Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Ripke
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Seay, Paul wrote: As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music. The default maxperm is probably killing you. I am guessing you are swapping I agree whole-heartedly! I'd go a step further, and knock maxperm down to about 10%, or even less. Giv

Re: tcp layer problem

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Ripke
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Richard Sims wrote: There have been a lot of excellent suggestions on Steve's session-lost problem. The only thing I could add is to employ a utility like traceroute or ping -R to illuminate what network elements your sessions are going through...which

Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

2003-01-17 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Thank you to all replied on- and off-list. For inquiring minds that want to know. the management class hadn't been validated and activated (TSM 101). D-oh! -lisa

Re: Windows 2000 System State

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Joni, TSM captures the Windows 2000 system state via the "SYSTEMOBJECT" domain (it is part of the ALL-LOCAL domain). So if you run "dsmc backup systemobject" or just do a regular incremental backup of the ALL-LOCAL domain, you will capture the system state. This information is stored in the "SYSTE

Windows 2000 System State

2003-01-17 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello, I am responsible for the administrative side of TSM and I am not very familiar with the client side. Does anyone know the answer to the following question? Can you tell me if TSM gets the System State on Windows 2000 Servers. The system state is comprised of the following: COMM+ Class Reg

Re: Time on TSM Server

2003-01-17 Thread Marsh, David
That's how we get the time correct after a server reset. It's ok until the next time I have to reset the server, then we have to do it again. If we don't catch it our schedules are off. Thanks Justin -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, Januar

Re: Canceling a Script?

2003-01-17 Thread Ford, Phillip
I can tell you what we do. I make a script that is a place holder like process_x_ok. In my main script at each point that I may want to stop I check to see if there is a script call process_x_stop (see below). If yes, then rename the script to process_x_ok and stop. If no then continue. This h

Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

2003-01-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
what is the output of "q v stg=archive f=d"? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Lisa Cabanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17.01.2003 20:42 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Lisa, I'm not certain why this is happening, but here are some thoughts (I know, some of these are probably silly...): - You showed the copy group from the COMPAQ01 policy set, but not STANDARD. Do they match (i.e. did you make any policy set changes that need to be activated)? - Are all the

Re: tcp layer problem

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Sims
There have been a lot of excellent suggestions on Steve's session-lost problem. The only thing I could add is to employ a utility like traceroute or ping -R to illuminate what network elements your sessions are going through...which can sometimes be surprising. Richard Sims, BU

how can I determine why an archive is not going to disk?

2003-01-17 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Hello *, I am at a loss how to determine why a client is not going to disk for an archive. The archived data is going to the correct management class. The management class specifies that the archive copy group points to the ARCHIVE storage pool destination Policy Domain Name COMPAQ01 Policy Set

Re: Time on TSM Server

2003-01-17 Thread Justin Bleistein
tsm> accept date this server command will do it then to confirm from tsm type in: tsm> show time --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell:(856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Marsh, David"

Time on TSM Server

2003-01-17 Thread Marsh, David
Hello All, I have TSM 5.1.5 running on an HP-UX 11 server. It is my understanding that TSM picks up it's time from the server. Whenever we have to reboot the sever for maintenance, the time on TSM jumps (2) hours ahead, but the time on UNIX is still correct. Does anyone know of any time zone setti

Canceling a Script?

2003-01-17 Thread Nancy R. Brizuela
All, Is there any way to cancel a TSM script once it has started? I have a daily maintenance script that runs several processes, one after the other. I often find it necessary to stop the script for one reason or another. I have had to let the script keep running and cancel the processes one at

Re: volume won't mount

2003-01-17 Thread David Longo
Most likely there is a physical problem with this volume. Do a "q vol xx f=d" and see if there are any errors on it. If this problem happened within your actlogretention, then query actlog back that many days and search for volname and see if there was an error with it. Physically examine cart

Re: tcp layer problem

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Wanda, Good suggestion re: firewalls :-) About the use of FTP: while a failure in FTP would lend support to the suggestion that this is a network problem, it is a *very* common mistake to assume that a successful test with FTP exonerates the network. I have worked on many dozens of these kin

ANS1028S on backup or archive of file >64GB

2003-01-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Hello all, at a customer site backup or archive of a file fails. I think this is related to size of the file (70,840,910,336 bytes). Environment: TSM server 5.1.1.6 / AIX 4.3.3 TSM client 5.1.5.0 / Windows 2000 Advanced Server Upgrade to client 5.1.5.7 nor downgrade to 4.2.3.4 did not help. Is an

volume won't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Ford
I have a volume that won't mount in my library. TSM seems to think that it knows the volume as q vol, q libvol, and show slots all return the same information about the volume, with it in our 3584 library. The volume is ReadOnly and not in an error state. However, when I try to restore data f

Re: tcp layer problem

2003-01-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
If by chance this client is backing up through a firewall, check the timeout parms on the firewall. TSM client tends to send data in spurts, because a lot of time is spent noodling around in directories looking for things to back up. Many times we have seen a firewall causing this behavior where

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Jim Kirkman
Geoff I think, but I could be wrong, that if you use dsmcad to handle the scheduler service that a restart is no longer required after changes. "Cook, Dwight E" wrote: > It is a "double check" type situation... > A schedule won't run unless the client node has had at least ONE opportunity > to s

TSM performance problems

2003-01-17 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi again! I have 2 questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! 1. This morning I came in and I couldn't log on to the GUI. I went out and we were in tape drive allocation and there were several processes waiting for tape mounts. (I was seeing this in the logs through JES - my compani

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize, everyone take note of this response

2003-01-17 Thread Seay, Paul
As Zorg would say, I know the sound of this music. The default maxperm is probably killing you. I am guessing you are swapping more than you are running and your swap drives are I/O hot, a iostat will tell you, or topas. This value dictates the amount of storage that can be consumed by (non-comp

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Miller, Ryan
What is your QUERYSCHEDPERIOD option set to on your clients? The default is 12 hours, which means the client only checks twice a day to see what it's next scheduled event is. So lets take the following scenario... A client was scheduled for a 10:00 pm backup. It last checked with the server

Re: Sizing of Bufpoolsize

2003-01-17 Thread Rafael Mendez
Hi Arnaud, Take a look on "TSM performance Tuning Guide". On that manual, you could find the following: "Recommendations for AIX, HP, Sun, NT, OS/2 Servers System Memory (MB) Recommended BuffPoolSize(MB) RBufferPoolSize (KB) 32 2

Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Raibeck
If you are getting errno=32, then that means EPIPE ("broken pipe"). This means that you are almost certainly dealing with some kind of network problem. Note that by "network", I am referring to any/all the software and hardware that sits between the TSM client and TSM server software: operating sys

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E
It is a "double check" type situation... A schedule won't run unless the client node has had at least ONE opportunity to see that it is going to occur. Say schedmode is prompted and your q sched period is 24 (and for example, happens at 12:00 noon-ish) OK, if I were a ~bad admin~ I might try to sch

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Gill! If you runing polling I can understand why you got this problem. Becuse

Re: Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Geoff! You probably are using the scheduler in polling mode. Use prompted mode instead. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 16:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Misse

Missed Backup

2003-01-17 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
TSM Server AIX 4.3.3 TSM Server Software 5.1.5.2 Why is it that anytime a client is removed from a schedule and added to a different one the backup is missed? This always happens from my recollection. No matter what the server version I have been it's happened. The only way I've seen around this i

Sizing of Bufpoolsize

2003-01-17 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi *SM fellows, I'm running TSM 4.2.3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 system (IBM 6h0) with 2 GB ram, the db size is 21 GB, 75 % used, the logpool size is 12 GB. Since 3 weeks (when we upgraded from 4.2.1.15), I get massive performance degradation : expire inventory takes ages (approx 20 hours) to go through

Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

2003-01-17 Thread Conko, Steven
ive tried both ways... to disk and to tape. during the day and at night. manually and scheduled. high load and no load. its always the same. -Original Message- From: George Hagopian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Very Pu

Re: Very Puzzling Sessions lost

2003-01-17 Thread George Hagopian
I've had a similar problem...might be of some help I had a server that would never finish and almost always fail at a certain point, it would tell me session terminated by user...no other explanation...if I run the backups maually it would almost always finish...but that was also during the day an

Re: Quick expiration question

2003-01-17 Thread Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage)
So is there no way to keep a nodes data (both active and inactive) from expiring?? -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick expiration question Files that do not have an active versi

Re: Error during "delete volhistory"

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Ripke
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:18 PM, Raghu S wrote: Hi There is no del volhist type=backupset command See other posts - it's undocumented, but does exist. use >del backupset command to delete backup sets.You can use preview option also. Sorry, backupset expired, I believe. It jus

Re: Error during "delete volhistory"

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Ripke
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Mark Stapleton wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:18, Raghu S wrote: There is no del volhist type=backupset command While type=backupset is not listed as an option, it does work. It is a holdover from version 4.1 days. There was a bug in the 4.2 days tha

Very Puzzling Sessions lost

2003-01-17 Thread Conko, Steven
We have some very strange session lost errors showing up on our client. First the particulars: Server is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V4.2.2 Client is AIX 4.3.3 ML 10, TSM V5.1.5.5 (upgraded several times from V4.2.2 at TSM Support request to deal with this problem) Client and server are on separate 100

Re: WINNT 4.0 SP5 PDC wasn't backing up the software hive in the registry

2003-01-17 Thread Lisa Cabanas
Sal-- yes, the hard drive had died, so last known good wasn't an option, no I couldn't restore it back to a bootable state AT ALL because the software registry key did not exist anymore (and I had no way of recreating it), and the drive wasn't mirrored. (bad, bad, bad) What we did end up doing was

Re: database reorganisation

2003-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E
If you want to remove a DB volume because you aren't using that much space based on the Pct. Util., but you can't because the max reduction isn't large enough. Be it good or bad, I can't say but we've had 10 TSM servers (most are going on 7 years old now) and the only place I've ever unloaded & l

Exclude.dir question

2003-01-17 Thread Jim Kirkman
> I'm trying to ensure I don't get redundant backups of folders as our > server group migrates data to a new environment. They want to add .old > extensions to folders on the 'old' boxes. I was thinking of the > following: exclude.dir "*:\*.old this is in two different Netware environments. wha

Re: AIX, TSM, IP Routing...

2003-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Daniel, this is all just ~network routing~. We have, for example, an AIX 4.3.3 ML09~ish (I don't know if any maint. has gone on lately) with 3 NIC's (2-100Mb & 1-Gb). They are each on a different subnet. ~default~ routing takes subnet traffic out the interface attached to that subnet and us

RES: AIX With 3 Network Adapters (Was: No Subject)

2003-01-17 Thread Paul van Dongen
Daniel, Since it's not possible to have multiple default gateways, you could probably define explicit routes to each of your subnets using the appropriate ip address/gateway for each of the adapters -- Paul Gondim van Dongen Engenheiro de Sistemas MCSE Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage M

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2003-01-17 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Thanks for the respone. Yes, all clients are located in different subnets. Some of the clients are connected through the same IP subnet, but most of them are on different subnets. Running only the GB adapter wont be enough. There is approx. 150 TSM clients, and they are located on 6 different

Re: Oracle scheduler fails if started in background

2003-01-17 Thread Lawrie Scott - Persetel Q Vector
Not sure But the response of Completed comes from the fact that the script is completed. I get a completed status from my TDP's as long as the script completes, even if no tablespaces were backed up. Lawrie -Original Message- From: Kolbeinn Josepsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 Ja

Oracle scheduler fails if started in background

2003-01-17 Thread Kolbeinn Josepsson
Hi everyone, We have strange behavior on TDP Oracle backup (TSM scheduled), we installed exactly same configuration on another Solaris box where the scheduled backup (in backround) completed sucessfully, as far as I know the only difference is Solaris version 8. All comments are welcome. TSM Ser

Re: database reorganisation

2003-01-17 Thread Henrik Wahlstedt
I´m not 100% sure, but If maxium reduction size is less than (assigned capacity of your db - substrakt (assigned capacity of your db * multiplied with pct. utilized)). It would indicate that you have some 'empty' space in your db. Or after you have deleted large filespaces/nodes. I look forward

Re: AIX connections, multiple adapters

2003-01-17 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Daniel, will you please send me - ip address of the client - output of "netstat -rn", "netstat -in", "ifconfig -a". I have a colleague here who should be able to send you the needed routes, yours, René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business

Statistical data LANFREE

2003-01-17 Thread Markus Veit
Hi, has anyone got any statistical info on how many GB/hour a LANFREE setup can backup / restore with multiple mount points available to the storageagent. It would be highly appreciated if you clould give me a short summary of your setup, because we use different SAN technologies, such as Compaq, E

database reorganisation

2003-01-17 Thread Francois Chevallier
What are the best criteria to know if it's time to reorganize the tsm database (by unloaddb /loaddbb) Sincerly François Chevallier Parc Club du Moulin à Vent 33 av G Levy 69200 - Vénissieux - France tél : 04 37 90 40 56

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2003-01-17 Thread Rodney clark
Not really sure but you can force traffic via 1 interface by adding a interface route. Are the clients in a local subnet or are they behind the router ? If behind the router why not simply use the gigabit adapter ? and remove the 10/100 adapters -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [ma