DB size problem

2006-10-19 Thread Szymon Kacprzak
Wiadomosc przeskanowana programem antywirusowym. Nie znaleziono wirusow / This message was anti-virus scanned. No viruses were found. Hi I have problem with DB size. Now it's 114 GB (with 18 Windows Server clients). My policy parameters are: Version Data Exist: Nolimit Version Data Deleted: Nolim

Re: binding inactive (deleted) files to new mgmt class

2006-10-19 Thread Crosskey, Adam - Resources, ICT Services
I am pleased to say that this works perfectly. (I have a 5.2.4 client, so the delete backup is not an option) Following the deletion of the dummy files, and another incremental, the original copies of the files are discarded, in accordance with the copygroup rules for the new mgmt class. Thank y

Re: DB size problem

2006-10-19 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, You have to go into unloading and reloading the database. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Szymon Kacprzak Sent: donderdag 19 oktober 2006 10:18 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: DB size problem Wiadomosc prz

Re: Tape TTL

2006-10-19 Thread Lars-Erik Öhman
Are there a Windows version of this tapeutil somewhere? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: den 18 oktober 2006 21:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape TTL On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Mark Stapleto

Microsoft volume shadow copy failed

2006-10-19 Thread Smith, I (Ian)
I have inherited some old Windows 2000 servers to backup and have installed TSM 5.3.3 client on for standard incremental backup. The TSM server is 5.2.7.1. I keep getting the following errors during the backup: The domain statement is all-local so I thought it would do a systemobjects whereas the

Backup window ?

2006-10-19 Thread goc
hi, i'm little lost in terminology here , if someone can shed some light on my confusion ... Executing scheduled command now. 10/14/06 22:42:30 Executing Operating System command or script: su - oracle -c /db/sdb11/backup01/backup/sdb1_do_bkup.sh 10/15/06 21:25:16 Finished command. Return

Re: Microsoft volume shadow copy failed

2006-10-19 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
Normally it is a VVS problem, Ntbackup should fail too when backuping up Syatemstate/ASR information. Stopping and restarting VSS service etc wont solve the problem. MS is happy to provide som hotfixes and they will require a reboot. Try 'vssadmin list writes' to check if some VSS writers are in er

Re: Backup window ?

2006-10-19 Thread Matthew Warren
The backup window can be extended using the dur and duru parameters of an 'update schedule' command; use 'help update schedule' for detailed information on the parameters. I'm not sure if you will have problems making the window >24 hours if the schedule is expected to run once every 24 hours thou

Size of Backups taken

2006-10-19 Thread Gopinathan, Srinath
Hi All, Is there any command (or) Any other way which can help us knowing the size of data backed up? Regards, Srinath G The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprie

Re: Size of Backups taken

2006-10-19 Thread goc
select sum(cast(bytes/1024/1024/1024 as decimal(6,2))) GB from summary where start_time>=current_timestamp - 24 hours and activity='BACKUP' shows total data in gigabytes backed up in last 24 hours peace, goran - Original Message - From: "Gopinathan, Srinath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Se

Block size of data when written to tape?

2006-10-19 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello everyone, I have been asked what the blocksize of the data is when it is being transferred from disk to tape? I wasn't quite sure how to respond to this question. Does anyone know where any documentation/information is on such a question? Any information is appreciated! Thanks!

Re: Size of Backups taken

2006-10-19 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Gopinathan, Srinath wrote: Is there any command (or) Any other way which can help us knowing the size of data backed up? In addition to Goran's suggestion, you can also inspect the ANE client messages in the Activity Log, and process your TSM accounting records (wh

Re: Block size of data when written to tape?

2006-10-19 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Joni Moyer wrote: I have been asked what the blocksize of the data is when it is being transferred from disk to tape? I wasn't quite sure how to respond to this question. Does anyone know where any documentation/information is on such a question? Any information i

export node toserver, extremely slow

2006-10-19 Thread Tom Tann{s
Hi! Both source ant target-servers are 5.3.2.0, running on the same P650 machine, AIX 5.3.0.0 I only get around 35-50 KB/s, and that is useless... When exporting to tape from the target-server, the export runs at 20-30 MB/s, and about the same when importing from the tape to the source-server.

Re: export node toserver, extremely slow

2006-10-19 Thread Richard Sims
Tom - To factors which come to mind are: - Lack of collocation can make for a lot of tape repositioning, which, depending upon your tape technology, can be painful. - I know from experience, watching reclamations, that tapes which have been sitting unused for long periods of time (years)

Re: DB size problem

2006-10-19 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Szymon Kacprzak wrote: I have problem with DB size. Now it's 114 GB (with 18 Windows Server clients). My policy parameters are: Version Data Exist: Nolimit Version Data Deleted: Nolimit Retain Extra Ver.: 7 Retain Only Ver.: 7 Your backup retentions are tiny, so o

HSM FOR WINDOWS

2006-10-19 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi all, I just got the HSM for Windows ... I want to install it on my file server... its a Windows 2000 server in a cluster environnement. I cannot make it work for the cluster drive ... it works only for the local drive of my server. ... Is there any option or config that I have to do to mak

subfile on unix clients?

2006-10-19 Thread Allen S. Rout
Anybody out there in IBM-land got a dont-hold-me-to-this estimation of wether and when we might expect subfile backup on unix clients? Is it dependant on filepath stability? - Allen S. Rout - Bleeding from the mouth and filepath.

Odd client problem - backs up all files every night

2006-10-19 Thread Angus Macdonald
One of my clients has decided to back up all files every night, instead of performing an incremental backup, so I have multiple identical copies of ancient files and old versions of files are rapidly overwritten by multiple copies of the current version. I'm using the BA Client and all my client m

Re: Odd client problem - backs up all files every night

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
The client does not decide on its own to back up all files every night. Something else is almost certainly triggering that behavior. Likely possibilities: someone changed a copy group's MODE setting (on the TSM server) to ABSOLUTE (though that could affect all nodes belonging to that policy), or s

Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
I'm setting up TSM to replace an existing backup setup. The existing setup uses software based tape mirroring, and we'd like to continue doing something similar. I would rather avoid real tape mirroring, so I can do collocation on the on-site pool, and no collocation on the off-site pool. Basical

Re: Odd client problem - backs up all files every night

2006-10-19 Thread Angus Macdonald
Hmmm. It's only apparent on this one server and they all share the same policy. I'll check if any big security changes have happened. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 October 2006 16:19 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Odd cl

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on each pool. So if the primary pool is collocated and the copy is not, the correct thing

Re: subfile on unix clients?

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
At this time, I am not aware of any such plans. As to whether filepath would be a part of the picture, I do not know. 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 PRO

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary > and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set > this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on > each pool. So if the primary pool is collocated and the copy

Re: Odd client problem - backs up all files every night

2006-10-19 Thread Lawrence Clark
the client may be running an explicit 'selective' backup, forcing the backup of all files. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/06 11:00 AM >>> One of my clients has decided to back up all files every night, instead of performing an incremental backup, so I have multiple identical copies of ancient files a

Client Option format for Domain

2006-10-19 Thread William Sherrill
I seem to be having trouble with the correct syntax for defining the domain under the client option sets. I have nodes defined for window's os that I just want to backup system objects, c: and d: drives. I have other nodes defined for the e: and f: drives. I tried c: d: systemobject system

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
Skylar, In our systems, we backup stg first and then migrate so we know we have one done before the other. In your case, you synchronize theses processes (our STORServer Manager product does this for you) by creating scripts. I guess I don't really worry too much about a tape failure before the

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Zajkowski
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Skylar Thompson wrote: Is there a way to guarantee that data is backed up to a copy tape pool before being migrated to the primary tape pool? We want to avoid any tape-to-tape transfers before we have two known-good copies that we can recover from. Note that you can enable

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, Define a script: Backup stg diskpoolX copypoolX wait=yes Backup stg tapepoolX copypoolX wait=yes Migrate stg diskpoolX Define an admin schedule to run the script. If your diskpool is large enough to hold at least one day of backup data, you can turn on caching and always have the latest back

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Robert Clark
On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: Kelly Lipp wrote: Yes there is a way to do write to two tapes simultaneously: one primary and one copy. Use the copystg parameter on the primary pool to set this. This action behaves with respect to the collocation parameter on each pool. S

Re: Client Option format for Domain

2006-10-19 Thread David Longo
Part of answer is how I have my dsm.opt setup, with comments on Windows versions below: * * Options file examples: * * DOMAIN depends on what OS and what you want to backup. * To backup everything, just use "ALL-LOCAL" * To backup o

Re: Tape TTL

2006-10-19 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 10:53 AM 10/18/2006, Bos, Karel wrote: So, we need an extra table containing all volumes at any point defined in ITSM containing at least date_first_used, #mounts, #errors, #write_passes and current_state. Or something like that. Something along these lines would do the trick. I agree that

Re: HSM FOR WINDOWS

2006-10-19 Thread Francisco Molero
Hello, At the begining of the next year, this version will support MSCS clusters. you can use this version, it is posible you solve the pb. http://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r3/Windows/x32/v534/HSM/ On the other hand, the HSM client is cluster tole

Re: Block size of data when written to tape?

2006-10-19 Thread Francisco Molero
Hi, the block size is 256 in TSM Server 5.3 and 64 in the other TSM versions. - Mensaje original De: Joni Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Enviado: jueves, 19 de octubre, 2006 13:51:41 Asunto: Block size of data when written to tape? Hello everyone, I have been as

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > Skylar, > > In our systems, we backup stg first and then migrate so we know we have > one done before the other. In your case, you synchronize theses > processes (our STORServer Manager product does this for you) by creating > scripts. > > I guess I don't really worry too much

COMMTIMEOUT option

2006-10-19 Thread RODOLFICH, NICHOLAS
Does anyone know if COMMTIMEOUT is a dynamic variable? I would like to change it but I am not sure if I need to restart TSN for it to take effect. Thanks for your help!! Regards, Nicholas Rodolfich Systems Analyst POOLCORP Desk: (985)801-3038 Cell: (228)223-6777 mailto:[EMAI

Re: COMMTIMEOUT option

2006-10-19 Thread Anker Lerret
> Does anyone know if COMMTIMEOUT is a dynamic variable? I would like to > change it but I am not sure if I need to restart TSN for it to take > effect. I believe SETOPT will change COMMTIMEOUT dynamically. anker

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly Lipp
In that environment, then, what does it all mean? You never have all of your files backed up into any one location at any one time anyway! So it becomes a point-in-time thing: at this point in time, everything is as good as it can possibly be... For Windows clients, try the journaling option. T

good books on queries

2006-10-19 Thread Avy Wong
hello, Can anyone refer me to some good books or links on Tivoli commands? I understand IBM site themselves have some reference to it , but the query commands are not quite enough to do what I would like to do, may be I need to find more information about complex query . I appreciate if anyo

Re: Tivoli storage manager migration/backup

2006-10-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
Kelly Lipp wrote: > > In that environment, then, what does it all mean? You never have all of > > your files backed up into any one location at any one time anyway! So > > it becomes a point-in-time thing: at this point in time, everything is > > as good as it can possibly be... > > > > For Wind

Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?

2006-10-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
Been there, done that. - Advantage of building your own pool is that you can expand it whenever you want just by adding disk. CDL's on the market mostly have an upper limit on the TB they support. - You'll need to pre-allocate the volumes as mentioned before, but that's easy if you use the ne