Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Wiggan
Tom, I too am interested as our Database will grow to 300GB and I believed we could backup and restore in two hours. Do yo backup the full 650GB each night with Util or do you use Rman and incrementals? Many Thanks Mike Wiggan, TCS/31 Infrastructure Integration Specialist Petroleum Devlopment

Re: Backupset Volume Question

2002-08-27 Thread Kelly J. Lipp
Actually, query backupsetcontents will show what is in the backupset. The downside is this may generate a very long list of files/directories. The upside is you can pipe the output to a file and search the file. I'll bet a good UNIX dude could write some pipe thingy to find a specified file

Re: Return code 0 unknown

2002-08-27 Thread Rafael Mendez
Hi Thomas, First, I think you allways should call IBM support. Anyway, the problem you described is solved in TSM Client 4.2.2.X. Hope this helps, Rafael --- to: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: date: 8/26/2002 3:00:36 PM subject: Return code 0 unknown Dear *SM-ers, today

baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Dan Foster
Couple unrelated questions: 1. When I query a 3570 library, there's one tape that baffles me: adsm q libvol 3570lib1 Library NameVolume NameStatus Last Use Home Element ----- 3570LIB1

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

2002-08-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I hope I can also contribute somehow to the FAQ with few additions and suggestions for correction. 01-08. What is the audience of the list? A.: Many people related to ADSM/TSM/ITSM are actively participating on the list - *SM administrators users, *SM consultants solution designers, IBM/Tivoli

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Tapes like this generally become this way due to some error such as not being able to read the volume's internal label when mounted to fill a scratch request. There is some TSM message that is along the lines of ... making volume private to prevent further access... Now this doesn't mean

Re: Expiration

2002-08-27 Thread Bill Wheeler
I did get the license information set, but what are the problems with Expiration in base 5.1? Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration Did you do an

Re: Server To Server

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Oh, could be a lot of things... remember one server's virtual volume is just a file on the other server... maybe that file is on a volume that is itself being reclaimed on the other server... or maybe on a volume that is listed as unavailable (etc...) check the remote server for any sort of

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Daniel Sparrman
This could also occur when you checkin a scratch tape, without setting the status to scratch. However, as I remember it, you only have to update the library volume using upd libvol library_name volume_name status='scratch' to have the tape back to the scratch pool. Best Regards Daniel

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

2002-08-27 Thread Remco Post
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 04-07. Latest stable versions are available at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adsercli.htm (I think it should be better than ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage- management/maintenance/ and you had a typo in

backup Domino Server with TDP

2002-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm wondering what the best backup strategy for the online backup of a Domino server (Domino 5.10) with the TDP 1.1.2 and a TSM 5.1 client: 1. Full + Incremental Full (selective) backup in the weekend Incremental backup every weekday How do I must interprete this incremental backup? The

Re: diskpool performance

2002-08-27 Thread Salak Juraj
Hallo Zlatko, both the originator and me wrote about disastreous performance with stripping raid-10. You write about read-before write penalty with raid-5. I do not understand? regards Juraj -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19,

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread David Longo
My experience with tapes in this condition is that the write protect tab was set on by accident. AS Dwighty check the tape out. Then check the Write Protect. If it is on, then set it off and check the tape back in as scratch. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/02 07:30AM Tapes like this

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Koen Willems
Dear reader, Maybe that the access state is unavaileble try q vol f=d look at the access state if it is not in a readw state use update vol access=readwrite Then do a move data on the volume to see if the remaining data moves Do a del vol and or a checkout if you want to lose the

Processing of Hard Soft links

2002-08-27 Thread Murthy V Gongala
Hi, I have a Linux Machine with TSM Client ver 4.2. I need to backup a directory with nothing but softlinks pointing to some directories. I have set the subdir option in the dsm.opt file as given below. SUbdir YES I have selected the directory in the GUI for a Incremental(Complete) But it

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread David Longo
For question 2, on my 3584 drives I have the FORMAT=ULTRIUMC and it uses comperssion. I'm getting about 275GB average on my tapes (IBM tapes), have gotten nearly 400GB on some! David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/02 04:34AM Couple unrelated questions: 1. When I query a 3570 library,

Re: Processing of Hard Soft links

2002-08-27 Thread David Stabler
You need something else in the dsm.opt file, too... archsymlinkasfileYES From the documentation: Specifies whether you want TSM to follow a symbolic link and archive the file or directory it points to, or archive the symbolic link only. I don't see anything in my documentation about hard

Re: Processing of Hard Soft links

2002-08-27 Thread Malbrough, Demetrius
Murthy, There are several client options that you can use which involves utilizing links. TSM History for links (UNIX Clients Manual) TSM handles symbolic links differently than it does regular files and directories. In some operations, such as a backup, only the path information that the

Re: Multiple reclaims

2002-08-27 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Arni! I know one can do that, but I don't think one should have to write all kinds of scripts to achieve something that should be available standard in a product. By the way, a move data (even with the reconstruct=yes parameter) will not give you the same result as the reclaim. Maybe if you

Question on what to back up...

2002-08-27 Thread Theresa Sarver
Hi All; This may seem like an obvious question, but for some reason I'm having some trouble with it. The way this system was setup Tivoli is backing it's own (UNIX) database and log files...and thus the backup fails every morning due to changing [TSM] log files. 1) Should these files be

tsm archiving

2002-08-27 Thread Rick W
Hello all, I have 2 archiving processes that occur on the same directory for the same day but for different management classes. I have the problem that I cant see the 2 different archives in the GUI. The previous admin ran this from the command prompt and used `date` at the command prompt to

Re: 3494 on MVS vs AIX

2002-08-27 Thread Koen Willems
Would a checkout with the untilfull parameter help ? Greetz, Koen Willems From: Cook, Dwight E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 on MVS vs AIX Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 04:20:26 -0700 On a 3494 attached to AIX what you

Backupset restore / TDP for Exchange

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriel Bell
Hello, I'm new in this mailing list and my question may have already been answered ... sorry for that. Does anyone know if i can restore a backupset using the GUI of the TDP for Exchange ? And what about using the command line interface ? Is there a way to restore a backupset burned on a cd

Re: 3494 on MVS vs AIX

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
FYI... Further investigation show that if the I/O station is full (10 tapes) and no more need to be ejected you see all output stations full... Library Data: operational state..Automated Operational State functional state...00 input stations.1 output

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

2002-08-27 Thread Mark Stapleton
04-07. Latest stable versions are available at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adsercli.htm (I think it should be better than ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage- management/maintenance/ and you had a typo in maintenenace :). The latest possible versions which do not

ODBC-connection to TSM

2002-08-27 Thread Kolling, Paul
First of all thanks very much Andy for your response regarding ODBC-Connection with MySQL! I gave it up with MySQL. Tried Perl instead. With perl I can connect the TSM Server DB successfully but when I try the script of G. Rentschler then the part within the while($db-FetchRow()) loop

Rationalise policy domains

2002-08-27 Thread John Naylor
Historically I have a number of policy domains based on client os. Well it seemed a good idea at the time. My question is I now want to rationalise all the policy domains into say two, but with the least disruption or work at client level(none if possible) My main concern is that I will lose all

Daily maintenance

2002-08-27 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I'm currently running the expire inventory and the backup stgpool sequentially. I'm considering running them at the same time, baring in mind that expiration processing is a CPU bound operation, while a backup storagepool (or a reclaim) is an I/O bound process. Has somebody out there

Re: Backupset restore / TDP for Exchange

2002-08-27 Thread Del Hoobler
I'm new in this mailing list and my question may have already been answered ... sorry for that. Does anyone know if i can restore a backupset using the GUI of the TDP for Exchange ? And what about using the command line interface ? Is there a way to restore a backupset burned on a cd using

Compare TSM/Legato and Veritas - Version 2

2002-08-27 Thread Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
Hi *SM-ers, I have posted Version 2 of my comparison on the discussion list of AutoVault. You will find the XLS File at http://www.autovault.org/discus/index.html, then select Tivoli Storage Manager(tm) Scripts and click on Other. The entries have been ordered alphabetically, most of the

Re: Backupset restore / TDP for Exchange

2002-08-27 Thread Mark Bertrand
So Del, are you saying that if I have a backupset of a filespace for my Exchange Information Store, and we choose to restore that filespace using the command line restore backupset, then will Exchange not be able to use that restored Info Store or are you just saying that the TDP does not support

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-27 Thread Kauffman, Tom
Mike - We do a nightly on-line backup with TDP/R3, Sunday thru Friday. The Saturday evening backup actually starts at 12:01 AM SUnday and is an off-line, also done with TDP/R3. We looked at RMAN (If I'm remembering right) and decided it didn't bring anything to the table for us. The on-line

Re: Backupset restore / TDP for Exchange

2002-08-27 Thread Del Hoobler
So Del, are you saying that if I have a backupset of a filespace for my Exchange Information Store, and we choose to restore that filespace using the command line restore backupset, then will Exchange not be able to use that restored Info Store or are you just saying that the TDP does not

Re: Backupset restore / TDP for Exchange

2002-08-27 Thread Mark Bertrand
Does that go for all TDP's or just Exchange, and another question, what is the preferred method of retaining data created by TDP's for long term, beyond standard retention settings? Mark -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:51

Re: Monthly FAQ posting

2002-08-27 Thread Mitch Sako
Roger, As an original joint study team member with IBM when I was working for LSI Logic, let me add my two cents. I don't want to rewrite the FAQ because you've done a pretty good job but let me add some old lore and nostalgia. There was a parallel network backup project called ESMS

Re: Question on what to back up...

2002-08-27 Thread Seay, Paul
See answers inline. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on what to back up... Hi All; This may seem like

Netware client error: no data sets can be found

2002-08-27 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, TSM server 4.2.1 on AIX 4.3.3 NetWare TSM client 5.1.0 (this is a test server) TSA 6.00a (12 jan 2002) dsmerror.log: 08/27/2002 08:57:35 (TSA600.NLM 6.0 269) No data sets can be found. 08/27/2002 08:57:35 (TSA600.NLM 6.0 269) No data sets can be found. 08/27/2002 08:57:35 (TSA600.NLM

URGENT ISSUE / BACKUP DB fails with error: ANR9999D ic.c(329): Zero bit count mismatch for SMP page addr 738304; Zero Bits =105, HeaderZeroBits = 0. - is there a way to fix or recover from this without doing a RESTORE DB?

2002-08-27 Thread Kent Monthei
Solaris 2.6 / TSM Server 4.1.2.12. A few days ago we experienced a spontaneous crash/reboot during a TSM BACKUP DB operation. Following the reboot, our TSM Server software came up normally and we repeated the BACKUP DB operation, which reported successful completion. Shortly afterward, we did

Re: Question on what to back up...

2002-08-27 Thread Steve Harris
Theresa, Its vital NOT to backup the TSM database and stgpools with TSM. You will blow out your tape usage with useless data, and this may impact TSM operations for other clients. In your dsm.sys file, exclude the TSM db, log and diskpools. Ideally they will be in separate filesystems so