is this ok ?
db size 19GB , 5 volumes on SSA disks in RAID 5 tsm 5.2.3.3 on aix 5.2-03 ACTIVITY Date Pages backedUp/Hr -- -- - FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 14616000 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 11044800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 10720800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-03 14439600 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-03 11239200 thanks
Re: is this ok ?
Hi, Performance guide tells us that values over 5.000.000 pages/hr are OK, so you're in the scope ! On our system, tsm 5.2.2.1 over aix 5.2-03, db size 31 MB, installed on SSA (4 disks striped and mirrored over lvm) we get more or less the same values... Hope this helped. Cheers. Arnaud ** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: Wednesday, 03 November, 2004 11:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: is this ok ? db size 19GB , 5 volumes on SSA disks in RAID 5 tsm 5.2.3.3 on aix 5.2-03 ACTIVITY Date Pages backedUp/Hr -- -- - FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 14616000 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 11044800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-02 10720800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-03 14439600 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-11-03 11239200 thanks
Attributes changing
Hello All! I have noticed this message occurring very frequently within the activity log and was wondering if this is an issue that should be looked into further or if this is just the tcp address changing? I looked up the message and it just states that the GUID has changed for the server, but this is happening all of the time and I was getting concerned. Thank you! 11/02/04 15:27:26 ANR1639I Attributes changed for node FJSU011: TCP Address from 157.154.44.168 to 157.154.44.232. (SESSION: 3354) Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TRACING
The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James
Storage Agent config
Hello! I am configuring lan-free communication for several solaris Oracle servers. I have set up server to server communication, installed Gresham EDT 6.4.6, defined the storage agent, etc. I am very confused concerning how to logon to the storage agent through the TSM Server and also how to even logon to a regular command line interface. I know that the storage agent info. is located at /opt/tivoli/tsm/StorageAgent/bin, but I'm a little unclear about the rest. I was looking through the Storage Agent User's guide and it just confuses me more because my definitions are slightly different. I have successfully backed up data lan-free, but this was done months ago and I'm a little rusty. Here is what I am confused about: 1. Login to the storage agent's command line. In my case this would be fjsu011sa. 2. Login to fjsu011sa through the TSM server. 3. How do I know what is expected for communication between the client, storage agent and server? Here are my storage agent options file, dsm.sys file for the client and the information on the definitions I have on the TSM server for the storage agent and the client. This is being run on an AIX 5.2 TSM 5.2.2.5 server. (See attached file: dsmsta.opt.txt)(See attached file: dsm.sys.txt)(See attached file: Client Info.txt) Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dsmsta.opt.txt Description: Binary data dsm.sys.txt Description: Binary data Client Info.txt Description: Binary data
restore of a server windows 2000 after a disk crash
hello, we have a backup of a server windows 2000 under TSM. the backup consists of a complete backup of the server ( system object, partitions C and D) when we have a crash of disks, we want to use the backup under TSM. We replace disks and install OS and TSM client, but when we restore partitions C, D and system object, the server can't start up. My question is: Is there a procedure to use and exploit the backup of system object and Data , because in my case, the data are restored but the system object restored cause the server to stop working. thanks you _ MSN Messenger : dialoguez en temps riel avec vos amis ! http://g.msn.fr/FR1001/866
Re: TRACING
Version 5.2.2.2 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James
Re: Upgrading TSM Server from 5.1.6.3 to 5.2.3.0
Hi David, Thanks for the heads up on the install. I completed it yesterday. The process of upgrading involved getting a base 5.2.2.0, then going to 5.2.3.0 and then finally to 5.2.3.4. The only problem I noticed right away was my license files were the incorrect format. I had a 5.2 CD and used the files tivoli.tsm.license.cert tivoli.tsm.license.rte from it to install the correct format license files. After registering them, the system was fine. Thanks again for the help and the virtual coffee is on me. Chris. Christopher S. Zahorak, BCS Sr. AIX and Tivoli Administrator University of Windsor IT Services, Rm 203 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 P: (519)253-3000 ext. 2762 F: (519)973-7083 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LLE.EDU To Sent by: ADSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Upgrading TSM Server from 5.1.6.3 to 5.2.3.0 10/25/2004 12:56 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I did an upgrade from 5.1.6.3 to 5.2.3.1 without incident. Just remember that in addtion to the 5.2.3.x code, you'll need a 5.2.0.0 base code. I think you also need an imtermidate level, maybe 5.2.2.0. Do a preview yes install to make sure you have all the needed levels. I'm running on an AIX 5.1 ML5 64 bit mode box. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/2004 8:37:38 AM I will be upgrading my TSM Server from 5.1.63 to 5.2.3. Other than making sure I have a full backup of my database, is there anything else I should be aware of before upgrading? My server runs AIX 5.2 ML4 in a 32bit environment. Thanks, Chris. inline: graycol.gifinline: pic20799.gifinline: ecblank.gif
Re: TRACING
Check tracing under http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMM/SC32-9103-00/en_US/HTML/index.html. //Henrik Lepre, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) ORG Subject: Re: TRACING Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 2004-11-03 15:20 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Version 5.2.2.2 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
Re: Attributes changing
If you hop over to the ibm web site (http://www.ibm.com) and do a search on the message number, ANS1639I, you'll find some articles that might shed some light for you. Also search the ADSM-L archives for the message number. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 05:22:33: Hello All! I have noticed this message occurring very frequently within the activity log and was wondering if this is an issue that should be looked into further or if this is just the tcp address changing? I looked up the message and it just states that the GUID has changed for the server, but this is happening all of the time and I was getting concerned. Thank you! 11/02/04 15:27:26 ANR1639I Attributes changed for node FJSU011: TCP Address from 157.154.44.168 to 157.154.44.232. (SESSION: 3354) Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restore of a server windows 2000 after a disk crash
Go to www.ibm.com and search for this: Modified instructions for complete Restores of Windows Systems You will find the revised instructions IBM published in March 2004. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hassan hani Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: restore of a server windows 2000 after a disk crash hello, we have a backup of a server windows 2000 under TSM. the backup consists of a complete backup of the server ( system object, partitions C and D) when we have a crash of disks, we want to use the backup under TSM. We replace disks and install OS and TSM client, but when we restore partitions C, D and system object, the server can't start up. My question is: Is there a procedure to use and exploit the backup of system object and Data , because in my case, the data are restored but the system object restored cause the server to stop working. thanks you _ MSN Messenger : dialoguez en temps riel avec vos amis ! http://g.msn.fr/FR1001/866
Windows TSM server Crash
Hi all I have a big problem Is there a step by step procedure when a Windows 2000 TSM server crash I have to rebuild mine and I dont know where to start .. I have full backup of the serer .. but since it is dead ... I'm kindda stuck Thanks Luc Beaudoin Administrateur Réseau / Network Administrator/TSM Hopital General Juif S.M.B.D. Tel: (514) 340-8222 ext:8254
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin Is there a step by step procedure when a Windows 2000 TSM server crash I have to rebuild mine and I dont know where to start .. I have full backup of the serer .. but since it is dead ... I'm kindda stuck ...which is a good reason why a documented DR solution *must* contain *at least* documentaiton on how to restore the TSM server. Rule #1 of disaster recovery: Practice it, before you have to. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
Thanks Mark ... That is exactly what I'm doing now ... in my lab I still don't know where to start ... my TSM server is down, I formatted it ... installed win2k OS ... Now .. what are the steps ... re-install TSM server, I dont have a clue .. I tested (and documented) windows server restore, SQL servers DB restore ... Domain controller restore ... NOW I'm stuck with TSM server restore thanks again Luc Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-03 10:50 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Windows TSM server Crash From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin Is there a step by step procedure when a Windows 2000 TSM server crash I have to rebuild mine and I dont know where to start .. I have full backup of the serer .. but since it is dead ... I'm kindda stuck ...which is a good reason why a documented DR solution *must* contain *at least* documentaiton on how to restore the TSM server. Rule #1 of disaster recovery: Practice it, before you have to. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
Re: TRACING
Normally tracing is most useful when working with IBM support or development to diagnose a problem. The trace settings you need, and what components you need to trace depend on the nature of the problem. Perhaps if you were to describe your TSM environment and the problem you are having, and include actual documentation showing the problem, someone on this list might already know what you are seeing, eliminating the need to trace at all. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Lepre, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/2004 07:20 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: TRACING Version 5.2.2.2 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James
Re: TRACING
I am currently trying to backed up a directory with about 3 million files in it. The problem I am having is that is gets to a point and then fails at about 2.3million files. I was hoping to trace this problem and find out if it was failing on a particular file. So how would I set a trace for this... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING Normally tracing is most useful when working with IBM support or development to diagnose a problem. The trace settings you need, and what components you need to trace depend on the nature of the problem. Perhaps if you were to describe your TSM environment and the problem you are having, and include actual documentation showing the problem, someone on this list might already know what you are seeing, eliminating the need to trace at all. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Lepre, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/2004 07:20 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: TRACING Version 5.2.2.2 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin That is exactly what I'm doing now ... in my lab I still don't know where to start ... my TSM server is down, I formatted it ... installed win2k OS ... Now .. what are the steps ... re-install TSM server, I dont have a clue .. I tested (and documented) windows server restore, SQL servers DB restore ... Domain controller restore ... NOW I'm stuck with TSM server restore Read Wanda Prather's response to your initial request; it's on the money as to what you need to do. The point I was making is that you really should have had a DR drill, prior to your actual disaster. If you had, you would now have documentation telling everything you need to do, step by step. Sorry for the pickle you're in now; good luck to you. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
Re: TRACING
On Nov 3, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Lepre, James wrote: I am currently trying to backed up a directory with about 3 million files in it. The problem I am having is that is gets to a point and then fails at about 2.3million files. I was hoping to trace this problem and find out if it was failing on a particular file. So how would I set a trace for this... James - When posting to this technical forum, we can help you only when you provide details... Provide us with the error indication you are experiencing. Tell us what kind of TSM operation is being performed (command string literal, GUI operation, etc.) A directory containing 3 million files is absurd to start with (unless you really mean a meta directory with a tree of subdirs). If it is actually millions of files within a single directory, get the owner to render that rational, with subdirectories. You may well be running out of virtual storage space if performing an incremental backup, in which case that client system needs a vstorage boost. Richard Sims
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
Thanks again Mark But maybe I'm not clear enought ... let me try to put it simple I am doing a Disaster recovery plan. I made a lab with three win2k servers(DC, File server/SQL, TSM server) and 1 win2k workstation I made documentation and procedure for those disasters: - Restore a win2000 server (file server) - Restore a win2000 server with SQL 2000 - Restore a win2000 server that is a domain controller The one that I have problem with is - Restore a windows 2000 server with TSM SERVER on it (THE TSM SERVER) To re-install the OS on it .. no problem ... but How can I restore the data if the THE TSM SERVER is dead ... what R the steps ... exemple : 1. install TSM SERVER software 2. configure drive or library 3. import node or volumes .. 4 ... etc .. that is what I'm looking for .. the steps after the OS is up to put THE TSM SERVER back on-line with THE TSM DB, POLICY DOMAINS, NODES, SCHEDULES hope it's more clear thanks Luc
Re: TRACING
Someone else posted on this thread the link to the TSM Problem Determination Guide, which includes info on tracing. But I sure don't know enough about the problem to advise you on what to trace, i.e. what does fails mean? What message are you seeing in dsmsched.log, dsmerror,log, or stdout, that coincide with the failed operation? How about on the TSM server? What versions of client and server are you running, and on what operating systems? Need specifics here. Again, if we knew more about the nature of the problem, you might not even need to trace at all. If you just want to know on what file, then I would think that dsmsched.log or stdout would show you this, or at least give you a rough idea if the failure occurs consistently in the same place. But tracing as the first step in diagnostics is ill-advised, and if you were call in to support and I were working with you, it would not be the first thing we would do, just as I would not agree to start exploratory surgery unless I already had a pretty good understanding of my patient's symptoms. *** *** Note: This is just an analogy, I am not practicing medicine. Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 09:17:22: I am currently trying to backed up a directory with about 3 million files in it. The problem I am having is that is gets to a point and then fails at about 2.3million files. I was hoping to trace this problem and find out if it was failing on a particular file. So how would I set a trace for this... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING Normally tracing is most useful when working with IBM support or development to diagnose a problem. The trace settings you need, and what components you need to trace depend on the nature of the problem. Perhaps if you were to describe your TSM environment and the problem you are having, and include actual documentation showing the problem, someone on this list might already know what you are seeing, eliminating the need to trace at all. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Lepre, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/2004 07:20 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: TRACING Version 5.2.2.2 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRACING The synax will differ depending on your version of TSM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2004 11:56:10 AM Hello All, I am having a difficult time setting up a trace. I need to trace a backup I am trying to perform because it keeps failing in the same place. I know I need to add something to the DSM.OPT file but I have forgotten what it is, and also is there something on the server side I need to do as well. Any help is always appreciated, and thank you in advance. Thanks James
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
The chapter I pointed you to the other day includes information on restoring the TSM server. My recommendation would be to: 1) Read the chapter I mentioned. Section Recovering Your Server Using Database and Storage Pool Backups covers the restore scenario, but the entire chapter is worth reading to understand your options for protecting the server as well. 2) Attempt the restore per the info in the book. 3) If you continue to have trouble, post the *exact* steps you took, as well as the results that demonstrate the problem you are having. That will give list members a lot more info to help you with. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 09:46:31: Thanks again Mark But maybe I'm not clear enought ... let me try to put it simple I am doing a Disaster recovery plan. I made a lab with three win2k servers(DC, File server/SQL, TSM server) and 1 win2k workstation I made documentation and procedure for those disasters: - Restore a win2000 server (file server) - Restore a win2000 server with SQL 2000 - Restore a win2000 server that is a domain controller The one that I have problem with is - Restore a windows 2000 server with TSM SERVER on it (THE TSM SERVER) To re-install the OS on it .. no problem ... but How can I restore the data if the THE TSM SERVER is dead ... what R the steps ... exemple : 1. install TSM SERVER software 2. configure drive or library 3. import node or volumes .. 4 ... etc .. that is what I'm looking for .. the steps after the OS is up to put THE TSM SERVER back on-line with THE TSM DB, POLICY DOMAINS, NODES, SCHEDULES hope it's more clear thanks Luc
Re: Windows TSM server Crash
Hi, If your ITSM server is running, give it the Prepare command (help prepare). This will give you all the info you need to recover your server. Some basic steps - Install OS; - Install ITSM server (level at least same as before); - Configure / Format DB en Logs. Size is as before or bigger; - Configure devices; - Configure (restore volhist) - RESTORE your ITSM database from last Full and Incremental DB back volumes. It isn't the complete work, some steps. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin Sent: woensdag 3 november 2004 17:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows TSM server Crash Thanks again Mark But maybe I'm not clear enought ... let me try to put it simple I am doing a Disaster recovery plan. I made a lab with three win2k servers(DC, File server/SQL, TSM server) and 1 win2k workstation I made documentation and procedure for those disasters: - Restore a win2000 server (file server) - Restore a win2000 server with SQL 2000 - Restore a win2000 server that is a domain controller The one that I have problem with is - Restore a windows 2000 server with TSM SERVER on it (THE TSM SERVER) To re-install the OS on it .. no problem ... but How can I restore the data if the THE TSM SERVER is dead ... what R the steps ... exemple : 1. install TSM SERVER software 2. configure drive or library 3. import node or volumes .. 4 ... etc .. that is what I'm looking for .. the steps after the OS is up to put THE TSM SERVER back on-line with THE TSM DB, POLICY DOMAINS, NODES, SCHEDULES hope it's more clear thanks Luc
Re: DB2 Backup offline on Winnt
yes you are right !! and not only that .. but also Lotus .. just about to post one question on the policy .. i am confusd in policy for retention. Right now .. i want to just take backups of the backups taken by their application. LAter on i will automate using TSM. Can anyone kindly give me the knowledge as to what folders should i exclude from backup if: 1- I have bd2 database backup with me. 2- System state backup with me. 3- I want to restore complete system with DB2, with DB2 database backup ONLY availbale with me in a file. 4- What folders/files should i exclude from backup using BA Client, so that i don't mess up with open databases. Kind Regards, Sandra Steve Harris wrote: Sandra, You really have jumped in at the deep end haven't you? DB2, Oracle, offsite all at once. There is no need to shy away from DB2. Its interface is reasonably straightforward, and there is a redbook to tell you exactly how to set it up. http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246247.html?Open Regards Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/2004 5:39:28 Dear All, Since we don't have any DB2 Administrator therefore I am not going into taking online backups of DB2. The application that is using DB2 taking DB2 backups by first shutting doen the database and then taking backups using DB2 commands and then starting the database. They keep this backedup database with them on tapes and then rotation of tapes start. Now I am going to automate only this backedup database by taking incremental backups only. Question: For Database A, what folders should I exclude so that I get all the configuration of DB2 and then restoring database from those backups. Do I have to shutdown DB2 before I take incremental backups of entire WINNT machine? How about open file support on NT since there is no wizard to configure open file support, and not even an option to select for image etc.? Please advise and Help ! Kind Regards, Sandra *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this email in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return email. You should also delete this email and destroy any hard copies produced. ***
TDP for Lotus -- Right Policy
Dear All, Sorry to popup again with a new thing .. as i went through the documentation and list archive, and web searches.. i could not find what i was looking for. My Lotus is on windows 2000 and i am using selective backups currently for entire database (70GB). What I am going to do: 1- Taking incremental daily. 2- Doing archivelog daily. 3- Doing inactivate log daily. 4- Doing compaction of all the database on Sunday morning. (Space constraint on hard disk) 5- Doing incremental backups and archivelog there after till next sunday. 6- I don't think i need to take selective backups monthly or weekly or whatever. What is my problem that i foresee: 1- If i am going to run compaction every sunday, i end up with so many databses with different DBIIDs all with their respective transaction logs. 2- If I want to delete backups taken 3 months ago, how do I do that? Since no version policy applies here after DBIID changes. 3- If Transaction Logs deletion. As I was going through the list archive, I fond somewhere saying ... TDP forLotus tells lotus server that certain archive logs have been backedup, so lotus can delete or whatever those transaction log file. ?? here is it right, if yes then how does that delete those transaction log files? ?? ? if it is not right, then how do i go about deleting archivelogs that have been backedup??? (definitely i m not running in circular logging). OR OR OR OR What strategy should I follow Please enlighten me in this darknesss !! Kind Regards, Sandra
Re: Open file backup
BEAUTIFULL It worked grea !!! Thanks alot Best Wishes! Sandra Bill Boyer wrote: Look up the include.fs statement. snapshotcachelocation parameter in particular. include.fs c: snapshotcachelocation=d:\whatever include.fs d: snapshotcachelocation=c:\whatever Goes in the dsm.opt file on that client. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandra Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open file backup great ... but how do i define 2 cache locations in one option file Please advise !!! Kind Regards, Sandra TSM_User wrote: If you set your resource utilization to 1 and set your cach location for C:\ on D: and the one for D:\ on C:\ then you don't need to create an E:\. It must be done this way becuase you can't run a snapshot with a cache location to a drive that is currently running a snapshot. With resourceutilization at 1 only one snapshot will happen at a time. Sandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:just a quick one !!! Do i really really reallly have to have a separate partition for snapshot to backup with open file support. I have C: and D:, both will be backedup by a schedule to take incremental backup of entire system with system objects. I have to create another partition E: which will hold snapshot location?? or is there any workaround Kind Regards, Sandra - Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a
Re: DB2 Backup offline on Winnt
also i have started to hear about ESS where i'll have to take flashcopy into consideration and Server free backupss hhh !!! Will be bugging you guys on this too later .. i wish after 1 week or so !! and not earlier ! Sandra ! Sandra wrote: yes you are right !! and not only that .. but also Lotus .. just about to post one question on the policy .. i am confusd in policy for retention. Right now .. i want to just take backups of the backups taken by their application. LAter on i will automate using TSM. Can anyone kindly give me the knowledge as to what folders should i exclude from backup if: 1- I have bd2 database backup with me. 2- System state backup with me. 3- I want to restore complete system with DB2, with DB2 database backup ONLY availbale with me in a file. 4- What folders/files should i exclude from backup using BA Client, so that i don't mess up with open databases. Kind Regards, Sandra Steve Harris wrote: Sandra, You really have jumped in at the deep end haven't you? DB2, Oracle, offsite all at once. There is no need to shy away from DB2. Its interface is reasonably straightforward, and there is a redbook to tell you exactly how to set it up. http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246247.html?Open Regards Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/2004 5:39:28 Dear All, Since we don't have any DB2 Administrator therefore I am not going into taking online backups of DB2. The application that is using DB2 taking DB2 backups by first shutting doen the database and then taking backups using DB2 commands and then starting the database. They keep this backedup database with them on tapes and then rotation of tapes start. Now I am going to automate only this backedup database by taking incremental backups only. Question: For Database A, what folders should I exclude so that I get all the configuration of DB2 and then restoring database from those backups. Do I have to shutdown DB2 before I take incremental backups of entire WINNT machine? How about open file support on NT since there is no wizard to configure open file support, and not even an option to select for image etc.? Please advise and Help ! Kind Regards, Sandra *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this email in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return email. You should also delete this email and destroy any hard copies produced. ***
Re: TDP for Lotus -- Right Policy
Some answers to your questions: 1. After you run compact, the incremental will do a full backup of all your logged databases. If you run the inactivatelog command afterwards, all the transaction logs required to recover those databases will be inactivated. Your management policy will determine the fate of those logs. If you don't run compact, make sure to run selective, so that the inactivatelog command can inactivate logs. 2. Version changes still apply after DBIID changes. The incremental will mark the previous backup as inactive and your management policy will determine how many and for how long these will be kept. 3. The Domino server knows which log extents have been backed up and it reuses them. When the Domino server start it creates a formatted set of log extent files (.TXN). When the server uses up all of them, it either creates a new one ,if none of the log extents have been archived, or reuses the oldest log extents by renaming the file to the next log extent number. Eduardo ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 09:52:09 AM: Dear All, Sorry to popup again with a new thing .. as i went through the documentation and list archive, and web searches.. i could not find what i was looking for. My Lotus is on windows 2000 and i am using selective backups currently for entire database (70GB). What I am going to do: 1- Taking incremental daily. 2- Doing archivelog daily. 3- Doing inactivate log daily. 4- Doing compaction of all the database on Sunday morning. (Space constraint on hard disk) 5- Doing incremental backups and archivelog there after till next sunday. 6- I don't think i need to take selective backups monthly or weekly or whatever. What is my problem that i foresee: 1- If i am going to run compaction every sunday, i end up with so many databses with different DBIIDs all with their respective transaction logs. 2- If I want to delete backups taken 3 months ago, how do I do that? Since no version policy applies here after DBIID changes. 3- If Transaction Logs deletion. As I was going through the list archive, I fond somewhere saying ... TDP forLotus tells lotus server that certain archive logs have been backedup, so lotus can delete or whatever those transaction log file. ?? here is it right, if yes then how does that delete those transaction log files? ?? ? if it is not right, then how do i go about deleting archivelogs that have been backedup??? (definitely i m not running in circular logging). OR OR OR OR What strategy should I follow Please enlighten me in this darknesss !! Kind Regards, Sandra
Re: TDP for Lotus -- Right Policy
That means, If DBIID changes, it will not be treated as a new database?? and older backups will be there as inactive? Great !!! That means, if i have to keep compaction running every week, and i am keeping my backups for say 12 versions then i would set: Version exists = 12 Then i say that Backup retention (Grace period) is 90 days, that would suggest that i am keeping my backups for 3 months and then deleting entirely from the tapes too. What if I have to take month end backups, 24 versions exists? and I will be keeping those selctive backups in separate policy domain with separate backup retention period = 730 days that is for 2 year.. Please correct me if i m wrong Kind Regards, Sandra Eduardo Esteban wrote: Some answers to your questions: 1. After you run compact, the incremental will do a full backup of all your logged databases. If you run the inactivatelog command afterwards, all the transaction logs required to recover those databases will be inactivated. Your management policy will determine the fate of those logs. If you don't run compact, make sure to run selective, so that the inactivatelog command can inactivate logs. 2. Version changes still apply after DBIID changes. The incremental will mark the previous backup as inactive and your management policy will determine how many and for how long these will be kept. 3. The Domino server knows which log extents have been backed up and it reuses them. When the Domino server start it creates a formatted set of log extent files (.TXN). When the server uses up all of them, it either creates a new one ,if none of the log extents have been archived, or reuses the oldest log extents by renaming the file to the next log extent number. Eduardo ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 09:52:09 AM: Dear All, Sorry to popup again with a new thing .. as i went through the documentation and list archive, and web searches.. i could not find what i was looking for. My Lotus is on windows 2000 and i am using selective backups currently for entire database (70GB). What I am going to do: 1- Taking incremental daily. 2- Doing archivelog daily. 3- Doing inactivate log daily. 4- Doing compaction of all the database on Sunday morning. (Space constraint on hard disk) 5- Doing incremental backups and archivelog there after till next sunday. 6- I don't think i need to take selective backups monthly or weekly or whatever. What is my problem that i foresee: 1- If i am going to run compaction every sunday, i end up with so many databses with different DBIIDs all with their respective transaction logs. 2- If I want to delete backups taken 3 months ago, how do I do that? Since no version policy applies here after DBIID changes. 3- If Transaction Logs deletion. As I was going through the list archive, I fond somewhere saying ... TDP forLotus tells lotus server that certain archive logs have been backedup, so lotus can delete or whatever those transaction log file. ?? here is it right, if yes then how does that delete those transaction log files? ?? ? if it is not right, then how do i go about deleting archivelogs that have been backedup??? (definitely i m not running in circular logging). OR OR OR OR What strategy should I follow Please enlighten me in this darknesss !! Kind Regards, Sandra
SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS Question
Currently in our TSM environment, we are using DRM feature. The Recovery Plan File Expiration Days value is set to 60 Day(s) and we are doing prepare without any options daily. However, when I goto recovery plan location, recovery plan files older than 60 days are still there.. Why? and how can I auto delete old recovery plan files older than 60 days automatically? I thought this setting under q drmstatus suppose to take care of this, but apparently it is not. That means either I am not doing something right or misunderstood this feature of drmstatus... maybe both. Thanks, Sung Y. Lee
Re: SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS Question
Are you running EXPIRE INVENTORY on a regular basis? Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 12:28:17: Currently in our TSM environment, we are using DRM feature. The Recovery Plan File Expiration Days value is set to 60 Day(s) and we are doing prepare without any options daily. However, when I goto recovery plan location, recovery plan files older than 60 days are still there.. Why? and how can I auto delete old recovery plan files older than 60 days automatically? I thought this setting under q drmstatus suppose to take care of this, but apparently it is not. That means either I am not doing something right or misunderstood this feature of drmstatus... maybe both. Thanks, Sung Y. Lee
Re: SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS Question
I think the behavior you're expecting only happens when the recovery plans are being stored at another TSM server. We use a shell script to clean up old recovery plan files. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Sung Y Lee wrote: Currently in our TSM environment, we are using DRM feature. The Recovery Plan File Expiration Days value is set to 60 Day(s) and we are doing prepare without any options daily. However, when I goto recovery plan location, recovery plan files older than 60 days are still there.. Why? and how can I auto delete old recovery plan files older than 60 days automatically? I thought this setting under q drmstatus suppose to take care of this, but apparently it is not. That means either I am not doing something right or misunderstood this feature of drmstatus... maybe both.
Re: TDP for Lotus -- Right Policy
For the month end backups, you will have to specify a different TSM node
and a
different management class.
Eduardo
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004
11:17:00 AM:
That means,
If DBIID changes, it will not be treated as a new
database?? and
older backups will be there as inactive? Great !!!
That means, if i have to keep compaction running every week, and i
am keeping my
backups for say 12 versions then i would set:
Version exists = 12
Then i say that Backup retention (Grace period) is 90 days, that would
suggest
that i am keeping my backups for 3 months and then deleting entirely
from the
tapes too.
What if I have to take month end backups, 24 versions exists? and I will
be
keeping those selctive backups in separate policy domain with separate
backup
retention period = 730 days that is for 2 year..
Please correct me if i m wrong
Kind Regards,
Sandra
Eduardo Esteban wrote:
Some answers to your questions:
1. After you run compact, the incremental will do a full backup of all
your
logged databases. If you run the inactivatelog command afterwards,
all the transaction logs required to recover those databases will
be inactivated. Your management policy will determine the fate of
those logs. If you don't run compact, make sure to run selective,
so
that the inactivatelog command can inactivate logs.
2. Version changes still apply after DBIID changes. The incremental
will mark the previous backup as inactive and your management
policy will determine how many and for how long these will be
kept.
3. The Domino server knows which log extents have been backed
up and it reuses them. When the Domino server start it creates
a formatted set of log extent files (.TXN). When the server uses
up
all of them, it either creates a new one ,if none of the log
extents
have been archived, or reuses the oldest log extents by renaming
the file to the next log extent number.
Eduardo
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004
09:52:09 AM:
Dear All,
Sorry to popup again with a new thing .. as i went through the
documentation and
list archive, and web searches.. i could not find what i was looking
for.
My Lotus is on windows 2000 and i am using selective backups
currently
for
entire database (70GB).
What I am going to do:
1- Taking incremental daily.
2- Doing archivelog daily.
3- Doing inactivate log daily.
4- Doing compaction of all the database on Sunday morning. (Space
constraint on
hard disk)
5- Doing incremental backups and archivelog there after till next
sunday.
6- I don't think i need to take selective backups monthly or weekly
or whatever.
What is my problem that i foresee:
1- If i am going to run compaction every sunday, i end up with so
many databses
with different DBIIDs all with their respective transaction logs.
2- If I want to delete backups taken 3 months ago, how do I do that?
Since no
version policy applies here after DBIID changes.
3- If Transaction Logs deletion.
As I was going through the list archive, I fond somewhere
saying
...
TDP forLotus tells lotus server that certain archive logs have been
backedup, so
lotus can delete or whatever those transaction log file.
?? here is it right, if yes then how does that delete those
transaction log files? ??
? if it is not right, then how do i go about deleting
archivelogs that have been backedup??? (definitely i m not running
in
circular
logging).
OR OR OR OR
What strategy should I follow
Please enlighten me in this
darknesss
!!
Kind Regards,
Sandra
how to configure Scheduler for daily incremental backup??
Scheduler for Full backup is working fine. i want to intiate daily incremental backup. i'm GUI everytime to initiate daily incremental backup. plz advice me on this.. Chithirai selvan.R __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
Re: how to configure Scheduler for daily incremental backup??
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chithirai selvan Scheduler for Full backup is working fine. i want to intiate daily incremental backup. i'm GUI everytime to initiate daily incremental backup. Mr. Selvan, it appears from your message that you really don't know much about TSM, since you are asking about one of its core functionalities. You really need to spend some time reading the TSM manuals at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html#S and some of the TSM-centric Redbooks from www.redbooks.ibm.com. You will get a lot more out of people's responses when you gain a basic understanding of how the product works. May I suggest you first look over the technical overview of TSM at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0044.pdf? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
exchange journaling
Anyone have any information or documentation concerning tsm and exchange journaling. Is there any support in place? R.
Re: exchange journaling
What exactly do you mean by exchange journaling? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exchange journaling Anyone have any information or documentation concerning tsm and exchange journaling. Is there any support in place? R.
Re: exchange journaling
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/journaling.mspx I want to find out what information there is concerning TSM's support for Exchange Journaling to be in compliance with Sarbanse Oaxley. I would like to know if there is a TSM agent that will backup the Exchange Journaling Archive in such a way that I can search the Archive or restore specific emails. I understand the mechanism for restoring email from exchange using the TSM TDP but I wanted to know if there is any other support for the Journaling options. This ability is built into other backup clients such as Legato, CommVault etc. R. -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling What exactly do you mean by exchange journaling? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exchange journaling Anyone have any information or documentation concerning tsm and exchange journaling. Is there any support in place? R.
Re: exchange journaling
sigh The ADSM-L list archive at http://adsm.org is full of this discussion. Microsoft Exchange does not support individual mailboxes or messages; as a result, since Tivoli supports and uses all third-party application APIs, TSM doesn't either. The reason other backup applications can perform brick-level restores is that they write their own APIs (or use MS APIs like MAPI that were not built for backup and restore processes). The result? When you apply a service pack or hot patch to Exchange, the homebrew APIs used by CommVault and Netbackup often break, because there is no way for them to anticipate what MS will do to Exchange in a given patch. I have seen this happen time and again; ArcServe used to be very bad about that. (I can't speak to how BrighStor behaves now.) Further, if you use an application that performs brick-level restores, and your Exchange information store or directory get corrupted as a result, Micrsoft (since they don't support such reports) will tell you Too bad, so sad. Hope you have a good backup somewhere. (I've seen that happen as well.) There is a utility within Exchange called exmerge. Exmerge will take an individual mailbox and create a separate .pst file out of it; this .pst file can be backed up as a cold file, and it can be restored as a cold file which Exchange can copy back into its information store. TSM has a specialized server (called TSM for Data Retention) which will help administrators comply with data retention schemes such as Sarbanse Oaxley. However, when a business case is being created to justify such retention schemes, it is usually discovered that most business don't need to strictly comply with all aspects of S-O. Determining such a need is a job for someone who *knows* what they're doing in this realm and not just guessing (a phenomenon happening with alarming regularity). -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/libr ary/journaling.mspx I want to find out what information there is concerning TSM's support for Exchange Journaling to be in compliance with Sarbanse Oaxley. I would like to know if there is a TSM agent that will backup the Exchange Journaling Archive in such a way that I can search the Archive or restore specific emails. I understand the mechanism for restoring email from exchange using the TSM TDP but I wanted to know if there is any other support for the Journaling options. This ability is built into other backup clients such as Legato, CommVault etc. R. -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling What exactly do you mean by exchange journaling? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exchange journaling Anyone have any information or documentation concerning tsm and exchange journaling. Is there any support in place? R.
Re: exchange journaling
I was referring specifically to TSM interacting with the Journaling aspect of Exchange. I appreciate the full response because I never honestly understood why TSM didnt write their own API like these other software packages. I understood all the aspects of using exmerge for an exchange recovery when using TSM. The windows administrator here at my company refuses to use TSM on our exchange servers due to the fact that he recovers individual mail and mailboxes regularly. Having to use exmerge to recover mail is to much work for him which is why we run backupexec on exchange and all other servers run TSM. Sorry if the question was insulting to you mark I was only asked for documentation because I have read the redbook concerning backing up an exchange server using TSM and there was no reference to journaling. R. -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling sigh The ADSM-L list archive at http://adsm.org is full of this discussion. Microsoft Exchange does not support individual mailboxes or messages; as a result, since Tivoli supports and uses all third-party application APIs, TSM doesn't either. The reason other backup applications can perform brick-level restores is that they write their own APIs (or use MS APIs like MAPI that were not built for backup and restore processes). The result? When you apply a service pack or hot patch to Exchange, the homebrew APIs used by CommVault and Netbackup often break, because there is no way for them to anticipate what MS will do to Exchange in a given patch. I have seen this happen time and again; ArcServe used to be very bad about that. (I can't speak to how BrighStor behaves now.) Further, if you use an application that performs brick-level restores, and your Exchange information store or directory get corrupted as a result, Micrsoft (since they don't support such reports) will tell you Too bad, so sad. Hope you have a good backup somewhere. (I've seen that happen as well.) There is a utility within Exchange called exmerge. Exmerge will take an individual mailbox and create a separate .pst file out of it; this .pst file can be backed up as a cold file, and it can be restored as a cold file which Exchange can copy back into its information store. TSM has a specialized server (called TSM for Data Retention) which will help administrators comply with data retention schemes such as Sarbanse Oaxley. However, when a business case is being created to justify such retention schemes, it is usually discovered that most business don't need to strictly comply with all aspects of S-O. Determining such a need is a job for someone who *knows* what they're doing in this realm and not just guessing (a phenomenon happening with alarming regularity). -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/libr ary/journaling.mspx I want to find out what information there is concerning TSM's support for Exchange Journaling to be in compliance with Sarbanse Oaxley. I would like to know if there is a TSM agent that will backup the Exchange Journaling Archive in such a way that I can search the Archive or restore specific emails. I understand the mechanism for restoring email from exchange using the TSM TDP but I wanted to know if there is any other support for the Journaling options. This ability is built into other backup clients such as Legato, CommVault etc. R. -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling What exactly do you mean by exchange journaling? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CORP Rick Willmore Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exchange journaling Anyone have any information or documentation concerning tsm and exchange journaling. Is there any support in place? R.
HPUX CLient
Has anyone heard if and when there will be a client version for HP-UX (11.23 I think) for their Itanium servers? Can someone at IBM reply to this please? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975
Re: how to configure Scheduler for daily incremental backup??
Thanx Mark for the resource , i guess it would help me in long run. yes u r rite it's just 3 months. Chithirai selvan.R --- Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chithirai selvan Scheduler for Full backup is working fine. i want to intiate daily incremental backup. i'm GUI everytime to initiate daily incremental backup. Mr. Selvan, it appears from your message that you really don't know much about TSM, since you are asking about one of its core functionalities. You really need to spend some time reading the TSM manuals at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html#S and some of the TSM-centric Redbooks from www.redbooks.ibm.com. You will get a lot more out of people's responses when you gain a basic understanding of how the product works. May I suggest you first look over the technical overview of TSM at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0044.pdf? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
Re: exchange journaling
Rick, In regards to Exchange Journaling... As I understand it, Exchange journaling works by allowing you to set up a separate mailbox to receive a copy of all email that is sent. Since that specially-created mailbox is a normal Exchange Server mailbox, it is eligible for standard backup and restore with Data Protection for Exchange. In regards to archive and archive management... if you use IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server along with IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention you could archive that mailbox and make it completely searchable. Here are some URLs to help explain those IBM solutions: IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/commonstore/exchange/ IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/solution_cmmmr.html A comment about Brick-level backups and restore for Exchange server: With the size of Exchange Servers growing and growing, many customers are finding that they need to run brick-level type backups 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just to keep up with the growing sizes of mailboxes. Microsoft has helped address this issue with the addition of the Recovery Storage Group in Exchange 2003. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/ue2k3rsg.mspx It allows you to restore a mailbox database to a special storage group within the same Admin group (same or alternate server) and then extract the mailbox of your choice. It does all this without disturbing the online version of that mailbox database. Adding the new Recovery Storage Group feature along with deleted item restore and deleted mailbox restore has helped the reduce and eliminate the need for performing the brick-level backups. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 07:30:45 PM: I was referring specifically to TSM interacting with the Journaling aspect of Exchange. I appreciate the full response because I never honestly understood why TSM didnt write their own API like these other software packages. I understood all the aspects of using exmerge for an exchange recovery when using TSM. The windows administrator here at my company refuses to use TSM on our exchange servers due to the fact that he recovers individual mail and mailboxes regularly. Having to use exmerge to recover mail is to much work for him which is why we run backupexec on exchange and all other servers run TSM. Sorry if the question was insulting to you mark I was only asked for documentation because I have read the redbook concerning backing up an exchange server using TSM and there was no reference to journaling.
Re: exchange journaling
Del, Thats what was looking for thank you. R. -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exchange journaling Rick, In regards to Exchange Journaling... As I understand it, Exchange journaling works by allowing you to set up a separate mailbox to receive a copy of all email that is sent. Since that specially-created mailbox is a normal Exchange Server mailbox, it is eligible for standard backup and restore with Data Protection for Exchange. In regards to archive and archive management... if you use IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server along with IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention you could archive that mailbox and make it completely searchable. Here are some URLs to help explain those IBM solutions: IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/commonstore/exchange/ IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/solution_cmmmr.html A comment about Brick-level backups and restore for Exchange server: With the size of Exchange Servers growing and growing, many customers are finding that they need to run brick-level type backups 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just to keep up with the growing sizes of mailboxes. Microsoft has helped address this issue with the addition of the Recovery Storage Group in Exchange 2003. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/ue2k3rsg.mspx It allows you to restore a mailbox database to a special storage group within the same Admin group (same or alternate server) and then extract the mailbox of your choice. It does all this without disturbing the online version of that mailbox database. Adding the new Recovery Storage Group feature along with deleted item restore and deleted mailbox restore has helped the reduce and eliminate the need for performing the brick-level backups. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/03/2004 07:30:45 PM: I was referring specifically to TSM interacting with the Journaling aspect of Exchange. I appreciate the full response because I never honestly understood why TSM didnt write their own API like these other software packages. I understood all the aspects of using exmerge for an exchange recovery when using TSM. The windows administrator here at my company refuses to use TSM on our exchange servers due to the fact that he recovers individual mail and mailboxes regularly. Having to use exmerge to recover mail is to much work for him which is why we run backupexec on exchange and all other servers run TSM. Sorry if the question was insulting to you mark I was only asked for documentation because I have read the redbook concerning backing up an exchange server using TSM and there was no reference to journaling.
