Re: systemd.service file example

2019-11-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
I don't have an SP service but I've created a service for BMC control-M Agents. It should be easy to make substitutions. Note: This is for Red Hat 7. It won't work on RHEL 6. create file /etc/systemd/system/ctmag.service === [Unit]

Re: backing up multiple VMs with standard scheduleing

2019-01-08 Thread Schneider, Jim
My VM backup schedule executes a .bat file on the VM proxy server. The file has one or more 'dsmc backup vm host1,host2,host3.etc' commands. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 2:14 PM

Re: saving a vm backup past server destruction

2018-11-15 Thread Schneider, Jim
Using TSM for VE, if you don't back it up again the data is still there. I had to contact a user for permissions to delete a 2-year old backup. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018

Re: cluster backup with CSV

2018-08-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
. Rick Adamson Information Technology Southeastern Grocers LLC -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 4:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV * This email originated outside

Re: cluster backup with CSV

2018-08-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
I created a TSM directory on the shared drive, added a dsm.opt file with a domain statement. Registered a cluster name with TSM and created a scheduler service for it on each of the cluster nodes. Only one node was active at a time, and I had to restart the cluster scheduler service every

Re: behavior of existing data when excluding a vm

2018-05-30 Thread Schneider, Jim
I don't know how to freeze existing backups. I rename the server in vCenter and run a backup using the new name. Rename to original after the backup. This will preserve the new backup. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

2017-08-31 Thread Schneider, Jim
If you have a distinct IP for the 10 Gb connection you can use that name/IP address in the client's TCPServeraddress value in the dsm.opt or dsm.sys file. Use 'q n f=d' to verify that the IP is being used. Jim Schneider Essendant -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Full VM Instant Restore error ans2411e rc=6523

2017-07-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
My VM backup proxy server has a backup network connection but the client does not. I have to disable the backup network NIC before starting the TSM Recovery Agent so that the client can see the iSCSI connection. Jim Schneider Essendant -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Inactive active filesystem for vm in script

2017-06-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
An alternative can be run from the backup proxy server. dsmc restore vm bodev -pick -inactive Jim Schneider Essendant -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schofield, Neil (Storage & Middleware, Backup & Restore) Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: trouble with scheduled restore

2017-01-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
Add '-removeoperandlimit' to the command line. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] trouble with scheduled restore Trying

Re: Versions

2016-10-04 Thread Schneider, Jim
I'm running TSM server 6.3.3.0, TSM for VE 7.1.0.1. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Ouzen Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 10:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Versions Hello all A quick

Re: Help with DFS backups

2016-09-08 Thread Schneider, Jim
to each department/group/area wanting total control over backup/restore of their "shares". On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Schneider, Jim <jschnei...@essendant.com> wrote: > Do you have the correct capitalization in the backup command? > > Jim Schneider > &g

Re: Help with DFS backups

2016-09-08 Thread Schneider, Jim
Do you have the correct capitalization in the backup command? Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 7:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS

Re: SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

2016-04-22 Thread Schneider, Jim
, but not Windows). On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:20:38PM +, Schneider, Jim wrote: > Use a server you can access and modify the nodename in the options file, > assuming you know the password. > > Jim Schneider > Essendant > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Sto

Re: SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

2016-04-22 Thread Schneider, Jim
Use a server you can access and modify the nodename in the options file, assuming you know the password. Jim Schneider Essendant -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:11 AM To:

Re: contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

2015-05-01 Thread Schneider, Jim
I think BFS is case-sensitive. Most of TSM is case-insensitive, but this is a exception. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne Bruno Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

2015-05-01 Thread Schneider, Jim
, volume names are only case sensitive for UNIX file names, not Windows. Regards, Joerg Pohlmann -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: May 1, 2015 12:57 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents

Re: How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?

2015-04-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
This is close. I check time stamps to identify failures. The time stamp could also indicate a backup in progress. select substr(filespace_name,9,18) as VM, filespace_id as FSID, cast(backup_end as char(19) ) as Backup Completed from filespaces where node_name='VC1_CH2_DM' order by 3 Jim

Re: NDMP

2015-04-01 Thread Schneider, Jim
The Isilon needs to be zoned to the tape library. From the Isilon, generate a list of the tape drives. A partial example from our system is: CH2ISILON-2# isi tape list Tape Device StateWWNN Vendor/Model/Revision/Serial

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-03-05 Thread Schneider, Jim
Eric, Apolog1es for the previous brief reply. dsm.opt has VMMC 1month VMCTLMC 1monthcntl Both are backup copy groups. Policy Domain Name: VM Policy Set Name: ACTIVE Mgmt Class Name: 1MONTH Copy Group Name: STANDARD

Re: ANS4174E error

2015-03-05 Thread Schneider, Jim
I do not have management classes for VMCTL or VMDATA. They are storage pools. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E

Re: Ransomware deleted TSM backups from node

2015-02-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
Roger, According to my TSM Data Protection for SQL 6.4 manual, servers that run TDP for SQL require backdelete authority. I don't know how to get around this problem. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger

Re: Mac OS X 'Yosemite' and 7.1.1.1 client: dsmcad won't start

2015-01-20 Thread Schneider, Jim
Ruth, testflags=MACNOEXECCAD,NODETACH Looks like it is set to noexec. Can you change the test flags? Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Ruth Slovik Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Tsm for VE restore question

2014-12-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
Using the GUI, I select the machine, then the snapshot, then the disk to be mounted. I do not know the command line version. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Ouzen Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 1:49 AM To:

Re: checkin libv command

2014-12-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
Did you check maxscratch for that storage pool? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne Bruno Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] checkin libv command Hello. We are using TSM

Re: Waiting for mount point in device class

2014-10-09 Thread Schneider, Jim
Check the number of mount points for the node. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Waiting for mount point in device class Hi, I have

Counting VMs

2014-10-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
I have not found an easy way to find out which VMs are backed up. My workaround is 'q occ' for the datamover node and specify the stgpool (to exclude the CNTL data, and remove duplicates), and count the lines. The filespace name has the VM name. Does anyone have a better method? I currently

Re: Counting VMs

2014-10-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
, i.e. never had a filespace created. For that you have to go to the VE Reports page or talk directly to VCenter. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: tsm for ve DR config question

2014-08-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
[mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question I back up both the VM and CNTL data to separate file device storage pools on a Data Domain. I restore from a snapshot

Re: tsm for ve DR config question

2014-08-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
be wrong. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 08/29/2014 07:16 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: tsm for ve 7.1 docs request

2014-08-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
Gary, installation guide http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/b_ve_inst_guide.pdf user's guide http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.doc/b_ve_user_guide.pdf Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: tsm for ve DR config question

2014-08-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
full strategy is best for tape copypools. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 08/27/2014 11:51 AM Subject:[ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question Sent

tsm for ve DR config question

2014-08-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
Hi, folks; I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore VE data for the first time. I can't run tests because the hardware/network is not in place. Will the DR VE backup proxy server have to connect to a duplicate of the current production vCenter server, or just A

Re: Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

2014-08-05 Thread Schneider, Jim
Your 5/10/14 backup started at 08:00 but your fromtime is 04:00. It could be trying to pull incremental data. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:04 PM To:

Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.

2014-07-15 Thread Schneider, Jim
Ricky, The Isilon uses the OneFS file system and TSM views it as one huge file system. If backing up to disk, TSM will attempt to preallocate enough space to back up the entire allocated space on the Isilon. Defining Virtual File systems will not help because directory quota information is

Re: SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS

2014-06-18 Thread Schneider, Jim
Our Oracle and SQL database backups are only kept for 7 days. We keep TSM database backups for 10 days. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:32 AM To:

Re: reclaimable tapes in a stgpool

2014-04-15 Thread Schneider, Jim
I use the following script to check reclaimable space by storage pool. The output lines are numbered, makes it easy to check a percentage and a line number to get a tape count. #!/usr/bin/ksh # # This script checks reclaimable space in a tape storage pool # The list is displayed with line

Re: FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

2014-01-13 Thread Schneider, Jim
I backup the DB, config and volhist files to a FILE device, and restore from a replicated copy (using a Data Domain on both ends). Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:38

Re: FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

2014-01-13 Thread Schneider, Jim
, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.comwrote: I backup the DB, config and volhist files to a FILE device, and restore from a replicated copy (using a Data Domain on both ends). Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE -L

2014-01-06 Thread Schneider, Jim
The sender took the most recent message and requested to be removed from the mailing list. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of mik Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] UNSUBSCRIBE -L Why

Re: TSM/VME renames

2013-12-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
From the manual (p.104): If you rename a VM, and you select this option [incremental forever], the schedule backs up the renamed VM. I do not know if it takes a full backup again. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: DSMCAD deprecated?!?

2013-12-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
Nick, The 6.2 Windows Backup/Archive Installation and User's Guide, page 209, says dsmcad is the preferred scheduling method. Also, Tivoli Storage Manager traditional scheduler services Requires higher use of system resources when idle and Restart the traditional scheduler periodically to

Re: Windows installer error

2013-11-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
I think Windows 7 is a 64-bit operating system. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows installer error I just had Windows 7

Re: DR tests with multiple TSM servers

2013-08-01 Thread Schneider, Jim
I use 'tcpport 1550' for the DR instance and change the sever name. Clients have to be manually updated to access the DR TSM server. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Re: How to store file on TSM server.

2013-07-05 Thread Schneider, Jim
You need to use the absolute path name in the backup command. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alinak Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 8:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] How to store file on TSM server.

Re: Planning for NDMP backup

2013-06-07 Thread Schneider, Jim
Your backup command is: BACKUP NODE node-name virtual fs name MGMT=nnn MODE=FULL TOC=YES I use 'TOC=P'. We have one file system where we cannot generate a TOC because of the number of files. TOC=PREFERRED will prevent the backup from failing when TOC creation fails. Jim -Original

Maximum nunmberof mount points

2013-06-04 Thread Schneider, Jim
Hello TSMers, This is not a question, just a situation I have observed. You folks probably know about it, but some of the new people might not. I run a report that checks the activity log for servers that have exceeded the maximum number of mount points (ANR0539W). One of my servers last

Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

2013-05-07 Thread Schneider, Jim
Ditto -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, Ricky Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold Sure could have used this in the past! Got my vote!

Re: Update Schedule failed - resolved

2013-05-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
: You are welcome, Bear in mind that starting from now probably your will have two daily backup jobs. To look at all the scheduled associated for that node you can use q sched * * no=CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH Have a nice day. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com

Update Schedule failed

2013-05-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2 My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed. I have a cmd schedule that runs Exchange backups. Originally scheduled for 17:00 I find I cannot change the start time to 22:00. These commands show that the schedule time was changed

Re: Update Schedule failed

2013-05-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
:59:59 Hope this helps. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote: TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2 My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed. I have a cmd schedule that runs Exchange backups. Originally scheduled for 17:00

Re: Update Schedule failed

2013-05-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
the scheduled associated for that node you can use q sched * * no=CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH Have a nice day. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote: Carlo, Thanks - I'd missed that, and have updated all Exchange schedules (3 full, 3 incremental) to non

ILMT on RHEL

2013-03-20 Thread Schneider, Jim
We are planning on moving from ILMT 7.2.2 on AIX to 7.5 on RHEL. Is anyone else using this combination? Any gotchas? Aside from the regular considerable effort involved in ILMT admin. Thank you, Jim Schneider United Stationers

Re: When to dsmserv removedb?

2013-02-21 Thread Schneider, Jim
I had to run REMOVEDB this afternoon. We just moved TSM to a new server, attached the SAN disk with the database and logs and started it up. The old server is going to run TSM for NDMP backups. The tsminst1 directory had beenmoved to the new server and had to be copied to the old one. The

Re: dsmadmc 6.4.0.0

2013-01-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
Your userid cannot create/modify the log file. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] dsmadmc 6.4.0.0 Just installed TSM client

Re: Diagnosing ANS1377W: The client was unable to obtain a snapshot of 'volname'. The operation will continue without snapshot support.

2013-01-08 Thread Schneider, Jim
Try 'vssadmin list writers' from a command prompt. One of the writers may not be working. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

2013-01-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
-Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part de Schneider, Jim Envoyé : 27 décembre 2012 11:18 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes Our primary (and only) storage is a Data Domain. Be careful when

Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

2012-12-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
Our primary (and only) storage is a Data Domain. Be careful when reclaiming virtual tapes. It works perfectly but servers backing up to the Data Domain have their bandwidth throughput drop from 85% to 5% during reclamation. This was determined by watching Windows Task Manager network

Re: 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

2012-12-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
Have you tried a -console session prior to issuing halt? Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 7:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6.3.3.000 server wont

Re: 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

2012-12-03 Thread Schneider, Jim
/monitor window, if that is what you are referring to - and yes, it shows the halt is issued and then the server goes non-responsive, as suspected. Then from ssh/Linux the process dsmserv never halts/stops. On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote: Have you tried

Re: Client 6.4 installation causing Win Server 2012 to restart?

2012-11-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
I have had reboot requests when upgrading Windows servers. I circumvent them by copying dscenu.txt from the install directory to the baclient directory. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Maurice van 't Loo Sent:

Re: EMERGENCY -- NEED TO RESTORE ANOTHER NODE'S DATA IN WINDOWS

2012-10-18 Thread Schneider, Jim
Use dsmc -virtualnodename node1 or change dsm.opt 'nodename' to node1. Jim Lee, Gary g...@bsu.edu wrote: We have had a serious corruption issue, and need to do a point-in-time restore data backed up by node1 to node2. However, we cannot be logged in as node1, because it is still active and

Re: Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

2012-08-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
and left the time as is. I clicked on clear filters and clicked on restore. I still get the ACN5924e error. I am wondering if it could be a permissions issue? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: August-28-12 9

Re: Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

2012-08-28 Thread Schneider, Jim
Michael, From the Recover tab, Mailbox Restore option click Show Filter Options click Add Row The Column Name drop-down lets you select 'Backup Date' The only Operator available is = Under Value enter the backup date. Note: after you enter the backup date, press the tab key. Won't work if you

Re: Passport Advantage failure?

2012-07-18 Thread Schneider, Jim
I just logged in using url http://www-306.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/ Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Schneider, Jim
One Data Domain Fun Fact for you: When you upgrade the DD OS you will have to remount all of the NFS shares on the servers that write to it directly. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday,

Re: DR restore question

2012-07-09 Thread Schneider, Jim
Try 'q nodedata server,server,...' Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff Gill Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 3:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] DR restore question Hi Everyone,   I have a question 

Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler

2012-07-05 Thread Schneider, Jim
Tim, Try using the absolute path to the dsmc command. On my AIX system a symbolic link was automatically created during client installation, letting me use /usr/bin/dsmc. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown

Wrong backup duration reported

2012-05-24 Thread Schneider, Jim
Greetings TSMers. TSM Server 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TL6 Client 6.2.2.0, Windows 2003 SP2 I'm not asking for help but want to let you know about an odd situation I encountered this morning. An incremental backup of a Windows server scanned its usual 5,000,000 files and ran for 3 1/2 hours, but the

Re: Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server

2012-05-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
Rick, I have had the same problem reading from replicated Data domain file devices on my DR server. Update the file volumes to read-only. I run a macro to do this, takes 10-25 minutes. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

2012-04-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:39 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DataDomain and dedup per node On 04/19/2012 10:04 AM, Schneider, Jim wrote: The most serious problem we have encountered

Re: Inclexcl File Syntax Question

2012-04-20 Thread Schneider, Jim
I have to exclude all /uxx/ file systems except /u01/oradata/dwhprod. I'm not always told when new file systems are added so I use exclude.dir /u0[2-9]/oradata/dwhprod exclude.dir /u[1-9][0-9]/oradata/dwhprod Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

2012-04-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
The most serious problem we have encountered is the effect of reclamation on backup throughput. We have a 1 GB backup network that is used for servers to write directly to the Data Domain, bypassing TSM. When only one client is writing directly to the DD we see backup network utilization around

Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

2012-04-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
I misspoke in my previous email. The server on the backup network writes to TSM using the TDP for SQL client, not directly to the Data Domain. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Thursday, April

Re: Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

2012-03-07 Thread Schneider, Jim
I found I had to run 'audit licenses' to update the occupancy values. I have no idea why this would be the case. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:33 PM To:

Re: Tsm command line admin client and windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
I've had to install Java on some servers to get the GUI client working. Run dsm or dsmj from a command prompt to see if there are 'Java missing' messages. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Firewall problem

2012-02-06 Thread Schneider, Jim
I've had to use schedmode polling to get some firewall backups to run. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:35 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Firewall

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
Jorge, On Unix systems: I've done it in two steps. Create a tar file of the file system and zip it. Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory. The tar extract command allows single files to be recalled if the absolute path name is available. I've used this to backup a

Re: Generate backupset error issue

2012-01-18 Thread Schneider, Jim
Tim, Look at the TOCMGmtclass parameter of the 'generate backupset' command. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hughes, Timothy Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:06 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L]

Re: Generate backupset error issue

2012-01-18 Thread Schneider, Jim
, 2012 11:52 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Generate backupset error issue Thanks Jim, We won't be using a TOC for these however shouldn't a generate backup command work. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider

Re: Delete STGPOOL issue

2012-01-17 Thread Schneider, Jim
Harold, Use 'q stg' to see which storage pool has the target pool defined as 'next'. Update the storage pool definition so the target pool is no longer 'next'. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold

Re: Backing up EMC SourceOne

2011-09-29 Thread Schneider, Jim
Bill, We have one SourceOne server using a database on a separate server. We run the job sequence using BMC's Control-M scheduler. SourceOne server1) Activity Suspend vbs 2) Native Archive Suspend vbs Database server 3) Database export 4)

Re: TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

2011-09-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
, the replication target files are not to be opened for writing, since that could affect the replication integrity. Are you using a VTL or devtype=file for the library volumes? Richard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim

TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

2011-09-22 Thread Schneider, Jim
Hello TSMers AIX 6.1 TSM 6.2.2.0 I have been testing DR recovery using replicated DB backups and storage pools, recovering to a second TSM instance on a remote server. I have found that I cannot restore from every database backup. I ran successful restores on Monday and Wednesday but today's

Re: TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

2011-09-22 Thread Schneider, Jim
it read only before attempting the restore? Richard Cowen -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup Hello

TSM 6.2.2. restore from Data Domain 880

2011-08-25 Thread Schneider, Jim
Is anybody else performing Disaster Recovery testing of AIX 6.1 TSM 6.2.2.0 by restoring the database directly from a Data Domain 880 file device? My problem is that I can restore the database some of the time, and get ANR4522E RESTORE DB failed with LOG file error. the rest of the time. I

Re: Syntax for query volume where deviceclass=file

2011-08-23 Thread Schneider, Jim
Keith, This is one case where the quest is case-sensitive. Try: q vol /adsm/vg014/0026.BFS Good lock, Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Arbogast Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:11 PM To:

Re: DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

2011-07-20 Thread Schneider, Jim
Mike, I have resolved the problem of restoring with replicated data. I'm using a Data Domain 880 to host the storage pools using file type devices, which is replicated to a DD880 at our second/DR data center. The first issue was file level permissions. The server that backs up the data and the

DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

2011-07-12 Thread Schneider, Jim
Hi folks, I'm getting anr9905w errors when attempting to restore data from a replicated primary storage pool and have no clue how to solve this problem. TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 has its primary storage pool on a Data Domain 880. The data is replicated to a remote location. The remote TSM server

FW: DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data - resolved

2011-07-12 Thread Schneider, Jim
I got it working. I was the victim of a file moved by reclamation. When I selected other files I found one that I could restore. I've been pounding my head against the keyboard for the better part of a week over this. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: Schneider, Jim Sent: Tuesday

DR configuration - instance startup failure

2011-06-13 Thread Schneider, Jim
Hello TSMers. I'm attempting to configure DR recovery for TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TL 4. I have a Data Domain 880 that holds the storage pools, database backup, devconfig, volhist and prepare files. The data is replicated to a DD880 at a second site. The second site has a production TSM instance

Re: Help with tsm script

2011-06-07 Thread Schneider, Jim
I have a script that lists reclaimable space by volume for a given storage pool. I've added line numbers so I can see how many tapes would be reclaimed at a given percentage. It runs on Unix from a command prompt. ===

Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
Is it possible to control this with MAXSESSIONS? Associate a large number of servers with a long backup schedule and set MAXSESSIONS to 40. With a MAXSCHEDSESSIONS value of 50 (percent) you would only run 20 backups at a time. The optimistic UNTESTED result would be to start new backups when to

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

2011-05-16 Thread Schneider, Jim
Answer to rookie question: All files backed up create an entry in the transaction log. When the file backup is complete the entry is eligible to be written to the database. TSM only writes the oldest entry in the transaction log. If a file backup takes a long time it can become the oldest

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Schneider, Jim
Yes. I use 'move data' to consolidate virtual filling volumes and reduce 'Pct Migr' in the storage pool. Judging by the time taken to move data, empty space is not moved. After the data is moved off of the volume it becomes a scratch volume. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From:

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Schneider, Jim
Keith, The status after the move is 'EMPTY.' I have an script that moves data off of 'filling' tapes. I found that while the percent utilization in a storage pool might be low, the percent migratable was high. Every used volume in a storage pool adds to % migratable, even if it does not hold

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

2011-03-10 Thread Schneider, Jim
I was under the impression that reclamation only affected full volumes, not filling ones. I have had backups fail because of lack of space when % utilization was relatively low but % migratable was high. I checked the reclaim stgpool help info and it does not say it excludes filling tapes. Am I

TSM 6.2.2 CPU requirements

2011-01-11 Thread Schneider, Jim
Good morning, TSM fans! I'm building an AIX 6 TL4 server to run TSM Server 6.2.2.0. The Performance Tuning manual tells me I need one core per expiration or deduplication process. How many processors are you folks using, and does additional processing power have a significant benefit? Thanks

Re: De-dup ratio's

2010-11-12 Thread Schneider, Jim
Amos, We are looking into purchasing one of these options. Do have your DataDomain device configured at disk or VTL? Thank you, Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Amos ADSM Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:25 PM

Re: rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually

2010-10-19 Thread Schneider, Jim
A temporary fix is to use 'move data' commands on filling tapes. If a dataset does not span tapes it's a quick way to get more scratch tapes. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Roder Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:06

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