Migrate TSM server ( Win to Linux)

2011-10-06 Thread Gibin
Thanks everyone for the inputs ... I will try to get in our spare library from offsite to get the job done. :) +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +

Migrate TSM server ( Win to Linux)

2011-10-03 Thread Gibin
The Library we have does support partitioning,but it is packed to capacity with ability to accommodate just 5 more tapes.So i do'nt think a secondary library for the Linux server will help. So Daniel as you were saying i will : 1. Setup Library Manager /client between by New & old TSm servers

Migrate TSM server ( Win to Linux)

2011-10-02 Thread Gibin
We are planning to migrate our TSM server V6.2.3(Win2k3) to Linux Server (Redhat ) ,but the major problem is the availability of a single Tape Library which is currently used by the TSM Production server and all our backup data is held in this tape library. I think ,one of the ways to go a

Backup specific folder only

2011-07-19 Thread Gibin
Thanks everyone .. I will go with Andy's suggestion of using a separate schedule to target a specific folder for backup. Although Gary's suggestion would also solve my problem ,it comes with a lot of administrative overheard since i would have to use many exclude.dir options for each specific

Backup specific folder only

2011-07-17 Thread Gibin
Thanks Paul ,Made the changes in the server dsm.opt DOMAIN E: Exclude "E:\...\*" Include "E:\Oracle\...\*" 3mth_grp2_MC Now only files/folders from "E:\Oracle" get backed up.But i noticed a problem when using the mentioned include/exclude , all the sub folders from all the other excluded fold

Backup specific folder only

2011-07-17 Thread Gibin
On one of our server with C,E drives , i want to backup only the folder " Oracle" in E drive.The E drive has the directory layout as follows: 07/17/2011 04:37 PM 54354365430O46est 06/29/2010 02:31 PM 6,131,936 iis60rkt.exe 07/17/2011 04:37 PM Old Oracle home 0

Reorg in DB2 TSM V6.2.x

2011-07-16 Thread Gibin
The TSM service instance is running with DB2 admin userid and as i mentioned all TSM /DB2 operations are running fine except reorg . Also i see no reorg related information in either "q options" or "q status" , but if i do " q db f=d " , last database reorg is mentioned . This field is just

Reorg in DB2 TSM V6.2.x

2011-07-13 Thread Gibin
We are having TSM V6.2.2.30( Win2008 R2) and the database is in an ever growing state. I have expiration running daily and all other TSM operations are going fine. Till recently , i had DB2 "allow_reorg" ON for the tsm DB and thought the reorg's where happening from the DB2 end.When i checked

TSM DB2 : HADR

2010-12-29 Thread Gibin
I was able to setup HADR between two TSM servers .TSM server AA ( win 2003 ,tsm v6.2.2,PRIMARY) and TSM server BB (win 2008,tsm v6.2.2,STANDBY). There are running in nearsync mode and everything seems fine. But i am still confused about the TSM volhist.dat file . On checking the volhist.da

TSM server reSYNC to other TSM server

2010-12-22 Thread Gibin
This is exactly what i was looking for ... Thanks Rejean!! :D Will try to configure this and let you guys know . +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

TSM server reSYNC to other TSM server

2010-12-22 Thread Gibin
We am using two TSM servers( v6.2.2 , WIN 2003 )and have a tape library shared between them . One TSM server AA is on Prod env and TSM server BB is the DR server. Is it possible to sync DB information , active /archive logs between these servers on a periodic basis of 24hrs or less using TSM

TSM Lan-free backup

2010-11-29 Thread Gibin
we are having a san env with a TSm server ( v6.2) , a client , tape library . The tsm server has complete control on the tape library and uses it for its daily operations. In order to configure lan free data transfer, should i modify the san switch zoning so that the tape library& drives a

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-11-10 Thread Gibin
I restarted TSM server over two times ,but it does not seem to modify the archive log path for me. The size of the archive log folder is still 0 bytes and i have no clue where the archive log files are being stored in this TSM server . the entries in my dsmserv.opt are COMMMethodTCPIP TC

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-11-09 Thread Gibin
I have done the TSM server V6.2.1 ( Win2008) restore using the TSM DB backup from our production TSM server ( Win 2003). But faced some strange problem wherein the active log directory points to wrong location as to defined in dsmserv.opt . error seen after TSM db restore completes : ANR4655

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-11-04 Thread Gibin
Hi Christian , So it seems i am good to go with the new TSM server rebuild except the storage pools. Is there a way to start the TSM server without the storage pools defined? If no other way , i will create the exact storage pool volumes with the same old path and size . Hope , then TSM

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-11-03 Thread Gibin
Has anyone worked on a similar scenario like this . [Wink] Gibin George +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-11-01 Thread Gibin
Bill , So did you overcome the IP address check( v4 /v6) while restoring TDM DB on a diff server ? +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-10-31 Thread Gibin
Thanks for helping out Christian :P . +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-10-31 Thread Gibin
Christian , could you guide me as to how to disable the TSM GUID check while restoring the TSM DB. Or is there any documentation available for this .. [Wink] Would like to try this out soon .. +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gm

Restore TSM server to Win 2008

2010-10-30 Thread Gibin
In my current setup , using TSM server 6.2.1 on Win2003 . I am planning to migrate the TSM setup to a Win 2008 R2 server by restoring the TSM server from TSM DB Tape backup. Can this be done? has anyone tried this out ? Please let me know. +

TSM Image backup -incremental issue

2010-04-13 Thread Gibin
I verified my incl-excl list again ...don't see any mention of the Drive or directories i am backing up .Just to make sure removed all incl-excl options in the dsm.opt and tried . Still no success Also noticed ,image incremental backs up any new directories created in internal direc but

TSM Image backup -incremental issue

2010-04-13 Thread Gibin
I am doing monthly Image backup of a file-system with millions of small files .New file changes in the directory are in the range of 90,000 files per day .Daily i run Image incremental backups on this drive . dsmc backup image e: -mode=incremental Image full backups work fine .ButI noticed a ma

TSM Active Log --- Trouble

2010-04-04 Thread Gibin
I am using TSM v6.1.2 on WIN 2003 R2 Server with 12 client nodes . The active log defined in TSM options file is 10 GB but it is using 39 GB space on the file-system and i had done several DB backups for 10 days now ,still the active log size does not reduce . dsmserv.opt ACTIVELOGSize 10240 AC