Re: Does TSM use all DB Volumes for I/O?

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Kilchenmann Timo was rumored to have written: > I would vary much appreciate an answer to the question: Does TSM use all DB > volumes for I/O (like round-robin) or does it fill a volume and then goes > to the next one? I do not know for sure, because I don't know of a TSM way to repo

Does TSM use all DB Volumes for I/O?

2002-10-01 Thread Kilchenmann Timo
Dear all, I have looked through the adsm.org archives. The answers I got from the archives are not consistent. I would vary much appreciate an answer to the question: Does TSM use all DB volumes for I/O (like round-robin) or does it fill a volume and then goes to the next one? What about LOG vo

Re: TSM error

2002-10-01 Thread Clarence Beukes
This problem occurred in TSM Server V4.1.0.0 and was already fixed in TSM Server V4.1.1.0. Clarence Beukes Advisory IT Specialist - Tivoli Certified Consultant Geomar SSO Mid Range and Application Support Discipline Location: IBM Park Sandton, IA2G Tel: +27 (0) 11 302-6622 Cell: +27 (0) 82

Re: TSM error

2002-10-01 Thread Clarence Beukes
What is your TSM Server level? Clarence Beukes Advisory IT Specialist - Tivoli Certified Consultant Geomar SSO Mid Range and Application Support Discipline Location: IBM Park Sandton, IA2G Tel: +27 (0) 11 302-6622 Cell: +27 (0) 82 573 5665 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Changing the hostname - Effects on Tivoli Storage Manager

2002-10-01 Thread Ganu Sachin, IBM
Hi I have restored my production Informix database (hostname PRD) on a test system using Tivoli Storage Manager. The application is SAP R/3. Now I want to change hostname of the test system from PRD to TST. I have a set procedure for SAP and Informix to change hostname and SAPSID. I want to make

Help! Problems restoring files of a dead AIX client on another system (adsm 3.1 2.90)

2002-10-01 Thread J P
OK I'm having some "bang-head-here moments" with this old version of adsm. Saga: Server fred is running ADSM 3.1 2.90 & AIX 4.3.3 Client barney has been backing up to fred's tape drives. Barney is now dead (Barney was at the same OS level) Problem: When dsm is brought up on fred only fred's file

about tdp_r3 with rman

2002-10-01 Thread Myron Uong [翁世田]
dear all : My environment is : tsm server 5.1.1 install on aix 433 platform tsm backup/archive client 5.1.1 install on SAP R/3 DB server tdp_r3 3.2.0.11 ( 64bit ) install on SAP R/3 4.6D with Oracle 8.1.7( 64bit ) When I use SAP utility SAPDBA to perform onl

Re: orphaned DbBackup tape? Correction.

2002-10-01 Thread Seay, Paul
Sorry, that generates a DBDump. Guess I do not know why it is not scratching. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Michelle DeVault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: o

Re: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

2002-10-01 Thread Seay, Paul
Lets make sure you have no volumes in a pending state. Issue this Select Select stgpool_name, volume_name from volumes where status='PENDING' order by stgpool_name, volume_name For each of these you can issue a delete volume vvv and they will immediately return to the scratch pool if they a

Re: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

2002-10-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
First thing that comes to mind is EXPIRE INVENTORY. Are you running inventory expiration regularly? John -Original Message- From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

Re: Optimal VMTUNE Guidelines for a TSM Server

2002-10-01 Thread Miles Purdy
IMHO, your box looks overloaded: 1. you always have 20+ runnable processes 2. user + system exceeds 95% most of the time 3. you are always searching and freeing memory 4. with F - f / R, you only have room for one (376-120 / 256 = 1)read ahead. I don't thing setting R above 64 helps. F should be

Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

2002-10-01 Thread Brazner, Bob
System is TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I run reclamation daily on my tape backup copy pool, but the backlog of unreclaimed tapes continues to grow (as determined by SQL select looking for volumes in the pool that meet my reclamation threshold - 60%). The space reclamation process mounts a number of

Re: orphaned DbBackup tape?

2002-10-01 Thread Fred Johanson
Last month Paul Seay posted a select script that looks for orphans like this. Most of mine also show up as DbB on the q libv, but don't show up pn the q volh. I think they're the volumes mounted when the triggered "ba db" command doesn't finish before the log fills. Quoting David Longo <[EMAIL

Re: Optimal VMTUNE Guidelines for a TSM Server

2002-10-01 Thread Tab Trepagnier
John, Based on my experience, you're doing fine. * Your system is doing zero paging to/from disk (pi and po are both zero consistently); * Your scan/free ratio (sr/fr) is about 2, which is OK. Rule of thumb is sr/fr should be 3 or less. When my TSM server had only 512 MB, I was able to tune i

TSM error

2002-10-01 Thread Mario Behring
Hi list, Does anybody know what is the error message below about ?? ANRD tb.c(784): ThreadId<0> Column count mismatch for table Administrative .Attributes expected 24, found 23 ANRD adminit.c(639): ThreadId<0> Error 18 opening table Administrative.Attributes. I tried to search at Ask T

can't extend db

2002-10-01 Thread Karla Ross
Has anyone ever seen this, my tsm database is 100% full, I formated and defined more volumes, and when you q dbv volume you see the new volumes, but the extend db never works. When I enter q db I have 4052MB to extend to but when I issue the command 'extend db 4052' it just hangs, no response eve

Re: orphaned DbBackup tape?

2002-10-01 Thread David Longo
Try just checking it out of the library and checking it back in as a Scratch tape. I've fixed one or two that way. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/02 05:17PM >>> It appears I have an "orphaned" database tape in my primary storage pool. A q libvol shows the tape as a DbBackup. However,

Re: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Zlatko Krastev/ACIT was rumored to have written: > - instead of grep-ping why you do not use `lslpp -L tivoli.tsm\*` or > `tivoli.tsm\*license\*`. In this way you can see the version of filesets > and ensure there is no one left from v4.2. You may also check "reverse > lookup" - `lslp

orphaned DbBackup tape?

2002-10-01 Thread Michelle DeVault
It appears I have an "orphaned" database tape in my primary storage pool. A q libvol shows the tape as a DbBackup. However, it doesn't appear anywhere else (q drmedia, q volume, VolumeHistory) that I can think to look. I've quizzed my old DRM plan file copies, it first showed up last year in Ju

Re: Off site copy with one drive???

2002-10-01 Thread Etienne Brodeur
Bonjour Etienne, Je viens de lire ton message sur la liste ADSM/TSM a propos de l'utilisation d'une unite de tape avec TSM. Je n'ai pas tres bien compris ta solution au probleme. Puisque je suis francophone (et que j'imagine que tu l'es egalement) je me demandais si tu pouvais me l'e

Re: how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread Prather, Wanda
TSM uses the bar code labels, but is ALSO has to have an internal tape label written. Look at the LABEL LIBV command. If the tape has internal labels on it already, you can just use checkin/checkout. If the tape has no internal labels yet, you have to use LABEL LIBV to write the label, and it doe

Re: TSM Database Disk Layout Recommendations

2002-10-01 Thread Prather, Wanda
You are gonna get soo many different answers to this question. And as you said, everybody's situation is different. In my opinion it depends on your need for speed. -I have one TSM server that isn't stressed at all (in terms of GB per day it has to process). Everything - DB, logs, stgpool

IBMtape driver for 3494 drives.

2002-10-01 Thread Matthew Glanville
I was wondering about an option in the IBMtape.conf file called 'sili' (Supress Incorrect Lenghth Indication) In the README for the IBMtape device driver for Solaris it mentions that the sili option can be set to increase throughput for variable blocksize read operations The default IBMtape.

Re: how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread David E Ehresman
> then make sure the volume has been labeled using the dsmlabel >command, which is wierd cause i though you only use that command on the >drives not on tapes??? You need to dsmlabel the new tapes to write a volume serial on the tape. dsmlabel has nothing to do with the drives.

Re: how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread Magura, Curtis
Alexander, Take a look at the label libv command with the checkin parameter. That should do the trick. Curt Magura Lockheed Martin EIS Orlando, Fla. 321-235-1203 -Original Message- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread Thomas, Matthew
Alex, Our setup: TSM 4.2.2 AIX 4.3.3 3494 Tape Library 3590E tape drives Might not be the same problem but... We had tape issues a month or so ago on 3590 drives - we just couldn't get them to 'checkin label libv' successfully. It appeared that the tape media had been (internally) labelled by th

Comparison between TSM and Legato Networker

2002-10-01 Thread Camilo A. Marrugo
I need to present a document of comparison between TSM and legato. I know I saw something on the list before. Could anyone refresh my memory. ;> Thanks , Camilo Marrugo -- Camilo Marrugo Data Storage Manager Dialtone Interland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.dialtone.com Voice: (954) 581-0097 ext.

TDP MSQL restore old database problem (ANR0428W)

2002-10-01 Thread Jelinek, David G.
We have a need to restore a database, the version we need was backed up with a pre version 2 MSQL TDP. The node has since been converted to version 2.2.1. The 2.2.1 version can not of course even "see" the version we need to restore. When we try to restore using the older version, it gets the ANR0

how to add tape to library? (fwd)

2002-10-01 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
i made a big mistake in my email. i tried this command twice, with tape 311E98, and 3121CF. i did not mix and match the commands with the wrong tape numbers, i only implied that in my email, bad copy-n-pasting... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:39:49 -0500 (CDT) F

Re: TDP MSQL restore old database problem (ANR0428W) solved

2002-10-01 Thread Jelinek, David G.
Never mind the messages were from a scheduled backup attempt that occurred when we were trying the restore. The restore did hang though with a Processing end of TSM data please wait message. We're working on that now. Sorry to bother everyone. David Jelinek > > We have a need to restore a data

Re: Off site copy with one drive???

2002-10-01 Thread GUILLAUMONT Etienne
I hope you will excuse me to be so direct but I think that you last answer is stupid, did you ever look at the price of a single drive library compared to a three drive library ? And I don't talk of the fact that most 3 drives libraries require the advanced library TSM feature which multiplies the

DB2 +INFORMIX-------->TSM

2002-10-01 Thread Muthyam Reddy
Good morning, I need help in taking Informix and DB2 backups to TSM from a single node. I have few basic questions like... 1. How to configure sys & opt files to accept both backups at a time. 2.Can I take DB2 32 bit instance backup to TSM(documentation shows it should be 64bit). 3.wich way

Re: TSM Database Disk Layout Recommendations

2002-10-01 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
2. There definitely is a reason NOT to use RAID-5 for TSM. If you want your TSM server to snake like a worm put DB and Log on RAID-5, especially with a big stripe size - one of the best methods to shoot yourself in the leg. RAID-5 for diskpool volumes also will have performance impact but not so d

Re: Export/Import with virtual volumes

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Sporer
On TEST2 issue the command DELETE FILESPACE TEST1 * TYPE=SERVER Jim Sporer At 02:51 PM 9/27/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I've been playing around with export/import using server-2-server virtual >volumes with some success. We have be migrating one of our clients off OS390 >to AIX TSM server..so I want

Re: Optimal VMTUNE Guidelines for a TSM Server

2002-10-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
While following this discussion, I have also looked long and hard at our AIX 5.1 (H50 with 3GB memory and 2GB page space) running TSM 4.1.2.9. I am submitting vmtune and vmstat information. Any comments on this implementation would be appreciated. Are we running O.K. Do you see any problems? Are t

Re: how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread David Longo
You have to label the new tape first with the LABEL LIBVOL command. label libvol ITG-3575 search=bulk lablesource=barcode status=pri It will be labeled and checked in. Then you can assign it to a stgpool. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/02 10:39AM >>> I am unable to add a new tape to t

TDP MSQL Restore problem

2002-10-01 Thread Jelinek, David G.
We have a moderately large SQL database that we are trying to restore using the older level 1 client onto a SQL 2000 database. We did successfully restore a smaller database, but the larger one starts off, transfers about 2048 bytes then the message "Processing end of TSM data. Please wait." appea

Upgrade from TSM 4.1 to 4.2

2002-10-01 Thread Villegas, Beatrice
Hello TSMers, Can someone point me to the right place where I can find information about this upgrade. We have an AIX server running 4.3.2 with TSM 4.1 and we want to upgrade to 4.2 I am looking for an upgrade path and a kind of checklist of the things we I need to do. Thanks in advance, Beatr

how to add tape to library?

2002-10-01 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
I am unable to add a new tape to the library, and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone give me some tips? We've got an IBM 3575 L18 tape library, runing adsm server 3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 machine. Tape library has 2 drives in it (/dev/rmt0, /dev/rmt1). We have one library named I

Re: Off site copy with one drive???

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Etienne Brodeur > Is it possible if I have a one drive library to use a copy storage pool > for my backups? Yes. > I can backup to disk, then backup the diskpool to the copypool. (this way > I should have all my data onsite an

Re: retention question (may be trivial)

2002-10-01 Thread Cook, Dwight E
If a client quits backing up to a server, the server never has anything to base the status of an active file on. In other words, it never knows if it has turned inactive. Since active files are there as long as the node is, if a box never backs up again, its active files never go away. Dwight -

Monthly TSM FAQ 10/2002

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Stapleton
This Frequently Asked Question list for the ADSM-L mailing list is posted on the first day of each month. It was created to cut down on the number of questions that are repeated regularly in the ADSM-L mailing list from vm.marist.edu. I would be grateful for any requests to include additional mate

Re: Downgrade Novell Client 4.1.3 to 4.1.2???

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Levitan > Are there any issues with downgrading Novell Client 4.1.3 to 4.1.2? > > Will I be able to recover files that were backed up under 4.1.3??? As last week's thread talked about, you won't be able to backlevel your cl

SV: Downgrade Novell Client 4.1.3 to 4.1.2???

2002-10-01 Thread Flemming Hougaard
Why do you want to downgrade?? And which build are you currently using in 4.1.3? Regards Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 30. september 2002 18:27 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Downgrade Novell Client 4.1.3 to 4.1.2??? Are there any is