Restoring an server-image with BartPE

2010-04-19 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I tried restoring a windows 2008 R2 server image (c: partition) and ran into a problem. Here's what I did (according to the field guide "TSM Recovery Techniques using Win PE Environment"): - Created Image Backup of c: partition with VSS (ESX vSphere 4.0 VM) - Did daily incrementa

Upgrading Admin Center from 6.1 to 6.2 when installed on the same host as TSM Server

2010-04-08 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I'm a bit confused about the upgrade path from TSM 6.1 to TSM 6.2 when the Admin Center is installed on the same host as the TSM server itself. To be precise, I don't understand how to upgrade the Admin Center without uninstalling the whole TSM Server. That is because AC in TSM 6.

Re: SV: Failed to backup DB on Linux TSM 6.2

2010-04-08 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hi Richard, I had a similar problem (except that the OS was Windows) and the following article helped me solving the issue: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/topic/com.ibm.itsm.srv.install.doc/t_srv_prep_dbmgr.html kind regards, Stephan 2010/4/8 Richard van Denzel > I alr

Re: TSM 6.1.2.0 watch-for - EVENTS.SQL table/admin/select problems

2009-12-21 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello, I had exactly the same problem since upgrading to 6.1.2.1. Today, I upgraded to 6.1.3.0 but it the problem still persisted. Following Jörg's hints I also "reactivated" report creation successfully. Thanks to Jörg for sharing your expirience! That's definitly an annoying bug in TSM... kind

Connecting LTO2 tape from a 3583 Library to a 4560SLX Library

2009-09-24 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello, our 3583 Library has a lot of problems (but with the robot not with the drives!). We also have an old (but working) 4560SLX library with LTO1 drives. Is it possible to remove the LTO2 drives from the 3583 and put them into the 4560SLX? Is that possible? Kind regards, Stephan

TSM Client 6.1 / HSM for Windows 5.5 compatibility?

2009-06-25 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, we have a Windows 2003 Server with TSM Client 6.1 on which we now also installed HSM for Windows. We had to use the 5.5 Version of HSM because 6.1 only works with Server 2008 and ran into the problem that the file-backup schedules fail while trying to backup HSM migrated files. Ar

Explorer hangs when opening properties dialog of HSM migrated *.exe files

2009-06-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, durig my HSM tests I ran into the problem, that every time I try to open the properties dialog of migrated *.exe files, the explorer hangs. I even disabled the McAfee 8.5i services but the problem remains. Other filetypes I've tried (e.g. *.ISO) don't cause this issue. I can't e

Re: HSM reconcilliation (Windows-Client)

2009-06-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
an On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Stephan Boldt < stephan.boldt+ads...@gmail.com > wrote: > Well, I didn't. NOW I did and 1 file has been deleted from the archive. But > I was still able to search and restore the deleted file from the HSM client > GUI!?! How the hack can that

Re: HSM reconcilliation (Windows-Client)

2009-06-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
Well, I didn't. NOW I did and 1 file has been deleted from the archive. But I was still able to search and restore the deleted file from the HSM client GUI!?! How the hack can that happen? Any Ideas? I'm totally confused... :-/ kind regards, Stephan 2009/6/4 Bos, Karel > Did you ran expire inve

HSM reconcilliation (Windows-Client)

2009-06-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I'm trying to set up HSM (TSM 5.5.2) for our Windows fileserver. For testing purposes I've created a folder c:\temp\hsmtest and put a file into that folder. I set up a hsm job for that folder and ran it whicht worked as expected: The file has been moved into the tsm archive and h

Re: Preventing TSM from using a certain library port

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Boldt
3 Setup and Operator guide, and run the RECALIBRATE > procedure. > > It will correct some errors that a teach will not. My recommendation is to > run the recalibrate at least once a year. > > > W > > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Stephan Boldt < > stephan.

Re: Preventing TSM from using a certain library port

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Boldt
abel if the tape is stored and checked in from > a mailslot? > And you sure that 3583 volume inventory is up to date, and is matching > TSM library volume inventory? > > > //Henrik > > -----Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.maris

Re: Preventing TSM from using a certain library port

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Boldt
-Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Stephan Boldt > Sent: 27 May 2009 15:13 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preventing TSM from using a certain library port > > Hello Henrik, > > I cann

Re: Preventing TSM from using a certain library port

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Boldt
l=barcode' to update library inventory > in TSM and a 'checkin libv "3853" search=yes checkl=barcode stat=pri'. > > Let us know if the problem presists after the two commands have run > successful. > > Thanks > Henrik > > -Original Message- &

Preventing TSM from using a certain library port

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello, our IBM 3583 library seems to have a problem using a certain port. Sometimes we get a "slot obstructed" error message because the library tries to put a tape into a slot which is already filled with another tape. Looking into the librarys slot information reveals that it assumes this slot i

Moving a dbsnapshot from one volume to another

2009-05-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello, is there a way to do move a dbsnapshot from one volume to another? I want to get rid of a tape which we identified as the cause of library problems (barcode sometimes unreadable, slot mistakenly assumed as empty, library tried to put other tapes into the tape's slot). Unfortunately it is cu

Re: "q vol" Issue with _some_ drm volumes

2009-05-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
you > found one of each. > > If you want to find only snapshots, use q volhist t=dbs > > > On 4 mei 2009, at 13:19, Stephan Boldt wrote: > > Hello everybody, >> >> I wonder why _some_ of my dbsnapshot-type drmvolumes can be queried >> with "q >> vol&qu

"q vol" Issue with _some_ drm volumes

2009-05-04 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I wonder why _some_ of my dbsnapshot-type drmvolumes can be queried with "q vol" and some don't (example ouput below). That occurres quite strange to me. Any ideas what can be the cause? kind reagards, Stephan example output: --- tsm: TSM>q drm s=dbs Volume NameSt

Deleting last diskpool volume

2009-04-08 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I want to get rid of an old disk-pool, which is not needed anymore because the data (few huge files) is now written directly to tape. But I ran into the problem that when I try to delete the last volume TSM says it still contains data. mig stg says that no migration is needed for

Re: Question regarding subfilebackup

2009-03-29 Thread Stephan Boldt
on subfile backups? > so all your files would need to be smaller than that. > > Steven Harris > TSM Admin, Sydney Australia > > > > >             Stephan Boldt >                         s...@gmail.com>                                            To >             S

Question regarding subfilebackup

2009-03-29 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello! I'm considering using subfilebackup together with a fullvm vcb backup (because there are few changes but huge virtual disk files), but I'm unsure what happens when the basefile expires. Example: - I want to keep 3 versions of these files. - First backup is obviously the basefile - Second a

Question regarding subfilebackup

2009-03-28 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hi everybody, I'm considering using subfilebackup together with a fullvm vcb backup (because there are few changes but huge virtual disk files), but I'm unsure what happens when the basefile expires. Example: - I want to keep 3 versions of these files. - First backup is obviously the basefile - S

Setting the criteria for backing up files

2009-01-08 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, we have an applications which changes the creation time (ctime) of some big files it uses, even though they are not really being recreated or changed at all. The modification time and filesize don't change, just the ctime! Because of this changed ctime, TSM backs up these files ev

Re: TSM Syposium 2009

2008-12-19 Thread Stephan Boldt
Wow! That's good news! The RRZK is about 300 meters away from my flat!! :-) I'm really looking forwad to it! If you needs support preparing this event, I'd really like to help! kind regards, Stephan 2008/12/19 Ian Smith > Hi, > > many of you on this list have contacted us at Oxford in the last

[Off-topic] (Cisco) SAN mailing list

2008-12-15 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, please excuse this off-topic question, but I can't find a proper SAN mailing list. This ADSL-L list is _really_ great for TSM issues and I wonder if anybody knows a similar list concerning (especially Cisco) SAN related topics... Any recommandation is highly appreciated! kind re

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-15 Thread Stephan Boldt
Justino, sounds like my robocopy suggestion. ...just that you use TSM instead of the robocopy tool. ;-) I suppose this is the best solution if your boss told you to do do the migration "the professional way" with TSM and not with some free of charge tools. :-) But you could use robocopy to check

Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data

2008-12-11 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hi Nicholas, 2008/12/11 Nicholas Rodolfich > It is ~2,000,000 individual files after hours. > I would also recommend the robocopy way! Run a robocopy job transferring all files to the new volume. That may run even for days but if you run it again at the beginning of you scheduled transfer-downt

piping commands in dsmadmc

2008-12-10 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello, is there any way to pipe use the output of one command as an input of another? For example if I want to cancel a running space reclamation of a certain storagepool. So I first have to get the process number and cancel this process. What I'm looking for is something like this: select proces

DR with VCB file backup?

2008-12-10 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello everybody, I am wondering if you can fully restore a destroyed virtual machine which has been file-backed-up with VCB? For example, I have a Windows fileserver and back up all it's files via VCB into TSM. Now let's say a dumb admin deletes the SAN-LUN on which the VMFS resides... ;-) When I

Re: Help with a class

2008-12-09 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hello James, > 3. cd to the directory called final that is located within my home > directory. cd ~/final A copy of the group file called mygroup was created using the ! as the > field separator. The fields should be separated using a : not a !. > > Create a single command string that will mod

Re: Reclamation

2008-12-09 Thread Stephan Boldt
riginal Message- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Stephan Boldt > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:47 AM > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation > > > > Just a dumb question: Is the

Re: Reclamation

2008-12-09 Thread Stephan Boldt
t; System engineer > 7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140 > Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511 > 763-592-5963 > www.berbee.com > > > > -Original Message- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Stephan Boldt > > Sent:

Re: Reclamation

2008-12-09 Thread Stephan Boldt
Just a dumb question: Is there a possibility to do the reclamation of the primary tape pools via the cached data in the disk pools? kind regards, Stephan 2008/12/8 Allen S. Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:27:46 -0500, "Lepre, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > I have a

Re: Tsm v5.4.4 and ts1120

2008-12-01 Thread Stephan Boldt
Hi Gary, is this document helpful for you? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1139&context=STCXRGL&dc=DA400&uid=ssg1S7001467 a link to this and additional documents can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=1139&tc=STCXRGL&dc=DA400+DB300+DA100+DA110+DA120+DB100+DA7