Defining Client Schedule

2000-08-16 Thread Timo Kilchenmann
Dear all, I am sorting out the possibilities for defining a client schedule which runs at night for backing up the data produced at weekdays. The problem is, that the backup should begin at 2:00 in the morning. So I cannot use "Day of week" = weekdays. Any idea how this can be done without speci

ADSM USING DATABLASTER

2000-08-16 Thread Nanhoe, J. DTO/DO/SII/GSY
WE HAVE BOTH HARBOR AND ADSM FOR MAKING AND RESTORING BACKUPS. HOWEVER, ADSM IS CURRENRTLY USED ONLY ON THE UNIX PLATFORM. WE HAVE STARTED A RESEARCH THAT HAVE TO GIVE US THE ANSWER IF ADSM CAN REPLACE ALL THE FUNCTIONALITIES THAT IS PROVIDED BY HARBOR. SEEING THAT BOTH ARE ALMOST SIMILAR (ADSM WI

redirect script-output

2000-08-16 Thread Winfried Heilmann
Hi, I want to redirect the output of a script which is invoked by a admin schedule. (not by command -line) I tried the " -output > ."-Parameter, but it doesn't work. Any idea? Regards winfried

Oracle Agent

2000-08-16 Thread Etherington, Keith (K.)
We are currently running ADSM Sever Code 3.1.2.40 on AIX 4.3.2 using an IBM 3466 NSM Some of our Oracle Databases have now grown to 100Gb. We shutdown the database in a pre script run the backup then restart the databases with the post script. However the backups take about 7 hrs backing up the 1

Re: redirect script-output

2000-08-16 Thread Barth, Terry V. (MBS)
We always use >> /tsm/reports/datout.txt -Original Message- From: Winfried Heilmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: redirect script-output Hi, I want to redirect the output of a script which is invoked by a admin

Re: PASSWORD

2000-08-16 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Ide! If you have other Admin's with system privileges on your system, let them reset your password. If you don't, you will have to stop your TSM server and start it in the foreground. You are then running in the console mode and you can create/update admin accounts. If creating an new one, don'

Re: Backupsets appear empty on client

2000-08-16 Thread Barth, Terry V. (MBS)
Instant Archive is a backupset and yes, you can restore individual files - however, in order to do so - you need to indicate the exact location of the tape and the file - this is one feature that I do not like about the backupsets - but anyway, to further explain - Our robot has 12 drives - if I

Re: Defining Client Schedule

2000-08-16 Thread Barth, Terry V. (MBS)
What type of platform is the client on - for situations like this in Unix, instead of defining a backup in the scheduling on ADSM - we use crontab - this way, we can control the days that we run the backup. -Original Message- From: Timo Kilchenmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesd

Re: Defining Client Schedule

2000-08-16 Thread Fritz Mesumbe
Hi there, You should be able to use the WEEKEND option. Hope this works for you. Fritz Mesumbe Pioneer Standard Electronics Inc. --- Timo Kilchenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am sorting out the possibilities for defining a > client schedule which runs > at night for backing

7337 cleaning tapes

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Tang
CE tells me 7337 tape library with 2 DLT7000 drives need 2 cleaning tapes in cell 13 & 14. (I think he is refering from the 7337 tape library setup and operator guide - Page 79 and that may not apply for TSM). For TSM v3.7 (aix) environment, Instead of two cleaning tapes and in cell 13 & 14, shou

Re: redirect script-output

2000-08-16 Thread Winfried Heilmann
Hi, do you use it in a script which is invoked by admin-schedule? Regards winfried -- Weitergeleitet von Winfried Heilmann/Degussa AG/DE on 16.08.2000 14:08 --- "Barth, Terry V. (MBS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 16.08.2000 12:09:56 Bitte

sql select from "yesterday"

2000-08-16 Thread Winfried Heilmann
Hi, for reporting I work with sql select. Can anybody tell me, how I can do a select from a table (for example actlog) only with the record from yesterday or the day before yesterday? I can select the records from today with select ..where date(date_time)=curre

pending?

2000-08-16 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Hi all, I am not understanding the meaning of pending and full ? where i can get something to read on it. i am referinghttp://people.bu.edu/rbs, MED534COPYPOOL STK9710 35,840.03.6 Filling MED535COPYPOOL STK9710 35,840.00.0 F

Re: redirect script-output

2000-08-16 Thread Barth, Terry V. (MBS)
Yes, we have these outputs throughout various scripts. Another way we have some things set up on our Unix platform is that we create scripts and then run them through crontab - but it can also be done through the admin schedule. Ex: script name - offsite_list.ksh # Identify volumes to be moved

Re: sql select from "yesterday"

2000-08-16 Thread Alexander Z Sokolek Jr
Answering from the (Oracle) SQL standpoint, not necessarily from the ADSM standpoint... A Date object usually contains a date and a time. If you want something specific to a date, you need to remove the time component. If I want rows from yesterday or before, for instance, I could "select ... w

Re: sql select from "yesterday"

2000-08-16 Thread Williams, Tim
Here's an example for youFYI Thanks Tim adsm> select date_time, message from actlog where (msgno=8337 or msgno=8468) and days(current_date)-days(date_time)=1 you can vary the =1 to be <2 to check the last 2 days and another adsm> select node_name,

Re: pending?

2000-08-16 Thread Lawrence Clark
Pending means it is empty, and the duration of the pending status, before changing to empty, is decided by the setting of reusedelay. The purpose of this is to retain volumes for a fixed set of time in case you need to get files from them. Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority >>> [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: pending?

2000-08-16 Thread Gary Ison
Shekhar, The difference between "pending" and other states (full or filling) is that the pending volume is empty (all its' data content is expired) but the volume is being held for the number of days specified by the "reusedelay' parameter of the storage pool definition. This is so that

Re: sql select from "yesterday"

2000-08-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
use something along the lines of this select * from adsm.actlog where (cast((current_timestamp-date_time)day as decimal(18,0))=0) > -- > From: Winfried Heilmann[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:16

Re: sql select from "yesterday"

2000-08-16 Thread Gary Ison
Winfried, You can qualify the date search using the DATE(timestamp) function. For example, Select where date(date_time)='mm/dd/ccyy' for the date portion of the timestamp value in the activity log table (actlog). You could parameterize the search value using th

Re: pending?

2000-08-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
full : end of volume has been reached... %util is low because files have expired... must run reclamation to get back pending : check your "reusedelay" setting... tape has gone empty but reusedelay is preventing it from rolling scratch again (for x number of days) Dwight Uh try admin guide fo

ADSM 3.1.20.7 with Informix onbar 7.31

2000-08-16 Thread Derrick Hazel
Hi all, We are in the process of upgrading Informix to 7.31 and I noticed that I cannot archive logs to ADSM after the upgrade. I think I have tried everything... here is the output: 2000-08-16 08:36:29 21162 4852 WARNING: BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE exceeded maximum al lowed limit. Changing buffer siz

Re: pending?

2000-08-16 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Hey Dwight , and all thanks you very much for instant reply. so should i wait and watch ? TSm will automatically checkin that volume as a scratch after reuse delay period expiration ha? and should i pull out the volume which states full?and send them to offsite? another thing is that i have

Re: compatibility

2000-08-16 Thread Allen Barth
Hi Tom, I also have a problem with Backtrack and signal 11's. I'm using 3.7.x clients into a 3.1.x server (soon to be upgraded to 3.7). We have a couple of nodes using the 4.1 client, none of them being unix, and haven't seen any issues. Can you share your issue # with BMC to me? I'll pass th

DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Running TSM 3.7.3.0 on Windows 2000. We have a HP Tape Library with 2 DLT7000 drives. Sometimes, after rebooting the server, the second drive in the library shows up as GENERICTAPE instead of DLT and has the NT device name (\.tape...) instead of the TSM device name (MT4.0.0.3). When this occurs

OpenVMS Client and Veritas

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Hey gang, Have any of you seen Veritas and their OpenVMS client in action? We know they have a client, but we have not seen it at any site. Thanks for any info you can provide me. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax:

AW: Oracle Agent

2000-08-16 Thread Timo Kilchenmann
1) Yes. That's what it is for. 2) It's done by the EBU or RMAN logic. This would be an incremental backup. 3) Depends on how much data is updated during an incremental cycle. This is site dependent. 4) Oracle agent configuration is done separate from the "normal" TSM Client. The data is send to th

multiple label libvols?

2000-08-16 Thread Snyder.John
I've found that if I issue multiple "label libvol" commands (from the webadmin gui), only ONE of the commands will run to completion before the second will start. I have 5 3590 drives and wanted to use all of them at once to label several hundred new tapes... but I can't figure out how to start m

Re: Oracle Agent

2000-08-16 Thread James Thompson
The TSM product Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle or the earlier ADSM connect agent for Oracle work the same way. Both of them allow Oracle's RMAN or EBU to use the TSM Server as the repository for the backups. In affect, the TSM Server appears to Oracle as a storage/tape device. It sends da

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
The Windows 2000 DLT tape driver is loading at boot time. Plug and Pray is getting you. You should go into devices and disable this driver and then reboot the system. ADSMSCSI will then load and you should be in business. We saw this in its more subtle form when the driver loaded, but the device

Re: multiple label libvols?

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
No. Well, sort of. You can use the dsmlabel utility to label the drives. I think this will work for 3494 libraries. The downside of dsmlabel is it works outside of TSM. It does not know what TSM knows and should only be used for the initial labeling of tapes during a new install. It will glad

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Thanks, Kelly. I'll have to ask a stup question. I'm not sure what you mean to disable. In NT 4 - I can go into Control Panel Devices and disable a specific driver. Are you saying to disable the drive under Tape Drives under Device Manager? Under System Devices - I don't see any Tape drivers

Re: multiple label libvols?

2000-08-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
just break down the tape volser list into 5 differnet files the perform from aix nohup dsmlabel -library=/dev/lmcp# -drive=/dev/rmt1 -keep -- > From: Snyder.John[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:11 AM >

Re: multiple label libvols?

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I like it. I'll squirrel this away into my things for AIX list. Thanks, Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From:

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I don't have a 2000 server here so I can't put my finger on it. Somewhere in that morass there is a list of device drivers that gets started at boot time. We simply found the DLT driver (it has a name like DLTTAPE or somesuch) and disabled it. I wish I had a system here or could remember more,

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
And I guess the short answer would have been "Yes", find it in device manager and disable it there. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -O

Re: multiple label libvols?

2000-08-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Oh, then just make sure and do a grep successful nohup.out | wc -l and them make sure that number back equals the number of tapes you were expecting to be labeled, if not the volser will be in the message with "successful" so you can find out pretty easily which specific volumes got label

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
In W2K go into MMC and add the "Device Manager on local computer" snap-in. Click on the icon and it should display all the devices on the system. Find your drives and change "device usage:" to disabled. You could get around it if you really know what you are doing, but to make life easier I wou

Attention: TDP for SQL V2 - Beta Program Nomination Form

2000-08-16 Thread Del Hoobler
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *R E M I N D E R* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Customers interested in participating in the beta test of Tivoli Data Protection for SQL V2 should fill out = the following form and send it to: [EMAIL PROT

Residency Announcement: ST-0525 Managing a SAN Fabric

2000-08-16 Thread Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM
Another residency - unfortunately because this is working with un-announced products, we can only accept nominations from IBM, Tivoli and Business Partners. Regards, Charlotte Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph (408) 927-3641 Fax (408) 927-3616 T/L 8-457-3641 Project Leader, Storage Management, ITSO Alm

Residency Announcement: ST-0540 Managing a SAN Environment: Workshop Material

2000-08-16 Thread Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM
No, you are not seeing double. This is a closely related project to the one I just sent. Basically a team of 6 people will collaborate to produce a redbook (covering just Tivoli SAN Management software) and workshop materials (covering the SAN Management software as well as topics related to using

Re: PASSWORD

2000-08-16 Thread taketoshi ide
"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" wrote: > Hi Ide! > If you have other Admin's with system privileges on your system, let them > reset your password. If you don't, you will have to stop your TSM server and > start it in the foreground. You are then running in the console mode and you > can create/update a

Re: PASSWORD

2000-08-16 Thread taketoshi ide
"Barth, Terry V. (MBS)" wrote: > Do you have another account on the system with administrative rights? > > If so, log on as that admin and then reset the admin password. > > -Original Message- > From: taketoshi ide [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 5:43 PM > To:

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Cris Robinson
I found our documentation and here is what "really" happened. (Fatherhood definitely does something to the brain. I now completely understand my father and why he is the way he is!) Here is our process: We made sure that the windows 2000 option was checked in the TSM device driver startup options

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Thanks Johsua and Kelly. I selected each drive under Tape Drives in Device Manager and disabled. (When I looked at the properties of these drives, they were using the NT dlttape.sys driver.) Works ok after 1 reboot anyways! Thanks again - that was an annoying little problem! Tim Rushforth City

Re: DLT drive shows up as GENERICTAPE on TSM 3.7.3 on Windows 200 0

2000-08-16 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Tim, Just say it "pain in the ass!" Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMA

Restore with GUI - Rename of file

2000-08-16 Thread Gerd Becker
Hi *SM'ers has anyone an idea how I can change the name of a file during restore-process, if I use the Graphical User Interface? Thanks for answer Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Gerd Becker EMPRISE NETWORK Consulting GmbH Albstr. 14 70597 Stuttgart Tel.: 0711/990083-0 oder Mobil: 0172

ODBC Port

2000-08-16 Thread Gerald Wichmann
We have a TSM server behind a firewall. I would like to be able to use my ODBC connection to the server from outside the firewall. Does anyone know what port I would have to map to the firewall to do this? Port 1500? Gerald Wichmann RS Engineer Sansia System Solutions 408-844-8893 work 408-844-98

Re: TSM 3.7 --> 4.1, HSM

2000-08-16 Thread Norbert Klaus Martin
Lee, see the centens under your question lines. > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Lee Garner > Sent: Dienstag, 8. August 2000 17:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: TSM 3.7 --> 4.1, HSM > > > Hi, > > My site is in the process

error message

2000-08-16 Thread Oscar Kolsteren
Hi all, I've got a H70 + TSM 3.7.3 and I'm now starting a fresh backup of all the clients to this config and let the old ADSM machine die an easy death. Now I've got this error message that worry's me : ANRD icvolhst.c(4329): Error Writing to output file Is there something wrong in the h