starting dsm parameter
Hi all, we have a large number of users (university) and so a really large /home/ filesystem with a lot of folders. We want to give the users the chance to backup their home-filesystem. So when they start the dsm-client (aix-5.1.1-version) on the fileserver they have to wait a long time when scrolling through folders. The old ADSM-client had a option which is given as an parameter called -DOMain=$USERDMS. It seems for me that the parameter is no longer given or renamed. Can you tell me the right syntax or if i can forget it? THX Kai Baumgart -- Kai Baumgart Hochschulrechenzentrum University of Kassel
Re: Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups
If you know which *EXACTLY* file you want to delete from TSM you can try the following: dsmc -virtualnode=RMAN node dsmc expire the file in question or dsmc expire -filelist=a list Later some tweaking of verd and reto may speed up the expiration. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups Hello I have old TDP for Oracle backups that I want to get rid of. This being the first time I used TDPO, I didn't use a nodename for each database, I used a nodename for each server. So now I have 3 or 4 databases using the same nodename. SOme of these databases have since disappeared and I am stuck with the backups. The Oracle admin can't seem to figure out how to get RMAN to delete the backups and since they are in the active state, they will never expire. I've opened a PMR on this and I'm hoping for a miracle. That Share request about being able to delete 1 file from backups and not only a filespace seems to me would be migty handy here. If anyone out there in TSM land has a recipe, please share. Thanks Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada
Re: Problem restoring NT server
I also had run into this a few clients back. I also had a problem open and didn't get anywhere. I've just done some 5.11 BMR restore tests and have not run into this - so it may be fixed (or I just haven't run into the same situation yet.) Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: June 13, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem restoring NT server Zoltan, I tried to pursue that problem for a while a couple of client releases ago, and got nowhere with level1. Didn't have time to pursue it to level 2, because it wasn't really doing us any harm. We do successful bare-metal restores (about 2 a month) and find everything is OK, even when we do get this message. I played around restoring one key at the time, and found the problem was not in the 4 major hives, so the machine still boots OK. I suspect (but can't prove) that this error occurs while it is trying to reload one of the profiles - maybe it can't load the current user profile key because it doesn't match the id currently logged on, or the S-ID key of the newly created adminstrator doesn't match the old one, or something like that. But that's just a suspicion. Anyway, we go ahead an reboot, and the system is OK. Of course, it's a crapshoot, because you would get the same un-helpful error if it was one of the critical hives that failed to reload, like the HARDWARE hive. If you can get past level 1, it's a problem that really does need to be fixed. Wanda -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem restoring NT server We are doing DR testing and are having issues trying to do a BMR on an NT box ! Getting the error message : ANS5206 An error replacing one or more registry keys Explanation: An error occurred replacing one or more registry keys. System Action: Processing stopped. User Response: Correct the command and retry the operation. This tells me nothing as to what to do since the error is coming from the GUI / 4.2.2 client. I/we did not issue a command and therefore can not correct the command and retry the operation. Any suggestions on what is happening ? I search ADSM.ORG but could only find 1-instance of this message number with no real answer. Haven't seen any updates to this client level. Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups
Guillaume, there was a thread on this problem quite a while ago. Just search the list for delete object 0. Using TSM's SQL interface you can select the object-id from each file you want to delete. Now you can create a macro file with line like delete object 0 46364523. To delete the objects run macro macrofile. Keep in mind that this is an undocumented feature. There probably is no support from Tivoli for this but it worked fine on our server to get rid of all the objects RMAN had not expired in TSM by error. Good luck, Michael -- Michael Bartl, Dipl. Inform. (FH) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Backup Services, IT Ops Germany/Austria Tel: +49-89-92699-806 Cable Wireless Deutschland GmbH. Fax: +49-89-92699-302 Landsberger Str. 155, D-80687 Muenchen http://www.cw.com/de -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Gilbert Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2002 21:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups Hello I have old TDP for Oracle backups that I want to get rid of. This being the first time I used TDPO, I didn't use a nodename for each database, I used a nodename for each server. So now I have 3 or 4 databases using the same nodename. SOme of these databases have since disappeared and I am stuck with the backups. The Oracle admin can't seem to figure out how to get RMAN to delete the backups and since they are in the active state, they will never expire. I've opened a PMR on this and I'm hoping for a miracle. That Share request about being able to delete 1 file from backups and not only a filespace seems to me would be migty handy here. If anyone out there in TSM land has a recipe, please share. Thanks Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada
Backing up DB2 on NT
Does anyone have some scripts they would like to share that perform backups of DB2 on an NT/2K platform using TSM? I'm trying to wade through the DB2 manuals, but I need to get the backups going. TIA, Bill Boyer DSS, Inc.
Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes
Hi Tab, What are the impact o fusing a FILE rather than a DISK devclass other than faster reclamation of copypool? Thanks for the info. Etienne Jack, It's been mentioned before, but if you use a disk pool for directories, you should make the disk pool a FILE devclass. When my directory disk pool was DISK devclass, copypool reclamation would launch and eight hours later I would have reclaimed a few tens of MBs. I rebuilt the directory disk pool as FILE devclass, and copy pool reclamation proceeds at full speed from the start. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation Coats, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/2002 03:35 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes I cannot find out how to speed me up either! Mine is slower than sin, on reclaiming my offsite copypools especially. -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes Hey there Maybe its because I'm used to using STK 9840 tapes but yesterday I saw an LTO tape at 25 % utilisation take almost 4 hours to reclaim, which to me is awful. How am I supposed to reclaim my tapes with that kind of performance?. The drives I use are IBM Ultriums in a 3584 library. With only 2 drives it makes it hard for users to do restores... Are there any options I can change to make this go a bit faster. I know the start/stop on LTO's isn't good. Thanks for the help. Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada
Re: TSM Platform ?
Next best choice is - stay where you are ! Or make some long-waited upgrades for 20% of the budget - you will get more. TSM stresses not the operating system itself (excluding TCP/IP stack) but the box. Thus the question is formulated bad and you will get bad answer. Ask yourself correct: We are on RS/6000 with N buses and M slots but TSM should not use more than half or third of them. We cannot afford IBM pSeries (not AIX) or Sun Fire (not Solrais) because of budget limitations. So why not to throw our money for an Intel-based box with 1/6xN buses and 1/5xM slots (Windows, Linux is still not having a TSM server) and *downgrade* the server there ??? I will not do it but you have the right to try! Guess what my TSM server's processor is doing - crunching nuts for distributed.net. Count what *does* affect the performance and forget for a while about bellswhistles. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM Platform ? Hi, Experts, We have TSM server installed on AIX 4.3.3 which is also the failover server for 2 other production servers. All production clients are AIX. We try to move TSM server to a dedicated one. We can get neither AIX nor Sun because of budget constraint, I think. What would be the next best choice? I was thinking of Linux. Thanks. Regards, Jin Bae Chi (Gus) Data Center 614-287-2496 614-287-5488 Fax e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/02 01:49PM If you have AIX installed already, I would hands-down recommend TSM on AIX. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com An IBM Premier Business Partner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of COURBIER Eric Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Platform ? Hi, we have the project to deploy a TSM server in our site. On it there are AS400, RS6000, Linux and many NT. Can someone advise me on the best platform (AS400 with PASE, AIX, NT) to choose ? thanks Eric -Message d'origine- De : Oliver Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 25 juin 2002 08:47 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : One Client Two TSM Server I have installed an TSM Test Server on it so that I can try same things, but when I want to connect with the command line to the real TSM server I always change the dsm.opt for the new settings. Is this the only way ? By the way I thougth about the possibility to install a second version of the TSM Client, but the install process checkes that there is already one installed. Oli
Re: TSM Platform ?
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jin Bae Chi We have TSM server installed on AIX 4.3.3 which is also the failover server for 2 other production servers. All production clients are AIX. We try to move TSM server to a dedicated one. We can get neither AIX nor Sun because of budget constraint, I think. What would be the next best choice? I was thinking of Linux. Thanks. Unfortunately, there is no TSM server for Linux (yet!). If you can't swing Solaris or AIX because of budget, you've really got no choice but Windows. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: UDB/TSM Backups directly to tape
Just set-up a Storage Agent and have in mind that DB2 uses API Client not B/A. So be careful in which dsm.sys dsm.opt you are changing options (LANFREE ones for example). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:UDB/TSM Backups directly to tape Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to using DB2's API (UDB) to backup directly to tape. I have no experience with DB2 so I would be grateful if someone to give me a helping hand. The application team want to be able to back up to our LTO 3584 directly rather than going via a storage pool, which I have set it up to do. Does anyone know what changes I have to make or is there a Redbook out there which will give me the answer. Also they have asked whether TSM can delete a file once it has been successfully backed up. I know Arcserve can but can TSM? Thanks as always, Mike Regards, Michael Swinhoe Storage Management Group Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Ltd. E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The information contained in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or otherwise use it and do not disclose it to anyone else. Please notify the sender of the delivery error and then delete the message from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author only. Communications will be monitored regularly to improve our service and for security and regulatory purposes. Thank you for your assistance. ___
Re: Win2K cluster question
Gianluca, if you have MSCS cluster set-up according to the TSM client docs you have to define 3 nodes for active/passive and 4 nodes for active/active cluster: - Machine 1 - node A (local, small) - Machine 2 - node B (local, small) - Cluster group X - node X (shared, might be big) - (optional) Cluster group Y - node Y (shared, might be big) Assuming local drives and cluster groups Y, Z, etc. are small and we have to focus only on group X which is 200 GB. Nodes A, B (local), Y, Z go to small_domain and node X gets registered in big_domain. Or use management class pointing to another pool as Alexander suggested. This is according to books. If we make something proprietary we are on our own. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Win2K cluster question John, I'm not sure I understand your question. are you saying you want one machine in a cluster to be registered to one policy domain and the other machine in the cluster to be registered to another policy domain? you would not be using a cluster this way, what would happen in case of failover? you would failover to a machine with a different nodename and different policy domain, so you would, effectively, be working on a stand alone basis. Cordiali saluti Gianluca Mariani Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma Via Sciangai 53, Roma phones : +39(0)659664598 +393351270554 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Naylor john.naylor@SCOTTISH-SOUTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HERN.CO.UK cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Subject: Win2K cluster question Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03-07-02 11.27 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We are looking at setting up some win2k clustered TSM clients. Most of them are fairly small but there is one client with 200gb of data to be backed up. I want to point all the small clients to use our standard tapepool, with the big one pointing to a different tapepool So the question is :- Can you have clients within the same cluster registered to different policy domains? Thanks, John ** 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: redirecting node backup
Did you made the same change in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin? In fact onbar through XBSA lib uses API not B/A client. Check DSMI_CONFIG, etc. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:redirecting node backup Hi, I have redirected informix onbar backup from disk pool to tape pool by creating separate mgmclass.Performed validation,activation on polocyset.When I run backup its going again to disk pool.I have changed mgmclass name in includeexclude file in /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin directory. anything I'm missing? please advice me to make it work. thanks in adv /muthyam + This electronic mail transmission contains information from Joy Mining Machinery which is confidential, and is intended only for the use of the proper addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately at the return address on this transmission, or by telephone at (724) 779-4500, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Unauthorized use, copying, disclosing, distributing, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this transmission is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. +
Re: Exclusions added to dsm.opt
You will not corrupt windows if restore properly - restore files, restore systemobject. Files will get replaced with proper ones from systemobject (unfortunately it gets bigger and bigger, ms putting too much garbage there). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Exclusions added to dsm.opt I found the section in the manual that covers the recommended Windows system files to exclude (see below). I changed the dsm.opt files to reflect this list. My question is: If I attempt a full restore will these files that got backed up (prior to me excluding them) restore and risk corrupting windows as the manual suggests? If so, how do I address this? exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\* exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* exclude *:\...\ea data. sf exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys exclude *:\...\ibmbio.com exclude *:\ibmdos.com exclude *:\msdos.sys exclude *:io.sys exclude.dir *:\recycled exclude.dir *:\recycler exclude.dir *:\...\system32\wins exclude.dir *:\...\system32\LServer exclude.dir *:\...\system32\dhcp exclude.dir *:\...\system32\config exclude.dir *:\system volume information exclude *:\...\system32\perflib*.dat exclude.dir *:\...\temporary internet files exclude *:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG exclude *:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat exclude *:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG exclude *:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat Thanks in advance - Joe McAllister Grundfos Pumps Corp.
Re: Problem with linux backup
Hi Lindy, unfortunately the attached data was not delivered. Could you just resend your message with the script quoted inline? Just some hints on Linux backup: - check environment variables. Did you export the right settings? - check the TSM servers log. Get the actlog console on your screen while testing with the client (dsmadmc -console). - does your script run with a privileged userid? When it's not root, does the user have access to your configuration files (dsm.opt/sys)? Good luck! Regards, Michael -- Michael Bartl, Dipl. Inform. (FH) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Backup Services, IT Ops Germany/Austria Tel: +49-89-92699-806 Cable Wireless Deutschland GmbH. Fax: +49-89-92699-302 Landsberger Str. 155, D-80687 Muenchen http://www.cw.com/de -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Crawford, Lindy Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2002 08:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with linux backup Hi TSMers Attached please find the script file I am using for the linux backup. I am using this as I need to use a third party agent to schedule the backup as this agent then start another batch process once the backup is completed. But I get errors when doing the backup, see log file. Please help. Need assistance URGENTLY ! WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, BoE Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.boe.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
Re: Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups
Hi Guillaume, We have been running the Oracle TDP for several years, and this has ALWAYS been a problem. The backup objects are described by metadata BOTH in the RMAN backup catalog and the TSM DB. Several things can cause the two DB's to get out of sync, and then you have backup pieces left in TSM that take up space. We have used 3 different ways to deal with it: 1) If you are running a recent version of the TDP, there is the TDPOSYNC utility. This is new (in the 2.2 version, I think) and addresses the problem where the RMAN catalog and the TSM DB are out of sync. The description of the utility: This utility checks for items on the TSM server that are not in the RMAN catalog and allows you to repair such discrepancies. By thus removing unwanted objects in TSM storage, you can reclaim space on the server. It is described in the TDP manual, search on TDPOSYNC. Try this first, as it is the supported method for cleaning up. 2) There is the unsupported DELETE OBJECT command: delete object 0 nn where nn is the object id of the backup you want deleted from the TSM DB. You can get the objectid from the BACKUPS table: select * from backups where node_name='WHATEVER' The DELETE OBJECT command is unsupported; but I have used it on more than one TSM server, and have never heard of anyone having a problem with it. (Have never used it on a 4.2 system, though.) 3) Rename the FILESPACE on the TSM end. The next time the TDP does a backup, a new clean filespace will be created, and future backups will go there. Keep the old filespace around for 10 days or 30 days, or however long you want to retain those backups. Then delete the old filespace. (Now if you want to do a restore from the old filespace, you will need to rename it back to its original name temporarily.) We have used all 3 methods successfully at different times. Wanda -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting old TDP for Oracle backups Hello I have old TDP for Oracle backups that I want to get rid of. This being the first time I used TDPO, I didn't use a nodename for each database, I used a nodename for each server. So now I have 3 or 4 databases using the same nodename. SOme of these databases have since disappeared and I am stuck with the backups. The Oracle admin can't seem to figure out how to get RMAN to delete the backups and since they are in the active state, they will never expire. I've opened a PMR on this and I'm hoping for a miracle. That Share request about being able to delete 1 file from backups and not only a filespace seems to me would be migty handy here. If anyone out there in TSM land has a recipe, please share. Thanks Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada
Re: TSM 4.1.1 on MS Windows 2K Cluster
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Adams Though I have successfully implemented the TSM Client solution on our clustered servers, I do not appear to have the ability to restore them via GUI. From the GUI, any cluster shared resources DO NOT appear anywhere. Obviously, it's difficult to restore something you can't see. I have indeed verified that the client has been getting it's daily backups and that the file spaces do exist on the server. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would really appreciate it. Can you see the backups if you run the backup from the command-line interface, like this: dsmc restore drive:\foo\bar\* -subdir=yes -pick If you're after point-in-time restores, the line is dsmc restore drive:\foo\bar\* -subdir=yes -pick -ina (Gotta love that pick option!) From the closing-the-barn-door-after-the-horse-gets-out department, did you ever successflly run test restores on a periodic basis? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes
Instead of making the directory pool a FILE devclass, we have ours designed in a hierarchy. DIRCACHEDISK devclass and relatively small. Just enough for a nights' backups. NextPool is DIRPOOL wich is a FILE devclass. During the daily server storage pool backkups we: BA STG DIRCACHE VAULT-DIR BA STG DIRPOOL VAULT-DIR UPD STG DIRCACHE HI=0 LO=0 This way we get the backup speed of DISK without having to worry about the MOUNTLIMIT being set high enough on the FILE devclass so a backup session won't be denied. The DISK is then migrated to FILE after being backed up so for reclamation the primary location is a SEQuential device. We also send the directory information to its own offsite copypool for speed of recovery. After the server is restored, we restore the DIRPOOL storage pool. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tab Trepagnier Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes Jack, It's been mentioned before, but if you use a disk pool for directories, you should make the disk pool a FILE devclass. When my directory disk pool was DISK devclass, copypool reclamation would launch and eight hours later I would have reclaimed a few tens of MBs. I rebuilt the directory disk pool as FILE devclass, and copy pool reclamation proceeds at full speed from the start. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation Coats, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/2002 03:35 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes I cannot find out how to speed me up either! Mine is slower than sin, on reclaiming my offsite copypools especially. -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes Hey there Maybe its because I'm used to using STK 9840 tapes but yesterday I saw an LTO tape at 25 % utilisation take almost 4 hours to reclaim, which to me is awful. How am I supposed to reclaim my tapes with that kind of performance?. The drives I use are IBM Ultriums in a 3584 library. With only 2 drives it makes it hard for users to do restores... Are there any options I can change to make this go a bit faster. I know the start/stop on LTO's isn't good. Thanks for the help. Guillaume Gilbert CGI Canada
Re: Your advice wanted!
In this case AutoVault *IS NOT* an alternative - usage of server-to-server virtual volumes requires DRM license. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Your advice wanted! Check out AutoVault from http://www.coderelief.com as a good alternative to DRM. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Your advice wanted! There is a large retail operation here in Australia that backs up all its store servers without tape at each site. There is a TSM server at each site with local disk storage, copypools are defined across the network to a central site (probably one in each city). We briefly looked at something like that for some of our own sites, but the smaller sites are mainly netware only and they didn't want the hassle of an NT box just to do backups. Of course this requires DRM on each server, but if you buy enough licences I'm sure you'll get some sort of discount. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/06/2002 6:52:56 Have in mind that due to lack of random access copypools you have to plan also reclamation there (of course if copypools is used at all). I would prefer to mirror primary diskpool volumes (of course DBLog too) thus getting random access copies and still protected against HDD failure. Do not forget to schedule backups to file devclass copypools are using. Backup of volhistorydevconfig would help but even without them files from DB backups have .DBB extension and are easily recognizable. And they may go off-site if using Alex's idea for disks exchange (there is no hot-swapping for IDE but we know the cages for quick cold-swapping). Alex, you will not be able to send Shark's disks off-site because ESS LIC will complain but try to send the whole Shark off-site :) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Your advice wanted! Hi. I don't see much return on making those primary disk storagepools sequential, because once they get tape hardware, you can just move data or migrate the backup data off of the random diskpool volumes. In fact, it's more of a headache because you'll have to start reclaiming them and whatnot. Definitely stay with random access disk volumes in your primary diskpools. For copypool, I wonder. Since your installation is so small, I wonder if you can get some hotswap drive bays (do those exist for IDE?), buy 2 more IDE hard drives (they're fairly cheap, aren't they?), and start an offsite rotation of your copypool disks. That would be cute. And much cheaper than investing in a new tape infrastructure to begin with. Hmm... I wonder if I can do that with Shark disk. But your copypool would have to be sequential, so that would complicate matters. If you can figure out how to do sequential volumes and reclamation and whatnot on disk, I would use those two disks as copypool, with or without the extra 2 disks for offsite. Then if you have an application based corruption of your primary diskpool volumes, your copypool has a good chance of surviving that because it's more of an asynchronous mirror process. Synchronous mirroring would be more vulnerable to application based corruptions. Have you given any thought to how you're going to manage your dbbackups? It's a good thing to have them on some other machine or media. You could back up your database to disk and ftp it to another machine, or mount remote disk and back up to it, or half a dozen other variations. Good luck. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Maria Waern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your advice wanted! As a TSM newbie I'd be grateful for some hints and tips - I'm not after instructions because I have those! A customer has a small office, 15 or 20 people with laptops (20 Gb HDDs mostly) and a new Windows 2000/TSM server that contains 4x 60Gb IDE disks. They have no tape robot. What is the best way to set up storage pools on the disks? Use sequential pools instead of standard disk storage pools to provide for easier future storage pool backup should they acquire some tape robot (although this seems highly unlikely at the present time)? Also how big should each storage volume on the disks be? Presumably it's not a good idea to make one large (approx 60 Gb) storage volume on each disk? It may not even be possible to do this for all I know! Also, what about having two of the disks set aside for copy storage pools? They only have one
Re: Fw: 3590H drives?
IBM 3590H was GA'd 07/02. The TSM device driver (adsmscsi.sys) can be used on Windows. IBM device driver is required on other platforms. Regards, Hunny Kershaw Internet Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tivoli Storage Manager - Device Driver Development Tel (408) 256-2828, T/L 276-2828 Quality Policy = Commit to Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Continual Improvement Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Fw: 3590H drives? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 07/03/2002 08:02 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Whoops...disregard the last post. Just realized that they're not available till 7/26. -Lloyd Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:59:31 -0400 From: Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3590H drives? Has anyone installed/set up these yet with TSM? I have a customer with B's that was looking to go to E's, but is now thinking about the new H models. I'm guessing that the migration process would be similar to a B-E upgrade, but I'm not sure I want to be the first kid on the block to try it. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 - -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Back up DFS on Windows 2000 cluster
Hi TSM-ers, any recommendations on how to backup DFS on a W2K cluster? Should I use DFSBackupmntpnt YES or NO? Is there a TSM manual that shows how to cope with DFS? Greetings from Austria Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 -- Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. Vorarlberger Illwerke AG --
Re: Please HELP !! TSM and Windows 2000 Active Directory.
I've just done some bare metal restore tests with 5.11 client on w2k dc in a test environment. 2 DC's in AD domain, native mode, integrated DNS, both servers Global Catalog servers. All fsmo's on dc1, I restored dc2. The restore worked fine except for TSM. Failed to start one of the services after the restore - said a file was missing. (TSM was installed via Group Policy). Had to play around a bit to uninstall TSM then reinstall then things seemed to work fine. I've run into something similar with a 4.1 client and DC restores. It's tough talking to TSM support when doing Bare Metal Restores - I get the line - We don't support that! I've done multiple member server restore tests with 5.11 and never ran into this problem but ran into it 2 times on dc restores. I also tried a retrieve combined with MS system state restore. This seemed to work better (here no problems with tsm but there were a couple weird ad messages). But the resulting system seemed to be fine. All of my restores were to exact same h/w. You just have to be sure to be backing up the system state (DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL will do it). For a DC I would recommend running MS Backup of System State as insurance. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Consiglio, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: June 20, 2002 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please HELP !! TSM and Windows 2000 Active Directory. I too have been posting this question to this list for about a month and a halfFrom what I am reading, Some users are saying that they can backup the System object either manually, or through the DSM.OPT file. I have several questions: 1.) Has any one ever done a Successful disaster recovery with TSM 4.2x (or higher) on a W2K DC in AD? 2.) Which version? 3.) Was it to Same server or Different server? 4.) What should we be aware or watch out for? 5.) Since we do not administer the TSM backup servers we would have to do this through the DSM.OPT file, how could this be accomplished? Any response would be greatly appreciated. -Original Message- From: Brian L. Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM and Windows 2000 Active Directory. Good afternoon, Can anyone tell me if they have been able to accomplish the following using TSM 4.2 client running on Windows 2000? We are looking at recovering a Windows 2000 server using TSM's backup data to a physically different Windows 2000 server. The hardware is different as well. We are running TSM 4.1 on OS/390 2.10. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. If you could let me know what steps were taken and if other software needed to be used that would be helpful as well. Thanks, Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions The Phoenix Companies Inc. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: (860)403-2281
Re: Exclusions added to dsm.opt
Also, once you EXCLUDE these files, they are marked INACTIVE. When you do a restore, by default you only get ACTIVE files back. So even if you do a full restore and there are backups of some of these files, you would have to really work at it to create yourself a problem! -Original Message- From: Jim Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exclusions added to dsm.opt Joe, It is doubtful that you will have any problems with restore; the reason why most of these files are excluded is that they are held exclusively and you will not be able to backup the files in the first place. Exceptions to this are things like the temporary internet files which are excluded because they are somebody's temporary work area and are not needed - these are innocuous also and it will not hurt if they are restored. Newer versions of the TSM b-a client (4.2.2, 5.1.0) automatically exclude most of these files, so they are no longer needed in dsm.opt (we're trying to make sure any of the recommended exclude lists that are documented reflect this). Try to issue a Q INCLEXCL from the command-line client and you will see several exclude statements which have a Source File of Operating System. We get these values from the registry key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup Microsoft uses this key to communicate exclude lists to backup products. Thanks, Jim Smith TSM client development I found the section in the manual that covers the recommended Windows system files to exclude (see below). I changed the dsm.opt files to reflect this list. My question is: If I attempt a full restore will these files that got backed up (prior to me excluding them) restore and risk corrupting windows as the manual suggests? If so, how do I address this? exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\* exclude *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* exclude *:\...\ea data. sf exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys exclude *:\...\ibmbio.com exclude *:\ibmdos.com exclude *:\msdos.sys exclude *:io.sys exclude.dir *:\recycled exclude.dir *:\recycler exclude.dir *:\...\system32\wins exclude.dir *:\...\system32\LServer exclude.dir *:\...\system32\dhcp exclude.dir *:\...\system32\config exclude.dir *:\system volume information exclude *:\...\system32\perflib*.dat exclude.dir *:\...\temporary internet files exclude *:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG exclude *:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat exclude *:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG exclude *:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat Thanks in advance - Joe McAllister Grundfos Pumps Corp.
TSM DBBackup
Hello *SMers, I have a couple of questions. We are possible moving to an LTO drive in the near future. I am trying to determine how to do a TSM backup without sending it to a separate cartridge. Our DBbackup is small and do not see a reason to use such a large cartridge, do anyone have an idea? Can it be sent to the same cartridge? Can I create a flat file and back that up? These are the few questions that I need an answer for, if any one could help me out. Thanks, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server-to-Server
Does anyone know if there are any know problems doing server-to-server with the source server being a 4.2.x server and the target server being a 5.1.x server? I'm trying to do a database backup and the 5.1 server keeps coming up saying 'node (Windows) refused - node name not registered' even though the node is registered on the 5.1 server. Thanks in advance, Mark Remeta Seligman Data Corp. 100 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
