True64 UNIX 4.1.1 Client Problem

2000-10-25 Thread Rainer Wolf
Dear Netlanders , i am just about to install 4.1.1 Clients on different platforms and occasionly I realized a severe problem and I wonder if this is a known Problem or I am the only one ... Server: 3.1.2.40 adsm Client Tru64 Unix 4.0F / advfs -Filesystem My action was an Update on the ClientSof

Compression

2000-10-25 Thread Gerrit van Zyl
Hi *Sm'ers ADSM Server: 3.1.2.50 on AIX Cleint: NT 3.1.0.8 Is it possible to tell ADSM to backup a file the first time regardless if it grew in size with compression on at the client? Regards Gerrit

Re: Memory consumption by SMDR.NLM backing up NDS

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Nick
Peter, I have had an open issue with both Novell and IBM concerning this topic. We only have the problem with the TSM 3.7 client and Netware 5.1. This issue, according to IBM is a Novell issue.I just received an update from IBM on this yesterday which follows. IC28444 APAR - NDS BACKUP CONSUMES

Re: Compression

2000-10-25 Thread Talafous, John G.
A companion parameter to COMPRESSION on the TSM Client is COMPRESSALWAYS. The default value is YES. So, by default, files will be compressed even if the file size increases. To stop compression and resend the file, COMPRESSALWAYS=NO must be specified. John G. Talafous IS T

share one library for one TSM server

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Benny
Is it possible to share one StorageTek Library L700 without the ACSLS software for one TSM server? I test it with one Exabyte Library with 8mm Tape Drives. I could define 2 Deviceclasses, 2 Libraries, 2 Storagepools... for the same library and it works. But we want to mix one L700 with DLT and

Tracing Options

2000-10-25 Thread Selva, Perpetua
Hi there, Can someone let me know what parameters or options i should include within the client option file.. I need to do a trace.. Thanks much

Archive Question

2000-10-25 Thread Barth, Terry (MBS)
Hello all - I have a question on how to do the following: I have many clients that back up to disk and to tape pools. I want to archive these same clients. What I want to do is schedule these archives and send them to an archive_pool - how do I do this? In other words - Node A - currently back

Re: Tracing Options

2000-10-25 Thread Raul Giraldo Suarez
Hi. You only need this in your option file TRACEFLAG PERFORM TRACEFILE TRACE.OUT File TRACE.OUT will be in your client dir. Special regards Raul Giraldo Suarez TSM Bancolombia. "Selva, Perpetua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> con fecha 25/10/2000 08:58:54 AM Por favor, responda a "AD

Re: Tracing Options

2000-10-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
There is the manual Tivoli Storage Manager Trace Facility Guide (mine is V3R3 SH26-4104-00) you can find it out on the website with other manuals, try http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/pubs/admanual.htm it has all the good poop in it. Dwight -Original Message- From: Selva

LINUX

2000-10-25 Thread Thomas R Rhodes/TRR/CC01/INEEL/US
Is there a client for LINUX in *sm? If so where can I get it?

Re: Archive Question

2000-10-25 Thread Shalev, Jonathan
Hi Terry, There are (up to) 2 COPY GROUPS for each management class. One for backups and one for archives. Therefore, you just have to specify the appropriate storage pool for each of them. The command DEFINE COPYGROUP has a parameter TYPE=BACKUP (default) or TYPE=ARCHIVE. You can look at HELP D

Re: Archive Question

2000-10-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
define a management class, make it not the default, set the archive copy group to point towards a new storage pool (and I wouldn't even put in a backup copy group) now you could make this new storage pool, disk, then a next to tape OR straight to tape... just depends on how many concurrent client

Re: LINUX

2000-10-25 Thread Barth, Terry (MBS)
Yes there is - you can obtain it from the following site: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ client/ -Original Message- From: Thomas R Rhodes/TRR/CC01/INEEL/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Once a week (or so), I go through the ADSM (MVS 3.1.2.50) server activity log file, and strip out the "AN?4961I Bytes Transferred" messages to get an idea of how much data is being transferred/backed up. Recently, we noticed that a new node (AIX) was transferring more data than the total of it's

TSM V4.1 Admin Guide & Admin Reference manuals

2000-10-25 Thread Ken Sedlacek
I made a mistake on ordering the TSM manuals for 3.7, and ended up with the TSM 4.1 Admin Guide and Admin Reference manuals instead. I know there are differences between 3.7 & 4.1, but should I send back the 4.1 manuals and get the 3.7 instead? We are not planning to go to 4.1 soon (6-8 months o

Re: LINUX

2000-10-25 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Or via this web site link http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/clients.html#linux (shows availability for both the 3.7 and 4.1 level of TSM). Regards, Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant "Barth, Terry (MBS)" cc:

Re: RAW devices

2000-10-25 Thread Sergio Cherchyk
Gerald. Check out if you have installed the following: tivoli.tsm.client.image.aix43.32bit * * # 3.7.0.0 COMMITTED TSM Client - IMAGE Backup* * Regards Sergio R. Cherchyk Arquitectu

Re: Question on exclude.dir

2000-10-25 Thread Sergio Cherchyk
Bob Exclude.dir only affects directories (empty ones) and have no effect on files and the directories that contains these files. rgds Brazner, Bob wrote: > If I backup all the files on a client, and then later decide to implement > an exclude.dir, what happens to the files that were previously b

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Yep, working as designed... this is why you might want to alter your changingretries or start excluding the changing files from backups (since they probably in the end aren't gettin backed up anyway) Dwight -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: We

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Hi, It does the sending on each retries. To avoid it, it would have to first copy the file in a reserved space, check if the file changed, and send it only it has asserted itself it is OK to be sent. This could be a worthwhile feature in *SM if it were not for the fact that you'd need to have a

DIRMC - disadvantages only?

2000-10-25 Thread Jochem van Hal
Hi all, The 'old' redbook "Getting started with ADSM: A practical Implemantation Guide" recommends to use a seperate MC and STP for directories (for restore performance reasons). Chapter 13.2.3 DIRMC (page 236) states: "In a restore ..., ADSM first restores the directories and then the files...

Archiving Large Files on AIX TSM 3.7.3

2000-10-25 Thread Gail Riley
Does anyone know if there is an upper limit on the size of file that can be archived? We are running AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 3.7.3 and I want to save a 150GB file. I tried to do a search on adsm.org, but it seems it has space issues: Error! St: Couldn't create file (file "/usr/local/excite/collections/

Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: We will finally be adding our 2nd tape library and intend to move the existing primary storage pools to this new device. Rather than tinker with a number of scripts I thought the simplist way to do this would be: -stop current processes - rename current storage pool to new names - define ne

Question

2000-10-25 Thread Jimenez, Juan
Does anybody know what the problem is with this message: ANS1317E The server does not have enough database space to continue Thank you!! Juan E. Jimenez Systems Analyst Sheriff's Technical Services Division (909) 387-0658

Re: Archive Question

2000-10-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: -Define your new storage pool -Define a copy group type=archive dest=your new storage pool You get to define a separate default copygroup for both backups and archives. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/00 10:22AM >>> Hello all - I have a question on how to do the following: I have many clients

Re: Question

2000-10-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: Try a q db on your command line, as well as a q log. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/00 01:02PM >>> Does anybody know what the problem is with this message: ANS1317E The server does not have enough database space to continue Thank you!! Juan E. Jimenez Systems Analyst Sheriff's Technical Servic

Re: Question

2000-10-25 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
what is the output of q db command ? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 10/25/2000 01:10:15 PM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Question Does anybody know what the problem is with this messa

Re: Tracing Options

2000-10-25 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
following two lines.. * SErvername A server name defined in the dsm.sys file *traceflag service *tracefile trace.log servername tsm DOMAIN / DOMAIN /home DOMAIN /ora01 DOMAIN /tsm DOMAIN /ora02 DOMAIN /ora03 DOMAIN /ora04 DOMAIN /ora05 DOMAIN /ora06 Regards Shekhar Dhotre Sys Admin B

Re: Question

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Nick
Juan, This message indicates that the *SM server has run out of data base space. You may need to allocate more data base space. Regards, Brian Brian L. Nick System Programmer - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PR

Re: LINUX

2000-10-25 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
yes i am using it, on tivoli`s web page ..download it. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 10/25/2000 11:24:50 AM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: LINUX Is there a client for LINUX in *sm?

Re: Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Alex Paschal
Larry, Instead of "move data" to move data from old stgpools into the new stgpools, it might be easier for you to set the old stgpools to "nextstgpool=newstgpool", then set your migration levels to 0. For copypools, since they don't have nextstgpool, instead of doing "move data", you can just ba

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the info. Nice thought, but there probably isn't going to be a time when these files are "not in use", so fuzzy is better than no backup, in this case!! IMHO, I think this is a screwball way of doing things. I guess I am too accustomed to the MVS way"check to see if file is in use

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the enlightenment !!! Yep, working as designed... this is why you might want to alter your changingretries or start excluding the changing files from backups (since they probably in the end aren't gettin backed up anyway) Dwight -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU

Re: Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi Alex: I probably would not try the migration method because of the massive amount of data in the existing storage pools, although it would be a simpler procedure. The copypools will remain the same, defined in the existing tape library. Thanks, Larry >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/00 01:39PM >

Re: Optimum diskpool size

2000-10-25 Thread Joe Faracchio
I don't want to disagree with the 'large enough for 1 nights dump' rule of thumb but that's just it: its a rule of thumb. I thinks in terms of utilizing resources to the 100% level. (except that there needs to be breathing room for things like restores) First off: GET A COMMITTMENT from those

Re: Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM
Larry, No problems, but rather than rename the old pools, you can just use new names for the new pools and point the nextpool settings to the new pools (unless there are a number of management classes pointing straight to the tape pools). I'd then set the reclaimation threshold for the old pools

Re: Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Lawrence Clark
Nick: Yes, your method would make the move to the new storage pools more transparant except: - I need a timely return of the cartridge slots in the original tape library - I want to remove the old storage pool from the original tape library and basicly just have the copypool defined there, so th

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
> -Original Message- > From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes > > Thanks for the info. > > Nice thought, but there probably isn't going to be a

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Prather, Wanda
Have you tried changing the management class for that file? For the few cases where you KNOW the file is going to be is use, and you want a fuzzy backup anyway, you can create a separate management class (called FUZZY, for example), which specifies SERIALIZATION=DYNAMIC. Bind that one file to t

NT security risk

2000-10-25 Thread Chuck Colht
With the recent announcement of another NT file space access vunerability in IIS, I think it is prudent to examine the way TSM backs up the registry on NT. Currently, the registry is backed up to c:\adsm.sys. By default, this directory has Everyone/Change permision which means that anyone with

Restores 1 less object than backed up

2000-10-25 Thread Ron James
I just backed up a new client's c drive. (NT) Inspected 19,358 Backed up 1379 Failed 0 On the restore to a blank directory on another server it restored 1378 objects with 0 failures. Now I know there is a reason for this missing object - Who knows the answer? Ron L. James

subdir=y and not follow symlinks?

2000-10-25 Thread Jerome A. Marella
Hello, I want to use the subdir=y option to backup all of the subdirs interactively. However, I don't want to follow symlinks. Looking at the documentation, there seems to be no way to do this as specifying -subdir=y also follows symlinks. Am I missing something obvious? Client: Solaris 2.6, TSM

Re: Moving storage pools

2000-10-25 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Nick, Your answer prompted me to remember something I had been pondering. When migration is performed, the strategy is to determine which client in the pool is occupying the most space and migrate all of that client's data and recheck the thresholds and proceed if necessary. In the case of tape

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
And before you use a fuzzy backup make sure you can restore a fuzzy backup. If you can't you might as well exclude the file. That's even cheaper! Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Rick Marshall
I'd like to hear from a *SM guru from IBM on this one. We had the same situation where we added some new volumes in a new directory to our disk storage pool and forgot to add an exclude statement to the inclexcl file. Lo and behold, the next incremental backup for the TSM server node created 13

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the hint/suggestion. Have you tried changing the management class for that file? For the few cases where you KNOW the file is going to be is use, and you want a fuzzy backup anyway, you can create a separate management class (called FUZZY, for example), which specifies SERIALIZATI

Backing up db2/nt?

2000-10-25 Thread Paul Fielding
I've been digging all night through db2 manuals and red books, trying to find something that would reasonably describe a straightforward way to backup and restore a db2 5 or 6 database on NT. The Databases Redbook is 2 years old and concentrates on AIX and OS/2, aside from being a read somethi