Re: DB2 - HADR and TSM

2009-04-29 Thread Rainer Holzinger
Hi Kurt, good point. I will try to get familiar with this and proceed as you recommended. Best regards, Rainer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of BEYERS Kurt Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

restoring a single file from an image backup, possible?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, I made a full image backup of drive f: in windows. In restore window of B/A client, drive f: is appeared in both File Level and Image hierarchy. Is it possible to restore selected files and directories from this image backup? Thanks so much, Mehdi Salehi

IBM Tape Device Driver - Windows Server 2008

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Collyer
Henrik, the Removable Media Service in 2008 becomes an optional installable 'feature' known as Removable Storage Manager. I have not installed this feature on the server. Jo, I've not got as far as trying an earlier version. This is all part of an asset replacement so I'm still building the

Deployment Engine woes

2009-04-29 Thread Remco Post
Hi all, I'm trying to install TSM 6.1.0.0 on a test system. This is a minimally installed OpenSUSE 10.3 in a virtual machine. During installation of the DE, the installer fails. As usual with Java based software, there is no usefull human readable clue as to what I should change to get things

Re: Deployment Engine woes

2009-04-29 Thread Remco Post
Hi, found this one, it's undocumented requirements, IBM should really fix te manuals ;-) On 29 apr 2009, at 10:50, Remco Post wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install TSM 6.1.0.0 on a test system. This is a minimally installed OpenSUSE 10.3 in a virtual machine. During installation of the DE,

ANS1996W The volume mount points enumeration on D:\ volume failed

2009-04-29 Thread David McClelland
Hi Team, Has anyone seen this one before? From dsmerror.log. 04/29/2009 11:43:20 ANS1996W The volume mount points enumeration on 'D:\' volume failed. Windows system error code: 5; reason: 'Access is denied.'. 04/29/2009 11:43:32 ANS1996W The volume mount points enumeration on 'E:\' volume

Re: Deployment Engine woes

2009-04-29 Thread Steven Langdale
What was the undocumented requirement? Thanks Steven Langdale Global Information Services EAME SAN/Storage Planning and Implementation Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 29/04/2009 10:32 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: restoring a single file from an image backup, possible?

2009-04-29 Thread Ian Smith
What version of TSM Server are you running? To single file restore from an image you need a TOC which was available for NDMP backups but not OLVSA images at TSM version 5. Ian Smith Consultant Global Consulting Services DELL|Solutions -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Cant change the status of a Mount Point

2009-04-29 Thread admbackup
Hi guys, I find what was the problem. There was a CLuster client server that generated the problem. I fixed it and now it is ok. Thanks for the help +-- |This was sent by cyosh...@its-csi.com.pe via Backup Central. |Forward

Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread admbackup
Hi, I am trying to make a system state backup of a Windows I added these lines to my opt : snapshotcachelocation V:\tsmlvsacache\ SNAPSHOTCACHESIZE 80 memoryefficientbackup diskcachem diskcachelocation W:\tsmlvsacache\ SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS SNAPSHOTPROVIDERIMAGE VSS I am getting

TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary pools

2009-04-29 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Hello Everybody, I am testing TSM 6.1 under AIX. I have tried to enable de-duplication for primary disk pool: tsm: BKMEupd stg daily_1 dedup=y ANR2344E UPDATE STGPOOL: The DEDUPLICATE option is not valid for device class DISK. ANS8001I Return code 3. tsm: BKME I have been affected too much by

Re: restoring a single file from an image backup, possible?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
TSM version is currently 5.3 but planning for 6.1.

Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread admbackup
I am trying to make a backup of the C: E: and Y: Disk of a windows server. I am using VSS and I have put these lines in my opt snapshotcachelocation V:\tsmlvsacache\ SNAPSHOTCACHESIZE 80 memoryefficientbackup diskcachem diskcachelocation W:\tsmlvsacache\ SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS

Re: TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary pools

2009-04-29 Thread Remco Post
Grigori, TSM can only dedup on devicetype FILE. As to why? Well, because new features are only implemented on devicetype FILE. That was a desicion made a few years back. Eventually, with TSM server version 7 or 8 or maybe when we're all long gone deviceclass DISK will be removed On 29 apr

Re: TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary pools

2009-04-29 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:37:16 +0300, Grigori Solonovitch g.solonovi...@bkme.com said: Hello Everybody, I am testing TSM 6.1 under AIX. I have tried to enable de-duplication for primary disk pool: tsm: BKMEupd stg daily_1 dedup=y ANR2344E UPDATE STGPOOL: The DEDUPLICATE option is not valid

TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary poo

2009-04-29 Thread Demetrio
Grigori, It's really strange. My version - Deduplication for disk pool are working default always and parameter DEDUPLICATE DATA can work with sequential access devices Dmitry Siberia Sofware SL http://www.s-iberia.com[/url]

Re: TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary pools

2009-04-29 Thread Nick Laflamme
Try a storage pool of the device class FILE, not DISK. It is FILE that is supported for deduplication, although I haven't had a chance to use deduplication yet, and my experience with FILE is fairly limited. On Apr 29, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Grigori Solonovitch wrote: Hello Everybody, I am testing

Re: TSM 6.1 deduplication is invalid option for disk primary pools

2009-04-29 Thread Colin Dawson
Grigori, The primary decision for limiting deduplication to device classes of DEVTYPE=FILE has to do with the deduplication processing itself. Once a data chunk has been identified as being a duplicate of an existing data chunk, the TSM server leverages the reclamation and aggregate

Re: Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread Clark, Robert A
What is the client version? What is the Windows version? The Great Carnac wants to know. [RC] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of admbackup Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Problems

Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread admbackup
Windows 2000 TSM Client 5.5 level 0.6 Windows server 2003 Standard Version Service Pack 2 +-- |This was sent by cyosh...@its-csi.com.pe via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Hello, TSM Client 5.5 is not supported on W2K. Please refer to the link below to see list of supported OS for versions 5.4 5.5 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of admbackup Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:38 PM To:

Re: Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Hello, TSM Client 5.5 is not supported on W2K. Please refer to the link below to see list of supported OS for versions 5.4 5.5. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243309 My recommendations: ** use TSM Client 5.3 (no longer under support by IBM) to perform the backup of the

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2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
I have a copygroup set up for a domain that is strictly a bunch of nodes for a document imaging application, millions of files each. I am going to change the backups from the incremental-forever to image backups. Also, I am going to change the retention to where I would only keep the active copy

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2009-04-29 Thread Dwight Cook
Can I add a comment... What if you have some form of file system corruption from anything and the file appears to have changed, TSM backs up the corrupt version and purges off the old copy??? If the files are as you say and never change, you won't have any inactive versions as long as active

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2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Well, I'm showing my current config, and further down, I'm asking what would be the best way to do it? One of the problems is that there are 36 NTFS mount points presented through this one server (called EHIMFS1), and each mount point has 5 to million files each. I had to attempt to back all of

Re:

2009-04-29 Thread Dwight Cook
IMAGE backup is the way to go. You are backing up from the server that owns the storage and presents the NTFS, correct? And that has 36 different areas that are presented as NTFS to this other server but that other server only needs one per day??? Or 20 are presented, 19 are full, and the

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2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Well, you're close. There are 36 NTFS mount points presented, and the app only fills each up one at a time, sequentially. It is on 21 of 36 right now, I believe. I agree with your assessment on the monthly backups, but I will probably stick with it for the comfort of the app owner, especially

Image backup granular restore?

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Has a Windows TSM client version come out that allows you to restore an individual file from an image backup? Or is that available only if you running incrementals along with images? Thanks! God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM)

Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:55 PM To: 'ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU' Subject: I have a copygroup set up for a domain that is strictly a bunch of nodes for a document imaging application, millions of files each. I am going to change the backups from the

Re: Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
-Original Message- From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:51 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Well, I'm showing my current config, and further down, I'm asking what would be the best way to do it? One of the problems is that there are 36 NTFS

Re: Thinking of changing data retention for large client

2009-04-29 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
-Original Message- From: Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Well, you're close. There are 36 NTFS mount points presented, and the app only fills each up one at a time, sequentially. It is on 21 of 36 right now, I

Re: Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread Clark, Robert A
If you plan on using diskcachemethod, I wouldn't upgrade the client node to W2K3 until client versions 5.4.3, 5.5.3, or 6.1.1 come out: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7q1=IC602 85uid=swg1IC60285loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en [RC] -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Backup NetApp CIFS filer

2009-04-29 Thread Cheung, Richard
Hi there I am doing some testing to backup a NetApp CIFS filer via TSM - I have a dedicated front end machine running windows, where I have configured the dsm.opt file to backup the filer as a network object Eg in dsm.opt DOMAIN ALL LOCAL DOMAIN \\CIFS-Sharename\path And thats all working

Re: Problems to backup a HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy object

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hmm I am not sure what the windows 2000 part means. It is not possible for the TSM client to be Windows 2000 since VSS is not available on that OS. It has to be Windows 2003 or higher. Windows 2000 systems should use the TSM 5.3.6.x client, which is supported on Windows 2000 as part of the TSM

Re: TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore?

2009-04-29 Thread Don France
Clearly, this is not exactly the case; LAN-free data is written to tape in a format that *any* hosting TSM server can read/restore/migrate/etc. It's the DATABASE data (and metadata) that is stored in formats consistent with the hosting TSM server's OS-platform --- one issue has been the

best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, There is an NTFS filesystem in windows with 20 millions of small files less than 20 KB each. The total size of the filesystem is less than 300GB. I have not tried incremental backup, because that would be a nightmare. Again, inc backup is not a good choice because the long restoration time is

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Cheung, Richard
Hi there Try the following: - install and configure multiple TSM Journal Instances for different parts of the file system - run multiple concurrent backup jobs - run /incrbydate backups during the weeknights, combined with normal incrementals on weekends -Original Message- From:

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
I forgot to say that all files are in a single directory!

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Steven Harris
Mehdi I think you can use journalling. My copy of the TSM 5.3 WindowsBackup-Archive Clients Installation and User’s Guide has an appendix C describing how to configure the Journal service. You also need to look at appendix B for the dsmcutil command, or use the GUI wizard. Regards Steve

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Thanks Steve, I will test it. Regards, Mehdi Salehi

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Cheung, Richard
What are the nightly deltas on these millions of files? What do they total in size? You still would want to run a TSM journal on them in some way... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2009

TDP for Exchange VSS backup destination issue

2009-04-29 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I have a corner case in the configuration of a TSM for Mail Exchange client TSM server 5.5.0.2 on AIX, Client OS Windows 2008 X64, BA Client 5.5.1.10, Exchange 2007, TDP for Mail 5.5.1 This is a CCR Cluster and I'm attempting a VSS backup, on the Inactive side of the cluster, going to

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

2009-04-29 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Richard, The total nightly delta size is about 300MB (less than 20,000 of 20k files) I am trying to test the journal to verify whether it works with incremental-by-date for image backups or not. If you have any other solution, it is welcomed. Mehdi Salehi