What is the newest client version supported on Windows server 2003?

2014-03-07 Thread Tom Alverson
I can't make sense of the IBM web page with the compatibility matrix. What is the highest version client that is supported for Windows 2003 server for both the standard BACLIENT and also the TDP database client? We are having a lot of problems with the TDP 6.3.1 client and were hoping that movin

Re: What is the newest client version supported on Windows server 2003?

2014-03-07 Thread Tom Alverson
&SI (former > Tivoli) would keep on supporting Windows 2003 a bit longer, like into > v7.1+. > > Regards, > > Joerg Pohlmann > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom > Alverson > Sent

Re: What is the newest client version supported on Windowsserver 2003?

2014-03-07 Thread Tom Alverson
Dave Canan wrote: > Tom, can you give a brief description of the database backup issues you've > been working on with IBM? Do you have PMR numbers I could review? > > Dave Canan > IBM TSM Performance > 916-723-2410 > Office hrs: 9:00 - 5:00 > > -Original Messa

TSM for VE failures on templates

2014-08-27 Thread Tom Alverson
I am getting failures with TSM for VE 7.1.0.0 where it is trying to back up templates even though I have them disabled in the OPT file: VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS NO I get errors like this: 08/26/2014 19:13:56 ANS2045E The VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS option is not specified. The virtual machine templat

Re: TSM for VE failures on templates

2014-08-27 Thread Tom Alverson
> not counted as inspected or failed. > > Regards, > Omar > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 08/27/2014 > 11:07:29 AM: > > > From: Tom Alverson > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, > > Date: 08/27/2014 11:17 AM > > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for

TSM for VE maximum LUNs ??

2014-09-10 Thread Tom Alverson
I am having a problem setting up TSM for VE on a server where we tried mapping 370 drive LUNs on a SAN and 48 tape drives to a physical server to perform the backups. The TSMDLST.EXE utility errors out with the message "The system could not find the environment option that was entered" due to the

Re: New releases of TSM 7.1.1 and FCM 4.1.1 now available fordownload!

2014-09-16 Thread Tom Alverson
I thought the baclient already supported 2012R2 ?? -Original Message- From: "Del Hoobler" Sent: ‎9/‎12/‎2014 5:34 PM To: "ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU" Subject: [ADSM-L] New releases of TSM 7.1.1 and FCM 4.1.1 now available fordownload! In case you missed it... Tivoli Storage Manager and Flas

Re: New releases of TSM 7.1.1 and FCM 4.1.1 now available fordownload!

2014-09-16 Thread Tom Alverson
2 is also > supported with the with 6.4.2 or later. > >http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133 > > Del > > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 09/16/2014 > 02:46:36 PM: > >

TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
I have a number of data movers set up with Baclient 7.1.0 and TSM for VE 7.1.0 that are working OK but I wanted to update them to 7.1.1. The main reason is the many "failures" I get when it does not back up VM "Templates" (backup of templates is disabled but 7.1.0 still counts these as "failures")

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
lient only has the one choice "Periodic Full - Full". On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I have a number of data movers set up with Baclient 7.1.0 and TSM for VE > 7.1.0 that are working OK but I wanted to update them to 7.1.1. The main > reason is the

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
M feature when you upgraded the B/A client? > > FYI, if you do the VME upgrade to 7.1.1.0 first, it will automatically > upgrade the B/A client as well. > > David > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
No, I planned to to that tomorrow if this update did not break anything. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: > Did you upgrade VE to 7.1.1 first? > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
ature when you upgraded the B/A client? > > FYI, if you do the VME upgrade to 7.1.1.0 first, it will automatically > upgrade the B/A client as well. > > David > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alvers

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
ing. Does upgrading to 7.1.1 force all backups to do a fresh initial full backup?? On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I think I might go ahead and try the TSM for VE 7.1.1 update now as I have > my doubts as to whether tonight's scheduled backup will work ho

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
gt; As an alternative, you can uninstall the product completely and then > install 7.1.1. > > Let me know if this resolves the issue. > > Alexei Kojenov > TSM Client Development > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 10/22/2014 > 12:20:11 PM: > > >

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
As an alternative, you can uninstall the product completely and then > install 7.1.1. > > Let me know if this resolves the issue. > > Alexei Kojenov > TSM Client Development > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 10/22/2014 > 12:20:11 PM: > > > F

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.1 upgrade question

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Alverson
but that will take a while. Thanks everyone for the help. Tom On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Tom Alverson wrote: > That APAR only talks about the license file problem. My problem is the > GUI is stuck in the "Periodic Full - Full" mode with no other options in > the pu

TSM for VE password problem only when LANFREE enabled??

2015-05-15 Thread Tom Alverson
I am setting up a new TSM for VE VBS server and first I got the standard BACLIENT set up to back up the VBS server itself (standard file level backup of the TSM for VE server). I then got the LANFREE working and was able do a test backup to the nodename used by the standard file level backup (of a

Re: TSM for VE password problem only when LANFREE enabled??

2015-05-18 Thread Tom Alverson
; http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/welcome > Product Wiki: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Ma

Upgrading BACLIENT to 7.1.2.2 broke TSM for VE ???

2015-07-28 Thread Tom Alverson
I had a backup issue with one particular VM (ANS9921E and ANS9919E) which I thought might be fixed (per a KB article) by upgrading the BACLIENT from 7.1.1.0 to 7.1.2.2. Not only did this not fix the issue but now when I run the GUI and click the + to expand the list of VM's to back up I get this e

Re: Upgrading BACLIENT to 7.1.2.2 broke TSM for VE ???

2015-07-28 Thread Tom Alverson
AQ > > -Message d'origine- > De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part de > Tom Alverson > Envoyé : 28 juillet 2015 13:28 > À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Objet : [ADSM-L] Upgrading BACLIENT to 7.1.2.2 broke TSM for VE ??? > > I had a ba

Re: VM dsm.opt configuration

2016-01-25 Thread Tom Alverson
Are you asking if the include/exclude can be wild carded? I don't know. I started by excluding the non "Disk 1" drives on our VM's until I read that using the INCLUDE option implies excluding all of the other disks so now I just have a separate INCLUDE statement for the DISK 1 drive for each VM (I

WAN performance

2016-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
I am seeing very poor WAN performance on all of my (wan based) TSM backups. Due to the latency (40 msec typical) I normally only get about 20% of the available bandwidth used by a TSM backup. With EMC Networker I get over 90% utilization. I have already set all of these recommended options: RES

Re: WAN performance

2016-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
M, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I thought TCPBUFFSIZE could only go up to 64? It could be that setting it > to 512 actually sets it to the default of 16. > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:03:26PM -0500, Tom Alverson wrote: > > I am seeing very poor WAN performance on all of my (wan based)

Re: WAN performance

2016-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
mpson > > wrote: > > > I thought TCPBUFFSIZE could only go up to 64? It could be that setting it > > to 512 actually sets it to the default of 16. > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:03:26PM -0500, Tom Alverson wrote: > > > I am seeing very poor WAN performan

Re: Reg: datamover sessions hung for tsm/ve backups

2016-03-30 Thread Tom Alverson
I have a server that is doing this same exact thing today. My only fix so far is to restart the TSM for VE services and hope for the best. TSM/VE version 7140 Platform Windows 2008R2 TSM Storage server 6.3.5.1 On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Srikanth Kola23 wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am facing t

Re: Reg: datamover sessions hung for tsm/ve backups

2016-04-06 Thread Tom Alverson
I am getting this error on three different TSM for VE VBS servers today. Waiting 60 minutes for each VM is causing the schedule to run into the next days schedule (the job runs for over 24 hours). I have to stop and restart the service to snap it out of this mode and hope the next backup runs OK.

TSM for VE 7.1.4.1 download "payload" file ???

2016-04-25 Thread Tom Alverson
I just download the TSM for VE 7.1.4.1 update from the open FTP site and when I run it (it is an exe) it just creates a DATA folder and puts a big file called "payload" in there. What do I do with that file? Tom

Re: TSM for VE 7.1.4.1 download "payload" file ???

2016-04-25 Thread Tom Alverson
/portal/product/tivoli/tivoli_storage_manager > > > > > Online documentation: > > > > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > > > > Product Wiki: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivol

Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-01 Thread Tom Alverson
I am running TSM for VE 7.1.4.1 on WIndows 2008 and it has been OK until about 2 weeks ago. Since then every night the backup job (should be over 100 VM's) just kind of aborts without logging success or failure. The only errors in the logs are these (which don't appear in any Google searches)

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-02 Thread Tom Alverson
> > I know this doesn't provide you with a direct resolution, but hopefully > > will get you going down the right path. > > > > Again, I would start with taking a look at vCenter and Veeam for > > additional information. > > > > Hope this helps. >

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-02 Thread Tom Alverson
et us know what you find. > > -Rick Adamson > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 6:49 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Strange TSM f

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-03 Thread Tom Alverson
nt I had exclusion with wildcards in the VM names and all of the > sudden that > stop working after the TDP got updated. My exclusion list now list all of > the exact VM > names. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Be

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-03 Thread Tom Alverson
baclient folder of the datamover? > > David > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 11:55 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Strange TSM for VE err

Do I need SQL Remote Client Agent running?

2016-06-06 Thread Tom Alverson
For our conventional file based backups we used to use just the scheduler service (without the Client Acceptor Daemon) but have now changed to having an instance of the CAD service control the file backup scheduler (seems to minimize the footprint and eliminate and memory leak issues in the schedul

Re: Strange TSM for VE error

2016-06-16 Thread Tom Alverson
age- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 2:18 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Strange TSM for VE error > > OK this is getting weirder and weirder - the server that was genera

"Compressed data grew" retries?

2016-06-30 Thread Tom Alverson
I have been watching an initial TSM backup running for a long time now over a WAN connection (100mbit/sec) and I keep seeing "compressed data grew" followed by a "Retry". Does this mean that for every file that compression increased the size (even 1%) the whole transfer is discarded and it starts

Re: "Compressed data grew" retries?

2016-06-30 Thread Tom Alverson
The client is 7.1 but our servers are still at 6.3. Also I had to switch to a storage server that does not have dedup on it as that slows the WAN transfer way down (I only get about 20% network utilization when data is being deduped, regardless of the RESOURCEUTILIZATION setting). I am also notic

Re: "Compressed data grew" retries?

2016-06-30 Thread Tom Alverson
"*.jbf" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.rec" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.msg" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pub" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.bmp" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.png" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pot" > EXCLUDE.COMPRESSI

Re: "Compressed data grew" retries?

2016-06-30 Thread Tom Alverson
If the server is at 6.3.x and the client is at 7.1.x can it use LZ4 or does that require the server to also be at 7.1.x? On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Paul Zarnowski wrote: > At 09:31 AM 6/30/2016, Tom Alverson wrote: > >I will > >try the compressalways yes setting but hopef

Re: Reg: datamover sessions hung for tsm/ve backups

2016-07-05 Thread Tom Alverson
since they would all need to be rebooted. Last night half of our datamovers crashed with this error. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I am getting this error on three different TSM for VE VBS servers today. > Waiting 60 minutes for each VM is causing the schedule to r

Re: Reg: datamover sessions hung for tsm/ve backups

2016-07-05 Thread Tom Alverson
illaudeau > SAQ > > -Message d'origine- > De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part de > Tom Alverson > Envoyé : 5 juillet 2016 09:40 > À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Reg: datamover sessions hung for tsm/ve backups > &

Re: "File thought to be compressed was not - Report how you got this"

2016-09-20 Thread Tom Alverson
Did you see this posting? https://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg03036.html On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX] wrote: > One of my windows admins was trying to restore systemstate data from > another node, and he got this error

Suppress installation of other languages with command line option?

2016-09-28 Thread Tom Alverson
> > I notice on the newer versions of the client that all possible languages > are now installed. Is there any way to suppress that installation so the > BACLIENT directory is not so cluttered? I end up having to scroll around a > lot while troubleshooting client issues. Maybe I should just try

Re: 7.1.6.3 client apars

2016-09-28 Thread Tom Alverson
How about this link? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21985020#7.1.6.3%20Interim%20Fix%20-%20available%20S If that doesn't work here is the link to the top of that page: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21985020 On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Zoltan Forray w

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-13 Thread Tom Alverson
The worst part about this is the extremely poor setup IBM has for doing an offline restore. They give you the instructions to create your own boot disk. I read it over and could not believe IBM did not have a nice pre-made recovery boot disk like Symantec, AVAMAR and Networker do. Are there any

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-13 Thread Tom Alverson
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/13/2016 > 05:42:38 PM: > > > From: Tom Alverson > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 12/13/2016 05:44 PM > > Subject: Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-13 Thread Tom Alverson
rvisors and hypervisor-based backups. >> >> >> >> Del >> >> ---- >> >> >> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/13/2016 >> 05:42:38 PM: >> >> > From: Tom Alverson >> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >> > D

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-14 Thread Tom Alverson
ecause IBM does not > ship it). > > > Del > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/13/2016 > 06:37:04 PM: > > > From: Tom Alverson > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 12/13/2016 0

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-14 Thread Tom Alverson
get over to be honest. > > > > But yes, I have made those disks and they work but the procedure for > using > > them isn't very simple so you need a windows administrator that knows > his > > stuff. Tt's not a fire and forget kind of procedure even if you hav

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-14 Thread Tom Alverson
't just offer a recovery disk or at least a > > > > good tool so > > > you > > > > only have to pick the correct B/A client and it will create it for > you. > > > > > > > > Many of our clients are close to 100% virtualized but we also ha

TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-18 Thread Tom Alverson
I periodically have an SQL backup fail but the scheduler reports that it was a success so I never get a failure ticket (the database admin complains about the lack of a backup). Here you can see I get the ACO5436E error with RC=-50 which there is almost no hit for on an internet search. Here you

Re: TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-19 Thread Tom Alverson
; Tom, > > Does the script capture the RC and then exit the script with that RC? > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21605132 > > > Thank you, > > Del > > -------- > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manag

Re: TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-19 Thread Tom Alverson
backups will retry 3 times before giving up and declaring a failure. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > The only thing we have after the backup command is some echo statements. > I would think that they would not affect the errorlevel? > > @ECHO OFF > set

Re: TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-19 Thread Tom Alverson
time: 1,176.32 Secs ANS0238E (RC2041) The sequence of calls is invalid. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I should add that we DO get job failures when everything fails on an SQL > backup. But when we have these apparent network issues that only

Re: TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-19 Thread Tom Alverson
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: den 19 januari 2017 16:55 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP SQL backup fails bu

Re: TDP SQL backup fails but is reported as a success ??

2017-01-20 Thread Tom Alverson
) so that a faillure of any of the instances will cause the schedule to fail? Or should there really be a separate scheduler for each database instance? On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > Thank you. Now I need to go and fix every single one of my backup > scripts.

Re: 7.1.7.1

2017-02-13 Thread Tom Alverson
We had a phone meeting with some IBM people last week and they highly recommended we get the 7.1.7.1 update as we are in the process of upgrading some older 6.X storage server that are going EOL (next month). They did not explain exactly what the fixes were. On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:28 AM, David

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

2017-03-25 Thread Tom Alverson
Del: We have been using these settings as our defaults. Is our TCPWINDOWSIZE too large? RESOURCEUTILIZATION 2 (we increase this up to 10 for some WAN backups) TXNBYTELIMIT 2097152 TCPNODELAY YES TCPBUFFSIZE 512 TCPWINDOWSIZE 2048 LARGECOMMBUFFERS YES Also we never use compression because our s

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

2017-03-27 Thread Tom Alverson
with a performance issue, please open a PMR. > > > Del > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 03/25/2017 > 12:20:43 AM: > > > From: Tom Alverson > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 03/25/201

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

2017-03-27 Thread Tom Alverson
nal Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 1:11 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client > Settings ? > > Our bigg

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

2017-03-28 Thread Tom Alverson
t; T: (306) 933-8921 > www.potashcorp.com > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Tom Alverson > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 1:11 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Best Practices/Best Pe

BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-20 Thread Tom Alverson
The only instructions I can find for BMR do not mention Server 2016 (see link below). Are there any updated instructions so I don't waste my time trying this old procedure? This says to make a Windows 8.1 boot disk? https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-21 Thread Tom Alverson
ort/entry/portal/product/tivoli/ > tivoli_storage_manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Mana

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-21 Thread Tom Alverson
ter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Manager > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 2017-04-21 > 13:49:48: > > > From: Tom Alverson > > To: AD

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-24 Thread Tom Alverson
t support: > https://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/product/tivoli/ > tivoli_storage_manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wi

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-24 Thread Tom Alverson
Sometimes I get this message Waiting for pre-restore to complete ['o_']. instead of this Waiting for pre-restore to complete ['._']. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I made a bootable disk but the SYSTEMSTATE restore always fails with this > me

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-04-24 Thread Tom Alverson
roduct/tivoli/ > tivoli_storage_manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Manager > > &quo

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Alverson
> tivoli_storage_manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Manager > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Ma

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Alverson
rage_manager > > Online documentation: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/ > landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html > > Product Wiki: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli% > 20Storage%20Manager > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&

Re: BMR with Spectrum Protect 8.1 on Windows 2016 ??

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Alverson
MR process?? On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Tom Alverson wrote: > Andy: > > We use these settings for all windows clients: > > SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS > SNAPSHOTPROVIDERIMAGE VSS > DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL > > We do have these exclusions in our list: (I have no idea why

TSM TDP SQL backup crashes after first database

2017-05-25 Thread Tom Alverson
I have an SQL 2008R2 database server with 32 databases on it. My backup job crashes like this after the first database is successfully backed up: Beginning full backup for database Application_Registry_Service_DB, 1 of 32. Full: 0 Read: 3232256 Written: 3232256 Rate: 2,452.60 Kb/Sec Full: 0

Re: TSM TDP SQL backup crashes after first database

2017-05-25 Thread Tom Alverson
: > Hi, > Which service pack is installed on SQL? > DP supports only 2008R2 SP2 and later. > Efim > > > > 25 мая 2017 г., в 20:35, Tom Alverson > написал(а): > > > > I have an SQL 2008R2 database server with 32 databases on it. My backup > > job

Re: TSM TDP SQL backup crashes after first database

2017-05-25 Thread Tom Alverson
ated (configuration wizard) ? > What are the errors in the DP logs and windows events at the time of > copying? Are these AlwaysOn databases? > Efim > > > 25 мая 2017 г., в 21:45, Tom Alverson > написал(а): > > > > The version number for sqlserver.exe is 10.50.6220.0

Re: TSM TDP SQL backup crashes after first database

2017-05-25 Thread Tom Alverson
e a trace. > tdpsqlc backup db01,db02,db03 full /TRACEFILE=XX:\trace.txt > /TRACEFLAG=SERVICE,API > Efim > > > > 25 мая 2017 г., в 22:30, Tom Alverson > написал(а): > > > > We always use legacy. I did try it as VSS but got an odd authentication > > error??

Re: Open File Support and CIFS/DFS shares/mounts

2017-06-02 Thread Tom Alverson
For starters I would exclude all of the office temp files like ~*.xlsx as shown in your example. These are just small temp files that have the name of the user who has opened the file in them. On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: > We have 3-Windows 2012R2 servers (current clien

Re: Open File Support and CIFS/DFS shares/mounts

2017-06-02 Thread Tom Alverson
Session: 277741, Node: ISILON-CE) Error > processing '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\ce\Share\Public\VMP\VMP > Secure\FINANCIALS\Quickbooks\Virginia_One_to_One__The_ > Mentoring_Partnership > 12.07.16.QBW': the object is in use by another process > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Tom

Re: Open File Support and CIFS/DFS shares/mounts

2017-06-19 Thread Tom Alverson
e temp files. > > So, is this what you use to exclude them, via CLOPTSET? > > EXCLUDE '*:\...\~*.pptx' > EXCLUDE '*:\...\~*.xlsx' > EXCLUDE '*:\...\~*.docx' > > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Tom Alverson > wrote: > > > For starters I w

Re: POLL: Backing up Windows Systemstate

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Alverson
Try the batch file in this article and see if that fixes VSS: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200584 We use a similar batch file to "fix" VSS as we see these VSS failures very frequently, mostly on Windows servers hosted on VMware. If the batch file does not wo

Re: Disable Client option ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION

2017-09-14 Thread Tom Alverson
Why do people want to turn it off? I see the log files but they don't seem to cause any problems. Are they slowing down the backups? On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Remco Post wrote: > Hi IBM, > > Can anyone explain to me why the instrumentation has been enabled by > default in the first plac

VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Alverson
Is anyone else seeing a large increase in VSS problems (maybe since patch night) primarily on WIndows 2008 non R2 servers? The VSS errors are not fixed by our usual VSS fixer script or even rebooting. Running VSSADMIN list writers will show the system writer as always missing on these servers, an

Re: VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Alverson
ts you to Microsoft for hotpatches > related to VSS problems. > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tom Alverson > wrote: > > > Is anyone else seeing a large increase in VSS problems (maybe since patch > > night) primarily on WIndows 2008 non R2 servers? The VSS er

Re: VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Alverson
Looks like the problem is just with Windows 2008 (non R2) both 32 and 64 bit with this update: KB4019276 - Update to add support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 Still doing some testing. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Tom Alverson wrote: > I always have a small percentage of VSS problems (w

Re: VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Alverson
licate the problem there but I suspect his test computer will probably work just fine. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Tom Alverson wrote: > Looks like the problem is just with Windows 2008 (non R2) both 32 and 64 > bit with this update: KB4019276 - Update to add support for TLS 1.1 and >

TSM for VE broken after today's MS patch

2017-10-10 Thread Tom Alverson
I have 8 TSM for VE installations in one of our data centers all running TSM4VE 7.1.4.0 on windows server 2008R2. One of the servers was a mess after patching (the rest are OK). When I logged on the CPU's were pegged and there were hundreds of CMD.EXE processes starting and stopping. I found tha

Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Tom Alverson
Our TSM storage servers were all upgraded last year to 7.1.7.2 (before this new security update came out). Now I am wondering if I should start using the updated client or not? If the servers stay at 7.1.7.2 for now is there any harm in using the newer client? I would have to use 7.1.8.0 on an

Re: Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Tom Alverson
wss?uid=swg21053218 > > For basic backups and restores I think you can deviate even more, but > obviously you won't get support. > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 03:14:24PM -0500, Tom Alverson wrote: > > Our TSM storage servers were all upgraded last year to 7.1.7.2 (before >

Exchange backup speed

2018-02-16 Thread Tom Alverson
> > > We are trying to speed up our Exchange backups that are currently only using about 15% of the network bandwidth. Our servers are running Windows 2012R2 and Exchange 2013 CU15 with TSM 7.1.0.1 and TDPEXC 7.1.0.1. Currently we are backing up 15 DAGS per Exchange server (we have multiple exchan

Re: Exchange backup speed

2018-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Tom Alverson > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > We are trying to speed up our Exchange backups that are currently only > > using about 15% of the network bandwidth. Our servers are running > Windows > > 2012R2 and Exchange 2

Re: Exchange backup speed

2018-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
network bottlenecks between the exchange server and the TSM server. > Thirdly you can look into the performance indicators of your TSM server. > All with normal tools. > > > Op 17 feb. 2018, om 00:55 heeft Tom Alverson > het volgende geschreven: > > > >> > >> &

Re: Exchange backup speed

2018-02-18 Thread Tom Alverson
nge and run your processes in parallel. You will need to > code some funky error checking to make sure the correct return codes are > returned. > > Regards > > Steve > > Steven Harris > TSM Admin/Consultant > Canberra ACT > > -Original Message- > Fr

Backup up multiple vcenters with one TSM4VE ?

2018-05-03 Thread Tom Alverson
In the past with TSM4VE 7.1.2 we had manually set up our backup schedulers and we could have different scheduler services point to different vcenter servers. Now we are getting vcenter 6.5 virtual appliances that need to be backed up and the docs say we must have at least version 8.1 of TSM4VE to

Bogus "the operation was stopped by the user" message on TSM4VE

2018-10-19 Thread Tom Alverson
I have at least two TSM4VE servers (on windows 2008r2 running TSM4VE 7.1.2) where several servers per night are failing with the message below. The IBM docs say this happens when someone presses Q twice which is impossible since these are running as a service. Is there a fix for this? A search f

Re: Bogus "the operation was stopped by the user" message on TSM4VE

2018-10-19 Thread Tom Alverson
nd the time of the ANS5053W cancel > by user message. > > Rick Adamson > > Information Technology > Southeastern Grocers LLC > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Tom > Alverson > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:42 PM &

Re: Resourceutilization=100 ?

2018-12-07 Thread Tom Alverson
Wait. What?? What version of client do you need for this? Will my storage servers explode? How many sessions do you need? On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:16 PM Erwann SIMON wrote: > Hi all, > > Resourceutilization can now (officially) been set with higher values thant > is the past. Maximum value is

Strange Exchange backup issues

2019-01-24 Thread Tom Alverson
While waiting for IBM to respond to my PMR request, I wonder if any of you have seen an issue like this - Here is our current setup Multiple Exchange 2013 CU21 servers running TSM Baclient 7.1.0.1 and TDP/Exchange 7.1.0.1 backing up to TSM Storage server 7.1.7.2 on AIX. Backups have been very slow

Version 8.1.7 client is out and it is huge

2019-02-22 Thread Tom Alverson
The new version that supports Server 2019 is out and it is about twice as large as previous verisons. No idea why yet. Here are the fixes https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10872614 Here are the download links: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10872618

Re: Version 8.1.7 client is out and it is huge

2019-02-22 Thread Tom Alverson
Here is the announcement page with what's new: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS219-029/index.html&request_locale=en On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 4:39 PM Tom Alverson wrote: > The new version that supports Server 2019 is out and it is

SQL backup excludedb limitation

2019-03-12 Thread Tom Alverson
I have a database backup where the DBA just excluded 100 databases (out of 171). To prevent backup "failures" (and trouble tickets) I tried to exclude them in the command line, but there were 3500 characters just in the excludes. Windows server 2012R2 can handle over 8000 characters in the comman

What is 8.1.8.1-TIV-TSMHSM-WinX64 vs 8.1.7.1-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64

2019-08-06 Thread Tom Alverson
I see there is a new 8.1.8.1 version now on the FTP site, but the name now has HSM in it instead of BAC ? Is this the same thing just a newer version? The one called HSM is much smaller. Here are the two links: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v8r1/Windo

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