Re: BartPE w/TSM client question

2007-03-11 Thread TSM_User
This isn't a solution to your problem but remember that the system state backup using ntbackup will let you restore the systemstate when the machine name doesn't match. Just in case you can't find a solution for the machine name with BartPE. Schaub, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing

Active Only Storage Pools for DR

2007-02-15 Thread TSM_User
For years I've been asked by my customers if they could have many versions for files in their primary pools while limiting the versions in their copy pools to 1 for disaster recovery. In reading up on the new TSM V5.4 feature Active-Only Storage Pools it looks like this is now a reality.

Re: Fw: Active Only Storage Pools for DR

2007-02-15 Thread TSM_User
I am aware of the issues with collocating offsite storage pools. I have a few customers that choose to spend the money and do it that way. If it was a server disaster then they would have the multiple versions of the file in the primary pool. A few of my customers have a hybrid

Re: q archive question

2007-02-15 Thread TSM_User
Is there a reason you don't try the GUI? Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone wrote a perl process that marks files to be archived and archives them one at a time. Very inefficient when there are literally hundreds of thousands of files that need to be done. Now I'd have chose a

Re: TSM Client in a MSCS Cluster

2007-01-13 Thread TSM_User
The only services that you need to add cluster resources for are the ones that are set to automatic. So if you are using the Client Acceptor to Start the TSM Scheduler then the only TSM cluster resource you need is the Client Acceptor. If you are not then you need the TSM Scheduler and the

Re: Way to redirect a TSM Data Protection for Exchange restore to an alternate location?

2006-10-30 Thread TSM_User
The purpose of the Recovery Storage Group was to allow for this restore to happen without overwritting the production data. It sounds like your afraid to use the Recovery Storage group as it was meant to be used. I've done it many times for my customers. Make sure you read the MS doc on

Re: 3 layer storage hierarchy

2006-10-14 Thread TSM_User
We have customers that use the 3 layer pool. We set a maxsize on both the disk pool and file pool. I have one we just implmented where we have a 500 GB disk pool with a maxsize of 50, then we have a FILEPOOL1 with max size of 1 GB. When our large Exchange database backups kick off they skip

Re: Windows 2003 Encryption

2006-10-11 Thread TSM_User
this or if they will just keep the password phrase used somewhere and just use that if need be. TSM_User wrote: To your question you only need the value you typed to generate the key the first time. You will be prompted to type it again and it will then encrypt the key again

Re: Windows 2003 Encryption

2006-10-08 Thread TSM_User
To your question you only need the value you typed to generate the key the first time. You will be prompted to type it again and it will then encrypt the key again and store it in the registry. Entries in the registry can be exported and then imported on another server. Exporting the keys

Re: Windows 2003 Encryption

2006-10-07 Thread TSM_User
Roger, I believe the encryption key for the regular BA Client is not kept seperate on the TSM server. Only the Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) software, which supports transparent encryption, store the key on the TSM server instead of in the local registry. Also for them you are never prompted

Re: TS3310 - Library Configuration - Help Required

2006-10-04 Thread TSM_User
Are you trying to label and LTO1 tape. A TS3310 only supports LTO3 drives. LTO3 drives can not write to LTO1 media. Or, even if the tapes are LTO3 do they have LTO1 labels on them. TSM will see the L1 on the tape label and being that the LTO3 drives can't write to an L1 tape you can get the

Re: BMR - unlike hardware

2006-09-28 Thread TSM_User
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] BMR - unlike hardware While the recovery console could be used you can also choose to copy the files out, perform the restore and then copy

Re: BMR - unlike hardware

2006-09-27 Thread TSM_User
While the recovery console could be used you can also choose to copy the files out, perform the restore and then copy the files back before you reboot. You only need to use the RC if you forget to copy the files back before you reboot. I've posted the use of the in-place upgrade many times to

Re: BMR - unlike hardware

2006-09-22 Thread TSM_User
Recovery of Windows to dissimilar hardware is possible. Here are some keys. 1) There is a process called an In-Place upgrade. This is a process that is run by booting to windows installation media after a server has been recovered. Then you go through the optoins as if to install Windows.

Re: 3584 library sharing followup

2006-09-16 Thread TSM_User
On one of the instance you will delete the library and then create a new shared library. When you run the audit library command on a library client it updates the library manager updates it's volhist to show that the volumes in its library are remote and not belong to the other instnace.

Why doesn't the TSM client support transparent encryption

2006-09-14 Thread TSM_User
I have a customer that requires all data to be encrypted. We started with the file servers and that was easy enough. I just made sure to add the encryptiontype and include.encrpyt entries to the dsm.opt file. I then backed up a file and was promted for the key. We typed the key and everything

Re: Why doesn't the TSM client support transparent encryption

2006-09-14 Thread TSM_User
Sorry, but Encryptkey is not what I'm looking for. Encryptkey has two settings SAVE (the default) and PROMPT. This value is not used to suply transparrent enctryption. It is simply used to tell the TSM client software whether to store the encrypted password in the registry. Even with

Re: Win2003 Full system restore

2006-09-06 Thread TSM_User
There is no need to install win2K first. Simply use an application like nLite http://www.nliteos.com/ to create a windows installation CD that will install Windows 2003 into C:\winnt\. Creating the CD from your existing Windows 2003 CD is much faster than installing two OS's at the time of

TSM Client Encryption question

2006-09-04 Thread TSM_User
The default setting for ENCryptkey is Save which in Windows will store the encryption key in the registry. Lets say I have a file server where C:\ is the OS and D:\ is all my file data. I then use include.encrypt D:\...\* so that only the data on D:\ is encrypted. Then I perform a

Re: Storage Agent Upgrade on AIX caused LANFree to slow way down

2006-08-25 Thread TSM_User
backup with LANFREECOMMMETHOD of SharedMem the backup was FASTER , did you do the same with the DB2 or still LANFREECOMMMETHOD of TCPIP Regards Robert Ouzen -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7

Storage Agent Upgrade on AIX caused LANFree to slow way down

2006-08-24 Thread TSM_User
Guys, We had a TSM server and TSM Storage Agent combination of V5.1.1.0. The TSM client on the AIX server is at V5.1.7.0. This AIX server is running DB2. We have a Windows 2003 TSM server and a 3494 tape library with two Fibre attached 3590 drives. Anyway the OS backup on this server

Re: Storage Agent Upgrade on AIX caused LANFree to slow way down

2006-08-24 Thread TSM_User
. Or, something else changed around the time of the upgrade to break the usage of TCP/IP for the LANFREE backup. I'd still be interested to know if anyone else has seen this behavior. TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, We had a TSM server and TSM Storage Agent combination of V5.1.1.0. The TSM

Re: TSM configuration manager

2006-08-19 Thread TSM_User
The problem is that when you nodes defined to a domain just moving a new domain from another profile into place can not be done. On the managed server you can create a new domain (temporarily). Then at the domain level you can issue the move nodes to another domain and select the temp domain.

Re: Encryption - logging

2006-08-16 Thread TSM_User
Don't forget if that is the desire that the web gui runs under the local system account (in windows land) and it may have the ability to restore another users file to a different location. So you may not want to use the TSM web client feature on that particular server. Henrik Wahlstedt [EMAIL

Re: Are LVSA cache files temporary?

2006-08-14 Thread TSM_User
Steve, use this link http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html and in the search box type LVSA and hit search. This search produced many documents that explain how LVSA works which may be of interest. In addition problems that have been encountered

Re: Windows number of instances limitation.

2006-07-18 Thread TSM_User
Are you sure a propely congirued TSM serve with 4 instances and 6 GB of RAM will actually have room for a 5th. IMHO you shouldn't run more that two. There are a few TSM tech docs that explain the way memory is used based on the those if you properly configure your buffpool you will end up

Re: Image Backups

2006-06-24 Thread TSM_User
If you set Backup Delete Allowed on the node on the TSM server you should then be able to use the TSM Client GUI to navigate all the backups and selectivly delete what you want. Look under the tools menu. K Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, more and more I like the

Re: Journal Based Backups

2006-06-13 Thread TSM_User
Many windows 2003 servers now days can scan one to two million files per hour. We don't use journaling until we get over five million files. I've seen the deeper the directory structure the longer it takes to scan Basically if all one million files are at the root of a drive it will scan much

Re: Retain only Version

2006-06-13 Thread TSM_User
RETO is only used when you are down to one version. So if the file is deleted but you have 3 versions of the file prior to it being deleted then you will still keep those 3 versions based on the RETE value of 365. The RETO will only be used when 2 of the 3 versions have been expired in TSM and

Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

2006-05-13 Thread TSM_User
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: vrijdag 12 mei 2006 1:36 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM Karel, How do you deal with the fact that the mount point name changes when the cluster groups moves

Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

2006-05-11 Thread TSM_User
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: donderdag 11 mei 2006 0:42 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM It looks like this option is used to allow the local disks to show up as well when you have CLUSTERNODE YES

Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

2006-05-10 Thread TSM_User
I have a cluster that has two separate two node file clusters. These clusters have both clustered disk and clustered mount points. These started out as normal Microsoft Windows 2003 file clusters but then the added Veritas Volume Manager to the mix. With Veritas Volume Manager instead of

Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

2006-05-10 Thread TSM_User
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: woensdag 10 mei 2006 15:08 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM I have a cluster that has two separate two node file clusters. These clusters have both

Re: Tapeless TSM System

2006-04-25 Thread TSM_User
Many people are using VTL's (Virtual Tape Libraries). IBM has the TS7510 and EMC has the CDL. There are also many people using large disk subsystems like the IBM DS4300 or DS6800 or the EMC Clarion or Symmetric. Then on this disk subsystems they use TSM's file device class. In the end

Re: TSM SERVER MIGRATION from STK ACSLS tape library to IBM 3584

2006-03-27 Thread TSM_User
Yes two libraries can be connected and configred to a single TSM instance at a time. Typicall you configure both and setup all your disk storage pools and mgmt classes to use the new library. Then over time you run move data commands to get the data from the old library to the new

Re: windows cluster issues client level 5.2.3

2006-02-16 Thread TSM_User
We don't used all-local at all in ours. Insteady we just put DOMAIN C: or DOMAIN C: D: depending on how many local (non cluster) disks you have. The only time we've ever had the local backup incorrectly backup the cluster disks was when we forgot and left ALL-LOCAL in the dsm.opt for the local

Re: 5.3.2.2

2006-02-15 Thread TSM_User
Did you put CLUSTERNODE YES in that options file. I have V5.3.0.3 running on many cluster servers without any issue. I too create a shortcut launching dsm.exe with the -optfile= using the cluster dsm.opt file. If you have CLUSTERNODE YES and DOMAIN CLUSTER_DRIVE_LETTER then you should be

Re: NQR hanging on AIX system

2006-02-07 Thread TSM_User
When you do not want to invoke the NQR simply put testflag disablenqr in your dsm.opt file. It would be nice if in a future release of the TSM client code this could be a simple check box. Anyway, quite often in the windows world I have to set that when I am trying to restore a

Re: HSM on Windows Filesserver

2006-01-20 Thread TSM_User
I search of the file system will not start a recall. At one time some anti-virus programs could cause recalls but that has long since been fixed. Still, if you have a rare 3rd part AV provider you'd want to test. With mos HSM you only ever have a single copy of the HSM file. So when a new

Re: HSM on Windows Filesserver

2006-01-20 Thread TSM_User
in size. TSM HSM for UNIX / Linux schedules periodic reconciliation processes to remove objects from the TSM server when they no longer map to files in HSM client file systems. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Friday, January

Re: VTL experiences?

2006-01-04 Thread TSM_User
The EMC CDL is running FalconStor software through some kind of license agreement between EMC and FalconStor. I really don't know all the specifics of this agreement. FlaconStor has proven to be one of the best if not the best VTL software. Both IBM and STK resold their disk with FalconStor

Re: VTL experiences?

2006-01-04 Thread TSM_User
Much of the documentation out there will tell you that the benefit of the VTL is the speed. It is true the VTL is very fast. Some of that same documentation talks about not turning on the virtual compression because it will slow the speed. I've seen in cut the speed in half. But... I've

Re: windows / ANE4987E

2005-12-21 Thread TSM_User
I saw the posts telling you to exclude it. It is funny that I've seen the ntuser.dat file get backed up with TSM open file support. The OS has an exclusive lock on it. I think it is odd that open file support can't back up the file you listed. Could you try using the baclient to backup

Re: TSM CLient install error on Windows

2005-12-11 Thread TSM_User
I've run into this but in my case it was always when something TSM wise was running. Every time when I started task managaer it would show me what that was. If task manager shows nothing there is an application you can download from sysinternals that will show you what has it locked.

Re: TSM / ASR

2005-12-02 Thread TSM_User
You download the copy from the web or ftp site. Then you rename it and burn that to the CD. Basically don't extract it. Tim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thhe TSM ASR setup requires the TSM client be available on a TSM client CD in packaged-for-the-web (self extracting single file) format

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-23 Thread TSM_User
The latest VTS from IBM does not run TSM under the covers. I'm not sure if you are thinking about VTS (Virtual Tape System) or something else like a Document Management system. Gee, Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not consider using IBM VTS as a possible solution. The VTS

Re: VTS or san disk storage

2005-11-23 Thread TSM_User
This product is not running TSM under the covers. Kyle TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest VTS from IBM does not run TSM under the covers. I'm not sure if you are thinking about VTS (Virtual Tape System) or something else like a Document Management system. Gee, Norman

Re: TSM Win client DOMAIN statement and unc names

2005-11-19 Thread TSM_User
://www-306.ibm. com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. TSM_User Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 2005-11-15 16:16 Please

Re: TSM Win client DOMAIN statement and unc names

2005-11-18 Thread TSM_User
/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. TSM_User Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 2005-11-15 16:16 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: TSM Win client DOMAIN statement and unc names

2005-11-17 Thread TSM_User
: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. TSM_User Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 2005-11-15 16:16 Please respond to ADSM

Re: New ISC/admin

2005-11-17 Thread TSM_User
The latest ISC is 6.0.1 which I don't see there. I got it through the IBM download center. Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zoltan...Thanks! Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: The same place as the rest of the TSM patches/releases/etc, but in the admincenter directory:

Re: TSM Win client DOMAIN statement and unc names

2005-11-15 Thread TSM_User
Andy are you sure? I don't remember seeing UNC paths that have been added to a dsm.opt show up in the GUI ever. I'm wondering if the F: drive shows up in Wanda's case because it is mapped and all mapped drives show up under Network in the GUI. I just mapped a drive without ever putting

Re: windows 64 bit client install

2005-11-14 Thread TSM_User
The x64 code is at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r3/Windows/x64/. The IA64 is for Itanium only. If you are sure that you ran the install from a client downloaded from the above then I'd open a call with support. Tim Brown [EMAIL

select on events table question

2005-10-14 Thread TSM_User
I know that per APAR IC28825 if you try running select * from events you will only get the events for today. That APAR lists a work around where running select count(*) from events where scheduled_start between '2005-10-01 18:00:00' and '2005-10-15 06:00:00' will actually give you the

Re: Select Question

2005-09-24 Thread TSM_User
Note that the table is also key'd by node_name so if you pass node_name='NODE_NAME' then you will get the information back much more quickly. If you want it for every node then be prepared for that select to run a very long time. Also in adition to the backups table you might also want to look

Re: CIFS/NAS/CELERRA backups and web-gui

2005-09-15 Thread TSM_User
I'm pretty sure that the Web GUI does not prefill its list of what you can backup based on the options file. It instead prefills it with a list of local drives. The restore unlike the backup windows prefills its list based on what filespaces have been backed up on the TSM server. I think

Re: generate full backup using backupsets

2005-09-14 Thread TSM_User
You could write a script that runs as part of a preschedule command which gets a list local drives and then compares that to the list of drives that is in the command file. It could then send you an e-mail if any are missing. We have to do this for our cluster servers. Because there currently

Re: NT privilege question

2005-09-13 Thread TSM_User
The local administrator on one server has no rights on another server. You must use a domain account that has the following rights on both servers. Both the Backup Operators and Administrators local groups have these rights. Backup Files and Directories Restore Files and Directories Manage

Re: EMC CELERRA backup options - need feedback

2005-09-09 Thread TSM_User
If you haven't tested a CIFS backup I suggested you do that first. It works of course but is much slower. We compared CIFS backups through a windows server of 1 million files to a backup of 1 million files on the Windows server itself and it took 10 times as long to scan through the

Re: Unsuccessful BMR for win2k3 : OS not registered message ...

2005-09-07 Thread TSM_User
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Re: Unsuccessful BMR for win2k3 : OS not registered message ...

2005-09-06 Thread TSM_User
] ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Saturday, 03 September, 2005 00:52 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Unsuccessful BMR for win2k3 : OS not registered message ... If ASR doesn't work you can try the In-Place

Re: Unsuccessful BMR for win2k3 : OS not registered message ...

2005-09-02 Thread TSM_User
If ASR doesn't work you can try the In-Place ugprade using option R after you press F8 to agree to the license agreement. We've had discussions about In-Place upgrade on this list before. You can search those or MS's knowledgebase. Basically, you take a Windows 2003 server installation CD and

Re: restore OU in AD 2003

2005-09-01 Thread TSM_User
As Mark said those versions of TSM won't even allow a systemstate backup. If you aren't already I'd start using NT Backup to backup the systemstate, or get upgraded. I'd like to point out that you don't use TSM to restore a single OU. Few backup products support a recovery directly into AD

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Open File Support for which files

2005-08-25 Thread TSM_User
Run a backup of C:\documents and settings\. Under this folder in subfolders you will see *.dat and *.dat.log files. These can not be backed up unless you have OFS running. This will help you verify that OFS is working correctly Thomas Rupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:According to IBM Tivoli

Re: TSM Ver 5.3 and ACSLS

2005-08-25 Thread TSM_User
TSM has been able to connect to an STK library running ACSLS since V5.1. New in V5.3 is the ability to share the library between two or more TSM instances within TSM. Prior to V5.3 you had to purchase EDT to share drives in an STK library controlled by ACSLS. I haven't seen anything posted

MS SQL partial log restore with TDP

2005-08-18 Thread TSM_User
Recently a customer of mine pointed out the fact that you could use the TDP for SQL to restore to a point in time which means replaying part but not all of a log. I actually didn't know you could do this. For all of the DR tests I've been involved with we've wanted to get all the data in the

Re: Problems with BMR on W2K (missing DLL's after restore)

2005-08-15 Thread TSM_User
Mike, Seeing Leigh's post made me remember our IIS\Win2K restores from a few years back. I'm 99.9% sure that we ran into problems with dll's as well before we got out doc corrected ensureing to uncheck IIS during the install. With Windows 2003 IIS isn't checked by default so you don' thave

Re: Anyone backing up Cisco Unity Product to TSM (Voicemail only)

2005-08-04 Thread TSM_User
This list is the 3rd party software that the CSA agent for Unity supports. REF: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2237/prod_release_note09186a0080424e37.html Supported Optional Software Only the following optional software has been qualified for use on a Cisco Unity server

Re: Strange issue with a Windows server

2005-08-01 Thread TSM_User
I just read that tech note and it says that you should call Microsoft to recreate the checkpoint file. You can also use these steps. Appendix B How to correctly reset the TSM password for the node that is used to backup the cluster resources. Note: these steps must be followed or else the

Windows x64 support

2005-07-27 Thread TSM_User
Is anyone backup up Windows x64 with TSM yet? I looked at the latest readmes and I didn't see any mention specifically of x64. For more information on what x64 is see: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/64bit/bulletin.mspx Basically it is a version of windows that will run both 32

Re: Windows x64 support

2005-07-27 Thread TSM_User
Could I trouble you to send it again. I searched http://search.adsm.org/ before I sent out the question. I just went back and I searched for 64, then win 64, then 12 July 2005 and finally Andy Raibeck. I didn't see anything from you in July of 2005 so maybe it hasn't been index'd yet.

Re: Windows x64 support

2005-07-27 Thread TSM_User
the Enterprise Datacentre editions of 2003. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/platforms.ht ml However, IBM's web site has been know to be inaccurate before ;) IB -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User

Re: Windows server imaging

2005-07-27 Thread TSM_User
Egon Blouder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, one major problem I have/see in using 1) is the lack of restore of partition information. That has to be done manually. IMHO that should be a few lines of code that must Tivoli add to TSM. Regards, ..-- TSM_User wrote: Opps, below I said you can get

Re: Windows server imaging

2005-07-21 Thread TSM_User
1) You can use TSM to run an online image backup. Then TSM and WinPE to create an offline image restore. 2) You can use ASR. 3) You can simply use the Install OS, Install Client, Restore system state, then restore OS drive. You can get ASR to work with dissimilar hardware but you can run

Status on OFS support for Win2K3

2005-07-21 Thread TSM_User
Does anyone from Tivoli have any new information on when OFS for Win2K3 might be coming out. I'm not looking for promises just guesses. I've been asked by a number of my customers lately if it will be this year or not. Kyle __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: Windows server imaging

2005-07-21 Thread TSM_User
Opps, below I said you can get disimilar hardware to work with ASR. I meant you can't. Sorry. TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) You can use TSM to run an online image backup. Then TSM and WinPE to create an offline image restore. 2) You can use ASR. 3) You can simply use the Install OS

Re: Exclude statement

2005-06-27 Thread TSM_User
\...\ means all directories and sub directories so when there are two folders \one\two\ you only need a single \...\ you don't need two of them as in your example. Shannon Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an extra directory in there you're not coveringtry this, c$\Documents and

Re: ?? What character escapes wildcards % and _ for SELECTing literal % or _ ??

2005-06-22 Thread TSM_User
Looks like when you want to actually search for an _ or % you have to tell SQL what character you want to use as an escape. I couldn't find anything that said what the default escape character is so maybe this is the only way to do it. Anyway here is what works select node_name from nodes

Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-17 Thread TSM_User
in the backups on their large file servers after running a Defrag of the MFT with disk Keeper. TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I replied to the list about using windows mount points. A reply was sent back about it being the opposit of what they wanted. Well I had this thought. If you have an imaging

15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-16 Thread TSM_User
I replied to the list about using windows mount points. A reply was sent back about it being the opposit of what they wanted. Well I had this thought. If you have an imaging system (or any other application) that can only use one drive letter why not use mount points for that drive. Have a

Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-16 Thread TSM_User
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup I replied to the list about using windows mount points. A reply was sent back about it being

Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

2005-06-16 Thread TSM_User
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup I replied to the list about using windows mount points. A reply was sent back about it being the opposit of what they wanted. Well I had

Re: Backup of large server (15+ Million objects)

2005-06-14 Thread TSM_User
Actually with both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 you can create what is like a mount point in Unix land. Search MS's site for junction point OR mount point. Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a single drive letter, G:, so I can't separate it into multiple nodes or even schedules.

Re: Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003 / Disaster recovery of Windows 2003

2005-06-14 Thread TSM_User
I've tested all the options. I really like the on-line image backup and the off-line image restore with WinPE. Note if you se a Windows 2003 built WinPE cd you must be at TSM client V5.3.0.5 or later. K. David Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bare Metal Restore for Windows 2003 We are trying

Re: Windows and device addressing for TSM (Make it stop!!!)

2005-06-13 Thread TSM_User
Wanda, Persistent binding is very easy to setup in a Windows environment. We could all argue at great length on whether it should be handled by MS better but nearly all HBA manufacturers have a mechanism to setup persistent binding. Specifically we use Emulex cards and there is a utility that

Re: Buggy exclude?

2005-06-09 Thread TSM_User
If you copied the exclude from your dsm.inclexcl then I don't see a problem. But if you typed it is there a chance that you have a space after the second slash and before the first period (i.e Exclude /tmp/ .../*) Rick Harderwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a problem with a 5.2.x

Re: password

2005-06-08 Thread TSM_User
Seeing this post prompted me to run a test. It appears that Windows 2003 cluster ensures the replication of the changed password happens right away, not when the group fails over. Details: I have 3 test clusters a Windows 2000 cluster a Windows 2003 cluster and a Windows 2003 Itanium cluster.

Re: Win 2003 Server w/SP1 and TSM 5.2.3 Not backing up

2005-05-26 Thread TSM_User
Isn't the WIndows firewall thats in XP installed on Win2K3 with SP1. I check the control panel for the firwall settings. You may need to enable the ports that TSM uses or setup the client port option. Consiglio, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hello, Has anyone seen an issue with Windows 2003

Backing up VMWare from Guest -vs- backing up .dsk files

2005-05-26 Thread TSM_User
I have quite a few customers that are running VMWare and so far all of them have decided to just backup from within the virtual machine for the following reasons: 1) Being that TSM is licensed per physical CPU there is no cost savings in using a single client license running on the ESX server

Re: Backing up VMWare from Guest -vs- backing up .dsk fi les

2005-05-26 Thread TSM_User
to us. Loading ESX restoring vm's is easier for us to manage at the hotsite than multiple physicals. Now if I could only get it to work consistantly. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:05 AM

Re: Domino Transaction Logs Archive

2005-05-24 Thread TSM_User
I don't have any valuable information to add to this thread but I thought I'd note that their is a Technical Exchange planned for May 31st on the TDP for domino in a Unix environment. Also I realize that this server is a Windows server but maybe some of this information is the same regardless

Re: Virtual tape libraries

2005-05-21 Thread TSM_User
Sorry in the last e-mail I meant you can alter this. TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:The VTL's that I have seen set the defaults to the size estimed to the drive as you suggest but all the ones I've seen you can later this. For intance on our EMC CDL's emulating LTO 2 tape drives we set

Re: weird request

2005-05-21 Thread TSM_User
First let me say I really agree with Andrew. That being said, I believe robocopy 2003 has the ability to copy data based on last modified and last accessed dates. You can do either or both I believe. In order to accomplish what this customer wants you could first copy the stuff out using

Re: weird request

2005-05-21 Thread TSM_User
This made me think as well you could use the robocopy command to run in preview mode to a log file I believe with the copy feature of last access or modify. This might give you a list of what data would not get backed up and thus give the customer something to go on. (I must really seem like

Re: backup issue caused by windows limitation

2005-05-19 Thread TSM_User
First the version of RoboCopy that is part of the Windows 2003 resource kit now supports paths longer that 256 characters. Second, TSM does support the backup and restoration of files in paths longer that 256 characters. What errors are you getting? Kyle Rees, Chris (Corp) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows 2000 Server Archive Complete but Not showing as Retrievable.

2005-05-18 Thread TSM_User
Did you use the command line to run a q archive? There is a known problem where the data is archived and can be seen by the command line but not but the GUI. We just had this problem. We were given a few explanations for how this could happen and none seemed to fit. Still there were two

Re: Re Windows 2000 client reconfiguration

2005-05-15 Thread TSM_User
If you use Microsofts RoboCopy utility you can copy data without modifying any of the attributes. The latest version that comes with the Windows 2003 resource kit lets you do all kinds of cool stuff including retaining ownership on the files. It is also an incremental only copy utility so you

Re: HSM question

2005-05-09 Thread TSM_User
If you are asking if you can use DiskExtender from a Windows client to a TSM server that is running on AIX then the answer is yes. The platform the TSM server is running does not matter. If you are asking if you can use the TSM native HSM function that also does not matter what OS the TSM

Re: problems with medium changer driver in 3583

2005-05-09 Thread TSM_User
The TSM device driver should not be used to control IBM libraries since V5.2. If it was an STK library then you would use it but for IBM library you use the medium changer driver that comes with the LTO device drivers. Pawel Jobkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi! I have server 2003 SP1 with

Re: CX700 ATA failure - Audit Storage Pool Volumes

2005-05-04 Thread TSM_User
We lost 2 drives in the same array on a CX600 and they wouldn't rebuild. Our problem did not cause a loss of data. EMC had to bring down the whole thing and when it came back up the rebuild kicked off and everything was OK. We were told that if we had a more recent version of microcode then

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