Re: Restore Requesting Copypool tape first?

2005-04-18 Thread Andy Carlson
If you delete the primary volume, doesn't the copy pool data get released also? Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist BJC Healtcare --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month

Re: automated select statement

2005-04-13 Thread Andy Carlson
-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist BJC Healtcare --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box

Re: SUSPECT: (MSW) review of recent addition of sata array storage pool

2005-03-14 Thread Andy Carlson
, suggestions? -- Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section -- Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section -- Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist BJC Healtcare

TSM Physical Servers

2005-02-21 Thread Andy Carlson
, and if more info is needed from me, let me know. P.S. TSM V5.2.1.1, soon 5.2.3.5 -- Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist BJC Healtcare --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling

Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Andy Carlson
: Last Update by (administrator): TS55428 Last Update Date/Time: 01/13/05 09:48:02 -- Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist BJC Healtcare --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95

Re: Shared Tape Library

2005-01-13 Thread Andy Carlson
Of Andy Carlson Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Shared Tape Library I have a new 3584. Before now, we were using STK Powderhorns. I have the following setup: tsmlibm owns the library, which has one drive in it - rmt14 tsmu defines the library as shared

Re: TSM Long Restart Time

2005-01-11 Thread Andy Carlson
would ping very hard on Tivoli to get an answer, and keep raising the priority on the problem until you get one. 10 hours to restart is a SERIOUS availability problem! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: Monday, January

TSM Long Restart Time

2005-01-10 Thread Andy Carlson
in size. It was 5.1% full. The restart took 10 hours!. I have noticed this with various releases of TSM, so this is not new. I talked to TSM about it before, and did not get any good answers. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Would Roll Forward DB mode help? Thanks for any info. -- Andy

Re: TSM Long Restart Time

2005-01-10 Thread Andy Carlson
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Long Restart Time Wehave had a problem over the years with LONG TSM restart times if the recovery log has anything in it. Here is what we are running: AIX 5.1 ML4+ Running

Re: DSMSERV UNLOADDB

2004-10-21 Thread Andy Carlson
The load, in my experience, takes about half the time as the unload. Since all the work is done on the unload, I still don't understand why a load takes so much longer than a restore. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Yuhico, Alexandra wrote: thank you daniel. in that case i may as well push through with

Re: Conversion to 3592 tapes...

2004-10-21 Thread Andy Carlson
I know this is a little late, but here is what we did. I changed from copying my primary pool from 9840's to 3592. I then let attrition whittle down the 9840 pool until such time as I thought the copy might get done in a reasonable amount of time, then did a copy and deleted the rest of the 9840

Re: Converting to 3592 tapes

2004-10-21 Thread Andy Carlson
I don't see reclaimstgpool as an option on copy storage pools - am I missing something? On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Lee, Gary D. wrote: I would use the suggestion of redirecting the destination of your storage pools to the new devclass for 3592s. Another option is to create the new pools as orvile

Re: anyone have script for multi-session/multi-filespace restore?

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Carlson
If you have enough scratch tapes, you could consider colocation by filespace, then divide the filespaces roughly by size into 8 groups (or however many tape drives you want to assign) and start 8 restores. They would be guaranteed to be on separate tapes becuase of the collocation. On Wed, 23

Backup Stgpool did not start

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Carlson
I have a strange problem that I just noticed today - I have not seen it happen before. TSM 5.2.1.1 on AIX 5.1ML4. I noticed that by tape to tape backup was backing up more data than usual. My script issued the command backup stgpool backuppool copy3592 maxpr=2 wait=no to do the disk to

Ignore Backup Stgpool Message

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Carlson
I feel a little sheepish - The log output I save in a file does not have the ANR2032E message that I found in the actlog, so at least now I have something to go on. Thanks.

Re: Long pause in the middle of an NT backup.

2004-06-09 Thread Andy Carlson
One thing that appens during that time is that the TSM server is downloading directory entries to the client, to sort through and decide what to back up. With millions of entries (which it appears you have), it can take awhile. We had a situation with a terribly fragmented DB, where this pause

Re: Hey Big Blue....Why not MOVE DATA across copy pools?!?

2004-06-09 Thread Andy Carlson
That is a good question. We just did the same thing, and I was thinking there should be a better way to do it. On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, David Nicholson wrote: As luck would have it, the nodes I moved were large file servers and my copy pool is not collocated. I probably have data spread across 600

TSM Basics Presentation

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Carlson
Does any have, or know of, existing TSM presentations? I am tasked with giving a basic TSM presentation to manager and application types, and I just don't have any idea where to start. Thanks for any information. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior

Re: Database and log format question.

2004-04-29 Thread Andy Carlson
You are correct, there is no log information. What is happening is, as someone here surmised, the DB is being formatted. I normally get messages while it is formatting, if I remember right, but it does take a long time. I am on AIX though, not Windows. Andy Carlson On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Remeta

Files Marked Damaged by Audit Volume

2004-04-08 Thread Andy Carlson
on all the volumes in the onsite pool, but need to know if the files marked damaged will be backed up again. Thanks for any info. Andy Carlson

Files Marked Damaged by Audit Volume

2004-04-08 Thread Andy Carlson
If an active file is marked damaged by audit volume, is the file backed up at the next opportunity? We have a situation where at least one tape that had undiscovered damaged files was copied to a copypool tape. Those files are not recoverable at this time. We are contemplating a full audit on

Re: Files Marked Damaged by Audit Volume

2004-04-08 Thread Andy Carlson
Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Andy Carlson

Difference between move data and backup stgpool

2004-04-07 Thread Andy Carlson
tomorrow, but thought I would poll the experts first. Andy Carlson

Copypool Occupancy Question

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Carlson
I created a little script to compare the occupancy of the onsite tape pool (backcart) and copy pool (copy3592). Here is the script: select sum(physical_mb)/1024 as BACKCART GB from occupancy where stgpool_name='BACKCART' select sum(physical_mb)/1024 as COPY3592 GB from occupancy where

Re: Copypool Occupancy Question

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Carlson
Richard, That is right on. I knew it had to be something simple. I copy the disk pool before migration, and then sync up the tape pools. But, I migrate down to 1%, and there was about 40GB of data still in the disk pool that got copied, but not migrated. I knew it had to be something simple,

Re-backing up all directories

2004-01-23 Thread Andy Carlson
this? Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat

Re: Migrating TSM server

2004-01-23 Thread Andy Carlson
I would be interested in that. We are adding 3592 drives, mainly for the offsite pool right now, and I have been working through this myself. Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC

Re: Re-backing up all directories

2004-01-23 Thread Andy Carlson
Yes, thank you that is perfect. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Idle Waits

2004-01-21 Thread Andy Carlson
. Oh, the clients are Windows 2000, clients are 5.2.0.3. The TSM server si 5.2.1.1. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St

Re: Dwindling Performance

2004-01-14 Thread Andy Carlson
about 3.5GB of memory in the cache. I don't think I can go much higher, but I will try it if I can. P.S. The TSMI clients are Windows and Netware, the TSMU are Unix and a couple of VMS. Thanks for the input. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical

Re: Dwindling Performance

2004-01-14 Thread Andy Carlson
I'll supply as much information as anyone wants if they have any clues about what could be going on. I will take a look at the current performance book, but I have looked at it in the past. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist

Dwindling Performance

2004-01-13 Thread Andy Carlson
, but not sure When we split TSMI and TSMU, we created the TSMU instance, and did a full backup on all the servers that moved there. The TSMI database is a restored copy of the original database, with the TSMU stuff deleted out. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Andy Carlson

New Library and Tape Drives

2003-12-18 Thread Andy Carlson
?) Eventually Copy the Old Copypool Tapes to the New Copypool Am I missing anything? Is there a better way to do it? Thanks for any information. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

Legato Disk Extender

2003-11-04 Thread Andy Carlson
any. Does anyone know how to do this? There doesn't seem to be anything from the server side, other than maximum mount points. Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

Re: Antwort: Legato Disk Extender

2003-11-04 Thread Andy Carlson
Already thought of that, though I should have included it in the email. The mount retentions is 0, which works fine for the processes which kick down the tapes as soon as they are done. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist

Issue with upgrade to TSM 5.2.1.1

2003-11-03 Thread Andy Carlson
ML2 upgraded to ML4 TSM 5.2.1.1 Gresham EDT Distributape 6.4.4 Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: Online DB Reorg

2003-10-21 Thread Andy Carlson
I did this for a subset of our clients, mainly the Unix clients, because they were more copperative than the Intel clients. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

Online DB Reorg

2003-10-17 Thread Andy Carlson
of the original instance, but the database shrunk negligibly, so I think we need a reorg. Again, but, we have Legato Disk Extender users who don't wish for us to be down for an extended period doing a reorg. Thanks for any information. Andy Carlson

Re: Online DB Reorg

2003-10-17 Thread Andy Carlson
While that may be true, in this instance, we deleted fully half or more of the DB, and feel it would be good to do once. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

Re: TSM v5.2 on AIX

2003-10-13 Thread Andy Carlson
Sorry to bother you again. I mentioned the small file/directory file speedups here as a reason to upgrade, but I cannot find the APAR that appears to fix that. Do you know the APAR number for that fix so I can read the text? Thanks. Andy Carlson

Re: 2 Questions: Expiration and DB backups

2003-10-13 Thread Andy Carlson
2. Before doing the delete volhistory, do a query volhistory and save it in a file. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St

Re: TSM v5.2 on AIX

2003-10-03 Thread Andy Carlson
Are you saying there are significant speed increases in 5.2? Thanks for the info! Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St

TSM v5.2 on AIX

2003-10-02 Thread Andy Carlson
What experiences have you had with V5.2, on AIX if possible? Was it 5.2.01 or 5.2.0.2? TSM support recommended going to 5.1.7.2, but I don't have the 5.1.7.0 media, but I have 5 copies of 5.2.0, so I was thinking about doing that instead. Thanks. Andy Carlson

Re: Very long Netware restore

2003-09-24 Thread Andy Carlson
So that we don't have to have our network people run sniffer traces, could you tell us what you set the MTU to? Is it something smaller than the normal 1500? Was this on the client side or the TSM server side? Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior

TSM 5.1.7.2 on AIX 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Carlson
How has 5.1.7.2 treated everyone? It was suggested by TSM support that I upgrade to this version from 5.1.5.4 to fix a hang problem. Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

DSMC Exit Code Question

2003-06-26 Thread Andy Carlson
the backup tries to back the file up. We did figure out we could probably exclude the files, but what we would like is for TSM not to give a non-zero return code what a file is not found. Thanks for any input into this matter. Andy Carlson

TSM Metrics

2003-05-30 Thread Andy Carlson
of failed backups maybe? Thanks for any input. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: Offsite reclamation questions

2003-03-27 Thread Andy Carlson
I do something like this, but what I do in a script is, if the reclamation threshold is not 100, and there is no offsite reclamation process running, I lower the reclamaiton threshold by 1. I also have a lower limit in the script. Andy Carlson

Trouble Deleteing Filespace

2003-03-21 Thread Andy Carlson
: TSMIdel fi BJCECHO01 \\bjcecho01\e$ ANR0852E DELETE FILESPACE: No matching file spaces found for node BJCECHO01. ANS8001I Return code 11. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care

Re: HP-UX Client

2003-02-19 Thread Andy Carlson
Jezz, what a needle head. I completely forgot it was under adsm, not tivoli. Thanks for the info. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4

HP-UX Client

2003-02-19 Thread Andy Carlson
or help. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics

Re: Why so many Filling tapes?

2003-02-04 Thread Andy Carlson
I'm sure you've checked this, but I get tapes that go into readonly mode when they get a write error. Most of the time, I can just make the tape readwrite again, and it goes on it's merry way. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist

Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

2003-01-09 Thread Andy Carlson
We have given this a little bit of thought also. You would not need to use type=file - just enlarge your current disk pool. Expire will age the files out of there. The only thing to watch, is for it to be getting full, and more disk needs to be added. Andy Carlson

Re: Format of output file using select statements

2003-01-08 Thread Andy Carlson
I have looked at MyODBC, and confess I do not yet understand all of it, but it looks like it needs a driver for a database. Does it have a TSM Database driver? I could not fine one. Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist

Re: Format of output file using select statements

2003-01-07 Thread Andy Carlson
Is there an ODBC driver for Unix and Mysql? Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Format of output file using select statements

2003-01-02 Thread Andy Carlson
run them from the terminal, or from cron. Server is 5.1.5.4. Thanks. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: DB Backup in v5 TSM (5.1.1.6, 5.1.5.2, 5.1.5.4)

2002-12-11 Thread Andy Carlson
I should have mentioned that I tried it unmirrored (log and db) also. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis

Re: Relocating TSM DB (storage)

2002-11-22 Thread Andy Carlson
Do not extend the DB before doing the delete dbvol. The delete command uses the empty, enextended space to move the data from the volumes to be deleted. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC

Re: Relocating TSM DB (storage)

2002-11-22 Thread Andy Carlson
I just tried this on our test system, to be sure I wasn't talking out my ass, and I have done this before. To delete a dbvol that has data in it, TSM needs unexteneded space to copy it in to. If you extend the db, that is used space to tsm. Try this on your system, please Andy Carlson

UNLOADDB/LOADDB Scenario

2002-03-20 Thread Andy Carlson
this?) The advantage is that if I cannot load the DB for some reason, I still have my other mirror that I could update the dsmserv.dsk file and restart TSM. Is this feasible? Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health

Possibly introduced bottleneck with DBPAGESHADOW

2002-03-19 Thread Andy Carlson
. Any ideas? What are other people doing? Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat

Re: Arhive Bit on Netware after Tape Backup/Restore

2002-03-18 Thread Andy Carlson
Maybe I need to investigate this further. I am only related what my Netware people told me. Maybe there is another change in the file that is screwing it up. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System

Arhive Bit on Netware after Tape Backup/Restore

2002-03-15 Thread Andy Carlson
utility to turn the archive bits back on? Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat

Re: script to see if TSM Server is down

2002-03-15 Thread Andy Carlson
-c AIX /tmp/proc.out` if [ $temp = 0 ]; then /usr/bin/mailx user@email /usr/local/adsmdown fi Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis

Re: policy for reclamation of copy storage pool tapes

2002-03-14 Thread Andy Carlson
It really depends on more than that - it also depends on how much time in the day you have for reclamation. I rarely get to the 90% reclaimable tapes before I have to stop reclamation. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz

Re: TSM 5.1

2002-03-13 Thread Andy Carlson
, because of the tape drive per session requirement. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics

Re: TSM 5.1

2002-03-13 Thread Andy Carlson
and inactive data, so you could potentially be copying much more data than you need for the restore. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: TSM 5.1

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Carlson
#2 is not the panacea that it sounds like. The dual writes to the copypool's happens during session data transfer to disk pool - thus, you must have a tape drive per session doing the dual write. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz

Re: check the tape integrity

2002-03-11 Thread Andy Carlson
Check the audit volume command. I do audit volumes on any tape volume that hasn't been mounted in 60 days, unless of course it is offsite. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System

Specifying files to archive/backup in a file

2002-02-25 Thread Andy Carlson
. Thanks for any info. P.S. I searched msgs.adsm.org and could not find what I was looking for. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: RISC SERVER SPECIFICATIONS

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Carlson
it might be normal, until I saw that a Win2K server can handle that load. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: RISC SERVER SPECIFICATIONS

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Carlson
Yes, I meant 2 1-gigabit adapters. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http

Re: TSM Crashing

2001-12-21 Thread Andy Carlson
We had problems like this, that seemed to have no common thread, until we realized that expiration was running at each incident. It was suggested that we upgrade to 4.1.4.4, and we have been fine since (it also fixed a 9840 tape drive dismount problem). Andy Carlson

Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM

2001-12-18 Thread Andy Carlson
The other thing that has bitten us, is not the number of sessions, but the oldest session. We have had backup sessions running 10 hours or more, pinning log data. This pinned log data does not allow the log to shrink, even if you perform a database backup. Andy Carlson

Commit DB after restore db (w/o commit)

2001-12-04 Thread Andy Carlson
? I cannot find a dsmserv commit command or anything like that. Thanks for any info. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: Best Database Performance

2001-11-13 Thread Andy Carlson
weeks ago, and I lost abou 120GB of data. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics

Best Database Performance

2001-11-09 Thread Andy Carlson
might be better, as ADSM can schedule across these volumes. What I am seeing leads me to believe that ADSM is hitting one volume, and it's mirror predominately. Was I better off striped? Any suggestions? Thanks for any info. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL

Re: anyone else notice, log doesn't clear during expiration...(even w ith logmode normal)

2001-11-08 Thread Andy Carlson
I feel the same about staying at 3.7.4. Our expiration times have quadrupled or more, everything seems slower. I had a crash and a hang problem alreay (fixed at 4.1.4.4). Oh well, things will get better. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: server is running, but cannot make any connections to it

2001-10-30 Thread Andy Carlson
I had a similar problem, that seems to have been fixed by goint to 4.1.4.4. It had to do with expiration of archive files. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4

What Happens When TSM Starts

2001-10-25 Thread Andy Carlson
think of right now. Thanks for any information that can be provided. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Stripe Size on Disk Storage Pool

2001-10-23 Thread Andy Carlson
Is there any literature, or has anyone experimented with, stripe sizes on disk storage pools? I am striping, trying to get better performance, but I am unsure about how to actually measure the performance, or what to compare it to. Thanks for any information. Andy Carlson

Expiration in 4.1.3

2001-10-22 Thread Andy Carlson
I have noticed a great extension in the time it takes to do expiration in 4.1.3. I upgraded from 3.7.4, where expiration took 12-16 hours. Now it is taking 72 or more hours. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Expiration in 4.1.3

2001-10-22 Thread Andy Carlson
AIX 4.3.3 ML08 on an S7A. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http

Re: Expiration in 4.1.3

2001-10-22 Thread Andy Carlson
Cache hit ratio is fine, but I did not realize the default changed. I will change that and try it. We are also upgrading to 4.1.4.4 today per Support for another problem. Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz

Incremental DB Backup Not Clearing Log

2001-06-27 Thread Andy Carlson
, and I had to do an emergency extend) that setting it to normal mode, then back to roll-forward allowed the next incremental or full to clear the log. Has anyone seen this? Thanks for any info. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz

Re: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-24 Thread Andy Carlson
Sorry, I should have said the fast write cache failed. It failed twice within a three week period. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis

Re: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-24 Thread Andy Carlson
Does that work for Raid? What about fast write? How would the caches update each other? Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

Re: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-23 Thread Andy Carlson
One comment about the raid - we got away from SSA hardware raid after we had two SSA card failures that caused the loss of the database. If I were forced to use raid, I would have the second copy, and put the raids on separate SSA cards. Andy Carlson

Re: RAID-5 Vs Mirroring

2001-04-23 Thread Andy Carlson
We only had one card. I can't tell you exactly why we lost it. The raid came up offline, and after hours on the phone with IBM, they said basically, that I was screwed, the raid was toast. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz

Re: Amount of Data Backed Up Each Night

2001-04-06 Thread Andy Carlson
My daily processing migrates my disk pool down to 10% full (apporximately), so I know the next day by how full my disk pool is how much I backed up. It becomes harder if your disk pool fills up in the night, and start migrating while still backing up. Andy Carlson

Re: Amount of Data Backed Up Each Night

2001-04-05 Thread Andy Carlson
We back up about 350GB per night on weeknights, with the occasional 400-420GB. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri

1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Carlson
UNNAMED or UNKNOWN, messages do not come out correctly, I can't start new sessions, etc. This is fairly repeatable behaviour. I am at 3.7.4. Thanks. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System

Re: 1GB Buffer Pool Memory

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Carlson
I am running it as root, with no limit. I have 4GB real memory, and 3GB of paging space, 1% used. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis

Re: TSM 3.7.4.0 Servers Are Out

2000-11-16 Thread Andy Carlson
I have had very good luck so far with 3.7.4. I think it fixed some performance problems with the database. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St

Re: TSM 3.7.3.0 database backup and recovery

2000-11-13 Thread Andy Carlson
driver, and it still did not work with the GENERICTAPE driver. The IBM'er admitted that they had not tested the fix with ATDD. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4

Re: periodic ADSM/TSM shutdown

2000-10-13 Thread Andy Carlson
, but you have to keep an open mind. Bad things creep in once in a while. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri