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
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
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
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
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
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]
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
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.
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
Thanks for all the HELP!
Ya'll are wonderfull . . . . .
Rick
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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]
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CC: (cci: Juan Manuel Lopez Azaqon/NATIONAL)
Asunto: Tape
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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:
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,
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
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?
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:
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,
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.
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
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
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-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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,
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.
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
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 !!!
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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