Remote Backups....

2004-11-23 Thread Michael, Monte
Fellow TSM administrators: My company is currently looking at backing up approximately 40 NT servers at our remote locations, back to our local data center. Each location has around 10gb - 40gb of storage, and very minimal daily change activity on the files. Some of the locations are 256k

TSM Server Option - mirrorwrite db sequential or parellel

2004-08-23 Thread Michael, Monte
We are currently running TSM server 5.2.3.1 on AIX. I am currious as to what most people have the following server options set on there AIX servers. We currently have the following set on our server: MirrorRead DBNormal MirrorWrite DBSequential MirrorRead LOG Normal

MIRRORWRITE DB SEQUENTIAL OR PARALLEL

2004-08-23 Thread Michael, Monte
Fellow TSM users: We are currently running TSM server 5.2.3.1 on AIX. I am currious as to what most people have the following server options set on there AIX servers. We currently have the following set on our server: MirrorRead DBNormal MirrorWrite DBSequential MirrorRead

HPC Shared Filesystems

2004-05-17 Thread Michael, Monte
We are looking at using PolyServe or GPFS in our cluster as a common NSF server for our linux HPC cluster and Solaris systems. How are people are using these in HPC environments and how do you back them up? We would like to use TSM. Thank You, ...Monte Michael This communication is for

Re: Expiration

2004-05-03 Thread Michael, Monte
fyi: My expiration process runs as follows each night: ANR0984I Process 469 for EXPIRE INVENTORY started in the FOREGROUND at 01:00:05. ANR0811I Inventory client file expiration started as process 469. ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 469 completed: examined 2112468 objects, deleting

TSM Operational Reporting - Custom Summary Report

2004-05-03 Thread Michael, Monte
I have TSM Operational Reporting up and running, but I have a couple of questions about the Custom Summary Report: * Does the Total GB backed up include data that was backed up via the Backup Stgpool command? Or is the Total GB backed up only refernce the the data that was backed up to

Re: TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive Client

2003-12-12 Thread Michael, Monte
I believe TSM server version 5.1.5 was the first release that was suppported to run on AIX 5.2. We are currently running TSM SERVER VERSION 5.1.7 on AIX 5.2. There are some TSM steps that are docuemented in the quick start guide that need to be followed when upgrading the AIX OS to 5.1 or

TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive Client

2003-12-10 Thread Michael, Monte
What is the most current TSM AIX 5.2 Backup/Archive client available? Where can I download it from. My normal download site only has 5.2.0 client code available for download. I can't believe there is not a newer release than this. Thank you for your help, ...Monte This communication is

Re: Move data

2003-11-04 Thread Michael, Monte
Run an audit against the tape volume. (audit volser fix=yes). Once the audit completes you can then delete the volume from TSM. We have this happen to volume on occasion. ...Monte -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L.

Re: Administrative tools for Unix or Linux servers

2003-10-10 Thread Michael, Monte
We are using Tivoli Workload Scheduler to submit all of our TSM backup jobs, and to schedule the daily TSM administrative tasks. ...Monte -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:38 AM To:

TSM Operational Reporting

2003-10-09 Thread Michael, Monte
Where can I download or get a copy of the TSM Operational Reporting software, and some documentation on installation? As always, your help is appreaciated. Monte This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged, confidential or

TSM Operational Reporting

2003-10-09 Thread Michael, Monte
Where can I download or get a copy of the TSM Operational Reporting software, and some documentation on installation? As always, your help is appreaciated. Monte This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged, confidential or

AIX Lan Free

2003-09-24 Thread Michael, Monte
I am currently setting up a LAN free environment on one of our AIX clients. Our environment is as follows: AIX 5.1.7.0 server AIX client 5.1.5.10 The install and setup went well, but I am recieving the following error when trying to mount a tape: 09/23/2003 16:20:21 ANR8779E (Session:

simultaneous writes to copy storage pools

2003-09-16 Thread Michael, Monte
fyi: If you turn on simultaneous writes to copy storage pools, do you still need to perform a backup of that storage pool via the BACKUP STGPOOL command? For instance... We back up our large Exchange servers to a primary storage pool 3590EXCHPOOL. These exchange clients backup exchange data

Re: Measuring progress of copy stgpool operation

2003-01-23 Thread Michael, Monte
You can run a preview of what data will be backed up to the copy stgpool, then launch the acutal backup copypool command. The preview will give you the amount of data that needs to be backed up from you primary storage pools to your copystgpool. Monte -Original Message- From: PAC Brion

Re: Linux Backup

2002-11-15 Thread Michael, Monte
I resolved the same problem by upgrading my TSM client to 5.1.1.0 -Original Message- From: Nelson Kane [mailto:TSMUser;AOL.COM] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux Backup Hello All, I am having an Issue with my Linux backup. Soon as I start the

Re: Unload db/Loaddb

2002-05-13 Thread Michael, Monte
Rajesh, I have performed an unload/reload of our AIX TSM server, and recieved the following results: Reduced database utilization by - 21.2% Reduced used database pages by - 3,114,592 Maximum database reduction increased by - 22,044mb Our TSM production database is 60gb in size. It took

ESTCAPACITY - 3590 K tapes (extended length)

2002-04-03 Thread Michael, Monte
We have just converted our 3590J tape cartridges to 3590K tape cartridges (extended length). I was curious what most people have entered as an estimated capacity for these type of tapes. This is entered when you define the device class for 3590 tape drives. Also, does the estimated capacity on

Re: Reorg your database

2002-03-13 Thread Michael, Monte
Dave, Can you unload the TSM database to a disk volume? I have always unloaded to a 3590 tape drive. Disk would be much faster.. Monte -Original Message- From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reorg your

RESOURCEUTILIZATION - NT client 4.1.2.12

2002-03-11 Thread Michael, Monte
Has anyone experienced greater backup throughput by setting the RESOURCUTILIZATION parameter greater than the default value on an NT CLIENT? When you increase the resourceutilization on a client, are there any server settings that need changed as well? TSM Environment information: AIX SERVER -

3590 Tapes.

2002-01-03 Thread Michael, Monte
I am currently in the process of replacing all of my 3590 tapes in my ATL with new 3590 EXTENDED length cartridges. I have a buyer for the 3200 3590 tapes I am removing from TSM/ATL. How do I go about making sure all data has been erased from the old 3590 cartridges? It is my understanding

Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions

2001-01-30 Thread Michael, Monte
Diane, What level of microcode are you currently running on your 3590 tape drives. We are running 3590E1A tape drives with a microcode level of D22E. We have been on this level of code for quite some time with no errors. Our 3590's are also house within a 3494. -Original Message-

Re: Offsite media reclamation

2000-10-09 Thread Michael, Monte
Yes... Offsite copy pool volumes will be reclaimed when the reclamation threshold for your copypool has been reached. Tapes with access=offsite and in the copypool do not need to have a FULL status to be reclaimed. Once a copypool volume with an access=offsite has been reclaimed, it will have