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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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: SAP backup

2001-09-24 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
On the first part, nope, not that I've found... if you elect to go directly to tape, you want to make sure you have enough tape drives available when it starts... This is why I like to go to a diskpool first (even though we are about to roll out our first "direct to tape" environment) On the BKI,

Re: volume status being changed erroneously

2001-09-24 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I would label them again. Or at least check them out and check them back in with "checklabel=yes" Dwight -Original Message- From: Taylor, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: volume status being changed erroneously T

Re: Day of Week Select Statement

2001-09-25 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Under the Unix environment there is the "date" command zdec23@tsmutl01/home/zdec23/bin > date +%a Tue zdec23@tsmutl01/home/zdec23/bin > date +%A Tuesday zdec23@tsmutl01/home/zdec23/bin > I use that a lot in scripts... Dwight -Original Message- From: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: need help urgently!!!!...how to restore by force from server. ..ca n't login to client...

2001-10-01 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
you can set a scheduled event for that box that will run a command dsmc restore -pitdate=mm/dd/ /etc/passwd using a date (for mm/dd/) from which you know the password file is good... -Original Message- From: Thida Chin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 0

Re: Gb settings

2001-10-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Without changing anything we went from 40 GB/hr (compressed data across fast ethernet) to 56 GB/hr (compressed data across Gb, aprox 224 GB/hr client SAP data base filespace) with an 7017-S70, that took the processor up to around 90+% Dwight -Original Message- From: Leijnse, Finn F SITI-

Re: compressalways

2001-10-02 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
correct compression yes|no goes in the dsm.sys compressalways yes|no goes in the dsm.opt -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: compressalways Offhand I think it go

Re: Ask again.

2001-10-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
just add the -pass=blah to your dsmc incr and it shouldn't ask for the id... dsmc incr -pass=blah now this would be with passwordaccess prompt which is what we run our unix clients with... Dwight -Original Message- From: Sean McNamara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed

VM TSM server, just some thoughts...

2001-10-04 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
OK... The new IBM Z series processors are being pushed as consolidation servers. rum VM with a whole bunch of virtual LINUX servers... The only TSM server for VM is functionally at 3.1.2 VM LINUX client is at 4.2 ( I don't know if 4.2 clients would talk to 3.1.2 server ?) I do see there

Re: How many scratch volumes in library?

2001-10-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
or... select count(volume_name) FROM LIBVolumes where libvolumes.status='Scratch' -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How many scratch volumes in library? "SELECT LIBVOLUMES.VO

Re: kernel extension problem???

2001-10-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
did you shut down HSM & unmount the file system(s) which HSM runs against ? sounds like the HSM code didn't install because it was running. Dwight -Original Message- From: Jason Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ker

Re: manually ejecting a tape from a 3494 library

2001-10-24 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
use mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -C -s -tFF10 -V__ # is the proper number for your control point the -s is the source category (use -qV -V to find out what its current category is) the -V is the volser the FF10 is "EJECT" -Original Message- From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: How to move clients and their data to another TSM-server with ATL

2001-11-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
very easy just set up the new environment to look like the old restore the tsm data base to the new environment stick all the tapes in the new atl run inventory run audit library things should be fine... look out on www.adsm.org in the archives for this list for mail messages wher

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

2001-11-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
anyone else notice that with the server Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 even with log mode normal, the log doesn't clear for the ENTIRE duration of expiration... When expiration runs for 6-8+ hours a day and clients initiate a half million sessions p

Re: Help on reset commands

2001-11-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I have an admin schedule run them weekly, that way if at any given time I happen to see something strange, I know it has happened within the last week... Dwight -Original Message- From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TDP/R3: 3.1.x.x APAR IC31783 (upgrade to 3.2.0.6)

2001-11-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
FYI. if you are running 3.1.x.x you will probably want to advance to 3.2.0.6 APAR IC31783 is an event that we ran into the other day when building a dev environment from a prod backup IC31783 is NOT the type of problem you would want to run into when trying/having to restore a production e

Re: Web Registered Users?

2001-11-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
you need your tivoli customer number go to the "getting support" page http://www.tivoli.com/support/getting/ then there is a link to fill out a "registration form" Dwight -Original Message- From: mrkirra2001 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Collocation - on or off

2001-11-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
In an event like that the normal tape selection goes like filling tape with node's data already on it if not then scratch tape if "MAXSCR" for storage pool hasn't been hit AND scratch tape still exists in the ATL if not then any filling tape within the storage pool when yo

Re: TDP R/3 Restore Problem

2001-11-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Uh, I don't remember where I saw it but isn't the old 2.x stuff actually "backint" code where the newer 3.x stuff is the TDP and I don't think you can restore any 2.x stuff with 3.x code I've told all my users that as we upgrade from "backint" 2.4.x.6 code up to "tdp" 3.2.0.x that none of the

Re: Help Please with 3590 Hardware Compression

2001-11-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Look at the format of the device class for the drives. If you let it default to "DRIVE" it will use all available hardware compression... I always tell clients to use compression and I also have the drives set to use compression. tsm: TSMSRV10>q dev f=d Device Class Name: 3590E1A

Re: ATAPE/ATLDD device driver install question

2001-11-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I think you are getting the wrong idea on "delete definitions" ! Delete them from AIX, not TSM ! Just stop TSM sure go ahead & delete your rmt# & lmcp# definitions. I think the install will kill the /etc/lmcpd deamon install your code run cfgmgr you will probably notice all devices come ba

Re: Library offline to host

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
IF your routing on the ATL's pc isn't right, you can see a message such as that. (that is if you are using tcp/ip communication method) or if that specific host for some reason got wiped from your list of LAN hosts (that is if you are using tcp/ip communication method) If you are using the RS232 c

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
-Original Message----- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: One server, two ip-addresses We have one that uses three (3). Two fast ethernet

Re: One server, two ip-addresses

2001-11-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
We have one that uses three (3). Two fast ethernet & one GB. You have to remember that your standard TCP/IP routing is what determines how these boxes talk ! Client traffic will go in which ever interface you point to and will return out to the client based on standard routing in the system (but w

Re: Can't empty diskpool volumes!?!

2001-11-26 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
It is a pain (sort of) but do this... Empty all disk volumes Perform queries to ensure you know what disk volumes are in what storage pools... Delete all disk storage volumes Halt TSM Perform dsmserv auditdb diskstorage fix=yes that will clear any hanging pointers to that volume Start TSM

Re: Problem sending SNMP traps

2001-11-27 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
do you have your "dsmsnmp" agent running ? ? ? (found in the server install directory) > ps -ef | grep snmp root 8072 28022 0 Sep 18 - 0:00 ./dsmsnmp root 17118 26478 0 Nov 26 - 0:00 ./dsmsnmp zdec23 23154 19598 1 09:27:06 pts/1 0:00 grep snmp root 26478 807

Re: Script to cancel certain sessions

2001-11-29 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Title: Message Well, just remember that if you want to cancel either a session or a process, you can't have any commas in the number so you can't just do a query & cut the number out. Here is an example of how I deal with process numbers   #!/bin/kshfor PROCNUM in $(dsmadmc -id=someid -pass=

Re: 4.2.1 IMAGE client

2001-11-29 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
used for "image" backups ;-) for backing up "raw" volumes (or any logical volumes...) Say you have a file system with only 10 GB but it has a million files in it... the overhead in backing up a million files is BAD but you could perform an image backup of the logical volume on which the file syste

Re: backup retention

2001-12-06 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
it is your "versions data exists" says keep only two copies... Works like this... Versions Data Exists : how many copies to keep as long as the file exists on the client only keep inactive versions for up to Retain Extra number of days Versions Data Deleted : upon deletion of the file fro

Re: Moving 2 multiple tape pools

2001-12-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Na (for the most part) it doesn't matter what pool data resides in you could create two new tape pools, point things where they will be used have absolutely nothing point at the old tape pool and all would function just fine. eventually most of the data would expire off the tapes in the ol

Re: Point system has me very confused

2001-12-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
The big thing behind the "point system" is that you buy a bunch of Tivoli points. Now, you have them all sucked up in TSM, TWS (workload scheduler) and software distribution. You now expand your data center but a dozen machines but you've used up all your points and you don't want to buy any more

Re: TSM upgrade

2001-12-11 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Have you ever had a finger check in an admin session and when you ment to issue a "q pr" you only hit "pr" ? PREPARE (Create a Recovery Plan File) I have some environments that I've done that and it has put some hook into the system where those environments have the DRM in use flag and I haven't

Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible?

2001-12-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
3590E normal tapes & long tapes ? ? ? are you referring to "J" tapes & "K" tapes ? (that is all I know of...) J tapes are 3590-B1A tapes which may be written to by 3590-E1A tape drives (a reformat is performed) and K tapes are the 3590-E1A tapes from the start... If this is the case, yes, you can

Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible?

2001-12-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
apes. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Lock acquisition failed

2001-12-13 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I would look into other activity currently going on within TSM at that time... I see things like that when (say) expiration is running at the same time a client is backing up... another time might be when reclamation is running and a client is backing up and/or some combination of such ev

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

2001-12-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Are you in NORMAL mode or ROLLFORWARD ? I run NORMAL mode and I've noticed my 2 GB log fill now & again (very rare) but after a few failed actions (because the log was full) the hang breaks free and all is OK again. (normally I never see the log get much over 1 or 2 %) Never had the system die

I hate it when TSM doesn't tell me I have a DB & LOG vol offline !

2001-12-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.4.0 In our test environment I had forgot to set the db copy and log copy file system to mount automatically upon system boot. Well, in testing something today I performed a reboot of this box. When the TSM server started it issued absolutely NO message what so ever about its db

Re: TDP Domino crashing

2001-12-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
OK, just an off the wall, slightly related observation. On an NT Domino server just using normal TSM archive, I hit a Dr. Watson error and was dumped back to a C:\> prompt from my dsmc session. What my problem was I was performing an archive, using a management class that didn't have an archiv

Re: DB DUMP/ LOAD to DISK

2001-12-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Yep, just define a devclass like and use it... (I set the est/max capacity to the size of the filespace) tsm: >q dev flatfile f=d Device Class Name: FLATFILE Device Access Strategy: Sequential Storage Pool Count: 0 Device Type: FILE

Re: Help with scheduling

2001-12-19 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I would use backups (nightly incrementals) to cover op system, application code (the installed oracle code, etc...) and I would use "archives" to save all the oracle .dbf files... This way (as you said) all the open/active oracle files are excluded from nightly incremental processing. OH, the TDP

Re: Select command

2001-12-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Well, right off I'd say q auditocc now besides that use select sum (num_files), sum (physical_mb), sum (logical_mb), node_name from adsm.occupancy group by node_name Dwight Unnamed[1]: 46132 Unnamed[2]: 1554.47 Unnamed[3]: 1523.37 NODE_NAME: Unnamed[1]: 10992 Unnamed[2]: 1317.63 Unnam

Re: SCSI Channel to LTO drive rule of thumb

2001-12-20 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Well, I can fill you in on 3590 drives and that might be close to LTO's for each drive on the chain, add half of the previous drives thruput with 3590-B1A's a single drive on a scsi card all by itself is rated at 9 MB/sec add another one on the chain, you will gain another 4.5 MB/sec (9/2) or

Re: moving log volume

2001-12-21 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Yep, works just fine... need to make sure it is the same size as the others... and all you have to do on the one you want to get rid of is "delete logvol blah" one does get paranoid the first few times doing a delete dbvol or delete logvol ;-) later, D -Original Message- From: Ka

Re: Piping output to a file

2001-12-28 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
what you will find is that "dsmc" doesn't like to process > or >> what you will need to do is use "eval" such as eval dsmc incr -pass=blah >> /somepath/sched.log or eval nohup dsmc incr -pass=blah >> /somepath/sched.log & that should work for you... later, Dwight

Re: Restore error message

2001-12-31 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Long ago in a 3.x version there was a (client) bug that went something like... there were 4 bytes of control info, the last byte indicated if a file was compresses, routines always assumed the 4 bytes would be together within an inbound record... when the randomness of data actually split the 4 b

Re: 3590 Tapes.

2002-01-03 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
FYI #3 won't do anything to the data... I talked with someone that had relabeled (by mistake) some tapes (with valid data) on new 3590 E1A drives they then put the labels back on with the 3590 B1A drives and experienced only limited data loss. I believe just the first file on the tape(s).

Re: Setting up event monitoring

2002-01-07 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
ANR2121W ATTENTION: More than megabytes changed MB of the database has changed and the last database backup was more than hours name hours ago. Use the BACKUP DB command to provide for database recovery. ANR0362W Database usage exceeds utilization percentage % of its assigned capacity. are two t

Re: New device

2002-01-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Do as Kelly suggests... When we moved a server out of one 3494 with 3590 B1A drives into a different 3494 with 3590 E1A drives, basically the same sort of action... we just set up the new library set the next pool of all our diskpools to nothing... took the old storage pools and renamed them to b

Re: Long-Term Storage

2002-01-08 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
for really long term storage... if you have any management class with long term retention you get screwed by all your directory info being stuck in it and I've learned the error in my ways with (10yrarch management classes ! ) Here is a "best bet" ! register a node with name "blah_exp" have the c

Re: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session.

2002-01-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
How many different management classes are defined for use within your TDP/R3 configuration file ? (are all the management classes the same one ? ) For example, we have a different management class used for the logs because they are more important than the db files themselves... that is, if

Re: Reuse the tapes.

2002-01-09 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
generally, normal data expiration allows for the tapes to ~roll~ scratch again. files will expire based on associated management class copy group settings. (and having "expire inventory" run, "expireinterval" of 0 says don't automatically run expiration and you need an admin schedule to ru

Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
We have about 3,000 K tapes in service currently within two atl's (one with 16 drives the other with 8) One environment takes in between 700 & 1,300 GB a day (ok, average about 1 TB) of compressed client data the other isn't as heavily used (yet) and takes in about 200 GB daily In the past 6 mont

Re: Restoring multiple filesets from command line.

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
You will find that command line objects are specific at the file system level... and since the "restore" command gives you the ability to ~rename~ the file (aka restore to a different location) you can only process one item (at most one file system) at a time restore sorce

Re: Archive problems

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
check out on www.adsm.org and look for messages along the lines of subject: "Clean archdir commands and context" you are probably running into that... and if you are seeing any ANR0104E imarupd.c(548): Error 2 deleting row from table "Expiring.Objects". there is a new TSM Serv for aix TS

Re: Recovery Log behavior after 100% util reached

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Double check the status of your DB ! I glitched the other day in that my log was doing odd things like going to 100.1% utilized, then would zero back out (oh, check to see if you have logmode normal or rollforward ! ) with logmode normal you should rarely see it get much over a few % utilized...

Re: Problem accessing Virtual Volume data on target server

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
uhmmm I believe you need to set your target server up to itself... the device class has to reference a server definition just like on the server the export was performed on... look through www.adsm.org for mail messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on virtual volume or server to server I gave a

Re: Handling spikes in storage transfer

2002-01-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Do a "q occ " and look for what file systems are out on your diskpool in great quantity. That is, if you send all data first to a diskpool and then bleed it off to tape (daily). That will give you an idea of what file systems are sending the most data, currently. Then you may perform something lik

Re: Handling spikes in storage transfer

2002-01-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
e files/objects in the file spaces. Anybody have any sql to do such ? Thanks, anyway ! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-

Re: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testi ng?

2002-01-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
In this case what you do is 1) bring up yout tsm environment 2) put all your copypool tapes into the atl 3) check them all in 4) do an "UPD VOL * ACC=UNAVAIL WHERESTG=yourprimarypool" might need to make that acc=destroyed... then any restore request

Re: Ethernet connection IBM 3494

2002-01-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
The main thing using tcp/ip communication method with a 3494 is that it enables you to use more tape drives. Each RS232 attached host means one less tape drive that may be put in the atl. Also if you have a network outage, you stand the chance of dropping your connection to your atl. We've run bot

Re: Ethernet connection IBM 3494

2002-01-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Oh, forgot to mention, with a lan card, if you have libraries scattered all over 10-buck-2 you have the ability to define all those libraries to a single environment and monitor their status (easily) from there. Remember, you don't need drives in an atl to be able to communicate with it. Example w

Re: Bad performance after upgrading from 3.7.2.0 to 4.1.1.0

2002-01-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
When we went to AIX 4.3.3 we saw no problems When we went from TSM server 3.7.2.0 we went (with a stop at 4.1.0.0 to pick up license info) straight to 4.1.4.0 and we are now going to 4.1.5.0 based on apar IC30347. Our performance has always been good (same as before, maybe better) apar IC30347 has

Re: Changing Retention

2002-01-16 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
The only way is to 1) retrieve the files and re-archive with a management class of the desired retention 2) DO NOT RUN ANY "EXPIRE INVENTORY" and then I won't guarantee anything... 3) Rename the node, set up another domain with an archive grace period of how long you need t

Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library

2002-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
There is a whole system of software that will let you manage an ATL from a remote PC just as if you were at the console of the library (I can't remember the name of it right off). A two part piece, one part goes on the ATL and another goes on a remote PC. We had it to manage ATL's utilized by lar

Re: Software/Hardware compression?

2002-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I won't call this comparing apples to oranges but it might be Granny Smiths to Red Delicious... I suggest to all our clients that they run TSM client software compression and 90% do but some don't (and often it is because of valid reasons such as servers that house only blah.tar.Z already compress

Re: Software/Hardware compression?

2002-01-17 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
WOW ! be careful on the "slow down" statement... NOT THE CASE ! Actually with a big enough client it will greatly speed things up ! We have an SAP environment with a 2.7 TB data base, we back it up in less than 18 hours using client compression if we didn't use client compression it would

Re: Excluding Files from backup on Different Days.

2002-01-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
I would use "archive" Now with an archive you have to be disk specific but you could do something like this for each drive attached... archive -subdir=yes C:\*.pst archive -subdir=yes F:\*.pst using the -subdir=yes ~should~ force TSM to go down the tree & find all .pst files on the

Re: Entries in database

2002-01-21 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
When you have corruption with a disk entry and you want to run an audit to clear things to allow you to remove a volume, you will really want to do... 1) write a macro to delete all other disk volumes (other than the hosed up one) 2) write a macro to define back all your disk volum

Re: Retention question

2002-01-22 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Define (at least) 3 management classes, probably all being other than default. I always name mine to reflect their settings like B7.3_R35.95_A35 where B7.3 reflect Versions data exists & deleted where R35.95 reflect Retain extra & only days where A### is the number of days an "A"rchive is retained

Re: Renaming Node Name

2002-02-14 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Naaa, will the "~old" still be around and backup ? just make sure you set its "NODE" entry in its dsm.sys file if it will be ! When you rename a node, all its data follows it, SCHEDULED TASKS TOO ! So you will have to create a new association for the ~new~ tonis137 once you register it (an

Re: Changing the name of a management class

2002-02-15 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Both the adsm.backups and the adsm.archives tables have the CLASS_NAME parameter... You could probably do something like select distinct node_name from adsm.backups where class_name='YOUR_BAD_NAME' and do the same for adsm.archives... -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[E

Re: WARNING about Tivoli 4.2.1.0

2002-02-18 Thread Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)
Sad... code doesn't earn money setting on the developer's desk :-( and the only thing upper management cares about is the all mighty buck $ What ever happened to pride ? Oh, that is what management uses to ensure someone works a 60 hour week but is only paid for 40 hours... Sorry, I'll ca

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

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: 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

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