Re: Shrinking the SQL logs after TDP full backup

2007-10-31 Thread Rick Harderwijk
Hi Steven, Thanks for your reply. I'm not the one-man-band, I'm glad to say, but I sort of run the TSM stuff at the moment for the Windows clients, including TDP *and* am one of the people responsible for the Windows servers. Theses growing logfiles have impact on the whole system and as such I

DSMADMC MVS Call from REXX Error

2007-10-31 Thread Werner Nussbaumer
Hi Up to version 5.3 of the TSM server calling DSMADMC from REXX was possible. With the new version 5.4 and a new library SYS2.TS54.LINKLIB when calling DSMADMC I get the following error message: 3 *-* "DSMADMC" +++ RC(-3) +++ The REXX: /* REXX */ ADDRESS TSO "DSMADMC" Thanks for any he

ANS1809W incremental backups fail

2007-10-31 Thread Schaub, Steve
TSM Server 5.2.7.1 TSM Client 5.4.1.0 Windows 2003 Standard SP2 32bit Have a bit of a mystery here. I have this one server that the TSM client freezes up on every time I run an incremental on it. Doesn't matter if it is scheduled, manual, gui, command line - the thing just stops responding

Re: ANS1809W incremental backups fail

2007-10-31 Thread Jolliff, Dale
We are having the same issue -- there seems to be some issue with the TCP offload engine in MS service Pack 2. I have PMR 75625 open on it and I hear that there are several more in level 2 collecting traces. We don't have a resolution yet. I'm running 5.4 client on one of these and I'm going to

Re: ANS5250E, ANS1999E and ANS1950E errors in Windows 2003 clients dsmerror.log

2007-10-31 Thread Timothy Hughes
Andy - Thanks, I looked in the Event Viewer log for VSS and it showed the following error for 10/30/07. Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on the Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137 - 7b9f - 4925 -af80-51abd60b20d5} Routine details EndprepareSnapshots[{3d86e222-9ac6-44c8-9430

ssl for client web interface on v5.4

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Roder
Hi All, I am still researching this, but it appears that in TSM 5.3, IBM dropped the HTTPSport and COMMmethod HTTPS client config statements. We want to use dsmcad for certain client restores, and want the communication to be secure. Since dsmcad has a security vulnerability fixed in 5.4.1.

Re: ANS5250E, ANS1999E and ANS1950E errors in Windows 2003 clients dsmerror.log

2007-10-31 Thread Dwight Cook
There are some patches that have to do with VSS issues which are only available by request, they are: Windows 2003 -IA64bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-ia64-enu.exe Windows 2003 - 32bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-x86-enu.exe Windows 2003 SP1 -IA64 bit servers WindowsServer20

Re: ssl for client web interface on v5.4

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Steve Roder wrote: ... Since dsmcad has a security vulnerability fixed in 5.4.1.2, we need to use that version. Steve - FWIW: Note that all TSM 5.x levels received that fix, if you're thinking of the September alert. See Flash 1268775. Richard Sims

Re: Clients hung trying to send results back to server

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: ... 10/29/2007 06:19:16 ANS1809W A session with the TSM server has been disconnected. An attempt will be made to reestablish the connection. 10/29/2007 08:27:12 SendSchedResult: Received rc: -50 trying to receive ConfirmResp verb ... Zo

Re: ANS5250E, ANS1999E and ANS1950E errors in Windows 2003 clients dsmerror.log

2007-10-31 Thread Timothy Hughes
Dwight- thanks Dwight Cook wrote: There are some patches that have to do with VSS issues which are only available by request, they are: Windows 2003 -IA64bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-ia64-enu.exe Windows 2003 - 32bit servers WindowsServer2003-KB887827-v3-x86-enu.exe Windows 2003

How to map OS devices to element numbers/locations

2007-10-31 Thread Nicholas Rodolfich
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! We have TSM 5.3.5/AIX 5.3.5/ IBM pSeries 55a/IBM 3584 (8-LTO1 & 8- LTO2) drives. We have an IBM 2109 switch in the D32 cabinet and an IBM 2005-B16 switch in the L32 expansion cabinet. I recently had an adapter replaced and when the new AIX devices were recreated

Clients hung trying to send results back to server

2007-10-31 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
TSM server: Linux x86_64 5.4.1.2 TSM client: Windows 5.4.1.3 We have been having lots of problems lately, primarily due to network changes (moving to VPN's, firewalls, etc). This causes constant hangs, timeouts, backup sessions not ending, etc. One problem that has been cropping up is the follo

Re: ANS1809W incremental backups fail

2007-10-31 Thread Schaub, Steve
FYI - I originally saw this problem when the client was installed at 5.3.4.0 - I hoped upgrading to 5.4.1.0 would help, but it didn't make a difference. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8

Re: Shrinking the SQL logs after TDP full backup

2007-10-31 Thread Quirt, Tom
In sql enterprise manager right click on the database and go to properties. Look at the options tab put a checkmark in the shrink log box. Within TSM from the sql gui check the truncate log box in the backup tab. Should do it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[

Re: TSM and Mac OS X 10.5

2007-10-31 Thread Bob Talda
Cody, et al The forthcoming TSM client for Macintosh v5.5 is going to be the first client to support Leopard. While the 5.4 client appears to work on Leopard, we've heard reports of flaky behavior - not something we want to deal with - so we are advising our users to wait for 5.5. Cody Scot

Re: How to map OS devices to element numbers/locations

2007-10-31 Thread Kathleen M Hallahan
Nicholas, On the GUI, under Service>Drive VPD, you can tie serial number to frame and row, which can tie back to element under the drive menu. Use lscfg -v info for serial numbers in AIX. It's a few steps, but all of the data can be chained together. Hope this helps! __

Re: How to map OS devices to element numbers/locations

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Sims
Nicholas - See Technote 1164962 on that. Richard Sims at Boston University

TSM and Mac OS X 10.5

2007-10-31 Thread Cody Scott
Our standards folks are starting to look at application compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and I was asked if TSM runs on it. Looking at IBM's system requirements page for the Mac, it only says 5.4.x run on 10.4.7 or higher. Obviously, we can test TSM on Leopard internally, but I was curio

Re: How to map OS devices to element numbers/locations

2007-10-31 Thread Wanda Prather
To prevent the problem in the future, in dsmserv.opt, add SANDISCOVERY ON. (the default is off). With that enabled, TSM can usually reset the element/serial numbers on the fly. > Hello All, > > Thanks for your help!! > > We have TSM 5.3.5/AIX 5.3.5/ IBM pSeries 55a/IBM 3584 (8-LTO1 & 8- > LTO2) d

backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
TSM Server AIX 5.3 TSM 5.3.3.0 This morning I had a situation where both the backup of disk and tape failed and nothing was written to offsite volumes. The activity log seems to indicate that tapes were not available but that doesn't seem to be the case. I did rerun the script to kick these pro

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
> Was their a pending move media or move drmedia request? Perhaps >somebody didn't reply to the checkout request yesterday. I did notice that there was a message in the log because the I/O door was full from ejects the night before and needed to be emptied but Monday morning that happened also an

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Warren Becker
Yes, I've seen one aspect of this problem, frequently. The part about the volume "currently being checked in or checked out". The only way I could correct the problem was to stop and then start the Tivoli server. Tivoli support had no other answer to this problem when I contacted them. -Origi

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Kelly Lipp
Was their a pending move media or move drmedia request? Perhaps somebody didn't reply to the checkout request yesterday. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dis

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Kauffman, Tom
What type of library? We've had instances with a 3584 under TSM 5.3.2.0 where the library would start a tape move to the I/O door and find the door full -- and the gripper just sits there with a tape in it's mouth until we pulled some tapes from the I/O door. And with the gripper occupied, no othe

TSM client error ANS1999E

2007-10-31 Thread Ing. Fernando Villarreal - Silice S.A.
Hi all, I'm working with TSM version 5.3.4 on linux (fedora core 5) and the backup schedule stops with error ANS1999E when reach a mounted directory. This is exclude/include from dsm.sys Exclude /.../* INCLUDE /var/backup/database/.../* MC-BASES INCLUDE /opt/www/.../* MC-APLICACIONES INCLUDE

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Len Boyle
Hello Tom Interesting that the 3584 would load the tape in the gripper, you would think that it would know what is in the I/O door. I do not believe that we have seen this problem. We have seen tapes stuck in the gripper, or gripper/hand hardware failures. But having a tape stuck in the gripper

Re: Shrinking the SQL logs after TDP full backup

2007-10-31 Thread Rick Harderwijk
Tom, Thanks. That's one way to tackle this issue, and it will work great for a one-time-only thing, but if you want to do this regularly, following a scheduled TDP Full+Log backup, this will become really hard, taking into account that we have machines hosting 25+ databases. I have been checking

Re: backup disk/backup tape

2007-10-31 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
>What type of library? 3584/TS3500 level 7260 Of the 2 grippers one was replaced a couple of weeks ago and both have been working fine. I have not seen the system try to move a tape to the door when it is full but I do see it consistently scan the door when it is full. It could be possible a tape

Re: TSM client error ANS1999E

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Ing. Fernando Villarreal - Silice S.A. wrote: I'm working with TSM version 5.3.4 on linux (fedora core 5) and the backup schedule stops with error ANS1999E when reach a mounted directory. ... Review your dsmerror.log for additional information, as advised in the me