Re: SAN, 3494, library shared HP-UX & AIX

2001-02-26 Thread Francisco Molero
Hi Suad, I have working the library with HP-UX whitout problem. But I found this library is not supported by Tape library Manager and Client whether one of the platform is HP-UX. On the other hand, the chapter about "Configuring TSM servers to Share SAN-Connected Devices" exists in AIX but n

Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

2001-02-26 Thread Rainer Wolf
Reinhold Wagner wrote: > > Folks, > > i searched the archives and found several threads about ANS1304W, but non of > them seem to be > related to Version 4. > > We migrated a week ago from 3.1 to 4.1.2 and now see _ANS1304W Active object not > found_ in a > client's error log. In the archives i

Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

2001-02-26 Thread Richard Sims
>ANS1228E Sending of object '/priv/echt?gut' failed >ANS1304W Active object not found Rainer - Thanks for your warning about even a question mark causing the problem, and in a non-Windows 4.1.2 client. It's really sad to see this problem re-surface in Tivoli programming, as we went throu

Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

2001-02-26 Thread Reinhold Wagner
I called the IBM/TSM support and was told that all UNIX/Windows/Novell (...?) clients show this behavior. The developers are working on the problem with high priority (what else!). Untill an official fix is available, they advice to go back to 4.1.1!! We will do it if we can (4.1.1 ends with a c

Point in time restore trying to restore files that have been dele ted off the system

2001-02-26 Thread Marc Layne
Hi All I have the following problem.For one of our Windows NT systems we run a full backup of the D partition every day. e do this so that the batch of tapes used can be sent to another city where a develpment environment can be refreshed. Now what is happening is that some files that were backed

Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

2001-02-26 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I have a new 3494 library with two 3590 drives attached to my existing TSM server. I'm trying to move the data from the "old" 3575 library to the 3494. I tried two methods: migrate and reclaim. They both just start one process while there are two 3590 drives available in the 3494 and t

TSM 4.1.2 Client (on Win2k) on cluster node

2001-02-26 Thread Caffey, Jeff L.
When installing the TSM client on a node in a cluster that does not have control of the cluster, I am receiving the following errors: Error obtaining registry value 'clusterGroupName'. Then when I go to start the service, either manually or by restarting the machine, I get the following error: Cou

Re: Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

2001-02-26 Thread David Longo
To start ultiple migration processes use: upd stg migpr=x where x = number of migration processes you want to start. I don't think there is a way to have more than one reclamation process running for a single storage pool. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blv

Re: SAP and SQL Server

2001-02-26 Thread Neil Schofield
Christian I am using TDP for SQL Server v1.1.2. If you have a valid license, this is available from ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/tivoli-data-protection/ntsql/1.1.2 The minimum system requirements are NT Server v4.0 SP4 and SQL Server v7.0 SP1. I would defini

Debian Linux

2001-02-26 Thread Petr Přerost
Hello , is it possible to use Linux client with Debian 2.2 ? Thank for any info. Regards Petr Prerost e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

2001-02-26 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi David! Tried that, but the 3570 storage pool is a sequential storage pool and the MIGPR parameter isn't valid for sequential storage pools ;-(( Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, Februar

Re: Guidance

2001-02-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
My 2 cents on some of your questions: Can ADSM back up open files ? A. Yes, with caveats. You get to set the rules (in the management class) about whether or not you will accept backups of files that are open for update. We generally do not, feeling that is better to fail the backup than have

Re: New list at Duke???

2001-02-26 Thread Jim Kirkman
As a grad and staff member of UNC-Chapel Hill, I will HEARTILY concur with Kelly's sentiments. As we say around here, Go to H** Duke! (is this a family oriented list?) -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884 "Kelly J. Lipp" wrote: > Hell no we won't go! Hell no we won't go! > >

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

2001-02-26 Thread bbullock
EEK. I'm sure this is not the answer, because if I rename the filesystem everyday, then I have to do a full backup of the filesystem every day. I don't think there are enough hours in the day to do a full backup, export it, and delete the filespace. Thanks for the suggestion though. Ben

Tape Problems?

2001-02-26 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Hi all, Environment: TSM 4.1.2.0 AIX 4.3.3 3494 Library I have a question related to tapes. Below are a couple of errors that look like these tapes may not have a label. I was trying to use the following command to label them but it comes back with this: ANR2017I Administrator GEOFF issued comm

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

2001-02-26 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.
you could also export only inactive versions, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43 7+41'21'924'28'88 * K4-117 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com This message is intended only for th

TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

2001-02-26 Thread Vint A. Maggs
Hello All, I am interested in developing a TSM monitoring environment and I want to investigate what tools are out there. My goal is to bring in salesmen from the competing vendors and see who can do what. I have 4 TSM servers backing up hundreds of NT, Solaris, Netware, BUTA, and

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

2001-02-26 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>Anyone have any idea what happened with Mainstar? Vint, At one point I was evaluating the Monitor Plus software. As I tried to get fixes I was finally told they are no longer developing the product. They weren't sure if anyone was going to pick it up from them. I actually liked what I wa

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

2001-02-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
My queries into Mainstar revealed that they pulled their TSM monitoring and reporting product from marketing. I will be interested in what you find. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Manag

Re: DB backup series expiration.

2001-02-26 Thread Bernhard Unold
Do you make the backup db every day or every weekday? Have a look at the output of your q volhist. Compare the creation dates. The error must be more than 7 days before to get the expected number of backups. If you cannot find the reason, send the output of your q volhist. "Gill, Geoffrey L." sch

Re: TSM 4.1.2 Client (on Win2k) on cluster node

2001-02-26 Thread Neil Schofield
Jeff You should have separate scheduler's installed to back up the local disks and the shared disks. The scheduler that is installed to back up the shared disks should have two values stored in the registry: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\ClusterNode : REG_SZ : 1 HKLM\System\

Re: Tape Problems?

2001-02-26 Thread Bernhard Unold
Yes, you must check out the volumes, if you want to label it. But you don't have to remove it. You can use the REMOVE=NO parameter. More Info with HELP CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME. Be carefully and don't overwrite written tapes. "Gill, Geoffrey L." schrieb: > > Hi all, > > Environment: > TSM 4.

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

2001-02-26 Thread George Lesho
Jennifer, The same type problem occurs in threads on my version of TSM 3.7.3.6 for drives waiting on instructions to dismount tapes... you would probably do us a favor by bringing this issue to TSM for resolution... Don't the sessions eventually "time out" and disappear? George Lesho Storage/Sys

No forum mails received anymore

2001-02-26 Thread Michel Engels
As from friday I do not receive any forum mails anymore. I went to the site and saw a number of new questions and answers are created without receiving a copy in my mailbox. Is the problem known by other people or is the problem somewhere between the forum server and our mailserver? Michel

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

2001-02-26 Thread David_Bohm
Each of these threads will have at least one other thread associated with it. You should find an admin command thread that has a ptid= the thread number of the session thread. What this session thread is waiting for is more output from that command thread. You should probably open a problem reco

Hung Admin Sessions

2001-02-26 Thread Dennis Riley
Hi Jennifer, We have see this problem of Web Admin sessions hanging in earlier releases (APAR IC28349). We are now running 3.7.3.8 and are not presently experiencing this. But we have seen some other problems running SQL queries. One issue is that TSM does not support correlated sub-queries. When

New server migration

2001-02-26 Thread Denis L'Huillier
Hello, I am planning to migrate my ADSM server to a new Server running TSM. ADSM 3.1.2.50 RS/6000 R20 (IBM 3466 B03) 3494 Library 3590 B1A drives- OLD SERVER TSM 3.7 RS/6000 H70 (IBM 3466 C01) - 3494 Library 3590 E1A drives - NEW SERVER AND NEW 3494 Here is my basic plan: From the old server:

Re: DB backup series expiration.

2001-02-26 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
> > >Do you make the backup db every day or every weekday? Bernard, I do a db backup every day. I can see there are sequential db backups for the past 5 days but for whatever reason it would not climb past 5, after the day the db backup error occurred. I fixed this problem by changed the Expirat

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

2001-02-26 Thread Jolley, Bill
During the use of EMC timefinder, did you use the BCV (third mirror) to perform backups? If so how does IBM Flash Copy compares to your backup stragety? -Original Message- From: Caffey, Jeff L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Restore error - ANS9505E

2001-02-26 Thread Boothby Don
Can anyone explain why I'm getting this error? Restoring 237 /opt/trace/icom4.to5.ftp.txt ANS9505E : cannot initialize DM services. Reason: No such file or directory [Done] My problem in understanding it is that we don't use DM. Also, I was wondering if the message was superfluous.

Re: SOLUTION: RE: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 dependency in RedHat7.0 ?

2001-02-26 Thread John Marquart
Michael, I believe the X-lib dependencies are fine to ignore as long as you do not wish to use the graphical interface (dsm). As for the /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys file, that is your client configuration file. (Not sure if you are/were asking for help with that error or just i

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

2001-02-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
We see a similar problem occasionally, but can't reproduce it on demand. A long-running SQL query will run fine one day, hang the next. I think it MAY be related to having another long-running process (such as reclamation) in flight while the query is running. (But this could be coincidence.) Yo

Creating a Client Backup Set???

2001-02-26 Thread Marc Levitan
Hi all- I have been asked to create a client backup set for the purpose of restoring a client in the event that the TSM Server is not available via the network. I am supposed to burn the backup set to cd. This way I can walk up to the client, put in the cd, and restore locally from the cd. Her

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

2001-02-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
Del, thanks VERY much, this is WONDERFUL information and would help a lot if we can make it work. I fell stupid asking this, but I'm not a Windows heavy - can anybody tell me where to find this mspst.ini file? I have Outlook installed on my machine, and I don't have one.. do you just create one

Re: Restore error - ANS9505E

2001-02-26 Thread Richard Sims
>ANS9505E : cannot initialize DM services. Reason: No such file or directory Don - This is a defect, described in APAR IC23349 Richard Sims, BU

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

2001-02-26 Thread Per Ekman
bbullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff, > You hit the nail on the head of what is the biggest problem I face > with TSM today. Excuse me for being long winded, but let me explain the boat > I'm in, and how it relates to many small files. > Any other options or sugges

Checkin tape/Label tape

2001-02-26 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I'm having a problem with 2 tapes that don't seem to have a label, or are bad. I checked one out and am trying to get in back in the library, while checking the label. Here is what I've done: checkout libv 3494lib U00954 remove=no checkin libv 3494lib U00954 search=yes checkl=yes devt=3590 stat

Re: Checkin tape/Label tape

2001-02-26 Thread Patricia LeBlanc
You can't use the tape number and search at the same time use checkin libv 3494lib labels=b checkin=scratch search=bulk overwrite=yes then q req and put the tape in the bulk to check in... reply to the req -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

2001-02-26 Thread Del Hoobler
Wanda, It appears that you create it in the "\WINDOWS" directory. I found some info under Microsoft Q-article: Q143384 SUMMARY: This article lists and explains the entries for the [NDB] section of the Microsoft Exchange Windows cli

Re: Creating a Client Backup Set???

2001-02-26 Thread Phil Bone
It sounds like it would be a two step process: 1) output the Backup Set to a file then 2) burn the file to a CD. It may require defining a storage pool (DEF STG pool_name DISK ...), then creating one volume in that pool (DEF VOL pool_name volume_name ...), and creating the backup set to that volu

TDP For Domino DB

2001-02-26 Thread Steve Hicks
Anyone out there ever have any trouble with TDP for Domino losing restore capabilities for DBs that start with a certain letter. Ours won't list any past the letter "D". The way the scroll bar works, it doesn't show all DBs in a single scroll, so it populates database names when you get to the bot

Re: No future for buta ?

2001-02-26 Thread Alex Paschal
RTFM does it again. Thanks, James. Alex -Original Message- From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No future for buta ? The 4.1.2 AIX client readme spells it out. Tivoli Storage Manager AIX 4.3 afs b

Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

2001-02-26 Thread Brazner, Bob
We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with 3494 ATL. Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though sufficient drives are available. The message is "ANR8447E no drives are currently

Re: TDP For Domino DB

2001-02-26 Thread Del Hoobler
Steve, Is this with the TDP for Domino GUI on Windows NT/2000? ...or is this with the command-line client "PICK" option on another operating system? Are you showing active and inactive? Have you tried using the command-line client? You really need to call IBM/Tivoli service to pursue this furth

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

2001-02-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Bob, Have you queried your drives? Try the "q drive" command to be sure the drives show online. Then, quickly check out the 'UPD DRIVE libname drivename ONLINE=YES' command if they are not. Hope this helps, John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGloba

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

2001-02-26 Thread Richard Sims
>We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with >3494 ATL. Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation >where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though >sufficient drives are available. The message is "ANR8447E no drives are >curr

Re: TDP For Domino DB

2001-02-26 Thread Steve Hicks
This is with TDP GUI on NT 4. Our Tivoli server sits on AIX 4.3.3. I've tried active and inactive. I also tried to sort the list by clicking on the list headers at the top and nothing happens. I've not tried the command line, as I'm unsure of the syntax. That will be my next step. Steve

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Carl, I wonder about this comment for two reasons. First, I have 7133 D40 drawers which don't appear to be problematic. But a month or so ago we rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cache" was not set to "Yes". Is it possible that you had a similar problem? We identifi

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

2001-02-26 Thread William Boyer
Be carefull with the UPD DRIVE command and 3494 libraries. There is an APAR (can't remember the number) that if you DO NOT supply the DEV= parameter on the UPD DRIVE command, it will make that drive unavailable until you either delete/define it again, or stop/start TSM. If you do a SHOW LIBRARY yo

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

2001-02-26 Thread George Lesho
Matt, I have an even older 7133 D40 attached to a server and rather than have Fast Write enabled (slightly different syntax between machines), it has FL_UNAVAIL (fast load unavailable). Any idea what this means??? Thanks- George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises "Matthew A. Bacchi"

LOGCOPY'S and DBCOPY's

2001-02-26 Thread Denis L'Huillier
One more question To try and better understand what the process would be to restore a ADSM database on a new TSM server I began looking through the PREPARE files. I have 15 dbvols mirrored for a total of 30. tsm: ADSM_AIX>q dbvol Volume Name CopyVolume Name CopyVolume Name

Re: Window Client - Time Change bug

2001-02-26 Thread bbullock
Excellent question. Is the "Daylight savings time" bug that we had 4 months ago on NT clients fixed? If we have to install a new client on our 300+ clients, it would be nice to get a head start on the process. Can an official Tivoli person let us know which versions of the

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

2001-02-26 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Bill, On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jolley, Bill wrote: > During the use of EMC timefinder, did you use the BCV (third mirror) to > perform backups? If so > how does IBM Flash Copy compares to your backup stragety? Eh? We don't have an EMC and I have no experience with timefinder. We are yet to up

Window Client - Time Change bug

2001-02-26 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
With Daylight Savings Time Change a month away, I figured it was about time to logon to the Tivoli download site to get the current V3.7 Client code with the Daylight Savings time change fix. All they have there is the 3.7.2 Client, which doesn't have the fix. Ok. They've had the fix test out for

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

2001-02-26 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Matthew, On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Matthew A. Bacchi wrote: > I wonder about this comment for two reasons. First, I have 7133 D40 > drawers which don't appear to be problematic. But a month or so ago we > rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cache" was not set to > "Yes". Is

Re: Creating a Client Backup Set???

2001-02-26 Thread James Thompson
You don't have to create a new storage pool for this process. All you have to do is define a device class of type=file and maxsize of 640MB. (If it needs to fit on a cd-rom) Then run the generate backupset command using the new devclass. I would name it file640 to make it easy to remember. Jame

Re: Debian Linux

2001-02-26 Thread Gyula Bereczky
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:00:34PM +0100, Petr Přerost wrote: > is it possible to use Linux client with Debian 2.2 ? Sure it is possible. apt-get install rpm rpm -i TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm --nodeps ( Assuming you have all the libs needed. ) Alternatively you can use alien to convert it to .deb --

Informix ON-Bar restoration performance problem

2001-02-26 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
Hi We are using Informix 7.24.UC3 with Tivoli storage Manager on AIX 4.3.3. My problem is about Database restoration. I take complete databse backup by using onbar -b -w -L 0 command. For 194 GB Database, system takes 3 hours and 30 min. But when I tried to restore same backup using onbar -r -w -

TSM, SAN and ACSLS

2001-02-26 Thread Walker, Lesley R
Sorry if this is an FAQ, I've spent a bit of time looking but haven't found a definitive answer. Is this possible: TSM 3.7.x on Solaris connected to SAN switch (don't know what model, but assume it's a supported one) connected to StorageTek PowderHorn (9840 drives, ACSLS controlled) >From

Re: SAN, 3494, library shared HP-UX & AIX

2001-02-26 Thread Suad Musovich
The HP-UX online manual gives no indication it allows library sharing. Confirm this with IBM. Sharing isn't a problem technically as it like SCSI sharing but the documentation gives no indication of this, so it might not be written for the HP-UX version of TSM. Cheers, Suad -- On Mon, Feb 26, 2

Script

2001-02-26 Thread Disler Claude ABX-SERV-ZH
Hello World ;-) how did you control un- successfully backup of your servers? manually, or does somebody wrote a script for it? need some simple ideas? tx a lot Claude