Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi Thanks for the responses .. Have a nice day and for all the Americans have a happy Independence Day ! Robert Ouzen Computer Center Helpdesk Manager Haifa University Israel

3590H drives?

2002-07-03 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Has anyone installed/set up these yet with TSM? I have a customer with B's that was looking to go to E's, but is now thinking about the new H models. I'm guessing that the migration process would be similar to a B-E upgrade, but I'm not sure I want to be the first kid on the block to try it. -L

Strange! TSM 5.1 Client on Linux86

2002-07-03 Thread mephi (劉禹賢)
As I start schedule on Redhat 7.1 by ' nohup dsmc schedule & ' Is forks 3 process : 656310112dsmc schedule & 65646563dsmc schedule & 65656564dsmc schedule & Could anyone tell me what happened ? Mephi Liu IBN Information Enterprise

Fw: 3590H drives?

2002-07-03 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Whoops...disregard the last post. Just realized that they're not available till 7/26. -Lloyd Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:59:31 -0400 From: Lloyd Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 3590H drives? Has anyone installed/set up these yet with TSM? I have a

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Benjamin
You can pre-load the library directly without using the bulkloader and presumably perform a "label libvol search=yes". Make sure the current database and library state are consistent with an audit etc. Please research it for your own piece of mind before performing this. This can be a huge timesa

Re: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Benjamin
This is correct, 2 drives is not going to cut it, we had similar problems with a 3575 library with only 2 drives that used to do our primary backups. The drives are tied up with reclamations all day long and eventually you start falling behind and you are not able to migrate data offsite fast enou

Re: TSM Server Recovery

2002-07-03 Thread Seay, Paul
Right off, I can see the big/little endian issue with the data stored in the database. So, I will have to go with Tivoli Support on this NO! But, some combinations may work. There are many flavors of big/little endian. Read this website: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/big_endian.html Paul

Re: Exchange file performance

2002-07-03 Thread Seay, Paul
Exchange is not a file level backup. It is more like a database unload. The Microsoft Exchange Backup API is only designed for 30GB/hr. Funny, that figures out to 8.33MB/sec. However, on much faster servers with FC disk I have seen a little faster than this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Special

Re: restore server question

2002-07-03 Thread Seay, Paul
You are lost. There has been discussion about this, but basically there are no pointers to where the stuff is on the tapes without the database backup to restore from. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Tony W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: AIX storagepool format

2002-07-03 Thread David Longo
Haven't used 5.1 yet of either S/W. Yes, it will be busy but when you say not responding, what do you mean? It will be noticeably slow from OS level with some commands during build. (As was discussed here a month or so ago, when it is building the file, it is writing the pattern "ericericeric...

Re: Cant check a tape in

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Benjamin
"delete volhistory" seems to be what you require for the volume, it's probably seeing that the volume was/is a dbbackup volume in the existing volhist and hence refusing to allow you to re-use it. 8<8< 8<-

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Benjamin
There are some shortcuts here... You can load all your additional library tape straight into the slot without the use of the bulk loader, make sure your library has been properly audited and knows what's what first. (I would even be tempted to mark all the current tapes read-only just in case :)

Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Jack, It's been mentioned before, but if you use a disk pool for directories, you should make the disk pool a FILE devclass. When my directory disk pool was DISK devclass, copypool reclamation would launch and eight hours later I would have reclaimed a few tens of MBs. I rebuilt the directory d

TSM 4.1.1 on MS Windows 2K Cluster

2002-07-03 Thread Jon Adams
Well, since Tivoli has officially cut support for 4.1.1, I have, what I hope to be, a simple question: TSM Server v4.1.4.5 running on AIX v4.3.3, supporting Windows client v4.1.1 ** Though I have successfully implemented the TSM

Re: TSM Server Recovery

2002-07-03 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
No, restoring a TSM server to a new platform isn't supported. The only way to accomplish this would be to perform an import/export. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs

Re: TSM Platform ?

2002-07-03 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
If you have AIX installed already, I would hands-down recommend TSM on AIX. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com An IBM Premier Business Partner [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Exchange file performance

2002-07-03 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burton, Robert > I am running TSM server 5.1.0.0, TSM BA Client 5.1.0.1, TDP for Exchange > 2.2.0.0 and Exchange 2000. I noticed that when I backup the exchange > database using TDP or BA client I only get approximately 8mb/sec >

AIX storagepool format

2002-07-03 Thread David E Ehresman
I am moving from an MVS server to an Aix server. When a do a "DEFINE VOL stgpool filename FORMAT=nnn" the Aix box stops responding until after the format is done. A monitor shows 100% i/o busy on the disk. Is this normal Aix behavior? TSM server = 5.1.1 Aix = 5.1 Disk = SSA Raid 5 David

Re: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Gilbert, Is there a particular reason you have such a large library with just two drives? I have a 3583 with four drives. I did that to prevent the very problem you're reporting. Assuming it hosts a primary storage pool, you will need two drives for reclamation unless you use a FILE devclass d

Re: Exchange file performance

2002-07-03 Thread Rushforth, Tim
With old versions (4.1.1.16 client, TDP for Exchange 1.1.1.01, Exchange 5.5, TSM 4.2 server) we have gotten 30 MB/sec on Exchange backups (fairly low end servers)on 15GB Database. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Burton, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: W

Exclusions added to dsm.opt

2002-07-03 Thread Joe McAllister
I found the section in the manual that covers the recommended Windows system files to exclude (see below). I changed the dsm.opt files to reflect this list. My question is: If I attempt a full restore will these files that got backed up (prior to me excluding them) restore and risk corrupting w

Cant check a tape in

2002-07-03 Thread rs6000
TSM'rs During a recent implementation a tape was used to do a database backup. The implementation was then blown away and re-done. I am running the following command in an attempt to check the volume in again but it fails saying it is in use or belongs to another storage pool. The command I a

Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Coats, Jack
I cannot find out how to speed me up either! Mine is slower than sin, on reclaiming my offsite copypools especially. -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes Hey the

Re: Image backup of a W2K machine

2002-07-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
I am sure the original author was inquiring about the image backup and recovery feature re-introduced in TSM 5.1. The IBM announcing number is 202-078. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Man

Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread David Longo
My 3584 has FC-AL drives through McData ES-1000 switches to a RS6000 6H1 with the FC 6228 2 Gigabit Adapters. Tape to tape I get about 115GB /hour and as you mentioned 2.5/1 or slightly better compression - compressing on tape only. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/02 01:40PM >>> How muc

Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
How much data was actually on the tape? If you got 2:1 compression, at 25% full, an LTO tape has 50GB of data on it. Over 4 hours that's 12.5GB/hr, which may not be too bad depending on the connection to the drives. And if, as I've seen, you get better than 2:1, say 2.5:1, you're looking at 63G

Re: Bandwith Control with TSM Backup and Restore

2002-07-03 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
You can use the "resource" option. 1 is the slowest and 10 is the highest. This option doesn't necessarily mean the network utilization, but it does mean overall performance. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consult

TSM Server Recovery

2002-07-03 Thread Gerald Wichmann
If you were given a TSM DB backup created from one platform, is it possible to restore to another platform? e.g. TSM 4.2.1 running on Solaris 2.8.. could you take the DB backup of that and restore to: TSM 4.2.1 running on win2k? If not is there a way to move a TSM server from one platform to a

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Kai Hintze
The label command includes a checkin option, as you have used, so you can do both with this one command. Have fun! Kai. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 03 July 2002 5:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: checkin & label scratch

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Joe Pendergast
The "label libv" command is required on first use of the tapes. It must load the tape into the drive and write a header label to the tape. Agreed this is slow, but it serves a purpose. It is done for those times where the barcode reader may slip. If the barcode cannot be read, the label is rea

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread David E Ehresman
If the new tapes are already labeled, you just need to do the checkin. If not, you need to do the label libvol. David Ehresman

Exchange file performance

2002-07-03 Thread Burton, Robert
Hi All, I am running TSM server 5.1.0.0, TSM BA Client 5.1.0.1, TDP for Exchange 2.2.0.0 and Exchange 2000. I noticed that when I backup the exchange database using TDP or BA client I only get approximately 8mb/sec aggregate. So I created a file of the same size, 1.4gb, and I got 25mb/sec aggrega

Re: AW: Win2K cluster question

2002-07-03 Thread John Naylor
Thanks Alexander. On reflection I did not like my original idea, so I will use management class John "Stahl, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/03/2002 12:35:38 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) S

Re: 3575 Audit library failure

2002-07-03 Thread David Longo
You didn't mention if this is new or had been working awhile and quit. But, if any drives are in use on the library, the audit will hang. Make sure all tapes are dismounted and then run audit. Should use "checklabel=barocde" parameter and it should only take about 20-30 seconds. David Longo >

Re: checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Jozef Zatko
Robert, if volumes are alredy labeled and you only need insert them to library, use checkin libv command. If volumes are not yet labeled, you must label them with label libv command. Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Robert Ouzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by

Re: Changing Storage Pools/Management Classes

2002-07-03 Thread Prather, Wanda
Since your management classes already exist, all you have to do is just change the copy-to destination, as you said. Make sure when creating the new tape pool that you set maxscratch to non-zero, just routine stuff. No negative side effects I can think of. Wanda -Original Message- Fro

checkin & label scratch volumes

2002-07-03 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi I have a scalar 1000 library and need to add a lot of new scratch volumes. Can I do just a: checkin libv scalar status=scratch search=bulk checklabel=barcode or I need the first time to do: label libv scalar checkin=scratch search=bulk labelsource=barcode volrang

AW: Win2K cluster question

2002-07-03 Thread Stahl, Alexander
Hi John, Answer is: YES for MSCS Cluster enviroment you have to use dedicated option files for each Ressource Group or Node. Normally one will create a directory on a shared disk for each ressource group, were the option file, the sched and error Logs will be placed. In this option File you defi

Re: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread David Longo
There has been several discussions on this recently. In brief, most likely the reclamation is slow when input is disk and not tape - an output tape with no input tape. Going tape to tape is MUCH faster. It is a basic TSM design problem that is accentuated by LTO start/stop. Simple solution is t

Re: TDP for Domino Selective

2002-07-03 Thread Del Hoobler
> If I run a selective backup instead of an incremental, will transaction > logs be applied to the new backed up database during a restore or will > they still be assigned to the older version? Marc, If they have the same DBIID, they can be restored to either. If you restore the older backup wit

Re: Missing DRM license

2002-07-03 Thread Burton, Robert
You have to force re-install the license.cert or the license.rte file a second timeI do not remember which file you need to re-install but it is one of the license files Robert Burton Enterprise Storage Network Analyst Royal Bank of Canada 315 Front St West Toronto, On, M5V 3A4 * 416

Re: Bandwith Control with TSM Backup and Restore

2002-07-03 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stahl, Alexander > we need to restrict the bandwidth usage for TSM Backup and Restore. One way > is to restrict the TSM IP Port on the routers, but this is not the way our > people want to do this. Does anybody know a way to rest

Reclaiminig LTO Tapes

2002-07-03 Thread Guillaume Gilbert
Hey there Maybe its because I'm used to using STK 9840 tapes but yesterday I saw an LTO tape at 25 % utilisation take almost 4 hours to reclaim, which to me is awful. How am I supposed to reclaim my tapes with that kind of performance?. The drives I use are IBM Ultriums in a 3584 library. With

inclexcl list in 2000/NT

2002-07-03 Thread Ruksana Siddiqui
Hi all, How do I include the IMP open files in NT / 2000 like the registry , security ... files . How does TSm handle the openfiles ? is there a differnt way of backing the system related information files in NT / 2000. Any help is greatly apprecaited. Regards, -Original Message- Fr

Re: Win2K cluster question

2002-07-03 Thread Gianluca Mariani1
John, I'm not sure I understand your question. are you saying you want one machine in a cluster to be registered to one policy domain and the other machine in the cluster to be registered to another policy domain? you would not be using a cluster this way, what would happen in case of failover? yo

TDP for Domino Selective

2002-07-03 Thread Marc Lowers
If I run a selective backup instead of an incremental, will transaction logs be applied to the new backed up database during a restore or will they still be assigned to the older version? TSM v 4.1.2 TDP 1.1.1 running on Win NT servers.

Re: how can I delete backups from TDP SQL 2.2?

2002-07-03 Thread Del Hoobler
> I used to be able to delete backup sets in TDP for SQL 1.x > I do not want to delete all my inactive sets because I want to keep one > backup from the 1st of each month. > Has anyone else come up with a solution to this? Don, TDP for SQL 2.2 introduced full TSM policy management. Many customer

restore server question

2002-07-03 Thread Tony W
my tsm server has been crashes ,now i reinstall new tsm server. but how to recovery old tape to new tsm server,if no backup old tsm server databases. Thanks, Tony W

Missing DRM license

2002-07-03 Thread Anderson, Michael - HMIS
I have upgraded from TSM version 4.1.5.3 to 4.2.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have one problem when I am registering my license I am missing the drm license file. How do I retrieve this? Thanks Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including an

Re: Image backup of a W2K machine

2002-07-03 Thread Rosa Leung/Toronto/IBM
By saying Image backup, is this ARCHIVE command, and you mentioned image agent for win2k, does this code comes with the package or it is extra piece, and does this by default to install or it is optional, can you talk a little bit more, and which version includes this feature? Thank

Win2K cluster question

2002-07-03 Thread John Naylor
We are looking at setting up some win2k clustered TSM clients. Most of them are fairly small but there is one client with 200gb of data to be backed up. I want to point all the small clients to use our standard tapepool, with the big one pointing to a different tapepool So the question is :- Can y

Re: Image backup of a W2K machine

2002-07-03 Thread mephi (劉禹賢)
Image backup cannot be perform on system volume, like c: to use image backup, you must install the image agent for win2k (included in client program) then start its service up, reboot, then you can perform image backup manual or in schedule. To rebuild your crash win2k, you have to build a new OS

Bandwith Control with TSM Backup and Restore

2002-07-03 Thread Stahl, Alexander
Hi everybody, we need to restrict the bandwidth usage for TSM Backup and Restore. One way is to restrict the TSM IP Port on the routers, but this is not the way our people want to do this. Does anybody know a way to restrict bandwidth consumption by TSM on Windows 2000 Clients without using rout

TDP for R/3

2002-07-03 Thread Dirk Müller
Hi everybody, last night a backup got a error: BKI4005EError allocating memory block for file file name. BLOCKSIZE may be too large. Explanation: Tivoli Data Protection for R/3 was not able to request new memory blocks during the backup of file file name. User Response: Verify that

Sun Solaris 8 TSM 5.1.0.0 client scheduler dumps core upon starting to execute a schedule

2002-07-03 Thread Charles Pizzato
I'm having a problem with the Sun TSM client (version 5.1.0.0) in that the scheduler dumps core on commencement of executing a scheduled command (be it Incremental or Command or whatever). I have traced the problem to the dsmagent binary which dumps core immediately when run. Has anyone got this p

Re: 3584 firmware

2002-07-03 Thread Williams, Tim P {PBSG}
? support may not...supportan upgraded library firmware...w/o an upgraded drive firmware... fyi -Original Message- From: Peter Pijpelink - P.L.C.S. BV Storage Consultants [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3584 firmware

3575 Audit library failure

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Benjamin
Hi *SMers, I have a problem with a 3575L18 library that is refusing to respond to an "audit library" (either barcode or not). It just sits there and so does the process. Versions are as follows: Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 Sess

Re: Problem using HP DLT VS80 with TSM 5.1.1 on Win2000

2002-07-03 Thread Imre Kloknicer
Hi Christo, On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:15:42 +0200, Christo Heuer wrote: >Hi Imre, > >Most likely problem is your tapeware application that grabs the >drive before TSM can. >Make sure the TSMSCSI device driver is started and all other >applications that make use of this drive is stopped. You are rig