Re: Archiving vs Backups

2001-06-18 Thread Jim Taylor
Hi Richard >From a TSM perspective I have found that there are two main differences between backups and archives. 1. Archives are kept, strictly, based on retention period. e.g. 365 days. Whereas backups use versioning. Backups can also be configured to expire based on retention as well. 2. Ba

Re: INCLUDE/EXCLUDE STATEMENT

2001-06-18 Thread Jim Taylor
Hi Gerardo, Unless I am mistaken (others correct me if I am wrong) The include/exclude list is read from the bottom up. By including /t/.../* you have also included the 'tuxedo' directory and subdirectories. The would therefore be subject to the rules of policy1. You should redo the order of t

Re: corrupt Active Directories with restore of Win2K

2001-06-18 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
No, we've not seen it -- but an IBM friend has referred me to the following KBase article. We specifically tested full recovery of both Domain Controller and Exchange 5.5 servers, including authoritative restore of the registry, and all worked fine. Q295932: Windows 2000 Domain Controllers Rest

Re: SCHEDULER ACTUAL EXECUTION TIME

2001-06-18 Thread Kent J. Monthei
>From a TSM Server admin session prompt, do a 'help set randomize'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 18-Jun-2001 18:22 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L cc: Subject: SCHEDULER ACTUAL EXECUTION TIME Hello, A question, Does anybody know wha

Re: SCHEDULER ACTUAL EXECUTION TIME

2001-06-18 Thread Angela Hughes
a scheduled backup starts depending upon what time the backup schedule on the TSM server is defined. If you're using sched mode prompted and the schedule for example is defined as a weekd (weekday) schedule @ 05:00 then the TSM server will prompt the client to being a backup @ 05:00 Mon-Fri. as l

Re: Domino TDP Woes

2001-06-18 Thread Radha Parameswaran
I have a very similar problem. I have setup the logfiles to be archived at certain set time throughout the day. For example this morning, the 5:00 am schedule worked fine and it archived some log files. But at noon, though the backup started, it hung up. If you look at the log file on the domi

removal of adsm fomat from backups

2001-06-18 Thread Seely, Jack
Wanda I was trying to post this question on adsm.org and could not post. I thought that you might have some ideas. I have a client request to be able to remove the tivoli format from data. ie to be able to see the file without tsm's format of the data. Could you post this or do you have any ide

INCLUDE/EXCLUDE STATEMENT

2001-06-18 Thread Gerardo Zapata
Hello, I have a question about the utilization of the include exclude list. I have specified the following statments in the list: include /t/tuxedo/bialog/.../ politicy2 include /t/tuxedo/procesos/.../ politicy2 include /t/.../* policy1 The intention is to backup /t/.../* filesystem using the r

SCHEDULER ACTUAL EXECUTION TIME

2001-06-18 Thread Gerardo Zapata
Hello, A question, Does anybody know what determines the actual start of an scheduled backup? At the end of the sched.log file there is a message that says: 'Command will be executed in X minutes'. The X value varies, we ran some tests for one node and the value went from 2 minutes to 70 minutes

Re: Lost Admin password

2001-06-18 Thread Lindsay Morris
I think you can halt TSM (ooops - you might have to kill the dsmserv process) go to the TSM server bin directory (/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin?) and type ./dsmserv That should get you a bunch of start-up messages; then ENTER should get you a prompt, at which you can say register admin me mypassw

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Hi We can disable the recalim,migration process for restoration. Then once again we can enable them. In my case I have seen that if I do backup during reclaimation .Backup gets higher priority. It happened only once. -Original Message- From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Lost Admin password

2001-06-18 Thread John Johnson
Does anybody know a way to recover from a lost admin password. We have an ADSM server running on AIX, but no one knows the passwords to the admin ID's. I have been able to login to the server, but only as an Analyst/Operator. There are three ID's with System authority, two of which are locked o

Re: Archiving vs Backups

2001-06-18 Thread John Pimentel
My basic understanding of this is that a backup is intended to be more easy and quick to restore. It also tends to be on more expensive media (due to speed and such). Archives are kind of your third tier of storage. If you have the nth copy of a something that is not likely to be used ever, but

Re: Archiving vs Backups

2001-06-18 Thread Lindsay Morris
IMHO -- Archives and backups serve two different purposes. Backups let you restore a damaged file or a damaged machine. Archives let you get some data off the machine and put in on a shelf for a long time. Archives are useful for meeting legal requirements for retention, or for getting rid of a m

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Richard Sims
>I cann't find this in my guide is there a TSM 4.1 Admin Guide available. Mais certainment... http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/storage_mgr/admanual.htm

Re: Copy-Pool Question

2001-06-18 Thread Richard Sims
>My Problem is, that one of our tapes in the library is destroyed. >I thought, no problem we have a outside copy pool... > >restore volume A00xxx preview=yes >shows me about 105 tapes Dietmar - The degree of "destroyed" may mitigate your effort. A leader block snapped off a 3590, for ex

Archiving vs Backups

2001-06-18 Thread Dearman, Richard
Is there any real difference between archiving and running a regular backup. I currently just run backups and do no archiving. Although to do keep data for years in some cases. What are your opinions? Should I change my backup strategy and create archive storage pools. Thanks for your input :)

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Dearman, Richard
I cann't find this in my guide is there a TSM 4.1 Admin Guide available. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclaims Ques >If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims an

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Richard Sims
>If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims and someone >needs to do a restore from a tape will TSM stop a reclaim process and let >the restore take place. To add to the prior responses: The Admin Guide specifies what happens in topic "Preemption of Client or Server Operations"

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Jeff Bach
Sometimes. I have seen ADSM interupt processing for a restore that needs that tape. I have also seen on the 4.1 code ADSM give the message of data unavailable when tape drives are not immediately available on the server (3 seconds). If anyone has changes to resolve. Please let us know. Jeff B

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread David Longo
Yes, restores have top priority. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/18/01 01:49PM >>> If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims and someone needs to do a restore from a tape will TSM stop a reclaim process and let the restore take place. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIM

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Lindsay Morris
Restore DOES take priority, but it may also take an hour to decide to relinquish a tape drive. > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Dearman, Richard > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Reclai

Re: Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Dearman, Richard
I have seen this problem as well I thought that the restore was suppose to take priority. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclaims Ques Sometimes. I have seen ADSM interupt processing

Reclaims Ques

2001-06-18 Thread Dearman, Richard
If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims and someone needs to do a restore from a tape will TSM stop a reclaim process and let the restore take place. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it ma

Re: Help, log space problem

2001-06-18 Thread Martin, Jon R.
This is from and old posting. I used it last week to bail me out of the same situation. You might need to choose a different directory I used /tmp instead of /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin - Check out page 715 of the Admin reference for AIX... Recovery Log Extension Command. What you n

TDS 4.2.0 problem

2001-06-18 Thread Ian Wilkes
Hi, can anyone help ...? Using: TSM server 4.1.2 TSM ODBC driver v4.1.2 (PTF IP22151) MS SQL 7 to store extracted data TDS 2.1 + patch 0006 which upgrades to 2.1.1 What works: Install and patch TDS. Install Guide and loader v4.1.0 Loader extracts from TSM server TDS cubes build and can be viewed

Re: Help, log space problem

2001-06-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
first you will need to use the dsmfmt -m -log /somepath/newlogfilename # where # is the number of meg you want to allocate the new log file THen... DSMSERV EXTEND LOG (Emergency Log Extension) Use this command to extend the size of the recovery log when you need additional log space to re

Re: Copy-Pool Question

2001-06-18 Thread David Longo
Yes, it is very possible. I have had several of these restores to do and have had maybe 20 tapes on one of them. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/18/01 12:05PM >>> Hi, My Problem is, that one of our tapes in the library is destroyed. I thought, no problem we have a outside copy pool... r

Copy-Pool Question

2001-06-18 Thread Schmid, Dietmar
Hi, My Problem is, that one of our tapes in the library is destroyed. I thought, no problem we have a outside copy pool... restore volume A00xxx preview=yes shows me about 105 tapes now I have to checkin 105 tapes.. Is this possible? We are using TSM 4.1.3 / AIX 4.3.3... Dietmar Schmid

Sync Error

2001-06-18 Thread Orin Rehorst
User getting: 10:35:00 Synchronizing Mailbox 'Jim Eldridge' 10:35:00 Synchronizing Hierarchy 10:35:00 Synchronizing Favorites 10:35:00 Synchronizing Folder 'Journal' 10:35:01 Error synchronizing folder 10:35:01 [80004005-501-0-550] 10:35:01

Re: full backup question.

2001-06-18 Thread Dearman, Richard
Either start using collocation on the tape storage pool, which will help in the future with restore speeds. But for now I would say create a backup set for the machine you are going to restore. The backupset will take sometime to create but the restore will go quickly. -Original Message

Help, log space problem

2001-06-18 Thread Orin Rehorst
Both my tech are out of pocket. ADSM 3.1 Server component won't start. Got ANRD adminit. C.982: insufficient log space to update table administrative.attributes. Your assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. TIA Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority

Re: Sun Storedge L280 question...

2001-06-18 Thread Dirk Billerbeck
Hello Dwight, according to the latest supported device list from Tivoli these libraries aren't supported at all (just FYI). So if you will have any problems don't count on Tivoli. Do you have a library at the location where you are? Then I would suggest you are doing some tape related stuff (lik

Re: Restoring files to an AIX 4.2 machine via dsmadmc

2001-06-18 Thread David Longo
If you want the "latest" files restored then you want to use -latest instead of the data parameters. You want to use -replace to overwrite without prompting. To get all the details on restore, go to Tivoli website and then documentation downloads and select the version of *SM you have and the

Re: Sun Storedge L280 question...

2001-06-18 Thread John Pimentel
If it's anything like the IBM Magstar 3570 the numbers go starting from right to left (31 being the right-most) slot - that's the "Home" column. On the 3570, 16, is the drive (I think 15 would be the other if we actually had both like we are supposed to). I hope that helps, or at least starts yo

Sun Storedge L280 question...

2001-06-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Ok, I know these are basically some Storedge model but... These are the models with two (2) internal tapes and a six (6) tape removable magazine. If one loads up one of these devices and performs a label libvol ... search=yes one ends up with tapes such as Library Name Volume Name Status

Restoring files to an AIX 4.2 machine via dsmadmc

2001-06-18 Thread John Pimentel
Hello all: I am attempting to restore files to an AIX machine via the command line interface (no GUI available), and am not sure which flags are available to use. My issue: restore the latest file(s) (files have been deleted) for a certain directory. The restore should not prompt me to overwri

View Meta Data in TDP for SQL v2.2 GUI

2001-06-18 Thread Neil Schofield
Can anybody help me with a question about the TDP for SQL Server v2.2 client. Is it possible to view the meta data about a SQL backup object that is stored in TSM from the TDP for MS SQL GUI? I can find the information using the /FILEINFO switch on the TDPSQLC QUERY TSM FULL command line. The th

Oracle restore error

2001-06-18 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! One of our Oracle people is trying to restore a database (on Solaris). After some processing the restore fails with the following message in the sbtio.log: (2651) OBK-sbt:<06/18/2001:15:10:22> odsmSess(): # of dsmInit retries = 1 (2650) OBK-sbt:<06/18/2001:15:10:22> sbtread(): End of

full backup question.

2001-06-18 Thread Ofer Nachom
Hi all, Will I am restoring a big amount of data the restore take allot of time ( 1 GB per 3 hour ). I assume it's because of the incremental backup which store the data on several tape. If I will make in every Tuesday a full backup, is that will improve my restore time ? or the only solution fo

Re: Upgrading to 4.1

2001-06-18 Thread Reinhard Mersch
> TSM moved the required files. The new $DSM_DIR is different. However, I seem to recall that one file didn't get moved automattically, I forget now which one. "dsmserv.opt". This file was not automatically moved, when I upgraded a 3.1 server to 4.1 recently. But this does not contribute to Thom

Linda Zgonce/Piscataway/IBM is out of the office.

2001-06-18 Thread Linda Zgonce
I will be out of the office starting June 18, 2001 and will not return until June 19, 2001. I will respond to your message when I return. If you require assistance for the Cordiem account, please contact Victoria Prince, T/L 794-2243

Douglas Strilecky/OpenSys/Star is out of the office.

2001-06-18 Thread Douglas Strilecky
I will be out of the office starting 06/18/2001 and will not return until 07/02/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

Re: Question on default for directories

2001-06-18 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
You are not right ... i found completely the same sentence in Admin Guide ver 3.7 too: Administrator's Guide 3.7 for NT page 251 Adminoistrators Guide 3.7 for AIX page 241 but never mind, tme most important fact is your problem was solved succesfully :-)). Hi TOM > -Původní zpráva- > O

number of versions

2001-06-18 Thread Ofer Nachom
Hi all, I would like to know how many version I have, for sum files on the TSM Server. Regard Ofer Nachom. Triple C. begin:vcard n:Nachom;Ofer tel;fax:972-3-6080667 tel;home: tel;work:972-3-6080643 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.ccc.co.il org:Triple C ;Triple C Technical Departmen