TDP FOR EXCHANGE 2.2
Hi TSM'rs Just thought that I would share with you all a recent TSM incident involving TDP for Exchange v2.2 running on a Windows 2000 Server. A little over 8 months ago a problem arose where we could not get the Exchange TDP to install on a Windows 2000 server. After many attempts to install and reinstall the last resort was to completely blow away the server and reinstall everything. We even did a disaster recovery install of Exchange 2000 again just in case anything was wrong with the Exchange installation; thankfully a full server reinstall was not required. Anyway after discussing this problem with the code developers and Microsoft a solution was finally found. Within an Exchange registry key an entry exists which details the full path to the MAD.exe file. What was discovered is that the path to the MAD.exe file was encapsulated with double quotes i.e. file path. After running some debug code from the Tivoli developers and with the assistance of Microsoft this anomaly was highlighted. The double quotes were removed and replaced with single quotes and behold the Exchange TDP worked as it should have 8months ago. So if anybody else is or has experienced this problem don't hesitate to get the developers involved they did a great job in resolving what was a very long and frustrating problem. Happy TSMing Gary
Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?
Hi Tony, I would be very interested in your method of posting TSM information to the intranet. My group IT manager is always asking for TSM info and to post it our intranet would be a great service. Regards Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tony Morgan Sent: Saturday, 23 March 2002 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM? Just a thought I prepare a number of reports from TSM each morning and present these on our intranet. Using the NT resource kit (SETX) I have introduced a 31 day cycle of these files. (email me if you want to know how to do this easily). The benefits are; wide audience Management can see results for themselves automated reporting less maintenance I did look at email, but this is better for me!! Rgds Tony Morgan -Original Message- From: John Bremer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 16:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM? You're right there are some expensive solutions. I believe ServerGraph has the e-mail notification capability, but in our environment we were quoted $35,000 for the initial installation, plus 15% maintenance. TDS for SMA does not have e-mail notice capablity. If you check the ADSM.org archive you will find historical responses to this query which give details on query the activity logs and generating your own e-mail notices. We use a DB2 database loaded every morning after backups, which we query and generate mail from. So I recommend home-grown the best, least expensive, solution. At 11:27 AM 3/22/02 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to get the server to email alerts and failure and specific messages to admins within TSM or without another expen$ive software? My servers are running on Win2000 and AIX. Thanks Etienne This e-mail and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. The content of this e-mail may have been changed without the consent of the originator. The information supplied must be viewed in this context. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify our Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 20-7444-8444. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
SUBFILE BACKUPS FOR LAPTOPS
Hi TSMers, I have been asked to investigate whether or not TSM could be used for our laptop and remote access users. Am new to TSM but have come across the term SUBFILE BACKUPS, would this method be suitable for such users. Appreciate any advice available. Regards Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RESTORE VOLUMES
Hi Michel, Thanx for your assistance. It continually frustrates me that here is a product that out of the box requires the user (read admin) to have another skill set ie SQL just so he can do reasonable job. An admin without the skill set to create SQL queries and alike (like me) will find that TSM out of the box is about as efficient as an ashtray on a motorbike. Guess I better get myself on a course to learn SQL... Thanx again.. Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel David Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORE VOLUMES Hi Garry CStringArray is a class in MFC (You shlould use ODBC to connect TSM tables and a Programming language) If you DO not use C++ or something like it. You have to use some script editor (PERL...) I use Norton Dos. Little example of script. SETLOCAL PUSHD C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM EchoC:\Command.txt select file_name from contents where volume_name='vol1' DSMADMC -id=admin -password=admin -noconfirm c:\Command.txt C:\Results.TXT POPD ENDLOCAL This will just generate a file with the file_name contents of the tape 'vol1' This is a basis. I hope you can continue. Good luck Michel --- Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michel, Thank you for your quick response. Not too sure what you mean at step 2 - CStringArray - Could you please decode that bit for me Regards Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel David Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORE VOLUMES It's possible Take a look at the ARCHIVES and essentially CONTENTS table 1) select * from contents where volume_name='vol1' You will get everything in the volume vol1. 2) Save the info (file_name) in some CStringArray 3) Sort your info to restore according to the volumes Good luck. Michel --- Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am quite new to all things TSM and I have a question to what I believe is an unrealistic situation. Presently if, during my role as the TSM administrator I am asked to perform a data restore, I have no idea of what volumes will be required for the data. I have a 30 slot library at my disposal, which I appreciate is quite small, however, if after I kick off a restore I should have some indication as to what volumes are required thereby allowing me to check the volumes into the library before the restore job commences. A recent example: I had to restore 80MB worth of data and it took over 3.5 hours and over 18 tape changes. The present situation is that after I start a restore I have to be glued to the console and wait for tape requests to appear in the activity log or via a pop-up. My research has shown that other people have been asking the same thing as far back as 1998 but no-one appears to have provided a solution. Tivoli have told me that it is possible with some pretty complex SQL statements. Great now I have to learn SQL queries as well. Does anybody have any ideas on this matter? It's not that hard surely..Oh yeah I'm running TSM Server 4.2.10 on a W2K platform with current clients running 4.2.1. Gary Swanton Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
Re: RESTORE VOLUMES
Hi Michel, Thank you for your quick response. Not too sure what you mean at step 2 - CStringArray - Could you please decode that bit for me Regards Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel David Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RESTORE VOLUMES It's possible Take a look at the ARCHIVES and essentially CONTENTS table 1) select * from contents where volume_name='vol1' You will get everything in the volume vol1. 2) Save the info (file_name) in some CStringArray 3) Sort your info to restore according to the volumes Good luck. Michel --- Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am quite new to all things TSM and I have a question to what I believe is an unrealistic situation. Presently if, during my role as the TSM administrator I am asked to perform a data restore, I have no idea of what volumes will be required for the data. I have a 30 slot library at my disposal, which I appreciate is quite small, however, if after I kick off a restore I should have some indication as to what volumes are required thereby allowing me to check the volumes into the library before the restore job commences. A recent example: I had to restore 80MB worth of data and it took over 3.5 hours and over 18 tape changes. The present situation is that after I start a restore I have to be glued to the console and wait for tape requests to appear in the activity log or via a pop-up. My research has shown that other people have been asking the same thing as far back as 1998 but no-one appears to have provided a solution. Tivoli have told me that it is possible with some pretty complex SQL statements. Great now I have to learn SQL queries as well. Does anybody have any ideas on this matter? It's not that hard surely..Oh yeah I'm running TSM Server 4.2.10 on a W2K platform with current clients running 4.2.1. Gary Swanton Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
Re: Domino TDP
Not quite sure how to post a message to this list so I have just hit reply on a post. Please advise me of the correct method. A question on performing a restore. How does one determine what tapes (volumes) are required when a restore is initiated. Thanx in advance. Regards Gary Swanton MCSE -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 11:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP Is it indeed true that there is no bitfile object, as the query inventory indicates the size of this object id is 0.0? Or does TDP store the bitfile object in a container somewhere that I am not looking? TDP for Domino backups are made up of two TSM server objects. You found one of them. We call this the header object. It contains no bitfile data. It contains meta data that describes the backup. The other object is the data object. It has the same name but it has a .DATA appended to the LL object name. It contains the bitfile data for the backup. So in your example, you would have: \MAIL\ 123456.NSF (header) \MAIL\ 123456.NSF.DATA (data) I hope this helps. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave
Re: Domino TDP
Thanx Tony, If I kick off a restore from a client using the GUI, how do I append the Preview to see the required volumes? Do I have to kick off the restore from a command line? Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of MORGAN TONY Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP You have answered your own question append preview=yes to your command (the format is different on platforms) this will tell you what you need to know. -Original Message- From: Gary Swanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2002 11:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP I meant that how do you know what tapes are required before the restore has started? I am happy with 'q req' but you have to watching the console for each requested volume to be asked for. I want to know what volumes I will need when I want to carry out a restore - A Preview if you will. Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marc Lowers Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 8:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP If you have an onsite tapepool then the tapes should mount automatically. Otherwise try 'q req' from the TSM server session. Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06-Feb-2002 08:47 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L cc: Subject:Re: Domino TDP Not quite sure how to post a message to this list so I have just hit reply on a post. Please advise me of the correct method. A question on performing a restore. How does one determine what tapes (volumes) are required when a restore is initiated. Thanx in advance. Regards Gary Swanton MCSE -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 11:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP Is it indeed true that there is no bitfile object, as the query inventory indicates the size of this object id is 0.0? Or does TDP store the bitfile object in a container somewhere that I am not looking? TDP for Domino backups are made up of two TSM server objects. You found one of them. We call this the header object. It contains no bitfile data. It contains meta data that describes the backup. The other object is the data object. It has the same name but it has a .DATA appended to the LL object name. It contains the bitfile data for the backup. So in your example, you would have: \MAIL\ 123456.NSF (header) \MAIL\ 123456.NSF.DATA (data) I hope this helps. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave This e-mail and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. The content of this e-mail may have been changed without the consent of the originator. The information supplied must be viewed in this context. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify our Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 20-7444-8444. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
Re: Domino TDP
I meant that how do you know what tapes are required before the restore has started? I am happy with 'q req' but you have to watching the console for each requested volume to be asked for. I want to know what volumes I will need when I want to carry out a restore - A Preview if you will. Gary -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marc Lowers Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 8:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP If you have an onsite tapepool then the tapes should mount automatically. Otherwise try 'q req' from the TSM server session. Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06-Feb-2002 08:47 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L cc: Subject:Re: Domino TDP Not quite sure how to post a message to this list so I have just hit reply on a post. Please advise me of the correct method. A question on performing a restore. How does one determine what tapes (volumes) are required when a restore is initiated. Thanx in advance. Regards Gary Swanton MCSE -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 11:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domino TDP Is it indeed true that there is no bitfile object, as the query inventory indicates the size of this object id is 0.0? Or does TDP store the bitfile object in a container somewhere that I am not looking? TDP for Domino backups are made up of two TSM server objects. You found one of them. We call this the header object. It contains no bitfile data. It contains meta data that describes the backup. The other object is the data object. It has the same name but it has a .DATA appended to the LL object name. It contains the bitfile data for the backup. So in your example, you would have: \MAIL\ 123456.NSF (header) \MAIL\ 123456.NSF.DATA (data) I hope this helps. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave
