ADSM Listserv problem!

2006-12-07 Thread Roger Deschner
XXX XXX XXX XXX I think we're having a problem on the listserv server for this list where it is deleting the first few lines of each message. I have put 4 lines of X's at the top of this message in hopes that it will make it through. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL

Re: TSM for Sysback restore

2006-12-07 Thread Timo Scheller
Hi, Lamb, Charles P. schrieb: Hi 0554 usually means some drivers are missing. I had a lot of problems performing a DR process on an IBM 9133-55A. Boot up into a shell that will have the # sign. Load all of the device drivers. Re-boot and should come up. There is a special process fo

delete filespace

2006-12-07 Thread Avy Wong
Hello, I am planning to remove Filespace Name: \\eomron1\e$ and Filespace Name: \\eomron1\c$ from Node Name: OMRON, is there anything I have to be aware of or any precaution I need to take before I go about deleting it? Thanks. Node Name: OMRON

3582 Microcode levels

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Harris
Hi all, I have a customer with a 3582 and LTO2 drives. He's been having an occasional problem with tapes not unloading from drives and being marked unavailable, so I thought I'd check out his microcode levels. Now the web page for 3582 is at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=3

Re: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Kurt Buff
This won't help you now, but it may help someone else before crisis hits 1) As part of the documentation of the server, use either the natvie 'net share' command, or rmtshare.exe from the Windows Resource Kit to document your shares. Create a batch file that creates the shares and copy it off some

Re: FW: Help Please

2006-12-07 Thread Margaret Clark
Kerry Campbell wrote: I've been trying to install the integrated solutions console (ISC) on my desktop. ... Does anyone have any instructions or a valid site for instructions to accomplish this? I struggled through the installation of ISC 6.0.1 in May 2006, using the standard installation inst

Reminder for your calendars: TSM Ask the Experts call on Dec 11

2006-12-07 Thread Darrius Plantz
Tivoli Storage Manager Tape Drive Configuration and Processing Presenter: Benji Lee & Andy Ruhl Monday, December 11, 2006 10:00 - 11:00 CST Join us for the final round in 2006 of our monthly series of "Ask the Experts" calls for Tivoli Storage Manager. This will be a TSM user driven call w

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
This seems to work fine: dsmadmc -dataonly=yes -TAB -id=admin -pa= "Select 'del vol ' || volume_name || ' discard=yes wait=yes' from volumes where stgpool_name='CPSATABG'" > XYZ5 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/06 3:32 PM >>> Couple suggestions... 1. there is the -OUTFILE= parameter to specify the o

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread William Boyer
Couple suggestions... 1. there is the -OUTFILE= parameter to specify the output of the dsmadmc command. 2. use the SQL concatenation operator select 'move data ' || volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='CPSATABG' That way you only end up with 1 column in the result instead of 2

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
Yes, it worked but with problems I've had trying it other ways: dsmadmc -dataonly=yes -id=admin -pa= "select 'move data', volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='CPSATABG'" > xyz 1). required quoted SQL 2). required > (redirection character) RESULT: ( which the -TAB eliminated) (if I add

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Sorry: That's what I get for trying to do it from memory. Here is the line I use in my scripts. dsmadmc -dataonly=yes -server=server -id=admin -password=pw output Hope this helps. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Ma

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread Kelly Lipp
And one other advantage of VTL that I could see is they often (always) provide compression. Something we can only get on disk if we let the client do the work. So for half the disk you get twice the space. Or somesuch nonsense like that (unless you believe Overland, then you get 5x compression..

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
tried it: [tsmserv] /home/root/bin # dsmc -id=admin -pa= -dataonly xyz xyz2 ANS1107E Invalid option/value: '-ID' >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/06 2:20 PM >>> I would suggest another approach to the problem. Dsmc -id=xx -pa=xxx -dataonly output Where query is a file containing your sql text and o

Re: copypools on disk on AIX?...behavior

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
Yes, but it doesn't directly explain the situation. But I can infer from it that since my devclass had been set at 50G and I did not have large file enabled on AIX, that it hit the 2GB limit. The percentage of usage on each volume appears to comfirm this. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/06 1:29 PM >>>

Re: procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lee, Gary D.
I would suggest another approach to the problem. Dsmc -id=xx -pa=xxx -dataonly output Where query is a file containing your sql text and output is where you want the output to go. I use this approach and consequently don't have to strip headers or trailers. Hope this helps. Gary Lee Senior S

Re: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Prather, Wanda wrote: If I were you, I would run a RESTORE using the command line client and specify -dirsonly. That will get all your directories back ASAP, and they will be complete. Richard - Wanda has the Windows experience, so follow her guidance. My thought w

procedure for building a command file for TSM on AIX

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
This was a bear trying to get output in a friendly form to execute as a macro. Might be helpful to others. What worked for me: 1). I built the query in one file with redirtection in the command line: /home/root/bin/dsmcmdx "select 'move data', volume_name from volumes where stgpo ol_name='CPSATAB

Re: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Stef Coene
On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:53, Dearman, Richard wrote: > One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it > turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new > server. > > The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used > in

Re: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
I've never tested this but here is my guess: There are actually 2 types of restores, classic and no-query. In a no-query restore, I believe TSM creates a DUMMY directory structure at the beginning, but I'm not even sure it builds the whole thing at once. The idea is that laying down a dummy l

Re: TSM for Sysback restore

2006-12-07 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi 0554 usually means some drivers are missing. I had a lot of problems performing a DR process on an IBM 9133-55A. Boot up into a shell that will have the # sign. Load all of the device drivers. Re-boot and should come up. There is a special process for dissimilar hardware, however,

HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

2006-12-07 Thread Dearman, Richard
One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new server. The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on tha

TSM for Sysback restore

2006-12-07 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm testing a TSM for Sysback restore of an AIX 5.2 machine onto different hardware. After the restore completes and the machine reboots, it hangs during the reboot after closing stdin and stdout. The LED code is 0554. Any ideas?

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread David E Ehresman
The other advantage of a VTL over a disk subsystem when implementing an all disk storagepool is that lan-free will work to a VTL but not to FILE disk (without Sanergy). David >>> "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/7/2006 7:27 AM >>> My 2 cents: There is on big advantage for using a V

Re: copypools on disk on AIX?...behavior

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Sims
Have you reviewed the Technotes on the ANR8785E message relative to your configuration?

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread David E Ehresman
Roger, What do you recommend as a RESOURCEUTILIZATION for restores of large files systems? David >>> Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/7/2006 3:35 AM >>> I keep hearing it said, that if you're going to buy a great big disk array for TSM, that it works better if you let TSM know it has disks

Re: TDP Exchange Resotre Question

2006-12-07 Thread Del Hoobler
Bill, You should be able to do this. For example... assume this: --- "Storage Group B" --- MailboxDB1 --- MailboxDB2 --- MailboxDB3 --- MailboxDB4 - A FULL backup is done of "Storage Group B". - An INCREMENTAL backup is done of "Storage Group B" - An INCREMENTAL backu

copypools on disk on AIX?...behavior

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
Anyone who has copypools on disk, I am wondering if this is your experience: 1). It only fills the volumes a few % before creating a new one. 2). The activity log is showing write errors, then creating a new volume. I susspect that is because I set the devclass to 50G and the AIX max file size ca

TDP Exchange Resotre Question

2006-12-07 Thread William Boyer
I am documenting recovery scenarios for MSX. It looks to me like I can do a recovery from a FULL legacy backup to a database in the Recovery Storage Group. However, it looks like if I want to apply incrementals, I will have to restore all of the databases from that storage group into the Recovery

SV: Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems?

2006-12-07 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Mark, Don't forget that you also need to have a unique FLOPPY involved for each server. How many wants to manage x hundreds of floppies? Mark, how can you make dissimilar hardware with your PE CD? When you restore the full OS image/backup to your new hardware. How do you change the registry a

SV: Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems?

2006-12-07 Thread Christian Svensson
Rich, The problem you have with Altiris is that it cost you high maintenance to have that solutions for BMR. If you don't keep you Altiris image up to date with the same HotFix/Service Pack level as the server you recover then will TSM only recover the Reg keys for that hotfixes/service packes b

Re: [SPAM: 4.000] [ADSM-L] Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Leigh Reed
Joni Your command line reads in the mail I received that you have question marks around the filelist path. I don't know if the mail client has corrupted these and changed them into question marks, but they should be quotes. Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:

TSM Server Backup with 4 ,000 TSM clients and 16,000 Sessions

2006-12-07 Thread Francisco Molero
Hi TSMusers, I have this environment: TSM Server 5.3.3.1. OS Sun Solaris 4 Processors and 8 GB RAM. I have problems with sockets in status close_wait and sessions in status end when we run the backup each night. Each node copy more or less 2 Mbytes and we launch 2 backup per node. We are

Re: Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Leigh Reed
Joni Each of your examples seem to show TSM baulking about the string that follows the first space in your filelist path ( 'open systems' in your first example and then 'legacy modernization' in the second) I can only think that somehow your terminal emulation is not actually transmitting quotes

Re: Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Sims
You'll probably have to do the type of quoting as shown in "Handling spaces in file names in schedule definitions" within the Unix clients manual. That's what you get for using GUIs. ;-) Richard Sims

Re: TSM client on a SUN solaris server

2006-12-07 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:44:29 -0500, Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On average, I contact a system administrator about poor TSM > throughput every couple of months. The problem usually turns out to > be duplex mismatch. The system administrators involved consistently > report that they

Re: [SPAM: 4.000] [ADSM-L] Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi Leigh, I tried putting single quotes and then I tried double quotes. Here's what I'm getting: 12/07/06 10:29:14 ANR2017I Administrator LIDDZXL issued command: RESTORE NODE nas_server_2 /root_vdm_4/HMCH1015_G /temp_server_2 filelist=?FSCOR

Re: [SPAM: 4.000] [ADSM-L] Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Leigh Reed
Joni, Try putting quotes around any file paths that have spaces in them. Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 07 December 2006 15:16 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [SPAM: 4.000] [ADSM-L] Restore node syntax Hi

Re: Problems backing up through firewall...

2006-12-07 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, 12/07/2006 08:33:45 Waiting to be contacted by the server. => so 1501 outbound is open. Your problem seems to be the prompted scheduling option. This means you need to open the ports on you local firewall to let the ITSM server contact your client. If you don't use the 'webports' option, thi

Re: TSM client on a SUN solaris server

2006-12-07 Thread Thomas Denier
-Matthew Glanville wrote: - >NOOO!! > >Not another one. STOP STOP STOP. > >After 100's of complaints on how TSM is 'slow' cause by this issue >i've had just about enough of the incorrect statements that >auto-negotiate doesn't work, yes, it had problems in 1997, when >vendors sold

Re: dsmcdfs details

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Durkee
We got creative. Our dsm.opt for the scheduler has dfsmountpoint backup to yes but as a post scheduled command we invoke dsmc inc -subdir=yes -optfile=dsm2.opt /mountpoint/directory (or something like that syntax) the dsm2.opt has dfsmountpoint set to no and no domain statements. first we back up

Re: Problems backing up through firewall...

2006-12-07 Thread Martin Jas
Did you open up port 1501 in your firewall??? Grz MJ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: 07 December, 2006 16:12 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Problems backing up through firewall... Someone can p

Restore node syntax

2006-12-07 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi Everyone, I must be getting the wrong syntax here or something because I keep getting incorrect results. Can anyone see what my mistake might be? Thanks in advance! I am trying to restore 2 files to a temporary location for our NDMP backups using the command line. RESTORE NODE nas_server_

Problems backing up through firewall...

2006-12-07 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Someone can probably easily point it out, but I am trying to figure out what I may have misconfigured on a client. It is attempting to back up through a firewall to our TSM server. The client host machine is running Linux and also has a built-in firewall. Client info Dsm.sys SErvernam

Re: TSM client on a SUN solaris server

2006-12-07 Thread Matthew Glanville
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/06/2006 02:39:35 PM: > -Luc Beaudoin wrote: - > > >I have a new SUN Solaris server, (SUNFIRE T2000), SunOS 5.10 > > > >I installed the TSM client on it it's working ... but very > >slw > >The client version I installed is 5.3.

Re: Reply: copypools on disk on AIX?

2006-12-07 Thread Lawrence Clark
Thanks to everyone for their input on creating copypools on disk ( and wildcard deletes) I discovered a few things from a typo. I entered an incorrect directory name in the device class def and TSM dymanicly created the directory and file-volumes in that directory. That led to some confusion until

Re: schedule manipulation :)

2006-12-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
All we do is set the schedule Expiration Date to some day in the past and when we want to reactivate it, we change it back to NEVER. I agree having an "active/inactive" option like with Admin schedules, would be nice/consistent. Also, as far as scheduling flexibility is concerned, while the chang

Re: schedule manipulation :)

2006-12-07 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:47:13 +0100, goc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > the Q: is there a way to simply enable/disable schedule(s) rather than > removing the node (or removing the schedule from node properties) from > schedule ? > i mean something simple as checkbox like in admin schedules "Schedu

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Kelly, My backup window is all the time. Backups start as early as 4pm to 8am the next morning. I haven't tried more than two max processes for one of my larger pools.I have 12 disk pools (drives) tied up until 8am or longer, plus not to mention the impact to the client backup/thrashing.

Re: Using the DBI::TSM module, memory problem

2006-12-07 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, I have now tried different approaches for my large TSM query: DBI: Allen Rout confirmed my suspicions in a previous post. This one loads the whole output of the sql into memory before processing. For my large query I killed the program when it reached 1GB. ODBC: This one seems to kick off

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
My 2 cents: There is on big advantage for using a VTL over a disk subsystem: compression. We are also using a EMC DL700 which uses in-the-box LTO compatible compression. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: schedule manipulation :)

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Bartl
Goran, with Exchange DB on clustered environment my strategy always has been to keep the scheduler (that is related to the database in question) active only on the machine the database is currently running on. So when the database changes from one machine to another, the TSM scheduler gets stoppe

schedule manipulation :)

2006-12-07 Thread goc
hi, we are doing some heavy DB reallocation and stuff and i'm very confused since we are using 4 node cluster with 35 oracle databases \o/ ... since the DB can be active on any node i made a script which checks where it is and manipulates the dsmcad process accordingly ... but that was not my ques

Re: Survey Question for Virtual Tape Users: What Vendors are you using for Virtual Tape?

2006-12-07 Thread Roger Deschner
I keep hearing it said, that if you're going to buy a great big disk array for TSM, that it works better if you let TSM know it has disks (DEVCLASS=FILE), than if you lie and try to tell it they are virtual tapes. Cheaper too, because you don't have that VTL layer in there. Simpler to administer be