Re: "q occ" and "q backup" show huge differences

2006-02-24 Thread Volker Maibaum
Hi, thanks for your postings: The problem is resolved. I made my queries from a linux client. The node was an aix client. When I do the same queries from aix I get the correct results. regards, Volker Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2006, 09:31 -0500 schrieb Paul Zarnowski: > Keep in mind that Q OCC

Re: INCR vs FULL Backup

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Dksh Cssc wrote: HI all, My comp has policy to do ONLY INCR backup on filesystem for unix machines. We need to re-schedule a filesystems backup for TSM server and I'm wondering the impact of restore if we only do incremental backup as oppose to full backup. The TSM

SQL BACKUP FAILS

2006-02-24 Thread Thando Ndaba
Hi TSMmers I`m trying tobackup SQL database and I`m getting the following errors: TDP.SQL CO5436E A failure occurred on stripe number (0), rc = 418 02/23/2006 11:36:44 ANS1017E (RC-50) Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 02/23/2006 11:36:45 Backup of BAMArchive failed. 02/23/2006 11:36:45

Re: SQL BACKUP FAILS

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Sims
Thando - See the ACO5436E and ANS1017E error notes which are collected in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts . These have been seen before. Begin by reviewing the dsierror.log, and go on to the TSM server Activity Log for possibly more info about the session. Richard Sims

Re: SQL Transaction log backup failures for msdb and master

2006-02-24 Thread Del Hoobler
Chip, How about just excluding those databases from log backups? You do that by adding this to the DSM.OPT file for Data Protection for SQL: EXCLUDE "\...\master\...\log*" EXCLUDE "\...\msdb\...\log*" Thanks, Del Del Hoobler Tivol

Re: SQL BACKUP FAILS

2006-02-24 Thread Del Hoobler
Thando, This is not enough information to troubleshoot this problem. I suspect some type of configuration problem with Data Protection for SQL. What is the result of this command? TDPSQL QUERY TSM Does it return valid information? If so, can you try just using one stripe for backup? TDPSQ

AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hi I had the same problem, and as Wanda wrote I tried it with the TESTFLAG DISABLEQR and it finished in about 5 minutes. Another test was : do the complete restore with the exception of one file in one of the subdirectories : did run in 5 minutes. Best wishes Christoph -Ursprüngliche Nachric

Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Anybody successfully running the 5.3.2.x client on Netware 6.5 (sp5) ? Our problem here is that when dsmc is set to start from autoexec.ncf we get the following errors. Works fine if you start dsmc after the server is fully booted. Notice now the server name is missing before \SYS ? ANS1035S

Re: AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hi, I often experienced this and was in discussion with IBM - at last it was closed by ibm-support with a point to http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC34713 IC34713: PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION WHEN RUNNING NO QUERY RESTORES I don't know why this old one is s

Re: SQL Transaction log backup failures for msdb and master

2006-02-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I had that done at one time, and commented them out for all of our SQL clients. Those excludes are already in the sample dsm.opt, so does that mean that they are recommended excludes? If so, I need to go back and un-comment them all. :) Pardon my ignorance on SQL, but why would you exclude the lo

Re: SQL Transaction log backup failures for msdb and master

2006-02-24 Thread Del Hoobler
Chip, The FULL backups of Simple Recovery Model databases will be all that you need to recover those databases. But... it all boils down to how you want to protect your data and the level of granularity you want for your restore. I recommend that you read up on the SQL Server Recovery Models for

Re: AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Sims
Ironically, the most crucial part of the TSM product - restoral - has become its most troublesome. Since the advent of the well-intentioned NQR, when customers perform qualified restorals they never know what to expect in terms of restoral speed. Indeed, restorals can end up being prohibitively l

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Troy Frank
We're running tsm5.3.2-fix2 on several nw6.5 servers here (various patch levels). I can't say I've ever seen the issue you mention. When you say you're starting dsmc from autoexec.bat, do you really mean dsmcad? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/24/2006 8:57 AM >>> Anybody successfully running the 5.3.2.

TSM Operational Reporting Monitor email

2006-02-24 Thread Kurt Beyers
Hello everybody, I've got a TSM server 5.3.2.2 running on Windows 2003. TSM Operational Reporting is configured on the server too with both a Daily Report and an Hourly Monitor that has two active monitors if a schedule is failed or missed. TOR has been configured to send emails, the daily

Journaling

2006-02-24 Thread Whitlock, Brett
Happy Friday! I'm trying to determine if a particular client is a candidate for journaling. The client is a fileserver with about 9 million objects to inspect. However, only about 65,000 objects actually get backed up. If I start using journaling for this client, what is the downside? Server 5

Fw: Journaling

2006-02-24 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
Your environment seems like an idea candidate, journal backup is most useful for very large file systems in which only a small percentage of the objects change. I would strongly suggest upgrading to the latest 5.32 client as many jbb changes and fixes have been made since 5.2. Keep in mind that a

AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas Rupp
Hi *SMers, I did as Wanda Prather and others suggested and the time for the restore dropped from 4.5 hours to under 10 minutes. I think I will hand this information over to my IBM TSM guru and tell him to make tivoli change TSM ;-) Thanks a lot Thomas Rupp

Searching HL_Name to see what tapes contain it

2006-02-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Is there a way to query to find out what tapes that have a certain HL_Name are on? I have the node name and the HL_Name and need to know what tapes contain the data(Tapepool/Copypool). With AFS the only thing unique is the HL_Name for each of the backups. Thanks Eric

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Troy Frank wrote: We're running tsm5.3.2-fix2 on several nw6.5 servers here (various patch levels). I can't say I've ever seen the issue you mention. When you say you're starting dsmc from autoexec.bat, do you really mean dsmcad? dsmc sched dsmcad does the same thing though. Same errors fr

Re: SQL Transaction log backup failures for msdb and master

2006-02-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
OK, thank you very much for the link! I think for our purposes, I will continue with a nightly full, exclude the logs for master/msdb, and leave the recovery mode in simple for the db environments where they do not specify a direction. Again, thanks for your help! -Original Message- From:

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Troy Frank
Have you tried moving the entire section of backup commands to the bottom of the autoexec.ncf? Could just be a load-timing issue. So that the bottom of the autoexec, you'd have something like this... search add sys:\tivoli\tsm\client\ba smsstart dsmcad >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/24/2006 10:58 AM

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Troy Frank wrote: Have you tried moving the entire section of backup commands to the bottom of the autoexec.ncf? Could just be a load-timing issue. So that the bottom of the autoexec, you'd have something like this... search add sys:\tivoli\tsm\client\ba smsstart dsmcad Yup. Tried that.

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Ferris
When are you trying to load dsmc in autoexec.ncf? We load dsmcad as the last item in our autoexec.ncf after adding the search path to the client files. Andrew Ferris Network Support Analyst iCAPTURE Research Centre University of British Columbia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/24/2006 8:58 am >>> Troy

Resolved: TSM_ISC_5320_AIX.bin dependent on /usr/bin/X11/xset ?

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Clark
Yes, ISC 6.0.1 (TSM_ISC_5320_AIX.bin) does need X11 installed to function on AIX 5.3. The ISC includes its own Java. But Java uses AWT, and AWT need "libgair" which is in the X11.base.rte fileset. X11 as a requirement to install on AIX 5.3 really should be in the install docs. [RC]

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Andrew Ferris wrote: When are you trying to load dsmc in autoexec.ncf? We load dsmcad as the last item in our autoexec.ncf after adding the search path to the client files. Right at the end of autoexec.ncf, just before "stage5". We even tried adding some delay but that didn't help. What versi

Exclude not working on TDP for SQL

2006-02-24 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
This topic was approached recently (this past November), and I was wondering if there was a fix in place yet. Here is where it was last referenced... http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg62455.html Here is an example of what I am seeing... 02/14/2006 17:10:10 Backup of SQ

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Ferris
We're running 8.7.3.7 smp. I know that in our case our dsmcad loads right at the end of stage 5. Andrew Ferris Network Support Analyst iCAPTURE Research Centre University of British Columbia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/24/2006 9:57:56 am >>> Andrew Ferris wrote: > When are you trying to load dsmc

How to backup CIFS share on NetApp?

2006-02-24 Thread Jason Lee
Hi there, We have a number of CIFS shares on NetApp filers. For security reasons these cannot be accessed via NFS. Our issue is backing them up. If I log into a windows box and run the backup all is good. If I'm logged out, a scheduled backup of the share will fail (since it's not mounted whe

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Andrew Ferris wrote: We're running 8.7.3.7 smp. I know that in our case our dsmcad loads right at the end of stage 5. Same version of edir here. Interesting that your dsmcad loads after stage 5. According to Novell the autoexec.ncf is loaded in stage 4. http://support.novell.com/techcenter/a

Re: AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Whitlock, Brett
Is this problem platform specific? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] AW: (Too) long no query restore? Ironically, the most crucial par

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Ferris
We throw a delay of 3 or so in and we're also running clustered servers so the clustering in 6.5 takes a looong time to start up. We're also loading McAfee too so there's a fair bit of stuff to get through before the CAD. I've only just started running SP5 as it has a NSS fix for a NFS/HSM locki

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Andrew Ferris wrote: We throw a delay of 3 or so in and we're also running clustered servers so the clustering in 6.5 takes a looong time to start up. We're also loading McAfee too so there's a fair bit of stuff to get through before the CAD. I've only just started running SP5 as it has a NSS

Re: Netware 5.3.2.x client

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Sims
I'm Netware-ignorant, but this sounds like an install problem: see if you can review what transpired in the install, and check the Readme file for any gotchas. To employ a Unix analogy, it might work as a circumvention if it could be started by doing a 'cd' to the client directory first, then lau

Re: AW: (Too) long no query restore?

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Zarnowski
I completely agree with Richard on this. This problem alone (unreliable restore performance) has caused us a large amount of grief, and some abandonment of the product here. We definitely have some departments who have stopped using TSM because of this. Users should not have to figure out wheth

AUTOLABEL not working

2006-02-24 Thread William Boyer
TSM Server 5.3.2.2 on Windows 2003 server Dell Powervault 136T library with IBM LTO-2 drives. If I put the tapes in and run a LABEL LIBV they label just fine. If we insert unlabeled tapes in the library, when TSM mounts one, gives the I/O error reading tape label but then puts the volume in PRIVA

Fw: How to backup CIFS share on NetApp?

2006-02-24 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
>>>Hi there, >>> >>>We have a number of CIFS shares on NetApp filers. For security >>>reasons these cannot be accessed via NFS. Our issue is backing them >>>up. If I log into a windows box and run the backup all is good. >>>If I'm logged out, a scheduled backup of the share will fail (since >>>

Re: Exclude not working on TDP for SQL

2006-02-24 Thread Del Hoobler
Chip, The requirement to which you refer has not been placed into any released code yet. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler Tivoli Storage Manager Development IBM Corporation "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 02/24/2006 01:31:50 PM: > This topic

Re: How to backup CIFS share on NetApp?

2006-02-24 Thread Jason Lee
Thanks Pete, I'll give this a go and see what happens :-) Jason On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Pete Tanenhaus wrote: Hi there, We have a number of CIFS shares on NetApp filers. For security reasons these cannot be accessed via NFS. Our issue is backing them up. If I log into a windows box