Re: What to do with a volume that won't ITSM mount in a 3570library?

2002-04-23 Thread Petur Ey?orsson
Dear mr Ken Sedlacek I reccomend you mak the tape destroyed. You can still try to get data from it. But the you can recreate the data on it whit the Restore Stg command. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Prof

Re: a client could not backup?

2002-04-23 Thread Petur Ey?orsson
what version of server do you have? what version of client are you using? on what platforms are the server and the client? Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EM

Remote Tape Library

2002-04-23 Thread Sharif, Munir Arshad
Hi TSMers, Does anyone has experience with DWDM with SAN switches, we want to extend our SAN using IP. We have Gigabit Ethernet connection between sites. The idea is to configure remote tape library for TSM as local device. Thanks, Arshad

Re: Error on SAP redologs backup

2002-04-23 Thread Tomás Hrouda
Many thanks Stefano. Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ProtoTipo srl Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rif: Error on SAP redologs backup Your log reports the following error: BR372E File L:\or

Re: ADSM 3.1 - really need some assistance

2002-04-23 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Stuart! I would delete the database F:\ADSM_SERVER\DB\DB5.DSM from TSM. Now you can run your disk check utilities on drive F:. If no disk errors are found you can add the volume to TSM again. TSM will automatically sync the database volume with E:\ADSM_SERVER\DB\DB5COPY.DSM and you are back in

Re: a client could not backup?

2002-04-23 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Julie! I'm pretty sure it's a security issue on the specific drive's root. Check for which drive this error is reported. Is you scheduler using the SYSTEM account? Than is most likely that the SYSTEM account has no access on the drive's root. So, if it's drive c: that can't be backed up, check

Re: a client could not backup?

2002-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
Julie, Win32 Return Code 123 means 'The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect'. If this is happening at the start of the backup I would guess that the current partition doesn't have a label - this was an issue with ADSM v3 windows clients - you have to label the volume bef

Logmode rollforward and incr/full dbbackups

2002-04-23 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Hi TSM'ers Does anyone know the difference between a full DB backup and an incremental DB backup while running in rollforward mode? Currently, I can't see why they are different.. A full DB backup will clear the log in rollforward mode and any changes from that point onward are recorded as tra

Re: expiring object

2002-04-23 Thread Del Hoobler
> Our client version is 1.1.2. > > The command: DOMDSMC QUERY DBB * /SUBDIR=YES" shows all the file with subdir > that have been backed up. But only one version is shown. > > I'm not sure how to use the Show version command ? where do i use it I'm > not familiar with command line... Michael,

Re: expiring object

2002-04-23 Thread Regelin Michael (CHA)
Thanks Del, the show version command was very helpful. It show that many files are bound to a managment class that I did not specified. In this case, it is the MC Default that is shown for the most part. But analysing the .OPT file, I'm using the good MC. Maybe the syntax of the command is not c

Re: Logmode rollforward and incr/full dbbackups

2002-04-23 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Just to clarify, I understand that the incremntal backup under rollforward mode does not save the complete DB as a full backup does; What I don't understand is why the incremental does not clear the log. Matt. -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew James Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1

Slow restores

2002-04-23 Thread Wieslaw Markowiak/Kra/ComputerLand/PL
Hi, After issuing node restore command my library spends a lot of time seeking for something on tape. The actual restore takes comparatively little time. Can anybody explain me what is happening? And is it possible to shorten the "seeking" period? Thank you for your help in advance - Wieslaw

Re: Slow restores

2002-04-23 Thread Edgardo Moso
What environement? tsm server ? client? From: Wieslaw Markowiak/Kra/ComputerLand/PL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/23/2002 08:44 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Slow restores Hi, After issuing node restore comma

TDP Oracle on Linux (was AIX 5.1)

2002-04-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Now then, how about a TDP for Oracle on Linux We have been running Oracle on a RH Linux box, for a long time. It is supported by Oracle ! Neil Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/22/2002 04:17 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist S

Re: Slow restores

2002-04-23 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Wieslaw! It would help if you provide use some more info, like what kind of tape are you using? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Wieslaw Markowiak/Kra/ComputerLand/PL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 14:44 To: [EM

experience of upgrading to 5.1?

2002-04-23 Thread Wu, Jie
Has anybody upgraded to version 5.1? I plan to do so soon, but would like to first hear your experience about the upgrading and the product. Thanks. Jie

Re: expiring object

2002-04-23 Thread Del Hoobler
Mike, INCLUDE is a little different for TDP for Domino than it is for the BA client. That is because there are the two objects that make up one TDP for Domino backup. (There is a "XXX.NSF" and a "XXX.NSF.DATA" object.) We document this pretty well in the sample options file as well as the User's

Re: Logmode rollforward and incr/full dbbackups

2002-04-23 Thread Paul Zarnowski
In logmode=rollforward: A full DB backup will backup the entire database, plus anything in the log. An incr DB backup will only backup the log. The logutil may not drop immediately after a DB backup, if there are in-flight transactions that have not yet completed. The logutil will drop further af

Re: Slow restores

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Cox
Wieslaw, A typical reason for long search times is a high reclaimation value and no colocation. If you have a lot of servers, this can really fragment the data across the volumes Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of

Re: expiring object

2002-04-23 Thread Regelin Michael (CHA)
Hi Del, I thought I had to include *.nsf.data only if i had made a exclude of the hole directory Witch is not the case. Isn't it correct ? Example: Exclude mail\* Include mail\user1.nsf include mail\user1.nsf.DATA >

Re: experience of upgrading to 5.1?

2002-04-23 Thread Bill Smoldt
We've upgraded some of the lab machines and one production server. Upgrade was completely flawless and has been painless so far. We're still beating it up. We've verified that our STORServer Manager works against V5.1and there have been no compatibility issues, so the engineers maintained good

Re: ADSM 3.1 - really need some assistance

2002-04-23 Thread Prather, Wanda
As I remember the original message, you have one "bad" primary DB volume, and TSM is running on the mirror. I believe the way to "fix" it, is to break the mirror, which you do by deleting the bad volume. ("deleting" just disconnects the volume from TSM, it doesn't physically remove it from the fi

Re: Remote Tape Library

2002-04-23 Thread Rolf Meyer
Hello we use a Magstar tape library at remote location since nearly two years without any problems. Fiber channel connection is via a DWDM, which is used also for several network and ESCON connections. Config is: local TSM server with 100/1000 MBit network to TSM clients and two FC to two Brocad

Re: expiring object

2002-04-23 Thread Del Hoobler
> I thought I had to include *.nsf.data only if i had made a exclude of the > hole directory Witch is not the case. > Isn't it correct ? Michael, In your example, you are correct. But in your example, you are simply using the INCLUDE statement to specify whether to include a file for backup

tdp-oracle

2002-04-23 Thread Johnson, Reginald (ECCS)
I see in the guide for tdp for oracle that is recommended that tdp have its own separate domain. Within this domain there is copy group with verdeleted=0 and retonly=0. Can someone explain why it is recommended to have its own separate domain. Reggie

ANS1312E

2002-04-23 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello! I was notified that a server's file backup that was going directly to tape was getting the following error messages: Node Name: CHSU087 Session established with server ADSMB: MVS Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.0 Server date/time: 04/22/02 20:46:23 Last access: 04/22/02

5.1 client and Java Run time issues?

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Kirkman
I'm probably going to open an ETR on this but wanted to see if anyone else was familiar with this scenario. We're testing the 5.1 client (Netware in this case). Using the Netscape (either 4.7 or 6) browser things seem to work fine. The 6.0 browser has the JRE plug-in built in, and 4.7 handles the

Backing up clients from DMZ on TSM server inside the firewall

2002-04-23 Thread Makkar, Jas
We are trying to develop an approach to backup the clients who are in the DMZ via TSM server sitting inside the firewall. Please comment on the following strategy: To backup the Clients in DMZ from TSM Lib located within the Intranet, install the TSM client on the Client in DMZ and open a port

Re: ANS1312E

2002-04-23 Thread Brenda Collins
It's possible you are just out of scratch tapes in that particular storage pool. Brenda "Joni Moyer" cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: ANS1312E Dist Stor Manager"

Re: Backing up clients from DMZ on TSM server inside the firewall

2002-04-23 Thread Robert Clark
NAT the TSM server address so that it appears to be in the DMZ. That way if you need to change the layout of the LAN outside of the DMZ, you don't have as many firewall rules to change. Has anyone seen a document that describes exactly what ports the TSM client needs to use for a backup session?

Re: Backing up clients from DMZ on TSM server inside the firewall

2002-04-23 Thread Adamson, Matt
All I did was point the DMZ server to the TSM server inside the firewall by IP address. Then had the firewall guru's open up port 1500 for me allowing traffic both ways -Original Message- From: Robert Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: ANS1312E

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Sporer
Joni, I would do a Q volume * access=unav to see if you have any tapes marked unavailable. If so change them to read/write and try the backup again. Jim Sporer At 01:26 PM 4/23/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hello! > >I was notified that a server's file backup that was going directly to tape >was getti

archive problem - what am I missing

2002-04-23 Thread George Lesho
TSMers: All AIX 433 TSM 4.1.4.5 server 4.1.3 client I put together a script to do a full archive of our production servers and am testing currently on a development box/client. The intent of the script is to archive all JFS file systems less the root FS. #!/bin/ksh chmod 755 /tmp/FS > /tmp/FS

3583 with San Data Gateway

2002-04-23 Thread John
TSM'ers I need help I am trying to configure the above on an Xseries box running Win2K advanced server. All the correct drivers have been used and all the components are at the correct firmware levels. All devices in the solution are connected to a 2109 S16 The problems I have encountered are

Re: archive problem - what am I missing

2002-04-23 Thread Andrew Carlson
I know you probably checked this, but we just had a problem like this - slow backup, long idletimes. It was on Netware, but I have also seen it on AIX. Our problem was a mismatch in duplex - the switch thought it was half, and the box thought it was full. Try doing an FTP between the AIX box an

Re: ADSM 3.1 - really need some assistance

2002-04-23 Thread Ward, Stuart
Thanks to all for their help. Broke mirror - deleted file from hard disk - recreated volume outside of ADSM - re-mirrored. All seems well and it has passed the failure page in the DB backup without incident. For reference in the future and out of interest, did I really not need to delete the fi

Re: 3583 with San Data Gateway

2002-04-23 Thread Anthony Wong
>>1. The windows device manager always shows an exclamation mark next to the SDG (Will not properly recognise it or configure it). This is normal as long as you can see SCSI device attached to that SDG . >>2. When trying to configure the drives and library into TSM, it will not work using the W

Expiring specific files

2002-04-23 Thread Todd Lundstedt
I have a bunch of files that have been backed up in one directory on this node that we no longer need to keep. These files all have unique names, but share the extension of .prt. There is a very large number of inactive versions (simply because these are temporary files that get deleted each day

Re: Expiring specific files

2002-04-23 Thread David Longo
If this was a unix platform AND the files are the ONLY thing in a filesystem (filespace) then just use DELETE FILESPACE on the TSM server would be simplest way. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/23/02 04:32PM >>> I have a bunch of files that have been backed up in one directory on this node

HACMP and password-file

2002-04-23 Thread brian welsh
Hello, Server AIX 4.3.3, TSM-server 4.1.1.0 and client AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 4.1.x We have some problems with two clients using HACMP. On both clients there is a TSM-client. We use Password Access Generate. When there is a fail-over, the password-file in /etc/security/adsm is deleted and the client

Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups

2002-04-23 Thread Jon Adams
Title: Message Here's an interesting one for us: periodically, a client will "decide" to perform a full backup during a scheduled incremental, regardless of existing file spaces or status of the client files or options in any way, shape or form.  Does anyone know of any setting or issue that wou

Re: Expiring specific files

2002-04-23 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Nope.. sorry .. I didn't include any specific info.. TSM Server 4.2.1.7 running on AIX 433 the node in question is Netware 4.11 running TSM B/A Client for Netware 4.1.3.0. It is an application and fileserver, so no, there is a LOT more stuff on this filespace than just the files I want to expire o

[no subject]

2002-04-23 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
If you truly want to snapshot your current data on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis, the current-release recommended solution would be "generate backupset" -- which, at least, avoids re-sending the data across the LAN. Alternatively, Unix has image backup capability, and 5.1 will have it for Win2K. E

Subfile backup - extra files in subfilecachepath

2002-04-23 Thread Rushforth, Tim
I'm just starting to test out subfile backup... My include is include.subfile d:\data\outlook\*.pst This directory contains only one file. There are no other include.subfile (q inclexcl shows no others). On an incremental of just the directory above, the subfilesache directory contains 3 files

File systems skipped with Sun Solaris 2.5.1 running TSM client 3.1.0.8 with OS/390 TSM Server 4.2.1.9

2002-04-23 Thread Nancy R. Brizuela
Hello All, We have a backup client running on Sun Solaris 2.5.1 with TSM client 3.1.0.8. Our server is running on OS/390 V 2.6 with TSM server 4.2.1.9. Some of the time, the backups for this client are successful. It is occasionally and randomly missing entire file systems, though. The backup

Replacing the drive where the db1.dsm volume

2002-04-23 Thread Scott Foley
I am replacing Windows 2000 drives where the TSM database, log and disk pool information is. My current configuration is as follows: c:\ tivoli E:\ database and log volumes F:\ database and log mirroring G:\ stgpool I also have the new drives available and labeled as: H:\ I:\ J:\ It does not s

Re: Slow restores

2002-04-23 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Another huge contributor to this phenomenon is failure to use DIRMC on disk (and FILE on disk for sequential migration/reclamation) storage pools. A lot of servers and a lot of objects (more common with Windows these days) need all the help they can get; keeping directories on disk (using DIRMC

Re: TDP for NDMP

2002-04-23 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
You've just about gottit all. There is some concern about this whole thing; currently, you are limited to image backups using NDMP; if you want file-level granularity, you must use NFS mount to access the file system from a supported b/a-client... not as pretty as you'd like, but that's the way

Re: Logical volume Snapshot, to enable 'online' image backups.

2002-04-23 Thread Don France (TSMnews)
Petur, You will need v5 server, as well as client; there are other limitations -- see the post from Anthony Wong, and go RTFM... they are now posted at http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManage rforWindows5.1.html Have fun! - Original Message - From

Re: Remote Tape Library

2002-04-23 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Arshad, Yes, I'm doing it using IBM 2042 (InRange FC/9000's) at either end with InRange GigaMuxxes (DWDM's) at either end. The G'muxxes are set up with (1) channel for SAN traffic, (1) for GB/ethernet and (1) for ESCON for the local and remote Sharks. Do you *have* to use IP to extend your SAN?

unix trigger for TSM Server processes?

2002-04-23 Thread Glass, Peter
What is the best way to have unix trigger a TSM backup storagepool process? We need to start this process immediately upon completion of a client's DB2 backup. We can't very well schedule this, because the completion time of the backup varies widely, from one backup to the next. We can afford to b

Re: unix trigger for TSM Server processes?

2002-04-23 Thread Seay, Paul
I have semi-solved this problem. I have placed the dsmadmc command in a execute only script file. The key is automatically changing the password often in case it gets exposed. So, I wrote a script that creates random passwords and changes the password often. I run this script under root or a u

Re: File systems skipped with Sun Solaris 2.5.1 running TSM clien t 3.1.0.8 with OS/390 TSM Server 4.2.1.9

2002-04-23 Thread Seay, Paul
The out of memory condition looks like a successful backup, but it really is not. How much memory is on the Solaris machine and how many files does the largest filesystem tree path have? Unfortunately, there were some memory leaks fixed in later releases of TSM that may apply all the way back to

Re: a client could not backup?

2002-04-23 Thread Julie Xu
Sorry, forgot explain properly. At 08:04 AM 4/23/02 -, you wrote: >what version of server do you have? Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.3 >what version of client are you using? Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.0 > >on what platforms are the server and the client? > Server: SP2 system /AIX 4.2.1

Re: Expiring specific files

2002-04-23 Thread Steve Harris
Todd, I just had this problem with a bunch of oracle archive files that had been placed into the wrong directory and so had picked up the default retention (retonly 365) instead of the oracle one (retonly 35). Your suggested approach will work fine for active files, which will be rebound, but

Re: TDP for NDMP

2002-04-23 Thread Gerald Wichmann
Well that doesn't bode well for Tivoli's plans for future NDMP functionality =) Other then the obvious advantage of sending the data directly to tape vs across a network (twice since it's nfs mounted), are there any advantages to using the TDP for NDMP? I mean if it's an "image" backup essential

Re: TDP for NDMP

2002-04-23 Thread Thomas A. La Porte
We are definitely anxious to see file-level granularity. This (NDMP support) is something that Legato has had for well over a year now, so TSM is a bit behind in its support. Given the success of Network Appliance, I would think that there is becoming a large enough user base that is interested in

Re: unix trigger for TSM Server processes?

2002-04-23 Thread Roger Deschner
I go one step farther, in never storing the password itself on disk, but instead storing an encrypted form of it. The key is stored in a separate location. The script decrypts it each time it uses it, and never stores it. When I change the password, I change the key too. It's kind of like requirin

LTO and backupsets, slow restore

2002-04-23 Thread Radoslav Bendik
Hello, I have a problem with very slow restores from bakupsets from LTO tape (200kB/s). Also import node runs very slowly (export node has generated 50G within 1 hour; less then 2G has been imported after 4 hours). Exports and backupset generation is fast. Is this normal behavior? Or there are s

Re: Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups

2002-04-23 Thread Reinhard Mersch
Does "full backup" mean that all files are backed up? I have seen this on several occasions: - due to the DST error in some client versions (see APAR IC28544), - when the client's admin changed the ACLs on all files on the client, - when a filespace was renamed on the client, - ... I do not t

Please help ......

2002-04-23 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi We had a Netware 5 client tivoli 4.2.1.29 working fine till two weeks ago . Now every backup it perform is a full backup but my scheduler command is incremental ? The only changes we made is to install Norton Antivirus instead Macfee. The backup is schedule at 22:00 and the Norton Anti