Re: Swappin Silos
Forgot to mention, in a true tape technology migration, use "nextstg" to migrate a stgpool of data from one to another technology -- plus approp. controls on the "old" library so no new data gets created there... all is okay, data xfer done during off-peak usage times, start/stop migration as desired (including number of processes/drives running concurrently). This is not related to your specific scenario, but is applicable to many others. 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 william derksen Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Swappin Silos We are running a TSM server attached to an iceberg using Gresham's EDT. I would like to know the best way to move operations to a newer silo on the same TSM server. The tape media for the current silo and the replacement silo is to be the same format. It would be nice if clients could be moved over the new silo incrementally i.e., both libraries operational at the same. Move data, checkout checkin, export import? I've searched through the docs on this and have yet to find much help. Advice and suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA, biru biru_2000 the biru of the new millenium. - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
Re: Swappin Silos
Why not just update the library definition? Remove all the tapes from Lib-1, insert them in Lib-2; audit lib on Lib-1 after removing all tapes, change the Lib def to Lib-2, make the physical connections, dev-class uses same lib, all is copasetic (zero data movement, since drive type/format is the same, you're doing the equivalent to Unix "mv" process.) 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 william derksen Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Swappin Silos We are running a TSM server attached to an iceberg using Gresham's EDT. I would like to know the best way to move operations to a newer silo on the same TSM server. The tape media for the current silo and the replacement silo is to be the same format. It would be nice if clients could be moved over the new silo incrementally i.e., both libraries operational at the same. Move data, checkout checkin, export import? I've searched through the docs on this and have yet to find much help. Advice and suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA, biru biru_2000 the biru of the new millenium. - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
Re: LTO Tape OR 9840
I will share what I know from users across about a dozen customer accounts: - 3590 Magstar drives are the Cadillac/Mercedes of the tape subsystems; though you did not ask about this, I felt compelled to include it! - LTO technology is based on IBM's Magstar, but shared in collaboration with HP & Seagate; most customers have migrated up from DLT, so are (essentially) ecstatic about the speed and reliability of IBM's LTO! (note, IBM's LTO is what is considered to be the "Cadillac" of the LTO vendors, although I've heard good things about Dell's and HP's.) Price:capacity is attractive - for a reason; it's intended to compete with DLT (not high-end tape transports like 3590 or 9840/9940). - 9840's are the "old" (ie, outgoing) technology from STK; I would advise you to consider 9940A's, and maybe migrate to 9940B's -- that is the emerging, latest tape technology from STK -- while the jury is still out, initial experiences have been mostly positive (using SN6000 as a SAN-based conduit to a shared library, looks pretty nice, clean... so far). STK is highly motivated to make this work! Hope this helps! 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 Joni Moyer Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LTO Tape OR 9840 Hello everyone! The environment here is going to be changing soon... We will be moving off of the mainframe and onto an AIX server that will be on our SAN. We will have 1 STK silo for the tapes for 2 TSM servers. Right now we are considering IBM's LTO or STK's 9840. I was just wondering if anyone out there has had experience with either one and if so, what are the pro's and con's of them? Has anyone that has worked with LTO know how long it takes to recover a bad tape? Considering that they are 100GB tapes, it was assumed that it would take 5 times as long as it does to recover a Magstar 3590(20 GB). And also, do the tapes get damaged easily or is that all a matter of handling them to take them offsite to vaults? Thank you Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
Re: Gigabit Ethernet Performance
=> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:33:06 -0400, Tom Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thomas, > I tried two FTPs, one to the machine itself, then to another machine, > using 100MB cards... > Here is my output.. [..] Don't trust this if you're staying on the same machine. On AIX, at least, you're going to be pushing the loopback, regardless of which IP you try to use. Watching monitor -a while you attempt these exercises can be very helpful there. On my SP, I got about 100 Mb on both 100Mb and Gb interfaces; I thought I might be running into some dd bottleneck or something, but the switch interface was rock-solid at >200Mb. (which seems slow, for a SP Switch, but that's a different problem) - Allen S. Rout
Re: polling for drives
"update drive libraryname drivename online=no"
Before doing your AS/400 backup which I assume is going direct to a
/dev/rmtX device and
not via TSM in any way.
"update drive libraryname drivename online=yes"
When done. This will tell TSM not to attempt to use the device while you're
doing your thing.
What's happening here is as you backup direct to the drive you are
exclusively locking the device file,
tapeutil will also do this even with an inventory parameter (SCSI remember).
When TSM server tries to use
the drive for something innocuous, like a reclamation, it gets all confused
as the
drive is in use by something non-TSM and effectively marks the drive as
Unavailable and will cease
using it, assuming it's in a fault state really, requiring manual
intervention to bring that drive back online.
Personally, I don't like the idea of trying to use TSM in conjunction with
other machines accessing the library
with non-TSM methods.
Here's a real-life example of a drive in an off-line state (for another
reason):
3584LIB1 3584DRV03LTO /dev/rmt6
Unavailable Since
07/25/02 07:09:35
Here's a simple script (not tested much) that you can perhaps make use of to
check drive states. It's nice
to know when your drives are dropping off the perch, particularly if your
backups are scheduled or even running...
#!/bin/ksh
# AIX 4.3.30 version
NUM_ONLINE=0
NUM_OFFLINE=0
ERROR_FLAG=""
CHECKING_FREQUENCY=300# 5 Minutes
scan_drives()
{
/usr/bin/dsmadmc -id=lowlyuser -password=lowlyuserpass << EOF
q drive
quit
EOF
}
while :
do
echo "Drives Online\t: \c "
NUM_ONLINE=$(scan_drives | grep Yes | wc -l)
echo ${NUM_ONLINE}
NUM_OFFLINE=$(scan_drives | grep Unavail | wc -l)
echo "Drives Offline\t: \c"
echo ${NUM_OFFLINE}
if [[ ${NUM_OFFLINE} -gt 0 ]]
then
ERROR_FLAG="EEP"
# Report stuff here. Fire off paging.
# Automatically deal and report fault. etc. etc.
NUM_OFFLINE=0
fi
sleep ${CHECKING_FREQUENCY}
done
exit 0
This also is a useful command that could be used instead (even via a
cgi-script :) )
tsm: ADSM_BBS>select library_name, drive_name, online from drives
LIBRARY_NAME DRIVE_NAME ONLINE
-- -- --
3575LIB1 3570DRV11 YES
3575LIB1 3570DRV12 YES
3584LIB1 3584DRV00 YES
3584LIB1 3584DRV01 YES
3584LIB1 3584DRV02 YES
3584LIB1 3584DRV03 YES
3584LIB1 3584DRV04 YES
Mike.
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Schroeder [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: polling for drives
>
> We currently share our tape library with an AS/400. If the AS/400 is
> using
> a tape drive and TSM needs it, it goes to an unavailable state and the TSM
> server then continues to poll the device to check its availability.
> However, the TSM server only polls for a certain amount of time and then
> gives up. Sometimes the AS.400 backups take a number of hours and in the
> meantime the drives are unavailable to TSM and the TSM server also stops
> checking the drive. Then when TSM backups start it uses 2 instead of 4
> drives. Here is my question. Is there anyway to increase the amount of
> time the TSM server polls the drives so this doesn't happen. Or does
> anyone have any other suggestions on how to get around this issue.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
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Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc
Use 'DIR /X' to get the 8.3 mangled name of the directory with the space in it. Then address it that way in the redirected pathname. i.e. C:\Program Files is also C:\PROGRA~1 -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc I would open a problem record on this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc Hi, how can I direct output of a command in dsmadmc (windows platform) to a file with a blank in its name. Example: q se > "E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt" This gives message ANS8038E Unable to open file '"E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt"' for redirection. Client is level 4.2.2.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. Server is 4.1.2.0 on AIX. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply or by telephone (collect at 907-564-1000) and ask to speak with the message sender. In addition, please immediately delete this message and all attachments. Thank you.
Re: TSM Client Licensing
You should be able to register more nodes than you have licenses. The reason is a node does not equal a system nor a license. You can define 10 nodes in your dsm.sys stanzas on one system and that is only one license. To most the license thing is a pain; however, it does help you as a customer stay in compliance. Only you can determine how many places you have the client installed. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Jon Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Client Licensing Hello everyone, Can anyone confirm that if your TSM server is not quite current on client licensing (the request just went up to Purchasing), nodes can still be created, associated and backed up or restored, though the server license compliance status states "failed"? Are there ANY issues other than a status message, that we should be aware of? In advance, thank you for your comments. Jon R. Adams IT IPS BST Infrastructure Premera Blue Cross Mountlake Terrace, WA 425-670-5770 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc
I would open a problem record on this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc Hi, how can I direct output of a command in dsmadmc (windows platform) to a file with a blank in its name. Example: q se > "E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt" This gives message ANS8038E Unable to open file '"E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt"' for redirection. Client is level 4.2.2.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. Server is 4.1.2.0 on AIX. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany
Re: RMAN
Look on page 39 and 40 of the TDP for Oracle for UNIX (Second Edition April 2001). It says that the TDPO_OPTFILE must be specified in the allocate channel. Take a look at what has to be done to the script. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Argeropoulos, Bonnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMAN Hello, Running AIX 4.1.1 Server 4.1.1 Oracle8.1.7 I'm trying to allocate a channel in rman and getting the following errorhas anyone seen this before? Thanks for your help Bonnie Argeropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production RMAN-06005: connected to target database: LAWPRD (DBID=2516819323) RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN> allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' ; RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS === RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "for" RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: t1 RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 18 file: standard input
Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc
Consider it noted. Don't know if this will help, but if the Admin client is done in batch mode, then the redirection will work: dsmadmc -id=adminid -pa=x q se > "c:\test dir\qse.txt" 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. "Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/24/2002 16:00 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc I would open a problem record on this. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc Hi, how can I direct output of a command in dsmadmc (windows platform) to a file with a blank in its name. Example: q se > "E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt" This gives message ANS8038E Unable to open file '"E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt"' for redirection. Client is level 4.2.2.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. Server is 4.1.2.0 on AIX. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany
Dirk Billerbeck ist nicht anwesend
I will be out of the office from 21.07.2002 until 12.08.2002. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht beantworten, sobald ich wieder aus meinem Urlaub zurückgekehrt bin. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Thomas Stüber (Tel. 040/300 53 - 309) oder Herrn Ulrich May (Tel. 040 / 300 53 - 0) Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best regards, Dirk Billerbeck
Swappin Silos
We are running a TSM server attached to an iceberg using Gresham's EDT. I would like to know the best way to move operations to a newer silo on the same TSM server. The tape media for the current silo and the replacement silo is to be the same format. It would be nice if clients could be moved over the new silo incrementally i.e., both libraries operational at the same. Move data, checkout checkin, export import? I've searched through the docs on this and have yet to find much help. Advice and suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA, biru biru_2000 the biru of the new millenium. - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
RMAN
Hello, Running AIX 4.1.1 Server 4.1.1 Oracle8.1.7 I'm trying to allocate a channel in rman and getting the following errorhas anyone seen this before? Thanks for your help Bonnie Argeropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production RMAN-06005: connected to target database: LAWPRD (DBID=2516819323) RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN> allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' ; RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS === RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "for" RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: t1 RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 18 file: standard input
Re: question on dsmsched.log for system object backup w/active di rectory
I checked my 5.11 client and noticed the same thing. I have been doing a lot of bare metal restores and the AD database is definitely being backed up and restored. I would expect the ntds.dit to show up in the log also. If I use the GUI to backup the AD database, I do see NTDS.DIT being processed. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 23, 2002 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question on dsmsched.log for system object backup w/active directory Hello I was looking at the dsmsched.log file for an incremental backup of one of several w2k domain controllers. I see the following lines: 07/21/2002 06:59:12 Normal File-->10,485,760 \\nadc5\d$\WINNT\NTDS\edb0 0574.log SentY 07/21/2002 07:00:10 Normal File-->10,485,760 \\nadc5\d$\WINNT\NTDS\edb0 0575.log SentY 07/21/2002 07:00:10 Normal File-->16,384 \\nadc5\c$\WINNT\NTDS\ntds .pat SentY 07/21/2002 07:00:11 Successful incremental backup of 'Windows NT Directory Serv ices' But I do not see a line for ntds.dit. Should I not be seeing this also? The client is at level 5.1.01 and the server is 4.2.1.9 Thanks len - Leonard Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. ussas4hs@ibmmail Room RB448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 SAS Campus Drive (919) 531-6241 Cary NC 27513
TSM Client Licensing
Hello everyone, Can anyone confirm that if your TSM server is not quite current on client licensing (the request just went up to Purchasing), nodes can still be created, associated and backed up or restored, though the server license compliance status states "failed"? Are there ANY issues other than a status message, that we should be aware of? In advance, thank you for your comments. Jon R. Adams IT IPS BST Infrastructure Premera Blue Cross Mountlake Terrace, WA 425-670-5770 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LTO Tape OR 9840
We are moving off of the magstar tapes to LTO .. I really despise them .. basically due to the fact that we have 40,000 of them sitting all over the place. I think it depends on what kind of backups you are planning on doing .. ie .. do you have a lot of information to backup or not .. while the magstars are fast .. they dont hold squat compared to an LTO. R. > Hello everyone! > > The environment here is going to be changing soon... We will be moving > off of the mainframe and onto an AIX server that will be on our SAN. > We will have 1 STK silo for the tapes for 2 TSM servers. Right now we > are considering IBM's LTO or STK's 9840. I was just wondering if > anyone out there has had experience with either one and if so, what > are the pro's and con's of them? Has anyone that has worked with LTO > know how long it takes to recover a bad tape? Considering that they > are 100GB tapes, it was assumed that it would take 5 times as long as > it does to recover a Magstar 3590(20 GB). And also, do the tapes get > damaged easily or is that all a matter of handling them to take them > offsite to vaults? Thank you > > Joni Moyer > Associate Systems Programmer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (717)975-8338
New Policy Domain
Hello,
Running aix 4.1.1 and 4.1.1 on the NT clients
I recently created a new domain with separate disk storage space from the
existing domain and moved 4 nodes to this domain. Backups seem to be
running okay...but there is still occupancy for these nodes in the old
domains disk space...this should definitely have migrated by now.
Does anyone know why I have disk space in the old space of
gen_diskshouldn't
there only be space in the new gen_disk2?
Any help would be appreciatedthanks
Bonnie Argeropoulos
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Node Name Type Filespace Storage Number of Physical
Logical
NamePool Name Files Space
Space
Occupied
Occupied
(MB)
(MB)
-- -- - -
-
HBO Bkup $1$DRA0:GEN_DISK 366 383.84
237.17
HBO Bkup $1$DRA0:GEN_DISK2 933 8,616.59
8,616.59
HBO Bkup $1$DRA0:GEN_OFFSI- 11,956 36,774.52
36,475.88
TE
HBO Bkup $1$DRA0:GEN_TAPE 10,657 27,982.64
27,622.38
LTO Tape OR 9840
Hello everyone! The environment here is going to be changing soon... We will be moving off of the mainframe and onto an AIX server that will be on our SAN. We will have 1 STK silo for the tapes for 2 TSM servers. Right now we are considering IBM's LTO or STK's 9840. I was just wondering if anyone out there has had experience with either one and if so, what are the pro's and con's of them? Has anyone that has worked with LTO know how long it takes to recover a bad tape? Considering that they are 100GB tapes, it was assumed that it would take 5 times as long as it does to recover a Magstar 3590(20 GB). And also, do the tapes get damaged easily or is that all a matter of handling them to take them offsite to vaults? Thank you Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
Adding new file system under a existing hsm client
Can any body help me to find the way/procedure to add a new file system in a existing hasm client. We have already one file system managed by hsm and it working fine. Now there is request to add another file system as a space manage file system. TSM 4.1 on a AIX box , it is a jfs file system. My understanding is that I just need to follow steps, add the new file system in the /etc/filesystem same as the previosly defined file system i,e Step 1 /vdr: dev = /dev/lvvdr vfs = jfs log = /dev/loglv00 mount = false options = rw account = false adsmfsm = true Step 2 dsmmigfs add -ht=70 lt=60 /newfilesystem Please let me know if my I am missing any thing. Regards, Jams
Re: Gigabit Ethernet Performance
Just to throw in another data point. Here is that FTP done between an IBM S80 and an M80, both with GB interfaces: ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1" /dev/null 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /dev/null. 1+0 records in. 1+0 records out. 226 Transfer complete. 32768 bytes sent in 13.25 seconds (2.414e+04 Kbytes/s) local: |dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1 remote: /dev/null Ben -Original Message- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Gigabit Ethernet Performance Hi Thomas, I tried it on my machines (AIX 4.3.3 H80) this is what I got : ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1" /dev/null 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /dev/null. 1+0 records in. 1+0 records out. 226 Transfer complete. 32768 bytes sent in 16,33 seconds (1,959e+04 Kbytes/s) local: |dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1 remote: /dev/null Best wishes Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 23. Juli 2002 18:51 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Gigabit Ethernet Performance > > Hi TSM-ers, > > our newly installed Gigabit Ethernet seems to have some performance > problems. > When I do the following FTP command between two UNIX (AIX) machines I only > get about 8Megabyte per second. > > # ftp 10.135.11.55 > Name: adminrt > Password: > ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1" /dev/null > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening data connection for /dev/null. > 1+0 records in. > 1+0 records out. > 226 Transfer complete. > 32768 bytes sent in 39.5 seconds (8102 Kbytes/s) > local: |dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1 remote: /dev/null > > This command transfers data from nowhere to nowhere so no disk > is involved. The performance numbers only include network, network > adapter, > TCP/IP and a bit of UNIX. > Do you think 8MB/s is OK for Gigabit Ethernet? > Would anyone be so kind and test this command in their own UNIX > environment > and tell me the numbers? > > Thanks in advance and greetings from Austria > Thomas Rupp > Vorarlberger Illwerke AG > MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 > FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 > > > > -- > > Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. > > Vorarlberger Illwerke AG > -- >
DB2 backups and B/A Client on NT
I have an NT box running DB2 V6. We want to starting using the DB2 BAKCUP DB commands, and we've been reading the redbook "Backing up DB2 using TSM". It's all working, including the DB2ADUTL DELETE following the successfull backups. What we're trying to figure out is the include/exclude statements for the standard B/A client that is also running on this NT box. A "LIST DATABASE DIRECTORY" shows that all the db's are in D:\DB2 directory, but what should and shouldn't be excluded by the B/A client and what is backed up with the DB2 commands? Can anyone help? A search of the archives didn't find anything, but then again it could be my query parameters are FUBAR'd. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc.
TAPEIOBUFS?????
Does anyone know if there is an option called tapeiobufs?? This is pertaining to a tsm server at 4.2.1.9 and higher?? Joe
Re: diskpool performance
Steve, Ultimately, you're limited to media write speeds. For example, my LTO drives write at 12 MB/s sustained; my 18 GB SCSI drives write at 16 MB/s sustained. Nothing I do to TSM will increase those numbers. They are the media's limits. If I was doing a comparison, I would therefore see only about 33% better performance to disk than to tape. There must be a bottlenect SOMEWHERE, otherwise you would achieve infinite throughput. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation Steve Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/24/2002 11:00 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:diskpool performance Please could someone advise me on the following issue we have with tsm. I am a TSM novice and would appreciate some pointers etc. Environment : TSM 4.2.0 AIX4.3.3 ML09 Server and Client on same Server using Sharedmem 2 Stgpools defined diskpool and tapepool we have created a diskpool on RAID5 and created random access volumes Total Diskpool size is 150GB. Our nextpool is tapepool for migration upon high thresholds being reached. We have compression turned off on the client and set the selftune parameters in dsmserv.sys SELFTUNEBUF SELFTUNETXN Issue: IF we initiate a client backup using sharedmem to the diskpool, it seems to take the same time as it does to backup the client straight to tapepool. I would have thought the diskpool access would be quicker ? The Diskpool is located on direct fibre attached storage with large read/write cache. The tapepool is SCSI attached ATL library with 2 drives Any suggestions or pointers to increase the throughput to a respectable level would be appreciated. kind regards steve freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TAPEIOBUFS?????
I do know it is an option for us. We have a TSM 4.2.2 on an Server MVS/OS390. We have our set at TAPEiobufs 9. This was recommended to us by an Amdahl consultant we had in to look at our CPU usage. Shannon Bach Madison Gas & Electric Co. Operations Analyst - Data Center Services Office 608-252-7260 Fax 608-252-7098 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
polling for drives
We currently share our tape library with an AS/400. If the AS/400 is using a tape drive and TSM needs it, it goes to an unavailable state and the TSM server then continues to poll the device to check its availability. However, the TSM server only polls for a certain amount of time and then gives up. Sometimes the AS.400 backups take a number of hours and in the meantime the drives are unavailable to TSM and the TSM server also stops checking the drive. Then when TSM backups start it uses 2 instead of 4 drives. Here is my question. Is there anyway to increase the amount of time the TSM server polls the drives so this doesn't happen. Or does anyone have any other suggestions on how to get around this issue. Thanks Rob
Re: diskpool performance
What are your throughput values? Tape is not necessarily slower than disk, especially when the data is compressed on the tape drive. Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) IBM Premier Business Partner 121 Cheshire Lane, Suite 700 Minnetonka, MN 55305 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/24/02 11:00 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:diskpool performance Please could someone advise me on the following issue we have with tsm. I am a TSM novice and would appreciate some pointers etc. Environment : TSM 4.2.0 AIX4.3.3 ML09 Server and Client on same Server using Sharedmem 2 Stgpools defined diskpool and tapepool we have created a diskpool on RAID5 and created random access volumes Total Diskpool size is 150GB. Our nextpool is tapepool for migration upon high thresholds being reached. We have compression turned off on the client and set the selftune parameters in dsmserv.sys SELFTUNEBUF SELFTUNETXN Issue: IF we initiate a client backup using sharedmem to the diskpool, it seems to take the same time as it does to backup the client straight to tapepool. I would have thought the diskpool access would be quicker ? The Diskpool is located on direct fibre attached storage with large read/write cache. The tapepool is SCSI attached ATL library with 2 drives Any suggestions or pointers to increase the throughput to a respectable level would be appreciated. kind regards steve freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 servers one machine
No, there can be as many TSM server on one machine as you would like to have without requiring a license. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com An IBM Premier Business Partner Cell (415) 215-0326 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Dawes Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2 servers one machine If I put a second server instance on a machine do I need an additional license?
Re: expire inventory question
Expiration is finishing successfully. I takes about an hour to run, the DB is 20 Gig at 50% util. The reclamation threshold is 50% already. What should be noted is that the files are not expiring. The volumes say full and the used percentage is 100%. Rob Schroeder Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: Re: expire inventory question Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 07/24/2002 01:46 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" How long does expiration take? Is it finishing? If not, you are in big trouble. What is your reclamation threshold? A good rule of thumb is to simply set it to 50%, which is the default. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Rob Schroeder wrote: >When I run inventory expiration, I can look in the activity log and see the >process going through each of my file spaces. I see it hitting the TSM >clients as well as the TDP for SQL clients, however I do not see the >messages for the TDP for Oracle clients. I have used RMAN to expire and >delete the backups that are older than 10 days, but are still not getting >any tape storage back. My TSM server is Win2k Sp2 4.1.6 and my client is >Win2k Sp2 TDP 2.2 TSM 4.2.1.20. I have double checked the settings for >verdeleted and retonly and both are set to 0. > >Am I missing something here. > >Help > >Rob Schroeder >Famous Footwear >
diskpool performance
Please could someone advise me on the following issue we have with tsm. I am a TSM novice and would appreciate some pointers etc. Environment : TSM 4.2.0 AIX4.3.3 ML09 Server and Client on same Server using Sharedmem 2 Stgpools defined diskpool and tapepool we have created a diskpool on RAID5 and created random access volumes Total Diskpool size is 150GB. Our nextpool is tapepool for migration upon high thresholds being reached. We have compression turned off on the client and set the selftune parameters in dsmserv.sys SELFTUNEBUF SELFTUNETXN Issue: IF we initiate a client backup using sharedmem to the diskpool, it seems to take the same time as it does to backup the client straight to tapepool. I would have thought the diskpool access would be quicker ? The Diskpool is located on direct fibre attached storage with large read/write cache. The tapepool is SCSI attached ATL library with 2 drives Any suggestions or pointers to increase the throughput to a respectable level would be appreciated. kind regards steve freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about using global characters in a select statement
I ran into this same problem a while back. If you are using the command with a script, you need to use '%%string%%'. If you type them into the admin interface you should be able to use '%string%'. I run several scripts from a W2K batch file similar to this: DSMADMC.exe -tcpserveraddress=tsmserver -tcpport=1500 -id=user -password=password -COMMAdelimited -outfile=testdata.csv select node_name, domain_name from nodes where node_name like '%%DB%%' -Original Message- From: Neil Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about using global characters in a select statement I would like to use a global character in select statements on tsm servers to get information about groups of nodes For example if I use something like: select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name='AD1%' to get information about all nodes whose node_names begin with 'AD1' I get the following error: ANR2002E Missing closing quote character. I have tried "Double quotes" and used * instead of % - none of these work Any Suggestions? Thanks Neil Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Rosenberg 610-666-8936 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about using global characters in a select statement
Try "like" instead of "=". select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name like 'AD1%' -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Neil Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about using global characters in a select statement I would like to use a global character in select statements on tsm servers to get information about groups of nodes For example if I use something like: select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name='AD1%' to get information about all nodes whose node_names begin with 'AD1' I get the following error: ANR2002E Missing closing quote character. I have tried "Double quotes" and used * instead of % - none of these work Any Suggestions? Thanks Neil Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Rosenberg 610-666-8936 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Redirect Output in Windows dsmadmc
Hi, how can I direct output of a command in dsmadmc (windows platform) to a file with a blank in its name. Example: q se > "E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt" This gives message ANS8038E Unable to open file '"E:\users\gerhard\Eigene Dateien\test.txt"' for redirection. Client is level 4.2.2.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. Server is 4.1.2.0 on AIX. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany
Re: Volume deleted from OFFSITETAPES pool
Hey, you NEVER have to worry about TSM losing data! (One of the reasons I think it is the best product on the market...) Here's what probably happened: Either the data on this tape had already expired, or was relocated during a reclaim. So the tape was EMPTY (no valid data left), but still marked OFFSITE. So when you marked the tape as READO instead of OFFSITE, TSM realized the tape was empty, and did what it normally does - deleted the empty tape from the storage pool. If there were any valid data left on that tape, TSM would NOT have deleted it from the storage pool. If AD0289 were an onsite tape that was checked into your library, it would have gone back to SCRATCH status. If AD0289 is in your offsite location/vault, the only problem is that (depending on how you generate your list of tapes to return from the vault), it is no longer marked OFFSITE, so probably will not appear on your next TAPERETURN list. Just make a note to yourself that this tape needs to be added to your next TAPERETURN list. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert -Original Message- From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Volume deleted from OFFSITETAPES pool Hi, I was updating a few "unavailable" tape volumes to access=reado, and in error typed :- UPDATE VOLUME AD0289 ACCESS=READO (AD0289 being the error). Should I being concerned by the messages below, have I lost some data?, what can I do to recover the situation ? 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE VOLUME AD0289 ACCESS=READO 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR2208I Volume AD0289 deleted from storage pool OFFSITETAPES. 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR1341I Scratch volume AD0289 has been deleted from storage pool OFFSITETAPES. TSM 4.1.4.1 running on a Windows 2000 System. T.I.A Bill Dourado *** Disclaimer *** This email and any files transmitted with it contains privileged and confidential information and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender at once that you have received it by mistake and then delete it from your system. Any views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of ALSTEC or its associated companies. Whereas ALSTEC takes reasonable precautions to ensure this email is virus free, no responsibility will be accepted by it for any loss or damage whether direct or indirect which results from the contents of this email or its attachments. ALSTEC Group Limited - Registered in England No.3939840 - www.alstec.com Registered office: Cambridge Road, Whetstone, Leicester. LE8 6LH. England. Telephone: +44 (0)116 275 0750
Re: Question on Backups
-- Environment: SP Model 9076 (1 Frame w/ 7 nodes) AIX 4.3.3 ML8 P.S.S.P 3.2 ptfset 8 TSM 4.1.5 3) I have a couple of backups that appear to complete just fine (no failed files), however when I do a 'q event' it shows the schedule as "FAILED" - I can't figure out if I have a good backup or not? Any ideas? >> Depends on the client level. What are the clients, and what is the client release level? if you don't know, on the TSM server you can do: q node NODENAME f=d 4) Anyone know what this message means? Anything I need to worry about? I ask because it only seems to appear when #3 happens. 07/22/02 03:48:19 ANR8325I Dismounting volume I00013 - 3 minute mount retention expired. do: q devclass CLASSNAME f=d You will probably see that MOUNTRETENTION is set to 3. That just tells TSM when a tape isn't in use any more, wait 3 minutes then dismount it. That's normal. If you have a fast library, you can change that to 0. MOUNTRETENTION makes more sense when you have humans mounting the tapes instead of robots. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert
Re: rollforward vs. normal mode
Hi Roger, I recently sent this memo to a TSM consultant to get some ammo to acquire disk space for a project, any additional ammo such as below and then some would be greatly appreciated including your title and experience with TSM (need credentials for directors) "Judy, I need your recommendation for disk space on SPF2N21 (our TSM server) in order to complete the project of the Policy Domain Change. This is also including Month End full backups. We currently are backing up 688.2 GB incrementally daily. We are currently using 134.4 GB of Database and Recovery Log space (67.2 GB mirrored). I suggested a projection of 268.8 GB growth (2x current space). What I am needing from you is how this projection can be justified to my Directory. The AIX admins said a 1/2 drawer of 36.2 drives is sufficient.(8) Any ideas are greatly appreciated." An additional note is that we are backing up 80 clients with 107 jobs and a total 10.3 Terabytes of DASD (capacity, not all being used and backed up, just potential) Thanks Roger, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD |-+> | | Roger Deschner | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | | Sent by: "ADSM: | | | Dist Stor| | | Manager" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | .EDU>| | || | || | | 07/24/02 02:38 AM| | | Please respond to| | | "ADSM: Dist Stor | | | Manager" | | || |-+> >--| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Re: rollforward vs. normal mode | >--| I've run it both ways. ROLLFORWARD is goodness that lets me sleep better at night, but it's expensive goodness, in terms of management effort and system performance. 1. Define your log to be 12gb, regardless of how big you think it should be. The max in V4+ is 13gb, and you want to leave yourself some room to add your PREDEFINED AND PREFORMATTED 1gb emergency log entent for when it fills up, as it inevitably will. My log is two 6gb extents which I think gives me some flexibility, compared to one 12gb extent. Disks are cheap, compared to being awakened in the middle of the night by a full log. Just make it 12gb. Period. 2. Look at the statistics from your recent incremental database backups. That (plus a safety/growth factor of, say, 25%) is how big your log really needs to be, and if that's pushing 12gb, you are going to need to run Database Backups more frequently than you are now. 3. Now consider the full backups. They take much longer. Therefore, you've got to start them much earlier. If there is one thing you want to avoid, it is a TRIGGERED FULL DB BACKUP. That's when my log fills up, always. While one could say this means I've got my trigger set too high, and they'd technically be right, I like to set it high or else I'll run a whole lot more incremental backups than I really need to. (Tivoli: It would be really nice to have TWO thresholds we could set in the backup trigger, separate for whether or not the next backup will be an incremental or a full backup. I'd set a much higher threshold when the next backup was to be incremental, comapred to full.) 4. In fact, avoid triggered backups in general. It is inevitable that when my system gets a good head of steam up doing nice productive work like migration and reclamation, that the trigger pops and a tape drive gets yanked. And since the system is busy, the backup runs slower. And since the system is busy, the log fills up faster. Pop! It's full. So, watch how your work flow goes over the course of the day, and try to make all backups be scheduled ones, with triggered backups only in an emergency. I take the occurence of a triggered backup as a sign that I have not done an adequate job at scheduling things. You don't want to resort to Drastic Measures such as shutting down migration, reclamation, and expiration, due to your own poor planning. 5. When running in ROLLFORWARD mode, database disk performance becomes a much more critical concern. I could go on for a long time about this, but basically you want disk arms. RAID-anything won't h
ANR2174E - admin command schedule failed with admin id not registered
One of my admin command schedules failed last night with an ANR2174E - Administrator ID is not registered. I looked at the ID, and it does exist. It is not locked, has system privs, password works. In all, looks ok to me. What is weird is that there are other command schedules that ran after the one that failed - command schedules that ran as the offending ID. What's up? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
Question about using global characters in a select statement
I would like to use a global character in select statements on tsm servers to get information about groups of nodes For example if I use something like: select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name='AD1%' to get information about all nodes whose node_names begin with 'AD1' I get the following error: ANR2002E Missing closing quote character. I have tried "Double quotes" and used * instead of % - none of these work Any Suggestions? Thanks Neil Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Rosenberg 610-666-8936 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Send Me Latest Favorite SQL Statement for the TSM SQL Session at Share in SF
Paul, here is SQL I run frequently as a macro from the command line. It makes a reasonable size list of some or all the backups for a node that can be viewed with notepad . The parameters are - %1 - the nodename quoted in caps. %2 - either = or like, unquoted not caps %3 - if %2 is =, then one filespace name quoted and in the correct case or if %2 is like, then some quoted string ending in '%', it can be just '%' %4 - a date to find only backups after a certain date; quoted and in the form 'mm/dd/'. Here is the macro now, I hope you can use it in your presentation. Unfortunately I can't make SHARE this time. - - - cut after - - - /* */ /* macro file to select files for a user*/ /* */ set sqldatetimeformat i set sqldisplaymode w set sqlmathmode r commit select cast(rtrim(filespace_name) as char(16)) as filespace, - cast(substr(char(type),1,1)||'-'||substr(char(state),1,1) as char(3)) as state, - cast(backup_date as char(19)) as bac_date_time, - cast(deactivate_date as char(19)) as del_date_time, - cast(rtrim(hl_name)||trim(ll_name) as char(128)) as path_and_name - from adsm.backups - where node_name = %1 - and filespace_name %2 %3 - and date(backup_date) >= %4 - > c:\tsmadmin\sqllists\backups4.txt commit - - - cut before - - - At 02:24 PM 7/20/2002, you wrote: >I am doing this presentation again in San Francisco. Would appreciate your >favorite SQL statements to include. > >Thanks. > >Paul D. Seay, Jr. >Technical Specialist >Naptheon, INC >757-688-8180 -- Bill Colwell C. S. Draper Lab Cambridge Ma.
Re: Archive or monthly capability for TDP MS-SQL and MS-Exchange
Levinson, Donald A. wrote: >> Instead of using two nodes could I just specify a different management class >> with a backup copy group that has NOLIMIT on the expired versions retained, >> and use that management class for only my monthly backups? Don, what you proposed will not work. Keep in mind that conceptually, policy settings apply to an object name, not to various instances of that object. If you make a new backup changing the management class, it also changes the management class of the previous backups that have the same name. And so, all previous backups will abide by the policy settings of the management class of the latest successful backup. Paul's technique using two node names is really a good way to solve your issue. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement.
Re: TDP for Domino backup issues.....
> Yes, they are going straight to tape, currently in a 3590 autoloader which > will become a 3494 as soon as IBM fixes the hardware issues. > > Yes, MOUNTWAIT was NO. Have changed it and it seems to have worked. > > Someone needs to address the error message. It doesn't make any > sense...I wasn't doing a restore Zoltan, I am glad to hear that things are working for you now. I have submitted a request to our documentation team to reexamine the message and make it more meaningful. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement.
Re: Select Command problems with TSM 5.1.1
Thanks for your help. We have an open ticket with TSM support since last week and they still haven't given us this information. I would be curious if anyone else is having problems with TSM support Level 1 help. I have had a couple tickets lately that level one has given me the wrong information and caused a lot of wasted time and effort. The problem wasn't resolved until I would escalate the ticket to Level 2 support. Linda Seeba Phone: (314) 234-5190 I/T Specialist - Sr Fax: (314) 232-4581 IBM Global Services E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Canan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 07/23/2002 07:49:40 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Select Command problems with TSM 5.1.1 This problem was addressed in TSM 5.1.1.1, APAR IC33455. At 04:57 PM 7/23/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Known Problem. Call Support. > >Paul D. Seay, Jr. >Technical Specialist >Naptheon, INC >757-688-8180 > > >-Original Message- >From: Linda Seeba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:19 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Select Command problems with TSM 5.1.1 > > >Environment: AIX 4.3.3 TSM 5.1.1 Server Code > > >Prior to TSM 5.1.1 I was able to get statistics for backups from the Summary >table using the select command. Since upgrading the Server code to 5.1.1 the >summary table no longer contains information for backup activity. When I do >select commands against the Summary table I can still see the backup >information from before the upgrade, but there is no backup information in >the Summary table after the upgrades. > > >Linda Seeba Phone: (314) 234-5190 >I/T Specialist - Sr Fax: (314) 232-4581 >IBM Global Services E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Canan IBM Advanced Technical Support
Re: Del, Please Answer: Archive or monthly capability for TDP MS-SQL and MS-Exchange
Levinson, Donald A. wrote: >> Instead of using two nodes could I just specify a different management class >> with a backup copy group that has NOLIMIT on the expired versions retained, >> and use that management class for only my monthly backups? "Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that the node will not rebind so long as you do not change the > management class name. But, if you change the management class name as you > are proposing it will rebind. > > However, I will defer to Del on this. Don, what you proposed will not work. Keep in mind that conceptually, policy settings apply to an object name, not to various instances of that object. If you make a new backup changing the management class, it also changes the management class of the previous backups that have the same name. And so, all previous backups will abide by the policy settings of the management class of the latest successful backup. Paul's technique using two node names is really a good way to solve your issue. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement.
AW: Gigabit Ethernet Performance
Hi Thomas, I tried it on my machines (AIX 4.3.3 H80) this is what I got : ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1" /dev/null 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /dev/null. 1+0 records in. 1+0 records out. 226 Transfer complete. 32768 bytes sent in 16,33 seconds (1,959e+04 Kbytes/s) local: |dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1 remote: /dev/null Best wishes Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 23. Juli 2002 18:51 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Gigabit Ethernet Performance > > Hi TSM-ers, > > our newly installed Gigabit Ethernet seems to have some performance > problems. > When I do the following FTP command between two UNIX (AIX) machines I only > get about 8Megabyte per second. > > # ftp 10.135.11.55 > Name: adminrt > Password: > ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1" /dev/null > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening data connection for /dev/null. > 1+0 records in. > 1+0 records out. > 226 Transfer complete. > 32768 bytes sent in 39.5 seconds (8102 Kbytes/s) > local: |dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1 remote: /dev/null > > This command transfers data from nowhere to nowhere so no disk > is involved. The performance numbers only include network, network > adapter, > TCP/IP and a bit of UNIX. > Do you think 8MB/s is OK for Gigabit Ethernet? > Would anyone be so kind and test this command in their own UNIX > environment > and tell me the numbers? > > Thanks in advance and greetings from Austria > Thomas Rupp > Vorarlberger Illwerke AG > MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 > FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 > > > > -- > > Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. > > Vorarlberger Illwerke AG > -- >
Volume deleted from OFFSITETAPES pool
Hi, I was updating a few "unavailable" tape volumes to access=reado, and in error typed :- UPDATE VOLUME AD0289 ACCESS=READO (AD0289 being the error). Should I being concerned by the messages below, have I lost some data?, what can I do to recover the situation ? 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE VOLUME AD0289 ACCESS=READO 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR2208I Volume AD0289 deleted from storage pool OFFSITETAPES. 07/24/2002 10:36:33 ANR1341I Scratch volume AD0289 has been deleted from storage pool OFFSITETAPES. TSM 4.1.4.1 running on a Windows 2000 System. T.I.A Bill Dourado *** Disclaimer *** This email and any files transmitted with it contains privileged and confidential information and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender at once that you have received it by mistake and then delete it from your system. Any views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of ALSTEC or its associated companies. Whereas ALSTEC takes reasonable precautions to ensure this email is virus free, no responsibility will be accepted by it for any loss or damage whether direct or indirect which results from the contents of this email or its attachments. ALSTEC Group Limited - Registered in England No.3939840 - www.alstec.com Registered office: Cambridge Road, Whetstone, Leicester. LE8 6LH. England. Telephone: +44 (0)116 275 0750
Re: INCLEXCL not working as expected on Windows XP client
I asked the list about this problem: > However, with Windows XP clients I have been unable to obtain this > desired restricted backup policy. I did install the TSM client 4.2.2.0, > following the advice on the ADSM list, so Windows XP support should be OK. > I have done many experiments with the INCLEXCL options, and I believe > that the following options in the server or client should work: > > EXCLUDE.DIR "C:\*" > INCLUDE "C:\Documents and Settings\...\*.*" and got excellent advice from several people. Now I got things to work, and I would like to summarize my experiences: 1. EXCLUDE.DIR doesn't obey the bottom-up precedence, it will globally override any INCLUDE lines. 2. When you define clientoptions in the server, you need both single and double quotes when a Windows folder contains spaces, as someone else wrote on this list previously, for example: DEFINE CLIENTOPT windowsopt INCLEXCL 'include "*:\Documents and Settings\...\*"' seq=20 Note that '' is needed to protect the command argument, and that "" is needed to protect the folder name containing spaces. My CLIENTOPT for Windows XP clients now roughly looks like this, as shown by QUERY CLOPTSET on the server: exclude *:\...\* include "*:\Documents and Settings\...\*" exclude.dir *:\Windows exclude.dir "*:\Program Files" Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark
Re: rollforward vs. normal mode
I've run it both ways. ROLLFORWARD is goodness that lets me sleep better at night, but it's expensive goodness, in terms of management effort and system performance. 1. Define your log to be 12gb, regardless of how big you think it should be. The max in V4+ is 13gb, and you want to leave yourself some room to add your PREDEFINED AND PREFORMATTED 1gb emergency log entent for when it fills up, as it inevitably will. My log is two 6gb extents which I think gives me some flexibility, compared to one 12gb extent. Disks are cheap, compared to being awakened in the middle of the night by a full log. Just make it 12gb. Period. 2. Look at the statistics from your recent incremental database backups. That (plus a safety/growth factor of, say, 25%) is how big your log really needs to be, and if that's pushing 12gb, you are going to need to run Database Backups more frequently than you are now. 3. Now consider the full backups. They take much longer. Therefore, you've got to start them much earlier. If there is one thing you want to avoid, it is a TRIGGERED FULL DB BACKUP. That's when my log fills up, always. While one could say this means I've got my trigger set too high, and they'd technically be right, I like to set it high or else I'll run a whole lot more incremental backups than I really need to. (Tivoli: It would be really nice to have TWO thresholds we could set in the backup trigger, separate for whether or not the next backup will be an incremental or a full backup. I'd set a much higher threshold when the next backup was to be incremental, comapred to full.) 4. In fact, avoid triggered backups in general. It is inevitable that when my system gets a good head of steam up doing nice productive work like migration and reclamation, that the trigger pops and a tape drive gets yanked. And since the system is busy, the backup runs slower. And since the system is busy, the log fills up faster. Pop! It's full. So, watch how your work flow goes over the course of the day, and try to make all backups be scheduled ones, with triggered backups only in an emergency. I take the occurence of a triggered backup as a sign that I have not done an adequate job at scheduling things. You don't want to resort to Drastic Measures such as shutting down migration, reclamation, and expiration, due to your own poor planning. 5. When running in ROLLFORWARD mode, database disk performance becomes a much more critical concern. I could go on for a long time about this, but basically you want disk arms. RAID-anything won't help database performance; you've got to have arms, due to the essentially random I/O pattern of the database. More smaller slower disk drives is better than fewer larger faster disk drives, because it allows a higher multiprogramming factor and thereby more total server throughput. I tried AIX JFS striping briefly, and it ran VERY slowly, so I gave it up. The bottleneck in TSM Database Backup is disk, not tape, performance. When the log is filling up and you are sitting there, on pins and needles, watching it fill up at the same time a DB backup is running, you want that database backup to run as fast as possible, so it can win the race. You can get full drawers of nice 9.1gb IBM 7133-020 SAA disks from used equipment dealers for a song just now; my TSM database loves 'em. THERE IS A BUG in many ADSM and TSM server versions, dating back to ADSM V2 on VM but still present, wherein sometimes a database backup completes but the log does not empty out. (Amazing how they can port bugs from one platform to another!) The bypass is to bounce the TSM server. If you have automated monitoring things, you can watch for this situation and get yourself warned, before the log fills up. 6. The log, OTOH, has a much more sequential access pattern, since it is a circular queue. All those good performance things your RAID vendors love to tell you over expensive lunches, will work on the log, as opposed to the database. 7. You'll never get all this higher mathematics right the first time, or perhaps a databae backup will fail, so plan for the eventuality of a log-full server crash. Predefine and preformat a log extent that is still small enough to fit under the 13gb limit, and write down clearly where it is and how to add it with an EXTEND, how to increase the number of incrementals between fulls by +1 for just this one time, how to start an incremental backup manually, in the middle of the night, when your mind is on other things, and perhaps you've had a drink or two. This WILL happen, when you run a big TSM server in rollforward mode. The wall clock time for a Full Database Backup should be considered an essential measure of system health. Keep track of it over time. The other essential measure is expiration process time; if it exceeds 24 hours, (or whatever interval you start it at) you're in a slow death spiral. When these barometers of TSM server health go critical, consider giving up ROLLFORWARD mode as an interim measure
Re: Occupancy comparison script
We run this server-script occasionally. Just copy and paste these lines from the mail into the command line admin screen. Hit the enter key after the last line to get it into the script too. You can then run the server-script using "tsm:>run totocd". No parameters required. Perform "audit lic" first to get an accurate measurement. The script shows the total number of files occupying TSM. It also shows the amount of GB's grouped by backup, backup-copy, archive and archive-copy type of data. On the end it also shows the total amount. start clipping def script totocd desc='run totocd' upd script totocd '/* ---*/' upd script totocd '/* Script Name: totocd*/' upd script totocd '/* Parameter: none */' upd script totocd '/* Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]*/' upd script totocd '/* Example: run totocd*/' upd script totocd '/* RUN AUDIT LIC FIRST TO GET AN ACC. RESULT */' upd script totocd '/* ---*/' upd script totocd 'select sum(num_files) as "File Count" from occupancy' upd script totocd 'select -' upd script totocd 'cast(sum(backup_mb/1024) as decimal(5,1)) as "Backup (GB)", -' upd script totocd 'cast(sum(backup_copy_mb/1024) as decimal(5,1)) as "BackupCp (GB)", -' upd script totocd 'cast(sum(archive_mb/1024) as decimal(5,1)) as "Archive (GB)", -' upd script totocd 'cast(sum(archive_copy_mb/1024) as decimal(5,1)) as "ArchCp (GB)", -' upd script totocd 'cast(sum(total_mb/1024) as decimal(5,1)) as "Total (GB)" -' upd script totocd 'from auditocc' < end clipping This is an example of the results you should get. It shows our current status from one of our TSM 4.2 servers. tsm: ABPTSM1>run totocd File Count --- 46316390 Backup (GB) BackupCp (GB) Archive (GB) ArchCp (GB) Total (GB) --- - --- -- 2477.0 182.0 3852.0 140.0 6697.0 ANR1462I RUN: Command script TOTOCD completed successfully. Use it if you like. We run it once in a while to see how much data we have in TSM. Management loves figures.. Ilja G. Coolen ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Telefoon: +31(0)45 579 7938 Fax: +31(0)45 579 3990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centrale Mailbox: Centrale Mailbox - BS Storage (eumbx05) - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. -
