Re: ADSM 4.1

2000-09-19 Thread Jesper Kjer
Hello The DB upgrade is a part of the 3.7 and 4.1 installation. I have done some 3.7 to 4.1 installationsens, but in all cases I recived an error will the db upgrade was runing. "ANRD asinit.c(341): Error converting volume attribs for devclass DLTCLASS. So what I want to say :" Try it out h

Tape Mounts and Disk Pools

2000-09-19 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Last night I'm watching backups because we're doing a test on a computer running SAP, that will be backing up 150GB+ data. At the same time I have about 25 other nodes starting when I notice tape mounts. I see that mounts of Archive tapes are going and I'm wondering why. Question: Can I tell if a

Re: 3590 Tape Compression

2000-09-19 Thread Tom Melton
The problem is with the web client. IBM/Tivoli did not update it. I found a PMR on IBMLINK about it. If you use the command line interface, the value is usable. I just went to 3590E devices and have gotten over 71GB on one tape. Tom Melton Emory HealthCare Emory University >>> [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Andrew Webster
I'd give TSM, 8 out of 10 for backing up English filenames. 2 out of 10 for backing double byte filenames like Japanese. Regards -- Andrew Webster PC, NetApp Filer, TSM Sanno Move Project Deutsche Real Estate Consulting Ltd. - Tokyo Internal (but outside Tokyo): 88 408-7542 Tel. +81-3-5156-754

Re: TDP for Exchange Question

2000-09-19 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
You are opening up a whole can of worms with that question. Since this has been discussed in detail many times, take a look at the list archives at www.adsm.org for your answer. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

TDP for Exchange Question

2000-09-19 Thread cc52
We have been using the TDP Exchange Client to backup our Exchange Server. Restoring a mailbox requires us to restore the entire mail store to a backup server and then recover an individual mailbox. Is there any way to do a bricklevel backup/restore (i.e. an individual mailbox) with this client?

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Othonas Xixis
Been in the industry for more than 18 years, and especially in the storage and backup/recovery business for more than 7 years... I have seen, tested and worked on a lot different storage products here in the States and abroad, so here are the answers to yr questions: How good do you rate TSM on

Re: 3590 Tape Compression

2000-09-19 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
I have seen that before. Try doing the update devclass command with format=3590e-c and I believe that should still work even though it is not listed under the help update devclass cmd. -- Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Mess

3590 Tape Compression

2000-09-19 Thread Diana J. Noble
Hi - We've upgraded our 3590B tape drives to 3590E's. I upgraded our software levels for the first time to adsm 3.1.2.50 for the server. Downloaded and installed U468792, U468793 and U468794. I also upgraded the client and webclient. When I look at my devclass definitions on the web, I don't

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Geoff Pusey
Well I thick TSM is very good it fits most situations so I would give it 9-10. but like most products you ether like it or hate it if so get out. (the Grass is all ways greener onthe other side). We can make a product fit most cases but if it dose not fit yours it is best to get out now, I sure y

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Tony Shin
I can't tell from the Q dev listing below, but suspect that the estimated capacity for the STK9710 is 0. Try updating the dev with the command: update dev stk9710 estcap=70g -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Cowen Sent: Tues

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Tony Shin
try substituting devclass with stgpool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Cowen Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM? >tsm: TSM>select count (*) from volume

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Cowen
>tsm: TSM>select count (*) from volumes where devclass_name='stk9710' > > Unnamed[1] >--- > 0 > >tsm: TSM>select count (*) from drmedia > > Unnamed[1] >--- > 49 > >tsm: TSM>select avg(EST_CAPACITY_MB) from volumes where >devclass_name='stk9710' > >

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
I am having backup solutions like , VERitas net backup , Omni , BR for AS-400 and Tivoli out of all , TSM is comfortable and specially DRM , i dont find any on others ,we are planning to buy 3 more . and will be migrating from netbackup to TSM. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 0

Any way to see which files are associated to a certain Mgt class? ?

2000-09-19 Thread Susan Wright
I have a management class that was created a while ago and we are cleaning up things and before we remove this class we want to make sure that there are no files associated to this class. Is there a way in which to see what files, if any, there are backed up to this mgt class?? AIX 4.3.3 ADSM 3.1

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
tsm: TSM>select count (*) from volumes where devclass_name='stk9710' Unnamed[1] --- 0 tsm: TSM>select count (*) from drmedia Unnamed[1] --- 49 tsm: TSM>select avg(EST_CAPACITY_MB) from volumes where devclass_name='stk9710' Unnamed[1]

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony Lanni
You should be able to type "mtlib -h" and get all the options (it's actually an error but whatever); we don't have a manual page entry for mtlib either, I always just assumed there wasn't one (we keep pretty much all our man pages) Daniel Swan/TM wrote: > > Very helpful answers, Joshua.

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Sims
>1: Which table contains the data "estimated capacity". I want to create an >SQL statement to find out how much average I'm getting out of each tape. VOLUMES. >2: Where can I find a man page for mtlib? (A previous admin removed our >man pages). There is no man page. One place it's document

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Hook up the ODBC driver on your windows system and use access or excel to get the correct data from the tables. Not exactly intuitive at first glance, but gets easier as you fool with it. See the archives for how to set up the ODBC driver... Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Swan/TM
Very helpful answers, Joshua. All were right on the money. I have two questions though: 1: Which table contains the data "estimated capacity". I want to create an SQL statement to find out how much average I'm getting out of each tape. 2: Where can I find a man page for mtlib? (A previous

Residency Announcement: ST-0456 Deploying Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows 2000

2000-09-19 Thread Charlotte Brooks/Almaden/IBM
Windows 2000 deployment is growing - here's a great opportunity to explore and document recovery procedures... This project is open to nominations from IBM/Tivoli, customers and Business Partners. ST-0456 Deploying Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows 2000 Benefits to Resident: Microsoft Window

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Cowen
>How do I determine how many physical slots my 3494 library has? mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL | grep cells >How do I determine how many tapes are offsite? a) select count(*) from volumes where stgpool_name='BACKUP3590_OFFSITE' (where a storagepool is used for offsite.) b) select count(*) from drmedi

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Prather, Wanda
A lot of it depends on what you are trying to do. People who really just want a fancier, easy to use dump/restore program are generally not happy with TSM, because it isn't just a dump/restore product. It's more complicated than a dump/restore product, which it should be because it does a lot mor

Re: Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
How do I determine how many physical slots my 3494 library has? mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL - off the top of my head. I don't' have a 3494 in my lab environment here. How do I determine how many tapes are offsite? That depends if you are using DRM or not. If you are using DRM then issue q drm. I

Determining Capacity on ADSM?

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Swan/TM
How do I determine how many physical slots my 3494 library has? How do I determine how many tapes are offsite? How do I determine how many tapes total I have? How do I determine the average capacity per tape? Thanks for any help, Dan.

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Johnson, Brian
I have worked with ADSM since V1... It has got markedly better since V3, both Server and Client 8 out of 10 NetBackup is a very good product however - I agree with Kelly, you should look at the pros and cons for each product For example if time is a constraint NetBackup can help with multiplexe

Adapter Device Timeouts

2000-09-19 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Gang, Is anyone using the following configuration: TSM on NT with Adaptec 29160 interfaces and AIT2 drives? Please respond privately to me. Thanks, Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PR

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Andreas Buser
Yes we would, with a rating of 9. But to get the whole benefit you should know the features. We still are at ADSM 3.1 but we will migrate to TSM soon. _ Kind Regards Andreas Buser Tel: ++41 61 285 73 21 Fax: ++41 61 285 70 98 Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Gail Riley
I am new to TSM (past 6 months). I went to the basic and advanced TSM classes and found them both very useful. If it wasn't for the classes there are certain things I would have struggled with for too long. The Redbooks and this newsgroup are also very helpful. I feel TSM is extremely powerful

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
9-10 I am also a TSM architect. I would highly recommend that if you are looking to get the highest rating out of your TSM implementation, that you learn the product inside and out before you begin the implementation. Some of my customers would rate TSM lower than 8 and that is because they hav

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Martin Blignaut
9-10 Same position as Kelly J Lipp NOTE YOU MUST IMPLEMENT THE PRODUCT CORRECTLY AND SPEND THE TIME AND EFFORT TO BE TRAINED ON AND UNDERSTAND THE PRODUCT. I find that those who would give TSM a low rating (including people who know and work with other products and TSM) are those who do not kn

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Re: Complete archive

2000-09-19 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Did you try archive d:\* -subdir=yes? Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (719) 260-5991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EM

Complete archive

2000-09-19 Thread Stephanie canon
Hi, I would like to define a schedule that make an archive of every file. I can't find the syntax to archive every file of every drive. I try the asterix, with and without backslash, and I can't make it run. Should I list every drive? Or is there a way to specify everything? Thanks for your hel

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
I sell it and implement it and have probably built 200-300 servers and installed ~1000 clients. I know the product extremely well. I rate it a 9-10. That being said... It is critical that you embrace this different technology and train yourself properly before you start. This is not your fath

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread George Yang
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Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Barth, Terry V. (MBS)
8 and yes, I would buy it again. In fact, we are implementing a 3rd TSM server in the beginning of next year. -Original Message- From: Sattler, Lynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Would you buy TSM again. We are recon

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Darlene E Wnukowski
I would rate it an 8 also. I would buy it again. Darlene E. Wnukowski Lead Systems Programmer Schreiber Foods, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 920-455-6268 --( Forwarded letter 1 follows ) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:10:34 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAI

Re: Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Shekhar Dhotre
8 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 09/19/2000 10:34:09 AM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Would you buy TSM again. We are reconsidering our backup software. We are a pretty large unix sh

Would you buy TSM again.

2000-09-19 Thread Sattler, Lynn
We are reconsidering our backup software. We are a pretty large unix shop (5 Terrabytes to backup nightly) and are using some HP Omniback and a lot of Veritas Netbackup. Mostly HP-UX. We have a large Lotus Notes Rel 5 implementation on AIX (600 gig on its way to 1.2 Terrabytes). We are study

Automate NT client

2000-09-19 Thread Peter Svendsen
Hi *SM'ers I'am trying to automate my installation of TSM client software on Windows NT, but i can't seem to get it to work completly automatic, is there anyone out there that has a bat file i can use for this purpose ? I'am trying to install TSM client for NT ver. 4.1.1. Kind regar

Re: Cut MVS CPU Utilization

2000-09-19 Thread Darlene E Wnukowski
PTF UQ40683 was supposed to fix that apar - I have it on my system already. Darlene E. Wnukowski Lead Systems Programmer Schreiber Foods, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 920-455-6268 --( Forwarded letter 1 follows ) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:57:00 -0400 To: [E

Re: SQL query of ADSM backups table

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas Denier
> I am querying the adsm server backups table for a file space with a > management class that specifies > verexists = 7,verdeleted 1,rexextra 8,retonly 90. > > I am expecting to see 8 versions of the data outputted from the sql query, > however only seem to get the latest version. > Can anyone te

ADSM 3.1.2.50 for SUN Solaris 2.5.1

2000-09-19 Thread Gerrit van Zyl
Hi **SM'ers Is there anybody out there still using ADSM Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.50 for SUN Solaris 2.5.1. We've bought ADSM 3.7 for SUN, but unfortunately this is not supported on SUN Solaris 2.5.1. I've got the ADSM evaluation software (ADSM 3.1.2.50), but our evaluation license

Re: Cut MVS CPU Utilization

2000-09-19 Thread Darlene E Wnukowski
I don't think this was my problem since my server neither crashed nor hung and I am at server level 3.7.20.0. Darlene E. Wnukowski Lead Systems Programmer Schreiber Foods, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 920-455-6268 --( Forwarded letter 1 follows ) Date: Mon,

Re: Oggetto: ANR8355E I/O error

2000-09-19 Thread Henk ten Have
On 19-Sep-00 Alessio Prodon wrote: > you can try with audit vol U00117 fix=yes, for try to fix errors on tape; but > if > library don't read the tape's label you must delete it !! with this command : > del vol U00117 discardd=yes As I explained before "AUDIT VOLUME doesn't give any clue". >

Oracle Connect Agent, BACKINT and TSM

2000-09-19 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! We are about to upgrade all our ADSM clients to TSM 3.7. We also have a couple of clients which are using BACKINT or the Oracle Connect Agent. I cannot find any information about the compatibility of these agents with the TSM clients. The links on the Tivoli pages are not very clear. T

Re: DLT TAPE CLEANING PROBLEMS WITH ADSM

2000-09-19 Thread Carsten Moldrup
Hi Johan, You should make sure that the STK9710 is not also set to clean the drives. I have experienced several failing dismounts from the DLT7000's for cleaningtapes - and others. Most of them are caused by mehanical failures. I use cleanfrequency 'asneeded'. Regards, Carsten Moldrup

Oggetto: ANR8355E I/O error

2000-09-19 Thread Alessio Prodon
Hello !! you can try with audit vol U00117 fix=yes, for try to fix errors on tape; but if library don't read the tape's label you must delete it !! with this command : del vol U00117 discardd=yes Good luck !!! Alessio Prodon (Proud to use adsm on AIX ) Henk ten Have <[EMAIL PROTECT

ANR8355E I/O error

2000-09-19 Thread Henk ten Have
After upgrading our TSM-server to 3.7.3.8 we get the following errors quite sometimes every day on different volumes and on different drives: 09/19/00 12:36:32 ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for 3590 volume U00117. 09/19/00 12:36:36 ANR8336I Verifying label of 3590 volume U00117 in drive

Web Proxy Server problems

2000-09-19 Thread Christopher A Campbell
I'm looking for someone with experience of the ADSM Web Proxy server. We're having trouble setting it up. Anyone out there prepared to share their experiences with us? Thanks Chris Chris Campbell Tivoli Services TeamITS, IBM Global Services IBM Ireland, 24/32 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4, Irelan

DLT TAPE CLEANING PROBLEMS WITH ADSM

2000-09-19 Thread Johan Moreels
Hello *SMers, We are rumming ADSM server version 3, release 1 level 2.50 on a AIX RS/6000 machine. The library used is a STK9710, with 6 DLT 7000 drives. The cleaning facility of the robot has been disabled. In ADSM the cleaning frequency has been set to a triggerlevel of 500 GB. Two Cleanin

Archive Name

2000-09-19 Thread Stephanie canon
Hi everybody, I would like to schedule monthly archive of different directories I defined my schedule, but I would like to know if it's possible to give this archive a different name than the default one. With the GUI, you can give the name you want, I don't find how to do it with the schedule m

TSM on MVS benchmarks..

2000-09-19 Thread Clarence Beukes
Hi there... Anyone have any benchmarks for TSM on MVS for storage management and backup strategies. I'm not too fimiliar with MVS. Tks in advance! GOD Bless Clarence Beukes IT Specialist (Tivoli Certified) Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Intergrated Technology Services Tel : +2711