Newbie Question

2008-07-21 Thread Matthews, Gary (GSD UK Production Services business)
Hi , I've inherited a TSM setup recently and it's been ticking over fine but now I need to make some changes, and thought I'd ask the experts for some help :-) . It's TSM 5.2 and a W2K/3 environment. One server we're backing up is a sharepoint cluster, with different cluster drives active on

Newbie Question cluster backups

2006-09-25 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, Have a question about setting a backup. I've inherited a Tivoli backup solution and am very slowly getting to grips with it ( have a NetBackup background) and now need help in setting up a new backup. We've a sql cluster wdccdb01 which has been set up backup the local drives via each side of

Newbie question - Reruns

2006-07-26 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi to all, Have a quick question - what's the best way to rerun failed backups? I've tried through the ISCADMINTSMPOLICY DOMAINS route and using the schedule wizard but al that happens is the jobs sit there in pending state all day - what am I doing wrong?? Using TSM 5.3.3 on a W2K3 platform

Job Failures

2006-07-12 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi Chaps, Another newbie question. Having some jobs fail over night but can't for the life of me see why. There's nothing in the logs on the client baclient folder and all I have in the logs is 2006-07-11 22:29ANR0403I Session 34 ended for node WSSDCCT01

Library Barcodes

2006-07-07 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, Thanks for the help for a new user so far from you guys, been very useful . Have another for you. We're currently backing up to a TS3310(3576) Library - SAN attached with 2 LTO-3 drives. We had a problem with the touch panel screen on the front - it went dead. IBM engineer reckoned it was a

Newbie questions - File locations

2006-07-04 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, New to TSM ( but learning - picking up bits slowly from this list :-) ) , looking after a W2K3 system that was set up by someone else. Trying to collate some data that's hasn't been documented anywhere, and was hoping you guys could help. 1) Where are the server scripts kept? 2) Drives

DRP file email help

2006-06-21 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, Slightly off topic - I've just taken over a TSM 5.3 W2K3 system and am very slowly getting to grips with it and as part of it I want to copy off the DR files everyday. The only way to do this is via Email. I'm using blat to several emails with attachments every morning. Eg :- blat test.txt

Retention Query

2006-06-08 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, Am a complete newbie when it comes to TSM and have just been handed a W2K3 system to look after with TSM 5.3. The system hasn't gone live yet and I'm trying to work out how many tapes I'm going to need for offsiting. We have four pools for onsite with the following setup Vers Data exits

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2006-05-18 Thread Matthews, Gary
Hi, One of our clients has is in the process of putting in a system that includes TSM 5.3 running on W2K3. Before this my background has been predominantly Netbackup/backup exec. Can you guys recommend reading material / FAQs for a newbie to get up and running asap. Trying to get to grips with