Image back-up for file-server yes/no (what is the best strategy)

Hello, TSM-server AIX 5.2, TSM 5.2.4.0 TSM-client W2K, TSM 5.2.4.3 We are looking to connect our file-servers to TSM in stead of ArcServe. As part of this we are also looking for the best DR-strategy. We did some testing with a small file-server (100 GB) and we see no difference in throughput b

Open File Support for which files

Hello, I'm testing with the OFS option on Windows and I try to left some files open, like Access, Word, Excel, text-file on a file-server, but so far I didn't get any open file messages. Now I'm wondering for what kind of files (and when they appear as open during back-up) you can use the OFS op

Re: Problems with BMR on W2K (missing DLL's after restore)

Hello, We did some testing the last days, because we were afraid that our current DR-procedure didn't work anymore on W2K-servers were IIS is running. Restore with TSM 5.2.2.0 client, without first restoring Catroot: OK, but WFP restores a lot of old protected files Restore with TSM 5.2.2.0 cli

Problems with BMR on W2K (missing DLL's after restore)

Hello, TSM server Windows2000, TSM 5.2.2.0. TSM client Windows2000 Advanced, TSM 5.2.2.0, Exchange-mail server After a succesfull back-up of all local drives (C, D, E, F + system objects) and a full back-up with ITSM_for_Mail (TDP for Exchange), we tried to do a full restore of the system. We g

Poor restore performance Windows-client

Hello, TSM-server 5.1.7.3 on AIX 5.2. W2K-client 5.1.5.x and 5.2.x Last week we did a restore of 15 MB and 4000 small html-files. The performance was bad, it took 57 minutes to restore the 4000 html-files and 15 MB. The back-up is very fast. FTP between client and server is also fast. A restore of

Reset serverpassword; what is impact?

Hello, Just a quick question. Two servers: AIX 5.2, TSM 5.1.7.3, one library-manager and the other library-client. We use the other-server defintions on both TSM-machines for library-sharing. Now we want a third server to setup as library-client. But we can't remember the serverpassword we used on

Question about four TSM-servers sharing together a 3494-library

Hello, TSM-servers 5.1.7.3 on AIX 5.2.0.2, 3494-library with 9 drives. We already have a setup for library-sharing between two servers sharing one 3494-library with 9 drives. Now we are thinking of spliting one tsm-server in three logical tsm-servers and spread them also over three physical machine

How to count the impact of TDP-clients on the database

Hello, AIX-server 5.2, and TSM-server 5.1.7.3. A lot of TDP for Oracle clients. I'm wondering what the impact is on the TSM-database for TDP_for_Oracle clients. In the actlog we only see start/stop messages, and the restores and back-ups are done within the TDP-interface. I was wondering if it is p

Lots of TDP_for_Oracle/ITSM for DBS messages in TSM activity log

Hello, TSM server AIX 5.2 and TSM-server 5.1.7.3 TDP_for_Oracle 5.x client-nodes (about 60 small databases) Since the amount of TDP-client nodes is increased we have lots of start and stop sessions in our server activity log and gives us problems by analysing other actions/problems. Our database ad

Archives vs Back-up sets

Hello, TSM-server AIX 5.2, TSM 5.1.7.3, 3494 library 3590 drives. No tapes are checked out of the library, data is copied to a remote 3494 library Our database is growing very fast. For some reasons we have 30 clients that archives every 4 weeks a lot of small files. In my opinion it is filling up

Question about journaling W2K file-server

Hello, TSM-server AIX 5.2, Server 5.1.7.3 TSM-client W2k, 5.2.2.0 The W2K-client is a file-server. Every night the client is inspecting 1,5 million objects, after starting the schedule it is inspecting the objects for about 5 hours and than it is doing the back-up in 2 hours, about 20 GB compressed