Re: 5.1.6.0
Hi This problem is related to a bug in ver 5.1.6 which is to be solved with version 5.1.6.1, which Tivoli support has promised will be out soon. The problem has todo with a change in the nodes table. Whenever you try to access the nodes table from the Web interface, your server will go down. So, dont access node information through the web interface... Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Christian Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-08 16:37 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: 5.1.6.0 Hi Burak! You need to send more information. But one idea who pop up in my head was that. Maybe the logfiles/Databas was out of space? Do you have a space trigger activeted on the TSM server? Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-641 96 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Burak Demircan demircan@DAIMLERCHRYSLER. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Subject: 5.1.6.0 Manager" MARIST.EDU> 2003-01-08 16:29 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" hi, today, my 5.1.6.0 server crashed unexpectedly. have you every seen something like that on that version? regards, Burak Demircan CEO / ITT MERCEDES-BENZ TURK A.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+90 212 482 35 00 (4676) fax :+90 212 481 11 54
Re: Stability of TSM
Hi We have multiple sites running TSM ver 5.1.1.6, which this far has seem stable. We also have a few sites running TSM ver 5.1.5.4, which this far has seem stable. With earlier version of 5.1.5 such as 5.1.5.1 and 5.1.5.3 there has been report of problems, but we haven't noticed anything yet. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Nelson Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-08 17:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Stability of TSM Hello Fellow TSMer's, I have been trying to postpone upgrading my TSM Server for as long as possible. I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!", but i'm starting to get funny errors. Anyways, I'm at 4.1.2, and I have been reading many issues with each 5.X release. I would like to know, from everyone's experience, what version is the most stable thus far? and can you recommend a site for upgrade docs. Thanks in advance -kane
Re: web client question, any help would be appreciated :o).
Hi Im not sure what your after, but this is the way it works: TDP for Oracle doesnt have a webinterface. No Tivoli Data Protection(as far as I know) have a webinterface. Also, for TDP for oracle, there isnt even a normal GUI, as with other TDP products. RMAN is the only tool you can use to do backup and restore operations(or EBU, if Oracle 7). If you are using the b/a client to do cold oracle backups, then you have the possibility to have multiple webinterfaces, one for each b/a client dsm stanza. Also, if you are using only b/a client, you dont need to use multiple dsm.sys files. Instead, use the servername feature of the dsm.sys file to separate settings for different TSM nodes. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly
Hi "select count(*) from libvolumes where status='Scratch'" will return the number of available scratch volumes The above is not applicable when using Gresham EDT. In this case, you will need to use cmdproc -l q pool "pool number"(usually 7 with gresham) to show the number available scratch volumes. "select stgpool_name, pct_utilized from stgpools where pct_utilized > 80" will return all stgpools that have a utilization above 80%. If you are using a UNIX-based server, you can issue the above TSM commands with dsmadmc, and then pipe it into a mail using "command">mail -s Status "reciepients" Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Nilsson Niklas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-09 15:38 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly Hi I need a way to check my tapepools when to add more scratch and my diskpools to add more disc's? /Regards Niklas
Re: How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly
.. Have you tried running q libvol on a STK 9310 Powderhorn, and then manually counting the scratch volumes...? :=) Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly
Another way of going is to install ServerGraph, which gives you a quite good check on the growth on your system. It can also predict how fast you will run out of scratch tapes, diskvolumes, database and logspace. ServerGraph has its own database, and collects information from the TSM server to be able to show you growth and event statistics from your TSM server(s). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM Disk Pool Management
Hi We have a customer running 1TB diskpool. But, I cannot understand the reason for not going to tape. Going to tape is formost cheaper, but its also easier to manage a volume-based information store. When setting up this large diskpool, you dont have to use a deviceclass of file. You can set it up as a normal storagepool with device=file. Or, which probably would be easier to manage, split it up into smaller storagepools, perhaps 1TB per diskpool on a 10TB disk. This will eliminate the need for reclamation and other sequential-based processes. However, if your not doing remote copying, I would strongly recommend having a copy storagepool.. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Hokanson, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-09 16:15 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:TSM Disk Pool Management We are considering creating an extremely large TSM disk storage pool (IE: 1-10TB). The goal being to eliminate going to tape. Does anyone have any really BIG disk pools? Are there tools available for managing large TSM disk pools over time. (IE: Reclamation, Aging Data, etc) The documentation from Tivoli suggests that we need to set it up as a device type=FILE. What are the drawbacks using this approach? Is performance dramatically impacted? etc... Thanks in advance, Mark Hokanson Thomson Legal & Regulatory
Re: cancel process problem
Hi I haven't seen your script, but are you sure this is not an off-site copypool volume, that the DRM process wants back to the library to convert it to a scratch volume? The volume has problably been reclaimed, and therefore, the script, that probably runs somekind of DMR procedure, wants you to return the empty tape to the library. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Joni Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-16 14:12 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:cancel process problem Hi again everyone! I have an administrative job running that is copying the onsite tape pool to the offsite tapepool. For some bizarre reason it is asking for a volume that is offsite. Volume Name: 473257 Storage Pool Name: DRCOPYDEC Device Class Name: T3590DR Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty Access: Read-Only Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 1 Write Pass Number: 0 Approx. Date Last Written: Approx. Date Last Read: Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 It is not recognized as being offsite, but it is empty. I have tried to cancel the administrative process, but it won't let it go. When I q mount it doesn't show that that tape is mounted in a drive. I also tried to delete the volume and audit the volume, but as I suspected it stated that the volume was in use by another process. Any suggestions on how to cancel this process so that it releases the tape and I can then delete it from TSM? Thanks!!! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
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Hi This is perhaps more of a communication question rather than a storage management question, but I will still ask, considering some of you out there should have encountered this problem. One of our customers have a P-Series 610 running AIX ML 4.3.3.09. It's equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet adapters and one GB adapter. Previously, they all were located on the same subnet. Now, we've move the GB adapter into a separate subnet. The configuraiton looks like this: 1st 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.1/24 default gateway 192.168.1.254 2nd 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.2/24 1st Gigabit Ethernet = 192.168.5.1/24 This has become a problem. Everytime a client connects to the TSM server, it responds from the adapter which have the default gateway set. The customer is running spanning tree, which means that it wont allow the TSM server to receive data on one adapter, and respond from another. However, I haven't found a way to have the TSM server respond from the same adapter on which the client connected. In my opinion, this can only be solved in to ways; either having a default gateway for each adapter, or, setting some kind of option, telling the TSM server to awalys respond on the same adapter on which it received the data. BUT, the first alternative doesnt work. AIX 4.3.3.09, in contrary to 5L, wont let me set multiple default gateways, specifying one for each adapter. In AIX 5L, I have the option, when setting static routes, of binding the static route to a specific adapter. When trying to add a second default gateway on AIX 4.3.3.09, it only tells me that there is already a default gateway. The second alternative, however, seems theoretically impossible. The AIX server shouldnt be able to respond to a client, connection from a different subnet, from the adapter on which it received the initial client session. This is because the adapter dont have a default gateway, and therefore shouldn't be able to find it's way to the client, located on a different subnet. This problem still existed when we had all adapters running on the same IP subnet. The GB adapter could recieve data initiated from the clients, but the respones always went through the first 100Mbs ethernet adapter, which had the default gateway. Is there anybody out there running an AIX server with multiple adapters, which have multiple subnets, and has been able to have the AIX respond to the client on the same adapter on which the client initially started the IP session? Perhaps I'm not a communication expert, but to me, this seems like a fairly simple problem. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
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Hi Thanks for the respone. Yes, all clients are located in different subnets. Some of the clients are connected through the same IP subnet, but most of them are on different subnets. Running only the GB adapter wont be enough. There is approx. 150 TSM clients, and they are located on 6 different subnets. The problem is that if we use the default gateway on the GB adapter(or any other adapter), the switch will flood. This is because the switch is using "Spanning Tree". What it reallys means is, that if a client connects to the TSM server on one of the two 100Mbs ethernet adapters, and the TSM server responds on the GB adapter(which have the default gateway), the Cisco switch wont like it, as it keeps track of the mac-address within the packet. When the TSM server responds, it will respond with the mac-address of the GB adapter, instead of the original mac-address from the 100Mbs Ethernet adapter. This causes the switch to get schizofrenic, as it sends one packet to one mac-address, but recieves a respone from another mac-address... This is solved in AIX 5L, which have the possibility to have multiple default gateways bound to different network interfaces. This means that if you have three adapters, you can have 3 different default gateways, one for each adapter. The question was if somebody has been able to solve this on a lower level of AIX, such as ML 4.3.3.09. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: audit library
Hi Michelle First of all, the problem doesnt sound like one where an audit library would solve the problem. Have you checked the drive for errors, or if there are a tape stuck in the drive? What kind of library are you running TSM against? The audit library with checklabel=yes will take quite a long time, depending on how many volumes you have in your library. An audit library checklabel=barcode will take a lot less time. Some processes will be halted, as the audit process will use tape drives in your library(which means other processes doesnt have access to theese tape drives). Have your received any sense codes through TSM? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Michelle Wiedeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-24 11:20 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:audit library Hi all, one of my drives in the library continues to produce errors and is taken offline by tsm. 01/24/03 11:00:45 ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error number=46. 01/24/03 11:00:51 ANR8792E Unrecoverable drive failures on drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1); drive is now taken offline. errno 46 is defined within aix as being a device not ready error. now I've tried to delete and redefine the unit on both platforms, but no success. the server no comes with an advice to audit the library, since I have no clues anymore I'm willing to try this, but have never done it before. The manuals speak of it as being quite time consuming but nowhere it says approx. how long and if I can in some way reduce the time. The manuals also state that some processes will be halted for as long as the audit is running, but again nowhere it states which ones or maybe all processes. does anyone have a clue?? thanx a lot, michelle (again *sigh*)
Re: License for Managed Library?
Hi If your 3494 is partitioned, the shared library is not required. Shared library is only when you are sharing a library between two TSM servers, using server-to-server communication(where one server is the library manager, and the other server is the library client). The 3494 has it's own library manager, and Shared library license is not required. However, if you were to use library sharing within TSM, the license would be required. Difference between 3494 sharing, and TSM library sharing: 3494: - different scratch pools for each server - One server cannot access another servers volumes - Handled by 3494 Library Manager TSM Library Sharing: - Common scratch pool - Client/server relationship - Handled by TSM Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: License for Managed Library?
Hi Depending on the version of TSM you are running, you dont have to buy the shared library license: 1. Tivoli Storage Manager required library sharing, and managed library license, if the license has more than 3 drives, or more than 30 slots. 2. Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition doesnt require either shared library or managed library licenses, as they are included within the TSM Extended license. Of couse, the situation differs between running multiple TSM servers against a 3494, and running LAN-free agents against the 3494, as the LAN-free agents utilize both server-to-server communication, and library sharing. In that case, you will require Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS! The definition of a --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM server on Linux w/3494-3590
Hi We have Linux running on two sites. The Linux server is fairly good in performance, but I would consider it for a mid-sized platform. The I/O and processor architecture of the x86 on which you run the TSM server will have I/O constraints when having environments with a daily incremental >200GB each night. Also, looking at x86 boxes today, the PCI architecure cannot really compete with UNIX boxes. Normally, the UNIX boxes has a lot more PCI-buses, which is a requirement when running multiple FC adapters to tape and disk. Also, I would consider a fairly large UNIX box a lot more stable than running on a x86 box, when it comes to error detection, processor handling and redundancy. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-29 17:13 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM server on Linux w/3494-3590 Hi Zoltan! I'm not an expert, but is the x86 bus architecture not a bottleneck for high volume high performance I/O? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 17:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM server on Linux w/3494-3590 We are investigating the issue of moving TSM off AIX to a Linux system, purely due to the cost of AIX hardware (lets face itwhen it costs me $5000 for a drawer of used SSA drives just to get me 130GB of raided disk when I can get complete multi-processor x86 boxes with 300GB of raided disk for the same cost, you have to investigate !) The only issue is the fiber-channel/SAN connectivity to the shared 3494 ATL (primarily used by our z/OS systems) using 3590 E1A drives. Can this be accomplished with an x86 box ? How many folks are using the fairly new Linux version of TSM ? How is it running ?Issues ? ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: HACMP machine backups
Hi Check the TSM UNIX client manual for information regarding "Configuring the backup-archive client in an HACMP environment" http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/GC32-0789-02/en_US/HTML/ans5tfrm.htm Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-29 17:20 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:HACMP machine backups Is there any special considerations for doing backups on a AIX server in the HACMP environment? Restore considerations?
Re: Shared Storagetek L180 library
Hi Yes, you can do this with ACSLS. The L180 doesnt have it's own library manager. This is why ACSLS is required to share the library. If your going to dedicate 2 drives to each server, then ACSLS is all you need. If you want to share the drives dynamically, you also need to install Gresham EDT-DistribuTape on all TSM servers that will use the L180 library(including Storage Agents). EDT-DistribuTape will also be needed if you want to use LAN-free functionality with the L180. We're not doing this with a L180, but we are doing it with the L700E and the 9310 libraries. ACSLS is a very good library manager, with a single UI and a very stable functionality. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-01-31 22:05 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Shared Storagetek L180 library I would like to share a STK L180 library with 6 SCSI drives among three independent TSM servers. No drive sharing required, just want two drives per TSM server. It appears that the L180 has a single control path. Can I get this done with ACSLS? Is anyone doing something like this? Any advice is welcome. Thanks. William Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Move nodedata
Or, you can simply do a new backup stgpool, to your new copy storagepool. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Kamp, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-03 13:03 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Move nodedata I need to move a couple of nodes from one offsite copy pool to another offsite copy pool. I tried using the move nodedata command but It gives me the following error: ANR1719E Storage pool C1_FS_DRMP specified on the MOVE NODEDATA command is not a valid pool name or pool type. ANS8001I Return code 3. This is the command I was using: move nodedata tsmserv from=drmpool to=C1_FS_DRMP TYPE=any >From reading the help is it my understanding that I can not do this with the move nodedata? If not. Will this work? 1. Bind nodes to new management class. 2. Use move nodedata command to move onsite data to new storage pool. 3. Use backup stgpool from new onsite storage pool to new offsite copy storage pool. 4. This is the step I'm not sure about! How do I remove the data from the old offsite storage pool? Thanks, -- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 ---
Re: Over extended log
Hi If I'm not wrong, I think I remember seeing an APAR for that error message. Check the Tivoli support site. I think they have a solution for that problem. Check this link: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?rs=260&q=LOGSEG871%2BError%2BInternal&uid=swg21063871 Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Remeta, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-03 14:10 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Over extended log Ok I have a serious problem. My log is full and I'm at the maximum as far as size goes. When the server starts I get a ANR7837S Internal Error LOGSEG871 detected. Does anyone know how to get around this. The tsm server is running but unacessable via the command interface... Tia Mark Remeta Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
Re: TSM 5.2 Question
Hi Tivoli/IBM is already developing their own BMR software, called ITSM System Recovery. It will be based on IBM SysBack, and the latest I heard is that it will support AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, XP and .NET. System Recovery for AIX is already available, and Solaris and HP/UX should be out soon. I think .NET and XP is scheduled for Q2 2003, but I'm sure that they will hold that time frame. Im not sure W2K will be supported. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Gerhard Rentschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-13 13:44 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM 5.2 Question Has TSM 5.2 allready been announced? I can't find any info on the TSM website. Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschleremail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Joshua S. Bassi > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 6:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: TSM 5.2 Question > > > I doubt IBM will incorporate BMR features into ITSM until "the cow jumps > over the moon." > > As far as purchasing Veritas BMR, Veritas has announced that they will > not support future TSM versions and that all future development will be > done exclusively with NetBackup. Sorry, the buck stops here. > > > -- > Joshua S. Bassi > IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark > Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM > eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP > > AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant > Cell (831) 595-3962 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Dearman, Richard > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: TSM 5.2 Question > > > Does anyone know if TSM 5.2 will have any BMR capabilities build into it > for unix and/or windows clients. Or should I assume that it will never > happen and purchase Baremetal Restore from veritas. > > > > Thanks > > ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER*** > This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are > intended solely for the use of th individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual > responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any > disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be > taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact > Health Information Management 312.996.3941.
Re: TSM 5.2 Question
Christian, you have been sending mail regarding Christie PC-BAX, marketing it as a BMR software for TSM. I have some considerations when it comes to PC-BAX(which I have installed both at customer locations, and in our own demo environment): 1. Does PC-BAX support AIX, Solaris, HP/UX and other non-microsoft platforms? 2. Does PC-BAX require separate nodesnames for BMR? Or, can it use the servers own TSM nodename? 3. Does PC-BAX support "incremental forever" technology? 4. Does PC-BAX require it's own backup, or, can I just install PC-BAX, and reuse the backups I already have done through TSM? 5. Does PC-BAX support doing BMR to different hardware? 6. Can you(as a representative for Cristie) guarantee that PC-BAX is free from bugs? I would appreciate if people would stop using this list for marketing purposes, as it's dedicated to solve problems and issues, and give good advice concering TSM server and client related issues, not for use as a sales channel. This message is not only directed to Cristie, but to all companies trying to market their products through ADSM.ORG Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM 5.2 Question
Hi Christian 1. Does PC-BAX handle the TDP? Or does PC-BAX do its own, off-line backup of SQL, Exchange and so on? As far as I know, PC-BAX doesnt support restoring SQL and Exchange using Tivolis TDP. 2. I would really like to know who you have been talking to in Sweden regarding the NEW System Recovery tool? The ones I have talked to is recommending the product(as soon as it is relased, which wont happen, for Windows, within a couple of months). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS! Regarding Veritas, how do we know that Cristie isn't bought up by another large Storage software company? That would mean TSM support probably would disappear, as with the TKG Bare Metal Restore. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Christian Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-13 14:08 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM 5.2 Question Hi Everyone! What Tivoli has done and going to do is Unix : Sysback who everyone talk to is exakt the same who always have been there. The only thing who happend is that there is more documentation about it. That´s is the only who happend. Windows : Daniel talk about Sysback to Windows XP and Windows 2003 (.NET) and what Tivoli means about that is that the going to do a document who explain how the included Disaster Recovery (DR) tool work. But with the included DR tool do you not have support for Exchange, SQL, Citrix and et c. To get this program to work do you need to re-install them in a DR mode and after that use the TDP to restore the data. And in a Citrix cases do you need to restore all data and after that going in to a Recovery mode and repair the System Object (Registry). Tivoli in Scandinavia is not recommend this tools. And I haird that Tivoli in US has also looking around for new tools/ideas. If you need a BMR tool for Windows do we have one. And it´s also TSM Ready and Tivoli in Scandinavia recommends it. If you want to try the software just send me a email and I fix a triel ver for you. We are also going to support another platforms like Linux, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and AIX in this year. Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-641 96 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Sparrman sparrman@EXIST. cc: SE> Subject: Re: TSM 5.2 Question Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-13 13:48 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi Tivoli/IBM is already developing their own BMR software, called ITSM System Recovery. It will be based on IBM SysBack, and the latest I heard is that it will support AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, XP and .NET. System Recovery for AIX is already available, and Solaris and HP/UX should be out soon. I think .NET and XP is scheduled for Q2 2003, but I'm sure that they will hold that time frame. Im not sure W2K will be supported. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Gerhard Rentschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-02-13 13:44 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM 5.2 Question Has TSM 5.2 allready been a
Re: too many filesystems to backup
Use the domain parameter in your dsm.sys file to specify which filesystems that should be backed up. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM - HACMP - EDT Configuration
Hi Concering Gresham, you dont need to have multiple clientID for Gresham, you can use the same on for all cluster resources. CLIENTID is only when communicating with ACSLS. Storage Agent should be installed locally on each cluster node. The Storage Agent is not bound to your cluster resources and their TSM node names. We have both a TSM server running HACMP and EDT, and client nodes running HACMP with EDT and the storage agent. You could see it something like this: 1 Non-cluster resources which should not be integrated into any HACMP resource groups: Gresham EDT, TSM Storage Agent 2 Resources which has to be included in your resource groups for correct fail-over functionality: TSM client(which really means dsm.opt/dsm.sys files and other configuration files needed by each TSM node name). Your defintion should look something like this: 1. EDT and TSM storage agent locally defined on each cluster node. For example, you have LAN-free agent Hnode1 and Hnode2. You have either EDT CLIENTID Hnode1and Hnode2, or just run same client ID on both machines, for example CLUSTER. EDT doesnt care which node that is connecting to it. It only communicates with the Storage Agent and ACSLS. The storage agent isn't bound to any node name that connects to it(either it's Hres1, Hres2, Hres3 or Hres3_ORA). Therefore, theese applications should be locallly installed, and not included in any resource groups. 2. One TSM node for each cluster node, which backs up data not stored in cluster resourcegroups(/var, /usr, /etc and so on). For example, Hnode1 and Hnode2. 3. One TSM node for each cluster resource group, plus a TSM node for the TDP for Oracle. For example, Hres1 and Hres2 will be backup/archive nodes, and Hres3 will be a TDP for Oracle node. If Hres3 also contains files which you want to backup(scripts, output files), then you will have to define two nodes for that cluster resourcegroup(Hres3 and Hres3_ORA). The configuration files should be located on disks belonging to the cluster resource group in question. The binaries should be installed locally on each cluster node. I hope this sums it all up. If not, please dont hesitate so send me any questions. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Bateman, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-07 12:30 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:TSM - HACMP - EDT Configuration I hope I have provided enough detail to describe my problem. I did assume the reader has fairly detailed knowledge of HACMP and EDT. Hardware/Software Environment: 2 IBM p690s AIX 5.1 with ML03 HACMP 4.4.1 TSM 5.1.something(TBD) (on another machine) TSM Storage Agent TDP EDT 6.4.1 (Gresham Software) SAN 2 McData 6064 switches 6 McData ES-1000 switches 1 STK Silo (9310) 6 STK 9980 Tape Drives 1 HDS 9980 (using Sanergy would solve this problem but I would like the option of using tapes Lanfree) Various other software Legend: hnodeX == HACMP Node X (same as machine for this discussion) hresX == HACMP Resource X HACMP Configuration (simplified but hopefully adequate to describe problem): 1 Concurrent Resource (hres3) running Oracle 9.2/RAC. 1 Cascading Resource (hres1) normally on hnode1. Can fail over to hnode2 using IPAT. 1 Cascading Resource (hres2) normally on hnode2. Can fail over to hnode1 using IPAT. In summary: each machine can be running one, two or all three HACMP resources. Each cascading resource has a set of disks which moves with the resource and therefore must be backed up from either machine. The concurrent resource has raw devices accessible to both machines which do not "move". Using TDP, they can be backed up from either machine. Each hnodeX has data (e.g., rootvg and JFS type data belonging to the concurrent resource) which stays with the machine and must be backed up. Problem: How do I define TSM/EDT? (We currently use EDT to allow us to do Lanfree so we know the basics.) I need to be able to move hres1 and hres2 between hnodes without worrying about tapes being dismounted. We currently set CLIENTID to hostname. I do not believe that would work in this environment because 1) hres1 has tape(s) mounted using LANFREE 2) hres3 has tape(s) mounted using LANFREE
Re: TSM - HACMP - EDT Configuration
Hi Fred I'm not sure about LSM. But, we had this environment running without EDT before. At that time, the tapes were all locked by separat client ID:s. However, I'm not sure that is what happens when you use EDT. If I'm not mistaken, EDT doesn't lock the volume. I can check this and come back to you. However, IF EDT locks the volume, only thing you have to do is to use the same client ID for all clients. IF EDT locks the volume depending on which EDT client that uses the tape, all clients must use the same CLIENT ID as the TSM server. This is because the TSM server is the owner of ALL volumes, even when you use the EDT client. But, I dont think EDT makes a lock on the volume with it's own lock-id. If so, all different EDT clients would have their own volumes within LibStation/ACSLS, which is not the case. But, I'll check our running production environment to see wether or not the EDT client makes a lock on the volumes. Still, I suggest you dont implement Gresham within the HACMP functionality. EDT and the storage agent should be installed locally on each cluster node, and, the EDT and STA should have their own configuration stored locally on each cluster node. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Bateman, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-07 16:41 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: TSM - HACMP - EDT Configuration Daniel, We plan on having seven TSM nodes for the two machines. I was just trying to make it a little simpler by just mentioning three of them. It is my understanding that CLIENTID is used in this environment. EDT places a software lock on a tape drive when the tape is allocated. The lock consists of two parts: CLIENTID.PID. Oh yeah, the library is controlled by Library Station Manager running on MVS. So, the lock is actually maintained by LSM or the silo - I am not sure. Whenever, TSM or the Storage Agent initializes it connects to EDT. At that point, EDT does the following: for each tape drive if (CLIENTID = LOCK.CLIENTID) and (LOCK.PID is not a current EDT process) then dismount tape end So, imagine hres1 "dies" on hnode1 and currently has a lock on a tape drive. Also, hres3 on hnode1 currently has a lock on a tape drive and will continue to run. HACMP then brings hres1 up on hnode2. EDT needs to dismount the tape locked by hres1 but leave the tape owned by hres3 mounted. Fred -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM - HACMP - EDT Configuration Importance: Low Hi Concering Gresham, you dont need to have multiple clientID for Gresham, you can use the same on for all cluster resources. CLIENTID is only when communicating with ACSLS. Storage Agent should be installed locally on each cluster node. The Storage Agent is not bound to your cluster resources and their TSM node names. We have both a TSM server running HACMP and EDT, and client nodes running HACMP with EDT and the storage agent. You could see it something like this: 1 Non-cluster resources which should not be integrated into any HACMP resource groups: Gresham EDT, TSM Storage Agent 2 Resources which has to be included in your resource groups for correct fail-over functionality: TSM client(which really means dsm.opt/dsm.sys files and other configuration files needed by each TSM node name). Your defintion should look something like this: 1. EDT and TSM storage agent locally defined on each cluster node. For example, you have LAN-free agent Hnode1 and Hnode2. You have either EDT CLIENTID Hnode1and Hnode2, or just run same client ID on both machines, for example CLUSTER. EDT doesnt care which node that is connecting to it. It only communicates with the Storage Agent and ACSLS. The storage agent isn't bound to any node name that connects to it(either it's Hres1, Hres2, Hres3 or Hres3_ORA). Therefore, theese applications should be locallly installed, and not included in any resource groups. 2. One TSM node for each cluster node, which backs up data not stored in cluster resourcegroups(/var, /usr, /etc and so on). For example, Hnode1 and Hnode2. 3. One TSM node for each cluster resource group, plus a TSM node for the TDP for Oracle. For example, Hres1 and Hres2 will be backup/archive nodes, and Hres3 will be a TDP for Oracle node. If Hres3 also contains files which you want to backup(scripts, output files), then you will have to define two nodes for that cluster resourcegroup(Hres3 and Hres3_ORA). The configuration files should be located on disks belonging to the cluster
Re: hot standby cross failover tsm servers
Hi We have this kind of scenario running. However, we've used HACMP 4.4 in a active/passive mode to be able to use the fail-over scenario, and are only running one active instance of TSM on the cluster. There is one active and one passive clusternode. The config is a follows: - 450 clients, divided into 250 UNIX servers and 200 Windows servers. - Two clusternodes, based on the P-Series 660 with dual drawers, 6 processors, 8 HBA:s and 4GB of RAM - 3 active cluster LAN connections, and one heartbeat connection. Also, each cluster node has a private connection. - SAN-based storage devices. For primary stgpool they use 9310 with 12 9840B drives, and for the disasterpool they use a 3494 with 4 3590E drives. - Approx. 3-4TB of data transfer each night. - A total of 90TB in primary pools, and 90TB in the copypool. The reason we only use one active instance, is cause the customer wanted to have minimal administration. When using two active instances, you'll have to administer two TSM servers. Therefore, we sized the TSM servers accordingly. Also, now the customer has the possibility to do HW and SW upgrades, without interrupting normal operations. He can just add more HW, or upgrade the SW, on the passive node, and then do a cluster rg move to this node, and then do the same changes on the other node. The customer also has the possiblity to test a software upgrade before commiting it, by upgrading the software on the passive node, test it, and then decide wether or not to commit the upgrade. If the primary site goes down, the passive node will go up as active. Restores will be possible, as TSM will do the restores from the copypool, if the primary pools aren't available. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Koen Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-24 11:27 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:hot standby cross failover tsm servers Dear listers, A customer wants to build a TSM config consiting of two tsm servers on AIX both in a seperate datacentre with a 2 mb framerelay connection in between. They use fibre connected 3584 libraries on both of the sites. The customer wants to place his drm volumes as hot standby in the library within the other datacentre. He would like to sync his TSM databases on both site so when a disaster strikes the can start restoring with no extra effort in the other datacentre. My plan was to split both 3584 in to two logical libraries and build a second tsm instance on both pSeries. When the DRM volumes arive at one site a script does a dsmserv restore from the DRM database and in this way the drm volumes are availleble at the hot site. Is there a way within TSM or on a lower level to just sinc databases remote via framerelay ? In this way I dont have to work with a dsmserv restore routines... Best regards, Koen Willems tectrade bv The Netherlands _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: hot standby cross failover tsm servers
One more thing. If you dont have the possibility to connect onsite and offsite with fibre, you could use the General Storage Cluster Controller(also called PPRC4TSM) sold by the german software company General software(located at www.general-software.de). However, I'm not sure this is the best solution. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Koen Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-24 11:27 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:hot standby cross failover tsm servers Dear listers, A customer wants to build a TSM config consiting of two tsm servers on AIX both in a seperate datacentre with a 2 mb framerelay connection in between. They use fibre connected 3584 libraries on both of the sites. The customer wants to place his drm volumes as hot standby in the library within the other datacentre. He would like to sync his TSM databases on both site so when a disaster strikes the can start restoring with no extra effort in the other datacentre. My plan was to split both 3584 in to two logical libraries and build a second tsm instance on both pSeries. When the DRM volumes arive at one site a script does a dsmserv restore from the DRM database and in this way the drm volumes are availleble at the hot site. Is there a way within TSM or on a lower level to just sinc databases remote via framerelay ? In this way I dont have to work with a dsmserv restore routines... Best regards, Koen Willems tectrade bv The Netherlands _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: tsm 5.1 config STK L180 tape library
1. Yes, you will need a temporary license key, which you can receive through Gresham Inc. 2. You will need to configure the Gresham software, which is not that easy(it's not on a install-and-use basis). First, you'll have to configure the drives using TSM device driver, then map the drives to the correct ACSLS ID in the elm.conf. You can then use ./elm_testlibdesc -l LIBRARYNAME to test the connectivity to your ACSLS server. Be aware that you must be at ACSLS ver 6.0.1 or higher. Some other options within Gresham includes priority settings, randomization settings, pool settings(scratch pool within ACSLS) and so on. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM remote copypool system possible?
This is called server-to-server virtual volumes. You can read about it in TSM Administration Guide for Windows. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN
Hi First of all, minimizing the amount of data that is necessary to transfer is one way to go. To do this, enable subfile backup. Second, if you do not want backups to run at all, blocking the ports within the FW is the best way to go. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Douglas Currell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-26 13:55 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN The organization I work for has four main establishments. Typically, someone will go "on mission" to another establishment and perform a backup of his laptop. Since his dsm.opt points to a server that that is hundreds, if not, thousands of kilometers away, this backup will be done over the WAN and not the usual LAN. Occasionally, this user might even attempt to backup 1 or 2 GBs over the WAN. This obviously causes some problems. What to do about this? Blocking the port in the firewall comes to mind but that is not a real answer. Has anybody encountered this problem and what, if anything, did you do? Thank you... __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted
Hi I would suggest having as much volumes as possible. This is because AIX treats every volume as a PV, and one PV can only do one write or read at a time. So, using 24GB volumes is probably the best way to go. Also, JFS formatted volumes is the way to go. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Anthonijsz, Marcel M SITI-ITDGE13" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-27 10:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted Hi, We are redefining our TSM disk pools on IBM ESS storage. We got 39 x 24 GB LUNs from our storage collegues. Total 936GB. LUNs are spread across the whole ESS. Now what is the best way, TSM wise and performance wise to define these disks to TSM? Make the volumes as large as possible? or define a volume per LUN, so I get 39 volumes of each 24GB? Use raw volumes or JFS formatted? Almost forgot: we're running TSM 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10 (yes I do knowAll going out of support soon). ESS is FC connected. Thanks all for your eternal wisdom, Marcel Anthonijsz Central Data Storage Manager (a.k.a. storman) Shell Information Technology International B.V. PO Box 1027, 2260 BA Leidschendam, The Netherlands Tel: +31-70 303 4984 Mob: +31-6 24 23 6522 Email: Marcel.Anthonijsz.at.shell.com
Re: License Pricing
:) Good point... Only comparing prices, and not functionality, is like going in to Porsche, and telling them that if they dont lower their prices, you'll buy a Volkswagen... Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: License Pricing
Good enough? Compared to what? Yes sir, we we were able to restore 50% of the information with the VW in the double amount of time... It only costed us twice as much, which isn't bad compared to the cost of buying a more expensive product, which had restored 100% of the data in half the time... Normally when management says "it's good enough", they really haven't understood the consequense of data loss. This is normally because some people try to explain it to them by using technical terms and technologies, which, according to my experience, isn't something management understands... Another experience is, that when the data loss is a fact, management is a lot more understandingbut then it's to late. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: server down
Hi Christian First of all, this is not related to a full log. This is probably because he as a filelock on the log file. Second of all, a reboot of the server would probably reset the lock, and make it possible to start the server again(as Jeroen pointed out). The question that nobody have asked, have you check your processes to see that there are no dsmserv processes running in the background? This would also cause this kind of error message. The error message that occurs when the log is full is different from the one that Suresh is reporting. I would suggest rebooting the server before trying to format another log file. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Christian Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-28 12:32 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: server down Hi! Just most create a new one in the command before you start the TSM Server And when you have create a new one you can start the TSM Server and in the TSM Server can you delete the log file. And when you have delete the log file in TSM you can remove the file from our OS. And how you create a new Log files in Windows ver of TSM typ dsmserv /? in a command line. Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-718 43 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Natarajan, Suresh (MED, TCS)" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: server down COM> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] EDU> 2003-03-28 12:14 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" can you tell me how to delete this log "F:\TSMDB\SERVER1\LOG08.DSM". My log size is 12gb. regards -Original Message- From: Christian Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: server down Hi Suresh! Do you know how large the Log file is? Then can you create a new log file and boot up the server again. Use dsmserv to create it. And start up the server again and it´s should work. PS : When you have create the new log. Insert a mirror to all log files and databas. Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-718 43 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Natarajan, Suresh (MED, TCS)" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server down COM> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] EDU> 2003-03-28 11:13 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi all, My derver is down and wheni restart manually bu dsmserv i get the following message. ### Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.6 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2001. All rights re
Re: Returned mail - Repost
1. Yes, that is possible, by pointing out the volumenames using -volumes=XXX. However, this will still require the devconfig file. 2. You dont need a admin id and password to restore the DB. However, you will need theese to login to the server when it has been restored. 3. I read a few years ago about a utility that was available which could read tapes outside TSM. However, I haven't tried this tools, and I dont know any other way to read the tapes. 4. Not what I'm aware of. Restoring the database is normally a quite simple operation, depending on your server and library hardware. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-03-28 15:48 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Returned mail - Repost For whatever reason I had this returned to me saying I was not authorized to send to the list so I'm going to try again. A few questions to help me with a document I need to put together and verify my own beliefs. Don't want to put out bogus info. 1. If you do not have the volhist file, but you do have all the tapes, is it possible to restore the "last" dbbackup to the TSM server? 2. Is it possible to restore the DB to a server if you don't have an admin user and password? 3. Is there a utility to read any tapes outside of TSM? 4. Any other special considerations I need to know? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: TSM client software via ftp
Hi There shouldn't be a problem to direct them to the patch location. I haven't found any problems only installing the patch version of the client. When it comes to servers and TDP, it's a whole different story. In theese cases you will need both maintenance level and patch. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
SV: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores?
Hi Roger If you have enough disk, or can get hold of extra disk space relatively fast, you can also choose to start moving data for the nodes you suspect may be in need of restore to disk (move node data. This would speed up restores a lot, and wouldn't put you in a situation where you don't have enough tape drives required by the restores. If you don't have enough disk space and can get extra disk temporarily, I would start figuring out in which order the servers might be needed so that you can move the server(s) (depending on the amount of diskspace you have) up to disk so that these servers are restored quickly. Creating backupsets will only work if you have spare tape drives, and as I understood it, the system is already overbooked when it requires to resources. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Bill Dourado Skickat: den 22 januari 2008 16:24 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores? Prioritet: Hög Roger, Create backupsets of nodes that need restoring , maybe ? Bill Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 22/01/2008 08:40 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores? We like to talk about disaster preparedness, and one just happened here at UIC. On Saturday morning, a fire damaged portions of the UIC College of Pharmacy Building. It affected several laboratories and offices. The Chicago Fire Department, wearing hazmat moon suits due to the highly dangerous contents of the laboratories, put it out efficiently in about 15 minutes. The temperature was around 0F (-18C), which compounded the problems - anything that took on water became a block of ice. Fortunately nobody was hurt; only a few people were in the building on a Saturday morning, and they all got out safely. Now, both the good news and the bad news is that many of the damaged computers were backed up to our large TSM system. The good news is that their data can be restored. The bad news is that their data can be restored. And so now it must be. Our TSM system is currently an old-school tape-based setup from the ADSM days. (Upgrades involving a lot more disk coming real soon!) Most of the nodes affected are not collocated, so I have to plan to do a number of full restores of nodes whose data is scattered across numerous tape volumes each. There are only 8 tape drives, and they are kept busy since this system is in a heavily-loaded, about-to-be-upgraded state. (Timing couldn't be worse; Murphy's Law.) TSM was recently upgraded to version 5.5.0.0. It runs on AIX 5.3 with a SCSI library. Since it is a v5.5 server, there may be new facilities available that I'm not aware of yet. I have the luxury of a little bit of time in advance. The hazmat guys aren't letting anyone in to asess damage yet, so we don't know which client node computers are damaged or not. We should know in a day or two, so in the meantime I'm running as much reclamation as possible. Given that this is our situation, how can I best optimize these restores? I'm looking for ideas to get the most restoration done for this disaster, while still continuing normal client-backup, migration, expiration, reclamation cycles, because somebody else unrelated to this situation could also need to restore... Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This electronic mail message, including any attachments, is a confidential communication exclusively between Babcock International Group PLC or its subsidiary company and the intended recipient(s) indicated as the addressee(s). It contains information which is private and may be proprietary or covered by legal professional privilege. If you receive this message in any form and you are not the intended recipient you must not review, use, disclose or disseminate it. We would be grateful if you could contact the sender upon receipt and in any event you should destroy this message without delay. Anything contained in this message that is not connected with the business of Babcock International Group PLC is neither endorsed by nor is the liability of this company. Babcock International Group PLC Company number 2342138 Registered in England 2 Cavendish Square London W1G 0PX Telephone: +44(0)20 7291 5000 Fax: +44(0)20 7291 5055 Website: www.babcock.co.uk **
SV: 2nd TSM Instance Question
Hi I would recommend using only 2 active instances, one on each machine. For example, you have server 'S' at main site and server 'T' at off-site. 'S' backs up to 'T' and vice versa. I would also recommend (to speed up recovery in the event of loosing a TSM server) that you prepare server 'S' for housing server 'T' and vice versa. This can easily be done by placing server 'T's configuration files in a separate folder on server 'S' and the other way around. You should also make sure that you have some sort of routines for copying the files between the two servers so that the files are always updated. A setup could look like this: On each machine, create a separate folder for each server instance /itsm/serverS - Holds server 'S''s configuration files. Server 'S' is configured to use port 1500 and 1580. /itsm/serverT - Holds server 'T''s configuration files. Server 'T' is configured to use port 1600 and 1680. This way, you can relatively quick get the lost instance up and running fast on the other server, without interrupting operation of the "home" instance. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Keith Arbogast Skickat: den 22 januari 2008 16:13 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: 2nd TSM Instance Question Could I ask a variation of this question? What about the case where server 'S' at the local (to me) data center is the source server, and server 'T' at a distant data center is the target server for server-to-server backups from the local data center; while server 'T' at the distant data center is the source server, and server 'S' at the local data center is the target server for server-to-server backups from the distant data center? There will be a TS3500 (3584) ATL with ALMS at each data center. In this case, would the management be easier or harder with two TSM server instances on both physical servers? One for the source functions and the other for the target functions. With my thanks, Keith Arbogast Indiana University
SV: Seeking thoughts/experiences on backing up large amounts (say 50 Petabytes) of data
Hi Bob Considering the amount of data, I would presume that it's not only a few files being backed up, but a huge amount since most systems out there cant hold a few files for a total of 50PB of data. You will also have to consider what impact storing 50PB of data will have on the TSM database. We recently hit the max size of the database at a customer location which is 524 GB (don't remember the exact size, but you'll notice when TSM says you've reached the maximum size ;)) Considering this, you'll probably be using more than 1 instance, thus spreading out both data and database load on multiple servers. Also, cartridge handling will be a problem since storing petabytes of data will require a lot of cartridges, thus creating a need for fast mounts / dismounts and a pretty large number of tape drives, both for backing up / restoring data but also to keep the internal TSM housecleaning running smoothly. Another way of going at it is looking at enterprise VTL technology thus eliminating the need for cartridge handling and the requirements for a numerous amount of tape drives. As far as I know though, there is no VTL that can store that amount of data in a single system without deduplication. That kinda brings up another question; what are the customer's expectation / regulations when it comes to disaster recovery? It would be easier to actually point out the issues involved if some of the questions you already came up with would've been answered ;) Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Bob Talda Skickat: den 23 januari 2008 21:16 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Seeking thoughts/experiences on backing up large amounts (say 50 Petabytes) of data Folks: Our group has been approached by a customer who asked if we could backup/archive 50 petabytes of data. And yes, they are serious. We've begun building questions for the customer, but as this is roughly 1000 times the current amount of data we backup, we are on unfamiliar turf here. At a high level, here are some of the questions we are asking: 1) Is the 50 Petabytes an initial, or envisioned data size? If envisioned, how big is the initial data load and how fast will it grow? 2) What makes up the data: databases, video/audio files, other? (subtext: how many objects are involved? What are the opportunities to compress/deduplicate?) 3) how is the data distributed - over a number of systems or from a supercluster? 4) Is the data static, or changing slowly or changing rapidly? (subtext: is it a backup or archive scenario) 5) What are the security requirments? 6) What are the restore (aka RTO) requirements? We are planning on approaching vendors to get some sense of the probable data center requirements (cooling, power, footprint). If anyone in the community has experience with managing petatybes of backup data, we'd appreciate any feedback we could incorporate. Thanks in advance!
Re: New hardware, new TSM version
Hi Lars-Erik Easiest way would be to back up the databases on both machines and then restore the databases back to the new hardware. The LTO-1 tapes should have no problems operating with the new LTO-2 drives. However, you will not recieve the larger capacity of the LTO-2(200/400GB). They will still operate with their native capacity(100/200GB). You will however get higher throughput using your new LTO-2 drives with your old LTO-1 tapes. I believe the throughputrate is somewhere at 25MB/s. When you have your new hardware up and running (new servers and new tape drives) you can migrate the information from the old LTO-1 tapes to new LTO-2 tapes to utilize the increase in capacity. Be aware that you will need to do an dsmserv upgradedb after you have restored your databases. If you have any further questions, plz email me directly. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Lars-Erik Öhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-11-26 13:35 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject New hardware, new TSM version Server W2k TSM 5.1.5.0 and 5.1.7.0 Library: 3583 LTO1 I will upgrade both of my server to new hardware and run Windows 2003 on them. I will also upgrade to version 5.2.2.X (the 5.2.2 CD is delivered to me). I will upgrade my 3583 library to LTO2 drives. How can i move all my data to the new servers? Meaning all my MC, Policys, Schedules, scripts etc. Can I dump the database and restore it on the new server? Are there any good redbooks about this? Thanks in advance. /Larsa Lars-Erik Öhman IT Systems, servers and applications Carnegie Investment Bank AB Gustav Adolfstorg 18 103 38 Stockholm tel. +46 8 676 88 14 www.carnegie.se This communication is from a Carnegie company within the Carnegie Group. The information contained in it, including any attachment or enclosure, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorised use, review, retransmissions, dissemination, copying or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete or shred the material immediately. Thank you. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given or endorsed by my firm or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message.
Re: New hardware, new TSM version
Hi Henrik In this scenario, I expected that he wouldnt upgrade the software level on his existing servers... Therefore he would be forced todo an upgrade db on the new server after doing the database restore. But thats correct. He could aswell upgrade his existing servers to the correct level before doing the database backup in preparation of the move. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-11-26 15:33 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: New hardware, new TSM version Hi, Why do you need to do an upgrade db after a restore? You restore your db to the same server level, right? And then upgrade.. "Be aware that you will need to do an dsmserv upgradedb after you have restored your databases." //Henrik Daniel Sparrman cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: New hardware, new TSM version Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU> 2004-11-26 13:50 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi Lars-Erik Easiest way would be to back up the databases on both machines and then restore the databases back to the new hardware. The LTO-1 tapes should have no problems operating with the new LTO-2 drives. However, you will not recieve the larger capacity of the LTO-2(200/400GB). They will still operate with their native capacity(100/200GB). You will however get higher throughput using your new LTO-2 drives with your old LTO-1 tapes. I believe the throughputrate is somewhere at 25MB/s. When you have your new hardware up and running (new servers and new tape drives) you can migrate the information from the old LTO-1 tapes to new LTO-2 tapes to utilize the increase in capacity. Be aware that you will need to do an dsmserv upgradedb after you have restored your databases. If you have any further questions, plz email me directly. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Lars-Erik Öhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-11-26 13:35 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject New hardware, new TSM version Server W2k TSM 5.1.5.0 and 5.1.7.0 Library: 3583 LTO1 I will upgrade both of my server to new hardware and run Windows 2003 on them. I will also upgrade to version 5.2.2.X (the 5.2.2 CD is delivered to me). I will upgrade my 3583 library to LTO2 drives. How can i move all my data to the new servers? Meaning all my MC, Policys, Schedules, scripts etc. Can I dump the database and restore it on the new server? Are there any good redbooks about this? Thanks in advance. /Larsa Lars-Erik Öhman IT Systems, servers and applications Carnegie Investment Bank AB Gustav Adolfstorg 18 103 38 Stockholm tel. +46 8 676 88 14 www.carnegie.se This communication is from a Carnegie company within the Carnegie Group. The information contained in it, including any attachment or enclosure, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorised use, review, retransmissions, dissemination, copying or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete or shred the material immediately. Thank you. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given or endorsed by my firm or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message. --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
Re: Cache Hit % below 99%
Hi First of all, the q db f=d bufpool setting is not KB... it's database pages(4096 byes or 4KB) which means that if you set it to 524288, you have assigned 2GB of memory as database bufferpool. Second, you should check to see that you have free memory available for the bufpool. If not, your database bufferpool will get swapped down to the paging space and your performance will degrade. This is easily done with "svcmon". Third, check your maxperm and minperm settings aswell. They control how much memory is allowed for filesystem caching. Normally, theese are set to 40 min and 80 max which means file system caching can steal all your memory. Also set the -H parameter within vmtune to 1 so that you You should also check your maximum allowed allocation of memory. Default, AIX has it set to 80% of physical memory. This means you have 20% of memory not utilized(or 800MB of memory). This is an old setting that was supposed to protect the kernel from running out of memory. Theese day however when AIX systems has alot more memory than in the early days you can easily set the maximum allocatable memory to 95%, leaving 5% of memory as protection for AIX kernel usage. This setting is set with "vmtune -M". For some of the operations above you will need the vmtune command. To check your min and maxperm settings, enter vmtune. To change them, enter vmtune -p "minimum file system cache in percentage of physical memory" -P "Maximum file system cache in percentage of physical memory" -H 1 Vmtune also has alot of other great settings which should make it possible to tune the system even further. Some of the VM settings has a large impact on system performance. So you should be careful with what parameters you change. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-20 16:32 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Cache Hit % below 99% ? For a long time I have believed (fairly sure originally told by IBM) that the method is to increase the buffpool size untill cache hit goes over 99% Talking to a colleague, we really don't see how reducing bufpool size can increase the cache hit% Can anyone explain what we are missing? Thanks, Matt. _-'-_ -|- -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Cache Hit % below 99% Hello! I just wanted to thank everyone for suggestions and help with this matter! I changed the bufpoolsize to 419430, which is 10% of the physical memory, and then reset the bufpool and now my cache hit % is 100%. At this point, until I see otherwise, I am going to conclude that I had the bufpoolsize setting too high at 524288. I will continue to monitor the cache hit % of the database, but I believe the problem to be solved. Thank you again! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Curtis Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] AWSON.COM> To Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Cache Hit % below 99% 01/20/2005 09:33 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> What is your buffpool setting? Run "query option" and look for the buffpoolsize. Look in the dsmserv.opt file and read the comments about this parameter, then look in the server manual for this too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joni Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 01/20/2005 07:19 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Cache Hit % below 99% Hello All! I have noticed that the cache hit % is below 99%. This is a newly defined TSM 5.2.2.5 server on an AIX 5.2 OS. Are there any special parameters/definitions that could contribute to the percentage being so low? Thanks! Available Space (MB): 24,576 Assigned Capacity (MB): 19,484 Maximum Extension (MB): 5,092 Maximum Reduction (MB): 15,000 Page Size (bytes): 4,096 Total Usable Pages: 4,987,904 Used Pages: 45,207 Pct Util: 0.9 Max. Pct Uti
Re: Cache Hit % below 99%
Hi Brian As for the VM settings for SUN im not sure all thoose settings are applicable on SUN. I do know you have a comparable tool to modify file system cache settings, read ahead settings and so on. Perhaps anyone else on the list has more experience than me on kernel tuning on Sun? For the bufpool setting I would recommend that you increase the bufpool if the TSM server is running on dedicated hardware. Today you're using 256MB of memory for database buffers. Check to see how much free memory you have during normal operations. I would guess you could easily double the bufpool on your database to increase performance. That would mean 131072 or 512MB of RAM. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Scott, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-20 17:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Cache Hit % below 99% Daniel, Do you have the same recommendations for a Sun TSM server? We have a Sun Fire 6800 with 4 TSM instances per domain for a total of 3 domains and 4GB RAM. Our current buffpool size is 65535 and cache hit % is 98.42. Thanks, Brian Brian Scott EDS - GCE-GM Global Client Engineering GM MS 3234 750 Tower Drive Troy, MI 48098 * phone: +01-248-265-4596 (8-365) * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Cache Hit % below 99% Hi First of all, the q db f=d bufpool setting is not KB... it's database pages(4096 byes or 4KB) which means that if you set it to 524288, you have assigned 2GB of memory as database bufferpool. Second, you should check to see that you have free memory available for the bufpool. If not, your database bufferpool will get swapped down to the paging space and your performance will degrade. This is easily done with "svcmon". Third, check your maxperm and minperm settings aswell. They control how much memory is allowed for filesystem caching. Normally, theese are set to 40 min and 80 max which means file system caching can steal all your memory. Also set the -H parameter within vmtune to 1 so that you You should also check your maximum allowed allocation of memory. Default, AIX has it set to 80% of physical memory. This means you have 20% of memory not utilized(or 800MB of memory). This is an old setting that was supposed to protect the kernel from running out of memory. Theese day however when AIX systems has alot more memory than in the early days you can easily set the maximum allocatable memory to 95%, leaving 5% of memory as protection for AIX kernel usage. This setting is set with "vmtune -M". For some of the operations above you will need the vmtune command. To check your min and maxperm settings, enter vmtune. To change them, enter vmtune -p "minimum file system cache in percentage of physical memory" -P "Maximum file system cache in percentage of physical memory" -H 1 Vmtune also has alot of other great settings which should make it possible to tune the system even further. Some of the VM settings has a large impact on system performance. So you should be careful with what parameters you change. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-20 16:32 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Cache Hit % below 99% ? For a long time I have believed (fairly sure originally told by IBM) that the method is to increase the buffpool size untill cache hit goes over 99% Talking to a colleague, we really don't see how reducing bufpool size can increase the cache hit% Can anyone explain what we are missing? Thanks, Matt. _-'-_ -|- -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Cache Hit % below 99% Hello! I just wanted to thank everyone for suggestions and help with this matter! I changed the bufpoolsize to 419430, which is 10% of the physical memory, and then reset the bufpool and now my cache hit % is 100%. At this point, until I see otherwise, I am going to conclude that I had the bufpoolsize setting too high at 524288. I will continue to monitor the cache hit % of the database, but I believe the problem to be solved.
Re: TSM DB Volumes
Hi Luc Normally, the primary factor isnt how many volumes you have. Its rather dependent on how many physical volumes you have your database on. Physical volumes can be either disks in your machine or LUN:s assigned from a central disk. If you're using SAN attached LUN:s, you should not count the physical disks you're using in your SAN disk rather the number of LUN:s, as each LUN:s has it's own write/read queue. According to what I've seen, using between 8-12 database volumes gives a good performance. You should however spread them across at least 4-6 disks, preferable 8-12 disks for optimum performance. When it comes to RAID I would recommend using RAID-1 or RAID 0+1. RAID-5 normally gives a slight performance hit during write operations due to the RAID-5 parity. Remember that mirroring your database using hardware or operating system will not entirely protect your database against faults. The only mirroing solution that protects you against for example partial writes is using the built-in database and log mirroring facility within TSM. I would not recommend you to use only one physical disk with one database volume. That would probably decrease your database performance. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Luc Beaudoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-20 17:20 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject TSM DB Volumes Hi all I'm reading on how to delete DB volume ... and I'm a bit confuse ... In the Admin book .. they take 4 small volumes and move them to one big one ... Is there a best practice or advantages to have 1 big volume or 5 small ones In my case I have 4 volumes of 4GB and 1 of 20GB .. I would like to put them al together in one big volume .. Any ideas ?? thanks again Luc
Re: DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN
Yes, you will need to restart DB2 as it only reads the configuration file during startup Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Thomas, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-24 15:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN Guys, We're backing up DB2 v7 (WinNT) via LANFree to a TSM 4.2 server on AIX. All has been relatively fine and dandy. However, we're now due to upgrade the TSM server to v5.2 and must therefore revert to LAN backups for this DB2 instance. Does anyone know whether a db2stop/db2start is required to pick up the change from ENABLELANFREE YES to ENABLELANFREE NO in the api dsm.opt? TIA Matt Thomas Open Systems - Backup Midrange & Storage Infrastructure Services --- This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. evolvebank.com is a division of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN. Registered in England, number 2065. Telephone No: 020 7626 1500 Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, Henry Duncan House, 120 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4LH. Registered in Scotland, number 95237. Telephone No: 0131 225 4555 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and represent only the Scottish Widows and Lloyds TSB Marketing Group for life assurance, pensions and investment business. Signatories to the Banking Codes. ---
Re: DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN
Depends on when the storage agent fails. If it fails during backup/restore processing, the DB/2 backup(or restore) will fail. If it fails and then the DB/2 process starts, yes it will fail-over to LAN functionality. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Thomas, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-24 15:57 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN Daniel (and Jeroen) - thanks for the advice. One further thought: If, for example, the StorageAgent failed or was disabled in Services, wouldn't the API default to the LAN path on finding the LANFree route unavailable? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: 24 January 2005 14:39 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN Yes, you will need to restart DB2 as it only reads the configuration file during startup Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Thomas, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-01-24 15:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject DB2 LANFree reconfiguration to use LAN Guys, We're backing up DB2 v7 (WinNT) via LANFree to a TSM 4.2 server on AIX. All has been relatively fine and dandy. However, we're now due to upgrade the TSM server to v5.2 and must therefore revert to LAN backups for this DB2 instance. Does anyone know whether a db2stop/db2start is required to pick up the change from ENABLELANFREE YES to ENABLELANFREE NO in the api dsm.opt? TIA Matt Thomas Open Systems - Backup Midrange & Storage Infrastructure Services --- This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. evolvebank.com is a division of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN. Registered in England, number 2065. Telephone No: 020 7626 1500 Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, Henry Duncan House, 120 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4LH. Registered in Scotland, number 95237. Telephone No: 0131 225 4555 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and represent only the Scottish Widows and Lloyds TSB Marketing Group for life assurance, pensions and investment business. Signatories to the Banking Codes. --- --- This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. evolvebank.com is a division of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN. Registered in England, number 2065. Telephone No: 020 7626 1500 Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, Henry Duncan House, 120 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4LH. Registered in Scotland, number 95237. Telephone No: 0131 225 4555 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and represent only the Scottish Widows and Lloyds TSB Marketing Group for life assurance, pensions and investment business. Signatories to the Banking Codes. ---
Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume?
Hi Anders You cannot create a backupset with more than one node(see TSM documentation) per backupset. If you wouldnt have had the prereq that it should be independent of the TSM database, I would've suggested using export node instead, however, this procedure IS dependent of the TSM database in the case of a restore. Could you please explain what the purpose is? One option would be to use some kind of removable media like DVD or a USB connected drive and then generate your backupset to a file device located in that removable media. This way you could connect the removable media to your client, select restore >> File name and point out the name of the file in which the backupset is located. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Anders St¦hlbom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-02-23 15:00 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume? Hi, I want to create backupsets with several nodes to as few volumes as possible, the deviceclass in this case it LTO2. Is that possible at all? My task is to create one complete set of data on 50 nodes and a lot of the nodes is just about a couple of gigs, and spoil them with one LTO2 volume per node doesn't make sense. Or is there another way to fulfil this task? One of the requirements is that it should not be dependent of the TSM database. Med vänlig hälsning Best regards Anders Ståhlbom exeo --- Anders Ståhlbom Adress Box 43 59121 Motala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tele: +46 (0)141 48667 Mobile: +46 (0)736 888667 Fax: +46 (0)141 213330 ---
Re: SV: External Library def problem?????
Hi Bo 1. The documentation is incorrect. The correct command should be "update path". 2. What kind of tape drive are you using? The fact you're using Gresham tells me you're probably using STK drives. Have you installed the correct tape drivers for your tape technology (e.g. 9840B/C, Ultrium or 9940A/B)? 3. Is your SAN correctly zoned? Do you have any unkown devices? I would probably need more information on how your solution is setup to be able to help you with the issue of the tapes not being seen by the operating system. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Nielsen, Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-02-23 14:31 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject SV: External Library def problem? Hi Ricard and TSM_user Thanks for the help. But I can't still see the tapedrive from the Windows server. Regards Bo Nielsen * +45 4386 4671 Coop Norden IT* (Internt postcenter): 6244 Data & Storage Center * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, But it takes a live one to svim upstream. - W.C. Fields. -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Richard Sims Sendt: 18. februar 2005 13:56 Til: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Emne: Re: External Library def problem? On Feb 18, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Nielsen, Bo wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to setup a W2K3 server with TSM5.2.3 and Gresham Distributape > 6.4. > > In the TSM help I found this: > > Task > Update an external library named EXTLIB with a new path for the media > manager. > > Command >update library extlib externalmanager=c:\server\mediamanager > > But when I try, TSM return: > > ANR8416E DEFINE LBRARY: The EXTERNALMANAGER parameter is invalid for > library type EXTERNAL. > ANS8001I Return code 3. > > How do I tell the TSM server where Greham reside?? > > I have DEFINE the LIBRARY as a EXTERNAL librarytype. > Are you looking at the right documentation version for your system? For example, the 5.2.2 Admin Guide for Windows on page 185 illustrates performing an "update path" to define the externalmanager, not "update library". Richard Sims
Re: Client gets stuck
Hi Are these files excluded in your current configuration? exclude sys:\_swap_.mem exclude sys:\etc\audit.ctl exclude sys:\etc\audit.log exclude sys:\etc\volmn\*.* The Netware client has an issue similar to your error. When TSM tries to backup a file that is exclusively locked by Netware, an incorrect return code is sent back to TSM which halts the backup process. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?rs=203&context=SWI00&context=SWJ00&context=SWK00&q1=TSAFS&uid=swg21160357&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en%20en Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Hougaard.Flemming FHG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-02-23 15:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Client gets stuck Hi All Below is a part of my LOGfiles - The situation is as follows: - Client NetWare 6.0 SP3 - TSM Client Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.3 - TSM Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.5 - TSA Backup Module: TSAFS.NLM - Environment: 2 Mbit WAN-link Sometimes... unfortunaly not everyday - we see a problem with a NetWare server (and sometimes a NT server with Oracle too) freezes... as seen in the logfiles we see that suddenly the connection is abrupted in some way... the funny thing - or sad... - is that while this session hangs we have other nodes sending data on the same WAN-Link - as seen in the DSMSCHED.LOG this server hangs until the session is closed on the client (by the way CTRL+C isn't possible - the only way to close is to "kill" the session with "UNLOAD DSMC" with an overwhelming risk for a multiple ABEND). Any ideas?? Best Regards Flemming * DSMSCHED.LOG * . . 02/17/2005 18:20:48 ANS1898I * Processed40,000 files * 02/17/2005 18:20:50 ANS1898I * Processed40,500 files * 02/17/2005 18:20:52 ANS1898I * Processed41,000 files * 02/17/2005 18:20:53 ANS1898I * Processed41,500 files * 02/17/2005 18:32:15 ANS1898I * Processed42,000 files * 02/18/2005 07:43:46 The Scheduler is under the control of the TSM Scheduler Daemon 02/18/2005 07:43:46 Scheduler has been started by Dsmcad. 02/18/2005 07:43:46 Querying server for next scheduled event. . . * DSMERROR.LOG * . . 02/17/2005 06:04:31 ANS1810E TSM session has been reestablished. 02/18/2005 18:15:34 (TSAFS.NLM 6.50 266) This data set is in use and cannot be accessed at this time. . . * TDM Server Activity Log * . . 09:58:50 TSMSERVER : q act begind=02/17/2005 endd=02/18/2005 begint=18:20 endt=08:00 s= Date/TimeMessage -- 02/17/2005 18:50:13 ANR0482W Session 782 for node (NetWare) terminated - idle for more than 30 minutes. (SESSION: 782) 02/17/2005 19:01:29 ANR0482W Session 780 for node (NetWare) terminated - idle for more than 30 minutes. (SESSION: 780) 02/18/2005 07:40:19 ANR0406I Session 2844 started for node (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip (59189)). (SESSION: 2844) 02/18/2005 07:40:20 ANR0403I Session 2844 ended for node (NetWare). (SESSION: 2844) 10:01:44 TSMSERVER : q act begind=02/17/2005 endd=02/18/2005 begint=18:00 endt=08:00 s="SESSION: 782" Date/TimeMessage -- 02/17/2005 18:16:56 ANR0406I Session 782 started for node (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip (55964)). (SESSION: 782) 02/17/2005 18:50:13 ANR0482W Session 782 for node (NetWare) terminated - idle for more than 30 minutes. (SESSION: 782) 10:02:20 TSMSERVER : q act begind=02/17/2005 endd=02/18/2005 begint=18:00 endt=08:00 s="SESSION: 780" Date/TimeMessage -- 02/17/2005 18:15:21 ANR0406I Session 780 started for node (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip (58692)). (SESSION: 780) 02/17/2005 19:01:29 ANR0482W Session 780 for node (NetWare) terminated - idle for more than 30 minutes. (SESSION: 780) 10:02:39 TSMSERVER : q act begind=02/17/2005 endd=02/18/2005 begint=18:00 endt=08:00 s="SESSION: 2844" Date/TimeMessage -- 02/18/2005 07:40:19 ANR0406I Session 2844 started for node (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip (59189)).
Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume?
Stephen, how would that make it possible to have a backupset containing more than 1 node? It would only make all primary(or copy) storage pool data gather on one volume during migration/backup, which could not be read without having access to the TSM database. Or am I missing something here? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Weinstein, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-02-23 16:38 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume? Do not specify COLLOCATION on the tape storage pool. Then all node will get put on one tape, or as few tapes as possible. -Original Message- From:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders St¦hlbom Sent:Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:01 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume? Hi, I want to create backupsets with several nodes to as few volumes as possible, the deviceclass in this case it LTO2. Is that possible at all? My task is to create one complete set of data on 50 nodes and a lot of the nodes is just about a couple of gigs, and spoil them with one LTO2 volume per node doesn't make sense. Or is there another way to fulfil this task? One of the requirements is that it should not be dependent of the TSM database. Med vänlig hälsning Best regards Anders Ståhlbom exeo --- Anders Ståhlbom Adress Box 43 59121 Motala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tele: +46 (0)141 48667 Mobile: +46 (0)736 888667 Fax: +46 (0)141 213330 --- ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager at postmaster at dor.state.ma.us. **
Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume?
Hi Mark Why would the use of for example a USB connected drives be unusable? Only thing you would have to know to restore a file device backupset(for example e:\backupset\00444333.vol) is the name of the sequential file. What I ment was, generate a separate backupset for each node on a removable media(on a USB disk for example, you could have multiple backupset volumes, which would eliminate the issue with having 1 400GB LTO-2 volume for each node). This would mean every node has it's own sequential file volume stored on your USB disk, which would make it possible to restore the node using a local backupset as long as you know which sequential volume associates with which node(stored in volhist.out, could also be written to the USB disk). Am I missing something out, or was I wage in my description? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-02-23 17:24 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Generate backupset with more than one node on one volume? >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Weinstein, Stephen >Do not specify COLLOCATION on the tape storage pool. Then all >node will get put on one tape, or as few tapes as possible. > > >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Anders St|hlbom >I want to create backupsets with several nodes to as few >volumes as possible, the deviceclass in this case it LTO2. >Is that possible at all? > >My task is to create one complete set of data on 50 nodes and >a lot of the nodes is just about a couple of gigs, and spoil >them with one LTO2 volume per node doesn't make sense. >Or is there another way to fulfil this task? >One of the requirements is that it should not be dependent of >the TSM database. You could (theoretically) stack up backupsets by using the method by using the method described by Daniel (use of DVD blanks, etc.), but there would be no way to actually *use* such backupsets. Also, collocation and storage pool parameters have nothing to do with backupsets. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
Re: JR- Client Option set vs dsm.opt (sys)
Using only thoose options would make the difference between using client optionsets and dsm.opt entries fairly small due to the fact all of thoose options are static ones. I always use client options sets when having the option as this minimizes manual administration of dsm.opt/dsm.sys files(all settings can be controlled centrally). However, most of the times, I also use global include/excludes where I try to redirect certain kind of data to different management classes. In your case, I would say it wont differ using a predefined dsm.opt/dsm.sys file or a client optionset. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 JR Trimark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-03-08 16:38 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject JR- Client Option set vs dsm.opt (sys) We are debating whether or not to use client option sets in addition to the dsm.opt file. A little history is needed for discussion sake: We are backing up data only, which is typically on another drive. Each server can have a different data drive letter depending on the application requirements. The include/excludes for each system will be different. We are backing up AIX, NetWare, Linux and Windows. I have looked through the client option set valid commands and came up with only a handful that I would use, the remaining ones would go in the dsm.opt (sys) file: changing retries dirmc quiet verbose schedmode subdir txnbytelimit Any thoughts are welcomed. thanks
Re: VolHistory-Question
One of the issues with database backups... you cannot remove the last database backup for a particular device class... Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Christoph Pilgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-03-23 11:26 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject VolHistory-Question Hi all, In my VolumeHistory I have an entry for a "dbsnapshot" to a tape-device-class (for analysing an error by IBM) : Date/Time: 11/25/04 18:12:19 Volume Type: DBSNAPSHOT Backup Series: 1 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 1 Device Class: 3590DEVCL Volume Name: 000805 Volume Location: Command: I took the tape out of the library some times ago. How can I delete the entry in the Volume-History. I tried 'delete volhist todate=today -4 type=dbsnapshot'. ==> ANR2467I DELETE VOLHISTORY: 0 sequential volume history entries were successfully deleted. 'delete volhist todate=today -4 type=dbsnapshot devcl=3590devcl' ==> ANR6978E DELETE VOLHISTORY: Invalid device class 3590DEVCL If I try to delete the volume from GUI, I can not choose devclass=3590DEVCL. Thanks for help Chr. Pilgram Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.KG IT Department
Re: Backup TSM database
I would guess that you only have one database backup left on that device? The last database backup on a specific device cannot be expired. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 10:55 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database I used use FILE type volumes to backup TSM database. But I can not delete database backup volume with "expire inventory". ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 3 completed: examined 2125 objects, deleting 10 backup objects, 0 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered. Do you have any idea ? Nghiatd, - Original Message - From: "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:28 AM, nghiatd wrote: > > > Can I use private tape if I incremental backup db. Not support backup > > db to > > one tape is too waste > > One dbbackup per volume. See definitive statement in IBM TechNote > 1153782. > > TSM database backups are critical resources, and the intention is that > each tape be immediately securable by removing from the library and > securing in a vault or like safe place. And you don't want to have to > deal with partial expiration and reclamation issues. > > Where small libraries are an issue, the developers have provided the > ability to use FILE type volumes. (You could even have an SATA drive > running inside a safe as the destination of such backups.) > > Richard Sims >
Re: Backup TSM database
You will need to use delete volhist type=dbbackup tod=-"the number for days you wish to retain database backups" For example, delete volhist type=dbbackup tod=-14 This will delete database backups older than 14 days. However, there is a built-in security feature that will not remove the last database backup. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 11:08 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database I set schedule to backup TSM database daily with command "backup db type=full devclass=filedev1". So I have a lot DB backup version. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Sparrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database I would guess that you only have one database backup left on that device? The last database backup on a specific device cannot be expired. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervdgen 6B 183 62 TDBY Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 10:55 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database I used use FILE type volumes to backup TSM database. But I can not delete database backup volume with "expire inventory". ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 3 completed: examined 2125 objects, deleting 10 backup objects, 0 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered. Do you have any idea ? Nghiatd, - Original Message - From: "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:28 AM, nghiatd wrote: > > > Can I use private tape if I incremental backup db. Not support backup > > db to > > one tape is too waste > > One dbbackup per volume. See definitive statement in IBM TechNote > 1153782. > > TSM database backups are critical resources, and the intention is that > each tape be immediately securable by removing from the library and > securing in a vault or like safe place. And you don't want to have to > deal with partial expiration and reclamation issues. > > Where small libraries are an issue, the developers have provided the > ability to use FILE type volumes. (You could even have an SATA drive > running inside a safe as the destination of such backups.) > > Richard Sims >
Re: Backup TSM database
That command will not have the same effect. The drmbackupexpiredays only sets the option for the DRM and not for expiration. You cannot do this without using the delete volhist command. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 12:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database I use command : "Set drmdbbackupexpiredays 7" and it is not effective. - Original Message - From: "John Naylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > this will delete all your database backups except the latest > del volh tod=today tot=now type=dbb > > this will delete all your database backups except the last 7 days worth > del volh tod=today-7 type=dbb > > > > > > > > nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 15/04/2005 10:08 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > cc > > Subject > Re: Backup TSM database > > > > > > > I set schedule to backup TSM database daily with command "backup db > type=full devclass=filedev1". So I have a lot DB backup version. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Daniel Sparrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:48 PM > Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > > > I would guess that you only have one database backup left on that device? > > The last database backup on a specific device cannot be expired. > > Best Regards > > Daniel Sparrman > --- > Daniel Sparrman > Chef Utveckling & Drift > Exist i Stockholm AB > Propellervdgen 6B > 183 62 TDBY > Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00 > Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 > > > > nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 2005-04-15 10:55 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > Re: Backup TSM database > > > > > > > I used use FILE type volumes to backup TSM database. But I can not delete > database backup volume with "expire inventory". > ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 3 completed: >examined 2125 objects, deleting 10 backup objects, 0 > archive > objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. > 0 errors were encountered. > > Do you have any idea ? > > Nghiatd, > > > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:06 PM > Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > > > > On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:28 AM, nghiatd wrote: > > > > > Can I use private tape if I incremental backup db. Not support backup > > > db to > > > one tape is too waste > > > > One dbbackup per volume. See definitive statement in IBM TechNote > > 1153782. > > > > TSM database backups are critical resources, and the intention is that > > each tape be immediately securable by removing from the library and > > securing in a vault or like safe place. And you don't want to have to > > deal with partial expiration and reclamation issues. > > > > Where small libraries are an issue, the developers have provided the > > ability to use FILE type volumes. (You could even have an SATA drive > > running inside a safe as the destination of such backups.) > > > > Richard Sims > > > > > > ** > The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally > privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern > Energy Group. > It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by > anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, > any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted > to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of > the error in transmission. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. > > > Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC, S+S and SSE Power Distribution are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. > ** >
Re: Backup TSM database
No, that command only takes effect when it is combined with database volumes handled by the Disaster Recovery Manager expiration procedure. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 12:19 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database So that command only take effect if I use backup to tape ? - Original Message - From: "Daniel Sparrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database That command will not have the same effect. The drmbackupexpiredays only sets the option for the DRM and not for expiration. You cannot do this without using the delete volhist command. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Utveckling & Drift Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervdgen 6B 183 62 TDBY Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-15 12:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup TSM database I use command : "Set drmdbbackupexpiredays 7" and it is not effective. - Original Message - From: "John Naylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > this will delete all your database backups except the latest > del volh tod=today tot=now type=dbb > > this will delete all your database backups except the last 7 days worth > del volh tod=today-7 type=dbb > > > > > > > > nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 15/04/2005 10:08 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > cc > > Subject > Re: Backup TSM database > > > > > > > I set schedule to backup TSM database daily with command "backup db > type=full devclass=filedev1". So I have a lot DB backup version. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Daniel Sparrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:48 PM > Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > > > I would guess that you only have one database backup left on that device? > > The last database backup on a specific device cannot be expired. > > Best Regards > > Daniel Sparrman > --- > Daniel Sparrman > Chef Utveckling & Drift > Exist i Stockholm AB > Propellervdgen 6B > 183 62 TDBY > Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00 > Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 > > > > nghiatd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 2005-04-15 10:55 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > Re: Backup TSM database > > > > > > > I used use FILE type volumes to backup TSM database. But I can not delete > database backup volume with "expire inventory". > ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 3 completed: >examined 2125 objects, deleting 10 backup objects, 0 > archive > objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. > 0 errors were encountered. > > Do you have any idea ? > > Nghiatd, > > > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:06 PM > Subject: Re: Backup TSM database > > > > On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:28 AM, nghiatd wrote: > > > > > Can I use private tape if I incremental backup db. Not support backup > > > db to > > > one tape is too waste > > > > One dbbackup per volume. See definitive statement in IBM TechNote > > 1153782. > > > > TSM database backups are critical resources, and the intention is that > > each tape be immediately securable by removing from the library and > > securing in a vault or like safe place. And you don't want to have to > > deal with partial expiration and reclamation issues. > > > > Where small libraries are an issue, the developers have provided the > > ability to use FILE type volumes. (You could even have an SATA drive > > running inside a safe as the destination of such backups.) > > > > Richard Sims > > > > > > ***
Re: DR Question
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=tss1prs814 Try the search IBM.com search engine... Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Chef Marknad och Försäljning Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-04-28 14:27 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: DR Question Starting on page http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManagerVersionRelease.html searching for PRS814 I get no hits. Searching for TSM Disaster Recovery Manager, I get 122 hits. Can you point me a little bit closer to where I can find this L&L? David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/27/05 12:48 PM >>> Those getting into DR/DRM should give a listen to the Lunch&Learn discussion on "TSM Disaster Recovery Manager" (Reference #: PRS814), available for download from the IBM site. It's a good hunk of advice. Richard Sims
Re: Inquiry About TSM Database
One way would be to use a monitoring application like TSM Manager, ServerGraph or TSM Operational Reporting to be able to store historical data about your database. This way the monitoring application would be able to predict how much your database will grow and when it will become full. Im not sure wether or not TSM OR can do this. I know both TSM Manager (www.tsmmanager.com) and Servergraph(www.servergraph.com) can do this. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-05-09 09:42 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Inquiry About TSM Database Hi, I´m not sure you can do that without taking the output from 'q db' and put into a spreedsheet on a daily basis..etc.. Consider using VB or Perl to automate it a little. A prediction might be good, but to me it is better to be warned when DB utilization is 90% or so, and then schedule a extention of the database? Operation reporting helps you with that and sends you e-mail. When log or db gets full TSM will stop. //Henrik Norita binti Hassan To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) MY> Subject: Inquiry About TSM Database Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 2005-05-09 05:34 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" How to estimete % of incremental in my database so that I can do a prediction when to add new dbvol. What happen if the database is full? Thanks NORITA BINTI HASAN Senior Programmer Enterprise Systems Services Information Communication Tech.Div 6th Floor, Pos Malaysia Berhad 50670 Kuala Lumpur Tel : 03 - 22756638 Pos Malaysia Berhad is Malaysia's national postal company Visit us online at www.pos.com.my NOTICE This message may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the addressee or authorised to receive this email, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this email. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Pos Malaysia Berhad takes no responsibility for the contents of this email. --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
Re: problems with medium changer driver in 3583
You will need to install the IBM Atape driver, which you can find here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/. You cannot use the TSM device driver for IBM equipment. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Otto Schakenbos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-05-09 13:27 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: problems with medium changer driver in 3583 not sure about windows but in linux/unix there is the tsmscsi driver that you use for all library's except IBM library's. If you have a ibm library you need to use a special driver that only works with ibm library's. (IBMtape or something) maybe you are using the generic driver instead of the ibm driver? regards Otto Schakenbos System Administrator TEL: +49-7151/502 8468 FAX: +49-7151/502 8489 MOBILE: +49-172/7102715 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Teleflex Holding GmbH Corporate IT Europe Fronackerstrasse 33-35 71332 Waiblingen GERMANY Pawel Jobkiewicz wrote: >Hi! > >I have server 2003 SP1 with TSM 5.3.1.1 and library IBM Ultrium 3583 connected to this server via FC. I've installed drivers to the tapes without any problem, but I can't install correctly meduim changer. I've installed "TSM drivers for medium changer - tsmscsi.sys". But in Windows Device Manger next to this device there is an exlamation mark and in propertis there is note that "windows can't load all drivers. code 31" My TSM see only tape drivers. I can't define path to the library. I don't know what's wrong, I did everything what is said in user guide. >What's the problem? Can anybody help me? >Thanks >Pawel > >
Re: Copy storage pools (Disk)??
Hi Douglas Yes, you can use random disk devices for copy pool storage. You will however need to define a sequential file device class to use for your copy storage pool. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Douglas Currell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-01 13:31 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Copy storage pools (Disk)?? Currently data flow in our TSM environment is as such: node=>DISKPOOL=>TAPEPOOL I would like to acquire a disk array (iSCSI/NAS/FC) and create a copy storage pool with random access media (disk) so that data flow iwould be like this: node=>DISKPOOL=>TAPEPOOL =>JBOD Is this possible or must copy storage pools be sequential access. Any ideas? opinions? Experiences? --- Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Migration of TSM server
Only way of migrating between platforms(Windows > UNIX, UNIX > Windows, Mainframe > UNIX/Windows and so on) and retain the information stored in your library is to do a export-import scenario(server-to-server would probably be the way to go) of all data between the servers. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Neil Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-01 17:56 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Migration of TSM server Dear all, Normally, I'd Google and read up but I need some feedback pdq. Our TSM server is a Sun 280R with 1 x 750MHz CPU, 1GB RAM sunning Solaris 2.8 but, to be honest, this system is underspecified and sometimes can't cut it. The TSM is 5.2.1. The tape library is a fibre-attached Adic Scalar 1000 with 6xLTO1 drives and 188 tapes and it mostly backs up Windows stuff. The powers-that-be wish to migrate this to a Windows 2003 box using the same tape library - and soon. It's a political decision and not really up for debate at the moment. The first TSM consultants that I've approached have said that we cannot retain the legacy data and that if we install TSM onto a Windows server, all of the data will be lost unless we dual-access the library and retain the Solaris TSM. As the library is full and then some, that isn't really an option even if the politics wouldn't get in the way. My question - Is this the case? My skills are Windows and we do have some good Solaris people. Regards, Neil Bowen ** Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services. For further details and to register for automatic updates from Ofcom on key publications and other developments, please visit www.ofcom.org.uk This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Ofcom. **
Re: Poor LanFree performance / mixed LAN xfer??
Hi Yes, we have the same issues running LAN-free on Solaris. The peformance numbers are ugly... According to our Solaris experts it has something todo with the size of IP packets. However, we tried switching to sharedmem with no success. We have reported this issue to IBM. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-02 14:41 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Poor LanFree performance / mixed LAN xfer?? Hmm. We have made a little progress on this; it appears to be related to the fact the storage agent and the client use 127.0.0.1 to communicate on the same host, regardless of any COMMMEthod SharedMem options if the host O/S is not AIX. The latest wisdom from the real unix Guru's here say the number of open sockets against the same port seems to be causing big slowdowns. We can have upto 12 dsmc instances writing data through the storage agent, along with upto 36 dsmc processes waiting for drives to become available, all running on the same host. The backup data is large 100MB - 2G+ files. Has anyone experience similar issues on non-aix storage agent machines? Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Poor LanFree performance / mixed LAN xfer?? Matthew - Your posting doesn't specify your OS or TSM software levels, but errno 232 is ECONNRESET in HP-UX, which is simply the "Connection reset by peer". This is to say that the side reporting the errno did not knowingly close the connection, so believes that it was closed by the other side. The meaning of the 131 is less clear. The message context would suggest that it is a TSM internal code, which would mean an API return code value, which would have to be "Internal system error". The presence of the ANR0480W on the server end, with no accompanying messages, would indicate that something in between the server and client caused the loss of connection. So it would seem that you do have communication link problems. Possibly, an intervening firewall has an idle timeout value and dropped the TCP session. The poor performance may be autonegotiation in the NIC and/or switch. Richard Sims On May 24, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote: > Here is an excerpt from the dsmerror.log for last night, it appears we > have some kind of comms issue.. > > I havent been able to find errno 232 or 131 in /usr/include/ > errno.h, nor > anything on IBM's site. > > We can match the ANS1005E messages to ANR0480 messages on the TSM > server, indicating the client ended the session... > > 05/24/05 05:12:44 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session > reopen procedure. > 05/24/05 05:12:47 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 9, errno = > 232, reason : 'Connection reset by peer'. > 05/24/05 05:12:47 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session > reopen procedure. > 05/24/05 05:12:48 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session > reopen procedure. > 05/24/05 05:12:50 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 9, errno = > 232, reason : 'Connection reset by peer'. > ... > 05/24/05 05:13:05 cuIdentifyResp: Error 131 reading IdentifyResp > from > server. ___ Disclaimer Notice __ This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Powergen Retail Limited. Registered addresses: Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: Primary recovery media = disk?
Hi Henrik First of all, there are no technical limitations when it comes to using disk as a primary storage pool for all client data. However, there are some gotcha's: 1. Using S-ATA drives. When using S-ATA drives, you will notice a performance hit when doing backup storage pool and other random activities as the S-ATA drives are good at handle large sequential operations, but not random operations(finding small files in a big storage pool). After a few nights of backup to your new disk storage pool, you will notice a performance drop as the storage pool becomes fragmented. 2.Fragmentation. As with the database, large diskpools has the ability to become fragmented. This means you cannot utilize the full capacity of your diskpool. One way of solving this would be to on a schedules basis delete and define new diskstoragepool volumes so that you "defrag" the volumes and no volume gets to old. Another way of using this is using a file device class. This will however introduce reclamation on your primary disk pool aswell as the issue with not being able to utilize the full capacity of each sequential file(it's one thing you cannot utilize a LTO-3 volume that costs 50$, its another issue when you cannot utilize your disk that costs 100 times more). 3. Restore capabilities. The TSM client has the ability to initialize multiple restore sessions to utilize the full network bandwith. However, using a storagepool of device=disk will limit your TSM client to a single restore connection. This is due to a limitation within the TSM client code that only permits you to initialize one session against a disk device. This can have a impact on your restore performance. 4. Large files. Large files are normally written/read faster on a sequential media like LTO-2 or LTO-3. This far I havent seen any disk drives outperform newer tape technologies when it comes to writting/reading large files (like databases). The optimal usage of diskstorage pools would be to utilize the strength of both technologies(if you have the option to use large quantities of disk): 1. All large files/servers (above 1GB) and all databases(such as SQL, Exchange, Domino, Oracle, DB2) utilizies tape for primary storage. 2. All small files/servers utilizies disk as primary storage. This will solve the issue that I think most people are trying to resolve using disk; the restore times of servers having big quantities of small files. Theese servers have horrible restore performance when utilizing tape as the primary storage technology even when using features a reclamation and collocation. Another way of going is to utilize a separate pool for storing small files. This will eliminate the need to separate servers with small files from servers with big files thus making you utilize your disk more efficiently. What you do is define two storage pools, one with a max size that is to store all small files, and one that is to be migrated to tape. "Small files pool with a max size of 50KB" >> "Normal diskpool to be migrated with a max size of 3GB(? depends on the number of mount points / tape technology / mount retention) >> Tape pool. Using the above scenario will however make some requirements when it comes to setting the bufsize on your clients and the txngroupmax/movesizethresh on your TSM server. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-13 09:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Primary recovery media = disk? Hi !! Do you have any hints in setting up an enviroment that uses disk as a primary recovery media. And tapes to store historical data and as offsite media? >From my understanding I can use weekly image backups (almost as fun as selective...), daily incremental backups and have a migration delay for 7 days on my storage pools. Is there any other way to store all active files on disk, (devt=file)? It is a mixed enviroment with both Windows and Unix (AIX, Linux, SUN etc). TIA Henrik --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
Re: Backup of large server (15+ Million objects)
Hi Bill 1. Separating it into multiple TSM nodes, for example one node per filespace 2. Using the virtual mount point option Both theese options should decrease the time TSM spends on inspecting the filespaces. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-14 16:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Backup of large server (15+ Million objects) Windows 2000 server with TSM client 5.3.0.8. TSM server 5.2.2.0 on Windows2000 Configured the journal service with a larger notify buffer, but we just can't get the first incremental to complete. We see in the server activity log that the session was terminated by the client. Running in managed services mode. Any suggestions on backup strategies on this large of a server? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc.
Re: Backup of large server (15+ Million objects)
Hi Bill With replication you mean asynchronous replication(like PPRC on ESS or TC/IP mirroring with a product like DoubleTake)? That wont help you solve the issue. One virus attack on that server and it's history as the replication is on a hardware basis; it will replicate the virus in real-time and when your fileserver guys finally discovers they've been hit by a virus, it'll be too late ... Replication(or remote mirroring) is never a solution to protect the data, it only protects your data from hardware issues, not logical issues. One way of going would be to use some sort of flash copy where you do a flashcopy on a scheduled basis(for example, every 4 hour). This way of going will never protect you entirely, you still risk loosing data(for example, the server is destroyed 3 hours and 49 minutes from the last flash copy... means you probably lost alot of data). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-15 18:07 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Backup of large server (15+ Million objects) >From what I'm reading and understanding (which may be 2 entirely different things!!) junction points just let me create a link between directories. Kinda like hard/soft links in Unix (ln command). Mount points let me take a drive and mount it on a directory instead of a new drive letter. I want to go the other way...take a directory and make it a drive letter or a new filesystem to TSM. Even if I could split this 15million object filespace into 3 or more separate filespaces I think I could get a backup done in a reasonable time...or even get it done! Right now it just plain doesn't finish. Mostly the scheduler service dies and the backup fails. IMAGE backups aren't an optoin with 3590E drives and "K" media. I would be here forever doing the backup and then I couldn't carry all the tapes! :-) Any ideas or suggestions?? One optoin they are looking at is just replicating this volume to another location instead of or in addition to backups (if I can get it to run). Bill -- Original message -- > Actually with both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 you can create what is like a > mount point in Unix land. Search MS's site for "junction point" OR "mount > point". > > > Bill Boyer wrote: > This is a single drive letter, G:, so I can't separate it into multiple nodes or > even schedules. Plus virtualmountpoint is only valid for Unix's, not Windoze. > > Thanks. > Bill > > -- Original message -- > > > Hi Bill > > > > 1. Separating it into multiple TSM nodes, for example one node per > > filespace > > > > 2. Using the virtual mount point option > > > > Both theese options should decrease the time TSM spends on inspecting the > > filespaces. > > > > Best Regards > > > > Daniel Sparrman > > --- > > Daniel Sparrman > > Exist i Stockholm AB > > Propellervdgen 6B > > 183 62 TDBY > > Vdxel: 08 - 754 98 00 > > Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 > > > > > > > > Bill Boyer > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > 2005-06-14 16:36 > > Please respond to > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > > > > To > > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > cc > > > > Subject > > Backup of large server (15+ Million objects) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Windows 2000 server with TSM client 5.3.0.8. > > TSM server 5.2.2.0 on Windows2000 > > > > Configured the journal service with a larger notify buffer, but we just > > can't get the first incremental to complete. We see in the server > > activity log that the session was terminated by the client. Running in > > managed services mode. > > > > Any suggestions on backup strategies on this large of a server? > > > > Bill Boyer > > DSS, Inc. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: TSM Journal Based Backup
Hi Bill No, you dont have to complete a selective backup. There is two scenarios: 1. You install a new client and activate the journal service. The first backup of the machine will be a complete backup(though its incremental, it will be treated as a full backup). 2. You install the journal service on a existing TSM client. The next backup will be a incremental-without-journal backup and the backup after that will be the 1st backup to use the journal service. Hope that explains. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Dourado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-16 15:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject TSM Journal Based Backup Hi All, I have client that I have been backing up for a long time. I had enabled journaling about 10 ten days ago for the first time. I am now wondering if I should have done a selective backup soon after enabling journaling. ! I am hoping a selective backup wasn't necessary then or now, for journaling to function properly. Environment;- TSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on Windows 2003 Server Backup/Archive client 5.2.3.1 on Windows 2000 Server T.I.A Bill
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You are aware of the fact that the redirect will go to the local machine you're sitting on? So if you're on a Windows box, redirecting to a path with '/' in it will fail? If so, do you have write authority to the specified path? Have you tried redirecting to another location? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Dierk Harbort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 2005-06-16 16:52 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject hi all ! there is a need to now all archived files from a special node, so i tried the following: select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME ...it worked fine. but now i want this output in a file (linux), so i typed select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME > /path/filename the result is ANR8038E ...unable to open file '/path/filename' for redirection i wondered, and tried select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME > /filename the result seems to be allright, but the file 'filename' is not on the system - 'find' couldn't find it anywhere can anyone tell me, what the solution is ?? any idea is welcome thank you very much! regards, Dierk
Re: ntuser.dat backup on Windows 2003
What he ment was problaby the fact that TSM doesnt "support" VSS when it comes to backing up normal files(aka open-file support). With the introduction of VSS, there is now an option to use VSS to handle the open-file issue normally solved with products like OpenFile Manager from St Bernard, or Tivolis own Open-file support. Tivoli does however, as you clearly stated, use VSS to backup the systemstate object. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-10 14:12 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: ntuser.dat backup on Windows 2003 ... >Unfortunately, TSM does not yet support VSS ... Eh? From the TSM 5.2.2 Windows client manual: "Tivoli Storage Manager supports the Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) on Windows Server 2003. Tivoli Storage Manager uses VSS to back up all system state components as a single object, to provide a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the system state. You can back up all system service components (the default) or individual components." Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs
Re: Error when restoring database of TSM server
Hi You'¨ll need to do the restore with commit=yes. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Nghia Tran Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-06 10:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Error when restoring database of TSM server Hi all, I use TSM ver 5.1.7 The database and log file of my TSM server were lost. I backuped database (volume history, device configuration file) and now I use them to restore database of TSM server. But I get error message when I start "TSM server 1" service after restored database successfully. I did as following: C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server>dsmserv format 1 C:\tsmdata\server1\log1.dsm 9 1 C:\tsmdata\server1\db1.dsm 13 ANR0900I Processing options file C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server\dsmserv.opt. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 12:02:29 on Aug 21 2002. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.0 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-ISE (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2002. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. Allocated space for C:\tsmdata\server1\log1.dsm: 9437184 bytes. Allocated space for C:\tsmdata\server1\db1.dsm: 13631488 bytes. ANR0300I Recovery log format started; assigned capacity 8 megabytes. ANR0301I Recovery log format in progress; 4 megabytes of 8. ANR0301I Recovery log format in progress; 8 megabytes of 8. ANR0302I Recovery log formatting took 0 milliseconds. ANR0303I Format rate: 1.$ pages/second. ANR0304I Page service time: 0.0 ms. ANR0305I Recovery log format complete. ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress. ANR0353I Recovery log analysis pass in progress. ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress. ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress. ANR0352I Transaction recovery complete. ANR0992I Server installation complete. C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server>dsmserv restore db volumenames=C:\tsmdata\ser ver1\83828523.dbb devclass=filedev1 commit=no ANR0900I Processing options file c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\server1\dsmserv.op- t. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 12:02:29 on Aug 21 2002. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.0 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-ISE (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2002. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR8200I TCP/IP driver ready for connection with clients on port 1500. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 8 megabytes. ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 12 megabytes. ANR4621I Database backup device class FILEDEV1. ANR4622I Volume 1: C:\TSMDATA\SERVER1\83828523.DBB. ANR4632I Starting point-in-time database restore (no commit). ANR8340I FILE volume C:\TSMDATA\SERVER1\83828523.DBB mounted. ANR1363I Input volume C:\TSMDATA\SERVER1\83828523.DBB opened (sequence number 1). ANR4646I Database capacity required for restore is 12 megabytes. ANR4638I Restore of backup series 1 operation 0 in progress. ANR1364I Input volume C:\TSMDATA\SERVER1\83828523.DBB closed. ANR4640I Restored 258 pages from backup series 1 operation 0. ANR4633I Point-in-time database restore (no commit) complete. I don't know how to deal with this problem. Could you help me ? Thanks in advanced, Nghiatd
Re: AIX Node Down
Hi You will need an AIX box to restore the files. This is because you cant restore AIX filesystems to a Windows-based server. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 sujay dinakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-26 13:40 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject AIX Node Down Hi all I am using TSM Server 5.1.10 on Windows 2K and One Node on AIX, and that AIX system has gone down for the past two days. Now I want to restore some files from that node. How can I restore the data from that node. I tried by Loging into the AIX node from the Windows 2K, I can able to logon but it is showing only the file spaces and it is not showing any files / Directories on that. The files are been archived from the AIX Node. Thanks in advance, Regards Sujay Dinakar R Hyderabad. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash
Re: Database and log format question.
Hi When referring to "mounting the logs", do you mean the recovery log mount which is initiated during dsmserv startup? The db volumes you lost, do you have fresh copies of theese? As I understand it, you need to do a database restore, which for me means that your databas is unusable. In this case, you should define the new volumes, do a dsmserv format, and then do the restore. If you choose to do a commit of the logs, then the answer is yes, this will take a very long time, as TSM will need to commit everything that is stored in your log(13GB:s). If you're running TSM on a UNIX box, easiest thing todo is to check your IO stats to see wether or not the database disks are used. If you dont have any activity, there's a large possibility that the dsmserv process has hung. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Remeta, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-28 15:19 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Database and log format question. Yesterday morning I had an incident and lost one of the drives I had about half my database volumes defined on. I'm in the process of reformatting the log and database volumes so I can do a database restore. The database is 100gb and my log size is 13gb. It's been mounting the log volumes for over 3 hours now. Does anyone have any experience with a database this large in as far as approximately how long it will take to format and mount the database/log volumes? Thanks in advance, Mark Remeta Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
Re: Database and log format question.
Hi My guess is that it's commiting log information. During DB restore, the restore is sequential. However, when commiting the log information, it is commiting the log on a per transaction basis. If you're logs where highly used during your last db backup, this could explain why it's taking so long for the TSM server to mount the log. Remember, that during inital startup after a db restore, the TSM server will do a recovery log roll-back, and commit all transactions within the TSM log. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Remeta, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-28 15:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Database and log format question. ok the server specs are a quad 1.4ghz pentium 4, 4gb memory running win2k advanced server. What I did was erase the old log and database volumes, then do a dsmserv -k format with the log and database volume specs. It created the volumes and formatted the recovery log volumes rather quickly. After it format's the recovery log volumes it does a recovery log volume mount. This is what is taking so long. I've been monitoring the IO and it seems to be doing something to the database disk, perhaps formatting the database volumes too? I don't know. I've done this before but never with a database this large. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Database and log format question. 3 hours? Wow!. What's are the hardware specs of your tsm server? What else is going on, on that system (topas, if AIX, or top)? I would probably consider running either a database audit or re-org, then try mounting it again. thanks! On more thing, are you starting the server up again in the foreground or background?. If your initially trying to start it up in the background, kill it and start it up in the foreground first then let it do all of it's redo log record and undo passes, as well as log mount. Then once it's up, and you get a tsm server prompt. Then halt the server and restart it in the background for production operation at that point. Just another thought. --Justin Richard Bleistein |-+> | | "Remeta, Mark" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | DATA.COM>| | | Sent by: "ADSM: | | | Dist Stor| | | Manager" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | .EDU>| | || | || | | 04/28/2004 09:19 | | | AM | | | Please respond to| | | "ADSM: Dist Stor | | | Manager" | | || |-+> >--- ---| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Database and log format question. | >--- ---| Yesterday morning I had an incident and lost one of the drives I had about half my database volumes defined on. I'm in the process of reformatting the log and database volumes so I can do a database restore. The database is 100gb and my log size is 13gb. It's been mounting the log volumes for over 3 hours now. Does anyone have any experience with a database this large in as far as approximately how long it will take to format and mount the database/log volumes? Thanks in advance, Mark Remeta Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
Re: Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter
Hi Bill Just check out the readme-files that comes with the patch/maintenance package. It clearly states that Tivoli recommends connecting the tape drives on separate adapters from the disk. >From the readme-file of the TSM StorageAgent for SUN v5.2.1.3 (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/storage-agent/5.2.1.3/TSMSTA5213_SUN.README): * * Host Bus Adapter recommendation * * It is highly recommended that Tape Drives and Tape Libraries be connected to the system on their own host bus adapter and not share with other devices types (DISK, CDROM, etc.). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-29 13:20 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Disk and Tape access over the same fibre adapter Just got a new client that wants to do some LANfree backups, but they don't believe me when I tell them that the recommended way is to have a separate HBA for disk and tape. They don't think that mixing the 2 will be a performance issue. I remember a couple years ago this was an issue of data corruption, but that has been addresses. Can someone point me to any whitepapers or documentation explaining why they should spend a couple more $'s and get an additional adapter for those server they want to do LANfree backups on? TIA, Bill Boyer "Experience is a comb that nature gives us after we go bald." - ??
Re: Get tape to status scratch.....
Hi According to the information you have supplied, it looks like this is the only database backup that you have. Is this correct? There can be multiple reasons to why you cannot delete a database backup volume from the volume history: 1. The database is the last database backup that you have(including incrementals) 2. The database is the last database within the specific device class. TSM will not allow you to delete the last database backup, despite the fact that you might have other database backups bound to other device classes. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-29 14:59 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Get tape to status scratch. Hi, Try a DELETE VOLHISTORY TODATE=TODAY-(X days) TYPE=DBBACKUP //Henrik Lars-Erik Öhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RNEGIE.SE> cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) Sent by: "ADSM:Subject: Get tape to status scratch. Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU> 2004-04-29 14:34 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Evironment: Server OS: Windows 2000 TSM ver: 5.1.7.0 I have an old tape that was used for a database backup once, that I want to make a scratch tape of, but it wont work. Can anyone help me with this? There is no problem if I do it on another tape. q libvol LB6194ABCL1 Private Data4,130 LB6195ABCL1 Private Data4,113 LB6196ABCL1 Private Data4,148 LB6197ABCL1 Private DbBackup4,167 LB6198ABCL1 Private Data4,153 LB6199ABCL1 Private Data4,165 LB6470AALL1 Private Data4,163 update libvol lb6 197ABCL1 status=scratch ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume 197ABCL1 in library LB6 cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. /Larsa --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
Re: Insufficient number of mount points
Hi Do a "q request" to see wether or not you have a mount request in TSM. Normally with a tape library of type manual, TSM will issue a mount request for you to manually mount the tape in the tape drive. After you have mounted it, you should execute "reply X" where X is the mount request number. If you dont do a reply, q mount will not return the tape, as TSM is waiting for you to reply to the mount request. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Senior Storage Consultant Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-27 08:44 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Insufficient number of mount points Even with a tape into the tape drive the "q mount" returns: ANR2034E QUERY MOUNT: No match found using this criteria. > issue q mount > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Insufficient number of mount points > > > There is only one drive installed but I'm not sure if there is another > process using it... how can I be sure there isn't another process using > the drive? > > >> How many drives do you have. Check and see what else is using the >> drives. The message usually means that all drives are being used. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:38 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Insufficient number of mount points >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm very new to TSM and when I'm testing the migration process TSM is >> showing the following message: >> >> ANR1134W Migration terminated for storage pool BACKUPPOOL - insufficient >> number of mount points available for removable media. >> >> TSM is trying to migrate data from a disk to a tape storage pool. >> >> The media is a DDS4 tape device and TSM version is 5.2.2-4 in a RedHat >> 2.1. >> >> What could be wrong? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> >> Reimer >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.quicksoft.com.br >> Fone: (47) 231-6500 - Fax: (47) 231-6515 >> > > > > Reimer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.quicksoft.com.br > Fone: (47) 231-6500 - Fax: (47) 231-6515 > Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.quicksoft.com.br Fone: (47) 231-6500 - Fax: (47) 231-6515
Re: Insufficient number of mount points
Hi As you are using a libtype of manual, your library wont have any volumes in its "on-line" inventory. Therefore, executing q libvol will not show you the volumes you have labeled. As soon as you have labled your volume, the volume will be ejected from the tape drive. That means, that the volume will not be in "on-line" mode. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-27 10:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Insufficient number of mount points I restared the whole process again. First of all I labeled a tape with "label libvolume manuallib dsm001" and then the server asked to mount a 4mm volume in drive. After a tape was mounted the server recorded LABEL VOLUME for volume DSM001 in library MANUALLIB completed successfully. But when you query the server with "q libvolume manuallib", the answer is "no match found using this criteria". Should not "q libvolume manuallib" show something about volume DSM001? > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>When I insert or eject it from the drive nothing is recorded in the >>activity log. It seams like the TSM server cann't see what is happining >>with the drive. > > If you are manually inserting and ejecting the tape, TSM won't know > anything about it and won't record the events. > > -- > Mark Stapleton > Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.quicksoft.com.br Fone: (47) 231-6500 - Fax: (47) 231-6515
Re: Open VMS and TSM
Hi Its supported as a client using the STORServer ABC client. You can find the product at http://www.storserver.com/main.cfm?menu=2&submenu=abc&detail=include/abcoverview.cfm. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Muhammad Sadat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-06-01 09:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Open VMS and TSM Dear All, I wonder if TSM supports Open VMS as server or client?? Any idea??? Cheers! Muhammad SaDaT Anwar Product Specialist Systems Management & Data Management Products Info Tech (Pvt) Limited 108, Business Avenue, Main Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan Ph: +92-21-111-427-427 Fax: +92-21-4310569 Cell: +92-21-300-8211943
Re: Licensing issues when moving server
The packages on the IBM FTP-site doesnt containt the LIC-files or the dsmlicense file. You will need theese files to be able to register licences. When doing a new install, you'll always need the product CD from IBM, or the download from Passport Advantage to be able to install the server. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Gordon Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-06-08 10:33 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Licensing issues when moving server I was just trying to move one of our TSM servers to a new machine today, but when it came to re-registering the licenses I kept getting the following errors: ANS8000I Server command: 'register license file(50mgsyslan.lic)' ANR2852I Current license information: ANR9638W License registration is not supported on this server. ANS8001I Return code 3. This happened for all the licenses I was trying to reregister. >From my hazy recollection, we only used the TSM v4.2.2.5 server download from the IBM FTP support site on the initial installation and I re-used that same server package today to reinstall on the new server. Now at the time we were initially using an original TSM v4.1.2 CD but then decided to use the newer version, so no update/upgrade was performed as we did a fresh install. What do I need to do to get around this licensing issue without uninstalling TSM off the new server and reinstalling? In the end I had to rollback to the old TSM server and have another crack at it tomorrow. Thanks in advance Gordon Woodward Wintel Server Support -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
Re: Can't find 3575 microcode ...
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/357x/ Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 PAC Brion Arnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-06-08 11:36 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Can't find 3575 microcode ... Hi folks, Could anybody give me a pointer to an address where I could find latest microcode for a 3575 library and it's drives. I already spent 1 hour on IBM website in vain :( Thanks in advance ! Cheers. Arnaud *** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: TSM Lotus Notes Transaction Log
Hi I assume you mean that the notes transaction logs should be on a separate m/c from the notes database within your TSM server? First of all, i cant see the reason why you should want to separate the TX logs from the database, as the TX logs are dependent on the backed up Domino database in a restore situation. However, this isnt that hard to accomplish. Just include the transaction logs to a different MC in your DP for Domino OPT-file like: INCLUDE *:\...\*.txn "Your MC for TX logs" Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Dourado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-06-16 13:30 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject TSM Lotus Notes Transaction Log Hi A Project Leader, as part of Disaster Recovery, has decided that the Transaction log should be on a separate m/c which is in different location from the Notes Server. Is this possible ? Has anybody tried this successfully ? And how did you implement it ? Currently we don't have transaction logging enabled, but intend to do so. TSM Server for Windows 5.2.2.0 Lotus Notes 6.5 TSM TDP for Domino 5.1.5.1 Regards Bill
Re: SQL agent for TSM
Hi Linus Does the MovexSMSENG2 already exist on the SQL server where you're attempting to restore the database? If so, you need to use the replace option to replace the existing database. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Persson, Linus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-06-22 14:30 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject SQL agent for TSM Hi, I have a problem with the "Data protection for SQL server" utility. I need to restore a database into a new empty database. I have tried the "restore into" and the "relocate" options but as soon as I start the actual restore, the operation halts. The error message reads: "Restore Failed [Microsoft][ODBC SQL server Driver][SQL Server] The database to be restored was named MovexSMSENG. Reissue the statement using the WITH REPLACE option to overwrite the MOVEXSMSENG2 database" Anyone recognise this error message? In my example the MovexSMSENG is the original database and the MovexSMSENG2 is the empty one where I try to restore it. Linus Persson It Coordinator Backoffice Frigoscandia Equipment FMC
Re: TSM device file for AIX 5.x? TSM 5.1
Hi Lawrence They are included in the TSM server package. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-01 16:05 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject TSM device file for AIX 5.x? TSM 5.1 Hi: I only have the AIX 4.3 devices for TSM 5.1 on my system: tivoli.tsm.devices.aix43.rte 5.1.0.0 Where do I obtain the aix 5x version for AIX?
Re: Tivoli Software Download
Hi Werner The packages are located at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ You'll have to download both the maintenance package and the patch package (located under /maintenance resp /patches) for the TSM server. For the client, you'll only have to download the patch version (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/clients) Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Werner Nussbaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-02 12:05 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Tivoli Software Download Hi all Is it possible to download Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows and Tivoli Storage Manager Client for Windows as a try and buy software? Thanks for help, regards Werner Nussbaumer
Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ?
Hi Sascha It means from, so you shouldnt have any problems using your 3582 under TSM 5.2.2.2. The only tape libraries from IBM that has gone out of support is the 3575-series of libraries. Notice that you will have to download and install the IBM Atape device driver, which you can download from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Sascha Askani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-05 13:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? Hi List ! I just wanted to assure that the IBM 3582 (SCSI)-Library is supported under TSM 5.2.2 (AIX) because "Supported Devices" on IBM-Website tells me: IBM 3582 Ultrium ScalableAIX HPUXSUN WIN The IBM device driver is required. 2 Drives 24 Slots 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 Does this mean that said library is ONLY supported under 5.1.6.5 or is it supported FROM 5.1.6.5 ON ? Thanks for your support ! Sascha Askani
Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ?
Hi Sascha Are the drives connected on the same adapter? In this case, the "shoe-shine" effect is probably what you're seeing. Your new LTO-2 drive have variable speed. However, the speed is only adjustable as long as the speed doesnt fall below 15MB/s. Your LTO-1 drives has a maximum transfer rate of 15MB/s uncompressed. This could mean, the LTO-1 drives doesnt deliver data fast enough to the LTO-2 drives. If you're using SCSI connected drives, this could impose a real impact on performance, as the SCSI adapter is arbitrated, and therefore cannot write to more than one device at a time. If you're using AIX, you could use for example topas(if its installed) so see the performance of your tape drives. As long as no other procesess or sessions are running, you could look at the top right number(tty write/read) to determine the speed of the tape drives. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Sascha Askani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-05 13:46 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? Hi Daniel, thanks for your fast reply, I feel somewhat relieved that the lib is supported, because I face major performance problems with this library at the moment doing a "move nodedata" 3583(LTO1) -> 3582(LTO2), but I can't say if this is a Library-, SCSI- or TSM-Problem or no problem at all (for example "Shoe-shine" on the 3583... Greetings Sascha Askani > Hi Sascha > > It means from, so you shouldnt have any problems using your 3582 under TSM > 5.2.2.2. The only tape libraries from IBM that has gone out of support is > the 3575-series of libraries. > > Notice that you will have to download and install the IBM Atape device > driver, which you can download from > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX. > > Best Regards > > Daniel Sparrman > > Sascha Askani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2004-07-05 13:18 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc > > Subject > 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? > > > > > > > Hi List ! > > I just wanted to assure that the IBM 3582 (SCSI)-Library is supported > under > TSM 5.2.2 (AIX) because "Supported Devices" on IBM-Website tells me: > > IBM 3582 Ultrium ScalableAIX HPUXSUN WIN > The IBM device driver is required. > 2 Drives 24 Slots 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 > > Does this mean that said library is ONLY supported under 5.1.6.5 or is it > supported FROM 5.1.6.5 ON ? > > Thanks for your support ! > > Sascha Askani >
Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ?
Richard, the "From" is not applicable for all devices. Therefore, the question Sascha asked was asked for a reason. Some DLT, AIT and 8mm devices are no longer supported. However, if you look at them in the "Supported Devices List", you will get the notion that they are supported. So the "Supported list" is mostly with the "From" statement, but in some scenarios, the stated version is the latest version that will work with the device in question. Sascha, sometimes there are other reasons why the device wont work. Thats why you should always check the patch information and the knowledge base for information regarding your device before down-grading the version of TSM you're running. In 90% of the scenarios when you have problem with a device, its due to a bug or issue with the device in the code of TSM, and is almost every time already registred as an APAR with IBM/Tivoli. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-05 14:34 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? >I just wanted to assure that the IBM 3582 (SCSI)-Library is supported under >TSM 5.2.2 (AIX) because "Supported Devices" on IBM-Website tells me: > >IBM 3582 Ultrium ScalableAIX HPUXSUN WIN >The IBM device driver is required. >2 Drives 24 Slots 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 > >Does this mean that said library is ONLY supported under 5.1.6.5 or is it >supported FROM 5.1.6.5 ON ? The explanatory information above the table specifies that the VRML given is the minimum level. Richard Sims
Re: Antwort: ADSM-L Digest - 2 Jul 2004 to 5 Jul 2004 (#2004-178)
Hi Markus IBM is no longer developing drivers for the 3575-series of libraries. However, the old drivers are still supported. Thats why you can use it on AIX, SUN and HP/UX(which your link states). However, try running it with for example Linux, and you'll find out that the Atape driver for Linux doesnt support 357X devices. As new operating systems are introduced, no further development of drivers will occur for the 357X devices. So, it's more of a definition of support. Yes, it supported with the old existing drivers. No, it's not supported for new operating systems. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Markus Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-06 14:23 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Antwort: ADSM-L Digest - 2 Jul 2004 to 5 Jul 2004 (#2004-178) Daniel Sparrman wrote: > The only tape libraries from IBM that has gone out of support is the 3575-series of libraries. where is that info from? I didn´t find anything about eos in the IBM pages searching for 3575. In fact it only quotes having to use the IBM driver starting 5.1. I hope it´s just a roumor... If not, I would be highly interested where to find more. It´s still in the list of supported devices: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Supported_Devices_for_AIXHPSUNWIN.html Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Markus Engelhard IT531 Storage & Recovery Deutsche Bundesbank Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße 14 60431 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 69 9566 -6104 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail oder von Teilen dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. Wir haben alle verkehrsüblichen Maßnahmen unternommen, um das Risiko der Verbreitung virenbefallener Software oder E-Mails zu minimieren, dennoch raten wir Ihnen, Ihre eigenen Virenkontrollen auf alle Anhänge an dieser Nachricht durchzuführen. Wir schließen außer für den Fall von Vorsatz oder grober Fahrlässigkeit die Haftung für jeglichen Verlust oder Schäden durch virenbefallene Software oder E-Mails aus. Jede von der Bank versendete E-Mail ist sorgfältig erstellt worden, dennoch schließen wir die rechtliche Verbindlichkeit aus; sie kann nicht zu einer irgendwie gearteten Verpflichtung zu Lasten der Bank ausgelegt werden. __ This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail or of parts hereof is strictly forbidden. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses but nevertheless advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment of this message. We accept no liability for loss or damage caused by software viruses except in case of gross negligence or willful behaviour. Any e-mail messages from the Bank are sent in good faith, but shall not be binding or construed as constituting any kind of obligation on the part of the Bank.
Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ?
Hi Tab It all depends on which OS you're planning on running. As long as you stick with an OS where there has existed drivers for a long time, there shouldnt be any problems(like AIX, HP/UX, Solaris and Win32/64). The problem arises when you try to move to a new platform, like Linux. The newly developed drivers doesnt support the 357X-series of hardware anymore. But, as long as you stick with a driver that has been around for some time(like the Atape driver for AIX) there shouldnt be a problem. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Tab Trepagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-09 19:05 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? Daniel, I just read your message. We have two 3575s, an L12 and an L18. Will they still work properly after we go to TSM 5.2? Thanks. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram, L.L.C. Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/05/2004 06:30 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? Hi Sascha It means from, so you shouldnt have any problems using your 3582 under TSM 5.2.2.2. The only tape libraries from IBM that has gone out of support is the 3575-series of libraries. Notice that you will have to download and install the IBM Atape device driver, which you can download from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Sascha Askani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-05 13:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject 3582 supported on TSM 5.2.2 AIX ? Hi List ! I just wanted to assure that the IBM 3582 (SCSI)-Library is supported under TSM 5.2.2 (AIX) because "Supported Devices" on IBM-Website tells me: IBM 3582 Ultrium ScalableAIX HPUXSUN WIN The IBM device driver is required. 2 Drives 24 Slots 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 5.1.6.5 Does this mean that said library is ONLY supported under 5.1.6.5 or is it supported FROM 5.1.6.5 ON ? Thanks for your support ! Sascha Askani
Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR
Hi For Windows 2003, Tivoli offers BMR functionality through the ASR interace(Automated System Recovery), which is a Microsoft built-in feature of W2003. We have some customers running it, and they're very satisfied with the functionality of the ASR. The good thing about ASR it's a built-in feature of 2003, which means Microsoft fully supports it. This will insurce continuous operations of the BMR functionality, despite new patches and service releases from Microsoft. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Christian Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-20 10:25 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: TSM DR vs Veritas IDR Hi Rich! As Muhammad say. The BMR tool for Windows, Linux and Solaris is supplying by Cristie Data Products Ltd. For more information about CBMR (Cristie Bare Machine Recovery) go to www.cbmr.info. If you have any questions about CBMR call there L1 support at +1-866-TEC-CBMR (832-2267) Best Regards Christian Svensson Senior Software Engineer On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:47:19 +0500 Muhammad Sadat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi J, > TSM's DR is primarily concerned with the TSM server >restore in case it > crashes. > TSM is certified by Cristie BMR solution >(www.cristie.co.uk) and is capable > of same features that Veritas IDR provides. > > Kind Regards, > Muhammad SaDaT Anwar > Product Specialist > Systems Management & Data Management Products > > Info Tech (Pvt) Limited > 108, Business Avenue, > Main Shahrah-e-Faisal, > Karachi, Pakistan > Ph: +92-21-111-427-427 Fax: +92-21-4310569 > Cell: +92-21-300-8211943 > > > > > CORP Rick > Willmore > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To > OM> > Sent by: "ADSM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dist Stor > cc > Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .EDU> > > > 07/20/2004 05:02 > Subject > AMTSM DR vs Veritas >IDR > > > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor > Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .EDU> > > > > > > > Hello All, > I wanted some input concerning TSM's DR module and its >capabilities. I > used BMR many years ago as a DR solution and was >planning on using it with > TSM. I am currently working with a Veritas Backup Exec >guy who is touting > the IDR agent that Veritas has and was wondering what my >options are for a > DR scenario. I would like to be able to throw a >floppy/CD in and restore a > server to some specific point in a DR scenario. I am >currently using the > DR module as supplied by TSM but feel that this isn't >quite the solution I > am looking for when restoring a windows box. Any input >would be > appreciated. > > R.
Re: storage pool raid 1?
Mark, I'd say that depends on the level of security the organisation requires. If the disks would crash before migration, it would mean you've just lost all the backup data since yesterday night. Would you like to go to your boss and inform him about that and explain to him that you saved 300$ worth of disk? Also, if you dont migrate every morning, the loss of data could be alot bigger than just one nights backup. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-21 15:15 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: storage pool raid 1? From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Eggleston >I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and >six drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating >one huge filesystem for the storage pool or creating the >filesystem as RAID 1? Why waste the disk space to create the mirror for a disk pool that's going to be migrated to tape anyway? -- Mark Stapleton
Re: storage pool raid 1?
Mark, I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed, and that his/hers document cannot be restored? :=) Fault tolerant disks are never to save you against a disaster. If so, you need to remotely mirror the disks of the TSM server to be able to have continguous operations. Fault tolerant disks are to save you from angry users, whos documents cannot be restored, due to the fact that the TSM admin saved 300$ on disks and thought he was an economic genius. Look at monolithic disks like the EMC 9000 series and the IBM ESS. You cant even configure RAID-0 or JBOD. And, the save of money is to low to defend the possibility of loss of data. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-21 15:39 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: storage pool raid 1? From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman >I'd say that depends on the level of security the organisation >requires. >If the disks would crash before migration, it would mean >you've just lost >all the backup data since yesterday night. Would you like to >go to your >boss and inform him about that and explain to him that you saved 300$ >worth of disk? True. However, this is an attempt to cover a double failure--the TSM client and the TSM server disk. The only time I've seen a double failure occur is during a complete system catastrophe--a server room fire, for example--in which case the only redundancy that will save you is a backup to tape that goes offsite. >Also, if you dont migrate every morning, the loss of data >could be alot bigger than just one nights backup. Also true. However, the only systems I've set up (or seen) that don't perform daily migrations to primary tape pools are disk farms that *never* migrate to tape; in these cases, I can certainly see RAID5 redundancy as necessary. In my experience, I see almost no case for fault tolerance in TSM-based disk systems that normally perform a daily migration to a tape-based primary storage pool. If a system crashing prior to migration worries you, perform your migration as early in the day as you can after clients finish running their backups to a cached disk pool. -- Mark Stapleton
Re: storage pool raid 1?
Karel, if you set the copygroup option on a primary storage pool, this will mean that every single session that sends data to the server will need to have it's own mount point. This will increase the need for tape drives in your copy storagepool. Whats cheapest? Buying extra disk for disk security, or new tape drives just so you can bypass the RAID-security on your disks? You could create a storage pool for your most important server(s), so that not all sessions have a storage pool with the copypool option set. However, most of my customers with 200-300 servers have alot of important servers. Which means, for them, they would still need alot of drives to handle the copygroup option. I would still go for disk security, either by using RAID internally in your disk subsystem, or by remote mirroring between disk subsystems(which is getting more common as companies begin to look at disaster recovery options). It's alot cheaper than trying to bypass disk security by using the copygroup option. If your disk subsystems are on a SAN, you could easily mirror(remote or locally) them in the operating system, which would make it possible to raise the level of uptime, as the TSM server wouldnt go down if you lost a disk subsystem or a RAID array. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------ Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Bos, Karel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-07-22 09:17 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: storage pool raid 1? Hi, Then again, if you configure these important server to directly write to a primary stg pool, with backupstg set to a copy pool, one backup will write to two destination at the same time. This will solve the raid 5 overhead and leave you with two copies of the "most" important data. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 21 juli 2004 22:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: storage pool raid 1? ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen occasions when disks have failed on a TSM server, and a user calls > to have a single Word document retrieved. You want to be the one explaining > to the user that the disk on the backupserver has failed, and that his/hers > document cannot be restored? :=) "Me too." Additionally, there are increasing amounts of data stored on TSM which are not even "just backups". If you use the DB2 archive log transfer facilities, then between the time you run the log upload and the next time you complete a stgpool backup, your DASD has the only copy of that data in the universe. With a RAID-5 in place and a hot spare, I don't feel too much angst about this, but unmirrored would squick me for sure. We also use TSM as a data store for our content management application; That DASD is in fact the primary data. must must MUST be raided. - Allen S. Rout
Re: AW: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas?
Hi There can be several reasons why there is a difference in the number of scratch tapes between your onsite and offsite 3494:s: 1. Reuse Delay. Is reuse delay activated on the off-site pool(s)? 2. Is there equal number of volumes in the on-site and off-site 3494:s accoring to the TSM inventory? 3. Do you have the same amount of reclaimable space in both on-site and off-site(easily checked running the command "select sum(physical_mb) from occupancy where stgpool_name like "your copypool" / "your on-site pools"). 4. A dumb question; do you have the same drive typ and media type in both libraries? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-08-24 14:11 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject AW: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas? How about your reclaim and collocation settings? Are they equal? regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von John C Dury Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. August 2004 13:21 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas? Somehow this thread got a little messy so I'll update it with everything I know and answer everyone's questions (I think). A recap: We have 2 3494 libraries, one local and one remote. The remote one is used for backing up the local one only. There is a huge discrepancy between the number of scratch tapes in the local and remote libraries although they both appear to have the same amount of data. Things people suggested I check: Compression is on for all drives in both libraries. I checked. I have "reuse delay" set at 0 on both 3494 libraries so no tapes go into pending on either library. They immediately become scratches after reclamation. We run a job nightly that deletes volhistory for database backups. (del volhist type=dbb todate=today-2). See immediately below for a possible explanation although I don't understand why this would cause it. Anyone? Looks like I'll be caling IBM. John We originally had a combination of 3590J and 3590K tapes in the 3494LOCAL library. I moved the data off of the 3590J tapes and then checked them out and checked in 3590K volumes that has the same volume labels as the original 3590J volume. Essentially I replaced all the 3590J tapes with 3590K tapes with the same volume labels. The libary manager was updated to reflect the new 3590K volumes before they were checked in. Could this have caused this problem? John - Forwarded by John C Dury/DLC on 08/23/2004 02:37 PM - John C Dury/DLC 08/23/2004 02:28 To PMADSM-L cc Subject Re: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas? Here is the output from that command. It looks pretty similar to me. I also checked compression for both local and remote libraries. All are on. We also run a job every night that deletes the dbb volhistory which allows only 2 days of retention. (del volhist type=dbb todate=today-2) STGPOOL_NAME: 3494LOCAL Unnamed[2]: 38531539 Unnamed[3]: 11776076.83 Unnamed[4]: 11886072.01 STGPOOL_NAME: 3494REMOTE Unnamed[2]: 38513745 Unnamed[3]: 11773755.03 Unnamed[4]: 11876887.56 These are all great suggestions which is why I asked here but I'm still at a complete loss. John The output from "select stgpool_name,sum(num_files),sum(logical_mb),sum(physical_mb) from occupancy group by stgpool_name" should give some indication of whether the same amount of stuff is getting to the remote storagepools. David >>> jdury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM 8/23/2004 1:26:57 PM >>> We have 2 3494 tape libraries. One is local and the other is remote. The local one (3494LOCAL) receives all the data from the nightly backups as it gets migrated from disk. The remote one (3494REMOTE) is only used as the target of backing up the 3494LOCAL storage pool which gets done everyday during the day. 3494LOCAL has 577 library volumes in it. 3494REMOTE has 494 library volumes in it. Both tape libraries only have 3590K tapes in them. My problem is that 3494LOCAL has 62 scratch tapes available and 3494REMOTE has 207 scratch tapes in it. Reclamation runs daily and sets the same percentage (57) for both libraries. How can there be such a huge difference in the number of scra
Re: Licensing
Hi Does the storage agent node (_SA) have data within TSM? If not, you need to remove the storage agent node from the TSM server(which shouldnt be a problem, as the node in question is no longer using LAN-free functionality). That should also remove the license requirement. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-08-24 18:40 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Licensing That would tell TSM that I'm not doing any SAN but a Q LIC shows that TSM still thinks I'M doing SAN. So the question again is how to convince TSM that the old node is no longer doing Lan Free. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/24/2004 11:55:52 AM >>> >I have a node that used to be Lan Free but no longer uses Lan Free. How >do I convince TSM licensing to stop counting it as a MGSYSSAN node? I believe by doing a REGister LICense with Number=0 which unregisters the license. Richard Sims
Re: DS4500 and TSM?
Hi Yes, it would be possible, given the following conditions: 1. The end system has to be running AIX so that your TSM server can mount the volume in question 2. The TSM server has to be within the same storage partition in your FAStT subsystem so that the TSM server can get access to the snapshot volume. Though it's possible, it's going the hard way. It would be alot easier to utilize LAN-free capabilities, as automating this procedure would take alot of scripting, and lots of engineering on your FAStT. FlashCopy = Immediate copy. Not copying the whole volume at once, but only creating a second table of contents of an existing volume. This also means that the new flashcopy volume has ties to the original volume. VolumeCopy = Replicating two different logical volumes. Replicate information stored in one logical volume onto another logical volume. The two logical volumes doesnt have any ties to eachother. >From the IBM website: "VolumeCopy option provides full logical drive replication within the FAStT700 with enhanced data management and protection." "FlashCopy feature creates a point-in-time (PiT) image of a volume?the equivalent of a complete physical copy but created much more quickly and requiring less disk space. FlashCopy volumes are host-addressable and function as normal volumes with complete read and write access. The FlashCopy feature uses an innovative copy-on-write technology to maintain the logical FlashCopy volume while reducing disk utilization. A repository volume stores only the data blocks that have changed since the time of the last use of the FlashCopy feature." Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-13 17:07 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject DS4500 and TSM? Given the DS4500 has FlashCopy and VolumeCopy (what's this?), is there someway such that the TSM server (on AIX) can attach to the area that contains a FlashCopy backup to push that area directly to disk without involving the end server (possibly Windows/Exchange)? Does that make sense? :) Mike
Re: Exchange 2003 on MSCS with TDP
We have a customer backing up 4 clusters, with 8 nodes total. Each Exchange Virtual server has approx. 4.000 users. Each server is running MS Exch 2003 in a active/passive cluster configuration. Have been running for a while now. No problems this far. We have conducted test-restores without any problems. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 TSM_User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-16 15:18 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Exchange 2003 on MSCS with TDP I have run the Exchange TDP on a Microsoft Cluster with Exchange 2000. I have also run the TDP on Exchange 2003. In both cases I haven't had any problems. We have a few customers that are going to be moving to Exchange 2003 on Cluster Servers. I was wondering how many people have already started backing up Exchange 2003 on cluster server with the latest TDP for Exchange? I have no reason to beleive there will be any questions my customers are just asking how many others are doing it so far. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!
Re: Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery
Hi This really depends on what type of client you're trying to restore. For large databases, the fastest way would be to utilize the LAN-free functionality. For file-servers, utilizing LAN-free is not an option, as it will not speed up the transferrate of data. If the fileserver cant be restored utilizing normal incremental backups in an acceptable timeframe, perhaps you should consider using image backup on a weekly basis, and backup the images using LAN-free to a separate management class. Usually, combining server performance and design, disk performance and design, features like LAN-free and tape technology is the best way of optimizing your TSM environment. HOW you store your data is essential as well; storing directories directly on tape, without utilizing DIRMC, can have a large performance impact on restoration of fileservers for example. I'd say there are multiple issues which should be adressed when optimizing the TSM performance. Both client and server should be examined for possible bottle necks. Check out the TSM performance guide. Perhaps it's the first thing you should go through. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMM/SC32-9101-01/en_US/HTML/SC32-9101-01.htm Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 David Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-20 13:54 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Looking for ways to improve daily backups and Disaster Recovery We're looking at possibly revamping our TSM system. We've got a OS/390 server. Looking at all possibilities (adding disk or tape or bandwidth to our current server OR changing to a different TSM server platform like AIX) what hardware configuration would give us the fastest D/R of a large client? The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
Re: Duel tape write to LTO's
Hi Milton Yes, we are successfully using the COPYSTGPOOLS feature. We have large Oracle and DB/2 database backups going directly to tape. The stgpool has the COPYSTGPOOLS feature set, which resides in a different library, even on a remote location(we're using 9310 with 9840B as the primary tape stgpool and 9310 with 9840C as copypools located 20km away from the main office). During the backup process, if a mount request is denied or there aren't any idle drives in the copypool, the backup will continue, removing the copypool temporarily from the primary tape copystgpool list. This all depends on the parameter CONTINUECOPYONERROR which is also set on the primary stgpool. If you set this parameter to YES, the backup will continue, not requesting any more mount points in your copy storage pool. If you set this parameter to NO however, the backup will either go into mount wait status, or fail, depending on why it cant get a mount point in your copy storage pool. Remember, this feature is only available on LAN-based backups. It is still not available for LAN-free backups, something I think is strange as the largest backups are using the LAN-free functionality. We managed to reduce the amount of data being backed up by the BACKUP STGPOOL process to 40%. If you dont use any LAN-free clients, this feature should be able to completely remove the need for backup stgpool. I do however recommend running the process, event if it doesnt backup any data. Its always good to know that ALL your data resides in the COPYPOOL. I do not recommend using this feature on your primary diskpools. It will only mean that every backup session that is started from your clients, will need a mount point in your copy storage pool. This is a good way to make all clients come in to mount wait status or a good way of needing more drives. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Johnson, Milton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-21 17:44 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Duel tape write to LTO's It depends upon where you define the copypool to reside. If it is contained in the "2nd library" then yes. Has anyone out there in TSM land actually used this feature? What happens to the back-up when one of the tape volumes fills up? Does it go into a media wait state until the next volume is mounted? What happens if there isn't a volume available in the copypool? Any other gotcha's? H. Milton Johnson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Duel tape write to LTO's Hi Milton, When TSM writes simultaneously to the copypool would this be on the 2nd Library for duel tape backup? "Johnson, Milton" wrote: > You should be able to create a PRIMARY STGPOOL named TAPEPOOL and a > COPY STGPOOL named COPYPOOL with both of them having a sequential > access > (tape) DEVICE CLASS such as DLT or LTO. Both stgpools can be in the > same library. On the stgpool TAPEPOOL definition you set the > COPYSTGPOOLS parameter to COPYPOOL. Then when your client backs up to > TAPEPOOL, TSM will simultaneously write to COPYPOOL. Of course having > an adequate number of tape drives is required. > > H. Milton Johnson > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Timothy Hughes > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 8:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Duel tape write to LTO's > > Hello, > > I was told that this could work If I have 2 backup disk pools. > > Like I have backup diskpool, then I can have like say a DB2 backup > diskpool then I can have the next storage pool setting for the db > backup pool so I can migrate to the one Library then for the other > backup disk pool I can have it migrate to the other Library. > > I think I can have simultaneous write to two different libraries this > way. Still not sure if this would work. > >TSM Library setup > > TSM SERVER LTO_LIB LIBRARY > > TSM SERVER RMT1 DRIVE LTO_LIB > TSM SERVER RMT2 DRIVE LTO_LIB > TSM SERVER RMT3 DRIVE LTO_LIB > TSM SERVER RMT4 DRIVE LTO_LIB > > TSM SERVER RMT_LTO LIBRARY > > TSM SERVER RMT5 DRIVE RMT_LTO > TSM SERVER RMT6 DRIVE RMT_LTO > TSM SERVER RMT7 DRIVE RMT_LTO > TSM SERVER RMT8 DRIVE RMT_LTO > > Any other ideas comments are welcome! > > Thanks > > "J
Re: D2D on AIX
Hi Comparing these types of numbers are abit unfair. We have customers running 9840 and LTO-2. They have alot higher throughput than 8-12GB/hour over a GB nic. For example, we have a customer running Netware. The TSM server is an AIX server(pSeries 615) connected to a 3584-L32 library with 3 LTO-2 drives. The Netware server has about 200GB of data. The AIX server has three 100Mbs nic, bundled togheter in an Etherchannel interface(theoretic speed is 300Mbs or 30MB/s). The netware server is connected through 100Mbs ethernet(single adapter). The server have a restore time of about 5½ hours which means we have an hourly throughput of almost 40GB/hour. Average networkspeed is 11MB/s. The Netware server utilizes multi-session restore, which means it can mount multiple volumes at once for restores. We have another customer running a pSeries 650 clustrer. The cluster is attached to a 3584-L32 library with 9 LTO-2 drives. The pSeries server is equipped with an Etherchannel interface which consists of 2 GB nics. During testing of a restore scenario on one of their Lotus Domino servers(300GB of data), they reached about 50MB/s restoring directly from tape. In this case, we didnt utilize multi-session restore, which meant that the single LTO-2 drive could deliver 180GB/hour. Today, the new tape technologies can easily outrun disks. To match LTO-2 drives against disks, you'll ned large, fiber-attached disk subsystems, with no other load than the TSM server load. Internal SCSI-disks can never outrun fiber-attached LTO-2 drives. The LTO-2 drive has a native speed of 35MB/s, compressed around 50-70MB/s depending on the type of data. They also have dynamic speed, which means you dont get the back-hitch as long as you keep writing data with at least 15MB/s. We've seen theese drives push up to 90MB/s on database backups and restores. During the testing phase of the implementation, we had up to 380MB/s from the disks(two mirrored FAStT900 connected through 4 FC HBA:s with 34 15K 36.4GB fiber disks per FAStT system) and almost 650MB/s from the drives(9 LTO-2 drives connected through 4 FC HBA:s). The speed of the drives is all about design. If you attach a large number of drives to a single FC HBA, you'll easily get back-hitch. With the LTO-2 drives, a fair number of drives/adapter is around 3-4 / adapter. Designing disk to match the tape drives is all about cost. S-ATA drives can never outrun LTO-2 drives, at least not when it comes to large files or database backups and restores. Designing FC disks to match the drives will mean the cost is 10 times the cost of the tape drives. This is all my opinion, and I'm sure that there are others out there that dont agree. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 TSM_User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-22 04:27 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: D2D on AIX Good questions. Our real world example:We went from around 8 - 12 GB/hr restore off of tape to over 40 GB/hr from the file device classes. Our test was a file server with a little over 300 GB of data. The File server and the TSM server both had 1 GB NIC's. Resource utilization was set to 10 in both cases. The data was fragemented on tape for a little over a year for the first test. The data was fragmented over disk for nearly 8 months. Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does TSM access the data on file volumes? Does it keep an offset of the start of every file or aggregate? If it does, then yes we could skip to the start of each file or aggregate. If it does not, then we need to read through the volume to find the file we are going to restore. Where we have a large number of concurrent restores happening, this could cause performance issues on the array. Now TSM has some smarts on later technology tape drives that have block addressability and on-cartridge memory and can find a spot on the tape quickly, but does this translate to file volumes? Regards Steve. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/09/2004 4:49:55 >>> True. Seek time is tiny compared to tape mounts. I am just concerned that the TSM db has to keep track of thousands of volume. How much will it increase the size of the db. Ours is already 90G at 70% utilized. Eliza > > ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau writes: > > > What is the recommended volume size. I have seen someone mentioned 5G, but > > then the number of volumes will explode from about 800 (current # of 3590 > > primary tapes) to thousands. > > Consider, this doesn't really cost you much. Seek time in a directory of > thousands of files
Re: D2D on AIX
Hi No, the restore test was not done with "new" data. The server had been backing up data for several months, and utilized a total of 63 9840B cartridges.However, mount time isnt an issue when having the possibility of using multi-mount, multi-session restore. Its an even smaller issue when having a tape library and tape drives that have a small time-to-data. However, a large fileserver (+300GB) should never be non-collocated. This will, as you say, spread the data over a non-acceptable number of tapes. This however doesnt have to do with tape vs disk performance, rather TSM design issues. A good design will always give you a good performance from tape. The problem is, as servers are growing, no actions are taken to withold good restore performance from the tape drives. Designing the TSM system to have bad performance on either disk or tape isnt that hard. The challenge is to design the TSM system with good performance on both disk aswell as tape. Mvh // Daniel Sparrman ------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 TSM_User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-09-22 19:16 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: D2D on AIX These numbers are from STK 9840B drives. I am not talking about a backup and then a restore. I am talking about a daily backup for 8 months and then a restore. File fragemenation dramatically effects your througput over time. Sure we can spin 9840 drives to 100 GB/hr for large files. I have even backed up a file server to 38 GB/hr (throgh 1 GB NIC's) with millions of small files. But over time the speed is effected. It's being unfair it is what it is. For that restore test was it right after a the backup was done? What is the change rate of the data. If it was after 8 months and you still got 40 GB/hr throughput then good deal. I haven't seen that. Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Comparing these types of numbers are abit unfair. We have customers running 9840 and LTO-2. They have alot higher throughput than 8-12GB/hour over a GB nic. For example, we have a customer running Netware. The TSM server is an AIX server(pSeries 615) connected to a 3584-L32 library with 3 LTO-2 drives. The Netware server has about 200GB of data. The AIX server has three 100Mbs nic, bundled togheter in an Etherchannel interface(theoretic speed is 300Mbs or 30MB/s). The netware server is connected through 100Mbs ethernet(single adapter). The server have a restore time of about 5= hours which means we have an hourly throughput of almost 40GB/hour. Average networkspeed is 11MB/s. The Netware server utilizes multi-session restore, which means it can mount multiple volumes at once for restores. We have another customer running a pSeries 650 clustrer. The cluster is attached to a 3584-L32 library with 9 LTO-2 drives. The pSeries server is equipped with an Etherchannel interface which consists of 2 GB nics. During testing of a restore scenario on one of their Lotus Domino servers(300GB of data), they reached about 50MB/s restoring directly from tape. In this case, we didnt utilize multi-session restore, which meant that the single LTO-2 drive could deliver 180GB/hour. Today, the new tape technologies can easily outrun disks. To match LTO-2 drives against disks, you'll ned large, fiber-attached disk subsystems, with no other load than the TSM server load. Internal SCSI-disks can never outrun fiber-attached LTO-2 drives. The LTO-2 drive has a native speed of 35MB/s, compressed around 50-70MB/s depending on the type of data. They also have dynamic speed, which means you dont get the back-hitch as long as you keep writing data with at least 15MB/s. We've seen theese drives push up to 90MB/s on database backups and restores. During the testing phase of the implementation, we had up to 380MB/s from the disks(two mirrored FAStT900 connected through 4 FC HBA:s with 34 15K 36.4GB fiber disks per FAStT system) and almost 650MB/s from the drives(9 LTO-2 drives connected through 4 FC HBA:s). The speed of the drives is all about design. If you attach a large number of drives to a single FC HBA, you'll easily get back-hitch. With the LTO-2 drives, a fair number of drives/adapter is around 3-4 / adapter. Designing disk to match the tape drives is all about cost. S-ATA drives can never outrun LTO-2 drives, at least not when it comes to large files or database backups and restores. Designing FC disks to match the drives will mean the cost is 10 times the cost of the tape drives. This is all my opinion, and I'm sure that there are others out there that dont agree. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervdg
