Re: Access to ADSM Database via ODBC and Script?

2001-01-31 Thread Xavier Merlin
Very interesting and quite a coincidence ! Yesterday I was reading perl and when I read something about ODBC I said to myself: this is the thing to use if it works with adsm. Right now I am using a construct like system(" dmsadmc -id=secret -pa=secret < some_sqlscript") from within a perl scri

Re: 3570 MAGSTAR DRIVES

2001-01-31 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Depends on the library. You can't define a single TSM library across multiple physical libraries. As long as you can put more than two drives in the library, you can configure those into TSM. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531

3570 MAGSTAR DRIVES

2001-01-31 Thread Doug McLauchlan
Hi all, we have 2 3570B12 Magstar units each has 2 drives, (each unit are on separate scsi's but same address). I currently have 2 libraries defined in ADSM each with 1 unit in each. I want to be able to have 1 library with all 4 drives in it but don't know if this is possible because the elem

Re: Qualstar Library

2001-01-31 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Short answer: yes you check them out one at a time and run to I/O port to take them out. Pain in the arse! You can also do a checkout libvol remove=no and then go and open the door and remove the tapes from the slots as appropriate. We work closely with Qualstar. I will mention that a bulk por

Re: Is anyone using TDP for MS Exchange?

2001-01-31 Thread Del Hoobler
Doug, Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 2.2.0 will be generally available on March 30, 2001. It will contain Exchange 2000 support. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tedder, Doug {46-6~

Oracle 8.1.7 support

2001-01-31 Thread Steve Harris
My DBAs tell me that Oracle has announced end of service for Oracle 8.1.6 in October. Thus they are keen to start rolling out Oracle 8.1.7 across our myriad apps. The Tivoli Web site states TDPO is only verified up to Oracle 8.1.6. When can we expect 8.1.7 to be verified.? Even if not verified o

Re: Bleeding edge stuff (LTO)

2001-01-31 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Dan, Go to adsm.org and search for posts by me about LTO libraries. Lots of good stuff there that I won't regurgitate here. I think the technology is great: drives and libraries. However, the implementation in these very early days leaves somethings to be desired. That said, sticking to NT rat

Is anyone using TDP for MS Exchange?

2001-01-31 Thread Tedder, Doug {46-6~Indianapolis}
All-- We are using Tivoli Storage Manager for backup of our AIX , Novell, and NT environments, and are planning a migration to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. We understand that TSM has a Data Protection Module for MS Exchange. My questions are: * Is anyone using this product? * What has b

Re: Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Nick
Not really because I want a copy of the file every time it changes, which is a variable. So if the file changes everyday this week and only once next week I don't want to schedule my archive every day. Thanks Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual

Qualstar Library

2001-01-31 Thread Barth, Terry (MBS)
Hello All - I have a question. We currently have an ATLP3000 that can eject up to 12 tapes at a time to take offsite. We have been thinking about purchasing a Qualstar TLS4121 with AIT technology. However, we noticed that there appears to be only 1 slot to handle the checkout of tapes. My que

Re: Is anyone using TDP for MS Exchange?

2001-01-31 Thread Rushforth, Tim
We use it. Works great. Some people complain that you cannot do an individual mailbox restore with the product (must restore entire IS to recovery server, then export mailbox), but we don't find that to be a problem. We have a "Hot Spare" recovery server for Exchange anyway, so it is setup to b

Re: Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Rushforth, Tim
That is what Management classes and the ability to bind different management classes to different files are there for. We have somthing similar in the fact that we want different retentions for a subset of files on a server, so we create a different management class and add an include for those f

dbv too large

2001-01-31 Thread Hagan, Patrick L
Now that my Solaris TSM 3.7.3.8 server is fully loaded (using 75% of a 50gb db) with clients, it's performance is not good too good. After chasing my tail round and roung, I have decided that my (3) 17gb dbv's are to large! Being new to TSM I didn't know this was going to be a problem, I d

Drive errors

2001-01-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Just upgraded from 3.1.2.55 on AIX 4.3.3 to TSM 4.1.2.0. Seeing the following on the drives: ANR8311E An I/O error occurred while accessing drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1) for GETLOGSENSE operation, errno = 22. ANR8468I 3590 volume U00186 dismounted from drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1) in library 3494LIB. ANR8311

Re: Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Allen Barth
This is a case for archive! Brian Nick cc: Sent by: Subject: Backup versions "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RI

Re: Archive command filespec

2001-01-31 Thread Othonas Xixis
You should try something like this: # dsmc archive -subdir=yes "/apps/mfgdata/swprod1/*" "/home../*" Cheers Othonas Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/31/2001 03:01:14 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <

Archive command filespec

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Sims
>dsmc archive /apps/mfgdata/swprod1/*.* > /usr/ownlog/archiveswprod1 > >ANS1102E Excessive number of command line arguments passed to the program! Henrik - Interesting. The client manual description of the Archive command specifies no limit to the number of files that may be given on th

Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Nick
Good afternoon everyone, I have a question concerning backup versions. We have an existing policy domain that is using the standard 30 day backupretention period and I have received a request impacting several clients in the domain to keep specific files for 7 years. My first thought was to bu

SUN tsm and 3494lib

2001-01-31 Thread
Can anyone tell me how to verify that the proper drivers are loaded on a sun box ... I'm trying to do a new TSM Server install without much help from my Sun Admins and I have next ot no Solaris experience. I've defined the library and now I'm trying to define the drives. I've read the doc about d

webport

2001-01-31 Thread Adriana M Abouchar
Is there anyone using the new webport parameter available in the TSM 4.1.2 client code ? Any problems using web client interface in a Firewall environment when webport is used ? Anyone has tested if opening ONLY Firewall ports 1500,1580,1581 and the two new webports (let's say, 1582 and 1583) is e

Re: restore files

2001-01-31 Thread Rob Schroeder
I had that once backing up a mac client. I upgraded the client version and it worked fine after that. Rob Schroeder Famous Footwear [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: connectin 3494 library to TSM4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Sims
>Where can I get information about connecting 3494 library to Win2K... "IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device Drivers: Installation and User's Guide" (GC35-0154) "IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device Drivers: Programming Reference" (WB2107)

restore files

2001-01-31 Thread Toni Banire
I am basically curious to know if anyone out there is experiencing the same problem as myself. I have come across a couple of incidents where TSM has not been able to restore a file it successfully backed up. The last one, see below PFU3F9' contains one or more unrecognised characters and is not v

connectin 3494 library to TSM4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Ofer
Hi There, Where can I get information about connecting 3494 library to Win2K which running TSM 4.1?, where can i get element info ? it's not in http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices_win.html#current3 Do I need driver for the library ? where can i get format info to define in devclass

Re: 3466-C00 with 3494 attached environment - DOCS?

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Sims
>Is is not >upd dr LIBRARYNAME DRIVENAME online=no ? That is the paramount step to take. You could also desensitize the operating system to the drive maintenance work, as in doing an AIX 'rmdev -l rmt_', though it's usually not necessary. Richard Sims, BU

Re: 3466-C00 with 3494 attached environment - DOCS?

2001-01-31 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Is is not upd dr LIBRARYNAME DRIVENAME online=no ? This is what I do for my 3494, but it's not attached to the 3466-C00. lisa |+---> || "Talafous, | || John G." | || | || |

AW: 3466-C00 with 3494 attached environment - DOCS?

2001-01-31 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
You can use your favorite browser (http://your.nsm.url:1580) to go to the TSM admin screen. Type http://your.nsm.url:80 and you'll find the docu for TSM and the 3466. Hope this helps Kind regards Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++

3466-C00 with 3494 attached environment - DOCS?

2001-01-31 Thread Talafous, John G.
Let's say, for example, that a 3590 tape drive failed. The IBM CE enters and wants the TSM Admin to vary the device offline so he can work with it. Where would something like this be documented? Not TSM, nor 3590, nor 3494, nor AIX. Are there Redbooks? Environment is TSM 3.7.2, 3466 (AIX 4.3.2),

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

2001-01-31 Thread Rushforth, Tim
For the disappearing includes/exludes - if this is the one caused by running the wizard it is fixed in 4.12. (IC27249 - INCL/EXCL OPTIONS REMOVED FROM DSM.OPT WHEN USING WIZARD TO SET UP WEBCLIENT OR CLIENT SCHEDULER.) The 4.1 client readme said it was fixed there but it wasn't. (This one actuall

NDMP support?

2001-01-31 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
Is there any sense that TSM might support NDMP anytime soon? The single reference to NDMP is at http://www.tivoli.com/products/documents/whitepapers/storage_vision.html, which is over a year old, yet contains frustrating present-tense descriptions of production functionality that still doesn't exi

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

2001-01-31 Thread Wayne T. Smith
I find Wanda and Tim's lists credible. Missing from the list are a number of 4.1.2 installation issues such as disappearing include/excludes and inability to provide a tailored dsm.opt. This must be quite depressing or embarrassing to those in Tivoli that work hard to make it a good product. Ma

udb backup performance

2001-01-31 Thread Snyder.John
We have one TSM server that does nothing except UDB backups. Our configuration is sp nodes (both tsm server and udb clients) with 3590 B drives, tsm 4.1.2.0 on aix 4.3.3, udb eee 7.1. 18 megs/sec/drive is what we see for udb data backups ...using using 4 drives we get an aggregate total of 72 m

Re: How to avoid sending files larger than the STGPOOL MAXSIZE ?

2001-01-31 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
Hello, we had also a serious problem with backup of DB2 databases because the declared size by UDB was rather random ! The UDB utility had to be patched, available by IBM. Regards, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43

Access to ADSM Database via ODBC and Script?

2001-01-31 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Hi, I've just spent more than one day in vain trying to develop a script which should get data from the ADSM DB via ODBC. First I used Active State Perl (see http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ for more info) and module Win32::ODBC. This crashes the whole perl interpreter. Using Jscrip

backint on HPUX

2001-01-31 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SSI-ISES-31
L&g We run the backint for a hp_ux with an ADSM client 3.1.0.7. Server is OS/390 2.8 with TSM3.7 Server I upgraded the client adsm with the Tivoli 3.7.1.0 but now BACKINT is not working properly !!! Should it i.e. the upgrade be transparent or do we need a fix or ... thanks. Ruud van

Re: How to avoid sending files larger than the STGPOOL MAXSIZE ?

2001-01-31 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >However, this didn't solve the problem. One 120 MB file had 35% > >sent to the server (with STGPOOL MAXSIZE=50m), before the expected > >warning came: > > ANS1310E Object too large for server limits > > Ole - How annoying! On the surface of it, this doesn't make muc

Total number of objects deleted

2001-01-31 Thread Sam Moore
Adsmer's We did a fresh backup of one our clients filespaces(client was previously backed up) which contains multiple filespaces. We renamed the filespace that we were going to do a fresh backup on. Backup was sucessful. The total number of objects deleted was 588. My concern is that it d

Re: saving a bad tape...

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Sims
And another suggestion: try retrieving the data using all tape drives that you have, in that there may be variations, and one may be able to read the bad tape better than another drive. Richard Sims, BU

Re: saving a bad tape...

2001-01-31 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
One trick I've done for a bad tape is to alternate "audit vol VOLSER fix=no" and "move data VOLSER" commands. It seems each time a little more infomation was picked up. I never got everything from a tape, but you may get lucky and get the data that you need. I went through about 4 rounds before

TDPR/3 2.7 on Solaris 2.6 whith client 3.7.2.13

2001-01-31 Thread f h
Hello ADSMer, The situation is following Solaris 2.6 with Tsm client 3.7.2.13 and TDP R3 2.7 for Oracle TSM server 3740 on Aix 433 ML06 When we start a Backup, 3 sessions are visible on the server but after the Logfile backup the TDP sessions hangs and the data sessions on TSM server are immed

ANS1029E Communications have been dropped and MSCS -Reply

2001-01-31 Thread Arturo Lopez
Claude, Had the same problem on a cluster server running client 3.7.2.. Tried updating the password but still did not workDrilled down to the registry and deleted the password key for scheduler. Reinstalled scheduler and it worked arturo

Re: saving a bad tape...

2001-01-31 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Call 1-800-IBM Media, and make a warranty claim-- I have had the guys in Tucson rebuild tapes for me (free)! lisa |+---> || "Vraspir,| || Mary J." | ||| || | ||

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

2001-01-31 Thread Lisa Cabanas
I am just a little confused (okay- it's perpertual...) Wanda & Tim, I only have to worry about RSM problems if the TSM server is NT/2K? (Isn't RSM a service that runs on the NT/2k platform only?) With an AIX TSM server at 3.7.4.0, the "only" problems I would have with going 4.1.2.X client code o

Re: Archiving problems with TSM 4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Don Matush
I upgraded Solaris Clients Solaris 2.6 , ADSM 3.1.0.6, to TSM 4.1.1.0. Server is OS/390 MVS , ADSM 3.1.2.50. I have a large number of archive jobs that ran in seconds and or one or two minutes. They now take 15 to 20 minutes. I turned on tracing and found that must of the time was spent in "Solve

Re: Exchange TDP deleting inactive backups

2001-01-31 Thread Del Hoobler
Paul, If you did NOT change management classes, and you activated the policy set, the next time expiration is run, the inactive versions should be deleted (as long as VERDELETED is 0.) But, if you "fixed" this by changing the policy so that new backups will go to a different management class, an

Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-31 Thread Brecton Whitten
*SM admins, Thanks for all the responses on my conversion help request. It's a relief knowing that we don't have to export/import for this. I guess I just got confused in sifting through the postings. I think I learn more from observing this group than I do from the actual documentation. I hope

No Subject

2001-01-31 Thread Del Hoobler
Fannizo This is APAR IC26111. There is a fix for this. This is FIXTEST Version 1.1.2.01. It includes the following fix: - IC26111 If a SQL Server 7.0 database is at compatibility level 60 or 65, an attempt to backup the database or its transaction log would result in the DB-Lib mess

buta/butc AFS backups on *SM

2001-01-31 Thread Shalev, Jonathan
Hi *SMers, This message is intended for those with AFS experience. We are on ADSM 3.1.2.50 (moving to TSM 4.1.x shortly). Most of our backed up data (multiple terabytes) is AFS data, and we are doing volume level backups with AFS buta/backup. Our AFS fileservers are running AFS versions 3.4, 3.5

ANS1029E Communications have been dropped and MSCS

2001-01-31 Thread Disler Claude, ABX-SERV-ZH
Hi cracks til 3 days ago, the tsm scheduler of one of my cluster nodes works verry well. but now, i've get some errors. errorlog says: 31-01-2001 12:35:14 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 31-01-2001 12:35:14 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 31-01-2001 12:35:15 ANS10

No Subject

2001-01-31 Thread Henrik Hansson
Hi I have the following in a script for archiving data. cd / dsmc archive /apps/*.* -subdir=yes > /usr/ownlog/archivelist cd / # dsmc archive /apps/mfgdata/swprod1/*.* > /usr/ownlog/archiveswprod1 ## echo "Ready archive at: `date`" ## The /apps library and its subdirectories is archived ok but

AIX TDP for Oracle v2.1.10 & V4.1.2 API

2001-01-31 Thread Eric Tang
Hi All, On AIX, In preparing to upgrade from ConnectAgent 2.1 (ADSM v3.1 client) to TDP for Oraclev2.1.10, anyone has experience if TDP Oracle v2.1.10 works with 4.1.2 API? I have experience on HP-UX11.0, TDP for Oracle v2.1 only works with v3.7.1 API. Thanks in advance. Regards, Eric Tang

Re: Exchange TDP deleting inactive backups

2001-01-31 Thread Etienne Brachel
Hi Paul, check your Exchange manual for the command (like doing the backups) to delete older Exchange backups. If Im right there is a parameter "/ifolder:" in the exchange command-line to do this.. just add a schedule with the command-schedule to accomplish this.. good luck, ***

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2001-01-31 Thread Davide Fanizzo
We run TDP for Microsoft SQL 1.1.2, for the backup of my 3 SQL Server. Whe i try to backup some database from one SQL server the system give me this respons: Tivoli Storage Manager Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server - Version 1, Release 1, Level 2 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation