cannot cancel a session

[Guan, Phillip]

Hi all,

When I run 'select * from backups' or ' select * from archives', it will
list a lots of records. Because it is a very long list, I press 'C' to quit
but it hung there for long time; and finally I press CTRL-C to exit to
shell. Now that session is still there and I run the 'cancel session'
command to stop it. Does anyone have such experience before?

My TSM server is 4.1.2.0 and I know our backup and archive table is very
big.

Appreciated your help.

Best regards,
Phillip Guan

Re: TSM and Extended format tapes.

[Jeff Bach]

I agree,
Prelabeled taped do NOT make a difference.  Make sure if you label
your own tapes that you check and make sure the label libvol command is
successful.

I am using 3590 extended length cartridges that we not only labeled,
but also barcoded.  They work great.

Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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-Original Message-
From:   Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, September 14, 2001 7:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: TSM and Extended format tapes.

>How does TSM handles extended length cartridges.  Our biggest
concern is
>how does TSM track %full for recycle/reclaim processing?

Nothing special - TSM treats them like any other tape, writing until
it
finally encounters the end of the tape.  Perspective: Tapes are like
snowflakes - no two tapes are exactly the same length...and even any
one
tape can vary in length over time.  Pct Util is just a pure guess
while
Filling, and gets a true number only when Full.

>If we decide to use extended length cartridges on a NSM, It has
been
>recommend we order them pre-labeled.  So we absolutely do not want
to mix
>extended length with standard length in the mainframe libraries.

Whether you label them or the vendor labels them, the tapes are the
same.
I don't see the "a priori" logic of tape labels and mixing in a
library.
You can keep them separate in different Devclasses if you want, with
dedicated drives; but there's no problem mixing them, as I think
most of
us do.  As said above, tape length is utterly variable to begin
with,
so even in your pre-existing tape pool you in effect already are
mixing
tapes of varying lengths.  That's the essential nature of tape: it's
non-deterministic, unlike disk.

   Richard Sims, BU


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2 TSM VER4.2 AND ONE STK L700 TAPE LIBRARY

[Fabio Di Ciommo]

 Hi everyone, 

I'm a TSM beginner, I need any information about SCSI connections
between 2 server and one Tape library with 4 drives, without San
enviroments.

I would like to connect one TSM ver. 4.2 server to robot + 2 drives and
the other one to 2 drives remains. 

The following drawing explains this connection:

 Server1-DriveDrive--Term
   \Robot--Term
 
Server2-Drive--Term
   \Drive--Term

May anyone help me or send me links to configure this architecture ?

Thanks to all.

Fabio Di Ciommo

Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

[Jeff Bach]

Here is the link to element numbers

http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/atab104.htm



What is element 256 used for? What happens when it is defined as rmt1?

Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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-Original Message-
From:   Jorge Rodrmguez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, September 14, 2001 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

I know is late, but it can help.

You need to install the ATAPE on the AIX before run cfgmgr. When you
install Atape is necessary reboot the machine.

Run the cfgmgr and run the command lsdev -Cc tape, you will see the
library /dev/smc0 and the tapes /dev/rmt1, etc.

In this moment the library is ready to use. Define the libray in TSM
and the drives, the element of the drives begins in 257 for the first drive.

Jorge Rodriguez
Caracas, Venezuela.

>From: "Klein, Robert (CIT)"
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:31:18 -0400
>
>We are trying to set up TSM on an AIX system and are having
problems
>getting TSM to see the 3584 library. I have done a search on the
adsm-l
>archives and did not see anything about defining a 3584 to TSM.
>
>The AIX system is not seeing the 3584 tape library, when any
commands that
>try to configure or look at the device is issued, an error is
returned
>
>$ mkdev -l 'lb0'
> Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd):
> 0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
>device at the specified connection location
>cfgadsmdd[valid]: the device is NOT supported
>cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds
>cfgadsmdd[main]: error inquiry or building dds, rc=51
>
>We need this device so we can continuing configuring the TSM server
running
>on the system. Without configuring the tape library and drives, we
can't
>configure TSM server.
>
>Part of the problem appears to be that the documenation does not
describe
>the syntax for specifying a fiber channel device, which is the type
of 3584
>library we have. It only mentions a SCSI device.
>
>Has anyone successfully defined a fiber channel 3584 to TSM running
on AIX?
>Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated. We have also

>submitted a problem ticket via our IBM support team, but have not
heard
>anything back from them yet.

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Re: append a file to mksysb image

[PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)]

Just try as u do for tape .Thats what I would do!!
-Original Message-
From: Pothula S Paparao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: append a file to mksysb image
Importance: High


Hi ,
I know that this is AIX related question , i have ray of hope that some
body could help me in this regard. my query is.
Its possible to restore a single file (/etc/hosts) from mksysb image that
is stored in my hard disk (not in tape). like wise, is it possible to
append the same file to the same image after modifying the contents of it.
how?

Help in this regards is highly appriciated.
thanks in advance.
regards
sree.

Re: TSM and Extended format tapes.

[Richard Sims]

>How does TSM handles extended length cartridges.  Our biggest concern is
>how does TSM track %full for recycle/reclaim processing?

Nothing special - TSM treats them like any other tape, writing until it
finally encounters the end of the tape.  Perspective: Tapes are like
snowflakes - no two tapes are exactly the same length...and even any one
tape can vary in length over time.  Pct Util is just a pure guess while
Filling, and gets a true number only when Full.

>If we decide to use extended length cartridges on a NSM, It has been
>recommend we order them pre-labeled.  So we absolutely do not want to mix
>extended length with standard length in the mainframe libraries.

Whether you label them or the vendor labels them, the tapes are the same.
I don't see the "a priori" logic of tape labels and mixing in a library.
You can keep them separate in different Devclasses if you want, with
dedicated drives; but there's no problem mixing them, as I think most of
us do.  As said above, tape length is utterly variable to begin with,
so even in your pre-existing tape pool you in effect already are mixing
tapes of varying lengths.  That's the essential nature of tape: it's
non-deterministic, unlike disk.

   Richard Sims, BU

Valid bar code labels used by TSM

[Juergen Heinrich]

We are using a ADIC 100 Scalar Library in our TSM environment.
The TSM Server is at level 4.1.4 and the OS is Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5

The Library PDF documentation says that the library can handle bar code 39 only.
Regarding to this we have prepared labels for our tapes with a dash in the label
name.
So the label look like "EF-001"
The TSM Server says that the labels cannot be read.
We have looked in the TSM documentation and have not found any restriction
regarding
dash as a symbol in a label name

Does anyone can help?

Sincerly

Juergen Heinrich

Verdi Information Consult GmbH
Systemsmanagement
Niederlassung Berlin
Wittestraße 30K
D-13509 Berlin

http://www.verdi-ag.com

Re: P2000 questions

[Robin Sharpe]

Hi Paul,

We have a P3000, which is basically the same architecture as a P2000, I
think.  Do they mean the tapes are coming out with the write protect tab
moved?  I can't imagine how that could happen... I know there is no
mechanism in the P3000 that can do that!  If they mean that the tapes are
being set to read-only mode in TSM, there are several conditions that can
cause that to happen, probably the most common are read or write errors.

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Laboratories



"Coviello,
Paul"
 cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG)
  Subject:
09/14/01 P2000 questions
08:39 AM
Please
respond to
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"







Hi, we have a ATL P2000 with 4 DLT tape drives.  the operators are telling
me that some of the tapes are coming out write protected!  Does anyone know
if this is possible and if so why?

thanks
Paul

Paul J Coviello
Sr Systems Analyst
Catholic Medical Center
2456 Brown Ave
Manchester NH 03103
(603) 663-5326
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

W2K AD Restore Question?

[taford]

Does anyone know what needs to be done to backup an Active Directory with
use of scheduling and a dsm.opt file?
I can run dsmc backup activedirectory and all is well, but I would like to
put this on a schedule.  The documentation I have looked at so far doesn't
reference AD as a backup parameter in the dsm.opt file?

-Tim

Re: Sending SAP-Data OFFSITE

[Kauffman, Tom]

Robert -

You may have to do the ugly step of checking out the original backup
(archive) for the off-site storage and track the tapes by hand.

Be aware that you need more than just the backint archive for recovery - you
should have all the /oracle/ and /usr/sap/, /sapmnt/
filesystems backed up or archived for point in time recovery, as well as all
the off-line redo logs (preferrably on two sets of tapes).

I run my backint archives to a seperate managment class for the production
system so I can check out only the production tapes (we do it nightly).

I'm about to set up one class for the nightly online backup, with an 8-day
retention, and one for the weekly off-line, with a 21-day retention. We keep
the redo logs 21 days. This will require two different
/oracle//dbs/initSID.utl files, one for the online and one for the
offline backups, and an explicit override in the brbackup command.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Fijan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Sending SAP-Data OFFSITE
> 
> 
> Hello Gurus.
> 
> 
> I've the following question:
> 
> the management wants to send the last archive of the SAP-DB's offsite.
> 
> We are using BACKINT for SAP R/3. We have a seperate storage 
> pool for the
> DB's and
> 2 Pool's for the LOG'S. They only want the last "Full Backup" 
> of the DB's
> to go OFFSITE.
> 
> How can I do this? I thought of generating Backupstes, but 
> this doesn't
> work because the Data is archived.
> 
> When I do a backup stgpool, from the second week on I only get the
> incrementals of the Pool with the DB's.
> And the problem is, that the new 'FULL' of the DB's should 
> last only for
> one week OFFSITE, because
> we have only small capacity in our depot outside.
> 
> 
> Please help me with this.
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Robert Fijan
> Sitz Stuttgart
> Tel. (0 7 11) 8 48-23 39
> Fax. (0 7 11) 8 48 44-33 11
> Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

question about TDP for Oracle/RMAN vs. BMC's SQL BackTrack "dry run"

[Thiha Than]

hi,

You can use a RMAN command 'validate'.  Please see RMAN reference manual
to find out more about validate command.

regards,
Thiha

>does anyone know whether TDPO v2.2 allows for "dry run" restores &/or a
>preview of a restore to validate the media without writing the data, like
>SBT does?  (I've perused the website & the Redbook, and don't see that it
>does.)

Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX

[Jorge Rodrmguez]

I know is late, but it can help.
 
You need to install the ATAPE on the AIX before run cfgmgr. When you install Atape is necessary reboot the machine.
 
Run the cfgmgr and run the command lsdev -Cc tape, you will see the library /dev/smc0 and the tapes /dev/rmt1, etc.
 
In this moment the library is ready to use. Define the libray in TSM and the drives, the element of the drives begins in 257 for the first drive.
 
Jorge Rodriguez
Caracas, Venezuela.
 

>From: "Klein, Robert (CIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:31:18 -0400
>
>We are trying to set up TSM on an AIX system and are having problems
>getting TSM to see the 3584 library. I have done a search on the adsm-l
>archives and did not see anything about defining a 3584 to TSM.
>
>The AIX system is not seeing the 3584 tape library, when any commands that
>try to configure or look at the device is issued, an error is returned
>
>$ mkdev -l 'lb0'
> Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd):
> 0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
>device at the specified connection location
>cfgadsmdd[valid]: the device is NOT supported
>cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds
>cfgadsmdd[main]: error inquiry or building dds, rc=51
>
>We need this device so we can continuing configuring the TSM server running
>on the system. Without configuring the tape library and drives, we can't
>configure TSM server.
>
>Part of the problem appears to be that the documenation does not describe
>the syntax for specifying a fiber channel device, which is the type of 3584
>library we have. It only mentions a SCSI device.
>
>Has anyone successfully defined a fiber channel 3584 to TSM running on AIX?
>Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated. We have also
>submitted a problem ticket via our IBM support team, but have not heard
>anything back from them yet.
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Re: TDP SAP R/3

[Kauffman, Tom]

Input (Database) is IBM ESS fiber-attached to the SAP DB server.
Running four sessions direct to tape - two sessions each on gigabit
ethernet.
RL-Compression enabled
5-way multiplexing

Four IBM 3580 LTO tape drives in a 3584 library (all SCSI attached)

SAP DB server is an 8-way S7A with 4 GB memory; TSM Server is a 4-way S7A
with 4 GB memory. Both systems get pushed to 0% idle during the backup.

We are not (yet) using jumbo frames on the Gigabit ethernet - may improve
performance by cutting some system overhead out.

We just switched to the LTO drives; prior to this, I was showing 45 MB/sec
to five DLT drives in an STK 9710 library, all the other config being the
same.

BKI0011I: Number of bytes left to be saved: 0 Bytes (0.0%) of 562.702 GB.

BKI0020I: End of backint program at: Thu Sep 13 21:42:21 2001.
BKI0022I: Average transmission rate was 212.429 GB/h (60.424 MB/sec).
BKI2019I: Compression ratio for backup was 1.23.
BKI0021I: Elapsed time: 02 h 39 min 11 sec.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TDP SAP R/3
>
>
> Is anyone out there running TDP for SAP R/3 on a database
> over600 GB?  If so
> what does your performance look like and what kind of hardware are you
> using?
> Thanks
>
> Becky Davidson
> Data Manager/AIX Administrator
> EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
> voice: 314-259-7589
> fax: 314-877-8589
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Re: SINGLE DRIVE BACKUP STGPOOL/RECLAIM/TDRM

[PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)]

12) We are performing SPACE RECLAMATION for primary stgpool TAPEPOOL using a
device class type FILE.

Can we use the same disk space for both reclamation and copy stgpool?
>
When u define single drive space reclaim for tapepool,
u have to define how many disk volumes u are going to create.
Disk being reclaim pool for tapepool.U also define capacity of each volume
on disk while this takes place.So  u have to decide how many u need
which are automatically created while re claim takes place.
So u can limit space and use same space.
Secondly it may happen that both may kick off at same time
reclaim time set according to migration % on tape.
I would dedicate one disk for that.

Balanand


>>>
Customer may be able to have up to 60 GB of disk space for this purpose.

Any suggestion or other possible solution for this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gerardo Zapata Gonzalez
IT SPECIALIST
IBM MEXICO
(52) 5270-5889

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Solaris, RMAN and TIVOLI

[Ted Sagil]

Dear Friends:
We are using Oracle 8.1.6 and Solaris 2.6 with TSM 4.1.1 (for AIX-RS/6000 with a 3575 
tape library) and TDP. We use RMAN to do the backups for our Sun Solaris systems. We 
have the following questions for the experts around the world on the communication 
between RMAN and Tivoli.
Does RMAN write directly to tape when it is doing a backup?
Does anyone know where the RMAN backup pieces are on tape and the sizes of the files?
If it is Tivoli, is there a way to view this information?
Will Tivoli be able to reclaim tape space if the RMAN recovery catalog is lost?
Does anyone know in more detail what TDP does besides let RMAN talk to Tivoli?
 
Thanks,
Ted Sagil
Info Systems Analyst
Illinois EPA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Management class and TDP for Oracle with RMAN

[Thiha Than]

hi,

You can use 'include' option to bind with different management class.  It
is documented on page 36 of the user manual.  But you will have to do a
little bit differently than what is documented.

I assume that you are using different domain for your TDPO backups.  Let's
say your default mgmt class's storage pool is pointing to disk pool.  So
you don't have to do anything for your database backups.  As for the
archive log file, let's say you have the pattern "log_archive_format =
arch%t_%s.dbf" in your init.ora file. In your include definition file, add

include /adsmorc/.../arch*   tapemgmt

This will bind the archive logs to 'tapemgmt' class.


If you don't use different domain for your TDPO backups and/or mgmt class
pointing to disk pool is not the default, you can add another line in your
include definition file:

include /adsmorc/.../arch*   tapemgmt
include /adsmorc/.../*   diskmgmt


Make sure that these statements appear in the exact order.

regards,
Thiha


>I'm trying to configure RMAN and need some help. My scenario is AIX 4.3,
>Oracle 8.1.6 and TDP for Oracle 2.2 64 bits.

>My question is if it is possible to have differents management classes
when
>making backups with RMAN. In the TDP manual there's only reference to
>TDPO_MGMT_CLASS_2, 3 and 4 but only for the duplex copy option.
>I'd like to have one management class for archive log files (sending it
to
>disk storage pools) and another for database files (sending it to tape
>storage pools).

append a file to mksysb image

[Pothula S Paparao]

Hi ,
I know that this is AIX related question , i have ray of hope that some
body could help me in this regard. my query is.
Its possible to restore a single file (/etc/hosts) from mksysb image that
is stored in my hard disk (not in tape). like wise, is it possible to
append the same file to the same image after modifying the contents of it.
how?

Help in this regards is highly appriciated.
thanks in advance.
regards
sree.

Re: Can't delete archive description

[Richard Sims]

>a user has an empty archive description and can't delete it using the
>client utility "Delete archive". Is there a way to get rid of it?

Gerhard - Has the user tried using the -pick option with the CLI, or
  the GUI in general, to provide a list from which the
subject file might be selected for deletion?

Upgrade to TSM 4.2

[Gianni Garda]

Hi all,

how are the correct steps to migrate a TSM server 4.1.4 to a 4.2.0  version
?
The operating system is Win2000.
It's the first time for me.

Thank's in advance

Gianni Garda
E-mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restore Linux filesystem, RedHat 7.1

[Maurice van 't Loo]

mount a volume /tmproot, restore to that volume, change fstab and lilo and
reboot


- Original Message -
From: "Yahya Ilyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Restore Linux filesystem, RedHat 7.1


> I need to restore / filesystem of Linux RedHat 7.1 on a different machine.
> I have a new machine with just Linux 7.1 and TSM client on it.  I want to
> restore / filesystem from a similar machine to this new machine.
>
> I know how to do restore from one node to another, but since it is /
> filesystem, restore does not work.
> Thanks
> Yahya
>
> >   -
> >   Yahya Ilyas
> >   Systems Programmer Sr
> >   Systems Integration & Management
> >   Information Technology
> >   Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0101
> >
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >   Phone: (480) 965-4467
> >
> >
>

P2000 questions

[Coviello, Paul]

Hi, we have a ATL P2000 with 4 DLT tape drives.  the operators are telling
me that some of the tapes are coming out write protected!  Does anyone know
if this is possible and if so why?

thanks
Paul

Paul J Coviello
Sr Systems Analyst
Catholic Medical Center
2456 Brown Ave
Manchester NH 03103
(603) 663-5326
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

BIG RESTORE

[Robert Fijan]

Hi folks.


I've the following problem:


I start a restore for a Fileserver with about 20 GB data to restore.

We have a 16 MB TokenRing, so we make maybe 1 GB per hour. So the restore
would take 20 Hours.


Now my problem is: how can I automatically restart the restore when the
session ends because of
time-outs or other reasons?

The TSM-Client is a NT-Fileserver, the TSM-Server is OS/390.


with kind regards


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Robert Fijan
Sitz Stuttgart
Tel. (0 7 11) 8 48-23 39
Fax. (0 7 11) 8 48 44-33 11
Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restore Linux filesystem, RedHat 7.1

[Richard Sims]

>I need to restore / filesystem of Linux RedHat 7.1 on a different machine.
>I have a new machine with just Linux 7.1 and TSM client on it.  I want to
>restore / filesystem from a similar machine to this new machine.
>
>I know how to do restore from one node to another, but since it is /
>filesystem, restore does not work.

Yahya - You're treating it like an ordinary restoral, but in fact what you
are doing amounts to a bare metal restoral (see many discussions
in the list archives).  Attempting to restore the operating system over
itself will not work.  You can try restoring the root file system (/)
from the backed up machine to a subdirectory on the receiving system,
and then move appropriate pieces.  Unless the From and To systems are
hardware-identical, however, trying to do this is problematic.  What you
would then need to do is a Linux install followed by restoral of allied
file systems.

  Richard Sims, BU

Sending SAP-Data OFFSITE

[Robert Fijan]

Hello Gurus.


I've the following question:

the management wants to send the last archive of the SAP-DB's offsite.

We are using BACKINT for SAP R/3. We have a seperate storage pool for the
DB's and
2 Pool's for the LOG'S. They only want the last "Full Backup" of the DB's
to go OFFSITE.

How can I do this? I thought of generating Backupstes, but this doesn't
work because the Data is archived.

When I do a backup stgpool, from the second week on I only get the
incrementals of the Pool with the DB's.
And the problem is, that the new 'FULL' of the DB's should last only for
one week OFFSITE, because
we have only small capacity in our depot outside.


Please help me with this.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Robert Fijan
Sitz Stuttgart
Tel. (0 7 11) 8 48-23 39
Fax. (0 7 11) 8 48 44-33 11
Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]