Policy Domain Question

2010-07-27 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I have a question on Policy Domain Name for the clients. On 1 of our TSM servers the Administrator created a different Policy Domain Name than is standard which is now being used. It is being used by a number of clients and has been for some time. Is there a way to rename the

TSM Exclude/Expiration

2010-03-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We have a TSM AIX server running TSM 5.4 and a Windows 2008 running TSM client 5.5 We currently have 53 million files on a single partition and plan to break it up into 3 partitions to help with backup times, etc.. The plan was to move about 1/3 of the data to the other

Re: Expiration Questions

2010-03-23 Thread Jones, Eric J
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: 19 March 2010 13:04 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Expiration Questions We are running TSM 5.4 server on an AIX machine with our clients(Windows 2003/2008) running also running TSM 5.4. My

Expiration Questions

2010-03-19 Thread Jones, Eric J
We are running TSM 5.4 server on an AIX machine with our clients(Windows 2003/2008) running also running TSM 5.4. My question is we changed permissions on all our files on 1 of our servers 32 days ago which caused them all to be backed up again. We have a 30 day policy on the files for retention

Re: Question on Expiration

2010-02-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks everyone. Got exactly what I wanted. 1 other question is, is there a way to tell how many objects were added to the DB a day/week by server. Thanks Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebschman, George J. Sent:

Question on Expiration

2010-02-25 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I was wondering if there was a way to generate a report or see it in the server logs how many files had expired each day for a particular server by day for a week then 2 weeks, etc. We run expiration each day at 4:00 and the logs show the total expiration but not by machine.

Re: Question on Expiration

2010-02-25 Thread Jones, Eric J
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, February 25, 2010 11:55 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Question on Expiration

2010-02-25 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. The number of objects that have expired is really what I'm looking for and it sounds like this will do it. I don't necessarily need the number of bytes. Thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebschman, George J.

Re: Determining What tapes files are on

2007-03-04 Thread Jones, Eric J
] Determining What tapes files are on On Mar 3, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote: Good Evening. Is there a way to find out what tapes a file/files are stored on(COPYPOOL/TAPEPOOL) without doing a restore? No. See Restoral preview in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ ADSM.QuickFacts

Determining What tapes files are on

2007-03-03 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Evening. Is there a way to find out what tapes a file/files are stored on(COPYPOOL/TAPEPOOL) without doing a restore? We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX 5.2 with Windows 2003 server with TSM 5.2.2 clients. Thanks Eric

Restoring to another server

2007-01-22 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We are trying to restore one servers backups to another server through the GUI. We are using TSM 5.2.2 on a Solaris box and the TSM server is running TSM 5.2.2. We login to the serer we want to restore to, changed the dsm.sys and dsm.opt file to point to the other server(data to

Increasing the DISKPOOL

2006-12-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX 5.2. We have always had the same size diskpool from the day it was built. We now have the need to increase the diskpool. How do we increase the current diskpool(110GB to 220GB). We have additional space on the drive to do the increase.

Keeping only the current version in a pool

2006-12-04 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX 5.2 and the clients are all running TSM 5.2.2 on Windows 2000/2003, AIX 5.1, 5.2 and Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10. A COPAN unit was purchased for us which is basically hard drives that simulate tapes so we could get faster restores, etc.. What we

Finding size of active data

2006-11-19 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. Is there a query that will allow me to see how much Active data is stored in our Tapepool. I know how much Total Data we have but was wondering how much active data we have. We are running on AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2.Our clients are a mix of Windows 2000, 2003, AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Searching HL_Name to see what tapes contain it

2006-02-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Is there a way to query to find out what tapes that have a certain HL_Name are on? I have the node name and the HL_Name and need to know what tapes contain the data(Tapepool/Copypool). With AFS the only thing unique is the HL_Name for each of the backups. Thanks Eric

Restore using Clientaction

2005-12-12 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We are running TSM 5.2.2 on a AIX 5.2 server with a Windows 2000 client with TSM 5.2.2. It's in a cage environment so I have to push the data to the server. I need to do a restore in time from Saturday which is not the last backup. I want to use the define clientaction server01

TSM Restore of Websphere server

2005-11-30 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We currently have TSM 5.2.2 running on all our servers(UNIX/INTEL) and the TSM server is 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2 We have a problem restoring Websphere servers successfully, not all the services come up successfully. Does TSM have an Add-on or anything that allows for a successful

Re: Servers scheduler dies

2005-11-16 Thread Jones, Eric J
I've had the exact same problem running TSM 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2. The only way I have found to correct the problem was to stop and start the TSM. I've looked on the WEB and asked about 10 months ago but never heard anything. I did call Tivoli and we never did find a way to restart the scheduler

Backup question - Full and Incremental

2005-11-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I have a question on backups and how if you mix full backups and incremental backups the data is stored. We are running TSM 5.2.2 on all our TSM clients(AIX, SUN, Windows 2000, windows 2003), and the server is AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2. We normally just run incremental for all our

Re: Backup question - Full and Incremental

2005-11-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
you have a chance, please research. Additionally, yes, full (selective) backups are seems as files. And as such, the normal copy group retention periods apply. I hope this information was beneficial --MG On 11/14/05, Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon. I have a question

Re: Backup question - Full and Incremental

2005-11-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote: ...We normally just run incremental for all our machines and over the years the data gets scattered every where(number of tapes and in some cases 30+) so restores can be very slow. ... Eric - The magic word collocation does not appear in your

Re: TSM restore question

2005-11-07 Thread Jones, Eric J
On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote: ...Our UNIX group restores 1 mount point or directory at a time which takes very long time to restore multiple directories. Currently they do something like -- dsmc restore -inactive /users32/oradata/FTKP

Re: TSM restore question

2005-11-05 Thread Jones, Eric J
:47 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote: ...Our UNIX group restores 1 mount point or directory at a time which takes very long time to restore multiple directories. Currently they do something like -- dsmc restore -inactive /users32/oradata/FTKP/control1/* -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f

TSM restore question

2005-11-03 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. We are running Solaris 9/AIX(various versions) with TSM 5.2.2 on a AIX 5.2 servers running TSM 5.2.2 Our UNIX group restores 1 mount point or directory at a time which takes very long time to restore multiple directories. Currently they do something like

Re: Error There is insufficient recovery log space to complete the database transaction

2005-10-16 Thread Jones, Eric J
need to to through the usual formatting procedure if the log volume is an OS file, but not if it is a raw logical volume. Richard Sims On Oct 15, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote: Do I just need to allocate additional log space and stop and start TSM or is there additional steps? I

Error There is insufficient recovery log space to complete the database transaction

2005-10-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning I have an old TSM server running 4.1.1 on a AIX 4.3 server. When I tried to logon this morning I'm receiving an error Insufficient recovery log spaceThere is insufficient recovery log space to complete the database transaction What's the best way to recovery from this? Is the

Re: Error There is insufficient recovery log space to complete the database transaction

2005-10-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
a new chunkk of log. If you are at the max, then it's time to RESTORE DB from your last backup. Original message Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:31:18 -0400 From: Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADSM-L] Error There is insufficient recovery log space to complete the database transaction

Re: Reclamation/Audits running slow

2005-09-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Reclamation/Audits running slow Good Afternoon. We are running TSM 5.2.2 server/client with an IBM LTO tape library(LTO2). We currently

Reclamation/Audits running slow

2005-09-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. We are running TSM 5.2.2 server/client with an IBM LTO tape library(LTO2). We currently have around 130 clients, 9.2TB of data. I was watching reclamation yesterday by accident since it's not something I regularly check and noticed it seemed to take a long time to run so I ran a

Scratch Tapes

2005-08-05 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good morning. I have a question on scratch tapes and how/when they are used. We are using TSM 5.2.2 with AIX 5.2. We have around 225 LTO2 tapes in the library of which about 60 are used. The are numbered from TS2000 - TS2225. For some time the lower numbered tapes were regularly reused as

Re: AW: Scratch Tapes

2005-08-05 Thread Jones, Eric J
? The scratch volumes have access READW? Regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jones, Eric J Gesendet: Freitag, 5. August 2005 13:34 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Scratch Tapes Good morning. I have a question

Re: Scratch Tapes

2005-08-05 Thread Jones, Eric J
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Scratch Tapes This is all right. Like us, TSM likes the newest tapes the most. So it will use all tapes there are in the library. Regards, Maurice - Original Message - From: Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:33

Re: Problem with drive

2005-07-22 Thread Jones, Eric J
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:[ADSM-L] Problem with drive We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX with clients 5.2.2(windows/UNIX). We had the picker hang up today

Re: Problem with drive

2005-07-19 Thread Jones, Eric J
I did an audit on the library to see if it would recognize it again but it still comes up UNKNOWN. I toggled the drive off-line and back on-line to see if it would come back and it still stays in an UNKNOWN state. The problem started Friday night when the picker had the problem. Here is the

Re: Problem with drive

2005-07-19 Thread Jones, Eric J
settings. Good luck -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with drive I did an audit on the library to see if it would recognize it again

Problem with drive

2005-07-18 Thread Jones, Eric J
We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX with clients 5.2.2(windows/UNIX). We had the picker hang up today and is in the process of being repaired. We are running a IBM 3484 library. The problem is with RMT1 which is now showing Drive State: UNKNOWN but the other drives look fine. How can I

Scheduled backup has wrong IP

2005-07-12 Thread Jones, Eric J
I have a problem I just cannot figure out. I'm running AIX 5.2.2 with TSM server 5.2.2. The client is a windows 2003 server running TSM 5.2.2 I have a client that is(did) backing up on a scheduled task 1 time successfully. It's running SessionInitiated Server only so the server has to

Re: When Good Tapes Go Bad

2005-05-27 Thread Jones, Eric J
What I generally do is watch for drive errors and the tapes that cause it. If the same drive is causing errors I assume the drive is going. Each time I receive a tape error I document the date and tape, audit the tape, if errors exist I move the data off and make it a scratch tape, otherwise I

Re: Confused about reclamation

2005-05-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
There are a few reasons. We have this happen all the time since we have 100+ tapes on the shelf (old soon to be retired system). 1: If a copypool tape is running reclamation it may need a TAPEPOOL tape to copy data to create the new COPYPOOL / off-site tape. 2: After a while expiration runs and

Encryption

2005-05-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Evening. Running TSM 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2 Clients are a mix ofSolaris 7,8,9 AIX 4.2, AIX 5.2, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 most running TSM 5.2.2. I've been reading the forums and was thinking I would probably not have to worry about this until now. I was asked to check and see

Re: Out of scratch tapes?

2005-05-06 Thread Jones, Eric J
I have to agree for off-site reclamation. With reclamation running you can take up additional tapes that are off-site giving you even less to work with at the present time. Reclamation for your local tapes(on-site tapepool) should help gain back tapes. Eric -Original Message- From:

Re: AIX 5.2 Advantages and benefits

2005-05-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
We are using TSM 5.2.2 and have been very happy with it. We are running Win2K, Windows 2003, IRIX, LINUX, SUN and AIX. We have client initiated backups and server inititated backups and all run great. We did need to go from 5.2 on the client to 5.2.2 to fix a few problems. Thanks

Re: DOMAIN Settings

2005-04-30 Thread Jones, Eric J
What we found to work well is to use NTBACKUP to backup the SYSTEMSTATE then backup the system. The backup runs faster due to a single file for the systemstate and we have not had a problem with recovery. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: WEBSPHERE Backups on TSM

2005-04-29 Thread Jones, Eric J
Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: WEBSPHERE Backups on TSM Good Evening. We are running TSM Server 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2 with Win2K clients running TSM 5.2.2. We seem to have a problem with our WEBSPHERE backups with TSM. We do full backups

WEBSPHERE Backups on TSM

2005-04-28 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Evening. We are running TSM Server 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2 with Win2K clients running TSM 5.2.2. We seem to have a problem with our WEBSPHERE backups with TSM. We do full backups on the system but we've tested several machines and on a full restore (Before full restore Win2K with SP3 which was on

Disk gone bad, need help

2005-04-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. We are running AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.1.3 (going into retirement soon) We have a DB that is made up of 6 disk which are mirrored. We had a disk go bad that was part of that pool of disk. My question is what do I need to do after the disk is replaced to recover, TSM stayed up no

Re: Disk gone bad, need help

2005-04-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
=== Jones, Eric J wrote: Good Morning. We are running AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.1.3 (going into retirement soon) We have a DB that is made up of 6 disk which are mirrored. We had a disk go bad that was part of that pool of disk. My question is what do I need to do after the disk

Re: Disk gone bad, need help

2005-04-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE === Jones, Eric J wrote: Thanks

Re: Disk gone bad, need help

2005-04-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE === Jones, Eric J wrote: Thanks. The logical volume that went bad was /dbaa1dk3 so I assumed since /dbaa1dk3

Re: Disk gone bad, need help

2005-04-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE === Jones, Eric J wrote: Thanks. The logical volume that went bad

Updating reg key for client in DMZ

2005-04-20 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I have a INTEL client with Win2K running TSM 5.2.2 to a TSM server on AIX(5.2) running TSM 5.2.2. Running through updating the scheduler does not seem to update the password successfully. We are in a DMZ so the client cannot talk to the server and the password needs to be

Re: Updating reg key for client in DMZ

2005-04-20 Thread Jones, Eric J
and it worked perfect. Thanks again, Eric -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:49 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Jones, Eric J Subject: RE: Updating reg key for client in DMZ 1) You don't need to delete the registry key

Creating DB file on new server

2005-04-07 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. I have a new server running TSM 5.2.2 server with AIX 5.2. I went to create the data base file which I'm planning 130GB. The logical volume was created for 130GB and was called /dbaa1vpth0 and large files are turned on. The command I initially issued was dsmfmt -m -db /dbaa1vpth0/db

TSM Scheduler

2005-03-23 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Evening. I'm running TSM 5.2.2 server on a AIX 5.2 machine. I have clients running AIX 5.2, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 with TSM 5.2.2 client. What I'm seeing is occasionally the clients that are running with a client schedule on the server don't kick off. All I see in the server activity

Re: Windows 2003 systemstate backup

2005-03-11 Thread Jones, Eric J
What we do is 1: In the dsm.opt file have domain c: f: (data drives) 2: Have a preschedcmd which runs NTBACKUP that does the system state backup 3: Run the TSM backups. The NTBACKUP is in a directory that is backed up so we have that to cover us. Once some minor bugs were worked out we

Re: How to display all versions of a file

2005-03-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
The only way I could get this to run and it ran great was to have node_name - UPPER CASE FILESPACE_NAME - lower case HL_NAME - UPPER CASE ll_name - UPPER CASE I tried most combinations and this was the only one that would come back with results. This will definitely make it easier than connecting

Re: How to display all versions of a file

2005-02-28 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. I gave it a try and have it working on both INTEL based machines and UNIX. It's a nice addition to have. Thanks for all the help, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:04 AM

WEB Interface - cannot use pull down

2005-02-27 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I'm not sure what happened but I cannot seem to use the pull down in the upper right with Options, Show Command Line, Show Events and Logoff When I select one it just seems to sit and do nothing. I logged on to another TSM Server and the options seem to be working fine. They worked

Re: WEB Interface - cannot use pull down

2005-02-27 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. That was it. I thought I was going crazy. It's Sunday and all I wanted to do is see how the weekend backups went. Thanks again, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:58 PM To:

Re: How to display all versions of a file

2005-02-27 Thread Jones, Eric J
This is something I was also looking for. Normally I go to the client machine and query the backups to see the history of a file. From what I can tell and I'm not very good at the select SQL statements is the following a correct interpretation of the statement if I was looking for a single files

preschedulecmd question

2005-02-23 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I'm running with Win2K servers with TSM 5.2.2 and AIX 5.2 TSM 5.2.2 server. I have a batch file I'm running that runs NTBACKUP and the preschedulecmd does a great job. The question/problem I have is the log file(NTBACKUP log) that is generated is very different than if the batch

Re: preschedulecmd question

2005-02-23 Thread Jones, Eric J
Sorry about that I should have known better.. Batch file = rem Remove old backup Del D:\NTBACKUP\systemobjbkup.bkf rem Backing up NT Systemobject ntbackup backup systemstate /j SystemState_Daily_Backup /f D:\NTBACKUP\systemobjbkup.bkf /v:yes /l:f /m COPY

Re: preschedulecmd question

2005-02-23 Thread Jones, Eric J
That's where the backup log should be going. The problem I'm seeing is that when I have it run by the preschedulecmd the output is much different. When manually run the full log was displayed, but when I run it with the preschedulecmd it did not show the file backup or success/failure of the

Finding troubled tape

2005-02-21 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I have an off-site tape that is having problems with reclamation. The error coming out is --- Space reclamation started for volume 0FA0CC, storage pool COPYPOOL (process number 10). ANR1167E Space

Re: Restoring Domain controller

2005-02-21 Thread Jones, Eric J
I just went through testing and without the SP that was originally on the machine I could not get the machine to come up correctly. Once I did the base install, applied the SP, restored the drives, then restored the SYSTEM OBJECT it came up without a problem. Eric -Original Message-

Re: Questions concerning file/user exits

2005-02-17 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. I setup in the DSM.OPT file a preschedulecmd with a batch file that I've tested and it worked well outside of TSM. When the backup kicked off(serverinitiated) it failed. In the dsmerror.log I'm receiving the following error.

Re: Questions concerning file/user exits

2005-02-17 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks for the information. The TSM service runs under the local ADMIN account so it should have permissions. The batch file I'm running is the following which is very basic and the commands executable from any directory. The batch file runs fine from the command line so that looks to be ok as

Re: Question on the preschedulecmd

2005-02-17 Thread Jones, Eric J
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with NTBACKUP, having TSM backup the drives and exclude the SYSTEM OBJECT, then rebuild the system, restore with TSM and use NTBACKUP to restore the SYSTEM STATE. I

Re: tape use question

2005-02-17 Thread Jones, Eric J
We run daily reclamation to avoid long reclamation sessions that can go on for some time. We also only send out full tapes to avoid sending out tapes to often. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Howell Sent: Thursday, February 17,

Re: Question on the preschedulecmd

2005-02-16 Thread Jones, Eric J
Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Question on the preschedulecmd Good afternoon. I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with NTBACKUP, having TSM backup the drives and exclude

Question on the preschedulecmd

2005-02-14 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good afternoon. I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with NTBACKUP, having TSM backup the drives and exclude the SYSTEM OBJECT, then rebuild the system, restore with TSM and use NTBACKUP to restore the SYSTEM STATE. I have a batch file to kick off NTBACKUP for the

Expiration

2005-02-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. I have a question about expiration. I have a 90 day policy for data on the servers(Versions Data Exists - Nolimit, Version Data Deleted - Nolimit, retain Extra Versions 90 and Retain Only Version 90). My question is how can I tell if data is being expired and how many files on a

Re: TSM Restore on Win2K machine

2005-02-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. That is what I was looking for. I was searching the IBM WEB site for various other strings of data but not BMR. Thanks again, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:15 AM To:

Changing Policy Domain

2005-02-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I have a question on Policy Domain switching. How will the client handle a change in the Policy Domain if I change the Policy for a client? I have a Policy called 90DAY that is assigned to a client and created a new Policy Name called 10DAY. I updated the NODE to use the new

TSM Restore on Win2K machine

2005-01-31 Thread Jones, Eric J
I have a question on TSM restore on a Windows 2000(SP3) machine running TSM 5.2.2. I tried to test to see if I could successfully restore a machine after a backup. What I did was before backing up I ran NTBackup to backup the SYSTEM OBJECT then ran a TSM backup on the drives. I then rebuilt the

SYSTEM OBJECT question

2005-01-26 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. Is there a way to delete old SYSTEM OBJECT files that are backed up? What we currently do is, do an incremental backup on the entire machine including the SYSTEM OBJECT nightly and keep for 90 days. What I'd like to do is delete some of the old SYSTEM OBJECT files that are old and

Filespace query

2005-01-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. Is there an easy way to see how much space the SYSTEM OBJECT is taking up on a particular client? I can see what the total space that the client uses but I'd like to find out the individual filespaces(total). I tried to do aquery filespace owgwttsm SYSTEM OBJECT f=dand I

Re: Filespace query

2005-01-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. I can now query the various drives but I cannot seem to get the SYSTEM OBJECT. I want to be able to tell how much space the SYSTEM OBJECT is taking up(90 days worth). With the space in the name it does not seem to find it. I tried using single quotes and double quotes around SYSTEM

Re: Filespace query

2005-01-24 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks for the help. Worked great and I have exactly what I want. Thanks again, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Filespace query Whoops,

Deleting AFS backups on TSM when using afsbutc

2005-01-19 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good morning. This is all kind of new to me. We use to backup our AFS volumes with afsbuta(had client node called afsbuta) and the backups ran a full every 12 weeks and incremental in between. In TSM I would see a dump ID for each of the backups(in filespace) and when it came time to delete

Backing up SYSTEMOBJECT on Win2K machines

2005-01-18 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I've seen a few post on the backup of the SYSTEMOBJECT for win2k and I'm looking for the best way to backup our win2K systems. I have 4 systems that I currently backup with another 10+ to go. Most of my machines are UNIX so I've never had a problem with this. It seems like the DB

Re: POLICY SET Question

2004-12-16 Thread Jones, Eric J
Thanks. Just wanted to double check since I've never done this before. Thanks again, Eric -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:14 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Jones, Eric J Subject: RE: POLICY SET Question You

POLICY SET Question

2004-12-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I'm new to the policy sets and someone else set them up for the server. I need to make a change to a Policy Set and was wondering if I needed to stop and start the server for the change to take affect. I need to change the Retain Extra Versions and Retain Only Version from 30 days

Slow WIN2K clients

2004-11-18 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Evening. I was wondering if anyone had experienced any problems with Win2K SP4 machines running the TSM client 5.2.0. The server is an AIX machine running 5.2 with TSM server 5.2.2. These machines sit behind a firewall running over port 6150, server initiated, along with a number of other

Re: File/Directory information for backups

2004-11-16 Thread Jones, Eric J
Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: File/Directory information for backups From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Is there an easy way which does not take to long to find out 1: What dates

File/Directory information for backups

2004-11-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. Is there an easy way which does not take to long to find out 1: What dates a certain file was backed up on a particular machine and the location of the file for each of the backups in case the location of the file changed. 2: What dates a particular directory with the files

Re: File/Directory information for backups

2004-11-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
: Re: File/Directory information for backups From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Is there an easy way which does not take to long to find out 1: What dates a certain file was backed up on a particular machine and the location of the file for each

Restoring Backup

2004-11-11 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. I backup a server that sits behind a firewall nightly to my TSM server. The firewall allows only server initiated communications so the client cannot start a session. I need to restore some files from the backups to a client that is not behind the firewall. Since I cannot set the

Re: Restoring Backup

2004-11-11 Thread Jones, Eric J
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J I need to restore some files from the backups to a client that is not behind the firewall. Since I cannot set the access from the client(behind firewall) to allow another machine to restore I'm not sure how I allow another machine to restore these files

Re: Running INTEL machine through firewall

2004-11-04 Thread Jones, Eric J
not sure how to get them to sync up so the backups take place. Thanks Eric -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:44 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Jones, Eric J; Prather, Wanda Subject: RE: Running INTEL machine through

Running INTEL machine through firewall

2004-11-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I'm running TSM 5.2.2 server on an AIX machine running AIX 5.2. I have a UNIX machine behind the firewall which I currently backup over port 6150 without a problem using ServerInitiated Backups. The Passwordaccess is set to generate. To setup the UNIX machine the 1st time I went

Running INTEL machine through firewall

2004-11-01 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Afternoon. I'm running TSM 5.2.2 server on an AIX machine running AIX 5.2. I have a UNIX machine behind the firewall which I currently backup over port 6150 without a problem using ServerInitiated Backups. The Passwordaccess is set to generate. To setup the UNIX machine the 1st time I went

Re: RECLAMATION

2004-10-18 Thread Jones, Eric J
We run our reclamation at 50% which seems to work very well. It gets our tapes back on a regular bases so we have plenty for backs and do not have a lot of tapes off site. Also you tend not to have tapes off-site for re Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

TSM Server Initiated restores

2004-10-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Good Morning. I have a client machine in our DMZ which I backup through port 6150. The port is only open in 1 direction so the backups are server initiated over port 6150. I'm only testing the backups at this point until I can successfully restore data to the machine. What I need to do is

Re: TSM Server Initiated restores

2004-10-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-10-15 15:27 Please respond to ADSM

Re: TSM Server Initiated restores

2004-10-15 Thread Jones, Eric J
to the client. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004