Re: Point-In-Time Restore

2001-03-08 Thread Bernhard Unold
Hello, Andy I understand your arguments, but want to know the benefits of the method to store the directory not in the same manner as the files. For Example from a certain computer we do a archive, we want to keep for 14 days. But the directories are kept for 365 days. So storage is wasted on tape

ANS4028E Error processing 'D:': cannot create file/directory entry

2001-03-08 Thread Michael Hack
I get this error by an incremental backup!!! The schedule status is failed, but the client session backuped 1,77 GB. Has anybody an idea what file or directory not backuped? And what can I do to solve this problem? Thanks. Michael

Re: Point-In-Time Restore

2001-03-08 Thread Andy Raibeck
Hi Bernhard, A policy domain may have many management classes, each with different file retention criteria. Within a given directory, it is possible to have some files bound to one management class, other files bound to another management class, still other files bound to a third management clas

Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Roy Lake
Hi Chaps, Just wanted to share my findings with you with regards to TSM compression/no compression. We have 3575-L18 tape library. We use 3570-C Format tapes. We used to have CLIENT compression set to YES when doing backups, with DRIVE compression OFF. Most of the data on our systems is Oracl

Re: Point-In-Time Restore

2001-03-08 Thread Bernhard Unold
good explained, thanks. Andy Raibeck schrieb: > > Hi Bernhard, > > A policy domain may have many management classes, each with different file > retention criteria. Within a given directory, it is possible to have some > files bound to one management class, other files bound to another > managem

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread John Naylor
Hi Roy, My opinion is unless you have specific reasons (possibly network constraints) do not run with client compression. Requires extra clock cycles on the client, and if the client is not particularly powerful can significantly increase backup elapsed time. Also restores will take longer, becau

Re: Point-In-Time Restore

2001-03-08 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
Thanks Andy, We've tried to get an answer to this question since we first put in TSM (3rd qtr last year), but couldn't find an answer, including from support. Your example exactly describes our situation, but, our systems don't appear to act like your describing. We have a domain called "AIX" w

Re: ANS4028E Error processing 'D:': cannot create file/directory entry

2001-03-08 Thread Richard Sims
>03/03/2001 01:04:12 ANS4028E Error processing 'D:': cannot create >file/directory entry Michael - This is an old problem (search in www.adsm.org on the message number and you will see much discussion about it). You didn't specify what client level you are using, but it's probably old,

Runaway dsmserv

2001-03-08 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
Were having a strange problem. Over a period of several weeks we saw the cpu utilization of dsmserv rise to the point it was running our AIX server at 100% utilization. It was running at 100% utilization even whan nothing was happening on the server - no backups, migration, reclamation, etc. We

Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn M. Drew
I just had an unpleasant job of performing an inventory of our offsite storage. The barcode scanner I borrowed for the job could not read our barcode labels, so we 10-keyed 5000+tapes in a 12hour stretch (2 people) I remember vaguely reading something about this a while ago on this list, but can

restore error

2001-03-08 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Good morning all , i am restoring some files from old adsm server and getting following errors ..any idea? > ANS4029E Error processing '/psoft.PRD/app/oracle': unable to build a > directory p > ath; a file exists with the same name as a directory > > ANS4029E Error processing '/psoft.PRD/app

Re: Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?

2001-03-08 Thread Richard Sims
>I looked all over the place and found references that >this is a code 39 type label, but our code 39 scanner >could not scan it. Shawn - From info I compiled in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts: 3590 barcodeIs formally "Automation Identification

Re: Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?

2001-03-08 Thread Palmadesso Jack
I am not sure if this is the right place to do this but I'll do it anyway. Every once in a while some NT admin clobbers permissions of the root of some gigantic directory. What they always end up asking me is "Can I restore just the ACLs of the affected directories instead of the entire structur

Antwort: Re: Swapping Tape Drive

2001-03-08 Thread Holger Bitterlich
Hi, IBM says that you can use the Greens and the Reds mixed. But depends on the Firmware (IBM Terminology Microcode). Regards HBit Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Holger Bitterlich/BK/SK-Koeln) Thema: Re: Swapping T

Re: Runaway dsmserv

2001-03-08 Thread Sharp, Neil (London)
Are you sure it's dsmserv? Stop it and then run 'vmstat'. Maybe it the problem persists then run 'PerfPMR' Good luck > -Original Message- > From: Richard L. Rhodes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Runaway dsmserv

Patch 4.1.2.12 - Experiences

2001-03-08 Thread Reinhard Mersch
I just applied patch 4.1.2.12 to one of our Windows clients having lots of "umlaut" files. The cleanup utility worked as described, with the exception of needing THREE runs, until no more "Incorrectly cased object" messages occured in the sequencing view run. The cleanups issued lots of ANS1228E a

Management Class Question

2001-03-08 Thread Jeff Rankin
We are looking at doing a massive reorganization of our naming standards within our TSM servers. During this reorganization, some management class we have will go away and new ones will be created. Others will just be renamed. I know that in order to bind data to a specific management class I ca

extend problem

2001-03-08 Thread Robert Stephenson (STEPHRF @ GBNUHO)
Date: 08-03-2001 03:23:10 PM Telephone: 684983 Subject: extend problem Hi we are running Tivoli Storage Manager for MVS Version 3, Release 7, Level 3.0 when we try to extend we get : ANR0252E Error writing logical page 8407040 (physical page 400640) to database ANR0252E volu

TSM NT Server 4.1.2 not available for download

2001-03-08 Thread Ruddy STOUDER
TSM NT Server 4.1.2 is not available anymore on the WEB site. Maintenance and patch sites are not allowing 4.1.2 Server download. Does anybody know why ? Ruddy Stouder System Engineer I.R.I.S. Rue du Bosquet 10 - Parc Scientifique de Louvain-La-Neuve B- 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?

2001-03-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E
But I don't think they have a standard start or stop code/char... We ran into the same problem about a year or two ago. Good luck in finding something that will read it 'cause we couldn't Dwight -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 200

Re: Question about versions ans retention

2001-03-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
No. When a backup version expires out of the primary pool, it expires out of the copy pool as well. -Original Message- From: Jane Doe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about versions ans retention Can the followin

Antwort: TSM NT Server 4.1.2 not available for download

2001-03-08 Thread Holger Bitterlich
No, that`s not true, under ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v4r1/windows/v412 I`m currently downloading the files (it`s quite slow, but ...) or you can use this path (if you can read this bitmap...) (Embedded image moved to file: pic23056.pcx) regards

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

2001-03-08 Thread asr
=> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:44:04 +1100, Carl Makin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I do think our D40 drawer (5 x 36gb disks) was setup poorly. I've been over > the hardware config with our IBM engineer and he thinks it's probably not > running at the full loop speed (SSA160). We have a mixture of 4

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E
It all boils down to where your bottle neck is... If your client(s) have hugh amounts of data and big enough engines to compress it down and it compresses nicely (such as oracle DB's) then you will find that you can compress the data AND send it in less time than you can send the data uncompressed

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

2001-03-08 Thread Mark S.
"Warren, Matthew James" wrote: >Has anybody looked at using Tivoli Decision Support with TSM? > >>From: Jager Frederic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>I am currently evaluating a TSM KM by OTL software with >>Patrol client and >>console (you can get an evaluation copy). And I do think this is worth >

Re: Swapping Tape Drive

2001-03-08 Thread William Boyer
Don't forget to update the drive definitions. Probably would be best to delete the DRIVEs and re-define them. You could also do an UPD DRIVE to force ADSM to re-query the drive for it's attributes and supported options. Since you're AIX, probably would be best to delete the drives from ADSM, then

Re: Runaway dsmserv

2001-03-08 Thread Jeff J Coskey
Rick, I too have seen this occuring at many of my clients. What I can surmise is that you get runaway sessions appearing with a ? when you do a 'q sess'. If you can cancel these, then you will see that the dsmserv process CPU utilization drops back down dramatically. I have played around a little

Re: Runaway dsmserv

2001-03-08 Thread Steve Schaub
We saw this in our shop also - it ended up being a problem with win95/nt clients using IE5.0 to access the web gui producing the "?" sessions. Three or more of these would drive the cpu to 100% and leave it there. Upgrading IE to 5.5 or using win/2000 solved the problem for us. Steve Schaub

WindowsNT Disk Imaging.

2001-03-08 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Quite awhile ago, Tivoli announced plans for Tivol Data Protection for Workgroups to support sending a disk image to, and retrieve a disk image from the TSM server. If I remember right, this was to be available shortly after the release of Version 4 server. Does anyone know if this is still in th

TDP for oracle and Oracle OPS system

2001-03-08 Thread Shen Ou
Does any know can Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle work with Oracle 8.x OPS system ? if can , which will be advertent in implementation ? Thanks Shen Ou IBM China Shanghai Software Center

email appliances and TSM

2001-03-08 Thread Bob Booth - CCSO
Hi all! I need some help! We are presently looking for a 'NAS' type solution for email delivery. At this time, we use a large number of UNIX boxen to relay, route, deliver, and store *vast* amounts of email for 48,000 students/staff on our campus. We have been approached by several different c

Re: restore error

2001-03-08 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Shekkar, That looks like the filesystems in question are already mounted, and you're trying to restore the mount points. You'll either need to unmount the filesystems in question before the restore (then remount them before you restore data to them) or just ignore the error. I'd just ignore it

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
Oracle db's are highly compressable. We run our Oracle backups through the unix compress utility. I've seen tablespace files on a newly created instance (no data loaded yet) compress from 1gb down to 10mb. A normal tablespace file full of data will tipically compress about 3-to-1. In general,

TSM 4.1 licensing issues (was: Windows Client - Time Change Bug)

2001-03-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
In an earlier post I complained about problems getting price quotes/licensing info for TSM 4.1 configurations under the new Tivoli licensing scheme. For those of you WITH A SUPPORT CONTRACT THAT GIVES YOU ACCESS TO IBMLINK, this week they posted a new version of the configurator that includes TSM

Re: restore error

2001-03-08 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
Restore stops after this error messages .. so i can`t ignore it .. something is going on with symbolic links.. I am looking atfollowsymbolic option just suggested by Richard .. > ANS4029E Error processing '/psoft.PRD/app/oracle': unable to build a > directory p > ath; a file exists with

Re: restore error

2001-03-08 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
found something exactlly what is happening with my restore .. http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm97/1604.html shekhar Nicholas Cassimatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/08/2001 01:48:06 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist S

Re: Runaway dsmserv

2001-03-08 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
THAT's IT There were a bunch of sesions as described below. By killing the the cpu went back to where we would expect it. Thanks for all the Help! Rick On 8 Mar 2001, at 12:43, Steve Schaub wrote: > We saw this in our shop also - it ended up being a problem with win95/nt clients >using I

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
I agree with Richard and Dwight. It depends. We have client compression on, I did a bit of testing, and sending client-compressed data on through the tape drive compression generally doesn't hurt us, but doesn't help much, either. In some simple tests I ran, we got at most an additional 10% com

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Remeta, Mark
Well I for one want to know exactly what my clients are backing up. The only way to tell that is with compession off or as Wanda said, it will only report the actual amount of compressed data that is backed up. Also, we have AIT tape drives and I have found that reclamation and tape to tape copies

Re: Compression / No Compression ???

2001-03-08 Thread Walker, Lesley R
Roy Lake wrote: > We used to have CLIENT compression set to YES when doing backups, with DRIVE > compression OFF. Most of the data on our systems is Oracle. When we had > client compression set to YES, each cartridge would take about 5GB. > > ...when I switched compression OFF, we managed to get

Re: Offsite Storage w/out DRM

2001-03-08 Thread Demler, Debra
We looked into alternatives to DRM when we installed TSM/AIX over a year ago mainly because of the cost. I really did not want to write and maintain our own scripts for the DR functions. We installed AutoVault (www.coderelief.com) for far less $$. It has worked nicely for us and they have conti

Re: email appliances and TSM

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn M. Drew
We have been struggling with this for about 2 years now. Here is some information from my experience. Our NT admins bought some auspex NAS servers (NS2k) and told us about it after the fact. Luckily, they only used the NFS portion of the box. Until 2 months ago. We have been NFS mounting to anot

Re: Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn M. Drew
I talked with a guy over at EDP, who says this label was code39, but modified at the request of STK. when IBM made their barcode readers, they decided to just support the STK standard. They talked with Symbol a while back to develop barcode readers that will work with these, and the symbology was

Re: Management Class Question

2001-03-08 Thread James Thompson
If the management class no longer exists, data will be expired based on the default management class for the domain. During your next full incremental on a given machine the following will happen. If the file or directory exists on both machine and the tsm server, then that file or directory wil

Re: Longlasting tape-reclamation run

2001-03-08 Thread Geoff Fitzhardinge
Joe Faracchio wrote to me: >Try using a disk-file area and one tape reclamation. > >... joe.f. > >Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Hello Joe, Have you had good results with this technique to speed things up? It would be nice if there was some documentation to explain the pr

Re: Netware/NAV-CE

2001-03-08 Thread Suad Musovich
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:40:56AM +0200, Mike Glassman - Admin wrote: > What do you mean by something adverse? > > What symptoms ? ABENDs. Attached is a sample for NAV below. NAV runs happily without TSM, and visa-versa. Put the 2 together, it causes and ABEND on NAV or TSM freezes. The third

Manually "inactivate" NT files

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn Drew
I wanted to get an idea of what people do when clients are taken offline permanently. Ideally, we would run the backup client one last time excluding everything (so the files will follow the Management Class setting for Inactive files) However, we are commonly told a client is offline after the

Re: Manually "inactivate" NT files

2001-03-08 Thread Stephen Mackereth
Hi Shawn, Why don't you leave it alone for some period of time like 3 months (if you not short on space) and then delete the filespaces & the node permanently. This depends on 1. how the backup copygroup is defined. 2. how long after the client has gone, are you required to restore anything. q

Re: Longlasting tape-reclamation run

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
High and low points of one-drive reclamation: 1) its not move data as far as I know. It looks like this: Storage Pool Name: TAPEPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: 3590 Estimated Capacity (MB): 4,149,171.5 .

Re: Manually "inactivate" NT files

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Faracchio
that's what we do: 3 months and then delete filespace but we have it as a perl program that runs overnight because it takes a lot of time and cycles. Come to think of it that's the worse time!!! I need to change it from 3 am to 8 pm !!! .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berke

Re: Manually "inactivate" NT files

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn Drew
thats what we used to do, but manually. So you have a script that periodically checks for nodes that havent backed up in 3 months, then automatically removes the filespaces? then the node? Or are you saying that you peridically check for nodes ready to be deleted, then the script does the rest?

Re: WindowsNT Disk Imaging.

2001-03-08 Thread Michael Bruewer
TDP for NT was a third party product and has been withdrawn due to license problems. That's what was said on a Tivoli Road Show last week. They announced that there will be an announcement of a new product (third party again, I don't remember the name) for this purpose next month, maybe available