Re: TSM, Windows and DFS

2004-08-20 Thread Jon Adams
Absolutely, we are using DFS replication, so our intent is not to backup each of the DFS links. What is the best way to have TSM do that? After talking with technical support, it seems as though you need to use a modified DOMAIN statement and an EXCLUDE.DIR in tandem in order to avoid having a DFS

Deleting obsolete copypool with multiple volumes

2004-08-20 Thread Jin Bae Chi
Hi, TSMers, Recently I created new copypool on LTO 3584 library and backed up primary stgpools to it. Now that I need to delete the old copypool with multiple Magstar tape volumes, is there any quick way of doing it without deleting each individual volume first then old copystgpool? Thanks for you

Re: Passwords for client restores

2004-08-20 Thread Prather, Wanda
Ditto. And you betcha, your auditors are gonna scream! Set PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE on the client, and PASSWORD EXPIRATION LIMIT to n days on the server (you can set 1 default, and override on an individual client basis if needed). Our limit is set to 90 per auditors. You must supply the passwor

Re: Passwords for client restores

2004-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
We use the Pasword Generate option so that if you can log onto the box with the appropriate privs to run dsmc or dsm, you can restore without supplying a password. If the restore is from another box, we used an appropriately prived admin id which eliminates the need to know the node password. Dav

Passwords for client restores

2004-08-20 Thread Park, Rod
Right now we have about 800 clients and to do a restore, the password is the same for all clients. How are others doing this. We don't want to be in the business of password generation/maintenance to change passwords all the time. We also don't want just anybody being able to do a restore on any b

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-20 Thread Owings, Don
I suspected as much but needed confirmation. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Deleting volhistory From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ma

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-20 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owings, Don >Hey group, I would like to expand on this thread. I have >several duplicate files that were inadvertantly saved to tape >that are not saved exclusively to dedicated tapes, meaning >they are striped among files I

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-20 Thread Owings, Don
Hey group, I would like to expand on this thread. I have several duplicate files that were inadvertantly saved to tape that are not saved exclusively to dedicated tapes, meaning they are striped among files I need to retain. Does anyone know if the delete volume command allows for deleting sp

Residency Announcement: TI-A404-R01 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Guide - Update 2004

2004-08-20 Thread Charlotte Brooks
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Re: Unable to restore old DominoTransaction Log

2004-08-20 Thread Del Hoobler
Bill, There must be residual data or partial steps that are causing the Domino logger code to think that logging is in effect. My suggestion is to start with a fresh "alternate" server with clean directories. Follow the steps in the documented procedure from the beginning. It is difficult to figu

Re: Scratch mount failed

2004-08-20 Thread Mark Bertrand
Thanks Mike, But that's not the issue. I failed to mention that the stuck/bad tape issue is not a problem. I updated the volume, joined it to a tapepool and destroyed the tape, system pulled in a new scratch and kept going. Again, manual intervention. Someone has to type upd libv, why? What's the

Informix onbar process hangs and poor backup performance

2004-08-20 Thread Marc Layne
Hi all Environment: AIX version 5.2 on IBM pSeries 670 partitioned with 6 processors for this node DWH (datawarehouse as client for TSM) TSM Storage agent version 5.2.1.x backing up to TSM server on IBM p630 also running AIX 5.2 Informix version 9.31 64bit TDP for informix version 5.2 IBM LTO 3584

Re: Unable to restore old DominoTransaction Log

2004-08-20 Thread Bill Dourado
Del, I understand what your are saying; but know don't yet how to get round this problem. I had set up this alternate server a while ago and could and still can restore databases, activate and applying logs by following "procedures outlined in the Appendix titled "Advanced restore procedures""

upgrade from tsm 5.1 to 5.2 on AIX

2004-08-20 Thread Lawrence Clark
Last weekend we migrated our TSM 5.1.6 server from AIX 4.3.3 to a different AIX server running TSM 5.1.6 and AIX 5.2.0. We did this by installing TSM 5.1.6 on the replacement server. migrating the TSM server configurable files, then bringing over the SSA disks with the TSM DB and storage pools. Cam

Re: Restoring SQL Database Question

2004-08-20 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi Del Thanks .. Have a nice weekend Del Hoobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-08-20 08:51 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Restoring SQL Database Questi

Re: Restoring SQL Database Question

2004-08-20 Thread Del Hoobler
Luc, It looks fine... as long as: - "" is a TSM NODENAME that you have registered and received a password for. - "{IP TSM SERVER)" is actually the TCP/IP address of the TSM Server where the "" NODE is registered. Thanks, Del --

Re: Unable to restore old DominoTransaction Log

2004-08-20 Thread Del Hoobler
Bill, It looks like you have not set up the "alternate" server properly. The message is telling you that the Domino server thinks that there is a different transaction logger id in effect. However, when you follow the alternate server restore procedure, there initially won't be logging at all unti

Re: Restoring SQL Database Question

2004-08-20 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi, Thanks Del For the DSM.OPT file for SQL, this is my configuration ... do I need more config NODename CLUSTERnode no COMPRESSIon Off PASSWORDAccessGenerate COMMMethodTCPip TCPPort 1500 TCPServeraddress {IP TSM SERVER) TCPWindowsize 63 T

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Is there a way to find the max utilization during the night? Yes, with a TSM Monitoring tool such as Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com . Alternatively, you could try to write your own scripts to monitor, record, and report on such events. David Ehresman University of Louisville

Unable to restore old DominoTransaction Log

2004-08-20 Thread Bill Dourado
Hi all, I am attempting to restore an old Domino database to point_in_time and then activate and apply logs, on an Alternate Server. We have for more then one Logger id (for reasons we know) in our Archived Transaction Logs as can be seen when you enter: Domdsmc query logarchive However when

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-20 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
The only way I know of doing this is using some kind of monitoring. Being a scripter, I usually have a script periodically query the storagepool utilisations and place the results into a DB. I can report etc.. on it later. Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EM

Re: Linux Backup strange message.........

2004-08-20 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
IF there are lots of files, is the machine running out of memory? Perhaps 'memoryefficientbackup yes' is an option to try? Does it always abort on exactly the same file? Or sometime in a particular filesystem? Always when it starts a particular filesystem, or finishes one? We had a similar probl

Re: Incremental Image backup : no new/modified files stored ...

2004-08-20 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi again, Sorry for having disturbed you : I found the reason for my problem ! It looks like it is related to the fact that the server I used as a test node was a brand new installed one, on which the date was never set (it had Thu Feb 12 12:49:27 CST 1970), as soon as I corrected this, the increm

delete volhistory

2004-08-20 Thread Mark Strasheim
thanks to all, the hint with force=yes did the job. But i have an otherone for you :). The very first backup ever made, was done in the future ( well the server date was wrong ) it was/will be done on NOV 16 2004. Since the admin (me) is a funny guy, he set the new Date, while the tape got moved

Tapes do not go notmountable on a shared library

2004-08-20 Thread Mark Ferraretto
All, I am running TSM 5.1.6.1. I have set up a second instance of TSM on our server and it is sharing the tape library using the shared library capability. The main server is called sm040. The second instance is called sm040b sm040b has a single onsite storage pool only. No copy pools. It is

Incremental Image backup : no new/modified files stored ...

2004-08-20 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi List ! I'm currently testing image backups on AIX, having in sight implementing it soon on some servers needing fast backups, but am currently experiencing some problems with the incremental image backup, which does not seem to backup anything ... Test procedure was to create a new JFS filespac