Re: file creation date problem

2004-10-14 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
es to do what you want. Or, test your restore procedures and restore the data to the new drive. Doug Thorneycroft Systems Analyst Computer Technology Section County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: How do you guys feel about polls?

2004-10-06 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We run 4 tape pools and 1 copy pool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Bertrand Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do you guys feel about polls? I don't see polls very much (don't believe I h

Re: Windows NT4 and TSM client

2004-10-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
For NT4 you need a version 5.1 Client. This info was published, I found it when preparing to upgrade to Ver 5.2, But I don't remember which Doc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:49 AM To: [EM

Re: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?

2004-09-23 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Does q content also show them 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:[EMA

Re: storage media inaccessible?

2004-09-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Do the tapes show up in your library inventory and are they in the same slots that the q library output shows? -Original Message- From: Nancy Reeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: storage media inaccessible? I have 3

Re: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

2004-09-15 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
It's Ok to backup your database to disk, but you can't use the backup/archive client to protect that file. If your database is corrupted, you won't be able to restore any files until you first restore the database. -Original Message- From: Lucian Greis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Wishlist Item

2004-09-14 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
amar, but don't know anyone using it, so I don't know about reliability or performance. http://www.avamar.com/ Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack

Re: determining which files will be copied to copy stgpool

2004-09-01 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you tried to query your activity log to see if your primary diskpool is migrationg data between your storagpool backups? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

Re: Windows 2003 Storage Server

2004-08-26 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Yes, I'm running ITSM 5.2.10 Client on an HP NAS. It is working just like any other Client. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Imre Kloknicer [mailto:[

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

2004-08-02 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you tried updating the access from readonly to readw? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: James Choate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3

Re: Tape issue

2004-07-30 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you tried running audit volume ? -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:09 AM 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 scratch. If I do a

Re: List of Archived Files

2004-07-28 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can run the dsmc q archive command and pipe the output to a text file. -Original Message- From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: List of Archived Files Dear all, Is it possible, each time I run a ARCHIVE at

Re: no status of empty when querying volume

2004-06-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Tivoli doesn't track scratch tapes. If the tapes are in a library, try q libvol This should give you a list of all tapes in the library and wheather they are private or scratch. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699

Re: Upgrade server 3.7.4 to 5.2

2004-06-14 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I just did this in test, Seems to work fine, Specific upgrade instructions for 3.7 to 5.2 are given on Pg. 34 of the quickstart guide. Be sure to edit and run tsmfixup.cmd as noted in the guide. Instructions for editing are embeded as comments in the file. You'll also need to delete and redefine

Re: -fromnode in GUI

2004-06-09 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
On NT/2000, Start the GUI from the command line change into the baclient directory and type dsm -nodename=NAME (You can also do this from run command on the start menu) Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: any one ever find a utility or tool to count CPUs on Wintel?

2004-06-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
One of our techs says that there is a downloadable utility from Intel Called cpfinder (or something close) Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Robertson, G Louis

Re: report of usage by file type?

2004-06-01 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can use dsmc. dsmc q backup -nodename=clientname '{\\clientname\d$}\.mp3' -subdir=yes >>c:\outputfilename -Original Message- From: Mike Eggleston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: report of usage by file type? With much

Re: Backup Session on Win2K Client running 5.1.5.2

2004-05-20 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Do you have postschedule or preschedule commands? If so, you session could be waiting for the command to complete. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jones, Kelli

Re: tapes in copy storage pool not reclaiming

2004-05-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Are the tapes full or filling? If they are filling, they won't reclaim unless they are marked as offsite. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tim Brown [mailto:[

Re: moving a primary sequential access storage pool to another library

2004-01-06 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can use the update the device class to use the new library. Update devclass devtype= format= library= mountlimit=<#> Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
ep is to beg management for enough blank cartridges to set up a copy pool. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Does Data Protection for Exchange require two ITSM Client Licenses?

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Reading through the Data Protection for Mail Installation and User's Guide, it looks like two Client Licenses are required. One for the Exchange agent, to backup the databases and one to run the Backup archive Client for everything else. So, to backup a single exchange server, we need to purchase:

Re: Anyone know where the following document referenced in the Ver 5.2 quick start is?

2003-09-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Thank you Mike. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Dile Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone know where the following document referenced in the Ver 5.2 quick start is? Doug, The TSM Acti

What is the current version of Exchange Data Protection Client?

2003-09-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Is Version 2 Release 2 the current Exchange Data Protection Client? I just downloaded the manual and it's dated March 2001.

Anyone know where the following document referenced in the Ver 5.2 quick start is?

2003-09-03 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
>From the version 5.2 Quick Start Manual: (Just downloaded yesterday) A detailed description of the Tivoli Storage Manager Active Directory schema extensions is available from the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adwserv.htm. I tried to follow this lin

Re: TSM Operation Reporting Email notification

2003-07-24 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I've been sending multiple reports to 3 different e-mail addresses for 2 weeks now, both HTML and Text without problems. The Reporting software is running on my XP Desktop, not on the Tivoli server. (I did have problems reading the text versions, due to the mail clients auto-wraping the lines of te

Re: backup of volhist and devconfig files

2003-07-16 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you checked the access permissions to F: ? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tae Kim Sent: Wednesday

Does ITSM Windows Client run on Windows 2000 NAS Operating System?

2003-07-09 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We are in the process of purchasing a HP StorageWorks NAS. Does anyone know if the standard Windows Client will run on the Windows2000 NAS OS? >From the IBM support site, it looks like NDMP is only supported for "Network Appliance" at this time.

NAS Agent

2003-06-19 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
t code and agents by platform, complete with shortcuts to the downloads and manuals? Was this too easy? Is that why it's not there anymore? Are we being tested? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Query contents of a filespace?

2003-06-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can also use dsmc q backup -nodename= '{\\ \}\\' This also accepts most of the restore options (-fromdate; -todate; -inactive etc.) Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Origin

Re: accounting file

2003-05-30 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Just Look in the Admin guide under accounting record. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vazquez Vegas

Re: accounting file

2003-05-30 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
The accounting file is comma delimited and imports well into Access. The Admin Guide contains a description of the fields. Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM

Re: Weekday

2003-05-29 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
type=client dayofweek=weekday Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zosimo Noriega Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Re: Windows 2000 - not backing up all drives

2003-04-03 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
TSM needs read to the root of the drive, or it won't see it. (need full control to restore) -Original Message- From: Brenda Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Windows 2000 - not backing up all drives We are u

Re: Migration vs. Expiration

2003-03-11 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
There might be contention if a file is being migrated at the same time it is being expired. -Original Message- From: Rob Hefty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Migration vs. Expiration Hello All, Is there any reas

Storage Management (Quotas)

2003-02-24 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
For those of you who also are responsible for Storage Management in addition to Backup-Restore, Does your organization set user quotas on network storage? What size limits do you set? How long do you allow a file to sit on a system before it is migrated, archived or deleted?

Re: Calculating space used

2003-02-06 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Look at q occ and q auditocc to see if this gives you what you are looking for. For q auditocc, you should run audit lic. first to get current info. -Original Message- From: Theresa Sarver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: Complete list of *ALL* files in BACKUP/ARCHIVE

2003-01-30 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
In Window, you can issue the following command from the command Prompt to send the list to a text file. dsmc q backup -nodename= '{\\Filespace_name}\*.*' -subdir=yes -inactive >filename.txt -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January

Re: Schedule twice weekly

2003-01-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We have several schedules that run after Midnight, Tuesday through Saturday (To backup work done Monday through Friday) We schedule a macro on Friday afternoon to update the Schedules to dayofweek=saturday then on Monday, we run another to change to weekdays. -Original Message- From: Lar

Re: AW: Deleting a volume

2003-01-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
How about running a restore volume, then deleting the restored volume? > I have several entries in the database where the volumes have a > DESTROYED > status but I cannot delete them. The tapes doesn4t exist anymore so I > cannot perform an audit volume but I really want to delete these > volumes

Re: AW: Deleting a volume

2003-01-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you tried an audit volume with fix=yes, then retry the delete? -Original Message- From: Mario Behring [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: AW: Deleting a volume Hi Eric, Sorry for the delay. Here is a deta

Re: DOS Return-Code Primmer for PRECOMMAND and POST processing

2003-01-09 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Try putting a pause statement at the end of your batch file and run it manually. this will allow you to view any errors. If it runs OK running manually, then your tsm scheduler service is probably running under an account that doesn't have rights to stop the database. Make sure that you are stoppi

Re: OS/2 support on 5.X?

2002-11-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Back when we upgraded from Sever ver 3.1 to 3.7 on NT, Our OS/2 clients stopped communicating. Our OS/2 clients used named pipe, while everything else used TCP/IP. I don't remember if we changed comm setting on the server side or client side, but it was an easy fix. You might want to check your co

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

2002-09-24 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
It's a risk, because our bare metal restore procedures depend on a current SYSTEM OBJECT backup, but I can't let the database swell to infinite proportions - the performance is horrible. Luckily, the problem is fixed in v5.1.1.6. Gretchen Thiele Princeton University You can always rename the

Re: Large files > 2GB

2002-09-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you tried increasing your commtimeout and idletimeout settings? -Original Message- From: Michael O'Brien [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Large files > 2GB *

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-06 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
An alternative to BMR You can use hardware mirroring for the operating system, and the Tivoli Client. keep the data on a separate disk controller. Periodically, remove one the mirrored drives and store it offsite, Replace it with another drive and allow the mirror to rebuild. As long as you have

Re: Backing up of different filespaces on different storagepools

2002-08-28 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can define two or more management classes on a server, and point each management class to a separate storage pool if you like. You can also set different retentions. You can use include/exclude statement to control which management class is used. -Original Message- From: GUILLAUMONT

Re: Multiple reclaims

2002-08-21 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Have you thought about dividing your data into two or three storage pools, We often run two or three reclaims concurrently, one for each pool. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-15 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
how about renaming the filespace, This will keep your active versions. -Original Message- From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Eternal Data retention brainstorming. Folks, I have

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

2002-08-15 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
>From the Admin command line: update sch * type=admin active=no -Original Message- From: Taylor, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to) Hi all, Is there anyway that I c

Re: pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1

2002-07-23 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Try running the tsm scheduler service using the same logon that you use to run the commands manually and see if that works. -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: pre and post

Re: TSM DB design (Was covered at Share in Long Beach, February 2001)

2002-07-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I don't know if it is available online, but Mike Kaczmarski gave a presentation titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Tivoli Storage Manager Database" at Share in Long Beach February 2001. (According to the presentation, it's a B-Tree Database.) Maybe someone with access to the S

Re: stalled backup

2002-06-26 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
If running from a schedule, check the schedule log to see if always stalls on the same file. If so, exclude that file and try again. -Original Message- From: Blair, Georgia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:stalle

Re: Expiring Data...in an unconventional manner

2002-06-25 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You could define an additional mgmt class, with 7 day retention, and use your include/exclude list to point the short term data to the new class -Original Message- From: Hagopian, George [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Server Version 4.2.2 for Windows

2002-06-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I checked the archives, and didn't find many problems with Server ver. 4.2.2 for Windows. Are there any problems with this version that weren't discussed on the list, or that I missed on my search?

Re: Scheduler Question

2002-06-04 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I have several schedules that I run Tuesday through Saturday To backup Monday through Friday's data after midnight. for a work around, I run the following macro each Friday morning, after the backups have run. update schedule type=client dayofweek=saturday update schedule type=client dayofwe

Re: Automating Scheduling service in OS/2

2002-05-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We have a few old OS/2 machines running a Ver. 3.1 Client. We start the schedule in the startup.cmd file using the following command: start /b /min dsmc.exe schedule -password=X These machines haven't needed attention for years, and I don't have time to dig up my notes, but I think that the /

Re: dsmc via cmdline

2002-05-09 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Change into the baclient directory and type: dsmc -nodename=X -password=YY -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:dsmc via cmdline If I have a client that is not in passw

Re: Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups

2002-04-24 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
On NT Clients, changing file and directory permissions will cause a full backup of every file changed. -Original Message- From: Jon Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups Here's

Re: Outlook PST files

2002-04-19 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We moved all our outlook files to their own server, and are using the native NTBackup utility to back them directly to tape. No archives or long term retention. This not only cut down the time required to run backups, but also reduced the time required to backup our primary pools to copy pools, fr

Re: Archive dates/details

2002-03-13 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can get this from the client command line (dsmc q archive) start dsmc and type help to get the syntax -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon R. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Archive dates/details Good Morni

Re: Point in Time Backups

2002-03-08 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
One of the Selling points of TSM is that you no longer have to perform periodic full backups. So, Quartly- Monthly etc. isn't built into the product. -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You would still retain a primary tape pool. The inactive files would migrate from the primary diskpool to the primary tape pool. Your Point in time would probably draw most of the files from the Diskpool, and the inactive files from the tape pool. -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
The system works exactly as it does now. Data goes to disk, then migrates to tape. Both disk and tape pools are backed up to copy pools. The only difference is that when you migrate, Instead of migrating the largest file spaces, you migrate only the inactive files. We have migration delay where we

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
e inactive, but those are files that are often requested for restore. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message----- From: Doug Thorneycroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Yes, I posed a similar question a month or so ago, My idea was to add a switch to migration that would migrate only inactive files. This way you could restore an entire server using multiple sessions, without needing to use collocation or worry about tape contention. -Original Message-

Client Computability list

2002-02-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
On the old IBM-ADSM web site, when you looked up Client or server software, you were presented with a matrix listing versions, along with supported Operating Systems, Device lists etc. Everything you needed to know to determine which versions would work in your environment. It was really handy. D

Re: Query database for PST files (No subject in original post

2002-02-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can create a batch file to query each filespace for pst files, and redirect the output to a text file. You can then import the text file into Excel, using fixed width, and separate the output lines into separate fields. You can then sort by date backed up to find old files no longer accessed o

Re: TSM trying to backup its own, open files..........

2002-02-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Gabriel, Your method works for most files. We use the preschedule command copy selected files before the backup. Then the postschedule command to delete the copies after the backup. -Original Message- From: Gabriel Wiley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:30 A

Re: TSM trying to backup its own, open files..........

2002-02-22 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Try: Exclude *:\WINNT\Profiles\...\* -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:TSM trying to backup its own, open files.. Why is TSM trying to backup its own, open

Re: TSM Database Tables

2002-02-15 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
(From the ADMIN GUIDE) To help you find what information is available in the database, TSM provides three system catalog tables: SYSCAT.TABLES Contains information about all tables that can be queried with the SELECT command. SYSCAT.COLUMNS Describes the columns in each table. SYSCAT.ENUMTYPES De

Re: TSM Client Acceptor Service

2002-02-12 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Look up colocation in the administrator guide. You set colocation at the sequential storagepool, not at the client. Setting colocation to filespace will have a big impact on your tape usage and processing, so be sure to read everything in the guide first. -Original Message- From: Adams,

Re: help: backup failure

2002-02-12 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Does the account the client is running under have access to the entire D: drive? -Original Message- From: Mohamed Adan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:help: backup failure Hi! We are running TSM client versio

Super DLT media; Having failures

2002-02-06 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We just started using a couple of SDLT drives, and have had 4 bad tapes out of our first pack of 10 (still have a couple that haven't been written to yet) This occurs on two separate drives, one running NT the other running 2000. All the failed tape are close in serial numbers and from the same

Re: TSM Service failed during startup - Event ID 7022

2002-01-25 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Check the dsmerror.log and see if it contains any clues. -Original Message- From: Stormy Maddux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:TSM Service failed during startup - Event ID 7022 On several of our NT and Win2K m

Re: moving data between pools

2002-01-02 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
If the volume is a database backup, Export, or scratch tape that was checked in as private, it will not show using a q vol. Check your volume history file to see if it shows up there. -Original Message- From: Marc Levitan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:

Re: Upgrade or new install??

2002-01-02 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
When we upgraded our server a year and a half ago, we also upgraded our Tivoli from ADSM Ver. 3.1X to TSM Ver. 3.7X The method we chose was: 1. Performed a fresh install of Ver. 3.7 to the new server from the CD, and applied the latest PTF. 2. Set up database volumes, log volumes, defined the st

Re: Restore error message

2001-12-31 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Check your client version, you might be attempting the restore from a version that is down level from the version that was used to backup the file. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: PRESCHEDULECMD - Windows 2000 Client

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
1. Try running the preschedule command manually, to see if works. you might need to add a pause statement to keep the command window on the screen long enough to read any messages. 2. Make sure that the scheduler is running under an account that has enough rights and permissions to ca

Re: Identifying library and tape drive devices in Solaris

2001-11-28 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I just set up a Qualstar 4480 last month on a NT server, and had the following problems. 1. Device information in Server Utilities correctly identified both the library and drives, 2. I received the following message when attempting to define the library ANR8310E An I/O error occurred while

Re: Question

2001-11-01 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can do it from the client using dsmc q backup C:\Filename.ext -subdir=yes (substituting the drive, and the filesname you are looking for) On Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:30 AM, Mark Hayden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I am trying to locate a file that was backed up. The file is not in

Re: Daylight saving issue on backup

2001-10-26 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I still have a bunch of 3.1.0.8 level clients, and they haven't had the problem in past time changes. On Friday, October 26, 2001 12:15 PM, bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > How about this question: We have some NT clients still running the V > 3.1.0.7 client, (I know, no longer

Re: Unable to define Qualstar TLS 4480 library

2001-10-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Thank you, I found an addendum to the manual that does show the option. I changed the setting, and now get one step further, but still get an error. saying there are 0 drives and 0 slots. I think that qualstar also changed the element numbering, and figure this might be the cause. Doug On Thursda

Re: Scheduling Question

2001-10-03 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I have several schedules that I want to run Tuesday through Saturday early AM. I run a batch file from the windows scheduler each Monday, that runs a macro that updates each of these schedules to run on weekdays, then on Friday, a second schedule runs a macro to update them to run on Saturday. On

Re: Restores

2001-09-25 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
On windows, use dsm -nodename=ABCDEF On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:28 PM, [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Wanda, > When i try that I get the following error messages ans0267e invalid > command line option/value -virtualnodename=srny3fs03 > is this paramete version specific? I'm runn

Re: Is there a way to delete all files that were backed up last night for certain clients

2001-09-19 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You can define a management class with verexists=1 verdeleted=0 retonly=0, and temporarly point to the no retention class using include-exclude. Run another backup to bind the files, then delete them from the source and run another backup to expire them. (This will also delete your inactive versi

Re: Scheduled Event Status when Pre or Post command fails

2001-09-13 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
The Scheduled event is the backup, which was successful. The Pre-Post Schedule calls a script that runs outside the backup. The only time I have seen a failed TSM event due to failure of a Post schedule command was when the post schedule command hung due to a problem unrelated to TSM. The schedule

Re: Return code = 1

2001-09-11 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Try running excfull.cmd from a command prompt to see what is going on. you might have to put a pause statement at the end so the message stays on screen long enough to read. It might help, if you send the contents of excfull.cmd so we know what you are trying to do. On Tuesday, September 11, 20

AIT2 tape drives, What recording format should I use?

2001-09-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
to 50 GB? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migrating Copy storage pool to new media

2001-09-05 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
, and backup the new storage pools to the new copy pool as the data is migrated, but this will give us double backups of each file and require extra database space. Does anyone know a method for moving data from one copy pool to another? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los An

Re: license problem after upgrade to TSM 4.2

2001-08-16 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Check the readme's that come with the software. I remember reading something about Special treatment needed for the license files for one of the Version 4 upgrades. On Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:27 AM, wouter-v [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to this newsgroup so I have some

Another Upgrade Question (Windows Platform)

2001-08-01 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I've been looking at the readme for Server Version 4.1.4.0 for Windows. I'm not sure of what's required to upgrade from Version 3.7 The Readme states that to upgrade from a previous 4.X version prior to 4.1.3 you first need to uninstall the previous version. Text of readme follows: ***

Is TSM Ver. 4.2 a upgrade or maintenance release.

2001-07-31 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
We are getting ready to upgrade our Window TSM server from Ver 3.7. When we purchased 3.7, we got the automatic upgrade to 4.1 Does anyone know if we can upgrade to 4.1, then apply the maintenance release for Ver 4.2, or is 4.2 a new release requiring an upgrade fee? Doug Thorneycroft County

Reliability of Super DLT drives

2001-07-12 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Hi We are thinking of using a couple of Super DLT drives for special storage purposes, not part of our TSM system. Is anyone using Super DLT, and if so, are they performing as expected? Doug Thorneycroft County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 FAX (562) 699

Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W (out of sequence verb)

2001-07-11 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Check your password. I've seen similar errors when starting the scheduler service with the wrong password. On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:08 AM, Angelica Tulipano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I'm having this problem in a tsm client, someone of you know what can it > be? > > ANR0444W Protocol

Re: Pre schedule command to stop NT service ??

2001-06-25 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Just create a batch file that contains the line "net stop " Where Service_Name is the service that you want to start. (I use ADSMSTOP.CMD for the filename.) in the DSM.OPT file, add the line: PRESCHEDULECMD "C:\tivoli\tsm\baclient\ADSMSTOP.CMD" (Adjusting the path to match your system. The batch

Re: TSM Basic Bat files

2001-05-10 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Try adding the password: dsmc incremental -password=X On Thursday, May 10, 2001 9:01 AM, Tim Delaney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I have created a basic BAT file to launch my daily backup. This file seems > to work fine when I launch it myself. However the NT scheduler service will > not

Re: audit library STILL unsuccessful!

2001-03-28 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
q libvol tekwolf should give you a list On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:06 AM, Marc Levitan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Is there a way to find out what Volume TSM thinks is in a particular Slot > (Element ID) > I need to find out what volume TSM thinks is in slot 210 so that I can >

Re: Hard Disk Recovery

2001-03-16 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Check out this Article 200 ways to revive a hard drive: http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00320010108det03.htm On Friday, March 16, 2001 10:08 AM, arhoads [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Cody, > > freezing a drive is a new one to me. I'd be concerned that moisture > woul

Re: Windows NT/2000 Daylight Savings Time Problem

2001-03-16 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
I Just downloaded the 3.7.2.19 from: ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v3r7/Wi ndows/v372/i386/single/ IP21933 19 FULL.EXE When I expanded the file, I kept getting the message _Setup.dll already exits. I renamed each instance and wound up with 10 versions 6 were

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