Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Sims
On May 23, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote: It's interesting how the CONTACT field gets used for general comments. I've often wished TSM had a general comment section (variable length) where we could keep track of changes made to a node over time. This would be SO helpfull! The DEFine

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
DSM-L] Decommissioned Servers Richard Rhodes wrote: > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 > 12:36:11 PM: >> 3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission >> date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up. > > We rename the node with

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Rhodes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Decommissioned Servers 05/23/2008 10:12 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
Richard Rhodes wrote: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: 3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up. We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot in a "q node" listing.

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Timothy Hughes
We do this also put a comment in the CONTACT node field with the date the node can be deleted from TSM, and the ticket number of the request that asked us to retire the node. Richard Rhodes wrote: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: 3) We put the clients name into

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Rhodes
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/22/2008 12:36:11 PM: > > 3) We put the clients name into a tracking file with the decommission > date, so we don't forget when 90 days is up. We rename the node with a prefix so decommissioned nodes are easy to spot in a "q node" listing. We would rename nod

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Schneider, John
iginal Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Decommissioned Servers On May 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Wimprine, Thomas wrote: > I have a system(s) that have b

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Richard Sims
On May 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Wimprine, Thomas wrote: I have a system(s) that have been turned off never to return. I need to set the backup data that was on them to inactive. Does anyone know how to make this happen? ... One way is to perform a backup of a same-named, empty file system (which

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Timothy Hughes
YeahThat's my thinking on this type of situation also. David Longo wrote: Depends on what you mean. 1. You wan to delete all the backup data as no longer needed. Run on TSM server "Del filespace" for that node and that will delete ALL the data for it. 2. Want to keep the data for some p

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
Wimprine, Thomas wrote: I have a system(s) that have been turned off never to return. I need to set the backup data that was on them to inactive. Does anyone know how to make this happen? I looked on infocenter and couldn't find anything relevant, am I blind or it just isn't there? We've ap

Re: Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread David Longo
Depends on what you mean. 1. You wan to delete all the backup data as no longer needed. Run on TSM server "Del filespace" for that node and that will delete ALL the data for it. 2. Want to keep the data for some period of time. Do nothing. A node that is no longer backed up will stay in its la

Decommissioned Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Wimprine, Thomas
I have a system(s) that have been turned off never to return. I need to set the backup data that was on them to inactive. Does anyone know how to make this happen? I looked on infocenter and couldn't find anything relevant, am I blind or it just isn't there? Thanks Thomas