Cost of moving to collocation by filespace

2010-11-12 Thread Evans, Bill
Does anyone have an real world example of moving from a single storage pool to collation by filespace? TSM 5.5, AIX 5.3 I'm backing up a 200TB server (solaris) with 1TB of new/changed files per day. There are about 30 volumes (filespaces) and I am thinking of changing to collation to improve

Determining volume of data bound to management classes

2010-10-26 Thread Evans, Bill
Does anyone have a script that pulls total volume (bytes) bound to each management class? Please post! Thanks, Bill Evans Storage and Server Administration 206-667-4194

TSM reporting, by node, by filespace

2010-10-15 Thread Evans, Bill
Does anyone have a select statement that gives daily volume per node, per filesystem? I get daily totals per node, having problems getting the filespace stats. Something like: NODEFILESYSTEMGB

Re: fastest delete backup syntax

2010-10-14 Thread Evans, Bill
Try -noprompt Examples Command line: dsmc delete backup -noprompt c:\home\project\* -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] fastest

Re: Win Server 2008 question

2010-06-10 Thread Evans, Bill
Exclude.dir C:\WINDOWS No way to control what windows wants to put in their system directories. We just reinstall windows from CD/DVD and then restore user data. Thanks, --Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: adding sequence lines to existing client option set

2010-05-27 Thread Evans, Bill
I think you need to 'define' the new sequence step: DEFine CLIENTOpt option_set_name option_name option_value  Force = No Force = No Yes SEQnumber = number so: define cliento exludeiis inclexcl exclude.dir 'c:\notsm' seq=8 (next higher number) should work ok update is just for changing a

determining if copy groups and management classes are being utilized

2010-04-23 Thread Evans, Bill
I have many management classes and copy groups that were set up long ago. Is there a way to determine if there are any actual data bound to these classes or groups? Thanks, Bill Evans

Re: Question on Expiration

2010-02-25 Thread Evans, Bill
query actl begind=-1 se=objects expired should get you the data in rough format, perhaps one of the sql guru's has a select they can share. Thanks, --Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Thursday,

Re: ?anyone using TSM to backup Panasus PanFS?

2010-01-27 Thread Evans, Bill
We use TSM to backup our primary research data server. It's a SUN sparc server with 150TB of data. 51M files, 2M directories, 1+TB / day rate of change. It takes ~6-8 hours to run the backup on this. As you can expect, most of the time is scanning the filesystems to find changes. The

Re: 3584 date off by 6 years

2010-01-04 Thread Evans, Bill
My 3584 library has the 2016 date in some logs, however, it is currently showing the correct year/day/time. I'll post anything I find in the logs (if I get the time to review). Thanks, Bill Evans Research Computing Support FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER 206.667.4194 ~ bev...@fhcrc.org

Re: Calculate total data backed up on tape

2009-09-18 Thread Evans, Bill
Well, as stated, there are many ways... query occupancy (help q occ) will give you various ways to view occupancy. I use this script to view total occupancy... Display Total Space Occupied: select sum(num_files) as Files, - sum(logical_mb) as Logical MB, - sum(physical_mb) as Physical MB ,type

Re: Log space required in 6.1

2009-09-02 Thread Evans, Bill
You have to do three FULL DB backups per day? Can't you just have enough log space to let this run for three days (or does that not meet the 3 DB backup requirement?) Does anyone know why there is a requirement for 3 DB backups before the logs are reset? Thanks, Bill Evans Research Computing

Re: Backing up running VM's

2009-06-17 Thread Evans, Bill
TSM license is for the hardware platform. So, if you have 5 VMware servers, you need 5 TSM licenses, no matter how many virtual servers you have running. A 4 processor, quad core license is more expensive than a 2 processor, single core license, but, TSM/IBM does not care how many servers are

Re: LTO for long term archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Evans, Bill
I truly doubt that archiving drives, servers and tapes for 25 years each time the technology updates will let you read the tapes because the drive and server will probably not even boot up and run. You will have to update the data every two LTO cycles or so. LTO will read two generations back

Re: How to figure collocation overhead

2009-01-16 Thread Evans, Bill
maintain enough available free tapes in the pool to provide a reasonable level of collocation. W On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Evans, Bill bev...@fhcrc.org wrote: Is there a guide or rule of thumb for determining what collocation will do to library space? It is being considered

How to figure collocation overhead

2009-01-15 Thread Evans, Bill
Is there a guide or rule of thumb for determining what collocation will do to library space? It is being considered for improving restore speeds. I'm backing up 80TB in 30 volumes(filespaces) on a solaris server. Currently there is no collocation set, all data goes to a long-term management

Re: Database size, Split to multiple instances or wait for version 6.1

2008-12-03 Thread Evans, Bill
We exported from a SUN E4800 to an IBM p570, both having 8 LTO3 drives attached, while both were still fully functioning as fileservers and backup servers. We moved around 2TB/24 hours, took several(5-6 maybe) months to move 250+TB. We did not tune everything for absolute speed. --Bill From:

Migrating servers

2008-11-06 Thread Evans, Bill
Hello, TSM Server 5.5.0.3 running on AIX 5.3 ML6, clients are a mixed lot as usual. We are going to migrate this to a SUN Solaris Server, Solaris 5.10. Primary client is solaris, ~80TB active data, ~300TB of inactive/archive data. Can anyone point me to a Redbook or the section in the Admin

Re: Migrating servers

2008-11-06 Thread Evans, Bill
I figured as much, export/import is not blazingly fast, so, 2020 is probably a pretty good estimate. Why? IBM charges about 3 times more in maintenance costs than SUN (at similar performance points) Thanks for the insights. Bill On 6 nov 2008, at 22:04, Evans, Bill wrote: Hello, TSM

Re: select and script

2008-08-26 Thread Evans, Bill
what about just this: TSM select PCT_UTILIZED from DB Bill Evans -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] select and script On 26 aug

Backing up NT4

2008-06-18 Thread Evans, Bill
We just upgraded to TSM 5.5 server on AIX 3.5, is there a client for NT4 that will connect? An hour of searching on IBM and Google did not help. Thank you, Bill Evans Research Computing Support FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER 206.667.4194 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backing up NT4

2008-06-18 Thread Evans, Bill
Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Bloch Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Backing up NT4 did you try ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena nce/client/v5r1/Windows/WinNT/v518/ ? Evans, Bill [EMAIL

Re: TSM being abandoned?

2008-04-16 Thread Evans, Bill
I have scheduled a presentation in our offices (Seattle) on TSM 6.1 soon, but here is what the sales folk are saying: As a matter of fact there are some significant changes 'scheduled' to be incorporated with TSM 6.1. Let me know if you would like a more formal and comprehensive look at some of

Export process showing funny stats

2008-04-11 Thread Evans, Bill
This process has been going on for several days, currently 24M files and 5.3TB of data exported. However only 74,000 files and 27GB have been imported on the new server. Anyone know why these numbers are so far apart? Importing server IBM p570 LPAR AIX O/S 5300-03 Storage Management Server for

Re: Export process showing funny stats

2008-04-11 Thread Evans, Bill
Clarifying some information on request from one of our list members. Export command run on old server: EXPORT NODE wilma fsid=16 filed=all toserver=newserver merge=yes In comparing Query OCCupancy for the node on the old server and the new server, I found that the export is mostly complete, and

Why the wait time on this export?

2008-04-01 Thread Evans, Bill
This Export finally completed, however, I can't figure why it was waiting so long for a volume. (Waiting for input volume(s): B00580L3,(58779 Seconds)) Any ideas on where to look? Two libraries, 20 LTO3 drives, There was not much happening at the time, backups had completed already. TSM Server

Re: DSMJ and Authorized User

2008-03-28 Thread Evans, Bill
What about using sudo? The authorized users could have access only to the dsm executables ( and they would run as user root ). Root can see all the files. We do that here with either the gui or command line. Bill Evans Research Computing Support FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER

Re: Export Node with 24TB to other TSM on other Site

2008-03-21 Thread Evans, Bill
I use the following: EXPORT NODE node filedata=all merge=yes toserver=newserver replacedefs=yes DEL fi node * /to delete on the current server REM NODE node /to remove the node You will need to register the node on the other server Works and all the history goes with the export, but, it is not

Re: backup up nodes

2008-03-17 Thread Evans, Bill
Days Since Last Access is only an indicator that the client has connected to the server. It does not indicate if any backup data was actually transferred. -Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: Monday, March

Re: backed up nodes

2008-03-15 Thread Evans, Bill
Your select statement works great, but, just 'query occupancy' or 'q occ' will also show number of files, size and where the copies are stored for each node. _Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, March