Re: dsm.sys file not being read in aix

2001-06-13 Thread Indra Gunawan
Hi Dave, Firstly, after you edit the dsm.sys shutdown or kill the scheduler process. You check it by using ps -ef | grep dsmc sched. Then, start it up again such as this at the prompt : # /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsmc sched >/dev/null 2>&1& Hope it works. salam, # ./indra --- "Burks, Dan" <[EMAIL PR

Re: dsm.sys file not being read in aix

2001-06-13 Thread Lau, Ming
Dave, Need to re-start the scheduler after the change. Ming Lau System Administrator Lam Research -Original Message- From: Pace, David K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dsm.sys file not being read in aix We updated a d

Re: Backup a BIG Sap installation

2001-06-13 Thread Mark Stapleton
Richard Sims wrote: > Given the traditionally unsatisfactory performance of DLT, I'm curious > if any customers are using SuperDLT and might comment on the relative > performance they see with this newer generation of DLT. Its backside > optical servo tracking should yield better start-stop perfo

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
Are you talking about frame as in cabinet? Is it not the library firmware at fault in this case? Suad -- On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:38:12AM -0500, Jeff Bach wrote: > There is a problem with 1550. It effects the 3rd and 4th frame in the > library. The robot spazes out. We found it last week .

Re: Anyone using STK L-700 library with LTO drives?

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Bach
IBM tape drives have double the cache, HP and storage tek have variable speed drives (no back hitching) ALL information is available to the public. No experience is personal. Features9310 Library w/ 9940A DrivesIBM3494 L700 Library with Ultrium IBM LTO Ultrium HP suresto

Re: dsm.sys file not being read in aix

2001-06-13 Thread Burks, Dan
Dave, I believe the dsm.sys file is only read at the time you start the scheduler. > -Original Message- > From: Pace, David K [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dsm.sys file not being read in aix > > We upda

dsm.sys file not being read in aix

2001-06-13 Thread Pace, David K
We updated a dsm.sys file to take out excludes within the 12 hour window before the scheduled backup. 10 hours later when the backup ran as scheduled it backed up the server but ignored the updates made to the dsm.sys file. Isn't the dsm.sys file read each time a backup runs? Is there somethi

Re: dsm.sys file not being read in aix

2001-06-13 Thread Lindsay Morris
dsm.sys is only read when the client starts up. Look at using cloptsets - they are read every time a backup happens, even if the client SW has been running all week and you changed the cloptset yesterday. > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Be

Anyone using STK L-700 library with LTO drives?

2001-06-13 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We're getting ready to replace our STK 9710 and Quantum DLT-7000 drives. It's served us well, but time and technology change and we're starting to see more drive failures and issues with the drive speed. We're going to LTO drives -- they're a best-fit for our primary use -- and are looking at the

ADSM/HSM migration candidates list

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I can't seem to get HSM to generate a candidates list and begin migrating files on an AIX 4.3.2 system. The version of adsm.client.aix42.hsm is 3.1.20.8, one of the most recent ADSM packages. Anyway, the high migration threshold is set below the percent used for the filesystem, Space M

Re: Two library managers

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>How do I configure two 3494 ATLs to talk to one systems? > >With one ATL, I have an /dev/lmcp0 and I run a daemon /etc/lmcp behind port >3494 (the default port) > >For a second, do I have an /dev/lmcp1, add 4494 to /etc/services, and entry >to /etc/ibmatl.conf, and a daemon /etc/lmcp1 running beh

Re: Two library managers

2001-06-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
AHH! I'm having an attack of hardware envy! -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two library managers How do I configure two 3494 ATLs to talk to one systems? With one ATL, I have an /dev/

Unix Point in Time Restores

2001-06-13 Thread Dearman, Richard
In order to do point in time restores on a Unix (AIX) machines must you run an Full Image backup once a week and incrementals the rest of the week. Or can you just do your normal incrementals everyday. Basically, is the full image backup necessary. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCL

Disk volumes varying themselves offline or to a readonly status b y themselves

2001-06-13 Thread Mueller, Philip J.
I have recently implemented TSM v4.1.3 and have encountered a problem with my diskpool volumes. I currently have disk storage volumes in three locations: locally on the TSM server, NAS (network attached storage device), and on another network server. What is happening is that the storage volumes

Two library managers

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Bach
How do I configure two 3494 ATLs to talk to one systems? With one ATL, I have an /dev/lmcp0 and I run a daemon /etc/lmcp behind port 3494 (the default port) For a second, do I have an /dev/lmcp1, add 4494 to /etc/services, and entry to /etc/ibmatl.conf, and a daemon /etc/lmcp1 running behind por

Re: Domino TDP Woes

2001-06-13 Thread David Longo
I had somewhat of a similar problem on an NT 4.0 client with TSm 3.7 or 4.1 but not Domino. Just regular File INC. The dsmsched.log file was real big and an error occured one night. After that the backup wouldn't run. I would get (it's been a few months) some kind of access violation or sim

Domino TDP Woes

2001-06-13 Thread Vint A. Maggs
Hello All, We have been troubleshooting problems with three of our Domino servers without luck. At one point all was well but gradually the backups began failing. Nothing has changed on the TSM server side so the thinking is it must be a client problem. Various schedules are failing with no ap

RH linux 7.1

2001-06-13 Thread John Bremer
gurus, TSM Linux client 4.1 supports up to RH 7.0. Will this client work with RH linux 7.1? Thanks for any comments/experience on this issue. John

Re: client errors

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Bach
The communications session times out. The schedule is marked failed. When the backup completes outside the schedule window, it tries to update the status and you get the error. These was an APAR open. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL

Re: trunked connection

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>I like to make a backup via a trunked ethernet (2*FastEthernet) connection. >TSM client and TSM server are running on the same machine, the file space to >backup is a cifs share mounted over ethernet. > >When I send the data via a TSM backup session I get only 25 MBit as >throughput, when I copy

trunked connection

2001-06-13 Thread Andreas Rensch
Hi TSMers, little question ... I like to make a backup via a trunked ethernet (2*FastEthernet) connection. TSM client and TSM server are running on the same machine, the file space to backup is a cifs share mounted over ethernet. When I send the data via a TSM backup session I get only 25 MBit

Re: TSM 3.7 to 4.1

2001-06-13 Thread Lawrence Clark
We are still running 3.7.2, but the 70 clients are already at 4.1.1 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/01 10:53AM >>> Hi all, We run an OS390 TSM 3.7.20.0 server with over 100 clients, mainly Netware and NT. With 3.7 going out of support later this year we are considering moving to 4.1, initially just

Re: Will changing JUST the INODE number result in file backup?

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>I have a client that has a solaris box with 400gigs of data. He want to >"rsync" the filesystem to another solaris box. Access time, owner, >permissions will NOT change, but the inode for each file WILL change. > >If JUST the inode changes, will this result in TSM backing up the file? Keith - A

Re: User verification of backups?

2001-06-13 Thread Remeta, Mark
The problem is the users (some admin's included). If it wasn't for the users everything would work the way it is suppose to! -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: User verification of b

Re: User verification of backups?

2001-06-13 Thread David Longo
I agree. It takes a good bit of Manual checking to MAKE SURE stuff is being backed up. Querying events on server is not good enough. I have had them show as completed/successful when in fact clinet backed up NOTHING, and there was no dsm.opt or backup.excl to exclude it. Using CMD for one ca

TSM 3.7 to 4.1

2001-06-13 Thread John Naylor
Hi all, We run an OS390 TSM 3.7.20.0 server with over 100 clients, mainly Netware and NT. With 3.7 going out of support later this year we are considering moving to 4.1, initially just the host server, with the clients following some time later. My questions for those of you who have been there,

Re: User verification of backups?

2001-06-13 Thread Wayne T. Smith
Richard supplied a great "horse before the cart" post, but I think there is substantial merit in the notion of "verification of backups", especially if this means "enhancing the chance for rapid and complete restores, without surprise, to meet operational objectives". *SM, by itself, is inadequat

Re: How to setup Oracle backup

2001-06-13 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
You have to export ,compress and backup. p.b -Original Message- From: Lau, Ming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to setup Oracle backup Hello, I need to setup TSM backup for Oracle 8.0.5 database. Is any one knows how t

Re: TSM Reclamation Processes

2001-06-13 Thread Paul Zarnowski
This will not reclaim aggregates either. Currently, the only way to reclaim aggregates is via the RECLAIM process. I believe there *may* be plans to add an option to MOVE DATA to optionally reclaim aggregates. At 01:12 PM 6/12/2001 -0500, Jeff Bach wrote: >Move the data off the tapes back to th

Re: tsm mirroring vs pprc

2001-06-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
My experience has been that moving the db from ssa to san attached shark I have seen an improved data base response time. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tsm mirroring vs pprc How doe

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Mahesh Tailor
Jeff, What did you do to fix the problem? TIA Mahesh Tailor WAN Administrator Carilion Health System Voice: 540-224-3929 Fax: 540-224-3954 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/01 08:38AM >>> There is a problem with 1550. It effects the 3rd and 4th frame in the library. The robot spazes out. We found

How to setup Oracle backup

2001-06-13 Thread Lau, Ming
Hello, I need to setup TSM backup for Oracle 8.0.5 database. Is any one knows how to set it up an Oracle 8.0.5 backup in cron job? Thanks I have -TDP 2.1, -TSM 3.7.4 server -API 3.7 -Oracle 8.0.5 -AIX/RS6000 4.3.4 (for both TSM Server and client) Ming Lau System Administrator Lam Research

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Bach
There is a problem with 1550. It effects the 3rd and 4th frame in the library. The robot spazes out. We found it last week ... I'd take credit. ("Hey CE, Charles, is the robot supposed to do that??? Ya ... of course. ) the next day I got a call. "I found a problem with the library microcode e

Re: tsm mirroring vs pprc

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Bach
How does your database run? How many clients does one database backup? How many files does it track? I am not sure of a good baseline to gauge database speed, but I know our Informix database a lot faster on SAN attached storage than on local disk arrays. If anyone has ideas, I would l

Re: Error 1315

2001-06-13 Thread Amini, Mehdi
I am a member of Domain Admin with full permission to all folders -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error 1315 Hi Mehdi! I assume you are installing TSM 4.1 over an existin

Alternative Open File Managers

2001-06-13 Thread Ray Kramer
We have done a test with ST. Bernards Open File Manager, but it seems not to be usable in our situation, due to security and control issues. Does anyone have experience with other Open File Manager like products in relation to TSM? Thanks in advance, Ray Kramer / Hans van den Hoven Storage Mana

Re: "ACN4226E -- Exchange Error: ACN3516E -- An unknown Exchange API error has occurd."

2001-06-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Maklári, TDP for Microsoft Exchange uses a special Microsoft Exchange backup and restore API to talk with the Exchange server. The "unknown Exchange API error" means that the Microsoft Exchange backup and restore API encountered an error that it did not expect to. Normally, if the Microsoft API

Re: Sql error during restore

2001-06-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Christo, I don't ever recall seeing this. What did the SQL Server log show? How about the NT event log? Is this a user-defined database or a system database that you are restoring? If you cannot get it figured out, you should call IBM/Tivoli support. We will probably have to get Microsoft involv

Re: Error 1315

2001-06-13 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Mehdi! I assume you are installing TSM 4.1 over an existing ADSM installation on a Windows NT box? The return code 1315 means: The name provided is not a properly formed account name. ERROR_INVALID_ACCOUNT_NAME Not very clear is it? Could it be that the NT account you are using is not allowed

Problems with St. Bernard

2001-06-13 Thread Ray Kramer
Our network exists of several IP-domains, seperated by firewalls. A lot of NT servers suffer from the well-known Open File backup problem (e.g. NTUSER.DAT and IIS files). IBM/Tivoli recommended St. Bernard. We have done a test, and were surprised by the fact that it could only communicate via NetB

Error 1315

2001-06-13 Thread Amini, Mehdi
During an upgrade to TSM 4.1.2.19 received error message Error 1315: unable to write to the specified folder c:\ADSM\baclient. and the upgrade fails. Anyone know what is this message and how to fix. Thanks Mehdi Amini LAN/WAN Engineer ValueOptions 3110 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, VA 2204

Re: IBM ESS Model 2105-F20

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:19:03AM -0400, Magura, Curtis wrote: > See a few folks are using ESS. So are we. > > Does anyone know of a good forum to discuss ESS subjects. We have some > questions regarding VPATH's and HACMP. It would be good, but wouldn't discussion be leaning more towards the SAN

Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library

2001-06-13 Thread Suad Musovich
The drives are the same as a standalone to a 3584. There have been problems with firmware levels One of the firmware levels gave me errors on a few tapes that did not go away. The drives ended up freezing on "3" and would not go away until they got power cycled. Check you firmware level (latest

Re: only one migration process :-(

2001-06-13 Thread Leijnse, Finn F SSI-ISES-31
claudio, If you want to start more processes for the migration you have to look at two things: first is the migpr parameter, this is what I use: UPD STG ARCHIVEPOOL LOWMIG=0 HIGHMIG=0 MIGPR=3 Second in your device class there is a parameter called mountlimit this should be put to for example t

Re: client errors

2001-06-13 Thread Leijnse, Finn F SSI-ISES-31
hello, we also got these messages saying that multiple schedulers are running for a server and the schedule gave a status failed while clearly the backup went OK. My solution was to enlarge the duration parameter of the schedule. Although this should be the given startup time for the start of the

Re: tsm mirroring vs pprc

2001-06-13 Thread Frost, Dave
Joel the server was at 3.7.4, running on Solaris 7. we have since moved to Sol8/tsm4.1.3, but don't intend experimenting with the mirroring (both log and db are tsm mirrored). -=Dave=- -Original Message- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 June 2001 03:28 To: [EMAIL

client errors

2001-06-13 Thread Stan Vernaillen
Al, does anybody know what these are and how to get rid of them? I found them in the client error log 06/07/01 03:57:00 TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73 06/07/01 03:57:00 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 06/08/01 03:49:27 TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73 06/08/01 03:49:27 sessRec

TSM/TDP on AIX4.1.5

2001-06-13 Thread Lei L Wang
Hi all, my customer has multi-versions AIX & Oralce. ON 4 RS6000(AIX 4.1.5), the Oracle is 7.3.4 OPS . And on 6 RS6000(AIX4.3.2),the Oracle is 8.0.5 OPS. Do TSM and TDP for Oracle support so old version OS and DB well?If not which version of ADSM can ? And how can I use TSM or ADSM in this

Re: AIX listserv

2001-06-13 Thread Stan Vernaillen
Lindsay, all, Use the below mentioned AIX-L it is quite good. Stan Lindsay Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13/06/2001 00:59:07 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Stan Vernaillen/BE/CCE) Subject: Re: AIX listserv It would be nice to have ONE central r