Re: TSM 4.2.1.6 not talking to 3584 Library
Hi, Try to go through these steps, I think it will help. ANR8840E Unable to open device device name with error error number. Explanation: The library was inaccessible, thus causing a open request to fail. This will inturn cause the pending request to fail. System Action: A drive is marked inaccessible and the server starts polling the drive to determine if the library and drive are inaccessable. In most case, the libary had a temporary failure and recovers. When the server determines that the library is available, the drive will be brought back online. User Response: Verify the library is online. Verify cable connections between the library and the server. If the problem persists contact your service representative. -- ANR8826E No Entry/Exit found on library library name. Explanation: A CHECKIN LIBVOLUME SEARCH=BULK command was issued on a library that has no Entry/Exit ports. System Action: None. User Response: None. dv, Stonyi Attila mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rendszermrnk MV Informatika Kft. Tel.:06(1)457-9372 Hi all, We have a -: 3584 Fibre attached library with 3 LTO drives in it. TSM server is NT4 SP6a, TSM Version 4.2.1.6. Server has been running for three weeks at this level The server crashed today with Dr Watson error. Library and Server were shut down and restarted. The library has come up and all tape drives / diagnostics run fine. The Server has come up and it can see the Library and Tape drives from operating system level. Q drive and Q server respond saying drives and library are online. Sessions are connecting to the server, I can do incremental database backups etc.. When I try to do a check out / or check in of a tape (or load on into tape drive) I get error -: ANR8840E Unable to open device LB1.1.0.3 with error -1 ANR8826E No Entry/Exit found on library LB1.1.0.3 Basically - Server can not send commands to tape library. Has anybody run across this problem before, have any helpful hints ? Thanks for any ideas you have. Martin Meldrum. SIC (Systems Integration Consultant), SIS (Systems Integration Support) Team Norwich Union Australia Ltd Ph 03 9829 8703 Mbl 0407 920 739 Fax 03 9829 8147 *** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please let us know by reply email or phone and delete all copies from your computer system. ***
backup to disk stg vs tape stg.
Title: ssignetscape Hi All, I am running TSM 4.1 on aix server and DLT scallar 1000 library. I have a critical client that I would like to backup directly to the tape stgpool. The performance in that method are 8M/S network and 70K/S aggregated transfer rate. I would like to improve that performance to be at list 3M/S aggregated. I tried to work with the following performance parameters. SELFTUNETXNSIZE SELFTUNEBUFPOOLSIZE but with no success. I tried to backup the same client to a disk storage pool and the aggregated ware something like 4M/S. it's look like a performance problem but I don't know what parameter to change. Thanksin advance. Ofer Ccc. -- Ofer Nahum Services Support Tel: 972-(0)3-6080680 Fax: 972-(0)-3-6080670 Direct: 972-(0)3-6080643 Mobile: 972-(0)52-242043 www.ccc.co.il
ADSM v3 on Wy2k...
I know that ADSM V3.1 is not compliance on Windows 2000 but i tried to use this to backup and restore files of Windows 2000 server. I haven't encounter problems, except some open files that we manage to handle it and system objects that we manage to dump into a physical files. Can you please specify clearly what are the problems, incompatibilities, or possible damage on the system when we use this for Windows 2000. thanks in advance. Zosi Noriega
Re: Client Compression question
Hi Kelly, you're right. In todays networks client compression doesn't make too much sense. When we did backups within a 4 mbit TR LAN (and also later with 16mbit TR) we really got an improvement using client compression. Today with at least 100 mbit client compression is near useless, it just saves some space in your disk storage pools. For mobile users that use 64kbit lines to backup you won't want to miss client compression... Greetings from Munich, Michael Kelly Lipp wrote: Probably. Empirical evidence is best and you now have plenty of that. I have never seen compression improve backup times. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -- Michael Bartl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Technology, IT Germany/AustriaTel: +49-89-92699-806 Cable Wireless Deutschland GmbH. Fax: +49-89-92699-302 Landsberger Str. 155, D-80687 Muenchen http://www.cw.com/de
library sharing without SAN
hello , For experimental purpose can we use autochanger for sharing between two TSM servers ( solaris and windows ) without SAN ,if yes then what is the procedure to do it. if any one know about this please help me. TSM administrator
Re: Client Compression question
HI, With many small files this performance is not quite bad, but I think you should tuning you system. What kind of library you're using? Is compression set to enabled at drive and client level? If yes do not use this. dv, Stonyi Attila mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified TSM 4.1 admin MV Informatika Kft. Tel.:06(1)457-9372 Hi. I have been testing Novell backups and restores using a Compaq proliant 8500 as the client box. We have been seeing ok performance of approx 10 gb an hour for backups and restores, of 1 million objects. This applies both to Netware compressed and Netware uncompressed volumes. However when I try TSM client compression on a backup of a netware uncompressed volume, the performance drops to 1 gb. an hour. It is not a resource problem the compaq cpu is hardly stirring, but it is definitely the TSM compression that is taking up the time (TSM tracing shows it as 89% of the total time) I always believed in the past that slow performance with client compression was down to lack of cpu on the client box, but there is cpu to spare with this configuration. My question is :- Is 1 gb an hour the best performance I that I can expect using TSM compression or can anyone think of reasons why that is all I am achieving ? thanks ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Subfile Backup Experience
Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst files (Outlook) The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night over a 2 MBit line. I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst Files with exclude.subfile * include.subfile ?:\...\*.pst Does anyone has experience doing subfilebackup for fileservers? With Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:\\[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daily full backup
Are you sure you really need to backup everything everyday? What do you need to be able to restore that having multiple copies of the same file can accomplish but a single copy cannot? Matt.
Re: backup to disk stg vs tape stg.
Hi, There're additional parameters which you should try first: In your client dsm.sys file set these parameters with their values: Tcpbuffsize Tcpwindowsize Tcpnodelay Largecommbuffers Txnbytelimit If it's not help, then you have to check the AIX network parameters and pools and buffers. If you need additional help, just write. dv, Stonyi Attila Certified TSM administrator MV Informatika Kft. Hi All, I am running TSM 4.1 on aix server and DLT scallar 1000 library. I have a critical client that I would like to backup directly to the tape stgpool. The performance in that method are 8M/S network and 70K/S aggregated transfer rate. I would like to improve that performance to be at list 3M/S aggregated. I tried to work with the following performance parameters. SELFTUNETXNSIZE SELFTUNEBUFPOOLSIZE but with no success. I tried to backup the same client to a disk storage pool and the aggregated ware something like 4M/S. it's look like a performance problem but I don't know what parameter to change. Thanks in advance. Ofer Ccc. -- [ ] [ ] C:%5CProgra%7E1%5Cemail_%7E1%5C000.gif [Triple C] C:%5CProgra%7E1%5Cemail_signature%5C000.gif Ofer Nahum Services Support Tel: 972-(0)3-6080680 Fax: 972-(0)-3-6080670 Direct: 972-(0)3-6080643 Mobile: 972-(0)52-242043 www.ccc.co.il http://www.ccc.co.il
Re: FW: Urgent: Cost of TDP for SAP R/3
Thanks for all the HELP! Ya'll are wonderfull . . . . . Rick
Re: AW: Client Compression question
Stefan, Are those backup/restore speeds you have quoted the total for all 5 nodes or are they what you see for each individual session. Is your network 100 megabits or gigabit. regards John Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/09/2002 11:56:23 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: AW: Client Compression question ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. ** We are using client compression for backup of a 1,5 TByte NAS system.(F760) (reason is to have apparently larger disk storage pools) Backup is done using 5 different nodes on the same machine (Dual 1 GHz P3) to have the opportiunity to restore with 5 sessions. During backup i can see about 3-4 MByte per second on the network to the TSM-server on MVS. Restoretests for the netapp system seem to have a limit with this compressed data at 8-9 MB per second. (only if tapes 3590-B a filled well) At this speed (can be observed over a longer period) TSM client and NAS system have nearly 100% CPU load. The data a typical userdata - many small and some large Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sotonyi Attila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2002 12:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Client Compression question HI, With many small files this performance is not quite bad, but I think you should tuning you system. What kind of library you're using? Is compression set to enabled at drive and client level? If yes do not use this. Üdv, Sótonyi Attila mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified TSM 4.1 admin MÁV Informatika Kft. Tel.:06(1)457-9372 Hi. I have been testing Novell backups and restores using a Compaq proliant 8500 as the client box. We have been seeing ok performance of approx 10 gb an hour for backups and restores, of 1 million objects. This applies both to Netware compressed and Netware uncompressed volumes. However when I try TSM client compression on a backup of a netware uncompressed volume, the performance drops to 1 gb. an hour. It is not a resource problem the compaq cpu is hardly stirring, but it is definitely the TSM compression that is taking up the time (TSM tracing shows it as 89% of the total time) I always believed in the past that slow performance with client compression was down to lack of cpu on the client box, but there is cpu to spare with this configuration. My question is :- Is 1 gb an hour the best performance I that I can expect using TSM compression or can anyone think of reasons why that is all I am achieving ? thanks ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: library sharing without SAN
Does a configuration such as that need special support by the library? What happens if both systems send commands to the robot? Also, what about the drives? Most SCSI libraries I know of have the drives cabled directly on their own SCSI channels. Definitely the two I have... an ATL P3000 and an HP 20/700. This sounds very interesting, and I'm wondering if I can use it while we migrate from the P3000 to the 20/700. Currently they are attached to two different servers - the P3000 to an F50 and the 20/700 to an HP L2000. As far as I know, the method of recording data on DLT tapes differs on those two OSes, and they cannot read each others' tapes. Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs Bill Smoldt smoldt@STORS OL.COM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) 01/09/02 Subject: 08:54 AM Re: library sharing without SAN Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager You can connect a library on a SCSI bus between the two systems and share the library the same way as you would in a SAN. I've never tried it between Solaris and Windows, but it should work fine as long as the controllers don't interfere with each other electrically (they will typically be different brands). The controllers must have different SCSI target addresses - I usually use the default of 7 on one and 6 on the other. If you just want to get some experience with shared libraries within TSM, the simplest method is to create a second TSM server instance on the same system. Then you can define a shared library between the two. I use this method for training classes. Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chandrasekhar CR Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: library sharing without SAN hello , For experimental purpose can we use autochanger for sharing between two TSM servers ( solaris and windows ) without SAN ,if yes then what is the procedure to do it. if any one know about this please help me. TSM administrator
TDP for Informix
Hi all TSM'ers, Just a few questions related to TDP for Informix. 1. Is it possible to backup the logical informix logs using more than one TSM session. Currently it uses only one session. It is going to a disk storage pool fist and gets migrated to tape later. 2. Is there a way to tell onbar in which sequence to backup the DB spaces? What sequence does it use by default? TSM version 4.1.2 AIX version 4.2 Thanks and regards ~~ Gerrit van Zyl Tel: +27 11 800 7400 Fax: +27 11 802 3814 Cell: +27 82 570 4266 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.faritec.co.za ~~
Re: library sharing without SAN
No special support with all the SCSI adapters that I've dealt with - mostly Adaptec and QLogic. The hardware has been capable of this for years and I've used this on many OpenVMS clusters and NT clusters. The initiators don't talk to each other, and the devices have to be capable of doing a SCSI disconnect. All arbitration and locking for the robot and drives takes place in the TSM Server. Might ease your library movement, but I've never tried crossing the data tapes between platforms. It's certainly unsupported so you'd want to rewrite the tapes even if it worked. Is that what you're thinking? Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: library sharing without SAN Does a configuration such as that need special support by the library? What happens if both systems send commands to the robot? Also, what about the drives? Most SCSI libraries I know of have the drives cabled directly on their own SCSI channels. Definitely the two I have... an ATL P3000 and an HP 20/700. This sounds very interesting, and I'm wondering if I can use it while we migrate from the P3000 to the 20/700. Currently they are attached to two different servers - the P3000 to an F50 and the 20/700 to an HP L2000. As far as I know, the method of recording data on DLT tapes differs on those two OSes, and they cannot read each others' tapes. Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs Bill Smoldt smoldt@STORS OL.COM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) 01/09/02 Subject: 08:54 AM Re: library sharing without SAN Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager You can connect a library on a SCSI bus between the two systems and share the library the same way as you would in a SAN. I've never tried it between Solaris and Windows, but it should work fine as long as the controllers don't interfere with each other electrically (they will typically be different brands). The controllers must have different SCSI target addresses - I usually use the default of 7 on one and 6 on the other. If you just want to get some experience with shared libraries within TSM, the simplest method is to create a second TSM server instance on the same system. Then you can define a shared library between the two. I use this method for training classes. Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chandrasekhar CR Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: library sharing without SAN hello , For experimental purpose can we use autochanger for sharing between two TSM servers ( solaris and windows ) without SAN ,if yes then what is the procedure to do it. if any one know about this please help me. TSM administrator
Fw: DIRMC
TSM'ers, I am resending. Does anybody know what the story is on directories? Thanks, Al - Original Message - From: Al Narzisi To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: DIRMC I am still not clear where or when the use of DIRMC may have changed from what I understood from the red book Getting Started with TSM. In the red book example, a separate management class pointed to by DIRMC in dsmopt of the client was created to send directory structures to a disk storage pool. This would allow rapid restoration of the directory structures during recovery. During testing, I discovered (Win2K server and Win2K client TSM 4.1): 1. Even if you use DIRMC to define the management class of directories, the directories would still default to the management class with the highest retention value. Only after coding NOLIMIT on the management class pointed to by DIRMC, did the directories get bond to the management class coded for DIRMC. 2. After the directories where bonded to the correct management class ( a MC that had a backup copy group with a destination of a disk storage pool defined exclusively for my directories), I discovered that the directories did not go to that storage pool. 3. I discovered that it did not matter what MC the directories where bond to. The directory structures are saved in the TSM data base. So, can anyone enlighten me on when this change occurred? The red book obviously does not indicate this behavior for the management of directory structures. Am I missing something here? Are there any considerations for TSM DB sizing because the directory structures are stored in the DB? Where is this documented? Thanks for your input, Al
Re: TSM server not responding...
Title: Maize Do a df k at the AIX prompt to determine which file system is full. Issue chfs a size=+number to increase the file system by a number of 512 byte blocks. Then try running TSM again. -- Joshua S. Bassi Freelance Consultant IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dixon, Swonda Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191
Re: TSM server not responding...
Title: Maize Hi, Probably under AIX one of the filesystem has run up to 100% check which one with command: df -k then you will have to either enlarge the filesystem or delete a few files. met vriendelijke groeten, regards et salutations, Finn Leijnse Central Data Storage Management Shell Services International bv. -Original Message-From: Dixon, Swonda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 09 January 2002 15:04To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191
Re: TSM server not responding...
Hi, I think you are wrong about the version numbers! You've AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.2 and you've upgraded your AIX or TSM? If AIX, check df -k in command line and you can see which filesystem is full 100%, if you find the filesystem, then you should increase it! Regards, Sótonyi Attila mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified TSM 4.1 administrator MÁV Informatika Kft. Tel.:06(1)457-9372 We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message:THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191
Client Compression question
The speeds are total measured at GB Ethernet wire. Compression is about 20% in this stream. With regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2002 14:21 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Client Compression question Stefan, Are those backup/restore speeds you have quoted the total for all 5 nodes or are they what you see for each individual session. Is your network 100 megabits or gigabit. regards John Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/09/2002 11:56:23 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: AW: Client Compression question ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: library sharing without SAN
You can connect a library on a SCSI bus between the two systems and share the library the same way as you would in a SAN. I've never tried it between Solaris and Windows, but it should work fine as long as the controllers don't interfere with each other electrically (they will typically be different brands). The controllers must have different SCSI target addresses - I usually use the default of 7 on one and 6 on the other. If you just want to get some experience with shared libraries within TSM, the simplest method is to create a second TSM server instance on the same system. Then you can define a shared library between the two. I use this method for training classes. Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chandrasekhar CR Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: library sharing without SAN hello , For experimental purpose can we use autochanger for sharing between two TSM servers ( solaris and windows ) without SAN ,if yes then what is the procedure to do it. if any one know about this please help me. TSM administrator
Re: ADSM v3 on Wy2k...
Zosimo Noriega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part.. I know that ADSM V3.1 is not compliance on Windows 2000 but i tried to use this to backup and restore files of Windows 2000 server. I haven't encounter problems, except some open files that we manage to handle it and system objects that we manage to dump into a physical files. Can you please specify clearly what are the problems, incompatibilities, or possible damage on the system when we use this for Windows 2000. If non-support from the vendor, lack of system object and unicode support, as well as lack of newer server features such as backupsets, subfile differencing and journaling are not issues of importance for you, I have seen no problem (using client v3.1.0.8 or 4.2.1.18) on a V3.1 server. I do however wish for a summary table and a serviceable server. If you mean V3.1 client, then I'd be less positive (that was positive?). The V4.2.1.18 client scheduler seems more reliable (the V3.1 scheduler was prone to permanent sleep when the network blipped or backup server was restarted) and many find the restore functions easier to use than with the older client. (We're not a big Windows client user, but have a few servers and a few dozen workstations, mostly NT and 2000). Hope this helps, wayne Wayne T. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADSM Technical Coordinator - UNET University of Maine System
Re: migration options
Ron wrote, in part.. ... The VM version has been so trouble free and so easy to manage its really hard to understand Tivoli's determination to eliminate the platform. Hear! Hear! ;-( cheers from Maine, wayne Wayne T. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADSM Technical Coordinator - UNET University of Maine System
SQL Backup Protocol error
Title: Message HelloI have a problem when running backup of my MS-SQL db.The following message is from the activity log. 01/09/2002 16:15:08 ANE4991I (Session: 17311, Node: DP4PP2SQL) TDP MSSQL NT ACO3507 Sql Application Client: Starting INCR backup of database model from server DP4-PP2. 01/09/2002 16:15:08 ANR0444W Protocol error on session 17311 for node DP4PP2SQL (TDP MSSQL NT) - out-of-sequence verb (type Data) received. 01/09/2002 16:15:08 ANR0484W Session 17311 for node DP4PP2SQL (TDP MSSQL NT) terminated - protocol violation detected. It is only incremental backups that don't work. Full backups works fine. The version is 1.1.2 of TDP, SQL 7.0 and TSM-server 4.2.1 on MVS It has stopped working yesterday and nothing has been done on the server. MVH Niklas Lundström Föreningssparbanken IT 08-5859 5164
Re: linux, ext3, and V4.2
Charles Anderson posted an example on the list a while back and it worked for me - use VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT for each ext3 filesystem. ext3 isn't supported in TSM yet. For your system, in dsm.sys: VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT / VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /boot VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /boot2 VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /root2 Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Roder Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: linux, ext3, and V4.2 Hi All, We are recently beginning to backup some Linux boxes, and have run into the limitation whereby the EXT3 filesystems are not supported by TSM V4.2. The doc claims that they can be backed up in compatibility mode, but it does not explain how to accomplish this. Does anyone here know how to backup these filesystems? Here is what they look like in /etc/fstab: LABEL=// ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boot/boot ext3defaults1 2 LABEL=/boot2 /boot2 ext3defaults1 2 LABEL=/root2 /root2 ext3defaults1 2 And of course, the followup question to Tivoli, if they are listening, is if support for ext3 is planned? For now, it would be nice to enable backups of these filesystems in this so called compatibility mode. Thanks, Steve Roder, University at Buffalo HOD Service Coordinator VM Systems Programmer UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX) TSM/ADSM Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564 | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)
Re: library sharing without SAN
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what advantage we would gain, if any. Our goal is to eventually move the P3000 and f50 to another location anyway. Wait a minute, I just thought of a benefit... the reason we got the new library was because we overflowed the old one. It's still a problem juggling tapes just to do reclaims on the old system. Anyway, I was just curious how it would all work... I didn't think you could define SCSI libraries to TSM as SHARED (or don't you have to?). How do you physically cable it? Just replace the SCSI terminator(s) with a cable(s) to the other system? I guess I would want to something like this (please excuse rudimentory non-graphics): HP L2000 (TSM2) -scsi- HP 20/700 -scsi IBM F50 (TSM1) -scsi- ATL P3000 Then I would want to check some tapes into the 20/700 to allow TSM1 to do reclaims. 20/700 has 553 available slots; P3000 has none. Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs Bill Smoldt smoldt@STORS OL.COM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) 01/09/02 Subject: 10:15 AM Re: library sharing without SAN Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager No special support with all the SCSI adapters that I've dealt with - mostly Adaptec and QLogic. The hardware has been capable of this for years and I've used this on many OpenVMS clusters and NT clusters. The initiators don't talk to each other, and the devices have to be capable of doing a SCSI disconnect. All arbitration and locking for the robot and drives takes place in the TSM Server. Might ease your library movement, but I've never tried crossing the data tapes between platforms. It's certainly unsupported so you'd want to rewrite the tapes even if it worked. Is that what you're thinking? Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc.
Tape Drive Failures
Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: New device
Thank you all for your reply! I didn't know that the rename stgpool command was out there! This makes things a lot easier. Thanks again! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New device Do as Kelly suggests... When we moved a server out of one 3494 with 3590 B1A drives into a different 3494 with 3590 E1A drives, basically the same sort of action... we just set up the new library set the next pool of all our diskpools to nothing... took the old storage pools and renamed them to blah_old defined the old name storage pools again (you will use your new device class name) set the next pool of all our diskpools back to the proper storage pool name and you're good to go... we waited for a majority of the data to natrually expire out of the old library, then set the next pool of the blah_old names to point to the new/same/you_get_the_idea name and set the migration value down low and let TSM move the remaining data. was really really smooth we just had to have both devices attached for about 6 weeks because most data bases are archived daily with a 35 day retention... later, Dwight -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New device No, I don't think you will able to do that. But you can create a new pool in the new library, move the data or migrate it and then rename the pool when that is done (rename stgpool). Or better yet, rename the old pool and create the new one with the old name. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New device Hi *SM-ers! I will receive a new library tomorrow. We will switch from a 3494 to a Ultrium 3584. I will have to migrate all my data to the new library, but I don't want to create new storagepools (standard naming convention, listed in various reference support manuals you know...). My current tapepool is using deviceclass 3590, what happens when I change the device class for the tapepool to the newly created deviceclass 3580? Can I still access the 'old' data on 3590 tapes? If so, I can use the next storage pool parameter to migrate all 3590 data to the new 3580 tapes, while all diskpool migrations go to the new 3580 devices. Thanks in advance for any reply! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: linux, ext3, and V4.2
Sorry about this. I had asked the workstation owner to try this, and thought that they had. Apparently not, as virtualmountpoints work just fine. Thanks! Steve Roder wrote: Hi All, We are recently beginning to backup some Linux boxes, and have run into the limitation whereby the EXT3 filesystems are not supported by TSM V4.2. The doc claims that they can be backed up in compatibility mode, but it does not explain how to accomplish this. Does anyone here know how to backup these filesystems? Here is what they look like in /etc/fstab: LABEL=// ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boot/boot ext3defaults1 2 LABEL=/boot2 /boot2 ext3defaults1 2 LABEL=/root2 /root2 ext3defaults1 2 And of course, the followup question to Tivoli, if they are listening, is if support for ext3 is planned? For now, it would be nice to enable backups of these filesystems in this so called compatibility mode. Hi Steve, Just try the following option in your dsm.sys file: virtualmountpoint / virtualmountpoint /boot virtualmountpoint /boot2 virtualmountpoint /root2 Regards, -- ~ Jaap P. Dijkshoorn Systems Programmer http://home.sara.nl/~jaapd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Steve Roder, University at Buffalo HOD Service Coordinator VM Systems Programmer UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX) TSM/ADSM Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564 | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Maybe it is necesary update the library and drives firmware. Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] con fecha 09/01/2002 17:20:52 Por favor, responda a ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatarios: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: (cci: Juan Manuel Lopez Azaqon/NATIONAL) Asunto: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
HELP me with DIR backup
I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on an IBM ESA system. I currently have an incremental backup schedule for a node called LDMZDC01which is backed up daily and retained for 45 days. I now have a further requirement to back up a web directory assoc sub-dirs once per week of server LDMZDC01 and retain this for 6 years. I know I can achieve this by using the command function and archiving the directory and all sub directories to a different management class and storage pools. The downside of this being that I will retain a full archive copy of this data for every week for 6 years, approx. 312 copies. This would take up considerable cartridge and/or disk space. Does anyone know of a way to weekly incrementally backup this data? Without impacting my daily incremental backup of the disk thanks john John Doherty Technical Specialist Storage Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 141 275 7793 Fax: +44 (0) 141 275 9199 Email communications are not necessarily secure and may be intercepted or changed after they are sent. Abbey National Financial and Investment Services does not accept liability for any such changes. If you wish to confirm the origin or content of this communication, please contact the sender using an alternative means of communication. This communication does not create or modify any contract. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication you should destroy it without copying, disclosing or otherwise using its contents. Please notify the sender immediately of the error. ABBEY NATIONAL FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT SERVICES plc Registered Office Abbey National House 287 St Vincent Street Glasgow G2 5NB United Kingdom Registered in Scotland No 159852 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Scheduling backups with BACKHOME!/TSM
Hi *SMers! Our Tandem guys want to backup one of their boxes using Backhome!/TSM but on a regular scheduled basis (which I don't believe Backhome can manage of itself). I don't think that there is a TSM scheduler available for the Tandem platform. Has anyone got any advice on the best way to go about doing this? TIA, Matt Thomas * internal.7-430-3213 * external. 020-7922-3213 * fax020-7922-3302 * e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. evolvebank.com is a division of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 71 Lombard Street, London EC3P 3BS. Registered in England, number 2065. Telephone No: 020 7626 1500 Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, Henry Duncan House, 120 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4LH. Registered in Scotland, number 95237. Telephone No: 0131 225 4555 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are regulated by the Personal Investment Authority and represent only the Scottish Widows and Lloyds TSB Marketing Group for life assurance, pensions and investment business. Members of the UK Banking Ombudsman Scheme and signatories to the UK Banking Code. ---
Re: TSM 4.2.1.6 not talking to 3584 Library
I would check to make sure that NT didn't change the actual device names on the reboot. Verify that the LB1.1.0.3 that TSM knows about it really the name NT (still) has for it. Also check out the drives DEVICE= against the NT device names. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin Meldrum Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 4.2.1.6 not talking to 3584 Library Hi all, We have a -: 3584 Fibre attached library with 3 LTO drives in it. TSM server is NT4 SP6a, TSM Version 4.2.1.6. Server has been running for three weeks at this level The server crashed today with Dr Watson error. Library and Server were shut down and restarted. The library has come up and all tape drives / diagnostics run fine. The Server has come up and it can see the Library and Tape drives from operating system level. Q drive and Q server respond saying drives and library are online. Sessions are connecting to the server, I can do incremental database backups etc.. When I try to do a check out / or check in of a tape (or load on into tape drive) I get error -: ANR8840E Unable to open device LB1.1.0.3 with error -1 ANR8826E No Entry/Exit found on library LB1.1.0.3 Basically - Server can not send commands to tape library. Has anybody run across this problem before, have any helpful hints ? Thanks for any ideas you have. Martin Meldrum. SIC (Systems Integration Consultant), SIS (Systems Integration Support) Team Norwich Union Australia Ltd Ph 03 9829 8703 Mbl 0407 920 739 Fax 03 9829 8147 *** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please let us know by reply email or phone and delete all copies from your computer system. ***
Re: SQL Backup Protocol error
01/09/2002 16:15:08 ANR0444W Protocol error on session 17311 for node DP4PP2SQL (TDP MSSQL NT) - out-of-sequence verb (type Data) received. Niklas, A few things to try... make sure you are at the latest TSM API. I have seen some protocol errors caused by the TSM API level. I have also seen this when there is no data to back up. And if the TSM API and TDP for SQL did not change, and it just started happening yesterday with no other system changes, it is probably the nature of the data that is causing the problem. Is it ALL databases or just a certain database? What does the TDP SQL log report as a problem? If it continues to happen, I would recommend calling IBM Service. A TDP and API trace would help diagose the problem. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave
Re: Can't access TDP SQL /fileinfo metadata
Del, MOUNTWAITFORDATA is set to yes and shows so in the query. The SQL name is correct. We have the DESTINATION set to tapepool in preparation for SAN backups. I'm running a test to see if going to a diskpool makes a difference, because that's what my test servers do. Ah, now it works. I can see the container files in the RELOCATE screen. This is temporarily not a problem because I'll set up an include to send the metadata to a non-migrating diskpool. Once we go to a SAN backup, is this going to be a problem? According to the Storage Agent documentation, I can't have a disk storage pool as a destination, but the new pool isn't a destination for the data. Naturally, I know you thought of that and it will work, Del. Conclusion - with this version of TDP SQL 2.2 I must have the metadata in a diskpool in order to RELOCATE the data during a restore. The query of the fileinfo will fail with an ACO0151E. The GUI RELOCATE will simply yield a blank window with no container files showing, and therefore, you will be unable to do the relocate. Thanks for the help! Bill Smoldt STORServer, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't access TDP SQL /fileinfo metadata I have several TDP SQL agents backing up Microsoft SQL 2000. Two of them can't retrieve the fileinfo data with the command: tdpsqlc query tsm Northwind full /fileinfo They return the error ACO0151E. . . . Any ideas how I can fix this? Bill, I have one idea. If you enter the command: tdpsqlc query tdp Do you have: MOUNTWaitfordata .. Yes This must be Yes in order for meta data that has migrated to tape to be accessed. If that's not it... read on... Try Joel's suggestion... If Joel's ideas do not resolve the situation, please place a call with IBM/Tivoli support. A trace will help explain what is going wrong. Service will have you add the following options to the tdpsqlc command: -tracefile=tdpsqlc.trc -traceflag=all,api That will produce data that will help diagnose what is going wrong with the TSM query. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave
Quantum DLT 8000
Hi... every one..!!! I have a TSM Server version 4.2.0.0 and y 4 DLT Quantum 8000. The problem is when the server startup. I suppose that I have a conflict whit the device driver of TSM (adsmscsi.sys) and the native driver of tape drivers (qntmdlt.sys). When it is running the adsmscsi.sys, the drivers of quantum doesn't work and can't startup. And when I want try a media labeling operation, I receive a message error unsupported operation Anybody know what is the problem or is the adsmscsi.sys support the quantum dlt 8000 ? Thank you very much for your help Best regards. Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
Re: Subfile Backup Experience
One of our TSM servers backs up approx. 350 Wintel desktops nightly, plus about 30 Windows UNIX servers. Our users keep their .pst files on their desktops, rather than on the fileserver. Our daily load has been growing steadily, doubling every year, and I determined that the biggest chunk of the growth was those .pst files. I turned on subfile backup last Nov. 1 for all our desktops via a client option set. I let it grab everything, not just the .pst files, and it has dropped my daily load by about 30%! Haven't had ANY problem with it. I tested extensively on .pst files of my own, and I haven't been able to break it. And we have successfully done 4 bare-metal restores since implementing it. I'm a happy camper! TSM 4.1.3 for AIX; all TSM clients are 4.2.0; desktops are WIn2K PRO SP1 SP2. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subfile Backup Experience Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst files (Outlook) The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night over a 2 MBit line. I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst Files with exclude.subfile * include.subfile ?:\...\*.pst Does anyone has experience doing subfilebackup for fileservers? With Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:\\[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Perhaps if y ou included some representitive samples of the errors so the SCSI error codes there is some hope of helping you with the problem. Pull some from your O/S errpt and TSM actl. Cheers George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Strange 3590/3494-volume-behavior..?
Yes, you were right.
After restarting the server, the volume was available for use again.
Strange..
Anyway, thanks to all who spent a few seconds in helping me out...
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Rainer Wolf wrote:
Hello,
mabe you just need to halt and restart the server.
I had the same phaenomen some weeks ago with volumes, that have been
written directly by clients and at the same time the log file has reached
100 % before the triggered DBbackup has ended ...
( this should not normally happen )
first I tried the same as you ( 3494/3590/tsm4.1.3.0 ) and the restart did it
... the volumes became accessible as usual.
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Rainer Wolf
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Tom Tann{s wrote:
Hello TSM'ers!
I have a problem with a volume in my 3494-library..
Tsm-server is 4.2.1.7, AIX.
I discovered the problem a few days ago, when trying to move data from the
volume to another stg-pool.
Tsm incists that the volume is inaccessible.
An audit also result in the same:
01/07/2002 16:57:05 ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume ORA052
- storage media inaccessible.
The volume was dropped by the gripper a week or so ago, but it was
re-entered via the recovery-cell. I have inventoried the frame, audited
the library on the tsm-server. A manual mount,
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -m -f/dev/rmt1 -VORA052 /mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -d -f/dev/rmt1
work fine.
I've even done checkout/checkin libvol.
But now I'm stuck...
ANy suggestions on where to look/what to try, would be appreciated...
Tom
tsm: SUMOq libvol 3494 ORA052
Library Name Volume Name Status OwnerLast UseHome Element
--- -- -- -
3494 ORA052Private
sumo# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -VORA052
Volume Data:
volume state.00
logical volume...No
volume class.3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape
volume type..HPCT 320m nominal length
volser...ORA052
category.012C
subsystem affinity...03 04 01 02 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
tsm: SUMOq vol ora052 f=d
Volume Name: ORA052
Storage Pool Name: ORATAPE
Device Class Name: BCKTAPE
Estimated Capacity (MB): 40,960.0
Pct Util: 42.1
Volume Status: Filling
Access: Read/Write
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0
Scratch Volume?: No
In Error State?: No
Number of Writable Sides: 1
Number of Times Mounted: 35
Write Pass Number: 2
Approx. Date Last Written: 12/24/2001 05:29:05
Approx. Date Last Read: 12/11/2001 04:50:20
Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
Number of Read Errors: 0
Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator): TOM
Last Update Date/Time: 01/07/2002 16:49:34
Lanfree backup problem with multiple management classes
Hello, I have problem with lanfree backups (they are not completly lanfree in some cases). I submited it as PMR 12204 in Tivoli. When I have multiple management classes in active policy set and size of first file to back up was smaller than TXNBYTELIMIT (default is 2000k), then this buffer was written trough LAN. Rest of files were written trough SAN (to the same storage pool). This in not a case when only one management class is defined. Problem is that in this behavior backup process needs one more mountpoint than I would expect... Could somebody please test/confirm/disprove described behavior? In following example I have lowered TXNBYTELIMIT to 300. You can see ANS1114I message twice: jupiter:/test# ls -l total 2496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 204800 Jan 4 12:11 a6 jupiter:/test# dsmc sel pwd / Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2001, All Rights Reserved. Selective Backup function invoked. Node Name: JUPITER Session established with server TSMSRV: Solaris 7/8 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.8 Server date/time: 01/04/02 12:16:49 Last access: 01/04/02 12:11:03 Directory-- 512 /test [Sent] Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a2 [Sent] ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. Retry # 1 Directory-- 512 /test [Sent] Retry # 1 Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a2 [Sent] Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a3 ** Unsuccessful ** ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. Retry # 1 Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a3 [Sent] Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a4 [Sent] Normal File-- 204,800 /test/a1 [Sent] ... Environment: Software: Solaris 8, Solaris 7 IBMtape 4.4.0.7 TSM Server 4.2.1.8 TSM StorageAgent 4.2.1.8 TSM BA Client 4.2.1.15 (and older) Hardware: Sun Fire V880 Sun Enterprise 1 QLA2200 HBA IBM Scalable Tape Library 3583 with 3 LTO drives and SAN Data GW -- rado b Why Did You Reboot That Machine?
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Try powering off and then powering on the drives, or the whole library. Works for me most of the time. -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Quantum DLT 8000
If you used the adsmscsi.sys you have to disable DLT Drive and Library from NT/2K Drivers. If it is an TSM 4.2 on WinTel platform. Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Quantum DLT 8000 Hi... every one..!!! I have a TSM Server version 4.2.0.0 and y 4 DLT Quantum 8000. The problem is when the server startup. I suppose that I have a conflict whit the device driver of TSM (adsmscsi.sys) and the native driver of tape drivers (qntmdlt.sys). When it is running the adsmscsi.sys, the drivers of quantum doesn't work and can't startup. And when I want try a media labeling operation, I receive a message error unsupported operation Anybody know what is the problem or is the adsmscsi.sys support the quantum dlt 8000 ? Thank you very much for your help Best regards. Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
Re: Strange 3590/3494-volume-behavior..?
Hello,
there is an open apar that addresses your situation.
This is apar PQ55669. The problem is that there may be
orphan entries in a TSM table in the db that prevents
the volume from being acessed again until the server
is restarted. There is no fix for this yet.
Regards,
-
Rejean Larivee
TSM/ADSM Level 2 Support
Tom Tann{s
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3590/3494-volume-behavior..?
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Stor Manager
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Please respond
to ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager
Yes, you were right.
After restarting the server, the volume was available for use again.
Strange..
Anyway, thanks to all who spent a few seconds in helping me out...
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Rainer Wolf wrote:
Hello,
mabe you just need to halt and restart the server.
I had the same phaenomen some weeks ago with volumes, that have been
written directly by clients and at the same time the log file has reached
100 % before the triggered DBbackup has ended ...
( this should not normally happen )
first I tried the same as you ( 3494/3590/tsm4.1.3.0 ) and the restart
did it
... the volumes became accessible as usual.
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Rainer Wolf
__
Rainer Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: 0731-50-22482 Fax: 0731-50-22471
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Tom Tann{s wrote:
Hello TSM'ers!
I have a problem with a volume in my 3494-library..
Tsm-server is 4.2.1.7, AIX.
I discovered the problem a few days ago, when trying to move data from
the
volume to another stg-pool.
Tsm incists that the volume is inaccessible.
An audit also result in the same:
01/07/2002 16:57:05 ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for
volume ORA052
- storage media inaccessible.
The volume was dropped by the gripper a week or so ago, but it was
re-entered via the recovery-cell. I have inventoried the frame, audited
the library on the tsm-server. A manual mount,
mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -m -f/dev/rmt1 -VORA052 /mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -d
-f/dev/rmt1
work fine.
I've even done checkout/checkin libvol.
But now I'm stuck...
ANy suggestions on where to look/what to try, would be appreciated...
Tom
tsm: SUMOq libvol 3494 ORA052
Library Name Volume Name Status OwnerLast UseHome
Element
--- -- -- -
3494 ORA052Private
sumo# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -VORA052
Volume Data:
volume state.00
logical volume...No
volume class.3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape
volume type..HPCT 320m nominal length
volser...ORA052
category.012C
subsystem affinity...03 04 01 02 00 00 00 00
Re: Fw: DIRMC
3. I discovered that it did not matter what MC the directories where bond to. The directory structures are saved in the TSM data base. You are correct in that most directories are stored in the TSM data base. They are stored there as long as they can be described in less than some number of bytes, which I think is 256. If the name plus the access control information exceeds the number of bytes, then its written to the dirmc. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Al Narzisi wrote: TSM'ers, I am resending. Does anybody know what the story is on directories? Thanks, Al - Original Message - From: Al Narzisi To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: DIRMC I am still not clear where or when the use of DIRMC may have changed from what I understood from the red book Getting Started with TSM. In the red book example, a separate management class pointed to by DIRMC in dsmopt of the client was created to send directory structures to a disk storage pool. This would allow rapid restoration of the directory structures during recovery. During testing, I discovered (Win2K server and Win2K client TSM 4.1): 1. Even if you use DIRMC to define the management class of directories, the directories would still default to the management class with the highest retention value. Only after coding NOLIMIT on the management class pointed to by DIRMC, did the directories get bond to the management class coded for DIRMC. 2. After the directories where bonded to the correct management class ( a MC that had a backup copy group with a destination of a disk storage pool defined exclusively for my directories), I discovered that the directories did not go to that storage pool. 3. I discovered that it did not matter what MC the directories where bond to. The directory structures are saved in the TSM data base. So, can anyone enlighten me on when this change occurred? The red book obviously does not indicate this behavior for the management of directory structures. Am I missing something here? Are there any considerations for TSM DB sizing because the directory structures are stored in the DB? Where is this documented? Thanks for your input, Al
Reuse the tapes.
I have been working with TSM to make backups of my servers. The TSM server is on Windows NT and It is working with tapes too. The TSM makes backups and keep it in hard disk, after sends the data to tapes. But I want to reuse the tapes again. What can I do?
Re: TSM server not responding...
Title: Maize Look for filesystem where ur db volumes are installed . df -k|grep filesystem name %used should not beabove 90%. If so expand filesystem through smitty fs. -Original Message-From: Dixon, Swonda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:04 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191
Re: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session.
How many different management classes are defined for use within your TDP/R3 configuration file ? (are all the management classes the same one ? ) For example, we have a different management class used for the logs because they are more important than the db files themselves... that is, if you have the redo logs, you can restore a table space from a backup other than the most recent and bring it back to current by applying redo logs BUT if you don't have the redo logs, you can't even get current from your most recent copy of a table space. So with that said, we push our logs into a management class using a storage pool that has a copy pool associated with it (to protect against data loss due to media failure) and all the .dbf's go into a management class using a storage pool that is only one tape copy. (we have more data than could be copied in a day... TB's of compressed data daily) just a thought... Dwight -Original Message- From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session. Hi All... I4m using TSM 4.2, TDP for R3 3.2.0.6 in a SAN environment. When the backup with TDP begins, TSM mounts a tape and all the database data is backed up, after the DB backup TSM dismounts the tape and mounts another one to backup control data (logs, aff). The second 100 GB LTO tape just have 500 KB of occupancy. It occurrs in the same backup session. The backup is using two tapes in the same session. Thanks for the help... Jorge Rodrmguez Caracas-Venezuela _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: log pruning
Hello SM' users, I am looking for a parameter or similar commmand (schedlogretention 10,d) to prune my domdsm.log, dominc.log, domisch.log, and dsierror.log. Please excuse my greenness. I appreciate all y'alls conversions. Very good info.
TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session.
Hi All... I4m using TSM 4.2, TDP for R3 3.2.0.6 in a SAN environment. When the backup with TDP begins, TSM mounts a tape and all the database data is backed up, after the DB backup TSM dismounts the tape and mounts another one to backup control data (logs, aff). The second 100 GB LTO tape just have 500 KB of occupancy. It occurrs in the same backup session. The backup is using two tapes in the same session. Thanks for the help... Jorge Rodrmguez Caracas-Venezuela _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: Fw: DIRMC
Al, I have set up my TSM system similarly. I have a dedicated disk pool (devclass=disk) of 1 GB and DIRMC/Mgtclasses pointing to it. At present it is about 6% full and I backup about 3-5 MB / day to my copypool, so SOMETHING is being written into that area. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation Al Narzisi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 08:44:37 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Fw: DIRMC TSM'ers, I am resending. Does anybody know what the story is on directories? Thanks, Al - Original Message - From: Al Narzisi To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: DIRMC I am still not clear where or when the use of DIRMC may have changed from what I understood from the red book Getting Started with TSM. In the red book example, a separate management class pointed to by DIRMC in dsmopt of the client was created to send directory structures to a disk storage pool. This would allow rapid restoration of the directory structures during recovery. During testing, I discovered (Win2K server and Win2K client TSM 4.1): 1. Even if you use DIRMC to define the management class of directories, the directories would still default to the management class with the highest retention value. Only after coding NOLIMIT on the management class pointed to by DIRMC, did the directories get bond to the management class coded for DIRMC. 2. After the directories where bonded to the correct management class ( a MC that had a backup copy group with a destination of a disk storage pool defined exclusively for my directories), I discovered that the directories did not go to that storage pool. 3. I discovered that it did not matter what MC the directories where bond to. The directory structures are saved in the TSM data base. So, can anyone enlighten me on when this change occurred? The red book obviously does not indicate this behavior for the management of directory structures. Am I missing something here? Are there any considerations for TSM DB sizing because the directory structures are stored in the DB? Where is this documented? Thanks for your input, Al
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Here is a look at what the message is giving me in the actlog when it fails. It looks just like a plan tape error: ANR8499I Command accepted. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8300E I/O error on library MAGSTAR (OP=6C03, CC=314, KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0E, SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.0- 0.00.48.00.00.00.00.3B.0E.FF.02.00.A8.00.00.1E.09.01.00- .00.00.00.00.00.00.A5.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.32.38.37.20.20.20.20- .00., Description=The source slot or drive was empty in an attempt to move a volume). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANRD mmsscsi.c(10695): Could not move volume 1DA7D from slot 31 to slot 16. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 31 of library MAGSTAR at your convenience. After this the drive then goes offline. So when the archive runs at 22:30 this is the message it gets: 01/05/02 22:41:20 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library MAGSTAR. 01/05/02 22:41:21 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. When i look at the error message in the O/S errpt this is what i see 4865FA9B 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 476B351D 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE DRIVE FAILURE 0F78A011 0108011902 T H rmt1 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE Any ideas??? Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170 -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape Drive Failures Perhaps if y ou included some representitive samples of the errors so the SCSI error codes there is some hope of helping you with the problem. Pull some from your O/S errpt and TSM actl. Cheers George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Reuse the tapes.
generally, normal data expiration allows for the tapes to ~roll~ scratch again. files will expire based on associated management class copy group settings. (and having expire inventory run, expireinterval of 0 says don't automatically run expiration and you need an admin schedule to run expire inventory or you just need to manually run it.) OK, if all that is hap'n a full tape with a low % utilized might need to have reclamation run against it. it is best if you have at least two tape drives for reclamation but it is possible with just one. (see the user's guide for misc info on running reclamation) hope this helps later, Dwight -Original Message- From: Nazir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reuse the tapes. I have been working with TSM to make backups of my servers. The TSM server is on Windows NT and It is working with tapes too. The TSM makes backups and keep it in hard disk, after sends the data to tapes. But I want to reuse the tapes again. What can I do?
Re: Client Compression question
Hi Stefan, Using compression will really slow down the backup - mostly in backup mode, but in restore as well. If you set the format parameter in the device class to drive (instead of a fixed number) you will get both the benefit of a dynamic device class with regard to number of drives (for additional drive installations and drive failure(s)) and you will enable automatic hardware compression. This compression is better than the software based compression, however when the system is queried, the number returned will reflect raw data sizes, not compressed data sizes. Client side (software based) compression or server side (software based compression) will work in conjunction with library based hardware compression however you will not receive any compression benefit by running both and the numbers returned upon query will not reflect the actual size of data on the tape. In some cases an already compressed file has taken 15 minutes while software based compression tried to re-compress it. The impact is not small. Remember, this is based on the device class specification of format=drive, and may not be applicable to all drives, but only those with compression capabilities. We currently use LTO based native fiber drives. Choosing one method of compression over the other will improve performance and specifying hardware compression while forcing off software compression should really improve performance. Another neat performance tuning trick (as I'm sure you already know) is to backup to a hard drive initially, and then force migration (set the pool to migrate hi=0 lo=0 in a script, and then set it back to normal again after an hour or so) to de-stage the data off the hard disk and onto tape. This allows multiple sessions (sessions are not limited to number of available tape drives) and hard disk is generally faster as a storage pool. Let me know if this helps, Kevin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Client Compression question We are using client compression for backup of a 1,5 TByte NAS system.(F760) (reason is to have apparently larger disk storage pools) Backup is done using 5 different nodes on the same machine (Dual 1 GHz P3) to have the opportiunity to restore with 5 sessions. During backup i can see about 3-4 MByte per second on the network to the TSM-server on MVS. Restoretests for the netapp system seem to have a limit with this compressed data at 8-9 MB per second. (only if tapes 3590-B a filled well) At this speed (can be observed over a longer period) TSM client and NAS system have nearly 100% CPU load. The data a typical userdata - many small and some large Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sotonyi Attila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2002 12:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Client Compression question HI, With many small files this performance is not quite bad, but I think you should tuning you system. What kind of library you're using? Is compression set to enabled at drive and client level? If yes do not use this. Üdv, Sótonyi Attila mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified TSM 4.1 admin MÁV Informatika Kft. Tel.:06(1)457-9372 Hi. I have been testing Novell backups and restores using a Compaq proliant 8500 as the client box. We have been seeing ok performance of approx 10 gb an hour for backups and restores, of 1 million objects. This applies both to Netware compressed and Netware uncompressed volumes. However when I try TSM client compression on a backup of a netware uncompressed volume, the performance drops to 1 gb. an hour. It is not a resource problem the compaq cpu is hardly stirring, but it is definitely the TSM compression that is taking up the time (TSM tracing shows it as 89% of the total time) I always believed in the past that slow performance with client compression was down to lack of cpu on the client box, but there is cpu to spare with this configuration. My question is :- Is 1 gb an hour the best performance I that I can expect using TSM compression or can anyone think of reasons why that is all I am achieving ? thanks ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Bill, I would get IBM involved. We have 3575s and recently retired a 3570. Over the years we've seen drive heads wear out, analog cards fail, picker hardware wear out, etc. When those things occur, the symptoms are exactly what you describe. Operations slowly get worse. Tab Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Subfile Backup Experience
Hi again Stefan. With subfiles you will need to do a reconciliatory backup (full backup) each week. If your LAN can support this, then subfiles will really help reduce the differential percentage based on automatically selecting block, byte or file level adaptive differencing. Be careful that the cache file is not touched by an operator, and make sure to run a full backup once a week, and you'll be fine. Kevin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subfile Backup Experience Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst files (Outlook) The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night over a 2 MBit line. I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst Files with exclude.subfile * include.subfile ?:\...\*.pst Does anyone has experience doing subfilebackup for fileservers? With Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:\\[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Its no dought drive failure .Run diag on Magstar Tape drive from front LCD Panel. Balanand -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape Drive Failures Here is a look at what the message is giving me in the actlog when it fails. It looks just like a plan tape error: ANR8499I Command accepted. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8300E I/O error on library MAGSTAR (OP=6C03, CC=314, KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0E, SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.0- 0.00.48.00.00.00.00.3B.0E.FF.02.00.A8.00.00.1E.09.01.00- .00.00.00.00.00.00.A5.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.32.38.37.20.20.20.20- .00., Description=The source slot or drive was empty in an attempt to move a volume). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANRD mmsscsi.c(10695): Could not move volume 1DA7D from slot 31 to slot 16. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 31 of library MAGSTAR at your convenience. After this the drive then goes offline. So when the archive runs at 22:30 this is the message it gets: 01/05/02 22:41:20 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library MAGSTAR. 01/05/02 22:41:21 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. When i look at the error message in the O/S errpt this is what i see 4865FA9B 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 476B351D 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE DRIVE FAILURE 0F78A011 0108011902 T H rmt1 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE Any ideas??? Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170 -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape Drive Failures Perhaps if y ou included some representitive samples of the errors so the SCSI error codes there is some hope of helping you with the problem. Pull some from your O/S errpt and TSM actl. Cheers George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: TSM server not responding...
If the filesystem is solely dedicated to TSM database volumes, does it matter if the usage is above 90%? (an honest question) PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) wrote: Look for filesystem where ur db volumes are installed . df -k|grep filesystem name %used should not be above 90%. If so expand filesystem through smitty fs. -Original Message- From: Dixon, Swonda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message:THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191 Name: Nature Bkgrd.jpg Nature Bkgrd.jpgType: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Encoding: base64
GenericTape Device Type Problems
Currently I am running ADSM V3 AIX server using STK 9840 Drives. The Device class I am using uses a DEVTYPE of GENERICTAPE. This was required years ago by the 3rd party vender OMI (Now known as Gresham Technologies) when using their Advantape Device driver for AIX. Well the problem I am running into now is I am attempting to convert to my new TSM V4.2 server on another physical machine. The conversion and UPGRADE DB works like a champ, the problem is when I try and access my data on my 9840 tapes I get an I/O error reading the Tape labels. The only way to correct this is to use a DEVCLASS that has a DEVTYPE of ECARTRIDGE. This works I know because I was able to test it. The BIG problem comes in where TSM gives you no way to update the DEVTYPE in a Device class definition. I am currently working with TSM Level 2 support on this issue with no real progress as of yet. TSM support is telling me that I need to create a new Tape Primary storage pool on my ADSM V3.1 that is using a DEVCLASS of ECART. Tried this also and I get similar errors when trying to write to this new Devtype on the old server. So I am stuck right now with my conversion. Has anyone out there run into this problem before, and if so, what did you do to get around it. Thanks for your input. Brice Hamilton Sr. Systems Engineer Provider HealthNet Services, Inc. (225) 381-6436 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Looks to me like you need to do an AUDIT LIBRARY libname CHECKL=BARCODE. TSM keeps its own library inventory. If someone opens the library and removes a tape or moves them around, TSM's inventory will be out of sync with what's really in there. This can also happen on some libraries if the library auto-loads tapes through the entry-exit ports while tapes are in drives... the new tapes may go into the home slot of a mounted tape... happened to us on our ATL P3000, so we turned off auto-load. Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs Bill Wheeler Bill.Wheeler@LA- Z-BOY.COMTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) 01/09/02 03:03 PM Subject: Please respond toRe: Tape Drive Failures ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Here is a look at what the message is giving me in the actlog when it fails. It looks just like a plan tape error: ANR8499I Command accepted. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8300E I/O error on library MAGSTAR (OP=6C03, CC=314, KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0E, SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.0- 0.00.48.00.00.00.00.3B.0E.FF.02.00.A8.00.00.1E.09.01.00- .00.00.00.00.00.00.A5.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.32.38.37.20.20.20.20- .00., Description=The source slot or drive was empty in an attempt to move a volume). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANRD mmsscsi.c(10695): Could not move volume 1DA7D from slot 31 to slot 16. 01/05/02 08:58:03 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 31 of library MAGSTAR at your convenience. After this the drive then goes offline. So when the archive runs at 22:30 this is the message it gets: 01/05/02 22:41:20 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library MAGSTAR. 01/05/02 22:41:21 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. When i look at the error message in the O/S errpt this is what i see 4865FA9B 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 476B351D 0108012102 P H rmt1 TAPE DRIVE FAILURE 0F78A011 0108011902 T H rmt1 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE Any ideas??? Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170 -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape Drive Failures Perhaps if y ou included some representitive samples of the errors so the SCSI error codes there is some hope of helping you with the problem. Pull some from your O/S errpt and TSM actl. Cheers George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: TSM server not responding...
U need to say dsmadmc username passwd q db see max % util u will know the util value. But if dbsize has reached max value of file system then no more space will be available. -Original Message- From: Adam J Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM server not responding... If the filesystem is solely dedicated to TSM database volumes, does it matter if the usage is above 90%? (an honest question) PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) wrote: Look for filesystem where ur db volumes are installed . df -k|grep filesystem name %used should not be above 90%. If so expand filesystem through smitty fs. -Original Message- From: Dixon, Swonda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message:THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191 Name: Nature Bkgrd.jpg Nature Bkgrd.jpgType: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Encoding: base64
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap
When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Return code=4 on scheduled backap
Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap
I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 03:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Re: Quantum DLT 8000
Thanks Eric for your help but I did that you say, and I receive the same message. I try another method to media labeling (command line) and the message is Unable to find message repository for language AMENG I saw the dsmserv.opt and in the section LANG say AMENG Thank's again !!! Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina Boireau, Eric (MED)To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@M cc: ED.GE.COMSubject: Re: Quantum DLT 8000 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 09/01/2002 16:22 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If you used the adsmscsi.sys you have to disable DLT Drive and Library from NT/2K Drivers. If it is an TSM 4.2 on WinTel platform. Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Quantum DLT 8000 Hi... every one..!!! I have a TSM Server version 4.2.0.0 and y 4 DLT Quantum 8000. The problem is when the server startup. I suppose that I have a conflict whit the device driver of TSM (adsmscsi.sys) and the native driver of tape drivers (qntmdlt.sys). When it is running the adsmscsi.sys, the drivers of quantum doesn't work and can't startup. And when I want try a media labeling operation, I receive a message error unsupported operation Anybody know what is the problem or is the adsmscsi.sys support the quantum dlt 8000 ? Thank you very much for your help Best regards. Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
Re: Can't access TDP SQL /fileinfo metadata
Conclusion - with this version of TDP SQL 2.2 I must have the metadata in a diskpool in order to RELOCATE the data during a restore. The query of the fileinfo will fail with an ACO0151E. The GUI RELOCATE will simply yield a blank window with no container files showing, and therefore, you will be unable to do the relocate. Bill, Directing meta data to always accessible disk storage is a good idea anyway. And your technique with the INCLUDE statement is how we recommend customers do that. (See Chapter 3 of the User's Guide.) Butsomething still doesn't seem right here... Even if the meta data is on tape... it should work... It just may take a little while for the meta data to be retrieved and filled in on those screens... but it should work. I would open a call with IBM support. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celebrate we will. Life is short but sweet for certain... -- Dave
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup
Archives are not considered successful unless every file in your file spec is backed up successfully. If one or more files fail, then the archive will be flagged as failed. The idea behind this is that archives are for long-term storage, and that if you are looking to store the files for an extended period of time, it is important that they *all* get archived. Thus anything other than 100% of the files being archived will result in the failed event. For the next release, we are planning on handling this a little differently: - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where all the files are processed successfully will have a status of Success and a return code of 0 (zero). If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '0' to the caller. - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where the *only* problems are skipped files will have a status of Success and a return code of 4. If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '4' to the caller. Thus the return code can be used to determine which events had skipped files (and thus require further investigation) and which did not. Standard caveat: This information is being provided on an informal basis, and does not constitute any formal announcement or commitment. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2002 14:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 03:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup
The problem to which you refer, APAR IC31844, is indeed fixed in 4.2.1.15 (and up). If you are running 4.2.1.15 and are encountering return code = 4, there is some other reason. Check your dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log files to see if there is some explanation therein. For example, if you have DOMAIN C: E: F: but there is no E: drive, then that could cause the rc 4. That isn't the only reason, just an example. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Guillaume Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2002 13:59 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Archive problems
Does anyone have any information as to why /usr/ on an AIX 4.3.3- 4.1.4 TSM= server, using TSM 4.1.3 client would take 52 hours to archive? It was al= most like it was hung but then a few kbs would change every 30 min or so. = All the other system files /var, /etc/, /home took a few minutes. Joy M. Harrison Sr. Systems Admin First Trust 717 17th St Suite #1700 Denver, CO 80217 303-294-5837 BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Joy Harrison TEL;WORK:(303) 293-2223 ORG:;Information Services EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:HarrisJ.PO-2.DomainFTC N:Harrison;Joy TITLE:Senior System Administrator X-GWUSERID:HarrisJ END:VCARD
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup
Many thanks... I have passed this info to my Windows admin (I am also the Unix admin) as I have only noted this problem so far on Windows based archives. He will be installing the 4.2.1.15 client on one of our windows boxes and we will test for a few days. If there are no other negative issues, we will probably jump to 4.2.1.15 client. Again, many thanks! George Lesho AFC Enterprises Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 04:11:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup Archives are not considered successful unless every file in your file spec is backed up successfully. If one or more files fail, then the archive will be flagged as failed. The idea behind this is that archives are for long-term storage, and that if you are looking to store the files for an extended period of time, it is important that they *all* get archived. Thus anything other than 100% of the files being archived will result in the failed event. For the next release, we are planning on handling this a little differently: - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where all the files are processed successfully will have a status of Success and a return code of 0 (zero). If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '0' to the caller. - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where the *only* problems are skipped files will have a status of Success and a return code of 4. If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '4' to the caller. Thus the return code can be used to determine which events had skipped files (and thus require further investigation) and which did not. Standard caveat: This information is being provided on an informal basis, and does not constitute any formal announcement or commitment. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2002 14:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 03:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Re: TSM server not responding...
No, Fill her to the brim. Anything you don't allocate is just wasted space. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia Adam J Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/2002 6:19:59 If the filesystem is solely dedicated to TSM database volumes, does it matter if the usage is above 90%? (an honest question) PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) wrote: Look for filesystem where ur db volumes are installed . df -k|grep filesystem name %used should not be above 90%. If so expand filesystem through smitty fs. -Original Message- From: Dixon, Swonda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server not responding... We have a TSM 4.3.3.0 and using AIX 3.7.2.0. We recently upgraded our TSM level from 4.3.2.0 to 4.3.3.0 . On the AIX side, I'm receiving an error message:THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE FILE SYSTEM At this point, we are unable to perform any activities. Can anyone assist me on where to check for this problem and what's a remedy for it? Swonda M. Dixon Systems Operator / Jr. RPG Programmer 803.581.9172 Chester Telephone Company 112 York Street Chester, SC 29706 803.385.2191 Name: Nature Bkgrd.jpg Nature Bkgrd.jpgType: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Encoding: base64 ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
3583 Medium Changer Not Found
All, I have installed a new 3583 LTO library and unfortunately Windows is not see it. I see the 2 LTO tape drives but the library does not show up at all. The 2 drives are connected on the other side of the SCSI bus from the library too so the bus is terminating properly. Also, the TSM device driver fails to start. It says The system cannot find the device specified. The device driver is set to start at boot and Windows 2000 Optical Support is enabled. Also, RSM is disabled. Windows 2000 SP2 TSM Server 4.2.1.7 IBM Ultrium Tape Driver 5.0.1.11 Adaptec 39160 with the latest drivers -- Joshua S. Bassi Freelance Consultant IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script procedure to automate updating 300+ NT TSM client password s
Don't do this. Use passwordaccess generate and let the server/client change the password periodically. That is what happens. Don't try to automate something that is already automated by the product. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Script procedure to automate updating 300+ NT TSM client password s My understanding is that if you expire the password you have to initiate a client session and type in the new password so that the scheduled session will run properly later that evening. The alternative is that the client / server session will have a TCP/IP communications failure as the password will not be recognized. This of course is providing you have password access set to generate in the client options file, and registration set to closed. Has this changed? I believe this is true as of version 3.1 of ADSM, but since installing and running TSM 4.2.1.7 I haven't tried it. Kevin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of taford Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Script procedure to automate updating 300+ NT TSM client password s Has anyone tempted such a task? Looking to streamline the administration of updating TSM client passwords every 90 days. Tim Ford System Manager Micron Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How reliable are your 3590 K media
We have recently installed two 3494 libraries utilising 3590 K media. I am experiencing media failures (I/O errors) for about 1 in 10 media when initializing with label libv. Some of the media does successfully initialize on the second or third attempt but this does not fill me with confidence. I have even had a situation were a tape was torn then wrapped itself around the internals of the drive when the mechanism snagged on a very poor splice on the tape. My question ... is anyone else noticing problems with K media. Yes or No, either way I am interested to know so I can see if there is a correlation between the media vendor (IE IBM, Immation BASF etc). Thanks Peter Griffin Sydney Water --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
Re: Script procedure to automate updating 300+ NT TSM client password s
My understanding is that if you expire the password you have to initiate a client session and type in the new password so that the scheduled session will run properly later that evening. The alternative is that the client / server session will have a TCP/IP communications failure as the password will not be recognized. This of course is providing you have password access set to generate in the client options file, and registration set to closed. Has this changed? I believe this is true as of version 3.1 of ADSM, but since installing and running TSM 4.2.1.7 I haven't tried it. Kevin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of taford Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Script procedure to automate updating 300+ NT TSM client password s Has anyone tempted such a task? Looking to streamline the administration of updating TSM client passwords every 90 days. Tim Ford System Manager Micron Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media
Likewise. Imation. We've upgraded uCode twice to no avail. Quit ordering them. Edward(Ed) J. Finnell, III Enterprise Systems/Proj. Mgr. url:www.ua.edu
Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media
Imation builds the tapes for IBM. We had early problems with K tapes because they had to change the packing, but nothing like what has been talked about here. We were an early user of K-Tapes. Typically, it is a whole case that is bad because of shipping damage to the tapes. The tapes must be packed in special packaging that should be there, but check. The tapes are shrink-wrapped with plastic in groups of 10. In a case of 30 there should be an egg-like packing around the tapes in the inner box. Then the inner box should be packed in an outer box with foam around it. If that is not the way you got them, then that is your problem. If you are having a number of tapes bad it still may be the microcode. I will have to check the level we are running, but I think it is the current GA. Recently, we purchased a lot of Imation tapes (the first ones were IBM). So far there have been no problems. Do the drives that you are using the tapes in have the green 2x sticker on them and a few internal green parts. If not that is your problem. You cannot use K tapes in a non-K drive. I do not know that it will prevent you from mounting them in the drive, though I thought that it would. The other piece we occasionally get is pressure errors FID 4. The next piece is handling of the tapes. You drop a K tape and it is probably dead. If you are doing offsite movements, make sure you purchase the turtle cases recommended by IBM and Imation or explain to your vendor to handle the cases gently. The next piece is the tapes should be shipped in a vertical position (on edge). Hope you get to the source of the problem. -Original Message- From: Edward(Ed) J. Finnell, III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media Likewise. Imation. We've upgraded uCode twice to no avail. Quit ordering them. Edward(Ed) J. Finnell, III Enterprise Systems/Proj. Mgr. url:www.ua.edu
Re: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session.
This gets into integrity and recovery issues. Typically, a database backup is never on the same tapes as the logs are. That way you can take any backup of the database and roll forward with the logs. You apparently have 2 different management classes or storage pools. What you have implemented is the way to do it probably, but you should see the same tape remounted for the next backup cycle unless you have used collation to somehow separate the data. -Original Message- From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for R3 uses two tapes in each session. Hi All... I4m using TSM 4.2, TDP for R3 3.2.0.6 in a SAN environment. When the backup with TDP begins, TSM mounts a tape and all the database data is backed up, after the DB backup TSM dismounts the tape and mounts another one to backup control data (logs, aff). The second 100 GB LTO tape just have 500 KB of occupancy. It occurrs in the same backup session. The backup is using two tapes in the same session. Thanks for the help... Jorge Rodrmguez Caracas-Venezuela _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: Quantum DLT 8000
It seems that there is an Path Issue. Does TSM working fine except this error. Do you have the dsmameng.txt in the \...\Tivoli\TSM\Server directory ? Do you have different version of ADSM/TSM Installed on the same box ? I already have this message (on client side = reinstall the client). For the server side ? Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quantum DLT 8000 Thanks Eric for your help but I did that you say, and I receive the same message. I try another method to media labeling (command line) and the message is Unable to find message repository for language AMENG I saw the dsmserv.opt and in the section LANG say AMENG Thank's again !!! Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina Boireau, Eric (MED)To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@M cc: ED.GE.COMSubject: Re: Quantum DLT 8000 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 09/01/2002 16:22 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If you used the adsmscsi.sys you have to disable DLT Drive and Library from NT/2K Drivers. If it is an TSM 4.2 on WinTel platform. Regards, Eric -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Quantum DLT 8000 Hi... every one..!!! I have a TSM Server version 4.2.0.0 and y 4 DLT Quantum 8000. The problem is when the server startup. I suppose that I have a conflict whit the device driver of TSM (adsmscsi.sys) and the native driver of tape drivers (qntmdlt.sys). When it is running the adsmscsi.sys, the drivers of quantum doesn't work and can't startup. And when I want try a media labeling operation, I receive a message error unsupported operation Anybody know what is the problem or is the adsmscsi.sys support the quantum dlt 8000 ? Thank you very much for your help Best regards. Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
