Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

2008-01-15 Thread Kauffman, Tom
I'm looking for the eclipse plugins for the TSM 5.5 admin guide and admin reference and not having any luck. If' they are in the media pack they're well hidden. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use

DBPageShadowFile

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Huebner
In a disaster, is the DBPageShadowFile required, needed or useless when using TSM DB and Log mirroring to another data center? The assumption is TSM will be brought up on the mirrors. Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you ar

Re: Select statement

2008-01-15 Thread Matthew Warren
Would this be the count of tapes made mountable that day?, q drm * wherestate=mountable? - I don;'t have access to a TSM server to test a select for the same info. That would assume you are moving mountable tapes to state 'vault' each day. Matt. Internet [EMAIL PROTECT

Reconcile volumes & expiration

2008-01-15 Thread Keith Arbogast
Does 'reconcile volumes fix=yes' do its own deletion of database records, or is inventory expiration needed to complete the cleanup of inconsistencies? Thank you, Keith Arbogast Indiana University

Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread TSTLTDTD
I'd like to hear some expert opinions on this forum. What happens when you attempt to backup, migrate, move data, reclaim the same pools at the same time? Thanks in advance for your input. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Kelly Lipp
Spanking is a good description. Turns out the TSM will let you do all of that simultaneously to the extent possible. Now, in some cases the nature of what you suggests implies that certain things have to wait. For instance, I can't have one tape allocated to two processes (though, in some cases i

TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Just wanted to know if anyone's made the jump. We just got in a new server and will be moving from v5.3.1.2 to either 5.4 or 5.5. Just wanted to know what your thoughts were on migrating? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional Baptist Heal

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Sims
Thinking of this as the adult section of TSM discussions, I will say that you can do what TSM will let you - which is to say, what makes sense. For example, if a given BAckup STGpool is already in progress, it doesn't make sense for another to be accepted: attempting to start another with the sam

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Curtis Preston
I would concur with Kelly. With rare exceptions, it's generally advisable to do these activities serially. Different environments do them in different orders, but they tend to do them one at a time. Doing them simultaneously creates all kinds of contention issues. Kelly alluded to one with two

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:03:58 -0500, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thinking of this as the adult section of TSM discussions, I will say > that you can do what TSM will let you - which is to say, what makes > sense. You can do a variety of things which make less and less sense as you

Re: Reconcile volumes & expiration

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Keith Arbogast wrote: Does 'reconcile volumes fix=yes' do its own deletion of database records, or is inventory expiration needed to complete the cleanup of inconsistencies? Keith - Expiration is necessary, on the target server. Richard Sims http

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin P. Kinder
On what platform? Kevin Kinder State of West Virginia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM v5.

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We do these kinds of concurrent operations, all the time (not always intentionally). Most of the time the biggest issue is database transaction conflicts/deadlocks which TSM usually resolves on its own. Of course, don't know who lost what in the "shoot-out" without doing serious triage. TSTLTD

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We're looking at moving from 5.3.2.0 in the next six weeks; we've got a new TS3500 on the floor with LTO-4 drives we need to support. We'll be knocking together a test server in a few days, validating it, and then upgrading it. Then we'll do what testing we can (our problems have historically been

Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread TSTLTDTD
I don't want to be called a wuss, so the system in question is doing expiration, and a db backup. DOG PILE ON THE RABBIT! +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
AIX. In another phase of the project, we will upgrade the OS from AIX 5.2 to 5.3. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin P. Kinder Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v5.5 feedback

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Just wanted to know if anyone's made the jump. We just got in a new server > and will be moving from v5.3.1.2 to either 5.4 or 5.5. Just wanted to know > what your thoughts were on migrating? The upgrades from 5.3.X upward shou

Re: Select statement

2008-01-15 Thread Wanda Prather
Q DRM * gives you the list of tapes in the COPY pool that aren't marked OFFSITE. (By default it also includes the DBBACKUPS, unless you specify something else on the Q DRM) Depending on when you run the Q DRM, it MAY be the same as the tapes created that day. It will USUALLY be the tapes created s

backup status

2008-01-15 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Client 5.5.0.1 Server 5.4.0.3 AIX 5.3 I installed this new client on a number of servers about 1 week ago. The problem did not rear its head immediately. What I have seen in the client logs is a "successful" backup posted but what I see on the server if a filespace that says it has not complet

Fw: Select statement

2008-01-15 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
What about something along these lines - I can never get the math to work right on SELECT statements (I'd just run two, and do the math myself...) (select count(*) from volhistory where type='STGNEW') - (select count(*) from volhistory where usage='STGDELETE') [that's a minus sign between the two

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Larry Peifer
We've been running the following configuration since Aug. 2007 with no problems. Migrated from 5.3.x server and 5.3.x clients. TSM Server: 5.4.0.0 on AIX 5.3 ML6, RS6000, p520 TSM Clients: 95 - Windows Servers: 5.4..0.4 14 - AIX servers: 5.4.1.0 All backups go to 2.5TB diskpool,

Re: ANR8833E - Does 5.4.3 = 5.5 ? [No, TSM 5.5 is better!]

2008-01-15 Thread James R Owen
Zoltan, Look again at that APAR doc: IBM - IC54107: TSM ANR8833E DURING CHECKIN LIBVOL FOR SOME VOLUMES http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC54107 My reading is that APAR IC54107 affects only TSM 5.3 and 5.4. If correct, that is why it is not listed as an APAR fixed in TSM 5.5. So

Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

2008-01-15 Thread Roger Deschner
. It's all at the usual location, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp What I want to know is where can I buy a paper copy? I don't have the patience to print them, and I really want a printed copy of the v5.5 "Administrator's Guide". Roger Deschner University of Illin

Re: Spanking my data.

2008-01-15 Thread Roger Deschner
. In my experience, the only one of those you don't want to mess with is migration. Tape drives are our most scarce resource. We do client-backup/expiration/reclamation together. (Our database is big, and is on extremely fast, highly tuned, disks.) Then we migrate, all by itself. Then we backup th

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

2008-01-15 Thread Roger Deschner
. We're on AIX TSM Server 5.5 in large-scale production, since December 28 when we migrated from 5.3. (Somewhat against my better judgement which tells me never to run a "dot zero" version of anything, much less a "dot zero dot zero". But here we are, on AIX TSM 5.5.0.0 server and a few clients. Mo