Question about restoring a tsm db.

2014-03-12 Thread Plair, Ricky
Yesterday my TSM server crashed and lost the db. Our TSM DB is approx. 1.5 TB on a windows system. I started a TSM DB RESTORE last night around midnight and it's still running this morning. Is there any way to know how long it will run or follow the progress other than the scrolling console? R

Re: Backup Offsite

2014-03-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
There is a 3rd -party product called Autovault that will manage the vaulting of a primary pool. (very well supported product, by the way) OTOH, best practice requires you still have a 2nd copy of the data. Vaulted tapes can get lost, get eaten by a drive, etc... W -Original Message- Fr

Re: Recovering Linux TSM server from partial filesystem failure

2014-03-12 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks for the suggestion. As SOP, we update all firmware, every few months, so this box is up-to-date. The Dell diagnostics finally finished, CLEAN. No issues found. I have some of the FODC logs when the first error occurred (was moving them to another filespace as fast as I could when the dis

Re: Backup Offsite

2014-03-12 Thread Zoltan Forray
TSMManager has a vaulting management option to select "Primary pools to vault". Go to http://www.tsmmanager.com. From my sig, I do not work for them (other than as a beta tester). Just a satisfied customer. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: > There is a 3rd -party product

Re: Tape Drive compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread Neil Strand
George, Sounds like you found yourself in a bowl of spaghetti with just a spoon to eat your way out. Some general recommendations: 1. Check all of your tapes for different generations of media. There may be a mix of JA, JB and JC media. 2. Assuming that you have both onsite and offsite tape

Re: Tape Drive compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread George Huebschman
Cheers back to you Neil! - They are all JA volumes. I have to wait for them to fail to ID them. - There are copypools so a second virtual library is a good option. - I was able to determine that all of the scratch made private were formatted for E06 drives. I took the E06 drives/paths offli

Re: Tape Drive compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread Nick Marouf
Hi George, I've had mixed drives in a library from before. What I've had to do set the devc format to the lesser drive format. I know this does not utilize the features of the new drives. But administratively when you no choice, it is much easier than splitting the library. http://publib.boulder.

Delete Volhist

2014-03-12 Thread Maness, Eric
If I wanting to keep two weeks of database backups I'm a little confused on how to run the delete volhist command. Usually I would run the following command: delete volhist type=dbb todate=today-14 With running only type=dbb I'm noticing a lot of volumes that no longer exist in the volhist fil

Re: Delete Volhist

2014-03-12 Thread Jeanne Bruno
Hello. We include parms: force and devc DELETE VOLHISTORY type=dbb todate=today-7 force=yes devc=xxxclass -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Maness, Eric Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: Delete Volhist

2014-03-12 Thread Jeanne Bruno
Also... on source server do: RECONCILE VOLUMES xxxCLASS (where xxxCLASS is the device classthis will tell you if any volumes are invalid) Output Example: Volume TSMNBG.DSS.372056474 not valid, source server missing corresponding entry for target server. RECONCILE VOLUMES xxxCLASS fix=y

Re: Tape Drive compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread George Huebschman
Nick, the catch here is that I already have media in Generation 3 format.. After setting the Gen 3 drives to write in Gen 2 density, they are also restricted to reading at Gen2. I would still have to remediate the Gen3 media. Hi George, I've had mixed drives in a library from before. What I've

Re: Delete Volhist

2014-03-12 Thread Remco Post
Op 12 mrt. 2014, om 22:05 heeft Maness, Eric het volgende geschreven: > If I wanting to keep two weeks of database backups I'm a little confused on > how to run the delete volhist command. Usually I would run the following > command: > > delete volhist type=dbb todate=today-14 > > With runn