X/Open API on Linux

2003-02-03 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
All, I'm working with software(AFS/OpenAFS) that uses the X/Open XBSA API to communicate with the TSM server. The manual Using the Application Programming Interface, Version 5.1 says that the X/Open API is only available for AIX, HP-UX and Solaris. Can someone (possibly Andy R.) comment on

Re: Exclude SYSTEM_OBJECT redux

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
If anything, I'd go with backupsystemobject yes/no, similar to backupregistry yes/no that we have today. Easy to put in a client option set, or in the options file on the client. I agree that this type of option would be preferable to my suggestion of exclude.systemobject. But is it possible

Re: Idea for a TSM feature

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
The feature that I would like to see is the ability to create a special disk storage pool, that would only migrate inactive versions of backup objects to the next storage pool. This would keep all the active versions on disk storage. I'm sure everyone has certain nodes(systems) that are of

Exclude SYSTEM_OBJECT redux

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, We are apparently in the minority due to the fact that we don't want to backup the SYSTEM_OBJECT on Windows 2000 on our clients. I have contacted Tivoli support and know that my only option currently is to use the DOMAIN statement in the dsm.opt file to control this. Therefore I come to

Re: volhist file extremely large

2001-10-04 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Would this also be applicable if all data was going directly to tape? and data is being archived for 3 and 8 years? Bill, I think what the consensus is here, is the tapes that are legitimate data tapes will not be deleted from the volhist file. Only DB backups, exports and volumes that have

Re: Listserver question

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Is it possible to see also your own postings to the listserver? Sometimes the posting doen't arrive, so now i must check it with an other account. Maybe you can use the web interface to the list at www.adsm.org to check your postings ? While we're on this subject...I frequently use the

Re: Listserver question

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Andy, Interesting indeed. I have done a little experimenting since your post. If I just search on Matthew and Bacchi I get many posts, with duplicates. Here is one particular selection, a single post that shows up twice. Notice how it has two different confidence levels for the same

volhist file extremely large

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I have seen some posts concerning this in the past, but I don't have a good feeling about my options. I have a volumeshistory file that is around 5 megs, and entries that go back to 1997. What I want to know is, how do I know for sure that I can delete a particular entry?

disabling TCPIP commmethod

2001-09-21 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
OK folks, this one has bothered me for years. I want to disable the TSM server completely while I do some work. Rather than using the disable sessions command, I want to in effect disable TCPIP connections altogether. I have attempted commenting out COMMmethod TCPIP in the dsmserv.opt file,

ANS1809E error on AIX client

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I have been seeing what appear to be networking problems on an AIX client over the past 2 weeks. An incremental normally runs from 06:00 AM until 19:00 PM, but recently the process has not finished by the next morning at 06:00. We get errors in our logs, and redirected from

Re: ANS1809E error on AIX client

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Good point Richard. I do see the session being terminated on the server, here is the log entry: 07/28/01 12:50:37 ANR0480W Session 56995 for node MDBACK0.BTV.IBM.COM (AIX) terminated - connection with client severed. Obviously because this is

Re: AIX TSM scheduler problem

2001-07-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Be aware that inittab runs things under sh, not ksh. See man page. Richard, Not to split hairs here, and dangerously close to being off topic, but isn't sh linked to ksh? From the man page: man sh: Syntax Refer to the syntax of the ksh command. The /usr/bin/sh file is linked to the

Re: export multiple nodes, but only import one?

2001-07-26 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Jack, This creates two questions. If I export a dozen nodes to a tape, and then later someone needs data from node XYZ, can I stick the tape in and IMPORT NODE XYZ DEVCLASS=8MM_CLASS and it will ignore the other nodes? In my experience this works exactly as you describe. You can specify

Re: Expire Logs C Program for Tivoli 4.2 and Informix

2001-07-26 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Fred, From what I have read and been told by IBM support, you will want to use the TSM 3.7 API no matter what version of the other TSM client code you use. Apparently the API for 4.1 and above has major problems, this will be fixed, but for now just use the 3.7 API. -Matt /** **

Re: ADSM/HSM migration candidates list

2001-06-14 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Matthew - Is the file system occupied by small files, under 4KB in size? No, it isn't. In fact it is occupied by a few quite large files, between 100-500 Meg. There are some lock files in the filesystem, which are around 4KB, but the majority of the files are larger. Richard, maybe you or

Re: help to certification

2001-06-14 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Do you know if there are some web sites where it's possible to try = tests for TSM certification ? Yep, try this Tivoli site: http://www.tivoli.com/services/certification/exams/699exam.html You'll see the Sample Exam in PDF format. -Matt /** **Matt Bacchi [EMAIL

ADSM/HSM migration candidates list

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I can't seem to get HSM to generate a candidates list and begin migrating files on an AIX 4.3.2 system. The version of adsm.client.aix42.hsm is 3.1.20.8, one of the most recent ADSM packages. Anyway, the high migration threshold is set below the percent used for the filesystem, Space

TSM icon in gif or jpg format

2001-06-12 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I know this sounds silly, but I'm updating my internal web page for TSM, and can't find a TSM logo/icon anywhere. I do see the Tivoli logo, but nothing that is more specific to TSM itself. When ADSM was king, there was the Safeman icon that we used, but now I'm interested in

Rebinding archive to management class

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I know its not possible to rebind previously archived files to a new management class, but I want to try it anyway. My customer has been using the default management class when archiving in the past, but wants to increase the retention period from 180 to 730 days. I can't do

Re: db2 backups not expiring

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Peter, Another thing to think about is how often your database is backed up fully, versus the logs being archived. We only back up the dbs fully once per week, and logs are applied to get to a particular point in time. Because of this, we use : vere = 2 verd = 0

TSM 4.1 API broken?

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Folks, I thought I read somewhere that the TSM 4.1 version of the API was not working well, and it is recommended to use the 3.7 version. Is this correct or am I going crazy. I have tried to search through the archives on adsm.org, but get poor results when using anything with the

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

2001-02-27 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
George, I'm not really sure what the difference is, I'm guessing that the SSA controller needs to support Fast-Write Cache, and I believe it's a chip on the controller with memory(cache) for doing this. For example if I run the following command: # lscfg -vl ssa0 DEVICE

Re: AFS 3.6 butc deletedump

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Is there a synchronization utility to force the synchonization of the TSM data with the AFS backup database? Kent, This is a good question, but I don't think there is. I have used BUTA for 1+ years now, and there is a sync option with the delbuta utility. When doing some testing with

Re: TSM training?

2001-02-17 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
I would encourage you to look into going to the SSSI advanced class. I took it in October and was impressed. They covered new features of TSM, the Tivoli Data Protection clients and went into sizing of TSM servers extensively. I learned quite a few new things, and I've been doing ADSM for

Re: Delete of one volume in VOLHIST

2001-02-02 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Rene, You can use the command "delete volhist type=export" if you have only one export volume. Try first doing a "query volhist type=export". Hope this helps. -Matt how can I delete only one volume in the VOLHIST ? This is an Export volume, created 2 months ago. I cannot use the

polling vs. prompted scheduling

2001-01-12 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
I'm confused. I know what the two different scheduling methods are, but I don't think my server does. I have the server set to do client polling, but I still get error messages in the activity log that look like this: 01/11/01 15:03:39 ANR8214E Session open with 9.66.95.61 failed due

HSM age factor

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Hello all, We are attempting to understand the age factor parameter of HSM a little better. I know that the age factor is used to prioritize the files eligible for migration. Is there a way to make HSM look at the last access time of a file before it marks it as an eligible candidate to

Upgradedb command

2000-11-17 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Hi, When doing an dsmserv upgradedb command, the server continues to run after completion. Is it possible to add a flag that will shut down the server once it has finished upgrading the database? We are attempting to automate some of the server upgrade process, and this one command

Archive large list of files

2000-10-05 Thread Matthew A. Bacchi
Hello, We have a process that archives a large set of files. We are running into a problem now because the number of files is apparently too great for the command interpretor (shell) to accept as individual arguments. We use this particular method so that we can archive all these