Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Solaris Driver Issue

I have a Solaris (version 10) server that I am trying to configure LTO drives on for a Storage Agent. My problem is that I ran the procedure to assign the drives to the IBMtape driver but doc state a reboot is needed. Has anyone done a successful modunload/modload of the IBMtape driver thereby avoiding a reboot? The server is a production box and the DB takes 45 minutes to take down and come back up so reboots are usually scheduled and the next one is weeks off. Any ideas or help is appreciated.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Coming Soon

Many moons ago I put together some videos running through a full DR of the TSM system running on a Windows platform. I deleted them about a year ago but plan to re-create them as a lot of people have been asking about them. Within the next month I'm doing a DR for one of our clients and will record the process for you to see. I know the way I've setup TSM will no doubt be different from yours, but I'll try and cut the videos in a way that's useful to all.

More to follow

Cheers

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Archiving The Actlog

I just had a friend e-mail me and state he was being contacted by his previous employer complaining he made changes to their TSM retention times causing them to lose data. The TSM admin who took over is blaming him stating he changed the retention and now the data is gone. My friend does not remember making any retention changes and the problem is that any change to the copygroup updates the "Last Update by (administrator)" and the "Last Update Date/Time" so it's not substantial evidence of who did what. The only way to verify what had really occurred would be to either keep the actlog for an extremely long period of time, or dump it to a text file that you zip and archive. (Even then it's a text file and could be tampered with) In the case of my friend, he left the company last November and anyone could have altered the copygroup since then.

How many of you archive your TSM Activity Log, and how long do you keep it for? Obviously it good for security and tracking purposes, but who manages it and can you reliably keep it in a read-only state? Of course this is also a case where a bi-monthly audit of retention settings would have helped.