problems programming an api for a proprietary application

2004-08-12 Thread Justin Bleistein
I'm researching on a test Solaris tsm client, how to create api's because I have a proprietary application which tsm doesn't commercially, officially support. So I want to write an api/tdp for it. I downloaded the pdf on tsm api programming. I can't compile the api sample application with: "gcc" an

Re: backing up DB2

2004-07-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
DB2 does not have a tdp per say.. It's IBM just like TSM. So all you have to do from the db2 CLP type in: "backup database db_name to tsm". There is other configuration involved obviously to tell it about your TSM server, but that's the high level part of it.. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein U

wierd "q node" output on tsm server

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Bleistein
I did a q node on a tsm test server this morning this is what I got. Any ideas? thanks!. q node ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY NODE Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked?

Re: ANR9999D messages

2004-07-20 Thread Justin Bleistein
Well there's a few things you can do here. 1.) I see you have context messaging on for those ANRDOGG messages, that's a start in the right direction. 2.) You may want to try doing a: "q vol * stg=pool_name" to find out the disk storage pool's physical files/volumes and do a volume audit on each fi

ckpt command

2004-07-15 Thread Justin Bleistein
The TSM server has an undocumented command from what I understand called: "chkpt" or "ckpt". I issue it and it executes without an error message and nothing in the actlog. Anyone have any idea what that command does? I know what a checkpoint does in Oracle. Knowing that I expected that the recovery

Re: define clientaction?

2004-07-12 Thread Justin Bleistein
define clientaction node_name domain=domain_name action=selective options=-subdir=yes I believe that should backup everything not sure though. If that doesn't work you could always: q fi = to see what filesystems are on that node/system. then loop it like define clientaction node_name domain=dom

Re: Priorities

2004-07-08 Thread Justin Bleistein
I don't believe there is any real priority "numbers" for these tsm server processes. There is however tape mount preempt priorities. That priority list can be found in the TSM server admin guide.. Thanks! --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard Availability Services) |

Re: TSM Won't start, lost dsmserv.dsk now have ANR0259E

2004-06-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
You just can't dsmfmt the log. The recovery log is like Oracle's redo logs. It has info in it it needs to recover the tsm server's database. What I always do before any kind of shutdown is of course a full tsm database backup backup of the volfile and devconfig file. The full database backup

Re: Upgrading TSM server

2004-06-17 Thread Justin Bleistein
What's the error you are getting? --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator |-+> | | Joni Moyer | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ARK.COM> | | | Sent by: "ADSM:

Re: TDPO Error message

2004-06-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
First thing is I don't mean to sound like a smartaX%, but has the free trial expired? 1.) Are you trying to run two rman backup streams, i.e. allocating two channels?. I know on some trial versions you can only allocate one channel. 2.) Is this Oracle 8 or Oracle 9? What o/s? 32 or 64 bit? 3.) If

Re: Redefining drives and paths

2004-06-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
Try defining the drives first then the paths. It's in reverse order from when you delete them. Sequence order of events is very important with drive pathing in TSM 5. Also you can try halting and then restarting the tsm server instance. Very last if AIX you can do an "lsdev -Cc tape" to make sure t

oracle 9i/rman tdp with tsm

2004-05-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
I'm trying to setup rman/tdp for Oracle 9i running on an AIX 5.1 system, Oracle 9.2.X.X.X. Now in the Solaris world when I tried to setup Oracle 8i to rman/tdp I had to bring down the tsm instance, like the $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so to /usr/lib/libobk.so which linked to: /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ora

tsm client and server ports

2004-05-06 Thread Justin Bleistein
A little clarification please. Below is an excerpt from the summary table of one of our TSM servers. As you can see below you have the ip address a client node used during it's last communications with the tsm server (backup). Now I'm assuming that on the right of the colon (:) is the port number t

Re: unix tsm client automation?

2004-04-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
PECT utility. Because dsmc does tty swapping for user name and password, you need a utility like EXPECT to script that stuff. You can get it from Sun at http://cgi.sun.com/freeware/package?id=4011 Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Justin

unix tsm client automation?

2004-04-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hello tsm world, I'm automating the Unix tsm client installations for our operations staff. I've created a Solaris package to do the trick and all is going good except for the last part of the package postinstall script I'm writing. You see I can't seem to automate the: "dsmc q sess" comman

Re: Get tape to status scratch.....

2004-04-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
for the "data" tapes try: "delete volume vol_name discarddata=yes" once you do that then try to re-label the tape for scratch again. for the dbbackup tapes you'll have to "delete volhistory" on it. thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein |-+> | |

Re: Database and log format question.

2004-04-28 Thread Justin Bleistein
3 hours? Wow!. What's are the hardware specs of your tsm server? What else is going on, on that system (topas, if AIX, or top)? I would probably consider running either a database audit or re-org, then try mounting it again. thanks! On more thing, are you starting the server up again in the

Re: recovery log filled up

2004-04-21 Thread Justin Bleistein
# dsmfmt -log /path/newlogname 1000 (for 1 gig, make sure your in a fs which has enough space to accomadate 1 gig). # dsmserv extend log /path/newlogname 1000 after it's done formatting restart the tsm server: # nohup /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/rc.adsmserv > /dev/null 2>1& note = you must run al

Re: TSM AIX system backup

2004-04-21 Thread Justin Bleistein
I don't believe TSM has support for mksys but it does have support for sysback which costs money, and it requires nim configuration as well. You could always backup your mksysb image to a disk flat file and backup that file to tsm, but the problem there is you use your system image. Unless you use

Re: Change the default database name on TSM server

2004-04-20 Thread Justin Bleistein
there should be a parameter in the /opt or /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt file called: "tdpo_fs_name" or something to that affect. That value will determine what filespace name your backupsets are all stored as on the tsm server if backedup via that Oracle tdp. thanks!. --Justin Richar

internal tsm commands / not show commands

2004-04-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
does anyone know of any internal tsm server commands which aren't documented besides show commands? I'm trying to put a tsm design workshop together on some test systems and it would be nice to be able to tap into the db on test systems and poke around to see how the server works?. Thanks!. --Just

actlog output ahh

2004-04-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
I'm running an admin script which will do an: "issue message XXX" which sends a message to the actlog unfortunately it also records the: "ADMIN ISSUED command: ISSUE MESSAGE" in the actlog and the actual message in the actlog. BRUTAL, I see both messages and it's annouying. Does anyone know of a

tsm and rman

2004-03-22 Thread Justin Bleistein
I have successfully setup, backed up, restored, and recovered an oracle database using rman tdp for tsm. Now I'm looking for a document of some sort, or maybe someone could answer the following maintenance questions: I'm running RMAN with no recovery catalog to tsm using the tdp: 1.) When you run

Re: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts?

2004-02-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
according to the aix tsm server performance manual it states that it rlv's may buy you performance in client backup and restore operations but not in server data movement operations such as migration. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard Availability Services) Desk: (

Re: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts?

2004-02-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
still takes over an hour for 60 gig and still pushes 16 to 17 gig a minute as seen via topas. thanks: 02/19/04 12:01:06 ANR0984I Process 5 for DEFINE VOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 12:01:06. 02/19/04 13:03:47 ANR2206I Volume /tsmdata9/vol4-60.dsm defined in storage

Re: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts?

2004-02-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
What's the difference between AIX's dsmfmt and TSM's "define logvolume" command? --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard Availability Services) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+> |

Re: okay ...

2004-02-18 Thread Justin Bleistein
-subdir=yes shouldn't really matter if it's excluded then it's included. Verify the exclusion with the following command from the root prompt: # dsmc q inclexcl if you don't see the exclude listed in that output check your dsm.sys/opt file to see what the path of the actual inclexcl file of that

Re: Preview on Move Media

2004-02-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
replace move with q with the other parameters the same i.e.: q media * stg=pool_name days=60 status=full etc. --Justin Richard Bleistein |-+-> | | "Coats, Jack" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ERLIN

database restore

2004-01-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
I'm about to restore a tsm database from one physical site to another. Now on the source/current site the tsm and database log volumes are on AIX raw logical volumes/lv's/non-fs. Now I want to restore this database to the target tsm server at the target site. I assume that all I have to do is

Re: AIX startup of TSM scheduler

2004-01-08 Thread Justin Bleistein
To automate it if you have many tsm client backup schedulers on the same server you can use the: "mkssys" command to setup a subsystem, this way you can use the: "startsrc" and "stopsrc" commands to get the schedulers started and stopped. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Admini

Re: tsm select statement help

2003-12-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
oc, filespaces fs - where oc.node_name=fs.node_name and - oc.filespace_name=fs.filespace_name and - stgpool_name='BACKUPTAPE' and- cast((current_timestamp-backup_start)days as integer)>=60 - order by stgpool_name, oc.node_name, oc.filespace_name -Original Me

tsm select statement help

2003-12-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
Does anyone have an sql syntax/statement example on how to join two sql tables in adsm/tsm? I have two tables in that adsm schema which both contain info that the other doesn't respectively. So I want to join them to get the desired results. I'm looking at Oracle examples on the web none really goo

tsm database roll forward recovery

2003-12-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey everyone, I'm pondering something right now but don't have a test environment yet to test it. Here is the situation: - I have an AIX system with two different types of disk sub-systems hooked up to it via Fibre card/HBA connections - (shark, and EMC disk). - I want to create two AIX fil

Re: Problem with tdp oracle

2003-12-08 Thread Justin Bleistein
re-install the client both the api, ba and tdp software, make a copy of your tdpo.opt, dsm.sys, and dsm.opt before the re-installations just in case. thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein - "Jay" Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard Availability Services) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912

Re: reserve tapes for a primary pool

2003-10-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
you can issue a define volume it's what tsm does automatically when it needs a scratch tape this is just doing it manually... thanks! --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is TSM 5.2 supported on AIX 4.x?

2003-10-15 Thread Justin Bleistein
note of interest tsm 5.1 will run on aix 4.3 if u want to start looking at tsm 5 that is.. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darrius Plantz

running tsm behind a firewall

2003-10-13 Thread Justin Bleistein
wasn't there a redbook out there called: "Running TSM Behind A Firewall" or something like that?. I can't seem to find it on the redbook site. Can anyone point me in the right direction?. thanks in advance.. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856)

Re: how to disable TSM db mirroring?

2003-10-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
If you can afford it try halting the tsm server application and bringing it back online. TSM will do it for you on reboot or report the error... thanks --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large number of files

2003-10-01 Thread Justin Bleistein
there maybe a trade off with a selective backup of that filesystem or an archive since there's no compare operations associated there. You may have to do some benchmarking though to prove it.. thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 -

tsm ftp site client download whoes.

2003-09-02 Thread Justin Bleistein
alright they changed the ibm ftp site again!!!. So my hardcoded ftp script which goes out once a week to check for tsm updates failed once again. Now if I go under the "AIX" directory it shows aix32bit, and 64bit. They're use to be sub-folders for the tsm client under aix according to my hard coded

error message in tsm actlog while checking in scratch tape

2003-08-25 Thread Justin Bleistein
anyone ever see this before in the actlog while trying to checkin a scratch tape?: ANR2033E QUERY STGPOOL: Command failed - lock conflict. ANR0405I Session 107371 ended for administrator ADMIN (AIX). ANRD mmslib.c(7894): ThreadId<79> Test storage volume failed - rc = 142. ANRD mmslib.c(781

select statement needed

2003-08-14 Thread Justin Bleistein
we recover our systems in dr via our backup storage pools obviously... Our backup storage pool is not collocated.. So the data is spread across more tapes. Now is there a report I can run like a select statement which will tell met how many tapes I would need during a point in time recovery (-pitd)

Re: Restore slows to a crawl

2003-07-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
These return codes sometimes I notice them in the actlog and I also notice them when I query a scheduled TSM backup event with the: "q event * * node=node_name f=d" command. Does anyone know where a list of THESE return codes are? A reference of some sort? Not server return codes or Unix scripting

simple tsm reporting tool

2003-07-02 Thread Justin Bleistein
I'm looking for a simple tsm reporting tool to setup a report of how much data each client node respectively is backing up daily?. Anyone have any ideas? thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [

Re: DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Justin Bleistein
it's still there in 5, if we're talking about the same thing here... On the server side there already is a return code for this it's return code: "4". If you type in: "q event * * node=node_name f=d" you will see it under RESUlT. Now if your kicking it off from dsmc which I think u are that maybe a

Re: Fwd: When you get a chance

2003-06-24 Thread Justin Bleistein
If OEM uses RMAN yes it's called: "Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) for Oracle". thanks! --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Hayden <[

Re: dsmc scheduler looping, uses 100% cpu - AIX

2003-06-22 Thread Justin Bleistein
implement dsmcad instead of dsmc sched, it doesn't take up any cpu utilization thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lambelet,Rene,VE

Re: dsmc scheduler looping, uses 100% cpu - AIX

2003-06-20 Thread Justin Bleistein
use the dsmcad, client acceptor daemon (managed services). It stops the scheduler until the backup time is actually scheduled to happen then shuts it off again. We had the same problem but instead of going through client system performance analysis we just implemented cad, and the potential perform

Re: ANR1401W Mount request denied

2003-05-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
do u have a shared library environment. If you do then I bet you restarted the tsm server application on the library manager tsm server and didn't restart the tsm server application on the other server. In a shared environment in 4, both tsm server applications have to be restarted if one is restar

Re: Clear text passwords. Was: Automating dsmserv

2003-05-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
I was just wondering if there was a capability from within TSM to provide an alternative to this or maybe a third party TSM product that's all? thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3485 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Clear text passwords. Was: Automating dsmserv

2003-05-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
hange the password? If you use this option the clear text password in the batch file would be unimportant... -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Clear text passwords. Was: Automating d

Re: Clear text passwords. Was: Automating dsmserv

2003-05-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
any alternatives to running: "dsmserv" via batch mode with the: dsmadmc -id=login -pass=password syntax... I mean it's passwords in clear text so all someone has to do is cat that file and your exposed... Any ideas on how to automate the client-server interface (dsmadmc) without displaying the pa

Re: problem with a su script

2003-04-02 Thread Justin Bleistein
make sure ur not logged into the system in the same shell which started the tsm scheduler when the backup runs if it's started by the tsm scheduler of course. Setup the "COMMAND"s schedule to execute on the tsm server side, then goto the client system and restart the client scheduler (dsmc sched) o

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2003-03-26 Thread Justin Bleistein
I have a shared library tsm environment any ideas???: 03/26/03 23:25:45 ANRD pvrmp.c(1800): ThreadId<48> Attempt to recover volume handle for open volume "VR6136". --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cel

old adsm database salvage commands

2003-03-25 Thread Justin Bleistein
I've been reading and from what I read ADSM version 1 had some database salvaging commands for disaster recovery stuff... Does anyone have a list of these old commands and what they do? Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cell:

Re: Migrating Veritas to TSM

2003-03-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
I would assume restore them all to a filesystem and then back them up using TSM?.. This is sort of a hack way of doing it but I don't see why it wouldn't work just restore one of each version starting with the oldest then backup each one deleting them one at a time in the same mount point thi

Re: Entries missing from summary table

2003-03-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
can we say. tivoli breaks rather then fixes lol --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diana Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: tsm unix client internal request

2003-03-18 Thread Justin Bleistein
that's what I thought, just wanted to throw it out there thanks! --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

tsm unix client internal request

2003-03-18 Thread Justin Bleistein
unusual request: I'm looking either for a c decompiler (if there is such a thing) because I heard once the tsm was programmed in c. I would love to look at the source code of the unix tsm client and possibly the unix tsm server. If anyone has some documentation on the code of the unix tsm client

Re: incremental restore

2003-02-20 Thread Justin Bleistein
perhaps: dsmc restore "/path/*" -subdir=yes replace=no --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xavier Merlin cc:

Re: y+two dots

2003-02-19 Thread Justin Bleistein
try backing them up separately with double quotes around them. --Justin Richard Bleistein Torsten Strecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] G> cc: Sent by: "ADSM:

Re: Please watch this short movie.....

2003-02-14 Thread Justin Bleistein
truedat! Shannon Bach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: Re: Please watch this short movie.

Re: TSM 5.1.1.6 -> 5.1.6.0 ?

2003-02-04 Thread Justin Bleistein
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's possible if you use the dsmserv upgradedb option to bring up the database is that right? --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dsm schedule does not write dsmsched.log

2003-02-04 Thread Justin Bleistein
the directory to which the dsmsched.log file resides could not allow write access to anything in that directory (.). Run it as root/admin, always the best bet. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL P

Re: changing from standard filesystem to raw db vols

2003-01-28 Thread Justin Bleistein
n volume in #3) 3. TSM: del dbvol /path/volname And modify as appropriate for db mirror volumes. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:24 AM

Re: changing from standard filesystem to raw db vols

2003-01-28 Thread Justin Bleistein
this is interesting also any procedures on how to do this from the AIX side of the house would be helpful as well. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: Oracle backup in linux with tivoli

2003-01-24 Thread Justin Bleistein
Just write a Unix script that tsm kicks off with a command action schedule and then have that script put the tablespaces in backup mode, do a dsmc arch of the data files, control files, and archive logs then have it take the tablespaces back out of backup mode. You can get a list of data file

tsm db question

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
Is there anyway to find out like through a "select" statement or something which O/S db volume a specific table is located in. When a I do a: "q dbvol" our database is spread across multiple db volumes/files. It would just be nice to see what volume a table is actually physically located in or spr

Re: tsm backup question

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
thanks for all of the responses to this question. I'm now a bit wiser (well in TSM anyways). Thanks again :o)!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tsm backup question

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
ecify the scale factor (K,M,G,T) when setting this attribute (i.e. update stg diskpool maxsize=4G) otherwise it defaults to bytes! Laura Buckley STORServer, Inc./SSSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

tsm backup question

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
Now I've noticed sometimes when I backup a file which is considered large compared to others it goes right to tape. Here's my situation. I have a SUN system which has an Oracle database on it. When it backup the normal O/S files it backsup right to disk perfect real quick. Now when it hits a

Re: 64-Bit Filesystem

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
I would imagine that the 64-bit client would support anything 64-bit? Just a thought. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qualls, Ted W {P

Re: Time on TSM Server

2003-01-17 Thread Justin Bleistein
tsm> accept date this server command will do it then to confirm from tsm type in: tsm> show time --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Marsh, David"

mtlib output question

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey Fellow AIXer's and TSMer's, The following is the output of the "mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qI" command (output truncated). Now as you know the "mtlib" command is a command which uses the "atldd" AIX device driver to communicate with the IBM3494's database telling you which tapes are physically

Re: AW: tsm database unload question

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
homas Rupp -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Jänner 2003 16:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: tsm database unload question Hey Fellow TSMer's, We were attempting to perform a database unload of a 55 gig TSM da

tsm database unload question

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey Fellow TSMer's, We were attempting to perform a database unload of a 55 gig TSM database yesterday. During the unload the output on the screen said: "number database entries unloaded". How do you find out how many database entries a database has in total. Unfortunately the TSM database u

Re: Database question

2003-01-14 Thread Justin Bleistein
The "dsmserv upgrade" method is an interesting way. I would like to hear other people's input into that. But how we did it when we had to move from one H80 to another is we backed the database up to tape. Turned off H80 1 and then powered up H80 2 and went through a dr procedure on that syste

Re: To Collate or Not to Collate?

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Bleistein
The following reasons could be why ur tape pool is running too long: 1.) Tape or drive errors so the timeout is being reached, you may want to lower your tape timeout paramter and check to actlog for media read errors. 2.) Check the actlog for: "volume XXX needed for backup storage pool proc

Re: web client question, any help would be appreciated :o).

2003-01-09 Thread Justin Bleistein
What it is, is we have our own home grown script which TSM kicks off this script it's written in korn shell (unix). It logs into Oracle puts the tablespaces in backup mode builds an array of data files, control and log files of the database and does a "dsmc arch" against each one. Then when it's do

Re: AIX question

2003-01-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
The ODM is your last resort. I agree. I would try taking the definitions out of all of the classes of the ODM for those disks and then run cfgmgr again or reboot even, to see what happens. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(85

Re: AIX question

2003-01-06 Thread Justin Bleistein
# rmdev -dl hdisk# if that doesn't work then make sure the fibre channel adapter that only has those two disks on it and remove that with the -R option: # rmdev -R fibre_channel_adapter This will remove all child devices attached to the specified fibre card adapter. --Justin Richard Bleistein U

Re: restore to different node

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Bleistein
Retrieving 2,560 /d90/oradata/approd/backup/log --> /d90/oradata/apuat 0/backup/backup/log [Done] Retrieving 512 /d90/oradata/approd/backup/temp --> /d90/oradata/apua t0/backup/backup/temp [Done] ** Interrupted ** ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. <

Re: web client question, any help would be appreciated :o).

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Bleistein
DP client nodes. You can only get to 1581. :( -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: web client question, any help would be appreciated :o). Hey gang, I'm thinking about using the TSM web clie

web client question, any help would be appreciated :o).

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey gang, I'm thinking about using the TSM web client for a customer of mine. I understand how to set up the "1581" port and what not. The only thing I'm confused about is the following. On this one server they have two oracle databases which we back up with two different server instances an

Re: restore to different node

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Bleistein
A better option to use for this is: "-virtualnode" if your able to get the remote node's TSM password. Also try to put double quotes around any path specifications with wildcards. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(85

tsm web client setup clarification please.

2002-12-23 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey gang, I'm thinking about using the TSM web client for a customer of mine. I understand how to set up the "1581" port and what not. The only thing I'm confused about is the following. On this one server they have two oracle databases which we back up with two different server instances an

Re: TSM in a MS Cluster environment

2002-12-12 Thread Justin Bleistein
Hey gang, I'm thinking about using the TSM web client for a customer of mine. I understand how to set up the "1581" port and what not. The only thing I'm confused about is the following. On this one server they have two oracle databases which we back up with two different server instances an

tsm server monitoring products

2002-12-11 Thread Justin Bleistein
Like "servergraph" does anyone have a list of anymore products for this purpose. I'm trying to compile a list of products so that I can review them for our environment?. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912-086

devices and location code question in aix

2002-11-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
Below is output of an "lsdev" command in AIX. Anyone have any good documentation or can someone sum up for me how to physically locate these disks/adapters physically in the system by these location codes in this output. Can anyone make sense out of this. I am mainly interested in PCI readings for

Re: Garbeled output in dsmadmc

2002-11-25 Thread Justin Bleistein
I've seen it with the help pages in some later releases of TSM server 4 but not so much in 5. That could be a separate issue all together though. --Justin Gerhard Rentschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U

unix Journaling????

2002-11-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
Is journaling available on any unix clients yet, does anyone know? --Justin

Re: Any fixes for 5.1.5.1 ????

2002-11-07 Thread Justin Bleistein
there's also one for p690 I think it's 5.1.2 or something. "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any fixes for 5.1.5.1 Sent by: "ADSM:

Re: Tivoli TSM client on FreeBSD??

2002-11-04 Thread Justin Bleistein
I would like the request that client as well. I don't know why TIVOLI/IBM hasn't developed that yet?. How about the RT is there a client for AIX 2.1. I really don't think so. We still use an IBM RT running AIX 2.1 at a Unix kernel design course at a local college and it would be nice to back it up.

Re: Insufficient Recovery log space

2002-10-30 Thread Justin Bleistein
your tsm server is most likely currently down. Execute the procedure I typed up below and this should extend your space. Make sure you have enough space in the filesystem that the log resides in before you try as it will obviously fail. I hope it's AIX because that's what the procedures were create

Re: TSM V5.1.5 Admin Client

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
There was a problem similar to that in TSM 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 I can't remember which. THEY BROKE IT AGAIN?. --Justin Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OM> cc:

Re: restore hangs

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
(tsm server activity log) from the tsm server type in: q actlog begind=today begint=half_hour_before_backup (ex: 03:00:00). endt=now endd=today > file then send me file in an attachement. Better yet get familar with it and do a "h q actlog" from TSM to see how to use it. It's a log of all TSM se

Re: Force Password Reset

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
Well if I'm not mistaken, isn't passwordgenerate suppose to "generate" a new password anyway?. --Justin Mark Baker cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: Force Password Reset Dist St

Re: restore hangs

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
Send me that info I requested in the earlier email and I'll take a look. Thanks!. --Justin Alexander Lazarevich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: G.UIUC.EDU>

Re: VERITAS BMR (was CA - Brightstore Resource Manager for TSM)

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
if it's true it's typical of competing software vendors. --Justin Joshua Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: VERITAS B

Re: continue a restartable session

2002-10-29 Thread Justin Bleistein
Alex, With the level of TSM your at they're have been many issues with process and thread hangs but there is away around it. Oh yes my fine feathered friend!!!. Just go to the client enter the dsmc utility and type in cancel restore and select the restore number to cancel. Or do a cancel res

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