Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Curtis, I'm not sure if these fall into managing a system category, but they are things that I have dealt with on a periodic basis. Customer service - Gary calls and leaves a voice message asking for a restore of the file "veryimportant.txt" in his home directory because he accidently deleted i

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
Analyse collocation status of onsite and offsite media in anticipation of their need. If you have nodes with data scattered on too many offsite tapes, it will greatly impact your ability to recover your environment in a timely manner. Review, test, and document your recovery plan. Bob -Orig

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Schneider, Jim
Monitoring space in VTL pools. Consolidating data on 'filling' tapes to prevent automigration of data, and inaccessibility of VTL pool during the automigration. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thur

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-22 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
We also spend some time making sure our storage pools are balanced to improve performance in the case of a large scale restore, but also to improve backup performance. Another task is identifying retired nodes and file systems to reduce the data stored. Our biggest challenge in that area is me ar

Re: TSM Administrative Tasks

2008-08-21 Thread Howard Coles
Under the reclamation section: D. I don't mess with thresholds at all and use the "reclaim stg" process with/without duration limits. (NOTE: this allows running multiple processes against the same pool where just setting thresholds does not, and many other benefits.) Under Installing new cli