Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Park, Rod
We installed 12 LTO5 drives a couple of months ago We have a mixture of LTO2, LTO4, and LTO5 drives in our library. LTO5 drives are only using LTO4 media, but we haven't had any issues as of yet. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: TSM 6 database space performance question

2010-05-11 Thread Park, Rod
Ours is designed the same, I asked the same questions and was given the following advice: The alternative to specifying multiple database directories is to use hardware RAID controller or LVM to assemble multiple disks into a single filespace/directory, You don't get the benefit of DB2's stri

Re: volumes in a collocation group?stg

2009-03-17 Thread Park, Rod
Ok, we've never collocated our copy pools because I was under the impression that TSM consolidates each node to a small subset of tapes which in turn makes restores very fast/less mounts blah blah blah, but if you're writing out new backup data for each node from the night before out to a copypo

Re: copypool volumes requested instead of primary pool

2008-01-14 Thread Park, Rod
:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] copypool volumes requested instead of primary pool On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Park, Rod wrote: > ... why would it request the copypool if primary tape is available and > read/writable in the library? > Rod - The most common reason

copypool volumes requested instead of primary pool

2008-01-14 Thread Park, Rod
We have a situation where dba's are doing a full db restore to a client. The client is requesting and using primary tapes, but it is also requesting copypool tapes that are offsite. All of the primary tapes are online r/w in the library and some are actually in use that has the same db file that th

Re: sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Park, Rod
I don't see anything in the activity log. The backups are going straight to diskpools and the backups are single threaded. I did add disk space to my diskpool this week in case that was the issue. Looking at my diskvols, data doesn't seem to be striped across all disk evenly, would that be that pro

sql tdp hang issue

2007-12-14 Thread Park, Rod
I have a dba that has one sql server that has "tsm hang" issues according to him. They have a full backup job that backs up 7 sql db's. The size is about 80GB total. Sometime it backs them all up with no issues, sometime it says "waiting on tsm server" but if I look at "q se" there are no active se

Long running expire inventory

2007-04-17 Thread Park, Rod
I posted this before, not sure if it made it out there. I have a TSM server version 5.3.3.1 on AIX with a 70GB database. I recently moved my db/log vols from 500GB sata drives to internal drives along with mirrored vols on separate internal drives on the aix box. My backups went from 2 hours to 30

Re: Good or bad idea?...offsite disk.

2007-04-16 Thread Park, Rod
I have a TSM server version 5.3.3.1 running on AIX. Database is 70GB, I recently moved the db and log vols off of 500GB SATA drives to internal drives on the AIX box. I have the dbvols spread across 8 disks and mirrored within TSM on 8 separate internal disks. Everything is much faster now with the

Re: Recovery Log Pinned

2007-02-07 Thread Park, Rod
Kinda weird...i had the exact same thing happen yesterday and I've never seen it before either. We had to halt/restart to fix the problem.. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:35 AM

Delete copypool data

2007-01-25 Thread Park, Rod
We might have a change in policy where we no longer need a 2nd copy of certain storage pools. If this were the case, would it be ok for me to just delete volume with discarddata=yes on those volumes, or when I discarddata does that affect my primary tape pool also. Looks like I'll be able to free u

insufficient space in subordinate storage pool

2006-10-23 Thread Park, Rod
I have a tsm server at level 5.3.3.1. I have a disk pool that does migrations to tapepool for any data 90 days or older. I have been getting the following message: 10/23/06 08:34:27 ANR1025W Migration process 109294 terminated for storage pool NT_DISKPOOL - insuffi

Re: FW: Tape Drive Choices: What, and why?

2006-08-09 Thread Park, Rod
Yeh...i agree Joe. We have the same situation here. We have a 3583 with LTO2 in a test/DR environment and it is painful to work with it, load failures, locks up, you name it, just very inconsistent behavior. No drive failures though and we have LTO2 in it. We also have a 3584 in our production envi

Re: Another D/R question

2006-07-12 Thread Park, Rod
We do a daily sysback to tape which also goes offsite which has all of the DRM info and volhist,devconfig,dsmserv.dskall pertinent files needed for restore. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2

Dsmc memory leak

2006-07-11 Thread Park, Rod
I'm sure this has been discussed in past...the "dsmc sch" process slowly has a memory leak over time and the only way to free it up is to kill the process and let it respawn. We are at version 5.2.2.9 on AIX 5.3.3 Does anybody know if this has been fixed on any later versions of the ba client...th

Re: Migdelay explanation

2006-07-07 Thread Park, Rod
value... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Park, Rod Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Migdelay explanation Could someone in the group please explain to me how migdelay works. I am wanting to setup a

Migdelay explanation

2006-07-07 Thread Park, Rod
Could someone in the group please explain to me how migdelay works. I am wanting to setup a disk pool to migrate data 90 days old. I was under the impression that when data was 90 days or older it would automatically migrate to next pool. I was told that one thing that would happen is, as soon as

Re: Random Access Disk Pools

2006-04-06 Thread Park, Rod
anyone? Ideas? -Original Message- From: Park, Rod Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:10 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools So, can someone explain the difference at the TSM level and aggregate level. Really I'm trying to unders

Re: Random Access Disk Pools

2006-04-05 Thread Park, Rod
k vs devclass=file -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Park, Rod Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:39 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools Let me ask again because I didn't get much feedback. How do w

Re: Random Access Disk Pools

2006-04-04 Thread Park, Rod
andom Access Disk Pools We found the limit. There are some posts in this forum from the first of the year about the problem we ran into. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Park, Rod Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:45 AM To: A

Re: TSM server automation products

2006-03-31 Thread Park, Rod
I believe ServerGraph and TSMManager both say they have the functionality. We have a pretty sizable TSM environment here...3 TSM servers 10TB b/u a night, 3584 1700 slots 60 drives and we do not have scripts to do any of the daily housekeeping. We use tsm scripts and scheduler and it runs fine. Wha

Re: 5.3.2 server

2006-03-30 Thread Park, Rod
Andy, That's interesting. Did this level actually fix your problem. We are at 5.3.2.3 and still have the repair stgvol problem. We have on open pmr with them, but supposedly there is still an open apar to address repair stgvol. We had this problem again just yesterday.really a pain because it d

Re: Random Access Disk Pools

2006-03-27 Thread Park, Rod
We use random access pools, how do you know what your thread limit iswe've never had any issues with ours but we're thinking about adding a lot more. What's the biggest reason you do/don't use devclass=file over disk storage poolsarguments either way? -Original Message- From: ADSM:

Re: 5.3.2.2 volume question

2006-02-16 Thread Park, Rod
Sorrythat was a typo on previous message, we have a 3584, not a 3589. > _ > From: Park, Rod > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:53 AM > To: 'ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU' > Subject: 5.3.2.2 volume question > >

5.3.2.2 volume question

2006-02-16 Thread Park, Rod
I recently upgraded to 5.3.2.2 server level, about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have 2 tsm servers, tsm1 and tsm2, each share a 3589 library with 5 frames 60 drives. tsm1 is the library manager. We have been noticing lately that when we run a report to show private, scratches, dbb vols, we have a column of

AIX 5.3 upgrade issues?

2005-05-16 Thread Park, Rod
Hello all, I recently upgrade my tsm servers to AIX 5.3 ML1 running tsm 5.2.3.3 since our aix upgrade, our database backups went from 20-35 minutes per server to about 2-4 hrsanybody else experienced this and any suggestions? This is the only significant event that has happened to lead me to be

Re: TSM migration from 5.1 to 5.2

2004-08-26 Thread Park, Rod
Just curious Why would you not do an audit DB and what all does an audit DB do? -Original Message- From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM migration from 5.1 to 5.2 No! I would not do an audit db

Passwords for client restores

2004-08-20 Thread Park, Rod
Right now we have about 800 clients and to do a restore, the password is the same for all clients. How are others doing this. We don't want to be in the business of password generation/maintenance to change passwords all the time. We also don't want just anybody being able to do a restore on any b