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Re: Any one else just get unsolicited commercial email today?

Yes. But one time back when I did ask for some product info from this company. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Any one else just get unsolicited c

Restore syntax

I have a directory I need to restore as of a given date on an AIX system but I need to restore it to a different system and different directory. Can someone please help me with the syntax? /usr/bin/dsmc -user=administrator -pass=administratorpassword restore -pitdate=05/16/2005 -subdir=yes /usr/

Re: Multiple TSM servers and their databases

If not clustered, they have separate databases and configured separately. One owns the library to the extent that it controls the robot. At least that is my understanding. I haven't done it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Eva

LTO-1 speeds

Is there a doc somewhere that I should go through to ensure that I am getting all the performance I can from my LTO-1 SCSI attached tape drives? I am on windows 2003 as a server, attached with dual port PCI SCSI cards. TSM 4.2.3.1 Thanks ... JC

Re: diskpool sizing formula ?

IMHO, minimum disk pool size is 3 to 5 times the daily change rate. That is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM; hopefully you can get lots more than that. If you don't know the daily change rate, try 5% of data volume for normal files. It will probably be closer to 2%. Now extrapolate for the data growth rate

Re: empty storage pool

I love this answer :) ... Yes. It deletes the data from the volume, and the database/catalog entries that point to it, then it deletes the volume from the database/catalog. If it is a disk volume, it must be removed by an external method (like rm /xxx/yyy/zzz.vol ) or some such thing, if I remembe

Re: restore windows files to mac

My understanding is that restores must be done to 'similar file systems'. Basically any UNIX type system can restore to any other UNIX like file system, Windows to Windows too. Crossing architectures is problematic. You might try using a tar type program to tar, ftp, then un-tar. Does that keep

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

Paul, Yes, We've noticed this. Our solutions: * Start backups when users have supposedly gone home. * Don't do 'hot backups'. Have the application export its own backup to a flat file (preferably on another file system), then backup up the flat file. * Just backup what you MUST daily, then

Exchange 2003 restore to another server. HELP!

I am using the TDP for Exchange GUI, and restoring to a similar leveled version of Exchange on the same base OS. I get the following manual from the client: 04/25/2005 17:57:03 ACN5798E MS Exchange API HRESERESTOREADDDATABASE() failed with HRESULT: 0xc7fe1f42 - Database not found. 04/25/2005 17:57

Exchange restore failing

Ok, I am a little lost. We did restores of Exchange 5.5 Ok. Now I need to restore an Exchange 2003 mail store to a different exchange 2003 server. Does anyone have a cookbook (or even a nice way to say RTFM and I will be glad to read the fine manual, but what I have read sofar, leaves me cold.)

Tapes needed for a restore?

I need to restore an exchange server. How can I find what tapes are needed to restore a particular server? I tried doing a restore and looking in the servers activity log, but that yielded no fruit. Suggestions please!

Re: Compatibility LTO2/LTO3

My understanding is on LTO, that they should be able to read and write down one level of LTO. This will usually entail a performance hit too, but at least it should work. As far as documentation... Sorry, I don't remember where I go it. -Original Message- Hi TSMers, We have a custome

Re: Restore asking for copypool tape

I have found that during a restore, if the data is not in the library, you are asked for both, what should be the onsite tapedata volumes and the offsite copypool volumes for the same file(s) to be restored. Our library is to small, so we have some local tapedata volumes out of the library. When

What tapes?

Normally, when we do restores and tapes are not available I get some hint in the server activity log as to what tapes need to be put in the library to do the restore (yes, our library is to small and I must remove tapes to make room for others). Today we are trying to do a restore of an Exchange m

Reserved tape drives

TSM server 4.1.3 on Windows 2K, 6 LTO-1 SCSI attached with IBM3583 library. We have occasionally some drives that show up as 'Reserved'. No particular drive either. Once I have seen it clear that status on its own, but a couple of times we have had to stop and restart the TSM server to get it to

SUMMARY: Tape volume is empty but not

County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Coats, Jack How do I empty a tape volume when: Q content volumeID Shows no content Q vol volumeID Shows 0.0 percent full

Tape volume is empty but not

How do I empty a tape volume when: Q content volumeID Shows no content Q vol volumeID Shows 0.0 percent full MOVE DATA volumeID Says volume contains no data Delete vol volumeID Says volume still contains data I am g

Re: how to redirect output in tsm to a file

Liu, Andrew is right. There is no way I have found to redirect anything using the GUI interface to a file. When I really need a file of the results (in my windows environment) build a batch file, and make sure and pipe the results to text files, or the dsmc command usually allows a -outfile: op

TSM Certification

Where can I find the certification requirements for TSM? Are there some study guides available? I've been doing this several years now, and folks still seem to want certifications, so I guess I need to break down and get certified. Any suggestions or comments?

SUMMARY: DR Restore

The DB Restore is running now. I did figure it out before I received this response, and this was the issue. I put the correct slot number in the device config file and it worked. I thought I had done that before, but starting over sometimes helps. Thanks to Sue Lee and Richard Sims for their re

DR Restore

I am using DRM, with Windows 2000 Server, TSM 4.3, Library is IBM3583-L16 with 6 LTO-1 drives, 60 slots, and 12 slot door. I run the script to rebuild the DB and logs, and all goes well. When I issue the command to actually restore the database, I get an IO error on the library. I modified

Re: TSM 5.3 install

I want to download 5.3, but lost my link to the FTP site. Could I bother someone to help me refresh my linklist? ... TIA, Jack

Re: Does an inactive client need a licence

I thought that it was interesting too, that when I asked our Tivoli rep and he bounced it up to licensing, the person there said: if you use Intel Hyper-Threading, Windows reports having two processors even though there is only one physical processor, and it is licensed as a single (1) processor. .

Re: How to get a tape drive to stream?

this like memory / cpu / disk IO? Some test to see if the TSM server is the bottle neck could be things like directly writing a large file to tape (from outside TSM). Last, but not least. Why version 4.3? Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL P

How to get a tape drive to stream?

But does someone have a pointer to some 'tips & tricks' or FAQ to help me get these LTO tape drives streaming with TSM on Windows 2000? The drives seem to be doing about 3MB/sec per drive, no matter what is going on in the server. This is about the right speed for stop/start programmed I/O pro

Re: Why do database restores take so long?

I did a restore of our database last Monday. It took about 5.5 hours for 60G with nothing else running on the server, with an LTO-1 tape drive, SCSI attached, to our IBM 3583 library. This is in a Windows2000 environment, but even at that, this is VERY slow. The daily full backup of the database

Re: Server Down [Summary]

I could not get a good handle on it, so I spent all day doing a DR restore (really got started about noon, DB was restored by 5PM, clients could connect by 6) but most of the clients needed the TSM client Scheduler service (windows) to be restarted on each client. It does seem that my 13G log spac

Re: Monitoring lifecycle of tapes in a 3494 library?

I would like to know how also. I have not found a way with DRM, or in native TSM. This is because when a tape is made 'scratch', it looses all the related information about the tape. I would like to keep data so I can know how long it is used (time, and read/write cycles), current read errors, w

Re: Server Down

I just ordered tapes from IronMountain ... Just the way I wanted to spend another company holiday. ... Last time this happened it was new years 2004. Thanks for confirming my idea of what needs to be done. .. Jack -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names

Also, in the setup section of your 3583, you must tell it to use 'extended' or 'enhanced' label or barcode checking. Sorry I don't remember where or exactly what, but I do remember we had to set that on our 3583. We set ours up 'wrong' after an upgrade, and had to change it and re-inventory our l

Re: Server Down

Curtis, Thank you for reminding me to run the server from the command line. The error message during log processin at the end is: ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId<0> Run-time assertion failed: "CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP->updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN", Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. Ha

Server Down

I have an old 4.2.3.1 TSM server on Windows 2000 It stopped running this morning/last night. There is nothing in the event logs. I try to start the server service, and it runs for a few minutes, then goes away. How can I turn on event logging? Does anyone have a URL to the Windows TS

Re: DNS Lookups

I either enter the hostname and IP into the hosts file or in the dsm.opt file specify the servers IP address rather than a host name. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: DNS L

Re: TSM server web administration console on win2k

http://servername:1580 or http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1580 ( where the xxx is the server address ) -Original Message- From: Luc Beaudoin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM server web administration console on win2k Hi all

Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up?

We have a much smaller environment, 150 servers, 8TB data, including 2 exchange servers. Mainly windows. One IBM3583 library (6 LTO-1 drives, 60 slots, all SCSI), one tsm server. Library is about half the size we need (in slots and drives). I am supposed to be half time on backup, half time on

Journaling and clients hanging

I am using Windows back on a TSM 4.2.1.3 system and need to upgrade. Window on both the server and clients (mainly Win2K and Win2003) I found that the TSM windows client at 5.1.6 causes me various problems when I use the journaling. The biggest problem is it at times hangs the TSM scheduler ru

Re: Tape Scratch list

TSM does not monitor scratch tapes. If you use DRM, it will help handle recovering offsite tapes that are empty. I keep a drawer of scratch tapes. Whenever a tape is 'pending' (I set 3 days for my onsite tape pool, so I can pull and review any tape errors, and I review tapes coming back from off

Database Free Space

My database backup (TSM 4.3.1 on Windows 2000) is running VERY slowly. Taking about 4.5 to 5 hours now. LOGS:: Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB) (MB) (MB)

Re: LTO Media

Graham, I sympathize with your plight of trying to cut expenses. We too started off using only IBM media. Great media, least problems of any I have used. Some of the original tapes we purchased (over 3 years ago) are still in production with no problems. I tried some of many br

Re: Remote Backups....

Monte, We do about 130 servers, about 40 are single servers at the other end of t1 lines in remote offices. The T1's also carry VOIP for those offices. The daily change rate on some is high, some are low. It does help us when we use the TSM journal option. Especially if you have a high number

Size of aggrigated files - How can it be controlled?

On my little windows TSM server (with 2G of RAM), I am being killed by 12 to 19 GIGABYTE files. There are some that 'naturally' come from our Exchange servers (4 per day). But there seem to be to many of them for that to be the only source. Knowing my user data, thinking that these are really

Canceling Migrations

Does someone have a script (Unix is ok, Windows is preferred) that can cancel currently running migrations? My script doesn't seem to work just right. Any suggestions (or a script that works for you :-) ) would really help! Here is my attempt: @Echo Off REM c:\SBIB\TSMKillReclaimation.c

Re: Checkin / Checkout trouble

In worst case, in my shop, we * take down the TSM sever (power it off), * power cycle on the tape library (leave it down for a minute or two after power off) * wait for the library to come back up and online (20 to 30 minutes), * power back on the TSM sever. * do a full audit of the library.

Re: INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories

Thanks for the reply, Andrew! Since you asked, here is my problem background: To keep down the amount we backup during the night, we only want to backup those three directories on our office servers during the business week. On weekends, we want to 'catch up' and backup everything. Our remote o

Re: reclamation question

Both full and filling are being reclaimed. I have found that because I have local tapes with errors on them, to reclaim some of my offsite copypool tapes, I pull in the copypool tapes that 'will not finish reclaiming' (less than 3% or so), check them in, and do a 'move data' on them. They turn in

INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories

Yes, again. This is something that never seems to stick correctly in my brain... I have some windows machines, where I do a normal TSM backup weekly. I want to do a backup of just certain directories and their content daily. The directories I want to backup also have sub-directories within t

Re: Backups being: Canceled by Administrator

10/26/2004 21:54:27 Server date/time: 10/26/2004 21:54:12 Last access: 10/26/2004 21:54:12 10/26/2004 21:54:28 Results sent to server for scheduled event 'DAILY'. -----Original Message- From: Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backups be

Backups being: Canceled by Administrator

I have an ongoing problem that I have not been able to crack. I issue a 'cancel ses all' at 6:55 and 7:00 AM M-F, and for backup that are till running, they get canned and all is well. Ok, not really, but as well as they will be. My problem is I am having the same type of message showing up

Re: Tips on backing up over slow networks please

Turn compression on, not good for the server storage or client CPU availability, but there is less to transmit. But know your content (don't compress images, etc). Make sure you only backup what you need to! Are there some files that change daily in the user applications that really are temp fil

Re: Upgrading an IBM 3583 library...the 'enterprise' license

In the 'old days', it non-Enterprise was limited to 18 slots and 2 or 3 drives. It may have changed. You could have the hardware there, but TSM would just not use it. Getting the 'Enterprise' license also now days allows DRM if I remember correctly. -Original Message- From: David E Ehre

Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?

sessions if their throughput drops? Matt. -Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? I am r

Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?

your actlog show any 'can se' commands? Are there any cronned / scheduled scripts that may be issuing the cancels? Do you have anything that automatically cancells sessions if their throughput drops? Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?

I am receiving a 'large' number (about 1/3 of total) of backups that are showing 'canceled by administrator' (ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. and ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12.), according to the client logs. On the se

Re: RECLAMATION

James, I have had to start taking my 'onsite' tapes out of my library. This causes some of the same issues. I must keep an eye on what tapes Are needed for reconciliation of the offsite copypool tapes, replace some of the older 'unaccessed' tapes (using q media for this) with tapes needed

Re: How do you guys feel about polls?

We have one of each. I would love to have an onsite copypool, but not enough space in my library. -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do you guys feel about polls? I don't see polls

Re: How do you guys feel about polls?

Oh about the same as for Chechz or Hungarians or Slovachs.

Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?

I agree... I even had a vendor CE pull one disk, figure out it was not the right one, put it back in, then IMMEDIATELY pull the 'bad' disk. ... It took days to rebuild the array from backups, and the CE was not allowed back into the building, EVER! --- Per Wanda: [snip] DO NOT THINK that you can't

Re: Empty Virtual volumes

Is there a retention set? -Original Message- From: -ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty Virtual volumes Anyone ever seen this? Using virtual volumes, my primary server keeps EMPTY volumes around... not sure if they

Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Need assi stance

Rick got it right. In our library, after the database backup is made and back in its slot, we issue: move drmedia * wherest=mountable tost=courier rem=bulk That pulls the database tape and copypool tapes that are in the library, checks the volume name on each volume and puts it in our ou

Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?

Yep, you can do it. Overland also sells a virtual tape library, but I don't know about their prices, and so do other vendors. It is basically a bunch of disk, but looks like tapes. Why is virtual tape so expensive? Well, IMHO ;) if folks will buy it at that price, then they will sell it!!! TSM

Backup clients not going away when their session should end!

I have many clients that are getting caught in my 'cancel ses all' that we run at 6:55AM. 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects inspected: 36,281 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects backed up:3,028 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects updated: 1 09/24/2004 06:55

Re: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?

em as empty? Even if they have overflow on them, the move data should work unless the original file is no longer available in your primary pool. You might have to return the tapes and run an audit vol. on them. -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu

Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?

I found that my offsite copy pool has lots of tapes in it that are 'full' or 'filling', but 0 percent full. I do a move data on these tapes, and some say they cannot be moved, but they are not empty (and not moving to the pending state). My understanding is these tapes may have the overflow of a

Re: Upgrade time...

Yep, Thanks for asking :) -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade time... Have you done the infamous CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS ? "Coats, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Upgrade time...

I could use a little help. I am at TSM Win 4.2.3.1 on my server and need to upgrade to 5.2 or so. Probably to 5.2.2.3. I have a 3583 with LTO1's, all freshly upgraded to current microcode a week or two ago. Any special gotcha's I should look for? >From what I have skimmed (I would say read

Re: Script

Ok, this is a 'TSM Kill Reclaimations' batch file for windows that can be run from the Windows 'scheduled tasks' or from the TSM scheduler as a batch file. It uses a directory C:\WORK and C:\WORK\Logs\ This script goes into C:\WORK The Admin ID and Password should be better protected, but such

Re: Script

Yep, I'm starting to do this too. But I am logging in from home and doing it by hand. Automation is the way to go. If someone already has this took I am interested as well! Eric, You didn't mention your environment (AIX?, Windows?). Our server is Windows, but I installed the M$ UNIX tool kit

Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

Yes Lucian, that is right. Once a full backup of the database is taken the concept is it should be removed from the library, and hopefully sent offsite with your offsite copy pool, and other information (like the plan file if you use TSM DRM). Yes, it does seem wasteful, such a 'big tape' and so

Sessions being canceled?

I am getting this kind of message in several of my clients: 09/13/2004 00:00:43 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/13/2004 00:00:43 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/13/2004 00:00:58 ANS1811S TSM session could not be reestablished.

Re: Wishlist Item

r storage pool gets heavily fragmented and thus, a restore took a very long time to complete. Also, storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, so why bother? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, Sept

Wishlist Item

Yes, I know I am dreaming, but... An open source program, pcbackup or backuppc something like that on Sourceforge has a very nice feature. If a file is already backed up, it only keeps one copy of that file for ALL its clients! What technique does it use to figure out if the files are identi

Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library

days, you may end up with a lot more tapes in a pending state then you anticipated. A pending tape is not a scratch tape. H. Milton Johnson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:42 PM To

Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library

I agree, think of it as so many tapes. Since they are 'really fast tapes', being on disk, you might consider doing reclaimation at some unusually low number to get expired data out of the way ASAP. If you don't need the space that badly, relax the reclaimation percentage a bit. Instead of starti

Communications drop?

I am getting a lot of this in my logs: 08/17/2004 20:25:05 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 08/17/2004 20:25:20 ... successful Then the backup seems to run later, with no problems. But the backup still reports as failed. Why? ... How can I stop this? ( Windows 2

Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3

-Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Coats, Jack > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Migration 4.2 to 5.3 > > > It is time upgrade :-) > > I currently have 4.2.1.3 on a

Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3

will go in beta somewhere in September.. ;-) > Level 5.2.3.0 is the latest maintenance release available. > I'm personally running it on AIX, so I can't give you further hints and > tips > for Windows... > Kindest regards, > Eric van Loon > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines > > ---

Migration 4.2 to 5.3

It is time upgrade :-) I currently have 4.2.1.3 on a windows 2K server. Going to upgrade to a Win 2003 server with the latest server (5.3 I think) Does anyone know of any upgrade problems with making that big of a jump? Even 'it would have been smoother/easier if I had ...' stories? ... Jac

Re: How long did each client take to backup?

-Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How long did each client take to backup? Is there a query or SQL query I could run to get me that can tell me, on a per client basis, how long the backu

How long did each client take to backup?

Is there a query or SQL query I could run to get me that can tell me, on a per client basis, how long the backup took from the servers perspective for each backup that ran in the last 24 hours? TIA ... JC

Re: DR Test and Needing a little help ... need 3583-TL drivers

Oops, we figured it out. ... I hate when I hear that great poping sound when I pull my head out!

DR Test and Needing a little help ... need 3583-TL drivers

Our DR system is Windows 2003, and we must test with TSM 4.2.3.1. We cannot seem to get TSM to see the Library, it sees the drives OK. All is SCSI. We installed the drivers from IBM we though had the Library in it, but it was for the Ultrium LTO Tape drives instead of the Library (insert grumble

Re: Strange q stgp behaviour

Geert, No, what you see is correct. Copy pools do not show the columns. Migration and next pool do not have any meaning in the world of copy pools. ... Enjoy. ... Jack -Original Message- From: Geert De Pecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:48 AM

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

mind deletes if it is either r/o or r/w. unavailable blocks deletion. I am still on TSM 4.2 on windows -Original Message- From: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch I think that w

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

Ok, I'll show my ignorance. Would the setting of MAXSCRATCH being to low on your default tape pool have any effect? -Original Message- From: fred johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

Re: Tape issue

I tried the move data. But the tape also has a write error on it, so I am guessing it cannot get to a fragment of a spanned file. -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape issue I occasionally get one of these. Doing a "move data" on it moves the l

Re: Tape issue

xxx fix=yes Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: July 30, 2004 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape issue I have a tape that says it is empty if I do a 'q content', but it will not go back into s

Tape issue

I have a tape that says it is empty if I do a 'q content', but it will not go back into scratch. If I do a 'delete vol' I am told there is still data on the tape. I am guessing that a set of files is 'bundled together' (I forget the official techno speak for this, but it helps cluster lots of smal

Re: TDP Informix - copygroup retention values on Server?

Reading the docs for the TDP closely helps. I had to :( In any case, you need to have one client for the machine (system and flat files), and another name for the TDP. I hope this helps. ... Jack -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

IMHO, if you must move from TSM to Veritas NetBackup, (typically a bureaucratic or economic reason, not technically based) just start using NetBackup and stop using TSM. Then keep TSM running on a 'warm' server, and test restores and migtating from tape to tape occasionally. You can pretty much g

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

I havn't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, it looks like we need to have a good business best efforts to keep readable for whatever retention period we publicize. In working with older tape technology in storing archive tapes, we found that 20% of the tapes were not readab

Re: Multiplexing to a single tape

My info is old, but my guess it hasn't changed much since I used to work for a VAR and we sold both TSM and Veritas NetBackup: Veritas multiplexes blocks from various backup clients on the tapes when this is being done. It works, and is very effective. They basically used a hacked version of gzi

Re: Database tapes

delete vol VOLUMEID discarddata=yes should handle it. ... -Original Message- From: Mark Heynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database tapes Guy's Can someone tell me the easiest way to copy a database tape and then

TSM and Active Directory

Ok I havn't researched it well, but does someone have a thumbnail of dantages/disadvantages of having TSM advertise itself via Active Directory? Currently we are a totally Winders (almost - a few AIX machines too) environment. Even a nice RTFM reference is appreciated. TIA ... Jack

Re: SAPr3 agent password problem

TSM's TDP for Exchange has a seaparate dsm.opt file from the one used for the base machine backup. Does the SAP agent have a separate one from the base machine? If so that might be a place to start looking. -Original Message- From: Steve Hartland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: directory management class

Joni, We have a small disk pool for the directories (200M is big for us), and the general data goes in a data pool (200G that I wish could be bigger), and a separate disk pool for Exchange backups (60G holds 4 exchange databases). We put all these to one tapepool, and do a single copypoool that i

Re: Cancel all processes

I have found it helpful to issue a 'cancel req ###' if there is a request pending associated with trying to get rid of a process. In my experience, if it is trying to mount a tape, the tape must be mounted before the process will die gracefully. -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew (R

Re: Emergency .. HELP

I doubt there are many around tonight. I suggest calling IBM at 1-800-IBM-SERV to get assistance. I had a recovery log issue recently, but not an architecture limit issue. Sorry. -Original Message- From: Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8

Re: TSM5.1.8: Can't Reclaim COPYPOOL Volume

consider doing a 'delete volume VOLNAME discarddata=yes' if the volume is really empty. I must do this on occasion, but I don't like it. Sometimes it happens if there had been a read error on the tape. -Original Message- From: Dwight McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 1

Re: TSM on Windows

Neil, Thanks greatly for the info and tutoral on the handles! Yep, I agree that in summary more can be done to tune a system by proper applications design and implementation than any systems geek can ever do to tune it. (Speaking as an old systems geen and application designer an a former life.)

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