Re: How to see TSM device driver mapping with TSM server

2004-10-10 Thread Gordon Woodward
9: to return to main menu 10) Press 9: to Exit lbtest Cheers, Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and de

Excessive SCSI media errors

2004-09-22 Thread Gordon Woodward
r perhaps our tapes are getting a bit worn as most have been stored in the library for the past 3 years and used regularly. Anyone had similar problems in the past? Environment: TSM for Windows v5.2.3 TSM Device Driver v5.2.3 Windows 2000 Server w/sp4 Dell PowerEdge 136T Library Thanks, Gordo

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Gordon Woodward
You can also try using FORCE=YES at the end of the command to force TSM to delete a backup if you know they exist. This is undocument option in our version of TSM, doesn't mention anything of it when doing a H DEL VOLH but it does work. Comes in handy when trying to delete that solitary pesky DB

Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3

2004-08-15 Thread Gordon Woodward
we'll be upgrading to 5.2.3 hopefully but as we also did a server move as well, we did the upgrade in two stages. I've written up some detailed instructions on the steps I did, I can give them to you if interested. Cheers, Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support

Changing fileserver directory structure and TSM

2004-08-10 Thread Gordon Woodward
We are currently looking at making a slight change to the directory structure on our main fileserver (win2000), primarly moving all our workgroup directories to the root of the drive they are on (removal of two redundant parent folders). I can probably already guess what the answer will be but I

TSM 5.2 Upgrade and Maintenance releases

2004-08-05 Thread Gordon Woodward
upgrade later? I only want to do one upgrade but can't find any information on the IBM support website. Thanks, Gordon Woodward -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notif

Re: Upgrade TSM 4.1 to TSM 5.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ??

2004-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
Jesse, I don't use AIX sorry so can't help you there but Paul Zarnowski talked about his upgrade back in February which sounds similar to yours. Checkout the following link for more info: http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0402/236.html Hope it helps. Gordon Woodward Wintel Serv

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
retained, forcing us to upgrade to a much bigger library for little gain. Our library is already at near capacity, don't think management would want to spend $10 on a bigger library. Cheers, Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Gordon Woodward
just run incrementals. Our database doesn't grow as rapidly anymore and we don't chew through as many tapes. I'm thinking of now creating a second TSM instance and have that running exclusively for our monthly backups to take the load off our day to day operations. Gordon Woodwar

Re: Emergency .. HELP

2004-07-15 Thread Gordon Woodward
There is a command that TSM has which does all this for you. Look in the admin or reference guide for the define dbbackuptrigger, that should do what you're after. Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELL.COM

Re: Upgrade...

2004-07-12 Thread Gordon Woodward
are going to need an original 5.2 CD though for licensing. Hope that helps. Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERLING.COM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc:

Re: Log file filled up -- how to extend? -- URGENT!

2004-07-11 Thread Gordon Woodward
. It took longer then normal for the server to start up again after extending the log, I wasn't looking forward to restoring the database if the server was cactus. Glad you got your problem fixed too! Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support [EMAIL PROT

Maximum database volumes?

2004-07-07 Thread Gordon Woodward
Before I upgrade our TSM server to v5.2 (seems to be taking forever to do due to small outage windows) I want to reorganise our database volumes so they are a little more efficient. Is there any recommended maximum number of database volumes a TSM database should have? Ours is spread across abou

Re: A quick question

2004-07-06 Thread Gordon Woodward
to use Imation LTO's though. Cheers, Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: EDU S

LTO estimated capacity drops

2004-06-29 Thread Gordon Woodward
Just analysing our TSM install today as tapes have been getting chewed up quicker then normal, despite no confuration changes being made at server or client side. We have client-side compression turned on (hardware off) and we were getting about 140-180Gb of data on each tape before they being m

Re: move TSM server

2004-06-27 Thread Gordon Woodward
mt -data "F:\TSMVOLUMES\ARCHIVE\DATA1.DSM@" 2 b.dsmfmt -data "F:\TSMVOLUMES \ARCHIVE\DATA2.DSM@" 2 c.dsmfmt -data "F:\TSMVOLUMES \ARCHIVE\DATA3.DSM@&qu

TSM 5.2.2 & Dell PV136T libraries

2004-06-17 Thread Gordon Woodward
BM Devices 3570, 3590, and Ultrium: Required Minimum Level for Device Drivers Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the send

Re: Licensing issues when moving server

2004-06-09 Thread Gordon Woodward
like your new installation is missing this license authorization file (I don't know it's name, maybe other HP-UX users do?). Did you compare the TSM installation directory with the one on the old server? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From:

Licensing issues when moving server

2004-06-08 Thread Gordon Woodward
stalling TSM off the new server and reinstalling? In the end I had to rollback to the old TSM server and have another crack at it tomorrow. Thanks in advance Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the in

Re: Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Gordon Woodward
We do our offsite vaulting slightly differently. We run two TSM servers, each located at different locations, and use one of our TSM servers purely for offsite storage. Each server is a 'server node' of the other and backup each TSM database to the other server. After each nightly backup, we cop

Re: TSM extended edition question.

2004-06-02 Thread Gordon Woodward
Wow I didn't know that, good thing I found out now and not later. I can assume upgrading from TSM v4.2 to TSMee v5.2 is no different to upgrading to standard TSM v5.2? Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] A.NETTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TSM server migration steps

2004-05-24 Thread Gordon Woodward
I'm just about to move our two TSM servers (v4.2.2.0) to new W2K server boxes, before upgrading to TSM v5.2, and have written up a detailed process on what needs to be done to move the TSM server to new machines. I was hoping someone could look over the process I have written up and check if th

TSM Server Upgrade

2004-04-14 Thread Gordon Woodward
Hi, I'm just to embark on a project to upgrade our TSM server from v4.2.2.5 to v5.2 on a windows platform. Part of this upgrade is to also migrate the TSM server installation to a new Dell server as the current server is only a NT4 and we need to upgrade it to Windows 2000. I've been trying to

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-14 Thread Gordon Woodward
I think that makes sense Deon, I'll change the management class settings and then move the files manually to the correct storage pool. Thanks for the info. Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] OM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-13 Thread Gordon Woodward
en you probably have scheduling issues John Gordon Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@vm.marist.edu> on 10/10/2003 12:23:15 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-13 Thread Gordon Woodward
on the type of collocation. If you have multiple filling tapes for the same node/filespace then you probably have scheduling issues John Gordon Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@vm.marist.edu> on 10/10/2003 12:23:15 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROT

'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-09 Thread Gordon Woodward
tape a day, I don't want it to keep stealing all available scratch tapes for itself as our tape library is already at capacity. Thanks in advance! Gordon Woodward -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have rece

Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups

2003-07-28 Thread Gordon Woodward
ment Class the Notes data is allocated to has Copy Serialization set to 'Shared Static'. Would changing this to Dynamic be beneficial in reducing the amount of retries that occur and also setting CHANGERETRIES to a lower option help? Thanks in advance, Gordon Woodward Senior S

Multiple mounts for reclaimation/stgp backup

2003-07-28 Thread Gordon Woodward
o our DR server as it only every uses one session when reclaiming our OFFSITE storage pool or send data to it. Thanks in advance. Gordon Woodward Senior Support Analyst Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited IT Infrastructure Ph. (02) 9249 9648 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail may co

Virtual Volumes & Storage Pools

2002-12-09 Thread Gordon Woodward
Can anyone tell me how you define what storage pools a SOURCE server uses on a TARGET server when doing SERVER to SERVER operations? I've tried looking for the answer in the TSM Admin Guide and searching this list but to no avail. Currently we have a Primary TSM server and a Backup TSM server, w

Re: Offsite Archives & DRM

2002-07-26 Thread Gordon Woodward
Thanks for the reply Paul, strangely enough your original reply never reached me through the mailing list. From the information you have given me it looks like we are in a bit of difficulty as Tivoli Storage Management was originaly sold to us under the premise that it would be able to do this

Offsite Archives & DRM

2002-07-23 Thread Gordon Woodward
only want to refer to these tapes for the data stored if ever these was the need restore from them. Is there a way to configure TSM so we can move the data to a copy storage pool to use with DRM without having to also retain copies of this same data within the library system on another bunch of

Re: Problems with moving tapes OFFSITE

2002-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
Thanks for the reply Mark, read below to answer some of your questions: You have several different issues here to deal with. First and foremost are you licensed to use DRM, it is a separate purchasable product. If you are then I highly recommend that you configure it and use it to its fullest.

Problems with moving tapes OFFSITE

2002-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
ccessfull in using DRM to remove a tape from our library was when I performed a manual dbbackup of our database to tape. All other tapes are simply ignored when querying the DRM. Thanks in advance for any help. Gordon Woodward Deutsche Bank (Australia) -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/