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2008-11-21 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
HI-MB.w i le! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: [ADSM-L] Collocation question Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Collocation question Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:33:30 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plai

Re: Offsite reclamation problem

2008-11-06 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
ther have IBM keep a spare at the depot, instead of paying ongoing maintenance on one more drive. YMMV. [RC] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Levad (641-585-6770) Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Offsite reclamation problem

2008-11-04 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
I've always liked running with an odd number of tape drives to make it "more difficult" to busy them all at once. Plus you have a spare for when one is ACTUALLY down. Bob. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lindsay morris Sent: Tuesday

Re: Reclamation

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
James, This may not address your specific need, but here is how we handle reclaims. We are running reclamations about 12 to 20 hours a day. We check every 15 minutes to see if a any other job is accessing a each storage pool, then check if an admin schedule called "STOP_PROCESSING" (which does

Re: Incorrect volume being mounted for reclamation

2008-09-04 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
checkout libv ltolib2 100562 checklabel=no remove=bulk -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incorrect volume being mounted for reclama

Re: select and script

2008-08-26 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
It's a big hammer, but this is the only thing I've found for this type of thing. It could be made into a separate macro and a series of calls could be made for each percentage level to test. /* Display message for DB utilization */ 90: select pct_utilized from db where pct_utilized > 90 if (rc_n

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
Analyse collocation status of onsite and offsite media in anticipation of their need. If you have nodes with data scattered on too many offsite tapes, it will greatly impact your ability to recover your environment in a timely manner. Review, test, and document your recovery plan. Bob -Orig

Re: backing up mapped drives

2008-07-25 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
A note of caution. Windows has a way of disconnecting your mapped drives when they haven't been accessed for a bit. Most programs will force a reconnect, but I've seen on some systems where the TSM backup expired all the files in an entire filesystem it couldn't access. You may want to run an au

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
We attach the date (as in \\nodename\c$\_20080523) to our old filespaces and set a tickler for deleting them. We will also occasionally rename a filespace to force a full backup if a filespace is becoming too scattered on the offsite media. We set the tickler a little past when the last inactive fi