Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Coats, Jack
If it is "Pending", it means that, even though the tape has no valid contents for your current production database could recover, you still have a valid database backup offsite that has not expired that does know what is on that tape, and if in a disaster situation you need to use that old databas

Re: Win 2K VS AIX

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
GOOD POINT I left out. The IP Stack on WINTEL is resource expensive. AIX will do that much better. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Win 2K VS AIX

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
There are some major improvements on the WINTEL at 4.2.1. First of all, they do raw IO to the disk pools with 256K blocks. We observed some significant performance improvements that lead me to believe that up to 50 Windows Server clients could be supported by a 4 way WINTEL if you have fibre cha

Re: How do you eject dbsnapshot tapes automagically

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
The problem is you have to know what to checkout and it has to be dismounted or the checkout will fail. I had to write some elaborate scripts to do this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DRM Volume contains files that cannot be restored

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
I brought this up as an integrity issue on deaf ears. Most folks do a "q volume * acc=unavailable" daily to see if they have any tapes in this state and either change them to readonly or readwrite. This is caused when a tape drive fails and TSM does not know what the state of the tape could pote

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
Pending happens because the reuse days has not expired yet. So, even if you bring them back they would not be reused until that time passed. Look in the definition for the storage pool. Based on your scenario they may have set the reusedelay very large to prevent them from being called back. W

DB2 hot backups

2002-05-10 Thread Gerald Wichmann
Do all DB2 versions allow for hot backups to Tivoli? Or do you need enterprise edition or something? Specifically I'm curious about DB2 for workgroups on linux.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w)

Re: Show Libr output

2002-05-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Mike, I suspect you have have upgraded the drives but did recreated all the rmtN devices (through rmdev -dl rmtN & cfgmgr). I might be wrong as well. Still am trying to figure out what is wrong. Can you try something else - the output of lsattr -El rmt0 lsattr -El rmt2 (is there any difference) l

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Adamson, Matt
Sorry if I sound a little ignorant. I took our backup environment over a few months ago and have been trying to learn how it was set up. It was explained to me that I could not get tapes back from offsite, just in case we need to do a Point in time restore with DRM. I have asked if we could brin

Re: Unload db/Loaddb

2002-05-10 Thread Andrew Carlson
I missed the first message in this thread, but I have been testing this. This is what I plan to do: - wait for DB backup to complete - enter 'halt quiesce" command so the db should be consistent - unloaddb (to disk) - loaddb (from disk) In testing, with out full size DB (47.9GB), it went down to

Re: Unload db/Loaddb

2002-05-10 Thread Orville L. Lantto
My db shrank a lot also, but re-grew a fair bit over the next week. I suspect it will reach a steady-state value not much different than I started with. Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) 121 Cheshire Lane #700 Minnetonka, MN 55305 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DRM Volume contains files that cannot be restored

2002-05-10 Thread Kliewer, Vern
How do I track down what is going on here? After restoring the database and most of the DISKPOOL from tape using DRM procedures, I get one DISK volume left over. It appears to contain a very limited amount of data from a single node. We back up our DISK and TAPE pools to COPYPOOL. We then back-u

Re: JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Gerald Wichmann
With IBM's pro-java stance I've always found it odd that TSM doesn't have better JDBC support. It really makes it difficult for a company to write in house code to query the TSM server DB for info and use it. Outside of using SNMP software and decision support to monitor/report a TSM server why do

Re: JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You need to use the JDBC <--> ODBC bridge. There is no JDBC driver for TSM, nor do we plan on implementing one at this time. Which version of the ODBC driver are you using? The only ones that I know of that work (to at least some minimal degree) are 5.1.0.1 and now 4.2.2.0. Any future versions sh

Re: Unload db/Loaddb

2002-05-10 Thread Nici Albrecht
You might want to check out the archives on this, there has been quite a bit of discussion in regards to this issue. Nici At 09:41 AM 5/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >DOes anyone have a standard procedure for unloaddb and loaddb. >I have TSM 4.2.1.11 on AIX. Our db is 36GB and is about 79 % full. >A

How do you eject dbsnapshot tapes automagically

2002-05-10 Thread Bern Ruelas
I'd like to set my system up to automagically eject the dbsnapshots when they are done via an admin command script. Does anyone know how? -Bern Sr. Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems

Re: How do you eject dbsnapshot tapes automagically

2002-05-10 Thread Fred Johanson
If they are part of your DRM set, S(ource)=dbs with the rest of the move DRM command ejects the DBS tape also. At 12:49 PM 5/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I'd like to set my system up to automagically eject the dbsnapshots >when they are done via an admin command script. Does anyone know how? > >-B

Re: How do you eject dbsnapshot tapes automagically

2002-05-10 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Yes, simple do a checkout libvol at the end of your script. -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Image Backup on raw logical volumes

2002-05-10 Thread William Rosette
Hello Smer's Can anyone tell me about backing up raw logical volumes with Image Backup on the 4.2 and above clients? Can you specify a particular file/database/ or whatever, OR do you have to back up all as in a backupset? And, if so, where can I get some info. on all this? Thanks agai

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We do reclaimation of our offsite, COPY POOL tapes, all the time. TSM is smart enough to figure out that it is a COPY POOL and simply creates NEW TAPES. It doesn't mount the offsite tapes. We have a process that checks for the % UTILIZED of the OFFSITE tapes and then creates a "recall" list of t

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
When you start reclaims on a COPY pool where the tapes are OFFSITE, TSM knows that the tapes aren't available (they are marked OFFSITE, yes?). So TSM does the reclaim using only the ONSITE tapes. If you have 3 tapes offsite that are only 10% good, TSM will mount a scratch tape, find the onsite c

TDP Delete

2002-05-10 Thread Maria Ragan
Client: NT 5.0; TSM vers 3.7.0.0; TDP for MS SQL ver 1.1.2 Server: AIX 4.3.3; TSM vers 4.1.0 Any idea why I do not see the two databases I wish to delete on the client's TDP GUI ? The databases do show up under a q occupancy on the TSM server. Thank you, Maria Maria Ragan Systems Engineer Unix

Archiving and backupset

2002-05-10 Thread Etienne Brodeur
Hi, Is there a way to archive Domino DBs through the TDP? I am doing it through a backupset right now. How do you identify the volume used? If I run 3 or 4 backupsets how do I know which one is which? Or do I have to look through the actlog? How do I know when that backupset volumes is scrat

Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Adamson, Matt
Here is my scenario... We currently send all of our tapes offsite for 7 years. In the library we collocate by filespace. But, when we send the tapes offsite they are uncollocated. We have retired a number of servers in the past couple years, meaning we no longer need that data. Being that we

del filespace

2002-05-10 Thread Gisbert Schneider
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Re: dsmc via cmdline

2002-05-10 Thread Lisa Cabanas
You can do an dsmcutil updatepw /node:node_name /passw:password in the script to seed the password into the registry is this what you are wanting? Gerald Wichmann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

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2002-05-10 Thread Mike Crawford
Zlatko, Here's the output you requested. As you can see, same model and microcode levels (it's the same across all five drives. I've done the same Show Libr on our other two servers, one with 3590B1A's, one with 3590E1A's. The B1A's: RMT0 (/dev/rmt0): type=8, mod=17, bus

Re: JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Bill Boyer
Here's a post from Andy Raibeck about the TSM5.1 ODBC driver...http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0204/714.html. Bill Boyer DSS< Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren, Matthew James Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:44 AM To: [E

Re: JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Hi Ppl, I'm getting somehwere, but the DB access through jdbc:odbc: -> Access databse -> TSMdatabase is incredibly slow. I have been told that it may help to use a native JDBC inteface; I don't think there is one for JDBC & TSM, but maybe someone knows differently?

Re: Split ARCHIVE/BACKUP Data Into Seperate STGPOOL

2002-05-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
The only way I can think of in TSM 4 is to EXPORT the data, DELETE the filespace, then IMPORT it again. The management classes should direct the data to the new storage pool when you do the IMPORT. It's NOT easy or fast. Your solution of moving the individual tapes, and living with some extra c

Re: Problem backing up a client

2002-05-10 Thread Bruce Kamp
I had the same problem on my Citrix servers. I upgraded to the 5.1.01 client & it has been backing up ok --- Bruce Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 ---

Re: TSM Restore Problem on Netware 5.1

2002-05-10 Thread David Longo
I had the same problem here a few months ago. The problem (as usual) is with Netware. With SP3, Novell changed some bit (I don't understand all the Netware stuff). Our Netware admins checked the info I got from Tivoli when I opened a ticket. A new TSA fr

Re: client acceptor problem

2002-05-10 Thread Burak Demircan
Hi, I do not know if it was the problem but my problem is resolved. I installed the client from scratch including API. I hadn't  installed the API on my previous attempt. Is API required for client acceptor to start scheduler? (I dont this so) Regards, Burak [E

Split ARCHIVE/BACKUP Data Into Seperate STGPOOL

2002-05-10 Thread Robin Lowe
We took a decision when we first set up ADSM back in 1994, to direct all backup and archive data to the same tape storagepool. We do not use COPY STORAGEPOOL, but have since taken the decision to use COPY STORAGEPOOL for archive data only. So we have defined our storage hierarchy and arcive copy

Unload db/Loaddb

2002-05-10 Thread Rajesh Oak
DOes anyone have a standard procedure for unloaddb and loaddb. I have TSM 4.2.1.11 on AIX. Our db is 36GB and is about 79 % full. Any gotchas while doing the unload and loaddb? Any help is appreciated. Rajesh Oak

Re: client acceptor problem

2002-05-10 Thread Firmes, Stephen
The problem is that you have /autostart:yes for the TSM Scheduler service. Since the TSM Acceptor service is responsible to start it you have a conflict. It can't be both "autostarted" and "Acceptor" started. Change the scheduler to /autostart:no and you should be all set. Stephen Firmes T

Re: client acceptor problem

2002-05-10 Thread Bill Boyer
The Scheduler service should be set to MANUAL startup. You should change it to /autostart:no /startnow:no. The CAD service should be the only one running. When a schedule request comes in, the CAD service will start the /CADSCHEDNAME: service. Just like it does for the Web client interface request

Re: Show Libr output

2002-05-10 Thread Richard Cowen
I see different output. AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1. tsm: ORCA>show libr MMSV->libList: head=31573A28, tail=31574268 Library L3494 (type 349X): reference count = 0, online = 1, borrowed drives = 0, update count = 0 basicCfgBuilt = 1, libInfoBuild = 1, definingPathToLibrary = 0 addLibPath = 0, dr

Re: JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Ok, After a little hunting I have managed to get it working using the 'empty' MSAccess DB method containing links to the TSM DB, and pointing JDBC at that intsead. Has there been any progress getting it to work right off the bat with JDBC-ODBC Bridge?? Thanks, Matt. -Original Message-

Re: Win 2K VS AIX

2002-05-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Main bottlenecks of Wintel platform are SCSI buses and (usually one) PCI bus. For example in many PC servers you cannot have both SCSI RAID adapter and FC adapter without performance penalty. Usually only high-end (4 proc and above) servers have more than one *primary* PCI bus. Others have only on

JDBC-ODBC Bridge and TSM ODBC driver

2002-05-10 Thread Warren, Matthew James
He TSM'ers, Has anyone any success connecting to the TSM database using the JDBC-ODBC bridge and the TSM ODBC drivers? I have set bot system and user datasources using the TSM ODBC driver, and I am then attmepting to access this from Java using the JDBC-ODBC bridge. Currently I am using this cod

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino Backups/Archives

2002-05-10 Thread Del Hoobler
> Thanks for your help. I created a new node and created a new schedule that > does a full selective backup. But then, I realized that I am still using > the same management class with the normal retention period of my > incrementals. Does this mean my selective backups are of no use since they

4.2.2.0 clients are there!

2002-05-10 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! Maybe you already noticed: the 4.2.2.0 clients are finally available for download! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://ww

Re: dsmc via cmdline

2002-05-10 Thread Tomás Hrouda
Gerald, I mean you cannot generally use all administrative commands (like "q sess") from DSMC client (B-A). There is DSMADMC (administrative) client designed to do it. You can use restricted set of query commands by DSMC, you can find them in Using B-A clients manuals. In your case "q sess" was in

Re: Mirrored DELETE DBVOL, LOGVOL?

2002-05-10 Thread Reinhard Mersch
Roger, I agree, I also feel very uncomfortable living without a mirror, even for a limited time. The admin interface should be enhanced to allow for distinguishing between removing a DBCOPY from deleting the entire DBVOL including all mirrors (and hence moving the contents while all mirrors are i

Re: dsmc via cmdline

2002-05-10 Thread Tomás Hrouda
Sorry to all, I was wrong ... Q SEss is right command ... but with different result in dsmc otherwise to dsmadmc. Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tomas Hrouda Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Win 2K VS AIX

2002-05-10 Thread Salak Juraj
I know about large company in our area which swapped from NT2000 to AIX because of TCPIP performance over Gigabit ATM (they reached double! network performance after having tuned both, HW was comparable). DB performance was simillar, but this depends very strongly on both HW compnents and OS and t