Re: TSM server 5.2.3.4 removed from ftp site

2004-11-17 Thread Nathan Reiss
We ran into the problem with 5.2.3.4 as well. One of our servers crashed after we upgraded to 5.2.3.4 within a couple of days. We have installed it on about six or seven servers total. Then we tracked the issue with IBM/Tivoli support for a few days and found that 5.2.3.4 was the issue. But we ha

3584 Tape Library issue (maybe)

2005-01-18 Thread Nathan Reiss
I got a weird problem. This is a shot in the dark, but I'm going to ask all the kind-folks on the Adsm mailing list a weird question. Maybe someone out there will have some ideas. Please bare in mind that we do have a PMR open with TSM support, a service call with IBM Hardware CE's, and with Bro

Re: Tape went back to private without reason (2)

2005-03-16 Thread Nathan Reiss
As a general rule I agree with you. I have had instances where a tape needed to be relabeled (with overwrite=yes) to make it work again. Basically, with tapes that start causing weird I/O errors and stuff, or error out from some reason early on after the tape's been loaded (usually with an actlog

Re: Problem with drive

2005-07-18 Thread Nathan Reiss
Don't just do audit library. Do "audit library lib-name checklabel=barcode". Otherwise, it will go a long,long time as it loads every tape into a drive. Thanks, David N. Reiss Unix Engineer/Disaster Recovery Team Lead (309)/494-3749 Too many people simply give up too easily. You have to keep t

Re: breaking volume mirror for TSM DB

2004-09-01 Thread Nathan Reiss
I've never seen a delete dbvol command fail. Taking a while to run I've seen. But outright fail... no. (Well, not unless I typo'ed something). You shouldn't have to take any downtime. The major things to think about when doing anything with the database is: is there anything else messing wit

Re: admin id

2004-09-09 Thread Nathan Reiss
In a nut shell: you don't. The only reason you might want one is so that you can hand them out to each person (assuming it is separate people) who need to manage the data for each of the nodes. Then they can find out some things about the node... things like amount of data backed up, file systems