Resourceutilization

2005-10-06 Thread David E Ehresman
At Share a few years ago, I received a chart showing the number of data mover threads that would be started at each resourceutilization level. I can't find the chart anymore. Anyone know where I can find that information? David

Re: How to move database and recovery log datasets?

2005-10-07 Thread David E Ehresman
No, don't use FDR or DFDSS to move them. Create new database and recovery log on your new DASD and then issue TSM commands to delete the ones on your old DASD. TSM will move the data before deleting the old ones. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/05 11:51 AM >>> I have to clear 200 mod 3 volumes for

Re: Forcing certain nodes to use selective tape drives?

2005-10-07 Thread David E Ehresman
I work in the 3494 work but we have 3590J and 3590K tapes. To control what gets written to each, we define the K tapes to storage pools and let the J tapes be used as scratch tapes. Then we control who writes to which tapes by assigning them to the appropriate storage pool. Could you do somet

3494 catagory vs tsm libvol

2005-10-07 Thread David E Ehresman
I have a mismatch between my 3494 tape categories and tsl libvol status, i.e. the 3494 tape category is Private while the tsm libvol status is scratch. Will an audit library reconcile this? If so, which way? By forcing the 3494 categories on the libvol or forcing the libvol status on the 3494

Re: 3494 category vs tsm libvol

2005-10-07 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Let me restate your question to be sure I understand. The 3494 lists the tape as private at the same time TSM lists the tape as scratch. This is normal. << It is not normal on our system. Tapes are in one of three 3494 catagories on our system. Insert, scratch, or private. Insert means that t

Re: 3494 catagory vs tsm libvol

2005-10-10 Thread David E Ehresman
>See topic "AUDit LIBRary" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts >or in http://www.tsmwiki.com/tsmwiki >which addresses those issues. > >I'd recommend researching your Activity Log to determine how this >happened, as it should not happen, and you want to prevent recurrences. > Oh, I know h

TSM Admin Center requirements

2005-10-11 Thread David E Ehresman
Am I reading the requirements correctly that the Admin Center is not supported on a 64bit AIX kernel? David

TSM 5.3 Doc

2005-10-14 Thread David E Ehresman
Is the InfoCenter html view the only documentation available for TSM 5.3? Is there no way to print the 5.3 doc? David

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3 Doc

2005-10-14 Thread David E Ehresman
ocument form there. Thomas -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von David E Ehresman Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 17:43 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3 Doc Is the InfoCenter html view the only documentation available for

Admin Center

2005-10-18 Thread David E Ehresman
Is there any word when the 5.3 Admin Center might be supported running on 64bit AIX? David

Re: Admin Center

2005-10-18 Thread David E Ehresman
TED] 10/18/05 10:49 AM >>> On Tuesday 18 October 2005 14:12, David E Ehresman wrote: > Is there any word when the 5.3 Admin Center might be supported running on > 64bit AIX? Euh, we are running it on 64 bit without any problems. Stef

Re: Quarterly update just released for the TSM IBM Support Assistant tool.

2005-10-21 Thread David E Ehresman
Has anyone found the Support Assistant to be useful? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/05 5:02 PM >>> The TSM development staff has just finished a quarterly "refresh" with many new updates to a tool that will assist Tivoli Storage Manager admins with their support issues. Download Your Complimentar

Re: Move Volumes

2005-11-10 Thread David E Ehresman
I was out of the office for a week and am trying to catch up on email so I've just seen your note. If the source volume went to scratch status as soon as the move data was finished, you should read up on and review your reuse delay settings. You normally want a reuse delay equal to the number of

Re: Checking to make sure TSM Primary and Copypools are in Sync

2005-11-11 Thread David E Ehresman
The "Backup stg" command depends on pointers that are suppose to inidcate the last backed up data so that it spends less time scanning what to backup. There have been apars where that process gets broken and not all the primary storagepool data gets backed up to copypool. The Select would spot suc

Re: TSM database engine

2005-11-14 Thread David E Ehresman
>I've just got a question out of curiosity concerning the TSM database: > >-is it a DB2 database? No >-is it a modified DB2 database No >-or is it a complete propietry database Yes >-or based on another database engine No >

Re: Storage pool usage

2005-11-17 Thread David E Ehresman
The client sends an estimate of the amount of data it is sending. If a file is calculated to be too big to fit in the 1st storagepool, it is written to the 2ndard stgpool (usually tape) instead. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/05 10:22 AM >>> Hi *, I have a 300Gb storage pool which I used last night

Re: Reclamation

2005-11-21 Thread David E Ehresman
If you are having trouble finishing reclaims, you can step down to force it to do the easy ones first. First reclaim at the 99% level, then 95, 90, etc. for as much time as you have available. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/05 2:25 PM >>> I have noticed this. I did not know if it started with the 70

Re: help:sysback restore failure

2005-11-28 Thread David E Ehresman
Check with Sysback support, but if memory serves me, that error was fixed in a later patch of Sysback. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/05 7:31 AM >>> Hi all ,my Sysback server is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the Sysback client is AIX 5.3 ML 02,the sysback version is 5.6.6.1.Every time I wanted to restore the

Re: Full backup?

2005-11-28 Thread David E Ehresman
If you have too many tapes for a DR test you have too many tapes for a disaster! Consider collocation of your offsite tapes. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/05 1:18 PM >>> Probably a FAQ, but... We are planning a DR this weekend and I would like to limit the number of tapes we bring by get

Re: MAXSCRATCH value in tape storage pools

2005-11-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Set the total of your maxscratch settings across your storage pool to be equal to the number of tapes you have. That will tell you realistic storagepool utilizations and you'd be able to judge when a storage pool is running out of storage media. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/29/05 1:01 PM >>> I

Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session

2005-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
Another option is to shutdown your db, copy the db files to be backed up to another directory that is not excluded, and start the db back up. Then let your regular incremental pick up the files in the backup directory while continuing to exclude the live db files. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2

Re: getting server code

2005-11-30 Thread David E Ehresman
You do have to order the CDs but you can (at least we can) still get free shipped CDs as part of our Passport provisoned maintenance. You can also download the code via Passport. That all assumes that Passport thinks your entitled. If it doesn't, its a problem for your marketing rep. David Ehre

ISC

2005-12-05 Thread David E Ehresman
I've figured out how to add a user. How do I give a user admin like privs. David

Re: Offsite tape

2005-12-06 Thread David E Ehresman
Use "backup stg" to make the offsite media and "move drmedia" to manage it. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/05 3:40 AM >>> Hi, I'm using TSM 5.2 and currently we use 3590 tape library with only 3 stgpool. Up to now, we its about 20 servers attched to this machine and backup were done daily. Ou

Re: DRM Recovery Plan File Implememtation

2005-12-07 Thread David E Ehresman
You DR Plan should be produced each time you create a new DB Backup. It contains the instructions on recovering a TSM system to its state as of a DB backup and should therefore by synched with the backup. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/05 2:56 PM >>> I am implemention a schedule to execute th

RMAN/TSM for DB

2005-12-08 Thread David E Ehresman
This is more an RMAN question that a TSM for DB one but . . . Can oneone tell me in general terms how RMAN does a hot backup? Does it buffer updates to the db and apply them after the backup is done? Or reject updates during the backup? Or . . .? Assuming db updates are allowed during the backup

Admin Center userids

2006-01-03 Thread David E Ehresman
How do I give a new Admin Center userid the same level of authority as iscadmin? David Ehresman

Re: Collocation Questions

2006-01-04 Thread David E Ehresman
>>So will the data in the copy storage pools still collocate over time even if the tapes are offsite in a vaulting location? << Yes, if you are doing expirations and reclaims. The reclaims will read the onsite primary storage volumes to recreate the offsite copy pool volumes based on the reclaim

Re: How to find out if LAN-Free doesn't work

2006-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
ANS9201W Lanfree path failed. in the dsmerror.log or wait for the phone call from the dba to say "backups aren't working" because they took 4 times longer than normal. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/06 2:57 AM >>> Hi, we use LAN-Free backup for large DBs. Sometimes it happens that the LAN-Free back

Re: Amount of data backed up per node

2006-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
You're on an old version of the server code. Somewhere back around that level there was a bug that made the data in the summary table unreliable. You may be seeing that bug. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/06 12:32 PM >>> I want to print out the amount of data that each node backs up daily.

Re: Amount of data backed up per node

2006-01-10 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Does anyone know a way around besides upgrading? Well since your two versions back at this point, an upgrade WOULD be a good thing :-) But the way around it, is to analyse the much more reliable data found in the dsmaccnt.log file. David Ehresman

Re: ANR1639I

2006-01-11 Thread David E Ehresman
>>1. Could anyone enligthen me the attributes of some of the nodes that were changed automatically without human intervention?<< The IP address associated with the node changed. To say it a different way, the node connected from a different IP address than the one TSM had stored for it. In the exa

Re: Best way to compare the pools ?

2006-01-12 Thread David E Ehresman
I believe that aggregation explains the difference in Physical Space Occupied numbers. I believe the differences in Logical Space Occupied are due to rounding of numbers. I'm confortable when the number of files are the same and the Logical sizes are close. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/11/06

Re: Pre-fetching a restore?

2006-01-12 Thread David E Ehresman
Short of prestaging the data, two things you can do to optimize restores: 1) bump up resourceutilization to allow more client threads 2) bump up maxnummp on the node definition to allow more concurrent tape drives >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/11/06 6:11 PM >>> Hi folks, I'm working on our internal "l

Re: ANR1639I

2006-01-12 Thread David E Ehresman
the HACMP might affect the changed in IP.However no HACMP failover occured during that time. Just wonder what would be the future impact to it. Thanks and Warmest Regards, ________ David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&qu

Re: Failed Attempt to Free Memory

2006-01-18 Thread David E Ehresman
Sounds like its time for a Severity 1 call to Tivoli Support. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/17/06 4:57 PM >>> Hey all, I kind of have a serious question. I have been looking at a specific error that we have been receiving. I understand that there have been some problems with offsite reclamation, tha

Storage Agent Crash

2006-01-19 Thread David E Ehresman
While I'm waiting for TSM support to call back (IBMSERV telephone tech could not tell me how long that might be), maybe someone here can help. I upgraded my AIX TSM server to 5.3.2.0 a couple of weeks ago. Everything has been good. Today I upgraded my first AIX Storage agent from 5.2.4.0 to 5.3.2

Re: TSM licensing and pricing structure

2006-01-24 Thread David E Ehresman
Pricing info can be found at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/howtobuy/how-to-buy.jsp?productID=E106002V31956M55&productName=IBM+Tivoli+Storage+Manager&international=YES&fileName=storage-mgr&ppa=YES&zseries=YES >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/06 4:17 AM >>> Hi Everybody, Is there a web docume

Re: redirect output in readable format

2006-01-31 Thread David E Ehresman
Not sure I know what you mean by unformated output but try the -displaymode=list|table parm. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/31/06 8:28 AM >>> Simple question? When I do a $TSMCMD "q vol 302302 f=d" > result from a UNIX command line. I get the file "result" in unformatted output. How do I redi

Offsite library via fiber

2006-02-10 Thread David E Ehresman
We're thinking of a TSM upgrade that would include a VTL onsite library and an IBM 3584 library for copy pool tape. We would locate the 3584 in our offsite storage location and access it via fiber. The tapes would remain in the 3584 since they would already be offsite. Anyone have any experience w

Re: Expire Inventory

2006-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>Instead, you may want to run EXPire Inventory with Quiet=No Does the QUIET=NO vs QUIET=YES on expirations have much of an effect on the overall speed of expiration? David

Re: Offsite library via fiber

2006-02-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>2) IF we have a disaster, having the VTL offsite means we can do DR >restores without being limited by the number of tape drives we have. >Cool idea, huh? Means we only need 2 drives in our 3584. Collocation & >tape mounts are no longer an issue. > Wanda, Does that mean you're not going to rec

Re: 3584/3494

2006-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
The 3494 tracks where a tape is and TSM depends on the library manager to do the right thing. While the 3584 knows which slot a tape is in (see the 3584 library specialist), TSM also tracks the tape's location. With a 3584, a TSM 'q libvol f=d' has the home element filled in with the tape slot ele

Re: TSM licensing question

2006-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
Physical CPU's/ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/06 11:56 PM >>> I have been told that TSM licensing is done by number of CPU's not number of servers. If we have a number of virtual servers on VM Ware systems, is the TSM licensing calculated by the number of physical CPU's or the number of virtual CPU

Re: LTO devclass and PREFIX?

2006-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
The PREFIX controls what is written on the internal label as a dataset name. >From the 'help def devclass' output: PREFIX Specifies the high level qualifier of the data set name that the server writes into the sequential access media labels. For each sequential access volume assign

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

2006-02-14 Thread David E Ehresman
Scan the list archives for the past couple of weeks looking for serial and parallel. The newer versiions support serialization of commands within a script. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/06 9:05 AM >>> Hello all, I set up a script to run every hour. with the following commands in the script. When

Re: Multiprocess Offsite Reclamation Pointless???

2006-02-27 Thread David E Ehresman
I have not used this new 5.3 option, but I have been doing automated 'move data' commands to achieve multithread reclaim on offsite volumes for some time now. BUT I only do this for storagepools that are collocated thus minimizing the likelihood of contention for onsite volumes. If I were using th

Offsite reclaimation

2006-02-28 Thread David E Ehresman
When an offsite copy storagepool is reclaimed, both FULL and FILLING volumes are eligible for reclaim unlike primary storagepools where only FULL volumes are eligible. Is it because they are COPY storagepool volumes or is it because they are OFFSITE copy storagepool volumes that allow FILLING volu

Re: 3584 help

2006-02-28 Thread David E Ehresman
>From the web app, expand the Service selection and click on Drive and Node Card VPD for the firmware levels. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/28/2006 5:50 PM >>> Having a problem with the Tape Library Specialist/web app, so I want to know what level of microcode is on this 3584. Can you get that

Fiber attached tape drives

2006-03-01 Thread David E Ehresman
I have fiber attached 3590 tape drives in a 3494 library. I am running TSM 5.3.2.0 on AIX 5.2 ML6. The WWN and Serial number of the drive is stored in the TSM DRIVE definition. The AIX device name (/dev/rmt?) is stored in the PATH definition. I am also running TSM StorageAgent on three other AIX

Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

2006-03-02 Thread David E Ehresman
But the retro-fitted web gui is only suppose to be available as a transition tool. Get used to the Admin Center. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/2/2006 12:52:30 PM >>> Richard Mochnaczewski wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I remember reading on the list that IBM has made available a web gui for TSM 5.3 which

Re: Use of 3590J's and 3590K's in TSM

2006-03-07 Thread David E Ehresman
>But, if you are running short of slots, you probably need to be >replacing your ONSTIEe cartridges with the 3590K's. >If you set MAXSCRATCH on your storage pool, you can have collocation, >but more than 1 client per cartridge. > Or since they are moving to TSM 5.3, they can use group collocation

Re: Use of 3590J's and 3590K's in TSM

2006-03-08 Thread David E Ehresman
>I may be missing something, but where do you tell TSM what type of tape >you are using? What would happen if you just started adding K's? I may >need to add J's just to see... > If you have drives that support Ks then you can mix Js and Ks. You don't need to tell TSM. It will just use which eve

DSMCAD on Unix Clients

2006-03-08 Thread David E Ehresman
What are the pro/cons on running dsmcad vs dsmc sched to start the TSM scheduler on unix boxes running the TSM 5.3 client?

Two nodes backing up same data

2006-03-10 Thread David E Ehresman
If two nodes back up the same data on aix using incremental backups, will both nodes back up all the data or will node2 only backup the data that node1 has not already backed up?

Re: Move data from a copy storage pool to another copy storage pool

2006-03-15 Thread David E Ehresman
> I have to move >data from 3590 tapes to 3592 tapes. I know I can delete volumes from the >copy storage pool and make a backup of the primary storage pool again. >But I prefer a saver way. > There is not a safer way. Make sure you have the reusedelay parm set appropriately on your copy storage p

Linux client fails after upgrade to v5.3.2.2

2006-03-15 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 6). I upgraded TSM client to 5.3.2.2. When running dsmc command, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dsmc dsmc: dsmem.cpp:1685: void DsmBlockFree(void*): Assertion `((bn)->bh. magic) == 0x3917' failed. Aborted

Re: LAN free monitoring ...

2006-03-16 Thread David E Ehresman
What version of TSM? In older versions, the storageagents kept their own dsmaccnt log. In newer versions, that data is written in the server dsmaccnt. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/16/2006 10:16:17 AM >>> Hi list, Wondering if someone here has found a way monitoring LAN free backups. I desperately try

Re: Reduce License

2006-03-22 Thread David E Ehresman
Call the Business Partner that sold you the license and ask them to reduce the number of licenses you're paying for. Their is no need to update the number on TSM. At TSM v5 it is just a yes/no setting, not a number of licenses. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/22/2006 2:25:46 PM >>> How can I reduce the

Re: Linux client fails after upgrade to v5.3.2.2

2006-03-23 Thread David E Ehresman
t;> David - The symptoms in IC47993 seem much like it. Richard Sims On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:35 AM, David E Ehresman wrote: > I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 6). > > > I upgraded TSM client to 5.3.2.2. When running dsmc command, I get

Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
checkin libvol LIBNAME 35S checklabel=no status=private should find it and register it to tsm if it is physically known by the library. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2006 10:17:07 AM >>> I have, most certainly, mishandled some media and need some help to put things together, if that is po

Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-04 Thread David E Ehresman
Now I notice you said it could not be checked in. What error do you get when you try to check it in? Have you had your library do an audit followed by a tsm 'audit library' command? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2006 10:17:07 AM >>> I have, most certainly, mishandled some media and need some help to

Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-05 Thread David E Ehresman
It sounds to me like either the robots management software does not know the tape is in the library or that the tape's internal label is no longer readable. Have you done an audit library from the tape library's point of view, not TSM's? If not, that is where I would start. If you do that, follo

Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-05 Thread David E Ehresman
ostics). As far as copy pools go, I wish I had some David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:14:28 -0400 From: David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU It sounds to me like eithe

Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-05 Thread David E Ehresman
driver such as IBMTape that could be used by Tapeutil, for example. The inventory function of the library succeeds (on-panel diagnostics). As far as copy pools go, I wish I had some David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:14:28 -0400 From: David

Destroyed tape

2006-04-10 Thread David E Ehresman
If a primary storage volume is marked as status=destroyed will the files on that tape be backed up in the next backup cycle if they still exist? Or must you do a delete volume discard=yes before the files are eligilble for re-backup? David

Files being skipped during backup/archive

2006-04-10 Thread David E Ehresman
If you use the RESOURCEUTILIZATION parm in your dsm.sys/opt file, you will want to know about the following flash: Under a specific, limited combination of conditions, the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup-archive client might omit files from backup or archive operations without reporting an er

3494 & Media Type

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a cart is? Our 3494 is starting to eject tapes as they are inserted complaining about unknown media type. These are tapes that have been in use for a number of years and are being reinserted into the 3494 after coming back from the o

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
You should keep ALL of your copypool tapes offsite. You should keep TSM db backup tapes offsite to match your 'del volhist'. You should set your reuse delay for your offsite copy storage pool to match the length of time you keep your tsm db backups, in your case 10 days. This last requirement of g

Re: What are the High/Low Level addresses?

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
You need to do an update node specifying the ip address and port number the client is listening on. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/11/2006 8:39:39 AM >>> ANR4740W Either the high level address, low level address, or both were never entered for the specified node( H6540N1 ) and the session initiation stat

Re: Defining scripts in 5.3

2006-04-12 Thread David E Ehresman
On the server that already has the scripts defined, do a q script SCRIPTNAME format=macro This will generate tsm macro commands for defining that script. You can either cut and paster into the new server or redirect the output to a file which you can execute on the new server as a macro. David

Re: Drive Inconsistencies

2006-04-13 Thread David E Ehresman
>The I/O error may have been caused by the drive or the media. Q VOL >ACCESS=READONLY will show any volumes that have been marked read only >because of I/O errors. If you find any you can MOVE that DATA or simply >update the volume to READWRITE. (I like to MOVE the DATA for data >reliability.) Kee

Re: Drive Inconsistencies

2006-04-14 Thread David E Ehresman
doing it by hand (or not at all)? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/13/2006 2:17:45 PM >>> On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:27 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: > That's the sort of thing computers ought to be real good at, logging > errors and determining whether a drive or tape seems to be

Re: 3584 library

2006-04-20 Thread David E Ehresman
>I don't think I understand how inventory & audit works. When you do Audit library 3584lib >checkl=barcode should I see the robotics move and read each and every tape slot and resysnc with >TSM data base ? how do I get these back in sync On a 3584, an "audit library 3584lib checkl=barcode" does NO

Re: tape capacity

2006-04-20 Thread David E Ehresman
Are your LTO tapes still in FILLING status? They will show as a percentage of estimated capacity until either they reach the FULL status or they exceed the estimated capacity while in FILLING status. When in FULL status, what you see is what you got. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/20/2006 2:46:05 PM >>

Re: q cont Vol_Name

2006-04-21 Thread David E Ehresman
In the normal course of events, you should not need to change the status of a tape from private to scratch. When all the data on a given volume expires the tape will go into a pending state for the reuse delay time defined for the storage pool. When the reuse delay is up, it will be deleted from t

Re: Database backups

2006-04-21 Thread David E Ehresman
If you are able to afford to lose up to a weeks worth of data this seems like a reasonable approach. Since you are only sending your copypools tapes off once a week, if you lose your primary pool you will only be able to restore up to the most recent Friday. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/21/2006 11:57:1

Re: Installing the Linux client

2006-04-25 Thread David E Ehresman
Did he install the API before the BA? It has to be installed first. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/25/2006 9:40:28 AM >>> Hi *SM-ers! One of my Unix colleagues is trying to install the TSM 5.3.3.0 client on a SLES9 distribution. I downloaded the client from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/t

Re: multiple tape processes for offsite volumes

2006-04-26 Thread David E Ehresman
"backup stgpool" has had the maxprocess parm for some time now. Now sure which release it came in at but it was certainly there at 5.2 and is still there at 5.3. David Ehresman University of Louisville >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/26/2006 11:23:41 AM >>> One of the issues I have had with TSM is the i

slots in a 3584?

2006-05-05 Thread David E Ehresman
How many 3592 carts will a 3584 frame hold? David

3494 Replacements

2006-05-05 Thread David E Ehresman
As Geoff Gill is learning, a 3584 is NOT a 3494. Is anyone considering replacing a 3494 with a tape library (as opposed to a VTL) with anything other than a 3584? Are there other alternatives out there for a library with 3592 drives? David

Re: 5.3 reclaim command

2006-05-09 Thread David E Ehresman
It make take more than 3 primary pool tapes to reclaim 3 offsite tapes. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/9/2006 7:17:45 AM >>> Hello all, I have been testing the 5.3 reclaim stgpool command but for some reason it seems reclaim more than 3 volumes. The script/command that I use is below. RECLaim STGpool

Re: Pre problem question

2006-05-11 Thread David E Ehresman
The first thing the TSM server will want to do after bringing it up following ad TSM db restore is to do a TSM db backup. If you only have gen 2 dirves you'll want at least one gen 2 scratch tape. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/10/2006 8:39:25 PM >>> We currently have a 3584 library with lto Gen 1 tape

Re: waiting for mount point ??

2006-05-11 Thread David E Ehresman
Did you verify that the PATHs are online? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/11/2006 8:28:33 AM >>> All I'm a little confused by what I'm seeing here and I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this.. TSM Server 5.2.4.0 AIX 5.2 Atape 9.6.0.0 We have a shared 3584library with 12 LTO1, 15 LTO2 and 3 LTO3

Re: Dr Test Soon - question on how tapes get marked after checking them into library

2006-05-16 Thread David E Ehresman
The DRM scripts mark primary storage pools volumes as destroyed, mark copypool volumes that are not access=offsite as destoryed, and mark access=offsite copypool tapes as readonly. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/15/2006 5:41:23 PM >>> Going soon to a disaster recovery test soon. and taking our cop

Re: Journal Testing Tool / Mass file,folder creator

2006-05-18 Thread David E Ehresman
Andy, Thanks for the pointer to the JBB Faq. I realize you were addressing a Windows question when you replied, but for us unix customers the Faq appeares to be dated and incorrect, namely: "What platforms and TSM client versions is Journal Based Backup available for? Journal Based Backup is cur

Metadata

2006-05-19 Thread David E Ehresman
Does TSM store new metadata each time it backs up a file or does it only keep one copy of the metadata per file. I have a customer who is saying they backed up files on a linux box, changed ownership of the files, backed them up again. Then he restored the original versions of the file but got th

Re: TSM 5.3.2 Version Retention Policy

2006-05-30 Thread David E Ehresman
We retain all backups for 30 days by setting VEREXISTS and VERDELETED to NOLIMIT and RETONLY and RETEXTRA to 30. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/30/2006 9:38:40 AM >>> Has anyone heard of or every set there TSM file version retention polices to 30 days across all clients? Traditionally number of v

TSM for DB

2006-06-14 Thread David E Ehresman
I just downloaded from Passport Advantage TSM for DB 5.3. What I got, AIX smitty ids as TSM for DB 5.2.0.0. Is this the most uptodate TSM for DB (for oracle on aix)?

Re: simple query volume script

2006-06-16 Thread David E Ehresman
select * from volumes where stgpool_name='BACKUPPOOL' Note that stgpool names are case sensitive. Issue "run q_columns volumes" to see all the field names in the voume tape that you could list individually or use in the where clause. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/15/2006 11:33 AM >>> Hello all, I hav

Re: BMR0041E on Sysback

2006-06-19 Thread David E Ehresman
1) smitty sysback -> TSM Configuration -> TSM Backup Management -> Remove a TSM Backup Image 2) select the TSM virtual device 3) select (with esc7) the open backup and hit enter 4) rerun the backup David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/19/2006 2:37:05 PM >>> Hello, all. I'm receiving the following dur

Re: FW: Tape Drive Choices: What, and why?

2006-08-09 Thread David E Ehresman
My experience parallels yours although I don't know how much blame to lay at the door of our 3rd party maintenance vendor. We have 4 lightly used LTO1s and have drives replaced on the order of once a month. David >>> Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/8/2006 4:45:05 PM >>> You won't get

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-16 Thread David E Ehresman
We don't have 7 year retentions but we do have a process that does a 'move data' on any tape that was last written over a year ago. David >>> "Allen S. Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/16/2006 10:20:10 AM >>> >> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:34:49 -0500, Troy Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where would y

Re: missed backups oddity

2006-09-05 Thread David E Ehresman
Given your symptoms, my first line of attack would be to assume that those clients do not have resourceutitization set to 1 and are taking the default of 2 sessions per client. How have you confirmed that your server client option setting is being honored? David >>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL P

Win 5.3.4.0 DSMCAD not starting

2006-09-14 Thread David E Ehresman
I'm having problems with dsmcad on a Win 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP1 box. At startup, dsmwebcl.log shows 09/13/2006 20:50:41 (dsmcad) IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 09/13/2006 20:50:41 (dsmcad) Client Acceptor - Built Apr 19 2006 19:51:24 09/13/2006 20:50:41 (dsmcad) Version 5, Release 3, Level 4.0 0

Re: BMR - unlike hardware

2006-09-25 Thread David E Ehresman
We routinely do BMR on AIX and Linux boxes to unlike machines with success. Our LAN guys rebuild WIndows and Netware boxes from the install media and then restore data volumes. David Ehresman University of Louisville >>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/22/2006 7:15 PM >>> >What kind of

Re: Going back to TSM V5.2 after attempting an upgrade to V5.3

2006-09-27 Thread David E Ehresman
I've never had to do it, but to revert to an earlier version of the server, you would have to first reinstall the earlier version of the code and then do a tsm db restore of the last db backup you took while on the earlier version. You would of course lose all backups made while on the newer versi

Re: Default Include/Exclude Lists

2006-10-04 Thread David E Ehresman
That's what the "operating system" excludes are and you don't have to code anythng to get them. They are there by default. david >>> "Rao, Kamran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/4/2006 12:23 PM >>> Leigh, Thanks for the prompt response, but maybe I was not clear. What I meant to ask is that if anyone kn

Re: SQL Query for monthly backups

2006-10-11 Thread David E Ehresman
>I am trying to find out all the successful backups for a monthly node - >going back for years. > You keep your TSM Activity Log for years David

Re: SQL Query for monthly backups

2006-10-11 Thread David E Ehresman
. Ian Smith -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: 11 October 2006 13:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL Query for monthly backups >I am trying to find out all the successful backups for a monthly

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