Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Ralf Behrendt
Hallo, is its possible to restore 250 GB ( two million files) within a day? Its an NSF mounted filesystem. Can parallel restore increase the throughput by an NSF-mouted filesystem. The filesystem is mounted from a EMC cellera and symmetrix. The backup time was with 13 hours with parallel sessons.

TSM related IBM alphaWorks releases

2004-11-10 Thread Sal Mangiapane
Thought the list would be interested. VitalFile for Real-Time Workstation Protection: VitalFile for Real-Time Workstation Protection provides transparent real-time file-level protection. It is built on top of FilePath software, which is a file system filter driver:

Re: Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Michael Prix
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:31, Ralf Behrendt wrote: is its possible to restore 250 GB ( two million files) within a day? Its an NSF mounted filesystem. Can parallel restore increase the throughput by an NSF-mouted filesystem. The filesystem is mounted from a EMC cellera and symmetrix. The

Re: *******Spam*********:Re: Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi Michael Are you suggesting doing both image and normal progressive backups? The issue with using image backup is that it eliminates the possibility of file-level-restores. This means that you have to utilize both technologies(image and progressive) to have both the fast restore and the

Re: Where did my scratch tapes go?

2004-11-10 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Update... TSM - Version 5.2.3.4 AIX Operating System - Version 5.2.2.0 Thank You who all replied and the suggestions. Found the scratch tapes...we had implemented new stg pools(disk/tape) 2 weeks ago, one of our scripts did not have all the new dr pool logic in it...ooops. But, my next

Re: Backup options

2004-11-10 Thread David E Ehresman
Another option is to bump-up your ethernet... are you already running a gigabit ethernet? We've actually bumped up the TSM server and the large unix clients to Gigabit Ethernet, and it improved the throughput of the backup. The 100 meg card in our TSM server is saturated during our backup

Re: Backup options

2004-11-10 Thread David E Ehresman
Do you also need to enable library sharing? Yes we had to tell TSM licensing that library sharing was in use when we started Lan Free. But the cost of that is covered in either the EE license or the TSM for SAN license. David

Re: Where did my scratch tapes go?

2004-11-10 Thread David E Ehresman
What are other AIX folks using for trending? We use Servergrahg/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com , for trending and overall management of our TSM systems. I couldn't manage TSM without it. David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Dwight Cook
Personally I'd look into processing that file system with an image backup. A way to look at that would be Which can you count to faster, 2,000,000 or 1 ? Depending on the data, 250 GB would compress down to 83 GB (if we assume 3/1 client compression) and if the client server processors

TSM Client for HP-UX 10.x

2004-11-10 Thread Adam Sulis
Does anyone have access to Client version 3.1.0.8 (or later, if applicable) for HP-UX 10.x? There was a link posted last year (ftp.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/adsm/oldversions/v3r1/hpux/hp10/v3r1m8/) but it is no longer a valid domain. If anyone has one floating around, it would help - a new client of

Re: restore abending TSM server

2004-11-10 Thread Timothy Hughes
Richard, The client was trying to a restore that involved a old SYSBACK product with outdated code that caused memory problems. Thanks Richard Sims wrote: On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: Our TSM server is abending while a client is trying to do a restore,.. Elaborate

Re: TSM Client for HP-UX 10.x

2004-11-10 Thread Richard Sims
On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Adam Sulis wrote: Does anyone have access to Client version 3.1.0.8 (or later, if applicable) for HP-UX 10.x? ... You do! Go to ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com and into the adsm branch. Its readme prolog:

How to remove a single file from a TSM backup tape volume

2004-11-10 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Hello, Another question... Background: TSM Storage Manager: Version 5.2.3.4 AIX OpSystem: 5.2.2.0 I have a customer that is requesting that 2 files be permanently removed from TSM(classified type file)...including tape backup(which will be on tape for 180 days). Now I found the technote on

Re: TSM Client for HP-UX 10.x

2004-11-10 Thread Adam Sulis
Ah! Under Storage/adsm/fixes! I am so used to going to Tivoli-Storage-Management/maintenance that I developed a case of tunnel-vision. Thanks Richard! -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 November, 2004 08:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: restore abending TSM server

2004-11-10 Thread Timothy Hughes
Thanks Neil! Neil Schofield wrote: Timothy This sounds similar to a problem we had last month. We were trying to restore 2.7m files back to an NT client, but found that the restore failed after about 1.5m files and took down the server with it. In our case, the problem was APAR 39700.

Re: How to remove a single file from a TSM backup tape volume

2004-11-10 Thread Neil Schofield
Nancy I've used the unsupported DELETE OBJECT and would endorse the statement Richard makes in his Quick Facts - namely that it does not update all the necessary tables to fully remove the object from the TSM server. When I subsequently ran an AUDITDB on the database, inconsistencies were flagged

Re: How to remove a single file from a TSM backup tape volume

2004-11-10 Thread Nancy L Backhaus
Thank You very much Neil. Nancy Backhaus Enterprise Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (716) 887-7979 Cell: (716) 609-2138 Neil Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/10/2004 09:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To:

Restore WIN NT and WIN2K clients

2004-11-10 Thread Aftab Choudhry
Hello Experts, I need to restore WIN NT and WIN2K clients from scratch as part of our DR drill. I am trying to figure out the best possible way to restore, other than restoring files from backup pool to the client. I have tried restores from Backup sets and from Image backup, but every time I run

TSM NT client msg ANS1228E, ANS1377E

2004-11-10 Thread Rosa Leung
Does anyone got these two msg in TSM Server 5.2. TSM NT client 5.1.0 Please let me know, what do they mean? Thanks. Regards, Rosa Leung Integrated Storage Management Services IBM Global Services - SDC North/Central Tel: 416-490-5151, Fax: 416-490-5283 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CPU utilization

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Lee
Hi, I'm running TSM server 5.2.3 on an HP DL380 (Dual 3.2Ghz) with RedHat AS 3.0. What I'm finding is that no matter what load I put on the machine, TSM will not use more than 49.9% of the available CPU, even when there are idle cycles to be had... Here's a typical top 09:10:09 up 6 days,

Using copy groups on RMT_LTO

2004-11-10 Thread Timothy Hughes
I would like to put copy groups on our Libraries does anyone have any experience in doing this? The 2nd Library is defined I believe I just have to point the copy destination to the RMT_LTO correct? Tape Paths Source Name Source Type Destination Name Destination Type Library TSM

Database restore

2004-11-10 Thread Barnes, Kenny
Seeking help on restoring a database from a file instead of a tape drive in a lab. We do not have a library or drives in our lab, but I wanting run our DR scripts to restore from a NFS and have the database to test. I have a good backup to NFS and a planfile. I cannot get the restore to look at

Re: CPU Utilization

2004-11-10 Thread Neil Schofield
Jason I've got to start by saying I know nothing about Linux so take this with a pinch of salt but... The Generation 3 ( Generation 4?) DL380 has hyper-threading Intel processors, so each physical processor appears as two virtual processors. Your dual processor system should therefore appear as

Re: CPU Utilization

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Lee
Hi there, yes, we've disabled HT in the BIOS. Other boxes see 4 CPUS. Thanks jason On Nov 10, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Neil Schofield wrote: Jason I've got to start by saying I know nothing about Linux so take this with a pinch of salt but... The Generation 3 ( Generation 4?) DL380 has hyper-threading

Inactive Files Rebound To New Managment Class?

2004-11-10 Thread Curtis Stewart
Everyone, I've always read, and have seen from experience, that inactive versions of a file are not rebound to a new managment class when you modify an include in the client's configuration. Today, I saw some TSM behavior I can't explain. At the direction of our legal department, I need to

Re: Inactive Files Rebound To New Managment Class?

2004-11-10 Thread Ken Long
Inactive versions of active files should be rebound. But files that have been removed for the client - where only inactive versions exist - should not rebind. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/10/2004 05:49:56 PM: The nodelete management class is set to nolimit across the

Re: Inactive Files Rebound To New Managment Class?

2004-11-10 Thread Curtis Stewart
Thank you. I thought I was going crazy. Curtis Ken Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/10/2004 05:53 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Inactive Files Rebound To New Managment Class?

Re: *******Spam*********:Re: Restore from 250 GB of 2 000 000 files in 1 day

2004-11-10 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Are you suggesting doing both image and normal progressive backups? The issue with using image backup is that it eliminates the possibility of file-level-restores. This means that you have to utilize both