Re: What's my best strategy given this scenario? (see inside for details)

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Harris
John. Forget lan free. That's Client stuff. You want server stuff that comes bundled. Set up your remote 3494 so that the TSM1 OS can see it. Under AIX you'd use mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 to access one library and mtlib -l /dev/lmcp1 to access the other Set up your SAN so that the TSM1 OS can see

Re: DB2 on Solaris 7

2003-12-17 Thread John Monahan
Thanks, but nothing is in the server log. 12/17/2003 02:00:01 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting SAPQA-TDP (session 3179) to start a scheduled operation. 12/17/2003 02:00:10 ANR0406I Session 3184 started for node SAPQA-TDP (SUN SOLARIS) (Tcp/I

Re: DB2 on Solaris 7

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Sims
... >SQL2025N An I/O error "-50" occurred on media "TSM" ... John - The error number is an API error code, best described in Appendix A of the Messages manual. It's basically saying that the TCP/IP session was terminated, which means by the TSM server: there *should* be indications why in

Re: Mac Panther Server

2003-12-17 Thread Patrick M McNeal
Anyone out there tried the TSM (5.2.0.3) client on Mac OS X 5.3 Server? I've tried to use TSM client on OS X server 10.3.x, but it has never worked for me. It starts, but the application window never comes up. Also, the README says it can't reliably backup data from the new case-insensitive/HFS+ f

Re: What's my best strategy given this scenario? (see inside for details)

2003-12-17 Thread John C Dury
Steve, Thanks for your reply. I thought something like this was possible but had/have no idea how to set it up. Do I need the Tivoli Storage Agent for this? Unfortunately when IBM shipped the latest base level of TSM, they forgot to include the Tivoli Storage Agent so I am in the process of trying

DB2 on Solaris 7

2003-12-17 Thread John Monahan
An odd combination: SAP DB2 databases on Solaris 7 Using the DB2 api, not the R/3 tdp Solaris client 5.1.6.9 TSM Server 5.1.7.3 Win2K 3 different Solaris clients are scheduled to backup their SAP db's at the same time direct to LTO tape. Only 2 tape drives are available, so one session should si

Re: rpm, Linux & TSM

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Sims
... >fd->magic == 0xbeefdead' failed. > >TSM Support tell me this is an rpm issue. ... Most likely is. For interest, here's some background from my notes: 0xdeadbeef Some subsystems pre-populate allocated memory with the hexade

Re: rpm, Linux & TSM

2003-12-17 Thread French, Michael
Another possibility, maybe the rpm is corrupt. I don't know how you got it but if it was via ftp and binary transfer wasn't used, that could explain why it's complaining about the magic number. If the commands Frank gave you didn't do the trick, I would download the client again. Michael

Re: rpm, Linux & TSM

2003-12-17 Thread Hubble, Frank
my linux guru had me do: rpm -e TIVsm-API to remove any prev installation rpm -Uvh TIVsm-API.s390 to install new -Original Message- From: Mandeville, Janet A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rpm, Linux & TSM I hope some

rpm, Linux & TSM

2003-12-17 Thread Mandeville, Janet A
I hope somebody here can point me in the right direction to figure out what is going on. I am trying to install a 5.2 client on a Linux machine (Linux390 SuSE); when I enter rpm -i TIVsm-API.s390.rpm I get TIVsm-BArpm: rpmio.c:177: fdGetFp: Assertion `fd && fd->magic ==

Killing Job Gracefully

2003-12-17 Thread Mitch Sako
I'm running a TSM 5.2.1.2 Linux server with a few Linux clients. Is there a way to kill incremental backup jobs on the Linux client gracefully? If I ctrl-C I get a core dump and error messages. I haven't tried cancelling the sessions from the server because I'm not sure which session is running

Mac Panther Server

2003-12-17 Thread John Bremer
*SMers, Anyone out there tried the TSM (5.2.0.3) client on Mac OS X 5.3 Server? Thanks. Regards, John

Re: SchedCMDUser

2003-12-17 Thread Lopez Janeth
I know that I need to be root or Authorized user in order to run the scheduler, my question is How, where I autorize to one userid different than root to run the scheduler? Janeth -Mensaje original- De: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: MiƩrcoles, 17 de Diciembre de 20

ANR0480Wafter applyinf Microsoft patch

2003-12-17 Thread Bill Boyer
I have a client that did a mass apply of a Microsoft security patch MS03-045 to the TSM client. Most of them are at a 4.2 level, but I've seen this happen to a 5.1 client. After the patch, the backups never complete. The sessions start and the backpu proceeds, but then on the server we get ANR0480W

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Sims
>Try just taking the cable out (of the library) and plugging it back in Just to make sure: Presuming that the library network card is rated for 100 Mbps, be sure to use a cable rated for that speed (which also implies a reasonable length). Excessive errors *might* cause a lesser network card to lo

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Jon Evans
Try just taking the cable out (of the library) and plugging it back in again Saves a reboot! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karel Bos Sent: 17 December 2003 11:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anyone had network problems with 3

TSM Licensing

2003-12-17 Thread David E Ehresman
Under the processor licensing scheme, if a box is licensed for TSM for SAN, does it also need a standard backup client license for the same box? David

Re: SchedCMDUser

2003-12-17 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You need to be root or Authorized user in order to run the scheduler. See chapter 3 in the client manual, which discusses this. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail:

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Charlie Hurtubise
Hello Chris, I'm a new TSM 5.2 user, on Linux, AIX and NT. We purchased an IBM fiber SAN, fiber switch, and IBM fiber Ultrium 3582 Tape Library (with two LTO2s) at the same time. The 3582 is un-accessible too, after a week or so, via it's LAN cable for web access, which I don't really use anyway, a

Re: Strange tape status

2003-12-17 Thread Ted Byrne
I moved the tape with tapeutil to an I/O-slot and then tried a Label Libvolume on it, but all TSM gave me was: 17-12-2003 14:55:20 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 30 of library 3575LIB at your convenience. Richard, Is the tape write-protected? I've seen the same log msg when (inadvertently) att

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread David Longo
Yes, I have had this too. I have found that running Autonegotiate on 3584 with switch set to autonegotiate also (I know this is not usual best practice, but I have found "SAN" devices work better this way!) works. Another tip I head from my CE early on was that 100MB didn't work if cable from 358

Strange tape status

2003-12-17 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, When I do a show slots 3575lib I see the following: Slot 88, status Full, element number 134, barcode present, barcode value <07527C> The tape doesn't belong to TSM anymore (not with q v, q libv, q volh). It is not a DB backup tape either. I moved the tape with tapeutil to an I/O-slot a

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Redell, Greg S.
I have to admit that I don't use the web interface all that much on the 3584. But when I do, it seems like I have to go down to it and unplug the enet cable and plug it back in to get to it. -Original Message- From: i love tsm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3

Re: Intermittant TSM Server - Database stops

2003-12-17 Thread Fred Johanson
Richard, I heartily agree and have convinced management that it's the right way to go. But we all can't do it. Until IBM starts shipping error free code, someone has to find the problems. At 07:41 AM 12/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: ... I would strongly urge sites to avoid, if at all possible, impl

After recreating a symbolic link (pointing to new directory), no backup done in next incr !

2003-12-17 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hello, http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&context=SWJ00&q1=TSM&q2=symb olic&uid=swg1IC29189&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en Following this link I found a known error, not very clear if a solution exists now ?? Thanks for any help, rene **

Re: Sybase backup ?

2003-12-17 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Jaap, we have a similar situation to others on the list. My TSM server has a large filesystem (300 GB). We NFS mount this filesystem to all the nodes with Sybase running. We then perform our dumps to this filesystem. The dumps get backed up as regular files, as far as TSM is concerned, on th

Re: Sybase backup ?

2003-12-17 Thread Ochs, Duane
Jaap, We use Sybase on AIX and W2K. In both cases we remote mount disk space, perform native Sybase DB dumps and trans log copies to the remote disk space, archive the dump for required time period and then delete the dump and logs. Uses less disk space, reduces licensing costs and centralizes sche

After recreating a symbolic link (pointing to new directory), no backup done in next incr !

2003-12-17 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hello, does any one have an explanation: we noticed the soft links AIX do not get backed-up after being recreated with SAME name but different dir pointed to. The last modified date did effectively changed, but next incr backup will not take a new version of it ! This had bad effect as, after res

Re: Sybase backup ?

2003-12-17 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Two choices that I know of. 1. SQL backtrack 2. Dump the database to a flat file immediately before backup. #2 is the strategy we use. Don't have to buy another product, and easy to manage.

Sybase backup ?

2003-12-17 Thread Jaap Dijkshoorn
dear people, Has anyone of you any experience with backupping of SYBASE databases? Are there already special mods available in TSM or is there another way to backup this with TSM Met vriendelijke groet, Kind Regards, Jaap P. Dijkshoorn Systems Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://home.s

Re: Intermittant TSM Server - Database stops

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Sims
... >TSM Verson 5.1.0 is the server level. > >Taking the server up to say 5.1.6 may well fix it Richard. Unfortunately, we >live an far from perfect world and we have SAN agents running that need to >go up at the same time. These agents are across a great many nodes. So >these issues need also to

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Karel Bos
Depends. :-> - SCSI attached to AIX, you don't have to shutdown TSM. Only end tape operations, put drives off-line and reboot the library; - SAN based, library path on SCSI drive behind SDG. Same as above; - SAN based, library path on fiber drive, TSM on windows. Reboot library, SAN and windows.

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread i love tsm
Karel Thanks for your response. I'll schedule a library reboot :-( Did you just shutdown TSM Server, reboot library , restart TSM Server? Regards Chris From: Karel Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anyone had netw

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Karel Bos
Sorry, but this happens on 10/half hard set also! Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 17 december 2003 10:20 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: anyone had network problems with 3584? Hot Diggety! i love tsm was rumored

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Karel Bos
Hi, Also having this problem on our 2 3584 libs. Seems to be that in case of network problems/interrupts the library is unable to reconnect. Rebooting the library solves this, but obviously is not the preferred option. Restarting the network on the library itself didn't work for us and we haven't

Re: anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! i love tsm was rumored to have written: > > The two 3584s that I run have both recently gone off the air,i.e I can't > ping them. They both have green link lights on the NIC. They are set to > 100/Full although I have tried Auto and 100/half. 3584 Operator Guide recommends they be s

anyone had network problems with 3584?

2003-12-17 Thread i love tsm
Hi All I just wondered if anyone else has had problems with their 3584's and there network connectivity. The two 3584s that I run have both recently gone off the air,i.e I can't ping them. They both have green link lights on the NIC. They are set to 100/Full although I have tried Auto and 100/ha