Re: TSM Decision support 4.2.0 tools

2003-06-13 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Problem: > Loaded TSM Decision Support V4.2.0 Loaded and configured and populated > a MSSQL DB with the 1st set of data. > > Tried installing Decision Support for Storage Management Analysis V > 4.2.0 and I get > message: UNABLE TO FIND REGISTRY EN

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>We tried going direct-to-tape with our LTO. That worked OK on Domino and >Oracle, but it was terrible on file servers. The underlying problem with file system backup and drives with mediocre start-stop performance is in the "sputtering" way that Backup will send files as it encounters them in tr

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Lloyd, We tried going direct-to-tape with our LTO. That worked OK on Domino and Oracle, but it was terrible on file servers. What I finally did was put a fairly small (24 GB) disk pool upstream and set a MaxSize on it (50 MB). That allows small files to collect on disk; we force migrate to tape

Re: AW: MediaW

2003-06-13 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Richard, I'm glad you mentioned VirtualMountPoint. Is there ANY way to simulate that in Windows? What I've found is that the TSM client can back up the local machine via its shares, and that gives better granularity if you want to use backupsets,especially on a large file server. But what I wou

Re: Windows Java Console

2003-06-13 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Jerry, Thanks for the info.  I tried that after receiving your message but the TSM client spawned the Java console anyway.  I even rebooted after turning Java off in the IE settings.  Made no difference. What I have found since my original message is that the Java console is tied to the specific

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Lopez Janeth
I am workin on Solaris, client tsm 4.2.1 tsm> q file Node Name: EQ201PATROL02 Please enter password for node "EQ201PATROL02": Session established with server ADSM: MVS Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.50 Server date/time: 06/13/03 15:22:46 Last access: 06/13/03 15:19:27 Num Last

Another academic survey

2003-06-13 Thread Fred Johanson
For my academic brethren and sistren only. All responses privately. Not limited to US institutions. We are in the process of reassessing our ITSM organization and looking to how to expand our services. How others do things will be of help to our discussions. 1. How many clients? I have abo

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Dwight Cook
Well, either something is broken or something isn't what you are expecting... to verify, from your unix prompt, in the directory "/home/u/NetCmmnd/proyecto/rexx/" do a "df ./" it should show /home as the file system... AIX-> df ./ Filesystem512-blocks Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted o

v5.1.7.0 - so far, so good

2003-06-13 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
I've had v5.1.7.0 in test for a bit and went live with it on two servers this morning. I was pleasantly surprised (and pleased) that I could now delete filespaces and nodes that had been problematic earlier (see my earlier posting on auditing a db and Jim Owen's explanation of the problem). Server

Re: dsmadmc query response defect

2003-06-13 Thread Rushforth, Tim
It is a problem with the server - IC34754 - supposedly fixed in 5.1.7. -Original Message- From: Mitch Sako [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 13, 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dsmadmc query response defect On a Linux server running 5.1.5.6 with a Linux admin client runnin

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Lopez Janeth
yes, I checked with a query -incremental the last backup date and TSM add one new backup. If I do not mofified anything file, why TSM backed up again? Janeth -Mensaje original- De: Dwight Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 13 de Junio de 2003 01:08 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Lopez Janeth
but, anything was updated. It is a test environment. If I do one incremental backup by date, the query show me one new active backup for all files. janeth -Mensaje original- De: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 13 de Junio de 2003 12:14 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PR

dsmadmc query response defect

2003-06-13 Thread Mitch Sako
On a Linux server running 5.1.5.6 with a Linux admin client running 5.1.x client I get the following response to 'q proc' tsm: SERVER1>q proc Process Process Description Status Number - 186 Migration

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Dwight Cook
The manual states that: If a file system is specified, all new and changed files are backed up. In addition, the last incremental date for the file space is updated on the server. If a file or directory is specified, the last incremental date is not updated. This means the file or directory might b

Moving from OS/390 to AIX network questions.

2003-06-13 Thread Brian L. Nick
Good afternoon, Well we have finally made the jump. We will be moving our TSM server off of OS/390 to AIX in the near future. My question has to do with network connectivity and redundancy. In our new TSM environment we will be using 2 GIG connections into our network to a single TSM image and

Win2K - Can't backup system object

2003-06-13 Thread Coats, Jack
TSM Win2K Server 4.2.1.4, Win2K client TSM client vers 5.1.1 We just updated some of our servers with the latest code fixes from M$ On two servers that run M$SQL the client can backup the data, but it fails daily. When trying to do a manual backup using the client GUI, the data will backup, but t

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>Total number of objects inspected: 61 >Total number of objects backed up: 34 > This indicates that tsm looked at 61 files and determined that 34 of them had been updated and thus needed backing up. David

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Lopez Janeth
I did an full backup and then did a incremental by date backup I -incrbydate /home/u/NetCmmnd/proyecto/rexx/*.rex Node Name: EQ201PATROL02 Session established with server ADSM: MVS Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.50 Server date/time: 06/12/03 19:54:43 Last access: 06/12/03 19:42:05

Re: Cannot delete copypool volume

2003-06-13 Thread Tomáš Hrouda Ing.
Thanks Tim I will do it. I think readonly is not necessary, this is full volume so no data can be written to it. Tom > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Rushforth, Tim > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>I have sort of the same problem. But my drives are connected through a SAN. >So small flies in LANFree Backups are an issue. Is there a way to avoid this >interrupted stream issue? It sounds like a terrible waste to have several >LTO-1s with fibre attachments and HBAs and what nots to have to alwa

Re: Cannot delete copypool volume

2003-06-13 Thread Fred Yang
You may want to run "audit volume" to check the inconsistency between TSM DB record and the tape and fix it. This may happens when your TSM server fail sometime before while "backup stgp" is running and you restore TSM DB point-in-time. Fred Yang Sr. Unix Admin NSLIJ -Original Message- F

Re: Cannot delete copypool volume

2003-06-13 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Try running an Audit on the volume - you will have to mark the access to Read-only first. -Original Message- From: Tomáš Hrouda Ing. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 13, 2003 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot delete copypool volume Hi all, I have copypool volume which st

Cannot delete copypool volume

2003-06-13 Thread Tomáš Hrouda Ing.
Hi all, I have copypool volume which still some data reported, but never reclaimed. VOLUMESTGPOOL EST_CAPUTILRECLSTATUS ACCESS - -- -- -- -- WSS001L1 LTOCOPYP 104485.0 0.099.9 FULLOFFSITE When enter

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Jorge Andrés Salinas Girodengo
Hi All I have sort of the same problem. But my drives are connected through a SAN. So small flies in LANFree Backups are an issue. Is there a way to avoid this interrupted stream issue? It sounds like a terrible waste to have several LTO-1s with fibre attachments and HBAs and what nots to have to

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread Dwight Cook
So all "active" versions of files stored on a TSM server is what you can classify as ~the current restore set~. They make up all the data as it existed the last time a ~backup~ was performed (be it "incr" or "sel") Now, what might be missing ? files that are found in "exclude" statements, files t

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Also...an Adaptec 2940 is an older SCSI-2 card...10MB/sec, isn't it? Maybe that's an issue -Lloyd On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:11:51 -0500 Colby Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We in the process of moving to an IBM 3580 external LTO drive for manual > offsite vaulting of primary storage pool

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Are you seeing this behavior for backups/restores, or just tape-tape operations? If you are getting this for backups/restore, try using a disk storage pool, if you are not already doing so. The key to success with LTO1 drives is keeping their buffers full and the drive in streaming mode; if you a

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Incremental refers to a filespace. Active or inactive refers to a file. An active version of a file is always the most recent backup of a file. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/03 10:19AM >>> hi, how I know if the active version is a full or partial incremental backup? Janeth

sql statement to view which tapes contain the active version for a node

2003-06-13 Thread Eddie Jones
Hey gang. Does anyone have a quick sql statment I can type to view which tapes contain the active files for a node. Thank you in advance. Eddie Jones 770-953-1959 ext.2824 "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill ---***---

active version

2003-06-13 Thread Lopez Janeth
hi, how I know if the active version is a full or partial incremental backup? Janeth

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Colby Morgan
The 3580 is the only drive on the 2940UW. As for cable quality, I have tried three different cables with the same result. I even disconnected the Mammoth2 from the onboard IBM Ultra160 controller and used its cable with the 2940UW, with the same results. I originally had the 3580 connected to th

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Colby Morgan was rumored to have written: > The SCSI adapter is a 2940UW. It does run great with large files, so if we > had an adapter hardware bottleneck file size shouldn't make a difference. > We are running the v5.0.2183.1 of the Microsoft drivers. I also opened a > call with IB

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Colby Morgan
The SCSI adapter is a 2940UW. It does run great with large files, so if we had an adapter hardware bottleneck file size shouldn't make a difference. We are running the v5.0.2183.1 of the Microsoft drivers. I also opened a call with IBM, and they didn't make any recommendations to update the adapt

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Colby Morgan
Sorry if I left out a few details. All of our primary pools are defined as FILE device classes either on local attached SCSI or network storage. The reason we are installing an LTO drive is that we have had terrible reliability problems with our existing Exabyte/IBM Mammoth2. The Mammoth2 runs g

Re: AW: MediaW

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>That begs the question of why a collocated session can not have >multiple backup threads. Collocation is often diminished in List discussions for lack of qualification. That is, there are two types of Collocation: by node, and by filespace. Therein lies additional opportunity, further enhanced

Re: TSM Decision support 4.2.0 tools

2003-06-13 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, I would try Tsmmanager ( www.tsmmanager.com ) or Servergraph ( www.servergraph.com ) instead of TDS !! René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center Information Technology

AW: MediaW

2003-06-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Not quite sure where is you problem: You want both collocation and parallel backup threads. Using a (large enough) disk primary storage pool as backup cache gives you the ability to backup using many threads. Migrationg from disk to tape can use multiple tapes as well. The only things which do

Re: LAN free and SANERGY

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>Anybody has any good evaluation of SANERGY on AIX? I've heard second-hand that IBM cannot promise a SANergy for AIX 5.2, which may deter prospective implementations if it does not definitely have a future. I'd be interested in what others may have heard. Richard Sims, BU

Re: LAN free and SANERGY

2003-06-13 Thread inotzki
Anybody has any good evaluation of SANERGY on AIX? Remco Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:06:56 -0700 inotzki wrote: > All, > > We are to do LAN free to disk and tape now. Has anybody has or knows of > a working setup of: > > 1. SANERGY MDC on AIX 5.1/AIX 4.3.3 My suppier has

Re: MediaW

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Our target is satisfactory restore time. It has been our experience that if one has adequate set up for restore the backups run just fine. In our shop, adequate restore time requires collocation. That said, in my shop one must also take into account workplace politics. If that is not the case at

Re: How many DB volumes?

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Sims
>Are there advantages to using 10 X 2GB dbvols as >opposed to using 1 X 20GB? Thank you.. You'll find years of discussions on this in the List archives... More disk arms obviously mean better opportunity for performance. More volumes means a server thread dedicated to each, and so another opportun

Re: Managing shared tape drives on two servers

2003-06-13 Thread John Naylor
>> All you need to do in TSM is use taming conventions Well you could use taming conventions because TSM can get a bit wild sometimes, but naming conventions are probably better. John ** The information in this E-Mail is c

Re: ANR9999D imutil.c(1326): Error deleting object

2003-06-13 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Luciano! As you may already noticed, not many people take the time to respond to your message. They are probably thinking the same thing as I am: why do some people stick to unsupported base level coding?!?!? So my advice: first upgrade to a supported level and DO NOT use TSM base levels (4.1.0.

Re: Managing shared tape drives on two servers

2003-06-13 Thread John Naylor
Nancy, You are lucky with os390 that tape management is very sophisticated, and is handled outside of TSM by a combination of tape management system, such as DFRMM , library management system, in my case STK hsc/library station, and the os390 operating system itself. I write TSM to two tape librari

Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance

2003-06-13 Thread Dan Foster
Also, is there a diskpool? ie: client->server[diskpool]->server[tapes] If there's no diskpool in between the client and the tape drives, will be a lot of stop/go writes to tape, resulting in about 1 MB/sec vs 10-25 MB/sec. At least, that's true for LTO-1 drives. I've heard that LTO-2 drives bett

How many DB volumes?

2003-06-13 Thread Douglas Currell
Are there advantages to using 10 X 2GB dbvols as opposed to using 1 X 20GB? Thank you.. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca