TSM and Pathlight on Linux Issues
Hi - We are in the process of installing a test TSM Linux Server. We are using RedHat 3, update 3 and TSM server version 5.2.4. We have an ADIC Pathlight VX, which has a small Physical ADIC Scalar 24 library with LTO drives. We are emulating an ADIC Scalar 1000 through the virtual library. The library is connected to a switch and the TSM server is within the SAN. I run the tsmscsi command and it states that it locates the ADIC Scalar 1000 and defines the device /dev/tsmscsi/lb0 However, when I try to define the library within TSM, I get the following: DEFINE PATH tsmlinux TSMLINUX01 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=LIBRARY DEVICE=/dev/tsmscsi/lb0 ONLINE=YES AUTODETECT=YES ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/tsmscsi/lb0 with error 110. I can run the lbtest and open the device without issues. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
Client v5.3 and Journaling
Good Evening - We have implemented journaling on our active/active MS cluster. We used version 5.3 as this version was developed to support it. Our TSM server is Solaris 8 running 5.2.4. This is a 4 node cluster with a total of 12 virtual nodes spread across the 4 nodes. However, sometimes the journal works and sometimes we receive the following message in the beginning of a backup and then of course, it does the normal incremental. We do see in the event viewer where the backup gets done, it says it validated and marked the journal for that drive and that it will use it on the next backup. However, when the next backup starts, sometimes we receive the following and thus, the cycle starts again. However, on dates like the 15th through the 19th, we were fine. The 14th was the same as the below. I do have an open ticket it, but I figured I would throw this out there to see if anyone has any insight. 01/20/2005 20:29:11 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'T:' per client request. 01/20/2005 21:00:18 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'V:' per client request. 01/20/2005 22:30:11 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'Z:' per client request. 01/21/2005 00:03:21 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'X:' per client request. 01/21/2005 05:50:31 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'X:\MOUNTVOL11' per client request. 01/21/2005 09:31:16 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'Z:\MOUNTVOL9' per client request. 01/21/2005 18:11:53 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'T:' per client request. 01/21/2005 18:11:57 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'X:' per client request. 01/21/2005 18:11:59 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'Z:' per client request. 01/21/2005 18:11:59 jnlDbCntrl(): Restarting journal for fs 'V:' per client request. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! -- Terry
Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date
Yes, I do know that and I have them doing that - they can also go by the backup date as the modified date would be the same date or the day before. However, when performing larger restores or working with a customer to determine which file they want, it can be confusing and time consuming for them. I have placed a call with Tech support. Thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date I also noticed that the modified date still shows up when you select view | file details in the web client. So for now if your hotline needs to see that information they still can, it just isn't nicely displayed in the columns. Barth, Terry (MBS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Looks like I will be placing a call into support. Others may want to do the same if you upgraded. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date I just ran a test and noticed the exact same thing. The Modified column on the web client doesn't fill in for some reason. Barth, Terry (MBS) wrote:We recently upgraded a few window nodes to 5.3 so that we can use the new journaling options as we have active/active clusters. When performing restores, our hotline pointed out that the modified dates are not showing. If I use the normal gui, they show. Is anyone using this client version and if so, are you seeing the same thing? Thanks! -- Terry - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date
Thanks. Looks like I will be placing a call into support. Others may want to do the same if you upgraded. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date I just ran a test and noticed the exact same thing. The Modified column on the web client doesn't fill in for some reason. Barth, Terry (MBS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:We recently upgraded a few window nodes to 5.3 so that we can use the new journaling options as we have active/active clusters. When performing restores, our hotline pointed out that the modified dates are not showing. If I use the normal gui, they show. Is anyone using this client version and if so, are you seeing the same thing? Thanks! -- Terry - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more.
Web client for 5.3 is not showing modified date
We recently upgraded a few window nodes to 5.3 so that we can use the new journaling options as we have active/active clusters. When performing restores, our hotline pointed out that the modified dates are not showing. If I use the normal gui, they show. Is anyone using this client version and if so, are you seeing the same thing? Thanks! -- Terry
AIT3 and errors
Good Morning - Is anyone out there using AIT3 and experiencing high error issues, such as i/o errors reading labels, write errors, read errors, data integrity errors, stuck tapes? Thanks -- Terry
Virtual Tape
Good Morning We are considering moving to virtual tape very soon. I would like to poll everyone to see if anyone out there is using it, if so: Whose virtual tape system are you using? What is the OS system? What is the library for physical tape behind the virtual tape? What kind of performance are you getting? Do you backup any large databases to it? Did you see a performance gain? If so, could you supply examples? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks! -- Terry
Re: AIT3 and errors
We have just had the library replaced along with many of the tapes and we still continue to see errors. :( -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Benigni Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIT3 and errors Terry, Yes! I'm glad to hear someone else is having problems too. I've had a number of drive failures occur too. Right now I'm working with the vendor to resolve these issues. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/11/2004 10:02:30 AM Good Morning - Is anyone out there using AIT3 and experiencing high error issues, such as i/o errors reading labels, write errors, read errors, data integrity errors, stuck tapes? Thanks -- Terry
Re: AIT3 and errors
You are not alone. Everything that you mention below we also seen and have also done. I think there is a long road to travel down before these issues get resolved with AIT3 technology. We have been fighting the battle for about one year now. I think it is a losing one at this time. I do feel for you having 5 of them. Luckily, we did not switch out all of our libraries. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert R Price Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AIT3 and errors We too, have seen many problems with AIT-3. I run 5 TSM Server that use AIT-3 drives in a Qualstar library. These all give me problems. I also run two TSM Servers using 3590E drives in a 3494 library. Almost no problems with these two. Of the 5 AIT-3 systems, problems seem to be proportional to the load on the TSM Server. Two of these ar AIX and three are Solaris. I have had problems with TSM 5.1 and 5.2, currently running 5.2.2.5 and 5.1.7.1 and 5.1.5.4. The most heavily used system presents problems absolutely every day. We replaced all of the drives - did not help. We ordered a new batch of tapes - did not help. Worked with the vendor - did not help. Some of the specific issues that I see are: a) Write errors (a couple per day), TSM sets volume access to readonly. Sometimes if I reset the volume access to readwrite and try again, the tape writes the next time. Once I get three write errors on a tape, I do a Move Data and reuse the tape as scratch. Almost all of the time, the next write pass works just fine on the tape. Occasionally the same tape gives me problems and I retire the tape. I have resorted to cleaning each drive once per day. Jury still out on if this is helping. b) Tape fails to unload. TSM reports Drive Failure with ASC/ASCQ=44/00 (internal target failure). Usually the tape unloads if I hold in the eject button for 20-30 seconds, sometimes I need to power cycle the drive to get the tape to unload. Microcode level 0205 seems to have al but eliminated this problem. But now I get ASC/ASCQ=3B/08 with about the same frequency as the 44/00 had been getting. The 3B/08 (reposition error) does not leave the tape stuck in the drive, but TSM does turn the drive offline. So it appears that the microcode upgrade traded the problem and helped somewhat. in that a physical visit to the stuck tape drive is no longer necessary. c0 Drive failures. I've had to replace 5 (of the 10) drives on this busiest system in the past month. Different failure modes: 1) Drive failed to unload tapes, including a cleaning cartridge, 2) Drive gets three flashing lights on any attempted tape load, cleaning cartridge works okay, 3) Every time I attempted to turn this drive online, it hung the SCSI bus, 4) One replacement drive was DOA, would not even power up, 5) Every tape loaded resulted in ASC/ASCQ=30/02 (media incompatibility). d) I had to replace a drive on the second most busy system today. The drive gets I/O Error Reading Label on every tape it tries to mount. This resulted in all (61) of my scratch tapes being rejected and put into private status. All of the filling status tapes were also tried, rejected and put into unavailable access. Took a while to sort all of this out. Tried cleaning the drive a couple of time, but this did not help. Is there some way that the three of us (at least) can get together to resolve some of these issues? Any ideas? Robert R. Price ADSM/TSM Administrator Computer Sciences Corporation Phone: 412-374-3247 Fax: 412-374-6371 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. Barth, Terry (MBS) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry.Barth cc: @MORTGAGEFAMILY. Subject: Re: AIT3 and errors COM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L 11/11/04 11:59 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We have just had the library replaced along with many of the tapes and we still continue to see errors. :( -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Benigni Sent: Thursday
TSM Service causing blue screens on Win2k SP3 and latest hotfixes
Hello All - I was informed that on a few of our Win2K SP3 servers, the TSM service is failing every morning: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7031 Date: 2/23/2004 Time: 7:46:21 AM User: N/A Computer: IPSQL01 Description: The TSM IPSQL01 Central Scheduler Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 4 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds: No action. I was informed that these servers were patched with the latest security hotfixes on 2/19/04 and rebooted. There is nothing in the TSM logs showing an issue. Has anyone experienced this issue we are running client V 5.2.2. ?? Thanks -- Terry
TSM Journaling on a cluster
Hi - Has anyone used journaling on a cluster? If so, any information, problems, etc, would be helpful. I do know how to set it up, but just am curious about your experience with it. We have a cluster that takes 16 hours to inspect 9million files, but it only backs up maybe 30k to 50k of these. We are thinking about using the journaling cluster service for v 5.2.2. Thanks -- Terry
Re: TSM Journaling on a cluster
Thanks David - I did see the document and have been reading over it. I just have a few more questions, if you would not mind. :) How is the utilization on your cluster for this? Also, how many objects are on your cluster total? How many changes are made? in other words, how active is this server? Thanks again -- Terry -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Journaling on a cluster Terry, Yes, we use TSM JBB's on an MSCS Win2K AS server - it's a production system, and since we've got the JBB's up and running properly (a few probs to begin with) we haven't experienced a failover to the 'B' system to see how the JBB's respond. Since 5.1 client there is a PreserveDBonexit setting which is designed to keep the journal alive if the tsmjbbd daemon goes down, and should keep the journal valid during a failover. We have a floating TSM client that goes with the clustered drive, and the journal database for the clustered drive lives on the clustered drive (change the JouranalDir=... in the tsmjbbd.ini options file under the [JournaledFileSystemSettings.X:\] stanza). We're using TSM Client 5.1.6.7. Check out the 'IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide Appendix D around p410,412 for more details on getting JBB's to work with MSCS. David McClelland Management Systems Integrator Global Management Systems Reuters 85 Fleet Street London EC4P 4AJ -Original Message- From: Barth, Terry (MBS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 January 2004 11:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Journaling on a cluster Hi - Has anyone used journaling on a cluster? If so, any information, problems, etc, would be helpful. I do know how to set it up, but just am curious about your experience with it. We have a cluster that takes 16 hours to inspect 9million files, but it only backs up maybe 30k to 50k of these. We are thinking about using the journaling cluster service for v 5.2.2. Thanks -- Terry -- -- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
Re: Windows 2000 Backup Failure
Sounds like your W2K servers are not resolving. Check your DNS settings and see if you can ping your TSM server by name. -Original Message- From: Jeff White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows 2000 Backup Failure Hi all, Had a rather strange failue on 3 of our W2K servers last night. I can't find out what the 11001 and -53 errors are. 20.12.2003 15:15:24 GetHostnameOrNumber(): gethostbyname(): errno = 11001. 20.12.2003 15:15:24 TcpOpen: Could not resolve host name. 20.12.2003 15:15:24 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call. rc: -53 20.12.2003 15:15:24 ANS1029E Communications have been dropped. Client is 5.1.5.0 Server on Z/os is 5.1.5.2 Any ideas? Jeff White Senior Systems Programmer ICT Operations and Services CIS 1st Floor Miller Street 0161 837 5020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This e-mail may contain confidential information or be privileged. It is intended to be read and used only by the named recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please notify us immediately so that we can make arrangements for its return: you should not disclose the contents of this e-mail to any other person, or take any copies. Unless stated otherwise by an authorised individual, nothing contained in this e-mail is intended to create binding legal obligations between us and opinions expressed are those of the individual author. The CIS marketing group, which is regulated for Investment Business by the Financial Services Authority, includes: Co-operative Insurance Society Limited Registered in England number 3615R - for life assurance and pensions CIS Unit Managers Limited Registered in England and Wales number 2369965 - for unit trusts and PEPs CIS Policyholder Services Limited Registered in England and Wales number 3390839 - for ISAs and investment products bearing the CIS name Registered offices: Miller Street, Manchester M60 0AL Telephone 0161-832-8686 Internet http://www.cis.co.uk E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIS Deposit and Instant Access Savings Accounts are held with The Co-operative Bank p.l.c., registered in England and Wales number 990937, P.O. Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester M60 4EP, and administered by CIS Policyholder Services Limited as agent of the Bank. CIS is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council CIS the CIS logo (R) Co-operative Insurance Society Limited
AIT3 and TSM issues???
Is anyone out there using AIT3 with TSM version 5.1.7 or 5.1.8 and experiencing i/o errors or data-integrity errors?? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks Terry
Re: to update the library
If the tapes are checked in with TSM already, you will not need to run a checkin. You do need to perform an audit library and this should update your inventory with TSM. -Original Message- From: Geetha Thanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: to update the library Hi all, Since our DLT was giving problem , the service engineer has manually moved the catridges from one storage bin to another. Now I want tivoli to update its library for all the available catridges and their locations. pls guide how to proceed.I am totally new to tivoli. Shld i have to give checkin libvolume command and audit library.pls help me. Thanks in advance GeethaThanu -
Re: Exchange backup performance
Did you try adjusting your buffersize. We have ours set at 1024 and see pretty good performance. -Original Message- From: Redell, Greg S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange backup performance Hello all, I am trying to see if anyone has any quick suggestions on backing up Exchange 2000. I am seeing some horrible performance as you can see from the below stats. This server has never had speedy TDP backups, BAclient backups normally are in the 10MB/sec range. The connection is a gigabit connection, from the tcp transfer tests I have done with WSTTCP I should be able to hit 18MB/sec. My Domino servers with 350Gb of data on the same network hit upwards of 14MB/sec. One thing that I am noticing is that store.exe is consuming 90% of the cpu. These stats are from a full backup taken when no-one else was using the TSM server or the exchange server. 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Total storage groups requested for backup: 1 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Total storage groups backed up: 1 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Total storage groups expired: 8 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Total storage groups excluded: 0 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Throughput rate:2,956.63 Kb/Sec 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Total bytes transferred: 55,004,847,682 12/15/2003 14:23:34 Elapsed processing time: 18,167.84 Secs Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe exchange tuning? Anything is appreciated. Environment server Windows 2000 SP3 5.1.6.2 Client Windows 2000 SP3 Client BA 5.1.5.15 Client TDP 5.1.5.0 Exchange Server Version: 6.0.6396.1 BUFFers 3 BUFFERSIze 64
Anyone running TSM on Linux
Hello all - We currently have TSM running on Solaris and have had it for about 6 years now. We are thinking about switching to Linux - Does anyone have answers to the following: 1. Anyone running TSM on Red Hat Linux AS 2.1? 2. Anyone running TSM on a X360? 3. How is the performance, stability? 4. How is the TSM support for Linux? 5. TSM on Red Hat with AIT2 or AIT3 tape drives? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
ADIC Scalar 1000 library and problem with element numbers
Help Please... We just recently purchased an ADIC scalar 1000 tape library with firmware 3.0. We are running this on Solaris 8 and an E450 Sun server. Everything is detected on the Sun side. We can define the library without any problems. However, when we go to define any of the drives, we get: ANR8366E DEFINE DRIVE: Invalid value for ELEMENT parameter. Example of one of the commands issued: DEFINE DRIVE ADIC-AIT2-BG1 drive01 DEVICE=/dev/rmt/13mt ELEMENT=1200 ONLINE=YES I have tried number 800 through 811 which were actually for a prior firmware release I have tried all numbers 1200 through 1211. I have been on the phone with TSM support and have also spoken to ADIC and so far, no one seems to have an idea. Any help, will be appreciated. Thanks
ADIC Scalar 1000 AIT2 Library
Hello We just recently purchased an ADIC scalar 1000 tape library with firmware 3.0. We are running this on Solaris 8 and an E450 Sun server. Everything is detected on the Sun side. We can define the library without any problems. However, when we go to define any of the drives, we get: ANR8366E DEFINE DRIVE: Invalid value for ELEMENT parameter. Example of one of the commands issued: DEFINE DRIVE ADIC-AIT2-BG1 drive01 DEVICE=/dev/rmt/13mt ELEMENT=1200 ONLINE=YES I have tried number 800 through 811 which were actually for a prior firmware release I have tried all numbers 1200 through 1211 both TSM and ADIC state that it should be these numbers I have been on the phone with TSM support and have also spoken to ADIC and so far, no one seems to have an idea. Any help, will be appreciated. Thanks
Qualstar TLS412180
Hi All - We are currently considering purchasing a Qualstar TLS412. We have been checking out messages in the newsgroups. We noticed that on the 3494 library, that some have defined certain slots to act as a load port for checking in and out of multiple tapes. Is this possible on the Qualstar TLS412? In other words, can we have a few of the slots within the robot defined in some way to act as a bulk checkout or checkin port for the robot. This way, multiple tapes could be checked out and checked in at one time, as this robot only has 1 slot to check in and out tapes and thus, would prevent us from having to run back and forth to the robot to check out tapes. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks Terry
Re: Qualstar Library
Thanks for the info Kelly. Honestly, because of this feature we will definitely be looking into other libraries. This would not be sufficient for the bulk of tape loads that we do on a daily basis - especially, when we would have 3 robots, 2 ATLs and 2 Qualstar - 1 of each in a different building. Has you or anyone worked with Adic libraries? -Original Message- From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qualstar Library Short answer: yes you check them out one at a time and run to I/O port to take them out. Pain in the arse! You can also do a checkout libvol remove=no and then go and open the door and remove the tapes from the slots as appropriate. We work closely with Qualstar. I will mention that a bulk port makes sense. Perhaps they'll get that for us. Thanks, Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (240) 539-7175 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barth, Terry (MBS) Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qualstar Library Hello All - I have a question. We currently have an ATLP3000 that can eject up to 12 tapes at a time to take offsite. We have been thinking about purchasing a Qualstar TLS4121 with AIT technology. However, we noticed that there appears to be only 1 slot load port to handle the checkout of tapes. My question is, if you have a Qualstar robot - how do you handle it when you need to checkout more than 1 tape? Do you have to do them 1 at a time? Meaning, do you have to checkout a tape, remove it and then checkout the next. Whereas on our ATLP3000, we can checkout up to 12 tapes without having to run back to the robot after each one. The reason that I am asking, is that our offsite storage tapes range from 8 to about 16 a day and to do these 1 at a time will be annoying. Any information on this will be appreciated. Terry
Qualstar Library
Hello All - I have a question. We currently have an ATLP3000 that can eject up to 12 tapes at a time to take offsite. We have been thinking about purchasing a Qualstar TLS4121 with AIT technology. However, we noticed that there appears to be only 1 slot load port to handle the checkout of tapes. My question is, if you have a Qualstar robot - how do you handle it when you need to checkout more than 1 tape? Do you have to do them 1 at a time? Meaning, do you have to checkout a tape, remove it and then checkout the next. Whereas on our ATLP3000, we can checkout up to 12 tapes without having to run back to the robot after each one. The reason that I am asking, is that our offsite storage tapes range from 8 to about 16 a day and to do these 1 at a time will be annoying. Any information on this will be appreciated. Terry
ATL and AIT
Hello Fellow *SMrs We currently have 2 TSM servers operating on Solaris 2.6. We have 2 ATL robots. We are looking to get a 3rd TSM server and robot. For this robot, we are thinking of going with AIT technology for the tape drives. I am curious to see if anyone has this mix or has any comments on if they would go this route or not. Thanks. TSM ver 4.1.1. robots - ATL7100 and ATLP3000 OS - Solaris 2.6
NIC Question
Hello All - I have a sun solaris ADSM server that has 3 NIC cards. We would like to utilize all 3 NIC cards for backups and restores, independently. We set up the cards according to SUN and everything seems fine on that end. However, when a backup starts off, it sends all data through the first NIC card and then when it receives data, it spans through all 3 cards. Our switch recognizes all 3 cards, but as soon as a backup begins on one of the other NICS - say for instance, 48.22, the MAC disappears and the switch no longer recognizes the card. We feel that there is something on the ADSM server side that we need to set up so that if we tell a client to do a backup and designate that the server has an IP address of xx.xx.48.22, that all communications will go through this NIC card and not touch the others. xx.xx.48.20 xx.xx.48.21 xx.xx.48.22 My question is, what is it that I need to set up on the ADSM server side, so that it uses each NIC card independently. I have placed the IP address in the opt file on the client end. Is there something that I need to do on the server end? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks Terry
Re: Getting off the list...
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?ADSM-L -Original Message- From: Frederic Landreville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting off the list... I am changing email and I cannot remember where the info on how to get on and off this list is... Any help would be useful... Thanks Fred = IFONT size=3 P align=centerFridiric Landreville Project Manager - Global Data Center Operations/P P align=centerJT International SA - Geneva Headquarter/P P align=center12-14 Chemin Rieu, Geneva 17 1211 Switzerland/P P align=center/P P align=centerTelephone: +41-22-703-0323 Fax:+41-22-703-0324/P/I/FONT __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Re: NIC Question
But I have heard that you can set up the 3 NIC cards to be independent for the backups. My problem is, when we kick off a backup, since these 3 NIC cards on a the same VLAN, the switch drops the MAC address of the other 2 and thus, floods the VLAN. Any suggestions? -Original Message- From: Eugene Klaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NIC Question Terry, That is the nature of ether net. All outgoing info is through your primary card. You can receive on any of the three. Gene Klaus "Barth, Terry (MBS)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/20/2000 08:47:38 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Eugene A Klaus/Flagstar_notes) Subject: NIC Question Hello All - I have a sun solaris ADSM server that has 3 NIC cards. We would like to utilize all 3 NIC cards for backups and restores, independently. We set up the cards according to SUN and everything seems fine on that end. However, when a backup starts off, it sends all data through the first NIC card and then when it receives data, it spans through all 3 cards. Our switch recognizes all 3 cards, but as soon as a backup begins on one of the other NICS - say for instance, 48.22, the MAC disappears and the switch no longer recognizes the card. We feel that there is something on the ADSM server side that we need to set up so that if we tell a client to do a backup and designate that the server has an IP address of xx.xx.48.22, that all communications will go through this NIC card and not touch the others. xx.xx.48.20 xx.xx.48.21 xx.xx.48.22 My question is, what is it that I need to set up on the ADSM server side, so that it uses each NIC card independently. I have placed the IP address in the opt file on the client end. Is there something that I need to do on the server end? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks Terry
Re: Archiving and database growth
Thanks - but my question is, how does the database grow for archiving - does it grow the same way as backups? -Original Message- From: Kleynerman, Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Archiving and database growth Terry, I've had similar experience trying the "export node" command - only 1 node can be exported to a single tape. Arthur. -Original Message----- From: Barth, Terry (MBS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archiving and database growth Hello fellow *SMrs: I am beginning to implement the archiving feature, as the backupset just wastes too much tape, as from what I have tested, only 1 node goes to 1 tape. If I am wrong, please tell me Anyway, we have the need to store files for legal reasons for a large amount of time - ex: 5 years, 7 years, etc. - Therefore, my only solution as to not waste so many tapes, because I have 250 + servers that I am dealing with, I was going to implement archiving. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone knows the impact that archiving has on the size of the database? I am concerned about the archiving feature growing my database tremendously. Thanks Terry
Re: find a file in tivoli
Please send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. -Original Message- From: Matthew Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: find a file in tivoli Please send me a copy also: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Tom Melton [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/09/2000 10:50:29 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: find a file in tivoli I converted the file and have it available in pdf format, if anyone is interested. It is a 236K file. Tom Melton Emory HealthCare Emory University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/09/00 01:28PM Is there a text, word, or html format of this doc available? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/09/00 01:21PM A good reference is: "Using the ADSM SQL Interface" (by IBMer Andy Raibeck) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~rz57/ADSM/3rd/handouts/raibeck.ps The Archives and Backups tables tend to be less expensive to examine than the Contents table.
Archiving and database growth
Hello fellow *SMrs: I am beginning to implement the archiving feature, as the backupset just wastes too much tape, as from what I have tested, only 1 node goes to 1 tape. If I am wrong, please tell me Anyway, we have the need to store files for legal reasons for a large amount of time - ex: 5 years, 7 years, etc. - Therefore, my only solution as to not waste so many tapes, because I have 250 + servers that I am dealing with, I was going to implement archiving. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone knows the impact that archiving has on the size of the database? I am concerned about the archiving feature growing my database tremendously. Thanks Terry
This is a new one
ANRD blkdisk.c(1791): Error reading from disk /product/adsm/disk04/data13.dsm. Expected=262144 Actual=98304, errno=0 (Error 0) ANRD dsrtrv.c(538): Error on volume /product/adsm/disk04/data13.dsm: execRc=-1, summaryRc=-1. ANRD dsrtrv.c(549): -- Volume /product/adsm/disk04/data13.dsm, Starting Logical Block 24201, Blocks in Range 64. Anyone have any idea what the above error is and what I may need to do to correct it. The system is Solaris, running 3.7.2 - it was in the process of doing a migration from disk to tape. The disk is online. Thanks Terry
Re: Exclude List
Thanks Lawrence - but afterwards, I found out that quotes around it works fine and is much easier. Thanks -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exclude List Hi: This got me when I was reinstalling the service for the scheduled backups and had to point to a directory path that included 'program files'. You need to use the MS-DOS name that does not include spaces. Click down to the directory with spaces, select the directory, right click and select properties, see / use the MS-DOS name. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/05/00 10:40AM Hello All - I was wondering in the NT environment, how you write up an exclude list for folders that contain a space. We could easily rename these folders, however, it would involve also changing names within various programs. Some, of course, are for Windows, therefore, those names cannot be changed. Therefore, how do I write up a folder name that contains spaces in the exclusion list - ex: Program files? Thanks Terry
Re: retention
Hi Serge - I have version 3.7.2 at my server, soon to upgrade to 4.11 - Anyway, I thought that when an archive was created, it has to go out to the client, thus, it would put some burden on the client and network, or am I missing something? I want to implement archiving, but this is one of the problems that I am facing. I know backupsets are generated at the server end, but I am not pleased as to the way it needs to be done. For instance, it is not real easy to retrieve them. If I am only doing a filespace that is say 5 gigs, then it uses a whole tape and I cannot use the tape anymore. These are just to mention a few. Therefore, I have been looking at archiving - but I have been looking at 2 things - 1, the size of my database will probably grow at a super fast rate as we need to keep archives on a monthly basis for 7 years and 2, the network traffic. If I am looking at something wrong, someone please tell me. Thanks -Original Message- From: Serge Gaudet/EIG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retention RECLAIM does not address the issue. It only prevents the TSM server from moving the active copies around to help reduce the number of tapes the pool uses following an inventory expiration process (and is an option of the storage pool configuration should you want to change it More info: Do an "help update stg" on your admin interface). What you want to do, the way you stated it, is set the REUSEDELAY=360 (also a parameter of the storage pool configuration). However, I don't think that is what you REALLY want to do. You should establish an ARCHIVE policy for your environment, and start using the archival process instead. At TSM 3.7+, the archives are generated and handled at the TSM server. Both the client and network don't get additionally burdened by this process. Food for thought: The REUSEDELAY=360 will get you to spend $ in tapes since you will not going to be able to recall ANY tapes freed up by reclamation for at least a year for this pool... Serge Gaudet, CMI Consultant "Talafous, John G." To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talafous@TIMcc: KEN.COM Subject: Re: retension Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 03/11/2000 12:31 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" The quickest way that comes to my mind is to keep the RECLAIM percent at 100 for copypoolextra. But, why do it anyway? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyPhone: (330)-471-3390 P.O. Box 6927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com/ -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: retension Hi all, I have defined a extra copypool named copypoolextra other than tapepool and copypool , i want to set 360 days retension on this copypool , what is the command or reference Book ? Thnaks in advance
Exclude List
Hello All - I was wondering in the NT environment, how you write up an exclude list for folders that contain a space. We could easily rename these folders, however, it would involve also changing names within various programs. Some, of course, are for Windows, therefore, those names cannot be changed. Therefore, how do I write up a folder name that contains spaces in the exclusion list - ex: Program files? Thanks Terry
Re: Exclude List
Never mind - I figured it out - I just put quotes around it and it works like a charm. -Original Message- From: Barth, Terry (MBS) Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:41 AM To: ADSM-L (E-mail) Subject: Exclude List Hello All - I was wondering in the NT environment, how you write up an exclude list for folders that contain a space. We could easily rename these folders, however, it would involve also changing names within various programs. Some, of course, are for Windows, therefore, those names cannot be changed. Therefore, how do I write up a folder name that contains spaces in the exclusion list - ex: Program files? Thanks Terry
Archive Question
Hello all - I have a question on how to do the following: I have many clients that back up to disk and to tape pools. I want to archive these same clients. What I want to do is schedule these archives and send them to an archive_pool - how do I do this? In other words - Node A - currently backups up to backup_pool now I also want to schedule Node A - to do a monthly archive to the archive_pool. My goal of sending it to a different pool is so that when the tapes fill up, I can move them offsite and out of the robot as to not take up so much storage space. I have about 250 servers - many will need to be archived monthly and the data kept offsite for about 7 years. However, since the storage is determined from the management class, I am not sure how I can accomplish this. Any help or other ideas will be appreciated. Thanks Terry Barth Information Technology Sr. Technical Services Specialist ADSM/TSM Administrator Office:856-917-9780 Pager:888-692-2558 Cell Phone: 856-986-7196
Re: LINUX
Yes there is - you can obtain it from the following site: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ client/ -Original Message- From: Thomas R Rhodes/TRR/CC01/INEEL/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LINUX Is there a client for LINUX in *sm? If so where can I get it?
Re: RMAN question??
We are using an OC-12 Sonnet Ring Network about a 12 gig bandwidth - Many of our switch to router configurations are on a 1 gig setup. To answer your questions, no, the Oracle clients are not in a dedicated network - they are on the same network with all our other servers. We have discussed created a dedicated network, but have not gone to far into it at this time. We have approximately 250 servers from NT to Novell to Solaris - and at the same time that RMAN is doing its backup at night, the other servers are backing up as well. We have been having problems that we are working on resolving with our network Hwe tried many things and have not been able to find the answer - if anyone has any suggestions for what we can do - that would be great - we have done many upgrades to our network and also used network monitoring tools to try to find the bottleneck - but with no luck however, the RMAN servers that do about 300gig take approx 5 hours to complete - before our problems occurred, we were averaging about 3 1/2 hours - this is with 4 channels. During the day, when RMAN is doing his archiving, TSM is busy doing its copy pools and reclamations. Therefore, RMAN is rarely running alone on anything, but it does not run with any backups during the day which is when the archiving takes place. The RMAN clients use the ATLP3000 robot that we have. It contains 12 drives - 2 per each SCSI controller. The TSM is on an E3500 Sun Box that runs Solaris 2.6. I hope this information helps and with the server being down today, I sent a copy of this to your personal box. Let me know if I can be of any more help. -Original Message- From: Sean M English/Charlotte/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RMAN question?? Terry, Thanks for your help. One more question, what kind of backup times are you seeing and what kind of network are you using? I was just wondering if the network was a dedicated network for your Oracle clients and are other backups going on at the same time? Once again, thanks for your help. Regards, Sean M. English IBM Global Services- South Delivery Center, Charlotte, NC Distributed Storage Management/TSM External: (704)594-2232 T/L: 8-794-2232 Pager: (800)946--4646 PIN: 1428698 Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance. "Barth, Terry (MBS)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/19/2000 06:19:53 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: RMAN question?? Hi Sean - We have various RMAN clients using anywhere from 1 to 4 channels - we do not have collocation turned on, because of problems such as you mentioned. To increase our times, we turned off collocation we have a separate tape pool for our RMAN clients and increased channels where necessary. I am not sure how much your clients back up - but ours back up anywhere from 100gig to 250 gig at night and do archives which are only about 1 gig during the day. In either case, if you do opt to keep collocation turned on, the answer to your question is yes, it will wait for the media and then start writing the data as it would if it was not waiting. We have had this situation one time when we did not realize that the tape pool got low. However, we have found that RMAN work more efficiently when collocation is turned off and multiple channels are ran and restore speed was not effected. Terry -Original Message- From: Sean M English/Charlotte/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMAN question?? I have a question about a client that is using RMAN to backup there Oracle databse to TSM. TSM Server: 3.7.3.6 on AIX 4.3.2 We recently changed the backup method for the Oracle databases from going to disk to going directly to tape. We created a unique nodename for each of the Oracle DB servers. These servers are in there own domain. When we first tested this, we saw great results (in terms of speed) to backup the Oracle DB. However, now when the servers run their backups each night, they are in a constant Receive Wait and the time to back them up as actually increased. Currently they are allocating one channel for each backup. The reasoning behind one channel was that anything other than 1 channel (i.e. 2 channels) the other one would be in a media wait because of colocation. My question is, has anyone else seen where a backup like this was in a constant receive wait when using only on channel? I have a thought, but I am not 100% sure if it would solve my problem because I am not 100% sure on how RMAN groups its data. My thought is if you run 2 channels, one will be running and the other waiting. However, will that second channel already have the data grouped together and ready to transfer when the other one gets f
Re: policy domains and management classes
Copy groups work off of the tape pool or disk pool that you have it assigned to - In other words, Tape_pool1 - would maybe be assigned to Copy_pool1 and then if TOCBS101-DB is assigned to TApe_pool1, then it is going to Copy_pool1. -Original Message- From: Selva, Perpetua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: policy domains and management classes I have a node TOCBS101-DB under the domain SYBASE Policy Domain Sybase has backup retention of 30 days archive retention of 365 days I have mgmt classes Policy Domain Policy Set Mgmt Class StandardStandardSybase Sybase Active Sybase Sybase Sybase Sybase (I'm assuming i'm using this one for the above node) I have archive copy groups and backup copy groups(this one has 60day retention only backup version and retain extra backup versions of 30days) How am i supposed to know which copy group this node is using? Please let me know..as i'm trying to figure out what's in the library... Thanks in Advance Perpetua Selva ARBC Dominion Securities Inc. Technical Analyst Global Markets Tel: (416-842-4528) Fax:(416-842-4335)
Re: RMAN question??
Hi Sean - We have various RMAN clients using anywhere from 1 to 4 channels - we do not have collocation turned on, because of problems such as you mentioned. To increase our times, we turned off collocation we have a separate tape pool for our RMAN clients and increased channels where necessary. I am not sure how much your clients back up - but ours back up anywhere from 100gig to 250 gig at night and do archives which are only about 1 gig during the day. In either case, if you do opt to keep collocation turned on, the answer to your question is yes, it will wait for the media and then start writing the data as it would if it was not waiting. We have had this situation one time when we did not realize that the tape pool got low. However, we have found that RMAN work more efficiently when collocation is turned off and multiple channels are ran and restore speed was not effected. Terry -Original Message- From: Sean M English/Charlotte/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMAN question?? I have a question about a client that is using RMAN to backup there Oracle databse to TSM. TSM Server: 3.7.3.6 on AIX 4.3.2 We recently changed the backup method for the Oracle databases from going to disk to going directly to tape. We created a unique nodename for each of the Oracle DB servers. These servers are in there own domain. When we first tested this, we saw great results (in terms of speed) to backup the Oracle DB. However, now when the servers run their backups each night, they are in a constant Receive Wait and the time to back them up as actually increased. Currently they are allocating one channel for each backup. The reasoning behind one channel was that anything other than 1 channel (i.e. 2 channels) the other one would be in a media wait because of colocation. My question is, has anyone else seen where a backup like this was in a constant receive wait when using only on channel? I have a thought, but I am not 100% sure if it would solve my problem because I am not 100% sure on how RMAN groups its data. My thought is if you run 2 channels, one will be running and the other waiting. However, will that second channel already have the data grouped together and ready to transfer when the other one gets finished? Let me know if anyone else has seen this. If I need to provide more infomation, let me know. Thanks for the help. Regards, Sean M. English Distributed Storage Management/TSM IBM Global Services South, Charlotte, NC External: (704)594-2232 T/L: 8-794-2232 Pager: (800)946--4646 PIN: 1428698 Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
Help Please :0)
Hello fellow *SMrs: I have a few questions that have recently popped up, that I am having a hard time finding the direct response. 1 - If we create archives, do these tapes always have to stay onsite? -We have over 250 servers and to keep this sort of data month after month for three to seven years, we just do not have that capacity. Therefore, I was wondering how I may accomplish creating archives and sending the tapes offsite and not having one onsite. I need long term data storage - I was working with backupsets, but they are time consuming and I really hate the idea that only 1 backupset goes to 1 tape - Ex: - if I have 2 gigs of information, I just wasted almost all of the tape for these 2 gigs. 2 - I know with NT that you can backup the registry. However, can the registry be backed up when the system is online and can you restore the registry to another location. 3 - Can you schedule a backup for just the registry - we have a situation, that we may want to back up just the registry of a particular server once every hour. 4 - The security team brought an interesting question to my attention. Is the data that we send offsite, via copy pool, encrypted to where someone could not just take the tape and view the data. My thoughts are that the data is encrypted and cannot be recovered without the TSM database and in order to restore the TSM database to another server, I would think there is some sort of security there. Any help on these matters would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Terry
test
test
Re: Help Please :0)
Thanks Lawrence - For #1, how would I go about setting it up? Do I send the archives directly to a copy pool? or, do I just create an archive pool and then if so, will DRM handle sending them offsite? For #2, I tried it - I am sorry, I should have made it clearer - I want to know also how you depict it in the opt file to backup the registry - if I manually back it up, it works fine - but I noticed that the registry is not being backed up by default. -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help Please :0) 1). Yes, you can checkout volumes from the tape library and store them offsite. 2). Yes. I believe it copies the registery then backs it up. Try your gui client and select system objects for NT. 3). Never did that but I can't see why not. 4).Yes, the data on the tape is encrypted. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:06PM Hello fellow *SMrs: I have a few questions that have recently popped up, that I am having a hard time finding the direct response. 1 - If we create archives, do these tapes always have to stay onsite? -We have over 250 servers and to keep this sort of data month after month for three to seven years, we just do not have that capacity. Therefore, I was wondering how I may accomplish creating archives and sending the tapes offsite and not having one onsite. I need long term data storage - I was working with backupsets, but they are time consuming and I really hate the idea that only 1 backupset goes to 1 tape - Ex: - if I have 2 gigs of information, I just wasted almost all of the tape for these 2 gigs. 2 - I know with NT that you can backup the registry. However, can the registry be backed up when the system is online and can you restore the registry to another location. 3 - Can you schedule a backup for just the registry - we have a situation, that we may want to back up just the registry of a particular server once every hour. 4 - The security team brought an interesting question to my attention. Is the data that we send offsite, via copy pool, encrypted to where someone could not just take the tape and view the data. My thoughts are that the data is encrypted and cannot be recovered without the TSM database and in order to restore the TSM database to another server, I would think there is some sort of security there. Any help on these matters would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Terry
