predefined backup

2004-02-05 Thread Morten Kongsted
Hi Is it possible to predefine a backup job, which the user have to start by himself. First, I don't want to use server schedules because they have be started at a certain time and some users are not satisfied with that. Second I don't want the user to select which files to backup every time. Basi

Re: collocation

2004-02-05 Thread John Naylor
Can't comment on offsite reclamation, because cross site tape capability means all reclamation is onsite, but in my environment TSM only selects tapes marked full as reclamation candidates. Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@vm.marist.edu> on 02/04/2004 08:48:24 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist

TDP error

2004-02-05 Thread nghiatd
Hello all, I want to restore database, but RMAN always restores database that was backup lastly. Could you show me the method to backup database that I want ? ( Example : Database's backupset is 78) Thanks, Nghiatd P/S : I use TDP backup for Oracle

Re: Strange orphaned objects

2004-02-05 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Neil! What I tried is issuing a select * from backups where node_name='NODE1' and hl_name='//' and backup_date < '2003-01-01'. This query took about 20 minutes, but it was successful. I guess I'm going to issue it for all Oracle related nodes one by one. Thank you VERY much for your help! Kindes

Re: Strange orphaned objects

2004-02-05 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Thomas! The problem is that these nodes all running old TDP versions and they cannot be upgraded easily. Anyway, TDPOSYNC wouldn't help me here either, because it only removes objects from TSM when there are no entries for those objects in the recovery catalog and for a lot of them there are! Ou

mscs client path not found

2004-02-05 Thread Koen Willems
Dea listers, Funny problem on w2k clusterservice. 02/05/2004 12:15:35 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\nt3000896\d$' failed 02/05/2004 12:15:35 ANS1063E Invalid path specification 02/05/2004 12:15:37 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'TEST' failed. Return code = 12. My opt file: NODENAMENT3

AW: predefined backup

2004-02-05 Thread Salak Juraj
Hi, its is perfect possible using the command line client. The simplest command to start is "dsmc incr" or, if you would prefer to offer more classical way of backup, "dsmc arch d:\path\*" You probably want your users only have clicked on an icon, so you can prepare one pointing to

Re: Schedule Configuration

2004-02-05 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You need to go back and review my prior post on this subject. The proposed configuration will yield undesirable results. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL

incremental DB2 restore

2004-02-05 Thread Nicolas Launay
Hi all, we are trying to do a db2 incremental restore through TSM. We managed to make a full backup and an incremental backup on a databse. The restore of the full database backup is also working. Our problem is the restore of the incremental backup. The restore commend is succesfull, but, in

DRM QUESTION

2004-02-05 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi ALL Need info if I am using server to server functionality. I have got a primary server for primary data and a secondary server for the copy pools. My question is, if i lose my primary server, how would I bring up the secondary( COPY TAPES/DISK ) online to act as the primary server. If any

Explain Excludes in the OptionSet

2004-02-05 Thread Coats, Jack
Ok, I have only been working on TSM 'forever', but one thing still eludes me (at least one thing :) Question: When trying to use excludes from an option set, do these get processed before or after the ones in the dsm.opt file? Or do they get processed at all if there are any in the dsm.opt file?

Re: DRM QUESTION

2004-02-05 Thread Stefan Gocke
This is just a quick and dirty description: Set up the second server to work on different TCP Ports. save the primary servers DB on the second server. Have space for the db + log for primary server available on the second server and use the dsmserv.opt, dsmserv.dsk ... of the primary server to res

Re: Explain Excludes in the OptionSet

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>When trying to use excludes from an option set, do these get processed >before or after the ones >in the dsm.opt file? Or do they get processed at all if there are any in >the dsm.opt file? Jack - See Admin Guide topic "Managing Client Option Files" which explains the order of processing

Re: What do these numbers mean ?

2004-02-05 Thread Remco Post
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:06:42 -0600 "Redell, Greg S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if you were going to open holes in a firewall, what ports would you > open for the data to go through? Given that statement about the client > source port, you could not definitively say what port it is going to >

Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread Mark Hayden
Hi Gang, wish I could repay you guys for all your help you have given me in the past, but once again, need some help please. We have just upgraded our NetWare servers to 6.5. In the process, we are also upgrading the TSM client to 5.2.2. The backups seem to be running ok, but I am getting a "Sytem

new tapeutil patch

2004-02-05 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
Hi, For those interested, I've put a new version of my patch for tapeutil inline. It is for tapeutil-1.58 and includes a new command to read out the MAM of a cartridge and a command to show the block limits of a device. See http://www.mesa.nl (follow the download link). For those without a compile

Re: Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread JOEL LOVELIEN
Mark, We are running 6.0 and 5.2.2, but by the looks of things, these are just open files that are held by the operating system. A lot of them are log files. The ZenWorks stuff is something that you can probably exclude, at least those file types in that directory (as I've done. It's tempora

Re: Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: JOEL LOVELIEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We are running 6.0 and 5.2.2, but by the looks of things, these are just open files that are held by the operating system. A lot of them are log files. The ZenWorks stuff is something that you can probably exclude, at least those file types in that

Server media mount not possible

2004-02-05 Thread Roger Nadler
Running TSM 5.1.5.4 on IBM H70 AIX 5.1.3 with Scalar100 (4 LTO1 drives). Client is W2K 5.1.5. TSM Server has fiber GIG connection to a Cisco 4506 and the client has a copper Intel GIG NIC into the same switch. Networking in not a bottleneck. Everything on the server looks good. The robot pulls the

Phantom Administrator canceling sessions?

2004-02-05 Thread Coats, Jack
02/04/2004 23:41:02 ANS1369W Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. I am getting this some servers. This was not canceled by an individual. Is there some explaination as to why this is occuring? TIA ... JC

Re: Server media mount not possible

2004-02-05 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Roger Nadler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Running TSM 5.1.5.4 on IBM H70 AIX 5.1.3 with Scalar100 (4 LTO1 drives). Client is W2K 5.1.5. TSM Server has fiber GIG connection to a Cisco 4506 and the client has a copper Intel GIG NIC into the same switch. Networking in not a bottleneck. Everything

Re: Phantom Administrator canceling sessions?

2004-02-05 Thread Richard van Denzel
I've seen this when a process with a higher priority starts. E.g. a STGPOOL BACKUP was cancelled by a DB BACKUP. Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel Consultant IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant "Coats, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[

Re: Phantom Administrator canceling sessions?

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>02/04/2004 23:41:02 ANS1369W Session Rejected: The session was canceled by >the server administrator. > >I am getting this some servers. This was not canceled by an individual. Is >there some explaination as to why this is occuring? When you experience session errors, you need to look at both e

Re: Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread JOEL LOVELIEN
We are using Groupwise 5.5 and TSM client 5.1.5. I don't have many problems backing up the databases at all. Our PO's run in client/server mode only. The only problems I have are with some of the temporary files bouncing around the file system. DSMERROR.LOG does not show any errors, and DSMS

Re: DRM QUESTION

2004-02-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
DRM server to server functionality is really just electronic vaulting; the secondary TSM server cannot just "take over" from the primary. The primary server's data base is the ONLY one with the information/metadata that is required to restore data from the copy pool tapes. So you have to somehow

Pending -> Empty?

2004-02-05 Thread David E Ehresman
A tape goes from Pending status to Empty Status after the re-use delay period is up. What process or command triggers the status change from Pending to Empty, i.e. what causes the tsm server to go check all the tapes in pending status to see if their re-use delay period is up? David

Re: Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread Bill Fitzgerald
there is a problem with the client 5.2.2 and the NLM from NW In late December and early January we were having the same problem After working with IBM and Novell, the NW people installed a service pac the service pac that the NW people installed had these NLMs TSAFS.NLM v 6.50.06 December 4,

Re: predefined backup

2004-02-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
Sure. Use the command line version of the TSM client, dsmc. Put it in a .bat file with a shortcut on the Windows desktop. We call ours "one-button backup", and it's a .bat file with these contents: --

Re: Pending -> Empty?

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>A tape goes from Pending status to Empty Status after the re-use delay >period is up. What process or command triggers the status change from >Pending to Empty, i.e. what causes the tsm server to go check all the >tapes in pending status to see if their re-use delay period is up? David - "You Do

TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Madalina Cozea
Hello everybody, I need some info regarding the performances of a TSM on AIX urgent ,if any of u could help , because i'm experiencing some problems. I've installed TSM 5.2 on a AIX box (5.1 64 bits) and left all the default parameters . The performances over a Gbit network are poor , backups

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Bullock
Which ML are you at on AIX? Which version of TMS 5.2.0.0? What vmtune settings do you have? (if any) Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Madalina Cozea Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PR

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
What is ur NIC speed set to. Did u enable or change MTU if yes set it back to 1500 .Since 9000 needs to be changed on Switch also .It depends kind of engine u have on CISCO switch. Thanks Balanand Pinni -Original Message- From: Madalina Cozea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Febr

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Karel Bos
And what sort of data. One file of 4 GB or 2 000 000 files and 4 GB in total? Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Ben Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 5 februari 2004 18:20 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1 Which ML are

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Madalina Cozea
It was a kind of mixed i think (not very small files any way - exe & big DB files), anyway ...for a single file 300MB it took 30 seconds. it seems a poor performance to me. The OS is in the state it came preinstalled , no patch added (right now i cannot look for the ML), no params changed . Same to

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Bullock
Ahh, so this is a fresh install. The suggestions about checking out the NIC and switch configurations are a good. I suggest doing an FTP between the 2 hosts to see if your issues are at the OS or TSM level. If your FTP is about as slow as TSM backups, then it is likely th

Re: Netware upgrade to 6.5 and TSM client upgrade 5.2.2

2004-02-05 Thread Jim Kirkman
Given all this, is anyone aware of any issues with Netware 6.0 SP4 and the 5.1 or 5.2 clients? Our Netware folks are getting ready to push SP4 out and this latest round of posts has them a little nervous. The majority of nodes are running Client 5.1.5.15. as always, thanks! Bill Fitzgerald wrote

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Madalina, unfortunately no one is going to be to tune your servers through email. Your issue is that AIX and TSM all have the default settings. I don't think anyone should be surprised that is not optimal. What you need to do is establish a perf and tuning methodology. Establish a base line

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Kamp, Bruce
I was hit by this when I switched to gigabit. Took some work with my network guys & IBM to get all the settings correct. The performance difference was incredible. - Bruce Kamp Senior Midrange Systems Analyst Memorial Healthcare System E-mail:

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Madalina Cozea
A ftp for a the file 300MB on the same network was done twice as fast (15 seconds instead of 30 as in TSM case ) thanks for the suggestions on checking the network . Are any parameters in dsmserv.opt that have to be changed ? I was allways installing with the default. And in OS ... i don't know wha

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Try /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -P 10 this will improve free memory or reduce pageing if any. On network side try: no -o udp_pmtu_discover=0 no -o tcp_pmtu_discover=0 no -o ipforwarding=0 no -o tcp_ttl=120 no -o tcp_mssdflt=1448 no -o tcp_sendspace=65536 no -o tcp_recvspace=65536 no -o udp_sendspac

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Madalina Cozea
i'll try tomorrow changing some settings in OS and checking the network . Thanks for giving some ideas to start with . Mada

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Also, ITSM folks had various "Technical Exchange" web seminars. Many of them addressed Performance Tuning in both the SERVER and CLIENT areas, including recommended settings for things like TCPIP ! I saved the PPT/PDF files from these sessons, if you or anyone is interested in them. Some of the

Help with an estimate

2004-02-05 Thread Lee, Gary D.
I need a way to estimate the size of a storage pool backup. Looked through the database specs, but just don't see it. Any help is appreciated. A pointer to a manual section is fine. Gary Lee Senior Operating Systems Analyst Ball State University phone 765-285-1310

RES: Help with an estimate

2004-02-05 Thread Dan Carlo Freitas Peres
Hi Gary, See the Reedbook of IBM TSM Implementation Guide. There you can see how to size storage pools, database, recovery log, number of tapes... Tks, _ Dan Carlo Freitas Peres IBM Certified Deployment Professional TSM Net Control - Gerenciamento de

Re: RES: Help with an estimate

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>I need a way to estimate the size of a storage pool backup. You mean, like, the Preview option?

Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
Just thought I'd mention... There have been observations that viewing PDFed manuals online is a drudge, making one want to keep hardcopies of TSM manuals to flip through to quickly get to information. Having had only hardcopy manuals my first 20 years in data processing, I understand. I've been

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I agree on the speed issue. Adobe Acrobat 6 is a joke. The FIND processes is ridiculous, making you have to use the mouse, whether you like it or not (under V5, you used to be able to repeatedly do a CTRL-F to either find again or change the search value. Now a CTRL-F brings up the annoying "find

TSM and PowerPath Volume Manager on Solaris

2004-02-05 Thread Tim Melly
To *, I have a Sun OS 5.8 / TSM 5.2 client exhibiting strange behavior. All non-system volume groups (VGs) are not getting backed up with a "regular" incremental, TSM sees the directory mount point but that's it, nothing except for the directory stub gets backed up. All files associated with the

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Stapleton, Mark
Try ctrl-g for "find again". -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 2/5/2004 13:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: Viewing PDF manuals online I agree on the spe

TSM 5.2.2.1 OR -no report displayed

2004-02-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
We installed the new stand-alone TSM console on a Win2K pro system and had no problems getting the Operational Reporter to generate the default dailiy report. Displays fine in the MMC console window. We installed the TSM console on another Win2K pro system; set it up the same way. When we try to

LTO1 and LTO2 drives in a 3584

2004-02-05 Thread Thach, Kevin G
Last week, I added a fourth frame onto our 3584, along with 4 new LTO2 tape drives. I have not defined the new drives in TSM yet, because I'm still trying to find out the best way to run in a mixed LTO1-LTO2 environment. I've read that in version 5.2.X you do not have to logically partition your

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>Adobe Acrobat 6 is a joke. The FIND processes is ridiculous, making you >have to use the mouse, whether you like it or not (under V5, you used to >be able to repeatedly do a CTRL-F to either find again or change the >search value. Now a CTRL-F brings up the annoying "find pane"). Shift over one k

How can I approximate capacity of a tape volume if it's still scratch?

2004-02-05 Thread John C Dury
We are in the midst of replacing our existing 3590J cartridges with 3590J cartridges that have been (supposedly) upgraded to allow 20/40 gigabyte capacity instead of of 10/20 capacity. I can successfully checkin the new libvolumes but until they actually get used, I have no way of even guessing how

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thank you (and Richard) for the CTRL-G hint. However, that wasn't what I meant. Under V5, I could CTRL-F to START a FIND, REPEAT the FIND, CLOSE the FIND window with an ESC, bring the FIND window back up and type in a NEW search string with CTRL-F. Now we get the SLOW FIND PANE that then scrunch

Re: Help with an estimate

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Ripke
On Friday, Feb 6, 2004, at 06:14 Australia/Sydney, Lee, Gary D. wrote: I need a way to estimate the size of a storage pool backup. Looked through the database specs, but just don't see it. Any help is appreciated. A pointer to a manual section is fine. Is something like "backup stg source dest pr

MAX_IO_SIZE on AIX

2004-02-05 Thread Russell Brooks
Hi, We using ADSM and RMAN to backup our databases. I've run across a tuning recommendation dependent on max_io_size. AIX does not appear to have this parameter, though it has been suggested that maxpgahead may provide similar information. Does anyone have information on correlation of thes

Re: MAX_IO_SIZE on AIX

2004-02-05 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Can any body tell me how to find out the MAX_IO_SIZE in solaris? === Answer: === The "maxphys" kernel parameter limits the max. I/O size in the SCSI layer. Default is 128k. The "vol_maxio" kernel parameter limits the max. I/O size in the VxVM layer (if installed). Default

Re: MAX_IO_SIZE on AIX

2004-02-05 Thread Harris, Jason (DIS)
Hello Balanand, There is no parameter per se in Solaris 8 & 9 (the ones that I use). But there are several parameters in Solaris that relate to # of bytes which can be read in a single I/O call. The maxphys kernel parameter limits I/O in the SCSI layer within the kernel. Default is 128k. We are

Re: How can I approximate capacity of a tape volume if it's still scratch?

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Sims
>We are in the midst of replacing our existing 3590J cartridges with 3590J >cartridges that have been (supposedly) upgraded to allow 20/40 gigabyte >capacity instead of of 10/20 capacity. I can successfully checkin the new >libvolumes but until they actually get used, I have no way of even guessing