Optimizing Restores

2002-10-10 Thread Brown, Bud
Hello *SMers, An IBM business partner said to me that restores are what TSM is plugged for. My feeling is that on low number of file restores I can understand, but on restores for large number of files there is much to be desired. I can not find any one post on the listserv that sums up how

Select Stmt? or Query

2002-05-07 Thread Brown, Bud
Hello All: I have a unix client that kicks off an incremental backups thru tivoli using an internal dump process for a sql database. I want to provide a report to the group that monitors its backup. The only information they care about is whether a filespace backed up successfully, what files

Nohup Scheduler Service.

2002-03-28 Thread Brown, Bud
Anybody, I am trying to get the scheduler service to run in the background and to continue running after a logout. My TSM server is ver. 4.1.4.1 and AIX 4.3.3, my tsm b-a client is 4.1.4 on a Unix Tru64 OS. I was using the 'Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX - Using the Backup-Archive Clients',

Re: Nohup Scheduler Service.

2002-03-28 Thread Brown, Bud
and type bg enter it will send the task to the background. We have never been able to get nohup to work on the dsmserv start up and go to the background. The other possibility is to put the whole think in parenthesis (nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null ). -Original Message- From: Brown, Bud

Re: Message ANR8214E every 30 Seconds

2002-03-21 Thread Brown, Bud
The only time I have seen this message is when NIC settings and Switch/Router settings were not hardset to the same port speeds. I.e. 100/FULL or 10/half, etc... Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator -Original Message- From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: TCP Errors

2002-03-20 Thread Brown, Bud
- From: Brown, Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TCP Errors All, I am all of a sudden beginning to get the following errors on a file server. The client is w2k with b-a 4.2.0, and the server is AIX 4.3.3 w/ 4.1.4.1. This node has

TCP Errors

2002-03-19 Thread Brown, Bud
All, I am all of a sudden beginning to get the following errors on a file server. The client is w2k with b-a 4.2.0, and the server is AIX 4.3.3 w/ 4.1.4.1. This node has been backing up fine up until last monday. The NIC settings are hard set to 100/FULL as well as the switch port. There are

shrdynamic still skips a file

2002-03-06 Thread Brown, Bud
Current specs are: Server: RS/6000, TSM 4.1.4.1, AIX 4.3.3 Client: TSM 4.1.4, AIX 4.3.3 Our vendor that supports the application running on this box wanted shrdynamic for serialization to back a large comma delimited file. Even though the management class associated with the file has

Re: shrdynamic still skips a file

2002-03-06 Thread Brown, Bud
No, it is manually kicked off via a cron job setup by the vendor. Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shrdynamic

Can't Map Object?

2002-02-22 Thread Brown, Bud
Has anybody seen this error before? I have about 20 files that the B/A client is 'skipping. . .' The common theme is that the files do not have file extensions. 02/22/2002 00:47:14 fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'E:\Dept\Public Relations\ Graphic Archives\Trauma Conference\Trauma Conf

Re: Select Stmts. in TSM

2002-02-22 Thread Brown, Bud
The only way I have been able to do this is buy using the ODBC driver and having an Access database join link tables. Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:13 PM

Re: Legato to Buy OTG in $403 Million Cash, Stock

2002-02-21 Thread Brown, Bud
My question: When will Cheyenne buy St. Bernards OFM? Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Legato to Buy OTG in

Re: Free TSM Scripts

2002-02-20 Thread Brown, Bud
Do you have any experience using the snmp .mib files that are sent with tivoli and/or AIX? I have been planning to give it a shot, but I was hoping to get any input I can before starting. I am going to try to get them to work with either NetIQ or HPOpenView if at all possible. Bud Brown

How do you backup network drive w/o logging in?

2002-02-18 Thread Brown, Bud
I am looking for suggestions. I have a NAS solution that needs to be backed up. I was hoping to specify a network drive on a particular windows b/a client, until I realized that I had to be logged in all the time to back it up. I want to be able to backup a NAS share without being logged in

ODBC Driver for Windows

2002-02-18 Thread Brown, Bud
I was wondering if anybody has had any luck using the ODBC driver and Access 2000 to run read-only queries and run reports on the syscat table. Innitially I have had success in setting this up but that only lasts until I close the database I created. I have to recreate the links every time. I

Re: ODBC Driver for Windows

2002-02-18 Thread Brown, Bud
] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Brown, Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/18/2002 09:31 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR Proc edure

2002-02-13 Thread Brown, Bud
I heard this is a great class to take. If anybody has taken this please elaborate a little. Course Code: TS520 Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1 Advanced Administration Table of Contents: Overview

Re: Testing A WIN2k Server restore

2002-02-08 Thread Brown, Bud
Microsoft has an article Q249694, but they put a disclaimor in it that it is not supported. Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing A WIN2k Server restore

2002-02-08 Thread Brown, Bud
Have you viewed the articles Q139822 for NT and Q249694 for W2K? Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Testing A

Re: 3584 microcode

2002-02-07 Thread Brown, Bud
We had a tech in recently to upgrade our code to 2360, and he said it wasn't published on the website yet. Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:46

Re: Splitting Library LTO3584

2002-02-07 Thread Brown, Bud
We have 2 Tivoli Servers connected to our 3584 library w/ 8 SCSI drives. Each server has its own connection to seperated tape drive loops. We had to do a Advanced configuration to specify drives and I/O slots. Our setup consists of 2 completely seperate TSM servers with their own set of

Backup Security

2002-02-06 Thread Brown, Bud
I have 2 Windows domains: domainA(win2k), domainB(NT4). My TSM Servers(2) are RS/6000's running TSM 4.1.4.1, and AIX 4.3.3. Currently, I have only been backing up clients within domainA. I have been posed with the question, can I backup clients within domainB and provide security for the data

Novell 3.12 and Open File

2002-01-16 Thread Brown, Bud
I have a Novell 3.12 box with TSM b/a client 3.1.0.7, and Server 4.1.4.1 on IBM AIX 4.3.3 NSM box. The dsm.opt file follows. I made some illustrated changes on 12/6/01 because we were backing up every cd-rom that was mounted on the system and the name was different every time. This is a

TKG's Bare Metal Restore

2002-01-08 Thread Brown, Bud
Is anybody currently using BMR and Tivoli concerned with this news? Please take a look at this URL. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/08/020108hnveritas.xml Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986

Re: TSM win2k cluster install

2001-12-19 Thread Brown, Bud
I have a win2k cluster as well. We currently have the local backup/archive client backing up each associated resource on each cluster node. I want to configure TSM for failover services as well. My understanding of the install goes like this: 1. Install the b/a client on both cluster nodes.

Re: Incremental forever -- any problems?

2001-12-17 Thread Brown, Bud
I would definitely suggest collocation if you can't afford the tapes for full backups. Another suggestion if you are backing up large flat directories (i.e. Home directories), use the dirmc option to keep directory structures on disk if need be. This can really speed up a restore. Bud Brown

Auto-Clean LTO tape drives

2001-12-14 Thread Brown, Bud
Does anybody know of any issues kicking off the clean command on a scheduled service with an LTO library or any general concerns when running this command on a schedule? Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986