DB2 restore takes long

Hi TSMers, Could some please assist me. I did a restore yesterday, started it 8:13am and it only completed at 21:04 pm. This for the environment that we work with it is unacceptable in terms of response. My client - node is as follows:_ TSM 4.2 DB2 7.2 SAP R3 4.6c Database size is : 48gigs What c

Re: Licensing

Managed Libraries - when TSM backup to a large library (exm. LTO library up to 40 slots and/or 3 drives u do not need this license above u need !, u can see the supported library in the web and indication if u need this license for a particular library or not !) Library Sharing - when u connect T

Re: DB2 restore takes long

Hi Lindy , We have SAP R3 4.B with DB2 database running on aix 4.3.3 and we had similar problem about 1.5 years ago. our db2 size was 120 GB and when we started database restore its took nearly 12 hours to create db2 conteiners and 4 hours to restore them. after that we have moved filesystem co

Re: Win2k system state restore

Jim, Thanks for that. But... A lookup in the tivoli/support/knowledgebase/ for apar ic34015 returns 0 records. Nor is it documented in the readmes for the 4.2 or 5.1 client in "maintenance" or "patches" at boulder. It would seem that this apar is not publically available. regards, -=Dave

Re: Simple Archiving question

Hi ??SMers (Thanks for the reply David) It seems odd to me that the data is not taken from the server. Wouldn't this be a much quicker option? Anyone know why it works this way? Also, I'm running TSM 3.7.3.8 (I know it's old, but Tectrade are coming in a few weeks to bring us bang up to date) on

Antwort: Re: Storageworks / AIX / TSM

Hi, is that a Compaq ( Cambex) HBA or an IBM HBA? There are problems with the driver for AIX with a Compaq HBA we found. Although stated, the driver didn't support fabric connections, only AL and PtP. Our environment was AIX 4.3.3 Compaq HBA and Compaq SAN, trying to do LAN free backup, which fail

Bad performance from tape to tape

Hi All, I have a performance problem when doing Space-Reclaamtion, or backup storage pool, when TSM is copying data from one tape drive to the other. Environment: Windows 2K server, TSM 4.2.1.15. Library, Compaq MSL5026, with 2 SDLT drives (Single Module Library). SCSI Controller, Compaq 64-bit/66

Re: Simple Archiving question

Farren, BACKUPSETS take an image from the files the server currently has active for that client. You could use the -del option on the archive command ** Deletefiles Use the deletefiles option with the archive command to del

Antwort: Re: Simple Archiving question

Hi Farren, archived data won't be automatically deleted from your client. Use the option -deletefiles to delete files after an archive operation. Example: archive -deletefiles -subdir=yes "/wispers/home/fred*" MfG Sascha Bräuning Sparkassen Informatik, Fellbach OrgEinheit: 6322 Wilhelm-Pfit

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

Hello, this is obviously a known problem. See the discussion a few days earlier with subject " Expiration problem with TSM 5.1.1.1 on AIX 4.3.3". I opened PMR 88563,070,724 on July 31st. First I was advised to upgrade to 5.1.1.2. This didn't change anything. Then I had to supply diagnostic informa

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

Uh oh, I just went from 4.1.5 to 5.1.1 Monday, z/OS 1.1. This morning I am looking at my EXPIRATION process was hung and a backup of local tape to the copytape is hung and it all started with very similar message.. Matt ANR0538I A resource waiter has been aborted. ANR0538I A resource waiter

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

4.2.2.x servers on AIX are exhibiting the same problems, along with numerous others. Oddly enough, our 4.2.1.15 Solaris servers seem to be operating relatively smoothly. Note that I said "relatively" and they all have very small DB. We have an open crit-sit with IBM/Tivoli on an AIX 4.2.2.x serve

Re: DB2 restore takes long

Hi Just as a matter of interest, how does rawdevices containers work??? With your db backups, do you do weekly and monthly backups , daily etc and what type of retention periods do use for these .. Do you also have offsite copies of these backups and how do you do them at present.?? Thank

Re: DB2 restore takes long

If you have accounting turned on, look at the accounting log to see whether the time was spent mostly in: --idle wait (client creating files is slower than client reading them!) --media wait (was client data scattered over 30 tapes?) --comm wait (was network slow then?) It'

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

I had the same problem after upgrading from 3.74 tp 5.11 on AIX 4.3. The fix is to change the resource time out in the TSM server's dsmserv.opt file to 60 the default is 10. Hope this helps you out. Senior TSM consultant Richard Menides -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailt

More on mount points

Can anyone give me any help on the mountpoint problem I posted earlier? >>I turned on collocation last week and now I am getting this message: >> >>ANR1082W Space reclamation terminated for volume 4A0023 - insufficient number of mount points >>available for removable media. >> >>I looked up the e

Re: 5.1.1 Windows 2000 scheduler won't start

Thanks Eliza. I am in the same boat as Tab, I have experienced it intermittently, but haven't reported it because we rarely boot our W2K servers. If you have the time, and think about it, let us know the APAR number assigned. Thanks, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech D

Re: Win2k system state restore

I found it on IBMlink. Here's the apar text: ERROR DESCRIPTION: TSM Client on Windows 2000 incorrectly restores the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum This key is specified in the registry under KeysNotToRestore, and according to Microsoft article Q249694,

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

Richard, I have 4.2.1.10 server. Checked and my RESOURCETIMEOUT is set to 10. Looked at manuals and see this is a new option with 4.2. There is only a small paragraph about this. What RESOURCES is this talking about and what are the implications of changing? It's probably not tape mounts as

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

The default changed from 10 minutes to 60 minutes with TSM 5.1. Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -Origina

Upgrading TSM from 3.7.x to 5.1.xx

Hello all of You! I'm about to do an upgrade of TSM from version 3.7.x to version 5.1.x I know that upgrading from 3.7 to 4.1 required running a special tool called tsmfixup.cmd. Are there any consideration like these or other things I have to be aware of? Any help highly appreciated! Best Rega

Re: More on mount points

David, Enter command: QUERY STGPOOL NAME_OF_YOUR_COLOCATIONDISKPOOL F=D In the response look for "Migration Processes: ?" If ? greater than 1, reduce to suit, depending on how many tape drives you have available. Example: UPDATE STGPOOL NAME_OF_YOUR_COLOCATIONDISKPOOL MIGPROCESS=1 Rega

Re: Bad performance from tape to tape

Is the disk pool cached? I ran into a situation where the disk pool cache instead of tape was being used. This slowed my LTO drives to a crawl during certain operations. I now varyoff the disk pools before I run the process with expected results Don't forget to vary them back on at the end.. Note:

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

Just be aware of what lengthening the RESOURCETIMEOUT will do, especially if you are susceptible to "logpinned" conditions due to slow, long-running sessions. -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: W2K - BMR - using GHOST *RESOLVED*

It looks like you have to backup the system object more than once??? Here is some data from only 1 backup of the system objects. Following is the data from a second backup. Notice the size of the COMPDB, EVENTLOG, and RSM all increase! It is after the second backup that I was able to successfully

Re: DB2 restore takes long

Hi Lindy, We do online backups every Weekday and offline backup every Sunday.Every day we are running backup storage pools .All backups have 10 days retention periods.We dont keep monthly or weekly backups but every Monday in our disaster recovery center we are restoring db2 ofline backups f

TSM Client on SGI

I've installed TSM version 5.1 on an IRIX box but get the following when I tried to start it: 32052:dsm: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 'libdm.so' under any of the filenames /usr/lib32/libdm.so:/usr/lib32/internal/libdm.so:/lib32/libdm.so:/opt/lib32/ libdm.so:/us

Re: Bad performance from tape to tape

The tape-to-tape operation that is adversely affected is reclamation. If the primay location of a file is in a random access disk pool, then TSM does not 'batch' the files together. Each transaction is a single file. The primary location can be a disk sequential access pool, but not random access.

Re: TSM Client on SGI

TSM on IRIX uses the DMI (data migration interface) to performa backups and restores (and even HSM, if you're really daring), so you need the libs to DMI to be able to use is, install the eoe.sw.dmi package. The Irix client is btw very unstable, and though I personally have seen very few problems

Re: SQL timestamp not working when upgraded to 4.2.2 for summary tabl e

Hi Denis, Just for information : I tested your query on my system (4.2.2.15) and it worked like a charm (except I had to modify "Node Name" to "Node_Name") Did you apply the latest PTF's to get 4.2.2.15 ? Maybe it could help ... Good luck anyway ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

drive online=no versus path offline=no

Hello, with TSM 5.1 one has to define a path for each drive. Both, update drive and update path have an online option. Is it sufficient to set a drive offline in a single server environment? Regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel

Re: Multiple logical libraries for 3584

Gentille, Sure; shared library support in 4.2/5.1 is what you would want to exploit... full details are in the Admin. Guide. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pro

LTO Tape Status Full

Do anyone ever seen when a tape goes to status full with 0.0% used. And every time that you try to move the data out of it, it gives you an: ANR2209W Volume A00060 contains no data. And if you try to delete the volume it gives you: ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume A00060 still contains data. Any

Re: Deleting 'specific' EXPORT volumes

No, you can't pick and choose. YOu can: DELETE VOLHIST TYPE=EXPORT TODATE= etc So that you delete ONLY the EXPORT tapes and not other stuff, but you can't delete specific EXPORT tapes. On the other hand, if you delete the EXPORT tape from the VOLHIST, that won't prevent you from using the data

Re: Deleting 'specific' EXPORT volumes

Thank you s much for all the valuable information Wanda! No, I didn't know one could "manually" do any sort of DRM, and since they've already ordered DRM, I guess I don't have to mess with that headache - thank God!!. :) Have a good day; Theresa >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/02 11:03AM >>

Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to)

Hi all, Is there anyway that I can globally set all of my admin schedules to "ACTIVE=NO"? I was looking for something like a standard SQL UPDATE-SET type statement, but couldn't find anything. I want to include this in a disaster recovery script (Korn). The problem that I've run into is that s

Re: Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to)

>From the Admin command line: update sch * type=admin active=no -Original Message- From: Taylor, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to) Hi all, Is there anyway that I c

Re: Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to)

One way is to set the parameter "Disablescheds" to 'yes' in the dsmserv.opt file before restarting the TSM server. Frank Frank McClean [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Taylor, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: Deactivate ALL admin schedules? (how-to)

The DRM script includes a change to dsmserv.opt --- disablescheds yes This ensures that ALL schedules are disabled when preparing the DR site configuration. You just add to the bottom of the file, before starting the TSM server. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consult

Re: SQL timestamp not working when upgraded to 4.2.2 for summary tabl e

Hey look what I found... * $$4225 Interim fixes delivered by patch 4.2.2.5 $$Patches are cumulative, just like PTFs. So Interim fixes $$delivered as "4.2.2.5" include those delivered in previous patches *

IBM vs. Storage Tek

Hello, I know I've asked about this before, but now I have more information so I hope someone out there has done this. Here is my environment for TSM. Right now it is on the mainframe and we are using 3590 Magstars. We have a production and a test TSM server and each has about 13 drives and a t

Re: More on mount points

For each device class there is a "Mount limit", generally this is set to DRIVES, which allows that devclass to use as many drives as you have. Maybe yours is set to a specific number. Each tape pool you have, then uses a devclass and therefore is limited to using no more than that many drives.

Re: Win2k system state restore

The Tivoli Knowledge base does not have everything. IBMLINK does. You have to have a userid to look at that information. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Frost, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 5:

"FW: sql and output redirection...how to..RE: Deactivate ALL admi n sch edules? (how-to)"

retrying posting... " -Original Message- From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:37 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: sql and output redirection...how to..RE: Deactivate ALL admin sch edules? (how-to) set sqldisplaymode wide tsm: ADSM>select 'update schedul

Réf. : IBM vs. Storage Tek

Hi Joni What you wrote sums it up in terms of performance and reliability. I think the same way you do as far as LTO goes. It is very good for small enterprises and full backups. But I don't think it fits TSM very well, espacially in a large environnement like yours. Almost everyday I talk abou

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

That was my question, what will it do? What are the plus and minuses of changing it? What resources is it for? Don't have much log pin problem on this server. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/02 09:42AM >>> Just be aware of what lengthening the RESOURCETIMEOUT will do, especially if yo

SQL timestamp not working when upgraded to 4.2.2 for summary tabl e

Hello - Since I upgraded our 4.1 server to 4.2.2 my sql query against the summary table no longer works. Has anyone run into this problem before? Here's the query... /* --- Query Summary Table */ /* --- Run as a macro - */ select cast(entity as varchar(12)) as "Node Name", \ cast(ac

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Upgrade from 3590E to 3590H

Hello, everyone. Platform: IBM pSeries 6M1 OS: AIX 4.3.3.10 TSM: 5.1.1.1 Atape: 7.0.7.0 atldd: 5.0.7.0 I am getting ready to perform an upgrade from 3590E to 3590H drives in my 3494. Each of the 6-drives is directly fiber-channel attached to the TSM server. Has anyone gone through an upgrade s

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

IBM responded to my problem log saying the problem is identified with APAR IC34292 and the associated fixes should be available next week, (if there testing goes well). Maybe a little longer for us mainframers because of packaging. Matt -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailt

Re: Antwort: Web Admin Interface - grrr

Look at all the responses on this thread, and what you see is that we are all discussing ways we GET AROUND the admin web interface. That should be indication enough to the developers that the product has a problem. Telling prospective TSM customers that "oh yeah don't worry, there are plenty of

Re: Upgrading TSM from 3.7.x to 5.1.xx

Do you want to upgrade a server or a client? Regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -Original Message--

Re: Bad performance from tape to tape

Hi Bill, Reclamation is not only a tape to tape copy. The changes to the TSM database are they holding down your speed ? The amount of tape mounts, are there many ? Do the disks and the tapeunits share the same SCSI adapter ? Groet, Freek. -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[

NDS (Netware 5.x)

Hi all, wanted to know if anyone has done any retores from NDS. We have a NetWare admin that butchered the Login script from a NetWare Server under the NDS tree. I was wondering what the name of this login script would be called in NDS.Cn= Thanks Thanks, Mark Hayden Informations S

Réf. : Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

I've been running 4.2.2.6 for a few weeks on Z/OS and I haven't seen any problems. DB is a little under 10 GB. On AIX I have 3 servers running 4.2.2.8 without these problems. DBs are 500 MBs, 5 GBs and 22 GBs. The 22 GB (79% used) took 53 minutes this morning with the following report : ANR081

Sanergy

Hi Everyone, I know this is a TSM support group but I figure some of you must be using SANERGY for LanFree to disk purposesAnyway my MDC is a WINDOWS2000 system , exporting the drives with NFS MaestroMy Sanergy host is AIX 4.3.3...I was able to mount the drives on my AIX box and even write

Re: More on mount points

I had some issues with mount points not being available. I also have my mount limit set to drives. I ended up recycling my tsm server process and this cleared the situation... FYI -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:31 AM To: [

Re: Réf. : IBM vs. Storage Tek

Thank you for the input! Every bit of information helps and your experiences help me to justify going with STK's 9840 solution. Thanks Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338

Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Folks, I have a theoretical question about retaining TSM data in an unusual way. Let me explain. Lets say legal comes to you and says that we need to keep all TSM data backed up to a certain date, because of some legal investigation (NAFTA, FBI, NSA, MIB, insert your favor

recovering System Objects

When backing up a server for the first time, the System Objects are NOT completely backed up. Does anyone know why this is? Is there a way to have it all backed up on the first try? It looks like you have to backup the system object more than once??? Here is some data from only 1 backup of the s

Re: SQL timestamp not working when upgraded to 4.2.2 for summary tabl e

Yep... this issue had a lllooonnnggg discussion thread back when it first occurred -- search on the APAR number for the gory details, and there are caveats about which 5.1.? level has the fix (last I saw it was 5.1.1.5, I think)... it's in the APAR. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certif

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Well, this is an interesting "what-if" scenario for discussion! I'll take a crack at it... 1) Painful, but may be the best solution overall. 2) I don't think that will work. Turning off EXPIRE INVENTORY will prevent your tapes from reclaiming, but if you have a mgmt class set to 5 versions, I t

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

how about renaming the filespace, This will keep your active versions. -Original Message- From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Eternal Data retention brainstorming. Folks, I have

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

True, that would keep the last active versions, but in this case they want everything that was backed up to TSM as of a certain date, even the inactive versions. If I rename the filesystem, the inactive versions will still drop off as the expire inventory progresses. :-( Ben -Origina

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

We have only done this with our exchange servers (not the basic node but the data from the exchange TDP). On these systems we have three nodes base_node, base_nodeA, and base_nodeM. The base_node is for the operation system. The "A" is the current exchange node. If told to lock, we will change

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Do you use DRM and if so, do you copy all primary pools? If so, snapshot a DB backup and have your offsite people box up all your current offsite tapes plus this snapshot. Very carefully mark those boxes! Back at the TSM server, mark all these volumes as "destroyed" and let them be re-created as y

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

If they tell you the hosts/filespaces just do a rename of the existing filespaces. -Original Message- From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Eternal Data retention brainstorming. Folks, I have

Re: ANR9999 message Lock acquisition - TSM 4.2.1.15 server

>From my somewhat limited understanding of exactly what the RESOURCETIMEOUT does (and someone jump right in and correct me of I'm wrong) is that it is the "contention timer" for some resource contention situations in the DB - for example, setting the timeout to 10 minutes will purportedly only all

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

As a refinement to Wanda's final suggestion, couldn't you alter your policies for 'del volhist type=dbb' (or simply retain the current copy of your database backup exclusive of the volume history), and then modify your storage pool's reusedelay parameter appropriately? The drawback that I see is

Re: Bad performance from tape to tape

The original poster said his disk pool had CACHE=YES turned on. So for a time a backed up file could reside in 3-different placesdisk pool cache..onsite tape..offsite tape. Normally when you think of reclamation it is a tape-to-tape process, so I/we were generalizing. The problems is that whe

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Wanda, Thanks for the input. The last suggestion of starting over had crossed my mind, but I forgot to include it in my list. I guess the reason I left it out was that with 800 clients, (some of them large) and with HSM in place, starting from scratch would be difficult. Then, the

Upgrades TSM/AIX

Questions relating to TSM and AIX upgrades. I was running AIX 4.3.3 TSM 5.1.1.1 as of yesterday. This morning I upgraded atape and atldd drivers then AIX to V5 (migrate install). The system restarted and everything came up except the 2 tape drives in TSM. I removed the paths and then added them b

Re: LTO Tape Status Full

Camilo, You can delete this volume by using Move data A00060 Jason Liang - Original Message - From: "Camilo A. Marrugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: LTO Tape Status Full > Do anyone ever seen when a tape goes to status

Re: LTO Tape Status Full

Nope, that's not going to work, it will still error out. This has been discussed recently in this forum and you should be able to find a solution in the archives located at http://adsm.org To give you a head start, it's a "audit vol.. fix=yes" command. Ben -Original

Re: NDS (Netware 5.x)

Mark, The login script is not held in NDS as a separate object it is part of the .OU object. Restoring the .OU will bring it back. This is not something you want todo in a production environment. If you have an isolated test/lab environment at your facility you could easily mock up an NDS tree

Re: LTO Tape Status Full

Camilo, If the "move data" doesn't work, you can use the following: 1. If the volume is on offsite , update vol volume_name access=readw 2. audit vol volume_name fix=y 3. del vol volume_name discard=y Jason Liang - Original Message - From: "Jason Liang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

Upgrades AIX/TSM Error

Well I take back the part that I said everything seems to be working. Since the first system restart the TSM server and the scheduler service will not start when the system restarts. I can start them manually and the server does some up so that seems strange to me. Luckily this is my test system.

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

I would have to agree that the export node is probably the best overall method. Negatives: Tape requirements would grow at a huge factor. There is no commingling of systems. Even if you have servers with an archive name and a backup name each name would have to be exported separately. They can t

Re: LTO Tape Status Full

O.K. it worked. Basically I had to halt tsm and started up with the following options: nomigrrecl disablescheds yes expinterzal 0 because as soon as I tried to do the "audit volume" command on that specific volume, I got some error saying that there was a space reclamation already running for it

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Ben, I've had to do "permanent" retention only twice so far. The first time we did the "keep forever" change to the management class associated with our Lotus Notes files. As predicted, data and tape usage grew unbounded. That helped us decide to migrate from 3570 technology to LTO. After tha

Re: IBM vs. Storage Tek

Dump the TSM SERVER on SUN idea.. SUN"s are not as stable as RS6000's.

volume range labeling in non-barcode jukebox

Hello, I have a HP1200ex optical jukebox that does not have a barcode reader. I'm using "label libv lib.optical.01 search=yes labels=prompt checkin=scr" to label the medias in this jukebox. Is there a way to label medias in this jukebox without having to manually type in the label each time? i

Re: drive online=no versus path offline=no

Yep... the only change (for simple, single server access environments) is that you must DEFINE PATH in order to convey the device special file address to the TSM server... the DEFINE LIBRary and DEFine DRive no longer accept the device parameter. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified

Re: IBM vs. Storage Tek

I am still trying to collect contacts for some of the STK sites; I am aware of about six customers switching "TO" 9940 (with SN6000) from something else - one is replacing their 3590 with 9940's (not LTO). Changing from 3590 to LTO is definitely a step "backward" in reliability; performance is a

Re: Easiest way to do a command line Full Backup.

This method is equivalent to the SELective and is off topic; he wanted to use command line. Also, Paul's point is a good one -- selective does not update the last-incremental date on the filespace... so, we're back to ABSOLUTE in the management class. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Ce

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

Dang, my mails are long-winded. Forgive me if I'm boring those of you who are not interested. Fell free to use the "delete" button. :-) There's been a lot of good suggestions sent to me. The real kicker is that with the volume of data involved (460TB as of today), some of the solu

Re: volume range labeling in non-barcode jukebox

Henry Chen wrote: >Hello, > >I have a HP1200ex optical jukebox that does not have a barcode reader. I'm >using "label libv lib.optical.01 search=yes labels=prompt checkin=scr" to >label the medias in this jukebox. Is there a way to label medias in this >jukebox without having to manually type i

Re: volume range labeling in non-barcode jukebox

if i'm reading this correctly, doesn't the "volrange" and "vollist" options only apply when i specify "search=yes labelsource=barcode"? -Henry -Original Message- From: Mark D. Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Upgrade from 3590E to 3590H

Actually the steps are just the same as for migration from 3590B to 3590E. IBM CE will perform the upgrade and you will do the rest. The latter is well documented and you can also find plenty of info in list archives (http://www.adsm.org/). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM

Re: Licensing

According from Tivoli Taiwan, If you have a tape library more than 2 drive or more than 20 slot, you should buy managed library license. Share library is needed if you have more than 1 TSM server and share the same library or if you wanna use SAN and a tape library on SAN. -Original Message--