Re: TSM DB Restore !!!! Entering exception handler. Leaving exception handler.

2007-04-04 Thread Aaron Becar
First of all do you have IBM support? If so, 1-800-IBM-SERV tell them level 1. If not, One option: If the server totally does not start up, and you know 100% surly, you have a valid database backup Reinstall the TSM server and drivers, start the server with the default values, recreate

Re: JR- NDMP backup via the GUI

2007-03-06 Thread Aaron Becar
Regarding NDMP GUI, Do you have a TOC created? In order to use the GUI you need to make sure that the TOC is created and used when you perform the backups. With a TOC you can technically use any client's GUI to access the NAS device and see the files. Does the device successfully complete backup

Re: NDMP

2006-10-10 Thread Aaron Becar
successful? Thanks! Aaron Thanks! Aaron John Black wrote: I have successfully backed up Mirapoint with TSM. More specifically, what do you want to know? Awaiting your reply. --Sunmansun On 10/9/06, Aaron Becar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been reading some past archives about NDM

Re: NDMP

2006-10-09 Thread Aaron Becar
I have been reading some past archives about NDMP, and even more specifically, Mirapoint backups. I was wondering if anyone has a similar configuration with TSM and Mirapoint. We are just checking to make sure we have a supported configuration, and if anyone has successfully backed up Mirapoin

Re: More Intel Mac Grief

2006-09-20 Thread Aaron Becar
Don't get me wrong, because I love Mac, but if Mac is as good as it is hyped to be, they would not have failing hard disks already. Just a comment. I know people have had success running manual backups using Rosetta. Do a search on the list, there has been other discussions on this matter. Aar

Re: VMFS3 filespace......

2006-08-07 Thread Aaron Becar
All VMware Users: Using the VMware Consolidated backup you can do file level backups of windows machines and system backups of other clients. There is documentation on the VMware website about how to do this. http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm There is also a zip file

Re: Test Email

2006-08-02 Thread Aaron Becar
We are receiving your posts. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Aaron On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:57 -0400, John Schneider wrote: > Sorry to bother everyone, but I have posted two emails in the past 2 days, > and although I got a confirmation from the listserv when I posted them, I

Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-02 Thread Aaron Becar
End user training is also very important and disclosures and other documentation should be given to the user so situations do not happen. To you have training meetings or anything like that? Documentation about how it works and what you business process are for TSM should all be known by the end u

Re: Missing row for bitfile 0.15471096

2006-06-19 Thread Aaron Becar
Here is the error that I receive when I run the command: delete volume /tsm/tsmdisk4/vol1.dsm discard=y -- 06/19/2006 15:03:41 ANR2017I Administrator AARON issued command: DELETE VOLUME /tsm/tsmdisk4/vol1.dsm discard=y (SESSI

Re: ISC Download

2006-05-26 Thread Aaron Becar
Can someone direct me to 6.0.1 ISC download? I have tried every where, but no luck. Does anyone know the path on ftp.software.ibm.com? Thanks! Aaron

Re: DSM.opt file issues

2006-04-18 Thread Aaron Becar
Since this is a Windows Client, I would go into the the GUI BAClient and then go to Edit>Preferences Then under the Backup tab, uncheck the box Backup All Local File Systems. Then select only the file systems that you want to backup. That should do the trick. We did just the opposite of you b

Re: HELP! MAJOR ISSUE!: NEW Info. Please help!

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Becar
Have you tried to restart the TSM instance, and even reboot the machine? >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/23 11:47 am >>> Hey! I have about 60 scratch tapes in the library, so at this point I don't think that's an issue. But thank you very much for pointing that out. I'll have to remember that since

Re: Reduce License

2006-03-22 Thread Aaron Becar
How can I reduce the number of licences for the number of managed lan systems. Thanks! Aaron

Re: How to backup only one or directories on a filespace.

2006-03-22 Thread Aaron Becar
Use the GUI if you need to. Just put a check next to the directory that you want to backup! >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22 8:38 am >>> All, On a Windows client (5.3.2.2) how can I backup only one directory and exclude the rest without putting in an exclude.dir statement for each of the directori

Re: Backups of Intel-based Macs

2006-03-17 Thread Aaron Becar
I am waiting to get my hands on some of those beauties! I am excited to see how TSM works and how it handles everything. The new Intel Macs seem pretty impressive, and I know that we will not be dissapointed. >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15 4:05 am >>> Our initial attempts at trying 5.3.2.1 on the I

Re: Reclimation Error

2006-03-17 Thread Aaron Becar
When reclaiming our offsite tapes I receive the folloing error for only one of our copypools. The other two copypools have no problems reclaiming. I am thinking there are some files that have vanished that it is looking for. Maybe some files that did not get migrated to tape. 03/17/2006 11:40:4

Re: Backups of Intel-based Macs

2006-03-14 Thread Aaron Becar
Does Rosetta work? >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14 11:14 am >>> Intel Macs are starting to show up on our campus and we are being asked how to back them up. What are other TSM sites doing to backup these new beasties? TSM doesn't support Intel-based Macs yet. ..Paul -- Paul Zarnowski

Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

2006-03-08 Thread Aaron Becar
Try this! http://www.tsmmanager.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/8/2006 8:12:04 AM >>> >> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:33:21 -0600, Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In looking at this implementation, I am left to wonder, "What's in > this for me?" Sounds like putting it up is quite a bit harder th

Re: TSM Disk Volumes

2006-02-21 Thread Aaron Becar
Just a quick question. Has anyone every had TSM disk volumes just disappear on them? For example if you do a listing of the files where the volumes should be there is nothing there? Thanks! Aaron

Re: Offiste Space Reclamation Issues

2006-02-07 Thread Aaron Becar
Mel, We were having some trouble in the same area. Let me explain our situation. We where moving our diskpool the tape, every morning, and in the afternoon, we performed our offsite reclamation for all our offsite tapes. What happened is we started to have errors, and the offsite reclamation wo

Re: download of 5.3?

2006-02-06 Thread Aaron Becar
sorry, ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/6/2006 10:05:52 AM >>> Hi, We are curreently at: Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0 Where can I download the 5.3 version of the server?

Re: download of 5.3?

2006-02-06 Thread Aaron Becar
ftp://software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/6/2006 10:05:52 AM >>> Hi, We are curreently at: Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0 Where can I download the 5.3 version of the server?

Re: Failed Attempt to Free Memory

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron Becar
Here is the actual Error: ANRD Invalid attempt to free memory (invalid header); called from 8217515 (bfutil.c (4599)). ANRD Invalid attempt to free memory (invalid header); called from 8217515 (bfutil.c (4599)). . . . . . . . . . . CAPOOT goes TSM *---

Re: Failed Attempt to Free Memory

2006-01-17 Thread Aaron Becar
Hey all, I kind of have a serious question. I have been looking at a specific error that we have been receiving. I understand that there have been some problems with offsite reclamation, that if the data is not moved off the disk there is a possibility of TSM crashing. However, I have disabled

Re: tape encryption and TSM

2006-01-12 Thread Aaron Becar
Unless you are willing to spen $500 an hour and send your tapes to Dallas, at a rate of I believe it was 8MB an hour they can rebuild your database. Then you can get data off your tape. So, yea it is pretty difficult. Just don't loose your encryption keys! Then you should be okay! Wish I had a

Re: Tape Compression

2006-01-12 Thread Aaron Becar
We are currently not using tape compression. How bad is it to start using compression in the middle or everything? Or should I not use compression? Thanks! Aaron

Re: error

2006-01-12 Thread Aaron Becar
Check your SELinux, and IPtable settings. That is a problem we ran into. Can you ping or telnet? Good luck! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/12/2006 7:31:39 AM >>> Is this client running on same box of TSM server? If yes send your dsm.opt file and check if you enable shared memory on dsmserv.opt (server

Re: Best way to compare the pools ?

2006-01-10 Thread Aaron Becar
You can also use the 'q content {stg_pool_volume} copied=no' This may be of help. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/10/2006 8:46:32 AM >>> "backup stg primary_pool copy_pool preview=vol wait=yes" This will tell you if any primary_pool volumes are needed to get the copy_pool in sync. Just run without t

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-29 Thread Aaron Becar
We had a problem similar to yours. We had a problem when we started our TSM server up our drives failed. So I checked the /dev folder and checked to see that the tape drives were there. What happened was our device path had changed, and the new path was /dev/IBMtape0n when it originally was /dev

Re: Any Ideas?

2005-11-17 Thread Aaron Becar
Sorry to bother everyone. Is this a memory issue? ### Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux/i386 Version 5, Release 2, Level 6.0 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2003. All rights reserved. U.

Re: Missed schedules

2005-11-03 Thread Aaron Becar
We had that same initial problem with missing schedules, and here is what we found and did First, because the backups were scheduled at the same time, from different policy domains, when our diskpools filled up, it would mount a tape. However, it was making offsite copies at the same time, so

Re: Can I do this?

2005-11-03 Thread Aaron Becar
Wow, that is pretty neat. Do you have those scripts scheduled as cron jobs, or do you run them manually? Thanks! Aaron >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/2/2005 8:34:28 PM >>> I usually run a script which outputs all my volumes from two stgpools with tape older than seven days that need to be deleted in

Re: Can I do this?

2005-11-01 Thread Aaron Becar
Wanda, That is exactly what I need to do. I use the command line as much as I can, as well as the automation, but the scripts, that is pretty cool. Thanks so much for your help. I am sorry if I wasted your time asking a silly question. Aaron >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/1/2005 8:11:26 AM >>> On th

Re: Can I do this?

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Becar
Can I delete multiple volumes at one time by issuing the command 'delete volume 623ANWL2,624ANWL2,625ANWL2 discard=y' , or do I have to do them separate? Thanks! Aaron

Re: BACKUP STG COMMAND

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Becar
That is a good idea, I will be sure to do that. Would it be possible to execute a command that would allow me to delet the volume contents for all the volumes that have an access value of offsite? would something like this work.. delete volume * where access='offsite' Thanks! >>> [EMAIL PROTE

Re: BACKUP STG COMMAND

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Becar
Hey! In an effort to minimize the number of tapes that go off site, is there an option that I can add to the backup stg command to copy everything in the primary pool to the copy pool, and resets the previous copy, and creates a new copy? Thanks!

Re: Checking to make sure TSM Primary and Copypools are in Sync

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Becar
One thing that you can do which might take a while is to query the content of the volumes for each primary storage pool volume. q content {volumename} copied=no That will display a list of files that were not copied. In addition you can use the q occupancy command. I hope this helps!! >>> [EM

Re: Move Volumes

2005-10-27 Thread Aaron Becar
_Crit_tapepool f=d. Also to move the data use the command move data (volser number) stg=target stgpool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Becar Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Move

Re: Move Volumes

2005-10-27 Thread Aaron Becar
Sorry to bother everyone but I have a serious question. We have mixed media, LTO1 and LTO2. The LTO1 is strictly for our TSM database backup. The LTO2 is for our storage pools. For some reason our HI_CRIT_Tapepool is reclaiming to a LTO1 tape. How can I move the information from the LTO1 tape

Assign volumes to device class

2005-10-19 Thread Aaron Becar
Hey all, how can I assign volumes to a device class. I have LTO1 tapes that I only want to use for DB backups. I have a LTO1 device class defined, and a schedule that runs the DB backup to use the specific volumes, but any other schedule can use them as scratch. Thanks! Aaron

Re: TSMManager Vaulting

2005-10-18 Thread Aaron Becar
Yes, that is correct. We are useing the TSMManager from Tivoli Associates. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/18/2005 10:10:24 AM >>> Are you referring to the "OEM" product TSMManager? from Tivoli Associates?

Re: TSMManager Vaulting

2005-10-18 Thread Aaron Becar
Hey all! Thanks so much for your help! Our production is up and running! I just have a question on our Vaulting. TSM - 5.2.60 RHEL 4 IBM 3583 Tape Library - Only 1 slot i/o door. We just started vaulting just on Friday. I am checking in and out tapes pretty well. However, I have a volume 622

Re: TSM - Tape Library Troubleshooting

2005-10-06 Thread Aaron Becar
Just a quick question. We are running Red Hat EL4. TSM 5.2 Level 6. We have a IBM 3583 Tape Library. We have TSM installed, and running, without our tape library. The library is connected via fiber channel hba. We have installed the engineering release of the driver, because that is the only c

Re: Linux 5.2 TSM Install Error

2005-10-04 Thread Aaron Becar
cp' to the other ports. OR >From cmd line cd /etc/sysconfig iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 1500 -j ACCEPT service iptables save You can add other TCP ports (1580, 1501) in the same way. Leigh -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: Linux 5.2 TSM Install Error

2005-10-04 Thread Aaron Becar
ports ie 1500, 1501, 1580 etc. If this is all purely for testing you can get by, but if you are thinking of production I would recommend an officially supported version of Linux. Leigh -Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Becar

Re: Linux 5.2 TSM Install Error

2005-10-02 Thread Aaron Becar
Anyone know why this is? [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsm1]# ls i686 install_server license noarch ppc64 README #README# s390 s390x TSM_1st LINUX SERVER C54RWML.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsm1]# ./install_server Preparing License Agreement LoadJavaVM: unable to open DLL (/tmp/license/jre/bin/classic/libjv

Re: [ASDM-L] TSM testing

2005-10-01 Thread Aaron Becar
That is what I am thinking, but however when I reboot the TSM server to a Windows Partition, without TSM, I can view the web page and Telnet on port 1500 1580 and 1521. So maybe it is a Linux configuration, that is restricting access. I am still working on the problem. Thanks for everyone's hel

Re: TSM testing

2005-09-30 Thread Aaron Becar
rofessional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627 >-Original Message----- >From: Aaron Becar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:24 PM >To: Stapleton, Mark

Re: Initial Testing and Node Registration

2005-09-30 Thread Aaron Becar
for administrator ADMIN (WebBrowser) (HTTP tsmserver(32898)). ANR0405I Session 20 ended for administrator ADMIN (WebBrowser). ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: REGISTER NODE TSMServerBackup ?***? CONTACT=Aaron Becar DOMAIN=HI_CRIT COMPRESSION=CLIENT AUTOFSRENAME=NO ARCHDELETE=YES BACKDELETE

Re: TSM 5.2 Installation Guide

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Becar
Just a quick question. I have the 5.3 Install guide, but I cannot find the 5.2 Install guide. Does anyone have the link? Thanks! Aaron

Re: RS/6000 AIX

2005-09-21 Thread AARON BECAR
Sorry this question is not about TSM, maybe the wrong place to be asking, but for about the past week, every other day we are experiencing this error. If anyone has seen this before could you give some input? Thank you so much. We are running an RS/6000 on AIX I believe it is 4.3. Here is the er

Re: New Backup Process

2005-08-16 Thread AARON BECAR
I am seeking to find the Try and Buy for 60 days for the IBM TSM Software. We are switching our backup process to TSM and I just wanted to practice the install and test a few things out before we do a full implementation. I noticed in all of the Red and White Papers that there is a CD that can be