backupping too long pathnames under linux
Hi, I am using the tsm-client V5.1 lev. 1.0 under LINUX (RedHat 7.3, Kernel 2.4.19). My problem: if I try to backup files with rather long pathnames, then dsmc dies with (the only) message aborted, but after this there is still running a tsm client in background. The output of the ps command says after abortion: 040 S root 2413 1 0 69 0- 8284 rt_sig Sep10 ?00:00:00 /opt/ tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incremental -quiet -subdir=yes / /disk2 Does somebody have similar problems? Regards Joachim Backes -- Joachim Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Univ. of Kaiserslautern Computer Center, High Performance Computing | Phone: +49-631-205-2438 D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany | Fax: +49-631-205-3056 -+ WWW: http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html
AW: UNLOADDB Appears Stuck and Will not Continue
Hi This is an experience, I made too. Server AIX 4.3.3 and TSM-Server 4.1.4 After some time no messages apear anymore in the log, but it runs. At the end the summary-messages are written again. The loaddb tells you if no auditdb is necessary (I reorganized the database twice and no auditdb was necessary). This is for example the tail of one of my logs (the reporting stopped after dumping of 110018141 entries of at least 154888605 entries) : ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 108679141 database entries (cumulative). ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 109369605 database entries (cumulative). ANR4013I UNLOADDB: Dumped 110018141 database entries (cumulative). ANR4402I UNLOADDB: Database update activity resumed ANR1361I Output volume /TSM1/dbbackup/TSM1/31499933.DMP closed. ANR4031I UNLOADDB: Copied 4456680 database pages. ANR4033I UNLOADDB: Copied 1684 bit vectors. ANR4034I UNLOADDB: Encountered 0 bad database pages. ANR4036I UNLOADDB: Copied 154888605 database entries. ANR4037I UNLOADDB: 11104 Megabytes copied. ANR4026I UNLOADDB: Process 0, database dump has completed. Best wishes Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Seay, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 03:56 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: UNLOADDB Appears Stuck and Will not Continue As it turns out, Level 2 now believes the APAR fixed in 4.2.2.8 related to AUDITDB and other fixes up to 4.2.2.10 apply to this issue. We are installing 4.2.2.12 next week. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Tomas Hrouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UNLOADDB Appears Stuck and Will not Continue I have the same experience on MVS server, during last attempt to UNLOAD DB to tape devclass process stop messaging after 1,5 hour at 50 milions items (20GB database 80% utilized) and next three hours nothing was reported (but still consumed some procesor time). We was shuting down the process in presumtion it was hacked. 1. Do you thing it still was working and we would let it be so until finished? 2. Do you know anybody how to pipe output to file in MVS (some job script example for unloaddb?) Thanks Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UNLOADDB Appears Stuck and Will not Continue I probably should have added that it eventually finished. I have no idea why the messages stopped coming out. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Seay, Paul wrote: Has anyone experience the UNLOADDB to seem to stall for many hours and stop putting out the UNLOAD messages? It was running great 1.5M entries per message (about every 10 seconds). Then just stopped after about 3 hours at 523942500. Is it running an audit because something is amiss? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180
AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file
Deleting the .file does the job(in any case i think so). No need to clear the entire cache. But it seems that the trigger for the misbehavior still exists and the error occurs again after a view backups. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 03:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We see about 1 of these a month, out of 400 Win2K machines backing up daily with ALL files subject to subfile backups. It does kill the backup. I had not figured out what triggers it, so I'm glad to know. Can you get around the problem by deleting the .file? We've been blowing away the whole cache subdirectory. That lets the next backup complete OK (although it will not be a subfile backup). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/10/2002 3:41 AM Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We also see this error from time to time. With the error TSM leaves a .file in the cache directory, that causes new errors. I started a PMR at Tivoli. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 9. September 2002 22:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: DELTA: Error generating the delta file All, Receiving this error DELTA: Error generating the delta file (reported to the DMSERROR.LOG). Has anyone else seen this error? I cannot find any documentation on this error. Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Dow Corning's practice statement for digitally signed messages may be found at http://www.dowcorning.com/dcps. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the Security Administrator at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com
The New and improved ADSM.ORG
Hi Gang, For those of you fortunate enough to have access to the NET from work/home, had a looked at the new Adsm.org yet? It is very impressive! Not too many people subscribed yet, definately worth it. Cheers Christo __ The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Absa is liable neither for the proper, complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt, nor for the assurance that it is virus-free.
Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients
Just 2 cents: Assuming that search for files spread over tape and tapes consumes much of your restore time, so that many small files count for significant amount of restore time while large files count for most of your tape capacity but not for most of the restore time you could speed up things by applying similar management as is commonly used for directories for small files as well. You could define a 2-level hierarchy within your disk storage pools, the first level with maximum size treshold set to allow for your small files only, pointing to second disk storage pool without file size limitation. This way many of small files would be restored from disk storage pool with no tape search penalty. If this really suits you depends strongly on the statistical distribution of your file sizes. regards juraj SALAK -Original Message- From: Werner Kliewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients I am working on our first TSM based DR plan for our data centre. We currently have a successfully tested several times plan using system specific tools, such as Sysback/6000 for AIX, BRM for AS/400, ArcServe for Novell and WinNT. We have been asked to convert to TSM to consolidate all backups in one tool. We have recently installed an NSM running TSM version 4.1.3.0, soon to be upgraded to 4.2.2.1 because that is the newest version certified for the NSM. It is attached to an LTO library. There is no HSM activated, but the TSM Server is backing up numerous clients that have to be restored in a DR scenario. Many of them are NT4.0, Windows 2000 and soon Windows XP servers of various sizes. There are also several AIX 4.3.3.ML09 servers. I have the TSM Server recovery down to probably the bare minimum time of 4-6 hours, depending on the power of the machine it is being recovered on. This does not include creating the disk pools, which can take another 12-18 hours but is not part of the critical path. The biggest Windows servers run Exchange or SQL Server, which tend to back up large blobs of data that are relatively easy to restore. Two of the AIX servers are p680's with 750 logical volumes, 500 filesystems and 1.5-2 terabytes of total data each, 250-350gb of data backed up nightly. For my current test, the DR media pool is 107 cartridges. I have to restore the data in stages. Neither the command line client nor the GUI will allow me to select all the filespaces I need at once for the first pass. The command line tells complains that it is too long and the GUI simply fails before starting if I choose too many filesystems. Even if one of them worked properly, I would have to pass at least 75 of those tapes to do the restore. This initial pass includes great chunks of the /home filesystem where things are changing every day. For my DR test, I am running on a p610 with a single, stand-alone LTO drive. It takes about 12 hours to pass those 75 tapes once. I will have to pass them 3-5 times for each restore. For the real DR test, I will have an F50 and 3 LTO drives, but I will be restoring at the same time as all the other critical servers, so I will be lucky to get a single drive to myself, and it is the LOAD, UNLOAD and LOCATE parts of the process that take up the bulk of the time. Actual data transfer is quite well optimized, once the data is located. I am currently looking at 2 possible ways to improve this. None of the servers will have direct attached backup/recovery devices of sufficient capacity, throughput, or reliability to be useful. We cannot afford enough drives to cover all the servers. All restores must be done via the TSM server. One possibility is to use BACKUP SETs. But I am concerned that BACKUP SETs are oriented to local restore scenarios and am not sure how easy they are to manage and restore from a central storage (NSM/TSM) point of view. There is also some concern about the additional TSM activity creating the BACKUP SETs would cause on an already fairly close to capacity NSM. The second option is to do full system ARCHIVES, but this would cause activity on both the NSM and the client, neither of which have available windows for this activity. Because either of these possibilities would, of necessity, be occasional (at best once a week), there is the additional issue of how easy it is to bring the system up to the most current backup after the restore. Would a multi-filespace simple restore be intelligent enough to pass only the last 7 days of tape or would it pass all tapes with those filespaces on them? A third possibility I have thought of recently is to isolate these very large servers in their own COPY POOLs, effectively co-locating only these servers, but I am not convinced this would reduce the number of tapes passed by the DR restores, and it would certainly increase the total number of tapes in the
About tsm Migration SpaceReclam
dear all : about tsm server , when server start Migration or SpaceReclam process. if driver or mount tape error. server retry that process . the default retry interval is 60 seconds. My question is : 1. How can I change this retry interval time other than 60 seconds ? 2. By defrault How many time the retry delay end. process failed , can i change it ? thank 's
Overland Powerloader
Hi List! I'm going to set up TSM 5.1 on a Windows2000 server and I'm going to use is Overland Powerloader DLT8000 as a library. Does ayone has any experience (bad or good) with this library? Things I should be aware of? Is it OK to use the TSM Wizard to configure devices and label volumes? Regards Sylvia Nergård
Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area
Hi Paul and Miles! Thanks for replying! I was impressed by your figures Miles! 1260 objects per second, wow! I don't know much about UNIX hardware so I don't know what a 6h1 is, but it must be a lot faster that a H70. I will plan a upgrade to 4.2.2.12 next week, let's see if that helps. For now, I will wait with 5.1, from experience I'm always a bit afraid for TSM maintenance level 1 software. I will upgrade to 5.1 as soon as 5.1.2.0 becomes available though. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 04:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area During backups and a maxed out system I fired up an expiration to see what my worse rate is. It was an average of 187 objects a second. Cache hit rate was only 95.7 during this time. So, yes, you have a problem, and I think I know what it is. Until you get to 4.2.2.7, and really higher or 5.1.1.4 if V5 there are some nasty expiration locking problems. You may want to consider getting on 4.2.2.12 or 5.1.1.4 depending on your situation. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiration processing Hi *SM-ers! Last week I read about Rodney Clark doing a 400 objects a second expiration. I checked my expiration process: it's inspecting about 20 objects a second. Ok, maybe he has got faster hardware, but 20 times faster? I have TSM 4.2.2.0 running on a H70 with the database on raw logical volumes (36 Gb. 10K rpm SSA disks, TSM mirroring). My database cache hit is 98.53%. I was hoping that some people out there (with somewhat similar setup) could share their expiration performance with me. Does anybody have some tips? Where should I start troubleshooting? Thank you very much in advance for your reply! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
8bit characters containing filenames not backed up.
Hi The the TSM Linux Client 5.1.1 doesn't want to backup files with 8bit characters (like umlauts) in the filename. The errorlog contains entries like: fioScanDirEntry(): Object '/home/arthur/|umlaut.txt' contains unrecognized symbols for current locale, skipping... Looking at the suggestions on this list I've tried to set different variables: export LANG=en_US export LC_ALL=en_US export LC_CTYPE=en_US I've also tried them with de_DE, with no success. Any ideas? Yours Arthur -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
AW: 8bit characters containing filenames not backed up.
Hi Arthur, I'm not sure it this is true for the Linux Client but for windows clients the filespace has to be unicode enabled. Starting with TSM server 4.2 unicode enabled filespaces are supported. Do a QUERY FILESPACE nodename filespacename F=D and you should see Is Filespace Unicode?: Yes. HTH Kind regards Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Arthur v. Dorp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 14:28 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: 8bit characters containing filenames not backed up. Hi The the TSM Linux Client 5.1.1 doesn't want to backup files with 8bit characters (like umlauts) in the filename. The errorlog contains entries like: fioScanDirEntry(): Object '/home/arthur/|umlaut.txt' contains unrecognized symbols for current locale, skipping... Looking at the suggestions on this list I've tried to set different variables: export LANG=en_US export LC_ALL=en_US export LC_CTYPE=en_US I've also tried them with de_DE, with no success. Any ideas? Yours Arthur -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net -- Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. Vorarlberger Illwerke AG --
Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file
Stefan Wanda, I believe my error must be slightly different. I am only seeing this on 2 NT 4.0 Servers running Client version 4.1.2.12. The actually error in the dsmerror.log is: 09/11/2002 03:26:02 DELTA: Error generating the delta file. 4539 On the other node the error is: 09/10/2002 21:07:46 DELTA: Error generating the delta file. 4516 Both nodes complete their backups successfully and I find .file file in the cache directory. As Wanda did I would blow the whole cache and let it recreate it during the next BACKUP. But then following backup the errors reappear. Nothing in the NT event logs only entries to the DSMERROR.LOG (Several of them). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file Deleting the .file does the job(in any case i think so). No need to clear the entire cache. But it seems that the trigger for the misbehavior still exists and the error occurs again after a view backups. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 03:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We see about 1 of these a month, out of 400 Win2K machines backing up daily with ALL files subject to subfile backups. It does kill the backup. I had not figured out what triggers it, so I'm glad to know. Can you get around the problem by deleting the .file? We've been blowing away the whole cache subdirectory. That lets the next backup complete OK (although it will not be a subfile backup). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/10/2002 3:41 AM Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We also see this error from time to time. With the error TSM leaves a .file in the cache directory, that causes new errors. I started a PMR at Tivoli. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 9. September 2002 22:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: DELTA: Error generating the delta file All, Receiving this error DELTA: Error generating the delta file (reported to the DMSERROR.LOG). Has anyone else seen this error? I cannot find any documentation on this error. Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Dow Corning's practice statement for digitally signed messages may be found at http://www.dowcorning.com/dcps. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the Security Administrator at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com
Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file
I would recommend that anyone experiencing this problem contact IBM support so that we can try to get to the bottom of the trouble. Bruce, in your case, I would first advise that you upgrade to a supported client level, as 4.1 is no longer supported. Best 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. Bruce Lowrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/2002 05:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file Stefan Wanda, I believe my error must be slightly different. I am only seeing this on 2 NT 4.0 Servers running Client version 4.1.2.12. The actually error in the dsmerror.log is: 09/11/2002 03:26:02 DELTA: Error generating the delta file. 4539 On the other node the error is: 09/10/2002 21:07:46 DELTA: Error generating the delta file. 4516 Both nodes complete their backups successfully and I find .file file in the cache directory. As Wanda did I would blow the whole cache and let it recreate it during the next BACKUP. But then following backup the errors reappear. Nothing in the NT event logs only entries to the DSMERROR.LOG (Several of them). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file Deleting the .file does the job(in any case i think so). No need to clear the entire cache. But it seems that the trigger for the misbehavior still exists and the error occurs again after a view backups. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 03:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We see about 1 of these a month, out of 400 Win2K machines backing up daily with ALL files subject to subfile backups. It does kill the backup. I had not figured out what triggers it, so I'm glad to know. Can you get around the problem by deleting the .file? We've been blowing away the whole cache subdirectory. That lets the next backup complete OK (although it will not be a subfile backup). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/10/2002 3:41 AM Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We also see this error from time to time. With the error TSM leaves a .file in the cache directory, that causes new errors. I started a PMR at Tivoli. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 9. September 2002 22:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: DELTA: Error generating the delta file All, Receiving this error DELTA: Error generating the delta file (reported to the DMSERROR.LOG). Has anyone else seen this error? I cannot find any documentation on this error. Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Dow Corning's practice statement for digitally signed messages may be found at http://www.dowcorning.com/dcps. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the Security Administrator at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com This email has been scanned for
Re: 8bit characters containing filenames not backed up
Our Server is on a AIX-RS/6000 with Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0. So I don't think that it supports unicode. 8 bits would be enough, I don't need 2 bytes. Is there a way to backup the files without unicode support? Arthur Original message: Hi Arthur, I'm not sure it this is true for the Linux Client but for windows clients the filespace has to be unicode enabled. Starting with TSM server 4.2 unicode enabled filespaces are supported. Do a QUERY FILESPACE nodename filespacename F=3DD and you should see Is Filespace Unicode?: Yes. HTH Kind regards Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients
Juraj, Your scenario would be helpful to recover a lost filesystem or a lost client in the datacenter, but for Disaster Recovery, we must assume we'll be rebuilding the TSM server plus several critical clients at another site... and that requires tape, unless you can justify spending big bucks to mirror you environment in real time at the recovery center. Robin
Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area
Hi Eric, your H70 is a good machine. A 6H1 is a upgrade of a H50, which is less than the H70. You machine is not the issue here. First consider the software issue, which I don't know much about. Then the hardware. I can make many suggestions in this area. Hopefully the information I presented is understandable and you can consider things like balancing disks across adapters, using hardware striping, using LVM striping, balancing LVs across arrays, balancing LVs across adapters, experimenting with stripe sizes and so forth. To reiterate, for those who may be interested: some of the best performance that I get is from using a combination of multiple adapters, multiple hardware RAID arrays and using LVM striping across the RAID arrays. Please see: Creating Filesystems for Performance. Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11-Sep-02 6:02:53 AM Hi Paul and Miles! Thanks for replying! I was impressed by your figures Miles! 1260 objects per second, wow! I don't know much about UNIX hardware so I don't know what a 6h1 is, but it must be a lot faster that a H70. I will plan a upgrade to 4.2.2.12 next week, let's see if that helps. For now, I will wait with 5.1, from experience I'm always a bit afraid for TSM maintenance level 1 software. I will upgrade to 5.1 as soon as 5.1.2.0 becomes available though. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 04:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area During backups and a maxed out system I fired up an expiration to see what my worse rate is. It was an average of 187 objects a second. Cache hit rate was only 95.7 during this time. So, yes, you have a problem, and I think I know what it is. Until you get to 4.2.2.7, and really higher or 5.1.1.4 if V5 there are some nasty expiration locking problems. You may want to consider getting on 4.2.2.12 or 5.1.1.4 depending on your situation. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiration processing Hi *SM-ers! Last week I read about Rodney Clark doing a 400 objects a second expiration. I checked my expiration process: it's inspecting about 20 objects a second. Ok, maybe he has got faster hardware, but 20 times faster? I have TSM 4.2.2.0 running on a H70 with the database on raw logical volumes (36 Gb. 10K rpm SSA disks, TSM mirroring). My database cache hit is 98.53%. I was hoping that some people out there (with somewhat similar setup) could share their expiration performance with me. Does anybody have some tips? Where should I start troubleshooting? Thank you very much in advance for your reply! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients
Okay, I should have read your requirements more carefully, sorry Juraj -Original Message- From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients Juraj, Your scenario would be helpful to recover a lost filesystem or a lost client in the datacenter, but for Disaster Recovery, we must assume we'll be rebuilding the TSM server plus several critical clients at another site... and that requires tape, unless you can justify spending big bucks to mirror you environment in real time at the recovery center. Robin
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
I would love to see both documents - please!!! Jane %% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4750 - Original Message - From: Miles Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:47 AM Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
help with script
Can anyone help me wih the following script. I'm trying to go out and updat al the admin scripts I have and can't seem to get this one right SELECT 'upd schedule ' || SCHEDULE_NAME FROM ADMIN_SCHEDULES and || 'type=admin priorty=5' ** Confidentiality Note: This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and destroy the original message and all copies. **
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
Hi Miles, I would really, really like to see your docs. Have been using tsm in more of an operations mode, but we are putting a new server up with latest and greatest drive on a sans. Any info to soak up sounds great. Thanks, Aaron Durkee Aaron Durkee [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (716) 862-1713 fax: (716) 862-1717 Networking and Technical Group Western New York Catholic Health System [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/02 10:47AM A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
Is reclamation working?
TSM Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.9 I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Just a few: U00582OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS25,415.90.0 Full U00586OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS19,665.60.0 Full U01638OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS18,157.98.5 Full This morning I saw reclamation running with this tape mounted and a scratch tape had just been mounted to, more than likely, move some files. But it's 100% full so I don't get it. U02188NOTES_TPOOL 3590CLASS36,672.3 100.0Full Is this strange and does anyone else have this many tapes with the same percentage used. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: Strategies for DR recovery of large clients
Werner --- The second option is to do full system ARCHIVES, but this would cause activity on both the NSM and the client, neither of which have available windows for this activity. Because either of these possibilities would, of necessity, be occasional (at best once a week), there is the additional issue of how easy it is to bring the system up to the most current backup after the restore. Would a multi-filespace simple restore be intelligent enough to pass only the last 7 days of tape or would it pass all tapes with those filespaces on them? My experience is that a point-in-time restore will use what already exists as a starting point. We have several large AIX filesystems with a great deal of daily activity (delete/create files). On our first D/R test the PIT restore took six hours. As a result, I now run a weekly archive of the directory. At the D/R site we retrieve the most recent archive (about 30 minutes) and then do the PIT restore (about 15 minutes). A third possibility I have thought of recently is to isolate these very large servers in their own COPY POOLs, effectively co-locating only these servers, but I am not convinced this would reduce the number of tapes passed by the DR restores, and it would certainly increase the total number of tapes in the DR set and increase off-site reclamation activity, which already takes the better part of the day shift most days. We do this as well -- at the very least, split archive pools from backup pools. Then don't bother with reclaims on the archive pools. Just let them expire. This will require more tape, but tape is cheap in the great scheme of things. In our case, most archive data has a 23-day retention so we need 23 X number of daily tapes plus a few for contingencies. In actual fact, we have 4 off-site archive copy pools: one for MS-Exchange; one for the SAP datbase; one for the SAP redo logs; and one for all other Oracle database archives (and the second copy of the SAP redo logs). These all exist to speed up recovery during D/R. At one point, when using DLT-7000 drives, we had 445 tapes in the off-site storage that we had to take to the hot-site for our D/R testing. Thanks to the move to LTO and a bit of creative combinations (we used to have a seperate copy pool for the second set of SAP redo logs, for example) we now have about 115 LTO tapes off-site on any given day. We can recover adsm, restore a 650-plus GB SAP (Oracle) database, restore three additional Oracle databases (25 GB total), recover two MS-Exchange servers, and start recovering other TSM storage pools, all in just under 24 hours. Our TSM server is also the SAP DB server, so it's an S7A -- but we use 5 3581 LTO autochangers, configued as stand-alone drives. Our SLA doesn't require our big NT server to be up until day 3, so I recover the NT backup tapes from the consolidated off-site backup copypool first. HTH -- Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
Good morning Mr Purdy, I'm interested in having both documents for configuring tape drives and creating AIX filesystems for performance. Thank you for sharing the know how. Raymond Taw Distributed Systems Software Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916) 845-5565 Voice (916) 843-2026 Fax -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
I would appreciate if you would send both of your documents. Thank you so much for sharing Nancy -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
Re: Is reclamation working?
I have seen the number of reclaimable tapes grow steadily over the course of a week, but the percent utilized average would go down over time. If I remember correctly, reclaiming tapes in offsite pools is similar to a migration, in that the reclamation process moves the data in the largest chunks possible. For example... Day one, you have 3 tapes that need to be reclaimed in the offsite pool, but by the end of the day, they each only get down to 25-30% utilized. Day two, three more tapes are added to the reclamation list, but since onsite tapes mounted for reclamation will have more data to be moved on them for the newly added tapes, the tapes from day one will not get reclaimed as much as the tapes from day two. So now you end up with the day one tapes an additional 5% less utilized, and the day two tapes 20% less utilized. Day three comes along, adding four tapes that are 50% utilized, and the list of tapes grows, but the reclaimable percentage, on average, is still less. Each day, this happens without fully reclaiming some tapes. What I do when I see this condition is set the reclamation threshold higher.. say 95% or 90%.. and get the tapes that are 5 or 10% utilized fully reclaimed. Later, I will set the threshold lower, in increments that make sense (say, only two or four tapes will match the reclamation threshold) so that tapes get fully reclaimed. The situation you are seeing can happen very easily if your primary storage pool is collocated, but your copy storage pool is not. Lots of primary storage pool tape mounts will slow down your reclamation process. Hope this helps Todd |+-- || Gill, Geoffrey | || L. | || GEOFFREY.L.GILL| || @SAIC.COM | || Sent by: ADSM: | || Dist Stor | || Manager| || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| || T.EDU | || | || | || 09/11/02 10:05 | || AM | || Please respond | || to ADSM: Dist | || Stor Manager | || | |+-- -| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Fax to: | | Subject: Is reclamation working? | -| TSM Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.9 I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Just a few: U00582OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS25,415.90.0 Full U00586OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS19,665.60.0 Full U01638OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS18,157.98.5 Full This morning I saw reclamation running with this tape mounted and a scratch tape had just been mounted to, more than likely, move some files. But it's 100% full so I don't get it. U02188NOTES_TPOOL 3590CLASS36,672.3 100.0Full Is this strange and does anyone else have this many tapes with the same percentage used. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: help with script
Here ya go: select 'upd schedule ' || schedule_name || ' type=admin priority=5' as from admin_schedules The x.. are there only to force the column wider so the schedule names won't wrap to the next line. If you still can't keep it from wrapping, you can always do: select '@@@ || schedule_name || ' ###' then pipe (or cut paste) the output into a file and do a change all on the @@@ and ###, etc. 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: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help with script Can anyone help me wih the following script. I'm trying to go out and updat al the admin scripts I have and can't seem to get this one right SELECT 'upd schedule ' || SCHEDULE_NAME FROM ADMIN_SCHEDULES and || 'type=admin priorty=5' ** Confidentiality Note: This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and destroy the original message and all copies. **
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
Miles, I very interested and would really appreciate and documentation you have on performance an/or configuring tape drives in TSM mucho thinks crg -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
AW: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
Hi TSM-ers, I think what we as TSM users need is a single place where we can drop our documents etc. Do you think the brushed up www.adsm.org could be the right place? This would save a lot of me too traffic on this list. Kind regards Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Damron, Nancy E. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 17:56 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance I would appreciate if you would send both of your documents. Thank you so much for sharing Nancy -- Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. Vorarlberger Illwerke AG --
Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance
Miles, I would be interested in reading your document as well. We have a large TSM setup with 18 TSM servers (4 AIX with DLT and LTO Tape Libraries) and pretty soon coming up with a SAN environment. You can email the document to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or send me link to download the same. Thanks, Rajesh Oak -- On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:30:16 Taw.Raymond wrote: Good morning Mr Purdy, I'm interested in having both documents for configuring tape drives and creating AIX filesystems for performance. Thank you for sharing the know how. Raymond Taw Distributed Systems Software Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916) 845-5565 Voice (916) 843-2026 Fax -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? - _ Play the Elvis. Scratch Win for your chance to instantly win $10,000 Cash - a 2003 Harley Davidson. Sportster. - 1 of 25,000 CD's - and more! http://r.lycos.com/r/sagel_mail_scratch_tl/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020801/index.asp?tc=7087
Novell clusters
Is anyone using TSM to backup Novell clusters? If so, how do you handle the situation where a file volume fails over to another node in the cluster? David Ehresman
Graphics error on AIX after TSM server upgrade
I have an RS6000 (pSeries) 6H1 with AIX 4.3.3 ML10. Just upgraded TSM server from 4.2.1.10 to 4.2.2.0. New server works o.k. However the AIX errpt now shows a graphics error several times a minute, may skip a few minutes before next error. I have GXT-130P adapter and it appears to be working o.k. Here is one error, info is same each time. --- LABEL: GRAPHICS IDENTIFIER: E85C5C4C Date/Time: Wed Sep 11 13:12:06 Sequence Number: 16269 Machine Id: 000304AF4C00 Node Id: tsmserv1 Class: S Type:PERM Resource Name: LFTDD Description SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR Probable Causes SOFTWARE PROGRAM Failure Causes SOFTWARE PROGRAM Recommended Actions IF PROBLEM CONTINUES TO OCCUR REPEATEDLY THEN DO THE FOLLOWING CONTACT APPROPRIATE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE REPORT DETAILED DATA Detail Data DETECTED FAILEDRC ERROR LOCATION lftwput 0 2009 21 - Any suggestions? Thanks, David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 09/11/2002 01:34:48 PM -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: Creating (AIX) File systems for Performance
Miles I am configuring on SAN with Netapp filer in NFS. Please send the info which will benefit all. Thanks Balanand Pinni SBC Services Inc. Work:314-206-5911 Pager:1-800-451-6897 Email ID :[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.mail pager -Original Message- From: Rajesh Oak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance Miles, I would be interested in reading your document as well. We have a large TSM setup with 18 TSM servers (4 AIX with DLT and LTO Tape Libraries) and pretty soon coming up with a SAN environment. You can email the document to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or send me link to download the same. Thanks, Rajesh Oak -- On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:30:16 Taw.Raymond wrote: Good morning Mr Purdy, I'm interested in having both documents for configuring tape drives and creating AIX filesystems for performance. Thank you for sharing the know how. Raymond Taw Distributed Systems Software Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916) 845-5565 Voice (916) 843-2026 Fax -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating (AIX) Filesystems for Performance A couple of months ago I created a document on configuring tape drives in TSM. I think it was well received . At the same time I also created a document on creating (AIX) filesystems for performance, I never released it. But now it seems might be a good time. I will not post it here. If you want either document reply to me directly. Miles --- --- Miles Purdy System Manager Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Information Systems Team, Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? --- -- _ Play the Elvis. Scratch Win for your chance to instantly win $10,000 Cash - a 2003 Harley Davidson. Sportster. - 1 of 25,000 CD's - and more! http://r.lycos.com/r/sagel_mail_scratch_tl/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_ 020801/index.asp?tc=7087
Lots of little TSM Questions...
I am current using a compaq ESL9198 library. (200 slots, (8)DLT40/80 drives) Unfortunately the capacity for the library is about 10TB and we have around 15TB of data in our primary storage pool now. Needless to say, I am endlessly importing and exporting media to make room for scratch media, volumes for file restores etc. On top of this, our management is now requiring me to retain monthly full backups. (I'm planning on using backup sets, but if someone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it!) I am currently planning on upgrading our tape library but have a few questions: 1) Is anyone sharing a single library with multiple TSM servers? If so, how well is it working? (I also need to split-up our TSM server into multiple servers, the current size of the TSM DB is around 35GB. If I buy a large library, is this library sharing really going to work reliably as advertised?) 2) The current library I'm looking as is a new Compaq ESL9595SL2 (600 slots, (16) 160/320 drives). How would that compare to say- a storagetek L700E? (I know there are ALOT of variables here, just looking for very general info) What advantages/disadvantages are there to using ACSLS libraries? 3) Is anyone familiar with the new backupset option in TSM 5.1? I looking in the online documentation, but can't seem to find anything Any info would be greatly appreciated! Dave
Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area
I might as well chime in with my results -- ANR0984I Process 1120 for EXPIRE INVENTORY started in the BACKGROUND at 12:01:26 ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 1120 completed: examined 2984588 objects, deleting 32611 backup objects, 2726 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered. ANR0987I Process 1120 for EXPIRE INVENTORY running in the BACKGROUND processed 35337 items with a completion state of SUCCESS at 12:17:25. Or 3,112 objects per second. Environment -- 4-way 660-6M1, fiber-channel access to two ESS raid arrays with the database software mirrored by TSM between them (yes, I'm paranoid). Using SDD to load-balance I/O over 3 fibers to six logical drives (three from each array). TSM 4.2.1.13, AIX 4.3.3 ML 10. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area Hi Paul and Miles! Thanks for replying! I was impressed by your figures Miles! 1260 objects per second, wow! I don't know much about UNIX hardware so I don't know what a 6h1 is, but it must be a lot faster that a H70. I will plan a upgrade to 4.2.2.12 next week, let's see if that helps. For now, I will wait with 5.1, from experience I'm always a bit afraid for TSM maintenance level 1 software. I will upgrade to 5.1 as soon as 5.1.2.0 becomes available though. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 04:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration processing: There are many fixes in this area During backups and a maxed out system I fired up an expiration to see what my worse rate is. It was an average of 187 objects a second. Cache hit rate was only 95.7 during this time. So, yes, you have a problem, and I think I know what it is. Until you get to 4.2.2.7, and really higher or 5.1.1.4 if V5 there are some nasty expiration locking problems. You may want to consider getting on 4.2.2.12 or 5.1.1.4 depending on your situation. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiration processing Hi *SM-ers! Last week I read about Rodney Clark doing a 400 objects a second expiration. I checked my expiration process: it's inspecting about 20 objects a second. Ok, maybe he has got faster hardware, but 20 times faster? I have TSM 4.2.2.0 running on a H70 with the database on raw logical volumes (36 Gb. 10K rpm SSA disks, TSM mirroring). My database cache hit is 98.53%. I was hoping that some people out there (with somewhat similar setup) could share their expiration performance with me. Does anybody have some tips? Where should I start troubleshooting? Thank you very much in advance for your reply! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: Is reclamation working?
There are broken code problems that are not fixed until 4.2.2.10 that can be a contributor if you have W2K clients. The question is are these marked full or are they filling. Fillings do not get reclaimed based on what I have seen. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is reclamation working? TSM Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.9 I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Just a few: U00582OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS25,415.90.0 Full U00586OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS19,665.60.0 Full U01638OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS18,157.98.5 Full This morning I saw reclamation running with this tape mounted and a scratch tape had just been mounted to, more than likely, move some files. But it's 100% full so I don't get it. U02188NOTES_TPOOL 3590CLASS36,672.3 100.0Full Is this strange and does anyone else have this many tapes with the same percentage used. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: Is reclamation working?
Filling tapes that are offsite get reclaimed. If pct reclaim of the tape matches os exceeds the stgpool reclaim pct. Filling tapes that are onsite get reclaimed too, if access get's set to readonly. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/02 02:16PM There are broken code problems that are not fixed until 4.2.2.10 that can be a contributor if you have W2K clients. The question is are these marked full or are they filling. Fillings do not get reclaimed based on what I have seen. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is reclamation working? TSM Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.9 I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Just a few: U00582OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS25,415.90.0 Full U00586OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS19,665.60.0 Full U01638OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS18,157.98.5 Full This morning I saw reclamation running with this tape mounted and a scratch tape had just been mounted to, more than likely, move some files. But it's 100% full so I don't get it. U02188NOTES_TPOOL 3590CLASS36,672.3 100.0 Full Is this strange and does anyone else have this many tapes with the same percentage used. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 09/11/2002 02:49:42 PM -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: Is reclamation working?
I knew there were some rules about this, but I had not been able to figure out what they were, thanks for the clarification. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is reclamation working? Filling tapes that are offsite get reclaimed. If pct reclaim of the tape matches os exceeds the stgpool reclaim pct. Filling tapes that are onsite get reclaimed too, if access get's set to readonly. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/02 02:16PM There are broken code problems that are not fixed until 4.2.2.10 that can be a contributor if you have W2K clients. The question is are these marked full or are they filling. Fillings do not get reclaimed based on what I have seen. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is reclamation working? TSM Server is AIX 4.3.3 running TSM 4.2.1.9 I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Just a few: U00582OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS25,415.90.0 Full U00586OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS19,665.60.0 Full U01638OFFSITE_POOL 3590CLASS18,157.98.5 Full This morning I saw reclamation running with this tape mounted and a scratch tape had just been mounted to, more than likely, move some files. But it's 100% full so I don't get it. U02188NOTES_TPOOL 3590CLASS36,672.3 100.0 Full Is this strange and does anyone else have this many tapes with the same percentage used. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 09/11/2002 02:49:42 PM -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: Need help on how to Truncate MS SQL
Yes , we need to now how to do this with a command so that we can run it on a daily backup -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help on how to Truncate MS SQL I need help on a command on how to truncate a database for MS SQL We are running SQL 6.5 and SQL 7 on a NT platform agents I have is v1.1 and v2.2 Hugo, Do you mean how do you truncate the log? After a successful full or log backup, the SQL database transaction log is truncated... ...unless you specify the option to not truncate the log. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 8/21/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 8/21/2002
Questions about encryption.... and locally stored passphrases....
Hello, 1) If I choose to have TSM store the passphrase locally, will it prompt me initially for a passphrase and THEN store it locally... OR does it auto generate a passphrase and store it locally -so you never see it? 2) How can you tell what things are being encrypted? Is there a server query or some detail report that you can produce? Thanks! Keith
Questions about ---- ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs
Hello, Anyone have any insight or trouble-shooting tips concerning the following errors? 09/10/2002 20:46:55 ANS1228E Sending of object 'C:' failed 09/10/2002 20:46:55 ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs. Thanks Keith
Re: Need help on how to Truncate MS SQL
Yes , we need to now how to do this with a command so that we can run it on a daily backup Hugo, If you run a full or log backup, the logs will be truncated automatically for you. You do not need to run a separate command to do this. Thanks, Del
non-tivoli script calls, problems with narrow select....
I've been looking at old messages in adsm.org, but haven't seen a satisfactory answer to my problem... I'm writing a shell script to look at the processes running on the system. When I select process from processes, the width is set at 18 characters. If I cast it larger, nothing seems to happen. If I select as XX where X is repeated 18+N (N0) times, I get an error stating it can't be larger than 18 characters wide Is there a satisfactory way (no, creating individual scripts to run for each command with wide output isn't acceptable, I'm afraid) to make this happen? I can't make the sqldisplaymode stick, as it is session bound, but that's the functionality I need to duplicate. Thanks! -drs- David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE Senior Systems Analyst
Re: NAS backup
TSM currently does not support NDMP backup/recovery of EMC Clariion. The solution described in the referenced white paper does not involve use of NDMP. Instead, this solution involves using a TSM client to access files on the Clariion, which are backed up LAN-free to volumes in the TSM stoage hierarchy. In contrast to TSM's NDMP support, this method provides file-level backups, requires data transfer over a SAN, and may not necessarily preserve file attributes. Dave Cannon Tivoli Storage Manager Development Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date:Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:34:08 -0400 From:Jin Bae Chi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NAS backup Dave, Thanks for your information. I was curious about EMC NAS products and found what they say about their EMC Clariion FC4700 backup support with TSM. Could you help me to understand what EMC says about backup or shouldn't I trust them at all? Thanks again. Here is the link: http://www.emc.com/pdf/products/clariion/h711_tivoli_san.pdf Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Admin/Tivoli Data Center 614-287-2496/5922 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about ---- ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs
It looks like for some reason TSM was not able to backup the NT event log. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Keith Kwiatek Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions about ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs Hello, Anyone have any insight or trouble-shooting tips concerning the following errors? 09/10/2002 20:46:55 ANS1228E Sending of object 'C:' failed 09/10/2002 20:46:55 ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs. Thanks Keith
Re: NAS backup
Dave, On this subject, would you explain briefly the TSM backup solution that can be ordered with the IBM NAS (300G) product line? It is my understanding that it is also not an NDMP solution, however a special (?) integrated client that is shipped with the product. Is the IBM NAS client no different than our TSM Windows NT/XP/2K version, and works over IP and FC networks? Thanks. Regards, John At 01:23 PM 9/11/02 -0700, Dave Cannon wrote: TSM currently does not support NDMP backup/recovery of EMC Clariion. The solution described in the referenced white paper does not involve use of NDMP. Instead, this solution involves using a TSM client to access files on the Clariion, which are backed up LAN-free to volumes in the TSM stoage hierarchy. In contrast to TSM's NDMP support, this method provides file-level backups, requires data transfer over a SAN, and may not necessarily preserve file attributes. Dave Cannon Tivoli Storage Manager Development Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date:Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:34:08 -0400 From:Jin Bae Chi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NAS backup Dave, Thanks for your information. I was curious about EMC NAS products and found what they say about their EMC Clariion FC4700 backup support with TSM. Could you help me to understand what EMC says about backup or shouldn't I trust them at all? Thanks again. Here is the link: http://www.emc.com/pdf/products/clariion/h711_tivoli_san.pdf Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Admin/Tivoli Data Center 614-287-2496/5922 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gigabit performance with Win2K
Hello all, We are currently looking into upgrading our network to from 100Mb to gigabit and our network architecture group wanted to make sure that TSM could use all that bandwidth if it had it available. My main concern and the main reason for the upgrade is our Domino servers, can TDP use the extra speed, or is there too much overhead to let it ramp up to a good pace? Can we expect TSM to get a 10x throughput increase? I know there is a lot on this subject on ASDM.org but I did not see any comments on TDP or Win2K environments. Our environment is as follows: The server and nodes are all Win2K SP2 TSM server 4.2.1.0 2x1GHz procs File server clients 4.2.2.0 varying processors TDP for Domino 1.1.2 Domino 5.0.8 on 4x550 mhz procs Any input is helpful. Greg Redell Great-West Life Annuity Insurance Co. Phone: 314-525-5877 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert Maniacal Laugh Here]
Re: NAS backup
The 300G solution is not NDMP-based, but is a TSM Windows client running in the NAS box (hence, there should be no need for the TSM client to access the NAS file system using CIFS/NFS). I assume that this is a standard Windows client with no storage agent (i.e, support for IP but not FC), but I don't know that for sure. Dave Cannon Tivoli Storage Manager Development Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded by Dave Cannon/Tucson/IBM on 09/11/2002 02:32 PM - John Bremer [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Dave Cannon/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS 09/11/2002 01:57 Subject: Re: NAS backup PM Dave, On this subject, would you explain briefly the TSM backup solution that can be ordered with the IBM NAS (300G) product line? It is my understanding that it is also not an NDMP solution, however a special (?) integrated client that is shipped with the product. Is the IBM NAS client no different than our TSM Windows NT/XP/2K version, and works over IP and FC networks? Thanks. Regards, John At 01:23 PM 9/11/02 -0700, Dave Cannon wrote: TSM currently does not support NDMP backup/recovery of EMC Clariion. The solution described in the referenced white paper does not involve use of NDMP. Instead, this solution involves using a TSM client to access files on the Clariion, which are backed up LAN-free to volumes in the TSM stoage hierarchy. In contrast to TSM's NDMP support, this method provides file-level backups, requires data transfer over a SAN, and may not necessarily preserve file attributes. Dave Cannon Tivoli Storage Manager Development Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date:Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:34:08 -0400 From:Jin Bae Chi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NAS backup Dave, Thanks for your information. I was curious about EMC NAS products and found what they say about their EMC Clariion FC4700 backup support with TSM. Could you help me to understand what EMC says about backup or shouldn't I trust them at all? Thanks again. Here is the link: http://www.emc.com/pdf/products/clariion/h711_tivoli_san.pdf Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Admin/Tivoli Data Center 614-287-2496/5922 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM 5.1.1.4 update
I downloaded the files from Tivoli for AIX. I don't see a separate server file for AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 so I'm wondering if the one file is for both now. There is a 64 bit AIX 5 version that won't work on mine. I had thought in the past there was a separate file for each version of AIX 32bit and now after installing this one I wonder what version this is for. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/ AIX/5.1.1.4/ ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server /AIX/5.1.1.4/ tivoli.tsm.server.rte 5.1.1.4 Ideas anyone? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Help-new mgmt class for existing node: how to make this work?
AIX TSM server 4.2.2.10 AIX client 4.2.2.1 My brain is fried and I need help here! I have an existing node in the STANDARD policy domain and STANDARD mgmt class. We need several of the Oracle DB files to have different file retention than STANDARD mgmt class. I have defined a new policy domain with a new oracle mgmt class of desired file retention for the Oracle DB files. How do I associate the existing node into the new policy domain/new oracle mgmt class, AND retain the STANDARD mgmt class on the existing node files? Can an existing node be associated with 2 policy domains? or am I approaching this in the wrong way?? Please help my brain is fried! Ken Sedlacek AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP PSSP 3 Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
mgmt class ?
I hace a mgmt class listed below and I want to verify its retention, with the backup copy group for DUKEH will I be able to restore files back 30 days? Thanks Policy Policy Mgmt Copy VersionsVersions Retain Retain Domain Set Name ClassGroupDataData Extra Only Name Name Name Exists Deleted VersionsVersion ---- --- DUKEHACTIVE DUKEH_MC STANDARD7 2 90540 Justin
Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
Dear all,
Can anyone help me on this issue? It's quite urgent as I am run out of tapes
already. Thanks a lot!!!
Kathy Lai
-Original Message-
From: Lai, Kathy KL
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:47 AM
To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
Subject: RE: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
Dear all,
As I am new to use ADSM, the setup of the ADSM server is by some other body.
Therefore, would anyone can explain more details to me that what can I do
after I go the result from the SQL that Paul suggested to run? What kind of
result show that I have some problem in my operation? And what should I do
to solve it? I think there should be some problem, otherwise, tapes
consumption should not increase so significant without much data growth.
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Kathy Lai
-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
What the second SQL does is lists the tapes that are less than 40% utilized.
I am betting you have collocation turned on by file space or something like
that. Check that first before we go any further.
If you have collocation turned on, you did it for a reason. There is a
price to pay and you are experiencing it. You can cause the tapes to fill
up by turning collocation off and doing move data commands to force the
tapes to move their data to other tapes and then scratch. There is another
option. You can create another storage pool with collocation turned off if
this a primary pool problem. Then move all the tapes that have a very small
amount of data on them to that pool. Consider how this may affect your
backup stgpool commands also. Remember you cannot move a copy pool to
another copy pool.
I will help if I can.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
-Original Message-
From: Lai, Kathy KL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 3:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
Dear Paul,
Thanks for you help. I've got the information base on the SQL you provided.
How can I analyze my information so that I can know where my tapesss gone...
I got around 1400 tapes from the result of the second SQL. Does it mean that
I have great problem on that? If yes, how can I solve it? Thank you very
much.
Regards,
Kathy Lai
-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
I know the name of this tune.
Is expiration running?
What is the reclaim percent for your pools?
Issue this command to see how your volumes fair on utilization on average:
Select cast(avg(pct_utilized) as decimal(5,2)), stgpool_name,
count(stgpool_name) from volumes group by stgpool_name order by 1
Issue this one to figure out what the bad ones are:
Select cast(volume_name as char(7)) as Volume,
cast(substr(stgpool_name,1,25) as char(25)) as Storage Pool ,
cast(pct_utilized as decimal(5,2)) as % Util, cast(status as char(10)) as
Status , cast(access as char(10)) as Access from volumes where
pct_utilized 40 order by 3
And my all time favorite, find out the tapes that were checked in private
that should be scratch:
select volume_name from libvolumes where status='Private' and
libvolumes.volume_name not in (select volume_name from volumes) and
libvolumes.volume_name not in (select volume_name from volhistory where type
in ('BACKUPFULL', 'BACKUPINCR', 'DBSNAPSHOT', 'EXPORT'))
Hope this helps. The quotes are from the Fifth Element, which character?
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
-Original Message-
From: Lai, Kathy KL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally
Dear all,
I am using ADSM v3.1 with HSM and DRM option. Recently ( this half year ) I
found that the consumption of new scratch tape increase abnormally. I have
to initial 180 tapes in only 23 days!!! However, I have check that the
backup volume doesn't have great change. What is the cause of the scenerio?
Will there be any problem in my daily operation so that tapes that have been
initilize cannot be reuse so the consumption of new tapes increase so
significantly? Please help as it is a quite urgent issue as my management
will not invest anymore to buy new tapes if the root cause of this scenerio
cannot be found!!! Thank you very much.
Regards,
Kathy Lai
Outsourcing Managed Services
Pacific Century CyberWorks
* 852-8101 2790
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Re: Lots of little TSM Questions...
Dave We have just implemented TSM 5.1 recently (3 weeks ago) and we running the normal daily backup plus a monthly backup on all systems that is kept for 7 years. What systems are you requiring a monthly done on and I will let you know how we have configured it. We are also sharing a library with 2 TSM servers - one is a production server backing up our prod network and the other is the test server backing up out test network. The prod server is the library manager and the test server puts all it's request thru the prod box. Regards Antony Ryan Support Specialist KAZ Computer Services 118 Bennett St, East Perth, WA, 6004 Phone: +61 1300 657 627 Mobile: 0438 074 895 A subsidiary of KAZ Group Limited - visit our web site at http://www.kaz.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/09/2002 1:59:01 I am current using a compaq ESL9198 library. (200 slots, (8)DLT40/80 drives) Unfortunately the capacity for the library is about 10TB and we have around 15TB of data in our primary storage pool now. Needless to say, I am endlessly importing and exporting media to make room for scratch media, volumes for file restores etc. On top of this, our management is now requiring me to retain monthly full backups. (I'm planning on using backup sets, but if someone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it!) I am currently planning on upgrading our tape library but have a few questions: 1) Is anyone sharing a single library with multiple TSM servers? If so, how well is it working? (I also need to split-up our TSM server into multiple servers, the current size of the TSM DB is around 35GB. If I buy a large library, is this library sharing really going to work reliably as advertised?) 2) The current library I'm looking as is a new Compaq ESL9595SL2 (600 slots, (16) 160/320 drives). How would that compare to say- a storagetek L700E? (I know there are ALOT of variables here, just looking for very general info) What advantages/disadvantages are there to using ACSLS libraries? 3) Is anyone familiar with the new backupset option in TSM 5.1? I looking in the online documentation, but can't seem to find anything Any info would be greatly appreciated! Dave The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's E-mail security requirements for inbound transmission. The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's Email security policy requirements for outbound transmission. This email (facsimile) and any attachments may be confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email (facsimile) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email (facsimile) in error please contact the Insurance Commission. Web: www.icwa.wa.gov.au Phone: +61 08 9264
Re: Questions about encryption.... and locally stored passphrases....
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Kwiatek 1) If I choose to have TSM store the passphrase locally, will it prompt me initially for a passphrase and THEN store it locally... OR does it auto generate a passphrase and store it locally -so you never see it? The former. 2) How can you tell what things are being encrypted? Is there a server query or some detail report that you can produce? You determine the data to be encrypted by the use of INCLUDE.ENCRYPTION statements in your client's dsm.opt file. There is no way to determine this from the server side. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: Is reclamation working?
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. I have noticed I have about 145 volumes that are less than 25% utilized, most of these are in the offsite pool. Reclamation runs on the offsite pool daily, sometimes, like this morning, I find it is still running. Reclamation kicks off at 5PM with reclaim=50. I'm not understanding why these aren't being reclaimed quicker. Is your disk pool cached? If it isn't, you can ignore the rest of this post. If it is, that's the problem. Reclamation will use disk-located files in preference to tape-located files, and the MOVEBATCHSIZE server parameter gets ignored for disk-located files. (Why? Who knows?) The result? Reclamation processes will move files from disk to tape one file at a time. *Slow*. The fix? Tivoli says a code fix would be massive. The workaround? Turn off caching in your disk pools. (I know--it's like curing a hangnail by cutting your finger off.) -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: Overland Powerloader
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sylvia Nergard I'm going to set up TSM 5.1 on a Windows2000 server and I'm going to use is Overland Powerloader DLT8000 as a library. Does ayone has any experience (bad or good) with this library? Things I should be aware of? Is it OK to use the TSM Wizard to configure devices and label volumes? Please read the online documentation at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/dlt.html#lib -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: Graphics error on AIX after TSM server upgrade
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Longo I have an RS6000 (pSeries) 6H1 with AIX 4.3.3 ML10. Just upgraded TSM server from 4.2.1.10 to 4.2.2.0. New server works o.k. However the AIX errpt now shows a graphics error several times a minute, may skip a few minutes before next error. I have GXT-130P adapter and it appears to be working o.k. Customer of mine's getting the same after their TSM upgrade. It seems intermittent--it'll happen several time a second for about 10 minutes, and then quits. And yes, the adapter appears to be fine. If you get an answer privately, pass it along. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: Lots of little TSM Questions...
Greetings, 1) Is anyone sharing a single library with multiple TSM servers? If so, how well is it working? (I also need to split-up our TSM server into multiple servers, the current size of the TSM DB is around 35GB. If I buy a large library, is this library sharing really going to work reliably as advertised?) Ans: We had used single library with 2 TSM servers and it's working flawlessly. 2) The current library I'm looking as is a new Compaq ESL9595SL2 (600 slots, (16) 160/320 drives). How would that compare to say- a storagetek L700E? (I know there are ALOT of variables here, just looking for very general info) What advantages/disadvantages are there to using ACSLS libraries? Ans: If you are happy with ESL9198, I will recommend to go for ESL9595SL2 instead looking for new vendor. 3) Is anyone familiar with the new backup set option in TSM 5.1? I looking in the online documentation, but can't seem to find anything Ans : Purpose of backup set is to simplify recovery process. I think it's not going to reduce data volume unless you keep few copies. Thank you, Bandu Vibhute Saicon Consulting Group. 206-621-7203 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Antony Ryan Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lots of little TSM Questions... Dave We have just implemented TSM 5.1 recently (3 weeks ago) and we running the normal daily backup plus a monthly backup on all systems that is kept for 7 years. What systems are you requiring a monthly done on and I will let you know how we have configured it. We are also sharing a library with 2 TSM servers - one is a production server backing up our prod network and the other is the test server backing up out test network. The prod server is the library manager and the test server puts all it's request thru the prod box. Regards Antony Ryan Support Specialist KAZ Computer Services 118 Bennett St, East Perth, WA, 6004 Phone: +61 1300 657 627 Mobile: 0438 074 895 A subsidiary of KAZ Group Limited - visit our web site at http://www.kaz.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/09/2002 1:59:01 I am current using a compaq ESL9198 library. (200 slots, (8)DLT40/80 drives) Unfortunately the capacity for the library is about 10TB and we have around 15TB of data in our primary storage pool now. Needless to say, I am endlessly importing and exporting media to make room for scratch media, volumes for file restores etc. On top of this, our management is now requiring me to retain monthly full backups. (I'm planning on using backup sets, but if someone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it!) I am currently planning on upgrading our tape library but have a few questions: 1) Is anyone sharing a single library with multiple TSM servers? If so, how well is it working? (I also need to split-up our TSM server into multiple servers, the current size of the TSM DB is around 35GB. If I buy a large library, is this library sharing really going to work reliably as advertised?) 2) The current library I'm looking as is a new Compaq ESL9595SL2 (600 slots, (16) 160/320 drives). How would that compare to say- a storagetek L700E? (I know there are ALOT of variables here, just looking for very general info) What advantages/disadvantages are there to using ACSLS libraries? 3) Is anyone familiar with the new backupset option in TSM 5.1? I looking in the online documentation, but can't seem to find anything Any info would be greatly appreciated! Dave The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's E-mail security requirements for inbound transmission. The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's Email security policy requirements for outbound transmission. This email (facsimile) and any attachments may be confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email (facsimile) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email (facsimile) in error please contact the Insurance Commission. Web: www.icwa.wa.gov.au Phone: +61 08 9264
Direct archiving of DB2/SAP R3 logs to TSM
Hi TSMers, Please could you assist me. We have set up db2 to archive the logs directly to TSM instead of to a filesystem. The problem I am faced with now is I am not sure how to retrieve these files.do you use TSM or DB2 to retrieve them and where will it put the log files Any ideas. Regards. Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 ...OLE_Obj... +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, BoE Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.boe.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
