What is the difference between "In progress" and "Started"

[admbackup]

Hi. I want to know what is the difference between the status "In Progress" and 
"Started" of a scheduled backup.

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Re: Tape batch failures

[Skylar Thompson]

Richard Sims wrote:
> Put problem tapes through tapeutil or similar exercising to get them
> worked in, and evaluated.  New tapes can be surprisingly troublesome:
> I've had a bunch of problems with new IBM 3592 tapes.  Frustrating
> waste of customer time.
>
>Richard Sims
Do you offline one of your TSM drives to do that, or do you have a
dedicated drive? My back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that we'd be
spending about 10 drive-days a month breaking in new tapes. In light of
our recent fiasco, that might be worth it though. What would be really
nice would be TSM doing this on its own. Maybe in TSM 6.2? ;)

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-- University of Washington, School of Medicine

Re: Files not expiring

[Richard Sims]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Tim Brown wrote:


Have copy group defition with this default. I still see inactive files
for the node eventhough the files were deleted in 2007. Last backup
date 10/30/2007
...


Are they files ... or are they Windows directories?  Unless the
client used DIRMc, the files and directories may enter TSM storage
pools using different management classes, per TSM architectural rules.

   Richard Sims

Re: Tape batch failures

[Richard Sims]

Put problem tapes through tapeutil or similar exercising to get them
worked in, and evaluated.  New tapes can be surprisingly troublesome:
I've had a bunch of problems with new IBM 3592 tapes.  Frustrating
waste of customer time.

   Richard Sims

Re: What did I miss

[Richard Sims]

If you performed a TSM restart, examine the Activity Log around that
time, as TSM should perform a full inquiry of the library then, and
you will see detailed results, and any problems, in the logging.
This is healthy to check, regardless of anything else.

And, as always, fully check out new equipment at the OS level before
putting such under the control of an application such as TSM.

Use DISABLESCheds Yes and NOMIGRRECL server options to suppress
server busy work.  And do DISAble SESSions.

   Richard Sims

Tape batch failures

[Skylar Thompson]

We recently had a set of three LTO3 tapes fail out of an order of 60
(or, at least three, since we haven't gone through the entire order
yet). Are there statistics out there for how frequent this is? Does
anyone mitigate this by ordering from multiple vendors to guarantee that
you don't get a single batch? The problem I'd like to avoid is having
the same data end up on onsite and offsite tapes that are in the same batch.

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Re: What did I miss

[Mark Stapleton]

Last use columns will reamin blank in this case until the volume is actually 
used for something. The TSM database still contains all the information as to 
scratch, non-scratch data, and non-scratch dbbackup volumes.

Forcing a LABEL LIBV command on the tapes will wipe out all the data that they 
contain.

--
Mark

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Subject: [ADSM-L] What did I miss

Just went through a tape library swap out but ran into a problem with
getting the tsm server to see the tape library volumes.Deleted and
added back the library, drives and paths in TSM.  The new library is a
duplicate match of the old one.  So we took all of the tapes from old and
put them into new.   The tms data base and all other components remained
the same.  What method should be used to have tsm read in the library
volumes so it knows what tapes are scratch or have data or are the
dbbackup?  I tried 'audit library' and 'checkin libvol' for both scratch
and private but 'q libvol' never showed 'Last Use' as Data, or Dbbackup.

Also,  what is the command for keeping the dsmserv from starting up and
immediately starting it's admin jobs?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: What did I miss

[James Skinner]

label libv

Jim Skinner
The University of Kansas Hospital
Westwood Campus
Information Technology Systems
2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 201/016
Westwood KS 66205-2005
913-588-4787

>>> Larry Peifer  01/29/09 7:07 PM >>>
Just went through a tape library swap out but ran into a problem with
getting the tsm server to see the tape library volumes.Deleted and
added back the library, drives and paths in TSM.  The new library is a
duplicate match of the old one.  So we took all of the tapes from old
and
put them into new.   The tms data base and all other components remained
the same.  What method should be used to have tsm read in the library
volumes so it knows what tapes are scratch or have data or are the
dbbackup?  I tried 'audit library' and 'checkin libvol' for both scratch
and private but 'q libvol' never showed 'Last Use' as Data, or Dbbackup.

Also,  what is the command for keeping the dsmserv from starting up and
immediately starting it's admin jobs?

Thanks in advance.

What did I miss

[Larry Peifer]

Just went through a tape library swap out but ran into a problem with
getting the tsm server to see the tape library volumes.Deleted and
added back the library, drives and paths in TSM.  The new library is a
duplicate match of the old one.  So we took all of the tapes from old and
put them into new.   The tms data base and all other components remained
the same.  What method should be used to have tsm read in the library
volumes so it knows what tapes are scratch or have data or are the
dbbackup?  I tried 'audit library' and 'checkin libvol' for both scratch
and private but 'q libvol' never showed 'Last Use' as Data, or Dbbackup.

Also,  what is the command for keeping the dsmserv from starting up and
immediately starting it's admin jobs?

Thanks in advance.

Re: q mo - select command to return volume and status

[Gabriel Peter]

Jeremy, try 'select library_name,drive_name,drive_state from DRIVES'.
You can also play with 'tapeutil' command on Unix platform, try 'tapeutil
help'

Regards
Gabriel Peter

2009/1/30 Conradt, Jeremy 

> Does anyone know what the select command would be to return a list of
> the volumes currently mounted and the status.
> I can get the mounted volumes with "select volume_name from drives" but
> that does not tell me if it is idle or in use like the q mo command
> tells me.
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>

q mo - select command to return volume and status

[Conradt, Jeremy]

Does anyone know what the select command would be to return a list of
the volumes currently mounted and the status.
I can get the mounted volumes with "select volume_name from drives" but
that does not tell me if it is idle or in use like the q mo command
tells me.
Thanks,
Jeremy

Crazy idea or not?

[Christian Svensson]

Hi all *SMers,
Have anyone try to setup multiple TSM Servers with Library manager in a 
VMware/XEN envirenment where are using multiple host where each host have, 
let's say 8 x 4 core CPUs with 256 GB memory in each host.
We where thinking of to try it during Q1/Q2 this year and try to transfer 400 
test nodes with 25-50 TB data just for fun.
The backup will be both LAN-Free and LAN backups. But each TSM Server will have 
direct access to the tape drives via Fiber Channel.

Have anyone try it or play aroud with this idea and can give us any feedback 
before we start.

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

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Re: JR- specify AIX items to archive

[Schneider, Jim]

I created Unix code to generate the archive command needed for a full
server backup minus nfs mount points.  The archive management class is
hard coded in the script.  It saves me from having to recreate the
command when file systems are added/removed.  Contact me offline if you
want a copy.

Cheers,
Jim Schneider

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Subject: [ADSM-L] JR- specify AIX items to archive

TSM 5.5, AIX 5.3
I am trying to archive an entire AIX  system minus certain system
filesystems (/tmp, /proc, etc...)
I am running into issues when trying to specify the objects in the
client
action or TSM schedule. In the dsm.sys I am excluding items by using the
exclude.archive and exclude.fs commands.  The problem is I don't want to
specify the filesystems to archive.
Any ideas?
Thanks

JR- specify AIX items to archive

[JR Trimark]

TSM 5.5, AIX 5.3
I am trying to archive an entire AIX  system minus certain system
filesystems (/tmp, /proc, etc...)
I am running into issues when trying to specify the objects in the client
action or TSM schedule. In the dsm.sys I am excluding items by using the
exclude.archive and exclude.fs commands.  The problem is I don't want to
specify the filesystems to archive.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Files not expiring

[Tim Brown]

Have copy group defition with this default. I still see inactive files
for the node eventhough the files were deleted in 2007. Last backup date 
10/30/2007

What would cause this ?

PolicyPolicyMgmt  Copy  Versions Versions   Retain  Retain
DomainSet Name  Class Group Data DataExtraOnly
NameName  NameExists  Deleted Versions Version
- - - -    ---
NTACTIVENTSTANDARD 42  365 365

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Central Hudson Gas & Electric
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Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Re: TSM client reported Netware versions

[Kinder, Kevin P]

5.6 is NetWare 6
5.7 is NetWare 6.5

I haven't seen.4 or .7 -- I would guess those are service pack
references


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Bill Boyer
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:52 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM client reported Netware versions

Anyone have a table or way to equate the TSM client reported version of
a
Netware client to the actually Netware release? When I look at the nodes
for
one of our clients I see 5.60, 5.70, 5.70.4, 5.70.7.



Did some searches of the archives, but must not have the right
keywords..



Bill Boyer

TSM client reported Netware versions

[Bill Boyer]

Anyone have a table or way to equate the TSM client reported version of a
Netware client to the actually Netware release? When I look at the nodes for
one of our clients I see 5.60, 5.70, 5.70.4, 5.70.7.



Did some searches of the archives, but must not have the right keywords..



Bill Boyer

Re: Hardware upgrade question(s)

[Richard Rhodes]

Here's how I would handle your migration.  We have done this with our TSM
servers, as well as all kinds of other servers, including Oracle.

We call this a Storage Swing - swinging storage from one server to another.

Conceptually, this is unplugging the storage from the old server and
plugging it into the new server, just using the SAN to do it.  Or, if you
were JBOD storage, it is unplugging the scsi cable and hooking it to the
new server.  The AIX work would be the same reguardless of whether it was
SCSI/SSA/JBOD, ISCSI, FC/SAN.

Setup new server
- setup and patch AIX
- setup inittab entries, crontabs, etc, etc
- install tsm
- copy to this new server your unique files that are in rootvg
   (dsmserv.dsk, dsmserv.opt, etc, etc)
   (probably the contents of your /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin)
   (we keep all of this on our SAN storage)

SAN work
- zone new server HBA's to storage
- do whatever you need to do on the new server for SAN storage
- never used a Hitachi box . . .but do whatever you need to do on it
--> BUT DON"T MAKE THE SAN LUNS AVAILABLE TO THE NEW SERVER YET
   - For our storage (emc), what we do is NOT MASK the storage to the
server HBA's
   - It would be VERY BAD to have the luns avaialabe to both servers
concurrently

Cutover work - part 1
- backup TSM
- make some kind of backup of non-tsm files on the SAN storage
   - I would tar them up and copy them somewhere

Cutover work - part 2 - on old server
- shutdown TSM
- have any important files in rootvg changed?  If yes, copy them to the new
server.
   (rdist can be usefull for helping if you have a lot of roogvg files)
- varyoffvg  SAN volume groups
- exportvg SAN volume groups

Cutover work - part 3 - SAN - SWING STORAGE
- unmask the luns from old server
- mask the luns to the new server

Cutover work - part 4 - on new server
- cfgmgr
   - your old luns are brought into the new server
- setup up multi-pathing???
- importvg  san volume groups
- mount filesystems
- startup/test TSM
- perform a reboot test
   - shutdown TSM
   - reboot AIX
   - does every come up correctly???
  - filesystems mount
  - tsm starts up

That's it.

Rick








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> Do you currently have SAN storage on the old server?

me : yes (xp12000)

> Do you boot from the SAN storage, or is your rootvg on local/internal
> drives?

me : no (hdisk0/hdisk1)

> Are you keeping that SAN storage, or replacing it also?

me : keeping

> If you currently use SAN storage, is your entire TSM db/log and any other
> filesystems on the SAN storage?

me : yes

> For example, we use internal disks for our boot volume (rootvg), so TSM
is
> installed and lives on the internal drives.  Our TSM server db/log and
> other related filesystems are all on external SAN storage.
>
> Depending on your answers, your migration to the new server could be very
> easy . . . just a storage swing.
>
> Rick
>

me : thank you, can you help me some more ? :-)



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SV: Change library and server

[Daniel Sparrman]

Hi
The easiest way would probably to setup your new library and server on the 
remote site, configure the TSM instance and then export the information from 
the old server to the new server over a server-to-server connection.

This is described in the TSM server manual, chapter 22: Exporting and importing 
data.

The way you describe is possible aswell, even though I would change it slightly:

1. Connect your new library to the old server
2. Migrate the information from the old library to the new library (copying the 
data will only create a copygroup in your new library)
3. Make a databasebackup from your old server to the new library
4. Transport the new library to the new location and connect it to your new 
server
5. Restore the databasebackup which you took to the new server.

The last scenario will however have more impact on your existing production 
environment.

A database backup / restore scenario (or copying of volumes as you described 
it) is only a valid scenario if you're changing to a server with the same 
operating system (Windows > Windows, Linux > Linux). In all other cases, only a 
export / import scenario will be a valid choice.

Best Regards

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Ämne: Change library and server

Is there a paper somewhere that could tell me the best way to move from one 
server and library to a new server and library?

Current configuration:

Windows 2003 x32
TSM 5.5.1.1
Library IBM 3584 with 3592 drives

New configuration:

Windows 2008 x64
Library IBM 3584 with LTO4 drives

We are changing location and want to move it all over the WAN. The speed of the 
WAN wont be an issue at all.

This is what I´m thinking how to do it.

Connect the new library to the old server (FC) and backup all the data to the 
new library. Install the new server and when all the data is in the new library 
copy dbvol, logvol and storagepool volumes to the new server. Then connect the 
new library to the new W2K8 server and correct all the devices to match the new 
server. Right?

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Re: TSM admin processes

[Richard Sims]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Paul Dudley wrote:


Fortunately I have the use of a second IBM Tape Library for TSM which
uses LTO2 tapes. If I understand you correctly this is what I could
set
up:

Currently my BKPPOOL is on disk and the Next Storage Pool for that is
BKPLTO3POOL (LTO3 tapes). I create a new storage pool called
BKPLTO2POOL on the second LTO2 tape library and make that the Next
Storage Pool for BKPLTO3POOL. I then set the MIGDelay parameter for
BKPLTO3POOL to 180 so that any file that has not been written or
read in
the past 180 days gets migrated to BKPLTO2POOL.

Is that feasible?


That should do the deed, Paul.

   Richard

Re: filespace is write protected

[Richard Sims]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:13 AM, ashish sharma wrote:


Hello,

While trying to retrieve data , i am getting error

"Filespace is write protected"

Could anyone help?


What is the context?  Is this from invoking the TSM Backup/Archive
client, a TDP, or something else?  Exactly what command and operation
was being performed?  What software level?  Is there a message number?

There's no such message text in the TSM 5.5 Messages manual, such that
this may not be a TSM message.

Speculating, it might be a platform-neutral message vernacular
referring to either trying to retrieve data to a read-only file system
(e.g., r/o NFS mount or CD-rom), or a prohibition against retrieving
data into an operating system area which the developers deemed too
dangerous to allow.

   Richard Sims

Change library and server

[Lars-Erik Öhman]

Is there a paper somewhere that could tell me the best way to move from one 
server and library to a new server and library?

Current configuration:

Windows 2003 x32
TSM 5.5.1.1
Library IBM 3584 with 3592 drives

New configuration:

Windows 2008 x64
Library IBM 3584 with LTO4 drives

We are changing location and want to move it all over the WAN. The speed of the 
WAN wont be an issue at all.

This is what I´m thinking how to do it.

Connect the new library to the old server (FC) and backup all the data to the 
new library. Install the new server and when all the data is in the new library 
copy dbvol, logvol and storagepool volumes to the new server. Then connect the 
new library to the new W2K8 server and correct all the devices to match the new 
server. Right?

/Larsa




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Re: SQL query question

[Loon, EJ van - SPLXM]

Hi Andy!
It works great, thank you VERY much!!! 
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Hi Eric,

You need to add an WHERE additional criterion like this:

   occupancy.node_name = nodes.node_name

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Andy

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> I'm trying to create an SQL query to list all filespaces with more 
> than 500 Gb. stored in TSM, but only for nodes belonging to a certain 
> department. I want to use the contact field for this, but I must be 
> doing something wrong, because it still lists all nodes. Here's what I

> created thus far:
>
> select occupancy.node_name as "Node Name", occupancy.filespace_name as

> "File System", cast(float(occupancy.physical_mb) as dec(10,0)) as 
> "Megabytes" from occupancy, nodes where occupancy.stgpool_name like 
> '%PRI%' and nodes.contact='Linux Department' and occupancy.physical_mb
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