Server-to-server COPYPOOL, anyone?

2000-10-26 Thread GWDVMS::MOELLER
It has been proposed that we "mirror" rather large (>1 TB) Storagepools on another server. Is anyone doing this? I'd like to know about experiences, in particular with respect to media consumption on the secondary site, and ideas how to choose the MAXCAPACITY of virtual volumes (in relation to ta

ADSM time?

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Cross
Two small questions, hopefully with small answers [ :-) ]: 1. Time changes - what's the best way to deal with these, i.e. does the server have to go down for the clock change (especially the impending 'clocks back' one)? 2. We've got an SP node AIX ADSM server connected to a 3494 library - any

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
There will only be a single copy sent if your "changingretries" is 0 now if that copy is kept depends on the serialization of the copygroup... and shrdyn is the one that says "yes, keep it" Dwight -Original Message- From: Rick Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October

Archiving question

2000-10-26 Thread Henrik Hansson
Hi gurus I'm tying to dig down the manuals and set up archiving. I sat up a Archive pool primary, disk + tape and a copy archive pool, tape. I'm just wondering now the following, When i do an Archive it will go to the Primary stg pool and then it will be copied to the Copy stgpool and tapes go

TDP for Microsoft Exchange

2000-10-26 Thread Anderson, Michael
I have ADSM 3.1.2.20 for NT with client 3.06. I have installed TDP for exchange 1.1 I can ran a manual backup with no problem, but when I try to install the scheduler I keep getting an invalid option file. I have issued the following command to install the scheduler from the b

Info.

2000-10-26 Thread Marco Supino
Hi. Just wanted to let you know i got Today the new Sunsolve (4.0.15) , and it seems SUN Fixed the problem with the DSMC coredump on Solaris 2.5.1 with the latest Patches. Marco. begin:vcard n:Supino;Marco tel;fax:972-9-9509118 tel;work:972-9-9708721 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.innoveda.com

Re: TDP for Microsoft Exchange

2000-10-26 Thread Phil Bone
We run our Exchange backups as a "PRESCHEDULEDCOMMAND" Here is the line in the \baclient\dsm.opt file: * preschedulecmd "C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\ADSM\Agentexc\backup.cmd" * Here is the "backup.cmd" file: c: cd \progra~1\ibm\adsm\agentexc excdsmc /backup:is,full excdsmc /backup:dir,full excdsmc /backup:

Re: Archiving question

2000-10-26 Thread Richard Sims
>When i do an Archive it will go to the Primary stg pool and then it will be >copied to the Copy stgpool and tapes goes offsite. >Lets say I do this once a month. Also lets say that I will keep the archives for >10 years, 3650 days. >Will my primary stgpool that I use for archiving keep all the ar

Re: subdir=y and not follow symlinks?

2000-10-26 Thread Richard Sims
>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? Jerome - I think the documen

Re: Archiving question

2000-10-26 Thread Henrik Hansson
Thanx for the answer Richard And an extention of the scenario that the tapes in the Primary pool goes to a "box" I need to have a Primary stgpool for the archiving just and not share it with my Primary stgpool that I use with my daily backups. Henrik Hansson Nomafa AB TANSTAAFL (There Ain'

Collocation - How many tapes will it use?

2000-10-26 Thread Steven Fehl
Hi, I have a customer that has been running TSM for a little less than a year without using collocation. I think it would be a good idea but I am concerned at how many tapes one of the clients will require. Here are the specifics: TSM Server: HPUX 11 TSM 3.7.1.0 Library: STK9710, 4 DLT7000 dri

TSM/Solaris 2.6 client problems

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Cross
Has anyone run into problems running either the TSM 3.7.2 or 4.1.1 clients on Solaris 2.6 with the latest patch level? I've got a 105181-23 kernel running and the GUI client collapses with a segmentation fault, the command line gives "ANS9505E unkown: cannot initialize DM services. Reason: Operat

Re: DIRMC - disadvantages only?

2000-10-26 Thread Richard Sims
>1) Is the use of DIRMC obsolete? Jochem - APAR IC24321 would partially make it seem that way; but consider the case where the directory information is not incidentally on the tape containing the data being restored, and thus would not be encountered during restoral processing on that ta

Re: subdir=y and not follow symlinks?

2000-10-26 Thread Jerome A. Marella
Richard, It turns out that I was confused in general and by the confusing documentation :) Attempting the tests you describe below work as you have suggested. Some of the symlinks I was trying to back up were pointing to unavailable cells in AFS. The errors I was getting were just stat() calls th

Re: TDP for Microsoft Exchange

2000-10-26 Thread Lawrence Clark
DSMCUTIL INST SCHED >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/00 09:33AM >>> I have ADSM 3.1.2.20 for NT with client 3.06. I have installed TDP for exchange 1.1 I can ran a manual backup with no problem, but when I try to install the scheduler I keep getting an invalid option file. I ha

Re: Collocation - How many tapes will it use?

2000-10-26 Thread Lawrence Clark
basicly colocation will use a minimum of 1 cartridge/node unless you limit the maxscratch so there are not sufficient tapes to satisfy the colocation >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/00 10:17AM >>> Hi, I have a customer that has been running TSM for a little less than a year without using collocatio

Re: Collocation - How many tapes will it use?

2000-10-26 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I guess the easiest way to estimate would be to take the total space a client is using and divide that by the average tape utilization. That will give tapes/client for each client. Then add them up. One always figures at least one tape per client. That tape may never fill for small clients thu

Re: TSM/Solaris 2.6 client problems

2000-10-26 Thread Marco Supino
Robert Cross wrote: > Has anyone run into problems running either the TSM 3.7.2 or 4.1.1 clients > on Solaris 2.6 with the latest patch level? > > I've got a 105181-23 kernel running and the GUI client collapses with > a segmentation fault, the command line gives > "ANS9505E unkown: cannot initia

TDP for Lotus Domino on Solaris - please urgent

2000-10-26 Thread Petr Přerost
Hello , first of all my knowledge of Solaris is very very basic - I am installing TDP for Lotus Domino 1.1.1 on Solaris 2.7 , backup client installs and runs successfully so I continue with TDP - after installation ( succesfull according to result of install process and domsetup script ) I enter

New Redbook Release!: SG24-5247-00 Backing Up Lotus Domino R5 Using Tivoli Storage Management

2000-10-26 Thread Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM
Form Number: SG24-5247-00 Title:Backing Up Lotus Domino R5 Using Tivoli Storage Management Can now be downloaded as a PDF file and ordered in hardcopy two weeks following the Publish Date!(see http://ibm.com/redbooks/abstracts/sg245247.html for online access) This redbook

No Backup Copygroup

2000-10-26 Thread Kim McCubbin
I am seeing ANS5128E errors on an NT node that is incrementally backed up daily. The error says "no backup copy group". That error shows up in the Event Viewer on the NT station. In the actual dsmerror.log it gives the same error message with a different error number: "ANS1105E Management Class

timestamp / maintenance

2000-10-26 Thread Diana J. Noble
I'm running 3.1.2.50 of adsm and I'm having a problem with the current_timestamp and the default date for viewing the activity log being one month off. I've look through the archives of this list and found others with this problem at 50 but ok at 55. My problem is I can't find where to get 55.

Net App backups?

2000-10-26 Thread Kronstadt, Dan
Antbody out there with a Network Appliance filer? How are you doing backups? Any plans to integrate those backups with TSM? They told us that TSM would support NDMP sometime soon - but I am still not sure exactly what that would look like. I gather I would have to connect the filer directly to som

Re: timestamp / maintenance

2000-10-26 Thread Richard Sims
>My problem is I can't find where to get 55. Diana - It wasn't formalized, but is available, in ftp://ftp.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixtest/v3r1/aixsrv/ Richard Sims, BU

Re: Net App backups?

2000-10-26 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Dan, I've used the Filers both as storage pool volumes for my TSM server and for filespaces for clients. The connection between the Filers and TSM was 100 MBit dedicated. The connection between the Filer and the clients was 100 MBit switched. Clients connected to TSM via the switched network s

Re: timestamp / maintenance

2000-10-26 Thread Tom Melton
Here is the location... ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/adsm/fixtest/v3r1/aixsrv/ Tom Melton Emory HealthCare Emory University >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/00 02:36PM >>> I'm running 3.1.2.50 of adsm and I'm having a problem with the current_timestamp and the default date for viewing the a

Re: Net App backups?

2000-10-26 Thread Alexander Prishchepow
We have some NetApps. Just now I mounted root shares for volumes through NFS on ADSM server (Solaris) and back it up as network file systems. WBR Alex P.

kill -15 fixes hang 'cause I tried update a running script.

2000-10-26 Thread Joe Faracchio
Here's an interesting problem I want to share with the *DSM community at large. ( We are on AIX 4.3 with ADSM 3.1.2.20. (until this Sun.) This morning I was prevented from doing any ADMIN commands to check up on my system. I use the admin command line client most of the time. After a long wh

Re: Net App backups?

2000-10-26 Thread Geoff Allen
"Kronstadt, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Antbody out there with a Network Appliance filer? How are you doing backups? We mount the filer's root on the ADSM server (3.1 on AIX -- we're planning a move to TSM, but haven't yet) using a private network, and back it up as a separate node (with

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino on Solaris - please urgent

2000-10-26 Thread Del Hoobler
Petr, I suggest taking a look on pages 14, 15, and 16 of TDP for Lotus Domino for Unix (Installation and User's Guide), in the section "Setting Environment Variables", to setup the environment variables to point to the Domino and TS

speaking of halts...

2000-10-26 Thread jacinth
I seem to recall when the system was new that doing a "halt" would also kill dsmserv... that is, shut it down completely. Now when I do a halt, it kicks me out and the process is still running, even though I can't log in, but it isn't shutdown completely. I wait, and it still isn't gone. Is thi

Library Very Slow & I/O Error

2000-10-26 Thread Claudio Cofre Caro
Hi, i have the following configurarion: - TSM Server 3.7.3 on a AIX 4.3.3 - Library Breece Hill Q7 with 2 drives DLT7000 (all scsi diff) - When i perform a "audit library", the server take over 3 minutes to begin the inventory library and then take another 5 minutes to finish.

Bare Metal Restore for NT

2000-10-26 Thread O'Connell, John R
We currently have an open PMR for trying to restore a registry on a NT system. It appears to me that there is a overall problem restoring NT registry with TSM. We are about to try out Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group. This product appears to works with TSM on restoring a entire

Re: Bare Metal Restore for NT

2000-10-26 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM
You can't overwrite an active registry. Two options: 1. Step 1 should be to install NT and TSM to non-standard directories. That way you can restore the registry. 2. Restore the c:\adsm.sys directory tree, then boot with an NTFS aware diskette, and copy the directory files back to c:\winnt\sy