Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] Windows exclude.archive help

2016-01-14 Thread Bob Booth
t; > regards, > Rainer > > > > Von:Bob Booth > An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Datum: 14.01.2016 19:59 > Betreff:[ADSM-L] Windows exclude.archive help > Gesendet von: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > > Hello all! > > I'

Windows exclude.archive help

2016-01-14 Thread Bob Booth
Hello all! I'm trying to help a remote admin that is trying to exclude/include things in windows filesystem for a scheduled monthly archive. I will admit that I am not very familiar at all with how windows excludes work, so I have not been much help, so I am asking the gurus! He has a windows fi

TSM MSSQL agent error

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Booth
Hello everone! I'm not a Windows expert, and I have a customer that is having trouble installing the latest TSM MSSQL Agent on Windows Server 2012 (fully patched). They have the TSM client for Windows 7.1.1.3 when functions, until they install the latest MSSQL agent 7.1.2. When the TDP is instal

TSM V5 TDP installed with TSM V6 backup client

2011-10-03 Thread Bob Booth
We are attempting to install TSM TDP V5 for Oracle on a Linux system that has the V6 BA client on it. Is this combination even possible, as it seems there is a conflict in the V6 installed API, and the one that comes with the V5 TDP? We also don't have Java installed on our production machines so

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

2011-04-17 Thread Bob Booth
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Nancy L Leugemors wrote: > Hello, > > We just upgraded our TSM Server this from 5.5.4.0 to 5.5.5.0 to fix APAR > IC66116. Since the server upgrade we have experienced several recovery > log pinning incidents from a few different database backup client

Re: Backing up EVA storage without TSM Clients

2009-12-03 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:46:01AM -0800, Mario Behring wrote: > Hi list, > > I have an EVA Storage that I need to backup because of a hardware upgrade > that will take place. > > I was thinking about using TSM to backup all data on this Storage before the > EVA hardware upgrade. > > My question

Re: TSM v6 -announcement

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Booth
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:38:11AM -0500, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > As with anything, YMMV. > > The "planning guide - current goal for upgrade" is "5GB to 10GB/hr" Is there any requirement that the 'source' database be fully audited before the upgrade? Does the upgrade db catch any 'hidden'

Re: Lots of "Wait" on the CPU

2008-11-20 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0600, Howard Coles wrote: > Ladies and Gents, of those of you who run AIX I have a question: > > What would cause the wait of the CPU to constantly be this high? (or > > what are some of the things) My Disk is barely busy, the NIC which is > > etherchanneled in

Re: Different nodes backing up under same name

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:30:12PM -0400, Richard Sims wrote: > Your posting doesn't mention potential use of client-node proxy. > Did you review and discard that facility as not suitable for some > reason? When I looked at it, it didn't seem to apply to this situation, or maybe too complicated fo

Re: Different nodes backing up under same name

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:16:55PM -0500, Ochs, Duane wrote: > I don't think there is a way to get around the schedule already running > issue with a single system name for multiple servers. I'm surprised the > TSM server doesn't balk about multiple backups running with the same > node name at the

Different nodes backing up under same name

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Booth
I have a situation that I can't quite get my head around. It may not be do-able, however I thought I would ask.. I have a department that wishes to back all of their Windows lab machines under the name of their main server. It already works, as the NODENAME of each lab machine has been changed t

Re: Orphaned DB2 data

2008-02-26 Thread Bob Booth
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:00:09AM -0600, Collins, Brenda wrote: > The q occ only provides the total space. The select command I was using > shows actual dates. > > > > Select node_name,backup_date from backups where node_name='xx' > > > > This tells me there are backups out there from almost

Re: Any market for used tape media?

2007-12-13 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0600, Schneider, John wrote: > Greetings, > We have thousands of 3590, 3592, and LTO tapes which are about > to be decommissioned when their tape libraries are replaced. Some of the > 3592 and LTO tapes are only 1-2 years old. Is there any market for used >

Re: 7500 Mb/s on 10 GbE!

2007-10-18 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:00:29PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote: > I monitor several backup-related mailing lists, and a user on another > list is getting 7500 Mb/s on his 10 GbE card and was willing to share > how he did it. We don't have a back to back 10Gb connection, but we do have 3 1Gb server

Re: DB2 Logs in TSM

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:23:33AM -0500, Collins, Brenda wrote: > Good morning! > > Does anyone have a select command that would let me see all the archive logs > that exist within TSM for a DB2 node ? Somehow they have logs for a > particular database under two different node names. They don'

Re: Help - Offsite tape ejection failed

2007-09-20 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:31:46PM -0700, Jon Adams wrote: > One of our Operations folk had the CAP open while the library was trying > to eject offsite tapes and it seemed to have failed. Now, we have no > offsite tapes, so I am trying to find out how to identify the offsite > tapes for manual re

Re: Server Error

2007-09-08 Thread Bob Booth
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 02:05:53PM +0200, adrian_compton wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > > > Has anyone experienced this error before. I have ran a dsmserv auditdb > > fix=yes logmode=normal, but still have the server core dumping now and > > then Please give us more information about your server, such a

Re: 3494 library serial connection

2007-08-22 Thread Bob Booth
Have you ever had the 3494 configured with serial? You have to make sure that your ARTIC configuration supports a serial connection and that you are plugged into the proper host port first. You should be able to follow some general guidelines in the AIX configuration to get the connection going,

Re: DB@ and SQL Backups

2007-08-15 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:58:25AM -0400, Richard Mochnaczewski wrote: > Hi *, > > Does anyone know if the DB2 API and TDP SQL backups manage their own > expiration like RMAN does i.e RMAN does not follow the rules of the > management class it is bound to ? You manage DB2 backups through the 'db

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-11 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:01:16PM -0500, Johnny Lea wrote: > Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage. Is it really a bad idea? We use 7200RPM SAN attahced SATA arrays for our TDP primary pools, 1.5TB. No problems so far. hth, bob

Re: Migration of a Copy storage pool impossible? or is it a feature request?

2007-07-11 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:00:57PM +0200, CAYE PIERRE wrote: > Hi > > > > Try move nodedata which can move data's even from copystg to another copystg I wish it did this! In my current 5.3 server, I would love to be able to move copy storage pool volumes to another copy storage pool. There is no

Re: Slow TSM DB Performance?

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Booth
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:31:50AM -0700, Gerald wrote: > Ultimately i'm trying to run an import on 23 LTO tapes which is going > too slow and i'm trying to determine why. When it first started for > the first 16 tapes or so, I was seeing 30MB/sec+ import speed. On > Friday I noticed a lot of I/O a

DB2 V8.2 backups and TSM

2007-06-22 Thread Bob Booth
t db2adutl deleting backups and archive logs immediately seem to be incorrect. We are running DB2 V8.2 on Solaris, TSM 5.3.4 API/Client, and TSM 5.3.4 server on AIX. Any insight would be very much appreciated. TIA, Bob Booth UIUC

Re: Why bitching at Oxford isn't a good idea.

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Booth
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 05:19:34PM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > It's been politely pointed out to me that grousing at folks who take > time off to come to Oxford isn't likely to make them feel happy about > coming to Oxford. Good point. Agreed. That said, Talk to your BP's, SE's and anyone els

Re: Question for you

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Booth
has gone wildly down hill ever since. IBM.. please listen to your customers, we have been giving you plenty of warning. You can save yourself and us money and time, if you change your ways. Bob Booth University of Illinois - Urbana

Failed image backup on Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Bob Booth
A strange problem has just cropped up with an image backup on Linux. The server is 5.3.4.2 running on AIX, and the linux client version is 5.2.2 (I know it is old, but we have some 'legacy' issues). This just started happening, as it has been running literally for months without any problems. Th

Re: New personal best.

2007-04-02 Thread Bob Booth
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:52:48AM -0600, Barnhart, Troy wrote: > We're curious here in our shop... We are building a couple of servers for a > new project that may do this also. > > How fast did this 1 TB backup? Is this with an AIX-TSM server? Diskpool > Hardware? Tapepool Hardware? Here i

Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y

2007-03-09 Thread Bob Booth
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: > I understand your question, and "why" you would ask... :) > > This is why... > 03/09/07 10:05:38 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive 3592_1 > (/dev/rmt9) with volume V00040(OP=READ, Error Number

Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y

2007-03-09 Thread Bob Booth
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:35:14AM -0600, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: > Quick question. If I delete a volume to get it back from a read-only access > state into the scratch pool, will the next incremental backup for the node > data affected back up those files again? Does the database know that the

Re: TSM 5.3 upgrade and Oracle TDP help

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:48:20PM -0600, David Bronder wrote: > Bob Booth wrote: > > > > I'm getting ready to do an upgrade from TSM 5.2.9 to TSM 5.3.4 and I am > > really confused about the Oracle TDP license. > > Just about the TDPO license? :) Yeah.. really

TSM 5.3 upgrade and Oracle TDP help

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Booth
I'm getting ready to do an upgrade from TSM 5.2.9 to TSM 5.3.4 and I am really confused about the Oracle TDP license. Do I still need a xxx.lic file for the TSM server, if so, where does it live? I have downloaded TSM 5.3 EE and the TSM 5.3 DP for Oracle from the PA website. The only license fil

Re: TSM 5.4 cautions

2007-01-26 Thread Bob Booth
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:33:20PM -0500, Richard Sims wrote: > Look, before leaping into TSM 5.4 ... > Cautionary/advisory Technotes are starting to appear for 5.4, > as for example 1249083. Do a search, and pore over the Readme > file, before committing to an install. Agreed! I cautioned the 1

TSM 5.4 client appears

2007-01-26 Thread Bob Booth
The 5.4 TSM client is now on the IBM ftp site. It does appear to have the long awaited 'native' support for Intel based Macs. Hope it works. cheers, bob

Re: Recommendations for hardware replacement/upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Bob Booth
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:59:20AM -0500, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > Windows is not in the picture. These are going to be RH Linux systems. > > We will probably perform EXPORT TO SERVER to move the clients, one by one, > since we are probably going to move to new media types (3592 vs 3590) , as

Re: Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM)

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:37:59AM -, Gopinathan, Srinath wrote: > Bob, > > Thanks for the update. > > The OS which is running here is Solaris 5.9 > Well, if it is a VXFS filesystem, you can use the Veritas LVM to extend the FS. You may also be running Soltice which is basically VXFS under t

Re: Expanding the UNIX filesystem (TSM)

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:41:11PM +1100, Stephen Mackereth wrote: > Hi Srinath, > > Try > > chfs -a size=+G > > So something like > chfs -a size=+50G /apps/tsm > > Will increase the /apps/tsm filesystem by 50Gb (if there is enough space in > the Volume Group.) > AND... Assuming it is AIX. What

Re: Checking in new tapes on new TSM tape library

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Booth
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:59:34PM +1100, Paul Dudley wrote: > OK - I tried the command > > label libvol lb1.1.0.3 checkin=scratch search=bulk labels=barcode > > > and got the errors: > Check to see if the I/O slot is configured as a 'storage slot' in the library. > 11/08/2006 13:54:24 ANR8

Re: NDMP

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Booth
meet our budget, and offsite requirements except for this. Happy hunting, and I hope this helps people out there. Contact me offline if you have any additional questions, or need further details. Bob Booth UIUC/CITES

Re: NDMP

2006-10-09 Thread Bob Booth
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:27:56PM -1000, Aaron Becar wrote: > 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 suppor

Re: Conferences

2006-07-20 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:05:51PM -0400, Kathleen M Hallahan wrote: > I was actually just looking at the Baltimore conference listing for TSM > content, and all I can find is one session on future directions. Is this > an anomaly, or should I be looking somewhere else? Baltimore is close > enoug

Re: Conferences

2006-07-20 Thread Bob Booth
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:23:32PM -0500, Mark Stapleton wrote: > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/20/2006 > 02:28:17 PM: > > Look at the "Tivoli Technical User Conference". It's in the spring > > in the USA. > > Never have gone so cannot say if it is worth it. > > > > Rob Berendt wrote: > >

Re: Anyone backing up Mirapoint with TSM?

2006-04-25 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
retical. > > > > At 12:30 PM 4/25/2006 -0400, you wrote: > >I'm looking for someone who is backing up a Mirapoint e-mail system > >with TSM, so I can ask them a few questions. > >Thanks. > >..Paul MOS 3.7-GR is now TSM ready. Please ask me offline for more details Bob Booth

Re: Intel Mac backups

2006-04-17 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:12:46PM -0400, Paul Zarnowski wrote: > Our testing with the TSM 5.3.3 MacOS client has shown that it also > fails to work on Intel Macs. I am wondering what others are doing to > backup their Intel Macs while they wait for TSM to support them? We > have a lot of Mac use

Backup images of a SAN volume

2006-03-30 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I was hoping that 'image' might mean, 'I don't care, I'm just dumping bits'. Has anyone tried this? Is there anything out there that might work, or am I totally wasting my time? How to we backup raw images from a SAN or NAS using TSM without NDMP? thanks in advance! Bob Booth UIUC

Re: Licensing costs question

2006-03-22 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > I had a very disturbing conversation with someone in where I was told TSM > licensing could increase 10 fold. Is IBM hurting for money? Has anyone else > heard this nonsense? I could easily see us moving to something else if that

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-14 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Lepre, James wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >I need to bring back some offsite tapes for a restore. How do I > check them into the library, and then force Tivoli to use them. I have > a tape that broke and now I need to bring back the offsite copy, but I

Re: What is the FLUSH command?

2006-03-02 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
It forces a write of used log buffer pool pages to the database. I don't know if it even still does what it says it is doing in newer versions of TSM. I'm trying to remember, but I think it was used to free up recovery log space. With bigger disks being used for recovery logs, it probably isn't

Re: 3494 Library Problem inserting tapes

2006-03-01 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:02PM +0100, Volker Maibaum wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with our 3494 tape library since a couple of days. When > our offsite volumes are returned onsite and put into the library they > are assigned the category number 002F and not FF00 (as I would excpect). 0

Re: manual tape drive

2005-12-19 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:19:19AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > I've set up TSM 5.3 in a test environment with an external dat drive. > Unfortunately since I've only worked with automated libraries I don't know > the process for checking in a scratch tape to use with TSM. I also haven't > been

Re: 3590 Drive Problem

2005-11-29 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:27:10PM -0800, Gerald wrote: > I have a drive that from AIX lists as available. In TSM when i try to > > define a path to the drive I get an "ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O > > error occured while accessing drive DRIVE1." and a "ANS8001I Return > > code 15.". Then below is

TSM client 5.3 and Oracle TDP 5.2.0

2005-11-02 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
We are trying to run TDP for Oracle on Solaris 64bit Version 5.2.0, with TSM client level 5.3.0. When issuing any tdp command, we get the following error: ANS0220E (RC400) An invalid option was found during option parsing. I can't see anything in the documentation, bugs, or readmes about a clien

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:07:14PM -0600, Ben Bullock wrote: > Well, the problem with that suggestion is that the front panel > on the library was not working. The PC would not even boot up with the > arctic card problem, so there was no way to change any of the library > settings. No, this

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote: > > I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to > > use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I > > might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL > > configurations to use

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:54:20AM -0400, Richard Rhodes wrote: > Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library? > > If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money? > How often has your robot failed? > > We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option. In 3-4

Re: Install TSM 5.2 on solaris 9

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:45:41PM -0500, David Nguyen wrote: > I need to install TSM 5.2 server/client on Sun Fire 240 running solaris 9 but > I don't have any installation document. Can someone point me to a website > that I can get TSM document for installation? http://publib.boulder.ibm.com

Re: busy rootvg during restarts

2005-09-29 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:15:39PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote: > On Thursday 29 September 2005 17:23, Wheelock, Michael D wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Every time I halt and restart my tsm server, the rootvg disk becomes > > extraordinarily busy. I have moved all of the database, and logs to > > ano

Re: Update the AIX 3494 atldd.driver

2005-09-13 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:53:37PM +0200, Herrmann, Boris wrote: > Hello there! > > I want to upgrade the 3494 Tape Library driver (atldd.driver). Today we have > the Version 5.3.0.0. I downloaded the latest version (atldd.6.2.4.0.bin) > from the IBM ftp site with a readme file. Have anyone experie

Solaris 10 (x86) TSM client?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I realize there isn't a TSM Solaris x86 client, and probably won't be in the future (?), however I've heard that the Linux client will work. Has anyone been able to setup/use the Linux client for Solaris 10 x86? If so, what are the details in getting it working? I have a bunch of clients wanting

Strange message in TSM 5.1.10

2005-08-20 Thread Bob Booth - CITES/UIUC
1.10 on AIX 5.2 ML 5 Bob Booth UIUC

Re: Tape Question

2005-07-27 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Debbie Bassler wrote: > Thanks for the reference information, RichardWe had an IBM rep come in > and he said we could still use the 3494 library with 3592 tape drives, but > I wasn't sure about the tapes. I'm sure your IBM rep also told you that 3590 d

Re: Windows XP restore error(s) !resolved!

2005-07-19 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
This was both a client level backup/restore problem, and a XP permissions problem. When the machine was first installed, they used the TSM 5.2 client, which fixed a few scheduler problems with windows. When the machine was reinstalled the admin installed an older version of the TSM client (5.1.4)

Windows XP restore error(s)

2005-07-19 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
Server: AIX 5.2/TSM 5.1.10 Trying to restore a Windows XP directory, we are receiving several errors, none of which, I have been able to find in READMEs or APAR lists.. At first we tried the restore with TSM client level 5.1.4, and I am wondering if before the machine was rebuilt they were runnin

Re: Getting latest microcode for 3590-b1a

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:34:01AM -0500, Lee, Gary D. wrote: > I must be blinder than usual today. Can't seem to find the ftp site for > downloading new microcode for the 3590 b drives. > > Can anyone out there help please? ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/3590/code3590 hth, bob

Re: your mail

2005-06-23 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:19:47AM -0700, Tim DeBolt wrote: > We have an AIX client that does a nightly scheduled incremental backup. It > has failed the last three nights, but if we schedule it during the day it > runs fine. > > ANS4023E Error processing '/': file input/output error Looks like y

Re: TSM dsmserv loadformat errors

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:10:20PM -0400, Lawrence Clark wrote: > Yep. just tried that, although the manual does say the /dev format is > doable. Its doable if you are running raw logical volumes, and you would have to specify the 'raw' device, ie: /dev/radsmdb... bob > > > You need to specify t

Re: TSM dsmserv loadformat errors

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:12:00PM -0400, Lawrence Clark wrote: > I am testing the unload / load procedures on our DR TSM server. > The unload went fine, but the loadformat is having a problem. I've used > both formats suggested in the manual, logical name and device name, but > still receive the s

Re: Tape Stuck in Remote Status

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:59:06AM -0500, Andrew Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:27:39 -0500, Ochs, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You can do a delete volume ## discard=yes. This will delete all > >references to data on that volume from the TSM database. > > > > I had the volume

Re: Tape Stuck in Remote Status

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Andrew Carlson wrote: > I have two tapes that are in volume history as status "Remote". The > instance > of TSM they are supposedly remote on no longer have any information about > these volumes. When I try to enter them as scratch, they are rejected: > >

Re: 3494 library and extended tape question

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:34:09AM +0100, Farren Minns wrote: > Hi all > > At present we are using an IBM 3494 library with two 3590H1A drives. So far > we are just using the standard 3590 tapes but are looking at adding some of > the extended capacity volumes. Does anyone know if I need to do anyt

Re: JR- Delete file after TSM has backed them up

2005-04-21 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:31:45AM -0500, JR Trimark wrote: > Can TSM be configured to delete a file from a client after it has been > backed up? You would probably want to use the "archive" function for this. There is a -deletefiles option for it. bob

Re: Help me convincing IBM please!!!!

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:40:08PM -0400, David Longo wrote: > I've been following this thread all day. Without running the script, > I know I am getting abround 2.5 million objects per hour examined > and it takes aboput 2.5 hours to run expiration daily. That's this > week. Last week, it took

Re: TCP settings for Jumbo frames

2005-03-23 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:04:40AM -0600, Miller, Ryan wrote: > Here's a question from one of my cohorts, since this is our first try at > this, I thought I would see if I could get any input from anyone else doing > this. > > We have been testing jumbo frames(8990) using TSM on an AIX client. Th

Re: Drive tapes

2005-02-24 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:48:33AM +0800, Hashim, Shukrie BSP-ISM/116 wrote: > Hi all, > > can someone tell me how can the PATH of my drives be NO on some of my drives > sometimes when I do 'q path' ? and then .. I am getting ... alot of 'DEVICE > DEGRADATION' error from the system. > > Sequence

Re: Expiration/inactive node

2005-02-19 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:26:33AM -0800, Sam Sheppard wrote: > Due to a legal investigation, I have been asked to 'freeze' the backups > on one of my client machines. We removed the client from the schedule > and changed the NODENAME parm in the dsm.opt file to specify a new > name. > > My questi

Re: Solaris 10 support

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
ter many tests, it runs just fine. We have run it on Beta and GA. I don't think it is officially supported by IBM/Tivoli, but we have found no problems with it so far and continue to use it. Bob Booth UIUC

Re: breaking volume mirror for TSM DB

2004-09-01 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:21:36AM +1000, Yuhico, Alexandra wrote: > Do i need to stop all sessions and make sure none are running before I break > the mirror? You do not need to stop sessions or processes. I would suggest a backup of your database (snapshot) as a best practice.. Always better

Re: SQL Select

2004-08-31 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:02:43PM -0400, James Lepre wrote: > I am trying to find a statement that would allow me to see what tapes need to be > reclaimed. Can this be done? > Depends ofcourse on your reclaimation level.. I have a few 'scripts' that help me. For example, if I want to see what

Re: ?continue using 3590's or convert to LTO tape?

2004-04-06 Thread Bob Booth - CITES
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:37:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James R Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Are you [other sites substantially invested in 3590's] continuing to > > invest in 3590's -or- are you converting to other (LTO?) tape technology

Re: 3590 drives keep going offline

2004-02-10 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
If the drives are all experiencing hardware problems, I had an instance like this that was driving me nuts.. On unload, one failing drive was not putting the leader back into the tape all the way, but leaving it hang a bit. The tape was ejected enough for the robot to go put it away. The drive w

Re: Reuse of IBM FMR 3590 Cartridges

2004-01-28 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Yes, they can. You use the 3590 drive to remove the FMR formatting from the tape, using the CE options. I reuse them all the time. bob On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:39:14AM -0600, Kevin Miller wrote: > Hello TSM'ers, > > I've slowly accumulated a small collection of IBM 3590 FMR cartridges > durin

Re: Out of the way -NTP on AIX

2004-01-26 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
you may have to set up a 'restrict' statement for NTP, depending on what version you are using. restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx restrict xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Add the restrict statements, and restart. use xntpdc to check how you are doing; peers, sysinfo, monlist s

Re: Hacmp / TSM

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
somebody may have deleted the userid associated with the subsystem. When the subsystem was stopped, the userid was finally released. Check the subsystem definition with: lssrc -S -s Clstrmgr and verify that the userid associated with the subsystem is valid. Hope this helps. bob On Thu, Jan 2

Re: out of storage on server message

2004-01-09 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I have had many problems with caching turned on for storage pools. It seems that the backup attempts to calculate the amount of space needed to store the object, but if the object is compressed, and compression is turned on, the size of the object can actually expand, making it too big to be store

Re: Cancel session

2004-01-08 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
>From the server: q restore to cancel: cancel restore You can also set the duration of the restart period from the server with the setopt command. hope this helps. bob On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:39:10PM -0500, Lawrence Clark wrote: > ANS1330S This node has a pending restartable restore sess

Re: AIX startup of TSM scheduler

2004-01-06 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I usually put the startup in /etc/rc.local, but you can put it in /etc/inittab (not respawn), or /etc/rc.tcpip. As root, to restart the sched process and detach it: # sh -c "/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &" If placing in an rc file, remember to background it '&', probably the inittab as well.

Re: Media error

2003-12-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
A 'locate' error refers to a tape hardware error, in which a SCSI fast LOCATE command fails. This is usually due to a corrupt tape table of contents (however that is defined by the tape drive manufacturer). Appendix 'D' of the 'Messages' guide is indicated below. The 3580 LTO hardware guide will

Re: TSM on Solaris with a 3583 Tape Libray

2003-12-03 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Have you or the CE checked your firmware levels. There is a new version of FW that came out a week or so ago. Make sure you check your drive sled FW as well. If it is down rev you have to update the FW for the whole box. It is not that painful a process from the we interface. We are not runnin

Re: Strange Windows scheduler problem

2003-11-19 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
This is exactly what I was thinking. The IP address is filled in on the query node output, but I think the scheduler has an internal one? I looked quickly at some of the database tables, but I could not find exactly where the IP address the scheduler uses is kept.. thanks for the input. bob On

Strange Windows scheduler problem

2003-11-19 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Server: AIX TSM 5.1.7 Client: Windows version 5.01, TSM client 5.2.1 I am having a very strange problem with a remote Windows box. It is set up for a schedule, and when the schedule time comes around, the TSM server attempts continuously to contact the client, but the client never responds. I ha

Re: arch error

2003-11-17 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Take a look at the server activity log, for more detail on the error. bob On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:36:55PM -0500, Lawrence Clark wrote: > dsmc arch "/my/directory/*" > > archives nothing and generates error. Anyone seen this? > > Total number of objects inspected:1 > Total number of obj

Re: Hanging restore process

2003-11-08 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Do you get an error message back from your 'cancel restore -1' or 'cancel restore all' commands? bob On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Przemys?aw Maciuszko wrote: > Hi. > I've got a problem with one of tapes - I try to move data out of this tape - > I get an error saying that there is re

Re: OK to mirror AIX Raw LV for data pools?

2003-10-26 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I have been doing rawlv AIX mirroring for disk storage pools since ADSM was delivered for AIX. I have *never* had a problem, and when properly laid out, get outstanding performance as well. bob On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:26:47PM -0600, Roger Deschner wrote: > The ITSM Administrators Guide is exp

Re: WRONG Answer: dsmfmt file size

2003-10-07 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I too, have read the manual, and talked to TSM folk, about RAW vs. filesystem usage. I must say, that because of ease, I have always used raw LV's and never had a problem, and get very good performance. If you are talking about AIX, OS mirroring takes place at the LV level, so it is a piece of ca

Re: Backing up MIRAPOINT appliances

2003-10-07 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Just for the record, Mirapoint and TSM are NOT compatible. After talking to the engineers at both companies, we doubt that the direction that IBM is going with NDMP would *ever* work with Mirapoint or other boxes like Mirapoint. There are only a few real alternatives, we tried the good and the b

Re: Page Shadow File not valid

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
You need to go to the back of the Reference Guide and look at how to add log space to the server. There is a procedure for recovering the server due to overcommited log space. I don't know the answer for the shadow device, but it really isn't the problem here I believe. Once the log is extended

Re: TSM/AIX problem or AIX/TSM problem??!?

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Wrong 'tsm'. tsm is the module in AIX (SYSV) that is the login broker (it does getty, and login). The messages below indicate that something is getting a 'password: ' prompt but not typing anything or hitting enter before a timeout value. You are not looking at a TSM (ADSM, WDSF...) problem here

Re: AIX quota Question

2003-07-07 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
A good resource for aix questions is the following listserv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is an archive of the list here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2 There is a FAQ here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq Another resource is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you can sign up www.userblue.or

Re: new TSM Client Pricing

2003-06-17 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
I am told the only 'client CPU' issues are on pricing of the TDP licenses. That is what I had to gather to renew my TSM license just a week ago. bob On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Ryan, Phil wrote: > I heard that it is only processors on the tsm server not clients > > -Original Me

Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

2003-06-16 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
Could any of you supply your drive firmware level, so we can all compare notes? thanks, bob On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Tom?? Hrouda Ing. wrote: > We have it on both IBM and Imation tapes (we had first 20 tapes in initial > order with library from IBM and 20 Imation tapes bought 1/

Re: Windows 2000 scheduled backup problem

2003-05-30 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
As directed from the ref guide, I changed my objects to '"C:\Research Folder\*"' Now the schedlog shows every file on the machine backing up, so I am back to where I started. Do I need a 'virtual mount point' on this windows box, for it to only back up this one folder? Any other clues? thanks,

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