Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Rhodes
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: > > 3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission > date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up. We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot in a "q node" listing. We would rename nod

Re: TOCDestination question

2008-05-23 Thread Shawn Drew
For some reason, I have this impression that only the backup process pays attention to the Management Class, so that's why I have a little doubt that a restore will know to look in the right place for the TOC. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Timothy Hughes
We do this also put a comment in the CONTACT node field with the date the node can be deleted from TSM, and the ticket number of the request that asked us to retire the node. Richard Rhodes wrote: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: 3) We put the clients name into

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
Richard Rhodes wrote: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: 3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up. We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot in a "q node" listing.

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Rhodes
It's interesting how the CONTACT field gets used for general comments. I've often wished TSM had a general comment section (variable length) where we could keep track of changes made to a node over time. This would be SO helpfull! Rick Timothy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
We attach the date (as in \\nodename\c$\_20080523) to our old filespaces and set a tickler for deleting them. We will also occasionally rename a filespace to force a full backup if a filespace is becoming too scattered on the offsite media. We set the tickler a little past when the last inactive fi

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Sims
On May 23, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote: It's interesting how the CONTACT field gets used for general comments. I've often wished TSM had a general comment section (variable length) where we could keep track of changes made to a node over time. This would be SO helpfull! The DEFine

Re: Schedmode Polling behaviour

2008-05-23 Thread Shawn Drew
If you want to make sure the schedules don't interfere with each other, you should probably make 2 node names and 2 schedule services so there is no conflict. Also, you meant "backup" instead of "restore", correct? It was a little confusion reading this if that isn't the case. Assuming so... Thi

Re: Netapp/ADIC I2000 path woes

2008-05-23 Thread Shawn Drew
for Posterity: NetApp has an existing bug (Has been around for several years and it doesn't look like it will be fixed anytime soon.) When a tape drive is zoned to a NetApp, it binds using the WWNN and not the WWPN. This can not be changed. We zone using the WWPN, which seems to be the default

Why so many filling tapes?

2008-05-23 Thread Roger Deschner
Our TSM system is eating tapes. We have a very large number of "filling" tapes. I have sorted them by collocation group, and some collocation groups have as many as 6 tapes in "filling" status. We only have 4 tape drives, and we never migrate with more than 2 drives per storage pool, so I cannot u

Re: Why so many filling tapes?

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Sims
The utilization of tapes in Collocation Groups is particularly tricky. See Technote 1268766 for IBM's explanation. You may have to dig into the specifics of the evidenced volumes and contextual events to see what contributed to the situation. Richard Sims

Re: Schedmode Polling behaviour

2008-05-23 Thread Steven Harris
No, I meant restore. These are scheduled restores. Shawn Drew wrote: If you want to make sure the schedules don't interfere with each other, you should probably make 2 node names and 2 schedule services so there is no conflict. Also, you meant "backup" instead of "restore", correct? It was a