Your point is well-taken. It is easy to say that LTO4 media will be
good for 30 years, but it would be crazy to put LTO4 tapes in a vault
and, even under perfect storage conditions, expect to just pull them out
and read them.
Will anybody have LTO4 drives then? No way. Even if you kept a LTO4
t
Neil,
I don't support this today, but I have in the past. Your
satisfaction with this solution will entirely depend on the requirements
of the application you are protecting, and everyone's expectations.
If you intend for the DiskXtender data to reside on TSM tape,
you had just bet
Doug,
I set up a TSM environment at a remote office with a desktop PC
as the server and a single 8MM tape drive as the only tape, and about
200GB of disk space (not that I am recommending this as design goal,
mind you!). It backed up 6 servers each night, and I had a secretary in
that offi
s SAMBA causing the problem, or if it's just the file system.
And, is this a Novell OES Server by chance?
See Ya'
Howard
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Wednesday,
Greetings,
We have a Suse 10 Linux client running TSM client 5.4.2.0. It is
also running Samba on one of it's filesystems. When the nightly
incremental runs, it backs up the other filesystems, and then hangs on
the /samba filesystem. It always hangs somewhere around 20,000 files.
We also get
Greetings,
I think I will weigh in on this one. I think most of our Windows TSM
client missed/failed backups fall pretty evenly into four groups:
1) Fixable problems within the OS, including VSS and WMI service
failures/hangs. Included in this group is the occasional corrupt
file/filesystem, or
Greetings,
Our Storage Team is migrating all filesystems from one Celerra NAS
to another. Today we backup the old one via NDMP, and are beginning to
backup filesystems on the new one via NDMP as they come online.
The Storage Team would like to use the NDMP backups as a way to
migrate the l
o4_f1_d10 0G-09 0007854530
lto4_f1_d11 lto4_f1_d11 0G-09 0007854519
lto4_f1_d12 lto4_f1_d12 0G-09 0007854527
root#
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email: john.schnei...@mercy.net
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Greetings,
I have a solution to the problem of library sharing and
different rmt names.
We have a number of AIX TSM servers that all share the same tape
libraries, and at first it was a big aggrevation because frame1 drive 3
would be rmt3 on one server, and rmt5 on another server, and so on
e enemy of excellence.
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 03/10/2009
01:51:25 PM:
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> Re: How do I override compression setting?
>
> Schneider, John
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> to:
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Schneider, John
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do I override compression setting?
Kelly,
It is good to know an option like that exists, thanks. But that
is not really my question. What is wrong wit
ession option is
set to yes. This option applies to backups and archives.
Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com
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Schneider
Greetings,
I have a specific NFS filesystem on a TSM AIX client that I need to
backup without compression because the files are very large and already
compressed, so it is pointless to compress them. But compression is
"yes" in the dsm.sys file because I want to compress the other
filesystems.
/IBMTivoliStorageMan
ager.html
The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 2009-03-02
18:28:28:
> [image removed]
>
> Backup of NFS filesystem fails t
Greetings,
We are trying to backup a filesystem that is an automounted NFS. The
automount is not happening; as you can see it only backs up the
directory. If I issue 'cd /mnt/mksysb' down to the directory the
automount works. I can run the schedule then and the scheduler sees and
backs up the
Greetings,
We have 22 TSM servers and 5 Lan-free servers in our environment. AIX
is the host of choice, but we have 6 Windows TSM servers, and 3 of our
Lan-free servers are Windows. The 6 TSM Windows servers are all in
remote offices where we only have Windows support people, and we thought
havin
We are just finishing a Proof of Concept on Avamar, EMC's deduplication
offering. We have not made the decision to purchase, but the testing
went very well.
It is better than most deduplication appliances because it actually has
it's own backup client, so you can eliminate TSM licenses and shrin
For those of you with Servergraph, there is a standard report on missed
filespaces. If you sort it by days since last backup, it often shows
you filespaces that missed even though the rest of the machine backed
up. Those tend to be filespaces that have been removed from a system or
renamed. We h
Greetings,
You don't give us the steps you went through to set it up, so it
is tough to know what you missed, but make sure that the Devclasses are
set up identically. Make sure the client's devclass has
Mountlimit set to the number of drives it really has paths for. Make
sure it is poi
Greetings,
Have you checked to verify that the TSM server and the TSM client have exactly
the same time? Is it possible that the TSM server has the correct time, and
the TSM client's time was set incorrectly, and is exactly 12 hours off? Or it
has the correct apparent time, but is set to the
Greeetings,
We are running TSM server 5.4.3 on an AIX 5.3ML5 server. We have
some scripts that issue reclaim commands as soon as the backup db,
prepare, and expire inventory are run. They calculate how many minutes
are left until 11pm, then issues the "reclaim" command with "duration"
set
e TSM on all servers, We
havent had any issues as of yet.
Tim
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Schneider, John
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:48 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Backup of share will not work with schedule
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Backup of share will not work with schedule
Greetings,
I have a server that I can't install the TSM client on because the
vendor who owns it won't permit it.
Greetings,
I have a server that I can't install the TSM client on because the
vendor who owns it won't permit it. One alternative seemed to be to
share the directory that must be backed up, and acces that share from
another server to back it up explicitely as an object. We created a
share o
Greetings
We have Servergraph, and for a site our size (2100 TSM clients, 6 sites,
22 TSM server instances) it is a great help. We use the Alerts, and the
threshold emails, and it has helped us avert disaster from a filled TSM
database, or out of scratch tapes, etc. With four people managing 22
T
llow TSM to reserve a
drive by setting it to "Up to the number of online drives in the
library".
See Ya'
Howard
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:35
All,
I have often heard people say, as Linday just did, "keep at least one
drive free for user restores". Is there in fact any way to cause TSM to
leave one tape drive always free, so no other tape process besides a
restore can access it?
In our environment, we have 10 TSM servers sharing a tape
t's possible that collocation
values are contributing to this.
Richard Sims
On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Schneider, John wrote:
> Richard,
> Thank you for your reply.
> The clients I am referring to are AIX, as my original email
> indicated. Andy's explanation
Greetings,
Perhaps my suggestion is too outside the box, but why would an older
Win2k box NEED to be Lan-free? In most cases I have found that a Win2K box
can't push the data fast enough to saturate a 1Gb Ethernet link anyway, and
usually not even a fraction of that. If they have a lot
Richard,
Thank you for your reply.
The clients I am referring to are AIX, as my original email
indicated. Andy's explanation is a good one, and says the same thing
that the Performance Guide says.
Neither explains the behavior we are seeing. Resourceutil=10
should yield a
Greetings,
This is an TSM 5.4.3.0 server, TSM 5.4.2 client environment. AIX
5.3ML5 servers, AIX 5.3 and Win2003 clients. Multiple TSM servers share
a virtual tape library and a physical tape library via TSM library
sharing.
We have been gradually migrating from traditional disk pool t
Greetings,
We do a couple things that no one else has mentioned:
1) We move the client to a special policy domain called DECOM. This
policy domain is set to 90, 90, 90, 90, mode=absolute. The reason is
our typical policy domains don't keep very many versions of deleted
files, and don't keep the
Richard
Thanks for your post. It seems odd to me too that it doesn't
spell out the IP address when it tries to connect, but when you issue a
'q node stlo-mpvadm f=d' the TSM scheduler clearly has the correct
address cached for it:
...
TCP/IP Name: STLO-MPVADM
ly thirty years away!" - ??
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Schneider, John
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:49 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client even though it seems
Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client even though it
seems to know it's IP address.
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.3.0 on AIX 5.3ML5. Most of our TSM clients
are 5.4.x or 5.5.x. Most of our clients run "schedmode prompted" so
the TSM server launches the schedule.
We see an occasional problem where a Windows client is set up wrong
in Active Directory (which feeds
get 8 sessions, but 4 are producers
and
4 are consumers - so how did you get 8 tape mounts?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Schneider, John
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Ok, now we are getting down to the nitty gritty. Your example
> completely contradicts what is in the Performance Gu
kpool) to tape.
Regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
Karel
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Schneider, John
Sent: woensdag 10 september 2008 18:27
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU <mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: Re: How does VC
ps handle resource utilization?
Either increase the maximum allowed mountpoints or put a line in the
client DSM.OPT along the lines of
resourceutilization 5 (5 works well with 2 mountpoints allowed)
See Ya'
Howard
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL
esday, September 10, 2008 10:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?
Copypool simultaneous write?
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Schneider, John
Sent: Wednesday, Septemb
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.3.0 server on AIX 5.3ML5. The Lan-free VCB
proxy is running TSM client 5.5.0.6.
We are getting an unexpected result with our VMWare Consolidated
Backups. We are just starting to run these in volume, and we are
getting frequent messages:
09/10/08 00:02
D] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:14 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM library master for two tape libraries causes
problems
Greetings,
We have a TSM instance that serves as the library master for two
tape libraries. One is a IBM3584 tape libra
trand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
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Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.3.0 on AIX 5.3ML5. We have a library master
instance, and 9 other TSM instances that are library clients. They all
share an IBM3584 with 24 LTO4 tape drives, and an EMC EDL virtual
library emulating an IBM3584 with 128 LTO1 drives.
Recently our IBM CE t
Greetings,
We have a TSM instance that serves as the library master for two
tape libraries. One is a IBM3584 tape library with 24 LTO4 drives. The
second is a virtual tape library, an EMC EDL configured as a IBM3584
with 128 LTO1 tape drives. The library master has 9 other TSM instances
and
Greetings,
Sorry if this has been discussed, but I could not find any traffic
about it.
In ADSM QuickFacts it says:
Delete Events -
To delete certain events for a
specific
node only, disassociate and then
I can't speak to Linux from experience, but we just did a number of TSM
upgrades on both Windows and AIX, and uninstalled the Server code each
time, then installed the new version. Even when you uninstall the code,
the server's dsmserv.opt, dsmserv.dsk, devconfig, volhist, database
files, etc will
nds.
HTH
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Sydney Australia.
Schneider, John wrote:
> Greetings,
> We have an IBM3584 library. We needed a script which would
> determine how many tapes were in the I/O doors of the library, and
then
> send an email to the Operators to empty the I/
SNMP.
physicalMediaTable might be the one to look at, I have no access to a
library just at present so I can't test.
Alternatively, define another control path and use it just to run your
tapeutil commands.
HTH
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Sydney Australia.
Schneider, John wrote:
&
Greetings,
We have an IBM3584 library. We needed a script which would
determine how many tapes were in the I/O doors of the library, and then
send an email to the Operators to empty the I/O doors when the library
was mostly full. We fill the I/O door several times a day in the course
of dail
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.3.0 server on AIX 5.3
We have a situation where our disk storage pools are becoming 70%
full in the middle of the night, which kicks off the automatic migration
cycle. Last night it happened at about 01:00. But a couple hours
later, while migration wa
Hi,
Forgive me if I am being dense, but this doesn't make sense to me. If
you deleted the drive paths, the drives, the library path, and then the
library, the library should be gone, along with it's inventory.
If you do a 'q libvol' and you still see tapes in the original library,
then you didn't
Greetings,
You don't say for sure, but I presume the same model of tape
drives are in use in both tape libraries, LTO3 for example.
1) Delete the old Library from TSM. To do this, delete the:
- drive paths
- drives
- library path
- library
In that order.
W
Greetings,
One common way to migrate between different server types is to:
1) Install and configure your new TSM server
2) Create at least one administrator account that has the same name on
both the old and new TSM server
2) Using that account, establish TSM server-to-server communi
s.
See Ya'
Howard
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] iscsi world as it relates to TSM world
>
> Greeti
Greetings,
There are a couple people at our company that contend that FC is
going away, and in a very short time everything will be iscsi. I am
afraid I am completely ignorant about iscsi as it relates to tape
traffic. My questions are:
1) Can anybody tell me what is going on in the
Greetings,
I thought of this same approach, but it doesn't really address
the issue at all. The times_mounted gets reset to 0 whenever the tape
goes back to scratch. So times_mounted doesn't track the entire
multi-year history of a tape. I just went and looked at some of our
tapes that ar
th "Server media mount" when no
drives are available
I have no answer to your question. But one of the beauties of a VTL is
that you can define additional drives as needed. So why not define as
many drives as you have concurrent sessions?
David
>>> "Schneider, John"
Greetings,
I am trying to understand the behavior I am seeing in a Lanfree
client. This is a TSM 5.3.5.0 Lanfree client, with a TSM 5.3.4.0 AIX
client, connecting to a TSM 5.4.2.0 AIX server. The TSM server in turn,
is a library client, and gets it's tape mounts from another TSM 5.4.2.0
serve
Nicholas,
I agree with Steve's comment, except when we get a tape error,
we do an 'audit volume fix=yes' first, and if it doesn't get an
error, we put it back into service. If it gets any errors, we 'move
data' to clear off as much data as possible, then destroy the tape. I
would NOT
riginal Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:21 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be
checked in a scratch
Anil,
Thanks for your email, but t
the way.
See Ya'
Howard
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:16 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be
> c
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.2 server on AIX 5.3. We are in a shared
library environment, with 10 TSM server instances sharing a IBM3584 tape
library, while one TSM server instance acts as the library master.
Occassionally, maybe once every few weeks, we get into a situation where
a tape
Perhaps our situation is a little different than others, but our concern
when a server is decommissioned is that somebody is going to come
looking for that data, sometimes weeks later. It has happened before.
Sometimes we have decommissioned a server, and an urgent request has
come in to do a comp
ward
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM client schedules fail because of reverse
resolves
>
> Greetin
Greetings,
We are seeing some unusual client schedule behaviors that seem
to be related to the fact that our company is combining multiple DNS
domains into one big new domain. Sometimes a client will be moved to
the new domain, but the DNS entry may show it still reverse resolving to
the o
Greetings,
We are making plans to upgrade our ~1200 TSM clients from TSM
5.3.4 (and below) to TSM 5.4.2. A number of these are Oracle and
Informix servers running under AIX and Linux.
I can't find anything on the IBM TSM web site that tells me what
versions of Oracle/RMAN and Infor
Paul,
We just upgraded our AIX 5.3.5.1 server at one location to
5.4.2, and when we did, we found some unreliability problems show up on
some AIX clients running TSM 5.2.0.0 and TSM 5.1.5.
These were neglected clients anyway, and should have been
upgraded long ago. So we upgraded o
Thinking outside the box a little, if you have multiple clients in
Qatar, how much trouble would it be to set up a TSM infrastructure in
Qatar? Buy a server of whatever type you like to support, with enough
disk to contain the entire backup data set of all the clients. If you
use your includes so
Wanda brings up the most important point. This isn't just about
backups; this is about restores. I had a customer once that backed up
over 250 clients, each a different site around the whole country, many
connected by only a 256kbs frame relay circuit. On many clients the
first full incremental
If the reason to do the full backups is to speed up the restore of
certain clients, that will certainly work. We have used
copymode=absolute for that purpose. Of course, you will have to go
through the regular DRM routine of setting up TSM, restoring the TSM
database, defining your tape libraries
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
> It has become a habit of mine, on any major upgrade of the TSM server,
> to start the TSM server in the foreground first and watch for unusual
> messages. Then if everything comes up fine, halt it and
If it isn't too late to chime in on this, we found that on Windows we
DID have to do issue and "dsmserv upgradedb" after installing the code.
This is no big deal, if you try to start the service in the foreground
it will give you an error message telling you that you need to do it.
It has become a
Johnny,
We are in the process of migrating from an IBM3584 tape library
with 3592 to another IBM3584 with LTO4. When we first got the LTO4 tape
drives (last August) we got occasional I/O errors on them, but after a
couple of firmware updates from IBM, they have been working just fine.
We h
Greetings,
I am running TSM 5.3.4.0 on an AIX 5.3ML5 system. The NDMP
backup in question is to a EMC Celerra running DartOS 5.5.25-2.
I am trying to create a virtual filesystem mapping, which gives
a new filesystem name to a subdirectory under a NAS filesystem, like so:
define vi
Well, the activity log won't tell you exactly where the commands are
coming from, just the account. But my guess would be, since this is an
AIX TSM server, that somebody has scripts running from cron that use the
Operator account and have the password hardcoded in.
I would get somebody with root
Greetings,
We had a TSM instance on a AIX 5.3ML1 server hang because of a
temporary disk problem (powerpath lost a path). We had to kill the
process and restart it. The TSM instance now comes back with:
ANR8208W TCP/IP driver unable to initialize due to error in using port
1505, r
tape, and the drive won't recognize the tape.)
My opinion: It's not worth the risk.
---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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Greetings,
We have thousands of 3590, 3592, and LTO tapes which are about
to be decommissioned when their tape libraries are replaced. Some of the
3592 and LTO tapes are only 1-2 years old. Is there any market for used
tape media? And if so, do any of you know of a way to sufficiently erase
David,
Your question is a good one. On our EMC Disk Libraries we
emulate LTO1 tape drives, with 50GB maximum tapes. I believe this
improves overall disk utilization for just the reason you mention. You
can reclaim the smaller tapes sooner. TSM won't have to wait until
~250GB of data, wh
Nicholas,
I think you are right to think about splitting your TSM instance
into two. An 80GB TSM database isn't all that large, but if you
anticipate it growing gradually bigger from there and never levelling
off, it doesn't make any sense to wait.
We recently had to split a TSM in
Greetings,
With all due respect to the Software Group, I think this
behavior, assuming it is "working as designed", is nuts. The whole
reason the "-preschedulecmd" option exists is to permit the customer to
perform necessary setup on his client BEFORE the backup actually starts.
Establishi
Wanda,
Sorry, I meant to include that.
The TSM client is AIX 5.3.4.2, running on a AIX 5.3ML5.
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO 63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
E
Greetings,
I have a situation where the TSM client seems to be ignoring
some mounted filesystems.
I have a need to have a TSM preschedule command which imports
some volume groups and mounts their filesystems. (This data is an EMC
disk clone of another system, but that is immateria
Chip,
I hope I am not proven ignorant in this case, but I don't think
there is a way to update the slot count without deleting the
drives/path/library, and then redefining them. The reason is that when
the library path is first defined is when TSM queries the library device
and receives ba
Andrew,
Thanks, I see that now. That would work. Richard Sims also
pointed me in a private email to his QuickFacts, which points out that I
could also pull it from the RESULTS field in the EVENTS table, which
would be easier programatically.
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
Sr. System Ad
Andrew,
Thanks for your reply. You said:
"But you can still tell if it didn't work by checking not only the
status, but the return code."
Check it where? The activity log of our test is shown below:
09/28/07 09:50:05 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting STLO-TSM01
(sessio
Greetings,
We are just testing using pre and post schedule commands on our AIX
systems (TSM client 5.3.4.0, and TSM 5.3.4.2 server) and having a
problem.
We want a non-zero return code from either the pre- and post- scripts to
show up the backup as a failure. According to the manual, a non-zero
r
Greetings,
We have a configuration with 7 TSM servers all sharing the same
library using TSM Library sharing, where one instance is the Master, and
the others all view the library as owned by the Master, and appeal to it
for tape mounts, etc. This configuration has worked fine, but there i
Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.3.4.0 under AIX. We have a bunch of
Windows TDP Exchange clients that are pretty large (500GB), and
frequently run past their backup window and into the day. They also
were frequently filling up the disk storage pool, so this past week we
moved their backup
Looks like a pretty good plan. I have done this several times. Are you
sure that the mksysb from your old machine will port to your new one?
This does not necessarily work between different architecture machines.
Are you planning to do your mksysb on the old server after you shut down
TSM, and th
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Stuart Lamble
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:57 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison
On 26/07/2007, at 2:54 AM, Schneider, John wrote:
> Greetings,
> We have been a T
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Schneider, John
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison
Greetings,
We have been a TSM shop for many years, but EMC came to our
management with a proposal to replace our TSM licenses
Greetings,
We have been a TSM shop for many years, but EMC came to our
management with a proposal to replace our TSM licenses with Legato
Networker, at a better price than what we are paying for TSM today.
This came right on the heels of paying our large TSM license bill, and
so it got mana
I can't speak for everybody's product out there, but the EMC CDL (EDL)
releases the used pages from the virtual volume as soon as you begin to
overwrite the virtual volume from the beginning. One thing that does
this is a Label Libvolume.
It would be a simple script to look at all scratch tapes i
When you follow the link below, the description says June 13th at 10:00
Central, not June 14th:
Windows Active Directory Restore using TSM Backup-Archive (PJS716189)
Event ID: PJS716189
Leader: Rick Smith
Date: 13 June 2007
Time: 10:00 AM (GMT -05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
Duration:
Greetings,
This is not the syntax for a CDL, since it does not have an I/O
door. Why are you trying to label only one tape, anyway, when you want
to label them all?
The syntax should be:
label libvol cdlb_dev search=yes labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch
This will label all the
Charles,
You haven't given us enough out of the activity log to spot the
problem. The unfiltered log will show you which stgpool tapes it was
trying to access during the failure. Frequently this is caused when a
tape or group of tapes from a primary stgpool gets marked unavailable
even th
Greetings,
A lot of the chatter about VTL's being good or bad seems to stem
from which vendors you listen to, and what they are trying to sell you.
There are a lot of dogmatic statements made by people on both sides of
this issue, usually by people with no personal experience about what
the
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