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Hi to all After installing Aix version 5.2 (old version 4.3.3.1) and installing my Tsm version 5.1.8 (before upgrading to 5.2) when I run a : dsmserv restore db devclass=dbbclass volumenames=42 I got an error message unable to open media /dev/mt1 error=46 This command load the correct

Re: AW: TSM Scheduling - a lingusitic subthread

Hi Juraj, I know that you know how schedules work - I've seen your replies on the list - always accurate - not a problem in that area - it was not aimed specifically at you - it was more taking into consideration how TSM works - nothing to do with lingusitics - I assumed that a person who works wi

How to capture errors when running client commands from scripts

--- This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. --- I am trying to create a script to perform an incremental / selective backup via batch. During my testing I executed the

Re: Accessing to a WORM Optical Library

You are right in some points. But the customer goal is to change the management system. To be able to change the management system, and to access to data that physical resides in a WORM optical library we will need TSM. TSM will act as a supported driver for the new solution. The new solution w

output to a file

Hello TSM gurus, I would like to know is there any command to get the output to a file when entering "q archive /tdp/* " on tsm client. Regards, zaini

output

Hello TSM gurus, I would like to know is there any command to get the output when entering "q archive /tdp/* " on tsm client. Regards, zaini

Cancel process enhancement.

Hi All, I'd like to propose a change to the cancel process syntax to allow a select statement as a part of it. The reasoning for this is that there are often situations where we need to cancel a process to ensure that there are resources for other scheduled processes. For example I may have a

LTO Media Question

We have a protracted problem with our 4560 library / Ultrium 1 tape = drives after 8 months of faultless performance. IBM are blaming tapes. Anybody has experience in using IMATION Ultrium 1 for LT0 tapes? Bad one in particular. I would love to hear from you .,... We are experiencing anr8950w err

Re: TSM license audit not equal number of nodes

David, a little of my history with tsm is in order. I have been with it since v1 r1. Back then there wasn't any audit license command or any other tool to tell me what the usage was. I asked the salesman how to figure it out and he had no clue either. I developed my own reports using db2 (tsm d

Using Multiple Management classes for Oracle TDP

We have a Unix Oracle Servers running multiple instances of Oracle. We understand from the 5.2 Oracle TDP Manual its preferred to have the RMAN backups going to its own policy with its own default mgmt class and creating a node name to associate those backup objects to. We've done all that, wo

SV: Netware root administrator access denied?

Hi Paul With this client there were 2 isues Issue 1: Password... try altering the Password (if it start with letter, start the new with a number and vice versa (can't remember which situation the problem occured)) Issue 2: You had to use the DSM.OPT to state the user and password, in some c

Another question on Move nodedata

If I do a move nodedata on for a node from one pool to another is the copy information from the old pool deleted also or does it remain out there forever? Storage pool backups defined as such Backup stgpool PoolA to copypoolA Backup Stgpool PoolB to copypoolB Move nodedata from PoolA to Pool

Re: Copy Pool expiration conundrum

Or, just do it the old way - once your copies are synced in the new copy pool, start deleting volumes in the old pool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Copy Pool expiration conundrum

>I tried this once, and the 'move nodedata' processes terminated immediately, >reporting successful completion but not moving any data. It turns out that >'move nodedata' for copy storage pools requires mounting the copy storage >pool volumes containing the data to be moved; it will not obtain inpu

Re: Copy Pool expiration conundrum

> Copy Storage Pool, delete node data You cannot directly delete a node's data > > from a copy storage pool; but you can > circuitously effect it by using MOVe > NODEdata to s

Re: Copy Pool expiration conundrum

... >However, on some nodes I've used the move nodedata thinking that as >primary pools were backed up to copy pools and data was no longer >present in the primary the copy pool data would expire, but this has not >been the case. ... Jim - Copy storage pools are tenacious... which is to say that t

Copy Pool expiration conundrum

So, I had been eagerly awaiting the move nodedata capabilities in 5.x (5.1.7.3 in our case) to facilitate a migration of data from 3490 storage pools to 3590 storage pools. I have reassigned a number of clients to some new policy domains and ran as many scheduled selective backups as I could, all w

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Shared tape library issue

Hi, can you do a q volhist and send the output about these volumes, check if it says unknown anywhere Best Regards Markus Veit

Multi-TSM configuration questions (and now issues)

Not sure if this message got lost and now that I am having some issues, I am reposting.. Yesterday, I installed TSM on the 2K3 system (described below). Now, my original TSM AIX system is starting to experience problems like this: 3/9/2004 2:50:27 PM ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt0, err

Re: Management class

>Is there a way other than querying the backups and archives tables to >find out which management classes are actually being used. ... >From the client you can examine the files, where the info returned includes the mgmt class.

Re: LTO Tape Question

Kelli, If David's suggestion (checkout libv libname 05 checkl=n rem=n) does not help, I would suggest looking at the L700 web page (hope you have it installed!) I can tell you what , if anything is in slot XXX. Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs |-+---> | |

Re: TSM Scheduling - a lingusitic subthread

>My understanding of Mike´s sentences per se is: >The schedules did not run untill 02:41. >The schedules may have run later, >but Mike is either not sure about or not exact at this point. > >Your understanding is: the schedules did run at 02:41. >Is this fully clear from Mike´s sentences? Normal

script help needed please

Hi all, Does anyone have a script I could run on my TSM server (AIX) that will supply me with a list of files backed up per domain,node name and management class? I got close with this one, but can't get the list of files. select node_name,backup_date from backups where domain_name='PRODSQL' and

Re: TSM license audit not equal number of nodes

And none of what you writes makes the TSM software audit of licenses meaningful. You have to know OUTSIDE of what TSM can tell who which nodes are desktops and which are servers and how many processors are in the server machines. Then tell TSM uopir are licensed for enough nodes to make it shut u

Management class

Is there a way other than querying the backups and archives tables to find out which management classes are actually being used. I know I have classes that are defined but not being used but I need a definitive answer as to which ones currently do not have data associated with them. david

Re: LTO Tape Question

Why not just replace the tape (anywhere in the library) and just audit the library? audit libvol 3583lib checklabel=barcode ^ | name of your library The checklabel=barcode should speed up the process, otherwise you're stuck mounting tapes and checking their

Need a quick help on a script.

Hello all, I am not that good at scripting so this will be real easy to someone. IF anyone knows where I lookup all the scripting commands I could go a lot further. I am used to doing things like this in SAS on the MF. I need to inspect a variable (the node name) for the first 2

Re: TSM license audit not equal number of nodes

David, IBM still does charge by node if you say the node is not a server. It is up to us, the customers, to characterize the machines to be backed up and then buy the proper number and kind of licenses. If you say a machine is a single user desktop, even if it has 2 processors and has more raw p

Re: LTO Tape Question

How can I determine the originating slot? I thought about doing just that but each time I try to check it in, the slot it attempts to go to varies ---Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 10, 2004 11:39 AM To: Jones, Kelli Subject: Re: LTO Tape

Re: Client backup request form

I checking the TSM Concepts book, there is a link to a zipped/tarred file that contains a bunch of worksheets: ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245416 Also, IIRC, the Implementation/Planning Guide book also has some appendixes with sample forms to ask questions of clients. "ADSM: Dist Stor

AW: Client backup request form

Hi, maybe not exactly what you need, but mybe it helps. I did following: top-ten nodes Listing available for everybody This creates som social pressure on high-end users, and gives a good communication basis when hardware upgrades of TSM server are necessary ($$ influence even without ch

Re: LTO Tape Question

It is placed in slot 10. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karel Bos Sent: March 10, 2004 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO Tape Question Hi, Couple of things could be causing this. Most likely, the tape isn't availabl

Re: Client backup request form

Hello, Maybe you can find some ideas on this page (University of Ottawa) http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ccs/docs/tsm/uofo/ It's not exactly what you are looking for, but ... Best regards Christian Bagard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LTO Tape Question

Try this: Checkout libvol libname 05 checklabel=no remove=no. (Put your libname in). This removes the tape from what TSM thinks is in the library without the library and TSM actually having to physically DO SOMETHING with the tape. Then you should be able to check it in normally. If that do

Re: LTO Tape Question

Hi, Couple of things could be causing this. Most likely, the tape isn't available in the by TSM mentioned slot. - Slot 10 of a STK L700 Library is the upper import/export slot of this bulk station. Is the tape placed in this slot, or is it placed any other slot? Regards, Karel -Oorspronke

AW: AW: TSM Scheduling - a lingusitic subthread

Hi christo, I know very well about how schedules work :-) I asked you a linguistic question. I try to be more precise: My understanding of Mike´s sentences per se is: The schedules did not run untill 02:41. The schedules may have run later, but Mike is either not sure about or not exact at this

LTO Tape Question

TSM 5.1.7.0 AIX 5.0 STK L700 Library IBM LTO Drives I have a volume (05) that is giving me a fit! Somehow, during library servicing ( I think), volume was removed from library. The volume contains a small amount of data, but contains data none the less. There are no read or write errors.

Client backup request form

We are a pretty small company with ITSM on our MVS mainframe.  Recently we've had a huge increase in servers from all departments in the company.  Up until now the server administrators would just call me or email to create a client node for them a day or two ahead of time.  Schedule details and s

Multi-System shared library questions

I am in the middle of a large, multi-TSM, shared-library, different OS, different platform configuration process. Here is the layout: Current Configuration --- 1-3494 ATL which consists of 8-3590B, ESCON attached drives (uses exclusively by our z/OS system) and 4-3590E

Re: AW: TSM Scheduling

Hi Juraj, The backups will attempt to start anytime in the time set for duration. So if you have your backups scheduled to start at 1AM, and a duration of 2 hours, the backups could start as late as 3AM. They don't have to complete within the time of duration, just start. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Archive Retention Question

Thks I now understand how the archive process works. Always under the impression if you archive a file with a certain set of rules, it will stick to those rules, not the new rules when you change the retetion period. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Antwort: Shared tape library issue

Markus, I am scheduled to convert my shared 3494 to a managed (3 server) setup this morning, but your mail stopped me short. I saw nothing about this while working on the migration. Can you supply more details. At 09:31 AM 3/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Hi, there is a problem with the deletion o

Re: LTO Media Question

I agree with Mr. Wozniak, we had a CritSit open with IBM a couple of years ago and when they were at as point where they had no solution they did blame the tapes, although it eventually had nothing to do with the solution. Thanks, Mark Bertrand -Original Message- From: Karel Bos [mailto:[

Re: Select for finding if a file on tape already has a copy in a copypool

Hi Juraj, Thanks for the tip, I could probably use it, case I would not succeed in building a proper SQL statement. But so far, I really need that precise info to build a sub-query in my main query ... Cheers. Arnaud *** Pana

AW: TSM Scheduling

Hi christo, this is question to improve my english: > My backups are scheduled to start at 01:00, but didn't start till 02:41 > Monday & 01:21 today. Any idea why? Does it tell the schedule did run at 02:41 for sure or is this only a probable explanation? regards Juraj -Ursprüngliche Na

AW: Antwort: Restore Volume Problems

audit volume xxx fix=yes/no ?? Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Patrick Rainer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 08:28 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Antwort: Restore Volume Problems If there is no copy of the volumedata stored on a copy storage pool, you ca

AW: Select for finding if a file on tape already has a copy in a copypool

Hi, would not "backup stg from-pool to-pool PREVIEW=YES do? Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 14:20 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Select for finding if a file on tape already has a copy in a copypool

Re: Archive Retention Question

Hi Sean, The answer to your 1st question can be found by entering: Q COPYGROUP * * * STANDARD TYPE=ARCHIVE You've got two answer to your second question and now I'm confused. .:-) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/10/2004 6:37:48 AM >>> Hi All I would like to know if i have a retention period for 18

Question about SQL Server Recovery

Has anyone developed a good procedure for rebuilding a W2k SQL server, from bare metal? I have seen the instructions n thesql tdp manual, but am wondering if there might be other ways to do it. One idea I had was making a onetime flatfile backup of the master db on our sql servers that could be

Select for finding if a file on tape already has a copy in a copypool

Hi all, I'm trying to build a query which could estimate the remaining time before my copy stgpool jobs ends. A first step would be to find out which files still have no copy in copypools. Therefore I would like to know in which table and field name I could find this information. Must be existing

ANR0000E message

** Proprietary ** Trying to install the Tivoli Storage Agent and I am getting the following messages: ANRE Unable to open /usr/lib/nls/msg/en_US/dsmserv.out for message formatting ANRE Unable to open message text file for message formatting Any ideas out there as to why I'm getting this?

Re: TSM license audit not equal number of nodes

Nancy, As far as I can tell it no longer matters what the TSM software thinks you have as far as number of nodes; just tell it you have enough to make it shut up. The reason it no longer matters is that IBM no longer charges you by node but by processor and the TSM software auditing component doe

Re: Restore Volume Problems

Dave - Just to add to previous postings: You can use the COPied=Yes parameter of Query CONtent to verify that files on that damaged volume are represented in copy storage pool volumes. As per a previous posting, if the volume had new data which was not handled by a Backup Stgpool operation, then

Retraction

I have to apologize for my error concerning my response to the change in archive retention question posed earlier today. It seems that you *can* change the retention of an existing archive. Apologies to those that I have thoroughly confused. -- Mark Stapleton

Re: Archive Retention Question

>I would like to know if i have a retention period for 180 days for Archives >in my archive copy group. I then change this retetion period after a 20 day >archiving process later to 30 days, will the data I have archived for the >past 20 days take the new retention period of 30 days. Yes. Changi

Re: Archive Retention Question

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions I would like to know if i have a retention period for 180 days for Archives in my archive copy group. I then change this retetion period after a 20 day archiving process later to 30 days, will the data

Re: Accessing to a WORM Optical Library

>We have a customer request to import into TSM 6 Terabytes of WORM optical >volumes. >WORM volumes could not be writable, apparently we could access to those >volumes like a windows file system. >How could TSM be able to know about the existence of those files (like doing >an inventory and catalogi

Re: LTO Media Question

Hi, We currently are using some 1500 LTO1 cartridges, both IBM and Imation in IBM 3584 libraries and IBM LTO1 drives. The error rate appears to be equal. Most of the problems (read/write errors) seem to be related to sensitive drives. After moving the data and reusing the tape, most of the times t

Archive Retention Question

Hi All I would like to know if i have a retention period for 180 days for Archives in my archive copy group. I then change this retetion period after a 20 day archiving process later to 30 days, will the data I have archived for the past 20 days take the new retention period of 30 days. Pleas

Re: LTO Media Question

I have had a lot of bad experiences using imation DLT cartridges in the past but I have no experience of their LTO products. As for LTO we use TDK's with a pretty much flawless track record. Many thanks Andy Wilcox UNIX Systems Administrator Aquila Networks -Original Message- From: Krzy

Antwort: Restore Volume Problems

If there is no copy of the volumedata stored on a copy storage pool, you cannot restore the volume because there is no alternative data source. Check the difference between your primary storage pool and your copy storage pool. Every time i have such a problem, I set the tape to unavailable and wai

Re: TSM Scheduling

Simple answer - the fact that the schedule actually ran means there IS an association - the fact that it does not run at the set time has to do with the schedule randomization % that is set on the TSM server and the length of the start-up window for the schedule for this client. Simple example: Sch

Antwort: Shared tape library issue

Hi, there is a problem with the deletion of volumes out of the volhist table on a library manager, there is a workaround from IBM available, so if you open a PMR they can certainly help you, I can share the workaround off list with you, I never opened a PMR because we only had that problem in our t

AW: TSM Scheduling

If it happens to me I know I have forgotten again to define an association. Check with Q EVE whether you really have your schedules scheduled. If not, search after an error in your schedule /associations definitions. If yes, search after an error in Q ACTL and in dsmsched.log,dsmerror.log on your