Re: TSM Accounting

2005-05-12 Thread Luke Dahl
We pull this in daily and append a SQL database - excellent for reports and trending. Definitely worth doing if you've got a few minutes to put it to good use. Luke Rob Hefty wrote: Hello all, After flipping through manuals I stumbled upon this option and I am curious how many other admins were us

Teradactyl TiBS product

2005-03-22 Thread Luke Dahl
Anyone evaluated Teradactyl's TiBS product? Received some information - looks like a possible good solution to handle AFS backups. If you've evaluated it, I'd appreciate any thoughts. Thanks! Luke

Re: Delete Node & Filespace

2005-03-22 Thread Luke Dahl
Not unless you restore your database to the day of or a day prior to deleting them. You may wish to generate a backupset for each node before deleting them. Luke Norita binti Hassan wrote: Hi, I want to remove a few nodes that is currently not in use. In order to delete it, I have to delete the f

Re: Windows client keeps asking for password

2005-01-26 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi Eric, You may need to check the permissions of the registry itself. We ran into this not too long ago. Get into regedit and follow the path you specified down to a folder level (IBM or ADSM should do). From the main menu, select Edit > Permissions to allow you to correct the registry permi

Re: I cannot se 3583...Please Help

2004-08-25 Thread Luke Dahl
If you're running EFC to manage your zones, you have to add the devices to the zone, add the zone to the zoneset, and activate the zoneset. If you're not running EFC you can verify the zone and members from the command line of the switch. Also, are your switch settings correct for each port? Spe

Re: TSM, Solaris and Fibre connected drives ?

2004-04-15 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi Farren, A quick update on our implementation. We attached five 3590H1A drives to a Sun 420R successfully in our 3494 library. You must update all volumes to readonly, delete your existing paths, possibly delete the drive entries (not sure on that one) and setup a zone for your system hba a

Re: ?continue using 3590's or convert to LTO tape?

2004-04-05 Thread Luke Dahl
We're keeping our existing 3494 with eight 3590H1A's to handle workstation and smaller size node backups (being we're heavily invested already). We've just ordered and received a 3584 with six LTO2 drives to handle our increasing demand for offsite media copies as well as large server/node backups

Re: TSM, Solaris and Fibre connected drives ?

2004-03-31 Thread Luke Dahl
to which host (using the WWN), but as > far as I'm aware, you don't do any such thing with drives. > > Do you know of any decent TSM documentation that covers this at all? > > Thanks > > Farren > |+---

Re: TSM, Solaris and Fibre connected drives ?

2004-03-31 Thread Luke Dahl
ilable to which host (using the WWN), but as > far as I'm aware, you don't do any such thing with drives. > > Do you know of any decent TSM documentation that covers this at all? > > Thanks > > Farren > |+---+--

Re: TSM, Solaris and Fibre connected drives ?

2004-03-29 Thread Luke Dahl
We're doing exactly the same thing now only we're on TSM 5.2.2.1. Just finished some preliminary testing. TSM still uses the /dev/rmt/*st entries for the drives. There are two "st" entries for each drive being they have two fiber ports. We had some issues with our fiber cards not supporting the

Re: Expiration after TSM upgrade from 5.1.6.4 to 5.2.2.1

2004-03-26 Thread Luke Dahl
; 60 objects per second. > I posted a question some time ago (2002) where I requested for other > people's performances, Tom Kauffman was the winner at that time with a > dazzling 3112 objects per second! > Kindest regards, > Eric van Loon > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines > &g

Re: Expiration after TSM upgrade from 5.1.6.4 to 5.2.2.1

2004-03-25 Thread Luke Dahl
ote: > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Luke Dahl > >We upgraded our TSM Server (Solaris 9) from 5.1.6.4 to 5.2.2.1 last > >week. Prior to the upgrade our expiration usually lasted about 24 > hours > >(53Gb database). It would g

Expiration after TSM upgrade from 5.1.6.4 to 5.2.2.1

2004-03-25 Thread Luke Dahl
g in expiration processing in 5.1.6.4 but may have missed something. Thanks for your thoughts and input. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Unload/Reload Results (Solaris) 5.1.6.4

2004-02-17 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi All, FWIW, the results of an unload/reload operation over the holiday weekend. Unload was performed to a file devclass, which was defining a NFS mount point on a NetApp filer. Both systems have Gig-e interfaces. The time to unload was 17 hours and 48 minutes. Formatting the recovery log t

Re: Configuration and Expansion questions

2004-02-09 Thread Luke Dahl
We've got our 3494 library connected via rs232 as well as LAN - no problems there. Luke Steve Harris wrote: > Can't the 3494 be configured to communicate via rs232 as well as LAN? > > That might satisfy the requirement in this case. > > Steve Harris > AIX and TSM Admin > Queensland Health, Brisb

Re: TSM on Solaris Performance (over SAN network)

2004-01-30 Thread Luke Dahl
Francisco, We're very close to depoying TSM 5.2 on a Sun V480 with a 3510 StorEdge array attached via IBM2109 switches. Once we've jumped through the hurdles and have it running I'd be more than happy to provide you with some detailed performance information. Our initial tests show the design

Mac OS X client

2003-11-17 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi All, Just wanted to make you aware that the OS 10.2 client has some obselete function calls in it. According to: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ATSUI_Legacy/atsu_legacy_Reference/FunctionGroupIndex.html the tsm client is using a ATSUMeasureText call that is not s

Re: Upgrading IBMTape and lmcpd drivers

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Dahl
ifferential SCSI > adapter in the E250). Can I assume that your system uses fibre attached > drives? > > Many thanks > > Farren Minns > |+---+| > || Luke Dahl

Re: Upgrading IBMTape and lmcpd drivers

2003-11-03 Thread Luke Dahl
x27;s what the manual says). Hope this helps. Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117 Farren Minns wrote: > Hi All TSMers > > Running TSM 5.1.6.2 on a Solaris 2.7 server. > > This coming week we are having our two 3590 tape drives (housed in an IBM > 3494 libra

Solaris 5.2 client memory

2003-10-28 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi All, Noticing something fishy - the 5.2.0.0 solaris tsm client seems to grab nearly all the memory on a system and doesn't free it up after backup completion. Anyone else seen this? Seems to require a system reboot (client system) to free up the memory again. Solaris 9 on both TSM Server 5

Re: TSM Backup client Mac osX

2003-10-09 Thread Luke Dahl
There's no fix - I believe it's been officially requested though. Even worse is the requirement to have a user logged in for scheduled backups to run, how ridiculous. Luke Bruno Dostie wrote: > TSM Backup client Mac osX root passwd asked at client startup. how to > bypass? > > I have installed

3590H1A SAN Solaris drive issue

2003-09-29 Thread Luke Dahl
NE PATH: The device type of drive 0H is not supported in 349X libraries. 09/26/03 11:37:24 AM ANR2017I Administrator LDAHL issued command: DEFINE PATH TSM05 0H SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE LIBRARY=3494 DEV VICE=/dev/rmt/Oh ONLINE=YES 09/26/03 11:37:24 AM ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessi ing drive 0H. So is 0h an accepted device driver? I'm up against a wall here. Thanks everyone. Luke Dahl Service Engineer, JPLIS Backup/Recovery NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Server Down - Urgent Request

2003-06-23 Thread Luke Dahl
t the same time... Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-645-5684

Re: TSM Client Software Fixes URL/FTP site

2002-12-05 Thread Luke Dahl
Start here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ Luke Gerald Wichmann wrote: > Whats the URL or FTP site these days to download client fixes? I've been > jumping around the new ibm site and it made me register, but hasn't provided > me with a password (say

Re: Database Questions

2002-11-20 Thread Luke Dahl
-loaded server might be disastrous for performance. For small servers > might be just fine. Your server with 35 GB DB does not fit in second > category. > - "sessions running for hours" sounds terrible. What is DB cache hit > ratio? Do you have DB volumes on Veritas filesystem?!? &

Re: Database Questions

2002-11-20 Thread Luke Dahl
r performance. For small servers > might be just fine. Your server with 35 GB DB does not fit in second > category. > - "sessions running for hours" sounds terrible. What is DB cache hit > ratio? Do you have DB volumes on Veritas filesystem?!? > > Zlatko Krastev > IT Consu

dsmc and NFS

2002-11-20 Thread Luke Dahl
think if I'm specifying the file I needn't worry about it. It would seem like it only pertains to the scheduled backups. Correct? Is it possible to run two TSM clients on Solaris (2.8) with them each having a scheduler daemon running? If so, I'd appreciate any information on

Raid 5 or 0?

2002-11-11 Thread Luke Dahl
igure... Performance seems quite slow with RAID5 and we have a development box we're going to throw this at. Any thoughts or recommendations are much appreciated. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Database Questions

2002-11-07 Thread Luke Dahl
Any thoughts? Many thanks in advance. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

IMAP Mail Server Issues - Management Class Question

2002-08-28 Thread Luke Dahl
pacity. Anyone else backing up IMAP mail servers or facing similar issues? Any thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated! Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Mac OS X Scheduler Daemon

2002-06-18 Thread Luke Dahl
e the scheduler daemon is installed. Just thought I'd pass that along and see if anyone has any thoughts, success, etc. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Deleting a portion of a filespace

2002-06-05 Thread Luke Dahl
s02lib/... After the project has been terminated they would like us to delete the mars02lib but still retain all of the other libraries under /data. Any suggestions/advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks! Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Re: AFS-clients

2002-02-27 Thread Luke Dahl
Are you trying to backup an afs server or the afs drive on a system? Luke brian welsh wrote: > Hello, > > We are looking to backup a RS/6000 server with JFS and AFS filesystems. > Do you have to install the AFS client besides the standard AIX client? Or > can you use the standard AIX client and

3494 Library/Drive Problem

2002-01-18 Thread Luke Dahl
l Prefix ADSM Library 3494 Directory - Server Name- Retry Period - Retry Interval- Server two is exactly the same. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

3494 Library Sharing w/o SAN

2002-01-04 Thread Luke Dahl
nection to the library is SCSI. If anyone can offer any assistance I would very much appreciate it. Have a great weekend! Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Collocation - on or off

2001-11-15 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi, We're trying to determine if we should use collocation on a system we plan to put into production shortly. My question is whether or not it's possible to turn collocation on and specify the number of nodes assigned to a tape. The reason I ask is because we expect the addition of approxim

Re: Emailing results of client backup and archives to contacts from OS/390 TSM server

2001-09-24 Thread Luke Dahl
could be easily ported to OS390. I can provide further information if you like. Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mark Stapleton wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:31:14 -0600, it was written: > >We have recently installed a TSM 4.2.0 server on OS/390. We are > >interested in ema

Mac Client Question

2001-09-20 Thread Luke Dahl
password to authenticate onto the server. Or, better yet, can anyone tell me a better way to automate Mac client installations? Thanks in advance, Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Win2k Exclude List

2001-07-16 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi, Does anyone have an example exclude list for Win2k that will basically exclude the entire OS and all OS specific files? We're trying to eliminate backing up all unnecessary files/folders that will be restored as part of a separate recovery. Thanks in advance! Luke Dahl NAS

Database Size Issues

2001-07-16 Thread Luke Dahl
nyone have any information on this or have any idea how to find out without starting with an empty database and adding x number of nodes? Any information would be extremely helpful! Thank you all! Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

Re: Upgrading to 4.1

2001-06-14 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi Thomas, If you find any information you deem helpful could you please send it my way? We're doing the same thing and are looking for any assistance we may find. Luke Dahl 818-354-7117 "Thomas A. La Porte" wrote: > Platform: AIX 4.3.2 > ADSM: 3.1.2.50 > > We

Re: TSM 4.1 bug???

2001-05-14 Thread Luke Dahl
I'm receiving the same error messages for all Win2K clients, even though most have only had the 4.1.2.12 client installed. Our server is AIX 4.3.2 and TSM 3.1 right now. Please let me know if you find anything else out... Thanks! Luke Dahl NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117

*SM upgrade documentation/test plan?

2001-05-08 Thread Luke Dahl
.1 to 3.7.1 and then to 4.1.2 on an AIX machine. Test plans for any OS would be helpful! Thanks in advance. Luke Dahl 818-354-7117 Backup/Recovery Team