Upgrade & possible downgrade questions.

2006-03-21 Thread Farren Minns
Hi all This Saturday I will finally be moving from an on Solaris 7 server (TSM 5.1.6.2) to a new Solaris 9 (TSM 5.2.2.7) one. My question this time regards downgrading from 5.2.2.7 to 5.1.6.2 should I need to. Do I need to physically remove any existing dB and log volumes as well as un-install th

tsm admin question !

2006-03-21 Thread goc
hi all, just wondering if you when creating a new node do create an administrator for that node or use some/your admin account for every node ? i create for every node an admin with the same name and noticed that the list of admins is getting bigger and bigger :-) okay, thanks goran TSM 5315 @ A

Re: Upgrade & possible downgrade questions.

2006-03-21 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Hi Farren, Downgarding? You cant if you dont have an DB backup that was taken in the earlier format, 5.1.6.2. I´m not so sure what you are trying to do but...in short. Do: Solaris 7, 5.1.6.2 Migrate all data from disk stgpools and backup DB. Halt Restore Db to the new server, Solaris 9, 5.1.6.2

Re: tsm admin question !

2006-03-21 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Usually yes, check 'help reg node' and -userid. //Henrik -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: den 21 mars 2006 11:44 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: tsm admin question ! hi all, just wondering if you when creating a new node

Re: tsm admin question !

2006-03-21 Thread Dirk Kastens
Hi, just wondering if you when creating a new node do create an administrator for that node or use some/your admin account for every node ? No, we do not create admins for the nodes (admin=none). -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 2

Re: Upgrade & possible downgrade questions.

2006-03-21 Thread Farren Minns
Hi Henrik I have had a few comments now regarding upgrading Hardware/OS and TSM at the same time not being the best idea so I am going to get TSM running as it is now but on the new hardware/OS and then upgrade TSM a week or so later. Many thanks for the advice Farren |--

Re: tsm admin question !

2006-03-21 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:43:54AM +0100, goc wrote: > just wondering if you when creating a new node do create an administrator > for that > node or use some/your admin account for every node ? Nope, most nodes here are created with USERID=NONE. Whats's best for you depends on your individual si

IBM Automated Tape Library 5.4.8.0

2006-03-21 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
Question for the population: When we were working on using the storage agent, we installed the IBM Automated Tape Library 5.4.8.0. driver on the windows servers. Since then, we've not gone the route of lan-free and we uninstalled the service. BUT.it still shows up as a service on the window

Re: tsm admin question !

2006-03-21 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:59:27 +0100, Jurjen Oskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Nope, most nodes here are created with USERID=NONE. Whats's best for you > depends on your individual sitation though... Ditto; I try to get my TSM admins to use userid=none too. Grumble, it would be nice to be abl

Re: Virtual Volume Copy Pool Reclamation....

2006-03-21 Thread Pope, Simon R. (IR Computing)
Hi Allen We've just set up a new TSM infrastructure with disk (random) and SATA primary stgpools and a virtual volume copy stgpool. (Server 5.3.2 on AIX) Reclamation of the virtual volumes appears to work in the offsite manner ie we see multiple mounts of SATA volumes to build the new virtual volu

damaged files

2006-03-21 Thread John Bremer
Greetings, Does anyone have a way to find damaged files on tape volumes without querying content of every volume ( for example: q content xx damaged=yes ) ? Thank you. Regards, John

Issue on TSM server: Help!

2006-03-21 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello Everyone! I have a production TSM 5.2.4.5 on AIX 5.2 and am having issues with the server recycling itself. Last night it completely hung and I had messages in the dsmserv.err file similar to the one's I am seeing below: 03/21/2006 08:18:42 ANRD Invalid attempt to free memory (invalid

Re: damaged files

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Sims
On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:22 AM, John Bremer wrote: Greetings, Does anyone have a way to find damaged files on tape volumes without querying content of every volume ( for example: q content xx damaged=yes ) ? John - There being no "Damaged" column value or enumtype in the SQL lookups

Re: damaged files

2006-03-21 Thread John Bremer
Thanks Richard. Agreed, I scoured the columns in TSM tables for something, but nothing there. I'm wondering where we are getting output from the q content command? tsm: DSMSERV3>q content bc0154 damaged=yes Node NameType Filespace FSIDClient's Name for File Name ---

Re: damaged files

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Sims
On Mar 21, 2006, at 12:13 PM, John Bremer wrote: I'm wondering where we are getting output from the q content command? There's far more going on in the server than we as customers will ever know about. :-) Richard Sims

Restartable export node?

2006-03-21 Thread Jason Lee
Hi, I'm migrating a TSM instance from AIX to Linux. I have a node that has a single filespace with about 5TB of data in it. Looking at the performance I'm getting I'd guess that the export node is going to take a week or two to complete - not good. And most likely I'll never get it to finish. So

Re: Restartable export node?

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Stapleton
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 03/21/2006 02:00:35 PM: > I'm migrating a TSM instance from AIX to Linux. I have a node that > has a single filespace with about 5TB of data in it. Looking at the > performance I'm getting I'd guess that the export node is going to > take a week or two to complet

Re: Issue on TSM server: Help!

2006-03-21 Thread Orville Lantto
This is a known issue that is fixed in 5.2.7 and in 5.3. PK09064: ANRD INVALID ATTEMPT TO FREE MEMORY (INVALID HEADER) MESSAGECAUSING TSM SERVER CRASH. Orville L. Lantto Glasshouse Technologies, Inc. From: ADSM: Dist Sto

SQL2025N An I/O error "-50" occurred on media "TSM".

2006-03-21 Thread Jacques Van Den Berg
Hi, I had the above error last night on a DB2 backup. The error point to my "CommTimeOut" parameter which is currently set to 60. Can anyone give me an indication as to what is a good value for this parameter? q option I'm running TSM 5.3 on AIX 5.3 Thanks Jacques van den Berg TSM