Re: TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore?

2009-04-29 Thread Don France
Clearly, this is not exactly the case; LAN-free data is written to tape in a format that *any* hosting TSM server can read/restore/migrate/etc. It's the DATABASE data (and metadata) that is stored in formats consistent with the hosting TSM server's OS-platform --- one issue has been the big

Re: Is there any way within TSM to terminate a process on excessive read errors?

2009-01-01 Thread Don France
esses will restart (repeatedly) due to your other settings (like reclamation thresholds, etc.) , which could cause this to recur -- though drive-cleaning should have resolved. -Don --- Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager - Win2K/2003, AIX/Un

Re: SL500 LAN-free without ACSLS???

2007-12-20 Thread Don France
THanks, Kurt & Gerald... this is excellent --- AND it avoids creating a single-point-of-failure (with a single ACSLS)... will pass this along to the customer. -- Original message -- From: Gerald Michalak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you are mounting/unmounting tapes

SL500 LAN-free without ACSLS???

2007-12-12 Thread Don France
ver, so all tapes are owned by it!). -- Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager - Win2K/2003, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, CA Phone - Voice/Cell: (408) 257-3332

Re: backup destination change possible?

2006-12-04 Thread Don France
he same policy domain. Could you be more > specific? > > Regards, > > Nicholas > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Don France > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:16 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM

Re: backup destination change possible?

2006-12-02 Thread Don France
epool as the other, direct-to-tape TDP nodes (to keep all the TDP data in the same tape pool, for expiration/reclamation efficiency). Don France -- Original message from "RODOLFICH, NICHOLAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- > Hi everyone, > >

Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

2006-03-05 Thread Don France
he IDEA is good, to get a single interface to multiple TSM servers, but it sure loses something in the translation to implementation... not to mention the Websphere issues you mention! Best regards, Don Don France email: don_france at att_dot_net -- Original message from "Al

Re: 5.1.6.2 Upgrade

2003-02-28 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Hi Gretchen (and Gerhard), Hope this finds you doing well. We've sure missed you at SHARE! Question: Have you done anything new to "protect" yourself from a "bad" maintenance level? Was there something special in 5.1.5 or 5.1.6 that attracted you to upgrade so soon? I have a customer wanting v5,

Re: Move from 3590 to LTO or 9840/9940

2002-09-06 Thread Don France
ions, I suggest you try using ServerGraph (that's what we're planning to do) -- else, just hack your way thru the myriad of data to answer the Q's for your environment. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/3

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-06 Thread Don France
t) almost two years ago -- we certified it for point-in-time recovery of AD, DC's and Exchange Server in December, 2000. This stuff is a royal pain, but not exactly rocket-science... just takes proper funding and decisive commitment by platform-specific customer personnel. Don France Technica

Re: New and probably a simple question....

2002-09-06 Thread Don France
idering the huge capacities of latest media (LTO at 100 GB, 9940A at 60 GB, 3590-K at 40 GB -- it continues). NetApp for day-to-day restores (from ~snapshot), LTO for removable media (onsite + offsite copies, for DR and protection from media failures). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Ce

Re: test for DRM

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
mply be re-backed up the next night). Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pac

Re: How to list files backed up

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
If you use the GUI, you can click on the column heading "Backup Date"; it will sort the list. BTW, if your system is setup properly, you can also just "grep" the dsmsched.log file to find messages for a given file -- combined with tail, you can zero in on the specific da

Re: TSM upgrade

2002-09-03 Thread Don France
e allowed to proceed. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- F

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-09-02 Thread Don France
n, at all,,, hence, preserving visibility of the inactive versions(even if you fail to change retention!). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association

Re: Exchange bases ...

2002-08-30 Thread Don France
soft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program ( ... ... XADM: Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program (Exmerge.exe) Information Q265441 - XADM: Some Questions and Answers About the Exmerge ... Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix,

Re: TSM Server Upgrade to 5.1

2002-08-19 Thread Don France
The fix for SumTab bytes transferred is in 5.1.1.1 (not .5 -- I got .5 on the brain, for some reason). 5.1.1.1 was released around 01-July, so would be my minimum level recommendation for a 5.1 shop. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT

Re: ANS1075E : Program Memory Exhausted

2002-08-19 Thread Don France
Nice call, Andy; thanx, for the update. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com

Re: ANS1075E : Program Memory Exhausted

2002-08-19 Thread Don France
ve so many dir-objects in your filesystem that you're exhausting available virtual memory. If all that fails, call SupportLine and/or collaborate with your NT server admins... they may need some HotFix (or have other ideas). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivo

Re: TSM Server Upgrade to 5.1

2002-08-19 Thread Don France
Horn 9940's and ACSLS in the environment). Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.

Re: TSM backing up in a DMZ zone.

2002-08-18 Thread Don France
S being dropped. So, security (as in this DMZ scenario) is best handled by network def.s in the switches -- and isolate the TSM server to just the DMZ segments for DMZ clients. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (4

Re: question on configuring large NT client for optimum restore proce ssing

2002-08-17 Thread Don France
IBM NAS... up and coming, cheap (JBOD) solutions to large file servers. See this one, to start http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246831.html Looks like you are in for some *actual* fun, with this project!!! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consul

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-17 Thread Don France
3584 doc.s) for more details. Don Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Ori

Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS)

2002-08-17 Thread Don France
m State backups -- I think they're still doing it that way, which totally avoids the limitations of TSM client! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Ass

Re: 2 drives are required for LTO?

2002-08-17 Thread Don France
p *can* be done with only 1 drive PLUS a large disk pool for the primary storage pool! (My motto, had to be: "If you bring money, we can solve"!!!) Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (40

Re: RESTORING TO FOREIGN HARDWARE (DIFFERENT RAID CONTROLLERS)

2002-08-16 Thread Don France
s are restored. BUT NOTE: There is an APAR for this issue, as well; IC34015 which has to do with restoring/not-restoring device specific keys (such as the case you describe)... "This affects 4.2 and 5.1 TSM Clients on Windows 2000 and XP." Hope this helps. Don France Technical Arch

Re: Database backup retentions question

2002-08-16 Thread Don France
hence, you'd want to keep all the other data/media that the oldest DB backup references -- so they still work! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Asso

Re: Easiest way to do a command line Full Backup.

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
This method is equivalent to the SELective and is off topic; he wanted to use command line. Also, Paul's point is a good one -- selective does not update the last-incremental date on the filespace... so, we're back to ABSOLUTE in the management class. Don France Technical Architect

Re: IBM vs. Storage Tek

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
's required to back-space from eot, find last tape mark, start writing next data block from end if the inter-record gap of the last one, etc. One person's opinion, stretched over a dozen or more customer accounts. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Stora

Re: drive online=no versus path offline=no

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
Yep... the only change (for simple, single server access environments) is that you must DEFINE PATH in order to convey the device special file address to the TSM server... the DEFINE LIBRary and DEFine DRive no longer accept the device parameter. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli

Re: SQL timestamp not working when upgraded to 4.2.2 for summary tabl e

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
Yep... this issue had a lllooonnnggg discussion thread back when it first occurred -- search on the APAR number for the gory details, and there are caveats about which 5.1.? level has the fix (last I saw it was 5.1.1.5, I think)... it's in the APAR. Don France Technical Architect -- T

Re: Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to)

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
The DRM script includes a change to dsmserv.opt --- disablescheds yes This ensures that ALL schedules are disabled when preparing the DR site configuration. You just add to the bottom of the file, before starting the TSM server. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-15 Thread Don France
Gentille, Sure; shared library support in 4.2/5.1 is what you would want to exploit... full details are in the Admin. Guide. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DSM.OPT FILE

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
ient platforms... you didn't say what you were trying to accomplish; did you have a specific question? Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professi

Re: TSM Restore help

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
long time ago. Also, you could bypass the file in question, using web-client, to see if other data is restorable -- probably not. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
Yep (to the last question); you cannot span multiple physical libraries to make a single logical. You can define multiple logicals within a single physical; that is a common thing I've done, for various reasons. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli St

Re: Mount point with backup stg cmd

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
s are dumping their old 3575's to move up to LTO or 3590... have your local IBM rep. refer you (else check the used marketers out there). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Easiest way to do a command line Full Backup.

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
nd); this is the "easiest" way to force FULL (for data mapped to the appropriate management class, via INCLUDE specs.); 2 - use the archive command (but you must specify each file system); 3 - selective will also work, but you must specify each file system. That should do it.

Re: Delete a specific backup

2002-08-13 Thread Don France
7;s supporting the application to determine what's needed. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www

Re: Minimizing Database Utilization

2002-08-02 Thread Don France
Actually, you need to consider (a) 600 bytes per primary pool object, plus (b) 200 bytes per copypool object... pretty simple, and "it works"! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3

Re: TSM Administration with Microsoft Management Console?

2002-07-30 Thread Don France
The MMC snap-in is a Microsoft thing; you'll only find it on Windoze... and then, only if the TSM server resides on Win2K. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: move drmedia

2002-07-30 Thread Don France
There is a checklabel parameter with DRM; you can use SET DRMCHECKLABEL NO to suppress label reading during checkout part of MOVE DRM. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: New Policy Domain

2002-07-26 Thread Don France
is to await expiration. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message

RE: Réf. : LTO Tape OR 9840

2002-07-25 Thread Don France
/stop actions. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM

RE: Réf. : LTO Tape OR 9840

2002-07-25 Thread Don France
The Gresham EDT software is needed for LAN-free and/or a SHARED library, and then it's only needed on the LAN-free clients and TSM server --- not all clients. Also, I believe this middleware is not needed for IBM library; only STK w/ACSLS. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Cert

Re: Swappin Silos

2002-07-24 Thread Don France
rt/stop migration as desired (including number of processes/drives running concurrently). This is not related to your specific scenario, but is applicable to many others. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (

Re: Swappin Silos

2002-07-24 Thread Don France
the same, you're doing the equivalent to Unix "mv" process.) Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Emp

Re: LTO Tape OR 9840

2002-07-24 Thread Don France
B's -- that is the emerging, latest tape technology from STK -- while the jury is still out, initial experiences have been mostly positive (using SN6000 as a SAN-based conduit to a shared library, looks pretty nice, clean... so far). STK is highly motivated to make this work! Hope this he

Re: Tape questions

2002-07-22 Thread Don France
e vol" (possibly, run 2nd TSM instance on current server). Alternatively, it may be simpler/easier to regenerate the data from the next backup cycle --- or start backups now, to expedite backup of current versions for the data that got "destroyed". Don France Technical Archite

Re: command file execution

2002-07-22 Thread Don France
should be WinNT; rather it looks like (maybe) the service-id? Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- w

Re: Checkin libvol V5.1.1 server

2002-07-17 Thread Don France
there are no drives available (even if you request it to just read the barcodes, without loading a drive with tapes). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional

Re: command file execution

2002-07-13 Thread Don France
ontains a session-creating command (like dsmc). Most folks will likely have a "dsmc args" (or similar) in the command file, which creates a session with TSM server to run whatever the args say. Upon completion of dsmc command, that completion terminates associated sessions. Don Fr

Re: backups of mac files not workig

2002-07-13 Thread Don France
ibly using abit of "magic" with server-2-server to (cheaply) resolve the library access issue; then, after all gets fixed, export/import the nodes, etc. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (40

Re: Monthly shapshots/ Configuration management.

2002-07-02 Thread Don France
year? Using export node, you could be using "incremental" for the monthly/yearly -- as a "poor man's" archive of the yearly data that requires indefinite storage; Re-starting the TSM-db once every 2-5 years, to "reclaim" db space used by the annual snapshot is an

Re: URGENT : ANS1503E Valid password not available for server 'TSMA'

2002-07-01 Thread Don France
e dsm.sys to specify the directory location in which to store the encrypted password file. The default directory location depends on how the client was installed. When the passwordaccess option is set to generate and you specify the password option, the password option is ignored. Don France Te

Re: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

2002-06-27 Thread Don France
the recent rash of relentless, recurring, regression bugs at the very HIGHEST priority -- new features aren't worth the effort when they come at the expense of serious breakage (eg, the recent/ongoing saga with expiration & conflict-lock!). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Con

Re: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

2002-06-27 Thread Don France
h the menu prompt for filespec -- as in "dsmc restore %1"... the user can restore only files he has sufficient rights to write/create. Lots of shops have done this; some do it to prevent the TSM admin from doing anything else under root authority (sigh:() Don France Technical Architect

Re: Expiring Data...in an unconventional manner

2002-06-25 Thread Don France
to change the copygroup (for this file system's destination management class) to "absolute" every 7th day... this tends to be more useful when the entire population or node needs a fresh "Full" backup. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultan

Re: DB backups

2002-06-22 Thread Don France
Great(?) news, FYI... the new "SHOW LOGPINNED" command is included in a 4.2.2 patch level (4.2.2.1) -- so now we can see who's gottit, and maybe free things up before the server crashes! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-303

Re: TSM v4.2.2.5 to v5.1.0.0 upgrade failed (AIX) - resolution

2002-06-22 Thread Don France
). Thanx, Don Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: dsmc sched as another user

2002-06-22 Thread Don France
You are right, ksh script won't work -- BUT a compiled C program does work, with SUID. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepro

Re: Performance again!!!

2002-06-22 Thread Don France
Also, backup requires alot of db interaction (insert, commit, calculate/build file aggregates, etc.), whereas migration just moves from disk pool to tape... so, migration of 350 MB should be much faster -- notwithstanding tape mount and positioning (which, for DLT, can be several minutes). Don

Re: retain extra versions question!!

2002-06-21 Thread Don France
rk all but the last 1 (vd=1) for deletion, the last 1 will be kept for ro=180 days. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Origin

Re: Small files V's Large files

2002-06-21 Thread Don France
under 200 GB total size) helps... smaller becomes faster. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: NSM Upgrade Experience

2002-06-21 Thread Don France
only on weekends, after approp. tweaking the storage pools. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: NSM Upgrade Experience

2002-06-20 Thread Don France
And, if that isn't SAD enough, at 16:58 today, the AIX tar file for 4.2.2.5 got updated! (Who knows what they just changed, if anything!?!) -Original Message- From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:53 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&#x

Re: solved my case... RE: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ?

2002-06-20 Thread Don France
Thanx for sharing, Dwight!!! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto

Re: NSM Upgrade Experience

2002-06-20 Thread Don France
racts... Were you/they referring to the "conflict lock" issue? Geesh, .5 just came out...sigh:() Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- w

Re: Slow Reclamation - And a need for speed...

2002-06-12 Thread Don France
ecessary (eg, we restored 1.6 million directory objects to a Win2K disk in about 2 hours). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Origina

Re: TSM v4.1 clients NOT compatible with V5.1 server?

2002-06-06 Thread Don France
quot;; just need to know that (eventually) they need to upgrade the OS (and TSM client) for continued vendor support via standard service contracts. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association o

Re: node filespace cleanup, any ideas ? ? ?

2002-05-31 Thread Don France
s could be semi-automated, so at least some review (and notification) occurs before the delete action is performed. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.p

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Don France
x27;s been a long-time ROT (Rule of Thumb) to allocate as many logical volumes as one wants parallel sessions... per Wanda's original comments. (Unless things have changed, which has not been indicated in the latest performance info shared by developers.) Regards, Don Don France Technical Arch

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-28 Thread Don France
as many smaller drives as can be handled -- these days that translates to 36 or 72 GB drives, fill the drive bays, get as much SCSI separation as possible... do the math on dividing each physical drive into some 7-10 logical drives. For RAID anything, Gianluca's 7 or 8 physical drives per RAID

Re: changeing bytes to gigabytes

2002-05-26 Thread Don France
ne know when it will get fixed?!? (For capacity planning & workload monitoring, this is the single BEST resource we've used in a long time, since the old SMF days!) Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional

Re: opinion on AIT vs LTO and 3570 tape technology?

2002-05-26 Thread Don France
gotten back from LTO are moot! Notwithstanding this round-a-bout argument for HSM, LTO is *the* emerging, cost-effective way to store large volumes of data; it's performance is between DLT and 3590, capacity is much greater than both, is available from HP, Dell, etc. (though I like IBM'

Re: TDP for Exchange and TSM sizing

2002-05-24 Thread Don France
a week, we'd accumulate maybe 500 or so. We used a separate storage pool, so each day's data was separated only by other Exch. nodes on the same TSM server). Good luck; you're gonna need to do your own homework -- there are no shortcuts to due dilligence (on the customer's expec

Re: Problems after unloaddb/loaddb

2002-05-23 Thread Don France
For item #1, traverse the Registry under CurrentControlSet\...\adsm\server... there are separate entries for server1, server2, server3, and server4. Fix yours so server1 references the "...\server1" directory. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional A

Re: scheduled session vs non-scheduled client session

2002-05-23 Thread Don France
madmc, trap the output, then parse for the session_type (4, I think) for scheduled session. This info is reported in accounting records, SUMMARY table and SESSIONS table. Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees

Re: TSM on a win2k cluster

2002-05-22 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
location standards. High priority (ie, mission critical or high-visibility) servers get collocated. Hope this helps. See, also, a dozen other posts this past couple months, search for "cluster" in the subject field. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professiona

Re: Windows 2000 Server Spec for TSM 5.1

2002-05-22 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
two copy pools to tape (one for onsite, one for offsite) to fully protect their data -- which we limited to 60 GB of file server storage. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Select Stmt? or Query

2002-05-21 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Also, there *may* be other messages of interest (if b/a-client, 4961, 4959, and others in close numeric proximity are the session statistics messages). Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-17 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Reading thru this thread, no one has mentioned that backup will be slower than archive -- for TWO significant reasons: 1. The "standard" progressive-incremental requires alot of work in comparing the attributes of all files in the affected file systems, especially for a LARGE number of files/direc

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-11 Thread Don France
The "Pending" state simply means the reuse-delay is in effect! That is, after expiration occurs, *all* offsite tapes go thru the period defined for "re-use delay"... which is intended to protect from over-writing tapes that might be needed during the period immediately following expiration -- usu

Re: mksysb or sysback to library volume

2002-05-06 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
nsfield > Senior Consultant > Solution Technology, Inc > 630 718 4238 > > > > > "Don France (TSMnews)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 05/03/2002 05:00 PM > Please respond to "ADSM:

Re: Management Class for Directorys on Linux

2002-05-05 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
You must realize the Linux directories (likely) fit nicely within the available space in the TSM server,,, how do you know Linux clients ignore your DIRMC? (The only simple way I would know how to test is to create a path greater than 160 bytes -- I think the TSM db only has room for about 150 by

Re: mksysb or sysback to library volume

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
ve internal 4mm tape drive, so we script the mksysb to that drive, daily; operators rotate the tapes, report any visual problems (if the script fails, the tape is not ejected), the script logs are used for admin. verification. Regards, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consul

Re: Management Class problem

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
d the rule much more succinctly. Hope this helps. Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL)" &

Re: TSM 4.2 differences

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
? Not powerpoint, I know... > > > > _ > William Mansfield > Senior Consultant > Solution Technology, Inc > > > > > > "Don France (TSMnews)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 05

Re: Help Understanding Mgmt classes

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
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Re: dsadmc -consolemode

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Probably not... however, if you are using AIX, you could run the dsmulog daemon to capture the console log to a file (much like the old SYSLOG feature on MVS), then you could "monitor" that file with "more" or "tail". See the AIX Admin Guide for details. Don Franc

Re: Help Understanding Mgmt classes

2002-05-03 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
pending on what should be done that day, leaving the version count the same? > If I change it to absolute, what does that do the modified backups already > taken, anything? > > Thank you for your help. > > Diana > > > > Quoting "Don France (TSMnews)" <[E

Re: Help Understanding Mgmt classes

2002-05-02 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Hope this helps. Regards, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Diana Noble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTE

SELECT from SUMMARY -- BYTES column mostly zeroes on 4.2.2 and 5.1

2002-05-02 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
this table that belongs there. There goes our monitoring for capacity & workload statistics!!! Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM 4.2 differences

2002-05-02 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Nope... I do have hardcopy (from SHARE); you might find what you want in the books --- there's a good "summary of changes" in the preface of the Admin. Guide, Using xxx Clients, and Admin. Ref. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Associat

Re: copy storage pools

2002-04-30 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
would seem to come closer to what's desired than the speed of backupset or export. Alternatively, there IS the point about most customers end up using point-in-time parameters when doing filesystem restores. Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Pr

Re: Unix directory exclude question

2002-04-29 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Sounds like a bug -- yes, there has been a level (or 3) that incorrectly caused exclude list to be processed by "ar" cmd... it's the client code that controls it -- try running the latest (4.2.x) client, unless you're hot to use 5.1, then get the latest 5.1 download patch.

Re: TDP R3 keeping monthly and yearly for different retentions?

2002-04-29 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
The customers I've worked with used a shell script to determine -archmc for daily/weekly/monthly; without TDP, the script manipulates the parameter passed in for the -archmc value on the "dsmc ar" cmd... you could use a presched command to do the same (for flip the profile name, causing TDP to us

Re: Big Restores?

2002-04-25 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
r network pipe on both ends, ensure it's full of data (remove any bottlenecks observed, such as other apps like lfcep.exe). Expect to get 5-10 GB per hour with large file server; best case, maybe up to 15 GB/Hr. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional

Re: Technical comparisons

2002-04-25 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
It's listed with the Technical Briefs at the above link. Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jolliff, Dale" <[EMAIL

Re: Logical volume Snapshot, to enable 'online' image backups.

2002-04-23 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Petur, You will need v5 server, as well as client; there are other limitations -- see the post from Anthony Wong, and go RTFM... they are now posted at http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManage rforWindows5.1.html Have fun! - Original Message - From

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