Re: ANR9999D messages

2004-07-21 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Richard! My server also shows the ANRD dsutil.c(264): ThreadId0 Pool id x not found. messages during startup. I do not see migrations starting for the non-existing pools however. In my case it started when I deleted disk storage pools, way back when we were running ADSM 3.1. I tested an

LANFREE Problem

2004-07-21 Thread Mario
Dear all, First of all, we install TSM server v5.2.3 with basic initialization setting. And then we also install TSM client v5.2.3 on all clients, and TSM Storage Agent v5.2.3 on all supported client (Client's with fiber connection to SAN Switch). We also use 3590 tape library with 'Random 2

Peter Hadikin/BCIT is currently on vacation

2004-07-21 Thread Peter Hadikin
I will be out of the office starting 07/17/2004 and will not return until 08/03/2004. Please contact me upon my return. Peter

strange behavior by novell restore touching carts twice

2004-07-21 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
Hi all, We had a point in time restore from Novell client (GUI). Runtime about 1.5 hours and restored 6.5MB. The restore-process needed 2 3590E carts twice and 1 3590E for 3 times. Other 9 3590E tapes for onetime.(11 Volumes for 200GB total?) All the data are from one Novell volume

TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-21 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
It depends what you want to do (BMR?) with your online images. I dont think of TSM backup images is an alternative to ASR or application X or whatever. I´m not sure you can use TSM backup images with ASR in disaster recovery senario. Can anyone shed some light here pls? With ASR you either

Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR

2004-07-21 Thread Muhammad Sadat
mm well it goes like this: 1- You are cost conscious: a- take on-line image backup of systems, even if you are talking about DR. b- it has the same sort of effect as with BMR but in different perspective. Yes BMR applies the rest of the backups itself unlike in Image backups.

Re: strange behavior by novell restore touching carts twice

2004-07-21 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH We had a point in time restore from Novell client (GUI). Runtime about 1.5 hours and restored 6.5MB. The restore-process needed 2 3590E carts twice and 1 3590E for 3 times. Other 9 3590E tapes

AW: strange behavior by novell restore touching carts twice

2004-07-21 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
Yes, i do, i saw aprox. 120KB coming first and quick from the dimrc-discpool, no mount yet at this point in the 3590pool. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Stapleton, Mark Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 13:57 An: [EMAIL

storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Eggleston
I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1? Mike

Re: strange behavior by novell restore touching carts twice

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Denier
We had a point in time restore from Novell client (GUI). Runtime about 1.5 hours and restored 6.5MB. The restore-process needed 2 3590E carts twice and 1 3590E for 3 times. Other 9 3590E tapes for onetime.(11 Volumes for 200GB total?) Is it normal the tapes are needed more then one time? Do

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread asr
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Eggleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1? What OS? For

Re: LANFREE Problem

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Smoldt
Mario, What brand of HBA do you have in your W2K3 machines? I saw similar behavior with QLogic HBAs. Check the MaximumSGList in the registry - it should be set to x41, but the QLogic driver installs with x21. There is an APAR on this on the IBM site. The registry key is at

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Eggleston I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1? Why waste

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Mark, I'd say that depends on the level of security the organisation requires. If the disks would crash before migration, it would mean you've just lost all the backup data since yesterday night. Would you like to go to your boss and inform him about that and explain to him that you saved 300$

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Eggleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge filesystem for the storage pool or

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi Mark I agree with Daniel ... I'm working in a hospital so my 300GB storage pool is a RAID 5 ... I cannot lose any data if a disk crash before the migration to tape ... Luc Beaudoin TSM/SAN/ Network Administrator Hopital General Juif S.M.B.D. Tel: (514) 340-8222 ext:8254 Mark, I'd

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman I'd say that depends on the level of security the organisation requires. If the disks would crash before migration, it would mean you've just lost all the backup data since yesterday night. Would you like to

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Eggleston Sorry about the raid1, I meant raid0 (striping). I'm on AIX 5.2. I would *never* do just striping. There is no fault tolerance in that case; loss of one disk means loss of all data on all disks. -- Mark

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Baughman, Ray A.
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: storage pool raid 1? From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman In my

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Mark, I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed, and that his/hers document cannot be restored? :=) Fault tolerant disks are

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Mark! Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are saying, well, if a backup is lost due to a disk failure, it's not a real problem, because you just tell TSM the volume is gone and the files will be backed up again during the next backup window. In that's so, you overlook the following cases: 1) What

Upgrade to 5.1.7 from 4.1.2

2004-07-21 Thread Marc L
Hi, I've been attempting an upgrade to TSM 5.1.7 from 4.1.2 recently. It's been fine until this weekend when attempting to upgrade the majority of my NT4 clients. Some of the upgrades worked but on other clients they didn't! Very frustrating, all the clients have identical builds. The message

Re: Upgrade to 5.1.7 from 4.1.2

2004-07-21 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, If you are using the silent install method, you are missing the message that the Windows Installer has to be updated. If so, try the failing installs manually. First thing that happens is the update of the Windows Installer. Of course, above totally assumes silent install... Regards,

AW: Upgrade to 5.1.7 from 4.1.2

2004-07-21 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
have you tried to load down the file to the local c: drive, make the extract to the default install folder tsm_images (or another local folder) and install then? regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Marc L Gesendet:

TSM GroupWise

2004-07-21 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello All, Anyone backing up Groupwise post office using TSM? From what I have heard the backups aren't necessarily good as it does not handle open GroupWise files? Also, I understand There are several ways to do Snapshot Backup? of a client is one way more effective than another? TSM client

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
Another thing to remember -- If you don't have time to migrate down to 0 on the disk pool every night: when TSM migrates, it takes the LARGEST filespace first, not the OLDEST data. So you can have little bits of old stuff hanging around in the disk pool. And if you don't have time to migrate all

[Fwd: TSM GroupWise]

2004-07-21 Thread Timothy Hughes
Hello, Sorry if there was not enough information This is a Novell TSM client using 5.2.2 and We a planning on doing a once a month Snapshot backup. Thanks again! ---BeginMessage--- Hello All, Anyone backing up Groupwise post office using TSM? From what I have heard the backups aren't

Re: TSM GroupWise

2004-07-21 Thread Troy Frank
We're backing up a handful of groupwise PO's using TSM with St. Bernard OFM. That works fine for us. We've done 2 or 3 PO restores already to retrieve user-mail, and they all went off without a hitch. I can't really comment on snapshots though, as we've never really looked into it. I would

Re: TSM GroupWise

2004-07-21 Thread Troy Frank
One thing I forgot to warn you about regarding groupwise restores. They're just about the worst possible scenario as far as slow restores go. Tons of small files, with high change rates (our PO's average about 25-33% turnover a day). So once you've been backing up for a couple months, your PO's

RMAN on ORA-01403

2004-07-21 Thread Lars Bebensee
Hi guys and girls, haven't been here for a while and it's nice to be back. I need help from one of the Oracle-Gurus on this list. One of my customers moved some of his Oracle datafiles to another filesystem. Unfortunately, he/she did so without telling RMAN. So even though the Redbook says RMAN

wierd q node output on tsm server

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Bleistein
I did a q node on a tsm test server this morning this is what I got. Any ideas? thanks!. q node ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY NODE Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked?

Re: AW: Upgrade to 5.1.7 from 4.1.2

2004-07-21 Thread Marc L
The install was done manually, I downloaded the install image from an install server to the default location on the c partition. When the setup program ran it sometimes asked for a network path for a shared area which has the install image on (but not used during the install process) but I've

Re: TDP for Domino

2004-07-21 Thread Debi Randolph
Pattie, We have this problem every other month or so. We have to clear the dominc.log file to resolve the problem. My guess is your uninstall and reinstall left this file in tact. So try the following. I had to get to Level 2 support for this resolution, and it was a known problem.

TSM and Active Directory

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Dile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This all sounds very interesting, but for those of us whose knowledge of AD is limited to that IBM TV commercial, and, more important, who run on AIX or some other non-MS platform, is it relevant? Are these features for Windows servers only? These features are

Re: wierd q node output on tsm server

2004-07-21 Thread Dale Jolliff
Um, don't do that any more? Dale Jolliff Sungard Midrange Storage Administration Office Telephone: (856) 566-5022 Justin Bleistein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/21/2004 11:30 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL

Re: wierd q node output on tsm server

2004-07-21 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Server version and operating system, please. If you are running an older server, you might look at IC33096 (closest thing a quick search found that matches your problem). You might consider calling this one in (assuming you are running a supported server version). Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck

TDP Informix - copygroup retention values on Server?

2004-07-21 Thread David McClelland
Guys especially Del Hoobler ;o), New to Informix backups. One of our internal customers has an Informix consultant in who has never used TSM before, and is looking to try out some TDPI/ONBAR backups to our TSM servers. Looking at what (little) documentation there is for TDPI on IBM.COM, I'm a

Re: TDP Informix - copygroup retention values on Server?

2004-07-21 Thread Coats, Jack
Reading the docs for the TDP closely helps. I had to :( In any case, you need to have one client for the machine (system and flat files), and another name for the TDP. I hope this helps. ... Jack -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread asr
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed, and

Comparison Quick reference sheet

2004-07-21 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
I know there have been a lot of messages floating around with comparisons of TSM and Veritas, and maybe others, so I was wondering if anyone had a quick reference sheet/spreadsheet which shows the differences and similarities between the two products. A link or attachment via email would be much

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Robert Clark
Many shops have the storage pools built on storage where non-raid is not an option. It would be nice to see some storage pool volume sizing reccomendations that don't assume everyone is on 9GB SSA JBOD. Seeing TSM become SFS and SVC aware would be nice as well. [RC]

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Troy Frank
As far as I know, the only requirement for diskpool is to be big enough to hold 1 day worth of change-data. Obviously, more is better (to a point). We've got a 900GB cache right now, which affords us about 8 days worth of data. We still migrate to tape everyday though. Whether or not you need

D2D vs. tape backups with TSM?

2004-07-21 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
TSM 5.1.6.5 on 2K server. Current library is Overland Neo 4100 LTO-2. We need more capacity in our backups, and I'm looking at faster restore altenatives. Has anyone here used the Overland Reo 400x series, or anything similar? It's basically SATA drives enclosed and RAID'd. And you can configure

Re: storage pool raid 1?

2004-07-21 Thread Tab Trepagnier
Mark, It's actually worse than that. For a striped volume with no fault-tolerance, the overall reliability is the product of the individual reliability factors. For example, if you have 10 disks and each has a 99% reliability rating, the overall reliability of a RAID-0 volume spanned across all