I quite agree with your comments, IBM have regressed with the new
interface, it's much more complicated than it needs to be.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
PAC Brion Arnaud
Sent: 25 August 2005 12:33
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subje
I kinda had the same issues, only 6 tape drives & 250Gb of diskpool
space and a lot of servers to backup.
What I did, which works for us, is all the Exchange & SQL jobs go direct
to tape, they're the biggest in terms of Gb, the rest are staggered to
diskpool.
The Big Exch & SQL jobs are allowed 2 m
I back up ours using NTBACKUP of the Call Manager stuff to a file on the
server, then TSM to do a standard backup of the server.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nancy L Backhaus
Sent: 04 August 2005 14:00
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
S
Kyle,
Looking at the "supported platforms" on IBM's web site, I'd say it does,
at least the Enterprise & Datacentre editions of 2003.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/platforms.ht
ml
However, IBM's web site has been know to be inaccurate before ;)
IB
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I'd be interested in the same info as regards NetApp client data, ie:
NDMP dump backups.
Iain
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John Naylor
Sent: 14 July 2005 10:28
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Long term data retention
Where can I find out what the numerical values in the dsmaccnt.log
correspond to?
Cheers.
Iain
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I have a bit of an issue with the licencing as well, what I find a bit
off is this:
A Windows 2x way box, with MS SQL running on one processor and licenced
for one processor, but if I want to use TDP for SQL I have to have two
licences because there's two cpus, even though SQL only runs on one.
Ho
Checkout this location:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena
nce/server/v5r3/WIN/5.3.1.0/
You'll see a file " TSMCON531_WIN.exe " this is the TOR.
Iain
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence
How about the software assurance site?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
PAC Brion Arnaud
Sent: 31 May 2005 14:28
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Can't get TSMAdminCenter ...
Hi all,
I took a deep breath this morning, and
Luc,
You can get it from the IBM Passport Advantage site:
https://www-112.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/paocustomer/LoginPage?abu=
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto
Jon,
Yes, you can change the MC retrospectively, and / or use multiple MC's
for the same client, so you can have control over the different data
types on a client.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist
I had a similar problem, turned out to be the Qlogic card.
The machine had happily worked away with the same config for ages, then
started throwing anr errors. There was no indication in Windows or
the Dell logs of any problem, only in TSM. Turned out to be the Qlogic
card, updating the driver
as we're looking at migrating from a "wintel" based TSM system to a AIX +
pSeries based TSM system, I'd be very interested in any responses to this
thread as well. Although the OS's & hardware are different I'm interested in
hearing what other people are doing and their experiences.
Iain
__
No worries, I got it from someone else on the mail list.
I'd like to be able to add the FS name to the query as well but haven't
managed to figure it out yet either.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM:
as decimal(6,0)) as -
megabytes,cast(affected as decimal(7,0)) as files, successful from
summary where -
start_time>=current_timestamp - 1 day and (entity like 'ABZ%' or entity
like 'NAS%') -
and (activity='BACKUP' or activity='NAS Backup') -
order by star
KUP' or activity='NAS Backup') -
order by start, node_name
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ben Bullock
Sent: 28 April 2005 23:27
T
Dave,
I'd the same problem, but closed the browser, deleted cookies, etc and
re-tried and got in
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sen
Jim,
We're using 5.21 on a number of Exchange & Exchange cluster boxes with
no problems.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Murray, Jim
Sent:
I did the same thing:
3583 connected via SCSI
Scalar i2000 conencted via fibre
And moved the data from old 3583 to the new Scalar, worked a treat but time
consuming
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of nghiatd
Sent: Mon 18/04/2005 09:01
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST
I use this query to get a report of the backups by node & filespace,
showing the start & end times.
select -
node_name as "Node", -
filespace_name as "Filespace", -
substr(char(filespaces.backup_start), 1, 10) as "Backup Date" ,-
substr(char(filespaces.backup_start), 12, 8) as
I'd suggest making you db a series of small dbvols not one great big
huge one.
4 x 30G vols for instance.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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Jones,
The value of mirroring even on the same disks is as I see it that if one
of your dbvols or logvols gets corrupted/damaged you have a mirrored
copy.
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Paul Fielding
Sent: 07 April 2005 07:26
To: ADSM-L@V
I'd say it would be a good idea to mirror your dbvols & logvols anyway,
even if to the same disks, it could save your TSM server down time. I
don't mirror the diskpool, didn't know you could, but I do backup the
diskpool and would suggest doing that as well.
Iain
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From:
lumes with their own individual TOCs which has speeded up the backups
& restores.
Iain
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ben Bullock
Sent: 01 Apr
rtified
Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning,
RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE
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Iain Barnetson wrote:
>Mark,
>I don't know Rob's situation, b
Mark,
I don't know Rob's situation, but I know that a year a go I had TSM
'dumped' on me, having never had any dealings with the product
previoulsy. It was 4 months before my company finally got me on the
basic TSM course, after much tears & tantrums. During that 4 months I
struggled severly - even
;s no(I
hope)going to be often I have to sit and wait for the TOC to load. It's
on a RAID 5 array at present and I was considering moving it onto it's
own RAID 0 array to see if that speeded it up any.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
7;re saying about the speed of
TOC being better by more smaller backups, at present it wouldn't be
enough for me to go to a Qtree level backup. Unless there's some other
reason?
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From
If you specify a TOC (Table of Contents) pool you can do a selective.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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Yiannakis Vakis
Sent: 22 March 2005 10:29
To
Ben,
I'm kinda new to TSM & NetApp and I'm wondering what the advantages of
doing Qtree level backups are?
I do a NDMP backup of the filers complete which still allows me restore
right down to specific files.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastruct
How about trying to audit them?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Robert Ouzen
Sent: 18 March 2005 09:01
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Question about volume ???
Hi to all
I am upgrading my organization from DLT to LT
1) No choice here but to use Windows, or rather I'd have retired before
a decision was made if I asked for anything else
2) Training? Whats that?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Hart, Charles
Sent: 16 March 2005 15:31
To: ADSM-L@V
Yeah right enough it's 5.3.01
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: 14 March 2005 16:00
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [A
Sorry but 5.3.1 is out I donwloaded it on Sunday :)
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Joe Howell
Sent: 14 March 2005 15:46
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
tell
me about all the tapes in our nasmonthly pool, ie: what tapes hold which
volumes.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Terry McColgan
Sent: 08 March 20
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Iain Barnetson
>Our LTO 1 & 2 tape labels have 8 characters, ie: NN5131L1 or 000152L2.
>When we still used out 3583 library TSM reported the full label, ie:
>all
>8 characters. Now that we're using an ADIC 1sk TSM re
Our LTO 1 & 2 tape labels have 8 characters, ie: NN5131L1 or 000152L2.
When we still used out 3583 library TSM reported the full label, ie: all
8 characters. Now that we're using an ADIC 1sk TSM reports only the 1st
6 characters of the labels.
Originally I thought I'd set up TSM incorrectly but TSM
Can anyone suggest a query to get detailed information on the contents
of the tapes of a stg pool WITHOUT me having to input the tape ID.
I've tried using the * wild card with a q cont query but this wasn't
allowed.
This is to be used with 5.2.4 on Windows 2000 AdvSrv.
The stg in question is a ND
elp gratefully appreciated.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
from the library are stored in the firesafe.
What I'd like to find out is find out which tape contains which
volumes/filespaces data.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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Cheers Andy, I just kinda thought that what you'd put would work. I
never realised there were variables that might need
adjusting.
Anyway, Richard Sims was good enough to point out that the dec value
should be increased.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrato
NR2948E The value '4096000.0' can not be assigned or converted to SQL
data type DECIMAL(7,1).
|
V..
ED as "PCT UTIL", DEC(EST_CAPACITY_MB,7) AS "MB_CAPACITY",
Ruichard,
I tried the SQL query below that you gave, but got an error "where
status='filling'" at the '=' bit
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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appreciate your help with this.
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From: Terry McColgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 04/03/2005 21:49
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Iain Barnetson
Cc: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
Subject: RE: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
Versions Data Deleted and Retain Only Version are
l library and I
just have so many unknowns of how regular processing is done with an
ACSLS library and NDMP backups. If anyone can clear things up for me I
would appreciate it. Thank you!
Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
Work:(717)302-6603
Fax:(717)3
Joni,
Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but
here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly
(thanks again Terry).
Use the move media command:
mov med * stg= wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full
rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER
This command wil
Terry,
That's done the trick, brilliant. Thanks very much for your help.
Regards,
Iain
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From: Terry McColgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 March 2005 17:19
To: Iain Barnetson
Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data
Bear with me here.
Update Stg doe
our toes in NDMP, so I'm not an expert,
but it looks like for that data what we want to keep longer than just DR
purposes, we will need to archive it though an NFS mount, especially
where there are a few files in a whole qtree that you want kept forever
but the rest only for 30 days.
.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
rating?
I suspect backing up 200Gb of data to a single 20Gb disk which is
concurrently migrating the incoming data is perhaps a bit optimistic.
You have 1x 20Gb disk, is it IDE or SCSI? Can you add more disks/faster
disks?
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
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From: ADSM: Dist St
ARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup
the problem is first migration, the backup was stopped. Although,
diskpool still has 20% capacity
02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media.
02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 719,648,279
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Can any one suggest how I can alter this query to show the time and also
for events between specific dates/times.
select date(start_time) as date, activity, entity, successful from
summary where successful <> 'YES'
Cheers.
Iain
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I have my reclaim=100 during the time migration from disk to tape takes
place and the backup of the tapepool, but reclaim=5 all other times.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL
I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big
enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0
lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2
tape drives so isn't an issue for me.
Regards,
Iain
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From: ADS
so that may work if directory level is granular enough
for you.
Ben
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
From: ADSM: Dis
Previoulsy we backed up our NAS nodes via cifs & named pipes. At the end
of each month I took a Backupset of each filespace on the NAS nodes.
I've now moved onto backing the NAS nodes up using NDMP across a SAN.
As I can no longer take backup sets or backup the NAS stgpool to a copy
stgpool I tr
SM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE Image backup problem
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:24:19AM -, Iain Barnetson wrote:
> Thanks for your msg, sarcasim is still the lowest form of wit by the
> way.
It wasn't sarcasm, nor humour. Following those procedures is generally a
g
that actually works, emails bounce back when sent to it.
> > Iain
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Egon Blouder
> > Sent: Fri 25/02/2005 20:24
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [
feedback that actually works, emails bounce back when sent to it.
> > Iain
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Egon Blouder
> > Sent: Fri 25/02/2005 20:24
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject
/02/2005 20:24
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE Image backup problem
>
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully restored a box using a WinPE/BartPE.
> Regarding the guide itself there are some questions I have. I'll
> open a separte thread.
>
>
> Reg
SM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE Image backup problem
>
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully restored a box using a WinPE/BartPE.
> Regarding the guide itself there are some questions I have. I'll
> open a separte thread.
>
>
> Regards
> ..--
>
>
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jurjen Oskam
Sent: 25 February 2005 22:31
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE Image backup problem
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:09:45PM -0000, Iain Barnetson wrote:
> I can tell you that the procedure as it is now DOES NOT work.
Read http://www.
Andrew,
I'll get back to you with the specific details on Monday, I'd already
left for the weekend when I replied to your msg.
I did actually contact IBM, our account manager in the end, to pass on
what I'd found. That was about 6 months ago.
Anyway, I'll email on Monday with details.
Iain
-
ed a box using a WinPE/BartPE.
Regarding the guide itself there are some questions I have. I'll open a separte
thread.
Regards
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Iain Barnetson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andy, Kyle
>I can tell you that the procedure as it is now DOES NOT work. I have also
>alerted IBM to this
Andy, Kyle
I can tell you that the procedure as it is now DOES NOT work. I have also
alerted IBM to this FACT.
Iain
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Fri 25/02/2005 18:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinPE Image backup pr
I tried out WinPE following the TSM document you mention, ended up having to
email our IBM account manager because the doucument is incorrect. Not that IBM
seemed particularly interested, they did say they would correct the document
but as far as I can tell, there isn't a corrected version out
I believe if you stop TSM, then start tsm again in the foreground from a
cmd prompt using dsmserv you can change the admin account that way
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL
Don't know about anyone else but I find the TSM documentation woefully
inadequate, at times misleading, and on at least one occaission
incorrect.
So I hope someone can give the person asking the question a bit more
help the response "RTFM"
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manag
Don't you just love being stuck in the middle of multiple supplier
support teams ;)
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Joni Moyer
Sent: 16 February
lem arose. Tricky to do with only 2 or 3 days DB backups ;)
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EM
I backup the DB each and every day, and before & after any changes, and
keep (now at least) 28 days copies
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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How about:
"Del volhist type=dbb todate=08/11/04"
If you do a "help del volhist" at the TSM cmd, you'll get all the info.
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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This cmd works for me:
Del volhist type=dbb todate=-16
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
T: +44 1224 776913 M: +44 7787 916721 F: +44 1224 776641
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Does any one know how I can get the LTO version to appear at the end of
the volume numbers in TSM?
If I q libvol the volumes in my old library & stg pool have "L1" as a
suffix, but the volumes in my new library & stg pool don't. Any ideas
how to switch this on for my new library or stg pool?
Iain
Can anyone advise me on how to get TSM to show the LTO version, ie: l1
or l2 on the end of tape names.
I've seen it somewhere on the TSM website but can't find it now :(
Cheers
Regards,
Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations
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