Re: Delete backupset volumes question

2010-08-30 Thread Conway, Timothy
Does Expire Inventory work with backupsets and can you be specific about expiring a Specific Backup set and it's tapes? Best regards! On 8/23/2010 3:06 PM, Conway, Timothy wrote: > Well - you can't delete by backupset name. I think I read once where you can > specify volum

Re: Delete backupset volumes question

2010-08-23 Thread Conway, Timothy
Well - you can't delete by backupset name. I think I read once where you can specify volumes in an undocumented option, but that's irrelevant. Expire inventory. 73, Tim Conway JBS USA | 1770 Promontory Ci | Greeley, CO 80634| USA Direct: 970-506-7998 | Fax: 970.336.6195 email: timothy.con...@

Re: which one is more accurate count?

2010-08-12 Thread Conway, Timothy
Select node_name,sum(physical_MB) from occupancy group by node_name Would seem to give you the total usage for each of you nodes. If you don't want to count copypools, Select node_name,sum(physical_MB) from occupancy where stgpool_name in (select stgpool_name from stgpools where pooltype='PRIM

5.5.3.0 AIX can't backup db

2010-08-12 Thread Conway, Timothy
For the past few days, my daily maintenance has been interrupted by the database backup. When it's invoked, it never happens, and the maintenance script of course dosn't finish. I can't do it manually, either. While it's in that state, I can't get answers on any sort of storage query - select

Re: Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM client file system??

2010-05-27 Thread Conway, Timothy
I've never done it, and don't like it, but subfile backup? 73, Tim Conway JBS USA | 1770 Promontory Ci | Greeley, CO 80634| USA Direct: 970-506-7998 | Fax: 970.336.6195 email: timothy.con...@jbssa.com JBS Server Team -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.m

Re: Virtual TSM

2010-02-05 Thread Conway, Timothy
Virtualizing an I/O monster like that is - well, obviously you're not planning on great performance. A POC? A sandbox? A demo? If you just need to have it controlling and using a library, how about setting up an iSCSI bridge? Then the interface to the device is entirely within the virtual ma

Re: Bug report - backupsets and expiration hanging - just helping out

2009-11-27 Thread Conway, Timothy
al Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Conway, Timothy Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Bug report - backupsets and expiration hanging - just helping out We are off maintenance, so I can't turn t

Bug report - backupsets and expiration hanging - just helping out

2009-11-27 Thread Conway, Timothy
We are off maintenance, so I can't turn this in directly to IBM, but I know some of their best and brightest watch this list. I've got a consistent case where a backupset being generated hangs if an expiration starts during it, after which neither process will finish cancelling even after sever

Re: SELECT FOR DISTINCT VOLUMES IN A COLLOCATION GROUP

2009-09-17 Thread Conway, Timothy
I do it this way. select distinct COLLOCGROUP_NAME,VOLUME_NAME from COLLOCGROUP,VOLUMEUSAGE where STGPOOL_NAME='LOCALTAPE' and COLLOCGROUP.NODE_NAME=VOLUMEUSAGE.NODE_NAME group by COLLOCGROUP_NAME,VOLUME_NAME To generate a list of volumes by collocation group. I actually combine that information

Re: Anybody got TDPEXC 6.1 working yet?

2009-04-22 Thread Conway, Timothy
to verify it is the same issue that has already been reported? Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 04/15/2009 01:25:13 PM: > [image removed] > > Anybody got TDPEXC 6.1 working yet? > > Conway, Timothy > &g

Re: Object size query

2009-04-21 Thread Conway, Timothy
Upgrade to version 6, and just run your SQL without fear. :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Devine Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Object size query I would like to query t

Anybody got TDPEXC 6.1 working yet?

2009-04-15 Thread Conway, Timothy
Specifically the mailbox and item-level restores? I'm going back and forth through the documentation, but whenever I do a backup, I get "ACN5918W The mailbox history did not update successfully on the TSM Server.", and whenever I select "mailbox restore", I get "ACN0004E An unknown error has been d

Re: Two different retention policies for the same node

2009-03-17 Thread Conway, Timothy
Is this to avoid having two copypools? That's a reasonable goal. I have only one copypool, which is my DR offsite pool. Just make your onsite copypool an offsite pool, and you can give them 25 times better than they're asking for. Unless most of the data changes every day, the difference betwee

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-03-02 Thread Conway, Timothy
sage- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Conway, Timothy Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM IBM just doubled our maintenance, so we're getting rid of TSM wholesale and rearchitecting

Re: Select Statement

2009-02-27 Thread Conway, Timothy
OK, then, back to my ugly select, shich I'm sure needs correction - No way in heck I'm going to run it on my server. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.ED

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
ustomer. Unless you have a really tiny environment, even an increase in your maintenance (not 4X, but some increase) is going to most likely be cheaper for you than the initial cost of one of the other backup products (and none of the others are as good!) On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Conwa

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
AS far as I know, there was no audit. The "audit tool" is about as worthless as it could be without being actually harmful. You'd think all the clients could return CPU type, count, and IDs and have a complete answer right there in the TSM server. Over the past couple years, we've greatly shrunk

Re: Select Statement

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
What he means is no onsite copypool, and not all primary volumes are in the library. Our library's inadequate too. A restore volume preview isn't an option for a copypool volumes either :( Move data doesn't have a preview. Ok, here. Do a stgpool backup, disable sessions and do another stgpoo

Re: Select Statement

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
Select volume_name fron contents where object_id in (select object_id from contents where volume_name='volumename') and stgpool='primarypoolname') group by volume_name I think it would take a LONG freaking time to run, though. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
ot the place to incite or invite a "bash IBM" thread. Sorry. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM On Feb 24

Alternatives to TSM

2009-02-24 Thread Conway, Timothy
IBM just doubled our maintenance, so we're getting rid of TSM wholesale and rearchitecting all pending IBM purchases for other platforms. I had made and won the case for keeping it as our solution despite the expense, at the level we were at through 2007, but there's no discussion for this change.

Re: error renaming node file space

2009-02-17 Thread Conway, Timothy
I hate outlook. Saw that message as top of the list unread - 2 weeks old. -Original Message- From: Conway, Timothy Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:04 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] error renaming node file space That does sometimes happen with odd

Re: error renaming node file space

2009-02-17 Thread Conway, Timothy
That does sometimes happen with odd names (odd for the host OS). In that case, the best thing to do is use the fsid for specifying the original name. For some reason, it's much more forgiving in specifying the new name. ren filesp athens 4 '\\athens\c$_old' namet=fsid Here I fsck with my lapt

What to do about all the extra copies from RMAN duplex?

2009-02-16 Thread Conway, Timothy
I have set up the extra management classes in my RMAN domain, put the "TDPO_MGMT_CLASS_[234]" entries into the tdpo.opt files, and am waiting for my DBAs to set BACKUP_TAPE_IO_SLAVES to true and restart, and I'm going to have roughly twice as much RMAN data coming from a small selection of my nodes

Re: cannot run command

2009-02-11 Thread Conway, Timothy
Ashish: Your situation is somewhat familiar to me. I've had the server process become selectively and increasingly unresponsive, to the point where sometimes the only way to get it down is with a kill -TERM. It most often happens when I do storage-related queries while waiting for a tape operati

Re: AIX 5.1.1.0 Client install fileset issue

2009-02-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
You can probably get the updates to your existing filesets via this: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/aix51fixes/home.html Alternately, if the client system doesn't need gsk for other things, you can uninstall it. It's not needed by TSM, but if it's there, it has to be compatible.

Re: TDPO problem - can't delete old tdpo backups

2009-02-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
Once the object doesn't exist in the primary pool, the object in the copypool becomes empty space too. When I did a gig cleanup via delete object, it made a big drop in usage of my copypool, and it took a week for reclamation to get back in line. If I had it to do over (and I probably will), I'd

Re: Retry after 1855?

2009-02-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
I just finally noticed the "duplex" option - and the extra management classes. My network guy isn't happy about the idea of me doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the WAN traffic, but it's the first thing I've seen within TSM to make there be any chance at all... Is anybody else using that feature

Retry after 1855?

2009-02-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
(or 4994, or 0342, depending on when and where you look at it). I have a lot of data on the far end of a WAN link. I thought the WAN was really error-prone, but after I presented my evidence that nearly 1 in 100,000 packets arrives with the wrong checksum and was laughed at, I've learned that that

Re: Where is the missing 38GB?

2008-12-02 Thread Conway, Timothy
How about a q db f=d now that the estimate dbreorgstats is finished? The "q dbv f=d" doesn't really give anything that's affected by the estimate. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:04 PM To:

Re: Offsite reclamation problem

2008-11-04 Thread Conway, Timothy
What I do is stack processes. Both my offsite and local LTO-class pools run their reclamations at the same time, so if one gets cancelled, it's just extra resources for the other. That brings the question - are those 10 drives in one library? If so, tell me what possible benefit can come from se

Re: Several simultaneous backups of an AIX client

2008-10-23 Thread Conway, Timothy
Set resourceutilization in the client's configuration to twice the number of streams you want to run. If anything is likely to go directly to a sequential stgpool, set your maxnummp for the node definition to at least the number of streams you want to run (make sure you aren't going to hurt other

Re: IBM TS3310 vs IBM TS3200

2008-10-22 Thread Conway, Timothy
TS3310 18 months good function, but: There is a bit of oddness in the firmware, where it forgets how many slots it has. I think IBM must have something new coming out soon because support just keeps asking for new snapshots and drive logs (great use of my time), every few weeks, rather than fixi

Re: stdio and baclient?

2008-10-03 Thread Conway, Timothy
6919 - Office [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Business. Better. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conway, Timothy Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] stdio and baclient? Si

Re: stdio and baclient?

2008-10-02 Thread Conway, Timothy
Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Conway, Timothy > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:10 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] stdio and baclient? > > I've searched carefully, but maybe I've fa

heads-up for those who do PIT backupsets and have activedata

2008-10-01 Thread Conway, Timothy
I finished testing the fix on the 18th, and finally found out the APAR number today, hence the post made now. This one isn't publicly available yet, so I can't read the actual text of the APAR, but here's the only explanation I was given so far - "they found a bug in how we generate entries into t

stdio and baclient?

2008-10-01 Thread Conway, Timothy
I've searched carefully, but maybe I've failed to come up with good search strings, so in case anybody knows of some non-intuitive options, or maybe even a small third-party interface through the API... I've got data sets that I need to retain for 53 weeks as complete copies. They're copies of i

Re: mergefilespaces and import

2008-09-25 Thread Conway, Timothy
What doc for import node says that? Certainly not the server's own documentation. " MERGEfilespaces Specifies whether Tivoli Storage Manager merges client files into existing file spaces on the target server (if they exist), or if Tivoli Storage Manager generates new file space name

Re: TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client even though it seems to know it's IP address.

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
-8721 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conway, Timothy Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client even though it s

Re: Tsm client for as/400

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
Honestly, the AS400 client couldn't be called a dinosaur... More a fried scrambled dinosaur egg that somebody sculpted into the shape of a dinosaur and expected it to get up and walk around. Dozens of hours to back up a single small library is not useable. The response from IBM is that essentially

Re: TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client even though it seems to know it's IP address.

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
The simplest solution is upd node STLO-MPVADM HLA=10.52.27.204 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM scheduler can't reach TSM client

Re: Restore backupset

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
Since the TSM server is running on the node you want to restore on, why not just let the server serve the backupset to its own client? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/tconway>runtsm q backupset flatus IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.2 (c) Co

Re: anyone currently using or evaluating TSM FastBack

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
There's no evaluation provided. List is USD1030.90 for 10 PVU of the basic product with exchange brick-level and bare-metal. It's the former "FilesX" product. We're torn between implementing it and waiting for the native brick-level exchange restores in TSM 6. Every Thursday this month at 15:30 U

Re: Volume size on sequential disk storage pools

2008-09-18 Thread Conway, Timothy
I know of no TSM-based limit. I personally have 1672 25037MB FILE-class volumes on 88 filesystems. The volume size was chosen to entirely fill the filesystems. The filesystem size was chosen to fit evenly within the LUNs. The LUN size was chosen to exactly fill optimally-available arrays. The

Re: TSM 5.2.9: Migration from AIX to SuSE Linux

2008-09-11 Thread Conway, Timothy
You've got to do the local storage yourself, and have that ready to receive the filedata. The only things that can be brought over by the exports are things that are platform-independent. Having the system guess what libraries, volumes, paths, drives, filesystems, disks, whatever it's supposed to

Re: TSM 5.2.9: Migration from AIX to SuSE Linux

2008-09-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
Export server won't define your stgpools, devclasses, libraries, drives, etc.. It exports all the things the server needs to manage the clients the exporting server has. Make sure you have the space, and then run your export server. By default, all you'll get is schedules, client definitions and

Re: How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

2008-09-10 Thread Conway, Timothy
Copypool simultaneous write? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource utilization? Greetings, We

Re: There are not enough scratch volumes available

2008-09-08 Thread Conway, Timothy
It is difficult to determine your actual question. I presume you have an operation you are attempting to perform which is failing with the subject as an error message. Is the below a complete listing of all of your tape volumes? It appears that your off_site_pool is not being correctly managed...

Re: Restoring data on a different TSM server

2008-09-08 Thread Conway, Timothy
restore db from primary node upd path for the drives and library to point to the new one, if necessary. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 1:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L]