Fw: Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Dan Brown
- Original Message - From: "Bob Booth - UIUC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM? > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:29:27PM -0500, fred johanson wrote: > > We've discussed it, but they're not yet NDMP compliant, so t

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2006-04-25 Thread Dan Brown
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Re: Tapeless TSM System

2006-04-25 Thread TSM_User
Many people are using VTL's (Virtual Tape Libraries). IBM has the TS7510 and EMC has the CDL. There are also many people using large disk subsystems like the IBM DS4300 or DS6800 or the EMC Clarion or Symmetric. Then on this disk subsystems they use TSM's file device class. In the end us

Re: Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Helder Garcia
Paul, If the tsm clients are running under linux, you could use CBQ (Class Based Queueing) to perform traffic shapping on the output traffic of the nic. This works pretty well. Google for CBQ Linux. . On 4/25/06, Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems that every action has some re-a

Re: Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Raibeck
> Seems that every action has some re-action. Sounds like Raibeck's Rule #37: "There is no free lunch" :-) Regard, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Thanks Richard, et al, I thought the default RESOURCEUTIL was also the minimal value, so I don't think we could lower that any more than it already is. Using MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP is a good idea, as is using 'nice' to deprioritize. We have actually been working hard to improve TSM performance s

Re: TSM BA client on Exchange 4-way cluster hangs

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Oh yeah, forgot to ask... can you reproduce the hang when trying to launch ntbackup? Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web p

Re: TSM BA client on Exchange 4-way cluster hangs

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Wanda, which SP are you running, and on what processor architecture? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support we

Re: encryption and lanfree ?

2006-04-25 Thread Robert Moulton
Is anyone using client-based encryption with LANFREE backup ? Robert Moulton wrote, on 04/21/06 13:52: > A couple of questions about lanfree backup: > > Does the standard client option 'include.encrypt' work? > How about the API option 'enableclientencryptkey'? > > Server is TSM 5.3.3 > > All feed

TSM BA client on Exchange 4-way cluster hangs

2006-04-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Windows 2003, Exchange 2003, 4-node cluster, 3 active 1 passive. BAclient 5.3.2.2. TDP For Exchange NOT installed yet. Have installed the Windows baclient, trying to get a backup of the C: drive and system state before we start installing the TDP for Exchange and all the appropriate schedulers.

Re: A QUESTION

2006-04-25 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi I am using that kind of setup in my LAB Its a Library with the type=file, the tapes are files of 5GB that is on one disk and I have another disk for my COPYPOOL (offsite) with tapes that are also files of 5BG.. Its working very good Luc Beaudoin Network Administrator/SAN/TSM Hopital Gene

Re: Reclamation

2006-04-25 Thread Michal Mertl
Marc Crombeen wrote: > Anyone have an idea of how to use a disk pool to do reclamation for tape > storage instead of using 2 tape drives? I would have guessed this is very common configuration. You setup reclaim storage pool (e.g. 'define stgp diskreclaim filedev maxscratch=10 nextpool=tapepool')

Re: A QUESTION

2006-04-25 Thread Lepre, James
Hello Everyone I have a question. I would like to make a disk onsite_tapepool with a bunch of space I just inherited from a fastt. It would be a poor man's virtual tape library. One of my concerns is well of course is this possible, and second how would it create copies for offsite. Has an

Re: Reclamation

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Frank
Assuming your drpool is tape based (and not remote disk), then you'll always use at least one tape drive, but more often two will be used. If you've got enough diskcache then some of the data being reclaimed will still reside there, so it will only mount the one tape necessary for writing. Once y

Re: Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Frank
Turn on client-side compression so you monopolize their cpu instead? Sorry, couldn't resist. You have a problem some of us wish we had. Usually the filesystem scanning takes long enough that it creates pauses in the use of the nic (at least here). You might be able to intentionally hobble tsm's n

Reclamation

2006-04-25 Thread Marc Crombeen
Anyone have an idea of how to use a disk pool to do reclamation for tape storage instead of using 2 tape drives? Thanks Marc DISCLAIMER: If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or other action taken in reliance on its contents i

Tapeless TSM System

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Edelen
Was wondering if anybody out there has implemented TSM using a tapeless system? This is something we are considering. Any insight would be appreciated. We currently are using TSM version 5.2.2.0 on a Window 2003 server. Using a STK 9710 tape library. Thanks, Bruce A. Edelen Ashland Inc. - E

Re: Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Sims
Paul - Certainly, "de-tuning" the TSM backups will reduce the impact, where the most obvious tactic is to minimize RESOURceutilization. And you can get more drastic via MEMORYEFficientbackup Yes. Depending upon the file population, the influx of the Active files list at the beginning of an increm

Re: Schedules missed, no reason

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Sims
Jeremy - A frequently asked question...many past postings. The TSM Problem Determination Guide has a section titled "Troubleshooting the client scheduler", which leads you through steps. Always keep in mind that the scheduler is serial: thus, if the previously scheduled event has not completed f

Throttling back TSM client

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Zarnowski
We have a small number of users here who are complaining that when a TSM backup runs on their client system, it monopolizes use of their network card. They are looking for a way to throttle back TSM's use of the network. Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas? The only thing I've come up wit

Schedules missed, no reason

2006-04-25 Thread Jeremy Cloward
All, I am running 3.4 on the VM mainframe . I dont know if that will be the issue here, but. I have multiple machines missing thier scheduled times , for no reason, they are associated with a schedule, they have a management class, everything , but they dont kick off or do anything. # hou

Re: Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:29:27PM -0500, fred johanson wrote: > We've discussed it, but they're not yet NDMP compliant, so that approach is > on hold. The current possibility is to flashcopy MIRAPOINT to a LINUX > system and then pcik that up with TSM. Still all highly theoretical. > > > > At 12

Re: Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread fred johanson
We've discussed it, but they're not yet NDMP compliant, so that approach is on hold. The current possibility is to flashcopy MIRAPOINT to a LINUX system and then pcik that up with TSM. Still all highly theoretical. At 12:30 PM 4/25/2006 -0400, you wrote: I'm looking for someone who is backin

Re: IBM 4560

2006-04-25 Thread John Monahan
Are you using the TSM device driver for the library changer and the IBM Ultrium device drivers for the tape drives? If you've already done that, then you need to supply more information like how you did the define drive and define path commands and what type of errors you are seeing. ___

Re: Tru64 BAC

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Mario, Google and the IBM FTP site both have info. Here's the last release of the Tru64 client: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/Tru64UNIX/v517 This client is no longer under development. From what I understand, you'll still get howto/usage su

Re: Rebinding image snapshots

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Incrementals and Images are not the same type of objects insite TSM. I don't see anything in the docs that indicate whether rebinding can occur for image backups. If rebinding an image snapshot is possible, it will only happen when you take a new snapshot. -Josh On 06.04.05 at 09:44 [EMAIL PRO

Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Zarnowski
I'm looking for someone who is backing up a Mirapoint e-mail system with TSM, so I can ask them a few questions. Thanks. ..Paul -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Systems Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: [

IBM 4560

2006-04-25 Thread Marc Crombeen
Has anyone worked with the IBM 4560 Library? I have an Overland Fibre Card in it and am trying to get and LTO1 drive and an LTO2 drive to work. I see everything fine in Windows 2003 server Device Manager but TSM doesn see the LTO1 drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Marc DISCLAIMER: If y

Re: 5.3.2 server

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Matt, I didn't see further replies to this so I thought I'd add my experience recently. I have two servers I've been chasing locks/hangs on, mostly related to REPAIR STGVOL. One server would hang up every other day. I waited for a month to get a patch, which was against 5.3.2.4; however, in has

Re: Server crash (log full?)

2006-04-25 Thread -ray
Hi Eric, Thanks for the info. My db is 25gb and log is 4gb. Log mode is normal. ray On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: Hi Ray! I think we all have seen this before. What's the size of your recovery log? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original

Re: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Lepre, James
Here is what you would do if you wanted to backup up the images themselves with tivoli.. you will have to add a virtual path to the dsm.opt file to see where is this going vmware-cmd /root/vmware/winNetStandard/securID.vmx addredo scsi0:0 cd /vmfs/Local-Vmfs cp securID.vmdk securID.vmdk.bak v

Re: Server crash (log full?)

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Sims
Ray - As Eric says, has been seen a lot. (See the List archives for past postings on Recovery Log problems.) See IBM Technote 1198224 for handling. Richard Sims

Re: Installing the Linux client

2006-04-25 Thread David E Ehresman
Did he install the API before the BA? It has to be installed first. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/25/2006 9:40:28 AM >>> Hi *SM-ers! One of my Unix colleagues is trying to install the TSM 5.3.3.0 client on a SLES9 distribution. I downloaded the client from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/t

Re: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread William Boyer
Vmbk.pl is the correct search. Here's the site: http://www.vmts.net/vmbk.htm Bill Boyer "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salak Juraj Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:3

Re: Server crash (log full?)

2006-04-25 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:18:32 -0500, -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've seen a condition a few times where the TSM log will fill and the > server will crash. See the console log below. Has anyone seen this > before? Any ideas? TSM server 5.3.2.0 on AIX 5.3. Yep, that's par for the cour

Re: Installing the Linux client

2006-04-25 Thread Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1
Perhaps you are missing the client's api which need to be installed with every client. You can download the client's api from IBM ftp like the client. Regards, Ibán. -Mensaje original- De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Enviado el:

Re: Server crash (log full?)

2006-04-25 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Ray! I think we all have seen this before. What's the size of your recovery log? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of -ray Sent: dinsdag 25 april 2006 16:19 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.

Server crash (log full?)

2006-04-25 Thread -ray
All, I've seen a condition a few times where the TSM log will fill and the server will crash. See the console log below. Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas? TSM server 5.3.2.0 on AIX 5.3. Thanks, ray ANR2997W The server log is 81 percent full. The server will delay transactions by 3 m

Re: fioScanDirEntry error messages while backing up a windows file server

2006-04-25 Thread James Choate
Thanks for your input. Just an FYI: The file systems mentioned in the log as corrupt, are corrupt. Should have trusted TSM in the first place. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:12 AM T

Installing the Linux client

2006-04-25 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! One of my Unix colleagues is trying to install the TSM 5.3.3.0 client on a SLES9 distribution. I downloaded the client from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena nce/client/v5r3/Linux/Linux86/v533/ and I delivered him the two packages TIVsm-API.i386.rp

Error during TSM ASR Restore

2006-04-25 Thread Tim Brown
During an ASR restore with TSM, I press F6 to be able to load the appropiate disk device drivers from diskette and I get this error. File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 1896 in d:\srvrtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c Any ideas Tim Brown Systems Specialist Central Hudson Gas

AW: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Salak Juraj
Nancy, performing Google vmbkup.pl returns exactly your response (below) :-))) Juraj > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Meadows, Andrew > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. April 2006 21:34 > An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Betreff: Re

Re: New Migrate command

2006-04-25 Thread Timothy Hughes
Kurt Thanks again! regards, Tim Kurt Beyers wrote: > Thimoty, > > The 'wait=yes' is required to make sure that the process is started in the > foreground. If it is started in the background, the processes will be started > in parallel even with the SERIAL parameter in the script. I found this