Check UDB backup thruput

2001-01-30 Thread Peng Yong Goh
Hi, I am using UDB EEE V6 on SP2 and TSM for backing the UDB database on 3590 E model drives. UDB backup is invoked using DB2 utilities which transfer the data to Tivoli STorage manager to write to tape. The UDB backup is very slow compare to normal file backup. It seem to indicate that the inter

Exchange TDP deleting inactive backups

2001-01-30 Thread Cecil Lawrence
Message sent on Paul Ewing's behalf : > We run TDP for Microsoft Exchange. When the Backup Copy Group was set up > it did not have > the VERDELETED parameter set to 0 (zero). I have corrected and activated > the Backup Copy Group. > However the inactive backup versions do not get rebound

Bleeding edge stuff (LTO)

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Giles
Good day all - been gone for a while but now I'm back. I have a client that is thinking of moving over to the new LTO tape drives, for a number of good reasons. I was wondering if there is anyone out there currently employing or benchmarking these drives, and what the results have been so far. I

Re: Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread David Bronder
Brecton Whitten wrote: > > We are currently planning to move our TSM > server from a 604e high node in an SP2 complex > to an H50 standalone. Both platforms have the same > number of CPU's and amount of memory ( 2 G ). The > big difference being MCA vs. PCI. We are on TSM 3.7.4 > and are going t

Re: Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread Steve Harris
Brec, This has been discussed many times - check teh archive I'd suggest that you install 3.7.4 on the new box, move the database over, then do an upgrade. The easiest way to move the database is to arrange so the DB is on external disk, then move the disk to the new machine, with dsm.dsk and

Re: Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Tim's got the right idea. Since it's AIX on both platforms, a db restore will do the trick. No need to do the export / import. You only need to do that if you are changing platform OS's. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-59

Re: Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread Williams, Tim
Hi. I'd tryto 1, upgrade on your existing machineTSM to the higher level... on the new node have TSM installed (at the higher level) disable sessions (on the day of the move) on the day of the move...move all your disk data to tape (should be a daily pro

Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread Brecton Whitten
*SM admins, We are currently planning to move our TSM server from a 604e high node in an SP2 complex to an H50 standalone. Both platforms have the same number of CPU's and amount of memory ( 2 G ). The big difference being MCA vs. PCI. We are on TSM 3.7.4 and are going to move up to TSM 4.1.2 (

saving a bad tape...

2001-01-30 Thread Vraspir, Mary J.
Hi all, Does anyone know of a data recovery house that has 'cracked' the ADSM encryption. I have a bad tape (only copy) from which I want to recover the data. Move data fails. Thanks in advance, Mary V West Corp Omaha, NE

Re: saving a bad tape...

2001-01-30 Thread Ray Pratts
I've heard that IBM has a service in San Jose that will recover data from damaged media. "Vraspir, Mary J." wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know of a data recovery house that has 'cracked' the ADSM > encryption. I have a bad tape (only copy) from which I want to recover > the data. > Move data

Re: Archiving problems with TSM 4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Thanks for posting this, Frank. We have seen this too, but I hadn't done the measurements. Sorry, but I don't know if there's a fix for this. At 04:20 PM 1/30/2001 -0500, Mauro Jr, Frank wrote: >I have an archive system where we were archiving thousands of files per >night at a rate of 100 arch

Archiving problems with TSM 4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Mauro Jr, Frank
I have an archive system where we were archiving thousands of files per night at a rate of 100 archives/ 13 seconds. I upgraded the ADSM client to TSM 4.1 and now it is archiving at a rate of 100 archives/16 minutes. I archived one file which under ADSM which was so quick it showed less then 0 se

Re: Which client version is best for a Win2000-server ?

2001-01-30 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Excellent list Wanda. I will add: One problem with failed schedules showing up as completed successfully is fixed in 4.12. Not sure if this is the same one you mention for RSM. We have experienced this on 3.7 and 4.1 - an example is Server out of Storage Space, - schedules show as completed su

Re: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Carlson
I am running it as root, with no limit. I have 4GB real memory, and 3GB of paging space, 1% used. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Miss

FW: Which client version is best for a Win2000-server ?

2001-01-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
I have been wrestling with this question myself, and it's difficult. Below is the information I have collected from THIS LIST on the various client levels for Win2K. You have to be CAREFUL what you are doing here, as there are problems with all available versions, some with very ugly consequence

Re: Total amount of bytes backed up per day for a node

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Canan
True. What I would really like to do is use the end_time, but with some sort of a substring function to indicate only look at the first 10 characters. Evidently, using cast or substring with group is invalid. I've tried several other fields(entity, etc) and all come up with errors. At 12:14 PM

Re: Total amount of bytes backed up per day for a node

2001-01-30 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Dave. I notice you're grouping by End_Time. I'll bet that it's very unlikely for all the filespaces of a node to finish backing up at the same time. What else have you tried grouping by? Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message--

Total amount of bytes backed up per day for a node

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Canan
OK, SQL Select gurus. I am trying to figure out, using the new summary table in TSM 3.7, the select statement for how many bytes are backed up per day for a given node. What I have so far is: select cast((end_time)as date) as "Date", sum(bytes) as "Number of Bytes for Node $1 Backed Up" - from s

Backupset Question

2001-01-30 Thread Linda Seeba
I'm trying to test generating and recovering from backupsets on a Solaris 4.1.2 TSM server for a Solaris 3.7.1 client . I generated a backupset by: generate backupset acngds007 acngds007_01292001 * devclass=3584lib7 scratch=no vol=882aae retention=2 description='Backupset for Acngds007'

Re: TDP oracle...and q filespace

2001-01-30 Thread Williams, Tim
Try q occupancy: tsm: ADSM>q occupancy *tdp Node NameType Filespace StorageNumber of Physical Logical Name Pool Name Files Space Space Occupied Occupied (MB)

Re: Netware restore problem

2001-01-30 Thread Jim Kirkman
Jeff, what versions of server and client are you testing with? There were problems in this area with earlier revs. Jeff T wrote: > I have a netware user who wants to use our TSM server for file backup. I > gave him the software and he has been tesing it. > > He claims that the trustee rights f

Re: RMAN ADSM Errors

2001-01-30 Thread Thiha Than
hi, I think 7200 for commtimeout value is more than enough. The only effect that commtimeout has on sessions is that idle sessions stay longer before got canceled by the server. Probably, there isn't enough data to send through three different sessions. Whey don't you start only one session? I

TDP oracle

2001-01-30 Thread Thiha Than
hi, The file space that got created for TDPO backup is only virtual. So there is no way to find out the capacity and pct util. regards, Thiha >When I use TDP for Oracle the backup completes OK. >But when I issue the command >query filespace >TSM tells me the following: >Node Name

Re: shared 3590

2001-01-30 Thread William Boyer
If your tape management system is DFSMSrmm, insertion of tapes happens differently than CA-1 or CA-TLMS. If the tape isn't defined to the RMM control dataset (CDS), then RMM adds it to his CDS using the default insertion catagory (private/scratch) defined for that library. So, to prevent RMM from

Re: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Sheelagh Treweek
Andy, I've seen strange behaviour when we have pushed up the bufferpool and not also modded the binary to use 8 segments instead of 6. The AIX server code is built to use 6 segments - equivalent to 1.5GB. Depending on the number of threads etc I have seen some truly terrible behaviour in the pas

TDP for ORACLE restores

2001-01-30 Thread Thiha Than
hi, Assuming that you have the DSMO_NODE and password file setup correctly, startup no mount database on the second node. % rman RMAN> connect target RMAN> connect rcvcat RMAN> allocate channel... # with correct env vars RMAN> restore controlfile RMAN> sql 'alter database mount' RMAN> restore

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Kathleen M Hallahan
Thanks for the info! Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/30/2001 12:16:03 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Kathleen M Hallahan/ISS/HQ/FHLMC) Subject Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and R

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
Our CE has been working with Hardware support on this issue. The Hardware PMR is 34925 Branch 422. As of yesterday, the record still stated the fix would be released by the end of the month per our CE. At 11:54 AM 1/30/01 -0500, you wrote: >Diana, > >Who are you working with on the I/O problem

Re: shared 3590

2001-01-30 Thread Allen Barth
Welcome to the world of dueling hosts. ...been there done that this condition is fixed by patching the mainframe. Get a good understanding of what happens during library insert mode with respect to the hosts attached, then look for info on CBRUXENT. This module is part of OAM and provi

LAN free backup/archive

2001-01-30 Thread Dean Winger
I am interested in knowing if it is possible to perform LAN free Backup/archives with TSM 4.1 for Windows NT/2000. I have a SAN that consists of five NT servers; one is my TSM 4.1 server. I have a library (Qualstar 46120) attached to the SAN via Dells 35F Bridge. The Host Bus adapters in the serv

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
Yes, our Atape driver is at 5.4.4.0. We initially went from 5.0.2.0 to 5.4.2.0 and saw the problem there also. At 05:51 PM 1/30/01 +0100, you wrote: >With the latest Atape driver 5.4.4.0 ? > > > >Von: Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Am: 30.01.2001 16:46 GMT > > >Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dis

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
Kathleen - We are running J's and K's and the IO errors occur on both types of tapes. At 11:10 AM 1/30/01 -0500, you wrote: >Are you running with K cartridges as well? We've been seeing these errors >also, >but only on the K cartridges. > >Kathleen > > > > > > > > >"Michael, Monte" <[EMAIL PRO

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Muldoon
With the latest Atape driver 5.4.4.0 ? Von: Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Am: 30.01.2001 16:46 GMT Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Matthew Muldoon/MAINSTOR/Niedernberg/mus/DE) Thema:Re: Antwort: Re: Pro

Re: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Richard Sims
>Has anyone seen strange behviour what the buffer pool memory is greater >than 1GB? I normally have mine set to about 800MB, but since I have >some spare memory, tried 1.2GB. It runs well for a while, but then >exhibits strange behaviour. I enter admin commends, and the headings >come back and

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Kathleen M Hallahan
Diana, Who are you working with on the I/O problems? Is there a contact in Tuscon (or wherever) that you could give me? We've got an open PMR on this issue right now and I'd like to be able to pass that info on to our CE so he can touch base with them. And the end of the month is tomorrow...I

Re: Antwort: Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
We are running 4.1.2. At 05:41 PM 1/30/01 +0100, you wrote: >Are you using 4.1.0 or 4.1.2? > > > > >Von: Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Am: 30.01.2001 16:22 GMT > > >Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Kopie: (Blindkopie: Matthew

Antwort: Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Muldoon
Are you using 4.1.0 or 4.1.2? Von: Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Am: 30.01.2001 16:22 GMT Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Matthew Muldoon/MAINSTOR/Niedernberg/mus/DE) Thema:Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgr

Re: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Sharp, Neil (London)
You are hitting the max allowed. This is something like 1.3GB (or at least it was < 3.7) > -Original Message- > From: Andy Carlson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory > > Has anyone seen strang

1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Carlson
Has anyone seen strange behviour what the buffer pool memory is greater than 1GB? I normally have mine set to about 800MB, but since I have some spare memory, tried 1.2GB. It runs well for a while, but then exhibits strange behaviour. I enter admin commends, and the headings come back and say

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
We are running D25D. This level of microcode ran fine prior to going to TSM 4.1. We had never had an IO error before then. Now we receive the errors on both our tape drives. At 08:43 AM 1/30/01 -0600, you wrote: >Diane, > >What level of microcode are you currently running on your 3590 tape dri

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Kathleen M Hallahan
Are you running with K cartridges as well? We've been seeing these errors also, but only on the K cartridges. Kathleen "Michael, Monte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/30/2001 09:43:28 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc

Re: RMAN ADSM Errors

2001-01-30 Thread Kai G Hintze
adsmserv:/usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/dsmserv.opt already has the line COMMTimeout 7200 do you think I should boost it even higher? That should already be 2 hours! What would be the downside of having a huge COMMTIMEOUT? - Kai. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:53:20 -0800, Thiha Than <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied

Re: Failed backup...and a lot of codes...

2001-01-30 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Geoffrey, it appears your problem is 01/29/2001 23:49:38 ANS1943E The operation is not supported: Downlevel server version. While you may have the latest client code, the downlevel TSM server code doesn't support backup sets. good luck! lisa |+--> ||

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Michael, Monte
Diane, What level of microcode are you currently running on your 3590 tape drives. We are running 3590E1A tape drives with a microcode level of D22E. We have been on this level of code for quite some time with no errors. Our 3590's are also house within a 3494. -Original Message- From

Re: Failed backup...and a lot of codes...

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Pøerost
Hi , It seems you coded Domain all-local in dsm.opt - client tries to backup systemobjects - not supported on server < 3.7.3 , try to code domain c: d: e: regards Petr - Pùvodní zpráva - Od: Gill, Geoffrey L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Komu: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Odesláno: 30. ledna 2001 15

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Přerost
RSM controls label by own - when you enter new tape into library RSM mount it and try to recognize label - it is is unsuccesfull it moves tape into unrecognized media pool - to make tape usable for any RSM enabled appliaction you have to move tape into free media pool - RSM ask for confiramation b

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Patrick Gervais (o: Standard Life :o)
Salut Rick, This is my procedure to define a drive. Define Library in ADSM adsm> define library 3590lib libtype=scsi device=/dev/rmt0.smc ANR8400I Library 3590LIB defined. adsm> q libr Library Name LibraryDevice Private Scratch External Type

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Doug_Leatham
Thanks Diana, Will be making the jump from 3.1 to 4.1 very soon, so any other Hints or Tips would be most valuable!!

Re: Netware restore problem

2001-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
TSM backs up rights and IRFs only at a directory level, not a file level. You may want to have your user create a file structure that adheres to this, create a directory, administer the rights to that directory and place the file in that directory. Moving forward, you will want to consider th

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Etienne Brachel
Petr, You must be kidding me.. hehe ok.. one last question.. if I do an inventory the tapes are taken out of I/O and placed into the slots.. how do I know if the tapes are labeled properly.. do I care ? or is it done automaticly.. ? Thanks for your support Petr.. you are a little synical but I l

Re: Failed backup...and a lot of codes...

2001-01-30 Thread Rushforth, Tim
The Message is ANS1943E (Not ANS1934E): ANS1943E The operation is not supported: Downlevel server version. Explanation: The operation cannot be performed because server version is downlevel. System Action: Processing stopped. User Response: Use correct server version. The backup probably failed o

Failed backup...and a lot of codes...

2001-01-30 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Recently we upgraded a server to Win2k. The TSM client software I installed was the newest. The backup last night has reported as failed as you can see from the server activity log, and the rest of the logs. I'm not sure I understand what the error messages below mean: ANS1934EBackup set '

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Přerost
It's GUI - go control pannel - computer management - removable storage - now you should see Media pools Physical locations Work queue Oprator requests. in physical locations you should see library and drives - check it in media pools you should see "tsm\server1\library name" , unrecognized and f

Re: Netware restore problem

2001-01-30 Thread Mearl Danner
Is he backing up from his workstation? If so, all the client sees is a mapped drive. As far as I know, the file sytem rights of the client platform are backed up. The TSM client (Windows, I assume) knows nothing about the Novell trustee rights - except that he can see the files. He thinks he's bac

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Etienne Brachel
Petr, is this RSM manager a GUI based tool, where do I find it ? or is it only command-line ? Thanks for yr help regards, Etienne >From: Petr Pxerost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Diana Noble
I had posted some questions last month regarding problems we encountered after our upgrade to TSM 4.1 and thought I would pass along what we found. We are using AIX 4.3, 3590E's and a 3494. When issuing the dsmadmc command we received "ANS1033E An invalid TCP/IP host name was specified". Resolu

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Richard Sims
>any suggestions on how to define the drives and label the tapes would be >very much appreciated... Etienne - Have you followed the LTO instructions in the server Readme file and found them not to be effective?

Netware restore problem

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff T
I have a netware user who wants to use our TSM server for file backup. I gave him the software and he has been tesing it. He claims that the trustee rights for NDS file objects are not being preserved on restore. Is there a way to ovecome this? I have limited netware knowledge so I'm in a bad p

TDP Host Server Installation Failure: Dialogs are out of order (-12)

2001-01-30 Thread Angelica Tulipano
Someone knows this error message and how to solve it? This error appears when we try to reinstall the TDP in another folder after uninstall it. We follow this procedure: 1. Uninstall the application using the add/remove tool from the control panel on windows 2. Delete the Tivoli Folder 3. Remove f

Re: 35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Přerost
Hello Etienne , no drive definitions in W2K , inject tapes into library with RSM manager by I/O station or manualy throught door ( if you use door you have to audit library with RSM ) - you will see them in media pool named unrecognized - drag and drop them to free media pool - RSM will write free

Re: IBM 3995 C66, ADSM 3.1.2.90 and AIX 4.3.2

2001-01-30 Thread Richard Sims
Kieron - Configuration information for the 3995 and many other devices is unfortunately absent from the *SM documentation. Doing an APAR search on "3995" turned up IX79416, which specifies element numbers and SCSI IDs, which may be of some value in your struggle with configuration. R

35xx library with W2K (RSM)

2001-01-30 Thread Etienne Brachel
Hi all, Defining the LTO library on W2K is working fine.. but I cannot define any drives !! How does Label libvol work ? can I issue search=bulk ? or even search=yes.. with labelsource=barcode..? Why is it on NT4.0 working like sunshine.. and does this newer W2K based on the same OS make it so m

IBM 3995 C66, ADSM 3.1.2.90 and AIX 4.3.2

2001-01-30 Thread Kieron Johnson
Hi Has anyone seen this before? We have a 3995 C66 attached to an IBM RS/6000 H70 running AIX 4.3.2 and ADSM 3.1.2.90. We have had a major headache trying to get this optical jukebox to work!! The configuration with ADSM has been checked, double checked even triple checked and no problems can b

Re: two servers on 1 3466 or 2 3466s?????

2001-01-30 Thread Sheelagh Treweek
Joe, I think Richard is spot on in saying that the hardware configuration dictates the size of the database that you can support. And there is no magic formulae ... Over the last five years we have taken *SM from : - a single server on RS6000/R24 - moved it to on RS6000/R40 (not much gain; be