Re: Patch base level requirement question

2002-09-27 Thread Seay, Paul
Why the are not more definitive in their documentation we are all still guessing. What they should say is 4.2.0.0 is the base for all 4.2.x.x releases (or whatever appropriate) and 4.2.0.0 must be installed before any 4.2.x.x can be installed. Yes, you should be able to put on 4.2.2.13. The pro

Re: volume management in tsm

2002-09-27 Thread Seay, Paul
I have never had this situation because our library is large enough. But, I can see how it is possible for Open Systems TSM to checkin a tape it already knows about in the VOLUMES table. I never realized that the TSM implementation did listen for the insert function. However, for tapes not in t

Re: Backup reporting: SUMMARY TABLE ISSUE IS FOUND

2002-09-27 Thread Chetan H. Ravnikar
I get this error running any of the select queries below. any ideas thanks == ANR2905E Unexpected SQL identifier token - 'GB'. | .V. select sum(c

Re: volume management in tsm

2002-09-27 Thread Thorson, Paul
Hello, Justin, you did not mention your TSM O/S platform, but I can tell you with Solaris or AIX servers TSM will automatically checkin an external tape during a mount request (and use it for processing) once the 3494 library manager has taken the cartridge and moved it from the I/O slot to it's

Re: W2K Cluster backup

2002-09-27 Thread Rushforth, Tim
See Appendix F (5.11) in the windows b/a client manual. -Original Message- From: prasanna S ghanekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 27, 2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: W2K Cluster files to exclude Hello Everyone, My question slightly varies from the original

Re: TSM 4.2 - 5.1 Upgrade

2002-09-27 Thread J D Gable
We have 3 TSM servers running on AIX 4.3, and recently upgraded them all (not at the same time) from TSM 4.2.2.5 to 5.1.0.0. We have had no server crashes or problems since the upgrade. Kathleen Hallahan wrote: > Is there a PMR on this? We're running TSM 5.1.1.4 on AIX 4.3.3, and are > just on

AD and W2K DR using TSm.

2002-09-27 Thread Ochs, Duane
Our W2K sysdmins are preparing to roll out AD and W2K in the next couple of months and one of the sticking points is "What is really required to properly support an AD environment for DR ?". What we have to work with: 3 TSM servers, AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.1.1 soon to be 4.2.X , 3 L700 about 65 - 70 % u

Re: TSM 4.2 - 5.1 Upgrade

2002-09-27 Thread Kathleen Hallahan
Is there a PMR on this? We're running TSM 5.1.1.4 on AIX 4.3.3, and are just on the verge of testing and rolling out the latest 5.1 client to our Windows servers. I don't want to start testing, only to have to turn around and do it again in a week. I'd also be interested in knowing if anyon

Re: TSM 4.2 - 5.1 Upgrade

2002-09-27 Thread Wu, Jie
You need to delay your upgrade. We are running AIX 5L and TSM 5.1. Server crashes everyday. The initial response from TSM support was that all clients need to have at lease version 4.2. We did that, but server still crashed every day. If we disable our nightly scheduler for windows machine. The sc

Re: NDMP support in TSM

2002-09-27 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Well, we are in the same boat, however, Mirapoint does not support TSM either, no matter what they have told you. Depending on how you want to do backups, you will not be able to restore individual mailboxes until both support NDMP V4, which is not planned for quite some time. I hope you have tr

Re: Veritas volumes for db storage

2002-09-27 Thread Joshua Bassi
There shouldn't be any performance problem with a RAID 10 configuration per say. This version of RAID offers the best level of price performance overall. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HA

Export/Import with virtual volumes

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Boyer
I've been playing around with export/import using server-2-server virtual volumes with some success. We have be migrating one of our clients off OS390 to AIX TSM server..so I wanted to be prepared. I was able to export from TEST1 to TEST2, and then import into TEST2 with no problems. But now I wa

Re: 5.1.1 Windows 2000 scheduler won't start

2002-09-27 Thread prasanna S ghanekar
I think we had a thread open for the same issue last week. What you could probably do is to add a BAT or CMD file at the root folder and schedule a task to verify the status of the service and start it if needed. Here is the Bat file I've created using resource kit tools and it works without

Select DEVICE from DRIVES Problem workaround

2002-09-27 Thread Seay, Paul
APAR= IC33890 SER=IN INCORROUT ACTIVE OUTPUT FROM SELECT COMMAND FOR THE DRIVES TABLE WILL NOT RETURN OPTIONS ARE: A DEVICE VALUE IF THE DEVICE_TYPE IS NOT SPECIFIED/REQUESTED. ROUTE STAT= CLOSED UR1 FESN0907536- CTID= TU0290 ISEV= 4 TRANS SB02/06/13 RC02/06/1

Re: Patch base level requirement question

2002-09-27 Thread Vo An Nguyen
Hello Mark, Indeed, you do already have the 4.2.0.0 base level so you can install directly the 4.2.2.13 patch. Also, keep in mind that TSM level 4.2.2.13 is a higher level than TSM 4.2.2.2. Regards, Vo An Nguyen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/

Re: NDMP support in TSM

2002-09-27 Thread Joshua Bassi
TSM NDMP support DOES only work with Network Appliance filers as of today. I would recommend running TSM 5.1.1.x if you are doing NDMP based backups. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP,

Image Backups

2002-09-27 Thread Gerald Wichmann
-How does an "online" image backup work exactly in regards to open files? According to the docs, "Corruption of the backup may occur if applications write to the volume while the backup is in progress. In this case, run fsck after a restore." So say this occurs.. What do you end up with backed up

Re: W2K Cluster files to exclude

2002-09-27 Thread prasanna S ghanekar
Hello Everyone, My question slightly varies from the original one but is it possible for anyone of you to outline procedure to start backing up cluster server using TSM backup client, I'd really appreciate. I'm about to get two new cluster nodes that would need to be backed up. Thanks in adva

Re: TSM Encryption

2002-09-27 Thread Jelinek, David G.
Unfortunately no, we have been searching and can not find in the HIPAA documentation the level of encryption required, just that it is required. David Jelinek > -Original Message- > I would recommend that you open a requirement against the product for > stronger encryption. By the w

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Alan Davenport
Hi Robert, I use run this script every morning via a scheduled admin command to list what was backed up the previous day. It's fairly simple but it allows me to track things nicely: Name Line Command Number -- -- --

NOVELL Client 4.1.2 & 4.1.3

2002-09-27 Thread Marc Levitan
TSM Server 4.2.1.15 on AIX 4.3.3 I have a Novell client that crashes the server when an Incremental is run. Amazingly, if the Incremental is run separately by volumes it runs okay. For example, "i /sys" and then "i /apps". But when you just run "i" it crashes the server. Does anyone know what

Re: NOVELL Client 4.1.2 & 4.1.3

2002-09-27 Thread Marc Levitan
Netware 5.1 Thanks! "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: RIST.EDU>Subject: Re: NOVELL Client 4.1.2 & 4.1.3 09/27/2002

Re: W2K Cluster files to exclude

2002-09-27 Thread David Longo
Yes, they can be excluded. David Longo. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/02 11:04AM >>> We've just started backing up a W2K cluster with the 5.11 client. The following files are locked exclusively: 09/27/2002 00:02:41 ANS4987E Error processing '\\xx\c$\WINNT\cluster <\\cowsvd51\c$\WINNT\cluster

NDMP support in TSM

2002-09-27 Thread Jelinek, David G.
I've been looking through the TSM documentation on NDMP support in TSM. >From what I can see, it looks like TSM only supports NDMP with a specific vendor's machines. Specifically Network Appliance's servers. I hope that this is not true. We are using a Mirapoint mail server. It only supports ND

Re: NOVELL Client 4.1.2 & 4.1.3

2002-09-27 Thread Bruce Kamp
I have been using the 4.2.1.29 & the 5.1.x clients on my Netware 4.11 & 5.1 servers with no problems. What version of Netware are you using? Make sure you have the latest TSA500.NLM, TSANDS.NLM & SMDR.NLM. Having older versions of these NLM's caused a lot of problems. I am running TSM 4.1.4.5 o

RMAN return an "SBT error = 4110" with TDP 2.2

2002-09-27 Thread Chalton, Nicolas (MED, Cap Gemini)
> Hi All, > I've got an error when I want to allocate a 'sbt_tape' channel with RMAN. > > I am running TDP 2.2 on Solaris2.7 (64 bit) & Oracle 8.1.6.3 (32 bit). > I've linked the /usr/bin/libobk.so ( ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC > Version 1 ) in the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory and restarted my

W2K Cluster files to exclude

2002-09-27 Thread Rushforth, Tim
We've just started backing up a W2K cluster with the 5.11 client. The following files are locked exclusively: 09/27/2002 00:02:41 ANS4987E Error processing '\\xx\c$\WINNT\cluster <\\cowsvd51\c$\WINNT\cluster> \CLUSDB': the object is in use by another process 09/27/2002 00:02:41 ANS4987E Err

Re: TSM 4.2 - 5.1 Upgrade

2002-09-27 Thread J M
We are thinking about upgrading our TSM server (AIX 4.3) and clients (WinNT, AIX, Solaris) from TSM 4.2 to TSM 5.1. Has anyone encountered upgrade issues? All feedback is very much appreciated. Thanks, John _ Send and receive Hotmail

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread David E Ehresman
>Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to calculate how much >data >is being handled by TSM every day ?? > > Get a trial of Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com , and see if it does what you want (and a whole lot more). David Ehresman A satisfied customer

Re: TDP for MSSQL Backups failing

2002-09-27 Thread Del Hoobler
> TSM Client: 4.2.1.32 > TDP for MSSQL Client: 2.2.0.1 > Client Platform: Windows 2000 SP2 running SQL 2000 SP2 > > When attempting to perform a TDP backup to the TSM Server (v4.2.1.15) we > get error 402 and the backup fails. The same problem is experienced on > other clients running Windows

Patch base level requirement question

2002-09-27 Thread Mark Bertrand
IBM is asking us to install a new patch but is requiring us to be at a base level that we are beyond, which in itself shouldn't be a problem, but our level is actually beyond where the patch is going to take us. Is this going to be safe to install? Our server is at Storage Management Server for

Phantom restore causing backup problem

2002-09-27 Thread Nancy Reeves
I have a node that fails during it's backup because it thinks a file is in use/active in a restore. Both the node and the TSM server do not show any restores running or restartable restores waiting. The activity logs shows the following message right before the stats for the client node: 0

Re: TDP for Exchange 402 Errors: Second Try

2002-09-27 Thread Seay, Paul
Del, Thanks, this has done the trick. We were using 1024 x 3. We are going to try something like 256 x 3 and see what happens. We are going to see if there is a memory leak causing the problem or we were using the wrong buffer size causing fragmentation issues. We will try to post some results

Especific incremental backup

2002-09-27 Thread Tani
Hi all, is it possible to do a incremental backup of the modified archives but whitout new archives?

dsmc Manual

2002-09-27 Thread Tani
Hi all, Can anybody tell me where is a manual of the dsmc and it's options? Thanks Estanislao Sanmartín Rejo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk volumes

2002-09-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
It depends on your company's backup strategy can you afford to lose even a single backup session data. Many of us cannot (and of course there are many who can). Note also archives. They can be for fixed date and if lose them it might be a problem (for example Financial Department will need Q3 data

Re: Disk volumes

2002-09-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I expect 2104 means IBM thus AIX not Solaris TSM Server, right. If so you are in different state. The problem with "1 MB/s" is widely discussed on this list as related to Solaris TSM server using Veritas filesystems (both !!). AIX with JFS is another story and the performance gain will not be so b

Re: how to keep all data on disk for quicker restores

2002-09-27 Thread Christian Bagard
Hello, We have such a solution in a software (add-on that we sell). Backups are stored on disk and we use LTO (3580 and 3581) or SDLT. Its name is SOS-MB (Medium Business) But ... it's in French. So we can answer to your questions about implementation and TSM parameters. It works fine. In some ca

Re: Disk volumes

2002-09-27 Thread Mark D. Rodriguez
Mahesh Tailor wrote: >Hello, > >TSM: 5.1.1.6 >OS: AIX 4.3.3 >Machine: IBM 6M1 > >Hopefully this is a simple question: I have fourteen 36GB drives that >are available for the diskpool and I was wondering whether it is better >to have seven 5GB files or three 10GB files or one 35GB file or >somet

Re: Disk volumes

2002-09-27 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Our standard STORServer build uses two drives at RAID1 (mirroring) for the OS partition and for the db and log volumes. We typically build two db vols on the rest of the partition with a corresponding log volume. So on a 72 GB hard drive, we have an 8G OS partion and the rest is used for db and

Re: 5.1.1 Windows 2000 scheduler won't start

2002-09-27 Thread Rushforth, Tim
APAR IC34619 has been opened for this: APAR= IC34619 SER=IN INCORROUT WINDOWS SCHEDULER SERVICE FAILS ON STARTUP WITH EVENT LOG ENTRIES 7022 AND/OR 7031. Status: OPENClosed: Apar Information: RCOMP= 5698ISMCLTSM CLIENT 5.1 RREL=

Re: select for active versions

2002-09-27 Thread William Rosette
I tried to do that 1 of the last 3 years and that was the only year I got burned not having the right tape. My suggestion is to bring them all (copypool). The last 2 years I have had all info including extra, backupsets. Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Miles Purdy
This reports on MB / Node: * select summary.entity as "NODE NAME", nodes.domain_name as "DOMAIN", nodes.platform_name as "PLATFORM", \ cast((cast(sum(summary.bytes) as float) / 1024 / 1024) as decimal(10,2)) as MBYTES , \ count(*) as "CONECTIONS" from summary ,nodes where summary.entity=nodes.n

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Tani
I think this is a simple way : select case when SUM(BYTES) IS NOT NULL then CAST(SUM(BYTES) AS DEC(40,2))/(1024*1024) else ABS(CAST((0) AS DEC(40,2))) end AS "Total Megabytes" from summary where DAY(end_time) = DAY(CURRENT DATE) and MONTH(end_time)=MONTH(CURRENT DATE) and YEAR(end_time)=YEAR(CURR

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

2002-09-27 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi I am running TSM 4.2.1.15 and set a managment class named SYSTEM_OBJECT for SYSTEM OBJECTs, saying to keep no more than 2 version of each file ( params = 2 1 7 3), it seems to expire quite normally ! In the w2k option set, I have: Include.systemobject ALL SYSTEM_OBJECT René LA

Re: dsmc Manual

2002-09-27 Thread Justin Bleistein
www.tivoli.com/support - look under documentation and it's not listed under "dsmc" it's under "tsm backup and archive client" or something like that. --Justin

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
One of the nice way is to go to www.tsmmanager.com or www.servergraph.com you will love both products René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center Information Technology

Re: dsmc Manual

2002-09-27 Thread Christo Heuer
Yeah, Type in help under your dsmc> prompt. Cheers Christo --- Hi all, Can anybody tell me where is a manual of the dsmc and it's options? Thanks ---

Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Dowsett
Hi everyone. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to calculate how much data is being handled by TSM every day ?? Ideally I would like to write a script which tells me how much data is being backed up by TSM every day (in total), how much is going to disk storage pools and how much is

Re: dsmc Manual

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Verkooijen
Have a look at the client manuals: http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManagerCli ent5.1.html On 27-Sep-02 Tani wrote: > Hi all, > Can anybody tell me where is a manual of the dsmc and it's options? > Thanks > > > ---

TDP for MSSQL Backups failing

2002-09-27 Thread Andrew Collyer
All, TSM Client: 4.2.1.32 TDP for MSSQL Client: 2.2.0.1 Client Platform: Windows 2000 SP2 running SQL 2000 SP2 When attempting to perform a TDP backup to the TSM Server (v4.2.1.15) we get error 402 and the backup fails. The same problem is experienced on other clients running Windows NT4.0 S

Re: SAN and TSM

2002-09-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Rajesh, for LAN-free you will need SAN (you wouldn't be asking otherwise :-) connectivity and TSM Storage Agent license on each node. Latter in *latest* licensing scheme comes by purchasing ITSM eXtended Edition + ITSM for SAN. In not so latest scheme ITSM Enterprise Edition is enough and points

Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

2002-09-27 Thread Emil S. Hansen
See my reply below. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:50:24PM +, Dan Foster wrote: > Client sends data to TSM server > As long as client data is < 10MB, streams to disk pool > Soon as client sends a 11 MB or 500 MB file, then... > TSM fetches a tape, mounts it (55 sec wait) > TSM starts writing file

discussion: schedmode: polling or prompted

2002-09-27 Thread Raghu S
Hi TSMites I am n't clear on the stuff i read from Admin and reference guides on "schedmode" There is no clear explantion on polling and randomization. There is no doubts on Prompted mode. But if the schedmode is set to polling on clients , How the server is alloting slots for the clients? Is

Re: TSM 4.2.1 client and 32-bit AIX 5.1 machines

2002-09-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Not only can but you should. 32-bit client is for both AIX 4.3 and 5L. AIX 5L is backward compatible and 32-bit applications compiled for AIX 4 run on it. However 64-bit support has major differences thus 64-bit application must have different executables for AIX 4.3 and 5L. Zlatko Krastev IT Con