Re: TSM 5.3 Administration Center

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Fielding
I think a number of people have summed up the issues here well, no need for me to harp on them. The one exception I would make is in regards to creating an 'intuitive interface'. So far, IMHO, the interface is far from intuitive. While I can see the theoretical logic behind burying the Schedules

Re: Windows registry keys for 5.3

2005-02-09 Thread TSM_User
Steve, In order to perform installs without using the GUI you can perform silent installs using switches passed to the *.MSI. For more information on this: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.itstorage.doc/toc.xml Select "Storage Manager for Windows" Expand th

Re: ANS1329S (RC29) Server out of data storage space..... But not really!

2005-02-09 Thread Robin Sharpe
Yes, I checked all the pertinent things... at the time the message was issued, the disk pool had 85GB available, the tape pool had over 600GB available (on FILLING volumes), and there were 4 scratches up for grabs. The tape pool has maxscratch=999, and there are only 55 volumes currently in the poo

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread TSM_User
"but why design to do that?" For the very practical reason that money doesn't grow on trees. If someone were to purchase and IBM 3584 with 12 LTO3 drives would we suggest that they use 12 HBA's or 6 dual port HBA's? In most cases I think not. There is a number of drives per HBA which should b

Re: ANS1329S (RC29) Server out of data storage space..... But not really!

2005-02-09 Thread Delroy Blake
Saw this issue with UDB backup. It justed looked at the size of the disk spool space at the start of backup. On Wednesday, February 09, 2005, at 09:08AM, Robin Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone encountered the subject message? > >We saw it today in a Oracle RMAN backup... what I th

Re: Solaris 10 support

2005-02-09 Thread Carl Makin
Andrew Raibeck wrote: While I have indicated that Intel support is not in plan, the ADSM-L forum is really not the proper place to address TSM product requirements. If you have a need for this support (or for any product requirement), you should open a formal requirement through your IBM/Tivoli sal

NDMP backups

2005-02-09 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello All! I am very conflicted about how to use NDMP backups for my environment. Here is our config: TSM AIX 5.2.2.5 server EMC NS704G with 3 datamovers and 1 failover Windows 2003 TSM Client at 5.3.0 I was wondering if we will have to mount the filesystems on a Windows server and just back the

Re: disable sessions but not server-to-server

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 02:04 PM 2/9/2005, Andrew Raibeck wrote: I have it on good authority that server-to-server sessions are not disabled with DISABLE SESSIONS. Admin sessions are not disabled, either. Andy, I have had problems with this on 5.2.1 using virtual volumes. If I disable sessions on server A, then server

Use of BART PE for restoring IMAGE on a win2000 server

2005-02-09 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi all I try to use BART PE to restore a TSM BACKUP IMAGE on a IBM 335 server but the NIC card is not find ... so no IP address .. is there anyone who knows how to add NIC drivers for IBM servers into a BART PE CD thanks Luc

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Orville Lantto
The point was that two HBAs for tape only provides bandwidth for two tape drives with compressible data, not four. Many people seem to under appreciate the bandwidth requirements of a properly designed tape system. For database data, it is usually the disk that is to slow to achieve optimum backu

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Clark
Seems like any tuning you did for one I/O workload would be sub-optimal for the other. Are large transfer sizes still de riguer for LTO? [RC] "John E. Vincent" ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by:

Re: disable sessions but not server-to-server

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Paul, I have it on good authority that server-to-server sessions are not disabled with DISABLE SESSIONS. Admin sessions are not disabled, either. In TSM 5.3, additional granularity was added to the ENABLE SESSIONS and DISABLE SESSIONS command; check out the 5.3 README for this info (the online

Re: Intel Server image backup/restore

2005-02-09 Thread Egon Blouder
Hi, I've built a bootable windows cd (win pe or bartpe). Boot off the CD start dsmc client util for image backup or image restore. As far as I can remember image support is only supported on Windows OS. However you could dump the disk to a file (e.g. using dd) and backup that file to TSM. Rega

backint - "memory could not be read"

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Rupp
Hi TSM-ers, for some time now I've been looking for the reason why my SAP backups (3 different machines) stop without any messages. Now I've found the following entry in the eventlog - Tree System Log. Event Type: Information Event Source: Application Popup Event Category: None Event ID:

Re: one 3592 drive exclusive for a NetApp ?

2005-02-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
Nope. TSM does not support remote tape drives--one of the costs of centralized backup strategies. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 >-Original Message- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of TSM >Sent:

Re: ANS1329S (RC29) Server out of data storage space..... But not really!

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Bullock
Did you check the setting of the maxscratch on the tapepool, and then check to see how many tapes are in use? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sub

one 3592 drive exclusive for a NetApp ?

2005-02-09 Thread TSM
Hello, is it possible to use one drive (3592) exclusive for one nas-connection (NetApp) ? There will be no physical connection between this drive and the TSM server. If we set online=no in the path between the TSM server and the drive, would the TSM server mount tapes for the NetApp ? I cannot te

ANS1329S (RC29) Server out of data storage space..... But not really!

2005-02-09 Thread Robin Sharpe
Has anyone encountered the subject message? We saw it today in a Oracle RMAN backup... what I think happened is, at the time the backup script started, there was not enough space in the ORACLE_DISK pool, nor in the ORACLE_LTO2 pool which is next in the heirarchy. Other sessions of the same job w

disable sessions but not server-to-server

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Is there a way to disable client sessions without disabling server-to-server sessions? We want to disable users from accessing our TSM servers, but not disable server-to-server sessions. I know there is now a tcpadminport, in addition to tcpport, but the documentation for "disable sessions" seems

5.2 server deadlock

2005-02-09 Thread Dale Jolliff
Anyone got the super secret squirrel command to kill the locks causing this system deadlock before this server augers into the dirt? tsm:>q pro Process Process Description Status Number - 1,393 M

Re: ACSLS & TSM

2005-02-09 Thread Joni Moyer
Excellent point! And thank you for the tips concerning EDT and ACSLS. I am hoping to upgrade to 5.3 shortly and eliminate the need for Gresham, but I am concerned about the same amount of functionality. Thanks! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread John E. Vincent
Stef Coene wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2005 21:10, Ben Bullock wrote: The documents say you are supposed to NOT have SAN and tape devices running on the same HBAs. Mhh, can you point me to a paper stating this? I can't find any. I can find the rule that a tape drive must be on a separate zone fr

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Sims
Perhaps, IBM site Technote 1194590. On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Stef Coene wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2005 21:10, Ben Bullock wrote: The documents say you are supposed to NOT have SAN and tape devices running on the same HBAs. Mhh, can you point me to a paper stating this? I can't find any. I

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 21:10, Ben Bullock wrote: > The documents say you are supposed to NOT have SAN and tape > devices running on the same HBAs. Mhh, can you point me to a paper stating this? I can't find any. I can find the rule that a tape drive must be on a separate zone from the disks.

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 00:33, Mark D. Rodriguez wrote: > Stef, > > There are several ways to accomplish this. However,, you didn't give us > all the details so I will make some assumptions. I will assume you are > using at least 2 switches for redundant paths. I will assume that the > ora

select question on migration processes

2005-02-09 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hello , can someone help me ? : I am looking for a select statement that gives as Output 3 values the total sum of 'items' 'bytes' 'processing-time' for all the mgration processes that have been finished in the past 'n' hours . I have problem to get the processing-time. Someone got this

Re: Number of HBA's

2005-02-09 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Orville! I don't think this is really necessary since LTO2. LTO1 performance does suffer when you can't keep the drive streaming, but LTO2 and 3 adjust their tape speed if they detect that the amount of incoming data is too low. So there should not be any back-hitching here... Kindest regards, E