Re: NT restore to different hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Braich, Raminder
Looks like there is no easy way to do a restore to different hardware. What happens if there is a disaster and you cannot get your 5 year old server from anywhere. How is TSM going to restore to that server! To me it looks like TSM is very good at taking backups and managing them but in the

Re: NT restore to different hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Braich, Raminder
, passwords, access lists, SW installation media, SW installation and configuration description, a n d quite naturally a copy of hardware as well. best regards ;) juraj Salak -Original Message- From: Braich, Raminder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

NT restore to different hardware

2003-01-22 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello, Can anyone please provide me detailed instructions or point me towards them to restore NT to different hardware. We are in the process of upgrading our servers and I cannot find any information to restore the OS, particularly Windows NT, to a different hardware. Any and all help is

Remove a particular backup

2003-01-20 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hi, We have TSM server 4.1.2.0 and the client is 4.1.1. We were trying to migrate a database server to a new server with different hardware. There were some issues and some of the applications did not work correctly. So we had to revert back to the old one. Now while the new server was running

Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM

2003-01-10 Thread Braich, Raminder
I cannot imagine how people reach 1000 kb or 1000 mb figure. These are always calculated as 2 ^ x where x=0...infinity. I believe every calculation in software is done using the power of 2. 1000 could be used by sales as others suggested but how come they justify 1000 kb is bigger than 1024 kb !

DR test - which volumes to take

2003-01-06 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hi, TSM Server is 4.1.2 (to be upgraded shortly), clients are 4.1.2 and 4.2. We would be doing our Disaster Recovery test shortly. DRM has not been implemented. The plan calls for to request courier deliver the necessary tapes back and we take these tapes to the recovery site. We run SAP R/3

TSM client service dies with event ID 7031

2002-12-16 Thread Braich, Raminder
The landscape is as follows: TSM Server: 4.1.2.0 TSM Server OS: Win 2000 SP 1 TSM Client: 4.2.1.32 TSM Client OS: Win 2000 SP 2 The client service dies every day with event ID 7031 in the event viewer. I have to start it manually every day and the cycle goes on. Has anybody had the same

Re: select command to get old scheduled events

2002-11-22 Thread Braich, Raminder
You can use q event * * begind=-1 to see yesterday's events. Modify begind to see old ones. Thanks Raminder Braich The Davey Tree Expert Company Kent, OH 44240 330-673-9515 Ext. 270 -Original Message- From: Charakondala, Chandrasekhar R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November

Re: solution for Oracle DB hot baclkups

2002-11-04 Thread Braich, Raminder
We are using TDP for Oracle with RMAN. There were problems expiring backups but that was fixed in the latest release of TDP. TDP for Oracle guide was the only document I read in addition to searching through the list to configure it. In other words it is quite easy to configure. I am not sure how

Expire backups for retired node

2002-10-31 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hi, How can I expire all the backups and versions of a particular node which is going to be retired shortly. We do not need to keep any of the backed up data. I still have not deleted the node from TSM server. Thanks Raminder Braich SAP/ORACLE Administrator The Davey Tree Expert Company Kent,

Re: Help with select for non-mirrored database volumes

2002-07-26 Thread Braich, Raminder
Nicholas try this: select copy1_name, avail_space_mb from dbvolumes where copy2_name is null It worked for me from the web interface. Raminder Braich SAP/ORACLE/TSM DBA The Davey Tree Expert Company Kent, OH 44240 330-673-9515 Ext 270 -Original Message- From: Nicholas Cassimatis

Re: TDP for SAP R/3 - Tablespaces in BEGIN BACKUP status after ba ckup failes

2002-05-14 Thread Braich, Raminder
You can write a batch script to reset tablespaces to end backup when the backup fails. You would need to query the v$backup and v$datafile tables. -Raminder Braich -Original Message- From: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:34 AM To:

Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands

2002-03-07 Thread Braich, Raminder
I would like a copy too.. Thanks Raminder Braich -Original Message- From: George Cardoza [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQL Co mmands I too would

Re: Disaster Recovery Project

2002-02-26 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hi Jane, We are a NT shop. We do not have DRM either. Currently we make copies of all the tapes that were written to and ship them offsite. We also make a copy of TSM database and ship it offsite. Similarly volhist and devconfig files are written to our west coast servers daily and backed up.

Re: Tape Drive Failures

2002-01-09 Thread Braich, Raminder
Try powering off and then powering on the drives, or the whole library. Works for me most of the time. -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers,

Re: Script to CHECKOUT multiples tapes on SCSI library

2001-12-11 Thread Braich, Raminder
We run the following macro to checkout our tapes. Pipe the output of this macro to another file. The output would be in this format 'checkout libv 3494 volume_name remove=yes'. Execute this output file.Once the tapes are all out mark the volumes as offsite. Do this by update volume volume_name

Peculiar disaster recovery situation

2001-07-11 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hi, We have a 3494 tape library with 4 3590 tape drives and a robot. We are considering an offsite disaster recovery solution. Meaning if the present building is destroyed we go to another location and restore everything. However at this other location we donot have 3494 tape library. We would

Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W (out of sequence verb)

2001-07-11 Thread Braich, Raminder
What is the verb name? Also what is the size of the tsm client? -Original Message- From: Angelica Tulipano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W (out of sequence verb) =20 I'm having

Re: SAP, DB2 and TSM

2001-04-26 Thread Braich, Raminder
Well we are running SAP with ORACLE and backing up on TSM. Earlier we had version 3.7 now we upgraded to 4.1.1. I think SAP recommends at least 3.7 Raminder Braich -Original Message- From: Collins, Brenda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL

Unique Problem

2001-03-16 Thread Braich, Raminder
We have a SAP R/3 client with Oracle database on NT platform. The TSM client is 4.1 the TSM server is 4.1.2. Sometimes the partial online backups are successful for this client and more often than not it fails with "Out-of sequence" verb error. There is a PMR open with TIVOLI since 11/29/00.Yes

Offsite tapes expiration

2001-03-13 Thread Braich, Raminder
The landscape: IBM 3494 with 4 3590 drives Server TSM 4.1.2 on WIN 2000 ClientTSM 4.1.1 on WIN NT We are not using DRM. However we do have a macro that checks all the tapes which were written to go offsite , ejects the tapes and marks them offsite. This is working fine

Re: Query Scratch Volumes

2001-02-23 Thread Braich, Raminder
Steve, Try this, select * from libvolumes where status='Scratch' If you need to see only the volume names select volume_names, status from libvolumes where status='Scratch' -Original Message- From: Steve Hicks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001

Re: Sending messages to an email address on Windoze?

2001-02-14 Thread Braich, Raminder
We use stalkermail, yeah it is funny but works great and very simple. Raminder Braich -Original Message- From: Richard Cowen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sending messages to an email address on Windoze?

Db backup tapes

2001-02-08 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello We are using TSM 4.1 on win 2k. We do not have DRM yet. Now the TSM db gets backed up on tape, and we take that tape offsite. Is there any copy of that db onsite also. My understanding was that it gets backep up to only one tape. The tapepool gets backep up to copypool to be shipped

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-02-05 Thread Braich, Raminder
have more data on that soon. What error codes are you getting, and what is your environment? Have you taken it up with IBM yet? I'd love to know if there really are others seeing the same problems besides just a couple of us. Kathleen "Braich, Raminder" [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-02-05 Thread Braich, Raminder
n replaced twice now and we are still getting these same errors. Maybe it's not the drives after all. Anne Short Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Gaithersburg, Maryland 301-240-6184 CODA/I Storage Management -Original Message- From: Braich, Raminder [mailto:[EMA

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-02-02 Thread Braich, Raminder
Kathleen, I read your post on ADSM forum regarding the tape IO errors Diana Noble was having. I am also having the same errors. You mentioned they were working on some microcode and should be released soon. Did they ever release it, if so from where can I download it. Raminder

Re: Achievable throughput using Gigabit connections?

2001-01-29 Thread Braich, Raminder
Steve, It is going directly to tape. Our backups and backups of our redo log files go straight to tape. Raminder Braich -Original Message- From: Steve Schaub [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Achievable

Re: Restoring a 3.7.3 database to a 4.1.2 server

2001-01-15 Thread Braich, Raminder
John, Here is an interesting scenario. What if you took the database backup of 3.7, something bad happened and you had to blow away the server, say you reloaded WIN NT on the server. Now you upgrade to 4.1.2 and try to restore 3.7 database, it does not work. It would work perhaps if you have

Re: Passing date to scripts

2000-12-28 Thread Braich, Raminder
If it is an NT script you can do something like for /f "delims=" %%a in ('DATE /T') do set Date1=%%a for /f %%a in ('TIME /T') do set Time1=%%a for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('DATE /T') do set Date1=%%c-%%b-%%a for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=: " %%a in ('TIME /T') do set Time1=%%a-%%b

Checkout tapes for offsite

2000-12-01 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello, What is the process to checkout the tapes for offsite? After the backup of our production system I want to checkout those tapes to send offsite. Can anyone please let me know how to accomplish this? Thanks Raminder Braich

Re: Checkout tapes for offsite

2000-12-01 Thread Braich, Raminder
How do I figure which ones to send, or which ones were used in the last backup. Thanks Raminder -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Checkout tapes for offsite Checkout

Re: anr0444w out of sequence verb

2000-12-01 Thread Braich, Raminder
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anr0444w out of sequence verb What version of TDP for R/3 are you using? Is a dsierror.log created? What does the brbackup logs report as errors? James Thompson From: "B

anr0444w out of sequence verb

2000-11-30 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello, The environment is SAP R/3, WINNT SP5, Oracle 7.3.4, TSM 4.1.1. The database is around 400 GB. The backup starts successfully and when it is about 3/4 done we get an error: 11/29/2000 02:31:23 ANR0444W Protocol error on session 1197 for node R3DB (TDP R3

TSM throughput.

2000-09-21 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello The landscape : WIN NT, IBM Netfinity servers, SAP 3.1 I, ORACLE 7.3.4 The maximum thorught we saw was 7mb/sec for TSM 3.7. On TSM 4 the maximum through put is 12 mb/sec for the database of size 400 GB. Can anyone please tell me that this is very low. What is the maximum throught any of

Re: SAN and Tape Drives

2000-08-17 Thread Braich, Raminder
Check the device drivers, the proper ADSM device drivers (ADSMSCSI) have to be loaded and started in order to make the tape drives visible. -Original Message- From: Viliam Varga [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Tape Drives

2000-08-03 Thread Braich, Raminder
Hello We have a 3494 tape library with 4 tape drives. We are using TSM3.7 WIN NT. Suddenly the TSM does not see those 4 tape drives. We tried shutting the library off and rebooting the TSM server but that obviously did not help. Any ideas what could be wrong? Are there any device drivers

Re: Tape Drives

2000-08-03 Thread Braich, Raminder
update=0, checking=0, offline time/date: 00:00:00 1900/00/00 Drive state: EMPTY Log sense counters last dismount: 349X-specific fields: devNo=3150656, isScsi=1 last dismounted volume AAB775 TTCDR26 (/dev/rmt6): ... ------ From: Braich, Raminder[S