HP Unix Team

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Remeta, Mark
Hi Matthew, If the tape is unreadable, you might as well throw it in the garbage and hope you have another copy! Mark -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help Please :0)

Re: SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
My understanding is that the SAN agent allows LAN-free backup ONLY for the Exchange TDP and the TDP for R/3 at this time, not the regular backup/archive clients. The backup/archive clients for UNIX & NT should support it eventually as new releases of those clients come out. If this isn't true, s

Re: Export to different server level

2000-10-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
It may cause a problem. You better test it. I have had cases where I could not IMPORT from a tape that was EXPORTed from a server at a higher level; I don't know if that is the case between 3.1.2.40 and 3.1.2.50, nor do I know of any place where you can find it documented. But just try it with

Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Warren, Matthew James
ACSLS is running at 5.3.2, on a separate Sun machine. (I'm working with Bob on this) Matt Warren. >-Original Message- >From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 12 October 2000 04:09:PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS > > >Don't know about

Re: File System Mount issues

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Sims
>Although I profess no expertise in traces, it looks like the client builds a >list of "what's mounted now" when it starts the backup session (ie: not at >client startup time). If there is information available contrary to this, >I'd be happy to see it! John - That's what I'd expect, too. Howe

Web Client for MS Cluster

2000-10-12 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
Hi TSM-ers, has anyone been successful in installing the Web Client on a MS Cluster? I have installed a second set of services (CAD and remote agent) on the physical maschine. But when I start the webclient I still see the filespaces of the physical maschine instead of the cluster node. If anyon

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Is having something thats unencrypted but unreadable the same as something that is encrypted but readable? OR: Can you use IBM tape drivers to read usable information from ADSM tapes? Matt Warren. >-Original Message- >From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 12 Octo

Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
Don't know about SUN, but on AIX we never could get ADSM working with ACSLS at 5.3; had to go up to ACSLS 5.3.2. (We have ACSLS running on the same host as TSM.) > -Original Message- > From: Smith, Bob [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PRO

File System Mount issues

2000-10-12 Thread Snyder.John
I've been working on a similar issue (aix 4.3.3 client 3.7.2.0), and have received assurances from Support that mounts/umounts after client scheduler startup shouldn't be a problem. I did find a document that indirectly sheds some light on this, at: http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rt

Re: Multiple Definitions for a single Node

2000-10-12 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM
1. Yes. For each server stanza in your DSM.SYS file, you can start the scheduler by running "dsmc sched -se=servername". You can do this as many times as necessary. 2. No, there is no limitation. The only suggestion in this enviorment is to use the Shared Memory protocol. Nick Cassimatis [EM

Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
it should be ,,something like following . i am using stk9710 .. and works fine DEFINE DEVCLASS STK9710 DEVTYPE=DLT FORMAT=DLT35C ESTCAPACITY=73400320K MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=5 PREFIX=ADSM LIBRARY=STK9710 SET SERVERNAME TSM DEFINE LIBRARY STK9710 LIBTYPE=ACSLS ACSID=0 DEFINE

Multiple Definitions for a single Node

2000-10-12 Thread HK Chng
Hi all TSMers, We have a H70 box ( AIX 4.3.3 )serving as the TSM server ( TSM version 3.7.3 ) and as well as a client ( TSM 3.7.0 ). The reason being the H70 is connected directly to an EMC symmetrix machine and we would like to utilise the BCV feature to backup all disks from servers conn

Re: Off-Site copies

2000-10-12 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Define a new copy storage pool. Backup stg tapepool newpool. Delete the volumes in the old copy pool: del vol volname. 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.st

Re: TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Not a real knowledgeable Solaris person, but can 2.7 be a 64 bit OS? We saw a problem using TSM on Solaris 2.8 in 64 bit mode. The ACSLS drivers would not run at 64 bit. Dropping back to a 32 bit OS fixed the problem. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Spri

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Remeta, Mark
Hi Larry, I think that encryption is encryption is encryption, any way you cut it. If the data on the tape is not encrypted, then it is not encrypted. If someone said took one of your tapes and said to you, "Larry, is the data on this tape encrypted?" what would you say? No of course. Mark ---

SAN backup and tape drive share with 3494?

2000-10-12 Thread George Yang
Hi all, We are trying to develop SAN with 3494 libr. We have 7 ADSM servers with 3.1, 3.7 and 4.1 version. We have EMC/symmetricx and Mcdata/Concentrix switch and Bridges. We have done the dump data from symmetrix disk to 3590E tape drive through Concentrix switches and Mcdata bridges (FC-SCSI)

Re: Scipts to perform multiple file restores in TSM 3.7

2000-10-12 Thread Mike Hedden
Have you thought about using the DSMC MACRO macroname where you can issue valid ADSM client commands as specified in a named macro file? Regards, Mike

Putting a valid scenario together, handable by adsm

2000-10-12 Thread Andreas Walter
Hi, I would like to handle the following situation: a) Some 20 clients to be backed up 24h-wise (client support verified). b1) Server adsm1: primary storagepool(1): 100 GB RAID-5 for fast data handling secondary storagepool(2): Faststore22 for Migration from storagepool1 Now I can

Off-Site copies

2000-10-12 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
hi all, I want to erase my DRM record( Q DRM output ) , and create new copy of tapepool .. ? How to ? Thanks in advance ...

Export to different server level

2000-10-12 Thread Nick Rutherford
Hello all, can anybody help me. We have two ADSM Servers, one running V3.1.2.50 under OS390 and one running V3.1.2.40 under AIX. We want to export all data from the OS390 server to the AIX one. Will the lower server level on the AIX server cause a problem once the data has been exported ? We

anyone using the USEREXIT for event handling?

2000-10-12 Thread MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Hello, I am working with TSM 4.1 on OS390 2.7 as the server. I am looking for information or an example of the USEREXIT to handle some EVENT output processing. Maybe someone has already coded this. I need to use it to put out a message with the completion status of a scheduled backup.

Re: Off-Site copies??

2000-10-12 Thread Tomblin, David
Yes. Coping from diskpool to an offsite tape pool works and works well on systems with few tape drives. With only one tape drive there is one concerns. Diskpool migration can not start before the offsite copy. If it does, the data migrated to tape will not be available on the diskpool for the

Scipts to perform multiple file restores in TSM 3.7

2000-10-12 Thread Lu Ann Mezera
We currently have TSM 3.7 on 7 AIX nodes and 22 NT servers with a MagStar 3575 tape library. I am starting to get more requests to do stores, restores, etc. and want to do it in a script launched by our batch scheduler to provide an audit trail rather than using the GUI/web browser (which does wo

Re: Experiences with AFS

2000-10-12 Thread Geoff Pusey
Hi, Thanks to every one who replied to me on this question. It is nice to here the real experience from people like you. Regards, Geoff Pusey Tivoli Advisory Consultant Tivoli Systems. Office : +44 (0)1753 780881 Mobile : +44 (0) 780 8203704 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TSM 4.1 crashes with ACSLS

2000-10-12 Thread Smith, Bob
We are setting up a new server that will be connect to an STK 9740 silo with 9840 drives via ACSLS. The ACSLS server will be 5.3. The TSM server is Sun/Solaris with the following opsys level: SunOS spadux0001 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise When I try to define the librar

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi Mark: >From a practical (security) point of view, is there a difference? Have you ever tried >to read a tape? How would you go about it and would you see, for example, the ASCII >text of a NT or AIX script? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:52PM >>> Yes this is true but the data on the tape

Re: Help Please :0)

2000-10-12 Thread Len Boyle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Barth, Terry (MBS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > >Hello fellow *SMrs: > >I have a few questions that have recently popped up, that I am having a hard >time finding the direct response. > >4 - The security team brought an interesting question to my attention. Is >th

Re: Industry Statistics regarding # of daily exceptions?

2000-10-12 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM
We run around 98% successful backups in a fairly large (15ish TSM Servers, averaging around 250 clients/server (between 6 and 500 clients/server)). We have just been keeping track with a simple database program written in perl (I'm not the author, and I haven't really looked at it, but the fields

Re: Damaged Tapes using TSM 3.7.2 for NT and DST Tape Drives

2000-10-12 Thread Len Boyle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > >Len, FWIW, I have seen the same behavior and talked with the STK specialist >here. > >He said that the cleaning light comes on for two different things - >sometimes it means "clean requested", and sometimes means "clean