Re: Who has the oldest TSM installation?

2005-08-03 Thread David Nicholson
Server Installation Date/Time: 08/22/410 B.C. 00:10:05 Server Restart Date/Time: 07/10/2005 08:52:00 YES, that's right 410 B.C. We were one of the early beta sites for what was then call "UGH". It was very popular in all of the cave data centers where backup and recovery of mission critical d

Windows Server 2003 RESTORE PROBLEM ANS4005E

2005-07-25 Thread David Nicholson
TSM Server AIX 5.2.4.0 / AIX 5.3 TSM B/A Client for Windows 5.2.2 Windows Server 2003 v 5.02 I am receiving the following error trying to restore SYSTEMSTATE. I get same error from GUI and cmd line. Any suggestions would be appreciated... tsm> q systemstate Size Backup Date

Re: Windows server imaging

2005-07-21 Thread David Nicholson
Mark, I agree with you that TSM can be used, but I am not sure I am clear on the '3' ways you are referring to. Would you take a moment and describe briefly the '3' ways...Thanks in advance. Dave "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/20/200

Re: Can not start TSM client after upgrade

2005-07-12 Thread David Nicholson
You could try cd'ing to the baclient dir and then try the dsmc. and/or reset your env vars from the uninstall.. Dave Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/12/2005 03:44 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.

TSM Storage Agent goes bye-bye

2005-07-12 Thread David Nicholson
Hi LIst, TSM Server 5.2.4 on AIX 5.3 TSM Client 5.2.0 on AIX 5.2 TSM STA 5.2.4 on AIX 5.2 Just wondering if any other LAN Free users out there have periodic problems withe there LAN Free backup not working. Backup still works over IP, but obviously I would prefer

Re: *URGENT* Windows OS Auditing

2005-05-20 Thread David Nicholson
can rely STRICTLY on permission inheritance for ALL subdirectories from the root, you gotta back the permissions up. Go have that gin and tonic -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Nicholson Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:05 PM To

Re: *URGENT* Windows OS Auditing

2005-05-20 Thread David Nicholson
ot;ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject:Re: *URGENT*Windows OS Auditing On May 19, 2005, at 5:05 PM, David Nicholson wrote: > ...The Intel folks tell me they > recently turned on "O/S level Auditing" of the DATA

*URGENT* Windows OS Auditing

2005-05-19 Thread David Nicholson
Hi List, I am seeing a tremendous and sudden increase in the amount of data I am backing up from my Intel servers. The Intel folks tell me they recently turned on "O/S level Auditing" of the DATA drive on almost all of the Windows servers. I am wondering if this has resulted in TSM perceiv

Re: Damaged Label on 3590J

2005-04-29 Thread David Nicholson
the damaged tape to the replacement, and retire the cripple. Richard Sims On Apr 29, 2005, at 6:39 AM, David Nicholson wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a 3590J with a damaged internal label. The 3494 library > ejects that cartridge when I try to use it. The cartridge has &g

Damaged Label on 3590J

2005-04-29 Thread David Nicholson
Hi List, I have a 3590J with a damaged internal label. The 3494 library ejects that cartridge when I try to use it. The cartridge has obviously been abused (the case is cracked), but I would like to get the data off of it without having to bring all of my copypool volumes back from the v

Re: ANR8447E .. Mount failed even though several drives in "idle" status **RESOLVED**

2005-04-07 Thread David Nicholson
d. Check your Devclass MOUNTLimit as the most common cause, plus your Activity Log for accompanying messages. Richard Sims On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:23 AM, David Nicholson wrote: > All, > > TSM Server 5.2.4.0 (AIX 5.3) > 3494 library w/ (15) 3590E > > Suddenly (I think) I

Re: Help me convincing IBM please!!!!

2005-04-07 Thread David Nicholson
TSM 5.2.4 AIX 5.3 p520 ESS disk for db JFS2 filesystem ACTIVITY DateObjects Examined Up/Hr -- -- - EXPIRATION 2005-03-08471600 EXPIRATION 20

Re: ANR8447E .. Mount failed even though several drives in "idle" status

2005-04-05 Thread David Nicholson
ns we have experienced. Check your Devclass MOUNTLimit as the most common cause, plus your Activity Log for accompanying messages. Richard Sims On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:23 AM, David Nicholson wrote: > All, > > TSM Server 5.2.4.0 (AIX 5.3) > 3494 library w/ (15) 3590E > > Su

ANR8447E .. Mount failed even though several drives in "idle" status

2005-04-05 Thread David Nicholson
All, TSM Server 5.2.4.0 (AIX 5.3) 3494 library w/ (15) 3590E Suddenly (I think) I am getting a LOT of ANR8447E messages. A "q mount" shows several drives in an "idle" state. My mount retention is set to '3'. I thought that the mount retention would be preempted if there was a need to

TSM Library Sharing Compatibility .. *Upgrading to TSM 5.3*

2005-02-02 Thread David Nicholson
As it relates to Tivoli Storage Manager SAN Tape Library Sharing. Can anyone tell me if a TSM Server 5.3.0.0 as a library manager is compatible with a TSM Server 5.2.2.0 as a library client? They are sharing a 3494. I would like to avoid upgrading both of my TSM servers at the same time if p

HELP finding ITSM for Storage Area Networks Managed Systems for SAN V5.2.2

2005-01-14 Thread David Nicholson
Can anybody give me a URL to get the 5.2.2 LAN free storage agent for AIX. I thought the 5.2 storage agent would workit isn't. Thanks in advance. Dave

Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up?

2005-01-12 Thread David Nicholson
What a great time for this post/question!!! Thanks for asking it!! (2) TSM servers, 2 tape Libraries (3494 w/ 15 3590's drives / 2500 cells and a 3584 w/ 6 LTO II drives / 250 cells) 800 nodes (AIX, Windows, Linux) Every flavor of DB or app you can imagine. We backup 2-3TB a day. Total stored in

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

2004-12-09 Thread David Nicholson
I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have (15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each server. I'm sure in a lab somewhere that my single adapter could be shown to be a bottleneck when trying to stream data to all those drives...however in

Anybody with real world SATA diskpool experience

2004-11-12 Thread David Nicholson
Hi List, I am building a new TSM server to consolidate my 2 existing servers. The 2 existing servers are Pseries H50 and H70; AIX 5.1; TSM 5.2; SSA disk and FC attached 3590 tape drives. Each server has a 40GB TSM database; about 100 GB of diskpool's and they backup roughly 1TB

Re: AW: DSMSERV UNLOADDB

2004-10-08 Thread David Nicholson
amp; Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 David Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-10-08 15:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: AW: DSMSERV UNLOADDB

2004-10-08 Thread David Nicholson
Hi David! Try the following SQL statement: SELECT CAST((100 - (CAST(MAX_REDUCTION_MB AS FLOAT) * 256 ) / (CAST(USABLE_PAGES AS FLOAT) - CAST(USED_PAGES AS FLOAT) ) * 100) AS DECIMAL(4,2)) AS PERCENT_FRAG FROM DB It will give you the fragmentation level. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM

Re: AW: DSMSERV UNLOADDB

2004-10-08 Thread David Nicholson
Hi All, I am surprised by the significant reduction is Pct Utilized. I thought in previous discussions that Unload/Reload had minimal impact on utilization. I have (2) TSM 5.2.2 servers on AIX with 40GB db's that are 90% used. I haven't done a unload/reload since there creation 3 years

Re: Hey Big Blue....Why not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!?

2004-06-11 Thread David Nicholson
10:44 PM >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: >Subject:Re: Hey Big BlueWhy not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!? > > >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >B

Re: Hey Big Blue....Why not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!?

2004-06-10 Thread David Nicholson
r Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Hey Big BlueWhy not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!? From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Nicholson >I tried a MOVE DATA for offsite data...it did not go after the

Re: Hey Big Blue....Why not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!?

2004-06-09 Thread David Nicholson
Tim, I tried a MOVE DATA for offsite data...it did not go after the data in the primary pool...it wanted to mount the volume in the copy pool...which was offsite. Am I missing something? Dave Nicholson Whirlpool Corporation "Rushforth, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM:

Hey Big Blue....Why not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!?

2004-06-09 Thread David Nicholson
As luck would have it, the nodes I moved were large file servers and my copy pool is not collocated. I probably have data spread across 600 volumes. I think I'll pass on bringing them back This is by no means a "new" frustration for many folks. Any idea why old big blue hasn't tried to add th

Re: Primary Pool and Copypool Relationship

2004-06-07 Thread David Nicholson
ne way to delete this data. (This assumes that there is still domr data that you want on Copy Pool #1) -Original Message- From: David Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 7, 2004 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Primary Pool and Copypool Relationship Hi All, I

Primary Pool and Copypool Relationship

2004-06-07 Thread David Nicholson
Hi All, I moved a lot of data out of Primary Pool #1 and into Primary Pool # 2. Primary Pool #1 used Copy Pool #1 and Primary Pool # 2 used Copy Pool #2. It appears that the Copy Pool # 1 still has the backup of this data...which I expected. The problem is that it appears the

Andy.....What is Imperfect Collocation???

2004-05-05 Thread David Nicholson
"Imperfect Collocation"??? My experience has been that when I reach the maxscratch threshold the storage group is full and cant accept data. Am I missing something?? Dave Nicholson Whirlpool Corporation Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: MOVE DRM for 3584 LTO library *** THANKS WANDA !!!! ***

2004-04-14 Thread David Nicholson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: MOVE DRM for 3584 LTO library Enter the command: Q DRMSTATUS If CHECKLABEL is set to YES, TSM will try to verify the label before ejecting the tape. To change, enter command: set drmchecklabel no -Original Message

MOVE DRM for 3584 LTO library

2004-04-14 Thread David Nicholson
Hi, I have a 3494 and a 3584 tape library. When I do MOVE DRM the 3584 tries to check the label on the tape before ejecting it. My 3494 does not do this. Does anybody know how to prevent the 3584 LTO library from checking the label when a MOVE DRM occurs?? I do not always have tap

Need to optimize LARGE Oracle DB backup

2004-04-06 Thread David Nicholson
Hi List, I have a 700GB Oracle DB to backup every day. It's a 4.3 AIX box...s LAN Free not an option for my TSM 5.2.2 server. I have dedicated GB nic's on both the TSM client and TSM server. The network between them is not over utilized. I am backing up directly to FC LTO II drives. C

Re: ?continue using 3590's or convert to LTO tape?

2004-04-06 Thread David Nicholson
We do not plan on expanding our 3494/3590E/3590J environment in the future. We purchased a 3584 last year and I am beginning to shift workload to LTO. I have no plans for a full scale "conversion" to LTO. Dave Nicholson Whirlpool Corporation

Restore Question

2004-02-24 Thread David Nicholson
Hi All, Have a situation where a virus has deleted several files from our Novell file servers. I want to restore to last nights backups, but I do not want to regress changes that have been made to files that are still on the file servers. The short of it is I only want to restore files th

Re: ESS model 27

2004-02-13 Thread David Nicholson
Hi John, I can't give you specific TSM mod 27 experience, but we use mod27's heavily on our 800 for DB2 and it screams. No performance problems, but you should know we are using dynamic PAV's. I would have no hesitation using mod27's for about anything. Dave Nicholson John Naylor

Orphaned Library Client tapes in VOLHIST

2004-01-29 Thread David Nicholson
Hi, I have 2 TSM 5.2.2 AIX servers sharing a 3494. I have 10 tapes that appear to be orphaned. The combined volhist on the TSM library manager says they belong to the library client. When I look in the volhist on the library client they do not exist. Any ideas how I can clean this up? Th

RETRY DISMOUNT FAILURE ??

2004-01-27 Thread David Nicholson
TSM Server 5.2.2 (AIX 5.1) I have several of my 3590 drives in this condition. Anybody know how to clean it up? I think a storage agent is leaving the drives in this condition, but not sure. Any info would be appreciated.

Applying TSM 5.2.2 maint on AIX server .. have question

2004-01-23 Thread David Nicholson
Hi, I have (2) TSM servers. Both are AIX 5.1.0 and both are 32bit (bootinfo -k returns a '3'). I am trying to apply TSM server 5.2.2 on my existing TSM server 5.2.0. I did the first server last weekend without any trouble..however..I got to the second server and discovered the following lpp's we

Re: 4.2.2.12 to 5.1.0.0 upgrade and PATHS

2003-09-11 Thread David Nicholson
My recollection is that we simply had to define the paths. However, SOP says be prepared for anything. I also recall that we were told to remove the DRIVE def's from all TSM library clients. The DRIVE's only need to be defined to the library manager/owner in a library sharing environment now.

Re: 4.2.2.12 to 5.1.0.0 upgrade and PATHS

2003-09-11 Thread David Nicholson
We made the same upgrade 4.2 to 5.1 on our AIX server. We also have 3494 library. We deffinetly had to manually define the paths after the upgrade. Dave Nicholson Whirlpool Corporation Farren Minns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/11/2003 07:53 AM