Estimate of backup files

2004-09-20 Thread RAMNAWAZ NAVEEN
Hi, I would like to use the command line interface to run a command (or select statement) to get an estimate of the total size of objects backed up under a particular filesystem by a particular node for a particular date. In fact I want to achive the same result as provided by the TSM client GU

Re: dsmc enhancement request

2004-09-20 Thread Mike
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, TSM_User wrote: > Perl is installed by default with the NT resource kits and active perl has become a > pretty standard language for Windows. You don't need to install anything from > cygwin. Also you can use acitve states perl devlopers kit to complie a *.pl into an > *.

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Ian Hobbs
Question, Why not use the DISK device class with RAW volumes? Personally, I find FILE classes a pain for user storage because you DO have to perform reclamation on them. Ian Hobbs On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:48:07 -0400, Eliza Lau wrote: >Okay. I got it. It is a pain to manually define the volu

Re: TSM Storage Agent on W2K3

2004-09-20 Thread TSM_User
Remember with Windows 2003 you don't use adsmscsi you use tsmscsi. Also you actually install it on each drive now, you no longer have one device driver running that grabs all the drives. The latest TSM Manual has a detailed step by step on how to install the device driver and you follow exactly

Re: Informix Data Protection

2004-09-20 Thread Joe Crnjanski
Welcome back Zlatko. Did you have a year long vacation, or I lost a sense of time. Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:Zlatko_Krastev/[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: dsmc enhancement request

2004-09-20 Thread TSM_User
Perl is installed by default with the NT resource kits and active perl has become a pretty standard language for Windows. You don't need to install anything from cygwin. Also you can use acitve states perl devlopers kit to complie a *.pl into an *.exe and then you don't even need to install pe

TDP Log file backup running for a very long time

2004-09-20 Thread TSM_User
TSM Client V5.3.2.1, TDP for SQL V5.2.1, TSM Storage Agent V5.2.3.2 TSM Server V5.2.3.2. Windows 2003 Itanium Cluster with 2 servers. We are doing some SQL backup testing today. We have a 2.5 TB database that we backed up at 477 GB/hr to 10 tape drives using LANFree (2.5 TB's in 5.1 hours). We

SQL LiteSpeed with TDP for SQL to backup TSM

2004-09-20 Thread TSM_User
Our DBA's are currently testing a product called SQL LiteSpeed. When it was installed the TSM backup archive command line and GUI stopped working. When you would launch either they would hang and never start. I thought IP or port issue but the TSM admin command line which was set to use the s

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Curtis Stewart
We changed our settings to the following. I'll let you all know if this fixes the problem in our case. Thanks for all the advice. So far so good. After we made the changes, I stopped both instances of TSM, and the paging space was reclaimed in about 5 minutes. It's sitting at 74.3% free now, after

Re: Informix Data Protection

2004-09-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The manual you are looking for is named "IBM Informix Backup and Restore Guide". You can find it at URL http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/interim/ct1slna-pdf.html Or you can browse the whole library of Informix Dynamic Server manuals at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/dat

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Eliza Lau
Okay. I got it. It is a pain to manually define the volumes, but it can be done. I also received your pdf file. Thanks to everyone who answered, Eliza > > It depends upon how you configure things. For dynamic allocation of > volumes, then yes you are limited to the size of the file system that

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Sep 20, 2004, at 2:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, JFS2 has a max filesystem size quite a bit bigger than that. I've got several 2.5TB filesystems right now, and I've had them up to 10TB. For completeness: See also IBM site article "Maximum capacity of an ITSM disk volume." (search on

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
/testfs may grow to 1 TB there is a way to cheat: def v filepool /test2fs/file def v filepool /test2fs/file0001 ... so using a script you can manually define more volumes outside the devclass-defined directory. their sizes are as defined in the devclass. another approach might be hierarchy of

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2 > has a max file system size of 1TB. Does it mean the largest stgpool > I can define is 1TB? Actually, JFS2 has a max filesystem size quite a bit bigger

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Johnson, Milton
It depends upon how you configure things. For dynamic allocation of volumes, then yes you are limited to the size of the file system that you mount on that mount point. However if you define the stgpool volumes explicitly using the DEFINE VOLUME command, you can place the volumes across as many f

Re: TSM Storage Agent on W2K3

2004-09-20 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi Go with the TSM backup client 5.2.3.1 Luc "LeBlanc, Patricia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-20 01:21 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:TSM Storage Agent

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Eliza Lau
Mark, Where do you define this I use this command to define a diskpool: def devclass fileclass devtype=file maxcap=64g dir=/testfs def stgpool filepool fileclass pooltype=primary maxscratch=100 /testfs is a JFS2 filesystem. How big can /testfs grow to? The documents say 1TB. When volumes are

TSM Storage Agent on W2K3

2004-09-20 Thread LeBlanc, Patricia
Anyone know how to get the tsm storage agent up and running on W2003? Am having major problems with device drivers. TSM Server 5.2.2.5 on AIX 5.1 TSM Storage Agent 5.2.2.5 on W2K3 TSM Backup Client 5.2.0 on W2K3 Thanks!

Re: D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eliza Lau >Our 3494 with 3590K tapes in 3 frames is getting full. >Instead of adding another frame or upgrading to 3590H or 3592 >tapes we are looking into setting up a bunch of cheap ATA >disks as primary storage. > >The FIL

D2D on AIX

2004-09-20 Thread Eliza Lau
Our 3494 with 3590K tapes in 3 frames is getting full. Instead of adding another frame or upgrading to 3590H or 3592 tapes we are looking into setting up a bunch of cheap ATA disks as primary storage. The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2 has a max file system size of

Re: Archives vs Back-up sets

2004-09-20 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
One simple approach that has been very effective in reducing the DB impact when archiving lots of small files for me has been to simply ensure the archived files a tar bundled before sending them to TSM. Matt. Man Makes The Machine. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [m

Re: Gui Admin for 2nd Instance of TSM

2004-09-20 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Thanks for all who replied, (we had missed the 'halting of the server') It ended up being that we never halted the 2nd server instance after running the dsmserv runfile. It's now working. Nancy Backhaus Enterprise Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (716) 887-7979 Cell: (716) 609-2138 Cur

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Ray, Mark
Okay: How much physical memory do you have in the system? Also, I think your max/min/num settings are good, but try turning on "strict_maxperm". In about 5-10 minutes, you *should* see a tremendous increase in pages on the free list in vmstat. Another thing is to set your "minfree" and "maxfree

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
Thank you. Here is what I currently have: vmtune:2:once:/usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -f 1024 -F 2048 -u 64 -p 5 -P 10 -r 2 -R 256 -l 65536 -w 32000 -b 384 -c 4 -B 960 -Q 256 -Z 1536 -t 10 maxperm=10.0% of real memory minperm=5.0% of real memory maxclient=10.0% of real memory I have not set -h (st

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Ray, Mark
Oh yeah: I've gotten this. what you want to do is have a look at your virtual memory tunings with "vmtune". Of particular interest are your "maxperm", "minperm", "numclient", and "strict_maxperm" settings. Remember that, all TSM is, is a DB2 database, so you need to tune your VMM subsystem accordi

Re: SV: SQL 2000 server restore

2004-09-20 Thread Luc Beaudoin
Hi all Thank you Micheal It's working perfectly have a nice day Luc Christian Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-20 12:42 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
Oops: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/>lsattr -El sys0 realmem 4194304 Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False Too early in the morning; it has 4GB. Which IMHO, i would think is enough to run AIX and TSM. Thanks for the previous suggestions posted to the list, but

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Sep 20, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Miles Purdy wrote: I have also seen paging space issues my server that runs only TSM. OS: AIX 5.1 ML 6 TSM server: 5.1 and 5.2.3.1 Memory: 2GB Space: 2 GB (now 3 GB) We have logged cases with IBM, to no avail. I have check all the settings myself. IBM has checked everyt

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Curtis Stewart
Thanks. I'll check that out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
There are a number of things to check : 1) Is the TSM database spread out over multiple disks ? Having the database spread over multiple disks will result in faster read/writes to disk and improve the performance. 2) Check the top ten processes on the server when the paging space is high : ps -A

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
I have also seen paging space issues my server that runs only TSM. OS: AIX 5.1 ML 6 TSM server: 5.1 and 5.2.3.1 Memory: 2GB Space: 2 GB (now 3 GB) We have logged cases with IBM, to no avail. I have check all the settings myself. IBM has checked everything and found no problems. I'd also be inte

Re: Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery

2004-09-20 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're looking at possibly revamping our TSM system. We've got a OS/390 > server. Looking at all possibilities (adding disk or tape or bandwidth to > our current server OR changing to a different TSM server platform l

Re: Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery

2004-09-20 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi This really depends on what type of client you're trying to restore. For large databases, the fastest way would be to utilize the LAN-free functionality. For file-servers, utilizing LAN-free is not an option, as it will not speed up the transferrate of data. If the fileserver cant be restor

Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery

2004-09-20 Thread David Browne
We're looking at possibly revamping our TSM system. We've got a OS/390 server. Looking at all possibilities (adding disk or tape or bandwidth to our current server OR changing to a different TSM server platform like AIX) what hardware configuration would give us the fastest D/R of a l