TDP for Domino and Windows 2000 backup problems

2001-03-13 Thread Mark S.
I've got a client who is running TDP for Domino (version 1.1.1, I believe) on both Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers. His NT boxes back up his .NSF files just fine, but his 2000 boxes only get a handful of backups nightly, when he should be getting several hundred .NSF files backing up each nigh

Re: TSM 4.1.1, WinNT 4.0 SP6a, San Data Gateway,and IBM 3584 LTO Lib rary

2001-03-18 Thread Mark S.
"Volovsek, Jay" wrote: > > Jeff. I would like to sincerely thank you for that input. You were right > on the money. When IBM configured the library, they configured it as four > Logical Libraries. I just blew away that configuration and set it up as one > LL. Now my servers only see one libra

Re: client notification

2001-03-18 Thread Mark S.
John Bremer wrote: > > Indeed it is too bad TSM (or Veritas or Legato) doesn't supply a > notification mechanism. It's pretty simple for our UNIX clients to notify > themselves, but for others, not so easy. Indeed it is too bad that people don't understand the limitations of operating systems an

Re: TSM 3.7 to 4.1 Upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Mark S.
Shekhar Dhotre wrote: >I have experienced this before , upgrade deletes all drive info , and if you >try to reconfigure it , using smit tivoli ..you can`t you have to >1) delete drives from ODM use odmdelete .. (#rmdev -dl rmtx --does not work) Not true. I've upgraded from 2.x to 3.x, 3.1.x

Re: TSM 3.7 to 4.1 Upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Mark S.
Roy Lake wrote: > > Hi Chaps, > > Its coming to that time of the year where we have to think about upgrading our TSM >server from 3.7.x to 4.1.x. > > Can you please confirm what this process involves?. > > I understand that we have to re-define the licences, but do we also have to >re-define the

Re: Windows NT/2000 Daylight Savings Time Problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark S.
Andy Raibeck wrote: > Yes, you do want to run this one. :-) > > You need to use the -d option when running IP21933_19_FULL.EXE, i.e.: > >IP21933_19_FULL -d > > This is described in the README.FTP file (it's in the same directory as the > IP21933_19_FULL.EXE file). Isn't it wonderful when pe

Re: TDP for MS Exchange server is very slow

2000-12-13 Thread Mark S.
Leos Stehlik wrote: >From: "Vmt H|bner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Standard Backup Clients on NT are working good, but TDP for MS Exchange >>server is very very slow (Full backup 6G/12h). > >I saw similar behavior. This could be because the TDP for Exchange by >default uses software compression >on the

Re: Changing Servers OS390 to SUN

2000-12-14 Thread Mark S.
Luci Ziebart wrote: >I have numerous questions on this subject: >Today our ADSM Server 3.1.2.50 resides on OS390 2.5 and output media is on >3490e cartridges. We are planing to upgrade to TSM 4.1 and the server will >reside on UNIX Sun Solaris, the output media will be STK's 9840's PowderHorn

Re: AS400 Performance problems

2000-12-19 Thread Mark S.
Reiner Sauer wrote: > we had an as400 mod. 170 and tsm V3 client . Tsm server is AIX 4.11. We have 600 >Kb/s transfer rate to the server instead of 3000 - 4000 Kb/s as the other systems >have (novell, solaris or aix). The backup tool is BRMS with tsm client option. > > Did everybody knows such p

Re: decision support odbc driver for db2?

2001-02-05 Thread Mark S.
Gerald Wichmann wrote: > That's not true. TDS 2.1 Includes an install options for "Tivoli 3.11 ODBC > drivers". It includes drivers for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and MSSQL. No > DB2. So my question still stands. I have DB2 installed on an AIX box. I do > not have an NT ODBC driver for the TDS box.

Re: IBM 3583 and Ultrium Drives, Windows 2000

2001-02-10 Thread Mark S.
"Kelly J. Lipp" wrote: > > This is a reprise of a thread started in December. > > Flame on: > > HAS ANYONE MADE THIS WORK WITH TSM 4.1??? > > Flame off. > > The documentation is not clear: Does ADSMSCSI support this baby or do we > need to use the device drivers shipped with the library? The

Re: NT 4.0 TCPIP Comm failure

2001-02-11 Thread Mark S.
David Longo wrote: >We have had several machines lately that suddenly can't talk to *SM server >and vice >versa. Have to reboot NT to get back. ping and other comm works >o.k. These will >work o.k a few days then same thing. These clients have >been in production for a >good while with no

Re: problem restore

2001-02-17 Thread Mark S.
> From: Nicholas Cassimatis > Was anything else using the tape drives? If you have 2 drives, and are > running space reclaimation, your restore won't start until the reclamiation > ends. Same thing with migrations tying up the tape drives. This is why I > always recomend an odd number of tape d

Re: Scratch tapes...

2001-02-17 Thread Mark S.
Ray wrote: > I'm relatively new to TSM, and inherited a 3.7 server on AIX with one > 3570 library (19 tapes). We do oracle backups and Solaris/Linux/Aix/NT > backups to the same storage pool. > > The problem is we're backing up up a lot of data. Occasionally TSM will > use up all the tapes, leav

Re: reclamation vs backup stgpool

2001-02-19 Thread Mark S.
Arnaud Brion wrote: > I'm facing an embarasting situation since I changed the way our daily job runs : I >start a reclamation job, by decreasing the rec parameter to 50 % on all storage pools >every morning at 3:00. > Two hours later I start a backup stgpool job, on all storage pools too, and w

Netware clients and DSM threads

2001-02-21 Thread Mark S.
I don't know what others' experiences have been, but I have run across something interesting. It appears that Netware does not tolerate more than 3 concurrent DSM threads. I can reproduce Netware abends when there are 4 or more DSM processes. As near as I can tell, the Netware modules that chokes

Re: Client Schedules won't start

2001-02-27 Thread Mark S.
Rajesh Oak wrote: >I am running TSM 4.1.0 on Win2000. For some reason, the client schedules won't start. >They were working at one time and suddenly it stopped. The Server won't kickoff any >schedules. >Please advise what to look for to make it work. Check to see if your TSM scheduler is runnin

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

2001-03-04 Thread Mark S.
bbullock wrote: > The problem that keeps me awake at night now is that we now have > manufacturing machines wanting to use TSM for their backups. In the past > they have used small DLT libraries locally attached to the host, but that's > labor intensive and they want to take advantage of o

Re: How to restore partitioning info on WindowsNT

2001-03-07 Thread Mark S.
Doug Thorneycroft wrote: > Is there a way to recover the partitioning information on Windows? Sorry for the late reply. No, within itself TSM has no way of preserving such information. You may want to look at a third-party package like Bare Metal Restore (www.tkg.com). It will work with TSM to

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

2001-03-08 Thread Mark S.
"Warren, Matthew James" wrote: >Has anybody looked at using Tivoli Decision Support with TSM? > >>From: Jager Frederic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>I am currently evaluating a TSM KM by OTL software with >>Patrol client and >>console (you can get an evaluation copy). And I do think this is worth >