Re: generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-15 Thread Maurice van 't Loo
Hi Wanda, Why an other node or copygroup? If you use merge=no the imported fs's gets an other name, so after the restore you can savely delete the imported fs's And replacedefs=no is default, so the copygroups don't get changed... Regards, Maurice - Original Message - From:

Re: 3583 library

2005-09-15 Thread Maurice van 't Loo
Only use search=yes if the tapes are allready in the library search=bulk searches the bulk-i/o Regards, Maurice - Original Message - From: Scott, Mark William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3583 library

W2K3 SP1 upgrade TSM services

2005-09-15 Thread Large, M (Matthew)
Hi All, I have a customer who is testing the upgrade of his Exchange servers from W2K3 to W2K3 SP1 but he is having issues post the upgrade. Is there an unspoken requirement to shut down the TSM services when performing OS upgrades? Any advice appreciated - without a test machine it's hard to

Re: TSM Operational Reporting just stops functioning

2005-09-15 Thread Schaub, Steve
I would suspect IC44976, since Todd noted that TOR would work for a day or two before entering the Twilight Zone. I have also been bitten by the expired admin pwd bug, but that stopped TOR cold in my case, so I didn't think it fit this particular problem. -steve -Original Message- From:

Scheduled session remains active

2005-09-15 Thread Jurjen Oskam
Hi, I have a problem with a scheduled command. The TSM server is 5.3.1.4 on AIX 5.3 ML2, the affected client is 5.2.2.0 on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 (i386). SCHEDmode is PROMPTed, the client has MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE and dsmcad is runnning. There are two schedules defined

Re: JR- ANR8366E

2005-09-15 Thread JR Trimark
Here is a copy of the command I am typingin along with the error: DEFINE DEVCLASS TESTFILE DEVTYPE=FILE MOUNTLIMIT=15 MAXCAPACITY=250G DIRECTORY=/jrtestfiles SHARED=NO 09/15/05 06:36:47 ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for MAXCAPACITY parameter. (SESSION:

Re: 3583 library

2005-09-15 Thread Meadows, Andrew
That's just the problem. If I put tapes in the io door and do a search=bulk labelsource=barcode and reply to the request nothing happens. No error message nothing. If I manually pull them into empty slots in the library and do a search=yes then I can label the tapes fine. - Only use

Re: Scheduled session remains active

2005-09-15 Thread Peter Hitchman
Hi, My exprience is that it is the dsmc programme that runs the scheduled jobs, usually when things get odd we restart this scheduler process on the client. dsmcad is the deamon required to run the web interface to do backup and restores. But I am on Solaris not RD Linux. Regards Pete

Re: Scheduled session remains active

2005-09-15 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote: I have a problem with a scheduled command. The TSM server is 5.3.1.4 on AIX 5.3 ML2, the affected client is 5.2.2.0 on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 (i386). SCHEDmode is PROMPTed, the client has MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT

Re: 3583 library

2005-09-15 Thread Maurice van 't Loo
Does the library know that you have a bulk i/o? Maybe you have to check the settings - Original Message - From: Meadows, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3583 library That's just the problem. If I put

Space reclamation error for volumes dedicated to directory structure storage ....

2005-09-15 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi all, Since upgrade to TSM 5.3.1, I'm facing a strange problem affecting reclamation on specific copypool dedicated to directories structure. What happens is as follows : 09/15/05 09:34:28 ANR0984I Process 375 for SPACE RECLAMATION started in the BACKGROUND

Re: Scheduling trouble

2005-09-15 Thread William Rosette
I have a client that just recently had the time reset and rebooted. It is a Lotus Notes client. Every time the Automation schedule service resets, after clean backup, it skips a day. I tried deleting and recreating the TSM dsmc sched service, still showed 09/17/05 at 03:00. Then I thought it

SQL statement

2005-09-15 Thread Joni Moyer
Hi Everyone! Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with this sql statement? I am trying to get the file info. but it all comes down to the date. I just want to report on the date that the data was archived before 6/3/2005, but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions?

export import node metadata TSM database

2005-09-15 Thread Kurt Beyers
Hi, Is there any metadata of the exports stored in the TSM database? If I want to export eg two clients A and B to the same volume (eg a tape vol001 that has enough space of course), can I specify twice the command: export node A filedata=backupactive devclass=tape VOL=vol001 export node B

AW: [ADSM-L] SQL statement

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Rupp
date is a reserved SQL word. And you have to remove the quotation marks. select filespace_name,hl_name,ll_name,date(archive_date) as Adate, class_name from archives where node_name='CS-NICE-STORAGE' and archive_date'06/30/2005' order by Adate should do the trick. HTH Thomas Rupp

Re: SQL statement

2005-09-15 Thread Leigh Reed
Joni, Try order by date Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 15 September 2005 14:53 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SQL statement Hi Everyone! Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with this

Re: TSM Operational Reporting just stops functioning

2005-09-15 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Bingo! Mike and Steve hit it. The password thing was not it, since it does work for a while. After reading about IC44976, I found the trace file and could see those error messages in the file. I am off to find the latest patch for TOR 5.3. Unfortunately, the files at

Re: TSM Operational Reporting just stops functioning

2005-09-15 Thread William Boyer
It's in ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/NT/5.3.1.5/TSMCON5315_WIN.exe Bill Boyer Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd

moving client node data from one library to another

2005-09-15 Thread Alexander Lazarevich
TSM 5.3.1 on win2K server. We have two OVerland Neo 4100 libraries, one is LTO2 (two LTO2 drives) and the other is LTO3 (two LTO3 drives). The libraries are seperate. TSM has sepearete backup discspool-tape paths for each library. And policy sets are setup accordingly for which clients we want

JR- ANR8366E

2005-09-15 Thread JR Trimark
According to the IBM documentation the maximum size is 128GB, but the AIX operating system has a limit of just under 64GB (setting it to 63GB works fine). JR Trimark Lead Data Network Engineer Aurora Health Care 414.647.3256 Voice 414.647.4999 Fax 414.222.2219 Pager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem displaying archives on W2K/W2K3 clients..

2005-09-15 Thread Patterson, Scott
I've been advised by TSM support to run these 2 commands against the nodes that are having problems displaying their archived files directories: UNDO ARCHCONVERSION node_name CONVERT ARCHIVE node_name Has anyone out there had to use similar commands. Support says this is a known problem.

Re: moving client node data from one library to another

2005-09-15 Thread William Boyer
Use the MOVE NODEDATA command. Bill Boyer Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

CIFS/NAS/CELERRA backups and web-gui

2005-09-15 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are trying to configure a Windows box to act as the CIFS mountpoint to a CELERRA NAS. Since there will be multiple owners/mounts/nodes to this box, we are setting up the web-gui to handle the restores, etc. Due to the expected large number of mounts, we will not be able to give every point a

Re: moving client node data from one library to another

2005-09-15 Thread Brents, James
Use the MOVE NODE command. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] moving client node data from one library to another TSM 5.3.1 on

Re: generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Maurice - Depends on the situation. The advantage of bringing the imported node back under a different name: You can move it to a different domain where you can set the copy groups so that the data doesn't expire. If you only plan to have the filespace(s) around long enough to do 1 restore,

Re: Space reclamation error for volumes dedicated to directory structure storage ....

2005-09-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
I upgraded one server to 5.3.1.3 a couple of weeks ago. Had one occurance of something similar; only my reclaim just said internal server error and died. Restarting reclaim didn't fix it. But my reclaim was appending data to a filling tape that was almost full. I directed it to a different tape

Re: export import node metadata TSM database

2005-09-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Beyers Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: export import node metadata TSM database Hi, Is there any metadata of the exports stored in the TSM database?

Re: Internal server error on 5.3 Tape processing

2005-09-15 Thread Rushforth, Tim
We've seen something similar with the internal server error message. We've got a PMR (#63524) open on it and have sent support traces. We are also at 5.3.1.3. We've gotten the error on reclaims, move data, migrations and client backing up directly to tape. We've had about 6 occurrences of the

Re: problem displaying archives on W2K/W2K3 clients..

2005-09-15 Thread Rushforth, Tim
We've had to do this for a few problems in the past including one that sounds like yours (search the archive). In previous versions the commands were Delete Archdescriptions and convert archive. If you are running in rollforward mode, these command take a lot of log space so be sure to watch

Re: Internal server error on 5.3 Tape processing

2005-09-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
Thanks for letting me know that, I was somewhat concerned. If I see it again I'll also call it in. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rushforth, Tim Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

backup failing with protocol error

2005-09-15 Thread Levi, Ralph
Has anyone seen something like this ? It does not consistently occur on this particular file. Today it could be this and tomorrow it could be another file. I can back up this file if I select it by itself or with other files. This failure occurs when doing an incremental. In fact, the file

Checking in scratch tapes which are in a library.

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Short
I have a TSM server with a 3584 library. Before me, it was set up in the normal tape pool and copy pools arrangement. However, because this is a really lights out operation the copy tapes were not being ejected. So the copypool tapes were no particularly good for DR and only usable for repair of a

Re: Novell backup performance

2005-09-15 Thread David E Ehresman
When we had a similar problem Servergraph/TSM told us the bottleneck was the network I/O. Upgrading the TSM server to a gig ethernet card and switch dramatically improved the backup times of our Novel clients. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12/05 1:43 PM Hello, We have a Novell client who's backup is

Re: Vitalization question

2005-09-15 Thread David E Ehresman
All of our san attached disk comes thru a SVC. It's great! David Ehresman University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12/05 4:40 PM We are considering IBM's SVC (SAN Volume Controller) vitalization layer in our new TSM server configuration. Anyone currently using IBM's product? The

Re: Novell backup performance

2005-09-15 Thread Kurt Beyers
Check as well that the parameter TCP_DELAYED_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT=OFF on the Novell server. Switching it from the default 'ON' to OFF improved the backups times with a factor of 3 at a customer. best regards; Kurt Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens David E

Re: Novell backup performance

2005-09-15 Thread Richard Sims
As always, review the TSM Performance Tuning Guide. TCPWindowsize is a classic network tuning knob which can have large benefits where right value is chosen - which may require experimentation. Richard Sims

Re: export import node metadata TSM database

2005-09-15 Thread Kurt Beyers
Thanks for the answers Wanda. Exporting all of the active backup data of all the servers in 1 command isn't an issue of course, just one command and you are sure that you don't miss anything. But if the full export is eg 2 TB and a restore is asked of a file that is of course at the end of

Re: export import node metadata TSM database

2005-09-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
Look at the server VOLHISTORY; export tapes are recorded there. I believe you will find that if an EXPORT spills to a second tape, the second tape is recorded as vol seq #2 of the export, not as an independent tape like storage pool tapes are. I believe TSM has to start reading at Vol seq #1. I

Re: TSM Operational Reporting just stops functioning

2005-09-15 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Aah.. I get it, now. The SRV file being the Server binaries and stuff, and CON being the management console; silly me, looking for TOR or something like that. Mike, Any idea when 5.3.2 will be out? And are there any known incompatibilities between the 5.3.2 TOR and the 5.2.2.5 AIX servers or

Re: backup stgpool

2005-09-15 Thread Todd Lundstedt
Sandra, As I re-read through this, I realize I made a mistake. Using delete volume will not adhere to the reuse delay. Reclamation set to 1 will. But I also think there are other things that should be considered, most of which were addressed by Andy in other posts. Sorry if my mistake cause you

TDP for Exchange restores temp space

2005-09-15 Thread Schaub, Steve
TSM server 5.2.4.3 TSM TDP 5.2.1.0 Our Exchange admins are running out of room on some of their Exchange servers and have a question about temp space used during a restore: Question: It is my understanding that when you restore a database in Exchange 2003 it creates a new temporary database

ANS1999E and ANS1030E

2005-09-15 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Client (W2K) 5.3.0.0 Server (AIX 5.2) 5.3.1.4 Receiving the below errors on one of our many nightly backups... 09/15/2005 03:21:53 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '\\r2wprodapp\f$' stopped. 09/15/2005 03:21:53 ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request for memory allocation.

Re: export import node metadata TSM database

2005-09-15 Thread Kurt Beyers
Wanda, There are also TDP's involved, so a backupset is out of question. The bandwith does not allow to run a monthly 'full' backup by using other TSM nodenames on the same server. So only an export remains a possible solution. I know that a full import of a node or of a file space will

Re: TDP for Exchange restores temp space

2005-09-15 Thread Del Hoobler
Steve, For a standard restore, the Exchange database files (.EDB and .STM) are replaced during a restore. They ARE NOT written to a temporary location. However... if you are restoring into the Recovery Storage Group, they are created anew... in a different location. You can point the location of

Re: Reclamation/Audits running slow

2005-09-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Yes -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation/Audits running slow Does Move data also run slow? -Original

Re: CIFS/NAS/CELERRA backups and web-gui

2005-09-15 Thread TSM_User
I'm pretty sure that the Web GUI does not prefill its list of what you can backup based on the options file. It instead prefills it with a list of local drives. The restore unlike the backup windows prefills its list based on what filespaces have been backed up on the TSM server. I think

Re: 3583 library

2005-09-15 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi Andrew, IMHO, IBM SCSI libraries such as 3583 need the IBM tapedriver, not the TSM driver... Checkin with search=yes is quite straightforward once the cartridges are in the library (Open door, take out elephant, stuff cartridges into slots, close door, wait for automatic inventory, checkin