Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

There have been some good comments in this thread about turning the knobs and measuring results. In keeping with this message's general comments - years ago, talking about an IBM mainframe, an IBM engineer said "there is no substitute for real memory" - and its still true! Dan Kronstadt VP Softwa

TSM 3.73. include/exclude statements: where should they be?

To all TSM 'ers: I have found out that the previous ADSM administrator put a line in the dsm.opt file that points to a file where the include/excludes are. Clever, but I would never have found this out on my own or in the manual. You can cancel this request if you want to. Tks in advance. Ke

Re: Really bad performance for a sql query after upgrading to v 3 .7

>Anyone who depends on data from volumeusage might consider opening a >problem with IBM/Tivoli. Really bad performance can be reported and will sometimes >be fixed instead of getting the dread 'working as designed' response. >I have always used occupancy data to make reports. In version 1 >it wa

Re: Really bad performance for a sql query after upgrading to v 3 .7

I have never been able to do a simple 'select * from volumeusage'. It will always hang the server which is 3.7.3.8 on os/390 r6. I think the problem compared to other tables is that volumeusage may not be a real table in the database. Instead I think it is really just a select on the contents ta

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

for mksysb tapes , we have to place a date stamp , that is on which date the mksysb tape was created , since these (4mm and 8mm tapes don`t have labels like DLT`s , removable ) how are you labeling them ? also can you forward mksysb script to me ? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on

Re: retention

RECLAIM does not address the issue. It only prevents the TSM server from moving the active copies around to help reduce the number of tapes the pool uses following an inventory expiration process (and is an option of the storage pool configuration should you want to change it More info: Do an

Re: Novell Netware Client

PS. For the nodes that get administered by a single user, don't let *SM create a new admin user when registering a new node to his group... (you do so with the userid=none option). Just grant access priviledge to the global user/admin to the new node separately after you have registered the node

Re: IP Address

Hi Diane, There does not need to be any association between an ADSM client's node name and the client IP address. It might help to thing of the node name as the client's ADSM login name. That being said, there is often information in the activity log which connects node name to IP address. J

Re: Installing TSM

I've just finished installing 4.1 on several AIX machines. All of them went well. The quick start guide was not very clear and was actually wrong in more than one place. Your problem sounds to me like you need to create your log and db. ie... from /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin dsmfmt -db dbvol (

Re: Instaling TSM

Common problem.. If you install the TSM server software and let smit expand the filesystems for you during the installation, you will get an install that is only partial. The dsmserv.dsk file never gets created (among other things). I've run into this multiple times with both 3.7 and 4.1.. Your b

Re: AW: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

The resolution for problems I have seen with Veritas' BackupExec tends to make anything they do somewhat suspect in my eyes. Admittedly, I took over an implementation project which was supposed to be already to roll out for install, but the hidden pitfalls and continuing issues are a pain. ADSM

Re: Instaling TSM

First, make sure you are in the proper directory, /usr/tivoli/.../bin. At 01:09 PM 11/3/2000 -0500, you wrote: >I am trying to install and configure TSM 3.7 and 4.1 on a new box, and >following procedure in >TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER FOR AIX > Quick Start version 4 release 1 Book . > > I

Re: Instaling TSM

Hi: On AIX, the location for dsmserv.dsk is in: /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.dsk It points to the location of your TSM DB and LOG files. If I remember correctly, the 'quick start' guide under the install notes suggests TSM will create some default DB and LOG files You may need to create the

Instaling TSM

I am trying to install and configure TSM 3.7 and 4.1 on a new box, and following procedure in TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER FOR AIX Quick Start version 4 release 1 Book . Installation is easy smitty install, after that how to configure it ? When I tried. / dsmserv to start server Message..

After Upgrade to 4.1 TSM Server Utilities for WIN/NT loop

After Upgrade to TSM V4.1.1 I got a loop at start of the TSM Server utilities for WIN/NT (SR5). The Task-manger shows me, that the processor is used totally for the Task adsm.exe. I totally de-installed the software and re-installed it kompletely with the same effect. All other tasks (serve, clien

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

Our daily cron-script attempts to ensure the mksysb was successful; if success, eject the tape - else, do not eject. Daily operator procedure includes either (a) tape rotation (14 tapes for two weeks of retention at off-site vault) or (b) trouble ticket (routed to the tools team) if the tape did

Re: retension

The quickest way that comes to my mind is to keep the RECLAIM percent at 100 for copypoolextra. But, why do it anyway? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyPhone: (330)-471-3390 P.O. Box 6927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Canton, Ohio USA 44706

Re: IP Address

Check your activity log... (query actl)... usually when a session is established, the IP address of the node is displayed in the activity log... 11/03/00 11:31:58 ANR0406I Session 958 started for node MIFS00 (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(1080)). 11/03/00 11:31:59

Server-to-server COPYPOOL problem, anyone?

You guys (and gals) mind if I jump in with a server to server problem. We're also setting up our site for electronic vaulting thru the server to server functionality. We have two TSM 3.7.3.8 servers (H70 2 CPU's 1gb mem with AIX 4.3.3) each at a different location of which bot

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

> Look at "Cache Hit Pct." and "Cache Wait Pct." in the q db f=d >output. You want to see cache hit % in the 98-99 range and Wait% to be >zero. If these numbers are not in these ranges, then your performance >suffers. Increasing BUFPOOLSIZE in dsmserv.opt is the knob to turn, but >if you tu

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

hi, Just some extra input for mksysb. On our site,we direct mksysb backup of each server to a filesystem/file (instead of tape), eg. /mksysb/server1_mksysb.110200, get TSM/ADSM to backup the file during daily backup. We have NIM(Network Installation Management) server set up, so if we need to rebu

Re: How to force PENDING to EMPTY/SCRATCH immediately?

Remember that: If you have REUSEDELAY set to 7, you are preserving the validity/usability of 7 DB backups volumes (assuming 1 generation a day). The DB backup tracks where the files are. When a reclamation is done, the data is not moved... it is copied. When you force a pending volume to become

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

>Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some explaining in the >past for purchases and it's not always that simple. It depends upon the nature of the people in charge and organizational culture. Back when I worked for The Phone Company, that was a large bureaucracy with General Purpose Ma

Re: Archivals

Well, there is a client who needs to keep his database dumps fpr 60 days.. so i figure i better archive them offsite (to clear some space on our library)... -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

I usually size large *SM servers with 2GB of memory. In my experience that seems to be the best TCO with price vs. performance ratio in mind. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX Support, HACMP, Enterprise Disk(Shark)& Tape Solutions Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

> Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some explaining in the > past for purchases and it's not always that simple. I have all the > data I need to ask for more memory. What I would like is responses > from others who have large databases and this may or may not help me > to get more th

Re: TSM 4.1 UNIX

You should be buying TSM from somebody who is up to speed on the new licensing model. In your environment you would have needed the "Network Enabler" feature from TSM 3.7 and below, but now with the new Value Based Pricing it is no longer needed or even purchasable at this point. Let me know if

Re: Server-to-server COPYPOOL, anyone?

> >Still, I'd be grateful for further *sizing* and configuration hints. > > I would think that sizing for a copypool is simply the same size as your > primary data? > What I notice at our site is that we use one server as a pure target server, > the only nodes defined on this machine are ADSM/TSM

Re: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

ADSM Best meets these requirements with an extensive range of features which provide: Data protection ? ADSM provides protection for files, file systems, and entire disks, with ranularity at the file level. This includes the ability for certain files to have longer retention and/or more backups k

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

How do you handle rotation of mksysb tapes.. How many mksysb tapes do you have ? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 11/03/2000 11:04:47 AM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Re: Restore Sun Sol

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some explaining in the past for purchases and it's not always that simple. I have all the data I need to ask for more memory. What I would like is responses from others who have large databases and this may or may not help me to get more than 1 GB of

TSM 4.1 UNIX

Hello all, We are looking at installing a TSM Server on a RS/6000 and I was wondering if anyone can give me a little help. There is an option in the proposal that has been presented to us for a Network Enabler and I was wondering if this is something that we would need. We are looking at using

Re: AW: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

As some of you may know, KeyLabs is not the most reputable testing organization. KeyLabs was the firm that reportedly tested Windows NT against Linux a year or so ago. They're results showed that NT was faster in every category. When the report was published, members of the Linux community were

Re: IP Address

You could use the ping command and the node name. Once you do the ping it should return with the IP address for that node name. ex. ping mars Bill Wheeler AIX Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Diane Geils [mailt

Re: IP Address

Which Operating system ? Ramesh > -Original Message- > From: Diane Geils [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: IP Address > > > Could anyone tell me what command I would use to display an > ip address for > a client, usin

IP Address

Could anyone tell me what command I would use to display an ip address for a client, using only the node name.

Re: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

There was a discussion in September that may help you, visit the archives at http://search.adsm.org/ and search for "would you buy tsm again" On Friday, November 03, 2000 4:58 AM, Klatt, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > http://www.keylabs.com/results/veritas/veritas.html > > Gru? > Mic

Re: Archivals

backup / restore archive / retrieve >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/00 10:36AM >>> If i were to do it daily. then i would have 365 copies right? What about restoring? -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Archivals

yesare you sure you need to archive? It sounds like you may not be familiar with TSM concepts and perhaps you simply need a specific number of VERSIONS on your backups. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/00 10:36AM >>> If i were to do it daily. then i would have 365 copies right? What abo

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

>We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of >memory each. We have to >add more memory on the systems due to performance issues. Our database will >keep growing >and will probably be at 80GB within the next 3 to 6 months. The amount of >memory to purchase >is still up

Re: Archivals

If i were to do it daily. then i would have 365 copies right? What about restoring? -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Archivals >eventually there is only one copy of the archiva

Re: Archivals

-do a q copy type=archive f=d you'll get a series like below - look for an active - look at the copy destination to see the storage pool used - do a q stg to see if it has any data - assuming the stg pool is separate from one used for backups, if it has data it has archives - do a q content x

Re: Really bad performance for a sql query after upgrading to v

We have a very bad performance for SQL queries since we have upgraded the server (AIX 4.3.3) to Version 3, Release 7, Level 4.0 I've only seen it on queries on the occupancy table. Queries on other tables seem to run fine, although I haven't tried them all. Every mornig at 8:00 I run select stg

Re: Archivals

>eventually there is only one copy of the archivals right? NO if you archive filea on moday of each week into a archive copy pool with a retention on 365, at the end of the year you would have 52 versions of the file and as you continued to archive each week, one would expire and one would b

Re: Archivals

q copy type=archive PolicyPolicyMgmt CopyRetain DomainSet Name Class Group Version NameName Name - - - - GMACTIVEGM-NT

Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

Hi, We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of memory each. We have to add more memory on the systems due to performance issues. Our database will keep growing and will probably be at 80GB within the next 3 to 6 months. The amount of memory to purchase is still up i

Re: Archivals

So eventually there is only one copy of the archivals right? And could i check them in for restore purposes later on.. would i encounter any problems? Thanks -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server-to-server COPYPOOL, anyone?

>Still, I'd be grateful for further *sizing* and configuration hints. I would think that sizing for a copypool is simply the same size as your primary data? What I notice at our site is that we use one server as a pure target server, the only nodes defined on this machine are ADSM/TSM servers. Th

Re: AW: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

"Klatt, Michael" wrote: > http://www.keylabs.com/results/veritas/veritas.html Intersting... The test doesn't seem to test real world scenarios. I wonder why they didn't test network backup and restore. I wonder why they tested client and server on the same machine - how many people do that?

Re: Scheduling backup for NT Cluster on ADSM 3.1.2.50

Before using ADSM 3.1.0.7 I tested ADSM 3.1.0.8 and the error was the same. So I returned to 3.10.7 and I had the problem. I've just downloaded the patch you've suggested. Another things: how can I test a manual backup for the cluster? how Can I use the Backup/Restore Client to check a succesfull

Re: Backup problem for Archivepool on disk to tape

Henrik This is correct. Your data has either been migrated to the tape primary storage pool, or perhaps the size of the archived file was greater than MAXSIZE for the disk primary storage pool and the archive went straight to tape. For this reason, you should run backup stg on all primary pool

Re: How to force PENDING to EMPTY/SCRATCH immediately?

>Thanks Richard, and you're right - that would have been easier in this >situation, but the main intent of my question was to find out a bit more >about the inner workings of the TSM server. > >Is this one of those "done everyday at midnight" tasks, like pruning the >activity log, or is there some

AW: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup

http://www.keylabs.com/results/veritas/veritas.html Gruß Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sixbury, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 2. November 2000 19:55 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Tivoli TMS (ADSM) vs Veritas Netbackup Vertraulichkeit: Vertraulich We a

Re: Backup problem for Archivepool on disk to tape

Hi Henrik, I think when you issue backup stg ARCHIVEPOOL 3570ARCP, the archived data has already been migrated from ARCHIVEPOOL to 3570AR. That's why backup stg ARCHIVEPOOL 3570ARCP processes no data but backup stg 3570AR 3570ARCP works fine. You can check the activity log if there is any ARCHIVE

Re: Archivals

Hi: Overall it seems you want to archive a set of files on a daily basis and then store them offsite. I assume you want to archive rather than simply backup because you want to retain each version of the file for a long period of time. How you would go about it depends on your situation. For e

Re: Archivals

Hi: at the command line do a q copy type=archive or q copy type=archive f=d to see your site definitions on archived files. Each archive is a unique instance of what is archived and the number of days it is retained is determined by the retain version values. Once you archive the file, you can

Re: Server-to-server COPYPOOL, anyone?

None of the two (2) replies that I got made it to the list ... thanks anyway to the contributors. >From that little traffic, do I assume correctly that server-to-server copypools are rarely being used? Still, I'd be grateful for further *sizing* and configuration hints. On 26-OCT-2000 09:54, I

Backup problem for Archivepool on disk to tape

Hi all A question about backup an Archivepool on disk to a Archive copypool on tape. I issued the command below backup stg ARCHIVEPOOL 3570ARCP And got the the folloing message 11/03/2000 08:20:10 ANR2111W BACKUP STGPOOL: No data to process. The night before i did an archive. And from the AR

Re: How To enable dbbackup trigger

Do you see this message ANR2283I Database backup trigger defined, but is disabled. Explanation: A database backup trigger has been defined, but because the recovery log mode is currently set to NORMAL, the database backup trigger is disabled. Database backups can only be triggered when the log m

WinNT on alpha: how about DST patch and 4.1 client?

Hi, we have several WinNT clients out there running on the alpha platform. They also seem to be affected by the Daylight Savings Time error, but I did not find any patch for 3.7.2. Even more, a 4.1 client doesn't seem to exist so far. What's up? -- Reinhard MerschWestfael