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Re: Client Computability list

Doug, If you have not already been advised, try this url http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/compatibility.html ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the vi

Re: Restore Database with a 3494 library

It is a software bug that you have to be required to use libtype=manual... tivoli will be fixing this. -Original Message- From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Re: Restore Database with a 3494 library

TSM Client

Hi, Does TSM Client 4.1.00 work with TSM Server 4.2.00 without any problems? Thanks. Nazir Najjar Itautec-Philco SA - Seguranga Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 11 6097-3959

IP change on AIX

Hello everyone, This is not directly related to TSM, but we are in the process of changing all of our IP addresses. On our TSM server, we are running AIX 4.3.2. Most of our file servers are Novell, so it's much easier to change IP. Is there a simple one time program to run , that will make the c

Re: IP change on AIX

Mark, one way to change the AIXs IP is: 1) stop all applications (eg TSM) 2) run sh /etc/tcp.clean and sh /etc/nfs.clean ( from the console cause this stopps AIX networking ) 3) remove Network devices ( eg. rmdev -l en0 -d and rmdev -l ent0 -d ) 4) run cfgmgr to recreate the devices ( the are no

Re: IP change on AIX

If u need to change IP .First shutdown -m in maintenance mode so that all services are shut down. U ARE in SINGLE USER MODE .Now go to smitty and communication services and select minimum config and change Ip ADDRESS.Be careful ur default gateway should be on same network address. Then say init 2

Re: backup of win2k system files fails

I'm not sure that the PerfProc warning is what is causing you problems. We see this message on servers that are backing up fine. We just ran into a problem when backing up sysfiles when system files - ntldr, boot.ini etc are on a drive other than C: drive. See apar below. Search for a drwatsn32

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Hey TSM'rs I was wondering why I think I should be able to utilize the 80 GIG capabilities of my tapes but it appears I am not. I average around 43 gig on most. I have a Compaq TL891 10 tape library. Anyone else have this config ??? TIA Patrick

AW: Performance problems with AIX PTFs

Thanks for your reply! We installed bos.rte.libc.4.3.3.80, rebooted the server - but nothing changed. I noticed that the backup sessions are always in session state "RecvW" and CPU utilization of the SAP server for backint.exe ist about 7%. Has anyone else seen this problem before? Kind regards

Re: Spontaneous management class rebinding - how to resolve?

You've almost got it - it probably IS a "longest-retention issue". Andy Raibeck discussed this at length in Oct 2001 (if you want to go back and search www.adsm.org, search on : Raibeck Strange Behaviour Andy said: "If two or more management classes have the largest RETONLY setting, then it

SV:

Hi ! Your 80GB is compressed capacity. DLT-8000 offers 40GB plus compression. But the drive will not be able to compress data that are already compressed. So if you are using client compresssion on your TSM nodes, 43GB is not that bad. Regards, Jesper Matthiesen WISEhouse Denmark A/S -Opri

Starting Scheduler on an NT box

I am getting an internal error when I try to start up a Windows NT 4.0 Server. The error code is 2140. I am using TSM version 4.2.1. Is there any ideas on what could be my problem? Thanks Aaron Bontrager

Re: IP change on AIX

It's not clear from your message, are you changing just the servers IP or all the Novell clients also? If just the server, then you also have to change the servers IP in any client's dsm.opt that connects to server by IP, unless you havd server name instead of IP. A stop and restart of scheduler

Downlevel client code version

Are you experienced about this problem: On client side: 25/02/02 16:34:22 cuSignOnResp: Server rejected session; result code: 57 25/02/02 16:34:22 sessOpen: Error 57 receiving SignOnResp verb from server 25/02/02 16:34:22 ANS1357S Session rejected: Downlevel client code version On server

Where would I begin to answer these questions?

The problem I have, is that NT servers don't report on filenames, specifying *.PST files... How much data is currently stored on file servers? - $ per GB stored How much is backed up through TSM (was daily now weekly) soft $'s associated with network traffic Does TSM store to dasd first? if s

Specifying files to archive/backup in a file

I seem to remember, unless I had a very vivid dream of this, that Tivoli introduced a way to get the filenames for a backup/archive from a file on the command line. I know I can do something like xargs -n 20 command http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html

Re: include.encrypt statements with TDP

hi, include.encription is not supported by TSM API. So it will not work for any TDP. regards, Thiha Date:Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:15:14 -0500 From:"Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: include.encrypt statements with TDP I cannot find any reason why the inclexcl dsm.sys cannot have

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Patrick, Is collocation turned on? How many nodes do you back up? What type of backup services are you providing? (i.e. TDP LNOTES/MSSQL/DB2/ORACLE ) ?? How many primary --to---> copypools do you have on your TSM server? Are you archiving? Each of those could have an effect on why your tapes a

Re: Specifying files to archive/backup in a file

I think you are talking about the -FILELIST client option. Check it out in the "Using the Backup-Archive Client" book, chapter 9 "Using Options with Commands". Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IB

L700 Library

We are trying, as earlier email indicated, to run an STK L700 library with TSM 4.1.50 running on AIX 4.3.3. The library originally shipped with Seagate Viper 200 drives. We had the library configured via smitty/TSM Devices and it was listed as available but the Seagate drives were not because

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Thanks Gabriel I have 4 Nodes all NT and All Domino servers using TDP for Domino to do so. I don't use collocation or archiving and use a direct to tape methodology. Any recommendations??? TIA Patrick Gabriel Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

After Restoring a Volume?

We have successfully restored a volume and ADSM has kindly marked it as destroyed as advertised. What do I need to do next, do I need to DELETE VOLUME DISCARDDATA=YES before I can try to run it through again? If that works, then what, do I do a re-label as in, label libvol lto1 search=bulk checkin

Re: Select Stmts. in TSM: What is an OUTER JOIN

Is anyone else getting multiple (about one an hour) of this message from Paul? -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Select Stmts. in TSM: What is an OUTER JOIN An OUTER join really does

Re: After Restoring a Volume?

If the restore had been COMPLETEly successful, ADSM would have gone ahead and deleted the volume (i.e., returned it to scratch) when the RESTORE completed. So there must be some data left on it. First list the contents and see what is there. Then I would try a MOVE DATA one more time, just to s

FW: Include/Exclude (again)

> -Original Message- > From: MacMurray, Andrea (CC-ETS Ent Storage Svcs) > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Include/Exclude (again) > > Hello SMS'ers > Question again about include exclude. Server is AIX 4.3.3 tsm version is > 4.2.

Include/Exclude (again)

Hello SMS'ers Question again about include exclude. Server is AIX 4.3.3 tsm version is 4.2.1.9 Client is NT . The customer wants to include only the one file in the include and exclude all the rest. Following to this is the DSM.OPT file and this should run. Need some assistance and insight on this

MS SQL TDP help

I am hoping someone can give some insight into problems I am having getting the MS SQL TDP V2 to run on a Windows 2K box. The main problem I am having is with the scheduler. The box runs both normal backups, and TDP backups via a scheduler service. The TDP options file lists a separate port '15

Re: backup of win2k system files fails

> One windows 2000 server backup fails when trying to backup the system > files. > The backup is being run under the administrator account. Nothing of > interest is logged in the TSM folders or in the TSM server application > log. > The windows application log contains the following entry. Any s

Re: MS SQL TDP help

Bob, when you schedule the backup on the TSM server what action are you scheduling? I know with the Exchange TDP it must be COMMAND and you must have a batch file on the Exchange server that actually does the backup. Mark -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: MS SQL TDP help

I think the main thing is that the schedule you have set up for the TDP SQL backup is defined as ACTION : INCREMENTAL as a normal backup. For TDP backups ACTION should be COMMAND and in the OBJECTS parameter shoukld be something like "C:\Progra~1\Tivoli\TSM\TDPSql\sqlfull.cmd" You have an sqlfull

Re: MS SQL TDP help

> The problem is, that the scheduler performs both backups, but the one that > is supposed to be a TDP backup, remains a regular windows backup. It does > not backup the database, but the same windows files that the regular ba > client performs. Bob, What kind of schedule do you have defined fo

Re: DataBase File Spaces and Selective Backups

Paul, exclude /fsmountpoint/.../* include /fsmountpoint/flatfilepath/flatfile.backup Ah, in NT-ese, exclude f:\...\* include f:\flatfilepath\flatfile.backup This way you'll be doing an incremental of the filesystem, but the only thing you should actually backup are your flat file backups. Wou

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

Andrea, You might try... exclude *:\...\* include D:\Oracle\backup\dev8i.dmp MCBKUP4 Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: MacMurray, Andrea (CC-ETS Ent Storage Svcs) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25

Re: Spontaneous management class rebinding - how to resolve?

Wanda, you're right - setting the original/default Management Class retention settings 1 higher/longer resolved the problem. After changing the settings, the first thing we did was clean up the mess - we emptied all the unwanted TDP_OFFSITE volumes (those with 0.0 percent full) using move data v

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

We tried this already and in addition to this we tried: Exclude *:\...\* Exclude *:\...\*.* Exclude *:\* Exclude *:\*.* Andrea -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Include/Exclude (agai

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

Could you please explain specifically what the problem is that you are seeing with your current configuration? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The o

TSM API

Hi - Has anyone had any experience with using the Tivoli Api. We are embarking on exploring the API and its effectiveness Please let me know Thanks Jose Rivera *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient.

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

Why don't you do a command line call from the tsm scheduler and only have the one file to back up from the command line. I use this and it works fine. Here is "hrarchive.cmd" located on the server. I call this using TSM command scheduler: set path=%path%;c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient set

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

The problem is that TSM is still backing up all the data on the client. As I understand we shold be able to exclude everything but one file. This is what we are trying to do. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EM

Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server

*SMers, Does anyone know what Atape level I need to be at or what the recommended level is, for a TSM 4.2 server? Thanks for the help. Regards, Sean Sean M. English You can't change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

Re: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server

You should use the latest no matter what. -Original Message- From: Sean M English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server *SMers, Does anyone know what Atape level I need to be at or what th

Re: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server

Hi Paul, Would you show me how to get to the latest Atape & atldd please. (Is there a web-side for it?) Thanks. Hoa. -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Se

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

OK, thanks. It helps to know the context of the question. :-) The EXCLUDE statement (without and . extension) excludes only files, not directories. So include/exclude statements like this: exclude *:\...\* INCLUDE D:\Oracle\backup\dev8i.dmp MCBKUP4 Will back up the one file plus all dir

Re: DataBase File Spaces and Selective Backups

Actually, the question is, if the include is not there will an incremental backup expire our selective backups that specified what is on the include? Inclexcl contents: exclude /fsmountpout/.../* DSMC Commands: incr /fsmountpoint selective /fsmountpoint/flatfilepath/flatfile.backup Will the abo

Re: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX/ -Original Message- From: Nguyen, Hoa V (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Atape driver level for 4.2 TSM Server Hi Paul, Would you show me how to get to the late

TDP SQL 2.2, Dr. Watson error

I am installing TSM Client 4.2.1.20 and TDP SQL 2.2.0.0 on NT 4.0 SP5 with SQL server 7.0. TSM Server is 4.2.1.9 and I have a handfule of clients like this one operating o.k. The B/A client works fine. However when stating the TDP GUI, I get the initial window displayed and then real soon a Dr.

Re: DataBase File Spaces and Selective Backups

Active/inactive backup versions are processed the same, whether they came from an incremental or from a selective backup. So yes, if you normally keep only 2 versions, and do: March 1 selective March 2 incremental March 3 selective Assuming the file changed and the March 2 backup DOES send a b

How does client open files for backup?

How does the Windows NT client (v4.2) open files for backing up? Last night we had a situation that TSM was backing up a file and another application wanted to open that file for read/writing and the second app crashed. I thought TSM open the file so that it allows all other processes to also ope

How do I omitt files from being backed up for one time only?

I want to run a backup of all of a hard drive, but leave out a specific subdirectory for later backing up, as that directory has files currently changing and I'll back them up later. If I use EXCLUDE, then that means the directory will NEVER be backed up, where as I do want to back up the files at

W2K and the System Objects

How do I stop the system objects (specifically the *.EXE's, *.DLL's, etc in the WINNT directory structure...) from being backed up EVERY time I do a backup on a W2K machine? These system objects are over 120MB in size and is taking up bandwidth, disk and tape space unnecessarily as they do not cha

Re: DataBase File Spaces and Selective Backups

Paul, One thing I notice is that in the Admin Guide for 4.2, it says that Selective backups are subject to the incl/excl list (Chapt. 12, Implementing Policies for Client Data > How Tivoli Storage Manager Selects Files for Policy Operations, page 248). I don't think the exclude /fsmnt/.../* & Se

Re: Downlevel client code version

someone (you?) used nodename of AIX node on Win 2K...now you have 2 choices: delete/recreate node or manually edit TSM db to clear up unicode enabled flag. I believe that you'd better call IBM to do this for you...though this not difficult at all. Good Luck! --- Diciommo Fabio EDS <[EMAIL PROTEC

Compaq SAN and Bus Numbers beyond 7

Gang, We reconfigured a SAN to include more storage shelves. In the process, it appears that the bus number assigned to the library and drives moved from 0 to 9. Within device manager we can see the devices and within TSM we can see the devices, but the adsmscsi device driver won't start. I'm

TSM - Image Backup on UNIX - any success stories or gotchas to share ?

We have an application that basically just continues to collect documents in a series of volumes/containers, 1 container at a time, beginning to end, until the container is full. Then it "freezes" that container and moves onto the next. One container could be >150GB (if we don't argue hard enoug

Re: DataBase File Spaces and Selective Backups

I forgot about this option mainly because I logged it away as not very useful until now. This is the way to go. Then we just put an include in the dsm.opt and run incrementals for each directory/drive. I remember dealing with this before. Actually, the documentation is wrong in this area and i

Re: AIX error ADSM_DD_LOG4

I believe this sense data indicates that the import/export element was access on your tape library. If so, it would be nothing to worry about. ..Paul At 02:48 PM 2/25/2002 +1100, Subash, Chandra wrote: >Hi guys > >I get this error . TSM runs fine . Is it something to worry about ? > >LABEL:

Re: Include/Exclude (again)

You could also specify as an object D:\whatever\whatever\whatever in the scheduled command on the server. -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Include/Exclude (again) Andrea, You migh

How do I omitt files from being backed up for one time only?

Opps! I sent my reply to the directly to mrkirra2001 rather than to the listserv. The only way that I can think of to achive this is to have two nodes. Node A backing up everything else but the directory. Node B excluding everything but the directory. Sais

Re: Where would I begin to answer these questions?

Ike, I have done this a little differently. What I do is identify all the cost associated with the backup process, backup servers, additional switch capacity, disk pools, tape drives, and libraries and add that up to a total dollar number. Tapes are figured separately. This infrastructure will

Re: DLT 80 GB only gets 43GB of data on it.

Please put subjects on your questions so we can follow the discussion. OK, Native storage versus compressed numbers are a marketing game. The Magstar K-Tape is a 40GB native (120GB compressed), yet I see data stored as low as 75GB and as high as 240GB. It just depends on how compressable the da

Re: TSM API

Hi Jose, > Hi - Has anyone had any experience with using the Tivoli Api. We are > embarking on exploring the API and its effectiveness > Please let me know i took the "butc" source-code from TRANSARC-AFS and included Tivoli Api calls to backup AFS-Volumes to TSM instead to tape. (like former but