ie list order and comments
Has anybody noticed anything different about the 4.1.2.0 TSM client in the way it reads the IE file? I am getting some unusual results, almost as if it is now readind top to bottom, instead of bottom to top. And or that the * is not a comment for the line.
Re: HTTP sessions in TSM 4.1.3.0 (also, memory leak...)
Michael Oski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/05/2001 19:31:11 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Stan Vernaillen/BE/CCE) Subject: Re: HTTP sessions in TSM 4.1.3.0 (also, memory leak...) Hello, I did quite a bit of testing of different browsers against different patch levels of TSM 3.7 regarding this problem. The key point to remember - DON'T try to cancel the sessions! It will skyrocket your CPU utilization and remain that way until dsmserv is restarted. I have the same problem server is AIX 3.7.4 client Win 95 with IE5 The ghost sessions eat away resources, I always cancel them an dCPU immediatly goes down to normal again! My colleague with exactly the smae setup does not have the problem ! Just glad I'm not alone ;) My testing was performed only on MacOS 9.1/X and Solaris Sparc. I have no way to test Windows since I don't have any PC's (I work at Apple). The only two browsers that handled the webadmin interface correctly were Netscape/Mozilla and iCab for MacOS. Internet Explorer for MacOS X native or Classic mode, OmniWeb for MacOS, and Internet Explorer via Windows it MacOS's VirtualPC emulator. Hope this helps, MO
Oxford TSM Symposium, Requirements Survey
Hello, as Sheelagh Treweek already announced the Oxford University TSM 2001 Symposium will take place on 20th and 21st September 2001 in Oxford (UK). Please have a look at http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/home.html for details. One session of this symposium is dedicated to a discussion of user requirements. It is my impression that TSM is enhanced primarily with new customers in focus. There are quite a few featues in TSM which have been plagueing us for a long time and still do so. So I suggested to collect requirements from existing customers for discussion with TSM developers whom we expect to see in Oxford. Please see http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/requirements.html for details and for a submission form. Sheelagh, the program committee and I would be glad to see your requirements! Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany
3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x
I'm being told by IBM that I need to go to TSM 4.1.1 to upport these. Is this correct? Is anyone using 3590 K-cartridges on TSM 3.7.x? Thanks Bob Smith
SDLT tape libraries
Hello, A number of libraries with SDLT drives are appearing in the market. It is the next generation of DLT. However, we can't find a separate SDLT product line in supported devices table, which is presented on Tivoli Storage Manager site. Does it means, that SDLT line is treated as DLT line by Tivoli? Does the library, which is on supported device list with DLT drives is supported with SDLT drives also? Are there any changes in SDLT SCSI command set in comparison with DLT, or they are hidden in media technology only? Thanks, Irena Rokiene
TSM configuration questions
I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: HTTP sessions in TSM 4.1.3.0 (also, memory leak...)
We had the same problem here with 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 - getting our w/95/nt admin machines up to IE5.5 solved the problem for us. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25 3:28 AM Michael Oski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/05/2001 19:31:11 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Stan Vernaillen/BE/CCE) Subject: Re: HTTP sessions in TSM 4.1.3.0 (also, memory leak...) Hello, I did quite a bit of testing of different browsers against different patch levels of TSM 3.7 regarding this problem. The key point to remember - DON'T try to cancel the sessions! It will skyrocket your CPU utilization and remain that way until dsmserv is restarted. I have the same problem server is AIX 3.7.4 client Win 95 with IE5 The ghost sessions eat away resources, I always cancel them an dCPU immediatly goes down to normal again! My colleague with exactly the smae setup does not have the problem ! Just glad I'm not alone ;) My testing was performed only on MacOS 9.1/X and Solaris Sparc. I have no way to test Windows since I don't have any PC's (I work at Apple). The only two browsers that handled the webadmin interface correctly were Netscape/Mozilla and iCab for MacOS. Internet Explorer for MacOS X native or Classic mode, OmniWeb for MacOS, and Internet Explorer via Windows it MacOS's VirtualPC emulator. Hope this helps, MO
Re: 3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x
We are using 3590J K carts in our TSM 3.7.3.8 environment. We have had a significant amount of K tapes that have gone readonly due to write errors, though. K carts do require 3590 drive uprades new microcode. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25 5:14 AM I'm being told by IBM that I need to go to TSM 4.1.1 to upport these. Is this correct? Is anyone using 3590 K-cartridges on TSM 3.7.x? Thanks Bob Smith
Luuk Kleibrink/D903513/IS/DLVG is niet op zijn/haar kantoor.
Ik ben niet op kantoor vanaf 24-05-2001 tot 05-06-2001.
Antwort: TSM configuration questions
Hallo, I felt equal and defined one storage pool (family) per plattform. I don't use disk storage pools, only tape and copy stgpools. Another way is to use collocation to separate data. I use this only for special cases (such as databases). Greetings Rolf Meyer Info Business Systems GmbH Chuck Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 25.05.2001 11:21:23 Bitte antworten an ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] An:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Rolf Meyer/Satisfactory) Thema: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: 3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x
Hello Bob, we are running on ADSM 3.1.2.90 and I'm using 3590 K-cartridges succesfully. We just had to label them again after we migrated the data to another cartridge. So I think when you migrate your data from the K-carts and label them again then TSM has no problems to see the difference between 128-tracks and 256-tracks. Greetings, Bert Moonen ABP Netherlands -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Steve Schaub Verzonden: vrijdag 25 mei 2001 11:44 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: 3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x We are using 3590J K carts in our TSM 3.7.3.8 environment. We have had a significant amount of K tapes that have gone readonly due to write errors, though. K carts do require 3590 drive uprades new microcode. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25 5:14 AM I'm being told by IBM that I need to go to TSM 4.1.1 to upport these. Is this correct? Is anyone using 3590 K-cartridges on TSM 3.7.x? Thanks Bob Smith
Re: TSM configuration questions
You just create different sequential access storage pools. What reason would you want them to handle their own tapes? (..just in case one of them purges their own tapes?) The data on those tapes cannot be used in another server. Have a look at the Tivoli Storage Manager Concepts redbook from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Let the administrators worry about data/access/scheduling/ versioning/expiry etc. You worry about tape handling for all (even if you do end up creating seperate storage pools per platform). Suad -- On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote: I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: 3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x
We are using 3590 cartidges on TSM 3.7.3 with 3494 tape library Smith, Bob bob.smith@EDTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S.COM cc: (bcc: MUSTAFA BAYTAR/ATIM/ICECEK) Sent by: Subject: 3590 K-Cartridges on TSM 3.7.x ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 25.05.2001 12:14 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I'm being told by IBM that I need to go to TSM 4.1.1 to upport these. Is this correct? Is anyone using 3590 K-cartridges on TSM 3.7.x? Thanks Bob Smith
Scripts for breaking and mounting bcv volumes from EMC Symmetrix system
Need a little help. Does anyone have some scripts I can use as a pattern that will unmount, break and mount bcv volumes for a tsm backup from a Symmetrix server? Thanks. Joe Spade R L Carriers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NOVELL RESTORE
I am trying to restore files from a Novell server that is NOT currently running. What is the trick to do this? I know that with NT, I can use a virtualnodename. Marc - Use -nodename. See the B/A manual, chapter 3, Restoring or Retrieving Your Files to Another Client Node. Richard Sims, BU
Re: TSM configuration questions
You need to do colocation. Colocation will place files from each client on a tape by itself providing the client segregation you desire. You can even break this down even further and colocate by filespace. The downside is that you will significantly increase the amount of tapes you use. For further information look in your TSM documentation for UPDATE STGPOOL. Al -=-Original Message- -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -=Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -= -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 02:21:23 -0700 -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -=I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM -=as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool -=and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making -=offsite storage copies. My questions are: -= -=If I am doing backups using this configuration, my -=daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first -=go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. -= Data on the tapes will consist of information from -=all platforms, mixing together, right? I was -=uncomfortable -=with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and -=they assured me everything would be alright. However, -=If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one -=platform only, are there ways to configure the system -=to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, -=Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their -=own tapes. -= -=Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -= -= -=__ -=Do You Yahoo!? -=Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices -=http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -=
thanks
First, thanks for all the helpful responses I received yesterday regarding accessing a tape. I was able to get the backup I needed to restore. I do (of course) have another question. I have a Compaq (or is it Quantum or Tandem) DLT7000 35/70 drive. According to spec sheets I've seen it is suppose to be capable of backing up 35 G an hour using the 2:1 compression. Well, I only seem to get like 45 G on a tape and it takes like 8 hours to backup 84 G. It's a local drive so I'm think there must be a driver update or am I dreaming. TIA Patrick
Re: TSM configuration questions
Chuck, You could make separate disk, tape, and copy pools for each OS. Sean Sean McNamara Senior Analyst PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. 955 Jefferson Ave Norristown, PA 19403 (610)666-4206 (610)666-4285 (fax) -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM configuration questions
Thank you. I looked into that option, but TSM support person was telling me that if Colocation was enable, it would be one node, one tape, would not be able to put different nodes of one platform on one tape. --- Alan Davenport [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to do colocation. Colocation will place files from each client on a tape by itself providing the client segregation you desire. You can even break this down even further and colocate by filespace. The downside is that you will significantly increase the amount of tapes you use. For further information look in your TSM documentation for UPDATE STGPOOL. Al -=-Original Message- -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -=Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -= -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 02:21:23 -0700 -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -=I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM -=as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool -=and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making -=offsite storage copies. My questions are: -= -=If I am doing backups using this configuration, my -=daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first -=go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. -= Data on the tapes will consist of information from -=all platforms, mixing together, right? I was -=uncomfortable -=with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and -=they assured me everything would be alright. However, -=If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one -=platform only, are there ways to configure the system -=to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, -=Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their -=own tapes. -= -=Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -= -= -=__ -=Do You Yahoo!? -=Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices -=http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -= __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM configuration questions
Different sequential access storage pools need also different disk storage pool, right? The reason is that I am the Unix guy, also in charge of this AIX TSM server. I have enough system work on my daily duties. At this point, I can see myself spending a lot of time everyday sending tapes offsite, eventually responsible recalling tapes for restores, etc. There is no operator in this shop. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you. --- Suad Musovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just create different sequential access storage pools. What reason would you want them to handle their own tapes? (..just in case one of them purges their own tapes?) The data on those tapes cannot be used in another server. Have a look at the Tivoli Storage Manager Concepts redbook from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Let the administrators worry about data/access/scheduling/ versioning/expiry etc. You worry about tape handling for all (even if you do end up creating seperate storage pools per platform). Suad -- On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote: I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM configuration questions
Chuck, Your TSM support person and Alan are saying the same thing - collocation is by node, which means it will only put data from one client node on a particular tape. There is not a collocate-by-platform option. Steve Schaub Haworth, Inc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25 9:48 AM Thank you. I looked into that option, but TSM support person was telling me that if Colocation was enable, it would be one node, one tape, would not be able to put different nodes of one platform on one tape. --- Alan Davenport [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to do colocation. Colocation will place files from each client on a tape by itself providing the client segregation you desire. You can even break this down even further and colocate by filespace. The downside is that you will significantly increase the amount of tapes you use. For further information look in your TSM documentation for UPDATE STGPOOL. Al -=-Original Message- -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -=Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -= -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 02:21:23 -0700 -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -=I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM -=as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool -=and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making -=offsite storage copies. My questions are: -= -=If I am doing backups using this configuration, my -=daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first -=go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. -= Data on the tapes will consist of information from -=all platforms, mixing together, right? I was -=uncomfortable -=with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and -=they assured me everything would be alright. However, -=If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one -=platform only, are there ways to configure the system -=to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, -=Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their -=own tapes. -= -=Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -= -= -=__ -=Do You Yahoo!? -=Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices -=http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -= __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM configuration questions
Thank you. I'll see if I can do that. --- Sean McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck, You could make separate disk, tape, and copy pools for each OS. Sean Sean McNamara Senior Analyst PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. 955 Jefferson Ave Norristown, PA 19403 (610)666-4206 (610)666-4285 (fax) -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Antwort: TSM configuration questions
Thank you. --- Rolf Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I felt equal and defined one storage pool (family) per plattform. I don't use disk storage pools, only tape and copy stgpools. Another way is to use collocation to separate data. I use this only for special cases (such as databases). Greetings Rolf Meyer Info Business Systems GmbH Chuck Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 25.05.2001 11:21:23 Bitte antworten an ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] An:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Rolf Meyer/Satisfactory) Thema: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM configuration questions
Chuck, I do all the platforms backup on to AIX servers ie 3 AIX Servers with AIX/HP/NT/SUN Clients. I didn't find any problems. U may centralise ur operations . -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM configuration questions I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
TSM configuration questions to cross define servers for virtual volumes.
Hi Anyone out there can pl help me to configure 3 TSM SERVERS to cross define and to use virtual volumes definations pl. I will appreciate ur help pl. Thankx. BALANAND PINNI. PHONE 314-206-5911. EM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PG:1-800-451-6897.
Re: AIX Disk-pools; mirror, RAID or simple copy-pool???
I may have missed it in this e-mail, but have you considered doing OS mirroring on your data disk pools? I know that you are supposed to use TSM mirroring for Database and Recovery Log volumes, but I talked with Tivoli tech support on this issue several months ago and they couldn't give me a good reason to not use OS mirroring on your data disk pools. If you can afford it and you have two SSA drawers, why not just mirror one drawer to the other? That way if you lose a disk, it should be transparent to TSM. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Jeff Rankin Associate Technical Analyst, Excel Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 24, 2001 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Disk-pools; mirror, RAID or simple copy-pool??? TSM Admin Group, Sorry to bother the group with this yet again. I know it was been discussed before, and I wadded through many messages on ADSM.org archives. I have TSM 4.1.3 running on an H80. My 100GB initial disk storage pool, which migrates to a AIT-2 tape storage pool has me concerned. I purge this pool to tape each mid-morning after backups finish, and again each night before my evening backups start. Now Im a firm believer in a DB Copy-pool (TSM mirror) however, no one talks about a disk storage pool copy-pool. If you have a large initial disk storage pool (ours is 100GB and could grow significantly if we get another SSA Drawer) there is a real threat of a disaster if you loose a disk in that disk array. I was planning to run with a 100GB disk storage pool, and then have that mirrored (via TSM) to a disk storage pool copy-pool. I did this on a older version 2 server years ago. So my question is if you have a significant amount of disk. In this case 200GB (six 36GB disks separated into two 3 disk volume groups). What is the hot setup?!? Here are the configuration scenarios I am considering: 1) Setup two 3 disk volume groups, with one vg as the initial disk storage pool, and the other a copy pool (TSM mirror) -- which is what I intended to do, yet doesn't seem to be an option in TSM 4 any more. 2) RAID 5 the six 36GB disks into one volume group, and utilize AIX RAID to keep the disk pool healthy. 3) Glome the disks into one 200GB disk storage pool, and continue my daily purge procedures. 4) Setup disk vgs as in step one, creating the initial disk storage pool, and the another disk storage pool with the pool type of copy, and backup the initial disk storage pool at specific times -- this is what TSM support recommended. Any opinions and/or ideas would be appreciated. Many Thanks, _/_/_/_/_/_/ Jim Jepson, LRE System Admin Networking _/_/ Apple Computer, Inc. _/_/ 3 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 _/_/ _/_/ Direct: 408-974-6368 FAX: 408-996-3783 _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/MS:303-1SC, E-MAIL:
Re: SQL server recovery.
Zosimo, We have in a pinch brought all the SQL Services down and did an archive of the database to a short 5 day archive period class. That is if you can afford to bring down the DB. We did this for a couple of weeks until a problem could be resolved with TDP for SQL server. Arturo
Re: TSM configuration questions
However, if you have high-capacity tape, you don't have to spend a whole tape for each node. You can control the tape use by setting a MAXSCRATCH value for the tape pool. For example, if you have 200 clients to back up and you set MAXSCRATCH to 100, TSM will put two clients on each tape. You get all the benefits of colocation, without having to spend too much extra tape. Regarding your configuration: we back up every form Windows, plus AIX, SUN, IRIX, Mac, OS/2 - all into the same 60 GB disk pool and same tape pools. OVer 500 clients, and there has NEVER been any type of problem from mixing this data in the pools or on the tapes. If you give up your disk pool and go direct to tape, you will lose a lot of the flexibility that TSM provides and have to do a lot of extra scheduling for your client backups that TSM would normally handle automatically for you. If you split your clients into separate disk and tape pools, you will also be losing a lot of flexibility and creating yourself a lot of extra management work, all for no real benefits. Don't try to make TSM work like another product. It was designed this way for a reason. My opinion, take it or leave it... Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert -Original Message- From: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM configuration questions You need to do colocation. Colocation will place files from each client on a tape by itself providing the client segregation you desire. You can even break this down even further and colocate by filespace. The downside is that you will significantly increase the amount of tapes you use. For further information look in your TSM documentation for UPDATE STGPOOL. Al -=-Original Message- -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -=Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:21 AM -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -= -=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 02:21:23 -0700 -=Subject: TSM configuration questions -= -=I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM -=as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool -=and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making -=offsite storage copies. My questions are: -= -=If I am doing backups using this configuration, my -=daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first -=go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. -= Data on the tapes will consist of information from -=all platforms, mixing together, right? I was -=uncomfortable -=with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and -=they assured me everything would be alright. However, -=If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one -=platform only, are there ways to configure the system -=to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, -=Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their -=own tapes. -= -=Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -= -= -=__ -=Do You Yahoo!? -=Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices -=http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -=
Re: TSM configuration questions
Look at your library, look at your D/R recovery requirements -- and look at scripting. Your D/R requirements should drive what you do. Also (and I've seen a lot of this on the list) *don't* try to warp the backup logic of *SM to do something that should be done via archiving. If you need to keep something for X days, no matter how many times you run the backup - set it up as an archive pool with a 14-day retention. Our D/R plan calls for *buying* replacement file servers, for example - so I do not colocate my NT backups, I just have one big pool. However, we need to restore the two MS-Exchange servers within 24 hours, and have servers reserved at the hot-site for this. So I have a seperate pool for MS-Exchange, and it is co-located so we can restore both servers at the same time. We have a seperate pool for our SAP production backups (archives), so that the restore of SAP is not held up by anything else. I've two seperate pools for the SAP redo logs (disk, tape, and copy) as they're all coming from one node and I want to keep them seperate, so I don't loose both sets of redo logs on the same tape error. I have development systems that are populated periodically from the production environment. I don't want to take the time to make off-site copies of the data, so these go to yet another archive pool (the system files go on the normal AIX incrementals and go off-site daily). I've a number of scripts I use to handle checkin, checkout, and copying data, all based on a perl module written quite a while ago by Owen Crow. My biggest problem was sizing and setting up the assorted disk pools that front-end all the tape pools . . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM configuration questions Different sequential access storage pools need also different disk storage pool, right? The reason is that I am the Unix guy, also in charge of this AIX TSM server. I have enough system work on my daily duties. At this point, I can see myself spending a lot of time everyday sending tapes offsite, eventually responsible recalling tapes for restores, etc. There is no operator in this shop. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you. --- Suad Musovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just create different sequential access storage pools. What reason would you want them to handle their own tapes? (..just in case one of them purges their own tapes?) The data on those tapes cannot be used in another server. Have a look at the Tivoli Storage Manager Concepts redbook from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Let the administrators worry about data/access/scheduling/ versioning/expiry etc. You worry about tape handling for all (even if you do end up creating seperate storage pools per platform). Suad -- On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:21:23AM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote: I am setting up TSM in our shop and I am learning TSM as I go. Right now, I have set up a 100GB Disk Pool and one Tape Pool and one Tapecopy pool for making offsite storage copies. My questions are: If I am doing backups using this configuration, my daily backups on NT, Netware, and Unix will all first go to the disk pool and then migrate to the tape pool. Data on the tapes will consist of information from all platforms, mixing together, right? I was uncomfortable with this data mixing idea. I called TSM support and they assured me everything would be alright. However, If I still want to have tapes consisting of only one platform only, are there ways to configure the system to do that? My purpose of doing this is to have NT, Novell, and Unix System Administrators to handle their own tapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: TSM with Win2000 Clustering
Jeff, I have clustered half a dowen server with 4.1 on NT not W2000. I think they are pretty identical.I had no problems dealing with TSM the biggest pain was learning about MS CLuster Aware software. This allows for the failover of disk from active to passive or active/active. If you let me know what type of specific issues you have I can probably help you out Arturo Lopez
Re: Oxford TSM Symposium, Requirements Survey
as Sheelagh Treweek already announced the Oxford University TSM 2001 Symposium will take place on 20th and 21st September 2001 in Oxford (UK). Anyone thought of trying to get some of the more important things going on, on a web cast so we can hear it back here? Not sure if that's possible or costly. Would be nice. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: Unsuscribe to List
You may leave the list at any time by sending a SIGNOFF ADSM-L command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). -Original Message- From: Area Técnica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unsuscribe to List Could you tell me how to unsuscribe to this list... I receive a lot of emails and I can't stop them... Thanks LARK
Does TSM check AIX permissions?
Should TSM consider the change of AIX permissions to be a modification of the file, and therefore, back it up. We have a client on an AIX 4.3.3 box with TSM 3.7.2 where someone (whose mouse has been replaced with a thumbscrew) did a global change of permissions to 777. As far as we can tell by our own tests, this did not cause a backup of every changed file, so there is no way to do a PIT restore to the way things were, at least with the present configuration.
Re: MSCS and the GUI
David, If I remember correctly the only way to view the shared drives is to launch the GUI from the ACTIVE CLUSTER (Who own's drives at that particular time). You will be able to see all cluster drives. Thx Arturo
PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106
Greetings, AIX 4.3.3 client running 4.1.2 code talking to a 3.1.2-50 server on OS\390 is getting the above messages on numerous numerous directories. (full text below). A search of the archives found a couple of hits with the problem but none on solutions. Is is a rev issue with the older server code? 05/25/01 11:05:48 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / sybase/programs /lost+found 05/25/01 11:05:53 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / calendar /adminacl 05/25/01 11:05:53 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / calendar /alias 05/25/01 11:05:56 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / calendar /lost+found 05/25/01 11:05:57 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / calendar /unison thanks, -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
Re: Does TSM check AIX permissions?
Should TSM consider the change of AIX permissions to be a modification of the file, and therefore, back it up. Yes. See the B/A Client manual, Backing Up and Restoring Files chapter, Backup: Related Topics, What Does TSM Consider a Changed File. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Does TSM check AIX permissions?
Richard, I couldn't find that when I searched the online doc, but I thought that's what it said. However, in this case, it didn't do so. The admin says that looking at numerous files in various filesystems he hasn't found any that have a backup date that is the same as the date the permissions were changed. At 01:11 PM 5/25/2001 -0400, you wrote: Should TSM consider the change of AIX permissions to be a modification of the file, and therefore, back it up. Yes. See the B/A Client manual, Backing Up and Restoring Files chapter, Backup: Related Topics, What Does TSM Consider a Changed File. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Does TSM check AIX permissions?
While that's what the book says, it's not what appears to happen. I tested this on AIX 4.3.3 with a 4.1 client and a 4.1 server, and on Solaris 7 with a 3.7 client and a 3.7 server: the file is not backed up again. Changing the permissions on a file doesn't alter the file - it alters the inode, so it's the ctime (originally the creation time, now change time) that's changed, while TSM checks the mtime (modification time) when determining which files have changed and need to be backed up. Any change to a file that only updates the inode (i.e. ctime is changed but mtime is not) results in the client updating the TSM DB entry, but not backing up the file; any changes to the contents of the file change mtime, resulting in a file backup. chmod, chgrp, chown change ctime while leaving mtime alone. However, if you're using ACLs on AIX, modifying the ACL does cause a backup of the file. Normal Unix permissions fit within the file entry in the TSM database so only an update is needed to store the new permissions. ACLs have the potential to be too large to fit in the DB entry, so they're stored with the file; when the ACL is changed the file is backed up again. Here's the trimmed down output from a test: % echo foo testfile % ls -l testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 swl staff 4 May 25 10:40 testfile % dsmc incr testfile Total number of objects inspected:2 Total number of objects backed up:2 Total number of objects updated: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 39 % chmod 777 testfile % ls -l testfile -rwxrwxrwx 1 swl staff 4 May 25 10:40 testfile % dsmc incr testfile Total number of objects inspected:1 Total number of objects backed up:0 Total number of objects updated: 1 Total number of bytes transferred:0 % dsmc q backup testfile -ina Size Backup DateMgmt Class A/I File ----- --- 4 05/25/01 10:41:16DEFAULT A /home/swl/testfile % rm testfile % ls -l testfile testfile not found % dsmc restore testfile Total number of objects restored: 1 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 39 % ls -l testfile -rwxrwxrwx 1 swl staff 4 May 25 10:40 testfile -- Scotty Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITSS-CSS http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss/css/ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does TSM check AIX permissions? Should TSM consider the change of AIX permissions to be a modification of the file, and therefore, back it up. Yes. See the B/A Client manual, Backing Up and Restoring Files chapter, Backup: Related Topics, What Does TSM Consider a Changed File. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Does TSM check AIX permissions?
I couldn't find that when I searched the online doc, but I thought that's what it said. However, in this case, it didn't do so. The admin says that looking at numerous files in various filesystems he hasn't found any that have a backup date that is the same as the date the permissions were changed. Should TSM consider the change of AIX permissions to be a modification of the file, and therefore, back it up. Yes. See the B/A Client manual, Backing Up and Restoring Files chapter, Backup: Related Topics, What Does TSM Consider a Changed File. Hi, Fred - The B/A client manual has historically failed to address the actual output that is generated from a backup, though I've prompted the documenters to add this to the manual: it would help explain the further circumstances of Backup. When you change the attributes of a file, as done in Unix with chmod or chown or chgrp, TSM detects that this has happened in that the Unix ctime timestamp has changed, but leaving atime and mtime alone. Seeing that the file content remains unchanged (mtime is the same) but that the attributes have changed, it will in effect backup the attributes portion of the file, and that should be reflected in the backup messages with: Updating--Leads the line of output from a Backup operation, as when backup is incited by the file's ctime (inode administrative change time) having been altered, as would be caused by performing an operation like chmod, chown, chgrp, gunzip then gzip, or the like such that only the ctime value changes. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Win2k Scheduler SYSTEM Account?
Tim, thanks for the info. I tried it using 4.1.2.12, as you suggested, and the scheduler can back up fine under the SYSTEM account. Don't know why it fails at 3.7.2.19. But this solves my problem, thanks! -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win2k Scheduler SYSTEM Account? Hi Wanda: You should be able to use the System Account to backup encrypted files. I just did a test here: Create encrypted file with usera Try to READ with userb (access denied) Backup and restore with userb (userb has rights to the file) works fine File is still encrypted after restore (userb cannot read, usera can) Backed up another encrypted file via the scheduler Restored file File is still encrypted I am running W2K SP1, TSM 4.12.12. Basically an encrypted file prevents another user from reading the file but that user can still backup, copy, delete the file etc, as long as they have rights. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win2k Scheduler SYSTEM Account? We normally install the TSM Scheduler on all our machines using the default SYSTEM account. For a Win2K Pro machine, is there any disadvantage/fallout to using the person's regular network logon account, instead of the SYSTEM account? (assuming it is a member of the local ADMINISTRATORs group). It looks like this is what we will HAVE to do to back up files encrypted with the Windows 2000 File Encryption. If you use a network logon account to run the scheduler, what happens if the password expires? It is toast?
generate passwd on HA nodes
Solaris 2.6 TSM 3.7 I thought the encrypted passwd was located in /etc/adsm/SERVERNAME. When I copy this file from one node of a cluster to another (following failover) the gui reports that the passwd has expired. The cmd line seems to be ok. I haven't looked to deep, but how do you handle backing up Clustered Node data (that's on shared storage)? Does is expire when the node moves? Do you keep TSM running on all clusted nodes or just the active? Thanks Boe Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
Migration ADSM 2.1 from TSM 4.1 ...
Hi, A need any recomendation about migration ADSM 2.1 in AIX from TSM 4.1 in NT 4.0? Thanks in advanced. Francisco Robledo VisionTech Colombia. _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su direccisn de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
