Re: tape status

2003-10-24 Thread Dat Vo
Hi Deon, Q vol gpc027 f=d gives me nothing, however if i do q volhist type=dbb then it shows Date/Time: 10/21/2003 09:45:43 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 214 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 1 Device Class: LTOCLASS Volume Name: GPC027 Volume Location:

Re: Backing up SAP on Adabas

2003-10-24 Thread Tomas Hrouda Ing.
I have no problem access this page through my IBM ID. http://www-5.ibm.com/de/entwicklung/adint_tsm/ Another goal is that this product is very expensive (as I find out) and the customer decided not to use it for backup, because they plan to migrate this system to Oracle in 6 months. Tom > -O

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino 5.1.5.1

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Foster
Rainer I don't know the answer to your 1st question - we just accept the thousands of messages on the log. We run the log through a filter script to select the ones we're interested in, so we keep the full log on the server in case we need to read it, and use the filtered version for daily monito

Solaris TSM device driver and STK9840 FC drives

2003-10-24 Thread Tomáš Hrouda Ing.
Hi all, I need solve some problem or rather TSM system strategy concerning using (or not) of TSM device driver on Solaris. I am not Solaris guru, I have only basic knowledge, in oposit our Solaris people have no idea about TSM. We have stabilized TSM environment with TSM server on W2000 using STK

/ /OREF:CPTCEFC8 Need info re configuring disks for AIX Sanergy MDC

2003-10-24 Thread Cecily Hewlett
We are trying to share SAN disks from a AIX 4.3.3 32-bit MDC, but since SANergy doesn't support LVM how do you configure the disks outside of LVM, and how do you configure it under SANergy? Also, is anyone using IBM's SDD and vpaths under SANergy MDC.?? Cecily Hewlett

3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Przemysław Maciuszko
Hello. It's more hardware than software problem, but I think it's the best place to ask. What are the advantages of using dual gripper instead of single one? Did You observe any improvement in library's performance? Currently we have few 'traffic jams' during the day and are thinking about changing

Re: tape status

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>I got LTO tapes that that was labelled into a 3583 library some months back, >now when i do a query volume, ie > >q vol gpc027 f=d > >I get a message: > >ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria. >ANS8001I Return code 11. Refer to the Admin Ref description of the Query Volume com

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>It's more hardware than software problem, but I think it's the best place >to ask. >What are the advantages of using dual gripper instead of single one? >Did You observe any improvement in library's performance? Currently we have >few 'traffic jams' during the day and are thinking about changing o

NO tapes!!!

2003-10-24 Thread Stephan Dinelle
I am still a rookie with TSM... There is no tape backup produced at all since wednesday. We are using the TSM Operational Reporting and nothing showing us that there is a problem... Is there a way to know what exactlty is causing this kind of behavior... We used to have 2-3 tapes to send every d

Re: NO tapes!!!

2003-10-24 Thread
Check to see if migration is working/setup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephan Dinelle Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NO tapes!!! I am still a rookie with TSM... There is no tape backup produ

write speed for LTO2 drive using LTO1 tape

2003-10-24 Thread Markus Veit
Hi, has anyone tried backing up an image to a LTO2 drive using LTO1 tapes, if yes what throughput did you get? we tried LAN free backups using an EMC Clariion CX400 and pathlight SAN gateway with 1 G switches, the max throughput was only 26 MB/sec suggesting that LTO2 drives can only write at LTO1

Re: NO tapes!!!

2003-10-24 Thread Stephan Dinelle
Where and how? I am using the Web interface of TSM for Windows 5.1.64... "Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/24/2003 07:29 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges

2003-10-24 Thread Zlatko Krastev
You did not called it IBM but I assumed it being unaware of the device. Thanks to Richard's clarification I was able to figure it out. Now to the topic: if you really need to use such machine, it would certainly mean your server room environment is *dirty*! If it indeed is, the risk of losing data

Re: Backing up SAP on Adabas

2003-10-24 Thread Zlatko Krastev
I also have a bunch of IBM IDs and for sure many of them will work. But we have to take into consideration that a prospective customer will not have IBM ID: - collecting of personal information just to read an informative page is against too many principles - addition of registration time to read a

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Foster
> A dual gripper shaves some seconds off the overall time. It may be worth pointing out that a dual gripper loses you some library tape slots - 10% of them, in fact. The upper gripper cannot reach the lowest 2 slot levels, nor can the lower gripper reach the highest 2 levels. Therefore these 4 le

Re: SV: Query from z/OS-platform to intel-platform

2003-10-24 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Richard Sims was rumored to have written: > >3. What does the rumor say - when can we expect a real DB2 ;-) > > Imagine what the licensing fee for TSM would be then!! ;-)) Might jack up the price quite a bit... but would likely still be several orders of magnitude cheaper than licen

Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Foster
> if you really need to use such machine, it would certainly mean your > server room environment is *dirty*! Zlatko has a good point, but it could be worth considering for your disaster vault, if it's not quite as clean as your machine room. Places like vaults can get dusty after a while. For ex

Re: NO tapes!!!

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>There is no tape backup produced at all since wednesday. We are using the >TSM Operational Reporting and nothing showing us that there is a >problem... You learn the limits of generalized monitoring aids... Pursue the basics: Look in your server Activity Log for indications of problems in general

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread David E Ehresman
>We happen to have a dual gripper, and our LM >stats show it being used about 40% of the time. > Where/how is this information reported?

Re: tape status

2003-10-24 Thread David E Ehresman
The q volhist indicates that the tape is currently inuse as a tsm database backujp. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2003 3:14:13 AM >>> Hi Deon, Q vol gpc027 f=d gives me nothing, however if i do q volhist type=dbb then it shows Date/Time: 10/21/2003 09:45:43 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL B

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>>We happen to have a dual gripper, and our LM >>stats show it being used about 40% of the time. >> > >Where/how is this information reported? David - See http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for such factoids: Dual Gripper usage statistics Gripper usage info is available from the

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Marc Levitan
What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only on the disk which is no longer available to perform restores? I guess what I am asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you recover from a site disaster? |-+---> | | De

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only on the >disk which is no longer available to perform restores? >I guess what I am asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you >recover from a site disaster? Marc - That would be the moral equivalent of a -FILESOnly restor

Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges

2003-10-24 Thread Pearson, Dave
Hi Zlatko, Thanks for replying... The problems we are having is we been getting a lots of read/write error on our 3590 J tapes. We have about 1300 tapes in our 3494library and in just the last 2 months, we have gotten 13 read/write errors on our tapes. Before the upgrade we very rarely see a

Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges

2003-10-24 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Dave, Remember that by going from "B" drives to "H" drives you are now writing 3 times as many tracks (128 vs 384) per tape, and 3 times as much data per cartridge. Consequently, you will almost certainly have some "marginal" tapes that would work at the lower density that will now likely give pr

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Remco Post
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:12:34 -0400 Marc Levitan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only on > the disk which is no longer available to perform restores? > I guess what I am asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you > recover from a

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>Even better, directories are never stored in storagepools, just in the >database, so in case of a disaster, you will never loose any data as long as >you have off-site db backups. True for simple directories, as found in Unix...same as empty files. But the more complex ones (Unix ACLs, Windows) h

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Not entirely true, I believe. If the directory tree for a particular node exceeds a certain size, it DOES get stored in a storage pool...although I'm a little foggy as to what that size is. That's the whole idea behind the DIRMC parameter...sot that you can control where the directory info winds

Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first

2003-10-24 Thread Kolbeinn Josepsson
Hi Peter, Actually I do not know the perfect answer for you. Anyway, for sure the move nodedata does not depend on what the oldest/newest data is. I believe the first thing what TSM does is to build a list of volumes were the node data is located and then processes each volume sequentally unti

Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?

2003-10-24 Thread Allen Barth
Our dual gripper is used 6% of the time, but we also have an HA setup (2 accessors) which requires dual grippers. You do lose storage slots at the top and bottom as noted, but the thing I don't understand is why the top 2 slots of the I/O door aren't blocked out like the shelves because the bottom

FLASH: TSM Mac client and MacOS X 10.3 new case sensitive HFS+ file system

2003-10-24 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I have been asked to post the following item: Customers using Apple MacOS X 10.3 (Panther)'s new optional Case Sensitive HFS+ file system with the IBM TSM Mac client should read this flash Apple MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) customers using t

New York TSM User Group Meeting Announcement - November 6th

2003-10-24 Thread Connor, Jeffrey P.
New York TSM User Group Meeting to be held at Rochester Gas & Electric 400 West Avenue Rochester, NY 14611 on

SUSE Openexchange backup

2003-10-24 Thread Kolbeinn Josepsson
Hi, Has anyone experience in backing up SUSE OpenExchange? Is it possible to backup the open files, or is it better to use Snapshot Image backup (filesystem created with Linux LVM)? Best regards, Kolbeinn Josepsson · Systems Engineer Tivoli Certified Consultant - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5