Re: Retrieving Associated Volumes from Off-Site

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I am just a beginner but what I read in the docs was that you have to do it in REVERSE order!!! Have a look at RedBook SG24-4877 "Tivoli Storage Management Concepts" (it can be downloaded from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com). At page 88 (p.110 in the PDF) you can read: " 5.4.2 Reclamation of o

Re: Teaching others TSM

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
IMHO training can provide you two things - a smooth start and someone more experienced than you (to ask questions and to give you broad overview). At the other side nothing can replace practical experience ("The experience is proportional to the number of broken systems" :-) So the answer is: do

Re: Admin changes in last 2 years? - Image backup

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Image backup is completely different than selective backup. This is offline backup of raw device, i.e. RDBMS table space. Any improvements with point in time backup/restores? I see an "imagebackup", but from reading the description doesn't make much sense to me. It reads pretty much like the s

Re: Backup Scheduling

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The backup set IS exactly a snapshot. It makes a bundle of file copies and does not track the separate files (the DB tracks them as parts of stgpools) but tracks the entire bundle/backupset as a single object. The backupset written to a media (tapes, CDs, etc.) can be used for "bare metal/LAN-free

Re: TDP not using diskpool

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Check the destination storage pool in your copy group. Are you using different node name for Backup/Archive client and for TDP ? What is the TDP you are having problem with ? I made backups successfully on disk with both TDP for Domino and TDP for Informix. Gisbert Schneider <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Magstar 3570

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
We run a nightly archive of 70 GB that is taking just over 8 hours uncompressed. In our Magstar 3570 we have two different tape drives. My question follows: Is it possible to be running two different archives at the same time to cut down the processing time? If it is possible how would you

Re: TDP not using diskpool - IT IS BACKUP

2001-07-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
THIS IS NOT TRUE. Look at the report from TDP for Informix backup: tsm: PUMBA.ACIT.BG>q cont /dev/rtsm_bk00 Node NameType Filespace Client's Name for File Name -- -- PUMBA-API

Re: Magstar 3570

2001-07-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
We run a nightly archive of 70 GB that is taking just over 8 hours uncompressed. In our Magstar 3570 we have two different tape drives. My question follows: Is it possible to be running two different archives at the same time to cut down the processing time? If it is possible how would you

Re: SUBFILE Technical Details?

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
See redbook SG2-6110 "Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3.7.3 & 4.1: Technical Guide" p.p. 20-39 (36-55 in pdf file). You can obtain it from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ You can find there description of adaptive sub-file backup in detail. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant mrkirra2001 <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bad tape

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
David, look for AUDIT VOLUME, RESTORE VOLUME and UPDATE VOLUME ACCESS=DESTROYED commands. They can help you when the bad things already happened. If you want to prevent or predict tape failure you can use private volumes instead of scratch (yes, I know it's harder to maintain). For private volume

Re: Volume out of sync

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
AUDIT VOLUME helps to localize faulty files and to mark them in the database. Afterwards you must perform RESTORE VOLUME or RESTORE STGPOOL to bring the file back. AUD V does not perform the restore by itself but after audit volume-by-volume you can perform one complete restore of the whole storag

Re: !!Backupsets and Raw Volumes!!

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The idea behind backupset is to have all files for quick restore after a disaster - some are calling it "bare metal" restore. After you finish restore of files (including *SM client) you can easily continue with raw device restore to completely restore the whole data. *SM server is unaware of data

Re: Is TSM Ver. 4.2 a upgrade or maintenance release.

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Andy, if a customer does have maintenance contract - first year after purchase (of v4.1 in our case) or additionally paid for next years is he eligible to receive last version (here 4.2) without additional fees? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 31.07.2001

Re: TSM quick questions

2001-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
1. Same data twice - I am not sure but as far as I know - NO! After first backup you can make second copies (in copy pool, backup sets) but not at the same time. 2. Under Notes/Domino - YES! In Notes/Domino each user's mail box is a separate database which can be restored individually. If you use

Re: FC Device Driver on AIX

2001-08-02 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
As you read tivoli.tsm.devices.rte and tivoli.tsm.devices.fcprte are mutualy exclusive filesets. The reason is that the latter DOES CONTAIN all the files from the first one. Thus you get both FC and SCSI attachments. All singing, all dancing. BUT BE CAREFULL for the order: 1. install tivoli.tsm.de

Re: Enterprise Solution.

2001-08-02 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Yury, These tasks can be done with other Tivoli products. TSM v3.7 and beyond is successor of former IBM ADSM (v3.1 and below) product and this list is for both. The products cover backup and archiving of data. The tasks you want to perform can be done with Tivoli Inventory and Tivoli Software

Re: Thoughts on really old clients and newer servers...

2001-08-02 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You have at least three options: 1. Brute force attack - make a statement or even block those nodes from using the server. 2. Install Tivoli Software Distribution product and perform clients upgrade by yourself (will it be easier? :-) 3. have a beer and leave as it is. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultan

Re: Backup Strategy

2001-08-02 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Jon, you are doing things well. But you did not pointed how much is your backup data to see is this a problem or not. But to fill several libraries in 4 1/2 hours is good job and I think there is no any problems. Normally the backup of clients to primary pools (!) must finish within the backup wi

Re: *** TSM CHANGES DOMINO SERVER DATE FORMAT ***

2001-08-02 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Have you tried to invoke the command with "-date 2" or set dateformat option in dsm.opt?? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Luciano Ariceto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02.08.2001 22:49:48 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:**

Re: 3rd copy of dbvol on other Volumegroup

2001-08-05 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Are you made your existing copies using LVM, i.e. each TSM DB volume is on LVM logical volume with two copies? If you make DB volume mirrors using TSM then there is no problem to go beyond VG boundaries. If you imagine the raw device(s) (of the LVM lv) are partitions, DBVOL is a logical partition

Re: allocating disk volumes on RAID5 array

2002-05-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
> ... I rather NOT use RAID-5 for TSM disk pool volumes... Why pay the penalty for calc & writing parity when you don't expect to read it more than once?!? This data is so transient (in general, it exists for less than 48 hours) it's not worth sacrificing ANY performance -- we really want to g

Re: opinion on AIT vs LTO and 3570 tape technology?

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
--> ... in these days where disk space is not much more expensive than tape space. I would disagree on part. LTO is sligthly better than disks when measured in TB/sq.m. but does not require those many kVAs disks need. Disks require about 30W/drive + some extra for controllers, etc. Also this elec

Re: Moving data to a new storage pool, but still having volumes in old copy pool ...

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Arnaud, Yes, you have doubled your copypool copies. And yes, you know the answer - you can delete safely volumes from "old" copy pool if it was used to backup ONLY primaryA pool. WARNING: if you have backed up more than one primary pool chain (!) to same copy pool and only one chain is backed to

Re: Backup retention period

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Ruksana, there is no simple answer, it depends. If you make two backups to a primary pool and just send one set of tapes off-site it would expire.If you backup primary pool to copypool it is same. One method to retain "forever" first backup and expire next one (with consequent ones) is to use two

Re: LTO don't need clean up?

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If you read carefully library maintenance manual you would find that library requires a cartridge with specific label (starting with CLNI, i.e. CLNI39 is the one I've used last week) and performs cleaning automatically. So set CLEANFREQ=NONE as Mark pointed. Those of you WITH 3584 may have overloo

Re: True statement???

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
definitely NO (if you are not talking about NT v0.357 :) You can have more interfaces limited by number of slots and maximum number of particular adapter combinations supported by the HW platform/drivers/OS. TSM does not deal with SCSI direct but through OS and drivers. NT 4 does not limit to only

Re: server-to-server copy-pools

2002-06-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Other server is related not to copy pool but to the device class. You have only to define second pool over same devclass. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL P

Re: AW: server-to-server copy-pools

2002-06-05 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
e copy-pool is defined to the number of copy-pools I define ? Thanks Christoph > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 07:47 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: server-to-server

Re: tsm ftp server

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Burak, the reason is that patches are released to fix specific problems (that's why they are *patches*) and do not go through full testing procedure. Whereas maintenance and rarely *some* patches get more testing and become recommended and pointed by web site. Think as ftp site holding all versio

Re: IBM 3584 L32 LTO configuration question

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Kevin, you provoked many answers to wrong thread. So get an answer on this one as well. Facts about 3584: - you can have HVD, LVD or FC drives or mix of them; - you can have from 1 to 72 drives; - you can use one or dual channel SCSI, integrated or on slot; - you can connect drives one per bus, t

Re: Deleting a portion of a filespace

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Luke, you can define virtual filespaces using VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT option. They would become separate filespaces on TSM server's DB and you can use DELete FIlespace command later. The other possible approach is to re-bind *all* files from than directory *before* deletetion to a class with verdeleted

Re: TSM 4.2 possible IP problem

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
octet 255 is broadcast only if network is class C, i.e. 192.0.0.0 - 223.255.255.255. Other case is when subnet mask is 24 bits - 255.255.255.0 But if he has subnet 10.0.10.0/22 for example (adresses 10.0.10.0 - 10.0.13.255) this is ordinary host address and this IS a bug. Zlatko Krastev IT Consul

Re: Can't do reclamation

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
How many drives do you have in the library? Can you provide additional info - output from Q LIBR, from Q DRI F=D and from Q DEV 3590CLASS2. You do not have reclamation pool and if the number of drives is not enough reclamation would not start. Was it ever working? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant

Re: Processing Time for incremental backup

2002-06-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Look at the output of Q DB F=D. Is you cache hit ratio below 95%? What is the type/speed of disks you use for DB volumes, Q DBV may sched some light. Check also the connection to those nodes - 10/100, Full/Half duplex settings. Avoid auto-detect settings on both Ethernet adapters and switch. Zlat

Re: Select statement (using events table)

2002-06-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
select schedule_name, status, result, reason - from events - where date(scheduled_start) <= current_date - cast(1 as interval day) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Zlatko Krastev/ACIT'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: S

Re: Réf. : Re: Select statement (using events table)

2002-06-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
a handle on this events table. The SQL you supplied isn't working on my server (4.1.3.0 on AIX). When I do a select with no dates in the where clause, all I get is the admin scheds for the current day. Other than that, I can't get a thing. Is there something I'm missing?? Thanks Gui

Re: tsm ftp server

2002-06-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
cess. Have fun! - kai. -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/6/02 5:20 AM Subject: Re: tsm ftp server Burak, the reason is that patches are released to fix specific problems (that's why they are *patches*) and do not go through full testing pro

Re: Migration Problem

2002-06-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Gerald, maybe you already found the problem but there can be a real situation without any errors to force same behavior: 17.4% of the disk pool are free, i.e. 21 GB. And if the client attempts to write 25 GB file it would go direct to next primary pool. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please re

Re: cleaning cart in IBM 3502-014 DLT lib

2002-06-08 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Same as we had with 7337-306. Use checkin libv lb0.0.0.1 search=yes volrange=cln001,cln001 to cheat the TSM. Have in mind Mark's remark. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Make Compression Client faster ??

2002-06-08 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
MAXNUMMP takes place for direct to tape operations. For disk you can have more sessions but when disk pool gets full only maxnummp of them will continue to write to tape. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist S

Re: Directorie only

2002-06-08 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
AFAIK we still do not have the include.dir option :-) But "exclude /.../*" left alone will do the trick. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Su

Re: TSM v4.1 clients NOT compatible with V5.1 server?

2002-06-08 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
you can have v4.1, v4.2 and v5.1 clients with v4.2 server and according to Tivoli all those are working *and* supported configurations. So you can upgrade your server to 4.2.x.x and everything ought to be fine. As Don said unsupported does not automatically mean broken. For old/rare OSes many are

Re: Password Experation Period

2002-06-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
default is 90 days. If you set it to 0 you disable recycling of passwords and in long term are vulnerable to password compromise. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Anyone know what is up with ANR0197E

2002-06-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
No need to audit 3K volumes :-) Look for APAR IC33641 or search Tivoli KB for ANR0197E. We had same problem not with tape but with file volume: ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for FILE volume C:\TIVOLI\TSM\STG_POOL\AF12.BFS. ANR0195W Attempting to remove extraneous database entries for volume C

Re: 3590 pricing (used)

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
--> It'll be wierd when my 3494 is my "low-latency, low-capacity" storage format. Don't be afraid of this. Magstar is still not dead. Maybe you missed it but last month's IBM news article was about 1 TB in 3590 not in LTO cartridge :-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dis

Re: ADSM 3.1 to 4.2.1 Migration

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Marc, if you can afford little bit more time I would recommend you to test it first to ensure it will run smoothly: 1. Get another box capable to run AIX 4.2.1 (it can be hard those days :-) and put ADSM 3.1 on it. 2. Restore your TSM DB to this "new" box. Just the DB, there is no need to attach

Re: Bad performance... again

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
--> The site belongs to a customer who doesn´t like very much applying patches. You can apply *maintenance* not a patch by installing 4.2.2.0. You can point to the customer that he/she does not stay at AIX 4.3.0 but is using 4.3.3 to get *improvements*. --> 4. There were some noticeable perfo

Re: TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
All other questions were answered so I would grab only #5 :) and add one more 5. Firmwares on IBM SSG site are separated for AIX and Windows. Simply download AIX package, follow the readme and no need to introduce Windoze. #8: plan carefully your stgpool chain(s). You may consider some nodes to g

Re: good readings

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Rick, if you only new to the list it is OK. But if you are also new to TSM I would highly recommend you to start with SG24-4877 "Tivoli Storage Management Concepts". Read all the chapters relevant to what you have - "must read" 1-8 + "optional" 9-13,30 + any related to your TDP (if any, chapters

Re: Library survey

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Gianluca, of course working for IBM you have no option than to say good words about the company and products :) But to be honest we have to say that 3583 is just OEMed ADIC Scalar 100 with IBM Ultrium drives in it. Anyway it is still a very good library. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please r

Re: Upgrade from 4.1.2.0 to 4.2.2.3

2002-06-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Steve, but Windows does not have so smart installer as AIX's installp. It would request from you first to install 4.2.2.0 and then to install 4.2.2.3. And she is having 4.2.0 install CD. Diana, you do not need to put v4.2.1. Go straight with 4.2.2 as Burak suggested. If you still insist go to ftp

Re: Space reclamation to tapepool

2002-06-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You cannot have "migration" back to disk pool - TSM will not allow you to create closed loop of pools and pool of type DISK cannot be set as reclamation pool. You have to define pool over devclass of type FILE and set it as reclamation pool to the tape pool. And the size of file pool does not need

Re: Access control lists

2002-06-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
/etc/passwd, $HOME/.rhosts :-) Just kidding. You authorise user to access the data, not the nodes. And the data resides on the server. Users do not need to contact your node to get the data. On the end everything else is stored in TSM server DB, why to store those ACLs in other place. But if you a

Re: dsmaccnt.log location

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
??? DSMSERV_ACCOUNTING_DIR is an environment variable and has nothing to do with dsmserv.opt. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: DB backups

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Wanda, in general I am on your side but some of the arguments are weak: 1. stgpool backups If the DB is reverted back newly created copypool tapes will be listed as scratch and primary pools' objects will have no copies. Next backup to this copypool will fix the things and probably will use same

Re: TEC/DM/TDS sites

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If you mean list like this one - subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to send empty mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Or get list of command by sending mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you mean site - Tivoli Knowledge Base (http://www.tivoli.com/support/knowledgebase) allows searches through tme10 l

Re: hardware questions before I buy

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Jeff, from financial point this Exadrive might seem very attractive. But are you sure it would fit in TSM environment without performance degradation. For me this might be something very similar to cheap "RAID" advertized by PC mainboards but with all the problems IDE/EIDE/ATAPI devices have - no

Re: good readings

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
that Marist's upgrade didn't fix Richard's ability to get mail from the list. bummer. Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: good readings Sent by:

Re: CDRW support? Not as of 1/1999

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Norbert, unfortunately Richard is still having TCP/IP problems between MARIST and their site. This prevents him to receive ADSM-L postings. You can still contact him directly on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:"ADSM: Dist S

Re: Data inconsistencies

2002-06-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
What have you totalled - sum(capacity) or sum(capacity * pct_util / 100) ? Latter will give you the ammount of data while former will give you the space in filesystems (occupied and non-occupied). Also take into account that not all the data may be backed up - you can exclude some files. And an ex

Re: snmp

2002-06-21 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Password of SNMPADMIN has nothing to do with community name. In fact whatever password you set it does not matter. Community string is necessary for SNMP operations. Assuming you are using snmpinfo from the *same* box you should use: # snmpinfo -v -ms -c private ibmAdsmServerScript1.1="q_db_util"

Re: dsmaccnt.log location

2002-06-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
maybe it just followed the DSMSERV_DIR variables' location? lisa Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dsmaccnt.log location Sent by: "ADSM:

Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release?

2002-06-23 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Dealing mainly with customers that have no test environment our company is forced to be (very) conservative. That's why I personally recommend to stay somewhat behind latest versions even for new installs. Tom is pressed with timeframes. We are dealing with customer's data not ours. So I am very c

Re: Another TSM mystery...

2002-06-23 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Client stores the password in encrypted form. Both encrypted and unencrypted form were treated as zero-terminated string and from there comes the bug. If encrypted form contained NULL (\0x00) character somewhere (not necessarily as first char) it was treated as end-of-string and the rest of passwo

Re: 3583 with SDG, Windows 2000 and Qlogic 2200 adapters

2002-06-24 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
John, the answer is that someone have put a SCSI adapter in the box and Windoze being "so smart" reordered ALL the SCSI/FC adapters. SCSI adapters get numbered before FC ones thus your QLogic get higher number (6, having 5 in the past). The other possibility is that there was second SAN switch/pl

Re: 3583 with SDG, Windows 2000 and Qlogic 2200 adapters

2002-06-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Gianluca, unfortunately IBM LTO drives *have* to be installed and used through IBM SSG drivers not by using adsmscsi.sys driver. Thus for FC-attached 3583 the best you can do is what John already have done - use changer through TSM-driver and drives through Windows (RSM) driver. I would

Re: Device locking danger.

2002-06-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
And have in mind that someone can do it also from ANY MgSysSAN node !! Thus it would be good to disable 'configure' method for smcN on Storage Agent systems to prevent device become "Available" and be used from that box's administrator causing grief to you at the server box. Zlatko Krastev IT Con

Re: Adding a second library

2002-06-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Stephen, you already found the *best* answer yourself - yes, set new stgpool as next to existing one and lower migration thresholds to 0. Just some additional remarks: - set the "old" pool(s) as read-only and (optional) set maxscratch=0. This would prevent nodes to fill the pool while you are try

Re: One Client Two TSM Server

2002-06-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You did not stated what is the client OS. I assume you are talking about Windows. The answer is to create two dsm.opt files not two set of binaries. Then use "dsmc -optfile=". Also you can set -optfile parameter for a service and install two services with different optfiles/settings. This is for e

Re: TDP for Informix - Average Filesize

2002-06-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The answer is - you can't. Sorry. We've discussed this in the past but with no success. And AFAIK the is no DPI v4.2. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client...W HY?

2002-07-09 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Ports 1500 and 1501 do *not* need to be bi-directional. Connection on port 1500 is always initiated from the node to the server. Connection on port 1501 is always from the server to the node. Just firewall admin should set them correct. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Di

Re: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch

2002-07-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
1. Ensure expiration is happening - if expiration interval in 'q stat' output is 0 there must be admin schedule for 'expi inv'. 2. 'q stg f=d' will show you the reclamation threshold. It usually has to be 60-70 (%). If is 100% reclamation will never start. 3. compare the percentage in 'q vol' aga

Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

2002-07-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Scott, you hit the bullseye - the main problem would be volumes. But not only ones used by single (deleted) node. The ones used by two nodes might be bigger problem. Let say volume CBA321 hold the data for both nodeA and nodeB, who will be the owner of the libvolume? Collocation is the key - so y

Re: TSM and MS Exchange (MailBox Restore and Exchange 2000 Improvements)

2002-07-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Tony, could you explain a bit more. I am somewhat confused. You (instead of CA?) "fought" to fix Arcserve agent for 8 months??? Was it so broken? What means 95% operational, what are the rest 5%, what was the percentage before those 8 months? And what on the end is "tolerable", something you still

Re: Restoring MSCS cluster node

2002-07-31 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Full "bare metal" can also be assumed as restore with disk replacement. So look at MS KB article Q243195. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: S

Re: Web Admin Interface - grrr

2002-08-13 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The thread was initially for web admin but my vote definitely goes to CLI (I had not the chance to work with ADSM 3.1 so am not familiar with GUI). I am another person using *only* CLI. Being at customer site when someone opens web interface for TSM administration I use again only its CLI f

Re: Anybody using TDP for Informix on aix v5.1 64bits ?

2002-08-14 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The error is resulting from the major change made to 64-bit environment between AIX 4.3 and 5L. Look at IBM Announcement Letter ZP02-0172: "IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases ... - Tivoli Data Protection for Informix Version 4.1 for AIX ... -- AIX 4.3.3 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Re: Upgrade from 3590E to 3590H

2002-08-15 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Actually the steps are just the same as for migration from 3590B to 3590E. IBM CE will perform the upgrade and you will do the rest. The latter is well documented and you can also find plenty of info in list archives (http://www.adsm.org/). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM

Re: IBM vs. Storage Tek

2002-08-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
My personal recommendation is to evaluate upgrade to 3590H. I am surprised why this is not the IBM's first proposal. Arguments: LTO definitely is downgrade to what you have now both in terms of performance and reliability as others already answered. Higher capacity per volume and much lower price

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Very well written !!! May I slightly improve it: 1. Mark diskpool volumes read-only. Migrate disk pools and mark all primary volumes read-only (or only ones which do not have copypool backups). Check out all read-only tapes. 2. Like your step 1 but take only one db backup. The rest as described in

Re: TSM and protocol converters

2002-08-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
IBM SAN Data Gateway supports IBM 3575. You can attach both 3575s to same SDG. For 3583 there is SDG module with 4 LVD ports which is field installable in the library (as an upgrade). It is cheaper than standalone product and does not occupy additional space. Both standalone and module versions ar

Re: Changing tape drives

2002-08-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Two simple steps: 1. create manual library and (the only :) drive for the standalone drive 2. update device class to point to new library - UPD DEV LIBR= Steps are very well described in the TSM docs. If you have problems with these post again to the list. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please

Re: Restore filesystem to directory on AIX-client

2002-08-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
# dsmc -virtualnodename= dsmc> restore {/home}/* /tsmarchive/ -su=y Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Restore filesystem to d

Re: Moving tivoli's database (UNIX)

2002-08-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Your calculator is fine but it would be a hard job. - DB volumes occupy ~6GB (6000 MB not 6144), DB is assigned to 4000 MB of which 1304 are not used. Total used space (without spare room for anything) is ~= 2700 MB. - rootvg is having 1376 MB in unallocated partitions (the line from `lsvg rootvg`

Re: ANS1312E Server media mount not possible

2002-08-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Usual reasons were already explained but there is another one I had recently: A node is using client compression with large number of threads (16-20). Each thread is allocating some space in disk pool and starts reading+compressing the data. If space is very close to *compressed* ammount of data t

Re: Restoring Data - Server doesn't exist anymore.

2002-08-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Wanda, not always you should reset the node's password. Invocation with -virtualnodename asks for ID and defaults to that node's name. Type there an administrator's ID (from 'q admin') with enough rights over the node and later enter administrator's password. Session is established but node's pas

Re: TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ?

2002-08-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You already got the answer yourself. Neither tar & cpio can read each others data nor TSM can read tapes created by them. Each program is using own tape data format and cannot interpret other formats. Have in mind TSM will store the "temp directory" path and filesystem path info. Also you cannot r

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
SAN for sure would help. We made a server for customer to backup 600+ GB Oracle DB with TSM client compression for 5 hours over Gigabit Ethernet. SAN-attached LTO can be even better but you have to use tape drive compression, not TSM client in such case. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please

Re: Antwort: Re: cache hit rate

2002-08-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Sascha, This rule is for UNIX servers (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX). You can find where the rule originates from - in redbook "Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager: Implementation Guide" (SG24-5416-01) on p.270 you can find a description "Tivoli Adaptive Algorithm: Tivoli Storage Manager can us

Re: Question about log file

2002-08-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Lindy, you can read a nice redbook called "Tivoli Storage Management Concepts" (SG24-4877-02) which would help you to understand all those magical TSM terms. It can be found on http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ The book is ideal for newcomers in TSM world and even people having lots of experience with

Re: Select problems in 5.1.1 ... again

2002-08-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Andy, but Dennis is reporting this on 4.2.2.9 as well so maybe the APAR have to updated (and worked on). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Managed Services

2002-08-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Just re-type this line again. I guess you have some hidden character in "ManagedServices" word. If you tar (!!! to prevent modification from mailers) and attach your dsm.sys we can verify this. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent b

Re: TSM backing up in a DMZ zone.

2002-08-25 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Mark, I have to disagree with you. This is a nice solution from TSM performance perspective but throws away most of the security achieved by building a DMZ. The idea of DMZ is to isolate exposed servers and id case of intrusion in one of them internal corporate network still to be not reachable b

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

2002-08-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I hope I can also contribute somehow to the FAQ with few additions and suggestions for correction. 01-08. What is the audience of the list? A.: Many people related to ADSM/TSM/ITSM are actively participating on the list - *SM administrators & users, *SM consultants & solution designers, IBM/Tivol

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-28 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Dan, David already answered to question 2 but as an additional remark - when TSM started to write a tape volume uncompressed the tape has to become back scratch to start write on it with compression. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: migrating to DB2

2002-08-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
There is whole redbook on this topic - "Backing Up DB2 Using Tivoli Storage Manager" (SG24-6247-00). It ought to answer most of your questions and will give you examples which are more detailed than you can find in an answer on the list. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: D

Re: Antwort: Re: Very small server to server volumes

2002-08-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Markus, do you have collocation on the copy pool? This might explain why small chunk of data resides alone on a virtual volume. Another possibility is that your virtual volumes devclass at that time had maxcap=500MB or 1000 MB and you later modified it to be 10GB. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant

Re: tsm client is down-level with this server version

2002-08-29 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Looking at the length of this thread and shaking my memory this question might be a good candidate for the Monthly FAQ (Mark, what do you think ?) And maybe Gianluca can quote how many times this happened without being reported on the list. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM

Re: backup performance with db and log on a SAN

2002-09-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
ESS is a complex piece of equipment and as any such one can be configured in zillions of ways - some good, some bad and some of them perfect. With proper configuration of the *whole* system you can get impressive results. Check the settings of the AIX, FC HBAs, zoning and mainly the ESS LUNs. It w

LAN-free backup goes SAN, LAN, SAN

2002-09-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Hello all, If you do not like to read long posts please skip this one - it can be boring. I have a very nasty problem at customer site and asking for your help are we the only having it. If not can we fight it together. Environment: Server: v4.2.1.15, Windows 2000 SP2 Client: v4.2.2.1 (was 4.2.1

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