to add new cartridges
Hello all, I have only 10 cartridges in my tape library. Now I have to add 10 more.The capacity of the DLT (storEDGE L1000) is 30 cartridges.Now how i shld proceed to include the new 10 tapes with the configured library. pls guide me. thanks in advance Geetha Thanu -
Re: to add new cartridges
Geetha, Use CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command to checking the volumes in to the library. C.R.Chandrasekhar. Systems Executive. Tivoli Certified Consultant (TSM). TIMKEN Engineering Research - INDIA (P) Ltd., Bangalore. Phone No: 91-80-5536113 Ext:3032. Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Geetha Thanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: to add new cartridges Hello all, I have only 10 cartridges in my tape library. Now I have to add 10 more.The capacity of the DLT (storEDGE L1000) is 30 cartridges.Now how i shld proceed to include the new 10 tapes with the configured library. pls guide me. thanks in advance Geetha Thanu -
Re: to add new cartridges
Should be label libv if this are new volumes not labelt by TSM in the past. Issue HELP Label libv on the TSM server to see the syntax. Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Chandrashekar, C R. (Chandrasekhar) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 27 oktober 2003 10:14 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: to add new cartridges Geetha, Use CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command to checking the volumes in to the library. C.R.Chandrasekhar. Systems Executive. Tivoli Certified Consultant (TSM). TIMKEN Engineering Research - INDIA (P) Ltd., Bangalore. Phone No: 91-80-5536113 Ext:3032. Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Geetha Thanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: to add new cartridges Hello all, I have only 10 cartridges in my tape library. Now I have to add 10 more.The capacity of the DLT (storEDGE L1000) is 30 cartridges.Now how i shld proceed to include the new 10 tapes with the configured library. pls guide me. thanks in advance Geetha Thanu -
Re: to add new cartridges
use LABEL LIBVOLUME command ... - Original Message - From: Geetha Thanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: to add new cartridges Hello all, I have only 10 cartridges in my tape library. Now I have to add 10 more.The capacity of the DLT (storEDGE L1000) is 30 cartridges.Now how i shld proceed to include the new 10 tapes with the configured library. pls guide me. thanks in advance Geetha Thanu -
Re: to add new cartridges
Insert the new tapes to the I/O station of tape library and type this command on the tsm admin command prompt: Label libv libr_name search=bulk labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch overwrite=no Query req - to get the request no. Reply request no. Hope this will help. Regards, Zosi Noriega -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geetha Thanu Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: to add new cartridges Hello all, I have only 10 cartridges in my tape library. Now I have to add 10 more.The capacity of the DLT (storEDGE L1000) is 30 cartridges.Now how i shld proceed to include the new 10 tapes with the configured library. pls guide me. thanks in advance Geetha Thanu - This e-mail may contain confidential and/or priviledged information. If you are not the intended recepient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail.
Events table information.
Hi TSM expert I am trying to write a script to check a duration time of each schedule in a day. I need to use an events table to select the data. But in this table it show only the information of a current date. I dont know why. But when I use q event begind=-2, it can display the information of 2 previous days. Dose the information is corrected in this table? Thanks you, Wira Chinwong.
Rapid DB Growth
Hi Everyone! I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? We do have approximately 250 clients backing up to this server and on Saturday morning there are approximately 20 lotus domino tdp clients that complete full backups of their databases along with all of the other regular processing. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
Re: Rapid DB Growth
I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? ... Joni - See Database consumption factors in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts Runaway archiving is a frequently cited cause; or the sudden population growth of a backed up file system (many small files). A simple way to check for who's adding a lot of data is to get the volnames of recent, busy output tapes and do Query Content on them. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Rapid DB Growth
Hi, maybe you have backed up a lot of files e.g all the lotus databases or some other server. Maybe there have been some fileright changes on a big directory tree. Thats just a small click on the clientside but causes TSM to backup a lot. I think you have to compare logfile from last weekend with this weekend and ask the responsible administrator of the suspicient clients what has happened. michael kindermann wuerzburg/germany Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 13:28 schrieb Joni Moyer: Hi Everyone! I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? We do have approximately 250 clients backing up to this server and on Saturday morning there are approximately 20 lotus domino tdp clients that complete full backups of their databases along with all of the other regular processing. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
Re: Rapid DB Growth
What TSM client levels are you running. There are known issues with some of the older TSM clients and Daylight savings time. Everything gets backed up. Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Enterprise Storage Solutions The Phoenix Companies Inc. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: (860)403-2281 michael.kinderma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael.kinderma cc: nnSubject: Re: Rapid DB Growth Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 10/27/2003 07:53 AM Please respond to michael.kinderman n Hi, maybe you have backed up a lot of files e.g all the lotus databases or some other server. Maybe there have been some fileright changes on a big directory tree. Thats just a small click on the clientside but causes TSM to backup a lot. I think you have to compare logfile from last weekend with this weekend and ask the responsible administrator of the suspicient clients what has happened. michael kindermann wuerzburg/germany Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 13:28 schrieb Joni Moyer: Hi Everyone! I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? We do have approximately 250 clients backing up to this server and on Saturday morning there are approximately 20 lotus domino tdp clients that complete full backups of their databases along with all of the other regular processing. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 *** CONFIDENTIAL: This communication, including attachments, is intended only for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error, and any use, review, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy any and all copies of this communication. ***
Re: Events table information.
The problem is when selecting from events table it's by default generated with the information of todays date only. Using (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-SCHEDULED_START'2 00:00:00') will get information less than two days old within todays info. See the problem? However if you specify a specific date (i.e. '2003-10-25') the events table will be generated from this. There's no limitation in SQL saying you can't use both a specific date and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP at the samt time. I spent hours figuring this out and note that the following workaround will only work for less than 200 years... SELECT * FROM EVENTS WHERE SCHEDULED_START BETWEEN '1970-01-01' AND '2199-12-31' AND CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-SCHEDULED_START'2 00:00:00' regards, Anders Pontusson
Re: Rapid DB Growth
Well, This is where pulling out regular trending information can be very useful. For example daily summaries of the total number of files backed up, size of backups backup times etc . As you are on os390 that useful tool rexx can be employed here, and the totals uplifted into a suitable pc database. For your particular situation now you might find it useful to extract the information for the last few days from the activity log using QUERY AC BEGIND=TODAY-3 BEGINT=08:00 ENDD=TODAY ENDT=08:00 ORIGINATOR=CLIENT John Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]@vm.marist.edu on 10/27/2003 12:28:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Rapid DB Growth Hi Everyone! I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? We do have approximately 250 clients backing up to this server and on Saturday morning there are approximately 20 lotus domino tdp clients that complete full backups of their databases along with all of the other regular processing. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: Rapid DB Growth
If you have accounting turned on, you can analyze the session accounting records to see which node(s) created a lot of objects during the time period in question. If you run expiration regularly, another possibility is that expiration has bogged down somewhere, e.g., due to excessive versions in your management classes. Look at the expiration-related messages in the activity log to analyze this possibility. There is a message generated for each filespace processed by expiration. ..Paul At 07:28 AM 10/27/2003 -0500, Joni Moyer wrote: Hi Everyone! I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? We do have approximately 250 clients backing up to this server and on Saturday morning there are approximately 20 lotus domino tdp clients that complete full backups of their databases along with all of the other regular processing. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 719 Rhodes Hall, Cornell UniversityFx: 607-255-8521 Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Events table information.
Hi TSM expert I am trying to write a script to check a duration time of each schedule in a day. I need to use an events table to select the data. But in this table it show only the information of a current date. I dont know why. But when I use q event begind=-2, it can display the information of 2 previous days. Dose the information is corrected in this table? I am not sure you will be able to do what you want even when you get the selection criteria sorted out. The events table on our 5.1.7.2 server does not have a column for completion time. If the same is true on your server you will probably have to use 'query event' output to compute durations.
Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper?
Al, We have the HA feature on our 3494 without dual grippers. Jim Sporer At 02:24 PM 10/24/2003 -0500, you wrote: Our dual gripper is used 6% of the time, but we also have an HA setup (2 accessors) which requires dual grippers. You do lose storage slots at the top and bottom as noted, but the thing I don't understand is why the top 2 slots of the I/O door aren't blocked out like the shelves because the bottom gripper can't reach these either. Just one of those odd observations. -Al Richard Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/03 06:58 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper? A dual gripper shaves some seconds off the overall time. It may be worth pointing out that a dual gripper loses you some library tape slots - 10% of them, in fact. The upper gripper cannot reach the lowest 2 slot levels, nor can the lower gripper reach the highest 2 levels. Therefore these 4 levels are lost (and are physically blanked off in our library). It's an open question why IBM chose to do it that way, because it was surely possible to program the control PC to use the appropriate gripper for these levels. Probably that nice warm feeling of redundancy. Richard Foster *** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete the e-mail and attached documents. Thank you. ***
Re: Database fragmentation formula (was Re: Online DB Reorg)
As any other monitoring measurement, it matters only for the value it measures - fragmentation. For example it shows high fragmentation numbers for Wayne's database. The latter leads to a conclusion that he would really benefit from doing unload/load. But all others having the database less than 20-30% fragmented, the typical answer would apply - even if database is defragmented the result will be temporary. If the fragmentation value is 50% (or more), some space can be conserved. And for 80% and beyond, the space savings can be significant. So it is only one aspect of TSM server health-check. As with any complex product, the overall picture consists of many such throttles, bells and whistles :-) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21.10.2003 18:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Database fragmentation formula (was Re: Online DB Reorg) I have to ask one thing about all this higher math - Does it matter? That is, what can you do about it, or what should you do about it? I think the answer is that, even if these competing formulae are correct and you discover your database is fragmented, there is practically nothing you can or should actually do. Except in the case where a TSM system is being deliberately shrunk, such as by removing a bunch of nodes, there is nothing you should attempt to do about database fragmentation. Fragmentation occurs at three levels, as far as I can tell. But any speculation on my part as to what those three levels are is just that - speculation. And conjecture from external observation. I do know that there is fragmentation within TSM's storage units, and then there is fragmentaiton of TSM's units within the OS file system's storage units. Measuring or fixing the former involves the lengthly and risky unload/reload procedure which I do not ever recommend. I suspect I can see the latter, by comparing the amount of free space shown by Q DBVOL F=D, and the amount of free space shown by Q DB. I could correct fragmentation at that level with DELETE DBVOL, which is easier than unload/reload, but it still won't achieve much and the effect still won't last. So all this mathematics still does not give me much to go on, in terms of how to make my TSM system run better in the long term. I ran that first SELECT published in this thread on my system and came up with -0.04% fragmented. Obviously a flawed formula. I know my database is fragmented, simply because it is old and big. But what you can do, that will help, is to just give it enough room and let it spread itself out far enough that it can usually get contiguous space, at all levels including the physical level, when it wants to write something that is large enough to span multiple units, whatever those units are. A full, fragmented database will defragment itself to a degree after it has been run with additional space for a while. Throw more disk drives at the problem. An 80% full database of any kind WILL run faster than a 98% full database. Of that I am very, very certain. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you ever, like, tried to put together a bicycle in public? Or a grill? Astronauts David Wolf and Piers Sellers, explaining the difficulties encountered in attaching equipment to the Space Station
Re: write speed for LTO2 drive using LTO1 tape
- (on mbox.infotel.bg) email-body was scanned and no virus found - As the LTO2 cartridges differ from LTO1, their speeds also differ. However according to IBM's specs (I have not looked this info for HP or Seagate) - an LTO2 drive can read/write LTO1 cartridge at 20 MB/s native. This is to be considered 33% improvement and your 26 MB/s may simply mean you are getting 1,3:1 compression ratio. With same compression LTO1 drive ought to give you 1,3 x 15 MB ~= 19,5 MB/s. If you use LTO2 cartridges, you may get 1,3 x 35 (or 30 for HP/Seagate) ~= 45 MB/s. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Markus Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24.10.2003 14:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:write speed for LTO2 drive using LTO1 tape Hi, has anyone tried backing up an image to a LTO2 drive using LTO1 tapes, if yes what throughput did you get? we tried LAN free backups using an EMC Clariion CX400 and pathlight SAN gateway with 1 G switches, the max throughput was only 26 MB/sec suggesting that LTO2 drives can only write at LTO1 drive max write speed. (specs 30MB/s compressed) Any confirmation of this would be appreciated. TSM Server 5.2.1.1, STA 5.2.1.1, TSM client 5.2.0.3 W2k environment Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Markus Veit
Re: Events table information.
I am not sure you will be able to do what you want even when you get the selection criteria sorted out. The events table on our 5.1.7.2 server does not have a column for completion time. If the same is true on your server you will probably have to use 'query event' output to compute durations. I believe that information can be found in the summary table (but then theres no problem with the criterias). SELECT ENTITY AS NODE_NAME,(END_TIME-START_TIME) AS DURATION FROM SUMMARY WHERE UPPER(ACTIVITY)='BACKUP' AND CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-START_TIME'2 00:00:00' regards, Anders Pontusson
TSM on Linux for zSeries w/ 3494
Hi all I apologize if this question has been asked already. I have installed SuSE SLES 8 and TSM Server 5.2 on a MP3K H30 with a 3494 Library attached. Next Step is to define the 3494 Library to TSM. The only way (as far as I found out) to connect the Library is via TCP/IP or a serial (tty) device. But the drives in the 3494 are ESCON attached. Has anyone done this already, and is there another way to this without a TCP/IP connection from Linux/390 to the 3494? Thanks in advance for helping me in this issue. With kind regards - Mit freundlichen Gruessen + + Patrick Wagner + Systems Engineer E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Osys AG Tel: +41 1 317 18 19 + Hofwiesenstrasse 350 Fax: +41 1 317 18 20 + CH-8050 Zuerich Mobile: +41 79 404 88 84 + Switzerland Internet: http://www.osys.ch + + IBM Advanced Business Partner +
Re: TSM on Linux for zSeries w/ 3494
I apologize if this question has been asked already. I have installed SuSE SLES 8 and TSM Server 5.2 on a MP3K H30 with a 3494 Library attached. Next Step is to define the 3494 Library to TSM. The only way (as far as I found out) to connect the Library is via TCP/IP or a serial (tty) device. But the drives in the 3494 are ESCON attached. Has anyone done this already, and is there another way to this without a TCP/IP connection from Linux/390 to the 3494? We have not gotten as far as installing Linux for this purpose, but our research indicates that you will indeed need a LAN connection (more specifically, an Ethernet or Token Ring connection) from Linux to the library. Our research also indicates that you will need FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol) connections from Linux to the tape drives. As usual with recent hardware, only the variant of FCP that uses switches is supported; point to point and arbitrated loop connections are not supported. The main sources for these conclusions are the device support Web page for TSM: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Supported_Devic es_for_Linux.html#IBM%20Magstar%20Tape%20Products which states that the IBMtape device driver is required, the README page for the driver: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/SLES8/IBMtape_Magstar_zSeries .ReadMe which states that only FCP attachment is supported, and the device driver documentation page: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/ which contains documents stating that FCP is required for tape drive attachment and that Ethernet or Token Ring is required for tape library attachment. One of my co-workers reports seeing the same attachment requirements in Web accessible copies of handouts from IBM presentations to SHARE and other user groups.
Quick TSM DB Recovery Options
We will be upgrading a TSM Server (AIX 4.3.3/ H80) with 100GB TSM DB. This backup server plays an important role for our Oracle DB's as it archives the Oracle logs all day long. (Not using RMAN yet) Our TSM upgrade from 4.1.6 to 5.7.1 is estimated at 10-12 hours for the upgrade db process. If for some reason the upgrade fails we will have to recover ASAP for the sake of the oracle log file systems will be filling up. With that said we are looking at a couple quick recovery options in case we have to roll back the TSM DB. Here's a couple options we have though of so far... 1) Create a Second TSM DB Copy Mirror (TSM Mirroring) In hopes that we could break it off prior to the upgrade so it can then run as primary? 2) Do a backup db to a device type of file. Any input or other ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! I will be calling Tivoli Tech Support as well to see what they suggest. Regards, Charles
Any way to use ide tape drive on linux?
Hello all, I'm trying to use a seagate IDE tape drive on linux, linux recognized it as /dev/hdf and it works but tsm's driver seems to be only for scsi drives. If I use /dev/hdf in the device path command TSM cannot access it and gives me an I/O error. Thanks for any help
Archiving vs. Client Backup Sets
What would be the preferred method for long term backup, possible restoration of Groupwise Mail. A monthly process to save the post offices for at least 24 months for possible restoration. Archiving directly to tape or creating a backup set to tape are long processes, I have approximately 14 servers w/post offices that range from 20 - 80 GB. Suggestions would be welcomed. Paul Roth Ohio State University Medical Center 614-293-6224
TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup
Greeting all, My DBAs are having a problem with TDP for Oracle version 5.2. Was hoping someone would be able shed some light on our problem. Thanks in advance for any informantion you can provide. Environment: TSM server 5.1.7.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel) Oracle 9.2 and TDPO 5.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel) TSM client V5.1.6.9 32bit Dale Gieseke TSM administrator The Toro Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following is the error information from my DBAs: RMANconfigure channel 1 device type sbt format 'orc_%d_%t'; RMANconfigure channel 1 device type sbt PARMS 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/oracle/admin/rman/optfile/tdpo_osmt.opt)'; RMAN backup database; Starting backup at 27-OCT-03 RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS === RMAN-00571: === RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 10/27/2003 10:23:03 ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library Additional information: 8 sbttest test The sbt function pointers are loaded from oracle.static library. libobk.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. Check that it is installed RMANallocate channel x1 type 'sbt_tape' 2 PARMS=SBT_LIBRARY=oracle.disksbt, 3 ENV=(BACKUP_DIR=/oracle/DBAQ/archlog); 4 backup database; This runs fine.
Re: Any way to use ide tape drive on linux?
Have a look at the module ide-scsi - it makes IDE devices look like SCSI devices. After loading ide-scsi - if you see the tape drive in /proc/scsi/scsi - then TSM will be able to see it - but remember, TSM on Linux doesnt support GENERIC TAPE - so if tsmscsi doesnt recognise the drive (from the drive ID string), then you probably wont be able to use it. I'd be interested to know how you go... ...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli Steve Ochani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/10/2003 05:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Any way to use ide tape drive on linux? Hello all, I'm trying to use a seagate IDE tape drive on linux, linux recognized it as /dev/hdf and it works but tsm's driver seems to be only for scsi drives. If I use /dev/hdf in the device path command TSM cannot access it and gives me an I/O error. Thanks for any help
Re: Archiving vs. Client Backup Sets
My recommendation would be for archiving, then TSM will manage the tapes for you (and you can make copies, track them, restore them if one is damaged, etc)... Backupset tapes are not managed and are one off - so you would need a business process to manage those tapes yourself, and if you loose a tape, then you've lost that data. I also hear that generating backupsets is a slow process (but then archiving resends the data over the network, so that might be just as slow?). Backupsets do have the benefit that they can be generated directly from the server (so no network transfer required), and can be used locally on the client. The answer should be influenced by the requirement from (or the commitment you have made to) the data owner... ...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli Paul Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/10/2003 06:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Archiving vs. Client Backup Sets What would be the preferred method for long term backup, possible restoration of Groupwise Mail. A monthly process to save the post offices for at least 24 months for possible restoration. Archiving directly to tape or creating a backup set to tape are long processes, I have approximately 14 servers w/post offices that range from 20 - 80 GB. Suggestions would be welcomed. Paul Roth Ohio State University Medical Center 614-293-6224
Re: Archiving vs. Client Backup Sets
Hi Paul I've a few questions about your groupwise setup. How do you back up your post offices? I understand that there is an API for Groupwise and a program could be written to connect the groupwise API with the TSM API, but I don't know of anyone who's done it. How can you afford to take down your post offices for long enough to backup 80GB? Are you using some sort of filesystem level snapshot utility or breaking a mirror perhaps. Our desktop group control mail here and use another backup product: I'd really like to have a TSM solution for them before the question is asked. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Data Centre Project Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/10/2003 5:52:48 What would be the preferred method for long term backup, possible restoration of Groupwise Mail. A monthly process to save the post offices for at least 24 months for possible restoration. Archiving directly to tape or creating a backup set to tape are long processes, I have approximately 14 servers w/post offices that range from 20 - 80 GB. Suggestions would be welcomed. Paul Roth Ohio State University Medical Center 614-293-6224 *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipients(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipients(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. ***
Re: Any way to use ide tape drive on linux?
Hmm interesting, it's a seagate travan tapestor. I don't know what else I would try besides generic. Thanks, I'll give the module a try On 28 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Deon George wrote: Have a look at the module ide-scsi - it makes IDE devices look like SCSI devices. After loading ide-scsi - if you see the tape drive in /proc/scsi/scsi - then TSM will be able to see it - but remember, TSM on Linux doesnt support GENERIC TAPE - so if tsmscsi doesnt recognise the drive (from the drive ID string), then you probably wont be able to use it. I'd be interested to know how you go... ...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli Steve Ochani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/10/2003 05:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Any way to use ide tape drive on linux? Hello all, I'm trying to use a seagate IDE tape drive on linux, linux recognized it as /dev/hdf and it works but tsm's driver seems to be only for scsi drives. If I use /dev/hdf in the device path command TSM cannot access it and gives me an I/O error. Thanks for any help
Archive of client not showing up on TSM gui interface
Hi all, this is one Novell client that we run monthly archives on the first of every month. We run TSM 5.1.5 on the client. The Novell client is 5.1. We run incremental daily and all seems to be working fine. We keep the archives for 365 days. Over the past 3 monthly archives (aug,sept,oct), we can no longer see the archives on the Web. I can see the remainder of the previous months on the web except the 3 in question. I just noticed this due to needing a retrieve of Oct. The client logs for the 3 months looked good. Gave me the totals and all was good. Today, thought I would look at the command line and did the retrieve with the -pick option. The 3 months are out there and TSM knows about them, and am retrieving the data as we speak. My question is, why are these 3 months not showing up in the web?? Thank you for any help on this Thanks, Mark Hayden Informations Systems Analyst E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup
did they create the link to the correct libobk.a from I believe $ORACLE_HOME/lib to /usr/tivoli/tsm/...? -Original Message- From: Dale Gieseke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup Greeting all, My DBAs are having a problem with TDP for Oracle version 5.2. Was hoping someone would be able shed some light on our problem. Thanks in advance for any informantion you can provide. Environment: TSM server 5.1.7.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel) Oracle 9.2 and TDPO 5.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel) TSM client V5.1.6.9 32bit Dale Gieseke TSM administrator The Toro Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following is the error information from my DBAs: RMANconfigure channel 1 device type sbt format 'orc_%d_%t'; RMANconfigure channel 1 device type sbt PARMS 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/oracle/admin/rman/optfile/tdpo_osmt.opt)'; RMAN backup database; Starting backup at 27-OCT-03 RMAN-00571: === RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS === RMAN-00571: === RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 10/27/2003 10:23:03 ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library Additional information: 8 sbttest test The sbt function pointers are loaded from oracle.static library. libobk.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. Check that it is installed --- - RMANallocate channel x1 type 'sbt_tape' 2 PARMS=SBT_LIBRARY=oracle.disksbt, 3 ENV=(BACKUP_DIR=/oracle/DBAQ/archlog); 4 backup database; This runs fine. --- -
Re: Quick TSM DB Recovery Options
On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 05:17 Australia/Sydney, Hart, Charles wrote: We will be upgrading a TSM Server (AIX 4.3.3/ H80) with 100GB TSM DB. This backup server plays an important role for our Oracle DB's as it archives the Oracle logs all day long. (Not using RMAN yet) Our TSM upgrade from 4.1.6 to 5.7.1 is estimated at 10-12 hours for the upgrade db process. If for some reason the upgrade fails we will have to recover ASAP for the sake of the oracle log file systems will be filling up. With that said we are looking at a couple quick recovery options in case we have to roll back the TSM DB. Here's a couple options we have though of so far... 1) Create a Second TSM DB Copy Mirror (TSM Mirroring) In hopes that we could break it off prior to the upgrade so it can then run as primary? 2) Do a backup db to a device type of file. Any input or other ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! I will be calling Tivoli Tech Support as well to see what they suggest. Our method was - with a smaller DB: 1. Stop client access. 2. Migrate disk pools. 3. Shut down TSM. 4. 'dd' DB and log raw volumes to tape. This has the advantage of being able to stream to tape (3590 in our case), and is a cold backup of TSM state. Mind you, we never had to restore from it, YMMV. Given your DB size, I'd got with your option 1. Rename whichever sets of volumes out of the way with TSM shut down, and they shouldn't get touched. Your fallback for upgrade will be a TSM shutdown, bunch of renames, TSM reinstall and TSM startup (and eventual remirror). I wouldn't split off the mirror inside TSM - leave TSM thinking it has three copies. Just rename at the OS level to control which sets of volumes TSM uses. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
Re: Rapid DB Growth
On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 23:41 Australia/Sydney, Richard Sims wrote: I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? ... Joni - See Database consumption factors in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts Runaway archiving is a frequently cited cause; or the sudden population growth of a backed up file system (many small files). A simple way to check for who's adding a lot of data is to get the volnames of recent, busy output tapes and do Query Content on them. A good one that gets us frequently is global ACL changes on NT servers with a few million files. Forces a full backup, and adds quite a few million objects to the TSM DB. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
Re: Rapid DB Growth
Another one that I've often had is where the Windows admins don't trust TSM ( for no good reason that I can see) So, in before a change they copy the entire directory tree to another place, then run their update process. This results in one new whole copy of everything, plus massive changes. Its human nature and you can't change it, so you've got to accept it. Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/10/2003 8:49:06 On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 23:41 Australia/Sydney, Richard Sims wrote: I am having a problem with the DB increasing quite rapidly on our TSM 5.1.2 os/390 server. It has a 60 GB database and over the weekend it went from 77% utilization to 88% utilization. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look or what may be causing the DB to fill so quickly? ... Joni - See Database consumption factors in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts Runaway archiving is a frequently cited cause; or the sudden population growth of a backed up file system (many small files). A simple way to check for who's adding a lot of data is to get the volnames of recent, busy output tapes and do Query Content on them. A good one that gets us frequently is global ACL changes on NT servers with a few million files. Forces a full backup, and adds quite a few million objects to the TSM DB. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams *** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipients(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipients(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. ***
Re: Rapid DB Growth
It seems that many of us have our rapid DB growth war stories. Mine was a HPUX node whose sysadmin decided to NFS-mount a very large filesystem (tens of millions of files, which were already backed up to TSM on their native node) but neglected to add it to his node's TSM client exclude list. He was mystified when his node's regular backups did not finish for a week running, until I saw the TSM database filling up rapidly, the scratch tape pool rapidly disappearing, and I found this happening. It took a CPU-week to delete the unwanted filespace and reclaim all those tapes. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] === You can observe a lot just by watching.
unable to start dsmserv
Hello all, I am having a serious problem with tivoli. It is installed in solaris 8. when i start the dsmserv using ./dsmserv i get the following error. ANR7804I Unable to lock dsmserv.lock in this directory. - Resource temporarily unavailable when i saw the port using netstat -a the port is showing CLOSE_WAIT state. Pls guide me what to do. thanks and urgent Geetha Thanu -
Re: unable to start dsmserv
Hi Geetha, Check that whether dsmserv is running or not.This u can check by ps-aef |grep dsmserv. If this is running u can't run again unless: Either kill dsmserv with kill -9 . and then restart or Go to tsm admin command line by typing dsmsdmc .This will be located in /opt/tivoli/tsm/ba/bin .After getting the command line for TSM server give: halton the tsm prompt(Please note that it will stop your tsm server ,so ensure that there are no active users ,req,process on the tsm server at that time,if any cancel them first).Now u can restart the server by dsmserv command. Regards Alkina L ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote: Hello all, I am having a serious problem with tivoli. It is installed in solaris 8. when i start the dsmserv using ./dsmserv i get the following error. ANR7804I Unable to lock dsmserv.lock in this directory. - Resource temporarily unavailable when i saw the port using netstat -a the port is showing CLOSE_WAIT state. Pls guide me what to do. thanks and urgent Geetha Thanu - Click onthe image to chat with me
