Re: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Roy,
I agree with Juraj Salak,
And would add you are playing with fire ! Not only that you are turning a
Rolls Royce solution
Tape problems should not be corrected with tickering, get back the DR
copies!! PLEASE You will not regret it in 2-3 years. We have more than
100,000 x 3590's on and off site, most are managed via ADSM/tivoli
Create a copy pool called DISASTER-RECOVER. We do not often use Disaster
Tapes, BUT we do!!! . All data is critical in my business. These go off
site, of course you can send your original pools offsite as well, but send
them to another, off site storage company, this eliminates double point of
failure.
If you want more advise, you can email me directly.
Stephen Pole
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From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject:Re: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Roy,
I hesitate to answer your question,
because it would support you in a VERY BAD practise.
I find operation with only single copy of data simply irresponsible.
The costs for second copy are very low - only couple of tape media.
Do rethink this design, consider creating backup pool.
This makes it possible to keep tapes from primary pool
unloaded from library but still on-site,
thus eliminating your find-correct-tape problem.
regards
Juraj Salak
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Subject: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Ok guys,
Here is a puzzler for you.
Lets say that I have a primary tape pool, but I DONT have a secondary
pool. (IE data ONLY goes to tape once with NO second copy). We then send
those tapes offsite. (This saves us valuable space in the tape
library).
One month later, a customer asks for an archive to be retrieved from
those tapes.
How do I know what tapes to retrieve? - These archives would have built
up over a period of time, so there may be more than 10 tapes offsite and
I dont want them all!!.
Is there a way that I can find out which set of tapes my archived data
is on? - Bearing in mind that if reclamation is also run of this pool,
then the data may possibly be moved around on a regular basis.
Any help would be greatfully recieved.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
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Re: I/O error reading label of volume in drive 3580
This is problem with the tape cartridge. If it was with the drive other volumes also would fail. TSM tries to read volume label before to mount the volume and fails. If cleaning of the drive does not help you have not too many options. 1. Mark volume destroyed 2. Restore the volume data from copy pool 3. Relabel the volume Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:I/O error reading label of volume in drive 3580 Hi, I have a tape drive 3580 and TSM 4.1.5.3 in NT. When I do a restore with two tapes I receive the following message: ANR8326I 001: Mount LTO volume TSM001 R/W in drive LTO (\\.\TAPE0) of = library LTOLIB within 118 minutes.=20 ANR8335I 001: Verifying label of LTO volume TSM001 in drive LTO = (\\.\TAPE0).=20 ANR8353E 001: I/O error reading label of volume in drive LTO = (\\.\TAPE0).=20 ANR8326I 001: Mount LTO volume TSM001 R/W in drive LTO (\\.\TAPE0) of = library LTOLIB within 118 minutes.=20 The other tapes are working without problems. Has someone any suggestion? its a problem with the TSM version or with the 3580 LTO? Henry Aranda _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: Data Retention
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:11:12 -0500, Ward, Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the very near future I will need to put together a software and hardware proposal for data retention of approximately 50 years due to FDA regulations encompassing the medical industry. My main question would be the type of media to use currently that has any kind of magneto retention life-span nearing or surpassing this. Since no known media has magnetic media lifespans of 50 years, your best bet is an environment that promotes moving files from one media container to another on a periodic basis (with consistency checking to insure good copying), so as to avoid the situation where sticktion, dirt, media failure, or disaster causes data loss. It should also allow for concurrent connectivity to different media types, allowing for gradual or immediate migration to new media types as technology changes and improves. Again, this connectivity should allow for consistency checks when moving from one type of media to another. Also, the system should allow for easy automated restoration of data from media storage to staging systems so that administrators can accomplish another major problem of technological advancement--filesystem evolution. Restored data from old-style filesystems, such as FAT, could be easily migrated to newer filesystems like NTFS. Such migrated data should be easily moved back onto fresh storage media. Hey. Didn't I just describe TSM? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
TSM Performance Tuning Guide
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Re: TSM V5.1
Hi Andy! You're right! I was still using the 4.2.0.0 ODBC driver. I retried the 5.1 ODBC install and when it prompted me for the Tivoli Storage Manager ODBC Driver.msi I pointed it to the 4.2.0.0 setup on the CD. The setup continued and the 5.1.0.1 version is now installed. Thanks again Andy!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 18:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM V5.1 H... not a good sign. I downloaded the driver this morning and verified the install myself, and it went alright. Do you have an existing ODBC driver installed? If so, which version? I suspect that this could be an issue with removing the older ODBC driver. Try this: 1) From Add/Remove Programs, remove the old ODBC driver. 2) You may get a prompt similar to the above. If so, go get the install package for that driver, and extract the install image (but don't run setup). Then try the uninstall again. If prompted, point to the .msi file in the old driver's install image (the one you just unpacked). 3) If that works, then try installing the new driver. Let me know how this goes. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/12/2002 07:48 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM V5.1 Hi Andy! The 5.1.01 ODBC driver installation does not work. During installation one is prompted for the location of the file Tivoli Storage Manager ODBC Driver.msi. If you point to that file (by default: C:\TEMP\tsmcli\win32\odbc\disk1) it says that it's not a valid installation package... Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 14:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM V5.1 Yes, and be sure to get the 5.1.0.1 Windows clients from the FTP site, vs. the 5.1.0.0 clients shipped on the CD. As someone pointed out yesterday, we now have a 4.2.1.32 client to address APAR IC33211 (The TSM V4.2 Windows NT-based client acceptor service may crash if improperly formatted data is received from the HTTP port), and this APAR is fixed in 5.1.0.1 as well. For ODBC driver users, be sure to get the 5.1.0.1 ODBC driver as well. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/12/2002 02:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM V5.1 The 5.1 clients are also available for download now. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Jonathan Siegle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 21:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM V5.1 Got mine on Monday. I really liked the TSM 5.1 cd with 4.2 functional level software... On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: Hey everyone, I just got my TSM V5.1 package of software. Anyone else get so lucky? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 Jonathan Siegle Center for Academic Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penn State University 814-865-5840University Park, Pa 16802 ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt.
Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Roy,
How about using the offsite location function within ADSM/TSM. This deals
directly with the problem of a full library.
Regards
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Subject: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Sorry Guys,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
up valuable slots.
I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus freeing up the slots.
Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
other options do I have?.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
Tibbett Britten European I.T.
Judd House
Ripple Road
Barking
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Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Hey roy,
this does not sound like a problem with TSM.
Possible scenario:
- create extra storage pools for Archives
(DiskA/primary, TapeA/secondary/NotCollocated and TapeB/backup)
- point your archives into DiskA
- run regular
backup stg DiskA TapeB
backup stg TapeA TapeB
(the second one will usually do nothing,
this is just for case your archive run is larger as DiskA)
- each time a tape in TapeB becomes full, send it offsite and mark it as
offsite (upd vol ..).
- regulary check status of tapes in TapeA, (q vol stg=tapeA)
checkout full ones out of library,
and keep them offline but onsite.
This way you have both offsite backups for case of fire etc.
and onsite backups for case of casual restores.
Another point: if you are going to keep tapes for 7-10 years,
you should consider refreshing them
(e.g. move data a_TapeFromTapeA DiskA)
How often you shall do it depends on technology you use.
best regards
Juraj Salak
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Subject: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Sorry Guys,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
up valuable slots.
I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus freeing up the slots.
Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
other options do I have?.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
Tibbett Britten European I.T.
Judd House
Ripple Road
Barking
Essex IG11 0TU
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Re: Unload DB/LoadDB
Matt, many people on this list have larger DB. What is your concern about the database - performance, DB backup time, ... ? If there is a problem other than size provide some details - version, DBVols and LOGVols storage type, etc. Unload/Load may help to reduce the DB but may not as well. You can argue against no off-site reclamation. At the end through such reclaim not only tape usage is better but also chance for tape errors due to aging is minimized. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Unload DB/LoadDB I have a 45GB database. It is approximately 11,500,000 pages. Has anyone tried or had success using the Unload/Load DB? Is there another way that I can reduce this? I have my ACTLOG retention set for 4 days. I think what is holding me back is we have our OFFSITE copy pool set for . We send everything offsite forever (Not my idea). Matt Adamson, MCSE NDC MS Hardware Support *desk:425.288.6286 *cell:206.601.8561 *mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Sorry Guys,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
up valuable slots.
I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus freeing up the slots.
Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
other options do I have?.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
Tibbett Britten European I.T.
Judd House
Ripple Road
Barking
Essex IG11 0TU
0208 526 8853
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Re: Restore BackupSet - What is it doing?
John, What you are seeing is not correct Backupsets do not need to mount all the volumes up front. The behaviour you are describing is typical of a syntax error in the command. Tsm is looking through all the volumes trying to find what you have asked to restore. John Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/11/2002 10:29:11 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Restore BackupSet - What is it doing? Experimenting with backupsets. I understand that TSM treats the backupset as one file, and discovered that it mounts all the volumes before sending data. What I don't know is, what is TSM doing when it's mounting the volumes? Is it verifying the integrity, or availability of all the volumes? Is it cacheing the data? I actually cancelled my session before it finished reading all the volumes. So I didn't get any data. Does it remount the volumes a second time to send the data? Thanks John Johnson ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: Point in Time Backups through copypool
Kyle, I like your idea and think if we refine it further it can become a fairly good recipe (IMHO). Step 1a. Have separate storage hierarchy for nodes requesting PIT backups over same device classes. Let's call it DISK-PIT, FILE-PIT and TAPE-PIT. Steps 23 - unchanged. Set Reusedelay=longest retension period for PIT backups. How much to raise the reclamation threshold I be sure but think disabled (sorry I have no long term experience as some other people on this list). If retension periods are very disimilar we can have COPY1-PIT and COPY7-PIT for 1 and 7 years respectively. Countinue as you described backing up *-PIT pools to COPY-PIT and making DB snapshots. On restores DBS can be restored to another server or second instance. You do not need to restore *any* primary pool. Just mark all volumes unavailable and restore would take place right from copy pool volumes. The main disadvantage is huge waste of tapes but if the management demands this to be accomplished the old traditional way ... The implementation with any Full/Incremental product would produce same ammount of tape usage/waste. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Point in Time Backups This may be totally unsuitable for your environment, but actually, I had been thinking about the properties of 'REUSEDELAY' and database backups recently, and I think maybe it could be used to create something to this effect for your customers at large; I wouldn't know how to drill it down to individual nodes, however. Also, because of the way it works, it would only really be useful for archival purposes, not for data you anticipate needing to restore on a regular basis. The actual restore would be a severe pain :) The idea goes something like this: 1. Assume you have the following pools -- DISKDATA, TAPEDATA, and COPYTAPE. 2. DISKDATA is obviously a disk pool, TAPEDATA is your primary tape media, and COPYTAPE is your backup storage pool for both DISKDATA and COPYTAPE. 3. Define a third storage pool, COPYPIT -- copy-point-in-time. Do your normal client backup/migration/stgpool backup with DISKDATA, TAPEDATA, COPYTAPE. Whenever you want to do a point in time backup, do _another_ backup of DISKDATA and TAPEDATA onto COPYPIT. Take a database snapshot. Send COPYPIT and the DBSNAPSHOT offsite, and leave them offsite forever (or out of library). Take note of which volumes and database snapshots correspond to which dates -- you might want to store these offsite too. In the future, if you need to restore from one of the point in time backups, recall the tapes and the snapshot you took from the appropriate day, and you should be able to restore to that point in time. Drawbacks: 1. You have to be very, VERY careful about reclamation. The TSM server is going to be expiring these files, and you'll likely have no real way of knowing which volumes to reclaim. More than likely, your best, safest bet is to write off the tapes, and never reclaim them. 2. Restoration is a HUGE, MASSIVE pain. You'll need to recall the tapes, restore the database, then restore the storage pool, etc, before you can even think about restoring the data. This is certainly no help if you need to be able to restore from these PIT backups on a moments notice. You'll also need lots of scratch tapes to do the restoration, and you'll have to take precautions to make sure that you don't accidentally restore over current data -- probably by removing all 'current' tapes from the library, or using a totally different machine and compatible library. 3. I don't think you can easily do this only for a subset of nodes. Advantages: 1. Easier to maintain than doing more than a certain amount of backupsets. Comments? I may need to do something like this in the future, and if anyone has any reasons why this is not really workable, it'd save me a headache having to find it out the hard way. And yes, I know this is a horrible kludge. :) Thanks, Kyle Sparger
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Hi, Does any one know where the incremented variable for versioning is kept in TDP for R/3? I know that you specify the max number of versions in the initsid.utl. But where is the actually variable in TSM or TDP for R/3 held? In a table space? I would like to use this number in a scripted. Thanks Joel E. Tait Canada Customs Revenue Agency Information Technology Branch Joel Tait (E-mail).vcf Description: Binary data
Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
We store all of our archives outside the tape library (still onsite - can be
mounted if required). We also keep an offsite copy. We route archives to a
different storage pool - once a tape is full we remove it from the library.
Now this means a little more work to reclaim these tapes but it saves all
kinds of space in your library. Works welll if these tapes are long term
storage that are very rarely asked for.
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Subject: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Sorry Guys,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
up valuable slots.
I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus freeing up the slots.
Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
other options do I have?.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
Tibbett Britten European I.T.
Judd House
Ripple Road
Barking
Essex IG11 0TU
0208 526 8853
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How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !!! (hopefully!)
Yeah - this is all very well and good, but I STILL won't know what tapes
my data is on will I?.
For instance, I have a set of 15 tapes. The customer says Please
restore July 2001 data.
How can I know which tapes to check into the library? - I dont want to
end up checking them ALL in to just restore from ONE of the tapes!.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
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Error 2 in Mac 5.1 client
I've tested the new client for MacOS X. I started the client from MacOS 10.1.3 and backed up another volume containing MacOS 10.1.2. I got some errors because of the known problems with long filenames and non-ASCII characters. Hopefully they will be fixed soon. I then removed all files from the backed up volume and started a restore. I got a lot of errors of the following type (827 to be exact): 2002-04-12 17.53.54 TransMacErr: Unknown MACErr2RC in SetOwner:FSRefMakePath, MACErr = 2 Filename: 2002-04-12 18.01.24 TransMacErr: Unknown MACErr2RC in SetOwner:FSRefMakePath, MACErr = 2 Filename: 2002-04-12 18.01.24 TransMacErr: Unknown MACErr2RC in SetOwner:FSRefMakePath, MACErr = 2 Filename: 2002-04-12 18.01.25 TransMacErr: Unknown MACErr2RC in SetOwner:FSRefMakePath, MACErr = 2 Filename: What do those errors mean? Sounds like some problem with file permissions. I then tried to boot the restored system. It got surprisingly far before it hanged just when the login window should have been displayed. -- Anders Liljegren Mail: IT-stöd, Uppsala universitet Phone: +46 18 4717751 Box 887 Fax: +46 18 4717725 SE-751 08 UPPSALA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sweden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (350 chars, end with empty line) http://www.anst.uu.se/andelilj
Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !! ! (hopefully!)
If your tapes are onsite, start the restore/retreive, TSM will tell you what
tapes need to be mounted - only mount those tapes.
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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:59 AM
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Subject: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !!!
(hopefully!)
Yeah - this is all very well and good, but I STILL won't know what tapes
my data is on will I?.
For instance, I have a set of 15 tapes. The customer says Please
restore July 2001 data.
How can I know which tapes to check into the library? - I dont want to
end up checking them ALL in to just restore from ONE of the tapes!.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
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Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !! ! (hopefully!)
Worst case scenario, you could just bring the entire pool back onsite, and
issue the restore command. TSM then should prompt you for the tapes it
needs, and depending on the length of your tape mount wait period, you
should have enough time to check in the volume to the library.
It's not *really* elegant, but in the case of a TSM managed library and
reasonable mount wait period it will work.
I did this with a customer that demanded that only a single copy of archives
be kept, and kept offsite...
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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !!!
(hopefully!)
Yeah - this is all very well and good, but I STILL won't know what tapes
my data is on will I?.
For instance, I have a set of 15 tapes. The customer says Please
restore July 2001 data.
How can I know which tapes to check into the library? - I dont want to
end up checking them ALL in to just restore from ONE of the tapes!.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
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vary volume online..
Hello all, during disk storage pools reorganization I did a mistake; I was splitting few huge disk volumes into smaller pieces. Unfortunately, I didn't take notice to the error RC during deletion one of them (later I found that the deletion was unsuccessfull due to the known problem when deleting a volume that looks like empty but there are orphaned entries in the database that prevents volume's ID from being removed from TSM database) and deleted the file from filesystem afterwards. At that time I was not aware of any problem, so everything looked good for me.. When I found out that the removal of the volume was unsuccessfull I tried to perform steps mentioned on the list recently (delete volume xxx discard=yes, aud vol xxx fix=yes) but did not succeed. At that time server was at the 4.2.1.11 level (AIX 4.3.3 ML9). I got an idea of varying the volume offline and deleting it. Did not work aswell, because issuing audit volume requires the volume to be online, so I tried to vary it back online (please note, that the original file does not exist in the filesystem anymore) which results in ANR7807W (unable to get information for file xxx). So I issued dsmftm to format the proper volume which was successfull. Again, vary online results in ANR1315E (invalid label block). Neither upgrade to the latest level (4.2.1.15) did not help to resolve this problem. Any ideas how to get rid of the disk volume ? Either by bringing it back to the online state or staying offline? Below are some queries that might help you.. tsm: TSMq vol /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 Volume Name Storage Device EstimatedPct Volume Pool NameClass Name Capacity Util Status (MB) --- -- - - --- - /tsm/storage_pools/disk- DISK_UNIX_- DISK 0.00.0 Off-Line _unix_backup.01 BACKUP ___ tsm: TSMvary onl /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 ANR2210I Vary online initiated for disk volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01. tsm: TSMq ac begint=-0:01 Date/TimeMessage --- --- 04/15/02 13:51:28 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: VARY ONLINE /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 04/15/02 13:51:28 ANR2210I Vary online initiated for disk volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01. 04/15/02 13:51:28 ANR1315E Vary-on failed for disk volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 - invalid label block. tsm: TSMaud vol /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 fix=yes ANR2311W This command will discard any inventory references to volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 associated with missing or inconsistent stored data, thereby rendering the data unrecoverable; the valid data on the volume will be inaccessible to users until the operation completes. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANR2403E AUDIT VOLUME: Volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 is not online. ANS8001I Return code 14. tsm: TSMdele vol /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 discard=yes ANR2221W This command will result in the deletion of all inventory references to the data on volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01, thereby rendering the data unrecoverable. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANS8001I Return code 13. 04/15/02 13:53:00 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 discard=yes 04/15/02 13:53:00 ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume /tsm/storage_pools/disk_unix_backup.01 still contains data. Any help will be highly appreciated. Martin Trcka
Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again.
Let me try this problem again. I have my dbbackuptrigger defined to backup to devclass 8mmdb. When I enable the logmode to rollforward, the db wants to do a full backup. When the process kicks off, the tape drive (manual) reads the tape and immediately spits it out. If I query the processes, I see the process for the db backup. If I query the requests, I see that TSM is requesting me to mount volume DBBK.1 I do not have this volume anymore, I can't re-label a volume dbbk.1 because it is already in the volhist. Is there any way I can keep this from happening? My dbbackuptrigger is pretty much useless at this time. I can't get a tape to stay in the drive. I was finally able to label a tape (with logmode normal only), then do a manual db backup to the new volume. Do I need to delete the dbbackuptrigger and recreate? -- ** * Frank Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * IBM Austin 512-823-7475 * **
Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !! ! (hopefully!)
I thought that when you actually do the restore the server will let you know
what volume to load with a message to the console..
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Subject:How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final
Chapter !!! (hopefully!)
Yeah - this is all very well and good, but I STILL won't know what
tapes
my data is on will I?.
For instance, I have a set of 15 tapes. The customer says Please
restore July 2001 data.
How can I know which tapes to check into the library? - I dont want
to
end up checking them ALL in to just restore from ONE of the tapes!.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
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Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on? - Part II
Roy - create a separate tape storagepool for this one customer.
Allow it to use unlimited scratches. After each month's archive
there will be one or more tapes in readwrite access with a status of
full or filling. Update these tapes to readonly, eject them and send offsite.
Whenever you need to find the tape from a particular month's archive, do
this select -
Select volume_name from volumes
where stgpool_name = 'specialarchivepool'
and year(last_write_date) = year-in-question
and month(last_write_date) = month-in-question
Hope this helps,
--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.
At 10:39 AM 4/15/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Sorry Guys,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
up valuable slots.
I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus freeing up the slots.
Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
other options do I have?.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
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restoring files
we had a virus sweep through a few servers. The problem is that when the virus scanner picked up the infected files (mostly .exe's) they were deleted instead of cleaned. Since out standard policy is set to 7 copies it looks like I will have to manually look through the list and select the latest inactive file to restore. (cant do a point in time because only .exe file were effected??) Thanks Joe
Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working...
Hi Paul, Try the 5.1.0.1 ODBC driver. From Excel XP, I am able to use the Import feature as well as the DB query feature (via MSQRY32) to get data into an Excel spreadsheet. By the way, even they are not supported, with this version of the driver, I have had success in connecting via: - DB2 Warehouse Manager - JDBC-ODBC bridge - ActiveState Perl (version 5.005_03, build 522 + roth ODBC driver dated 12-21-1991 from www.roth.net) - Crystal Reports (known to work with earlier TSM ODBC driver versions) - Access XP (probably will be supported this year) - Excel XP (probably will be supported this year) - VBScript (known to work with earlier TSM ODBC driver versions) - Visual Basic 6.0 (using Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0 SP4 and Microsoft DataGrid Control 6.0 SP5) Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/2002 08:53 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working... Actually Andy, I cannot remember what I was trying to do with EXCEL XP. But, when I tried it again I get an application error trying to read location 0x0. A test connection works, but I cannot do the OK to open the database. -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working... What version of the ODBC driver are you using, which version of Excel, and what symptoms are you seeing? The latest ODBC driver should work okay with Excel 97 and 2000 (haven't tested with Office XP yet, but in theory, should work there, too). You can confirm the version by starting the ODBC Data Source Administrator (odbcad32.exe), selecting the Drivers tab, then scrolling down and looking at the TSM ODBC Driver driver. You should then be able to see the driver's version number and build date. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/2002 19:38 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working... When I installed it on W2K, I had to logoff and back on. Do not know why but that was the minimum restart to get it to work. I worked on it for hours. I have never been successful at using EXCEL but I have been very successful with ACCESS. What application are you trying to use to access the database. -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working... I am using Windows 98se as my desktop client machine -- this is my first time doing anything with ODBC, but I now others have been using it for quite a while here on this list. I had our local 'expert' who uses ODBC for other applications here come and check out my setup, and everything looks good to him. ... Bummer. -Original Message- From: Tab Trepagnier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM/ODBC connection not working... Jack, What client OS are you running? I just installed the TSM Windows client onto Windows XP, and my previously-working ODBC link no longer works. Upgrading the TSM client from 4.1.3 to the latest 4.2.x did not solve the problem. I'm only into this problem less than an hour, so I haven't had a chance to do much about it yet. I will probably call Tivoli if nothing useful surfaces on the forum. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:TSM/ODBC connection not working... I have ODBC installed on my client. Do I need to enable something on our TSM server to get it to work?
Re: restoring files
You can set a pit date then use the find option of the gui to only select .exe's. -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: restoring files we had a virus sweep through a few servers. The problem is that when the virus scanner picked up the infected files (mostly .exe's) they were deleted instead of cleaned. Since out standard policy is set to 7 copies it looks like I will have to manually look through the list and select the latest inactive file to restore. (cant do a point in time because only .exe file were effected??) Thanks Joe
Re: TSM 5.1 Mac OS X and encrption
Eliza Lau wrote: Does anyone know if the new Mac OS X client in TSM 5.1 supports encrption since it is UNIX based? It is not mentioned in the product announcement. I don't know anything about the OS X client, but the other UNIX clients do support encryption. Kind regards, Alexander -- --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server
Hello, thanks everyone in advance. Here are my questions. Which version(s) for TDP for MS SQL Server support SQL Server 2000? I am planning to set up following backup strategies. I would appreciate your feed backs, such as how to do it or it's not a good strategy, following is better strategy, etc. Nightly full backup using TDP for MS SQL Server. Every 2 hour, Log backup using TDP for MS SQL Server. Thanks, yi
Odd TSM special character behavior in passwords.....
Hello, How come I can set a password called abc_123 in the command line but not the GUI ??? Keith
FW: HP SureStore 4215 element addresses
I have found it. I apologize for the previous email. Have a great day, James Brents -Original Message- From: Brents, James Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: HP SureStore 4215 element addresses Can someone tell me where I can find the element addresses for the HP SureStore 4215 library? It will be attached to an NT TSM server running TSM 3.7.4 (yes I know it is out of service, but I have just inherited it and will upgrade it soon, but more pressing is the need for this library). Thanks in advance for your help, James W. Brents Jr. Technical Specialist Valero Energy Corporation Phone: 210-592-4441 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again.
tsm: ADSMq dbbackuptrigger Full Devi- Incremental Log Full Incrementals ce Class Device Percentage Between Class Fulls -- --- -- 3590CART 3590CART550 what's your number on the far right? -Original Message- From: Frank Kruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again. Let me try this problem again. I have my dbbackuptrigger defined to backup to devclass 8mmdb. When I enable the logmode to rollforward, the db wants to do a full backup. When the process kicks off, the tape drive (manual) reads the tape and immediately spits it out. If I query the processes, I see the process for the db backup. If I query the requests, I see that TSM is requesting me to mount volume DBBK.1 I do not have this volume anymore, I can't re-label a volume dbbk.1 because it is already in the volhist. Is there any way I can keep this from happening? My dbbackuptrigger is pretty much useless at this time. I can't get a tape to stay in the drive. I was finally able to label a tape (with logmode normal only), then do a manual db backup to the new volume. Do I need to delete the dbbackuptrigger and recreate? -- ** * Frank Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * IBM Austin 512-823-7475 * **
TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again.
is the reason it wants an existing tape...because when you set dbbackuptrigger you specified numincremental (indicating incrementals instead of fulls 6 is the default for this 0 (full) would have to be specified... FYI -Original Message- From: Frank Kruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again. Let me try this problem again. I have my dbbackuptrigger defined to backup to devclass 8mmdb. When I enable the logmode to rollforward, the db wants to do a full backup. When the process kicks off, the tape drive (manual) reads the tape and immediately spits it out. If I query the processes, I see the process for the db backup. If I query the requests, I see that TSM is requesting me to mount volume DBBK.1 I do not have this volume anymore, I can't re-label a volume dbbk.1 because it is already in the volhist. Is there any way I can keep this from happening? My dbbackuptrigger is pretty much useless at this time. I can't get a tape to stay in the drive. I was finally able to label a tape (with logmode normal only), then do a manual db backup to the new volume. Do I need to delete the dbbackuptrigger and recreate? -- ** * Frank Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * IBM Austin 512-823-7475 * **
Re: TSM and Capacity Planning
I have never seen this rule of thumb for sizing a TSM servers CPU. Where did you find this rule of thumb? -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brenda Collins Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and Capacity Planning Hi! Here are some tips that I received this week from a StorageTek Engineer. The final recommendation for server size that he made was the same that the Tivoli Engineer had provided without having to go through the entire exercise of tracking all servers, their disk size requirements, databases, etc. The official rule of thumb on sizing is 10Mhz for per each MB/sec's for the backup solution. So if you had 10 9840B's drives (each with native transfer rate of 19 MB's) and had the network matched on the front end to match the required data rate that would equal 190MB/sec. I assume 2:1 compression which would then be 380 MB/sec or 3800Mhz of Cpu. Just remember this is to build so there isn't a bottleneck, having less will work, but you wont get the best performance that is possible. Usually the network is a limiting bottleneck like GB ethernet is about 60 MB/sec and if you only have one, it doesnt matter how many tape drives I have because the best rate I can get to the drives is 60MB/sec or 600 Mhz worth of CPU's. Brenda Collins ING - Americas Infrastructure Services (612) 342-3839 (Phone) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Farren Minns fminns@WILEY. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CO.UK cc: Sent by: Subject: TSM and Capacity Planning ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 04/09/2002 10:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hello again TSMers I am currently in the process of preparing a capacity planning document for our TSM set-up so that I can at least try to estimate when our Server will become pushed to its limits. I was wondering who else has done this recently and if there are any good sources of inf. on the net that may be of help to me. At the moment we have TSM Server 3.7.3.8 running on a Sun Solaris E250 (400Mhz, 1GB memory). We have 28 client running on Solaris, OS/2, NT and one Linux for good measure. We have one 3494 tape library housing two 3590 tape drives (J Tapes - 20Gb compress, 10 uncompressed). I can easily work out approx. how many tapes we are going to need; how much free space we have in the library; how much disk space we may need for the database, log etc. But the thing I need help with is figuring out how much client data we can back up within a certain window. All clients seem to have different rates at which they can process data; some machines are remote; some use compression etc. etc. etc. I'm am quite new to this and would be interested in other peoples experiences in doing this kind of thing. I guess there are so many questions that to sit here and type them all would be foolish. I'm more interested in finding out what the crucial questions I should be asking are (are you still with me, I know I'm rambling now). Also, I'm interested in learning more about the tuneable parameters within TSM (Server and Client); what sort of things I could do to improve data throughput, database performance, tape performance etc. Basically, any help, pointers etc regarding this type of thing would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much All the best Farren Minns - Trainee Solaris and TSM system admin John Wiley Sons
Re: TSM and Capacity Planning
This would definitely be true. If you look at today's processor technology: 3 UltraSPARC chips = 1 POWER4 chip. A 32-way p690 (Regatta) is more powerful than a 106-way E15K. -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Mansfield Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and Capacity Planning Brenda, were the recommendations stated for Sun platform? A MHz on one platform is different on another platform. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Brenda Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/2002 01:11 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM and Capacity Planning Hi! Here are some tips that I received this week from a StorageTek Engineer. The final recommendation for server size that he made was the same that the Tivoli Engineer had provided without having to go through the entire exercise of tracking all servers, their disk size requirements, databases, etc. The official rule of thumb on sizing is 10Mhz for per each MB/sec's for the backup solution. So if you had 10 9840B's drives (each with native transfer rate of 19 MB's) and had the network matched on the front end to match the required data rate that would equal 190MB/sec. I assume 2:1 compression which would then be 380 MB/sec or 3800Mhz of Cpu. Just remember this is to build so there isn't a bottleneck, having less will work, but you wont get the best performance that is possible. Usually the network is a limiting bottleneck like GB ethernet is about 60 MB/sec and if you only have one, it doesnt matter how many tape drives I have because the best rate I can get to the drives is 60MB/sec or 600 Mhz worth of CPU's. Brenda Collins ING - Americas Infrastructure Services (612) 342-3839 (Phone) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Farren Minns fminns@WILEY. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CO.UK cc: Sent by: Subject: TSM and Capacity Planning ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 04/09/2002 10:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hello again TSMers I am currently in the process of preparing a capacity planning document for our TSM set-up so that I can at least try to estimate when our Server will become pushed to its limits. I was wondering who else has done this recently and if there are any good sources of inf. on the net that may be of help to me. At the moment we have TSM Server 3.7.3.8 running on a Sun Solaris E250 (400Mhz, 1GB memory). We have 28 client running on Solaris, OS/2, NT and one Linux for good measure. We have one 3494 tape library housing two 3590 tape drives (J Tapes - 20Gb compress, 10 uncompressed). I can easily work out approx. how many tapes we are going to need; how much free space we have in the library; how much disk space we may need for the database, log etc. But the thing I need help with is figuring out how much client data we can back up within a certain window. All clients seem to have different rates at which they can process data; some machines are remote; some use compression etc. etc. etc. I'm am quite new to this and would be interested in other peoples experiences in doing this kind of thing. I guess there are so many questions that to sit here and type them all would be foolish. I'm more interested in finding out what the crucial questions I should be asking are (are you still with me, I know I'm rambling now). Also, I'm interested in learning more about the tuneable parameters within TSM (Server and Client); what sort of things I could do to improve data throughput, database performance, tape performance etc. Basically, any help, pointers etc regarding this type of thing would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much All the best Farren Minns - Trainee Solaris and TSM system admin John Wiley Sons
Re: How do I know what tapes my data is on - The Final Chapter !!! (hopefully!)
Roy,
We use a similar scheme. The primary tapes of our permanent archives are
sent offsite, but we keep temporary (five-week-retention) archives
online.
Our technique is very similar to what William Colwell described. At the
end of the week during which we create the permanent archives, we send all
data-bearing tapes - full and filling - to the vault. The
last_write_date tells us everything we need to know if we have to
retrieve a file(s) from a particular month. We have tapes going back about
three years.
The vault vendor is five miles from here and can have a tape to us in an
hour or so.
It works, though as has been pointed out, having only one copy is higher
risk than relying upon a copypool.
Tab Trepagnier
TSM Administrator
Laitram Corporation
Roy Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 08:59:26 AM
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Yeah - this is all very well and good, but I STILL won't know what tapes
my data is on will I?.
For instance, I have a set of 15 tapes. The customer says Please
restore July 2001 data.
How can I know which tapes to check into the library? - I dont want to
end up checking them ALL in to just restore from ONE of the tapes!.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
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error ANR0104E
Hi All: I am trying to delete some filespace for a node that is no longer active and I get the following error below. I tried looking up the code and it's not listed. Do you have any idea on this error ANR0104E ? 04/15/02 13:46:35 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE FILESPACE atmdev01 * type=any 04/15/02 13:46:35 ANR0984I Process 143 for DELETE FILESPACE started in the BACKGROUND at 13:46:35. 04/15/02 13:46:35 ANR0800I DELETE FILESPACE: * for node ATMDEV01 started as process 143. 04/15/02 13:46:35 ANR0802I Delete Filespace * (backup/archive data) for node ATMDEV01 started. 04/15/02 13:46:37 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY ACTLOG 04/15/02 13:46:39 ANR0104E imfsdel.c(1425): Error 2 deleting row from table Expiring.Objects. 04/15/02 13:46:39 ANR0985I Process 143 for DELETE FILESPACE running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:46:39.
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
Look at a post that i did on March 11, 2002 (search adsm.org for AS/400). This has alot of information about timeing for my site. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
Under TSM Server 4.1, we experienced approx. 3mb/sec..not acceptable in our world so we didn't implement it. You also have to have BRMS in order to make it work. Our IBM business partner also recommended against implementing for the same reasons. Steve Argersinger Ruan Transportation -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
We are having great success with the os/400 client and are planning to migrate all as400 server to tsm for backups... We are getting approx. 8 MB/s (you have to make sure that the Ethernet card and the switch port is set at auto-detect or else transfer speeds are terrible) Robert Burton Enterprise Storage Network Analyst Royal Bank of Canada 315 Front St West Toronto, On, M5V 3A4 * 416-348-3849 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 --- This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courriel est confidentiel et protégé. L'expéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) désigné(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immédiatement, par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen. ==
TSM network problem
Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM and Capacity Planning
I received this information from a StorageTek engineer. My primary question to them was how to size it to ensure that I could drive the number of tape drives we were configuring and get the top performance possible. I was being lazy and didn't have time to gather information on 500 servers to use the Tivoli planning tool. I figured that they are installing these systems all over the place, there has to be some ballpark numbers on what installations are being set up as and what configurations have worked the best. I did have Tivoli size a smaller site I have and their recommendations came out the same as using this process. Have a good day! Brenda Collins ING - Americas Infrastructure Services (612) 342-3839 (Phone) ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joshua S. Bassi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: OM Subject: Re: TSM and Capacity Planning Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 04/15/2002 12:37 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I have never seen this rule of thumb for sizing a TSM servers CPU. Where did you find this rule of thumb? -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brenda Collins Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and Capacity Planning Hi! Here are some tips that I received this week from a StorageTek Engineer. The final recommendation for server size that he made was the same that the Tivoli Engineer had provided without having to go through the entire exercise of tracking all servers, their disk size requirements, databases, etc. The official rule of thumb on sizing is 10Mhz for per each MB/sec's for the backup solution. So if you had 10 9840B's drives (each with native transfer rate of 19 MB's) and had the network matched on the front end to match the required data rate that would equal 190MB/sec. I assume 2:1 compression which would then be 380 MB/sec or 3800Mhz of Cpu. Just remember this is to build so there isn't a bottleneck, having less will work, but you wont get the best performance that is possible. Usually the network is a limiting bottleneck like GB ethernet is about 60 MB/sec and if you only have one, it doesnt matter how many tape drives I have because the best rate I can get to the drives is 60MB/sec or 600 Mhz worth of CPU's. Brenda Collins ING - Americas Infrastructure Services (612) 342-3839 (Phone) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Farren Minns fminns@WILEY. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CO.UK cc: Sent by: Subject: TSM and Capacity Planning ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 04/09/2002 10:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hello again TSMers I am currently in the process of preparing a capacity planning document for our TSM set-up so that I can at least try to estimate when our Server will become pushed to its limits. I was wondering who else has done this recently and if there are any good sources of inf. on the net that may be of help to me. At the moment we have TSM Server 3.7.3.8 running on a Sun Solaris E250 (400Mhz, 1GB memory). We have 28 client running on Solaris, OS/2, NT and one Linux for good measure. We have one 3494 tape library housing two 3590 tape drives (J Tapes - 20Gb compress, 10 uncompressed). I can easily work out approx. how many tapes we are going to need; how much free space we have in the library; how much disk space we may need for the database, log etc. But the thing I need help with is figuring out how much client data we can back up within a certain window. All clients seem to have different rates at which they can process data; some machines are remote; some use compression etc. etc. etc. I'm am quite new to this and would be interested in other peoples experiences in doing this kind of thing. I guess there are so many questions that to sit here and type them all would be foolish. I'm more interested in finding out what the crucial questions I should be asking are (are you still with me, I know I'm rambling now). Also, I'm interested in learning more about the tuneable parameters within TSM (Server and Client); what sort of things I could do to improve data throughput, database performance, tape performance etc.
ANS4036E - registry error
Hello, TSM server 4.1.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 Client 4.1.2. on WinNT 4.0 SP6a For months we have no problem with this NT-client, but since three days the status of the back-up schedule gives failed. When we look in the dsmerror.log on the client we see the following message: 04/13/2002 03:59:01 ANS4036E An error occurred saving the registry key There is enough space in C: and we didn't change the permission after last succesfull back-up. Can somebody shed a light on it. Thanks, Brian. _ Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/nl
Re: TSM network problem
Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM network problem
Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
We have one AS/400 and already had a 3494 library with 3590 drives for TSM. Since BRMS or Robot Save would have been required with TSM, we attached the AS/400 directly to one of the dual ported 3590 drives and share the library. At night the AS/400 uses the drive with BRMS. The drive is online to TSM during the day for storage pool copy activity. This setup also provides better performance than tramitting the AS/400 data over a network to TSM. Mike Haskins Open Systems Administrator Agway, Inc. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
End of life dates
Is there a page on the Tivoli site that has a simple chart of end of support for the various client and server versions? I have poked around http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/eos.html and http://www.tivoli.com/support/dbcert/eol_sup_pol.html What I'm really looking for is a simple, one paged chart that shows actual end of support dates for various versions that I can print out for someone else to take to a meeting
Re: TSM network problem
Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
3494 replacement (cont.)
In the midst of replacing the 3494 and drives now and I thought of something. I'm obviously going to have to remove the drives from TSM and AIX, then rescan and redefine both. I'm wondering if anyone knows if I'm going to have any issues with the library. Replacement hardware is the same as what's being removed. As for the tape suggestions I got last week this is what I used and it worked to create the file and check everything out with a remove=no. SET SQLDISPLAYMODE WIDE select 'checkout libv ' || trim(library_name) || ' ' || trim(volume_name) || ' checkl=no rem=no' from libvolumes /temp/macro dsmadmc -id= -pass= -itemcommit macro /temp/macro When I check tapes back in do I need do I need to checkin as scratch or private, since they really do have data on them. checkin libvol 3494lib U00235 search=yes status=private checkl=no devt=3590 Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
HP SureStore 4215 element addresses
Can someone tell me where I can find the element addresses for the HP SureStore 4215 library? It will be attached to an NT TSM server running TSM 3.7.4 (yes I know it is out of service, but I have just inherited it and will upgrade it soon, but more pressing is the need for this library). Thanks in advance for your help, James W. Brents Jr. Technical Specialist Valero Energy Corporation Phone: 210-592-4441 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
I guess I didn't ask the complete question. What are you using as a client, the old V3 client from IBM/Tivoli or Robot/SAVE ? Steve Argersinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/15/2002 01:29 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. Under TSM Server 4.1, we experienced approx. 3mb/sec..not acceptable in our world so we didn't implement it. You also have to have BRMS in order to make it work. Our IBM business partner also recommended against implementing for the same reasons. Steve Argersinger Ruan Transportation -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: TSM network problem
Hi Look for how many hops it takes to reach other end. Its tracerout and tracert to see the loss exactly where u are missing on the HOP. Balanand -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM network problem
traceroute to nis.nsf.net (35.1.1.48), 30 hops max, 56 byte packet 1 helios.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.1) 19 ms 19 ms 0 ms 2 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 3 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 4 ccngw-ner-cc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.136.23) 39 ms 40 ms 39 ms 5 ccn-nerif22.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.168.22) 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 6 128.32.197.4 (128.32.197.4) 40 ms 59 ms 59 ms 7 131.119.2.5 (131.119.2.5) 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 8 129.140.70.13 (129.140.70.13) 99 ms 99 ms 80 ms 9 129.140.71.6 (129.140.71.6) 139 ms 239 ms 319 ms 10 129.140.81.7 (129.140.81.7) 220 ms 199 ms 199 ms 11 nic.merit.edu (35.1.1.48) 239 ms 239 ms 239 ms -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM network problem
There are no routers involved, just connections from the 3 tsm nics to the switch and the switch to the clients PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 04:06:41 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem traceroute to nis.nsf.net (35.1.1.48), 30 hops max, 56 byte packet 1 helios.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.1) 19 ms 19 ms 0 ms 2 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 3 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 4 ccngw-ner-cc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.136.23) 39 ms 40 ms 39 ms 5 ccn-nerif22.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.168.22) 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 6 128.32.197.4 (128.32.197.4) 40 ms 59 ms 59 ms 7 131.119.2.5 (131.119.2.5) 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 8 129.140.70.13 (129.140.70.13) 99 ms 99 ms 80 ms 9 129.140.71.6 (129.140.71.6) 139 ms 239 ms 319 ms 10 129.140.81.7 (129.140.81.7) 220 ms 199 ms 199 ms 11 nic.merit.edu (35.1.1.48) 239 ms 239 ms 239 ms -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again.
Hi, delte the volhist. If the DBBK.1 is your last entry, so perform an new manual dbbackup. The last dbbackup entry cannot be deleted from the volhist. I had once the same problem. Andy - Original Message - From: Frank Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:12 PM Subject: Database backup trigger spits out tape over and over again. Let me try this problem again. I have my dbbackuptrigger defined to backup to devclass 8mmdb. When I enable the logmode to rollforward, the db wants to do a full backup. When the process kicks off, the tape drive (manual) reads the tape and immediately spits it out. If I query the processes, I see the process for the db backup. If I query the requests, I see that TSM is requesting me to mount volume DBBK.1 I do not have this volume anymore, I can't re-label a volume dbbk.1 because it is already in the volhist. Is there any way I can keep this from happening? My dbbackuptrigger is pretty much useless at this time. I can't get a tape to stay in the drive. I was finally able to label a tape (with logmode normal only), then do a manual db backup to the new volume. Do I need to delete the dbbackuptrigger and recreate? -- ** * Frank Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * IBM Austin 512-823-7475 * **
Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform.....
I guess I didn't ask the complete question. What are you using as a client, the old V3 client from IBM/Tivoli or Robot/SAVE ? Burton, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/15/2002 01:52 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. We are having great success with the os/400 client and are planning to migrate all as400 server to tsm for backups... We are getting approx. 8 MB/s (you have to make sure that the Ethernet card and the switch port is set at auto-detect or else transfer speeds are terrible) Robert Burton Enterprise Storage Network Analyst Royal Bank of Canada 315 Front St West Toronto, On, M5V 3A4 * 416-348-3849 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM (ADSM) for OS/400 (AS/400) platform. I would like to know how folks who have an AS/400, backup their systems, to TSM and their experiences (good or bad) ! Last time I visited this issue, IBM did not support this (last client seems to be 3.x something) and you had to go to the HELP SYSTEMS/ROBOT folks. However, I have not had much luck in searching their site for info. Unfortunately, IBM seems to be updating the TSM client page (I keep getting a blank page) !! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 --- This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courriel est confidentiel et protégé. L'expéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) désigné(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immédiatement, par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen. ==
Re: TSM network problem
What I meant, earlier, was that while you may be using 100/full on the TSM server, and 100/full on the client, the cables plug into a switch in the middle, and each port on that switch may be configured differently. So you ave to telnet to the switch's IP address and log in some how and poke a round and see that the SWITCH ports are ALSO 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Hi Look for how many hops it takes to reach other end. Its tracerout and tracert to see the loss exactly where u are missing on the HOP. Balanand -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM network problem
What are the clients involved... WinNT/2000? AIX,? etc. Have you looked at the event logs (NT term) of those clients to see if there are any errors reported there? We had a similar error message show up on a few slower processing NT servers. We ended up replacing the NICs on those nodes, as well as rescheduling them so there is less network traffic during their backups. That seemed to help. The servers that had issues are quad 200MHz machines running WinNT 4.0. Faster MHz nodes didn't seem to have issues. Just a thought. Good luck. Todd Jim Healy James.Healy@AXA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -TECH.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: TSM network problem Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 04/15/02 03:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager There are no routers involved, just connections from the 3 tsm nics to the switch and the switch to the clients PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 04:06:41 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem traceroute to nis.nsf.net (35.1.1.48), 30 hops max, 56 byte packet 1 helios.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.1) 19 ms 19 ms 0 ms 2 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 3 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 4 ccngw-ner-cc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.136.23) 39 ms 40 ms 39 ms 5 ccn-nerif22.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.168.22) 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 6 128.32.197.4 (128.32.197.4) 40 ms 59 ms 59 ms 7 131.119.2.5 (131.119.2.5) 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 8 129.140.70.13 (129.140.70.13) 99 ms 99 ms 80 ms 9 129.140.71.6 (129.140.71.6) 139 ms 239 ms 319 ms 10 129.140.81.7 (129.140.81.7) 220 ms 199 ms 199 ms 11 nic.merit.edu (35.1.1.48) 239 ms 239 ms 239 ms -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TSM network problem
These are strictly NT clients right now and there is no other traffic on the vlan when we run the test, so its not interference from other clients. Todd Lundstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 04:34:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem What are the clients involved... WinNT/2000? AIX,? etc. Have you looked at the event logs (NT term) of those clients to see if there are any errors reported there? We had a similar error message show up on a few slower processing NT servers. We ended up replacing the NICs on those nodes, as well as rescheduling them so there is less network traffic during their backups. That seemed to help. The servers that had issues are quad 200MHz machines running WinNT 4.0. Faster MHz nodes didn't seem to have issues. Just a thought. Good luck. Todd Jim Healy James.Healy@AXA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -TECH.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: TSM network problem Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 04/15/02 03:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager There are no routers involved, just connections from the 3 tsm nics to the switch and the switch to the clients PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 04:06:41 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem traceroute to nis.nsf.net (35.1.1.48), 30 hops max, 56 byte packet 1 helios.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.1) 19 ms 19 ms 0 ms 2 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 3 lilac-dmc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.216.1) 39 ms 39 ms 19 ms 4 ccngw-ner-cc.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.136.23) 39 ms 40 ms 39 ms 5 ccn-nerif22.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.168.22) 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 6 128.32.197.4 (128.32.197.4) 40 ms 59 ms 59 ms 7 131.119.2.5 (131.119.2.5) 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 8 129.140.70.13 (129.140.70.13) 99 ms 99 ms 80 ms 9 129.140.71.6 (129.140.71.6) 139 ms 239 ms 319 ms 10 129.140.81.7 (129.140.81.7) 220 ms 199 ms 199 ms 11 nic.merit.edu (35.1.1.48) 239 ms 239 ms 239 ms -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Both ends are set to 100/full Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 03:14:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sorry about that, Lindsay. Replies go directly to you. Heh, heh. Additionally, you might check MTU sizes. I've seen situations where switches/routers were set to one, the clients were set to another, larger, if I remember correctly, and a do not split packet caused all sorts of havok. But really, if you're losing packets on ping, your networking guys should be able to analyze the packets and tell you what the problem is. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Check to see that the switch port is also set to 100/full. - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Healy Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: Utilising drives while labelling 3584
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:15:56 +0800, Michael Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During a tape labelling process (we are in the process of filling the library with new tape): checkin libvol 3584LIB1 search=bulk checkin=scratch labelsource=bar Causes the unit to load one drive only, the robot waits for this label process to complete then checks the tape in, one at a time. This seems wasteful considering I have 5 available drives. When you install a new 3584 and media on a TSM server running WinNT or Win2K, the media labelling wizard is capable of filling all available drives with new media. It still only labels one cartridge at a time, but as soon as it finishes with one labelling, it starts spinning the next one while the first cartridge rewinds, dismounts, gets put away, and another cartridge is put into the empty drive. Sure wish I knew what the secret was. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ACSLS connection
Chris, I have looked at the Gresham EDT-DT info, am trying to understand why a customer might want to use it in a non-LAN-free environment. I have a client who's installing a StorageTek SN-6000, which virtualizes the tape drives in a Powderhorn silo; they will use two TSM servers, initially -- so, there does not seem to be a compelling reason to use EDT-DT. I have reviewed the online material and the latest install user's guide -- except for SAN mgmt/monitor utilities, I am still trying to find ways to sell the client on installing it before deploying a broad, LAN-free solution. Can you please highlight some benefits of using EDT-DT in a context where it's not absolutely required?!? (In my client's shop, the TSM servers are on AIX, the ACSLS is on its own Solaris box.) Thanx, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Chris Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:45 AM Subject: Re: ACSLS connection Craig, If you are using a single TSM server and you do not plan to use LAN-Free clients (which I believe you are from the message below), then you can use TSM's native ACSLS communication drivers. However, if you are using LAN-Free clients in addition to your TSM server, where each client will access the same library as the TSM server, you need to obtain Gresham's EDT-DistribuTAPE product to enable this functionality. There are other reasons that you might want Gresham's EDT-DistribuTAPE in environments that do not involve LAN-Free clients and employ only a single TSM server but it isn't required as it is when using LAN-Free clients. You can obtain more information on EDT-DistribuTAPE from www.gresham-software.com/storage/products/distributape.htm. Chris Young -Original Message- From: Murphy, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ACSLS connection Hello, We are looking to use TSM to backup over fibre attached client to a STK Powderhorn controlled by ACSLS. The TSM server is on a solaris server and the ACSLS is a separate solaris server. What do I need on my TSM server to be able to communicate to the ACSLS server? I see there is LibAttach software for Windows. Whats the equiv for Solaris? Regards Craig Murphy
Re: Monthly Backups, ...again!
Bill, Your arguments are excellent, and I have one large client dealing with the health records issue --- they need to save patient records for 32 years; we are liking the export solution, once a year, for those nodes (in order to control TSM db size) -- and, continue storing their data in archive storage so we have access to all versions generated, then (AFTER THE FACT) deleting extra versions from each month --- save 2 or 3, delete the rest from archive storage, using a smart script in concert with the dba's technique of naming the files being stored. However I only know ONE (simple) way to accomplish the desired, stated results --- month-end snapshot kept for X months or years; ie, a backupset of the desired file systems on specific nodes. The limitation of this solution is it only captures files in backup storage; you need a different answer for database backups stored in archive storage -- my DBA's love using archive storage, and I have no argument against it, as they only care about time (have no need or interest in counting versions, etc), and they must save daily backups for 4-14 days, weekly's for 6 weeks, monthly's for 6-15 months, etc. If you have a method that allows you mark the currently active versions of backup files with a different retention than others, I think it would be new news to most of us... please share. Thanks, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Bill Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Monthly Backups, ...again! There is a good reason it keeps coming up: legitimate business requirements. The suits (auditors, IRS, corp counsel, HIPAA, etc) demand to be able to be able to reproduce any datum at given intervals for given durations. Most often, that translates to restoring files that may change every day to month end state for somewhere between 1 and 7 years. Sometime they can identify the kinds of data they want, but it is expensive to accurately identify the list of all files/directories required, so usually you get a vague wave to save everything. And of course, it's their data, not yours, they have a right to keep as much as they want. Telling them that TSM doesn't support their requirement just invites other software vendors in the door since *they* handle this particular requirement with ease (on paper). The number of days you can reasonably keep in an incremental backup usually doesn't extend to forever. Archives sometimes don't cut it, either in their traditional form or the instant form. You can't stand to move that much data or use that many tapes - that's why you went incremental forever in the first place. I really just to do some operation that marks the current active version with a longer guaranteed retention, without changing the retention of anything else. I don't want to restart the perennial discussion of truly long term archival storage. It's reasonable to expect a backup system to maintain internal compatibility for 7 years, and there are techniques for migrating the data to newer media. Just my 5 cents worth (inflation). _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Mr. Lindsay Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/2002 10:04 AM Please respond to lmorris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Monthly Backups, ...again! This keeps coming up. It's the hardest thing about TSM, to sell users on the way it works. Tivoli's Storage Vision whitepaper has a comparison of the benefits you get by NOT using this Grandfather-father-son technique, but I wish somebody at Tivoli would come up with some better assistance to help us sell the incremental-forever -ooops, progressive backup methodolgy - to non-techie users. (Maybe it's there and I just don't know where to find it...?) I think Kelly Lipp has a good article on archiving and when it's sensible - maybe he'll post that link here again. Also, maybe some users have specific oddball scenarios they have run into that require surprising policy settings. It would be interesting to hear about those. Like, the user who goes on vacation for two weeks, and manages to trash here email file the day she leaves, doesn't notice it, Lotus touches the damaged file every day so it gets backed up again, and they don't keep 14 versions, so she gets back and the only good version (15 days old) has rolled off (expired). - Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO, Servergraph www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Levitan Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002
Password protect a copy pool
Hello, Is it possible to protect a copy pool, in such a way that you would need a password to restore from it? We recently switched to TSM from Veritas, where we could password protect a tape. Any ideas? Thanks! John
Re: 3494 replacement (cont.)
If replacement HW is truly the same stuff, just ensure microcode (in library *and* the drives) is up to date; after you re-run cfgmgr, you just re-do the TSM DEFines for LIBRary and DRives. BTW, checkin will skip volumes with data if you specify scratch (assuming your TSM db is intact -- volhist is a good reference source). When we have a mix of scratch and private, loaded en masse, we just run the checkin for scratch first, then checkin the rest as private --- barcode and search=yes runs the two passes very fast!@! Regards, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:31 PM Subject: 3494 replacement (cont.) In the midst of replacing the 3494 and drives now and I thought of something. I'm obviously going to have to remove the drives from TSM and AIX, then rescan and redefine both. I'm wondering if anyone knows if I'm going to have any issues with the library. Replacement hardware is the same as what's being removed. As for the tape suggestions I got last week this is what I used and it worked to create the file and check everything out with a remove=no. SET SQLDISPLAYMODE WIDE select 'checkout libv ' || trim(library_name) || ' ' || trim(volume_name) || ' checkl=no rem=no' from libvolumes /temp/macro dsmadmc -id= -pass= -itemcommit macro /temp/macro When I check tapes back in do I need do I need to checkin as scratch or private, since they really do have data on them. checkin libvol 3494lib U00235 search=yes status=private checkl=no devt=3590 Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
TDP for SQL messages - ACO0302E ... rc = 1301 ... ANS0328E (RC45)
These messages appear in the tdpsql.log file (TDP SQL 2.2.0, 2.2.0.01, and 2.2.1) from time to time (seems to follow changing management classes for a database backup): ACO0302E A failure occured on stripe number (0), rc = 1301 ANS0328E (RC45) The specified objects failed the merge test. Our TSM server is 4.1.3.0 on Windows NT 4.0. Does anyone know what is causing these, whether they are serious (our DBAs do not trust the backups that produce them,) and what I can do to prevent them? Thanks. Allan Kelly.
Re: TSM network problem
Are you sure you're using CAT-5 cable? You say the NIC's are forced at 100/full -- how about the switch ports? Is there adjacent noise that might be emitting across the network? Do you have old vs. current switch HW? Is it up to date, microcode? VLAN's -- are you sure it's a point-to-point and not getting re-routed due to DNS mistakes (eg, any potential router involved, multiple DNS entries for the same hostname, local hosts file on the client, local routing table on the client)??? Your msg got garbled when stating specifics of your client situation... is the problem only on one (of many) clients using the same switch? Finally, what OS platforms (and switch vendor model) are involved? These are buggers to solve, unless you can find some consistency -- eg, one client fails but others run fine (typical, and helps reduce the focus to identify the delta between good client and failing client -- for Win2K, we've seen flaky OEM-NIC's cause this kind of problem; also, one switch vendor didn't work well with forced 100/full, simply insisted on auto-negotiate.) - Original Message - From: Jim Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:25 AM Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
IP over FC on AIX
Hi all, I'm in the process of adding SAN capability to my RS6000 Wide Silver node TSM server (AIX 433-09, TSM 4.2.1.8) As part of this I'd like to switch some TSM backups from the general network to IP over the san. This will take the router out of the equation and get our backups back into their window. Problem is that I can't find any IP drivers for the FC adapter ( 2Gb adapter for 64 bit PCI bus type 4-W). My research indicates that I need to go away from the IBM supplied drivers and install Emulex ones. Has anyone got this working, and if so how? Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Quuensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
ANS1312E Server media mount not possible
I sometimes get the following error message in client schedule logs. I am using copying data to my tape pools only from a migration from my disk pool. Now, I suspect a node option :MAXNUMMP This option is 1 for all of my nodes (35 nodes) Can it be due to MAXNUMMP option? Is it logical to make this value zero (0) and forbid any node to acquire a drive. I am using TSM 4.2.1.15 on AIX 4.3.3 on F80 Clients are Windows NT/2000 and version is 4.2.1.32 I have 3583 LTO library with 3 drives. Regards, Burak 12-04-2002 19:53:37 Data transfer time: 266.04 sec 12-04-2002 19:53:37 Network data transfer rate: 133.33 KB/sec 12-04-2002 19:53:37 Aggregate data transfer rate: 9.69 KB/sec 12-04-2002 19:53:37 Objects compressed by: 0% 12-04-2002 19:53:37 Elapsed processing time: 01:01:00 12-04-2002 19:53:37 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 12-04-2002 19:53:37 ANS1312E Server media mount not possible
Re: Odd TSM special character behavior in passwords.....
Because the GUI is HTML and special characters are delimiters many times. -Original Message- From: Keith Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Odd TSM special character behavior in passwords. Hello, How come I can set a password called abc_123 in the command line but not the GUI ??? Keith
Re: Password protect a copy pool
If the data is in clear text a password does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from using a utility to change the password block on the tape to turn it off. Now, if it is encryption, TSM can do that. You can not restore the files without the encryption key. However, this is only 56 bit encryption, though much better than a password. It also happens on the client before the data is even shipped. There is a limitation, the TDPs do not have the encryption support. Now, I do not know if you know this or not, but TSM does not write out tar files like NetBackup. Finding the data on a TSM tape without a database is very difficult, but can be done. I would be helpful if you identify the business requirement you are trying to solve here. -Original Message- From: John Rauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 6:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Password protect a copy pool Hello, Is it possible to protect a copy pool, in such a way that you would need a password to restore from it? We recently switched to TSM from Veritas, where we could password protect a tape. Any ideas? Thanks! John
Re: TSM network problem
Did you use the same ports on the switch? -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: TDP for R/3 Versioning
Hello, as of my knowledge: initSID.bki (in .../dbs) Bye Rainer Tammer On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:13:03 -0400, Tait, Joel wrote: Hi, Does any one know where the incremented variable for versioning is kept in TDP for R/3? I know that you specify the max number of versions in the initsid.utl. But where is the actually variable in TSM or TDP for R/3 held? In a table space? I would like to use this number in a scripted. Thanks Joel E. Tait Canada Customs Revenue Agency Information Technology Branch
