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2009-09-03 Thread William SO Ng
Hello, Can you tell me how to un-subscribe this news group ? Thanks & Regards William Senior IT Specialist, IBM Software Group Tel: 2825-7613 Fax: 2825-0022

Re: Tivoli Monitoring for Databases

2004-05-13 Thread William SO Ng
What framework version you are running ? You need to apply ITM 5.1.1 FP05, + ICS FP01 + the ITM for DB patches. Then you need to ensure you have successfully installed endpoint to AIX. Then you need to link JRE library at AIX. Then deploy ITM to AIX only you have successfully completed the ab

Re: Restore MS Exchange to another server

2004-03-24 Thread William SO Ng
xchange services off or are you doing an online backup of the stores? -Original Message- From: William SO Ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restore MS Exchange to another server Hello team, My environment is using MS Exchan

Restore MS Exchange to another server

2004-03-24 Thread William SO Ng
Hello team, My environment is using MS Exchange 5.5 with TSM 5.2 and TSM for Mail 5.2. I would like to backup the existing exchange server and restore to another server. I am not a MS Exchange guru, so I need your advise here. I have a production Exchange with hostname ABC. I setup another Exch

Re: Poor database performance

2003-04-01 Thread William SO Ng
Spreading the I/O among several disks is preferred as it increase the throughput. As RAID 0,1 is prefered to RAID 5 as each write is faster. This of course is more expensive. Thanks & Regards William |-+--> | | David Longo| |

Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental

2003-03-05 Thread William SO Ng
All the replies are correct and they are the reasons why incremental forever is better and need less time to restore. Maybe a real example can help you. I had more than 8 years in operations and I can say that TSM is much better. I had the following experience: Some "great" application develope

Re: NT restore to different hardware

2003-01-23 Thread William SO Ng
First of all, TSM is only an application that runs on OS. It is not a super software that can work for all types of machines for all ages of OS. It must work with OS to call file system to read/write files. Therefore, a disaster recovery plan must have a COMPATIBLE machines at DR site. If a prod

Methods to migrate to TSM from other backup software

2002-09-10 Thread William SO Ng
Hello TSMers, I would like to open a discuss on how to migrate data backup by other software or methods to TSM. There will be two situations: 1)Customer has already been using other backup software/method such as Veritas or Legato or tar or cpio. Can anyone share their experience with me ?

TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ?

2002-08-21 Thread William SO Ng
Hello TSMers, I have a questions about TSM. Is TSM able to read data directly from tape that use TAR or CPIO to backup ? What I would like to do is: put a tape into tape drive and the tape contain data that I use tar or cpio. TSM will be able to read the data and put these data into storage p

Re: data tansfer time ???

2002-06-05 Thread William SO Ng
Not long ago, I have the same question about the definition of this term and here's the answer: Data Transfer Time - the total time it takes to send the total backup data from TSM client to TSM server over the network. *** My understanding of this definition is : client process will read d

Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

2002-03-12 Thread William SO Ng
Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write to multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup. If I want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings : Install another instance on the TSM server. Configure the new TSM server to backup the

TSM to backup windows

2002-03-11 Thread William SO Ng
Hello there, Can anyone give me advice on which command to use to logout active users from Windows or W2K ? Some users left their Windows application connected, so backup job fail. I would like to issue a command to force a logout of these users before a backup job. Don't need to worry about a

Re: Tape backup verification

2002-03-07 Thread William SO Ng
u'll get a bunch of errors in the activity log. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc William SO Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/07/2002 03:14 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Tape backup verification

2002-03-07 Thread William SO Ng
Hello everyone, I have some questions about backup verification and would like to seek some advice. When I backup using TSM, how can I verify that the backup is good ? What I mean is when TSM write to tape, how do I verify that the write-to-tape process is good. I come from VMS backup. In VMS

restoring archived file when space manager stabs file corrupted

2002-02-24 Thread William SO Ng
Hello there, I have a question about TSM Space Manager. When a user use space manager to archive a file to TSM server, TSM will leave a stub file to the original place. When user access the file, TSM will "restore" the file from TSM. So it seems transparent to the user. If the user modify a fi

Question about data protection for Oracle

2002-01-29 Thread William SO Ng
Hello there, I have a question about backup on Oracle and would like to get a confirmation. I understand TSM data protection provide ONLINE backup and restore of database, i.e. database is still up and running during backup and restore. My questions are: 1. Every time I do a backup on Oracle

Re: TSM Client product enhancement request

2002-01-23 Thread William SO Ng
I did. I had raised a request to ask if TSM can provide Bare Metal Restore. There is an internal database that accept enhancement request. Regards William Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group, IBM China/Hong Kong Limited 11/F, PCCW Tower, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Hong Kong Internet : [EMA

Window as TSM server with 1TB storage

2002-01-21 Thread William SO Ng
To all, Shall we conclude our discussion here ? To me, discussion seems to become whether Unix is better or Windows is better ? I believe there is no absolute answer to this question. It is because there is no such thing as "Perfect software" - software that works in all circumstances. It so

Further information about Window as server with 1TB storage

2002-01-21 Thread William SO Ng
To all, More information about my question. The user wants to use LAN only (no budget for SAN). User wants to keep most of the data on disk as there will not be operator to mount the tape to restore the data. Backup will be done once a week or fortnight (disk to tape for permanent storage). B

Open file for TSM

2001-12-31 Thread William SO Ng
Hello there, I think this question had been asked before a thousand times but being a new member to TSM, I'll still confused. TSM does not has open file option and recommend to use Open File Manager from St. Bernard Software to back up open file on NT. My question is: Does this means that TSM