Re: IBM 3995 A63

2001-04-09 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi , different model - same problem, when we kicked out our old MC-machine and switched to an F50 we also had to replace our 3995-063 with an 3995-C62 library ( this was at the end of 1998 ). First IBM told us "It should work .." and after about 3 month of Hotline-Calls, they told us "It will not

Re: ADSM database backup to a file.

2001-04-09 Thread Herfried Abel
hello, 1)you have to define a devclass of deftype FILE e.g adsm> def devc dbbackup devt=FILE direc=/dir/for/backups 2)then you can simply perform a dbbackup eg: dsmc> backup db devc=dbbackup type=full vol=name_of_backup_file 3)with DSMSERV RESTORE DB you can restore youradsm db / you need a go

Cant CHECKOUT LIBV - ANR8442E

2001-04-17 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi to all, I had a tape with lots of write errors in an 3575-L16 library. After sucessfully moving the data to a different tape, I want to check the old one out and get the following error ? what am I doing wrong The returncode ANR8442E tells me that there is some "conflict" with this volume

Re: Cant CHECKOUT LIBV - ANR8442E

2001-04-17 Thread Herfried Abel
in use ? check if you hav not a running background process that uses the volume adsm > q mount adsm > q drive adsm > Q PROC rv > -Message d'origine- > De : Herfried Abel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : mardi 17 avril 2001 09:57 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Slow NT Restore

2001-05-31 Thread Herfried Abel
Phil, Did you check the general network speed between the client and the server ( e.g. ftp put and get a large file ). If you are in a switched 100 mb network sometimes ( i saw it on our Compaq and RS6000 servers ) the autonegotiate port speed / mode does not work correct. We set all components (

ANR0444W TDP MSSQL NT Error

2001-06-04 Thread Herfried Abel
Hello, we are running an TDP for MSSQL on NT Agent ( V 1.1.2 ) on an clustered NT CLient. ADSM Server is 3.1.2.20 ( I know - out of service) on an RS6K/AIX. We backup abouth 35 MSSQL DBs in sequence. Each time we run the backup ( eighter full or inremental ) we get about 10 times the error. ANR0

Re: cleaning 3575 drive

2001-07-16 Thread Herfried Abel
If its a single drive only get a cleaning tape and insert it into the drive ! If its within a library the checkin the cleaning cartitidges ( one or more ) via the menu on the operating panel. Within this menu you have also the possibility to clean the drive(s) immediate or set the cleaning frequen

Re: How to delete copy pool data?

2001-07-16 Thread Herfried Abel
Some hints : 1)If there is enough space available now: do a backup stg again and only an incremental backup to the copy stg will happen. 2)Files in the copy stg pool will be expired following the same definitions, that are in pllace for the primary stg. so, thinking about 1+2 maybe there is no

Re: cleaning 3575 drive

2001-07-17 Thread Herfried Abel
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: cleaning 3575 drive Thanks herfried, I also would like to know , how many times one cleaning catridge can be used. thanks in advance. sree. Herfried Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: offsite copy

2001-07-18 Thread Herfried Abel
Zosimo, 1) backup stg_pool copy_pool 2) q vol * stg=copy_pool acc=readwr shows a list of volumes for each volume ( a_vol ) in this list do 3) upd vol a_vol acc=offsite 4) checkout libv yourlibrary a_vol 5) take all checked out volumes and ship them offsite :-) herfried "Zosimo Noriega (ADNO

General PREEMPTION Question

2001-07-18 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi to all, The long story: We are running a rather old ADSM server version : 3.1.2.20 and we will upgrade to 4.? in august. With the version we are running now, I have problems related to the default preemption strategy. In gernal I think it is a good thing, but we have one special application w

Re: Oracle RMAN backups - deleting backups

2001-07-19 Thread Herfried Abel
David, maybe this KSH sample helps your DBAs herfried #!/bin/ksh # # call script SID RECUNDANCY e.g zots 3 # TEMPDIR=/tmp LOGDIR=/home/oracle/log SID=$1 REDUNDANCY=$2 SCRIPT=$TEMPDIR/delete_$$_$SID.rman TMPFILE=$TEMPDIR/report_$$_$SID.tmp CZOTS="allocate channel for delete type 'sbt_tape' parms

Re: volume mismatch

2001-07-20 Thread Herfried Abel
Do a audit library 3575lib1 herfried Steve de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 20.07.2001 11:14:17 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: volume mismatch

Re: Oracle Question

2001-07-23 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi, open the command line interface a try a q occ yournodename herfried "Amini, Mehdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 23.07.2001 14:36:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM upgrade on NSM

2001-07-23 Thread Herfried Abel
Guten Morgen Thomas, I cant help you with NSM experience, but I just signed a SW-Service contract with IBM ( ie. TIVOLI -Austria ) so I can tell you a little abouth the pricing. You have to buy the TSM Server SW with all the Tier Support you need ( so here the pricing differs). When you buy it,

Re: TSM quick questions

2001-07-31 Thread Herfried Abel
Mauicio, Maybe this is what you are looking for : Rman allows you to do some kind of "file grouping" by the way of defining multiple channels for backing up the db. For example, your db has 10 db-files then you could open 2 channels in Rman to backup 5 db-files over one channel "at the same time

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-08 Thread Herfried Abel
Lisa, All the filesystems within the rootvg are backed up with a mksysb as long as they are not explicit excluded from rthe mksysb. In general AIX does not delete (major) files on reboot as other UNIX's do ( eg /tmp ). This is how we do the restore of an AIX machine : 1) restore mksysb 2) restore

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Herfried Abel
t still pretty applicable to 4.3.3? I wonder if TSM still "supports" a bare metal for AIX, or if it is now unsupported like Win2K is? thanks lisa Herfried Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/09/2001 01:52 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: AIX Backups on TSM

2002-05-16 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi, try to create an include-exclude list and do not to put the exclude statement in the dsm.sys file -herf "Crawford, Lindy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 16.05.2002 13:04:17 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMA

Re: 3570 drive

2002-05-21 Thread Herfried Abel
Burak, First I see that you are talking about 2 drives but there are 3 in the errpt you sent. I assume rmt1 and rmt2 to be the 3570 drives. So first clean them if not already done. ( you can do this from the operator panel I think). But it could also be that the cleaning is set to "automatic" i.e.

HELP !Miracle Netware changed to NT. Node cant access server anymore !

2002-01-29 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi Listers, A have a wired problem: A Win2000 node accessed the TSM 4.2 server using the nodename of a Netware 5 client. Now the Netware client cant access the server anymore. The message "ANS1357S Session rejected: Downlevel client code version" is displayed. The Platform in a "q node" changed f

Re: Restoring files from one client to another

2002-02-15 Thread Herfried Abel
Farren, try dsmc -virtualnodename=FRED on a different machine with the same ( or higher ) TSM client installed. btw: be carefull not to loos your backupdata of FRED ( due to RETONLY Version retention parameter ) herfried Farren Minns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 15.02.2002 10:27:28

Re: More than one storage pool backing up to a single copypool.

2002-02-19 Thread Herfried Abel
Yes - just go on - its possible, no problem herfried "Martin, Jon R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 19.02.2002 15:55:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Mo

Re: ADSM client for LINUX 6.2 required

2002-02-22 Thread Herfried Abel
Did you try the 4.1 TSM client ? http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adcllin.htm herfried Blewitt Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 22.02.2002 09:23:05 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: ADSM client for LINUX 6.2 required

2002-02-22 Thread Herfried Abel
nks, Mark -Original Message- From: Herfried Abel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM client for LINUX 6.2 required Did you try the 4.1 TSM client ? http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adcllin.htm he

Re: IP change on AIX

2002-02-25 Thread Herfried Abel
Mark, one way to change the AIXs IP is: 1) stop all applications (eg TSM) 2) run sh /etc/tcp.clean and sh /etc/nfs.clean ( from the console cause this stopps AIX networking ) 3) remove Network devices ( eg. rmdev -l en0 -d and rmdev -l ent0 -d ) 4) run cfgmgr to recreate the devices ( the are no

Re: Linux and Windows clients

2002-03-07 Thread Herfried Abel
chris, I think using the win client sets the nodes filespaces to unicode enabled within the tsm internal database. This causes your error. you can reset the client only using the "non documented" SET RECORD method. ( This manipulates the internal db and should only be used on IBM/Tivoli advice.)

Re: offsite backup

2002-03-07 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi, sounds ok first day 1) 2)backup primary storage pool to copy pool and mark volumes within copy pool as offsite 3) 4) next day 1) 2) + 3)depends on the number of volumes you have( you could send them offsite daly and get them back weekly ) 4) 5) 6) after the dbbackups it would also be nice to

Re: Linux and Windows clients

2002-03-07 Thread Herfried Abel
Chris, i think it does not depend weather the filespace *is* unicode, it depends on the unicode client. see following APAR from Tivoli web. herfried APAR= PQ54549 SER=IN INCORROUT ANS1357S WHEN CONNECTING WITH NON-UNICODE CLIENT Status: CLOSED

Re: CopyStoragePool tapes not expiring?

2001-08-30 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi, did you perform an UPD VOL SA2_006 ACC=READWR after this it should be deleted from the stg pool and return to scratch state. herfried Eugene Awyong - Singapore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 30.08.2001 12:23:13 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: RMAN with TSM anyone ?

2001-08-30 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi, we saw that the "ENV" directive within the rman script is very important, we are running a little bit older versions but mayby this still helps : Here is a example how I do a full backup: - SHELL SCRIPT ( COMMANDLINE) BEGIN ---

TSM SERVER 4.2.x & CLIENT VERSION lt 3.7 on same HW ??

2001-10-03 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi to all, we are planning to upgrade our ADSM 3.1.2.20 server to TSM 4.2.latest in about 10 days. ( RS/6000 AIX Environment ) On the ADSM Server we have also a CommonStore Server running with a rather old level ( CS 1.6.2 ). This server connects over the api via shared memory to the ADSM Serve

Re: Hardware compression has stopped working on 3570 drives

2001-10-18 Thread Herfried Abel
Eric, this looks really strange. have you also tried to define a devclass with recording format 3570C ? ( just a try ) herfried Eric Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 17.10.2001 08:05:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Error when I start dsmc and dsmcad

2001-10-18 Thread Herfried Abel
Fabio, at least on AIX ( TSM Client 4.1.3) this entry is placed in the dsm.sys not in the dsm.opt herfried Fabio Di Ciommo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 19.10.2001 15:58:39 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Netware 5.1 question

2001-10-18 Thread Herfried Abel
We installed TSAUP7 on one of our Test Novell 5.1 SP3 Servers yesterday. Server and TSM Backup/Restore operations look good now. But we'll watch a few more days til we decide wether to install TSAUP7 on our productive servers or not. herfried Bruce Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 1

novell 5.1 bmr question - expert needed !

2001-10-19 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi again, we are thinking about a good way to restore our Novell 5.1 Servers in case of a complete system loss. Up to now our Novell admins uses CA ARCSERV to backup the servers. In addition TSM clients are set up on all machines and all volumes are backed up daily ( incremental forever ). They

Re: TDP for oracle and data growth.

2001-11-13 Thread Herfried Abel
You have to explicitly delete the files - usually with rman herfried "Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ISES-31" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 13.11.2001 13:31:31 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAI

TDP for ORACLE 2.2 on NT - ANS0238E Pls HELP

2001-11-26 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi to all, we installed and configured TDP 2.2 for ORACLE on NT 4 SP6. We can do backups but we are getting errors when we try to delete them via an RMAN "change backuppiece ( or set ) x delete". The piece/set is deleted from the RMAN catalog but when trying to delete withon TSM errors ANS0228E c

Re: Can't empty diskpool volumes!?!

2001-11-26 Thread Herfried Abel
Do you have "cache migrated files yes" on this volumes ? This would explain a little bit . herfried "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 26.11.2001 14:11:48 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL

Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell

2001-11-27 Thread Herfried Abel
Some hints ( Novell 5 ) 1) User with full administrator rights 2) entry in dsm.opt DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL NDS 3) usefull examples EXCLUDE.DIR sys:QUEUES EXCLUDE.DIR sys:TIVOLI EXCLUDE.DIR sys:SYSTEM\CSLIB\LOGS\SMLOGS EXCLUDE.DIR "NDS:.O=XXX.OU=YYYOU=ZZZ.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Pro

Re: CommonStore for SAP and TSM

2001-11-29 Thread Herfried Abel
Hi Jan, we use CStore with ADSM ( now TSM ) since some years now. 1) I dont think the redundancy ( with a copy ) is possible. We use copy stgpools on DLT ( one tape with big capacity ). 2) There is a 1-2-1 mapping. In our case the TSM db does not seem to grow in an extreme way. We have archived ab

Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell - be careful excluding Tivoli directory

2001-11-30 Thread Herfried Abel
an important issue. I do not know how many people on this list are familiar with Tivoli Enterprise Products but am surprised to see such huge corporation as yours that does not know or use it. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Herfried Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 27.11.2001 09:44:18 Pleas

Re: Delete TDP backup piece directory from ADSM

2001-12-04 Thread Herfried Abel
Kathy, 1) if you use either a different node name or a different filespace for the backups of the new /upgraded DB you can issue a "delete filespace" on the TSM. 2) you can create a new filespace where the backups go to and then, according to your backup policy go back to 1) after your defined "

Re: Delete TDP backup piece directory from ADSM

2001-12-06 Thread Herfried Abel
patch), it has a utility called TDPOSYNC.  It lets you remove backup pieces from the TSM DB, even if they are no longer in the RMAN catalog (a not uncommon occurrence, we've found). -Original Message- From: Herfried Abel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: 3995 failure after AIX upgrade

2002-01-07 Thread Herfried Abel
We did the same upgrade from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3 ML06 and had no problems with 3995 C62 and C64. But we deleted ALL Libraries/drives and recreated them after the upgrade. btw we are running Atape 6.1.9.0. herfried It Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 07.01.2002 13:08:42 Please respond t

Re: 4 mm internal tape problems

2002-01-18 Thread Herfried Abel
Maybe its because the DEVICE TYPE in the DEVICE CLASS and the DRIVE DEFINITION differ ( 4MM vs GENERICTAPE) ? Henrik Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 18.01.2002 10:51:52 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL P