Re: AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB

2009-10-07 Thread Wanda Prather
OK, here's my good news/bad news for the informal poll: Production 6.1 server: New TSM 6.1.2 installation with a wompin powerful Win2K3 box, lots of external SAN disk Running 76 schedules of daily incrementals: Most clients are relatively small Win2K3 servers, all TSM client 6.1 A few Linux client

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Fred Johanson
Gary, This is the copygroup definition: VERE nol VERD NOL RETE 30 RETO 60 Yet we have backups from May '08. ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Bowers [gbow...@itrus.com] Sent:

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
My guess is that you are mounting up the filesystem, and backing up the files directly. The log files in Exchange are probably getting a new name as they are truncated, which means that there are no versions of the files, only a single version that goes from active to inactive when it is deleted

Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Fred Johanson
We use Copy Services instead of the TDP for EXCHANGE. We want to keep backups for 30 days, which does work. The .edb files are daily marked as inactive and roll off as expected. But an examination by Mr. Exchange shows that there are .log files which are never marked as inactive, and, thus, a

Re: Encrypted Server to Server Communications?

2009-10-07 Thread Remco Post
On 7 okt 2009, at 22:54, Taylor, Marc wrote: Good afternoon fellow TSMers, good evening ;-) Does anyone know if you can use ssl for server to server communications in the TSM versions that do SSL (TSM 5.5.x and above, I think)? I was just reading through the 6.1 documentation and it isn't

Encrypted Server to Server Communications?

2009-10-07 Thread Taylor, Marc
Good afternoon fellow TSMers, Does anyone know if you can use ssl for server to server communications in the TSM versions that do SSL (TSM 5.5.x and above, I think)? I was just reading through the 6.1 documentation and it isn't clear to me that it can be done. They talk about backup client to se

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
Ok, so I went and looked it up. The way we used to do this was to kick of the restore with the "tapeprompt" option. This would cause the client to pause before the tape was mounted, and prompt if you wanted to mount the tape. If you select no, then it does not restore anything, and goes on to t

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Brian G. Kunst
Thanks Wanda, that worked. Thanks everyone else too. I'm kick myself now for not just doing a test restore. -- Brian Kunst Storage Administrator UW Technology > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf > Of Wanda Prather > Sent: Wednes

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Remco Post
On 7 okt 2009, at 20:28, Gary Bowers wrote: I don't have the manual pulled up, but I believe that there is a way I was just browsing the publib... to do a preview restore from the client that will prompt for tapes that are required to do the restore. I would tackle it that way. I was exp

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Sims
The very fastest way to find out is to initiate a retrieval to a throwaway output, and look at what tape/tapes is/are mounted: you'll have an answer within seconds. (Never do a Select on a large database Contents table unless you are very desperate.) Richard Sims

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Fred Johanson
Brian, "q noded ucsfscl1_2 stg=poolname" Will give you the potential volume numbers. You can add these as a limiter of your select "and volume_name in (list from q noded)" Fred Johanson TSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Remco Post
Have you considered just doing a restore? If it's just one file, that is definitely the fastest way to find out. Just specify an alternate destination. On 7 okt 2009, at 20:18, Brian G. Kunst wrote: For security reasons, we're trying to identify what tapes a file is residing on. I've found the

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
I don't have the manual pulled up, but I believe that there is a way to do a preview restore from the client that will prompt for tapes that are required to do the restore. I would tackle it that way. Gary Itrus Technologies On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Brian G. Kunst wrote: For security reaso

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Wanda Prather
Instructions here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21114873 On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Brian G. Kunst wrote: > For security reasons, we're trying to identify what tapes a file is > residing on. I've found the object_id of the file we're looking for, > 1524734887, and star

What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Brian G. Kunst
For security reasons, we're trying to identify what tapes a file is residing on. I've found the object_id of the file we're looking for, 1524734887, and started a search of the CONTENTS table using the following sql command: SELECT * FROM CONTENT

Re: Exclude DB2 folders from TSM server backup?

2009-10-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
That's correct. You should exclude all other TSM disk volumes too, like the recovery log and storage pool volumes. TSM List Server Mailbox wrote: Hello... should the TSM client on my TSM server be instructed to exclude the various folders used by the DB2 database? Such as C:\TSMData\DB001\...\*

Exclude DB2 folders from TSM server backup?

2009-10-07 Thread TSM List Server Mailbox
Hello... should the TSM client on my TSM server be instructed to exclude the various folders used by the DB2 database? Such as C:\TSMData\DB001\...\*, or D:\TSMData\ActLog\...\*, or E:\TSMData\ArcLog\...\*. The client is not automatically excluding these, and they do not fail to backup (not locke

[Bug?] Strange PCT_RECLAIM statistic

2009-10-07 Thread Wolfgang J Moeller
TSM server 5.5.2.1 on AIX 5.3 - watch this: == tsm: SM>q pr Process Process Description Status Number - 791 Space ReclamationVolume GU0405 (storage pool L32POOL), Moved F