IBM 3583 LTO issue/messages

2006-01-22 Thread Ted Byrne
Zoltan, You may very well be on the right track in suspecting hardware issues. We recently experienced a problem with similar symptoms on a new TSM/3583 install. Although the messages were not identical to what you posted, a bad SCSI card manifested itself by library components disappearing

Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-18 Thread Ted Byrne
I would second Bill's addition of poorly-architected applications to Richard's list of issues that should be (but are often not) addressed, or even considered. At another customer, we and the customer's sysadmins were bedeviled by a weblog analysis application (which shall remain nameless) that

Re: Checked in volumes could not be mounted

2004-08-10 Thread Ted Byrne
if you've read my previous posts, I've written that I'm checking in volumes with checklabel=barcode that means all volumes are barcoded and I think that also means there is nothing to label. Or am I wrong? The cartridges may well have barcode labels affixed to the outside; that does not guarantee

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

2004-08-02 Thread Ted Byrne
Fred, Were these tapes originally scratch tapes? Or are they assigned to the storagepool? Posting the output from the commands q vol tape_volser_here f=d and select * from volumes where volume_name='tape_volser_here' would help us provide assistance. Also, what sort of

Re: server scripts

2004-07-27 Thread Ted Byrne
As a refinement to what Richard suggests, you might try using the option format=macro rather than format=raw. In this case, where you're essentially copying your scripts en masse between servers, you would be able to dump all of the commands scripts from the existing server to a file with a

Re: Tape Reclamation Failing

2004-07-26 Thread Ted Byrne
If you can reclaim 40 tapes at a threshold of 90%, you may be over the MaxScratch value for your offsite pool. try this command: select stgpoool_name, count(*) from volumes group by stgpool_name Check what value is reported for the stgpool that you are trying to reclaim. Ted At 05:41 PM

Re: backup report?

2004-07-16 Thread Ted Byrne
Does anyone have a report that will parse something like 'q act' and generate a report on backup start, backup stop, files inspected, files expired, etc.? I would suggest looking at the q act command. If you add the option originator=client and filter on msgno, you can get pretty much all of the

Re: Tsm restore

2004-07-09 Thread Ted Byrne
Can you tell me if there is an option within TSM to restore crossing mount points? Rachel, Can you clarify what you mean by crossing mount points? An example of what you're trying to accomplish would be helpful. -Ted

Re: Novell server abending during incr backup

2004-07-09 Thread Ted Byrne
:01:47 ANS1898I * Processed 363,500 files * 07/09/2004 04:01:50 ANS1898I * Processed 364,000 files * It didn't show the file that it was backing up when the Server crash occurred. TSM novell client 5.2 Netware OS 6.5 SP2 Ted Byrne wrote: At 03:49 PM 7/8/2004, you wrote: I looked

Re: Novell server abending during incr backup

2004-07-08 Thread Ted Byrne
At 03:49 PM 7/8/2004, you wrote: I looked in the dsmsched.log there is nothing in there. (see below) If you run your scheduled backups with the -verbose option, it will record the files being backed up. Based on the dsmsched.log file contents you posted, it looks like the option in effect for the

Re: Node just sitting In-Progress

2004-07-02 Thread Ted Byrne
At 12:11 PM 7/2/2004, you wrote: Timothy This is one of my pet hates about TSM. A scheduled backup which is actually in progress - ie actively transferring data between client and server - shows a status of 'Started'. A scheduled backup which started but encountered an error, dropped the session

Re: Unsuccessful attempt to create a restore Test Schedule.

2004-06-24 Thread Ted Byrne
Bill, Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are trying to use a Netware command (load dsmc) to restore data from one Windows box to another. Try putting the restore command (something like dsmc restore \\src\c$\* \\tgt\d$\restore\fromsrc\ ...) you want to run in a batch/script file on the

Re: Rename of Client server

2004-06-17 Thread Ted Byrne
Be aware also that you are probably going to wind up with different filespace names, since the name of the server is part of the filespace's name on Netware (and Windows). For example, server LAXF45 has the SYS volume recorded as LAXF45\SYS:. So you're going to get a full backup of the server's

Re: Rename of Client server

2004-06-17 Thread Ted Byrne
Any other ideas? Shannon From Tim Rushforth: Although that should work, I think you are better off renaming the node on the server and the filespaces for that node. Tim Rushforth's suggestion was probably the best, as long as the institutional memory retains the information that data from

Re: DB2 Restore Fails

2004-06-15 Thread Ted Byrne
At 03:36 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Hi Please help, has anyone had a problem with restoring from tsm when trying to restore a db2 database form TSM it returns saying the i/o error inactive backup Please helpurgent.. It would be helpful if you could post the exact error message(s) that you

Re: Odd Linux client problem

2004-06-07 Thread Ted Byrne
Take a closer look at the Unix client manuals. Some options (Nodename is one of them) can only be placed in the dsm.sys file. If you want to use something other than the hostname for the node, include it in the server stanza. Ted At 05:06 PM 6/7/2004, you wrote: Hi, I am having a problem with

Re: multiple schedules?

2004-06-02 Thread Ted Byrne
The only advantage I can think of being able to schedule or force a backup of a server *now* without requiring all servers in that same group to backup. Mike For this, you can use DEFine CLIENTAction. We have even set this up as a script, so we can pass the nodename or comma-separated list of

Re: Help with clientoptions and exclude

2004-06-02 Thread Ted Byrne
At 09:00 AM 6/2/2004, you wrote: Client v5.2.1 os win2000, server v5.1.9.0 on solaris 2.8. Help out there. Below is the error message I am recieving, as well as the client option definition. Can't seem to get this file excluded. A little more information would be very useful - what does Query

Re: 3583 door locked

2004-06-02 Thread Ted Byrne
At 03:41 PM 6/2/2004, you wrote: Any ideas here? I'd really like to use the I/O door...otherwise i have to use the main door, and it takes quite a while to Scan/Learn all 5 columns each time. thanks... Your library's I/O station is configured as Storage Slots; you should have it configured as

Re: 3583 door locked

2004-06-02 Thread Ted Byrne
The I/O station is already setup as Import/Export. The icon changes when it's setup as storage, i verified from the panel that it's setup as Impt/Expt. Any other ideas? My apologies - I thought from the reference to the lock icon in your original email that the padlock icon was showing as

Re: TSM extended edition question.

2004-06-01 Thread Ted Byrne
I checked that link out. From that page (just above the table of devices): For IBM Tivoli Storage Manager version 5.1 and later, to use a library with greater than 3 drives or greater than 40 storage slots, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition is

Re: Update Devclass from GENERICTAPE to ECARTRIDGE

2004-05-26 Thread Ted Byrne
ANR8365E UPDATE DEVCLASS: The DEVTYPE parameter cannot be changed. ANS8001I Return code 3. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to update the devclass. The error message pretty much says it. If you want data to go to a different type of tape, define a new devclass and stgpool(s) that will use

Re: Select list of files backed up/archived on tsm?!?

2004-05-21 Thread Ted Byrne
You'll get much better results doing this from the client. Use Query Backup with the -inactive and -su=yes switches from the root of each filesystem/drive/volume. Ted At 07:32 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote: Hey everyone! I have a quick question. I am trying to find the file names of all files backed up

Re: Lanfree path failed: using lan, reason ?

2004-05-13 Thread Ted Byrne
I would recommend taking a look at the Activity Log of the Storage Agent. You can connect to the Storage Agent using a regular Admin Client, by specifying the tcpserveraddress (and the port, if other than the default 1500) of the p660. You may find errors logged by the Storage Agent that shed

Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...

2004-05-04 Thread Ted Byrne
Arnaud, I believe what I have to do now is to build some solid queries to explore our activity log... Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that you may have misread Richard's advice. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Richard.) His recommendation: I stress accounting log reporting because it is the very best,

Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...

2004-05-04 Thread Ted Byrne
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Re: What ever happened to Group Collocation ?

2004-05-04 Thread Ted Byrne
One confusion is why do I have so many partially filled tapes ? I don't have this many nodes ? You might want to do some queries against the volumeusage table. That data can be massaged to see what tapes are being used. You could also use q content volume_name count=1 against all of the

Read block size discrepancy between LV image and B/A client backups

2004-04-29 Thread Ted Byrne
AIX client v. 5.1.5.5 AIX server v. 5.1.8.0 AIX version 5.2.0.0 We have a customer who is experiencing discrepancies in performance between large-file cold backups of Oracle data and LV image backups, both sent over the SAN to LTO-2 tape drives. On the lv image backups, they are getting about 70

Re: Please help me NOT migrate

2004-04-20 Thread Ted Byrne
the pressures to migrate. Let us know how you make out with this adventure. Ted Ted Byrne Blacksburg, VA At 10:53 AM 4/20/2004, you wrote: TSMers, Please help me NOT migrate the server to a different platform from AIX. server: 4way P660, 3G memory running AIX 5.1 3494 with 6 FC 3590E tape drives connected

Re: Please help me NOT migrate

2004-04-20 Thread Ted Byrne
for the cutover would be nothing short of horrific, but that's really a hunch on my part. Ted Ted Byrne Blacksburg, VA

Re: No match found...

2004-04-13 Thread Ted Byrne
A volume status of UNAVAILABLE At 01:00 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote: No Damaged Files on those tapes??? Can I put it to READWRITE? Etienne Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-13 11:35 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL

Re: No match found...

2004-04-13 Thread Ted Byrne
A volume status of UNAVAILABLE does not equate to damaged files. It means that TSM was unable to access the tape in a timely manner. Check to see if the tapes are actually present in your library; this might require a visual inspection. For the copypool tapes, it may be that the tapes were

Backup completion / BACKUP_END on network FileSpaces?

2004-04-08 Thread Ted Byrne
We have two customers that back up remote drives. One client was recently upgraded to version 5.2.2.5 (from 4.x) and the other is running at 5.1.6.6. Both clients are Win2K servers. On the client that was upgraded, the backup_end field (Backup Completion date/time) for that filespace has not

Re: Backup completion / BACKUP_END on network FileSpaces?

2004-04-08 Thread Ted Byrne
At 09:01 AM 4/8/2004 -0600, you wrote: When performing the backup, do not append '\*' to the end of the share name (the messages you include in your post suggest that this is what you are dong): Andy, On both of these clients, the filespaces are included using a domain statement, and the backups

Re: Backup completion / BACKUP_END on network FileSpaces?

2004-04-08 Thread Ted Byrne
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Ted Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/08/2004 09:07 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Restoring data after deleting a volume

2004-04-05 Thread Ted Byrne
Since I should have a copy of this in the copy pool, I should be all set. So I'm going to delete the volume with discarddata=yes STOP! This will delete all references to the data (in the copy stgpool as well as the primary stgpool volume). You will not be able to recover the data without

Re: Library sharing

2004-04-01 Thread Ted Byrne
I can see the serial numbers on the 2K3 server. How can I get the serial-numbers from AIX ? Zoltan, Try lscfg -vl. $ lscfg -vl rmt0 DEVICELOCATION DESCRIPTION rmt0 10-58-00-4,0 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium

Re: GroupWise backup

2004-04-01 Thread Ted Byrne
Is there any other way to backup GroupWise (hot-online backup); I don't like the idea of shutting down e-mail system in the middle of the night, and than pray that after postsched command it will wake up again. Joe, There is no TDP/Groupwise. I'm not sure about the mechanism for shutting

Re: Rebinding backups of deleted files.

2004-03-30 Thread Ted Byrne
Wanda's suggestion is a good one. There are a few things you should consider if you elect to take this route: 1) Before doing anything, check whether it will necessary to increase the verdeleted for this MC, so as to not inadvertently expire the client's data prematurely. (If verdeleted is

Re: Spectra Logic T950 support

2004-03-24 Thread Ted Byrne
If you have not done so already, check the server README files for the newer maintenance and patch levels. If you're relying on the website for this information, you may be missing something that is already supported. The device support web page, while a good idea, tends to lag (sometimes

Re: GIGE connectivity via TSM

2004-03-23 Thread Ted Byrne
You might also want to set up a static route on the client to the TSM server, specifying the GigE card as the gateway address. Ted At 10:37 AM 3/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: In your DSM.OPT on the client (this is from the book): Tcpclientaddress ... What is the best/recommended way to ensure data

Re: TSM, 3494, manual mode...?.

2004-03-18 Thread Ted Byrne
Wanda, Here is Richard Sims' recommendation in this situation: - TSM may have to be told that the library is in manual mode. You cannot achieve this via UPDate LIBRary: you have to define another instance of your library under a new name, with LIBType=MANUAL. Then do UPDate DEVclass to change

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2004-03-11 Thread Ted Byrne
Robert, Did the library load the cartridge in the correct drive? Make sure that the element number that you've defined for the drive /dev/mt1 is the right one for the location of the in the library. What you're describing sounds very much like the way TSM acts if there is a mismatch between

Re: Access to archived files from a different node

2004-02-04 Thread Ted Byrne
Dan, Try starting the client on the machine where you're doing the restore to with the option -virtualnodename or -nodename and specify the source system.\ You'll need to know the node's password to do this. -Ted At 12:21 PM 2/4/2004 -0500, you wrote: We want to be able to retrieve archived

Re: FW: checkin vol checklabel=barcode search=bulk

2004-02-04 Thread Ted Byrne
snip Here's the logic of the script I wrote to fix to the problem: 1. Use the tapeutil command to list the tapes in the I/O convenience slots. snip Jeff, Can you share the tapeutil command(s) you use to retrieve this information? Thanks, Ted

Re: Files bound to wrong mgtclass

2004-01-30 Thread Ted Byrne
Can anyone help me out here? Am I on the right track? Before proceeding too much further, I'd recommend checking the output of the q inclexcl command on the clients where you are seeing the problem. This may help to identify where the assignment to the MC is originating. Ted

Re: End of support for 5.1

2004-01-23 Thread Ted Byrne
I posed this question to IBM a short while ago (on 1/13). This was their response: An end-of-Service date has not been announced for TSM 5.1.x at this time. The EOS dates for all IBM software can be checked at the following URL: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/list/t.html

Re: TDP for MQ SQL problems

2004-01-23 Thread Ted Byrne
Tim, You might want to take a look at the maxsize setting on the destination stgpool for the copygroup in effect for the client's data, and also check the capacity and maxscratch settings of the NEXT storagepool. Ted At 10:58 AM 1/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: To *, I'm getting the following error

Re: SQL Query for amount to copy from tape pool to copy pool

2004-01-22 Thread Ted Byrne
How about backup stgpool srcpool tgtpool preview=y wait=y Note that this can take a while to return results, depending on the size of the environment. -Ted At 08:13 AM 1/22/2004 -0600, you wrote: It is possible to get a feel for how much needs to be migrated from a disk pool to a tape

LAN-Free backups - minimum file size recommendation?

2004-01-21 Thread Ted Byrne
Does anyone know what the recommended minimum size for sending backups across the SAN is? I'm trying to come up with a solution to integrate the backup of DB and non-DB files on two AIX servers. Currently, the DB files are backed up after the db is shut down, using one node name, and the

Re: Does change in copygroup destination require StorageAgent restart?

2004-01-20 Thread Ted Byrne
the problem in the product code. This situation will no longer be a problem in a future release. -Original Message- From: Ted Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 19 januari 2004 19:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Does change in copygroup destination require StorageAgent restart? We

Does change in copygroup destination require StorageAgent restart?

2004-01-19 Thread Ted Byrne
We ran into a situation over the weekend that I have not seen mentioned before, and I was hoping that someone might be able to shed some light on what occurred. TSM server has a 3583 library attached to it, connected via SAN. TSM has been running for almost a year, using LAN-free backups for two

Re: TSM Connectivity issue

2004-01-15 Thread Ted Byrne
So could there be any issue with the tcp ip port configuration?Also both the TSM client and TSM server are in different network each. Mohan, Is there any chance that a firewall got installed between the networks in question, or that some other device is blocking port 1500? Are there any other TSM

Re: 4.2 Server README file

2004-01-15 Thread Ted Byrne
How about looking here: ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/Solaris/4.2.1.15/TSM42115S_Sun.README.SRV Ted At 08:00 PM 1/15/2004 -0600, you wrote: I'm trying to locate the 4.2.1.15 README file from the TSM server package. I need to find the latest supported

Re: Inconsistency between summary and actlog

2004-01-14 Thread Ted Byrne
Robert, As Richard suggested, the many postings to ADSM-L regarding the summary table's contents (or lack thereof) are very informative. Among other things, the location of the Accounting records is detailed. Repeatedly. (The format is recorded in the Admin Guide.) Before posting a question to

Re: setting max capacity for storage pools

2004-01-14 Thread Ted Byrne
Take a look at maxnummp for the node backing up the data. If it's set to 0, your data will not go to tape. Ted At 10:49 AM 1/14/2004 -0500, you wrote: i have a disk storage pool which i previously never coded a maximum size threshold for i changed the disk storage pool to a max of 100mb, the

Re: tsm select statement help2

2004-01-13 Thread Ted Byrne
The information that you're looking for should be getting recorded in the SUMMARY table, but that is broken. Search the list on adsm.org for summary to get details. You best bet to get what you're looking for may be to process the accounting logs generated by the server. You will need to do this

Re: Copy Storage Pool.

2004-01-09 Thread Ted Byrne
I would recommend creating another copy storage pool that is dedicated to data that will have its copy stored in the other building (maybe call the stgpool local_vault). Once the stgpool is defined using the devclass that is appropriate for the medial you want to use, simply backup the

Re: New Library and Tape Drives

2003-12-18 Thread Ted Byrne
Andy, If you are looking for the Jaguar drives to completely take over the workload for offsite, you will need to make sure that all appropriate backup stgpool commands that are run via TSM schedule/script or by some external mechanism are updated to backup to the new copypool(s). I believe that

Re: Strange tape status

2003-12-17 Thread Ted Byrne
I moved the tape with tapeutil to an I/O-slot and then tried a Label Libvolume on it, but all TSM gave me was: 17-12-2003 14:55:20 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 30 of library 3575LIB at your convenience. Richard, Is the tape write-protected? I've seen the same log msg when (inadvertently)

Re: Updating the license information

2003-12-10 Thread Ted Byrne
We can't remember what the file name is that the license registration is looking for. Can anyone help? Look for *.lic files in the server installation directory.

Re: Fun with disaster recovery

2003-11-22 Thread Ted Byrne
So, even though I made my change a month or so ago, unless I had actually backed up the file(s) in question they could potentially be in the wrong mgtclass? The rebind wouldn't occur until the file was actually touched? Joe, Files/data are not in a mgmtclass. It might be helpful to remember

Inaccessible volumes in 3494 library

2003-11-21 Thread Ted Byrne
We have a discrepancy between what our 3494 library reports as inventory and what is available to TSM. After correlating the output of mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI and Q LIBV, we came up with two volsers that show as present in the Library, but do not show up in TSM. An attempted audit of the tape with

Re: TSM and EMC Celerra

2003-11-20 Thread Ted Byrne
If this is for a scheduled backup, make sure that the TSM services are configured to run with an account that can access the device. The SYSTEM account (default) does not have privileges to access network resources. Ted At 08:04 AM 11/20/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hi Folks, I'm a (re)new list

Re: Migrating nodes between TSM servers

2003-11-19 Thread Ted Byrne
Graham, Export/Import node might be your best bet for what you are trying to achieve. I'm not sure if that method will carry the backupset information along with it, but you have the option of using DEFine BACKUPSET to make the backupsets available on the destination server. From the online TSM

Re: what tape is in a drive?

2003-11-18 Thread Ted Byrne
How about using query mount? -Ted At 04:15 PM 11/18/2003 -0600, you wrote: TSM 5.1, 2K server, overland neo 4100 with 2 X LTO2 drives. I'm trying to find a select or query statment that will tell me what volume is in a drive. The only thing close is the drive_state in the drives table, but that

Re: Getting summary data from SQL Back Track to TSM

2003-11-04 Thread Ted Byrne
You would need to script it, but I would suggest looking at the syntax for the command ISSUE MESSAGE. Ted At 09:03 AM 11/5/2003 +1300, you wrote: a.k.a I dont want to reinvent the wheel. Can anyone suggest an elegant way of feeding SQLBT summary data through to TSM so we can see it on the

Re: How to stop tape from being ejected?

2003-11-04 Thread Ted Byrne
Anyway to configure the software to stop ejecting the tape? Steve, Try setting your MountRetention setting for the devclass to a high value. Ted

Re: Include/exclude not working

2003-10-31 Thread Ted Byrne
Eric, Since E: is not a local drive/filespace, did you add it to the domain statement in your dsm.opt file? -Ted At 02:15 PM 10/31/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi *SM-ers! I must be doing something wrong. My PC (WinNT, 5.1.6 client) has a network drive E:. I want everything but E:\Inetpub (and all

Re: Domino backups going to wrong storagepool

2003-10-29 Thread Ted Byrne
Did you update the management class (and activate the policy domain in question)? Ted At 11:13 AM 10/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: Back a while ago, when we first started doing Domino TDP backups, due to lack of disk space, the backups were directed straight to tape. Since then, lots of SSA disk (can

Re: Too many DRM tapes leaving 3949 library daily.

2003-10-14 Thread Ted Byrne
Alan, As Richard Sims suggested, Q Content can help you figure out what is going on. To get a better handle on what's actually getting sent off-site in this collocated stgpool, take the list of volsers that are being sent to the vault from today. Do this before reclamation gets started on this

Re: Reclaim failing on off-site copy pool

2003-10-14 Thread Ted Byrne
At 10:45 AM 10/14/2003 -0400, you wrote: Ran it at 70 - Karel's suggestion is good - start with a higher number. Your offsite volumes' data is most likely spread across many onsite volumes. This can cause offsite reclamation to take a very long

Re: How to completely expire deleted files

2003-10-11 Thread Ted Byrne
Now, I have read that the new retention settings would only have taken effect when the files were actually being incrementally backed up and thus the client would see that they no longer existed them and expired them with the new retention settings. Farren, As your situation stands now, you are

Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-10 Thread Ted Byrne
Hi everyone! Everytime I try to checkin my tapes to my library I need to run q request and reply request nr Is it possible to checkin tape without to run a reply request nr? Checking in the tapes through an I/O station (search=bulk) does require that a reply be issued to a request. However, for

Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-10 Thread Ted Byrne
why would you want to run such a script from somewhere other than on the server itself??? Hi Andy, Usually the checkin script does run on the server. In some instances, we also have a set of administrative scripts and programs running from another system, and we group all of those together to

Re: icon disappeared from upgrading to TSM 5.2.0.3

2003-10-10 Thread Ted Byrne
1581? Unless the client configuration has changed to run the client acceptor service in webclient mode, I don't think that the user is exposed. C:\usr\binnetstat -a |find /i :1581 TCPsvr0100:1581 svr0100.tsm.customer.com:0 LISTENING Ted Byrne

Re: Using the EXPORT command

2003-10-08 Thread Ted Byrne
Ken, Assuming you have adequate free disk online, you should be able to use a devclass where devtype=FILE. I'd recommend setting up a devclass for the desired target directory and an appropriate MAXCAPacity. (Default for MAXCAP is 4 MB.) Assuming that you're doing an export of node data, you

Re: select statement syntax

2003-10-03 Thread Ted Byrne
Joni, Using a calculated timestamp value in a query against the events table does not work as you would expect. It boils down to an issue with when TSM constructs the events table to run the query against. The default for q event and SELECT xxx,yyy,zzz from EVENTS... is for the current day

Re: BackupSet creativity

2003-09-29 Thread Ted Byrne
Todd, I'm guessing that you will eventually end up with an error message stating that there was no match found, or something to that effect. It may take a long time to get to that point. Backupsets can be very slow to process; you typically wind up reading through the entire tape before the

Re: BackupSet creativity

2003-09-29 Thread Ted Byrne
..., how can the restore process on my NT server (test box) force a restore TO my Netware server (production box) across the net work? That entire last statement of yours concerns me. I didn't think that was possible, but perhaps I am misinterpreting what you mean there. Todd, The scenario

Re: BackupSet creativity

2003-09-29 Thread Ted Byrne
You're going to have to use that workstation to copy files from point A to point B, after all. Todd, Rather than using a workstation and send the data across the network twice, could you install a Netware client (temporarily) on the NT server, map the drive, and just do a copy from Netware to NT

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2003-08-29 Thread Ted Byrne
From: Bill Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a client running Sun Solaris 5.8 with client version 5.1.5 TSM server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 5.1.6.5 Below is the include/exclude list from the dsm.sys include * shared_dynamic_60 include /adsmorc/.../* database_class include

Re: help needed include/exclude/rebind

2003-08-29 Thread Ted Byrne
Posted this w/o a subject line... -tb Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:24:17 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ted Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a client running Sun Solaris 5.8 with client version 5.1.5 TSM server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 5.1.6.5 Below

Wildcard limitations in filespec?

2003-08-25 Thread Ted Byrne
Greetings, We'd like to run an incremental backup of a group of directories. The exact directory names vary from server to server, but they all follow the form /u01/app/oracle/admin/*/arch/ where the * is the name of an Oracle instance. When we run an incremental using the filespec as

Re: Wildcard limitations in filespec?

2003-08-25 Thread Ted Byrne
Andy, Thanks for pointing out the file specification syntax section in the client reference manual. I overlooked that when looking at the incremental syntax. We may end up using a script to process the directories that we want to handle. Thanks again, Ted

Re: MediaW

2003-06-10 Thread Ted Byrne
Any ideas why a tape is not being mounted? This may not be the issue, but is the destination stgpool configured with an adequate number of scratch volumes allowed (MAXSCRATCH)? One other thing to look at - are all drives and paths online? Ted

Re: License Pricing

2003-03-21 Thread Ted Byrne
The figures I quote are from the IBM Tivoli Price Estimator tool. Is this tool publically available to TSM customers? David David and Arnaud, The pricing tool is not available to customers. See the following quote from the tool: IBM Internal Use Only This tool authorized for

Re: License Pricing

2003-03-20 Thread Ted Byrne
Doesn't the new licensing scheme result in 1) higher prices for = clients, but 2) lower prices for the server. ... So if you plan to back up a just a small number of clients, you may = actually come out cheaper? Can anyone confirm this (possibly erroneous) opinion? Tivoli certainly doesn't make it

Q BA syntax on *nix

2003-02-18 Thread Ted Byrne
Please feel free to point me to the documentation if I've overlooked something here, but I'm running into a brick wall... Client version 5.1.5.5 Client OS - AIX 5.1 ML 02 Server version 5.1.5.4 Server OS - AIX 5.1 ML 02 I've been asked to produce a list of all current

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

2002-09-24 Thread Ted Byrne
Gretchen, I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday. All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT problem. Can you elaborate on the system object problem that you were dealing with? I've searched for an APAR that fits the description that you've given,

Re: Private Volumes

2002-05-13 Thread Ted Byrne
and automated generation of tape rotation reports to email and printer. We have been using AutoVault extensively, and are very happy with what it enables us to do. Ted Byrne

Server-side scripting: not supported?

2002-02-28 Thread Ted Byrne
Has anyone received a similar response from TSM support in the past? We are working on an issue with a process running for a very long time, and received the following as part of the response from TSM support: [W]as that the run-time of a specific backup process, or was

Date math and the Events table

2002-01-17 Thread Ted Byrne
First off, I should say that I have read (and think I understand) Andy Raibeck's explanation from 11/23/2001 of the restrictions on queries against the Events table. However, in trying to craft a query that returns records from a relative timeframe, I am running into some problems getting the

Re: Point system has me very confused

2001-12-09 Thread Ted Byrne
can correct me, I'd be happy to hear otherwise. Quoting from the Tivoli Quick Quoter tool: Tivoli Points are Product Specific. Ted Byrne

Re: AutoVault

2001-10-19 Thread Ted Byrne
We use AutoVault in several locations; it's performed well doing day-to-day vaulting tasks, it has capabilities that DRM does not have (sending backupsets to the vault is a big one), and the recovery scripts are great to have at DR test time. Hope this helps, Ted

Re: Novell / Groupwise / TSM

2001-10-04 Thread Ted Byrne
Is there a way to script the 4 archive commands, where each waits for the previous one to complete? You could schedule a macro to execute. The contents of the macro on the client would just be a list of the archive commands to run. We recently used a macro with a series of commands to gather

SQL query - GROUP on derived value?

2001-09-24 Thread Ted Byrne
Is it possible to group query output by a value that is *not* directly present in a column in a table? What I'm trying to achieve is something like producing a tally of volumes that are pending, grouped by day that they went pending. If I try something like this: select

Re: SQL query - GROUP by derived value?

2001-09-24 Thread Ted Byrne
Andy, Thanks for the feedback. I may not have been clear in stating my original question, and now that I've gone back and re-read your ADSM SQL reference, I think what I'm looking for may not be possible within the syntax of the SQL Query. Just to clarify: But not my question becomes, why do

Re: Multiple TSM Servers

2001-09-05 Thread Ted Byrne
I am worried about our operators accidentally inserting library-1 good tapes (i.e. offsite) into the other library-2 as scratch. The TSM server will add them to the scratch pool. Bill - Richard's idea about using the distinct solid colors around each library portal is a good one. If you're

Re: AIX device drives

2001-07-03 Thread Ted Byrne
I found a message on the list (http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0012/34.html) which refers to a level 4.3.3.25. Is this an error or is there indeed a higher level at an obscure hidden place on the Internet somewhere? Eric, It's certainly possible that there is a(nother) obscure hidden

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