Re: web admin gui

2003-04-01 Thread David E Ehresman
This is a known problem. I do not think a fix has been released yet. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/03 11:10 AM >>> Hello everyone! Just recently upgraded TSM server from 4.1.5 to 5.1.6.2 and I am seeing the output on the web admin gui differently. Is there a fix for this that anyone is awa

Re: End Of Support V4.2

2003-04-02 Thread David E Ehresman
>Is this for Clients AND Server? >Are most people planning on upgrading to 5.1? >What are the implications of staying at 4.2 or lower? > >Is there any additional cost to upgrade? V4 clients are supported with the v5 server but you will want to upgrade to the v5 client to take advantage of the bug

Re: End Of Support V4.2

2003-04-02 Thread David E Ehresman
>Are there any major issues with 5.1??? I missed this one. No more so than with any other version. David

Re: Sum of inactive versions

2003-04-02 Thread David E Ehresman
Its only your changed or deleted data that goes inactive so you first need an estimate of how much of your data is changed/deleted.

Re: HELP!!! EMERGENCY!!!

2003-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
If you want support to look at the problem, take a svc dump. Then cycle your tsm server to clear the deadlock. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/03 02:22PM >>> Disk pools aren't full. Tape drives are available. There are plenty of tapes. The db is 88% full. Recovery log is 7% utilized. I di

Re: Problem with one AIX Client

2003-06-06 Thread David E Ehresman
Check to see if you have Receive Buffer overflow on the tsm server machine. Use the command netstat -v | grep "Receive Pool Buffer" The "No Receive Pool Buffer Errors:" line should be zero. If it is not, that may be the source of your problem. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/03 06:36A

Re: anyone using ATA disk systems

2003-06-06 Thread David E Ehresman
The MIGPR parm on the storage pool controls now many concurrent migration processes are started for the storage pool. I do not know of any node level controls. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/03 07:23AM >>> We have also been looking at using a large diskpool. It appears migration only uses one tape d

Re: How to List library tape volumes by Pct Util?

2003-05-31 Thread David E Ehresman
select volume_name,pct_utilized from volumes where access<>'OFFSITE' order by pct_utilized desc >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/30/03 09:31AM >>> Enviro: AIX TSM server 4.2.2.12 (I know, I need to upgrade!) MagStar 3570 C12 library Can someone suggest a query to list all the volumes in the library sort

Re: Reporting Client Backup Competitions and SLA's

2003-03-28 Thread David E Ehresman
How about: select node_name,filespace_name,backup_end from filespaces where backup_end

MediaW

2003-06-10 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a client node that backs up over the lan to tape. When I do a Q SESS during a backup, there are 3-4 sessions running. One session has a tape mounted but one of the others remains in MediaW. The node has Maximum Mount Points Allowed: 2 defined. The device class has Mount Limit: DRIVES def

Re: Has anybody had any luck getting to the TSM ftp site the last cou pleof days ?

2003-06-10 Thread David E Ehresman
I got there with no problems. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/03 03:23PM >>> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ I even tried through the websiite. > Duane Ochs > Enterprise Computing > > Quad/Graphics > > Sussex, Wisconsin > 414-566-2375 phone > 414-917-0736 beeper > [EMAI

Re: MediaW

2003-06-11 Thread David E Ehresman
rage MS 326 4000 N. Mingo Road Tulsa, OK 74116-5020 * phone: +01-918-292-4364 * cell: +01-918-629-1819 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eds.com -Original Message----- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MediaW I

Re: MediaW

2003-06-11 Thread David E Ehresman
Yes, there are adequate scratch volumes and drives and paths are online. Thanks, David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/03 03:48PM >>> >Any ideas why a tape is not being mounted? This may not be the issue, but is the destination stgpool configured with an adequate number of scratch volumes allowed (

Re: MediaW

2003-06-11 Thread David E Ehresman
yes. Try turning it off and running your backup again, I bet you will see it pick up more drives. Geoff -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MediaW Collocation is set YES. Can co

Re: MediaW

2003-06-12 Thread David E Ehresman
in such "own" pool (or shared with few similar requirements nodes). Setting collocation off will have little or no impact on your restores. In fact allowing backups to parallelize, you will set the ground for parallel restores. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant David E Ehresman <[EM

tilda and backslash in tsm output

2003-06-12 Thread David E Ehresman
I have received notice that the problem with '~' tilde and '\' appearing in tsm output where newlines belong is supposedly fixed in server 5.1.7.0 which is now available. I have not yet done the upgrade. David

Re: MediaW

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
nts* (usually does not) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12.06.2003 15:29 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Incremental refers to a filespace. Active or inactive refers to a file. An active version of a file is always the most recent backup of a file. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/03 10:19AM >>> hi, how I know if the active version is a full or partial incremental backup? Janeth

Re: active version

2003-06-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>Total number of objects inspected: 61 >Total number of objects backed up: 34 > This indicates that tsm looked at 61 files and determined that 34 of them had been updated and thus needed backing up. David

Re: TSM 5.2

2003-06-20 Thread David E Ehresman
>http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_203-095 > June 27, 2003 (Electronic) and July 11, 2003 (Media): Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition, Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks, Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management, Tivoli Storage Manager for Mai

Re: del file on cmd line problem

2003-06-30 Thread David E Ehresman
Add nametype=unicode or codetype=unicode, I forget which. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/03 04:28PM >>> Hi, TSM 5.1.6.5 on Windows 2000 Server. Just testing out the new server making sure everything works, but I have a problem deleting filespaces on the command line. I use the command: tsm>d

Re: Error logs - storage agents

2003-07-01 Thread David E Ehresman
This is an ongoing problem for us in an Aix environment too. Contary to Karel's advice, I do not think it has to do with a hardware communication problem. Everything else works fine over the same connections. I don't know what the problem really is but since it reconnects and goes on, I haven't

Re: New Admin CLI option to display only the output data

2003-07-08 Thread David E Ehresman
>Thanks for your information, Please point me where can I download v5.2 >admin >client? > ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r2/

Collocation groups

2003-07-08 Thread David E Ehresman
Is the collocation groups feature in TSM 5.2.0 or is it further out? If further out, any word on how far out? David

Re: LTO throughput - real world experiences

2003-07-08 Thread David E Ehresman
>What is the best way to determine what your throughput is for each >process? Are you just going by the activity log? One of the many things Servergraph/TSM (http://www.servergraph.com) will report for you is thoughput rates for the various TSM processes. David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: license question: aix lpar

2003-07-24 Thread David E Ehresman
According to our marketing rep, on an lparable machine you only need to license cpus rhat are used on an lpar that is running tsm server or client code. Your marketing rep may have a different answer! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/03 10:39AM >>> Hello, how many tsm licenses are needed, when you ha

Re: Collocation from nocollocation

2003-07-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Other collocation considerations: number of nodes in a storage pool mater and number of tape drives matter - migration takes longer because you mount more tapes if copy pool is not also collocated, reclaim take longer because more onsite tapes have to be mounted to reclaim a given tape if copy p

Re: Backups bypassing disk pool

2003-07-31 Thread David E Ehresman
Does the tape management class have a longer retention than the default MC? If so, backups of directories may be going straight to tape because the default is to backup directories to the MC with the longest retention unless this is overwritten with a DIRMC. Also, if the disk stgpool is full enou

sql for available drives?

2003-08-01 Thread David E Ehresman
In tsm v5 where path and drive status are stored seperately, can anyone help with a sql query that would return the number of drives that are EMPTY and where the drive is online and the path to the drive is online. Thanks, David

Re: sql for available drives?

2003-08-01 Thread David E Ehresman
That almost gives me what I want. But it counts drives once its apprearance in the drives table and once for each occurance in the paths table (each drive appears multiples times in paths because they are defines to storage agents). So with all 8 dirves empty, it gives me 48 instead of 8. David

Re: sql for available drives?

2003-08-01 Thread David E Ehresman
Here's what I finally came up with: select count(*) as "Number of Free Drives" from drives - where drive_name not in - (select destination_name from paths where online='NO') and - online='YES' and - drive_state in ('EMPTY','UNKNOWN') David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/03 11:01AM >>> That almos

Re: managed system for SAN

2003-08-06 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM for SAN is a separate cpu based license at v5.1. You pay based on the number of cpus in the boxes where you install the storage agents. David Ehresman >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/03 09:20AM >>> Are the 'Managed systen for SAN storage Agent's' part of the 5.1 base product for the extended edi

3494 on a Unix server

2003-08-11 Thread David E Ehresman
For those of you using a 3494 library on a Unix tsm server, does your 3494 have a "Convenience I/O Station"? If so, do you run a script that notifies operations when the station is full? If so, could you share the script? David Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sql help

2003-08-14 Thread David E Ehresman
>That can be like the conclusion of an operation where the surgeon cannot >account for a sponge or tool. It's best to check for the tape being >stuck in a drive, dropped inside the library, or other expeditionary >search. > Oh believe me, we're doing an exhausive search. I just want to know what

sql help

2003-08-14 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a primary tape pool tape that has gone missing. Is there anyway to determine if all/some/none of the files that were on the primary tape have already been copied to the copy pool? David

Re: Resolved: URGENT!! TSM client schedules not running

2003-08-14 Thread David E Ehresman
My problem was also with Prompted nodes only. Polling nodes ran ok as did croned backups. The tcp setting was the size of the Receive Pool Buffer. IBM gave me this query to determine if there was a problem: (echo "";date; netstat -v ent1 | grep "Receive Pool Buffer" ) The "No Receive Pool

Réf. : Re: Resolved: URGENT!! TSM client schedules notrunning

2003-08-14 Thread David E Ehresman
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Re: Resolved: URGENT!! TSM client schedules not running

2003-08-14 Thread David E Ehresman
When I had the problem, I did open a PMR and they finally tracked my problem down to a tcp read buffer problem. They had me adjust the tcp values and the problem has not reoccurred. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/03 03:52AM >>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:56:21 -0400 "Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)"

Re: TSM MF to AIX sizing?

2003-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
When we moved TSM off the mainframe, we moved to a 4 way 660-6H1 (7026-660) with 4 gig ram. But as Wanda inidicated, I think planning for i/o is much more important. Our box has 2 i/o shelves and 6 fiber channel adaptors to spread the i/o. We back up between 110 - 775 GB/day with a total of 11.5

Re: New/old PC issue

2003-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
Try using nametype=uni or specifying the fsid number for the filespace and use nametype=fsid. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/20/2003 8:02:30 AM >>> Hello! I have a quick question about when an individual gets rid of an old PC and gets a new one to backup to TSM. The one I am dealing with is lemk

Re: incremental blocked by inclexcl file - Summary

2003-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
If you don't set DSM_CONFIG, the backup client will look for dsm.opt first in the current directory and then in the install directory. So make a dsm.opt in your install directory with a servername statement for your "normal" backups. Then make another dsm.opt in some other directory with a server

TSM for Sysback

2003-08-26 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM for Sysback lets you store aix sysback tapes on the TSM backstore. It uses the TSM api but does not set the last backup begin/end date in TSM. Has anyone devised a good way to track whether their TSM for Sysback backups are running successfully? David

Re: Which nodes on a given tape, what maxscr value to use ?

2003-09-05 Thread David E Ehresman
Replace $1 with the volume name and this LONG RUNNING query will tell you what nodes are on a tape: select distinct node_name from volumeusage where volume_name='$1' >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/5/2003 9:11:44 AM >>> Hi, as many of us probably, we use seq. stg pools with collocation ON for backups. T

Re: reorg offsite data - noncollocated to collocated

2003-09-09 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm currently going thru this process and the only way I have found to reclaim the old non-collated tapes is to do a "del vol discarddata=yes" to remove the unwanted data followed by a "backup stg primarypool copypool" to re-backup the data that is not being moved to a new stgpool.

LOCKCYCLE02 error

2004-11-16 Thread David E Ehresman
My tsm server 5.2.3.4 crashed tonight. In the dsmserv.err log I find "ANR7837S Internal error LOCKCYCLE02 detected." Any ideas. I can't get into the IBM/Tivoli ESR site tonight so I'll report via that route tomorrow. A web search of the support site only found v4 hits. So meanwhile if anyone ha

Re: LOCKCYCLE02 error

2004-11-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Thanks. That appears to be it exactly. Can one revert from 5.2.3.4 to 5.2.3.3 without restoring the tsm db? David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16/2004 11:13:33 PM >>> Likely suspect: IC43445: ABSTRACT: TSM SERVER ABENDS WITH ANR7837S INTERNAL ERROR LOCKCYCLE02 DETECTED ERROR DESCRIPTION: The TSM

Re: tape migration

2004-11-17 Thread David E Ehresman
You could mark the Js as readonly, insert the Ks, and do MOVE DATA to move the data from Js to Ks. Actually, I probably wouldn't. I'd mark the Js readonly, insert the Ks and let normal processes take care of the migration. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16/2004 2:53:32 PM >>> ** High Priority *

Re: TSM server 5.2.3.4 removed from ftp site

2004-11-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Andy, Would you expect 5.2.3.5 to have a fix for IC43445? (Yes, I have a PMR opened but answers are often faster here). David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2004 12:06:01 AM >>> I have heard next week, November 22, but I can not make a formal promise that will be the date. Regards, Andy Andy

Re: TSM server 5.2.3.4 removed from ftp site

2004-11-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Charles, We ran at 5.2.3.4 for about 3 weeks before we experienced our first crash. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2004 10:29:43 AM >>> I've been searching IBM's Web for IC43445... And no hits, we just updated two AIX TSM servers to 5.2.3.4... Are we screwed? Thanks -Original Message---

TSM 5.2.3.5

2004-11-23 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM 5.2.3.5 is not on the download server as of 8am est today. Is there an updated expected release date? David

Re: TSM 5.2.3.5

2004-11-23 Thread David E Ehresman
Mark, Thanks for the link but I don't see anything there about the 5.2.3.5 release date. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/23/2004 9:05:47 AM >>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman >TSM 5.2.3.5 is not on the download

Re: TSM 5.2.x DB Restore Using 3494 Library

2004-11-24 Thread David E Ehresman
In TSM 5.2, you do NOT have to define your library as manual to do a tsm db restore. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/2004 9:49:27 AM >>> In previous 4.x versions to restore the TSM DB you had to set library to Manual in the Device config. Its been quite a while since I've had to restore a TSM DB (Tha

TSM 5.2.3.5

2004-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Any word on the availability of the TSM 5.2.3.5 patches? David

Re: LTO Media

2004-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Using other than IBM tapes (and possibly with them), it seems that cleaning each drive AT LEAST once per week is imperative, rather than waiting till the drive says it needs cleaning. The IBMs do seem to leave lest 'dust' or residue on the heads.<< You're cleaning LTO drives once a week

Re: size of active vs. inactive?

2004-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
>>It has also been discussed several times that TSM doesn't appear to be a good fit for a VTL. May want to search the archives to find out more on the subject.<< Has anyone heard of good experiences with TSM on a virtual tape library? Can this ever be a good thing?

SQL Help

2004-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm trying to get a count of tapes pending by date. I'm using: select date(pending_date),count(*) from volumes where status='PENDING' - group by date(pending_date) but I get the error message: ANR2904E Unexpected SQL key word token - 'DATE'. pointing to the date in the group by claus

Re: SQL Help

2004-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
s='PENDING' - group by pending_date From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of David E Ehresman Sent: Tue 11/30/2004 6:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL Help I'm trying to get a count of tapes pending by date. I'm using:

Re: Select Statement Help for Volume Breakdown

2004-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
The use of upper/lower functions in SQL statements can save a lot of grief! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/2004 8:47:29 AM >>> On Nov 30, 2004, at 8:40 AM, James Choate wrote: > The scratch column is case sensitive. Looks like the yes & no are > capitalized. > > The status column is YES|NO|NULL Su

Re: SQL Help

2004-12-01 Thread David E Ehresman
'Date' is an unknown SQL column name. | .V. e",count(*) from volumes where status='PENDING' group by "Date" ANS8001I Return code 3. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/2004 9:09:03 AM >>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: LAN-free Data transfer

2004-12-01 Thread David E Ehresman
We wait to hear from our dba that backups are running too long. Lan-free vs lan backups make a very noticable difference in their backup times. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/2004 8:53:52 AM >>> Hello All! TSM 5.2.2.5 server AIX 5.2 Sun Solaris Lan-Free client 5.2.2.5 Once the lan-free data transfe

Re: SQL Help

2004-12-01 Thread David E Ehresman
t is incorrect, use the following: group by pending_date the conversion to date format is already taken care of in the first part of the select statement. David E Ehresman wrote: > tsm: ULTSM> select date(pending_date) as "Date",count(*) from volumes > where - > cont> s

Regressing from 5.2.3.4 to 5.2.3.3

2004-12-02 Thread David E Ehresman
When I regress my AIX server from 5.2.3.4 to 5.2.3.3 do I also have to regress the AIX Storage Agents from 5.2.3.4 to 5.2.3.3? Can a 5.2.3.4 storage agent work with a 5.2.3.3. server? David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: Cannot rename filespace - help please.

2004-12-13 Thread David E Ehresman
Either use the fsid parm and specify by number rather than name or use the nametype=unicode parm. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/13/2004 1:16:51 PM >>> Hello, A server in out farm is being rebuilt. I've been asked to retain the last backup of the old instance by renaming the filespace

Re: New AIX 5.1 ML7 tuning parm

2004-12-14 Thread David E Ehresman
AIX 5.1 ML7 maintenance introduced a new vmtune option, -H, to tune sequential readaheads. Our data base folks back up data bases by shutting them down, using the cp command to copy then to a different directory, then restart the data base and backup the copy. The -H default, 0, caused the copy st

Re: Urgent Server recovery via copy storage pools

2004-12-10 Thread David E Ehresman
Query the volumes in the primary tape pool that are being called for. Does the query show them marked as destroyed? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/10/04 3:32 PM >>> sung thanks but it still call for tapes in pimary tape pool after i marked them destroyerd tim - Original Message - From:

Re: Upgrading TSM server from 5.1.5.0 to 5.2.3.4

2004-12-22 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM Server 5.2.3.4 has serious problems. Go to 5.2.3.5 instead. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/22/04 10:10 AM >>> Hi to all, I am running a TSM server version 5.1.5.0 and TSM clients version 5.1.5.0 on Windows 2000 platform. I am planning to migrate the current version for both TSM server and c

Re: Upgrading TSM server from 5.1.5.0 to 5.2.3.4

2004-12-22 Thread David E Ehresman
--Original Message----- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 16:23 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrading TSM server from 5.1.5.0 to 5.2.3.4 TSM Server 5.2.3.4 has serious problems. Go to 5.2.3.5 instead. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgradedb question

2005-01-07 Thread David E Ehresman
>>ANRD sminit.c(656): ThreadId<20> SM Failed to Initialize - Time Out. Callc hain of previous message: 0x1001634C outDiagf <- 0x104077BC smWaitForInitializ ation <- 0x1058589C MmsLibraryPollingThread <- 0x10007AF0 StartThread <- 0xD00 4C6AC _pthread_body <- ANRD mmsshr.c(658): ThreadId<20>

Re: ANR1339W

2005-01-11 Thread David E Ehresman
I was told by Tivoli Support that that message really means the Netware client is trying to back up a file greater than 4gig and quietly (other that the ANR1339W) failing leaving what looks like a good backup but which in fact is a corrupted backup. Fix not expected until end-of-1st-quarter-200

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-13 Thread David E Ehresman
We colocate onsite and offsite tapes for all of our important (in a DR sense) nodes. TSM runs on a dedicated machine with dedicated tape drives. Backups run at night. Thus the machine and tape drives are available all day for backup storagepool, migrate, and reclaim. Since reclaims are single-t

Re: TSM DR Exercise Restore Ideas

2005-01-14 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Thanks for the idea - by collocating the offsite, does that mean that you eject one tape per node every day?<< Yes, for our "important" collocated nodes. That one tape per node contains the results of the most recent "reclaim" (actually a MOVE DATA) and the current nights backup. Our schedule

Re: Moving clients between TSM servers

2005-01-20 Thread David E Ehresman
When we moved TSM from OS390 to AIX, we only moved archive data. We exported/inported nodes and then started doing new backups on the new TSM. Our data retention is 30 days so we kept the old TSM around for 90 days as insurance. David Ehresman University of Louisville >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/2

TSM 4.2.4 -> 5.2.4

2005-02-03 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm looking at a AIX server upgrade from TSM 4.2.4 to 5.2.4 with TSM EE and TSM for SAN. All clients are AIX or Linux. The ilbrary is a 3584 with 4 LTO1 drives. Anything to watch out for? Does the upgrade automatically convert DRIVE definitions into PATH/DRIVE definitions or do the PATH defs hav

Re: 3494 tape library on AIX

2005-02-11 Thread David E Ehresman
Make sure you have /etc/ibmatl.conf customized on your DR machine. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/05 11:36 AM >>> We are setting up a DR machine. While we have TSM coming up after a DB restore, we still need to test connecting the 3494 tape library on the DR machine. Looking through the software inv

Re: TSM Database backup volume deletion

2005-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
>>I backup the DB each and every day, and before & after any changes, and keep (now at least) 28 days copies << Do you also have your offsite storagepool reuse delay set to 28 days? If the data tapes have been reused, the data base backup will not do you any good. Since few of us can afford to ke

Re: Client for Novell

2005-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
TSM clients for Novell systems can be downloaded from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r2/Netware/ David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/05 11:04 AM >>> Hello Where I can download client for Novell 5.1? (I planned install TSM 5.2.2.0 on W2KServer).

Re: Moving Node Data Between Storage Pools

2005-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
As TRushforth pointed out, MOVE NODEDATA only works for the pirmary storage pool. A BACKUP STG of the new primary storagepool will get the data into the new copy storagepool. Then you are left with all your old data that is also still in the old copy storagepool. Unless this was fixed int 5.3, th

Re: Reclamation and collocation...

2005-02-23 Thread David E Ehresman
My understanding is that reclamation only reclaims Filling tapes if they are marked offsite. I want to reclaim those volumes. Since we are talking collocated storagepools, it means I am sending a new partially written volume offsite each day for each node. The reason I'm collocating is to minimi

Re: Reclamation and collocation...

2005-02-23 Thread David E Ehresman
>>We have enough capcity to keep our primary storage pool in a tape library. The tapes are reclaimed automaticly and returned to the scratch pool, never having been marked off site.<< We keep our **primary** storage pool in our tape library also. It is the DR copy pool volumes we send offsite. I

Re: Reclamation and collocation...

2005-02-23 Thread David E Ehresman
>> > I also send 100-120 tapes offsite each day. If I did not bring about that > many back each day, I'd soon run out of both tapes and offsite storage > space. That is another reason I need to reclaim those offsite filling > tapes. That's a -lot- of traffic. I don't collocate my offsite pool.

Re: dual client installation with strange results

2005-03-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Instead of two option files, why not just assign the different data to different magagement classes that point to different storage pools. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/05 5:04 AM >>> Aloha, I have a dual client installation on a Win2000 server, by dual client i mean two schedules with different

q content copied=no

2005-03-21 Thread David E Ehresman
The "q content" command has a copied=no option. Is there a way to do a sql query against the "copied" attirbute? David

Re: Spontaneous reclamation

2005-03-21 Thread David E Ehresman
I'll ask the obvious. Any chance you copypool reached 100% triggering a reclaim? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21/05 10:17 AM >>> TSM Server 5.1.9.0 on AIX 5.2 ML-4 TSM Client mix of 5.1.6.0 and 5.1.7.0 mostly on Windows This morning I found a primary storage pool tape "pending" as the result of rec

Re: 3590 K series

2005-03-31 Thread David E Ehresman
Our 3590K tapes have a 10 year warrenty. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/05 9:58 AM >>> Anybody out there know how long 3590 K series tapes last ( I assume in years). I am trying to figure if our recent batch of tape/drive errors are from tape drives and old tapes. Seem to be older number tapes givi

Linux DR

2005-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
What methodology are folks using to restore Linux boxes in a DR situation?

Re: Changing copypools

2005-04-06 Thread David E Ehresman
If you deleted volumes while at the 5.2.0.0. level of the server, please see apar IC36462. At that level, once you delete copypool volumes, the primary pool equivalents DO NOT get rebacked up. This leaves you with a hole in your offsite backups. The bug is fixed in later releases but the exis

Re: TSM and Sysback integration

2005-04-06 Thread David E Ehresman
If you use the TSM for Sysback to make your Sysback directly to TSM, you can do a netboot of an AIX box using the sysback image stored in TSM. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/05 11:01 AM >>> When you install the Tivoli version of SYSBACK it has panels related to this, but they seemed awkward.

Re: TSM and Sysback integration

2005-04-06 Thread David E Ehresman
The product manual for TSM for Sysback is at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/StorageMangerforSysback5.6.5.html David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/05 10:47 AM >>> Hi All, I seem to recall that IBM integrated TSM and Sysback for AIX mksysb restores and DR of AIX Systems. Can anyone

Re: how do we tell how many licenses we have

2005-04-06 Thread David E Ehresman
Logon onto passport advantage and check your entitlements. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/05 11:35 AM >>> Hello again, Does anyone know how we tell how many licenses we have? we are using TSM 5.3. Thanks in advance TSM 5.3

Restore asking for copypool tape

2005-04-07 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a restore that is asking for a copypool tape. This implies a primary tape is not availaable or has damaged files. How can I determine specifically which tape TSM thinks is not available. A 'q vol access=unavail' does not find any. David

Re: Restoring Another Nodes Data

2005-04-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>From the linux machine you want to store to: dsmc -virtualnode=node_name_whose_data_you_want_to_restore -verbose Then enter you restore command and when prompted for userid/password use your system admin userid and password. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/13/05 8:14 AM >>> Hi How do you restore an

del volhist

2005-04-13 Thread David E Ehresman
If one uses DRM to expire data base backups, should one still routinely do a "del volhist type=all today="? Why or why not?

3494 hardware help

2005-04-13 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a 3590 drive in a 3494 library san attached to an Aix box running tsm. This is more of a 3494 problem than a tsm problem, but I do need help. tapeutil can talk to the drive. but mtlib says the 3494 library does not see it. That is if I do a " mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -DE" that drive is not li

Re: del volhist

2005-04-14 Thread David E Ehresman
rom: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman >If one uses DRM to expire data base backups, should one still routinely >do a "del volhist type=all today="? Why or why not? From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tal

Re: Finding Tapes a file is on

2005-04-15 Thread David E Ehresman
>From the client, do a restore of the file (to a new name) and see which tapes >get called. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/15/05 6:26 AM >>> Good Morning. Running TSM Server 5.2.2 on an AIX 5.2 server. The client take was backed up was running TSM 5.2 on Win2K. Is there an quick way to find what tap

Re: How to find out all drives in NT2000 using command line? Thanks

2005-04-22 Thread David E Ehresman
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DR Question

2005-04-27 Thread David E Ehresman
For those of you who do DR testing with your normal copypool tapes, 1) do you stop reclaimations on your production tsm for the duration of the test? 2) do you stop expiration on your production tsm for the duration of the test? 3) do you make any other adjustments to your normal production

Re: DR Question

2005-04-27 Thread David E Ehresman
>>We grab everything that is off-site and go Just curious, but about how many tapes is "everything"? David

Re: DR Question

2005-04-28 Thread David E Ehresman
Starting on page http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManagerVersionRelease.html searching for PRS814 I get no hits. Searching for TSM Disaster Recovery Manager, I get 122 hits. Can you point me a little bit closer to where I can find this L&L? David >>

Re: Not all data is copied to copypool

2005-04-28 Thread David E Ehresman
There are two apars, one fixed and one just opened, that describe problems with stg backup completing normally but not all the files in the primary pool being backup up. This can leave you with important data that is NOT offsite with no warning. The two apars are IC36462 and IC45931. Here is

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