Re: Question regarding including an excluded type of file.

2002-02-27 Thread Jozef Zatko
James, I think that better solution is to use FREQUENCY parameter in copy group definition of your new management class. Set it to 7 days if you want to backup .pst files once a week. Then you do not need two schedules. Also you will have to include .pst files in dsm.opt. Hope this helps. Ing. J

Re: LINUX TSM Client can't backup

2002-02-27 Thread Remco Post
> Hello, > > We have installed TSM client on Linux REDHAT 7.2 > and got the following error for all directories: > > tsm> inc '/tmp' > Incremental backup of volume '/tmp' > ANS1076E *** Directory path not found *** > > We tested TSM 3.7, 4.1 and 4.2 versions, all > have the same problem. It wo

Re: TSM scheduler dies

2002-02-27 Thread Guenther Bergmann
Hi George, did you check the dsmerror.log? We also run TSM Client 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3. We experience core dumps, caused by SIGNAL 11 every once in a while. So the scheduler has to be restarted. A PMR is opened at IBM software support regarding this problem. regards Guenther -- Guenther Bergmann

mailbox.pst

2002-02-27 Thread Angel Anton
Does anyonw know how to bakcup the mailbox.pst while the Outlook 98 is running under a W98. I'm running ADSM 3.1.2.50 under an OS/390. Regards Angel Antsn IZFE. S.A. Plaza de Pinares, 1-3 Donostia 20001 Tlf.: +34 943.482.869/811 , Fax: +34 943.321.023 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH
Hi all, I have trouble to install TSM client 4.2 (4.2.1.20) on NT 4.0 SP6,SP6A. During installation process, following error message appears and break the installation '1603: General Windows Installer engine error. Increase Disk space requirement in Setup.ini and try again.' This problem i regist

Re: TSM, Linux and Filesystem mess

2002-02-27 Thread Remco Post
Hi, Reiserfs is currently supported by TSM. Keep in mind that some of these filesystems are not yet in the official kernel distribution, and others have not been there for very long. > Hello, > for Linux we now have the choice between a few journaled filesystems like > reiserfs, ext3, XFS and J

TSM, Linux and Filesystem mess

2002-02-27 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Hello, for Linux we now have the choice between a few journaled filesystems like reiserfs, ext3, XFS and JFS. I know, these can be backed up using virtual mount points. Are there any plans by Tivoli to support them directly? Best regards Gerhard Gerhard Rentschler email: [EM

Re: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Burak Demircan
are you trying to install from a network drive? it may be the problem. copy the installer to c: drive and check drive free space size and try to install again regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.02.2002 12:27 Please respond to

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi I don't know what kind of OS you're using, but the pending move is only on the TSM server. That because it's not the server that controls the schedule, only the client. If you look at the log on your client , it will tell you if it has received the schedule. So, there is nothing wrong with th

Re: AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Joachim, I had the same issue as you, and the only solution I found was to unpack the installation program directly on the node itself. If I tried to copy TSM_Images folder on the node, and perform the install from this copy, it was not working ! My 2 cents ... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Joseph Seigh
Quoting Philippe Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I do not know what platform you are working on, > but with your scheduler if you can send command to TSM like: > DSMCADMC -ID=xxx -PA= command > > you can control TSM from your scheduler. You got the question the wrong way around

AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH
The IP22373_20.exe is on a networkdrive. The tsm_images folder with the extracted files from IP22373_20.exe resides local on drive D:,the installpath is c:\program files\..., like recomended. I tryed also to put the Installfolder tsm_images to the Drive C: without a change of the situation. There

AW: AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH
Merci Arnoud -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2002 14:09 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent Joachim, I had the same issue as you, and the only solution I found was

Re: Exclude SYSTEM_OBJECT redux

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
>If anything, I'd go with "backupsystemobject yes/no", similar to >"backupregistry yes/no" that we have today. Easy to put in a client option >set, or in the options file on the client. I agree that this type of option would be preferable to my suggestion of exclude.systemobject. But is it poss

Re: AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Burak Demircan
copy IP22373_20.exe c:\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.02.2002 14:30 Please respond to ADSM-L                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:              

Re: AW: AW: Setup.ini_1603_TSM_4.2.1.20_Problem_urgent

2002-02-27 Thread Burak Demircan
I saw this strange error while installing Apache web for Win32 with MSI. I think this is a bug of General Windows Installer's not tsm's. regards, burak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.02.2002 15:36 Please respond to ADSM-L

exclude_edb_saved_in_backupregistry_systemobjects

2002-02-27 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH
Dear *SM Specialists Env.:TSM Client 4.2.1.20 Windows2000 Will the following listed files be backed up, so i can exclude them if the parameter in the dsm.opt are: Backupregistry yes DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL SYSTEMOBJECT 26-02-2002 20:38:31 ANS1228E Se

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Joseph Seigh
Quoting Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > I don't know what kind of OS you're using, but the pending move is only on > the TSM server. That because it's not the server that controls the > schedule, only the client. > > If you look at the log on your client , it will tell you if it has

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Remco Post
> The problem is that if for example you have 1000 clients scheduled to > backup during an 8 hour window, it would be nice to know which clients > have non functioning scheduler daemons at the beginning of the window > rather than at the end of the window when it would be a lot more difficult > to

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Seay, Paul
Joseph, The reasons you are doing this are probably different than ours. We have production processes that need the backups synchronized with them. The production control department must be able to hold backups if things are running late or reschedule at a 5 minute notice. Or hold everything be

Re: Exclude SYSTEM_OBJECT redux

2002-02-27 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Matt, This is a recognized requirement, though no delivery timeframe is available yet. Taking this up with you rmarketing rep is a good idea. The more people request it, the more likely it is to receive a higher priority. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Cl

Re: Spontaneous management class rebinding - how to resolve?

2002-02-27 Thread Andrew Raibeck
"Raibeck Strange Behavior", huh? Interesting choice of search criteria ;-) Actually the mechanism used to break a "tie" isn't random; I haven't looked at this code in a while, but if I remember correctly, if multiple management classes have the same highest RETONLY setting, we pick the mana

Re: mailbox.pst

2002-02-27 Thread Kelly Lipp
Can't be done. Outlook takes an exclusive lock on the file. You will need to close Outlook in order to backup the .pst file. If you are on a WinNT/2000 platform, you can run St. Bernard Open File Manager which will allow you to backup the file. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.

tape pool capacity question?

2002-02-27 Thread Coviello, Paul
HI In my tapepool I have the following. could someone please explain if they could how do I utilize only 11% and have most of my tapes as Full (90+ in 100 tape library) and have an overflow location. thanks Paul Name: TAPEPOOL Pooltype: PRIMA

Re: tape pool capacity question?

2002-02-27 Thread Kelly Lipp
Your maxscratch tapes are calculated in this. I see you have 1000. I'm sure you're not using 1000 tapes at high utilization. Lower maxscratch and the utilization percentage will go up. Initially, tape pool capacity will be maxscratch * capacity per tape. So if you are using AIT2, it would be

Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
Thought I would throw an idea I had for a TSM feature out on the listserv and get some thoughts no whether this would be useful or not. The feature that I would like to see is the ability to create a special disk storage pool, that would only migrate inactive versions of backup objects to the nex

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Joe Cascanette
So you are saying to separate the active/inactive versions from the tapes? -Original Message- From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Idea for a TSM feature Thought I would throw an idea I had for a TSM f

Re: tape pool capacity question?

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Denier
> In my tapepool I have the following. could someone please explain > if they could how do I utilize only 11% and have most of my tapes as > Full (90+ in 100 tape library) and have an overflow location. [Material deleted] > Maxscratch: 1000 The nominal capacity of tape sto

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
>So you are saying to separate the active/inactive versions from the tapes? That would be the net effect for files that were sent to this special disk storage pool. Only inactive versions would be on the next storage pools. However tape backup storage pools would still have both active/inactiv

Re: Spontaneous management class rebinding - how to resolve?

2002-02-27 Thread Kent Monthei
Andy, thanks for the clarification. One follow-up Q: If from the outset, we had made a habit of setting 'DIRMC' for every node via a Client Option Set, would that have prevented the unexpected rebinding ? -rsvp, thanks Kent Monthei GlaxoSmithKline "Andrew Raibeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Cowen
I am sure others will reply, but why not use large cached primary disk pools? If you need to, define a separate pool for each "important" client, large enough to hold a "full" backup. That way, all the active files will usually be in the pool. (Exceptions will break this, eg a big file that chang

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Yes, I posed a similar question a month or so ago, My idea was to add a switch to migration that would migrate only inactive files. This way you could restore an entire server using multiple sessions, without needing to use collocation or worry about tape contention. -Original Message-

Re: Spontaneous management class rebinding - how to resolve?

2002-02-27 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Yes, since DIRMC overrides the default TSM behavior. However, you need to be very careful about using DIRMC; in particular, you should always be sure that the management class pointed to by DIRMC has the highest RETONLY setting. Not a big deal to figure out today, but something to keep in mind tom

Re: mailbox.pst

2002-02-27 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Yes you can, in certain case. I have about 1000 PC as TSM Client. Backup run during the day (between 08:00 AM and 08:00 PM). We have a specific management rule for PST (Only once a week). We are able to backup PST File (On Win9x, NT, 2K Client and with Office9x, 2000, XP). It doesn't works each ti

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Alex Paschal
Yes, but one thing to keep in mind is that most people would also want to keep the "Last Version" also, even if it is inactive. The reason is that if someone deletes a file, the next day it would be inactive, but those are files that are often requested for restore. Alex Paschal Storage Administ

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
With current/future tape technology the most important thing for performance is to be able to stream data to and from the tape drive. Certain TSM operations stream data to tape really well (migration). Due to the granularity of TSM (file level) retreiving data from tape is normally not streamed.

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Joe Cascanette
However what would happen if you were on a DR and you needed to perform a Point in Time restore. Keeping only the active files would not necessary be the right ones. Joe -Original Message- From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:05 PM To: [E

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
As long as it is a onesy/twosy type operation, going to tape does not incur a large performance penalty, so restores of the 'Last Version' would not in my opinion, as it relates to this feature, be that critical. This feature would be more geared toward operations that typically require a lot of

was Re: TSM scheduler dies now HSM kills scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread George Lesho
Good tip! FYI... Noticed that I was getting the following error... I had been getting this error since installing the new server code a few months ago (went from 3.7.3.6 to 4.1.4.5): 02/25/02 22:00:04 ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel from the user program. Since the prob

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2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
As long as it is a onesy/twosy type operation, going to tape does not incur a large performance penalty, so restores of the 'Last Version' would not in my opinion, as it relates to this feature, be that critical. This feature would be more geared toward operations that typically require a lot of

Mysterious expiration

2002-02-27 Thread Ron L. James
Ok, any and all ideas on this would be appreciated. Originally we had a Sun client in a policy domain with a default mgt class called "standard" with Ver exist = Ver delete = 30 Ret Ver = 180 Ret Only = 180 (management finally realized this was a bit excessive for a database and agreed to

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread James Thompson
Disaster recovery would be unaffected by this feature. You would still perform a backup copy group of this disk storage pool and the next storage pool. Your disaster recovery tapes would be from the backup storage pool. The backup copygroup would contain the full set of active/inactive versions.

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
Yes, The setup would be Backups go to Primary Disk. When migration runs, only inactive versions would migrate to Primary tape. (And of course both disk and tapes would be backed up to a copy pool.) -Original Message- From: Alex Paschal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, Februa

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread George Lesho
Hope you folks don't have a disaster and lose your disks... How would DRM work with active files all held on disk? I guess you could copy the active files to your copy pool(s) to get the stuff offsite rather than migrate to a primary pool. I sure wouldn't want to tell the folks I work for that we

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
>The feature that I would like to see is the ability to create a special disk > storage pool, that would only migrate inactive versions of backup objects to > the next storage pool. This would keep all the active versions on disk > storage. > > I'm sure everyone has certain nodes(systems) that ar

Re: mailbox.pst

2002-02-27 Thread Kelly Lipp
Yes, the certain case being that Outlook isn't running. Yes, over time, perhaps, you will get a copy of the .pst file. But you can't guarantee it. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
The system works exactly as it does now. Data goes to disk, then migrates to tape. Both disk and tape pools are backed up to copy pools. The only difference is that when you migrate, Instead of migrating the largest file spaces, you migrate only the inactive files. We have migration delay where we

joe.f. is signing off!! thank you thank you...!

2002-02-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
I have just 3 weeks left of my 17 years here a UC Berkeley and then I will be running out my vacation time until I qualify to retire at 50. And so I say "So long!" I'm taking some time off and don't know if I'll be returning to do computer work. Lately I've been practicing: "Would y

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
You would still retain a primary tape pool. The inactive files would migrate from the primary diskpool to the primary tape pool. Your Point in time would probably draw most of the files from the Diskpool, and the inactive files from the tape pool. -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette

Re: AFS-clients

2002-02-27 Thread Luke Dahl
Are you trying to backup an afs server or the afs drive on a system? Luke brian welsh wrote: > Hello, > > We are looking to backup a RS/6000 server with JFS and AFS filesystems. > Do you have to install the AFS client besides the standard AIX client? Or > can you use the standard AIX client and

Re: TSM scheduler dies

2002-02-27 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Just say ksh nohup dsmc sched -password=stu >/dev/null 2>&1 & exit It should work. Balanand -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM scheduler dies Look in your dsmsched.log and dsmer

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2002-02-27 Thread Christian Astuni
Hi ... folks !! I have a question. Is possible perform a backup whit TSM for the Unix clients as is the mksysb in AIX ? Thank you very much Regards

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Cowen
> -Original Message- > From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Idea for a TSM feature ... > This would not break anything with TSM. It is really simple > to get in a state where your disk pool has

sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Any help would be greatly appreciated... ENVIRONMENT client: 4.2.1.2 NT4 sp5 server: 4.1.3 S390 TDP for Exchange version 2.2 I'm trying to install TDP for Exchange Scheduler. By all accounts, it installs successfully. However, when I start the scheduler, I get the following errror in the d

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Joe, If PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is not specified in the dsm.opt file, then the TSM password needs to be specified on the tdpexcc command. To specify the password, use the /tsmpassword parameter in the command file being run by the scheduler (excincr.cmd). You can also specify the password on the

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2002-02-27 Thread David Longo
No, the TSM backup is not the same as AIX mksysb. It can not be used to reload a crashed machine as mksysb, unless you also have some 3rd party software like Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group, and that requires some additional hardware (servers) etc. Same for other Unix machines - doesn't

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Rushforth, Tim
The readme for the win32 client states: When starting/installing the TSM Scheduler Service, you will get an error message in the dsierror.log that states: sessOpen: error 137 from signon authentication This message can be ignored. Are you experiencing any problems besides this messa

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Del Hoobler
> ENVIRONMENT > client: 4.2.1.2 NT4 sp5 > server: 4.1.3 S390 > TDP for Exchange version 2.2 > > I'm trying to install TDP for Exchange Scheduler. > By all accounts, it installs successfully. However, when I > start the scheduler, I get the following errror in the dsierror.log. > > sessOpen: Err

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Tim, Thanks... actually, the only other problem is that my sched stays in a pending state until I stop and start the scheduler. Regards, Joe -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Del, Thanks, I did, and as Tim stated, I can ignore the error message if it's the only one I recieve. (and it is). However, I still have to stop and start the "TDP for Exchange Scheduler", otherwise my scheduled job hangs in a pending state. Any ideas? Regards, Joe -Original Message

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Kyle Sparger
Right now, AFAIK, there's no way to influence how Tivoli makes decisions about which files to remove from the migrated file cache -- I think adding ways to influence those decisions would probably be better than to add a 'special' disk storage pool type. The ability to say "Okay, if there's a sho

Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Are you running schedmode prompted or polling? Is this an immediate client action or a scheduled operation. How long does it stay in a pending state? I've seen "Immediate" client actions taking a while - state shows pending for a while ... -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\M

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Joseph Seigh
Quoting Remco Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The problem is that if for example you have 1000 clients scheduled to > > backup during an 8 hour window, it would be nice to know which clients > > have non functioning scheduler daemons at the beginning of the window > > rather than at the end of the w

Re: TSM with 3rd party scheduler

2002-02-27 Thread Robert Clark
If all hosts are setup for polling, and the default checkin period is 12 hours, then you could do something like: a) Show me all hosts that have checked in for the last 24 hours. b) Show me all hosts that have checked in for the last 13 hours. Any host in "a" but not in "b", has missed at least

Mutiple TDP for SQL stripes

2002-02-27 Thread Neil Schofield
I've been trying to optimise the way we do our TDP for SQL backups but have hit a snag when attempting to use multiple stripes. Specifying a /STIPES value of greater than one works on all my clients except for one, which just happens to be a clustered SQL Server. I get the same error through the

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Seay, Paul
OK, I understand the requirement, but I doubt many people would use it because it essentially requires a duplicate copy of your used disk space on each client that is involved. Run this select. It will give you an answer in MB of the space required to do what you are asking. You can add where o