Oracle RMAN TDP scheduling for Solaris
I am new to Tivoli and am having problems trying to get scheduling working for the TDP side of things via the TSM scheduler. I have so far found out that I need to have 3 stanzas in the dsm.sys file - 1 for normal backups, 1 for Oracle and 1 for the scheduler for Oracle - and that I need to run a second dsmc process which then refers to the severname set up in the dsm.sys file for the scheduler for Oracle. When I schedule stuff to run it seems to acually execute the script listed in the Command section, though this sems to error as it is missing some environment varuables setup? I know I can backup the databaes fine if I either run from the command line or I use the cron facility. Could someone explain how I should setup the scheduling via TSM so that it works?
AW: how can i query archive group just like query copygroup
Use help query copygroup regards Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Liu, Haifeng Gesendet: Freitag, 4. März 2005 07:50 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: how can i query archive group just like query copygroup Didn't find related command Best regards, Steven
AW: how can I repeat the last command?
You can use the UP and DOWN Arrows to repeat the last command regards Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Liu, Haifeng Gesendet: Freitag, 4. März 2005 07:31 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: how can I repeat the last command? Just like in aix, use ESC+k or ESC+j ? Best regards, Steven
Re: AW: how can I repeat the last command?
thanks Best regards, Steven -Original Message- From: Michael Garnebode [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 4:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AW: how can I repeat the last command? You can use the UP and DOWN Arrows to repeat the last command regards Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Liu, Haifeng Gesendet: Freitag, 4. März 2005 07:31 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: how can I repeat the last command? Just like in aix, use ESC+k or ESC+j ? Best regards, Steven
Reclamation question
Hello all I have next situation: Reclamation of tapes gets on a backup window and backup is tightened at some o'clock pending clearings of resources. What it is possible to make, that the reclamation did not break the schedule backup? Whether there are any recommendations IBM in occasion of reclamation? May be, i must define Reclamation Threshold with value=100 and create two administrative schedules in free from backups time, that redefine Reclamation Threshold to run reclamation and return this parameter to 100? Thanks
Re: Oracle RMAN TDP scheduling for Solaris
Mark Tindall wrote: I am new to Tivoli and am having problems trying to get scheduling working for the TDP side of things via the TSM scheduler. I have so far found out that I need to have 3 stanzas in the dsm.sys file - 1 for normal backups, 1 for Oracle and 1 for the scheduler for Oracle - and that I need to run a second dsmc process which then refers to the severname set up in the dsm.sys file for the scheduler for Oracle. When I schedule stuff to run it seems to acually execute the script listed in the Command section, though this sems to error as it is missing some environment varuables setup? I know I can backup the databaes fine if I either run from the command line or I use the cron facility. Could someone explain how I should setup the scheduling via TSM so that it works? Quick question; Do you execute the script as an oracle user? Generally, the root user doesn't have Oracle specific environment. The scheduler is probably running as root user. I use a wrapper script that is executed as root, which executes the actual script to be run as oracle user. Something like; su - oracle -c /oracle/local/rman/run_full.sh The run_full.sh then contains all RMAN specific commands; #!/bin/sh . /oracle/db_env.sh cd /oracle/local/rman echo *** Backup started at `date` *** /oracle/local/rman/backup.log rman target / catalog rman/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cmdfile bkp_full_open.rcv log=/oracle/local/rman/backup.log append echo *** Backup ended at `date` *** /oracle/local/rman/backup.log Replace username/password as fit of course. I use a file which have the commands, but you could also re-direct into rman commands... Most likely there are a multitiude of other neater ways of doing it... You see that I load the db_env.sh which is containing ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, PATH and ORACLE_SID. As you say it works when run locally as cron job or command line, and that the scheduled command seems to be executed means passwords and so are OK. I think what I have mentioned is quite likely... Regards, Andreas
migration and backup
Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd
Re: migration and backup
Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: migration and backup
Nghiatd, Have your settings before during backup:- High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 25 %. Later , after backups are complete :- High Migration Threshold : 0 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. to allow migration to tape to take place. Bill nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject:[ADSM-L] migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd
Re: migration and backup
I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: migration and backup
I use LTO Gen 2. Its read/write speed is 15-20 MB/s more than network speed (100Mbps). So migration is faster than backup - Original Message - From: John Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: Reclamation question
I have my reclaim=100 during the time migration from disk to tape takes place and the backup of the tapepool, but reclaim=5 all other times. Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chernyaev Sergey Sent: 04 March 2005 08:24 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation question Hello all I have next situation: Reclamation of tapes gets on a backup window and backup is tightened at some o'clock pending clearings of resources. What it is possible to make, that the reclamation did not break the schedule backup? Whether there are any recommendations IBM in occasion of reclamation? May be, i must define Reclamation Threshold with value=100 and create two administrative schedules in free from backups time, that redefine Reclamation Threshold to run reclamation and return this parameter to 100? Thanks
Re: migration and backup
I have 2 drive LTO Gen 2. I also try backup directly to tape, but it is very slow - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: TSM Summary table question re:Successful column values
Can any one suggest how I can alter this query to show the time and also for events between specific dates/times. select date(start_time) as date, activity, entity, successful from summary where successful 'YES' Cheers. Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: 03 March 2005 20:15 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Summary table question re:Successful column values Yep. My TSM server is 5.2.2 on Windows Query: select date(start_time) as date, activity, entity, successful from summary where successful 'YES' Partial results: (because my tape robot was stuck) 2005-01-07 RESTORESSDAPPS2 NO 2005-01-08 RECLAMATIONBACKUPTAPE NO (SSD094) 2005-01-14 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-14 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-14 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-14 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-14 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-15 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-15 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO 2005-01-15 MIGRATION BACKUPDISK NO -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JR Trimark Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Summary table question re:Successful column values Can an entry exist in the summary table whose value of SUCCESSFUL is not set to 'YES'?
Re: migration and backup
the problem is first migration, the backup was stopped. Although, diskpool still has 20% capacity 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: migration and backup
So the data was migrating from diskpool to tape? Is it an offline tape that the error relates to? Can you check your actlog for that time and see if it mentions looking for a specific tape at that time, then see where the tape is, if it's set to offline: readonly, offiste, etc. Is you tape pool set to collocate? Looks like the migration was wanting to put some data ona specific tape and couldn't get access to it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nghiatd Sent: 04 March 2005 10:49 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup the problem is first migration, the backup was stopped. Although, diskpool still has 20% capacity 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: migration and backup
I don't think Waiting for mount of offline media message relative to tape. It is relative to Diskpool. I used q drive, monitor actlog and I see data still write to tape (only one tape) I don't set collocate for tape. - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup So the data was migrating from diskpool to tape? Is it an offline tape that the error relates to? Can you check your actlog for that time and see if it mentions looking for a specific tape at that time, then see where the tape is, if it's set to offline: readonly, offiste, etc. Is you tape pool set to collocate? Looks like the migration was wanting to put some data ona specific tape and couldn't get access to it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nghiatd Sent: 04 March 2005 10:49 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup the problem is first migration, the backup was stopped. Although, diskpool still has 20% capacity 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: migration and backup
Was any of the diskpool volumes varied offline at the time? Is there anything in the clients backup log around that time? Have you subsequently managed to get a backup of that server completed or is this an ongoing issue? I'm wondering if it's just a case of the disk subsystem not being able to cope with the i/o demands made on it during the backup/migration. Can you see how far into the backup job these errors are occurrring, how much data has been backed up to the 20Gb disk when these errors occur. Is it occcurring around the point where the disk reaches 80% and starts migrating? I suspect backing up 200Gb of data to a single 20Gb disk which is concurrently migrating the incoming data is perhaps a bit optimistic. You have 1x 20Gb disk, is it IDE or SCSI? Can you add more disks/faster disks? Regards, Iain Barnetson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nghiatd Sent: 04 March 2005 11:12 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup I don't think Waiting for mount of offline media message relative to tape. It is relative to Diskpool. I used q drive, monitor actlog and I see data still write to tape (only one tape) I don't set collocate for tape. - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup So the data was migrating from diskpool to tape? Is it an offline tape that the error relates to? Can you check your actlog for that time and see if it mentions looking for a specific tape at that time, then see where the tape is, if it's set to offline: readonly, offiste, etc. Is you tape pool set to collocate? Looks like the migration was wanting to put some data ona specific tape and couldn't get access to it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nghiatd Sent: 04 March 2005 10:49 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup the problem is first migration, the backup was stopped. Although, diskpool still has 20% capacity 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 - Original Message - From: Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Re: migration and backup I'm in a similar situation where my primary stg diskpool is not big enough to contain a nights backups. I have the migration set to hi=0 lo=0. This means it's constantly migrating but I've 6 dedicated lto2 tape drives so isn't an issue for me. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Naylor Sent: 04 March 2005 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] migration and backup Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 04/03/2005 10:15 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject migration and backup Hi all, I setup TSM ver 5.2 client on Win 2K that has more than 200 GB data, But TSM server machine only 20 GB hard disk. So I configure Backuppool --- Diskpool ---Tapepool. Diskpool : 18 GB High Migration Threshold : 80 % Low Migration Threshold : 0 %. People said when migration process is started, backup process is still continuous. But I view log file ; 02/03/2005 06:22:26 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar * Unsuccessful* 02/03/2005 06:22:26 A1114I Waiting for mount of offline media. 02/03/2005 06:55:37 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 719,648,279 \\BILL2_200411_2.tar [Sent] 02/03/2005 06:55:37 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 02/03/2005 06:55:53 ... successful 02/03/2005 06:56:16 Normal File-- 726,513,573 \\BILL2_200411_3.tar [Sent] So backup was stopped when migration process is started. Does anyone have idea to backup process still continue ? Nghiatd ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of
Re: migration and backup
I use LTO Gen 2. Its read/write speed is 15-20 MB/s more than network speed (100Mbps). So migration is faster than backup Maybe, but 20% of your 18gb pool is not a lot spare, and I do not think you will get a continuous migration process anyway. It will reach zero and then go all the way back to potentially more than 80% depending how big the file in progress is. To find out exactly what is happening you could schedule regular say 10 minute through the night q stg commands so you can see exactly what is going on with your disk pool. John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. 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. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: Operational Reporting
In the TSM management console, reports, operational reporting; I have a daily report setup with some custom queries. Is there a way I can export all the queries so that I can then import exactly the same queries into another mngt console with out having to labouriously type them in each time. Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations
Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
I tried to update our nasmonthly stg ( update stg nasmonthly ovfloc=firesafe ) to use an overflow location, but got an error saying that overflow location is not valis with the storage pools data format. The nasmonthly stg data format is netapp dump. So effectively that rules out using an overflow location. Any ideas how I can achieve what I'm trying to do: see below Previoulsy we backed up our NAS nodes via cifs named pipes. At the end of each month I took a Backupset of each filespace on the NAS nodes. I've now moved onto backing the NAS nodes up using NDMP across a SAN. As I can no longer take backup sets or backup the NAS stgpool to a copy stgpool I tried creating a primary stgpool called monthly, set to keep 12 versions etc, and setup a cmd schedule to do a full backup of the NAS nodes to it once a month, the idea was that I would make the tapes in the monthly stgpool offsite. However I am unable to change the tapes in the monthly pool to offiste. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what I could do to get a series of Monthly full backups of the NAS nodes? I'm running TSM 5.2.4.1 on Win2K Advanced Server. . -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry McColgan Sent: 03 March 2005 20:56 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data Not to niggle here but NDMP only supports FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backup, not INCREMENTAL. Also, make sure that your NDMP versions are the same on both Tivoli and your NetApp device. Tivoli supports version 3. The NetApp command is ndmpd version 3. Joni: Does your full backup of our NAS on Sunday run in its own storage pool. If it does then it should not interfere with anything else. We have two storage pools (one for onsite, one for offsite) that are set to retain 60 versions (approx. 2 months). We do a full backup monthly on a weekend day and then run differentials on weekdays. This allows us to have 30 days of backups from any given point. After 60 days everything goes away on its own. I have rudimentary scripts to automate some of this. Email me if you wish. Terry McColgan Help Desk Support Specialist Tivoli Storage Manager Specialist Ontario College of Teachers 121 Bloor Street East, Floor 6 Toronto, Ontario M4W 3M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416-961-8800ext. 270 Go ahead... backup. -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data Hi Terry! That is exactly what I wanted to do! I wanted to do an initial full backup and then do incrementals and keep them all onsite. I then wanted to do a full backup of our NAS on Sunday, but how do you do yours? I thought that if I did a full, selective, backup on Sunday that would interfere with the other backups I would want to keep onsite for regular restore purposes? Any thoughts are appeciated! Thanks! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry McColgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data 03/03/2005 02:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hello; I have some experience with NDMP on a NetApp to Tivoli system. To the best of my knowledge, NDMP does not support archiving. It supports FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backups only. Using the TOC I am able to do file level restores without a problem. Given the limitations on NDMP (no DRM ...), we scripted a system that has ONSITE and OFFSITE pools where the ONSITE pools stay in the library and the OFFSITE pools are ejected from the library (IBM 3583) automatically to be stored offsite. Then, by running some SELECT statements in MS excel we are able to determine when to bring the empties back. Given the horror stories I've been reading about YSM 5.3 I think we'll just stick to 5.2.x.x, thanks. - t -Original Message- From: Ben Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data Hmm, but can that be done through the NDMP methodology of backup? I don't think so. You only really have a backup method, not an archive with NDMP. I think We are just dipping our toes in NDMP, so I'm not an expert, but it looks like for that data what we want to keep longer than just DR purposes, we will need to archive it though an NFS mount, especially where there are a few files in a whole qtree that you want kept forever
Re: how can I repeat the last command?
On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Liu, Haifeng wrote: Just like in aix, use ESC+k or ESC+j ? When posting an apparent client question, please help us to help you by at least providing information about the type of platform you are using, if not software levels. I believe you are referring to the CLI Editor, aka Previous Command Recall. This is controlled by the client option called Editor - which may or may not be active, depending upon your platform. You can learn more about its operation in the Unix Backup/Archive Client manual, under Using Commands, Remembering Previous Commands. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs
Re: how can i query archive group just like query copygroup
On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Liu, Haifeng wrote: Didn't find related command See topic Querying Copy Groups in the Admin Guide manual, where it explains using Type=Archive as a command qualifier. Richard Sims
Re: how to bound data to specific management class
On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:17 AM, Liu, Haifeng wrote: Hi, expert, I just study tsm and didn't find the way to bound specific management class with data,could u tell me Refer to How Files and Directories Are Associated with a Management Class in the Admin Guide manual, which thoroughly explains this subject area. You can also search on binding in the client manual. Richard Sims
Error while installing ISC
I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes to about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and this error: [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring AdminControl; exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException: java.lang.NullPointerException I searched on the IBM site for the WASX7318E message and found a couple issues regarding firewalls installed on the box. This is a plain Win2003 server, but I did go in and uninstall the IE enhanced security option. The install still fails with this same message. I've installed the ISC on several boxes.AIX..Win2k..as well as Win2003 with no problems.until yesterday and this error. I have a PMR open with Tivoli support that is being escalated. Anyone seen this while installing the ISC before?? Doesn't look like it's gotten too far.no services have been installed.no processes are running. TIA, Bill Boyer Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional - ??
Re: Error while installing ISC
Hi William, I've seen these kind of errors mainly on systems which did not have 1GB memory. The installation dies somewhere between 15-20% with no apperent reason, and searching through the installation log of ISC is something you only want to do on a rainy sunday afternoon. Richard. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04-03-2005 14:44 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject:Error while installing ISC I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes to about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and this error: [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring AdminControl; exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException: java.lang.NullPointerException I searched on the IBM site for the WASX7318E message and found a couple issues regarding firewalls installed on the box. This is a plain Win2003 server, but I did go in and uninstall the IE enhanced security option. The install still fails with this same message. I've installed the ISC on several boxes.AIX..Win2k..as well as Win2003 with no problems.until yesterday and this error. I have a PMR open with Tivoli support that is being escalated. Anyone seen this while installing the ISC before?? Doesn't look like it's gotten too far.no services have been installed.no processes are running. TIA, Bill Boyer Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional - ??
Backup can't map object
An NT backup is hanging on us with these errors in the dsmerror.log file fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map object '' into the local ANSI codepage, skipping ... I guess this is something to do with strange characters in the filename but we are running up to date client (v5.1.7) and server (v5.1.8) software. Is there any way around this other than renaming the files?
TSM 5.3 License wizards not being displayed in management console
Hello TSMers. I have installed TSM5.3 on W2003 and installed ISC - all ok, except that the management console does not display the license wizard when they have been installed. I have deinstalled and reinstall, and they do not show . I have stopped and restarted the TSM server and rebooted the windows 2003 server. Has anyone else experienced this issue and any work around or fixes.
Re: Changing library manager servers
I went thru this. Setting up a separate LibraryManagerServer that does nothing other than handling tapes is such a benefit that it outweighs having a small AIX machine (there is not such thing any more) doing nothing but. However, the transition was, to use your word, cumbersome. My first thought was to checkout, remove=no, all those volumes whose category value was not that of the new LMS, and then check them in search=yes volr=whole-range owner=server. Unfortunately, search= and owner= are mutually exclusive. Fortunately, I had already used a select of all data volumes to a file. That I used to feed the individual checkin required by owner=. I had to repeat the process for server2. While the two processes were running, over a week for almost 2000 volumes, I couldn't check in any scratch with search=yes. I hope someone may have found a better way. At 03:41 PM 3/2/2005 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, Our current setup: 2 TSM servers, both at 5.2.3.0, both on AIX 5.2. TSM1 is the library manager server for a 3584 library; TSM0 is the library manager client. Both servers are 'full-fledged' in that they both have lots of clients that back up lots of data to them. I'm considering changing to a configuration where we'd have a library manager server that does essentially nothing else, with the library client TSMs being the ones that actually have clients backing up to them. This seems to me to be a cleaner setup - it gives more flexibility in upgrading TSM server levels, for one thing. My first thought is to set up a third TSM server - call it TSMTAPE - and make it the library manager, changing TSM1 to be a library client so that both TSM0 and TSM1 use TSMTAPE as their library manager server. Most of the changes needed to accomplish this seem relatively straightforward, but I'm not so sure about the library inventory - the libvolumes table - that's currently in TSM1. Specifically, what's the best way to get all those libvolume entries out of TSM1 and into TSMTAPE? So far, all I've been able to come up with is some fairly ugly checkout/checkin scenarios, but that seems awfully cumbersome...I'd have to deal with scratch versus private, who owns the privates, etc. The 3584 has a bulk I/O door, which both eases and complicates things for the checkout and checkin processes. Perhaps using 'remove=no' on the checkout could save the physical moving around of tapes, but then it doesn't appear that I can specify 'owner=' on the checkin unless I'm checking in one tape at a time via the I/O door? It seems as if I'm looking at hundreds of single-tape checkins? Has anyone else already been through this? Is there not an easier way? I'd love to have someone point out how dense I'm being about this and how I'm missing the obvious. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464
Data Protection for MS Exchange Server, Version 5.2
Hi, We're in the testing phase of our MS Exchange2003 migration and wondering if anyone has CPU utilization statistics while restoring an Information Store to a production Exchange 2003 Server using the Recovery Storage Group method. Previously, we used a separate recovery server. Will restoring an Information Store to our production system bring our 4-processor, 2.70 GHz box to its knees? Thanks, Bill Argentiere TSM Administrator SAIC
Re: Changing library manager servers
It is not necessary to run the Library Manager server on a separate physical server. If you know how to setup multiple TSM servers on the same AIX box, then you can just run an additional TSM server image to be the shared library manager. We have been doing this successfully. We actually run 4 TSM server images on the same AIX box, in order to keep the database sizes more manageable. One of the 4 is a shared library manager server which does nothing else but manage the library. This works very well for us. ..Paul At 10:49 AM 3/4/2005, fred johanson wrote: I went thru this. Setting up a separate LibraryManagerServer that does nothing other than handling tapes is such a benefit that it outweighs having a small AIX machine (there is not such thing any more) doing nothing but. However, the transition was, to use your word, cumbersome. My first thought was to checkout, remove=no, all those volumes whose category value was not that of the new LMS, and then check them in search=yes volr=whole-range owner=server. Unfortunately, search= and owner= are mutually exclusive. Fortunately, I had already used a select of all data volumes to a file. That I used to feed the individual checkin required by owner=. I had to repeat the process for server2. While the two processes were running, over a week for almost 2000 volumes, I couldn't check in any scratch with search=yes. I hope someone may have found a better way. At 03:41 PM 3/2/2005 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, Our current setup: 2 TSM servers, both at 5.2.3.0, both on AIX 5.2. TSM1 is the library manager server for a 3584 library; TSM0 is the library manager client. Both servers are 'full-fledged' in that they both have lots of clients that back up lots of data to them. I'm considering changing to a configuration where we'd have a library manager server that does essentially nothing else, with the library client TSMs being the ones that actually have clients backing up to them. This seems to me to be a cleaner setup - it gives more flexibility in upgrading TSM server levels, for one thing. My first thought is to set up a third TSM server - call it TSMTAPE - and make it the library manager, changing TSM1 to be a library client so that both TSM0 and TSM1 use TSMTAPE as their library manager server. Most of the changes needed to accomplish this seem relatively straightforward, but I'm not so sure about the library inventory - the libvolumes table - that's currently in TSM1. Specifically, what's the best way to get all those libvolume entries out of TSM1 and into TSMTAPE? So far, all I've been able to come up with is some fairly ugly checkout/checkin scenarios, but that seems awfully cumbersome...I'd have to deal with scratch versus private, who owns the privates, etc. The 3584 has a bulk I/O door, which both eases and complicates things for the checkout and checkin processes. Perhaps using 'remove=no' on the checkout could save the physical moving around of tapes, but then it doesn't appear that I can specify 'owner=' on the checkin unless I'm checking in one tape at a time via the I/O door? It seems as if I'm looking at hundreds of single-tape checkins? Has anyone else already been through this? Is there not an easier way? I'd love to have someone point out how dense I'm being about this and how I'm missing the obvious. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 719 Rhodes Hall, Cornell UniversityFx: 607-255-8521 Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing library manager servers
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Paul Zarnowski wrote: It is not necessary to run the Library Manager server on a separate physical server. If you know how to setup multiple TSM servers on the same AIX box, then you can just run an additional TSM server image to be the shared library manager. We have been doing this successfully. We actually run 4 TSM server images on the same AIX box, in order to keep the database sizes more manageable. One of the 4 is a shared library manager server which does nothing else but manage the library. This works very well for us. This is exactly what we intend to do, and for the same reasons - our two existing TSM servers are in the same AIX image, and we have the two servers in order to keep the DB sizes down. Our third, library manager server, will also be in this same AIX image. It's just the transition that I'm trying to sort out - I either have to move all the clients out of our current library manager server to a new server, or I have to move the library inventory to a new server...whichever is the least hassle. I'm thinking that moving the library inventory is the way to go, messy though that appears to be. Regards, Bill Auburn University OIT
Re: Error while installing ISC
This is a Dell server, 4-way with 4GB of memory. The C: drive has over 9GB of space available. And actually it was a snowy, blustery Thursday afternoon in State College, PA. These logs are scattered all over the place! Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard van Denzel Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Error while installing ISC Hi William, I've seen these kind of errors mainly on systems which did not have 1GB memory. The installation dies somewhere between 15-20% with no apperent reason, and searching through the installation log of ISC is something you only want to do on a rainy sunday afternoon. Richard. William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04-03-2005 14:44 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject:Error while installing ISC I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes to about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and this error: [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring AdminControl; exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException: java.lang.NullPointerException I searched on the IBM site for the WASX7318E message and found a couple issues regarding firewalls installed on the box. This is a plain Win2003 server, but I did go in and uninstall the IE enhanced security option. The install still fails with this same message. I've installed the ISC on several boxes.AIX..Win2k..as well as Win2003 with no problems.until yesterday and this error. I have a PMR open with Tivoli support that is being escalated. Anyone seen this while installing the ISC before?? Doesn't look like it's gotten too far.no services have been installed.no processes are running. TIA, Bill Boyer Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional - ??
Re: TSM 5.3 License wizards not being displayed in management console
Hi Steve, As far as I've been able to tell, the License Wizard doesn't exist in 5.3. They've finally started to update licensing to better reflect the current state of TSM affairs. You no longer license by node, etc. At the moment, the only way to license is by using the 'register license' command (see help register license). You can find more details about how licensing has changed in the current TSM 5.3 Technical Guide Redbook Draft, currently found at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246638.html?Open On page 69 (or 101 of the pdf). regards, Paul - Original Message - From: steve freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:13 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3 License wizards not being displayed in management console Hello TSMers. I have installed TSM5.3 on W2003 and installed ISC - all ok, except that the management console does not display the license wizard when they have been installed. I have deinstalled and reinstall, and they do not show . I have stopped and restarted the TSM server and rebooted the windows 2003 server. Has anyone else experienced this issue and any work around or fixes.
ACSLS Tape Eject
Hello All! I am a little confused as to how I am supposed to eject cartridges from TSM's ACSLS library? Do I update the volumes to offsite and then enter an eject command through ACSLS or do I do a CHECKOUT LIBVOL command? Thank you in advance for any help that you might have! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
Terry, That's done the trick, brilliant. Thanks very much for your help. Regards, Iain -Original Message- From: Terry McColgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2005 17:19 To: Iain Barnetson Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data Bear with me here. Update Stg does not support location. move media does When we run out of space in the library I move the onsite full tapes out to create space for the new monthly full backup: mov med * stg=yourpoolname wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER In the beginning, I missed the ovflo parameter. For those volumes I used the upd vol command with the location and stg switches hope this helps. - t -Original Message- From: Iain Barnetson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 11:20 AM To: Terry McColgan Subject:RE: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data Terry, You've lost me on that one, what am I updating there? Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations -Original Message- From: Terry McColgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2005 15:32 To: Iain Barnetson Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data Try UPDATE VOL LO=FIRESAFE - t -Original Message- From: Iain Barnetson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:46 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Terry McColgan Subject:RE: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data I tried to update our nasmonthly stg ( update stg nasmonthly ovfloc=firesafe ) to use an overflow location, but got an error saying that overflow location is not valis with the storage pools data format. The nasmonthly stg data format is netapp dump. So effectively that rules out using an overflow location. Any ideas how I can achieve what I'm trying to do: see below Previoulsy we backed up our NAS nodes via cifs named pipes. At the end of each month I took a Backupset of each filespace on the NAS nodes. I've now moved onto backing the NAS nodes up using NDMP across a SAN. As I can no longer take backup sets or backup the NAS stgpool to a copy stgpool I tried creating a primary stgpool called monthly, set to keep 12 versions etc, and setup a cmd schedule to do a full backup of the NAS nodes to it once a month, the idea was that I would make the tapes in the monthly stgpool offsite. However I am unable to change the tapes in the monthly pool to offiste. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what I could do to get a series of Monthly full backups of the NAS nodes? I'm running TSM 5.2.4.1 on Win2K Advanced Server. . -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry McColgan Sent: 03 March 2005 20:56 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NetApp NAS NDMP Data Not to niggle here but NDMP only supports FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backup, not INCREMENTAL. Also, make sure that your NDMP versions are the same on both Tivoli and your NetApp device. Tivoli supports version 3. The NetApp command is ndmpd version 3. Joni: Does your full backup of our NAS on Sunday run in its own storage pool. If it does then it should not interfere with anything else. We have two storage pools (one for onsite, one for offsite) that are set to retain 60 versions (approx. 2 months). We do a full backup monthly on a weekend day and then run differentials on weekdays. This allows us to have 30 days of backups from any given point. After 60 days everything goes away on its own. I have rudimentary scripts to automate some of this. Email me if you wish. Terry McColgan Help Desk Support Specialist Tivoli Storage Manager Specialist Ontario College of Teachers 121 Bloor Street East, Floor 6 Toronto, Ontario M4W 3M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416-961-8800ext. 270 Go ahead... backup. -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data Hi Terry! That is exactly what I wanted to do! I wanted to do an initial full backup and then do incrementals and keep them all onsite. I then wanted to do a full backup of our NAS on Sunday, but how do you do yours? I thought that if I did a full, selective, backup on Sunday that would interfere with the other backups I would want to keep onsite for regular restore purposes? Any thoughts are appeciated! Thanks! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry McColgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data 03/03/2005 02:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist
Query Volume Question
TSM Server V 5.2.4.1 on AIX 5.2 Media type LTO2 tsm: MSPTSM01q v 000192 f=d Volume Name: 000192 Storage Pool Name: DIRLTO2 Device Class Name: LTO2DC1 Estimated Capacity (MB): 381,468.0 Scaled Capacity Applied: - Anybody know what this means? Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Filling Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 4 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 02/28/2005 12:25:48 Approx. Date Last Read: 03/04/2005 13:06:24 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 02/28/2005 11:52:34 Just curious what this means since help query volume makes no mention of this value, and I don't see it in Richard's quick facts or the Administration Guide. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM Version on AIX5.3
What should be TSM Version for AIX 5.3. Or any limitations. Thanks Balanand Pinni 23-H-4 SBC Services Inc OBC ,Stl MO * 314-206-5911 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1- 800- 451- 6897
Fw: Query Volume Question
Found it 5.2.2 reference manual. Scaled Capacity Applied | The percentage of capacity to which a volume is scaled. For example, |a value of 20 for a volume whose maximum capacity is 300 GB indicates that |the volume can only store 20 percent of 300 GB, or 60 GB. This attribute applies |only to IBM 3592 devices. | Sung Y. Lee - Forwarded by Sung Y Lee/Austin/IBM on 03/04/2005 02:28 PM - ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/04/2005 02:20:34 PM: TSM Server V 5.2.4.1 on AIX 5.2 Media type LTO2 tsm: MSPTSM01q v 000192 f=d Volume Name: 000192 Storage Pool Name: DIRLTO2 Device Class Name: LTO2DC1 Estimated Capacity (MB): 381,468.0 Scaled Capacity Applied: - Anybody know what this means? Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Filling Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 4 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 02/28/2005 12:25:48 Approx. Date Last Read: 03/04/2005 13:06:24 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 02/28/2005 11:52:34 Just curious what this means since help query volume makes no mention of this value, and I don't see it in Richard's quick facts or the Administration Guide. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Query Volume Question
Found it 5.2.2 reference manual. Thank you... not sure why I didn't look in that book too. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NDMP tape status
Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NDMP tape status
About three messages ago, someone listed the answer for you. I think what you need is the move media command. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 03/04/2005 01:44 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject NDMP tape status Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NDMP tape status
Joni, Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly (thanks again Terry). Use the move media command: mov med * stg=yourpoolname wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER This command will mark all tapes in the yourpoolname as being in the topdrawer overflow location, if they meet the criteria specified with wherestat and wherestatus parameters. It will also auto checkout the tapes to the entry/exit ports, if you don't want that to happen, change the rem parameter. If you do a help move media at the cmd you'll get the complete details. Hope this helps, it certainly did me :) Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 19:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACSLS Tape Eject
Use the normal checkout command but add the CAP parameter. Your ACSLS admin should be able to tell you the values to use. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:46 PM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject:ACSLS Tape Eject Hello All! I am a little confused as to how I am supposed to eject cartridges from TSM's ACSLS library? Do I update the volumes to offsite and then enter an eject command through ACSLS or do I do a CHECKOUT LIBVOL command? Thank you in advance for any help that you might have! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager at postmaster at dor.state.ma.us. **
Re: TSM Version on AIX5.3
You can find this information at the TSM support page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html Find the section maked Server and Client Requirements Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-03-04 12:29:31: What should be TSM Version for AIX 5.3. Or any limitations. Thanks Balanand Pinni 23-H-4 SBC Services Inc OBC ,Stl MO * 314-206-5911 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1- 800- 451- 6897
Re: NDMP tape status
Hi Iain! I have looked at the move media command and I believe that this is what I want to enter if I want to send my tapes to our offsite vaulting company, but I guess what I don't understand is what the difference is between the remove=yes and bulk. I have an STK SL8500 library with ACSLS. If I use this command and I send the tapes offsite, then how do I know when to bring them back or do I just do a: q med status=empty and then when I get a list of tapes that need to be returned issue the command move med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty? mov med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=yes checkl=n ovflo='Vital Records' Honestly I am very confused right now about this whole process because I am using EDT with my regular TSM backups since I have LTO2 drives/tapes. I had to define an ACSLS library along with an external library and I just have so many unknowns of how regular processing is done with an ACSLS library and NDMP backups. If anyone can clear things up for me I would appreciate it. Thank you! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ALLIBURTON.COMTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: NDMP tape status 03/04/2005 02:52 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Joni, Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly (thanks again Terry). Use the move media command: mov med * stg=yourpoolname wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER This command will mark all tapes in the yourpoolname as being in the topdrawer overflow location, if they meet the criteria specified with wherestat and wherestatus parameters. It will also auto checkout the tapes to the entry/exit ports, if you don't want that to happen, change the rem parameter. If you do a help move media at the cmd you'll get the complete details. Hope this helps, it certainly did me :) Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 19:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NDMP tape status
Joni, In all honesty I haven't thought as far as checking the moved media back in, but I guess it'll be a case of when the 12 months that I intend keeping the moved media is up, I'll just check the media backin as private and TSM, knowing that it is now out of date, will change the media to being scratch media. I'm not quite sure what the results of rem=yes or rem=bulk would be for a ACSLS library, but I guess from reading the help file, with an ACSLS lib the rem=yes or rem=bulk results in the same action: tsm puts the tape in the convenience slot whatever that is. I've an ADIC Scalar i2000 with multiple entry/exit slots in the door, and with rem=bulk, tsm checksout all the tapes specified to these slots. Your best bet is to try rem=yes and then rem=bulk see what happens :) For knowing when to bring them back: q med * stg=yourstgname f=d That will give you a list of tapes, their location, and the date their last reference date - which I'm taking to mean when they were written to last. Depending on your retention periods, you'll know that tpaes older than xx days need tocome back. That's how I intend playing it anyway. Sorry I can't be of more help, hopefully someone else can be more helpful. Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 20:21 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Iain! I have looked at the move media command and I believe that this is what I want to enter if I want to send my tapes to our offsite vaulting company, but I guess what I don't understand is what the difference is between the remove=yes and bulk. I have an STK SL8500 library with ACSLS. If I use this command and I send the tapes offsite, then how do I know when to bring them back or do I just do a: q med status=empty and then when I get a list of tapes that need to be returned issue the command move med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty? mov med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=yes checkl=n ovflo='Vital Records' Honestly I am very confused right now about this whole process because I am using EDT with my regular TSM backups since I have LTO2 drives/tapes. I had to define an ACSLS library along with an external library and I just have so many unknowns of how regular processing is done with an ACSLS library and NDMP backups. If anyone can clear things up for me I would appreciate it. Thank you! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ALLIBURTON.COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: NDMP tape status 03/04/2005 02:52 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Joni, Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly (thanks again Terry). Use the move media command: mov med * stg=yourpoolname wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER This command will mark all tapes in the yourpoolname as being in the topdrawer overflow location, if they meet the criteria specified with wherestat and wherestatus parameters. It will also auto checkout the tapes to the entry/exit ports, if you don't want that to happen, change the rem parameter. If you do a help move media at the cmd you'll get the complete details. Hope this helps, it certainly did me :) Iain -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 19:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows TSM Client: PAE/AWE enabled?
Stapleton, Mark wrote: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Egon Blouder I am running a few huge file servers (~6-9 million files, 600GB-1.2TB data, 2GB MEM). In order to enhance backup speed I tried to set resourceutilization to a higher value (5-10). After setting that value I monitored dsm process during backup. The process uses up to 2GB memory and exits with a memory error message. TSM Client ran out of memory. Now I'm thinking about installing up to 8GB (max. for W2K Adv. Server) additional memory for these clients. I'll set /PAE boot option in boot.ini in order to enable more than 4GB of memory. Unfortunately I cannot figure out whether TSM client (5.2/5.3) is able to use that additional memory using Address Window Extension (AWE) API. Does anybody know whether it's supported? If using PAE doesn't get you what you want, try this workaround: 1. Create multiple dsm.opt option files, each using a different nodename and pointing at distinct disk drives. Example: nodename nodeA domain c: d: e: nodename nodeB domain f: g: systemobjects 2. Create a TSM scheduler service for each nodename. 3. Run backups (and restores) in parallel. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office 262.521.5627 We have the same problem. If you use TSM Win32 bits, you could not use more than 2GB memory, after dsmc exit with ran out of memory. /PAE didn't work in our tests. You could use only one dsmc process for one drive, so you have to check if you don't exceed this limit for one drive (depends on the number of objects inspected, 4 millions in my situation). However, it's this requisite is ok, the workaround explain is ok. We are in the bad case, so we use other workaround : - split backup with // dsmc on different file tree - we realize that dsmc in command line have less memory consumption than dsmc sched (we have a PMR open ont this object) - you could use memoryefficientbackup = yes = impact on backup time
Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
Versions Data Deleted and Retain Only Version are not supported with NDMP. The operations on pools Tape_NAS and Copy_NAS will not interfere with each other. You should realize that because there is no Backup/Archive client for NetApp other than the WEB based one, the Display active/inactive files switch is not available. That's one of the reasons why we retain so many versions. The other reason is how NDMP backups decay. NDMP does not understand versioning. Bear with me here, this takes a bit. Lets pretend that we want a 5 day retention and we only work on weekdays (insert laughter here). Week 1 Day 1. Full backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential Week 2 Day 1. Full Backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential Week 3 Day 1. Full Backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential The Full Backups will not decay until the related Differential's do. That means that on Week 2-Day 1, the Week 1 - Day 1 Full will not decay. On Week 2-Day 2, Week 1 - Day 2 will disappear. Week 2 - Day 3, Week 1 - Day 3 will go away and so on ... On Week 3 - Day 1, Week 1 - Day 1's Full will go away. If our retention is set to 5 and, on Week 2 - Day 2, the end user deletes a file and the only other copy is from Week 1 - Day 2, its gone. That's why we set the policy to twice what we want. With Versions Data Exist=Retain Extra Versions=10, Week 1 - Day 2 will not decay until Week 3 - Day2. That way we can go back to the previous backup cycle and be within our policy time. The other issue is versions retained. Here we go... On Week 1 - Day 2, the end user creates a document. On Week 1 - Day4, the end user modifies the document. On Week 2 - Day 4, the end user wants the original back. If we are on 5 day retention (actual, not policy), we're in trouble. If we are on 10 day retention, we're okay. In our organization, we promise (there's a word) to keep 14 versions. We also promised to retain the last deleted version for 30 days. Remember NDMP does not understand versioning or Active/Inactive files. Because of this and because the Diff's decay before the related Full's, we set it to 60 days. Hence our policy is set to 60 days. our NDMP policy Policy Domain Name NETAPP_ON_POL Policy Set Name ACTIVE Mgmt Class Name NETAPP_ON_MC Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists60 Versions Data Deleted 0 Retain Extra Versions 60 Retain Only Version 0 Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC Copy Frequency 0 Copy DestinationNPOOL_ON Table of Contents (TOC) Destination TOC_DSKPOOL Last Update Date/Time Last Update by (administrator) ADMIN Managing profile- SCRIPTS: (note: Library is an IBM 3583) To reclaim tapes from the NPOOL_OFF storage pool and return them to scratch status, cut and paste the following into the Tivoli command line: mov med * stg= NPOOL_OFF wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty rem=n checkl=n To reclaim tapes from the NPOOL_ON storage pool and return them to scratch status, cut and paste the following into the Tivoli command line: mov med * stg=npool_on wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty rem=n checkl=n To create space in the library by removing stg=NPOOL_ON tapes (if necessary for when the full's run): mov med * stg=npool_on wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=YOURLOCATION Another way is to explicitly name the vol you want removed: mov med vol_namestg=npool_on wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full,filling rem=b checkl=n I also use MS Excel to talk to the Tivoli server via ODBC to select VOLUME_NAME, LAST_WRITE_DATE, PCT_UTILIZED,LOCATION sorted by last write date on my onsite and offsite pools. When the PCT_UTILIZED returns to zero I know to bring them back. VERY IMPORTANT: I run the Excel query before I run the above commands as they remove the vols from the pools and return them to scratch Got a headache yet? I hope this helps more than it confuses. I'm hope I'm not repeating myself. Another red letter day in IT. - t -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:48 AM To: Terry McColgan Subject:Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data Hi Terry, Thank you for clarifying about full, differential and incremental backups. I believe I was completely misunderstanding that concept. I hope I now understand what needs to be done in my environment. Please let me know if this makes sense. Onsite Tape Pool: Tape_NAS 1. Full backup of all data. 2. Differential backups on a daily basis. MC for onsite data: If I want to keep 60 days as you do in your environment, what would the MC look like? I am a little confused as to what the versions data deleted, retain extra versions and retain only versions parameter should be. Mgmt Class NameNASMGMTCLASS Copy Group Name
New Perl Module to query TSM Database
I'm just posted to CPAN a new Perl Module using DBI to access TSM Database. I'm sure, it's work well under AIX and Linux, not sure for other platform (I try to be portable). If you want to test it and help me! link http://search.cpan.org/%7Elbendavid/DBD-TSM-0.01/
Re: NetApp NAS NDMP Data
Terry, I think I've got the jist of what you're saying. What I've got set up in my environment is: Daily: By admin sched a differential from day 1 of each node and subsequent differentials daily to stg=naspool. versions data exists - unlimited versions data deleted - 2 days retain extra versions - 90 days retain only version - 90 days Monthly: by admin sched a full each month on the last saturday to stg=nasmonthly versions data exists - 12 months versions data deleted - 12 months retain extra versions - 12 months retain only version - 12 months I've set up a cmd script to move the media in the nasmonthly pool to ovflo=firesafe which will run the first day of each month. although I'm now aware I need to change the 90 days to 180 days, I was hoping I was right in thinking that this would (once I've increased from 90 to 180) allow me to go back 90 days and restore data from the naspool. and allow me to go back as far as 12 months and restore data via the full monthly backups from the firesafe. i may reduce that to 6 months depending on the amount of tapes I end up needing. Am I totally on the wrong track ? Iain p.s. I really appreciate your help with this. -Original Message- From: Terry McColgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 04/03/2005 21:49 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Iain Barnetson Cc: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: NetApp NAS NDMP Data Versions Data Deleted and Retain Only Version are not supported with NDMP. The operations on pools Tape_NAS and Copy_NAS will not interfere with each other. You should realize that because there is no Backup/Archive client for NetApp other than the WEB based one, the Display active/inactive files switch is not available. That's one of the reasons why we retain so many versions. The other reason is how NDMP backups decay. NDMP does not understand versioning. Bear with me here, this takes a bit. Lets pretend that we want a 5 day retention and we only work on weekdays (insert laughter here). Week 1 Day 1. Full backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential Week 2 Day 1. Full Backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential Week 3 Day 1. Full Backup Day 2. Differential Day 3. Differential Day 4. Differential Day 5. Differential The Full Backups will not decay until the related Differential's do. That means that on Week 2-Day 1, the Week 1 - Day 1 Full will not decay. On Week 2-Day 2, Week 1 - Day 2 will disappear. Week 2 - Day 3, Week 1 - Day 3 will go away and so on ... On Week 3 - Day 1, Week 1 - Day 1's Full will go away. If our retention is set to 5 and, on Week 2 - Day 2, the end user deletes a file and the only other copy is from Week 1 - Day 2, its gone. That's why we set the policy to twice what we want. With Versions Data Exist=Retain Extra Versions=10, Week 1 - Day 2 will not decay until Week 3 - Day2. That way we can go back to the previous backup cycle and be within our policy time. The other issue is versions retained. Here we go... On Week 1 - Day 2, the end user creates a document. On Week 1 - Day4, the end user modifies the document. On Week 2 - Day 4, the end user wants the original back. If we are on 5 day retention (actual, not policy), we're in trouble. If we are on 10 day retention, we're okay. In our organization, we promise (there's a word) to keep 14 versions. We also promised to retain the last deleted version for 30 days. Remember NDMP does not understand versioning or Active/Inactive files. Because of this and because the Diff's decay before the related Full's, we set it to 60 days. Hence our policy is set to 60 days. our NDMP policy Policy Domain Name NETAPP_ON_POL Policy Set Name ACTIVE Mgmt Class Name NETAPP_ON_MC Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists60 Versions Data Deleted 0 Retain Extra Versions 60 Retain Only Version 0 Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC Copy Frequency 0 Copy DestinationNPOOL_ON Table of Contents (TOC) Destination TOC_DSKPOOL Last Update Date/Time Last Update by (administrator) ADMIN Managing profile- SCRIPTS: (note: Library is an IBM 3583) To reclaim tapes from the NPOOL_OFF storage pool and return them to scratch status, cut and paste the following into the Tivoli command line: mov med * stg= NPOOL_OFF wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty rem=n checkl=n To reclaim tapes from the NPOOL_ON storage pool and return them to scratch status, cut and paste the following into the Tivoli command line: mov med * stg=npool_on wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty rem=n checkl=n To create space in the library by removing stg=NPOOL_ON tapes (if necessary for when the full's run): mov med * stg=npool_on wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=YOURLOCATION Another way is to explicitly name the vol you want removed: mov med vol_namestg=npool_on wherestate=mountableinlib
Re: Operational Reporting
When you are in the customization screen for Op reporting at the top of the screen you should see Custom Template File which tells you where the xml file is located with all the information (c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\console by default). As a practice, I typically do save as and save my customizations to a different named file than the default. If you keep all your changes in the default file, your changes will be overwritten when you upgrade to a newer version. Anyway, just copy that xml file over to the other server and then in the same customization screen you can hit the Browse button to find that xml file and select it. Just curious about why you would have more than one Op Reporting console - you can use the same console for multiple TSM servers if you want. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Iain Barnetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ALLIBURTON.COMTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Operational Reporting 03/04/2005 06:36 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU In the TSM management console, reports, operational reporting; I have a daily report setup with some custom queries. Is there a way I can export all the queries so that I can then import exactly the same queries into another mngt console with out having to labouriously type them in each time. Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations
