Re: TDP for Domino problem

2005-01-13 Thread Jozef Zatko
Hello guys, I have some additional informations to my previous post on this topic. I did following command in dsmadmc: select * from backups where node_name='SKMAIL1' and filespace_name='SKmail2.DOMDBS' I found something very strange in output of this command. Here it is: NODE_NAME: SKMAIL1 F

Re: TSM server web administration console on win2k

2005-01-13 Thread Chernyaev Sergey
Hello, Check server settings in dsmserv.opt. There must be strings: COMMmethod HTTP HTTPPort 1580 Andrew, I think, what Luc have trouble not with TSM 5.3. If I say http://TSM5.3machine:1580 , in browser I see page with info about not supported feature. -Original Message- From: ADSM: D

Re: TSM server web administration console on win2k

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Sims
Just to supplement that: There might be an HttpPort in the Registry which is taking precedence. Use an appropriate open files/connections utility to see what network ports are active on that system, belonging to which applications, to narrow down. Richard Sims On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Cherny

macro substitution question

2005-01-13 Thread Gerhard Ginzler
Hello, Is it possible to substitute e.g. the filename part in the redirection path in a tsm macro? A sample: testmacro node_a where the content of "testmacro" could be: q n %1 > c:\testdir\%1.txt (this doesn't work, that's my problem ...) Regards Gerhard Ginzler

PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Trcka
Hello *SMers, I'm having trouble with operating Dell 110T LTO2 drives in a PowerVault 132T library. Environment: - W2k3, HBA Qlogic 2340, FC attached Dell Powervault 132T library with 2 Dell 110T LTO2 drives - TSM device driver for library (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&uid=swg211

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Pablo Wolinski
Hello Martin, What is the process (sequence of commands) you are using to checkin/label the drives? I once had the same problem checking in the drives in a STK L80 library, and the solution was simply not checking in the tapes with TSM 5.2.3, just did a label libvol storagetek-l80 search=bulk la

Re: upgrade path from 3590E to 3592

2005-01-13 Thread Eliza Lau
I posted the following message a couple of months ago and a lot of you helped me out. Looks like we will have the funding for converting one D12 to D22 with two 3592 drives this fiscal year. However, management wants to purchase only 100 3592 tapes this year. My question is: Can 3590 and 3592 t

Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I'm currently struggling with the fact that I cannot run a backup stgpool diskpool and a migrate diskpool (to empty it out for the next client backup cycle) sequentially no more. Migration would run well into the evening and I would like it to be ready at 18:00 hours. I'm thinking about

TSM image backup and restore on a win2k server

2005-01-13 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi all I want to start using the IMAGE backup for some of my win2K servers Is there a best setup to do ? or a better way ?? I tried one .. the IMAGE backup seems to work .. then I delete some files on that server and when I try to restore the IMAGE .. I got that message "ANS1287E Volume co

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Bennett
Eric, Not a lot of detail in your post but I always do my backup stgpool before I migrate so it's disk to tape instead of tape to tape. Doesn't always happen if there is a unusually large client backup that causes the migration to occur before the scheduled stgpool backup. I think caching will do w

TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Adam Sulis
Hi All: I am looking for suggestions to improve efficiency in our Backup strategy: Current: We backup 200 nodes to a DASD diskpool (large enough for one day's backup), then migrate to a VTS, with an offiste copy going to 3490 (uncollocated, of course). To improve day-to-day restores, we implement

media question

2005-01-13 Thread Giglio, Paul
Hi Everybody I am glad I found this resource. First Question' 1) We have 3590 tape systems. AS 400 and AIX share the resources. We have noticed if there is a media error encountered during a backup on the 400 side it will stop and not try to restart on a different Tape. Anybody have an idea on ho

Re: TDP for Domino problem

2005-01-13 Thread Eduardo Esteban
You resolve this problem you should contact IBM support. Eduardo "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/13/2005 02:04:11 AM: > Hello guys, > I have some additional informations to my previous post on this topic. > I did following command in dsmadmc: > select * from backups where node_name='S

Re: TSM image backup and restore on a win2k server

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Luc Beaudoin wrote: I tried one .. the IMAGE backup seems to work .. then I delete some files on that server and when I try to restore the IMAGE .. I got that message "ANS1287E Volume could not be locked" I looked on the IBM site for help ... but nothing The Messages m

Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Andy Carlson
I have a new 3584. Before now, we were using STK Powderhorns. I have the following setup: tsmlibm owns the library, which has one drive in it - rmt14 tsmu defines the library as shared, with the primarylibrarymanger being tsmlibm When I initiate a db backup from tsmlibm, a scratch gets mounted an

Re: TSM image backup and restore on a win2k server

2005-01-13 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Thanks Richard ... I figured that one out,, ,, The thing I dont understand it's the HOW to restore an IMAGE backup over an existing disk or OS.. Is there a procedure to restore an IMAGE backup ...?? thanks again Luc Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Steve! Which details are you missing in my post? Which issues with caching are you referring to? Thanks! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Steve Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 16:53 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.E

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread P Baines
Hello Adam, An idea might be to define for each client two node definitions, NODENAME and NODENAME_ACTIVE. NODENAME would be your normal daily backups keeping x versions for y months. NODENAME_ACTIVE would be a separate incremental backup of the same client that you backup to a management class th

Re: Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Davidson, Becky
Do you have paths for both the library and drive defined for tsmu on tsmlibm? Becky -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Shared Tape Library I have

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread David E Ehresman
We colocate onsite and offsite tapes for all of our important (in a DR sense) nodes. TSM runs on a dedicated machine with dedicated tape drives. Backups run at night. Thus the machine and tape drives are available all day for backup storagepool, migrate, and reclaim. Since reclaims are single-t

Re: TSM image backup and restore on a win2k server

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Take a look at the chapter "Restoring your data" in the client manual. 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 PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that

Re: Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Andy Carlson
Thank you, that was the piece I was missing. I think the doc on this is horribly lacking . . . Davidson, Becky wrote: Do you have paths for both the library and drive defined for tsmu on tsmlibm? Becky -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Bennett
Eric, In the past with caching on I have found that during heavy client backup times we would see an occasional problem where there was not enough disk space to backup a client file so it would fail. It caused us enough grief that we stopped using cache. In our environment we have enough disk to st

Re: upgrade path from 3590E to 3592

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Bullock
The 3590 and 3592 tapes can coexist in the same frames and slots. They can all be intermixed. The 3590 and 3592 DRIVES cannot coexist in the same frame, so you must upgrade one whole frame at a time. On our 4 libraries, we always upgraded the L22 first, as we could then put 4 3592

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Trcka
I've tried all possible combinations of checkin volumes, neither worked. label libvol search=yes labels=barcode label libvol search=bulk labels=barcode label libvol search=yes labels=barcode checkin=scr I'm able to check volumes in (checklabel=barcode), but when TSM wants to write to the tape (labe

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Pablo Wolinski
Hello Martin, Did you take the tapes off the library? using: checkout libvol storagetek-l80 tapebarcodename remove=no force=yes I remember having to checkout all the tapes and physically remove them for the library (they where many to take out in bunches of 5), the run an audit lib so TSM find

Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names

2005-01-13 Thread Iain Barnetson
Can anyone advise me on how to get TSM to show the LTO version, ie: l1 or l2 on the end of tape names. I've seen it somewhere on the TSM website but can't find it now :( Cheers Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations T: +44 1224 776913 M: +44 7787 916721 F

Media issue

2005-01-13 Thread Giglio, Paul
Hi everybody Maybe somebody has seen this problem and has a fix We are running a mix in our site of as400 and aix TSM 5.2 Tape systems are 3590s PROBLEM: When a backup encounters a bad media tape it ends the backup but does not try to restart on another media. Instead the operators have to resta

Re: Media issue

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Bennett
Might be nice to know what kind of backup. Database, stgpool, client, etc.? Giglio, Paul wrote: Hi everybody Maybe somebody has seen this problem and has a fix We are running a mix in our site of as400 and aix TSM 5.2 Tape systems are 3590s PROBLEM: When a backup encounters a bad media tape it ends

Move TSM Operational REporter to a different server

2005-01-13 Thread Bill Boyer
Anyone know of procedures for being able to move the TSM operational reporter from one Windows server to another without having to re-define everything? I can move all the *.XML files that are the report definitions, but what about all the server definitions and settings? The last time I moved this

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Trcka
Hi Pablo, thanks for your reply. To aswer your question - yes, before I've tried to label volumes, the library inventory was empty due to the fact that I removed library definitions from TSM several times and that causes library inventory to be emptied. S pozdravem / Best Regards, Martin Trcka, IT

Re: TSM image backup and restore on a win2k server

2005-01-13 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi All I did a IMAGE backup of my WIN2K server, my server have only a C: drive My C: drive crash ... how can I restore my IMAGE backup on a new Disk That's what I did ... - Put a new disk in my server - Install the basic WIN2K OS - Install the TSM Client - then try to restore my IMAGE backup

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Schaub
Eric, The issues we had when we had caching turned on were: 1. Fragmentation of the the diskpool which led to a general slowdown in processes. This can be minimized if you have a regular schedule of flushing the cache (turn it off and migrate down to zero). 2. TDP agents don't always play nice wi

LTO device class - Can a format type of "drive" affect media operations ?

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Trcka
Hi all, can a format type of "drive" in LTO device classs definitionaffect media operation, such as label, r/w, etc in a way, that these operations are never performed ? I mean, is it necessary set LTO-2 drives as "ultrium2[c]" format in devclass definition ? -- S pozdravem / Best Regards, Martin T

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Adam Sulis
Thanks for the idea - by collocating the offsite, does that mean that you eject one tape per node every day? Or how does the collocate happen, given the previous tapes are offisite? I'd love to collocate the offsite, and am reading some interesting ideas in the maillist archives about Restore STGP

Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names

2005-01-13 Thread John E. Vincent
Our's are actually part of the label so they show up just fine: Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use Home Device Element Type --- -- -- - --- -- 3581

Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names

2005-01-13 Thread David Longo
I seem to recall there is a setting on the LTO library itself as to whether it passes the suffix as part of the label name to external apps. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5

Physical tape handling standards

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Harris
Hi all, I have a need for some redbooks, international standards or even private standards for the best-practices for physical offsite handling, racking, stacking and retrieval of tapes. Whilst TSM specifics would be good, most of this is not TSM specific and could apply to any product. I have

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Harris
There is an issue documented in the 5.3 readme that you cannot use the windows 2k3 FC storport driver with the TSM device driver to access tape devices. Could this be your problem? This has bitten me because I have disk that needs the storport driver and only a single FC Card plus an FC Attach

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Harris
Hi Eric, You've probably thought of this yourself, but, there is no need to save up all your backup stg operations until the end of the day. Since they are "incremental" in nature, you can run the process earlier in the day with only a short-running catchup before your migrate kicks in. Of co

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Clark
I don't know yet what the pros and cons are, but the "image incremental" backups look interesting. Anyone out there using these yet? (Or are they a new feature?) Thanks, [RC] "Adam Sulis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ES.GC.CA>

Re: Physical tape handling standards

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Steve Harris wrote: I have a need for some redbooks, international standards or even private standards for the best-practices for physical offsite handling, racking, stacking and retrieval of tapes. Whilst TSM specifics would be good, most of this is not TSM specific an

Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date

2005-01-13 Thread Barth, Terry (MBS)
We recently upgraded a few window nodes to 5.3 so that we can use the new journaling options as we have active/active clusters. When performing restores, our hotline pointed out that the modified dates are not showing. If I use the normal gui, they show. Is anyone using this client version and if

SV: V5.3 client and Netware 6.0

2005-01-13 Thread Hougaard.Flemming FHG
Hi Andy How come? I mean... after all NetWare 6.0 is still fully supported by Novell! Regards Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Andrew Raibeck Sendt: 12. januar 2005 22:18 Til: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Emne: Re: V5.3 client and N