Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hi to all When I run a backup of a Novell client I got this error message on dsmerror.log: 08/17/2004 09:33:15 (TSAFS.NLM 6.50 334) An internal TSA error has occurred. See error log for details. 08/17/2004 09:33:15 (TSAFS.NLM 6.50 334) An internal TSA error has occurred. See error log for

Recommendations for library ?

2004-08-17 Thread Guenther Bergmann
Hi, I am currently in search for a new library for a small-medium sized site. The new library should get FC-attached to a pSeries server, runnning TSM 5.2.2 I've taken a closer look at an IBM 3583-18 with the following features: - 18 Slots - Redundant Power Module - 12 Cartridge I/O Station - 4

Re: Recommendations for library ? [Our Ref:CPTCA6A0]

2004-08-17 Thread Cecily Hewlett
Dear Guenther, We have a similar configuration to the one you described, except we are running TSM 5.1 3583 with 18 cartridge slots, 12 I/O slots 3 LTO drives SAN Data Gateway. fibre attached to a p630 server running AIX 5.2 and TSM 5.1 We are very happy with our SAN and LTO. (The only

Re: SAN Data Gateway

2004-08-17 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Gyrgy! I'm using a SAN Data Gateway, but I don't know what you mean by 'boot parameters'. If you explain, I will let you know mine. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Gyrgy Hegeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004

Linux restore hangs in IdleW

2004-08-17 Thread Alexander Verkooijen
Hello, (Searched the list archives and mr. Sim's page, even read the manual) We are seeing weird behaviour of the 5.2.3.1 client on several Red Hat 7.3 systems. (yes, we know 7.3 is very old but we can't upgrade for political reasons). When we try to restore a file that resides on a tape that

Antwort: Linux restore hangs in IdleW

2004-08-17 Thread Rainer Holzinger
Hi Alexander, I had a similar problem. Could you please try on your AIX system where the ITSM sever is running the command 'no -a | grep sack'? What's the setting for sack? regards, Rainer Alexander Verkooijen An: [EMAIL

Re: Antwort: Linux restore hangs in IdleW

2004-08-17 Thread Alexander Verkooijen
Hello Rainer, The value for sack is 0 Regards, Alexander On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:32:30 +0200 Rainer Holzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alexander, I had a similar problem. Could you please try on your AIX system where the ITSM sever is running the command 'no -a | grep sack'? What's

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Linux restore hangs in IdleW

2004-08-17 Thread Rainer Holzinger
Hi Alexander, then your problem is a different one that I had. Sorry, Rainer Alexander Verkooijen An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: NL Thema:

Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Mark Strasheim
Aloha, I want to delete old database backups. I figured out for me self, that: del volh todate=today type=dbb should do the job. I also made an new Full DB Backup today to fit the needs of that command, but i always get the message :

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Fernando Figueiredo (EDS)
It depends on DB backup you do. Do you do DB backup type DBB? Fernando Figueiredo -Original Message- From: Mark Strasheim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 17 de Agosto de 2004 11:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting volhistory Aloha, I want to delete old database

Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Giedrius Jankauskas
Hello Gentelmen, I have browsed through forums and newsgroups but failed to find an answer. I have read that backupset generation can be a slow process, however, I am experiencing a slow restore from backupset. The backupset generation takes aproximately 8 (3 lto tapes) hours, however, now I see

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Bill Dourado
Mark, Maybe there are not any database backups to delete ! To check enter :- query volh type=dbb I think the cmd you have tried, del volh todate=today type=dbb if it had worked , would mean all your database backups would have been wiped out ! Bill Mark Strasheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clean backupgroups

2004-08-17 Thread Dean Langley
Hi TSMers, I have a 77 GB database at present at 96% full, due to limited disk space and no time available for a db unload / load process. I cannot extend or reduce the db size with either of these methods. I am unable to find any documentation on the clean backupgroups command. I have the

Re: SAN Data Gateway

2004-08-17 Thread Gyrgy Hegeds
Eric, Thanks for your answer. You can manage the SDG through the service port (serial port) by e.g. HyperTerminal. While the SDG is starting you have a chance to stop the procedure by pressing a key. Here, you get a prompt (after this point, the OS image should begin to boot), where you can

Re: Clean backupgroups

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Sims
...I am unable to find any documentation on the clean backupgroups command. Dean - See my notes on it in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts entry CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPs. Richard Sims

Qualstar 8466

2004-08-17 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, Has anyone got any experience for connecting a Qualstar 8466 (with 2 x HP LTO1 drive) to an IBM pSeries, so that I can use that library in combination with TSM on that box. Previously this Qualstar was connected to a W2K system with TSM, but that system has become to small and we now

AW: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
the last backup can't be deleted ! regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Bill Dourado Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. August 2004 12:47 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Deleting volhistory Mark, Maybe there are not any

Re: AW: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Bill Dourado
Joachim That's good news ! Thanx Bill Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/08/2004 13:41 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:AW: Deleting

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Linux restore hangs in IdleW

2004-08-17 Thread Alexander Verkooijen
Hi Rainer, Thanks for responding anyway. Regards, Alexander - Original Message - From: Rainer Holzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:55 AM Subject: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Linux restore hangs in IdleW Hi Alexander, then your problem is a

Re: Recommendations for library ?

2004-08-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
We've been running the 3583-18 for a year; this one is SCSI with LTO1 instead of LTO2. 18 slots 12 cart I/O station 2 LTO1 drives Don't have the redundant power module. Started at TSM 5.1, upgraded to TSM 5.2.2. Have never had a failure of any kind on the library. Attached to Windows. Have

Re: SAN Data Gateway

2004-08-17 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Gyrgy! Do you know the command to display these parameters? Or maybe, do you know the file which contains these parameters? I can then look for you. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Gyrgy Hegeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Kirkman
Robert, I've seen problems with the tsafs nlm and TSM. Try running the old tsa600 module instead. Is this a new environment or has it been working? Robert Ouzen wrote: Hi to all When I run a backup of a Novell client I got this error message on dsmerror.log: 08/17/2004 09:33:15 (TSAFS.NLM 6.50

Re: Recommendations for library ?

2004-08-17 Thread James Choate
Same as Wanda. I work for an IBM business partner and we service the 3583 and 3584 throughout the US. 85% of of customers are using one of these two libraries. Most customers are transitioning to LTO2. The only problems we have had was one of our customers tried to use a lower quality tape.

Simultaneous copy error

2004-08-17 Thread Fernando Figueiredo (EDS)
Hi! I'm running TSM Server 5.1.8 in Solaris 8, and I detected some errors related with simultaneous copy. I'm using a 13Gb Diskpool for small files (this pool migrates to tape pool at 80%) and tape pool to handle big files. To correct this problem I need to add COPY_POOL to diskpool.

Exchange TDP question - HELP

2004-08-17 Thread Cain, Jason (Corporate)
Is there a way to archive everything that has already been backed up to a new media type, and how. We currently backup our Exchange servers to LTO tape and now for legal purposes they need all of our Email data. They need it on 3590 tape, and we must keep all of the data going back from today

Re: Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I keep seeing this as the answer to Netware backup problems, yet it is fast becoming a non-acceptible answer. I was told that Novell has stated that TSA600 is being phased-out and TSAFS will be the only module you need. Who is the problem in these situation ? IBM or Novell ? Both ? Jim

tsm audtdb

2004-08-17 Thread Levi, Ralph
I am running: dsmserv auditdb diskstorage fix=yes (told to do so by the support center). I keep getting the same message ANR4306I without anything incrementing. Has anyone seen this? Am I in for a long day? Running TSM 5.1.9.0 on AIX 4.3.3.10 . ANR4140I AUDITDB: Database audit process

Howto define path in a library sharing env.

2004-08-17 Thread Gilles
Hi, In a library sharing env. with the library manager [5.1.9.3] running on Solaris8 and the library clients [5.1.9.3] running on various OS (Solaris8 Linux) how do I have to define the PATH to the library [IBM3584] ? only once ? With n Solaris8 library clients the path to the library is only

Re: Exchange TDP question - HELP

2004-08-17 Thread Bill Smoldt
Jason, I don't know enough of your constraints or requirements to make a qualified recommendation. However, faced with a similar situation my preference was to create a second copy storage pool, backup the existing required data to that new copypool, and save an extra bi-weekly (expiration

Re: Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread DeLuisa Darren
We've had some experience with this as of late and I have had good luck with the latest TSAFS which is part of the TSA5UP15.exe patch on Novell's download site. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/17/04 09:39AM I keep seeing this as the answer to Netware backup problems, yet it is fast becoming a

Re: Exchange TDP question - HELP

2004-08-17 Thread Cain, Jason (Corporate)
We just send the media to them, and I know it sounds strange, but it is there responsibility to restore the data. I am assuming they use Tivoli. This is for legal reasons... The problem I am having is this. The media goes to LTO tape with over 2.5 tb of data. I need to stop backups for the

Re: tsm audtdb

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Sims
I am running: dsmserv auditdb diskstorage fix=yes (told to do so by the support center). I keep getting the same message ANR4306I without anything incrementing. Has anyone seen this? Am I in for a long day? Plural. Search on that message number on the IBM site, where IC34159 may pertain. The

Re: tsm audtdb

2004-08-17 Thread Levi, Ralph
Richard, Thanks for the quick response. This sure sounds like my problem as I am at the 5.1 level. I guess I have no choice but to kill (cntl-c) out of the audit and make sure my system comes back up. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread Tom Anstey
Move to the TSAUP15.exe It is a vast improvement on the two previous releases - much more reliable. The problem is probably Novell's on this particular issue - but before you make assumptions, it isn't always! Tom On 17 Aug 2004 at 9:52, DeLuisa Darren wrote: We've had some experience with

Re: Novell message error

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Ouzen
Thanks to all for the issue on Novell Regards Robert Ouzen -- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com -Original Message-

Re: Exchange TDP question - HELP

2004-08-17 Thread Bill Smoldt
Ah, I think I understand more about this, now. If you put the old Exchange nodes in their own domain, you can set up the copygroup to have nolimit versions and retainonly so that the old ones won't expire. It sounds as though you're going to continue to send the data to the outside company, so

Re: Exchange TDP question - HELP

2004-08-17 Thread Cain, Jason (Corporate)
Perfect...Thanks. The only bad thing is gonig to be copying the 2.5 tb of data from lto to 3590, WEW.. Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Smoldt Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew Glanville
G. Things I would look for. Dont use 127.0.0.1/localhost for TCPserveraddress. This I have found to be slower for TSM backup/restore on some OS's as it is just a test interface. Make sure active virus scanning is turned off. Software based raid will slow things down too. You indicated that

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Giedrius Jankauskas
Hi Matthew, All the things you've mentioned are set correctly. The problem lies within the server side, since it does send the data to the client very slowly (and from the task manager I can see that the tsm server process is reading data slowly as hell). There is probably no raid configuration

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Sims
...I am experiencing a slow restore from backupset... Please... When posting questions regarding restorals, please include the command line(s) or GUI operation you are using, as the particulars of the operation may make a huge difference, as IBM article swg21156683 illustrates in a Unix

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Hart, Charles
Also don't forget the Basics 1) Turn Off Anti-Virus on incomming files to the backup client you are restoring.. we ran in to this again Arggg 2) Check Backup CLient / Switch Connections and Backup server Network cards make sure they are forced to Full Duplex... AutoNegotiate kills

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew Glanville
The problem lies within the server side, since it does send the data to the client very slowly (and from the task manager I can see that the tsm server process is reading data slowly as hell). Wont that speed you see will just adjust itself to what the client can write to the disk? Most of the

E-Lic ?

2004-08-17 Thread David E Ehresman
One of the filesets on the AIX TSM 5.2 server CD is: [MORE...12] x x tivoli.tsm.loc.server.ela ALL x x+ 5.2.0.0 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server E-Lic Anyone know what this component is? A search on E-Lic on the IBM TSM site did not find any matches.

Re: E-Lic ?

2004-08-17 Thread Owings, Don
Just a wild guess, but could it be in relation to an E series server license? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: E-Lic ? One of the filesets on the

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Mark Bertrand
Matthew, Look into TSM release 4.2.2.13. One of the fixes in this release was for this problem. We sat in on an IBM CritSit for this problem until this was written. Not sure if it will help but here is my experience from this issue. The amount of files, size and directory structure play a huge

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Nancy Reeves
The command del volh todate=today type=dbb will delete up to the most recent FULL db backup and all of the incrementals that go with it. So if the db backup you did today was an incremental, you may not get have any dbb volumes deleted. Run a full db backup, then try the del volh command again.

Re: IBM 3582 Recommendations for library ?

2004-08-17 Thread Charlie Hurtubise
We use an IBM 3582 (ULT3582-TL) tape library with the maximum of two LTO2/LTO1 drives and fiber connected, has 23 slots. Been using it since November 2003 with a Linux Redhat server and TSM 5.2.1 and now on 5.2.3 now. Works great... just update all microcode and fiber code when you get it.

SQL2062N Reason code: 406 When backing up DB2

2004-08-17 Thread Jay Cee
Se are getting the following error when trying to back up our DB2 database: BACKUP DATABASE SWORDDB ONLINE USE TSM OPEN 1 SESSIONS WITH 4 BUFFERS BUFFER 1024 SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media /home/jail/sqllib/adsm/libtadsm.a. Reason code: 406. Things were working fine just a

Re: Slow backupset restore, a cry for help

2004-08-17 Thread Giedrius Jankauskas
Hi Everyone, thanks for sharing your thoughts !!! Richard : you're right, I should have included the commands I used for restore. But since I tried using them all it was only natural that I forgot to mention that. I did try the GUI to restore all contents of the backupset. Seeing that the speed

TSM, Windows and DFS

2004-08-17 Thread Jon Adams
Anyone have anything on TSM and Windows DFS? We're trying to exclude the DFS shares (for obvious reason) and not having any luck. Interestingly enough, we get this when querying includes/excludes, but can find no documentation that states how you would provide a DFS include/exclude: Excl All

Re: SQL2062N Reason code: 406 When backing up DB2

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Sims
... BACKUP DATABASE SWORDDB ONLINE USE TSM OPEN 1 SESSIONS WITH 4 BUFFERS BUFFER 1024 SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media /home/jail/sqllib/adsm/libtadsm.a. Reason code: 406. The Reason Code is the TSM API return code, which you can find in the API manual or the TSM Messages

Re: TSM, Windows and DFS

2004-08-17 Thread TSM_User
Are you talking about the server with the DFS Root and the DFS links? Or do you mean the server that the shares are on? If the shares are being backed up via another system then it might be that someone manaully backed it up while the links were mapped. More clarification please? Jon Adams

Re: Deleting volhistory

2004-08-17 Thread Gordon Woodward
You can also try using FORCE=YES at the end of the command to force TSM to delete a backup if you know they exist. This is undocument option in our version of TSM, doesn't mention anything of it when doing a H DEL VOLH but it does work. Comes in handy when trying to delete that solitary pesky