Re: Urgent help required - TSM 5.1.6.1 TESTING

2003-03-06 Thread Burak Demircan
Hi, I think you shouldnt test anything on 5.1.6.1. We had some problems on it like crashes randomly. Regards, Burak Demircan Mercedes-Benz Turk A.S CEO / ITT Phone: +90 - 212 4823500 (ext .4676) Fax :+90 212 481 11 54  

Urgent help required - TSM 5.1.6.1 TESTING

2003-03-06 Thread RAMNAWAZ NAVEEN
can anyone help me pls: I am trying to test TSM server version 5.1.6.1 before migrating it to production. I am trying to do a backup of about 200 GB db using parallel write. As soon as I initiate the session I get the following msg on the admin console : ANR7837S I

Control migration start and stop

2003-03-06 Thread David le Blanc
Hi all, In the past I've used the 'rec=5' at 3am and 'rec=100' at 11am style of space reclamation management, however I find that the same does not work for migration. I have a customer who wishes to migrate data from a disk pool (at a tape-less site) to a central disk-pool for later migration t

unload/reload db on diff.server (same library) -- disaster waiting to happen?

2003-03-06 Thread Adam J. Boyer
Hi TSM Gurus, Due to some misunderstanding, an unnecessary 5 million files was backed up, bloating our database by about 15 GB. I have since commenced deleting that filespace, but it looks like the delete is not reducing the database size nearly enough. So I am planning to do an unload/reload, a

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread DFrance
To (briefly?) summarize... (the first two bullets address your original query): - With TSM, all the active AND inactive versions are (a) always in the silo, (b) only sent across the network ONCE (if you use the progressive-incremental the way it was intended)... extra copies of the same "version

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread DFrance
Retention of 65 days means "after" 65 days -- so that would be tomorrow; but, even then, only AFTER you run EXPIRATION will they be deleted from the db. To prevent/defer that action, just avoid running EXPIRATION. Unfortunately, there is not a supported (ie, externalized) mechanism to re-esta

Re: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixe s something?

2003-03-06 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Mark, That's an easy one - take the drive in question offline, and TSM won't use it for the audit process. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Think twice, type once. Mark Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IBM TSM Databases Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server 5.1.5

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Lowrie
Del, We ran into a sort of problem, with this, but also some potential good news. I have to disagree with the two statements below from the manual. I installed 5.1.5 and didn't take note of the install directory as I was assured beforehand it would install in a different directory than my old 2.2

Re: Move date to different media type

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Raine
Michael Raine 03/06/2003 11:58 AM To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: Move date to different media type (Document link: Michael Raine) OK ... But how about moving data to and from different tape STG pools using different tape capacities? The pool I want to m

Re: missing volume

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
In brief: QUERY CONTENT can be used to show what is on the volume. UPDATE VOLUME can be used to mark the volume as destroyed, then user restore attempts would get it from the copy pool. RESTORE VOLUME can be used to restore the primary pool volume from the copy pool. Please refer to the chapter

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
I agree with A), B) I'm not sure about the "consolidating the tape mounts", could be my DIRMC for NT file servers are off. On the (suppose C)) I am trying to implement but I am having trouble with Month Ends. Currently we have 117 nodes and 31 maximum days in a month. I run 2 backupsets that use

Canceling a Reclamation FAST

2003-03-06 Thread James Taylor
When I cancel a process that is using multiple drives, like a 'move data' or 'reclamation', the process does not end until the file that it is working on has completed its move from source to destination tape. If I have an emergency restore that is stalled because it requires a drive and all the d

Re: Logmode RollForward on 5.1.6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
OK Tim, I think I see the problem. The recovery log doesn't go into roll-forward mode until the next full database backup, which is necessary in order to have a baseline from which the log can be used to recover a database. When you defined the dbbackuptrigger, it automatically did the full backup

Re: Logmode RollForward on 5.1.6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Ok, I'm not crazy! I've recreated this by: - used wizard to create another server instance using defaults - created an archivepool volume - defined a test client - update recovery log space trigger to 1% (this is what I was initially trying to test - probably not needed to recreate problem) - swit

ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 53. Reason 32

2003-03-06 Thread Ochs, Duane
I reviewed what was on the list. I can see a lot of what it looks like and what it might be. But no definitive answers. TSM server level 5.1.6.2, aix - 5.1 ml3, 64 bit enabled TDP for exchange 2.2 - NT 4.0 Sp6a Exchange 5.5 sp3 Attempted to restore a 23 GB IS from Jan 31 2003. I receive this erro

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread TAZ
Ruddy, Are you doing any mirroring of volumes? Has it ever exceeded this transfer rate in the past? Sam. - Original Message - From: "Ruddy STOUDER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:07 AM Subject: Poor TSM Performances > I am quite disappointe

UDB Assistance Needed

2003-03-06 Thread Brenda Collins
I have a few questions regarding TSM and it's use with UDB. Specifically I am trying to run backups (and the db2adutl utility ) to run under a 'global' id we use for Udb support. In that manner I can mange backups better with one version of scripts to backup and delete older versions. Is this

Re: Logmode RollForward on 5.1.6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Rushforth, Tim
OK this is bizarre! I tried this yesterday around 16:00. The last db backup was yesterday at 13:30 (according to volhist and searching actlog). This morning I could recreate this and showed a co-worker. After reading your post, I tried again and the same thing happened. I then defined a DB Back

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread DFrance
A) The speed of new tape drives (eg, 9840 & 3590) with their mid-point load mostly mitigates the restore speed issue; even IBM's LTO or STK's 9940 seem to be sufficiently fast, they're more like the speed of disk of just a few years ago; B) TSM further mitigates restore speed by consolidating

missing volume

2003-03-06 Thread Jim Kirkman
Thought I'd see what the list thought about the following (sort of a RFC as it were). We've got TSM 4.1.4.2 on OS/390 with a 3494 tape library using VTS volumes for the backuptapepool (soon to implement native 3590). We use RMM for tape management and send 3490 tapes offsite for DR. A user was re

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
Now back to my original question of: How do you get a disk pool to go to a certain amount of tapes without the other disk pools messing them up? Let me try and explain. I currently have my Maximum Scratch Volumes1487 Allowed in my Copypool. Are you saying to change this amount to

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>I discovered something: I created a very big disk pool, I stopped backing up to >tape and wento disks : my backups are running at 27GBytes/Hour, which is very >good on a 100mb network. If I make my backup go to my SCSI library connected on >the SAN via a SAN Data Gateway, the performances are bad

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Hi Farren I discovered something: I created a very big disk pool, I stopped backing up to tape and wento disks : my backups are running at 27GBytes/Hour, which is very good on a 100mb network. If I make my backup go to my SCSI library connected on the SAN via a SAN Data Gateway, the performances a

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
>I do not understand how you can get 50 clients on 1 disk pool to go to 20 >tapes. Bill, If I am wrong, someone will surely correct me, but what I think happens is that when migrating the 50 clients from disk to tape, TSM will try to put each one on its own tape (as collocate says it should). So

Re: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixe s so mething?

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>The fix =yes is to correct DB inconsistencies, not repair damaged media or >bad drives. True. To add more, from what I know... (Someone in IBM correct me if my understanding of this is astray.) The database governs all, and so location of the files on the tape is necessarily controlled by the c

Re: Netware Memory question running the scheduler

2003-03-06 Thread bbullock
Interesting, I had not heard of the "managedservices" option and thought it was only a netware thing. Surprise, it's on all client versions and looks like it's been around since V 4.2. Once again I learn something new from the listserv I have a few hosts with very large files

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
I do not understand how you can get 50 clients on 1 disk pool to go to 20 tapes. I would think that 50 clients on 1 (collocated) disk pool will take 50 tapes. Is that not right? Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD

Objects per node report

2003-03-06 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, I'm sure if I put some effort into it I could figure this out, but I'm also sure that someone else has already done it... Can someone give me a sql statement to list each node and the number of objects stored in the TSM database for that node? Thanks Miles -

Re: Netware Memory question running the scheduler

2003-03-06 Thread Matt Zufelt
I second Jim's advice. Especially on our servers with large number of files, using the managedservices option saves TONS of memory. We had one server that after a few weeks, DSMC.NLM was using nearly 3/4 of a gig of RAM. Using managedservices and dsmcad.nlm solved the problem. Matt Zufelt So

Re: Logmode RollForward on 5.1.6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Tim, I'm playing with this myself, and I don't see the problem you describe. Is it possible that a db backup is being run between the time you see the usage climb and when it goes back down? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e

Re: mtlib command

2003-03-06 Thread Tommy Templeton
That works well - thanks. Tommy Templeton - Original Message - From: "Conko, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:53 AM Subject: Re: mtlib command > i believe we had the same problem. try this: > > mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -vC -Vvolser -tFFFB

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
It has got nothing to see with disk pools but with collocation. When you set collocation on for the tape storage pool, it automatically tries to put the data of each client on a different tape. So if 5 clients backup at the same time on th disk pool, they will automatically be migrated to 5 tapes i

Re: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixe s something?

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Bertrand
Now that you mentioned it, it has happened twice for that media on the same drive. I will look into specifing a particular drive in the future. I have six drives and I have never tried to specify a particular drive to be used for a specific task, but I will learn how. Mark B. -Original Messag

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
How do you get a disk pool to go to a certain amount of tapes without the other disk pools messing them up? Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Kent Monthei
I would call it the 'network stress tester'. Our network folks claim that no other application in our environment ever touches so many servers at one time every day, or so fully saturates the network for sustained periods, and also that they rarely see activity spikes as high as TSM's when we sta

Logmode RollForward on 5.1.6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Is anyone running in logmode rollforward on 5.1.6.2? I'm currently testing 5.1.6.2 on W2K and this doesn't seem to be working. Issue set logmode rollforward to set to rollforward mode (q status confirms that this is set). Issue q log to see log utilization Start a client archive that archives tho

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
It depends on the size of your disk pool and on the size of the backup you have to do each day. Just to be more precise, imagine you have 50 clients with an average on 10 Gb on each client and a LTO library. If you set collocate to yes, each client will backup on the disk pool and TSM will put the

Re: Renaming a W2K node

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
H I suspect you would need to use dsmcutil.exe to update the node name and password to the new node, i.e.: dsmcutil update /name:"your service name" /node:newnodename /password:password Then stop/restart the service. You would need to update all services installed. Regards, Andy An

FW: table and column differences between v4 and v5.

2003-03-06 Thread Williams, Tim P {PBSG}
FYI...as this is probably undocumented (I had scripted jobs/macros that went against tables/columns...)... partial response to support: this coulda/shoulda been doc'd...opinion... changing cmd format...it has been debated that you'all own that... now select/db queries...seem to have been made f

Re: mtlib command

2003-03-06 Thread Conko, Steven
i believe we had the same problem. try this: mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -vC -Vvolser -tFFFB steve conko -Original Message- From: Tommy Templeton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mtlib command Does anyone know the mtlib command to

Re: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixe s something?

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Bertrand
Thanks Davide, this is exactly what I am doing. It's good to hear confirmation on the resolution path. But, my original question and still is, is that why didn't the audit work? It's just frustrating to try something like an audit fix=yes and have it come back with no problems found when you are to

Re: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixe s so mething?

2003-03-06 Thread Ochs, Duane
The fix =yes is to correct DB inconsistencies, not repair damaged media or bad drives. Have you tried a different drive ? I had the same problem with an Exchange restore, it would fail with read errors during the restore. Even though my drives were not requesting a clean I ran a new cleaning tape

Re: Move date to different media type

2003-03-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Sure... just "move data stg=" all the time I move tapes back into diskpools... Dwight -Original Message- From: Michael Raine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Move date to different media type Has anyone every tried moving

Re: LTO Reclamation

2003-03-06 Thread David Longo
If this was an offsite tape pool, that could be normal, if having to mount many tapes and search around. I have 3584 with FC drives on AIX and generally is faster more like 40GB per hour, but some places can be slower. Wouldn't expect this slow normally, just sometimes. Also do you know if the rec

Re: LTO Reclamation

2003-03-06 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
Hi, This performances may be normal as when you reclaim a tape, it does not read with full capacities of the drive, TSM search for the first file on the tape, reads it, search for the next file, reads it ... and so on. It's normal that the data throughput is less than the maximum of the tape becau

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
I 2nd that, we call TSM around here "The Server Stress Tester" TSM will work like a Rock if left on its own. We still have 3.1.0.8 version running good and restoring good. But, I am 2nd to Network at getting the blame for errors that were already there. TSM will find the errors and just because

question on versions and downloads

2003-03-06 Thread Conko, Steven
i have seen a lot of messages fly by here about various 5.1 tsm clients and their stability (or sometimes lack thereof). the last i had heard, 5.1.4 was considered a very stable client and 5.1.5 was not. ibm's website only has 5.1 and 5.1.5 available for AIX clients... are these my only choices? if

mtlib command

2003-03-06 Thread Tommy Templeton
Does anyone know the mtlib command to clear erroneous volumes from inventory. These volumes were in the library but have been checked out. We use a 3494 library. thanks Tommy Templeton

Re: TSM Performance - Is it my backuppool

2003-03-06 Thread Karel Bos
We tested a TSM environment on both RAID5 and JBOD. Raid 5 performance for diskpool/database and/or log was far worse than the JBOD config. At the moment we are moving our big clients off the NSM (RAID5) to the WINtel JBOD. Just because of the RAID performance. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Henrik, I was converting 5,84GBytes per Hour in Mbits per second. Thanks for answering, Ruddy -Original Message- From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: jeudi 6 mars 2003 15:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Poor TSM Performances It looks like the NIC settings ar

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-06 Thread William Rosette
A collocate with 50 clients to 20 tapes sounds like nocollocate. How do you do this and keep separate schedules for each client? On the Incremental/full, if full is done weekly then the maximum possible tapes for restore will be 5 tapes (4 M-Th nights, +1 for full) versus the possible maximum of 2

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread bbullock
At my site, a few of us call the TSM application our "canary in a coal mine", it typically the first indication of other possible problems on the host or network. Sure, most of the time it is actually only the TSM client having issues, but in those cases where we can't figure out why TSM

LTO Reclamation

2003-03-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I just checked my reclamation. A tape was being reclaimed and it took TSM 3:41:14 to do the job. The total amount of data being reclaimed was 104,711,564,841 bytes. That's about 7.8 Mb./sec. I don't know if this is a speed one might expect, but to me it looks a little bit slow. I'm usin

R: Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixes so mething?

2003-03-06 Thread Davide Giacomazzi
Mark, I had the same problem a few months ago. What you have to do is to audit the tape, then move its data using "move data" to another tape. When the tape is completely empty, eject the volume with "checkout libv", then run "label libv" with option "checkin=scratch" in order to re-read the tape l

TSM Performance - Is it my backuppool

2003-03-06 Thread Farren Minns
OK, I have just done another test and here are my findings. TSM 4.2.2.12 running on a Solaris E250, 400Mhz, 1GB, 50GB backuppool on RAID5 array, 8500MB DB and LOG on separate internal disks (TSM mirrored). I just backed up a 100Mb file via a client on the same machine as the server. Data transfer

Re: TDP for Oracle on Linux

2003-03-06 Thread Laura Buckley
Hi Lars, There is one avaialable now from STORServer (www.storserver.com). Laura -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars Bebensee Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Oracle on Linux Hi guys a

Re: Summary table not updated since 5.1.6.2 upgrade.

2003-03-06 Thread bbullock
Just yesterday, I was exploring the problems within the summary table. I actually called to support about certain client levels that report "0 bytes" and I ended up wading through other "summary table" issues that I was not aware of. Below are the ones I looked at before finding a match

Is there a TSM version that "audit vol fix=yes" actually fixes so mething?

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Bertrand
I am running Storage Management Server for Windows - Version 4, Release 2, Level 2.13 and have a read error on a particular volume for a particular file. I am trying to make a backup set and it keeps failing with this read error. ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRV_03 (MT3.0.0.5) (OP=READ, Error Numb

Re: Move date to different media type

2003-03-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sure, do it all the time. I have been moving old archives off 3490 cartridges to 3590 cartridges, via MOVE DATA ... STG=. Works just fine. Michael Raine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/06/2003 10:35 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Di

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Gianluca Mariani1
I tend to think of TSM as a troubleshooter by now. in my experience, in what is probably the majority of real world cases I've been in, anything that happens in the environment in which TSM sits, automatically reflects back to TSM which is the first application to suffer.before anything else. we ra

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:26:16PM +0100, Ruddy STOUDER wrote: > There is a contradiction in the admin. Guide : Maybe, but not in the pieces you quoted. :-) > => Here : No rebinding is done . Correct. > => Here : If you change the mgmt class, the server uses the new mgmt > class > to manage th

Move date to different media type

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Raine
Has anyone every tried moving data from one stg to another with different device classes/media type? The two media type have different storage capacities. Did you have any success or where there issues? Thanks

Re: Script attached to archive a directory on AIX

2003-03-06 Thread Hamish Marson
Miles Purdy wrote: Hi folks, thought I'd give back a little, we have many directories on our UNIX servers that contain application development code, some of it is very old of course. And of course we can't just delete it. So I wanted a quick a dirty way to save it to TSM. I wrote a little script

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Young
Ruddy, In a test that I did on a client site, average file size can account for huge performance differentials when using LAN-Free. In one case, I ran a test that compared transfer times of a 276480 byte file to a 2146435072 byte file, the resultant transfer rate was .032 MB/sec. for the small fil

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Shannon Bach
Three times our TSM Server has suffered from major performance problems. All three times it turned out to be an undetected problem outside of our TSM server. One was a TCP/IP patch that was missed in an upgrade. The second time was with just one of our bigger clients with what seemed to be the NI

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Baines, Paul
Try running an FTP to get network performance without TSM. Then try running a selective backup of one big file (like 1 or 2 GB) to eliminate client processing. 13,3 Mb is megabits. -Original Message- From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 15:38 To: [EMAIL P

Script attached to archive a directory on AIX

2003-03-06 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, thought I'd give back a little, we have many directories on our UNIX servers that contain application development code, some of it is very old of course. And of course we can't just delete it. So I wanted a quick a dirty way to save it to TSM. I wrote a little script that archives a d

AW: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
Hi, we just had a similar performance problem. It was caused by the routing configuration of a switch (I was told). We used a freeware tool (TTCP) to measure network performance. Using the tool we were able to sort out the software (TSM or FTP) and prove the networking guys that the poor performan

Re: Renaming a W2K node

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Denier
My experience has been the same as that of the other respondents: the node name used when the scheduler service is created is frozen in. I have always ended up having the system administrator delete and recreate the service when Windows nodes have been renamed at our site. There is another issue y

Backup sets not expiring --- wonder why?

2003-03-06 Thread Coats, Jack
I have 3 tapes that were backupsets that should have expired LONG ago, but have not. They were created under TSM server 4.1.3 on Windows NT. We did a migration to Win2K and TSM server 4.2.3.1. I did try the undocumented command (thanks to Wanda for helping me to this point!) that Wanda found in

Re: AW: multiple buses to 3575-L18 on W2K using TotalStorage driver?

2003-03-06 Thread Ken Long
Thanks, Thomas, this helps. I'll have to get familiar with RSM. Anyone know which driver, TotalStorage or RSM, is the preferred method for connecting TSM with this tape library? Ken Schoenleitner Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL P

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Farren Minns
Hi Ruddy We too are having a similar problem on our Solaris server and any client we back up. We have tested so many things, but nothing helps. Network cards and switches set to 100Mb/s full duplex. All of the reccomended settings in the 4.2 Performance Tuning guide have been set. We have done te

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>As I wrote, network cards are 10% used => no network settings involved. "No network settings" can mean you are doing Autonegotiation, which is a notorious cause of throughput problems, as seen in many past postings. Again, I would stress the need for in-server testing as well as discrete testing

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
It looks like the NIC settings arent 100/full duplex om both systems and switch. How did you calculate 5,84GB/Hour => 13,3 Mb/sec ? If you do it backwards 13,3 MB/s * 60sec * 60min=47,88GB/h. //Henrik Ruddy STOUDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [

Stable client version for Netware 4.11

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Boyer
Looking for opinions on a recommended client level for a Netware 4.11 server with support pack v9.0 installed. The latest fixtest on the FTP site is 4.1.3.99. Right now this box is sitting at 3.7.1 level. TIA, Bill Boyer "A Life? Cool!! Where can I download one of those?" - ???

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Found the following in ADSM Quick Facts : Archived files, rebinding does not From the TSM Admin. manual, chapter on occur Implementing Policies for Client Data, topic How Files and Directories Are

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>...Also, is there >anyway to prevent them from expiring (give them a longer retention >period) ... Unfortunately, the product does not allow you to adjust the retention of individual Archive files: you can change them all, though. From my notes: Archived files, retention period, 'UPDate C

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Thanks ! But ... I have done all of them ... The reason why I am looking here for info. As I wrote, nothing is running on the 2 involved servers (so, no virus protection software). As I wrote, network cards are 10% used => no network settings involved. Ruddy Stouder

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
I am not sure you can't change the archive retention. There is a contradiction in the admin. Guide : ... Archive copies are never rebound because each archive operation creates a different archive copy. Archive copies remain bound to the management class name specified when the user archived them

Re: Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>I am quite disappointed by the TSM software performance. ... Have you looked at the suggestions under "Backup performance" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts ? Two classic causes of performance problems are misconfigured networking and virus protection software. File system topology an

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Gagan Singh Rana
Joshua, If I go and change the retention period of archive in archive copy group of that management class, will it not apply the new retention period to the archives already present with that management class?? rgds Gagan Singh Rana "What is now proved was once only imagined." the Business Ente

Re: archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
They will expire tomorrow or whenever you run 'Expire Inventory' from tomorrow on. There is no way to change the archive retention within TSM. What you should do is to restore the archive and then re-archive it to a management class with a longer retention period. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certifi

Poor TSM Performances

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
I am quite disappointed by the TSM software performance. Let's take : WIN2000 client, Bi-Pro, nothing running on the machine except TSM client WIN2000 server, Bi-Pro, nothing running on the machine except TSM Server Client is backing up to server, using 100Mb TCP/IP => Throughput of 5,84GB/Hour =

Re: Registry backup on NT

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
The problem is in your the OBJECTS specification. There is a subtle difference (to TSM) between specifying C: and C:\*. The former refers to the entire drive, while the latter refers to all files in the root of C: (and subdirectories as well if -SUBDIR=YES is specified). In this case, your backup

tdp for ndmp

2003-03-06 Thread Lee, Gary D.
We just got hit with the possibility of using this product to back up a 14 tb netapps server. I am interested in anyone's experience with tdp for ndmp. Our current configuration is tsm v4..2.1 (soon to be at least 5.1.5) Solaris v2.8 SUN e3500 4 cpu with 4gb memory 1 67gb disk pool 8 3590e dri

Re: 3494 tape cleaning

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Hi, That's a good one. I had the same question because either the number of mounts is too high and you get errors if cleaning required, either the number of mounts is too low and you are cleaning too much and using too many cleaning tapes. I am impatient to read more info about the exact procedur

Re: TDP for Oracle on Linux

2003-03-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Lars! Only rumors. I heared about plans to support it in 6.1 Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Lars Bebensee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 14:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Oracle on Linux Hi guys and

3494 tape cleaning

2003-03-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! In the IBM Redbook "IBM Magstar Tape Products Family: A Practical Guide" I read the following line: For 3590 Magstar drives, use a value of 999 mounts to perform cleaning based on drive request rather than library initiated. So I changed the value to 999, but nothing happens. Both dri

RES: Registry backup on NT

2003-03-06 Thread Paul van Dongen
That's OK, but I think that in this case the manual should state that "A registry backup will be made when you take an incremental backup of your entire domain", and not "backupregistry - Specifies whether to back up the Windows registry during domain incremental backup or backup which incl

TDP for Oracle on Linux

2003-03-06 Thread Lars Bebensee
Hi guys and girls, does anyone of you know if there are plans to support the TDP for Oracle on Linux in the near future? If so, when can we expect public availability? Thanks a lot Lars

Re: TSM vs Veritas?

2003-03-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I would say it *is* the right approach! To make a fair comparison you have to get information from all competitors. Otherwise you will make the decision Nearly all answers on this thread point to the TSM vs. NetBackup comparison report from Progressive Strategies Inc. And all miss that the documen

Re: Registry backup on NT

2003-03-06 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
Indeed, registry is backed up if you make a full incremental backup with domain=all-local. Once you give limitations to your domain (like with c:\*.¨*), you exclude the system objects. Ruddy Stouder Senior Technical Consultant

Re: Checkin 3590 EHPCT

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Sims
>I am trying to checkin a cartridge 3590 EHPCT into 3590E1 tape drive inside >3494 Tape Library, and i received the following message: > >ANR8302E I/O error on drive 3590DRV (MT1.0.0.2) (OP=READ, > Error Number=23, CC=403, KEY=08, ASC=14, ASCQ=01, ... > Description=Media failure). >

archive retention - quick question!!

2003-03-06 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi everyone! I just wanted to make sure I understood the archive retention period correctly so that some of the users at my company don't lose data they wanted to restore from 12/31/2002. Apparently they archived the data on 12/31/2002 and it has a retention period of 65 days. Today is the 65th

Antwort: Checkin 3590 EHPCT

2003-03-06 Thread Schmitz Garnebode
Hello, have you write a label on the Volume ?? You can find the information of this errorcode in the message-book (OP=READ,Error Number=23, CC=403, KEY=08, ASC=14, ASCQ=01, cc=403 Media error key=08 blank check asc=14 ascq=01 Record not found MfG Michael Garnebode Diplom-Infor

Registry backup on NT

2003-03-06 Thread Paul van Dongen
Hello all, I would like to ask you if someone has encountered the following situation: The Windows client manual states that if you have a line BACKUPREGISTRY YES in the dsm.opt of a NT 4 system, a registry backup will be taken at every incremental that includes the system drive.

Checkin 3590 EHPCT

2003-03-06 Thread Nicolas Savva
Hi to all, I am trying to checkin a cartridge 3590 EHPCT into 3590E1 tape drive inside 3494 Tape Library, and i received the following message: ANR8302E I/O error on drive 3590DRV (MT1.0.0.2) (OP=READ, Error Number=23, CC=403, KEY=08, ASC=14, ASCQ=01, SENSE=F0.00.08.00.0

Re: support matrix

2003-03-06 Thread Sylvia Nergard
Thanks Geirr! yes I had backup data on the TSM server from a newer client. But I installed an older one just to test thisit is in a test environment..and that's nice to have!!! I have read about those 4.1.2.x unicode problems, so I'm aware :-) Regards Sylvia Nergård

Re: File Devices and SAN

2003-03-06 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi! Yes! LAN Free backup working. But not Server Free backup. And to get the LAN

Re: support matrix

2003-03-06 Thread Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand
Hi Sylvia I don't believe you have a problem with the 4.1.x client. When it TSM reports "Client is Donwnlevel" it's because the client have had a later version installed (4.1.x), and that something has been backed up, with the newer client version. I'm nut sure, but I believe you can use (almost) a

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