== On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:30:14 -0500, Rob Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello all,
After flipping through manuals I stumbled upon this option and I am
curious how many other admins were using it and what
benefits\ramifications it may present? Is it an option usually left
turned on or is
== On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:19:20 -0400, Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am also preparing for my first DR test with a 3494, although it is a bit
further off than yours. A related question occurs to me: is it necessary to
use mtlib to change the categories of the tapes used to restore the
== On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:08:04 -0400, Richard Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm trying to tune our mount retension settings on our device classes.
Currently, we have it set to 3 min for our 3590 drives. I'm not finding
much info on how to tell if our 3 min period is too long or too short.
I did find a case in which I had difficulty getting a TSM library client to do
e.g. reclamation when I had mount retention set wrong:
If you've got a library client which you've set to have access to two drives,
and mount retention set to some normal value on the library manager (say, 5
minutes)
== On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:32:46 -, James Marcinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a small lab environment which I'm in the process of deploying TSM and
I have some concerns that I'm hoping that someone could help me out with. I
don't have a lot of disk space to alot to storage pools and I
== On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:38:50 -0400, Robin Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'll toot my own horn here, and say I presented a talk on this to a UserBlue
audience two meetings ago. Much of it is replicated here:
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/NSAM/whitepapers/50ways.html
I poked for
== On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:29:43 -0700, TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Have you looked at journaling with the V5.3 client?
I think that's a Windows thing; am I out of date here? (no mention of
journaling in 5.3 unix clients handbook)
- Allen S. Rout
== On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:56:22 -0400, Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I tend to think of anything over three million files as big, but that is
based on experience with just two cases. We have a client with a bit over
three million files that was chronically troublesome until it went
So, when do you folks get to figuring that a given filespace is unwieldy from
a backup perspective? I've got several which are ~10M files which I'm
seriously considering chopping up (virtualmountpoint-wise) just because they
are a pain to manage.
I watched a dsmc process grow to 960 MB in core
== On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:15:40 +0200, Peter Duempert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just a few questions:
1. is anyone out there using/providing this feature ?
Yep. :)
2. If so, how does it interfere with normal TSM-usage (server side) ?
Hm. Really, it doesn't.
3. Is it supported by TSM
== On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:25:17 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I rue the day that IBM started encouraging customers to take their TSM
system out of service and run salvage utilities to reorganize the db, as
situations like this inevitably result, particularly as these utilities
== On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:34:58 -0500, John E. Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I have another one that just came up though. As I've mentioned in the
past, we're running tsm 5.2.2 and db2 8.1.4.
On one of our development boxes, we've setup a second instance. This is
strictly for resource
== On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:47:50 -0500, Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The consequence is that although the library showed on TSM, the info
about where the vols resides was lost. a
- q vol returned info about a volume
- a q content vol returned info about a volume
but:
- q libvol
at my
instructions, and throw tomatoes if you care to, public or private.
I'd also appreciate some experience numbers: How long it took, how much space
before and after.
I've got a test version of our website, with the postulated procedure, at:
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/osg-test/services/NSAM
== On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:21:42 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In a library with a Library Manager, such as the 3494, TSM does not mount
the tape - the library does, per TSM simply asking the library to mount
volume 001234.
I'm going to have to dispute this. I just tested on
== On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:42:24 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There's really nothing to dispute... TSM asks the Library Manager to mount
the tape - but, naturally, TSM has to believe that the tape is in the
library in order to want to request the mount. When TSM restarts it
== On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:14:31 -0600, fred johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Some weeks after those in charge installed a mail system from MIRAPOINT, I
was asked if I (TSM) could back it up. It's a proprietary OS with
proprietary filesystems, but so far we've come up with a number of off the
== On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:46:46 -0700, Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
1. True, there is no built-in functionality in TSM to make this easy. You
could try using the QUERY BACKUP client command with the -INACTIVE option
or the SELECT admin command to display all of User x's backups,
== On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:31:05 -0500, Sung Y Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My assumption here is that all the tapes are in the same storage pool.
Because normally reclamation threshold value of the storage pool is used to
kick off reclamation.. would it be possible to run select statement to
If MOVE NODEDATA had a preview=yes, then we could parse the output of that
command in a fairly straightforward manner.
- Allen S. Rout
== On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:05:23 -0500, William F. Colwell [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
The old query content command can provide information which could give the
answer
if properly massaged. I can get the information but I am weak on the
massaging.
[ ... ]
Oooo.
Yes, it appears that this
== On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:05:16 -0500, David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
My understanding is that reclamation only reclaims Filling tapes if they
are marked offsite. I want to reclaim those volumes.
Ahh, agreed. I'm doing this too, so I concur that we'd not want to forbid
reclamation
Greetings. I've got another reclamation-related question. I've got some copy
stgpools which, though they are theoretically onsite pools, I'm having to
check out of the library. In the past, I've worked with this by re-inserting
the volumes which are interesting from a reclamation perspective,
Greetings.
I've got a peeve about how TSM reclaims collocated stgpool volumes, and I
wanted to see if it is widely shared. If so, I'll try to distill it into a
sane feature request.
I've got a bunch of collocated stgpools now, and I find that I am frequently
reclaiming volumes which are in a
== On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:18:41 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Edit scripts outside of TSM, and put the edited version into effect with
'DEFine SCRIPT ... FILE='. Trying to edit Scripts within the TSM
server is just too awkward.
Amen. And to amplify and suggest:
I've got
== On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:18:42 -, Warren, Matthew (Retail) [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Do people mix the two, or is it a case of 'We use TSM scripting' or 'We use
Shell / python etc..' based on preference / environment restrictions.
Are there any benefits to TSM scripting other than it
== On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:45:29 -0500, Sung Y Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I thought about this question. The answer is maybe in my opinion. how do
you know P001 contains all the data what 0214, 0215, and 0216 need?
It doesn't: You know that, because the PRIMARY volume are divided by what
== On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:38:58 -0500, Martinez, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I have an opportunity to redesign the disk pool and db layout of our TSM
Server , and I was wondering if my fellow TSMers can help me with it. First
things first our environment is as follows, TSM Version: 5.1.7
Hi, all: I've got a question I've been wondering about, relating to how
foresightful TSM is in its' offsite reclamation. I'll spin an example:
TSM server 'SRV1' has three nodes
NODE1
NODE2
NODE3
It's got stgpools
PRIMARY : collocated . Volumes named Pxxx
COPY:
== On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:55:28 -0500, Sung Y Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello,
I have a follow up question.
I see that you have 3 storage pools. Can you tell me what COPY storage is
used for? is this one used like similar to Primary or are you making copy
of Primary?
Primary ---
== On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:02:07 -0500, David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Reclaim is built to require the fewest number possible of primary tapes. So
when a reclaim threshold is set for a copy pool, TSM determines all eligible
tapes, picks a primary pool tape to mount, takes all
== On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:49:47 -0700, Kathy Mitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We understand that it is hard to give up an interface you know well and
switch to a new one. To help you with this transition, we developed
several Flash tutorials which are available from within the Administration
== On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:11:46 -0600, Hart, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thank you for the response. Our TSM Env has been around longer than our
Netbackup, I really don't want to mimic the NBU env (Would be going back in
time) But at the same time retaining 180 Active / Deleted versions is
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Given a tape library and multiple different policies for data storage, is
there a simple (resource non-intensive) way to tell how much storage (the
size of) active files and how much storage is used for inactive files? It is
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Rosette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is currently running at 55.945 GB per hour going to tape (1 tape drive
(collocate)), pretty good for tape drive speed. Disk would make the backup
run faster with multi-streams. Cannot go to multi-tapes due to
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Allen,
we have disk performing up to 280MB/s over 2 FC HBA against a FAStT900.
You know the amount of tape drives you would need to match that speed? I'd
say about 4-5 LTO-2 tape drives.
No problems matching
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Out of the 11 responses:
Tape pool averages
6 tapepools
Copy pool averages
4 copypools
Thanks all who responded.
Dang.
I knew I had a system more complex than many, but I didn't think I was that
far out on the
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When we made the unload/load of the 160GB database, we not only saw the
database shrink in its usage, but also gained alot of performance. This
performance benefit is actually not degrading that quickly, which, for us,
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We have a 3494 with 3 3590 tape drives, TSM 5.2.2 on AIX 5.
We will be adding 5 new 3592 tape drives to the 3494, also for use with TSM.
To implement those new 3592 tape drives with TSM, is it sufficient to just
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nielsen, Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have had a question today. How does TSM write data to a storagepool which
have 9 disks. It's PST files - big files - which is writing to the
storagepool. Does the TSM server write simultaneous to all the disks or does
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Won't I be OK having the 3590 and 3592 drives in the same scratch and
private categories? The TSM server is smart enough to know which scratch
tapes can go in which drives... No? Is that a wrong assumption on my part?
I
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But,
BE VERY CAREFUL about the quality of disk you buy, if that is going to be
your only copy of the data.
DO NOT THINK that you can't lose a RAID array; I have seen it happen, twice.
It depends TOTALLY on the quality
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
True. Seek time is tiny compared to tape mounts. I am just concerned that
the TSM db has to keep track of thousands of volume. How much will it increase
the size of the db. Ours is already 90G at 70% utilized.
It's
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the recommended volume size. I have seen someone mentioned 5G, but
then the number of volumes will explode from about 800 (current # of 3590
primary tapes) to thousands.
Consider, this doesn't really cost you much.
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We're looking at possibly revamping our TSM system. We've got a OS/390
server. Looking at all possibilities (adding disk or tape or bandwidth to
our current server OR changing to a different TSM server platform like
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and JFS2
has a max file system size of 1TB. Does it mean the largest stgpool
I can define is 1TB?
Actually, JFS2 has a max filesystem size quite a bit bigger than
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johnson, Milton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An interesting paper on an obviously VERY large TSM system, involving
upwards to 40 TSM servers.
Mild correction: I started off thinking I'd have that many server instances;
That was one of the blind alleys.
I now
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tab Trepagnier
The problem is that an export is a single transaction. [...]
Exports have been notoriously slow to write (and read) from ADSM/TSM
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Levinson, Donald A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone tell me how they defined their sequential FILE devclass and how
the underlying hardware is setup? It seems like the best way to do this is
to have multiple physical disks and spread the TSM volumes across
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd also like to optimize for restore, but without the overheads of
collocation. So, I'm considering running a move nodedata on every node
periodically - maybe once a month for production, once every three months
for
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It would be nice to see some storage pool volume sizing reccomendations that
don't assume everyone is on 9GB SSA JBOD.
Hmm. Well, my storage is not on 9GB SSA JBOD, so whatever recommendations
I've made you can count as
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Eggleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six
drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge
filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1?
What OS?
For
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls
to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining
to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed, and
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There was another management requirement that all production servers be
backed up in full once per year and that snapshot be kept forever - there
is no reasoning with this, its one of those stupid mandates that applies to
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Sam Rudland
I have a 5.2 client installed n AIX and it takes several hours each
night which it checks a few hundred thousand files. I have used
journaling on some of my
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
at 1% , 1-(0.99**30), or about .25
at 2%, 1-(0.98**30) , or about .45
at 3%, 1-(0.97**30), or about .60 (Please feel free to correct my maths if I'm
wrong - probability was never my strong point)
I think your math
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Bantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How would I find that out? We're not even doing monthly backups yet - just
trying to see the impending impact.
Count your incremental size over a series of days, and you'll have a measure
of the instantaneous change rate.
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Hi there
I have reached my maximum extention of recovery log of 13 gb ... now I can't even
extend it so I can't log in and do a database back up ... can someone tell me how to
delete some of the
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We will be removing our onsite tapepool that is used for migration of our
disk pool, replacing it with a large disk pool.
Below is the size of the current tapepool.
I was considering just adding DASD to our current
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gordon Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Before I upgrade our TSM server to v5.2 (seems to be taking forever to do
due to small outage windows) I want to reorganise our database volumes so they
are a little more efficient. Is there any recommended maximum
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Ripke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With any disk and controller technology that supports command queuing (SCSI2
command tagged queuing, SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)), you are better
off with about 3 volumes per spindle for random I/O. TSM serialises
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I bring this up because we have over 200 tapes taking up space in the
library what are archives only and I would love to get these out and sent
offsite. Currently a second copy of these files is sent offsite, but I
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello all!
I was reading the performance tuning guide and it states that we should use
raw partitions for server db, log and disk storage pool volumes for an AIX
server and I was just wondering if this is true and what
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chang, Calvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Allen,
Thank you for your previous response.
Would the node name being exported have to reside on the target server also?
Because how would TSM know which Storage pool or domain to export to on the target
server?
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anderson, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We're currently considering replacing our 2 very large AIX TSM servers with
a large number (maybe 10 or so) of smaller, Linux based servers. The reason
for the change is to reduce the impact of hardware failure, allow
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your posting caught my eye with 6 years and 10 different libraries.
I'm going to try to make this not just a 'Me Too'.
I've only had two libraries, but the 3494 was here when I started messing with
ADSM in '97. I've just
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chang, Calvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quick question in reference to exporting a node to another server? Where is
my data exporting to when I set export node myname filedata=all
toserver=sourceserver such as Domain and Storage pool on the source server?
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, the questions are starting to flow..
Since you normally vault a storage pool and the tapes are associated
with the storage pool of the library client (LC) TSM server, do I need
to run some kind of
-Original Message-
From: Anoop Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all
I have two TSM servers connected to LTO 3583 located 300 KMs apart and the
dbabckup for the same happens locally. I then send the dbbackups to
offsite( Site-A to Site-B and viceversa) on a daily basis.
Is it
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MC Matt Cooper (2838) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
what kind of success (backup times) they have had doing it. We are backup
up a 3TB DB2 data warehouse but it is taking almost 11 hours, end to end.
The disk is all Shark, the client is on a p690 14cpu lpar, TSM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/8/2004 11:32:01 AM
Would those of you who have some kind of a chargeback system please let me
know what you do?
We are about to implement an upgrade and believe that now is the time to
start charging. Here are some of the things we have considered.
* 1 time set up fee
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James R Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you [other sites substantially invested in 3590's] continuing to
invest in 3590's -or- are you converting to other (LTO?) tape technology?
3592. Mmmm.
tsm: GLMAILq vol T00054
Volume Name Storage
== In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Booth - CITES [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:37:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And it fits in your extant 3494.
Ah. Careful with this statement. It does fit, however, you need a frame
conversion, library manager upgrade, and
I've been investigating what options we have for fun tricks to play with our
DB/2 backups to TSM. The major obstacle to many of our desires seems to be
that the environment and options files are set at the time that the instance
-starts-. Thus, (for instance) it's not possible to point your
Good day all.
I'm doing some DR exercises, and I just made a somewhat irritating
observation.
After you have DSMSERV FORMAT [...]
If you DSMSERV RESTORE DB
then the process gives you a dumb look. You have to do
DSMSERV RESTORE DB [ date and time parameters ]
which _appear_ to require that
Greetings, *SM folks.
I'm working on a design for installation of a new set of TSM hardware, and a
set of several servers to run on it. I'm interested in having some other
folks look over what I've planned, and invite tomato-throwing.
Anyone interested?
- Allen S. Rout
- UF TSM type
Ever ever. As long as I live.
This turned out OK, but still
bash-2.04# cd /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/
bash-2.04# dsmserv extend log /export/dat03/emergency-log 2000
ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 14:00:40 on Mar 14 2003.
[...]
ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
ANR7811I Direct
= On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:45:02 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
...
Database backup encountered an unusually vigorous expiration session,
...
You're not getting any younger, so relieve stress by adding a Duration
to your Expire Inventory, and perhaps a DBBackuptrigger.
In my
I'm experimenting with TSM 5.2.2.1 on AIX 5.2; I find that for many
long-running processes, the Q PROC output fails to reflect progress. For
example, I'm deleting a filespace at the moment, and it's staying at 0 files
deleted, and (if it goes like the others I've done) will contiune to display
= In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not just kick off all the work you need to do?
Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for
restores and/or ad hoc backups.
I'm jealous; I haven't had enough tapes to do this for a long
= In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2004 10:37:15 AM
I would like to run two different backup stgpools and check every so often,
if there is only one process running start another backup stgpool. When all
my storage ppols are
I'm considering changing the way I do my TSM DB backups; I've heard some user
experiences about backing up to remote server volumes, and it appears that
this would simplify a lot of work, and save oodles of space.
Here's how I've got it sketched in my mind right now:
A server instance whose
= On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:35:50 -0500, Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What I did to backup a DB2 server on AIX that had 4 instances:
[1. 2. ...] Dang, I was just going to say that.
We've got some 70 instances on two system images, in support of our PeopleSoft
installation, so we do this a
Greetings,
I'm wondernig how you folks perform tests of your restoration of production
DB/2 databases?
I envision several major obstacles:
1) Your DR instance machine is going to need, however momentarily, to have
the password set. If you're doing PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE, that means
I said:
If I make a backupset on a FILE devclass, and somehow consipre to move
that backupset to a box that I think might need it, can I restore from
it just as a file on disk?
[Executive summary, Yes, so far.]
I experimented with this: I built a backupset of a node, and then I copied
the
Howdy, all.
I've only been around TSM since ADSM 2.1; I recall hearing bits and pieces of
the earlier versions and the roots of the product.
Could someone who was there synopsize, and perhaps someone who FAQs capture
it?
I rooted around in the archives and Mr. Sims' fine quickfacts, but didn't
= On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:27:41 -0400, Mark Trancygier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We are currently having problems performing incremental backups on a file
system that has a large amount of files. The daily changes to this file
system are small so we are only sending approximately 5 - 10 gig per
So, I'm thinking of some DR scenaria, and I was considering:
If I make a backupset on a FILE devclass, and somehow consipre to move that
backupset to a box that I think might need it, can I restore from it just as a
file on disk?
Hmm, I think I should experiment, but I was curious if anyone had
= On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:56:41 -0400, Mark Trancygier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks Allen.
I think the virtualmountpoint option will be the best way to go, as we have
a pretty hearty SAN environment and I don't believe we have client disk
contention. Are you aware of any limitations on the
= On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:21:05 -0400, Bill Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
when I am running the backup of my primary disc storage pool to tape, I use a
max process of 4. I make sure that there are plenty of scratch tapes available
and that the max scratch value for the copy pool is larger
= On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:02:20 +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Can you sort your dsmadmc output?
Yes. Either with ORDER BY, or '| sort -k2 -t,'
Can you scroll up and down through your dsmadmc results?
Yes. My terminal has 1000 lines scrollback, but I can make more.
I'm trying to collect data on what average utilization rates are on tape
devices. I'm attempting to support or erode the case We need more :)
One thing that would be an interesting number (I decided) was the percent
utilization of tape mount points. So I whipped out my PERL, and...
Submitted
= On Sat, 31 May 2003 10:39:26 -0400, Leonard Lauria [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My questions are these: The new system would be much faster with either 2 or
4 1.2 GHz (or faster) processors, but fast processors doesn't seem to be a
huge factor at our site. Are 2 enough? Can TSM efficiently use
= On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:39:15 -0500, Andy Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What are most people doing about reporting metrics to your superiors? My
bosses boss is asking for metrics, but I am not sure what to give him, and
he is not sure what he wants. It would be easy to give him GB backed
Anybody got pointers to a NetBackup-slanted whitepaper or such?
I'm a pretty thourough TSM partisan, but I would really like to see what the
e.g. NetBackup folks think they do better.
- Allen S. Rout
= On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:35:51 -0500, Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We had early on anticipated rolling out HSM more generally - but then
realized the problems. HSM is a DISASTER when used over NFS... Picture
gigabytes of data flowing [...]
Richard is spot-on in describing what
= On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:37:02 -0800, Gerald Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Anyone have a particularly large HSM environment and been using it a while?
I'm curious on any experiences with the product, good or bad. I would
imagine there must be some people out there who need long term
= On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:23:42 +1100, Gordon Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Can anyone tell me how you define what storage pools a SOURCE server uses on
a TARGET server when doing SERVER to SERVER operations? I've tried looking
for the answer in the TSM Admin Guide and searching this list
My TSM db had never been unloaded and reloaded when I set out to do it this
past thanksgiving.
I've got my DB on 9GB SSA volumes, one spindle per logical volume, one
filesystem per lv, one volume per filesystem. 4-cpu power3 node (?) Wide
winterhawk SP node? I get tangled up in the hardware
= On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 22:17:43 -0600, DFrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So, Allen -- what is it you do that accomplishes the (virtual) filespace
configuration... on NT/Win2K?
I'm doing it on AIX, but I think it's cross-platform:
virtualmountpoint /an/interesting/path
- Allen S. Rout
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