Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage

[Kelly Lipp]

I  believe the key to long term storage is the notion of data refreshment on
the tapes.  With reclamation, we get that.  If archive data is mixed with
backup data we get reclamation due to backup retention policies being much
less (typically) than archive.  Some will argue that moving this data around
isn't efficient, but if ensuring that data can be read is the goal, moving
it around occasionally is important.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Seay, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage


I would not put something I wanted to keep that long on "doggies little toy"
or "ate my momma".  You get the picture.  I do not think DLT and 8mm are
reliable enough to be comfortable that they will be able to be restored that
far out.  This is a nasty problem for all of us.  LTO is too new to bet on
and we are limited by what we can do.  In the mainframe world you archive
the stuff and just keep some tape drives around.  Open is different.  The
issue is the vendors have not stepped up to the fact that open has longterm
data now, just like a mainframe.

-Original Message-
From: Haskins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage


Our TSM server has a 3494 library with 3590 tape drives.  Now faced with
meeting long term storage requirements (7+ years), I am looking at
generating backup sets to accomplish this.  Since backup sets can be used
for stand-alone restores from a backup-archive client, I am thinking that a
different media type would be better than 3590.  There's not much chance
that many of my nodes could have access to a 3590 drive. DLT or 8mm seem
more appropriate.  Any experiences or opinions would be appreciated.

Informix backup using IBM 3494

[Ganu Sachin, IBM]

Hi

I have RS/6000 SP2 wide node with AIX 4.3.3 attached to ESS storage box
having Informix database 7.24 UC3. We backup this database using TDP for
Informix version 3.7 with ON-Bar. We use the command "onbar -b -L 0" to
backup whole database and also backup logical log. We restore it at Disaster
recovery site using this database backup with logical logs. Presently we
have db size of 240 GB is backed up in 4 hrs. We want to speed up the backup
using by buying 3494 with two drives inside. With onbar -b -L 0 command ,
using BAR_MAX_BACKUP parameter we can have parallel onbar processes (one
onbar process per dbspace). I checked out with Informix support and they say
that Informix engine has no control for sending onbar data to 3494.

Has anybody implemented 3494 with parallel backup and how onbar is sending
data to  3494 drives ? Since 3494 is very expensive, we want to make sure
the solution works before we buy it

Thanks & regards

Sachin Ganu

IBM Global Services (India)

Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage

[Seay, Paul]

I would not put something I wanted to keep that long on "doggies little toy"
or "ate my momma".  You get the picture.  I do not think DLT and 8mm are
reliable enough to be comfortable that they will be able to be restored that
far out.  This is a nasty problem for all of us.  LTO is too new to bet on
and we are limited by what we can do.  In the mainframe world you archive
the stuff and just keep some tape drives around.  Open is different.  The
issue is the vendors have not stepped up to the fact that open has longterm
data now, just like a mainframe.

-Original Message-
From: Haskins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage


Our TSM server has a 3494 library with 3590 tape drives.  Now faced with
meeting long term storage requirements (7+ years), I am looking at
generating backup sets to accomplish this.  Since backup sets can be used
for stand-alone restores from a backup-archive client, I am thinking that a
different media type would be better than 3590.  There's not much chance
that many of my nodes could have access to a 3590 drive. DLT or 8mm seem
more appropriate.  Any experiences or opinions would be appreciated.

Backup Sets for Long Term Storage

[Haskins, Mike]

Our TSM server has a 3494 library with 3590 tape drives.  Now faced with
meeting long term storage requirements (7+ years), I am looking at
generating backup sets to accomplish this.  Since backup sets can be
used for stand-alone restores from a backup-archive client, I am
thinking that a different media type would be better than 3590.  There's
not much chance that many of my nodes could have access to a 3590 drive.
DLT or 8mm seem more appropriate.  Any experiences or opinions would be
appreciated.

Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?

[Seay, Paul]

You know this started about NetBackup.  I am wondering if they are aware
that the same issues that NetBackup has are not issues on TSM.  In NetBackup
if the server crashes you have to restart all the media servers to get
things to reconnnect.  Maybe they are just presuming that it is the same
with TSM.

-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?


I agree.  In the rare case our server is restarted or crashes, we do not
have to restart the client schedulers. Only time I have seen it necessary to
restart the clients is when someone has made network/DNS changes.


-Original Message-
From: Thomas A. La Porte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?


One solution is to simply cron a restart of the TSM daemons, however, the
long term correct solution is to determine why your server is crashing. We
go hundreds of days without restarting our TSM servers, and the only time we
restart our client schedulers is when the include/exclude lists get updated.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Cheryl Miller wrote:

>Our company uses Powerbroker access instead of sudo and they don't want
>to give us pbrun su-root privileges. Any other ideas?
>
>-Original Message-
>From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:47 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?
>
>
>Pl look at sudo command acts as proxy for root only for that cmd.
>BALANAND
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Cheryl Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:41 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: root required to kill TSM daemons?
>
>
>We just converted to TSM 4.2.1.9 from NetBackup. We are finding that
>our group needs to be able to stop the TSM daemons and start the start
>up script, instead of always having the system admin. do this. Right
>now I am told that there is no work around for root privileges being
>needed to kill the TSM daemons. I'm wondering how other shops get
>around this problem?
When
>our TSM server crashes, all of the clients that are getting backed up
>are getting hung schedulers and need to be bounced to resume working.
>The fact that root privileges are needed to bounce the daemons is
>adding on days to our resolution, since we have to open a problem
>ticket with the system admin. group and wait for them to bounce the
>daemons. We have ids on most
of
>the unix servers and could do it, if the permissions allowed.
>
>Any ideas?? Do any of you have a work around for this problem? Tivoli
>had
me
>open an enhancement request.
>
>Cheryl
>
>Cheryl Miller
>Wells Fargo Bank
>Distributed Storage Management (DSM)
>916-774-2073
>
>

Re: WG: subfile backup configuration

[Prather, Wanda]

Sorry, I meant the c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\cache subdirectory.



-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WG: subfile backup configuration


I believe if you delete the /cache subdirectory on the client, it will force
the next backup to send a new base file.


Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert







-Original Message-
From: Luecke, Wolf-Christian (K-DOI-44)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: WG: subfile backup configuration


Hi Thomas-Anton,

Thanks for your answer.
I know the most functionalities of the subfile backup and its
working-procedures but it would be
fantasic when you could send me your document. I 'm shure there are some
decribtions and settings I don 't know.
We have here a lot of IBM-Teachers and one of them told us, that there is a
possibility to set the thresholds of the
subfile backup customized.

It would be very important for us so define the automaticly new basefiles on
seperat days, inpedendent of the adaptive
delta-files. But I think there is no way for us to realize that.

best regards

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Wolf-Christian Lücke

K-DOI-44
Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg
Storage Management
e-business

Tel.:   05361/9-22124
E-Fax:  05361/9-57-22124

E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von:  Thomas Anthon-Kiel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am:  Montag, 11. Februar 2002 14:18
> An:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff:  Re: WG: subfile backup configuration
> 
> Hi Wolf-Christian,
> 
> if you have included your .pst files to subfile backup the TSM client is
> using 
> the subfile feature in the following way. At the first time TSM is sending
> the 
> base file to the server. Afterwards the changes will be send as a delta
> file by 
> byte level (1 kB to 3 MB) or block level (3 MB to 2 GB) to the server.
> This 
> delta files are used in a differential way. A maximum of 20 delta files
> can be 
> made before TSM automatically is generating a new base file (full backup) 
> again. But if the delta file exceeds 60 percent of the size of the base
> file a 
> new base file will be made!!! That means, you have no control about the
> full 
> backup!!! This will be made automatically by TSM if one of the above 
> requirements is true.
> This is the reason why I didn´t work much with subfile backup.
> If you need some more detailed informations send me a short mail and I can
> send 
> you a document with a more detailed describtion of the subfile process.
> 
> Many greeting
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Zitiere "Luecke, Wolf-Christian (K-DOI-44)"  [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > to backup the pst-files of our nt-servers we use the tsm-software
> > 4.2.1.16
> > > and with that the feature adaptive subfile backup.
> > > It works quiet well but I want to know how I can set manualy the
> > boarders,
> > > when automaticly  
> > > the adaptive subfile backup changes into a fullbackup.
> > > The second question is, can I prepare the adaptive subfile backup so,
> > that
> > > the next coming fullbackup
> > > is everytime at the weekend (timestamp)?
> > > 
> > > best regards
> > > 
> > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> > > 
> > > Wolf-Christian Lücke
> > > 
> > > K-DOI-44
> > > Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg
> > > Storage Management
> > > e-business
> > > 
> > > Tel.: 05361/9-22124
> > > E-Fax:05361/9-57-22124
> > > 
> > > E-Mail:   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> > 

Re: WG: subfile backup configuration

[Prather, Wanda]

I believe if you delete the /cache subdirectory on the client, it will force
the next backup to send a new base file.


Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert







-Original Message-
From: Luecke, Wolf-Christian (K-DOI-44)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: WG: subfile backup configuration


Hi Thomas-Anton,

Thanks for your answer.
I know the most functionalities of the subfile backup and its
working-procedures but it would be
fantasic when you could send me your document. I 'm shure there are some
decribtions and settings I don 't know.
We have here a lot of IBM-Teachers and one of them told us, that there is a
possibility to set the thresholds of the
subfile backup customized.

It would be very important for us so define the automaticly new basefiles on
seperat days, inpedendent of the adaptive
delta-files. But I think there is no way for us to realize that.

best regards

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Wolf-Christian Lücke

K-DOI-44
Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg
Storage Management
e-business

Tel.:   05361/9-22124
E-Fax:  05361/9-57-22124

E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von:  Thomas Anthon-Kiel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am:  Montag, 11. Februar 2002 14:18
> An:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff:  Re: WG: subfile backup configuration
> 
> Hi Wolf-Christian,
> 
> if you have included your .pst files to subfile backup the TSM client is
> using 
> the subfile feature in the following way. At the first time TSM is sending
> the 
> base file to the server. Afterwards the changes will be send as a delta
> file by 
> byte level (1 kB to 3 MB) or block level (3 MB to 2 GB) to the server.
> This 
> delta files are used in a differential way. A maximum of 20 delta files
> can be 
> made before TSM automatically is generating a new base file (full backup) 
> again. But if the delta file exceeds 60 percent of the size of the base
> file a 
> new base file will be made!!! That means, you have no control about the
> full 
> backup!!! This will be made automatically by TSM if one of the above 
> requirements is true.
> This is the reason why I didn´t work much with subfile backup.
> If you need some more detailed informations send me a short mail and I can
> send 
> you a document with a more detailed describtion of the subfile process.
> 
> Many greeting
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Zitiere "Luecke, Wolf-Christian (K-DOI-44)"  [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > to backup the pst-files of our nt-servers we use the tsm-software
> > 4.2.1.16
> > > and with that the feature adaptive subfile backup.
> > > It works quiet well but I want to know how I can set manualy the
> > boarders,
> > > when automaticly  
> > > the adaptive subfile backup changes into a fullbackup.
> > > The second question is, can I prepare the adaptive subfile backup so,
> > that
> > > the next coming fullbackup
> > > is everytime at the weekend (timestamp)?
> > > 
> > > best regards
> > > 
> > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> > > 
> > > Wolf-Christian Lücke
> > > 
> > > K-DOI-44
> > > Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg
> > > Storage Management
> > > e-business
> > > 
> > > Tel.: 05361/9-22124
> > > E-Fax:05361/9-57-22124
> > > 
> > > E-Mail:   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> > 

Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Prather, Wanda]

Thanks for the thought, Tim, but never mind  -
by the time they could cut a check, Microsoft will have changed it all
again!  %>}

-Original Message-
From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 


So perhaps Tivoli should pay Wanda so that the correct information appears
in the manuals? :)

-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 12, 2002 3:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 

Excellent post, Wanda! It's so good, it bears repeating

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [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.




"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
02/12/2002 14:22
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat




I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual,
and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think
these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT
for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself
in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into
the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want
to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And
even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT &
USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM
can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore;
you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can
restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and
USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy
the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing
up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist
on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if
your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
custo

Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Prather, Wanda]

Wow  - if you approve, I couldn't be more gratified.
Made my day, thanks!
Wanda


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 


Excellent post, Wanda! It's so good, it bears repeating

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [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.




"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
02/12/2002 14:22
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat




I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual,
and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think
these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT
for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself
in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into
the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want
to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And
even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT &
USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM
can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore;
you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can
restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and
USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy
the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing
up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist
on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if
your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
customization;  in this type of environment, users are NOT happy if you
claim you can restore their systems, but lose all their customization.

Now, if you are backing up only Windows SERVERS, the question is, what
profiles do you care about?  For most servers, nobody cares at all.
Usually, the only people logging on to the Windows server conso

Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Kelly Lipp]

Gee.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 


I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual, and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore; you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
customization;  in this type of environment, users are NOT happy if you
claim you can restore their systems, but lose all their customization.

Now, if you are backing up only Windows SERVERS, the question is, what
profiles do you care about?  For most servers, nobody cares at all.
Usually, the only people logging on to the Windows server console are logged
on as Administrator, or they log on under their own accounts but use the
default profile, without doing any significant amount of customization.  If
you don't care about your customization, then you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.
You may not get a backup of everyone's profile, but if you restore the
machine and someone logs in and their profile hasn't been restored, they
just get a copy of the DEFAULT profile, same as when they logged in the
first time (that's what the default profile i

Re: stroage media errors

[Allen Barth]

Mark the tapes as read-only.  When the tapes were added to TSM, it recorded
the fact that they are B1A density.  During reclamation, move data, and
audit vol, TSM tries to mount the tapes R/W.   The message is accurate
because you don't have any drives that can write at B1A density.  If you
mark the tapes as R/O, the E1A drives can and will be able to read them.

Been there did that.

Regards,
Al Barth
Zurich Scudder Investments



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I have this same problem the only way to solve it for me is to restart the
3494 library.  The drives show online and available to aix but the library
won't use them.  I have this problem whenever I reboot my tsm server.  I
then must restart the library as well.

Richard

-Original Message-
From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: stroage media errors


Saw this often on various flavors of V3R7.  Still have it on 4.1.5, as I
posted yesterday.  Do you have to reboot to get the process to work?


At 02:49 PM 2/12/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I am running TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 tape library with
3590e1a
>drives fairly recently upgraded from b1a's.
>
>When running reclamation, migration, and move data certain volumes are
>trying to be mounted on one particular drive. If that drive is not
available
>we get error messages:
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR0984I Process 7683 for MIGRATION started in the
>BACKGROUND at 08:00:15.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR1000I Migration process 7683 started for storage
pool
>BACKUPPOOL.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 -
mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 -
mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 -
mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1021W Migration process 7683 terminated for storage
>pool BACKUPPOOL - storage media inaccessible.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR0985I Process 7683 for MIGRATION running in the
>BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 08:00:17.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool BACKUPPOOL will be
>retried in 60 seconds.
>
>
>
>The tapes never get mounted on any other drive.
>
>I have deleted and redefined all the drives.
>
>Has anyone else seen these problems?
>
>Thanks,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 






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Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Rushforth, Tim]

So perhaps Tivoli should pay Wanda so that the correct information appears
in the manuals? :)

-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 12, 2002 3:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 

Excellent post, Wanda! It's so good, it bears repeating

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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02/12/2002 14:22
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat




I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual,
and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think
these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT
for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself
in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into
the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want
to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And
even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT &
USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM
can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore;
you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can
restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and
USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy
the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing
up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist
on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if
your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
customization;  in this type of environment, users are NOT happy if you
claim you can restore their systems, but lose all their customization.

Now, if you are backing up only Windows SERVERS, the question is, what
profiles do you care about?  For most servers, nobody cares at all.
Usually, the only people logging on to the Windows server co

Re: Consolidate TSM servers to one

[Williams, Tim P {PBSG}]

Look at export...import...
on your server...
help export server
help import server
Thanks
Tim

-Original Message-
From: Hagopian, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Consolidate TSM servers to one


Greetings all...

I have a TSM server running 4.1.4 server and I would like to move the whole
database to another running TSM server running 4.2.1. How can I add the
4.1.4 database to the 4.2.1 database and be able to use all the existing
tapes from the 4.1.4 server...I have no problems upgrading the 4.1.4 server
to 4.2.1.
Is there any written documentation on how to do this?

Thanks...
George Hagopian
ICT Group

Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Andrew Raibeck]

Excellent post, Wanda! It's so good, it bears repeating

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [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.




"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject:Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat 



I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual,
and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think
these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT
for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself
in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into
the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want
to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And
even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT &
USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM
can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore;
you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can
restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and
USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy
the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing
up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist
on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if
your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
customization;  in this type of environment, users are NOT happy if you
claim you can restore their systems, but lose all their customization.

Now, if you are backing up only Windows SERVERS, the question is, what
profiles do you care about?  For most servers, nobody cares at all.
Usually, the only people logging on to the Windows server console are
logged
on as Administrator, or they log on under their own accounts but use the
default profile, without doing any significant amount of customization. If
you don't care about your customization, then you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.
You may not get a backup of everyone's profile, but i

Re: stroage media errors

[Dearman, Richard]

I have this same problem the only way to solve it for me is to restart the
3494 library.  The drives show online and available to aix but the library
won't use them.  I have this problem whenever I reboot my tsm server.  I
then must restart the library as well.

Richard

-Original Message-
From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: stroage media errors


Saw this often on various flavors of V3R7.  Still have it on 4.1.5, as I
posted yesterday.  Do you have to reboot to get the process to work?


At 02:49 PM 2/12/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I am running TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 tape library with 3590e1a
>drives fairly recently upgraded from b1a's.
>
>When running reclamation, migration, and move data certain volumes are
>trying to be mounted on one particular drive. If that drive is not
available
>we get error messages:
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR0984I Process 7683 for MIGRATION started in the
>BACKGROUND at 08:00:15.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR1000I Migration process 7683 started for storage
pool
>BACKUPPOOL.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1021W Migration process 7683 terminated for storage
>pool BACKUPPOOL - storage media inaccessible.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR0985I Process 7683 for MIGRATION running in the
>BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 08:00:17.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool BACKUPPOOL will be
>retried in 60 seconds.
>
>
>
>The tapes never get mounted on any other drive.
>
>I have deleted and redefined all the drives.
>
>Has anyone else seen these problems?
>
>Thanks,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

AutoVAULT adding support for Solaris & HP-UX

[Steve Hnath]

Hi all,
 
We are about to deliver the next release of AutoVault, v1.2.  AutoVault runs on a 
Windows NT/2K platform and currently manages TSM Servers on AIX and Windows.  The next 
release adds support for Solaris and HP-UX.  I am looking for interested parties to 
receive an early-ship trial version to test on Solaris and HP-UX.  If you would be 
interested, please contact me at:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If you are not familiar with AutoVAULT, it is a tape vaulting, disaster planning, and 
recovery add-on for Tivoli Storage Manager which takes only 15 minutes to install and 
configure.  More information on AutoVault is available at http://www.coderelief.com
 
Thank you for your time,
 
Steve Hnath

Re: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster

[Joe Cascanette]

Take a look at BACKUPSETS..

-Original Message-
From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster


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>From: Unix Backup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:36 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster>
>
>
>I want to find out if there is a way to read the tapes created by ADSM/TSM
>without relying on any ADSM/TSM utilities or binaries to recover the data.
>Is the tape format used by ADSM/TSM to write data on tape during backup
well
>known or published?

No. Even if you could read it you would have no idea what is was for without
the database and TSM.



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Consolidate TSM servers to one

[Hagopian, George]

Greetings all...

I have a TSM server running 4.1.4 server and I would like to move the whole
database to another running TSM server running 4.2.1. How can I add the
4.1.4 database to the 4.2.1 database and be able to use all the existing
tapes from the 4.1.4 server...I have no problems upgrading the 4.1.4 server
to 4.2.1.
Is there any written documentation on how to do this?

Thanks...
George Hagopian
ICT Group

Re: stroage media errors

[Fred Johanson]

Saw this often on various flavors of V3R7.  Still have it on 4.1.5, as I
posted yesterday.  Do you have to reboot to get the process to work?


At 02:49 PM 2/12/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I am running TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 tape library with 3590e1a
>drives fairly recently upgraded from b1a's.
>
>When running reclamation, migration, and move data certain volumes are
>trying to be mounted on one particular drive. If that drive is not available
>we get error messages:
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR0984I Process 7683 for MIGRATION started in the
>BACKGROUND at 08:00:15.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR1000I Migration process 7683 started for storage pool
>BACKUPPOOL.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>SATADSMLIB1.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
>failed.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1021W Migration process 7683 terminated for storage
>pool BACKUPPOOL - storage media inaccessible.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR0985I Process 7683 for MIGRATION running in the
>BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 08:00:17.
>
>02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool BACKUPPOOL will be
>retried in 60 seconds.
>
>
>
>The tapes never get mounted on any other drive.
>
>I have deleted and redefined all the drives.
>
>Has anyone else seen these problems?
>
>Thanks,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Prather, Wanda]

I also found the information you refer to in the Windows client manual, and
I DISAGREE with it.
I will explain why I think so, in the hope that someone can correct me!

I agree you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.LOG and USRCLASS.DAT.LOG.  (I think these
files are only used to journal in-flight changes to profiles, and can't be
used after a restore.)  But there are cases where I believe you should NOT
exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT.

MOST of the time, I think it is ok to exclude NTUSER.DAT (& USRCLASS.DAT for
Win2K) on Windows SERVERS, but NOT on WinNT Wokstation or Win2KPro.

NTUSER.DAT is the file that stores what is generally called your "user
profile".  These are customization settings that you choose for yourself in
Windows and Windows applications.  The info in this file is loaded into the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key when you are logged on to Windows.  Under
Win2K, even MORE of your customization is stored in USRCLASS.DAT.

The most obvious item of customization that is included, should you want to
know for testing, is your wallpaper.  But, depending on your levels of
Exchange/Outlook, some of those settings are stored here as well.  And even
MORE customization can get stored this way, if an application chooses to
store it there.

While you are logged on to a Windows machine, the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT
files are locked by Windows and cannot be backed up by TSM.  You will see
errors to that effect in dsmerror.log, and it annoys people to constantly
have those files show up as errors.  And, TSM has a bypass - since TSM can't
back up these files (or any other open registry files), TSM gets a copy of
the user profile information out of the registry for ALL LOGGED ON USERS,
and saves it into the c:\adsm.sys directory structure as part of the
registry backup.  So the copy is there in adsm.sys after a full restore; you
can drag it back to its proper location to restore your profile.

Now, if you are NOT logged on to your system at the time it backs up, TSM
will back up NTUSER.DAT just fine, like any other file.  And you can restore
that file with TSM, should you need to.  If you are trying to do a
bare-metal restore, you can use a backed up copy of NTUSER.DAT from its
original location, OR one that you drag out of adsm.sys.  A good copy of
either one works.

SO, where things get tricky, is if you exclude NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT,
and you AREN"T logged on at the time of backup, so that TSM doesn't copy the
information during the registry backup.  In this case, how do you restore
your profile?  Answer:  you don't.   Also, you may find that people have
established multiple accounts on their system - each one has its own
NTUSER.DAT file.  And if you exclude NTUSER.DAT, you will get backups via
the registry ONLY for those that are logged on at the time of the backup.

If you are backing up a lot of workstations, you just can't guarantee that
people either WILL or WON"T be logged on for sure.  SO if you are backing up
workstations with TSM, DON"T exclude the NTUSER.DAT & USRCLASS.DAT files.
Then you know for sure that your profiles are backed up either as part of
the registry backup, or as a flat file, no matter how many profiles exist on
the workstation and how many are logged on at backup time.

Now this information probably doesn't apply, even for workstations, if your
site uses ROAMING profiles.  (Although I haven't worked with them, I think
in that case your profile is stored on a Windows server, and downloaded to
you no matter where you log on. )  And in environments where your desktops
are highly standardized, you may not care.  But in a research environment
like we have here, we have MOSTLY power users, and desktops have lots of
customization;  in this type of environment, users are NOT happy if you
claim you can restore their systems, but lose all their customization.

Now, if you are backing up only Windows SERVERS, the question is, what
profiles do you care about?  For most servers, nobody cares at all.
Usually, the only people logging on to the Windows server console are logged
on as Administrator, or they log on under their own accounts but use the
default profile, without doing any significant amount of customization.  If
you don't care about your customization, then you can exclude NTUSER.DAT.
You may not get a backup of everyone's profile, but if you restore the
machine and someone logs in and their profile hasn't been restored, they
just get a copy of the DEFAULT profile, same as when they logged in the
first time (that's what the default profile is for).

BTW, we back up about 350 Win2K desktops, 50 WinNT desktops, 20 NT servers.
And we can restore them down to the last icon, with all user customization.
So I've done a LOT of restoring profiles.  Most of the information I have
about profiles has been learn-by-doing, if anyone has a better explanation
or definitive documentation, PLEASE contribute!  Glad for anyone to shoot it
down if they can provide better info.

So there's my 2 cents (ta

Re: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster

[Remeta, Mark]

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>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:36 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster>
>
>
>I want to find out if there is a way to read the tapes created by ADSM/TSM
>without relying on any ADSM/TSM utilities or binaries to recover the data.
>Is the tape format used by ADSM/TSM to write data on tape during backup
well
>known or published?

No. Even if you could read it you would have no idea what is was for without
the database and TSM.



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Re: TSM Client Acceptor Service

[Doug Thorneycroft]

Look up colocation in the administrator guide. You set colocation
at the sequential storagepool, not at the client.
Setting colocation to filespace will have a big impact on your tape
usage and processing, so be sure to read everything in the guide first.

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Sent:   Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:TSM Client Acceptor Service

Hi...

I am wanting to configure one of our larger file servers to have collocation
by filespace to make DR recovery faster.  The easiest thing that comes to
mind is to have separate nodenames for each filespace(logical drive).  So I
guess I will have to have a separate backup schedule per nodename, therefore
separate option files and separate services to manage the schedules, logs
etc.  I am new to setting up and using the Client Acceptor service.  I used
the wizard to setup and it seemed straight forward.  I was able to use
different service names, option files, log files etc.

My question is, do I use the same Client Acceptor Name as it is prompted
during the setup wizard so that it manages all the services??  How do I know
that it is working??  I am assuming it could handle backup schedules at the
same time?? (If I wanted all the backups for this machine to kick off at the
same time?)

Is there an easier way to accomplish this??

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: TSM Client Acceptor Service

[Kelly Lipp]

Matt,

I would set up a separate pool hierarchy for this client and put it into its
own domain.  The tape pool will have collocation by filespace set.  This is
the easiest way.  You will use resourceutilization in your client options
file to have multiple simultaneous backup sessions and the server will
handle the rest during migration: each filespace will go to its own set of
tape volumes.  If you don't have much disk space to allocate to the new
hierarchy ensure that maxnummp is set high enough on the client (update node
nodename maxnummp=) to allow for a tape mount for each filespace (or set
resourceutilization such that you don't need more than one).

When you start a restore, you will be able to start one for each filespace.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Client Acceptor Service


Hi...

I am wanting to configure one of our larger file servers to have collocation
by filespace to make DR recovery faster.  The easiest thing that comes to
mind is to have separate nodenames for each filespace(logical drive).  So I
guess I will have to have a separate backup schedule per nodename, therefore
separate option files and separate services to manage the schedules, logs
etc.  I am new to setting up and using the Client Acceptor service.  I used
the wizard to setup and it seemed straight forward.  I was able to use
different service names, option files, log files etc.

My question is, do I use the same Client Acceptor Name as it is prompted
during the setup wizard so that it manages all the services??  How do I know
that it is working??  I am assuming it could handle backup schedules at the
same time?? (If I wanted all the backups for this machine to kick off at the
same time?)

Is there an easier way to accomplish this??

Thanks,

Matt
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stroage media errors

[Blair, Georgia]

I am running TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 with a 3494 tape library with 3590e1a
drives fairly recently upgraded from b1a's.

When running reclamation, migration, and move data certain volumes are
trying to be mounted on one particular drive. If that drive is not available
we get error messages:

02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR0984I Process 7683 for MIGRATION started in the
BACKGROUND at 08:00:15.

02/12/2002 08:00:15 ANR1000I Migration process 7683 started for storage pool
BACKUPPOOL.

02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
SATADSMLIB1.

02/12/2002 08:00:16 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
failed.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
SATADSMLIB1.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
failed.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
SATADSMLIB1.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 910085 - mount
failed.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1021W Migration process 7683 terminated for storage
pool BACKUPPOOL - storage media inaccessible.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR0985I Process 7683 for MIGRATION running in the
BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 08:00:17.

02/12/2002 08:00:17 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool BACKUPPOOL will be
retried in 60 seconds.



The tapes never get mounted on any other drive.

I have deleted and redefined all the drives.

Has anyone else seen these problems?

Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

TSM Client Acceptor Service

[Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)]

Hi...

I am wanting to configure one of our larger file servers to have collocation
by filespace to make DR recovery faster.  The easiest thing that comes to
mind is to have separate nodenames for each filespace(logical drive).  So I
guess I will have to have a separate backup schedule per nodename, therefore
separate option files and separate services to manage the schedules, logs
etc.  I am new to setting up and using the Client Acceptor service.  I used
the wizard to setup and it seemed straight forward.  I was able to use
different service names, option files, log files etc.

My question is, do I use the same Client Acceptor Name as it is prompted
during the setup wizard so that it manages all the services??  How do I know
that it is working??  I am assuming it could handle backup schedules at the
same time?? (If I wanted all the backups for this machine to kick off at the
same time?)

Is there an easier way to accomplish this??

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster

[Kelly Lipp]

No.  Without the database that is governing the volume, recovery of the data
on the volume is essentially impossible.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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Subject: Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster


I want to find out if there is a way to read the tapes created by ADSM/TSM
without relying on any ADSM/TSM utilities or binaries to recover the data.
Is the tape format used by ADSM/TSM to write data on tape during backup well
known or published?
If I can find a way to read the tapes by just knowing the tape format then I
can write a utility which can be included in a disaster recovery plan as a
standby option.

Thanks

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Restoring data from ADSM/TSM tapes in case of disaster

[Unix Backup]

I want to find out if there is a way to read the tapes created by ADSM/TSM
without relying on any ADSM/TSM utilities or binaries to recover the data.
Is the tape format used by ADSM/TSM to write data on tape during backup well
known or published?
If I can find a way to read the tapes by just knowing the tape format then I
can write a utility which can be included in a disaster recovery plan as a
standby option.

Thanks

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Re: Cache Hit Rate, Bufpoolsize Size and NT

[Prather, Wanda]

Well, since no one else has ventured an answer, I'll take a SWAG in hope
that someone will at least provide more information in shooting it down!

My DB is 28 GB on AIX, and my buffpool is only 192,000; I agree that 327680
is QUITE high for a 2.5 GB, Windows or not.

You say that a consultant rebuilt your DB - I assume you are talking an
UNLOAD/RELOAD?
If so, then what I would do is - nothing, at least for a while.

Based on what little has been published about the structure of the TSM DB, I
know it is a b-tree.  When you reload a DB of that type, usually what
happens is that the DB becomes, shall we say "tightly packed", and a good
bit of DB activity takes place right after a DB reload as the tree splits
off new empty "leaves" to accomodate new incoming records.  If that is what
is happening here, then over time your DB cache hit should gradually get
better again, as the DB "resettles" itself into normal adding patterns.

What I would do is reset the cache statistics, watch it for a couple of
days; then reset them again, watch it for a couple days; see if it gets
better on its own after a week or two.

OK, that's the only far-fetched answer I can come up with.  Any body else
had strange numbers after a DB rebuild?

Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
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From: MORGAN TONY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:19 AM
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Subject: Cache Hit Rate, Bufpoolsize Size and NT


Another week another problem... Hi Guys!!

I have a DB (shown Below) which I am having trouble with.  The Cache Hit %
was static for months at 98%+, but since the database was rebuilt by a
friendly consultant (nice bloke!) I have been unable to achieve consistant
results above the mid 90's.

The Bufpoolsize parameter has been raised in stages to its current high of
327680 .. this does not appear to be having the desired effect.

Server: Dual Xeon 700Mhz (Dell 8450) running NT 4.0 SP6a
TSM V4.1.1.0
Selftune bufpoolsize is OFF
DB is spread over 5 files of 1GB on a Fast Raid 5 (R/WB
Cache enabled)

I have two questions for our assembled throng.

1) What do YOU think is a reasonable figure for Bufferpoolsize on NT for a
2.5b DB??
(I regard 327680 as quite high)

2) What else could be wrong?

Any help will be high appreciated

Many Thanks

Tony Morgan

  Available Space (MB): 5,120
Assigned Capacity (MB): 5,120
Maximum Extension (MB): 0
Maximum Reduction (MB): 2,080
 Page Size (bytes): 4,096
Total Usable Pages: 1,310,720
Used Pages: 676,424
  Pct Util: 51.6
 Max. Pct Util: 51.8
  Physical Volumes: 10
 Buffer Pool Pages: 81,920
 Total Buffer Requests: 29,893,741
Cache Hit Pct.: 93.42
   Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00
   Backup in Progress?: No
Type of Backup In Progress:
  Incrementals Since Last Full: 0
Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 0.09
Percentage Changed: 0.00
Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 02/11/2002 08:00:16



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Re: Veritas and IBM

[Remeta, Mark]

My personal experiences with Veritas/Seagate is that there support is
already spread too thin and has been for sometime. Getting Veritas software
to work on AIX is not a benefit too me. Veritas purchase of tkg however
does. I see tkg's support for TSM waning in the near future as supporting
Veritas will be the priority.

Mark


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From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Veritas and IBM


IBM and Veritas are getting quite close lately.  They are jointly
working on a project to port Veritas sftw to AIX.  This includes
Veritas's filesystem, volume manager, special DB filesystem,
clustering sftw, etc.  My understanding is that IBM has been pushing
this, and that a joint team of some of the best from both companies
are working on the port.  It's supposed to be available in the not
too distant future.  Last week I attended a Veritas DR seminar.  THe
speakers always included AIX when they talked about supported
platforms - "very soon".

The way I heard it, IBM wants AIX to be much more of a mainstream
Unix system.  They see Veritas support as a big step in this
direction, even if it competes with some of their own products.  For
companies that have standarized on Veritas sftw, AIX simply isn't an
option today.

I wouldn't worry about Veritas and support for BMR on AIX, but
rather, a resource issue as Veritas expands BMR and being spread too
thin to provide good support for existing platforms.

Rick

On 12 Feb 2002 at 13:41, Bill Boyer wrote:
> I have a client that is interested in BMR, but since Veritas bought
> them I don't feel comfortable pitching it. Don't know where it'll go.
>
> Bill Boyer
> DSS, Inc.
>
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tdp for oracle

[Rob Schroeder]

We hare having issues where the TDP for oracle RMAN scripts are
termintating.  The error happens about the same time that the 2000 server
briefly falls off the network.  I have no idea why, the outage is about 90
seconds and the TSM services never stop, but obviously the sessions do.
Also, when we run the RMAN scripts, the CPU hits 100% on the client with
the largest processing being oracle.exe using 90%.  Has anyone had
performance issues with this and resolved them.

TSM server:   Win2000  SP2   TSM 4.1.4.1

TSM client:Win2000   SP2  TSM  4.2.1.20

TDP for oracle:  v2.2


Here is the error on the TSM server

02/12/2002 10:56:41   ANE4993E (Session: 1501, Node: FFORACLE01_ORACLE)
TDP
   Oracle NT ANS02041 TDP for Oracle: (872): =>()
ANS0238E
   (RC2041) The sequence of calls is invalid.

Here is the error on the client:

RMAN-03022: compiling command: backup
RMAN-03025: performing implicit partial resync of recovery catalog
RMAN-03023: executing command: partial resync
RMAN-08003: starting partial resync of recovery catalog
RMAN-08005: partial resync complete
RMAN-03023: executing command: backup
RMAN-08009: channel t1: starting archivelog backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=37 set_stamp=453641102 creation_time=12-FEB-02
RMAN-08014: channel t1: specifying archivelog(s) in backup set
RMAN-08504: input archivelog thread=1 sequence=1643 recid=1 stamp=453556579
RMAN-08009: channel t2: starting archivelog backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=38 set_stamp=453641102 creation_time=12-FEB-02
RMAN-08014: channel t2: specifying archivelog(s) in backup set
RMAN-08504: input archivelog thread=1 sequence=1644 recid=2 stamp=453569684
RMAN-08504: input archivelog thread=1 sequence=1645 recid=3 stamp=453572365
RMAN-08504: input archivelog thread=1 sequence=1646 recid=4 stamp=453573025
RMAN-08504: input archivelog thread=1 sequence=1647 recid=5 stamp=453574226
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: backup
RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel t1
RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19502: write error on file
"al_37_1_453641102", blockno 1665 (blocksize=512)
ORA-27030: skgfwrt: sbtwrite2 returned error
ORA-19511: ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to
DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.BACKUPPIECECREATE

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Rob Schroeder
Famous Footwear
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Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR Procedure

[Kelly Lipp]

I'll put in a plug for my friend Wanda Prather.  In the adsm.org archives
you should find a very nice procedure developed by Wanda.  Perhaps she'll
post it here once more for those of us who missed it.

In general, the method is to install a bare bones OS from the distribution
CDs, configure it, install the TSM client, configure it, and restore the
backup on top of the new installation.  This is an easy procedure to follow.
I'd like to see a side-by-side runoff between this and the BMR product to
get an idea of the time difference.

OK, don't like this idea?  How about using Ghost to periodically snap an
image of your OS (or perhaps have a generic one with TSM installed ready to
go).  Lose the disk?  Ghost the image and do a restore from TSM to bring the
image up-to-date.

As for restoring your TSM server.  That is very easy if you have three
things: a database backup, the devconfig.out file and the volhist.out file.
>From these three items, I can restore your TSM server in four hours of less
(very dependent on the size of the database: for very small databases,
you're probably looking at less than an hour, start to finish).  The problem
with this is most of us never practice it.  In my job I have the fortune of
getting to do this periodically (monthly) so I've gotten pretty confident so
to me it's easy.  I recommend doing it the first time when you don't have
to.  When you have to do it, nerves take over and the process is much
harder.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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Coats, Jack
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?


Does anyone have a good recovery senario for NT and / or Novell?
I am going into a DR test soon and will be requrired to recover several
of each, including the TSM server! :(

Yep, it sounds like TSM did a fubar depending on a small vendor
to remain autonimous in the backup/restore/disaster recovery market.
Veritas has good products too.  I have sold both TSM and Veritas
NetBackup.  I still like TSM but it is a harder sell quite often.


> -Original Message-
> From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF
> TSM!! W here's the Air Support?
>
> I echo Kelly!
> Another marketing slip?:
> Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for
> bare
> metal recovery for NT, windows, from
> what I heard).  This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
> metal recovery was to use/buy...
> a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
> out by Veritas.
> SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
> marketing slip
> there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
> I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
> this one as well!!!
>
> Thanks Tim Williams
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
> Where's the Air Support?
>
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp
>
> Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
> mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately
> to
> have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
> should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
> sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
> backups!
>
> This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
> library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
> breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs, CO 80949
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
> (719)531-5926
> Fax: (240)539-7175

Veritas and IBM

[Richard L. Rhodes]

IBM and Veritas are getting quite close lately.  They are jointly
working on a project to port Veritas sftw to AIX.  This includes
Veritas's filesystem, volume manager, special DB filesystem,
clustering sftw, etc.  My understanding is that IBM has been pushing
this, and that a joint team of some of the best from both companies
are working on the port.  It's supposed to be available in the not
too distant future.  Last week I attended a Veritas DR seminar.  THe
speakers always included AIX when they talked about supported
platforms - "very soon".

The way I heard it, IBM wants AIX to be much more of a mainstream
Unix system.  They see Veritas support as a big step in this
direction, even if it competes with some of their own products.  For
companies that have standarized on Veritas sftw, AIX simply isn't an
option today.

I wouldn't worry about Veritas and support for BMR on AIX, but
rather, a resource issue as Veritas expands BMR and being spread too
thin to provide good support for existing platforms.

Rick

On 12 Feb 2002 at 13:41, Bill Boyer wrote:
> I have a client that is interested in BMR, but since Veritas bought
> them I don't feel comfortable pitching it. Don't know where it'll go.
>
> Bill Boyer
> DSS, Inc.
>
>

Re: Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker

[DeMuse]

I worked with Legato Networker for many years.  As far as I know Legato uses
a proprietary method for writing to tape.  It does not use any standard
utilities like CPIO or TAR.  The only suggestion would be to get a trial
copy of Legato Networker and install it.  It will give you, I believe, 45
days unlimited trial license.  To recover data from a tape without the
database or indexes you will need to scan and create them from the tape or
tapes you are restoring from.

You might be able to get a trial copy from their web site or contact the
local sales person for a trial copy.

It also would be nice if you knew what version of Networker was used to make
the backup.

Given a little time I could come up with the commands to restore the
indexes.  It's been awhile.

Hope this helps,

Mike DeMuse
DeMuse Consulting Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Original Message -
From: "Unix Backup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker


> Hello
>
> Has anyone restored data from Legato Networker tapes without the luxury to
> use Legato Networker to perform the restores?  I have read in a related
post
> here that this can be done but wasn't able to get any specifics.
> Any insight would be quite helpful.
>
> Thanks
>
> _
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Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Alex Paschal]

Obviously the extra cent is sucked up into customer satisfaction overhead by
giving the customer more than what he paid for.  It is then used as a tax
deduction (business expense), resulting in only approximately 1/2 cent total
capital expenditure for 1 cents' worth of customer satisfaction gain.  Talk
about a good deal, eh?

Alex

-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?


When someone asks "A penny for your thoughts?" and you give your "2 cents",
where does that extra penny go?

-Original Message-
From: Lindsey Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Andrew Raibeck]

Taxes.   :-)

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [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.




"Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
02/12/2002 11:42
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF 
TSM!! W  here's
the Air Support?



When someone asks "A penny for your thoughts?" and you give your "2
cents", where does that extra penny go?

-Original Message-
From: Lindsey Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Keith Kwiatek]

Hello,


 Is is ok to exclude the below files? I found this tivloi link that seems to
 indicate such:


http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/datenhaltung/adsm/link/tsm-v42-books/win
c/ans60014.htm

exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat"


Keith

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)]

When someone asks "A penny for your thoughts?" and you give your "2 cents", where does 
that extra penny go?

-Original Message-
From: Lindsey Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Lindsey Thomson]

When "a penny for your thoughts" is asked, I give the $0.01 version... When
I am stating my view I give $0.02...
For whatever it is worth... in whomever's eye

lt

Re: Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker

[Marc Levitan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Marc Levitan
Storage Manager
PFPC Global Fund Services





Unix Backup
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tapes without using Networker
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
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02/12/2002
12:55 PM
Please respond
to "ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"





Hello

Has anyone restored data from Legato Networker tapes without the luxury to
use Legato Networker to perform the restores?  I have read in a related
post
here that this can be done but wasn't able to get any specifics.
Any insight would be quite helpful.

Thanks

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Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Coats, Jack]

Does anyone have a good recovery senario for NT and / or Novell?
I am going into a DR test soon and will be requrired to recover several
of each, including the TSM server! :(

Yep, it sounds like TSM did a fubar depending on a small vendor
to remain autonimous in the backup/restore/disaster recovery market.
Veritas has good products too.  I have sold both TSM and Veritas
NetBackup.  I still like TSM but it is a harder sell quite often.


> -Original Message-
> From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF
> TSM!! W here's the Air Support?
>
> I echo Kelly!
> Another marketing slip?:
> Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for
> bare
> metal recovery for NT, windows, from
> what I heard).  This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
> metal recovery was to use/buy...
> a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
> out by Veritas.
> SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
> marketing slip
> there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
> I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
> this one as well!!!
>
> Thanks Tim Williams
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
> Where's the Air Support?
>
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp
>
> Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
> mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately
> to
> have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
> should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
> sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
> backups!
>
> This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
> library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
> breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs, CO 80949
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
> (719)531-5926
> Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Bill Boyer]

Right from the TKG/Veritas  BMR web page:

Statement of Intent
VERITAS Software will honor TKG's remarketing agreement with IBM. VERITAS
intends to provide support for and maintain BMR for TSM, including BMR
support for the upcoming 5.1 version of TSM. Future roadmap plans for this
product are under active discussion between VERITAS and IBM at this time,
and will be communicated as soon as possible.
 

I have a client that is interested in BMR, but since Veritas bought them I
don't feel comfortable pitching it. Don't know where it'll go.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Williams, Tim P {PBSG}
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?


I echo Kelly!
Another marketing slip?:
Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for bare
metal recovery for NT, windows, from
what I heard).  This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
metal recovery was to use/buy...
a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
out by Veritas.
SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
marketing slip
there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
this one as well!!!

Thanks Tim Williams


-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp

Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately to
have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!

This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: Looking for sites with TSM 4.X running on HP-UX server

[Robin Sharpe]

Ok Mark,

Here is my swlist -l product: (See attached file: swlist)(let me know if
you can't get the attachment, I'll insert the text).

We haven't had such serious problems (no corruption).  4.1.4.1 has been
pretty stable for us... until last week.  So far, after the patches this
morning, it looks pretty good.  I had heard that the earlier mods of 4.1
were buggy... maybe that is at the root of your trouble?

We have about 26 unix (HP and Sun) and 50 NT clients.  We also have another
TSM on an IBM F50 with an ATL P3000, which we are migrating from.  We plan
to move it to another location after migration.  Our L2000 has two 550Mhz
procs, and 2GB RAM.  Database and disk storage pools are on two HP 2100
arrays... we plan to move the database and logs to the XP512 when it is
online.

Good Luck
Robin


swlist
Description: Binary data

TSM Level 2 Course in the Netherlands, May 2002

[Kelly Lipp]

Folks,

As I wrote my last reply I remembered that we are offering the TSM Level 2
course in the Netherlands in May.  We hope to run two classes while we are
there.  If you are interested in attending, please contact Peter Pipjelink
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for complete details.

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Lindsey Thomson
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

pc client scheduler looks at 1 server, gui looks at another serve r

[MC Matt Cooper (2838)]

Hello,
 I have TSM 4.1.4 on one z/OS 1.1 lpar and I am trying to test TSM 4.1.5
on a different z/OS 1.1 lpar.  The client that I am testing is a Win2000
4.1.12 client.  I changed the IP address in the DSM.OPT file, stopped the
scheduler, client acceptor, and remote client.  The client is defined to
bothe the 4.1.4 (production) system and the 4.1.5 (test system).  I started
the schedule and it started communicating with the production system even
though the IP address of the test system is in the DSM.OPT.  I started the
GUI client and it started a session with the test system.  How can this be?
I bounced the PC, same situation.  I shutdown all 3 and left them down for
an hour to let any network cache clear out, same effect.  I changed the ip
address again so it would use a different shared adapter and restarted
everything.  Same situation.  What is going on?
Matt

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! Where's the Air Support?

[Kelly Lipp]

Lindsey,

To aid in your movement to the server side (the dark side), may I suggest a
training course?  IBM offers courses and so do we.  Your climb on the curve
will be shortened significantly!

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Lindsey Thomson
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

Re: Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker

[Kelly Lipp]

And this would be a very good question to post on [EMAIL PROTECTED] if
there were such a place.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Unix Backup
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker


Hello

Has anyone restored data from Legato Networker tapes without the luxury to
use Legato Networker to perform the restores?  I have read in a related post
here that this can be done but wasn't able to get any specifics.
Any insight would be quite helpful.

Thanks

_
Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
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Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! Where's the Air Support?

[Lindsey Thomson]

Hi *,
 I am a newbie to this forum BUT have been using TSM Client side/Sysback
for all backup/recovery issues. Sysback works fine for the "bare metal"
recovery and ADSM/TSM works fine for the rest. Have been using this
methodology for the past 5+ years and have had very good results.
 When I posed the question to IBM: "OK, TSM works for data recovery, what
about "bare metal" recovery issues?" The response was "Sysback". I don't
see why IBM would leave TSM out of an advertisement when given the
opportunity though...
Just my $0.02.

 I am just recently moving into the server side of TSM V42 and am having a
bit of a learning curve but it looks hopeful...  :^)

 I look forward to helpful hints from ya'll, thx.

lt
512 823 6522  (TL: 793)

Restoring Legato Networker tapes without using Networker

[Unix Backup]

Hello

Has anyone restored data from Legato Networker tapes without the luxury to
use Legato Networker to perform the restores?  I have read in a related post
here that this can be done but wasn't able to get any specifics.
Any insight would be quite helpful.

Thanks

_
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Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! Where's the Air Support?

[Dirk Billerbeck]

Hi Tim,

when I told the Tivoli TSM Product Manager for EMEA back in early 2000 that
_EVERY_ customer asks me about "And what about a networked based disaster
recovery with TSM?" and that I had to answer "Yes, you can restore your
systems with TSM but it requires some manual preparations and
interventions" he looked at me in such a lack of understanding that I asked
myself "On which planet does Tivoli live?" :-/

This is one of the greatest weaknesses of TSM (beside the poor
reporting...) and IBM/Tivoli hasn't been able to bring its own solid and
_useable_ DR tool to market in the last 10 years.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Enterprise Computing Solutions
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 117, Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 190,
Internet: dirk.billerbeck @ gecits-eu.com


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To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W
 here's the Air Support?


 -- 



I echo Kelly!
Another marketing slip?:
Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for bare
metal recovery for NT, windows, from
what I heard).  This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
metal recovery was to use/buy...
a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
out by Veritas.
SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
marketing slip
there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
this one as well!!!

Thanks Tim Williams


-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp

Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately to
have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!

This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: q access command with SQL select

[Prather, Wanda]

I cannot think of any way to find that information with a server SELECT
command.
Sorry.


-Original Message-
From: Tomas Hidalgo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: q access command with SQL select


Hi!

>From TSM Server (AIX version 4.1), using SQL query, howto obtain the 
information of command 'q access' of all nodes (Solaris). i ignore the 
table to use :(  

Thank!!

Tomas H.
Madrid - Spain


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Re: TSM Backup Script, bytes sent over last session.

[Alan Davenport]

Here is what I am using. It is a bit simplistic, but gets the job done;


Name   Line   Command

   Number 
-- --

LIST_BACK- 10 select bytes,entity from summary where
activity='BACKUP' and
 UP_TOTALS (date(end_time)=date(current_date-1 day)) and
bytes>0 order
   by bytes desc

   20 select sum(bytes) as total_bytes from summary
where 
   activity='BACKUP' and
(date(end_time)=date(current_date-1  
   day))


Alan Davenport
Senior Storage Administrator
Selective Insurance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(973) 948-1306 


-Original Message-
From: Pétur Eyþórsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Backup Script, bytes sent over last session.


I know this has been posted here a hundred times but i would like it wery
mutch if somone nice would send me
a admin script, that displays the amount of data sent thourh the last 24hrs
for nodes?



Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Nyherji Hf  Simi TEL: +354-569-7700
 Borgartun 37105 Iceland
 URL:http://www.nyherji.is

Re: Looking for sites with TSM 4.X running on HP-UX server

[Kovacs, Mark]

Robin,

Great to hear from you!

We are backing up 60 UNIX servers and 220 NT/W2K servers with 15TB
of EMC and 1.5 TB of NetApp to two L-Class boxes each with 4 440MHz procs,
12 GB RAM and an ATL P6000 w/16 drive tape library each.  TSM 3.7.4 was very
stable and our only problem was keeping pace with the rapid increase in new
servers.  When we went to 4.1, bugs started to crop in and caused stability
issues.  We've had horrible and frustrating experiences with Tivoli support.


In 4.1 we ran into a known bug that corrupted the database.  We
applied all of the patches required by support (getting us up to 4.1.5) and
now we are running into a thread errors.  One of the threads will crash and
bring down the app.  Would it be possible to share the output of swlist ?
I'm hoping that there may be a patch that you have already installed that we
have not.

thanks,
mark

-Original Message-
From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Looking for sites with TSM 4.X running on HP-UX server


Mark,

We are running TSM 4.1.4.1 on an L2000-5x, HP-UX 11.00.
We have an HP 20/700 library with 10 DLT8000 drives, each on its own SCSI
bus.
We are in the early stages of a SAN implementation (with HP XP512 disk) and
have just added 2 A5158A fiber cards to the L2000.  At about the same time
we installed them, we noticed erratic hangs on the TSM server, which
eventually clear up... but the effect on TSM operations has been pretty
bad.  Just applied some patches to HP-UX about an hour ago... will let you
know if it fixes things.

What is your specific problem?  What is you environment (server, library,
etc.)?

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs




"Kovacs, Mark"
 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG)
02/11/02 05:15 Subject:
PMLooking for sites with TSM 4.X
running on HP-UX server
Please respond
to "ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"







To all:

I would like to get in contact with anyone running TSM 4.X on HP-UX
11.00.  We have multiple servers and one is experiencing application
issues.
We have been in continuous contact with TSM support, but find it very
frustrating.  We believe it may be a combination of patches on both TSM as
well as HPUX.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
mark

Re: TSM Backup Script, bytes sent over last session.

[Williams, Tim P {PBSG}]

I like this one that I cooked up:
ANS8000I Server command: 'select date(days(current_date)-1) as "DATA date",
summary.entity, nodes.domain_name, nodes.platform_name, sum(summary.bytes)
as sum_bytes from summary, nodes where summary.entity=nodes.node_name and
summary.activity='BACKUP' and days(current_date)-days(start_time)=1 group by
summary.entity, nodes.domain_name, nodes.platform_name' order by sum_bytes
desc

you can play with backup vs archive data
it will pull all nodes infoprior day...24 hour period...

FYI Thanks Tim


-Original Message-
From: Pétur Eyþórsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Backup Script, bytes sent over last session.


I know this has been posted here a hundred times but i would like it wery
mutch if somone nice would send me
a admin script, that displays the amount of data sent thourh the last 24hrs
for nodes?



Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Nyherji Hf  Simi TEL: +354-569-7700
 Borgartun 37105 Iceland
 URL:http://www.nyherji.is

TSM Backup Script, bytes sent over last session.

[Pétur Eyþórsson]

I know this has been posted here a hundred times but i would like it wery
mutch if somone nice would send me
a admin script, that displays the amount of data sent thourh the last 24hrs
for nodes?



Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Nyherji Hf  Simi TEL: +354-569-7700
 Borgartun 37105 Iceland
 URL:http://www.nyherji.is

Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Dmochowski, Ray]

Kelly ...

Why didn't YOU post a response to the article?



-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp

Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately to
have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!

This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

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Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! W here's the Air Support?

[Williams, Tim P {PBSG}]

I echo Kelly!
Another marketing slip?:
Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for bare
metal recovery for NT, windows, from
what I heard).  This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
metal recovery was to use/buy...
a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
out by Veritas.
SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
marketing slip
there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
this one as well!!!

Thanks Tim Williams


-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?


http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp

Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately to
have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!

This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: a little bit off topic

[Joshua S. Bassi]

That is not at all off topic.  Anything related to TSM can and should be
discussed here.



--
Joshua S. Bassi
Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (415) 215-0326

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Burak Demircan
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: a little bit off topic

Hi,
I am very sorry for this in some way private mail.
Is there anybody from Turkiye working on TSM? I would like to
get in contact with anybody.
Best Regards,
Burak

PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!! Where's the Air Support?

[Kelly Lipp]

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=22041,00.asp

Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM?  Where is the crack marketing team?  We need desperately to
have air support on an issue like this.  The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks.  It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!

This kept me up all night.  Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent.  I eat, sleep and
breath TSM.  Can I have some help please?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: TSM & database planning

[Kelly Lipp]

And always remember: at the end of all of these calculations you're going to
hold your thumb up in front of your face and say, h, 20 GB sounds about
right.

I've run the equation with real numbers and got huge databases.  Sizes I
knew that were too large.  I'm a pretty strong advocate for taking a good
first guess and growing if necessary.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Selva, Perpetua
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM & database planning


[Selva, Perpetua]  I was following the chapter 2, tsm implementaion
planning to figure  out the database size required for an upcoming project.



however, the calculation based on the book doesn't seem to make
sense with what's currently on my production system

I have a client server  with 1,000,000 files( from the select
count(*) from backups where node_name=whatever) query, is this the right
way?


Please let me know

Thx

TSM & database planning

[Selva, Perpetua]

[Selva, Perpetua]  I was following the chapter 2, tsm implementaion
planning to figure  out the database size required for an upcoming project.



however, the calculation based on the book doesn't seem to make
sense with what's currently on my production system

I have a client server  with 1,000,000 files( from the select
count(*) from backups where node_name=whatever) query, is this the right
way?


Please let me know

Thx

Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?

[Prather, Wanda]

I agree.  In the rare case our server is restarted or crashes, we do not
have to restart the client schedulers.
Only time I have seen it necessary to restart the clients is when someone
has made network/DNS changes.


-Original Message-
From: Thomas A. La Porte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?


One solution is to simply cron a restart of the TSM daemons,
however, the long term correct solution is to determine why your
server is crashing. We go hundreds of days without restarting our
TSM servers, and the only time we restart our client schedulers
is when the include/exclude lists get updated.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Cheryl Miller wrote:

>Our company uses Powerbroker access instead of sudo and they don't want to
>give us
>pbrun su-root privileges. Any other ideas?
>
>-Original Message-
>From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:47 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: root required to kill TSM daemons?
>
>
>Pl look at sudo command acts as proxy for root only for that cmd.
>BALANAND
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Cheryl Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:41 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: root required to kill TSM daemons?
>
>
>We just converted to TSM 4.2.1.9 from NetBackup. We are finding that our
>group needs to be able to stop the TSM daemons and start the start up
>script, instead of always having the system admin. do this. Right now I am
>told that there is no work around for root privileges being needed to kill
>the TSM daemons. I'm wondering how other shops get around this problem?
When
>our TSM server crashes, all of the clients that are getting backed up are
>getting hung schedulers and need to be bounced to resume working. The fact
>that root privileges are needed to bounce the daemons is adding on days to
>our resolution, since we have to open a problem ticket with the system
>admin. group and wait for them to bounce the daemons. We have ids on most
of
>the unix servers and could do it, if the permissions allowed.
>
>Any ideas?? Do any of you have a work around for this problem? Tivoli had
me
>open an enhancement request.
>
>Cheryl
>
>Cheryl Miller
>Wells Fargo Bank
>Distributed Storage Management (DSM)
>916-774-2073
>
>

Re: Looking for sites with TSM 4.X running on HP-UX server

[Robin Sharpe]

Mark,

We are running TSM 4.1.4.1 on an L2000-5x, HP-UX 11.00.
We have an HP 20/700 library with 10 DLT8000 drives, each on its own SCSI
bus.
We are in the early stages of a SAN implementation (with HP XP512 disk) and
have just added 2 A5158A fiber cards to the L2000.  At about the same time
we installed them, we noticed erratic hangs on the TSM server, which
eventually clear up... but the effect on TSM operations has been pretty
bad.  Just applied some patches to HP-UX about an hour ago... will let you
know if it fixes things.

What is your specific problem?  What is you environment (server, library,
etc.)?

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs




"Kovacs, Mark"
 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG)
02/11/02 05:15 Subject:
PMLooking for sites with TSM 4.X running on 
HP-UX server
Please respond
to "ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"







To all:

I would like to get in contact with anyone running TSM 4.X on HP-UX
11.00.  We have multiple servers and one is experiencing application
issues.
We have been in continuous contact with TSM support, but find it very
frustrating.  We believe it may be a combination of patches on both TSM as
well as HPUX.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
mark

Re: help: backup failure

[Doug Thorneycroft]

Does the account the client is running under have access to the
entire D: drive?

-Original Message-
From:   Mohamed Adan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:help: backup failure

Hi!
We are running TSM client version 4212 on a Windows 2000 (SP2) Domain Controller
and backup fails on partition d: of the hard disk. There is no problem on the
other partitions. The TSM client service also regularly fails. I have no backup
failure on the other servers running Windows 2000. On some occasions backup runs
without a problem. I installed the 4212 with hope that it will improve things. I
think that things are worse now than they were before!

A DC without backup is a nightmare! Is there anyone with a similar problem or a
way out of this?

Thanks in advance!

Mohamed Adan




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Re: LTO strange behaviour

[Denzel, Richard van]

Tom,

The strange thing is that when I backup the production system (which is
connected with two separate Gigabit Ethernet adapaters) to the TSM server I
get a higher throughput (34 MB/s instead of 20 MB/s).

I'll just wait and see what IBM has to see about it, it's in their
performance lab now.

Thanks for sharing,

Richard.

-Original Message-
From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour


Richard --

We run our TSM server on a system that serves as our SAP fallover box, and
I've more experience than I'd like with both services running on the same
physical system. What I had at the time (about now, last year) was a TSM
server that would do 9 MB/sec to each of 5 DLT drives (45 MB/sec total
throughput) when the two systems were seperate -- and just over 6 MB/sec per
drive (30 MB/sec total) when SAP and TSM were on the same box. I never got
into serious debug, but it looks like a lot of the TCP/IP tuning doesn't
seem to apply to the local loopback interface.

Also, if you think about it -- with two boxes, you've got backint reading
local disk and writing to the network on box A and TSM reading the network
and writing to tape on box B. With one box, backint is reading disk and
writing to local loopback; TSM is reading local loopback and writing to
tape. You've really got twice the I/O running.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: Denzel, Richard van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour
>
>
> James,
>
> The backup is made from the TDP for R/3 running on the same
> system as TSM.
> The backup is around 100 GB. The backup is indeed from the
> local storage
> (SSA in mirror).
>
> We've already tried the settings on the server side. When we
> try to set TXNB
> on the client side, the backup from TDP for R/3 crashes.
> I've also tried using SHMEM instead of TCPIP, but TDP for R/3 doesn't
> support that, because of the TSM is running as root and TDP has to be
> running as ora.
>
> We're at the latest microcode and we've also dropped the
> problem with Tivoli
> Support and it's still in the labs there somewhere.
>
> Richard.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour
>
>
> What you really need to find out is how fast are you sending
> data to the LTO
> tape drives.  The tape drives can only go as fast as the data
> stream you
> send to them.  Or as fast as the destination can accept on a
> restore.  If
> you are only sending 2.5 MB/sec to the tape drives, then
> don't complain when
> the tape drives run at 2.5 MB/sec.
>
> You state that you are doing a backup.  What size and how
> many files are you
> sending.  If this is a LAN backup, how much bandwidth does
> your TSM server's
> network have?  If this is a backup from the TSM server's
> local storage, what
> type is it?
>
> If you have lots of small files, or your are bandwidth
> limited because of
> your network.  You should send the backup to disk storage,
> then migrate off
> to tape.
>
> Check the following settings and try setting them to these values.
>
> TSM Server:
>
> TXNGroupmax 256
> MOVESizethresh 500
> MOVEBatchsize 1000
>
> TSM Client:
>
> TXNBytelimit 2097152
>
> Also upgrade to the latest level of microcode.  And if all
> else fails,  open
> a support call with IBM and have them assist you.
>
> James Thompson
>
> _
> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
>

Re: LTO strange behaviour

[Kauffman, Tom]

Richard --

We run our TSM server on a system that serves as our SAP fallover box, and
I've more experience than I'd like with both services running on the same
physical system. What I had at the time (about now, last year) was a TSM
server that would do 9 MB/sec to each of 5 DLT drives (45 MB/sec total
throughput) when the two systems were seperate -- and just over 6 MB/sec per
drive (30 MB/sec total) when SAP and TSM were on the same box. I never got
into serious debug, but it looks like a lot of the TCP/IP tuning doesn't
seem to apply to the local loopback interface.

Also, if you think about it -- with two boxes, you've got backint reading
local disk and writing to the network on box A and TSM reading the network
and writing to tape on box B. With one box, backint is reading disk and
writing to local loopback; TSM is reading local loopback and writing to
tape. You've really got twice the I/O running.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: Denzel, Richard van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour
>
>
> James,
>
> The backup is made from the TDP for R/3 running on the same
> system as TSM.
> The backup is around 100 GB. The backup is indeed from the
> local storage
> (SSA in mirror).
>
> We've already tried the settings on the server side. When we
> try to set TXNB
> on the client side, the backup from TDP for R/3 crashes.
> I've also tried using SHMEM instead of TCPIP, but TDP for R/3 doesn't
> support that, because of the TSM is running as root and TDP has to be
> running as ora.
>
> We're at the latest microcode and we've also dropped the
> problem with Tivoli
> Support and it's still in the labs there somewhere.
>
> Richard.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour
>
>
> What you really need to find out is how fast are you sending
> data to the LTO
> tape drives.  The tape drives can only go as fast as the data
> stream you
> send to them.  Or as fast as the destination can accept on a
> restore.  If
> you are only sending 2.5 MB/sec to the tape drives, then
> don't complain when
> the tape drives run at 2.5 MB/sec.
>
> You state that you are doing a backup.  What size and how
> many files are you
> sending.  If this is a LAN backup, how much bandwidth does
> your TSM server's
> network have?  If this is a backup from the TSM server's
> local storage, what
> type is it?
>
> If you have lots of small files, or your are bandwidth
> limited because of
> your network.  You should send the backup to disk storage,
> then migrate off
> to tape.
>
> Check the following settings and try setting them to these values.
>
> TSM Server:
>
> TXNGroupmax 256
> MOVESizethresh 500
> MOVEBatchsize 1000
>
> TSM Client:
>
> TXNBytelimit 2097152
>
> Also upgrade to the latest level of microcode.  And if all
> else fails,  open
> a support call with IBM and have them assist you.
>
> James Thompson
>
> _
> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
>

Is it ok to exclude ntuser.dat, and usrclass.dat ????

[Keith Kwiatek]

Is is ok to exclude the below files? I found this tivloi link that seems to
indicate such:

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/datenhaltung/adsm/link/tsm-v42-books/win
c/ans60014.htm

   exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG"
   exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat"
   exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG"
   exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat"

LTO/Magstar/STK

[Dmochowski, Ray]

Sorry for the mix-up in the URL ...
Here's the correction :

http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/Replogle.3590andLTO.PDF

-Original Message-
From: Dmochowski, Ray
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)
Subject: RE: LTO/Magstar/STK


Rick ...

There's an excellent presentation by Dick Replogle on this topic from the
2001 TSM Symposium at Oxford ...

http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/Replogle.3590andLTO.pdf

Judge for yourself ...


-Original Message-
From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LTO/Magstar/STK


I've been asked to determine if LTO is a viable technology for
backing up some very large database we will be creating (several 4tb
oracle databases).

use:

- streaming backup of large db files
- will probably run on a duty cycle of 20-22hr/day, everyday

I know that STK 9840/9940 and IBM Magstar drives are capable of this
kind of work.  THe questions I've been asked is whether LTO is viable
in this environment.

Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

Rick

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Re: LTO/Magstar/STK

[Dmochowski, Ray]

Rick ...

There's an excellent presentation by Dick Replogle on this topic from the
2001 TSM Symposium at Oxford ...

http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/Replogle.3590andLTO.pdf

Judge for yourself ...


-Original Message-
From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LTO/Magstar/STK


I've been asked to determine if LTO is a viable technology for
backing up some very large database we will be creating (several 4tb
oracle databases).

use:

- streaming backup of large db files
- will probably run on a duty cycle of 20-22hr/day, everyday

I know that STK 9840/9940 and IBM Magstar drives are capable of this
kind of work.  THe questions I've been asked is whether LTO is viable
in this environment.

Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

Rick

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Re: TSM redbook/piece

[Marco Supino]

Hi.

Where can one find this manual ??

Marco.


"magill.jl" wrote:

> The manual that you refer to is not a redbook at all, it is the class manual
> for TS520 -- TSM Enhancements, Tuning and Troubleshooting.
>
> Tivoli Instructor, M/UX
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:50 AM
> Subject: TSM redbook/piece
>
> > Hi *SM-ers!
> > I have heard about a IBM Redbook/piece called: "TSM Enhancements, Tuning
> and
> > Troubleshooting, S150-1550-00". I cannot find it through IBM, nor through
> > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com. Does anybody have a copy of this manual?
> > Kindest regards,
> > Eric van Loon
> > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Re: TSM redbook/piece

[Keith Kwiatek]

yes, but, each user downloads the client, and then must configure it with
the nodename and tcpserveraddress. How can we configure the nodename and the
tcpserveraddress in the zipped tsm client?

Keith

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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: TSM redbook/piece


> Hi.
>
> Where can one find this manual ??
>
> Marco.
>
>
> "magill.jl" wrote:
>
> > The manual that you refer to is not a redbook at all, it is the class
manual
> > for TS520 -- TSM Enhancements, Tuning and Troubleshooting.
> >
> > Tivoli Instructor, M/UX
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:50 AM
> > Subject: TSM redbook/piece
> >
> > > Hi *SM-ers!
> > > I have heard about a IBM Redbook/piece called: "TSM Enhancements,
Tuning
> > and
> > > Troubleshooting, S150-1550-00". I cannot find it through IBM, nor
through
> > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com. Does anybody have a copy of this manual?
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> > > Eric van Loon
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Re: TSM redbook/piece

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Marco!
You have to order it through:
http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi
.cgi?SSN=02BLO0038821901469&FNC=SRH
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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From: Marco Supino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 15:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM redbook/piece


Hi.

Where can one find this manual ??

Marco.


"magill.jl" wrote:

> The manual that you refer to is not a redbook at all, it is the class
manual
> for TS520 -- TSM Enhancements, Tuning and Troubleshooting.
>
> Tivoli Instructor, M/UX
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:50 AM
> Subject: TSM redbook/piece
>
> > Hi *SM-ers!
> > I have heard about a IBM Redbook/piece called: "TSM Enhancements, Tuning
> and
> > Troubleshooting, S150-1550-00". I cannot find it through IBM, nor
through
> > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com. Does anybody have a copy of this manual?
> > Kindest regards,
> > Eric van Loon
> > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
> >
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Re: How do you pre-config windows dsm.opt file?

[Stumpf, Joachim]

the TSM-client connects to your server if you start the ba-client.
So you need a dsm.opt with this values:
NodeName yournode
TCPServeraddress yourserverip/name

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Datev eG
  
Keith Kwiatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Dienstag, 12. Februar 2002, 13:55:34, CET):

> Hello,
> 
> I extracted the TSM windows client files tot he TSM_IMAGES directory, and
> then placed a dsm.opt file (with JUST a couple parameters like
> schedlogretention) in the "config" directory, which then was successfully
> moved over to the baclient directory when the install completed, BUT when
> you launch the TSM client for the first time it gives a "TCP/IP failure",
> until you go through the wizard and complete the rest of the configuration
> (nodename, tcpserveraddress...).
> 
> Any way around this error message?
> 
> Keith
> 

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Re: NT 4.1.2.20 Client

[Rushforth, Tim]

If the Error 137 ... is in the dsierror.log, this is normal and is
documented in the readme.

I've opened a problem with Tivoli on the 4099 error message in the
application event log.

It doesn't really seem to be an error either - just an erroneous message.

Is something actually not working for you or are you just getting these
messages?  I get these messages but all works fine for me.

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-Original Message-
From: Bruce Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NT 4.1.2.20 Client


I'm having problems upgrading my NT/2000 clients.

Environment TSM ver 4.1.3.2 on AIX 4.3.3

Clients NT SP6a & Win2k SP1 & 2.

In the app event logs I keep getting the following error:

ID 4099 Scheduler exited unexpectedly with a result code of 0.

In the error log I see this:

02/12/2002 06:07:29 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication.

This is the contents of my dsmsched.log:



02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been started by Dsmcad.

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Querying server for next scheduled event.

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Node Name: PATHOLOGY-SQL

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Session established with server TSMSERV: AIX-RS/6000

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.2

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server date/time: 02/12/2002 06:09:09  Last access:
02/12/2002 06:09:09



02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN

02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Next operation scheduled:

02/12/2002 06:07:30


02/12/2002 06:07:30 Schedule Name: PATHOLOGY-SQL

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Action:Incremental

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Objects:

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Options:
-preschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppre.cmd
-postschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppost.cmd

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Server Window Start:   01:00:00 on 02/13/2002

02/12/2002 06:07:30


02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been stopped.



I have tried updating the node password on TSM then on the client.



I have tried taking out the password generate option & updating then but
nothing seems to be working..

Also on my Citrix farm the nodes keep contacting my TSM server about every
10min all day long (open incident with Tivoli)!!!



Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!



Thanks,



Bruce Kamp

Network Analyst II

Memorial Healthcare System

P: (954) 987-2020 x6008

E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

LTO/Magstar/STK

[Richard L. Rhodes]

I've been asked to determine if LTO is a viable technology for
backing up some very large database we will be creating (several 4tb
oracle databases).

use:

- streaming backup of large db files
- will probably run on a duty cycle of 20-22hr/day, everyday

I know that STK 9840/9940 and IBM Magstar drives are capable of this
kind of work.  THe questions I've been asked is whether LTO is viable
in this environment.

Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

Rick

How do you pre-config windows dsm.opt file?

[Keith Kwiatek]

Hello,

I extracted the TSM windows client files tot he TSM_IMAGES directory, and
then placed a dsm.opt file (with JUST a couple parameters like
schedlogretention) in the "config" directory, which then was successfully
moved over to the baclient directory when the install completed, BUT when
you launch the TSM client for the first time it gives a "TCP/IP failure",
until you go through the wizard and complete the rest of the configuration
(nodename, tcpserveraddress...).

Any way around this error message?

Keith

Re: How do you pre-config windows dsm.opt file?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Keith,

You should add missing lines like "nodename x",  "tcpserveraddress
x" and an eventual incle-excl list in your dsm.opt file, before
moving it to baclient directory. This would avoid you to go thru wizard.
Cheers.

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-Original Message-
From: Keith Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2002 13:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do you pre-config windows dsm.opt file?


Hello,

I extracted the TSM windows client files tot he TSM_IMAGES directory,
and then placed a dsm.opt file (with JUST a couple parameters like
schedlogretention) in the "config" directory, which then was
successfully moved over to the baclient directory when the install
completed, BUT when you launch the TSM client for the first time it
gives a "TCP/IP failure", until you go through the wizard and complete
the rest of the configuration (nodename, tcpserveraddress...).

Any way around this error message?

Keith

Shared Memory Issue

[Bill Wheeler]

Hello *SMers,

I have been getting a sporadic error with my shared memory.  The error
occurs one day and then not again for a week or so, and I have no idea what
is causing it:  Following is a copy of the error taken out of the activity
log:

02/11/02 22:30:04 ANR8290W Error sending data through Shared Memory.
Reason  22.
02/11/02 22:30:04 ANR0400I Session 1780 started for node F50_CLIENT
(AIX) (ShMem).
02/11/02 22:30:06 ANR8291W Error receiving data through Shared Memory.
Reason 22.
02/11/02 22:30:06 ANR0480W Session 1780 for node F50_CLIENT (AIX)
terminated - connection with client severed.

I am currently lost as to why I am getting this error, any help would be
greatly appreciated.

TSM V 4.1.5.0
AIX  V 4.3.3.0

Thanks again,

Bill Wheeler
PDM Administrator
La-Z-Boy Incorporated
(734) 242-1444 x 6170

Re: NT 4.1.2.20 Client

[Burak Demircan]

Try following (Do not forget to replace service names like "TSM Scheduler" ). 
You may first remove all services. Then install them like in 2. paragraph or 
update like in 3. or 4. 


regards, 
Burak 



dsmcutil remove /name:"TSM Scheduler" /password:mypassword 
dsmcutil remove /name:"TSM Acceptor" /password:mypassword 
dsmcutil remove /name:"TSM Agent" /password:mypassword 


dsmcutil install /name:"TSM Scheduler" /node:KT_FILESRV1 /password:mypassword 
/autostart:yes 
dsmcutil install CAD /name:"TSM Acceptor" /node:KT_FILESRV1 /autostart:yes 
/password:mypassword 
dsmcutil install REMOTE /name:"TSM Agent" /node:KT_FILESRV1 /partnername:"TSM 
Acceptor" /password:mypassword 


dsmcutil updatepw /node:KT_FILESRV1 /name:"TSM Scheduler" /password:mypassword 


dsmcutil update /node:KT_FILESRV1 /name:"TSM Scheduler" /password:mypassword 
dsmcutil update /node:KT_FILESRV1 /name:"TSM Acceptor" /password:mypassword 
dsmcutil update /node:KT_FILESRV1 /name:"TSM Agent" /password:mypassword 



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        Subject:        NT 4.1.2.20 Client

I'm having problems upgrading my NT/2000 clients. 

Environment TSM ver 4.1.3.2 on AIX 4.3.3 

Clients NT SP6a & Win2k SP1 & 2. 

In the app event logs I keep getting the following error: 

ID 4099 Scheduler exited unexpectedly with a result code of 0. 

In the error log I see this: 

02/12/2002 06:07:29 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 

This is the contents of my dsmsched.log: 



02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been started by Dsmcad. 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Querying server for next scheduled event. 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Node Name: PATHOLOGY-SQL 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Session established with server TSMSERV: AIX-RS/6000 

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.2 

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server date/time: 02/12/2002 06:09:09  Last access:
02/12/2002 06:09:09 



02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Next operation scheduled: 

02/12/2002 06:07:30
 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Schedule Name:         PATHOLOGY-SQL 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Action:                Incremental 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Objects: 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Options:
-preschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppre.cmd
-postschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppost.cmd 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Server Window Start:   01:00:00 on 02/13/2002 

02/12/2002 06:07:30
 

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been stopped. 



I have tried updating the node password on TSM then on the client. 



I have tried taking out the password generate option & updating then but
nothing seems to be working.. 

Also on my Citrix farm the nodes keep contacting my TSM server about every
10min all day long (open incident with Tivoli)!!! 



Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! 



Thanks, 

 

Bruce Kamp 

Network Analyst II 

Memorial Healthcare System 

P: (954) 987-2020 x6008 

E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

 

Antwort: tsm log results

[Felix Muelbaier]

Hi,
I am doing this like that

cat $liste | mail -s "Bericht " $mailuser

I havent't any Problems

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Felix Mülbaier



bebit Informationstechnik GmbH
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Re: help: backup failure

[Steve Roder]

Try 4.2.1.15.  What you are most likely seeing is the Schedule being
reported as "failed" if even a single file fails to backup.


> Hi!
> We are running TSM client version 4212 on a Windows 2000 (SP2) Domain Controller
> and backup fails on partition d: of the hard disk. There is no problem on the
> other partitions. The TSM client service also regularly fails. I have no backup
> failure on the other servers running Windows 2000. On some occasions backup runs
> without a problem. I installed the 4212 with hope that it will improve things. I
> think that things are worse now than they were before!
>
> A DC without backup is a nightmare! Is there anyone with a similar problem or a
> way out of this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mohamed Adan
>
>
>
>
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Re: TSM redbook/piece

[magill.jl]

The manual that you refer to is not a redbook at all, it is the class manual
for TS520 -- TSM Enhancements, Tuning and Troubleshooting.

Tivoli Instructor, M/UX

- Original Message -
From: "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:50 AM
Subject: TSM redbook/piece


> Hi *SM-ers!
> I have heard about a IBM Redbook/piece called: "TSM Enhancements, Tuning
and
> Troubleshooting, S150-1550-00". I cannot find it through IBM, nor through
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com. Does anybody have a copy of this manual?
> Kindest regards,
> Eric van Loon
> KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
>
>
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liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any
attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt.
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>

NT 4.1.2.20 Client

[Bruce Kamp]

I'm having problems upgrading my NT/2000 clients.

Environment TSM ver 4.1.3.2 on AIX 4.3.3

Clients NT SP6a & Win2k SP1 & 2.

In the app event logs I keep getting the following error:

ID 4099 Scheduler exited unexpectedly with a result code of 0.

In the error log I see this:

02/12/2002 06:07:29 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication.

This is the contents of my dsmsched.log:



02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been started by Dsmcad.

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Querying server for next scheduled event.

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Node Name: PATHOLOGY-SQL

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Session established with server TSMSERV: AIX-RS/6000

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.2

02/12/2002 06:07:30   Server date/time: 02/12/2002 06:09:09  Last access:
02/12/2002 06:09:09



02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN

02/12/2002 06:07:30 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Next operation scheduled:

02/12/2002 06:07:30


02/12/2002 06:07:30 Schedule Name: PATHOLOGY-SQL

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Action:Incremental

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Objects:

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Options:
-preschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppre.cmd
-postschedulecmd=D:\wins\1\backup\bkuppost.cmd

02/12/2002 06:07:30 Server Window Start:   01:00:00 on 02/13/2002

02/12/2002 06:07:30


02/12/2002 06:07:30 Scheduler has been stopped.



I have tried updating the node password on TSM then on the client.



I have tried taking out the password generate option & updating then but
nothing seems to be working..

Also on my Citrix farm the nodes keep contacting my TSM server about every
10min all day long (open incident with Tivoli)!!!



Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!



Thanks,



Bruce Kamp

Network Analyst II

Memorial Healthcare System

P: (954) 987-2020 x6008

E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

tsm log results

[Burak Demircan]

Hi, 
I sent schedule result to system administrators everyday automatically with 
mailx from AIX 4.3.3. But I have problem about e-mail system which wraps log 
lines. 
How can I send this files as attachments rather than inside text of e-mail? 
Best Regards, 
Burak 

PS: my current usage is 
mailx -s "tsm daily schedule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: LTO strange behaviour

[Denzel, Richard van]

James,

The backup is made from the TDP for R/3 running on the same system as TSM.
The backup is around 100 GB. The backup is indeed from the local storage
(SSA in mirror).

We've already tried the settings on the server side. When we try to set TXNB
on the client side, the backup from TDP for R/3 crashes.
I've also tried using SHMEM instead of TCPIP, but TDP for R/3 doesn't
support that, because of the TSM is running as root and TDP has to be
running as ora.

We're at the latest microcode and we've also dropped the problem with Tivoli
Support and it's still in the labs there somewhere.

Richard.

-Original Message-
From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour


What you really need to find out is how fast are you sending data to the LTO
tape drives.  The tape drives can only go as fast as the data stream you
send to them.  Or as fast as the destination can accept on a restore.  If
you are only sending 2.5 MB/sec to the tape drives, then don't complain when
the tape drives run at 2.5 MB/sec.

You state that you are doing a backup.  What size and how many files are you
sending.  If this is a LAN backup, how much bandwidth does your TSM server's
network have?  If this is a backup from the TSM server's local storage, what
type is it?

If you have lots of small files, or your are bandwidth limited because of
your network.  You should send the backup to disk storage, then migrate off
to tape.

Check the following settings and try setting them to these values.

TSM Server:

TXNGroupmax 256
MOVESizethresh 500
MOVEBatchsize 1000

TSM Client:

TXNBytelimit 2097152

Also upgrade to the latest level of microcode.  And if all else fails,  open
a support call with IBM and have them assist you.

James Thompson

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Re: help: backup failure

[Dylan Ryback]

Please post more details on the error messages from your dsmsched.log and
dsmerror.log files as well as a list of your dsm.opt settings...

- Original Message -
From: "Mohamed Adan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:20 AM
Subject: help: backup failure


Hi!
We are running TSM client version 4212 on a Windows 2000 (SP2) Domain
Controller
and backup fails on partition d: of the hard disk. There is no problem on
the
other partitions. The TSM client service also regularly fails. I have no
backup
failure on the other servers running Windows 2000. On some occasions backup
runs
without a problem. I installed the 4212 with hope that it will improve
things. I
think that things are worse now than they were before!

A DC without backup is a nightmare! Is there anyone with a similar problem
or a
way out of this?

Thanks in advance!

Mohamed Adan




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HSM ERROR Message

[Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS]]

Hi 

Has anyone seen the following error message or return code

02/12/02   10:38:13 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /usr/sap/trans,
rc: 102
02/12/02   10:38:13 ANS9082W dsmreconcile: error encountered while
reconciling f
ile system /usr/sap/trans.
02/12/02   10:49:40 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /usr/sap/trans,
rc: 102
02/12/02   10:55:31 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /usr/sap/trans,
rc: 102
02/12/02   11:01:48 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /usr/sap/trans,
rc: 102
02/12/02   11:20:51 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /usr/sap/trans,
rc: 102

Thks 

Sean Ramnarayan

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Re: 3584 amd SDG R03

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Tab!
Is that compressed? I spoke about native, so uncompressed.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Tab Trepagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 23:14
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3584 amd SDG R03


Eric,

Our 3583 uses HVDS drives and we see peak rates of over 12 MB/s per drive
as reported by topas.

Tab Trepagnier
TSM Administrator
Laitram Corporation







"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
02/11/2002 03:33:50 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:  Re: 3584 amd SDG R03


Hi Daniel!
The SAN Data Gateway uses High Voltage Differential SCSI interfaces by
default.
If your are using the default SCSI interfaces, your drives will probably be
also HVD drives. They perform considerably less then the Low Voltage
Differential drives.
The specs on the IBM pages (sustained data transfer rate 15MB/sec native)
are LVD transfer rates. You will never achieve this with HVD SCSI.
However, 2.5 MB/sec is very slow. What's the SAN Data Gateway's microcode
level?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 06:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3584 amd SDG R03



Hi

We have a 3584 with 3 drives; 2 are SCSI attached through a San Data
Gateway
R03, and one drive is direct FC attached to a switch.

We're using this library with a IBM P-Series 610 with one FC adapter.

The problem is that the performance of the 2 SCSI drives attached to the
SDG
is very poor. The FC drive has a good performance and can reach speeds up
to
27MB/s, but the SDG will only reach about 4-5MB/s, which shoulod mean
2-2.5MB/s per drive.

The 3584 drives(both SCSI and FC) are upgraded to the last level of
firmware(was done a week ago), and the library is at level 2250.

Is this a know problem with the San Data Gateway? We should at least be
able
to reach about 10-15MB/s thought the SAN Data Gateway.

Appreciates any help I can get.



Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman



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help: backup failure

[Mohamed Adan]

Hi!
We are running TSM client version 4212 on a Windows 2000 (SP2) Domain Controller
and backup fails on partition d: of the hard disk. There is no problem on the
other partitions. The TSM client service also regularly fails. I have no backup
failure on the other servers running Windows 2000. On some occasions backup runs
without a problem. I installed the 4212 with hope that it will improve things. I
think that things are worse now than they were before!

A DC without backup is a nightmare! Is there anyone with a similar problem or a
way out of this?

Thanks in advance!

Mohamed Adan




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