Re: Backup question - Full and Incremental

Hi, I would think that collocation would be the solution, but I would caution that collocation by node with a couple hundred nodes equals a couple hundred tape mounts each morning for migration. I would suggest that you look closely at two things: 1) Is there a subset of servers that are of

busy rootvg during restarts

Hi, Every time I halt and restart my tsm server, the rootvg disk becomes extraordinarily busy. I have moved all of the database, and logs to another location. The only file that I know of that is still on rootvg (besides the normal binaries and config files) is the volhist file. Does TSM

Re: password

Hi, The answer is that it depends. 1) For the normal backup/archive client and the ms-sql and ms-exchange clients, this is no problem. They will change their passwords without issue. 2) The oracle client cannot change its password on its own. 3) Microsoft clusters (IMHO) should

Re: Virtual tape libraries

Hi, Most VTL's that I have encountered emulate a real tape drive (ie. Brand and model) and thus their cartridge size is based on this (ie. 200 GB for LTO1, etc). I would find out why this vtl has this limitation. As to the db growth, others may have a better idea, but I have always found that

copan systems

Hi, Has anyone heard of/used Copan Systems hardware? They make a virtual tape library solution that has a density that I haven't seen before (23TB in one shelf). They claim TSM compatibility (emulating a 3584 library). Just wanted any horror/success stories. Thanks in advance. Michael

AIX Restore

Hi, I have a restore that we do occasionally to create a test environment for one of our applications. The storage pool for this restore is a tape based storage pool with collocation set to no. Consequently, there are lots of tape mounts done to effect this restore. To alleviate this at

Re: AIX Restore

Hi, I can tell you that during the single session restore it mounts ~15 tapes. Therefore, I suspect that the data is spread out (otherwise there would be no need to mount the other tapes). The restore was started through the X-windows gui by selecting the filesystems to restore. They were

Re: TSM 5.3 install

Hi, I installed TSM 5.3 in a very similar environment: TSM 5.2.3.2 AIX 5.2 ML4 P630 LPAR The only problem I ran into is in the ISC install. I had to run it twice to install. There is another thread here about that, but my resolution was to use the manual uninstallation procedure and

AdminCenter

Hi, From looking at some of the pieces of the AdminCenter, it appears to use LDAP (or an LDAP like interface) for its user info. Is there any way to point it to another LDAP source, say Active Directory? I thought I read most of the manuals, but may have missed something. Any info

Re: strange reclaimation behavor

Hi, When you start reclamation it begins a process and decides which tapes it is going to reclaim based on the value given. These tapes can be seen in the activity log of the server. It will continue to reclaim until it has reclaimed all of the tapes in the list or you cancel the reclamation

Re: Password corruption in Windows clustered TSM

Hi, You need to delete the key under: Hkey_localmachine\software\ibm\adsm\currentversion\backupclient\nodes\%n odename%\%servername%\password This is the encrypted password. I had untold amounts of problems with this in clusters. Our setup for clusters now involves setting the password

Re: Virtual Volumes Not Being Deleted

Hi, In order to reclaim space on a copy pool that is a server to server virtual volumes you must: 1) run reclamation on the source copy pool. It must finish reclaiming and delete the volume. 2) run expire inventory on the target server. This will show up as deleting archives (because the

Re: TSM and SATA Disk Pools

Hi, I have had issues with Fibre disks when they were cut into huge raw lv's like this. I am no expert, but I think there is something weird about TSM's handling of large raw lv's that introduces a serialized step (not sure exactly, but it seemed to really bottleneck after I added two large

Re: AIX backup failures - InsertSlashHack! and System ran out of memory messages

Hi, I am by far and away no expert, but here is what I would do Since nothing has changed on the server, I would guess that the problem is in the file you are trying to back up. Can you turn on tracing or backup by hand to see what file it is chewing on when it dies? There may be

Re: SQL 2000 server restore

Hi, There is a Q article on how to restore master on microsoft's website. Basically you have to put down a blank master with the rebuildm.exe utility. Then you can start the sql server interactively (ie. Not through the service) and recover your real master through tsm. Once done, you can

Re: Exchange 2003 on MSCS with TDP

Hi, We were early adopters of exchange 2003 (we went live the week it came out, we skipped from 5.5 to 2003). We beta tested the TDP version that supports 2003 with no problems. We have done restores with the production client several times (doing one right now). Both the test bed and the

Re: NDMP backups via LAN?

Hi, We have several netapp filers in our environment. Because NDMP in general (and specifically in the case of TSM) is lacking we use a slightly different configuration. For each filer, we have an anti-virus server that runs the off box mcafee solution for netapp. These also double as the

Re: any one ever find a utility or tool to count CPUs on Wintel?

Hi, I used a perl script to query the hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\session management\environment\number_of_processors key on all of the machines. This may be inaccurate for hyperthreading machines (this was not a problem when I initially sized TSM). Michael Wheelock Integris Health

Re: TSM for System Backup and Recovery

HI, As far as I know, your answer is no. Any tape that is part of a TSM storage group is virtually useless to you without TSM. You can use remote tape drives on systems through the sysback tools to do the backups, but these would be external to TSM. What we do is a little different. We

E-Assembly

Hi, As a passport advantage user I have seen this offering change quite a bit lately. The question I have now is, what is an E-Assembly? I see two entries for TSM Extended Edition one is 5.2.2 AP E-Assembly the other is Non-AP E-Assembly. Still other items have a few offerings and then an

Sysback and 32-bit client

Hi, We use sysback as our bare metal solution for our AIX servers. Currently we are forced to use the sysback remote server utilities instead of the TSM integration feature as it only supports the 32-bit TSM api. Does anyone know what IBM's plans for changing this requirement are? The solution

Re: Sysback and 32-bit client

Hi, I would assume that the 64-bit client is faster, smaller, better (otherwise why create a 64-bit client) and as almost all of my systems are 64-bit, that is the client that is loaded on them. To me, running a 32-bit client on a 64-bit OS/Hardware is like running the 32-bit version of Oracle

Re: TSM etherchannel adapter

Hi, The short answer is that depends. We have used netif_backup etherchannels (as well as the 5.2 equivalent) for some time with no issues. The only gotcha is that the interfaces that will be part of the etherchannel must be down to form the etherchannel. Additionally, we had some minor issues

Electronic Vaulting

Hi, We are getting ready to start doing electronic vaulting using TSM. We have identical (at least identical where it counts) hardware in both locations and a fast pipe between them. Does anyone have any gotchas regarding electronic vaulting? Thanks in advance. Michael Wheelock Integris

Exchange 2003 and TDP 5.2.1 issue

Hi, I have an exchange 2003 cluster. We have had (for two or three weeks) no backup issues (or restore for that matter) with this system. As far as I can tell, the only change that happened between the last successful backup and today is the cluster was failed to the other node. I can do a

Re: Exchange 2003 and TDP 5.2.1 issue

Hi, On a whim (and figuring hey, its windows) I ran setup again for the TDP for Exchange. I selected the repair option and whammo...it works again. Wowweird. Michael -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Exchange 2003

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Re: Exchange 2003

Hi, TSM supports Exchange 2003 as of TDP Mail for Exchange 5.2.1 which is avaiable electronically (I haven't gotten my cd yet). We have it installed, and have tested everything short of a complete disaster recovery. Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma -Original Message- From:

Re: Oracle TDP issues

Hi, I am going to go out on a limb here, but have you rebooted since you installed the TDP Oracle agent? I have installed this several times and has always had errors until I have rebooted. Michael Wheelock Integris Health -Original Message- From: Stephen Firmes [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: TDP for MSSQL - huge problem

Hi, Let's first start from simple principles. Open up query analyzer, login as an account with sa privs and run the following: Dbcc checkdb ('msdb') Note any errors and repair them. Then try a to disk backup of the msdb database. If both of these are fine, it is a tsm problem, but it

Documentation on electronic vaulting/remote disaster recovery

Hi, Magically budget has materialized this year to purchase hardware, etc for electronic vaulting/rapid disaster recovery at our remote site. I have read through the admin guide and it speaks of virtual volumes, etc, but doesn't come out and completely explain a disaster recovery scenario

Re: Database fragmentation formula (was Re: Online DB Reorg)

Hi, First off, let me say that this a wonderfully explained set of formulas and analysis. Isn't this getting a little off the mark though? Last I checked, almost every database on the planet (yes even pervasive sql) when allocating pages/extents, left an amount of space unutilized at the end.

Re: ADSM with Windows 2003 Server and SFU 3.5

Hi, This sounds like a permissions issue. Can you, for example, restore the AAA.txt file to another location, then copy it to the nfs shares? If you can't then you are running into a permission issue (typically on the unix/vms side) and need to look at the file perms there. The only other

Re: TSM v5.2 on AIX

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Re: TSM v5.2 on AIX

Hi, I have been running 5.2.0.0 on AIX 5.2ML1 for quite a while now (3-4 months) with no significant issues. Everything works well and is very speedy. We decided on 5.2 because we were using fastt products for disk storage and can dynamically increase their size (well it requires a down...so it

Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large numb er of files

Hi, I will throw this out there, though it is a wintel solution and will not function as a solution under aix. We had a system with about 3 million files. The disk was SAN attached and quite speedy. The system was gig-ethernet attached and had no cpu/memory bottlencks. Journaling wasn't an

Re: opinions on disk partitioning

Hi, We have implemented TSM on a fastt700. What I would suggest you do is get the system installed and do some real world performance testing to validate any configuration you are looking at. This is approximately what we have done: 2 Member Raid 1 for system disk (AIX 5.2 can boot from the

Re: Setting up Pools with DR

Hi, You have to update the copystoragepools and primarystoragepools in drm. This will let drm know that it should control the onsite/offsite rotations of these tapes. Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma -Original Message- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Backup Failures on SystemObject

Hi, We were hit with the Blaster virus bad last night. We patched everything up last night and fixed the problem, but I noticed the exact same symptoms on three workstations (windows 2000 pro) that I was backing up. I chalked it up to the worm that hit us. It uses the rpc exploit to attack the

Re: LTO Tape Drive element address

Hi, Check the manual that came with the library: For windows systems: drive 1-12 = elment 0-11 For unix systems: drive 1-12 = element 257-268 Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Bradberry, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12,

Extra drives during windows cluster backup

Hi, I have several windows 2000 clusters (with varying hardware) that exhibit a strange behavior. I set them up using the info from the windows client guide. I included domain entries in the dsm.opt file for each domain that the resource group should backup. The problem occurs on the Cluster

Re: LTO throughput - real world experiences

Hi, If you have fibre connected LTO drives, one really simple way is to connect to the web console of the switch and monitor the performance of the ports on the switch. This isn't easily automatable, but it is a very accurate representation of what you are seeing in terms of throughput. Michael

TSM TDP for Exchange 2003

Hi, I realize that exchange 2003 isn't released yet, but my manager has been asking when TSM TDP for Mail will support 2003. Anyone seen a roadmap lately that has this on it? Thanks in advance. Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma This e-mail may contain identifiable health

Slow tape to tape performance...

Hi, I am getting agonizingly slow (~1GB/hr) performance on tape to tape copies (such as during reclamations). Is this normal? This is a new install, fairly fresh with some basic policies and copy groups. The server is an AIX 5.1 ML02 7026-M80 with 8GB RAM. The tape library is an IBM 3584 with