Slow Backup of Solaris Client

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Fitzgerald
I have a client server a sun micro system running Solaris 5.6 with a TSM client of 5.1.1 TSM is running on a AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 5.1.6.5 network is 100 megabit this client is running extremely slow backups. over a 24 hour period it has only been able to backup 16 gig. This is the only server

Re: Slow Backup of Solaris Client

2003-09-18 Thread John Naylor
Bill, Not enough info given. What do the backup session stats show If the majority of the time is being spent in data transfer, then it could be a problem with the network card settings on the client box (check not set to auto negotiate) John Bill Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/18/2003 0

Re: Slow Backup of Solaris Client

2003-09-18 Thread David McClelland
Bill, I take it you've tried an ftp session of a sizeable file from the client to the server or vice-versa - the summary at the end of a completed ftp transaction would indicate whether your TSM slow transfer symptoms are related to TSM or something more sinister to do with networky things or disk

Re: Slow Backup of Solaris Client

2003-09-18 Thread PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)
Check ur n/w configurations: As speed(may be at autoneg) ,Default gateway delays ,trace route etc: Did u check filesystem options (specifically for SUN w.r.t TSM).Else check memory leaks. Pinni -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 1

Re: Any news on a TSM 5.2 Technical Guide???

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Bergh
there is a redbook, tsm v5.2 implementation guide, sg24-5416-02, that's very good. Paul. Bill Boyer wrote: > Anyone heard about the Technical Guide redbook for TSM 5.2? Even a draft?? > > Bill Boyer > "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ?? begin:vcard n:Bergh;Paul

how to migrate tsm best from w2k to aix

2003-09-18 Thread TSM
hello, we would like to migrate tsm server from w2k to aix. so there is the export/import function in tsm. environment: w2k, tsm 4.2.1.8 aix 5.1 3584 with about 5 tera bytes of data. only one client node to handle with about 50 milions files and a lot of directories backed up. one thing, that m

Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Hello, I just found a way to partially recover data on a defective 3590 cartridge. Move data and audit volume aborted when processing a specific file. Unfortunately, this was very near to the beginning of the tape. So I was afraid to lose about 10 GB of data. I started del vol discard=yes. Then I

TSM AIX client

2003-09-18 Thread Crawford, Lindy
Hi TSMers Has anyone had any problems with TSM AIX client 5.2 64bit ? I am using aix5.2 64bit and tsm client 64 bitwith db2 backing up to tsm, but my session is lost during a restore. it continues to create the containers and once it come to the step of restoring data ...the db2 restore fails

Re: TSM AIX client

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Boyer
Try increasing your IDLETIMEOUT on the TSM server. I ran into the same problem with MSSQLServer restores. It took longer than IDLETIMEOUT for SQL to create and format the actual data files. Then when the agent turned around to request the datathe session was gone. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc -Or

5.2 servers q libvol

2003-09-18 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Not sure if this is just a TSM 5.2 AIX server issue or not but I thought I'd throw this out there. The q libvol command in the past has always shown the dbbackup tapes on that list. It looks as though after upgrading to 5.2.1.1, and I noticed it on 5.2.0 also, that they are not listed any longer

Re: ANR8355E - Resolved

2003-09-18 Thread Debi Randolph
Just to let you know..my problem has been resolved. Except I changed two things (bad me), so I'm not sure which one really resolved it. (actually they might both lead to the same resolution) One was I updated the tape device drivers to the release just issued, 6024, it includes a version spe

Re: 5.2 servers q libvol

2003-09-18 Thread Debi Randolph
It's the same in Windows. The Database Backups show up in 'q libvol' on 5.1.7.0 servers, but not on 5.2.1 servers. Deb Randolph "Gill, Geoffrey L." To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 5.2

SQL query to retrieve Administrative Scripts

2003-09-18 Thread Coats, Jack
TSM 4.2.3 on Windows 2K Not really a hard one, but what is the SQL query I could use to retrieve and put into a text file all my administrative scripts from the database? TIA ... jack

How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Ken Sedlacek
Environ: W2K server 5.1.6.3 I need to move my recovery logs to another drive to increase their size. I have looked in the W2K Admin Guide for a procedure, but failed to find one. Does anyone have a procedure to move your recovery logs? Here is what I was thinking of doing: 1) Halt TSM server

Re: SQL query to retrieve Administrative Scripts

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Sims
>Not really a hard one, but what is the SQL query I could use to retrieve and >put into a text file >all my administrative scripts from the database? You don't want what a Select would produce - too awkward. Do 'Query SCRIPT * FORMAT=RAW OUTPUTFILE='. The better overall approach to server scr

Re: How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Ron Pavan
No need to halt the server on W2K 1) define logvol X:\newlogvol.ext formatsize= (were XXX is MB and equal/Larger to the log you want to delete) 2) delete logvol X:\oldlogvol.ext Ron Pavan STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Beha

Re: TSM AIX client

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Sims
>Has anyone had any problems with TSM AIX client 5.2 64bit ? I am using >aix5.2 64bit and tsm client 64 bitwith db2 backing up to tsm, but my >session is lost during a restore. it continues to create the containers and >once it come to the step of restoring data ...the db2 restore fails as the

Antwort: How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Markus Veit
Hi, how big is your recovery log? It should't be bigger than 12 GB because than you wouldn't be able to increase the size of it. Now lets say it is 6GB, just define a new logvolume on the new drive, def logvol F=6000 (in MB) now issue extend log 6000 now you just need to delete your old log

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Sims
>I just found a way to partially recover data on a defective 3590 cartridge. >Move data and audit volume aborted when processing a specific file. >Unfortunately, this was very near to the beginning of the tape. So I was >afraid to lose about 10 GB of data. > >I started del vol discard=yes. Then I g

Re: How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Manuel Lopez Azañon
Just do not forget define the new volumes ( DEFINE LOGV ). Por favor, responda a "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado por:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Destinatarios:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Asunto:How to move your TSM server recovery logs? Envi

Re: Antwort: How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Manuel Lopez Azañon
It´s depends of your TSM Server versionWhat is your ? Por favor, responda a "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado por:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Destinatarios:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Asunto:Antwort: How to move your TSM server recovery log

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Manuel Lopez Azañon
Disaster recovery management: Restore it from outside volumes from copy stgpool Por favor, responda a "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado por:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Destinatarios:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Asunto:Re: Saving data on a defecti

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Gerhard Rentschler
Hello, I forgot to mention that because of lack of resources I can't afford a copypool for the backup files. I have one for the archives. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Coats, Jack
Try doing a move data to get the data off of the tape. If I find I am starting to have problems I usually do a: update vol VOLUMENAME acc=reado move data VOLUMENAME This should move all data that is recoverable from the volume to another volume in the same storage pool. I then e

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread
A "little" off the subject, and I already heard Richard Simms view on not having a second copy... but what are most shops doing with respect to a second copy. I'm in a pretty large shop and upper management, in a cost savings effort, wants us to turn off the creation of a second tape copy. I'm

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Doug Thorneycroft
If the move fails at the same spot each time, and audit vol f=y doesn't help, then you might try using q content to see what the first few files are. Then backup these same files enough times for the copies on the tape to expire. This might allow a move to skip over the bad spot. The next step is t

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Tom Kauffman
Well, I don't have the time resources to do a second copy currently; hope to fix that with an upgrade next year. And then we will do a second copy -- because mid-management wants it. Here's the actual question that came up: "What do we do if something takes out the datacenter and the plane with t

Activity log filling up

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Baughman
I'm trying to clean up a volume which has damaged files on it. However when I run a move data on the volume, I get over 2500 ANR1161W messages in the activity log per second. This appears to fill up the activity log to a point where doing a query actlog returns no matches, even though looking at

Second copy (my thoughts)

2003-09-18 Thread Lee, Gary D.
My thinking is ALWAYS have a second copy. Have had a rash of bad tapes over the past year. Thanks to the offsite storage pool, I have only lost two files in six years of using adsm/tsm for approximately 100 clients. One of those lost files occurred before I had the resources to have an offsit

A different view of available ITSM support information on the web

2003-09-18 Thread Cindy Bogle
In August we launched a view on the internet that will present commonly needed support information for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager releases. The first use of this view is for ITSM V5.2 and at this link you will find associated 5.2 info and links. Link to All APARs Link to client APARs Link

Re: TSM AIX client

2003-09-18 Thread Crawford, Lindy
Hi >From previous experience, when I was using TSM 4.2 I had set the commitimeout and the idletimeout to a big value...ie 50 At that time the restore completed successfully, now we upgraded aix 5.2 64 bit from aix 4.3.3 32 bit and db2 to 64 bit from 32 bit. The idletimeout is set at 50

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Sims
>A "little" off the subject, and I already heard Richard Simms view on not >having a second copy... but what are most shops doing with respect to a second >copy. >I'm in a pretty large shop and upper management, in a cost savings effort, >wants us to turn off the creation of a second tape copy. I

Re: BMR of an Active Directory server

2003-09-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev
That kind means AD restore. TSM is innocent, the issue is on the M$ side. To protect the AD, Windows is not allowing access to it unless you have *booted* the system in AD recovery mode. Treat normal boot as read-only!!! TSM client is promptly trying to restore, Windoze is returning fake "operation

Re: WIN2K client only using 1 CPU for scanning.

2003-09-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Mark, the TSM client by design is multi-threaded since more than five years. But till now I have not seen *any* multi-threaded application able to simultaneously run one single thread on many processors. This is a fundamental issue - you probably recall, the thread idea was invented when we wanted

Re: TSM AND ACCESS DATABASE ISSUES

2003-09-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev
Whener any method to take backups while the data is changing is used, you risk to have those backups inconsistent. Will the method be St. Bernard OFM, TSM v5.2 OFM or SERialization=DYnamic, does not matter. It is the responsibility of the application and administrator to ensure consistency! Access

Re: TSM AND ACCESS DATABASE ISSUES

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Boyer
There is even a Microsoft document saying to not even copy an open Access database, much less take a backup and expect it to be good. I can't find the document right now, my C-drive is even more cluttered than my desk! :-) Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Man

multiple directories an archive

2003-09-18 Thread Luciano Ariceto
Hi, I would like to execute an archive in multiple directories and I setup the object as f:\sys\user\administ\*' 'f:\sys\user\adpessoa\*but as you can see I received a RC=12. Please what is wrong ? Thanks a lot !!! 18-09-2003 16:27:13 --

Re: multiple directories an archive

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew Raibeck
TSM was unable to find files matching your pattern. That is, all files in f:\sys\user\administ that end with a single quote, i.e.: f:\sys\user\administ\myfile.txt' I suspect that the quotes are not intended as part of the file specification. For your objects, instead of this: objects="f:\s

TDP for Domino Executables won't run

2003-09-18 Thread Debi Randolph
Hi List, new day, new issue The executable for the GUI and the executable for the Command Line of TDP for Domino will not start on two of my clients. It acts like it's starting, and then it just goes away. It never paints the screen or anything on the GUI. On the command line one, it takes me

Re: WIN2K client only using 1 CPU for scanning.

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew Raibeck
> TSM client is having one producer-collector pair of > thread for each filesystem/filespace. If for example > resourceutilization=6 but there is only one filesystem, > the client will start one pair and two sessions. This is not entirely true; a producer thread can feed more than consumer thread,

AIX TSM server upgrade questions

2003-09-18 Thread Dale Gieseke
Will be upgrading TSM server from V4.2.1.15 to V5.1.7.2 in about two weeks. The server is on AIX 5.1 ML3. Two Questions: 1.) Is TSM server level 5.1.7.2 reliable? 2.) I have two old NetWare clients at the V3.1.0.5 level and two AIX clients at the V3.1.0.6 level. These clients can't be upgrad

HBA's for backup SAP ?

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Jose Reale
Hi everybody! Some of you know how many HBA's (Fibre Channel Bus Adapter 1000 Gb/s) we should get for backup SAP via LAN. We have four drives LTO I (3584) and are running TSM 4.2.2.10 on AIX and TSM Client on Window 2000. We are not using SAN. Big thank. I very much loo

Re: How to move your TSM server recovery logs?

2003-09-18 Thread Adrian Hicks
Wouldn't you just add a log vol copy (format & define etc), syn the volumes and then remove the original ?? No outage required. Adrian -Original Message- From: Ron Pavan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 September 2003 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to move your T

Re: TDP for Domino Executables won't run

2003-09-18 Thread Seema Gururaj
Hi Debi, Do you have the GroupShield anti virus software running on your machine? Or are you trying to run TDP for Domino via Terminal services. There are some known problems with running Domino server and Groupshield. You can also search IBM Knowledge Database to see if the problem you are seeing

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Steve Harris
Don't you hate it when management thinks that *any* cost is too much? How about figuring out what a GFS system would cost in tapes to back up the same as you do now. Say you have a 90 day retention, that would cost say 10 daily copies + 3 weekly ones + 4 monthies or 17 full copies of the active

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Fundamentals workshop in Amsterdam (NL)

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Blunden
Zong has recently delivered this class here in Australia. It is very good if you are interested in performance hints and tips. He is very honest, and will tell you exactly what happens in real life. regards, Mark "Anthonijsz, Marcel M

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Pole, Stephen
Well said Steve, I concur backups to /dev/null run every so much faster, and really save on tapes!! I've tried it No watch and see if someone actually takes the advise !! Hahahahahah I wonder if these "so-called" managers are prepared to standup and be counted when the site burns down and th

Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Smoldt
I would write a signed certificate of guarentee and give it to my management: "Our company will lose data" Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS) Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:05

Re: AIX TSM server upgrade questions

2003-09-18 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Dale Gieseke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, your old clients will continue to work with server 5.1.7.x. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

tsm schedule can't handle network disk

2003-09-18 Thread jiangguohong1
hello, i have a problem.if anyone know this problem,please resposible to me. my probelm is follow as below: i use tsm 5.1.5(for solaris platform) to do schedule automaiton backup. my tsm client is windows platform ,that is based on tsm t.1.5 version.my automation backup objects is network shared