Verifying IBM TSM Encryption types

2011-08-01 Thread terrance
How can I retrieve all the information about the what kind of encryption method or type is using on my TSM server? What I mean is how to check the backup data and store into a tape whether encrypted or not? Isn't it related to the default encrypted method AES 128 or alternative encrypted method

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-01 Thread Keith Arbogast
Zoltan, Try running reconcile volumes from both ends. When we do that, it deletes a surprising quantity of orphan virtual volumes. Keith

Re: Verifying IBM TSM Encryption types

2011-08-01 Thread Richard Sims
TSM client encryption can be verified per IBM Technote 1303197. Tape drive encryption is a hardware topic addressed by the documentation for the particular drive model, as in recent 3592 model variants. Richard Sims

ANS8001I return code 14

2011-08-01 Thread Moyer, Joni M
Hi Everyone! I am using the dsmadmc command to do: q drm * against an AIX 5.5.5.0 TSM server and I am getting ANS8001I return code 14. Would anyone happen to know what could be causing this to occur? Or what I can look into to determine the root cause of the problem? Just let me know. Thank

Re: ANS8001I return code 14

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Joni, The TSM Server Administrator's Reference has an appendex on the return codes, so you check there for the meaning of the "14". Off-hand I'm not sure what would cause this, can you post complete output showing the command as well as the messages you are seeing? I would normally expect at l

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Hmm - is the RECONCILE command I should run, regularly? I just ran it on all 5.5 servers (they perform daily DBSNAPSHOT backups to an offsite server) and all of them had errors to "reconcile". The 6.x servers didn't have any errors. As for these ghost volumes/storage, reconciling its devcla

Re: Verifying IBM TSM Encryption types

2011-08-01 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
In addition - in case of using TDP for Oracle you can inspect TSM Server logs for TDP nodes. I think for other TDPs it is the same. Be careful with encryption for TDP backups - some additional configuration efforts are required . From: ADSM: Dist Stor Man

Re: ANS8001I return code 14

2011-08-01 Thread Moyer, Joni M
Hi Andy, It looks like return code 14 says: RC_NOTAVAILABLE ERROR 14 The command failed because the object to be operated upon is not available Here is the output from the last page of the output of the q drm * command: T19047 Vault03/01/11 10:25:24 T19055

Re: ANS8001I return code 14

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Joni, this doesn't look right to me, so PMR route is probably the best way to go. One more thing to check, however: After issuing the query, check the TSM server activity log for any anomalous messages from around the time you issued the query. That might provide a further clue to the problem. Be

DB backup expiration

2011-08-01 Thread Thomas Denier
We have two TSM 6.2.2.0 servers running under mainframe Linux. Both report 'DB Backup Series Expiration Days: 3 Day(s)' when I execute 'query drmstat' commands. One of the systems is configured as a library manager. It performs a database snapshot and a full database backup daily. These are writte

Re: DB backup expiration

2011-08-01 Thread Erwann SIMON
Hi Thomas, Virtual volumes are considered "remote" by DRM as soon as they're created, so the expiration of "DB backup series expiration days" is immediatly taken into account whereas "real" volumes (tapes or files) needs to be in a "vault" state by DRM. So, you'll need to run "move drmedia" (w

Re: DB backup expiration

2011-08-01 Thread Paul Fielding
Most places I know simply script the del volhost todate=-3 t=dbb and/or t=dbs as appropriate, into their regular daily processing. Indeed as mentioned above, regular database media is not considered safe to delete until it's known to be out of the library an presumably offsite, so in your case it'

Verifying IBM TSM Encryption types

2011-08-01 Thread terrance
So What you mean is TSM server don't has its own encryption instead help by the driver or client side encryption? 1) What i mean is that when data store inside the storage, any encryption step will run in this stage before it backup into a tape? 2) Will it possible a TSM server using both encryp