MSSQL single database restore

2005-01-26 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
Hello All, I am attempting to restore a single database on a fairly busy SQL 2k server. I need to go back to a certain point in time because the data is corrupt after this time. Whenever I use the GUI for TDP for MSSQL and try to look at the active/inactive, tdpsql freezes (I think it runs out of m

Re: MSSQL single database restore

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
Del, This worked wonderfully, unfortunately, I applied the transaction logs with the transactions that corrupted the data in the first place. And now the date that I need has "rolled off" of Tivoli. I know there is a way to look and see what tape the old data could possibly be on, but I can't remem

TDP SQL backup hanging issues

2004-02-25 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
I am having a very difficult time with a clustered node SQL instance. 9 times out of 10 when you run the backup either through a script or the gui the backup just hangs. If you look at the sessions within TSM it shows it has stopped at a particular size, and almost invariably when it hangs, it hang

TDP for Domino failures

2004-03-15 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
All, We have been having an issue with TDP for Lotus Notes (Domino) for some time now. It seems the backup runs and goes through all of the databases. I know this by looking at the domsel.txt (log) file and numerating the databases, however, I look at the domerrlog file, and we get the result that

MS SQL question

2004-05-19 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
If we do a full database backup on sql server, then a log backup hourly, would we need to do a differential backup and why? Kevin M. Lipscomb/Michael Lovern Dan River Inc. Systems Engineering

Re: TDP Domino restore onto different Server

2004-06-16 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
Bill, We just completed disaster recovery testing ourselves... We were able to restore all the databases to our "disaster recovery server" We loaded all the necessary software, (Lotus, TDP for Domino, and the Backup archive client) However the one caveat, is that Lotus must be installed first befor

Re: Question regarding TSM and citrix servers

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin Lipscomb
Tammy, We have a couple of citrix farms, and we back them up using Tivoli, what we do is back up just a couple on each farm, because they are close enough that we can get by with it... But we have had no issues at all with the backups or the restores. Hope this helps. Thanks, Kevin Kevin M. Lipscom