Re: TSM Reclamation and large tape formats

2005-06-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
==> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:48:21 -0400, "Burton, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We are using STK 9940 tape drives and get 300GB - 1 TB of data stored on > each tape. I'm trying to explain that with the larger tape sizes it is much > more difficult to keep the reclamation numbers at the same

Re: LTO2 unreliability

2005-06-09 Thread Paul Fielding
I had a client once that was experiencing high enough errors with their tapes and drives (3494-3590E drives) that Imation actually asked to take a few tapes for testing. They came back saying that the tapes had high amounts of a black powder on the tape that appeared to be printer toner. Upon lo

Francois-Roger Noumbissie-Nzefa/Quebec/IBM est absent(e) du bureau.

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Fw: 网易邮箱自动回复: [ADSM-L] Image Backup with Journal based backups

2005-06-09 Thread Sung Y Lee
This post gotten me wondering also. I asked one of my colleagues and this is what I found out. Re: 网易邮箱自动回复: > it mean mailbox auto reply 您的来信已经收到,我会很快和你联系! --->that means your letter has been received, he/she will contact you soon Thanks, Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote

Re: TSM Reclamation and large tape formats

2005-06-09 Thread Lawrence Clark
Why should it matter? If you have a storage pool with tapes that stores x amount of data, and another storage pool with tapes that store 2x amount of data, and they are set at the same reclamation point, wouldn't the 2nd storage pool, though it takes longer to spin thru each tape, likely have h

Re: TSM Reclamation and large tape formats

2005-06-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burton, Robert > We are being pushed to improve our reclamation thresholds in >order to drive down the amount of tape volsers required... > >We are using STK 9940 tape drives and get 300GB - 1 TB of data >stored on each tape.

TSM Reclamation and large tape formats

2005-06-09 Thread Burton, Robert
We are being pushed to improve our reclamation thresholds in order to drive down the amount of tape volsers required... We are using STK 9940 tape drives and get 300GB - 1 TB of data stored on each tape. I'm trying to explain that with the larger tape sizes it is much more difficult to keep

Re: Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread Joe Crnjanski
NO Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Roder Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Roder >Anyone know if this can work for TDP Agents, like Domino? Sorry, no. You could do incremental (log) backups during the week, and fulls on the weekends (hopefully when the WAN is less busy). -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAI

Re: Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Roder
Anyone know if this can work for TDP Agents, like Domino? > Works great, less filling! > > It's pretty simple to set up, just turn on at the server with a SET, > then a couple of parms to set in the dsm.opt file (or a client option > set on the server). > > I haven't used it since the 4.2 client/s

Encryption devices

2005-06-09 Thread William Boyer
Anyone out there using an encryption device that sits between TSM and the tape drives? Like the DataFort from Decru and another I found the Neoscale CryptoStor. We have some clients (bank and credit union) that are curious about employing encryption for their offsite media. We are concidering jus

Re: Image Backup with Journal based backups

2005-06-09 Thread William Boyer
I've impelemented just this at a client of mine. Daily incremental with the Journal and then a weekly IMAGE backup. They don't conflict at all. This server currently is about 5.5 million files on 2 different drives. Bill Boyer "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ?? --

Re: Once more into the breach... (remote offsite partners?)

2005-06-09 Thread David W Litten
Allen, Thanks for the offer. We have our TSM servers and tapes located at a site different from the nodes that are being backed up. Someone clever here found this as a way to take care of off site backups without having to move things to off site. So, in essence all of our backups are offsite. da

Re: Splitting files across tapes

2005-06-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
Wow, that's interesting! I'll set up some tests myself. Thanks! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Colwell Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Splitting files across tapes Hi Wanda, I

Re: Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
Works great, less filling! It's pretty simple to set up, just turn on at the server with a SET, then a couple of parms to set in the dsm.opt file (or a client option set on the server). I haven't used it since the 4.2 client/server, don't have those WAN/desktops to back up anymore. But at one tim

Re: 网易邮箱自 动回复: [ADSM-L] Image Backup w ith Journal based backups

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Sims
I suspect that's a mis-engineered vacation message mechanism by an Asian member, not properly accounting for mailing list mail. You might contact the list administrator to shut them off. Richard Sims On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Matthew Large wrote: Biml, I wish I could read you mails. Can

Re: 网易邮箱自动回复: [ADSM-L] Image Backup with Journal based backups

2005-06-09 Thread Matthew Large
Biml, I wish I could read you mails. Can you please post them in english? Thanks, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 09/06/2005 16:15 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject : [ADSM-L] Image Backup with Journal b

Image Backup with Journal based backups

2005-06-09 Thread Matthew Large
*SMers, We are currently using image backups once a week to perform the full image, and daily normal incrementals to keep up with Jones'. However, I'm trying to reduce the 5 hours TSM spends traversing the 5 million+ file in the filesystem each night. I would like to assist the daily incrementals

Once more into the breach... (remote offsite partners?)

2005-06-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
Hi, I'm making my biannual quavery request for anybody with good network who wants to explore trading remote offsites. I can offer your copies a nice air-conditioned 3494, with 24x7 operations staffing and a big ol' generator out back. - Allen S. Rout

Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts

2005-06-09 Thread goc
thats it, THANKS A LOT !!! it never crossed my mind that there is tapeutil for HPUX :-) the HPUX admins were telling me mc and mt are cool commands ... yeah right ! thanks again, now i have something to show to my bosses ... hehe seeya - Original Message - From: "Warren, Matthew (Reta

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Rees, Chris (Corp)
Mario I would be surprised if you were having problems with a 30Gb database due to its size, as 30Gb is not that large. How long has this database existed? Has it ever had an unload/reload performed on it? I did an unload/reload on our 100Gb database and it took a total of 29 hours. This was on a

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Lawrence Clark
unload / load? you mean backup then restore. will that reorg the db? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/2005 10:23:23 AM >>> 30 GB is not outrageously large. I've worked with one that was almost twice that size. You can unload and load the database or perhaps do an audit on it. There's an entire section

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Robin Sharpe
FYI... my database is 300GB! (Yes, I am planning to split it): tsm: TSM_WAYNE>q db f=d Available Space (MB): 307,852 Assigned Capacity (MB): 307,852 Maximum Extension (MB): 0 Maximum Reduction (MB): 18,848 Page Size (bytes): 4,096 Total

Re: Client 5.3.0.8 strange behaviour

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Richard van Denzel wrote: The technote comes very close, but on this machine backups all went ok, but when I look in the dsmsched.log the service hangs between communication with the server when the next schedule is due (we let them poll every hour). I will give the

Re: Conflicting slot counts

2005-06-09 Thread Robin Sharpe
Don't know if this applies to the IBM library, but when it happens on our STK L700, it indicates there are tapes in the library that TSM has lost track of. They need to be checked in... so we do two commands: checkin libv libname search=y checkl=b stat=scr checkin libv libname search=

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Douglas Currell
30 GB is not outrageously large. I've worked with one that was almost twice that size. You can unload and load the database or perhaps do an audit on it. There's an entire section called utilities in the Admin Reference. Be forewarned that an audit could take days if not weeks...!!! --- Mario Di Pe

Re: Netware backups.. ?

2005-06-09 Thread Troy Frank
I've had the most luck with groupwise backups just using the plain TSAFS.nlm. Things went badly when I tried to use the /EnableGW=yes switch. If that still gives you lots of open-file problems, then look into St. Bernard OFM. But as was mentioned, it's a bit spendy. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6

Re: very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Di Pede >I have a TSM DB of 30 Gb - there are a utilities for cleaning its? First: 30GB is not very big, relatively speaking. Second: The only way to "clean" the database is to regularly run inventory expiration. Are

very very big DB!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread Mario Di Pede
Hi I have a TSM DB of 30 Gb - there are a utilities for cleaning its? thank's all

Re: Client 5.3.0.8 strange behaviour

2005-06-09 Thread Richard van Denzel
Curtis, On all servers we use a service (a.k.a. dsmc sched). Richard, The technote comes very close, but on this machine backups all went ok, but when I look in the dsmsched.log the service hangs between communication with the server when the next schedule is due (we let them poll every hour). I

Re: Client 5.3.0.8 strange behaviour

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Curtis Stewart wrote: Are you using dsmcad or dsmc to control the scheduling. I've seen lots of problems with hung schedulers on Windows, at many code levels, when using dsmc sched. Moving to "managedservice schedule" seems to solve it for me about 99% of the time.

Adaptive Subfile backups

2005-06-09 Thread William Sherrill
Is anyone using adaptive subfile backups? I have some remote servers that back up over the wan and was wondering if this method would help and what could be some of the adverse effects. Bill Sherrill

Re: Client 5.3.0.8 strange behaviour

2005-06-09 Thread Curtis Stewart
Are you using dsmcad or dsmc to control the scheduling. I've seen lots of problems with hung schedulers on Windows, at many code levels, when using dsmc sched. Moving to "managedservice schedule" seems to solve it for me about 99% of the time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard van Denzel <[EMAIL PROTEC

Client 5.3.0.8 strange behaviour

2005-06-09 Thread Richard van Denzel
Hi All, Has anyone seen this behaviour and perhaps knows a cure? Environment: Windows 2003 Small Business Server TSM Client 5.3.0.8 >From time to time the scheduler process on W2K3 "hangs" and I manually have to give the service a restart. Other Windows 2003 Servers (not Small Business Servers)

Re: Buggy exclude?

2005-06-09 Thread TSM_User
If you copied the exclude from your dsm.inclexcl then I don't see a problem. But if you typed it is there a chance that you have a space after the second slash and before the first period (i.e Exclude /tmp/ .../*) Rick Harderwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got a problem with a 5.2.x

Re: Netware backups.. ?

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Kinder
Your DSM.OPT line on the NetWare client would read: DOMAIN SYS: DATA1: Backing up your GW files isn't as simple. Third party software like St. Bernard's Open File Manager appears to work, but it isn't cheap. In the latest version of Netware, the TSAFS NLM, which replaces TSA500 and TSA600, h

Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 9, 2005, at 8:14 AM, goc wrote: thanks a lot !!! ... but tapeutil is AIX command afaik, on HPUX we cannont find it what now ? When all else fails, read the IBM documentation. :-) The manual "IBM Ultrium Device Drivers Installation and User’s Guide" is an essential reference for imple

Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts

2005-06-09 Thread goc
thanks a lot !!! ... but tapeutil is AIX command afaik, on HPUX we cannont find it what now ? - Original Message - From: "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:33 PM Subject: Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts On HPUX The tapeutil c

Re: Threshold on Copypool relcamation

2005-06-09 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
Hmm, Are the explanation of the retention parms here correct? I thought it went like so; VEREXISTS: max number of versions to keep for a file that exists on the client VERDELETED: max number of version to keep of a file that is deleted from the client RETEXTRA: number of d

Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts

2005-06-09 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
On HPUX The tapeutil command can be used to determine the serial numbers of drives visible through the /dev/ special files on the storage agent. Run tapeutil, choose 1 to open the device file, then choose 10 and enter 83. In the hex display you get you should be able to spot the WWN serial number

Netware backups.. ?

2005-06-09 Thread Brian Ipsen
Hi, I'm not very familiar with Netware - but how is backup specified on a netware client ? I windows, I have all options i dsm.opt, like: Nodename MyNode domain C: D: exclude * include c:\Dir1 include d:\dir2 Novell uses volumes (as far as I remember from the old 3.20-days) .. How would th

Re: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts

2005-06-09 Thread goc
anyone ? - Original Message - From: "goc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: hi all / sta problem / i'm going nuts well ... client version 5.2.4.0 hpux sta version 5.2.4.0 hpux server version 5.2.4.0 aix lto 3584L32 -12 drives 2x S08 ibm switch af