Re: licensing question

2011-05-11 Thread Gary Bowers
active/passive active/active philosophy, similar to clustering the TSM server. If they are both active at the same time, then you need licenses. Hope this helps. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On May 11, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Thomas Denier wrote: -David Tyree wrote: - We are

What are you seeing for tape speeds?

2011-05-11 Thread Gary Bowers
Can anyone comment on what kind of speeds you are seeing on LTO-5 tape drives? Any information is much appreciated. Gary

Re: LTO5 performance

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Bowers
Thanks all for the response. I agree with al the statements made. I am just trying to determine whether anyone is getting the published specs on the LTO5, or what the real world transfer rates are. I am running archives of large Oracle database files, so I don't think that file size is an issue

Re: LTO5 performance

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Bowers
HBA? 3) Speed of Fibre 2/4/8Gb -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Bowers Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 9:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] LTO5 performance Just a quick poll of what people are seeing for LT

LTO5 performance

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Bowers
Just a quick poll of what people are seeing for LTO-5 performance. Is it anywhere close to the rated 140 MB/s native, or much lower? I ask, because I have a customer that is only getting about 40-50 MB/s from HP LTO5 drives in a Quantum library. This number seems really low to me, but before I

Re: Tsm backing up mysql databases

2011-02-24 Thread Gary Bowers
and restore using the command. I believe that I had to write a script that purged the old data though. It's been a while since I set it up. There are no other options other than these two though. If the DB is small, export to a file. If it is huge use adsmpipe. Gary Bowers Itrus Technol

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Gary Bowers
with a tape still stuck in it to perform diagnostics. I really have never seen anything like this in the 10+ years I've been doing TSM. If you have not upgraded to the latest firmware, make sure you do so. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Christian Svensson

Re: TSM 6.2 and compatible AIX versions

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Bowers
difficulty determining where this was actually fixed, and not just an efix. We installed the latest fixes as of 2 weeks ago, and the problem has gone away. Since then the TSM server has been "stable". Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Melly, Timothy wrote: T

Getting backup duration in TSM 6.2 select statement

2010-06-21 Thread Gary Bowers
I must be missing something. It used to be that we could use the following select statement to get event durations from the summary table. select event, (end_time - start_time) seconds from summary. I am keeping this simple for illustrative purposes. I verified that this works as expected in 5

Re: Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM client file system??

2010-05-31 Thread Gary Bowers
Rick, If memory serves right ( and that is always questionable) that is exactly what used to happen at one point. I believe that Unix systems still do this, but I would have to test it again. The metadata for a file is stored in the TSM database. At least it was until Active Directory made the

Re: disk / file pool on SAN without SANergy or GPFS?

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Bowers
In short no. Sanergy is what allows you to share the filesystem amongst multiple servers. GPFS is a an alternative to SANergy that also provides the file and block locking necessary to share a physical device among multiple hosts. I may be wrong, but I believe that the only two supported LAN fr

Re: How force removal of data of deleted folder.

2010-04-12 Thread Gary Bowers
Enable "backdelete" for the node, then use the client GUI to delete any data that you do not want to keep. Gary On Apr 12, 2010, at 2:42 PM, yoda woya wrote: I removed a folder form a node. The domain policy is Versions Data Deleted = 60 version Retain Only Version = 60 days Without chang

Re: Virtual TSM server - using disk only

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Bowers
ld help buffer the writes, and give you decent performance. It is something that would need to be tested first. I'm confident that it would be much faster than WAN connection back to the States. Yuck. Good luck, Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Ochs, Duane w

Re: Changing attributes

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Bowers
Sounds like you've got the same client name on two different servers. Each time they check in with TSM, they are updating their IP and GUID. Go check the dsm.opt on both those servers. Gary On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Fred Johanson wrote: I've got a client that generates this 5-6 times a night

Re: Devtype FILE on NFS performance problem

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Bowers
Yep, had the same problem with iSCSI volumes. Try turning off directio with the following undocumented dsmserv.opt option. directio no Gary Bowers Storage Architect Itrus Technologies On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Roger Deschner wrote: We have a devtype=file stgpool that is on NAS disk

Re: NFS as a storage pool volume SOLVED!!!!

2009-12-29 Thread Gary Bowers
d, rather than in TSM. W On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Gary Bowers wrote: I have a strange performance issue that I am trying to work out involving network attached storage being used for TSM stgpool volumes. The TSM server is AIX 5.3, and the network is a dedicated Gbit. We started out us

NFS as a storage pool volume

2009-12-29 Thread Gary Bowers
I have a strange performance issue that I am trying to work out involving network attached storage being used for TSM stgpool volumes. The TSM server is AIX 5.3, and the network is a dedicated Gbit. We started out using iSCSI for the storage pool volumes creating 10 X 250GB volumes and placing a

Re: Querying status of a finished process

2009-10-14 Thread Gary Bowers
ou ask nice, or search the archives, I'm sure you'll find what you need. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Tribe wrote: Hello, I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However, I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
My guess is that you are mounting up the filesystem, and backing up the files directly. The log files in Exchange are probably getting a new name as they are truncated, which means that there are no versions of the files, only a single version that goes from active to inactive when it is deleted

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
, at 20:28, Gary Bowers wrote: I don't have the manual pulled up, but I believe that there is a way I was just browsing the publib... to do a preview restore from the client that will prompt for tapes that are required to do the restore. I would tackle it that way. I was expecting

Re: What is the best why to identify what tape volumes a backup object is residing on.

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
I don't have the manual pulled up, but I believe that there is a way to do a preview restore from the client that will prompt for tapes that are required to do the restore. I would tackle it that way. Gary Itrus Technologies On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Brian G. Kunst wrote: For security reaso

Re: Age-old licensing question

2009-09-28 Thread Gary Bowers
It is all based on PVU. For virtual machines you are paying for the number of processors of the ESX server. Gary On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:28 AM, Minns, Farren - Chichester wrote: Hi all I know I started this in a reply to my backing up of virtual machines bit thought it best to start a new threa

Re: Erro - backup of the client Linux

2009-09-11 Thread Gary Bowers
Is it actually backing up data though? It will scan the entire drive, and backup the directory structure, even though you have excluded it. If you are seeing that the schedlog is going into other directories, that is normal. What you have setup looks correct to me. If you don't want to

Re: tsm 6 client and backup vm

2009-08-24 Thread Gary Bowers
Unless Tivoli writes their own code to perform the VCB snapshot, I don't see this happening. The way I understand it, the backup vm command is calling the vmware vcbmounter etc... commands under the covers. What you are seeing is an integration and automation of those tools. We used to have to

Re: ANR9999D error - need to extend LOG

2009-08-21 Thread Gary Bowers
hring wrote: Sorry all...I didn“t make myself clearthere is no TSM command line at this pointafter the error message, the server shuts down and return to OS prompt. Mario From: Gary Bowers To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:30:

Re: ANR9999D error - need to extend LOG

2009-08-21 Thread Gary Bowers
From the tsm command line: def dbvol formatsize= Gary Itrus Technologies On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Mario Behring wrote: Hi list, I have a TSM 5.5 running on a Windows 2003 box. Recovery log is full and I am getting the following message at startup: ANR1635I The server machine GUID,

Re: Help on TDP_R3 Oracel - AIX

2009-08-21 Thread Gary Bowers
The alter tablespace command is an Oracle command, not a TSM command. If you were getting error with the library manager (TSM), you would see problems with allocating a channel. I would get with your DBA to do some investigation on this table. The BRBACKUP command just issues Oracle commands und

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Bowers
One more thing. Are any of your database volumes marked stale or offline? It could be possible that a bad DBMIRROR would cause this. Gary On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Clark, Margaret wrote: Did you try deleting by FSID? Laborious, but it works when other methods fail... e.g. (for filespac

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Bowers
Hate to say it, but this looks like DB corruption IMHO. If you have the downtime, or another test server, I would run an audit against the DB. Also, since the error seems to be on the BFDESTROY, you might try setting the trace flag for SHRED. Maybe this will give more information. Gary Itrus T

Re: Need some how-to assistance please

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Bowers
Bill, From what I read on your thread you are only keeping 30 days worth of backups. You may already know this, but the fromdate and todate on the export pertain to when the backup was taken, not the timestamp of the file. I'm sure you know this, but I want to be sure. That said, your current

Re: Need some how-to assistance please

2009-08-18 Thread Gary Bowers
rs to agree on what data needs to be retained rather than everything. This is where e-discovery and content management really starts saving people money. It's too late in your case, but it makes a great argument for the future. Good Luck, Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Aug 18, 2009,

Re: windows client 5.5.2.2 schedules using dsmcad and prompt do not start

2009-08-10 Thread Gary Bowers
Without the errorlog, it is difficult to diagnose. Try starting it in the foreground first. Open a windows command line, and run "dsmc sched". This will give you a good idea of what is going wrong. Also, look at the dsmwebcl.log and dsmsched.log. It could be a simple password issue. To answe

Re: Instaling TSM

2000-11-06 Thread Gary Bowers
This happened to me, and I figured out that there was not enough space in /usr when it installed. The code is smart enough to extend /usr to accomodate the fiels, but doesn't give the extra 16 or so meg to create the database and dsmserv.dsk You now have to manually create the database volumes u

Re: ADSM / TSM Service Companies

2000-09-01 Thread Gary Bowers
my contact information along to you again. I hope to be hearing from you soon. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies Inc. AIX, HACMP, Storage, ADSM Consultant (972) 365-4962 (817) 491-7145 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: Backing up an HACMP Cluster

2000-07-28 Thread Gary Bowers
ng HACMP 2? Just a question. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies Inc. AIX, HACMP, Storage, ADSM Consultant (972) 365-4962 (817) 491-7145 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rosa Leung ( rosal@ibmca tel : (416)-490-5151) Se

Adaptive Differencing?

2000-07-21 Thread Gary Bowers
Does anyone know if the knew TSM 4.1 Adaptive Differencing technology applies to restores too, or just to backups. Meaning if I wanted to restore a file to a client does it pull down the entire file, or just the changes? Also how does this work with DRM. Are just the changes sent across via vir