Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-14 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I'd say yes, hypervisors (with the right storage/procedures) mitigates the need for this. We don't back up system state for anything. But, using VMware snapshots for temporary backups, and array based snapshots for longer restores, minimizes the need that we could have for system restores. Th

Re: protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies

2016-09-15 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
gt; > > > > > > > > > Don't you still need to copy the data at least once from server A > to > > > > server > > > > > B? Isn't this normal? > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > >

Re: protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies

2016-09-15 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
But that system has SSD's and runs in excess of 140.000 IOP/s in Spectrum Protect database benchmarks. I would think this is very much database (and active log) performance bound (on both sides). On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Nixon, Charles D. (David) < cdni...@carilionclinic.org>

Re: protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies

2016-09-15 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
u, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Nixon, Charles D. (David) < cdni...@carilionclinic.org> wrote: > We opened a ticket related to long replication times in a container pool > after replication takes place, and got an answer that 'we can recreate your > problem but it is likely working as d

protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies

2016-09-15 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We opened a ticket related to long replication times in a container pool after replication takes place, and got an answer that 'we can recreate your problem but it is likely working as designed' even though it's contrary to documentation. Any ideas would be appreciated. -Two TSM servers at 7.1

TSM server O/S Clone from 55A to 750

2016-09-12 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi Has anybody migrated a IBM 9133-55A V7.1.4.2 O/S to a IBM 750 (8408-E8D) using sysback/6000 product and an IBM LTO4 tape which has the 55A O/S on it?? We are using TSM V7.1.1.100.

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

2016-08-24 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We have a HDS G400 behind our new TSM servers FMD/Flash behind one container for our primary production database (11.5 TB with 16 versions is fitting in 16.6TB) and the rest is in a giant nearline SAS pool. The flash also serves to back the logs/db and the SAS serves as a DBB/logarch location.

IBM LTO4 Tape chip read in an IBM 3584 Tape Library

2016-07-28 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Has anyone figured out how to read the IBM LTO4 tape chip in an IBM 3584 tape library w/o taking the IBM LTO4 tapes out of the IBM 3584 Tape Library??

Re: Re: TSM script for the number of tape mounts per tape volume

2016-07-28 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
number of tape mounts per tape volume Charles, Note that this number may not mean what you expect it to. The help for "query volume" notes that this value is the number of times the server opened the volume, which may be more than once per physical mount. Also, if you use scratch

Recommendations on IBM LTO4 tapes

2016-07-28 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Does anyone have recommendations on how long an IBM LTO4 tape should be used and the maximum number of tape mounts on an IBM LTO4 tape??

TSM script for the number of tape mounts per tape volume

2016-07-28 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Could someone share a TSM script for the number of tape mounts per tape volume from highest to lowest?? Tnx's a bunch

Re: Proctect Stgpool

2016-06-08 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
Since protect pool doesn't lock out nodes like repl node does, we have started to run it every couple hours so that we don't saturate the WAN after the backups finish. Then, twice a day, we run the repl node. Once when the backups are complete and once in the middle of the backup cycle. Of co

Re: DR test and SP 7 Operations Center

2016-05-26 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We run OC on a separate LPAR and mirror the luns for the LPAR to the DR site. This gives us two things... 1. In a DR scenario, you can quickly bring up the whole OC machine. 2. When doing code upgrades, you can upgrade OC separate from the TSM servers. ---

Re: missing dsmlicense

2016-04-07 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I'm super interested in seeing how this turns out. Obviously, it's a pain point for many customers and IBM has seen this to be true based on the size of this thread. Furthermore, it's a relatively simple fix. Either update the new code to have the license or provide detailed directions in the

Re: missing dsmlicense

2016-04-06 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I second this question. So the answer we got from our storage software sales team is to download 7.1.3, extract the license file. Then, download the version you want to want to use, extract and install that, then copy the file over. Seems like way more work than it should be. Do we only get

Re: Directory-Container Storage Pools - Export/Import

2016-03-23 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
Since you are trying to "export node from version 6.3.5.100 and import into version 7.1.5.0," you should be able to replicate the node instead of exporting it to get your data migrated. Copy the policy domain from source to destination, and then in the destination, point the target to the conta

Re: Deduplication questions, again

2016-03-22 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I'll third the odd percentages... using 7.1.3.100. tsm: TSMPRD02>select sum(reporting_mb) from OCCUPANCY where stgpool_name='SASCONT0' Unnamed[1] -- 182520798.90 tsm: TSMPRD02>q stg sascont0 Storage Device

Re: Rebalance the TSM DB filespaces

2016-02-22 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We had to do it. I suggest doing the rebalances one at a time, or if you aren't in a hurry, once a day as you will see quite a bit of IO. The reduce max are instantaneous and I wouldn't feel bad running them one right after the other. Other than that, we did not have any problems and the DB h

Re: DB2 active and mirror logs

2016-01-27 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I suggest opening a ticket. We have seen something similar. --- David Nixon System Programmer II Technology Services Group Carilion Clinic 451 Kimball Ave. Roanoke, VA 24015 Phone: 540-224-3903 cdni...@carilionclinic.org Our mission: Improve the h

Re: Upgrade server from 6.3 to 7.1

2016-01-27 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
This is what we had to do too (shrink logs to 50% before upgrade and then grow after the procedure). It tried to double logs and then I believe that it forgot about the mirrored location because we were out of space. --- David Nixon System Progra

Re: Node replication information?

2015-12-18 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We stagger our replication during the morning, to avoid locking the node too long. Some things that we have seen: 1. If the node has a current backup session running and you attempt to replicate it, the backup session gets killed since replication takes priority. This has been a problem with

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-10 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
k for that requirement? We have asked IBM a number of times, and they are fairly nebulous on what the actual requirements are. That is a very interesting list you have there, thanks. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Nixon, Charles D. (David) < cdni...@carilionclinic.org> wrote: > Accord

Re: TSM troubles

2015-12-10 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
According to the 7.1 blueprint you are a large deployment (for server side dedupe) CPU: 16 core Power 8 Memory: 192GB Directory for the active log: 300 GB Directory for the archive log:4 TB It was suggested to use that we make sure that these logs are all on SSD/flash for ideal performance. We

Re: Backing up large folder

2015-10-01 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
Is it possible to organize the home directories into something like A-F, G-L,... Then use virtual mount points so that the TSM client views each of these groupings as a separate volume and thus the worker threads will kick in as expected? --- Dav

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

2015-09-09 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
I believe that the OC will want to create a named account (default name) on each TSM server it monitors (it's ok to say TSM, I'm not IBM). This password would need to be the same across all the TSM servers. I think that's going to be the problem for you but I could be wrong. -

TDP Node Replication - active only

2015-08-17 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
We have been using node replication for a couple years now with out a problem on 6.3.x. We only replicate active data. Two weeks ago we upgraded our destination system to 7.1.1.100 and last week one of our source systems. That was Tuesday. Thursday/Friday all of the TDP for SQL nodes started

Re: So long, and thank you...

2015-04-06 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
I 2nd that remark. Wish you would stay because you add so much to the group -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 9:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [AD

FW: AIX ERRPT ID 5537AC5F TAPE DRIVE FAILURE MESSAGE Question

2014-09-11 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
no other changes are made to drives. Need to run commands to find the associated rmtxx to fscsixx and fcsxx. Some of the rmtxx still created AIX ERRPT ID 5537AC5F TAPE DRIVE FAILURE MESSAGE after running the above commands after a while. -Original Message- From: Lamb, Charles P. Sent

AIX ERRPT ID 5537AC5F TAPE DRIVE FAILURE MESSAGE Question

2014-09-11 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi.. Has anyone experienced AIX ERRPT ID 5537AC5F TAPE DRIVE FAILURE MESSAGE?? IBM says this appears to be an FCS/FSCSI protocol driver issue and are looking into this issue (PMR 28375,379,000/PMR# 71738,379,000). AIX V6.1.9.3 Atape V12.8.0.0 TSM Server V6.2.5.0 LABEL: TA

Admin accounts with mutiple TSM servers

2014-06-30 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
Please forgive the perhaps dumb question. How does everyone manage accounts across multiple TSM servers? We are looking to upgrade from 6.4.x to 7.1 and setting up OC. We will have a new TSM instance for OC, along with he existing two production instances and our single instance in our DR sit

Re: When did IBM become so closed (kinder word than I was going to use)?

2014-06-09 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi. That has been like that for years. X-servers, p-servers, storage systems, etc. need to be on at least NBD IBM hardware support to get firmware code. My boss has not been happy with IBM hardware support when IBM made the change a few years ago. So, we placed most of our IBM ha

Re: Relabel/checkin Tapes marked as "empty"

2014-04-16 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Here is what we use - LABEL LIBVOLUME 3584lib checkin=scr overwrite=yes search=bulk labelsource=barcode -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sims, Richard B Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subj

Re: reclamation

2014-04-14 Thread Nixon, Charles D. (David)
If you have a 'filling volume' you can move data from a tape that needs to be reclaimed (with very little data) hence freeing up a new volume. Of course, you may need to adjust reuse delay to get this back as scratch immediately. --- David Nixon S

DBSnapShot Failure for DR

2014-03-17 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi We have been using the TSM system since 1998. It is the first time that we had a DBSnapShot tape failure. Tape failure was ANR8944E KEY=03 (media failure). We use the following script each working day of the week. Ba db dev=lto4tape t=DBSnapShot wait=yes Move drmedia * sou

out of TSM compliance period question

2014-03-05 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Does anyone know the time period a customer can be out of TSM EE / TSM TDP for database compliance (i.e., is there a grace period)?? Does everyone true up once a year or less?? BTW, We have a project that will be migrating from many IBM intel servers to many blades

Re: TSM Client & TSM TDP for Database Pricing

2014-02-20 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
all VMWare, and the UCS blades have twice as many processors, shouldn't you only need half as many of them? Core count would be the same? -steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Wednesday, February 19,

TSM Client & TSM TDP for Database Pricing

2014-02-19 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi. We are switching from IBM servers (x3650-Mx) to CISCO Blades (UCS B200-M3) in our VMware environment. We are receiving pricing from our IBM VAR for the CISCO blades that very high. CISCO blades have twice as many cores than the IBM servers. Boss is very upset about the i

Re: Re: 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives

2013-09-13 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi.. In the Tape library system, you need to set The Advanced Library Management System is enabled. As a result, the cleaning mode has been set to automatic and the library will manage drive cleaning -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:A

Re: Expanding ProtecTIER Library

2013-08-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
If your expanding the library dimensions (drives and slots) you'll want to do 1) An audit lib once you bring that lib mngr back up of course making sure there's no libr activity. (I like to leave the lib mngr down during the process. 2) Def drives and paths That should do it - the audit lib

Re: determining wwpn for a fibre channel adapter

2013-04-29 Thread Hart, Charles A
You may need to load Atape -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] determining wwpn for a fibre channel adapter RHEL v 6. Hp dl585 server. I nee

Re: ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive (\\.\TapeXX) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume

2013-03-21 Thread Welton, Charles
Thanks, Richard. But I believe 7.0.0.8 is for Windows 2008 and I have a Windows 2003 system. Thanks... Charles Welton -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Cowen Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:09 AM To: ADSM-L

ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive (\\.\TapeXX) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume

2013-03-20 Thread Welton, Charles
ely removed the physical tape library and tape drives from an OS and TSM perspective, reconfigured them, but still continue to receive the errors. Has anyone run into this issue before? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks... Charles Welton This email contains information which may be PROPRIETA

Re: Restore symantec backup with TSM???

2013-01-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can convert it with a product known as Butterfly http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/butterfly_software/ Looks cool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARI

Re: Deduplication candidates

2013-01-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also the Files Per Set parameter in Oracle will really get you - Protectier Recommends no more than a setting of 4. We have seen 10 and we went from 10:1 to 2.5:1 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, Janu

Re: Battles with TSM for VE

2013-01-08 Thread Hart, Charles A
Interesting ... we have experienced a very similar issue where our DB (Oracle etc) restores were coming off the Copy pool. We opened a PMR and found out this was due to the way TSM was designed to take the least path of resistance for restores meaning if there are less copy pools volumes required

Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

2012-12-18 Thread Welton, Charles
the case? Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape pool? Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE and is intended only for the use of the addresses(s) named above

TSM Query to find Archive Information

2012-12-01 Thread Welton, Charles
Hello: I have been asked to find out how much "archive" data (not backup data) we have in TSM for a given instance. I can't find anything online that gives me what I need. Can anyone help? Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATU

Stable Version of TSM 6

2012-11-30 Thread Welton, Charles
in getting to a supported, stable version. # 2: Based on the recommendation in question # 1, can we run that version of TSM 6 on Windows? What about a VM? Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE and i

Re: NetApp for Primary Disk Pool

2012-08-27 Thread Hart, Charles A
This would be interesting to hear about as we have started to look at other NAS devices to use a TSM backup[ Target, we all know DataDomain and Soon Protectier does the NAS mount + Dedupe, but would / could you get better pricing or performance from a non Backup Appliance? Netapp Dedupes, HDS Blue

Re: migrating tape storage pools

2012-08-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can only do move data's with in a copy pool, not from copypool a to copy pool b which would be nice, but I suppose for a media change you can mark the orig copy pools vols to RO then put your new media in and copy with in the same pool but to your new media which is set to read write. We've ha

Re: TSM: Backing Up Large Files

2012-07-25 Thread Welton, Charles
t wasn't something I should do. I just wanted to thank you for your responses as well as let you know that it is working and what I did to resolve. Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Tuesday, J

TSM: Backing Up Large Files

2012-07-23 Thread Welton, Charles
t;. Is there a way to change the minutes between retries? Can someone please point me the right direction? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE and

Re: Passport Advantage failure?

2012-07-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
Looks fine on this link https://www-304.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/softwareandservices/authentica te/Registration?caller=PAC -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
uple 1gig interfaces so it was slow but wrked well. We were even thinking that we'd test some other NAS devices for a NFS target instead of a "Backup Appliance" but that POC is on hold due to too much day to day wrk. Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
can be exciting and many times overwhelming, but many times long for the simple days of 4 tsm servers and 2 libs. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:20 PM To: ADSM-

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
ices but not he 15K objets to manage (tape Drives and paths) Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of bkupmstr Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] RMAN direct to NFS Chart2: w

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
This would be interesting to hear .. we were looking at it to reduce the VTL overhead and complexity... Our DBA's diudnt want to do cause theyd have to manage their backup space. ar -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of bkupmstr S

Re: VTL's and D2D solutions

2012-07-02 Thread Hart, Charles A
With Gary's point below using the PT Gateway you can slide in Encrypted disk underneath the other appliances don't support encryption. With using your own disk you can leverage your volume purchasing power with your existing disk vendor as well. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Ma

Re: Application called Teradata

2012-06-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
We have one and it has Netbackup Wrapped up in side with its own tape library. We don't manage the backups terradata does ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARI

TSM Operation Reporting Showing "False" Failed

2012-05-23 Thread Welton, Charles
ed". How can I adjust the TSM Operational Report to reflect "Completed"? Shouldn't the report show "Completed" versus "Failed" in this particular case? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you... Charles This email contains information which

Re: Mega-Exchange backup

2012-05-15 Thread Hart, Charles A
ggroup and check your network links, ensure other Exchange housekeeping tasks arnt running during backup window assuming you have a gig NIC for backups you should see 60-80MBS assuming solid cfg as the Exchange stggrps usually stream well. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3

2012-03-29 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
problem affects Aix 6.1 TL7 and Aix 7.1 TL1. I did not have a problem when I was at Aix 7.1 TL0 SP4. Jonathan Kaufman From: "Lamb, Charles P." To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/20/2012 09:59 AM Subject: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3 Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3

2012-03-22 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Backup Update #3 We have applied a similar fix, and it not only speeds up the database backups, but inventory expiration as well. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:58 AM

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3

2012-03-22 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
L0 SP4. > > Jonathan Kaufman > > > > > > > > From: > "Lamb, Charles P." > To: > ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > Date: > 03/20/2012 09:59 AM > Subject: > Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3 > Sent by: > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > &g

Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3

2012-03-20 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... IBM has a fix for slow TSM DB Backups. It is called loopback TCP address problem referenced to PMR #54435,379,000. TSM DB backups will run as fast as before you performed the AIX V6.1.7.x/V7.1.x.x O/S upgrade.

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup Update#1

2012-03-07 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Mike Long. You can test a higher AIX patch level other then AIX 7.1 and if you get good DB backup speeds, please let us know. Best regards, Matt Powell TSM L2 Support _ From: Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 9:52 AM To: 'ADSM-L@VM.MARI

Re: AIX DST patch: anyone else apply?

2012-03-06 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
ST patch: anyone else apply? Hmm, this is the first I've heard about a new DST issue. Anybody have an APAR or a link to more information? Thanks, Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Tuesday, March 0

Re: AIX DST patch: anyone else apply?

2012-03-06 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Yes, we received the DST notification for AIX V6/V7 late Friday, 2 March 2012. Our AIX consultant had us use the Olsen environment and we re-booted our AIX V6.1 servers. Since we are late on AIX migration from AIX v5.3.12.3 to AIX v6.1.7.1/3, we only had six AIX servers to modify.

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup

2012-03-02 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
6.0.0. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Slow TSM DB Backup Margaret.. Are you using the latest Atape driver which

Re: Slow TSM DB Backup

2012-03-01 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
and 6 hours. We're up to one long database backup out of the last six now, since resetting REORGDURATION and making sure DB backup is not during the reorg window. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P.

Slow TSM DB Backup

2012-03-01 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi. We are experiencing slow TSM DB backup process on both of our TSM systems using AIX V6.1.7.x, TSM V6.2.3.100, Atape v12.4.1.0. The issues began immediately after we upgraded from AIX v5.3.12.3 to AIX v6.1.7.x. We have created a performance PMR#53387,379,000 with TSM support. With

Re: LTO4 Tape Volumes with different Estimated Capacity

2012-01-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
All based on data types and compression, so if you have a SQL DB backup you'll be able to compress more data on a tape than Windows bianries or image type files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Botelho, Tiago (External) Sent: Wed

Re: Can a TSM server admin purloin client backups?

2011-10-25 Thread Hart, Charles A
Nothing, it's a policy challenge if they has TSM Sys Admin rights. Kind of like a Cop that sells evidence or takes a bribe, a priest that protects the young ... at some point you have to trust your admin or fire them. In my exp a node pw can be overridden with a Sys admin user and pw. Maybe I ov

Re: Tsm client for exchange perfornce question

2011-10-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
To Multistream Legacy non-vss Exchange backups setup a tdp backup cmd per Exchange stggroup. So if you have 4 Exchange Stggroups you could have 4 streams. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday, October 05,

Re: Defining Multiple filesystems to one FILEDEVCLASS in TSM v5.5

2011-10-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
We did it see below, we alos share it with multiple instances on a physical hosts, so far so good! define devclass sql-file devtype=file directory=/tsmstgsql-lv1,/tsmstgsql-lv2,/tsmstgsql-lv3,/tsmstgsql-lv4 maxcapacity=50G MOUNTLimit=128 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool

2011-09-26 Thread Hart, Charles A
Fibre ports on your switch, seprate FC HBA's for you hosts etc. Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl

Re: TSM using vSCSI adapters

2011-08-31 Thread Hart, Charles A
I'm not the most AIX savvy, but we did recently build a p7 750 using NPIV / VIO, still seperating the disk and tape data paths. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Molerio Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.

NPPD -- IBM LTO5 Tape Drive question

2011-08-30 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Has anyone been using IBM LTO5 tape drives in an IBM 3584-L32/D32s Tape Library configuration which has fourteen IBM LTO4 tape drives?? We presently use new IBM LTO4 tape drives for replacements, however, new IBM LTO4 tape drives will be hard to find in the future. We started to

Re: tsm and data domain

2011-06-17 Thread Hart, Charles A
Has anyone used the DD NFS mount point for Devclass type of File? If so to what degree? How hard could you push it? 1, 2 or 3 TBH? (10Gige = approx 2.25TBH) We have a fairly robust backup server platform I ask as we like the idea of no tape / robot devices from OS to app layer(TSM). This

NPPD -- Backup tool for MaxDB

2011-05-03 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi... Does anyone know what IBM/Tivoli recommend for backing up MaxDB database directly to Tivoli/TSM? SAP documentation indicates these possible solutions (see link for more details): 1. Adint2 2. Backint for Oracle Interface http://maxdb.sap.com/doc/7_8/44/c35d8b864960f0e1000

Re: LTO5 performance

2011-05-03 Thread Hart, Charles A
Few things to consider 1) Are the HBA's for the LTO5 Drives dedicated or do they have other devices. 2) How many LTO drives per HBA? 3) Speed of Fibre 2/4/8Gb -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Bowers Sent: Monday, M

Re: Stopping access to a filepool

2011-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
A scratch tape will only be requested from the devclass that's in the path ... It the Stgpool next inline from the disk pool. There's always more than one way to solve your challenges with TSM. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of A

Re: Stopping access to a filepool

2011-04-28 Thread Hart, Charles A
extstgpool" of vtape2 (second vtape head) or a tape pool... This way your clients are not writing to the pool under maint, you may have a mediaw if a client is trying to do a restore ... Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of R

Re: How do you allocate costs for deduplicated data?

2011-04-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
It appears by doing a select on the occupancy table; the full amount of data is reported in the Logical Column, and reporting is deduped tsm: TSMLAB1>select NODE_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, NUM_FILES, PHYSICAL_MB, LOGICAL_MB, REPORTING_MB from occupancy where STGPOOL_NAME='DISK-DEDUPE' NODE_NAME

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
Can someone expound on that limit... Is it 150 concurrent streams like a stream per proc core? Do the queued request time slice? Has it become an Achilles heal for anyone? Thank you for your insight! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behal

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
"There is a limit to the number of sessions the DD can handle concurrently (150)" Is this limit based on a particular model of DD? Seems a bit constrictive for anything larger than a SMB. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richa

Re: draining a diskpool when using a DD and no copypool

2011-03-22 Thread Hart, Charles A
emote site. We chose to let TSM do the copy as we have the bandwidth available like the fact of granular control over the VTape and Seq File volumes. Regards, Charles Hart -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Tu

Re: Blocking Archive from TSM Client

2011-03-16 Thread Hart, Charles A
May not be the most pretty way, but have the archive copygroups point to a stgpool that's empty or doesn't exist, or don't create a Arc copyg at all... They'll get an out of stgspace msg or no copyg error but they wont be asrchiving and you it's OS indepenant. -Original Message- From: ADS

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
"The number of cartridges in use by the pool goes up and up" Do you have collation on? Check stgpool with f=d, if you don't have Collocate Set to NO it will default to Group then if no Colo Group exists it defaults to Node. So every Client Filespace gets a tape. -Original Message- F

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also is you add the parameter Reconstruct=yes - It should move the data and not the white space ... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [AD

Re: 1024 DB2 database connection limit on AIX

2011-03-09 Thread Hart, Charles A
How many mount points / streams per client are you allowing for 750 Clients? Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of deehr...@louisville.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Deletion Backup Client Object with a FileList

2011-03-04 Thread Hart, Charles A
39.p1 Has anyone dealth with this? I tried encapsulating with quoates but no luck. Thank you Charles Hart This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of

Re: 5 out of 9 aint bad

2011-03-04 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi We use 7-IBM LTO3s and 7-IBM LTO4s directly connected to an IBM 9133-55A w/8-WAY, 64GB of Memory and 4-I/O drawers. Tape drive HBAs and SAN HBAs are P/N 03N5014. Tape Library is an IBM 3584-L32/D32s using LTO3 tapes. Everything works A Ok here -Original Message- F

Re: Reduce DB in 6.2.2.2

2011-02-03 Thread Hart, Charles A
Doest DB2 do Online Re-oirgs? Or was the intend to clean up a 5.x DB for a migrate to 6.2? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [AD

AIX V4.3.3.11, Oracle 8.1.7.4, TSM V5.5.2.0 and TDP for Oracle question

2011-01-28 Thread Lamb, Charles P.
Hi. We have an IBM AIX Oracle DB server (IBM 7026-H80) that is using AIX V4.3.3.11, Oracle V8.1.7.4 using BMC backup/recovery software. Our TSM system is AIX V5.3.12.2 (IBM 9133-52A) using TSM V5.5.2.0. My boss wants to stop using BMC software and use TDP for Oracle. Can anybody

Re: Exchange 2010 and TDP / VSS

2011-01-26 Thread Hart, Charles A
Thank you Del, Yes I meant quiesced just couldn't type. Really appreciate the insight. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Su

Exchange 2010 and TDP / VSS

2011-01-25 Thread Hart, Charles A
get a snap and then tsm backs the snap? If the DB is guessed for the duration of the backup then maybe it makes sense to backup just the passive dags. Any thoughts or insight would be great! Regards Charles This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary infor

Re: TSM OR Replacement

2011-01-07 Thread Hart, Charles A
Its unfortunate that the Op Reporting has gone, prior to the Op Reporting there use to be a package called Tivoli Data Wherehouse that would report on Tiovoli, again a monsterous footprint (db2, webshephe cognos). We eventually ended up buying Bocada's Backup Reporting product as you could hire

Re: Why won't objects show up as expected for Restore?

2011-01-05 Thread Hart, Charles A
Also make sure the user that backed them up is the same user as performing the restore, or a user with admin auth on the TSM server. Ex If root backs up files abc only root can restore or a tsm admin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf

Re: Query for Disk Volume Mounts

2010-12-21 Thread Hart, Charles A
Might have to do a select from the actlog .. Summary table records "Tape Mount" but I didn't see anything that represented a device file mount other than the act log. 12/21/10 03:16:26 ANR8340I FILE volume /tsmstgsqllv16/00032D63.BFS mounted. (SESSION: 841673, PR

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