Re: I/O Error

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
This sounds like a problem that I worked on. Not sure of the APAR at this time. Will have to check in the morning. It depends on when the error was generated. This problem happens when a process is writing to tape and that tape reaches its EOT mark prior to all the data that needs to be writen

Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Schafer
"Kovacs, Mark" wrote: > Shawn, > > He have both UNIX and NT servers running in our shop. We have both > NT and HP-UX TSM servers, so it should not be a problem. I would like to > get a contact that can give us some good technical insight into the product > and how well it works. > >

Re: EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Cameron McDonald
Hi All, I agree that it is painful when the documentation is not clear or simply not there. This concept is at least brought out in the TSM implementation course. Exclude.dir still makes sense when you know that anything listed in this is taken out of the 'traverse list'. That is, any files in

I/O Error

2000-12-12 Thread Charles See-Toh
Hi, how are you? my name is Charles. i am from Singapore and would like to enquire about the following: we have an IBM RS6000 system running with AIX 4.3.3 Operating System. Our TSM version 3.7.3.8 is configured with TSM Server, TSM Clients and DB2 Clients. It is installed with TSM Tape dri

decision support

2000-12-12 Thread Gerald Wichmann
When installing decision support I remember there being some files that you cut/paste something out of to populate your database and create the necessary tables. I m having trouble finding those files again. Anyone remember where they re located and what they re called again? Also does DS work wi

Re: LOG usage over 100% - backups failing

2000-12-12 Thread Kenneth & Susan Bury
Are you backing up NetWare clients? Inappropriate backups of the NDS can be a killer for the log. Ken > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Vijay Havaralu > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 08:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LO

Re: EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
I am certain that it will be implemented eventualy. The problem is two fold. 1. Archive never had an include exclude function before (aka its new) 2. Archive and Backup are two very diffrent processes. Same executable, but quite diffrent from one another. In time I am certain that a universal

Re: EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Thanks Keith: The manual I was looking at was for windows which doesn't mention anything about HSM of course so basically it had the same description for all options. It would make sense to me if the exclude option would exclude files from all services (backup, archive, space management) instead

Re: Tivoli Certification for TSM v4.1

2000-12-12 Thread Lloyd Dieter
I updated my Cert to 4.1 in October...I thought the 4.1 test was far clearer and more well-written than the previous exams. Pay attention to the library sharing items, and understand how adaptive differencing works. I also remember a question on the new pricing model. If you have a good underst

Re: EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rushforth, Tim wrote: > And speaking of Excludes ... > > The Exclude.archive is a welcome feature, but we tend to have to duplicate > excludes, one line to exlude from backups, another line to exclude from > archives. > > Is there a way to exclude a file from both backups an

Re: TDP for Informix on HP-UX

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
Good Day Sir, There has never been support for Informix on HPUX. However announcment 299-281 on IBMLink states that there is intent to release a 64 bit TDP for Informix on HPUX in a forthcomming release. Unfortunatly I can not be specific on what release that will be in. Keith Davey Tivoli Sys

Re: EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Rushforth, Tim
And speaking of Excludes ... The Exclude.archive is a welcome feature, but we tend to have to duplicate excludes, one line to exlude from backups, another line to exclude from archives. Is there a way to exclude a file from both backups and archives with one statement? Also, what is the differ

Re: TDP for Informix on HP-UX

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
I am having one of our project managers look into this. Will send a reply as soon as I have more information. Keith Davey Tivoli Systems On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Talafous, John G. wrote: > What happened to support for TDP for Informix on HP-UX??? Looking at the > Tivoli site, I find that there is

Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Alex Paschal
We're currently using BMR under AIX. Our environment is complicated by the fact that we use DCE/DFS. BMR is slick. I'm currently trying to get our NT group to take a look at it also. I don't know what issues Shawn ran into, but when we were evaluating and testing BMR, we found several things w

EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS

2000-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
> Now, if I put Exclude "?:*" at the top of this list, no other files on > the disk are backed up but the directory structure is. Not terrible from > a space standpoint but could be pretty confusing for a user trying to > restore something. If, however I make the top (last) statement > Exclud

LOG usage over 100% - backups failing -- update

2000-12-12 Thread Vijay Havaralu
Thanks to all, who replied to this problem. As answer to several question in replies: we are taking adsm-db full backup daily, and it is not the cause of the problem. Incremental backup is implemented 5 days a week, but it forces full db-backup when the changes go above a certain numbe

LOG usage over 100% - backups failing -- update

2000-12-12 Thread Vijay Havaralu
Thanks to who all replied to this problem. As answer to several question in replies, we are taking adsm-db full backup daily, and it is not the cause of the problem. Incremental backup is implemented 5 days a week, but it forces full db-backup when the changes go above a certain number

Re: tape volumes with unknown content

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
You might try checking these volumes into a library and then run q content on them. That or an audit volume. However if the volhist states they are STGDELETE then most likly they were data volumes that once belonged to a storage pool, but were eather deleted, or all the data on them were expired

TDP for Informix on HP-UX

2000-12-12 Thread Talafous, John G.
What happened to support for TDP for Informix on HP-UX??? Looking at the Tivoli site, I find that there is no information on this configuration. Now, if I need a backup solution for this, am I going to be forced to look at other solutions? What happened, Tivoli? John G. Talafous IS

Re: V2 archives retrievable in v3.7?

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Davey
That is correct. New TSM clients add extended table entries to the TSM Server DB that prohibit earlier clients from restoring data with thoughs changes. However the TSM client does not have to reprocess any of the older data. It is recommened that you test a new client release prior to moving i

Residency Announcement: TI-A150 A Practical Guide to Tivoli SANergy

2000-12-12 Thread Charlotte Brooks
-- Forwarded by Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM on 12/12/2000 08:29 AM --- (Embedded image moved to file: pic07515.pcx) From: Redbooks at IBM on 12/08/2000 03:29 AM EST To: ITSO Mailing List cc:(bcc: Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM) Subject: Residency

tape volumes with unknown content

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Koblauch
Hello, I have some DLT tapes in a cabinet but I'm not sure what these contain. The tapes are unknown to ADSM (3.1), e.g. "q vol", "q drm", "q media" produce no results. Some of them have an entry in the volume history, where their status is "STGDELETE", which might indicate that they are old DB

Residency Announcement: TI-A101 DB/2 and Oracle backup solutions using TSM

2000-12-12 Thread Charlotte Brooks
-- Forwarded by Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM on 12/12/2000 08:26 AM --- (Embedded image moved to file: pic16952.pcx) Residency Announcement: TI-A101 DB/2 and Oracle Backup Solutions Using TSM Benefits to Resident: DB/2 and Oracle are the most widely

Re: V2 archives retrievable in v3.7?

2000-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
>Our Financial Systems production includes archiving all file transfers from >the mainframe on *SM, 115,000 files so far. The platform is OS/2 running >V2R1 of ADSM. The OS/2 admin says he cannot upgrade his client because he >understands from the V3R7 README that he must retrieve all those file

Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Shawn D. King
I worked with Patty Dean, this is her email [EMAIL PROTECTED] She is a Sales Rep for The Kernal Group, She is who we worked with, she came out with a Tech Specialist and they worked with us for the day. Let me know if you need any other information I would be happy to assist you

V2 archives retrievable in v3.7?

2000-12-12 Thread Fred Johanson
Our Financial Systems production includes archiving all file transfers from the mainframe on *SM, 115,000 files so far. The platform is OS/2 running V2R1 of ADSM. The OS/2 admin says he cannot upgrade his client because he understands from the V3R7 README that he must retrieve all those files an

Re: JDBC and TSM ODBC

2000-12-12 Thread Doug Baker
Paul, I did manage to figure this out! It's very kludgy, however. As I said before, no combination of ODBC/JDBC would work. Yet Access 2000 had no problems with the TSM ODBC driver. So, I just made an Access 2000 database that has nothing but links to the desired TSM tables. Then made a datasourc

Re: Tivoli Certification for TSM v4.1

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Pratts
Ken, I am both ADSM 2.1 and TSM 3.7 certified, plus I have several AIX certifications. The 4.1 objectives are the same as for 3.7. I can tell you that the 3.7 test was not designed for just TSM administration experience. Although, day to day administration is a plus, customer requirements and s

TSM and Solaris

2000-12-12 Thread George Simpson
I am working with Tivoli Storage Manager and an Informix database, both on Solaris 5.8. I am trying to point an Informix configuration (BAR_BSALIB_PATH) to the tivoli BSA library. I cannot seem to find the correct one. Does anybody know the name of the .so file? Thanks, George Simpson

Réf. : Re: Expiration of media on an AS/400

2000-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Piaget
Jacques, As you use BRMS/400 as media management, you have to define the user exit to BRMS into ADSM. There are the following : adsm> Q EXIT Session established with server SUISSE1: AS400 Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.41 Server date/time: 2000.12.12 16:16:10 Last acce

Re: Expiration of media on an AS/400

2000-12-12 Thread Thomas Bebee
Jacques, Cannot answer your question, but thought I would pass on our experience with ADSM and AS/400 as a server platform. We also did a "proof of concept" awhile back with the AS/400 as the server platform, as our main application runs on that platform also. I had previous experience with ADS

Re: Antwort: tape drive needs cleaning

2000-12-12 Thread David Longo
Wolfgang. If you are getting the descriptions "AAA0 -AAA4" in your errpt it means you need to reinstall your Atape.driver. There are some problems with installing some S/W products AFTER you have installed Atape.driver (even just another fileset will do it.) This is sort of a known problem

Re: HSM disaster: all backups expired

2000-12-12 Thread Luci Ziebart
Couldn't you just restore from the database backup prior to the error? Provided of course that you do a daily database backup. |+---> || Richard Sims | || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | || | || 12

Re: tape drive needs cleaning

2000-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
>Richard, > >We installed our 3494/3590E1A in june 1999. Since then we noticed several >read only tapes every week. We tried new micro code without success. Then we >reduced the cleaning cycle from every 500 mounts to 250 mounts. No more read >only tapes came up since then. > >Seems that at least

Re: ANR9999D bfcreate.c(1799)

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Pratts
My experience has been that once I cleared up the cause of the problem, as in a tape drive error, that the ANRD messages did not reoccur. Once the ANRD occurred without any other obvious errors and working with support I found that I need a patch. I suggest you fix the tape drive error a

Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Kovacs, Mark
Shawn, He have both UNIX and NT servers running in our shop. We have both NT and HP-UX TSM servers, so it should not be a problem. I would like to get a contact that can give us some good technical insight into the product and how well it works. I was even wondering if you can

Re: R: Re: Tivoli Certification for TSM v4.1

2000-12-12 Thread Claudio Cofre Caro
Hi. Im lost my old papers with a good manual called: "ADSM Perfomance Tunning" anybody know where can i find this paper ? (or some new version of this) i need too some book about: "TSM Advanced Administration" and "TSM DRM" thanks in advance. Claudio --

Re: HSM disaster: all backups expired

2000-12-12 Thread Richard Sims
>last weekend, the backup of our biggest HSM filesystem (AIX 4.3.2, >ADSM 3.1.0.8) expired all files !!! Reinhard - My sympathies on that ugly problem. It superficially sounds as though the file system was not mounted, such that the backup found just the empty mount point directory an

Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Shawn D. King
Hi Mark We had The Kernel Group come out to our company about a month ago and they were going to do a demonstration of the product, Our shop is mostly NT, but we also are running Novell, and Digital Open VMS and the Kernel Group Software runs on a Unix Platform, If you have a Unix environment the

Expiration of media on an AS/400

2000-12-12 Thread Jacques Butcher
I have a problem whereby we are doing a proof of concept on a AS/400 with TSM and a 3575 L12. The environment also consists of 10 NT , 5 Linux and 3 Novell machines which require to be backed up to the AS/400 TSM server. We have tested all the backup and recovery procedures with success and custom

Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 Thread Kovacs, Mark
TSMers, Does anyone have experience with the Bare Metal Restore product from the Kernel Group ? I've seen their information at http://www.tkg.com/bmr/ and was wondering if anyone else has used it. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated ! Thanks, mark

R: Re: Tivoli Certification for TSM v4.1

2000-12-12 Thread Fabrizio Giulietti
Hi Ken I successfully passed this examination last week and I found useful to know the Administration Guide 3.7 or 4.1. There are some classes about TSM 4.1 like Implementation,Advanced Administration and Disaster Recovery Management. Implementation is easy, Advanced and DRM are very huge.

HSM disaster: all backups expired

2000-12-12 Thread Reinhard Mersch
Hi, last weekend, the backup of our biggest HSM filesystem (AIX 4.3.2, ADSM 3.1.0.8) expired all files !!! I do not know the reason; the only hint I get is one line in dsmerror.log: TransErrno: Unexpected error from fioGetFS:statfs, errno = 4 My main concern now is: how do I handle the situation

Re: tape drive needs cleaning

2000-12-12 Thread Reinhold Wagner
Richard, we installed our 3494/3590E1A in june 1999. Since then we noticed several read only tapes every week. We tried new micro code without success. Then we reduced the cleaning cycle from every 500 mounts to 250 mounts. No more read only tapes came up since then. Seems that at least our driv