Re: Stability of TSM

Hi, > thank you all for taking time to answer my question. I was > leaning towards 4.2.x as well, there seems to be too many > issues with 5.x. -kane We are running 5.1 on AIX 5.1 for more than half a year now without any problems. We recently upgraded to 5.1.5.4. Dirk Kastens

Re: Converting I/O station into regular slots

Camilo, > I have a question, I am running out of physical space on my > 3583 library, and I was wondering if there is a way of making > the 12 slots on the I/O station (Bulk), part of the regular > tape slots. Yes, I've done this with our 3583. I can't tell you from the top of my head what exactl

Re: backing up just a few directories?

/etc This will only backup your /etc directory. -- Viele Gruesse, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Data Deduplication

disks than you need without compression. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Data Deduplication

. Let's wait and see :-) -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

backup nasnode questions

so many questions but the TSM manuals are a bit rare on this topic. -- Viele Gruesse, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: backup nasnode questions

anges a full backup after a defined number of days. So I only need one schedule with the "backup node" command, TSM looks up the date of the last full backup of each filesystem and handles the next full backup dependent on the defined option. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osna

Re: backup nasnode questions

: ANR0986I Process 326 for BACKUP NAS (DIFFERENTIAL) running in the BACKGROUND processed 1 items for a total of 190,263,296 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 21:02:07. (SESSION: 5777, PROCESS: 326) But I don't want to evaluate all those messages by hand every day ;-) -- Regards,

Re: TSM and Data Domain

good compression with database backups (Exchange backups should also work well) but not with normal user data, like homedirectories or web data. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX

Re: backup nasnode questions

"diff full diff diff" and on every second Sunday with "diff diff full diff" or "diff diff diff full". So I have full backups every two weeks for each volume. It works, but I think, TSM should come up with a better solution. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet O

Re: TSM Upgrade to version 5.4

Hi, Andy Huebner wrote: We are about to upgrade TSM from 5.2.2.4 to a version of 5.4 on AIX 5.3. Is there a stable recommended version? Maybe 5.4.1.2? We are running TSM 5.4.1.2 on AIX 5.3 for a few weeks now without any problems. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck

Library upgrade question

to migrate the data to the new one (what will take some time for 5 TB)? What's the best way to keep the old data? Thanks in advance, Dirk KastensTel.: +49 541 969-2347 Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany

Upgrade 5.1 to 5.3 on new server

e the old server to TSM 5.3, backup the database and then restore it to the new server? -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info

ith: # odmadd en.add Control the success with the command: # odmget -q"en_name=tapemail" errnotify You can change the error class and type to cover your needs. The above example sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever a permanent hardware tape error occurs. Regards, Dirk Kastens

disk layout for db and log

create on big db volume on every disk or several small volumes? Maybe hdisk2: db1 + db2 + db3 (20 GB) + log1 (10 GB) hdisk3: db4 + db5 + db6 (20 GB) hdisk4: db7 + db8 + db9 (20 GB) Any ideas are welcome. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr

Re: disk layout for db and log

with only db volumes. Or will this layout degrade performance too much? -- Best wishes, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] disk layout for db and log

hdisk4: db3 (20GB) + log3 (4GB) -> mirror on hdisk7 or hdisk2: db1 (20GB) + db2 (20GB) -> mirror on hdisk5 hdisk3: db3 (20GB) + db4 (20GB) -> mirror on hdisk6 hdisk4: log1 (4GB) + log2 (4GB) + log3 (4GB) -> mirror on hdisk7 -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzen

ISC and number format error

entry field is shown as "8,184". I always received an error after pressing the "OK" button, until I removed the "," from the number. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

ISC and logcopy error

ing volume /dev/rtsmlog3 I have to use the command line and create the mirror manually: define logcopy /dev/rtsmlog1 /dev/rtsmlog3 -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: New ISC/Admin Center

y too wide for my screen when using Firefox. Everything works great and is sized correctly with IE. Anyone else notice this yet? Yes, same for me. I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 and some of the windows are twice as wide as my screen. Using IE, everything is fine (but who wants to use IE ;-) -- Rega

Re: Checking to make sure TSM Primary and Copypools are in Sync

to get the number of files and the amount of data? Or does it take too long? If the result is not null you know that the pools are not in sync. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Migrate IBM 3583 to a 3584 library

ember correctly, that was all we have done. No data were lost. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: ISC / AC - Firefox ?

Andrew Raibeck schrieb: Note: This workaround was tested and verified to work with Firefox version 1.07 and IE Tab version 1.0.6.4. Great, this also works with the new Firefox 1.5 :-) Thanks. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28

Re: DB & LOG Volume layout - new

Hi, Paul Zarnowski schrieb: TSM does not do round-robin allocation of DB pages across it's volumes. It fills up one, then works on the next. Are you shure? I think this only applies to log volumes. -- Viele Gruesse, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer C

Re: DB & LOG Volume layout - new

tted three big volumes, each on a separate disk. If TSM only uses the first volume until it is full, then I would not benefit from the separate disk drives to get a higher performance. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabruec

Re: DB & LOG Volume layout - new

ditdb all three disks were active at a time, but the read throughput of each disk was degraded to 250 kB/s, what makes 750 kB/s for the whole volume. That means that the throughput was higher with separated volumes. Or did I make a mistake? Regards, Dirk Kastens

Re: Database restore and mirrored volume question

the first copy. After completion TSM synchronized the copies, what took another hour or so. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

noch kleine Probleme

. Aus zeitlichen Gründen müssen wir auch das Update auf Version 5.3 verschieben. Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis. -- Viele Gruesse, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Admin Center issues

ool1 f=d" shows "CRC Data: Yes"). -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

linux dsmcad problem

execution: Executing scheduled command now. Any ideas? -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: linux dsmcad problem

VICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE in the dsm.sys file. I only have "managedservices schedule" in my dsm.sys. Do I really need the webclient option? As I said, the first backup always runs. But the next, one day later, doesn't. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzent

Re: linux dsmcad problem

when the next backup period arrives the tsm server says that ANR8213W Session open with x.y.z.a timed out. (SESSION: 155) When I restart dsmcad during this period, the backup immediately starts. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28,

Re: linux dsmcad problem

stead, everything is fine. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: linux dsmcad problem

listening on port 47358. Could this be the problem? Do I have to specify the webports option when I use the dsmcad? -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] linux dsmcad problem

Herrmann, Boris schrieb: After setting SCHEDMODE POLLING for this client everything run fine (HINT : The default for "Queryschedperiod" is 12 hours. Set it to your requirement) That's a good idea. I'll try setting the schedmode to polling and see if the backup is running

Re: linux dsmcad problem

ms to have solved my problem :-) Thanks to everyone for their help. After running the backups with "dsmc sched" and schedmode set to prompted for years, I didn't know that I had to set the schedmode to polling when I use dsmcad. The client manual isn't very clear on that topic.

Re: linux dsmcad problem

a try. Nevertheless, the section in the client manual regarding dsmcad is not well described, IMO. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: linux dsmcad problem

nough)." I'm missing a statement like: "If you use dsmcad to start the client scheduler, you have to define the webports option on the client". -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

to another. I first deleted all disk storage pools on the old server, made a backup of the database, restored the db on the new server, and finally I recreated the disk pool volumes. There's a technote on this topic somewhere on the Tivoli support side. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Univers

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

I wrote: > I first deleted all disk storage pools on the old server, CAUTION!!! Of yourse, I only deleted the disk pool volumes, NOT the storage pools themselves. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany

Linux GUI and client user id

thority for the client node to it, the client gui works. The command line client works without defining an admin. Is there a fix for that behavior? -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

ol volumes before doing the database backup. And I never had to checkin the libvolumes again, because I used the volhist file from the old server. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Linux GUI and client user id

Windows clients. But I just found out that the linux java client works, when I set "passwordaccess generate". Without this option or with "passwordaccess prompt" the connection always fails if there isn't an administrator id. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

w server. You will need the volume history file so that the "dsmserv restore db" command will know what tapes to use. You can check it with "dsmserv restore db todate=today preview=yes" -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr

Re: TSM DB SIZE

Hi, Can any one suggest what should be a recovery log and db size for the 135TB backup with retention of 90 days? I think this depends on the number of files and the number of backup copies. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

have been done without this step. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: New TSM Server, DB and STG POOL question

-rmt5, and although I renamed the TSM drives from DRIVE1-DRIVE6 to DRIVE0-DRIVE5, as soon as I restored the database on the new server, TSM was running without problems. There were no tapes missing and all backups and restores were running as if nothing happened. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Univers

Re: tsm admin question !

Hi, just wondering if you when creating a new node do create an administrator for that node or use some/your admin account for every node ? No, we do not create admins for the nodes (admin=none). -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr

Re: 5.33 Windows Online Information

Hi, I've just installed this on a test machine and the Online Information does not work - I can display the Readmes but when I try to display the User Guide I get "The page cannot be displayed". I've no problem with that using the Windows 5.3.3 client. -- Regards, Dirk

Re: Db Restore question

Hi Farren, Farren Minns schrieb: Hi all If I want to restore my database ( for example from yesterday), do I need to re-format the existing dB/log volumes or does the restore do what ever it needs to do in this regard? The "restore db" command formats the volumes for you. -- Rega

Re: TSM Linux client backup

achine the /dev files are included. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Retention Problem

Kevin, Shouldn't the inactive files that were backed up on 3/2 and 3/16 be expired? Did you run an "expire inventory" on the server? -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-54

Re: archive hangs

1000_full setting on AIX. Enter the command "lsattr -R -l ent0 -a media_speed" and look at the values. The nic and the switch should have the same settings. Examine the output of the "netstat -v" command for any errors, like CRC errors. Test the throughput with a tool like netperf

Re: Client restores for NFS server backups

erver. The only solution that I see is to write a restore script that hides the TSM password from the users. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Client restores for NFS server backups

his files to my home directory. IS THIS A BUG OR DOES IT WORK AS DESIGNED? I installed 5.3.3.0 clients on Linux. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: LTO Auto Cleaning

Bill Dourado schrieb: Also how can I find out many cleaning cycles are left on the cleaning tape ? q libvol f=d -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: backup directory structure but not the files ?

ouldn't quite figure out how to do this, since the inclexcl process will only match once per object EXCLUDE /.../* will exclude all files in all directories from the backup. The directory structure will still be backed up. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Com

Re: Retention of backup versions

for 5 consecutive days. The next backup is taken 3 months later. What happens to the inactive files? The inactive files, that are older than 30 days will be deleted from the backup storage the next time you run EXPIRE INVENTORY on your tsm server. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnab

Re: inventory expiration time

plete: ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 4218 completed: examined 7907625 objects, deleting 1416779 backup objects, 191 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer C

Re: Include statement

this syntax correct? Have a look at the client's PREVIEW command. You can also select this function from the client GUI. You will get a list of all files that will be included and excluded and the management class to which they will be bound. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet

Re: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client

Hi, schedmode prompted If you use a firewall, your clients must use the option SCHEDMODE POLLING The clients will then start their backup when the scheduled time has come. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center

tivguid question

and 5.4). The Unix client manual also states that the GUID is stored in the directory /etc/tivoli. That's wrong, because it is stored in the file /etc/TIVGUID. Where can I find the tivguid command on the client nodes? -- Viele Gruesse, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Com

Re: Question for you

ver and less for any client was much more accurate in my opinion. Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: Windows XP - User Backup & Restore

egistry, > COM+ DB, Event Log, Registry, System Files and WMI. Same on our W2k workstations. Users can only backup their files after creating shares for the local drives, like "drive_c$". Then these shares appear in the client GUI and can be backed up. The solution with the registry k

Re: Deleted filespace

7;t be able to recover the files. Regards, Dirk KastensTel.: +49 541 969-2347 Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany

Re: include/exclude question

Hi, > exclude.dir "a:\" > exclude.dir "b:\" > exclude.dir "c:\" > exclude.dir "d:\" > exclude.dir "f:\" > include "c:\abc\abc.txt" mgtname > > with above nothing works . Just read the Windows client manual, page 16, "Excluding directories": "TSM evaluates all exclude.dir statements first (regar

Re: include/exclude question

> That will be a diffícult solution... just use: > > exclude "c:\...\*" > include "c:\abc\abc.txt" mgtname > > that will work Yes, but this only excludes the files. The complete directory structure of drive c: will be backed up. Regards, Dirk

Re: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

the files in their homedirectories themselves without doing backups or creating archives. Networker always had different client programs for backup and restore. Regards, Dirk KastensTel.: +49 541 969-2347 Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069

Re: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm

Hi, > Well... you are starting a NEW thread without saying as much > in your subject > line;;; but, I'll answer anyway --- BUT the details will be left as an > exercise for the student. Well, I asked this questions years ago when I started using ADSM. Now, when I read this topic, it came to my m

Re: AIX Question!

Hi, > I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around > deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too > long' > message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with > program*. What about find ./ -xdev -type f -name "program*" -exec rm {} \;

Re: optimising tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsizes

Hi, > TCPWINDOWSIZE should be set to 63 on Win2k. No, that's the recommendation for WinNT4. The maximum value for Win2k is 64 (see the MS knowledge base article Q224829). After we set the values for TCPWINDOWSIZE to 64 and the TCPBUFFSIZE to 512 the throughput of our Win2k clients has been incre

Re: restore asking for offsite copy instead of primary

Hi, > I had a user trying to restore a database and found data > unavailable to > server. The restore was asking for a volume that was offsite. > Why wouldn't > it ask for the primary copy and how do I know what primary > volume the data > is on? You can use an SQL statement, like select distin

Re: restore asking for offsite copy instead of primary

> node_name is not recognized. > > ANR2940E The reference 'NODE' is an unknown SQL column name. > > | > > .V. > _name from volumeusage where node-name=ABC order by > volume_name Seems, that

Re: optimising tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsizes

Hi, here is an excerpt of the knowledge base article "Description of Windows 2000 TCP Features (Q224829)". As I understand, the maximum value IS 64 UNLESS the RFC1323 option is used. I'm not a network expert, but why should I set the TCPWINDOWSIZE option to 63? "The receive window size is determ

Re: Incremental failure - NFS?

Hi, > 3) Mount file system soft or hard soft > >>> NEVER mount an NFS filesystem 'hard'... if the NFS client EVER > looses contact with the NFS server, it will hang and it WILL take a > reboot to recover. > >>> By mounting 'soft', if the NFS clinet looses contact > wi

Re: Slow restore of entire server volume

e yesterday afternoon). Do you have a separate management class for directories (see the option DIRMC)? During a restore, TSM first recovers the directory structure and then the files. If you don't have a directory mangement class, TSM has to search through your tapes twice. Regards, Dirk Kasten