Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

[Roger Deschner]

Oooh! This gives me the heebie-jeebies! I think you really need to sit
down and think about whether you want to pursue this strategy at all. It
just sounds very dangerous, with a downside risk that you might not even
be warned when data is destroyed. These are too many risks to take with
other people's data.

I'm planning this kind of split as well, for database performance
reasons. However, I'm going to start with an empty database on Server B,
switch each node that I want to move so its dsm.opt points at Server B,
let it make a new full backup, and then delete it from Server A after
the expiration of the inactive retention period. This removes all doubt
about the integrity of the scratch pool and whether or not collocation
actually worked. It's a much longer process, and a fair amount more
work, but I'll be able to sleep at night.

And, starting with an empty database will have the side benefit of
better server performance for Server B, compared to a full database from
which half the stuff has been deleted. (Which will be the condition of
Server A's database under any plan.)

Take this seriously - an avoidable blunder that wipes out a bunch of
people's data at once would not be a good career move.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Cook, Dwight E wrote:

>Whew, being mighty bold but you ~might~ be able to get it to work...
>I'd do everything with the library NOT available to the system, this MIGHT
>allow you to clean out references to volumes not used on each system without
>causing them to roll scratch.
>Even if you do this you will still need to go in and alter the category of
>the tapes bind private volumes to the new private category of which ever
>server you set new categories for (be it the new one or the old one)
>That is, say your existing server is using 300 & 301 for private and scratch
>categories... your new/other server, you will need to alter the private &
>scratch categories to somethings new like 400 & 401
>for that you can use something like
>mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -C -VABC123 -s012C -t0190
>AND remember, just because you have collocation on doesn't mean the data is
>fully isolated ! ! !
>You still might have data from one node out on a tape with data from another
>node.
>
>About the only way you could test this would be to restore the DB to a test
>server, delete all the data from one of your sets of nodes, then note all
>remaining private volumes (make sure this box doesn't have access to the
>library, and to be safe, I'd take it off the network while testing things).
>Then restore the data base again and delete all the data from the other set
>of nodes, then note all remaining private volumes.
>If those two sets were totally unique, then your process (I believe) would
>work.
>If you had ANY overlap in your sets of private volumes, you couldn't perform
>your task...
>you would have to do a move data against that volume to try to split
>out the data on it and start over with your check.
>Logically, your process ~should~ work IF all data is really collocated but
>you will have to be very careful...
>
>Dwight
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Scott McCambly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:27 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing
>
>
>Hello fellow TSMers,
>
>We have a fairly large TSM server that we are planning to partition into 2
>servers. In other words, add a second server and split the client nodes
>across the two.
>
>The hardware environment is two AIX TSM servers, both fibre attached to a
>10 drive 3494 ATL.
>
>What I am proposing to do (and looking for input) is as follows:
>
>1) Restore a copy of TSM server-A's database to the new TSM server-B
>2) Reconfigure the library and drive configuration on TSM server-B to be a
>library client to the shared library manager server-A.
>3) Identify the nodes that are to be associated with each server.
>4) Identify the volumes associated with the nodes for each server (Storage
>pools are currently fully collocated by node).
>5) Run update libvol to change the owner on the appropriate tapes to be
>owned by server-B.
>6) Delete the filespace and node definitions for the nodes NOT associated
>with each server.
>7) Reconfigure half the nodes to point to the new server-B.
>8) Pat myself on the back and take the rest of the day off :-)
>
>It seems too simple  Has anyone done this before? (hard to type with my
>fingers crossed)
>
>The big question of course is: what happens to volume ABC123 on server-A
>when the filespaces are deleted and the volume empties, gets deleted from
>the storage pool, and returned to scratch? Server-B still thinks there is
>data on that tape and this proposed solution would only work if he was
>allowed to request a mount and read that volume.
>
>Any and all feedback is appreciated!
>
>Scott
>Scott McCambly
>AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, C

Re: tape mount priority

[Seay, Paul]

This is the response we just got from Development on this question:

2) When the TSM Server is performing various processes, there is a priority
for the mount point requests as to what will take precedence. The Tivoli
Storage Manager for AIX Administrator 's Guide lists the preemption order
that the TSM server would follow in Chapter 16: Managing Server Operations -
Mount Point Preemption. Please note that if the NOPREEMEPT parameter is used
for the TSM Server, this will override the normal preemption processing.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tape mount priority


Can anyone help me with what takes priority as it relates to tape drives? If
all are in use for TSM's daily processes what can bump them? If all are in
use for a backup session what can bump them? Is this posted anywhere?

Thanks,
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

[Seay, Paul]

If you are using 2 different NICs on the same physical server or two
physically different servers you can define your machine to the 3494 twice.
In this way, I would think the owner thing would be not required.  Just
CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME REMOVE=NO the ones from server A.  Do a checkout
libvolume of all on server B and then check them in STATUS=PRIVATE with a
new set of category codes.  You will need to have new category codes for the
new server.  What happens is the tapes that are not in the library are
ignored and will get marked "UNAVAILABLE" if they are attempted to be
mounted.  But what I would do in each server first thing is mark the tapes
belonging to the other server as "UNAVAILBLE" right off the bat with an
UPDATE VOLUME vv ACCESS=UNAVAILABLE any that are in a READONLY or
READWRITE state so they will not muck with each other's tapes.  OFFSITES are
not a problem at this time because they cannot be mounted anyway.

This is going to be tricky.  And, unless I actually tested it I would be
nervous there is something I did not consider.  Especially, the fact that
SERVER B is going to try to do stuff to the tapes immediately upon bringup.
But, this can probably be avoided if you mark all the tapes UNAVAILABLE
before you take the database backup.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing


Whew, being mighty bold but you ~might~ be able to get it to work... I'd do
everything with the library NOT available to the system, this MIGHT allow
you to clean out references to volumes not used on each system without
causing them to roll scratch. Even if you do this you will still need to go
in and alter the category of the tapes bind private volumes to the new
private category of which ever server you set new categories for (be it the
new one or the old one) That is, say your existing server is using 300 & 301
for private and scratch categories... your new/other server, you will need
to alter the private & scratch categories to somethings new like 400 & 401
for that you can use something like
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -C -VABC123 -s012C -t0190
AND remember, just because you have collocation on doesn't mean the data is
fully isolated ! ! ! You still might have data from one node out on a tape
with data from another node.

About the only way you could test this would be to restore the DB to a test
server, delete all the data from one of your sets of nodes, then note all
remaining private volumes (make sure this box doesn't have access to the
library, and to be safe, I'd take it off the network while testing things).
Then restore the data base again and delete all the data from the other set
of nodes, then note all remaining private volumes. If those two sets were
totally unique, then your process (I believe) would work. If you had ANY
overlap in your sets of private volumes, you couldn't perform your task...
you would have to do a move data against that volume to try to split
out the data on it and start over with your check. Logically, your process
~should~ work IF all data is really collocated but you will have to be very
careful...

Dwight



-Original Message-
From: Scott McCambly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing


Hello fellow TSMers,

We have a fairly large TSM server that we are planning to partition into 2
servers. In other words, add a second server and split the client nodes
across the two.

The hardware environment is two AIX TSM servers, both fibre attached to a 10
drive 3494 ATL.

What I am proposing to do (and looking for input) is as follows:

1) Restore a copy of TSM server-A's database to the new TSM server-B
2) Reconfigure the library and drive configuration on TSM server-B to be a
library client to the shared library manager server-A.
3) Identify the nodes that are to be associated with each server.
4) Identify the volumes associated with the nodes for each server (Storage
pools are currently fully collocated by node).
5) Run update libvol to change the owner on the appropriate tapes to be
owned by server-B.
6) Delete the filespace and node definitions for the nodes NOT associated
with each server.
7) Reconfigure half the nodes to point to the new server-B.
8) Pat myself on the back and take the rest of the day off :-)

It seems too simple  Has anyone done this before? (hard to type with my
fingers crossed)

The big question of course is: what happens to volume ABC123 on server-A
when the filespaces are deleted and the volume empties, gets deleted from
the storage pool, and returned to scratch? Server-B still thinks there is
data on that tape and this proposed solution would only work if he was
allowed to request a mount and read that volume.

Any and all

Re: TDP R/3

[Seay, Paul]

I believe the Tivoli Recommendation is Collocation of NO because you lose
the ability to multi-thread.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDP R/3


Should these tape pools have "collocation NO"? I see these 8 sessions all
waiting for the same tape and I wonder if this is one of my problems with
the SAP backups taking so long.

  Sess Number: 146,103
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: IdleW
Wait Time: 6.2 M
   Bytes Sent: 205.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 6.2 G
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Current output volume: U01578.
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,104
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: IdleW
Wait Time: 6.2 M
   Bytes Sent: 129.6 K
  Bytes Recvd: 3.9 G
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status:
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,105
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,106
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,107
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,108
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,109
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,110
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14


Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: Tape questions

[Seay, Paul]

Did you do a DELETE VOLUME vv DISCARDDATA=YES?  If so, the data is gone.

You should be able to perform a RESTORE STGPOOL command, otherwise, and it
will get the data from the copy pool.

The correct way to recover the data on a destroyed primary volume is to
issue:

RESTORE VOLUME vv

This will mark the volume destroyed and restore the data from the copy pool.
You are set.

For a copy pool volume that gets destroyed you just delete it:

DELETE VOLUME vv DISCARDDATA=YES

And, run a backup storage pool command again to copy the data from the
primary pool to the copy pool again.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Rob Hefty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape questions


Hello,

We recently removed a  damaged 3584 library tape from our primary tape pool.
We were unable to complete the move data command and the data was
unavailable.  We removed the tape and deleted it from the database.  Luckily
we still have the copy pool tape.  What if we need to do a restore from this
dataset, does TSM know to ask for the copy pool instead of the primary?

Thanks,
Rob Hefty
IS Operations
Lab Safety Supply

Re: How to code a select?

[Greg Garrison]

Jack...

Is this what you're looking for?

select a.library_name, b.volume_name, b.status, b.stgpool_name,
b.pct_utilized from libvolumes a, volumes b where a.volume_name =
b.volume_name

Greg A. Garrison
Account Storage Manager
IBM Global Services, Service Delivery Center - West
9022 S. Rita Road, Rm 2785, Tucson, AZ 85744
Phone (520) 799-5429  Internal 321-5429
Pager 800-946-4646 PIN 6034139
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  "Coats, Jack"
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  Manager"





I am trying to come up with a select I could code that will give the
results similar to a "q libv" command.

Eventually I want to get it to indicate

   volume   volume  storage percent
Libraryname status   pool   utilized

This is really a combination of "q vol" and "q libv"

Any help would be appreciated. ... Jack

Re: How to code a select?

[Prather, Wanda]

Hm...
Are you trying to get just a list of the library volumes, or
Do you want to include the case where a volume is exists, but is not in the
library?


-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to code a select?


I am trying to come up with a select I could code that will give the
results similar to a "q libv" command.

Eventually I want to get it to indicate

   volume   volume  storage percent
Libraryname status   pool   utilized

This is really a combination of "q vol" and "q libv"

Any help would be appreciated. ... Jack

Re: Tape questions

[Don France]

Yes, but

You may want to ensure the copy pool version gets restored before you need
it;  "restore volume" is designed with this in mind -- refer to the admin
guide or reference, as it's dependent on the database info to find the copy
pool data.

If you truly wiped out all references to the data, the copypool references
might have (also) been deleted -- depends on how you deleted the volume's
data.  If you need old versions of data stored on that tape, you may need to
restore the TSM db to a point in time where it contains the copy pool info,
then do the "restore vol" (possibly, run 2nd TSM instance on current
server).

Alternatively, it may be simpler/easier to regenerate the data from the next
backup cycle --- or start backups now, to expedite backup of current
versions for the data that got "destroyed".


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Rob Hefty
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape questions


Hello,

We recently removed a  damaged 3584 library tape from our primary tape pool.
We were unable to complete the move data command and the data was
unavailable.  We removed the tape and deleted it from the database.  Luckily
we still have the copy pool tape.  What if we need to do a restore from this
dataset, does TSM know to ask for the copy pool instead of the primary?

Thanks,
Rob Hefty
IS Operations
Lab Safety Supply

Dr. Watson Error in drive C:\

[Christian Astuni]

Hi ... I have a client with TSM Client 4.2 Level 1.20 under NT 4 sp6a. And
when I want to perform an archive backup of drive C:\ the backup crash with
Dr. Watson error as this dsmcsvc.exe Exception: access violation
(0xc005), Address: 0x0047b3b2 and in the dsmsched.log and dsierror.log
there are empty without errors.
But when run a incremental backup i dont have problems.

Can anyone help me ???
Thanks very much.

Can anyone help me ???
Thanks very much.
Regards

Christian Astuni

tape mount priority

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

Can anyone help me with what takes priority as it relates to tape drives? If
all are in use for TSM's daily processes what can bump them? If all are in
use for a backup session what can bump them? Is this posted anywhere?

Thanks,
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

TDP R/3

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

Should these tape pools have "collocation NO"? I see these 8 sessions all
waiting for the same tape and I wonder if this is one of my problems with
the SAP backups taking so long.

  Sess Number: 146,103
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: IdleW
Wait Time: 6.2 M
   Bytes Sent: 205.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 6.2 G
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Current output volume: U01578.
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,104
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: IdleW
Wait Time: 6.2 M
   Bytes Sent: 129.6 K
  Bytes Recvd: 3.9 G
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status:
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,105
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,106
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,107
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,108
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,109
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14

  Sess Number: 146,110
 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip
   Sess State: MediaW
Wait Time: 21.7 M
   Bytes Sent: 2.0 K
  Bytes Recvd: 424
Sess Type: Node
 Platform: TDP R3 Digital
  Client Name: XBMS
  Media Access Status: Waiting for access to output volume U01578 (1304
seconds).
User Name:
Date/Time First Data Sent: 07/22/02 11:21:14


Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: query what you've set with "set" command

[Cook, Dwight E]

HA !
I didn't remember the "query system" command so I gave it a run on my test
environment and after a while got

**
*** ---> select stgpool_name,devclass_name,count(*) as "VOLUMES" from
volumes
group by stgpool_name,devclass_name
**

ANR2958E SQL temporary table storage has been exhausted.

more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

 |
 V..
 select stgpool_name,devclass_name,count(*) as "VOLUMES" from vo

so much for ever counting on using this !

Dwight



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Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:21 AM
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Michelle

query status   ORquery system

Bill Dourado






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How do you query what has been set with a "set"
command?  In particular I'd like to know what
LICENSEAUDITPERIOD is set at.

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Re: How to code a select?

[Coats, Jack]

Great... I appreciate it! ... not knowing sql well makes doing
some of these kind of things a steep learning curve. ... Jack

Re: Tape questions

[Mark D. Rodriguez]

Rob Hefty wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We recently removed a  damaged 3584 library tape from our primary tape pool.
>We were unable to complete the move data command and the data was
>unavailable.  We removed the tape and deleted it from the database.  Luckily
>we still have the copy pool tape.  What if we need to do a restore from this
>dataset, does TSM know to ask for the copy pool instead of the primary?
>
>Thanks,
>Rob Hefty
>IS Operations
>Lab Safety Supply
>
>
Rob,

The answer is YES, if you try to do a restore/retrieve of data that was
on that tape it will get it from the copypool volume if that volume is
available, i,e, not offsite.  However, that is nice and will work but I
would rather be proactive (how do you like that word, managers just
loveit!!) and do a "restore volume" and bring the data back right a way.
 Also, this will insure your protection of the data since it will now be
on 2 tapes again.  If your copypool vol;umes are offsite, then you can
run the restore with "preview=yes" to get a list of tapes you will need
to bring on site.

I hope that helps.

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President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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RH Linux 7.3

[John Bremer]

*SMers,

Anyone out there tried our TSM 5.1.1 Linux client on the latest RedHat
release (with success)?  We are getting an install error:

rpmdb: Item 212 on page 1116 hashes incorrectly
error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database
verification failed

then DSMC fails with invalid statement in dsm.sys file (which is not invalid).

Thanks.  John

Re: How to code a select?

[Coats, Jack]

I am trying to know more about what is in my library.
I have a small (18 tape) library with 2 drives and it
is easily overloaded, so this will help me do some
day to day monitoring.

-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to code a select?


Hm...
Are you trying to get just a list of the library volumes, or
Do you want to include the case where a volume is exists, but is not in the
library?


-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to code a select?


I am trying to come up with a select I could code that will give the
results similar to a "q libv" command.

Eventually I want to get it to indicate

   volume   volume  storage percent
Libraryname status   pool   utilized

This is really a combination of "q vol" and "q libv"

Any help would be appreciated. ... Jack

Re: command file execution

[Don France]

Joe,

Are you using Win2K's RSM (rather than TSM driver) for library manager?
(How did you "connect" the BackupExec service to TSM library manager?)

The output from the show session looks strange -- it indicates the last
event was restore, and that it ended, but Platform ID should be WinNT;
rather it looks like (maybe) the service-id?

Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
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
Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL)
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: command file execution


Don,

I agree with all that you state below... and that is how I thought it worked
as well.
Here's what's really happening in my case though.
I execute a command schedule to recycle Backup Exec services on NT servers
(we use Backup Exec to backup 100s of Exchange servers to TSM).  We have
Backup Exec set up to use TSM as its robotic library
(virtual device).  Once the Backup Exec services come back up, Backup Exec
creates a session with TSM to "confirm" the robotic library that it's
connecting to.  This connection hangs out on the TSM
server until the idletimout parm in TSM kicks it out.

NOTE:  Backup Exec is a Veritas backup product that we use to backup only
Exchange data.

Below is the output of a show session command of 1 of the sessions that I'm
referring to.

THE QUESTION: Does "Last Verb ( EndTxn ), Last Verb State ( Sent )" mean
that TSM sent a message back to the client to end the session?  Is this a
problem with my Veritas Backup Exec software?  Why
does this session stay in the system?

Session 24806:Type=Node,   Id=LA4701S001BE
   Platform=LA4701S001, NodeId=119, Owner=LA4701S001
   SessType=4, Index=1, TermReason=0
   RecvWaitTime=0.000  (samples=0)
   Backup  Objects ( bytes )  Inserted: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Backup  Objects ( bytes )  Restored: 1 ( 0.1035 )
   Archive Objects ( bytes )  Inserted: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Archive Objects ( bytes ) Retrieved: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Last Verb ( EndTxn ), Last Verb State ( Sent )

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Joe


-Original Message-
From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 3:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: command file execution


The command file is launched, that's all;  there is no "connection" to
break, per se -- all that happens is the "dsmc schedule" daemon gets the
command (from the server's schedule arguments, of course), closes the
session (if prompted scheduling is used) and executes the command.   (The
client already has the command args, in polling-type schedules, so there
would be no session at all, unless/until the command script initiates a dsmc
command.)

The connection between server and client for launching a command file ends
as soon as the data gets passed to the client-scheduler daemon... BEFORE the
command file even runs (essentially).  To see this in action, match the
actlog entries with the dsmsched.log info;  unless you are using
server-prompted scheduling, there is no session/connection between TSM
client & TSM server until/unless the command script contains a
session-creating command (like dsmc).

Most folks will likely have a "dsmc args" (or similar) in the command file,
which creates a session with TSM server to run whatever the args say.  Upon
completion of dsmc command, that completion terminates associated sessions.

Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
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
Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL)
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: command file execution


An easy one...

When initiating the execution of a command file from the server to the
client via schedule (the command file resides on client), what breaks the
connection between the server and the client after the
command file completes execution?  Is it the Idletimeout parm?  Is there
another way to break the connection after the cmd sched executes?

Regards, Joe

Re: Region size for TSM

[William F. Colwell]

Matt, I had a similar problem and called support; level 2 explained
why region=0M is bad.  TSM takes the JCL region size and getmains
a small fraction of that to use for a cellpool.  The object of the cellpool
is to avoid doing getmains and freemains.  When it sees 0M a
too small default cellpool gets built.  I changed my JCL from 0M to
1280M and the problem went away.

When you see your server take all the CPU and stay there, it has
probably run out of cellpool space and started doing getmains.
I suspect there is a bug since cancelling processes doesn't always
make the server return to its normal low CPU state, but I haven't pressed
for a fix since changing the JCL avoids the problem.

Hope this helps,

Bill

At 07:57 AM 7/17/2002, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>I am looking at the TSM 5.1 Quick Start book for Os/390 + z/OS.  In
>chapter 2 there is a section  'REGION SIZE FOR YOUR TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER
>SERVER.  The section goes through a process for determining the best region
>size to assign to TSM.  The last sentence says,  'Specifying 0M will result
>in poor server performance.'WHY?
>I am dealing with a long outstanding, not solved problem.  I have my
>region size up at 1000M.  (I am using a 9672-x57 that has about 7GB of
>memory on the lparand a TSM server with a 25GB DB and 230 clients).   The
>problem is TSM will 1 or 2 times a week  start using all of 1 processor to
>do some simple work, like run 5 migration processes.   I will take TSM down
>and up.  It then continues on getting work done faster and using 1/4 of one
>processor.   Does TSM do something with memory assignments internally that
>too large of a REGION causes a problem?
>Matt

--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.

Re: pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1

[Andy Raibeck]

This is the correct behavior starting with the 5.1 client. Have you looked
up message ANS1902E? It explains what you are seeing. Also, check out the
client manual, chapter 7 "Automating Tasks", section "Return Codes from
the Command Line Interface". This information applies to the scheduler as
well.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
07/22/2002 12:48
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1



We noticed after upgradeing the TSM client on NT that those servers with
pre and post sched commands were not backing up. Anyone else experience
this?

DSM.OPT entries:
preschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmprebackup.bat
postschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmpostbackup.bat

ERROR LOG ENTRIES:

07/17/2002 06:55:27 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/17/2002 06:55:27 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event
.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event
.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached.
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Shutdown console
event .
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Shutdown console
event .
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/17/2002 18:16:07 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/17/2002 18:16:07 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:05 fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'C:\WINNT\?'
into the local ANSI codepage, skipping ...
07/17/2002 19:22:05 fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'C:\WINNT\?'
into the local ANSI codepage, skipping ...
07/17/2002 19:22:08 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:11 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:11 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:23 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:54:53 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 364, errno =
10035, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/17/2002 19:54:53 Error reading http request.
07/17/2002 20:01:32 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 400, errno =
10035, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/17/2002 20:01:32 Error reading http request.
07/17/2002 20:23:43 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Ctrl-C console event
.
07/17/2002 20:23:43 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/18/2002 10:57:12 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 364, errno =
10054, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/18/2002 10:57:12 Error reading http request.
07/18/2002 18:07:24 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/18/2002 18:07:24 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/19/2002 18:11:25 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/19/2002 18:11:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/20/2002 18:00:25 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/20/2002 18:00:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/21/2002 18:00:29 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/21/2002 18:00:29 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.

DSMLOG ENTRIES:

07/15/2002 07:00:16 Finished command.  Return code is: -1073741510
07/15/2002 07:00:16 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/15/2002 07:00:16 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/15/2002 07:00:16 Send

How to code a select?

[Coats, Jack]

I am trying to come up with a select I could code that will give the
results similar to a "q libv" command.

Eventually I want to get it to indicate

   volume   volume  storage percent
Libraryname status   pool   utilized

This is really a combination of "q vol" and "q libv"

Any help would be appreciated. ... Jack

Need help on Report/Script

[Vikash Gupta]

Hi All,



I am new to this TSM.



I need to know the daily status of the my TSM backup which includes
schedule name , start/end time, amount of data is being backed up
against each client and may be no of file also.



How do I get this type of report from query ?



Please help.



Vikash Gupta

Office   (408-428-5367)

Cell   (408-772-5557)

Upgrade V3.7.4 to V5.1

[Nick Rutherford]

Hi all,
 does anybody know of any concerns when upgrading the TSM server from 3.7.4
to 5.1. We will also be upgrading multiple AIX & NT clients from 3.1 & 3.7 to
5.1.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated,

Nick Rutherford


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Re: pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1

[Rushforth, Tim]

The first error message below tells you what is happening - the pre command
failed - the schedule is not executed.  This is new with 5.11 - if the
preschedulecmd fails, the schedule doesn't run.

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: July 22, 2002 2:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1

We noticed after upgradeing the TSM client on NT that those servers with
pre and post sched commands were not backing up. Anyone else experience
this?

DSM.OPT entries:
preschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmprebackup.bat
postschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmpostbackup.bat

ERROR LOG ENTRIES:

07/17/2002 06:55:27 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.

Re: Dr. Watson Error in drive C:\

[Rushforth, Tim]

This sounds like it might be APAR IC33023.

If you do an archive to a copy group that does not have a corresponding
backup copy group and the files are opened with an exclusive lock you will
fail with Dr. Watson.

Bypass is to exclude those files that are open, or create a corresponding
backup copy group.

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-Original Message-
From: Christian Astuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: July 22, 2002 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dr. Watson Error in drive C:\

Hi ... I have a client with TSM Client 4.2 Level 1.20 under NT 4 sp6a. And
when I want to perform an archive backup of drive C:\ the backup crash with
Dr. Watson error as this dsmcsvc.exe Exception: access violation
(0xc005), Address: 0x0047b3b2 and in the dsmsched.log and dsierror.log
there are empty without errors.
But when run a incremental backup i dont have problems.

Can anyone help me ???
Thanks very much.

Can anyone help me ???
Thanks very much.
Regards

Christian Astuni

Re: TSM DB design (Was covered at Share in Long Beach, February 2001)

[Doug Thorneycroft]

I don't know if it is available online, but Mike Kaczmarski gave a presentation titled
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Tivoli Storage Manager Database"
at Share in Long Beach February 2001.
(According to the presentation, it's a B-Tree Database.)

Maybe someone with access to the Share presentation files can search the Share site
and see if it's there.

Re: command file execution

[Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)]

Don,

I agree with all that you state below... and that is how I thought it worked as well.
Here's what's really happening in my case though.
I execute a command schedule to recycle Backup Exec services on NT servers (we use 
Backup Exec to backup 100s of Exchange servers to TSM).  We have Backup Exec set up to 
use TSM as its robotic library
(virtual device).  Once the Backup Exec services come back up, Backup Exec creates a 
session with TSM to "confirm" the robotic library that it's connecting to.  This 
connection hangs out on the TSM
server until the idletimout parm in TSM kicks it out.

NOTE:  Backup Exec is a Veritas backup product that we use to backup only Exchange 
data.

Below is the output of a show session command of 1 of the sessions that I'm referring 
to.

THE QUESTION: Does "Last Verb ( EndTxn ), Last Verb State ( Sent )" mean that TSM sent 
a message back to the client to end the session?  Is this a problem with my Veritas 
Backup Exec software?  Why
does this session stay in the system?

Session 24806:Type=Node,   Id=LA4701S001BE
   Platform=LA4701S001, NodeId=119, Owner=LA4701S001
   SessType=4, Index=1, TermReason=0
   RecvWaitTime=0.000  (samples=0)
   Backup  Objects ( bytes )  Inserted: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Backup  Objects ( bytes )  Restored: 1 ( 0.1035 )
   Archive Objects ( bytes )  Inserted: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Archive Objects ( bytes ) Retrieved: 0 ( 0.0 )
   Last Verb ( EndTxn ), Last Verb State ( Sent )

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Joe


-Original Message-
From: Don France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 3:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: command file execution


The command file is launched, that's all;  there is no "connection" to
break, per se -- all that happens is the "dsmc schedule" daemon gets the
command (from the server's schedule arguments, of course), closes the
session (if prompted scheduling is used) and executes the command.   (The
client already has the command args, in polling-type schedules, so there
would be no session at all, unless/until the command script initiates a dsmc
command.)

The connection between server and client for launching a command file ends
as soon as the data gets passed to the client-scheduler daemon... BEFORE the
command file even runs (essentially).  To see this in action, match the
actlog entries with the dsmsched.log info;  unless you are using
server-prompted scheduling, there is no session/connection between TSM
client & TSM server until/unless the command script contains a
session-creating command (like dsmc).

Most folks will likely have a "dsmc args" (or similar) in the command file,
which creates a session with TSM server to run whatever the args say.  Upon
completion of dsmc command, that completion terminates associated sessions.

Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
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
Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL)
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: command file execution


An easy one...

When initiating the execution of a command file from the server to the
client via schedule (the command file resides on client), what breaks the
connection between the server and the client after the
command file completes execution?  Is it the Idletimeout parm?  Is there
another way to break the connection after the cmd sched executes?

Regards, Joe

Re: Can't unload the DB

[Williams, Tim P {PBSG}]

doesn't this process only support manual tape drives/libraries...
I think the sm failing to initialize is an automatic tape library, is it?
we only have/had a 3494 library...and pull the drive out from the back...
define that drive as manual...load the tape by hand from the back side
of the library (again, manual)...
this works..
FYI

-Original Message-
From: Max Kwong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't unload the DB


Hi all,

I need to optimize the TSM db so i unload the db but it failed. I've tried
to audit the db and then unload it again but it also can fix the problem.
Does anyone have a idea to solve this problem. The following is the error
statement of "dsmserv unloaddb devclass=dltclass4 vol=adsm02".



ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 0 database entries (cumulative).
ANR8337I DLT volume ADSM02 mounted in drive MT1.0.0.1 (MT1.0.0.1).
ANR1360I Output volume ADSM02 opened (sequence number 1).
ANR4400I UNLOADDB: Quiescing database update activity.
ANR4401I UNLOADDB: Database update activity is now quiesced.
ANR4029I UNLOADDB: Database checkpoint started.
ANR4030I UNLOADDB: Database checkpoint completed.
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 8620 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 268068 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 311917 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 714030 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 757577 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 1342882 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 1408850 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 2029139 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 2066637 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 2549219 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 2592331 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 3071551 database entries (cumulative).
ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 3115932 database entries (cumulative).
ANRD sminit.c(488): SM Failed to Initialize - Time Out.
ANRD mmsshr.c(307): Timed out waiting for session manager
initialization.
ANR1361I Output volume ADSM02 closed.
ANR8336I Verifying label of DLT volume ADSM02 in drive MT1.0.0.1
(MT1.0.0.1).

==

Best Regards,
Max Kwong

sbtio error 959 and ANS1192E "symbolic link not allowed"

[chris rees]

Hi all

Hoping you can help me out with a problem that is really bugging me...

Trying to backup an Oracle 8.0.5 database using rman. TSM client is 4.1.3,
TSM server is 4.1.5. Everything is running on AIX 4.3.3

No matter what I set in /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin/dsm.sys I always get
the following in the sbtio.log

(15146) OBK-sbt:<07/22/2002:12:09:27> sbtremove(): odsmSess(): ANS1192E
(RC959)
Specifying the error log '' as a symbolic link is not allowed.

I currently have DSMI_LOG and DSM_LOG set to /var/adsm so would expect any
errors to be written to /var/adsm/dsmerror.log.   This file currently does
not exist and is certainly not a symbolic link.   My DSM_CONFIG and DSM_DIR
variables are set correctly.

The actual error from the backup scripts looks like this

RMAN-00569: error message stack follows
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script t_backup_db_full
RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: backup
RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel t1
RMAN-10032: unhandled exception during execution of job step 1: ORA-06512:
at li
ne 126
RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19624: operation failed, retry
possible
ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="df_t467900364_s46_p1",
parms=
""
ORA-27006: sbtremove returned error
IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 959: System call error number 959.

Additional information: 1
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE", line 408
RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to
DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.BACKUPPIECECRE
ATE

RMAN>
RMAN>

Recovery Manager complete.


The MOST annoying thing is that I know I've seen this before somewhere and
can't for the life of me remember the trick to fixing it.

Let me know if there any more info you need.

Cheers

Chris



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Re: TSM DB design (was Re: TSM 5.1 Performance Tuning Guide - Where?)

[Remco Post]

Hi,

On zondag, juli 21, 2002, at 01:50 , Zlatko Krastev/ACIT wrote:

> I was nearly sure I will not convince you but the discussion is going and
> everybody has different point of view and less facts can be omitted. My
> knowledge is limited and I participate in this list just to learn more.

Same here :) Of course, like you, I've never seen any part of the TSM source
code, or found a developer of it who was able or willing to describe exaclty
the type of database underlying TSM. And we're all here to learn from eachother.

> Not all joins take ages - the trick is to know not only the tables but
> also the indexes and use them. On any rdbms without indexes the
> performance is terrible. In DB2, Informix or Oracle we have the ability to
> create new index to help our queries. Unfortunately in TSM we do not have
> this ability and have to use only ones provided to us by Tivoli.

Very true. Still I'm convinced that even with myslq or postgersql or any other
relational database, a join of two tables each with less that 1000 entries
will be much faster that some of the joins in TSM. Of course I've never seen
a mysql database as large as 60 GB, like my TSM db

> I have some queries which improve their speed when you put additional
> equations in where clause which leads to index use instead of exhaustive
> search.

Hmm, intresting. Maybe we should build some documentation on what we have
found tot help, so everybody can profit from your and my knowledge. I've never
experimented with selects in that way.

> I cannot agree with you, IMO object database is not close to TSM DB
> design. Maybe it is time to compare what you mean and what I understand
> when we say "relational database" and "object database".

IMHO (and I may go wrong here, since databases are not my speciality, though
they interst me a lot), a relational database is optimised for calculating
relations between two (or more) tables. An object database is not so much
optimized for calculating relations as much as retrieving and storing data
objects in its table structure. This does not mean that it cannot calculate
relations (it must be able to do so, even the simplest databasse is to some
extend relational) but it's table structures are not optimized to be able
to calculate those relations. In the case of a b-tree this may mean it has
to traverse a b-tree several times for one join, while an true relational
db would only have to traverse the table once.

> OTOH I will not agreee with you also that two decks of cards cannot be
> named relational database. In fact library catalogue is an implementation
> of relational database ages before invention of computers.

You have a point there.

> Unfortunately I am too young and my knowledge of of WDSF/VM is just
> theoretical. I know it is predecessor of ADSM but never worked with it.

Neither have I. I've only been a system programmer for a few years now, fresh
out of school...

> Also I cannot argue when select queries were implemented in ADSM. It might
> be some cut functionality from original code which was brought back by
> customer demand (as it might be added later). I do not know and cannot
> comment.
> On the end you are mentioning something "Kelly was told you". What is it?
> Kelly who (Kelly Lipp?) ? Again I cannot understand what are you talking
> about.
>
Kelly Lipp indeed. I had the pleasure of following his TSM level 2 course
earlier this year.

Unfortunately, we will never be able to figure out the thruth between ourselfs.
  That makes the discussion not less fun, but a bit less intresting. On the
other hand, is it truely important for us to know the details of TSM's internals?
  It's defenately nice to  know... But even if we knew, could we do anything
with that information? The only thing that might help is indeed building faster
select statements, that use either the index or table keys to find the needed
data faster... It's truely anoying to wait tens of minutes for a simple list
of tapes that are about to be reclaimed (as one example) or one of the many
other selects we have come up with (as TSM admins) and seem to perform poorly.

> Zlatko Krastev
> IT Consultant
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Tape questions

[Rob Hefty]

Hello,

We recently removed a  damaged 3584 library tape from our primary tape pool.
We were unable to complete the move data command and the data was
unavailable.  We removed the tape and deleted it from the database.  Luckily
we still have the copy pool tape.  What if we need to do a restore from this
dataset, does TSM know to ask for the copy pool instead of the primary?

Thanks,
Rob Hefty
IS Operations
Lab Safety Supply

pre and post sched on NT TSM 5.1.1

[Lawrence Clark]

We noticed after upgradeing the TSM client on NT that those servers with
pre and post sched commands were not backing up. Anyone else experience
this?

DSM.OPT entries:
preschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmprebackup.bat
postschedulecmd e:\adsmbackup\cinfoadsmpostbackup.bat

ERROR LOG ENTRIES:

07/17/2002 06:55:27 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/17/2002 06:55:27 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event
.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event
.
07/17/2002 06:55:34 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached.
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Shutdown console
event .
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Shutdown console
event .
07/17/2002 06:55:38 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/17/2002 18:16:07 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/17/2002 18:16:07 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 18:48:49 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:05 fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'C:\WINNT\?'
into the local ANSI codepage, skipping ...
07/17/2002 19:22:05 fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'C:\WINNT\?'
into the local ANSI codepage, skipping ...
07/17/2002 19:22:08 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:11 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:11 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:22 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:22:23 The file is being used by another process
07/17/2002 19:54:53 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 364, errno =
10035, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/17/2002 19:54:53 Error reading http request.
07/17/2002 20:01:32 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 400, errno =
10035, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/17/2002 20:01:32 Error reading http request.
07/17/2002 20:23:43 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Ctrl-C console event
.
07/17/2002 20:23:43 ConsoleEventHandler(): Cleaning up and terminating
Process ...
07/18/2002 10:57:12 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 364, errno =
10054, reason : 'Unknown error'.
07/18/2002 10:57:12 Error reading http request.
07/18/2002 18:07:24 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/18/2002 18:07:24 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/19/2002 18:11:25 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/19/2002 18:11:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/20/2002 18:00:25 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/20/2002 18:00:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/21/2002 18:00:29 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/21/2002 18:00:29 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.

DSMLOG ENTRIES:

07/15/2002 07:00:16 Finished command.  Return code is: -1073741510
07/15/2002 07:00:16 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
07/15/2002 07:00:16 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO' failed.
Return code = 12.
07/15/2002 07:00:16 Sending results for scheduled event 'DAILY_CINFO'.
07/15/2002 07:00:16 Node Name: CINFO
07/15/2002 07:00:17 Session established with server BACKUP:
AIX-RS/6000
07/15/2002 07:00:17   Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.1
07/15/2002 07:00:17   Server date/time: 07/15/2002 07:00:16  Last
access: 07/12/2002 06:50:23

07/15/2002 07:00:17 Results sent to server for scheduled event
'DAILY_CINFO'.

07/15/2002 07:00:17 ANS1483I Schedule log pruning started.
07/15/2002 07:00:17 Schedule Log Prune: 4251 lines processed.  4127
lines pruned.
07/15/2002 07:00:17 ANS1484I Schedule log pruning finished
successfully.
07/15/2002 07:00:17 Querying server for next scheduled event.
07/15/2002 07:00:17 Node Name: CINFO
07/15/2002 07:00:17 Session established with server BACKUP:
AIX-RS/6000
07/15/2002 07:00:17   Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.1
07/15/2002 07:00:17   Server date/time: 07/15/2002 07:00:17  Last

LanFree not working with Scheduler

[David Gratton]

This was brought up about a week ago and I didn't see if it was resolved or
notI am having the same problem, my LanFree backup (TSM 5.1.0) will only
work when I invoke the backup through the command line and wont work when
invoked by the scheduler? Any help would be appreciated...


Dave Gratton
IBM Global Services

TSM 4.1.2 upgrade to 5.1.1

[Mills, John]

All,


   I am looking at upgrading my TSM server from:
Version 4, Release 1, Level 2.0

to the latest greatest at 5.1.1.  I've found in-depth
directions for jumping from 4.1 to 4.2 to 5.1, but
I was wondering if there are any major pitfalls I
should have to avoid.

Thanks,

John T. Mills

Occupancy comparison script

[Jolliff, Dale]

I know someone has already invented this wheel...

I need to create a script to compare occupancy of primary sequential pools
to copypools to verify a complete stgpool backup.

Anyone got one handy that won't bring a server to it's knees?

Re: General TSM Q's

[Bratlie, Allen]

Mark,

I am unaware of any formula to figure this out, but in my experience this is
very odd. In some recent testing of Windows 2000 nodes restored from TSM on
MVS I was able to restore 1.9 Million files (45GB) in 18 Hours over 100 Mb
Ethernet. Usually when I have seen restore times like you are reporting we
have tracked that down to a duplex mismatch on the NIC. We are currently
trying to track down a duplex mismatch problem we are experiencing where the
Cisco Switch is hard coded to 100Mb/Full Duplex, the NIC in the client nodes
are set to 100 Mb/Full Duplex, and we are still seeing duplex mismatch
errors on the switch. These systems take more than 10 times as long to
backup\restore as we would expect.

-Al



-Original Message-
From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


I restored one 220kb Excel file this weekend from a backupset with approx
270,000 files from a W2K client at 4.2.2.0 with a server at W2K, TSM
4.2.2.2. with an IBM 3584.

One 220kb file, it took 92 hours.

Does anyone know what math formula is used to determine the amount of time
that this should take, no one at Tivoli could tell me.

Mark Bertrand


-Original Message-
From: Garrison, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


what kind of problem did you have with the backupset?  we recovered 2 Aix
4.3.3 filespaces with backupsets this weekend.  The filespaces have approx
3.5 million files and was taking about 40hrs per filespace to perform a
normal restore.  the problem is running node collocation, it really
stretched our restore time to an unacceptable length of time.  we were able
to recover both filespaces with backup sets in approx 30 hrs each.  this
includes the time required to perform a replace if newer restore to get any
changes since the backupset was created.  Consequently we restored the
server in less then 40 hrs from start to finish.  Anyone else have
experience running backupsets that might be able to help us cut this time
even more?

T


Tony Garrison
I/T Sr. Systems Programmer
USAA
210-913-9836



-Original Message-
From: Cardoza, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


I'll bite... let me throw in my two cents worth:

1.  A 30GB TSM database is considered large.  We have a 30Gb TSM database
with 250 server nodes containing 70TB of data on an IBM 3584 Tape Library.
We have a 5GB log file and process approximately a TB a day in daily
changes.  This is all under the AIX platform, I think it is technically
possible to do it with NT, but the stability and recovery times may be
larger than the AIX platform.  (Our configuration:  2-way, Silvernode, 2GB
memory, SP Switch, 100TX, TSM V. 4.2.2, Fiber attached library/tape drives.

2.  An undersized library usually means you have a lot of "media waits"
while the tape drives fight for contention and available scratch tapes, or
slots.  This usually shows itself immediately with reclamation, migration,
data moves, etc.  If you can't run your scheduled reclamation and still make
your backup window for your scheduled jobs, then you probably need more tape
drives or a larger library.  Check your policies and retention periods.  As
is true with all TSM installations, your mileage may vary.

3.  We just did a disaster/recovery test at a remote site this past weekend
and here is at what we experienced.  The incremental backups worked fine,
the archive backup worked fine, the backupset did not.  We used the archive
tape and rolled forward to point-in-time restore to our disaster recovery
point.  We used Sysback/6000 to recovery the AIX servers with great
results... I highly recommend it.

4.  We are going to a second TSM server on AIX to start backing up key NT
workstations.  We have 9,000 seats but will probably only backup a small
percentage of IT, Finance, and administrative workstations.  We have an old
DLT tape library which we are redeploying for workstation use.  You might
want to consider the same thing with your old tape library as you consider
your purchase of a new one.

5.  Mixed library media on a TSM server is supported.  It should work just
fine.  We are running DLT and LTO tape libraries on a single AIX server for
the past year.  No problem.

Although TSM Server supports both NT and AIX platforms, and I have worked
with both, I have found AIX to be quicker to recover from and more reliable
of the two.  (No, I am not getting paid money from IBM or Microsoft for my
endorsement.  Just one man's opinion ...)

George Cardoza
Perot Systems
310.423.1670 - Office




-Original Message-
From: Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General TSM Q's


Hello All,

We have recently deployed TSM at our site.  Being new to TSM

Re: AW: AIX Upgrade with TSM

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

>I would certainly say that you are increasing your chances for problems
>by upgrading two things at once. It is so much simpler to diagnose
>problems if you only upgrade one at a time - do TSM separately from AIX.

>Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Believe me I would not be so bold as to upgrade these at the same time. I'm
after some info from anyone has already done this to get some insight into
the problems I face. Was there an order of upgrade, first AIX then TSM or
vice versa?  Will the AIX upgrade look at all the options I have installed
and do them or do I still need to go back and update some packages that
might have been skipped. I've never had to do complete OS upgrade on AIX
just patches.

On this particular server I went ahead and upgraded the TSM server version
to 5.1.1.1 and will work on the AIX portion later. If anyone has any other
pointers on the AIX upgrade I'd appreciate hearing them.

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

LANFREE on WINDOWS

[David Gratton]

Can anyone help me out what the dsm.opt file and dsmsta.opt file should look
like for the LANFREE setup in a Windows Environment? Also, is namedpipes better
then TCPIP in this situation and if so how do you set this up in the options
files? Thanks.


David Gratton
IBM Global Services

Re: General TSM Q's

[Mark Bertrand]

I restored one 220kb Excel file this weekend from a backupset with approx
270,000 files from a W2K client at 4.2.2.0 with a server at W2K, TSM
4.2.2.2. with an IBM 3584.

One 220kb file, it took 92 hours.

Does anyone know what math formula is used to determine the amount of time
that this should take, no one at Tivoli could tell me.

Mark Bertrand


-Original Message-
From: Garrison, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


what kind of problem did you have with the backupset?  we recovered 2 Aix
4.3.3 filespaces with backupsets this weekend.  The filespaces have approx
3.5 million files and was taking about 40hrs per filespace to perform a
normal restore.  the problem is running node collocation, it really
stretched our restore time to an unacceptable length of time.  we were able
to recover both filespaces with backup sets in approx 30 hrs each.  this
includes the time required to perform a replace if newer restore to get any
changes since the backupset was created.  Consequently we restored the
server in less then 40 hrs from start to finish.  Anyone else have
experience running backupsets that might be able to help us cut this time
even more?

T


Tony Garrison
I/T Sr. Systems Programmer
USAA
210-913-9836



-Original Message-
From: Cardoza, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


I'll bite... let me throw in my two cents worth:

1.  A 30GB TSM database is considered large.  We have a 30Gb TSM database
with 250 server nodes containing 70TB of data on an IBM 3584 Tape Library.
We have a 5GB log file and process approximately a TB a day in daily
changes.  This is all under the AIX platform, I think it is technically
possible to do it with NT, but the stability and recovery times may be
larger than the AIX platform.  (Our configuration:  2-way, Silvernode, 2GB
memory, SP Switch, 100TX, TSM V. 4.2.2, Fiber attached library/tape drives.

2.  An undersized library usually means you have a lot of "media waits"
while the tape drives fight for contention and available scratch tapes, or
slots.  This usually shows itself immediately with reclamation, migration,
data moves, etc.  If you can't run your scheduled reclamation and still make
your backup window for your scheduled jobs, then you probably need more tape
drives or a larger library.  Check your policies and retention periods.  As
is true with all TSM installations, your mileage may vary.

3.  We just did a disaster/recovery test at a remote site this past weekend
and here is at what we experienced.  The incremental backups worked fine,
the archive backup worked fine, the backupset did not.  We used the archive
tape and rolled forward to point-in-time restore to our disaster recovery
point.  We used Sysback/6000 to recovery the AIX servers with great
results... I highly recommend it.

4.  We are going to a second TSM server on AIX to start backing up key NT
workstations.  We have 9,000 seats but will probably only backup a small
percentage of IT, Finance, and administrative workstations.  We have an old
DLT tape library which we are redeploying for workstation use.  You might
want to consider the same thing with your old tape library as you consider
your purchase of a new one.

5.  Mixed library media on a TSM server is supported.  It should work just
fine.  We are running DLT and LTO tape libraries on a single AIX server for
the past year.  No problem.

Although TSM Server supports both NT and AIX platforms, and I have worked
with both, I have found AIX to be quicker to recover from and more reliable
of the two.  (No, I am not getting paid money from IBM or Microsoft for my
endorsement.  Just one man's opinion ...)

George Cardoza
Perot Systems
310.423.1670 - Office




-Original Message-
From: Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General TSM Q's


Hello All,

We have recently deployed TSM at our site.  Being new to TSM, I have a few
questions I was hoping someone may be able to help with.

I am running TSM 4.2.1.9 with a Compaq ESL9198DLX on W2K

1) Our TSM database has grown surprisingly fast.  We tend to backup LOTS of
little tiny files and as a result our Database is currently around 30Gb.  I
understand that the technical limit for the DB is somewhere around 5TB.

Should I be concerned running a 30GB database on NT using a single server?
Would this be considered a small, average or large TSM installation?


2) We've also found that our library is a little under-sized.  (I regularly
find myself exporting tapes from our primary tape storage pool to make room
for scratch media).  I would like to replace two or three of the DLT40/80
drives in the library with SDLT units.  The ESL9198 hardware will support
Mixing DLT and SDLT drives and media.  Does any know or have experience
setting up a

Re: query what you've set with "set" command

[Bill Dourado]

Michelle

query status   ORquery system

Bill Dourado






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How do you query what has been set with a "set"
command?  In particular I'd like to know what
LICENSEAUDITPERIOD is set at.

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question about Netware 6 and Groupwise TSA/GWTSA

[Peter Pijpelink - P.L.C.S. BV Storage Consultants]

hi,

Does anyone know anything about the backup and specially the recovery of
Netware 6 Groupwise?
Does TSM support the TSA and GWTSA modules to backup the Groupwise
databases online? Downtime is not an option in this case. We also thinking
about using st Bernard OFM to backup Groupwise, anyone has experiences to
share?

It seems that Veritas had written a module to backup Groupwise online by
using the GWTSA module and so... Tivoli Development, any plans??

The groupwise enviorment is approx 15 GB. We do not have problems with
making a select backup every day. I also saw that some people use a
incl/excl and do a online backup with a large of open file retries. Are you
able to restore/recover the Groupwise database correctly by using that method?

looking forward to hear your experiences and ticks (maybe treats)

Thanks


Peter



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Re: TSM DB design (Was covered at Share in Long Beach, February 2001)

[Peter Pijpelink - P.L.C.S. BV Storage Consultants]

Maybe allready said and done, but at Oxford there was also a presentation
about the internal database design. Look at the oxford symposium website.
http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Dave Cannon explained very good how it all works with verbs and other
little animals :) (no bugs!)

greetings

Peter

At 16:33 22-07-2002, Doug Thorneycroft wrote:
>I don't know if it is available online, but Mike Kaczmarski gave a
>presentation titled
>"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Tivoli Storage Manager
>Database"
>at Share in Long Beach February 2001.
>(According to the presentation, it's a B-Tree Database.)
>
>Maybe someone with access to the Share presentation files can search the
>Share site
>and see if it's there.

Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

[Cook, Dwight E]

Whew, being mighty bold but you ~might~ be able to get it to work...
I'd do everything with the library NOT available to the system, this MIGHT
allow you to clean out references to volumes not used on each system without
causing them to roll scratch.
Even if you do this you will still need to go in and alter the category of
the tapes bind private volumes to the new private category of which ever
server you set new categories for (be it the new one or the old one)
That is, say your existing server is using 300 & 301 for private and scratch
categories... your new/other server, you will need to alter the private &
scratch categories to somethings new like 400 & 401
for that you can use something like
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -C -VABC123 -s012C -t0190
AND remember, just because you have collocation on doesn't mean the data is
fully isolated ! ! !
You still might have data from one node out on a tape with data from another
node.

About the only way you could test this would be to restore the DB to a test
server, delete all the data from one of your sets of nodes, then note all
remaining private volumes (make sure this box doesn't have access to the
library, and to be safe, I'd take it off the network while testing things).
Then restore the data base again and delete all the data from the other set
of nodes, then note all remaining private volumes.
If those two sets were totally unique, then your process (I believe) would
work.
If you had ANY overlap in your sets of private volumes, you couldn't perform
your task...
you would have to do a move data against that volume to try to split
out the data on it and start over with your check.
Logically, your process ~should~ work IF all data is really collocated but
you will have to be very careful...

Dwight



-Original Message-
From: Scott McCambly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing


Hello fellow TSMers,

We have a fairly large TSM server that we are planning to partition into 2
servers. In other words, add a second server and split the client nodes
across the two.

The hardware environment is two AIX TSM servers, both fibre attached to a
10 drive 3494 ATL.

What I am proposing to do (and looking for input) is as follows:

1) Restore a copy of TSM server-A's database to the new TSM server-B
2) Reconfigure the library and drive configuration on TSM server-B to be a
library client to the shared library manager server-A.
3) Identify the nodes that are to be associated with each server.
4) Identify the volumes associated with the nodes for each server (Storage
pools are currently fully collocated by node).
5) Run update libvol to change the owner on the appropriate tapes to be
owned by server-B.
6) Delete the filespace and node definitions for the nodes NOT associated
with each server.
7) Reconfigure half the nodes to point to the new server-B.
8) Pat myself on the back and take the rest of the day off :-)

It seems too simple  Has anyone done this before? (hard to type with my
fingers crossed)

The big question of course is: what happens to volume ABC123 on server-A
when the filespaces are deleted and the volume empties, gets deleted from
the storage pool, and returned to scratch? Server-B still thinks there is
data on that tape and this proposed solution would only work if he was
allowed to request a mount and read that volume.

Any and all feedback is appreciated!

Scott
Scott McCambly
AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(613)799-9269

Re: General TSM Q's

[John Naylor]

Tony,
You have not said how much data you are restoring, so cannot see how many
gigabyte an hour.
However my experience of restoring large clients form backupsets is that the
speed of the restore is more than anything dependent
on the resources of the client box to which you are restoring.
,





"Garrison, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/22/2002 04:55:19 PM

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Subject:  Re: General TSM Q's



what kind of problem did you have with the backupset?  we recovered 2 Aix
4.3.3 filespaces with backupsets this weekend.  The filespaces have approx
3.5 million files and was taking about 40hrs per filespace to perform a
normal restore.  the problem is running node collocation, it really
stretched our restore time to an unacceptable length of time.  we were able
to recover both filespaces with backup sets in approx 30 hrs each.  this
includes the time required to perform a replace if newer restore to get any
changes since the backupset was created.  Consequently we restored the
server in less then 40 hrs from start to finish.  Anyone else have
experience running backupsets that might be able to help us cut this time
even more?

T


Tony Garrison
I/T Sr. Systems Programmer
USAA
210-913-9836



-Original Message-
From: Cardoza, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


I'll bite... let me throw in my two cents worth:

1.  A 30GB TSM database is considered large.  We have a 30Gb TSM database
with 250 server nodes containing 70TB of data on an IBM 3584 Tape Library.
We have a 5GB log file and process approximately a TB a day in daily
changes.  This is all under the AIX platform, I think it is technically
possible to do it with NT, but the stability and recovery times may be
larger than the AIX platform.  (Our configuration:  2-way, Silvernode, 2GB
memory, SP Switch, 100TX, TSM V. 4.2.2, Fiber attached library/tape drives.

2.  An undersized library usually means you have a lot of "media waits"
while the tape drives fight for contention and available scratch tapes, or
slots.  This usually shows itself immediately with reclamation, migration,
data moves, etc.  If you can't run your scheduled reclamation and still make
your backup window for your scheduled jobs, then you probably need more tape
drives or a larger library.  Check your policies and retention periods.  As
is true with all TSM installations, your mileage may vary.

3.  We just did a disaster/recovery test at a remote site this past weekend
and here is at what we experienced.  The incremental backups worked fine,
the archive backup worked fine, the backupset did not.  We used the archive
tape and rolled forward to point-in-time restore to our disaster recovery
point.  We used Sysback/6000 to recovery the AIX servers with great
results... I highly recommend it.

4.  We are going to a second TSM server on AIX to start backing up key NT
workstations.  We have 9,000 seats but will probably only backup a small
percentage of IT, Finance, and administrative workstations.  We have an old
DLT tape library which we are redeploying for workstation use.  You might
want to consider the same thing with your old tape library as you consider
your purchase of a new one.

5.  Mixed library media on a TSM server is supported.  It should work just
fine.  We are running DLT and LTO tape libraries on a single AIX server for
the past year.  No problem.

Although TSM Server supports both NT and AIX platforms, and I have worked
with both, I have found AIX to be quicker to recover from and more reliable
of the two.  (No, I am not getting paid money from IBM or Microsoft for my
endorsement.  Just one man's opinion ...)

George Cardoza
Perot Systems
310.423.1670 - Office




-Original Message-
From: Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General TSM Q's


Hello All,

We have recently deployed TSM at our site.  Being new to TSM, I have a few
questions I was hoping someone may be able to help with.

I am running TSM 4.2.1.9 with a Compaq ESL9198DLX on W2K

1) Our TSM database has grown surprisingly fast.  We tend to backup LOTS of
little tiny files and as a result our Database is currently around 30Gb.  I
understand that the technical limit for the DB is somewhere around 5TB.

Should I be concerned running a 30GB database on NT using a single server?
Would this be considered a small, average or large TSM installation?


2) We've also found that our library is a little under-sized.  (I regularly
find myself exporting tapes from our primary tape storage pool to make room
for scratch media).  I would like to replace two or three of the DLT40/80
drives in the library with SDLT units.  The ESL9198 hardware will support
Mixing DLT and SDLT drives and media.  Does any know or have experience
setting 

Re: General TSM Q's

[Garrison, Tony]

what kind of problem did you have with the backupset?  we recovered 2 Aix
4.3.3 filespaces with backupsets this weekend.  The filespaces have approx
3.5 million files and was taking about 40hrs per filespace to perform a
normal restore.  the problem is running node collocation, it really
stretched our restore time to an unacceptable length of time.  we were able
to recover both filespaces with backup sets in approx 30 hrs each.  this
includes the time required to perform a replace if newer restore to get any
changes since the backupset was created.  Consequently we restored the
server in less then 40 hrs from start to finish.  Anyone else have
experience running backupsets that might be able to help us cut this time
even more?

T


Tony Garrison
I/T Sr. Systems Programmer
USAA
210-913-9836



-Original Message-
From: Cardoza, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: General TSM Q's


I'll bite... let me throw in my two cents worth:

1.  A 30GB TSM database is considered large.  We have a 30Gb TSM database
with 250 server nodes containing 70TB of data on an IBM 3584 Tape Library.
We have a 5GB log file and process approximately a TB a day in daily
changes.  This is all under the AIX platform, I think it is technically
possible to do it with NT, but the stability and recovery times may be
larger than the AIX platform.  (Our configuration:  2-way, Silvernode, 2GB
memory, SP Switch, 100TX, TSM V. 4.2.2, Fiber attached library/tape drives.

2.  An undersized library usually means you have a lot of "media waits"
while the tape drives fight for contention and available scratch tapes, or
slots.  This usually shows itself immediately with reclamation, migration,
data moves, etc.  If you can't run your scheduled reclamation and still make
your backup window for your scheduled jobs, then you probably need more tape
drives or a larger library.  Check your policies and retention periods.  As
is true with all TSM installations, your mileage may vary.

3.  We just did a disaster/recovery test at a remote site this past weekend
and here is at what we experienced.  The incremental backups worked fine,
the archive backup worked fine, the backupset did not.  We used the archive
tape and rolled forward to point-in-time restore to our disaster recovery
point.  We used Sysback/6000 to recovery the AIX servers with great
results... I highly recommend it.

4.  We are going to a second TSM server on AIX to start backing up key NT
workstations.  We have 9,000 seats but will probably only backup a small
percentage of IT, Finance, and administrative workstations.  We have an old
DLT tape library which we are redeploying for workstation use.  You might
want to consider the same thing with your old tape library as you consider
your purchase of a new one.

5.  Mixed library media on a TSM server is supported.  It should work just
fine.  We are running DLT and LTO tape libraries on a single AIX server for
the past year.  No problem.

Although TSM Server supports both NT and AIX platforms, and I have worked
with both, I have found AIX to be quicker to recover from and more reliable
of the two.  (No, I am not getting paid money from IBM or Microsoft for my
endorsement.  Just one man's opinion ...)

George Cardoza
Perot Systems
310.423.1670 - Office




-Original Message-
From: Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General TSM Q's


Hello All,

We have recently deployed TSM at our site.  Being new to TSM, I have a few
questions I was hoping someone may be able to help with.

I am running TSM 4.2.1.9 with a Compaq ESL9198DLX on W2K

1) Our TSM database has grown surprisingly fast.  We tend to backup LOTS of
little tiny files and as a result our Database is currently around 30Gb.  I
understand that the technical limit for the DB is somewhere around 5TB.

Should I be concerned running a 30GB database on NT using a single server?
Would this be considered a small, average or large TSM installation?


2) We've also found that our library is a little under-sized.  (I regularly
find myself exporting tapes from our primary tape storage pool to make room
for scratch media).  I would like to replace two or three of the DLT40/80
drives in the library with SDLT units.  The ESL9198 hardware will support
Mixing DLT and SDLT drives and media.  Does any know or have experience
setting up a library with two media types?  Would TSM support this type of
environment?

Any help or information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Dave Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: query what you've set with "set" command

[Andy Raibeck]

You can issue either:

   QUERY STATUS

or

   SELECT * FROM STATUS

To get *only* the licenseauditperiod, you can issue:

   SELECT LICENSEAUDITPERIOD FROM STATUS

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




Michelle DeVault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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07/22/2002 08:13
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Subject:query what you've set with "set" command



How do you query what has been set with a "set"
command?  In particular I'd like to know what
LICENSEAUDITPERIOD is set at.

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query what you've set with "set" command

[Michelle DeVault]

How do you query what has been set with a "set"
command?  In particular I'd like to know what
LICENSEAUDITPERIOD is set at.

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Re: Another TDP for Lotus Domino question

[Del Hoobler]

> Mike, thanks for the reply.  You said that when I backup the 6th time the
> 1st backup will go away.  Can you explain how the incrementals fit in the
> equation?  I understand that a backup copy group is using versions to
> retain files.  What if 1 DB(file) changes daily and is daily backed up
> first from the select backup, then by the 6 incrementals, wouldn't the
> first version of it drop off so I would not actually have that version
for
> 38 days only for 6 days?  Sorry if this is confusing, the structure is so
> different from a B/A client, I am having a hard time trying to understand
> how the TDP backups work.  Thanks again!

Shannon,

Actually, it is very similar to the BA client.
You should be thinking of the life of a "database" backup to be
similar to the life of a BA client "file" backup.

The Domino client "SELECTIVE" and "INCREMENTAL" commands
work in a similar fashion to the BA client commands of the same name.
That is, for SELECTIVE backups, the file or database is
unconditionally backed up. For INCREMENTAL backups, if there is a
change to that file or database, the entire file or database
is backed up. The definition of "change" is different for a "file"
versus a Domino "database". For Domino "non-logged databases",
a "change" is defined as a change to the "meta data date" or
"data data date" (internal NSF file dates obtained by Domino API calls).
For Domino "logged databases", a "change" is defined as a change to the
DBIID (database instance ID, obtained by Domino API calls).

If you want to base your "expiration" SOLELY on time, you should
set the "VERExists" and "VERDeleted" to "NOLIMIT" and then
set "RETExtra" and "RETOnly" values to the number of days
to keep any backup. This also allows for you to take
adhoc backups at anytime without affecting how far back
you can go to restore any particular database backup.

So you could use these settings:

   VERExistsNOLIMIT
   VERDeleted   NOLIMIT
   RETExtra 38
   RETOnly  38

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
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- Never cut what can be untied.
- Commit yourself to constant improvement.

Re: TSM DB design (was Re: TSM 5.1 Performance Tuning Guide - Where?)

[Reinhard Mersch]

Besides the more academic question, whether a B-tree plus SQL interface
is a relational DB, the more interesting point for me is the fact, that
this SQL interface is incomplete. It e.g. does not tell me, on which
volume a specific backup copy of a file is lying. (It tells me all the
volumes that contain a backup copy of that file; but which volume
contains the active copy?)

I assume, that the SHOW command would give me that information (I did not
try it), so the SHOW command is native interface to that DB.

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Re: TSM and MS Exchange (MailBox Restore and Exchange 2000 Improvements)

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

Tony, could you explain a bit more. I am somewhat confused.
You (instead of CA?) "fought" to fix Arcserve agent for 8 months??? Was it
so broken? What means 95% operational, what are the rest 5%, what was the
percentage before those 8 months? And what on the end is "tolerable",
something you still did not got fixed?
TSM does NOT do brick level restores because Microsoft does not do it -
the backup APIs are for information stores. Other vendors are attempting
to use messaging APIs and DO NOT restore messages but create new ones with
same content. This was explained on this list many times.
There was something in one of the discussions remark that Microsoft (not
Tivoli) is planning to enhance/modify their APIs. But if Microsoft does
not provide an API for mailbox restore then Tivoli simply would not do it.
There is a joke about a gynecologist who painted a room through key hole.
But I would not accept all rooms in my office to be painted using this
technology and with that speed.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:Re: TSM and MS Exchange (MailBox Restore and Exchange 2000 Improv 
ements)

Actually, we are using Arcserve 2000 to backup Exchange5.5 on W2K
member serves. We fought Arcserve for over 8 months to fix their agent and
it looks like they have it 95% operational and tolerable.  We are seeing
through=put speeds of up to 100mb/minute. We are backing up servers with
databases of up to 15gb. All-be-it we are using old DLT4000 technology,
the
backups are getting done and we have been able to restore peoples
individual
folders (i.e. sent items, inbox, etc...)

Now I have heard that TSM might be doing this in version 5.1x, I do not
know
how true this is, but I now they DO NOT do it now...

Hope this helps
-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM and MS Exchange (MailBox Restore and Exchange 2000
Improv ements)


Define what mailbox means to you.  If you are talking about the calendar
and
other little goodies including public folders, none do that except maybe
CommVault.  And, I do not think they can do the public folders.

The thing that Veritas and Arcserver created are for marketing only and
really are so slow you can only use it for a few select mailboxes.

None replace the normal exchange backups that you have to do to be able to
recover the exchange stores.

I found out just yesterday that Exchange 2000 has a reserved area you can
restore an information store to.  Once you have done that you can truly
recover a mailbox and its contents.  This was Microsoft's answer to the
problem.  But, Exchange 2000 requires active directory and other hurdles
to
get there.  However, my Exchange boys point out you must not put any
mailboxes you might want to recover in the "base" information store
because
that one cannot be restored to the reserve area.  That one has all the
exchange specific extensions to active directory.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Consiglio, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM and MS Exchange


We have not moved to version 5.1x yet, but we are on version 4.2.2x and
the
answer is most definitely not! There are only 2 other outside vendors that
back up bricks, 1.) Veritas 2.) Arcserve2000

The only way to do individual folder recovery (i.e. Inbox, or Sent items,
etc..) is to export to a PST file then back up that file.

-Original Message-
From: McMullen David E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM and MS Exchange


We are evaluating TSM here and a question came up with regard to TSM and
Exchange.  Will TSM backup and restore individual mailboxes?

TIA

David McMullen
SMC/LAB Support
512.460.4559

Re: Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

Scott,

you hit the bullseye - the main problem would be volumes. But not only
ones used by single (deleted) node. The ones used by two nodes might be
bigger problem. Let say volume CBA321 hold the data for both nodeA and
nodeB, who will be the owner of the libvolume? Collocation is the key - so
you met an important prerequisite :)
Later you should not have problems - once libvolume (note!) is updated to
be owned by server-B, server-A ought not to change its status to scratch
even if is library manager. On filespace deletion data will dismiss from
*volume* and it would be deleted from the pool. But libvolume will be
owned by other server (which knows there is data) and the status would not
change.
Of course you can set maxscratch=0 on pools as insurance but this would
affect normal operations (if your server is so big to force splitting it
would not stay idle for long and "filling" tapes quickly will become
"full" ,-) and will not give too much additional security.
Also I would add a step "0.9 ) Update all volumes to read-only." and move
step 7 before step 4 to minimize disruption of service to nodes associated
with server-B.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:Server partitioning using TSM library sharing

Hello fellow TSMers,

We have a fairly large TSM server that we are planning to partition into 2
servers. In other words, add a second server and split the client nodes
across the two.

The hardware environment is two AIX TSM servers, both fibre attached to a
10 drive 3494 ATL.

What I am proposing to do (and looking for input) is as follows:

1) Restore a copy of TSM server-A's database to the new TSM server-B
2) Reconfigure the library and drive configuration on TSM server-B to be a
library client to the shared library manager server-A.
3) Identify the nodes that are to be associated with each server.
4) Identify the volumes associated with the nodes for each server (Storage
pools are currently fully collocated by node).
5) Run update libvol to change the owner on the appropriate tapes to be
owned by server-B.
6) Delete the filespace and node definitions for the nodes NOT associated
with each server.
7) Reconfigure half the nodes to point to the new server-B.
8) Pat myself on the back and take the rest of the day off :-)

It seems too simple  Has anyone done this before? (hard to type with
my
fingers crossed)

The big question of course is: what happens to volume ABC123 on server-A
when the filespaces are deleted and the volume empties, gets deleted from
the storage pool, and returned to scratch? Server-B still thinks there is
data on that tape and this proposed solution would only work if he was
allowed to request a mount and read that volume.

Any and all feedback is appreciated!

Scott
Scott McCambly
AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(613)799-9269

Re: Antwort: Client error

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Markus!
The latest client level is 4.2.2.0.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 15:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Antwort: Client error


Hi,
yes we've had that problem quiet often, just set the client option "rename
non
unicode filenames" to yes and the node option on the TSM server  "update
node
 Autofsrename=client". you should also get the latest client 4.2.1.32.
Keep in mind, that when the filespace is renamed it will be called xx\c
$_old, etc. it will also increase the amount of data on your tapes.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards

Markus Veit

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All,
Has anyone seen this error in the DSMERROR.LOG on a Windows NT 4.0 client
version 4.2.1.20?

"fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object 'C:\WINNT\?' into the local
ANSI codepage, skipping ..."

 What does this mean?
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Sr. Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
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