AW: NAS Storage for Copypools

2004-10-18 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
Jozef, thanks for that hint. Your are right, i forgot ... Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jozef Zatko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 08:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: NAS Storage for Copypools Stefan, check that user un

Re: NAS Storage for Copypools

2004-10-18 Thread Jozef Zatko
Stefan, check that user under which your TSM server is running can see and access your shared drive. If you run TSM under system user, this user by default does not have access to network shares. Hope this helps Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Stefan Holzwa

How to take backup from IBM NAS Gateway through TSM 5.2 with 3582.

2004-10-18 Thread sankar knowledge
Dear Gurus I am a AIX System Administrator in a Oraganization... I am working with this environment... Backup Server : Windows 2000 Serv Backup Device: IBM3582 with Single Drive Backup Software: TSM 5.2 Clients: 17 IBM AIX Servers NAS Gateway: IBM 300 NAS Gateay Storage : FASt T I have d

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Orville Lantto
I design my storage pools to attempt to get whole tapes to expire in a short time. This requires a fair number of Primary disk and tape pools as well as their matching copy pools. Reclamation I view as a way to manage the number of scratch tapes. I vary the reclamation percentage to suit my mana

Re: SAN File System and TSM?

2004-10-18 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Mike wrote: Since IBM's SAN File System is supposed to provide 'hetrogenous access' of files to multiple platforms, could TSM backup the 'File System' as a single entity? Throughput considerations aside, given a single filesystem from a single host, could TSM back this up? Mike Mike, I have

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Jones, Eric J
We run our reclamation at 50% which seems to work very well. It gets our tapes back on a regular bases so we have plenty for backs and do not have a lot of tapes off site. Also you tend not to have tapes off-site for re Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAI

Re: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

2004-10-18 Thread Purdon, James R
Hi, The resume issue goes away if the tape backup of the database backup flat files is a non-TSM backup. The probably of managing the non-TSM tapes is left as an exercise for the reader - but it can be done. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tape Library Move

2004-10-18 Thread David Benigni
Hello, I have a question for the TSM gurus out there. I need to move a tape library from one SCSI controller to another. What is the best way to accomplish this? Last time I added a library and created new device classes and pool and moved the data from the old pools to the new. I would prefer

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-18 Thread Shannon Bach
Norman, Based on the information in your reply, I've decided to send the archives to the 3590's on the Magstar 3494-D14. It will get better use of the extra space from the tapes in the 3590E drives versus the 3590B drives. I really appreciate your reply and from the others whom responded, it was e

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread William Rosette
I run Reclamation of 70% during the weekdays and 51% during the weekends. Between this and collocation in the primary pools, I have 417 scratches out of 2,480 total onsite and offsite tapes. That's also with an average of 7 days retention, and 3 day reuse period. Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Cent

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Sung Y Lee
Howdy Folks, Anyone noticed you can't do decimals... Like 96.5 or 99.9 . I know <1% is not going to make a difference, but hey I have found where they do and can come in handy sometimes... I think this would make a nice to have feature. I think the IDEAL pct for reclamation really depends on u

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Hobbs
I would say go as low as you can without impacting other processes. Why waste tape I always say . 65% is not bad. I run at 50%. The trick I have found is to get to a level where the percentage is sustainable. If you can't get there, and tapes are becoming an issue, either get more tapes or driv

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Richard Sims
>What is the IDEAL pct for reclamation, I use 65pct should I go lower 100%. One would want all tape contents to expire unto themselves, and have such a large number of tapes that the consumptive thing called reclamations would not be necessary. But: this is the real world, and we need reclamatio

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Lepre, James
What is the IDEAL pct for reclamation, I use 65pct should I go lower -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RECLAMATION Here's one select count(*) from

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Hart, Charles
Here's one select count(*) from volumes where pct_reclaim>95 and stgpool_name='TAPE_DR_COPY' -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Hammersley Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RECLAMATION Jam

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Coats, Jack
James, I have had to start taking my 'onsite' tapes out of my library. This causes some of the same issues. I must keep an eye on what tapes Are needed for reconciliation of the offsite copypool tapes, replace some of the older 'unaccessed' tapes (using q media for this) with tapes needed

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Richard Hammersley
James, Do a "query volume" and look at the "pct util" column for the tapes offsite. Compare that value with the Reclamation Threshold for your pool. If there are a lot of tapes that meet that threshold and they don't come back when they should then you should look to make sure the reclamation

SAN File System and TSM?

2004-10-18 Thread Mike
Since IBM's SAN File System is supposed to provide 'hetrogenous access' of files to multiple platforms, could TSM backup the 'File System' as a single entity? Throughput considerations aside, given a single filesystem from a single host, could TSM back this up? Mike

Re: TSMLVSACACHE files & Win2003

2004-10-18 Thread Charlie Hurtubise
Ref TSM Win2003 Clients 5.3.2.1, 5.3.2.4 I've just been through this on Windows 2003 Server since TSM version 5.3.2.1. I just installed TSM 5.3.2.4, but I am still getting an occasional Win2003 Service crash. To avoid the C:\tsmlvsacache directory from taking all the free space on C:\ (and you

TSMLVSACACHE files

2004-10-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
When building a recent Windows 2003 server, the TSM LVSA (Open File Support) was installed. I just found a document on IBM.COM that says that this configuration is NOT SUPPORTED but due to Shadow Copy services, the LVSA may "negatively interact with the TSM LVSA ". Well, it has. It has sucked-up

How to delete unneeded archivelog backups in Oracle 8i and TDP

2004-10-18 Thread Bill Boyer
I have a client that has lots of 8i databases and they are using TDP agent to backup the databse and archive logs. I have a little script I wrote that takes the REPORT OBSOLETE output and generates the CHANGE BACKUPPIECE commands to delete backup objects that I don't want anymore. It doesn't handle

Re: Exchange backup schedule ?

2004-10-18 Thread Bill Boyer
As Del Hoobler mentioned before on this list, you can assign a differenent managmeent class the the COPY backups than for the full/incremental backups. You could create a managament class wiht a 1-year rentention and with an INCLUDE assign the COPY backups to that management class. Bill Boyer DSS,

Re: Prioritizing a restore ...

2004-10-18 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:05 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote: I had hard times, couple of days ago, explaining our management why the restore of an important informix server took more than 12 hours because it was made at the same time (middle of the night) than all the nightly backups, and that TSM server

Re: Exchange backup schedule ?

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Hobbs
There is no real way for you to have separate fulls kept for different retentions without using multiple nodes. What it sounds like you want kept over 1 year is 12 Monthly Full backup 26 Most current Sun Full Backups 4 Most current Wed Full Backups Not sure what you want for retention of Inc. T

Exchange backup schedule ?

2004-10-18 Thread David Soucy
Hi all. Hope you are well. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a way to backup 3 exchange servers by doing 5 incs and 2 fulls per week but only keep 4 fulls for 6 months and 1 full per month for backups >6 months old up to 1 year? I'll map it out Weekly schedule =Sunday

Prioritizing a restore ...

2004-10-18 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi List, I had hard times, couple of days ago, explaining our management why the restore of an important informix server took more than 12 hours because it was made at the same time (middle of the night) than all the nightly backups, and that TSM server seemed to be overflown by all that data ...

Re: NAS Storage for Copypools

2004-10-18 Thread David Longo
I will be out of the office from Oct 18 through Oct 22. Contact Alex Reyes for any urgent requests. I will reply to your email when I return. David Longo ## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential,

Re: DRM in use licenses vs purchased, DRM tapes

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Denier
> Dear List, > I am using DRM and sent few tapes to vault including DB backup. This was my > first set of tapes sent to backup site. > I have not used prepare command yet and not even included machines in DRM setup. > > > Why would licensing wizard show that I have "0" DRM License in use, while i h

Migrating to TSM V5.2 on z?OS

2004-10-18 Thread Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT)
Believe it or not, we are still running TSM V4.2.2 on OS/390. We are planning to upgrade our OS to z/OS and, along with that, to upgrade to TSM V5.2. I have heard that on some other platforms (e.g. AIX) one cannot go directly from 4.2.2 to V5x. I don't see anything about such a restriction in th

NAS Storage for Copypools

2004-10-18 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
Hi, i thought a simple question but Can you use networkshares for storagepools? I tried devclass file, but got an error about ANS8000I Server command: 'define devc FILEDEV1 devtype=FILE directory="Y:\" mountl=32 maxcap=25M' ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter. Y:

TDP Oracle Restore

2004-10-18 Thread Sandra
Dear All, Sorry to bother you all again. I am going to restore backup of oracle database tomorrow. The only thing I know about restore is that sample script: run { allocate channel t1 type ’sbt_tape’ parms ’ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/home/oracle/tdpo.opt)’; restore database; recover database; alter data

DRM in use licenses vs purchased, DRM tapes

2004-10-18 Thread Sandra
Dear List, I am using DRM and sent few tapes to vault including DB backup. This was my first set of tapes sent to backup site. I have not used prepare command yet and not even included machines in DRM setup. Why would licensing wizard show that I have "0" DRM License in use, while i had it configu

Re: Change TSM Server environment to 64 bit

2004-10-18 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM will run in 32 bit mode on an AIX running in 64 bit mode. To change TSM from 32 bit mode to 64 bit mode, you have to install different filesets. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/17/2004 2:57:59 AM >>> Hi guys, I have TSM Server 5.2.2 on AIX 5.1 32bit and I am planning to change the OS environment to

Re: Splitting apart a Tivoli DB

2004-10-18 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Well, we have that issue as well. We have large DB/2 and Oracle database(+2TB) doing logbackups every ½ hour to the system. The unload/load process isnt something you should run every two weeks. Perhaps once a year or with two years in etween would be a good idea. I think you should have n