Re: Problem with NFS mounted FILE storage pool

2010-10-27 Thread km
Use soft mounts so the FS will return an error if it is not available? On 27/10, Grigori Solonovitch wrote: I have FILE copy storage pool for NFS-mounted file system from Disaster Site via 1Gb Ethernet. Everything is working fine, but I faced problem during Disaster Site testing, when NFS

Re: Access to Management Class for TSM Clients

2010-08-16 Thread km
and make it very messy to have individual include/excludes on a host by host basis, but that is in fact what you are asking for. -km On 12/08, Huebschman, George J. wrote: You could use a client option set on the TSM Server with an include for a specific management class with force=yes. But, I

Re: Where to find tsm odbc driver

2010-07-22 Thread km
It is in the same directory as the Windows client on IBMs software FTP: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management Check the 5.5 manintenance directories since there probably isn't one for 6.x. (or is there?) -km

Re: Unicode on UNIX

2010-05-19 Thread km
On 19/05, Michael Green wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 AM, km k...@grogg.org wrote: Please let me disagree with you. I think it's a wrong approach to change locale for the entire OS for the sake of backups only. Besides, I'm not fully aware of consequences of changing the locale

Re: Unicode on UNIX

2010-05-18 Thread km
, if the locale does not exist, just install it. Since the en_US locale is included in the glibc-common RPM try to reinstall or update that RPM. -km On 18/05, Fred Johanson wrote: For my users with Unicode files on UNIX clients, I recommend this be added to the startup scripts for the scheduler

Re: Unicode on UNIX

2010-05-18 Thread km
On 19/05, Michael Green wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM, km k...@grogg.org wrote: I would advice against overriding the default settings in a script and instead to set the correct locale for the system. Most system settings in RHEL based distros are made in the sysconfig directory

Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

2010-04-28 Thread km
with Blackboard but if you don't then the fastest way back would be a snapshot, either in LVM or hardware, or a Windows image backup. Depending on the application then it might even be that you need to do it this way to get a consistent backup and keep metadata/filedata in sync. -km On 27/04, Lee, Gary D

Re: Linux i/o schedulers and TSM

2010-04-28 Thread km
low latency noopno scheduling at all You should probably give atleast the noop scheduler a try if you have the time since it could be beneficial depending on your storage, otherwise CFQ is an OK general purpose scheduler. -km On 26/04, Henrik Vahlstedt wrote: God morning, Have

Re: Linux inotify to identify changed stuff?

2010-04-22 Thread km
Really nice! Inotify has been a part of the kernel since 2.6.13 and is supported on all RHEL 5 releases and atleast SLES 10+ so this should work on any modern Linux. -km On 21/04, Allen S. Rout wrote: I've got a few clients with rather large filesystems: ~6K dirs, ~2.2M files, 10 filesystems

Re: storage pool question

2010-04-19 Thread km
As long as you make sure all of your primary stgpools go to the COPY/DRM-pool there is nothing else special about it. On 18/04, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Thanks David, Does it matter from DRM point-of-view if there are many storage pools?

Re: Backup up ESX Host running Linux using Tivoli

2010-04-14 Thread km
Yes. (At least for ESX3, but I would guess v4 is the same.) Use standard Linux excludes for temporary or in-memory filesystems and VMFS, nothing else special about it. -km On 14/04, Timothy Hughes wrote: yoda, thanks for your reply. I understand what your saying about not backing up the host

Re: Archive completed but not big enough.

2010-04-06 Thread km
Yes. On 06/04, Timothy Hughes wrote: Hello all, We did a Archive and it only Archived 18.15GB it should have Archived 76.6 GB, I am going to delete the Archive and try again. Question - By deleting the filespace via command line or GUI that should get rid of the data that was archived

Re: Open Solaris?

2010-03-31 Thread km
It works. Atleast with the 5.5 client, but I don't see any reason why 6.1+ wouldnt. On 31/03, Lloyd Dieter wrote: I'm not a Solaris type, so I need to ask...is Open Solaris the same as Solaris x86? Trying to find out if the Solaris x86 client will work on Open Solaris, or if is something

Re: TSM/SHAREPOINT embedded SQL

2010-02-24 Thread km
No. It states in the IBM OEM users guide that: *Note: SQL Embedded Edition is not supported, SQL Express is supported except for Platform incremental backups. This is for DocAve version 5.1.2.0, but the above will probably be true for all versions. -km On 23/02, Fred Johanson wrote: All, I

Re: does TSM 5.4 support full left or right outer joins??

2010-02-24 Thread km
No. TSM 5.x can only do implicit joins, which narrows it down to left inner joins I believe. But hey, I'm not a DBA! On 23/02, Erwin Zavala wrote: does TSM 5.4 support full left or right outer joins??

Re: Disk Storage pool filling faster than it is emptying. ideas?

2010-02-24 Thread km
Since you have caching turned off now and have emptied the diskpool (?) fragmentation should not be an issue. What is the performance when using only a single LTO4 drive, 1/4 of 30mb/s or 30mb/s? Check the read performance of the disk with dd or something similar. What speed do other tape

Re: Implementing LANFree data Movement - WIN Storage Agent Server Requirements

2010-01-13 Thread km
Without an HBA you wont be able to acces your tape drives from the storage agent. On 13/01, Botelho, Tiago (External) wrote: Hello, I'm planning to configure LANFree data movement. I take a look on IBM for System Requirements for Storage Agent Server.

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-02 Thread km
They didnt perhaps change the length of volser (i.e. if LTO generation should be a part of the volume serial or not)? That would explain not finding any already checked in volumes. On 02/01, ashish sharma wrote: Hello Howard, Yes i received a lot of messages cant find tapes in slot. I just

Re: Client file active data pool selection for restores

2009-11-20 Thread km
No. On 19/11, Bob Levad wrote: TSM Version 5.5.2 on Windows I have set up two active data pools (one physical-LTO4 and one virtual-LTO2) for a group of nodes. When a restore is requested by the client, the active data on the physical tape is usually mounted. Since I have set up

Re: Subject: how can I find out when a volume on a stgpool was last written to?

2009-10-14 Thread km
On 14/10, Erwin Zavala wrote: Subject: how can I find out when a volume on a stgpool was last written to? q vol volname f=D Check out HELP QUERY VOLUME for syntax. Last written date is only recorded for volumes in sequential storage pools. -km

instrumentation for the server?

2009-10-12 Thread km
but for the server that will allow me to see what the server is spending time on? I've been looking in the problem determination guide but cant find any flag similar to instrument_detail except for 'instr' which isnt documented and only gives me DB LATCHes. -km

Re: instrumentation for the server?

2009-10-12 Thread km
TSM some more of those gigs and doing some instrumentation for tonights backups. -km On 12/10, Lindsay Morris wrote: I once saw this when we had set BUFPOOLSIZE way too high.Giving the TSM server lots of memory starved the OS for memory; things slowed down horribly until we set BUFPOOLSIZE back

Re: instrumentation for the server?

2009-10-12 Thread km
that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 10/12/2009 07:58:58 AM: [image removed] instrumentation for the server? km to: ADSM-L 10/12/2009 08:05 AM Sent by: ADSM: Dist

Re: How to backup open log files in exchange

2009-10-12 Thread km
.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-mail/ -km On 12/10, ashish sharma wrote: Hello all, I have to configure TSM backup for Microsoft exchange server.The problem is that TSM BAC client is unable to backup open files and the mail admin requires these files to be backed up anyway.According

Re: how to show the backup time of a fileset?

2009-09-23 Thread km
in tsm server) # dsmc inc /home/mehdi -subdir=yes (does not set the time in tsm server) That is because that field pertains to the last complete backup of the filesystem. -km

Re: TSM architecture

2009-09-18 Thread km
is a good thing since you will have fewer common point of failures for both, ie less chance of losing or having trouble with both at the same time. -km

Re: delete or rename filespace of a wondows client

2009-09-16 Thread km
node1 \\node1\c$ ANR0852E DELETE FILESPACE: No matching file spaces found for node MEHRGAN. ANS8001I Return code 11. Delete by FSID: DEL FILE node1 2 NAMET=FSID -km

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-21 Thread km
On 21/08, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: Hi KM! sho aggr 0 1086967169: AggrId: 0.1086967169, AggrSize: 0.717, LogSize: 0.717, NumFiles: 1. Aliases: None. I guess I have to parc the undeletable nodes somewhere until the TSM server is upgraded to a supported level... Kind regards, Eric van

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-20 Thread km
On 20/08, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: Hi KM! I already tried the delete object command. In fact, the objectid is in the error itself: ANRD imutil.c(7001): ThreadId 51 unexpected rc=87 from bfDestroy for objId=0.106696510 So when I issue a delete object 0 106696510 the same error

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-19 Thread km
Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 18:34 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed On 18/08, Loon, EJ van - SPLXM wrote: Hi TSM-ers! I have two nodes which I cannot delete. When I issue a DELETE FILESPACE

Re: Dealloc prohibited - transaction failed

2009-08-18 Thread km
return codes for TSM... It's reproducible. Anybody seen this before? Thank you very much for any reply in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Looks like an IBM support case, probably a missing object or something. -km

Re: Change backup copy group settings

2009-08-14 Thread km
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: 14 August 2009 00:56 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Change backup copy group settings On 13/08, James Choate wrote: I changed my backup copy group setting for a Policy domain that has one test node in it from Versions Data Exists: 35

Re: Change backup copy group settings

2009-08-13 Thread km
be a backup summary with number of expired files. -km

Re: Move node data from DISK primary storage pool to FILE storage pool

2009-08-12 Thread km
storage needed is when moving from DISK stgpool to the first FILE stgpool but could be mitigated by moving one volume at a time with move data. -km

Re: Thumbs up/down for a new install for TSM 6.1 on Windows?

2009-08-01 Thread km
process I believe the arguments for 6.1 are pretty strong. -km

Re: cartridge label

2009-07-30 Thread km
have it doesnt matter. -km

Re: Tivoli disk only backup with data duplicated at two locations?

2009-07-29 Thread km
on the copy stgpool so make sure there is some bandwidth available during the day. -km

Re: Summarizing Tape Utilization

2009-07-29 Thread km
)}++; } for my $pool (sort keys %tapes) { for my $pct (sort keys %{$tapes{$pool}}) { print $tapes{$pool}{$pct}\t . $pct*10 .-. ($pct*10+10) . %\t$pool\n; } } -km On 29/07, Huebschman, George J. wrote: Greetings everyone, I have a/an SQL Select question. Most of my TSM Servers are at 5.5.1.0, one

Re: Is it possible to rename BACKUP Sets?

2009-07-29 Thread km
volumes. The delete command, I believe, only removes the backupset entries from the TSM DB and sets the tape(s) back to scratch. Please do some research on this first so you dont lose any data. Maybe someones else on this list have done this recently and can verify that this is the way to do it. -km

Re: Summarizing Tape Utilization

2009-07-29 Thread km
Functions are not allowed in GROUP BY clause, only column names :( On 30/07, Steven Harris wrote: Hi George I have a copy of the interesting bits of a TSM database in sqlite3 for a side project I'm doing while resting. On that database I can use select count(*),

Re: Incl/Excl Problem

2009-07-23 Thread km
Even easier (no OS involvment) would be to use: virtualmountpoint c:\dir domain c:\dir in dsm.opt -km On 23/07, Adrian Compton wrote: Hi Patryk I found the best way to selectively backup directories was to create a share on the directory, and you can then choose that share as a domain

Re: A Challenge?

2009-06-22 Thread km
Maybe the classic client encryption could solve this. Then only the customer would be able to access the data and there would be no need for scrubbing. On 20/06, Guenther Bergmann wrote: Hi *TSMlers, given the following scenario: - one TSM Server - a lot of filesystem clients (mostly AIX/RH

Re: How to read TSM content without TSM??

2009-05-20 Thread km
/ TSMtape is probably what you want. -km

Re: BackupPC running on BSD- Problems when writing to tape

2009-05-18 Thread km
Im not sure what this has to do with TSM, you should maybe try a backuppc maling list, but anyway... You're gettings errors for door ipc files (type 9) and socket files (type 8). Could they maybe be the cause for the ioctl error? Exclude those files or maybe try TSM? :) -km On 18/05, ckandreou

trace facilities for filedevice

2009-05-15 Thread km
What are the relevant trace classes in the TSM server to trace a stgpool of type file? Is there any kind of guide/index over what the different trace classes displays? -km

TSM Direct I/O - how to disable?

2009-05-14 Thread km
Is there any way to disable Direct I/O in TSM 5.5 and/or TSM 6.1 for AIX? Apparently the option AIXDIRECTIO was removed in 5.3.2 and it is now always on. This is killing my FILEDEVICE performance on a clustered filesystem. -km

Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive

2009-04-06 Thread km
with using a primary storage pool without media redundancy. -km On 06/04, Jerome Alet wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to use TSM in an environment with only a single LTO2 tape drive and a few TB of hard disk space. In particular I'd like to know how tape reclamation could be done

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-25 Thread km
On 21/03, Hart, Charles A wrote: It works well if you understand your data and how you can push to it with in reason before you deploy another. The IBM product likes more CPU cores ... Understand these are x86 boxes... We see up to 500MBS Writes to one of our VTL's that ingests Exchange

Re: Using NDMP backups to migrate from one Celerra to another

2009-03-21 Thread km
by: 14% (SESSION: 18137) AP Because it includes alot more? Network speed is: amount of data backed up / network time. Aggregate speed is: amount of data backed up / entire backup session time. -km

Re: Lost admin password

2009-03-18 Thread km
a console session. Change the password, halt the server and start it normally again. -km

Re: Preferred TSM Platform

2009-02-25 Thread km
are comfortable with. And ofcourse, POWER when you need something that can push I/O. -km On 25/02, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: Been there...tried to do that..and would never put TSM on a Windoze box. Your environment is a big factor in platform decisions. When we first discussed

Re: 4 spindles for db: best performing setup

2009-02-19 Thread km
for. -km

Re: AIX to RHEL command

2009-02-19 Thread km
as well. -km On 19/02, Larry Peifer wrote: Just beginning to install TSM on some new RHEL servers but I have little OS command experience for Linux. What is the equivalent syntax to get an AIX 'errpt' output on the RHEL system.

Re: 4 spindles for db: best performing setup

2009-02-19 Thread km
On 19/02, Allen S. Rout wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:27:29 +0100, km k...@grogg.org said: RAID5 will give you the maximum amount of IOPS for the DB with disk redundancy, though 4 disks is on the low side. TSM mirroring doesnt help performance when doing expiration or reclamation

Re: Backup of ownership and ACLs

2009-02-16 Thread km
If all the ACLs are updated daily I guess thats not a problem, just update them again after the restore :) Or make a script that saves the ACLs before backup to a file and run as a preschedulecmd. Sounds like it could be worth it to avoid unnecessarily backing up 15 TB of data every day. -km

Re: Backup of ownership and ACLs

2009-02-16 Thread km
subfile but that is/was? a deficiency in NTFS. But apart from that I guess only the ACL would be backed up... -km On 16/02, Len Boyle wrote: What happens if you are using subfilebackup. Will it just backup the acl's as the data blocks have not changed? len -Original Message

Re: Version Interoperability...

2009-02-11 Thread km
version) works without a hitch against 5.5 server, even so for the 5.2/5.3 baclient on AIX. My rule of thumb is, try it, it will most probably work! Ofcourse this is is not supported but neither is win2k :) -km

Re: Re: ISC/Admin Center and Windows 2008

2009-02-05 Thread km
The final answer to this question if anyone is interested is that the ISC for TSM 5.5 (6.x) wont be released for Windows 2008. The ISC for TSM 6.1 will support TSM 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 on Windows 2008. Really annoying gap in server/GUI OS support but I'm not really surprised. -km On 02/02

ISC/Admin Center and Windows 2008

2009-02-02 Thread km
Hello, Is there any word on when the ISC/Admin Center will be supported on Windows 2008? And has anyone been successful in installing the Admin Center on 2008 even though it is not supported? -km

Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on storage pool backup and can't seem to find them

2009-01-12 Thread km
On 12/01, Kauffman, Tom wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kauffman, Tom kauffm...@nibco.com wrote: You can get that pretty easily from the SUMMARY table. You'll have to play with it though, to pick out specifically which stgpool process you want. Start here with: select *

Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- which volumes contain which filesystems by node

2009-01-12 Thread km
On 12/01, Larry Clark wrote: Wanda, Do you have a query for displaying which volumes contain which filesystems by node? SELECT - node_name AS Node, - filespace_name AS FS, - stgpool_name AS Pool, - volume_name AS Volume - FROM - volumeusage - GROUP BY - node_name, -

Re: I'm missing something somewhere -- I need statistics on storage pool backup and can't seem to find them

2009-01-12 Thread km
MIGRATE acts on a per node basis. That is, you wont get more than 1 process per node. -km

Re: Disconnect

2009-01-11 Thread km
) settings of NICs and router ports. -km

Re: Anybody test Servergraph ..

2008-12-05 Thread km
I would recommend waiting for TSM 6.1 and evalutating the new included reporting tool. On 05/12, hshahizul wrote: Hi, Anybody has ever test Servergraph. I wish to test this Servergraph but than. so terrible in getting the trail version. I wish to test this product before recommend to

Re: Where is the missing 38GB?

2008-12-02 Thread km
On 02/12, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: I have a test TSM server (5.5.1) which is producing some strange DB statistics. ** *** --- Q DB F=D ** Available Space (MB): 56,336

Space management and TSM API

2008-11-29 Thread km
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