Re: Question on client side encryption

Hi Bill, I asked that question a while back to TSM support, and got this in response: To trace encryption, add to dsm.opt: tracefile \path\traceit.txt traceflag encrypt In the resulting traceit.txt file, the encryption lines are VERY obvious. I was doing this in an early 5.3 client though, and

Re: TDP for Oracle question.

Yes it is. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Seay, Lisa Sent: Wed 8/15/2007 5:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Cc: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Oracle question. Richard,

Re: TDP for Oracle question.

Richard, The dba would like to know if the last part of the file name, the part after the instance i.e. WSLX in your case, is synonymous with the "piece handle" in Oracle. Thank you, Lisa Seay Technical Analyst I SWATd Systems Support (Storage, WebSphere, AIX Tivoli, d

How to change the tape block size?

Please ignore my question. It was sent under a little duress. Turns out we are actually writing 256k blocks, and this is the desired number. Larry - This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named above. If you are not th

How to change the tape block size?

TSM server 5.3.3 AIX 5.3 Hello list, We are in the process of implementing a new VTL and have run into a little issue. The data is being written to the tapes in 32k blocks, but for optimal performance we need to have the block size increased to 512k blocks. We have not been able to find how thi

Re: Question on client side encryption

On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:56 PM, William Boyer wrote: The question is, if audited internally, or externally, how do we prove data's encrypted. You might try the TSMtape utility, as distributed from: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=529290 in order to physically examine what

Question on client side encryption

I have a client that required certain directories on each file server to be encrypted. We made the changes to the DSM.OPT to enable AES128 and the include.encrypt statemsents and did a selective always backup of those directories so that the active version was an encrypted version and all the oth

Solaris 2.8 TSM 5.3.5.2 and Qualstar XLS library

Folks, I posted a note a couple of days ago on this topic. Still struggling with this a bit. Solaris 2.8, Sun branded FC Adapters, Qualstar XLS, TSM 5.3.5.2, latest IBMtape. We've got the tape drives squared away. We're still unable to get the TSM Device Driver to bind to the library. Anyb

Re: DB@ and SQL Backups

Rich, Data Protection for SQL utilizes TSM policy management. This means that you set up TSM Server management classes according to your needs and assign the various DP/SQL backup types to those management classes. The Data Protection for SQL User's Guide shows you how to set that up. Thanks, De

Re: DB@ and SQL Backups

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:58:25AM -0400, Richard Mochnaczewski wrote: > Hi *, > > Does anyone know if the DB2 API and TDP SQL backups manage their own > expiration like RMAN does i.e RMAN does not follow the rules of the > management class it is bound to ? You manage DB2 backups through the 'db

DB@ and SQL Backups

Hi *, Does anyone know if the DB2 API and TDP SQL backups manage their own expiration like RMAN does i.e RMAN does not follow the rules of the management class it is bound to ? Rich

Re: query help please

VPN is where the problem lies Richard. Not sure why that would be but it is. Internet in and of itself is terrible so could be just that I suppose. In any case mail turns things upside down too so I was wondering if this was all one query you sent. select VOLUME_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, LAST_WRITE

Re: console mode and resource use

You might try dumping the activity log for a period of time and show the size of that log piece, and then explain the amount of data the network can move in the same period. For added convincing tell them how much data the server can back up in that period of time. To drive the point home track t

Re: Policy domain concept

At 09:11 PM 8/14/2007, Wanda Prather wrote: The 2 tricky things, as Paul noted: That was three. :-) Thanks for elaborating.. -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em

Re: query help please

On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: Hello everyone, I am still out of the country and can't connect to work so I need some help please. Here is what I'm looking for. I have te below query that returns a complete list of tapes a node has data on but I am looking for something th

query help please

Hello everyone, I am still out of the country and can't connect to work so I need some help please. Here is what I'm looking for. I have te below query that returns a complete list of tapes a node has data on but I am looking for something that I might add to it that would narrow the search to t