Re: Running with only one drive

2000-11-01 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
Sounds like you've got a handle on the issues... you will help performance of concurrent sessions by defining the disk pool volumes so they're the lined up with the physical volumes, and match or exceed the number of concurrent sessions you plan to run. You might just use 4 volumes, one each for

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-11-01 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
You need to realize that the include/exclude list is used for SEL as well as INCR; if you must have varying kinds of overlapping/conflicting inclexcl lists, you must use different node names --- all backup data is subject to the inclexcl list. (I understand this is not the case with NetBackup, b

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread paul baines
You should also look at the RESTORE VOLUME command which will attempt to recreate your primary storage pool volume (on a different volume) from copy pool volumes. > >update vol access=destroyed looked like what I wanted, but I thought >I ought to get a second opinion. I find the manuals to be use

Re: Offsite Vaulting

2000-11-01 Thread MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Let me know how/when that works out. I will have to travel that same path soon. Trying to work out an offsite handling procedure with CA1 and *SM. Matt -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: Generate backupset fails.

2000-11-01 Thread Churchfield Glen
Shekhar, It looks like you have not yet done a backup on the CLIENT1 node. Glen -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Generate backupset fails. While generating backupset TSM gives fol

Re: Offsite Vaulting

2000-11-01 Thread John Naylor
Matt, Do not know about CA1 but DFRMM works very well in our case in conjunction with an STK silo. It produces nice lists for offsite vaulting and gives each tape a logical slot number, which you can tie in with physical racking, so if you have a large number you can easily locate them, when the t

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
...that's right selective backups do process the include-exclude list... I neglected to mention making reference to a separate dsm.opt file when I perform selective backups (aliases do wonders in AIX, and when I call for a selective backup, the behind-the-scenes details are taken care of

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
update the volume to access=readonly up front The volume won't be used to write any new data, but it will allow you to attempt at reading the data whenever a request for that data is made, until you get the move data completed for all volumes affected. Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant

Oracle Database Query

2000-11-01 Thread Steve and Hilda Harris
Hi All I've just taken over a somewhat badly organized site and have a query about Oracle databases on normal file systems. At my previous position the Oracle databases resided on AIX raw logical volumes, so I didn't have to exclude them from filesystem backups and on a restore (say to a replace

Re: Oracle Database Query

2000-11-01 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: We also have Oracle and the DBA's were not interested in learning how to set up RMAN. So initially they put together scripts to export the DB prior to the scheduled backups. Then they discovered that SQL-BACKTRACK (we had it for SYBASE) could back up ORACLE without implementing RMAN and th

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Shekhar You have to let ADSM know a tape is bad or destroyed, and eventually delete the knowledge of existence of that tape completely in ADSM. it is not enough to remove a tape from a library, and then audit the library. When a library gets to full capacity, some of the local onsite data

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
True , but depends on which tape gone bad ,tape from tapepool or copypool ? if tape in copypool goes bad every morning " backup stgpool tapepool copypool" command backups the primary pool (tapepool) to copypool ( in my case i am having extra copypool -> copypool1 ) and in case of req

OS/390 USS Backup/Archive Client

2000-11-01 Thread Larry Heath
Receiving the following msg when trying to start the client scheduler or querying the schedule: /usr/lpp/Tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin>dsmc q schedule ANS0113E NLInit: Message repository '/usr/lpp/Tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dscameng. txt' has an invalid control record. DSM_DIR looks to be correct. I d

TSM Server 3.7.3 running on AIX 4.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread Kleynerman, Arthur
Hello all, Our TSM 3.7.3 server is currently running on AIX 4.3.2.0 A couple of questions: 1. Does anyone know of any issues/problems with running a TSM server 3.7.3 on AIX version 4.3.3? 2. Is there a limit to the number of processors that a TSM 3.7.3 (or TSM V4) server can utilize running on

Re: TSM Server 3.7.3 running on AIX 4.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread Gail Riley
If I understand your questions correctly - We are running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.3 on an H70 with four processors and not having any problems. I would guess that the utilization of the processors is really dependent on TSM being multi-threaded/multi-tasking. I've never heard of a multi-x applicati

Re: TSM Server 3.7.3 running on AIX 4.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: We upgrade AIX to 4.3.3 prior to upgrading to TSM 3.7.2 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/00 11:38AM >>> Hello all, Our TSM 3.7.3 server is currently running on AIX 4.3.2.0 A couple of questions: 1. Does anyone know of any issues/problems with running a TSM server 3.7.3 on AIX version 4.3.3? 2.

Re: TSM Server 3.7.3 running on AIX 4.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread George Cardoza
I am running AIX Ver. 4.3.3 with Tivoli 3.7.4 and it is working just fine. I am running it on an F50 with 2 processors and I have no issues. Don't know about going beyond 2 processors but I would be interested in knowing if this is an issue. George -Original Message- From: Kleynerman, A

Bare Metal of Domino?

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Fielding
Ok, so here's a question based on my lack of knowledge of Domino. Going through the Domino Red Book, during the section on rebuilding a Domino server from scratch, I get to the line that says - "Re-install and configure the Domino Server". The next steps are to set up the Domino client and ba

Misbehaving client?

2000-11-01 Thread William White
Dear *SM gurus, I have observed a strange behaviour from a client that seems to be in a loop while opening new sessions with the server. Environment: ADSM server 3.1.2.0 running on OS/390 2.8, WinNT client 3.1.0.6 running on WinNT 4.0, Service Pack 5. I see a series of messages: 10/

DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Palmadesso Jack
One of my libraries is getting close to maxing out its storage. Its a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. I'd like to replace the drives with 4 DLT8000 drives. So far I've been hearing it should all be backward compatible but mostly thats just from the sales people. Some of the people arou

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Jack, We also have a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. It is no longer our primary robot, but it used to be. It is true that a DLT7000 or DLT8000 drive should be able to read tapes written by a DLT4000 drive. I *think* it is true that ADSM will read these tapes also, but I do not have f

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Palmadesso Jack
This library is also single-ended not differential. I am not a SCSI expert so I am wondering why you would not just leave the library in single-ended mode instead of changing all of its guts to work with differential. What is the gain other than the distance you can run your cable? Breece Hill

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-11-01 Thread James Thompson
If you want to take it a little deeper, has anyone else noticed that selective backups do not honor the exclude.dir statement? Whether this is a feature or a bug I don't know. James Thompson >From: Serge Gaudet/EIG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 02:35 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Palmadesso Jack wrote: >This library is also single-ended not differential. I am not a SCSI expert >so I am wondering why you would not just leave the library in single-ended >mode instead of changing all of its guts to work with differential. What is >the gain other

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
Historically, some vendors will tell you things are backward-compatible but mean that "you can read the old format, but you cannot write the old format"... we had this with 3490 and 3590 upgrades. In those cases, the ADSM doc. clarified that we needed to mark "read-only" all the older-format tape

Export performance

2000-11-01 Thread Thomas Denier
I have been running an 'export node' command with 'filedata=backup' for a client system with about 4.5 million backup files. One of the file systems accounts for almost 1.4 million of these. The export process has processed about 85,000 files in four hours, and has slowed down to about 2 files per

Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

2000-11-01 Thread Arturo Lopez
Hello All Is anyone familiar with restoring Sun Solaris from scratch. I have a Sun Sys Admin that does not believe TSM can restore the entire OS from scratch. With AIX we use a SYSBACK to take an image of the OS and restore the image and then apply the incremental to bring the OS back to pristin

3590 and 8mm Win NT/2000 Client Backup Sets

2000-11-01 Thread Ishmael Isaacs
Does anyone know if the Win NT/2000 client can restore from a backup set that was created on a 3590 tape or an 8mm tape? The TSM server platform is AIX. I know that I can install the drivers for 3590 tape drives on Win NT, but I don't know if the TSM NT Client can use a 3590 backup set. The TSM

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-11-01 Thread Vo An Nguyen/Quebec/IBM
Hi James, I believe this is working as designed. The client manual (TSM 4.1 for UNIX ) states under the exclude option for exclude.dir: "When you exclude a directory, you can still back up specific files within that directory, using a selective backup. However, the next time you perform an incre

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 12:47 PM 11/1/2000 -0800, France, Don G (Pace) wrote: >I suggest you check the vendor spec. but also run a test to confirm your >understanding... and, also, check the spec. on your old media to see if the >new density is supported. DLT4000, 7000, and 8000 all use CompactTapeIV tape media.

Missed backups on Windows NT

2000-11-01 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a Windows NT client with C, D, and E drives. The central scheduler requests an incremental backup every night. The schedule has a null object list. We recently discovered that the E disk had not been backed up in several months. The system administrator and I logged in an attempt to discov

schedule daemon and password

2000-11-01 Thread Phillip Guan
Hi all, Does anyone know if there are some ways to start a schedule daemon safely while 'passwordaccess' is set to 'prompt' ? This happens when we want to backup Oracle automatically . Here is what we do: #nohup dsmc sched -password=secrete -optfile=dsm.opt & But if someone types 'ps -ef' c

Re: Missed backups on Windows NT

2000-11-01 Thread Kleynerman, Arthur
you need to check the permissions on the E_Drive... -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Missed backups on Windows NT We have a Windows NT client with C, D, and E drives. The central s

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

2000-11-01 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
We have two schools-of-thought in use by our shop: - using ADSMPIPE, re-direct "ufsdump" or "dd" to TSM storage --- currently, we have this in place for about 30+ machines; the OS file systems are the only ones handled this way; full system recovery starts with the OS, redefine the remaining phy

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

2000-11-01 Thread Walker, Lesley R
I am also interested in answers to this, as it is something I will eventually have to address too. Obviously you cannot restore without installing the OS to run the client, and having the right filesystem layout to restore into. This means that there are two basic options: 1. install the OS to

Re: schedule daemon and password

2000-11-01 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Unfortunately that's the way it work when you pass it the -pass= flag. You might to try create a korn shell script with that cmd in there and see what happens when you execute it. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX Support, HACMP, Enterprise Disk(Shark)& Tape Solutions Tivoli Certified Consu

Buying TSM 4

2000-11-01 Thread Francois Swanepoel
Hi Since July we have been trying to upgrade our current version of ADSM v3 to TSM v4 through IBM. After exchanging numerous emails about the no. of licenses, size of the servers, other applications running, what these servers and clients are used for (very strange request), etc. their last reply

Re: Missed backups on Windows NT

2000-11-01 Thread Angel Antsn
Maybe you don't have stopped and started the ADSM Scheduler Service on WNT since those days. Once you have a modification in the disks configuration, you have to stop and start the service to let the ADSM to know about taht. Angel Antón IZFE. S.A. Plaza de Pinares, 1-3 Donostia 20001 Tlf.: +34