About ADSM client final sets( Digital Unix)

Dear ADSM engineer Hi, My name is Se-Hyeong Lee. I work for the Daewoo Motor Company in Korea. We have a Compaq server ( O/S : Compaq Tru64 v5.1 ) and want to backup data by using ADSM S/W(v3.1). So, I tried to install ADSM client final sets for Digital Unix (IP21861) which I downloaded in

Re: MPTHREADING for OS/390

Hi Ann, We run exactly the same environment - OS/390 and TSM versions. We have been using the MPTHREADING YES parameter for the last 2-3 years - no problems directly related to the MPTHREADING. What we have had for a while now is a call open for TSM going into a flat spin when there is a tape I/O

Re: Point in Time Backups

Haven't done this specifically, but I have one suggestion if it would fit. If you know ahead of time when these "PIT" backups would be needed, then create additional schedules to do your backups at these times. Make sure they wouldn't conflict with the "normal" backup times. When we are going to

Re: Tape backup verification

I'm new to TSM, so please be patient with me. Let say I backup directly from clients to tape, so my primary pool is tape and I do not use a disk pool. Since I cannot find "verify" command in TSM, so I wonder how TSM do the verification ? Is the data already been verified when it writes to tape

Re: lanfree not lan free

Another little "goodie" you can stick in there for troubleshooting purposes is the undocumented "enableallclients" directive. Very usefull for troubleshooting...turn that on, then you should be able to fire up a "dsmadmc -consolemode" session on the client end, to see what's happening. -Lloyd

Re: lanfree not lan free

LANN-Free DSM.SYS Example for all - Original Message - From: "Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ITDSES31" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: lanfree not lan free > Hi guys, > > In a totally AIX environment I have set up my storage agent fo

Re: LAN Free backups

Joe, Are you seeing the Agent make communications to the Server when recycled ? Is the Server receiving the mount request from the Agent ? Any changes to the device configurations on the server that effect the Agent (other server) need to recycle agent. If you want to send portion of activity

Re: Tivoli Account reps

I can tell you one thing all who can not locate a Rep. I support IBM software Nationally and would be happy to locate your resource for you. We are now all IBM and are here to serve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

I would also like a copy... - Original Message - From: "Tom Melton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands > I would like a copy too... > > Tom Melton > > >>>

AIX client fails direct to tape backup

TSM server 4.1.5.0 on AIX 4.3.3 PL 8. Two 3575s and one 3583; four drives each. AIX clients run 4.3.3 PL 8. About 120 active nodes. 3.5 TB online. The AIX backup/archive client fails totally when pointed directly to a tape pool instead of a disk pool. I've gotten the same failure on client vers

Re: Tape backup verification

When you backup the primary storage pool to the copy storage pool, it will read the primary pool tape. In the event the primary tape is bad, you'll get a bunch of errors in the activity log. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc William

Re: Point in Time Backups

You might be looking for different retention periods for these point-in-time backups from the rest of your data. You can do this handily with archives, or you can use multiple nodenames per system to manage different incremental series. This has been discussed at length before, check the archive

Antwort: TSM-Client 4.2.1 for Linux x86 and https

Hi Jens, correct me if I'm wrong but you want to connect from somewhere else to the web client on you linux server, that is linux:1581 for the client address and port, dont't you ? One way you might think of is to estblish a tunnel and use it to communicate to the client. See the ssl / ssh docum

Re: Tivoli Account reps

Ouch. I have been dealing with the reps in the DFW Metromess in the past, and they (especially Michael Pugh, in case anyone wants to know I have his email address) sure aren't like that. Maybe it's just a Yankee thing? OK, OK, everyone put those sticks down! "Prathe

Re: Point in Time Backups

If you manage your RETVER and VEREXISTS and RETONLY parameters properly, this can be accomplished with point in time *restores*, rather than point in time backups. -- Tom Thomas A. La Porte DreamWorks SKG [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Cheri Howard wrote: >I have numerous customers who

Point in Time Backups

I have numerous customers who are requesting that, in addition to their TSM daily incremental backups, I also provide them with "point in time" backups of their data on significant days like month end, quarter end, etc. I would guess there are numerous ways this can be accomplished with TSM. I'm

Re: Tivoli Account reps

Tivoli doesn't want your business unless you are a fortune 1000 customer (they have told us so). I have the name of a Tivoli/IBM business partner who provides excellent service and DOES want your business, email me directly if you want the contact info. -Original Message- From: Dale Jo

Re: Tivoli Account reps

Thanks for the info - we really did need the account rep though, we needed information pulled for a particular customer number that accounts for a number of ADSM/TSM licenses at the data center here. Very shortly after that message posted to the list, someone called and things are going well!

Re: Tivoli Account reps

Dale, You'll probably be better off contacting a Tivoli business partner rather than Tivoli directly. I work for a BP over near Reading, PA. If you go to Tivoli's web site (http:\\www.tivoli.com) and click on 'Business Partners' along the red strip across the top of the page, you'll be abl

Re: Sysback/6000 vs. mksysb for TSM DR restore

One quick thought, just install the needed drivers on the H70. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07-Mar-02 11:19:12 AM >>> Hi, We have been using Sysback/6000 for years as our backup recovery tool for our AIX systems. We are now merging many of those servers, and the collection of non-AIX systems is

Re: Tivoli Account reps

Pinheads! Case Closed. |+--> || Dale Jolliff| ||| || | || 03/07/02 02:04 | || PM | || Please respond | ||

Tivoli Account reps

What does it take to get attention from a Tivoli Rep in the Central North America region??? I have been trying for two days to get a return call from someone because we want to spend money... Anybody know a number for a rep in the Pittsburgh, PA area? I think the Chicago office covers this area.

API Filespace paramaters

We've done some testing with the TDP for Oracle (AIX) and made some backups. However, when I query the filespace for the node in question it comes back with Capacity 0.0 and Pct 0.0 Is this by design, or have we not really gotten a succesfull backup? It's creating the filespace name I specify, an

EBU utility for Oracle databases.

Hi at all !!!. I have a problem when i want to run a script to perform a backup of a database on Oracle 7 with EBU Utility, I receive this error message in the dsierror.log file and the client doesn't connect whit the server. The backup with the TSM Cllient run fine. Thank you very much for yo

MVS SMF Records

I work for the New York State Dept. of Health. We just starting to look at the OS/390 MVS SMF records for Tivoli/ADSM accounting. I am not sure which fields, we will be asked about. I am reading and learning about MXG to extract data from the records. I was wondering if anybody had shareable SA

Re: Netware 6 and TSM

Seth, Have you checked in to how it handles Netware clustering? Along with the 'failover' shortcoming, the gui restore interface with the cluster presents some interesting challenges! "Forgosh, Seth" wrote: > I have tested NW6 with the latest 4.x.x client and it worked fine. I suppose > that

MPTHREADING for OS/390

We are running the following: Our MVS is OS/390 2.10. TSM server is Version 4, Release 1, Level 2.0 I've been asked to look into MPTHREADING and determine if there are any reasons NOT to implement it. I've searched the archives and found a refrence from a long time ago concerning ADSM taking AL

Re: No drives available - UPDATE

If its the same or similiar problem I had in converting from a 3466-C00 (tsm 3) to a 3466-C01(tsm 4) but using the same 3494/3590s then its because your system thinks the tapes are ONLY capatible in READ/ONLY mount modes. Even though you are mounting a tape for RESTORE if you look closely you wil

Re: Tape backup verification

> I have some questions about backup verification and would like to seek some > advice. > > When I backup using TSM, how can I verify that the backup is good ? What I > mean is when TSM write to tape, how do I verify that the write-to-tape > process is good. I come from VMS backup. In VMS, it h

Sysback/6000 vs. mksysb for TSM DR restore

Hi, We have been using Sysback/6000 for years as our backup recovery tool for our AIX systems. We are now merging many of those servers, and the collection of non-AIX systems is proliferating so we are migrating to a TSM backup/recovery mechanism. The TSM server is an AIX based NSM box. I am in

No drives available - UPDATE

Earlier I posted a question regarding a migration problem I was having while trying to restore to a 3590 with a tape stacker. I was encountering a no drives availabel while trying to restore. To overcome this problem, I had to mark the volume as READ ONLY. The restore went throught without a hi

Re: Error on a client

I just went through that. On your Linux box you can: * convert the ext3 filesystems back to ext2, or * Upgrade to the 4.2.1 Linux client and convert the ext3 filesystems to REiserfs, or * Upgrade to the 4.2.1 Linux client and add to your dsm.sys file: VIRTUAL

Re: Error on a client

That was it. It was EXT3 filesystems on a Linux box. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error on a client I would help to know to which client you are referring (operatin

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

COPY please... -Demetrius Malbrough -Original Message- From: George Cardoza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands I too would like a copy... George C

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

I would like a copy too! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Braich, Raminder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands Importance: High I would like a copy

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

I would like a copy too.. Thanks Raminder Braich > -Original Message- > From: George Cardoza [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session > onSQL Co mmands > > I to

STOP REPLYING TO THE LIST FOR Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQLCo mmands

Folks, Why do all the rest of us have to see your "ME TOO" replies? PLEASE reply to the senders private email. There is enough traffic on this list without all of you having to plug it up with those kinds of replies. "Malbrough, Demetrius" wrote: > > COPY please... > > -Demetrius Malbrough >

Re: Error on a client

I would help to know to which client you are referring (operating system and version). For example, this message might come up on Linux if you have only EXT3 file systems, because TSM does not (yet) support EXT3. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Develo

Re: ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Files Failed

Thanks, Tim, that's what I SHOULD have said: We still get the message, but the backups don't fail since 4.2.0. -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Fi

Re: Netware 6 and TSM

I have tested NW6 with the latest 4.x.x client and it worked fine. I suppose that Bill is correct in saying that Tivoli will give you the "but it isn't supported" line but it does work. Seth Forgosh -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2

Re: ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Files Failed

We still get this message running 4.2.1.20 when we have the RSM service disabled. But our backups work fine. RSM is backed up as part of the System Object, so you can exclude RSM when doing a manual backup if you don't want the error message. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Messag

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

I too would like a copy... George Cardoza - Original Message - From: "Tom Melton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands > I would like a copy too... > > Tom

Re: 4.2 server memory corruption

We have upgraded our OS/390 TSM server to 4.2.1.9. This appears to have resolved our performance problems. I would like to thank Bill Colwell, John Naylor, and Brian Nick for their advice and assistance. The first time we started the server it reported that it was upgrading its database, even wit

Re: Error on a client

Was this a manual or scheduled backup for TDP for Lotus Notes??? -Original Message- From: Aldrich, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error on a client Anyone ever see this error: ANS1149E No domain available for incr

Re: ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Files Failed

What version of the client are you running? We haven't seen this anymore since we upgraded the client code to 4.2.0 -Original Message- From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database F

Re: 3584 slots

Oops... I discovered something The StorWatch interface now shows Empty storage slots: 0 I now know why: there were two tapes mounted in a drive... Do I feel dumb! I still have to figure out why there are 4 tapes present in the library which are not seen by TSM. I will try to figure that out t

Error on a client

Anyone ever see this error: ANS1149E No domain available for incremental backup I have verified that the server has a domain for this node. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Jamie Aldrich

Re: A Question to IBM NSM Customers

Dale, Yes the NSM's are the only IBM Boxes that we have but we have now started to move forward on Sun TSM Servers connected to 3494 Libraries. At the moment we have 5 NSM's and 4 TSM Sun Servers. Admittedly the Sun Servers are a higher spec but the performance is exceptional compared to the NSM.

with AIX TSM 4.1 can you reset maxsessions without bouncing tsm

On the slight chance someone has figured out a trick to get TSM to reprocess its dsmserv.opt file and I missed hearing about it... I've bumped up the # in my dsmserv.opt but getting a quiet moment on this TSM server is like asking the sun to not shine for a while. Dwight

Re: IP change

Mark, is there a reason why you aren't using the shared memory protocol? Did you kill the dsmc sched process after you changed the dsm.sys? lisa Mark Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATE.IL.US>cc

Re: IP change

Did you change the TCPServeraddress? Looks like that you changed the Nodename to 10.16.8.54! Perhaps you can show us the dsm.sys you changed... -- regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Joachim Stumpf Datev eG Nuremberg - Germany Mark Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Donnerstag, 7. März 2002, 1

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQ L Co mmands

I would like one please. Thank you. James W. Brents Jr. Technical Specialist Valero Energy Corporation Phone: 210-592-4441 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thank

Re: A Question to IBM NSM Customers

Taken from page 390 of TSM for AIX handbook. 2 sides to the coin... The Advantages of Using Journal File System Files TSM supports both journaled file system (JFS) files and raw logical volumes as database, recovery log, and disk storage pool volumes. JFS files have the

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

I would like a copy too... Tom Melton >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/02 08:20AM >>> I'd like to get a copy also "Justin Derrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/07/2002 07:29:07 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[E

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQ L Co mmands

Yes please! thanks in advance Juraj Salak -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQ L Co mmands YES!!! Thanks! -Original

OFF SUBJECT - People in SP environments might be interested.... Problem we had last week- upgrade to ML9

OFF SUBJECT, Those who work in SP environments might be interested Big problem we had when upgrading to ML9 last week, here is a resolution... Flash sent 02/25/2002 - - Service Updates to RSCT Problem Description: When customers are doing service updates to PSSP 3.2 and P

Re: 3584 slots

Hi Daniel! Strange. I compared the output from StorWatch's Storage Slot Details list with a q libvol. The volumes in the first two slots are actually seen (and used) by TSM. I am however missing the last 4 volumes in TSM. They are positioned in Column 8, Row 41, 42, 43 and 44... I' getting confuse

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQ L Co mmands

YES!!! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQL Co mmands If you want a copy of the presentation, please let me know. Paul

AW: IP change

Mark, are you using the clients ip address as its nodename? Now when you change your TSM servers ip address this does not affect the clients, except your TSM servers client... To fix this problem you could - use more symbolic nodenames that do not change when ip addresses change - rename your TSM

ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Files Failed

We have a user who is trying to back up a Win/2000 machine and is receiving "ANS1340E Exporting RSM Database Files Failed" during the backup. The backup stops after that. This is a manual backup, not a scheduled backup. Looking at the list archives, I noticed that past responses were to startup

Re: A Question to IBM NSM Customers

I found that moving the DB volumes off JFS to raw logical improved our performance tremendously - our full DB backups took less than half the previous time to complete. It was a small system though, one L32 cabinet and a single frame LTO SCSI attached. Unfortuneately, I haven't had the opportun

Re: how to identify ofsite tapes for specific node

My knowledge of select statements is fairly limited but you will probably have to use the information in the BACKUPS table but I am unsure how to figure out which tape the file is stored on. My guess is to use the OBJECT_ID field and there must be another table that stores what tape that OBJEC

Re: 3584 slots

>From the Planning and Operator Guide (Third Edition (February 2001). Cleaning Cartridge To maintain the operating efficiency of the drive, IBM supplies a specially labeled IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge with each 3584 UltraScalable Tape Library. Each drive in the library determines when it n

Re: 3584 slots

We recently setup a 3584, and had a IBM technician put his hand on the machine, to enable warranty. According to him, the first two slots are reserved, one for diagnostic cartridge, and one for cleaning cartridge. According to him, theese slots can not be used for standard LTO cartridges, and TSM

Re: 3584 slots

Hi Daniel! Aren't you confusing the 3584 with a 3494? As far as I can find in the doc's, there is no fixed cleaner slot in a 3584 and I don't even have a CE cartridge! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

IP change

Hi all, we have changed our IP for the AIX/TSM server. We back up 38 Novell/Unix nodes and all of them are fine. We also back up the AIX/TSM server as well. It is not working. I have changed the IP in the dsm.sys file to the new IP address. Below is the error message we receive from TSM. Thanks

Re: 3584 slots

Hi If all slots are used, you have a problem, as the first two slots are used by diagnostic cartridge and cleaning cartridge. Theese are not seen by TSM. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Vä

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQL Co mmands

Unless Paul is willing to email this to a lot of people, or place it somewhere for download, you can always go to http://www.share.org to download session presentations after that SHARE conference is over. I've downloaded several TSM SHARE presentations from past conferences. Bill -Original

Re: A Question to IBM NSM Customers

Dale, Thanks for the info. Its good to know we are not alone! We too have serious performance issues with the NSM'S and are also frustrated by their lack of scalability. We also have Sun TSM Servers using raw logical volumes that fly along by comparison, we will go forward with TSM on Solaris as

Re: IP change

Mark, Looks like you changed the NODENAME to 10.16.8.54 instead of changing the TCPSERVERADDRESS in you dsm.sys file. Bill Smoldt STORServer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burak Demircan Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:21 AM To:

Re: IP change

Hi Have you checked the nodename setting in the OPT-file? Seems to me that this node has a name of 10.16.8.54? If the TSM server wouldn't recognize the client, you wouldn't get the statement such as in your actlog. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrm

Re: IP change

search for the dsm.opt and dsm.sys in your system incase you are using different option files other than you believe to be right one regards, burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07.03.2002 16:14 Please respond to ADSM-L

Re: Netware 6 and TSM

The 'word' we got from Tivoli was that Netware 6 support would be availabe in TSM 5.1 due out in April. Other client levels may work, but I would expect the "but it isn't supported" line from Tivoli. I also found a similar response in the ADSM-L archives. Bill Boyer -Original Message- Fr

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQL Co mmands

I'd like to get a copy also "Justin Derrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/07/2002 07:29:07 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Pr

TSM Oracle TDP on Linux

The TSM TDP for Oracle on UNIX says AIX, HP-UX and SOLARIS. But how about LINUX ? After all, Oracle is available/supported on LINUX ? Anyone try this combination ? Someone is pushing VERITAS as the solution for this situation, that being backing up Oracle files "live" without shutting down th

archsyml=no option for a client schedule

Hi Gurus ! Could anyone explain me how to use the archsyml option when building a client schedule thru web interface ? I defined a schedule that looks like this : Action --> command Objects --> /home/tivoli/toto.sh Options --> -archsyml=no Toto.sh looks like : dsmc archive -subdir=yes -archmc=

Re: A Question to IBM NSM Customers

I had an NSM setup - we had performance issues that forced us to use raw logical volumes for storage and db, and that breaks the "supported" configuration. (try dealing with the NSM bunch in that situation!) I simply dealt with the OS and TSM support teams separately - calling into the NSM suppor

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session on SQL Co mmands

Yes please. =) -JD. >If you want a copy of the presentation, please let me know. > >Paul D. Seay, Jr. >Technical Specialist >Naptheon, INC >757-688-8180

Re: Linux and Windows clients

Hi Chris! Like I mentioned earlier: Cross platform backup/restore is not supported. It's not very likely that TSM will allow you to restore NTFS data to EXT2 filespaces, nor the other way around. Even if both clients are using a FAT filesystem, it will probably not works, simply because TSM is not

Netware 6 and TSM

We have some Netware 4.11 clients and it looks like they are going to Netware 6. The 4.11 clients are running ok with TSM 3..7.20, but this is no longer supported Is anyone running TSM with netware 6 clients? What TSM version are you using. Any problems/recommendations. Thanks. John **

A Question to IBM NSM Customers

Hi, I would be interested in hearing from any Users/Organisations that utilise IBM 3466 NSM's and struggle to navigate through the necessary IBM support Teams. As a user of NSM's I would expect, when raising a pmr, to have a single point of ownership of the problem, be it OS, hardware or TSM rel

3584 slots

Hi *SM-ers! I checked my 3584 library through the IBM 3584 UltraScalable Tape Library Specialist and I saw something strange. If I select the Physical Library option it shows: Total storage slots: 253 and Empty storage slots: 2. All storage slots are actually filled! When I click on Total storage

No drives available.

Hi, Hopefully someone can shed some light on this problem. I am in the process of migrating data from a V3.1 ADSM server connected to a 3494 library containing 4 * 3590 drives. I have set up a new ADSM server 4.2.1 to act as a data recovery server. This server has a 3590 with a stacker attache

Re: Linux and Windows clients

Chris, i think it does not depend weather the filespace *is* unicode, it depends on the unicode client. see following APAR from Tivoli web. herfried APAR= PQ54549 SER=IN INCORROUT ANS1357S WHEN CONNECTING WITH NON-UNICODE CLIENT Status: CLOSED

Re: offsite backup

Hi, sounds ok first day 1) 2)backup primary storage pool to copy pool and mark volumes within copy pool as offsite 3) 4) next day 1) 2) + 3)depends on the number of volumes you have( you could send them offsite daly and get them back weekly ) 4) 5) 6) after the dbbackups it would also be nice to

Re: Linux and Windows clients

Herfried, Thanks for your response. Looking on the server admin console indicates that the filespace is not unicode: Is Filespace Unicode? NO Do you know of anything else that could cause this problem? Chris > -Original Message- > From: Herfried Abel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:

Re: Linux and Windows clients

Hi Chris! Bare in mind that what you are trying to do (cross-platform backup and restore) is not supported! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Chris West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Tape backup verification

Hello everyone, I have some questions about backup verification and would like to seek some advice. When I backup using TSM, how can I verify that the backup is good ? What I mean is when TSM write to tape, how do I verify that the write-to-tape process is good. I come from VMS backup. In VMS

Re: Linux and Windows clients

chris, I think using the win client sets the nodes filespaces to unicode enabled within the tsm internal database. This causes your error. you can reset the client only using the "non documented" SET RECORD method. ( This manipulates the internal db and should only be used on IBM/Tivoli advice.)

offsite backup

Hi, How can you manage offsite backups without DRM? I have just ideas in mind but I have lack of experience. Is the following right way first day 1) backup the nodes 2) backup copy pools to offsite copy pools 3) backup the database 4) take database backup and copy pools to offsite 5) e

Linux and Windows clients

Hello, I'm quite new to ADSM so please forgive me if I'm asking something stupid. I am trying to connect to a TSM server (4.2.1) using both Linux and Windows clients (home made clients built using the API). Both clients need to connect to the same client node and the same filespace. The Windows

Re: how to identify ofsite tapes for specific node

Julian, I have been having a look at using your select statement below and with slight modifications I am getting the number of tapes that are needed for each filespace for the particular node. I believe that the results brought back by this select command are effectively any tape which has a fil