Re: Redbooks for TSM 6.X or 7.X

2014-03-25 Thread Ben Bullock
LOL -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redbooks for TSM 6.X or 7.X It seems IBM has halted the production of TSM redbooks.

Re: DSMADMC login slow on TSM 6.3 update

2013-12-18 Thread Ben Bullock
resolve on AIX. Dmitry On 18.12.2013 21:30, Ben Bullock wrote: > I was just going to add some notes here for folks with this similar problem: > > On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 21:47 -0500, Spearman, Wayne wrote: > >> Hello, >> We have just installed TSM 6.3 on AIX 7. We are seeing a s

DSMADMC login slow on TSM 6.3 update

2013-12-18 Thread Ben Bullock
I was just going to add some notes here for folks with this similar problem: On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 21:47 -0500, Spearman, Wayne wrote: > Hello, > We have just installed TSM 6.3 on AIX 7. We are seeing a serious > slowness when we login to TSM with DSMADMC on AIX. The ID prompt comes > up fast eno

Re: SQL query in v6 server

2013-11-20 Thread Ben Bullock
I recently upgraded the server from 5.5 to 6.3.4 and am also working at changing out the failing scripts. Having to add a lot of cast statements to get the column formatting to be nicely formatted. The date arithmetic is also the one that has me the most stymied. I have used the, "cast((curre

Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Bullock
m: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Ben Bullock [bbull...@bcidaho.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold That sounds like a great RFE, one I could have used a couple times in the past. How

Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Bullock
That sounds like a great RFE, one I could have used a couple times in the past. How can we "vote" on this? I'm not familiar with how to do that with IBM RFEs. Thanks, Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS]

Re: Equating current 3494 configuration to TS3500

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Bullock
Ya, I had to look it up too/ ;-) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Canan Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Equating current 3494 configuration to TS3500 And now I've learne

Re: Odd client behavior

2012-10-18 Thread Ben Bullock
When we see that symptom, it typically means that some Windows admin has changed the ACLs on files and pushed it down to all the subfolders. Typically they are changing permissions back and forth trying to resolve some issue without realizing that they are causing the TSM server to backup the f

Re: Actual TSM client storage utilization using Data Domain

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Bullock
I have found the need to hunt down some non-compressible/dedupable data is landing on the DD appliance. I use this process, it isn't quick or easy, but it can point you to the client(s). On the TSM server, do a "q dev f=d" and look for the sequential devices you have defined on the DD appliance

Re: Select or Query help

2012-07-12 Thread Ben Bullock
It looks like a select from the database. To make my best guess, I would think it was going against the backup table and selecting the BACKUP_DATE, HL_NAME & LL_NAME. tsm: ADSM>run q_columns backups Table backups REMARKS -- -- NODE_N

Re: AIX DST patch: anyone else apply?

2012-03-06 Thread Ben Bullock
Hmm, this is the first I've heard about a new DST issue. Anybody have an APAR or a link to more information? Thanks, Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARI

Re: Using Datadomain for replication

2011-12-09 Thread Ben Bullock
I do have a setup as you describe, but my TSM servers are AIX hosts using NFS mounts to the DDR. In my situation, I just NFS mount up the second DataDomain under the same mount points and the TSM server has no idea that it's from a different DataDomain. Not sure how you would do it with a CIF

Re: lanfree 6.3 using proxy option

2011-11-29 Thread Ben Bullock
Lol... telling him, "Works very well" doesn’t exactly help him with the steps on how to set it up. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlo Zanelli Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [AD

Re: Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Bullock
clue about the exact amount of objects in that database. Regards Daniel Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -----"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" skrev: - Till: AD

Re: Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Bullock
Ok, I have been following this thread with some interest, since I have a dedupe appliance. From the conversation, I've come to the conclusion that Daniel is a very cautious administrator who would like to eliminate any risk of data loss. Don't we all, it's a noble and worthwhile endeavor. All th

Re: TSM 6.2.2. restore from Data Domain 880

2011-08-26 Thread Ben Bullock
. If you can comment on how you addressed the issues it would be much appreciated. Thanks ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 4:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM

Re: TSM 6.2.2. restore from Data Domain 880

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Bullock
We are doing the same thing here, although with older versions of TSM: TSM v 5.5.5.0 on AIX6.1. We dump the TSM DB to a DD690, replicate to a DD580 at a DR site. Then we kick off a script to restore the DB to a standby TSM server at the DR site. In testing we did fulls, and fulls+incr and commit

Re: Exchange Legacy 2007 to VSS 2010 backup performance

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Bullock
impact to production databases. Thanks, Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 08/25/2011 12:24:42 PM: >> From: Ben Bullock >> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu >> Date: 08/25/2011 03:37 PM >> Subject: Re: Exchange Leg

Re: Exchange Legacy 2007 to VSS 2010 backup performance

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Bullock
We recently moved from Exchange 2007 to 2010 on our environment. Just for a reference, we have about 3.3 TB of exchange data. Our TSM server is v5.5.5.0 running on AIX 6.1. The exchange servers have v6.1.3.0 of the TDP client, v6.2.2.0 of the BA client, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP1.

Re: checkout libvol on 3584 - says slots are full

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Bullock
Could be the sensor for the IO slot still thinks the door is open. Might try opening it and closing it to see if it clears. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MA

Re: tsm and data domain

2011-06-17 Thread Ben Bullock
Good discussion. We also use a DD690 onsite and replicate to 2 DD580's at remove sites. We are not using the VTL function, just mounting them up NFS to our AIX TSM server (v5.5). NFS performance is good enough for us to not need the extra expense of the VTL functions. We are usi

Re: TDP for Mail and Exchange 2010

2011-05-18 Thread Ben Bullock
. They can gather a Data Protection for Exchange and TSM API trace and find out what is going wrong pretty quickly. Thanks, Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/17/2011 10:38:28 AM: >> From: Ben Bullock >> To: ADS

TDP for Mail and Exchange 2010

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Bullock
Folks, I have a question about TDP for Mail. I have been doing it on Exchange 2007 with the legacy backups for a long time with no problems. We are migrating to Exchange 2010 and now you have to back it up using VSS. I must say, this is a complicated procedure, as I found other folks having i

Re: Windows Cluster migration/update and TSM

2011-02-04 Thread Ben Bullock
The clustering on 2008 has changed significantly, so you are going to need to change things around. I found this presentation very helpful in getting my mind wrapped around the steps and TSM components needing to be installed so you can use the CAD daemon on all instances of TSM on the cluster

TSM config for Windows 2008 R2 cluster

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Bullock
Amazingly enough, I have avoided having to maintain TSM clients on Windows clusters... until now. We have a new Win2008 R2 cluster (actually a Microsoft Storage Server 2008 appliance). Does anybody have some good links or notes on how to configure TSM for W2008 clusters? The Tivoli websites se

Re: De-dup ratio's

2010-11-12 Thread Ben Bullock
I know this was aimed at Amos, but I thought I would pipe in. Our DataDomain has NOT got the VTL option and it is configured as FILE with 50GB files: DeviceDevice Storage DeviceFormat Est/Max Mount Class AccessPool Type

Re: De-dup ratio's

2010-11-12 Thread Ben Bullock
We have TSM 5.4, about 700 clients, mostly Windows. Largest users are SQL dumps, Sybase dumps and Exchange. Using DataDomain Appliance. Latest numbers (after 2 years of use) show 11 to 1 compression. Note however, early on in our implementation, we discovered a few clients with a large volume

Re: TSM 6.2 question

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Bullock
" it runs like a spotted ape!". I'm not familiar with that saying. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Side Effects of Removing Admins

2010-07-08 Thread Ben Bullock
The side effect of removing admins is that any administrative schedule last touched by them will not be run if their account is removed. Run the command "q sched type=admin f=d" and look at the "Last updated by (administrator)" field. Make sure that the last admin to touch it is not the ones you

Re: Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM client file system??

2010-05-27 Thread Ben Bullock
I have had that problem also in the past and found no suitable way to get around it. We considered just not backing up the ACLs, but that was deemed unacceptable, so we just had to grin and bear it. As I understand it, the ACLs are actually part of the Windows files, so there is no way to separ

Re: TDP for Exch Mailbox Restore

2010-05-04 Thread Ben Bullock
But there are some prereqs, especially if the exchange server is on 2008. This is from the help file on the 6.1.1 TDP client itself Restoring a mailbox (or mailbox items) on Exchange Server 2007 This procedure describes how to restore a mailbox or items from a mailbox on Exchange Server 2007. R

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

2010-04-19 Thread Ben Bullock
I have seen something like this before. I would guess that according to the log, that something is corrupt in '/public/proval-old' . Perhaps a bad inode, invalid file name or just plain corrupt file. I would do some 'ls -l' in and around that directory looking for a bad file. TSM backups are gr

Re: How are primary sequential storage pools allocated?

2010-04-09 Thread Ben Bullock
If collocation is set to group, but you have no members in any groups, the default behavior is that every node is its own group, hence, every node get's its own tape. For this reason, if you have collocation by group set, if you add new nodes, you need to add them to a group otherwise over tim

Re: Select Total Tapes X Collocation Group

2010-03-18 Thread Ben Bullock
You might look at the "q nodedata" command, as you can define the collocation group as an option -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Anderson Douglas da Silva Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subj

Re: TSM Clients Licenses and CPUs ?

2010-03-18 Thread Ben Bullock
Hmm, it looks like the CPU2TSM might be the tool I need to do our license count in October. I can't tell from the website, how much is just the CPU2TSM tool? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Thursda

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Bullock
I'll chime in here too. We are using it in a similar way to Steven (non-VTL, NFS mount to AIX/TSM server). We are getting about 10:1 compression overall and the offsite replication is a big plus. TSM says it backs up about 3TB/night, and after dedupe/compression we keep our offsite DD typical

Re: Problems receiving E-Mails.

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Bullock
Yes, there is a problem, it's called an addiction to the ADSM-listserv. You should seek counseling ;-) Jk. It seems to be working for me, as I got your message. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jimmy Furlong Sent: Friday, Nov

Re: Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 TSM client support

2009-11-04 Thread Ben Bullock
THANKS Andy, I have been anxiously been waiting for this since our windows folks are rapidly deploying 2008 R2 servers. The previous clients work OK on the mapped drives, but were unable to get the new "systemstate" or whatever it is called now. Ben -Original Message- From: A

Re: DROBOPRO Storage Device

2009-11-04 Thread Ben Bullock
I have a little exposure in that one of the managers bought one because it was cheap and his friend told him it was great. He told us to put it into the enterprise. We played with it for a couple weeks and then sent it back. This may not be the gospel truth, but after multiple c

Re: Dedupe

2009-06-25 Thread Ben Bullock
migrate to tape ? Are you sending a specific subset of data to the DD ? Or everything ? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:55 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Dedupe We have a

Re: Dedupe

2009-06-25 Thread Ben Bullock
We have a couple of DataDomain 580s here. If you look in the archives you will find my comments on the rate of compression we are getting and my impressions. As far as the "putting all your eggs in one basket" scenario, that always is the worst case scenario. In our situation, we have been using

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Bullock
www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD We use a DD580 on our TSM servers. We u

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Bullock
We use a DD580 on our TSM servers. We use a device type of "FILE" and set it to a 50GB file size. Our TSM server is on AIX, so we use an NFS mount for the storage pools on the DD. It works well, we can get very good throughput over the 1GB NIC to the DD. If your environment is larger and you nee

Re: IBM TS3310 vs IBM TS3200

2008-10-22 Thread Ben Bullock
We just replaced our 3584 with a 3200. We also run TSM on AIX. The reason for the change was to go from LTO2 to LTO4 to get more capacity and the hardware Encryption. Working great so far (1 month in service). We have it all plugged into 2Gb FC switches, so we are not getting the 4Gb out of the

Re: ANS5013E Not enough memory for backup operation

2008-10-09 Thread Ben Bullock
That first error about DRM can be easily resolved by opening that entry using 'regedit' and closing it without making any changes. Regedit will correct it by itself. I have to do that simple trick about every time I upgrade/install the TSM client lately. Search through the archives to ge

Re: LTO4 encryption in an I2000?

2008-08-12 Thread Ben Bullock
I thought I read that to use TSM application encryption you had to have either an IBM or HP LT04 tape drive. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Bullock
Ya I noticed that also when I went to order it in Passport. He-he. If the software is "free" and "required", why would they care about how many PVUs it requires? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, Augus

Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!

2008-08-04 Thread Ben Bullock
Indeed it sounds like it, but where? I don't see it on my passport advantage login? I guess I'm not "entitled" to use the tool that is "required" to keep track of my TSM licenses? Del or Andy, can you shed any light on this new tool and how we are supposed to get it? Thanks, Ben -Origin

TSM licensing question.

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Bullock
I am once again burdened with the idiocy that is TSM licensing with all the manual CPU determining, core counting & weighted PVU madness that's involved. Just as a favor to others on the list, here are a few links that are helpful in this endeavor: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/passport

Re: Expire Inventory

2008-06-17 Thread Ben Bullock
It runs in the same order as the "q auditocc" output, which is the order that they were registered on the server. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sung Lee Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [AD

Re: Journal Engine install on Windows

2008-05-07 Thread Ben Bullock
Once you install the Journaling service, the TSM server will have to go through one "old" backup of the host to get things started. This does not mean a FULL backup, it just needs to do a regular incremental where it must scan every item in the directory. So it means one more LONG backup to complet

Re: TSM being abandoned? [--]

2008-04-18 Thread Ben Bullock
LOL sounds about right. At least that's more direct than the current method ;-) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandone

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Bullock
=file on an NFS mounted DD volume. Filesystem fragmentation is an issue when using devclass=file on most filesystems that I'm aware of. How long have you been running this way on the DD? At 06:22 PM 2/26/2008, Ben Bullock wrote: >In the "best practices" document from DataDomai

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Ben, First, thanks for sharing your experiences. Very enlightening. I'm curious why you decided to use devclass=file volumes, instead of using the DD580 as a VTL. It does have a VTL personality, doesn't it? At 05:39 PM 2/26/2008, Ben Bullock wrote: >TSM config - Easy. Created so

Re: TSM dream setup

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Ok, I thought I would reply back here about our experience in implementing a DataDomain 580 appliance into our TSM environment. Setup - Easy. Put it on the network and NFS mounted it to our AIX/TSM server. TSM config - Easy. Created some "FILE" device classes and pointed them to the NFS mount poi

Re: W2003 backup hangs

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Bullock
What kind of NIC? If it is host with a Broadcom Gigabit Extreme II card, it might be an issue with the driver/firmware/settings. Search the old postings and you will find instructions. I had a couple of hosts that were locking up and the suggested fixes worked. Ben -Original Message- F

Re: How are we doing?

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Bullock
Wow, I'd love to get together with you, but I'm not sure I am free that week. ;-) Sorry, it is Friday, I couldn't resist. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: non tech question about tsm

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Bullock
Micron Technology. Employs about 15,000 worldwide, has multiple TSM servers in Idaho, Virginia, California, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Puerto Rico, China & UK. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:33

Re: unsubscribe

2008-02-04 Thread Ben Bullock
just ignore messages like this, it is by folks who are sending their UNSUBSCRIBE message to the wrong e-mail. I would have expected your "spider sense" would be tingling to tell you that. Get it? "Peter Parker"? Aka Spiderman? Ok, I'm sure he has heard that a few times in his life and now w

Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Bullock
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting Is tsm manager from bacada? thx, JP On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Ben Bullock wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:19:55 -0700 > From: Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" &

Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Bullock
We use TSMMANAGER. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting > My question is: What tools are yo

Re: ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request form memory allocation[-UNSECURE-]

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Bullock
The TSM client must receive a list of files for each filesystem before it can start backing up. It looks like this host got about 1.5 million files of the listing and then ran out of memory. One way to fix this would be to turn on Journalled backups if possible on your system. Either that or add m

Re: Data Deduplication[-UNSECURE-]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Bullock
You are right, if client compression is turned on, you will get next to no compression. In the DataDomain best practices for TSM documentation, they say to have client compression turned off for the DD appliance to do its thing. We don't have client compression turned on because w

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Bullock
As with all questions like this, the answer is "it depends". It depends on the make-up of your data (# of DB full dumps, % of DB dumps to filesystem data, % of change on the client, etc) It depends on the vendor of DeDupe you are using. FWIW, I am about to replace a 100TB of LTO tape with a Data

Re: TSM admin password expired

2008-01-22 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores?

2008-01-22 Thread Ben Bullock
I agree with Nick. If you can find some disk space (even NFS mounted) that you can put on the TSM server, you can do a "move nodedata" of the nodes you will be restoring to this diskpool and get it all queued up in advance so the restores will happen quicker. Good luck. -Original Message---

Windows Client question...

2008-01-16 Thread Ben Bullock
Howdy, I recently switched jobs and now am managing TSM in a mostly Windows environment (instead of the Unix world where I am comfortable). A new challenge... anyways On the Windows TSM client, there is the option to install the "Open file support" and the "Image Backup" support. Does eve

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: Is there a simple way to test a tape drive?

2007-11-30 Thread Ben Bullock
That is the way I do it too. Take all drives offline (or atleast the ones that are not currently in use) and then do something like a "move data" to get it exercised. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Friday, Nove

Re: TSM Upgrade to version 5.4

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Bullock
version 5.4 I figured there were enough "old timers" on this list to figure out I was/am a M(ain) F(ramer) Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 11/08/2007 02:34 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MAR

Re: TSM Upgrade to version 5.4

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: TCP/IP Name

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: TCP/IP Name

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Bullock
The next time a host connects and is using that nodename, the TSM server will automatically notice the change and update the IP, etc. I know no way of updating it other than having the node connect for the first time. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Just to agree with John. We find that we are upgrading tape technologies about ever 5 years, the last jump was from 3590 to 3592 tapes. As he stated, TSM makes it very easy to add the new devices and set up the hierarchy of the storage pools to get it ready to go. Then some "move data" scripts to

Re: Sropping expiration for specific clients

2007-10-22 Thread Ben Bullock
Been there, done that. There is no way to stop expiration for only some nodes. It is either all or nothing. A few options: - export the data on the clients you do NOT want to expire. That would keep them on their own, but you would need to import it with relative dates when you wanted to look at

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Solaris10 and ZFS filesystems

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Bullock
Just to add some notes. I saw this posting and thought that we were backing up zfs filesystems on Solaris 10. I took a look around and tested some restores and things seemed to be working ok: admin-srv385[47]/ # dsmc q file IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface

Re: backups on Microsoft Sharepoint

2007-10-05 Thread Ben Bullock
IBM/Tivoli has a new product that backs up Sharepoint. We have evaluated it. Please see the archives of this listserv for the discussion about it. Thanks, Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 7

Re: help, cannot restore files...

2007-10-01 Thread Ben Bullock
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Re: help, cannot restore files...

2007-10-01 Thread Ben Bullock
Here is a guess Check for links in the directory path. TSM will not follow links by default. Usually when I can't see something down a path, there ends up being a link (hard or soft) in the path. Once you find the ~real~ location of the data you should be able to restore it. Ben -Original

Re: Licensing question

2007-09-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Ya, we were looking at perhaps purchasing a bunch of licenses to convert a site from Veritas Netbackup to TSM and the number is shocking. Ours come in somewhere a little above $2000 per host on average. Here is the basic CPU configuration of these 291 server-class machines. MFG Server CPU

Re: Object counts per node

2007-09-13 Thread Ben Bullock
Here is a simple one I created. It counts all the files by node. The one downside is that if the file is replicated in a copypool it counts it twice. Someone might be able to help write around that if needed: tsm: TSMSERVX>q script FILE_COUNT f=d Name: FILE_COUNT

Re: Request advice on moving from IBM 3494 Library

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Bullock
To echo that, used 3494 tape libraries are going for cheap these days. We recently bought a used one that had 7 frames and 5 new TS1120 tape drives for under 100K. That's somewhere between 660TB and 1.8PB for $100K. For this case where we have about 8TB a day of seldom accessed archives that we h

Re: Upgrading atape and atldd

2007-09-06 Thread Ben Bullock
I've always followed their docs and deleted, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. It is not too much of a problem other than sometimes you need to rename the RMT device names (especially if you are using FC multipathing to the drives.) I'd stick with the tried and true. Ben -Original Mes

Re: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Bullock
Hmm, an interesting problem. Could be very difficult if you tried to add up all of the active files on a host to get to that number Hmmm, you could get a pretty good ballpark number this way perhaps I am assuming that you would want to restore the servers to the time of the last b

Re: Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Bullock
LOL, you crack me up Kelly. All very good advice. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Insight into improving restores needed Your data characte

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Ben Bullock
Preston, I believe it depends on the de-dupe technology being used. We have started to play with the NetApp iSIS (dedupe product) and at least in their case they don't look at every block coming into the host. Their documentation is lacking, but from what we have been able to deduce, it s

Re: TDP for Oracle question.

2007-08-03 Thread Ben Bullock
Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for Oracle question. I have a question about the TDP for Oracle product. Is there a way to have the RMAN command bind the ora

TDP for Oracle question.

2007-08-03 Thread Ben Bullock
I have a question about the TDP for Oracle product. Is there a way to have the RMAN command bind the oracle backups to a specific management class (so it can go to a different storagepool)? To this point we have a separate domain for the TDP clients and only have the 1 required de

TDP for SharePoint evaluation follow up

2007-08-03 Thread Ben Bullock
Folks, I was reminded that I promised to report on our company's evaluation of the TDP for SharePoint evaluation. Executive Summary: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-sharepoint/ Cost structure is similar to other TDP products. TSM server

Re: netapp backup taking too long

2007-07-09 Thread Ben Bullock
What about the Full-incr-incr-incr...FULL methodology of the NDMP protocol? Won't you find yourself backing up and keeping identical files over and over again? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Monday, July 09

Re: Retrieve issue in nearly full filesystem - any ideas?

2007-06-26 Thread Ben Bullock
de different might be hurting me here? Thanks, David Mc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: 26 June 2007 17:44 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Retrieve issue in nearly full filesystem - any ideas? Yikes, when

Re: Retrieve issue in nearly full filesystem - any ideas?

2007-06-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Yikes, when you run a 2.5GB filesystem within 7MB of full, you really like to live on the edge. With only 7 MB of wiggle room, I'm thinking that you might be running into perhaps some differences on the block size of the VX volumes or filesystems. If they were not created with exactly the same at

Re: Antwort: Re: Lost in TSM licensing

2007-06-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Is this still the latest schema about which cores/CPUs cost how many licenses? IBM's licensing policy is summarized below: Number of licenses

Re: Poor TSM server performance on Sun.

2007-06-25 Thread Ben Bullock
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Poor TSM server performance on Sun. Folks, I have a TSM server running on a Sun host running SOL 9, 16GB RAM, and TSM 5.3

Re: MS SharePoint backup

2007-06-21 Thread Ben Bullock
We have been backing up our SharePoint sites with the normal TSM BA client, but were pretty confident we could never restore it, as all the SharePoint parts and pieces would not be in sync. TDP for SharePoint is brand spanking new, in fact our IBM contacts had to hunt high and low to figure out w

Re: IBM3494 Question

2007-06-20 Thread Ben Bullock
Here is a list of the known categories. It is likely that 0080 has been set by another process, like a TSM server. Categories are in HEX, so 0080 would be "50" decimal. Do you have a TSM server private or scratch category set to 50? The tape category is in th

Re: one node with 3 diff schedules possible?

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Bullock
If they are all connecting to the TSM server using the same node name, you can only have one scheduled event run at a time, so they could not overlap. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Perla Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:33 PM To:

Re: Question for you

2007-05-22 Thread Ben Bullock
AMEN, Hallelujah I have over 1000 clients just at my site and multiple sites around the world that I have to do this on. If Tivoli wants to change it's licensing schema to something like: per/client, or nodes, or CPUs, or GB, or by "number of angels that can fit on the head of a pin", they NE

Re: Poor TSM server performance on Sun.

2007-05-21 Thread Ben Bullock
In this case, the iSCSI devices are being used as Raw devices, not filesystems, so filesystem bottlenecks would not be the issue. Thanks for the brainstorming though. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Sunday, M

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