Re: Request for policy

2001-03-27 Thread Steve Harris
backups is created daily on tape and this second copy is kept in the offsite vault as long as the primary copy is maintained. Steve Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Jim Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/03/2001 3:18:32 >>> Hi everyone

Re: Strange Library behavior

2001-04-01 Thread Steve Harris
period, then DRM will "forget" that it owns those dbbackups and they will never be recalled. Could this explain some of your trouble? Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 31/03/2001

Opinions on default backup retention periods

2001-04-04 Thread Steve Harris
Hi All, I'm attempting to move TSM from being a point backup solution for a particular application to an enterprise solution, in an environment where the customer is king (and thinks he knows it all). As most application owners are used to individual tape dumps, I'm getting a lot of requests

Re: Backup Policy

2001-04-08 Thread Steve Harris
o what you want, but may not be suitable for very large backups. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia >>> ABDULSALAM ABDULLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/04/2001 14:30:00 >>> I think I did ask this question once back, but didn't r

Restoring AIX (was Restoring Linux and Solaris)

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Harris
ODM at 2.1 and put them back at 3.1. The question is what are the appropriate bits? Any AIX experts with good ODM knowledge out there? Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Restoring AIX (was Restoring Linux and Solaris)

2001-04-16 Thread Steve Harris
software installations >are kept there. > > I really think that this process can be made to work if I could just save the >appropriate bits of the ODM at 2.1 and put them back at 3.1. The question is what >are the appropriate bits? > > Any AIX experts with good ODM knowledge out there? > > Regards > > Steve Harris > AIX and ADSM Admin > Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Archive retention

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Harris
anyone use such a scheme? Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25/04/2001 6:44:00 >>> >Archived copies of files have their expiration date set upon the file being >archived based on current date pl

Re: 500GB Backup

2001-04-29 Thread Steve Harris
that you should be exploring if your window is really that tight. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> "Dearman, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/04/2001 3:42:19 >>> The amount of data is the same everday 500GB fu

Re: AIX Question

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Harris
minute for the command to start and then change it back with chitab "$(lsitab label | sed s/respawn/once/)" Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/05/2001 7:27:20 >>> For al

Quick 3590 question

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Harris
Can anyone tell me how many fibre ports there are on a 3590 with the fibre attachment? Thanks Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: 3494 checkin command

2001-05-03 Thread Steve Harris
Since the 3494 has already read the barcodes in order to place the tape in the insert category, you could try checkl=no with no impact. Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> "Ilja G. Coolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/05/2001 16:

Site documentation

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Harris
ld like to make it as static as possible to ease the maintenance burden. Those of you who see many TSM sites in the course of your work will have particular things that you would like documented that seldom are. What tips can you give me. Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: delay re-boot

2001-05-16 Thread Steve Harris
;t think of anything. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Toni Banire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16/05/2001 20:11:24 >>> Does anyone know if there is a way I can get TSM 4.1.2.12 to not ask for a re-boot after an install on an NT Serv

SAN

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Harris
ad tapes into a drive that it cannot access. Thanks for your opinions Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health.

poor behaviour of optfile

2001-06-04 Thread Steve Harris
exist should produce an error? Steve Harris ADSM and AIX Administrator Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Problem with Oracle and EBU restore

2001-06-06 Thread Steve Harris
Check your environment variables. >>> Juan Carlos Venegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/06/2001 0:13:22 >>> HI, I have a problem with recover of data base Oracle, i'm use EBU with TSM (TDP for Oracle), the environment and version are: *Server TSM: AIX V. 432 TSM Server 3.7.4.0 *Cliente: AIX V.43

3494 phantom ejections

2001-06-14 Thread Steve Harris
they could have gotten into this state? Is there a 3494 log I can look at? I opened and closed the IO port and checked them all in again, and all now seems correct. ADSM is 3.1.2.50 AIX is 4.3.2 Steve Harris AIX and ADSM (TSM is in testing!) Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: full drives & offsite pool

2001-06-25 Thread Steve Harris
Easy, use the sequence Run a backup stg of all diskpools to tape Run a backup stg of all tapepools to tape then run the migrate. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin (TSM in testing!!!) Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia Easy,   use the sequence   Run a backup stg of all

Re: TSM server performance help

2001-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
with knowledge comment on TSM database access patterns? If these are often sequential event the DB might be better off on JBOD disk. OK. so once you've got your data placement organized, run your test again. If its still unacceptable, check the archives for tips about database buffering.

Re: Tape/Drive problems

2001-07-12 Thread Steve Harris
certified units, is >a big question for IBM, particularly given all the problems that >customers have had with the field-upgraded units.) ... I've just had a quote to upgrade two B1As to E1As, and its nearly as expensive as buying new E1As! That doesn't make sense to me. Steve Har

Re: Backing up Shared Disks

2001-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
y gotcha is the need to update the TSM password on all machines in the cluster. I do this by copying the dsm.opt to /tmp and running dsmc q sess to set the password, then change password expiry to a long time. I've got one two node Solaris 2.6 cluster with 10 apps working this way. Stev

Re: Automated monitoring of backup

2001-07-22 Thread Steve Harris
ly) 3. Parses each log file looking for failures. Results are emailed to me HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM admin Queensland Health Brisbane Australia >>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/07/2001 2:12:05 >>> To all, I'm wondering how others are mon

Re: Backup Scheduling

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Harris
ge retention by number of versions rather than by retention period, each selective or backup due to frequency will push the oldest retained version off the list and it will no longer be available. It will probably make no difference, but you should be aware. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Qu

Re: Backup Scheduling

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Harris
caveat in that if you manage retention by number of versions rather than by retention period, each selective or backup due to frequency will push the oldest retained version off the list and it will no longer be available. It will probably make no difference, but you should be aware. Regards Stev

Re: TDP not using diskpool

2001-07-29 Thread Steve Harris
traight to tape. Either the change the value of this variable or change the maximum size on your storage pool. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Gisbert Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/07/2001 2:11:28 >>> Hello, when we do a backup

Re: password caches on shared disk?

2001-08-02 Thread Steve Harris
Don't forget to set a long password change period. If you leave it at 30 days, the password will change on the "usual" node, and when you fail over the password on the failover node will be out of date. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >&

Re: AIX 4.3.3 list of excludable files & filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Steve Harris
n/ksh # # This script runs weekly on all AIX machines # its purpose is to take a dataless backup of all VGs # this enables them to be easily reallocated in the event of loss # Steve Harris March 2001 # We'll save them to a local file first savedir=/var/local/savevg # Clear last weeks stuff if c

Off Topic 3494 question.

2001-08-13 Thread Steve Harris
at I could use MTLIB from my box to do it, but there is lots of politics and several levels of outsourcing involved here so I'd like to avoid that if at all possible. If you have any ideas, or know of a better place to ask, please let me know. Thanks Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Qu

Have you heard this before: make them all ReadOnly and startover ...

2001-08-16 Thread Steve Harris
Hmm, I've got the same problem but yes, they are a B1A to E1A move. Interestingly some tapes move ok and others don't. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Joe Faracchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17/08/2001 9:28:32 >>> Lister

Re: Backing up legacy systems / standard input?

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Harris
ut as backup and restore still work it's not that critical. There was a rumour that adsmpipe would be supplied and supported with V4. Can anyone confirm or deny whether this has come to pass? Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia Thomas Deni

Re: tape copy of export tapes (windows 2000)

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Harris
Joachim, You could use adsmpipe and mt to copy the tape contents into a single adsm archive object, then you have copypools and all the other features that we've come to know and love. Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia Joachim Linne

Re: Anybody out there looking at LTO (linear tape)

2000-10-01 Thread Steve Harris
What's the media cost? It seems to me that most midrange tape media are priced by capacity and cost of the previous generation less a small discount rather than any relation to the actual cost of production. Does this trend continue with Ultrium? Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Gu

Re: Help! Cross-Client restore via ebu fails

2000-10-02 Thread Steve Harris
n run your ebu restore script using the host keyword of the restore command. Don't forget to change back $ORACLE_HOME/obackup/admin/catalog.ebu at the end of the restore if you need to. HTH Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia An

Re: Getting permission bit information from ADSM

2000-10-04 Thread Steve Harris
was a spike in the number of files. If you keep accounting data the spike should show there too. Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/10/2000 06:52:50 Please respond to "ADSM: Dis

Re: Notes/Domino Agent again

2000-10-10 Thread Steve Harris
h up any missed entries. Talk to your people about it. Regards Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia. Tab Trepagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/10/2000 06:57:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization

2000-10-18 Thread Steve Harris
pool philosophy? It really bugs me that an ADSM tape might be a DBbackup, node export or scratch and a q vol will return a "not known" error code. Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia "Tyree, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.M

Re: IS anyone backing up Filenet with TSM?

2000-10-18 Thread Steve Harris
This looks like a case for Oracle RMAN incremental and differential backups. Check the Oracle doc. As your documents won't change much, you might be able to get away with full backup one weekend in 4, differential other weekends, incremental nightly or something similar. Steve Harris AIX

Re: Copypool Reclamation

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Harris
disk files, the copypool reclaim is a tape to tape operation. HTH Steve Harris AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy, The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 25/10/2000 04:24:30 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Harris
Don't forget that a selective is another version and can push a changed version off the back off the queue if you have a limited verexists in your backup copy group Steve Harris Unix, ADSM Contractor Queensland Health >>> "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Offsite copypools and rellocaction

2000-11-20 Thread Steve Harris
great. Regards Steve Harris AIX/ADSM Admin Contractor Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Paul Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/21/00 02:24pm >>> We are in the process of creating offsite copypools for DR purposes. We are constrained with the number of tape drives and the

Re: ebutool question

2000-12-04 Thread Steve Harris
Use standard unix echo "y" | ebutool -db_name=db -purgejobs=5 Steve >>> David Longo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/12/2000 1:30:52 >>> I have TSM server 3.7.4.0 and a client with Oracle database 7.3.4 with Ebutool 2.2.0.6.0. To delete old data we have to manually enter command: ebutool -db_name=d

Install problem with TDP for Oracle on Solaris

2000-12-05 Thread Steve Harris
t;, parms="" This is the only error message I've been able to find, which I surise indicates that we aren't even getting to the TDP code. Any suggestions gratefully received Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Contractor Queenslan Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Install problem with TDP for Oracle on Solaris

2000-12-06 Thread Steve Harris
Thanks for the reply Thiha, I retried the make and this time it worked. Obviously I was doing something wrong the first time, but I have no idea what. >> Thiha Than <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/12/2000 3:04:29 >>> >>hi, >>If the TDPO manual says libobk.a for Solaris, it's the problem with the >>man

Re: To replace full tapes with scratch tapes on 3570

2000-12-07 Thread Steve Harris
look at the info for MOVE MEDIA in the Admin Guide Steve. >>> ameerul madzali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/12/2000 13:53:09 >>> Hi all, i have a TSM 3.7.3.8 on Aix 4.3.3 attached to a Magstar MP3570 C01 (1 drive). There are 19 slots for the tapes. Lets say there are 5 of the tapes which are marked

Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch

2000-12-14 Thread Steve Harris
r from anyone with a working Bare metal procedure for Solaris. I'm aware of TKG's offerings but they aren't possible in this environment. Also be gentle with me as I'm an AIX person adrift in a Solaris sea . Thanks Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Administrator Queensland Heath, B

3494 discussion list?

2000-12-17 Thread Steve Harris
Hi All, Is there a discussion list similar to this one for IBM 3494 tape libraries in general, ather than just ADSM related queries? Thanks Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Qheensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Tape refreshes, was Restore Throughput

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Harris
. This ensures that the data is readable and that the source tape is physically located once in a while. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> sekar n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/12/2000 0:29:51 >>> Hi, I think throughput, in gene

Re: Monthly Full backups

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Harris
This "once a month snapshot" idea is a hangover from old manual tape handling procedures The user attitude is that they want exactly the same functionality that they had, whether or not it is needed. I'm still fighting the good fight on this one, but one way to handle this is to set retonly to

Re: Estimated Capacity of 3590-K tapes

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Harris
Cameron You are right effectively some data has expired. the tape was being filled with an aggregate, i.e a bunch of files that are stored as one unit. As the aggregate couldn't fit on the tape, it was logically expired and then placed on the next tape Regards Steve Harris AIX and

Re: odbc/jdbc connectivity for tsm databse

2001-01-02 Thread Steve Harris
important fo future versions monitor that one, not ADSM-L, and it has been very quiet of late. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Doug Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/01/2001 5:30:05 >>> I have successfully connected to a

Re: Volumes not getting back from Offsite/vault

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Harris
Did someone run a delete volhist ? Perhaps for some other record type and forgetting the type parameter, which defaults to ALL? >>> Shekhar Dhotre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/01/2001 0:30:19 >>> Hi all, I have set retention of one week on TSM Database volumes, for some reason I am not getting

query inclexcl is now official!

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Harris
s the type of option, the scope of the option (archive, all, etc.), and the name of the source file. This command is valid for all UNIX, all Windows, and NetWare clients. See publications for these platforms for more information. Your prayers have been answered Steve Harris AIX,

Re: Multiple client nodes on one AIX server

2001-01-15 Thread Steve Harris
Hi Ray, This dsm.sys is from a test solaris box that has multiple clients Client version is 3.7.0 server is aix 3.1.2.50 identical copies of this dsm.sys reside on two boxes (qhsu007 and 8) that are Veritas clustered and the application acc-ora-ottr and its IP address swap between them. It

Windows NT authorities

2001-01-17 Thread Steve Harris
hrough how to do this and what authorities are necessary? Client is 4.1.2 talking to 3.1.2.50 server, and I want to use web client as well as server-scheduled backups Many thanks Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin

Re: Problem labelling tapes

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Harris
Miles, Both a drive microcode update and a library update are needed to handle 3570 C XL (7GB) tapes. Have you applied these? Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Administrator Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Miles Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/01/2001 0:26:56 >>> Hi

Re: Converting TSM Platforms

2001-01-30 Thread Steve Harris
m.dsk and other appropriate files copied from the old machine, and bring up the server If external disk is too hard, a database backup and restore should work too. export/import of nodes is only needed when the new server is on a different platform. Steve Harris AIX and ADSM admin Queensland H

Oracle 8.1.7 support

2001-01-31 Thread Steve Harris
officially, is it likely that TDPO will work with 8.1.7? Has anyone tried? Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Sun Clustering

2001-02-05 Thread Steve Harris
er just to encrypt the password on the other machine in the cluster - which is not acceptable in a production environment. Is anyone aware of any way around this limitation? Client 3.7.0.0 Solaris 2.6 Server 3.1.2.40 AIX 4.3.2 Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Adminstrator Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Sun client does with multiple scheds

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Harris
le schedules for a node? IE a daily, monthly and an annual. I like to set it up so each has a different management class and I'm trying to figure out how to do it without using a different nodename for each. <<< Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: MagStar Tape Library #3575 vs. LTO

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Harris
could set up a three level hierarchy disk-> 3575 -> something slow to get the best of both worlds Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> Miles Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/02/2001 4:54:16 >>> Hi LuAnn, we are also in the exact s

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

2001-02-20 Thread Steve Harris
eds to be restored immediately and maybe have some canned macro to do this in the heat of an emergency. Regards Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Intel servers AIX 5L and TSM

2001-02-21 Thread Steve Harris
ouble, the OS choice should be immaterial. There seems to be a marketing opportunity here for a bundled OS and TSM server Combo to run on a low cost box.. Has anyone heard any whispers about TSM under AIX 5L on Intel? That would be a mighty combination . Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensl

Re: Whatever happened to...

2001-02-28 Thread Steve Harris
In My TSM 3.7 Manual set in the Admin Guide Chapter 18 Monitoring the TSM server there is a section on logging TSM events to receivers and a subsection on Logging Events to the Tivoli Event Console Is that what you are looking for? Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health

managing backupsets.

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Harris
a max day retention period. Anything else? Thanks Gang Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole

Re: Expanding our system

2002-05-19 Thread Steve Harris
David, Why would you buy a new library? Expand the 3494 with extra frames, and add more drives in those frames. More than one server can share a 3494, and it would take a mighty workload to make the robot run out of puff. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: best method to deal w/long term storage of tapes

2002-06-06 Thread Steve Harris
ec1. This should normally do nothing. If it doesn't investigate why. Run a database backup to tape Manage off-siting of secondary copies with home-grown scripts, the DRM component of TSM or the Autovault product. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Austr

Re: Slow Reclamation - And a need for speed...

2002-06-11 Thread Steve Harris
Hi Jack. I was in the fortunate position of having lots of tapes and lots of slots so I increased my reclaim percentages from 50 to 80. After three months, things have now stabilized and I get the same effects as I did before with much less effort. When a reclaim does run I really do get some

Re: Backing Up Oracle DB with TSM 4.2.1

2002-06-26 Thread Steve Harris
at this command will be run every time you run a schedule against the node!! Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backing Up Ora

Re: client auth failure: password issue..

2002-06-26 Thread Steve Harris
long password expiry period. What I'm thinking is that the password for the *administrative user* for the node is expiring, but I haven't yet been able to sit down for long enough to figure out some tests to prove or disprove this. Ideas are welcome. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Qu

Re: Your advice wanted!

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Harris
like that for some of our own sites, but the smaller sites are mainly netware only and they didn't want the hassle of an NT box just to do backups. Of course this requires DRM on each server, but if you buy enough licences I'm sure you'll get some sort of discount. Steve Har

Configuration management.

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Harris
script or two to do this stuff. I'd also like to check my specifications against reality so that if the admins add another filesystem, for example, I'm alerted to that fact. Can you please share how you do this at your site? Many thanks. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensl

Re: Monthly shapshots/ Configuration management.

2002-07-01 Thread Steve Harris
Bill and Paul thanks for the input. The full requirement is for a full monthly backup kept 13 months and a yearly snapshot that is to be kept indefinitely. I did an analysis of 4 options using my current production servers and data volumes Monthly archive, Monthly incremental to "monthly" node

Re: UDB/TSM Backups directly to tape

2002-07-01 Thread Steve Harris
Mike, The tail is wagging the dog here. They can specify what they want backed up and when, and you deliver it in whatever manner you see fit. They should have no say in how. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/06/

Re: Client Archive Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly

2002-07-08 Thread Steve Harris
t retention. . That may be so in commerce, but in government, the main objective is to not get your butt kicked. In one sense money has nothing to do with it, once the expenditure has been approved. So the padding is very thick. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Brisbane Aus

Re: Logfile for TEC messages

2002-07-15 Thread Steve Harris
Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/07/2002 6:34:33 >>> Hello, Our TSM-servers are sending messages to TEC (if necessary) and most of the time it works great, but sometimes certain (random) messages are logged in the Activi

Re: NIC Settings

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Harris
Geoff, You are getting the runaround. Our Solaris admins use this script on solaris 2.6 to determine NIC settings. The key command is ndd -get. HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia #!/bin/ksh ## Loop through each class of interface echo "&qu

Re: Problems with moving tapes OFFSITE

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Gordon, The way to manage a full library is to use the move media command. This will mark the tapes as out of the library and optionally record where they are. Take a look at the admin guide section on managing a full library. Ring me if you get stuck Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin

Re: rollforward vs. normal mode

2002-07-23 Thread Steve Harris
Joni, There's a stat of cumulative log consumption that can be seen with Q LOG F=D, and can be reset with RESET LOGCONSUMPTION I'm not sure how this works in normal mode - I use rollforward - but it might be worth a look. Let us know how it turns out. Steve Harris AIX and

DB2 interface cant find dsm.opt

2002-07-23 Thread Steve Harris
ne else seen it? Thanks Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Thi

Re: Disaster recovery with copy storage pools.

2002-07-28 Thread Steve Harris
thers sit idle. ) It can also improve efficiency of non-tape resources - like diskpools. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/07/2002 1:53:12 >>> This may be a math problem. How much data are you trying to send over

Re: Backup of Win2`K Fileserver

2002-08-02 Thread Steve Harris
Hi Guillaume RENAME FILESPACE may help here Rename the new filespace to some "temporary" name Rename the old filespace to the new name Run incremental backup After a suitable period, delete the "temporary" filespace. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensl

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-21 Thread Steve Harris
sy and quick. The only downside is that TSM-A has its derriere exposed to a single tape failure, although any data should be available from TSM-B if required. I think that one is about $0.04 worth Steve Harris AIX and TSM Systems Admin Qu

Re: Calculating the size of a backupset

2002-08-25 Thread Steve Harris
Process 1833 for EXPORT NODE running in the BACKGROUND processed 94915 items for a total of 13,265,207,444 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 08:43:28. HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

Re: Question on what to back up...

2002-08-27 Thread Steve Harris
ta as necessary HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health Brisbane Australia. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/08/2002 2:44:27 >>> Hi All; This may seem like an obvious question, but for some reason I'm having some trouble with it. The way this system was setup Tivo

Requirement for licence data collection

2002-08-29 Thread Steve Harris
rcise and ease or difficulty of licence mangement was a huge issue amongst the admins at various levels in the organization, for several different products. At that time TSM had a big plus because managment was easy. It is no longer. Discussion?

Re: Help on TSM Policy Design

2002-08-29 Thread Steve Harris
, either expand the TSM database to the required size to accomodate archives, or do a monthly export of active data, or a monthly backupset of each node, or set up a new node that gets backed up monthly. See the archives at www.adsm.org. This is probably our most frequent issue. Steve Harris AIX

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-09 Thread Steve Harris
onnnection of you so desire. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/09/2002 22:44:06 >>> In the long run, we are attempting to quantify exactly how "busy" our ATLs/drives are over time for a number of r

Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients

2002-09-10 Thread Steve Harris
Werner Robin suggests periodic full backups by changing the mode. A less intensive approach is to run selectives over parts of of your node every day, so that over a week/fortnight/ month you will have backed up everything at least once. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland

Sun UFS Snapshots.

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Harris
ith this Snap backup functionality? any gotchas? Do you use the normal incremental backups successfully? what about images? Thanks Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including

CPU information Gatherer

2002-09-23 Thread Steve Harris
unOS 1 xxsu010 SunOS 1 xxsu012 SunOS 1 xxsu013 SunOS 1 xxsu014 SunOS 4 > Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, inclu

Re: Archive or backup question

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Harris
Hi Anthony, I'm assuming that this filesystem needs to be online all the time. Are you mirrored, and can you do an AIX Split mirror backup? If so, split the mirror, change the lv type to something other than JFS and do an image backup. I've not tried this, but it should work. Rega

Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Harris
Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or

Re: help:label tape question

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Harris
our region. There may be problems with your client retention policies, with Database backup processing, with obsolete filespaces that need to be deleted or any number of other things, more than we can help you with on this list. Good luck. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Br

Re: BMR scripts

2002-09-26 Thread Steve Harris
work. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/09/2002 4:57:27 >>> Has anyone tried to script a BMR solution for NT or AIX using tsm. Everyone keeps saying the Bare Metal Restore is just a bunch of scripts that access TSM but has anyone tried create those

Re: how to keep all data on disk for quicker restores

2002-09-26 Thread Steve Harris
d would be handy. Now such disk subsystems aren't cheap, but compared to Enterprise class EMC or IBM arrays they are peanuts and sequential backup pool performance won't be much of an issue. I know people have talked about this sort of thing on the list before. Is anybody doing it?

Re: Help requested !!!

2002-10-06 Thread Steve Harris
your reclaim should work. HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/2002 15:07:43 >>> Hi All, I have a big problem here. Help requested. I have a 3583 LTO library with 2 drives. TSM Server v4.2 on AIX. I have been

Re: Help requested !!!

2002-10-06 Thread Steve Harris
econds): 0 Reclamation in Progress?: Yes Volume Being Migrated/Reclaimed: 053ABS Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 03/02/02 22:56:10 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Thanks in advance regards murthy Steve H

Re: 3494 Tape Library

2002-02-03 Thread Steve Harris
ive to buy and upgrade. Have you thought of going with a slower and perhaps cheaper library as a tertiary store and keeping your 3575 as a secondary store? What the hey, use a 3494 as your tertiary store and still keep the 3575! Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Aust

OFF TOPIC AS400 and 3494

2002-02-06 Thread Steve Harris
Is anyone out there using a 3494 attached to an AS400/Iseries? I'm having trouble getting the SNA Comms to work. According to my IBM source someone in The Netherlands has the same problem too. Please reply direct if you think you can help. Thanks Steve Harris AIX and TSM admin Queen

Mixing System and customization data

2002-02-14 Thread Steve Harris
dit. And, they keep putting funky new things there with every release Steve Harris AIX and TSM Guy Queensland Health Brisbane, Australia >>> "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15/02/2002 5:21:28 >>> Paul! I didn't know you were one of "us" ! Ah

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