So long and thanks for all the fish
Hi all; After several years of TSM admin, I am moving on. Going back to the server administration environment. Take care and thanks. Anthony A. Garrison Jr. Sr. Systems Programmer USAA (210 456-5755
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Re: Work arounds for files deleted in flight?
Sounds good to me also. Anthony A. Garrison Jr. Sr. Systems Programmer USAA (210 456-5755 -Original Message- From: Chuck Mattern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Work arounds for files deleted in flight? Lindsay, This sounds great. We would need full path names to evaluate the consequences of the event. Is something like this already floating around? Chuck Mattern The Home Depot Phone: 770-433-8211 x11919 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager: 770-201-1626 Mr. Lindsay Morris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: aph.com Subject: Re: Work arounds for files deleted in flight? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu 06/23/2003 09:22 AM Please respond to lmorris Chuck, would a missed-files report that grouped them by reason-missed help you? eg: Files Missed for Nodexxx Not found: 562 Changing: 2 Locked: 132 Then of course you'd want to be able to click each line, and drill down to see the actual file names. If you did that, do you think you'd want to see (for the Locked list ,say) all 132 files, or just the file NAMES that differ - that is, cut off the directory part? - Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Mattern Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Work arounds for files deleted in flight? Ever since we transitioned from adsm v3 to adsm v4 we have encountered an extremely high failure rate. Essentially when adsm went from backing up Unix filesystems like tar (see a file; get a file) to doing ti like dump (build a list of files; go back and backup the list) we began taking what I do not consider true failures. Since we do not have the ability to quiesce our systems for backup many files that adsm identifies as backup candidates are deleted before they can be backed. To avoid wasting many hours of engineer time logging into several hundred servers to investigate this I am writing a Perl utility to parse the logs, totalling the file not found failures and only reporting a failure back to us if there are more errors than the total number of file not found errors. I took the issue up with ADSM support and essentially got that's the way it is now, sorry Is anyone else having problem like this and if so can you offer any better solutions than the one I am working on? Thanks, Chuck
Re: Exchange 2000
We use TSM and TDP to backup our exchange servers. We have not had any major problems with it. -Original Message- From: Mark Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange 2000 We are investigating using TSM/ exchange TDP to back up our Exchange servers. I would like to know if there are a number of organizations that use TSM to back up Exchange and if there are any items that I need to be aware of. We will be doing a test run soon. We currently use TSM are our primary backup solution.
Re: Amount of Data on a physical Tape Volume?
do a q vol volume# then multiply the est capacity by the pct utilized. -Original Message- From: Nelson Kane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Amount of Data on a physical Tape Volume? Hello all, Does anyone know the command to display the number of MB/GB occupying a tape. I can query the contents, but that gives me a name of files and not how much data is on the volume. I am using TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3. Thanks in Advance! -kane
Re: Messages and return codes
Andy; I have a number of Win2k nodes that are running 5.1.5.9 client. these clients backup to 5.1.5.4 and 4.2.1.11 server versions (TSM servers are AIX 4.3.3). We recently noticed that these clients complete with a return code of 8. even when doing a simple q sched command. this has screwed up all our Control-M jobs. is this normal or a bug in the 5.1.5.9 client? T -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Messages and return codes You do not indicate which client version you are running, so it is difficult to be specific in your case. If you are running something below 5.1, then the return code should be deemed undocumented and unpredictable. If you are running 5.1, then the info on client return codes can be found in the client manual, chapter 7 Automating Tasks. Information on message format and severities is in the Messages manual, in the introduction chapter. 'ANSS' messages are considered a severe error, and will generate an RC 12. As you'll find in the client manual, the client return codes are tied very strongly to the message severity. There is nothing in the client that allows you to configure which messages will generate which return code. If you think a message is generating the wrong return code, then you should contact IBM support to see if there is an actual problem in the return code processing. If you disagree with the severity level of a given message (and thus the rc it generates), then you should open a requirement and request the change. We are open to re-evaluating message severities. For example, prior to 5.1, the message you got when a TCP/IP connection was severed (but the client was able to re-establish the connection) was treated as a severity of error. In 5.1, we reduced it to a warning level message since the client is able to re-establish the connection. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply) The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/2003 11:28 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Messages and return codes Is there any documentation of what messages cause which numeric return code to the client. In particular, I'm trying to determine what return code a ANS1492S Invalid virtual mountpoint /ps/epmtest/psoft: File not found. returns to the client. Is there any way to change which return code a message generates? David
Re: AW: Listing of all Backups and Archives
you can use a select * from backups where node_name='NODENAME' and type=file or select * from archives where node_name='NODE_NAME' and type=file This will list only the files and not each directory. Hope this helps. T -Original Message- From: Herkenrath, Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: AW: Listing of all Backups and Archives Hi, well, it's not my decision ;-) I need all files from all clients. At the meantime I think I have to do it with a select for the occupancy. Correct me if I'm wrong. Wolfgang -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christian Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2003 13:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Listing of all Backups and Archives Hi! I can not help you if you going to move from TSM to NetBackup. I´m just jokeing! ;-) Do you only want to see the files who going to expire or all files? Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-718 43 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Herkenrath, WolfgangTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wolfgang. cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Listing of all Backups and Archives DE Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-10 12:08 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Cristie, thanks for answer. I need information for all files and when they will expire. For sure, it will be a large list. My company will replace TSM with NetBackup :-( So I need the information, wich data are at my TSM. Wolfgang -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christian Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2003 11:23 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Listing of all Backups and Archives Hi Wolfgang! Everything is possible to do. Becuse you have all the information in the databas. So if you just use a select command you can get any information you want. But do you want information for each file or do you want information how much who going to expire in the closest 24 hours on each filespace or on each node? Med Vänliga Hälsningar/Best Regards Christian Svensson --- Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 SE-131 06 Nacka Sweden Phone : +46-(0)8-718 43 30 Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Herkenrath, WolfgangTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDU Wolfgang. cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Listing of all Backups and Archives DE Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-10 11:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi all, is there a way to create a list of all backups and archives and there expiration date? I mean all backups and archives for all clients. I think it could be possible to do this with an SQL-script, but I'm not sure. And if it is possible, does anyone has such a script. I don't want to invent the wheel again. THX Wolfgang
Re: DB Backup question re: Incremental vs. Full
We send our fulls to the tape3590 devclass and our incrementals to a file devclass -Original Message- From: Jim Sporer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DB Backup question re: Incremental vs. Full I've never done that but I wouldn't think it matters. The volhist file keeps track of where these backups are. Jim Sporer At 02:48 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan Davenport Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:54 AM To: ADSM (E-mail) Subject: DB Backup question re: Incremental vs. Full Hello List, I'm relisting this since I goofed the first time. I have a question on Incremental database backups. If I take a full database backup to device class A one day can I take an INCREMENTAL backup to device class B the next day or must the incremental backup go to the same device class as the full backup? TSM 5.1.5.4 on OS/390. Alan Davenport Senior Storage Administrator Selective Insurance Co. of America [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306
Re: On which volumes are my files?
it seems it be easier to just create a backupset with a 1 day retention. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: On which volumes are my files? Does anyone know a fast way to get a list of all volumes on which a node has files of a specific subdirectory? A query of the volumeusage table does the job on filespace level but not on file/directory level. The only way I know is to search in the output of query content or the corresponding select query which is very slow. The Content query is the standard method - which has to wend its way through the whole file inventory to gather the limited information you need. There is another, creative approach: Perform a client restore of that subdirectory to a trash area, and then see what tapes were mounted. :-) If you have ready access to the same type of system as that client, and know the client's password, you can perform the restoral cross-node, and not actually have to use that client. Restore doesn't have to go through the SQL layers that we have to when issuing server commands, and is certainly far faster. Richard Sims, BU Think different. - Apple
Re: new DB fields in 5152 server?
Our test server is 5.1.5.4 and the fields are ok. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Stumpf, Joachim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new DB fields in 5152 server? Hi together, today I upgraded our TSM-test-server (z/OS) from V5.1.5.1 to V5.1.5.2. If I perform a SELECT * FROM NODES I see 3 new fields in the table (NODES.TCP_NAME, NODES.TCP_ADDRESS, NODES.GUID). But the TCP_Name and TCP_address are not valid name or address I only see: TCP_NAME = åàà TCP_ADDRESS = îàåîåîê anyone else has seen this? -- regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Joachim Stumpf Datev eG Nuremberg - Germany
Re: DB2 backup on AIX
We have our important DB2 databases being backed up to local DASD then TSM backs up the flat files with the required management class for database retention. This alleviated problems we were seeing with the db2 backups being interrupted and causing an out-of-sync condition, which only a restart of the application could fix. This also enables us (TSM) to control the expiration of the database files instead of relying on the DBA to expire them. This has decreased our storage requirements on some of these servers to a quarter of what they were using. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DB2 backup on AIX Hi DB2 has built-in capabilities to backup to TSM. Check with your DB2 admin. It also explains how to do it in Backing up databases with Tivoli Storage Manager Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: Restore NT4 on difference machine
The best thing to do is to create a second NT instance on the server (Winnt2) and boot from the second instance. Then restore the winnt and adsm.sys folders. Then copy the regigstry. Tony Garrison MCSE, MCP+I, A+ I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA -Original Message- From: Natthakriss Mathanom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Restore NT4 on difference machine Dear all I have some problem about restore NT4 system on difference machine. When i restore adsm.sys on c:\winnt\system32\config and replace when restart. It cann't login to server, Anyone has found problem Pls tell me. Or anyone have step or How to restore NT4 to difference machine. Pls tell me too, Thank you for your help Regards Natthakriss Mathanom MIS System Operation CRC.Ahold Company Limited Tel: (66)2-9371700 ext 833 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antwort: Web Admin Interface - grrr
same here. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Antwort: Web Admin Interface - grrr count me in as one that uses the old Windows GUI too. I wish Tivoli would bring it back and ditch the web admin... -Original Message- From: Gerhard Wolkerstorfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Web Admin Interface - grrr Thomas, I can feel what you mean... I also use the good old Windows GUI.. E.g. .) you cannot sort the output from any Query - I want to sort for example all my volumes by reclamation-factor .) You cannot easily have 4 or more Windows in one big window (Open is always the PROCESS, SESSION, VOLUME window and sometimes any others) Yes , you can have more Browser Sessions - but believe me - when I open the fourth or fifth Browser Window, the whole Netscape will crash.. .) You cannot adapt the width of the columns to your requirements, and so on and on and on ,. So I use the old GUI and I love it.. Gerhard Wolkerstorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)) am 12.08.2002 18:44:31 Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Gerhard Wolkerstorfer/DEBIS/EDVG/AT) Thema:Web Admin Interface - grrr Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
Re: General TSM Q's
what kind of problem did you have with the backupset? we recovered 2 Aix 4.3.3 filespaces with backupsets this weekend. The filespaces have approx 3.5 million files and was taking about 40hrs per filespace to perform a normal restore. the problem is running node collocation, it really stretched our restore time to an unacceptable length of time. we were able to recover both filespaces with backup sets in approx 30 hrs each. this includes the time required to perform a replace if newer restore to get any changes since the backupset was created. Consequently we restored the server in less then 40 hrs from start to finish. Anyone else have experience running backupsets that might be able to help us cut this time even more? T Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Cardoza, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: General TSM Q's I'll bite... let me throw in my two cents worth: 1. A 30GB TSM database is considered large. We have a 30Gb TSM database with 250 server nodes containing 70TB of data on an IBM 3584 Tape Library. We have a 5GB log file and process approximately a TB a day in daily changes. This is all under the AIX platform, I think it is technically possible to do it with NT, but the stability and recovery times may be larger than the AIX platform. (Our configuration: 2-way, Silvernode, 2GB memory, SP Switch, 100TX, TSM V. 4.2.2, Fiber attached library/tape drives. 2. An undersized library usually means you have a lot of media waits while the tape drives fight for contention and available scratch tapes, or slots. This usually shows itself immediately with reclamation, migration, data moves, etc. If you can't run your scheduled reclamation and still make your backup window for your scheduled jobs, then you probably need more tape drives or a larger library. Check your policies and retention periods. As is true with all TSM installations, your mileage may vary. 3. We just did a disaster/recovery test at a remote site this past weekend and here is at what we experienced. The incremental backups worked fine, the archive backup worked fine, the backupset did not. We used the archive tape and rolled forward to point-in-time restore to our disaster recovery point. We used Sysback/6000 to recovery the AIX servers with great results... I highly recommend it. 4. We are going to a second TSM server on AIX to start backing up key NT workstations. We have 9,000 seats but will probably only backup a small percentage of IT, Finance, and administrative workstations. We have an old DLT tape library which we are redeploying for workstation use. You might want to consider the same thing with your old tape library as you consider your purchase of a new one. 5. Mixed library media on a TSM server is supported. It should work just fine. We are running DLT and LTO tape libraries on a single AIX server for the past year. No problem. Although TSM Server supports both NT and AIX platforms, and I have worked with both, I have found AIX to be quicker to recover from and more reliable of the two. (No, I am not getting paid money from IBM or Microsoft for my endorsement. Just one man's opinion ...) George Cardoza Perot Systems 310.423.1670 - Office -Original Message- From: Miller Dave (RBNA/CIT1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: General TSM Q's Hello All, We have recently deployed TSM at our site. Being new to TSM, I have a few questions I was hoping someone may be able to help with. I am running TSM 4.2.1.9 with a Compaq ESL9198DLX on W2K 1) Our TSM database has grown surprisingly fast. We tend to backup LOTS of little tiny files and as a result our Database is currently around 30Gb. I understand that the technical limit for the DB is somewhere around 5TB. Should I be concerned running a 30GB database on NT using a single server? Would this be considered a small, average or large TSM installation? 2) We've also found that our library is a little under-sized. (I regularly find myself exporting tapes from our primary tape storage pool to make room for scratch media). I would like to replace two or three of the DLT40/80 drives in the library with SDLT units. The ESL9198 hardware will support Mixing DLT and SDLT drives and media. Does any know or have experience setting up a library with two media types? Would TSM support this type of environment? Any help or information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated! Dave Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optimising tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsizes
We have actually seen better throughput here by setting ours to 128. This has doubled and in some tests tripled our throughput. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Gianluca Mariani1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: optimising tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsizes I refer to our position as on the perf site. that is what I consider official as those are the recommendations of the perf team based on real tests. as I wrote in the other post. I'll quote again: TCP/IP Window Size Use the Tivoli Storage Manager option TcpWindowSize 63 on both the Tivoli Storage Manager Windows NT client and Tivoli Storage Manager Windows NT server. Since Windows 2000 supports TCP window scaling, it may be beneficial to use a larger TCP window size for Windows 2000 systems that are communicating exclusively with other Windows 2000 or UNIX systems. Why? Because the maximum tcpwindowsize WITHOUT RFC 1323 (scaling windowsize support) is 65535 bytes, that's 64KB -1. TSM option tcpwindowsize 64 means 64*1024 or 65536 - one byte too big if the client doesn't support RFC 1323. win2000 does support rfc1323, but you have to set a registry entry to take advantage of it. the tcp windowsize sets the SO_RCVBUF option on the socket connection, which is the size of the total data buffered on the connection. MS docs say this size needs to be a multiple of the MTU for best results, but this is basically garbage. For standard Ethernet MTU of 1500 bytes, the difference in the number of packets that can be buffered between 63KB and 64KB is a nit. There is a difference between saying 64KB and meaning 65535 bytes. this does not mean that you can't put the parameter to 64 and actually see an improvement. I gave a general answer. I would be more careful with absolute assertions in this field. I'm somewhat disturbed that a certified TSM consultant is not aware of this. Cordiali saluti Gianluca Mariani Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma Via Sciangai 53, Roma phones : +39(0)659664598 +393351270554 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Stapleton stapleto@BERBEE.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: optimising tcpwindowsize and tcpbuffsizes Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 10/07/2002 15:35 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gianluca Mariani1 TCPWINDOWSIZE should be set to 63 on Win2k. Cordiali saluti Gianluca Mariani Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma You need to check your documentation. Windows 2K machines should have TCPWINDOWSIZE set to 64 (assuming 10 or 100Mb Ethernet). I'm somewhat disturbed that a member of the Tivoli TSM Global Response Team isn't aware of this. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE
Re: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client...W HY?
I have had this problem with several servers. I solved the problem on several by utilizing the IP address in the dsm.opt as the TCPCLIENTADDRESS instead of the node name. Tony Garrison I/T Sr. Systems Programmer USAA 210-913-9836 -Original Message- From: Villegas, Beatrice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client...WHY? Hi all, We are running into an issue with several of our AIX servers. Every 1 to 2 days, one of the client servers incremental backup is missed or fails because of: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client SY using type 1 (10.160.97.213 1501). I have checked all the obvious: 1. dsmc sched is running. 2. There are no apparent network problems. It seems to me that the process: dsmc sched just hangs. Once I kill it and re-start it, the backup runs fine. These are my levels: Server: AIX 4.3.3 ML10 TSM 4.2.1.7 Client: AIX 4.3.3 ML8 TSM Client 4.2.0.0 Anyone has any ideas of what could be wrong? Is this a known problem? Thanks in advance, Beatriz
Re: TDP for Exchange
set up your policy domain for 27 or 28 days. This will always ensure you have a 3 week recovery window. 27 will do what is needed as long as you run your full backups on a weekly schedule and do not miss any. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Exchange Hi *SM-ers! We are looking at TDP for Exchange for backing up our Exchange servers. The backups should be kept for 3 weeks. I'm looking for a correct TSM policy definition. The easiest way to do this is defining a backup copygroup with retonly=21 and retextra=21. However, I think this is not save. A full backup on day 1 will be deleted on day 22, so all incrementals after this full (day 2,3,4,5,6 and 7) are then also useless! So one cannot go back 3 weeks in this case. What is the best way to guarantee a 3 week retention? Another small issue I detected: The TDP for Exchange manual states: After the storage group and logs are successfully backed up, the log files are deleted. In our case there are always 4 log files left behind after a full backup. Is that normal behavior? Thanks in advance for any reply!! 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: Authoritative Restore on W2K
-Original Message- From: taford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 6:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K What parameters did you use in the dsm.opt file to ensure the AD was fully backed up? I found the Include.systemobject ALL works for 4.2. -Tim -Original Message- From: Garrison, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K I have with the 4.2 client -Original Message- From: taford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Authoritative Restore on W2K Has anyone successfully done an authoritative restore using 4.1.2.12 of TSM on W2K? -Tim Authoritative Restoresent to forum.doc Authoritative Restoresent to forum.doc
Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K
I didn't have to use any extra parameters. I just used the same dsm.opt that was utilized with our TSM3.7 client -Original Message- From: taford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 6:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K What parameters did you use in the dsm.opt file to ensure the AD was fully backed up? I found the Include.systemobject ALL works for 4.2. -Tim -Original Message- From: Garrison, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K I have with the 4.2 client -Original Message- From: taford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Authoritative Restore on W2K Has anyone successfully done an authoritative restore using 4.1.2.12 of TSM on W2K? -Tim
Re: Authoritative Restore on W2K
I have with the 4.2 client -Original Message- From: taford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Authoritative Restore on W2K Has anyone successfully done an authoritative restore using 4.1.2.12 of TSM on W2K? -Tim
Re: Directory to restore not visible from GUI
We have seen this problem occasionally, but only when we try to do a Point-In-Time restore. -Original Message- From: Gilles Danan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Directory to restore not visible from GUI We checked that, but the user does have access to the files as an admin. Also, other directories with the same access rights are seen in the restore part of the GUI and can be restored from. Thanks for the reply anyway. Gilles - Original Message - From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Directory to restore not visible from GUI Hi Gilles! Could it be that the user who is doing the restore is not a local NT administrator? If he has no write access to the files, he can't restore them. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Gilles Danan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 19:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Directory to restore not visible from GUI We have a NT 4.0 client with TSM v 4.1.2.12 who cannot restore a particular directory from the GUI. The directory is not even visible from the tree, whereas other directories placed at the same level are visible and can be restored normally. What is strange is that files and subdirs within this directory have been backed up (we see activity and entries in the DB) and we can see files and subdirs using the command line (query backup command). Can this be due to illegal characters in the directory name, so that it is not recognized by the GUI. Server is AIX with TSM 4.1 Thanks in advance. Gilles Danan ** 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: backing up only 1 directory on Windows
Setup a schedule with action of command and use dsmc I c:\users for the client potions -Original Message- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:backing up only 1 directory on Windows I have a Windows system running TSM client 4.2.0.0 from which I want to backup just the directory 'C:\Users' and all of its subdirectories and files. I don't want to backup any other directories or files from that system. I tried these dsm.opt specifications: exclude.dir C:\* include.dir C:\Users\...* A gui initiated incremental backup, excluded everything, including C:\Users\...\*, from the C: drive. Can you suggest the settings that will do what I want?
Re: Recover Windows 2000 Client
I have successfully recovered a win2k server using client 4.2 we are currently in the process of testing the recovery of an AD server. I followed the procedure that was listed in the redbook for w2k recovery. T -Original Message- From: Joe Spade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Recover Windows 2000 Client We decided to do a test on the recovery of a windows 2000 client. We made sure a backup was done of all local files and of the system files. We then trashed the drive, restored the os and installed the TSM client software. At this point we recovered the local files, then recovered the system files. After the system files were done, we were requested to do a restart. The client came up fine, everything looks ok. But, when we went into My Network Place an error 29 - unspecified error pops up. You get the same thing when you go into Control Panel. You click on ok and try to do a properties on local network connection and you get another unspecified error and you cannot continue. You are returned to the main network screen. Any ideas on what we did wrong or are we missing part of the recovery procedure. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Joe Spade R L Carriers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 937-382-1494
Re: Recovery Log size / roll forward benefits
We use Roll-forward here. This is primarily due to the fact that we can set the db trigger to backup the db if the log reaches a predefined percentage. This is extremely important due to the size of our environment. We would rather run in normal, but until we can use the db trigger we are stuck with what we have. -Original Message- From: Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Recovery Log size / roll forward benefits I'm with Kelly in thinking that roll-forward is unnecessary in most cases. The TSM admin guide seems to recommend roll-forward: To get the best protection for your TSM data, you should use ... mirrored copies of your database and recovery log, with the recovery log mode set to roll-forward Roll-forward mode offers the greatest protection for your data. (Roll-forward) With an intact recovery log, recover to the most current state with no loss of client data. But for roll-forward mode to be useful, you have to lose your TSM database volumes, yet somehow NOT lose the TSM log volumes. How is that ever going to happen? Most people mirror the TSM database on a separate disk (and, ideally, on a separate disk controller). So they have to lose TWO disk drives before they lose the database. If TWO disk drives die at once, the whole machine is probably dead in a fire or something, right? So the recovery log volumes are gone too, and roll-forward can't be used. You have to restore the DB from tape, and that's as current as you can get - just as if you had NEVER used roll-forward. Does anybody have a situation that they feel really merits logmode=rollforward? If so, would you mind discussing it briefly? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly J. Lipp Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovery Log size Doesn't this bring back the issue of Roll-Forward vs. not? I guess I'm still in the not camp with no compelling reason to join the other. Also, for those in the other camp, I'm thinking if your environment is so large as to fill a 13 GB log in a 24 hour period perhaps the environment is busting at the seems in other areas and should perhaps be split anyway. Even if larger logs were supported, how long would a db restore take with roll-forward enabled? I'm thinking way too long. Perhaps someone can share their longest db restore story with us. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (240) 539-7175 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nicholas Cassimatis Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovery Log size With the current limit of 5.3GB, and the steps we've all taken to work within that limit, I don't think many people will be hitting the 13GB limit all that quick. An incremental database backup will still flush the log, and, with 13GB, I think we'll be OK if we don't change the way we are doing our business. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] An FYI - TSM 4.2 will increase the limit to 13GB. I think we're all wondering when the first voice will be heard asking when the 13 GB limit will be increased. And I think we're all wondering why the increase was little more than a doubling of the current limit - which customers are already straining to go beyond. As an Enterprise level product, I would expect TSM to be a lot more open-ended. Unless this boost was merely a stop-gap in advance of major architectural relief, it's not going to be enough to keep up with the demand. Richard Sims, BU
San Backups
Hi all; What kind of backup/restore throughput are you seeing when utilizing a SAN. Thxs T
Delete an archive
Hi all; Is there any way to delete an archive manually? I had a user that requested a 7yr archive, after completing the archive I was informed that they had not finished populating the directory structure with data. They now want me to perform another archive on the entire directory structure with 7 yr retention also. I would like to be able to expire/delete the current archive (performed this morning) and re-archive the correct(?) data. TIA T
Re: Expire Inventory
I would like some more info also ...this could be a potential problem just waiting to bite us in the rear. Thxs T -Original Message- From: Joe Faracchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Expire Inventory Could somebody elaborate on this teasing tidbit? what kinda problem ... not updating the database correctly I've upgraded from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2. recently and have not seen any manafestations of this. That I know of. More info would help ... thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Larry Way wrote: Recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 3.7.2. I believe there is a problem with Expire Inventory not updating the database correctly. Anyone else experience this or know of any problems ?? Thanks in advance Larry Way 408-743-4242 Desk 408-655-3512 Cell 408-743-4201 Fax
Re: DATABASE backup question FULL or INCREMENTAL?
It is kind of hard doing a full of a 43gb TSM database when your recovery log is sitting at 80+% We perform a full daily and several other incrementals on each of our 6 TSM servers. This works best for our environment. This is something that you will have to decide based upon your requirements and daily activity. Good luck. T -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: DATABASE backup question FULL or INCREMENTAL? IMHO: I never do incrementals. Not of my 2 GB ADSM database nor my 30 GB Sybase database nor my 10 MB database that hardly changes. When you are under the gun to get a database restored, incrementals can be hard to restore if you are the administrator and even harder if someone else is trying to do the restore. How hard is it just to type when your boos in standing behind you? Remember what KISS stands for? If you use incrementals, then any error on any tape along the way will sink you. You will still only be able to restore to your last full backup and good incremental. You can never go wrong always doing a full backup. Yes, it uses more resources. But don't forget whose ass is on the line when things go south. Every day I do full backup of my ADSM DB and 50-60 Sybase databases. All the Sybase databases go to disk, then offsite, then to tape on site. With this scheme there is little chance of not being able to do a restore. (Of course I do an incremental ADSM backup daily, but this still backups whole files, I never backup just the changes to an individual file.) miles --- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09-Apr-01 9:22:31 AM I am doing a nightly database full backup with ADSM/TSM. (TSM 3.7.4 on OS390/2.10) What is most commonly done a Full or Incremental? What are the advantages/disadvantages of a full over an incremental backup of the servers database? The command we enter is as follows: backup db type=full devclass=dboffsite Where dboffsite is the a tape device class.
Re: Windws NT Terminal Server full backup after time change
We have seen the same thing across almost our entire environment...approx 800 NT servers. This has created mega problems for our recovery log and databases. -Original Message- From: Kevin Corning-Hyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Windws NT Terminal Server full backup after time change I upgraded our Windows NT clients to TSM v3.7.2.19 last week in preparation for an uneventful time change. Backups run after the time change this morning on Windows NT servers were the expected incremental. Backups run on Windows NT Terminal Servers (Metaframe) were done as full. This was not expected. Has anyone else experienced this or are we just special? Thanks. Kevin Corning-Hyman Munson Medical Center
TSM Consultants
Hello TSM'ers; We are looking for a TSM Consultant to come on site and give us some assistance for a few months. Does anyone have any recommendations? We are considering IBM (Located about 70miles north in Austin), but would really like to find some one local here in the San Antonio area. Any other ideas? T
