Re: multiple reclaim processes

2002-09-03 Thread Seay, Paul
I have a set of perl/ksh scripts that have automated this. They work well. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multipl

Re: select for copy groups??

2002-09-03 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes > Does anyone have a sql for finding which servers are associated with which > copy group? Servers are not associated with copygroups. Copygroups are associated with management classes, and there is a default manage

OpenVMS's backups don't send summary information

2002-09-03 Thread Henrry Aranda
Hi, I have a TSM server v5.1.1.4 on W2k, ABC client v3.1.0.4 for OpenVMS on Alpha, TSM Clients v5.1.0.0 on W2k and TDPs for MSExchange and MSSQL. When I backup an OpenVMS server with ABC client, summary information isn't sent to TSM server, the summary table doesn't contain information for these

select for copy groups??

2002-09-03 Thread Joseph Dawes
Does anyone have a sql for finding which servers are associated with which copy group? Joseph Dawes I/T Infrasctructure - Unix Technical Support Chubb & Son, a Division of Federal Insurance Company 15 MountainView Road Warren,New Jersey 07059 Office:908.903.3890

Consolidating NT servers to a NAS

2002-09-03 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We're about to replace four NT fileservers with one IBM NAS-box. Is there any way to migrate or export/import the TSM backup data? The directory structure is changing along with the UNC name and the drive letter (filesystem). In addition, we're splitting our biggest server over two drives in the n

Re: LAN FREE BACKUPS

2002-09-03 Thread David Gratton
Make sure you stop/start the dsmsta process every time you make a change on the TSM server..So stop/start the dsmsta process and try again... Dave Gratton IBM 416-774-1396 FRANCISCO ROBLEDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/02/2002 06:04:33 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAI

DSMSERV DUMPDB -> DEVCLASS FILE (DEVTYPE=FILE) ---- Possible? If so, what are the requirements ?

2002-09-03 Thread Kent Monthei
I made a test copy of my TSM database volumes on a test server, then tried running DSMSERV DUMPDB. The test server doesn't have access to a tape drive, but has substantial disk storage, so I defined a DEVCLASS FILE DEVTYPE=FILE in 'devconfig', then ran DSMSERV DUMPDB using FILE as a target. Tha

Help!!! ANR8447E and ANR1401W

2002-09-03 Thread Sandor Maklari
Hi All, We have a following TSM server configuration: AIX 4.3.3 ML9 Atape 7.1.5.0 tivoli.tsm.devices.aix43.rte 4.2.2.10 tivoli.tsm.server.rte 4.2.2.10 IBM 3583 LTO library with 2 drives (Drive firmware: 25D4) Nodes maxnummp option value: 2 Device class m

Virtual Volumes...

2002-09-03 Thread asr
Greetings all. For those of you using virtual volumes, how large do you make the volumes? When I started doing this, I had the following opinions: + The server volumes should be significantly smaller than the remote physical storage. It would be a real pain for most of the virtual volumes to

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Roger Deschner
In my experience, "smart load balancing" does not really exist. I thought I had heard of it, so I went looking on my system to see if it was doing anything to help. If the Database has plenty of room in it, and you add a new extent in hope of spreading out the I/O load, that extent will not be use

Re: Solaris 9

2002-09-03 Thread Remco Post
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On maandag, september 2, 2002, at 11:26 , Mark Stapleton wrote: > IBM/Tivoli employees who are participants in this list will not be able > to > make any official announcements or pronouncements about Solaris 9, so > all > the responses you'll most l

Re: Unload/load db and long expirary

2002-09-03 Thread MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Hi Rodney, I am at about the same place. My question is, How long did it take to do the UNLOAD and RELOAD of your DB? Matt -Original Message- From: Rodney clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unload/load db and l

Error 10 when installing Web Client

2002-09-03 Thread Bill Dourado
Hi, I come against"Error 10 updating the registry password" "The registry node key couldn't be located" WHEN attempting to install TSM Web Client via GUI wizard, on a NT(4SP6) backup client. Could somebody please help me ? I have already tried removing

Re: test for DRM

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
The recommended way to do a DR test is to take your copy pool (or a subset, or a special-set) to another machine (NOT YOUR PRODUCTION box); if you decide to use DRM (even if not) follow the instructions found in the Admin. Guide -- this is about the most well-written piece of info across all the b

Re: About Backupset

2002-09-03 Thread Joshua Bassi
No, only 1 clients data can be stored on a backupset tape. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Messag

Re: Solaris 9

2002-09-03 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I asked the same question several weeks ago. I have not yet called ITSM support on the issue, however, I was able to hack the install script and Solaris 9 seems to work with no problems (so far). I will let the list know what support tells me about client support for Solaris 9. Good Luck. bob

Re: Solaris 9

2002-09-03 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Bremer > Some of our users are asking about a Solaris 9 TSM client? It is not yet > listed at the support system page. > > Anyone have an idea about when support for this will be available? Any > experience with the curren

Re: How to list files backed up

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
If you use the GUI, you can click on the column heading "Backup Date"; it will sort the list. BTW, if your system is setup properly, you can also just "grep" the dsmsched.log file to find messages for a given file -- combined with tail, you can zero in on the specific date in question. Don Fran

Re: TSM upgrade

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
I suggest you install the TSM-4.1 (not 5.1), restore the db from "old" TSM server as part of the migration; that way, (a) you preserve all the old backups (without need to export/import), and (b) you get the added space/performance on Win2K that you currently lack on the old, NT box. After succes

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Eliza Lau
Daniel, > > Hi Eliza > > As I understand it, each "tape-HBA" has 3 3590E FC connnected to it. The > two 21G database disks, are each connected to it's own HBA? Yes, you are correct. > > According to spec sheets, the 3590E FC could handle speed up to 100MB/s > with 3:1 compression. This me

Re: Cross platform restores?

2002-09-03 Thread Rafael Mendez
Hi Steve, Although there are some tricks to do that, I do not think that practice is acceptable. Why?, because "data is money" and, restoring data wherever you want means, in my opinion, data "traveling" without control of its owner. (Do not think you are the "good one", think on people attacki

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Remco Post
On maandag, september 2, 2002, at 01:49 , Daniel Sparrman wrote: > Hi Eliza > > As I understand it, each "tape-HBA" has 3 3590E FC connnected to it. The > two 21G database disks, are each connected to it's own HBA? > > According to spec sheets, the 3590E FC could handle speed up to 100MB/s > with

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Eliza Lau
Roger, Thanks for the detailed analysis. This is what I was planning to do: moved the db back to attahced SCSI drives. Re-configuring one drawer in the Shark to non-RAID as another person suggested is out of the question since TSM is using only a small portion of the Shark. Please read the oth

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Eliza Lau
Thanks Daniel, The host has 4 HBAs. Two attached to each of the two switches. One HBA is zoned for tape traffic and the other for disk traffic. Only the db and log are on the Shark F20. The disk stgpools are on attached SCSI disk drives. The disks are 36G. There are 8 LSSes. Each LSS is str

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Christo Heuer
Roger, Some very good points made here - only thing I'm curious about is why you do not suggest to create a non-Raid LUN on the Shark - this will give Eliza the best of both worlds. I created a Non-Raid drawer in our shark specifically for database types that require Non-Raid type disk behaviour,

Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally

2002-09-03 Thread Lai, Kathy KL
Dear Paul, Thanks for you help. I've got the information base on the SQL you provided. How can I analyze my information so that I can know where my tapesss gone... I got around 1400 tapes from the result of the second SQL. Does it mean that I have great problem on that? If yes, how can I solve it

Re: multiple reclaim processes

2002-09-03 Thread bbullock
Yes, I believe that that's right, reclamations are one per storagepool. The only way I know to get around it is to write a script/select statement to look for the tapes that are the least utilized and do a "move data" on those tapes. I have not automated the process, but have a si

Re: test for DRM

2002-09-03 Thread Chetan H. Ravnikar
Pual appreciate your time, thanks bowing On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Seay, Paul wrote: > What SUN probably did not tell you was they were probably 32K or 64K blocks > to get that data rate. TSM Database uses 4K and most other databases are 4K > or 8K. Are you using raw volumes for the disk pools? If

Re: Data in offsite pool that is not in onsite pool

2002-09-03 Thread Coats, Jack
If it is in a copypool, make sure the tapes are set up properly in the data base as being offsite. Then in reclamation of the copypool, it should use the onsite copy to build the new data image for the offsite copypool. -Original Message- From: Steve Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

Re: Temporary Backup

2002-09-03 Thread Coats, Jack
I guess the term Temporary Backup was misleading. I need to have this one set of data be kept short term, compared to what we do for most backups. This is data that needs to be backed up until it gets spun off to DVD for archival purposes. The DVDs get sent off once a week, so if we keep the dat

Re: Restoring DB2, SQL and Exchange

2002-09-03 Thread Osip Mikunis
-Original Message- From: Hussein Abdirahman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue 9/3/2002 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Restoring DB2, SQL and Exchange Hi TSMers; Anyone out there has a procedure on restoring those databases to a different systems? >SQL and Exchange are

Re: finding old filespaces from unix clients...

2002-09-03 Thread Williams, Tim P {PBSG}
Good stuff...thanks! -Original Message- From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: finding old filespaces from unix clients... As with most TSM commands, are a million ways to skin this cat. Here is a sq

Re: multiple reclaim processes

2002-09-03 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Donald, As far as I know, only one reclamation process per stgpool! Regards, Demetrius Malbrough AIX Storage Specialist -Original Message- From: Levinson, Donald A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multiple reclaim pro

Re: finding old filespaces from unix clients...

2002-09-03 Thread bbullock
As with most TSM commands, are a million ways to skin this cat. Here is a sql query I use: select node_name, Filespace_name, (current_timestamp-backup_end)days as "days_since_backup" from filespaces where cast((current_timestamp-backup_end) days as decimal) >=180 order by "days_since_back

multiple reclaim processes

2002-09-03 Thread Levinson, Donald A.
Is there a way to have multiple reclaim processes for the same storage pool? It seems silly to have an 8 spindle library and only use two of them to try to keep up with my reclaim processing. TSM 5.1.1 AIX 4.3.3 This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for the addr

finding old filespaces from unix clients...

2002-09-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I've noticed that if an entire filesystem is removed from a unix TSM client, the environment (as a whole) will keep that data until manually purged. I think this is OK/FINE/WHAT I WANT because you never know why an entire filesystem has gone away (might just be varied offline, etc...) but I still

Data in offsite pool that is not in onsite pool

2002-09-03 Thread Steve Hicks
Our offsite pool reclamation process is calling for tapes that are listed as being in the vault (and they actually are). Obviously reclamation can not take place for these volumes, as they are not onsite. First, what is the best way to go about fixing this? Second, what could have gotten our pools

Re: LAN FREE BACKUPS

2002-09-03 Thread Seay, Paul
What is MAXSCR set to? If it is higher than what your current volume count is, then call support. If you have run out of volumes raise the number and try again. I am betting this is the case and that there is a logic error where the SAN client looks for volumes in the scratch pool only. What I

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Seay, Paul
Actually, the H drive is listed at 70 MB/sec. What IBM had done was limit the the number to 42MB/sec because of the 14 MB/sec at the head at 3:1. But at 5:1 you can get up to 70 MB/sec. I have seen has high as 50 MB/sec even on the E Drive with fibre channel. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specia

Error 10 when installing Web Client

2002-09-03 Thread Bill Dourado
Hi, I come against"Error10 updating the registry password" "The registry node key couldn't be located" WHEN attempting to install TSM Web Client via GUI wizard, on a NT(4SP6) backup client. Could somebody please help me ? I have already tried removing T

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-03 Thread Adolph Kahan
You are correct the at 3:1 compression you will not do better than 42MB/sec. Now compression does vary quite a bit. I have one customer who gets 5:1 compression with some of his Oracle databases; the others only get a bit more than 2:1. To stream at 100MB/s you would have to get compression better

Restoring DB2, SQL and Exchange

2002-09-03 Thread Hussein Abdirahman
Hi TSMers; Anyone out there has a procedure on restoring those databases to a different systems? My DB2 is on AIX 4.3.3. The DB is currently on a RS6000 7026-B80. I want to restore it on RS6000 7046-B50. Does it matter? SQL and Exchange are on Win2K. your help is appreciated in advance Hussei