Re: Graphing TSM data ?

2005-12-14 Thread Oscar Kolsteren
Hi Justin, We use TSMManager which is an excellent tool for query the database and produce graphic stats for the managers. You could download a 30 day trail or buy the product (it's not that expensive!!) Succes. Oscar -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Graphing TSM data ?

2005-12-14 Thread Volker Maibaum
Hi, if you have the network monitor nagios in your company, you can use this software in combination with e.g. nagiosgrapher to monitor TSM and to graph stats. It's free opensource software. I wrote some nagios-checks for monitoring vital parameters (e.g. free scratch tapes, db usage, ...) and dr

Graphing TSM data ?

2005-12-14 Thread Justin Case
Ha I need a tool that lets me query the TSM data base without over loading the server and pull out dat for graphing stats for backups, to show trends ? Any tools out there ? freeware ? Thanks Justin

Re: Fw: journal service in a MS clustered environment

2005-12-14 Thread Neil Schofield
Pete Thanks for the reminder. When we set it up, we made reference to the IBM Technote # 1167834 which explains set up in an MSCS environment more eloquently than I perhaps did. PreserveDbOnExit is discussed here as well as in Appendix C of the Windows client Installation & User Guide. We decided

Fw: journal service in a MS clustered environment

2005-12-14 Thread Pete Tanenhaus
>>> My only concern about this is what happens if a failover occurs and a file >>> is modified within the DeferRetryInterval. I guess if it is not >>> subsequently modified, it never gets backed up? Basically it depends on whether or not the PreserveDbOnExit setting is on or not. This setting all

Re: journal service in a MS clustered environment

2005-12-14 Thread Neil Schofield
Rainer We have done journal-based backups on MSCS. There is no need for multiple journal services - one per cluster node is sufficient. The idea is to have each one configured to journal any file system on which you desire JBB, but suppress the errors if the resource is not actually on line on tha

journal service in a MS clustered environment

2005-12-14 Thread Rainer Holzinger
Hello all, has someone of you implemented multiple journal services on a Microsoft cluster for the shared file systems? Any tips for me? Thank you, Rainer

Re: MS-Sharepoint Portals and/or SAP Portals document recovery

2005-12-14 Thread Carpenter, Curtis
Tom, look at http:\\www.commvault.com. They have a product which provides the ability to recover sharepoint at the document-level. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: December 14, 2005 11:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST

MS-Sharepoint Portals and/or SAP Portals document recovery

2005-12-14 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We're looking at both Microsoft Sharepoint Portals and SAP Portals. Our management has a requirement that individual documents be recovered from backups in the event of deletion. SAP Portals (netweaver) uses an Oracle database as a storage agent and Microsoft uses SQL server. First -- is anyone

Re: Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Ouzen
Thank you Frank ... I will try it Regards Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Frank Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell I would try lowering the C

Re: Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell

2005-12-14 Thread Troy Frank
I would try lowering the Cache Memory Threshold in increments of 5, and see if that helps at some point. The newer tsa's are known to sometimes have memory issues. The config file doesn't take affect dynamically though. You'll have to unload dsmcad & tsa's, then reload them, in between each test

Re: Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Ouzen
Frank Here the files requested Smsstart.ncf LOAD SMSUT.NLM LOAD SMDR.NLM LOAD TSAFS.NLM Tsa.cfg Read Buffer Size: 65536 Read Threads Per Job: 4 Read Thread Allocation: 100 Read Ahead Throttle: 2 Cache Memory Threshold: 25 Disable Cluster: no Enable GroupWise: 0 Thanks for your help. Rob

3494 - volume "ready at load point" message...

2005-12-14 Thread Patterson, Scott
Morning all, We are running TSM 5.2.6 (AIX) using an IBM 3494 library. Occasionally we have see the following situation occur - a process or session believes itself to be waiting on a mount. If we query the library console (search volser) and/or use MTLIB commands we'll find the volume "mounted"

again : Slow restore

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hi all, We use TSM-Server V 5.2.4.3 on AIX 5.2 ML6. Problem with w2k-clients TSM 5.3.0.5 / 5.3.0.14. A restore of even a small directory with 1 file and 4 empty subdirectories takes about 2h 10 min if I use the Web-Cli and select the complete Directory. If I select the complete directory and excl

Re: Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell

2005-12-14 Thread Troy Frank
Could you post what your smsstart.ncf file & tsa.cfg file look like? In case you're not familiar with it, the tsa.cfg is in sys:\etc\sms. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/14/2005 3:39:33 AM >>> Hello I upgrade today a Novell 6.5 with Tsm client 5.3.012 to a a Tsm client 5.3.2 for testing. I update too

Re: Normal # of failures on tape libraries

2005-12-14 Thread Othonas Xixis
We have multiple IBM 3583s and IBM 3584s with LTOs 1,2, and 3s... we have not seen any issues or problems... some of them in remote sites are running without our attention for 6 months or longer. LTO is pretty solid and straight forward, you need to read the vendors manuals and recommendations and

Re: Normal # of failures on tape libraries

2005-12-14 Thread Brents, James
Our remote site libraries are Overland Storage NEO 4200 with 2 HP LTO2 drives. We have a 3584 library (just turned a year old) at HQ and two HP libraries but we are not experiencing the failures with them as we are with the remote libraries. We have had some of our NEOs for almost three years now

Re: Normal # of failures on tape libraries

2005-12-14 Thread len boyle
Hello James What make/model of libraries/drives and the firmware levels are you using. We have an 3584 with lto-2 drives that were very free of problems for the first year or so. But now we are seeing more and more errors. The errors change as we change the firmware level on the drives. len --

Re: Normal # of failures on tape libraries

2005-12-14 Thread Brents, James
That is my experience. We went from DLT libraries to LTO libraries at our remote sites and now we are working on libraries every week! James Brents -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Melburn W IT743 Sent: Tuesday, December 13

Re: MAX command line Objects?

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 14, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Dave Zarnoch wrote: Folks, I attempted a "selective" backup of one of my servers and tried to list all of the filesystems on the command line, but it gave me an error that there were too many objects parsed to the command I had to split them up. Does anyone know ho

MAX command line Objects?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Zarnoch
Folks, I attempted a "selective" backup of one of my servers and tried to list all of the filesystems on the command line, but it gave me an error that there were too many objects parsed to the command I had to split them up. Does anyone know how many "objects" is the max? (e.g.) sel -subdir=ye

Re: Novell error

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Sims
On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:24 AM, Robert Ouzen wrote: Richard If you please another little question as you said with Jre 1.31 no problem at all , with Jre 1.41 I made the change you suggest and work fine, but I have station with Jre 1.50 an there I did not find how to disable the cache option. Do

Version 5.3.2 problem on Novell

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Ouzen
Hello I upgrade today a Novell 6.5 with Tsm client 5.3.012 to a a Tsm client 5.3.2 for testing. I update too my nlm's with the tsa5up18.exe from Novell. But when running an incremental backup from the command line: I -su=yes I got this following errors: 12/14/2005 11:20:32 (SMDR-6.54.2) T