extending the log on AIX

2002-03-12 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sigh. Here I am, on my way out the door to 'retirement' when we get a logfull situation overnight. Looking at the log we see, after 5 DB backups (half INCR) it finally clears up. So I'm about to teach my successor how to do DSMSERV Extend LOG when a question pops into my mind about AIX limitati

Re: Point in Time Backups

2002-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
What do you want to accomplish??? There is no such thing in TSM as Point In Time Backups. There is only Point in Time RESTORES. What are you really asking for? (I know Monthly, Weekly, etc) IS A FILE you backup today any more valid then the copy you backed up yesterday IF IT HASN'T CHANGED???

Re: Export Node Mount Waits

2002-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Prather, Wanda wrote: > You can set mount retention to 0. > I don't know of any reason not to, in a robotic library. I know of a reason. A bad TSM version (3.7.x) In observing my 3.7.x system with mountret=0, I have found during TAPEPOOL migration WITH Collocation that mult

Re: No drives available - UPDATE

2002-03-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
If its the same or similiar problem I had in converting from a 3466-C00 (tsm 3) to a 3466-C01(tsm 4) but using the same 3494/3590s then its because your system thinks the tapes are ONLY capatible in READ/ONLY mount modes. Even though you are mounting a tape for RESTORE if you look closely you wil

joe.f. is signing off!! thank you thank you...!

2002-02-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
I have just 3 weeks left of my 17 years here a UC Berkeley and then I will be running out my vacation time until I qualify to retire at 50. And so I say "So long!" I'm taking some time off and don't know if I'll be returning to do computer work. Lately I've been practicing: "Would y

Re: 3494 Tape Library

2002-02-01 Thread Joe Faracchio
Gene, We replaced our twin DLT boxes (7337's?) a couple of years ago with a 3494 and a couple of 3590s and would never go back. Reliability is good. Other than a couple dropped tapes we have not had any robot problems until recently. I'm not surprised. I tune my 3466 to be using the tape dri

Re: Incremental forever -- any problems?

2001-12-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
Nic Would your situation be a good reason for a separate domain and offsite pool that would keep everything on their 'own' tapes?? ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510)642-7638

Re: Incremental forever -- any problems?

2001-12-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
All the previous points about NOT doing fullbackups and only incrementals are good and valid and I agree with them. I want to add what's been said here in the past but missed this time. We are not in the backup business we are in the restore business. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT YOU DO TO MAKE R

Re: MAC OS X Support

2001-12-17 Thread Joe Faracchio
Any update on this information? thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510)642-7638 (w) (209)483-JOEF (M) 5633 On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Richard Sims wrote: >

Re: Point system has me very confused

2001-12-11 Thread Joe Faracchio
This is dis-heartening, confusing, agravating, etc. When it comes to unix and Windows-NT/2K/XP I don't know if its a client or a server. And until hearing this I didn't care. Only cared about how much data in how many changed files they were sending me. So when the 5001 free clients are take

Re: Import Node Question

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Faracchio
Oh .. its server to server and not REAL tapes. NEVERMIND. :-) On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry but I can't resist to ask the obvious: > > Did you checkout the tape from the exporting server and > checkin the tape to the importing server? > :-) > cheers ... joe.

Re: Import Node Question

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sorry but I can't resist to ask the obvious: Did you checkout the tape from the exporting server and checkin the tape to the importing server? :-) cheers ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PR

Re: Pricing Questions

2001-12-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
Has 3466 NSM's stop including 5001 free clients with the setup? ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510)642-7638 (w) (209)483-JOEF (M) 5633 105 days until re

Re: SQL Formatting on AIX scripts - SQLDISPLAYMODE

2001-12-03 Thread Joe Faracchio
Interesting ... maybe even marvelous BUT ... Can you tell us how to SHRINK the headers??? In specifying " " for volume_name I still get the - underlines. Like: --STORAGE`_POOL_NAME- -- -

Re: TSM backups to Virtual Tape

2001-11-30 Thread Joe Faracchio
> The reality is VTS > runs ADSM under the covers, at least that is what the tape drives say. AND ! . would you want a system that's already doing VTS-like logic be using VTS?? ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, U

Re: Full backups again

2001-11-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
I would start by asking the requestor what is the goal???. What are they (really) trying to accomplish???. Then look at the features in TSM and try to match the goal/ requirement with the feature. (archive, backupset, copypool,mirror'd DB, roll-forward log offsite db backups, etc, etc) Seem

Re: Domains Question

2001-11-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
We have two domains. Its a carryover artifact from when we had a 3466 with one DLT-7337 and we upgraded to two DLT robots. Now with our 3494 both domains point to one copypool, tapepool, diskpool. I merged everything during the conversion except the domains. Don't remember it being much of a p

Re: Reclamation Copy Tape Pool???

2001-11-19 Thread Joe Faracchio
It is done magically. :-) well not really. Reclamation of a tape from an offsite pool when not present is done by referencing the same data that's onsite. (can you say: know-it-all DB?) So reclaming an offsite tape X is done by copying the data that is still valid on X from each of the onsi

Re: Help please with collocation

2001-11-19 Thread Joe Faracchio
NO. I don't think so. The offsite pool should not be collocated unless you have a service level agreement that says a file that's backed up has its copy sent offsite withing 12-24 hours. But if you need to do that then why isn't the tape drive remotely IN the offsite vault(like a bank's?)??

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7, 3590

2001-11-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
Try changing a few tapes to READONLY and then doing a move data to scratch tapes. If this works then you've got the problem I had where the upgraded system sees all previous system tapes as incompatible for writing but acceptable for readonly. .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer,

Re: export node or server on cross platform server migration

2001-11-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
on the VM to AIX we started new and fresh. Harassed our users to switch months in advance and kept the vm system around for 2 extra months. On the same aix but DLT to 3590 we hooked up both and pushed on the system to get it to migrate the onsite pools but had to start a brand new offsite copyp

Re: Transferring Filespace Owners Ship

2001-11-14 Thread Joe Faracchio
Yes, I figured out you can do this with EXPORT judicious use of rename node *before* AND *after*. The trick is to 'keep your wits' about it. FILESPACE-X from UserA to UserB. Rename UserB to UserHold. Rename UserA to UserB. Export FILESPACE-X . Rename UserA back to itself from B Rename UserHold

Re: Antwort: Re: ANR9999D with a strange message

2001-11-13 Thread Joe Faracchio
Wanda, LONGSHOT ... You say you audit vol all your onsite tapes. Maybe its not a problem with the tapes but a DB glitch??? ,,, joe.f. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mark Stapleton wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:53:51 +0100, it was written: > >RESTORE VOLUME did not fix anything here.

Re: TSM db backup command

2001-11-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
I didn't see an answer to this so I tried it by specifying this: ba db type=full devc=3590 volumenames=200700,200016 where 200700 is already in the volhist as a db and 200016 is scratch and after a bit of time waiting it started to mount and write on 200016. Hope this answers your question. ..

Re: 3590 - Estimate Capacity question

2001-11-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
Hate to be a bearer of bad news and I may be mistaken so double check. BUT About 1 year ago I got 'harassed' like all heck by our IBM reps because they thought we had B1As and there was a deadline back then to allow B1As get 'head' upgraded to E1As. If I'm remembering that rightly and IBM is ke

Re: TSM annoyances

2001-11-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
cted to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510)642-7638 (w) (209)483-JOEF (M) 5633 149 days until my retirement!! On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Joe Faracchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent

Re: Spill processing please help

2001-10-26 Thread Joe Faracchio
If you are using collocation then you may come across what I've seen. I find setting the LOW migration to a very low number causes the system to take an 'inverse proportional' amount of time to empty. (or whatever ... (I like to call these things 'approaching the speed of light' problem.) What I

Re: reclamation not running

2001-10-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
Try this: ( with a parm of 0 (zero) and change TAPEPOOL to match your setup.) select volume_name pct_reclaim,status,pct_utilized,access from volumes - where stgpool_name='TAPEPOOL' and pct_reclaim>$1 - order by pct_reclaim desc then change the rec= to be something within range. also check devc

SIMPLE 3590/3494 sharing with 2 AIX/TSM(3466) boxes.

2001-10-19 Thread Joe Faracchio
I'm looking for a second opinion, caveats and any "we've been there (and its good/bad)" about tape sharing . Sharing that's NOT SAN stuff. In speaking with a level 1 (1.5-2!) TSM/3466 support person about something else, we got around to the topic of 3590's cabled to two systesm and he said I co

installing a 3590 in a 3494 the hard way.

2001-09-26 Thread Joe Faracchio
Apollogies for being slightly off-topic. (and a lousy speller!) I've been upgrading my system piece by piece this summer and have come up against a stubling point installing 3590s. and am looking for a 2nd opinion. We installed a 3494-D12 last spring that was ordered with the FC9630 feature. Th

Re: Restores

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
If you do change the node name in the OPT file then be sure to only do restores and to avoid any backups (INCLUDING scheduled) until you change it back Gets really messy if you forget. ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic s

Re: TSM 4.1.3 on OS/390

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
When I migrated all my tapes became non-writeable. System thought they were a different density. Mounting them for READONLY was OK but not READWRITE. Had to run a lot of Move data and reclamations to recover. I still have about 90 tapes that are READONLY now but they are 'FULL' so I'm recylcing

Re: Floating Client License Period

2001-08-31 Thread Joe Faracchio
Yes the 3466 comes with 5001 clients. BUT that being said, it should be noted that the 3466's IBM configures and supplies could never handle 5000 clients unless the clients are very small with little changes. As opposed to large and many chaning files clients Also pricing of extra (non-tape-med

Re: Problem deleting a storage pool volumes

2001-08-29 Thread Joe Faracchio
Same thing happened to me. Same solution. I.E> when a move data to same stgpool fails then tryed a move data to a different stgpool and it worked disk to tape worked. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Re: TSM 4.1.3 Server - ExpQuiet Yes problems?

2001-08-29 Thread Joe Faracchio
SIGH. yes another bug surfaces in a new release. I've gotten around it by changing all my commands to include quiet=yes the server opt file option doesn't work. .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors

2001-08-28 Thread Joe Faracchio
We get them all the time and just increase the cleaning frequency and/or put a couple of new cleaning tapes in the robot. ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bruce Kamp wrote:

migration is stopping prematurely.

2001-08-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
Hi Guys! I've been studying my newly upgraded TSM (3.7.2 to 4.1.3) and noticed an anomoly that is different. And wondering if its B.A.D. or a bug that needs fixing. If I have a DISKPOOL at 86% migratable and I change the hi/low settings from 100/99 to 85/70 a migration proceess (or two) kicks

Re: Mixed tapes in a 3494 library

2001-08-21 Thread Joe Faracchio
What if your onsite-TAPEPOOL is one DEVCLass and your offsite-COPYPOOL is a different DEVClass? Combined with defining the library as two LiBR's with different private/scratch cataegories? .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be dir

Re: ADSM Monitor ...

2001-08-21 Thread Joe Faracchio
Also check to see if you have any pending RESTORES. Restores will 'lock' the data on a tape or disk in which attempts are being made to copy or move. ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue,

Re: Housekeeping

2001-08-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
We run on a basis of constant data sent. So a backup stg diskpool copypool is run every half hour or so. Backups are heaviest (but not exclusive) overnight. In the morning its: backup db type=full(takes 1 hour) a backup stg diskpool copypool usually runs simultaneously then

Re: IBM 7337 DLT library question

2001-08-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
We orginally used our 3466 with 7337s and I don't remember any door. (That is the DLT box with 15 cart slots right?) We would routinely open up the 7337 and pull out the tapes after checking them our of the library and replace with scratches. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley

Re: Upgrading ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.2 on Windows NT.

2001-08-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
Lucky you. I got on the 4.1.3 system for 3 days and then found out all the filling tapes from the 3.7.2 system were not mountable in readwrite mode and had to be set to readonly "permanently" until recycled. I'm using a 3494 w/3590s. Sounds to me they changed the internal designation for 3590

Have you heard this before: make them all ReadOnly and start over ...

2001-08-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
Listers!!: THe end note of my migration / conversion from a 3466-C00 w/3.7.2 to a 3466-C01 with 4.1.3 was that none of the original tapes coming from the 3.7.2 system could be opened in read/write mode on the 4.1.3 system and had to have access permanently set to READONLY. Now I have to do a mig

Re: tape drive unavailable WHEN THEY ARE!!!!!

2001-08-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
Thanks for everyone for writing. My mail system was down at the same time so I had to solve it without adsm-l 's help. (But IBM was helpful!!!) - Its the tapes from the old system. They 'appear' to be incompatible with the (same) drives after

tape drive unavailable WHEN THEY ARE!!!!!

2001-08-14 Thread Joe Faracchio
Just moved my 1200 user production system to a new system and I've gotta solve this before my diskpool fills up completely!! I'm having a whole lot of problems with tape mounts and was wondering if anyone can summarize the known problems fixes for this. (what combination of devices.rte and TSM wo

4.1.3 can not handle multi-tape UNLOADDB

2001-08-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
I've just been informed by lvl2 that the UNLOADDB command of TSM 4.1.3 can not handle a DB that goes to more than one tape. How can they ship a 3466 with TSM at a level with KNOWN PROBLEMS! I'm using 3590s with a 30 Gig DB and it stalls at the same place every time. Recommended fix is to go

what does unloaddb/loaddb do about multiple mount needs????

2001-08-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
Well if you've been following along you know I have a new 3466-C01 I've made a test snap shot of my current TSM DB running there and while I'm waiting to do it 'for real' on this coming w/e I thought I'd 'kill' time doing a dry run of possible scenarios. So I am now trying to do an UNLOADDB and

Re: 3466 Migration: ya pays ya money and ya gets nothing.

2001-08-06 Thread Joe Faracchio
Wanda : thanks! NOW - Can a 3466 owner answer this question and save me the cat-and-mouse I'll get from Level 1: What, if anything, and especially in the way of run-scripts, is preloaded on currently shipped C01 's ??? What I mean is, what will I (err, have I) overlaid in the wa

3466 Migration: ya pays ya money and ya gets nothing.

2001-08-01 Thread Joe Faracchio
I just called IBM Level 1 ( dial-a-pray ) and asked for advice about migrating a user population from a 3466-C00 with TSM 3.7.2. to a 3466-C01 with TSM 4.1.x. ANd essentially the answer was: "good luck, we won't help you, unless you want to pay our consultants more money. (P.S

Re: Preschedulecmd on NT question

2001-05-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
I would try : preschedulecmd 'net stop "App Service"' IBM stuff tends to want start/stop quoting rather than 'escape' character use. BTW Can you let us know what you get working??? We want to implement a shutdown/turnoff procedured here to save electrons overnight. :-) cheers! ..joe.f. J

Re: How to make this work ? (One more addition)

2001-05-16 Thread Joe Faracchio
Let me see if I can remember this off the top of my head. 1) checkout all tapes from old library 2) delete library definitions 3) delete drive definitions 4) define new drive and new library 5) check tapes into new library N.B. you are NOT deleting the tapes or the data just checking out. No n

Re: How to delete db volumes?

2001-05-11 Thread Joe Faracchio
The command defaults to midnight. So if the tapes were generated after midnight they you have to say tot=now-0something, etc. It won't let you delete the last one. BTW : I noticed it will let you delete a full and then not its subsequent INCR. BAD you could end up in a situation where you onl

Re: Licencing Proglems when upgrading to TSM 4.1 - HELP!

2001-05-11 Thread Joe Faracchio
does anyone know how this pricing affects 3466-NSM where the box comes with 5001 client licenses??? thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 11 May 2001, Steve Hnath wrote: > Hi Roy

mac client restores failing + mountret

2001-05-10 Thread Joe Faracchio
I just had a weird problem brought to my attention and it got weirder. I plan to call this in to IBM support tomorrow. ASAP. A user called to say he was trying to do a restore on a Mac and it failed with connecting to server. Suspecting the mac restore problem I said try a new folder backup to

Re: Multiple TSM* Servers On Same Machine

2001-05-10 Thread Joe Faracchio
staggered EXPIRE INVENTORY ( to conserve cpu cycles "" DB FULL BACKUP " ... etc Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 10 May 2001, Paul Zarnowski wrote: > The reason I would do it w

Re: AIX Help

2001-05-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING! thanks Frank McClean , This worked! (now can I get it into INITTAB) As you said I did: %vi strtsched "strtsched" [New file] #!/bin/ksh start_sched O dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 & trap start_sched O exit ~ "strtsched"

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
SORRY! I now see the discussion is about offsite=COPYPOOLs and my previous note was about TAPEPOOLS. I never have any offsite tapes go offsite while in FILLING. They only go on Wednesdays and only if they're FULL! AND probably the part about what number you set reclamation to and how it choos

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
I find the opposite with my system at 3.7.2. FILLING tapes are candidates for reclamation. Maybe its the way I do it. I don't set the reclamation to a number far below the first candidate. I use perl. When I have a few tapes with 22% reclaim and that's the lowest (or highest, read: first candid

Re: off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
Richard, Thanks! Now I understand the funny feeling I had while poking at this empirically. I am dealing with something neither fish nor fowl!! cheers .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri

off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD.

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sorry for going off topic but I trust &SMers using AIX can help. I'm looking to 'buy time' until the new system arrives and want to add external DASD ... err I mean DISKS to my AIX-RS6K-H50. I'm going to 'give back' 18 Gig's of SSA to th DB and Staging by using cheap external for one-drive reclam

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
This has not been my experience. In fact its quite the opposite. (I am using 3.7.2 but was on 3.1.2.20 as well.) I can reclamate onsite-tapepools with one drive and a FILE area. For offsite-Copypools I change the rec to 20 every weekend and it reads ever onsite tape to recreate about 20-30 offsi

Re: version 3 to version 4 help

2001-05-02 Thread Joe Faracchio
Great! ... EXCEPT ... it doesn't mention how a 4.1 windows 2000 client can't backup the registery and other "SYSTEM OBJECT"s to a 3.7.2. (non-4.1 server) Is this B.A.D. (broken as designed) ... or a known problem??? Is there an APAR for it??? I'd love to get on the IP (interested parties) list.

Re: 3494 checkin command

2001-05-02 Thread Joe Faracchio
DING! larry's got the correct form (correct syntact to checkl instead of ckeckl) but add devt=3590 I know because we use it ... we don't have an operator i/o station so we open the door and shove scratches into the available slots (less n where n=tapes in drives) but only in desperation.

Re: Can I send one file to two pools?

2001-05-01 Thread Joe Faracchio
pe drives. > I'm told this incurs quite a bit less than the 2x overhead you would > normally expect from making two copies. Does anybody know of a way to get > ADSM (or even just AIX) to do that? > > Alex Paschal > Storage Administrator > Freightliner, LLC > (503) 745

Re: Can I send one file to two pools?

2001-05-01 Thread Joe Faracchio
Did you at all consider COPYPOOLs? Or are you unaware of them? Copypools were made for DR. Just setup a rotational plan to send tapes out as the fill up and reclam on weekends all the ones that get too fragemented during the week. Call me if you liked to here what we do. On the other hand if y

Re: Server pricing information

2001-04-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Checkout 3466-C01 it includes 5000 clients license. I hear that a two processor 1 G Mem and 144 G SSA is around $90K. Maybe less. And I am told this will run twice as fast as my 3466-C00 that is a RS6K-H50 Then all you need to do is plug in a tape media robot. ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio,

client sched backups on *AD/TSM server: AIX

2001-04-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Hi! I'm hoping someone has trampled down this path already. I'm looking for a working solution to running the *SM Client in schedule mode on my *SM server. Call it belts and suspenders. I just want to have an extra backup of my Perl work in case of a disaster. In fact I also EXPORT my CLient

Re: DSM.OPT override question.

2001-04-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Alan Davenport wrote: > One of our vendors insists that their product cannot be backed up > incrementally and insists a selective backup is required. We've > explained that a point in time restore is possible from incremental > backups however they still insist that is no good

Re: Recovery Log

2001-04-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Geoffrey, I think you're right and you're mistaken. Yes its important to seperate crictical volumes especially ones that compliment each other like DB and Log does. BUT It's more important to seperate MIRRORS. Maybe the person at IBM doing this felt they could do one but not both. My 346

Re: Write Protect

2001-04-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
We have been discovering, on a somewhat infrequent basis, tapes that go physically to read-only onthe tab in our 3494. And yet each time I can produce logs that show the file was written on since the last time the robot door was opened/closed. In other words I can only believe that the tab is m

Re: exporting nodes

2001-04-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
I have. I exported some ADSM 2.? users on VM then binary ftp to aix then imported there on a 3.1 ADSM and it worked!! but they were small 1 to 2 gig users. the critical point is to be sure its a binary ftp. ...joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any top

Re: Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status.

2001-04-24 Thread Joe Faracchio
> > I wonder what made this happen hmmm. > > jt I've seen it with db backups I've canceled. .. joe.f.

Re: Full DB log file causing TCP/IP Connection Failure

2001-04-21 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sorry I know its probably too late to suggest this but for the record ... Having experienced something similiar recently I would suggest first trying to just closing the robot door and watching to see if a tape is mounted In my experience my system has refused connections while running a D

Re: Expire Inventory

2001-04-21 Thread Joe Faracchio
Could somebody elaborate on this teasing tidbit? what kinda "problem ... not updating the database correctly" I've upgraded from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2. recently and have not seen any manafestations of this. That I know of. More info would help ... thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Farac

Re: 3466 w/3575 and LTO Libraries

2001-04-20 Thread Joe Faracchio
When it came time to abandon our two (2) 7337-DLT changers (15 slots) we got IBM to 'downgrade' us from a C10 to a C00 and then we went out and talked to a company called "IBM" and bought a 3494 to attach to our *(now)* C00. Sigh ... the only problem was our CE. He wasn't happy and kept standing

Re: When to reclaim copy storage pools

2001-04-18 Thread Joe Faracchio
In speaking about this I'm assumming collocation for onsite and no collocation for offsite. I only send FULL tapes offsite once a week. So with that said Unless you have an infinite supply of tapes to use for offsite you really need to manage its growth. There's other reasons as well. If

Re: Error in Backupset Expiration

2001-04-17 Thread Joe Faracchio
I found it didn't work until I included * * for nodename/backupset, as in : DEL BACKUPSET * * BEGIND= ENDDATE=-14 And that deleted all of 'em! Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mark

Re: Long Term Archive for Databases

2001-04-06 Thread Joe Faracchio
> > On top of this, you're probably archiving, in paper format, the original > stuff that was used to fill the database. The good news about that is you > could actually read the paper 20 years from now. Not if the paper is high in acid content. :-)... joe.f. (Or hi on drugs :-)

Re: re-assigning volumes between storage pools

2001-04-05 Thread Joe Faracchio
You probably don't need the step 5 because step 4 will define it new and therefore readwrite. You can use move data /bf... stg=TAPEPOOL if its gonna get migrated anyway. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Steve Schaub wrote: > First, my

Re: preventing backup of large files

2001-04-05 Thread Joe Faracchio
Instead of by size (don't think it can be done...) try something like this: exclude c:\...\*.vdi (sorry this is probably not the current syntax for exclude but what I mean is exclude all .whatever-video files from entire filespace. .. .joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer,

Re: Behaviour during reclaim

2001-04-03 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sorry, my previous answer assumed you where speaking of offsite pool A quick fix to this (maybe long term in a perl script watcher too) is to make maxscratch zero until it uses up one of the Filling tapes and moves on to the other. I use maxscr=0/max+1 , reclaim to disk-file and a perl program t

Re: Behaviour during reclaim

2001-04-03 Thread Joe Faracchio
And so ... you want to do what some of us do: change to mountl=1 unless / until you doing tape to tape that requires 2 copypool tapes. (reclam's do tapepool to copypool) ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nicholas Cassimatis wrote: > If I reme

SAN presentations?

2001-03-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Apoligies if this is not "on topic." but I received a note from my Vice-whatever saying there was a Dell presentation being given tomorrow in which they will sell us the advantages of SAN. SO I shot back a note to him asking when/why/if IBM would be giving the same presentation that showcases the

Re: WG: TSM Client for OS X

2001-03-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
P.S. 428 is probably more that half my paying customers. I'm charging $10/gig/mth and bringing in $20K each month. And at least 20% of my users are non-revenue insiders. ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Gretchen L. Thiele wrote:

Re: WG: TSM Client for OS X

2001-03-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Ditto ditto ditto we have 428 mac customers that we will lose if TSM doesn't support OS/X And once I lose the macs in a department the pc's will follow sigh ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jim

Re: Admin schedule to Backup DB does not start

2001-03-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
I noticed this same effect but only after moving from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2 Can someone confirm this to be a design change that occured between the two service levels above?? thanks .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Talafous, John G. wrote: >

Re: SAP and 3494 performance.

2001-03-21 Thread Joe Faracchio
Is this 1 client per mig process true if you're using collocate=filespace instead of collocate=yes??? (and, of course, you bothered to get filespaces on seperate volumes) .,.. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Davidson, Becky wrot

logvol full

2001-03-20 Thread Joe Faracchio
It's 1:30 am and I just got a log full msg for the first time. somebody out there say a prayer for me. I'm going in!!! :-) joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley

Re: DB restore

2001-03-19 Thread Joe Faracchio
Good question. I'd like to know from someone that has experienced a restore. Somewhere it implies that you have to have the same disk layout because its a record backup and not logical. Is this true? Is it documented? I haven't found it, yet! ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Program

Re: Longlasting tape-reclamation run

2001-03-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
Just to be clear. We DON'T do a move data to tape or disk. We use the reclamation tape-to-disk (file) feature and then migrate the data back to tape. And so if the do a doc it should include: (4) Reclaim ( tape pool to disk-file and then back to itself) ... joe.f. Jose

Re: Manually "inactivate" NT files

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
that's what we do: 3 months and then delete filespace but we have it as a perl program that runs overnight because it takes a lot of time and cycles. Come to think of it that's the worse time!!! I need to change it from 3 am to 8 pm !!! .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berke

Re: Longlasting tape-reclamation run

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
1000 1-Gig pc/mac users .... it works. ... joe.f. On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Geoff Fitzhardinge wrote: > Joe Faracchio wrote to me: > > >Try using a disk-file area and one tape reclamation. > > > >... joe.f. > > > >Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Ber

Re: Offsite Storage w/out DRM

2001-03-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
DRM? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING DRM! We do it manually. We decided that any/all/only offsite COPYPOOL tapes that are FULL would be sent offsite first thing Wed a.m. We mark them as access=offsite. We have perl scripts that follow these rules. COPYPOOL tapes that are offsite & pending a

Re: 3466 C01

2001-03-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
No but humm a few bars and I'll try to fake it ... :-) On my C10 (now a C00) the DB and log are about 25 Gig and 2 Gig respectively. 'Welcome. On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know the default size of the dbvols and logvols on the 3466 C01? > > Thanks >

backupsets backupsets backupsets

2001-03-07 Thread Joe Faracchio
Neat trick. I 'simulate' a disaster situation and give myself a CD-Rom in which I have burned a (less then 650M) backupset of my last backup and a new 4.1.2 client downloaded from Tivoli. I take it home to my testing maching (no network) and try to 'restore' it. Guess what! The client won

Re: SQL Reporting

2001-03-01 Thread Joe Faracchio
Would a simple Query FILESPACE * also work for you??? ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Shekhar Dhotre wrote: > > hey there try this works for me.. > > 'select Entity,Successful,Bytes,Examined,Affected,Failed from summary where > activ

Re: backupsets

2001-02-28 Thread Joe Faracchio
check the volhist with : Q volhist type=backupset Its there BOY we finally solve the VOLHIST problems of DB Backups with DBSNAPSHOT and now we're having similiar issues with BACKUPSETS! ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Gill

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

2001-02-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Yes and its getting rather annoying ... but we noticed this when we went to ECA015 on our 3466 that's 3.7.2 from 3.1.2.20 ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jennifer I. Moore wrote: > Gentle Greetings, > > Has anyone noticed any situations

Re: DLT Tape capacity - I'm stumped

2001-02-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Or to put it another way: 1) did they tell you the tape capacity is 80G after compression or when NATIVE?? 2) if you compress at the client (and almost everyone does?!?!!) then you will only see NATIVE capacities reported. I've seen this for DLT IV's (35G) in the past and presently I see

Re: Query Scratch Volumes

2001-02-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
Boy! When they say there's more than one way to skin a cat its true . One more: if you sometimes accidently checkin scratches as Private you can find them, along with any truly Private tapes check'd in but not mounted nor used even once with : select volume_name,status from libvolumes

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