Re: TSM, extending backup storage

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This is good idea but I think there are other aspects to take into account: - in case of RAID array failure you should have a copy pool to restore. You can make file copypool but you cannot send disks off-site so easy. And how to perform reclamation of off-site disks! So complete avoidance of tape

Re: What changed from TSM Server 3.7.2. to 4.1.1?

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Look for redbook SG24-6110-00 Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11.01.2002 18:39:38 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:What changed from TSM Server 3.7.2. to 4.1.1? Hi TSM'

Re: migration options

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Isn't TSM v4.2 for OS/390 an option for you. It could leverage your current ESCON 3590 inverstments with the new functionality. If you are one of the shops which prefer one-time charge for mainframes, are Linux-oriented and avoid MVS, then in my personal opinion you nearly hit the main reason not

Re: Tape Reclamation

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
What is the reason to have the tape unavailable? If is just the lack of slots in the library then the ADSM/TSM way to do it is overflow location as Stuart pointed. If it is broken tape or similar - restore volume 20 from copypool and then perform reclamation. Think for status 'UNAVAILABLE' as

Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
But we unfortunately are discussing the server. It is TSM influenced. The clients are chosen from application requirements perspective. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18.01.2002 22:33:04 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: AIX , TSM and Onbar

2002-01-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
1. Yes. In ADSM client 3.1 there is XBSA library libXapi.a with bsashr10.o in it. In v3.7 and later it is sold separately and is called TDP for Informix. For AIX 4.2.1 the latest client available is ADSM v3.1. 2. You do not need to reformat the hard drive to install new application. Look at ADSM

Re: TSM can do it!

2002-01-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If I understood your question right - you have enough disk space on the server to hold *ALL* backups and want this copied to tape and single tape cartridge can hold all backups too. If this is the case you can define COPY Storage pool on the tape library (be it manual library, i.e. standalone driv

Re: Changing Retention

2002-01-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Kirti, If the retension period change has to be performed for all nodes in this domain (I hope those nodes are Oracle only) the copygroup has to be updated. If only one node needs this change I would suggest you to define new domain with appropriate ARCHRETension setting, rename the node to _old,

Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?

2002-01-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Mark, Lets compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. What could you say in response to that: "Your sluggish Windows 3.1 even does not have own TCP/IP stack but I do have IPSec in AIX 4.3.3" How many years have passed since Compaq bought DEC and even now HP buys Compaq (alright, they

Re: Recovery Log behavior after 100% util reached

2002-01-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You already have the answer - log mode is normal. In this mode log is used only to rollback a transaction. On commit the log is cleaned. So when there is no activity the log must be 0% (or at least very close). The drawback is that any transaction after last DBB is lost in case of major failure. T

Re: Fwd: Tivoli Alert for 1/17/02

2002-01-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
For those who had not registered and obtained Tivoli CustomerID the page is just link to http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/flash_hba.html BTW: Mark, just another argument against TSM on Windows - this and alert in October were Windoze only. And the previous was about the nice Plug'N'Pray

Re: What qualifies as an in use license?

2002-01-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
the letter would imply that only one MGSYSSAN license is required, but your guess is as good as mine here. Wanda got it right in her note yesterday. William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Zlatko Krastev/A

Re: dsm failed to start for system behind firewall

2002-01-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
1. xhost + - as Ed pointed this is the most often the reason. X does have some security at the end. 2. Ensure "telnet 6000" from the node does connect and firewall does not block it. Or investigate usage of web client on those nodes. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant brian welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Which tape is the DBBACKUP?

2002-01-17 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
- Try to reformat the DB volume(s) (files, not DB backup tape). - Try what if you delete /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.dsk Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Michel David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14.01.2002 11:41:29 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

Re: backup on TDP Notes restore TDP Domino. *** URGENT ***

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The TDP for Notes and for Domino are different. I do not know is there an upgrade converting your TDP for Notes licenses to TDP for Domino. But you still must have the installation media of TDP for Notes. And you can quickly bring up a Domino server (even on your NT/W2k workstation) running v4.5 o

Re: What qualifies as an in use license?

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Sent by:

Re: TSM server not responding...

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Guys, Why to wonder which is the filesystem filled, it is so simple - /usr. 1. AIX was recently upgraded. If upgrade filesets are committed the increase in /usr usage is small. If "apply and save replaced files" you will get nearly twice the size. 2. TSM is installed in /usr/tivoli/tsm/server,

Re: Bad performance after upgrading from 3.7.2.0 to 4.1.1.0

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
There is known problem when upgrading from 3.x to 4.1 and you must use "CONVERT ARCHIVE REORG=Yes" for each node. The other approach is to start at least once the GUI client (usualy you do not backup the server manually but through command line client, right). This was included in 4.1.2 or 4.1.3

Re: TDP for Informix

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
1. AFAIK, no! onbar uses single thread, logs are not splitted for backup and are processed one-by-one. As a very wild guess maybe if the next log gets full before the current is backed up second onbar process can start for it and some kind of parallelism can happen. Just guess, do not rely on this

Re: Urgent: Cost of TDP for SAP R/3

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Yes, I know its probably too late. I did not read my mail for nearly a week. Anyway my $.02 : What about doing it by yourself? Register at Tivoli site (http://www.tivoli.com/support/maintenance.html) to obtain customer ID/password and later go to Management Points calculator (www.tivoli.com/suppo

Re: What qualifies as an in use license?

2002-01-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Let try to define it further - what do you (or "Tivoli" you have contacted) mean of "single hardware platform" ? For me this means type of hardware, i.e. IBM RS/6000, HP9000, PC, etc. I do not believe that buying enough points for a server and three MgSysLAN licenses will allow me to define nod

Re: 3590 Tapes.

2002-01-03 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
(1) is an option but time consuming (3200 tapes!) (2) might not be an option - it depends how paranoic you are. If someone (usually a virus) fills sector 0 on a PC disk with garbage this does not automatically mean the data is lost. But it might take too much efforts. If the tapes are not degaused

Re: FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME

2002-01-03 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Be aware that the "filesystem" is not equal to "all directories and files under the mount point tree"! So continuing with your example and assuming we have filesystems /work, /work/data and /work/data/martine: a file /work/dummy_file will give us FILESPACE_NAME='/work', HL_NAME='/', LL_NAME='dummy

Re: moving data between pools

2002-01-03 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Or just the opposite - a volume with data checked in as scratch, tried to be used and (auto)changed by TSM to private to prevent scratch volumes allocation become blocked. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Doug Thorneycroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.01.2002 00:08:56 Please respond to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: ATL P2000 dlt 7000 question

2001-12-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I also remeber such problem so have searched through my mail list archive folder and really found a thread "P2000 questions" on 14.09 started by ... "Coviello, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and answered by ... Robin Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :-))) And guess what - the subject was slightly different b

Re: backup/restore window

2001-12-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The other meaning for "backup window" is the time period during which you need to complete the backup. For example server is very busy during business hours so backup can be performed only during the night. Or if server is accessed from both Europe and Americas offices of the company backup window

Re: Moving Log Volumes on 3.1

2001-12-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I do not know will this work in ADSM 3.1 (but it ought to). At least it works in my TSM 4.1. 1. (optional) Format log volume files - if on Windows or prefer to use files instead of raw devices 2. Mirror the volume(s) in question using "DEFine LOGCopy" command (in my test "def logc /dev/rtsm_log0 /

Re: Reusing Old Tapes

2001-12-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Jerry, this would turn TSM into "always full backup" destroying nearly all of its benefits (and will not resolve the problem). I would recommend to both you and Angelos to read the nice redbook "Tivoli Storage Management Concepts" (SG24-4877-02 from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/). This would allow

Re: Please Explain (again)

2001-12-27 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
wrong. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Zlatko [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22.12.2001 23:55 Sent by: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:Re: Please Explain If your network capacity "greatly

Re: Select command

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
select node_name,sum(physical_mb) as "Physical",sum(logical_mb) as "Logical" - from occupancy - group by node_name Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Robert Ouzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.12.2001 13:18:49 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc

Re: NamedPipe settings on W2K client

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
278 Troy, MI 48098 * phone: 248-265-4596 (8-365) * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NamedPipe settings on W2K client Where are you getting this t

Re: using TSM as a Veritas repository= library filling up at speed of light !???? how does it work ?

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You are entering into same problem old versions of TDP products have - all versions are having unique names and do not expire. You will need to write your own program using the TSM APIs to expire those files. Or dig down the Veritas manuals can it expire them for you (is it really TSM aware) by a

Re: Managing DB and Log Backups

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
And why not just define DDS3 drive to TSM as Steve already pointed. And why to use NT Backup of TSM is already there. This is a small installation (if 3581 autoloader is enough for them) and manual daily replacement of the cartridge in the DDS3 drive should not be a big problem. Zlatko Krastev IT

Re: Please Explain

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If your network capacity "greatly exceeds the clients ability to send data" then your network rate should "greatly exceed" the data read (on the node) and write (on the server) rate. Consequently aggregate rate has also to be "greatly exceeded". The only explanation I can find to the numbers you'r

Re: VOLHIST contains devclasses not in use anymore

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Just the same: DELete VOLHistory TODate= Type=STGNew Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Michel Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17.12.2001 16:24:58 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: VOLHIST contains devclasses not in use

Re: SCSI Channel to LTO drive rule of thumb

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Where comes this "divide by two" rule from? Is this something related only to 3590 drives? For SCSI this cannot be true because there would be no way to have 5-6 disks on a bus with this "rate divide". Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Cook, Dwight E (SAIC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.12.2001 17:

Re: TDP for exchange vs Veritas hot backups

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Demetrius, IMHO this is very cheap and too much shifted report with nothing analytical in it. Set of coloured bars with different tags on them. Not good even for advertisement. Of course you have the right to like it. But it even does not answer to the initial thread question. This might be call

Re: Archive file backed up for node

2001-12-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
What do you mean with "archive" ? In TSM terms "archive" means file version on the filesystem at the moment of archive creation. The file is transferred *again* to the server even when there is "active" version. Backupset does nearly the same using last backed up version (which ought to be current

Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts)

2001-12-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
It is up to the (file) server administrator how he/she will setup, tune and maintain the node. 1 TB of data can be put on a single filesystem - it is up to you. In my practice I've even seen an Oracle server on Netware with three (separate) disks compromising a single very large SYS: volume !?! Wi

Re: Is your current version of TSM supported?

2001-12-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Dear Mr. O'Sullivan, If I may to describe my opinion for your note it would be using old Bulgarian sentence - "Do not try to sell cucumbers to cucumber trader!". Congratulations to you and your company for the investments and interest in TSM. However my participation in ADSM-L list should not be

Re: TSM Server 4.1.3 Performance

2001-12-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
They DO NOT provide same type and level of performance as ESS does! The reason is very simple - if they do IBM would not put this massive ammount of memory in ESS. ESS Internally consists of two "clusters", in other words RS/6000 H50 or H70 with specific AIX&HACMP version. Those nodes connect to S

Re: VOLHIST contains devclasses not in use anymore

2001-12-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
DELete VOLHistory TODate= Type=STGDelete According to my docs it ought to be possible on MVS server as well. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Michel Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14.12.2001 11:23:31 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Su

Re: listener not listening

2001-12-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Probably it isn't so simple but what is "volume of clients" and is it more than MAXSessions option in your dsmserv.opt (default is 25 if not set) ? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Suad Musovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11.12.2001 21:34:09 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: NamedPipe settings on W2K client

2001-12-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Where are you getting this throughput - LAN or SAN? LAN-free storage agent transfer relatively small ammounts of metadata over LAN and you cannot achive best possible peak rates there. For LAN data transfer you should be able to achieve at least 7-8 MB/s so the problem could be with TCP/IP setting

Re: signon problem

2001-12-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Hint 1: Are you using PASSWORDAccess Generate? Hint 2: I had the same error trying to start onbar when logged as ordinary user and switched to root using "su". The problem disappeared when "su -" was used. My environment: TSM server 4.1.4.1, TSM client 4.1.3, DPI v4.1, IDS 7.31UC4 Zlatko Krastev

Re: Way to run 2 schedulers

2001-12-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You can have more than one TSM client directory (with dsm.sys within) and point to them using different $DSM_DIR values. Also you can have more than one server stanzas in single dsm.sys and point to them with different dsm.opt files or as Nicholas Cassimatis pointed to me recently "dsmc sched -se=

Re: One client - two servers

2001-12-10 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Do not overcomplicate this without need. Define two servers in dsm.sys using two stanzas. Create two dsm.opt files, let's say dsm_odd.opt and dsm_even.opt pointing to each stanza in dsm.sys and start the client with different DSM_CONFIG environment variable. Or even start both clients. Zlatko Kra

Re: Problems with LTO 3581 - URGENT

2001-12-07 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
On Windows elements start from 0 for both drives and slots. And because 3581 has only one drive it would be element 0. And you will have drive 0 and slot 0. On UNIX drives and slots have different element numbers. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Mauricio Angelino Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 0

Re: TSM and VTS - virtual volumes

2001-12-06 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If VTS is artifically configured TSM server backend this leads to another question - virtual volumes performance. We read recently on the list that TSM using VTS is having not so good performance. Is this true or not I cannot prove and cannot have clear opinion. But virtual volumes are by definiti

Re: Backupset question

2001-12-01 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This depends on what you want to do with backupsets and how much space do you have in the library. If you are constrained in library slots - there is no other option than to check backupsets out. If you want to use them for long term archives and/or send them off-site - same answer. If you want to

Re: ANS9281E Space management

2001-12-01 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The message is obvious - you missed to upgrade a fileset. Look the versions in output of 'lslpp -L tivoli.tsm\*' And look specifically for the version of tivoli.tsm.client.hsm.jfs.aix43.32bit fileset. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Joy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 26.11.2001 22:08:49 Please

Re: Large TSM database due to no. of files and versions

2001-12-01 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
sets in place of monthly archives. I don't know about anyone else, but I am unable to perform my daily backups during an archive weekend. Changing to Backup Sets will fix this problem. Joe Cascanette The Cumis Group Limited -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: How to extract a db2-backup > 64Gb

2001-12-01 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This is not exactly AIX limit, but JFS (1). AIX 5L with JFS2 supports up to 1 TB. Try what if you restore not to file but to raw logical volume. AIX XCOFF format promises up to 2^63 bytes file addressing limit. I cannot promise it would help but you do not have too much options which can solve the

Re: Large TSM database due to no. of files and versions

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If your users want to be able to restore *EVERY* version created during the month you need VERExists=NOLimit and VERDeleted=NOLimit. And with backupset generation on the first day (or night ;-) of a month you can keep RETExtra=31 (hey friends, some months are longer `-) and RETOnly=31 (or more). A

Re: AIX and LTO 3583 - "Empty" tapes to vault

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Katherine, Let me try to convince you: If you have a "large" database (whatever vendor) and "small" transaction logs for it and some kind disaster strikes (you have *DISASTER* recovery manager, don't you) your library. You can get back from vault the database data but without the logs it is let's

Re: Antwort: Changing TCP and HTTP ports

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Look in "Using the Windows Backup-Archive Client" guide: "The tcpport option specifies a TCP/IP port address for a server. You can obtain this address from your administrator. " So putting a line 'tcpport 1501' in your dsm.opt file on NT server node will help. And for HTTP you will have to use h

Re: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell - be careful excluding Tivoli directory

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Herfried, just a remark: I did not installed TSM client on Netware (yet) and do not know its directory structure but for other platforms I exclude C:\Tivoli\TSM or /usr/tivoli/tsm (/opt/tivoli/tsm). The reason is that I have to deal also with Tivoli Enterprise products. And they use same sort of

Re: 4.2.2.0 Client?

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
What do you expect from 4.2.2 client?? Main problem with RC=4 was fixed in 4.2.1.15, nothing serious on the horizon and new features will come in 5.1 not in a maintenance, right? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Gerald Wichmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 27.11.2001 22:30:52 Please respond to "ADSM:

Re: Supporting TSM Clients residing outside the TSM Server's firewall

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Yes, Tivoli does support this and if you look in any book "Using the Backup-Archive Client", Chapter 2, Section "TSM Firewall Support" you can find the answers to questions 1,3,4 . Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Kent Monthei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 28.11.2001 19:55:36 Please respond to "ADSM:

Re: 4.2.1 IMAGE client

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This is not new at all. At least I have it in v4.1 and it is quoted in the redbooks for v3.7 clients. $ lslpp -L tivoli.tsm\* tivoli.tsm.client.image.aix43.32bit 4.1.3.0CTSM Client - IMAGE Backup Client The main goal of this is to backup raw (disk) devices. And

Re: version 4 licensing

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
And usualy maintenance releases expect only to perform "within the version/maintenance" actions/problem solving (and not thoroughly tested for upgrade handling). So for the server I would recommend you to follow multistep process: 3.7.x.y --> 4.1.0.0 --> 4.1.4.0 --> 4.1.4.x Be aware that first ste

Re: dsmfmt question

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
eally files) are pre-formatted; their size does not change. So what is the JFS overhead when TSM is writing into those files? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ds

Re: CommonStore for SAP and TSM

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
First I have to warn you that am completely unfamiliar with CommonStore and had not yet opportunity to experiment with TDP for Oracle (I suspect your SAP uses Oracle). But I was able to cheat TSM client (and TDP for Domino, Informix) very easily: 1. created new directory and symbolic links for cli

Re: Onbar maping with /etc/aliases.

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Output of 'man aliases': "... The /etc/aliases file contains the required aliases for the sendmail command. ..." There is no any reason the file /etc/aliases to be related neither to Informix Dynamic Server nor to TSM client and/or TDP for Informix ! Did someone misled by the name have put this f

Re: schedule_name field in the summary table

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Lurking through my SUMMARY table using "select activity,schedule_name,count(*) from summary group by activity,schedule_name" and subsequent selects revealed some facts as follows: - server events/housekeeping which cannot be scheduled do not have SCHEDULE_NAME filled - migration, reclamation,

Re: Problem sending SNMP traps

2001-11-30 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Do you have a line "smux 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.1.2.2.1.1.2" in your snmpd.conf? And look for output of 'lssrc -s dpid2'? Without such line and the dpid2 subdaemon running SNMP daemon refuses any registration attempts from a SMUX subagent. And you can have messages like yours. Zlatko Krastev IT Consulta

Re: dsmfmt question

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
May I try to contribute to this discussion. - Raw logical volumes ought to be faster than a single large file because there is no JFS overhead. What if the disk keeping the jfslog volume is very busy. And there were many threads on this list regarding TSM log pinnouts, overflows, etc. Have in mind

Re: Archives vrs Backup Sets

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Joe, You can generate backupsets they really do not re-transmit any data from the node. Data ought to be on the server and is taken from the primary pool. If you generate backupsets on regular basis they can give you features similar to archives but not the same. Yes, backupset can produces new s

Re: ATAPE/ATLDD device driver install question

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
nslookup techsupport.services.ibm.com Name:service.boulder.ibm.com Address: 207.25.253.26 Aliases: techsupport.services.ibm.com Site has changed its address about a year ago. I still remember its previous address (198.17.57.66). And on address change many new aliases have been added (like f

Re: Mainframe backups?

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You can also backup a Linux/390 partition filesystems. According to IBM there are people buying zSeries only (or mainly) to run Linux on them and they can benefit from TSM. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Joshua S. Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.11.2001 21:24:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist

Re: select * from events - only today's events

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This was discussed on the list only once since I am subscribed but much more in the past. You can dig into www.adsm.org archives and find it. It might be interesting to read an answer Andrew Raibeck was posted more than year ago (http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0009/619.html). Yes, I know thi

Re: Informix restore using TSM

2001-11-22 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
I cannot help with your exact configuration because we are using TDP for Informix. However it cannot be different. XBSA lib is just and interface between Informix backup tools (i.e. onbar) and the storage manager (TSM in our case). Both backups and restores go the same way. And with "onbar -r" you

Re: 4.2.1.7 Server and DRM

2001-11-21 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
It should also work with force-install ("OVERWRITE same or newer versions" in smit or -F option of installp). I am too lazy to waste time on uninstall. When I was young my mother was saying "Ask a lazy man to do some work and you will get several good ideas" `-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant

Re: Help please with collocation

2001-11-21 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
What benefit can bring to you the copy pool collocation : - Faster restore of primary pool volume on media failure - Faster restore of a node from copy pool when primary pool volume is (again) faulty First scenario can happen more often (I think) but involves only the TSM team and is not time cons

Re: Reclamation Copy Tape Pool???

2001-11-20 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
The benefit is the same as for primary pool reclamation - more effective tape usage. And if you look at the description copy pool reclamation works copying data from primary pool which ought to be on-site. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Marc Levitan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.11.2001 21:14:09 P

Re: How to attach HP LTO

2001-11-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
You need to install Atape driver. It will suport the library and define file in /dev for you. Afterwards TSM will take care for it. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant P.S. And please write some subject on your posts Zlatko Lei L Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.11.2001 10:40:06 Please respond to "

Re: Licensing MS SQL cluster - managed system for LAN/SAN and TDP licenses?

2001-11-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Yes, TDP for Apps products do not need too much B/A client. But they desperately need the API client which comes only with B/A client. I do not know will those clients be separated someday or not. And for now I think about them as a one whole client (with TDP as a plug-in). I presume that Query LI

Re: Help please with collocation

2001-11-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Farren, 1. Collocation is made to speed up the restores. So it is a really good idea. 2. You can define two primary pools, lets name them COLLPOOL and NOCOLLPOOL over the same device class. Then clients you want to collocate send their data to the former and the others to the latter. Later you ca

Re: Help Please with 3590 Hardware Compression

2001-11-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Estimated capacity is "estimated". You can define it is 1 MB or 2000 GB. It is just a prediction. When data is actually written and tape end reached TSM changes this value to actual capacity. So do not look to volumes in "Filling" state, look on to "Full" ones. Or you can check (and change but be

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7, 3590

2001-11-19 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
time ago our AIX-expert told me not to worry; the level is 4.3.2. Thanks for your input! Tom. On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Zlatko Krastev/ACIT wrote: > This might not be the case but also may be - you wrote AIX 4.3.2. > According to http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_

Re: TSM 4.2.1.7, 3590

2001-11-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This might not be the case but also may be - you wrote AIX 4.3.2. According to http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/ad6serv.htm you have to be at AIX 4.3.3 or later for TSM 4.2.x. I would even go to 4.3.3ML6 or ML8 for bos.?p and bos.rte.* ! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Tom Tann{s <[EMA

Re: Disk Copy Pool

2001-11-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Storage hierarchy works only on primary pools, i.e. you can "flush from disk file to tape" only if both pools are primary. When you create file volumes it is equivalent to losing you storage pool backup. And TSM server recreates the files on next backup. The only way (in current versions) is to ba

Re: Aggravating recordkeeping failure in TSM.

2001-11-18 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
ger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Aggravating recordkeeping failure in TSM. => On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:34:52 +0200, Zlatko Krastev/ACIT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > More parameters you have to put more choices are available and more flex

Re: Collocation - on or off

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
IMHO something close to collocation groupping can be done right now: 1. Using COPY DOMAIN create several "group" domains with same policies 2. Define several pool over same library/devclass 3. Update each "group" domain to refer its corresponding "group" pool 4. Update nodes to become part of grou

Re: Backup Offsite

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Stop the scheduler on the node in question for the period and that is! The node will miss its backup schedule. After you offsite backup scripts finish the scheduler will have to be restarted. And if the scripts fail for some reason the scheduler might not be restarted so be careful. Either restart

Re: tsm 4.1 (aix432) syntax question

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Look more carefully the description of the command. "TODAY" is the date/day of the current moment. But if you omit "begintime=hh:mm" it defaults to "now-01:00". So "q actlog msgno=" with or without "begindate=today" will return only if you had this message in the last hour. And if you start th

Re: include/exclude list

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Geof, When a file matches and exclude statement it expires in the same manner as for deletion of the file. After this normal policy according to copygroup settings applies. Yes, you are right - during the work days your backups done at the weekend will expire and be treated as deleted. If retonly

Re: Data Retention - Test results

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
p' to ensure ((verexist >= verdeleted) and (retextra <= retonly)). And do not forget to put this into docs/readme. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant ------ Forwarded by Zlatko Krastev/ACIT on 16.11.2001 22:14 --- Zlatko [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.11.20

Re: Client Options Set vs. Client Options File

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Look at Redbook SG24-5416-01 "Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager: Implementation Guide" p.153 (p.173 in the pdf) 7.3.1 Considerations "The options defined in a client option set are a subset of the available client options. Options such as communications are still stored on the client mac

Re: Aggravating recordkeeping failure in TSM.

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
More parameters you have to put more choices are available and more flexible the product is. Some people want to be able to make more than one stgpool backup in more than one copy pools. You suggestion would limit them. Why not to create few simple scripts called BACKUP_BLOTZMO, BACKUP_WAKKO and B

Licensing MS SQL cluster - managed system for LAN/SAN and TDP licenses?

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Hello, A cluster of two servers running MS SQL has to be backed up. The question is how many licenses the customer has to purchase. On my opinion two "Managed System for LAN" licenses for the nodes and a "Managed System for SAN" for the cluster virtual node. The nodes do not have much data to bac

Re: TSM Easter Egg - bug

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Nice and funny. It works for both client v3.7.2 on OS/2 (client developers) and administrative client (returning server developers) against AIX server v4.1.4.1. It also nearly worked for AIX v4.1.3 client : "tsm> show developers *** Kudos to the Client Developers *** IOT/Abort trap(coredump)" S

Re: Clarifications: LAN Free ( SAN ) Backup

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
SANergy moves well-known file sharing from LAN to SAN. If you forget for a moment about SAN all the features are as of LAN file sharing. So many clients can mount the filesystem but only one can write to particular file at the moment. Even a hundred hosts can write simultaneously but to hundred se

Re: upgrading tape density

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
This issue was discussed many times on this list. The main trick is to update all volumes for low density tapes ACC=READOnly. The reason is that 3590E drives can only read low density tapes but cannot write to them at low density. After either reclamation or MOVE DATA (i.e. manually forced reclama

Re: Will filespaces be over-written if unix OS is changed?

2001-11-16 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
YES! It will TSM distinguishes the file from NODE_NAME,FILESPACE_NAME,HL_NAME,LL_NAME. For example for the file /var/mail/kkwiatek on host mybox the file attributes will be NODE_NAME='MYBOX', FILESPACE_NAME='/var', HL_NAME='/mail/' and LL_NAME='kkwiatek'. I use same node name on my PC using both O

Re: Data Retention

2001-11-13 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
TSM v4.1 for AIX, Administrator's Guide, Table 27 (Table 22 in Windows guide, Table 26 for Solaris) "NOLIMIT/NOLIMIT60 days/180 days Retain Extra Versions controls expiration of the versions. The server does not expire inactive versions based on the maximum number of backup copies. The ina

Re: Blended server versions

2001-11-13 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
If I had to do it I would follow those steps: 1. halt the server 2. make a tar of /usr/tivoli/tsm, /usr/bin/dsm* and /usr/lpp/adsm 3. remove ADSM filesets 4. force-install all 4.1.0.0 filesets 5. force-install 4.1.4.0 filesets - better all devices,webadmin,server.com,server.rte 6. force-install 4.

Re: Server Database Performance

2001-11-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Wanda and Jeff are right - you have to look at all those things and especially to %tm_act problem. But I will bet also on what Paul pointed - single FE card is simply not enough. If you are unable to put Gigabit Ethernet get at least one or three more FE cards and make an EtherChannel or subdivide

Re: ODBC Driver

2001-11-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
And this can be easily avoided: 1. double-click 2. the .exe extracts the installation files 3. setup.exe is auto-fired 4a. setup.exe finds MDAC is not correct version and fails with message box about the fact 4b. setup.exe is satisfied by MDAC version and ODBC is installed 5. extracted files are d

Re: TSM wizardry ?

2001-11-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Have you tried to use exclude.fs option in you inclexcl list: exclude.fs /fsdbexp And then "DELete FIlespace PACRS170 /fsdbexp". This should allow you not to change domain from all-local preventing future created filesystems missing from backup! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant PAC Brion Ar

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