Re: ADSM-L Digest - 26 Feb 2007 to 27 Feb 2007 (#2007-51)

2007-02-27 Thread Roger Deschner
Use two different node names, one for each OS. There is no way to avoid this. I've tried, and I've lost data that way, even though one of my OSs was able to mount the other's file system. You must consider dual-boot as two different machines. Using two node names is the only way you can guarantee

Re: Can I enlarge a dbvol by mirroring?

2007-02-27 Thread Drew, Shawn
Why wouldn't you just run "define dbvol" and create a 12g volume? Then just delete the 9gB one, and it will move the data over. -Shawn -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:45 AM To: ADSM

Can I enlarge a dbvol by mirroring?

2007-02-27 Thread Roger Deschner
If I have a database volume A, which is 9gb, and then I define a copy with DEFINE DBCOPY A B, and B is 12gb, then I know it will only use 9gb on either A or B. This is what the manual says. However, what happens if I then DELETE DBVOL A? Will it use the whole 12gb of B? Or just the original 9gb?

Re: dual boot backup ¿?¿?¿?

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Is the question whether you can use the Linux or Windows client to back up the same file system into the same file space on the TSM server? That is, the view of \\machname\d$ will remain consistent regardless of whether you back up from Linux or Windows? If so, I would say "no". We certainly ha

Re: dual boot backup ¿?¿?¿?

2007-02-27 Thread Wojtek Pięcek
OK. So You need driver for ext2 for windows (which is probably better solution) or mount ntfs filesystem under linux (which isn't best). In both case You lost permision to other filesystem, You must mount other filesystem etc. Maybe better is setup 'dsmc inc' on bootup? On 2/27/07, Ibán Bernald

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Leigh Reed wrote: Patrick You don't mention your version of TSM server or h/w platform and this is a fairly old APAR but I thought I'd mention it. TSM server 5.3.4.x on Intel (Dell 2950) hardware. APAR IC47731 deals with poor performance on Linux kernel 2.6 on zSeries. Did see that APAR

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Leigh Reed
Patrick You don't mention your version of TSM server or h/w platform and this is a fairly old APAR but I thought I'd mention it. APAR IC47731 deals with poor performance on Linux kernel 2.6 on zSeries. Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: dual boot backup ¿?¿?¿?

2007-02-27 Thread Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez
Hi Wojtek: I know that TSM is for both !! Have you tried to backup the same filesystems mounted on linux or on windows on the same physical machine ¿? Think about a laptop that has 2 differents OS: linux /windows. The data is stored in a FS that is mounted on /home, but when the machine is

Re: dual boot backup ¿?¿?¿?

2007-02-27 Thread Wojtek Pięcek
What funcionality You expecting? TSM clients is for both SO. On 2/26/07, Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi World, Have anyone try to do a backup of a dual boot machine platform (windows linux) that share the same FS using proxynode option ¿? is it possible ¿? is ther

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Mark Scott wrote: Morning all Does anyone have any experiences good or bad running Linux as a TSM Server? We are a reasonable size environment currently running AIX as our server and Linux/Windows and Aix clients. The question has been asked for various reasons to ch

Re: Migrate disk pools to new media

2007-02-27 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, I would just setup the new diskpools in your ITSM servers, update the copy groups to back-up to the new pools, update the old diskpools pointing your next stg to the new diskpool and start migration. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Migrate disk pools to new media

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Stapleton
Add the new disk volumes from the Hitachi unit to the existing disk pools. Set all the volumes in the IBM unit to readonly. Perform MOVE DATA commands on each volume in the IBM unit. When the IBM volumes are all empty, run DELETE VOLUME on each one of them. Voila! No need to create new stgpools.

Migrate disk pools to new media

2007-02-27 Thread Keith Arbogast
We have two TSM servers on AIX, both at 5.3.4.1. We have six disk pools on one server containing 2 1/2 TB data, and seven on the other containing 6 1/2 TB data. We need to migrate the disk pools to new disk media, and retire the old media. The current disk pools are on IBM 4300 SATA. The new di

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread John Underdown
Mark, if you decide on Linux, make sure you have plenty of RAM and set vm.swappiness=0, else TSM will be swapped out to disk and performance will really suffer. BTW, TSM on the IBM OpenPower really rocks. the biggest issue with Linux is support, mainly the lack of it. our environment is; One Ope

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Wallace.Dwight
Do you run your Linux TSM servers on pseries (power4 or power5) or on intel boxes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lehmann, Stefan Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Linux Hello M

Re: Verifying data exists in new Copy Pool

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 27, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Carpenter, Curtis wrote: Ok. But should I have expected the tapes in the old pool to expire? No. A copy storage pool is a "commitment": its contents persist as long as the primary pool files exist. To get rid of an old copy storage pool, perform DELete Volume on

Re: Verifying data exists in new Copy Pool

2007-02-27 Thread Carpenter, Curtis
Ok. But should I have expected the tapes in the old pool to expire? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: February 27, 2007 7:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Verifying data exists in new Copy Pool

Re: Verifying data exists in new Copy Pool

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Sims
Curtis - The simple answer is that if you perform a Backup Stgpool to your new copy storage pool, and it runs to completion without errors, then all desired data is there - no issues. You can use the COPied=Yes specification of Query CONtent to verify that a given primary tape is "mirrored".

Selective backup of directories that are mounted file systems

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Hitchman
Hi, TSM 5.3 I am doing a selective backup like this: dsmc selective /data/XX/ -optfile=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmnotdp.opt -subdir=yes but some of the "directories" under /data/XX are mounted file systems and they do not get backed up. This is the documented behaviour of the -subdir opt

Verifying data exists in new Copy Pool

2007-02-27 Thread Carpenter, Curtis
Hello All. Need some help here. Our Gen_Tape pool currently uses Jaguar tapes and Gen_Tape would normally backup to Gen_Offsite which used 3590 tapes. I recently created a new Gen_Offsite copy pool that uses Jaguar tapes and renamed the old Gen_Offsite copy pool that used the 3590 tapes to Gen_O

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Sims
Somewhat related: Be cautious about choosing IBM's xSeries computers as the basis for your Linux system: We have encountered a high defect rate with these boxes (various models), and less than stellar IBM CE support when they do break. Richard Sims

Re: TSM and Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Lehmann, Stefan
Hello Mark, we are currently using both - Linux and AIX as TSM-Server Platform (5.3.4.2) . There is no difference in stability, both are running well. But handling disk storage (eg database volumes or diskpool volumes) running with aix is a lot easier. LVM coming with AIX is quite easier to