Re: Identifying nodes per MgmtClass

2006-08-28 Thread Miller, Ryan
You can run this query to get that info for backups: Select distinct node_name,class_name from backups For archives, just change backups to archives Ryan Miller Tivoli Certified Consultant Principal Financial Group -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Simple ISC web interface console.

2006-08-19 Thread Miller, Ryan
When looking at your list of TSM servers in the Storage Devices menu, click on the underlined name of the server you want adjust the script on. This will bring up the server properties screen below. There you will see a link to your scripts. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certi

Re: Mount and write to a specific tape

2006-08-18 Thread Miller, Ryan
You could run a DB backup and choose that particular volume. If you still have troubles, try checking the tapes back into TSM and use the overwrite label option. I have had brand new tapes come in before with electronic labels that did not match the physical label. Ryan Miller Principal Financ

Re: Retention Request Problem

2005-07-15 Thread Miller, Ryan
This will not produce the desired outcome from the request. We have used this option when it is appropriate, but all this produces is a TSM server archive of the client, in other words, all you end up with is what the client looked like at the last backup (a backupset only copies over the active f

Re: Retention Request Problem

2005-07-15 Thread Miller, Ryan
We have had to do several 'saves' like this for similar issues, we have used a variety solutions but it sounds like the easiest thing for you would be to create a new domain. The problem with this, or any other solution, short of restoring all data prior to June 15th and then archiving it again, i

Re: remote vaulting

2005-07-06 Thread Miller, Ryan
What info are you looking for, we have had a remote vault for 5 years -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pugliese, Edward Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: remote vaulting You could use se

Feedback on TSM running on Sun/Solaris

2005-05-13 Thread Miller, Ryan
We are looking at moving our TSM infrastructure from zOS to a distributed platform. I would like any positive or negative feedback on TSM running on a Sun/Solaris environment. Primarily I would like feedback from large TSM users, over 500 TB of TSM data, nightly backups over 5 TB, 2000 clients

Re: Changing copypools

2005-04-05 Thread Miller, Ryan
I don't know if there is a change in 5.3 as we have not upgraded yet, but I just went through this process in November/December when we upgraded our tape environment. The only option was to backup data from the primary pool to the new copypool, just like you stated. The good/bad news(depends o

TCP settings for Jumbo frames

2005-03-23 Thread Miller, Ryan
Here's a question from one of my cohorts, since this is our first try at this, I thought I would see if I could get any input from anyone else doing this. We have been testing jumbo frames(8990) using TSM on an AIX client. The base line test with MTU of 1500 moved 22G in 44 minutes. Changing th

Re: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas?

2004-08-23 Thread Miller, Ryan
Is compression being used offsite & not onsite? Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John C Dury Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 12:27 PM To: [E

Re: Question about recovery log

2004-03-26 Thread Miller, Ryan
Roger makes an EXCELLENT point that everyone should follow, I found out the hard way as I had a recovery log fill up and only had 100 MB for emergency, it wasn't enough and I ended up spending 8 hours restoring a TSM server. I now follow the practice of leaving the emergency space, everyone sho

Re: TSM, 3494, manual mode...?.

2004-03-18 Thread Miller, Ryan
On a side note, a way I have found useful to free up a drive when the process wouldn't cancel is to mark the volume the drive has to unavailable in TSM. TSM will immediately stop the process and free the tape. At least that works for my environment of TSM on Z/OS. Ryan Miller Principal Fina

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
We are still at 5.1.6.1, next upgrade scheduled for 2Q04, so I guess I will have it then. I could use it to accomplish this migration, but I think it would be lengthy process, considering I can probably move around 1 - 2 TB daily. The idea of moving off of OS/390 is because we are taking too

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
Bill, Thanks for the info. It looks like we may have an interesting time ahead for us. If ex/import is the only way to go I'm not sure if even the incremental ex/import feature, if IBM ever comes out with it, will help us. Leaving the data behind is not feasible, we need to have 24 hour access

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
Were your libraries and tape drives managed by CA1 on the mainframe, if so, could the same volumes be recognized by the new media manager on UNIX. My fear is having to convert or move 270 TB of data already on tape. Or did you not move any data from the OS/390 side and just start with fresh ba

Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
I know I have seen other messages about this before, so I hope I can find some info. We are looking into migrating our TSM servers off of Z-OS and I would like to know if any one else has done this and if they have useful tips and maybe even a high level document of the process? Thanks! Ryan

Re: Problem Restoring Netware

2003-07-31 Thread Miller, Ryan
What was the exact error? This could be a rights issue or space issue or quota limit issue -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Fitzgerald Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Restoring Netw

Re: Inquiring minds want to know.....

2003-07-01 Thread Miller, Ryan
It is the number of seconds, amount of time, that the volume has been mounted. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inquiring minds want to know. While I like the list of tapes

Re: Client backups in MediaW state

2003-06-19 Thread Miller, Ryan
increase your disk pool, thats the best solution -Original Message- From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client backups in MediaW state We often run into this situation: Client backups normally go to the disk st

Re: Maximum number of DB volumes

2003-06-16 Thread Miller, Ryan
Not 100% sure about running on AIX, but we run 17 TSM servers on OS390 and have some running 30 DB vols at 2.4 GB per vol, we have no degradation from it. We have been running this way from all v 4.1 up to v 5.1.6. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Sto

Re: MediaW

2003-06-10 Thread Miller, Ryan
Are you using collocation? If so, each session will want the same tape. When you Q SESS, you should see which tape each session is trying to mount, or has mounted. -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: HELP!!! EMERGENCY!!!

2003-04-04 Thread Miller, Ryan
Joni, I had left you a v-mail, thought you would like a quick response. We also run OS/390 r2.10, and have several TSM servers. When we were still on 4.1 code we had this happen frequently. IBM was never able to find a cause or solution. However, when we upgraded to 4.2 and now 5.1 the proble

Re: How many copies in copypool?

2003-04-04 Thread Miller, Ryan
TSM will recognize which, if any, of your data is different and backup only the different data, it won't make a second copy. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: OS390 SELFTUNEBUFPOOLSIZE yes/no?

2003-02-17 Thread Miller, Ryan
You can check the size of your buffer pool by querying your server options. q opt Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9

Re: Future of mainframe TSM

2003-02-07 Thread Miller, Ryan
This will depend on the size of your mainframe, we run on OS/390, we have 6 systems running 9 LPARS, plus some extra LPARS for other workload. We have 15 instances of TSM running on various systems and run up to 8 of these on one LPAR at any time. If you want the exact size of our systems and

Re: DB Backup question re: Incremental vs. Full

2003-02-04 Thread Miller, Ryan
We do this on some of our larger TSM servers and it works fine, have been performing full backups to tape and incrementals to one of our VTSs. Works fine and have performed DB restores from these backups also. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage

Re: extending archive retentions

2003-01-22 Thread Miller, Ryan
... Dwight -Original Message- From: Miller, Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: extending archive retentions Actually, you can't assign a different management class to an already performed archive, but you CAN alte

Re: extending archive retentions

2003-01-22 Thread Miller, Ryan
Actually, you can't assign a different management class to an already performed archive, but you CAN alter the management class retention period itself and effectively alter the retention period for all archives that used that management class, so there in lies the possible problem. If other ar

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Miller, Ryan
What is your QUERYSCHEDPERIOD option set to on your clients? The default is 12 hours, which means the client only checks twice a day to see what it's next scheduled event is. So lets take the following scenario... A client was scheduled for a 10:00 pm backup. It last checked with the server

Re: TSM database full backup to tape question

2002-12-23 Thread Miller, Ryan
DELETE VOLHISTORY TODATE=MM/DD/ TOTIME="HH:MM:SS " TYPE=DBBACKUP should do it, just fill in the date and time qualifiers that fit your need... Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: Tony W [mailto:[E

Re: Reclamation not reclaiming carts

2002-12-23 Thread Miller, Ryan
. "Miller, Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/20/2002 03:01:59 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Michael Raine/NOTES) Subject: Re: Reclamation not reclaiming carts

Re: Reclamation not reclaiming carts

2002-12-20 Thread Miller, Ryan
Are there errors in the activity log associated with why they won't reclaim? or are they have not just reclaimed yet? do you have a reclamation process running? also, do you collocate, if so is it possible that this is the only tape associated with a node and can't reclaim? lots of issues to

Re: AW: TSM Presentation

2002-12-13 Thread Miller, Ryan
I would like it also! Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan -Original Message- From: Shannon Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: TSM Presentation Would you mind sending one to me also? I always have a problem explai

Re: www.tivoli.com gone???

2002-10-31 Thread Miller, Ryan
I too am unable to connect to www.tivoli.com. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:David.Longo@;HEALTH-FIRST.ORG] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: Journaling Again

2002-10-31 Thread Miller, Ryan
Thanks for adding that, I forgot to include that info. But I was assuming that this setting had not been changed and was defaulting to not preserve the database. Ryan -Original Message- From: Dave Canan [mailto:ddcanan@;ATTGLOBAL.NET] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Journaling Again

2002-10-31 Thread Miller, Ryan
If you stop and restart the service, then tonight's backup will be a full incremental. The journal service has to be running continuously between 2 backups or TSM will always default to a full incremental. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Mana

Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 Thread Miller, Ryan
Here is what we found from IBM on this issue, hopefully it will apply to your situations.. if you are using Norton Antivirus 7.51 you should add DWORD entry in the NT Registry and change a parameter in the tsmjbb ini file, from the TSM client v5.1.0.1 Readme file: .

Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 Thread Miller, Ryan
There is a registry hack that fixes this problem, we had the same thing, opened an issue with Tivoli, and they provided the fix. I need to find that info again and will let you know what it is. Ryan -Original Message- From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:curtis.magura@;LMCO.COM] Sent: Friday,

Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 Thread Miller, Ryan
The only disadvantages we have come across so far are... If the journaling service is stopped for any reason, the next time a backup is run, it will be a full incremental, meaning it will once again inspect all of the files on the client, because it can't determine which ones may have changed wh

Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 Thread Miller, Ryan
Message- From: Justin Case [mailto:justin.case@;DUKE.EDU] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files How do we turn on Journaling service ? Is this the storage agents ? Thanks Justin Case Duke University Durham NC "M

Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 Thread Miller, Ryan
Very easily! The problem is not that you are only backing up 12,222 files, but unless you are using the Journaling service, TSM has to look at each one of those 4,000,000+ files to see if it needs to back it up or not. The 10 hours is being spent doing this. We have many clients in this situa

Re: mgmt class

2002-10-23 Thread Miller, Ryan
Same exact way, include in the OPT file or inc_exc file.. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 -Original Message- From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:Chetan.Ravnikar@;SYNOPSYS.COM] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EM

Re: Disk storage pool too small?

2002-10-09 Thread Miller, Ryan
There are some traces that can be used, off the top of my head I don't remember them, Support can help with them. Or you can watch while the backup is active and query mounts, if you see tapes getting mounted that you can't match with any other process or session, you can then query contents o

Re: Syntax

2002-10-09 Thread Miller, Ryan
You can also perform a find through the GUI, all you need to know is the file name. If you need to know the tape it is on you can perform a restore, you should be able to see what tape is, or needs to be, mounted. -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: W

Re: Include Problem

2002-08-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
Exclude.Dir or Include.Dir statements are read first, regardless of their position in the list. So effectively, you are excluding this whole directory. You might try the following... EXCLUDE "c:\admin\ntreskit\...\*" INCLUDE "c:\admin\ntreskit\perftool\probe\...\*" By using probe\*.* you wil

Re: Policy suggestions for Exchange node post upgrade to 2.2.1 TDP

2002-08-29 Thread Miller, Ryan
By setting the Retain Extra Versions to 0, you are telling TSM to keep any versions marked INACTIVE, which would be the 13 versions other than the last one you backed up, 0 days. You need to set it to at least 14 days to keep all 14 versions, maybe even set it for longer, in case you have a da

Re: backup storge pool

2002-08-26 Thread Miller, Ryan
Yes, you can cancel the process and restart it. The BACKUP STGPOOL command determines which data is not backed up yet and will back up only that data. When you cancel the process, depending on how large of a file it is working on, it may take a little while for it to complete that file and s

Re: Slow restore of entire server volume

2002-07-15 Thread Miller, Ryan
Is your storage pool you are restoring from collocated? Do you have an automated tape library or manual tape drives? -Original Message- From: Nancy Ames [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slow restore of entire server volume W

Re: disaster recovery ?

2002-04-05 Thread Miller, Ryan
Have you thought about using Server to Server Virtual Volumes, you could do this and create a copy pool on one of your OS/390 TSM servers. Ryan -Original Message- From: Aaron Widmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: disa

TSM Administrators in Iowa or surrounding area

2002-03-13 Thread Miller, Ryan
How many TSM administrators or users on this list are located in Iowa or surrounding area? The reason I ask, is that I may be interested in starting a TSM user group for our area. It would give us all a chance to explore TSM together and work through issues. Please respond to me directly at

Re: Backup and restore of NDS on Netware

2002-03-05 Thread Miller, Ryan
If the session is active on the TSM server, cancel it there first, then you should be able to unload it on the Netware box. If there is no session on the TSM server, the only way we have been able to correct this is with a reboot. You shouldn't have numerous instances of this, if you do, you

Re: Full backups

2002-03-05 Thread Miller, Ryan
March 05, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Full backups Can't she just run a selective backup instead of an incremental? -Original Message----- From: Miller, Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fu

Re: Full backups

2002-03-05 Thread Miller, Ryan
How many nodes and filespaces do you have? Do you need to keep the existing data you have? and if so, how long do you need to keep it for after this 'start over'? -Original Message- From: Lane, Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing

2002-02-26 Thread Miller, Ryan
I seem to have misplaced my instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing, and I know someone that wants join the group. Could someone please provide me with them? Thanks. Ryan Miller Principal Financial Group

Re: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR Proc edure

2002-02-13 Thread Miller, Ryan
It is a good class, I would recommend having taken the first class(TSM installation) or having a year or 2 of TSM admin experience. I you have this, you will come out of the class with a much better understanding of how TSM works and how to best set it up for your environment. Ryan -Orig

Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns

2002-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
Do you mean TSM sessions, client backing up to TSM server? or processes, TSM server copying or migrating data to tape? Ryan -Original Message- From: Hunley, Ike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help with TSM proces

Re: ANS8015E problem

2002-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
Being on OS/390, check your TSOADMIN.OPTIONS and ANRSERV.OPTIONS files, you have something set incorrectly in one of these. If you want to, include them in a return message. Thanks, Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philippe ZANNI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesd

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-28 Thread Miller, Ryan
Yes, 3GB doesn't sound like enough, just for comparison, we have one TSM server with a 372 GB pool and we migrate all of it to tape everyday. It works very well. Ryan -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: allow another node to access file

2002-01-16 Thread Miller, Ryan
You need to use the set access command from the client DSMC prompt. Here are the instructions right out of the manual The set access command gives users at other nodes access to your backup versions or archived copies. You can give another user access to a specific file, multiple files, o

Re: Tapes and TSM

2002-01-14 Thread Miller, Ryan
Are you running EXPIRE INVENTORY on a weekly or daily basis? -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tapes and TSM Hi: Do a q copygroup to get your number of versions to retain: WINNT

Re: Tivoli website/Explorer access problem

2002-01-07 Thread Miller, Ryan
I have the same issue, sometimes I get this error and sometimes it works. I too have notified Tivoli in the past, up to a year ago, and it seems nothing ever gets done about it... -Original Message- From: Glass, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 4:58 PM To

Re: Immediate client actions

2001-04-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
You need to stop and restart the service on the client, so it can query the server to find out it's next schedule, which in this case would the immediate action you created. Otherwise you will need to wait till the client checks for its next schedule on its own... -Original Message- F

Re: Dr. Watson in NT after installing TSM4.1

2001-04-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
at are the options you are talking about that are no longer supported?? > -Original Message- > From: Miller, Ryan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dr. Watson in NT after installing TSM4.1 > > Di

Re: Dr. Watson in NT after installing TSM4.1

2001-04-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
Did you use the original OPT file? If so, there are some options that can cause Dr Watson errors. They are options that are no longer supported by the newer client, we have experienced this issue also and found this cause. -Original Message- From: Gottfried Scheckenbach [mailto:[EMAIL

Quick Poll, please answer if this applies to you.

2001-02-01 Thread Miller, Ryan
Title: ryan Need to compile some quick data for an issue we have opened with Tivoli.  Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have a similar situation.   We have been given a workaround for the NetWare client for both 3.7 and 4.1 that involves renaming filespaces and letting new ones be

Re: Netware restore problem

2001-01-30 Thread Miller, Ryan
TSM backs up rights and IRFs only at a directory level, not a file level. You may want to have your user create a file structure that adheres to this, create a directory, administer the rights to that directory and place the file in that directory. Moving forward, you will want to consider th

Re: Moving filespace

2001-01-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
What if the node you want to move the filespaces to already exists? -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving filespace You can try renaming the node and filespaces. -Original

Merging Nodes on TSM

2001-01-09 Thread Miller, Ryan
Title: ryan We have a situation where we are combining Netware servers, making 1 from 2.  This leaves us with old nodes because we are not able to combine the nodes to make 1 from 2.  We have tried the export/import function, but due to the size of our filespaces this takes in excess of 3 da