Select active data

2001-03-15 Thread William Sherrill
Does anyone know an select command or any way that can tell how much active data a particular client has? Presently we have to run an export node of active data with the preview option. Bill Sherrill Analyst International Corporation

Re: File Thought To Be Compressed

2000-11-22 Thread William Sherrill
Rodney, I got this error message when I tried to restore data using an older version of TSM. The client was backed up at TSM 3.7.2 and I tried to restore it using TSM 3.7.1. The is was on an NT client. Bill Sherrill Analyst International Corp rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/2

Re: RESTORES

2001-02-14 Thread William Sherrill
If you have accounting turned on, you can look in the dsmaccnt.log file. Bill Sherrill Analyst International

NDMP Offsite

2003-07-15 Thread William Sherrill
Hello, Using TSM does anyone have a method for protecting their NAS data offsite? NAS storage pools do not allow backup stgpool nor exporting. It appears the only way is to send primary tapes offsite. Thanks, Bill

TDP for NDMP

2003-07-17 Thread William Sherrill
Hello, Using TSM, does anyone have a method for protecting their NAS data offsite? NAS storage pools do not allow backup stgpool nor exporting. It appears the only way is to send primary tapes offsite. We also have a need to set policies based on date retentions (archive) instead of numbe

Backups bypassing disk pool

2003-07-30 Thread William Sherrill
I have some clients (Windows 2000) that are backing up straight to my tapepool instead of the disk pool. My server is AIX 5.1.6.2. and most of the windows clients are running at 5.1.5.9. The clients are associated to a management class that's default management class should cause the backup

High CPU

2003-08-01 Thread William Sherrill
Hello, I have started having high cpu on an aix, tsm server recently. I had upgraded the tsm server code 2 weeks ago after aix was upgraded to AIX 5.1, 64 bit. I currently run tivoli.tsm.server.aix5.rte64, 5.1.6.2. I started having server crashes and support pointed to the Atape driver nee

Re: DRM and my library seems odd.

2003-08-20 Thread William Sherrill
Jack, Once your tsm database has been restored it will put your library, drives and library inventory back into your current tsm server environment as if you are back at the production site. What I have done in the past on dr's is to delete drives, paths and library and recreate. This will

Tivoli Decision Support for Storage Management Analysis

2003-09-02 Thread William Sherrill
Anyone have experience using Tivoli Decision Support for Storage Management Analysis? Thanks, Bill Sherrill

Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread William Sherrill
Is anyone using adaptive subfile backups? I have some remote servers that back up over the wan and was wondering if this method would help and what could be some of the adverse effects. Bill Sherrill

Disk Storage Poos Cache

2005-06-13 Thread William Sherrill
I have seen a few notes recently surrounding disk storage pools. If you are interested in keeping data on disk storage for restore purposes, you can set cache to on. Cache allows a copy of the data to stay in the storage pool. There are some performance hits, but have used it for sysback pools a

Re: Sysback version 5.6.5

2005-06-13 Thread William Sherrill
Paul, You want IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery, GC32-9076-02. Sysback is installed on the system that you want to run it on and then you tie into the TSM api to store the backup to TSM. The book above explains the how to. Bill Sherrill

Encryption

2005-06-15 Thread William Sherrill
I have some questions for anyone using encryption. How are people maintaining the encryption keys for recoveries, specifically disaster recovery (not stored in the TSM.PWD)? What effects does it have on backup/restore performance. Is there much impact to the amount of data? Bill Sherri

Linux as a TSM server

2005-08-09 Thread William Sherrill
Is anyone experiencing a lot of problems running their TSM server on Linux? I have not really noticed a lot of problems brought up about this, but it could because I wasn't looking. Thanks, Bill Sherrill

LAN Free backups

2005-09-16 Thread William Sherrill
I have been having problems with some lan free backups. It is not consistant, but for some of the TDP for R3 backups, the first part runs fine but when it gets to the control files (this is where the backup stops and starts again), the session go into an idle wait. I have to cancel the sessi

Lan Free Backups - update

2005-09-26 Thread William Sherrill
I posted a problem with LAN Free backups a couple of weeks ago. Sean English suggested that I take a look at the idle and comm timeouts on the storage agent themselves. I discovered several of them with default values and changed them to match the TSM server. Since making those changes and

Client Option format for Domain

2006-10-19 Thread William Sherrill
I seem to be having trouble with the correct syntax for defining the domain under the client option sets. I have nodes defined for window's os that I just want to backup system objects, c: and d: drives. I have other nodes defined for the e: and f: drives. I tried c: d: systemobject system

Re: Script to cancel a process

2006-10-23 Thread William Sherrill
Tim, Here is a simple shell script that we run around 7:30 to make sure none of those processes are running. It is a script that someone came up with on their own and seems to work real well. #!/bin/ksh # Cancel selected proc cat /u/adsmadm/adsm/.passwd | read tsmpw dsmadmc -id=admin -pass="$tsmp

Re: RMAN without TDP.

2006-11-27 Thread William Sherrill
Larry, I have worked on accounts that use RMAN to create backups to files. We then typically use TSM ba client to do archives or backups of the files which can allow you to provide retentions and offsite copies. I preffer archives so the data is retained for a set length of time. If there i

Re: dsmaccnt.log and lan-free transfers

2004-01-08 Thread William Sherrill
Matt, You have to enable accounting on the storage agent and then look it's dsmaccnt.log file. Bill "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/08/2004 11:01:25 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

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2007-05-11 Thread William Sherrill
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Re: 3570 Volumes status=empty. Why?

2000-09-20 Thread William Sherrill/Lexington/Contr/IBM
Ken, Issue a q vo on the volume that is empty with format=detail and see if the Scratch Volume field is no. If it is no then you will have to delete the volume from the storage pool. Bill Sherrill Analyst International

Re: Question

2000-10-03 Thread William Sherrill/Lexington/Contr/IBM
If you have accounting turned on, you can use the dsmaccnt.log file. Bill Sherrill Analyst International "Anton Herrero, Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/03/2000 09:06:49 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMA

Re: Help - backups go to tape instead of disc pool, from DB2

2000-10-05 Thread William Sherrill/Lexington/Contr/IBM
Rene, Check the size of your DB2 database with the size of your disk storage pool. If *sm sees that it doesn't have enough space in its target pool, it will then go to the next storage pool. I have seen this with DB2, the database exceeded the amount of space in the disk pool so it then asked f

Re: HELP: Cannot bring up adsm server

2000-11-13 Thread William Sherrill/Lexington/Contr/IBM
Andre, You might want to manually set the environment variables. From a dos command prompt, adjust your server code location to the following, enter : set DSMSERV_CONFIG=c:\progra~1\ibm\adsm\adsmnt\server\dsmserv.opt and set DSMSERV_DIR=c:\progra~1\ibm\adsm\adsmnt\server Now, try your dsmse