Re: space reclamation when using server-to-server communication

2002-10-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Where do your virtual volumes go ??? (straight to tape or first to a buffer diskpool ???) If they go straight to tape there is the possibility that your second virtual volume to be reclaimed ends up being on the physical volume to which your first reclamation process opened its output volume. (th

Re: Help! Problems restoring files of a dead AIX client on another system (adsm 3.1 2.90)

2002-10-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
What client level was "Barney" ? (and what level is Fred ?) If Barney was higher than the code on "Fred" then yes, natrually Fred can't see anything for Barney (from Barney)... Also ADSM isn't rated for AIX 4.3.3... (have to get in the standard IBM answer there ;-) ) I would try going into the d

FW: Important Update on the Tivoli Support Web Site Migration to IBM

2002-10-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
If you use the Tivoli web site, it is changing. Here is some info. I received Monday. just passing it along, later, Dwight -Original Message- From: Customer Support WEB Registration [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Impor

Re: retention question (may be trivial)

2002-10-01 Thread Cook, Dwight E
If a client quits backing up to a server, the server never has anything to base the status of an active file on. In other words, it never knows if it has turned inactive. Since active files are there as long as the node is, if a box never backs up again, its active files never go away. Dwight -

Re: Disk-Pool-Volume delete not possible

2002-09-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
This is one I had a long time ago... hanging pointers, here is how to solve. make sure all data is migrated from disk pools to tape pools do "q vol dev=disk" to capture all info on what disks are where write macros to delete all disk volumes (except the problem one) and define them back then when

Re: archiving with different management classes

2002-09-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Yep, don't complicate things... just use the -archmc= to bind a specific archive run's data to a specific management class... just add an addition option of -archmc=MGMT2_SWS Dwight -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September

Re: Archive or backup question

2002-09-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Look into performing an "image" backup... then it will just be a single TSM db entry BUT you only have an "all or nothing" restore possibility, you won't be able to just restore a single file out of the file system. Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications Internation

Re: TSM and multiprocessing

2002-09-24 Thread Cook, Dwight E
from a client point of view, look at "resourceutilization" (1-10) Things like a base "dsmc> incr" will fire off a thread to process each ~mount point~ to be processed... you still only see one task on the client but will see multiple sessions on the server. I believe the max sessions will be 8 if

Re: Select command to q client name and version

2002-09-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I use select node_name,platform_name,client_os_level,client_version,client_release,client _level,client_sublevel from adsm.nodes and you can add in a : where client_version<>4 AND client_release<>2 AND client_level<>2 if you want to see nodes not at a specific vrlm... Dwight E. Cook Software Ap

Re: !Urgent - SDLT/TSM slow after upgrade from v. 4.2.1.7 to v. 4.2.2 .12

2002-09-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
What processor & OS is the TSM server ??? Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suite 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 -Original Message- From: Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

tdp/r3, Solaris, & Light Weight Processes...

2002-09-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OK, all the new ~poop~ is multi-threaded. Anyone know the scoop on LWP's (light weight processes), specifically under Solaris ? We noticed a slow down in some environments upon upgrading to latest TSM 4.2.2.1 & tdp/r3 3.2.0.11 now that I'm bald from pulling out all my hair we notice that on a su

Re: 3494 Pause Mode and TSM

2002-09-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E
No you don't ! Many ways around this... For each drive that isn't currently active (and one at a time) simply either make it unavailable at the library manager OR delete it from TSM... then perform the firmware upgrade to the drive, then bring it back (either make it available again at the library

Re: Migration question

2002-09-13 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Nope ! Migration uses drives based on the smallest number of : A) max number of migration processes set for stgpool to be migrated B) number of tape drives in the devclass of the stgpool being migrated to C) unique node's data in the stgpool to be migrated OK, so if you ha

Re: recall task priority

2002-09-13 Thread Cook, Dwight E
remember it might not be that at all... do you have any other tape activity by that box on the tsm server ??? look at your "maxnummp" for your client... if you have a maxnummp of 1 and try to initiate two restores that require different tapes (yadayadayada) your second restore request will fail.

Re: mgmt class ?

2002-09-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
NOPE ! (well, sort of, maybe, depends on which one you want) If a file changes daily, you only keep "7" versions, so you will have at most 7 copies... on day 30 you only have days 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, & 29 to restore from... days 1-22 have expired due to "versions data exists" AND say the pers

Re: TSM 5.1.1.4 update

2002-09-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Geoff, don't go down the "patches" subdirectory... you want to go down "maintenance", "server", "v5r1", "AIX", "LATEST" where you will find... -rw-rw-r-- 1 18125700 20010491 May 31 15:03 TSMDEVAIX5110.README.DEV -rw-rw-r-- 1 18125700 200 18809353 May 31 15:03 TSMSRVAIX05_0

Re: email notification

2002-09-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Uhmmm can you do this is a server script I thought only TSM admin session commands were allowed ??? I might be very wrong though... Dwight -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: email

Re: TSM move off of mainframe????

2002-09-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Problem there is the tape media on which all the client data is stored. Is the same media available both on your ~mainframe~ and on your Sun box ? probably not so you're out of luck in general (and I like IBM/AIX boxes more than Sun/Solaris, just me...) I took two environments off MVS a long time

Re: Monitor TSM via SNMP

2002-09-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E
We've run into that... even a process check for "dsmserv" often times isn't even enough, this is why I do (on an hourly basis) a little script like #!/bin/ksh ONCALLPERSON=$(head -1 $HOME/bin/oncallperson) for ADSMSERV in $(cat $HOME/bin/tsm_server_list) do dsmadmc -id=blah -pass=blah -se

Re: URGENT - Quick Procedure Needed for using DSMSERV RESTORE DB with a 3590 DB Backup tape in a 3494 Library

2002-09-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Huh dsmserv restore db dev=3590devc vol=ABC123 commit=yes has always worked just dandy for me with a 3494 & 3590's I'm up to 4.2.2.1 and it has worked OK since ADSM 2.x Dwight -Original Message- From: Kent Monthei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09,

Re: Q OCC

2002-09-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E
You have to go down a ways in the help to find this but here it is... Physical Space Occupied (MB) The amount of physical space occupied by the file space. Physical space includes empty space within aggregate files, from which files may have been deleted or expired. Logical Space

Re: 3494 Utilization

2002-09-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Good question, never actually thought about it... I would think that the sum of the difference between mount & dismount times for each drive... OH THANKS. now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select statement to do this :-( if I figure it out, I'll pass it along Dwight -Origi

Re: Archive comand line syntax -

2002-09-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Generally when your specification is a directory, you will want to end it with a / so dsmc archive -subdir=yes /oracle/dev/ /oracle/tst/ would get you there... Dwight -Original Message- From: Gordillo, Silvio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:20

TDP/Domino V1.1 w/TSM NT 4.2.2.0 client going to AIX TSM Srv 4.2.2.0 "waiting for TSM server" ???

2002-09-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Running a Domino incremental we see TONS of long waits Waiting for TSM server ??? when a selective (full) runs we see very few and those are very very short... I saw Del's reply but this is way beyond any sort of normal waiting...

Re: Virtual Volumes...

2002-09-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
This is a real catch-22 BIG virtual volumes means less tsm data base space tied up tracking tons of little virtual volumes (and files on the remote server) BUT big virtual volumes also means lots of data transfered over the network during reclamation (sigh) Also remember, a virtual volume is only

finding old filespaces from unix clients...

2002-09-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I've noticed that if an entire filesystem is removed from a unix TSM client, the environment (as a whole) will keep that data until manually purged. I think this is OK/FINE/WHAT I WANT because you never know why an entire filesystem has gone away (might just be varied offline, etc...) but I still

Re: Very small server to server volumes

2002-08-28 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Sure... what you'll find is that for each ~operation~ in a server to server enviornment, once that operation finishes, it closes out a virtual volume"." So say you have an Est Cap of 10 GB but your backup stgpool to the remote server /virtual volume only pushes 2 GB. Then that virtual volume will

Re: 3494 on MVS vs AIX

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
ve. Suite 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:20 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: 3494 on MVS vs AIX On a 3494 attached to AIX what you can do is... mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qL N

Re: Server To Server

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Oh, could be a lot of things... remember one server's virtual volume is just a file on the other server... maybe that file is on a volume that is itself being reclaimed on the other server... or maybe on a volume that is listed as unavailable (etc...) check the remote server for any sort of messag

Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Tapes like this generally become this way due to some error such as not being able to read the volume's internal label when mounted to fill a scratch request. There is some TSM message that is along the lines of "... making volume private to prevent further access..." Now this doesn't mean

Re: 3494 on MVS vs AIX

2002-08-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E
On a 3494 attached to AIX what you can do is... mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qL Now, if the I/O station has any tapes in it, (used to this would be an "intervention required" situation but not any more at atldd.5.0.7.0.bin ) Anyway, if you have something in the I/O station, you will notice that the messag

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OUCH ! that kind'a hurts... "...I strongly recommend you to consider SAN, that is the professional way." I like to think of myself as a ~professional~ but 6 years ago when this was all put together here, ~SAN's~ weren't really available PLUS we wanted out backups done to servers across town at

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Piece of cake ! but depends... 1) need big client box 2) need data such that multiple concurrent sessions may run 3) go to a diskpool... We can back up a 3.4 TB data base in 12 hours... E10K with 64 processors, 25 get dedicated to a TSM TDP/R3 backup (25 concurrent sessions), run client compres

Re: Parallel Backup Paths for TDP R/3

2002-08-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Might want to double check the manual... States that if you want to use multiple paths to the same server, and have manual password you need to 1) not have a "NODE blah" in your dsm.sys SErver entries... 2) use a different node name for each different path to the server... So say you have serve

Re: file search in DB

2002-08-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E
try a combination of both select * from adsm.backups where ll_name='yourfile.name' and select * from adsm.archives where ll_name='yourfile.name' if it finds it, you'll have the node name, drive/filesystem, and directory path to it... this will take a while ! Dwight E. Cook Softwa

Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....

2002-08-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Tell the legal department you want a complete duplicate of you TSM environment !!! People make so many unrealistic request with absolutely no thought as to what they are asking for. The only way to do that is to make a handful of tsm db backups (to protect against loss due to media failur

BRMS question (sorry)

2002-08-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
BRMS Backup Recovery and Media Services (for OS/400) Looks like a cut down TSM... actually states TSM server may be used for data storage by BRMS Any TSM'ers have any AS/400's and use BRMS ? ? ? I think my backup services management is about to expand and was looking for some info on... BRMS,

Re: TDP's (RMAN and DOMINO).

2002-07-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Are you referring to the "file grew with compression and unable to allocate additional space" problem when going to cached diskpools ? ? ? If so, run with client settings "compression yes" "compressalways no", if the file grows with compression it will be sent uncompressed. (famous last words...)

TDP/R3 v3.2.0.11 available at ftp.software.ibm.com

2002-07-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
FYI... if anyone else was waiting on it. Dwight

Re: Swappin Silos

2002-07-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I agree with Don... Just connect in the new library and stick in all the tapes. Data/tapes are bound to a device class, then the device class is bound to a library What I'd do is get a list of all your tape volsers in a file and assemble checkout commands checkout libvol checklabel=no r

Re: TDP R/3

2002-07-23 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Geoff, What you will find is that all TDP/R3 data is written to a virtual file space name by the name of /tdp and tdpmux with a type of API:XINTV3. So even with collocation file, there is still only one filespace name to spread things out across. What you need to do is specify a different

Re: Tape questions

2002-07-23 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Actually the process is to just mark the primary volume as destroyed, then perform a "restore volume" TSM uses the contents of the destroyed volume in order to rebuild it. Now, with the old tape ~deleted~ from TSM, it doesn't know what was on it in order to rebuild it ! Sorry... Here is some info

Re: query what you've set with "set" command

2002-07-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
HA ! I didn't remember the "query system" command so I gave it a run on my test environment and after a while got ** *** ---> select stgpool_name,devclass_name,count(*) as "VOLUMES" from volumes group by stgpool_name,devclass_name **

Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

2002-07-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Whew, being mighty bold but you ~might~ be able to get it to work... I'd do everything with the library NOT available to the system, this MIGHT allow you to clean out references to volumes not used on each system without causing them to roll scratch. Even if you do this you will still need to go i

Re: how does sun communicate with lmcpd to access atl mgr?

2002-07-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E
if you lmcpd is running, you won't see a /dev/lmcp# on a sun box as you would on an aix box... under sun just simply use the name that is in the /etc/ibmatl.conf tsmatl05 149.183.246.88 tsmsrv10 so here I just use tsmatl05 zdec23@tsmsrv10/export/home/zdec23 > mtlib -l tsmatl05 -qL | more

Re: Server-to-Server DB backup and recovery

2002-07-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I played around with this a lot in the past but don't have a large use for it currently. To do a recovery, you get a basic environment up and running with your definitions over to your remote server and then just do a dsmserv restore db as normal using the device class of the remote server and the

Re: Archive Question

2002-06-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
also check on the "cleanup archdir" command... it will get rid of all those extra entries CLEAN ARCHDIR {DELETEDUPLICATES | SHOWSTATS | RESETDESCR | 1DELETDIRS } [FORMAT=S|D] [WAIT=NO|YES] Dwight -Original Message- From: Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: We

Re: Adding a second library

2002-06-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E
You ever been an MVS person ? Used partitioned data sets ? ? ? OK, TSM will do a trick where it bundles a lot of little files in a big file within ~TSM space~. OH, look at it like a ZIP file so if a bunch of little files are in this one big file that TSM is dealing with, natrually some files w

solved my case... RE: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ?

2002-06-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E
u please pass on the info? We don't need DRM anymore, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it, either. -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to flush DRM references, anybod

How to flush DRM references, anybody know ?

2002-06-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I've already opened a problem with Tivoli but anyone know how to flush all references to DRM ? At one point in time in an attempt to issue a "q pr" the "q" was left off and the "pr" initiated a prepare. Now my server shows I'm using DRM ! In the past I just stuck on the license so it would repo

db backups to disk files...

2002-06-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Just noticed, if you back up your db to a disk file, at least on AIX 4.3.3 with TSM server 4.2.2.0 the reported file name and the actual file name are different ! ! ! tsm: TSMUTL01>q volhist t=dbb Date/Time: 06/14/2002 11:46:20 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 8 Backup Oper

Re: DB backups

2002-06-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I don't do it all the time but I've used it for a lot of things... One was when we were moving an environment from one location to another 15 miles away. We had two servers but didn't have two libraries (and we had big diskpools to hold multiple day's backups) Anyway, I backed the db up to a disk

Re: Make Compression Client faster ??

2002-06-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E
because TSM processes on a file system basis... since / is a single file system, it will start a single process. Do you only want / backed up ? what about /usr and /opt & /var, etc they are not part of / Now if you said incr -subdir=yes then you would see a process for / kick off, alo

Re: Make Compression Client faster ??

2002-06-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
look a resourceutilization you can't spread the compression task out for a single session but you can initiate multiple sessions. Each task will bind to a different processor (should... famous last words) Is this just an "incr" task ? ? ? or are you running an archive(s) ? Dwight -Original

Re: 5.1 Database Restore; External Library Manager

2002-06-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Did you issue a "backup devconfig" command from a admin session with your server ? ? ? I would think that would put all required info into the devconfig file... I have an admin schedule that performs that on a daily basis across all my tsm servers. try a rename of your devconfig and issue the "bac

Re: Tsm client 5.1 fails to restore tsm 4.1 client backups ??

2002-06-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
remember, the general way the ~supported environment matrix~ works is client down one version.release from server client equal to server client ahead one version.release from server so the 4.1 client to a 5.1 server would place the whole environment so it falls outside the support matrix

Re: management class question?

2002-06-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
filespaces as a whole, aren't bound to a managmement class... I would check the include/exclude file and see how it is coded. Also remember, if you change the include/exclude list, that will apply it to all files previously backed up so the include/exclude list would be the place to look. an exa

Fun with numbers...(tsm client capacities)

2002-05-31 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Impress your boss... ! use one of the following select statements to get a rough capacity of all your tsm clients (breakdown by node) select node_name,sum(capacity) as "filespace capacity MB",sum(capacity*pct_util/100) as "filespace occupied MB" from adsm.filespaces where cast((current_timestamp

node filespace cleanup, any ideas ? ? ?

2002-05-31 Thread Cook, Dwight E
As filespaces come and go on a client, does anyone know of a solid way to clean them up ? ? ? Since directories are "backed up" even when they are "excluded" would the "Last Backup Start Date/Time:" reflect the last time the file system was mounted ? ? ? here is an example of why I would like to

Library Device shows nothing TSM Srv 4.2.2.0

2002-05-29 Thread Cook, Dwight E
I just noticed that my "Device:" in my "q libr" shows nothing for TSM Srv 4.2.2.0 ? (under AIX 4.3.3) I even updated the library to try to put it in, in case it got lost ??? This really SUCKS ! at least it is still written to the devconfig file... anyone else noticed this ? I mail myself

Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...

2002-05-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
you obviously have cached diskpool(s) run with compression yes (in dsm.sys) and compressalways no (in dsm.opt) if a file grows withh compression, compressalways tells it to send it uncompressed... Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications Internationa

Re: Tuning TSM

2002-05-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Run multiple concurrent client sessions... Run with TSM client compression... Go to disk first (to help facilitate the multiple concurrent sessions seeing how you only have one drive)... Get another drive ! ! ! (will really help when you have to run reclamation) I'm partial to 3590's but lots of f

Re: NetWare file size restriction error ANE4025E

2002-05-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E
error message manual states this is a restore/retrieve error, not a backup/archive error... and from the error manual text it sounds like a Netware client limitation in that the ID you are operating under isn't allowed to allocate a file that large (4 GB) I believe it was in TSM 3.7.2 when it was

Re: need script to stop all PROCESS's

2002-05-13 Thread Cook, Dwight E
make sure and upd all your tape storage pools to "recl=100" so no reclamation will run also remember that migration & reclamation, etc... will wait until it has finished processing its current file. #!/bin/ksh # purge all processes and look for still used tape mounts dsmadmc -id=blah -pass=blah

Re: dsmc scheduler problems

2002-05-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
You really shouldn't have two schedulers listing on the same port...(TCPCLIENTPORT) you might try letting one default to 1501 and force the other to 1502 (say in your TSM2 SErver entry) Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston A

Re: filesystems and directories under the same name

2002-05-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Common problem ! Look into the use of braces... { } When something gets altered like this use braces to explicitly specify the filespace name... so on your query try either q backup {/inbound/site}/* or q backup {/inbound}/site/* One of the two will give you what you want... Dwigh

Re: Backup error on win2000 client

2002-05-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Just a general observation... 4.2 client & a 3.7 server is not listed in the general "supported environments" matrix. An environment as a whole is only supported if the clients are 1 level back same level 1 level forward of the tsm server to which they back up. Granted thi

Re: copy pools question?

2002-04-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Let us also remember how our media likes or dislikes to be transported, dropped, left in various temperature ranges, etc... Sure our tape transporter won't stop for a cheeseburger & fries on the way to the offsite facility, RIGHT ! and D@#$ I dropped a tape and broke a corner off ! I'll just glue

Re: copy pools question?

2002-04-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Watch out ! A move data actually MOVES THE DATA, there is NO 2nd COPY With a copypool, when you perform your "backup stgpool" it basically performs an ~incremental~ style backup of your primary pool to your copy pool. Generally speaking, OS backups are "incremetal" style backups but all backups of

Re: Recovering from a disaster ....

2002-04-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
For what I call ~critical data~ such as the redo logs, we do have copy pools... Any long term storage data is exported to two tape sets... general backups (like oracle .dbf files) are just a single copy, if one goes bad, you restore the previous copy and roll it forward with redo logs. We also do

Re: Recovering from a disaster ....

2002-04-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OK, I've been working with TSM (ADSM) for about 6 years now and you can call me cheap but I never (personally) though DRM was worth the money. We do operate in a unique environment here so I shouldn't say that DRM has no place in the market, it is just that I was doing DRM before DRM came out and

Re: 2nd try - archive script

2002-04-29 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Archives have to be at least file system specific ! so an archive of /usr/ would NOT archive /usr/local/ if /usr/local/ is an independent file system. Your script should be OK... OK, as of the last time I testing client archives, this was the case. later, Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engin

Re: TSM Client Log File Help

2002-04-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OK, now in a unix environment, I'm thinking specifically of an AIX one, you have the ability to create a .netrc file under an id such that it will perform specific actions upon an ftp session being initiated to a specific node. So I build scripts that do... #!/bin/ksh echo machine > $HOME/.netrc

Re: Expiration ...(full vols 0.0% utilized)

2002-04-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Have you checked to ensure you don't have any ~HUNG~ volumes ? We recently discovered (in TSM 4.1) that if we had reclamation running during our DB backup that TSM would have some lock problems and once all the data was moved off a volume, it wouldn't roll scratch again ! ! ! I went out and looked

Re: DB & Recovery Log Copies

2002-04-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
check to see if they are protecting the DB & LOG files via OS level mirroring or maybe via some other form of RAID configuration... In our environment using plain SSA disks in a JBOD configuration I mirror (via tsm) the db & log files but in our environments using our ESS storage unit I don't...

Re: tsm database problem (unload)

2002-04-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Do you have some spare disk space ? ? ? You may set up a device class of a flat file and use that to unload and load from. I use extra space anywhere I can find it for such things... on one server I use extra space in the log file system DEFINE DEVCLASS DISKFILE DEVTYPE=FILE MAXCAPACITY=1048576K M

Re: tsm database problem

2002-04-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E
The way the data is spread out on the volumes, you will probably have to do an "unload" and a "load" to reorg the data base prior to being able to delete some of your volumes... Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Sui

Re: DUAL WRITE in TSM 5.1

2002-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
TDP simply uses the API interfaces to perform TSM activities... the "Simultaneous Writes to Primary and Copy Storage Pools" would be a feature of the TSM server and would be independent of the client (or how the client is getting the data to the server) famous last words... so it should work jus

Re: anyone notice TDP 3.2.0.8 on Solaris 2.6 with TSM 4.2.1.0...

2002-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
2.6 with TSM 4.2.1.0... Compression is controlled in the SAP TDP not the dsm.opt. -Original Message----- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: anyone notice TDP 3.2.0.8 on Solaris 2.6 with TSM 4.2.1.0... anyo

anyone notice TDP 3.2.0.8 on Solaris 2.6 with TSM 4.2.1.0...

2002-04-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E
anyone notice TDP 3.2.0.8 on Solaris 2.6 with TSM 4.2.1.0 doesn't seem to give a flip about the COMPRESSALWAYS NO setting in the client's dsm.opt file ! ? ! We installed the above combination and it goes to a cached diskpool on a AIX 4.3.3 TSM server running TSM Server 4.1.5.0 Well, files grow wi

Re: Monthly Backups, ...again!

2002-04-04 Thread Cook, Dwight E
ARCHIVE ! I tell clients, if they HAVE to have data for a SPECIFIC period of time, archive it into a management class with the required retention period. I try to only give them 1 3, 6, & 12 month management classes... anything longer than that and I make them archive to a specially registered n

Re: Checking in an vol with no label

2002-04-04 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Uh I don't believe so... BUT once in the ATL, the library manager tracks everything (doesn't re-read the barcodes unless told to do so) If you have a tape that you don't know the VOLSER here is what I'd try... Identify a scratch tape Check it out with remove=no Determine the cell in which th

Re: TOTAL Data on the Backup System

2002-04-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
try select sum (total_mb) as "total MB" from adsm.auditocc make sure and run an "audit lic" daily to update teh auditocc table... Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Offic

Re: domain ?

2002-04-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
IMHO, domains are just there for your use in any sort of logical separation you wish to perform... We use them to differ between UNIX-SAP, UNIX-non-SAP, NT, DOMINO, LNOTES, ADSM (other adsm servers), etc... That has fit our needs... If you have different service levels for the different clients, y

Re: TSM Server Sizing

2002-04-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E
A lot will depend on the network connectivity and the ability of the clients... We have a lot of TSM servers, 9 of 10 are RS6000 7071-S70's Some have around 100 clients run 300+ concurrent session but only push 20-30 GB/hr (compressed client data) due to client and network limitations Some have 30

Re: Anyone know how to have TSM script read an input file?

2002-04-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Try select node_name,filespace_name,cast((backup_end) as varchar(10)) as "Date" from adsm.filespaces where (cast((current_timestamp-backup_end)day as decimal(18,0))>2 ) or select node_name,filespace_name,cast((backup_end) as varchar(10)) as "Date" from adsm.filespaces where (cast((current_timest

Re: pulling information from TSM and the SCSI

2002-04-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Maybe... try doing a mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qC -s'FF10' I believe until a tape is physically removed it retains the Eject category (FF10) Funny thing I heard related to this this. STK held a patent on reading volsers in the I/O bay so with IBM 3494's the only thing the scanner does when volu

Re: Client Message - size estimate exceeded

2002-04-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Generally seen with cached diskpools and files that grow with compression... TSM pre-allocates based on listed size by the OS and in the case of cached diskpools, frees that amount of cached space to take the file. If you have compression yes and compressalways yes AND if a file grows during compr

Re: Utilising drives while labelling 3584

2002-03-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E
DO like I do, label them from AIX If I have 200 new tapes and 4 or more drives, I split the volsers into 4 groups of 50 each I then fire off 4 dsmlabel jobs from AIX (Oh, make sure you don't have any processes needing a tape drive for a while if you only have 4 drives...) works perfectly,

Re: Utilizing All My drives

2002-03-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Things that limit migration processes... 1) migproc for the storage pool 2) number of drives in the atl 3) number of unique node's data in the diskpool you are migrating to tape The smallest of these is what will determine how many drives are active... So if you have 6 drives and you "upd stg mi

Re: I need help

2002-03-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E
What is your environment ? We had this problem in one of our environments (I can't remember which one) I can't find any of my info on it right now... It was about a year or more ago... If you could fill me in on your envirionments server & client (what storage are you using on your server both d

Anyone looking for some GOOD used equipment (complete backup environment)...?

2002-03-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E
In all our upgrades, consolidations, alterations, etc... we have some equipment that I just can't find a use for :-( What is potentially available for sale is IBM 7015 containment rack IBM R40 processor IBM 7133-020 fully populated with 9.1 GB drives (qty 3 so roughly 436.8 GB of dasd) IBM 3494-

Re: How do we change which nic on a client adsm contacts?

2002-03-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E
It is all standard routing as far as how the traffic goes... You may specify an IP address for the node to be contacted at but after that, it is all standard routing -Original Message- From: TSM Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

with AIX TSM 4.1 can you reset maxsessions without bouncing tsm

2002-03-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E
On the slight chance someone has figured out a trick to get TSM to reprocess its dsmserv.opt file and I missed hearing about it... I've bumped up the # in my dsmserv.opt but getting a quiet moment on this TSM server is like asking the sun to not shine for a while. Dwight

Re: Licencing. (and pricing)(and support)

2002-03-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Probably like me... I used to work for Amoco, then British Petroleum bought Amoco and then they didn't want to have anything to do with computing (they are an oil company) so they outsourced it to SAIC but (for the time being) I still have a bp.com mail id (and an saic.com mail id) -Original

Re: Mirroring DB and Log

2002-03-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Only if you want to put two RAID5 arrays on two different adapters to prevent outage due to an adapter loss... -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mirroring DB and Log In a

Re: Scheduling a client backup to NOT occur 1 day a month - how-to recommendations needed

2002-03-05 Thread Cook, Dwight E
Put that NT client in a schedule all by itself... (call it nt_special ) then set an administrative command schedule to run at 00:01 on the 3rd of each month that does an update of the nt_special schedule to set its startd=+1 should work, I've used admin schedules to alter client schedules before

Re: ANR4583E Database backup terminated

2002-02-28 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
OK, "delete volhist type=dbb tod=today" will not delete all of your data base backup volumes... TSM will never delete your latest/only db backup copy. If you are trying to reuse that same tape volser DB_DO you will never be able to do it ! You have to have AT LEAST TWO volumes, one which remains t

Side note on SNMP security alert !

2002-02-28 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Slightly off topic but since we are in the recovery position, anything to help ward off data loss to begin with is close to on topic... This is all I know for the time being... Dwight The Threat SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a set of protocols designed for monitoring and configurin

Re: msg ANE4052"

2002-02-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I just looked in the TSM 4.2 messages manual and can't find an ANE4052E message listed ? ? ? Dwight -Original Message- From: Rainer Holzinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: msg ANE4052" Hi all, I have to backup

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