Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb slow

Hi Sam, Definately something else wrong - should only take a second or two Maybe check your OS/390 side for contention/problems - do a GRS to see if TSM is waiting on any resources. Regards Christo +++ I have just installed

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

You have some good points. As I think about it, it is not real obvious why extra tape would be needed for a "second pass". I know I have needed that though a couple of times. After thinking about it a few minutes from a few various angles, it's not obvious why though. Best quess is that it may h

Re: TSM audit error

I would halt TSM and then if this library does it's own audit or inventory, have it do it and then start TSM server again and run audit library. That should do it unless there is some H/W problem. I have had this problem on a library or two when things got "kind of messed up". David Longo >>> [

Re: TSM audit error

>I see a strange problem, TSM thinks there are tapes in a drive but >infact there is none present, physically. Anyone seen this before. Any >help is appreciated > >Server TSM 5.1.5.1 running on Sol-2.8 with Gator 64K (spectra Logics) Chetan - I'm not familiar with that library, but in general I w

Novell client java gui problem

Is anyone running the latest Novell client? If so do you use the java GUI? I haven't been able to get it to work and was wondering if it was just me. I get the first screen with the Backup and Archive icons but once I click on a action it goes out to la-la land and never returns. The client version

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

If I understand you (David Longo) correctly, to are saying that while *waiting* for the offsite tapes to arrive, TSM somehow performs space reclamation and shuffles the data to new tapes. You are then left holding media which does not contain the data you wanted. Where does TSM get the original t

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

Top of message >>--> 12-06-02 14:37 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ?? I made the mistake of reading the README file, the first item of which stated (seemingly unequivocally) that you needed to do an UPGRADEDB. After lettin

TSM audit error

Folks I see a strange problem, TSM thinks there are tapes in a drive but infact there is none present, physically. Anyone seen this before. Any help is appreciated Server TSM 5.1.5.1 running on Sol-2.8 with Gator 64K (spectra Logics) many thanks Chetan NR2017I Administrator KR

Re: 98 Workstation backup problem

Also consider using subfile backup. You can turn it on just for that one client, and just for .pst files, if you wish. It lets TSM do an incremental at the BLOCK level, so it only sends the part of the .pst file that has changed. We have hundreds of win2k clients with large .pst files, and they

Re: Client locks up during backup

I have only 2 Linux boxes and haven't seen this behavior, but when we see it on Windows or AIX, it is often something in the filesystem, rather than something in the TSM client. I would try a grep or a find file that will ripple through the whole filesystem that is NOT backing up, to see if you ca

Re: Backup stoage pools from one TSM server to another

You can send the stgpool data from one TSM server to the other by setting up "server to server" connections. This is documented pretty well in a "redbook" - go to www.redbooks.ibm.com and search for SG24-5244. However, I'm not sure that's going to help you - if you don't have the bandwidth to do

TSM Uptime Success

All, I have a TSM server here has been running fine for 6 months without a system reboot or a TSM server reboot. The TSM session numbers were into the millions and my customer wanted to reboot the box. No telling how long the server would have ran before it needed to come down. Configuration: p

TSM S/390 performance

Hi list, environ is TSM server 4.1.2.12 on S/390 with 3494 library connected via FICON, 3590E tape drives, 60+ SQL Servers using TDP 2.2 and Oracle server on AIX 5.1 with 1,5TB of backup data (no Oracle TDP is being used), the 390 is connected via gigabit ethernet to the clients, the issue is when

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

After running the preview for restore, we mark all needed volumes as unavailable. Both onsite and offsite ones. This has usually made them static enough to not have a problem at restore time. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-P

TSM 5.1(WinNT), STK 9310 and Library Station

Hi.. Well I would like to know if anyone has a setup like this, if so, I would like to know how you configured the tsm server... The setup I have: TSM 5.1 on windows 2000 StorageTek 9310 with Library Station on OS/390 Fibre attached drives direct to the tsm server. Library Attach from storagetek

AW: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

Hi, I would use the following approach: Find the tape volumes that have been written during last backup or migration: select volume_name from volumes where last_write_date > timestamp('2002-12-06','02:00:00') and last_write_date < timestamp('2002-12-06','08:00:00') This example gives you all

Re: Client Trace Options

http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4121-01/en_US/PDF/SH26-4121-01.pdf documents the trace options. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/02 10:58AM >>> Hi all, I am having difficulty finding the various trace options listed anywhere for W2K backup clients. I especial

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

Well if you know what clients have the large files thats a start. Then you can decide if you want to switch verbose on to get it at the client end. However another approach is to query the backups table with sql something like this. SELECT BACKUP_DATE,HL_NAME,LL_NAME FROM BACKUPS - WHERE NODE_NAME

Help: Refresh Database

Is table CONTENTS are reliable? > I issued the script like that: > .\dsmc del archive > "%1" -nodename=x-server -password=x -noprompt=yes -errorlogname=%1.d > el > > or delete archived files from client. > > But same problem, I can still find the file from SELECT * FROM CONTENTS > it looks

Client Trace Options

Hi all, I am having difficulty finding the various trace options listed anywhere for W2K backup clients. I especially need the one that limits the size of the trace file. Thanks, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte and Touche USA LLP - This message (including a

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

I've seen multiple answers to this question but I don't think the answers are what he is looking for. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think he wants to know what *FILES* were backed up, not just total bytes transfered. I am having this issue, as well. For instance, I have a node that all of a su

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

A query content with a restricted count, like count=-20 is quick Another way of finding out where your big files are is to query your activity log q ac begind=today-1 begint=18:00 endd=today endt=08:00 originator=client The lines showing "Total number of bytes transferred:" should give you the cl

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

Have had that happen. Reason is this is a dynamic system with expirations and reclamations running. By the time you got back the tapes requested, the data on some of them was somewhere else according to the TSM DB. Run the "preview" again. I've had several out of about a dozen or so restores wh

Re: AIX 5.1

Joshua, How about how about 4.1 and 3.7 client? Thanks Rosa Leung Joshua Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: Re:

Backup stoage pools from one TSM server to another

I have DR situation. We have a TSM 4.1.1.0 server running on an AIX 4.3 server. We also have several mainframe based TSM servers at 4.2.2.12. The AIX TSM server has no Disaster Recovery tapes going offset and I'm trying to find a reasonable solution. I remembered reading that I could copy storag

Schedule prompter not working?

Env: TSM 4.2.2.9 z/OS 1.3 server TSM 4.2 client Windows NT I updated a node to a new domain. Then associated the node with a new schedule in the new domain. The client scheduler (NT) is in prompted mode.. The TSM Server never attempted to contact the node for the backup schedule. (ANR2561I) I s

Re: AIX 5.1

Yes, 4.2.x works on AIX 5.1 -- 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 Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mai

Re: AIX 5.1

Hi, Does any knows TSM 4.2.x can be implemented on AIX5.1? Thanks. Rosa Leung

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

restore volumes preview=yes pull the needed volume names from the activity log. -Original Message- From: Lee, Gary D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting list of offsite vols for restore Had this happen again yester

Re: getting list of offsite vols for restore

Use the select command like below. Lets say server to restore is TEST and your offsite copypool is COPYPOOL. select volume_name from volumeusage where node_name='TEST' and stgpool_name ='COPYPOOL' I think I got the names right. Thanks, Robert Rippy. From: "Lee, Gary D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

getting list of offsite vols for restore

Had this happen again yesterday. server 4.2.1 platform solaris 8 storage 3590-b drives in ibm 3494 library. Issued the "restore volume" with wait=yes and preview=yes Captured activity log, but when I did the restoer, it called for two other volumes. I really don't think I missed it. Anyone ha

Re: ADSM v3.1 under AIX 5?

When I upgraded my server to 5.1.5.2, I had some Solaris clients at a 3.1.0.7 version that would connect to the server, send data, but then not cleanup. i.e. The session stays in a "Run" state with "0" in the "Wait Time" column and would never disconnect. The only way to get rid of them was

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

It depends on the release and how they package it. Some releases don't need the upgradedb, because there are no changes to the DB format that require it. Some releases need the upgradedb, and they package the install stream so it is done automatically. Some releases need the upgradedb, and they DO

Re: TSM in an HA environment

I have a fully operational environment on IBM AIX with HACMP. What do you need to know ? Best Regards Bob Tetstall Unix System Specialist BT Conferencing, TCICS Team, Aylesbury. +mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )Mobile: +44 7092 306483 (Tel: + 44 1296 618301 4Fax: + 44 1296 339083 I: +44 870 241299

Policy settings for TDP Domino backups

I am looking to set up a policy domain for my TDP for Domino backups so I have a retention period of one month. All data must expire when it is one month old. At the moment we run one backup per month, this could change in the future. Policy settings like the one below won't work, because mainte

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

Hi there, this kind of question popped up some days ago. You should still be able to find the thread. One of the things I realized was the following: If you do the upgrade while the dsmserv process was still running next time you start it it will fail and tell you to invoke it with the upgradedb o

FW: TSM in an HA environment

Has anyone out there built TSM into an HA environment, maybe on a Sun platform. If so would you care to share the setup at any level?

Re: domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: drive

In version 5.x of the TSM client I believe you can use domain -D: to exclude a domain. I havn't actually tried this, but when I installed a client (v5.1.5.1) it default excluded domains in dsm.opt this way -and I couldn't see the drives excluded in the GUI or CL. Could be wirth a try. Rgds, Geir

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

Great to see you back, Richard. Not to quibble with the guru, but -- a: how do you know the volume name? b: query content? Won't that take a long time and maybe adversely impact the TSM server's performance? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect, Servergraph www.serv

Réf. : Re: version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

On a SUN server I migrated from 4.2.3.1 to 5.1.5.0 to 5.1.5.3. I figure any version that comes on a CD is a base installation Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada Joshua Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 2002-12-06 09:13:19 Veuillez répondre à "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: drive

I tried it with yes, with domain c: in the client dsm.opt, but that didn't work. The domain statements are cumulative, so if I set override to yes, and left the default (which is to not code domain statement which is then all-local), I'd still have the problem. I guess I could put the exlude.dir

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

Jack, you might look at our viewacct script - it would show you which clients had the largest backups last night - then you can look at the dsmsched.log file on those clients and find the big file. For the viewacct script, see "Mining the Accounting Log, at http://www.servergraph.com/techtipshome.s

Continual media feed for dlt

H, good point. Will TSM not complain when it comes across the first volume? I am sure it will, so what will TSM do after: just skip the unavailable volume and continue or wait for a timeout period to make the volume available and then die? Thanks a lot Lars On 06.12.2002 14:41:48 bob.tetsta

Re: version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

Unless you've received the 5.1.5 CDs in the mail. I believe you can install those without installing 5.1.0.0 first. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06,

how to migrate from adsm 3.1.2.x to tsm 5.1.5 on AS/400

Hello, we want to install a second instance of tsm on one AS/400 server. The first instance is adsm 3.1.2.105, the second will be tsm 5.1.5. It is planned, that the second instance will replace the first, when we are sure, that everything is working well. So every client (data) has to move to t

Re: Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

>I have some big files (10+G and one 31+Gig file) that is being backed up. >Is there a query that I can use to find what the big files are and what >client they belong to? The TSM administrator sometimes has to determine what files a current or recent backup has sent. The simplest way is, knowing

Re: version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

You must first install 5.1.0.0 and then upgrade to 5.1.5.x. -- 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 Message-

Ned a SQL QUERY - Where did my big files come from?

I have some big files (10+G and one 31+Gig file) that is being backed up. Is there a query that I can use to find what the big files are and what client they belong to?

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

> When we upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3, we didn't do an > Upgradedb. We didn't see anything in the install doc that > said it was necessary. How do we know which version upgrades > require an upgradedb? And what happens if we don't do it? > TSM still seems to be running OK .. or as close to OK as

ADSM v3.1 under AIX 5?

I have been asked to pose the question: Has anyone tried running the old, now-unsupported ADSM v3.1 under AIX version 5? If so, have you found it to run satisfactorily? thanks, Richard Sims, BU

version 5.1.5 TSM and higher

Is it right that I have 2 options to install TSM 5.1.5? 1. Install 5.1.0 and patch up to 5.1.5.1 or 2. Install 5.1.5 as a base installation I have seen some discussions on this that confuses me a bit. Anyone that can confirm this? Regards Sylvia Nergård

Re: Client locks up during backup

Boost the idletimeout. 300 seconds is often too short. Check the dsmsched.log file on the client for error messages. - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax > -Origina

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

At 13:54 -0800 12/5/02, Sam Sheppard wrote: I have just installed the 4.2.3 server upgrade and have been running the UPGRADEDB process for almost 3 hours now. When we upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3, we didn't do an Upgradedb. We didn't see anything in the install doc that said it was necessary. H

Re: domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: drive

Hello Try to put overrride yes for domain in your clientopt set. How does your dsm.opt look like? Regards Niklas -Original Message- From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 6 december 2002 14:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: d

Re: aix client installation

That's interesting, Lars. I'd never thought of doing that. So what benefit might we get by using AIX's System Resource Controller (that's what SRC means, right?) to start the TSM scheduler? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect, Servergraph www.servergraph.com

Re: aix client installation

Hi, I have aix 4.3.3 and use this in inittab and it works fine at boot: adsm:2:once:/usr/bin/dsmc sched -quiet >/dev/null 2>&1 Hope that helps, Jane %% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4750 - Original Message - From: Lars Bebensee To: [EMAIL P

Re: domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: drive

Hi Lisa, How about exclude.dir d:\ (etc.) that should exclude anything on the d: drive. Douglas C. Nelson Distributed Computing Consultant Alltel Information Services Chittenden Data Center 2 Burlington Square Burlington, Vt. 05401 802-660-2336 -Original Message- From: Lisa Cabanas

Continual media feed for dlt

Hi guys and girls, here is a real teaser for you. I want to export a client nodes spacemanaged filespace containing about 250GB of data to a dlt library. The dlt got 7 scratch volumes. Last time I did the export it failed with having copied 224 somthing gigabytes. Since the last of the volumes was

domain c: in cloptset is not excluding the d: drive

Hello *, I have a problem with some of my NT SP5 clients (running client 4.2.1.20 mostly, with a 4.2.1.9 TSM server on 4.3 ML10 server. I am trying to only back up the c drive on a number of servers. I have tried putting the domain c: line in the dsm.opt on the client (manually and via the wizar

Client locks up during backup

I have a site that is running TSM 4.2.1 AIX server OS 5100-02 4.2.1 Linux client Kernel 2.4.17 This client has been running fine and now locks up between filesystems. It reports that it has successfully backed up a filesystem and then times out at the server end (300 seconds) terminates the ba

Schedule Automatic for Client TSM Linux

Hi all, I define my backup with schedule automatic but, after reboot the service down. * Command line insert in the file inittab : # To Start TSM Schedule x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/dsmc sched & * Any idea ? Desc

Re: aix client installation

On 06.12.2002 11:20:57 "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote: > dear all! > > I just intalled 2 aix clients as described in the readme file > (aix 4.3, tsm client 4.2.2.1) > all worked fine, but I am not sure, how to start the scheduler correct. > > I inserted the following lines to /etc/inittab > > tsm

Novell ANS 1880E pls help

Hi all, our customer founds the messages seen below. Have seen anybody this error ?? Any idea ?? Our customer says hi checks the permissions and all was right !! I'm not a novell freak and i can`t checks this problem myself !! 04.12.2002 22:31:33 ANS1880E TSA Connect error, NWSMConnect

Re: aix client installation

Thomas, Have you thought about using the nohup command? nohup dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null & I have a file called "tsmsched" with the above command. I the inittab have something like this: tsm::once:/usr/bin/tsmsched I can't remember but with AIX 4.3 or 4.2 there was an issue with th

Default management class

Here is one that someone might like to enlighten me on I ran a query to extract all the management classes in use by each client from the backups table That probably was not a good move as it runs for a heck of a long time. Well it finished eventually and I got my listing. Quite a few clients inclu

Re: Linux Client on Debian?

Hi there, either way, using alien to convert the packages or using "rpm --nodeps" worked for me so far for the client and the server. I was installing them on woody (stable) as well as sarge (testing), using distro as well as customized kernels ver 2.2.x as well as 2.4.x. Just make sure you are us

Re: Linux Client on Debian?

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:44:31PM -0600, Mark D. Rodriguez wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone succesfully run a Linux client on a Debian distro? I was > going to try using alien to turn the .rpm into a .deb files and give it > a try. ANybody got any other suggestions? > I've run it successfully. Using

Two Windows backup questions

Hi *SM-ers! I have two Windows related questions: 1) When running an incremental, TSM backs up the registry files by default. We are soon going to add several Windows 2000 client which use Active Directory. I read in the manual that Active Directory is part of the System Objects which can be backe

aix client installation

dear all! I just intalled 2 aix clients as described in the readme file (aix 4.3, tsm client 4.2.2.1) all worked fine, but I am not sure, how to start the scheduler correct. I inserted the following lines to /etc/inittab tsm::once:/usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 tsmws::once:/usr/tivoli/tsm

move media question.

Hi all, I have some work due to start on a TSM implementation utilising a 3494 library. This implementation has copy pool stoarage set up, but no volumes have ever been checked out from the library !. I have not supported ADSM for sometime , but traditionally I used the following for off-site st

Re: smnode.c Error obtaining copy group

Just a guess but you may want to try it. Ensure the default class and the one with longest retention in that domain do not point to a diskpool (while other used direct backups to tape). We made this work on 4.2.1.15 but actually is unsupported (and maybe I was just lucky). The problem was when the

Re: Linux Client on Debian?

I've run a TSM v4.2 client on Debian Potato with 2.2.19 kernel. Had no enough time to play with alien so just installaed "rpm" and installed TSM client through it without pre-requisites verification (met them and checked "manually" :-). Worked fine several months with CLI and scheduler. Zlatko Kra

ACO5424 error from tdp for sql.

Dear all, Has anybody come across the error ACO5424E when trying to access an SQL database. We have installed the latest version of TDP for SQL. and from the GUI I am able to backup and restore. When I run the command either a tdpsql or dsmcutil command connecting to sql it fails with the above e

3570 Magstar & 3580 LTO Drive Problems

Hello TSMERS, Please help. My TSM 5.1 server was previously running on NT4 and I upgraded to Win 2000. I have a magstar 3570 library and a 3583 lto library connected. The problem I am experiencing now is, my backups are failing complaining about insufficient mount points available & yet There is n