Re: URGENT! Linux and the 3584

2004-02-12 Thread Richard van Denzel
David, Thanks, I will try today and post the results later (no internet on the location). Richard. David Henden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12-02-2004 17:26 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help!! dsmserv.dsk not readable

2004-02-12 Thread Graham Trigge
Guys, I am running Windows 2K cluster, TSM 4.2. Early yesterday morning the server crashed and would not start (on either node of the cluster). When I try and start it manually I get: "ANR0212E. Unable to read disk definition file: dsmserv.dsk" I can see the DSK file, I can edit the file, I

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel [Virus checked]

2004-02-12 Thread Bradberry, Kenneth
Thanks Phil!!! -Original Message- From: Phil Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel [Virus checked] Ken, this an abridged version of the full "official" doc. Hope it helps: (See attached

Re: Linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-12 Thread Orville Lantto
IBM/Tivoli tells me that there are no current plans to produce a BA client for the AMD Opteron processor (such as IBM's own xSeries x325). Maybe in ITSM 5.3. Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) IBM Premier Business Partner 121 Cheshire Lane, Suite 700 Minnet

Solaris backup performance

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Boyer
TSM client 5.2.2.0 on a Solaris 7 server, gigabit fibre Ethernet adapter. TSM Server 5.2.2.1 on AIX 5.2 p630 with fibre gigabit Ethernet. Different VLAN. During the backup of this client (actually 4 out of 11 Solaris clients) the backup just drags along. Looking at the sessions on the server we se

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Krzysztof WOZNIAK
So would I Regards, -- Mr Krzysztof Wozniak,-_|\ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edith Cowan University / \ Phone: 61-8-9273 8026 Churchlands WA, 6018 $_,-._/Fax: 61-8-9273 8000 Australia o > -Original Message- > From: Bradberry,

TSM Disaster Recovery Testing

2004-02-12 Thread Tammy Schellenberg
We are in the process of setting up to do a test of our disaster recovery server. does anyone out there know what I run to find out what tapes I would need to restore a specific server? we would like to ship the tapes from the vault offsite prior to the actual test and I can't remember what the s

TSM 5.1.7.0 & Missing STK L700 Library

2004-02-12 Thread Jones, Kelli
Need help on missing library... It was defined as a Tivoli Storage device in AIX 5 because it is an STK L700 library. Vendor loaded microcode..library is now MIA. Can't remember how to come up with Parent & connector addresses. Running TSM 5.1.7.0...TSM Support guy didn't know AIX and could

TSM IN MVS

2004-02-12 Thread Jorge GarcĂ­a
HI I need the ptf uq83224 for tsm 52 in mvs, help me * La informacisn contenida en este Correo electrsnico es confidencial. Puede tambiin se privilegie legalmente. Si usted no es el destinatario usted no puede copia

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
We are still at 5.1.6.1, next upgrade scheduled for 2Q04, so I guess I will have it then. I could use it to accomplish this migration, but I think it would be lengthy process, considering I can probably move around 1 - 2 TB daily. The idea of moving off of OS/390 is because we are taking too

Re: TSM Operational Reporting help

2004-02-12 Thread Lloyd Dieter
I believe that it only works on Win2K or higher. -Lloyd On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:08:10 -0500 Bill Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote thusly: > Can any one point me to documentation as to the OS requirements for the > ITSM operational Reporting tool? > > I have tried to install it on a WinNT 4 s

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel [Virus checked]

2004-02-12 Thread Phil Jones
Ken, this an abridged version of the full "official" doc. Hope it helps: (See attached file: Win2K DR Bare Metal Restore abridged.doc) We have tested from IBM kit to Dell and vice versa, if all else fails run a full Win2k repair last - fixes most cases but a little slow. Regards Phil Jon

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread William F. Colwell
Ryan, IBM does have incremental server to server export at the 5202 server level. It came in below that but I am not sure where. Of course you can only use it after you have exported the current 270T, which is a long time from now. Just because you do backups to a new server, you don't have to

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windo ws platform

2004-02-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
Here's another ugh: We converted 2 AIX TSM servers to Windows TSM servers, total about 150 clients, < 5 TB. For the first one, I moved the backup data (via server to server export/import). It was so time-consuming that for the other, we just moved archives and started backups fresh. But the oth

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
Bill, Thanks for the info. It looks like we may have an interesting time ahead for us. If ex/import is the only way to go I'm not sure if even the incremental ex/import feature, if IBM ever comes out with it, will help us. Leaving the data behind is not feasible, we need to have 24 hour access

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-12 Thread Redell, Greg S.
I thought about going down that path, but I wanted to see if it could be done inside the TSM server's command script. -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Redell, Greg S. Subject: Re: Stgpool back

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread William F. Colwell
We didn't move any backups, we did fresh backups but I will move archives using the server to server export feature in 5.??. The old server had just 20T of data. Our tapes, 9840's, were not managed by ca1 or any other tape mgmt software. I defined tapes explicitly to tsm. We are a small organi

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
Were your libraries and tape drives managed by CA1 on the mainframe, if so, could the same volumes be recognized by the new media manager on UNIX. My fear is having to convert or move 270 TB of data already on tape. Or did you not move any data from the OS/390 side and just start with fresh ba

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread William F. Colwell
Hi Ryan, I am at the tail end of a conversion from OS/390 to solaris. I don't have a document to share with you. One nice thing that helped a lot is to do an "export server filed=none" to a disk file on OS/390, FTP it using bin to the UNIX box. On the UNIX box define a devicetype to see the dire

Re: Configuration and Expansion questions

2004-02-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thanks for the info, Paul, that's good to know! -Original Message- From: Paul Ripke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Configuration and Expansion questions On Tuesday, Feb 10, 2004, at 08:12 Australia/Sydney, Prather, Wa

Re: Stgpool backup script

2004-02-12 Thread Thomas Denier
> Currently my backup script is sequential. I have been wondering if > there is a way to use all my available drives but I don't want to go the > way of using maxpr=2 because some of my backups are very large files > like 60+ GB in size, I could be doing other things while that goes on. > > I woul

TSM Operational Reporting help

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Fitzgerald
Can any one point me to documentation as to the OS requirements for the ITSM operational Reporting tool? I have tried to install it on a WinNT 4 server several times and each time it freezes up. The Win NT server person wants to see documentation as to the supported OS. Can anyone help me? Thank

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem (long post)

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Gretchen, I am not aware of any problems with expiration in this regard, and for that matter, it is controlled by the client. The key things to check are: - Are you doing full incrementals of the file spaces, as opposed to incremental by date or incremental of specific files/directories? - D

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem (long post)

2004-02-12 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
Hi Andy, That's what I'm doing, but I'm not seeing the results that you are. I do notice that there is a difference in the servers we are both using, yours is v5.2.0.0 (Windows) and mine is v5.2.2.1 (AIX). What your output shows is exactly what I want to happen... either a problem with the platfor

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Christian Bagard
Hello Henrik, > I know that a bare metal restore on a W2K system works fine as long as the > restore is doen to a similar system, hardware vice. > But do anyone know how to do the same to a system with different hardware? Yes and with TSM (the best !) > I've tried it but haven't succeded. The sys

Re: linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-12 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
That has only TIVsm-API.x86_64.rpm. Still doesn't have the BA. I need this: TIVsm-BA.x86_64.rpm Any other ideas? Alex On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > Have you tried here: > > ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r2/Linux/LinuxAMD64

Re: linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you tried here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r2/Linux/LinuxAMD64/v522/ "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/12/2004 12:32:32 PM: > We have a new Redhat Linux Advanced Server 3 Workstation AMD64 client, but > I can't se

linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-12 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
We have a new Redhat Linux Advanced Server 3 Workstation AMD64 client, but I can't seem to find the TSM client for it. Server is 5.1.6.5 on windows 2K server. Looking for the client in: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ Looking in maintenance, which is where I normally

Best Practice to Restore file system at DR

2004-02-12 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello everyone! I am trying to come up with the fastest/best method of restoring a file system for a solaris 5.8 client. Currently their offsite data is stored on Magstar 3590B's and they share the offsite copy pool with approximately 35 other client servers. I am looking into the possibility of

TRACEFILE SYNTAX

2004-02-12 Thread Laura Booth
What is the correct syntax for adding the Tracfile command to a Novell dsm.opt file? Thanks, Laura Booth Carilion Health Systems

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem (long post)

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Raibeck
OK, I'm probably missing something in what you are saying, but I still don't understand. Excluded files are expired during regular (full) incremental backup processing. Nothing has changed in that regard. Using EXPIRE has the same effect as EXCLUDE: The files are expired on the TSM server and manag

Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-12 Thread Miller, Ryan
I know I have seen other messages about this before, so I hope I can find some info. We are looking into migrating our TSM servers off of Z-OS and I would like to know if any one else has done this and if they have useful tips and maybe even a high level document of the process? Thanks! Ryan

Re: TSM Gui

2004-02-12 Thread Rushforth, Tim
Check this out to see if this is your problem: http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0304/912.html -Original Message- From: LeBlanc, Patricia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 12, 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Gui I'm running TSM 5.1.6 client on W2K. TSM Server

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Kelly
Hi, If I understand correctly what you're trying to accomplish (perhaps a big 'if'), then... I needed to do something similar recently. The problem for me was that files that you exclude are marked inactive, but kept around on the server according to the retention criteria for the mgt class that

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Howell
Generally what we do is: 1 - Build base W2K system from same service pack level as the system we're restoring, and use the same hostname and IP address 2 - Install TSM client 3 - Restore all drives and systemobject - Use "replace all" and do NOT reboot when prompted following the restore 4 - Boo

Re: URGENT! Linux and the 3584

2004-02-12 Thread David Henden
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2004-02-12 00:03:12: > Hi All, > > I've got a Linux server running RH EL 3.0 and a 3584 with 2 FC connected > drives on a QLogic 2340. > > Now I have the strange problem that I can operate the library with > IBMtapeutil with no problem, but

TSM Gui

2004-02-12 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
I'm running TSM 5.1.6 client on W2K. TSM Server is v5.1.1.6 running on Unix. I have archives running command line on the client. When I try to retrieve thru the GUI, no archives are displayed. Anyone have any ideas as to why?? Thanks, Pattie

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
I've tried this, but the files are not expired on the server (no Expiring ---> message in the dsmsched.log). The unexpected or unpleasant side effects that I am referring to are actually expiring the files on the server - maybe people didn't expect this to work this way? Principle of least astonish

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Bradberry, Kenneth
Phil, I would be interested in that procedure as well. Thanks, Ken Bradberry -Original Message- From: Phil Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel Henrik, we have just tested this on WI

Question on Restoration from DBSNAPSHOT

2004-02-12 Thread Johnson, Milton [IT]
All, TSM: Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.7 OS: AIX 4.3.3 ML 9 Log Mode: RollForward (Upgrade project planned in near future, but that's another story) Everyday I do a full backup of the database to 3590E tape, immediately followed by

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Remco Post
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:03:19 -0700 Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gretchen, I don't understand the following: > > > Prior to the v4.2 client, you could simply exclude the files on the > > client side and the files would be expired. This probably led to > > unpleasant/unexpected result

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Gretchen, I don't understand the following: > Prior to the v4.2 client, you could simply exclude the files on the > client side and the files would be expired. This probably led to > unpleasant/unexpected results, so this doesn't work anymore and the > client expire was introduced. What unpleasan

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Phil Jones
Henrik, we have just tested this on WIN2K and have a procedure I can let you have if you e-mail me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) it isn;'t using ITSM though. Phil Jones |-+> | | Henrik Hansson | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Client/Server Expiration Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
Due to a change in policy (and limited storage), we're going to limit what we back up. The problem lies in how to 'expire' the files on the server without re-backing up the data, while maintaining deleted files for the duration of retonly. While we could rename the filespace and implement the new p

Stgpool backup script

2004-02-12 Thread Redell, Greg S.
Currently my backup script is sequential. I have been wondering if there is a way to use all my available drives but I don't want to go the way of using maxpr=2 because some of my backups are very large files like 60+ GB in size, I could be doing other things while that goes on. I would like to r

SV: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Henrik / Hej Henrik! Which concept are you using? Are you using iTSM offical 3rd part software, CBMR who is developed by Cristie? Or are you trieing to re-install Windows and then restore everything from your lates iTSM backup? If you use CBMR as BMR tool pls go to Cristie Swedish webpage and

Re: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Roger Nadler
The problem with W2K (also WXP) is that the kernal is different for different hardware configurations. The hard drive controller will cause a problem if it is not recognized by the original image and will blue screen. If the acpi is different there is no hope what so ever that the original image wi

SV: Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Pedersen.Michael Benny MIP
Hi Henrik, This is a problem no matter what backup software you are using. The most critial regarding other hardware is the IDE/SCSI/RAID adapter driver which is necessary for the system to start up. If BMR have to succeded you have to make a restore which will not restore device driver -

Recovery Problem

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Daransky
Hi, i've a problem with recovery from TSM ... I've a customer witch want restore old data from TSM, throught TSM Client GUI can i see the data and select witch one want i restore ... that's ok. After than as i say ok ... nothing's happen, simple no data has been recovered! If i look in QUERY ACTLOG

Bare Metal Restore Intel

2004-02-12 Thread Henrik Hansson
Hello TSM'ers I know that a bare metal restore on a W2K system works fine as long as the restore is doen to a similar system, hardware vice. But do anyone know how to do the same to a system with different hardware? I've tried it but haven't succeded. The system don't boot but give me a system e

Re: Upgrade TSM Server from 4.2.3.2 to 5.2.2

2004-02-12 Thread rh
Mike, We are in the process of upgrading from TSM 4.2.2 on AIX 4.3 to TSM 5.2 on AIX 5.1. The path we are following is similiar to what Paul outlines.I also recommend the opsys upgrade take place before the TSM upgrade. We plan to finish the jump to 5.2.2 this weekend. First we upgraded to AIX 5.1

Re: Space Reclamation Failure Question

2004-02-12 Thread David Longo
Whatever was transferred has been transferred. It doesn't "wipe out" the reclamation that had been done before the failure. More examination of the actlog may reveal reason for failure. Could be as simple as tape error or a restore needed a tape that reclamation was using and preempted the recla

Space Reclamation Failure Question

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Levitan
I received the following error: ANR0986I Process 700 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND processed 160232 items for a total of 79,052,641,621 bytes with a completion state of FAILURE at 19:48:48. What happens to the