Re: TSM Tape Retention Time Limitation?

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Large
minutes is the maximum setting for mountretention. 0 probably means 'never remove tape', although perhaps someone could confirm this.. -Original Message- From: Paul CC Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 August 2001 09:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Tape Retention Time Li

TSM Tape Retention Time Limitation?

2001-08-09 Thread Paul CC Lo
Is there a limitation for TSM device class to set the mout retention to minutes? Do we have any option to set the mount retention to be longer or to disable this function to remain the tape in the tape drive? Best Regards Paul Lo

Re: Client 4.1.2.12 Problem?

2001-08-09 Thread Walter Ridderhof
Mike, we had similar problems, the new client could would just die in the backup wihout a worthy message left behind, an excerpt from the V4.1.2.19 fix: * IC29845 Client terminates the backup if it tries to back up a drive it * * can not access (such as the Microsoft Exchange Ins

Slow archive

2001-08-09 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hy all, I'm trying to archive some data from an HP-UX 10.0 box with ADSM 3.1 client to an AIX 4.3.3 Server with TSM 4.1.4. I'm using the graphic-interface (no web-interface available). The amount of date is about 6 Files and 2 GB. At the beginning the archiving works ok, but after some time i

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>I'm going through my first experience with a broken tape and I'd like to >know how to clean this up. Since the tape is broken it obviously can't be >mounted to extract data. ... Geoff - The question is, "How broken?" With a 3590, it's usually the tape being snapped within a few inches o

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Many years back I posted a note along the lines of "a poor mans guide to fixing a snapped 3590" I believe #2 pencil & pair of round nose safety scissors was all that was required. I'm sure it is out at www.adsm.org still ;-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Ford, Phillip
Find attached the steps that I use to fix broken/damaged tapes. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thurs

Locked or Open Files uner NT

2001-08-09 Thread mrkirra2001
How do I back up locked files under Windows NT? Specifically the c:\winnt\system32\config directory, which contains the SAM database and other important NT system files. I have set the management class to DYNAMIC, but this still does not back them up. The error says the file is being used by anot

Poor mans guide to fixing a 3590 tape

2001-08-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I went out an pulled my note from the archives to provide a FYI... DWight Did it really eat the tape or just say pop of a foot or two from the front ? You wouldn't believe the amount of confetti that 1 ft. of 3590 can make inside a drive ! Now, naturally IBM has a bunch of

ADSM version 2 functionality returns!

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
Perusing the 4.2 client manual to learn of new functionality (worth doing from time to time) I was amused to find the new client option "V2archive", which makes Archive perform the same way it did in ADSM version 2, which is to say that it will only archive files, and not directories. And you tho

Re: Locked or Open Files uner NT

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>How do I back up locked files under Windows NT? Specifically the >c:\winnt\system32\config directory, which contains the SAM database and >other important NT system files. You don't...directly, that is. As the B/A client manual says, "These are system files that cannot be recovered without poss

Deleting log volumes

2001-08-09 Thread Alan Davenport
Hello fellow *SM'ers! I've discovered that in the past two small log volumes were defined to the same DASD volumes as DB volumes. Since this is not recommended due to performance considerations I'm trying to get rid of these log volumes however I've been unable to do so. I'm running TSM 4.1.0.0 o

Re: Deleting log volumes

2001-08-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E
do a "q logvol" to see the size of the two little logs you want to remove then do a "reduce log " where is the size (in MB) of the log files you want to remove then do a "del logvol blah" so, roughly speaking, to delete a log (or dbvol) you have to have that amount of space listed under t

Re: Deleting log volumes

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>ANR2445E DELETE LOGVOLUME: Insufficient space on other recovery log volumes >to delete volume ADSM.RCVLOG4. Alan - Do a REDuce LOG first.

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Thanks for your reply, Herfried. It brings to mind some other questions regarding other volume groups. Say you have all your Oracle stuff on one or two different vgs. Would you need to have done a savevg sometime in the past to get the vg back, or at bare metal time would you need to manually c

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Also, Geoff, remember that the tapes are guaranteed for 10 years-- you could always put in a call to Tucson and have them extract the data to another tape for you if rebuilding from copy pools is too onerous. lisa Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/09/2001 06:35 AM Please respond to "ADSM: D

W2000 system files

2001-08-09 Thread Maxim Batourine
Hi TSM world! Anybody know, have I to backup C:\WINNT folder if I backup SYSTEMOBJECT (that include and all system files in C:\WINNT folder and subfolders and it takes about 200MB) Can be SYSTEMFILES incremental? becouse it always does full backup :-((( Maxim Batourine Faculty of Architectu

find the primary pool

2001-08-09 Thread Wu, Jie
Hi, I have a copy stgpool that I could not find the corresponding primary pool. (this copy pool was created long time ago by the former ADSM admin). IS there a way to find its primary pool? Thanks. Jie

Re: Deleting log volumes

2001-08-09 Thread Alan Davenport
-=>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:29:27 -0400 -=>Subject: Re: Deleting log volumes -=> -=>>ANR2445E DELETE LOGVOLUME: Insufficient space on other recovery -=>log volumes -=>>to delete volume ADSM.RCVLOG4. -=> -=>Alan - Do a REDuce LOG first. -=> Of cou

Re: Recover Windows 2000 Client

2001-08-09 Thread Garrison, Tony
I have successfully recovered a win2k server using client 4.2 we are currently in the process of testing the recovery of an AD server. I followed the procedure that was listed in the redbook for w2k recovery. T -Original Message- From: Joe Spade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: We

Re: Deleting log volumes

2001-08-09 Thread Alan Davenport
Thank you Dwight. I feel silly for not thinking of that. I've been over-analyzing trying to figure out why an almost empty log file had no space available. This gives new meaning to "Can't see the forest for the trees"! (: Al -=> -=>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>Date: Thu,

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>Geoff - The question is, "How broken?" With a 3590, it's usually the >tape being snapped within a few inches of the leader block. Richard, As I've been taking a look at the whole situation I find it is very confusing. The tape case has a small corner, right at where the blue plastic le

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Herfried Abel
1) Oracle Setup example: SW in the rootvg / All datafiles in one oraclevg with AIX fs mirroring ( HW: mirror between two different SSA drawers ) / archivelogs in a seperate vg with mirroring (same as datafiles). The good old initORCL.ora within the rootvg. DB-Controlfiles mirrored by Oracle in ro

Steven Abrey/CUA/AU is out of the Office

2001-08-09 Thread Steven Abrey
I will be out of the office starting 10/08/2001 and will not return until 20/08/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. Please forward any problems to Ben Bos on #441

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>As I've been taking a look at the whole situation I find it is very >confusing. The tape case has a small corner, right at where the blue plastic >leader attached to the end of the tape, pulled out so it will not pop back >in and stay there. I have tried to bend the plastic back but it is very >l

HSM on Sol2.8

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Large
Do we have any definite dates on this release? http://www.phoenixitgroup.com **Internet Email Confidentiality Footer*** Phoenix IT Group Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 3476115. Registered Office: Technology House, Hunsbury Hill A

Re: TSM Tape Retention Time Limitation?

2001-08-09 Thread Jim Sporer
0 means remove the tape as soon as TSM is done with it. Jim Sporer At 09:43 AM 8/9/2001 +0100, you wrote: > minutes is the maximum setting for mountretention. 0 probably means >'never remove tape', although perhaps someone could confirm this.. > > > >-Original Message- >From: Paul CC

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread David Longo
>Subject: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems >Has anyone ever compiled a list of files and/or file systems that can be >excluded from backup either because they are dynamically created by the OS >at reboot/syncvg etc, or because they are included in a mksysb? I would not want to

Re: broken tape

2001-08-09 Thread David Longo
Geoff, I would just do a RESTORE VOL XXX PREVIEW=YES and check actlog (per earlier post) and see how many tapes are involved. It may be simpler to restore than anything and I have found it to be about 100% reliable. It's never taken me more than about an hour to do - even when I had 20 tapes nee

Re: Cleaning frequency ?

2001-08-09 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
I don't think TSM has to do.Drives h/w does that. I worked on 35XX Lib .We used to do it manually. -Original Message- From: Stan Vernaillen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cleaning frequency ? All, I got a single 3590 l

Cleaning frequency ?

2001-08-09 Thread Stan Vernaillen
All, I got a single 3590 library with a cleaning cartridge in there. the drive has cleaning frequency "ASNEEDED". now the display says that the drive needs cleaning, but TSM does nothing... Was I wrong to think "asneeded" ment that the library would take the cleaning cartridge a

Re: TDP SQL v2.2

2001-08-09 Thread Bruce Kamp
WHere is the "login as" defined? As a parameter in the setup of the service? If so what is the syntax? Thanks -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP SQL v2.2 >Getting the following m

Re: find the primary pool

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>I have a copy stgpool that I could not find the corresponding >primary pool. ... Jie - Quite an interesting problem. I've been trying to think of a definitive answer, but the best I've thought of so far is to do a Query OCCupancy and look for entries which reflect being in both a

Re: TDP SQL v2.2

2001-08-09 Thread David Longo
If you're already setup you can got to "Services" and select the service you want and then select "Startup" (I beliveve that is it) and then it gives you a popup that allows you to select what account the service runs as. Generally you run as the "System" account, but I have one system that has t

Re: Cleaning frequency ?

2001-08-09 Thread David Longo
I think the *SM manual stattes that *SM cleaning is only done' for SCSI libraries that don't have Auto cleaning. It lists several specific libraries that *SM cleaning is not valid for. Use Autoclean on the Library for the ones that support it and set CLEASNFreq to NONE for these. I have 3575 li

Re: TDP SQL v2.2

2001-08-09 Thread Bruce Kamp
I set that to the account that is logged in on the server. If I manually run sqlfull.cmd it runs fine but if I let the scheduler service start the backup it fails.I have tried the domain administrator account & a local admin account that are supposed to have sa equivelant access & no luck...

Migrating one tape at a time...

2001-08-09 Thread Jack McKinney
I have two storage pools: a small disk cache (just enough to hold almost two tapes worth), and a tape pool with a single drive. I have set the disk cache highmig so that it will begin migration when the diskcache has more than one tape's worth of data, so that migration will write an entir

Re: TDP SQL v2.2

2001-08-09 Thread Del Hoobler
> I set that to the account that is logged in on the server. If I manually > run sqlfull.cmd it runs fine but if I let the scheduler service start the > backup it fails.I have tried the domain administrator account & a local > admin account that are supposed to have sa equivelant access & no

Re: Migrating one tape at a time...

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Sims
>... I'd like migration to end when it reaches the end of >a tape. Is there some way to do this? Someone else's brain may come up with something better than this: If using scratches, you could maintain a storage pool MAXSCRatch value that is 1 more than the number of tapes that the storage pool

4.1.3 can not handle multi-tape UNLOADDB

2001-08-09 Thread Joe Faracchio
I've just been informed by lvl2 that the UNLOADDB command of TSM 4.1.3 can not handle a DB that goes to more than one tape. How can they ship a 3466 with TSM at a level with KNOWN PROBLEMS! I'm using 3590s with a 30 Gig DB and it stalls at the same place every time. Recommended fix is to go

Exchange backup

2001-08-09 Thread Jeff Bach
All, I need to know if anyone has a solution for Exchange that can backup and restore a 70 Gig Exchange database in 1 hour. The solution would need to scale to 40 Exchange databases. I have lots of ideas and new technology to use, and I have tested SAN backup, but I do not prefer this s

Settings in DSMSERV.OPT to pass information to LIBSTATION

2001-08-09 Thread Eikleberry, Scott
We have a new installation of Windows 2000 TSM 4.1.4 connected via Brocade fiber channel to a HSC STK Libstation driven Powderhorn with 9840 tape drives. I have been told my libraries and drives are configured to work, I just need to know what entries need to be made in the server options file. A

Management Classes

2001-08-09 Thread Manoel Braz
Hi *SMs, There are some management class in a domain. How can I specify a management class that it will be used by backup command in the schedule of TSM? Thanks, Manoel.

Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems

2001-08-09 Thread Eliza Lau
I just got off the phone with TSM level 2 support. This is a known problem with the Windows 2000 4.2.0 client. It is a timing issue. The client can't get the password from the server and tries 3 times. A second later it gets it. The developers have no fixes for this, no APAR either. They may

Re: Management Classes

2001-08-09 Thread Angela Hughes
Whatever mgmt class you want to use should be made the default mgmt class and then activate the policy set. Thanks, Angela --- Manoel Braz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *SMs, > > There are some management class in a domain. How can > I specify a management > > class that it will be used by backu

Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems

2001-08-09 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I don't know the technical details surrounding this problem or why it (supposedly) can't be fixed (I don't like the word "can't"), but I can assure you that there *will* be an APAR. If/when it will be fixed is another matter, but it needs to be formally documented. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IB

How to use two libraries in a same backup process?

2001-08-09 Thread Jorge Rodrmguez
Hi... I have a HP-UX running TSM 4.1.0. There are two libraries HP DLT 7000 with four drives each one. Currently, I use the four drives of one library in a backup process. I need to use the two libraries, the 8 drives in a same backup process, with just a backup/archive client, not using TDP. The

Fwd: Management Classes

2001-08-09 Thread Eduardo Martinez
On your include/exclude file put the management class you want to associate your files: include /your_path/* management_class Regards. --- Manoel Braz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribis: > Fecha: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:47:37 -0300 > Responder a: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > De: Mano

Expiration processing question.

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Brown
Hello, Assume 1 object = 1 file Lets assume I have a node with one partition. The partition called /stuff has 1,000,000 files. I start expiration and it is working on the file system /stuff from the beginning. I cancel the process after it gets to file# 500,000 When I start expiration again I

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Steve Harris
Lisa, I run a dataless savevg weekly on all my non-root VGs to save in a file on the rootvg. To recreate the VG you just run a restorevg and presto its defined as it was ready to restore the data from TSM Here's my script. Warn and abort are a couple of ksh functions. #!/usr/bin/ksh # # Thi

Problem with restore db

2001-08-09 Thread Rajesh Oak
I am trying to restore a TSM Server to another server. After I give the restore db devclass=4mmclass1 vol=s1db3 commit=yes command, it formats the log and also tries to load the tape but gives me this error. Please advise on what to look for and correct this problem. ANR83261 001: Mount 4MM v

No Subject

2001-08-09 Thread FRANCISCO ROBLEDO
Hello Tsmers, I have one DLT 7000 Autoloader connected in the Adapter SCSI (aic78xx) of my netfinity 7000 running NT 4.0 SP5. I have, too, installed TSM Server 4.1 with TSM Device Driver. When I utilize the "Device Configuration" of the "Server Utilities" interface I can define only the Drive

ASP, SQL, ODBC?

2001-08-09 Thread Hamilton, Dustin
I've gotten some reporting to work with ADSM/TSM but there are some thigns I would like to do that I have yet to accomplish...and I cant imagine that they are anything new. I have gotten select statements to work and then eMail results, etc...I can get ODBC connections to work to the TSM server v

Re: Cleaning frequency ?

2001-08-09 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
I had the same problem with TSM 3.7.0 and AIX 4.3.3. In our environment we observed that after 900 GB of data processing by the tape drive itused to flash CLEAN message but TSM never cleaned automatically. So I have set the cleaning frequency parameter as 900 instead of ASNEEDED and now TSM is re

Martha Jones/Provident Life/US is out of the office.

2001-08-09 Thread Martha Jones
I will be out of the office starting 08/10/2001 and will not return until 08/21/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

Re: FUJI LTO Tapes

2001-08-09 Thread Jörg Nouvertné
We just ordered them. Fuji confirmed proper functionality with the LTO Ultrium drives in our 3584 and guaranteed onsite support if necessary. I can share my experience in a couple of weeks. Joerg Nouvertne http://home.wtal.de/the_swordsman > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Ma