Re: large client multi-streamed backups

2001-09-10 Thread Len Boyle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Glass, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > >We are converting our Netbackup clients to TSM. Some of these clients are >large DB2 and Oracle clients with tight processing windows. Most of these >clients have chosen not to use TDP or SQL Backtrack. The solution in >Ne

large client multi-streamed backups

2001-09-10 Thread Glass, Peter
We are converting our Netbackup clients to TSM. Some of these clients are large DB2 and Oracle clients with tight processing windows. Most of these clients have chosen not to use TDP or SQL Backtrack. The solution in Netbackup was to spread their workloads across several backup classes that ran co

Re: Backing up large amounts of data on Windows NT

2001-09-10 Thread John Monahan
I think you may have reached the memory limits of NT, check out Q142719. Can you break your full backup up by filespaces? Or upgrade to win2k as the paged pool memory limit is higher than the 192MB NT has. John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-8

Re: how to backup to a second backuppool?

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
REGister Node DOmain= DEFine DOMain DEFine POlicyset DEFine MGmtclass DEFine COpygroup DESTination= This is the easiest way. You can define just new management class(es) within the current domain, define corresponding copygroups and read carefully what to specify in dsm.opt !!! And it is NOT

Re: Online manuals, missing data

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Richard, Because I live far-far away from the backbone and my connection to Tivoli is somewhat slow I was forced by the circustances. So a copy of TSM Publications CD files was made on the web server, few links in Apache dirs and voila - 5x 25 MB occupied. But whenever I need something from the m

Re: Backup and Archive problem

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Is the archive/backup directo to tape or through DISK pool. Give more details on NODE, COPYGROUP, STGPOOL. Without details either your tape pool reached MAXSCRATCH limit or the node data goes to DISK pool which fills and cannot migrate to tape pool (just guessing). In latter case you should get er

Re: how to backup to a second backuppool?

2001-09-10 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
That storage pool location is in the copy group definition. Domain -> Policy Set -> Management class -> Copy group -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

how to backup to a second backuppool?

2001-09-10 Thread Johnn D. Tan
I have two virtual libraries in my automated tape library (SpectraLogic 64000/Gator). I can define two libraries, two tape device classes, etc., etc., in TSM 4.1.3 I can even define two "backuppool" disk spools, one for each library. What I can't seem to figure out is how to get data backed up t

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
DEF STG CACHE=Yes. So you can quick restore today's/yesterday's backups from the cache. I do not assume your DISK pool is big enough to keep all client's data there. If it is and you are using tapes only for archives and backupsets you can go two ways: - have no arrays and hope only that at least

Re: data backup via network

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
IMHO, Server-to-Server gives more flexibility and is what he/she (sorry I cannot guess) is asking for. If there is SAN it does not fit in the requirement (TCP/IP) and limits the distance ;-) Look at the following commands: DEFine SERver DEFine DEVclass DEVType=SERVER DEFine STGpool Because serve

Re: Does IBM 2108-R03 support IBM 7337-306?

2001-09-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Yes, you're right the problem is that I am consultant. But the contact with the customer was made AFTER the purchase just to configure TSM. Question answering to your question. Only one of the servers is having 600 GB filesystem with (still) unknown daily change rate. The next server will have ano

Re: Unable to fix tape volume problem on OS/390 server

2001-09-10 Thread Eliza Lau
This is what I do to get rid of the empty tapes that won't go away on my AIX server with a 3494 library. It works everytime. You may be able to do something similar. upd vol xx acc=readw checkin libvol 3494lib xx status=private devtype=3590 audit vol xx fix=yes checkout libvol 3494l

Tivoli web site data is back

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
I'm pleased to report that Tivoli web support has fixed the problem ("Page cannot be found") that had existed since Thursday with certain TSM manual content, such as in the AIX Admin Ref manual. Richard Sims, BU

Re: Automated procedure/ script to perform Checkout of daily dbbackup vol

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
>>Note that you don't have to have DRM to use Query DRMedia: it's one of >>those generally exploitable resources, which came in handy for us. > >Are you sure about that, Richard? My understanding is that in order to >use any of the DRMEDIA commands, the DR module had to be purchased.[1] > >[1] I'm

Re: space reclamation question

2001-09-10 Thread Lindsay Morris
We used to do this by starting a move data on volume XXX, then looking in the activity log for messages like "Volume 12345 is expected to be mounted". Those messages listed the OTHER volumes that held pieces of files from volume XXX. Ugly... worked, though. > -Original Message- > From: AD

Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

2001-09-10 Thread Kauffman, Tom
I don't know about the fiber-channel part, but the library will be /dev/smc0, not lb0. Also, the library by default is lun 1 on the lowest-number tape drive in the partition - normally drive 1 in the library. Make sure you can find the tape drives, because you won't find the library without them.

AIT2 tape drives, What recording format should I use?

2001-09-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Looking at the Admin References for TSM Ver, 3.7 and 4.1, The available Recording formats for AIT drives are: AIT(25 GB) AITC (50 GB) No format listed for AIT2 If I use one of these formats for an AIT2 drive that is supposed to get 50GB native and up to 130GB compressed, will I only get 25

Re: space reclamation question

2001-09-10 Thread Thomas Denier
Quoting Zlatko Krastev/ACIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the one which is below the reclamation threshold (the source) - > look at "q vol" > and a scratch or private volume for the stg pool (the destination) - > "def vol" or "upd stg maxscratch=" Backup files are sometimes segmented and spread across

Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

2001-09-10 Thread Jeff Bach
Yes. I have setup. >From the OS, the library manager device will show up when the correct driver is loaded, cfgmgr is run, and ATL device 1 is visible through the SAN (fiber) from the system. We use Brocade between the server and tape drives. When I configured, 3584 was considered a SCSI devic

Cross Platform Upgrade Unsupported!

2001-09-10 Thread Robin Sharpe
Greetings Fellow TSMers, This morning I received some bad news from Tivoli support: Moving a TSM database between platforms (in my case, from AIX to HP-UX) is not supported. This REALLY hurts. We have installed a new HP L2000 server and HP 20/700 library, to which we want to migrate our TSM en

Backing up large amounts of data on Windows NT

2001-09-10 Thread ProtoTipo srl
Hi all, I have a 200 GB SAP R/3 - Oracle database on a Windows NT box. Every night I run an online backup using TDP for R/3 and everything goes ok. Once a week I run a script that stops the database and performs a whole backup of the NT box at the file-system level. After having backed up about 1

Restoring Inactive Security settings with Unix Clients

2001-09-10 Thread Rushforth, Tim
We have just stumbled upon the fact that we cannot restore inactive Security settings with the TSM Solaris Client. With this client, when a security change is made to a file and an incremental backup is done, another version of the file is not sent to TSM, the existing file is updated with the ne

Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

2001-09-10 Thread David Longo
I have not done this yet, but - Have you installed the FC filesets on AIX that are required for support of FC? After doing this and connecting library and then run "cfgmgr" to have AIX pick up new device would be a few simple steps. (Probably need some FC config steps also). A quick thought t

Does TSM 4.2 support an IBM 3583 library (6 drives)

2001-09-10 Thread Jacques Butcher
It's not on the devices supported Web Site. Please help!!!

Re: Does TSM 4.2 support an IBM 3583 library (6 drives)

2001-09-10 Thread Adolph Kahan
I just went to the site and it shows the 3583 as supported. Here is the URL: http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/lto.html There are two entries for the 3583 - with 1-2 drives basic licensing is required and with 3 or more drives you require Extended Device Support - this is just a

Re: TSM & AIX 5L

2001-09-10 Thread Sheets, Jerald
AAMOF, I am installing a TSM 4.2 testbed right now, and when you do, you get some failures. The failures are: tivoli.tsm.devices.aix5.rte 4.2.0.0 tivoli.tsm.license.aix5.rte64 4.2.0.0 tivoli.tsm.server.aix5.rte64 4.2.0.0 due to a failed prerequisite of bos.rte 5.1.0.0 (I am installing to Ai

Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

2001-09-10 Thread Klein, Robert (CIT)
We are trying to set up TSM on an AIX system and are having problems getting TSM to see the 3584 library. I have done a search on the adsm-l archives and did not see anything about defining a 3584 to TSM. The AIX system is not seeing the 3584 tape library, when any commands that try to configur

Re: Creating a script

2001-09-10 Thread Ford, Phillip
We do this all the time. The script is called migrate_check as follows: select * from processes where process="Migration" if(rc_ok) goto resch delete schedule migrate_check t=a expire inv exit resch: delete schedule migrate_check t=a define schedule migrate_check t=a cmd='run migrate_check' -

Problems restoring to novell TSA500.NLM error 315

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Sparrman
We have a problem restoring files to a Novell Netware Server version 5.1.We're using the web-client.During restore we get the following error in the dsmerror.log:(TSA500.NLM 5.4 330) An error occurred while the program attempted to write to a file.In the dsmwebcl.log we get the following message:20

Re: Unable to fix tape volume problem on OS/390 server

2001-09-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Please reread my original post. If it was that simple, I would have done it, long ago...When I do that, I get an "internal server error". TSM support has contacted me and basically said to open a PMR to address the issue. I am going to do such, shortly. Been real busy doing a MF upgrade, thi

Re: Unable to fix tape volume problem on OS/390 server

2001-09-10 Thread William Boyer
Then just update the volume to access=read/write. TSM will put it back to scratch status. UPD VOL 040042 ACC=READW Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Upgrading ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2

2001-09-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
ADSM 3.1 is currently running on NT4. The desire is to do a fresh install of Win2K and load TSM 4.2. questions I have are as folows: 1. Is it possible to export the ADSM database from the NT platform and import it, into TSM? I have not done this in your exact situation, but I have done m

Re: TSM & AIX 5L

2001-09-10 Thread David McClelland
Pétur, Regarding your comment on 'I don't know if Tivoli supports AIX 5L', it certainly does for TSM. Whereas I understand the BA client version is the same on 4.3.x and 5.x, there is an entirely different set of AIX 5L lpp's which ship with TSM Server 4.2, covering the server code itself for 64b

tsm raw backup with JFS filesystem

2001-09-10 Thread Dachnowicz, Peter (IBM)
We are trying to optimize some of our backups and wanted to experiment with backuping up JFS filesystems using backup image. Our thought process was that by bypassing the overhead of the JFS we could decrease the backup window. However we are told that one of the rules for TSM (ver 3.7) is that if

Re: Online manuals, missing data

2001-09-10 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
what manuals do you need i might have them for you? Kveðja/Regards Pétur Eyþórsson Tæknimaður/Technician Kerfisfræðingur IR IBM SUPPORT Microsoft Certified System Engineer Nýherji HfSími TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartún 37 105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -

Re: data backup via network

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
> is it possible to keep copy pool away from onsite by backingup primary > pool to copy pool via network using TCP/IP. > > regards > sree. The Admin Guide manual mentions use of the FILE device class for use with electronic vaulting, which seems to be what you are seeking. Or you could use drives

Re: quick question on amt. of data backedup daily.

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
>Thanks richard sims, >i have one more doubt here.I run incremental backup daily . i have 80 >clients backingup their file systems and DB2 databases. when i take >accounting records in consideration and sum all rows (20th column) , it >shows around 153gb. I understand 153GB is backedup to adsm sto

Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
>What is the largest supportable database size? I have one that's 60GB and >growing... The answer is implicit in your question: If you have a large database and the hardware-software mix and configuration allows it to operate well within given scheduling windows, then you're all set. The genera

Re: Unable to fix tape volume problem on OS/390 server

2001-09-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Yes, it is empty. Has been forever. Here is the F=D Volume Name: 040042 Storage Pool Name: SPBACKUP-COPY Device Class Name: ADSMSP-COPY Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty

Stan Vernaillen is out of the office

2001-09-10 Thread Stan Vernaillen
I will be out of the office from 10/09/2001 until 17/09/2001. I'll TRY and read my mail, but no promises. If you have an urgent Unix related request, bear in mind Bruno is out as well, so try our mobiles or via the ESC

Online manuals, missing data

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Sims
Could someone in Tivoli light a fire under the web support people to get the missing online TSM manuals data reinstated so that we can look things up in the manuals? The content has been missing since last Thursday. I've sent their webmaster two messages about the problem, and have gotten neithe

No Subject

2001-09-10 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
Hi Tyagi, I don´t know if Tivoli Supports AIX 5L but if you want to download products simply point youre browser at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/Storage/Tivoli-storage-magaement/maintenance ore something like that. Kveðja/Regards Pétur Eyþórsson Tæknimaður/Technician Kerfisfræðingur IR IBM S

Re: Backup and Archive problem

2001-09-10 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
this could be becuase TSM is requesting a tape that is curently "Unavalible" or something like that. Usually you should get more info there, It could be alsow because of the drives ar Offline. Ray look for Damaged or Unavalabel Tapes and if nothing comes up try looking for I/O errors. Anyway fur

Re: data backup via network

2001-09-10 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
on a second though you cannot create disk copy-storage-pools. Sorry stree, you need to have another Server to do this Kveðja/Regards Pétur Eyþórsson Tæknimaður/Technician Kerfisfræðingur IR IBM SUPPORT Microsoft Certified System Engineer Nýherji HfSími TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartún 37

Backup and Archive problem

2001-09-10 Thread Ray Baughman
Hello All, I have recently changed the domain for node. Now when I do archives and sometimes when I do backups, I get following message on the client: ANS1312E Server media mount not possible And the backup or archive stops at this point. There is no associated message on the server. This happe

Re: New Server and Disk Pools

2001-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Cochran
--- Mark Stapleton wrote: I wouldn't bother with *any* kind of array. Save yourself the expense and administrative overhead of an array. Just cache the disk pool and spill it over into tape daily. Easy-peezy. --- end of quote --- But then you loose the quick restore from disk, and the client has

Re: What's a Kilobyte, in TSM terms?

2001-09-10 Thread Fredrik Lundholm
Actually, the only term which is confusing is MegaByte. Only MegaByte was redefined by disk-manufacturers to 1e6 bytes. Now that GigaBytes are common they are actually defined as 1024 MegaBytes. (However 1024 ``bad'' megabytes) 1 kilobyte is ALWAYS 1024 bytes. /wfr Fredrik On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 a

data backup via network

2001-09-10 Thread Pothula S Paparao
Hi, is it possible to keep copy pool away from onsite by backingup primary pool to copy pool via network using TCP/IP. regards sree.

Re: data backup via network

2001-09-10 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
Yes you need to have "DRM" Licence and you need another TSM server. I, think you can alsow map a network drive and create a disk copy pool there, although i dont recomend this. Kveðja/Regards Pétur Eyþórsson Tæknimaður/Technician Kerfisfræðingur IR IBM SUPPORT Microsoft Certified System Engin

Creating a script

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi Try to figure how to create a script file to make this: 1. checking if migration from diskpool to tapepool is finish then running an expiration inventory, if not checking again every 10 minutes Thank you for the help …. Regards Robert Ouzen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]