Configuring tape drives in TSM - Document Available

2006-03-23 Thread Miles Purdy
Serval years ago a wrote a document on configuring tape drives in TSM for performance/redundancy. We had some problems today and I had to dig out the document. I looked through it and made a couple of minor updates. It still seems pretty relevant. I have not made updates to the sections on SCSI

Re: ? how to protect LTO media shipped offsite to Iron Mountain ?

2005-02-21 Thread Miles Purdy
We also use Iron Mountain, without any complaints. We put the LTO tapes in their clear white cases and then in a soft "pizza" bag to be shipped off site. I have had problems with the leader pins falling out of the cartridges - I don't know if this is related to them being shipped offsite though.

Re: SSA Disk performance

2005-02-02 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Eric, I'd like to help you out. Check this out first: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1146/sam0109j/0109j.htm And maybe contact me offline and I will see what I can do. Miles -- Miles Purdy S

TSM server on p5 micro partition

2005-01-19 Thread Miles Purdy
CPU power, but that it is a single threaded processes. So more than CPU probably won't make it run much faster. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Informati

Re: TSM Client on HMC

2005-01-19 Thread Miles Purdy
That is basically my thoughts. I not sure yet how useful it will be (we only got the HW two weeks ago), but it can't hurt to back it up, I'm thinking. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19-Jan-05 1:48:05 PM >>> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:31, Miles Purdy wrote: > Does any

TSM Client on HMC

2005-01-19 Thread Miles Purdy
Does any one out there have a p5 system with a HMC? Have you tried to hack the HMC and put the TSM client on it? I'd be interested in anyone's experiences. Miles ------ Miles Purdy Syst

Re: REAL TIME STATS

2004-12-06 Thread Miles Purdy
There are two scripts that you can run: run q_ses_stats run q_proc_stats Run these from within the administrative command console. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03-Dec-04 3:45:03 PM >>> Does anyone know how to get TSM real time statistics, including disk pool util, bytes backed up per 15 or 30 minutes.

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
sically do is to free up real memory, and dramatically cut down on paging; you can take both the minperm and maxperm values down to near zero, if you're in a severely memory constrained system. --Mark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behal

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
is low today. But I'm sure that it will creap up. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20-Sep-04 8:23:21 AM >>> On Sep 20, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Miles Purdy wrote: > I have also seen paging space issues my server that runs only TSM. > > OS: AIX 5.1 ML 6 > TSM server: 5.1

Re: AIX Paging Space Utilization

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Purdy
I have also seen paging space issues my server that runs only TSM. OS: AIX 5.1 ML 6 TSM server: 5.1 and 5.2.3.1 Memory: 2GB Space: 2 GB (now 3 GB) We have logged cases with IBM, to no avail. I have check all the settings myself. IBM has checked everything and found no problems. I'd also be inte

Re: Help with ANR1173E and disk storage pool

2004-09-13 Thread Miles Purdy
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Help with ANR1173E and disk storage pool

2004-09-13 Thread Miles Purdy
TSM server 5.2.3.1 on AIX 5.1 ML 5 On the weekend I got 1300 messages like the following: 09/11/04 10:02:17 ANR1173E Space reclamation for offsite volume(s) cannot copy file in storage pool DISKDATA_SMALL: Node UNXV, Type Backup, File space /, fsId 1, File name /DisasterRecoveryPlan/ 20040906.0

Re: Expiration performance (my stats)

2004-09-13 Thread Miles Purdy
RS/6000 model 6h1 600 MHZ 2-way 4 GB RAM Disk: HP XP 1024 tsm: UNXR>select activity, cast ((end_time) as date) as "Date", (examined/cast ((end_time-start_time) seconds as deci mal (18,13)) *3600) "Objects Examined Up/Hr" from summary where activity='EXPIRATION' and days (end_time) -

Re: Expiration performance

2004-09-10 Thread Miles Purdy
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Re: aix and aio?

2004-05-28 Thread Miles Purdy
e number of AIO servers. If it equals your maximum, you may need to increase the number of AIO servers. If it is between your minimum and maximum, no changes should be required. Miles ------ Miles Purdy

Antwort: Re: 2 LTO-Drives Load-Balancing

2004-03-03 Thread Miles Purdy
Just an aside, as the processes are running, type this command into TSM: > run q_proc_stats It will show the transfer rate of each process. There is also a 'run r_ses_stats'. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03-Mar-04 8:35:47 AM >>> Hello again Sorry. Maybe my question can be wrong interpreted. Fo

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Madalina, unfortunately no one is going to be to tune your servers through email. Your issue is that AIX and TSM all have the default settings. I don't think anyone should be surprised that is not optimal. What you need to do is establish a perf and tuning methodology. Establish a base line

Re: Primary storage pool on disk

2004-02-02 Thread Miles Purdy
My $0.02... GOOD storage doesn't get a whole lot cheaper than the FAStT. Of course you can use ATA disks, but I wouldn't recommend it. At 7TB, they have quite a bit of data. If they already have a FAStT, but some drawers with 143GB disks. RAID 5 is fine for this situation. If they want a cheap

Re: Sybase backup ?

2003-12-17 Thread Miles Purdy
s them, to help manage this. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Information Systems Team (IST), Farm Income Programs Directorate (FIPD), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Winnipeg, MB, CA

Re: Question for all of you scripters our there....

2003-12-16 Thread Miles Purdy
Do you want a command to see what was backuped in the last 24 hours? You might try: select summary.entity as "NODE NAME", nodes.domain_name as "DOMAIN", nodes.platform_name as "PLATFORM", \ cast((cast(sum(summary.bytes) as float) / 1024 / 1024) as decimal(10,2)) as MBYTES , \ count(*) as "CONECTI

Re: Too many DRM tapes leaving 3949 library daily.

2003-10-14 Thread Miles Purdy
Make sure that your OFFSITE pool is NOT collocated. miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Information Systems Team (IST), Farm Income Programs Directorate (FIPD), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC

Anyone have memory problems with TSM Server 5.1.7.2

2003-10-03 Thread Miles Purdy
I'm currently having memory problems with TSM server 5.1.7.2 (32-bit) on AIX (64-bit). Has anyone heard of a memory leak with this version? I keep running out of virtual memory, even though I have 4 GB real memory and 3 GB swap space. The box only runs the TSM server. AIX is 5.1 ML 4 with patche

Re: DB2 high speed SP switch backups dead slow.

2003-09-12 Thread Miles Purdy
ametrs at client. tcpnodelay yes compression yes LARGECOMMBUFFERS NO TCPwindow 2048 TCPbuffsize 256 TCPNodelayyes PASSWORDACCESS generate resourceutilization 8 thanks and regards muthyam >>> "Miles Purdy" &

Re: DB2 high speed SP switch backups dead slow.

2003-09-10 Thread Miles Purdy
That seems terribly slow. 430 GB in 14 hours is only 8.7 MB/s aggregate throughput. Over four streams that's only 2 MB/s/stream. It has been my experience that the source hdisks are usually the bottleneck. There are only two tunables for the switch adapter, rpoolsize and spoolsize. These can be

Re: AIX Question

2003-09-08 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi there, I have a related question: what is the benefit to using two interfaces? Why not just use the gigabit card, for all TSM traffic? Is it better to keep the high-speed backups on the giga bit interface and keep the scheduler traffic on its own? It seems like a lot of extra work and confus

Upgrade fom 32-TSM to 64-bit

2003-09-02 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, I currently have: TSM server on AIX TSM server 5.1.7.2 (32-bit) AIX 5.1 (64-bit kernel) The hardware is a 6H1 How do I upgrade/convert from the 32-bit binaries to the 64-bit binaries? I currently have this installed: tivoli.tivguid 1.1.0.0C FIBM Tivoli GUID o

Re: Scheduler Options

2003-08-21 Thread Miles Purdy
'filelist' is what you want to use. I put one fully qualified file per line in a plain text file, then I use: dsmc inc -filelist=$FILELIST $FILELIST is a variable containing my file. I also put quotes around each file. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21-Aug-03 12:56:24 PM >>> HI at all !! I

Re: Multiple paths to library changer on 3584 LTO

2003-08-15 Thread Miles Purdy
As you have seen you can have two controls paths. Unfortunately only one may be active at a time. Also there is no automatic failover for the 3584. However, you have done a good thing. It is good to have two controls paths. Then if there is a failure you can manually update the control path to t

Re: slow restores on recently on AIX machines with recent OS upgr ade

2003-08-14 Thread Miles Purdy
Are you using the Sp Switch? I had a problem the SP Switch after the AIX 5 upgrade. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14-Aug-03 2:39:02 PM >>> Michael, What I understand that your data transfer rate over network went down to 200k after AIX OS upgrade. What is the level of ML you have upgraded ? What w

Re: HELP! My lost TSM DB

2003-08-14 Thread Miles Purdy
an NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP! My lost TSM DB Hi folks, TSM server 5.1 on AIX 5.1 (This may a little more of an AIX question, but I've lost my TSM database...) I reb

HELP! My lost TSM DB

2003-08-14 Thread Miles Purdy
024 2 hdisk10 hdisk11 /usr/sbin/mklv *S 4k -y 'TSMlogC' TSMdbvg1024 2 hdisk10 hdisk11 Format LVs for TSM: dsmserv format 2 /dev/TSMlogB /dev/TSMlogC 2 /dev/TSMdbB /dev/TSMdbC dsmserv restore db Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanx Miles ---

Re: AIX Upgrade from 4.3.3 to 5.1

2003-07-10 Thread Miles Purdy
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Re: Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Miles Purdy
You rock, thanks! Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26-Jun-03 1:03:07 PM >>> >Recently I've done several upgrades, and today I'm getting terrible >archive performance ... Be sure to read the White Paper on Archiving that was posted 6/11: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP10

Poor Archive Performance

2003-06-26 Thread Miles Purdy
client 5.1.5.15 AIX 4.3.3 ML 9 and ML 11 (two different clients with same problem) Communications over SP Switch. Here is an example, I finally killed the archive: > ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Inform

atape driver fails after enabling 64-bit kernel on AIX

2003-06-22 Thread Miles Purdy
driver, I have 8.2.1.0. I'm sure there is an easy fix, can someone help me? My temporary fix was to enable the 32-bit kernel. Thanks Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Information Systems Team

Objects per node report

2003-03-06 Thread Miles Purdy
anks Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Information Systems Team (IST), Farm Income Programs Directorate (FIPD), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 &q

Script attached to archive a directory on AIX

2003-03-06 Thread Miles Purdy
### # ####### echo "\n\n$0 Ended at $(date)" echo $SEP1 | cut -c -${COLUMNS} exit $RETCODE -

Re: Multiple restore sessions

2003-02-19 Thread Miles Purdy
Copy Storage Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: CRC Data: No Notice: collocate is filespace. So now I can run 5 separate restores from 5 drives. ------ Miles Pu

Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1

2003-02-14 Thread Miles Purdy
I'd like to play the devil's advocate for just a second and ask why NIM and NFS don't work? We have an SP and I use a NFS mounted directory from my CWS (NIM sever) to perform MKSYSBs of the nodes and it works just great. If your using NIM then the MKSYSB files have to be on your NIM server anywa

Re: EXCLUDE for Novell Netware backups

2002-11-07 Thread Miles Purdy
Here is a section from my Netware inclexcl file, what you want is below: * Tivoli exclude.dir "NDS:.O=HQ.CN=Tivoli" EXCLUDE directory:\.O=TIVOLI\...\* INCLUDE directory:\.O=TIVOLI\.OU=Development.O=TIVOLI\...\* * exclude TSM log files EXCLUDE sys:\tivoli\tsm\client\ba\dsmerror.log EXCLUDE sy

Re: Is help broken in 5.1.1.6?

2002-10-21 Thread Miles Purdy
Thanks guys, I still a have problem. I have already installed the fileset with 'latest'. I can't remove it and 'all' will not allow me to overwrite. Any help appreciated. Miles -----

Re: migration: waiting for acccess to tape annoyance

2002-10-10 Thread Miles Purdy
A better solution is usually to schedule these events so this never happens. Run migration before any backups start. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10-Oct-02 1:28:48 PM >>> Had the below happen to me last night. It actually happens when a node backs up a large data file (larger that the stgpool M

Re: IP pool buffers below threshold in errpt for css0

2002-10-08 Thread Miles Purdy
Some comments: The size is megabytes, not gigabytes. If it is too small, bump it up. 16MB is the max. But I believe the memory is pinned. EX: unxd:./>lsattr -El css0 ... spoolsize 14680064Size of IP send buffer True rpoolsize 16777216Size

Re: Optimal VMTUNE Guidelines for a TSM Server

2002-10-01 Thread Miles Purdy
IMHO, your box looks overloaded: 1. you always have 20+ runnable processes 2. user + system exceeds 95% most of the time 3. you are always searching and freeing memory 4. with F - f / R, you only have room for one (376-120 / 256 = 1)read ahead. I don't thing setting R above 64 helps. F should be

Is help broken in 5.1.1.6?

2002-09-30 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi folks, aix server 5.1.1.6 When I run 'help' the formatting is all messed up. Any one else seen this? miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Sy

Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.

2002-09-27 Thread Miles Purdy
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WIN2k Clients Backing up Executables ALL THE TIME

2002-09-26 Thread Miles Purdy
backs up about 10mb. If I run 'dsmc inc' it backs up around 800mb. Any ideas? Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Program

Re: Netware 5.1 ( Any fix for this?)

2002-09-17 Thread Miles Purdy
I might be wrong, but, make sure TSANDS is loaded. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA

Re: TSM Server Paging: Need an AIX Paging Expert to Help

2002-09-17 Thread Miles Purdy
ned /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -B 960 /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -f 256 -F 768 -u 64 -p 20 -P 65 -r 2 -R 64 -l 65536 -w 32000 -b 384 -c 4 The -c I'm testing here. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manage

Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area

2002-09-11 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi Eric, your H70 is a good machine. A 6H1 is a upgrade of a H50, which is less than the H70. You machine is not the issue here. First consider the software issue, which I don't know much about. Then the hardware. I can make many suggestions in this area. Hopefully the information I presented

Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance

2002-09-11 Thread Miles Purdy
want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Expiration processing

2002-09-10 Thread Miles Purdy
REE DISTRIBUTION: 00..00..00..00..205 USED DISTRIBUTION: 380..380..380..380..175 --- Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, I

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-06 Thread Miles Purdy
Last time I checked TSM WORKED just fine. I'm sure if IBM wanted a BMR product they would have one. I'm sure if IBM wanted to make a BMR product for HP they could, but why would they? The mksysb process is a competitive advantage for AIX. Why should IBM make a BMR product for windows? Why doesn

Re: Help excluding NDS objects

2002-08-30 Thread Miles Purdy
CTED]> 29-Aug-02 5:03:51 PM >>> Miles, EXCLUDE "nds:O=HQ.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=NetWare 6 Server+NLS:Version=600.NLS:License ID=SN:301126488" EXCLUDE "nds:.O=HQ.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=BorderManager Site to Site VPN+NLS:Version=370.NLS" and so on s

Help excluding NDS objects

2002-08-29 Thread Miles Purdy
someone correct my exclude statements? miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204)

Re: Netware client error: no data sets can be found

2002-08-28 Thread Miles Purdy
Thanks, but I don't think that will help. We currently have: TSA 6.00a (12 Jan 2002) SMDR.nlm 6.00a (12 Jan 2002) That patch has a version of SMDR.nlm from Oct 2001. miles -- Miles

Netware client error: no data sets can be found

2002-08-27 Thread Miles Purdy
6.0 269) No data sets can be found. 08/27/2002 08:57:36 (TSA600.NLM 6.0 269) No data sets can be found. Has any one seen this before? I'm not experienced with the NetWare client. Thanks Miles --

Re: Script for paging

2002-08-25 Thread Miles Purdy
at /tmp/adsm.$$ /tmp/adsm1.$$ >/tmp/adsm2.$$ cat /tmp/adsm2.$$ cat /tmp/adsm2.$$ | /usr/local/bin/qpage -P Miles fi rm /tmp/$CONTROL_FILE.$$* 2>/dev/null rm /tmp/adsm?.$$ 2>/dev/null rm /tmp/adsm.$$ 2>/dev/null exit 0 --

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

2002-08-22 Thread Miles Purdy
d the money to buy good hardware and the time to manage, analyze and make changes. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Direct

Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled....

2002-08-16 Thread Miles Purdy
Comments below: -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canda, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204

Re: move drmedia

2002-07-29 Thread Miles Purdy
'move drm' should not actually look at any tapes. This command updates the database only. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PRO

Re: Script question

2002-07-09 Thread Miles Purdy
e cartridges names, then add 'move drmedia' and 'tostate=vault' around the cartridge name. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA

If you had problems obtaining HOW TO: Configuring Tape Drives in TSM....

2002-07-09 Thread Miles Purdy
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HOW TO: Configuring Tape Drives in TSM (part 2 of 3)

2002-07-08 Thread Miles Purdy
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HOW TO: Configuring Tape Drives in TSM (part 1 of 3)

2002-07-08 Thread Miles Purdy
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HOW TO: Configuring Tape Drives in TSM (part 3 of 3)

2002-07-08 Thread Miles Purdy
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HOW TO: Configuring Tape Drives in TSM (part 2 of 2)

2002-07-08 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi all, I wrote this little how-to guide on configuring tapes, to hopefully get better performance. Feedback, comments, criticisms welcome. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs

Re: Performance

2002-06-26 Thread Miles Purdy
an see what is going on. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shel

Re: Mount points

2002-06-24 Thread Miles Purdy
est return code was 0. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell

Re: Slow Reclamation - And a need for speed...

2002-06-13 Thread Miles Purdy
Period: 1 Day(s) Day of Week: Weekday Expiration: Active?: Yes Last Update by (administrator): PURDYM Last Update Date/Time: 02/19/02 14:25:50 Managing profile: Miles -----

Re: TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-13 Thread Miles Purdy
ecommunications ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?" -

Re: TSM 4.2/AIX setup questions

2002-06-13 Thread Miles Purdy
apes and the database backup offsite 6. during the day run reclamation on each storage pool Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?" -

Re: SSA RAID10 stripe size for disk storage pools

2002-06-12 Thread Miles Purdy
I do believe, for database applications, ie. random I/O, a smaller stripe size is better. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph

Re: data tansfer time ???

2002-05-31 Thread Miles Purdy
It is almost a perfect example, but explains the numbers quite well I hope. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax:

Re: Network data transfer rate & aggregate data transfer rate

2002-05-31 Thread Miles Purdy
ion: 17554, Node: UNXR) Elapsed processing time:00:37:24 Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 9

Re: Network Tuning

2002-04-26 Thread Miles Purdy
Not really what you want but: if you don't TSM to use all the bandwidth, get an additional interface. This is a good idea anyway. Having a 'backup' network is very handy. Miles ------ Mile

Re: Has anybody else seen anything like this ?

2002-04-25 Thread Miles Purdy
ssing time:00:34:52 Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 98

Re: AIX Disk questions

2002-04-10 Thread Miles Purdy
he correct adapter select the disks you CAN'T SEE RIGHT NOW (using the physical address of the enclosure helps - IF you have a D40) Select NEW USE = AIX System Disks Miles ------ Miles Purdy Syste

Re: Disk Availability

2002-04-01 Thread Miles Purdy
y kinda of striping: JBOD or RAID 1, is probably better. Using TSM mirroring across SSA adapter is probably best too. 6. if your using filesystems on these disks, use RAID and LVM striping. Miles ------ M

Re: Nohup Scheduler Service.

2002-03-28 Thread Miles Purdy
dule < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &" Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?" -

Re: Utilising drives while labelling 3584

2002-03-25 Thread Miles Purdy
You can't change it. This is how TSM works. I don't think it has anything to do with the library. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24-Mar-02 7:15:56 PM >>> During a tape labelling process (we are in the process of filling the library with new tape): "checkin libvol 3584LIB1 search=bulk checkin=scra

Re: script to see if TSM Server is down

2002-03-15 Thread Miles Purdy
if [[ `ps -ef | grep -c /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/rc.adsmserv` -lt 1 ]]; then echo "down"; fi ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sybase & TSM

2002-03-11 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi, Having used both flat files for dumps and SQL-back track, I prefer to use files. What I mean is I dump the database to files first, then backup the files to TSM. This is what I do: DUMPTIME=`date +"%d%b%Y.%H:%M"` DUMPNAME=$DEVNAME/$SERVER.$DATABASE.$DUMPTIME $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin/isql -X

Re: Sysback/6000 vs. mksysb for TSM DR restore

2002-03-07 Thread Miles Purdy
One quick thought, just install the needed drivers on the H70. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07-Mar-02 11:19:12 AM >>> Hi, We have been using Sysback/6000 for years as our backup recovery tool for our AIX systems. We are now merging many of those servers, and the collection of non-AIX systems is

Re: ANR0000E with TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3

2002-03-06 Thread Miles Purdy
I had this once also. The problem is a missing symbolic link. I wish I could remember where, but I can't. It is somewhere in /usr/lib/nls, I think. I logged a support call and it didn't take long to fix. Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06-Mar-02 7:22:44 AM >>> I've just installed TSM 4.1 Server o

IBM 3584 (LTO) logs download

2002-03-05 Thread Miles Purdy
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Re: Error with long files

2002-02-20 Thread Miles Purdy
I had this problem trying to backup a Netware volume that was mounted on a windows box. My solution was to exclude the offending files. I excluded the directory one level down: Exclude *:\...\Provincial Price lists\...\* Miles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20-Feb-02 9:15:14 AM >>> Hi, I'm one probl

Re: Memory Tuning For AIX

2002-01-02 Thread Miles Purdy
136237 pages of 'active virtual memory' is only 532 MB. Be really careful when you try this I CRASHED BOX WHEN I DID THIS: you can use vmtune -h to force 'P' to be a hard limit. Set this in rc.local. Email me more info. I like these problems. Miles ---

Re: Please Explain (again)

2002-01-02 Thread Miles Purdy
Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you

Re: Please Explain (again)

2001-12-30 Thread Miles Purdy
tleneck is. So I still don't think it is a bug. Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 &quo

Re: Please Explain

2001-12-20 Thread Miles Purdy
% 12/19/01 14:25:28 ANE4964I (Session: 14442, Node: UNXP) Elapsed processing time:01:25:00 Miles -- Miles Purdy

Re: Please Explain

2001-12-20 Thread Miles Purdy
Miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can

Re: Please Explain

2001-12-20 Thread Miles Purdy
I don't use (software) compression, hardware yes. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 &q

Re: Please Explain

2001-12-20 Thread Miles Purdy
enough, my aggregate usually exceeds the network, I was asking yesterday if any one else sees this. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph

Re: TSM 4.1 AIX client hangs

2001-12-20 Thread Miles Purdy
Hi, If I understand you correctly you have many AIX clients, but only one is not working properly? If that is the case, I'd start with the AIX box, not the TSM client. Miles -- Miles Purdy S

Re: Urgent:Very long time for backup

2001-12-19 Thread Miles Purdy
xceed the Network transfer rate? This seems odd, but I think that the multiple streams to the server account for the apparent discrepancy. miles ------ Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate

Re: Netware 5.1 and NSS volumes

2001-12-18 Thread Miles Purdy
miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 "If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you

Re: Novell GroupWise

2001-12-17 Thread Miles Purdy
event any problems from TSM to backup the (plain) files. Please let me know what you find. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph:

Re: Netware 6

2001-12-14 Thread Miles Purdy
memory requirements of TSM that that is causing the box to abend. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204

Re: Netware 6

2001-12-14 Thread Miles Purdy
Is anyone backing up NetWare 6? I have a situation where I have to make this work. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984

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