tape drive unavailable WHEN THEY ARE!!!!!

2001-08-14 Thread Joe Faracchio
Just moved my 1200 user production system to a new system and I've gotta solve this before my diskpool fills up completely!! I'm having a whole lot of problems with tape mounts and was wondering if anyone can summarize the known problems fixes for this. (what combination of devices.rte and TSM wo

Numberformat

2001-08-14 Thread Michel Engels
Resubmitting this message because until now I did not receive any reaction. Is this problem with the numberformat really a bug or did I forget something. This could really help me simplifying a number of scripts. M Engels -- Forwarded by Michel Engels/BE/Devoteam on 08/15/200

Re: backing up only 1 directory on Windows

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hm... I'm surprised you didn't get a syntax error on the "include.dir" statement, as that is not a supported option. The following isn't pretty, but it might do what you need: * Exclude all files in root of each drive. exclude *:\* * Exclude all directories on all drives other than

Re: Archiving vs. Incremental strategy

2001-08-14 Thread Jack McKinney
Big Brother tells me that Eduardo Martinez wrote: > Im trying to define a backup strategy that involves backing up my boxes > on a daily, weekly, monthly (full) and yearly (full) basis. > Daily backups will last only 3 days, weekly ones only three weeks, > monthly 3 months and yearly 3 years (bec

backing up only 1 directory on Windows

2001-08-14 Thread Joel Fuhrman
I have a Windows system running TSM client 4.2.0.0 from which I want to backup just the directory 'C:\Users' and all of its subdirectories and files. I don't want to backup any other directories or files from that system. I tried these dsm.opt specifications: exclude.dir "C:\*" include.di

Archiving vs. Incremental strategy

2001-08-14 Thread Eduardo Martinez
Im trying to define a backup strategy that involves backing up my boxes on a daily, weekly, monthly (full) and yearly (full) basis. Daily backups will last only 3 days, weekly ones only three weeks, monthly 3 months and yearly 3 years (because of taxes purposes). Is it a good strategy to mix arc

Re: Expiring DB2 backups

2001-08-14 Thread Gyula Bereczky
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Eduardo Martinez wrote: > As you know, when you backup DB2 it stamps an unique id to its backup, > making it an active version forever, then you can't expire that backup. > Does anyone know how to expire this kind of backups? Use db2adutl's delete command

Re: Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Eduardo Martinez
You can create a couple of admin schedules in order to get control over which volumes you use for TSM Database Backup: For example: a) backup db type=full devclass=your_dev_class volumenames=TAPE1,TAPE2,TAPE3,TAPE4 b) delete volhist type=dbbackup todate=today-3 You can schedule the delete volhi

Sleep Mode for MAC/PC

2001-08-14 Thread Rajesh Oak
Does Tivoli wake up a MAC/PC from the sleep mode for a prompted schedule? How do I make this work, since Energy Saving is a major issue at my site. I have TSM Server 4.1 on Win2000 Server. Clients are MAC (75%) and PC(25%). People are used to Retrospect Backup which works even when the MAC is in

Expiring DB2 backups

2001-08-14 Thread Eduardo Martinez
Hi *SMers. As you know, when you backup DB2 it stamps an unique id to its backup, making it an active version forever, then you can't expire that backup. Does anyone know how to expire this kind of backups? Thanks in advance. = "Do or Do Not, there is no try" -Yoda. The Empire Strikes Back

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-14 Thread Joel Fuhrman
Is the windows 2000 version available yet? On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ray Schafer wrote: > The Bare Metal Restore product from The Kernel Group > (http://www.tkg.com/products/bmr/tsm) has the ability to use the backup > data in TSM to recover your server. The "prepare to restore" operation > can be i

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Lindsay Morris
OK, OK. Swapping inclexcl files is a bad idea. We all get one thoughtless post per year, don't we? ;-} > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Richard Sims > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 4:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>Well, Andy's right, of course. But if all you're doing is backing up >ADDITIONAL files on Sunday, then the WEEKDAY files would still be included. Swapping your include/exclude file is also problematic in that it does not necessarily represent your full set of include-excludes: when contemplating

SCSI Multiplexer

2001-08-14 Thread Mauricio Angelino Massa
TSMers, Is there any kind of restriction/know problem to interface a TSM Server and a tape library using a SCSI Multiplexer? Thanks, regards, Mauricio

TSM 4.2 client and UNICODE

2001-08-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I was just bitten by the UNICODE issue ("fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object") with the TSM 4.2 client and a W2K server client. I did not realize there was a requirement to use the 4.2 client that also required the 4.2 server (no, I cannot install the TSM 4.2 server on OS390. Since it is a COST

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Lindsay Morris
Well, Andy's right, of course. But if all you're doing is backing up ADDITIONAL files on Sunday, then the WEEKDAY files would still be included. Of course the SUNDAY files would be EXcluded on Monday, go into inactive status, and use the expiration versions/date parameters for deleted fileswh

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I would definitely not recommend swapping include/exclude lists, as the results are bound to be undesirable. The main reason is because EXCLUDE not only excludes files from backup, but also expires any existing backup versions of the excluded files. If you are looking to back up only a directory

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
> We are running TSM 4.1.3 server on a AIX system. The client on the same > system is run with a schedule everynight to backup up certain log > files. On Sunday we do an archive backup of all of the files. Thie > archive backup takes to long (12 hours) and we would like to cut it down > by usin

Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Lindsay Morris
If you create two clients, TSM will treat them like two different machines, and you'll double the amount of storage used. Maybe you're OK with that... What I'd try is setting up a cron job on sunday morning to run a script like this (untested - off top of head here): #!/bin/sh # usage: chginclud

Need different files backuped on same Unix client.

2001-08-14 Thread Joe Spade
We are running TSM 4.1.3 server on a AIX system. The client on the same system is run with a schedule everynight to backup up certain log files. On Sunday we do an archive backup of all of the files. Thie archive backup takes to long (12 hours) and we would like to cut it down by using the norm

Re: Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Christian Astuni
Yes Richard, when I need to delete one volume to the backup series, because I need to reuse the volume. When run the comman " q volhist t=dbb" I saw the 7 volumes with series 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... up to 7. How is the correct form to delete this ? Because i try with the command " delete volhist t=dbb t

Re: Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Christian Astuni
I try to delete with grafich interface and the command line with: delete volhist tod=x t=dbb Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina

Re: Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>I have a backup trigger as backup of ADSM database, and i have a pool of 7 >volumes and I use one per day. >I run a backup full all the days. >When i want to reuse the first volumen, appearce a mesage as this: > >Scratch volume from library 3590LIB rejected - volume name is already >in use.

Re: Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Prather, Wanda
What command did you use? -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database volhist I have a backup trigger as backup of ADSM database, and i have a pool of 7 volumes and I use one per day.

Re: Client Backup Issue

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Richard, I was a customer at the time ADSM came out, so I was not privy to the original design. However, it is likely that the answer lies, at least in part, with RESTORE syntax, where we need to know whether the file spec is a directory or file (i.e. do we search high-level names or low-level

Database volhist

2001-08-14 Thread Christian Astuni
I have a backup trigger as backup of ADSM database, and i have a pool of 7 volumes and I use one per day. I run a backup full all the days. When i want to reuse the first volumen, appearce a mesage as this: Scratch volume from library 3590LIB rejected - volume name is already in use. I want

Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Check the adsm-l archives at www.adsm.org for my response back on August 9 with regard to this issue. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your

Re: TSM Job "release"

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>...The nightly scheduling of administrator >scripts will not work for me as the window for running >the jobs varies from night to night, thus the need to >"release" or run these scripts at appropriate >(varying) times. Anyone met this challenge? Rod - You could try a variant of the "bkup_stg_db"

Re: Strange message from API client

2001-08-14 Thread Del Hoobler
> We have Version 1.1 of Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server > installed on a Windows NT system here. Yesterday I attempted to obtain > a list of database backups using the command 'sqldsmc /adsmquerydb'. > The command failed with the message 'ANS1245E Format unknown'. This > is strang

TDP for Oracle

2001-08-14 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Does anyone know the answer to the following: Will Tivoli be implementing TDP for Oracle on True 64 anytime in the near future/or at all? You would think since Oracle spent time and money to develop Oracle to run on it Tivoli would too Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer

TSM Job "release"

2001-08-14 Thread rh
I'm looking for a way to have my operators run my nightly DB backup and Copypool backup scripts at an appropriate time. Set times available via administrator schedules will not work for me. The other challenge is to allow my operators to run nightly scripts without having an authority other than o

Strange message from API client

2001-08-14 Thread Thomas Denier
We have Version 1.1 of Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server installed on a Windows NT system here. Yesterday I attempted to obtain a list of database backups using the command 'sqldsmc /adsmquerydb'. The command failed with the message 'ANS1245E Format unknown'. This is strange on two c

Re: ADSM Monitor ...

2001-08-14 Thread Schilling, Walt
Yes, I would like a copy. Thanks, Walt Schilling -Original Message- From: Sean Voyce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:ADSM Monitor ... Hi, A long time ago, I offered the list my ADSM Monitor. Today I'm off

Re: ADSM versions

2001-08-14 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/requirements.html Will get you close. http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/clients.html#hp Will get you dead on. Tons of information available here. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (71

ADSM versions

2001-08-14 Thread Evans, William C
Listers, I need to know the latest version of the ADSM client that will run on an HP v10.20 server. TIA, Bill Evans, UNIX System Administrator Phone: 719.535.4194 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager: 1-800-pagemci PIN 1438754 AIM: bievans4194 <<...OLE_Obj...>> the recognized global

Stan Vernaillen is out of the office

2001-08-14 Thread Stan Vernaillen
I will be out of the office from 13/08/2001 until 20/08/2001. If you have any RS6000, E-server Pseries, AIX, Unix, SAP, APO, TSM, Milestone, Whatever issues, Please Contact Bruno Misseeuw at +32 2 529 14 28 or The ESC or < anyone but me >

Re: Upgrade Causes 30% more data?

2001-08-14 Thread Prather, Wanda
1. What are the clients and client software levels? If there are a number of Win2K clients running at least TSM 3.7.2, changing the server from 3.1 to TSM 4.1 turns on the support for "SYSTEM OBJECT" backups, which causes most of the .dll and .exe files in the Windows/system32 directory to be ba

media mount not possible

2001-08-14 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: I've 1). added a copy group for archives of Novell files 2). validated and activated the policy When the Novell admin goes to do archives he gets: ANS1312E Server media mount not possible, yet the drives are available. Any suggestions? Policy Domain Name: NOVELL

Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems

2001-08-14 Thread Jeff Bach
This sounds like a bad design. How about a Correction of the Design process? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Eliza Lau [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM Win2

Re: cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

2001-08-14 Thread MUSTAFA BAYTAR
Yes , after upgrade to ver 3.7.4 dsmserv started successfuly.Thanks to all for help. Thomas Gaines cc: (bcc: MUSTAFA BAYTAR/ATIM/ICECEK) Sent by: Subject: Re: cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

Re: SQL-BACKTRACK & ORACLE

2001-08-14 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
We use sql-backtrack for Sybase, but not Oracle - never wanted to spend the money. We've also looked at RMAN, but rejected it for various reasons. The incremental hot seems good, but you're still just pulling out changed blocks, which is basically whats in the logs. The vast majority of our ora

Re: EMC, Timefinder, Oracle, and TSM

2001-08-14 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
In general, yes you can. How were you planning to perform the bcv split? The normal ways are to either shutdown Oracle (cold backup) or put Oracle into backup mode (hot backup). Either way, once restored you can force oracle into recovery mode and roll forward through any logs. Yes, you will h

Re: Off Topic 3494 question.

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>I have an AS400 connected to two drives in the 3494 which I theoretically >control. I use the other two drives for TSM on an RS6000. This AS400 is not >configured to communicate with the library and they are having trouble doing so >- for the last 9 months. They back up by opening the library a

24x7 Policies and Procedures

2001-08-14 Thread Diana Noble
Hi Everyone - Does anyone have documented policies and procedures for a 24x7 operation with TSM. I've been asked to put something together on what it would take to have 24x7 coverage for TSM. I don't need the "how to" docs for specific TSM procedures. Or if there is a manual or website you cou

Re: cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>wneh im traying to start TSM server it stops at the Recovery log volume mount in >progress and >cannot continue. You'll see many such postings in the www.adsm.org archives, with customers at 3.7.3, as you are. Going to 3.7.4 has solved such problems in the past, though your recent Fibre Chan

Re: Client Backup Issue

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Sims
>In the schedule settings, you should change the OBJECTS from: > > C:\TSM Backup > >to > > C:\TSM Backup\ > >unless you only want to back up the single file or directory named "TSM >Backup", but I doubt that is what you want. Andy - I have to ask: why does the software require customers to ad

Re: cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

2001-08-14 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS
Hi, is it still running ? It can take a long time. Normally you get an error message in case of problems (in TSM, in the OS, in the EMC subsystem...) Regards, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43 7+41'21'924'28'88 *

Re: cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

2001-08-14 Thread Thomas Gaines
Mustafa, I encountered the same problem after installing drivers for ATM NIC's on TSM v3.7.3; NT. I didn't want to restore the database, since the last one that had run had failed. Since it was unlikely support would address it until it was the latest fix level, I installed v.3.7.4 patch. The se

cann't start adsm serv---Urgent

2001-08-14 Thread MUSTAFA BAYTAR
Hi TSM'ers wneh im traying to start TSM server it stops at the Recovery log volume mount in progress and cannot continue. that happened after EMC Fibre Channel interface driver installation. [tivolisrv@root]dsmserv ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 23:08:28 on Apr 22 2000. Tivoli Storage Manager