Re: Informix database and TSM api

[Martin Panggabean]

Hi TIM,

Informix Database backup via TSM is using "onbar". IMHO "ontape" is used
for backup not managed by TSM. Using "onbar" you won't need to dump the
Informix Database to file but TSM backup the database online / "on the
fly". And using TSM u can manage it where you like to backup: disk or tape.
Please refer to IBM Tivoli documentation for complete reference which you
can get through ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/

BR,

Martin Panggabean

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:33:52 -0400, Tim Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone used the API's to configure Informix database
> backups via "ontape" to interface with TSM
> 
> I found an IBM article where this was done using Unix
> 
> I have a system with an Informix database that is currently
> dumping to an internal server tape drive.
> 
> I need to dump this to disk so that TSM can manage it.
> 
> Tim Brown
> Systems Specialist - Project Leader
> Central Hudson Gas & Electric
> 284 South Ave
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Phone: 845-486-5643
> Fax: 845-486-5921
> Cell: 845-235-4255
> 
> 
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Re: Restoring eventlog

[Fred Johanson]

Richard,

Thanks.  It turns out that while the frantic e-mail about no documentation on 
the IBM site was being produced, followed by an even more frantic phone call, 
the appropriate Technote was in front of her.  It would be nice if such things 
were incorporated into the regular documentation.

Fred Johanson
TSM Administrator
University of Chicago

773-702-8464


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard 
Sims
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring eventlog

On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Fred Johanson wrote:

> I've got a user who wants to see her oldest Windows Eventlog, but
> when she tries to restore from the gui, it wants to overwrite the
> existing.  There's 'RESTORE EVENTLOG' listed in the CLI help, but no
> indication whether it can be redirected to another location.  Is
> there a way to do this?  It's not listed in QuickFacts.


Fred -

IBM Technotes 1083501 and 1223228 document the restoral destination
being only the location from which TSM backed up the event log
components - which varies by the class of the Windows OS.

Richard Sims

Re: Restoring eventlog

[Richard Sims]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Fred Johanson wrote:


I've got a user who wants to see her oldest Windows Eventlog, but
when she tries to restore from the gui, it wants to overwrite the
existing.  There's 'RESTORE EVENTLOG' listed in the CLI help, but no
indication whether it can be redirected to another location.  Is
there a way to do this?  It's not listed in QuickFacts.



Fred -

IBM Technotes 1083501 and 1223228 document the restoral destination
being only the location from which TSM backed up the event log
components - which varies by the class of the Windows OS.

   Richard Sims

Restoring eventlog

[Fred Johanson]

I've got a user who wants to see her oldest Windows Eventlog, but when she 
tries to restore from the gui, it wants to overwrite the existing.  There's 
'RESTORE EVENTLOG' listed in the CLI help, but no indication whether it can be 
redirected to another location.  Is there a way to do this?  It's not listed in 
QuickFacts.

Fred Johanson
TSM Administrator
University of Chicago

773-702-8464

Active Storage Pools

[Howard Coles]

I have a couple of questions about this "feature" as I'd like to take
advantage of it.

1.  Is anyone on the list here actually using it?
2.  Is there a way just to copy a node's data (not all the nodes in a
domain or storage pool) to the active pool?

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
Sr. Systems Engineer
Ardent Health Services
615-296-3416
John 3:16!

Re: How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

[Bos, Karel]

Hi,

As for me, producer sessions are the ones collecting the data and
sessions are the ones moving data. So with this table and a resource of
4 I expect to see a maximum number of 3 sessions tranfering data to my
TSM server and one which gets the file list and inspecting the client. 


Regards/Met vriendelijke groet,

Karel


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: donderdag 11 september 2008 17:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

Wanda,
My point exactly.  When I set RESOURCEUTILIZATION 10, I got
between 4 and 8 tape mounts, but I only expected to get 4.  I could
never tell why.  So I lowered it to RESOURCEUTILIZATION 4, and now only
get 2 tape mounts.  But according to the table below, I should only get
1.  So something doesn't work according to the documentation somewhere,
at least in regards to lan-free clients. 
I am the only one who has had this experience?

By the way, just to bury the problem, I increased the maxnummp
from 2 to 8 on all my proxynodes, and now they don't get the error
anymore.  But I don't see why they should need more than 2, when
RESOURCEUTILIZATION is set to 4.  It still doesn't make sense to me.


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

Well, now you've confused me, as well...

When I set RESOURCEUTILIZATION 10, I get 8 sessions, but 4 are producers
and
4 are consumers - so how did you get 8 tape mounts?



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Schneider, John
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Ok, now we are getting down to the nitty gritty.  Your example 
> completely contradicts what is in the Performance Guide, which
provides
> a table which I reproduce below.  I hope email doesn't mess up the 
> columns.  It looks correct to me, I assure you.  :-)
>
> RESOURCEUTILIZATION valueMaximum number   Unique number of
> Threshold
> of sessions  producer sessions
> (seconds)
> 1  1   0   45
> 2  2   1   45
> 3  3   1   45
> 4  3   1   30
> 5  4   2   30
> 6  4   2   20
> 7  5   2   20
> 8  6   2   20
> 9  7   3   20
> 10 8   4   10
> 0 (default)2   1   30
>
> A Resourceutil of 4 is a max of three sessions, and only one
"producer"
> session, i.e. a tape mount.  A Resourceutil of 5 is required for 2
tape
> mounts, and so on.  If my client maxnummp=2, then a resourceutil of 4 
> should not overrun it.
>
> UNLESS... either the manual is wrong and the algorithm is not what is 
> stated.  Or does the algorithm work differently in a Lan-free client 
> situation?  We have another Lan-free client in a different TSM 
> environment, and we used to have a Resourceutil of 10  for a certain 
> client there, and I would swear there were times when I saw 8 tape 
> mounts.  (The client maxnummp must have been high enough to permit 
> this).  So does Resourceutil really work like the table above, or do 
> Lan-free clients or proxynode clients operate under a different set of

> rules?  Anyone able to enlighten me?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John D. Schneider
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Bos, Karel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:48 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource
utilization?
>
> It's late and it's long ago, but I seem to remember something about 
> these mount point and resourceutil things in the line of:
>
> Resource 4, # mountpoint
> - 1 admin session
> - 1 mountpoint for diskpools
> - 2 mountpoint max for tape mounts
>
> So in you case, going directly to tape, you will get a max of 3 
> mountpoints (because there is no diskpool) to tape.
>
>
> Regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Karel
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Schneider, John
> Sent: woensdag 10 september 2008 18:27
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
> Subject: Re: How does VCB backups handle resou

Re: How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

[Schneider, John]

Wanda,
My point exactly.  When I set RESOURCEUTILIZATION 10, I got
between 4 and 8 tape mounts, but I only expected to get 4.  I could
never tell why.  So I lowered it to RESOURCEUTILIZATION 4, and now only
get 2 tape mounts.  But according to the table below, I should only get
1.  So something doesn't work according to the documentation somewhere,
at least in regards to lan-free clients. 
I am the only one who has had this experience?

By the way, just to bury the problem, I increased the maxnummp
from 2 to 8 on all my proxynodes, and now they don't get the error
anymore.  But I don't see why they should need more than 2, when
RESOURCEUTILIZATION is set to 4.  It still doesn't make sense to me.


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider 
Phone: 314-364-3150 
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?

Well, now you've confused me, as well...

When I set RESOURCEUTILIZATION 10, I get 8 sessions, but 4 are producers
and
4 are consumers - so how did you get 8 tape mounts?



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Schneider, John
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Ok, now we are getting down to the nitty gritty.  Your example
> completely contradicts what is in the Performance Guide, which
provides
> a table which I reproduce below.  I hope email doesn't mess up the
> columns.  It looks correct to me, I assure you.  :-)
>
> RESOURCEUTILIZATION valueMaximum number   Unique number of
> Threshold
> of sessions  producer sessions
> (seconds)
> 1  1   0   45
> 2  2   1   45
> 3  3   1   45
> 4  3   1   30
> 5  4   2   30
> 6  4   2   20
> 7  5   2   20
> 8  6   2   20
> 9  7   3   20
> 10 8   4   10
> 0 (default)2   1   30
>
> A Resourceutil of 4 is a max of three sessions, and only one
"producer"
> session, i.e. a tape mount.  A Resourceutil of 5 is required for 2
tape
> mounts, and so on.  If my client maxnummp=2, then a resourceutil of 4
> should not overrun it.
>
> UNLESS... either the manual is wrong and the algorithm is not what is
> stated.  Or does the algorithm work differently in a Lan-free client
> situation?  We have another Lan-free client in a different TSM
> environment, and we used to have a Resourceutil of 10  for a certain
> client there, and I would swear there were times when I saw 8 tape
> mounts.  (The client maxnummp must have been high enough to permit
> this).  So does Resourceutil really work like the table above, or do
> Lan-free clients or proxynode clients operate under a different set of
> rules?  Anyone able to enlighten me?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John D. Schneider
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Bos, Karel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:48 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How does VCB backups handle resource
utilization?
>
> It's late and it's long ago, but I seem to remember something about
> these mount point and resourceutil things in the line of:
>
> Resource 4, # mountpoint
> - 1 admin session
> - 1 mountpoint for diskpools
> - 2 mountpoint max for tape mounts
>
> So in you case, going directly to tape, you will get a max of 3
> mountpoints (because there is no diskpool) to tape.
>
>
> Regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Karel
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Schneider, John
> Sent: woensdag 10 september 2008 18:27
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
> Subject: Re: How does VCB backups handle resource utilization?
>
> Howard,
>  But resourceutilization is 4 now.  It should give me fewer mount
> points, not more.  So why I am overrunning the client's maximum mount
> points of 2 when resourceutilization is 4?
>  The reason I can't just increase the client's maximum mount
> points until the message goes away is that there is a maximum of 64
> virtual tape drives, so I can't have every client grabbing 4 virtual
> tapes drives at once.  There is also no reason to have all these small
> clients mounting multiple tape drives at once, since most of them
don't
> have much data

Informix database and TSM api

[Tim Brown]

Has anyone used the API's to configure Informix database
backups via "ontape" to interface with TSM

I found an IBM article where this was done using Unix

I have a system with an Informix database that is currently
dumping to an internal server tape drive.

I need to dump this to disk so that TSM can manage it.

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Phone: 845-486-5643
Fax: 845-486-5921
Cell: 845-235-4255


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Re: Problem on connecting IBM LTO 2 3580 to TSM 5.4.0 ?

[Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU]

With the older drivers, you must be absolutely specific on the kernel
level, down to the sub-sub-sub level.

For that kernel level, look in the lin_taped archives at:

for x64 (you did not specify)

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/archive/RHEL4/lin_tape-1.12.1-2.6.9-67.EL.x86_64.rpm.bin

for x32

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/archive/RHEL4/lin_tape-1.12.1-2.6.9-67.EL.i386.rpm.bin

Note the file name is the compatible kernel level.

Recently, IBM has changed the drivers to be compilable source instead of
the bin/rpm files, to get away from constantly chasing kernel levels.




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Hi,


I have problem on implementing TSM 5.4.0 in Linux RHEL 4 Kernel 2.6.9-67.
The Tape Device doesn't able to connect to TSM using the standard device
provided by this Operating System. We have looked for the match driver
provided by IBM, unfortunately we found only one that support the RHEL 4
Kernel 2.6.9-34. Does any body here have the solution to connect this Tape
Device so that TSM can able to use it ?

Many Thanks,

Martin P
--TSM Implementor--

Re: TSM license question

[Wanda Prather]

There is no license charge for a TSM server, you can stand up as many
servers as you want.
What is licensed is the number of processors in servers or workstations you
are backing up.
However, you must include the processors in the TSM server(s) in the count.

So as long as you are licensed for enough processors to cover the new box,
you're legal.


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Alexander Lazarevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I have a questions about TSM licensing:
>
> We run TSM 5.3.4 on Windows 2000 Server, with an LTO2 and LTO3 library,
> attached via SCSI. It works fine.
>
> We are upgrading the entire system: new PC running Windows 2003 Server,
> TSM 5.5.1 and a new LTO4 library.
>
> Can I setup and install the new LTO4 library on the new server 5.5.1, and
> keep the old server 5.3.4 up and running the other two libraries?
> Eventually I want to migrate the older LTO libraries to the new server,
> but I don't want backups offline while I make the switch, so I need both
> online for a bit.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>

SV: TSM license question

[Christian Svensson]

Hi Alex,
This is a normal situation when other TSM Customers upgrade to a new hardware.
Don't know what IBM say about it but multiple customers do the samething you do 
over and over again without buying extra temp lic.

I recommend that you talk to your IBM TSM SE Rep and he can help you out.

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

WW Support: +44-1453-84 7009
U.S. Support: +1-866-832-2267
Cell: +46-70-325 1577
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Ämne: TSM license question

I have a questions about TSM licensing:

We run TSM 5.3.4 on Windows 2000 Server, with an LTO2 and LTO3 library,
attached via SCSI. It works fine.

We are upgrading the entire system: new PC running Windows 2003 Server,
TSM 5.5.1 and a new LTO4 library.

Can I setup and install the new LTO4 library on the new server 5.5.1, and
keep the old server 5.3.4 up and running the other two libraries?
Eventually I want to migrate the older LTO libraries to the new server,
but I don't want backups offline while I make the switch, so I need both
online for a bit.

Thanks!

Alex

TSM license question

[Alexander Lazarevich]

I have a questions about TSM licensing:

We run TSM 5.3.4 on Windows 2000 Server, with an LTO2 and LTO3 library,
attached via SCSI. It works fine.

We are upgrading the entire system: new PC running Windows 2003 Server,
TSM 5.5.1 and a new LTO4 library.

Can I setup and install the new LTO4 library on the new server 5.5.1, and
keep the old server 5.3.4 up and running the other two libraries?
Eventually I want to migrate the older LTO libraries to the new server,
but I don't want backups offline while I make the switch, so I need both
online for a bit.

Thanks!

Alex

Re: TSM 5.2.9: Migration from AIX to SuSE Linux

[Conway, Timothy]

You've got to do the local storage yourself, and have that ready to
receive the filedata.  The only things that can be brought over by the
exports are things that are platform-independent.  Having the system
guess what libraries, volumes, paths, drives, filesystems, disks,
whatever it's supposed to use is just too much to guess.   Perhaps if
you were to define device classes and it would transfer stgpools that
use matching devclass names, but even that's just a guess, so they
haven't written it.  That's another good reason for my own plan of doing
a pure metadata server export, following it with node exports.  Once the
nodes and policies are defined on the destination, I set dest for each
domain as desired.  Then, I make copies of the domains with dest set to
go direct to a sequential pool (no point importing them into DISK and
then migrating right away), and set each node to those temporary domains
for the duration of the node import, then move the node to the correct
domain at the same time I change the node's dsm.sys and dsm.opt.

If the destination has all the same device names and such, you COULD
create your devclasses.  Pull your PLAN and make the macro.  But really,
it's just not very hard to do it by hand.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.2.9: Migration from AIX to SuSE Linux

I ran the following commands:

export server toserver=NASCTSM filedata=all export server
toserver=NASCTSM fromdate=10/02/2002 filedata=all mergefilespaces=yes

I get everything except the storage pools and volhistory. Is there
another way to get this information over to my new server?

Thanks,
Richard

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Re: TSM 5.2.9: Migration from AIX to SuSE Linux

[Wanda Prather]

I just did an export node on TSM 5.5.1, and the cloptset came over with the
client.  You can see it get defined on the target server.  Don't know when
that feature was added, but it's cool!

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Remco Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You'll have to define them manually, or make some intresting sql
> selects that generate define commands for your storagepools. Also, if
> you have them, you'll have to do the same for cloptsets (I think).
>
> You can forget about volhistory, there is just no way.
>
> On 11 sep 2008, at 00:46, Richard wrote:
>
> I ran the following commands:
>>
>> export server toserver=NASCTSM filedata=all
>> export server toserver=NASCTSM fromdate=10/02/2002 filedata=all
>> mergefilespaces=yes
>>
>> I get everything except the storage pools and volhistory. Is there
>> another way to get this information over to my new server?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
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