Locks in TSM - interpretation of output

2002-10-04 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Folks, we're at server TSM 5.1.1.4 exploiting ABC 3.1.0.4 on OVMS nodes. Since the TSM V4 server days we experienced, at certain instances, many sessions (up to 20 and more) from a particular node, hanging for extended periods of time, whilst the sessions stay in RUN status, with no data flow. O

Anyone seen this ABORT/COREDUMP on AIX 4.3.3 & TSM Server 4.2.1.7

2002-03-12 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:34:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Have received coredumps (third one in the last month) with dsmserv down situations. In dsmserv.err appears the following: 03/12/2002 03:12:

Re: Anyone seen this ABORT/COREDUMP on AIX 4.3.3 & TSM Server 4.

2002-03-12 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Origin>Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:44 PM Origin>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin>Subject: Re: Anyone seen this ABORT/COREDUMP on AIX Origin>4.3.3 & TSM Server Origin>4. Origin> Origin> Origin>"tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions" aka Origin>Camp

Re: Anyone seen this ABORT/COREDUMP on AIX 4.3.3 & TSM Server 4.

2002-03-12 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Henk, thanks...I located the URL on the Tivoli website taking you to the same FTP site you use in the note below. It is a one-liner on the web-page for the TSM server downloads/fixes page. Had been unable to get to the Tivoli pages for a day or two. Thanks Campbell Origin>-Original Message-

Re: Education

2002-03-24 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi, there is another company that offers TSM courses as well: Optitek (Pty) Ltd, in South Africa (these are the courses run by Excalibur Business Solutions (cc)). Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for info. Regards Campbell Origin>-Original Message- Origin>From: Adolph Kahan [mailto:[EMAIL PR

DUAL WRITE in TSM 5.1

2002-04-16 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi, Can anyone please elaborate on the TSM 5.1 DUAL WRITE capability. I need to know how the SYNC WRITE to the COPY STGPOOL is going to be handled whilst populating the PRIMARY STGPOOL during backup/archive processing from the client across the LAN. Or, if there is a solid description/explanation

Re: Error Initializing TSM Api on Windows

2003-07-24 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi I have the same error with windows 2003 server running TSM 5.1.6 client. This problem has also given us problems trying to create the Scheduler Service for TSM. Is there a problem with TSM client 5.1.6. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: StorageTek L700E library & TSM question

2002-11-05 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi, next time you do the checkin specify CAPID=0,0,0 or whatever your capid is on your L700. We're using ACSLS code 6.0.1 patch level PTF762430 and as of that time the checkin required this CAP pointer. I have a question though..did you define the LTO's as ECARTRIDGE or LTO device types in the dev

Re: StorageTek L700E library & TSM question

2002-11-05 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Sorry, did not see you're SCSI based and not using ACSLS. Nonetheless we do experience L700 moments where cap processing cause problems in ACSLS and tape drive access. Severe problems at this stage. Campbell Origin>-Original Message- Origin>From: Spearman, Wayne [mailto:wmspearman@;NOVANTH

Re: Multiple TSM Servers/Informix restore

2003-12-30 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi Willem The strange feeling's is this would happen if SAPPROD(on sapprod) requires the same tape as what SAPPROD (on sapqas) requires, but if you make all the tapes from readwrite to reado and also if you stop space reclaim and stop the offsite copies until your refresh has completed you woul

SQL Query within TSM

2004-01-08 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi Guys Would like to know if anyone has seen or wriiten a SQL Query in TSM to get info relating to what management class, node name, cart/tape, how much of data for each node has been backed up. The info much be joined together for each node within TSM. I require for example : nodenam

Re: Taking an end-of-year snapshot

2004-01-09 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi Have you had a look at the EXPORT SERVER command. This could help you and you can keep your data as long as you want to. The only problem will be your hardware when you want to recover your data in 4 to 10 years time, because by that time most current hardware will be out of date or depending

Hacmp / TSM

2004-01-22 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi There A non TSM related issue but please assist if possible... We are currently running AIX Version 5.1.0.4 HACMP Version 4.4.1.16. Everything was going well until we stopped the cluster to update the Microcode on the ESS Shark.On restarting the cluster the following error occure

DRM QUESTION

2004-02-05 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi ALL Need info if I am using server to server functionality. I have got a primary server for primary data and a secondary server for the copy pools. My question is, if i lose my primary server, how would I bring up the secondary( COPY TAPES/DISK ) online to act as the primary server. If any

TDP for Oracle and TSM

2004-02-09 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi I am running TDP for Oracle Version 2.2.1 on an AIX server. Current version of Oracle is version 8 We are using RMAN to backup the database to TSM. My question is using RMAN how does one delete/expire the data out of TSM. Using the RMAN option I have specified the following for the co group.

Re: archive to tape ???

2004-03-01 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi Have you looked at the option of "generate backupset" and also look at the option of "define backupset" It may help you with your requirement. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Michael D Schleif [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: install new TSM but use database fro older version

2004-03-04 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi I do this on a UNIX/AIX server where the DRP server UNIX/AIX is at a higher TSM server code than the Production server UNIX/AIX. All I do is restore the TSM database of the production server to the DRP server and then I run an upgrade DB on the DRP server. The OS server levels are also at d

Re: TSM DB extension - emergency

2004-03-04 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi If you have defined spacetrigger then the system will do this for you automatically. If you do not have this then you will have to extend the db manually with the following command: extend db 2000 The above command will extend your database by 2Gb. The Available Space is the Total Space ava

Archive Retention Question

2004-03-10 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi All I would like to know if i have a retention period for 180 days for Archives in my archive copy group. I then change this retetion period after a 20 day archiving process later to 30 days, will the data I have archived for the past 20 days take the new retention period of 30 days. Pleas

Re: Archive Retention Question

2004-03-10 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Thks I now understand how the archive process works. Always under the impression if you archive a file with a certain set of rules, it will stick to those rules, not the new rules when you change the retetion period. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: vaulting primary storage pool volumes

2004-04-02 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi Have you looked at the option of set drmprimstgpool. These primary storage pools with the above option would be managed by DRM. You would not have the below problem. DRM/TSM would manage all of this for you. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: vaulting primary storage pool volumes

2004-04-02 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
Hi With the option of set drmprimstgpool, you do not have to do any of the below. It would be just like setting up the DRM for Copystgpools. DRM manages and dictates which tapes would have to go offsite and which tapes comes back onsite. You would not encounter problems like what you are having

Re: vaulting primary storage pool volumes

2004-04-03 Thread tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions
primary pools specified. It does not include any primay storage pool volumes in the DRMEDIA catagory. Unless I'm reading it wrong... Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solu