TDP client support on AS400

2001-03-28 Thread rh
Does anybody know if the TDP clients are support on an AS400 server? There doesn't seem to be server license settings for these products as there is for an NT server. Thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo

Re: BRM Question

2001-05-21 Thread rh
I believe the BMR server is only supported on an HP, AIX, or Solaris platform (Unix). You will need a Unix machine to support BMR. Rod Hroblak ADP --- Mike Glassman - Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > We just had a meeting with our support people for > TSM, regarding finishing > the proj

File Permissions on Restore

2001-07-12 Thread rh
As part of my DR activities, I will be restoring files from many NT servers onto single (consolidated) servers. If I restore files to a machine of a different name than the source, how can I assure that ownership/permissions will work correctly for the files on the "new" machine? Thanks, Rod Hrob

TSM Job "release"

2001-08-14 Thread rh
I'm looking for a way to have my operators run my nightly DB backup and Copypool backup scripts at an appropriate time. Set times available via administrator schedules will not work for me. The other challenge is to allow my operators to run nightly scripts without having an authority other than o

Re: TSM Job "release"

2001-08-15 Thread rh
Richard, This sounds great! Being somewhat of a TSM Newbie, where can I find these sample scripts? I have both TSM on AS400 and on NT, are these files installed as a default? Thanks again, Rod Hroblak ADP --- Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >...The nightly scheduling of administrator > >

Copypool Reclamation

2000-10-24 Thread rh
Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it possible to do tape copypool reclamation with a single tape drive ? The reclaimpool option isn't allowed for a copypool, so I can't see how to define file (disk) space to do it. Since I can do reclaim of primary tape pools using a reclaimpool on disk, I d

File Thought To Be Compressed

2000-11-22 Thread rh
I'm reconstructing a machine using ADSM restore. For many directories I get the message "File thought to be compressed was not|Report how you got this". Does anyone know what this error means ? There isn't an error message number, and I can't find anything in the message book. Thanks, Rodney Hrobl

Re: File Thought To Be Compressed

2000-11-22 Thread rh
Except in this case the restore client is newer 3.7 versus 3.1 than the backup client. Rodney --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rodney - Feel free to take advantage of > http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts > where you can find info (like that) not > documented elsewhere. > In this case,

Skip files on backup & restore

2001-01-15 Thread rh
With the 3.1 back/rest client there was a "skip" button that was handy for skipping files as the process was running. Does this feature not exist with 3.7 or 4.1 GUI, or am I just unable to find it. When in the GUI the skip button is discussed under help. Thanks, Rod Hroblak _

No Query Restore ANR0836W

2001-01-17 Thread rh
I'm getting the message ANR0836W No Query Restore ... file being skipped. The messages manual doesn't explain what causes this. Can anybody explain what this message means ? Many thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domai

More Firewall Questions

2002-10-04 Thread rh
I'm implementing a TSM backup solution through a firewall. The clients are inside the firewall, the server outside. I have TCP ports 1500 and 1501 enabled through the router and client backups seem to work OK using. I'd like to use the backup web client, but I'm a little confused. I have HTTP port

Bare Metal Restore

2002-04-08 Thread rh
There were some recent discussions about Tivoli and BMR. Here's a statement I just found on the Veritas website. Statement of Intent "VERITAS Software will honor TKG's remarketing agreement with IBM. VERITAS intends to provide support for and maintain BMR for TSM, including BMR support for the u

Re: Backup of EMC

2001-09-07 Thread rh
I'll bite, what's NDMP? Rod Hroblak ADP --- "Joshua S. Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you say NDMP? Available Sept 29th on Windows > and who knows when for > UNIX TSM servers. > > > -- > Joshua S. Bassi > Independent IT Consultant > IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark > Tivoli Certifi

Re: Scheduling TSM backups using 3rd party schedulers

2003-04-03 Thread rh
this though I haven't had time to pursue it yet. RH --- Thierry ITTY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > backups are scheduled via TSM's scheduler on low end > client (workstations) > but on servers (oracle, ...) backups have to be > planned within the whole > production,

TSM 5.2 AIX 4.3.3

2003-07-25 Thread rh
Is TSM 5.2 supported on AIX 4.3.3? Is anyone running this setup? Thanks, R Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

-fromdate using GUI

2004-12-13 Thread rh
Hi All, Is there a way to accomplish the equivalent of the command line restore -fromdate using the client GUI? Too bad the GUI doesn't show the command line equivalent of what you have selected. As always thanks for your help, Rod Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!?

Client Statistics In Act Log

2002-10-24 Thread rh
I've noticed that I'm not seeing backup statistics for my clients (ie. messages ANE4958I-ANE4964I) recorded in the activity log at event completion. Some clients seem to do it, others do not. Some of the backups/archives are run from the TSM scheduler, some are run from an external scheduler, some

TSM 5.1 Upgrade Entitlement

2002-10-28 Thread rh
Excuse me if this has been asked before. I currently have a mixture of 3.7 and 4.2 clients, supported by an AIX 4.2 server. I'd like to upgrade to 5.1. Can I upgrade all of my clients and server to 5.1 without additional charges? The 4.2 clients and server are currently on support. The 3.7 clients

TSM and VMWARE

2003-12-02 Thread rh
Like many companies, we are attempting to consolidate multiple Wintel servers into VM's using VMware. Does anyone know if IBM supports TSM 5.2 servers and clients running under VMware? I see on VMware's web site that IBM is a "software alliance partner" and TSM is listed as supported. I can't find

Scratch volumes not used

2003-12-12 Thread rh
Hi ITSM'ers I'm running TSM 4.2 with a 3494 library. During TSM start up I get several ANR1423W messages. ANR1423W Scratch volume xx is empty but will not be deleted - volume access mode is "offsite". The volumes do show as scratch with q libv, but they are never used. They do not show in a

Re: Scratch volumes not used

2003-12-12 Thread rh
Sorry, forgot to mention the volumes are on site and physicall exist in the 3494 with scratch category. RH --- James Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bring the volume back onsite. > update the access mode to readw. > > > -Original Message- > From: rh [mailto:

Re: Upgrading to 5.2.2

2004-01-06 Thread rh
Happy New Year ITSM'ers Len, Helen, I too will be upgrading from 4.2.2 to 5.2 in the next few weeks. I was also planning on an interim 5.1 upgrade to handle system objects. Is there an appropriate 4.x upgrade path that will handle this? I'd prefer a 4.x upgrade, then 5.2 upgrade if possible. Regard

3590 FC

2004-01-15 Thread rh
Hi ITSM'rs, I apologize if this has been asked before. I'm not a SAN engineer and find it very frustrating when trying to navigate the many "support matrix" lists offered by all the SAN switch vendors. I currently have 14 3590E's connected to a Connectrix E64M director using Adic Gateway 3000 swi

Re: TSM and EMC Centera

2004-01-23 Thread rh
How about Celerra? Anyone successfully backing up the "other" EMC device with NDMP and TSM? Thanks, RH ADP --- Richard van Denzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, > > It's now official since 5.2.2. You can set up a > DEVCLASS with type CENTERA > and there

Re: Upgrade TSM Server from 4.2.3.2 to 5.2.2

2004-02-12 Thread rh
Mike, We are in the process of upgrading from TSM 4.2.2 on AIX 4.3 to TSM 5.2 on AIX 5.1. The path we are following is similiar to what Paul outlines.I also recommend the opsys upgrade take place before the TSM upgrade. We plan to finish the jump to 5.2.2 this weekend. First we upgraded to AIX 5.1

TSM 5.2.2 Upgrade

2004-02-17 Thread rh
Last weekend I completed upgrading TSM from 4.2.3 to 5.2.2. The upgrade went very smoothly and with hardly any problems. I do have three issues so far. During the expiration process I receive "hundreds" of ANR0106E messages Imarqry.(4863) Unexpected error 2 fetching row in table "archive.descripti

Re: TSM OPERATIONAL REPORTING

2004-02-19 Thread rh
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/tsmopreport/latest/ --- goran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi to all ... > > if someone can explain this to me, operational > reporting comes with tsm 5.2 > ? what means that "comes with", where can i find it > ? > > thanks __

Re: Anyone using Servergraph?

2004-02-20 Thread rh
I found Servergraph to be unresponsive to my questions when I was investigating their products. I've asked multiple times about information on their lite and their Windows offerings without any response. I also find the product to be expensive. I'm using TSMManager, a resonably priced product that

POSTSCHEDULECMD Timing

2004-03-17 Thread rh
Hi ITSM'rs I'm running backups out of schedules for clients that have resourceutilization set to >1. I have noticed that the postschedulecmd runs before all of the associated sessions that have been started are finished, ie. before the schedule has completely finished. Since I use the pre/post to

3590 Switched Fiber

2004-04-08 Thread rh
Hi ITSM'rs, I have a new fiber attached 3590 implementation that I would like advice on. I'm not a SAN architect nor an AIX admin (two strikes?)so I'd like the opinion of anyone that has a similiar infrastructure in place. I will have 16 3590-E1A drives attached to two McData switches using each

Re: AW: Command line equivalent for GUI

2004-05-13 Thread rh
-Z0-9$]* > > > so we have 5 TSM-nodes at one NT machine defined. > The advantage is that you don't have that big > volumes to backup and recover > from one TSM-node. > > We are able do do a full incremental of all volumes > of our filer within 24 > hours to

Command line equivalent for GUI

2004-05-12 Thread rh
Hi, I'm backing up a NAS device with 1M+ files. As other posts indicate, the only way to get any performance in this setup is to split the file backups across multiple sessions. In my case I have two backup hosts, each running two backup streams. I can start each of the four backup streams using t

Re: AW: Command line equivalent for GUI

2004-05-13 Thread rh
Andy, I must be confused (what else is new). I believe I tried running a backup as you suggested. I think that I still ran through all the directories/folders in the backup domain, this still took too long. Maybe I missed something. --- Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand t

Web client missing features

2004-05-13 Thread rh
Sorry if this has been asked b4, but I couldn't find anything in the archives. How do I do a "find" of files to restore using the web client? Using the windows gui client (dsm.exe) there is a find button that is very handy when you know part of the name of a file. I don't see this on my web client

NDMP Shared Library

2004-06-08 Thread rh
Does NDMP support sharing of direct FC attached 3590's and the 3494 library? I heard that 3590 support was only via a SCSI/FC gateway and not direct FC. Thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.

Upgrade server 3.7.4 to 5.2

2004-06-11 Thread rh
We are looking to upgrade a Windows TSM 3.7.4 server to the latest 5.2 version. Does anyone know the pitfalls of making this leap? Is there an intermediate release I must upgrade to first? I'd appreciate any recommendations, document references, etc. Many thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __

FC 3590E1A per HBA

2004-08-05 Thread rh
Hi, I saw somewhere in the list that IBM recommends two 3590 FC drives per HBA. Is this published somewhere or just "word of mouth"? If there is a planning document that discusses this I would be interested in the link. I currently have 16 drives across four 6228 HBA's on an AIX box. I've seen som

Client on server with lanfree

2004-09-09 Thread rh
Greetings! I have a 5.1 Windows server with a backup client running on the same machine. Disk and tapes are SAN attached. As usual, getting the best peformance for the backup client is desired. Is it possible to run Lanfree on the client? Has anyone done this and compared performance versus TCPIP

Lanfree with VMware

2004-09-09 Thread rh
Think I saw a post on this some time ago, but I didn't see any answers. Anyone running clients with Lanfree successfully with VMware? This would specifically be with SAN attached EMC Clariion. Thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mai

Re: 3494 library error codes

2004-10-07 Thread rh
David, I'm running TSM 5.2.2 and AIX 5.1 64 bit. I see the same error a few times a day. I'm going to check IBM for any known problems and if there aren't any, open an incident with IBM support. Rod Hroblak ADP --- AMHOUCHE Youssef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David! > > Ensure that the DEVICE

Re: ADIC Tape Units with TSM

2000-08-04 Thread rh
We are using FastStor 22's. They were easy to get running and they work great. Rodney Hroblak ADP --- "Joshua S. Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have setup several ADSM servers with ADIC tape > libraries. They work > well. I think a few months ago when the first > Scalar 100 was introduce