Re: Upgrade from 4.2 to 5.2

2003-08-31 Thread Len Boyle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > >It was fairly straightfoward and quick, but we have 3494 libraries and >had done am audit fix=yex the week prior. >We had a gotcha afterwards with some data being in ADSM 3.7 format that >caused problems afterwards, but we

Tape errors from LTO G1 tapes in LTO G2 drives

2003-08-31 Thread Bill Mansfield
I'm migrating some LTO G1 tapes to G2 media. The old 3583 library changer died, so I just popped the old tapes into the new IBM 3582 library with G2 drives to do move media on them. The new library won't mount some tapes, get this message: 08/31/03 01:56:52 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on

Re: Info about command 'clean archdir'

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
What is the OS of the client? At customer site I've seen a symbolic link in AIX WebSM directory pointing to one of the parent directories. That circular link combined with ARCHSYMLinkasfile=Yes produced overflow of TSM database. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant brian welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: Changing Names of a library.

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
What about 'upd dev libr=lb6.0.0.4'? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Coats, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.08.2003 18:39 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Cha

Re: Updrading from TSM 4.2 to 5.1

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
What about TSM for Sun Solaris Quick Start guide (GC32-0780-00), Chapter 2 "Installing Tivoli Storage Manager", section "Migrating to Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.1"? On p.20 you can find a step-by-step procedure. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Farren Minns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "AD

Re: How to backup a excluded directory

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Yes, there are two ways: - delete the exclude statement from the option file (the only one that works) - perform selective backup - be aware that on next incremental your backups will be marked as inactive and will expire according to retention settings. The choice is yours. Zlatko Krastev IT

Re: Findings with Migration and bad Reclamation behavior

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
The "one file over N tapes" problem can be avoided only if such files are separated in own storage pool through different copygroup destination. Afterwards you have two options: - run reclamation weekly or monthly - not reclaim at all - on version expiration all tapes except the first and the la

Re: Exist Server-Free for TDP SAP

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
TSM server-free can be used only when both TSM server and TSM client are on Windows. It is also limited to complete partitions (filesystem image). The only way to use TSM server-free backup with SAP R/3 is to do offline backups. ITSM for ERP (former TDP for R/3) *cannot* work with server-free rega

Re: TSM Licensing question & Veritas Volume Manager Question

2003-08-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Answer 1: The licenses you are asking for are irrelevant to SAN. They can be used in both LAN and LAN-free scenarios. The "FlashCopy" feature of IBM ESS and "TimeFinder" feature of EMC Symmetrix allow snapshot copy to be made at the disk array. Later this copy can be used for backups and other purp