Sue Tull/SMS is out of the office.

2001-11-20 Thread Sue Tull
I will be out of the office from 11/20/2001 until 11/26/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. Contact the Open System Storage oncall for any emergencies. --- This message and any included attachments ar

Re: Dumb Exchange question: Not Dumb, just a MS-requirement

2001-11-20 Thread Seay, Paul
YEP you do. And it gets worse with Active Directory. But, Tivoli is not the folks that say mailbox recovery products are bad. Microsoft says so. Until they provide the proper API, nothing will likely happen in TSM. The interface that some vendors are using to do this requires that you backup a

Re: tsm vs. veritas

2001-11-20 Thread Adolph Kahan
Not really similar, unless you mean that both have client/server. You need TSM server installed on one machine and then clients on all the others that you intend to backup. TSM has many functions that makes it superior to Veritas Netbackup. Adolph Kahan AK Consulting Inc. -Original Messag

tsm vs. veritas

2001-11-20 Thread Rick Francis
can you confirm that veritas netbackup is similiar to tsm/adsm? do both use the client/server model? if tsm is installed on a aix server, does a client piece have to be installed on a solaris server in order to be backed up? ditto for a nextstep, nt/2000 and hp server??? thanks.

Re: BMR for Win2k: Use of NTBACKUP

2001-11-20 Thread Ray Schafer
Michael Bartl wrote: >In a standard Win2k environment bare metal recovery using TSM doesn't >work. Of course, the Kernel Group BMR is a great tool, but expensive. > I think if you take into consideration all of the costs, TKG's BMR gives a return on investment rather quickly. With this solution,

Re: TSM Client version 4.2.1

2001-11-20 Thread Rushforth, Tim
This is a bug in the 4.2.1 client (APAR IC31844) and is fixed in 4.2.1.15. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Fenstermaker,Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Client version 4.2.1 The "ANS1512E"

Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

2001-11-20 Thread ORNESS
Demetrius, what are your TCPIP settings on both sides( client / server) How did you set TNXBYTEMILIT and other tuning stuff ? Have your heard of Journal Based Backup (feature of 4.2.x). If your NT box is able to handle 2 or more data sessions ? check the RESOURCEUTILIZATION param You can incre

Re: Reclamation Copy Tape Pool???

2001-11-20 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
-Marc- Reclamation frees up space on offsite tapes by rewriting the files left on expired offsite tapes (referenced in the TSM database) to a read/write volume onsite! -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:06 PM To: [EM

Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff Bach
Try the 4.2.1 * NT client code with the Journal based backup feature. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: ORNESS [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:30 P

Re: TSM Client version 4.2.1

2001-11-20 Thread Jolley, Bill
Very interesting. I just installed TSM Server and Client version 4.1.2.0 and is receiving RC=11 for some schedule events. No answer from support yet. -Original Message- From: Fenstermaker,Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

2001-11-20 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Greetings, SM'ers! I have two NT 4.0 file servers that take anywhere from 8 hrs to 16 hrs to process all files & complete the backup scheduled backup. Processes: 400,000 files Backing up: 10,000 to 40,000 Bytes transf: 6 GB NO COMPRESSION The server is an H80 7026 2 GB of memory with AIX 4.3.

Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

2001-11-20 Thread Sheets, Jerald
Check your duplex/speed settings *both* at the NIC and the switch ports. Lock them according to your manufacturer's suggestions. --JMS -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Schedule

Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems

2001-11-20 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Thanks, Jerald! Already made sure all is set to FULL_DUPLEX!!! -Original Message- From: Sheets, Jerald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scheduled NT Client Performance Problems Check your duplex/speed settings *both*

Re: TSM Client version 4.2.1

2001-11-20 Thread ORNESS
Hi Bob, Some files have failed, thats why you got a code 4. return codes have changed in TSM 4.2 and every body is annoyed withy that... rv - Original Message - From: "Fenstermaker,Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:02 PM Subject: TSM Cl

Re: Reclamation Copy Tape Pool???

2001-11-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The benefit is the same as for primary pool reclamation - more effective tape usage. And if you look at the description copy pool reclamation works copying data from primary pool which ought to be on-site. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Marc Levitan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.11.2001 21:14:09 P

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Patrick J. Kelleher
This could be redundant but we have 4 Nics and when we install client we try to make sure client's dms.opt has same subnet as TSM host whenever possible. Wouter V cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: One server, tw

TSM Client version 4.2.1

2001-11-20 Thread Fenstermaker,Bob
We installed the TSM Client version 4.2.1 on a test server. The backups run fine every day (all files are incrementally backed up OK), and we can restore files fine. But at the end of each backup there is a "ANS1512E" error in the dsmsched.log file, and that error is returned to the TSM Server w

Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff Bach
An include statement will associate a file or structure with a management class, but how do you make it archive rather than backup? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: George Lesho [SMTP:[E

Re: Informix restore using TSM

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff Bach
"Onbar -r " will restore the Informix database to the last log that was backed up. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, Novemb

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
It's really wierd. If you display the attributes of the field withing Crystal, it shows DATE/TIME stamp, but it just plain doesn't format it. If you select to browse the field data, all you see it 1 entry of 0/0/0 00:00. If you use just about any other tool to extract the same data from the same O

Re: Audit Library doesn´t complete

2001-11-20 Thread Maurice van 't Loo
Hi Robin, I know that there can be some problems with the Audit Library if there are still some tapes mounted. Maybe you can check that. Regards, Maurice van 't Loo The Netherlands - Original Message - From: "Robin v/d Vliet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, N

Re: Informix restore using TSM

2001-11-20 Thread George Lesho
Theresa, I do Informix restores all the time. You are correct about the old ADSM product... it did supply a shared library. TSM does not. The shared library is a generic library that onbar talks to to make its tape requests known to TSM. TSM merely keeps track of where the backups are that are to

Re: Dumb Exchange question

2001-11-20 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
TDP 2.2 doesn't backup individual mailbox. For each backup tool that perform this kind of operation backup are very, very, very slow. It have to be used only for VP mailboxes. There is a tools that can perform extract of Exchange DB to one PST file per mailbox. (Xmerge) You can use this tools to b

Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files

2001-11-20 Thread George Lesho
Joel, Not sure what you mean by an "onbar log". Are you talking about the Informix logical logs? If so, put them in an "archive" management class/copy group along with your database backups. Each logical log has a unique file name so efforts to expire them if you use backup type management class/c

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Whps, I think I suffered a serious "brain-check"... I Didn't mean to sound like I wasn't concerned with this issue! I meant to say I wasn't concerned with the rest of the stuff that the diagnostics section asks for. Sorry about that! This should have read: Please follow the instructions in t

Re: Audit Library doesn´t complete

2001-11-20 Thread George Lesho
You didn't mention what type of audit you were doing... are you allowing the library to mount all volumes and read the labels or are you going off the barcodes? I had this problem in 3.7.3.6 and have not checked to see if the behavior is the same in 4.1.4.5 (migrated last week so I could take adva

Dumb Exchange question

2001-11-20 Thread Tyree, David
We will be upgrading to the new TDP for Exchange 2.2 from version 1.1 some time after the first of the year and we are wondering if the newer version supports individual mailbox recovery. I know the 1.1 version didn't easily support mailbox recovery, you had to build a new Exchange box, du

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Bill and Ken, Please follow the instructions in the "Troubleshooting/Diagnostics" section of the README.ODBC.TXT file to obtain traces of the problem, then open a problem with IBM support and provide them with the trace documentation (I'm not so concerned. Crystal Reports is not formally supporte

Re: Statistics problem with TSM backup.

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
This is the amount of bytes transferred, not the amount of data backed up. They are 2 different animals. I had this issue with one of my Notes administrators. I was telling him that his main Notes server was backing up 50GB/night, but his filespace only showed 24GB used. This number of bytes trans

Re: ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
I have the same problems. If I use Access or Excel to get the data via the same ODBC connection, the date/times are correct. Also, if you use a utility that Seagate distributes on the CD called SQLCON32.EXE with the same select statement I cut and pasted from my report, it displays correctly. I we

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-20 Thread William Boyer
Another problem I had with the LM was by default the @&#^$# thing added a route for my subnet to the default gateway. SO, as long as the address was outside of my subnet, I could talk to it. If it was on the same subnet (which was where my TSM server was located) then it was being sent to the defa

ODBC and TSM timestamp data type (Crystal Reports)

2001-11-20 Thread Ken Long
I know some of you are running Crystal Reports against the TSM database, hopefully you can steer me straight. I can't get Crystal to render any of the TSM timestamp fields - I always get 0's for the timestamp. For example, the Start_Time field on the Summary table. All times display as 12:00:00

Informix restore using TSM

2001-11-20 Thread Sarver, Theresa (Osky Unix Administrator)
Hello; We are in a 3-tier environment: Server1 - Informix Database 7.24 UC5 and TSM 4.1.1 server Server2 - Baan IVb3 The TSM client on Server1 (that Informix connects with) is using an old [ADSM] version...3.8 - I believe? This was done because it was the only way Informix would connect to TSM

Re: Future Share Requirement: W2K 4.2.1 Desktop Archive Client ba cks up files that are unmodified

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Well, technically speaking, SELECTIVE and MODE=ABSOLUTE are not identical: - SELECTIVE backup backs up everything that is not excluded via EXCLUDE (INCLUDE/EXCLUDE processing is *always* honored). On the other hand, if you use multiple management classes and not all of them have MODE=ABSOLUTE, th

Re: BMR for Win2k: Use of NTBACKUP

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread, but there is the IBM Redbook, SG24-6141: "Deploying the Tivoli Storage Manager Client in a Windows 2000 Environment" which discusses Windows 2000 recovery using TSM. The procedures as given in the book have been tested in our labs, and are supported.

ONE-DAY SAFETY PROBLEM (cont)

2001-11-20 Thread Michel David
Hi Everybody. Thank you , Paul. Sorry I was not clear enough. How can user assure that all the data will be retrieved if the library is physically damaged (fire...) ? We'll have only the last version of DBBACKUP and the OFSSITE POOL. Maybe it's can be one week of work without BACKUP. If we don'

Re: Please!:A Temp-File COPY POOL Solution

2001-11-20 Thread Seay, Paul
If the remote computer is a TSM server or you have SANergy and maybe with the SAN client you can delete the remote storage pool with the discard=yes and it should get rid of everything. I have not tried this in this scenario. Then redefine the storage pool and perform another copy. However, you

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
We have one that uses three (3). Two fast ethernet & one GB. You have to remember that your standard TCP/IP routing is what determines how these boxes talk ! Client traffic will go in which ever interface you point to and will return out to the client based on standard routing in the system (but w

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
entstat (under AIX) use "entstat -r en#" to reset the stats, then just use the "entstat en#" to get current stats... root@tsmsrv03/ > entstat en2 | more - ETHERNET STATISTICS (en2) : Device Type: Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Adapter (14100401

Re: BMR for Win2k: Use of NTBACKUP

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Bartl
In a standard Win2k environment bare metal recovery using TSM doesn't work. Of course, the Kernel Group BMR is a great tool, but expensive. We're investigating another (free) method: Use NTBACKUP for a backup of all system objects into a file on your harddisk (about 250MB), do a TSM incremental a

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Wouter V
Thank you all for your quick and clear responses about this subject !! Regards, Wouter.

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff Bach
What measurement tools do you use to determine this throughput number? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: Statistics problem with TSM backup.

2001-11-20 Thread Mahesh Tailor
Sreekumar, What is your Maximum Size Threshold set to for your diskpool? If it is set low and you have files that exceed that setting, they will be sent directly to your next storage pool (3575_AFS, 3575_ARCH, or 3575_BKUP) which will affect the disk storage pool utilization. Hope this helps

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Fred Johanson
Configuration depends on the platform. For instance, we found that on AIX the interfaces had to be configured on the command line and not with SMIT. A minor annoyance when an interface goes down in the middle of the night and you're trying to remember the proper syntax. At 02:39 PM 11/20/2001

Adam J Boyer/BOARD/FRS is out of the office.

2001-11-20 Thread Adam J. Boyer
I will be out of the office starting 11/20/2001 and will not return until 11/27/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

Adam J Boyer/BOARD/FRS is out of the office.

2001-11-20 Thread Adam J. Boyer
I will be out of the office starting 11/20/2001 and will not return until 11/27/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. If you have any questions, please contact Stone Wang (x3731) or John Wesner (x3231).

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Bazuin R. (Ronald)
You can use as many as nic's and protocols as needed. Therefor there are 2 options in the option file to maximize the ammount of sessions, one per nic and one for tsm in total. Ronald Bazuin -Original Message- From: Wouter V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 20 november 2001 13:49

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Mahesh Tailor
I have two 155Mbps ATM adapters with different IP addresses and TSM works just fine with data coming over either or both adapters. Mahesh >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/01 07:49AM >>> Hello, Does anybody know if a single TSM server can listen on different ip-adresses (on different nic's) ? Or do

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff Bach
The ADSM server listens on a port, not a specific interface. Use any interface you want. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Wouter V [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, Nove

backing up non clustered drive

2001-11-20 Thread
Can anyone tell me why this schedule did not work and got the included error message: 11/20/2001 10:12:13 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Schedule Name: WEEKLYC 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Action:Incremental 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Obje

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-20 Thread
Thanks all who responded to my post. it turned out to be a mal functioning LMCPD. "Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/19/2001 06:57:56 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

bare metal recovery for NT2000

2001-11-20 Thread Salak Juraj
hello all out there,   BMR related questions seem to repeat periodically and good solutions are not obvious.   I would like to share results of my trivial search after tools for TSM related BMR of W2000:     - virtually no support in current TSM clients, if any   - rumours about BMR (either additi

Re: Audit Library doesn t complete

2001-11-20 Thread David Longo
Audit library will only run successfully when no drives are in use. If you use "checklabel=barcode" option, it should take less than a minute. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/20/01 07:10AM >>> Hi fellow TSM admins/lovers/friends, We ve scheduled an Audit Library to run every day on our TSM

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Wouter V
So, this method is really quite often used ? Great ! So you don't need any special configuration to let the TSM Server listen on all the NIC's in de machine ? Cool. Regards, Wouter Verschaeve. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Remc

move server

2001-11-20 Thread Klaus Weber
Hello, actually we have 3 tsm - server on OS/390 and 1 tsm -server on W2K. Now we want to consolidate all these server to one on SUN Solaris, but the tapes will stay in th same library with the same devices. How can I move these server to SUN Solaris without copy a lot of data physically, because

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Herve CHIBOIS
Wouter, you do not need to change anything. My TSM Servers have 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapters with 2 distincts IP@. My TSM instance listen to TCP port 1500. rv Wouter V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 2001-11-20 13:49:15 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Audit Library doesn´t complete

2001-11-20 Thread Robin v/d Vliet
Hi fellow TSM admins/lovers/friends, We´ve scheduled an Audit Library to run every day on our TSM 4.2 for AIX with IBM LTO drives. The Audit starts succesfully but this process won´t complete. The day after we still see this Audit Library process as active and this disrupts our other schedules,

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Remco Post
Hoi, we have our TSM server running with 4 nic's without any problems. We don't have anything special configured... > Hello, > > Does anybody know if a single TSM server can listen on different ip-adresses > (on different nic's) ? Or do you need to run multiple instances on one > machine ? > >

One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Wouter V
Hello, Does anybody know if a single TSM server can listen on different ip-adresses (on different nic's) ? Or do you need to run multiple instances on one machine ? TSM Server Config example : Listening for backup data on NIC1 : 192.168.10.10:1500 and on NIC2

Re: Problem with german "umlaut" in Linux-Client?

2001-11-20 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hi, as in the readme mentioned you must set your LANG - The TSM Linux x86 B/A client is now enabled to handle file names using multibyte character sets. The characters are displayed correctly, if the LANG environment is set to the appropriate language. ... backup on those files will fai

world-writable dsmsched.log

2001-11-20 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hello , I wonder if someone had the same problem, that on unix clients the dsmc - scheduler leaves dsmched.log / dsmerror.log - files which got their protection to a world-writable permission. Has someone seen this effect and stopped it ? for example to produce this effect on unix: unix-client:

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

2001-11-20 Thread Magura, Curtis
See my reply back to the list yesterday. I was able to re-install the license rte and cert stuff from the 4.2.0 CD and all is well again. Did see the DRM.lic info in the cert file but wasn't sure how to extract it without going through installp again. Curt Magura Lockheed Martin EIS Gaithersburg,

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
IF your routing on the ATL's pc isn't right, you can see a message such as that. (that is if you are using tcp/ip communication method) or if that specific host for some reason got wiped from your list of LAN hosts (that is if you are using tcp/ip communication method) If you are using the RS232 c

Please!:A Temp-File COPY POOL Solution

2001-11-20 Thread Michel David
Hi Everybody. Thank you for precedent answers ! I try to to be more understandable !! Here's the new problem: We have a 120GB Disk for pool (like 1 tape capacity) We would like, each day, to Copy the Archive Pool to a FILE POOL on this disk (remote disk). Parallely we will continue to use a r

Re: Statistics problem with TSM backup.

2001-11-20 Thread Nathan Himmel
Try to check whether the Maximum Size Threshold option was set in the DISK_BKUP storage pool. Nathan Himmel Semech Software Marketing LTD. - Original Message - From: "Pothula S Paparao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:59 AM Subject: Statisti

Re: Delay on script

2001-11-20 Thread Maurice van 't Loo
No, he was right, the script goes on when the DB backup is ended. But when the DB backup is ready, it starts to dismount the tape. It doesn't wait until it's dismounted. I think a sleep command is usefull in many scripts I make the scripts in AIX, there i've got more options and can make if/

Antwort: Help please with collocation

2001-11-20 Thread Jan Moewe
Hi Farren, the main reason to backup data is to be prepared to restore them. If you want to make your restore faster, collocation is a good option. In an Enviroment without collocation, data for one client will spread over all tapes in the tapepool. At restore TSM will do this for every tape: Mou

Problem with german "umlaut" in Linux-Client?

2001-11-20 Thread Stumpf, Joachim
Hi together, I didnt find something in the list-archive related to the new versions. Is there a known problem with TSM-Client for Linux 4.2.1.0 and german umlauts (äÄöÖüÜ,ß)? We have TSM-Server 4.1.3.0 on OS/390 2.10. The Linux version is SuSE 7.3. If we do a backup we get this in the error.log:

FW: Delay on script

2001-11-20 Thread Robert Ouzen
To all I resoved my problem by scheduling a checkout as some of you suggest. Here the script: (DRM_OUT) backup db devclass=scalarclass type=dbs wait=yes backup devconfig backup volhistory delete schedule checkout t=a define schedule checkout t=a cmd='run checkout_offsite' startt=now+00:18 dur=1