TSM 5.5 using LANFree backup really "slow"

2009-07-31 Thread Flavio Junior
Hi folks, I'm here, again, asking for help :) More I read, more doubts I have. I'm now implementing a TSM For SAN setup, to performance comparison with my currently LAN backup. I'll describe my scenario below, any doubt's feel free to ask me: - 2 Production nodes using RHEL 5.3 connected to SAN

5.5.3 server upgrade - stuck?

2009-07-31 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am concerned about a 5.5.3 Linux server upgrade. I have upgrade 3-servers with no issues. Now, the last server has been doing the "Upgrading TSM server database" for over 2.5-hours. None of the other upgrades took longer than 20-minutes. Yes this server has lots of objects (over 150M). I hav

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
Oh, so it's stored with the data. My mistake, good to know. No impact on the DB at all! On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Michael Glad wrote: > Skylar Thompson wrote: > >> Wanda Prather wrote: >> >> My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM >>> creates the checksu

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Glad
Skylar Thompson wrote: Wanda Prather wrote: My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM creates the checksum and saves it in the DB. To detect a problem, you then need to run an AUDIT on the volumes. Interesting. Do you know the impact on DB size that it has? -

Fwd: [ADSM-L] Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
I used it for a customer who was implementing remote fibre connections to tape. (This was in a campus environment, so the fibre was less than 25Km, but had to go across a bridge connector of some sort.) We wanted a way to prove that it was working OK, so I turned on CRC check for the remote tapes

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
Wanda Prather wrote: > My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM > creates the checksum and saves it in the DB. To detect a problem, you then > need to run an AUDIT on the volumes. Interesting. Do you know the impact on DB size that it has? -- -- Skylar Thompson (s

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
My understanding of the function is that if you turn on CRCDATA=YES, TSM creates the checksum and saves it in the DB. To detect a problem, you then need to run an AUDIT on the volumes. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Michael Glad wrote: > > A quick question: does TSM 5.

Re: Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
Michael Glad wrote: > A quick question: does TSM 5.5.x checksum data in sequential disk > storage pools > e.g by storing a file checksum either in the database or on-disk thereby > allowing for the > detection of any silent data corruption caused by os/hw issues? Not by default, but you can set CR

Data checksumming?

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Glad
A quick question: does TSM 5.5.x checksum data in sequential disk storage pools e.g by storing a file checksum either in the database or on-disk thereby allowing for the detection of any silent data corruption caused by os/hw issues? -- Michael

Thumbs up/down for a new install for TSM 6.1 on Windows?

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
Looking for opinions... I'm about to install a TSM server for a new customer who has never had TSM before. Very standard TSM config - - Plenty powerful Windows host - 100 mostly windows clients, back up to diskpool, migrate to 3592 tape drives, copy to 3592 tape and vault. - 2 TB of d

Re: TSM 6.1 Installation Problems

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Sims
I think this all gets back to eager anticipation of TSM v6 features being expressed about a year ago, when excitement about a DB2 database was countered by experienced cautions to "beware what you wish for". The "classic" ADSM/TSM database was tailored to the product, and contained efficiencies.

TSM 6.1 Installation Problems

2009-07-31 Thread sajjad
Hi, I have successfully upgraded a customer TSM 5.5.2 to TSM 6.1 with just 18 GB of TSM database. We took backups of about 30nodes and later found the TSM server is stopped because of filesystem full on Linux. I found that both tsm log and archive log file systems were full. In about 5 hours TS

Re: TSM server crash

2009-07-31 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
Have you tried to restart TSM? Does it fail on startup? What errors? TSM Version? OS? Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of ashish sharma Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TS

Re: TSM server crash

2009-07-31 Thread Wanda Prather
If your server is down, I strongly recommend you open a severity 1 call to Tivoli Support. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM, ashish sharma wrote: > Hello, > > MY TSM server has crashed.This is my library Manager also for 8 Client TSM > servers.Can anyone give me the step by step procedure how ca

Re: TSM server crash

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Sims
When posting to a technical mailing list such as this, include details in your postings. The TSM Problem Determination Guide manual a solid starting point for pursuing problems, in conjunction with the Administration Guide manual. Richard Sims

Re: server to server authentication

2009-07-31 Thread Gerald Michalak
You need to issue the"help def server" command and look at the 2nd syntax, for virtual volumes, it uses a different syntax for setting passwords. Gerald Michalak TSM - Certified V5 Administrator "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/31/2009 10:03:57 AM: > I just tried, and it did not help

TSM server crash

2009-07-31 Thread ashish sharma
Hello, MY TSM server has crashed.This is my library Manager also for 8 Client TSM servers.Can anyone give me the step by step procedure how can i recover this server to original condition. -- Best Regards Ashish Sharma ST Microelectronics Ltd. 919717003853

Re: server to server authentication

2009-07-31 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Hmmm...you set the same passwords for server communication on both servers involved, crossdefined the servers during definition, updated the type=server "node" for the source server on the destination server using the password you set, updated and forcesynced the "server" passwords on both the sour

Re: server to server authentication

2009-07-31 Thread Matthew Large
I just tried, and it did not help - they are still experiencing authentication problems. Thanks though On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Tchuise, Bertaut < btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com> wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > Have you tried using the forcesync=yes parameter with the upd server > command? > >

Re: server to server authentication

2009-07-31 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Hello Matthew, Have you tried using the forcesync=yes parameter with the upd server command? Thanks. BERTAUT TCHUISE Storage Support Administrator Legg Mason Technology Services *410-580-7032 btchu...@leggmason.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.mari

server to server authentication

2009-07-31 Thread Matthew Large
Hi, W2k3 TSM 5.5.0.0 server * 2 Copy storage pools of FILE deviceclasses with a devtype of SERVER, on each server, using each other as a copy destination When I run space reclaim on one of these pools, hundreds of ANR4373E Session rejected by target server reason: Authentication Failure I hav

TDP Domino Linux Config

2009-07-31 Thread Yudi Darmadi
Dear TSM-ers, I have a Domino Linux Server. Try to backup using TDP. Installation process works just fine. But when i configure the tdp using dominstall , the following error occurs: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Lotus Domino Version 5, Release 5, Level 2.0 (C) Copyrig