Restart TSM Scheduler on Ubuntu

2014-02-28 Thread mik
Hi people , First i kill all the process with dsmcad (5 dsmcad launch...) After that i do dsmcad sched start And i have this message test@node_name:~# dsmcad sched startd 28.02.2014 09:27:15 (dsmcad) ANSE amsgrtrv.cpp(3087): Message No 11000 could not be found. 28.02.2014 09:27:15 (dsmca

Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
I apologize for introducing a tangent, but I need some help defining a problem. Those of us who have studied (or used!) TSM for VE know that the TDP for SQL Server can receive a signal from Windows Server that something is about to take a backup. The same signal should trigger any pending writes b

Re: TSM for desktop backups

2014-02-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
>>Has anyone had experience using TSM to backup desktop machines? Did it years ago for about 200 Windows desktops. Turned on subfile backup, worked a treat. (No experience with MACs.) Didn't have a good way to deal with the overnight power down issues at the time, so backed up desktops during

Re: Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Prix
Nick, if you don't have a TDP for the app, you can still use the PRESCHEDCOMMAND and POSTSCHEDCOMMAND options of the B/A-client. if you have a VM, the VMware-API gives you a similar hook: **/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Michael

Re: Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Laflamme
What B/A client? :-) If I take my backups at the ESX level, I'm trying to do just an image backup, driven by ESX, not using some client in the virtual machine. So, I need Linux to catch the signal from ESX of an impending snapshot, and I need a way for Linux to trigger those pre- and post- comman

Re: Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Remco Post
Op 28 feb. 2014, om 19:08 heeft Nick Laflamme het volgende geschreven: > What B/A client? :-) > > If I take my backups at the ESX level, I'm trying to do just an image > backup, driven by ESX, not using some client in the virtual machine. > > So, I need Linux to catch the signal from ESX of an

Re: Tangent: ESX, Linux, and Backups

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Nick, well, if you use the TDP for VE, or "backup vm", then the pre-freeze/post-thaw is what you want. These scripts are invoked by the vmware-tools, which must be installed in the vm. http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=1241 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / kind regards