Re: TSM Accounting

2005-05-12 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:30:14 -0500, Rob Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello all, > > After flipping through manuals I stumbled upon this option and I am > curious how many other admins were using it and what > benefits\ramifications it may present? Is it an option usually left > turned

Re: 3494 at DR Recovery Site

2005-05-09 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:19:20 -0400, Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am also preparing for my first DR test with a 3494, although it is a bit > further off than yours. A related question occurs to me: is it necessary to > use mtlib to change the categories of the tapes used to restor

Mount retention, the extreme case.

2005-04-25 Thread asr
I did find a case in which I had difficulty getting a TSM library client to do e.g. reclamation when I had mount retention set "wrong": If you've got a library client which you've set to have access to two drives, and mount retention set to some normal value on the library manager (say, 5 minutes)

Re: tuning mount retension

2005-04-25 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:08:04 -0400, Richard Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm trying to tune our mount retension settings on our device classes. > Currently, we have it set to 3 min for our 3590 drives. I'm not finding > much info on how to tell if our 3 min period is too long or too sh

Re: Storage pools questions

2005-04-22 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:32:46 -, James Marcinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have a small lab environment which I'm in the process of deploying TSM and > I have some concerns that I'm hoping that someone could help me out with. I > don't have a lot of disk space to alot to storage pools a

Re: Splitting TSM ...

2005-04-21 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:38:50 -0400, Robin Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'll toot my own horn here, and say I presented a talk on this to a UserBlue audience two meetings ago. Much of it is replicated here: http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/NSAM/whitepapers/50ways.html I poked for c

Re: Metrics for a "large" filesystem?

2005-04-20 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:29:43 -0700, TSM_User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Have you looked at journaling with the V5.3 client? I think that's a Windows thing; am I out of date here? (no mention of journaling in 5.3 unix clients handbook) - Allen S. Rout

Re: Metrics for a "large" filesystem?

2005-04-19 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:56:22 -0400, Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I tend to think of anything over three million files as big, but that is > based on experience with just two cases. We have a client with a bit over > three million files that was chronically troublesome until it wen

Metrics for a "large" filesystem?

2005-04-18 Thread asr
So, when do you folks get to figuring that a given filespace is unwieldy from a backup perspective? I've got several which are ~10M files which I'm seriously considering chopping up (virtualmountpoint-wise) just because they are a pain to manage. I watched a dsmc process grow to 960 MB in core do

Re: Finding Tapes a file is on

2005-04-15 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:10:27 -0400, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The simplest way is to perform a dummy restoral and see what tape was > mounted. That takes a couple of minutes rather than days. I've often wondered why this data isn't available to us in any other way. It's so ea

Re: VERITAS TSM-Option

2005-04-06 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:15:40 +0200, Peter Duempert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just a few questions: > 1. is anyone out there using/providing this feature ? Yep. :) > 2. If so, how does it interfere with normal TSM-usage (server side) ? Hm. Really, it doesn't. > 3. Is it supported by T

Re: ANR0209E Page address mismatch detected on recovery log

2005-03-30 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:25:17 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I rue the day that IBM started encouraging customers to take their TSM > system out of service and run salvage utilities to reorganize the db, as > situations like this inevitably result, particularly as these utilit

Re: Multiple instances + shared TSM configuration

2005-03-23 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:34:58 -0500, "John E. Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have another one that just came up though. As I've mentioned in the > past, we're running tsm 5.2.2 and db2 8.1.4. > On one of our development boxes, we've setup a second instance. This is > strictly for res

Re: Anybody backing up MIRAPOINT Mail

2005-03-14 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:14:31 -0600, fred johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Some weeks after those in charge installed a mail system from MIRAPOINT, I > was asked if I (TSM) could back it up. It's a proprietary OS with > proprietary filesystems, but so far we've come up with a number of of

Re: unsucccessful DR test

2005-03-14 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:42:24 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There's really nothing to dispute... TSM asks the Library Manager to mount > the tape - but, naturally, TSM has to believe that the tape is in the > library in order to want to request the mount. When TSM restarts it

Re: unsucccessful DR test

2005-03-14 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:21:42 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In a library with a Library Manager, such as the 3494, TSM does not mount > the tape - the library does, per TSM simply asking the library to mount > volume 001234. I'm going to have to dispute this. I just tested

Solicitation of Tomatoes. (database unload procedure)

2005-03-14 Thread asr
ted take a glance at my instructions, and throw tomatoes if you care to, public or private. I'd also appreciate some experience numbers: How long it took, how much space before and after. I've got a test version of our website, with the postulated procedure, at: http://nersp.nerdc.

Re: unsucccessful DR test

2005-03-14 Thread asr
==> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:47:50 -0500, Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The consequence is that although the library showed on TSM, the info > about where the vols resides was lost. a > - q vol returned info about a volume > - a q content returned info about a volume > but: > - q li

Re: Odd restores of old files....

2005-03-03 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:46:46 -0700, Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 1. True, there is no built-in functionality in TSM to make this easy. You > could try using the QUERY BACKUP client command with the -INACTIVE option > or the SELECT admin command to display all of User x's backups,

Re: by-hand reclamation question...

2005-02-24 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:05:23 -0500, "William F. Colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The old query content command can provide information which could give the > answer > if properly massaged. I can get the information but I am weak on the > massaging. [ ... ] Oooo. Yes, it appears tha

Ideas re: by-hand reclamation...

2005-02-24 Thread asr
If MOVE NODEDATA had a preview=yes, then we could parse the output of that command in a fairly straightforward manner. - Allen S. Rout

Re: Fw: by-hand reclamation question...

2005-02-24 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:31:05 -0500, Sung Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My assumption here is that all the tapes are in the same storage pool. > Because normally reclamation threshold value of the storage pool is used to > kick off reclamation.. would it be possible to run select statement

by-hand reclamation question...

2005-02-23 Thread asr
Greetings. I've got another reclamation-related question. I've got some copy stgpools which, though they are theoretically onsite pools, I'm having to check out of the library. In the past, I've worked with this by re-inserting the volumes which are interesting from a reclamation perspective, bu

Re: Reclamation and collocation...

2005-02-23 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:05:16 -0500, "David E Ehresman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My understanding is that reclamation only reclaims Filling tapes if they > are marked offsite. I want to reclaim those volumes. Ahh, agreed. I'm doing this too, so I concur that we'd not want to forbid recla

Reclamation and collocation...

2005-02-22 Thread asr
Greetings. I've got a peeve about how TSM reclaims collocated stgpool volumes, and I wanted to see if it is widely shared. If so, I'll try to distill it into a sane feature request. I've got a bunch of collocated stgpools now, and I find that I am frequently reclaiming volumes which are in a F

Re: a simple question

2005-02-17 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:18:42 -, "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Do people mix the two, or is it a case of 'We use TSM scripting' or 'We use > Shell / python etc..' based on preference / environment restrictions. > Are there any benefits to TSM scripting other than

Re: a simple question

2005-02-17 Thread asr
==> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:18:41 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Edit scripts outside of TSM, and put the edited version into effect with > 'DEFine SCRIPT ... FILE='. Trying to edit Scripts within the TSM > server is just too awkward. Amen. And to amplify and suggest: I've

Re: I have a db and disk pool volume question.

2005-02-12 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:38:58 -0500, "Martinez, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have an opportunity to redesign the disk pool and db layout of our TSM > Server , and I was wondering if my fellow TSMers can help me with it. First > things first our environment is as follows, TSM Version: 5.

Re: Offsite reclamation question? [ LONG ]

2005-02-12 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:45:29 -0500, Sung Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I thought about this question. The answer is maybe in my opinion. how do > you know P001 contains all the data what 0214, 0215, and 0216 need? It doesn't: You know that, because the PRIMARY volume are divided by what

Re: Offsite reclamation question? [ LONG ]

2005-02-11 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:02:07 -0500, "David E Ehresman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Reclaim is built to require the fewest number possible of primary tapes. So > when a reclaim threshold is set for a copy pool, TSM determines all eligible > tapes, picks a primary pool tape to mount, takes al

Re: Offsite reclamation question? [ LONG ]

2005-02-11 Thread asr
==> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:55:28 -0500, Sung Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, > I have a follow up question. > I see that you have 3 storage pools. Can you tell me what "COPY" storage is > used for? is this one used like similar to Primary or are you making copy > of Primary? > Primar

Offsite reclamation question? [ LONG ]

2005-02-11 Thread asr
Hi, all: I've got a question I've been wondering about, relating to how foresightful TSM is in its' offsite reclamation. I'll spin an example: TSM server 'SRV1' has three nodes NODE1 NODE2 NODE3 It's got stgpools PRIMARY : collocated . Volumes named Pxxx COPY: non-coll

Re: TSM 5.3 Administration Center

2005-01-27 Thread asr
==> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:49:47 -0700, Kathy Mitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We understand that it is hard to give up an interface you know well and > switch to a new one. To help you with this transition, we developed > several Flash tutorials which are available from within the Administrati

Re: Management Class Retention Question

2004-12-08 Thread asr
==> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:11:46 -0600, "Hart, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thank you for the response. Our TSM Env has been around longer than our > Netbackup, I really don't want to mimic the NBU env (Would be going back in > time) But at the same time retaining 180 Active / Deleted vers

Re: size of active vs. inactive?

2004-11-29 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given a tape library and multiple different policies for data storage, is > there a simple (resource non-intensive) way to tell how much storage (the > size of) active files and how much storage is used for inactive files? It

Re: Backup options

2004-11-08 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allen, > we have disk performing up to 280MB/s over 2 FC HBA against a FAStT900. > You know the amount of tape drives you would need to match that speed? I'd > say about 4-5 LTO-2 tape drives. > No problems mat

Re: Backup options

2004-11-08 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Rosette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is currently running at 55.945 GB per hour going to tape (1 tape drive > (collocate)), pretty good for tape drive speed. Disk would make the backup > run faster with multi-streams. Cannot go to multi-tapes due

Re: AW: DSMSERV UNLOADDB

2004-10-15 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When we made the unload/load of the 160GB database, we not only saw the > database shrink in its usage, but also gained alot of performance. This > performance benefit is actually not degrading that quickly, which,

Re: Tape/Copypool poll results.

2004-10-15 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of the 11 responses: > Tape pool averages > 6 tapepools > Copy pool averages > 4 copypools > Thanks all who responded. Dang. I knew I had a system more complex than many, but I didn't think I was that far

Re: Adding 3592's to a 3494

2004-10-01 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Won't I be OK having the 3590 and 3592 drives in the same scratch and > private categories? The TSM server is smart enough to know which scratch > tapes can go in which drives... No? Is that a wrong assumption on my par

Re: How does it work?????

2004-10-01 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nielsen, Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have had a question today. How does TSM write data to a storagepool which > have 9 disks. It's PST files - big files - which is writing to the > storagepool. Does the TSM server write simultaneous to all the disks

Re: Adding 3592's to a 3494

2004-10-01 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a 3494 with 3 3590 tape drives, TSM 5.2.2 on AIX 5. > We will be adding 5 new 3592 tape drives to the 3494, also for use with TSM. > To implement those new 3592 tape drives with TSM, is it sufficient to j

Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?

2004-09-28 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But, > BE VERY CAREFUL about the quality of disk you buy, if that is going to be > your only copy of the data. > DO NOT THINK that you can't lose a RAID array; I have seen it happen, twice. > It depends TOTALLY on

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-22 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > True. Seek time is tiny compared to tape mounts. I am just concerned that > the TSM db has to keep track of thousands of volume. How much will it increase > the size of the db. Ours is already 90G at 70% utilized. It'

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-21 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the recommended volume size. I have seen someone mentioned 5G, but > then the number of volumes will explode from about 800 (current # of 3590 > primary tapes) to thousands. Consider, this doesn't really cost you

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2 > has a max file system size of 1TB. Does it mean the largest stgpool > I can define is 1TB? Actually, JFS2 has a max filesystem size quite a bit bigger

Re: Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery

2004-09-20 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're looking at possibly revamping our TSM system. We've got a OS/390 > server. Looking at all possibilities (adding disk or tape or bandwidth to > our current server OR changing to a different TSM server platform l

Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

2004-09-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Johnson, Milton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An interesting paper on an obviously VERY large TSM system, involving > upwards to 40 TSM servers. Mild correction: I started off thinking I'd have that many server instances; That was one of the blind alleys.

Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

2004-09-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lucian Greis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first > client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem > System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one IBM-LTO2. > Basically

Re: Export quesion

2004-08-27 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tab Trepagnier >> The problem is that an export is a single transaction. [...] > Exports have been notoriously slow to write (and read) from

Re: D2D vs. tape backups with TSM?

2004-08-06 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Levinson, Donald A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me how they defined their sequential FILE devclass and how > the underlying hardware is setup? It seems like the best way to do this is > to have multiple physical disks and spread the TSM volum

Re: Backupsets and move nodedata

2004-07-26 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd also like to optimize for restore, but without the overheads of > collocation. So, I'm considering running a move nodedata on every node > periodically - maybe once a month for production, once every three months >

Re: System out of Memory error resoreing 170,000 files

2004-07-22 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, roots ulimit is unlimited and the box has 4GB RAM. We have tried > the restore on 3 different boxes with 1GB / 2GB and 4GB ram > respectivley, same AIX and client levels, and each box behaves the sa

Re: D2D vs. tape backups with TSM?

2004-07-22 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Lazarevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does any TSM'er use disk based backup? We've considered it, and are experimenting. Here's what to keep you eyes out for: - Sustained outgoing bandwidth - Sustained outgoing bandwidth in multiple streams - S

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-22 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice to see some storage pool volume sizing reccomendations that > don't assume everyone is on 9GB SSA JBOD. Hmm. Well, my storage is not on 9GB SSA JBOD, so whatever recommendations I've made you can co

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls > to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining > to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed,

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six > drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge > filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1? What OS?

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was another management requirement that all production servers be > backed up in full once per year and that snapshot be kept "forever" - there > is no reasoning with this, its one of those stupid mandates that ap

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Bantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would I find that out? We're not even doing monthly backups yet - just > trying to see the impending impact. Count your incremental size over a series of days, and you'll have a measure of the instantaneous change r

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > at 1% , 1-(0.99**30), or about .25 > at 2%, 1-(0.98**30) , or about .45 > at 3%, 1-(0.97**30), or about .60 (Please feel free to correct my maths if I'm > wrong - probability was never my strong point) I think yo

Re: Journaling on AIX Client?

2004-07-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Sam Rudland >> I have a 5.2 client installed n AIX and it takes several hours each > night which it checks a few hundred thousand files. I have used > journaling on some o

Re: Emergency .. HELP

2004-07-14 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there > I have reached my maximum extention of recovery log of 13 gb ... now I can't even > extend it so I can't log in and do a database back up ... can someone tell me how to > delete some of

Re: Replacing our onsite tapepool that is used for migration?

2004-07-09 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We will be removing our onsite tapepool that is used for migration of our > disk pool, replacing it with a large disk pool. > Below is the size of the current tapepool. > I was considering just adding DASD to our cur

Re: Archives

2004-07-08 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bring this up because we have over 200 tapes taking up space in the > library what are archives only and I would love to get these out and sent > offsite. Currently a second copy of these files is sent offsite

Re: Maximum database volumes?

2004-07-08 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Ripke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With any disk and controller technology that supports command queuing (SCSI2 > command tagged queuing, SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)), you are better > off with about 3 volumes per spindle for random I/O. TSM serial

Re: Maximum database volumes?

2004-07-08 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gordon Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before I upgrade our TSM server to v5.2 (seems to be taking forever to do > due to small outage windows) I want to reorganise our database volumes so they > are a little more efficient. Is there any recommended maxi

Re: raw partitions

2004-06-29 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joni Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all! > I was reading the performance tuning guide and it states that we should use > raw partitions for server db, log and disk storage pool volumes for an AIX > server and I was just wondering if this is true and

Re: Moving Nodes between servers

2004-06-28 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chang, Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Allen, > Thank you for your previous response. > Would the node name being exported have to reside on the target server also? > Because how would TSM know which Storage pool or domain to export to on the target

Re: Tier'ed library

2004-06-15 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your posting caught my eye with 6 years and 10 different libraries. I'm going to try to make this not just a 'Me Too'. I've only had two libraries, but the 3494 was here when I started messing with ADSM in '97. I've

Re: Experiences with TSM server running on Linux86

2004-06-15 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anderson, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're currently considering replacing our 2 very large AIX TSM servers with > a large number (maybe 10 or so) of smaller, Linux based servers. The reason > for the change is to reduce the impact of hardware failure

Re: Moving Nodes between servers

2004-06-14 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chang, Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quick question in reference to exporting a node to another server? Where is > my data exporting to when I set "export node myname filedata=all > toserver=sourceserver" such as Domain and Storage pool on the source s

Re: Library Client vault management

2004-05-11 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, the questions are starting to flow.. > Since you normally "vault" a storage pool and the tapes are associated > with the storage pool of the "library client (LC)" TSM server, do I need > to run so

Re: What are people doing to bkup big DB2, data warehouse

2004-05-07 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what kind of success (backup times) they have had doing it. We are backup > up a 3TB DB2 data warehouse but it is taking almost 11 hours, end to end. > The disk is all Shark, the client is on a p690 14cpu l

Re: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers

2004-05-07 Thread asr
> -Original Message- > From: Anoop Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all > I have two TSM servers connected to LTO 3583 located 300 KMs apart and the > dbabckup for the same happens locally. I then send the dbbackups to > offsite( Site-A to Site-B and viceversa) on a daily basis. > Is i

Re: TSM chargeback

2004-04-09 Thread asr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/8/2004 11:32:01 AM >>> > Would those of you who have some kind of a chargeback system please let me > know what you do? > We are about to implement an upgrade and believe that now is the time to > start charging. Here are some of the things we have considered. > * 1 time

Re: ?continue using 3590's or convert to LTO tape?

2004-04-06 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Booth - CITES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:37:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> And it fits in your extant 3494. > Ah. Careful with this statement. It does fit, however, you need a frame > conversion, library manager upgr

Re: ?continue using 3590's or convert to LTO tape?

2004-04-06 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James R Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you [other sites substantially invested in 3590's] continuing to > invest in 3590's -or- are you converting to other (LTO?) tape technology? 3592. Mmmm. tsm: GLMAIL>q vol T00054 Volume Name Stora

A Grumble, and a hint.

2004-03-31 Thread asr
Good day all. I'm doing some DR exercises, and I just made a somewhat irritating observation. After you have DSMSERV FORMAT [...] If you DSMSERV RESTORE DB then the process gives you a dumb look. You have to do DSMSERV RESTORE DB [ date and time parameters ] which _appear_ to require that

Sanity check for DB/2 backup options?

2004-03-31 Thread asr
I've been investigating what options we have for fun tricks to play with our DB/2 backups to TSM. The major obstacle to many of our desires seems to be that the environment and options files are set at the time that the instance -starts-. Thus, (for instance) it's not possible to point your runni

Solicitation of Criticism...

2004-03-01 Thread asr
Greetings, *SM folks. I'm working on a design for installation of a new set of TSM hardware, and a set of several servers to run on it. I'm interested in having some other folks look over what I've planned, and invite tomato-throwing. Anyone interested? - Allen S. Rout - UF TSM type

Things I could just as soon never ever ever see again.

2004-02-26 Thread asr
Ever ever. As long as I live. This turned out OK, but still bash-2.04# cd /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/ bash-2.04# dsmserv extend log /export/dat03/emergency-log 2000 ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 14:00:40 on Mar 14 2003. [...] ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt. ANR7811I Direct I

Re: Things I could just as soon never ever ever see again.

2004-02-26 Thread asr
=> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:45:02 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ... >> Database backup encountered an unusually vigorous expiration session, > ... > You're not getting any younger, so relieve stress by adding a Duration > to your Expire Inventory, and perhaps a DBBackuptrigger. I

Advocacy.

2004-02-23 Thread asr
I won't get into the whole advocacy debate in detail, but I will note that I have had nothing but sterling support interactions with Servergraph. I got a corporate principal on the phone for several hours when I had some crotchety install comments, and ended up feeling very good about the interact

Linux/SPARC Client support?

2004-02-20 Thread asr
Anyone else running Linux on SPARC? How would one effectively communicate that desire to IBM? - Allen S. Rout

No status updates for long-running processes?

2004-02-19 Thread asr
I'm experimenting with TSM 5.2.2.1 on AIX 5.2; I find that for many long-running processes, the Q PROC output fails to reflect progress. For example, I'm deleting a filespace at the moment, and it's staying at 0 files deleted, and (if it goes like the others I've done) will contiune to display tha

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-16 Thread asr
=> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why not just kick off all the work you need to do? > Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for > restores and/or ad hoc backups. I'm jealous; I haven't had enough tapes to do this for

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-13 Thread asr
=> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2004 10:37:15 AM >>> >> I would like to run two different backup stgpools and check every so often, >> if there is only one process running start another backup stgpool. When all >> my sto

Experiences performing DB backups to remote virtual volumes?

2004-02-02 Thread asr
I'm considering changing the way I do my TSM DB backups; I've heard some user experiences about backing up to remote server volumes, and it appears that this would simplify a lot of work, and save oodles of space. Here's how I've got it sketched in my mind right now: A server instance whose sol

DB/2 DR testing: How do you test a restore of a live DB?

2003-11-17 Thread asr
Greetings, I'm wondernig how you folks perform tests of your restoration of production DB/2 databases? I envision several major obstacles: 1) Your DR instance machine is going to need, however momentarily, to have the password set. If you're doing PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE, that means that,

Re: DB2 backups with multiple DB's on one host

2003-11-17 Thread asr
=> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:35:50 -0500, Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What I did to backup a DB2 server on AIX that had 4 instances: [1. 2. ...] Dang, I was just going to say that. We've got some 70 instances on two system images, in support of our PeopleSoft installation, so we do this

Re: Backupsets on FILE devclasses: Mobile or not?

2003-10-22 Thread asr
I said: > If I make a backupset on a FILE devclass, and somehow consipre to move > that backupset to a box that I think might need it, can I restore from > it just as a file on disk? [Executive summary, "Yes, so far."] I experimented with this: I built a backupset of a node, and then I copied

History of ITSM/TSM/ADSM/...

2003-10-20 Thread asr
Howdy, all. I've only been around TSM since ADSM 2.1; I recall hearing bits and pieces of the earlier versions and the roots of the product. Could someone who was there synopsize, and perhaps someone who FAQs capture it? I rooted around in the archives and Mr. Sims' fine quickfacts, but didn't s

Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large number offiles

2003-10-01 Thread asr
=> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:56:41 -0400, Mark Trancygier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks Allen. > I think the virtualmountpoint option will be the best way to go, as we have > a pretty hearty SAN environment and I don't believe we have client disk > contention. Are you aware of any limitations o

Backupsets on FILE devclasses: Mobile or not?

2003-10-01 Thread asr
So, I'm thinking of some DR scenaria, and I was considering: If I make a backupset on a FILE devclass, and somehow consipre to move that backupset to a box that I think might need it, can I restore from it just as a file on disk? Hmm, I think I should experiment, but I was curious if anyone had a

Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large number of files

2003-10-01 Thread asr
=> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:27:41 -0400, Mark Trancygier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We are currently having problems performing incremental backups on a file > system that has a large amount of files. The daily changes to this file > system are small so we are only sending approximately 5 - 10 gig

Re: Backup Storage Pool Process

2003-09-24 Thread asr
=> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:21:05 -0400, Bill Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > when I am running the backup of my primary disc storage pool to tape, I use a > max process of 4. I make sure that there are plenty of scratch tapes available > and that the max scratch value for the copy pool is l

Re: *Real* admin interface (Was: q vol f=g ??!?)

2003-08-26 Thread asr
=> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:02:20 +0200, "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Can you sort your dsmadmc output? Yes. Either with ORDER BY, or '| sort -k2 -t,' > Can you scroll up and down through your dsmadmc results? Yes. My terminal has 1000 lines scrollback, but I can make

A query and some code...

2003-06-26 Thread asr
I'm trying to collect data on what "average" utilization rates are on tape devices. I'm attempting to support or erode the case "We need more" :) One thing that would be an interesting number (I decided) was the percent utilization of tape mount points. So I whipped out my PERL, and... Submitte

Re: Opinions anyone?

2003-06-02 Thread asr
=> On Sat, 31 May 2003 10:39:26 -0400, Leonard Lauria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My questions are these: The new system would be much faster with either 2 or > 4 1.2 GHz (or faster) processors, but fast processors doesn't seem to be a > huge factor at our site. Are 2 enough? Can TSM efficiently

Re: TSM Metrics

2003-05-30 Thread asr
=> On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:39:15 -0500, Andy Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What are most people doing about reporting metrics to your superiors? My > bosses boss is asking for metrics, but I am not sure what to give him, and > he is not sure what he wants. It would be easy to give him GB ba

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