Re: Backupset restore

Hi Cheri, Have you tried to copy the file from the burned CD to local disk and then restore from there? How do you create the CD - with session open/close session/...? It may make things complicated. I met this message before when I tried to restore a backupset from tape drive while server and cl

RMAN archivelog maintenance

Hello, We are using RMAN to backup database and archivelog. The database can be deleted by 'change ... delete' command but I cannot find a command to delete the archivelog. Any idea? Thanks! Best regards, Phillip Guan

RMAN archive log maintenance

Hi, To check the obsolete database backups earlier than 7 days ago, we can use command: report obsolete until time 'SYSDATE-7'; But how to find out the obsoleted archive logs, or how to delete archive log older than n days ago? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regard

backup performance

== Is this performance good? Which part of the report should be checked if there is a performance issue? Thank you. Best regards, Phillip Guan

DB buffer question

Hi all, What does 'Total Buffer Requests' mean if it is a negative value? And 'Cache Hit Pct' is zero? Thanks. Regards, Phillip Guan === tsm>q stg Storage Device Estimated Pct

restore a NT file on UNIX box

Hi, Is there a way to restore a NT file on UNIX? For example, a file \\machinename\\c$\tmpdir\dsmdata, I want to restore on an UNIX machine, how do I run the 'dsmc restore...' command assumping I change the local node name to be the NT node name. Thanks in advance for you help. Regards, Phillip

client and server IP address in different schedule mode

s the client IP address? Will it overwrite the IP which is known on server when the client contact server at the first time? Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Phillip Guan

Re: client and server IP address in different schedule mode

Hi Rajesh, I'v added the TCPCLIENTADDRESS in dsm.sys file, it solved the problem. Thanks a lot. Regards, Phillip Guan -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rajesh Oak Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

multiple tape drive in a SAN environment

help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Phillip Guan

TDP for RMAN automatic matenance script

be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Phillip Guan

TSM server crash when backing up a LINUX

Hi all, Our TSM server is 3.7.4.6 and Linux client is 4.1.2.0, everytime when we start to backup the Linux, the TSM server crashes immediately. Here are a cut from dsmserv.err. Any idea? Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Phillip Guan .. 06/25/2001 18:05:22 ANR7833S Server

Script does not run - Full path name has space?

lient: 4.1.2 OS: Win2000 pro Best regards, Phillip Guan

Re: Script does not run - Full path name has space?

ut the script works if I put it in the root directory, i.e, c:\; but it doesn't work if I put in C:\Program Files\BMC Software\obacktrack\bin directory. Does anyone experience this problem? Thanks in advance for your help! TSM client: 4.1.2 OS: Win2000 pro Best regards, Phillip Guan "MMS &

How to delete copy pool data?

Hi all, I backed up some data from primary storage pool to copy pool, some data was copied but got error because the size of copy pool was smaller than the storage pool. How do I delete the data that been copied in the copy pool? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Phillip Guan

strange expiration process

ANR0987I Process 42 for EXPIRATION running in the BACKGROUND processed 317996 items with a completion state of SUCCESS at 13:28:17. === Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutio

Re: strange expiration process

Hi Richard, We didn't set the EXPInterval, I think it is 0, am I right? Phillip -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strange expiration process

Re: strange expiration process

Hi Richard and Maria, Thanks for your info. I believe I should set it EXPInterval to 0 to eliminate the problem. Phillip tsm: UTSLC01>q option Server Option Option Setting Server Option Option Setting - -

3590 tape compress question

anks in advance for your help. Best regards, Phillip Guan

Re: 3590 tape compress question

Hi Maria/Richard, No, we didn't turned on compress on the client. Thanks for the info. Phillip -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maria Paz Gimeno Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RV: 3590 tape c

Re: 3590 tape compress question

; the HW compress if it is not compressed? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Phillip Guan

Re: 3590 tape compress question

compress? Form the 'q vol' output, it seems it uses as 40GB. How do we 'turn on' the HW compress if it is not compressed? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Phillip Guan

schedule daemon and password

if someone types 'ps -ef' command, the whole command line will show up and he can see the password. This happens on Solaris system; on AIX, the 'secretexxxx' will not be shown. Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions

Re: schedule daemon and password

--- ps output 33450 pts/1 0:00 dsmc sched -password -optfile=dsm.opt - This is on an AIX system and out client says it shows the real password on their Solaris system!!!???. I guess this is more like a shell programming question. Thanks all for your help! Regards, Phillip Gua

Re: Oracle/NT TDP question - DOC is wrong!

Here is the text of the APAR to fix the problem. Phillip APAR= IC27152 DOC MAJOR ERRORS IN MANUAL SH26-4113-00 TDP FOR ORACLE FOR WINDOWS UNIX SYNTAX USED IN MULTIPLE PLACES. PROBLEM SUMMARY: **

Re: TDP for Oracle on SUN

80-09 106541-09 109104-01 107544-02 and these patches fixed that problem. You may ask DBA to set oracle trace so you could know what happened. Regards, Phillip Guan -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Walter Ridderhof Sent: Friday, Decemb

how much data backed up from client side

Hi all, Is there a command at client side to show how much data is backed up each day or occupancy on server? Thanks. Best regards, Phillip Guan

Oracle schedule backup on NT

on of internal recovery manager package failed RMAN-04005: error from target database: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges --- Best regards, Phillip Guan

TDP for Oracle on NT scheduler question

e control panel. -- What does 'Oracle Site Service account' mean? How do I set up it when I define the services? Anyone has done this? Thanks a lot! Best regards, Phillip Guan

questions about TDP for Oracle

support Solaris on Intel hardware ? How do you think the minimum requirement to run RMAN - Sparc 5, P3...? Appreciated your quick response! Best regards, Phillip Guan

HP SureStore Optical 320ex library

Hi all, Does anybody have experience to define and operate the HP SureStore Optical 320ex library? We cannot make the /dev/rmt/?mt** work by add_drv command but adding lb by changing lb.conf works. How to make it recognized by OS and how to define drive in TSM? Any help would be great appreciate

move node from one domain to another

Hi all, What is the procedure to move one node from one domain to another? I tried the command: >update node nodex domainy But when I check it, it still shows the old domain. Please help, thanks. Best regards, Phillip Guan

FW: move node from one domain to another

E: move node from one domain to another Try, upd no do= -Original Message----- From: Phillip Guan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: move node from one domain to another Hi all, What is the procedure to move one node from one domai

hard cut-off time

disable sessions mode or something along those lines? or do i have to script that via KSH/Perl and do queries and parse out the info and so forth to get the same effect? Thanks, Phillip Guan

NT registry security

Question: on backing up Windows NT4, we've noticed TSM creates the adsm.sys directory where it dumps the registry and user info/passwords so it can back it up. This is all fine however is it just me or does this create a huge security hole? By default on NT4, that directory is created with permis

TSM clients ever fail?

Does the TSM client ever give up when its performing a scheduled backup and it loses contact with the TSM server? It doesn't seem so.. Server - TSM 3.7.3 on AIX 4.3.3 client - NT4 with TSM 3.7.2 Created a schedule with a 30 minute window. The client started it's backup in that 30 minute window a

HSM on NT/Netware?

I have a client who'd like to run HSM on NT and especially Netware. Looking at Tivoli's site it looks like it's only supported on AIX/Solaris as those are the only platforms it mentions. Is this true? I'm just looking for a confirmation.. Anyone know of any other products that provide similar func

Netware client

On a Netware client backing up to a TSM 3.7.3 Server we are getting quite a few of the following errors which are not showing up on our other Netware clients. The filesystem on this netware server is pretty full (5% free) but otherwise I can't say i see anything unusual. This error is pretty vague

multiple backup in one machine

Hi all, We want to set up a seperate schedule to backup a client machine, the two backup schduler on same node backs up normal filesystems. I want to know how to do it, where to put the dsm.opt and dsm.sys file, how to setup env variables. Thanks. Best regards, Phillip

incl/excl questions

dDir: No memory to allocate new DirEntry ---- -- Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions Bowers Avenue, Suite 239 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Voice: 408.844.8808 Fax: 408.844.9801

HP DLT tape drive support for backupset restore

000, All Rights Reserved. Restore function invoked. Node Name: SFAIX2 >>>>>> Restore Processing Interrupted!! <<<<<< ANS1933E Error accessing file or device ''. ------- Best regards, Phillip Guan

web gui does not prompt for password

entication failureANS3003I Session ended for user . Any idea? Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions Bowers Avenue, Suite 239 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Voice: 408.844.8808 Fax: 408.844.9801

cleaning cartridge for 3494 tape library

7; shows no cleaning cartridge but 'mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL' shows 'avail 3590 cleaner cycles..398'. What does it mean? Thanks. Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions Bowers Avenue, Suite 239 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Voice: 408.844.8808 Fax: 408.844.9801

backupset restore problem

are on the same machine. But even I shutdown the TSM server and delete related TSM tape drives, I still got that error message. We have been frustrated this for many days, any help will be great appreciated! Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions Bowers Avenue, Suite 239 Santa

NDS Backups

I'm not familiar with NDS at all but the question has been brought up on how TSM handles NDS particularly on other platforms? Can we back up NDS on NT? Sun? ETC? Thanks! Gerald Wichmann

NT include/exclude setup wizard problem

Hi all, We have sevaral NT box which has TSM 3.7.2 client installed, when I created a include/exclude list by using setup wizard, I got "ASN1038S Invalid options specified". I cannot include or exclude any files. Does anyone get this message? Thanks. Best regards, Phillip Guan

client file's permission, created date, midified date?

Hi all, I would like to find out which tables holds the information like client file's permission, file created date and modified date. Do you know where it is? Thanks. Best regards, Phillip Guan Sansia System Solutions Bowers Avenue, Suite 239 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Voice: 408.844.880

Re: client file's permission, created date, midified date?

Thanks Andy! Are there anyway to access the attributes? Which file it is in? Can you give me more details about this? Thank you very much. Phillip Guan -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Raibeck Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000