Re: exclude.dir question

2000-10-17 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
The files previously backed-up stay pinned in *SM. "Forever" is a long time though. How long they are maintained in *SM will depend on the effective policy(ies) for each files (ie. review your versions data exists, versions data deleted, and retain extra versions parameters). Up to two backup v

Re: exclude.dir question

2000-10-17 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Richard, Thanks for the clarification. (This has been a detail slightly obscure in my mind, and always just worked-around it) While on the subject then: Does the scheduler on the client need to be restarted each time the include/exclude list is modified? That's another item not docu

Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization

2000-10-18 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
I have the following script defined in TSM. All I have to do, is: run q_n_scratch (or just click on the script I want to run, from the Web GUI) /* -*/ /* Script Name: Q_N_SCRATCH*/ /* Description: Display number of scratch */ /*

Re: web client doesn't like IE?

2000-10-18 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
You didn't say what version of IE you were using, for what version of the Web client. However, I have no problems with IE 5.00.2919.6307 for TSM 3.7.3 Server, or the TSM 3.7.2 Clients of my (current) environment. Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant "Tracy T."

Web client configuration

2000-10-19 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Note: TSM 3.7.3 Server and TSM 3.7.2 Clients in use across the enterprise. Hi, My administrators use IE 5.0, or Netscape 4.67, from Win 95/98 to access the TSM server admin interface, and access each web clients. When starting a session with the different clients, a dsm.jar file is transferred

Web admin service for HTTP requests failed...

2000-10-23 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Guys, I had the Web admin access die on me. Sometime over the week-end, it stopped serving http requests on port 1580. The only way to re-enable it was to halt TSM and restart it. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a cleaner method to managed the Web Admin service? I am currently run

Re: Web admin service for HTTP requests failed...

2000-10-23 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Richard, Right... I only needed to restart the TSM server in order to resume the http service on port 1580. Backups ran all week-end as normal. Admin events processed normally. The activity log does not seem to show any hint as to how it could have been disabled. The only difference in the en

Re: Web admin service for HTTP requests failed...

2000-10-23 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
ansson Nomafa AB How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door your on Serge Gaudet/EIG cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Subject: Web admin service for

Re: LINUX

2000-10-25 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Or via this web site link http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/clients.html#linux (shows availability for both the 3.7 and 4.1 level of TSM). Regards, Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant "Barth, Terry (MBS)" cc:

Re: Bytes Transferred Statistics from AIX nodes

2000-10-25 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Hi, It does the sending on each retries. To avoid it, it would have to first copy the file in a reserved space, check if the file changed, and send it only it has asserted itself it is OK to be sent. This could be a worthwhile feature in *SM if it were not for the fact that you'd need to have a

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-10-31 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
It's gotta be a tape stress test in progress. or a validation of the reclamation process I don't know anyone in their right mind who would want to do such a thing... ...but then again, it could be just to satisfy a paranoid ex-arcserv like client user! Serge Gaudet, CMI "Couldn't help t

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-10-31 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
restore to any date they (user) says. We keep the tapes offsite and exercise our DR plan yearly. I will be restoring whole servers. Not a file here and there. I would think a full backup and a year of incrementals could get a little ugly. Matt -Original Message- From: Serge Gaudet/EI

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-10-31 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
this so strange? I need the data for many servers for a months worth of data. I have to be able to restore to any date they (user) says. We keep the tapes offsite and exercise our DR plan yearly. I will be restoring whole servers. Not a file here and there. I would think a full backup a

Re: how is a weekly FULL bkup scheduled?

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
an quickly become the most practical; for databases, you can repeatedly add to an archive package (eg, 1st daily full, plus all subsequent archive logs, of a given month), changing the package description as part of each month-end archive process. Regards, Don -Original Message- Fr

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
update the volume to access=readonly up front The volume won't be used to write any new data, but it will allow you to attempt at reading the data whenever a request for that data is made, until you get the move data completed for all volumes affected. Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant

Re: what to do with bad tapes

2000-11-01 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Shekhar You have to let ADSM know a tape is bad or destroyed, and eventually delete the knowledge of existence of that tape completely in ADSM. it is not enough to remove a tape from a library, and then audit the library. When a library gets to full capacity, some of the local onsite data

Re: schedule daemon and password

2000-11-02 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
I would use "passwordaccess generate", but have a separate stanza in the dsm.sys file to control the parameters that pertain to your oracle specific backup. You need to have a separate dsm.opt file (so -optfile=dsmoracle.opt could be used) in which the servername will be different than that of th

Re: How to force PENDING to EMPTY/SCRATCH immediately?

2000-11-03 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Remember that: If you have REUSEDELAY set to 7, you are preserving the validity/usability of 7 DB backups volumes (assuming 1 generation a day). The DB backup tracks where the files are. When a reclamation is done, the data is not moved... it is copied. When you force a pending volume to become

Re: IP Address

2000-11-03 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
Check your activity log... (query actl)... usually when a session is established, the IP address of the node is displayed in the activity log... 11/03/00 11:31:58 ANR0406I Session 958 started for node MIFS00 (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(1080)). 11/03/00 11:31:59

Re: Novell Netware Client

2000-11-03 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
PS. For the nodes that get administered by a single user, don't let *SM create a new admin user when registering a new node to his group... (you do so with the userid=none option). Just grant access priviledge to the global user/admin to the new node separately after you have registered the node

Re: retention

2000-11-03 Thread Serge Gaudet/EIG
RECLAIM does not address the issue. It only prevents the TSM server from moving the active copies around to help reduce the number of tapes the pool uses following an inventory expiration process (and is an option of the storage pool configuration should you want to change it More info: Do an