Hi TSM Gurus
I have just recently changed the migration destination in the management
class to a new storage pool. The policy set had been updated and so was
the new sequential storage pool. As TSM is backing up incrementally,
what happens to the other volumes in the old storage pool? Will TSM
There is a way to do this without buying a product. But, it is a long
involved process and requires a separate system to perform the backups. The
issue goes much deeper. The operating system involved must provide ways to
flush buffers and be able to dynamically dismount/mount file systems.
Wind
It is the same command on all platforms, NT, W2K, AIX, LINUX, HPUX, SGI,
Solaris.
But, not on MVS.
-Original Message-
From: Selva, Perpetua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: manually ejecting a tape from a 3494 library
These are tapes in the "insert" state - no application has claimed them,
they're not checked in to TSM.
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William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
Shawn Bierman
cc:
Actually I got it from the help for the override option from the web admin
interface in the define client option screen:
Override
Select an override option from the pull down menu. This parameter is
optional. It is ignored for additive options, such as Include or Domain.
Yes The client
With some difficulty. Why would you want to know?
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William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
Don Avart
cc:
Sent by: Subject: How do I find out which vol
Not sure what you are saying here. If you created separate pools (W2K) only
tapes you should not have to worry if it is a header problem on the tapes.
-Original Message-
From: Jörg Nouvertné [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subj
I am seeing patch levels higher than what is available on the FTP site. How
are you getting them?
-Original Message-
From: Al Pardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.x on AIX 4.3.3
I had a similar performance
There as a recent update to the drive microcode to make assign/release work
in other vendor environments. It may be the cause of this problem or what
is needed to fix it.
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From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:11 A
There was a presentation at the Storage Symposium on an SQL Server scenario.
Probably would work here.
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From: Tectrade Computers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SAP R/3 on a SAN
Good Day
I have a cust
Andrew,
This was discussed at Share in Minneapolis. What you have said here is
pretty much what was discussed with TSM development. I expect to bring this
subject up further at Share in Nashville. The real issue is customers are
now trying to use these open systems and schedule jobs just like t
If Brian was looking for a reference for writing SQL scripts against the
TSM server, Andy Raibeck created one sometime in the past. It's available
in the autovault scripts area under
http://216.185.145.68/discus/messages/1/adsm_sql.pdf. It's a little old,
but you should get the idea. Thanks to
One thing everyone has missed here is that the DRM feature is a separately
licensed product. Meaning there is no way you can be legal moving points
to a product you have never licensed. You have to buy at least 1 copy of a
product in the spirit of the Tivoli Contract. Also, this contract is
de
SG24-2014
>>> Allen Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25/10/2001 2:03:03 >>>
I haven't been able to find this Redbook online. Got a number for it?
Thanks,
Al Barth
Zurich Scudder Investments
Steve Harris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bear in mind, a lot of the discount options depend on how much you are going
to spend with IBM/Tivoli. Myself, we got a normal corp. discount
(something not as good as Education discounts, but something along the same
lines)... plus the passport advantage discount, plus another discount on top
o
I believe that IBM is no longer the doing HESC, Higher Education Software
Consortium, program which gave software to educational organizations.
Since my group handles the administrative (non-student) computing on campus,
we didn't qualify for HESC. However, our Tivoli Value Added Reseller was
abl
It will not delete the primary copy in a different storage pool.
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Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:
I need to delete a copy pool, but first I have to delete the copy
pool volumes. When deleting primary storage pool volumes, one has to
specify DISCARDDATA=YES, and this will also delete copies of the files
in copy pool volumes.
The manual does not leave one with the impression that dele
Zlatko,
I have two different nodes defined for each partition.
When I delete/comment out "password generate" and
"passworddir" and supply a password all is ok. If
password is not set to generate and passworddir is not
specified and /adsmpwd is called , ie. domdsmc q
adsmserver /adsmpwd=, I ge
Jeff,
I only see 4.1.4.1 code out here, where did you see that the TSM servers
were at 4.1.5?
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Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
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-Original Message-
From: AD
If creation of backupset takes only 3 hours and you think that tape is the
main limiting factor are you interested in another experiment:
Create a backupset and perform LAN-free restore. I might be faster (or may
not). If you get 3 hours (backupset creation) + 1/2 hour (tape checkout and
transport
As is written in the subject - NT
Pétur Eyþórsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24.10.2001 11:36:29
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Cache Hit % dropping on NT
What platform are you running on you´re server. Is ther
Thank you Steve. I missed this new functionality.
Allen, I did not get the redbook either but read the description of
chlvcopy and chfs commands in AIX 4.3.3 docs and found the info there
enough for me.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
Allen Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24.10.2001 19:03:03
Pleas
I do not think it's too complicated. It is just different than other
companies do. But if we look at Oracle pricing for 8i it was somewhat
similar - price for eight single processor servers was same as for 8-way
same processor SMP system. The difference is that for Oracle after server
consolidatio
Sorry for my mistake - in my first post to this thread I wrote it wrong:
"We still do not have answer from any Tivoli official".
And I had to write "We still do not have an official answer from Tivoli".
English is not my native language and my knowledge of it is far from good.
So I apologise to bo
All,
Is anyone running 4.1.5 TSM Server code? At all would be nice to
know. Specifically on AIX would be ideal. Any issues? Good things?
Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL
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Do you intend to have two different nodes defined for each partition?
If not you must ensure that domdsmc invoked from both partitions uses same
dsm.sys/dsm.opt files and password file is writable by both users (but no
one else), i.e. mode 660 (as Del already pointed).
If yes just the oposite - tw
There is TDP for IBM ESS for R/3 product already on sale. But it is
available only for AIX. Will it be available for Windows is different
question.
500 GB is just little over 400 GB (lowest available for ordering capacity
of ESS). So in ESS terms is not so large. If the DB will grow further you
ca
We did that here not too long ago-- exporting from AIX TSM server to
another AIX TSM server. It was mounted across the SP switch, so it was
pretty fast. You just have to make sure that someone else doesn't mount
over your mount and blow your stuff away (yes, it happened...).
lisa
Steve Harr
Since I installed 4.2.1 I see my expiration of old db backups and the
pending volumes has not been happening automatically. Yesterdays database
snapshot did this:
10/23/01 14:04:44 ANR0984I Process 158 for DATABASE BACKUP started in
the
BACKGROUND at 14:04:44.
10/23/01
Issues we encountered with DiskXtender:
If you right click on a migrated and purged file and click properties, it
does a recall.
If you highlight a bunch of files, right click and click properties, a file
is accessed, randomly chosen as far as I can tell. If that random file
happens to have bee
Hi Brian here are some info for you
Hope this helps
For SQL 2000
TDP 2.2
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/storage_mgr/v1_p
df/mssql/v2/ab5m1mst.pdf
the older client for SQL 7 and later.
TDP 1.1
you must download the client and upack it, the manual is in there. you c
Yes, it will be a client schedule that executes an OS command instead of
a TSM backup, archive...
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Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
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From:
I had a similar performance problem.
We upgrade from adsm 3.1 to TSM 4.1 and from backint 2.3 to TDP for R/3
v3.2.0.4.
We saw a performance improvement when we installed the latest version of
TDP for oracle released last week (TDP for R/3 v3.2.0.6)
If you are using TDP for R/3 you might want
Is this an aix command?
> -Original Message-
> From: [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: manually ejecting a tape from a 3494 library
>
> mtlib -l libraryname -CVvolser -t FF10
>
>
>
>
> "Shawn Bierman" <[EM
use
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -C -s -tFF10 -V__
# is the proper number for your control point
the -s is the source category (use -qV -V to find out what its current
category is)
the -V is the volser
the FF10 is "EJECT"
-Original Message-
From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:[EMAIL PR
mtlib -l libraryname -CVvolser -t FF10
"Shawn Bierman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/24/2001
01:49:01 PM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: manually eject
This is what I needed, thanks Ben. When you say "free-angents", do you mean the
volumes not in a storage pool?
-shawn
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/01 1:06:56 PM >>>
to find the tapes that are "free-agents"
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -q I |grep FF00
To eject the tapes from the library:
Shawn,
You can use the following command to put the tapes in the I/O Door:
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -CV -tff10
FF10 is the category of a tape that is located in the I/O door on a 3494.
Regards,
Sean
Sean M. English
Enterprise Storage Management
IBM Global Services, SDC
Charlotte, NC
Good news is j
to find the tapes that are "free-agents"
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -q I |grep FF00
To eject the tapes from the library:
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -C -V TAPE# -t FF10
Ben
-Original Message-
From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:49 AM
To
Hi,
Is it possible to schedule an aix-script by the admin scheduler?
I wrote an aix script on the TSM server and because it does some admin
tasks, it's prettier to schedule it by the admin scheduler instat of the
client scheduler.
Tanx,
Maurice van 't Loo
Use from TSM
Find out where the Home Eliment address by phisicly (ehmm i know i suck in
grammer :) ) looking at the library and then use the checkout libvolume
command.
hope this helps
Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli S
I have some tapes inside our robot that are possibly miss-labeled.
I would like to have the robot eject these tapes and I thought the mtlib command would
be the answer. I cannot figure out how to do it though.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
-shawn
Shawn L. Bierman
Unix Technical Support Analyst II
The TSM manuals talk about a no-query restore where the
TSM server does the work of figuring out what files to
restore and the best order use. The documentation for
no-query is only under the restore cmd - nothing is
said about the gui.
Will the Web gui perform a no-query?
Thanks
Rick
Would this be it?
SG24-2014-02
The book title is "AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide".
Regard,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only dumb question is the
I am trying to find out which volume a HSM migrated
file is located on. Is there a way to do this.
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Do You Yahoo!?
Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals.
http://personals.yahoo.com
I haven't been able to find this Redbook online. Got a number for it?
Thanks,
Al Barth
Zurich Scudder Investments
Steve Harris
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LD.GOV.AU>cc:
S
I just took a look at this myself and yes indeed, there does seem to
be some kind of problem (and I'm running 4.2.0 server).
When I issue these commands:
def clo test1
def cliento test1 schedmode polling force=yes
query clo
The QUERY command shows that "Override" is set to "Yes", when it sh
Joerg,
What type of library and tape drives are you using. In the testing that I
have done, to the best of my knowledge, I have not encountered this problem.
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Jörg Nouvertné [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PR
ADSM and TSM have always made the assumption that skipped files during he
course of an incremental backup are "normal", and thus should not
constitute a failed event (barring any other, more serious errors). As
I've stated before, the 4.2.1 return code change was unintentional, and is
being handle
I will be out of the office starting 10/24/2001 and will not return until
11/05/2001.
I will respond to your message as soon as I return.
One of our team memeber is questioning
Why the time stamp of a restored directory from TSM/ADSM is showing
current time not the original time?
There are other Backup/recovery tools which showing the original time.
Such as Archserv...etc.
Is there an option that we can turn on/off to have origi
I just recently spoke with my IBM rep on this, and the word I got
back that, although there are no specific times set or announced,
a TDP for Oracle could be available on Linux with TSM v5 in the
first half of 2002.
-- Tom
Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001
Yes, I did do that. We don't use the TSM scheduler, so that wasn't a
concern, but it did save me having to manually add each client to the new
server. One thing I noticed though, was all servers got defined with only
one mountpoint, even though most of them had 2 or 4 on the old server.
Robin S
Funny you should mention that...
While setting up our new TSM server on HP-UX, I opted to define all of the
disk pools as sequential files. I defined a Device Class of type FILE
(called... FILE !) with capacity of 6G. Then I defined several Storage
Pools using DEVCLASS FILE. On my older server
We started using ADSM back when it was included in IBM's campus software package
(also long before this was in my hands, so no first hand knowledge). Does anyone
know if IBM still includes TSM in the campus software package, or even where to
find out what our current licencing status is? We don't
And when you do go directly to disk, it is not into a diskpool but rather
into a pool defined with a device class of type file. The end result is
more or less the same but the configuration is quite different.
This should bring up an interesting discussion about what is more efficient:
a traditi
Well, all participants got a CD with copies of the presentations. I think I
have no rights to copy it and distribute.
Maybe ask Sheelagh Treweek, she organised perfectly this last symposium ?
Yours,
René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre
55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland)
There aren't any TDP agents for Linux at this time.
The best way to backup the Oracle data on Linux would be to backup or
archive the Oracle dump.
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Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
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Thanks for the comment, Bill. I don't doubt your assertion based on
empirical evidence.
That said, here is chapter and verse of the manual:
>From "Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX Administrator's Reference Version 4
Release 1" (GC35-0404-00, dated July 2000):
Page 135-136, under the Force switch
Good Day
I have a customer with a Large SAP R/3 Environment running on Windows NT in
excess of 500GB
They have an existing TSM environment with LTO 3584 and are using the TDP
for SAP agent
The customer is looking to buy a SAN and is interested in reducing the
backup window.
My Questions are
I
I'm running TSM 3.1 on a VM platform, and trying to export the data to TSM
3.7 on an NT platform. I have set up the necessary server, device class,
storage pools, and virtual volumes to run the export command, and it
creates an export file on the virtual volume on the NT box. Problem comes
up when
An easy way to get the nodes to the new server would be an "export server
filedata=none" This copies all your domain/policy/management class/copy
group settings, nodes, schedules, etc, over, but no client data. Saves a
LOT of time defining all those schedules again.
Nick Cassimatis
[EMAIL PROTE
Dear Members of the ADSM-List,
I back up our local server using TSM 4.2 on a Linux OS. I simply had
installed the client as a cronjob with the command:
export LANG=de_DE; /usr/bin/dsmc i
(executed by root)
our dsm.sys looks like this:
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Hi, Andy, and thanks for the suggestions. See below:
- Message from Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 23 Oct 2001
13:05:33 -0700 -
Subject: Re: Retry: Server Clientoptionset Confusion
>I do not know why you are seeing this problem, although you are running at
>fairly back-leve
Thanks Del,
I tried that and a couple other things and it's working now.
Patty
Liberty Mutual
Backup and Recovery Engineering Services
-Original Message-
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Include/exclud
It could be microcode upgrade of the drive.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Gomersbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unavailable tape drive on AIX
> > Even after restarting the TSM server we still cannot redefine th
Greetings *SMers,
I am seeing the above error frequently, and mostly from Mac clients. My
servers are at TSM 4.1.3 and clients are at TSM 4.1 or TSM 4.2
Clients have alias to scheduler daemon in startup folder, and on boot, I
see the connections established to sync the scheduler. Then during t
At 05:55 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>db audit start: 20:17 10/22/2001
>db audit end: 17:35 10/23/2001
>elapsed:21:18
>Over 350 million database entries processed.
>
>It sure would be nice to know approximately how many 'entries'
>there are in order to gauge how much further the audi
Hello,
Server AIX 4.3 TSM 4.1.1.0
Clients Windows NT 4.1.3
We are using schedmode 'server prompted'. When the TSM-scheduler service is
not started on the client, during start-up window every 30 seconds message
ANR8214E (ANR8214E Session open with 'ip_address' failed due to connection
refusal) is
If you are making tape copies for offsite then you can restore a damaged
primary tapepool tape - see RESTORE VOLUME command. Use the
preview option first and look at actlog and see what offsite tapes are
needed for restore. I have done this a number of times.
David Longo
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's correct as long as you install the Storage Agent on the client, which
"borrows" a drive from the TSM server and send only the management info
through the LAN. Therefore you needs the (expensive) STA license and to my
knowledge the library sharing option.
We used it once but had to disable
Hello,
I'm a newbee to TSM and I'm very interested in TSM(SQL)-scripts. Is there a
manual on the Internet or a SQL-book so I can learn to make scripts in TSM.
Thank you very much.
Brian.
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Download MSN Explorer gratis van http://e
Here's one I'm using, courtesy of Ted Byrne (I think!)
EXCLUDE.DIR sys:\apps\poffice\agents
EXCLUDE.DIR sys:\apps\poffice\rebuildb
EXCLUDE.DIR sys:\apps\poffice\temp
EXCLUDE.DIR SYS:APPS\POFFICE\GWDMS
EXCLUDE.DIR SYS:APPS\POFFICE\OFFILES
EXCLUDE.DIR SYS:APPS\POFFICE\OFMSG
EXCLUDE.DIR SYS
Hope this helps: this is with the 4.2.1 client running and Netware 5.1.
EXCLUDE sys:/_swap_.mem
EXCLUDE sys:/QUEUES/.../*.s*
EXCLUDE SYS:/ETC/GROUP
EXCLUDE *:/.../TSA500.NLM
EXCLUDE SYS:/TIVOLI/TSM/CLIENT/BA/DSMERROR.LOG
EXCLUDE SYS:/T
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23 4:41 AM >>>
I thing about the list as a place I may get *SOME* support from the
colleagues around the world. But I may not get it. Since I am subscribed to
the list there were several posts "are my posts going through" or
"yesterday I posted but got no answer so am post
> > Even after restarting the TSM server we still cannot redefine the drive (we
> > get the same error message).
> > We have managed to delete and redefine one of our other tape drives.
> >
> > Has anyone got any suggestions about this error and how we can redefine our
> > drive?
>
> Robert, it p
Hi Ike,
about your question, how many archives we do a day? I will send you
tomorrow the answer.
Please, can you send me the solution, if IBM fix the problem. Thank you
Gerd Bentel
Sparkassen Informatik GmbH & Co. KG
Standort Fellbach
Datenhaltung-Middleware
Wilhelm-Pfitzer-Str. 1
70736 Fellbac
What platform are you running on you´re server. Is there any other
applications on your server witch could be pulling resorurces.
If you are using AIX, then is the database on one pv or spread across
multiple.Where on the pv is the lv witch you are keeping youre database, it
does matter when perf
Rolf Meyer wrote:
Thats Q OPT
> Hallo
> in the tsm dsmc client you can use the command SHOW OPT (I didn't find any
> docs, tip from our support in Germany) and you will get a complete list of
> all options.
>
> Greetings
> Rolf Meyer
>
> On Thursday, 11. October 2001 21:10, you wrote:
> > How do
On 23-Oct-01 Bill Mansfield wrote:
> I heard second-hand that the license registration bug wasn't going to be
> fixed until TSM 5.x. Can anyone out there confirm?
I hope not. Last 24 hours we had again > 10 ANR2841W messages.
And another thing I noticed about v4.2.1 AIX, our server becomes s
On 23-Oct-01 ORNESS wrote:
> Tivoli told me that an APAR is opened but you can work with your server NOT
> IN COMPLIANCE...
Except that I think your server becomes slower and slower every minut. Maybe the
fact that we'r doing mayor HSM-filesystem restore's from one box to another box
in a SAN cau
Thanks Bill,
thats my mistake. Now the incremental run like I want.
Wolfgang
>>> Bill Colwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23.10.01 22:23:54 >>>
You need to add directory wildcarding to your statements.
For example, include /usr/sap/P02/trans/.../* D30
hope this helps,
--
--
B
Hello KaiWe have it running on several W2K fileservers, and it works great.One thing that we have found out though, is that the DiskXtender client opens one session for each media folder.Therefore, you should be careful with how many mediafolders you create on each machine.For example, you have sha
Hi *SM'ers,
We recently intalled a new version of an informix server (XPS 8.31) on
our AIX system (4.3.3), and are planing to use TDP for informix V 4.1.3
to backup this system, in conjunction with our TSM 4.1.3 server.
My first question is : does anybody knows if this version of TDP is
compatib
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