Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Bernard Rosenbloom
Try this as a simple troubleshooting technique. If they are AIX filesystems add this ONE statement to the opt file: exclude.fs /db1/oracle If the filesystem is locally mounted and in etc/filesystem should be excluded. "Glass, Peter" wrote: > TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no m

Re: Open file for TSM

2002-01-04 Thread Zosimo Noriega
Hi Andy, How about the SQL data files? There are open files when the SQL service is started and the ADSM/TSM unable to backup the said files. How do you recover if the SQL server crashed without installing the application and creating the databases? Is this TDP for SQL Server can do the recover

Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Tom Tann{s
Did you check if the client got it right? dsmc q inclexcl and dsmc show options On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Glass, Peter wrote: > TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax > we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle, > etc. through /db3

Re: dbbackuptrigger: LOG mode?

2002-01-04 Thread Bernard Rosenbloom
According to the ADMIN GUIDE LOGMODE must be in rollforward Dbbackuptrigger to work José Ignacio Sánchez wrote: > Hi all, > Could you confirm me this? > If you want to use dbbackuptrigger your LOG mode MUST be set to > roll-forward? > Thanks in advance, > Nacho. > >

Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Anderson F. Nobre
Have you tried to put between ""? Like this: exclude "/db[1-30]/oracle/.../*" Regards, Anderson > TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax > we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle, > etc. through /db30/oracle that we want to

Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread David Longo
Also, did you stop and restart the scheduler after you made the change? David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/04/02 07:50PM >>> Do you have the dsm.opt in the right directory? I got nailed by this. It must be in the bin directory. Or are you using a CLIENT Option Set? -Original Message---

Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Dylan Ryback
I'm no expert on the subject, but check out the section on Creating an Include-Exclude List at the following link: http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-412 2-02/en_US/HTML/index.html Do you have an include statement at the bottom of the options file that is ge

3494 Library Sharing w/o SAN

2002-01-04 Thread Luke Dahl
Hi Everyone, 3494 Library 6 3590 Drives 2 Sun Solaris Servers w/TSM 4.1.2 We'd like to share the 3494 library and I cannot find any good documentation on doing so. I've read through the redbooks and most discuss sharing through a SAN. Has anyone implemented this or a similar config

Netware

2002-01-04 Thread Anderson F. Nobre
Hi, I've been problems with backup/archive of some files in a Netware TSM Client. Here follows the message: 12/16/2001 19:05:01 Normal File-->93 DADOS:/ENG_IND/ANDRELR/Cookies/andrelr@valueclick[2].txt [Sent] 12/16/2001 19:05:01 Normal File-->79 DADOS:/ENG_IND/AND

Re: exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Seay, Paul
Do you have the dsm.opt in the right directory? I got nailed by this. It must be in the bin directory. Or are you using a CLIENT Option Set? -Original Message- From: Glass, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exclude sy

exclude syntax frustration

2002-01-04 Thread Glass, Peter
TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle, etc. through /db30/oracle that we want to exclude. We've tried: exclude /db[1-30]/oracle/.../* and exclude /db*/oracle/.../* and exclude /.../oracle

Re: Tape label compatability

2002-01-04 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
Yes, the labels are all the same. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant & IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[E

TSM 4.2.1 Journal Settings

2002-01-04 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
There isn't any enforced limit to the NotifyBuffer setting but for practical purposes it shouldn't be bigger than 4 meg. The file system monitor portion of the journal service records real time file system change notifications into a preallocated buffer (a requirement of the Microsoft API used to

TSM Client for IRIX (v4.1.1.0) - has anyone experienced & resolved the "null root filespace name" problem ?

2002-01-04 Thread Kent Monthei
We're using TSM Client for IRIX v4.1.1.0 (IRIX v6.5.9). This "null root filespace name" problem was previously documented, but I thought it was resolved in this version for IRIX. For us, the problem seems a bit intermittent. There is already a '/' filespace on the TSM Server. Occasionally duri

Dealing with firewalls

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Sheppard
Top of message >>--> 01-04-02 14:29 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Dealing with firewalls I can comment on a couple of things we saw in a similar configuration. One of our TSM OS/390 servers has a client behind a firewall. We just opened up th

Re: Tape label compatability

2002-01-04 Thread Lancaster, Dominic
Yes, they are written/read in EBCDIC. Using tapeutil you can read 3 x 80 byte records (I think, long time since I had to do it), there is an appendix in one of the IBM tape Redbooks that describes the format. It's probably a hangover from MVS tape labelling (which is why the format is not in a ma

Re: Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Allen Barth
While you don't mention what the tape usage is during the day, I'd create a schedule which runs every hour or two which does a BACKUP STG disk copypool. Doing this allows this oracle archive data to get copied to the copy pool on several small increments and thus the majority of the data is alread

Re: Tape label compatability

2002-01-04 Thread Prather, Wanda
That's interesting! I know the FORMAT of the lables is the same, but I thought AIX wrote them in ASCII, and OS/390 wrote them in EBCDIC. Does AIX write them/read them in EBCDIC?!? -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:15 PM

Tape label compatability

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a TSM server running under OS/390. We are looking into the issues involved in migrating the TSM server to AIX or HP-UX. We use 3590 tape drives. We would like to do a phased migration of both drives and cartridges to the UNIX server. For the cartridges the migration process would consist o

Re: TDS for TSM

2002-01-04 Thread William Rosette
I have a version 1.1 CD-ROM of TDS for Storage Management Analysis with my 4.2 CD's. I have been told it works with Crystal reporting which we have some training with. My questions are: is there formal training with TDS? what kind of documentation do I need to get? is this software even worth th

Re: UNIX test servers

2002-01-04 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
I do not see why not. But to install a different version of the code you would have to do something like copy the executables onto the system instead of doing a SMIT or a SAM installation (cause that would overwrite the old code). -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant & IBM Server/Storage S

Dealing with firewalls

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Denier
My site has installed a filewall. Eventually all systems that need to be accessible from the Internet will be outside the firewall, and all systems used exclusively by our own staff and students will be inside the firewall. We would like to use our existing TSM server to back up the systems outsid

Re: Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Kelly Lipp
To do this you will need to write a script that checks for the completion of one before the next starts. There is a sample script included with the server that does some of this and will be a good template for you. The name of the file with the samples is scripts.smp. This is meant to be run as

Re: Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Richard Cowen
A small script to issue the appropriate "MOVE DATA" commands may be easier to control than auto migration. Foreach stgpool where device_class_name=DISK and stgpool_type=PRIMARY foreach volume where pct_utilized > 50 and stgpool_name=<$stgpool> move data <$volume_name> to

Re: Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
-Jonathan- How many MIGProcess do you have set on your Random Access Stgpool? Make sure it is set to the maximum based on the # of drives that you have, which will improve your migration rate. Regards, Demetrius -Original Message- From: Jonathan Aberle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

UNIX test servers

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Denier
We currently run a TSM server under OS/390, and are looking into the implications of moving the server to AIX or HP-UX. I know it is possible to run two or more instances of the TSM server on the same UNIX system. Is it possible to have different instances at different version or service levels? W

Migration/storage pool backup ?'s

2002-01-04 Thread Jonathan Aberle
Hello, I am experiencing some problems with migration and storage pool backups. My situation is that I have a small disk storage pool that is primarily used for oracle archive logs that archive at any time during the day. During the hours of 6-12, we perform offsite copies of the tape and disk

Re: multiple schedule session with one node

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Denier
The TSM central scheduler forces multiple scheduled events for the same node to run one at at time. I know of two ways to get file-oriented backups and database backups to run concurrently. One approach is to set up a schedule with 'action=command' to run a script that starts several background p

TSM 4.2.1 Journal Settings

2002-01-04 Thread Scott, Brian
Good Mornin' *SMer's, Does anyone know what's the max setting for the NotifyBufferSize= in the tsmjbbd.ini? We're running the Journal Service on a TSM 4.2.1 Win2k box with 3.5GB of RAM. We have 2 filesystems besides the O/S that are about 280GB apiece comprised of 2.3 million objects apiece. I tr

Re: moving data between pools

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Denier
> So, I am trying to move the data to a tape in my StorageTek library, but > apparently you cannot move data from a copy pool to any other pool! The online help for the 'move data' command includes the statement 'You can move files from a copy storage pool volume only to volumes in the same copy

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-04 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
It is topas u can say top as any user. u need root user access for topas. -Original Message- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory Tuning For AIX Chris - tapas is part of which fileset and in whi

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-04 Thread David Longo
It's /usr/bin/topas -- part of perfagent.tools. (It works similar to "top".) David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/02 09:19PM >>> Chris - tapas is part of which fileset and in which directory does it reside? On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Chris Gibes wrote: > There is a better tool. It was introdu

Re: backup file list

2002-01-04 Thread William Boyer
I do believe that the BYTES column in the SUMMARY table is the amount of data transferred. Not necessarily the amount of data backed up. I had a Notes server that only had 25GB of used space, but due to a conflict (the admin was scheduling the COMPACTION at the same time as my backups) it was bein

Re: dbbackuptrigger: LOG mode?

2002-01-04 Thread Boireau, Eric (MED)
Yes you have to. It is used to run a backup when your log is user over xx% Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: José Ignacio Sánchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dbbackuptrigger: LOG mode? Hi all, Could you confirm me

ESS Flashcopy

2002-01-04 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
Hi Has anybody implemented FlashCopy with Informix database and TSM ? Is it possible to have Point-in-time recovery with FlashCopy backup and logical log ? If yes, how is it done ? If someone responds, I will provide more inputs if required. Regards, Sachin Ganu IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Lt

dbbackuptrigger: LOG mode?

2002-01-04 Thread José Ignacio Sánchez
Hi all, Could you confirm me this? If you want to use dbbackuptrigger your LOG mode MUST be set to roll-forward? Thanks in advance, Nacho. _ Hable con sus amigos en lmnea, pruebe MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.es

Re: 3583 lto library

2002-01-04 Thread Adolph Kahan
You use tapeutil on AIX. The latest drive firmware is 18N2. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/358x/ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Burak Demircan Sent: January 4, 2002 2:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: 3590 Tapes.

2002-01-04 Thread J Bamford
Yes from what I understand you can't degauss 3590 tapes. This is because they have factory written servo tracks that would be destroyed in the process, and make the tapes useless. Apart from writing some junk data all over the tapes, there is an erase command I believe. In Aix its something lik