Re: VGA monitors

2001-06-22 Thread Joel Fuhrman
What's VGA. Is that something like a typewriter. On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Lori Simcox wrote: > Just a quick survery - how many people run TSM on machines using VGA > monitors? > > Thanks, > Lori > > --- > Lori Simcox > TSM Clie

Re: VGA monitors

2001-06-22 Thread Stephen A. Cochran
--- Lori Simcox wrote: Lori Simcox TSM Client Development --- end of quote --- Ack, didn't see your signature : ) Forget my response.

Re: VGA monitors

2001-06-22 Thread Stephen A. Cochran
--- You wrote: Just a quick survery - how many people run TSM on machines using VGA monitors? --- end of quote --- Clients or Servers? I can answer for servers, and we use a console for every one. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College

VGA monitors

2001-06-22 Thread Lori Simcox
Just a quick survery - how many people run TSM on machines using VGA monitors? Thanks, Lori --- Lori Simcox TSM Client Development San Jose, CA ---

Re: ODBC driver that works with Office 2000?

2001-06-22 Thread Andy Raibeck
I am not at liberty to divulge details about future product plans, but if were, I might say that Office 2000 support could be coming in the not-too-distant future. ;-) Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only d

Can TSM directory paths, names be changed?

2001-06-22 Thread Glass, Peter
When the TSM Server software for AIX is installed, it rolls out a directory path of /usr/tivoli/tsm/... Is it safe to change this, or must the directory paths and names be kept intact? We are about to move TSM onto new disk, and the system administrators have this idea of moving TSM into a differe

ODBC driver that works with Office 2000?

2001-06-22 Thread Keith Minster
Greetings all, The latest ODBC driver for Win32 that I can find is for 4.1.2.12. Its "readme" states that the only MS Office apps it works with are the '97 versions. Now that Microsoft has come out with its second release since then (2000, now XP)... Has anybody heard when Tivoli will update t

Alex Mounayar/SMS is out of the office.

2001-06-22 Thread Alex Mounayar
I will be out of the office from 06/22/2001 until 06/27/2001. --- This message and any included attachments are from Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation and are intended only for the addressee(s). T

Re: Versioning Question

2001-06-22 Thread Kelli Jones
Thanks guys for the info...that's exactly what I needed! Phil, stop by and see us sometime at Information Systems if you ever make it back this way! Thanks again, Kelli Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chesterfield County, VA >>> "Ford, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/22/01 03:16PM >>> Hi Kelli - I us

Re: Versioning Question

2001-06-22 Thread Ford, Phillip
Hi Kelli - I use to live in Chesterfield County a long time ago (left in 1962), by the dam (Bolder Dam in I remember right) on the James river on Cherokee road. I wish we had that place now. In the include/exclude file you can tie a set of files/file to a management class. Each management clas

Re: Versioning Question

2001-06-22 Thread David Longo
Need more info on your specifics, but if I understand what you're after the answer is probably Yes. If you have say an NT server with MSSQL databases you can do this. The sqlfull.cmd as supplied can be made into 2 (or more) .cmd's and each specify which databases it is backing up and each can

Versioning Question

2001-06-22 Thread Kelli Jones
If I have one physical server with 2 separate databases on this one physical server, can I have two separate versioning criteria? i.e. Database 1 with 6 versions data exists, 3 data deleted, 60 day retain only and Database 2 with 10 versions data exists, 6 data deleted, 90 day retain ony versi

Re: Reclamation of COPY-POOL-Volumes

2001-06-22 Thread Alex Paschal
For collocated pools, if there are available scratch tapes, a single node is assigned to a tape. Only when you no longer have available scratch tapes does TSM start "stacking" nodes on a tape. If you want to minimize tapes in your copypool, I would suggest either not collocating or setting a low

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Lee, Lin-Yen
How to have a MC directly points to tape? -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs large file What we do is to put the one BIG Oracle TDP client we have into a separa

Re: Recovery Log size

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 08:35 AM 6/22/2001 -0600, Kelly J. Lipp wrote: >Doesn't this bring back the issue of Roll-Forward vs. not? I guess I'm >still in the not camp with no compelling reason to join the other. Also, >for those in the other camp, I'm thinking if your environment is so large as >to fill a 13 GB log i

Re: Improving NT client throughput

2001-06-22 Thread
Vint, Haev you tried running and "incremental by date only"? "Vint Maggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 06/21/2001 10:29:03 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: S

Re: File write error message

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Sims
>I experienced this error previously and noticed that our smit.log and >smit.script files were huge. >I cleared those files and that allowed more space for about 2 weeks. >Now, I'm experiencing the same error and can't figure out what is taking up >all the space. The administration of your AIX sy

Re: Recovery Log size

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Bach
With database sizes on client systems increasing each day to 100s Gigs from tens of Gigs, if the log size only goes up by 2.5 times the current size limit, some piece has to get 4 times faster to maintain the current way things are working. If Tivoli is not going forward faster than its customers

Error 195

2001-06-22 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I have a client with a drive which is not backed up properly. The error in the dsmerror.log is 06/20/2001 21:22:06 Return code 195 unknown 06/20/2001 21:22:06 Unknown system error He is running 3.7.2.19, which is supposed to contain a fix for this error. Anybody seen this too? Kindes

Re: File write error message

2001-06-22 Thread Lindsay Morris
Do you have enough space / permissions in /adsm/drplans? > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Dixon, Swonda > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: File write error message > > > I'm new to the Adsm

File write error message

2001-06-22 Thread Dixon, Swonda
I'm new to the Adsm / AIX gurus. I'm receiving an error message: ANRDicvolhst.c(4317): Error Writing to output File. ANR6353EPREPARE: File write error. ANR6951EPREPARE: Recovery plan file /adsm/drplans/DRPLAN.20010621.143358 was not created. ANR0985IProcess 26

Re: Recovery Log size

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Sims
>With the current limit of 5.3GB, and the steps we've all taken to work >within that limit, I don't think many people will be hitting the 13GB limit >all that quick. An incremental database backup will still flush the log, >and, with 13GB, I think we'll be OK if we don't change the way we are doi

Re: Recovery Log size / roll forward benefits

2001-06-22 Thread Lindsay Morris
I'm with Kelly in thinking that roll-forward is unnecessary in most cases. The TSM admin guide seems to recommend roll-forward: "To get the best protection for your TSM data, you should use ... mirrored copies of your database and recovery log, with the recovery log mode set to roll-forward"

Select statement specification for damaged files

2001-06-22 Thread Matthias Feyerabend
Hello, I want to get information with select statement similar to: query contents volume_name damaged=yes. There is no column for damaged files with select * from contents. Perhaps there is one someplace else ? (Not on select * from archives neither). Thank you. -

Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Miles Purdy
> We do mirror our tape pools. For each pool that has been defined we do >have a copy tape pool. Actually I wanted to nullify the disk usage I don't think TSM would work that well in a large implementation with out disks... > which would have come down drastically in case of RAID 5.Cu

Re: memory problems on an aix box

2001-06-22 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
PL apply patches to 4.3.3 from IBM techsupport web site .PL look at bos.rte file maintenance level. Apply TSM patches on server side.Ur paging space need to be 2*mem(ram). I had same problem(both client and server) on 433 and I solved it by above method. Balanand pinni -Original Message-

Re: Recovery Log size

2001-06-22 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Doesn't this bring back the issue of Roll-Forward vs. not? I guess I'm still in the not camp with no compelling reason to join the other. Also, for those in the other camp, I'm thinking if your environment is so large as to fill a 13 GB log in a 24 hour period perhaps the environment is busting

Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi, Do not use RAID 5 if performance is at all a concern. I use RAID 1 (mirroring), for my database and log. I use RAID 0 (striping), for my disk pools. Jeff hit the nail on the head, configure your disks to be fast and build the redundancy into your tapes. IMHO, do not worry about redundancy

Re: Recovery Log size

2001-06-22 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
With the current limit of 5.3GB, and the steps we've all taken to work within that limit, I don't think many people will be hitting the 13GB limit all that quick. An incremental database backup will still flush the log, and, with 13GB, I think we'll be OK if we don't change the way we are doing o

Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
I think either is fine, depending on your needs and throughput requirements. WHen we started out I had the DB on RAID5, and just mirrored the logs, to save space. As we grew, performance on the DB became an issue, so we bought more disk and switched to physical mirroring on the DB and logs to pi

Re: Synrtax of cleanup archdir

2001-06-22 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Guillaume, I sent the complete documentation to the command to the list a couple of months ago. I was provided to me by another list participant. If you search the recent archives you should find it. It is *about * 8 pages long. Good luck. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation

Re: Solaris client assertion failure (mempool.cpp)

2001-06-22 Thread Robert Kennedy
Thanks for the good suggestions. I made sure I was unlimited in all aspects and checked for any circular linkage - all to no avail. Well, it turn out that the problem is using exclude.dir on any directory that is also a passed to dsmc as a filesystem to be backed up. Tivoli's solution is to not

Synrtax of cleanup archdir

2001-06-22 Thread Guillaume Gilbert
Hello What is the syntax of the cleanup archdir command for version 4.1.2 . I have tried the following : "cleanup archdir 'node_name' fix=yes" and I have parameters missing. That syntax worked for version 3.1.XX Thanks Guillaume Gilbert

Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Anuvinder Chauhan
We do mirror our tape pools.For each pool that has been defined we do have a copy tape pool.Actually i wanted to nullify the disk usage which would have come down drastically in case of RAID 5.Currently the utilization of the HDD space is double. I do agree with your state

Re: Data on my tapes

2001-06-22 Thread Thomas Denier
Quoting David DeCuir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > additional info if it helps: > data per tape is either all NT or all UNIX > mostly small files on NT > about half small files on UNIX and half Oracle database files (2-20gb) > > The reason I ask is that my best guess seems to be such a wide range - > I

INDEX ADSM-L

2001-06-22 Thread Alexandre TOURNIER
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Re: memory problems on an aix box

2001-06-22 Thread Wu, Jie
Did you increase your swap space size after adding new memory? -Original Message- From: Henrik Ursin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: memory problems on an aix box I'm running tsm 4.1.3 on aix 4.3.3. and I have a memory proble

tsm4.1 ba client AIX - core dump

2001-06-22 Thread Alexandre TOURNIER
Any help? begin:vcard n:TOURNIER;Alex tel;fax:+x-0332-789073 tel;work:+x-0332-785694 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.gvm.sai.jrc.it org:JRC-SAI;Global Vegetation Monitoring version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:System Administrator adr;quoted-printable:;;Via Fermi,1=0D=0ATP440=0

Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Bach
Do you mirror your tapes? If not, that is where I would start to increase my redundancy. The DISK storage pools ussually contain data for a short period of time. The tapes for a long period of time. RAID 5 is slow for writes. Depending on how much data you are moving through the storage pools

memory problems on an aix box

2001-06-22 Thread Henrik Ursin
I'm running tsm 4.1.3 on aix 4.3.3. and I have a memory problem. It seems that after a memory upgrade from 512MB to 1536MB the dsmserv process is eating all the memory and pagingspace. The software has drop dead to times because of lack of paging. Right now it reads 12396 root 60 0 1479M

dsmsched.log results in act log

2001-06-22 Thread Peter Svendsen
Hi there !! I have a problem regarding my results og my schedules... I'am running *SM 3.1.2.58 under AIX 4.3.3 and writing my restults of the scheduling in a log, but it seems that i the only way to collect valid information about the command/macro i'am scheduling, in other words at the server i

Reclamation of COPY-POOL-Volumes

2001-06-22 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hy all, we have two backup-server, where we write our data to a tape-library. For all our tape-pools we have defined one copy-pool which links to the other server where the data are written to a separate tape-pool (pool_extern). We have defined collocation for all our pools. When I now run reclam

RAID5 Vs Mirroring

2001-06-22 Thread Anuvinder Chauhan
Hi All, Currently we are running AIX over RS/6000 with TSM on top of it.This is further integrated to the IBM 3494 library. In the current scenario we have mirroring implemented only for the TSM database .I want to built in more redundancy therefore planning to go fo

Re: TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Sims
>can anybody tell me what this error that I'm getting daily means? >Is it normal/Harmless/major problem/... ? ... >06/15/01 02:58:15 TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73 >06/15/01 02:58:15 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. Stan - From my notes at http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFa

Re: sql backup error

2001-06-22 Thread Del Hoobler
$)C Iykim, You didn't say if you are running version 1 or version 2 of Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft SQL. This makes a difference. Look here for requirements: http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tdp_ms.html#SQL For your environment, the requirements for Tivoli Data Protection

AW: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
We use TSM 3.7.3.8 @MVS with several 3590-tapes shared with OS390. Our biggest files are 30GB (Exchange) and normally went direct to tape by setting a sizelimit to the diskstorage pool. What happened last week was an incredible short backuptime of the exchange node without any error. Looking t

sql backup error

2001-06-22 Thread 김인엽
When I intended to backup sql db, this error message showed.. How does it works?? os:win2000, no win2000 service pack installed, mssql 7.0, Client ended transaction DB-LIB message: Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally I have another question. Is there any system requir

TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73

2001-06-22 Thread Stan Vernaillen
Hi all, can anybody tell me what this error that I'm getting daily means? Is it normal/Harmless/major problem/... ? AIX server 3.7.4 & AIX client Thanks, Stan 06/15/01 02:58:15 TcpRead(): recv(): errno = 73 06/15/01 02:58:15 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 06/17/01 00:01

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
Yes, you are completely right ... files grater than available space in diskpool are currently writed to tapepool ... no data will be lost and no backup crash wouldn't occure. You can even set up the limit for diskpool to exactly specify size of files, which have skip diskpool - parameter MAXSIZE.

Re: is there a difference?

2001-06-22 Thread MUSTAFA BAYTAR
Lee , if you use exclude /tmp/ TSM will backup all the files that reside in tmp filespace including subdirectories if you use exclude /tmp/* willn't backup files in tmp but will backup files in subdirectories if you use exclude /tmp/.../* no files and subdir's will have backuped

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Indra Gunawan
Sam, actually storage pool has MAXSIZE THRESHOLD parameter, it will limit the files that can be placed in that storage pool up to the value assigned in MAXSIZE. If a file is too large for the first storage pool it will go straight to the next storage pool defined. But this parameter is not requir