Re: TSM and NetApp VTL700

2007-09-05 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi Thomas and all the rest on the list, I´ll add to the discussion with a few questions of my own, though not with scope to a specific vendor: How did those who are using a VTL instead of random/sequential disk size your environment? Not talking about a disk-only solution, tape for longer term

Re: SQL TDP in MSCLuster

2007-09-05 Thread Richard Sims
Fred - Without an actual error message, extricated from TSM or MSSQL log/ error files, it's kinda difficult. Somehow, someone has to dig that out of this organizational stalemate. You might want to look into IBM Technote 1194737 as one possible technical avenue, perhaps inspiring further

Re: Possible to delete folders within a filespace?

2007-09-05 Thread Angus Macdonald
Many thanks. That led to a Redbook site I'm not familiar with but the info is there. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: 04 September 2007 18:15 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Possible to delete folders

Re: SQL TDP in MSCLuster

2007-09-05 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Fred, I understand that your DBA thinks he has found the problem, but it would sure help to see the error messages and the problem determination he/she did to come to that conclusion. This will also help future searches when the next person hits the error that you are encountering.

Re: Once more Windows vs. AIX server

2007-09-05 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi Paul, we run AIX, W2K3 and Sun-TSM-Servers. A modern Win-TSM is great for TSM up to mid-size setups and performance should not be an issue in your projected environment. If it´s a Windows shop, stick to the os you know you can handle. We run a couple of them with various IBM libraries

Restore question TSM for mail Lotus Domino Window V5.4

2007-09-05 Thread David Browne
Here's a breakdown of the problem I'm seeing. Last week, 8/31, we generated enough data for 17 transaction log extent files and were able to successfully execute data restores against those files. Tuesday, 9/4, I generated data for extent files 18 thru 44 and archived those extent files,

Re: TDP Oracle 5.4.1 ERROR

2007-09-05 Thread Gregory Lynch
I am new to this, but I ran into a similar problem last week while upgrading Oracle TDP. It wound up being a permission issue on some of the log files and the password file( ./tdpoconf password ) was not properly created. I would check everything in /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64 and

Journal retention

2007-09-05 Thread Avy Wong
Hello, I understand that there is 'errorlogretention' and 'schedlogretention' that you can set in the dsm.opt file so that to make it easier to manage on the dsmerror.log and the dsmsched,log. But is there a way to manage the jbbdb files? If yes, how do you go about doing that? If not why

Fw: Journal retention

2007-09-05 Thread Avy Wong
Hi, The problem is the jbbdb files in one of the server has grown (see size below). I looked at other servers that uses journaling has only 1KB or low in size. Can some of the older data inside the jbbdb be deleted. Can the size growth be contained? tsmD__.jdb.jbbdb 2273KB

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2007-09-05 Thread Brents, James
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Re: Restore question TSM for mail Lotus Domino Window V5.4

2007-09-05 Thread Eduardo Esteban
The Domino server requests from the DP client the logs that it needs to recover the database to the specified point in time. After each log is restored, the Domino server applies the transactions to the database. If you specify applylogs without a specific point in time, all the archived logs

Re: Fw: Journal retention

2007-09-05 Thread Remco Post
Avy Wong wrote: Hi, The problem is the jbbdb files in one of the server has grown (see size below). I looked at other servers that uses journaling has only 1KB or low in size. Can some of the older data inside the jbbdb be deleted. Can the size growth be contained? tsmD__.jdb.jbbdb

Re: Fw: Journal retention

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Raibeck
The journal *entries* are purged after a successful journal-based backup (so that space can be reused), but the journal database file size itself is not reduced. If the journal is reset, such as if you stop the journal service (and PreserveDbOnExit is not set to 1) or if there is a jouranl

TSM Database Size

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Melton
I have done a few searches, but have not found anything conclusive. I am interested in finding database/performance size limits, not maximum database size. My TSM system is on AIX configured as follows: IBM P650 Server 8-way 16 GB AIX 5.3 TSM 5.2.2 2 fibre channel paths to disk 4 fibre paths to

Re: DP for Mail/Snapmanager

2007-09-05 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Sam, One way to perform Exchange Server snapshot backups when the storage groups reside on NetApp volumes is by using TSM for Copy Services. It drives VSS snapshot backups using Windows VSS architecture. TSM for Copy Services details can be found here:

tdp Oracle install problem

2007-09-05 Thread Vinicius Fraga
Hi, I'm running the 5.4.1.0-TIV-TSMORA-LinuxX86.bin , after some time it returns the following error.It is installed the Java RE 1.4.2 I've already tried to install using the -console option console Exception in thread main java.lang.LinkageError: unexpected exception during linking:

Stop Error: 0x000000D1 while backing up filer.

2007-09-05 Thread Robert Clark
TSM server 5.4.1.0, running on Windows 2003 server standard (w/ SP2). Hardware is DL380G5. Backup client is installed, and is version 5.4.1.0 as well. While backing up two large NetApp filer shares, server will get Stop Error and reboot. Problem is 100% repeatable. So far, we've upgraded the

Re: Stop Error: 0x000000D1 while backing up filer.

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Raibeck
I normally recommend configuring the system to generate a full memory dump. But at the very least, it should be generating a small memory dump (file name MEMORY.DMP) when the stop occurs. The MEMORY.DMP file can then be loaded into a debugger (like windbg.exe), from which the error can be viewed.

Re: TSM Database Size

2007-09-05 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:48:34 -0400, Tom Melton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IBM P650 Server 8-way 16 GB AIX 5.3 TSM 5.2.2 2 fibre channel paths to disk 4 fibre paths to 8 - 3592 tape drives 2 scsi paths to 6 - 3590 tape drives 60 GB database size I have a 630, 4way, 16G. 2 FC paths to disk,

Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread Nicholas Rodolfich
Hello All, Thanks for your help! I work at a medical institution and there is a big push to get our DR procedures in order. We will be using a Sungard facility for our DR activities and we will have to restore 4-6 AIX servers (2 HA clusters 1 DB with 1Tb and one apps on another cluster) and

Re: Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread Kelly Lipp
Your data characteristic is the most important factor. If the bulk of your data to restore is database data that is being backed up fully everyday, it's probably pretty easy. The data is very sequential on tape (as you get a new DR copy each day). You may have some contention for a particular

Re: Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Bullock
LOL, you crack me up Kelly. All very good advice. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Insight into improving restores needed Your data

VMWare and software archeology

2007-09-05 Thread Thomas Denier
I work for a large hospital. Four or five years ago one of the clinical departments replaced a system used to collect and store results from procedures. The old system was built around a proprietary database and ran on a Windows 95 platform that was getting old even when the system was replaced.

Re: VMWare and software archeology

2007-09-05 Thread Kelly Lipp
What about a low tech solution to the problem: can the data be exported to something more portable, like tab delimited or CSV? They you could read the data using a bunch of different tools. Probably tough as you don't have the source. But maybe some hacking? Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing

Re: Fw: Journal retention

2007-09-05 Thread Avy Wong
Thanks Remco, Thanks Andrew, I got it resolved. I appreciate both of your 'pointers' ...(o: Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Remco Post [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare and software archeology

2007-09-05 Thread Kevin Boatright
We had the same issue at our hospital. We used an imaging software and VMware server to migrate these systems off of the old hardware. If you ever loose the server, you only have to restore a few files (the .vmx and .vmdk files). There is support for Windows 95 on VMWare server and you can

Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread scottcorp
Hello. I have a need to provide a report that details how much data each client has if I were to perform one full backup or restore of the server. I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out the right select statement to query the information. Has anyone done this before and can you please

Re: TSM Database Size

2007-09-05 Thread Orville Lantto
I manage a pSeies 650 that has 6 TSM instances with databases totaling 256 GB. The environment is: pSeries 650 with four processors and 8 GB of memory DS4300 with 4.5 TB direct attached with four 2 Gb Fibre cards Six 2 Gb Fibre cards to 14 LTO2 tape drives AIX 5.3 TSM 5.3 There over 600

Re: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Bullock
Hmm, an interesting problem. Could be very difficult if you tried to add up all of the active files on a host to get to that number Hmmm, you could get a pretty good ballpark number this way perhaps I am assuming that you would want to restore the servers to the time of the last

Fw: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
If you only have to do a specific few machines, and not on a regular basis, you can do an export node NODENAME FILEData=active PREVIEW=yes The result of this will tell you how much active data the node has. I've also tried a Select statement, multiplying the capacity by pct_utilized in the

administrative schedules

2007-09-05 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
TSM Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.3 on AIX 5.3 When updating the admin schedule through the ISC to include something that was previously defined it seems as though there is no error and when reselecting the properties it does show active, however status shows Unknown and q ev * t=a does not

Re: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread scottcorp
THanks for the replies. SO here is a dumb question - is there only one active copy of a file? I am thinking so, but want to make sure. My goal is to get this one time for all the machines - there are a lot but not hundreds.

Re: Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread David Longo
I will just add 2 quick things to check. 1. You say TSM server is GB, probably all the clients are not though. For the ones that are 100MB Nic's - DOUBLE CHECK before starting restore at DR site that they and the Ethernet Switch ports they connect to are set to 100MB Full Duplex - not auto

Re: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread Skylar Thompson
scottcorp wrote: THanks for the replies. SO here is a dumb question - is there only one active copy of a file? I am thinking so, but want to make sure. My goal is to get this one time for all the machines - there are a lot but not hundreds. Yes. You can have as many inactive copies as

Re: Insight into improving restores needed

2007-09-05 Thread Kelly Lipp
David, Great catch on the 100Mbit card auto negotiate thing. Whew. Forget that and you miss breakfast the next morning too. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

Fw: Full Backup Size Report

2007-09-05 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Outside of some of the TDP Agents, yes, there is only one active copy of a file. The Oracle TDP agent stores all data as active, so the Export command would show all data for that node. For Agent backups, I usually guesstimate the restore time as 150% of the time for a full backup. It's always