Re: Tape Housecleaning
Hi Rich, If you have your ITSM server setup checked and still need more and more tapes, than I would ask the server people to stop: A) shifting data around; B) stop changing NTFS security settings; C) stop adding more disk space; D) implement things like quato. If this doesn't work, ask for more tapes/bigger library/bigger server/more san or lan capacity Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: dinsdag 5 juli 2005 22:08 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tape Housecleaning Hi Everybody, Does anyone have any thoughts on saving on the number of tapes TSM uses ? After auditing our backups and finding that the backups are "clean" i.e backing up only what is needed, and the correct number of versioning is being applied to files, and reclamation is used, if there is a need to constantly buy tapes, where would be the places on would look where one can save on tape usage ? Rich
Re: Tape Housecleaning
Perhaps, tapes are going unavailable for some reason? I have also seen a couple of situations where TSM DB backup tapes are not expiring and slowly consuming available tapes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tsmwiki.com/tsmwiki/MatthewWarren -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bos, Karel Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Tape Housecleaning Hi Rich, If you have your ITSM server setup checked and still need more and more tapes, than I would ask the server people to stop: A) shifting data around; B) stop changing NTFS security settings; C) stop adding more disk space; D) implement things like quato. If this doesn't work, ask for more tapes/bigger library/bigger server/more san or lan capacity Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: dinsdag 5 juli 2005 22:08 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tape Housecleaning Hi Everybody, Does anyone have any thoughts on saving on the number of tapes TSM uses ? After auditing our backups and finding that the backups are "clean" i.e backing up only what is needed, and the correct number of versioning is being applied to files, and reclamation is used, if there is a need to constantly buy tapes, where would be the places on would look where one can save on tape usage ? Rich ___ Disclaimer Notice __ This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Powergen Retail Limited. Powergen Retail Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for the sale and service of general insurance products. Registered addresses: Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
NDMP TOC
Hello Everyone! I am creating NDMP backups of our NAS environment with a retention of 90 days and I also create a table of contents so that we can do individual file-level restores. I was wondering if I have to run a special job to expire the TOC or will it automatically expire when the backups do at our 90 day retention period? It has been growing so rapidly lately that I just thought I would ask. Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files
Hi guys, We're having problems restoring some windows servers (W2K)... The servers in question had some disk problems and are being rebuilt, so the Windows admins are restoring the C: drive. It is an 8GB drive and less than 50% used, so only 4GB to restore. It has taken several days to restore. I know one of our problems is that the data is spread over hundreds of volumes (literally... I counted 310 from a volumeusage query). Another problem is that we have an overflowed library, but we have loaded all of the tapes from the Windows storage pool. What I don't understand is why it takes so long to locate a file once the tape is mounted. We have seen the same tape mounted for hours before any data is transferred. Here is an excerpt from a "q se f=d" of a restore that is running right now: Sess Number: 1,143 Comm. Method: TCP/IP Sess State: Run Wait Time: 0 S Bytes Sent: 670.9 M Bytes Recvd: 58.2 K Sess Type: Node Platform: WinNT Client Name: WANO01 Media Access Status: Current input volume(s): 200658,(2279 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: This restore has been running for almost 12 hours now (they have been restarting them periodically). There has been NO DATA transferred from that tape in the 38 minutes it has been mounted... I know this from doing an lsof command and looking at the offset which indicates the number of bytes transferred. I know that when I restore a single file, it can be found within seconds of mounting a tape (these are all LTO-2)... so, why does it take so long in this case? Is TSM actually reading the entire tape? If so, wouldn't I see lots of data being transferred? Or is there some kind of SCSI command that allows the drive to read and compare the data it gets? I thought TSM stored actual locations of the files in the DB, so it could quickly find any file (or aggregate) without reading the whole tape... I've been searching the literature, and I can't find any details on this. The TSM server is on HP-UX 11i, IBM LTO-2 drives, fiber attached, in a STK L700 library. Also, my DB is huge (314GB), and we are currently (for the last year) unable to delete anything, so we have many versions of volatile files. We are planning to split our environment into several TSMs, and in the short term, our windows admins will start doing weekly selective backups of the C: drives to consolidate active versions on few tapes. Thanks for any thoughts on this Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs
Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files
Please, everyone, when posting questions about restorals, give details about the manner in which the restoral was invoked so that we can get a sense of what kind is involved (NQR, Classic) and what is involved. Now... Robin, have a look at IBM Technote 1209563, which I ran across in doing research yesterday. I recall such long-duration- restores in the past, and as I recall they have involved the factors noted in the Technote. LTO is also known for backhitch delays, so that's another contributor in positioning on tape. Richard Sims
Domino TDP missing pieces parts
I am trying to install the Domino TDP (5.3) on a Solaris system - downloaded from Passport ! The instructions say to run ./dominstall However, I can find this file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling ALL of TSM but the file still never appears ! I tried searching IBM.COM but only gets hits on problems with dominstall ! What am I missing ?
TDP Oracle Linux Client
Hello *SM'ers, does a Linux Version of TDP For Oracle exist? Cheers, ku -- Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger! Only your hatred can destroy me!
Re: TDP Oracle Linux Client
Look here: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-db/platforms.html Thanks, Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/06/2005 11:16:12 AM: > Hello *SM'ers, > does a Linux Version of TDP For Oracle exist? > > Cheers, > ku > -- > Darth Vader: >Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-wan has taught >you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, >release your anger! Only your hatred can destroy me!
Re: Domino TDP missing pieces parts
You should find dominstall in /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/domino/bin. If not try to reinstall. Eduardo -- Eduardo Esteban IBM TSM for Mail (408) 256-0607 Tie Line: 276-0607 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 07:51 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Domino TDP missing pieces parts I am trying to install the Domino TDP (5.3) on a Solaris system - downloaded from Passport ! The instructions say to run ./dominstall However, I can find this file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling ALL of TSM but the file still never appears ! I tried searching IBM.COM but only gets hits on problems with dominstall ! What am I missing ?
Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files
You are at which firmware on IBM LTO2 FC ? We had last year big problems with firmware 38D0 , until we switched to 4770. You can see that problem if you use tapeutil and skip to EOD and see how long it takes. Should be some minutes, was with our firmware one hour and more. Just a guess. Regards Matthias Robin Sharpe wrote: Hi guys, We're having problems restoring some windows servers (W2K)... The servers in question had some disk problems and are being rebuilt, so the Windows admins are restoring the C: drive. It is an 8GB drive and less than 50% used, so only 4GB to restore. It has taken several days to restore. I know one of our problems is that the data is spread over hundreds of volumes (literally... I counted 310 from a volumeusage query). Another problem is that we have an overflowed library, but we have loaded all of the tapes from the Windows storage pool. What I don't understand is why it takes so long to locate a file once the tape is mounted. We have seen the same tape mounted for hours before any data is transferred. Here is an excerpt from a "q se f=d" of a restore that is running right now: Sess Number: 1,143 Comm. Method: TCP/IP Sess State: Run Wait Time: 0 S Bytes Sent: 670.9 M Bytes Recvd: 58.2 K Sess Type: Node Platform: WinNT Client Name: WANO01 Media Access Status: Current input volume(s): 200658,(2279 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: This restore has been running for almost 12 hours now (they have been restarting them periodically). There has been NO DATA transferred from that tape in the 38 minutes it has been mounted... I know this from doing an lsof command and looking at the offset which indicates the number of bytes transferred. I know that when I restore a single file, it can be found within seconds of mounting a tape (these are all LTO-2)... so, why does it take so long in this case? Is TSM actually reading the entire tape? If so, wouldn't I see lots of data being transferred? Or is there some kind of SCSI command that allows the drive to read and compare the data it gets? I thought TSM stored actual locations of the files in the DB, so it could quickly find any file (or aggregate) without reading the whole tape... I've been searching the literature, and I can't find any details on this. The TSM server is on HP-UX 11i, IBM LTO-2 drives, fiber attached, in a STK L700 library. Also, my DB is huge (314GB), and we are currently (for the last year) unable to delete anything, so we have many versions of volatile files. We are planning to split our environment into several TSMs, and in the short term, our windows admins will start doing weekly selective backups of the C: drives to consolidate active versions on few tapes. Thanks for any thoughts on this Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs -- -- Matthias Feyerabend | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung | phone +49-6159-71-2519 Planckstr. 1| privat +49-6151-718781 D-62291 Darmstadt | fax +49-6159-71-2519
Re: Domino TDP missing pieces parts
I have uninstalled and reinstalled it and the file does not get installed. Eduardo Esteban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 01:38 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Domino TDP missing pieces parts You should find dominstall in /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/domino/bin. If not try to reinstall. Eduardo -- Eduardo Esteban IBM TSM for Mail (408) 256-0607 Tie Line: 276-0607 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 07:51 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Domino TDP missing pieces parts I am trying to install the Domino TDP (5.3) on a Solaris system - downloaded from Passport ! The instructions say to run ./dominstall However, I can find this file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling ALL of TSM but the file still never appears ! I tried searching IBM.COM but only gets hits on problems with dominstall ! What am I missing ?
Re: Domino TDP missing pieces parts
Nevermind. The Notes person was following the published book, when she uninstalled it, which is not proper. The README says to now use JAVA for the uninstall process. I have successfully reinstalled and the missing files are there. Eduardo Esteban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 01:38 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Domino TDP missing pieces parts You should find dominstall in /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/domino/bin. If not try to reinstall. Eduardo -- Eduardo Esteban IBM TSM for Mail (408) 256-0607 Tie Line: 276-0607 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 07:51 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Domino TDP missing pieces parts I am trying to install the Domino TDP (5.3) on a Solaris system - downloaded from Passport ! The instructions say to run ./dominstall However, I can find this file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling ALL of TSM but the file still never appears ! I tried searching IBM.COM but only gets hits on problems with dominstall ! What am I missing ?
Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files
You should investigate the latest LTO2 firmware, 53Y2L2F.ro Our drives were all at 4772 and we were having a variety of problems (much better than 38D0). Since I upgraded to 53Y2, things have calmed down quite a bit. Matthias Feyerabend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/06/2005 01:49 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files You are at which firmware on IBM LTO2 FC ? We had last year big problems with firmware 38D0 , until we switched to 4770. You can see that problem if you use tapeutil and skip to EOD and see how long it takes. Should be some minutes, was with our firmware one hour and more. Just a guess. Regards Matthias Robin Sharpe wrote: >Hi guys, > >We're having problems restoring some windows servers (W2K)... >The servers in question had some disk problems and are being rebuilt, so >the Windows admins are restoring the C: drive. It is an 8GB drive and less >than 50% used, so only 4GB to restore. It has taken several days to >restore. I know one of our problems is that the data is spread over >hundreds of volumes (literally... I counted 310 from a volumeusage query). >Another problem is that we have an overflowed library, but we have loaded >all of the tapes from the Windows storage pool. What I don't understand is >why it takes so long to locate a file once the tape is mounted. We have >seen the same tape mounted for hours before any data is transferred. Here >is an excerpt from a "q se f=d" of a restore that is running right now: > > Sess Number: 1,143 > Comm. Method: TCP/IP >Sess State: Run > Wait Time: 0 S >Bytes Sent: 670.9 M > Bytes Recvd: 58.2 K > Sess Type: Node > Platform: WinNT > Client Name: WANO01 > Media Access Status: Current input volume(s): 200658,(2279 Seconds) > User Name: > Date/Time First Data Sent: >Proxy By Storage Agent: > >This restore has been running for almost 12 hours now (they have been >restarting them periodically). There has been NO DATA transferred from >that tape in the 38 minutes it has been mounted... I know this from doing >an lsof command and looking at the offset which indicates the number of >bytes transferred. > >I know that when I restore a single file, it can be found within seconds of >mounting a tape (these are all LTO-2)... so, why does it take so long in >this case? Is TSM actually reading the entire tape? If so, wouldn't I see >lots of data being transferred? Or is there some kind of SCSI command that >allows the drive to read and compare the data it gets? I thought TSM >stored actual locations of the files in the DB, so it could quickly find >any file (or aggregate) without reading the whole tape... I've been >searching the literature, and I can't find any details on this. > >The TSM server is on HP-UX 11i, IBM LTO-2 drives, fiber attached, in a STK >L700 library. Also, my DB is huge (314GB), and we are currently (for the >last year) unable to delete anything, so we have many versions of volatile >files. We are planning to split our environment into several TSMs, and in >the short term, our windows admins will start doing weekly selective >backups of the C: drives to consolidate active versions on few tapes. > >Thanks for any thoughts on this > >Robin Sharpe >Berlex Labs > > > -- -- Matthias Feyerabend | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung | phone +49-6159-71-2519 Planckstr. 1 | privat +49-6151-718781 D-62291 Darmstadt| fax +49-6159-71-2519
Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files
Sorry about the omission, Rich. These restores were started via the Windows GUI. I believe they just selected the C: drive and specified "Restore if newer" (an option which I don't think is available via the command line!). I believe this created a No-Query Restore, because it did create a Restartable Restore AFAIK there is a one-to-one correspondence (right?) In the meantime, I checked the Technote... Then, I checked my Activity Log for the last 24 hours... and I found 33 LTO volumes that presented the cartridge memory message! So, now I have the smoking gun, and I suppose I could do "move data" against those volumes, but I suspect there are many more, and I would like to know what's causing the corruption and how to prevent it! If I don't hear anything from the group, I'll open a call with Tivoli. Thanks very much for the information! -Robin Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Storcc: Manager" Subject: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files T.EDU> 07/06/2005 10:30 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Please, everyone, when posting questions about restorals, give details about the manner in which the restoral was invoked so that we can get a sense of what kind is involved (NQR, Classic) and what is involved. Now... Robin, have a look at IBM Technote 1209563, which I ran across in doing research yesterday. I recall such long-duration- restores in the past, and as I recall they have involved the factors noted in the Technote. LTO is also known for backhitch delays, so that's another contributor in positioning on tape. Richard Sims
remote vaulting
HI, Has anyone implemeted this? TSM server with a remote tape library? I can't seem to find any information about this anywhere. Thanks, Bob M __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html
Re: remote vaulting
You could use server to server communication and then the remote TSM server is the one with the library. Local server sends virtual volumes to remote server. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob molerio Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] remote vaulting HI, Has anyone implemeted this? TSM server with a remote tape library? I can't seem to find any information about this anywhere. Thanks, Bob M __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html "This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. Any dissemination or use of the information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Although this e-mail and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the Board of Trade of the City of New York, Inc. or the New York Clearing Corporation for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. Thank you."
Re: remote vaulting
What info are you looking for, we have had a remote vault for 5
years
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Pugliese, Edward
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: remote vaulting
You could use server to server communication and then the remote TSM
server is the one with the library.
Local server sends virtual volumes to remote server.
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bob molerio
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:38 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] remote vaulting
HI,
Has anyone implemeted this?
TSM server with a remote tape library?
I can't seem to find any information about this anywhere.
Thanks,
Bob M
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help:where can i download ISC 5.1?
Hi all,my TSM Server version is 5.3(OS is AIX 5.3),I want to install ISC and admin center in a PC server(OS is windows 2003),I only find download page of ISC 5.0.2,where can I download ISC 5.1?Thx!
tsm tape path problems
TSM 5.1.9.0 on win2K server. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 LTO-2 drives. I've got a bad problem, and I'm stuck trying to read the manual for clues but I'm having trouble finding what I need to know and I could really use a point in the right direction. TSM has been running just fine since I set it up more than two years ago. I used the TSM wizard to set everything up, and it was quite easy. Last week we had an LTO-2 drive failure, some bad cables, and an intermittent library controller card. All those hardware issues have been fixed. But somewhere in the mess of fixing all the hardware issues, the TSM /windows drivers for the devices got confused, and TSM is now recognizing the library and the drives as different device names. Whereas TSM used to call the devices: lb6.0.0.3 (library), mt1.0.0.3 (drive 1), and mt2.0.0.3 (drive 2); TSM is now calling those devices lb6.0.0.5, mt1.0.0.5, and mt2.0.0.5. I've tried everything I know of to fix the path between the server and the "old" devices (lb6.0.0.3), but nothing I tried worked. So, I then set out to try and define new path's for the "new" devices (lb6.0.0.5). I've done the following: - Define the new library and drives, giving them the proper names and element ID's. - Update the server's LTO Device Class, giving it the new library name lb6.0.0.5. - Add the new path's for the drives and the library: tsm: ITG-TSM>q path Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line NameType --- --- --- --- --- ITG-TSM SERVER LB6.0.0.5 LIBRARY Yes ITG-TSM SERVER MT1.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes ITG-TSM SERVER MT2.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes But then I try to run an audit of the new library, and I get nothing: ANR2017I Administrator ALAZAREV issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY lb6.0.0.5 ANR0984I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in the BACKGROUND at 21:42:02. ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LB6.0.0.5 started as process 5. ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LB6.0.0.5 completed successfully. ANR0985I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 21:42:02. The audit did nothing, as it starts and completes within a second. The library didn't move an inch. Obviously, I'm not setting up the paths properly, or the devices classes, or something. What I find odd is that when I run the Device Configuration Wizard, TSM does not find any devices. That is different from when I first installed TSM, when it found all devices automatically for me. I'm going to read Chapter 4 of the admin guide tonight when I go home, but I've already looked at it, and I can't find the information I need described in a clear manner. Any help anyone could provide, even just pointing me to some good documentation, I would appreciate it. Sorry to be a pest, but I'm in trouble, as our backups are down and I need a little help getting it back up. Thanks in advance, Alex
Re: tsm tape path problems
You have to remove all drives and paths and reboot for changes to take effect, then redefine paths and drives again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Thursday, 7 July 2005 3:21 p.m. To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: tsm tape path problems TSM 5.1.9.0 on win2K server. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 LTO-2 drives. I've got a bad problem, and I'm stuck trying to read the manual for clues but I'm having trouble finding what I need to know and I could really use a point in the right direction. TSM has been running just fine since I set it up more than two years ago. I used the TSM wizard to set everything up, and it was quite easy. Last week we had an LTO-2 drive failure, some bad cables, and an intermittent library controller card. All those hardware issues have been fixed. But somewhere in the mess of fixing all the hardware issues, the TSM /windows drivers for the devices got confused, and TSM is now recognizing the library and the drives as different device names. Whereas TSM used to call the devices: lb6.0.0.3 (library), mt1.0.0.3 (drive 1), and mt2.0.0.3 (drive 2); TSM is now calling those devices lb6.0.0.5, mt1.0.0.5, and mt2.0.0.5. I've tried everything I know of to fix the path between the server and the "old" devices (lb6.0.0.3), but nothing I tried worked. So, I then set out to try and define new path's for the "new" devices (lb6.0.0.5). I've done the following: - Define the new library and drives, giving them the proper names and element ID's. - Update the server's LTO Device Class, giving it the new library name lb6.0.0.5. - Add the new path's for the drives and the library: tsm: ITG-TSM>q path Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line NameType --- --- --- --- --- ITG-TSM SERVER LB6.0.0.5 LIBRARY Yes ITG-TSM SERVER MT1.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes ITG-TSM SERVER MT2.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes But then I try to run an audit of the new library, and I get nothing: ANR2017I Administrator ALAZAREV issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY lb6.0.0.5 ANR0984I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in the BACKGROUND at 21:42:02. ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LB6.0.0.5 started as process 5. ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LB6.0.0.5 completed successfully. ANR0985I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 21:42:02. The audit did nothing, as it starts and completes within a second. The library didn't move an inch. Obviously, I'm not setting up the paths properly, or the devices classes, or something. What I find odd is that when I run the Device Configuration Wizard, TSM does not find any devices. That is different from when I first installed TSM, when it found all devices automatically for me. I'm going to read Chapter 4 of the admin guide tonight when I go home, but I've already looked at it, and I can't find the information I need described in a clear manner. Any help anyone could provide, even just pointing me to some good documentation, I would appreciate it. Sorry to be a pest, but I'm in trouble, as our backups are down and I need a little help getting it back up. Thanks in advance, Alex
Re: tsm tape path problems
I also met your situation. I update library/drive path again and they work well. >Whereas TSM used to > call the devices: lb6.0.0.3 (library), mt1.0.0.3 (drive 1), and mt2.0.0.3 > (drive 2); TSM is now calling those devices lb6.0.0.5, mt1.0.0.5, and > mt2.0.0.5. You try to implement following commads : UPDATE PATH TSM_SERVER1 LB6.0.0.3 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=LIBRARY DEVICE=lb6.0.0.5 ONLINE=YES UPDATE PATH TSM_SERVER1 MT1.0.0.3 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE LIBRARY=LB6.0.0.3 DEVICE=mt1.0.0.5 ONLINE=YES UPDATE PATH TSM_SERVER1 MT2.0.0.3 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE LIBRARY=LB6.0.0.3 DEVICE=mt2.0.0.5 ONLINE=YES Good luck, Nghiatd - Original Message - From: "Alexander Lazarevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: tsm tape path problems > TSM 5.1.9.0 on win2K server. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 LTO-2 drives. > > I've got a bad problem, and I'm stuck trying to read the manual for clues > but I'm having trouble finding what I need to know and I could really use > a point in the right direction. > > TSM has been running just fine since I set it up more than two years ago. > I used the TSM wizard to set everything up, and it was quite easy. Last > week we had an LTO-2 drive failure, some bad cables, and an intermittent > library controller card. All those hardware issues have been fixed. > > But somewhere in the mess of fixing all the hardware issues, the TSM > /windows drivers for the devices got confused, and TSM is now recognizing > the library and the drives as different device names. Whereas TSM used to > call the devices: lb6.0.0.3 (library), mt1.0.0.3 (drive 1), and mt2.0.0.3 > (drive 2); TSM is now calling those devices lb6.0.0.5, mt1.0.0.5, and > mt2.0.0.5. > > I've tried everything I know of to fix the path between the server and the > "old" devices (lb6.0.0.3), but nothing I tried worked. So, I then set > out to try and define new path's for the "new" devices (lb6.0.0.5). I've > done the following: > > - Define the new library and drives, giving them the proper names >and element ID's. > - Update the server's LTO Device Class, giving it the new library name >lb6.0.0.5. > - Add the new path's for the drives and the library: > tsm: ITG-TSM>q path > > Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line > NameType > --- --- --- --- --- > ITG-TSM SERVER LB6.0.0.5 LIBRARY Yes > ITG-TSM SERVER MT1.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes > ITG-TSM SERVER MT2.0.0.5 DRIVE Yes > > But then I try to run an audit of the new library, and I get nothing: > > ANR2017I Administrator ALAZAREV issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY lb6.0.0.5 > ANR0984I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in the BACKGROUND at > 21:42:02. > ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LB6.0.0.5 started as process > 5. > ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LB6.0.0.5 completed > successfully. > ANR0985I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed > with completion state SUCCESS at 21:42:02. > > The audit did nothing, as it starts and completes within a second. The > library didn't move an inch. > > Obviously, I'm not setting up the paths properly, or the devices classes, > or something. What I find odd is that when I run the Device Configuration > Wizard, TSM does not find any devices. That is different from when I first > installed TSM, when it found all devices automatically for me. > > I'm going to read Chapter 4 of the admin guide tonight when I go home, but > I've already looked at it, and I can't find the information I need > described in a clear manner. Any help anyone could provide, even just > pointing me to some good documentation, I would appreciate it. > > Sorry to be a pest, but I'm in trouble, as our backups are down and I need > a little help getting it back up. > > Thanks in advance, > > Alex >
