Re: WIndows 2k server restore

2003-06-25 Thread Joe Howell
Works well for us, assuming the same hardware. We generally restore all of the data on all the drives, then restore the sysobj, then reboot. Make sure that you're installing Windows into the same directory that you're restoring to, and that the computername is identical. Otherwise you'll run

backup systemobject hanging on win2k

2003-06-26 Thread Joe Howell
that the session times out and that eventually it reconnects and the schedule completes. I don't see any errors in the client log. Any ideas on what might be going on? I do see that the schedule prompter keeps bugging the client to start the incremental; is it possible that this is causing a

Is backup systemobject redundant on Win2K?

2003-06-26 Thread Joe Howell
If I am doing an incremental backup of a Windows 2000 server client, is also performing a "backup systemobject" command redundant? My reading of the TSM Client reference leads me to believe that it is but I could use some reassurance. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Co

Re: backup systemobject hanging on win2k

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Howell
in SP4 which will be released pretty soon. :D Andy -Do you this as a problem? Also, see previous threads this month about this. //Henrik Joe Howell YAHOO.COM> cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) Sent by: Subject: backup systemobject hanging on win2k "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" RIST.EDU&

Re: Notes/email backup and retention

2003-07-20 Thread Joe Howell
inary zeroes to the end of the volume. Alternately you can degauss the tape but this is not as complete a solution. Plus you have to reformat the tape after you're through. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL -

Re: TSM Operation Reporting Email notification

2003-07-24 Thread Joe Howell
ee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - D

Re: Help with query

2003-08-12 Thread Joe Howell
is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. Joe Howell Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/11/2003 07:21 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Help with query

Help with query

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Howell
long time. Is there a better way to get this information? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Re: tsm and snapshot errors on windows

2004-12-17 Thread Joe Howell
A snapshot cannot be taken to the same volume that is being backed up. That's what is generating the errors. For example, the snapshot of C: would have to be written to the D: drive and vice-versa. ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROT

TSM 5.2.3 journal service crashes?

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Howell
27;t see why it would, but I didn't write the code. 3) Am I living on the edge here? Should I reasonably expect to be able to do what I'm trying to do? ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM 5.2.3 journal service crashes?

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Howell
k activity. ####### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/16/2004 11:06 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" &l

Copy storage pool retention question

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Howell
t, that it doesn't get marked PENDING but rather EMPTY? Sound like a fixable problem to anyone else? ########### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This e-mail is intended only for its addressee

Tape volume in wrong storage pool/devclass?

2005-01-24 Thread Joe Howell
on it was released as empty but the RMM exit apparently wasn't driven, so it got sent offsite, but TSM still thought it was available and later tried to request a mount to write on it. Level 2 and I are still scratching our heads over that one. ### Joe Howell

Re: Server Performance decreasing rapidly: help!

2005-01-27 Thread Joe Howell
What's your REGION set to on the startup jcl? We're using 768M, but then we appear to be a smaller implementation than you based on your database size. ####### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joni Moyer <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Questions concerning file/user exits

2005-02-17 Thread Joe Howell
Eric - make sure that you're not encountering authorization problems. Try scheduling your script from the server: 'define clientaction action=command options=". If it fails to run then you might have a permissions issue with whatever userid your scheduler runs as. #####

Re: tape use question

2005-02-17 Thread Joe Howell
How often are you doing reclamation on your vault pool? We used to do reclamation daily and found ourselves in a similar situation. We changed to only reclaiming once a week and like that much better. ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL

Re: tape use question

2005-02-17 Thread Joe Howell
around 400 volumes by Friday but then drops back down to around 100. This is with some 60 clients, all collocated. Take a hard look at your reclamation cycles and what volumes are being used for input. ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: If we all complain, do you think they will add the WEB gui back?

2005-03-11 Thread Joe Howell
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Re: If we all complain, do you think they will add the WEB gui back?

2005-03-14 Thread Joe Howell
What PTF are they talking about? 5.3.1 isn't even out yet, much less 5.3.2. ### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 03/14/2005 09:20 AM Please r

VOLHIST cleanup on z/OS

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Howell
olhist file during a disaster recovery in case the tape catalog is unavailable. How do those of you who run on z/OS deal with your volhist file? You can't just delete everything older than X days old because you might still be using it, but you need to weed out all of the "obsolete" ent

Re: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

2005-05-16 Thread Joe Howell
Delete it using the FSID. "del files nodename fsid# namet=fsid" Using your example, del file afsdbms 3 namet=fsid. ####### Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies (573)-214-6534 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist

Re: TSM Journalling Engine - experiences and MEMORYEFFICENTBACKUP needed?

2003-09-24 Thread Joe Howell
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How many volumes can I delete at once?

2003-10-07 Thread Joe Howell
I have to delete some volumes from a copy storage pool. I have attempted to delete as many as four volumes at once (del vol discarddata=yes) and had deadlock problems. How many volumes should I expect to be able to process at once? TSM 5.1.5 on OS/390. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance

Re: How many volumes can I delete at once?

2003-10-07 Thread Joe Howell
r Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Joe Howell > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How many volumes can I delete at once? > > > I have to delete some volumes from a copy storage pool. I have > attempted to delete as m

Matching node number to node name?

2003-10-23 Thread Joe Howell
ot; and I don't see a column name to contain a node_number in the database. Anybody know how I can figure out which client this is? TSM 5.1.5 on OS/390, all Win2K clients running TSM 5.1.6 or higher. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do

Re: Matching node number to node name?

2003-10-23 Thread Joe Howell
t if it is rather small (the default in v5 is 60 minutes, boosted from its introductory value of 10 due to too many customer db contention problems). But this may be a product problem that you need to refer to TSM Support. Richard Sims, BU Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO

Running a script at TSM server startup

2003-10-31 Thread Joe Howell
Is it possible to have TSM automagically run a script when the server first starts up? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears

Automatic script start at server startup?

2003-11-09 Thread Joe Howell
tarted up again without having to resort to telling the operators to key the command in. I know I can use external automation to do it but was wondering if there is a way to do it within TSM? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!

Need experiences with TSM 5.2.x upgrade on z/OS

2003-11-12 Thread Joe Howell
;t seem to be available yet - don't you just love being on the edge?) to get the fix for the apar. There's also a zap available to fix the problem with CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS. Has anyone been through this? What seems to be the cleanest way to deal with this issue? Joe Howell Shelter

Re: Need experiences with TSM 5.2.x upgrade on z/OS

2003-11-13 Thread Joe Howell
r. There's also a zap available to fix the problem with CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS. Has anyone been through this? What seems to be the cleanest way to deal with this issue? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Protect you

Fun with disaster recovery

2003-11-19 Thread Joe Howell
ist. I thought that this would 1) be the first include statement evaluated by the client (it's on the TSM server) and 2) be globally applied to all files on the client. Is the include statement correct? Is it possible that I've gotten burned because (maybe) all the files haven&#

Re: Fun with disaster recovery

2003-11-22 Thread Joe Howell
Co. of America [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306 -Original Message- From: Joe Howell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fun with disaster recovery I'm at a DR exercise and have discovered that many of the files that we neede

Re: Fun with disaster recovery

2003-11-22 Thread Joe Howell
ool; and the rule is that in the absence of DIRMc, they go with the management class with the longest retention - which some customers have found to be a mongrel MC they had hanging around in their definitions with no expectation that it would ever be used. Richard Sims, BU Joe Howell Shelter In

Re: NTFS Security on restores

2003-12-04 Thread Joe Howell
user/group permissions weren't restored. Are there "issues" restoring across Window versions like this?? Bill Boyer "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ?? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Conflict betw. TSM Jrnl service and TSRM?

2003-12-04 Thread Joe Howell
d that the nightly backup process hangs; when I go to check things out I find that the journal service is chewing up some serious CPU and won't stop normally. The only thing I can think of is that TSRM is conflicting somehow. I've turned that guy off to see if it happens again tonight.

Re: db snapshot to recover

2004-01-10 Thread Joe Howell
; wrote:Can you use a db snapshot to recover a database in a dr situation? I can't think of why not but I would rather be safe then sorry. Thanks! Becky Davidson Data Manager EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group voice: 314-259-7589 fax: 314-877-8589 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Howell

Re: Dwindling Performance

2004-01-14 Thread Joe Howell
f deleted out. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc

Controlling license counts

2004-01-23 Thread Joe Howell
Is it possible in a Win2K environment to start TSM client 2 up with the nodename of client 1 and restore client 1's files without running afoul of Windows file permissions? Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Re: Journaling Problem

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Howell
l works fine, but when the schedule runs the backup seems to hang, the session timeout and then fail to re-establish. This has only started happening since journaling was turned on. Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour before? Thanks! Sam Rudland Joe Howell Shelter Insura

Files bound to wrong mgtclass

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Howell
an anyone help me out here? Am I on the right track? Can I resolve this by (ugh) customizing each individual dsm.opt file with the appropriate include statement? FWIW I'm about to upgrade my server to 5.2.2, so I may not have to split out the systemobject backu

Re: Files bound to wrong mgtclass

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Howell
27;t want to reintroduce that problem to fix another one. I'd like to keep the files and the systemobjects in separate processes if I can. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Howell
system don't boot but give me a system error. 1. Have anyone done such a restore to a diffrent hardware system? 2. Does anyone know if ITSM will support such in the future. I know that veritas have a product that accomplish this. Med Vdnlig Hdlsning/ Best Regards __

Re: FW: OS/390 2.10 upgrade to TSM 5.2

2004-02-25 Thread Joe Howell
n about this platform on the list. Thanks! Nancy Brizuela University of Wyoming IBM Systems Group Ivinson Room 238 (307)766-2958 Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want.

Re: Restoring a Win2k server

2004-04-08 Thread Joe Howell
aken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management 312.413.4947. Joe Howell Shelter Insurance Companies Columbia, MO - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Smal

64-bit support on 390?

2004-04-16 Thread Joe Howell
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Re: 64-bit support on 390?

2004-04-20 Thread Joe Howell
ng keeps the cpu usage way down. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Howell Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 64-bit support on 390? We're going to a disaster-recovery exercise in a couple of month