FW: Rejected posting to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

2001-02-08 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Hi, is there a problem with the listserver at marist? Since a few days it seems it processes mails over and over again. As you can see in the attached reject mail from the listserver it tried to resent a mail which was distributed successfully on Monday 5th of February. Best regards Gerhard --- G

Re: High CPU utilization on AIX SP node with 1 gig memory

2001-02-08 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
I have RS/6000 SP2 wide nodes running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.0. We do backup Informix database level 0 twice a week and Level1 on remaining days using TDP. My observation is TSM amounts for 15-20 % CPU power when backup is going on. In your case what is the application you are running ? In AIX yo

How to configure DLT7000 drive in TSM and label the tapes ?

2001-02-08 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
Hi I have configured DLT7000 standalone drive on RS/6000 H70 as OST ( Other SCSI tape drive ). I am very new to TSM so asking some basic questions. I was able to label 3590 E11 library easily. How to configure in TSM this drive. AIX is 4.3.3 and TSM is 3.7.0. After labelling the lable how to se

Recovery Log not compressed after db incremental backup

2001-02-08 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
After upgrading from AIX ADSM server 3.1.2.54 to 3.1.2.90 I see a strange behaviour. First I have the impression that the recovery lofg fills faster. Second, we had several incremental db backups this night. The log utilization however was not reset. The full backup worked. Is this a known behavio

Re: DSMADMC from Visual Basic Shell Function?

2001-02-08 Thread Æbelø Kaj-Flemming
Hi I found an example on how to send cmds to a dos window. http://www.planet-source-code.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.3593/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scrip ts/ShowCode.htm Working with that example, i got the dsmadmc command to produce output to the -outfile. Kaj -Original Message- From: Fletcher, Leland D

Tivoli response time to PMR

2001-02-08 Thread Petr Přerost
Hello , I opened PMR via WWW on Tivoli support on behalf of my customer with valid maintanence contract - 31.1.2001 with severity 3 - 5 days later - no response and things turn worse - so I updated PMR and increased severity to 2 - today is 8.2.2001 and still no response . Is it normal ? What resp

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: DB2/2 Backup and Policy

2001-02-08 Thread Gerhard Wolkerstorfer
Nick, Thank's for all your hints - it worked really fine. After running the db2adutl.exe the versions were set to inactive and after the expire inventory process, the space was freed up und there were many 3590E-tapes emptied. Now a last question according to this - The query occupancy shows u

Re: Questions about HSM

2001-02-08 Thread Reinhard Mersch
> I have a few questions about HSM. Probably someone can help me? > > 1. The HSM manual states that if the migrated files and the backup of these > files go to the same server the server can backup the files from the > migrated data. In my opinion this involves a copy of data. I never observed > s

Re: How to configure DLT7000 drive in TSM and label the tapes ?

2001-02-08 Thread Suad Musovich
If it's the same problem I had last week use GENERICTAPE devclass, not DLT, for the deviceclass. Cheers, Suad -- On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:47:19PM +0530, Ganu Sachin, IBM wrote: > Hi > > I have configured DLT7000 standalone drive on RS/6000 H70 as OST ( Other > SCSI tape drive ). I am very new t

Re: Export/Import Data between servers

2001-02-08 Thread Paul Baines
Hi, to import the node onto the target server you need to define the target server as a server to itself. Also you need to have the storage pool name defined on your target server that was defined on the source OR you need to predefine the node in a domain/policy/mgmtclass/copygroup that points t

Re: Server to Server Config

2001-02-08 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
There is no limit on the Virtual Disk Stgpool. I have another question, where doing a space reclaim does the data transfert thru the network from the server managing tape and the server seeing them as virtual ? Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Latest vesion of ADSM for AIX

2001-02-08 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Denis, there is a 3.1.2.90, which is in LATEST on the server. Regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -O

Re: NT Restore Question?

2001-02-08 Thread Short, Anne
We have done this multiple times with NT with no problem, other than a couple of little gotchas with differences in hardware drivers. Install the new drivers and you're ready to go! Anne Short Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Gaithersburg, Maryland 301-240-6184 CODA/I Storage Mana

Error processing a filespace on a Linux server

2001-02-08 Thread Laura Huffman
Hello! We are running ADSM Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.1. During the daily backup of one of our Linux servers, the following error occurs: ANS4031E Error processing '/': destination directory path length exceeds system maximum Does this mean '/' does not get backed up? Is there a way arou

Re: [Control-X] Control/M Agent NT

2001-02-08 Thread Tony Garrison
We use it in some cases. We prefer to use it to kick off our scheduled archives and some exchange db backups. -Original Message- From: Boe Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:FW: [Control-X] Control/M

Re: High CPU utilization on AIX SP node with 1 gig memory

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Schaub
Here's a shot in the dark: We run AIX 4.3.3 as our TSM server (H50 w/1gb mem) and have run into the following anomoly - any user who tries to bring up the admin web gui using IE5.0 under Win4.0 workstation generates several "phantom" client sessions, indicated by "?" when you do a Q SESS. More

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: DB2/2 Backup and Policy

2001-02-08 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Gerhard, The filesystem information isn't always correct. Another thing you should notice (I do with the AIX client) is that there is no Last Backup information for the filespace, either. The filesystem size hasn't changed, just the data held for it has. If you do a "query occupancy" (q occ) a

Re: Fresh implementation of TSM

2001-02-08 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
www.tivoli.com www.adsm.org Alyn Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/05/2001 12:55:59 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Fresh implementation of TSM

Re: Latest vesion of ADSM for AIX

2001-02-08 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
The latest ADSM maintenance is 3.1.2.90. Listed below are the PTF #'s you need to download located @ ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixes/v3r1/ Thanks, Demetrius Malbrough TSM Consultant PTF Name Svrc Lvlfileset name Description --- ---

How to DELETE backupfiles from BACKUPEXEC

2001-02-08 Thread Doene, C.G.J.M.
We are using BACKUPEXEC's ADSM option to backup EXCHANGE. Everything is working fine, so we can backup and restore files to the diskpools of ADSM. The only problem we have is that we only see the space growing on the ADSM server for the BACKUPEXEC node. We tried removing the tapes and erase the ta

Re: Novell Server Specific Information Statistics?

2001-02-08 Thread Remeta, Mark
Check the log files on the client, I don't think they list that information for SERVERSPECIFICINFORMATION... Mark -Original Message- From: Denis L'Huillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Novell Server Specific Inf

Re: Installation ERROR client 22088_16_BA

2001-02-08 Thread Andy Raibeck
You might try going to the Microsoft MSDN site (http://msdn.microsoft.com) and do a search on: Q251274 This article describes a known problem that can cause the error you are seeing, along with a circumvention. Please be sure to read the article carefully! Also, make sure you are logged in

HSM on NetWare

2001-02-08 Thread Steven Langdale
Hello all We are currently evaluating an HSM product for NetWare that integrates with TSM, it is called "FileWizard 4 TSM" from a company called Knozall Systems. Is there anyone out there who has sucsessfully implemented this product? Any comments good or bad would be most welcome. Thanks St

Re: How to DELETE backupfiles from BACKUPEXEC

2001-02-08 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
I think you have to run the EXCDSMC /ADSMAUTODELete command. By the way, I tried using "BACKUPEXEC's ADSM option to backup EXCHANGE" but I did not succeed. I installed everything according to the BackupExec documentation. TSM is 3.7.2. I created the suggested storagepools, policy domain, ... but

TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread Tectrade Computers
Hi All I would like to know if anyone has got two TSM SUN servers sharing one 3494 library. Everything is working fine and the new Fibre attach drives are working very well. My question really relates to how I differentiate between the volumes in the library. I have 3 frames and need to split the

Re: Failed Schedules Show Completed Successful

2001-02-08 Thread Rushforth, Tim
That is the opposite of the bug that I mentionied. The bug I mentioned is if the schedule fails on 3.7 or 4.1 (fixed in 4.12) then the client will say the event completed successfully and send those results to the server. So this means that you could have schedules that are failing and not know

Antwort: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread Rolf Meyer
Hallo Alex, I've just installed two SUN E450 using TSM 4.1.2 sharing one IBM 3494 with 800 slots 3590E cartridges. You cannot share all tapes for both servers. You have to define different categories during library definition on each server. Then check in a number of volumes into each libra

Re: How to DELETE backupfiles from BACKUPEXEC

2001-02-08 Thread Del Hoobler
Ruddy, C.G.J.M., EXCDSMC /ADSMAUTODELETE is for TDP for Exchange only. I believe the question was for the product BackupExec, so EXCDSMC /ADSMAUTODELETE will not work with BackupExec. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED

TSM & SNMP queries

2001-02-08 Thread Gyula Bereczky
Hello *SMers, I run into a minor problem while playing with TSM & SNMP. The manual sais I'd be able to run arbitrary server scripts via snmp, so I thougt it would be nice to monitor database, log and storage pool usage with mrtg.. So I configured snmpd, dpid2, dsmserv.opt for dsmsnmpd, defined S

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread arhoads
Alex, I don't believe there is any way to control where in the library the tapes are stored, at least from TSM. I'd like some info on your configuration if you wouldn't mind. How are the tape drives connected: do both servers connect to all drives (physically)? How many tape drives are on one

Index in HTML Format

2001-02-08 Thread Klein, Robert (CIT)
A couple of days ago I switched my options for the adsm-l list to receive the index in html format. When I click on an index item link, I get the message: 'Unknown/Unsupported option' after a bit of a pause. I sent some mail to the list owner(s) yesterday but so far have not received a reply, s

running a reclaim

2001-02-08 Thread Sam Moore
Can anyone out there in the guru world of ADSM know what this error is. I am running a reclaim and this error caused a failure Activity Log Date and Time Message I restarted the reclaim of this tape a second time just in case

Re: NT Restore Question?

2001-02-08 Thread Rushforth, Tim
See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q249/6/94.ASP for the MS procedure for W2K. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Fletcher, Leland D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT Restore Que

Re: Hung Sessions

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Schaub
If you generated this backup using the immediate action schedule, you will have to delete this schedule to keep it from trying to reconnect. find out the @__ schedule number by using "Q SCH"and enter "DEL SCH ", example "DEL SCH STANDARD @79". Then when you cancel the running schedule, it wi

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread Tom Melton
We share our 3494 between 2 MVS systems and one ADSM (AIX) system. We automated the checkin process. Each MVS system and the AIX system has a separate volume name range. We let a background script run that queries the 3494 using mtlib commands to see what tapes are in "insert" status. We then p

import node into a different domain

2001-02-08 Thread Sheelagh Treweek
Hi, I have several node definitions I want to move from serverA to serverB, also changing the name of the domains as I go. Seems plausible. I have done export node filedata=none and then import node with dom=new which successfully does nothing at all and imports nothing. I can only get it to i

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread William Boyer
You need to make sure that your CHECKIN commands on each server use the VOLRANGE parameter. When you put tapes in the 3494, they are placed in the insertion catagory and the first 'host' to grab them get them. So you could possibly checkin serverA's tapes in for serverB and write over good data.

Re: Error Handling in Macros

2001-02-08 Thread Linda Seeba
We go into dsmadmc with the itemcommit option before we run macros: dsmadmc -itemcommit Linda Seeba Phone: (314) 234-5190 I/T Specialist - Sr Fax: (314) 232-4581 IBM Global Services E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Lu Ann Mezera
We are reaching storage capacity limit in our current MagStar Tape Library. We have TSM 3.7 (will upgrade to 4.1 later in the summer). Our TSM environment is in an AIX environment. We have 6 RS/6000 AIX nodes on an SP switch and about 30 NT servers that we back up nightly. We are looking at upg

Re: Tivoli response time to PMR

2001-02-08 Thread George Lesho
Hi Petr... the lack of response for the time you cited is far too long. Tivoli, here in the US, gets back next day usually for Level 3 email queries. They sometimes have problems with the contact info and mess up the email response. They will leave a copy of their response on the www.tivoli.com/su

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Unfortunately, this is almost a no-brainer: 10 GB per cartridge vs. perhaps 200 GB per cartridge. Unless you really need sub 20 second access to data, you almost have to go LTO. Magstar is not cost effective given the 20X increase in capacity with LTO. We've seen mount times of about 40 seconds

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Dan Giles
Go to http://search.adsm.org and do a search on LTO. It will pull up the comments that everyone has made on the list concerning LTOs. We were considering going to LTO vs upgrading our Magstars, but it turns out that it would cost twice as much as doing that. Though the drives are cheap, the libra

Sun server/same client

2001-02-08 Thread
Can anyone tell me how to verify that my tsm client that resides in the same sun box as the server is not going out to the netwok to establish a connection. This is a production box so it would be impossible to just totally disconnect it from the network. I'm seeing really slow through-put on this

backupsets and preemption

2001-02-08 Thread Linda Seeba
Sorry, I can't answer your question, but I am considering implementing monthly backupsets for one customer that is requesting their backups be kept indefinitely. Is this what you are using backupsets for, or is anyone else doing this. Hopefully someone else will respond since I am also extremely

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi LuAnn, we are also in the exact same situation. We backup a large database and many smaller filesystems. We also have and SP and L32 3575. My thoughts are this: keep the magstar _and_ buy LTO. I plan to use LTO for the database backups (few but large files) and my offsite storage pool. Then

Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing

2001-02-08 Thread
Alex, What people have suggested in a few posts earlier works well for me. I just hav a script on each server that checks in a specific range of tape that are solely for that machine. i run this checkin script through a tsm admin schedule daily "Tectrade Computers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.

Re: Hung Sessions

2001-02-08 Thread George Lesho
Am I missing some Steve... not sure I understand where the schedule # is coming from when you do a 'q sch' command. A select * from client_schedules does not show a "number" type value. It shows only: DOMAIN_NAME SCHEDULE_NAME DESCRIPTION ACTION OPTIONS OBJECTS PRIORITY STARTDATE STARTTIME DURATIO

Re: tape mount retention behaviour

2001-02-08 Thread George Lesho
I have had problems with tapes that won't dismount immediately and in fact take over 1/2 hour to dismount... they will show "dismounting" if you do a 'q mount'. Basically, there is a problem with the thread processes and this was a known bug that was supposed to be fixed with TSM 3.7.4 (supposedly

label libvol

2001-02-08 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Hi all, AIX 4.33 , TSM 3.7.4 . ACSLS 5.3.0 , on solaris 7. loaded 90 DLT`S into stk9710 issued command : #label libvol stk9710 search=yes status=scratch tsm: TSM>q proc Process Process Description Status Number ---

Re: Hung Sessions

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Schaub
George, If I understand you correctly, you generated this backup by issuing the "define clientaction" command, then TSM goes out and builds a temporary "schedule" to run it in. Doing a "Q SCH" or select from the client_schedules table should show you an entry like "@79" in the schedule_name fi

Re: tape mount retention behaviour

2001-02-08 Thread David Longo
I also have a 3575 and most of thsi "dismounting" may be due to rebuilding the VCR on the tape header. (This is something used by Magstar tapes). If you check actlog during this time you will propbably see an entry for the tape that "dismount may be delayed" due to rebuilding the VCR on the t

Test note

2001-02-08 Thread Martha McConaghy
This is a test note from the list owner to see if the duplication problem is still occuring. I suspect that one of the subscribers had their forwarding set to come back to the list. The other possibility is that an e-mail gateway was misbehaving and reflecting our notes back to us. Let's see if

Re: Sun server/same client

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Sims
> tcpserveraddress 161.233.251.14 > tcpclientaddress localhost Jim - You might want to try setting your TCPServeraddress to 127.0.0.1 (local system), and eliminate the TCPCLIENTAddress unless you found that it's really necessary. Also check your Solaris IP routing to make sure i

Server to Server

2001-02-08 Thread Arturo Lopez
Hello All I have a problem with sending copies of primary stg pool using server to server. I have a source server defined on a target server that I am able to send nightly DB backups to the target server...I have everything defined and have the node registered as a server on the target server

Re: tape mount retention behaviour

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Sims
>...the tape that "dismount may be delayed" due to rebuilding the VCR >on the tape. > >Priorities can't bypass this - I think it is more a tape media/drive >issue than *SM... Good thought, David. As you say, the Activity Log should reflect such a problem. If a Volume Control Region problem, be

Db backup tapes

2001-02-08 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello We are using TSM 4.1 on win 2k. We do not have DRM yet. Now the TSM db gets backed up on tape, and we take that tape offsite. Is there any copy of that db onsite also. My understanding was that it gets backep up to only one tape. The tapepool gets backep up to copypool to be shipped off

Re: Migration doesn't end

2001-02-08 Thread John Monahan
I ran an audit DB 2 days ago, and then upgraded to 4.1.2 and I haven't seen the problem sincecrossing fingers. === John Monahan Network Team Coordinator Liberty Diversified Industries (763) 536-6677 =

Re: tape mount retention behaviour

2001-02-08 Thread George Lesho
Next time it is hung, do run the undocumented 'show threads' command and you will see the hung drives waiting for the thread to be released on the hung drive before the next mount can occur. This was written up pretty well and can be found in a search of the www.tivoli.com/support information base

Re: Db backup tapes

2001-02-08 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Well, Raminder! No, there is not a copy of the dbbackup on-site. That is why you perform, let's say 1 or 2 full dbbackups once a week and incrementals every night. Also, that is where the LOGMODE of ROLLFORWARD comes into play which would allow you to restore the db to its most current state. Wh

Linking RMAN to ADSM

2001-02-08 Thread Donald Bricker
I am trying to set up RMAN 8.1.6 to communicate with ADSM/TDP. At one point I was able to do an RMAN tablespace backup to tape and then was also able to do a restore. Now when I try to get a tape backup it goes to disk. In the RMAN output it tells me it is using the Oracle Test Disk API. There

Re: Sun server/same client

2001-02-08 Thread
Thanks Richard, For the recomendation on the tcperserveraddres I'm trying it now. I thought(according to the manual) that tcpnodelay gets ignored on anything other than AIX? "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/08/2001 02:42:52 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Man

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Harris
The LTO roadmap includes two paths Ultrium, which is the "LTO" that everyone here is talking about and Accelis, which is the next generation 3570 tape, with the same shape and size, emphasis on fast access to data and considerably higher capacity I assume that when the accelis drives become ava

Andre Schwier ist außer Haus / is out of the office from / von 23.10.2000 until / bis 27.10.2000.

2001-02-08 Thread Andre Schwier
I will be out of the office starting 09.02.2001 and will not return until 12.02.2001. Ich werde Ihre Nachrichten nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. I will respond to your message when I return. Bei dringenden Fragen bitte an Frank Kueper wenden. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andre Schwier ELSA AG - I

Client Schedules won't start

2001-02-08 Thread Rajesh Oak
I am running TSM 4.1.0 on Win2000. For some reason, the client schedules won't start. They were working at one time and suddenly it stopped. The Server won't kickoff any schedules. Please advise what to look for to make it work. Rajesh Oak Get your small business started at Lycos Small Busine

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Denis L'Huillier
A couple of things about IBM's LTO: 1. The life span of LTO is less then that of 3590 (3590 7yrs 3580 4-5yrs(I think)) 2. Currently LTO writes data in 384 Track format compared to 3590B1X at 128 Track and 3590E1X at 256 Track. This does 2 things for LTO. Increased data capacity (good and more

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I would be surprised if a field upgrade of a 3575 will work. That didn't happen in the Ultrium line (3494) so I don't think it will happen in 3575 land either. Does anyone have any idea how long until Accelis? Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80

Re: High CPU utilization on AIX SP node with 1 gig memory

2001-02-08 Thread James Thompson
Sorry for not responding earlier. Been rather busy. Just to clear a few things up. This machine does not have the TSM server code on it. It just has the 4.1.2 client code. The machine has 4 CPU's. Before starting an incremental backup the CPUs are more that 50% idle. When a TSM incremental st

Re: Linking RMAN to ADSM

2001-02-08 Thread James Thompson
I always like the command find / -name libobk.a -exec ls -l {} \; and find / -name libobk.a -exec what {} \; The first searches for all occurences of libobk.a and lists them in long format so that you can see if your links are correct. You should rename Oracle's libobk.a disk library file. The

Re: High CPU utilization on AIX SP node with 1 gig memory

2001-02-08 Thread arhoads
James, Look for the parameter 'RESOURCEUTILIZATION' in the dsm.sys file. If it's there start reducing the number. Remember to restart the scheduler. Steffan James Thompson wrote: > > Sorry for not responding earlier. Been rather busy. > Just to clear a few things up. This machine does not >

4.1.2.0 troubles with national lang again

2001-02-08 Thread Gerhard Ginzler
Hi, are there two separate development groups for clients 4.1.2.0 and 3.x.x? There are the same troubles with national characters as in early v 3 versions: 1. Message ANS1304W ("Active object not found") when expiring directories with names containing national characters. 2. You cannot use GUI t