Number of scratch tapes?

2001-05-04 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode

Backup Sets

2001-04-22 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Can I make a backup set on CD through which I can boot a SUN box and restore it fully, or do the restoration procedure involves installing the SUN box with tivoli and then restore? Ain't there is an automated procedure to do that?? Arshad __

Why diskdirs pools

2001-04-20 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Forgive my naiveness but why one need to take the backup of dirs on disk pools, I read that it makes restores efficiently, but when you dirs pool is copied to tape to offisite, and then when you try to restore it from tape, then having a struture on one tape and restoring data from other tape is n

client schedule

2001-03-26 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Hi there, I have schedule a backup of a domain which contains only single node. The problem am facing is that, if I start dsmc sched in the foreground when the scheduled job is showing pending status (q event * * ) then it will backup the domain, else in actlog it always says that its missed. Ev

Re: What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
. > >rmt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 5.0 GB 8mm Tape Drive >mt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 Tivoli Storage Manager Tape Drive > >Yeah, I really don't have a clue too. > >Salman > > > >From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "ADS

Re: What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
15:59 -0500 >> >>Well, the only other thing, >>if you enter lsdev -Cctape, does the device show up as AVAILABLE to the >>OS? >> >>If it does, then I'm stumped. >> >> >>-Original Message- >>From: Arshad Sheikh [mailto:[EMA

Re: What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
#x27;s wrong here >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:54:14 -0500 > > >my question , why you are configuring 8mm in TSM .. and why to take >backup on >8mm.? > > > > >Arshad Sheikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/21/2001 02:31:19 >PM > >Please

Re: What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
s set to 1 or DRIVES. >Then take the tape OUT of the drive so TSM will see the drive is free. >Then issue your BACKUP DB command. >TSM will put a message in the ACTLOG (or the console, if you have one open) >telling you when to mount a scratch tape. >THEN put the tape in the drive. >

Re: What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
em that there are not scratch volumes available for use >as a >db backup tape. Try the following select at your dsmadmc prompt to >identify how >many scratch tapes are in your library: > >select count(*) as num_scratch_tapes from libvolumes where status='Scratch' > >

What's wrong here

2001-03-21 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Hi there, I am a newbie so forgive my naiveness. I want to setup TSM 3.7 on a box with 8mm drive, so I create a library, drive,devclass,stgpool and label my volume. I also created the domain,policyset,mgmtclass and copypool for backing up files and register the node in it. Now when I tried to do