idletimeout
Good morning SM'rs Can anybody remind me of the way to set the IDLETIMEOUT option on the server while the server is running? I know there is a way in the options file. Maybe I'll remember after coffee Thanks Jack Palmadesso
Actlog shows failure when backups complete.
We just moved one of our Netstore machines to 3.7 (on the way to 4.1) Ever since we moved to it one of the oracle boxes shows failure in the morning even though I can see it completed by checking its filespace. This particular box is an NT box running Oracle. There are about 15 9 gig files that are captured selectively every night. Anything over 1 gig goes to tape. Is it possible that the new server code is trying to start multiple sessions? If so how do I limit the number of sessions a client can start? My best guess is that multiples sessions try to start but when they try to go to tape one of them does but the rest are waiting for a tape mount (filespaces are collocated) so they just time out and report as failed. The one session that survives completes the backup normally. Thanks for any help Jack Palmadesso
Re: Library is FULL?
Are you using the search parameter? Try checking the new volume in with the volser instead of using the search parameter. Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Library is FULL? Have you tried looking at the devconfig.out file to see if it shows the tapes being removed. I have had a problem where it had empty slots but it would not take a tape. Some of the tapes ended up showing in two different slots. Once I made all the changes things worked like it should have. -Original Message- From: Patrick Sheehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Library is FULL? Hello all fellow TSM'rs I'm trying as I may to change a vol in a tape library. I succesfully CHECKOUT a empty scratch volume and then try to CHECKIN a previous vol for a restore I'm trying to do. When I check tha ACTLOG it tells me the library is full. I've tried running an AUDIT and it shows only 9 or a possible 10 volumes. I can't seems to get past this. What am I doing wrong? I even tried another CHECKOUT using the SWAP option and again it successfully removes a volume but still thinks the library is full TIA Patrick
Re: 3 weird Linux problems
We also run a few linux boxes here. #1 You should consider using the dsmscheduler. It is not very difficult and is easier to centrally manage because you manage it from the TSM server. #2 The web gui uses Java heavily. Make sure all the java options are turned on in Netscape or try upgrading Netscape. I get a gray box in Netscape and IE but they go away. This seems normal to me. Also make sure you are using Netscape. I've had wierd results with other browsers like Konqueror. #3 We also show more processes than other platforms but it does work and has been working for over 8 mos now. Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3 weird Linux problems This may help a bit.. IBM eserver 1 950mhz cpu, redhat 7.1.. #1 - can't help you here.. I don't use cron to schedule backups. I run the scheduler daemon. #2 - Web gui works fine.. I don't get the grey box problem you describe. #3 - Dsmcad - I also get 4 processes so I'm guessing that's normal. In fact I get 3 dsmc sched processes when I start my scheduler. It's not clear to my why but hey it works.. All in all, no problems backing up either of my two redhat 7.1 servers.. Gerald -Original Message- From: David Menges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3 weird Linux problems I have 3 unusual (to me) problems after installing Tivoli ADSM client 4.1.2 on a RH Linux 7.1 machine with plenty of disk, RAM, etc. I haven't given up, but if you have any hints that would be wonderful. Note: our ADSM server is performing fine with many Windows machines and an AIX. 1. Cron job often segmentation faults. We're using cron instead of the ADSM scheduler because it's one less thing to know. Our VAR says it's probably the cron job running out of RAM and directed us to /etc/security/limits.conf, but so far I'm clueless what to put there. I see references to this in the ADSM mailing list archives at http://www.mail-archive.com http://www.mail-archive.com 2. Can't browse to ADSM web server (dsmcad). Paints a gray square and quits. VAR says to make sure my web browser has Java Virtual Machine installed. I believe it does - IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 - works with another site that requires JVM. 3. Four dsmcad processes. When I stop and restart dsmcad, 4 processes start up. VAR has no ideas. The only thing 4 about this machine that I can think of is that it has 4 processors. VAR does not think this is causing problem # 2. Thanks!
Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W (out of sequence verb)
I've found very rarely that the passwords between the client and server get out of sync. You may want to try resetting the password on the TSM server and then resetting the password on the client. Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: Angelica Tulipano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W (out of sequence verb) I created the service again with the password, change also the password of the client, reinstall it and the problem continues... thanks for your help. Ing. Angélica Tulipano GBM de Panamá, S.A. Phone (507) 263-9977 ext 202 Fax (507) 269-3604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dthorneycroft @LACSD.ORG To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: TSM 3.7 CLIENT problem ANR0444W IST.EDU (out of sequence verb) 07/11/01 01:16 PM Please respond to ADSM-L Check your password. I've seen similar errors when starting the scheduler service with the wrong password. On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:08 AM, Angelica Tulipano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm having this problem in a tsm client, someone of you know what can it be? ANR0444W Protocol error on session session number for node client node name (client platform) - out-of-sequence verb (type verb name) received. Thanks Angelica Tulipano Phone (507) 263-9977 ext 202 Fax (507) 269-3604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Audit vol fails
Good mornining all, One of my DLT IV tapes seems to have gone bad last night. When I try to run an audit vol fix=yes on the volume the system complains that there was an i/o error while trying to read the vol label. This causes the process to fail. I have no way of mounting this vol and there is data on it. Other than recreating the vol from the copy pool is there another way to fix this? Jack Palmadesso
Re: Tape/Drive problems
Same here occasionally when tapes get stuck or drives go offline we have to restart ADSM. Even after issueing update drive commands. Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape/Drive problems I have a IBM 3575 library and have had similar events a couple of times. My understanding of what happens is this. Some error happens on tape drive and tape won't dismount, so *SM still thinks tape is mounted - drive in use. Then we dismount tape through other than *SM methods. *SM doesn't know this. The only way I have found to fix is to restart *SM - and I always run a library audit to clear any tape location issues. To clear tape, if it's not damaged, I would do a MOVE DATA on the suspect tape. Could also do an audit volume to check it. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/01 09:52AM Hello all and welcome to tape/drive hell. Last night I just happened to be looking at TSM from home when I discovered 2 tape drives offline. When I tried to change the status I received the following message: 07/11/01 20:41:26 ANR8413E UPDATE DRIVE: Drive RMT4 is currently in use. 07/11/01 20:54:15 ANR8413E UPDATE DRIVE: Drive RMT1 is currently in use. I called operations and discovered they had had an alert on rmt1. A tape was mounted and could not be removed by TSM so they removed it. Seems as though an almost exact thing happened to rmt4 and the tape would not come out. Did they call me, no...did they call IBM, noI took care of that, fortunately I just happened to be online and discovered this. I still could not get the drives online, even after IBM says they fixed things, so my solution was to restart the system. Sure maybe I could have brought down TSM and restarted it alone, but I didn't feel like wasting time and then discovering I needed to restart the system anyway. This way I'm covered all the way around, if this didn't work IBM would be getting another call. The restart workedbut for how long? I'll have to keep an eye on things today while the drives are busy copying data. In the mean time I need to figure out how to get the data from this tape(s) moved. The other burning question is, after IBM fixed things, why couldn't I get the drives back online through TSM? Why the restart? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 07/12/01 10:05:53 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: Macintosh restore problem
If you have not already remove the session from restartable restores -Original Message- From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Macintosh restore problem On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:18:27 EDT, Kent wrote: The client was restoring files, and was stalled, due to a problem with our IBM 3494 tape robot. After fixing the problems with the robot, the restore is now failing, with the message that it is attempting to resume a restore session. I have removed all restores from the server, but the Mac client continues to fail, attempting to resume a restore. It seems like it may be a TSM server database corruption??? When you say you 'removed all restores', exactly what did you do? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Disk volumes varying themselves offline or to a readonly stat us b y themselves
Try querying your activity log as far back as you can go for any references to that volume. Its probably being detected as some sort of media fault by TSM. q actlog begind=-X search=volumeY Jack -Original Message- From: Mueller, Philip J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disk volumes varying themselves offline or to a readonly status b y themselves I have recently implemented TSM v4.1.3 and have encountered a problem with my diskpool volumes. I currently have disk storage volumes in three locations: locally on the TSM server, NAS (network attached storage device), and on another network server. What is happening is that the storage volumes that are not local on the server are changing their status from read/write to readonly and/or varying themselves offline while the local volume has never mysteriously changed its' status. Initially, I suspected it might have had something to do with the NAS so I defined several volumes on other network servers only to have them do the same thing. I haven't been able to identify an event that might cause this to happen because it seems random. I have had them change their status within minutes of correcting up to a day or so. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Philip J. Mueller Information Systems Assistant Ralston Purina Company - Denver CO [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to 4.1
So the TSM installation moved all files to their new directories or did it keep the old ADSM file structure? -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.1 We just did the exact same upgrade, but it is even easier than what you outlined below. 1. do your backups 2. shut down the server 3. use smit to install the new version This is all we did and everything worked great! miles --- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14-Jun-01 12:14:29 PM Platform: AIX 4.3.2 ADSM: 3.1.2.50 We have been testing 4.1 on a system that already has a 3.1 instance installed. We are now satisified with 4.1, and would like to migrate our 3.1.2.50 instance to 4.1. The manual indicates directions on how to do the migration at the time of installing the 4.1 software--a step that we've obviously already taken. I thought that what I would have to do is 1) do a full database backup of the 3.1.0.5 instance 2) copy my relevant files (dsmserv.dsk, etc.) to the new DSMSERV_DIR (/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin) 3) start the TSM 4.1 server with 'dsmserv upgradedb' 4) re-register all of my licenses Has anybody else gone through the process in this manner? Am I missing something? Any advice/tips/suggestions are welcome. -- Tom Thomas A. La Porte DreamWorks SKG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database Migration
Opps! Cross platform database migration cannot be done. Your db has to be moved to the same platform. There are some older posts about this in the listserv archives. www.adsm.org Jack -Original Message- From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database Migration Hi there, In our test-shop we are trying to migrate our ADSM 3.1.2.90 database (on AIX 4.3.3 - IBM S70 server) to TSM 4.1 (on OS/390 v2.9). Both servers are using 3590-E drives. We are experiencing problems however. This is probably a configuration error on OS/390. But before we continue, we would like to know the following; I've read somewhere that it isn't possible to migrate from 3.1 to 4.1 without updating to 3.7 first. Is this true? Is it in anyway possible to move from 3.1 based on AIX to 4.1 based on OS/390, and if so, can anyone tell us what path to take to get this to work. Why are we doing this tests? We are trying to find out if it is usefull for us to run TSM on mainframe rather than on AIX. If you are willing to share your experiences with us, we would grately appreciate it. Thanx in advance. Ilja G. Coolen ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Tel:+31(0)45 579 7938 Fax: +31(0)84 882 7286 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - printed on recycled paper! - www
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
If you are speaking about budgets then I hear you. Then again I am wondering what the minimum requirements are. Sun makes these new machines called Blades. Some are as cheap as 1300usd and perform similar an Ultra60. We are trying a few of them out now. That wouldn't be such a large investment. Otherwise there is always next years budget. -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Yes, so I understood, but with the amount of money we have already invested in the system, and with the fact that our dealers and integrators forgot to explain this issue untill yesterday (3 months after the initiall installation etc), I cannot now go and explain that I need a second server for BMR, as much as I would like to. So I am stuck. Mike -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... The wording is a bit hard to understand but I believe that the BMR server itself is a separate server and requires Unix. BMR does not care what the TSM server is itself. Check the FAQ out on their site. http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm This looks promising! -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Ray, Do you have some idea when you will have BRM that will work when the TSM server is an NT server ? Mike -Original Message- From: Ray Schafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â îàé 22 2001 15:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bare metal restore for NT... Thank you, Jack. While we do offer BMR, The Kernel Group is an independent software vendor that has numerous relationships with IBM/Tivoli. In this particular case, our Bare Metal Restore product is re-marketed by IBM/Tivoli to extend the recovery capabilities TSM currently has with the system recovery that we provide. Palmadesso Jack wrote: You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE File: Card for Ray Schafer
Re: subdirectories
try -subdir=yes -Original Message- From: Patrick Sheehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subdirectories I'm doing a selective scheduled backup with this as the settings for the drive Z:\*.* -su=yes Why doesn't it backup the files in the subdirectories? The include/exclude file has the default settings, I've added nothing. 05/21/2001 20:12:07 Selective Backup function invoked. 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\ [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Asis [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\asis2 [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\bkup [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\eds [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Lotus [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Nt40sp6a [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\ORANT [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\PB4NT [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Public [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\RECYCLER [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\RSTNOTES [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\temp [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z$\Asis\PB [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z $\Asis\PB\Asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File-- 2,377 \\daisy\z $\Asis\PB\Asisload\Asisload.ini [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory-- 0 \\daisy\z $\asis2\asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File-- 275,456 \\daisy\z $\asis2\agenfunc.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File--62,976 \\daisy\z $\asis2\amisc1.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File--37,376 \\daisy\z $\asis2\anotes32.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:14 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects inspected: 86 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects backed up:0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects updated: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects rebound: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects deleted: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects expired: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects failed: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of bytes transferred: 373.70 KB 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Data transfer time:0.01 sec 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Network data transfer rate:23,356.75 KB/sec TIA Patrick
Re: bare metal restore for NT...
You may want to look at the Kernel Groups Bare Metal Recovery tool. We are planning on bringing them in here. Supposedly its a one button recovery that interacts with TSM. By the way the Kernel Group is part of IBM. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bare metal restore for NT... I'm looking a tool or agent that i can use for complete disaster recovery for NT. I heard this tool, can you please provide me enough information. thanks a lot. Zosi Noriega ADNOC P.O. Box 898 AUH - AUE
Re: BRM Question
I thought he may be refering to the new and improved BMR from the Kernel Group. We are going to be looking at this shortly. The old BMR restore where you had to boot with an OS/2 diskette was not something we used. -Original Message- From: Serein, Gilbert Claudio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BRM Question Hi Mike, my TSM server runs on NT and I've done BMR's to NT servers Without any problems. There are detail instructions how to accomplish a Successful BMR at http://www.coderelief.com http://www.coderelief.com . Regards Gilbert -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:BRM Question All, We just had a meeting with our support people for TSM, regarding finishing the project we have. To cut things short, one of the options we required was Bare Metal Restore of NT and Unix servers. Our TSM server sits on an NT server. We were just informed (and this is what I want to ask about) that the BRM server (TSM) module, does not operate if the TSM server is on an NT server. (As I understand from their explanation, there is the TSM server side module and the client module). So in effect, we cannot impliment BRM due to this factor. Does anyone know if this is true ? Mike Glassman System Security Admin Israeli Airports Authority Ben-Gurion Airport http://www.ben-gurion-airport.co.il Tel : 972-3-9710785 Fax : 972-3-9710939 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usage of this email address or any email address at iaa.gov.il for the purpose of sales pitches, SPAM or any other such unwanted garbage, is illegal, and any person, whether corporate or alone doing so, will be prosecuted to the fullest possible extent.
Re: Dr Watson while installing TSM on NT 4.0
I've seen this problem before also. I believe the Windows Installer was really designed for 2000. I do not do silent installs because of this. We do it manually now but sometimes I see the same error even when we do it manually. It never seems to effect anything for me either. Just another day in the life of NT. -Original Message- From: Kevin M Wisneski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dr Watson while installing TSM on NT 4.0 I am installing TSM through the silent install on some NT 4.0 servers and I keep getting a DR. Watson on the msiexec.exefrom Microsoft. It doesn't seem to affect anything, if I hit OK on the alert, the install continues and there doesn't seem to be any ill effect. Has anyone else seen this problem?? If so, what did you do to resolve it?? Thanks Kevin Wisneski Citigroup Hartford, CT 860-277-3157
Re: Remote administer 3494 library
I am not sure about rebooting but by using the mtlib command you can gain a wealth of information about the 3494 whether it is hooked up RS232 or LAN. -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote administer 3494 library q drive on TSM to see the status update drive (online/offline) to change status [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/18/01 12:25PM Is there anyway to remotely administer a 3494 from AIX or any other way. I need to be able to remotely reboot it or check on the status of drives or set them on and offline. 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.
Re: TDP for Exchange 2.2
I recieved a copy last week. Looking forward to utilizing it for its ability to use TSM policy managment. -Original Message- From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Exchange 2.2 Does anyone know if TDP for Exchange version 2.2 is available yet? 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.
Re: TSM Basic Bat files
Whenever I've had to resort to the NT scheduler it has always failed. It may even run for a few days and then eventually fail for some unknown reason. I know that the daylight savings switch will cause it to fail. In order to fix it you delete the old one and create a new one. I have had much much better results with the TSM scheduler service. Jack -Original Message- From: MORGAN TONY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Basic Bat files Tim, Try renaming the file to daily.cmd Rgds.Tony -Original Message- From: Tim Delaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 May 2001 17:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Basic Bat files I have created a basic BAT file to launch my daily backup. This file seems to work fine when I launch it myself. However the NT scheduler service will not launch it at all. Any sample bat files available? Daily.bat c: cd tivoli\tsm\baclient dsmc incremental exit This also only runs against my dsp.opt file. I have created multiple *.opt files but they do not seem to be used (how can I point to them) Thanks Please be kind I am very very new to TSM
Re: TDP for Notes on ADSM
Yet another question about TDP for R5: Will TDP for R5 will work with ADSM ver 3.1.55? Jack
Re: Exchange Backup: Two sessions running.
This is normal for the 4.x series client I believe. One is used for control data the other actually sends the data. Jack -Original Message- From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IST) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 2:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange Backup: Two sessions running. Two sessions running when the Adsm backup schedule run to backup the Exchange db using the AdsmConnect Agent. One is idle and the other one is running (recvW) in the Session State. Any idea? Regards, Zosi Noriega ADNOC, P.O. Box 898 AUH UAE # 9712 6024987
Re: Hung NT Sessions
You'll get better input if you give a little more information. What level ADSM or TSM? What level client? A while ago I had similar problems with Solaris clients hanging in the middle of thier sessions. If they were writting to tape then they would hold onto them until I restarted the server. This was under ADSM 3.1.50 on AIX. I was able to solve it by bringing the server up to level 3.1.55. That cured it for me. Jack -Original Message- From: Joseph Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hung NT Sessions It seems every day are nt sessions hang up for some reason. Our server is on aix with the latest version. This problem started around day light saving time for some reason. Does anyone have a similar problem or any ideas?? Joe
Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please
One of our older ADSM servers DB hit 98% over the weekend. I am putting together a proceedure to grow its DB. As far as I can tell these are the steps I need to take. First here is the hardware and software levels. RS6k F30 ADSM 3.1.2 level 40 (has been running smooth as silk for years)upgrade to 4 in progress AIX 4.1.5 (I know its old) Breece Hill Q47 w/3 DLT 4000 (attached as standard SCSI Library) All Storage pools and DB vols are on Raw Logical Volumes. We use ADSM mirroring for DBs These are the steps I've come up with. 1. Move Data from chosen storage pool vols 2. Vary off the volumes I have already chosen from ADSM 3. Delete the vols from ADSM 4. In Smitty rename the volumes to reflect new status of DB vols instead of stg vols 5. Peform DSMFMT for DB on newly renamed vols. 6. Add vols (1 primary and 1 mirror) to ADSM DB 7. Extend DB Anybody see anything wrong with these steps? Jack Palmadesso Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.
Re: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please
Thanks to everybody who helped out today. The Db extend went great and was actually quicker than doing this with a jfs file system because you don't have to do a dsmfmt. Here are the steps I took: chose 2 stg vols on different disks. made sure no sessions or processes were active that could affect those vols performed a move data on both vols varied both vols offline matched vols in ADSM with those in AIX and took note deleted both vols from ADSM In Smitty I was able to rename both vols instead of deleting them Added the new vols back into ADSM if you ever do this make sure you name the new vol with a leading "r" This is nessasary to let ADSM know that it is a raw volume. example: /dev/radsm_db4 performed an extend DB :-) -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:15 AM To: Palmadesso Jack Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please actually you should be able to vary offline a storage volume... if you have clients currently accessing your server (pushing data) the proper way to set a stg volume to readonly so you may move data off it and delete it would be vary offline some_stg_vol upd some_stg_vol acc=reado vary online some_stg_vol move data some_stg_vol (when done) delete some_stg_vol then do the smitty voodoo magic to delete the logical volume and redefine it with the new name of your choice, followed up with define dbvol xxx define dbcopy xxx yyy extend db then :-) :-) :-) -Original Message----- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:03 AM To: 'Cook, Dwight E' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please Thank you. I have not went ahead with anything yet. I was suspicious of the dsmfmt command because there is no filname to specify with raw volumes! I inherited 2 old ADSM servers that are using all raw vols for ADSM. I've never had to work directly with the volumes before and the admin V3 manuals really don't say much about them. So now would this be the correct proceedure? Database backup already performed by the way. 1. Move Data from chosen storage pool vols 2. Vary off the volumes I have already chosen from ADSM Storage pool vols cannot be varied off so I guess move to the next step? 3. Delete the vols from ADSM 4. In Smitty rename the volumes to reflect new status of DB vols instead of stg vols 5. Define db vol and copy 6. Extend DB And it should all be happy? Jack -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:02 AM To: Palmadesso Jack; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please OOOPPPSss with raw logical volumes you can't run dsmfmt against them... you just do a define dbvol define dbcopy with the /dev/rblah I've used raw volumes in the past for db log vols, that works... now though, I tend to go ahead and use JFS files for db log and raws for storage volumes but I went through a wave of improper handling of raw volumes in AIX 4.2, you should still be OK in aix 4.1 DWight -Original Message----- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expanding ADSM DB Using Raw Logical Volumes. help please One of our older ADSM servers DB hit 98% over the weekend. I am putting together a proceedure to grow its DB. As far as I can tell these are the steps I need to take. First here is the hardware and software levels. RS6k F30 ADSM 3.1.2 level 40 (has been running smooth as silk for years)upgrade to 4 in progress AIX 4.1.5 (I know its old) Breece Hill Q47 w/3 DLT 4000 (attached as standard SCSI Library) All Storage pools and DB vols are on Raw Logical Volumes. We use ADSM mirroring for DBs These are the steps I've come up with. 1. Move Data from chosen storage pool vols 2. Vary off the volumes I have already chosen from ADSM 3. Delete the vols from ADSM 4. In Smitty rename the volumes to reflect new status of DB vols instead of stg vols 5. Peform DSMFMT for DB on newly renamed vols. 6. Add vols (1 primary and 1 mirror) to ADSM DB 7. Extend DB Anybody see anything wrong with these steps? Jack Palmadesso Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.
Re: DLT 8000 / TSM problem
Not mentioned in your post but with DLT8000 drives you must use DLT type IV or better cartridges. Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: Michael Hack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DLT 8000 / TSM problem Knows anyone this problem with DLT8000 and TSM 4.1.3.0 under NT? To label a tape works fine. When TSM try to write data on the tape a undefined write error occurs without any sense keys . With the DLT7000 drives we have no problems. Environment: NT 4.0 SP5 TSM 4.1.3.0 Drive firmware: STK DLT8000:V43 and V51 Quantum DLT8000:V20 Activity Log von TSM 4.1.3.0 04/04/2001 11:01:37 ANR0984I Process 2 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 11:01:37. 04/04/2001 11:01:37 ANR1000I Migration process 2 started for storage pool DISKPOOL. 04/04/2001 11:01:38 ANR8326I 001: Mount DLT volume SCRTCH R/W in drive MT5.0.0.2 (MT5.0.0.2) of library DLTLIB1 within 60 minutes. 04/04/2001 11:01:42 ANR8328I 001: DLT volume BAND02 mounted in drive MT5.0.0.2 (MT5.0.0.2). 04/04/2001 11:01:42 ANR1340I Scratch volume BAND02 is now defined in storage pool DLTPOOL. 04/04/2001 11:01:42 ANR1411W Access mode for volume BAND02 now set to "read-only" due to write error. 04/04/2001 11:01:47 ANR8360I Volume BAND02 has been deleted from MANUAL library DLTLIB1. 04/04/2001 11:01:47 ANR1341I Scratch volume BAND02 has been deleted from storage pool DLTPOOL. 04/04/2001 11:02:05 ANR8468I DLT volume BAND02 dismounted from drive MT5.0.0.2 (MT5.0.0.2) in library DLTLIB1. Thanks Michael
Re: Backup of Remote Sites
We do this also with over 150 sites. Normal file restores are not a problem but if the box fails or corrupts itself then we rebuild a box here and let them run over the WAN until we can ship it out over the weekend. For boxes coming in over the wan I have a client option set that makes sure they use compression since some of our links are very slow (56K) Its all been working well here for years. The only warning I would give is if you are using any type of connect agent you may want to make sure you are using a fast enough link. The exchange agent especially is not very forgiving of "bumps" in the network. I believe this is a safety mechanism built into the agent that protects the integrity of the stores. When we first started using Exchange some backups would take over 36 hours. Any "bump" in the network would cause the whole thing to fail and we would have to start all over again. Now all sites that warrant their own Exchange Server automatically get their own TSM server. Jack -Original Message- From: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup of Remote Sites The boxes range in size for 1G to 45G. But, the amount of daily change is small. I really like the idea of having the data here. That way, if we need to we can rebuild the box here and take it to the remote site. --David Nash Systems Administrator The GSI Group - Original Message - From: "Cook, Dwight E" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Backup of Remote Sites Client compression would be very helpful... How big are the boxes ? ? ? and a full restore would take time but the data would be there. I've backed up NT boxes from Atlanta GA into Tulsa OK (I'm pretty sure the nodes are still registered...) they run fine but my network speeds are a little better than what you've mentioned. Ya know... it wouldn't hurt to toss on the client and do an initial test and see. Worst case, you delete its data from the server and delete the client. Always a bottle neck somewhere :-( Dwight -Original Message- From: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup of Remote Sites I have a question for all of the *SM/Network experts out there. We have a central office that we just started using TSM at. We also have several remote offices that are connected to central office via dedicated lines. Theses sites currently are running their own backups via NTBackup. We are concerned that these backups are unreliable/not offsite/not being done. The dedicated lines are mostly 256Kbs lines but a few are smaller. Is it a good idea to try to back up these sites across the WAN using *SM? We realize that the first backup would take a while, but after we suffer through that, the amount of changed data would be small. Is it a good idea in this case to turn on client compression? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, --David Nash Systems Administrator The GSI Group
Re: IBM 3494 Automated Tape Library Information needed
We also have serveral 3494s. I would also recommend them. It was my understanding from our CE that when you get the dual gripper you also loose the top and bottom rows of tape storage. I'd rather have the space so we opted not to get the dual gripper. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM 3494 Automated Tape Library Information needed We have a 3494 with a dual gripper. Based upon experience, I'd recommend not getting a dual gripper unless you have a high frequency of tape transitions. I'd expect that few shops have that kind of usage, and would find the tape cells otherwise lost to dual gripper equipage to be far more valuable. For perspective: I just got stats from the 3494 Service menu, View Usage... Gripper 1: 119711 Gripper 2: 4834 Richard Sims, BU
Re: SAN Solution
Hi Geoff, One of my machines is configured exactly the same way except for the TSM part(in the works.) We have recently installed a large EMC backend for our Solaris and NT machines. I've been asked the same question as you. Here is what I found out. Yes you can backup over a SAN. BUT it currently only works with certain agents. From what I was told you can use the Oracle, Exchange and SQL agents. Currently the normal backup/archive client software does not support SAN backups but is in the works. From a hardware perspective if you have 3590 E drives then you can convert them from SCSI to Fibre Channel and put them on the SAN. This is the supported config. The biggest problem right now is that the 3494 itself does not have SAN capability. Unfortunately this was the show stopper for me. For the time being I am preparing for eventual attachment to the SAN by upgrading as many other things as I can with the last step being the upgrade of the 3494. Things are changing very quickly in this area so what may have been so last week no longer may be true. You definitely want to talk with the TSM folks and your backend storage provider. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAN Solution I've been asked to investigate a SAN solution and wonder if someone can give me some info. Currently we are backing up over the network to TSM 4.1.2.0 which runs on an H50, AIX 4.3.3 with an automated 3494. If anyone is currently configured and running could you drop me a line please. I'd like to know what the initial cost was, if you had a similar setup, how much trouble was it to change? Will I have to "redo" my current TSM installation? Should I start with a new installation of TSM altogether and then migrate the data? What extra hardware/software, over and above what I have now, is involved? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Gill NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC Computer Systems Group E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: Portable Barcode Scanner for 3590?
I am not sure if this is the right place to do this but I'll do it anyway. Every once in a while some NT admin clobbers permissions of the root of some gigantic directory. What they always end up asking me is "Can I restore just the ACLs of the affected directories instead of the entire structure?" My answer is always no you have to restore everthing or you have to change it all back manually. Niether of these answers pleases them much. Obviously its thier fault so its just their tough luck but I think that this would be a great addition to the product. Are there any plans to do so? Or am I completely wrong and there is a way to restore individual acls? In that case I'll go back into my corner and be quiet. Thanks Jack
Re: Backup Problems when IP-Adresse changed
You may want to try using the dsmcutil program to remove and reinstall the scheduler. That should also take care of it. Jack -Original Message- From: Winfried Heilmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup Problems when IP-Adresse changed Hi, a NT-Server that was backuped via TSM, moved to a other site. It has now a new IP-Adresse. The client-schedule has been stopped/started and connected via the new IP-Adress to the TSM-server, but the server is still looking for the old-IP-Adress when he wants to start the backup. Scheduling mode ist prompted and I don't want to change it. How can I change the stored IP-Adresse in the TSM-DB? Regards winfried
Re: TSM Trivia Question
If that little lightning bolt is there then that means you specified its URL for the Client acceptor piece. If you click on it it should bring up that nodes web client. You can use that to perform client functions (backup,retrieve,archive,restore) Three things have to be in place for it to work. You must have the client acceptor and remote client agent installed on the node. The client acceptor must be started but leave the remote client agent alone in manual. The node must be able to be resolved somehow either dns or a host file. I would assume netbios names would work if you are on a windows box but its probably best to use dns. -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Trivia Question OK, so this is a stupid question, but: When you use the Web admin interface and look at a list of nodes (like you open Operation View, Work with Client Nodes, Update a Client Node), all the nodes have a little icon of a PC on the left. Some of them also have a lightning bolt icon. Anybody know what that lightning bolt means?? I can't find anything in error when looking at the attributes of the node.
Re: Antwort: ANS1312E Server media mount not possible
That sounds like that is exactly your problem. I was caught by this when we moved our first server to TSM. I believe 3.7 sets these to 0. You will have to make it something other than 0 for it to work. Jack -Original Message- From: Gisbert Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 6:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: ANS1312E Server media mount not possible The client tries to write directly into a sequentiel storage pool and on the server the point MAX MOUNT POINTS for the client ist set to zero. __ Da E-Mails leicht unter fremdem Namen erstellt oder manipuliert werden koennen, muessen wir zu Ihrem und unserem Schutz die rechtliche Verbindlichkeit der vorstehenden Erklaerungen ausschliessen. Die fuer die Stadtsparkasse Koeln geltenden Regeln ueber die Verbindlichkeit von rechtsgeschaeftlichen Erklaerungen mit verpflichtendem Inhalt bleiben unberuehrt.
Re: Client 4.1.1 for Netware not accepting login parameters
Have you tried going into the server and just resetting that users rights and password in TSM? -Original Message- From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client 4.1.1 for Netware not accepting login parameters Anyone, I have just installed the 4.1.1 Netware client on one of my servers, after we shifted from ADSM to TSM server. After I enter the line to start a scheduled backup, I get the following prompt : Please enter NetWare user for "nwserver": In the previous clients, If this happened, I entered the user who has rights for backup, using the full contextual name, ie, .backup.organization When I do that now, it throws me out, and the log file (error) shows the following : 03/05/2001 17:08:10 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 03/05/2001 17:08:19 cuSignOnResp: Server rejected session; result code: 53 03/05/2001 17:08:19 sessOpen: Error 53 receiving SignOnResp verb from server 03/05/2001 17:08:19 ANS1353E Session rejected: Unknown or incorrect ID entered The log file shows : 03/05/2001 17:08:10 Querying server for next scheduled event. 03/05/2001 17:08:10 Node Name: MASKORET 03/05/2001 17:08:10 Please enter your user id MASKORET: ANS1353E Session rejected: Unknown or incorrect ID entered 03/05/2001 17:08:19 Scheduler has been stopped. Does anyone have any idea what format the user name should take to be accepted ? I have only one user who has backup rights, and I do not want to create a user for backups on each server. Anyone ? Mike Glassman System Security Admin Israeli Airports Authority Ben-Gurion Airport http://www.ben-gurion-airport.co.il Tel : 972-3-9710785 Fax : 972-3-9710939 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usage of this email address or any email address at iaa.gov.il for the purpose of sales pitches, SPAM or any other such unwanted garbage, is illegal, and any person, whether corporate or alone doing so, will be prosecuted to the fullest possible extent.
Archiving without permissions
Hello *Smers Is there a way to archive files on an NT server without getting permissions? Jack
No Subject
Make sure the client acceptor piece and the Remote client agent piece are installed. Also make sure the client acceptor piece is started. If they are you may want to try reinstalling them using the dsmcutil program provided. Jack -Original Message- From: Reinhold Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Folks, after an upgrade of one of our clients to 4.1.2 web connect to port 1581 doesn't work any more. Server: 4.1.2 - AIX 4.3.3 Client: 4.1.2 - Solaris 7 This is the Java console of Netscape: Netscape Communications Corporation -- Java 1.1.5 Type '?' for options. Symantec Java! ByteCode Compiler Version 210.065 Copyright (C) 1996-97 Symantec Corporation can't find resource for sun.awt.windows.awtLocalization_de_DE Using default MenuItem font java.io.IOException: null at netscape.net.URLConnection.connect(Compiled Code) at netscape.net.URLConnection.getInputStream(Compiled Code) * at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.grabArchiveFile(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.openArchive(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.openArchive(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.init(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.getClassLoader(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$LoadAppletEvent.dispatch(Compiled Code) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread$EventPump.dispatchEvents(Compiled Code) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Compiled Code) at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$AppletEventDispatchThread.run(Compiled Code) # Unable to load archive http://zsasun1:1581/dsm.jar: java.io.IOException: null # Applet exception: class COM.ibm.storage.adsm.cadmin.clientgui.DDsmApplet could not be loaded Wie tried Netscape 4.5, 4.7, 6, IE 5 without success. Any Ideas? TIA Reinhold Wagner, Zeuna Staerker GmbH Co. KG
Re: Server to Server Config
How is your policy defined on your disk storage pool? It is possible that the file that is being sent is too large to fit in your disk pool or your policy dictates that any file over X MB goes directly to tape. Jack -Original Message- From: Boireau, Eric (MED) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server to Server Config Hi all, I trying to implement a server to server infrastructure. I plan to have : 1 "Master" Server in HQ with a tape library (STK L700 with 6LTO drive, connected to a 8xPIII NT server) 1 or more "Slave" server in other site, connected to HQ thru a WAN connection. This solution will be used to backup PC during the day (Has made now on the HQ Site only). The idea is to used the slave server as a "Buffer" server during the day for the backup, and transfering data between slave to master during the night. I define a destination Disk StgPool (To receive data from slave) with a migration on Tape StgPool on the master. My issue is that data goes directly to tape. And I don't want, the WAN connection does not provide enought bandwith to feed the LTO (15MB/s). I try to put offline the tape drive, but the process Failed with the following message :ANR0522W Transaction failed for session 2531 for node _TSMSRV_BKP00 (WindowsNT) - no space available in storage pool BKP0X_BUFPOOL and all successor pools. Does anybody has already implement Server to Server infrastructure thugh WAN connection ? Thanks. Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global Systems Server Architect / Technology Infrastructure Team GE Medical Systems S.A 283, rue de la Minire 78533 BUC Cedex France Tl: (33) 1 30 70 39 32, DC: 8*644 3932 Fax: (33) 1 30 70 42 30, DC: 8*644 3930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migration did not occur
Out of curiosity where does a *sm db backup fall in. I've seen some processes preempted by a db backup before. -Original Message- From: Sam Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migration did not occur Restore is at the top of the list, then migration and reclamation Sam Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services 716 888-3683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/7/01 5:00:00 AM Hello ADSM co-workers I am running ADSM 3.1.2.2 on a NSM C00. We have a disk storage pool called INCDISK with the high threshold set to 70 and the low set to 30. Our main clients are SQL servers. All clients backup to the SQLFLAT backup copy group which is tied to the INCDISK storage pool. The INCDISK storage pool will migrate to the INCTAPE storage pool when necessary. The issue that I have observed is that when the %utilised went over the 70% high threshold then migration did not kick in. I waited until the %utilised reached 92% and still migration did not occur. Query mount showed all drives had tapes mounted, but when I queried the activity log to try and understand what had mounted these volumes I could not come to and solid conclusion. However I do suspect that restore operations where the culprit. This was further backed up by entries informing me that earlier migration processes had been pre-empted. I eventually dismounted the volumes half expecting migration to kick in, but it didn't. I eventually got migration to work by lowering both thresholds to 0. What I am not too sure about is whether migration is actually pre-empted by a restore operation. If this is the case then surly this is wrong. Surely migration is more important as this is the safety valve before the storage pool reaches 100%. Does anybody know the order of precedence for pre-emption? Can anybody confirm or add to me conclusions. Thanks for your time. Neil Sharp Merrill Lynch ADSM/TSM Administrator Work : 020-7573-0469 Mobile : 07769-741612 Pager : 01893-038277 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not cancel sessions
I had this happen with a Lotus Notes node awhile back even after killing its scheduler. First stop the scheduler on the node then disable sessions on the server and then cancel the session. This caused the Notes agent to keep trying to check in but eventually it gave up. This worked for me. -Original Message- From: Diane Geils [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can not cancel sessions How about killing the scheduler on that node. "Denis L'Huillier" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/06/2001 02:48:22 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Can not cancel sessions Hello, I am having problems canceling a backup session. When I cancel the session the command processes successfully but the session starts over with a new session number. I removed the node from the sched. with no help. I am at TSM 3.7.2.0 on AIX 4.3.2. The node is NT running TDP agent for Domino. I have a renegade session. Thanks.
Re: commvault
Thomas, We had Commvault give a presentation here late last year. Here is the good and bad things I gathered up. GoodStuff: Comvault has the ability to backup and restore indivudual Exchange mailboxes and documents. From what I remember you have the ability to backup and restore Exchange up in 3 ways. Supposedly MS uses this product themselves for some of thier Exchange enviroment. 1)The full online backup/restore 2)Backup/restore at the mailbox level 3)Backup/restore at the document level BadStuff: Comvault will have you belive that all of these backups take place at the same blazing speed but anybody who has any experience with the ADSM Lotus Notes 4.6 Agent knows differently. You will take a GIGANTIC performace hit if you do document level. Expect the initial document level backup to take a few days to finish. Also expect your backup servers DB to grow 3Xs its size when it started. Normal everyday incremental backups will probably take most of the night. We did get them to admit that you would see very serious performance hits you wanted to back Exchange up in any other way than the Full Backup method. The API Comvault uses is NOT a Microsoft API so you can forget about any support from MS if you need to recover. Comvault becomes your support when you use thier product. There would be no other reason to use Comvault unless you used its ability to backup and restore individual mailboxes. We were impressed with the ability to do lower level backups in Exchange. This would definitely be useful because its a real pain to rebuild an Exchange server to get one mailbox. From past experience with the Notes agent it sounds like too high of a cost. We have been doing ok with the deleted item recovery so far. I would like to hold out for Exchange 2000 with its multiple information stores and deleted the mailbox recovery additions. At this time we have not yet decided to test this product. Jack -Original Message- From: Thomas R Rhodes/TRR/CC01/INEEL/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: commvault We have a company called COMMVAULT in here trying to sell us on there backup software. I have not seen them talked about on any of the list does anyone have any information about the product good or bad? Any information would be helpful and appreciated.
Re: Renaming Nodes
This is probably due to the caching web browsers do. The best way to be sure is to check from your command line. Jack -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Renaming Nodes I use the Web Admin on *SM 3.7.4.0 server. I have noticed a number of times where I change something and then look again after the change and the change isn't there (old values still there). However if I log out of Web and back in the changes show up. (Using Netscape) Double check your changes and see if they really were made. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. I/T 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/01 10:39AM I have a situation where I needed to rename a node. I notice when I use the GUI the old node name and file space path that are currently in the database don't change. Is it possible to have ADSM rename these to the new name, and of course, how do I do that? Thanks, Geoff Gill NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC Computer Systems Group E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: ANR9999D Error Reading From Std input; console input daemon t erminated
std input sounds like stdin which would be your keyboard. Check to see if it plugged in. If it is then you may have a bad keyboard. Try another one. If that doesn't work you may have a bad port. You can still control your server via rlogin or telnet. Other than that your system seems to be starting normally. Jack -Original Message- From: Arturo Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANRD Error Reading From Std input; console input daemon terminated Hello, Once again has anybody seen this message. ANRD Error Reading From Std input; console input daemon terminated As my server attempts to start the last message i receive is Recovery log mount in progress. Thx for any assistance or explanations. TSM Server 3.7.3.0 SUN 2.6 Thx Arturo
Re: adsm server hangs
I believe all the problems you are describing can be taken care of by applying the latest service updates. In the past when I would encounter these problems the only solution was to stop and restart the server. If you are nervous about that just make sure you have a good db backup before you experiment. I remember seeing these problems come up when certain commands like q node was executed while expiration was running. It would hang until we restarted the server. Jack -Original Message- From: Heinrich Hartl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: adsm server hangs I've run into a problem and I would be very obliged if someone has an idea what I could do about it: ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.20 seems to be in a strange state and nomore doing what its expected to do. dsmadmc shows the following informations: adsm q log Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- - - - - 248 248 0 240 4.09662.976 773 1,0 10,0 adsm q db Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- - - - - 2.2881.476 812 244 4.096 377.856 247.144 65,0 79,0 sofar anything normal. adsm q sess Sess Comm. Sess Wait Bytes Bytes Sess Platform Client Name Number Method StateTimeSent Recvd Type -- -- -- -- --- --- - 2.072 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S 88,0 M 339,0 M Node WinNTACLUSTER 2.119 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S 124 131 Admin AIX ADMIN 2.120 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S5,0 K 359 Admin AIX ADMIN 2.121 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S9,0 K 462 Admin AIX ADMIN 2.122 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S9,0 K 657 Admin AIX ADMIN 2.126 Tcp/Ip Run 0 S 286,0 K 511 Admin AIX ADMIN ## sessions 2072, 2119...2122 have been cancelled however they continue to hang around ## The sessions arose from dsmadmc commands that would not finish and were terminated with ^c ## such commands are ## q stg ## q vol adsm q pr Process Process Description Status Number - 95 DELETE FILESPACE Cancel in Progress. 96 Database Backup Cancel pending. ## Both processes were still executing showing no errors when the problem first came up ## process status showed around 115k files deleted (prior to my cancel pr 95 request) ## process 96 was an incremental backup of the database with the last message in the actlog that the output volume was dismounted Trying to solve the problem (q vol, q stg no more responding) I subsequently cancelled processes and sessions. However processes did not end, sessions did not terminate. I have not yet tried to halt the server. (I am afraid the halt might hang as well since the processes/sessions do not terminate) A suspected reason for the problem is that a high volume of incremenatal backup data may have been coming in while the delete filespace for a different node was running.
Re: NT 4.0 TCPIP Comm failure
If you are sure there have been no changes then you may want to contact your network people and see if anything has changed there. Jack -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT 4.0 TCPIP Comm failure We have had several machines lately that suddenly can't talk to *SM server and vice versa. Have to reboot NT to get back. ping and other comm works o.k. These will work o.k a few days then same thing. These clients have been in production for a good while with no problem. No recent changes to them. Only messages in dsmerror is TCPIP comm failure. Server says attempting to contact node. Have many other NT, Netware AIX clients - no problem. Using TCPIP over FORE ATM NIC. Clients NT 4.0 SP5, one with TSM 3.7.0.0, other 3.7.2.0. Server TSM 3.7.4.0 on AIX 4.3.3 Checked Tivoli site and no info on my searches. Any ideas? Thanks, David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. I/T 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMS Scripting for NT installation
The new windows installer service that goes in with the new client is responsible for at least one of the reboots. Someone one the list said awhile back that if IE5.5 exists on the client already then a reeboot will not be necessary. I tried this one one client and it worked without a reeboot. We also tried putting the new MDAC(MS Data Access Components) this added the windows installer service but in some cases it still required a reeboot. All in all its not very consistent behavior. All NT boxen are at sp5 at least (very few at 6a) and all were upgrades from ADSM client 3.1.7. I blame the new MS code that is introduced in the new clients probably put there for w2k support. As far as scripting an install there is a lengthy one line command that interfaces with the new MS installer service that can be used to install the client in the background with no intervention (silent install) On every machine I've used the command on it caused a Dr Watson. The install finishes anyway and the client seems to operate just fine but I am not about to release that out to the NT admins. I am sure they will have a cow over that. So I just wrote up some docs to walk them thru the install. So far there have been no problems. You may be able to get around the pop up by directly running the setup.exe instead of the .msi file. Jack -Original Message- From: Collins, Brenda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SMS Scripting for NT installation Hi everyone! Has anyone been able to get around the html pop up window when scripting the installation for Windows NT? Also, the number of re-boots required? I have someone in our NT group doing the scripting for me and he is having trouble with these areas. If you have ideas or even a sample script that you would be willing to share, I would really appreciate it. Do you know what the switches mean that are for installation? /v and /qn Thanks, Brenda Collins, Storage Management Phone: 651-848-5808 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: "The views, opinions and judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by West Group."
Re: Moving filespace
You can try renaming the node and filespaces. -Original Message- From: Peter Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Moving filespace Hi, is there a way to move filespace from one node to another on the SAME ADSM-server? Sincerely yours Peter Mann Tel.+49 0561/804-2465 GhK University of Kassel Computer-Center Secr. +49 0561/804-2287 Moenchebergstrasse 11Telefax +49 0561/804-2297 D-34109 Kassel / Fed.Rep. GermanyE-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://www.uni-kassel.de/security/pgp/pubkeys
Re: Moving filespace
Then you may have to export the node and then import back in. There may be other better ways of doing this but I am not aware of them. -Original Message- From: Miller, Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving filespace What if the node you want to move the filespaces to already exists? -Original Message- From: Palmadesso Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving filespace You can try renaming the node and filespaces. -Original Message- From: Peter Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Moving filespace Hi, is there a way to move filespace from one node to another on the SAME ADSM-server? Sincerely yours Peter Mann Tel.+49 0561/804-2465 GhK University of Kassel Computer-Center Secr. +49 0561/804-2287 Moenchebergstrasse 11Telefax +49 0561/804-2297 D-34109 Kassel / Fed.Rep. GermanyE-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://www.uni-kassel.de/security/pgp/pubkeys
Re: Mountablenotinlib
Yes! Thank you David. That did the trick. command syntax: move med vol_name stg=stg_name wherestate=mountablenotinlib This moved the volume back into the scratch catagory. Jack -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mountablenotinlib You have to use the MOVE MEDIA command with the WHERESTATE option. Review this command to see how it moves tapes. (I think if you use wherestate=mountablenotinlib it automatically moves to mountableinlib - but review command to make sure). David B. Longo Systems Administrator Health First, Inc. I/T 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/01 03:50PM Actually what I think I did was insert and check in the tapes to the library before I updated them to available. The volumes in question are in readwrite status right now. The volume STATE is mountablenotinlib. How do I change the STATE of the volumes. Jack -Original Message- From: Alexandre Bicas Caldeira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RES: Jack, Have you tried "update vol" ? /reado update vol Volume_name acc=| unav \readw Usually, I update all the volumes that are removed from the library to readonly. Good Luck Alexandre Bicas Caldeira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tivoli Certified Specialist - Tivoli Storage Manager Service IT Solutions - http://www.service.com.br Sao Paulo:(11) 3040-1960 Rua Helena, 280, Cj 1106 CEP 04552-050 - Sco Paulo - SP Porto Alegre: (51) 212-3666 Curitiba: (41) 339-3076 -Mensagem original- De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Em nome de Palmadesso Jack Enviada em: quarta-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2001 17:42 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Kind of quiet today! I hope this is a simple one. I have some volumes that were removed from a 3590 library and then went "unavailable" The volumes are now back in but are all empty. A "q con" for each volume shows there is no data. My problem is how do I make these volumes scratch again? I cannot delete the volumes because I get volume cannot be deleted because volume state is mountable not in lib. How do I make these scratch again? Thanks for any help Jack
Re: mountablenotinlib problem
Seems like my problem has not gone away. Here is the error message I get when I issue a delete vol. ANS8001I Return code 14on the command line ANR2017I Administrator PALMADJ issued command: DELETE VOLUME p50008 discarddata=yes ANR1425W Scratch volume P50008 is empty but will not be deleted - volume state is "mountablenotinlib". Here is a q vol of that volume: adsm q vol p50008 f=d Volume Name: P50008 Storage Pool Name: FOS-XCH-TAPE Device Class Name: 3590 Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 48 Write Pass Number: 2 Approx. Date Last Written: 11/02/2000 22:31:20 Approx. Date Last Read: 06/05/2000 19:59:26 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: PAL Tape Rack Last Update by (administrator): PALMADJ Last Update Date/Time: 11/07/2000 11:35:29 Here is a q con: adsm q con p50008 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. ADSM Server is rs6k ADSM 3.1.55 Thanks for any help Jack -Original Message- From: Keith Davey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail What is the percise error message you get when you try to delete volume volumename discard=yes ? Keith Davey On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Palmadesso Jack wrote: Kind of quiet today! I hope this is a simple one. I have some volumes that were removed from a 3590 library and then went "unavailable" The volumes are now back in but are all empty. A "q con" for each volume shows there is no data. My problem is how do I make these volumes scratch again? I cannot delete the volumes because I get volume cannot be deleted because volume state is mountable not in lib. How do I make these scratch again? Thanks for any help Jack
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Kind of quiet today! I hope this is a simple one. I have some volumes that were removed from a 3590 library and then went "unavailable" The volumes are now back in but are all empty. A "q con" for each volume shows there is no data. My problem is how do I make these volumes scratch again? I cannot delete the volumes because I get volume cannot be deleted because volume state is mountable not in lib. How do I make these scratch again? Thanks for any help Jack
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Try using the web client to restore. This will be faster and you may not run into that problem. Jack -Original Message- From: Robert Fijan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hallo all ! Sorry , maybe I didn't eyplain my problem right, but maybe I did, I don't know: I'm ADSM Administrator and I try to restore some files for a user from a NT-Node to the same NT-Node. For this reason I use the Backup Client on my workstation with the Nodename of the NT-Node and the proper password. Then I select the files to restore and start the restore to the original location, but I hget ANE4007E Errors. When the Administrator of the NT-Node does the same from his workstation everything works fine. Why is this so? Does NT check the NT-User-permissions or what? That would mean that every ADSM-Admin would have to be Admin on every NT-Node he backs up in order to be able to restore the files, right? This would be stupid, or not? Hope you could bring some light into the darkness of this subject. With kind Regards Robert Fijan
Re: Recovery Log Problems while in Normal Mode
You may want to expand the size of your recovery log. That would at least reduce the chances of crashing due to a full recovery log. The logs will usually fill up if you have alot of sessions going at once. Or especially if you use the Lotus Notes 4.6 agent. Its my understanding that some data just cannot be committed to the ADSM Db until the client lets go of it. In my experience this is not a problem with regular clients but with ADSM agents this can be a problem. If you have been experiencing some growth then you will have to expand the DB and Logs eventually. Just remember the max size of the ADSM recovery log is 5.5 gigs. I wouldn't expand past 5 gigs to be safe. Jack -Original Message- From: Wood, Dwight - BSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovery Log Problems while in Normal Mode My recovery log filled up and crashed the server this morning. I have the recovery log in "Normal" mode - NOT "Roll Forward" mode. I was under the impression that the recovery log would not fill up and crash the system while in normal mode. The log is 1.5 GB and the DB is 13.5 GB. We do a full DB backup once a day, sometimes twice. When I restarted the server the log showed up as 0.1% utilized. Does anyone have any idea as to what might cause the log to fill up? I am running TSM 3.7.3 on Solaris. Thanks, -Dwight
Expanding the DB on a Netstore
This one is for all of you that are running Netstore machines. There is a script to help with DB and Log extensions on all Netstores. I've forgotten the name of it. Can anybody remind me what it is. Thanks Jack
Re: Good ole error
Funny you should mention that. I just noticed the same thing on some machines around here also. -Original Message- From: Joel Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good ole error I have a few clients that recently had the new 4.1.1.16 client for Windows NT installed. They've never had another client on them. Some are running without errors, but several (2 of 20) are getting an error from a long time ago: "The library file ""dsmcperf.dll"" specified for the "TSM Client Performance" service could not be opened. Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code is data DWORD 0. " is appearing in the Application Event Log. The old problem reports on this identified it only with a few client versions which I thought were corrected. Also, the error was identified as missing registry entries. I've checked "well" and "sick" clients and the registry section similar to the old APARs description was identical. Has anyone else had these problems? The clients are NT4 SP4, but I have other clients of the same OS/SP working just fine. I don't want to hack the registry and I'm getting complaints from the owners who are seeing an log record every 2 minutes. Thanks, Joel Cooper Deloitte Touche LLP [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Tivoli ticket is open... I just wanted to here from the trenches. ;-)
Re: Anything wrong with this picture?
If you would like to exclude directories then use exclude.dir Jack -Original Message- From: Christo Heuër [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anything wrong with this picture? Hi All, I'm running the Tsm3.7.2.0 code on a Solaris machine and can not seem to get certain files excluded from the backup process. Here is the complete inclexcl file and the resultant backup - obviously only the parts where it is actually sending the excluded files. Does anyones excludes work on Solaris on this level? Can anyone see what we are doing wrong here? BTW the scheduler process was stopped and started... Thanks Christo # more /etc/adsm/inclexcl.list exclude /orabin/* include /orabin/tet.txt include /orabin/.kshrc include /orabin/.profile exclude /fsps01/* exclude /fsps02/* exclude /fsps03/* exclude /gtps01/* exclude /gtps02/* exclude /gtps03/* exclude /wcps01/* exclude /wcps02/* exclude /wcps03/* exclude /usr/* exclude /proc/* exclude /dev/* exclude /devices/* exclude /etc/* exclude /var/* include /var/adm/* exclude /tmp/* exclude /opt/* exclude /usr/openwin/* # - Normal File--20,463,616 /fsps02/control/ctrl02.dbf [Sent] ANS1898I * Processed93,000 files * Normal File-- 268,435,968 /fsps02/redolog1/fsps_redo_g2_p.dbf [Sent] Normal File-- 525,352,960 /fsps02/sbslog/sbslog_01.dbf [Sent] Normal File-- 525,352,960 /fsps02/sbslog/sbslog_02.dbf [Sent] Normal File-- 525,352,960 /fsps02/sbslog/sbslog_03.dbf [Sent] Normal File-- 525,352,960 /fsps02/sbstbl/sbstbl_01.dbf [Sent] 712.76 MB [ - ]
Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
I'd have to say we are happy also. We have over 18 exchange servers with 10 to 30 gig dbs. All 18 incremental finish well within 2 hours each day. Full backups take 1 to 4 hours each depending on the load on our AIX ADSM server. All Exchange backups are done over gigabit Ethernet. One drawback is Microsoft's lack of an API that allows message extraction from the backups. We have a mixed Notes/Exchange mail environment. The Notes users still enjoy the ability to restore deleted messages long after they were "accidentally" removed. Exchange users have a 15 day deleted item retention period they have to go by. -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange Very happy! We have nine (9) MS Exchange servers with 35GB information stores. Our backup window is 2 hours and TDP for MSExchange does this just fine. Of course, you have to consider the infrastructure here (Gigabit Ethernet). All in all, it works well and the Exchange admins are happier with TSM than they were with Veritas. 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: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange happy with it, backuping 4-5 GB(hour), our main exchange server has a 17 GB database. 2 others have about 12 GB database. René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43 7+41'21'924'28'88 * K1-117 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange Hello, we intend to use the tivoli agent for exchange, but have no experience regarding performance (backup restore), easyness, robustness Because of the importance of the exchange environment we are looking for reference installations and we want to know of your experiences. Our environment: - 2 * MS exchange server 5.5 (10GB/30GB) - network (tokenringatm backbone) - 3.7 NT-clients - 3.7.3.6 TSM Server on MVS -2 * 3590 Tapelibraries Thanks a lot for your input Stefan Holzwarth -- -- -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Rechenzentrum, Produktionsplanung und Organisation) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 4.0 GCM/S d- s+: a C+(++) ULA++ P+++ L+(++) E--- W+++ N++ o-- K? w+(++) O+ M V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP-+ t+ 5+ !X R tv b !DI D G e+++ h--- r z? ---END GEEK CODE BLOCK-
Re: RV: Re: Client ver 3.7.2 - no SA software
You can use the command line or the command line interface in the web client to send anything to a flat text file and then import it into anything you want. Try q actlog actlog.txt Or use your own variation. Then import it into any spreadsheet you want. IMHO this is much easier than the GUI. The Web client isn't that bad when you get used to it. The command line and gui that is available in the web client makes it extremely powerful. There are too many things, in the WWW interface that do not work like the SA gui or are simply not available. For instance, I collect data transfer statistics. I do this by going to the SA GUI client, SERVER ACTIVITY LOG, select all 4961 messages and then SELECT / PRINT them to a file that is imported into a spreadsheet. Can't do this with the WWW interface. The output is wrapped (if you just cut/paste). No option to print to a file or with COMMA DELIM, etc.
Installing the client acceptor
In NT TSM/ADSM client installations in the past the "client acceptor" and "remote client agent" were automatically installed. Now in 4.1 you must use the "setup wizard" to install it. I see no documentation for installing this via a command line. I'd like to include this in my installation script for automated installs. Is it possible? I know its possible to remove any TSM service vi dsmcutil. We have over 200 NT servers just in this location. I'd hate to do it to all of them via that wizard thing. Jack
Re: Installing the client acceptor
Thank you for the prompt reply. I was hoping that functionality was in there. This will help out alot. Sincerely, Jack Palmadesso -Original Message- From: Andy Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing the client acceptor Whoops. correct syntax for installing the remote client agent is: dsmcutil install remoteagent /node:yournodename /password:yourpassword I said "remoteclientagent" earlier, which is incorrect. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM/Tivoli Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked." Andy Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/10/2000 09:41:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Andrew Raibeck/Tivoli Systems) Subject: Re: Installing the client acceptor The dsmcutil utility can also be used to install the client acceptor and remote client agent. (This capability has always been there.) The simplest form of the syntax would be: dsmcutil install cad /node:yournodename /password:yourpassword dsmcutil install remoteclientagent /node:yournodename /password:yourpassword This requires knowing in advance the nodename and password you wish to use. The dsmcutil syntax allows you to specify other options as well, such as an alternate options file. Check out the Appendix "Appendix D. Using the Scheduler Service Configuration Utility for Windows NT, 2000" in "Installing the Clients" for further information. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM/Tivoli Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked." Palmadesso Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/10/2000 09:23:42 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Andrew Raibeck/Tivoli Systems) Subject: Installing the client acceptor In NT TSM/ADSM client installations in the past the "client acceptor" and "remote client agent" were automatically installed. Now in 4.1 you must use the "setup wizard" to install it. I see no documentation for installing this via a command line. I'd like to include this in my installation script for automated installs. Is it possible? I know its possible to remove any TSM service vi dsmcutil. We have over 200 NT servers just in this location. I'd hate to do it to all of them via that wizard thing. Jack
Re: Problem Installing 4.11.16 client on NT4 Server SP6a
I have also seen the same problem. Tried on fresh sp5 and sp6 machines. Also it only happens when I try to do a silent install. If I do a manual install it works fine. The silent install will dr watson with msiexec.exe but the installation of the TSM Client continues and finishes. The client seems to work fine too. I just don't want to send an install out there when I know its going to dr watson out. I am just telling them to install it manually with my doc. There definitely seems to be some problem with the new MSInstaller. Jack -Original Message- From: France, Don G (Pace) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem Installing 4.11.16 client on NT4 Server SP6a Sounds like you have an MS installer problem... If you haven't already, you may need to re-install MSI and/or SP6a. Also, consider doing NT repair-install (from the decision-path that uses existing disk-based backup files, not the ERD), as that would be least likely to add to your problem. This might not be useful if you didn't create new ERD (which updates the config backup files). After doing that, re-run the TSM install (maybe un-install first; though I've never found that to be effective, we had an NT box that recently got its dsmsched.log corrupted with unintelligible date-time stamps... the cure was un-install and re-install!) Also, verify your install image on the failing machine is identical to the success machines. If all this fails, consider using an incident with Microsoft, as that seems the most likely source of your symptoms; you did already check the TechNet K-Base articles for symptoms, right? Hope some of this helps. Don France Technical Architect - Unix Engineering/P.A.C.E. San Jose, CA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PACE - http://www.pacepros.com Bus-Ph: (408) 257-3037 -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Problem Installing 4.11.16 client on NT4 Server SP6a I just upgraded 8 servers from 3.1.06 to 4.11.16 running NT4 Server SP6a. All worked fine. One other server fails with the message "The wizard was interrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager Client could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again." I was able to upgrade this server to the 3.7.201 version. I have seen previous postings on this problem, one said to try to run instmsiw.exe then run setup later - this didn't solve the problem for me. I have tried running setup logged into local console with a lcoal admin id, and with Antivirus stopped (as suggested by Andy Raibek in a post) - still no luck. I created a setup log, the last lines in the log are: MSI (c) (0B:F6): Transforming table Error. MSI (c) (0B:F6): Transforming table Error. MSI (c) (0B:F6): Product: Tivoli Storage Manager Client -- Installation operation failed. MSI (c) (0B:F6): MainEngineThread is returning 1603 === Verbose logging stopped: 11/7/00 15:17:53 === If anyone has a solution for this problem, it would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM 4.1 Client Install
Is anybody using the silent install for the new 4.1 client? Every NT machine I have tried it on has Dr Watsoned withmsiexec.exe (the new ms installer I presume) Other than that the client seems to install normally. If I run a manual installation there are no problems. Here is the command I am using: setup.exe /v"INSTALLDIR=\"C:\ADSM\" /qn" I took this straight from the readme file included with the client. I just changed the install dir. Jack
Re: Installing TSM
On all the servers I've set up I've set aside another volume group called tsmvg and built the db, logs and storage pools in there. -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing TSM Have you created databse and log volumes on seaprate volume group dedicated to tsm or how ? or in rootvg just create another file system named /tsm and create database and log volumes there ? shekhar "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 11/03/2000 03:41:23 PM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Re: Installing TSM I've just finished installing 4.1 on several AIX machines. All of them went well. The quick start guide was not very clear and was actually wrong in more than one place. Your problem sounds to me like you need to create your log and db. ie... from /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin dsmfmt -db dbvol (size) dsmfmt -log logvol (size) dsmserv format 1/tsmlog/log 1 /tsmdb/db Don't forget the web admin interface. The manual has a typo or something. The command to start the webadmin interface is actually: dsmserv runfile /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/webimages dsmserv.idl If you do not run that last command the web interface will appear but will not function. Despite what the manual said about a log and a db being created during the install it did not happen for me the 4 times I installed it. Otherwise the smitty installation went without a hitch. The quick start manual is very choppy and misleading but it is all in there. Have fun! I know I did! Jack -Original Message- From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Instaling TSM First, make sure you are in the proper directory, /usr/tivoli/.../bin. At 01:09 PM 11/3/2000 -0500, you wrote: I am trying to install and configure TSM 3.7 and 4.1 on a new box, and following procedure in TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER FOR AIX Quick Start version 4 release 1 Book . Installation is easy smitty install, after that how to configure it ? When I tried. / dsmserv to start server Message.. dsmserv.dsk file not found Where i can get additional reference Or books on how to install and configure TSM on AIX 4.3.3 . Fred Johanson System Administrator, ADSM S.E.A. University of Chicago 773-702-8464
Re: Exclude List
It is possible to exclude files with spaces. Just put the whole path in quotes. This also goes for any services you want to install. Check the dsmcutil help file for examples. But I think its probably better to use 8.3 naming instead because I've seen alot of problems with windows long file names. Jack -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exclude List Hi: This got me when I was reinstalling the service for the scheduled backups and had to point to a directory path that included 'program files'. You need to use the MS-DOS name that does not include spaces. Click down to the directory with spaces, select the directory, right click and select properties, see / use the MS-DOS name. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/05/00 10:40AM Hello All - I was wondering in the NT environment, how you write up an exclude list for folders that contain a space. We could easily rename these folders, however, it would involve also changing names within various programs. Some, of course, are for Windows, therefore, those names cannot be changed. Therefore, how do I write up a folder name that contains spaces in the exclusion list - ex: Program files? Thanks Terry
Re: Installing TSM
I've just finished installing 4.1 on several AIX machines. All of them went well. The quick start guide was not very clear and was actually wrong in more than one place. Your problem sounds to me like you need to create your log and db. ie... from /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin dsmfmt -db dbvol (size) dsmfmt -log logvol (size) dsmserv format 1/tsmlog/log 1 /tsmdb/db Don't forget the web admin interface. The manual has a typo or something. The command to start the webadmin interface is actually: dsmserv runfile /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/webimages dsmserv.idl If you do not run that last command the web interface will appear but will not function. Despite what the manual said about a log and a db being created during the install it did not happen for me the 4 times I installed it. Otherwise the smitty installation went without a hitch. The quick start manual is very choppy and misleading but it is all in there. Have fun! I know I did! Jack -Original Message- From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Instaling TSM First, make sure you are in the proper directory, /usr/tivoli/.../bin. At 01:09 PM 11/3/2000 -0500, you wrote: I am trying to install and configure TSM 3.7 and 4.1 on a new box, and following procedure in TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER FOR AIX Quick Start version 4 release 1 Book . Installation is easy smitty install, after that how to configure it ? When I tried. / dsmserv to start server Message.. dsmserv.dsk file not found Where i can get additional reference Or books on how to install and configure TSM on AIX 4.3.3 . Fred Johanson System Administrator, ADSM S.E.A. University of Chicago 773-702-8464
Re: DLT Drive Upgrade
This library is also single-ended not differential. I am not a SCSI expert so I am wondering why you would not just leave the library in single-ended mode instead of changing all of its guts to work with differential. What is the gain other than the distance you can run your cable? Breece Hill still offers both models and I was planning on staying single-ended. Although I am always open to changes for the better:) From what I am getting about the new media is that first I need to define a new device class and specify "drives" for the format to get the maximum capacity out of the media. Also that data written on filling tapes will remain in the same format which makes sense. Only data written on new scratch tapes would benefit from the new drives writing format. That also make alot of sense. Assuming that there is no problem reading the media what confuses me a little is why I would want to define a new device class. In the current environment the device class is "DLT" and the format is set to "drives." Those are the only 2 that really matter, correct? As long as I associate the new drives to that device class I should not have to create any new device classes. I could just use the existing class and let the drives do the translations from one format to the next. Am I being too simple? Jack -Original Message- From: Paul Zarnowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DLT Drive Upgrade Jack, We also have a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. It is no longer our primary robot, but it used to be. It is true that a DLT7000 or DLT8000 drive should be able to read tapes written by a DLT4000 drive. I *think* it is true that ADSM will read these tapes also, but I do not have first-hand experience on that. New tapes that are written will be written according to the format specified in the device class. Check the documentation on DEFINE DEVCLASS for more info - look for the section on DLT drives. However - the main reason I am responding is the following. When we looked into upgrading our Q47 to DLT7000, we found that financially it did not make sense. This is because our robot, and drives, were not differential SCSI. In order to upgrade to DLT7000 drives, we would not only have had to replace the drives, but we would have had to upgrade the library itself to be differential SCSI. The cost of this made it financially not worth doing. Instead, we opted to purchase a new larger tape library. I would look into whether your library is differential already or not, and whether you would also run into this issue or not. Your library may indeed be differential. I think the reason that ours was not, was because we purchased it before Breece Hill offered a differential version of the library. I believe that new data written to an existing tape, will be written in the format that is already on that tape. I believe that only newly written tapes will be written at the higher density, and then only if you have the device class defined properly. ..Paul -- At 02:02 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Palmadesso Jack wrote: One of my libraries is getting close to maxing out its storage. Its a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. I'd like to replace the drives with 4 DLT8000 drives. So far I've been hearing it should all be backward compatible but mostly thats just from the sales people. Some of the people around here think a DLT4000 tape should be readable in 7000 or 8000 drive. Is this correct? If it is correct then is it possible to just replace the drives in the library redefine them to AIX and ADSM and continue on? In other words will ADSM even notice? We are running ADSM 3.1.2 L40 on an RS/6000. I am thinking it should be fine but I am mainly wondering how new data gets written back out to media? Will new data being written to tape need to write on a scratch volume or can it just be written on a filling volume? Or is all of this too much of a hassle and I should just buy a new library and migrate the data over to it? Is there any sort of procedure defined someplace I could use? Thanks for any input Jack
Re: Trace Route for AIX?
Yeah I knew it was obvious. Too much traveling ;-) Thanks -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trace Route for AIX? I apologize for being off topic but does anybody know how to perform a trace route under AIX 4.3.3? Do 'man traceroute' or see www.rs6000.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixgen/topnav/topnav.htm Note that 'ping -R' can also reveal routing. Richard Sims, BU
Re: ADSM SCHEDULER
You may want to try removing and reinstalling the service with the dsmcutil command. As to why it stopped in the first place look in the nt event viewer also review your activity log on the server. Also look in the dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log if you have not. Jack -Original Message- From: Selva, Perpetua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM SCHEDULER There is no specific errors that seem to point to anything unusual.. One day it will work, the other day, it won't.. Sometimes 'it says client severed', at other times, it has missed schedules. Whatever the case maybe, the client server's adsm scheduler would have stopped by itself.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM SCHEDULER Can someone please let me know why the 'adsm scheduler' would stop for no reason .. especially on an NT4.0 running metaframe/winframe applications.. I don't have a specific answer for you, but would seek out any dsmerror.log indications that may be left behind. Richard
Re: Exchange 2000 TDP-follow-up
Here is something from the archives I've dug up. Jack -- This question was also asked at Microsoft Exchange Conference '99 and Microsoft addressed it by saying that they hold their position to NOT introduce it into the "backup and restore" API because of performance issues and having to break their architecture. They have chosen to take the following steps when it comes to restoring individual items to alleviate the problem: - Exchange 5.5 SP3 - Deleted item retention - Exchange 2000 - Deleted mailbox retention - Exchange 2000 - Introduction of storage groups that split the IS into up to 90 databases. It allows you to manage those db's separately...including restoring individual databases without affecting other databases. -Original Message- From: Amini, Mehdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange 2000 TDP-follow-up Will Exchange 2000 TDP allow for individual Mailbox restore ? Mehdi Amini ValueOptions, MIS/LAN 703-208-8754 - Voice 703-205-6879 - Fax ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by email and delete and destroy this message and its attachments. **
Re: dsm.opt setting on AIX
Under the Unix clients there are 2 files that are nessasary. You need both the dsm.sys and the dsm.opt. At a minimum you'll need the server name in the dsm.sys on all Unix clients. The reasoning behind it all is because Unix is a multiuser system unlike NT. Each user could customize thier own dsm.opt files to exclude or backup whatever they like. So under a unix system you could have multiple dsm.opt files but you will always have only one dsm.sys. Jack -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dsm.opt setting on AIX Hi: Just tried the upgrade to the client TSM 3.7 on the AIX side and get: [backup] /etc # /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched ANS1035S Options file '/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys' not found I assume it's looking for the dsm.opt file. It is in the bin directory, but it appears to have a setting that has the dsm.sys as the options file. Any suggestions as to where this is set? Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority
Re: tsm: what is dsmserv.dsk
This file should be created when you perform the "dsmserv format" of your log and database volumes. However I do agree that the quick start guide lacks clarity in more than one area. -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tsm: what is dsmserv.dsk It's a list of your log and database volumes. If I recall correctly, in the migration notes in the getting started manual it says TSM will create a default set of db and log files if it can't find your site defined volumes. [backup] /home/root/dsmsave # more dsmserv.dsk /var/adsmloga/adsmloga /var/adsmlogb/adsmlogb /var/adsmdba/dbvola /var/adsmdbb/dbvolb /var/adsmdbc/dbvolc /var/adsmdbd/dbvold /var/adsmdbe/dbvole /var/adsmdbf/dbvolf /var/adsmdbg/dbvolg /var/adsmdbh/dbvolh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/29/00 09:35PM Just my first attempt to get Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000 Version 3, Release 7, Level 0.0 to work! This is what I get ... # cd /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin # ./dsmserv ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 16:19:10 on Aug 24 1999. Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000 Version 3, Release 7, Level 0.0 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR0900I Processing options file /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.opt. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0212E Unable to read disk definition file dsmserv.dsk. WHAT IS THIS "disk definition file dsmserv.dsk"? TIA Don Prince
Exchange Mailbox restores
We recently moved to exchange and have implemented the TDP for Exchange. It works fine but managment is concerened of the fact that we cannot do individual mailbox restores like we were able to do in Notes. I am aware that there is no Microsoft API that allows this (or am I wrong). I've read about some of you that are using products that allow mailbox restores under Exchange but most of what I have read has been negative. i.e.- Its slow, It uses a non MS method, Its unreliable, all of the above, etc,etc My questions are: Is there anything new available from Tivoli or another vendor that will allow exchange mailbox restores? What are your opinions of these products? Anybody using Legato with this capability? What do you think of it? I would really appreciate any input from anyone Thanks Jack
dataBlk??
Hello, I had somebody doing a restore from the ADSM Notes agent today. He recieved a strange error I've never seen come up before. ANS0216E (RC2008) The dataBlk bufferLen value is zero. It had already restored 200 documents before this error came up. The messages manual says the user response is to "Provide a non-zero value for the bufferLen" I've searched thru some of the archives including mine but was unable to locate this problem. Has anybody seen this before? Server: Platform AIX 4.3.3 TSM server 3.7.1 Client: Platform NT4 sp5 ADSM Lotus Notes Agent 2.1.9 Thanks Jack
Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp
You should also check and see if the lmcp daemon is running. ps -ef|grep lmcpd -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 Connectivity and lmcp I am attempting to connect an RS/6000 SP system to a 3494 tape library. I think I have followed the manuals correclty, but cannot access the library using the mtlib commands. I keep getting the message that says the library is offline to the host. Um, is the library offline to the host? Go to the 3494 and check its state. Ping it from your host to assure continuity. Make sure your host is defined as authorized to the Library Manager. Assure that your /etc/ibmatl.conf is correct. Richard
IBM Redbooks down
Is anybody else getting connection refused when trying to get to www.ibm.redbooks.com ? It seems to have been down for the weekend. Jack
Re: IBM Redbooks down
Well at least that one works! ;) thanks for the link. Unfortunately I need access to all the redbooks specifically the one relating to setup of a new TSM server. Can anybody point me anyplace else? Everything seems to link back to the IBM site . That has not worked for awhile now. -Original Message- From: Gerrit van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM Redbooks down Jack, Try the following link: http://www.lotus.com/developers/redbook.nsf Regards Gerrit Palmadesso Jack wrote: Is anybody else getting connection refused when trying to get to www.ibm.redbooks.com ? It seems to have been down for the weekend. Jack
Re: odbc driver
Reinstall the TSM client but only select the ODBC for installation. This upgraded my ODBC to the correct level. Apparently some bug in the install. Mainstar support should be able to help you. Jack -Original Message- From: Vraspir, Mary J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: odbc driver Does anyone have the newest odbc driver from TSM that they can mail to me or post on the list? I am trying to test the Mainstar MonitorPlus. One of their software requirements is "TSM ODBC version 3.7.2.0 or higher" Is the versioning on TSM or the ODBC driver? My ODBC driver is currently 3.01.00.08. Thanks in advance Mary Vraspir West Teleservices Omaha, NE
Restoring file permissions
This is probably a dumb question but here goes. Every couple of months somebody with too much admin priviledge will whack permissions on an NT server someplace. Today somebody whacked a whole drive and set everything to read only. I was asked if it was possible to restore just the file permissions instead of the whole file. Is something like this possible? I already told the administrator that he'll have to restore all of the files but I thought it was an interesting request and would be a nice feature. Thanks for any help, Jack - Thought for the day ;) I imagine a world of peace and happiness where everybody lives in harmony... Then I imagine us attacking that world because they would never see it coming.
Lotus Notes Agent License
One of my clients is trying to do a restore from a Notes agent. He keeps getting an invalid license file found. I figure the server team used the try and buy version instead of the real thing. Is there a way to copy a valid license file to this Notes server without reinstalling the agent. Jack
Server to Server reclamaiton vs move data
Boy sure is quiet in here lately. Maybe this can stir things up a bit ;) Correct me if I am wrong: I have 2 servers at remote sites that perform server to server db backups and copy storage pools over our WAN. Reclamation usually takes a really long time to complete. Especailly as I approach lower reclamation values. If I set reclamation for the server to server pool at 80 then I have to send at most 20% of each tape down over the WAN. DLT 4000s have 20/40 compression so I could send up to 5/10 gigs of data down the pipe for just for one volume!! That could take all day over the WAN! I am considering using "move data" instead. Again correct me if I am wrong please. When I issue a move data on a server to server volume that volume should be mounted in the remote library as well as another filling volume from that storage pool or just use a new scratch volume. Since these two volumes are mounted in the same library the amount of data that needs to be sent over the WAN is now minimal (I'm not sure about this) In this case the data would be moved much quicker freeing up my scratch volumes. Also communication over the WAN is now minimized because no files are being sent only ADSM DB communication is going on. I know I would need at least 2 mount points available to the storage pool. Can anybody enlighten me on this. Thanks for any help as always, Jack
Re: Recommended ADSM hardware
If you need to reuse your DLTs then Breece Hill makes a good little library. I am using 2 Q47s with 3 DLT4000 drives and am deploying 4 more q 47s with DLT8000 drives. Each holds 60 tapes in a rotating carasel. ADSM supports it with the SCSI library drivers. They have been very reliable and their support is good. Even the call is free. Onsite service is expensive but who isn't and they hardly break anyway. I know the 2 that are currently deployed have been in place for almost 5 years. I believe Breece Hills can still be ordered with the older DLT hardware. Jack -Original Message- From: Wallace, Gary C Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 13:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommended ADSM hardware We migrated from DLT 3000 tape units to IBM 3494 Tape libraries, they are a lot more stable than any DLT drives we used. Gary Wallace Storage Engineer Intel Online Services Technology Integration Management * Office Phone: 916.356.6465 * Cell Phone: 916.799.4479 * Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Robert Molerio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommended ADSM hardware Hi ADSMer's I need to get off my DLT IV library soon. Can anybody recommend a IBM or 3rd party vendor that will work with ADSM 3.2.40 and eventually TSM3.7.1? I think I will need a library that holds at least 40 DLT IV tapes as I will have to reuse the ones I have. Thanks, Bob M.
