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Command line backup Estimate

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Currell
The TSM client Backup-Archive GUI provides a button to estimate the time needed for backup. Thus far I have not been able to determine how to do this from the dsmc command line. Any ideas? Thank you.. - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from

Open File Support for 64-bit XP

2007-06-11 Thread Douglas Currell
When installing the TSM client, version 5.3.4, for 64-bit Windows XP, I do NOT see the option Help me configure Open File Support in the clientt setup wizard nor was it available during the initial installation. Is this to be expected.? Thanks ... - Be

TSM Reporter Daily Report

2007-06-07 Thread Douglas Currell
I'm using the TSM Operational Reporting Technology Preview (Driver 7). In the Issues and Recommendations section of the Daily Report, it states that too many admin schedules have completed with errors, Condition being 1 0, and recommends issue: q sched type=admin, re-issue the displayed cmd,

What is the licensing model for TSM?

2007-02-14 Thread Douglas Currell
Need some help understanding aboyt TSM 5.3 licensing. Thanks... We run TSM 5.2.2 on Linux (Suse) with one dual drive tape library and our licensing looks like this: (lines containing 0 edited out) Last License Audit: 02/14/2007 04:08:08 AM Is Tivoli Disaster Recovery

Extract a tape

2006-10-24 Thread Douglas Currell
Hello, One of my users requested that his 200GB directory be backed up so that he could recover the disk space. This was done by TSM, albeit with some errors such as Object '/mnt/propag/Popeye_Data/Blablabla/blablabla/BLABLABLA/blablabla.mat' contains unrecognized symbols for current

Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-05 Thread Douglas Currell
: Data tape in limbo To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Have you tried to manually remove the tape from the library, run an audit library, then try the check it back in. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Douglas Currell Sent: Tuesday, April 04

Fwd: Re: Data tape in limbo

2006-04-05 Thread Douglas Currell
the check it back in. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Douglas Currell Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Data tape in limbo I have, most certainly, mishandled some media and need some help to put things

Data tape in limbo

2006-04-04 Thread Douglas Currell
I have, most certainly, mishandled some media and need some help to put things together, if that is possible. I have a tape that is a stgpool volume but is not a library volume: q vol 35S f=d Volume Name: 35S Storage Pool Name: TAPEPOOL Device Class Name: SDLTC

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Douglas Currell
30 GB is not outrageously large. I've worked with one that was almost twice that size. You can unload and load the database or perhaps do an audit on it. There's an entire section called utilities in the Admin Reference. Be forewarned that an audit could take days if not weeks...!!! --- Mario Di

Copy storage pools (Disk)??

2005-06-01 Thread Douglas Currell
Currently data flow in our TSM environment is as such: node=DISKPOOL=TAPEPOOL I would like to acquire a disk array (iSCSI/NAS/FC) and create a copy storage pool with random access media (disk) so that data flow iwould be like this: node=DISKPOOL=TAPEPOOL =JBOD Is this possible

Upgrade from Server 5.2 to 5.3 (Linux)

2005-02-10 Thread Douglas Currell
The distribution is Suse Linux 5.1 and the kernel being used is 2.4.19-64GB-SMP. We have two IBM 4560 tape drives (master-slave). Am I going to be able to upgrade at this kernel level? what drivers do I need? I have been to ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/ but it's still not

ANR8944E

2005-02-03 Thread Douglas Currell
My organization runs TSM version 5.2.2.1. The storage pool, TAPEPOOL, uses a tape library consisting of 2 X 4560SLX drives, master and slave. One drive, SDLT_1, has reported this error sxteen times since the beginning of the year: ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive SDLT_1

What is wrong with this picture?

2004-11-04 Thread Douglas Currell
tsm: TSMSERVERq stgpool Storage Device EstimatedPctPct High Low Next Stora- Pool NameClass NameCapacity Util Migr Mig Mig ge Pool (MB) Pct Pct --- -- -- - - ---

ANR0207E Page address mismatch detected on database

2004-08-13 Thread Douglas Currell
This error code has appeared in the activity logs for more than a year. It is an intermittent problem that can occur at any time of day. There does not appear to be a common thread such as a particular process running when this error happens. The Messages document relates this: ANR0207E Page

Small Sites

2004-05-19 Thread Douglas Currell
Has anyone deployed TSM in a very small site? When I say a small site I mean something like this: 4 or 5 workstations 2 or 3 servers very limited bandwidth available from WAN - assume 56k (yes) NO local administration NO budget for tape library TSM sharing a physical server with

Re: AW: Small Sites

2004-05-19 Thread Douglas Currell
- Von: Douglas Currell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2004 09:19 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Small Sites Has anyone deployed TSM in a very small site? When I say a small site I mean something like this: 4 or 5 workstations 2 or 3 servers very limited bandwidth available

XP Cloptset backing up undesired Sys Objects

2004-04-05 Thread Douglas Currell
System Objects are being backed up on XP nodes controlled by this option set: Any ideas? Thanks... QUERYSCHEDPERIOD 6 EXCLUDE.DIR *\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs EXCLUDE.DIR *\Documents and Settings\...\Recent EXCLUDE.DIR *\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application

Re: TSM Server 4.2.2.10 from AIX 4.3 to TSM Server 5.2 on SUN Solaris 9

2004-02-13 Thread Douglas Currell
About a year ago I was involved in moving a 40GB TSM database from AIX 4.3 to Solaris 8. The first thing that we did was upgrade the TSM on the AIX box to the, then, current TSM version which was 5.1. A server-to-server export would have taken, quite literally, months. So the previous the

Client option syntax error

2004-02-06 Thread Douglas Currell
What is wromg with this scenario? In batch mode, when I enter: def cliento winxpadm inclexcl exclude *:\...\* force=no I get: ANR2050I DEFINE CLIENTOPT: Option INCLEXCL defined in optionset WINXPADM. When I use, from the unix prompt, dsmadmc -id=admin -password= def cliento winxpadm

Re: Client option syntax error

2004-02-06 Thread Douglas Currell
Verkooijen Senior Systems Programmer High Performance Computing SARA Computing Networking Services -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Currell Sent: vrijdag 6 februari 2004 13:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client option syntax

Copy cloptset

2004-01-29 Thread Douglas Currell
Is it possible to move/export/import/copy cloptsets server-to-server? - Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

Retain TDP and non-TDP Data

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Currell
The current situation at our establishment is as such: Four Domino nodes, Notes1=Notes4, are backed up with Tivoli Data Protection. Retver is set to 30 and this is beyond what the SLA calls for. This number can be reduced but a monthly non-TDP selective backup of each node is also desired that

TDP Instaaltion

2004-01-06 Thread Douglas Currell
After installing Tivoli Data Protection for Mail (Domino R5.05+), configured for transactional logging, is it necessary to do a full database backup. ie. dsmc sel c:\Data\* ; before resuming the tdp commands: domdsmc sel * ?? - Post your free ad now!

TDP Policy Change

2003-11-17 Thread Douglas Currell
Currently, Domino data is being kept longer than is required by our SLA and TDP is in use. I hope to update the domain and copygroups to reflect our lesser needs. This would then allow terabytes of data to be expired. Is it necessary to control the expiration? My fear is that expiration could

TSM Downward Scaleability

2003-10-21 Thread Douglas Currell
The organization that I work for deploys TSM quite sucessfully at its large main sites that serve some +4000 nodes. It is very apparent that TSM scales upwardly very well but I believe that scaling down is something else. MY question is this:How can similar services be delivered to sites where

Retired exam and certification: Tivoli Certified Consultant

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Currell
I recheduled an exan two days ago and all went well. Then I got on IBM's website, http://www-3.ibm.com/software/tivoli/services/certification/ , and saw this: Retired exam and certification: Tivoli Certified Consultant - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.1 certification and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Re: Retired exam and certification: Tivoli Certified Consultant

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Currell
-Original Message- From: Douglas Currell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Retired exam and certification: Tivoli Certified Consultant I recheduled an exan two days ago and all went well. Then I got on IBM's website, http

Actlog the database

2003-07-03 Thread Douglas Currell
I have some ideas about the questions I'm about to ask but I need some other opinions. What is the relationship between the activity log retention period and the size of the TSM database. For example, the production database that I work with has a size of 52 GB and the actlog retention period is

Loadformat volume order

2003-06-24 Thread Douglas Currell
Is the order of the volumes an important consideration when performing a loadformat command. For example is there a difference between: dsmserv loadformat 1 /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s 12 /dev/rdsk/c1t8d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t8d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c1t8d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c1t8d0s4 /dev/rdsk/c1t9d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t9d0s1

How many DB volumes?

2003-06-13 Thread Douglas Currell
Are there advantages to using 10 X 2GB dbvols as opposed to using 1 X 20GB? Thank you.. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Multipler TCPPorts

2003-06-11 Thread Douglas Currell
Is it possible for multiple TCPPorts to be setup on the same server? I would like all clients to connect via the default, 1500, except for one other client that I would use to connect via any other port number. __ Post your free

Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN

2003-03-26 Thread Douglas Currell
The organization I work for has four main establishments. Typically, someone will go on mission to another establishment and perform a backup of his laptop. Since his dsm.opt points to a server that that is hundreds, if not, thousands of kilometers away, this backup will be done over the WAN and

Re: Slow client sessions

2003-02-23 Thread Douglas Currell
Thank you for the advice. --- Francisco Molero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Douglas, In Solaris you can get better performance if you use raw devices for DB, LOG and diskpools. My organization recently migrated a 45GB TSM 5.1.5 database from an old AIX platform to a Sun V880 running

Slow client sessions

2003-02-22 Thread Douglas Currell
My organization recently migrated a 45GB TSM 5.1.5 database from an old AIX platform to a Sun V880 running Solaris 8. The migration of the database was done by using dsmserv restore db as the export failed on varios errors. A db audit was never performed because of the downtime involved - days,

2 drives are required for LTO?

2002-07-15 Thread Douglas Currell
One of the System Admins has been talking to an IBM Business partner and was told, apparently, that the use of two drives is not only recommended but is also required with LTO. Is this true? If so, why? I checked out http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/lto.html#notes and noticed

Backing Up Windows XP, a multi-user system...

2002-07-11 Thread Douglas Currell
Perhaps, I wasn't clear enough in a previous message. My organization is planning a rollout of Windows XP and would like to take advantage of its multi-user capabilities. (do I hear laughter??). Attached are some screen dumps of the BA GUI and the prospective file layout should be apparent. In a

dsm.opt for Windows XP

2002-07-09 Thread Douglas Currell
My organization will be implementing Windows XP workstations. These workstations could be used by multiple users. Is there any way for individual users to backup and restore their own filespaces? __ Post your ad for free now!

TSM Reporting tool advice

2002-05-13 Thread Douglas Currell
My client has a Service Level Agreement with his customers that assures them of a minimum of one full (selective) backup of their workstations per year. There are currently in excess of 1500 workstations and 300 servers that are TSM clients. It is a simple matter to identify the workstations and

TSM Database migration from AIX to Solaris

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas Currell
I know that the restoration of a TSM database onto a new platform type is unsupported. To be specific, an organization I know of has standardized on Solaris as a Unix platform. In keeping with this policy, they would like to see the current TSM server, an older RS6000/AIX model, replaced with

Documentation needed: Backing up through a firewall

2002-03-26 Thread Douglas Currell
I need someone to point in the direction of documentation about configuring TSM to backup through a firewall. Installing the Clients and Using the BA Client have scant information about the process other than identifying the ports that need to be opened Thank you.

TDP for Domino, AIX=Solaris - Can it be done???

2001-11-30 Thread Douglas Currell
For the last six months or so, a Domino server running on an AIX platform has been backed up to a TSM server, (AIX platform, as well), using TDP for Domino. The organization where I work is standardizing on platform and is moving the Domino database from AIX to Solaris. I do not know if this

Domino - TDP MIgration

2001-11-26 Thread Douglas Currell
Scenario: Domino is being migrated from an AIX to a Solaris one. Currently, that Domino database is backed up with TDP for Domino to a TSM (Solaris)server. When Domino will reside on the new Solaris platform, how will I be able to restore data backed up with TDP 6 months ago? Thank you for any

Re: TSM.PWD

2001-10-24 Thread Douglas Currell
/dsm.opt files and password file is writable by both users (but no one else), i.e. mode 660 (as Del already pointed). If yes just the oposite - two config files AND two password directories. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Douglas Currell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22.10.2001 19:55:30 Please

Migration from AIX to Solaris

2001-10-23 Thread Douglas Currell
Anybody have any tips regarding the migration of TSM from an AIX platform to AIX? Has anyone done it? Thank you. ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca

TSM.PWD

2001-10-22 Thread Douglas Currell
How is a TSM.PWD file created? I am (trying) to run TDP for Domino on a partitioned Notes server. When I log in as notes1 and run, for example, domdsmc sel events4.nsf - no problem. When I'm logged in a Notes2 on the other partition I get a message saying thgat the password file is unavailable.