Re: Can't find node

2014-02-05 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hello, Do you still have a tsm schedule defined for the node? q sche * nodename* -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of r4mzeso Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 5:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Can't find n

Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets

2014-02-01 Thread Marouf, Nick
Same here, one policy set per domain. -Nick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 11:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Informal Poll: General question about use of p

Re: Question: V6.3 or V7.1 for a new system?

2014-01-31 Thread Marouf, Nick
I would go with 7.1, I have it on 4 Windows 2008 R2 servers without any problems. The DB improvements are great, and the use of the Ops Manager has already provided to be very useful. :) All the best with the upgrade. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.M

Re: How well do .pst files dedup?

2014-01-24 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Wanda, I've had very good dedup savings with PSTs in general. I've deployed client side deduplication across all remote sites, and I wouldn't have had backups complete if it wasn't for deduplication. What used to take upwards of 3 or 4 days to backup is now complete in a few hours.

Re: TSM 7.1

2014-01-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
As an added fyi, my upgrade of 2 out of 4 tsm (6.3.3) servers to 7.1 went very well, and the new Ops Center is performing as expected from my earlier lab testing. I do wish that I can override some or most of the thresholds, it is not a priority but would be an added feature. For

Re: TSM 7.1

2014-01-17 Thread Marouf, Nick
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Re: TSM 7.1

2014-01-16 Thread Marouf, Nick
installer issues on one of our Windows 2012 servers ("Error 2869. The dialog SetupError has the error style bit set, but is not an error dialog"). Ended up having to completely uninstall, delete and reinstall. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Marouf, Nick wrote: > Hello, >

TSM 7.1

2014-01-16 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hello, I wanted to see what the general feedback is on TSM 7.1? I haven't seen many reported problems. -Nick

Re: POLL: Backing up Windows Systemstate

2014-01-10 Thread Marouf, Nick
In our current environment, we've never had a requirement to restore a system state. However, there are engineers that requested the ability to have it available. Instead of using TSM's systemstate backup option, I've excluded it in the dsm.opt and use Microsoft's preferred and recommended meth

Re: Deduplication "number of chunks waiting in queue" continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
ries if you add them post-installation. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:23:34PM -0500, Marouf, Nick wrote: > I can second that Sergio, > Backup stgpools to copy tapes is not pretty, and is an intensive process to > rehydrate all that data. > > The one extra thing I did was split the database acros

Re: Deduplication "number of chunks waiting in queue" continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
I can second that Sergio, Backup stgpools to copy tapes is not pretty, and is an intensive process to rehydrate all that data. The one extra thing I did was split the database across multiple folder for parallel I/O to the Database. That has worked out very well, and I currently have it setu

Re: Deduplication "number of chunks waiting in queue" continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Wanda, I'm using Deduplication and have found that tsm life would be much easier if the stg pool was kept smaller under 3TB in size. I haven't done enough testing with this, and I know it is slightly counterproductive to achieve the highest deduplication savings. But it sure does make the ad

delete volhist

2013-11-12 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hello, Can someone maybe provide a bit more clarification on this technote? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653710&myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSSGSG7&mync=E We generally set the DRM with SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS and then after tapes moved to vault for the day, run the following comma

Re: Moving from TSMV5 to V6 / question on DIRMC

2013-10-30 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Rainer, We had to use DIRMC, even though I've heard the same that it is no longer needed. Some of the servers I backup are so large that without DIRMC, the restores would take a substantial time to complete, I've also had an issue were the GUI had stopped working, and enabling DIRMC o

Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 & 2008

2013-10-24 Thread Marouf, Nick
You could always create a prescheduled job to export all tasks, those could be imported back if there is a problem down the road. Take a look at http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1474-export-and-import-all-scheduled-tasks-in-windows-server-2008-windows-7 -Original Message-

Re: Sequential dedup pool doesn't seem to reclaim as it should

2013-06-07 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Wanda From personal experience my reclaims show a similar behavior, and from what I understand that used tape count will keep on increasing. The amount of time it takes to dehydrate data from disk to copy when doing a reclaim will impact the reclaim operation and of course the amount

Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] Now that I have a TS3500 - I have questions

2013-05-28 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hello Zoltan, Congrats! For checkin I use the following checkin libv 3584lib search=bulk checkl=barcode status=Scratch waitt=0 bulk means to check the Virtual I/O slots or entry doors. The YES option is only needed if you want to scan the entire library. With ALMS option that yo

Re: New guide for optimizing Tivoli Storage Manager performance

2013-04-26 Thread Marouf, Nick
Thank you Andy, This redbook is definitely a light reading compared to the rest of the TSM rebooks. :) Thank you for all the fine tuning information being placed in once place. I wanted to ask is anyone on the list using Dedup technology with an 8 LUN database backend as recomm