AW: NT Performance issues
Morgan, I am afraid you were a bit upset when writing your mail. Stating that Arcserve is capable of 100+ MB/sec seems either not to be fair, or you must have very sophisticated hardware. In order to give you any advice more informations are needed. If you happen , for example, to use 10MBit network, then your 1MB/s performance is quite good. I use NT on both sides as well, 100MBit in between, and have restore performances of 4-18GB/hour depending on different factors (the upper limit is only possible through data compression) regards juraj salak -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: MORGAN TONY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2001 18:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: NT Performance issues Hi All, I run the NT TSM 4.1.x.x at client (43 clients) and Server and performance is rubbish... Arcserve was 100 times faster!!! (Min.) I have applied all the tuning covered in the Tivoli Adv.Mgmt course... and can't get much past 1MB/sec So that I can justify (or not) retaining Tivoli Any ideas where its all gone wrong I will send details of my setttings/hardware to anyone interested Is it really just a crabby product??? Rgds Tony Morgan Fortis Bank UK
AW: Copy storage pools
Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool, there will not be any need to backup them again, TSM will keep the link between those two copies. I have four tape drives and I still use this technique in order to minimise usage of the tapes and to speed things up. For older backup data you already have in your tape storage pool you could do first move data some_tape stgpool your_disk_storage_pool, then again backup and migration just as above. Considering the prices of large disks this can be cheaper than having two tape drives, but I still do advice you: require second tape drive from your management. System with only one tape is restricted in more ways (reclamation , no two paralell restores possible, single tape is single point of failure: no backup/restore if the tape does not work, etc.) regards alak Juraj KEBA AG Softwareentwicklung Bankautomation Gewerbepark Urfahr 14 - 16 Postfach 111 A-4041 Linz sterreich Tel. ++43/732/7090-7461 Fax ++43/732/730910 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.keba.co.at -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 06:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Copy storage pools Hi all, I want to ensure: 1. Do I need two mountpoints (at minimum two drives) if I want to backup primary tape storage pool to copy storage pool? 2. Is any other way to resolve making backups to copy storage pools with only single tape drive? Thanx Tom Tom Hrouda, AGCOM Smiice Tivoli Certified Consultant Storage Manager Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 049-5941312, 0604-296521 ICQ#77892561 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000
Re: recreate bitvectors
My tests recreated the bitvector in a matter of seconds, although my disk storage pool volumes were small. If the volumes are large and contain a lot of data I would expect the time to take something in the range of a few hours at the most, not days. This assumes that the server is very busy with processing. Until the new The server was sitting between 3 and 5% CPU. The I/O was almost idle. fixtests are available, this command will only work on the Windows server or with the ZAP on the MVS server. I have just got feedback from my local Tivoli support. They will inform me when the fix gets released. Cheers, Suad --
help on changing library
hi *smers one of my customers changed his libr from a 7 slots HP one to a 5 slot one. 2 volumes are no longer accessible by tsm because the associated slots do not exist in my new libr. Can i destroy my libr and recreate a new one without loosing all my libvol infos ? I will have to manually checkin all my volumes. Thanx in advance rv
Re: Copy storage pools
Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can be big enough (about 50GB for cca 130GB of whole amount of backuped data). But another one question: is posible to ensure, that data moved from clients to primary disk storage pool will not be NEVER migrated to tape pool befor backuping them to copy tape pool? The only way that occures to me is changing (by scheduled script) NEXT_STG_POOL parametr for diskpool, exactly disable it before copy backup and enable it after copy backup and then migrate data. I think that emptying NEXT_STG_POOL parametr ensure, that data cannot be migrated there. Please tell me, if is it good idea, of if exist some bettter solution. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 8:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool, there will not be any need to backup them again, TSM will keep the link between those two copies. I have four tape drives and I still use this technique in order to minimise usage of the tapes and to speed things up. For older backup data you already have in your tape storage pool you could do first move data some_tape stgpool your_disk_storage_pool, then again backup and migration just as above. Considering the prices of large disks this can be cheaper than having two tape drives, but I still do advice you: require second tape drive from your management. System with only one tape is restricted in more ways (reclamation , no two paralell restores possible, single tape is single point of failure: no backup/restore if the tape does not work, etc.) regards alak Juraj KEBA AG Softwareentwicklung Bankautomation Gewerbepark Urfahr 14 - 16 Postfach 111 A-4041 Linz sterreich Tel. ++43/732/7090-7461 Fax ++43/732/730910 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.keba.co.at -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 06:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Copy storage pools Hi all, I want to ensure: 1. Do I need two mountpoints (at minimum two drives) if I want to backup primary tape storage pool to copy storage pool? 2. Is any other way to resolve making backups to copy storage pools with only single tape drive? Thanx Tom Tom Hrouda, AGCOM Smiice Tivoli Certified Consultant Storage Manager Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 049-5941312, 0604-296521 ICQ#77892561 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000 --- Pchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000
AW: Copy storage pools
Hi, Your idea should perfectly work. There is an maybe even simpler workaround: update stg your_primary_tape_pool access=readonly But using any of this there is a danger your disk pool becomes full thus preventing any backups from succesful run. I find the risk of occasionaly having data migrated prior to backup stg pool is smaller - in such case you have only one copy of backup files, but without backup you have no copy at all. You still can periodically try backup stg your_primary_tape_pool your_backup_tape_pool preview=yes to find out whether there are files in one instance only, and if, what tapes are they on. In this case you still can move data from this tape volumes back to disk pool, backup and migrate them again. It costs much time but is quite secure. regards Juraj -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 10:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can be big enough (about 50GB for cca 130GB of whole amount of backuped data). But another one question: is posible to ensure, that data moved from clients to primary disk storage pool will not be NEVER migrated to tape pool befor backuping them to copy tape pool? The only way that occures to me is changing (by scheduled script) NEXT_STG_POOL parametr for diskpool, exactly disable it before copy backup and enable it after copy backup and then migrate data. I think that emptying NEXT_STG_POOL parametr ensure, that data cannot be migrated there. Please tell me, if is it good idea, of if exist some bettter solution. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 8:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool, there will not be any need to backup them again, TSM will keep the link between those two copies. I have four tape drives and I still use this technique in order to minimise usage of the tapes and to speed things up. For older backup data you already have in your tape storage pool you could do first move data some_tape stgpool your_disk_storage_pool, then again backup and migration just as above. Considering the prices of large disks this can be cheaper than having two tape drives, but I still do advice you: require second tape drive from your management. System with only one tape is restricted in more ways (reclamation , no two paralell restores possible, single tape is single point of failure: no backup/restore if the tape does not work, etc.) regards alak Juraj KEBA AG Softwareentwicklung Bankautomation Gewerbepark Urfahr 14 - 16 Postfach 111 A-4041 Linz sterreich Tel. ++43/732/7090-7461 Fax ++43/732/730910 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.keba.co.at -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 06:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Copy storage pools Hi all, I want to ensure: 1. Do I need two mountpoints (at minimum two drives) if I want to backup primary tape storage pool to copy storage pool? 2. Is any other way to resolve making backups to copy storage pools with only single tape drive? Thanx Tom Tom Hrouda, AGCOM Smiice Tivoli Certified Consultant Storage Manager Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 049-5941312, 0604-296521 ICQ#77892561 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000 --- Pchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225 / Virov bze: 107 - datum vydn: 22.12.2000
Re: Copy storage pools
Hi Juraj, it sounds perfect for me. My last question is, if it can be automatized - I mean finding single instance files, moving adequate data back to diskpool, backup and migrate them back to tapes ? It is important for me to offer complex solution to my customer althoug he has not enough money (or he don't want to spend them meanwhile) to buy second drive. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 10:59 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hi, Your idea should perfectly work. There is an maybe even simpler workaround: update stg your_primary_tape_pool access=readonly But using any of this there is a danger your disk pool becomes full thus preventing any backups from succesful run. I find the risk of occasionaly having data migrated prior to backup stg pool is smaller - in such case you have only one copy of backup files, but without backup you have no copy at all. You still can periodically try backup stg your_primary_tape_pool your_backup_tape_pool preview=yes to find out whether there are files in one instance only, and if, what tapes are they on. In this case you still can move data from this tape volumes back to disk pool, backup and migrate them again. It costs much time but is quite secure. regards Juraj -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 10:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can be big enough (about 50GB for cca 130GB of whole amount of backuped data). But another one question: is posible to ensure, that data moved from clients to primary disk storage pool will not be NEVER migrated to tape pool befor backuping them to copy tape pool? The only way that occures to me is changing (by scheduled script) NEXT_STG_POOL parametr for diskpool, exactly disable it before copy backup and enable it after copy backup and then migrate data. I think that emptying NEXT_STG_POOL parametr ensure, that data cannot be migrated there. Please tell me, if is it good idea, of if exist some bettter solution. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 8:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool, there will not be any need to backup them again, TSM will keep the link between those two copies. I have four tape drives and I still use this technique in order to minimise usage of the tapes and to speed things up. For older backup data you already have in your tape storage pool you could do first move data some_tape stgpool your_disk_storage_pool, then again backup and migration just as above. Considering the prices of large disks this can be cheaper than having two tape drives, but I still do advice you: require second tape drive from your management. System with only one tape is restricted in more ways (reclamation , no two paralell restores possible, single tape is single point of failure: no backup/restore if the tape does not work, etc.) regards alak Juraj KEBA AG Softwareentwicklung Bankautomation Gewerbepark Urfahr 14 - 16 Postfach 111 A-4041 Linz sterreich Tel. ++43/732/7090-7461 Fax ++43/732/730910 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.keba.co.at -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 06:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Copy storage pools Hi all, I want to ensure: 1. Do I need two mountpoints (at minimum two drives) if I want to backup primary tape storage pool to copy storage pool? 2. Is any other way to resolve making backups to copy storage pools with only single tape drive? Thanx Tom Tom Hrouda, AGCOM Smiice Tivoli Certified Consultant Storage Manager Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 049-5941312, 0604-296521 ICQ#77892561 --- Odchoz zprva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovno antivirovm systmem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.225
Re: help on changing library
Herve, You should be able to delete the library and recreate it without loosing any information (Data). Any way you have to do a checkin with the new one Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global Systems Server Architect / Technology Infrastructure Team GE Medical Systems S.A 283, rue de la Miniere 78533 BUC Cedex France Tel: (33) 1 30 70 39 32, DC: 8*644 3932 Fax: (33) 1 30 70 42 30, DC: 8*644 3930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Chibois, Herve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help on changing library hi *smers one of my customers changed his libr from a 7 slots HP one to a 5 slot one. 2 volumes are no longer accessible by tsm because the associated slots do not exist in my new libr. Can i destroy my libr and recreate a new one without loosing all my libvol infos ? I will have to manually checkin all my volumes. Thanx in advance rv
AW: Copy storage pools
Hi, I find it easy to automate everything with the exeption of moving adequate data back to diskpool, This is because you only can move all data from volume to disk stg, which is notoriously smaller. So you will want to watch the move process and cancel as soon as disk stg becomes almost full. OK, OK, this could be automated as well, but... All that scripting is not worth the work. Short and simple paper-written procedures for operator might be convenient enough. But understanding backgrounds of your problem, I suggest another solution: let your customer purchase another tape drive. No, not LTO drive, a cheaper one instead, maybe DLT1 which is only some 60.000 CK worth or even cheap DDS3 tape (but remember: you wil become what you pay for) Define only your backup stg on this drive, use it for nothing else, eventually with the exception of full database backups. This way there will almost no tape changes be necessary on this manual drive, no obscure workarounds will be necessary, and the customer will not be in the risk of single drive failure. If it helps you to sell, I even could you let you know the # of my bank account :) regards Juraj Salak -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 11:08 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Hi Juraj, it sounds perfect for me. My last question is, if it can be automatized - I mean finding single instance files, moving adequate data back to diskpool, backup and migrate them back to tapes ? It is important for me to offer complex solution to my customer althoug he has not enough money (or he don't want to spend them meanwhile) to buy second drive. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 10:59 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hi, Your idea should perfectly work. There is an maybe even simpler workaround: update stg your_primary_tape_pool access=readonly But using any of this there is a danger your disk pool becomes full thus preventing any backups from succesful run. I find the risk of occasionaly having data migrated prior to backup stg pool is smaller - in such case you have only one copy of backup files, but without backup you have no copy at all. You still can periodically try backup stg your_primary_tape_pool your_backup_tape_pool preview=yes to find out whether there are files in one instance only, and if, what tapes are they on. In this case you still can move data from this tape volumes back to disk pool, backup and migrate them again. It costs much time but is quite secure. regards Juraj -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 10:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can be big enough (about 50GB for cca 130GB of whole amount of backuped data). But another one question: is posible to ensure, that data moved from clients to primary disk storage pool will not be NEVER migrated to tape pool befor backuping them to copy tape pool? The only way that occures to me is changing (by scheduled script) NEXT_STG_POOL parametr for diskpool, exactly disable it before copy backup and enable it after copy backup and then migrate data. I think that emptying NEXT_STG_POOL parametr ensure, that data cannot be migrated there. Please tell me, if is it good idea, of if exist some bettter solution. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 8:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool, there will not be any need to backup them again, TSM will keep the link between those two copies. I have four tape drives and I still use this technique in order to minimise usage of the tapes and to speed things up. For older backup data you already have in your tape storage pool you could do first move data some_tape stgpool your_disk_storage_pool, then again backup and migration just as above.
Re: help on changing library
Yes, all the info is tracked by the volume which is associated with a device class... You may remove the library and define it again and yes, you will have to check in all the volumes again... With my 3494ATL's I've even gone as far as deleting the library and defining a new one with different name, scratch private categories. Just had to checkout all the volumes prior to deleting the old library and had to check the volumes back in the newly defined library. All the data remained just fine :-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Chibois, Herve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 3:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help on changing library hi *smers one of my customers changed his libr from a 7 slots HP one to a 5 slot one. 2 volumes are no longer accessible by tsm because the associated slots do not exist in my new libr. Can i destroy my libr and recreate a new one without loosing all my libvol infos ? I will have to manually checkin all my volumes. Thanx in advance rv
Re: recreate bitvectors
The APAR actually applies to all TSM server platforms. For the MVS server a ZAP is available. Although the problem is in common code, the symptom does not occur on the Windows platform. The MVS and the Solaris servers will hang. The AIX server will crash. I am not sure what the HP server will do. On the Windows server the command will complete successfully. The original fix was tested on the Windows platform which is why this problem was not noticed. Tivoli Management - Why did this situation happen? Here we have yet another case of inadequate development and testing which needlessly resulted in major problems at customer sites. It is mind-boggling that this kind of slip-shod work should be coming from a major software company. The worst part is that this is only the latest in a long series of major gaffes in software provisioning from Tivoli, and still no effective measures have been instituted to prevent such nonsense from occurring. Is anyone there minding the store? Richard Sims, BU
Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?
Hi! Your problem sounds familiar to me. We've similar problems running HSM (or now: Tivoli Space Manager) with a LTO 3583. (Ok, it is not the best way to use a LTO Library with HSM, but that was not my decision). For a recall of 2 GBs we need half a day. But: a normal restore of a client is as fast as we expected. John Schneider wrote: Greetings, I have seen many posts on adsm.org about LTO, but none that addresses the problem I am seeing. Backup speed seems to be fine, at least as far as I can tell. But when I do a restore, I see a strange behavior. The restore seems to happen in bursts, where the restore pulls back files lickety-split for a awhile, then stops for 15-20 minutes, then continues. I think that the wait is the seek from one spot on the tape to another. We have two tape drives in the IBM 3583 library, and the problem seems to be happening on both of them. We upgraded to the 0CE1 version of the LTO microcode, but it has not improved things that I can tell. We restored 1.5 GB from our RS/6000 TSM server to a NT client, and it took 47762 seconds, or 13 hours. All the data was on one tape, so it is not a colocation problem. How long should it take an LTO drive to seek? I have done these sort of restores on DLT, and it can usually get from any place to any place on a tape within a few minutes. I expected LTO to be at least as good. A 13 hour restore is completely unacceptable. Any input or things to try would be appreciated. By the way, the TSM server is an RS/6000 F50 running AIX 4.3.3 ML4, with TSM 4.1.2. It is running atape 6.0.4, and atldd 4.1.5.0, which are both the latest, I believe. The NT client was TSM 4.1.2. Both are on the same switch on a 100MB Ethernet network, so I don't think the network is related in any way. TIA, John Schneider *** * John D. Schneider Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: 636-492-0247 * Lowery Systems, Inc. * 1329 Horan Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are * Fenton, MO 63026 mine and mine alone. *** -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / with regards Karsten Hüttmann begin:vcard n:Hüttmann;Karsten tel;cell:0171-7634388 tel;work:+49.40.51435-3231 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.carus.de org:c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology AG;Advanced System Center adr:;;Bornbarch 9;22848 Norderstedt;;;Germany version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:IBM Certified AIX Advanced Technical Expert x-mozilla-cpt:;16640 fn:Karsten Hüttmann end:vcard
Re: NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code
The latest NT client is 4.1.2.14 -Original Message- From: Leake, Shaun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code Hi all Has anyone encountered problems with the latest levels of code and NT restores I am using: TSM Server V4.1.3.0 on a Windows 2000 (Service Pack 1) on DELL 6450 server TSM Client V4.1.2.12 on Windows NT 4 (I have tried both SP1 and SP6a High Encryption) on a DELL 6450. When performing files level restores on NT 4.0 the following DR WATSON message appears DR WATSON for Windows NT An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated dsmc.exe Exception: access violation (0xc005), Address: )x0047084c with DSMERROR LOG SAYING 04-05-2001 12:39:46 fioWrite: Unknown structured data type, file: 'C:\WINNT\system32\s4l.13' 04-05-2001 12:39:46 ANS4014E Error processing \ \exglos201t\c$\WINNT\system32\alrsvc.dll': unknown system error (150) encountered. Program ending. This is only happening on the C drive on the locked system files. The DR Watson log is as below. DRWTSN32.LOG My questions are: 1) Why does TSM Server V4.1.3.0 comes with TSM Client V4.1.1.16 and not the latest client (TSM V 4.1.2.12)? I.e. is there some known problem between the latest server and client code ? 2) Has anyone else met the above problem and if so did you manage to get around it. I have tried various hardware and levels of O.S and this happens every time on NT 4.0. I can successfully restore Windows 2000 servers, Have fun Shaun Shaun Leake Mbl: 07702 378 736
NT 4 restores failing with latest server and client TSM code
Hi all Has anyone encountered problems with the latest levels of code and NT restores I am using: TSM Server V4.1.3.0 on a Windows 2000 (Service Pack 1) on DELL 6450 server TSM Client V4.1.2.12 on Windows NT 4 (I have tried both SP1 and SP6a High Encryption) on a DELL 6450. When performing files level restores on NT 4.0 the following DR WATSON message appears DR WATSON for Windows NT An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated dsmc.exe Exception: access violation (0xc005), Address: )x0047084c with DSMERROR LOG SAYING 04-05-2001 12:39:46 fioWrite: Unknown structured data type, file: 'C:\WINNT\system32\s4l.13' 04-05-2001 12:39:46 ANS4014E Error processing \ \exglos201t\c$\WINNT\system32\alrsvc.dll': unknown system error (150) encountered. Program ending. This is only happening on the C drive on the locked system files. The DR Watson log is as below. DRWTSN32.LOG My questions are: 1) Why does TSM Server V4.1.3.0 comes with TSM Client V4.1.1.16 and not the latest client (TSM V 4.1.2.12)? I.e. is there some known problem between the latest server and client code ? 2) Has anyone else met the above problem and if so did you manage to get around it. I have tried various hardware and levels of O.S and this happens every time on NT 4.0. I can successfully restore Windows 2000 servers, Have fun Shaun Shaun Leake Mbl: 07702 378 736 DRWTSN32.LOG
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Re: Copy storage pools
Okay Juraj :-))), you get 30% of my sale commition, which is definitely 0% :-. But in real, I want to thank you for all your help. Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 11:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hi, I find it easy to automate everything with the exeption of moving adequate data back to diskpool, This is because you only can move all data from volume to disk stg, which is notoriously smaller. So you will want to watch the move process and cancel as soon as disk stg becomes almost full. OK, OK, this could be automated as well, but... All that scripting is not worth the work. Short and simple paper-written procedures for operator might be convenient enough. But understanding backgrounds of your problem, I suggest another solution: let your customer purchase another tape drive. No, not LTO drive, a cheaper one instead, maybe DLT1 which is only some 60.000 CK worth or even cheap DDS3 tape (but remember: you wil become what you pay for) Define only your backup stg on this drive, use it for nothing else, eventually with the exception of full database backups. This way there will almost no tape changes be necessary on this manual drive, no obscure workarounds will be necessary, and the customer will not be in the risk of single drive failure. If it helps you to sell, I even could you let you know the # of my bank account :) regards Juraj Salak -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 11:08 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Hi Juraj, it sounds perfect for me. My last question is, if it can be automatized - I mean finding single instance files, moving adequate data back to diskpool, backup and migrate them back to tapes ? It is important for me to offer complex solution to my customer althoug he has not enough money (or he don't want to spend them meanwhile) to buy second drive. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 10:59 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hi, Your idea should perfectly work. There is an maybe even simpler workaround: update stg your_primary_tape_pool access=readonly But using any of this there is a danger your disk pool becomes full thus preventing any backups from succesful run. I find the risk of occasionaly having data migrated prior to backup stg pool is smaller - in such case you have only one copy of backup files, but without backup you have no copy at all. You still can periodically try backup stg your_primary_tape_pool your_backup_tape_pool preview=yes to find out whether there are files in one instance only, and if, what tapes are they on. In this case you still can move data from this tape volumes back to disk pool, backup and migrate them again. It costs much time but is quite secure. regards Juraj -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Hrouda Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 10:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Copy storage pools Thanks to you Juraj, it is good idea for me and a little rescue in prepared solution for our customer (he wants "incrased" security of data providing copy backups and prepared solition has only one tape drive - exactly LTO Autoloader - and we swear to solve it). Good point is that diskpool can be big enough (about 50GB for cca 130GB of whole amount of backuped data). But another one question: is posible to ensure, that data moved from clients to primary disk storage pool will not be NEVER migrated to tape pool befor backuping them to copy tape pool? The only way that occures to me is changing (by scheduled script) NEXT_STG_POOL parametr for diskpool, exactly disable it before copy backup and enable it after copy backup and then migrate data. I think that emptying NEXT_STG_POOL parametr ensure, that data cannot be migrated there. Please tell me, if is it good idea, of if exist some bettter solution. Thanx Tom -Pvodn zprva- Od: sal Salak Juraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Odeslno: 4. kvtna 2001 8:55 Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: AW: Copy storage pools Hallo Tom, you could use storage standard storage pool hierarchy, backing first to disk storage pool, which later migrates to primary tape pool (you probably already do this). If your disk storage pool is large enough not to be migrated for, say, couple of days, than you can schedule backup storage pool your_disk_storage_pool to your_tape_backup_pool often. This will create the redundancy you wish. When the data from disk storage pool are later migrated to you primary tape storage pool,
Re: recreate bitvectors
Please explain this problem and how we might see it. I agree with the prognosis and so does Tivoli management. They report that steps are being taken. I am from Missouri and I say show me Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: recreate bitvectors The APAR actually applies to all TSM server platforms. For the MVS server a ZAP is available. Although the problem is in common code, the symptom does not occur on the Windows platform. The MVS and the Solaris servers will hang. The AIX server will crash. I am not sure what the HP server will do. On the Windows server the command will complete successfully. The original fix was tested on the Windows platform which is why this problem was not noticed. Tivoli Management - Why did this situation happen? Here we have yet another case of inadequate development and testing which needlessly resulted in major problems at customer sites. It is mind-boggling that this kind of slip-shod work should be coming from a major software company. The worst part is that this is only the latest in a long series of major gaffes in software provisioning from Tivoli, and still no effective measures have been instituted to prevent such nonsense from occurring. Is anyone there minding the store? Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
CONTENTS Table
Does anyone have an idea of a non-painfull way to dump the CONTENTS table to another DB? Anytime I need to use that table it puts a huge strain on the TSM server. Thanks in advance. Seth Forgosh ** This message, including any attachments, contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. TIAA-CREF **
Novell NetWare include/exclude for print queues
Our admins want to make sure that the definitions rights of all print queues on our NW servers are backed up, but we obviously don't want to backup the actual print jobs. Can anyone provide a good set of include/exclude statements to accomplish this? Thanks. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ODBC driver system error 126
IP22151_12_ODBC_Driver.exe is the latest and greatest. Guess I'll contact support! John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Charlotte Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ODBC driver system error 126 John - seems like this error has occurred before when not using the latest client level (eg the base code of the install CD rather than the latest fix level). If you're on V4, try ftp://service.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance /client/v4r1/Windows/i386, or on 3.7 ftp://service.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance /client/v3r7/Windows/i386. If you still get the error best to call support as there might be a missing or misplaced DLL. I hope this helps Regards, Charlotte Project Leader, Tivoli Storage Management solutions, ITSO Almaden Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ibm.com/redbooks Talafous, John G. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 05/03/2001 05:34:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: ODBC driver system error 126 I am installing IP22151_12_ODBC_Driver.exe install on Windows 2000 Professional. I must be missing something. I've tried and tried and just can't seem to make it work. When trying to configure the Windows 2000 ODBC Data Source Administrator using the System DSN tab, I consistently get The setup routines for the TSM ODBC driver could not be loaded due to system error code 126. Could not load the setup or translator library. Has anyone seen this before? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com
pre schedule command
I have a Unix user that wants to back up the oracle database filesystems and wants to shut down the database with tsm. Can someone tell me how to use the PRESchedulecmd option. Thanks , in advance. This listserv is most helpful.
Re: 3590 question
Make sure you have current microcode for the drives. We had that recurring unavailable problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 07:08AM We want to use both FC ports of the 3590 drives (connected via a FC fabric)in parallel for automatic path fail over. Is this supported by AIX and how could this be implemented in AIX. At the moment I see for the same drive two definitions in AIX. They are both available but they doesn't work in TSM (drives are first polled by TSM and set to unavailable later on). Do you have a recommendation for defining both pathes to AIX in parallel for dynamic path fail over? Thank you in advance Uwe If you look at the tape drive charataristics in AIX, there is an option called Enable alternate pathing support. I suppose this has to be involved in getting alternat paths to work. I have not yet found anywhere in the AIX documentation where this is documented, but I have not looked everywhere yet :-) We have two FC adapters in the host and therefore have two definitions for each of our four physical tapedrives. In our case rmt0=rmt3, rmt1=rmt2, rmt4=rmt6 and rmt5=rmt7. If we had been using both FC connections on the drives as well, I suppose we would have had four instances of each drive. You can check the WWPN of the drive to verify which is what. I have tried to enable alternate pathing support and this causes the connection name of 30-58-01 to change to 30-58-01-PRI for the first instance of the drive and 20-58-01 to 20-58-01-ALT for the second instance of the drive. I have had no problems with the drives being switched offline and TSM did function OK with the drives. However, I saw a tendency to have I/O concentrated on one of the FC adapters while the other adapter was only slightly used, so I turned off the alternate pathing support again and defined the drives to TSM with two on the one FC adapter and two on the other adapter. This keeps the load balanced. Perhaps we need a tape version of the disk DPO (Data Path Optimizer) software which collects all paths to a disk under one name and does a good job of balancing I/O or perhaps we only need to read the documentation if we can find it. If anybody knows where the Alternate pathing support may be documented, I would be happy to hear about it. Regards Peter pathing support
Re: Number of scratch tapes?
Use pre and post schedule cmd under dsm.sys -Original Message- From: Arshad Sheikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Number of scratch tapes? Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode to run it. Thanks for help Arshad _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: pre schedule command
Hi Use it in edit dsm.sys PRESchedulecmd path/of /the/script thats it. remember to chmod 770 to script. -Original Message- From: Hunter, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pre schedule command I have a Unix user that wants to back up the oracle database filesystems and wants to shut down the database with tsm. Can someone tell me how to use the PRESchedulecmd option. Thanks , in advance. This listserv is most helpful.
Re: Number of scratch tapes?
Hi: Here the select part running from a script. /home/root/bin/dsmcmd SELECT LIBVOLUMES.VOLUME_NAME, LIBVOLUMES.STATUS FROM LIB Volumes where libvolumes.status = 'Scratch' [backup] /home/root/bin # more dsmcmd dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=your password -displaymode=table $1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/01 10:57AM Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode to run it. Thanks for help Arshad _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Number of scratch tapes?
Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode to run it. Thanks for help Arshad _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Number of scratch tapes?
From your prompt: dsmadmc -id=yourid -pa=yourpass q libvol |grep -i scratch |wc -l -Original Message- From: Arshad Sheikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Number of scratch tapes? Hi there, I am a newbie. We have TSM 3.7. running. I want to run a batch command from my root prompt which give me the number of scratch tapes, I will put it in cron to mail me every morning as to how much scratch tapes I have in my lib. How can I do that? I don't want to go to interactive mode to run it. Thanks for help Arshad _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
block level backups
Hello, Does anyone know if TSM does, or will in the future do, block level backups? I want to back up large files (5 to 10gb and databases) that have only small daily changes. They will be backed up over slow links (128k lines). As far as I know, TSM does only file level but there are other products out there(VytalVault) who claim they backup only the changes to a file at the block level. I want to use TSM for this but I have to show the advantage. Anyone familiar with VytalVault? Sorry, but I am kinda new to all this backup stuff. Thanks
Where are the solaris bare metal restore procedures for TSM 4.x ?????!!!!!!
Hello,
I am trying to write some bare metal solaris restore instructions.
With our old ADSM/TSM 3.x clients we were able to simply follow the
procedure below... BUT with the new TSM 4.1.2 client it seems they have
introduced dependancies that no longer make a simple restore possible
What really concerns me is that I don' t see solaris bare metal restore
procedures coming form anyone (including TIVOLI!)
Our old restore instructions (which we are trying to recreate with TSM4.1.2)
are below:
boot cdrom
Complete system identification portion of Solaris Install
Select Exit from Install Solaris Software screen
run format and partition new disk
# create filesystems
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s1
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7
# make mount points for all filesystems and mount them
mkdir -p /tmp/a/root /tmp/a/usr /tmp/a/export
mkdir -p /tmp/a/export/home
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /tmp/a/root
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 /tmp/a/usr
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 /tmp/a/export/home
# create a route to ADSM server
route add net 129.6.xx.0 {default_route} 1
# create a directory for dsmclient.cat
# ftp a copy of minimal ADSM client software from ADSM server into /tmp
cd /tmp
mkdir /tmp/en_US
ftp 129.xx.xx.xx - login as anonymous user
cd pub/adsm/sun/sol26
bin
get dsmc
get dsmclientV3.cat en_US/dsmclientV3.cat
quit
# create dsm.sys file
echo servername ADSM dsm.sys
echo tcpserveraddress 129.6.23.13 dsm.sys
echo nodename DIPPER.xxx.xxx dsm.sys
# set DSM_DIR environment variable to point to location of dsmc, etc.
DSM_DIR=/tmp
export DSM_DIR
# set execute permission on dsmc
chmod 700 dsmc
# restore all filesystems
./dsmc
restore -subdir=y /* /tmp/a/root/
enter ADSM password
restore -subdir=y /usr/* /tmp/a/usr/
restore -subdir=y /export/home/* /tmp/a/export/home/
quit
# make actual mount points
mkdir /tmp/a/root/usr
mkdir /tmp/a/root/export/home
mkdir /tmp/a/root/dev/fd
mkdir /tmp/a/root/proc
mkdir /tmp/a/root/tmp
# create device special files
cd /tmp/a/root
drvconfig -r devices -p /tmp/a/root/etc/path_to_inst
devlinks -r /tmp/a/root
disks -r /tmp/a/root
tapes -r /tmp/a/root
# install boot block
installboot /tmp/a/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
# unmount filesystems and reboot the system
cd /
umount /tmp/a/root
umount /tmp/a/usr
umount /tmp/a/export/home
halt
halt
boot -[s]r
Re: Novell NetWare include/exclude for print queues
Steve, The NetWare Backup and Recovery Guide has a section concerning print queues and suggested include/excludes for NetWare 4.x; I don't think that the print queue handling has changed in NetWare 5.x so this information should be valid for NetWare 5.x as well (somebody please correct me if this assumption is not correct). J.P. (Jim) Smith Tivoli Storage Manager - Software Developmen in response to Our admins want to make sure that the definitions rights of all print queues on our NW servers are backed up, but we obviously don't want to backup the actual print jobs. Can anyone provide a good set of include/exclude statements to accomplish this? Thanks. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: block level backups
Does anyone know if TSM does, or will in the future do, block level backups? See subfile backups in the Windows client manual, and the TSM Technical Guide redbook.
Anyone using bootp to do restores on solaris?
Anyone using bootp to do restores on solaris?
Re: Where are the solaris bare metal restore procedures for TSM 4 .x ?????!!!!!!
Keith,
When you get them (if you get them) can you foward them to meI am in the
same boat as far as creating Solaris BMR procedures!!! Thanks
Kevin Wisneski
Citigroup
860-277-3157
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keith Kwiatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/04/2001 01:55:43 PM
Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Kevin M Wisneski/IS/Travelers)
Subject: Where are the solaris bare metal restore procedures for TSM 4.x
?!!
Hello,
I am trying to write some bare metal solaris restore instructions.
With our old ADSM/TSM 3.x clients we were able to simply follow the
procedure below... BUT with the new TSM 4.1.2 client it seems they have
introduced dependancies that no longer make a simple restore possible
What really concerns me is that I don' t see solaris bare metal restore
procedures coming form anyone (including TIVOLI!)
Our old restore instructions (which we are trying to recreate with TSM4.1.2)
are below:
boot cdrom
Complete system identification portion of Solaris Install
Select Exit from Install Solaris Software screen
run format and partition new disk
# create filesystems
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s1
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7
# make mount points for all filesystems and mount them
mkdir -p /tmp/a/root /tmp/a/usr /tmp/a/export
mkdir -p /tmp/a/export/home
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /tmp/a/root
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 /tmp/a/usr
mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 /tmp/a/export/home
# create a route to ADSM server
route add net 129.6.xx.0 {default_route} 1
# create a directory for dsmclient.cat
# ftp a copy of minimal ADSM client software from ADSM server into /tmp
cd /tmp
mkdir /tmp/en_US
ftp 129.xx.xx.xx - login as anonymous user
cd pub/adsm/sun/sol26
bin
get dsmc
get dsmclientV3.cat en_US/dsmclientV3.cat
quit
# create dsm.sys file
echo servername ADSM dsm.sys
echo tcpserveraddress 129.6.23.13 dsm.sys
echo nodename DIPPER.xxx.xxx dsm.sys
# set DSM_DIR environment variable to point to location of dsmc, etc.
DSM_DIR=/tmp
export DSM_DIR
# set execute permission on dsmc
chmod 700 dsmc
# restore all filesystems
./dsmc
restore -subdir=y /* /tmp/a/root/
enter ADSM password
restore -subdir=y /usr/* /tmp/a/usr/
restore -subdir=y /export/home/* /tmp/a/export/home/
quit
# make actual mount points
mkdir /tmp/a/root/usr
mkdir /tmp/a/root/export/home
mkdir /tmp/a/root/dev/fd
mkdir /tmp/a/root/proc
mkdir /tmp/a/root/tmp
# create device special files
cd /tmp/a/root
drvconfig -r devices -p /tmp/a/root/etc/path_to_inst
devlinks -r /tmp/a/root
disks -r /tmp/a/root
tapes -r /tmp/a/root
# install boot block
installboot /tmp/a/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
# unmount filesystems and reboot the system
cd /
umount /tmp/a/root
umount /tmp/a/usr
umount /tmp/a/export/home
halt
halt
boot -[s]r
Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?
John, This problem is very interesting to me as we are thinking of throwing away our 17 ATL libraries running Legato's NetWorker 6.0.1 in favor of 2 LTO 3584's running Tivoli Storage Manager (we will actually use a Sun E420). I thought colocation was suppose to speed up recoveries, it sounds as if it's not working as advertized -Bern At 02:47 PM 5/4/2001 +0200, Karsten Hüttmann wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailserver.carus.de id OAA14706 Hi! Your problem sounds familiar to me. We've similar problems running HSM (or now: Tivoli Space Manager) with a LTO 3583. (Ok, it is not the best way to use a LTO Library with HSM, but that was not my decision). For a recall of 2 GBs we need half a day. But: a normal restore of a client is as fast as we expected. John Schneider wrote: Greetings, I have seen many posts on adsm.org about LTO, but none that addresses the problem I am seeing. Backup speed seems to be fine, at least as far as I can tell. But when I do a restore, I see a strange behavior. The restore seems to happen in bursts, where the restore pulls back files lickety-split for a awhile, then stops for 15-20 minutes, then continues. I think that the wait is the seek from one spot on the tape to another. We have two tape drives in the IBM 3583 library, and the problem seems to be happening on both of them. We upgraded to the 0CE1 version of the LTO microcode, but it has not improved things that I can tell. We restored 1.5 GB from our RS/6000 TSM server to a NT client, and it took 47762 seconds, or 13 hours. All the data was on one tape, so it is not a colocation problem. How long should it take an LTO drive to seek? I have done these sort of restores on DLT, and it can usually get from any place to any place on a tape within a few minutes. I expected LTO to be at least as good. A 13 hour restore is completely unacceptable. Any input or things to try would be appreciated. By the way, the TSM server is an RS/6000 F50 running AIX 4.3.3 ML4, with TSM 4.1.2. It is running atape 6.0.4, and atldd 4.1.5.0, which are both the latest, I believe. The NT client was TSM 4.1.2. Both are on the same switch on a 100MB Ethernet network, so I don't think the network is related in any way. TIA, John Schneider *** * John D. Schneider Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: 636-492-0247 * Lowery Systems, Inc. * 1329 Horan Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are * Fenton, MO 63026 mine and mine alone. *** -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / with regards Karsten Hüttmann Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name=Karsten.Huettmann.vcf Content-Description: Card for Karsten H|ttmann Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Karsten.Huettmann.vcf X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailserver.carus.de id OAA14706
Re: urgent: TSM restore problems - ANS1026E (RC136)
We've seen this problem with bad NIC drivers; try watching your log for TCP comm.. errors (we hade a lot), or watch your switch. In our case, it was the NIC renegotiating (often) the speed duplex settings; we resolved by getting off of the motherboard NIC, using external (Intel PCI) NIC, and auto-negotiate works. ROT = 100 Mbps/Full, if that fails, try 100/Half, if that fails allow Auto-Negotiate. We have a one client that loves auto-negotiate (lots of Win2K, Cisco 3Com switches, Intel NIC's); another client loves fixed settings (Cisco BayNet switches, NT OS, NIC's switches forced to 100-FullDuplex), cannot reliably run with auto-speed. Hope this helps. -Original Message- From: Van Ruler, Ruud R SSI-ISES-31 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:urgent: TSM restore problems - ANS1026E (RC136) Guru's please, I need some help here. TSM (4.1) server runs on S/390 2.8. AIX client with latest TSM software tries to restore files but after some minutes the session is rejected check out messages below: BKI0005I: Start of backint program at: Tue May 1 15:21:42 2001. BKI0014I: 48 Objects to restore. BKI0009I: Number of bytes to restore: '38.237 GB'. BKI0030I: Time: 15:22:04 Object: 1 of 48 in process: /oracle/P86/sapdata2/btabd_1/btabd.data1 Size: 2000.008 MB. ADSM server: OS390_ TSM. BR280I Time stamp 2001-05-01 15.31.12 #FILE. /oracle/P86/sapdata2/btabd_1/btabd.data1 #RESTORED. SAPP869B04172100 BKI0054I: Time: 15:31:12 Object: 1 of 48 done: /oracle/P86/sapdata2/btabd_1/btabd.data1 with 2000.008 MB restored with description ' SAPP869B04172100' BKI0023I: Time: 15:31:12 Done: 2000.008 MB (5.1%) of 38.237 GB. Estimated end time: 18:27:41. BKI0012I: Number of bytes left to be restored : 36.284 GB (94.9%) of 38.237 GB. BKI0030I: Time: 15:31:12 Object: 2 of 48 in process: /oracle/P86/sapdata6/btabi_1/btabi.data1 Size: 2000.008 MB. ADSM server: OS390_ TSM. BKI1125W: The object '/oracle/P86/sapdata6/btabi_1/btabi.data1' will be retried [1]. BKI0030I: Time: 15:34:43 Object: 2 of 48 in process: /oracle/P86/sapdata6/btabi_1/btabi.data1 Size: 2000.008 MB. ADSM server: OS390_ TSM. BR280I Time stamp 2001-05-01 15.45.57 #FILE. /oracle/P86/sapdata6/btabi_1/btabi.data1 #RESTORED. SAPP869B04172100 BKI0054I: Time: 15:45:57 Object: 2 of 48 done: /oracle/P86/sapdata6/btabi_1/btabi.data1 with 2000.008 MB restored with description ' SAPP869B04172100' BKI0023I: Time: 15:45:57 Done: 3.906 GB (10.2%) of 38.237 GB. Estimated end time: 19:19:04. BKI0012I: Number of bytes left to be restored : 34.331 GB (89.8%) of 38.237 GB. BKI0030I: Time: 15:45:57 Object: 3 of 48 in process: /oracle/P86/sapdata4/es46bd_1/es46bd.data1 Size: 2000.008 MB. ADSM server: OS39 0_TSM. ADSM error from session 1: 'ANS1026E (RC136) Session rejected: Communications protocol error' BKI1125W: The object '/oracle/P86/sapdata4/es46bd_1/es46bd.data1' will be retried [1]. BKI0030I: Time: 15:48:06 Object: 3 of 48 in process: /oracle/P86/sapdata4/es46bd_1/es46bd.data1 Size: 2000.008 MB. ADSM server: OS39 0_TSM. any idea's thanks in advance. Ruud van Ruler, Shell Services International BV - ISES/31 Our Central Data Storage Management home page: http://sww2.shell.com/cdsm/ Room 1B/G01 Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL Tel : +31 (0)70 - 3034644, Fax 4011, Mobile +31 (0)6-55127646 Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] R.vanRuler
Re: PIT Restore
Sure... do weekly incrementals (instead of or in addition to daily)... use a different node name (eg, client1 and client1_we, like we do for TDP agents - as in client1 and client1_SAP or client1_EXC). That would ensure you have your 8 weekly snapshots, given 8 week retention (RE=60), VE=8, VD=8, RO=60... This would seem the most obvious, and *simple* answer - simple is almost always superior to convoluted approach (easier to understand, explain maintain!). -Original Message- From: Sergio Cherchyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:PIT Restore Hi *SM'ers. I have to handle PIT restores for 10 servers (SUN Solaris), for which I could be asked to perform restores of point-in-time conditions existing 60 days ago. Since I don't know how often the files in these servers are updated, I understand that I have to define a Copy Group with a Versions Data Exists option set to 60 or so. Actually, the backup requirements for the servers don't imply necessarily to have PIT restores available in a daily basis, but in a weekly one. I mean, I will not be supposed to be asked for a restore of July1st, but one from the first week of July (in any available day). So that, I would not need to store 60 version of a given file, just eight of them, providing that each copy belong to a different week (of course, this would be only in case that they ARE modified). Is there a way to guarantee the existence of just one version of a file per week? I'm trying to avoid using ARCHIVE because many of these files could be not modified at all during the 60 day period, but if it is not a better option, I think that ARCHIVE will be better than backup lots of version of lots of files. I'm using TSM V3.7.2 in an AIX 4.3.2 server. I'm also exploring the option to use BACKUP IMAGE to backup the needed file systems, once a week and then daily incremental backups. My concern is that I've never used this command before, so I would like to know if anybody of you is using it to backup file systems and which are the limitations of doing so. Thanks in advance. Sergio R. Cherchyk Arquitectura Tecnológica - Midrange Banco Río de la Plata S.A. - Grupo BSCH Mire 480, 2do piso - 1036 Cap. Fed. Argentina Tel. (054)-11-4341-1643 Fax. (054)-11-4341-1264
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
You activity log probably has some revealing messages. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem?
TSM Level 2 responded to John, he forwarded their response... IBM located a microcode problem, they developed a patch, a customer is already testing the fix. -Original Message- From: Bern Ruelas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: LTO restore performance - seek problem? John, This problem is very interesting to me as we are thinking of throwing away our 17 ATL libraries running Legato's NetWorker 6.0.1 in favor of 2 LTO 3584's running Tivoli Storage Manager (we will actually use a Sun E420). I thought colocation was suppose to speed up recoveries, it sounds as if it's not working as advertized -Bern At 02:47 PM 5/4/2001 +0200, Karsten Hüttmann wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailserver.carus.de id OAA14706 Hi! Your problem sounds familiar to me. We've similar problems running HSM (or now: Tivoli Space Manager) with a LTO 3583. (Ok, it is not the best way to use a LTO Library with HSM, but that was not my decision). For a recall of 2 GBs we need half a day. But: a normal restore of a client is as fast as we expected. John Schneider wrote: Greetings, I have seen many posts on adsm.org about LTO, but none that addresses the problem I am seeing. Backup speed seems to be fine, at least as far as I can tell. But when I do a restore, I see a strange behavior. The restore seems to happen in bursts, where the restore pulls back files lickety-split for a awhile, then stops for 15-20 minutes, then continues. I think that the wait is the seek from one spot on the tape to another. We have two tape drives in the IBM 3583 library, and the problem seems to be happening on both of them. We upgraded to the 0CE1 version of the LTO microcode, but it has not improved things that I can tell. We restored 1.5 GB from our RS/6000 TSM server to a NT client, and it took 47762 seconds, or 13 hours. All the data was on one tape, so it is not a colocation problem. How long should it take an LTO drive to seek? I have done these sort of restores on DLT, and it can usually get from any place to any place on a tape within a few minutes. I expected LTO to be at least as good. A 13 hour restore is completely unacceptable. Any input or things to try would be appreciated. By the way, the TSM server is an RS/6000 F50 running AIX 4.3.3 ML4, with TSM 4.1.2. It is running atape 6.0.4, and atldd 4.1.5.0, which are both the latest, I believe. The NT client was TSM 4.1.2. Both are on the same switch on a 100MB Ethernet network, so I don't think the network is related in any way. TIA, John Schneider *** * John D. Schneider Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: 636-492-0247 * Lowery Systems, Inc. * 1329 Horan Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are * Fenton, MO 63026 mine and mine alone. *** -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / with regards Karsten Hüttmann Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name=Karsten.Huettmann.vcf Content-Description: Card for Karsten H|ttmann Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Karsten.Huettmann.vcf X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailserver.carus.de id OAA14706
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
Lindsay Morris wrote: You activity log probably has some revealing messages. Hi, Well, the reason I know reclaim didn't kick off was because I performed a q actlog begind=-1. I didn't see anything in the activity log to indicate an error, which is why I was wondering if perhaps I set the reclaim threshold incorrectly. Looking at the actlog, it looks as if the reclaim never happened. Jon -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
Did you try setting recl to 60%? 60% means it will reclaim volumes that are 40% (or less) utilized. It's a little counterintuitive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Lindsay Morris wrote: You activity log probably has some revealing messages. Hi, Well, the reason I know reclaim didn't kick off was because I performed a q actlog begind=-1. I didn't see anything in the activity log to indicate an error, which is why I was wondering if perhaps I set the reclaim threshold incorrectly. Looking at the actlog, it looks as if the reclaim never happened. Jon -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Milliren Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
Can you use dual boot method to BMR Solaris with TSM 4.x?
Hello, Has anyone tried to use a dual boot method to allow a bare metal restore with a solaris 4.x client? In other words, would installing a bootable solaris instance into a temporary filesystem, along with the TSM4x client, --permit you to recover the original system Completely... kinda like using bootp It seems if you try BMR by installing solaris on top of a solaris instance you get a bunch of errors as it steps on active OS files. Keith
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
This has not been my experience. In fact its quite the opposite. (I am using 3.7.2 but was on 3.1.2.20 as well.) I can reclamate onsite-tapepools with one drive and a FILE area. For offsite-Copypools I change the rec to 20 every weekend and it reads ever onsite tape to recreate about 20-30 offsite-copypools. It takes 36-48 hours. and is Tape to Tape. (3590 carts) Of course this is also due to the fact I use Collocation on the onsite tapepool and not use collocation on the offsite copypool. joe.f. It sure would be nice if IBM/Tivoli could rework the code to allow COPYPOOL reclamation to 'dump' to a disk area until full and then write it out to a new copypool tape. (with the assumption that you used a disk FILE area as large as your largest capacity tape) Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jon Milliren wrote: Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
Re: ODBC driver system error 126 - solved
Thanks to all and especially Andy Raibeck. The problem I was having turned out to be some Windows Registry settings. REGEDIT fixed my problem. Again, thanks to all... John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com
Re: Can you use dual boot method to BMR Solaris with TSM 4.x?
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Keith Kwiatek wrote: // Hello, // // Has anyone tried to use a dual boot method to allow a bare metal restore // with a solaris 4.x client? In other words, would installing a bootable // solaris instance into a temporary filesystem, along with the TSM4x // client, --permit you to recover the original system Completely... kinda // like using bootp // // It seems if you try BMR by installing solaris on top of a solaris instance // you get a bunch of errors as it steps on active OS files. // // Keith // // We have worked on this, although on Solaris 2.6 and 8, not 4. The best way we have found is this: - Boot off a CD or an appropriate image on a JumpStart Server - Configure the slices on your disk at least as big as they were before - NFS mount the TSM software - Run restore - Reboot. Just make sure that you update the TSM files to put the logs in /tmp, and update the dsm.sys to reflect the node you want to restore. The reason we actually did this was to make 'images' of servers, thus ensuring that all of our round-robin-ed and redundant servers were running the exact same configuration, with little or no potential for human error; just change the hostname and IP and go! Works very well. -Brian -- +---+ | Brian T. HuntleySystems Administrator | | Campus Information Services, Clarkson University | | Ph/FAX: 315.268-6723/6570 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.clarkson.edu/cis | +---+ UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
EMC + AIX + 3584 LTO
Hello, I had some mail problems and I do not know if my message reached the distribution list. If yes, please excuse for the duplicate. If no, please help. Thanks. Best Regards, Sorin Serb IBM Romania -- Forwarded by Sorin Serb/Romania/IBM on 05/04/2001 09:46 PM --- Sorin Serb 05/02/2001 08:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: From: Sorin Serb/Romania/IBM@IBMRO Subject: EMC + AIX + 3584 LTO Hello, Please help on the following: 1) Does any of the following configurations work for backups of raw logical volumes ( namely EMC Symmetrix BCV and SRDF volumes ): EMC Symmetrix -- Fibre Channel -- IBM RS/6000 server + TSM v4.1 -- Fibre Channel ---3584 LTO Tape Library OR EMC Symmetrix -- Fibre Channel -- EMC Connectrix ( Brocade OEMed ) switch --- Fibre ChannelIBM RS/6000 server + TSM v4.1 - Fibre Channel --3584 LTO Tape Library Are there any particular issues to take into account ? 2) Where I can find some guidelines / rules of thumb for sizing the TSM server ( processors, memory etc. ) ? In the redbooks I browsed I found some information regarding network / tape library sizing but very sketchy info about the server. Many thanks in advance for any hint. Best Regards, Sorin Serb IBM Romania
Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server
Hi, I'm trying to install the TSM client 4.1.0 in a Windows NT Server SP6 which is a node of an MS Cluster. When running the setup.exe the installation wizard stops with the following error message: The wizard was iterrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again Checking the NT Event Viewer, found an application error produced by the MS Installer with no more detailed information. Any suggestion, known experience or idea of the cause? Thanks in advance ___ Gerardo Zapata IT Specialist Infrastructure Systems Management IBM Mexico (525) 270 5889 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
ADSM 3.1 web client
Is the ADSM Web Client supported for the 3.1 version of ADSM on Sun Solaris. Thanks in advance. Gerardo Zapata IT Specialist ISM IBM Mexico (525) 270 5889 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD.
Sorry for going off topic but I trust SMers using AIX can help. I'm looking to 'buy time' until the new system arrives and want to add external DASD ... err I mean DISKS to my AIX-RS6K-H50. I'm going to 'give back' 18 Gig's of SSA to th DB and Staging by using cheap external for one-drive reclamation disk-FILE area. which is expendable when empty. There's a 68-pin scsi connector out the back of the H50. I've successfully attached an external SCSI enclosure (50 pin) with a 2 GIG drive in it using a 50 pin (back to H50) 68-pin cable and then LVM, format, etc cp -p to it too! But as soon as I go out and buy a 18 Gig drive 68 pin it fails!!!I have only been able to try LVD (low voltage differential) drives and they fail. Luckily I've gotten them from Fry's and can return them without any hassles. But that little experiment has been exhausted. I've even tried so-called converters 50-pin to 68 pin that's suppose to handle the w/w/o low voltage conversion for me with no-luck! In going on EBay I notice some sellers specifiy LVD and Ultra 160 and I understand I have to avoid those versions. But there's still confusion on my part as to whether I can use a Ultra Wide or SE 68 or 80 pin. A more knowledgable person here told me to avoid any Seagates with L in the model number because that's LVD and I've learned F means fibre. But now I'm seeing W and WD and WC but no N's which I'm sure would be OK. On IBMS , I think I can use DGHS if its an X (as in 18XP) but not if its a Z as in 18Z. And I'm avoiding any with SE/LVD but SCSI is OK in this line. The market for non LVD (re: old) scsi is drying up and its tricky! I would appreciate any other model numbers that definitely are compatible with a 68-pin external scsi connector that seems to only work with 50pin drives!!I have done no research on Western Digital up to now. thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
Per the Tivoli Storage Manager (for AIX) Administrator's Guide, to enable volume reclamation for a storage pool that has only one mount point (that is, one drive), you can define a reclamation storage pool for the server to use when reclaiming volumes. When the server reclaims volumes, the server moves the data from volumes in the original storage pool to volumes in the reclamation storage pool. I realize I cited an AIX manual and you stipulated a Solaris environment, but I rather doubt they are that different that the information wouldn't apply. JRC -- From: Jon Milliren[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
Re: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server
I kind of remember this problem. I think you need a newer version of the client. The latest for NT is 4.1.2.14 Mark -Original Message- From: Gerardo Zapata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server Hi, I'm trying to install the TSM client 4.1.0 in a Windows NT Server SP6 which is a node of an MS Cluster. When running the setup.exe the installation wizard stops with the following error message: The wizard was iterrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again Checking the NT Event Viewer, found an application error produced by the MS Installer with no more detailed information. Any suggestion, known experience or idea of the cause? Thanks in advance ___ Gerardo Zapata IT Specialist Infrastructure Systems Management IBM Mexico (525) 270 5889 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 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.
Re: off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD
Joe - The http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/enterprise/h50_specs.html page says that the H50 contains... Dual integrated SCSI-2 Fast/Wide controllers which thus gives you flexibility up to but not including Differential. See http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/discmodelinter.html for Seagate model numbering, to decypher that stuff. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Installing TSM 4.1.0 Client in a WNT Server
Gerardo, Does this system have NTFS 8.3 file name creation disabled? If so, the following APAR (IC29085) probably describes your problem: == BEGIN APAR TEXT == ABSTRACT: THE WIZARD WAS INTERRUPTED BEFORE TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT COULD BE COMPLETELY INSTALLED. YOUR SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN MODIFIED ERROR DESCRIPTION: When installing the TSM 4.1 client for Microsoft Windows, rather than seeing the Welcome dialog, you may see a dialog whose text reads: The wizard was interrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager Client could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete the installation at another time, please run setup again. If you run setup.exe with verbose logging active: setup /v/l*v setup.log The setup.log will show that the setup ends with return code 1603. This is a result of a failure in the StartUp action, which ends with return value 3. The following is a segment from a typical setup.log file showing the error in StartUp: Action start 8:19:57: StartUp. MSI (c) (2D:32): Transforming table Binary. MSI (c) (2D:32): Creating MSIHANDLE (37) of type 790542 for thread 306 Action ended 8:19:58: StartUp. Return value 3. The problem is in the InstallShield for Windows Installer software that is used to package the client. The problem occurs when 8.3 file name creation support for NTFS file systems has been disabled on Windows NT or 2000 (Windows 9x users should not experience this problem). If you are having problems installing the TSM 4.1 Windows client, run setup.exe with verbose logging enabled (as described above). After the failure, examine the resulting setup.log file for return code 1603 (near the bottom of the file) and the StartUp failure described above. If setup.log matches these two symptoms, then the next step is to verify whether 8.3 file name creation is disabled, as follows: 1) Examine the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem 2) Within that key, locate a value with the name: NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation If this value is set to 1, then 8.3 file name creation is disabled, and this APAR is a match for the problem. If the value is 0, then 8.3 file name creation is enabled, and this APAR is not a match for the problem. Alternative: if you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with accessing the registry, then you can run the following command from an OS prompt to obtain the same information. This command only reads certain values from the registry; it does not update the registry: regedit /e myreg.txt HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Control\FileSystem (Note: due to width restrictions, the above regedit command is shown on two lines although it is one long command. There are no spaces between CurrentControl at the end of the first line and Set at the beginning of the next line. The command will save the output to a file called myreg.txt. Review the myreg.txt file and look for the following line: NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation=dword:0001 If the value following dword: is 0001 then 8.3 file name creation is disabled, and this APAR is a match for the problem. If the value is , then 8.3 file name creation is enabled and this APAR is not a match for the problem. LOCAL FIX: If 8.3 file name creation is disabled, you can circumvent the problem by temporarily reactivating the 8.3 file name creation. Here is how to do this: NOTE: Mistakes in editing the registry can introduce instability to your system, or even make it unusable or unbootable. It is recommended that you back up your registry before editing it. If you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with editing the registry, you should ask someone else who has expertise in editing the registry to make this change for you. 1) Change NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation value to 0. 2) Reboot Windows. 3) Run setup.exe to install TSM. 4) Disable 8.3 file name creation (if you wish) after the install runs by resetting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 and rebooting. Reference: Microsoft article Q210638 - How to Disable Automatic Short File Name Generation. === END APAR TEXT === Hope this helps, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend Gerardo Zapata wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the TSM client 4.1.0 in a Windows NT Server SP6 which is a node of an MS Cluster. When running the setup.exe the installation wizard stops with the following error message: The wizard was iterrupted before Tivoli Storage Manager could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again Checking the NT Event Viewer, found an application error produced by the MS Installer with no more detailed information. Any suggestion, known
Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
The quote Jack offered is relevant to PRIMARY pools, but not to COPY pools, I think. TSM reclaims COPY (off-site) storage pools by using the drives and tapes available to the PRIMARY (on-site) storage pool. It can do this because its massive database knows where in the PRIMARY pool to find a copy of each file on the COPYpool tape it's reclaiming, so it can make a duplicate of an off-site copypool tape even though it can't physically mount that offsite copypool tape. Jon, surely your onsite pool has two or more drives, right? Maybe reclamation didn't start because it's a relatively low-priority process (look up preempt in the Admin guide), and something more important (like backup db) was running. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Coyle, Jack Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Per the Tivoli Storage Manager (for AIX) Administrator's Guide, to enable volume reclamation for a storage pool that has only one mount point (that is, one drive), you can define a reclamation storage pool for the server to use when reclaiming volumes. When the server reclaims volumes, the server moves the data from volumes in the original storage pool to volumes in the reclamation storage pool. I realize I cited an AIX manual and you stipulated a Solaris environment, but I rather doubt they are that different that the information wouldn't apply. JRC -- From: Jon Milliren[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes Hi all, I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these volumes have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim. I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to 40. I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold incorrectly? I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and reading the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Milliren Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh Office of Institutional Advancement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 624-2727 office (412) 292-2070 mobile
LTO support on Win2K -- no longer requires RSM
For those who want to spell relief on Win2K with LTO, an excerpt from the 4.1.3.0 TSM server read1sts (README) file: * $$3 Additonal information on support for LTO Tape Drives on Windows * TSM allows users to define the 3581, 3583 and 3584 IBM LTO libraries as LIBTYPE=SCSI Because Windows 2000's Removable Storage Manager (or RSM) does not always handle devices properly behind a SAN, TSM is now allowing 3581, 3583, and 3584 libraries to be defined as type SCSI. (RSM does not auto-configure the libraries on the SAN Data Gateway because the SDG re-maps the SCSI device id's and logical unit number's of the drives in the library and RSM cannot resolve the SDG addresses with those contained in the Read Element Status data for the drives.) When 3581, 3583, or 3584 libraries are defined as type SCSI, TSM device driver on Windows 2000 will control the medium-changer in the 3581, 3583 and 3584 libraries. TSM will continue to support the definition of the library as type RSM for those customers who wish to utilize RSM. With the introduction of the SSD LTO technology, TSM has changed how it supports SSD tape devices and uses the SSD device driver to control the LTO drives on the NT platforms. Now SSD LTO customers can easily download microcode updates and perform other serviceability functions. Whether RSM or TSM device driver controls the medium-changer in the library, the SSD device driver will control the LTO drives. Those customers who wish to migrate from LIBTYPE=RSM to LIBTYPE=SCSI should follow this procedure: - Disable RSM. - Install the TSM device driver and ensure it recognizes the LTO library. - Delete the current LIBTYPE=RSM definition for the LTO library. - Define the LTO library via the DEFINE LIBRARY command using LIBTYPE=SCSI. - Define the drives in the LTO library via the DEFINE DRIVE command. - Check the volumes via the CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command using SEARCH=YES. - First use STATUS=SCRATCH. - TSM will not check volumes defined to a storage pool or in the volume history file into its library inventory. - Then use STATUS=PRIVATE. - TSM will now check volumes defined to a storage pool or in the volume history file into its library inventory. Refer to the following web pages for default element addresses of the IBM LTO Libraries IBM 3583 - http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices_latest/atab104.htm IBM 3584 - http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices_latest/atab101.htm Don France Technical Architect - Unix Engineering/P.A.C.E. San Jose, CA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PACE - http://www.pacepros.com Bus-Ph: (408) 257-3037
Re: off-topic: adding *external* disks to RS6K-H50 not LVD
Richard, Thanks! Now I understand the funny feeling I had while poking at this empirically. I am dealing with something neither fish nor fowl!! cheers .. joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 4 May 2001, Richard Sims wrote: Joe - The http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/enterprise/h50_specs.html page says that the H50 contains... Dual integrated SCSI-2 Fast/Wide controllers which thus gives you flexibility up to but not including Differential. See http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/discmodelinter.html for Seagate model numbering, to decypher that stuff. Richard Sims, BU
Onbar Setup
I am in the process of setting up scripts to run using onbar. My understanding is in my case where there are two or three instances running I should setup different dsm* files using an alias for my system?? Also does anyone have a copy of their shell script etc. that has more than one instance running and how you export the different variables associated with a particular instance? I set up a shell script that exported out the variables associated with an instance with obar_d and have't had any luck getting it to run properly. I would appreciate any help you could give me. I used to run this on ver. 3.1 and it worked fine, but does't seem to work with 3.7.0 and soon to be 4.1.0. Thanks, Gene
