SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Jim, With the BMR tool from IBM/TSM you can do a migration from Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Physical (V2P) or Physical to Physical (P2P). And you can pay for one time use if you don't want to keep the product. There are some VMware documents I wrote together with VMware/IBM and Cristi

Remote Tape Device Question

2007-01-16 Thread adrian_compton
I have a Windows 2003 File Server Situated 300km's away that requires backing up. We have a 512kb digi-net line to them. We were using a "Tacit" (sic) server to replicate between that site and our data centre and in turn backed up the data centre version using TSM. "Tacit" is not up to scratch, a

Re: Export sever question

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Robert Ouzen Ouzen wrote: I have an Old Tsm server on AIX and want to upgrade him to a Linux system, will be enough to export only configuration (export server FILEData=None) , to plug the library and continue to backup / restore , or I need to export the data too ??

Re: Emergency help:ANR1405W even w/ plenty of scratch tapes

2007-01-16 Thread Lee, Gary D.
John: Had a similar problem last year. It was fixed in version 5.1.7.2. I would recommend an upgrade to 5.1.9, as this also fixes a security exposure. Good luck. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL P

Criteria for full DBbackup

2007-01-16 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi all, just a quick one we just stumbled upon: running incremental/full dbb using following script: ***snip*** select * from db where LAST_BACKUP_DATE is NULL if(rc_ok) goto ba_full select * from db where num_backup_incr=20 if(rc_ok) goto ba_full if(rc_notfound) goto ba_incr ba_full: backup db d

Re: Criteria for full DBbackup

2007-01-16 Thread Choudarapu, Ramakrishna (GTI)
Was the DB has been EXTENDed or REDUCEd? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Engelhard Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Criteria for full DBbackup Hi all, just a quick one we ju

Re: Criteria for full DBbackup

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Comments: - You don't account for the case where NUM_BACKUP_INCR is 0. - I would also change the test for NUM_BACKUP_INCR=20 to NUM_BACKUP_INCR>=20. This is because if incremental BACKUP DB operations are run between executions of the script, NUM_BACKUP_INCR could be greater than 20 by the ti

Re: SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

2007-01-16 Thread Len Boyle
Good Morning Christian, Can you give the mailing list URL's to the Documents that you wrote on this topic. Thanks len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MAR

Re: SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

2007-01-16 Thread Jim Hatfield
Thank You Christian. :) Apparently, in talking with my VMware guy yesterday evening, VMware will also import a "Drive Snapshot" image directly. (the Tom Ehlert Software plug-in for BartPE that we make DR drive images with) If that works, we'll put in some über-blades in the DR Datacenter chas

Architecture and Instability Questions

2007-01-16 Thread Kerry Campbell
Hello All, I have a couple of questions... 1) This weekend TSM 5.3.2 on our AIX server became 'unstable', in that it would accept a userid but then just 'hang' and not give a prompt for a password. Some short time later, we were not even able to telnet into the AIX box that the TSM s

SV: SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Svensson
Good evening Len, I have uploaded the documents to our Swedish Website but remember that the files are on an older version of CBMR from IBM. I have some goal to update the files during Q1 2007 with VMware ESX 3 and P2V with the latest version of CBMR from IBM. P2V with CBMR and TSM http://www.c

Re: Architecture and Instability Questions

2007-01-16 Thread BEYERS Kurt
Kerry, I would start by examining the error report of the AIX box. Most likely the root cause will be found here and as a consequence, TSM could not be accessed any more. When you open a TSM Admin client and enter a TSM user (eg admin), this is still happening on the client/server where the

3494 Library, 3592 Drives, TSM Windows 5.3.4.1

2007-01-16 Thread Kelly Lipp
Folks, This library is to be connected to two TSM servers. The first is working fine as it is using the Default Scratch and Private Categories 300 and 301. In the second TSM server, we are connected and pathed as expected to the library and drives. However, we are getting drive can't read tape

Re: Architecture and Instability Questions

2007-01-16 Thread Svetoslav Tolev
On the second question anser is: No (but it depends on HW of dedicated machine and resources of LPARs) Also it's important type of your backups (LAN/SAN) via DiskPool or directly to the tape and many other... But in most cases performance of Dedicated machine / LPAR will be the same if resources ar

Re: 3494 Library, 3592 Drives, TSM Windows 5.3.4.1

2007-01-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We have 4-TSM servers sharing 3-libraries (1-3494 and 2-LTO) but none are Windoze since when I first tried to use Windoze, it wouldn't share nicely (what a shock !) so I went the Linux route and never looked back. If you want to discuss this configuration, offline, feel free to email me directly.

Re: 3494 Library, 3592 Drives, TSM Windows 5.3.4.1

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Kelly Lipp wrote: What I need is the definitive "here's how to do all this" for the 3494. Kelly - The Admin Guide manual shows how to share a 3494 both dynamically and statically. Have you set up according to those instructions and verified that configuration? I

Re: 3494 Library, 3592 Drives, TSM Windows 5.3.4.1

2007-01-16 Thread Kelly Lipp
Gang, Thanks for all the input. The errors we were getting tended to be all over the map, at times making us think we didn't have the scratch/private stuff setup correctly. Turned out to be, though, the device driver for the 3592. The most recent driver available at the ftp site fixed the prob

Re: 3494 Library, 3592 Drives, TSM Windows 5.3.4.1

2007-01-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
AHA! Your original message didn't say anything about drive types/3592 or I would have recommended checking your drivers. Speaking of 3592 drives, there have been some critical issues with the firmware of 3592 drives. IBM put out a updated firmware (D3I1_A27 for E05 models) on 12/13/2006 with a do

Re: Architecture and Instability Questions

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Rhodes
Hi, We have had AIX system loose tcp services. A long time ago it used to be somewhat common (back in AIX 4.3.3 days). It has happened on AIX 5.x, but very infrequently. In fact, I can't think of the last time. To recover we logged onto the console and run /etc/rc.tcpip. Logging in would take

tsm backup error ANS1301E \windows 2003 client

2007-01-16 Thread Gary Osullivan
hi I have a TSM backup running on a windows client (tsm 5.3.4). The backup fails with code(ANS1301E) It looks like the problem is with the size of one of the files that is updated daily. Does TSM have problems backing up files that are > than 2 G? (TSM) server is aix ,version 5, Rele

Re: tsm backup error ANS1301E \windows 2003 client

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Raibeck
This message is telling you that something happened on the TSM server... have a look there (activity log). 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] IB

Re: Win-DFS and Backup

2007-01-16 Thread Bob Talda
Andy et al: Ironically, missed this exchange because I've been dealing with the same problem Chris reported, though I didn't know it at the time. In our situation, the user reported seeing 2.8 million files expired after a manual backup. Upon much further investigaion, as best as we can deter

Failed 12 report

2007-01-16 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I don't know what anyone else feels about the Failed 12 reports but to me there are too many ways for this to be reported with little to no information as to what is really wrong. Here is another in cases I have seen. This node has been backing up just fine for months. It seems like the update of t

Re: Failed 12 report

2007-01-16 Thread William Boyer
Almost sounds like the client upgrade to 5.3.4 didn't work. I've had problems in the past where an "upgrade" over existing client code doesn't replace all the files. I usually like to uninstall and then install the new version. I saw this a lot when going from the 4.x clients up to the 5.1 code.

Re: Failed 12 report

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Sims
Geoff - The ANS0106E message usually indicates a missing piece in an install or upgrade operation, and is struggling to fully operate. Your posting doesn't indicate if you've sought that message on the TSM Support Page (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/ support/IBMTivoliStorageM

Re: Failed 12 report

2007-01-16 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>The ANS0106E message usually indicates a missing piece in an install >for upgrade operation, and is struggling to fully operate. Thanks Richard, I should have mentioned that I did tell the administrator to use the fix from the IBM site to fix the message index not found messages. My issue with t

DST change leads to server not starting

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Ferris
Hello TSM-ers, The one Windows 2000 server we have is our TSM server (5.3.3.3). I was trying to get ahead of the upcoming DST change by editing the timezone info on the server as Microsoft do not have an official patch for Win2K. TSM has detected the time has changed and is complaining about AN

Adding new reports to TSMOR

2007-01-16 Thread Steven Harris
Hi all, I've tried looking for detailed info on TSMOR but haven't been able to find anything. Google, redbooks, quickfacts have nothing Very frustrating. I'm trying to add a new report to TSMOR reporting. I've worked out the sql that I want and run it with reasonable success. The problem I'm

Re: DST change leads to server not starting

2007-01-16 Thread Roger Deschner
I assume you used tzedit.exe to make the change. If not, try that. You can download a copy for Win2000 at http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/TZEDIT.exe This is a whole lot preferable to editing the registry by hand. Make sure you follow the final two