Re: Netware NDS question for TSM

[Cahill, Ricky]

Load up dsmc with the right .opt file
then enter
q ses - will be prompted for username and password
q tsa - this will prompt you for a Netware username and passward
q tsa nds - this again prompts for the NW username and pw

Once you've entered those it should pickup ok.

   ..Rikk

-Original Message-
From: Jim Kirkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 January 2003 21:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netware NDS question for TSM


On one of the older clients there was a problem where a leading zero was
getting in the password and causing problems, but I don't remember which rev
that was on. Try changing the pwd and see what happens.

Ron Lochhead wrote:

> OS= Netware 4.11
> TSM = 3.1.0.6
> NDS = 6.13
>
> We are backing up multiple Netware servers using a older ver of the TSM
> client because the Netware client back in June 2002 would not work on
those
> servers.  We recently setup NDS to be backed up via the scheduler and now
> when the scheduler attempts to kick off the backup it prompts for a
Netware
> user id and pw?  So does anyone know how we can insert the Netware user id
> and pw to prevent this from taking place?
>
> Thanks in advance.  Ron Lochhead

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File Storagepool backup..confused

[Cahill, Ricky]

I have a primary storagepool which is file based, I'm trying to back it up
to a test copystoragepool and am getting asked to mount the file volume and
can't understand why.

Storage Pool Name DIRECTORY_FILE
Storage Pool Type PRIMARY
Device Class Name DIRECTORY
Estimated Capacity (MB) 5120.0
Pct Util 5.3
Pct Migr 10.0
Pct Logical 99.2
High Mig Pct 95
Low Mig Pct 90
Migration Processes 1
Next Storage Pool DIRECTORY_TAPE
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE

===

Volume Name F:\TIVOLI\TSM\SERVER1\5088.BFS
Storage Pool Name DIRECTORY_FILE
Device Class Name DIRECTORY
Estimated Capacity (MB) 512.0
Pct Util 53.6
Volume Status FILLING
Access READWRITE
Pct. Reclaimable Space 18.4
Scratch Volume? Yes

===

Storage Pool Name TEST
Storage Pool Type COPY
Device Class Name LTO
Estimated Capacity (MB) 0.0
Pct Logical 100.0
Migration Processes -
Next Storage Pool -
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE
Overflow Location -
Cache Migrated Files? -
Collocate? NO
Reclamation Threshold 100
Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed 5

===

ANR0984I Process 224 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL started in
   the BACKGROUND at 13:22:39.

ANR2110I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 224.
ANR1210I Backup of primary storage pool DIRECTORY_FILE to
   copy storage pool TEST started as process 224.

ANR0609I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 224.
ANR1228I Removable volume F:\TIVOLI\TSM\SERVER1\5088.-
   BFS is required for storage pool backup.



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Re: File Storagepool backup..confused

[Cahill, Ricky]

Thanks for the replies...I knew what it should do, I had one free drive when
trying this...for some unknown reason now I have two free drives it's
working as expected??

Oh well, something to look at a later date :)

 ..Rikk

-Original Message-
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 January 2003 14:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: File Storagepool backup..confused


Another point to consider is that volumes of device type FILE are
sequential media, and are treated in many respects like tape. Thus they
require mountpoints, are mounted and dismounted, etc. But no actual manual
intervention should be required.

Regards,

Andy

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The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




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>From the information you provided, I do not see anything out of the
ordinary, nor do I see where you are being prompted to mount anything. The
closest thing I can find is the ANR1228I message, which is not a prompt,
but simply an informational message.  Use the HELP command from the Admin
CLI to see what this message is telling you (HELP ANR1228I or HELP 1228).
Is there some other message that you didn't include in your original post?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
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Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




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Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:File Storagepool backup..confused



I have a primary storagepool which is file based, I'm trying to back it up
to a test copystoragepool and am getting asked to mount the file volume
and
can't understand why.

Storage Pool Name DIRECTORY_FILE
Storage Pool Type PRIMARY
Device Class Name DIRECTORY
Estimated Capacity (MB) 5120.0
Pct Util 5.3
Pct Migr 10.0
Pct Logical 99.2
High Mig Pct 95
Low Mig Pct 90
Migration Processes 1
Next Storage Pool DIRECTORY_TAPE
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE

===

Volume Name F:\TIVOLI\TSM\SERVER1\5088.BFS
Storage Pool Name DIRECTORY_FILE
Device Class Name DIRECTORY
Estimated Capacity (MB) 512.0
Pct Util 53.6
Volume Status FILLING
Access READWRITE
Pct. Reclaimable Space 18.4
Scratch Volume? Yes

===

Storage Pool Name TEST
Storage Pool Type COPY
Device Class Name LTO
Estimated Capacity (MB) 0.0
Pct Logical 100.0
Migration Processes -
Next Storage Pool -
Maximum Size Threshold -
Access READWRITE
Overflow Location -
Cache Migrated Files? -
Collocate? NO
Reclamation Threshold 100
Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed 5

===

ANR0984I Process 224 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL started in
   the BACKGROUND at 13:22:39.

ANR2110I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 224.
ANR1210I Backup of primary storage pool DIRECTORY_FILE to
   copy storage pool TEST started as process 224.

ANR0609I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 224.
ANR1228I Removable volume F:\TIVOLI\TSM\SERVER1\5088.-
   BFS is required for storage pool backup.




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Little help from the select statement wizzies...

[Cahill, Ricky]

I have a need to find any data still in existance from 7/12/2002 back to
01/11/2002 and on what volumes it resides.
I realise the only way I'm going to find this is by select but havn't really
played with them much at all, would anyone have any idea of how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

.Rikk



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Re: AIT3 vs LTO

[Cahill, Ricky]

Sorry to butt in but we are having massive compatibility problems after
going from seagate drives to ibm drives (ordered IBM drives, seagates turned
up then we got replacement IBM's a month later)

I knew there was a problem but untill now never heard of anyone else with
it, can you tell me where you got the compatibility information about the
problems between the makes and what HP's fix is please.

I may be able to seep nights again :)

...Rikk


-Original Message-
From: Christian Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 January 2003 08:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIT3 vs LTO


Hi Chris!
I´m working with LTO, AIT, S-DLT, SLR and et c.
But what are you going to backing up. That is the question.
But here is some good point on AIT and LTO.

AIT3 :
Fast access (Access to first data  under 10 Sec)
12 MB/s (Uncompress)
Read/Write header have a plastik shild so it´s easy to clean.
Less Shosining. (Tapes lifts longer)
The tapes take less space.
Read/Write back well compatiboly.
But new tapes each time when you upgrade to a new ver.

But I don´t like the ADIC library. I think if you want AIT talk to Spectra
Logic insted. Much better library.

LTO :
Open Source technoligy. So that mean more then one company developing the
technoligy.
16MB/s uncompressed.
Next generation is on it way. So you have 200 GB on each tape uncompressed.
Don´t know if you can write on the old tapes. But I haird that LTO2 is new
tapes. So that mean you still need to buy new tapes when you upgrade from
LTO
to LTO2.
And LTO have some problem between Seagate, IBM and HP ver of LTO.
Ex. (Don´t no if there have fixit on Seagate and IBM but HP have).
You can not run a cleaning tape who is from HP on a IBM drive?
And I hiard some people have problem to read tapes who have wroted buy a
nother
drive who is create buy another company.

But the question is. What are you going to backing up. And how fast do you
want
to restore it?
Do you want short restore time on small files?
Then you going to choice AIT.
If you going to restore big files?
Then choice LTO.

Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards
Christian Svensson


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Product Comparisons.

[Cahill, Ricky]

I've been asked to write a document comparing Legato, Netbackup datacentre
and TSM. Never having used Legato and Netbackup makes this a little
difficult, has anyone already gone through this process recently and have
any pointers to docs, reviews, comparisons etc?

Thanks in advance.


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Looking for - TSM Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Gui de.

[Cahill, Ricky]

Anyone actualy found this??

It seems to be GC32-0785-00 but I can't find this document to download or
order anywhere.

Any kind soul point me in the right direction please

Thanks in advance.


.Rikk



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License Pricing

[Cahill, Ricky]

Just got a quote back for some Win2k licenses and was rather surprised at
the massive increase in price, ok I've not bought a license for a couple of
years but this is bonkers..

single processor server £391.98 + vat per server
dual processor server   £783.96 + vat per server
quad processor server   £1567.92 + vat per server

Anyone know if a license bought prior to this stupid per cpu idea is valid
for one server or one cpu??


   ..Rikk



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Re: License Pricing

[Cahill, Ricky]

The pricing is probably great for new users as the actual server prices are
down a lot, but as we installed our system 4 years ago we got stung for the
high server pricing and now we're upgrading clients we're getting stung for
that as well.

Was hopeing to get our three main SQL boxes moved to TSM asap, but
presenting the boss with a bill for £5000+ just for licenses for the 3 boxes
is going to stop it dead.

   ..Rikk

-Original Message-
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Sent: 20 March 2003 00:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: License Pricing


This is turning out to be an interesting thread to watch.  Lots of emotion
(it hits us all where it hurts ... in the pocket book).  IMHO what we
are seeing is the market responding to a vendor pricing scenario change.
Not good or bad, just different.  IBM's changes will change the way
customers react and what they purchase.  Then when the results of the
changes are seen, IBM will change it again to again try to force a
change from customers.

To me it looks like IBM's motive is profit (not a bad motive).
Customers motive is to keep costs down of backups (again not a bad thing).

And the market, whether folks use OpenSource, TSM, Legato, NetBackup, or
other products, will be the response the customers have to the market and
vendor pressures and technologies.

... In any case, it is interesting to watch! ... JC



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Re: overland tape library?

[Cahill, Ricky]

I use a rack full of Neo 2000's to do our DR restores through, apart from
working out the initial changes (as I use an STKL180) it's always worked
pretty well.

Only thing I do dislike is the cap size, on the STK you have a nice big 10
slot cap, on the stacked neos you configure up each to have a mail slot with
capacity for 1 tape each, so you have to open a dor on each lib to put in or
take out one tape.

Other than that nice library.

...Rikk

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From: Kjell Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 March 2003 07:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SV: overland tape library?


Hi Alexander!
 
I´ve used some older Overlands together with TSM, with no greater
difficulties than with other brands.
Also I have used a LOT of Cpq/HP MSL-series, both with SDLT and LTO, which
is actually the Overland 2000-series and I really, really like it,
especially equipped with LTO-drives.
The 4000-series is the same machine with a bigger housing, so in my opinion
a great machine!
 
One concideration though is the availibility of support for the hardware, a
very important issue you´d be wise to check out carefully before deciding.
Sometimes the more expensive license-manufactured brands just makes more
sence in the long run.

-Ursprungligt meddelande- 
Från: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Skickat: on 2003-03-19 20:23 
Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Kopia: 
Ämne: overland tape library?



Hey, 

Does anyone use the Overland Storage Neo 4100 or 4200 LTO-1 tape
library 
with TSM 5.1 server? 

We are upgrading our tape library and our ADSM server (3.1 -> 5.1),
and 
are trying to decide what library to get. We've been looking at the
IBM 
3583-L36 Tape Library, which uses 36 LTO-1 tapes, up to 7TB
compressed 
capacity, with two LTO drives, which is gonna cost about 36K. 

But I recently found out about Overland storage which sells a
product 
called NEO4100, with 3 LTO-1 drives, 60 tape slots, up to 12TB
capacity 
compressed, which sells for about 30K. 

So it seems like for 6K less we can get almost twice the capacity,
with an 
extra drive! That extra drive would totally kick butt. But if
Overland 
hardware sucks and breaks and doesn't work well with TSM 5.1, then
screw 
it. 

Any comments? 

Thanks in advance! 

Alex 
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Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom

[Cahill, Ricky]

We had our DLT drives swapped out for LTO1 drives last November and set up
the cleaning in the library (STKL180) as per usual, the drives would never
ask for a clean.
By January we where getting massive amounts of tape errors on a daily basis,
after weeks of IBM/STK trying to work out why, for the hell of it I cleaned
the drives manually and instantly 95% of the errors went away.
Since then I've now set up some timed scripts in TSM to clean the drives on
a weekly basis. We are still getting some error's like this :-

15/04/2003 09:30:10 ANRD pvrntp.c(6207): ThreadId<26> BLOCK LOCATE
ERROR, VOL=001010, DRIVE=TAPE0 (mt20.1.2.3): Expected BlockID 2145678;
actual locate 0.

And are hopeing a firmware upgrade will possibly help this.

-Original Message-
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Sent: 25 June 2003 08:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom


Hi,

Just to join. Today one of the tapes got a write error. In the AIX error
report we found this:

Description
TAPE OPERATION ERROR

Probable Causes
TAPE

User Causes
MEDIA DEFECTIVE
DIRTY READ/WRITE HEAD

To be sure I got the drive details:

Drive Usage Statistics

Loads 5719
Unloads 5719
MB written 139338803
MB read 1437640
Cleanings 251
Power on hours 8590

Interesting part is the number of cleanings. Our cleaning tape has been used
19 times in the past 3 years. This drive is a replacement drive put in our
library by IBM to replace a drive with a tape stuck in it.

Regard,

Karel

This TSM server: 4.2.2.13
OS: AIX 5
Library: 3584 with 10 LTO1 scsi drives





> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: Leonard Lauria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 24 juni 2003 16:39
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom
>
>
> yes it does...i can dig it up and send it to you if
> you'd like.  :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:06:50 -0400
> Subject: Re: Interesting LTO fault's symptom
>
> >According to a memo I received from IBM, the LTO
> >drives do NOT require periodic cleaning.
>
> I would imagine, then, that the memo goes on to describe the
> library cleaning tapes as decorative accessories?  ;-)
>
>   Richard Sims, BU
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Script Help with Versions Data Exists

[Cahill, Ricky]

Does anyone have a script that would tell me how many extra versions (we
currently have up to 14) exists on a node and how much space they are taking
up??

The library is beggining to creak at the seems a little (STKL180) buying a
new one isn't an option so I'm trying to find ways to cut back whats stored,
I'm hopeing with the above info I can convince the business to lower the
amount of copies held per file.

Thanks in advance

..Rikk



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Re: Slow Performance Restoring Large Files

[Cahill, Ricky]

I've totally run out of ideas on this and am seeking some help.

One of the systems I backup is a large SQL server, I backup the diskdumps on a 
daily basis with the largest files being aprox 110gb and 250gb.

On trying to restore large files on our DR system it starts very quickly but 
after aproximatly 10-15gb the network bandwidth slowly drops from 55% to 5% and 
on the 250gb file from 55% to currently 1%

If I copy a file from the TSM server to the SQL server I get a constant 20-25% 
with only a slight dropoff in bandwidth over time.

The nic drivers and HP load balancing software has been stripped and replaced 
with the latest. I've tried the attached storage which is defaulted to raid 5 
as raid 0 and raid 1, raid 0 made no difference to the restore times or network 
bandwidth slowdown but running in raid 1 gave 28% utilisation for aprox 70gb of 
the file before the bandwidth started slowing.

I've tried it with the sql shutdown and also with the /3gb /pae off, no 
difference.

I've also tried changing the cache on the raid card from 50/50 to 75/25 and 
100/0 write/read with now difference in restore perfomance.

The restores are coming off tape and not disk.


Specs
TSM Server  HP DL380 2gb ram 
2xcpu 
STK L40 with 2x LTO2 drives
TSM 5.2.3.1
OS WIN2k3

SQL server  HP ML570
16gb ram
4 x cpu
TSM client 5.2.3.1
OS WIN2k3


Systems connected with with load balanced 1gb network.

It looks to me like it's the raid controller and storage attached to this box 
which is slowing it down but cna't see why a copy goes trhough fine but slower 
and the restore dies over time.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be given as I'm running out of ideas.

 ...Rikk











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Re: Slow Performance Restoring Large Files

[Cahill, Ricky]

Thanks for the comments.

Sadly I can't restore to a different server as only the TSM server and the SQL 
box are on this site purely for DR nothing else is attached. I have restored to 
the TSm box itself and got decent throughput.

Both network ports and switch ports have been chacked and monitored with not 
the slightest error.

The restore I did today was on a single tape, so no tape swapping at all, it 
restored 564gb in 24hrs 37mines

Rikk

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Frank
Sent: 23 June 2005 14:23
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Slow Performance Restoring Large Files


One thing to check would be whether the restore/file copy goes faster to a 
different server.  This might help narrow down whether the problem's on the tsm 
server side, or the client side.  I would also check the switch ports that both 
machines are plugged into for tx/rx errors.  Could be that one of the nics is 
dying, or has a speed/duplex mismatch.  Most GB nics nowadays seem to only 
allow being set to auto, but if yours has other options, you could try 
hard-coding the switch & server to the same settings.  It might also be helpful 
to know how many tapes the restore data is spread out across.  If the tsm 
server has to load up 15 tapes, and spin each one up to the correct data 
location, the network will be sitting there twiddling it's thumbs a lot.  It's 
also worth noting that 2 LTO2 drives are not even close to capable of 
saturating a 1GB network link.  It is still odd, as you noted, that network 
utilization steadily drops over time.


Troy Frank
Network Services
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation
608.829.5384

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/23/2005 3:14:42 AM >>>
I've totally run out of ideas on this and am seeking some help.

One of the systems I backup is a large SQL server, I backup the diskdumps on a 
daily basis with the largest files being aprox 110gb and 250gb.

On trying to restore large files on our DR system it starts very quickly but 
after aproximatly 10-15gb the network bandwidth slowly drops from 55% to 5% and 
on the 250gb file from 55% to currently 1%

If I copy a file from the TSM server to the SQL server I get a constant 20-25% 
with only a slight dropoff in bandwidth over time.

The nic drivers and HP load balancing software has been stripped and replaced 
with the latest. I've tried the attached storage which is defaulted to raid 5 
as raid 0 and raid 1, raid 0 made no difference to the restore times or network 
bandwidth slowdown but running in raid 1 gave 28% utilisation for aprox 70gb of 
the file before the bandwidth started slowing.

I've tried it with the sql shutdown and also with the /3gb /pae off, no 
difference.

I've also tried changing the cache on the raid card from 50/50 to 75/25 and 
100/0 write/read with now difference in restore perfomance.

The restores are coming off tape and not disk.


Specs
TSM Server  HP DL380 2gb ram 
2xcpu 
STK L40 with 2x LTO2 drives
TSM 5.2.3.1
OS WIN2k3

SQL server  HP ML570
16gb ram
4 x cpu
TSM client 5.2.3.1
OS WIN2k3


Systems connected with with load balanced 1gb network.

It looks to me like it's the raid controller and storage attached to this box 
which is slowing it down but cna't see why a copy goes trhough fine but slower 
and the restore dies over time.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be given as I'm running out of ideas.

 ...Rikk











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Netware issue: Can't write files during restore...

[Cahill, Ricky]

Try restoring the dir's then the files..we had this during DR and found the
only way we could ever restore succesfully was by doing the dir structure
first.

-Original Message-
From: Justin Derrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 October 2003 20:52
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netware issue: Can't write files during restore...


Hi TSMers...

I've got a system here running Novell Netware 5.1 SP6, with
TSA500.NLM at 5.0.5d, TSANDS.NLM at 10110.95, and SMDR at 6.50c,
using the web client at version 5.2.0.0 to manage a restore process
to an alternate directory.  Here's the catch:

About 75% (of 2000) of the files that we're attempting to restore
fail with an error that says that the file could not be written, with
no reason code.  The users still appear to exist, and the other 25%
of the files restore without an issue.

We've tried everything we could think of to try and troubleshoot the
problem:
Extensive searches of the ADSM archive for 2003.
Verified that the account running the client acceptor had
sufficient privs.
Checked to see that the TSM server activity log for errors.
Checked the web client error log, but got very non-descriptive
errors.
Verified that we weren't trying to restore compressed files
to non-compressed volumes.
(...and vice versa)
Looked for maintenance for the Novell Client (there was none).
Looked for patches (there was one with a non-applicable fix).

If anyone has any insight into this issue, either methods to more
accurately determine the cause of the error, or versions of the NLM's
that need upgrades, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Backing Up Dir's

[Cahill, Ricky]

I must say I'd be amazed if that was the case, it's not just a few files
it's skipping it's thousands. I've included a snippet from the server error
log.
>From what I understand, TSM is attempting to restore a file to a directory
that dosn't yet exist. We have not as yet rstored a complete server to see
what happens at the end but I've been told by IBM that TSM will not retry
the files at the end of the restore so cannot see how they wuold be
restored.

Ignore the dates, just noticed we hadn't set the date right on the server we
were playing with.

Thanks in advance.

.Rikk

19-08-2001 23:51:57 ANS1905E NetWare SMS error processing
'VOL1:/USERS/EverettV/WORK BITS/HSE Details/HS
10/form_hs10_-_annual_health_&_safety_training_and_competency_review
(EQUINET) 20-02-2002.doc':
(TSA500.NLM 5.5 315) The program's attempt to scan failed, probably because
an invalid path was specified.
19-08-2001 23:51:57 ANS1905E NetWare SMS error processing
'VOL1:/USERS/EverettV/WORK BITS/HSE Details/HS 10/RMS HS10 Manager Annual
Review 2001.doc':
(TSA500.NLM 5.5 315) The program's attempt to scan failed, probably because
an invalid path was specified.
19-08-2001 23:51:57 ANS1905E NetWare SMS error processing
'VOL1:/USERS/EverettV/WORK BITS/HSE Details/HS 10/RMS HS10B Manager Annual
Review 2001.doc':
(TSA500.NLM 5.5 315) The program's attempt to scan failed, probably because
an invalid path was specified.
--

Rikk,

Are you observing this behavior?  When NetWare is restoring files which do
not have a supporting directory structure, a temporary directory entry
(i.e., no trustee information) is created by Novell's backup API; when the
directory entries do come from the server at a later time they are
restored over the  temporary directory entry; the end result is that the
files and directories are restored fully and correctly regardless of their
ordering from the server.  If you are not seeing this behavior, I would
suggest talking to the service organization.

Thanks,
Jim

J.P. (Jim) Smith
TSM Client Development

>>>

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Sent: 31 July 2002 13:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backing Up Dir's


Along this thread...  Are there any guidelines for retention and number of
copies in the DIRMC management class? I've looked and looked and it seems
the best scenario is to clone your management class with the longest
retention. But, is this correct?

John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
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Backing Up Dir's

[Cahill, Ricky]

We currently backup 12 Netware servers nightly, I also now need to backup
the directory structure as a seperate backup job.
The reason for this is that in a DR when you do a complete restore of a
Netware server if TSM attempts to restore a file before the dir for it has
been restored it skips the file, so the idea is to backup the dir's
seperatly then come DR to restore all the dir's then do a normal restore
over it.
What I need to know is how would I got about backing up just dirs to a
seperate pool?

Thanks in advance.

  ..Rikk


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How to list files backed up

[Cahill, Ricky]

I must be missed something really obvious as all I want to do is list all
the files that were backed up by a node in it's last backup, but  can't seem
to find any simple way to do this.

Heelp

Thanks in advance

  ..Rikk



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Re: 3494 Utilization

[Cahill, Ricky]

Take a look at www.tsmmanager.com this will do exactly what you want and in
a graphical format, you can download it and use the evaluation license to
get the info you need. To be honest after now using this for a couple of
months I can't see how anyone could do without it. It's especially good at
doing nice pretty reports for the management to get them off your back and
give them more paper to pass around in meetings ;)

   .Rikk

-Original Message-
From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 September 2002 13:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization


In the long run, we are attempting to quantify exactly how "busy" our
ATLs/drives are over time for a number of reasons -- capacity planning,
adjusting schedules to better utilize resources, and possibly even justify
the purchase of new tape drives.

At this point I have been asked to simply come up with a minutes or hours
per 24 hour period any particular drive is in use.

A "query mount" every minute might work, but it just isn't a good solution
for two reasons -- for clients writing directly to tape, the mounted tape
won't show up in "query mount", and most of these servers already have an
extensive number of scripts accessing them periodically for various
monitoring and reporting functions - I hesitate to add any more to them.

My last resort is going to be to extract the activity log once every 24
hours and examine the logs and match the mount/dismounts by drive and
attempt to calculate usage that way if there isn't something better.  With
the difficulty in matching mounts to dismounts, I'm not entirely convinced
it's worth the trouble.


-Original Message-
From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization


If you use the atape device driver, you (supposedly) can turn on logging
within it.  Then every dismount writes a record of how many bytes were
read/written during that mount.
Never tried it ... if you can get it working, let me know how, please! We'd
love to be able to do that.

Right now we CAN show you library-as-a-whole data rates, just by layering
all the tape-drive-writing tasks (migration, backup stgpool, backup DB, etc)
one atop the other minute by minute.  Maybe that's enough - why do you need
drive-by-drive data rates?

-
Mr. Lindsay Morris
CEO, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Jolliff, Dale
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> Paul said that Servergraph has this functionality - According to our
> hardware guys, the 3494 library has some rudimentary mount statistics
> available.
>
> I'm going to be looking into both of those options.
>
> Surely someone has already invented this wheel when trying to justify more
> tape drives - other than pointing to the smoke coming from the drives and
> suggesting that they are slightly overused
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> Good question, never actually thought about it...
> I would think that the sum of the difference between mount &
> dismount times
> for each drive...
> OH THANKS. now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select
> statement to do this :-(
> if I figure it out, I'll pass it along
>
> Dwight
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:04 AM
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> Subject: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> I saw this topic out on ADSM, and I could not locate any type of
> functional
> resolution ...
>
> What is everyone using to calculate the "wall time" of your tape drive
> utilization?
>



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Re: 3494 Utilization

[Cahill, Ricky]

Sorry should have tagged this onto my previous reply.

This is one of the graphs tsmmanager does, is this what you need??

Btw, I'm only a happy customer of the product and nothing else, but am more
than happy for huge amounts of sponsorship money ;)

 ..Rikk

-Original Message-
From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 September 2002 00:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization


Dale,

Why not run mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qM once a minute, tack on a timestamp with
awk  or something and save that?
That will show you mounts from all sources and won't unduly burden the
server.  You can even set it up to run on another machine that
doesn't even have physical tape connnection of you so desire.

Regards

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/09/2002 22:44:06 >>>
In the long run, we are attempting to quantify exactly how "busy" our
ATLs/drives are over time for a number of reasons -- capacity planning,
adjusting schedules to better utilize resources, and possibly even justify
the purchase of new tape drives.

At this point I have been asked to simply come up with a minutes or hours
per 24 hour period any particular drive is in use.

A "query mount" every minute might work, but it just isn't a good solution
for two reasons -- for clients writing directly to tape, the mounted tape
won't show up in "query mount", and most of these servers already have an
extensive number of scripts accessing them periodically for various
monitoring and reporting functions - I hesitate to add any more to them.

My last resort is going to be to extract the activity log once every 24
hours and examine the logs and match the mount/dismounts by drive and
attempt to calculate usage that way if there isn't something better.  With
the difficulty in matching mounts to dismounts, I'm not entirely convinced
it's worth the trouble.


-Original Message-
From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization


If you use the atape device driver, you (supposedly) can turn on logging
within it.  Then every dismount writes a record of how many bytes were
read/written during that mount.
Never tried it ... if you can get it working, let me know how, please! We'd
love to be able to do that.

Right now we CAN show you library-as-a-whole data rates, just by layering
all the tape-drive-writing tasks (migration, backup stgpool, backup DB, etc)
one atop the other minute by minute.  Maybe that's enough - why do you need
drive-by-drive data rates?

-
Mr. Lindsay Morris
CEO, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Jolliff, Dale
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> Paul said that Servergraph has this functionality - According to our
> hardware guys, the 3494 library has some rudimentary mount statistics
> available.
>
> I'm going to be looking into both of those options.
>
> Surely someone has already invented this wheel when trying to justify more
> tape drives - other than pointing to the smoke coming from the drives and
> suggesting that they are slightly overused
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> Good question, never actually thought about it...
> I would think that the sum of the difference between mount &
> dismount times
> for each drive...
> OH THANKS. now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select
> statement to do this :-(
> if I figure it out, I'll pass it along
>
> Dwight
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 3494 Utilization
>
>
> I saw this topic out on ADSM, and I could not locate any type of
> functional
> resolution ...
>
> What is everyone using to calculate the "wall time" of your tape drive
> utilization?
>



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DLT's and LTO's

[Cahill, Ricky]

Shortly I'll be upgrading our STK L180 to LTO's from DLT's, due to an
insistance by the customer on monthly archives we have 2 years of archive
tapes on DLT that I'd really rather not have to get converted to LTO.
What I'd like to do is to leave 2 DLT drives in the library as well as
putting in the 7 new LTO drives, I know the two can coexist in the library
from a hardware point of view but is this possible to do in TSM and how
would you link just the 2 DLT's to the pool with the archive tapes in??

Thanks in advance.

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Netware and 4gb of ram

[Cahill, Ricky]

We've just upgraded two of our netware 5.1 boxes (latest service packs) to
4gb of ram to test the improvement in caching.
Problem is the last two night since it was upgraded they have failed with
memory errors while doing the backup, the memory was swapped out both times
for new tested memory and then failed the next night.
I justw anted to see if anyone else was using 4gb ram on their netware boxes
or if you've heard of found any problems with this.

Thanks in advance

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Re: Reading data from tape

[Cahill, Ricky]

I assume the tapes from your onsite and offsite pool have also been taken???

Otherwise just mark the tape destroyed and restore it, all the data will
come back from the onsite or offsite copy pool.

   ..Rikk


-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 September 2002 23:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reading data from tape


I hope someone has a real good knowledge of how TSM data is written to/read
from tape. I'm in a predicament that I may never be able to get tapes back
to read any node data off of them unless I can satisfactorily answer
questions. Unfortunately I don't know the questions yet so I don't even know
what to ask here. Perhaps someone who is knowledgeable about 3590 tape
technology or someone from Tivoli monitoring the list can help with this. I
hate to have to call Tivoli since so far I haven't got much in the way of
answers on the other questions I've been asking on classified material on
tape.

What kind of questions would you expect to answer if a tape was removed from
the library with mixed node data on it and it was needed to restore some
other node's data. Keep in mind that the tape was removed because it
originally had classified material stored on it. It may or may not still
have the data depending on expiration. I already know how to explain the ins
and outs of expiration/reclamation but we all know the "DATA" is really
still there. My guess is I'm never really going to be able to get these
tapes back and whatever data was on them is probably gone forever but I need
to at least be able to answer some questions like are they indexed or how
the data is stored, how it's read back etc.

Thanks for the help,
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NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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Moveing the database..

[Cahill, Ricky]

I have a need to move the log files and database as currently they are on a
raid 5 set shareing this with the diskpools.

I'd like to move the database and log files onto seperate mirrored pairs to
increase the performance and better use the disk space we have.

I've hunted around in the manuals and cannot find how i can do this.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please??

Thanks in advance.

Rikk



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Bulk changing status

[Cahill, Ricky]

I need to change the status of several sets of volumes inside pools to
unavailable, is there a bulk way of doing this??

Ie, all volumes in the onsite copy pool from readwrite to unavailable??

Thanks in advance.

.Rikk



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Overland Neo Library Audit

[Cahill, Ricky]

In house we use two Storagetek L180's, I'm currently working on our DR and
for
this we'll be using an Overland neo (stack of 6)
I can get TSM to see and work with the Overland Neo, and if I load tapes
manually into it the cartridge map shows up the barcode labels fine.
What I can't do is bulk load the library up and do a library audit, or get
any
information back from the library as to what tapes are loaded into what
drives.
Does anyone use an Overland Neo and can tell me what I need to change to get
it
to send audit info back to TSM.
TSM version is 4.2.1

Thanks in advance

   ..Rikk


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Re: Overland Neo Library Audit

[Cahill, Ricky]

Think you got the wrong idea there, this is not normal day to day use I'm
talking about as the message below indicates I'm trying to DR our system.
I can quite happily load all the tapes through the 'mail slots' but it's
incredibly slow with 130 tapes. What I want to do is fill the library in
bulk then do a library audit so TSM now knows what is in the library.

I may have deeper problems though as I found out yesterday that it won't
even label tapes or any other operation on tapes that use the drives.


 ..Rikk

-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 July 2002 15:46
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Overland Neo Library Audit


Not sure what is going on. But do you use audit to check in tapes? That will
not work. What you should do is do a checkin vol search=library stat=scr
(use the web interface). Audit library is for mismatch only, it doesn't
check in volumes.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Cahill, Ricky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: maandag 15 juli 2002 14:52
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Overland Neo Library Audit


In house we use two Storagetek L180's, I'm currently working on our DR and
for
this we'll be using an Overland neo (stack of 6)
I can get TSM to see and work with the Overland Neo, and if I load tapes
manually into it the cartridge map shows up the barcode labels fine.
What I can't do is bulk load the library up and do a library audit, or get
any
information back from the library as to what tapes are loaded into what
drives.
Does anyone use an Overland Neo and can tell me what I need to change to get
it
to send audit info back to TSM.
TSM version is 4.2.1

Thanks in advance

   ..Rikk


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