Experiences with FileWizard TSM
I am thinking of evaluating FileWizard TSM for NetWare by Knozall Software. It seems no one at Tivoli has any knowledge of this product. Does anyone have experience with this software ? Is it reliable ? Easy to use ? How well does it tie in with TSM ? Experienced any problems ? Any Gotcha's ? Much appreciated. Anthony Langford Systems Programmer Sydney Water Corporation IT Tel: 9350 6690 Fax: 9267 6475 E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
How reliable are your 3590 K media
We have recently installed two 3494 libraries utilising 3590 K media. I am experiencing media failures (I/O errors) for about 1 in 10 media when initializing with label libv. Some of the media does successfully initialize on the second or third attempt but this does not fill me with confidence. I have even had a situation were a tape was torn then wrapped itself around the internals of the drive when the mechanism snagged on a very poor splice on the tape. My question ... is anyone else noticing problems with K media. Yes or No, either way I am interested to know so I can see if there is a correlation between the media vendor (IE IBM, Immation BASF etc). Thanks Peter Griffin Sydney Water --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
Re: STARTUP proc for OS390 client?
I believe that you could start the procedure by adding an entry to the sys1.parmlib member BPXPRMnn I do not know the exact format. Before adding it you will also have to consider if the task has to be shut down when you want to IPL the system. Not only will you need to consider the efffect on the application but also the shutting down of the OMVS segment. --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
How do you start the web client daemon on MVS client
I have just started the TSM client for OMVS and would like to start the web client interface. The expected DSMCAD binary was not installed as a part of the client install. Should it be there or is there another process / method for MVS. The one thing I did note is there is not much in the way of doco for the poor old dinosaur Peter Griffin Sydney Water --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recepient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
Who is still keeping Y2K backups and how long to you intend to keep them?
It appears to me that there is a large amount of Y2K backup data being stored, not only in the TSM environment but for just about everything. My guess is prior to Y2K, the powers that be set a long retention policy based on the risk of post Y2K litigation. Gifted with hind-sight, the apocalypse never occurred and as far as I am aware litigation has not eventuated therefore the long retention of the backups possibly is not justified. I am interested in opinions and policy on the retention of this data. For the record, I would like to get rid of them now. Peter Griffin
Port Number question
Currenlty we do a dbbackup to local DLT media on week days and on the week-end it is done to another remotely located server. I would like to do the backup remotely everyday however bandwidth is a problem. We now have a capability to cap the bandwidth usage to ensure that the dbbackup does not have a negative effect on normal business traffic. However the capping is based upon either or both the IP addresses and ports. Does anyone know if the server to server communication uses a dedicated port (37 712) or a range etc etc? I do not want to restrict any other TSM traffic. Peter Griffin Sydney Water
Re: Number of scratch tapes?
To simply get a count of the number of scratches select count(*) from libvolumes where upper(status)= 'SCRATCH' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/05/01 01:13am Hi: Here the select part running from a script. /home/root/bin/dsmcmd SELECT LIBVOLUMES.VOLUME_NAME, LIBVOLUMES.STATUS FROM LIB Volumes where libvolumes.status = 'Scratch' [backup] /home/root/bin # more dsmcmd dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=your password -displaymode=table $1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/01 10:57AM Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode to run it. Thanks for help Arshad _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Identify tape volumes
select volume_name from contents where file_name like (???%) file_name is the client's name for the file you possible could replace file_name with filespace_name since the oracle db probably would be in it's own file space [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 11:45pm I am looking for a select statement to identify tape volumes used during an oracle db backup for a specific date (04/20/01). Can anyone help me? Thanks William M. Jolley EDS 9014 Research Drive Charlotte, NC 28226 Tel:704-548-5524 pag:877-471-5029 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building the DRM Characteristics - How to dynamically createthem
John The method to enter the information is pretty much under control, my problem is how to get the specific info required automatically. The method to get the info into the database will go something like this. 1) A script, BAT file (what ever is suitable) is run to generate the base information. 2) The information is usually verbose and needs to be reduced, In the case of NT I used REXX (the rexx executable from the resource kit). 3) The reduced report is FTP'd to the TSM server 4) On the TSm server a second file pertaining to the client exists which contains info that I am unable to get dynamically (usually there because I do not know how to get it rather than not be possible to find). A script (Korn shell in our case) will concatenate the two reports and generate the appropriate TSM batch commands. I am yet to decide if a client schedule (CMD) should be used to generate the dynamic report ftp process to if I should run it as a post process of the incr backup. The loading of the info into the database via the ksh script will be executed a step in the backup db prepare script Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 06:54am Pete, I too have toyed with this concept but never really come up with anything concrete. The winmsd command will extract a lot of information to a text file. This would be nice to import into the DRM feature of TSM, but how? If we can find a way to pump the output of winmsd into DRM via pre and post backup commands, we may have something here!!! Please, keep me informed and I will do the same. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: PETER GRIFFIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Building the DRM Characteristics - How to dynamically create them I would like to be able to run a post backup command that will generate the characteristics of the clients which will in turn be read as input for defining the DRM characteristics. For example, on NT I intend run a winmsd /fs and extract info from the generated output I appreciate any help on how to generate the characteristics for HP and SUN that would be required to rebuild a server eg lanscan on HP ifconfig on HP Thanks Peter Griffin
What needs to be done - HP TCP/IP tuning when converting from ATM the GB ethernet
The network between a HP client and a SUN server was recently changed from ATM to GB ethernet. Since that conversion the rate of transfer for the backups has become ridiculously slow. We have yet to prove that the change of network topology is the cause though it is the obvious place to start. Can anyone offer any suggestions how to check if the IP config on HP is tuned for ATM and what would the appropriate settings for ethernet. The HP box is a HP 9000 K class Thanks Peter Griffin Sydney Water
Re: Autosys and ADSM???
Have at look at Control M from BMC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/13/01 01:43am We currently have Autosys scheduling a series of ADSM backups or Oracle databases as well as numerous batch jobs all of which are running on AIX client mahines on an SP system. The Autosys server currently resides on a seperate NT server. Management wants to migrate the Autosys server to an AIX platform. The instability of the NT platform has prompted us to consider this migration to AIX. However, considering the level of support we have received from Computer Associates, or lack of regarding their Autosys product, in fixing our Autosys/ADSM problems, as well as the fact that we will upgrade our ADSM system to the latest version of TSM, we are seriously considering another scheduler. Does anybody have this kind of AIX / ADSM / AUTOSYS setup? Any ideas or successes? Jaime Diaz SP2 Administrator House2Home Support Services, MIS 949-442-5725 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Sets
I would disagree that the backup set would serve little reason other than a portable backup media (though this is a good enough reason in itself). Coming from a mainframe back round I tend to emulate the storage management processes that have evolved with the mainframe over the past decade or two. Ignoring the scenario of operating two remote sites, the most common mainframe method to prepare for a DR recovery is to create full backups of your storage volumes once per week and incr for the remainder. This method allows for; a) a percentage of your storage to be restored to it's most current point in time in a single restore process, therefore minimising the total recovery time b) minimise the amount of data to be recovered from incr media which can involve a large number of tapes and network bandwidth - again minimising the total recovery time Because most of us still backup over the network the ability to create "regular" full backups was restricted or totally prevented by bandwidth limitations. This then brings into question the ability to perform a full recovery. Backupsets have solved this restriction and allow for the creation of the "weekly backup" removing the major bottleneck being the network. I am testing a plan to implement the afore mentioned methodology by creating the backupsets to a "transportable" media on a weekly basis. For example, backupsets for server A B and C will be created on Mondays, E, F and G on Tuesdays etc etc. For what would be considered the most critical servers the backupset would be created more regularly than the weekly cycle. However, because of other technologies such as EMC's timefinder / SRDF being available to these critical servers this probably will not be required. Hopefully the major benifit of this process - a full serve restore, will not be required however a more immediate benifit I hop to realise is being able to turn off collocation. Wait, there is more In the near future a SAN infrastructure will be implemented which allows for greater flexibility. The scenario I would like to investigate is; (for servers not normally participating in the SAN) - on the storage create a minimal DR boot image of each of the operating systems - including the TSM code - create the backup set to devc type of file (located on the SAN storage ) - in the event of a failure the server or the replacement server would be temporarily connected to the SAN and booted from the appropriate boot image on the SAN storage (standardisation is the key) - the volume on which the backupset was create will be made available to the server - restore via normal BMR processes Peter Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/01 07:28am Currently I do regular TSM ncremental backups of my servers every night. I was wondering is there any reason I should start creating Backup Sets. I still have the ability to restore my server to its last backed up state if it were to fail. Therefore I don't see much reason for doing Backup Sets accept for the ability to restore the downed server from portable media if TSM isn't available. Does anyone have any opinoins on types of backups to do on NT, and AIX systems that will give me the best recoverablity in case of a failure. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941.
SQL Query - what is wrong with this statement
A tape containing some 11 000 files has become unreadable. The I/O error was discovered in a BACKUP STG process and these is no other backup of the data. What I am trying to ascertain / list is what data will be lost. As far as I can see only "inactive" data is going to be lost permanently. The following SQL is what I issued to list the content of the tape . select state, hl_name, ll_name, backup_date from BACKUPS, CONTENTS where volume_name='500308' The output was so large that the hard drive I directed the output and the recovery log filled. Is there something wrong with this statement that would produce so much output or is it valid? I would like to find this out before I submit it with the added limiting statement of where state=inactive Peter Griffin
A consensus on scheduling methodology
I have never have been very happy with the scheduler in TSM because it is basically a time dependant process were I prefer an event dependant process. I would like to know what is the generally accepted method to schedule both admin and client processes Comment Please. Peter Griffin
