Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Dwight Cook
In general computing you will want to have your production data center with all your production servers and your remote site data center functioning as your production fix / test / development / disaster recovery data center. Wise processing practice is to perform monthly production fix refreshes f

Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Lindsay Morris
Be aware that there are many reasons why you won't be able to restore, even if the backup DID work successfully. For example: ** ** - *Tapes are damaged or unavailable* - It's easy to damage tapes when you transport them to your off-site DR tests. ** - Critical files are exclude

Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
>From the few responses I got about 6.1.4.x vs 6.2.1.1 for a new server, the responses leaned to 6.2.x. With that decision made, the next is laying out the structure of storage pools and such. Most discussions/directions from here/IBM say that DEVCLASS FILE is the way to go vs defining fixed sto

Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
- *"Rogue" servers never got registered to TSM* - Gartner says this problem has escalated lately with VMware machines popping up everywhere. I'm convinced they breed, at night, when no one's minding themzillions and zillions

Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
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Re: Validate backup and archives.

2010-09-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
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Automatic archive log error in DB2 ?

2010-09-17 Thread hungng89
I am configuring the automatic archive log in DB2 using vendoropt tsm > > First log archive method (LOGARCHMETH1) = > VENDOR:/usr/tivoli/tsm/tdp_r3/db264/libtdpdb264.a > Options for logarchmeth1 (LOGARCHOPT1) = /db2/PIP/tdp_r3/vendor.env > Second log archive method (LOGARCHMETH2) = > VENDOR:/usr

Tivoli Solaris 6.1.0.0 client issue

2010-09-17 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello all I'm trying to unzip a solaris 6.1.0.0 client and I keep getting the error below has anyone had this issue before? # ls 6.1.0.0-TIV-TSMBAC-SolarisSparc.tar.Z # gunzip 6.1.0.0-TIV-TSMBAC-SolarisSparc.tar.Z # ls 6.1.0.0-TIV-TSMBAC-SolarisSparc.tar # tar -xvf 6.1.0.0-TIV-TSMBAC-SolarisSpa

Re: Determining devclass FILE values (a.k.a. New Server - Part Deux)

2010-09-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
>So, have you migrated to devclass FILE? I have migrated most of primary pools to devc/stgpool FILE and found them perfect (it was done as a preparation to use de-duplication in 6.x, by the way am still 5.5.4). It is good from any point of view(backup, restore, making tape copies, etc).

Re: Tivoli Solaris 6.1.0.0 client issue

2010-09-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sounds like a bad/corrupt package. The size should be 98.7MB or 103,537,561 bytes (from the FTP site) Why would you want 6.1.0.0 when 6.2.x is available? Or as a minimum 6.1.3. Suggest downloading a higher/newer version or at least re-downloading this one. From: Timothy Hughes To: ADSM-L@VM.MA

Re: Urgent - Library Master mount queue breaking down, tapes going into RESERVED status and never getting mounted

2010-09-17 Thread John D. Schneider
My thanks to all who replied to my requests for help last Friday. I thought I would reply and let everybody know how this played out. In our situation, we had 128 virtual tape drives, and for two nights in a row, the TSM Library Master instance was getting into a state where there would be 80 o