Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

[David Longo]

It's about 45 seconds load time on 3584 library.  That's what TSM
shows by doing "q process" while waiting for tape mounts.
But, when it gets mounted it goes into 5th gear!

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/02 12:58AM >>>
3570 users,

I notice that IBM is withdrawing all 3570 items from marketing in
December 2002.(announcemet letter WG02-0316)
Looks like time to consider an upgrade if you are using these.  IBM
suggests Ultrium as the replacement, but that hardly has a six second
load time does it?

Regards

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia



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Re: help:label tape question

[Steve Harris]

Feng,

Hmm, you want to take 800 tapes out of your library, then label 200 more, but you only 
have two drives.

I'd suggest that you have some serious problems here.
Are you running expire inventory regularly?  does it complete?
Are you reclaiming your tape storage pools regularly?

Before you post again, have a look at the Administrator's  Guide, 
Chapter 11 "Implementing Policies for Client Data" in the section "File Expiration and 
Expiration Processing" and follow the links to  "Reclaiming Space in Sequential 
Storage Pools" and "Running Expiration Processing to Delete Expired Files"

The Administrator's Guide is available in HTML and pdf format on a CD that came with 
TSM. It may already be installed on your server.

If you can't work your problem out from that, you need to buy some consulting time 
from an expert in your region. There may be problems with your client retention 
policies, with Database backup processing, with obsolete filespaces that need to be 
deleted or any number of other things, more than we can help you with on this list. 

Good luck.

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin,
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/09/2002 13:31:06 >>>
Hi all,
   I have a 3494 library with two dirve,the backup-archive server with ADSM .When the 
library must label 200 tapes a time,at the same time ADSM must have backup some 
date,can these two operations be doing at the same time?
   Another question is if I take the opertion:
ADSM>label libvol libname search=yes labelsouce=barcode
can library auto label all those tapes in the library?
   Last can you tell me what's the "scratch pool" ?
Thanks and regards
Feng



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Re: Problem deleting filespace SYSTEM OBJECT

[Joel Fuhrman]

My responses are within the text ...

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gerhard Rentschler wrote:

> Hello,
> in the meantime I upgraded to 5.1.1.6. With this level I could delete the
> filespace without problem.
> However, I couldn't resist to try "cleanup backupgroup" again. Under 5.1.1.4
> it worked. It only seemed strange that it obviously didn't finish its work,
> as Joel described:
> > On 5.1.1.4, I did the CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP and I still could not delete the
> > system objects.  I reran the cleanup command numerous times and
> > each time it
> > reported inspecting and deleting fewer objects than the previous run.
>
> On 5.1.1.6 cleanup backupgroup stopped immediately with return code 4. In
> the activity log I found the following messages:
> 09/24/02 10:31:51 ANR2017I Administrator GERHARD issued command: CLEANUP
>BACKUPGROUPS
> 09/24/02 10:31:51 ANRD imutil.c(6663): ThreadId<67> Failure deleting
>member 0 585368742 for group 1637 3 - encountered
>repeatedly in loop.
> 09/24/02 10:31:51 ANRD imutil.c(3931): ThreadId<67> Error 19
> deleting
>dependents for node 0 fs 0 and leader 1637 3.
> Now I'm little bit concerned. Is cleanup backupgroup broken or is it my
> database?
>

The CLEANUP did the same thing for me on 5.1.1.6 until I did an AUDITDB
FIX=YES.  After doing the auditdb, it ran properly.

> > My suggestion to all TSM admins is to do a
> >QUERY OCCUPANCY * "SYSTEM OBJECT"
> > to verify that you do not have excessive copies.
> >
> How can you tell from the output of the q occ command how many excessive
> copies you have?

For most of my servers, the system object consists of about 1800 objects and
require 230 MB. Do the math and you will know if you have excessive backups.

>
>
> BTW, I cannot confirm that system objects are not expired. I used the
> following SQL statement in the middle and at the end of an expiration
> process:
> select sum(num_files) from occupancy where filespace_name='SYSTEM OBJECT'
> The first number I got was 1043479, the last 1012998. So I got rid of at
> least 30481 files.
>
> Best regards
> Gerhard
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Re: help:label tape question

[Rolf Meyer]

Hello

On Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 05:31, fenglimian wrote:
> Hi all,
>I have a 3494 library with two dirve,the backup-archive server with ADSM
> .When the library must label 200 tapes a time,at the same time ADSM must
> have backup some date,can these two operations be doing at the same time?

Yes, if your backup task only need one tape drive, as you have only two.

>Last can you tell me what's the "scratch pool" ?

Scratch Pool is a tape pool containing all free 'scratch' tapes, which can be
used for all defined tape storage pools. So you don't need to calculate the
amount of tapes for a specific tape storage pool.

Greetings
Rolf Meyer
Systems Consultant
Info Business Systems GmbH
D-22607 Hamburg, Germany

Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar

[Steve Harris]

3570 users, 

I notice that IBM is withdrawing all 3570 items from marketing in December 
2002.(announcemet letter WG02-0316)
Looks like time to consider an upgrade if you are using these.  IBM suggests Ultrium 
as the replacement, but that hardly has a six second load time does it?

Regards

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia



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Re: TSM with library & 1 drive

[Prashant R Gadikar]

Hi,
ITSM can be very much be  installed with one drive either in Library or
autoloader or a stand alone drive. Even ITSM can be installed without any
drive also.
Install and see yourself any issues we are all here.

Best Regards
Prashant Gadikar






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Hi all

1. do anybody know of any problems that TSM can not be install with IBM
library with 1 drive only, and must need 2 drives ?
2. is TSM can be install with IBM autoloader ,and how will it function ?

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help:label tape question

[fenglimian]

Hi all,
   I have a 3494 library with two dirve,the backup-archive server with ADSM .When the 
library must label 200 tapes a time,at the same time ADSM must have backup some 
date,can these two operations be doing at the same time?
   Another question is if I take the opertion:
ADSM>label libvol libname search=yes labelsouce=barcode
can library auto label all those tapes in the library?
   Last can you tell me what's the "scratch pool" ?
Thanks and regards
Feng

Netware Clustering

[John Stephens]

Does anyone have any experience with TSM and Netware clustering. Does TSM
support the backup of the Netware cluster.
Thank You

John Stephens

Re: AUTOMOUNT options file option?

[Thomas A. La Porte]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Chetan H. Ravnikar wrote:

>tell me what you want to achive and I will try and help you.
>I had the same probelm to get autmount working on solaris-2.8 and TSM
>4.2.20. Infact never got it to work., But I have a workarround.
>
>In my environment, I have a design to backup auto-mounted netapp filers
>snapshot directories over NFS
>
>Cheers..

We are also backing up Netapp filers over NFS, and we have used
several solutions, none of which are completely satisfactory to
us. We are trying to see if we can't work under a "supported"
configuration, since TSM claims to support automounted
filesystems..

Re: q act says *No match found*

[Seay, Paul]

It is called:
Artificial, non-intelligent, unrelated resource locking

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


-Original Message-
From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*


many thanks for the response! Infact in our case, it seems more to what Paul
has mentioned below, we had the TSM server loosing element inventory
information lately in which case the drives were going offline.

A *mttest*  came back with junk numbers, and subsequent tests came back
correctlty. Infact we had to re-seat the QIPs on the spectralogic gator.

After care monitoring and trace file analysis, it is claimed that the TSM
server 4.2.20 on solaris is behaving incorrectly and confused, where as the
library seems to have been sending the same answers everytime to a query
from *mttest*

Now we have engg from both Spectra Logics and Tivoli looking into this new
issues we have seen

We have TSM 4.2.20 running on Solaris-2.8

My concern is how does loosing contact to the drives or the picker, will
cause q act to show nothing!!?

Cheers..


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alex Paschal wrote:
>
> Additionally, I've seen this on a bad tape.  If you audit a tape and
> get a lot of damaged files, it lists each one to the actlog and can
> slam the actlog to the point where nothing gets posted to it anymore.
> The same can happen during tape->tape migration, reclamation, move
> data, backup stg, etc, if the process spouts an error for each bad
> file it encounters and keeps going.  As near as I can tell, it's the
> volume of messages getting posted to the actlog that causes it.  The
> only way I know of to clear it is to bounce the server.
>
> This is just one more issue that has caused me to abandon using the q
> actlog command.  I use dsmulog files.  I find it's much faster, and
> with vi, grep, awk, etc, I can do searches I couldn't dream of doing
> in the actlog.  Of course, if you run out of filesystem space for your
> logs because of tons of error messages, then you're in the same boat
> as if you were using the actlog.
>
> Alex Paschal
> Storage Administrator
> Freightliner, LLC
> (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
>
>
> I have seen this problem before.  When I saw it, it was because we had
> tape drives getting a lot of fibre channel SCSI errors and causing all
> kinds of locking apparently.  You may want to check to make sure
> something like that is not happening.
>
> Paul D. Seay, Jr.
> Technical Specialist
> Naptheon Inc.
> 757-688-8180
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
>
>
> Ok I bounced the server and things look OK, :)
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Bob Booth - UIUC wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:04:05 -0500
> > From: Bob Booth - UIUC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
> >
> > Hard to tell whats going on.  Is this a fresh install of TSM?  What
> > version? What platform is it?
> >
> > Do a 'q stat' and check to see what your activity log retention
> > period is.. It is possible to set the ACTLOGRETENTION to 0, thereby
> > turning it off.
> >
> > hope this helps,
> >
> > bob
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Chetan H. Ravnikar wrote:
> > > Any help is appreciated,
> > > I am wondering how can this happen, a fully functional server now
> > > does not give any activity log
> > >
> > > please help
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > tsm: server1>q act
> > > ANR2034E QUERY ACTLOG: No match found using this criteria.
> > > ANS8001I Return code 11.
> > >
> > > tsm: server1>

Re: AUTOMOUNT options file option?

[Chetan H. Ravnikar]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Thomas A. La Porte wrote:

> Has anybody successfully used the AUTOMOUNT option in a client
> options file, along with the 'DOMAIN all-auto-nfs' statement?
>
> Regardless of what I choose in my AUTOMOUNT directive, I receive
> the following error message:
>
> 09/25/02   16:55:21 Filesystem /studio/sin/mstr/general is no
> automounted filesystem, ignoring option automount for this
> filesystem.
>
> As can be seen from the mnttab file, this is indeed an
> automounted filesystem:
>
> # grep /studio/sin/mstr /etc/mnttab
> auto.studio-sin-mstr/studio/sin/mstrautofs  indirect,ignore,dev=428012b  
>   1032470327
>
>
> I get the same behavior on an TSM 4.2 client on Irix, TSM 5.1 on
> Solaris, and TSM 4.2 and 5.2 on Linux.
>
> I have also tried it for my home directory 'AUTOMOUNT
> /usr/home/tlaporte' with similar results.
>
> For what, exactly, is the AUTOMOUNT directive looking?
>
> The frustrating point is that
>
> 'dsmc incr -domain="/usr/home/tlaporte"' seems to work fine, and
> a query of that node reports a filespace type of NFS3.
>
> Thanks for anybody's thoughts or experiences on the matter.
>
tell me what you want to achive and I will try and help you.
I had the same probelm to get autmount working on solaris-2.8 and TSM
4.2.20. Infact never got it to work., But I have a workarround.

In my environment, I have a design to backup auto-mounted netapp filers
snapshot directories over NFS

Cheers..

Re: q act says *No match found*

[Chetan H. Ravnikar]

many thanks for the response! Infact in our case, it seems more to what
Paul has mentioned below, we had the TSM server loosing element inventory
information lately in which case the drives were going offline.

A *mttest*  came back with junk numbers, and subsequent tests came back
correctlty. Infact we had to re-seat the QIPs on the spectralogic gator.

After care monitoring and trace file analysis, it is claimed that the TSM
server 4.2.20 on solaris is behaving incorrectly and confused, where as
the library seems to have been sending the same answers everytime to a
query from *mttest*

Now we have engg from both Spectra Logics and Tivoli looking into this new
issues we have seen

We have TSM 4.2.20 running on Solaris-2.8

My concern is how does loosing contact to the drives or the picker, will
cause q act to show nothing!!?

Cheers..


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alex Paschal wrote:
>
> Additionally, I've seen this on a bad tape.  If you audit a tape and get a
> lot of damaged files, it lists each one to the actlog and can slam the
> actlog to the point where nothing gets posted to it anymore.  The same can
> happen during tape->tape migration, reclamation, move data, backup stg, etc,
> if the process spouts an error for each bad file it encounters and keeps
> going.  As near as I can tell, it's the volume of messages getting posted to
> the actlog that causes it.  The only way I know of to clear it is to bounce
> the server.
>
> This is just one more issue that has caused me to abandon using the q actlog
> command.  I use dsmulog files.  I find it's much faster, and with vi, grep,
> awk, etc, I can do searches I couldn't dream of doing in the actlog.  Of
> course, if you run out of filesystem space for your logs because of tons of
> error messages, then you're in the same boat as if you were using the
> actlog.
>
> Alex Paschal
> Storage Administrator
> Freightliner, LLC
> (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
>
>
> I have seen this problem before.  When I saw it, it was because we had tape
> drives getting a lot of fibre channel SCSI errors and causing all kinds of
> locking apparently.  You may want to check to make sure something like that
> is not happening.
>
> Paul D. Seay, Jr.
> Technical Specialist
> Naptheon Inc.
> 757-688-8180
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
>
>
> Ok I bounced the server and things look OK, :)
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Bob Booth - UIUC wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:04:05 -0500
> > From: Bob Booth - UIUC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
> >
> > Hard to tell whats going on.  Is this a fresh install of TSM?  What
> > version? What platform is it?
> >
> > Do a 'q stat' and check to see what your activity log retention period
> > is.. It is possible to set the ACTLOGRETENTION to 0, thereby turning
> > it off.
> >
> > hope this helps,
> >
> > bob
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Chetan H. Ravnikar wrote:
> > > Any help is appreciated,
> > > I am wondering how can this happen, a fully functional server now
> > > does not give any activity log
> > >
> > > please help
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > tsm: server1>q act
> > > ANR2034E QUERY ACTLOG: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I
> > > Return code 11.
> > >
> > > tsm: server1>

AUTOMOUNT options file option?

[Thomas A. La Porte]

Has anybody successfully used the AUTOMOUNT option in a client
options file, along with the 'DOMAIN all-auto-nfs' statement?

Regardless of what I choose in my AUTOMOUNT directive, I receive
the following error message:

09/25/02   16:55:21 Filesystem /studio/sin/mstr/general is no
automounted filesystem, ignoring option automount for this
filesystem.

As can be seen from the mnttab file, this is indeed an
automounted filesystem:

# grep /studio/sin/mstr /etc/mnttab
auto.studio-sin-mstr/studio/sin/mstrautofs  indirect,ignore,dev=428012b
 1032470327


I get the same behavior on an TSM 4.2 client on Irix, TSM 5.1 on
Solaris, and TSM 4.2 and 5.2 on Linux.

I have also tried it for my home directory 'AUTOMOUNT
/usr/home/tlaporte' with similar results.

For what, exactly, is the AUTOMOUNT directive looking?

The frustrating point is that

'dsmc incr -domain="/usr/home/tlaporte"' seems to work fine, and
a query of that node reports a filespace type of NFS3.

Thanks for anybody's thoughts or experiences on the matter.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte, DreamWorks SKG

Re: Query client connectivity

[Alex Paschal]

Create a client schedule in each domain that does absolutely nothing at,
say, 3:00 PM with a duration of 10 minutes, and associate all your nodes to
it.  (Or better yet, have it run a script that forks, sleeps so the
scheduler can report completion, then bounces the scheduler. Heh, heh.)
Then have a cron'd script query events to see what missed that 3:00PM
schedule, email, page, fax etc. it to you.

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail

-Original Message-
From: Jim Qualls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Query client connectivity


To all:

Is there a way to query client connectivity?  What I mean is:  Is there
a way to see if at least basic connectivity is there (i.e.  a scheduler
running)?  It would be nice to run a script just before I leave from
work that lets me know that at least a scheduler is running on each
machine, and not have to wait for the daily report that I get every
morning to realize that 5 or 6 machines were missed during the night.
Does TSM make something like this?  A third party?  Do I make my own?
Any help would be appreciated!

TIA.



James Qualls
Information Center Analyst III, CNE, CCNA
Telephone: (509) 754-5088 ext. 2224
Direct Dial:  (509) 754-6751
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: q act says *No match found*

[Alex Paschal]

Additionally, I've seen this on a bad tape.  If you audit a tape and get a
lot of damaged files, it lists each one to the actlog and can slam the
actlog to the point where nothing gets posted to it anymore.  The same can
happen during tape->tape migration, reclamation, move data, backup stg, etc,
if the process spouts an error for each bad file it encounters and keeps
going.  As near as I can tell, it's the volume of messages getting posted to
the actlog that causes it.  The only way I know of to clear it is to bounce
the server.

This is just one more issue that has caused me to abandon using the q actlog
command.  I use dsmulog files.  I find it's much faster, and with vi, grep,
awk, etc, I can do searches I couldn't dream of doing in the actlog.  Of
course, if you run out of filesystem space for your logs because of tons of
error messages, then you're in the same boat as if you were using the
actlog.

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail


-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*


I have seen this problem before.  When I saw it, it was because we had tape
drives getting a lot of fibre channel SCSI errors and causing all kinds of
locking apparently.  You may want to check to make sure something like that
is not happening.

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


-Original Message-
From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*


Ok I bounced the server and things look OK, :)


On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Bob Booth - UIUC wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:04:05 -0500
> From: Bob Booth - UIUC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: q act says *No match found*
>
> Hard to tell whats going on.  Is this a fresh install of TSM?  What
> version? What platform is it?
>
> Do a 'q stat' and check to see what your activity log retention period
> is.. It is possible to set the ACTLOGRETENTION to 0, thereby turning
> it off.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> bob
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Chetan H. Ravnikar wrote:
> > Any help is appreciated,
> > I am wondering how can this happen, a fully functional server now
> > does not give any activity log
> >
> > please help
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> > tsm: server1>q act
> > ANR2034E QUERY ACTLOG: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I
> > Return code 11.
> >
> > tsm: server1>

Re: Is it possible to install two different versions of TSM Serve r on a single server?

[Alex Paschal]

I would install the ver1 package, cp the code directory to another
directory, and then install the ver2 package, then test both.  Don't know if
it'll work, but it's worth a shot.  I mean, your package manager isn't like
the Windows Registry, right?  So I figure the chance of it working is pretty
fair.  You might let us know if it does work if you end up trying it.

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail

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Subject: Is it possible to install two different versions of TSM Server on a
single server?


A part of our DR procedures is that if we lost a given data centre we would
recover the TSM server onto the same hardware as the alternate site's TSM
server and run both instances in parallel  (Both machines are SUN 450's)

If the TSM servers were at the same release level then we have the option of
using the exact same binaries and simply point them to different config
files.

My problem occurs when one of the server levels is back level. To prevent
this problem from occurring I would like to;

 # find a method that would allow me to install TSM to host specific
directories (ie /site1_tsm/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/... rather than
/opt/tivoli/.)

 # find a method that would allow me install a second TSM package to a
different directory (ie /site2_tsm/server/.) I am guessing that pkgadd
will not like me installing a package on the system that already has a
package of the same name already installed.


Is this possible? An idea or hints would be appreciated



Peter Griffin
Sydney Water


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Re: how can i clear up the content of a diskpool?

[Alex Paschal]

Hm.  If the contents are useless, would there be a problem with deleting the
volume discarddata=yes and then redefining the volume?  I've found
redefining volumes is so fast as to be inconsequential, but I use raw lv's.
Why wouldn't you want to delete the volume and redefine it?

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail


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Subject: Re: how can i clear up the content of a diskpool?


migrate it to zero
becase i don't want to delete the diskpool volume ,but the content in the
diskpool are useless.
thanks


>When you say clear it up, AUDIT it or Migrate it to Zero?
>
>Paul D. Seay, Jr.
>Technical Specialist
>Naptheon Inc.
>757-688-8180
>
>
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>Subject: how can i clear up the content of a diskpool?
>
>
>what is the operation?
>thanks

Re: Help!!!!!!!! What does do????????

[John Underdown]

This took 5 hours on a 16 GB database.

TSM Server Diagnostic: Server: SFC-TSM1 ANRD imutil.c(3983): ThreadId<30> CLEANUP 
BACKUPGROUPS evaluated 8797 groups and deleted 2118 orphan groups with 2088458 group 
members deleted.. 

>>> Joel Fuhrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/25/02 12:39PM >>>
Like you, I could not find any documentation but I didn't look very hard
since Tivoli support told me to run it to solve a problem.  On 5.1.1.4 the
first run took about 1 hour on my 10 GB database.  I didn't check for
changes in the db size, so I don't know if the db size was reduced.  I
finally ran had to run AUDITDB FIX=YES to clean up the mess.  Be sure your
server is 5.1.1.6.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Underdown wrote:

> Joel,
> 
> Like a stupid i ran  with out knowing what is does. It's now 
>running and my TSM Database is shrinking! Should i PANIC? I have backups if i need to 
>restore. i've just upgraded to TSM 5.1.1.6. And can't find any info on this command 
>or what's it's doing to my database.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> john
> 

Re: TSM with library & 1 drive

[Joerg Pohlmann]

One additional consideration - you cannot do a proper job of DR protection
if you really only have 1 drive. For your copy storage pool, you will need
an additional drive in order to do offsite reclamation. The drive doesn't
have to be the same technology. I have a customer who is using an LTO
autoloader for their primary storage pools and a few 8mm Mammoth (manual
library) drives for their offsite storage. DRM manages all data going
offsite, coming back, and of course the most valuable aspect - it creates
the DR plan file. For the primary storage pools, the disk reclamation pool
works fine, and for offsite reclamation we are copying LTO to 8mm.

Joerg Pohlmann






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1. Nothing wrong with it per say.. It works great. You'll have to allocate
some disk space for your reclamation pool but in my experience it works
well. Also there are the obvious limitations that having only 1 drive
presents such as when someone requests a restore, if their data is on tape
and another user is already doing a restore they'll have to wait for that
drive to free up. Also similar potential limitations in backup or
migration
of data. No redundancy so if the drive dies you're out of luck until it's
fixed or replaced (can't backup or restore any data to/from tape). The
same
things you'd bring up if you were considering 2 drives vs 3.. or 4.. The
NEED for 2 drives over one is mostly a throughput, redundancy, and
availability issue.
2. nothing wrong with an autoloader.. works just like a tape library more
or
less.

Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)

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Subject: TSM with library & 1 drive
Importance: High

Hi all

1. do anybody know of any problems that TSM can not be install with IBM
library with 1 drive only, and must need 2 drives ?
2. is TSM can be install with IBM autoloader ,and how will it function ?

Thanks In Advance
Ofer Vaknin


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Re: starting TSM without it doing anything

[Seay, Paul]

Migrations can be delayed by setting the thresholds to 100 and the storage
pool reclamation to 100.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
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Naptheon Inc.
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Why not add DISABLESCHED YES to the DSMSERV.OPT file, log in and DISABLE
SESSIONS to keep others out.

Now this won't stop any migrations or reclamations from kicking off if the
thresholds have been exceeded, but no schedules will take off.

One of the steps in our disaster recovery instructions is to add the
DISABLESCHEDS YES to the server options file before starting it.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

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You can set TCPPORT to 1600, or something, in the options file and use the
WebAdmin to see what you want.  I don't know if you can use SETOPT to reopen
1500 or not.


At 10:56 AM 9/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there a way to start TSM server without it doing anything? Kinda
>like a "single-user mode"? Sometimes, I like to run an audit after
>rebooting TSM and the tape library, but as soon as I start TSM, it
>begins to do various things like space reclamation etc.
>
>I *could* remember to disable sessions and increase the reclamation
>threshold before shutting it down, but sometimes I don't remember to do
>these things.
>
>Currently running TSM server 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 ML 10.
>
>johnn

Re: TSM with library & 1 drive

[Gerald Wichmann]

1. Nothing wrong with it per say.. It works great. You'll have to allocate
some disk space for your reclamation pool but in my experience it works
well. Also there are the obvious limitations that having only 1 drive
presents such as when someone requests a restore, if their data is on tape
and another user is already doing a restore they'll have to wait for that
drive to free up. Also similar potential limitations in backup or migration
of data. No redundancy so if the drive dies you're out of luck until it's
fixed or replaced (can't backup or restore any data to/from tape). The same
things you'd bring up if you were considering 2 drives vs 3.. or 4.. The
NEED for 2 drives over one is mostly a throughput, redundancy, and
availability issue.
2. nothing wrong with an autoloader.. works just like a tape library more or
less.

Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)

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Subject: TSM with library & 1 drive
Importance: High

Hi all

1. do anybody know of any problems that TSM can not be install with IBM
library with 1 drive only, and must need 2 drives ?
2. is TSM can be install with IBM autoloader ,and how will it function ?

Thanks In Advance
Ofer Vaknin


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5.1.14 or 5.1.16 for Solaris 2.8

[Chetan H. Ravnikar]

Hello all,

need some help, we were told that in order to get TDS completely working,
in the sense to report all it said it reports in a readable format. We
need to be at a higher version of TSM than at what we are which is 4.2.20
on Solaris 2.8 64bit

We have seen some other bugs covered, if we move to 5.x and the debate is
to go to which stable version.

Any insight or light on this matter will really help us.

thanks for your advice
Chetan

Re: Help!!!!!!!! What does do????????

[John Underdown]

Joel,

It's looks like "CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP" does a partial online auditdb fix=yes. Also the 
APAR's listed below looks like the problem i'm having with AUDITDB so it's a good 
prelude to this weekend's auditdb.

john

APAR= IC33977  SER=IN INCORROUT
THREADID<0> ERROR 8 CONVERTING GROUP.MEMBERS TOBACKUP.GROUPS
MESSAGE ISSUED WHEN UPGRADING TO 5.1 SERVER.

Status: CLOSED  Closed: 07/15/02

Problem Conclusion:
The TSM server has been modified to prevent the case where some of the members of a 
grouped set of backup files may not have been deleted when they should have been.

The server has also been modified to provide the command "CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP".  This 
command will cause the server to evaluate all the defined groups of backup files 
in-use on the server and remove any extraneous or orphaned members that should have 
previously been deleted.

If the server encounters an orphaned backup group member during an upgrade from V4.2 
to V5.1, the server will issue the following message:

"ANRD iminit.c():  ThreadId Orphaned group member encountered - issue 
CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP to resolve this issue."

If this message is encountered during an UPGRADEDDB from V4.2 to V5.1, simply issue 
this command and the server database will evaluate and find any orphaned group members 
and remove them.


APAR= IC34159

AUDIT DB EXCESSIVETIME MSGANR4306I AUDITDB PROCESSED DATABASE ENTRIES NOT CHANGING 
ANR4306I

Status: CLOSED  Closed: 07/24/02

Apar Information:

RCOMP= 5698ISMSVTSM SERVER 510  RREL= R51W
FCOMP=  PFREL= F999  TREL= T
SRLS:

Return Codes:

Applicable Component Level/SU:

Error Description:
Audit DB for the TSM database takes an excessive amount of time and the entires 
processed does not increment for long periods of time.

A message such as:
ANR4306I AUDITDB: Processed 22170066 database entries (cumulativ


Local Fix:
Avoid running the audit if the audit fix=no shows thousands of these entries.

Comments:
APAR IC33977 documents this problem and the "CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP" command that was 
added.  The CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP command will resolve this problem
without needing to perform an AUDITDB of the server database. 


>>> Joel Fuhrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/25/02 12:39PM >>>
Like you, I could not find any documentation but I didn't look very hard
since Tivoli support told me to run it to solve a problem.  On 5.1.1.4 the
first run took about 1 hour on my 10 GB database.  I didn't check for
changes in the db size, so I don't know if the db size was reduced.  I
finally ran had to run AUDITDB FIX=YES to clean up the mess.  Be sure your
server is 5.1.1.6.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Underdown wrote:

> Joel,
> 
> Like a stupid i ran  with out knowing what is does. It's now 
>running and my TSM Database is shrinking! Should i PANIC? I have backups if i need to 
>restore. i've just upgraded to TSM 5.1.1.6. And can't find any info on this command 
>or what's it's doing to my database.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> john
> 

Re: Under-utilized tape volumes

[Reiss David IT751 (ext-CDI)]

One thing I have seen every now and then, is when a large file spans
multi-volumes, it will only get reported in utilization on one of the tapes,
but when query the contents of volumes, it will show up as on both.

David N. Reiss
TSM Support Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
407-736-3912


-Original Message-
From: Price, Bob R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Under-utilized tape volumes


Can anyone share some understanding of the follow issue?

I have several tapes that appear to be grossly under-utilized.  Tapes marked
FULL (and even 100% utilized) that have 50GB-60GB capacity figures on a
100GB AIT3 cartridge.  Most full tapes show 90-110GB and a few where
compression is good shows up to 400GB.

My concern is with the 50-60GB ones.  What can cause such behavior?  I have
a few theories, but cannot pin anything down definitively.

My  theories:
1) On backups that are directed to skip the disk pool and write directly to
tape, changing files that are retried do not reposition the tape, but
instead continue writing causing large amounts of "unused" tape.  This
explains primary tape pools, but not copy pool tapes which show similar
under-utilized values.
2) Again, on backups that are directed to skip the disk pool and write
directly to tape, stopped tape motion could conceivably cause tape area to
be skipped on tape motion start-up.  I really have no evidence if this
actually occurs, but it is a thought.
3) File meta-data is written to tape and not the TSM database along with the
file data and is not reported in the capacity figure.  I can almost belive
that this could take up 50% of the space on selected clients.


Any comments on the above theories, especially arguments why they cannot be
true are welcome.  As are those comments expousing new theories or known
facts.

Bob Price
TSM / ADSM Administrator
Marconi Services
(412) 374-3247
WIN 284-3247
Fax: (412) 374-6371
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help:adsm check out question

[Trinh, Tony]

Feng,

When you checking out the tapes...I have nothing to do with the drive...The
drives will continue to run
It backup...The robot will move the tapes out of the library after you run
the commands...

Remember, these are live data tapes...(Which means there are data still on
these tapes) Lock them up
Somewhere safe...when you are ready to check them in or when the TSM
application request for it for
A restore, migration or reclaiming the data from the tape...You will need to
check it back in...

The command to check these tapes in are:

ADSM>checkin libv   devt=3590 status=private

() your library name
() the tapes volume
Devt= (depends on what you are using)


TT

-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help:adsm check out question


Hi all,
   I have a 3494 library with 2 drives,now I must checkout some tape from my
library.When I am checkouting these tapes the drives can do backup operation
at the same time?What about the time the library labeling the tape. Thanks
and regards.
 feng

help:adsm check out question

[fenglimian]

Hi all,
   I have a 3494 library with 2 drives,now I must checkout some tape from my 
library.When I am checkouting these tapes the drives can do backup operation at the 
same time?What about the time the library labeling the tape.
Thanks and regards.
 feng 

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

> Actually, this problem occurs with both unicode and nonunicode
> SYSTEM OBJECT filesystems. If you delete the nonunicode filesystem
> it will rebackup as unicode. The new unicode SYSTEM OBJECT
> filesystem will continue accumulate extra versions as well.
>
> I could run CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS with an earlier v5 version,
> but it didn't work (I ran it, but then ran it again and it
> found more errors). The CLEANUP didn't work (got the loop problem)
> under v5.1.1.6, but then the AUDITDB didn't work! This is what I'm writing
up...


TSM Server 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3

I've been toying with upgrading my production server to TSM V5 but I'm
wondering if there is a recommended patch level that is worth my effort. I
feel pretty stable where I am, and remembering what I went through after
upgrading to 4.2 with crashes I'm not is a hurry to jump on to V5 yet.

 I'm not sure if I've ever seen anyone who seems to be happy with any level
yet, even 5.1.1.6 which seems to still have problems.

Inputs?


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

Windows 2000 Restore Example

[Kelly J. Lipp]

Gang,

Environment: TSM Server V5.1.1.4 on Win2K, TSM Client 5.1.1.0 on Win2K
Fileserver drive.

Data Restoration Statistics:

233,002 Objects
52.54 GB
Elapsed Time: 12:57:01
Other stats appeared quite normal, i.e., Network Data transfer rate.

resourceutilization = 4, Maxnummp = 4
Four tapes/drives used at least at the beginning, tapering down to one as
time wore on.

No judgment about the overall performance of this test.  Just information
for all of you.

I believe this is a file create issue on the Win2K server rather than
anything in TSM.  Anybody have any ideas how to increase the performance of
this type of restore in this environment?  Frankly, I was not surprised by
this.  I would like to have seen a three hour restore rather than 13, but it
is what it is.

Thanks

Kelly J. Lipp
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Todd Lundstedt]

I am interested in reading your write-up.  Is it complete, and if so, under
what subject?  If not, do you have an estimate on when?
Thanks for doing this Gretchen,
Todd



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>I found that the SYSTEM OBJECT which were not unicode were never deleted
>unless I did it manually.  A QUERY OCC * "SYSTEM OBJECT" (without the
>NAMETYPE=UNICODE option) will let you know if you have that problem.
Also,
>did you run the command CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS?  For me, on 5.1.1.4 it ran
but
>never cleaned everything up and it wouldn't run on 5.1.1.6.  I finally had
>to do an AUDITDB FIX=YES.

Actually, this problem occurs with both unicode and nonunicode
SYSTEM OBJECT filesystems. If you delete the nonunicode filesystem
it will rebackup as unicode. The new unicode SYSTEM OBJECT
filesystem will continue accumulate extra versions as well.

I could run CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS with an earlier v5 version,
but it didn't work (I ran it, but then ran it again and it
found more errors). The CLEANUP didn't work (got the loop problem)
under v5.1.1.6, but then the AUDITDB didn't work! This is
what I'm writing up...

Gretchen Thiele
Princeton University

Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Andrew Raibeck]

Despite the radically different external names for the NT operating
systems, internally Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP are all members of the
Windows NT family of operating systems:

Windows NT 4.0 = NT version 4.0
Windows 2000 = NT version 5.0
Windows XP = NT version 5.1

Similarly, the Windows 9x family looks like this:

Windows 95 = 4.0
Windows 98 = 4.10
Windows Me = 4.90

You can verify this by running the VER command, which will show you the
major version, minor version, and build number (i.e. 5.00.2195 for Windows
2000). VER works on NT 4.0, but is slightly more accurate if you
right-click on "My Computer", select "Properties" from the pop-up menu,
and look at the info on the "General" tab. I know that VER works on Me; it
may also work on 95 and 98, though the "My Computer" properties may be
more accurate (I haven't looked at 95 or 98 in quite some time).

For programmers, the GetVersion() and GetVersionEx() Windows API functions
also return Windows version information (figuring out exactly which
version/edition of Windows you are running is not trivial).

Regards,

Andy

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




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I believe XP reports NT 5.1


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?


W2K is known as NT 5.0 to TSM.  Do a "q node blah f=d"
for your client node on TSM server and see what it comes up
as.  Haven't  had any XP clients yet to see what it is known as.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 08:21PM >>>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday.
> All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT
> problem. If you don't know what this is, you will soon if you
> have WinXP and Win2K clients backing up to v4 and pre v5.1.1.6
> servers.

Does this problem only occur with WinXP and Win2K clients?  What about
Win9x and WinNT?

Either I don't have any Win2K/WinXP clients, or TSM does not set the
platform to Win2k/WinXP?  Are these OS's also known by some version
number
of NT?

>
> The basic problem is that TSM isn't expiring anything in the
> SYSTEM OBJECTs filespace. Some of our clients had over 20GB
> in these filespaces! Needless to say, the database blew up
> while trying to find out what was going on.
>
> To see if you have this problem, you can type in
>
> show version  "SYSTEM OBJECT" namet=uni > file
>
> (only use namet=uni if the filespace is unicode). Then
> check through the file and look for the number of occurrences
> of a file, say ROUTE.EXE. A normal SYSTEM OBJECT filespace,
> with four versions, shouldn't be over a gig.
>
> The good news is that v5.1.1.6 does NOT have the SYSTEM
> OBJECT problem and the new server is doing very well.
>
> I am writing up the post mortem on the conversion and will
> post to the list later this week (at the request of Tivoli
> level 2).
>
> Gretchen Thiele
> Princeton University
>
>

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
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Re: Under-utilized tape volumes

[David E Ehresman]

Do the "under-utilized" tape volumes have data that is pre-compressed by
the client?  This can cause tapes to appear to be under-utilized.

David

Dump/Load/Audit

[Michael Moore]

I am running TSM v4.2.2.12 on OS/390 v2.10.

I am seeing the following errors during a backup:

ANR0406I Session 3038 started for node ITXF2ASBEC (WinNT)  (BPX-Tcp/Ip
167.64.85.13(3065)).
ANR0103E IMBKINS(2890): Error 2 updating row in table  "Backup.Objects".
ANR0530W Transaction failed for session 3038 for node ITXF2ASBEC (WinNT) -
internal server error detected.
ANR0403I Session 3038 ended for node ITXF2ASBEC (WinNT).


Currently we backup upto 150 nodes per night, and this is the only node
that gets this error.

I have opened an ETR with IBM, and they say I need to do a
Dump/Load/AuditDB.

1. Has anyone else done this?
2. If you have, how long did it take to complete?  I have heard we could
have an outage of 48 hours or more.  Not really possible in our
environment.
3. Any other ideas?  I thought of renaming the node, and re-registering the
node and creating a new full backup.

Here is what our database, and recovery log look like:

Database:
  Available Space (MB): 40,000   - 10 4gb volumes
Assigned Capacity (MB): 36,000
Maximum Extension (MB): 4,000
Maximum Reduction (MB): 0
 Page Size (bytes): 4,096
Total Usable Pages: 9,216,000
Used Pages: 7,179,523
  Pct Util: 77.9
 Max. Pct Util: 80.3
  Physical Volumes: 10
 Buffer Pool Pages: 16,393
 Total Buffer Requests: 51,392,233
Cache Hit Pct.: 98.78
   Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00
   Backup in Progress?: No
Type of Backup In Progress:
  Incrementals Since Last Full: 3
Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 321.75
Percentage Changed: 1.15
Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 09/25/2002 01:34:24

Recovery log:
   Available Space (MB): 8,000-   2 4gb volumes
 Assigned Capacity (MB): 7,000
 Maximum Extension (MB): 1,000
 Maximum Reduction (MB): 6,724
  Page Size (bytes): 4,096
 Total Usable Pages: 1,791,488
 Used Pages: 69,879
   Pct Util: 3.9
  Max. Pct Util: 51.0
   Physical Volumes: 2
 Log Pool Pages: 1,024
 Log Pool Pct. Util: 0.25
 Log Pool Pct. Wait: 0.00
Cumulative Consumption (MB): 2,418.84
Consumption Reset Date/Time: 09/24/2002 12:00:04

Thanks for any input you can provide!


Michael Moore
VF Services Inc.
121 Smith Street
Greensboro,  NC  27420-1488

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Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Rushforth, Tim]

My XP reports 5.01

-Original Message-
From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: September 25, 2002 7:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

I believe XP reports NT 5.1


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?


W2K is known as NT 5.0 to TSM.  Do a "q node blah f=d"
for your client node on TSM server and see what it comes up
as.  Haven't  had any XP clients yet to see what it is known as.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 08:21PM >>>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday.
> All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT
> problem. If you don't know what this is, you will soon if you
> have WinXP and Win2K clients backing up to v4 and pre v5.1.1.6
> servers.

Does this problem only occur with WinXP and Win2K clients?  What about
Win9x and WinNT?

Either I don't have any Win2K/WinXP clients, or TSM does not set the
platform to Win2k/WinXP?  Are these OS's also known by some version
number
of NT?

Under-utilized tape volumes

[Price, Bob R.]

Can anyone share some understanding of the follow issue?

I have several tapes that appear to be grossly under-utilized.  Tapes marked
FULL (and even 100% utilized) that have 50GB-60GB capacity figures on a
100GB AIT3 cartridge.  Most full tapes show 90-110GB and a few where
compression is good shows up to 400GB.

My concern is with the 50-60GB ones.  What can cause such behavior?  I have
a few theories, but cannot pin anything down definitively.

My  theories:
1) On backups that are directed to skip the disk pool and write directly to
tape, changing files that are retried do not reposition the tape, but
instead continue writing causing large amounts of "unused" tape.  This
explains primary tape pools, but not copy pool tapes which show similar
under-utilized values.
2) Again, on backups that are directed to skip the disk pool and write
directly to tape, stopped tape motion could conceivably cause tape area to
be skipped on tape motion start-up.  I really have no evidence if this
actually occurs, but it is a thought.
3) File meta-data is written to tape and not the TSM database along with the
file data and is not reported in the capacity figure.  I can almost belive
that this could take up 50% of the space on selected clients.


Any comments on the above theories, especially arguments why they cannot be
true are welcome.  As are those comments expousing new theories or known
facts.

Bob Price
TSM / ADSM Administrator
Marconi Services
(412) 374-3247
WIN 284-3247
Fax: (412) 374-6371
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Re: Help,cartridge remove question

[David Longo]

1.  You don't need to do a DB backup for this.

2.  Suggest first running
q media stg=stgpol_name wherestate=mountableinlib days=10
This will show you how many tapes haven't been accessed in 10 days.
run again changing the days parameter to get the approximate number
of tapes you want/need to remove.  This "days" is better because
it reduces, but doesn't eliminate, the chnace that these tapes will
be requested back in the library soon.

The run "move media * stg=stgpoolname wherestate=mountableinlib
days=X"
This will start the process of checking them out to your bulk i/o
slots just like normal checkouts.

4.  The meaning   of "deletes volume from library inventory"
is merely that the volume won't show up in a "q libvol command or
with any of the 3494 library manager commands.  The DB though knows
that the tape exists and is out of the library.

5.  When tape is needed for reclamations or restores, a message
will be logged in actlog requesting the mount of the tape.  Your
operations people have to monitor this carefully now to prevent long
delays.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/02 06:08AM >>>
Trinh, Tony,
   Thank you very much!I'm in China.Now about 800 cartridge shill
remove from the library,can I use this operation:
ADSM>checkout libv (library name) volrange=bar001,bar800(if the
label is sequential) remove=yes
Must I backup DB before I do this?
   The other thing I want to know is that:from the output of the "help
checkout" I saw "Specifies that a volume is placed into the bulk I/O
station. The server deletes the volume entry from the server library
inventory."  what is the meaning?The contents of the cartridge still in
the cartridge?
   The last thing I want to ask for advice is that  I can open the
library door and remove these cartridge manual,then I input my new
cartridge manual again and label them?

Thanks and regards!
 Feng



>Feng,
>
>The best way to perform the checkout is:
>
>ADSM>checkout libv   rem=yes
>
>() the library name
>() the volume number
>
>May I ask where are you located?
>
>
>Your humble servant,
>--= Tony Trinh
> Tivoli Storage Manager Admin (TSM)
> c: 408-221-7867
> Storage, Backup - Intel Online Services =--
>
>@}---}---}-
>
>"No matter how well we do something, there is always something we can
do
>better" - Joel Robuchon
>
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: fenglimian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:02 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Help,cartridge remove question
>
>
>Hi all,
>  I have a 3494 library,my adsm version is 3.1.6,now my library slot
will be
>full,so I want to move some cartridges out of the library.The
operations I
>will have as follow:
>backup db devclass=tapeclass
>move media * stgpool=backup
>move media * stgpool=archive
>
>Is this all?Or I need any more opertions?


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Re: How to backup an NFS partition

[David Longo]

By default, NFS fs are not backed up.  To back one up
do the following.  In your dsm.opt file on client, put in a
DOMAIN  /nfs   ALL-LOCAL
statement.  (/nfs is whatever fs you want backed up.)
You can put more than one, separated by spaces.
You can also use this if you want /tmp backed up, which
is not backed by default on unix systems.

Remember to restart scheduler on client after making
changes.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/02 06:25AM >>>
Hi all

Running Solaris Server 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 box

I want to NFS mount a partition from one Solaris machine  to another
and
then have TSM back this file system up. Will TSM automatically backup
a
remotely mounted NFS partition or do I have to tell it specifically to
do
so.

Many thanks in advance for your help

Farren Minns - TSM and Solaris System Admin  - John Wiley & Sons

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Re: Archive or backup question

[Cook, Dwight E]

Look into performing an "image" backup... then it will just be a single TSM
db entry
BUT you only have an "all or nothing" restore possibility, you won't be able
to just restore a single file out of the file system.

Dwight E. Cook
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Subject: Archive or backup question


We have a cache directory on an AIX server that has about 8 million
objects. We want to archive this maybe twice a week for DR purposes and
only keep one copy. The trouble being it blows out our database with all
the objects and the schedule log blows out the files space where it is
saved to. Does anyone know of anyway to backup/archive this amount of
objects and not blow out both the DB and the filespace?

Any help or comments would be appreciated.

Antony Ryan
Support Specialist
KAZ Computer Services
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Re: TDP for R/3 - two sessions want access to same tape

[Seay, Paul]

This could be a collocation issue.  Make sure you have collocate=no.  The
other piece is what did you set MAX_SESSIONS to.

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


-Original Message-
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Subject: TDP for R/3 - two sessions want access to same tape


Dear All,

I'm using TDP for R/3 3.2.0.8 on AIX and I've configured the initXXX.utl
file to use 2 sessions. My node has been configured on the server for a
maximum number of mount points of 2.

When running a brbackup 2 sessions are started - but they both want to write
to the same tape. The result of course is that one session is waiting
patiently (over an hour) for a specific tape which is busy being used by the
other session. What's going on here? Any ideas?

Incidentally I'm backing up via the Storage Agent direct to tape.
Drivemapping has been performed for both drives.

Here are my sessions.

101,782 Tcp/Ip MediaW 1.8 H2.9 K   4.0 G Node  TDP R3 AIX   GISR07_SAP
101,783 Tcp/Ip RecvW0 S   10.8 K  70.0 G Node  TDP R3  AIX  GISR07_SAP

Any input welcome.


Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

Re: TSM with library & 1 drive

[Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand]

Yes, I know of many problems, running a library with 1 drive.
My advice is DON'T!

I think there are enough problems when you are running TSM with 2 drives -
my recommended minimum is 3 drives.

Good luck!

Geirr G. Halvorsen

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Sent: 25. september 2002 15:34
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM with library & 1 drive
Importance: High


Hi all

1. do anybody know of any problems that TSM can not be install with IBM
library with 1 drive only, and must need 2 drives ?
2. is TSM can be install with IBM autoloader ,and how will it function ?

Thanks In Advance
Ofer Vaknin


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Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Jolliff, Dale]

I believe XP reports NT 5.1


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?


W2K is known as NT 5.0 to TSM.  Do a "q node blah f=d"
for your client node on TSM server and see what it comes up
as.  Haven't  had any XP clients yet to see what it is known as.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 08:21PM >>>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday.
> All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT
> problem. If you don't know what this is, you will soon if you
> have WinXP and Win2K clients backing up to v4 and pre v5.1.1.6
> servers.

Does this problem only occur with WinXP and Win2K clients?  What about
Win9x and WinNT?

Either I don't have any Win2K/WinXP clients, or TSM does not set the
platform to Win2k/WinXP?  Are these OS's also known by some version
number
of NT?

>
> The basic problem is that TSM isn't expiring anything in the
> SYSTEM OBJECTs filespace. Some of our clients had over 20GB
> in these filespaces! Needless to say, the database blew up
> while trying to find out what was going on.
>
> To see if you have this problem, you can type in
>
> show version  "SYSTEM OBJECT" namet=uni > file
>
> (only use namet=uni if the filespace is unicode). Then
> check through the file and look for the number of occurrences
> of a file, say ROUTE.EXE. A normal SYSTEM OBJECT filespace,
> with four versions, shouldn't be over a gig.
>
> The good news is that v5.1.1.6 does NOT have the SYSTEM
> OBJECT problem and the new server is doing very well.
>
> I am writing up the post mortem on the conversion and will
> post to the list later this week (at the request of Tivoli
> level 2).
>
> Gretchen Thiele
> Princeton University
>
>

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564)


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TSM with library & 1 drive

[Ofer vaknin]

Hi all

1. do anybody know of any problems that TSM can not be install with IBM
library with 1 drive only, and must need 2 drives ?
2. is TSM can be install with IBM autoloader ,and how will it function ?

Thanks In Advance
Ofer Vaknin


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Re: W2K Missing Files

[Mark Stapleton]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> When starting an interactive Backup-Session I select some Files out of the
> explorer-like window for backup (e.g. KERNEL32.DLL from winnt\system32 ).
> I start the backup session and it completes without error, but all object
> counter say "0" . The file was not backed up.

Almost all the files in \winnt\system32 are backed up as system files
(including all the *32.dll files). That's why you can't back them up as
regular files.

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Re: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

[Niklas Lundstrom]

Hi

Have the same problem here, but on a Solaris client. TSM support haven't
helped us, but I noticed when we changed the nodename to something shorter
it worked...
A workaroud is to have password  in dsm.sys

If you find a solution please let me know

Regards
Niklas

-Original Message-
From: Eric Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: den 25 september 2002 09:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication


Dear All,

I have an AIX node with TSM Backup client at 4.2.1.0 and a TSM server on AIX
at 4.2.1.10

I have PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE set in the dsm.sys, and I've set a
PASSWORDDIR. The first time I attempt to run a dsmc command as root, I'm
naturally asked to provide password details. This works fine and my command
runs successfully. A TSM.PWD file is created as expected. But when I run my
next dsmc command I have to provide the password all over again. And the
dsmerror.log shows the following message
 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

The baffling thing is that I have this working just fine on another node at
the same level of client s/w talking to the same server.

Any ideas?
Thanks people,


Regards,

Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

Re: Archive or backup question

[Steve Schaub]

Antony,
Not sure why anyone would want to backup a cache directory (assuming you can even get 
it into a quiesced state so you aren't sitting with a "fuzzy" backup), but...

I believe the archive command has a -quiet option that turns off detailed logging to 
the dsmsched.log file.  The downside is that you won't have a log of everything that 
was done (but you probably don't want to read 8 million lines of "x backed up" 
either).

As far as the TSM db is concerned, 8m objects is going to be 8m objects, regardless.  
Throw more disk at it.


Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer
Haworth, Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
616-393-1457 Desk
616-836-6962 Cell
Siempre Hay Esperanza

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24 9:57 PM >>>
We have a cache directory on an AIX server that has about 8 million
objects. We want to archive this maybe twice a week for DR purposes and
only keep one copy. The trouble being it blows out our database with all
the objects and the schedule log blows out the files space where it is
saved to. Does anyone know of anyway to backup/archive this amount of
objects and not blow out both the DB and the filespace?

Any help or comments would be appreciated.

Antony Ryan
Support Specialist
KAZ Computer Services
118 Bennett Street
East Perth   WA  6004

Phone:  1300 657 627
   +61 8 6212 0100
Mobile:   0438 074 895
Fax:   +61 8 6212 0101

A division of KAZ Group Limited - visit our web site at
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Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?

[Magura, Curtis]

Look's like XP is reported as 5.01.

tsm: GASSRV01>q node angelor-xp f=d

 Node Name: ANGELOR-XP
  Platform: WinNT
   Client OS Level: 5.01
Client Version: Version 5, Release 1, Level 1.0

Curt Magura
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-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone tried 5.1.1.6?


W2K is known as NT 5.0 to TSM.  Do a "q node blah f=d"
for your client node on TSM server and see what it comes up
as.  Haven't  had any XP clients yet to see what it is known as.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/02 08:21PM >>>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I just took a v4.2.2.12 AIX server to v5.1.1.6 last Saturday.
> All I can say is 'not pretty'. This is due to the SYSTEM OBJECT
> problem. If you don't know what this is, you will soon if you
> have WinXP and Win2K clients backing up to v4 and pre v5.1.1.6
> servers.

Does this problem only occur with WinXP and Win2K clients?  What about
Win9x and WinNT?

Either I don't have any Win2K/WinXP clients, or TSM does not set the
platform to Win2k/WinXP?  Are these OS's also known by some version
number
of NT?

>
> The basic problem is that TSM isn't expiring anything in the
> SYSTEM OBJECTs filespace. Some of our clients had over 20GB
> in these filespaces! Needless to say, the database blew up
> while trying to find out what was going on.
>
> To see if you have this problem, you can type in
>
> show version  "SYSTEM OBJECT" namet=uni > file
>
> (only use namet=uni if the filespace is unicode). Then
> check through the file and look for the number of occurrences
> of a file, say ROUTE.EXE. A normal SYSTEM OBJECT filespace,
> with four versions, shouldn't be over a gig.
>
> The good news is that v5.1.1.6 does NOT have the SYSTEM
> OBJECT problem and the new server is doing very well.
>
> I am writing up the post mortem on the conversion and will
> post to the list later this week (at the request of Tivoli
> level 2).
>
> Gretchen Thiele
> Princeton University
>
>

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564)


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W2K Missing Files

[Christoph Pilgram]

Hi all,

I have a strange Problem with our W2K-Servers : TSM-Client 4.2.0.0
When starting an interactive Backup-Session I select some Files out of the
explorer-like window for backup (e.g. KERNEL32.DLL from winnt\system32 ).
I start the backup session and it completes without error, but all object
counter say "0" . The file was not backed up. But then when I go back to the
backup-window this selected files and a lot more are not displayed anymore
in the file-selection in the directory \winnt\system32.
And I don't find any restorable version of these files, so thei never were
backed up.

Does anybody have seen this behaviour on his system ? Any explanation ?

Thanks

Chris
( Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG )

How to backup an NFS partition

[Farren Minns]

Hi all

Running Solaris Server 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 box

I want to NFS mount a partition from one Solaris machine  to another and
then have TSM back this file system up. Will TSM automatically backup a
remotely mounted NFS partition or do I have to tell it specifically to do
so.

Many thanks in advance for your help

Farren Minns - TSM and Solaris System Admin  - John Wiley & Sons

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address

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Re: TDP for Exchange 402 Errors: Second Try

[Del Hoobler]

> We are experiencing the backup failed 402 error condition nightly on at
> least 1 of our Exchange Servers.  We are running:
>   The latest TDP for Exchange
>   Exchange 5.5 SP4
>   NT 4 60a
> TSM Server
>   AIX 4.3.3 ML10
>   TSM 4.2.2.12
>   Gigabit
> The NT hardware is Gigabit ethernet, ESS Disk with the latest SDD driver,
> Magstar Tape.
> LAN Backup.
>
> The 402 error condition is related to file handle or other memory
resource
> shortages in Exchange or NT.  Essentially, until we reboot the box or
cycle
> the Exchange service the problem is around and no backups will run.  The
> funny piece is it can back up the directory but not the information
stores.

Paul,

One thing to try in order to get your backups working is
to change your buffersize to 64K. That is:

TDPEXCC SET BUFFERSIZE=64

This reduces the amount of memory needed by the
Exchange Information Store for the backup.

Most of the time we have seen this, Microsoft has
become involved and used various performance
tools (like PERFMON for one) to find out
what process is eating all of the resources.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Never cut what can be untied.
- Commit yourself to constant improvement.

Re: Help,cartridge remove question

[fenglimian]

Trinh, Tony,
   Thank you very much!I'm in China.Now about 800 cartridge shill remove from the 
library,can I use this operation:
ADSM>checkout libv (library name) volrange=bar001,bar800(if the label is 
sequential) remove=yes
Must I backup DB before I do this?
   The other thing I want to know is that:from the output of the "help checkout" I saw 
"Specifies that a volume is placed into the bulk I/O station. The server deletes the 
volume entry from the server library inventory."  what is the meaning?The contents of 
the cartridge still in the cartridge?
   The last thing I want to ask for advice is that  I can open the library door and 
remove these cartridge manual,then I input my new cartridge manual again and label 
them?

Thanks and regards!
 Feng



>Feng,
>
>The best way to perform the checkout is:
>
>ADSM>checkout libv   rem=yes
>
>() the library name
>() the volume number
>
>May I ask where are you located?
>
>
>Your humble servant,
>--= Tony Trinh
> Tivoli Storage Manager Admin (TSM)
> c: 408-221-7867
> Storage, Backup - Intel Online Services =--
>
>@}---}---}-
>
>"No matter how well we do something, there is always something we can do
>better" - Joel Robuchon
>
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: fenglimian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:02 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Help,cartridge remove question
>
>
>Hi all,
>  I have a 3494 library,my adsm version is 3.1.6,now my library slot will be
>full,so I want to move some cartridges out of the library.The operations I
>will have as follow:
>backup db devclass=tapeclass
>move media * stgpool=backup
>move media * stgpool=archive
>
>Is this all?Or I need any more opertions?

sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

[Eric Winters]

Dear All,

I have an AIX node with TSM Backup client at 4.2.1.0 and a TSM server on
AIX at 4.2.1.10

I have PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE set in the dsm.sys, and I've set a
PASSWORDDIR.
The first time I attempt to run a dsmc command as root, I'm naturally asked
to provide password details. This works fine and my command runs
successfully.
A TSM.PWD file is created as expected.
But when I run my next dsmc command I have to provide the password all over
again. And the dsmerror.log shows the following message
 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication

The baffling thing is that I have this working just fine on another node at
the same level of client s/w talking to the same server.

Any ideas?
Thanks people,


Regards,

Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

TDP for R/3 - two sessions want access to same tape

[Eric Winters]

Dear All,

I'm using TDP for R/3 3.2.0.8 on AIX and I've configured the initXXX.utl
file to use 2 sessions.
My node has been configured on the server for a maximum number of mount
points of 2.

When running a brbackup 2 sessions are started - but they both want to
write to the same tape. The result of course is that one session is waiting
patiently (over an hour) for a specific tape which is busy being used by
the other session.
What's going on here? Any ideas?

Incidentally I'm backing up via the Storage Agent direct to tape.
Drivemapping has been performed for both drives.

Here are my sessions.

101,782 Tcp/Ip MediaW 1.8 H2.9 K   4.0 G Node  TDP R3 AIX   GISR07_SAP
101,783 Tcp/Ip RecvW0 S   10.8 K  70.0 G Node  TDP R3  AIX  GISR07_SAP

Any input welcome.


Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

Re: updating from to 5.1 (Problems?), LANFREE?

[Suad]

> furthermore we will get a new data warehouse machine on friday.
> Including FastT via FibreChannel.
>
> The TSM-Library is a 3584 Ultrium LTO Fibrechannel.
>
> I would like to backup the data warehouse directly via FC to tape,
> probably sending only the TSM-DB-Info to the TSM-Server. (almost
> LANFree!?). Any suggestions?

If your warehousing client/OS  has a supported TDP/Agent then you can
backup via Lan Free.

Marketing reference:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/san/lanfree.html

I would check if the data goes directly to tape as Tivoli didn't have
code for direct SCSI copy (3rd party SCSI), in the past. The data path
would go to the TSM server then to the tape device (effectively like a
FC in-band backup).
I've read a user guide recently that points to direct device name
registration, so it may implemented.

Cheers, Suad
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Re: Need Help with Linux Client.

[Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand]

Hi Michael
It is likely that you miss following option in your opt-file:
passworddir  /full path to directory in which you want your file with the
encrypted password to be stored.
TSM Client needs access to this file as well.

Rgds
Geirr G. Halvorsen

-Original Message-
From: Michael Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23. september 2002 19:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need Help with Linux Client.


I need some help setting up a Linux client.  Specifically, I need a sample
DSM.opt, and DSM.sys file.  The group responsible for this node, is trying
to run the backup via a cron job, but when the backup starts, it asks for a
password.  When the node was orginally setup, here is what was put into
each file, adn as you can see, it is missing alot of information:

DSM.sys:

* Tivoli Storage Manager   *
*  *
* Sample Client System Options file for UNIX (dsm.sys.smp) *


*  This file contains the minimum options required to get started
*  using TSM.  Copy dsm.sys.smp to dsm.sys.  In the dsm.sys file,
*  enter the appropriate values for each option listed below and
*  remove the leading asterisk (*) for each one.

*  If your client node communicates with multiple TSM servers, be
*  sure to add a stanza, beginning with the SERVERNAME option, for
*  each additional server.



SErvername  server_a
   COMMmethod TCPip
   TCPPort1500
   TCPServeraddress   tsm390

DM.opt:

* Tivoli Storage Manager   *
*  *
* Sample Client User Options file for UNIX (dsm.opt.smp)   *


*  This file contains an option you can use to specify the TSM
*  server to contact if more than one is defined in your client
*  system options file (dsm.sys).  Copy dsm.opt.smp to dsm.opt.
*  If you enter a server name for the option below, remove the
*  leading asterisk (*).



* SErvername   A server name defined in the dsm.sys file


Currently, most of my exposure to setting up clients has been on the NT/W2K
side, and here is what I had the NT group use there:


* IBM Adstar Distributed Storage Manager
*
* 32-Bit Windows backup and archive Client - V3 level
*  Note: *  - option not used
*** - option specified at server
* Changed 6/13/02 JWG NSF files backing up to Tape per MM

BackupRegistry  Yes
**ChangingRetries   4
ClusterNode No
CommMethod  TcpIp
CommRestartDuration 
CommRestartInterval 15
**CompressAlwaysYes
**Compression   Yes
*CPICBufferSize
*CPICModeName
DateFormat  1
**DirMC STDPERM
**Domainall-local
Editor  Yes
ErrorLogNamedsmerror.log
ErrorLogRetention   14 D
GuiTreeViewAfterBackup  Yes
HttpPort1581
HttpsPort   0
*IPXBufferSize
*IPXServerAddress
*IPXSocket
*LanAdapter
LANGAMENG
LargeCommBuffersYes
**MaxCmdRetries 4
MemoryEfficientBackup   No
*NamedPipeName
*NetBiosBufferSize
*NetBiosName
*NetBiosServerName
*NetBiosTimeOut
*Nodename
NumberFormat1
*PartnerLuName
*Password
PasswordAccess  Generate
*PostScheduleCmd
*PreScheduleCmd
QuerySchedPeriod6
*Quiet
Replace Prompt
ResourceUtilization 2
**RetryPeriod   20
RevokeRemoteAccess  None
RunAsServiceNo
SchedLogNamedsmsched.log
SchedLogRetention   14 D
**SchedMode Prompted
**Scrollines20
**ScrollPrompt  Yes
SkipNTPermissions   No
SkipNTSecurityCRC   No
**SubdirYes
*SymbolicDestination
**TapePromptNo
TCPBuffSize 512
TCPClientAddress  10.1.3.38
*TCPClientPort  1501
TCPNoDelay  Yes
TCPPort 1500
TCPServerAddressTSM390
TCPWindowSize   63
TimeFormat  1
*TPName
**TxnByteLimit  2048
UseUnicodeFileNames No
Verbose
*tracemax1
*traceflag   service
*tracefile   d:\tsm\trace\tra

Re: Missing volume

[Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand]

Hi Sam,
most likely the tape is not checked in. When you delete data from it, it
returns to scratch, and is no longer defines in a storagepool - which is why
you can't see the volume with q volume. If you can't see the volume with q
libvol, it is normally because it is not checked in. Check this select *
from volhistory where volume_name=''
Now check the LAST entry in the list, for this volume. If it says TYPE
STGDELETE your volume is OK, and you just check it in to your library.

Rgds.
Geirr G. Halvorsen

-Original Message-
From: Sam Haziprodromu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23. september 2002 21:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Missing volume


Hi *smers, I have a strange problem for me. We deleted  the data from a
volume to make it a scratch and we can not see the volume when we do a q
libvol or q volume. We can't see the volume. In the activity log the process
ran to successful conclusion. Help

TIA
Sam Haziprodromu  I.T.

updating from to 5.1 (Problems?), LANFREE?

[Klemmer Michael]

Hi there, all you tsm-ers!
I am planning to update the TSM-Server from 4.2.1.11 to 5.1.
Any known problems?

furthermore we will get a new data warehouse machine on friday.
Including FastT via FibreChannel.

The TSM-Library is a 3584 Ultrium LTO Fibrechannel.

I would like to backup the data warehouse directly via FC to tape, probably sending 
only the TSM-DB-Info to the TSM-Server. (almost LANFree!?). Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot in advance

Mike Klemmer
SPar Handels AG
Hamburg
Germany
Pirvate E-Mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Error while starting ON-Bar backup

[Ganu Sachin, IBM]

Hi

I have an AIX m/c with 4.3.3. It had Informix 7.24 UC 3 with TSM and TDP for
Informix 3.7.0 and backup was working. I upgraded the Informix to IDS
7.31.FD2X1. Also I upgraded my TSM to 5.1 and TDP for Informix to 4.1 for 64
bit compatibility. I am able to start TSM browser window and able to see al
my TSM data. All the dsm.opt dsm.sys and dsmserv.opt remained unchanged.

When I am starting onbar backup, I am getting following error under
bar_act.log

2002-09-25 11:37:48 13474  12782 /informix/CD1/bin/onbar_d -b -w -L 0
2002-09-25 11:37:52 13474  12782 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs.
2002-09-25 11:37:52 13474  12782 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA
error has occurred: 96
 2002-09-25 11:37:57 13474  12782 Due to the previous error, logical restore
will not be attempted.
 2002-09-25 11:37:57 13474  12782 /informix/CD1/bin/onbar_d: process exit 96
(0x60)

and the /home/Informix/logdir/dsierror.log gives an error of

09/25/02   11:37:52 sessInit(): commLoad returned 156

Following things are already configured in the system

*   Under $ONCONFIG,
BAR_BSALIB_PATH=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/informix/bin64/bsashr10.o

*   # ls -l /usr/lib/ibsad*

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root system48 Sep 25 11:11 /usr/lib/ibsad001_64.o
->/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/informix/bin64/bsashr10.o

*   $INFORMIXDIR/sm_versions has an entry as 1|4.1.0|adsm|4


*   the bar_version table has an entry of


 sysutils@bramhacd1shm - Press CTRL-W for Help


bar_versionbsa_versionbar_sm sm_version

14.1.0  adsm4



*   I tried running /etc/methods/cfg64, but no use


*   Following Tivoli filesets are loaded

  tivoli.tsm.client.api.aix43.32bit
  tivoli.tsm.client.api.aix43.64bit
  tivoli.tsm.client.ba.aix43.32bit.base
  tivoli.tsm.client.ba.aix43.32bit.common
  tivoli.tsm.client.books.htm
  tivoli.tsm.client.books.pdf
  tivoli.tsm.client.image.aix43.32bit
  tivoli.tsm.client.informix.aix43.32bit 4.1.3.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Data Production for
  tivoli.tsm.client.informix.aix43.64bit 4.1.3.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Data Production for
  tivoli.tsm.client.web.aix43.32bit
  tivoli.tsm.devices.acsls  5.1.0.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Storage Manager Device
  tivoli.tsm.devices.aix43.rte 5.1.0.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Storage Manager Device
  tivoli.tsm.license.cert   5.1.0.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Storage Manager License
  tivoli.tsm.license.rte5.1.0.0  OBSOLETE   Tivoli
Storage Manager License
  tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Devices
  tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server   5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Server
  tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.webhelp5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Web
  tivoli.tsm.server.com 5.1.0.0  COMMITTED  Tivoli
Storage Manager Server
  tivoli.tsm.server.rte 5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Server
  tivoli.tsm.server.webadmin 5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Server
  tivoli.tsm.devices.acsls  5.1.0.0  COMMITTED  Tivoli
Storage Manager Device
  tivoli.tsm.devices.aix43.rte 5.1.0.0
COMMITTED  Tivoli Storage Manager Device
  tivoli.tsm.server.com 5.1.0.0  COMMITTED  Tivoli
Storage Manager Server
  tivoli.tsm.server.rte   5.1.0.0  COMMITTED
Tivoli Storage Manager Server

Can someone help me out solving this problem ? Why tivoli.tsm.license.rte
is showing as obsolete ? After I installed new TSM 5.1, I ran the command
dsmserv upgradedb, is it because of that ?

Thanks & regards

Sachin Ganu
IBM Global Services (India)