DB from Linux to Windows

Hi All I have a situation where the design that was originally implemented to back up some NAS Filers using a Linux TSM Server has not worked out in practice. We are thus looking to re-implement on Windows. I'd really prefer not to have to do everything from scratch particularly as the initial

Re: Best practices for Oracle and DB2 Moves

On 14.05.2012 00:42, Xav Paice wrote: - Original Message - From: "Steve Harris" Hi All Like a lot of us, I'm contemplating a TSM 5.5 to 6.3 move for one of my customers. Most clients are not a problem, point the client at the new server, take the first backup, an

Re: TSM admin/operator duties

Hi Mehdi My take on this is that we as TSM admins provide an infrastructure that clients use to back up, just as if they had a local tape drive attached to their box. It is up to us to keep that infrastructure running and ensure that things post-backup, such as BACKUP STG and offsiting of tapes

Best practices for Oracle and DB2 Moves

Hi All Like a lot of us, I'm contemplating a TSM 5.5 to 6.3 move for one of my customers. Most clients are not a problem, point the client at the new server, take the first backup, and then after an appropriate length of time either delete the data on the old server or export/import whatever is

Re: LTO3 and LTO4 tape classes

Paul, Can you please post q devc LTO4CLASS f=d Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 17.04.2012 19:35, Paul_Dudley wrote: We have a mixture of LTO3 and LTO4 tapes in the one tape library. Our primary disk backup storage pool - BKPPOOL - is set to migrate to BKPLTO4POOL when it

Linux HBA config for tape

Hi All TSM 6.3.0.0 server under RHEL 5.7. on an IBM xSeries, Qlogic HBAs I'm running to 2xLTO5's in a TS3310 library and have 4Gb path to the drives. The data compresses at about 1.5:1. I'm seeing long-running backup stg tasks average 140MB/sec from disk to tape or tape to tape. That is good, b

CIFS shares user permissions

Hi All I'm attempting to backup an IBM N-Series (i.e. Netapp) filer : its the first time I've attempted this. Server is TSM 6.3.0.0 on RHEL 5.7 X86_64. Client is 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008R2. I have a domain id that I have mapped to the Filer shares and the scheduler service is running under. Ba

TSM in AIX WPARS

Hi All I'm involved in a consolidation exercise of a TSM environment that has "just growed" over the last 15 years, and features multiple TSM 5.5 servers running on AIX on various P4 and P5 hardware. These are to be moved, with as few changes as possible, to new P7 hardware, at a new data centre

Memory/CPU requirements for TSM 6.2 Storage Agent on AIX

Hi All and a happy 2012 to everyone. May all your DR plans be ready for Dec 21 ;-) I'm looking at rolling out a number of storage agents across a SAP landscape of AIX LPARS over multiple CECs, the plan being to backup large databases across the AIX virtual network to a storage agent on the same C

Getting unix permissions back from TSM

Hi All One of my accounts has just had a unix admin tried to run something like chown -R something:something /home/fred/* but he had an extra space in there and ran it from the root directory chown -R something:something /home/fred/ * This has destroyed the ownership of the operating system b

Teradata backups

Hi All Does anyone have experience with the Teradata TSM interface running through TARA? I'm trying to understand how the various components hang together, and how scheduling of backups through the TSM scheduler might work. The TARA box is windows. Also tips, tricks and gotchas - particularly

Re: Management class assigned to Domino backups

Yep, connecting as a BA client to the domino node works and will give you what you need. On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:34:17 -0400, Bill Boyer wrote: I was hoping to not have to query the BACKUPS table. Even using a key column it runs slow at best. I could always try connecting at the Domino nodenam

Re: tape reservation types in AIX

Mehdi If I've followed your posts correctly, you are trying to run a 5.3 library manager and a 6.2 library client, and now you've added lan-free into the mix. The "not supported" status for the down-level library manager is not there because things in general are likely to break it is because th

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

For anyone looking to go to TSM server 5.5.5.0, be aware of a nasty bug that requires SQL identifiers to be 18 characters or less in length and may break your scripts. IC71586 was fixed at 5.5.5.1 Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Canberra Australia On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:18:25 -0700,

6.2 output formatting

Hi All I've inherited a Rube Goldberg reporting system where TSM queries are run against systems, and the results from all the TSM instances, then run through a very ugly rexx script to produce a consolidated csv file for each day. This is then further processed by some rather opaque VBA and the

Client side dedup and API clients

Hi All How does one determine whether client-side deduplication is working for API clients? I have a couple of test systems, a TSM 6.2.0.0 server (UNI01) and a 6.2.2.0 server (UNI00). UNI01 has been backing up its database, server to server to UNI00 for 6 months or so. After upgrading UNI00 to

TSM 6.2 server Solaris ZFS installation notes

Hi All A while back I posted about an issue with DB2 tablespaces in TSM 6 on ZFS filesystems where issue occur because ZFS does not support direct IO. IBM has issued a technote at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21437784 about this. I am posting again because should the active l

Re: copypool-only TSM server on a VM

Hi Keith I had a similar idea a while back. In my case it was about using a single TSM infrastructure to provide backups to multiple independent customers. My idea was to have a vmware box and a standard TSM server image which would have enough disk to store one night's backup. The next storag

TSM 6 recovery questions

Hi All I've been playing with TSM 6.2.2 recoveries on my Linux X86 sandpit box and have a couple of questions about the process. First, when you format the new database with dsmserv format, it gives a message that the format is done quite quickly but then follows a DB2 offline backup which seem

tec rule help for ANR8308

Hi All I have a TSM server that logs to TEC. I need to run offsite reclaim most of the day, including overnight, to get through the amount of work required. Now I have a full library and have had to move some tapes out of the library. Finally, in this perfect storm, operators only attend from

Re: Seemingly stupid dsmadmc behavior

hings unnecessarily complex for no good reason. Regards Steve. On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:24:23 +0100, Remco Post wrote: > How about: alias dsmadmc=dsmadmc -errorlogname=~/dsmerror.log ? > > Wouldn't that do the trick? > > -- > > Gr., Remco > > On 17 nov

Seemingly stupid dsmadmc behavior

Time for a bit of a rant. I have a new 5.5 server on Solaris. For reasons that I understand even if it does make my life more difficult, I am not permitted to have root access on this box, and the Solaris guys have determined that they want the TSM client log files on /var/adm/log/tsm So dsm.sy

TSM V6 server DB2 restarts under Solaris

Hi all I'm running a test V6.2 TSM Server under Solaris 10 in a zone on an X86_64 Sun box, and using the Solaris SVC facility to start both DB2 and TSM. If I bounce the TSM server, say to change a server option, DB2 goes down too. SVC sees this and tries to restart both. For some reason at thi

read LTO Chip data in ACSLS libraries

Hi All In the past there have been several discussions about reading the tape usage data on the LTO cartridge chips. These have revolved around the IBM tapeutil utility, and so only apply where IBM drivers are in use. I have Sun L700 libraries and ACSLS V7. According to the ACSLS doc, it can tr

IC70809 : Polling and Randomisation behavior

Hi All My TSM software notification email this morning has in it an entry for IC70809. This describes a situation where a scheduler using schedmode polling contacts the server after the start time of a schedule, but still within the window. The doc says that a randomization delay is not applied

partial VM images.

Hi All I have a VMware windows VM that I do daily VCB incrementals and Monthly VCB fulls on. It is thin-provisioned and now the real disk usage has expanded to the point where it exceeds the capacity of my proxy server's landing area. This particular VM runs SQL Server which is backed-up by dump

Library Partitioning and TSM licencing

Hi All So, I'm sizing up a server for a new client. We have LTO3s at the moment and my prediction is 113 slots now and 339 slots down the track a few years. We don't have LTO4s but the library is capable and they cost almost as much as more LTO3s... 56/169 slots. Then it hits me. Suppose we buy

Re: Large fileserver on VMware design questions

Thanks to Remco, Paul, Daniel, Steve, Bill and Ray for your input. Remco, As a backup "service provider" I don't get a lot of input into the designs, I'm expected to just take whatever is thrown at me and back it up. This particular customer has got the "VMware Religion" and is virtualizing every

Large fileserver on VMware design questions

Hi gang One of my customers is implementing a consolidated fileserver. This will run in a two way MSCS Cluster. At the moment they are looking at one big filesystem though I will strenuously attempt to dissuade them from that course. Each machine in the cluster is a VM based on a different V

TSM 6.2 server Solaris installation notes

Hi All I'm just dropping this note here for the next fellow that comes along. Installing TSM 6.2.0.0 Server on Solaris 10 X86_64 (AMD) I went to TSM support to find out which filesystem to use for the DB since there are two free choices and UFS is a known poor performer. Previously we have alway

Re: Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM client file system??

Rick, Ben Isn't that what the SKIPNTPERMISSIONS client option is for? Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin Paraparaumu, New Zealand. On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 -0600, Ben Bullock wrote: > I have had that problem also in the past and found no suitable way to get > around it. We considere

Re: Tdp sql questions

Hi Gary what are you trying to accomplish with your frequent diffutils? How about this evening window - log backup (truncate=yes) followed by full backup every two hours - log backup (truncate=no) followed by VSS backup to local disk Configure it to keep 2 days of VSS snapshots, if you have the

TSM 6.2 formatting issue

Hi all Thanks for the feedback about the T950 library, it was very useful. This is about a TSM 6.2 formatting issue that I've found Where I'm running a select on a column greater than 18 characters, I have often used the as clause to widen the column so I can see the data. E.G. TSM 6.2 client a

Import/EXPORT Performance

Hi All I have a need to export 3x2TB databases to tape and import them at a second site. This is being done to set up application level replication between the two sites and so there is a time constraint. My test export to tape of a full backup of one of these (a single file) took 18 hours, impo

Backupset/Export pain

Hi All I have a customer that thinks he wants a monthly backup kept forever: cites legislative requirements and will not be disuaded. Current implementation is to use a series of backupsets. The issue with this is that the backupset generation can only be started when a drive is available - it

Re: DB2 Monthlies

d we can proceed from there. > > Dave Canan > IBM TSM Advanced Technical Support > TSM Performance Support > ddcanan AT us.ibm.com > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Steve Harris > wrote: > >> Hi Again. >> >> I have some DB2 databases that I would like

DB2 Monthlies

Hi Again. I have some DB2 databases that I would like to have different backups treated differently. For example, the normal weekly gets put to one management class, but the first one of the month goes to a management class that goes to tape. In the MSSQL case, this is done by running a COPY bac

VCB backup performance

Hi All Thanks to all those that responded to my "time travel" query, testing is in progress on that one. One of my customers has an issue with a burgeoning VCB infrastructure. There are two VCB proxies and a lot of VMs being backed up, TSM Server 5.5.3 and client 6.1.2. Most of this is a daily

TSM time Travel

Hello Again, I have a client with a requirement to perform testing at different times into the future. They wish to set the clocks, backup, do some testing, backup, set the clock again, and so on. They wish to be able to roll forward and *backward* to any time that they have tested at. Now

ACSLS Best Practices

Hello List I'm using ACSLS libraries for the first time, in a couple of sites with multiple TSM servers, multiple libraries. Some libraries are shared with TSM library sharing, and some are not. We are having issues because we can't use scratch tapes and must explicitly assign volumes to storage p

Zero not less than 30!

1 TIVTMR100 2007-08-13 1 This has happened on AIX tsm 5.1 and 5.3 - would some kind soul like to try 5.4 and see whether there has been an improvement? Thanks Steve Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia

Re: Missing tape volumes

Paul, They may be database backups or exports oe backupsets Select * from volhistory where volume_name='BLAH' may prove informative. Steve Steven Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Du

Re: backup schedule question?

Joni, Just code it up and run a q event against it with begind=+0 and endd=+14. It will show you exactly when the chedule will be run. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: sql query required

y='ARCHIVE' and month(Start_time)= month(current date - 1 month) Alternatively, you could turn on accounting, and sum all the archived bytes in the accounting data file for the month. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: ADS

Windows number of instances limitation.

Hi all. I'm designing a TSM solution for a client. Servers are a couple of beefy Intel boxes - 4 way Xeons with 6GB of memory. This user is government so there is a long retention period required and the databases are big and going to get bigger. I was looking at a two way Windows cluster (2k3

Problem editing scripts from the Admin Centre

Hi all, Here's a trap that you might like to avoid. When editing a script using the TSM 5.3 admin centre, if the script contains > or < characters these are replaced by their equivalent HTML escapes > and < I'd suggest that you not edit scripts via the admin centre.

Re: Using multiple client service instances on Windows server

he set up as easy as possible for them. With four open windows on the screen it gets a bit confusing as to which is which... When the admin client comes up it overwrites the window title with "IBM Tivoli Storage Manager" is there any way to change this to something more descriptive?

Re: TSM Database backup volume deletion

FULL backup. Then, making sure that you understand the implications, run a delete dbb todate=today. All those old database tapes will come available for reuse. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/02/2005 14:44:05 >>> Stil

Intel Server image backup/restore

le CD (say superrescue based) with a TSM client that could backup any raw disk. I realize that there is PC-Bax out there, but has anyone attempted such a beast, how did it work, and can you share your tips? Many thanks Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health Brisbane

Windows registry keys for 5.3

27;t want to have to point and click my way through every install - its error prone as well as tedious. So, where is the documentation on the registry keys used. Info on the client would also be good. Then I can script all this stuff in perl. Regards Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensl

Admin Center port forwarding

ou get the same message. I'm wondering if the /ibm/console bit is getting truncated by the port forwarding process? but that is just a guess I have no knowledge in this area. Has anyone ideas on how to do this? web searches have produced nothing useful. Thanks Steve. Steve Harris TSM adm

Re: file retention

y than simply being able to keep the data forever. You will need to identify each client/OS combination and run periodic tests of each one to ensure you can do restores when you need to. Regards Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: TSM 5.3 and ISC install

\\remoteservername\drive\etc When I mapped the drive and tried again everything went swimmingly. Now learning to use it is another matter, but the install part wasn't too bad for me. Regards Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Server to server with different managementclasses

n't get my head around how to use it. Regards Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole

Re: dbb & dbsnapshots

past management. Regards Steve Steve Harris Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/01/2005 6:21:03 >>> Hello All! I just thought I would ask what everyone's standards are concerning database backups and database snapshots. My thoughts on this are to

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

ystem a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep. mob: +420 602 452 361 fax: +420 543 537 333 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Harris napsal(a): >There is an issue documented in the 5.3 readme that you cannot use the windows >2k3 FC storport driver with the TSM device driver to access tape

Re: Enabling caching to shorten housekeeping

e kicks in. Of course this presumes that you have sufficient drives to cope with this at some point in the day. Regards Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbase Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/01/2005 1:26:30 >>> Hi *SM-ers! I'm currently strugg

Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem

Attached tape library. I'd really prefer to use the TSM device driver, so if anyone can suggest a way around this issue, I would be most appreciative. Thanks Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/01/2005 23:57:42 >>> H

Physical tape handling standards

have been able to find none that suit myself, can anyone point me in the right direction? Regards Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia *** This email, including any attachments

Re: ANR1339W

uite thoroughly, and the data comes back in good shape. I think that the only possible downside will be if there is aboslutely no space left in the storagepool and the allocation needs to be extended. At this point the backup may fail, but I haven't see that happen yet. Regards Steve Ha

Administrative API

? Thanks Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confi

Re: Creating a copy storage pool with a different retention time

nged offsite return cycles and multiple copypools should be able to satisfy your management's requirements. Regards Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/01/2005 23:08:51 >>> In order to save tapes. Managements would like to m

Re: Creating a copy storage pool with a different retention time

Why do you want to do this? We may be able to come up with a different way to satisfy your requirement. Steve >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/2005 2:16:05 >>> Currently I have my policy set to retain file backups for 1 year. First I do my backups to my disk storage pools, I then have 2 copy pool

ISCSI attached tape library.

olled from the primary TSM Server using iSCSI across the wan. Lets assume that these sites have a 2Mb pipe. Is anybody using iSCSI across a wan like this? Does it work? Issues? Am I dreaming? Thanks Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Bri

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

Well said Tom, Also add into the mix your san environment. eg host is on one switch but disk and multiple tape drives are connected into a second san switch, but there is only one inter switch link. We do make things complex, don't we? Regards Steve. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2004 6:18:0

Re: Overflow location

erflow location and all full tapes in storage poool will be moved to that location, and other scratch volumes will be picked up by TSM? This way I will not run into full library situation ever. Please enlighten me ! Kind Regards, Sandra Steve Harris wrote: > Sandra, > > There is a

Re: Overflow location

Sandra, There is a section in the Admin Guide on dealing with a full library. Regards Steve. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/2004 3:27:52 >>> Dear All, today i ran into something on : TSM 5.2.3 on Windows 2000 server. I have 3582 Library and my sequential storage poool is setup with 9 volumes for

Re: Help with initial setup

Mats You should have a tape library with a minimum of two drives. Three would be better. Make it big enough to hold all of your active data. TSM works very much better with a tape library. Regards Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROT

Windows rights

the ability to label tapes which either needs TSM "system" level access or can be run as a utility from the local machine). How do NDS shops deal with the leakage of windows admin rights to multiple people? Many thanks. Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland H

SUMMARY: Tape Library experiences - ADIC 24 ADIC 100 HP MSL50xx and 60xx

As promised, here is a summary fo responses to the question >I'm setting up some 30-odd sites with TSM - probably 5.3.1 by the time we get >to production - on Windows 2003 Standard. I'm at the stage of specifying >the >hardware that we will be using. There are two preferred suppliers, Dell and

Roll your own Windows server wizards

way to unravel the wizards that come with the TSM server and bend them to my own ends? Can anyone point out to me where they reside? I haven't even been able to determine which files contain the wizard code. Many thanks Steve. Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health

Tape Library experiences - ADIC 24 ADIC 100 HP MSL50xx and 60xx

With the HP libraries, how speedy and/or reliable is the elevator mechanism which is used to connect libraries together? Respond to the list if you like or respond direct to me and I will summarise for the group if you prefer. Regards Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane

Re: using JBOD as a copy pool?

read only as part of housekeeping, run a del vol discardd=yes on any volumes in jbod pool that are over 3 days old. This will require some external scripting. Regards Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/11/2004 10:01:56 >>>

Re: J's and K's in 3494

Muthyam, Why add slots when you can upgrade your B1As to E1As and double your capacity or H1As and triple it? Second hand 3590 equipment is very cheap now that the 3592 has come out. Anyway. The way I used to do it was to explicitly assign tapes to management classes for onsite use and let th

Re: include exlcude list

filesystem tree stops there. HTH Steve Steve Harris TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/2004 13:13:30 >>> Hi all, can someone help me with the include and exclude list ... Currently I have this exclude.dir /local/data/*/.snapshot/.../*

Re: DB2 Backup offline on Winnt

Sandra, You really have jumped in at the deep end haven't you? DB2, Oracle, offsite all at once. There is no need to shy away from DB2. Its interface is reasonably straightforward, and there is a redbook to tell you exactly how to set it up. http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246247.

Re: AIX backup failures - InsertSlashHack! and "System ran out of memory" messages

Zoltan I'd assume your mail server has been up for some time. Maybe there is process other than the TSM client that has a memory leak and has consumed available memory/swap. That's where I'd look next. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Bri

Re: upgrade path from 3590E to 3592

3590s, and replace with bare slots. If you do decide to add more 3592 drives, add them into the D22 frame rather than converting another one. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/10/2004 1:53:51 >>&

TSM as application on windows cluster

d approach state wide. Any insight will be helpful. Thanks Steve. Steve Harris TSM design Guru (Ha! - faking it anyway) Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia *** This email, including any attachments sent w

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

o the new media. Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin - ex mainframer 1980-1997 Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/10/2004 2:33:11 >>> Currently preparing changes to our tape hardware in the Data Center. Current TSM Server is Version 5, Relea

Re: system refresh..Emergency

if db2adutl isnt working then you have no connection. Check that the $SQLLIB/dsm.opt is setup correctly and has the right node name. Steve. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/10/2004 12:00:33 >>> ** High Priority ** Hi Guys, I have a problem with db2 system refresh from production to quality. I have don

Re: inc mmc question

s and one for dailies Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/10/2004 4:56:14 >>> I have tested the backupset option and DAMN its slow. I figured I would be stuck with the archive option but I thought I would throw i

Re: Deleting backup files/API from Visual Basic

deleted, and the next backup is run to detect that this has happened, the following expiration will discard all backup copies of the file, as your user has requested. I daresay that at this point he will ask you to restore it, such is the nature of users :) Regards Steve Steve Harris AIX and

Re: Moving TSM from one server to another!

Sure, Set up library sharing on the new machine and lest the old machine be a client. Its all in the Admin Guide. Steve. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/2004 6:43:48 >>> I have on the old machine SSA Disks and on the new machine I have ESS disks over SAN! It is impossible to migrate VG from one mac

Re: Backup strategy - confused

Well said Ben Also Sandra, there are two other issues which might affect you. In the Western world, where most of the list members live, we have Saturday and Sunday away from work. You may have other days off - I am not sure. The other is that your time zone, (and mine, here in Australia) is

Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives --Needassistance

. Am I right? or I can schedule these in Administrative schedules? or do I need special scripts? I am on windows 2000. Sandra Steve Harris wrote: > Sandra. > > You sound like you are usd to an old-style product like arcserve or backup-exec. > TSM tapes don't work that way

Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Needassistance

tapes and tape library slots is a false economy. Oh, and I hope that you have at least two tape drives. Its very hard to use tsm without two drives as a minimum. Regards Steve. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/09/2004 3

Re: Need evidence of successful BRMS/TSM sharing 3494

When you use a 3494 you already *have* a library manager. Just allocate different categories for AS400 and TSM. I had a 3 bay 3494 with two 3590E drives SCSI connected to an AS400 and 4 drives connected to a P690 running TSM. Worked fine. Just had to do a little operator training to sort out t

Re: D2D on AIX

How does TSM access the data on file volumes? Does it keep an offset of the start of every file or aggregate? If it does, then yes we could skip to the start of each file or aggregate. If it does not, then we need to read through the volume to find the file we are going to restore. Where we

Sybase

The topic of Sybase has reared its ugly head. Is anyone backing up this DBMS by means other than SQL-Backtrack or dumping to disk? Thanks Steve. *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confiden

Jobs Jobs Jobs

an, Feb but is darn near perfect the rest of the time. Aussies and even Kiwis and Brits are also welcome to enquire. Email me off-list for more information. Regards Steve Steve Harris System Admin Consultant Enterprise Backup Project Queensland

Re: TDP vs. FlashCopy thoughts

Mike I've got few unusual DBMSs to deal with that have no TDP. (Sybase, Reality, Cache) Sometimes we can back up to disk and then to TSM (Sybase, MSSQL and oracle at the moment as we've only just got the TDP licences) For Reality, I've cranked up the adsmpipe utilty But for Cache, its backu

Re: Second level collocation

rarely been succesfull in getting any kind of division of 'importance' of data beyond 'os' 'app' and 'data'. So , I would say YES. Matt. -Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: S

Re: Tape utilization not logic

Ameerul, Sometimes, if your data compresses well, you will get more on the tape than you expect. Conversely, sometimes, if the data doesn't compress well you will get less. TSM just reports how much it has written. You will be able to get it all back. Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM

Second level collocation

another front, am I too optimistic to think that local client administrators will appropriately classify their data? Your experiences on this front too will be helpful - particularly those universities out there who have little control over your clients. TIA Steve. Steve Harris Systems Admi

Re: Run script sequentially?

utes' The backup_tapepools script is similar to the backup_diskpools script with the obvious changes, and the wait_for_tapepools script is similar to wait_for_diskpools, but it then kicks off a script to do local and remote database backups, a DR Plan prepare, and expire inventory, which are all

Re: How to schedule

schedule mydomain myschedule expiry=01/01/2004 select server_name from status where daysinmonth(current date) - day(current date) < 7 and dayofweek(current date) = 1 if (rc_ok) upd schedule mydomain myschedule expiry=NEVER === Regards Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensl

Re: NetWare NDS backup

server. What's the best NDS strategy for a remote site? Maybe NDS backup of the remote site weekly and let replication catch it up if a restore is necessary? I'm not really a Netware guy so any real-life stuff is appreciated. Steve Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Healt

Re: Select for access date

What's wrong with move media? Something like move media * stg=somepool days=180 wherest=mountableinlib wherestatus=full ovflo="tape racks" remove=yes Steve Harris Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2004 9:21:36 >>> I'm won

Re: configuration management security question

ich will be contacted by TMF itself. Users >will change their password in AD and TMF needs not to worry about that. > >Regards, >SaDaT > > > > > > Steve Harris > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > LTH.QLD.GOV.AU>

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