Re: TDP for Oracle and Backup Set Creation

2005-11-28 Thread Peters, Neil G
If you are using an Oracle catalog in conjuction to using the TDP - you may want to also use exp with rman to match the TDP data with that of the catalog. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Steven Harris Sent: Mon 11/28/2005 10:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST

Re: Full backup?

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Dave, I assume that you'll be using a test TSM server that has been created by restoring a backup copy of the production server's TSM database. My scenario implies that you'll have to make a production TSM server db backup after you created the special copy storage pool volumes for the node. I

Re: TDP for Oracle and Backup Set Creation

2005-11-28 Thread Steven Harris
Muthu You can generate a backupset for TDP data, but you can't restore from it. Use export instead. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Muthukumar Kannaiyan > Sen

TDP for Oracle and Backup Set Creation

2005-11-28 Thread Muthukumar Kannaiyan
We are planning to create backup set for a node which usesTDP for Oracle. How does TSM will generate backup set for this node?. Is it possible to create?. If so, is there a procedure to recover from this backup? TIA Muthu

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Barnhart, Troy
http://www.cristie.co.uk $995 per server - Retail. (You can get it a cheaper...) I also agree on the merits of the TSM+ASR Redbook... We've had success with both methods. Troy -Original Message- From: Tim Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:53 PM To: ADSM

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Tim Brown wrote: is there documentation that describes the differences between "the same machine after a hard drive failure" and "restoring to different hardware at a hot site" i am attempting the later Tim - If you haven't already, look into the bare metal resto

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
do you have the link for cristies bmr, and how much is it tim - Original Message - From: "Barnhart, Troy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? I'm a big fan of the Cristie's BMR for Windows and RedHat Linux. They are pretty slick. I

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Barnhart, Troy
I'm a big fan of the Cristie's BMR for Windows and RedHat Linux. They are pretty slick. I can restore a box from scratch in under 10 minutes. My only caveat for "dislike hardware" restores is using newer hardware. i.e. their driver support for older hardware. We had problems getting older dri

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
thanks !! - Original Message - From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? What I meant was, to a different TYPE machine, i.e., disklike hardware, not just a different machine. The Christie Bare Metal add-on product s

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
What I meant was, to a different TYPE machine, i.e., disklike hardware, not just a different machine. The Christie Bare Metal add-on product supports restoring Windows to unlike hardware. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sen

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
you said that windows does not support restoring a registry to a different machine, but isnt that what happens when i follow the instructions in the "Disaster Recovery Strategies with TSM" pdf. is tsm ever going to support restoring to dislike hardware ? tim - Original Message - From: "P

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Bmr ?? is there documentation that describes

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
is there documentation that describes the differences between "the same machine after a hard drive failure" and "restoring to different hardware at a hot site" i am attempting the later tim - Original Message - From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2

Re: TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
IT's not a TSM issue, it's a Windows issue. Microsoft does not support restoring a registry to a different machine. That being said, they used to have a procedure in the knowledge base that you can try. Check there. How you test BMR, depends on what you are trying to do. You need different proced

Re: windows 2000 restore problem

2005-11-28 Thread Sung Y Lee
Hi, here's some information regarding restore for Windows 2000. I am not sure if this is related but just providing you the information that might be helpful in PD your issue. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21164812 Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/28/2005 02

TSM Bmr ??

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
Is there still a requirement to restore a TSM client to the same server hardware type. Can the restored server be somewhat different. How does everyone else test the TSM BMR procedures. Tm Brown Systems Specialist Central Hudson Gas & Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: [EMAIL P

Re: TSM Journal Service communication failure

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
Uwe - Those messages are helpful... Windows error 233 is ERROR_PIPE_NOT_CONNECTED, which says "No process is on the other end of the pipe". Assuming that the dsmerror.log message was written by the B/A client, it means that the Journal Service disappeared (died). Perhaps the Windows Event

AW: [ADSM-L] Backup of node onto how which volumes from last night's backup ?

2005-11-28 Thread Thomas Rupp
I do it this way: First get a list of tapes used by yesterdays backup. Then run a second script for every tape. That's much faster. Skript 1: (Gives a list of tapes used for primary stgpools) select volume_name as Volume,last_write_date - from volumes where - last_write_date > timestamp(date(cu

Re: TSM Journal Service communication failure

2005-11-28 Thread Uwe Koch
Hello Richard, thanks for the fast answer. But in the dsmerror.log only these entries appear very fast repeating : ... 11/25/2005 18:34:08 win32NpWrite(): Error 233 writing to named pipe 11/25/2005 18:34:08 win32NpWrite(): Error 233 writing to named pipe 11/25/2005 18:34:08 win32NpWrite(): Error 2

windows 2000 restore problem

2005-11-28 Thread Tim Brown
I was resinstalling a Windows 2000 server for disaster testing and it wont reboot after reload. I was following the instrutions found in the pdf "Disaster Recovery Strategies with TSM" I successfully restored the C: drive and System object, I then choose to reboot and Windows doesnt start and get

Re: Full backup?

2005-11-28 Thread David E Ehresman
If you have too many tapes for a DR test you have too many tapes for a disaster! Consider collocation of your offsite tapes. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/05 1:18 PM >>> Probably a FAQ, but... We are planning a DR this weekend and I would like to limit the number of tapes we bring by get

Backup of node onto how which volumes from last night's backup ?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi Everybody, Does anyone have an SQL to check what tape volumes were used by a specific node backup that ran between 6:00 PM and 1:00 AM the previous night ? Can it be naroowed down to a filespace name ? Rich

Re: Full backup?

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
It's only "cheating" if the objective of this DR test is not to validate your current client backup process. If it *is* intended to test your client backup procedures, then yes, it is cheating on a far larger scale than just limiting the number of tapes you bring with you, since you avoid testing

Full backup?

2005-11-28 Thread Dave Zarnoch
Probably a FAQ, but... We are planning a DR this weekend and I would like to limit the number of tapes we bring by getting a full backup of the system (Level 0) (I knowcheatercheater) Do I just modify the GUI settings from incremental to selective? Then, in the "file space" just

Re: SQL select for file size

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
But why do the volume names need to be known at all? Why not just do: select node_name,filespace_name,file_name,file_size from contents But yes, if the file is part of an aggregate, you'll get the aggregate size, which would be misleading. I don't think there is a very good way to do this. Anot

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:42 AM, Sung Y Lee wrote: It has been my experience that, if primary tape pool maxscratch value is set greater than tapes used when reclamation kicks off, it mounts a brand new scratch tapes. ... I've never seen that behavior - that would result in a large number of tape

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
If any of your clients have compression on, the data is compressed before sending to the TSM server. When TSM sends it out to the tape drive, it cannot be compressed again (or by very little). This is true of any type of compression, with any type of drive. If you have a mixture of clients compres

Re: SQL select for file size

2005-11-28 Thread Sung Y Lee
<> How about this select to get the volume(s).. warning.. looks like a long query.. select volume_name from contents where node_name='xxx' AND file_name='.xxx' Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/25/2005 12:05:22 PM: > I know that this question has been addressed before, but

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Sung Y Lee
It has been my experience that, if primary tape pool maxscratch value is set greater than tapes used when reclamation kicks off, it mounts a brand new scratch tapes. I suspect that there is some logical reason how tapes are reclaimed ... such as why not taking already used tape. However I have h

Re: Multiple schedulers for same node name

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Raibeck
-OPTFILE can only be specified when launching the client executable; it cannot be specified as an option when the client is already running. Why not simply define two schedules: one whose OBJECTS field indicates the C: drive, and another whose OBJECTS file indicates the D: drive? Regards, Andy

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Ben Bullock
We have various types of data, some being very compressible (DB dumps) and others are very much uncompressible (JPG files). So as in all compression situations, "your mileage may vary" depending on the type of the data. Here is an example of the 2 extremes of our data when it ends

AdminOnClientPort No and enterprise command routing

2005-11-28 Thread Remco Post
Hi all, on my test server I set AdminOnClientPort to No to be able to prevent unauthorized access to the admin interface from client nodes. Now I noticed that command routing for my central management host doesn't work anymore. Now I could set the lla for this test server to the admin port, but I

Re: 6.1.0.9 dd & LTO3 in 3584LIB

2005-11-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
Just installed them on 5.2.6.3. Aren't having any problems yet. Did you use the new install procedure for the drivers? (run install.exe instead of using Windows install). -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Large, M (Matthew) Sent: Monda

6.1.0.9 dd & LTO3 in 3584LIB

2005-11-28 Thread Large, M (Matthew)
Hi Guys, Is anybody using these devices and drivers? We're experiencing a few problems and we want to know if anybody else has a similar environment. TSM is 5.2.4.5 on W2K SP4 Thanks, Matthew TSM Consultant ADMIN ITI Rabobank International 1 Queenhithe, London EC4V 3RL

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Dennis Melburn W IT743
Such as? :) Mel Dennis Systems Engineer - IT743 Siemens Power Generation 4400 Alafaya Trail Orlando, FL 32826 MC Q1-110 Tel: (407) 736-2360 Win: 439-2360 Fax: (407) 736-5069 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: HP itanium and 64-bit support

2005-11-28 Thread Ruth Mitchell
Yiannakis, Briefly, IA64 (Intel Architecture-64) is a 64-bit processor architecture jointly developed by Intel and HP. It is distinct from and not directly backward compatible with X86 architectures due to use of a different instruction set known as EPIC. There's plenty of online reading materi

Re: Point-in-time restore Notes database - solved

2005-11-28 Thread Kurt Beyers
The problem is solved and actually there wasn't any problem. It was found that the mail has been delivered later on then first was thought. And thus the point-in-time restore is doing it's job. greetings, Kurt From: Kurt Beyers Sent: Mon 28/11/2005 13:55 To: A

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Bos, Karel
Things have changed in 5.3. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Melburn W IT743 Sent: maandag 28 november 2005 15:35 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes Don't think that is it, I only have 2 storag

TSM Journal Service communication failure

2005-11-28 Thread Uwe Koch
Hello, we are running TSM BA Client 5.3.0.5 on several Windows 2003 SP1 machines. It runs fine for several days but then there is a "ANS1181E Communication failure with the journal service" which causes the Scheduler service to hang and no more backups are done. Has anyone an idea about the reaso

Re: help:sysback restore failure

2005-11-28 Thread David E Ehresman
Check with Sysback support, but if memory serves me, that error was fixed in a later patch of Sysback. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/05 7:31 AM >>> Hi all ,my Sysback server is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the Sysback client is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the sysback version is 5.6.6.1.Every time I wanted to restore the

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Dennis Melburn W IT743
Don't think that is it, I only have 2 storage pools out of like 12 that have collocation turned on (these storage pools are for large file servers). So collocation shouldn't be affecting most of them. Mel Dennis Systems Engineer - IT743 Siemens Power Generation 4400 Alafaya Trail Orlando, FL 32

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Allen S. Rout
==> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:42:52 +0100, Volker Maibaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks for the answers! > I already assumed that drive compression was on... But I find it a bit > disappointing that the compression ratio is that poor (only 1,4:1). When > you look at the data sheets for 3592 dri

Re: Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Bos, Karel
Sounds like a collocation problem. Q stg / q node / q collocgroup. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Melburn W IT743 Sent: maandag 28 november 2005 15:22 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Space Reclamation Eating

Space Reclamation Eating Tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Dennis Melburn W IT743
I recently migrated our Windows 2K3 TSM server from 5.2.1.3 to 5.3.2.0 and since then, it seems that whenever I kick off space reclamation for my primary tape storage pools, it eats up scratch tapes, instead of freeing them up. Is there a reason for this? I understand that occasionally TSM will n

Point-in-time restore Notes database

2005-11-28 Thread Kurt Beyers
Hello, I've got the following setup: TSM server 5.3.2.0 on Windows 2003 Lotus Notes 6.5.2 fixpack 2 running on Windows NT with TSM BA client 5.1.7.3 and TDP Notes 5.1.5.1 The backup scheme for the Notes server is: selective backup on friday evening incremental backup from monday evening

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Kurt Beyers
Volker, True compression ratio is data-dependent. The more redundant information is found in files, the higher the ratio is For your data it is only '1,4'. The marketing will always use the general assumptions (2:1 or 3:1) as laws of nature and forget that this isn't true. best regards, Kur

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Volker Maibaum
Thanks for the answers! I already assumed that drive compression was on... But I find it a bit disappointing that the compression ratio is that poor (only 1,4:1). When you look at the data sheets for 3592 drives they always talk about 3:1 data compression. Volker Am Montag, den 28.11.2005, 07:15

help:sysback restore failure

2005-11-28 Thread liming
Hi all ,my Sysback server is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the Sysback client is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the sysback version is 5.6.6.1.Every time I wanted to restore the client with the same error message like:could not find the boot logical volume and attempt to build a default boot logical volume,the client LED code

Re: Change / upadate tape path

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Richard Sims wrote: On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Norita binti Hassan wrote: Hi, I'm using TSM 5.2. How do I change my storage pool for server A from stgpool A to stgpool B. It's not clear what you're asking... If you want to change the storage pool's name withi

Re: Change / upadate tape path

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Norita binti Hassan wrote: Hi, I'm using TSM 5.2. How do I change my storage pool for server A from stgpool A to stgpool B. It's not clear what you're asking... If you want to change the storage pool's name within the TSM server, use REName STGpool. In the conte

Re: Change / upadate tape path

2005-11-28 Thread Warren, Matthew (Corp)
Hi, You need to define a amnagment class with a copygroup that points to the new storage pool, or update an existing managment class copygroup, the parmaeter is 'copydestination' Then, in the include/exclude list for serverA include the files you need to go to storagepoolB to the new/updated mana

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Volker Maibaum wrote: Hello, We have a TSM Server 5.3.2.1 on z/Linux with a 3494 Library and 3592 Tape drives. In the 3592 device class I have used the format=DRIVE option (see below). How can I find out if the data on the volumes is written with drive compression?

Re: 3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 28 November 2005 12:28, Volker Maibaum wrote: > Hello, > > We have a TSM Server 5.3.2.1 on z/Linux with a 3494 Library and 3592 > Tape drives. > > In the 3592 device class I have used the format=DRIVE option (see > below). How can I find out if the data on the volumes is written with > dr

3592 Tape Compression

2005-11-28 Thread Volker Maibaum
Hello, We have a TSM Server 5.3.2.1 on z/Linux with a 3494 Library and 3592 Tape drives. In the 3592 device class I have used the format=DRIVE option (see below). How can I find out if the data on the volumes is written with drive compression? The average capacity of my volumes is 430GB (> native