Point-In-Time-Restore

2001-03-26 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hy all, today again a question concerning Point-In-Time-Restore : Following situation : I did make backups of a node for more than half a year. Many files have prduced versions on the backup-server, a lot of files did not because they did not change since start of backup. My policy says it

event viewr reporting

2001-03-26 Thread Ofer Nachom
Hi There, I gut TSM ver 4.2.1 on Win2000. There is no problem with the system or the TSM. my problem is like that. every time a client can't backup a file for any reason, the NT event viewer record it as an error( with the red color). after a wile the event viewer have hundreds of that errors,

reclamation

2001-03-26 Thread Van Ruler, Ruud R SSI-ISES-31
Hi do you experience any performance degradation when running any tape processing such as reclamation ?? could this be related to prioritising all my admin and client schedules have priority 5 should I give reclamation schedules a lower priority ?? thanks. Ruud van Ruler, Shell

Dr. Watson after update 3.7. 3.8 - 3.7 4.0

2001-03-26 Thread Bauer, Gerold
Hi, i have 2 problems: 1. after updating TSM Server 3.7 3.8 - 3.7. 4.0 the adsm.exe fails to start with a dr. watson error. TSM Server is running on a Windows NT 4.0 (SP5). 2. the performance of the Backups is very bad since we updated from ADSM 3.1 Level 2.40 to ADSM 3.7. cache hit

Re: Expiration Problem - Upgrade to TSM v.4.1.2.0

2001-03-26 Thread John Naylor
Lynn, I think the problem here is the exclude list. Excluded files are not eligible for backup, hence the expiration. The file retention characteristics, number of versions etc, applies to actions on the client, so if you delete a file on the client it becomes inactive, and any expiration on the

3583 tape library sharing support

2001-03-26 Thread Pierre Chapus
Hello, i read a white paper (december 2000) in which it is written that the 3583 LTO tape library is not supported by the TSM tape library sharing. This is written in: "TSM support for library sharing with 358x drives/libraries is planned to be available in the near future." For now, i

TSM vs AIX mirroring vs SSA RAID w/ FastWriteCache

2001-03-26 Thread James R Owen
Andy, Would you please update us again on the issue of mirroring vs RAID for TSM log and database volumes. Looking back in the ADSM-L logs, I believe your most recent recommendation (June, 1998) was to continue using TSM mirroring w/ Sequential Writes to protect against "partial page writes"

Re: ANS1301E Error

2001-03-26 Thread Louis Wiesemann
It did not have a max size set on the pool, but the pool was full enough that it could not fit 5G more into it. This apparently is treated like a file size limit and tries to dump the large file directly to tape (at least when the storage pool is not full enough to trip the migration

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2001-03-26 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
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Re: 3583 tape library sharing support

2001-03-26 Thread James Thompson
In order for this to work if you have LVD 3580 drives in your 3583 library your SAN Data Gateway Router 2108-R03 must have the LVD scsi connections. Likewise if you have HVD 3580 drives in your 3583 library your SAN Data Gateway router 2108-R03 must have the HVD scsi connections. Unfortunately

Device config. worksheet for Qualstar 412300

2001-03-26 Thread Steven Bridge
I'm setting up a new server with TSM 4.1 on AIX. The 4.1 Administrator's Guide no longer has the appendix 'Supported Devices and Device Configuration Worksheets' that was there in version 3. Could anyone tell me where I can find the device configuration worksheet with the drive element numbers

Re: Device config. worksheet for Qualstar 412300

2001-03-26 Thread Richard Sims
Could anyone tell me where I can find the device configuration worksheet with the drive element numbers for the Qualstar 412300 library ? You can get there from the software web page: http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adsercli.htm which leads to:

backing up storage pools

2001-03-26 Thread Lee, Gary D.
My hierarchy consists of two disk pools, both of which migrate to a single 3590 tape pool. My questions are as follows: 1. If I backup the disk pools, then after some time they migrate and I backup the tape pools, how are the migrated files handled? i.e. are they backed up twice? 2. Based on

4.1.2.12 Client Reporting Erroneous Elapsed Processing Time

2001-03-26 Thread Short, Anne
Anybody else notice this? Since the upgrade to TSM Client to version 4.1.2.12 on our NT 4.0 nodes, the elapsed time for our backups is getting reported wrong. The particular node I've documented below starts its backup at 8:00 pm (and yes, I've verified it's starting on time). You'll notice,

Re: 4.1.2.12 Client Reporting Erroneous Elapsed Processing Time

2001-03-26 Thread Andy Raibeck
Hi Anne, This is a known defect, and is documented in APAR IC29212. I don't have an ETA for an available fix, though. So sorry for the "fuzzy math". Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only dumb question is

Re: backing up storage pools

2001-03-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
1) No, they are only backed up once. (Assuming of course, that your BACKUP STGPOOL command specified the same destination copy pool both times.). BACKUP STGPOOL is an incremental backup; TSM checks the DB to decide whether any file in the primary pool does or does not already exist in the copy

Restore Question??

2001-03-26 Thread Blaine Gilbreath
I am trying to do a restore on an AIX 4.3.3 server. When I open a dsm graphical session and try to view the files that are available for restore I can only see the directory structure. When I query my file space in ADSM I see that I have 275 GB worth of data on the particular file space that I

Win2K/NT restores taking too long...

2001-03-26 Thread Caffey, Jeff L.
I'm having an issue with restoring an entire volume on a Windows 2000 client. The client has the 4.1.1 client code on it. Our TSM server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.1. The problem is that the restore process keeps pausing for several minutes at a time, and then restarting itself. It will be

Re: Restore Question??

2001-03-26 Thread Prather, Wanda
You can get that result if you are not root. I have also had similar problems if my AIX session was running low on available colors - if you have Netscape open, try closing it to free more X screen resources. -Original Message- From: Blaine Gilbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

AIX Server - What's Stable?

2001-03-26 Thread Steven Chaba
Getting ready to upgrade to a fairly current version of TSM (from ADSM 3.1.1.5!). Not being fond of being "bleeding edge", what would be the group's feeling as to what the most current version is that is pretty well rock solid and stable? Looking at the ftp site, I see 4.1.3 as being less than a

Sybase Dump Striping using BMC SQL-Backtrack

2001-03-26 Thread Scott McCambly
Hi everyone, We've been using SQL-Backtrack (was Datatools, now BMC... trying to get all those key words in to help those future searches ;-) successfully for many years now to backup Sybase. Recently one database has grown so large so as to exceed the maximum file size allowed at our current

Re: AIX Server - What's Stable?

2001-03-26 Thread Pearson, Dave
We have AIX 4.3.2 - We are using TSM 4.1.0 and having minimal problem with it. We did upgrade to TSM 4.1.2 and we had problem with our Archive jobs. One archive job we did usually ran for 2 hours. When we went to 4.1.2 it took over 15 hours... Not acceptable of course! So we went back to 4.1.0

Re: 4.1.2.12 Client Reporting Erroneous Elapsed Processing Time

2001-03-26 Thread Jeff Connor
Andy, We are having the problem as well. Thanks for the update. This issue, in addition to "-clusternode=yes invalid" being reported as an error on our new Win2k cluster when it shouldn't be, is keeping me from upgrading my clients from 3.7.2. Our NT Admins are already annoyed by the fact that

Re: Win2K/NT restores taking too long...

2001-03-26 Thread Richard Sims
Our restores to AIX servers run great, the problem only seems to affect the NT servers. Can anyone help...? Jeff - You may get more insight by doing Q Sess from the server when such a restore is running. The difference may relate to the Windows directories having to be restored from

Re: AIX Server - What's Stable?

2001-03-26 Thread Tab Trepagnier
David, You stated: "One archive job we did usually ran for 2 hours. When we went to 4.1.2 it took over 15 hours... Not acceptable of course! So we went back to 4.1.0 and the archive ran okay. IBM Support is still working on this. I seems that no one else in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Point-In-Time-Restore

2001-03-26 Thread Joel Fuhrman
today again a question concerning Point-In-Time-Restore : Following situation : I did make backups of a node for more than half a year. Many files have prduced versions on the backup-server, a lot of files did not because they did not change since start of backup. My policy says it will

Tivoli Data Protection V2R2 - For Exchange 5.5 SP3

2001-03-26 Thread Barbour, Gabby
Our shop is in the process of installing and using this version for our Exchange agent. Has anyone run into any problems with this software package ? We will be testing this software out this week and were trying to get the information on the BUGS before we get into too deep. Thanks

Re: AIX Server - What's Stable?

2001-03-26 Thread Kathleen M Hallahan
Has anyone noticed anything like this happening with regular backups? We recently upgraded our server code to 4.1.2, and while the vast majority of our backups are running faster, there are a couple of Sun Solaris clients out there whose backups are running much more slowly. None of the clients

Re: AIX Server - What's Stable?

2001-03-26 Thread Rich Taft
Actually I am having an ongoing problem with Version 4.1.3 running on AIX 4.3.3. Seems that whenever one of my DLT tape drives wants to be cleaned the Tivoli Server Crashes. It doesn't happen every time, but it happens often enough that it is a problem. I have an open PMR with IBM (IC29818),

client schedule

2001-03-26 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Hi there, I have schedule a backup of a domain which contains only single node. The problem am facing is that, if I start dsmc sched in the foreground when the scheduled job is showing pending status (q event * * ) then it will backup the domain, else in actlog it always says that its missed.

Re: WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall

2001-03-26 Thread Walker, Lesley R
For Solaris clients the upgrade method is to uninstall the current version (which leaves the relevant config files intact) then install the new version. I don't know for sure if the NT client is the same, but it seems likely. The Quick Start manual or the README for the new version should

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2001-03-26 Thread Rocmo Fernandez
Hi Adsmers! Im experiencing these errors running expire for ARCHIVE type files, my environment is tsm server 4.1.2 in a AIX 4.3.3. 03/25/01 18:21:45 ANR0104E imarins.c(1544): Error 2 deleting row from table "Arch.Description.Objects". 03/25/01 18:21:45 ANRD