AW: Cache Hit Pct. drop

2003-03-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Curiously enough, I upgraded to 5.1.6.2 and added a relatively large node to daily backup schedules on the very same day, and my %hit grew from about 98% to about 98,5% :-) Do not ask me why. Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwo

AW: Creating two tape copies offsite with each has Different Rete ntion

2003-03-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Hi, It would be interesting to learn what real business requirements lead your manager to this double-retention requirements, what danger or costs will arise if you use the longer retention for onsite and offsite pools. If your manager is really a manager he will thing in this terms (dollars,ri

strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41
Hi during online database backup (TDP) these messages appear in .anf file": BKI0053I: Time: 03/10/2003 23:37:21 Object: 626 of 471 done: /oracle/T14/sapdata7/loadd_1/loadd.data1 with: 75. BKI0027I: Time: 03/10/2003 23:37:22 Object: 629 of 471 in process: /oracle/T14/sapdata15/user1i_6/user1i.dat

AW: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
What version of TDP for SAP R/3 are you using? I remember that there once was a problem with this kind of calculation. I often saw "150GB of 132GB backed up". Kind regards Thomas Rupp -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donner

Re: urgent! server is down!

2003-03-13 Thread Gagan Singh Rana
Dear *ites Try to audit the database it might solve ur problem... rgds Gagan Singh Rana "What is now proved was once only imagined." the Business Enterprise Solutions Team QuantM Systems Pvt. Ltd. 79 Amrit Nagar, NDSE Part I New Delhi - 110003 Voice : 91-11-4691575/4602217 Fax: 91-11

AW: fs backup versus database backup

2003-03-13 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
Hi Ruud, in the ADSM-L archives you will find a thread about backing up to disk or tape. The recommandation was to backup SAP R/3 directly to tape because you could use more drives, keep the tapes streaming and avoid disk latency. See thread: "Backup faster to tape than disk" Do you use caching

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
Ruud We see this type of thing when there has been a tape IO error, or similar. The retry of the failing files then pushes up the object count, but not the total count. But I've never seen a discrepancy this big before! Try reading the whole output file and looking for when the object count fir

Restore of hidden files under NT2000 only via reboot??

2003-03-13 Thread Salak Juraj
Hallo all, restore of hidden files (nt2000, tsm 5.1.5.9) is apparently not possible without reboot. Is this working as designed, or is it a bug? NT2000/NTFS itself allow for replacing of hidden files, I can delete the "aha" file without troubles from command line. regards Juraj Salak

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41
Thomas Tivoli Data Protection for R/3 Interface between SAPDBA Utilities and Tivoli Storage Manager - Version 3, Release 2, Level 0.6 for AIX LF - Build: 142E compiled on Sep 28 2001

Re: fs backup versus database backup

2003-03-13 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41
Thomas we don't use caching on our diskpools. I know we should direct SAPbackups to tape ... and for our bigger systems we do ... you wrote: "Your FS backup gives you the network data transfer rate, whereas the DB backup gives you a number including network data transfer rate, tape mount/unmoun

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
Hello again Ruud I realised that this suggestion is totally misleading. >> Try reading the whole output file and looking for when the object count first exceeds the total count. Sorry. This will give you the wrong timestamp. What I do is to read the whole log (ie, the .anf file) looking for error

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41
Richard i cannot see any tape I/O errors in TSM (act) log. i do see a lot of RETRIED messages (bki1208E) ... 216 in total ... in .anf file so this is pushing up the object count !!! i think it's caused by : BKI5008E: Tivoli Storage Manager Error: ANS0326E (RC41) Node has exceeded max tape moun

Re: strange message : Object: 626 of 471 done

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Foster
Ruud ANS0326E (RC41) Node has exceeded max tape mounts allowed. indicates that you are trying to use too many tape drives simultaneously. Probably the node's definition in the new server isn't an exact copy of the old one. You can either a) (easiest) on the new server, update node maxnumm

LAN-free DB2 backup : low performance

2003-03-13 Thread Davide Giacomazzi
Hi everybody. I'm having a problem running a DB2 LAN-free backup : normally it takes 40 minutes to save about 65 GB, but sometimes it takes more than 1 hour. My TSM server is 4.2.1.11 (Win2K), my storage agent is 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3. ML9). The funny thing is that the problem disappears when I resta

Re: Creating two tape copies offsite with each has Different Retention

2003-03-13 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
You can play with reuse delays and retention of DBBackup tapes to "effectively" keep one offsite pool around longer. But you have to do a DR to get the data back, so it's not exactly a "friendly" solution. Find out what your customer want to accomplish, not what they want you to do. When given a

TSM loosing connection with tape library

2003-03-13 Thread Wagner
Hello, My TSM server is loosing connection with the tape library and i don't know why... Yesterday it happened and i rebooted both the server and the library... but this morning it happened again... Does anybody know what is happening?? The event viewer shows the following: On the application

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2003-03-13 Thread Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT)
Date: March 13, 2003 Time: 9:40 AM From: Jerry Lawson The Hartford Insurance Group 860 547-2960[EMAIL PROTECTED] - It is interesting how in Data Processing,

Re: Migrating TSM Server on AIX

2003-03-13 Thread Marco Spagnuolo
Thanks for the reassurance, Wanda. I'll let you know how it went.. Marco Spagnuolo System Administrator University of Windsor (IT Services) 401 Sunset Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 (519) 253-4232 Ext. 2769 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Prather, Wanda" <[EMA

Re: Restore performance

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Denier
> Because of the -subdir=yes specification, omitting the ending slash could > cause TSM to search for all files named "saa001" in /var/spool/imap/user > and its subdirectories. If these are very large, then that could be the > cause of the Based on the size of these directories, it could be very >

Re: Migrating TSM Server on AIX

2003-03-13 Thread Marco Spagnuolo
Thanks for you input, Roger. It is duly noted and appreciated. Marco Spagnuolo System Administrator University of Windsor (IT Services) 401 Sunset Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 (519) 253-4232 Ext. 2769 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTE

firmware robot magstar3575L32

2003-03-13 Thread Michelle Wiedeman
hi all, Does anybopdy have a clue to where I can find firmware for the library robot? Our robot doesnt read barcodes. Now our supplier claims we ned fmr 3575-2007, but says IBM doesnt have it. I'm sure I can get it somewhere! so I turn to you all!! does anyone have it (or a later version which incl

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2003-03-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
HI JERRY! Good to hear from you. 1) If you search the archives at search.adsm.org for "VTS", you will find lots of discussions on the pros and cons of using virtual tape with TSM. 2) This is the coold part. What you do is 1) create your new device class 2) create a new sequentia

Re: Restore performance

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Sims
>We have retried the restore with the trailing slashes, and things have >not gotten any better. You may be between a rock and a hard place with that restoral... The client admin is performing a point-in-time restoral, which may or may not suppress No Query Restore (see client manual) functionalit

Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Simpson
I'm curious about the type and frequency of database backups that people do. I've inherited a TSM environment set up by sombeody else and I'm trying to make sense out of it. The original setup did two backups every day, a full and a snapshot. The full stayed onsite and the snapshot went offsite.

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Sias Dealy
Matt, In my shop, we do full backups of the TSM database. That is because the TSM database will fit on one tape. When the TSM database span across two tapes, then we will be thinking about doing incremental backup of the database. Keep in mind that you can only do so many incremental backup of the

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Simpson
At 11:25 AM -0500 3/13/03, Sias Dealy wrote: If TSM was doing a full backup twice a day. I would suspect, the reason on why two backups are done is to keep the recovery log from over committing. That is if TSM is in rollforward mode. Since both the backups are scheduled in the morning, I don't thin

Re: Restore performance

2003-03-13 Thread Alex Paschal
Thomas, I agree with Richard Sims, you're probably between a rock and a hard place. If you're not able to get your restore working reasonably quickly, here's something you might try. It's a little bit of work, but it should work. dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa -comma -out=tempfile select \* from backups

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Sias, the snapshot *does not* clear the log. It is a snapshot, not a backup. Its goal is to make copy of the DB without touching the Full+Incremental+Log chain. Look at the Administrator's Guide: "A snapshot database backup is a full database backup that does not interrupt the current full and inc

Library down -

2003-03-13 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
All- Today I shutdown TSM server and re booted AIX machine. When I manually start I get this error.ACSLS Server was re booted but problem still exists.Just by stopping and restarting server I see this message. TSM can not acess library now removed. 03/13/03 09:55:34 A

TSM using VSM/VTS

2003-03-13 Thread Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT)
Wanda - good to hear from you. Thanks for the reply - sounds good. The other thing we are considering is setting the migration pool for the old pool to go to the VSM as well, to also help with the movement of the old data. I will indeed go check out the adsm.org site. Jerry -Original Messa

Dirdisk stgpool volume deleted

2003-03-13 Thread Brenda Collins
We have a dilemma! We made changes to our disk a few weeks back and unfortunately the diskpools for the database and dirdisk were reformatted along with the rest of the work being done. As a result, we had to restore the database. Due to the fact that the dirdisk volume was reformatted, it was

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Sias Dealy
Zlatko, Your right that the snapshot does not clear the recovery log. I miss read the original posting. I thought Matt was doing two database backup and a snapshot. I know, read, re-read and re-read. Then reply. Thanks for keeping me correct. :) Sias __

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Shannon Bach
I do a full DB backup on Saturday morning after daily processing, then an incremental everyday after until the following Saturday. If we are doing an upgrade, major change, etc., with our system I will then do a full volume backup before and after but that is the only time I variate from the norm

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread Jim Sporer
Matt, We do a full backup once a week and incrementals every other day. Our full backups take about 2 hours and the incrementals only take an hour or less depending on the activity for that day. If you don't save any time by doing the incrementals then you are better off doing fulls. It takes le

Clientopt in Cloptset disappearing???

2003-03-13 Thread Shannon Bach
After reading the list about the SystemObject problem I went in and add the include.systemobject to my NT and Win2000 Cloptsets. I noticed today that these clientopt's have now completely disappeared! Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this because this should be in each individual dsm.op

Re: Library down -

2003-03-13 Thread Schmitt, Terry D
This is a tech tip from the StorageTek CRC: In its normal initialization sequence, TSM locks all of its library resources under a common lock id. On rare occasions, TSM has been known to initialize resources with a second lockid after existing resources had been locked under a different lockid.

AW: Clientopt in Cloptset disappearing???

2003-03-13 Thread Salak Juraj
did you search in your ACCTLog for any traces of this "disapearing"? I bet you will find there some explanation, if not, open a PMR. Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Shannon Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 18:44 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Client

CRN Channel Satisfaction Survey

2003-03-13 Thread Orville Lantto
See attached link. TSM ranked #1 in Channel Champions Survey. http://www.crn.com/sections/special/champs/champs03.asp?ArticleID=40389 Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) IBM Premier Business Partner 121 Cheshire Lane, Suite 700 Minnetonka, MN 55305 Email:

Re: Database backup strategy?

2003-03-13 Thread David E Ehresman
We backup the data base once a day and send it offsite. We also run the log in rollforward mode. This means if we still have the log, we can restore the data base and recover to the point of failure. Recovering without the log would obviously mean we only recovered to the point of the db backup.

Re: Canceling a Reclamation FAST

2003-03-13 Thread Stapleton, Mark
>Steve Harris wrote: >>updating the drive mid transaction to online=no does it for me. From: Paul Ripke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sneaky! Since TSM *has* to be able to cope with this scenario >gracefully, it does surprise me somewhat that there isn't a >"cleaner" way of doing this - something l

Re: Renaming a W2K node

2003-03-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
Everything you did is OK. And with old versions of the client (V3.1, for instance) that is all you had to do. But on W2K, you need more steps for the service. 1) Repeat all the stuff you did, that makes the GUI OK. 2) Start the GUI, pull down Utilities, Setup Wizard 3) Click (only) the check box f

Re: Canceling a Reclamation FAST

2003-03-13 Thread Alex Paschal
Mark, I'm not a database guru, but I think I have to disagree. I think it goes something like this All logged to Recovery Log: 1 Start Txn 402165173 2 Server finishes copying 1GB file from one tape to another 3 Pointer to old copy gets updated STOP PROCESS (would have happened: 4 Pointer

Re: ANR8216W Error sending data on socket 53. Reason 32 - Updat e

2003-03-13 Thread Ochs, Duane
Problem was resolved. But does not address the original errors. 1-31-2003 Initial backup was done and written to disk. 2-1-2003 Data was migrated to a single tape as part of normal migration process. 3-6-2003 Numerous restores were attempted and failed, reason unknown at this time, no read or wr

Re: Renaming a W2K node

2003-03-13 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Thanks for everyone's responses on this. With the suggestions given here, I was able to write up a procedure to assist our NT/W2K admins with this function. It involves using the DSMCUTIL command instead of the wizard, and a little thought before doing it. In these special cases, I wanted the TSM

Re: Canceling a Reclamation FAST

2003-03-13 Thread Kauffman, Tom
Well -- yes and no. I want to know why I can't do a 'cancel process n force=yes' (or 'immediate') and get the process to stop NOW, not after 10 hours of trying to write a 1 GB file to a bad tape. If TSM can clean up after a shutdown while the copy is in process, it can bloody well clean up after a

AW: Canceling a Reclamation FAST

2003-03-13 Thread Salak Juraj
> If TSM can clean up after a shutdown > while the copy is in process, it can > bloody well clean up after a force > termination of the process. I am fully with you, Tom. But saing this, I would like to express not only my criticism of this wanted/missing functionality, but thanks as well to deve

Re: Library down -Solved

2003-03-13 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Scmitt Thanks for the info. I am very grateful for ur quick reply. I did as u said in your mail. But to clear locks for all volumes option all did not work. So I cleared locks volume by volume, even then there was no change in error status. Then I tried to discard data for volume on a particular

TSM ANS4023E Error processing resulting in I/O error

2003-03-13 Thread Adrian Hicks
Hi, Anyone ever experienced a backup reporting to fail because of a reported I/O error when accessing the C$ drive. Funny thing is, it backs up all files with in that share with no probs. ENV. AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.2.3.3 EG. sample log 13-03-2003 05:04:56 Successful incremental backup of '\\aupoza

ADSM.org

2003-03-13 Thread Jolliff, Dale
Is the script download section gone?