Schedule prompter stops initiating for backup!!!!!

2003-03-25 Thread Chandrasekhar, C.R
Hi ALL, Iam observing a strange problem quit frequently in my TSM server 4.2.3.3 on AIX We have around 400+ server taking schedule backup and configured using prompted mode, Most frequently schedule prompter from TSM server stops initiating backup and no errors found in actlog and clients dsmsch

scheduler service failed

2003-03-25 Thread Reza Dehghanian
HI; Can someone help me with TSM. The service cannot start on win2k. I got this message: The TSM scheduler service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. Thanks

Re: old adsm database salvage commands

2003-03-25 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
I'm not sure what they were, as we started with version 2, but if I recall past discussions on this list, they were added on because Version 1 lacked a database backup and restore functionality. They were, literally, "salvage" utilities, to be used in the same circumstances that you would now use '

Re: old adsm database salvage commands

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
My problem was always with bad entries in the recovery log. The only command I remember was FORMAT, and start over. Support would always say "I hope you had a backup of your database" The 'database' was rarely the problem. bob On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:23:17PM -0500, Justin Bleistein wrote: >

old adsm database salvage commands

2003-03-25 Thread Justin Bleistein
I've been reading and from what I read ADSM version 1 had some database salvaging commands for disaster recovery stuff... Does anyone have a list of these old commands and what they do? Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cell:

Re: Informix backup

2003-03-25 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
Hi Mario, My response against each question is below => Can I perform a database backup and later, if I wish, restore a specific tablespace using TSM (with or without the TDP?) ? Can you elaborate on this more ? * Can the ONTAPE tool be used (or commanded) from TSM ? ONTAPE tool is an independ

Re: Cancel All Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Scotty Logan
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Dearman, Richard wrote: Does anyone have a script to cancel all process? For example you can "cancel sess all" to cancel all sessions but there is no "cancel proc all" command. So there must be a scripting way of doing this. This should work on a unix-lik

Re: Ia-64-client

2003-03-25 Thread Remco Post
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:11:43 +0100 Christoph Pilgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know, if there is a TSM-client for Linux and/or HP-UX on > a Hardware with Intel-Itanium Processor available or is the normal > HP-UX-client ok ? > I saw an IA64-api for Linux on the download

TSM Client excludes with TDP Oracle on Win2k

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Boyer
Can someone help with a list of excludes for the B/A client that runs on an Oracle Win2k box wiht the TDP Oracle agent? The TDP manuals for Oracle do not have any section on using the B/A client in conjunction with the TDP for a full Oracle server recovery scheme. TIA, Bill Boyer "Some days you ar

Re: Cancel All Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lundstedt
I have a script that cancels any migration, reclamation, move, and backup stgpool processes. I modified it slightly here, but it should work to cancel any process running in TSM. However, remember that the process will not necessarily cancel immediately. It has to finish what it is doing at that

Re: Cancel All Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Jolliff, Dale
Million ways to skin a cat, but here's one crude way. dsmadmc -se=$SERVER -id=$ID -pa=$PA -commadelimited "select process_num, process, status from processes" | tail +8 | grep -v ANR | grep -v ANS | grep , > $OUTFILE PROCESSES=`cat $OUTFILE | cut -d, -f1` for PROCESS in

Cancel All Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Dearman, Richard
Does anyone have a script to cancel all process? For example you can "cancel sess all" to cancel all sessions but there is no "cancel proc all" command. So there must be a scripting way of doing this. THanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER*** This email and

Re: Old data Migration

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Boyer
Don't forget to update any copygroups that may have a DESTINATION= of a DLT tape pool... If you can afford, and are not in a hurry, just point all the new backup data to the SDLT tape pools and leave the old DLT tape sitting there. The data will start to go away with expiration and after a time pe

Re: Max Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Stanfield, I backup two disk pools and two four-drive libraries (a 3575 and a 3583) to a four-drive DLT library. Here's what I do. 1) Launch backup of "folderdisk" to DLT - 1 process; this is where I store directories. Wait 3 minutes, then... 2) Launch backup of disk pool upstream of 3583 to DL

Re: Netware backup oddities

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lundstedt
John, Correct assumption.. No new management classes created. No management classes are set to absolute. This node didn't change management classes, nor had anyone modified it's Node definition or dsm.opt files. As far as things that require a backup, we can find no evidence of anything changing

Re: Old data Migration

2003-03-25 Thread Kauffman, Tom
As near as I can remember it, here's the way I moved from DLT to LTO (should pretty well match up). 1) Define your new SDLT tape pools 2) Make these pools the 'next pool' for both your disk pools AND the DLT tape pools 3) Update your library to set ALL DLT tape to private (no scratch DLT tapes --

Max Processes

2003-03-25 Thread Stanfield Alejandro
When doing BACKUP STGPOOL has anyone experimented with setting the MaxProcess to a number greater than the available number of drives at that moment hoping to use more drives after they become available? We have several stgpools which we start backing up in parallel but, as expected, some jobs rand

Old data Migration

2003-03-25 Thread Stanfield Alejandro
> Hi TSMers! > We currently have a DLT library and recently bought a new SDLT library which we plan to use as the main storage device, the question I have is which is the best for moving the data from the old tapes to the new ones? - Using move data - Setting a new storage pool in the chain and mig

Re: Netware backup oddities

2003-03-25 Thread John Naylor
Todd, First I have assumed that you have made no recent changes to the TSM environment eg. no new management class with a copy mode of absolute. Sounds very much to me that something has changed on the netware client. Perhaps a new process or new software that is changing file attributes so that T

Netware backup oddities

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.7 Prior to this weekend, everything seemed to be fine on this Netware 4.11 server running B/A Client 4.1.3.0. Compression is set to ON at the Node Definition level. It was inspecting its 111K+ files and backing up between 200-1000 files a day (about 60-200MB

Informix backup

2003-03-25 Thread Mario Behring
Hi list, I have to perform the backup of a Informix database and I want to know if is possible for TSM to do it without the TDP for Informix. I have been told that the ONBAR tool uses the XBSA libraries to talk to SM products and that the only thing that the TDP for Informix does is to act as a t

Re: Archive objects from Tsm API not displayed in GUI client - mk sysb

2003-03-25 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Thanks Richard for the GUI limitation. About the retrieve of the mksysb, let say server A is down. - first we retrieve the stored mksysb from A onto server B, - then declare a NIM client for the server A, - then bootp on server A (the retrieve mksysb is used). Thats all ! no more mksysb goin

Re: Password file for TDP Oracle on Windows platform

2003-03-25 Thread Neil Rasmussen
Password generation is related to the node name, so there will only be two passwords if you are using two different node names for each TDP Oracle instance (which I hope you are). Regards, Neil Rasmussen Software Development TDP for Oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ameerul Mazli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Windows 2000 client include/exclude

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You can't use EXCLUDE.DIR to exclude the root of a drive. Plus, note that EXCLUDE.DIR is always processed before INCLUDE and EXCLUDE, regardless of its position within the include/exclude list. If what you are really trying to achieve is to back up *only* these files: c:\Dokumente und Einstell

TSM Server Migration

2003-03-25 Thread Marco Spagnuolo
Just wanted to let everyone know that the server migration went as well as expected. Thanks again to Wanda, Roger and Jim for their specific pointers. I noticed a couple of things that I did not expect that I wanted to share with the group. (1). We have both the db(15GB) and recovery log(4GB) T

Windows 2000 client include/exclude

2003-03-25 Thread J. Gehm
I tried to backup only a few file with a server-scheduled backup from a Windows 2000 client. For LINUX or Solaris clients I managed this with include/exclude-Files without problems. For Windows-clients the scheduled backup (or dsmc incremental) seems to backup nearly the whole C:-partition. The r

Re: Archive objects from Tsm API not displayed in GUI client

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Sims
>we recently developped a C++ script to directly send AIX mksysb's into TSM. >The TSM API is used to archive the output of mksysb, block by block. Using >dsmc, we can query and retrieve the archive objects without any problem. > >Now, using the tsm GUI, no archive file will appear, the file system

Re: days in scripting

2003-03-25 Thread Alan Davenport
You're welcome! I'm glad I was able to help! I learned that dummy select here on the list. I also use it for checking time-of-day in other scripts. I want to make sure I do not start expiration processing during the afternoon if my maintenance script finishes before 4pm because of the load it place

Re: DB mirroring

2003-03-25 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:59:47AM -0300, Stanfield Alejandro wrote: > 2 - DB on RAID 1 and no mirror > What's the performance impact of having TSM do the mirroring? Since I'll be > moving the DB to a storage array (HP EVA) which can self replace failing > disks I'm tempted to go for opti

Ia-64-client

2003-03-25 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hi all, Does anybody know, if there is a TSM-client for Linux and/or HP-UX on a Hardware with Intel-Itanium Processor available or is the normal HP-UX-client ok ? I saw an IA64-api for Linux on the download-side. Thanks for help Christoph

Re: Exchange restore has no Distribution List

2003-03-25 Thread Del Hoobler
Richard, You will have to run the Microsoft Exchange DS/IS consistency checker when restoring only the IS to an alternate server. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Remember that the best job security is doing a job

DB mirroring

2003-03-25 Thread Stanfield Alejandro
Hi TSMers! I'd like to know what you prefer for protecting the DB since I'm planning in upgrading the system I can think about the following options: 1 - Main DB files on RAID 1, mirror on RAID 0 and MirrorWriteDB=Parallel 2 - DB on RAID 1 and no mirror 3 - Main DB files o

Re: STK 9310 Eject Script

2003-03-25 Thread Ford, Phillip
Here is my script --snip--- #!/usr/bin/sh #set -x # file /var/operlib/adsm/remove_drm # debug - 0 no debug 1-print 2-simulate debug=0 lib=lib0 if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then echo debug is on and set to $debug echo library to use is $lib fi cat /etc/adsm/adsm | read usr pw

Archive objects from Tsm API not displayed in GUI client

2003-03-25 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi dears, we recently developped a C++ script to directly send AIX mksysb's into TSM. The TSM API is used to archive the output of mksysb, block by block. Using dsmc, we can query and retrieve the archive objects without any problem. Now, using the tsm GUI, no archive file will appear, the file

Re: tsm 5.1 config STK L180 tape library

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel Sparrman
1. Yes, you will need a temporary license key, which you can receive through Gresham Inc. 2. You will need to configure the Gresham software, which is not that easy(it's not on a install-and-use basis). First, you'll have to configure the drives using TSM device driver, then map the drives to t

tsm 5.1 config STK L180 tape library

2003-03-25 Thread jiangguohong1
hi, i just receive a request to install and config STK L180 tape library,with two STK 9840 drive,purpose to test our development program by tsm 5.1 api,see that will occur any problem .I known tsm support ACSLS managed library,in our ACSLS managed library environment#,ACSLS server for used STK m

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-25 Thread Tuyl Adrie, A.C. van
Hi Richard, Your absolutely right about changing some values and check the effect. Yesterday I only changed the NotifyBuffer to NotifyBufferSize=0x0040 but this night it crashed again... jbberror.log: 03/25/2003 01:16:54 Error updating the journal for fs D:, rc = -1, errno = 27 03/25/2003 01:1

tsm 5.1 config STK L180 tape library

2003-03-25 Thread jiangguohong1
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Exchange restore has no Distribution List

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Marchant
We backup our Exchange databases (5.5) using TSM 5.1.2 using the Exchange TDP 2.2 agent and the backup works fine. When restoring an Exchange database to a newly setup server we find the corresponding Distribution and User Lists are not restored. The User List is not a problem but the Distribution

Re: File scan takes ages during backup

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Foster
Adrie > So, attribute changes (0x0004) are now not notified... > Is this due to a virus checking application? My memory isn't exact (it's old age creeping on, probably), but yes, I think it was because of the virus check. Whatever the reason, it doesn't seem to harm us. But my main points w

Re: STK 9310 Eject Script

2003-03-25 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Extract of my perl script doing this: sub CheckoutCPDLT { system ("dsmadmc -id=$login -pa=$passwd -outfile=$tmp1 q vol stgpool=cplto acc=reado,readw"); print "\n"; open(LDSM,"$tmp1") || exec @dsm_command; $nbcpdlt=0; while ($lline=) {

Re: days in scripting

2003-03-25 Thread Tuyl Adrie, A.C. van
Works great Al, thanks! Nice solution, using select from db, but actually not selecting anything from the db :-) > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Alan Davenport [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden:maandag 24 maart 2003 14:54 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp:Re: days in scri