Journal Testing Tool / Mass file,folder creator

Hi, I would like to test journal based backup and incr backup extensively. Does anybody know of a really fast tool that creates/deletes millions of (temp) files and folders so that the journal is filled? Has anybody already some specific conseption in mind on how to to that? Would IBM kindly re

Remove Windows TSM Services requries reboot (W2K3, TSM 5.3.2/3.x)

Hi, for installation and deinstallation of TSM services (scheduler, agent, acceptor) during update procedures I'm using two batch files: tsminstall.bat: dsmcutil install Scheduler /name:"TSM Scheduler" /AutoStart:Yes /NODE:%COMPUTERNAME% /PASSWORD: dsmcutil install CAD /name:"TSM Cl

OFS/LVSA for x64 windows server 2003

Hi, does anybody know when TSM Client X.y.z.a will have open file support (lvsa engine) for backing up files in use? Thanks, Egon ..-- Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and e

restore inactive files

Hi, is there a command to restore a hundred of inactive files in unattended mode (no -pick) even if an active version exists? Is it possible to restore let say the 3rd inactive version of those files in a batch? Regards, Egon ..-- __

timing of many schedules

Hi, we have 300+ nodes on our tsm servers which have to do their backups nightly. Schedules should be spread through the whole night but I couldn't find a really good way yet how to do that. Currently I try to start ten schedules at most quarterly. Looking at backup logs and sessions I can see

scripting change of schedules

Hi, I'm going to change quite a few of my schedules. Is there a way to automatically change a lot of schedules automatically? I have to change start time, type and object. Thanks ..-- Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -

Re: Will TSM ever support BMR for windows systems?

First of all, I have successfully built a BartPE CD including decent TSM client version which is deployed on our servers. That's actually easy. You can decide which scsi controller and network controller drivers you need. If you compare TSM+BartPE restores to e.g. Acronis TrueImage I would say

Image backup/restore chkdsk required

lure when TSM 5.2.2.0 was installed. Best Regards, ..-- Egonle Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

Image backup/restore chkdsk required

x" that? Why does tsm client not report an error during backup? Might client 5.3.5 solve that issue? I think I did not have such a failure when TSM 5.2.2.0 was installed. Best Regards, ..-- Egonle Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- Unlimited storage and industry-leading

Image restore - partitioning

. So now my questions are: How do users handle such issues? How to force diskpart to create a partition to fit to original size? When will there be an TSM utility which reads the partition information from filespace information and sets up the partition properly? Regards ..-- Egonle

defective tape (copy pool volume)

Hi, I tried finding a solution in the archives but no success yet. Today one of our tape was torn off and is still stuck within the drive. Tomorrow an IBM technician will repair the drive (state: unavailable). The tape volume is used as copy pool volume. What do I have to do to checkout the tape

Re: defective tape (copy pool volume)

ot; server (delete volume discarddata=yes). After running "reconcile volumes" I noticed that there are unavailable "volumes" named .BFS.xx . How can I fix that? Regards, Egonle Whereas I guess, Once you successfully remove the tape from library ..we do not need to disca

TDP-Oracle+RMAN

ssion open/close operations within one minute. I think that might stress the backup server unnecessarily. Thanks Regards, ..--Egonle More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com

use short hostname as nodename

t want to specify nodename option in dsm.sys as I would like to use a general dsm.sys for any server in our environment. Thanks & Regards, Egonle Bei AOL gibt's jetzt kostenlos eMail für alle. Klicken Sie auf A

Multiple Schedules (OracleDB Backup)

(B). How do people backup their Oracle DBs + archive logs? Are there any decent ways to use TSM scheduler for both (given that the script takes care of not running two backups on the same DB at once)? Thanks&Regards, Egonle __

Select on / dum/export of backups table

ake sense it's just an example): select * from backups where node_name in (select distinct node_name from filespaces where filespace_name like '%ORACLE%') and class_name like 'MCLASS%' Is the performance better if the select in the where clause h

Naming conventions of PDs/MCs

Hi, I'm just curious how other people organize their TSM environment? What naming rules do you have for PDs and MCs? Thanks ..--Egonle Bei AOL gibt's jetzt kostenlos eMail für alle. Klicken Sie auf AOL.de um

Re: Support w2k

ge can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243309 Regards Egonle -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Pilgram Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Support

Out of memory (operating system refused memory allocation)

that this error is also possible if there are too many directories. Is there a limit in directories on the whole volume or in directories depth? Does TSM client 5.5 x86 allow more directories? Could this be resolved by using the x64 cli

Reset platform value in nodes table

Hello, we have some TSM clients with TDP installed. Some of them haven't set the "real" platform (e.g. Linux) but some TDP-... string. How does TSM set this value and how to reset this value for a specific node(s). Thanks, ..--

WinPE/BartPE TSM5.5 Client

Hello, did anybody investigate how to start the TSM GUI (dsm.exe) on WinPE (2.0) or BartPE/Pebuilder? So far it seems that there's only dsmc working. Compared to 5.3 which I have used before it seems that some libraries have to be available on the recovery system for dsm.exe. Does anybody kno