Onbar Setup

2001-05-04 Thread Gene Greenberg
I am in the process of setting up scripts to run using onbar. My understanding is in my case where there are two or three instances running I should setup different dsm* files using an alias for my system?? Also does anyone have a copy of their shell script etc. that has more than one instance r

Re: off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
Richard, Thanks! Now I understand the funny feeling I had while poking at this empirically. I am dealing with something neither fish nor fowl!! cheers .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri

LTO support on Win2K -- no longer requires RSM

2001-05-04 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
For those who want to spell "relief" on Win2K with LTO, an excerpt from the 4.1.3.0 TSM server read1sts (README) file: * $$3 Additonal information on support for LTO Tape Drives on Windows * *

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Lindsay Morris
The quote Jack offered is relevant to PRIMARY pools, but not to COPY pools, I think. TSM reclaims COPY (off-site) storage pools by using the drives and tapes available to the PRIMARY (on-site) storage pool. It can do this because its massive database knows where in the PRIMARY pool to find a cop

Re: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server

2001-05-04 Thread Andy Raibeck
Gerardo, Does this system have NTFS 8.3 file name creation disabled? If so, the following APAR (IC29085) probably describes your problem: == BEGIN APAR TEXT == ABSTRACT: THE WIZARD WAS INTERRUPTED BEFORE TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT COULD BE COMPLETELY INSTALLED. YOUR SYSTEM HAS

Re: off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD

2001-05-04 Thread Richard Sims
Joe - The http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/enterprise/h50_specs.html page says that the H50 contains... Dual integrated SCSI-2 Fast/Wide controllers which thus gives you flexibility up to but not including Differential. See http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/discmodelinte

Re: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server

2001-05-04 Thread Remeta, Mark
I kind of remember this problem. I think you need a newer version of the client. The latest for NT is 4.1.2.14 Mark -Original Message- From: Gerardo Zapata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a W

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Coyle, Jack
Per the Tivoli Storage Manager (for AIX) Administrator's Guide, "to enable volume reclamation for a storage pool that has only one mount point (that is, one drive), you can define a reclamation storage pool for the server to use when reclaiming volumes. When the server reclaims volumes, the server

off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD.

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
Sorry for going off topic but I trust &SMers using AIX can help. I'm looking to 'buy time' until the new system arrives and want to add external DASD ... err I mean DISKS to my AIX-RS6K-H50. I'm going to 'give back' 18 Gig's of SSA to th DB and Staging by using cheap external for one-drive reclam

ADSM 3.1 web client

2001-05-04 Thread Gerardo Zapata
Is the ADSM Web Client supported for the 3.1 version of ADSM on Sun Solaris. Thanks in advance. Gerardo Zapata IT Specialist I&SM IBM Mexico (525) 270 5889 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email an

Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server

2001-05-04 Thread Gerardo Zapata
Hi, I'm trying to install the TSM client 4.1.0 in a Windows NT Server SP6 which is a node of an MS Cluster. When running the setup.exe the installation wizard stops with the following error message: "The wizard was iterrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager could be completely installed. Your syste

EMC + AIX + 3584 LTO

2001-05-04 Thread Sorin Serb
Hello, I had some mail problems and I do not know if my message reached the distribution list. If yes, please excuse for the duplicate. If no, please help. Thanks. Best Regards, Sorin Serb IBM Romania -- Forwarded by Sorin Serb/Romania/IBM on 05/04/2001 09:46 PM --

Re: Can you use dual boot method to BMR Solaris with TSM 4.x?

2001-05-04 Thread Brian T. Huntley
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Keith Kwiatek wrote: // Hello, // // Has anyone tried to use a dual boot method to allow a bare metal restore // with a solaris 4.x client? In other words, would installing a bootable // solaris instance into a "temporary" filesystem, along with the TSM4x // client, --permit

Re: ODBC driver system error 126 - solved

2001-05-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
Thanks to all and especially Andy Raibeck. The problem I was having turned out to be some Windows Registry settings. REGEDIT fixed my problem. Again, thanks to all... John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Joe Faracchio
This has not been my experience. In fact its quite the opposite. (I am using 3.7.2 but was on 3.1.2.20 as well.) I can reclamate onsite-tapepools with one drive and a FILE area. For offsite-Copypools I change the rec to 20 every weekend and it reads ever onsite tape to recreate about 20-30 offsi

Can you use dual boot method to BMR Solaris with TSM 4.x?

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Kwiatek
Hello, Has anyone tried to use a dual boot method to allow a bare metal restore with a solaris 4.x client? In other words, would installing a bootable solaris instance into a "temporary" filesystem, along with the TSM4x client, --permit you to recover the original system "Completely"... kinda l

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Lindsay Morris
Did you try setting recl to 60%? 60% means it will reclaim volumes that are 40% (or less) utilized. It's a little counterintuitive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Jon Milliren
Lindsay Morris wrote: > > You activity log probably has some revealing messages. Hi, Well, the reason I know reclaim didn't kick off was because I performed a "q actlog begind=-1". I didn't see anything in the activity log to indicate an error, which is why I was wondering if perhaps I s

Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?

2001-05-04 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
TSM Level 2 responded to John, he forwarded their response... IBM located a microcode problem, they developed a patch, a customer is already testing the fix. -Original Message- From: Bern Ruelas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Jon Milliren
Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all.

Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes

2001-05-04 Thread Lindsay Morris
You activity log probably has some revealing messages. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy stora

Re: PIT Restore

2001-05-04 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
Sure... do weekly incrementals (instead of or in addition to daily)... use a different node name (eg, client1 and client1_we, like we do for TDP agents - as in client1 and client1_SAP or client1_EXC). That would ensure you have your 8 weekly "snapshots", given 8 week retention (RE=60), VE=8, VD=8

Re: urgent: TSM restore problems - ANS1026E (RC136)

2001-05-04 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
We've seen this problem with "bad" NIC drivers; try watching your log for TCP comm.. errors (we hade a lot), or watch your switch. In our case, it was the NIC renegotiating (often) the speed & duplex settings; we resolved by getting off of the motherboard NIC, using external (Intel PCI) NIC, an

Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?

2001-05-04 Thread Bern Ruelas
John, This problem is very interesting to me as we are thinking of throwing away our 17 ATL libraries running Legato's NetWorker 6.0.1 in favor of 2 LTO 3584's running Tivoli Storage Manager (we will actually use a Sun E420). I thought colocation was suppose to speed up recoveries, it sounds as

Re: Where are the solaris bare metal restore procedures for TSM 4 .x ?????!!!!!!

2001-05-04 Thread Kevin M Wisneski
Keith, When you get them (if you get them) can you foward them to meI am in the same boat as far as creating Solaris BMR procedures!!! Thanks Kevin Wisneski Citigroup 860-277-3157 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Keith Kwiatek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/04/2001 01:55:43 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Di

Anyone using bootp to do restores on solaris?

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Kwiatek
Anyone using bootp to do restores on solaris?

Re: block level backups

2001-05-04 Thread Richard Sims
>Does anyone know if TSM does, or will in the future do, block level >backups? See subfile backups in the Windows client manual, and the TSM Technical Guide redbook.

Re: Novell NetWare include/exclude for print queues

2001-05-04 Thread Jim Smith
Steve, The "NetWare Backup and Recovery Guide" has a section concerning print queues and suggested include/excludes for NetWare 4.x; I don't think that the print queue handling has changed in NetWare 5.x so this information should be valid for NetWare 5.x as well (somebody please correct me if th

Where are the solaris bare metal restore procedures for TSM 4.x ?????!!!!!!

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Kwiatek
Hello, I am trying to write some bare metal solaris restore instructions. With our old ADSM/TSM 3.x clients we were able to simply follow the procedure below... BUT with the new TSM 4.1.2 client it seems they have introduced dependancies that no longer make a "simple" restore possible W

block level backups

2001-05-04 Thread David DeCuir
Hello, Does anyone know if TSM does, or will in the future do, block level backups? I want to back up large files (5 to 10gb and databases) that have only small daily changes. They will be backed up over slow links (128k lines). As far as I know, TSM does only file level but there are other produc

Re: Number of scratch tapes?

2001-05-04 Thread Poland, Neil
>From your prompt: dsmadmc -id=yourid -pa=yourpass q libvol |grep -i scratch |wc -l -Original Message- From: Arshad Sheikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Number of scratch tapes? Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. run

Number of scratch tapes?

2001-05-04 Thread Arshad Sheikh
Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode

Re: Number of scratch tapes?

2001-05-04 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: Here the select part running from a script. /home/root/bin/dsmcmd "SELECT LIBVOLUMES.VOLUME_NAME, LIBVOLUMES.STATUS FROM LIB Volumes where libvolumes.status = 'Scratch'" [backup] /home/root/bin # more dsmcmd dsmadmc -id=admin -pa= -displaymode=table $1 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/01 10:57AM

Re: pre schedule command

2001-05-04 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Hi Use it in edit dsm.sys PRESchedulecmd "path/of /the/script" thats it. remember to chmod 770 to script. -Original Message- From: Hunter, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pre schedule command I have a Unix user th

Re: Number of scratch tapes?

2001-05-04 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Use pre and post schedule cmd under dsm.sys -Original Message- From: Arshad Sheikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Number of scratch tapes? Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from

Re: 3590 question

2001-05-04 Thread Lawrence Clark
Make sure you have current microcode for the drives. We had that recurring unavailable problem. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 07:08AM >>> >We want to use both FC ports of the 3590 drives (connected via a FC >fabric)in parallel for automatic path fail over. Is this supported by AIX >and how coul

pre schedule command

2001-05-04 Thread Hunter, Bob
I have a Unix user that wants to back up the oracle database filesystems and wants to shut down the database with tsm. Can someone tell me how to use the PRESchedulecmd option. Thanks , in advance. This listserv is most helpful.

Re: ODBC driver system error 126

2001-05-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
IP22151_12_ODBC_Driver.exe is the latest and greatest. Guess I'll contact support! 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, O

Novell NetWare include/exclude for print queues

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Schaub
Our admins want to make sure that the definitions & rights of all print queues on our NW servers are backed up, but we obviously don't want to backup the actual print jobs. Can anyone provide a good set of include/exclude statements to accomplish this? Thanks. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email

CONTENTS Table

2001-05-04 Thread Forgosh, Seth
Does anyone have an idea of a non-painfull way to dump the CONTENTS table to another DB? Anytime I need to use that table it puts a huge strain on the TSM server. Thanks in advance. Seth Forgosh ** This message, including any a

Re: recreate bitvectors

2001-05-04 Thread Jeff Bach
Please explain this problem and how we might see it. I agree with the prognosis and so does Tivoli management. They report that steps are being taken. I am from Missouri and I say "show me" Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL --

Re: Copy storage pools

2001-05-04 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
Okay Juraj :-))), you get 30% of my sale commition, which is definitely 0% :-. But in real, I want to thank you for all your help. Tom > -Původní zpráva- > Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Odesláno: 4. května 2001 11:55 > Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Předmět: AW: Copy

David Browne/Louisville/Humana is out of the office.

2001-05-04 Thread David Browne.
I will be out of the office starting 05/04/2001 and will not return until 05/14/2001. I will respond to your message as soon as I return.

NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code

2001-05-04 Thread Leake, Shaun
Hi all Has anyone encountered problems with the latest levels of code and NT restores I am using: TSM Server V4.1.3.0 on a Windows 2000 (Service Pack 1) on DELL 6450 server TSM Client V4.1.2.12 on Windows NT 4 (I have tried both SP1 and SP6a High Encryption) on a DELL 6450. When performing fil

Re: NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code

2001-05-04 Thread Remeta, Mark
The latest NT client is 4.1.2.14 -Original Message- From: Leake, Shaun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code Hi all Has anyone encountered problems with the latest leve

Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?

2001-05-04 Thread Karsten Hüttmann
Hi! Your problem sounds familiar to me. We've similar problems running HSM (or now: Tivoli Space Manager) with a LTO 3583. (Ok, it is not the best way to use a LTO Library with HSM, but that was not my decision). For a recall of 2 GBs we need half a day. But: a normal restore of a client is as fas

Re: recreate bitvectors

2001-05-04 Thread Richard Sims
>The APAR actually applies to all TSM server platforms. For the MVS server a >ZAP is available. Although the problem is in common code, the symptom does >not occur on the Windows platform. The MVS and the Solaris servers will hang. >The AIX server will crash. I am not sure what the HP server w

Re: help on changing library

2001-05-04 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Yes, all the info is tracked by the volume which is associated with a device class... You may remove the library and define it again and yes, you will have to check in all the volumes again... With my 3494ATL's I've even gone as far as deleting the library and defining a new one with different na

AW: Copy storage pools

2001-05-04 Thread sal Salak Juraj
Hi, I find it easy to automate everything with the exeption of >> moving adequate data back to diskpool, This is because you only can move all data from volume to disk stg, which is notoriously smaller. So you will want to watch the move process and cancel as soon as disk stg becomes almost fu

Re: help on changing library

2001-05-04 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Herve, You should be able to delete the library and recreate it without loosing any information (Data). Any way you have to do a checkin with the new one Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau

Re: Copy storage pools

2001-05-04 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
Hi Juraj, it sounds perfect for me. My last question is, if it can be automatized - I mean finding single instance files, moving adequate data back to diskpool, backup and migrate them back to tapes ? It is important for me to offer complex solution to my customer althoug he has not enough money

AW: Copy storage pools

2001-05-04 Thread sal Salak Juraj
Hi, Your idea should perfectly work. There is an maybe even simpler workaround: update stg your_primary_tape_pool access=readonly But using any of this there is a danger your disk pool becomes full thus preventing any backups from succesful run. I find the risk of occasionaly having d

Re: Copy storage pools

2001-05-04 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can b

help on changing library

2001-05-04 Thread Chibois, Herve
hi *smers one of my customers changed his libr from a 7 slots HP one to a 5 slot one. 2 volumes are no longer accessible by tsm because the associated slots do not exist in my new libr. Can i destroy my libr and recreate a new one without loosing all my libvol infos ? I will have to manually c

Re: recreate bitvectors

2001-05-04 Thread Suad Musovich
> My tests recreated the bitvector in a matter of seconds, although my disk > storage pool > volumes were small. If the volumes are large and contain a lot of data I > would expect > the time to take something in the range of a few hours at the most, not > days. This > assumes that the server is