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Thank you to all who responded!

I couldn't find similar post, so if there is one you can just point me to it. (As long as it has replies!) I am also posting a poll on this in LinkedIn, so if you have a LinkedIn account, please...

I guess this is one of those "I'll believe it when I see it" scenarios. I'll probably set up a string of tests, but if the first two actually work as advertised, I'll save myself a lot of time and...

Nyet. Forget about HA for now. A client is backing up to a tape drive on the TSM server. The server goes down un-gracefully, leaving the tape in the drive. TSM comes back up and the client...

As I said, transfering resources is not my concern: it's transfering resources that are not in their default state that's the concern!

I have no concern over the actual transferance of resources between machines. My concerns refer to my other post: what happens on fail-over when drives are in use? Will TSM actually clean up the...

We will soon be implementing TSM on AIX with PowerHA. The environment will consistest of two servers - one library manager and one client - plus a number of LAN-free clients. There is not much out...

Well then, M-B, I have to ask why there's less of a problem with AIX? (I am not talking about drive path consistency here, but tapes being left in the drives.)

Every TSM administrator has been through this: tapes are mounted in the drives then the server crashes. When TSM comes back up it no longer knows about the mounts so when backups or migrations try to...

You don't have to worry about that: it's taken care of through the vStorage API.

To add to Harry's comment, you also have to set the volume to read/write (default is read-only) if you want to...

No, I'm not going to point it to disk.

Here's some more info. For a while, it's doing what it's supposed to do; that is, open a control session, open a data session, close the data session, close...

Is anybody else seeing this? I'm not getting much help from IBM.

Client 6.2.3 on Windows 2008R2.

The resourceutil at the client and maxnummp on the server are all default. I keep seeing the...

The TSM VE client is supposed to do this.

When I did a full backup (-mode=full), I got these errors:


08/17/2011 17:00:41 ANS0241E On dsmSendObj, dsmDeleteObj, or dsmUpdateFS the filespace is not registered.
08/17/2011 17:00:42...

I used the command like and did NOT give it a datacenter name and it started to work, but then I got (from dsmerror.log) a string of the following errors:

08/12/2011 13:11:34 ANS9365E VMware...

I'm currently having the same problem as Zack. I can do a mount of a backed up volume, but cannot do a restore through the b/a GUI.

I'll let the board know if I get anywhere with this.

It should be fine with SLES or RHEL, though I'm not sure off-hand exactly which levels. Check the support matrix for the Linux systems.

You'd only want to consider a VTL head if you want LAN-free to 1) take the load off the netword, and 2) take I/O load off the TSM server.

I believe Kishan is referring to the o/s; can you see the volumes in Windows? I take it you can, though. Check the Windows Event View to see if there were any o/s disk errors at the time TSM went...

Yes, but they're not where they're supposed to be.

I'm talking about an 3500 audit through the management GUI, not through TSM. You should be able to do that while TSM is running.

I second that

I'm pretty sure it's round-robin, in a similar way it picks which disk storage pool volume to use next; i.e. round-robin in the order in which the drives were defined.

Maybe it's a round-turkey ;)

Your last error looks like there's a tape stuck in the drive.

If TSM encounters an error loading in a new scratch, and it believes it may be a tape problem, then it will set the tape to private. I...

You HAVE to start with with SCSP, and if you've done any work with storage, it should be pretty easy. I saw a practice exam on the SNIA web site, but I can't recall exactly where it was -- you may...

Well, you should have IBM Deployment Professional Certification for TSM, and SNIA certification would also be good. Various o/s certifications may be useful, but what you need most is experience.

Blah, thought so. Thanks friend-of-the-moon ;)

Okay, it just came to my attention that doing this does not prevent these volumes from being taken over by storage pools :mad:

Since I'm using VTL, I can always define a separate, small library...

TSM 6.2 on linux (on z/VM).

Background: If you give linux lots of memory, it's going to 'use' all of it, mainly in cache. When TSM/DB2 starts up, DB2 will take all the memorylinux will give it.
...

del arch "e:\date\your folder\*"
should work

R&D? I think he wants to become a consultant, not a developer. I'd suggest having at least 5 years experience, and at least 1 of those years doing architecture. If all you do is pure admin, I'd ask...

First thing is, ask you if actually have to back everything up. Fax servers? Print servers? Burn a DVD for them and stick it in the vault!

zLinux is going to have file systems, so db backup to a FILE device class should be no problem. I did it at the beginning of the installation a couple of months ago and had no problem.

We have FC...

I think this is what you're after...

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/ismlibrary/details?catalog.label=1TW10TM7N&S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=LP

I need reporting & monitoring to gather and store an additional field for reporting. (I need the CONTACT field from NODES so that I can filter TCR reports by division.)

So, does anyone know how I...

Sorry for confusing you two -- it must be Monday :???:

Greg, it looks like it works just as you remember!

Okay, got the answer.

DB2 will create log files in the active log directory to fill up the directory space you give it. When you do a DB backup, it 'clears' the logs, but it doesn't delete the...

For TSM 6.2.1, just what does 'q log' show you? I couldn't find any documentation.

If I do a 'q log', I see

tsm: TSMSVR01>q log f=d
Total Space(MB): 35,840
...

I guess it's time for an experiment...

If anyone wants to know the outcome, let me know.

Quick question (I think). If I specify a list of volumes for the database backup (a dozen specially-labelled volumes), would TSM be smart enough to cycle through them sequentially? (Or do I need a...

Thanks Greg. This is actually what I'm doing, but I wanted to avoid parsing. I think I'm just going to issue a DISMOUNT for anything showing up in the DRIVES table after I attempt to kill any client...

I probably would go with a cable like this, as you would be very limited in making sure the systems were all fairly close together; configuring it would probably also be a b*tch. I'd look for a...

No, that just states whether it's EMPTY or LOADED.

BTW, this is for V6.2

So, does anyone know how to determine if a drive is IDLE or IN USE through SQL queries??? How does 'q mount' determine this?