Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-13 Thread Deon George
Gordon, The data will stay in the existing storage pool until it is moved manually... BTW: Rebinding applies to data retention (ie: number of versions and days to keep), and actually refers to files being "re-attached" to a new (different) management class. So, changing the details of a managem

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-13 Thread Gordon Woodward
Okay, I've figured out the culprit to my problem. I queried the contents of some of the filling tapes which had basically no data on them and found they were storing data for nodes which are not suppose to be going to this storage pool. We have monthly incremental backups running for some of ou

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-13 Thread Gordon Woodward
Thanks for the reply John. There is 5 nodes associated with this particular tape storage pool, with a total figure of 14 filespaces shared between them. The re-use delay parameter is currently at 0 and the migration processes is set to 1. I did have migration processes at 2 but scaled it back to

Re: ADSM with Windows 2003 Server and SFU 3.5

2003-10-13 Thread Andrew Raibeck
My comments embedded below, flagged with "AMR:" Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your

Re: Client : MS Cluster active - active

2003-10-13 Thread John Monahan
I would put the TSM scheduler into cluster administrator, because that essentially stops/starts the scheduler service for you when you do a failover. Follow the instructions in one of the appendixes of the client manual. Should take care of the problem. __ John Monaha

Re: Client : MS Cluster active - active

2003-10-13 Thread Ochs, Duane
Each time it has happened both systems eventually were rebooted and had the same results. 1) Blaster virus 2) security patches and 3) SP update. It occured each time and I do not always get notified when our Intel servers group performs these functions. We do not have the two schedulers configure

Re: 2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread Andy Carlson
2. Before doing the delete volhistory, do a query volhistory and save it in a file. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St.

Re: TSM v5.2 on AIX

2003-10-13 Thread Andy Carlson
Sorry to bother you again. I mentioned the small file/directory file speedups here as a reason to upgrade, but I cannot find the APAR that appears to fix that. Do you know the APAR number for that fix so I can read the text? Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,-

Re: Client : MS Cluster active - active

2003-10-13 Thread John Monahan
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/13/2003 09:44:48 AM: > TSM Server 5.1.6.2 ( AIX) > TSM Client 5.1.5.15 (W2K cluster) > > Cluster node a - Has drive f$ > Cluster node b - Has drive g$ > > To apply patches to the systems, nodea f$ is failed to node b, patches > applied to n

Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

2003-10-13 Thread Tom Kauffman
Mine too -- but I'm not the one doing the cost justification. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements > with ou

running tsm behind a firewall

2003-10-13 Thread Justin Bleistein
wasn't there a redbook out there called: "Running TSM Behind A Firewall" or something like that?. I can't seem to find it on the redbook site. Can anyone point me in the right direction?. thanks in advance.. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856)

Re: 2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread David Longo
If you run your expiration with the option "quiet=no", then when it terminates (or anytime while it's running), do a "q actlog". With quiet=no, expiration reports it's progress in the actlog. You can see what nodes it has processed. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fi

Re: 2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread French, Michael
1. I looked in the log, expiration is not completing on it's own, it's being stopped at the end of two hours. There has to be some way to see how far expiration has gotten to. There has to be some internal way in which expiration keeps track of where it left off, it doesn't always just start ove

Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

2003-10-13 Thread David E Ehresman
> with our current discount the autochangers would run about $1,300 less >over the three-year life of the system To my way of thinking, $433/year is a BARGAIN for all the things TSM does other than just write a tape. It manages the whole backup/restore/DRM process. David Ehresman

Re: licensing (again... :( ) - some formal statements

2003-10-13 Thread Tom Kauffman
Thanks for the formal definitions, Zlatko. I hope ITSM looks at the licensing issue (again) for TSM 6.x. The way the NT servers are getting priced, I can see a couple of 4-way systems coming in next year with internal DDS autochangers. This is not the way I want to go, but with our current discou

Too many DRM tapes leaving 3949 library daily.

2003-10-13 Thread Alan Davenport
Hello Group, I am fairly new to using an automated library. We've just moved to one from a manual library. I am having a problem with too many tapes from my offsite pool leaving the library every day when MOVE DRM is run. Our core group of critical servers are going to a collocated

Re: 2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>1. How can I tell if expiration has made it all the way through? Right now I am only running it 2 >hours a day and I think it's way behind but I can't prove it. > If it finishes before the two hours are up, it has made it all the way thru; otherwise it has not. >2. As part of my daily housekeep

Re: 3584 Cleaning Frequency

2003-10-13 Thread David Longo
Has been discussed at times here. Apparently the bottom line is that LTO drives don't need cleaning tapes very often. I have 3584 with 8 drives for 18 months, backing up 700GB per day and making offsite copies each day. Cleaning tape hasn't been used once! Using IBM tapes. David B. Longo Syst

2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread French, Michael
1. How can I tell if expiration has made it all the way through? Right now I am only running it 2 hours a day and I think it's way behind but I can't prove it. 2. As part of my daily housekeeping on TSM, the script deletes DB backups older then 14 days from the system. The tapes have already

3584 Cleaning Frequency

2003-10-13 Thread Todd Lundstedt
What is the normal clean frequency for LTO-1 drives in a 3584? I have the drives defined to TSM with a cleaning frequency of "none", and the 3584 library set to Automatic cleaning, per recommendations. Yet, when I use the front panel of the 3584 to look at the cleaning cartridges, one has never b

Re: SV: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Peter Pijpelink - P.L.C.S. BV Storage Consultants
Is that seen from perspective of easy license program or expensive.? Peter At 12:58 13-10-2003 -0400, Richard Sims wrote: >3. What does the rumor say - when can we expect a real DB2 ;-) Imagine what the licensing fee for TSM would be then!! ;-)) Richard

Re: SV: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Sims
>3. What does the rumor say - when can we expect a real DB2 ;-) Imagine what the licensing fee for TSM would be then!! ;-)) Richard

SV: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Pedersen.Michael Benny MIP
Thanks 1. I know have to make the query from an Intel-platform via TSM ODBC driver into a spreadsheet or access/SQL db. 2. But if I choose this solution I have to transfer the data to the z/OS-platform eg. via MQ in a format define be the z/OS personal. I had hope to jump this step over, but

Re: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Sims
>> I need to make a query from our z/OS-platform to a TSM Server on Intel >> platform. >> >> "Normaly" from a DB2 z/OS you can make a DRDA-connection to a DB2 UDB >> database on a Windows-platformen, if DB2 UDB on Windows-platform content >> Connect-product (ex DB2 UDB EEE V7). Can TSM-/DB2-databa

Re: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Remco Post
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:55:35 +0200 "Pedersen.Michael Benny MIP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to make a query from our z/OS-platform to a TSM Server on Intel > platform. > > "Normaly" from a DB2 z/OS you can make a DRDA-connection to a DB2 UDB > database on a Windows-platformen,

Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-13 Thread Pedersen.Michael Benny MIP
Hi all, I need to make a query from our z/OS-platform to a TSM Server on Intel platform. "Normaly" from a DB2 z/OS you can make a DRDA-connection to a DB2 UDB database on a Windows-platformen, if DB2 UDB on Windows-platform content Connect-product (ex DB2 UDB EEE V7). Can TSM-/DB2-database ans

Named pipe as file event receiver

2003-10-13 Thread Thomas Denier
We are looking into the possibility of migrating our OS/390 TSM server to mainframe Linux. One of the issues we are looking into is management facilities. Our current inclination is to define a named pipe as a file event receiver and have a Perl script read from the named pipe and respond to variou

Client : MS Cluster active - active

2003-10-13 Thread Ochs, Duane
TSM Server 5.1.6.2 ( AIX) TSM Client 5.1.5.15 (W2K cluster) Cluster node a - Has drive f$ Cluster node b - Has drive g$ To apply patches to the systems, nodea f$ is failed to node b, patches applied to nodea and rebooted, f$ and g$ are failed to node a, Node b then gets patch and rebooted then g$

Re: Backup copy group definition

2003-10-13 Thread Karel Bos
Hi, No, I don't think so. Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Nicolas Savva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 13 oktober 2003 16:31 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Backup copy group definition Hi to all I have a question regarding a backup copy group definition.

Backup copy group definition

2003-10-13 Thread Nicolas Savva
Hi to all I have a question regarding a backup copy group definition. Let say that i want my incremental backup to be stored for 7 days and my selective backup for 31 days I have the following settings in my TSM for a backup copy group: 1. For incremental backup: Copy Group Name STANDARD

Re: Documentation about Copystorage pools

2003-10-13 Thread Stefan Gocke
IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts - http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg244877.html?Open IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide - http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg245416.html?Open Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.1 Technical

Documentation about Copystorage pools

2003-10-13 Thread Bernd Schemmer
Hi again, I still don't know exactly how Copystoragepools work and before I ask to much questions I would like to read additional docs about the usage of Copystoragepools (local and on other TSM servers!). Can anybody point me to documentation (in addition to the manuals) about copy storagepools (

Re: Backup definition

2003-10-13 Thread Bernd Schemmer
Steven, thanks for the detailed answer. We now decided to use one incremental backup with RetExtra and RetOnly set to 31 to have a complete backup of everyday for one month. In addition we create an archive every 1st of the month. That's not exeactly what we need, but for this time it's a usable

Moving archives between policy domains

2003-10-13 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi *sm ers, I´m presently trying to consolidate 20 odd distributed TSM-Servers that were indiviually managed and have very different logical setups. My aim is to have identical policies across the country, so I thought having standardized policy domains would be a good idea. It´s quite straightfor

Library config on OS/400 PASE

2003-10-13 Thread Kolbeinn Josepsson
Hi TSMers, I am working on TSM installation on OS/400 and there is one thing where I am not sure how to manage: There are two ways to configure Automated Library in TSM on OS/400 PASE: AS400MLB (TSM manages the Library) and USRDEF (Library is managed by external media management system). The que

Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-13 Thread Richard van Denzel
Works as designed Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel Consultant IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant Solution Professional Services B.V. Transistorstr

Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-13 Thread Wilcox, Andy
Food for thought (or at least what I have noticed on a 3584) when TSM mounts a tape, the libvolume still has the home element id of the slot it came out of. Therefore when TSM checks in tapes it will cannot use the "empty" slot created by the mounted tape. Cheers Andy Wilcox Midrange Services Aq

File names length

2003-10-13 Thread Tomáš Hrouda Ing.
Hi all, please let me know, how long UNC filenames are supported in TSM client 5.1/5.2 (Windows)?? Thanks Tom

Re: How to completely expire deleted files

2003-10-13 Thread John Naylor
Farren >>The thing that has confused me is that, will deleted files that were >>origionally bound to one Man Class get re-bound to a new one during backup. >>Does this work, even though during the backup session, the deleted files >>are (of course) not seen by TSM? No the files that are deleted wi

Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-13 Thread Otto Schakenbos
If that happens (having a tape in slot where another tapes belongs then tsm will take the drive offline and you will have take the tape out of the drive by hand. This is probarly not what you want. You could do a q mount, get a list of the mounted tape and with a query libv see in which slots these

Re: How to completely expire deleted files

2003-10-13 Thread Farren Minns
I have done this. I edited the STANDARD set, validated and actived it with no problems. I then made sure that the client i question was using the new M Class. The thing that has confused me is that, will deleted files that were origionally bound to one Man Class get re-bound to a new one during ba