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I've actually found that the database can shrink upon upgrade. The insert option actually expires data upon import by default, but the DB grows exponentially if you use deduplication/compression. ...

The hack way to do it would be to cross define all servers to one centralized TSM server, then you could setup a loop and run whatever reports/queries you want against everything. It's messy but...

Well we're trying to do mass upgrades and honestly using TSM for a repository just makes sense because:
1. it's already everywhere we need to upgrade, we don't have many tools with 100% penetration...

Keep getting ANS1330S when we try to restore data concurrently to more than one server from the same TSM object/filespace.


Maxnummp=10, maybe set it back to 1?

Just trying to make the system...

So it's been 6 long months of off and on development, but I think I did it. It's funny cause IBM basically has a hard time explaining why or why not this process works, but i've got it down to about...

ah... nice, that will probably do the trick! Thanks guys.

I'm gonna blame this on a bunch of my tsm installs not having the proper man pages... lol

Finally solved the problem. As far as I can tell, with VTL configurations + linux, you need to apply the library changers in addition to the tape drives. This seems to allow the drives to be...

So we're trying to setup some provisioning automation, and we've got basically everything good to go except I'd really like to not be prompted to enter the nodename and password. This would mean...

That script has a few errors, just finished my first true test run. Still need to add a checker to read through the log as it will indicate if a reboot is needed, and maybe i'll have it kick back a...

turned it into a text file, just rename to .vbs. Since I basically scraped all the calls and functions off the internet I don't mind sharing at all.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Right, but the implied context i'm reading here is a seasoned and established admin. 'We' are not in the same league as college hires and interns. Granted some companies are foolish enough to just...

So I've got about 3000 windows servers that need to go from TSM 5.5.2 to 6.2.3. I created a slick little VB script to check the OS level, look for clustering, stop the services, silent install the...

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/45626 is the RHEL6 article, but it doesn't actually work in my case.
I get nothing returned from the command.

[root@lx-pmsgrdm-p03p scsi]# more...

Have a frame right now that's running low on memory, so it's an option... but compression on top of compression scares me for such a sensitive operation. DB2 is known to support AME, so I think I'll...

You are nailing these articles... I never found half this stuff on a half dozen attempts. I'll post later if it bears any fruit.

Thx

Solid find, although it doesn't work with RHEL6 quite right, but it's a step in the right direction.

I was able to echo in a tape drive, and it showed up in /sys/class/lin_tape as IBMtape0, as...

Yeah, by pleasure you mean how upon reboot my Fiber adapter order flipped so it went from card 1,3 to 0,2... all because Linux can't properly enumerate the bus it seems. Last few times have been...

echo "scsi add-single-device <CARD> 0 <MASK> <LUN>" > /proc/scsi/scsi

Start up the gui or cli and it should tell you outright what entry it's puking on and offer to skip it.

Well I have heard of such things, the problem really is I can't keep the tapes known to the OS persistently, so TSM isn't in the equation just yet. I think I was gonna try the 5.5.5-2 storageagent...

Strangley enough, the lin_tape doesn't use modprobe (from what I can tell) to get itself running. It uses a daemon called lin_taped to start itself like a normal program out of /etc/rc2.d. It's...

Got a brand new RHEL 6 box, qlogic HBAs, DD890 VTL setup and zoned with LTO1 tapes, and the lin_tape IBM driver setup.

lin_tape - 1.67
qla2xxx - 8.03.01.05.06.0-k8
RHEL -...

you'll see that error if you do a dsmserv loadformat instead of just format.

Yeah, I dug through the infocenter and release notes and found most combinations. The only one that seems odd is with TDP 6.1, which has little to no information on.

Does anyone know what...

In looking over IBM's FTP site, i'm not seeing any TDP clients newer than 5.5.2, but I keep seeing 6.X versions referenced all over. Anybody know where they can be found?

Also, we're upgrading...

Seems there are only 2 supported methods, and using the network interface keeps you from having to dump the whole DB to a manifest file. Plus you're able to overlap the two windows of time by...

I'd also like to hear about upgrade approaches people have tried (AIX 5.5.2 to 6.2.3 in this case). I've been told the export approach won't work very well for my current environment, and so we're...

Our setup running compressed backups (to keep from killing the network) seemed to work better on DD than ProtectTier. We only see reduction rates around 1.7 to 2.2 however, so it's not a lot per se.