Re: Problems installing client 4.1.1 on NT4

2000-10-05 Thread Heinz Flemming
According to Patrick Boutilier: > Has anybody successfully installed the 4.1.1 client on NT4? On two boxes that I > have tried the box reboots to update "Windows Installer" and then the setup > fails after that. Even running setup directly from the uncompressed archive > fails. The exact error mes

default mgmt class in existing backups

2000-10-05 Thread Reinhold Wagner
Folks, one of our nodes was defined with the wrong Default Mgmt Class in it's policy set. Now my questions: - i corrected the def. mgmt class - does this have effect on the existing backups which have _default_ as mgmt class? - is it possible to change the existing backups' mgmt class to a ce

Re: default mgmt class in existing backups

2000-10-05 Thread Gerrit van Zyl
Reinhold, As soon as the next backup is run, all the files previously backed up, will be bind to the new management class. Regards Gerrit van Zyl Reinhold Wagner wrote: > Folks, > > one of our nodes was defined with the wrong Default Mgmt Class in it's policy > set. Now my questions: > > - i

Re: Problems installing client 4.1.1 on NT4

2000-10-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I am running SP6. Quoting Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Installed it on 4 NT4 servers, so far. No problems. Yes, it did the > reboot > and then continued. > > Are you high enough on the SP's ? All of my servers were at SP5 or > higher. > > > > > Patrick Boutil

Best Practice Backup DB and Stgpool Process???

2000-10-05 Thread Roy Lake
Chaps, I need to know the best procedure to follow with regards to stg pool backups and db backups. Let me tell you what we are doing:- Most of our backups take place overnight between midnight and 6am. (Only a few non-critical during the day). Storage pool backups are taken at 8am (with NO D

Re: Problems installing client 4.1.1 on NT4

2000-10-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Bruce, I was ruuning setup directly from the uncompressed archive. I did run instmsiw.exe like you suggested and that part installs fine. It is when I run setup.exe that the problem occurs. I get to choose what language I want then about 30 seconds later the install is "interrupted". I am going

Incl/Excl under Aix - not working

2000-10-05 Thread Christo Heuër
Hi everyone, I'm having some doubts as to how Tsm is doing the excludes for AIX. Some info on the environment: Client - AIX 4.3 running Tsm 3.7.2.0 Server - OS/390 2.9 running Tsm 3.7.0.0 My include/exclude list ONLY contains stuff to be excluded - so the bottom to top procedure with a combinati

Re: Incl/Excl under Aix - not working

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Sims
Christo - The classic cause of include/exclude not working in Unix is in not locating the INCLExcl specification within the appropriate server stanza. Beyond that I'd need to see your options file and inclexcl file to try to determine what's happening there. Richard Sims, BU

Re: Incl/Excl under Aix - not working

2000-10-05 Thread Gerrit van Zyl
Christo, I'm still on client level 3.1.0.8 and the exclude.fs does not work for me as well. However, "exclude /db01/.../*" does work. Regards Gerrit Christo Heuër wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm having some doubts as to how Tsm is doing the excludes for AIX. > Some info on the environment: > C

Re: Another AIX question

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Sims
>Ok all you AIX guru's, here's another easy one for you. I need to find out >where there are files I can safely delete on the server. There must be a >bunch filling this up because the last time this happened I just extended >the size with a "chfs -a size=+10 /usr" > >Here is what a df -k shows me

Re: Does your TDP for Domino inactivation work?

2000-10-05 Thread Del Hoobler
T.Y., When you say you are running full backups daily, are you running the "DOMDSMC SELECTIVE" or "DOMDSMC INCREMENTAL" command? Is the INACTIVATELOGS command running successfully? What is the output from that command? There was one problem when inactivating a large number (more than TXNGROUPMA

Re: Does your TDP for Domino inactivation work?

2000-10-05 Thread Bob Delaney
T.Y., Assuming you mean "many ACTIVE month-old transaction logs still sitting in " By a "full daily backup" do you mean a "selective *" ? If so, and you do not have fixtest 1.1.1.01, get it. It should take care of that problem. If you're not running "selective *" daily, then realize th

Re: Another AIX question

2000-10-05 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>Overall, though, you need an AIX person there to be looking >after your AIX >system: working on root volume group file systems as a casual >tourist is >dangerous. > > Richard Sims, BU Richard, Everyone take a deep breath before you laughI am the AIX person. I'm sure you all started with

Defining the drive

2000-10-05 Thread James Healy
Sorry in my last question I don't think I was specific enough. I've install a 3494 library on my TSM server. The server runs on a Sun e1k I've defined the library to the server calling it 3494lib I have 2 3590 drives in the library. I've read the manual where it states to run the " ls -la

Scheduler question

2000-10-05 Thread Forgosh, Seth
What settings would I need to have two servers that share the same TSM node name use the same schedule so that each backs up once per day? My current settings are listed below. Schedule Name: DISCHAR-001 Description: Action: Incremental Options: Objects: Prio

Re: Another AIX question

2000-10-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
One place to look for things that are growing in /usr is TSM: If you have TSM accounting turned on, the accounting data goes to /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmaccnt.log by default. That file will continue to grow. There is some way in TSM 3.7, I think, to direct the accounting file to another dir

Re: Defining the drive

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Sims
>ANR8420E DEFINE DRIVE: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive RMT1. Jim - That usually means that the drive is not free, or maybe not ready. You should physically check the drive for no tape mounted, that it is online, at right SCSI address, all that. You downloaded and installed the

ADSM SCHEDULER

2000-10-05 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Hi Can someone please let me know why the 'adsm scheduler' would stop for no reason .. especially on an NT4.0 running metaframe/winframe applications.. Thanks in Advance

Re: Defining the drive

2000-10-05 Thread David M. Hendrix
James, IF 9st is actually in /dev/rmt (your output only showed up to 2st..) then define the drive this way: def drive 3494lib rmt1 devi=/dev/rmt/9stcn I always use the non-rewinding devicename (goes back to by dump/restore days). I also use device compression. In other words, you need to spec

Re: ADSM SCHEDULER

2000-10-05 Thread Selva, Perpetua
There is no specific errors that seem to point to anything unusual.. One day it will work, the other day, it won't.. Sometimes 'it says client severed', at other times, it has missed schedules. Whatever the case maybe, the client server's adsm scheduler would have stopped by itself.. -Orig

Client 4.1 - Saving "pick" choices

2000-10-05 Thread Hicks, Mike
After selecting my subdirectories to store on the "Backup" screen, the backup runs successfully. The next time I ran the backup, I had to reselect the files. Is there a way to save the selections other than editing the .OPT file? Editing the .OPT file works fine for me, but the rank and file en

Strange error msg on restore

2000-10-05 Thread Churchfield Glen
Has anyone seen an error msg like this on a restore? The server is TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX and client is 3.1.0.7c on NT. The restore seems to be proceeding, but these errors are filling dsmerror.log on the client. 10/02/2000 22:29:40 The 15039th code was found to be out of sequence. The code (786) wa

Re: ADSM SCHEDULER

2000-10-05 Thread Palmadesso Jack
You may want to try removing and reinstalling the service with the dsmcutil command. As to why it stopped in the first place look in the nt event viewer also review your activity log on the server. Also look in the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log if you have not. Jack -Original Message-

Re: Really Dumb Mistake

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Engels
On top of changing the managemengt class why not install a later version of the TDP. I assume you are still using the connect agent. Installing the TDP version for Exchange will provide you the ifolder option. So no more manuall deletion and a nice clean up of old backups via a little batch script

Re: ADSM SCHEDULER

2000-10-05 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Hi Thanks for all the responses.. However, i have tried everything that has been suggested. I'm puzzled... Could it be something to do with the Version i'm running.. Server 3.1.2.20 and Client 3.1.08 Thanks in Advance -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Re: Defining the drive

2000-10-05 Thread James Healy
RIch, The drives are online and ready and I have the correct SCSI ID's I'm still looking fro the answer - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free!

Re: Another AIX question

2000-10-05 Thread Steven P Roder
> I'm not one to go off and start mucking around in an area I have no > knowledge of. That's why I call AIX support and am constantly asking, what > may seem to some, simple little questions. But I'd rather look stupid asking > them instead of looking stupid rebuilding something I screwed up becau

Re: DSM_DIR for USS

2000-10-05 Thread Lawrence Clark
DSM_DIR is the variable that points to the directory where dsm.sys & dsm.opt are. The default on AIX is: /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin On AIX the variable is set in the /etc/environment file Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/00 03:46PM >>> Would someone tell me where

Re: Another AIX question

2000-10-05 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>...Since you were asking about freeing space in a filesystem, /usr, I >think, note that /usr typically runs in the 90% full range, unless you >specifically enlarge is. It is static, except for >upgrade/install time, >during which, smit will enlarge it automatically as needed. Steven, Thanks fo

Brainstorming with ADSM 3.1 server in mixed OS390 and VM environm ent

2000-10-05 Thread Talafous, John G.
I have an ADSM 3.1 server running on OS390 2.8. The OS390 2.8 machine, a 9672-R45, is running pretty much at capacity. Actually, we've shut down ADSM and find that we are at about 90-95% CPU utilization. Not a lot of room for ADSM. We have a shared DASD environment between our OS390 and VM machin

Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
Hello, we run adsm server 3.1.2.50, base client 3.7.2.0 and DB2 6.1.1 on AIX 4.3.3 All DB backups start and immediately ask for mount of 1 tape / session. They should go to the disc storage pool ! Why? I checked disc pools ( all have NO SIZE LIMIT), I checked all backup and archive copy groups,

Re: ADSM SCHEDULER

2000-10-05 Thread Murray, Jim
Look for Dr. Watson errors. I found that changing backupregistry to no in the dsm.opt file made the program go away. Not a fix but a working band-aid. Jim Murray Senior Systems Engineer Liberty Bank [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860)638-2919 "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Apple c

Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread Carsten Moldrup
Hello, Does the Management class point to the tapepool ? Have you activated the policyset - if a managementclass was changed ?? Are the diskpool volumes read-only ? Is disk storagepool r/o ? Best regards, Carsten Moldrup "Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05-10-200

Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
Hello, management classes: all destination for migrations are for disc pools activation: done storage pools: r/w ok, volumes too We have another DB2 backups which works fine into discs, the DB2 version is older. For this client we had to use the newest client delivered by IBM. Is it a bug ? Tha

AW: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
Do you backup the DB files as flat files or do you use a TDP agent? We use the TDP agent to backup our ORACLE DB an we had to be careful when setting the DSMO_AVG_SIZE environment variable. We have caching enabled for the disk storage pools so they are always "full". When TDP tries to write to di

Re: TSM on Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I've installed six or seven Solaris TSM servers. Everyone knows my awesome UNIX capabilities. Legendary, at least in my mind. I love it. The install is very clean. The performance is great. I have not experienced many if any problems with the code once installed and configured. I've worked

Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
We use no agent, backup code is included within DB2. The client Plateform comes as R3DB2UDB in the node definition. Our disc pools have Caching enabled NO. What else could I check ? Thanks, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41(02

cleaning

2000-10-05 Thread Dean Winger
Need help setting up cleaning. I am running TSM 4.1.1 on Windows NT I have a Qualstar 46120 library with four AIT-2 drives. I am trying to set up a cleaning schedule and need some help. First, what is the best way to checkin the cleaner tape? And how many cleanings do you tell TSM that your

getting rid of onbar log backups

2000-10-05 Thread Kai Hintze
Still trying to get rid of outdated informix onbar log backups. While I am trying to get expire to work I have run out of tapes. Something in the last set of mails clicked an idea--If I read the mgmt class correctly only onbar log backups should be on the tapes in question, so I may be able to ju

Re: Brainstorming with ADSM 3.1 server in mixed OS390 and VM environm ent

2000-10-05 Thread Wim Feyants
John, a first reaction to this would be that it is possible, but would require a lot of work. Due to the fact that some ADSM DB entries are platform specific, you cannot just move the database between your MVS and VM. The route to follow would be an export of the original server, and an import on

Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread William Sherrill/Lexington/Contr/IBM
Rene, Check the size of your DB2 database with the size of your disk storage pool. If *sm sees that it doesn't have enough space in its target pool, it will then go to the next storage pool. I have seen this with DB2, the database exceeded the amount of space in the disk pool so it then asked f

Archive large list of files

2000-10-05 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Hello, We have a process that archives a large set of files. We are running into a problem now because the number of files is apparently too great for the command interpretor (shell) to accept as individual arguments. We use this particular method so that we can archive all these file

Archives of directories and management class

2000-10-05 Thread Tom Melton
I have searched the archives, and I am still a little confused about this. What level of server and client must I be at to have the archive of directories NOT use the management class that has the longest retention? Server info: AIX 4.2.1 (soon to be 4.3.2) ADSM 3.1.2.55 Client info: Various l

Re: Brainstorming with ADSM 3.1 server in mixed OS390 and VM environm ent

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Faracchio
ADSM on VM uses MDISK (mini-disks) formated with CMS mode 6 (direct to block i/o) and MVS doesn't. (I know, I used ADSM on VM before going to 3466/NSM (AIX). Although VM is OS VOL aware , the last I heard its still READ-ONLY. So how would you propose transferring the binaries for R/W use? Nod ga

Exclude list for Windows '98 and Windows NT/2000

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Snow
We are about to install the TSM client on many Windows '98 and Windows NT/2000 systems. I'd appreciate any pointers to good exclude lists (or the lists themselves) for these two operating systems. I found exclude lists for UNIX in the archives, but had no luck with Windows. Thanks. Richard Sno

Re: Exclude list for Windows '98 and Windows NT/2000

2000-10-05 Thread Fred Johanson
At 10:14 AM 10/5/2000 -0700, you wrote: >We are about to install the TSM client on many Windows '98 and Windows >NT/2000 systems. I'd appreciate any pointers to good exclude lists (or the >lists themselves) for these two operating systems. I found exclude lists >for UNIX in the archives, but had

Re: Archive large list of files

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Sims
>We have a process that archives a large set of files. We are running >into a problem now because the number of files is apparently too great >for the command interpretor (shell) to accept as individual arguments. >We use this particular method so that we can archive all these files >with the sam

Re: Archives of directories and management class

2000-10-05 Thread Richard Sims
>I have searched the archives, and I am still a little confused about >this. What level of server and client must I be at to have the archive >of directories NOT use the management class that has the longest >retention? >From http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts : ARCHmc

Re: Archives of directories and management class

2000-10-05 Thread Tom Melton
Yep, we are using the archmc parm, and this morning I had an archive run from a client that did specifically use the management class with the longest retention. It looks to me that this APAR was fixed at server level 3.1.2.30. But 3.1.0.7 client code is also mentioned. The way I found this is

Re: Archives of directories and management class

2000-10-05 Thread Tom Melton
Ok, I found it (I think). One client was at 3.1.0.6, and that is what caused the high-retention MC. Thanks again... -Tom Yep, we are using the archmc parm, and this morning I had an archive run from a client that did specifically use the management class with the longest retention. It looks

compression

2000-10-05 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Is it better to compress data from the client or from the server. Please let me know Thanks Perpetua Selva ARBC Dominion Securities Inc. Technical Analyst Global Markets Tel: (416-842-4528) Fax:(416-842-4335)

Re: Archive large list of files

2000-10-05 Thread Chuck Colht
Oops! Forgot the add the script to my previous reply. My apologies! chuck #!/usr/bin/perl #eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' # if $running_under_some_shell; # created using find2perl # 10/1/00 chuckc # 10/5/00 cleaned up and documented (sort of ;) # require "find.pl"; usage()

Re: Archive large list of files

2000-10-05 Thread Chuck Colht
We are working on this problem also. We have Netware servers and there is no HSM client available. So we want to archive and delete all files that have not been accessed in X days. I wrote a perl script that runs on my NT workstation with the Netware volumes attached that searches the target pa

Excludes Not Working

2000-10-05 Thread Karen Mikacenic
ADSM runs on NT 4.0 SP4 at Version 3 Release 1 Level 2.30. Clients are 3.1.0.7 Here is an abbreviated list of what I see on a client's schedlog when doing a backup: Normal File--> 146,226 \\irvfilab\c$\Pwrchute\manuals\relnotes.pdf [Sent] Directory--> 0 \\irvfilab\c$\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21

Q Backupsetcontents

2000-10-05 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Gang, Are the contents of a backupset kept in the database or in the backupset itself? 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

Re: Q Backupsetcontents

2000-10-05 Thread Ted Byrne
Kelly, I believe the phrase used with regards to backupsets is "self-describing". I tried this: Created a backupset, sending it to tape. Checked the tape out of the library Issued the Q Backupsetcontent command for that backupset. I saw mount request messages start to appear in the activity log

Re: Exclude list for Windows '98 and Windows NT/2000

2000-10-05 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
Hello: for our laptops we have following dsm.opt: Exclude "*:\...\EA DATA. SF" Exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys Exclude *:\IBMBIO.COM Exclude *:\IBMDOS.COM Exclude *:\MSDOS.SYS Exclude *:\IO.SYS Exclude *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*.* Exclude *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\* Exclude.dir '?:\...\Temporary Inte