Re: TSM server problem
I have seen similar things. You have to put on 4.2.2 to correct this problem. However, a recycle of the dsmserv will fix the problem. The issue manifests itself in several ways. I have only seen the problem once. I am still on 4.2.1.15 which partially fixes the problem. The problem is caused by a bunch of idle drives dismounting at the same time. Apparently, there were some threading of updates to instorage control blocks that get hosed. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server problem I couldn't find an APAR that describes what we have been seeing on our 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3) server during the last few weeks so I was wondering if we have discovered new bug. First we got this message in the activity log: 06/09/02 10:39:38 ANR1229W Volume 000591 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. We did a 'q vol f=d'. The access mode of the volume was 'Available' so we dismissed it as a freak incident until the message repeated itself the next day. This time we opened the (3494) library and verified that the volume was in the correct cell. We tried a 'restore volume' followed by a 'delete volume'. The delete failed: ANR2405E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000591 is currently in use by clients and/or data management operations. ANS8001I Return code 14. At that time there were no processes or sessions that used that particular volume. Also we had four other volumes that displayed the same behaviour. We halted the server and restarted it again which solved the problem. The volumes were no longer 'in use'. Today we noticed two other volumes that seem to have the same problem so I'm beginning to suspect that I've found a bug in the server. All these volumes have one thing in common: When I seacrh the activity log for their mounts and dismounts I can't find a dismount message after their last mount (before they become 'unavailable'). It is as if the volumes are unmounted by the library but TSM isn't being notified of this. Anyone seen this before? Cheers, Henk.
Re: Microcode levels and atape/atldd upgrade
They will say not, but the history on this list at www.adsm.org will say otherwise. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microcode levels and atape/atldd upgrade Before upgrading to TSM 4.2.2 from 4.1.2, I would like to upgrade our atape and atldd drivers to the latest level on our AIX 4.3.3 system. Does anyone know if I need to have the microcode levels of our 3590's upgraded when I do the atape upgrade? Thanks, Diana
Small files V's Large files
Can anybody share with me the secret to getting good performance with small files like I get with I big files, I know that I will not get the same performance but I would like to think that I would be getting at least half the throughput that I get with large files. I am getting approx 1GB per minute for large files (20MB and bigger) and about 1GB per 10min for small files. Can anyone help. Thanks Dallas
Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release?
After seeing all the pain everyone is experiencing going from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1. I thought I would ask this question to see what everyone is doing. We intend to create an entire environment to test the upgrade with and then actually perform it. What is everyone else doing? What is your server platform? How are you handling the SAN client incompatibility issues? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
Re: TSM server problem
Thanks for the explanation! We'll probably upgrade to get rid of this problem. You're right, restarting the server solves the problem temporarily but that is not something we want to do on a regular basis. (had to restart dsmserv again this morning to free two tapes) Thanks again, Alexander (The original message was written by me but posted by Henk) I have seen similar things. You have to put on 4.2.2 to correct this problem. However, a recycle of the dsmserv will fix the problem. The issue manifests itself in several ways. I have only seen the problem once. I am still on 4.2.1.15 which partially fixes the problem. The problem is caused by a bunch of idle drives dismounting at the same time. Apparently, there were some threading of updates to instorage control blocks that get hosed. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server problem I couldn't find an APAR that describes what we have been seeing on our 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3) server during the last few weeks so I was wondering if we have discovered new bug. First we got this message in the activity log: 06/09/02 10:39:38 ANR1229W Volume 000591 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. We did a 'q vol f=d'. The access mode of the volume was 'Available' so we dismissed it as a freak incident until the message repeated itself the next day. This time we opened the (3494) library and verified that the volume was in the correct cell. We tried a 'restore volume' followed by a 'delete volume'. The delete failed: ANR2405E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000591 is currently in use by clients and/or data management operations. ANS8001I Return code 14. At that time there were no processes or sessions that used that particular volume. Also we had four other volumes that displayed the same behaviour. We halted the server and restarted it again which solved the problem. The volumes were no longer 'in use'. Today we noticed two other volumes that seem to have the same problem so I'm beginning to suspect that I've found a bug in the server. All these volumes have one thing in common: When I seacrh the activity log for their mounts and dismounts I can't find a dismount message after their last mount (before they become 'unavailable'). It is as if the volumes are unmounted by the library but TSM isn't being notified of this. Anyone seen this before? Cheers, Henk. --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
LAN-Free backup: TSM server mounts tape in not-mapped drives
Hello, we have a SAN environment with an IBM3584 library (6 SCSI LTO drives, 4 FC LTO drives), running TSM 4.2.2.5, SA 4.2.2.5 and BA 4.2.2.1 for AIX with drive mapping to the 2 FC drives. After bypassing all problems with the IBM documentation (wrong parameters, wrong ports, etc.), I got the LAN free backup working. But there is one thing, that anoys me: When the storage agent requests a tape from the TSM server, the latter starts to mount the requested tape regarding the internal drive usage table also into the SCSI attached drives, which have no drive mapping, and the SA claims, that this drive is not defined to this server (ANR8940E). This causes some transactions to fail due to the delay (storage media inaccessible). Anyone, who can help me with this? Best regards, Jörg Nouvertné http://home.wtal.de/the_swordsman/
Re: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ?
Hi Wanda! I don't know if Dwight's solution worked for you, but I also had problems getting rid of DRM. In my case there were some old copypool tapes that were created by DRM. I did a Q DRMEDIA and it listed 3 tapes. Than I did a MODE DATA to empty the old copypool tapes. DRM wasn't in use anymore afterwards. Hope this helps! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 19:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ? Dwight, if you find out, would you please pass on the info? We don't need DRM anymore, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it, either. -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ? I've already opened a problem with Tivoli but anyone know how to flush all references to DRM ? At one point in time in an attempt to issue a q pr the q was left off and the pr initiated a prepare. Now my server shows I'm using DRM ! In the past I just stuck on the license so it would report valid BUT I just upgraded to 4.2.0.0, then 4.2.2.0 and the drm.lic file doesn't exist ! ! ! and my server reports license as FAILED so I'm looking for a way to flush all internal references to DRM ! anyone know ? Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 ** 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: TSM server problem
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. We didn't find any failed dismounts of these volumes. (or any successful ones for that matter). Regards, Alexander (The original message was written by me, but sent by Henk) Look for msgno=8469 and see if the dismounts have been failing. I get this kind of behavior occasionally and have found that the dismount fails (hardware problem) and TSM transiently reports volumes unavailable. Henk ten Have [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Sent by: Subject: TSM server problem ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 06/20/2002 10:17 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I couldn't find an APAR that describes what we have been seeing on our 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3) server during the last few weeks so I was wondering if we have discovered new bug. First we got this message in the activity log: 06/09/02 10:39:38 ANR1229W Volume 000591 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. We did a 'q vol f=d'. The access mode of the volume was 'Available' so we dismissed it as a freak incident until the message repeated itself the next day. This time we opened the (3494) library and verified that the volume was in the correct cell. We tried a 'restore volume' followed by a 'delete volume'. The delete failed: ANR2405E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000591 is currently in use by clients and/or data management operations. ANS8001I Return code 14. At that time there were no processes or sessions that used that particular volume. Also we had four other volumes that displayed the same behaviour. We halted the server and restarted it again which solved the problem. The volumes were no longer 'in use'. Today we noticed two other volumes that seem to have the same problem so I'm beginning to suspect that I've found a bug in the server. All these volumes have one thing in common: When I seacrh the activity log for their mounts and dismounts I can't find a dismount message after their last mount (before they become 'unavailable'). It is as if the volumes are unmounted by the library but TSM isn't being notified of this. Anyone seen this before? Cheers, Henk. --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Delete DB snapshot volume
Hi all, Some time ago a had performed some DB snapshot to tape due to test device class definition. Now I want use this temporary tape but I can't because it is tracked in DB ans cannot be deleted as last DB snapshot series volume. Is any way to clear this reference adnd reuse this tape if it is 6 months old and normal full backups are performed on daily basis? Thanks Tom
AW: Moving DB, LOG, DiskPool from SAN to local drives
Hi, I went to the procecess recently, and regarding if you do not change the volumes sizes, it will work pretty smooth using the 3rd volume copy. If you however want to consolidate several smaller volumes into one (as I did), then you need to define an additional volume including a copy of the same size as the original ones, and then delete the old ones. This will kick in a process that moves the data off from them. For the log volumes, please note that there is a size restriction and you might need shrink it first to small temporary volumes (when the util is low), remove the original ones, and then extend the log with the new ones. Regarding the diskpool, I would also create new ones, set the old to readonly, and then start to move the data using move data volname stgp=same_stgp. Best regards, Jorg -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Andrew Carlson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2002 15:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Moving DB, LOG, DiskPool from SAN to local drives For the DB and LOG, I would create the files on the local drives, then mirror the DB and LOG to them, then delete the copy on the SAN once the mirroring completes. For the disk pools, you can define the new disk pools on the local drives, then make the SAN disk pools read only, and, if you have some time, they will shrink by themselves, then you can issue move data command to move whats left. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Chuck Lam wrote: Hi, I have TSM 4.1.4 running off AIX 4.3.3. All my TSM Data(DB, LOGs, DISKPOOL) are currently in a Storage Area Network. Due to requirement of my company, I need to move them off to local disk drives. I like to ask if anyone has gone through this process before, can share some of his or her experience. How do you safeguard the data while you're moving the Database and the Logs? Can this be done online while the daily backups are still going on?...etc. TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
Re: TSM server problem
Yes, we also expected to see I/O errors, but there were no errors on the drives or the tapes. The last process that mounted the tapes was a backup stg. Alexander (The original message was written by me, but sent by Henk due to a problem with my subscription to this list yesterday) Are you seeing any I/O errors on these tapes or errors on the drives? What type of process was mounting the tapes - backup stg, reclamation etc.? David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/02 11:17AM I couldn't find an APAR that describes what we have been seeing on our 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3) server during the last few weeks so I was wondering if we have discovered new bug. First we got this message in the activity log: 06/09/02 10:39:38 ANR1229W Volume 000591 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. We did a 'q vol f=d'. The access mode of the volume was 'Available' so we dismissed it as a freak incident until the message repeated itself the next day. This time we opened the (3494) library and verified that the volume was in the correct cell. We tried a 'restore volume' followed by a 'delete volume'. The delete failed: ANR2405E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000591 is currently in use by clients and/or data management operations. ANS8001I Return code 14. At that time there were no processes or sessions that used that particular volume. Also we had four other volumes that displayed the same behaviour. We halted the server and restarted it again which solved the problem. The volumes were no longer 'in use'. Today we noticed two other volumes that seem to have the same problem so I'm beginning to suspect that I've found a bug in the server. All these volumes have one thing in common: When I seacrh the activity log for their mounts and dismounts I can't find a dismount message after their last mount (before they become 'unavailable'). It is as if the volumes are unmounted by the library but TSM isn't being notified of this. Anyone seen this before? Cheers, Henk. MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 06/20/2002 01:12:23 PM -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ÿÿ --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Re: NSM Upgrade Experience
For us, the lock conflict exhibits itself during expiration, when it hits some corruption in our DB. Systems that have time to run expiration, reclamation and migration without other processes running may never see the symptoms. So I have been told. -Original Message- From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:53 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Cc: Jolliff, Dale Subject: RE: NSM Upgrade Experience Ooops... we just advised a customer to install 4.2.2.5 --- for SumTab fix, didn't know there is a (yet) new bug for expiration (introduced by 4.2.2.4???) Are you sure that 4.2.2.6 is needed for EXPIRE INVENTORY to work, again ?!? (There is nothing about expiration in the .4 or .5 APAR abstracts... Were you/they referring to the conflict lock issue? Geesh, .5 just came out...sigh:() Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience I got my 5100-02 patch when someone at 800-IBM-SERV was playing phone tag between myself and the CE when he was out investigating our PMH on duplicate IP addresses. I was told by level 2 this afternoon to avoid expiration on 4.2.2.4 until 4.2.2.6 is available Real Soon Now. -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2. We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 requires an AIX load from 4mm tape. We got a bad 4mm tape. You know, WORN technology (Write Once, Read Never). About 10% of the way into the upgrade to AIX 5 we couldn't read the tape. Tried and tried and tried. But it was bad. We had to recover from the MKSYSB we did that morning. That's why we take MKSYSB's. The second time we tried the EC script failed because \dbaa1dk31\db has on HDISK2. Huh? How did that happen. It turned out that when the recover was done from the MKSYSB all the HDISKS were renumbered by AIX. It took us a couple days with Level II support to get that straightened around. Took Level II about 4 hours dialed in running AIX commands to re-do things and put \dbaa1dk31\db back on HDISK31. We have scheduled our third attempt at EC017 for Sunday, June 30. I've also been told by Level II that anyone preparing to install EC017 should open a PMR prior to the upgrade so support can track the activity. I was also told that not very many NSM sites have done this upgrade, so many will be out of support. And what's this about OS patch 5100-02. Where do I get it and where do I find these kinds of patches? Is there some piece of documentation I've missed or did I just not catch something? Good luck to all!!! John G. Talafous Information Systems Technical Principal Global Software Support - Data Management telephone: (330)-471-3390 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/ http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/
Re: snmp
Password of SNMPADMIN has nothing to do with community name. In fact whatever password you set it does not matter. Community string is necessary for SNMP operations. Assuming you are using snmpinfo from the *same* box you should use: # snmpinfo -v -ms -c private ibmAdsmServerScript1.1=q_db_util Note usage of '-c private'. This is the community with ReadWrite access as per default /etc/snmpd.conf installed by AIX. If your site have modified the communities in the file select appropriate one. Later read the result with any Read community. Do not forget that *each* read on ibmAdsmM1ReturnValue invokes the script again. Example: # snmpinfo -v -ms -c private ibmAdsmServerScript1.1=datetime ibmAdsmServerScript1.1 = datetime # snmpinfo -v -mg ibmAdsmM1ReturnValue.1 ibmAdsmM1ReturnValue.1 = Date Time -- -- 2002-06-21 10:40:23 ANR1462I RUN: Command script DATETIME completed successfully. Hope this helps. If not ask again. 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:snmp Hello all, can somebody help me? I have problem with snmp, I cannot use defined own script I can see some information with command: # snmpinfo -v -md ibmAdsm but command doesn't work: # snmpinfo -v -ms ibmAdsmServerScript1.1=q_db_util noSuchName at position 0 - with result 255 return code Everything is default I set passwd for SNMPADMIN on public as community name and I defined script q_db_util in TSM server. I have TSM server 4.1.2 on AIX 4.3.3. Thank you for answer Filip Há?a
SQL Backtrack
Hi guys, Has anybody experience in SQL Backtrack with TSM 4.2 in SAN environment? I upgraded LAN environment to SAN. When I had LAN all worked properly but in SAN doesn't. I have: TSM Server 4.2.2.5 Storage Agent 4.2.2.5 TSM client 4.2.2.1 Latest TSM API and latest versions of SQL Backtrack for Oracle and OBSI. When I try to backup Oracle vi SQL Backtrack I get en error: ANS0201E Help me, please! ukasz Dobosz S4E S.A. mobile: +48 609 666 356 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +48 12 296 4545 fax: +48 12 296 4546
Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook
But this works: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml Lukasz Dobosz S4E S.A. mobile: +48 609 666 356 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +48 12 296 4545 fax: +48 12 296 4546 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook this link doesn't work Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/20/02 07:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, FYI, the TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook is out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml?Open -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326
Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook
this link doesn't work Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/20/02 07:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, FYI, the TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook is out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml?Open -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326
Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e?
Paul, Is this question based on the upgrade to the Server software or the client backup/restore software. -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release? After seeing all the pain everyone is experiencing going from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1. I thought I would ask this question to see what everyone is doing. We intend to create an entire environment to test the upgrade with and then actually perform it. What is everyone else doing? What is your server platform? How are you handling the SAN client incompatibility issues? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook
It does, but you have to paste the part on the second line (tml?Open) behind it. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Joseph Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 13:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook this link doesn't work Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/20/02 07:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, FYI, the TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook is out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml?Open -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326 ** 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. **
Filespaces, rebinding and scripts.
I am using TSM Server 4.1.1 on Aix 4.3.3. NT client version 4.1.3 MC_current is defined as versions exists 21, versions deleted 21, retain extra 21, retain only 90 and set as the default management class. NODE1 does not have an include so it defaults to MC_current My retention requirements have changed due to some legal issues and I plan on creating MC_new and placing it in the opt file for this node and restarting the scheduler service. As a test, I did this on a node. After a successful backup was run, I made a change to MC_current to ver delete 0, retain only 0 and ran an expiration and a number of files were expired from my tapes for this test node, that I assumed would have rebound to MC_new. From the client after the backup following the change: Total files scanned:231,670 Total files rebound:374,251 From the Server using audit occupancy before the backup: Total files NODE1 978,249 From the Server after the expiration: Total files for NODE1 437,875 My Questions: The next time a backup executes, after the include is added, do both active and inactive files rebind to MC_new or just the active ? Is there a way to do either a query or execute a script that lists the files for a client and the Management Class they are bound to on the TSM server ? Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375
ANE4018E file name too long on Linux86 client
Searched the archives for this message and only saw one reference which suggested upgrading to 5.x client. However, this RH Linux server doesnt meet the requirements for 5.x clients. Linux server is running the 4.2.2.0 client. From the client info from the TSM server, his kernel/OS is 2.2.19-6. Just went to check for client updates and found the 4.2.2.1 clients have been removed with a note about being refreshed TODAY. Anyone (e.g. Andy) have some info on what is happening with the 4.2.2.1 client and will it address this problem ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
I lost my slot!
TSM 4.1.3 on NT 4 with at IBM 3483 (ADIC scalar 100) LTO tape library. We used to see 18 slots in our tape library, now we only see 17 (and that is all we can use now). The library itself seems to be OK, and things are still working, but missing one slot in our library can be a big deal some days. We have rebooted (powered down and brought back from totally off, both the library and the TSM server), and had TSM audit the library. All seems OK except we are missing a slot in the library (in an 18 slot library missing one is over 5%). Any suggestions on how to 'get it back'? ... TIA ... Jack
Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e?
I've got a small test environment toverify base funtionality -- but I really cannot stress-test in the test environment, so all I can determine is that my batch scripts work and that I can backup/restore and archive/retrieve, and get to previously archived/backed up data. And then I've a 12-hour window on Saturdays I can slam-dunk in. Once I've got a production system archived or backed up, I've got no way to back out to the previous server. I am *not* permitted to discard data. So I live in fear the first week or so on each new server upgrade, and that's why I wait until there's a version that other people are *not* reporting problems on before changing. I'd much rather run something that's no longer supported than something that won't stay up but is supported. Especially since I can count my support calls on the fingers of one hand and have fingers left over for any given year. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release? After seeing all the pain everyone is experiencing going from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1. I thought I would ask this question to see what everyone is doing. We intend to create an entire environment to test the upgrade with and then actually perform it. What is everyone else doing? What is your server platform? How are you handling the SAN client incompatibility issues? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
Re: TDP for Exchange
Is there any way to know this in advance? The Exchange people schedule the full backup once a week and incrementals for all other days. Now the backup failed, so if we can find out in advance whether a full backup is required we can start a full automatically instead of the incremental. Do you know a way to do this in a script or batchfile or something? Again, thank you for your answer! Eric, I am guessing you could run some sort of script that would parse the output and recognize the particular error that is displayed in this situtation, something like this: Unable to perform an incremental backup because a required Microsoft Exchange database log file could not be found. and redrive the full backup if it is detected. There is currently nothing built in to TDP for Exchange. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. - Strive for excellence, not perfection.
Open TSM Admin position available in the Jersey City New Jersey Area
FYI We have an opening for an experienced TSM Admin in the Jersey City area in New jersey. Any interested person's can submit a resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our Environment: 7 = TSM Servers (in Troy NY, Scranton PA, and Jersey City NJ) 350 AIX and SUN and 50 NT Clients 300 TB of total managed space Please reply directly to my e-mail and not the listserv.
Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook
oops yes it does sorry Lukasz Dobosz Lukasz.Dobosz@S4To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E.PLcc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/21/02 08:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager But this works: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml Lukasz Dobosz S4E S.A. mobile: +48 609 666 356 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +48 12 296 4545 fax: +48 12 296 4546 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook this link doesn't work Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/20/02 07:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, FYI, the TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook is out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml?Open -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326
Re: NSM Upgrade Experience
I've seen something similar to this. We sometimes have clients that want to run a convert archive and most of the time it's not a problem. We have had instances where the convert has run for 3 days without problems. We had one case where the convert archive and expiration clashed and the db log filled. We were unable to cancel the expiration. It crashed the TSM server. We try not to run too make housekeeping processes at the same time because of this. -Original Message- From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience For us, the lock conflict exhibits itself during expiration, when it hits some corruption in our DB. Systems that have time to run expiration, reclamation and migration without other processes running may never see the symptoms. So I have been told. -Original Message- From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:53 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Cc: Jolliff, Dale Subject: RE: NSM Upgrade Experience Ooops... we just advised a customer to install 4.2.2.5 --- for SumTab fix, didn't know there is a (yet) new bug for expiration (introduced by 4.2.2.4???) Are you sure that 4.2.2.6 is needed for EXPIRE INVENTORY to work, again ?!? (There is nothing about expiration in the .4 or .5 APAR abstracts... Were you/they referring to the conflict lock issue? Geesh, .5 just came out...sigh:() Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience I got my 5100-02 patch when someone at 800-IBM-SERV was playing phone tag between myself and the CE when he was out investigating our PMH on duplicate IP addresses. I was told by level 2 this afternoon to avoid expiration on 4.2.2.4 until 4.2.2.6 is available Real Soon Now. -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2. We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 requires an AIX load from 4mm tape. We got a bad 4mm tape. You know, WORN technology (Write Once, Read Never). About 10% of the way into the upgrade to AIX 5 we couldn't read the tape. Tried and tried and tried. But it was bad. We had to recover from the MKSYSB we did that morning. That's why we take MKSYSB's. The second time we tried the EC script failed because \dbaa1dk31\db has on HDISK2. Huh? How did that happen. It turned out that when the recover was done from the MKSYSB all the HDISKS were renumbered by AIX. It took us a couple days with Level II support to get that straightened around. Took Level II about 4 hours dialed in running AIX commands to re-do things and put \dbaa1dk31\db back on HDISK31. We have scheduled our third attempt at EC017 for Sunday, June 30. I've also been told by Level II that anyone preparing to install EC017 should open a PMR prior to the upgrade so support can track the activity. I was also told that not very many NSM sites have done this upgrade, so many will be out of support. And what's this about OS patch 5100-02. Where do I get it and where do I find these kinds of patches? Is there some piece of documentation I've missed or did I just not catch something? Good luck to all!!! John G. Talafous Information Systems Technical Principal Global Software Support - Data Management telephone: (330)-471-3390 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/ http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/
Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook
no it doesnt Lukasz Dobosz Lukasz.Dobosz@S4To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E.PLcc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/21/02 08:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager But this works: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml Lukasz Dobosz S4E S.A. mobile: +48 609 666 356 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +48 12 296 4545 fax: +48 12 296 4546 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook this link doesn't work Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 06/20/02 07:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, FYI, the TSM 5.1 Technical Guide Redbook is out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246554.h tml?Open -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (415) 215-0326
Re: solved my case... RE: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ?
glad you fixed it,... Hoa. -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: solved my case... RE: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ? Well, just got off the phone with IBM. they had me doing all sorts of queries looking for DR plans to delte but absolutely nothing was there UNTIL I did a q machine and another guys desk top AIX box was listed... I did a delete machine blah and now I'm no longer using DRM ! Just thought I'd pass this along... Dwight -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ? Dwight, if you find out, would you please pass on the info? We don't need DRM anymore, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it, either. -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to flush DRM references, anybody know ? I've already opened a problem with Tivoli but anyone know how to flush all references to DRM ? At one point in time in an attempt to issue a q pr the q was left off and the pr initiated a prepare. Now my server shows I'm using DRM ! In the past I just stuck on the license so it would report valid BUT I just upgraded to 4.2.0.0, then 4.2.2.0 and the drm.lic file doesn't exist ! ! ! and my server reports license as FAILED so I'm looking for a way to flush all internal references to DRM ! anyone know ? Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109
Table Relationship
Anything out there that talks about the table relationships in TSM? I'm looking for something that will make it a little easier to generate a pretty picture/chart/graph out of the way policy/domain/managementclass/storagepools relate.
Re: I lost my slot!
On our tape library, we can dedicate one slot for a cleaning tape. It is an option on the tape library. Secondly, on Unix, I can inventory the library to see how many slots show from the library to the OS. Can you execute an NT command (not tsm) to show the library inventory? This will help decide whether it is a library issue or a TSM issue. Coats, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/21/2002 07:58:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joseph Pendergast/Corona/Watson) Subject: I lost my slot! TSM 4.1.3 on NT 4 with at IBM 3483 (ADIC scalar 100) LTO tape library. We used to see 18 slots in our tape library, now we only see 17 (and that is all we can use now). The library itself seems to be OK, and things are still working, but missing one slot in our library can be a big deal some days. We have rebooted (powered down and brought back from totally off, both the library and the TSM server), and had TSM audit the library. All seems OK except we are missing a slot in the library (in an 18 slot library missing one is over 5%). Any suggestions on how to 'get it back'? ... TIA ... Jack
Re: Filespaces, rebinding and scripts.
It is my understanding that only files the existing on the client (active) can rebind. The deleted files (inactive) are not updated by the client and not rebound. They are trapped till they expire. I was instructed to restore the files, back them up, and delete them again in order to rebind them to the the new management class rules. My situation was more about the storage pools that the files resided in, and not the expiration of the files. Obviously restoring, and deleting the files will reset the expiration clock, and thus your problem may not be resolved. Ochs, Duane [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/21/2002 06:16:28 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joseph Pendergast/Corona/Watson) Subject: Filespaces, rebinding and scripts. I am using TSM Server 4.1.1 on Aix 4.3.3. NT client version 4.1.3 MC_current is defined as versions exists 21, versions deleted 21, retain extra 21, retain only 90 and set as the default management class. NODE1 does not have an include so it defaults to MC_current My retention requirements have changed due to some legal issues and I plan on creating MC_new and placing it in the opt file for this node and restarting the scheduler service. As a test, I did this on a node. After a successful backup was run, I made a change to MC_current to ver delete 0, retain only 0 and ran an expiration and a number of files were expired from my tapes for this test node, that I assumed would have rebound to MC_new. From the client after the backup following the change: Total files scanned:231,670 Total files rebound:374,251 From the Server using audit occupancy before the backup: Total files NODE1 978,249 From the Server after the expiration: Total files for NODE1 437,875 My Questions: The next time a backup executes, after the include is added, do both active and inactive files rebind to MC_new or just the active ? Is there a way to do either a query or execute a script that lists the files for a client and the Management Class they are bound to on the TSM server ? Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375
TSM v4.2.2.5 to v5.1.0.0 upgrade failed (AIX) - resolution
I now have an answer from Level 2 - it's a known problem and requires a database audit to resolve. This is an 86% utilized 100 GB database and should run two, if not three days (I hope!). Again the error message was: ANRD iminit.c(820): ThreadId0 Error 8 converting Group.Members to Backup.Groups. Getting clearance from those affected now and will try to run this over the weekend and upgrade next week. Will post audit stats at the end of the process. Gretchen Thiele Princeton University
Re: Filespaces, rebinding and scripts.
I think it'll rebind extra versions, but I don't think it'll rebind files that had been deleted. You can check by running the command line client and doing a query backup of the filespec you're interested in. It should list the management class of each file. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Filespaces, rebinding and scripts. I am using TSM Server 4.1.1 on Aix 4.3.3. NT client version 4.1.3 MC_current is defined as versions exists 21, versions deleted 21, retain extra 21, retain only 90 and set as the default management class. NODE1 does not have an include so it defaults to MC_current My retention requirements have changed due to some legal issues and I plan on creating MC_new and placing it in the opt file for this node and restarting the scheduler service. As a test, I did this on a node. After a successful backup was run, I made a change to MC_current to ver delete 0, retain only 0 and ran an expiration and a number of files were expired from my tapes for this test node, that I assumed would have rebound to MC_new. From the client after the backup following the change: Total files scanned:231,670 Total files rebound:374,251 From the Server using audit occupancy before the backup: Total files NODE1 978,249 From the Server after the expiration: Total files for NODE1 437,875 My Questions: The next time a backup executes, after the include is added, do both active and inactive files rebind to MC_new or just the active ? Is there a way to do either a query or execute a script that lists the files for a client and the Management Class they are bound to on the TSM server ? Duane Ochs Systems Administration Quad/Graphics Inc. 414.566.2375
Re: NSM Upgrade Experience
Thanks, Dale... That sounds okay... the conflict lock APAR appeared at 4.2.2.0 -- so there's no greater exposure (to it) by installing 4.2.2.5 -- another nail to persuade customers to serialize their expiration-migration-reclamation schedules... actually convinced a couple to run reclamation only on weekends, after approp. tweaking the storage pools. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience For us, the lock conflict exhibits itself during expiration, when it hits some corruption in our DB. Systems that have time to run expiration, reclamation and migration without other processes running may never see the symptoms. So I have been told. -Original Message- From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:53 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Cc: Jolliff, Dale Subject: RE: NSM Upgrade Experience Ooops... we just advised a customer to install 4.2.2.5 --- for SumTab fix, didn't know there is a (yet) new bug for expiration (introduced by 4.2.2.4???) Are you sure that 4.2.2.6 is needed for EXPIRE INVENTORY to work, again ?!? (There is nothing about expiration in the .4 or .5 APAR abstracts... Were you/they referring to the conflict lock issue? Geesh, .5 just came out...sigh:() Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jolliff, Dale Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience I got my 5100-02 patch when someone at 800-IBM-SERV was playing phone tag between myself and the CE when he was out investigating our PMH on duplicate IP addresses. I was told by level 2 this afternoon to avoid expiration on 4.2.2.4 until 4.2.2.6 is available Real Soon Now. -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2. We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 requires an AIX load from 4mm tape. We got a bad 4mm tape. You know, WORN technology (Write Once, Read Never). About 10% of the way into the upgrade to AIX 5 we couldn't read the tape. Tried and tried and tried. But it was bad. We had to recover from the MKSYSB we did that morning. That's why we take MKSYSB's. The second time we tried the EC script failed because \dbaa1dk31\db has on HDISK2. Huh? How did that happen. It turned out that when the recover was done from the MKSYSB all the HDISKS were renumbered by AIX. It took us a couple days with Level II support to get that straightened around. Took Level II about 4 hours dialed in running AIX commands to re-do things and put \dbaa1dk31\db back on HDISK31. We have scheduled our third attempt at EC017 for Sunday, June 30. I've also been told by Level II that anyone preparing to install EC017 should open a PMR prior to the upgrade so support can track the activity. I was also told that not very many NSM sites have done this upgrade, so many will be out of support. And what's this about OS patch 5100-02. Where do I get it and where do I find these kinds of patches? Is there some piece of documentation I've missed or did I just not catch something? Good luck to all!!! John G. Talafous Information Systems Technical Principal Global Software Support - Data Management telephone: (330)-471-3390 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/ http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/
Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e?
Server Software question along with SAN Clients. Tivoli says they have to match at the same level. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Consiglio, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e? Paul, Is this question based on the upgrade to the Server software or the client backup/restore software. -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release? After seeing all the pain everyone is experiencing going from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1. I thought I would ask this question to see what everyone is doing. We intend to create an entire environment to test the upgrade with and then actually perform it. What is everyone else doing? What is your server platform? How are you handling the SAN client incompatibility issues? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
Re: TDP for Exchange
Guys, try this... Setup an environment variable called, say, BTYPE (use SET and SETX [NTRESKIT] to set the flag intra-session) Before each Incremental Backup check this var and run a full backup if it is FULL Before each Incremental Backup set this to FULL Call the backup as an external .cmd (this gives you control) If the backup fails, then errorlevel will be 0 so don't reset the flag... If the backup succeeds, then errorlevel will be = 0 so reset the flag to, say, INCR I have not got time to write and test the code, but the principle is all there. All the best Tony Morgan Fortis Bank London -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2002 15:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange Is there any way to know this in advance? The Exchange people schedule the full backup once a week and incrementals for all other days. Now the backup failed, so if we can find out in advance whether a full backup is required we can start a full automatically instead of the incremental. Do you know a way to do this in a script or batchfile or something? Again, thank you for your answer! Eric, I am guessing you could run some sort of script that would parse the output and recognize the particular error that is displayed in this situtation, something like this: Unable to perform an incremental backup because a required Microsoft Exchange database log file could not be found. and redrive the full backup if it is detected. There is currently nothing built in to TDP for Exchange. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. - Strive for excellence, not perfection. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. The content of this e-mail may have been changed without the consent of the originator. The information supplied must be viewed in this context. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify our Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 20-7444-8444. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
retain extra versions question!!
If my co looks as follows: Policy Policy Mgmt Copy VersionsVersions Retain Retain Domain Set Name ClassGroupDataData Extra Only Name Name Name Exists Deleted VersionsVersion ---- --- BKUP14D ACTIVE BKUP14M STANDARD 14 2 No Limit180 will retainextra versions set to no limit mean files will never expire??? Any help would be great Joe
Re: Small files V's Large files
You might consider (a) image backup (in concert with incremental), (b) journaled incremental or -INCRBYDATE during the week (in concert with image and/or full progressive-incremental on the weekend). Some folks like doing monthly image (on a weekend) for mission critical file servers, then daily journaled-incremental and weekly full-progressive-incremental. You should get 5-10 GB/Hr on large file sever with lots of files; I've done 12 GB/Hr on a benchmark-configured system (that was on NT, before Win2K -- which some report should be faster)... the key issues are (a) TSM server speed in handling large quantities of files -- set your aggregate larger (they recently increased max. transaction size to 2 GB), and (b) file server capability in processing thru its directories (Unix is generally faster than Win2K), limiting each file system to under 1 million files/directories (and under 200 GB total size) helps... smaller becomes faster. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dallas Gill Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Small files V's Large files Can anybody share with me the secret to getting good performance with small files like I get with I big files, I know that I will not get the same performance but I would like to think that I would be getting at least half the throughput that I get with large files. I am getting approx 1GB per minute for large files (20MB and bigger) and about 1GB per 10min for small files. Can anyone help. Thanks Dallas
problems Query Client Events
I have problems when trying to execute a Query Client Events.
The error messages are the following ones.
19/06/02 11:34:02 ANR2958E SQL temporary table storage has been
exhausted.
19/06/02 11:34:02 ANRD hthtml.c(2837): Error 2 received from
idOpQueryParms.
19/06/02 11:34:02 ANR2032E HTML: Command failed - internal server error
detected.
Server Error
Interface error encountered in the Hypertext Engine (hthtml.c,2837).
ANR2032E HTML: Command failed - internal server error detected.
Query database
tsm: BSMTSM04q db f=d
Available Space (MB): 2.500
Assigned Capacity (MB): 2.500
Maximum Extension (MB): 0
Maximum Reduction (MB): 0
Page Size (bytes): 4.096
Total Usable Pages: 640.000
Used Pages: 218.454
Pct Util: 34,1
Max. Pct Util: 34,1
Physical Volumes: 5
Buffer Pool Pages: 512
Total Buffer Requests: 49.646
Cache Hit Pct.: 95,50
Cache Wait Pct.: 0,00
Backup in Progress?: No
Type of Backup In Progress:
Incrementals Since Last Full: 0
Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 83,78
Percentage Changed: 9,82
Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 18/06/02 16:35:29
Query log
tsm: BSMTSM04q log f=d
Available Space (MB): 840
Assigned Capacity (MB): 840
Maximum Extension (MB): 0
Maximum Reduction (MB): 832
Page Size (bytes): 4.096
Total Usable Pages: 214.528
Used Pages: 290
Pct Util: 0,1
Max. Pct Util: 0,2
Physical Volumes: 3
Log Pool Pages: 128
Log Pool Pct. Util: 0,81
Log Pool Pct. Wait: 0,00
Cumulative Consumption (MB): 39.051,00
Consumption Reset Date/Time: 13/06/01 18:21:23
Filesytem the server
{BSMTSM04:/}% df -k
Filesystem1024-blocks Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd465536 23528 65% 417713% /
/dev/hd2 4128768864216 80%65564 7% /usr
/dev/hd9var 32768 27576 16% 241 3% /var
/dev/hd332768 29020 12% 39 1% /tmp
/dev/hd132768 316244% 48 1% /home
/dev/lv0117629184 0 100% 26 1% /tsmdata1
/dev/lv0014548992 0 100% 24 1% /tsmdata
/dev/lv0312025856 0 100% 23 1% /tsmdata2
/dev/lv02 3014656 1764 100% 24 1% /tsmdb
Does the problem pretend to be in the temporary tables, How can I liberate
this space?
your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Carlos R. Bravo Arredondo
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Re: retain extra versions question!!
Based on what your msg shows -- ve=14, vd=1, re=nolimit, ro=180... the most recent 14 versions (ve=14) of a file that exists on the client will be kept for nolimit number of days (after each run of expiration). When the file is deleted on the client, the next full-incremental will mark all but the last 1 (vd=1) for deletion, the last 1 will be kept for ro=180 days. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: retain extra versions question!! If my co looks as follows: Policy Policy Mgmt Copy VersionsVersions Retain Retain Domain Set Name ClassGroupDataData Extra Only Name Name Name Exists Deleted VersionsVersion ---- --- BKUP14D ACTIVE BKUP14M STANDARD 14 2 No Limit180 will retainextra versions set to no limit mean files will never expire??? Any help would be great Joe
Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e?
I was talking to a Tivoli Level 2 person and got a bit of good news on this - TSM has maintenance levels of a.b.c.d as we all know (for example 4.2.2.5). When changing server levels, the first 3 numbers of the TSM Server level have to match the San Storage Agents when applying maintenance. The last level (the fixtest level) does NOT have to be the same. For example, a 4.2.2.5 TSM server is compatible with a 4.2.2.0 San Storage Agent. Of course, this doesn't help anyone going from 4.2.2.4 to 5.1.1.0. In this case, all San Storage Agents and TSM servers code levels have to updated at the same time. At 05:39 PM 6/21/2002 -0400, you wrote: Server Software question along with SAN Clients. Tivoli says they have to match at the same level. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Consiglio, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next releas e? Paul, Is this question based on the upgrade to the Server software or the client backup/restore software. -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Do you lob it on or do you fully test before that next release? After seeing all the pain everyone is experiencing going from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1. I thought I would ask this question to see what everyone is doing. We intend to create an entire environment to test the upgrade with and then actually perform it. What is everyone else doing? What is your server platform? How are you handling the SAN client incompatibility issues? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 Money is not the root of all evil - full backups are.
