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Re: TSM 4.2.1.2 and Novell client 4.2.1.0 Problems !

2001-10-17 12:08:49
Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.2 and Novell client 4.2.1.0 Problems !
From: Jim Kirkman <jmk AT EMAIL.UNC DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:06:08 -0400
TSAUP7 is the answer, at least to the 'directory path not found' and 'file not 
found' errors in SP3 and cluster environments.

I've settled on 4.1.1_18 as an acceptable client.

"Sisk, Lester" wrote:

> The 4.2.x client is a memory hog.  Watch Directory Cache Buffers closely.
> You will need to add memory I can just about put money on that.  The TSA
> version that I have found to work is in TSA5UP5.  TSA5UP6 does not work with
> TSM.  I have downloaded UP7 but not tested it yet.
> __________________________________________________
> Lester Sisk
> Carolinas HealthCare System
> Information Services - Server Team
> 704-446-6463
> lsisk AT carolinas DOT org <mailto:lsisk AT carolinas DOT org>
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Herfried Abel [SMTP:ha7 AT DAIMLERCHRYSLER DOT COM]
>         Sent:   Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:42 AM
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         Subject:        TSM 4.2.1.2 and Novell client 4.2.1.0 Problems !
>
>         Hi to all,
>
>         we upgraded our ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.2.1.2 last saturday.
> Everything went
>         fine and most of the clients ( UNIXs, W2K, WinNT, TDP SAP,TDP
> MSSQL,TDP
>         ORACLE , API) are working ok.
>
>         But we have a problem ( like so often ) with our 6 Novell
> Fileservers.
>
>         After the upgrade filename conversion to "Long Filenames" should
> happen.
>         This worked only for some fs and caused a lot of problems (
> including a
>         verrry long backup time ). So we decided to rename most of the
>         novell-fs-volumes in the TSM server and to start with new
> incremental and
>         new novell tsm-clients from the scratch.
>
>         We installed 4.2.1.0 Novell TSM client on all fileservers and
> checked the
>         TSA500.NLM TSANDS.NLM SMDR.NLM and CLIB according to the README.
>
>         So this is our environment :
>
>         TSM SERVER:
>         AIX 4.3.3 ML 09
>         TSM 4.2.1.2
>
>         NOVELL CLIENT:
>         Novell 5.1 SP3
>         TSM client 4.2.1
>
>         The problems we still have:
>
>         We are getting the "File not found" error on web-client backups and
> the
>         "Directory not found" error on dsmc sched backups.
>
>         I think it has to do with the NLMs above.
>
>         Which versions (dates) of the NLMs do I need to produce error-free
> backup
>         results from webclient as well as from the dsmc scheduler ????
>
>         Thanks for any help
>
>         herfried
>
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Jim Kirkman
Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
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