Image Backup with TSM V 5.1
Hi together, in addition to my posting from yesterday (Slow speed with the san-client, refer posting no 754 from this month) i am thinking about using the new tsm-client v.5.1 and the storageagent v.5.1 to backup a complete image from a drive via san to tape. Because we have some servers with a lot of files and folders i think we can get a good performance to backup and restore a drive. Has anyone out there made the first experiences with it and can tell whether it works? Kind regards Rainer Tews _ ScaleOn GmbH Co. KG SO-SE3 Leverkusen, B151 Tel.: +49 214/30-23369 Fax: +49 214/30-9623369 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet : http://www.scaleon.de
Re: True64 problem
Geoff, I am running several Tru64 clients, without any problems. CLI works ok ? Have you tried to redirect the GUI client to another X server ? Martin Trcka -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: True64 problem I sent this last week and got no takers so I'll try again. Here is a problem one of the Unix Admins sent to me. If anyone has any ideas can you lend a hand please. The system is a Compaq Alpha 8200 running TRU64 version 5.1 patch level 3. The version of TSM is version 4 release 2 level 0 for TRU64. It starts ok but when we select any of the icons it core dumps with no error message. I deinstalled version 3 and installed version 4 and the problem remained. Then I rebooted and it still core dumps. The system has plenty of memory and swap space available. The problem occurs no matter which user runs dsm. 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
Re: Daily Backup Report
Hi guys
This is the TSM backup log I have set up for my customers.
This mail is sent every day to the administrator.
This is a script I created for AIX and W2K. If anyone of you like to have it
please contact me.
I am willing to give it away free.
some of the information here is in my native langue, but you guys wont be in
any trouble converting it.
here you go.
Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700
Borgartun 37105 Iceland
URL:http://www.nyherji.is
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Mark Bertrand
Sent: 16. apríl 2002 19:57
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
So, if I follow your message correctly and the point I have been trying to
make... There is no easy (one button) method of reporting, which should be
the basis of the software, the very basic core of any backup software, that
I don't have.
To answer the other question posted by Mr. Joseph Dawes, How do I track
failures?, I do it the long way. I start with the q events ex=yes as a first
level then we start going through the activity logs starting with a search
for ANE4959i reporting missed files. Next we go through individual error
logs on the clients if necessary.
-Original Message-
From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
And it depends on what you mean by a successful backup...
We use Bill's method below to report on all events taht do not have a status
of completed. (We only used to report on exceptions also ...)
If you are worried about some files that were not processed then completed
does not tell you what you want (for incrementals on 4.x clients and below).
Here you will have to do additional queries to report on these failed
objects. With archives and selective backups however, files in use will
report as failed (can't confirm if other failed files will) (again 4.x and
below) so that is covered here.
Now, with 5.1, incrementals, archives, and selectives all report completed
if files are not processed because of some error.
But with incrementals you can now check the return code: 4 = files skipped
(doesn't count files excluded by exclude statements). But with selectives
and archives rc=4 could simply mean that your exclude statements are working
so now you will have to do additional queries to report on failed objects
here.
We also do queries on file spaces as was mentioned that reports when the
last backup completed. We've had at least one occasion where security was
changed on an NT drive so that the System Account no longer had access
(that is what the TSM scheduler was using). Here the backup status showes
completed but the filespace in question did not get backed up and the file
space query picked it up.
Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
-Original Message-
From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
Be very carefull with the EX=YES. There is a status of an event of '(?)'
that doesn't show as an exception. This condition can occur when a backup
schedule starts for a node, and then due to either the client crashing or a
networking issue the connection is dropped and never re-established within
the DURATION of the event. The status is '(?)'. There is an APAR open to
have meaningful status's instead of the '(?)', but for now this doesn't show
as an EXCEPTION.
We got bit big-time at a client of our where they out-sourced the entire TSM
operation to us. They were having failures, but they were not showing on our
EX=YES report. They were not happy campers! I'm still having a hard time
sitting! :-)
We ended up writing some PERL code to parse the Q EV client events and
reporting on anything that isn't COMPLETED.
This behavior started somewhere in the 4.1.x patch levels. So, just be
careful relying on the EX=YES to give you everything that failed.
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Williams, Tim P {PBSG}
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
we generally run a q event command ex=yes
you can use begindate begintime parms, etc
help q event
fYI
-Original Message-
From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Daily Backup Report
What are some good ways to get an automated daily report on which clients
were or were no backed up successfully?
TIA,
Regards,
Orin
Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
(Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL
restore fromnode syntax
On netware: on node 1 res -fromnode=node2 -subdir=y sys2:users/* sys2:users on node2 I've run 'set access b sys2users/*/* node1 I get errors stating invalid file specification sys2:users, or no files backed up for sys2:users, yet they are there and visible from the web interface (file space is definitely there) tia -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
TDP for NDMP
Has anyone used and had any experiences with NDMP backups? I'm curious what kind of experiences you've had using the product. Pros/cons, etc.. I've been reading the admin guide section on it and it seems like a whole other beast to what I'm used to with TSM. E.g. your NDMP file server has to be attacked to the tape drive. Seems like this would be undesirable if you had a lot of file servers. Would you have to buy a comparative # of tape drives? Or how many tape drives could you share between your file servers and TSM server? Theres a comment about you cannot backup a storage pool used for NDMP backups. Does this mean you can't create a copypool and 2nd copy of the backed up data? Do the NDMP backups only backup the entire file server and restore the entire file server? I guess it's not clear to me on what level of granularity there is in backing up NDMP file servers. Seems like NDMP backups require their own TSM domain/policyset/etc structure as well. Also I understand it only works with Network Appliance NAS devices? Appreciate anyone with practical knowledge to comment on their experience and perhaps clarify some of my questions above.. thank-you
Re: 5.1 Client cluster support
Steve, I am not very familiar with the HACMP implementation. However, I forwarded your questions to one of the developers who worked on HACMP, and I have imbedded his answers below (between the START and END OF ANSWERS: START OF ANSWERS The CLUSTERNODE option must therefore imply that the host name is not combined with the password when it is encrypted (? security hole) Not really..the pswd file will still not work on any arbitrary system...only on machines within the cluster. Does the AIX 4.3.3 support require HACMP? Yes, HACMP 4.4 or later is required. Should it work with other HA software even if not supported? No, we depend on certain HACMP APIs. When can we expect Sun/Veritas support? This is a well known requirement, but we don't have a target delivery date yet. Will it run on older server levels? I don't know of any dependency on a TSM 5.1 server. It should work with TSM V4 servers as well. = END OF ANSWERS = Sorry Andy, its must seem that it doesn't matter what you give us we want more, but any clues on this will be appreciated. Don't entertainers have a saying? something like, Always leave 'em begging for more! :-) I am not 100% certain about the answer to the last question regarding a TSM 5.1 dependency if it turns out that there is a dependency, I will be sure to follow up with another post. 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. Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/16/2002 17:25 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:5.1 Client cluster support Hi All, I'm intrigued by the possibilities of the new 5.1 Client cluster support for unix (this is probably old hat to Windows people). We have a new passwddir option which allows us to place the TSM encrypted password wherever we like e.g. a shared disk. The CLUSTERNODE option must therefore imply that the host name is is not combined with the password when it is encrypted (? security hole) We then run with manageservices schedule so the CAD process runs dsmsched on the correct machine at the time of the schedule. The client install guide states that this is only supported under AIX 4.3.3 and it implies HACMP. The only hook that I can see that might be HACMP specific is to discover which filesystems are cluster controlled and I can see no reason why this client would need 5.1 server function. I have Sun/Veritas clients that need this badly, and I'm looking at AIX/Veritas for some upcoming work. Does the AIX 4.3.3 support require HACMP? Should it work with other HA software even if not supported? When can we expect Sun/Veritas support? Will it run on older server levels? Sorry Andy, its must seem that it doesn't matter what you give us we want more, but any clues on this will be appreciated. Thanks Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland 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. **
Re: restore fromnode syntax
Just a stab, but do you have to specify the node name also? ie. res -fromnode=node2 node2\sys2:users ... -Original Message- From: Jim Kirkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: restore fromnode syntax On netware: on node 1 res -fromnode=node2 -subdir=y sys2:users/* sys2:users on node2 I've run 'set access b sys2users/*/* node1 I get errors stating invalid file specification sys2:users, or no files backed up for sys2:users, yet they are there and visible from the web interface (file space is definitely there) tia -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
Veritas/Legato/ArcServ
Not specifically TSM question but more of a question to better understand how to discuss pro's/cons to other competing products. Since my background is all TSM, I'm curious on how the other competitors handle media. Is my assumption correct that they waste a lot of tape space? As far as I understand it, all these products do traditional full/incremental type backups where each full and incremental uses a tape. Thus Server 1 would suck up 7 tapes in a week (1 full, 6 incrementals). Is this true? Or can these products actually put 2 full's on a single tape? Or multiple incrementals on a single tape?
Offsite Mirror of TSM server
Let me preface this with, I am not sure how to completely ask these questions since I don't have all of the details but hopefully someone can give me some idea of how TSM can/will handle this, if at all possible. Current configuration: TSM 4.1 on OS/390 using 3590B tape drives in a 3494 ATL Requirements as I understand them: Setup a off-location hot site backup TSM server that will have copies of everything the main server and/or other TSM server (we are working on splitting the TSM traffic/load onto another TSM server) has. The hot site server will probably be an AIX box with 3590E (possibly FC) drives. I have looked into the source/target server issue but am a little confused since the target server will only see things that come from the source server as archive objects. If the building with the source server burns down (and this same building also houses a majority of the clients that are backed up !), how would the target server be used to restore all of the client nodes ? How about the database backups that are sent to the target server ? What use are they if you have to have the source server to identify what is on the target server ? Should I/could I setup database mirror volumes on a remote (target ?) server over simple IP connections or is this only possible with DASD using XRC processesespecially since the current, main database is on OS390 ? If this was moved to an AIX box, how would this be handled ? NFS ??? As you can tell, any and all guidance is greatly appreciated !!! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: TDP for SQL messages - ACO0302E ... rc = 1301 ... ANS0328E (RC45)
ACO0302E A failure occured on stripe number (0), rc = 1301 ANS0328E (RC45) The specified objects failed the merge test. . 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? Allan, Please read APAR IC33026 for details. Thanks, Del
TDP for SAP with 64bit Oracle
Hello, I'm asked to evalute TDP for SAP R3 and didn't found clear statements in the readme of the evaluation copy of the product, whether the software works with Oracle 64bit versions on Solaris and HP-UX. It seems, that 64bit isn't supported yet. Are there more information or even own experiences out there? Our versions. TSM server 4.1.4, clients mostly 4.2.1.x, Oracle 8.1.7, Solaris 2.8 and HP-UX 11.0 or 11.11. Thanks for your help. Rolf Meyer Systems Consultant Info Business Systems GmbH Notkestrasse 13 22607 Hamburg
Re: Veritas/Legato/ArcServ
Gerald, I use to work with Veritas, and I may soon be back in that boat..(not by chioice) You are correct , we wasted a lot of tape.. And the quick recovery time was dependant on the Offsite vendor returning our media.. We set up our clients in different classes(TSM's version of stgpools schedules) they would dump their data to the diskpool and copy would take place soon after. At the time we didn't have a way to collocate so the data could span multiple tapes.. (Don't know what that is like today) If client a needed a restore, client x,y and z's data would have to return in order for us to get all the required data restored for client a .. But this was a couple years ago~ Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza Gerald Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Veritas/Legato/ArcServ Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/17/2002 01:19 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Not specifically TSM question but more of a question to better understand how to discuss pro's/cons to other competing products. Since my background is all TSM, I'm curious on how the other competitors handle media. Is my assumption correct that they waste a lot of tape space? As far as I understand it, all these products do traditional full/incremental type backups where each full and incremental uses a tape. Thus Server 1 would suck up 7 tapes in a week (1 full, 6 incrementals). Is this true? Or can these products actually put 2 full's on a single tape? Or multiple incrementals on a single tape?
Re: Veritas/Legato/ArcServ
I can't speak for Veritas/Legato/ArcServ but Backup Exec used to be Veritas and I think is back to Seagate, I can answer for. The con's would be bad tape usuage, but that can be a pro when you send it off site for DR. The pro would be total restore without the hastle of versioning off anything. We did fulls every weekend (except Month end which was a full for the monthend instead of weekend). Then Monday night to Thursday night we did differentials (better use of tape, but more redundant (which also gave more backups/versions)), Thursday nights was the master differential. Come restore time all you needed was Weekend full and 1 day tape (2 tapes) which gave us quick restores (name of the game). Con would be all tapes were offsite, therefore all restores were 24 hour turnaround unless Big Boss needed then I drove to Vault and restored within 1 hour. We knew that each client/server would take 25 tapes per year (8 dailies (Monday - Thursday) , 5 weekends, 11 monthends, and 1 yearend) and add 1 tape per year (off site permantly) but these tapes were reused continuously (remaining 24). So if a client/server took more than 1 tape on differential, then multiply times 25. I enjoyed the easability to restore but the headaches of admin seemed worth the TSM conversion. We have had TSM for nearly 2 years now and we are gradually (slower than I like) becoming more tape efficient 385 private and 339 scratch vs the 2500 tapes. But I am learning that tapes are not the only issue, during restore if 1 tape per server will make 6x faster then the TSM nocollocate, more tapes can be better. The main thing is the main thing RESTORE. Gerald Wichmann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gwichman@ATTB cc: I.COM Subject: Veritas/Legato/ArcServ Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 04/17/02 01:19 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Not specifically TSM question but more of a question to better understand how to discuss pro's/cons to other competing products. Since my background is all TSM, I'm curious on how the other competitors handle media. Is my assumption correct that they waste a lot of tape space? As far as I understand it, all these products do traditional full/incremental type backups where each full and incremental uses a tape. Thus Server 1 would suck up 7 tapes in a week (1 full, 6 incrementals). Is this true? Or can these products actually put 2 full's on a single tape? Or multiple incrementals on a single tape?
Re: TSM network problem
Jim, What is your server platform? I have seen issues with the NIC card being on a slower bus in an AIX box cause problems.Once we moved the NIC card to a 40 MB/sec bus we were fine. - Original Message - From: Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:28 PM Subject: Re: TSM network problem Jim, What have your network people said when they ran a packet analyzer on that switch? Also, have you tried running a crossover cable from your TSM server to one client to see if that works? It might be a way to prove that the problem doesn't lie with your systems. -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Sean, At one point we moved the cable from the TSM Server NIC on the switch to another port with no change in the error. Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 11:28:35 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 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: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED)
Hi Zlatko: Where did you find the definitions for Processors and Clients. Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED) Hello fellow *SMers, even if I do not like the answer we've found it. According to IBM EMEA Announcement Letter ZP02-0172 (http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealetsparms=H_ERIFZP020172), Section Ordering IBM Tivoli Products One or more charge units are associated with each product. These charge units are: - Processors managed by the product - Clients managed by the product - Distributed servers managed by the product - zSeries processors managed by the product - Processors in which the managing server is installed Processors are based upon TSM server and TSM *nodes* processors if they are servers in customer application environment. If it is a workstation (appl. client) it requires client license and no processors. So if we have an (imaginary) ISM installation consisting of dual-processor TSM server, cluster of two four-processor Oracle servers, uniprocessor file server, uniprocessor MDC and 20 dual-processor Xeon/2GHz CAD stations, we would need 12 processor and 20 client charge units for IBM TSM (5698-ISM) or IBM TSM EE (5698-ISE) and (optional) eight processors for IBM TSM for Databases (5698-APD). Right now I cannot calculate all possible configurations nor predict any averages or stats but for some configurations price would change slightly while for some others will drop significantly. OTOH I can make (not so) artificial configuration which would have an increased price. This raises the issue how to migrate Tivoli Management Points from Value-Based Pricing to Processors and Clients in Enhanced VBP. Also another question to ask is - does a customer need to buy additional licenses to keep its license compliance. This is another story and I have to dig more. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant
Policy
Hi All, I'm trying to cut down the amount of data in the HOME directories on my Novell Netware Servers. Can I put the same node - client in two different policy's ??? MM Storage PFPC Global Fund Services (508) 871-9961
TDP Oracle on AIX 5.1
Hi list, I'want to know if some of you have some experiences installing TDP for Oracle for AIX in an AIX 5.1 box, as you know it is not supported but, is there a way? i mean, do i have to wait until tivoli releases 5.1 support? (someday) please help, i have a big warehouse oracle and i have to backup it to a robot in a TSM environment. thanks LT _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: Daily Backup Report
Thank You, I have asked the Critsit team working with me to view this thread. IMHO I really don't think that it's asking too much. Mark B. -Original Message- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report Well, Tim's right, IMHO: there ought to be an easy (automatic, in fact) way to: find missed schedules find missed files report them to the right people Some techniques we used in building Servergraph/TSM are: 1. Prevention: catch TSM's I can't connect to client X messages in the activity log at 8:00 PM or whenever a schedule starts, and immediately forward them to an operator. If the operator will then restart the scheduler, or fix the network problem, or whatever, then you will have a completed backup in the morning instead of a missed backup. 2. Enlist the users: for large sites, we tie an email address to each node, and send a canned message to that address that explains how to restart the scheduler. So the users can do some of the obvious things for you. Of course this won't work for all sites - some users prefer to be oblivious - but you can always put in the help-desk address. 3. Use filespace dates: We agree that q event is not totally reliable, so we suggest query filespace f=d, and look at the last backed-up date. This also shows you filespace that you should delete - i.e., the one named client_X/mnt, not backed up in 2 years. Somebody left a CD-ROM mounted 2 years ago; TSM backed it up and is religiously saving that useless space. 4. Sort nodes by how many missed files they have. So over time, you can either fix your excludes or learn to shut down databases before backing them up, and the number of missed files goes toward zero. The fact that TSM will report a backup complete even though it misses a few files is a problem, I think. My desktop PC typically misses only one file: outlook.pst, 120 MB of email that *I* consider *VERY* important - but that backup is marked completed! So if you REALLY want to be sure, you HAVE to look at every missed file. - 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: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report The cheapest way to do this is to get yourself familiar with SQL queries, all the information you need is in the tables. Mark Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/16/2002 03:56:30 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report So, if I follow your message correctly and the point I have been trying to make... There is no easy (one button) method of reporting, which should be the basis of the software, the very basic core of any backup software, that I don't have. To answer the other question posted by Mr. Joseph Dawes, How do I track failures?, I do it the long way. I start with the q events ex=yes as a first level then we start going through the activity logs starting with a search for ANE4959i reporting missed files. Next we go through individual error logs on the clients if necessary. -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report And it depends on what you mean by a successful backup... We use Bill's method below to report on all events taht do not have a status of completed. (We only used to report on exceptions also ...) If you are worried about some files that were not processed then completed does not tell you what you want (for incrementals on 4.x clients and below). Here you will have to do additional queries to report on these failed objects. With archives and selective backups however, files in use will report as failed (can't confirm if other failed files will) (again 4.x and below) so that is covered here. Now, with 5.1, incrementals, archives, and selectives all report completed if files are not processed because of some error. But with incrementals you can now check the return code: 4 = files skipped (doesn't count files excluded by exclude statements). But with selectives and archives rc=4 could simply mean that your exclude statements are working so now you will have to do additional queries to report on failed objects here. We also do queries on file spaces as was mentioned that reports when the last backup completed. We've had at least one occasion where security was changed on an NT drive so that the System Account no longer had access (that is what the TSM scheduler was using). Here the
Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED)
For what it is worth, below is some 'plain english' verbiage our Tivoli rep sent to us regarding the new pricing structure. Hope this helps clarify things a small bit. IBM announced TSM V.5 last week and this announcement included new pricing. TSM is now priced based upon the number of processors in the backup client machines and there is no charge for the TSM server software. This will reduce the cost of TSM in small environments and increase the cost for large installs. Greg P. Tice Enterprise Storage Management Schneider Technology Services Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PEG.MB.CA cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Fax to: Stor Manager Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean [EMAIL PROTECTED](RESOLVED) U 04/17/2002 15:31 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Zlatko: Where did you find the definitions for Processors and Clients. Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED) Hello fellow *SMers, even if I do not like the answer we've found it. According to IBM EMEA Announcement Letter ZP02-0172 (http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealetsparms=H_ERIFZP020172), Section Ordering IBM Tivoli Products One or more charge units are associated with each product. These charge units are: - Processors managed by the product - Clients managed by the product - Distributed servers managed by the product - zSeries processors managed by the product - Processors in which the managing server is installed Processors are based upon TSM server and TSM *nodes* processors if they are servers in customer application environment. If it is a workstation (appl. client) it requires client license and no processors. So if we have an (imaginary) ISM installation consisting of dual-processor TSM server, cluster of two four-processor Oracle servers, uniprocessor file server, uniprocessor MDC and 20 dual-processor Xeon/2GHz CAD stations, we would need 12 processor and 20 client charge units for IBM TSM (5698-ISM) or IBM TSM EE (5698-ISE) and (optional) eight processors for IBM TSM for Databases (5698-APD). Right now I cannot calculate all possible configurations nor predict any averages or stats but for some configurations price would change slightly while for some others will drop significantly. OTOH I can make (not so) artificial configuration which would have an increased price. This raises the issue how to migrate Tivoli Management Points from Value-Based Pricing to Processors and Clients in Enhanced VBP. Also another question to ask is - does a customer need to buy additional licenses to keep its license compliance. This is another story and I have to dig more. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant
Second copy of a backup
Hi, i want to generate a copy of the data of a node to be taken offsite, it would be best if this copy doesn4t uses DB space, what i have in mind is something like a backup set - version level is there a way to do this? the requirement is for taking a copy of the monthly backup data of a node to the offsite vault. thanks for any idea. LT _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Offsite Mirror of TSM server
If I was setting this up.. I would use the remote mirroring of the disk (both MVS and Open systems) using the available disk technologies (ie SRDF for EMC). Base upon the fact that TSM does appear to recover 99% of the time even if the server is not shutdown cleanly I also assume the remote mirrored disk should be sufficient to get back up and running in the event of a DR at your primary site. (I am not saying no longer do dBASE backups though. What I am say suggesting is the normal dBASE backups is your second or even third point of call for recovery. If you are using the remote mirroring feature you would also probably have the timefinder or flashcopy feature. These functions could also be considered to enhance your recovery procedures) Since in the event of a DR you need to have the infrastructure not only to recover but to run normal operations whilst the primary site is put back together I assume you would have a 3494 at the secondary site as well. This would therefore allow you to write you primary tape pool locally and the copy pool remotely. Telling TSM to recovery the STG pools from the backups is a simple matter. For the mainframe kit you would then also be able to automatically write you volume dumps (including the TSM volumes) to remote tape via ESCON extended over a DWDM. I personally believe TSM being a backup / recovery system should be able to support a shutdown if not daily then once per week to also ensure the dump or disk copy is a clean copy. By keeping multiple GDS copies of the volume dumps, the TSM dBASE backup, being the slowest of the recovery option, drops even further down the recovery option queue. Peter Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/18/02 03:46am Let me preface this with, I am not sure how to completely ask these questions since I don't have all of the details but hopefully someone can give me some idea of how TSM can/will handle this, if at all possible. Current configuration: TSM 4.1 on OS/390 using 3590B tape drives in a 3494 ATL Requirements as I understand them: Setup a off-location hot site backup TSM server that will have copies of everything the main server and/or other TSM server (we are working on splitting the TSM traffic/load onto another TSM server) has. The hot site server will probably be an AIX box with 3590E (possibly FC) drives. I have looked into the source/target server issue but am a little confused since the target server will only see things that come from the source server as archive objects. If the building with the source server burns down (and this same building also houses a majority of the clients that are backed up !), how would the target server be used to restore all of the client nodes ? How about the database backups that are sent to the target server ? What use are they if you have to have the source server to identify what is on the target server ? Should I/could I setup database mirror volumes on a remote (target ?) server over simple IP connections or is this only possible with DASD using XRC processesespecially since the current, main database is on OS390 ? If this was moved to an AIX box, how would this be handled ? NFS ??? As you can tell, any and all guidance is greatly appreciated !!! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 --- This message has been scanned by MailSweeper. --- --- This e-mail is solely for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use of its contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and then delete the original e-mail. ---
Re: Backup Report
You may disable quiet mode and the open files error will be saved in the dsmerror.log. you can then send the dsmerror.log. 'though the errors are not just the open files but at lest it is a little bit clearer that using the dsmched.log. From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/17/2002 05:58 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Backup Report Hi TSM'ers I am busy implementing a TSM/WIN2K environment and the customer asked me to do an interim demo today. The scheduled backup of the local client ran ok but failed due to open files. He then asked me what I thought was a legitimate question: Where is the output report so that we can know why the backup failed, and not just that it did fail. I know other backup solutions can do this. Apart from looking in the TSM event log is there anyway to make TSM automatically generate an output report and say email it to someone? If anyone has done this before I would appreciate your help. Ta John
Re: IP over FC on AIX
Daniel, I hate to disagree, but at the URL included below, there are some drivers that support IP over the FC Arbitrated Loop or Fabric for the LP HBAs. I was days away from trying it some time ago, but our networking group finally installed Ethernet segments in addition to the main Token Ring segments (!), so I didn't have a real need to move that IP traffic onto the SAN. Steve, if you try it, please let us know how they work. Also, remember to massage your routing table! Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail Quote from http://www.emulex.com/ts/fc/docs/frame8k.htm: SCSI/IP v4.1.0.16 Both versions provide both SCSI and IP functionality over Fibre Channel arbitrated loop and fabric topology. OS version: AIX 4.2x and 4.3x with 64-bit extensions Utility: Diagnostic Utility (lputil) version 1.2a16 Protocol: SCSI and IP Topology: Fibre Channel arbitrated loop, point-to-point and fabric Support: LP7000E, LP8000, LP9000 or LP9002L -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP over FC on AIX Hi The Emulex adapter that you are using supports both ordinary Ethernet FC connetion over IP, and FCP connections over a SAN. However, you cannot use the IP protocol to talk directly over the SAN, as the SAN only talks SCSI commands. However, you can use the IBM drivers supplied, a Tivoli Storage Agent, and SAN attached storage (tape) devices to backup your data over the SAN. Remeber that only large files can fully utilize the SAN. Small files will cause a lot of meta data to be sent over the ordinary LAN, which makes it unnecessary to send data over the SAN at all. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-04-16 02:31 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: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. **
Backup Report
Hi TSM'ers I am busy implementing a TSM/WIN2K environment and the customer asked me to do an interim demo today. The scheduled backup of the local client ran ok but failed due to open files. He then asked me what I thought was a legitimate question: Where is the output report so that we can know why the backup failed, and not just that it did fail. I know other backup solutions can do this. Apart from looking in the TSM event log is there anyway to make TSM automatically generate an output report and say email it to someone? If anyone has done this before I would appreciate your help. Ta John
Re: TDP for SQL messages - ACO0302E ... rc = 1301 ... ANS0328E (RC45)
I got this error also before with this TSM ver 4.1.3.0 . I upgraded my server to 4.1.4.1 it works fine now. From: Allan Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/15/2002 07:29 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 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: Own labeling of LTO cartridges
It is possible, but take it from me because I am experiencing it currently first hand on a 3583, when push come to shove and it will.. IBM only has two IBM approved LTO label manufactures (you will have to contact IBM, or contact me directly and I will give you the Critsit manager's name that this info came from for the manufactures names). Your home printed labels or labels purchased elsewhere will be the first place they point their finger at. FYI, Mark B. -Original Message- From: Christian Bagard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Own labeling of LTO cartridges Hello, Maybe you can have a look at : http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/tape/lto/oem/support/labelspec.pdf It's possible to print your own labels then stick them on cartridges Regards - Original Message - From: John Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: Own labeling of LTO cartridges Hi All Just a quick one. If a customer has bought a load of LTO unlabeled cartridges, can he just create his own labels so that the LTO 3583 will read them? If so, do they need to be in some kind of format? If this is not possible, how would TSM work effectively in an environment where the carts are not physically labeled? Any answers will be much appreciated, even if its just to one of the questions. Thanks all John
Re: Backup Report
Just wanted to pass on the info that Open File Manager (OFM) has earned 'Tivoli Ready Certification' for Tivoli Storage Manager. I guess this is ok, but I'm still sore that IBM let Veritas steal The Kernel Group's Bare Metal Restore (BMR). Anyway, see the release at the URL below. http://www.stbernard.com/press_releases/2002_1.pdf -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup Report Hi TSM'ers I am busy implementing a TSM/WIN2K environment and the customer asked me to do an interim demo today. The scheduled backup of the local client ran ok but failed due to open files. He then asked me what I thought was a legitimate question: Where is the output report so that we can know why the backup failed, and not just that it did fail. I know other backup solutions can do this. Apart from looking in the TSM event log is there anyway to make TSM automatically generate an output report and say email it to someone? If anyone has done this before I would appreciate your help. Ta John
Virtual device error in TDP for SQL
Anybody had encountered this kind of error in TDP for SQL: 2002-04-17 16:18:57.93 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [pubs] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-13C0-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-13C0- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:20:19.67 spid137 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-1304-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:20:19.67 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [pubs] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-1304-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-1304- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:20:27.20 spid137 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-1304-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:20:27.20 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [IDS] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-1304-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-1304- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:21:47.60 spid135 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-1310-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:21:47.60 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [pubs] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-1310-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-1310- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:25:07.57 spid135 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-13C8-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:25:07.57 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [pubs] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-13C8-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-13C8- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:27:34.23 spid135 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-0A00-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:27:34.23 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [pubs] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-0A00-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-0A00- (TDP MS SQL V2)' 2002-04-17 16:29:06.92 spid135 BackupVirtualDeviceSet::Initialize: Open failure on backup device 'TDPSQL-127C-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:29:06.92 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [model] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-127C-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-127C- (TDP MS SQL V2)' Thanks, Ed Moso
Re: Virtual device error in TDP for SQL
'TDPSQL-127C-'. Operating system error -2139684857(error not found). 2002-04-17 16:29:06.92 backupBACKUP failed to complete the command USE master BACKUP DATABASE [model] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE=N'TDPSQL-127C-' WITH BLOCKSIZE=512, MAXTRANSFERSIZE=1048576, NAME=N'full', DESCRIPTION=N'TDPSQL-127C- (TDP MS SQL V2)' Ed, We did see some VDI problems in early version of SQL 2000 and SQL 7. Make sure you are at the latest SPs for them. After doing so, can you provide more info: 1.) What version of SQL Server are you running? 2.) What SP are you running on SQL Server? 3.) What version of Windows are you running? 4.) What SP are you running on Windows? 5.) Have you ever been able to run a backup? 6.) What version of TDP for SQL are you running? Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leave everything a little better than you found it. - Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.
Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED)
This is not what happens when you try to order Tivoli. It is based on the number of processors in the server. The server code is not free. I would get your Tivoli rep to check, because this is not what I was told by Tivoli. Now they have done some things with pricing to make it less expensive for smaller customers, but nothing I have found said that the server code was free. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Greg Tice Sent: April 17, 2002 6:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED) For what it is worth, below is some 'plain english' verbiage our Tivoli rep sent to us regarding the new pricing structure. Hope this helps clarify things a small bit. IBM announced TSM V.5 last week and this announcement included new pricing. TSM is now priced based upon the number of processors in the backup client machines and there is no charge for the TSM server software. This will reduce the cost of TSM in small environments and increase the cost for large installs. Greg P. Tice Enterprise Storage Management Schneider Technology Services Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PEG.MB.CA cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Fax to: Stor Manager Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean [EMAIL PROTECTED](RESOLVED) U 04/17/2002 15:31 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Zlatko: Where did you find the definitions for Processors and Clients. Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what processor mean (RESOLVED) Hello fellow *SMers, even if I do not like the answer we've found it. According to IBM EMEA Announcement Letter ZP02-0172 (http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealetsparms=H_ERIFZP020172), Section Ordering IBM Tivoli Products One or more charge units are associated with each product. These charge units are: - Processors managed by the product - Clients managed by the product - Distributed servers managed by the product - zSeries processors managed by the product - Processors in which the managing server is installed Processors are based upon TSM server and TSM *nodes* processors if they are servers in customer application environment. If it is a workstation (appl. client) it requires client license and no processors. So if we have an (imaginary) ISM installation consisting of dual-processor TSM server, cluster of two four-processor Oracle servers, uniprocessor file server, uniprocessor MDC and 20 dual-processor Xeon/2GHz CAD stations, we would need 12 processor and 20 client charge units for IBM TSM (5698-ISM) or IBM TSM EE (5698-ISE) and (optional) eight processors for IBM TSM for Databases (5698-APD). Right now I cannot calculate all possible configurations nor predict any averages or stats but for some configurations price would change slightly while for some others will drop significantly. OTOH I can make (not so) artificial configuration which would have an increased price. This raises the issue how to migrate Tivoli Management Points from Value-Based Pricing to Processors and Clients in Enhanced VBP. Also another question to ask is - does a customer need to buy additional licenses to keep its license compliance. This is another story and I have to dig more. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant
Re: Daily Backup Report: More Issues
Mark is absolutely correct. This is an issue we have as well. To solve the
problem we are running post processing of the output looking for a bogus
situation and setting return codes. We use an external scheduler, so we can
do this. With the TSM Scheduler you are just screwed if you are not
satisfied that a successful session does not necessarily equal a successful
backup.
The worst problem we have is the TDP for Exchange can get a 425 return code
because Norton Anti-virus has the Exchange store tied up and you still get a
successful backup. This takes a bounce of the Exchange Server. The issue
is you can go weeks without realizing you have not gotten an Information
Store backup.
Typically, I use SQL to looke for the message id and failed and that is how
this one is found.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
I hate to correct IBM again... My statement was correct
query event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful.
As Andy so carefully stated in his last comment:
you should not have any problems determining success or failure of the
operation.
The operation and the actual successful backup are two different things. In
referring to a TSM operations (i.e. ACTION=INCREMENTAL), not a script, can
show proof of missed files and errors from reports from my activity log that
a success of the operation does not mean that you had a successful backup.
I
We currently have a Critsit open with Tivoli and IBM hardware support and
this is one of the major issues.
Just trying to help, I guarantee that if you rely only on a q event to let
your customers know if you have all their files backed up you will get
burned.
Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
query event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful.
This is true only if the schedule definition launches a script, i.e. DEF SCH
mydomain myschedule ACTION=COMMAND OBJECTS=myscript, and the script
contains commands that run asynchronously; in that case, TSM has no way to
track the actions taken within the script. It can only say, the script was
launched successfully. In short, the success or failure of the command
depends on the return code issued from the script.
For scheduled TSM operations (i.e. ACTION=INCREMENTAL), you should not have
any problems determining success or failure of the operation. For
ACTION=COMMAND operations where the command
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.
Mark Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/16/2002 07:34
Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Daily Backup Report
We also used query event * * begindate=today-1 enddate=today ex=yes until
I learned that this does not report on clients that were or were not backed
up successfully, this ONLY reports on if the script or schedule was
successful. To quote straight from the h q event page Use this command to
check whether schedules were processed successfully.
I will not go into a rant about this, just learn from my mistake, query
event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful.
-Original Message-
From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:01 AM
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Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report
we generally run a q event command ex=yes
you can use begindate begintime parms, etc
help q event
fYI
-Original Message-
From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:48 AM
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Subject: Daily Backup Report
What are some good ways to get an automated daily report on which clients
were or were no backed up successfully?
TIA,
Regards,
Orin
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Re: SAN Problem - TDP for SAP on Windows 2000
Been here, seen this, fixed this. Actually we found the solution on the Knowledge base but the answer in the knowledge base is wrong. Sorry, I do not remember the KB solution number, but this is what you have to do. The default in the Device\Parameters section for the Qlogic card defaults to 0x21. The KB says to change it to at least 131 from 21. What it meant to say is 131 decimal. We set it to 255 or 0xFF and now the SAN agent works fine. The issue is the tape header blocks are read/written as one on the SAN agent apparently differently than the server. The result is what you see. The keyword to set is MaximumSGList. Sorry I cannot remember the HKEY for this. -Original Message- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SAN Problem - TDP for SAP on Windows 2000 Are you using Removable Storage on the Windows2000 server attached to the SAN connected tape unit?, or are you using the drivers supplied by Tivoli (device drivers)?. My server is NT based (not sure about the AIX based) and I am using the Tivoli drivers to connect to my tape storage. I noticed since I needed to disable the Removable Storage service on my Windows 2000 server attached to the SAN to get this to work correctly. Some how the 2 drivers were fighting for control, by disabling this service Tivoli's device drivers had no problem. Joe -Original Message- From: Gerrit van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAN Problem - TDP for SAP on Windows 2000 Hi all TSM'ers The setup: TSM 4.2.1.0 Server on AIX 4.3. TSM 4.2.1.26 Client on Windows 2000 TSM Storageagent 4.2.0.1 on Windows 2000 TDP for SAP on Windows 2000 The Win2000 is connected to the SAN via a Qlogic card. When we start a SAP backup, the tape gets mounted in the correct tape drive, however the following error occurs: (output from dsmsta) ANR0400I Session 6 started for node BSASAP31 (TDP R3 WINNT) (Named Pipe). ANR8337I LTO volume 541ABW mounted in drive DRIVE1 (\\.\Tape2). ANR8938E The adapter for tape drive DRIVE1 (\\.\Tape2) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. ANR8468I LTO volume 541ABW dismounted from drive DRIVE1 (\\.\Tape2) in library LIB3584. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 541ABW - mount failed. Any ideas as to why it complains about the block size and how to fix it? Thanks and regards ~~ Gerrit van Zyl Tel: +27 11 800 7400 Fax: +27 11 802 3814 Cell: +27 82 570 4266 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.faritec.co.za ~~
Re: Backup Report
The detailed report is on the client. Getting to where you want it is the trick. No suggestions. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup Report Hi TSM'ers I am busy implementing a TSM/WIN2K environment and the customer asked me to do an interim demo today. The scheduled backup of the local client ran ok but failed due to open files. He then asked me what I thought was a legitimate question: Where is the output report so that we can know why the backup failed, and not just that it did fail. I know other backup solutions can do this. Apart from looking in the TSM event log is there anyway to make TSM automatically generate an output report and say email it to someone? If anyone has done this before I would appreciate your help. Ta John
Re: problem after upgrding ADSM to TSM 4.2
Make sure you are running the latest patch level on AIX and the latest MagStar Drivers. For some reason, there have been problems with old driver and patch levels. -Original Message- From: Bernie M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem after upgrding ADSM to TSM 4.2 Hi all, I have just upgraded my ADSM server to TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and am having problems with the definitions of my drives. Ther is nothing using the drives, I can access them using tapeutil but have the following problems in TSMANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY DRIVE 3575lib1 drive0 f=d Library Name: 3575LIB1 Drive Name: DRIVE0 Device Type: 3570 Device: ON LINE: Unavailable Since 04/17/02 15:10:17 Element: 16 Allocated to: Last Update by (administrator): SERVER_CONSOLE Last Update Date/Time: 04/17/02 14:45:05 Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE TSM:WESLEYADSM update DRIVE 3575LIB1 DRIVE0 DEVICE=/dev/rmt0 ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: UPDATE DRIVE 3575LIB1 DRIVE0 DEVICE=/dev/rmt0 ANR8420E UPDATE DRIVE: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive DRIVE0. TSM:WESLEYADSM Does anyone have suggestions on how to overcome this problem? Thanks B __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: problem after upgrding ADSM to TSM 4.2
The problem was the Atape driver for the library. Once I downloaded and installed the driver it went fine. Bernie. --- Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you are running the latest patch level on AIX and the latest MagStar Drivers. For some reason, there have been problems with old driver and patch levels. -Original Message- From: Bernie M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem after upgrding ADSM to TSM 4.2 Hi all, I have just upgraded my ADSM server to TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and am having problems with the definitions of my drives. Ther is nothing using the drives, I can access them using tapeutil but have the following problems in TSMANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY DRIVE 3575lib1 drive0 f=d Library Name: 3575LIB1 Drive Name: DRIVE0 Device Type: 3570 Device: ON LINE: Unavailable Since 04/17/02 15:10:17 Element: 16 Allocated to: Last Update by (administrator): SERVER_CONSOLE Last Update Date/Time: 04/17/02 14:45:05 Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE TSM:WESLEYADSM update DRIVE 3575LIB1 DRIVE0 DEVICE=/dev/rmt0 ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: UPDATE DRIVE 3575LIB1 DRIVE0 DEVICE=/dev/rmt0 ANR8420E UPDATE DRIVE: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive DRIVE0. TSM:WESLEYADSM Does anyone have suggestions on how to overcome this problem? Thanks B __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
