Re: dbvols question

2005-11-30 Thread Roger Deschner
That depends on how you did the reorganization. Either backup/restore or DEFINE DBVOL/DELETE DBVOL is probably how you did it, and niether of those methods will accomplish your goal of spreading out the I/O load. At least not right away. As time goes on, it should very gradually spread itself out o

Re: Disk requirements for TSM database restore

2005-11-30 Thread Sung Y Lee
<> Equal or exceed assigned capacity value. Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/30/2005 11:52:24 AM: > I am working on plans for disaster recovery at a hot site that will not > necessarily have the same number and size disks as our primary site. I know > that a TSM database resto

Re: dbvols question

2005-11-30 Thread Troy Frank
I'm not trying to make it know the disk architecture, I just want it to evenly distribute amongst it's own dbvols. I already took care of distributing the dbvols across disks. I agree that the raid1+0 route would be best in a perfect world, but I don't have enough drive bays to do that for dbvols

Re: Disk requirements for TSM database restore

2005-11-30 Thread Japes
Hi recently when we upgraded our server I tried to assign a greater capacity to the DB volumes than was needed (in this case 40GB instead of the 32) and the restore reduced the size of the Assigned space back down to 32 although the volumes physical size obviously stayed the same. HTH Japes - -

Re: TSM Restore of Websphere server

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Go to the link in my sig, then look for this: Tivoli Storage Manager Overview, Related Products, and Platforms Supported Follow the link, and there you'll find a description for "IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Application Servers". That might help. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Grou

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-30 Thread Gerald
Bingo! I thought i'd checked all the ends but when I went to remove the short cable daisy-chaining the one good drive to the one bad drive, I found a bent pin on the end of the cable I had not previously checked. I was removing it because the first device was working in the chain and the second wa

Re: TSM Restore of Websphere server

2005-11-30 Thread Del Hoobler
Check this out: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-app-servers/ Thanks, Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/30/2005 02:30:44 PM: > Good Afternoon. > > We currently have TSM 5.2.2 running on all our servers(

Re: Disk requirements for TSM database restore

2005-11-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
==> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:52:24 -0500, Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am working on plans for disaster recovery at a hot site that will not > necessarily have the same number and size disks as our primary site. I know > that a TSM database restore does not require matching volume si

Re: Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-11-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
==> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:20:59 -0600, Mark Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This is a bone of network contention (no pun intended), particularly with > Cisco networks. It is *not* a TSM problem. (As usual, TSM is the World's > Best IT Infrastructure Problem Finder.) What he said, but l

Re: dbvols question

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Troy Frank wrote: ...Is there some way to force tsm to evenly distribute the info, ... Troy - An application is best kept ignorant of specific disk architectures upon which it is situated. The way to attain your goal is via disk striping. We are using RAID

TSM Restore of Websphere server

2005-11-30 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We currently have TSM 5.2.2 running on all our servers(UNIX/INTEL) and the TSM server is 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2 We have a problem restoring Websphere servers successfully, not all the services come up successfully. Does TSM have an Add-on or anything that allows for a successful backup

Re: Chase down SCSI Errors

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Thomas Rupp wrote: ... 31 (OP=WRITE, Error Number=1117, CC=205, ... The Error Number is that which the operating system returns. IBM has nicely provided a comprehensive summary of the "Windows 2000 error code list" in Technote 1218286. Sometimes the error

Re: Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-11-30 Thread Rafa
On 11/30/05, Ray Louvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone give the technical reason why auto detect on Server NICs > cause such horrible performance for TSM server backups and restores. We This sounds like a network problem, not a TSM one. Quick way to prove it: try a backup/restore to

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-30 Thread Rafa
On a related note (if somewhat off-topic) Can somebody point me to a mailing list/resources for Enterprise Storage Servers? Recently I "inherited" the administration of an ESS F20 for no other reason than the fact that I use space of it for my TSM disk pools (and the fact that the current admin l

Disk requirements for TSM database restore

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Denier
I am working on plans for disaster recovery at a hot site that will not necessarily have the same number and size disks as our primary site. I know that a TSM database restore does not require matching volume sizes, as long as the aggregate size of the replacement volumes is sufficient. However, I

Re: getting server code

2005-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
You do have to order the CDs but you can (at least we can) still get free shipped CDs as part of our Passport provisoned maintenance. You can also download the code via Passport. That all assumes that Passport thinks your entitled. If it doesn't, its a problem for your marketing rep. David Ehre

Re: getting server code

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Stapleton
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/30/2005 10:19:03 AM: > I'm ready to plan my upgrade from TSM 5.2.2.0 to 5.3 (on AIX). In the past > I have received CDs unsolicited with new version code. Do I need to order > something or download something? Or should I have received the CDs > already? Not g

Re: Chase down SCSI Errors

2005-11-30 Thread Sung Y Lee
This might help you in chasing down SCSI errors. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21063859 In the doc, there is a PDF document. Tivoli Storage Problem Determination Guide - Understanding Sense Data Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/30/2005 11:25:25 AM: > Hi TSM-

Chase down SCSI Errors

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Rupp
Hi TSM-ers, I'm in the process of moving from AIX with 3590 to Windows with LTO1. So the following errors are completely new to me: 11/30/2005 11:24:51 ANR8302E I/O error on drive TAPE2 (mt0.2.0.4) with volume 31 (OP=WRITE, Error Number=1117, CC=205, KEY=FF,

Re: Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-11-30 Thread Troy Frank
Because nic & switch vendors never seem to implement the autodetect spec in the same and/or correct way. Depending on the manufacturer of the switch/nic, sometimes you have to use auto on both, sometimes you have to hardcode both, sometimes you have to hard code one but set the other to auto. The

Re: Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Stapleton
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 11/30/2005 10:00:06 AM: > Can anyone give the technical reason why auto detect on Server NICs > cause such horrible performance for TSM server backups and restores. This is a bone of network contention (no pun intended), particularly with Cisco networks. It is

getting server code

2005-11-30 Thread Nancy Reeves
I'm ready to plan my upgrade from TSM 5.2.2.0 to 5.3 (on AIX). In the past I have received CDs unsolicited with new version code. Do I need to order something or download something? Or should I have received the CDs already? Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-30 Thread Dearman, Richard
Your situation sounds even worse than mine. When I lose a lun I only lose that particular lun. Other systems and luns on the controller are still functional. Although in order to get that lun back I must shutdown every system connected to the controller then reboot the controller and the lun com

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Any success stories out there for using large amounts of serial-access disk with TSM? At 06:19 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote: Richard, I share your pain. We have an EMC Clariion CX500 SAN. We have found that AIX in general, and TSM in particular, can just "hose" the sucker. > I have about 6TB o

dbvols question

2005-11-30 Thread Troy Frank
I previously had an 88G db @ 19% utilization spread over 3 dbvols. 2 dbvols on D: (hardware mirrored drive), and one on E: & F: (tsm mirroring). These drives were all on the same scsi controller (and same channel on that controller). I reorganized this so that I now have 4 db vols, with each one o

Network settings and poor backup performance.

2005-11-30 Thread Ray Louvier
Can anyone give the technical reason why auto detect on Server NICs cause such horrible performance for TSM server backups and restores. We have our TSM server NIC set to 100MB Full also our switch Port set to 100 Full but we have users with sorted networks such as 1 GB switches plugged into 100 M

Re: ISC / AC - Firefox ?

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
>From the TSM server test team: -- Problem abstract: Ridiculously wide portlet windows cause excessive horizontal scrolling in Firefox. Problem description: Firefox does not dynamically adjust the width of columns to match window sizes. IE does not exhibit this behavior,

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Your INCLUDE statement doesn't do anything except maybe bind the c:\adsm.sys *directories* (not files, which are not backed up) to SPECIAL. To bind system object or system state to a different management class, see the INCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECT or INCLUDE.SYSTEMSTATE options. You are otherwise correct

Re: Volume history question

2005-11-30 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, This is what we are running on a daily basis: delete volhistory todate=today-4 type=STGDELETE delete volhistory todate=today-4 type=STGNEW delete volhistory todate=today-4 type=STGREUSE Because the itsm database is only kept for 3 days, stgpool reuse for primary set to 1 and copy to 2, we don

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
Hi, we use "include c:\adsm.sys\...* special" to assign a managent class to system objects. Is this (still) correct? I think include and exclude to the same directory isn't a good idea. Regards Stefan Holzwarth _ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Tue 29.11.2

Re: Volume history question

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Sims
If you are referring to the file system file which TSM maintains with volume history information, it is a waste of time to make any changes to the file, as it is a generated copy of the volume history info maintained in the TSM database. You may housekeep the volume history information, by age, b

No HBAs?

2005-11-30 Thread Dameon White
I have a P3000 library with 4 DLT7000 tape drives that are on my san. The TSM server (5.3 on AIX 5.3) sees them and is happy. The Win2003 storage agent (with an LSI 929x 2gb hba and 5.3 stg agt) sees the 4 tape drives, but I am getting the following errors. >From actlog: 11/30/2005 08:57:14

Volume history question

2005-11-30 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Just looked at the volume history file again. Redoing the disaster recovery plans for tsm. Is there any reason to keep the "STGNEW" entries that build up in this file? Been removing the "STGDEL" entries during daily processing. Didn't see anything in the manuals about keeping this file from growi

Antwort: [ADSM-L] TSM DB2 Backups

2005-11-30 Thread Dierk Harbort
Hi, Bill! what our dbadmins and we tsmers do is the following: daily db2 backup (generations, controled by db2 itself) directly to tsm tape (special stgp); backup via tsm db2 api to tape, becourse the file is too large; in tsm only this one version exists. the db2 logs are written in a disk pool,

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
Another option is to shutdown your db, copy the db files to be backed up to another directory that is not excluded, and start the db back up. Then let your regular incremental pick up the files in the backup directory while continuing to exclude the live db files. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-30 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi all, Take a look at this : http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=116584 1&uid=swg21165841&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en May be related to your problem ... HTH. Cheers. Arnaud ** Panalpina

Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029

2005-11-30 Thread Tuncel Mutlu (B.T.S.Y.G.)
First, I would check the permissions issue. Can you backup up the System State with the NT Backup utility ? If the box is a domain controller, I think you have to have additional rights to backup the System State. Normally Backup Operators + System Operators domain group membership is enough (f

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-30 Thread Helder Garcia
I have the same problem here. TSM 5.3.2 on AIX 5.3 64bits. Two drives 9840 that were working properly stop functioning suddenly with messages ANR8302E I/O error on drive MYDRIVE (/dev/mt0) with volume XX (OP=WRITE, Error Number=5, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF, ASCQ=FF, SENSE=**NONE**, Description=SC