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Hi all,

What's a good default Wintel exclude list for Win 2k* clients?

Thanks!
C.J.

Configure the client for Open File Support.
Start the Backup-Archive Client GUI: Start > Programs > Tivoli Storage
Manager > Backup-Achive GUI.
Open the setup wizard:
1) Select the Utilities tab...

Hi All,

I have a client that wants OFS turned on on one of our Win 2008 servers. From what I'm told, this client has VSS turned on already. What do I need to do to turn on this feature with TSM?...

Thanks, Harry. In my research, I came to the same conclusion. Application consistency cannot be guaranteed. There really is no silver bullet.

I spoke to a NetApp guy today on this subject. He told me that NDMP backups issue a "Consistancy Point" CP which flushes all writes to disk before the snapshot is taken. In that way, the block...

You are correct. The customer is using NetApp as a NAS device in the way you described.

These aren't big shares, and they're not expected to grow very large. The largest share right now is only...

Thanks, Harry.

I'm still researching what will work best for this client, but I know that they think block level/standard NDMP backups to tape is the direction they want to go. There wouldn't be...

Hi all,

I have a customer whos #1 concern is open file support. I know NDMP backups are snapshots, but is that truly giving us something similar to OFS on the Windows client side? If a file on...

Hi all,

One of my 3310 libraries just started doing something different on me. Since I stood this library up and started using it, inbound tapes from Iron Mountain would get insert into the I/O...

I bumped into this exact same issue with one of my 3310's this week. Running the audit fixed the problem. You have to specify "refresh=yes".

Hi all,

I have an IBM 3310 library in one of my environments which I seem to have to manually move tapes into every day when we get our daily DRM returns. I haven't found a way to tell this thing...

Hi all,

Is there a way to have an archive schedule run to where it'll pick up all local objects without specifying any object parameters? I really want it to run where it'll pick up everything I...

I just thought of another good question ... maybe this is obvious, but if you're using different .opt files, I'm assuming your running multiple scheduler services for your SQL backups?

I'm not sure that's going to work either.

Pointing the .cmd file to a different management class is a nice idea. Does that work in a tdpsqlc backup command, though? The way I'm running that full...

Hi all,

I have a need to archive some SQL full backups. Normal full/incremental schedules are of action type "cmd". Arhive schedules would need to be of action type "Archive", I'm assuming ......

Hi all,

I'm wondering how others in the TSM community here are handling archived data written to tape. I'm going to need to turn on archives (some of them NOLIMIT archives) for a group of...

Upon further review, it does look as if all you need to do to bind an archive schedule to a management class other than the default is to add the "-archmd=***" flag to the options part of the...

Hi All,

If you're defining an archive schedule for a client and you want to bind it to a specific archive copy group, do you do that an option to the schedule? Perhaps I'd enter it as an option...

Thank you, moon-buddy. Writing a second copy to FILE on disk was where I was headed, too.

Hi All,

I need to have a duplicate copy of my daily DB backup kept on tape in the library. What's the right way for accomplishing that? I haven't tried taking a second backup, but I'm assuming...

Hi Harry,

Thanks again for your help on this. Last night was the first time we tested backing up these NAS shares through UNC pathing, and it worked exactly as described. It did take a little...

It turns out that in the scenario I described in this thread, the keys would be shared.

I should have also mentioned ... all of the drives in question are part of the same (LTO) device group.

Thanks!

Hello all,

I'm new to configuring TKLM and had a question about the configuration of keys. I know you can assign keystores per a group of drives, but the setup I inherited has keystores assigned...

Thank you, Harry. I'll get more specifics on these devices on Monday. What I'm most concerned about is two things:
1) What do restores look like in this scenario? Do you still get file level...

I'm also curious what the pros/cons would be to backing up a NAS device's files this was as opposed to setting up NDMP backups? Maybe that simple comes down to a question of hardware and network...

I had one more question related to this configuration ... assuming that I'm logged into my management box with an account that has permission to this share. Does that share need to be mapped to my...

Great, thanks again! This backup isn't working for us yet, but I don't think we're using an account with permissions into the share we want to back up.

Harry, thank you for the response! In my 3rd comment (above) what I'm really asking is if you'll see an entry in the either the occupancy or filesystems table for these UNC shares? I'm guessing you...

Hi all,

I'm attempting to back up a NAS filesystem on a Win2008 server. I'm told the permissions are in place already to make this happen. I set up my domain statement to look like:
DOMAIN...

Thank you, Chad

Hi All,

I need to come up with TSM 5 and 6 versions of queries vs. the summary table which will show me how much backup data each node has picked up over the past 30 days. I have versions of...

I should also have mentioned that I have "clusternode yes" set in the dsm.opt file for this cluster node.

Hi all,

I have a Win 2008 active/passive cluster which seems to forget its TSM client password any time the cluster fails over. The password hasn't changed, and I don't believe it has expired. ...

Hi all,

I have a TSM 5.4 server using an STK library and T9940 drives. ACSLS 7.1.0. In the process of moving data out of this library, I continually see one of my drives reporting a problem:
...

Yes ... this seems to be the easiest way to implement this. True, you get the directory structure of the entire drive the first time, but that's not really a big deal (at least not to me in this...

My bad ... Sunhillow's suggestion above does work. I was seeing a bunch of 0 byte directory names being backed up and that threw me off. That seems to be the easiest way to pick up a single...

Doing this:

DOMAIN C:
EXCLUDE C:\...\*
INCLUDE C:\BACKUPS\*

Seems not to work ... at least, it doesn't work when I run an incremental from the command line (while pointing to this special...

Good suggestion .... I was trying that a moment ago I believe, and I'm not sure it worked. I'll try that again. I've been tinkering with some suggestions I found on this older thread on the same...

I thought about that, but I read that EXCLUDE.DIR takes precedence regardless of where it is in the order of the statements.

Hi all,

I need to set up a special backup to pick up a single directory off the C: drive on a Wintel box, excluding everything else (if possible). This is special case where I need to set up a...

Hi all,

I have a Win2008 box running the 6.2.2 client in my environment which seems to have a trace running, but I cannot identify the source of the trace. This has apparently been going on for...

Update .... looks like adding "skipmissingsyswfiles yes" to the dsm.opt file did the trick. That option hasn't always worked for me on other clients, but it did this time.

C.J.

More information ... perhaps related to this problem, when I run a manualy incremental versus just the system drives, I get the following errors in the schedule log:

07/19/2011 10:42:39 ANS1417W ...

Hi all,

I've come up against a strange ANS1705E error. I get these errors quite frequently and know how to get them fixed, but this time the TSM error message is pointing to what looks like an...