Re: Shared Tape Library

[Davidson, Becky]

Do you have paths for both the library and drive defined for tsmu on
tsmlibm?
Becky

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andy Carlson
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Shared Tape Library


I have a new 3584.  Before now, we were using STK Powderhorns.  I have the
following setup:

tsmlibm owns the library, which has one drive in it - rmt14

tsmu defines the library as shared, with the primarylibrarymanger being
tsmlibm

When I initiate a db backup from tsmlibm, a scratch gets mounted and the
backup completes.  When I initiate it from tsmu, I get the message:

ANR4571E Database backup/restore terminated - insufficient number of mount
points available for removable media. ANR0985I Process 515 for DATABASE
BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at
10:00:20.

I have verified that the drive is not in use at the time.  Here are my
definitions:

tsmlibm:

   Library Name: 3584LIB
   Library Type: SCSI
 ACS Id:
   Private Category:
   Scratch Category:
   External Manager:
 Shared: Yes
LanFree:
 ObeyMountRetention:
Primary Library Manager:
WWN:
  Serial Number: 078A00940401
  AutoLabel:
Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
  Last Update Date/Time: 01/12/05   12:11:48

Source Name: TSMLIBM
Source Type: SERVER
   Destination Name: 3584LIB
   Destination Type: LIBRARY
Library:
  Node Name:
 Device: /dev/smc0
   External Manager:
LUN:
  Initiator: 0
  Directory:
On-Line: Yes
Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
  Last Update Date/Time: 01/12/05   12:11:48

Source Name: TSMLIBM
Source Type: SERVER
   Destination Name: RMT14
   Destination Type: DRIVE
Library: 3584LIB
  Node Name:
 Device: /dev/rmt14
   External Manager:
LUN:
  Initiator: 0
  Directory:
On-Line: Yes
Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
  Last Update Date/Time: 01/12/05   12:49:23
 Library Name: 3584LIB
   Drive Name: RMT14
  Device Type: 3592
  On-Line: Yes
 Read Formats: 3592C,3592
Write Formats: 3592C,3592
  Element: 257
  Drive State: EMPTY
 Allocated to:
  WWN:
Serial Number: 07803091
   Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
Last Update Date/Time: 01/12/05   12:50:07
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE

  Device Class Name: IBM3592S
 Device Access Strategy: Sequential
 Storage Pool Count: 0
Device Type: 3592
 Format: DRIVE
  Est/Max Capacity (MB):
Mount Limit: 1
   Mount Wait (min): 10
  Mount Retention (min): 0
   Label Prefix: ADSM
Library: 3584LIB
  Directory:
Server Name:
   Retry Period:
 Retry Interval:
 Shared:
Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
  Last Update Date/Time: 01/13/05   09:23:25


tsmu:  Library Name: 3584LIB
   Library Type: SHARED
 ACS Id:
   Private Category:
   Scratch Category:
   External Manager:
 Shared: No
LanFree:
 ObeyMountRetention:
Primary Library Manager: TSMLIBM
WWN:
  Serial Number:
  AutoLabel:
Last Update by (administrator): TS55428
  Last Update Date/Time: 01/12/05   13:12:51

  Device Class Name: IBM3592S
 Device Access Strategy: Sequential
 Storage Pool Count: 0
Device Type: 3592
 Format: DRIVE
  Est/Max Capacity (MB):
Mount Limit: 2
   Mount Wait (min): 10
  Mount Retention (min): 0
   Label Prefix: ADSM
   

Moving 3995 optical libraries

[Davidson, Becky]

We are moving both of our 3995 optical libraries from Missouri to Ohio.  Has
anyone ever done this?  If you have is it absolutely necessary to check out
each and every optical disk or is there some better more time efficient way?
I am going to call IBM support but often there is knowledge here that is a
bit more practical.
Thanks

Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[no subject]

[Davidson, Becky]

For what it is worth we just moved our 3584 from St Louis MO to Cincinnati
Ohio.  We left all of the tapes in the library and added some that we had
been storing onsite also to the library.  When we brought things back up we
did a audit library and then a checkin search=yes status=private.  It worked
very well for us.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Todd Lundstedt
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:58 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject:


We will be moving our 3584 library (including the TSM server, shark, and
everything else in our data center) across town to a new facility.  I am
trying to decide what the best method is to accomplish certain aspects of
the library move.  We don't want to leave the tapes in the library during
the move.  Is it best to "checkout" the tapes before the move, or just
remove the tapes, and put them back into the library after the move in no
specific order, and run an "audit library libname checklabel=barcode" after
the move?

If we go the checkout route, I have a script to remove the scratch tapes
first using the I/O slots.  We will have to run the script several times (10
slots), until all the scratch tapes are removed.  Then, I planned on
creating and executing a script that for each VOLNAME in a "query libv"
command, it would do a "checkout libv libname $VOLNAME remove=no
checklabel=no".  The way I understand the help commands, this will leave all
the existing volumes (which should be only "in use" volumes) in their
current SCSI slot.  We would then remove and box up all the tapes. At the
new datacenter, we would place all the tapes in no particular order directly
back into the library storage slots, then I would run a "checkin libv
libname search=yes checklabel=barcode status=private". After that completed,
I would run through several "checkin libv" commands to put the scratch
volumes back into the library through the I/O slots.

All that sounds like a lot of work when, in theory, I should be able to just
shut down the TSM server, remove the tapes (scratch and private together),
transport the tapes and library (and everything), re-insert the tapes, start
TSM and run an "audit library libname checklabel=barcode" as soon as it
comes up... right?

Of course, I would, via the 3584 User Panel or the 3584 Web Interface,
remove the cleaning cartridges and diagnosis cartridge after TSM shuts down,
and insert them before TSM starts up again.

Thoughts? Suggestions?  Horror stories?

ps, please reply directly to me, as well as the listserv.  I never did
unsubscribe to the listserv, but I have not been getting any email from the
listserv in several months.  I subscribed again today, so we will see how it
goes.

Thanks in advance,

Todd

Re: Include/Exclude Question

[Davidson, Becky]

My finding is that if you have several stanzas
Server A
...

Server B

And you do a dsmc it will automatically connect to server B and not server
A.  That is important to us because if we have an oracle database connecting
with one node name and the client files being backed up as a different node
name we use the dsmc -se=servera if we want to use servera or vice versa.
If we just typed dsmc we would get serverb.  We had some issues with some
backup software that wouldn't let us specify a node name or a server name so
we had to make it the bottom most stanza so it would connect with the node
name that we preferred and then just used the -se option for everything
else.

Becky


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims

On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Mike wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Jones, Kelli wrote:
>
>> This may be a strange question, but...we just had a TSM consultant
>> here and he said that the dsm.opt file is read from bottom to top. Is
>> this correct?  Does placement of the statements matter either way?
>
> that's what I've read in the manuals

I've been around the product for years, and have never seen any indication
that the client option file(s) is read from the bottom to the top. In terms
of data processing, that doesn't even make sense: sequential files are
physically read from the beginning to the end.

 From what I perceive, the client software compiles the options definitions
as it reads the file from beginning to end. It then processes them as
needed. In the case of Include-Exclude statements, they are subsequently
processed from last to first.

Placement of statements matters as defined in the manuals, such as
requirements that some statements appear within server stanzas.

 Richard Sims

Re: dsmadmc using non-root id access

[Davidson, Becky]

Yes no problem.  We wrote a shell menu that opens at the tail end of the
.profile which the options we want them to do.  A combination of logging in,
running a console session, checking in tapes, labeling tapes, etc.  When
they exit the menu it automatically exits the machine.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ameerul Mazli
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 8:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dsmadmc using non-root id access


Hi All,

Has anyone got any idea whether it is possible to
execute dsmadmc with non-root id?

Operators can use web-admin and access using specific
web-admin id. What if the web is 'down' and only
access is telnet? Operator has to telnet but uses
'root' id and then dsmadmc to access the tsm server
admin??? Anyway to avoid using root id to execute the
dsmadmc besides using .profile and run the dsmadmc
immidiately once login? and when exits, logs out of
UNIX?

Can we use a e.g.tsmadm UNIX id and runs dsmadmc? Will
there be any 'side effects'?

Hope to get a reply for this soonest possible.

Thanks and best regards
Ameerul Madzali




__
Do you Yahoo!?
Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch

[Davidson, Becky]

Is there more information in the activity log about what this return code 14
is?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
fred johanson
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch


Same: return code=14 on delete.

Also, volumes have been thru expiration  twice.

At 04:21 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>What happens if you set the tape ACCESS back to READ/WRITE?
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of fred johanson
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 4:02 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch
>
>
>Volume Name: UC0262
>  State: Mountable in library
>Last Update Date/Time: 02/06/2004 12:31:03
>   Location:
>  Storage Pool Name: BACKDESKPOOL
>  Automated LibName: UOCLIB
>  Volume Status: Empty
> Access: Read-Only
>Last Reference Date: 10/18/2003 14:45:00
>
>
>
>At 03:58 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >do a
> >q media {volume_name} stg={stgpool_name} f=d
> >
> >and post the output.
> >
> >
> >
> >Dale Jolliff
> >Sungard Midrange Storage Administration
> >Office Telephone: (856) 566-5022
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >fred johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/2004
> >03:48 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> >
> >
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > cc:
> > Subject:Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch
> >
> >
> >Server level 5.2.2.5
> >
> >q med uc0262
> >
> >UC0262 Mountable in library   UOCLIB
> >
> >q vol uc0262 f=d
> >
> > Volume Name: UC0262
> >   Storage Pool Name: BACKDESKPOOL
> >   Device Class Name: TAPE
> > Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
> > Scaled Capacity Applied:
> >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: 1
> >   Approx. Date Last Written: 10/18/2003 14:45:00
> >  Approx. Date Last Read: 10/18/2003 14:12:53
> > Date Became Pending:
> >  Number of Write Errors: 0
> >   Number of Read Errors: 0
> > Volume Location: Shelf Tape Library
> >Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No
> >Last Update by (administrator): FRED
> >   Last Update Date/Time: 02/06/2004 12:31:03
> >
> >
> >
> >tsm: TSM>move data uc0262
> >ANR2232W This command will move all of the data stored on volume
> >UC0262 to other volumes within the same storage pool; the data will
> >be inaccessible to users until the operation completes.
> >
> >Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y
> >ANR2209W Volume UC0262 contains no data.
> >ANS8001I Return code 11.
> >
> >tsm: TSM>del vol uc0262
> >ANR2220W This command will delete volume UC0262 from its storage pool
> >after verifying that the volume contains no data.
> >
> >Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y
> >ANS8001I Return code 14.
> >
> >tsm: TSM>aud vol uc0262
> >ANR2310W This command will compare all inventory references to volume
> >UC0262 with the actual data stored on the volume and will report any
> >discrepancies;
> >the data will be inaccessible to users until the operation completes.
> >
> >Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y
> >ANR2209W Volume UC0262 contains no data.
> >
> >tsm: TSM>upd vol uc0262 acc=dest
> >ANR2212I UPDATE VOLUME: No volumes updated.
> >
> >
> >
> >At 03:32 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Fred,
> > >Were these tapes originally scratch tapes?  Or are they assigned to
> > >the storagepool?
> > >
> > >Posting the output from the commands
> > >
> > > "q vol  f=d"
> > >and
> > > "select * from volumes where
> > >volume_name=''
> > >
> > >would help us provide assistance.  Also, what sort of
> > >output/response errors did you get when you attempted to "del vol"
> > >or "audit vol"?
> > >
> > >Ted
> >
> >
> >
> > >At 03:21 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
> > >>Tried that.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>At 02:54 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > >>>You "moved" them out. "Move" them back.
> > >>>Magic.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>Dale Jolliff
> > >>>Sungard Midrange Storage Administration
> > >>>Office Telephone: (856) 566-5022
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>fred johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>>08/02/2004 02:12 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>> cc:
> > >>> Subject:Empty tapes not returning to scratch
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>A new vari

Re: Tape Reclamation Failing

[Davidson, Becky]

How many tapes do you have in the onsite primary pool and the offsite pool?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Hart, Charles
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape Reclamation Failing


I'm getting the error "ANR1086W Space reclamation terminated for volume
volume name - insufficient space in storage pool."  I'm trying to reclaim
the offsite copy pool (tape_backup_copy) The Onsite Primary pool Tape_backup
Has  Max Scratch of 50 the Offsite pool has a max Scr of 200.  We have 15
new Scratch in the library... We have no tapes in "unavailable" status...
I'm only trying to reclaim to 90% which is suppose to yield us some 40
Tapes

If anyone has any other ideas???  Please???

Thanks Much!



Env Info
TSM  5.2.4
AIX 5.2ML3
3494 8x3592 FC Drives

Re: TSM 5.1 on AIX 5.2

[Davidson, Becky]

We haven't had a problem.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Clark
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM 5.1 on AIX 5.2


We originally decided to put TSM 5.2 on the AIX 5.2 system for the migration
because of a notice in the  AIX 5.2 install doc that said TSM 5.1 would
cause 5.2 to crash (at least the version that was on the Bonus
disk.)

Are there any people on this list running TSM 5.1 on AIX 5.2?

TDP for Oracle discovery

[Davidson, Becky]

More a discovery then a problem.  We are running Tivoli Data Protection for
oracle version 5.1.5.0 on aix 5.2
We discovered last week that we had data going to tapes that we did not
expect.  After a great deal of research we discovered the problem.

In the Redbook and manual for TDP for Oracle they have the management class
that the data goes to set up as the default management class.  They don't
specify that you can/need to set up a stanza in the tdpo.opt for the data
files and a stanza for the archive logs.  We typically make our default
management class a "cold" management class for those backups/archives that
you need to keep for an extended period of time.  We set up an oracle
management class for the backups and added the line
Include /system_filespace/* system_oracle
In the include.def.  No where in any of the manuals/Redbooks does it explain
that just takes care of the data files and you need to do something else for
the archive logs or it goes to the default management class of the domain.
After searching adsm.org we found
 >  which explains that you can change it.  We are
planning on dealing with that this week.

I don't know that anyone else has run into this or if they have they haven't
talked about it so I figured I would pass on what we discovered.

Enjoy!

Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anyone have script for multi-session/multi-filespace restore?

[Davidson, Becky]

We were told that the best way to do this at least with Tivoli Data
Protection for SAP R/3 was to have each thread go to a different storage
pool that way no thread will ask for a tape that another thread is using.
We thought that was silly and pushed back.  Hopefully it will be fixed.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MC
Matt Cooper (2838)
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: anyone have script for multi-session/multi-filespace restore?


Hello all,
   I received no responses from my previous post'Need your
thoughts on best RESTORE approach'.  So with just my own research I have
found that TSM does NOT have anything to manage a multi-filespace,
multi-session restore that is not relying on the user to prevent 2 sessions
asking for the same tape.  (please tell me I am wrong)
 ( reference the section in the (AIX) client book on LARGE RESTORES, NO
QUERY,  it is set up for a single filespace (NO WILDCARDS) In my case I will
have 60+ filesspaces on 6+ tapes with 8 tape drives available and have to
start from the command line (actually scripted) to start a session for each
tape drive.  The real problem is preventing more than 1 session from asking
for the same tape.  I believe I can find the necessary information to write
the script from quering the volumeusage  and volume tables and doing the
restore comands from there. I would guess I am not the first one to approach
this problem and hate to spend my time trying to script this when someone
else, (who is most likely much better at scripting than me) has already done
it.

Does anyone have a script that will arrange/control the submission of
multiple restore sessions to avoid having sessions having to wait for other
sessions to finish using a tape?


Thanks in advance
Matt

Re: Common Store and Tivoli

[Davidson, Becky]

We are using it for SAP documents and archiving.  It has it's own tsm
software server but shares a physical server with 2 other tsm software
servers and the commonstore server instances (4).  We have disk pools,
optical pools, and tape pools.  We have a domain for each Commonstore
Instance.  I keep each Commonstore instance in it's own directory tree so I
can upgrade one without upgrading the others.  For our production
commonstore instance depending on the requirement and the frequency of
recall we have management classes that point to disk which drain to optical
and then drain to tape with all being backed up to tape copy pool.  We have
management classes that point to optical and then drain to tape with tape
copy pools and then we have management classes that go straight to tape with
tape copy pools.

We are using a 3494 as our tape library for this but with our other tsm
servers we share both the 3494 and the 3584.  I found with the 3584 it was
easier to have one of the servers be the master and the others the client
for the tape library.  It does mean that if tsmsvr1 (master) is down then no
one else can use the tapes but it made it simpler because when I need drives
for Commonstore I don't necessarily need them for backups and vice versa.

Good luck
Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]




-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nancy L Backhaus
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Common Store and Tivoli


Hello,

We are looking to integrate Common Store into our environment utilizing
Tivoli as our backend archive restore/retrieval process.   What I would
like to know from any of you is, what other environments are doing?

In order to meet different sla's set for our environment, Is anyone setting
up a separate instance of TSM for content manager? How do you parse out the
Tape Library drives, slots?

Background Info.

Our 3584 Tape library due up on lease shortly, we are looking to expand more
tape drives, upgrading library to bring it up to a minimum of a 12 tape
drive to increase our performance and capacity overall and to assist for
email archiving.

3584 TSM Server -Version 5.1.6.5, on AIX RS/6000
103 window clients
Lotus Notes TDP 5.1.5.0
Lotus Notes Release 5.0.11


Thank You,
Nancy L Backhaus

Phone: (716) 887-7979  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pager: (716) 470-0141   Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the
sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary,
confidential, trade secret or privileged information.  Any unauthorized
review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation
of law.  If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for
delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender
by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

Re: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL "communications" failur es

[Davidson, Becky]

Any chance there is another system out there with the same ip address?
Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL "communications" failures


Recently, my TSM AIX server has been reporting issues "communicating" with
our 3494 ATL (plain janeno VTS).This is not a new connection. Has
been working for years.

TSM has started to notice the issues.

I contacted IBM, who says they couldn't find anything wrong.  We checked the
network cable, end-to-end, with no media issues.

The AIX /var/adm/messages show:

May 19 11:27:01 agena lmcpd[5164]: Timeout polling for read data after
accept on library 3494atl May 19 11:34:24 agena lmcpd[5164]: 3494atl: No CMD
response received from LM for msg id 11081F7D May 19 11:34:25 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Taking Library 3494atl offline to host and reinitializing May
19 11:34:26 agena lmcpd[5164]: Library 3494atl is online to host May 19
11:40:20 agena lmcpd[5164]: Timeout polling for read data after accept on
library 3494atl May 19 11:47:36 agena lmcpd[5164]: 3494atl: No CMD response
received from LM for msg id 11081F95 May 19 11:47:36 agena lmcpd[5164]:
Taking Library 3494atl offline to host and reinitializing May 19 11:47:38
agena lmcpd[5164]: Library 3494atl is online to host May 19 14:15:29 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Timeout polling for read data after accept on library 3494atl
May 19 14:22:28 agena lmcpd[5164]: 3494atl: No CMD response received from LM
for msg id 11082028 May 19 14:22:28 agena lmcpd[5164]: Taking Library
3494atl offline to host and reinitializing May 19 14:22:50 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Library 3494atl is online to host May 19 14:31:38 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Timeout polling for read data after accept on library 3494atl
May 19 14:38:35 agena lmcpd[5164]: 3494atl: No CMD response received from LM
for msg id 11082056 May 19 14:38:35 agena lmcpd[5164]: Taking Library
3494atl offline to host and reinitializing May 19 14:38:43 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Library 3494atl is online to host May 19 15:21:46 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Timeout polling for read data after accept on library 3494atl
May 19 15:28:45 agena lmcpd[5164]: 3494atl: No CMD response received from LM
for msg id 110820E2 May 19 15:28:45 agena lmcpd[5164]: Taking Library
3494atl offline to host and reinitializing May 19 15:28:46 agena
lmcpd[5164]: Library 3494atl is online to host


Any suggestions ?  Clues ?  Where to look ?

Re: Library sharing

[Davidson, Becky]

make sure that /dev/rmt1 on source server is the same drive as /dev/rmt1 on
the client server
We discovered that they didn't always come in the same.  It sound like the
server to server communications is working fine.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Library sharing


Well, in this case, it isn't, sortof...

I don't have *ANY* path statements on the client, that refer to these
drives. All that is defined on the client is the SHARED LIBRARY. This is
another TSM server, not just a storage agent.

The path statements on the library manager are duplicated for the client,
pointing to the client as the SOURCE serverand yes, both sets of
definitions point to the same /dev/rmtx.

I am beginning to wonder if it has to do with the different levels of
ATAPE. The client is much newer (8.4.1.0) while the library manager is
8.3.x.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/31/2004
11:07:04 AM:

> When you define the PATHs on the TSM server for the storage agent on
> the client node, the device= is the name of the tape drive on the
> client, not on the server. You need to match the drive name on the
> TSM server to the correct device name on the client node, then use
> that in the DEFINE PATH. So on your TSM server:
>
> If library 3584 drive LTO1 points to the /dev/rmt1 device and on the
> storage agent client SA1 that same physical drive is the /dev/rmt3
> device you would use:
>
> define path SA1 LTO1 srctype=server desttype=drive library=3584
> device=/dev/rmt3
>
> Bill Boyer
> DSS, Inc.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Karel Bos
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Library sharing
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can be, but don't have to be the same... In the past I saw some machines
> with different device names for the same devices and it worked well with
> ITSM (on Windows).
>
> Regards,
>
> Karel
>
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: Amos Hagay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Verzonden: woensdag 31 maart 2004 17:46
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Library sharing
>
>
> Hi,
>
> From my experience with 3584 Library, the rmt devices should be
> The same on both machines e.g. server_1 /dev/rmt1 /dev/rmt2 etc...
> And also on the library client /dev/rmt1 ...
>
> AH
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Library sharing
>
> Trying to get ATL library sharing working between two TSM AIX servers.
>
> I think I finally got the definitions correct..at least they seem to
> function.
>
> However, I can't get the library client (capella) to use the drives.
Every
> time it does, I get these errors in the activity log:
>
> 03/31/2004 09:54:13  ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error
> number=46.
>   (SESSION: 2663, PROCESS: 11)
>
> The "library manager" says the tape is mounted and ready.
>
> 03/31/2004 09:52:25  ANR8337I 3590 volume 070330 mounted in drive
> ATL-DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt1).
> 03/31/2004 09:52:25  ANR9791I Volume 070330 in library 3494ATL ownership
> is changing from TSM-AGENA to TSM-CAPELLA.
>
> Any suggestions on what might be wrong ?
>
> AIX messages says the "-46" is "Drive Not Ready".
>
> These are FC / SAN attached 3590E1A drives.

Re: Question about recovery log

[Davidson, Becky]

Define the new and add it and then delete the old. Don't forget to mirror.

-Original Message-
From: Thach, Kevin G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question about recovery log


I'm confused about how I should go about changing the configuration of my
recovery log.  I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I currently have eight, 1GB log volumes, and I'm wanting to replace these
with a single 13GB volume.

Normally, I would just create and define the new volume using the def dbvol
command, and then remove the old volumes, but since there is a 13GB limit on
the recovery log, I can't do that.

What's the best way for me to do this?  Is there any way I can do it with
the server up and running?  Switch to Normal mode, remove the old volumes,
create the new one, etc.  I'm assuming that TSM will not allow me to
completely get rid of all my log volumes while the server is up (even if in
Normal mode), which is what I would have to do in order to add the 13GB one.


Do I need to shut down the server, remove the old volumes and define the new
one with the dsmfmt -m -log command?

I'm running TSM 5.1.7.3 on AIX 5.1

Thanks!

Re: TDPO for Oracle

[Davidson, Becky]

We use multiple stanzas so the stanza that tdpo requirements don't step on
client requirements and vice versa.  We connect using different servers  it
would be server_tdpo for tdpo and server_dsmc for dsmc

-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TDPO for Oracle


You may want to break the link to prevent TDP from using the INCLEXCL file
that's normally in a dsm.sys file.  If you don't, you'll generate errors.
If linked, and commented out, your normal backups won't have an INCLEXCL
file, hence, you'll backup everything on your client server during your
regular client backup.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Davidson, Becky
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TDPO for Oracle


We had an issue with this and discovered that it was looking in the api
directory for the dsm.sys and not the ba/bin directory so we just put a link
in api to bin and it worked.

-Original Message-
From: Josh-Daniel Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TDPO for Oracle


Dale,
Did you check the basics of, as oracle, or your tdpo user:

   # env | grep DSM

Make sure the DSMI variables point to the right locations, then verify those
files are readable by your user.

If after verifying this, you might want to let us know what version of
oracle, tdpo and tsmc you have on this node.

---
Josh Davis


On 04.03.22 at 13:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:17:14 -0600
> From: "Jolliff, Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TDPO for Oracle
>
> I see this question has been asked several times in the list, but I
> fail to see any answers on ADSM.ORG.
>
> I'm getting the
> "ANS0263E Either the dsm.sys file was not found, or the Inclexcl file
> specified in the dsm.sys was not found" error when trying to set the
> password after installing the 64 bit TDPO on Solaris 8.
>
> (The 32 bit version installs fine)
>
> Anyone have the fix for this handy?
>
>
>
>
> Dale Jolliff
> Data Administration Team
> Backup and Recovery
>


==

If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the
sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain
or redistribute it.

Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail.
 <http://www.ml.com/email_terms/>


==

Re: TDPO for Oracle

[Davidson, Becky]

We had an issue with this and discovered that it was looking in the api
directory for the dsm.sys and not the ba/bin directory so we just put a link
in api to bin and it worked.

-Original Message-
From: Josh-Daniel Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TDPO for Oracle


Dale,
Did you check the basics of, as oracle, or your tdpo user:

   # env | grep DSM

Make sure the DSMI variables point to the right locations, then verify those
files are readable by your user.

If after verifying this, you might want to let us know what version of
oracle, tdpo and tsmc you have on this node.

---
Josh Davis


On 04.03.22 at 13:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:17:14 -0600
> From: "Jolliff, Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TDPO for Oracle
>
> I see this question has been asked several times in the list, but I
> fail to see any answers on ADSM.ORG.
>
> I'm getting the
> "ANS0263E Either the dsm.sys file was not found, or the Inclexcl file
> specified in the dsm.sys was not found" error when trying to set the
> password after installing the 64 bit TDPO on Solaris 8.
>
> (The 32 bit version installs fine)
>
> Anyone have the fix for this handy?
>
>
>
>
> Dale Jolliff
> Data Administration Team
> Backup and Recovery
>

db snapshot to recover

[Davidson, Becky]

Can you use a db snapshot to recover a database in a dr situation?
I can't think of why not but I would rather be safe then sorry.
Thanks!

Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3494 and tapes

[Davidson, Becky]

Try long term archive tapes.  Mark them as offsite when you send them to
overflow so they can't be pulled.  If you know that your retention is 2
weeks then take out the tapes written yesterday.  It is a matter of
reviewing your retentions and storage pool configurations to see what tapes
won't be needed for a period of time.
Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Paul Roth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 and tapes


Thanks again
On current situation is total capacity of 746 volumes including 1 CE tape
and 6 cleaning carts in 3 frames.  Currently I cannot keep enough scratch
tapes in the library to handle a full weekend(Fri, Sat, Sun ).  Reclamation
for tapepool happens 6 days a week and reclamation for copypool(offsite
tapes) happens on weekends only.  Current daily use is approx. 20 -22 tapes,
we have no operator on weekend that can manage the checkout/checkin process.

FYI - I have another frame being delivered in approx. 3 weeks.(this will
resolve my current issue).

What I like to do is "move media" to overflow location(onsite tape racks) -
? is what volumes should go to overflow, have no any experience in
determining what volumes can be temporarily put in the overflow location.


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/2003 6:27:57 PM >>>
Paul,
  All of our scratch tapes reside in the 3494 library. I monitor the total
number of scratch tapes available and react when it falls below a threshold.

  You mentioned your are 'sending volumes for temp onsite' and that you want
to 'determine what volumes to go to overflow'. Are you limited in the number
of tapes you can hold in your 3494 library? Are you working with retrieving
volumes from vault status?  More info please... What are the symptoms of the
issue you are addressing?

John


**
PLEASE NOTE: The above email address has recently changed from a previous
naming standard -- if this does not match your records, please update them
to use this new name in future email addressed to this individual.

This message and any attachments are intended for the
individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended
recipient, please do not forward, copy, print, use or disclose this
communication to others; also please notify the sender by
replying to this message, and then delete it from your system.

The Timken Company
**

Re: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup

[Davidson, Becky]

did they create the link to the correct libobk.a from I believe
$ORACLE_HOME/lib to /usr/tivoli/tsm/...?

-Original Message-
From: Dale Gieseke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDPO V5.2 with RMAN setup


Greeting all,
My DBAs are having a problem with TDP for Oracle version 5.2. Was hoping
someone would be able shed some light on our problem. Thanks in advance for
any informantion you can provide.
 
Environment:
TSM server 5.1.7.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel)
Oracle 9.2 and TDPO 5.2 (on AIX 5.1 32bit kernel)
TSM client V5.1.6.9 32bit
 
Dale Gieseke 
TSM administrator
The Toro Company
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
Following is the error information from my DBAs:
 
RMAN>configure channel 1 device type sbt format 'orc_%d_%t';
RMAN>configure channel 1 device type sbt PARMS
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/oracle/admin/rman/optfile/tdpo_osmt.opt)';
RMAN> backup database;
 
Starting backup at 27-OCT-03
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 10/27/2003 10:23:03
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: 
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
Additional information: 8
 
>sbttest test
The sbt function pointers are loaded from oracle.static library.
libobk.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.  Check that it is installed
 
—---
-
RMAN>allocate channel x1 type 'sbt_tape'
2> PARMS="SBT_LIBRARY=oracle.disksbt,
3> ENV=(BACKUP_DIR=/oracle/DBAQ/archlog)";
4> backup database;
 
This runs fine.
—---
-

Re: Antwort: Re: Del volume on library manager that belongs to li brary client

[Davidson, Becky]

If you do a q vol 10L1 what result do you receive?
Can you check the tape in as scratch now that it is owned by lib_manager?

-Original Message-
From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Antwort: Re: Del volume on library manager that belongs to
library client


Hi,
sorry, no that does not work with TSM 5.2.1.1 see output, but it did work
with
5.1and it should  work with 5.2 shouldn't it?

tsm: LIB_MANAGER>update libv adic100 10l1 stat=scr
ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume 10L1 in library ADIC100 cannot be
assigned a status of SCRATCH.
ANS8001I Return code 12.

after another checkout checkin the owner is missing from q libv
ADIC100   10L1 Private LIB_MANAG- 4,105


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
Markus



   
   
   
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kopie: 
Thema:   Re: Del volume on
library manager that belongs to library client
   
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
  Received :  06.10.2003   
  23:26
  Bitte antworten an "ADSM:
  Dist Stor Manager"   
   
   




update libv libname volname status=scr

do this on the library manager.  I just did it on a 5.1.x server and had no
problems.

-Original Message-
From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Del volume on library manager that belongs to library client


Hi,
I'm trying to delete a volume that belongs to a library client in a shared
library. The library client does not exist anymore and I'm
trying to return that volume to scratch.
TSM Server 5.2.1.1 on W2k3

Tried  update libv  , returned that volhist info is still refrenced
in
volhist file.
Del volhist t=a tod=today deletes 0 volumes
Deleted entries in volhist (file), no luck,
Checkout and checkin, no luck
This is what the volume looks like
   Date/Time: 08/11/2003 13:10:55
 Volume Type: REMOTE
   Backup Series:
Backup Operation:
  Volume Seq:
Device Class: UNKNOWN
 Volume Name: 10L1
 Volume Location: LIB_CLIENT
 Command:

What could I do to return that volume back to scratch?
TIA

Markus Veit

Re: backint restore core dump b008b

[Davidson, Becky]

I know that when we tried to restore a SAP database via backint on a
different machine then it was backed up from we needed to make the hostname
the same name as it was on the original machine.  I don't know if this is
exactly what you are trying to do or if this was the same error we received.
This was on AIX.
Hope this helps.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Koen Willems [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 7:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: backint restore core dump b008b


Dear Listers,

We are trying to restore a SAP database via backint.

We first imported the data from one server to a nother

When we want to do a restore we get a core dump on the host and a error code
b008b..

Whe already send the core dump to IBM but maybey one of you lister had
encounterded the same

problem ?

Thanx in advance..

Koen.

_
Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Re: Del volume on library manager that belongs to library client

[Davidson, Becky]

update libv libname volname status=scr

do this on the library manager.  I just did it on a 5.1.x server and had no
problems.

-Original Message-
From: Markus Veit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Del volume on library manager that belongs to library client


Hi,
I'm trying to delete a volume that belongs to a library client in a shared
library. The library client does not exist anymore and I'm
trying to return that volume to scratch.
TSM Server 5.2.1.1 on W2k3

Tried  update libv  , returned that volhist info is still refrenced
in
volhist file.
Del volhist t=a tod=today deletes 0 volumes
Deleted entries in volhist (file), no luck,
Checkout and checkin, no luck
This is what the volume looks like
   Date/Time: 08/11/2003 13:10:55
 Volume Type: REMOTE
   Backup Series:
Backup Operation:
  Volume Seq:
Device Class: UNKNOWN
 Volume Name: 10L1
 Volume Location: LIB_CLIENT
 Command:

What could I do to return that volume back to scratch?
TIA

Markus Veit

Re: How have you got your fiber-attached LTO drives connected to your TSM server?

[Davidson, Becky]

We have 21 lto drives that connect to 3 8 port hubs (each in the lto cabinet
they service) that connect 1 1 gb switch  We then have 3-4 paths to each of
the hosts.

We have 21 drives on the other side of the room from the switch so this made
it cleaner for us to make changes.

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Tom Kauffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How have you got your fiber-attached LTO drives connected to
your TSM server?


I will be going fiber-attach next year and will have two adapters in my TSM
server.

Do I put a fiber switch in the tape library (3584), tie all the drives to
it, and run two fibers back to the TSM server?

Do I run seperate fibers for all the drives back to my existing switches?

Do I put a pair of fiber hubs in somewhere, and hook half the drives to each
hub?

Ah, yes, it's that wonderful time of year when the leaves start to turn --
and the next year's budget projections are due :-)

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:  This e-mail and any attachments are for the
exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient.  If you are not
the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in
reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please
notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and
its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client
or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

Re: Unix & TSM

[Davidson, Becky]

Yes

I have 1 AIX server with 2 tsm servers on it with 4 libraries attached.  1
3494 was SCSI now fibre, 1 3584 always fibre, 2 3995 optical libraries both
SCSI.  The 3494 and 3584 are shared between the two tsm servers and one
other.  The 3995s are only used by one of the tsm servers.

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Dabney James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unix & TSM


I was asked today by management if a Unix box (TSM Server) can have more
than one tape library attached to it and successfully perform a backup? I
did not know what to say as I am running Versions 5.1 & 5.2 on multiple
Windows platforms.

Can a TSM server backup to more than one tape library physically attached to
the server? I am under the impression that you could share ONE library not
multiple (physical SCSI) libraries.

I am not a Unix person, so if anyone could shed some light I would
appreciate it.


__
James Dabney
IBM / IRS
Desk:512.460.8369
Cell:512.844.9500

Re: Polling sessions Commonstore

[Davidson, Becky]

Are you seeing anything in the CommonStore logs?  If you do an archadmin it
will show what CommonStore is doing.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Polling sessions Commonstore


Hello,

TSM-server 4.2.2.8 on AIX 5.1
TSM-client 4.2.1.25 on AIX 5.1
Commonstore version 8.0
SAP version 4.6c

We install, configure and so on Commonstore on the TSM-client system. We set
up the necessary policy on the TSM-server. Set up the SAP-part. So far so
good. But when we activate Commonstore and the first scan of the document is
done with Commonstore, from that time every 5 minutes there are 2 stop- and
start-sessions in the TSM activity log.

Is there someone who encountered this before and what can we do to increase
the interval Commonstore is polling the TSM-server?

Thanks in advance,

Brian.

_
MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl

Re: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?

[Davidson, Becky]

1.  Our average transmission rate is 350gb/h
2.  We are using lto ultrium 1

How many paths to the disk do you have?  We have 4 paths and we have
discovered that improves performance of backups.  Our tsm server is on the
same system as the SAP database.  How big is your pipe between the tsm
server and the sap server?

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Juan Jose Reale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:00 PM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?
Importance: High


Hello, Becky
1)-Production's SAP database is about 1.700 GB.
2)-The tsm server is on the other server separate from SAP database. The TSM
server is on 7026-B80 IBM server (3x375 Mhz) and the SAP database is on 6M1
IBM Server (8x750 Mhz)
3)-I am using SAN network with switch Mc Data (ED5000 Fiber Channel Director
2032-001)
4)- Yes, we have a multiplexing of 4.
5)- We have 8 processor CPU on the SAP database server.
6)- We are using disks SHARK IBM (3.2 TB).

I have the following questions:
1)- Which is the average transmission rate when you are backing up a 2 TB
Sap database on 10 drives?
2)- Which kind of drive are you using, LTO Ultrium I (First Generation) or
LTO Ultrium II (Second Generation)?

Regards.
Juan R.


-Mensaje original-
De: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: Martes, 12 de Agosto de 2003 02:00 p.m.
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?


How large is your SAP database?
Is the tsm server on the same physical server as the SAP database?
If not what kind of network do you have between the two?
Are you using multiplexing in TDP for R/3?
Is your CPU maxed on the SAP database server during the backups?
What kind of disk is your SAP database using?

I am backing up a 2+TB SAP database on 10 drives in under 6 hours.  We have
a multiplexing of 6.

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Juan Jose Reale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?
Importance: High


 Hello.
I have a LTO Ultrium Ultrascalable Tape Library 3584 L32 and this library
has three (3) drives LTO Ultrium I (First Generation). Every day the TDP for
R/3 (version 3.2.0.8) takes backups online of database's SAP (Oracle)
through TSM Server 4.2. This TSM Server is running on an RS/600 with AIX
4.3.3.  With these tree drives LTO, the backup lasts between 7 and 8 hours
and the average transmission rate was about between 200 GB/h (62 MB/sec) and
260 GB/h (74 MB/sec). This database's size is 1.660 GB.
Well, As I need to reduce the backup's time till 4 hours or down, how can I
find out this solution? Must I allocate others extra drives in order to
reduce the backup's time? I am not sure if it will be reduce the backup's
time with the others drives Ultrium because I have proved the backup with
four drives and his time was not reduced and his result was the same 260
GB/h (74 MB/sec).
I need your comments and I very much look forward to hearning you.
Thank you very much.



This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service.


This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service.


This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service.

Re: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?

[Davidson, Becky]

How large is your SAP database?
Is the tsm server on the same physical server as the SAP database?
If not what kind of network do you have between the two?
Are you using multiplexing in TDP for R/3?
Is your CPU maxed on the SAP database server during the backups?
What kind of disk is your SAP database using?

I am backing up a 2+TB SAP database on 10 drives in under 6 hours.  We have
a multiplexing of 6.

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Juan Jose Reale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Extras drives Ultrium LTO to reduce backup SAP's time ?
Importance: High


 Hello.
I have a LTO Ultrium Ultrascalable Tape Library 3584 L32 and this library
has three (3) drives LTO Ultrium I (First Generation). Every day the TDP for
R/3 (version 3.2.0.8) takes backups online of database's SAP (Oracle)
through TSM Server 4.2. This TSM Server is running on an RS/600 with AIX
4.3.3.  With these tree drives LTO, the backup lasts between 7 and 8 hours
and the average transmission rate was about between 200 GB/h (62 MB/sec) and
260 GB/h (74 MB/sec). This database's size is 1.660 GB.
Well, As I need to reduce the backup's time till 4 hours or down, how can I
find out this solution? Must I allocate others extra drives in order to
reduce the backup's time? I am not sure if it will be reduce the backup's
time with the others drives Ultrium because I have proved the backup with
four drives and his time was not reduced and his result was the same 260
GB/h (74 MB/sec).
I need your comments and I very much look forward to hearning you.
Thank you very much.



This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service.

Re: inaccessible tapes

[Davidson, Becky]

Are you getting any errors in the activity log?  There may be problems with
those tapes.  Do a search with those tapes in your activity log and see if
there are tape or drive errors.

-Original Message-
From: Wojciech Zukowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: inaccessible tapes


I tried "UPDate LIBVolume LibName VolName STATus=SCRatch"
but after few minutes tapes are again "private"
how do you think - "checkout" and "checkin" will help?



On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Rob Hefty wrote:

> Simple question but must be asked, are the tapes in the library?  If so I
> would expect to see the home element with a value.  Also try to enter
"query
> vol XX f=d' and see what the tapes access state is.  Just some
> ideas...
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wojciech Zukowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: unaccessible tapes
>
>
> Hi,
> I use TSM 4.2.3 on AIX 4.3.3
> and so many tapes are in status "private", but they aren't in a storage
> pools.
> No DRM is running,
> It looks like that:
> 
> Library Name   Volume Name   Status   OwnerLast UseHome
> Element
>    ---   --   --   -
> 
> LIDO2LIB   B001  Scratch   11
> LIDO2LIB   B002  Scratch   12
> LIDO2LIB   B003  Private   Data13
> LIDO2LIB   B004  Private   14
> LIDO2LIB   B005  Private   15
> LIDO2LIB   B006  Private   Data16
>
>
> tsm: FRAADSM>q v B005
> ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
> ANS8001I Return code 11.
>
> tsm: FRAADSM>q libv lido2lib B005 f=d
>
>   Library Name: LIDO2LIB
>Volume Name: B005
> Status: Private
>  Owner:
>   Last Use:
>   Home Element: 15
> Cleanings Left:
>
> --
> Wojciech Zukowski
> Lido Technology Ltd. Gdansk/Poland
>

Re: TSM Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.x questions

[Davidson, Becky]

We went straight from 4.1.2 to 5.1.5 with no stop at 4.2.x and few if any
problems.  We were at AIX 4.3.3 ML 9

-Original Message-
From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.x questions


> Are there any issues with upgrading from TSM Server V4.1.2 to version
> 5.1.x? Or do we have to upgrade to 4.2.x first?
>
> Also, what is the best version to upgrade to? 5.1.5, 5.1.6.2 or something
> else?
>
> We are running on AIX 4.3.3 ML 10.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Steven A. Conko
> Senior Unix Systems Administrator
> ADT Security Services, Inc.
>

Re: Tape Library Sharing 2nd Time

[Davidson, Becky]

You do checkins and checkouts on the library server.  To let the library
manager know that a tape belongs to a client do an audit library from that
client.  I don't remember if the path function came in 4.2 or 5.1 but if you
have paths then you only define on the server not the client.

Steps 1 - 6 look correct, not sure on 7 and 8 needs to be done on the
library server.  Then follow up with an audit library and you should be set.
Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Jim Sporer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape Library Sharing 2nd Time


>Since I didn't get an answer the first time I sent this I assume nobody
>has ever done it.  Does anybody have an opinion on whether it can be done
>this way or must I copy all of the data?
>Jim Sporer
>
>
>>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9
>>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:21:47 -0600
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>From: Jim Sporer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Tape Library Sharing
>>Cc: JAMES J SPORER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>I have a 3494 ATL that is shared between two TSM servers.  Right now the
>>Library is partitioned, meaning I have a separate set of private and
>>scratch categories for each of the servers.  I would like to change the
>>library so one of the TSM servers is the primary library manager.  Can I
>>do this using the following steps?
>>
>>1)  Set up server to server communication between the library manager
>>server and the library client server on both TSMs.
>>2)  Update the library manager server library to shared=yes.
>>3)  On the library client TSM checkout all tapes with the remove=no
option.
>>4)  delete the 3590 drives on the library client TSM.
>>5)  delete the library on the library client TSM.
>>6)  define the library on the library client TSM (define library
>>libraryname libtype=shared primarylibmanager=primarytsm)
>>7)  define the 3590 drives on the library client.  We are running TSM
>>4.2.1.7.
>>8)  issue the checkin command on the library client for the volumes
>>checked out in step 3.
>>(checkin libvol libraryname status=private checklabel=barcode search=yes)
>>
>>I have a question about step 8.  Do I issue the checkin command on the
>>primary library manager or the library client.  If I issue the checkin on
>>the primary library manager how does the primary library manager know
>>that the tapes belong to the library client?
>>Jim Sporer
>

Re: IBM/TSM web site errors

[Davidson, Becky]

They have a link on the front page of the software site that says they have
network issues.

I think most of IBM is down because I can't get documentation on SAN
microcode.

-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IBM/TSM web site errors


As far as I can tell, the "new" IBM TSM web site is completely non
functional.

I can't click the DOWNLOADS or APARS link without getting an error.

I can't get far enough to log in.

Is anybody else having this problem?

And does anybody know who we should call to report the web site down?

Re: Need HELP: TDP Oracle on WindowsNT (2 instances of Oracle)

[Davidson, Becky]

For what it is worth I have 4 instances of oracle on AIX and I simply have
separate directories for each instance each with their own tdpo.opt file
under the executables directory.  My dsm.sys has each instance as a separate
servername so that I can keep it separate from the file backups and then I
store the dsm.opt file in the separate directories.

HTH
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Ameerul Mazli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need HELP: TDP Oracle on WindowsNT (2 instances of Oracle)


Hi all,
How does TDP for Oracle on WinNT handles 2 instances
of Oracle? How do we configure them? Need help badly
here.

Thanks and regards
Ameerul

__
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
http://platinum.yahoo.com

Re: Tape sharing - how does TSM handle duplicate device file name s

[Davidson, Becky]

You just need to know which drive equals which drive.  When you define the
drives and/or paths make sure that if drive 1 is /dev/rmt/0stc on the master
that drive 1 on the slave is /dev/rmt/8stc.  If they don't match you will
have problems.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: StorageGroupAdmin StorageGroupAdmin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape sharing - how does TSM handle duplicate device file names


---
This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below.
---

We currently have two TSM environments at separate sites.

Each environment has a SAN connected 3494/3590  (via a MacData Switch and
two SDG's). Both TSM environments are isolated within separate zones. This
segregation means that both environments have the same drive and path
configurations defined to TSM (eg DRV0 = /dev/rmt/0stc)

We would now like to invoke library sharing so to automagically write our
copy pools and database backups offsite.

When I combine the two zones,  both server will discover another 8 3590
drives and will build the special device files.   Now I would have the
situation where the physical drive on the 'managing server' will know the OS
as /dev/rmt/0stc and the 'client' it will be /dev/rmt/8stc  etc etc.


Will this cause an issue with the sharing functionality. In other words,
does the  special file( ie path definition in TSM)  to physical hardware
association need to be in sync. If it does not matter, how does the managing
server tell the client server where the media it requested has been mounted.


Peter Griffin
Sydney Water









---
Voluntary water restrictions now apply to residents in
Sydney, Blue Mountains and the Illawarra.
No sprinklers or watering systems between 8am and 8pm.
No hosing of paths, buildings or hard surfaces.
For more information visit www.sydneywater.com.au
---
NOTICE - This communication contains information which is
confidential and the copyright of Sydney Water or a third party.
If you are not the intended recipient of this communication
please delete and destroy all copies and inform the sender
immediately. If you are the intended recipient of this
communication you should not copy, disclose or distribute this
communication without the authority of Sydney Water.
Any views expressed in this communication are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states
them to be the views of Sydney Water.
Except as required at law, Sydney Water does not represent,
warrant and/or guarantee the integrity of this communication
has been maintained nor that the communication is free of
errors, virus, interception or interference. The attached files
are provided and may only be used on the basis that the user
assumes all responsibility for any loss, damage or consequence
resulting directly or indirectly from the use of the attached files,
whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not.
Sydney Water is not responsible for any changes made to a
document other than those made by Sydney Water or for the
effect of any changes (not made by Sydney Water) on a
document's meaning.
---

Re: Offsite Volumes

[Davidson, Becky]

Do you include the database tapes in reporting and bringing back?

-Original Message-
From: Mahesh Tailor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Offsite Volumes


Hello!

TSM 5.1.6.2 on AIX 4.3.3.10

I am running DRM and I am seeing large discrepancies in what I have
offsite and what TSM reports as being offsite.

I run a q drm wherest=vault [or a select statement] and compare the list
to the physical tapes offsite and they don't match.  About 8 weeks ago,
we did this manual inventory and had about 60-tapes "come back."  I did
not pay much attention to this since we have been making some pretty
drastic changes to our retention policies.  Since then, though, we have
not made any changes and when we did a manual inventory last week, we
found about 32-tapes that did not match TSM's inventory.

Has anyone else seen this?  If so, can this be explained?  Thanks.

Mahesh

Re: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades

[Davidson, Becky]

Yes essentially.  The TSM 5.1 32bit version is the Aix 4.3 version
regardless of whether you are installing on Aix 5.1 or Aix 4.3.  The TSM 5.1
64bit version I believe is the Aix 5.1 version.  I am  positive of the first
statement but a little fuzzy on the second.  Cold medicine changes
perspective a bit.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Coviello, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades


ok so, let's say we upgrade TSM to 5.1.x.x, and then a couple of weeks later
we upgrade AIX to 5.1 we can only go to the 32 bit and not the 64 bit
version?

thanks
Paul

-Original Message-
From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades


If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32bit to Aix 5.1 64bit then do Aix and
then Tivoli but you must do Tivoli before you do your first backup so
essentially at the same time.  If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32 bit
to Aix 5.1 32bit then you have flexibility and you can do it for the most
part in any order.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Argeropoulos, Bonnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades


Hello,

We are currently running Tivoli version 4.1.1 on Aix version 4.3.3 and we
are going to
be upgrading soon.  We are trying decide whether there are any pros/cons to
the order
of upgrading both Tivoli and Aix...Tivoli first?  Aix first?  At the same
time?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bonnie

Re: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades

[Davidson, Becky]

If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32bit to Aix 5.1 64bit then do Aix and
then Tivoli but you must do Tivoli before you do your first backup so
essentially at the same time.  If you are going to go from Aix 4.3.3 32 bit
to Aix 5.1 32bit then you have flexibility and you can do it for the most
part in any order.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Argeropoulos, Bonnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli/ Aix Upgrades


Hello,

We are currently running Tivoli version 4.1.1 on Aix version 4.3.3 and we
are going to
be upgrading soon.  We are trying decide whether there are any pros/cons to
the order
of upgrading both Tivoli and Aix...Tivoli first?  Aix first?  At the same
time?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bonnie

windows 2000 archive

[Davidson, Becky]

I did an archive on a Windows 2000 system using tsm client 5.1.5
We then uninstalled the software that had been running as part of a disaster
recovery test
I then did a retrieve of everything I archived.
We seem to be missing the registry information.

Do archives not back that up?  I have looked through manuals and books and
can't find anything that says it does and can't find anything that says it
doesn't.  Anyone?

Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AIX question

[Davidson, Becky]

Delete the two hdisk again.  Run cfgmgr again.  Check it and if you see the
same type of pattern of 1 vpath showing 4 and the other 2 showing only one
then the shark guy needs to recheck his configuration.  If you see a
different pattern try running cfgmgr again.  There was a problem awhile back
that you need to run cfgmgr x's with x being the number of paths so that you
would get all of the paths.  Sometimes we have had to delete and run cfgmgr
again because it doesn't seem to work right the first time.  After delete
and rerunning cfgmgr it seems to work better.  Something you might want to
get your hands on is the Shark Gotcha's document.  I think it is still on
the storage page but if not email me off list and I will send it to you.
Another issue you might run into is that the devices may not be fully
formatted.  There was a version of the shark code that said that everything
was formatted yet it wasn't.  The only way you could tell was to go into the
shark under where you configure paths and refresh the screen.

good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Todd Lundstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX question


First, let me say..
Dear Lord, the IBM web pages are a pain to dig through and find what you
are looking for.  Couldn't find any knowledge bases or anything to help me
resolve the issue I have... so.. here goes.

AIX 4.3.3
My TSM server is a pSeries with two Fibre Channel Adapters installed,
through which we access data on the ESS (shark) and the LTO tape drives (I
know, bad idea).  Each of the fibre cards is connected to its own fibre
switch.  Each switch has two connections to the Shark (four data paths to
the Shark).

We have been trying to add some additional Shark storage to the TSM server.
After the Shark guy did his thing, I ran cfgmgr, and thinks didn't look
quite right.  The two old "vpath" devices each showed four disks (hdsikX),
two on each of the two fibre cards (fscsi1, fscsi0), just like they always
have.  One of the three new "vpath" devices showed four hdisks on two
different "fscsi" devices, but the other two "vpath" devices only showed
two hdisks, one on each fscsi.

lscfg showed a bunch of new disks, mostly "available", but four were
"defined".  I decided to delete the three new "vpath" devices, and all of
the associated "hdisk" devices, including the defined ones.  As I got to
looking, I saw something odd...


root@ax-dco-tsm / # lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0  Available 10-88-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1  Available 10-88-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk18 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk19 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk20 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk21 Available 10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk22 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk23 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk24 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20
hdisk25 Available 10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20
vpath3  Available  Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver
vpath4  Available  Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver
hdisk2  Defined   10-78-01 IBM FC 2105F20 
hdisk2  Defined   10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 
hdisk3  Defined   10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 
hdisk3  Defined   10-68-01 IBM FC 2105F20 
root@ax-dco-tsm / # datapath query device

Total Devices : 2


DEV#:   0  DEVICE NAME: vpath3  TYPE: 2105F20   SERIAL: 00719516

Path#  Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select
Errors
0 fscsi0/hdisk18 OPEN   NORMAL 25
0
1 fscsi0/hdisk20 OPEN   NORMAL 31
0
2 fscsi1/hdisk22 OPEN   NORMAL 29
0
3 fscsi1/hdisk24 OPEN   NORMAL 26
0

DEV#:   1  DEVICE NAME: vpath4  TYPE: 2105F20   SERIAL: 60219516

Path#  Adapter/Hard DiskState Mode Select
Errors
0 fscsi0/hdisk19 OPEN   NORMAL  13465
0
1 fscsi0/hdisk21 OPEN   NORMAL  13636
0
2 fscsi1/hdisk23 OPEN   NORMAL  13567
0
3 fscsi1/hdisk25 OPEN   NORMAL  13727
0
++

Note the  lines.
I have two entries for "hdisk2" and two for "hdisk3".  Smitty won't let me
remove them (not enough information to uniquely identify the device) and
similar error messages for "change/show charactaristics".

How can I remove "hdisk2" and "hdisk3"?  The 10-78 and 10-68 devices are
the fibre cards.

Thanks in advance

Todd Lundstedt
Technical Specialist
Via Christi Information Management Services
ofc.   (316) 261-8385
fax.   (316) 660-0036
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror

[Davidson, Becky]

I'm sorry I should have been clearer.  When I say server I mean the tsm
server.  Sometimes I can't log into a server from the host it is on but I
can from another host or I can via an already set up server to server
connection.  Did you ever recover the volume from last week?

-Original Message-
From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror


I can log in.  The machine is up and running.  I just can't get to the
server.  The dbvolumes are files located on logical volumes.  And they are
SCSI attached.

Diana


At 12:52 PM 1/2/03 -0600, Davidson, Becky wrote:
>How are your dbv defined?  Are they files or logical volumes?  Can you get
>in from another server or is all contact into the server hosed?  When you
>say you are having a problem with a disk what kind of problem are you
>having?  Is it SCSI, SSA, NAS or SAN attached?
>
>Becky
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror
>
>
>We are running 4.2.3.0 of TSM on an AIX 4.3.3 system.  We seem to be having
>a problem with a disk where part of our TSM database is.  The database is
>mirrored and it was my understanding that if you lose a DB volume it should
>automatically switch to the mirrored copy and continue to run.  Right now
>everything is hosed and we can't log in to the server.  The machine is up
>and running.  I have a call into support with a severity 1, but was hoping
>for some ideas of what to try while I wait for the call back from
>support.  I haven't tried to kill the server process yet.  If I restart the
>server, should it pick up the mirrored copy then?
>
>Diana

Re: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror

[Davidson, Becky]

How are your dbv defined?  Are they files or logical volumes?  Can you get
in from another server or is all contact into the server hosed?  When you
say you are having a problem with a disk what kind of problem are you
having?  Is it SCSI, SSA, NAS or SAN attached?

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System hung - bad disk - not switching to mirror


We are running 4.2.3.0 of TSM on an AIX 4.3.3 system.  We seem to be having
a problem with a disk where part of our TSM database is.  The database is
mirrored and it was my understanding that if you lose a DB volume it should
automatically switch to the mirrored copy and continue to run.  Right now
everything is hosed and we can't log in to the server.  The machine is up
and running.  I have a call into support with a severity 1, but was hoping
for some ideas of what to try while I wait for the call back from
support.  I haven't tried to kill the server process yet.  If I restart the
server, should it pick up the mirrored copy then?

Diana

Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files

[Davidson, Becky]

Another thought is that when they deleted the files the files were still
open so there is still some link to them.  If you can unmount and remount
the filesystem the problem may go away.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Alexander Verkooyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files


John Naylor wrote:
>
> I have exactly the same issue with a couple of my clients (netware).
>  The files no longer exist on the client, but I see many ANS1228E failure
> messages.
> However the backup completes successfully with the failures totalled in
the
> Activity statistics.
> I would suggest that you take it up with IBM, but I see that although your
> server is supported your client is down level, so you might not get very
far.

I agree. That is why I posted this to the list. The first thing
support is going to tell me is "upgrade your client to the latest
level" and I don't want to bother our customer with an upgrade
when it doesn't solve his problem.

But when all else fails, upgrading may be the only solution.

Thanks for your reply.

Best regards,

Alexander


> I would raise it myself but both mine are unsupported client levels , with
the
> clients due for replacement.
>
> Imre Csatlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/19/2002 02:59:04 PM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
> Subject:  Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files
>
> Hi,
>
> Is yout client backing up the whole file system or just specific files?
> Like 'dsmc inc "/bla/bla/my*files.txt`
>
> Also you can try umount and fsck for those file system, but I suspect the
> problem is somewhere in the
> backup file specifications.
>
> If all the other files are backed up apart from those "missing" files,
then
> the backup is successfull afterall. :)
>
> Regards,
> Imre Csatlos
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Alexander Verkooyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 2002. december 19. 15:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Client tries to backup non-existing files
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a rather bizarre problem.
>
> One of our customers tries to backup a
> file system on a Solaris 5.8 system
> using a 4.1.2.0 TSM client.
>
> Our server is 4.2.3.1 on AIX 4.3.3.0
>
> Every night the backup fails because
> the client is unable to backup hundreds
> of files. The log file is filled with
> messages like these:
>
> 12/19/02   04:43:43 ANS1228E Sending of object '/bla/bla/file' failed
>
> Every night the client complains about the same files.
>
> And now for the bizarre part: According to our
> customer these files have been removed from
> the client some time ago. They are no longer present
> on the disks of the system. And yet the client
> tries to backup them (and because they are not there
> any more it fails).
>
> I found one strange thing about these ghost files:
> Their names contain an *
>
> For example: my*file.txt
>
> Has anybody seen this before? I can't find anything in
> the FAQ or the archives about a similar problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexander
> --
> ---
> Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Senior Systems Programmer
> SARA High Performance Computing
>
> **
> The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally
> privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern
> Energy plc.
> 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.
>
> Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S
> are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group.
> **

--
---
Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Systems Programmer
SARA High Performance Computing

Re: TSM Certification

[Davidson, Becky]

I know there is or at least was Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation which
would make you a Tivoli Certified Consultant.  That is what I have done.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Certification


More questions.  I was looking at TSM under ibm.com and I saw some
Certification but the TSM portion seemed to be Security oriented.  Do you
or anyone know of any kind of TSM Admin Certification, maybe even Backup
Admin Certified?  I see a great deal of admin issues more so than
programming, security, or installation.

Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD

Re: Atape Help

[Davidson, Becky]

They are normal yet they mean you took some hit on a tape drive.  You will
probably notice that the date time stamp on the files matches errors in your
errpt.  If you have a series of them for one drive they definitely point to
a problem.  We get them every so often.  We don't get alot unless a tape
drive has a series of problems and then after the problem has been fixed we
delete the files.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Bruce Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Atape Help


Envirnment:
TSM 5.1.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10
Atape version:7.1.5.0
4 3590 drives in a 3494

The problem I'm having is I keep getting files called Atape.rmt#.dump_h# in
/var/adm/ras.  One time I was not paying close enough attention to available
disk space on my TSM server & these files filled up var!!!  Are these normal
or do they point to a problem?  Does anybody else get these?  If so do you
just use a script to get rid of them?
A while back I called IBM hardware & they said it was an AIX problem.  I
called software & they said it was a hardware problem.  At this point I had
more impotant things to worry about so I gave up on IBM!

Thanks,
---
Bruce Kamp
Midrange Systems Analyst II
Memorial Healthcare System
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Phone: (954) 987-2020 x4597
Fax: (954) 985-1404
---

Re: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX 5)

[Davidson, Becky]

5.1 works the same as 4.3.3 as best as we can tell.  We installed Oracle 32
bit on 5.1 and 64 bit on 4.3.3 with the only change being the executables
and the libobk64.a (and trust me those are big changes).
Enjoy!
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for
AIX 5)


Am I missing something??  The instructions in the manual for 2.2.1 are for
4.3.3 32 & 64 bit, as far as I can tell-- at least the file that installed
has a different name (libobk64.a) than the one that has always been.  Do I
relink it the same way with the same old name, or do I use the new name?

And, the 5.1.5 manual is for MS SQL onlyit's time for my medication,
now.

thanks Becky,

lisa



"Davidson,
    Becky"To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: install and user
guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for
Sent by: "ADSM:AIX 5)
Dist Stor
Manager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ST.EDU>


12/13/2002
12:41 PM
Please respond
to "ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"





Lisa
for whatever reason the manual are still on tivoli.com
Here are the Oracle ones
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/DataProtectio

nforOracle2.2.1.html
and here are the rest
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TD_PROD_LIST
.
html

you have to get here through some back handed methods but it works at least
for now
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX5)


I am stumped (AND frustrated with the state of www.tivoli.com www.ibm.com)
and can't for the life of me find the manual for installing TDP for Oracle
(any version, really-- 2.2.1 or 5.1.5) on AIX5.  Any one have it bookmarked
or downloaded before the "re-design" of the web sites?

Thanks in advance (and happy Friday the 13th)

lisa

Re: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX 5)

[Davidson, Becky]

Lisa
for whatever reason the manual are still on tivoli.com
Here are the Oracle ones
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/DataProtectio
nforOracle2.2.1.html
and here are the rest
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TD_PROD_LIST.
html

you have to get here through some back handed methods but it works at least
for now
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: install and user guide for TDP for DB on Unix v5.1.5 (for AIX5)


I am stumped (AND frustrated with the state of www.tivoli.com www.ibm.com)
and can't for the life of me find the manual for installing TDP for Oracle
(any version, really-- 2.2.1 or 5.1.5) on AIX5.  Any one have it bookmarked
or downloaded before the "re-design" of the web sites?

Thanks in advance (and happy Friday the 13th)

lisa

Re: Management Class and TDP for R/3

[Davidson, Becky]

For my SAP systems I have 4 management classes
_saplog1
_saplog2
_sapincr
_cold  

Re: Help on TDP for SAP R/3 Oracle

[Davidson, Becky]

We had it on in the tdp piece and discovered on our smaller server systems
(H70 with 1TB db) ran better without compression on.  On our larger system
(S85 with 2 TB db) we have TDP compression on but can not run TSM
compression because it slows the backup.  TDP compression only eliminates
white space.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help on TDP for SAP R/3 Oracle


Hello,

Server AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8. Client AIX 4.3, TSM 4.2.1.35, and TDP 3.2.0.11

Question about compression.

We forced compression for this client at server-side, by setting option
Compression at client-node options to server. In client-option file there is
no compression-option.

We thought that this will be enough to compress also TDP -backup and archive
data. We checked and there is no compression. Tivoli Support say first that
TDP is compressing the files always, it a feature of TDP. And later they say
we have to activate this in TDP on the client.

I'm wondering how other sites set compression in this situation. On the
server, in TDP, on the client, ...

Thanx,

Brian.





_
Chatten met je online vrienden via MSN Messenger. http://messenger.msn.nl/

Re: 3494 Partitioning or TSM Library Manager

[Davidson, Becky]

I have implemented the TSM Library Manager feature.  I have 14 drives shared
among 4 TSM servers.  When I tried the categories and use whatever was
available if tsmsvr1 tried for drive 1 a couple of times and tsmsvr2 was
using it then tsmsvr1 marked it offline.  It made for a huge mess.  Now I
definitely have to keep tsmsvr2 (the server manager) up all the time unless
I am booting the other servers.  Occasionally I have had a check out for
tsmsvr1 show successful yet the tapes don't come out because there were not
enough drives.  occasionally I have also had where you have to cycle the tsm
software because there seems to be some communication problems.  Generally
that was when the operators didn't reply to the checkout and the checkout
timed out.  If I had a choice of whether to go back or not I wouldn't.  This
made things so much easier in the long run.  My tsm server are running with
one on an S85, two on a 6M1, and one on an S85 with all of them running aix
4.3.3 and after this weekend all of them running tsm 5.1  (two are still tsm
4.1.2)

-Original Message-
From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 Partitioning or TSM Library Manager


All,

I am deploying 3 new TSM server on a single p690 LPAR.  There is a 3494
with 32-tape drives attached to the system.  I have a choice to make
whether to use the old 3494 category scheme to separate my 3 TSM servers
or should I use the TSM Library Manger feature to control access to all
32 tape drives?

First of all, how many customers are using the Library Manager feature
of TSM?  What kind of caveats are there in deploying this feature?  How
well does the automatic tape drive allocation work?  Thanks in advance.


--
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]

Re: devices and location code question in aix

[Davidson, Becky]

Go check out the PCI guide on the IBM web page for your machine.
hdisk0 and hdisk2 are scsi internal
hdisk1, hdisk5, hdisk14, hdisk4, hdisk8, hdisk11 are attached to one adapter
and are probably in the same drawer but that is easier to tell in diag under
task selection, ssa service aids, link verification
obviously hdisk6, hdisk13, hdisk3, hdisk7, hdisk9, hdisk10, and hdisk12 are
on the other adapter probably in the same drawer also.

-Original Message-
From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: devices and location code question in aix


Below is output of an "lsdev" command in AIX. Anyone have any good
documentation or can someone sum up for me how to physically locate these
disks/adapters physically in the system by these location codes in this
output. Can anyone make sense out of this. I am mainly interested in PCI
readings for obvious reasons. Any input would be appreciated thanks!

# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0  Available 40-60-00-4,0 16 Bit SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1  Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk5  Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk6  Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk13 Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk14 Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk2  Available 40-60-00-8,0 16 Bit SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk3  Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk4  Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk7  Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk8  Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk9  Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk10 Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk11 Available 11-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive
hdisk12 Available 21-08-L  SSA Logical Disk Drive

--Justin

Re: HELP NEEDED : can not recall data from 3584 library

[Davidson, Becky]

I think the first thing I would do is move the data off the tapes to another
tape.  Then I would try the recall again.  It appears the tape is going bad.

-Original Message-
From: rachida elouaraini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP NEEDED : can not recall data from 3584 library


Hi all,
I have spent a lot of time in resolving the following
problem but in vain, I need your help.
My problem began when I tried to do "dsmrecall" to one of my
migrated
files stored in 3584-LIB (dsmrecall file).
The output of the command is :

"ANS4007E Error processing '/oper/ICMSHALAD+0039': access to
the object is denied"
My migrated file is not recalÚled to my workstation, when I
saw in the "dsmerror.log" file, I found these messages:
ÚANS9028E dsmrecalld: cannot determine the file system name
for fsid (2
0066, 8).
ÚANS9548W Cannot complete remote file access.
ÚANS4007E Error processing '/oper/ICMSHALAD+0039': access to
the object
 is denied

The problem is that I can recall some files migrated and can
not for others. I thought to do an "audit library", no
result. After I did "audit volume" for 5 tapes (Storage Pool
Name: SPACEMGTAPE).
I found One tape with "damaged files" : audit volume
772AAO fix=no
I found 18 damaged files. I repeat this operation another
time (audit volume 772AAO fix=no ), but I found only 3
"damaged files". I recall my file, no result.

After the "audit" command I found the following messages in
the activity log :

ANR8311E An I/O error ocured while accessing drive rmt1 for
read operation

ANR1417W access mode for volume 772AAO now set to "read
only" due to exessive errors

ANR2335W audit volume has encountered an I/O error for
volume 772AAO while attempting to read /oper/ICMSH..

ANR8376E I/O error on drive
RMT1... Refer to Appendix D in
the "Messages manual for recommended action"

ANR8359E Media fault detected on LTO volume 772AAO in drive
RMT1
ANR2317W Audit volume found damaged file on volume 772AAO
node.

Today, I have done for the third time "audit volume 772AAO
fix=no", but I don't find "damaged files", I don't know why.
Some of my files are always "not recalled" .
In the "dsmerror.log" file I find a lot of others messages:

 ANS9507E dsmrecalld: cannot request the right on session
7234028338404
931412 for file handle c1c205713b530895 4ba40001000c
token = 1684303472-4459551533704413222. Reason : A file
descriptor does not refer to an open file.

ÚANS9515E unkown: cannot set the migration information.
Reason: A file
descriptor does not refer to an open file.

The output of the command : "q volume 772AAO f=d " is :
Volume Name: 772AAO
 Storage Pool Name: SPACEMGTAPE
 Device Class Name: LTO-TAPE
 Estimated Capacity (MB): 143,559.3
 Pct Util: 82.2
 Volume Status: Full
 Access: ReadOnly
 Pct. Reclaimable Space: 17.8
 Scratch Volume?: Yes
 In Error State?: No
 Number of Writable Sides: 1
 Number of Times Mounted: 915
 Write Pass Number: 1
 Approx. Date Last Written: 06/19/02 02:03:23
 Approx. Date Last Read: 11/26/02 14:21:12
 Date Became Pending:
 Number of Write Errors: 0
 Number of Read Errors: 64
 Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 11/25/02 12:19:00


PS : When I can not recall some of my migrated files to my
local workstation, I thought that these files are written in
the tape 772AAO that contains damaged files, but I found
others files that I can not recall (by dsmrecall) and that
are written in others volumes not containing "damaged
files".

For information we have 3 clients TSM (OS=AIX433), and one
TSM server with OS = AIX 433
library : 3584 -LIB

Thank you very much
_
Gagne une PS2 ! Envoie un SMS avec le code PS au 61166
(0,35  Hors coût du SMS)

Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TS M

[Davidson, Becky]

Do you have an volumes assigned to backuppool or diskpool2 because the
estimated capacity appears to be 0 unlike diskpool?

-Original Message-
From: murali ramaswamy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in
TSM


Hi,
q stg gives output as shown at bottom.  But still I get
error while backing up (by automatic schedule) as below:
Date/Time: 11/26/2002 10:03:15
  Message: ANR0522W Transaction failed for session 9 for node MURALI (WinNT)
- no space available in storage pool
BACKUPPOOL and all successor pools.

Please help for a fix!
thanks
-murali

ANS8000I Server command: 'q stg'

  Storage Pool Name: ARCHIVEPOOL
  Device Class Name: DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool: DISKPOOL2

  Storage Pool Name: BACKUPPOOL
  Device Class Name: DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool: DISKPOOL2

  Storage Pool Name: DISKPOOL
  Device Class Name: DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB): 4.0
   Pct Util: 0.1
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool: DISKPOOL2

  Storage Pool Name: DISKPOOL2
  Device Class Name: DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool:

  Storage Pool Name: FILPOOL1
  Device Class Name: FILEDEV1
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool:

  Storage Pool Name: FILPOOL2
  Device Class Name: FILEDEV2
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

  Next Storage Pool:

  Storage Pool Name: SPACEMGPOOL
  Device Class Name: DISK
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
   Pct Util: 0.0
   Pct Migr: 0.0
   High Mig Pct: 90
Low Mig Pct: 70
  Next Storage Pool:


ANS8002I Highest return code was 0.







>From: Joel Fuhrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data storage space in TSM
>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:36:21 -0800
>
>I had this once. I had plenty of scratch tapes, the disk pool was not full,
>we do not use caching so there was no reason for the error. I bounced the
>server and the error went away.
>
>On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sias Dealy wrote:
>
> > Murali,
> >
> > Sorry, I am reading too much into your e-mail.
> >
> > I just want to be clear on this.
> > We have a TSM client that is backing up to a TSM server.
> > The backup is failing due to the ANS message about the server
> > out of storage space.
> >
> > Is the data going to a storage pool that is on the disk and
> > then migrated to a tape library?
> >
> > On the TSM server and issue q stg, is there a storage pool that
> > have a %Uil of 100? And if so, is this the disk pool or a tape
> > pool?
> >
> > Sias
> >
> >
> >  On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, murali ramaswamy
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am not doing server-server communication.  I have server
> > and client on my
> > > machine and a client on another machine in network that I
> > want to backup.
> > > Thanks
> > > - murali
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Sias Dealy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >Subject: Re: Please help - ANS1311E Server out of data
> > storage space in TSM
> > > >Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:28:23 -0500
> > > >
> > > >Murali,
> > > >
> > > >Are you doing server to server communication?
> > > >If this is the case, the target server may not have enough
> > > >space.
> > > >
> > > >Lower the migration threshold and check the actlog. There
> > > >should be some message about the migration failing and there
> > > >should also be our famous ANS1311E message.
> > > >
> > > >I know that you can add a volume to the target server. The
> > > >command escapes me at the moment. I just don't do server to
> > > >server communcation as often as I would like.
> > > >
> > > >Sias
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Get your own "800" number
> > > >Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more
> > > >http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On, murali ramaswamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I am  not mapping a drive.  I added the IP address 

Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool

[Davidson, Becky]

What is your result when you do a q mount ?  when you do a q stg backuppool
f=d what is the migration processes set to?

-Original Message-
From: Kempadasiah, Umesh [mailto:u.kempad@;SOUTHERNCO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool


I rectified the drive problem, both drives are online.still I am getting the
same error.
Did I miss anything ?

Thanks and regards
Umesh K


-Original Message-
From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:Becky.Davidson@;SLBG.COM]
Sent: Thu 11/7/2002 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool



One of your drives is offline.  Try bringing that back online and
see how
things go.  You only have 2 drives and if the other is busy then it
will
fail.

-Original Message-
From: Kempadasiah, Umesh [mailto:u.kempad@;SOUTHERNCO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help required for configuring Tape storage pool


Hi,
   I am finding some difficulties in backing up to the tape library.
I am  using TSM 5.1 .
I get the following error while backup
ANR1134W Migration terminated for storage pool BACKUPPOOL -
insufficient
number

of mount points available for removable media.

Can someone tell me what is that  I am missing? It will be very
helpful

The details are listed below:

The output from the querys is listed below

tsm: XXY>query stgpool

Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next Stora-

Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Migr Mig Mig ge Pool

(MB) Pct Pct

--- -- -- - -  --- ---

ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 8.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

BACKUPPOOL DISK 8.0 99.3 99.3 90 70 TAPE-LIB

SPACEMGPOOL DISK 8.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

TAPE-LIB AUTO-DLT 0.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

tsm: XXY>query library

Library Name: IBM-7337

Library Type: SCSI

ACS Id:

Private Category:

Scratch Category:

External Manager:

Shared: No

LanFree:

ObeyMountRetention:



tsm: XXY>query drive

Library Name Drive Name Device Type On-Line

  --- ---

IBM-7337 DRIVE1 GENERICTAPE Unavailable Since

11/06/02 13:31:11

IBM-7337 DRIVE2 GENERICTAPE Yes

tsm: XXY>query devclass

Device Device Storage Device Format Est/Max Mount

Class Access Pool Type Capacity Limit

Name Strategy Count (MB)

- -- --- - --  --

AUTO-DLT Sequential 1 DLT DLT35 DRIVES

DISK Random 3





Thanks and regards

Umesh Kempadasiah

281-584-4673

Re: help required for configuring Tape storage pool

[Davidson, Becky]

One of your drives is offline.  Try bringing that back online and see how
things go.  You only have 2 drives and if the other is busy then it will
fail.

-Original Message-
From: Kempadasiah, Umesh [mailto:u.kempad@;SOUTHERNCO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help required for configuring Tape storage pool


Hi,
   I am finding some difficulties in backing up to the tape library.
I am  using TSM 5.1 .
I get the following error while backup
ANR1134W Migration terminated for storage pool BACKUPPOOL - insufficient
number

of mount points available for removable media.

Can someone tell me what is that  I am missing? It will be very helpful

The details are listed below:

The output from the querys is listed below

tsm: XXY>query stgpool

Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next Stora-

Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Migr Mig Mig ge Pool

(MB) Pct Pct

--- -- -- - -  --- ---

ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 8.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

BACKUPPOOL DISK 8.0 99.3 99.3 90 70 TAPE-LIB

SPACEMGPOOL DISK 8.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

TAPE-LIB AUTO-DLT 0.0 0.0 0.0 90 70

tsm: XXY>query library

Library Name: IBM-7337

Library Type: SCSI

ACS Id:

Private Category:

Scratch Category:

External Manager:

Shared: No

LanFree:

ObeyMountRetention:



tsm: XXY>query drive

Library Name Drive Name Device Type On-Line

  --- ---

IBM-7337 DRIVE1 GENERICTAPE Unavailable Since

11/06/02 13:31:11

IBM-7337 DRIVE2 GENERICTAPE Yes

tsm: XXY>query devclass

Device Device Storage Device Format Est/Max Mount

Class Access Pool Type Capacity Limit

Name Strategy Count (MB)

- -- --- - --  --

AUTO-DLT Sequential 1 DLT DLT35 DRIVES

DISK Random 3





Thanks and regards

Umesh Kempadasiah

281-584-4673

Re: Volume not available?

[Davidson, Becky]

Are any of your drives offline?  Do you have any drives available?  What
happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes?
becky

-Original Message-
From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01@;LOUISVILLE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Volume not available?


I'm getting "ANR1229W Volume 700270 cannot be backed up - volume is
offline or access mode is "unavailable" or "destroyed" " messages for a
volume.  A "q libvol 3494 700270"  reports the volume is in the library.
 A "q vol 700270 f=d" reports access=read/write and status=filling.  The
tape is not already mounted on a drive when the error occus.  So in what
sense is this tape unavailable or destroyed and how do I convince TSM to
use the tape.

David

Re: Does IBM want us to make local client libraries?

[Davidson, Becky]

I would disagree with their lack of communications.  With the Tivoli news
information was sent out on almost a weekly basis.  They also offered a free
online class introducing people to the new web area.  I was the only one on
the conference call I attended so I got a personal tour of everything.  I
think they did communicate thingsmaybe not on this list or only if you
received the Tivoli news but the changes were communicated.  It sounds like
there was some definite growing pains on the changes.

-Original Message-
From: Adolph Kahan [mailto:akahan@;ICA.NET]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Does IBM want us to make local client libraries?


The real problem here is not that IBM has changed things. The real
problem is the serious lack of communications about the changes. One of
the first things you learn in project management is the importance of
communications with your user community. This is something that IBM
totally missed the boat on. All of the communications is now happening
after people have encountered problems. This should have happened much
earlier in the process.

Now re. the logon, in my discussions with IBM/Tivoli, access to the TSM
client download is still supposed to happen without a logon. That is the
way it works right now on the new site and I understand that it is to
remain that way. Now Logon will be required for other things like:
reporting problems, accessing apars and all of the stuff that you had to
logon for in the past.

Adolph Kahan
GlassHouse Systems Inc.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Seay, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Does IBM want us to make local client libraries?

One of the major issues I continue to hound IBM about on their download
sites is there is no way to subscribe to a change page.  So, you have no
idea when code is made available.

Now to the subject of local versus IBM client software.  Every site
needs to
control the introduction of the client levels to their environments.
You
are probably blasting your users with a notification to go to the IBM
site
to download the latest client and what level to use.  But, consider
this,
your internet access is probably overwhelmed every time you do this with
hundreds of users downloading this large client.

In our case we are very controlled on client levels and use SMS on
Windows,
so we do use a site repository.

What I really think we want is a way for a user to subscribe to the TSM
server for the latest client and the TSM server provides it with the
ability
to reinstall the previous for the customers that are not doing SMS or
other
central software control.  We also need the ability to push from the TSM
server to the client the next time it connects.

This all said you have very valid concerns.  IBM has not thought through
how
their site was being used before.  They do need to get the software
distribution under some kind of control.  That is just good business,
but
not at the expense of disrupting our operations.  Yes, we may have to
make
some adjustments to evolve to a controlled software distribution model,
but
at least we would have input to the design and solution and an idea what
is
coming.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Roger Deschner [mailto:rogerd@;UIC.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Does IBM want us to make local client libraries?


In response to one of my many, many complaints about the support web
page
train wreck, IBM responded that they now want all client download
requests
to go through IBM Registration ID login, since it is licensed software.

I wonder if they contemplated the effects of that?

One option is for each end-user at our site to get and use an IBM
Registration ID. Some already have, but they have complained to me about
the
non-navigable site there. While some of the worst malfunctions are being
addressed, it is still not anything I would inflict on end-users. Is IBM
prepared for each of our thousands of ITSM client end-users to register
for
one of these new IDs? I'm not quite sure that's what they had in mind
with
this change.

The only other option is for each of us to build a local library of
client
code. This has all sorts of problems. DISK SPACE AND BANDWIDTH IS NOT
THE
ISSUE! The issue is maintaining this library - I now have a new
maintenance
headache. And how will I know when a client is updated? I am sure not
going
to go check each day or week, just in case a new client is available.
This
raises a serious support issue at the installation level.

It also makes it less likely that client code in actual use by end-users
will be up-to-date, which will complicate support calls from end-users
to
us, and from us to IBM. When an IBM/Tivoli support rep requests that we
use
the latest client code on t

Re: tape missing under q libv (HELP)

[Davidson, Becky]

have you tried doing and audit vol on the volume?

-Original Message-
From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:Chetan.Ravnikar@;SYNOPSYS.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tape missing under q libv (HELP)


Hello
I have a strange situation, when doing a restore. The process keeps
waiting for a media unavialable and bails out.

The volume it is looking for is in the on-site tapepool, but doesn't show
under q libv.
I had re-checked in the volume as private, also I can *q cont* on this
vol but for some reason it does not show under q libv.

I have even audit'd the lib, but no success.. any pointers/advice is a
great help. I have a customer waiting on this restore

we are on TSM server 4.2.20 on sol-2.8

thanks
Chetan

Re: TDP for SAP R/3 versus BMC SQL Backtrack

[Davidson, Becky]

We used to run SQL Backtrack and we now run TDP for SAP R/3.  In my opinion
here are the differences

SQL Backtrack
Benefits
 - great compression ratio
 - seems to handle well large databases

Disadvantages
 - licenses are based on size of database if you grow alot (which we do) you
spend alot of time and money upgrading your license
 - support seems to frequently blame the problem on tsm

TDP for SAP R/3
Benefits
 - licenses are based on server not database
 - support is Tivoli so it can bounce between TDP and TSM support with
little effort on your part
 - a little bit more flexibility between threads and multiplexing as to who
data is passed.

Disadvantages
 - compression is only blank space
 - doesn't seem to handle as well databases over 500 or so GBthis is
improving slowly

This was our experience and I will happily answer any other questions
offline
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Rolf Meyer [mailto:rolf.meyer@;SUBNET.DE]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDP for SAP R/3 versus BMC SQL Backtrack


Hello,

on our site SQL Backtrack is in production for nearly two years. Now I have
to
compare both solutions. We are running 50+ SAP systems on HP and  SUN
Solaris
systems with Oracle 64bit databases.

Has anyone draw a comparison of this two products? Are there major benefits
in
one of the products? Any comment will be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Rolf Meyer
Systems Consultant
Info Business Systems GmbH
22607 Hamburg

Re: Oracle and TDP issues

[Davidson, Becky]

We used to for our SAP databases but our databases grow to fast to support
the constant size change license purchases from SQL Backtrack.  We switched
to TDP and it has helped because we lost the finger pointing between BMC and
Tivoli when we had a backtrack problem.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:zforray@;VCU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Oracle and TDP issues


We do too, on an AIX system.





J D Gable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/22/2002 11:20 AM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Oracle and TDP issues


Our DBAs use BMC software called SQL Backtrack.

Josh

Zoltan Forray wrote:

> We just purchased the TSM TDP for Oracle on NT/2K.
>
> We installed it, only to realize it won't work since there is no sign of
> RMAN.EXE on this machine?
>
> So, the owner of this box/package contacts the vendor. Their response
> was"Oracle is version 7.3.4, not 8i or 9i, which will not run with their
> app.  said the person she spoke to did not seem to know what RMAN
> was."
>
> So, how does one backup an Oracle app/database, using the TDP without
RMAN
> ?
>
> I am not an Oracle person but even I know that RMAN is the utility to do
> database backup/restore/maintenance !
>
> Suggestions, anyone ?

Re: Transferring data from an old server to a new one.

[Davidson, Becky]

Tim
>From what kind of server to what kind of server?  What kind of disk are you
on and how is it attached?  Can you attach your old tape hardware to the new
one?

We moved servers but we were moving AIX to AIX and could just disconnected
the disk tsm was on and then reattach to the new server.  Another time we
did the move we did and export and import of the data.  Are you trying to do
a new rebuild?  Can you start the new server and then just shutdown the old
after the 5 weeks?  A 5.1 client shouldn't have a problem restoring from a
3.7 server it is just a problem when a 5.1 client backs it up and a lower
client tries to restore.

Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: HEMPSTEAD, Tim [mailto:Tim.HEMPSTEAD@;READING.SEMA.SLB.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Transferring data from an old server to a new one.


All,

We are (finally) doing some upgrades to our TSM system to bring it up to
date (and onto a support version of the software).  We are planning to go
from 3.7.4.0 to 5.1.5.x.

Now we will be implementing the new TSM server on a new physical server and
using new tape hardware (IBM 3584). Then we can migrate our client systems
across from the old server to the new one.

Our problem is what to do with the data currently in the old system.  We
need to be able to restore from any point in the last 5 weeks.

Now, I'm sure people have come across this before, what is the best way of
doing this?
Our initial thoughts were:

1). transfer the data across to the new systems in some way, (server to
server connection) ... but we aren't really sure how to do this, (I've done
something like it but that was on a course 12 months ago and in a much
smaller scale).

2). repoint the client, if a restore is needed, to the old server ... but
then we get into issues with software level compatibility's between
different client and server releases, (e.g. a 5.1.x client restoring off of
a 3.7.4 server) and complications due to using TDP's for Oracle and Domino.

Has anyone else been in this situation and what method did they use to get
around it?

Regards

Tim

--
Tim Hempstead, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unix Technical Specialist
SchlumbergerSema


_
This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the
individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are
solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of
SchlumbergerSema.
If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received
this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing,
or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.

If you have received this email in error please notify the
SchlumbergerSema Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 121 627 5600.
_

Re: Sizing for 2 TB Oracle DB backup

[Davidson, Becky]

We are just under 2TB with SAP.  We are sitting on a shark.  We are using 10
3590E1A drives attached to 2 San Data Gateways attached to 2 2109 S16
switches with 4 fibre adapters on the host.  Our tsm server and database
server are the same server.  We backup in around 7-8 hours for a full
backup.

Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Eric Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sizing for 2 TB Oracle DB backup


I'd be interested to hear if anyone out there is backing up a 2TB or bigger
Oracle DB from IBM Enterprise Storage Server (SHARK). We are likely to have
to backup such a beast in the near future and I'm wondering how we can
protect so much data. We will in all likelihood be backing up the flashcopy
(ie using TDP for ESS and TDP for Oracle) but how many SAN attached drives
are needed?  Can anyone offer any experiences or suggestions as to what
sort of a configuration will accommodate such a volume of data?

Thanks for any input,

Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

Re: Slow (1 MB a minute) brrestore from LTO

[Davidson, Becky]

As for shared memory I don't think TDP For Sap R/3 supports shared memory
anymore.

In our testing we have been turning off compression and been getting better
performance.  TDP's compression only removes white space.

What performance issues have you seen with 3.2.0.11?  We have experienced
some better performance.

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slow (1 MB a minute) brrestore from LTO


What did you have your multiplexing set at ???
If you are only using a single tape drive you will want to really experiment
with setting the multiplexing up from one.
AND I'd make sure and use some form of compression, either RL_COMPRESSION or
straight client compression, once again, experiment.
How big is your data base ??? If I were you I'd really look into more drives
if your DB is very big.
I never count on a single session with the TSM server to move more than
about 2 GB/hr of data, now if you use client compression that 2 GB could be
as much as 7.6 GB of actual db space... the we get our rates by cranking up
multiple concurrent sessions, up to 20-25 to move 40+ GB/hr of compressed
data or 152 GB/hr of DB space.
Well, that was with the old backint 2.4.25.6, currently I'm working with IBM
on a little slow down problem we are seeing with the 3.2.0.11 code... it
just refuses to perform as well as the old code :-(

Dwight E. Cook
Software Application Engineer III
Science Applications International Corporation
509 S. Boston Ave.  Suite 220
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
Office (918) 732-7109



-Original Message-
From: Eric Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slow (1 MB a minute) brrestore from LTO


Can anyone help speed up my brrestore?

TSM Server 4.2.1.7 on AIX 4.3

The SAP server backed up using TDP for R/3 3.2.0.1 over a Gigabit network
to an AIX 4.3  TSM Server with single scsi LTO tape drive with a throughput
of about 1 GB a minute. (The SAP server and the TSM Server are both on AIX
4.3).

I'm now restoring in a DR test. The TSM Server has been installed on the
same system as the SAP Server. The TSM database restored successfully and
the filesystems were rapidly restored too. The COMMMETHOD was set to TCPIP.
We are now trying to perform a brrestore. It works but is very slow, at
approx 1-2 MB a minute. I've upgraded the TDP to 3.2.0.12 but this made no
difference. I've changed the commmethod to sharedmem but it's made no
difference -  indeed the session shown in 'q ses' shows a commethod of
TCPIP so perhaps this didn't kick in after all. (although commmethod
SHAREDMEM is present in dsmserv.opt - and system restarted with this).

Both the backup client and TDP for R/3 use the same dsm.sys file.

The performance of the LTO drive was fine for restoring filesystems. It's
just the brrestore performance that's shocking. It would take several
months to restore at this rate. What can it be?
I backed up originally with just one session and I'm restoring with just
one session. There is only one session displayed in 'q ses' and it's
running - but so so slow.

The dsm.sys is very ordinary but here it is for good measure.

SErvername  tsm1
   COMMmethod sharedmem
   TCPServeraddress   10.1.1.9
   passwordaccess generate
   inclexcl   /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.inx
   schedlogname   /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmsched.log
   schedlogretention7
   passworddir/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

I'd be very pleased to hear of any ideas to get a reasonable restore rate -
at this rate it will apparently finish in January 2003!


Thanks,

Eric Winters
Sydney Australia

Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours

[Davidson, Becky]

How many threads and multiplexing?  What kind of machine is the SAP db and
what is the TSM db on?  What kind of drives?

We are at 1.5 with 7 hours and are always looking to tune

-Original Message-
From: Clarence Beukes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup of 300 GB Data within 12 Hours


We do an 800GB Oracle/SAPR3 database in 2 Hours and 40 minutes.

Clarence Beukes
 Advisory IT Specialist - Tivoli Certified Consultant
 Geomar SSO Mid Range and Application Support Discipline
 Location:  IBM Park Sandton, IA2G
 Tel: +27 (0) 11 302-6622   Cell: +27 (0) 82 573 5665
 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lto specialist

[Davidson, Becky]

Has anyone else experienced the need to on an almost weekly basis reboot
their IBM 3584 so that you can get access to the LTO Specialist again?

Everything else seems to work fine I just can't get into the gui.  I am
running at library code level 2460.

Any thoughts or wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Becky Davidson
Data Manager
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failed brrestore deleted my entire SAP database

[Davidson, Becky]

What are your expiration parameters for both tdp and tsm?  When was your
last backup?

-Original Message-
From: J Sorensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failed brrestore deleted my entire SAP database


I ran the brrestore and the restore failed due to the files not being
available on the server.  That was due to them having expired.  However, the
brrestore deleted all of my database files on the server.  Not only was I
not able to restore what I wanted, brrestore deleted what I had!!

I opened a ticket with Tivoli.  They concluded it was SAP' s brrestore that
was responsible and suggested I contact SAP.

Has anyone else ever heard of this?  Is it supposed to work this way?  I
think this is a really bad thing

Thank you..

My environment is as follows:

TSM server version 4.2.2.4

TSM server os Aix version 4.3.3 ml 06

TSM client os HP/UX 11

TSM Client version 4.2.1

SAP TDP version 3.2.0.8

SAP brrestore version 3.1I



-
Do You Yahoo!?
HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs

Re: Expiring TDP for Oracle data

[Davidson, Becky]

check what your archive class looks like too.  I know for TDP for SAP R/3
that is what is uses.

-Original Message-
From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Expiring TDP for Oracle data


Hello;

I've been searching the archives on this subject all morning and I just want
to double-check my findings.

Environment:
SP Model 9076 (1 Frame w/ 7 nodes)
AIX 4.3.3 ML8
P.S.S.P 3.2
ptfset 8
TSM 4.1.5
ORACLE 8.1.7/RMAN
TDP for Oracle v2.1.1 (I think?)

The DBA's have only been using TDP/RMAN for a few months now and around July
10 they decided to start exprining some old backups.  I noticed yesterday,
that the copy group had been setup improperly for TDP_Oracle:

STANDARD  ACTIVERMANCLASS STANDARD 11   0   1
STANDARD  STANDARD  RMANCLASS STANDARD 110   1

I modified the appropriate parameters last night (using TDP for Ocacle Admin
Guide) and think it's right now:

STANDARD  ACTIVERMANCLASS STANDARD 100   0
STANDARD  STANDARD  RMANCLASS STANDARD 100   0

I ran 'expire inventory' shortly thereafter, this however did not remove any
of the inactive databases:
/adsmorc : // cold_TESTR_1631_270302_22_1 (MC: DEFAULT)
Inactive, Inserted 03/27/02 16:32:19, Deactivated 07/10/02 15:18:10
ObjId: 0.58797993

So, from what I've read I have 3 options:
1)  run some "delete object 0 xx" command  (Could someone please provide
me with any further information on this command?)
2)  Create a new filespace, then delete the old one after several days
3)  Using a TDPOSYNC command...depending on version.  Anyone know if 2.1.1
supports the use of this command? - Can't find any reference in the TDP for
Oracle Manuel.

Thanks 'yet again' for your help;
Theresa

Re: expire inventory question

[Davidson, Becky]

What about retv for t=a.  I know that on TDP for SAP is it does everything
as archives so it may actually be your archives that aren't going away.  You
do need to make sure that retv is greater then or equal to how long you keep
them in TDP.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Rob Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: expire inventory question


When I run inventory expiration, I can look in the activity log and see the
process going through each of my file spaces.  I see it hitting the TSM
clients as well as the TDP for SQL clients, however I do not see the
messages for the TDP for Oracle clients.  I have used RMAN to expire and
delete the backups that are older than 10 days, but are still not getting
any tape storage back.  My TSM server is Win2k Sp2 4.1.6 and my client is
Win2k Sp2 TDP 2.2 TSM 4.2.1.20.  I have double checked the settings for
verdeleted and retonly and both are set to 0.

Am I missing something here.

Help

Rob Schroeder
Famous Footwear

Re: experience in DB Adm

[Davidson, Becky]

If you do a q db then you will see a line that shows the Maximum Extension
then just do an extend db  with the number being a number the same
size or smaller then the available space in the extension column.

-Original Message-
From: Luciano Ariceto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: experience in DB Adm


Hi

Last weekend we had a problem with DB capacity as follow :

ANR0362W Database usage exceeds 98 % of its assigned capacity. 
ANR0131E dftxn.c838: Server DB space exhausted. 
ANR1181E dftxn.c200: Data storage transaction 0:424803852 was aborted.

After this, the TSM server "frozen"  and we expanded de DB

ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DEFINE DBVOLUME 
f:\tivoli\db\db05.tsm FORMATSIZE=1000 WAIT=NO   ANR0984I Process 14 for 
DEFINE DBVOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 04:57:46.  
ANR2491I Volume Creation Process starting for f:\tivoli\-db\db05.tsm, 
Process Id 14. 
ANR2240I Database volume F:\TIVOLI\DB\DB05.TSM defined. 
ANR0986I Process 14 for DEFINE DBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND 
processed 1 items for a total of 1,049,624,576 bytes with a completion 
state of SUCCESS at 04:57:47.

But so far when I type the Q DB command, the information about occupancy 
is 93.2 %. What can I do to reduce this occupancy  I haven´t experience in 
DB Adm.

Thanks a lot...

Luciano

Re: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch

[Davidson, Becky]

Another thing to look at is q stg  f=d at what the reclamation level
is

-Original Message-
From: Christoph Pilgram
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch


Hi Zbyszek,

Just try this one

"select volume_name,pct_reclaim,stgpool_name from volumes order by
stgpool_name,pct_reclaim desc"

or you can go on Web-Admin : "Server-Storage  /  Storage Pools /  Query
storage pool volumes   by entering the volume-name and Display-Format =
"Detailed"

Best wishes
Chris

> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von:  Zbyszek Borgosz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am:  Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 11:50
> An:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff:  Re: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch
> 
> %> -Original Message-
> %> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> %> On Behalf Of Christoph Pilgram
> %> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:03 AM
> %> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> %> Subject: AW: TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch
> %> 
> %> 
> %> Hi Zbyszek,
> %> 
> %> what is the setting for the reclamation threshold for the 
> %> storage pool 
> 
> 60%
> 
> %>? Have you run "inventory expiration" ? 
> 
> expire inventory deleted lots of inactive objects, 
> %>And 
> %> take a look at the Pct.ReclaimabelSpace on the tapes.
> %> 
> 
> How to check this?
> %> Best wishes 
> %> Chris
> %> 
> %> > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> %> > Von:  Zbyszek Borgosz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> %> > Gesendet am:  Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 09:25
> %> > An:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> %> > Betreff:  TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch
> %> > 
> %> > Hi everyone. I have a concern.
> %> > Maybe I should RTFM, but don't have enough time to search.
> %> > I have a following concern:
> %> > 
> %> > Magstar 3575-L12 and 40 tapes currently in slots. I backup 
> %> everyday 
> %> > 54GB, which occupies 5 - 7 tapes. I set in backup mgmt 
> %> class number of 
> %> > copies to keep 2 whenever they have been deleted or not. 
> %> (retain extra 
> %> > and only version are set to 2 as well). I've set backup 
> %> retention to 7 
> %> > days.
> %> > 
> %> > The collocation is 'yes'
> %> > The problem is, that the tapes won't go into scratch, it 
> %> looks like 
> %> > the reclamation process won't start. What should I check?
> %> > Thanks in advance...
> %> > zee
> %> 

Re: SAP Backup Recovery During a Media Failure

[Davidson, Becky]

If you are using TDP and have the retries set it will just retry on a new
tape.  At least that has been my experience
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SAP Backup Recovery During a Media Failure


If a 3590 tape fails during a SAP backup, will the backup process fail or
will TSM and SAP gracefully restart where it needs to?

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180

Re: LTO don't need clean up?

[Davidson, Becky]

I have had the same concern.  I also have had two drives replaced because
tapes were stuck.  It is an interesting theory...instead of fixing the drive
when a tape is stuck they just replace it.  Definitely different from the
3590s.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up?


Got to admit I've been wondering about this myself. I've a 3584 library with
10 LTO drives that has been in service since September of last year. I've
got three cleaning tapes in the library, I move 130 GB of data per day --
and I haven't seen a cleaning tape used yet. I know the drives and tapes are
supposed to be self-cleaning, but this is almost to good to be true.

OTOH, I haven't run into any errors that indicate dirty drives. . .

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:25 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up?
> 
> 
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Tomáš Hrouda
> > one of LTO 3583 (2 drives) we take care of still didn't clean
> > drives. It is
> > operate from january 2002 and there is about 10-20 GB daily 
> data flow
> > through each drive, 3-5 daily tape-mounts. Both drives are 
> set to ASNEEDED
> > cleaning frequency, but no clean occured from january (!!), 
> no dirty drive
> > signalized on display ... is it possible? LTO box is placed 
> in climatized
> > dust-free environment, but .??? Has anyone some similar
> > experience with
> > LTO clean frequency?
> 
> IBM LTO libraries clean themselves; you shouldn't be using 
> TSM to schedule
> cleanings. Set your tape drives to CLEANFREQ=NONE and RTM at
> 
>   
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss?rt=4&org=ssg&doc=5700
01038&aid=1

The trick is that you have to insert the cleaner cartridge into the library
through the I/O station on the door of the library by using the MOVE MEDIA
command that you run from the front panel of the library. (Not to be
confused with TSM's MOVE MEDIA command.)

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MSCE

Re: ANU2508E Wrong write state- any ideas?

[Davidson, Becky]

We received an error similiar to thisdid you receive any operating
system errors?  Ours was shark attached and ended up being an fibre apar.

-Original Message-
From: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ANU2508E Wrong write state- any ideas?


Hello *SMers,

On one of our production boxes (data warehouse) this error occurred
yesterday during a hot backup with TDPO 2.2.0.2 (most current patch
available on the ftp site). I can't find anything in the activity log or in
the errpt for the TSM server and the client that correlates with this
error.  The message for ANU2508 is:

ANU2508E Wrong write state
Explanation: The operation must be in WRITE state.
System Action: The system returns to the calling
procedure.
User Response: Contact TSM support.

and I am asking for the list's help before I call support.  Any one have
any ideas?  The storage pool target is ESS disk, with no limit on the size.


Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.6.3.0 - Production

RMAN-06005: connected to target database: HII9 (DBID=1656096066)
RMAN-06008: connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel c1 type 'sbt_tape' parms
3>   'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
4> allocate channel c2 type 'sbt_tape' parms
5>   'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
6> allocate channel c3 type 'sbt_tape' parms
7>   'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
8> allocate channel c4 type 'sbt_tape' parms
9>   'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
10> backup incremental level = 2
11>   format 'df_%U'
12>   (database);
13> release channel c1;
14> release channel c2;
15> release channel c3;
16> release channel c4;
17> }
18>
RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: c1
RMAN-08500: channel c1: sid=16 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel c1: Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle: version 2.2.0.2

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: c2
RMAN-08500: channel c2: sid=9 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel c2: Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle: version 2.2.0.2

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: c3
RMAN-08500: channel c3: sid=20 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel c3: Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle: version 2.2.0.2

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: c4
RMAN-08500: channel c4: sid=8 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel c4: Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle: version 2.2.0.2

RMAN-03022: compiling command: backup
RMAN-03023: executing command: backup
RMAN-08008: channel c1: starting incremental level 2 datafile backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=1835 set_stamp=463068016 creation_time=28-MAY-02
RMAN-08010: channel c1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=4
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex0313.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00019
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata047.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00023
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata0410.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00027
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata049.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00042
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex023.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00047
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex025.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00051
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex032.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00055
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex031.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00059
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex036.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00063
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex042.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00075
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmindex0316.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00032
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata052.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00016
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata033.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00039
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdmfl/fmsdmflindex020.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00071
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdmpm/fmsdmpmindex020.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00012
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata012.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=1
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/dbsys/system01.dbf
RMAN-08011: including current controlfile in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00037
name=/u91/oradata/HII9/fmsdmfl/fmsdmflindex010.dbf
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00072
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdmpm/fmsdmpmdata010.dbf
RMAN-08008: channel c2: starting incremental level 2 datafile backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=1836 set_stamp=463068018 creation_time=28-MAY-02
RMAN-08010: channel c2: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00015
name=/u90/oradata/HII9/fmsdm/fmsdmdata030.dbf
RMAN-08522

Re: Mirrored DELETE DBVOL, LOGVOL?

[Davidson, Becky]

create a third mirror.  Create it and then delete the other thus you are not
exposed

-Original Message-
From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mirrored DELETE DBVOL, LOGVOL?


Oh, I guess it's just my paranoid mind at work again, but DELETE DBVOL
scares me. I'm using it to migrate the TSM Database from old disks to
new, faster disks.

So, I attached the new dbvol and its mirror, fiddled with EXTEND DB and
REDUCE DB to make it right, and did DELETE DBVOL on the old mirror. Then
I did DELETE DBVOL on the old primary copy.

Oops! Now I'm really exposed! There is only one copy of the old database
volume, while this rather lengthly copying process proceeds.

Is there any way to do a DELETE DBVOL in a mirrored way - that is delete
all mirrored copies of a DBVOL at once, so that if a disk crashes in the
middle of it, I will not lose my Database? That's the whole point of
Database mirroring, isn't it?

I'm starting to think AIX JFS mirroring might have some advantages over
TSM Database/Log mirroring.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM Database Location

[Davidson, Becky]

Ilja
We have some of our database volumes on the shark and I still mirror my db
volumes. You mirror not only to protect from disk errors but also to protect
from corruption.  I believe that there was a discussion recently of someone
who had a corrupted database volume.  A shark will not protect you from that
becky

-Original Message-
From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM Database Location


Well Jonathan,

This is how we do it.
We are running on an AIX box for starters.
We have our 4 DB volumes on an separate filesystem. This is about 40GB in
total having 20 GB extendable. We do not mirror the DB volumes, because the
ESS provides all the redundancy we could need. No pain in case of disk
crashes. No management burden. Leaves more resources to TSM. Our database
has a 50% mutation daily, but we manage to keep up a 98% to 99% cache hit
ratio. This high mutation level made us decide to do a full DB backup twice
a day. We also do a daily reset of all the utilization values.

All our disk storage pool volumes also are on the same ESS, but in different
filesystems. These total to about 900 GB.

We have 2 fibre channel connections directly attached to the ESS. No SAN
yet. Both FC connections are based on redundancy and load-balancing using
IBM's subsystem device driver (shipped with the ESS). The ESS disks look the
same as local disks to an AIX box, so we simply put the ESS disks in AIX
volume groups/logical volumes/file systems.

Assumingin you know something about the ESS:
Inside the ESS whe have defined our 4 (DB) disks on 4 different loops (2
ranks or 8 packs) so we have 2 hot-spare disks available for each DB volume.
This also provides the best possible performance.


So Jonathan. Put your primary DB volumes on an ESS, and you don't need any
mirrors.
Let us know what you decide to do. Have fun.

greetings,

Ilja Coolen.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Jonathan Siegle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 24 april 2002 17:03
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: TSM Database Location


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ilja G. Coolen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd suggest to move it to it's own filesystem placed on an redundant disk
> array, enjoying high performance and recoverability.
> We placed our database volumes on an ESS subsystem. Where you place it is
> your own choice. Just try to achieve redundancy.

Did you put all primary/copy db volumes on the ESS? What kind of db cache
hit are you getting? How are you talking to the ESS and how much other
stuff is talking to the ESS while TSM is running? I am considering using
the 2nd/3rd copy of the db for DRM purposes on an ESS.

>
>
> Have fun.
>
>
>
> Ilja G. Coolen
>
>
>   _
>
> ABP / USZO
> CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management
> Telefoon : +31(0)45  579 7938
> Fax  : +31(0)45  579 3990
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Intranet
> : Storage Web
> 
>
>   _
>
> - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. -
>
>
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: Brenda Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: woensdag 24 april 2002 13:37
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: TSM Database Location
>
>
> We are just setting up a new TSM server.  It appears to load the default
> database under /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin.  Is it common practice to leave
> it there or to move it to it's own separate location? Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Brenda
>

Jonathan Siegle Center for Academic Computing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penn State University
814-865-5840University Park, Pa 16802

Re: dbvol create error on AIX

[Davidson, Becky]

is /var/adsmdbl the filesystem?  I think the only ways you can do it is the
logical volume which would be /dev/radsmdbl in this case or a file
/var/adsmdbl/filename  but not as a filesystem.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dbvol create error on AIX


Hi:Anyone seen this error before?

Filesystem1024-blocks  Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/adsmdbl  1048576   10156124%   17 1% /var/adsmdbl


04/12/02   10:01:42  ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DEFINE
  DBVOLUME /var/adsmdbl formatsize=980 wait=yes
04/12/02   10:01:42  ANR0984I Process 104534 for DEFINE DBVOLUME started in
the
  FOREGROUND at 10:01:42.
04/12/02   10:01:42  ANR7865W Unable to create volume /var/adsmdbl. Return
  code=107.
04/12/02   10:01:42  ANR0985I Process 104534 for DEFINE DBVOLUME running in
the
  FOREGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at
  10:01:42.

Re: AIX Disk questions

[Davidson, Becky]

Go in to diag, task selection, ssa service aids, and link verification.
Scroll down to the adapter that they are connected to and see if you can see
all of them and they have numbers in either a1 and a2 or b1 and b2.  You may
be having problems with a cable.
Let me know the results.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX Disk questions


This is an AIX question so may be off subject a little.

I just had a second SSA drawer installed with 16 disks, only 7 of them seem
to be missing depending on how you want to look at them. LSPV shows this for
those disks. I've never seen this before so I'm not sure how to "initialize"
if you will to get them to show up in Smitty, can't see them there. I'll be
using these for my disk pools and DB and Log mirrors.

hdisk18noneNone
hdisk19noneNone
hdisk20noneNone
hdisk21noneNone
hdisk22noneNone
hdisk23noneNone
hdisk24noneNone
hdisk33noneNone
Others show this:

hdisk25000143405656e7baNone
hdisk26000143405657922bNone
hdisk27000143405657e7d1None
hdisk2800014340565826e1None

Thanks for the help. Oh, lsdev -Cc disk does show the disks.


Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Re: tdp r3 and versioning

[Davidson, Becky]

Does it then delete them from the TSM database and free up the tapes?  Are
there any issues with doing this and disaster recovery?
thanks
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Martin Trcka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tdp r3 and versioning


Becky,
yes, we use it in our environment and works exactly as designed; SAP backup
(brbackup/brarchive) utilities manage backup IDs
 and delete apropriate ones according to the option MAX_VERSIONS in an
initSID.utl file (see below).

Martin Trcka


...
.
Versioning: enabled
 Current Version  : 158
 Versions to keep : 5
 Delete Versions  : <= 153


BKI2009I: Deleting all versions with version number <= 153 on server TSM.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@LOG2#025001 2.COPY 00153
/oracle/O10/sparch/O10arch1_10497.db
f deleted.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@LOG1#025000 1.COPY 00153
/oracle/O10/saparch/O10arch1_10497.db
f deleted.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@DATABASE#135007 00153
/oracle/O10/saparch/archO10.log deleted.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@DATABASE#135006 00153
/oracle/O10/saparch/adhqwtee.svd deleted
.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@DATABASE#135005 00153
/oracle/O10/sapreorg/structO10.log delet
ed.
BKI2003I: File O10___9C04010330_TSM@DATABASE#135004 00153
/oracle/O10/sapreorg/reorgO10.log delete
d.




> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Davidson, Becky
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: tdp r3 and versioning
>
>
> Has anyone out there used the tdp for r3 versioning instead of expiration?
> How does it work with disaster recovery?  What are the bonuses or
> detriments?
>
> Thanks
>
> Becky Davidson
> Data Manager/AIX Administrator
> EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
> voice: 314-259-7589
> fax: 314-877-8589
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tdp r3 and versioning

[Davidson, Becky]

Has anyone out there used the tdp for r3 versioning instead of expiration?
How does it work with disaster recovery?  What are the bonuses or
detriments?

Thanks

Becky Davidson
Data Manager/AIX Administrator
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Optical media storage

[Davidson, Becky]

We have some worm optical media that we want to start storing outside the
optical silo.  I want to protect it with some sort of case but I don't have
enough of the sleeves that they come in to store them in that.  I also need
some sort of shelving.  Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find
these things?  I have searched all over the net for information and have
been singularly unsuccessful at finding anything except turtlecase.com that
sells the cases that you can take things offsite in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I know this is a bit offtopic but
the optical are used by TSM

Becky Davidson
Data Manager/AIX Administrator
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3494 Volume Stealing

[Davidson, Becky]

What are the categories used?

I would imagine if it didn't do it in 3.7.3 it won't in 4.2.1  I know what
we had in 3.1 transferred fine to 4.1.2

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Orville L. Lantto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 Volume Stealing


I just tested a problem brought to me by one of my clients.  They have one
3494 library shared by four TSM Servers.  Using 4.2.1 TSM, properly
configured with different 3494 Categories, it is possible for one TSM
server to steal a volume that is checked in to another TSM server.  This
behavior is not exhibited by 3.7.3.

Has anyone seem this?


Orville L. Lantto
Datatrend Technologies, Inc.  (http://www.datatrend.com)
121 Cheshire Lane #700
Minnetonka, MN 55305
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple TSM Servers on Same Machine

[Davidson, Becky]

We ran option 1 for a long time both with twintailed scsi and a san but have
now mostly switched to option 2.  We shared all of the drives and frequently
ran into problems where tsmsvr1 had a drive and tsmsvr2 tried for awhile to
use it and then marked it unavailable until I marked it online.  With 1 you
definitely need different catagories and you have to be careful.  It makes
it easier if you use 100's for one and 200's for the other because I want to
say the number above the scratch is automatically saved for the same systems
private or vice versa and it can get you in trouble.  The best explaination
I have run into on how to set up the library manager is in the LTO Open
Redbook and you just modify what you need for 3494.

Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Multiple TSM Servers on Same Machine


Two ways to set this up:

1. Two separate TSM server sharing the library: use different categories and
be careful.
2. Have one of the servers act as the library manager.  The second asks the
first for resources and tape mounts, etc.  The first server knows about all
of scratch volumes, same categories.  See library sharing documentation.
You also need a license for this option.

Option 1 with the 3494 is probably the way to go.  Unless you have SAN
attached drives.  Then use 2 so you can share the drives between the two
servers.

IMHO.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Jim Sporer
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Multiple TSM Servers on Same Machine


I am in the process of setting up a second TSM server on the same
machine.  I was curious if there are others doing that with a 3494
ATL.  From what I can tell you can share the 3494 atl  resources between
the two servers, meaning the tapes and the drives by specifying a
primarylibrarymanager.   Do you use the same scratch and private categories
for the tapes used by both servers?
Jim Sporer

drm and a shared 3494

[Davidson, Becky]

We have a 3584 with 6 3580 (LTO) drives and 3494 with 14 3590E1A drives
shared between 3 AIX servers containing 4 TSM servers.  The 3590 drives are
SCSI attached to 2 san data gateways which are attached to 2 brocade
switches and the AIX servers are also attached to the brocade switches.  I
have tsmsvr2 as the library manager.  I want to do DRM on tsmsvr1 which is a
library client.  I know that you do the checkins and checkouts of the
library on the library manager with is tsmsvr2.  Is DRM intelligent enough
to tell tsmsvr2 to check out the tapes when I do a move from mountable to
courier or is this going to fail miserably causing me great grief and
aggravation or work perfectly or do I have to do some fine tuning?

Anybody know?  Anybody do this before?

Becky Davidson
Data Manager/AIX Administrator
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFF TOPIC: Oracle DB on ESS.

[Davidson, Becky]

What we did was put the indexes, data, log, and rollback in their own
filesystems.  We then determined what were the hot datafiles and indexes.
>From that we determined the disk sizes.  We used 10.5 for our large
filesystems, 5.3 for medium size, and 1.5 for hot small.  We then spread the
filesystems across as many arrays as possible trying to keep from putting 2
disks from the same filesystem on the same array if we could.  We saw an
incredible boost in performance on writes and a good increase on reads.  We
have discovered that when a filesystem becomes over 100 GB that we start to
have some I/O problems.  I did a presentation on what we did at the Storage
Symposium and if you want could send you that presentation offline.

Becky Davidson
Data Manager/AIX Administrator
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OFF TOPIC: Oracle DB on ESS.


Sorry for this off topic question, but i need a helping hand, and i know you
are all the best in the storage business.

We are about to put some big Oracle instances on one of our ESS boxes, and
we are wondering what the best configuration is, because we are used to
split indexes and data, also log and rollback, and place them on separate
disks physically to get a better performance.
I know this is not required on an ESS box, but i'd like to know if there is
anyone of you who has gone through this before. If you have any reference i
could use, it would be greatly appreciated.

The main question is:
Continue splitting data/index/log/rollback/temp and place them on different
8packs, or go a completely different way and put it all together on one or
more 8packs?


Thanks in advance.

Ilja G. Coolen



  _


ABP / USZO
CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management
Telefoon : +31(0)45  579 7938
Fax  : +31(0)45  579 3990
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Intranet
: Storage  
Web


  _


- Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. -

Re: server won't come back up!

[Davidson, Becky]

vary on/off volume_name wait=yes/no

Try doing a lsvg -p on the volume groups that contain your tsm db and log
volumes to make sure that the volumes are available.  Did you boot the box
between the shutdown and start up of TSM?
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: server won't come back up!


What is the syntax for the ADSM VARY ON command?
I think I might have to manually start the lun.


Marc Levitan
Storage Manager
PFPC Global Fund Services





"PINNI,
BALANAND To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(SBCSI)" cc:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: server won't come
back up!
OM>
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RIST.EDU>


03/04/2002
11:09 AM
Please
respond to
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"





If u did not extend db that should not matter to come up .I think u need to
use dsmserv audit db cmd line with fix=yes option.

-Original Message-
From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: server won't come back up!


I get the following message when trying to start the TSM server:

weboadsm: /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin # dsmserv
ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 09:50:09 on Oct 17 2000.

Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000
Version 3, Release 7, Level 4.0

Licensed Materials - Property of IBM

5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999. All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.

ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0259E Unable to read complete restart/checkpoint information from any
database or recovery log volume.
weboadsm: /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin #

The only thing that I can think of is that I added space(defined and
extended) to the RECOVERY log.  I also DEFINED additional space for my
database but have NOT yet actually extended the database to use the new
space.

Do I have to somehow show TSM my changes???
Does anyone have more info on the ANR0259E error?

Thanks,

Marc Levitan
Storage Manager
PFPC Global Fund Services

Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

[Davidson, Becky]

Did you try your fibre channel adapter software?
Still looking for other info but I think we installed off of the cd's we
received with our adapters.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Wow! I wouldn't know where to start! It's huge
I checked the /storage and /rs6000 subdirectories, but it's not there...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

-Original Message-
From: Denzel, Richard van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 16:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Have you tried looking at ftp://service/software.ibm.com ??

Richard.

-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Hi *SM-ers!
My 3590 drives are working through the SAN Data Gateway now. The problem
wasn't related to the missing device package message, but it was a wrong
SCSI cable (one without a terminator).
However, I still receive the following message when running cfgmgr:

cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required for
device support but are not currently installed.
devices.fcp.array

I checked the AIX 4.3.3. CD, but it's not part of AIX. Could someone who is
using a SAN Data Gateway check if he/she has this fileset installed? Maybe
it is part of another fileset? I can't find anything about it, not through
IBM nor though Google.
Thanks in advance!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Othonas Xixis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 19:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Eric,
in case Adolph's recommendation don't work, or cfgmgr gives you another
error then the problem is with your 2108 SAN Data Gateway (SDG). Go into
the SDG (SAN Data Gateway) firmware and execute the following actions:
1) disableCC
2) setHost 0, "aix"   or   setHost  0  AIX
3) setHost 1, "aix"   or   setHost  1  AIX
4) and reboot the device.
5) remove the tape drives (rmdev -dl rmt?), the fiber object (rmdev -Rdl
fcs?), and then rerun cfgmgr.
This action should let see the SDG transparent to the cfgmgr routine.

Cheers.

Othonas Xixis



"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
02/05/2002 01:00:33 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway



Hi Adolph!
Thank you very much! I will install it tomorrow.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Adolph Kahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 18:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


This is part of AIX. It will be on the AIX install CDs.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

Hi *SM-ers!
I have just connected a 3494 library through a SAN Data Gateway.
When I run cfgmgr is detects the drives:

rmt5  Available 10-68-01 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium Changer
(FCP)
rmt6  Available 10-68-01-4,0 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium Changer
(FCP)

But it also returns the following error:

cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required for
device support but are not currently installed.
devices.fcp.array

This driver, is it a AIX driver or is it part of the TSM devices
package?
Thanks in advance!!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


**
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: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

[Davidson, Becky]

I want to say that if you go through the San Data Gateway pages in IBM land
there is a link to that off of the documentation pages.  I will look closer
in a bit but that might help.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Wow! I wouldn't know where to start! It's huge
I checked the /storage and /rs6000 subdirectories, but it's not there...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

-Original Message-
From: Denzel, Richard van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 16:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Have you tried looking at ftp://service/software.ibm.com ??

Richard.

-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Hi *SM-ers!
My 3590 drives are working through the SAN Data Gateway now. The problem
wasn't related to the missing device package message, but it was a wrong
SCSI cable (one without a terminator).
However, I still receive the following message when running cfgmgr:

cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required for
device support but are not currently installed.
devices.fcp.array

I checked the AIX 4.3.3. CD, but it's not part of AIX. Could someone who is
using a SAN Data Gateway check if he/she has this fileset installed? Maybe
it is part of another fileset? I can't find anything about it, not through
IBM nor though Google.
Thanks in advance!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Othonas Xixis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 19:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


Eric,
in case Adolph's recommendation don't work, or cfgmgr gives you another
error then the problem is with your 2108 SAN Data Gateway (SDG). Go into
the SDG (SAN Data Gateway) firmware and execute the following actions:
1) disableCC
2) setHost 0, "aix"   or   setHost  0  AIX
3) setHost 1, "aix"   or   setHost  1  AIX
4) and reboot the device.
5) remove the tape drives (rmdev -dl rmt?), the fiber object (rmdev -Rdl
fcs?), and then rerun cfgmgr.
This action should let see the SDG transparent to the cfgmgr routine.

Cheers.

Othonas Xixis



"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
02/05/2002 01:00:33 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway



Hi Adolph!
Thank you very much! I will install it tomorrow.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Adolph Kahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 18:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway


This is part of AIX. It will be on the AIX install CDs.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 through SAN Data Gateway

Hi *SM-ers!
I have just connected a 3494 library through a SAN Data Gateway.
When I run cfgmgr is detects the drives:

rmt5  Available 10-68-01 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium Changer
(FCP)
rmt6  Available 10-68-01-4,0 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium Changer
(FCP)

But it also returns the following error:

cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required for
device support but are not currently installed.
devices.fcp.array

This driver, is it a AIX driver or is it part of the TSM devices
package?
Thanks in advance!!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


**
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: defining lto drive not looking correct

[Davidson, Becky]

Yes it is defined
devc = ltotape
dev acc strategy=sequential
storage pool count = 0
devt=lto
format=drive
mountl=drives
mountw=60
mountr=60
labelprefix=adsm
library=ltolib


-Original Message-
From: DeMuse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: defining lto drive not looking correct


Becky,

Did you define your device class properly

def devclass LTO_TAPE devtype=LTO format=. library=ltolib

Regards,
Mike DeMuse
DeMuse Consulting Inc.
(651) 686-5015
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Original Message -
From: "Davidson, Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: defining lto drive not looking correct


> Due to other issues I deleted all of my lto drives and library and am
> redefining them.  I am following through multiple redbooks and manuals
that
> say
> def library ltolib libt=scsi device=/dev/smc1
> and then for the drive
> def drive ltolib ltormt17 device=/dev/rmt17 element=257
> but when I do a q dr ltolib all of the drives show up as generic?!?!
>
> I am sure I have missed something simple but what am I missing...I know
they
> showed up as lto before what am I doing wrong or am I simply losing my
mind?
>
> Becky Davidson
> Data Manager/AIX Administrator
> EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
> voice: 314-259-7589
> fax: 314-877-8589
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

defining lto drive not looking correct

[Davidson, Becky]

Due to other issues I deleted all of my lto drives and library and am
redefining them.  I am following through multiple redbooks and manuals that
say
def library ltolib libt=scsi device=/dev/smc1
and then for the drive
def drive ltolib ltormt17 device=/dev/rmt17 element=257
but when I do a q dr ltolib all of the drives show up as generic?!?!

I am sure I have missed something simple but what am I missing...I know they
showed up as lto before what am I doing wrong or am I simply losing my mind?

Becky Davidson
Data Manager/AIX Administrator
EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group
voice: 314-259-7589
fax: 314-877-8589
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who else got 'Job Spam'?

[Davidson, Becky]

Initially I felt left out but I received a copy later...have time you will
probably get yours too.  She is great for the ego though

-Original Message-
From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Who else got 'Job Spam'?


Great.  Now I feel left out.  

-Original Message-
From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Who else got 'Job Spam'?


I believe everyone go a copy.

Gene Greenberg
Lead System Adm/DBA
Round Rock ISD


|+--->
||  Bill Mansfield   |
|| |
||   |
||  02/06/02 08:16 AM|
||  Please respond to "ADSM: |
||  Dist Stor Manager"   |
||   |
|+--->
  >-|
  | |
  |   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |
  |   cc: (bcc: Gene Greenberg/CentralOffice/RRISD) |
  |   Subject: Re: Who else got 'Job Spam'? |
  >-|




Me too.  Pretty tough to police an unmoderated list.  Perhaps if "Tina"
gets enough negative feedback she'll think twice next time.

_
William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc




  Justin Derrick
   cc:
  Sent by: "ADSM:  Subject:  Who else got 'Job
Spam'?
  Dist Stor
  Manager"
  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  .EDU>


  02/06/2002 07:12
  AM
  Please respond to
  "ADSM: Dist Stor
  Manager"






I'm presuming I wasn't the only one that got the spam for a ficticious
'project' from 'Tina'.

I'm kinda curious as to how many others received the same message because
they "appeared to have great communication skills".  (Translation:  "I
haven't read any of your postings, but it sounds flattering enough.")

-JD.

Re: TSM Restore Using 349X lib fails.

[Davidson, Becky]

Did you install atape and atldd?  Before using tsm make sure that mtlib can
talk to it.  You can test that by simply doing an mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qL
This will tell you if the machine can talk to the tape library.  If it can't
make sure that you can ping it and that the /etc/ibmatl.conf is configured
properly.
Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Restore Using 349X lib failes.


Hello you guru's.

Last weekend we did a migration to a new AIX/box with our TSM 4.2.1.9
server.
Everthing was configured, installed. We were unable to test the 3494 library
'cause it was attached to the production environment, and we had no spare
available at the location.

This is what we did.

SOURCE

RS/6000 - S70
AIX 4.3.3
TSM 4.2.1.9
1 x 3494
7 x SCSI 3590E
1 x ESS ( 2 x Fibre Channel point to point)



TARGET
--
RS/6000 - H80 ( New BOX)
AIX 4.3.3 ( Cleanly Installed )
TSM 4.2.1.9( Cleanly Installed )
1 x 3494  (Moved from source)
7 x SCSI 3590E   (Moved from source)
Seperate ESS ( 2 x Fibre Channel point to point)

Library definitions:
define library libm libt=349x devi=/dev/magstar (lmcp0)
define dev 3590 devt=3590 format=drive mountl=drives
define drive libm drive dev=/dev/rmt1

We did these actions before on disaster recovery tests, and it worked fine
all the time. BUT NOW, we have preconfigured the whole environment, and
started a restore db.
We got the message that the library type did not support this action. We
defined all settings like we always did.
We needed to define a manual tape library to do the restore. Automated
restore db's used to work fine.
How come it doesn't work now?
Could this be a bug?
Or did we make a mistake after all?



Ilja G. Coolen



  _


ABP / USZO
CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management
Telefoon : +31(0)45  579 7938
Fax  : +31(0)45  579 3990
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Intranet
: Storage  
Web


  _


- Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. -

Re: 3494 Tape Library

[Davidson, Becky]

The 3494 with the 3590s is great for a lot of stop start writing.  It is
also intelligent so it does a lot of the managing of the tapes.  On the
downside that adds a layer of complication.  It is also more expensive.  The
3580 is great for streaming data, moves fast, and isn't as complicated.  Is
also isn't as smart and doesn't so as well with the stop start type writing.
For us at least the LTO tapes are larger so we had 20 tapes that reduced to
6 which was wonderful.

Hope this helps
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494 Tape Library


The 3575 we are currently using backs up aix servers as well as nt systems.
The
biggest problem has been to keep enough scratch tapes available.  I'm
currently
rotating around 600 tapes that hold appox. 20gb eachdepending on
compression.

Also in the past we have not had the luxuary of a fiber backbone, but that
is
now changing and each of our 35 locations have fiber being installed.  Going
this direction would allow us to have a lot less tapes, and at the same time
give us room to grow in the future.

I'm not dead set on a 3494 library because of price, but it does appear to
give
us a lot of flexibility for future needs.

Gene



|+----->
||  "Davidson, |
||  Becky" |
||   |
|| |
||  02/01/02 12:31 |
||  PM |
||  Please respond |
||  to "ADSM: Dist |
||  Stor Manager"  |
|| |
|+->
  >-|
  | |
  |   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |
  |   cc: (bcc: Gene Greenberg/CentralOffice/RRISD) |
  |   Subject: Re: 3494 Tape Library|
  >-|




We have a 3494 and it works great.  We also have a 3584 which works well.
What kind of purpose are you going to use it for?
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 Tape Library


SMers

I'm currently using a 3575 tape library and have to make or not make a
recommendation to move to a 3494 library.

For those who have one already I'd be interested in your eval of the 3494,
good,
bad or indefferent.

Thanks for your help

Gene

Re: 3494 Tape Library

[Davidson, Becky]

We have a 3494 and it works great.  We also have a 3584 which works well.
What kind of purpose are you going to use it for?
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 Tape Library


SMers

I'm currently using a 3575 tape library and have to make or not make a
recommendation to move to a 3494 library.

For those who have one already I'd be interested in your eval of the 3494,
good,
bad or indefferent.

Thanks for your help

Gene

Re: TDP questions

[Davidson, Becky]

Depending on how you do expiration TDP keeps as many backups as your archive
management class has specified and the frequency you run expiration.  You
can check to see a successful backup either via the Administrative Assistant
if you purchased it or looking at the log files.  I know for TDP for SAP R/3
our log files are kept in /oracle/SID/sapbackup.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Hunley, Ike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDP questions


Where do I find out how many backups TDP keeps.
How do we know when a successful backup took place via TDP?

Thanks


Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., and its subsidiary and
affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this
e-mail message. Any personal comments made in this e-mail do not reflect the
views of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.

Re: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?

[Davidson, Becky]

Jan
Not a problem at all.  TSM does not care how they are attached.  TSM depends
completely on the operating system for the intelligence on the attaching.
The 3494 is also intelligent enough to know if someone else is using the
drive that it can't.  Drive map all the SAN drives???  What you could do
which is relatively inexpensive is attach your 3590's to San Data Gateways
which attach to the SAN and then they would all be SAN attached.
Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Norback, Jan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible?


Hi,
I have been asked by my customer if it is possible to mix SCSI and SAN
attached drives on TSM servers that are to perform LAN free backup.
I know that I need to drivemapp all the SAN drives but what will TSM do with
the SCSI attached drives, is it cleaver enough to make sure that it doesn't
mount any tapes for LAN free backups and restores in those drives?

Why not upgrade all drives? Money, money...

This setup:
-TSM server 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3
-3494 libraries
-3590E tapes (SCSI and SAN)

Regards,
Jan Norback
Tivoli Certified Consultant: ADSM/TSM
IBM Cert. Adv. Technical Expert RS/6000 AIX
Atos Origin-IT (MS/DS/OSS Unix)
VA-106, PO-box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +31 (0)40-2780289
Mobile: +31 (0)6-12994492
Fax : +31 40 2783962

Re: "Server media mount not possible" error condition

[Davidson, Becky]

Ken
Try a q node f=d to check to make sure that you have mount points greater
then 0
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Server media mount not possible" error condition



Hi ALL:

I have a situation here as follows:

One TSM server 3.7.3
Two RS/6000 H70s at 4.3.3,
Two TSM clients 3.7.3
One shared Magstar 3570 20-cartridge library.

This configuration has been running well for many moons.

We only backup our Oracle dbs + AIX server environments with TSM.

I started getting the "ANS1312E Server media mount not possible" errors  a
few days ago.

Actual dsmerror.log:

01/17/02   03:27:56 ANS1312E Server media mount not possible

01/17/02   03:27:56 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'RS6000H70' failed.  Return
code =
4.
# castor :/ ==>

The dsmsched.log shows the same "ANS1312E Server media mount not possible"
error and the failed return code

The activity log reports:

01/16/02 23:30:01 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting POLLUXMUX
(session
   191) to start a scheduled operation.

01/16/02 23:30:03 ANR0406I Session 192 started for node POLLUXMUX (AIX)

   (Tcp/Ip 177.66.32.30(41946)).

01/16/02 23:30:09 ANR0406I Session 193 started for node POLLUXMUX (AIX)

   (Tcp/Ip 177.66.32.30(41949)).

01/16/02 23:30:10 ANR0403I Session 193 ended for node POLLUXMUX (AIX).

01/17/02 00:00:01 ANR2562I Automatic event record deletion started.

01/17/02 00:00:01 ANR2102I Activity log pruning started: removing
entries
   prior to 01/14/02 00:00:00.

01/17/02 00:00:01 ANR2565I 0 schedules for immediate client actions
have
   been deleted.

01/17/02 00:00:01 ANR2563I Removing event records dated prior to
01/07/02
   00:00:00.

01/17/02 00:00:01 ANR2564I Automatic event record deletion ended - 8
records
   deleted.

01/17/02 00:00:02 ANR2103I Activity log pruning completed: 281 records

   removed.

01/17/02 00:30:44 ANR0481W Session 192 for node POLLUXMUX (AIX)
terminated -
   client did not respond within 3600 seconds.


01/17/02 03:30:01 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting CASTOROIL
(session
   194) to start a scheduled operation.

01/17/02 03:30:03 ANR0406I Session 195 started for node CASTOROIL (AIX)

   (Tcp/Ip 177.66.32.33(50501)).

01/17/02 03:30:21 ANR0406I Session 196 started for node CASTOROIL (AIX)

   (Tcp/Ip 177.66.32.33(50506)).

01/17/02 03:30:22 ANR0403I Session 196 ended for node CASTOROIL (AIX).



01/17/02 04:30:45 ANR0481W Session 195 for node CASTOROIL (AIX)
terminated -
   client did not respond within 3600 seconds.


The automated schedules each give the same error.

When I try and do a manual incremental or selective backups, the same error
occurs (ANS1312E Server media mount not possible).

I can manually do TSM db backups in the Magstar 3570 library with no
problems.

Audit library 3570lib runs without a problem.

I have restarted the TSM server and restarted each of the clients
schedulers to no avail.

I have checked the AIX errpt for any rmt1/2 errors. None reported!

This is a real stumper!!

Anyone have any ideas on this??

ps-I am thinking of upgrading to TSM v4.1 in-order to get TSM Tech support
availability.



(Embedded image moved to file: pic09894.pcx)

Re: dsmserv initialization fault

[Davidson, Becky]

There aren't any errors here.  How long did it stop there or did it just
die?  Have you checked to make sure your recovery log volumes are available?
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Manoel Braz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dsmserv initialization fault


Hi TSM'ers,

I tried to initialize the TSM and it stopped in the following message:

Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000Version 3, Release 7, Level 3.0
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999. All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.
ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.

ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 100 megabytes.

ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 800 megabytes.

ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.

Thanks for the help .

Regards,

Manoel Braz

Re: Long-Term Storage

[Davidson, Becky]

We are using CommonStore for SAP to do the archiving to the cd's.  I think
we have some IXOS on the NT side but I am not sure.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Jolley, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Long-Term Storage


Becky,
What software are you using for archiving to CD's?  We are looking to
exploit the use of IXOS if possible.

-Original Message-----
From: Davidson, Becky
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Long-Term Storage


Depending on the form of archiving you are doing but we archive to cd's with
no problem.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Long-Term Storage


 Good Afternoon,

I am trying to identify the "best solution" for achieving long term
storage requirements.  However each option has pros and cons.  Would anyone
like to share their long-term storage solution and why they chose that way.
My storage requirement is 7 years.

Here are the options I have come up with so far

Backup Sets:
pros:   Can be placed on CD ( lower media cost and easier to store )
Does not require addition client session

cons:   A backup set can only be restored in it's entirety.
How to create backup sets for databases backed up with
utilities like SQL-Backtrack or TDP?


Archiving:
pros:   Possible to restore single files

cons:   I don't think it is possible to archive to CD-Rom. ( Correct
me if I'm wrong )
Cost of tape cartridges to hold 7 years worth of data
extremely expensive.
Requires addition session with client


Additionally one benefit to a backup set would be that if in X years if the
TSM Server is replaced by another product only the TSM client would be
needed to restore a backup set.  Whereas to restore archived information the
TSM server would be required.

Thanks,
Jon Martin

Re: Long-Term Storage

[Davidson, Becky]

Depending on the form of archiving you are doing but we archive to cd's with
no problem.
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Long-Term Storage


 Good Afternoon,

I am trying to identify the "best solution" for achieving long term
storage requirements.  However each option has pros and cons.  Would anyone
like to share their long-term storage solution and why they chose that way.
My storage requirement is 7 years.

Here are the options I have come up with so far

Backup Sets:
pros:   Can be placed on CD ( lower media cost and easier to store )
Does not require addition client session

cons:   A backup set can only be restored in it's entirety.
How to create backup sets for databases backed up with
utilities like SQL-Backtrack or TDP?


Archiving:
pros:   Possible to restore single files

cons:   I don't think it is possible to archive to CD-Rom. ( Correct
me if I'm wrong )
Cost of tape cartridges to hold 7 years worth of data
extremely expensive.
Requires addition session with client


Additionally one benefit to a backup set would be that if in X years if the
TSM Server is replaced by another product only the TSM client would be
needed to restore a backup set.  Whereas to restore archived information the
TSM server would be required.

Thanks,
Jon Martin

Re: Which conference do you recommend?

[Davidson, Becky]

Last year I went to Share and the Storage Symposium.  For me at least the
Storage Symposium was of more use.  Alot of the Share stuff (I went to the
UserBlue segment) focused on operating system and performance things which
are not things that I focus on.  My job is storage on midrange which is
everything from tsm to maintaining our san and sharks.  At the Storage
Symposium the presentations are storage and backups.  The other gain is that
you can talk to people that spend alot of time working on storage which for
me was a great help.  As for the tsm db sessions.  For me at least the
information was in way too much detail.  When they talk about everything you
wanted to know it is details like how tables are put together.  I am trying
to figure out whether to do the storage symposium or the storage networking
conference later in the year.  Good luck
Becky

-Original Message-
From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which conference do you recommend?


Looking at next year's education budget. My boss says he will send me to one
(and only one) conference. The two leading contenders at this time are SHARE
(March in Nashville) and the Storage Symposium (August in Salt Lake City).
>From people who have been to one or both, which do you recommend and why? Is
there another conference I ought to look at?* My job is largely TSM
administration, but also a fair amount of general Unix System Admin.

Also, does anyone know where I can get information from the two sessions
titled "Everything you always wanted to know about TSM Database, parts 1 and
2" in last years Storage Symposium?

Thanks,
Kai.

* I know about the TSM Symposium at Oxford, but I don't think he will spring
to send me across the Pond. I also glanced at the Usenix/ACM FAST, but that
seems rather more oriented to computer scientists, and less to do with
Information Services.

Re: running multiple servers on one AIX machine

[Davidson, Becky]

What I do an it may take up more space but it gives me a little more
flexibility is I have
/usr/tivoli/tsm/tsmsvr2
/usr/tivoli/tsm/tsmsvr4
/usr/tivoli/tsm/server

I keep a copy of everything regarding each machine in it's own directory
tree including the code.  Then I have a rc.adsmserv2 and rc.adsmserv4 to
start each.  This helps me to upgrade one server and not the other.
Hope this helps
Becky


-Original Message-
From: Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDSES31
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: running multiple servers on one AIX machine


ok

but,

DSMSERV_DIR evinronment variable points to server executable/start directory
i.e. the one i use for the first server. according manual this should be
enough  just one server executable/start directory. ?



Ruud van Ruler, Shell Information Technology International B.V.   - DSES-31 
Our Central Data Storage Management home page: 
http://sww2.shell.com/cdsm/
> Room 1B/G01
> Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL
Tel : +31 (0)70 - 3034644, Fax 4011, Mobile +31 (0)6-55127646
Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

R.vanRuler



-Original Message-
From: Baines, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: maandag 10 december 2001 14:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: running multiple servers on one AIX machine


Change directory to the server start directory (where the dsmserv.dsk file
is for the second server) before you start the server. Set DSMSERV_CONFIG to
point to your option file or use the -o option of dsmserv to point to your
option file.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen - With best regards
Serdeczne pozdrowienia - Slan agus beannacht
Paul Baines
TSM/ADSM Consultant

"Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s."
Kevin Keegan.


-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDSES31
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Montag, 10. Dezember 2001 13:39
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: running multiple servers on one AIX machine


Hi

I am trying to get multiple servers running on one AIX machine.
i have followed the instructions according the manual:
- create a new directory for the dsmserv.opt
- copy and adjust the dsmserv.opt
- formatted and initialised new db and log volumes
- DSMSERV_DIR evinronment variable points to server executable directory
i.e. the one i use for the first server. according manual this should be
enough  just one server executable directory.

When i have restarted the server only one comes up . ?

I have even tried the following script :
# Set variables for the location of the different options files
set SERVER1_DIR = /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin
set SERVER2_DIR = /usr/tivoli/DR_tsm/server/bin
# Startup the first server
set DSMSERV_DIR = $SERVER1_DIR
nohup /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv >& /dev/null &
set DSMSERV_DIR = $SERVER2_DIR
nohup /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv >& /dev/null &

but still no luck  . any idea's ?

thanks.

Ruud van Ruler, Shell Information Technology International B.V.   - DSES-31
Our Central Data Storage Management home page:
http://sww2.shell.com/cdsm/
> Room 1B/G01
> Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL
Tel : +31 (0)70 - 3034644, Fax 4011, Mobile +31 (0)6-55127646
Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

R.vanRuler

Re: Poor Performance in SAN with TDP for R/3 AIX

[Davidson, Becky]

How many threads are you using?
What multiplexing are you using?
Are you using compression?

Becky

-Original Message-
From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Poor Performance in SAN with TDP for R/3 AIX


Hi...

I4m using a SAN with McData switchs, LTO 3584, AIX 4.3.3 TSM Server 4.2, TDP
for SAP 3.2.0.6, Storage Agent 4.2.

When I use B/A Client the network transfer rate is 90 MB/Sec, but when I use
the TDP for SAP the network transfer rate is 20 MB/Sec.

What parameters can I set to obtain better performance?

Thanks in Advance

Jorge Rodriguez
Caracas - Venezuela

_
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp