Re: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility
The different BMC SQL Backtrack packages are developed by different folks so there is NO single answer to your question. I use SQL Backtrack for Informix and when I get to the point where this becomes an issue, I will call 1-800-537-1813 (BMC support) and talk to the SQL Backtrack for Informix team and ask them about their interoperability testing. In theory, the shared library stuff that TSM does should work with anyone else's XBSA library (as provided by BMC). George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Anderson F. Nobre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) OM.BR Subject: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 05/14/2002 01:45 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi all, Does any body know where I can find information about TSM 5.1 compatibility with BackTrack/OBSI? Regards, Anderson
2nd try - archive script
Sent a note to the ADSM list on Friday afternoon and had no responses. I wrote a Korn script which basically stores the output of a df command less the root file space in a file. This file is then read in, one line at a time with the input used as the file system to be backed up using a dsmc archive command. The problem is, we have used nested names in our file systems and since I would like this script to be portable; that is, used in all our production systems, I don't want to archive the same stuff over and over...example: /usr/ , /usr/local/, /usr/bmc/, /usr/informix each is a file system and a directory tree which would be backed up under /usr/. Any sample script that you might be using would be appreciated! Thanks and hopefully Monday morning will see more people checking the list. OS AIX 433 Server 4.1.5 Clients 4.1.3 George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises
Re: TDP for Informix and onbar
KK - There are only two possible culprits to my mind... the version of onbar you are using may be at fault. It talks through a shared library function (XBSA) provided by Tivoli. The session isn't being released properly so you may want to turn on tracing in your onconfig file at level 7 and output to a file. This file will get big quick but if you are just backing up a logical log it won't be that bad. You may also want to turn on TSM tracing and this is even better at providing a blow-by-blow of the command exchanges. Either get Tivoli support or Informix support or BOTH involved to resolve this issue. You may not be able to figure it out yourself looking at the traces as the commands are kind of arcane (at least for a sys admin / storage admin like myself ;-) George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Krzysztof Kus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Dist StorSubject: TDP for Informix and onbar Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/26/2002 02:17 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hello! I use AIX 4.3.3 (64bit), TSM 4.2.1, TDP for informix 4.1.3 and Informix 7.31 (64bit). After issuing onmode -l command the new log is generated. Everything looks fine - q con shows me that the new log is backed up, in bar_act.log I can see messages about starting and finishing backup. BUT! onbar_d processes are still running. I have to kill them (-9). The same thing occurs during hot backup - onbar_d processes don't dissappear. I have tested it on few other IBM machines with identical result. On AIX 4.3.3 32bit this problem doesn't occur. -- --== KKus ==--
Archive script?
Anybody have a ksh script that they run to accomplish whole system archives on AIX 4.x.x boxes with TSM? I wrote one and lists all the JFS file systems and then reads these in from a file as an argument to the archive command... Problem is, my script works for about 1 gig of backup and then seems to bog down. Another unfortunate problem is that our file systems use nested naming such as /usr /usr/local /usr/bmc , etc so when you feed /usr/ with subdir=yes as another argument, it also backs up /usr/local and all its subdirs redundantly. Any assistance would be mucho appreciated! George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises
archive problem - what am I missing
TSMers:
All AIX 433 TSM 4.1.4.5 server 4.1.3 client
I put together a script to do a full archive of our production servers and
am testing currently on a development box/client. The intent of the script
is to archive all JFS file systems less the root FS.
#!/bin/ksh
chmod 755 /tmp/FS
/tmp/FS
df -k | grep /dev | egrep -v hd4 | awk '{print $7}' /tmp/FS
cat /tmp/FS |
while
read -r SLICE
do
dsmc archive -archmc=14periods -subdir=yes -quiet ${SLICE}/
done
__
These are my actual file systems the output of the file FS created
above; results are as expected:
dev: /usr/local/bin- df
Filesystem512-blocks Free %UsedIused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 32768 7912 76% 201625% /
/dev/hd2 3211264748848 77%3661510% /usr
/dev/hd9var 344064197880 43% 535 2% /var
/dev/hd3 1671168322912 81% 585 1% /tmp
/dev/hd1 2048000518256 75%16058 7% /home
/dev/local819200341048 59% 5261 5% /usr/local
/dev/informix1015808354704 66% 2109 2% /usr/informix
/dev/afc 1310720666480 50% 1969 2% /afc
/dev/bmc 557056 93392 84% 827 2% /usr/bmc
/dev/maestrolv 393216131616 67% 4314 9% /usr/lpp/maestro
/dev/webapps 786432573184 28% 820 1% /webapps
/dev/psoft 1966080 1457584 26% 702 1% /usr/psoft
/dev/hr751 2097152 1686632 20% 4081 2% /usr/psoft/hr751
dev: /tmp- cat FS
/usr
/var
/tmp
/home
/usr/local
/usr/informix
/afc
/usr/bmc
/usr/lpp/maestro
/webapps
/usr/psoft
/usr/psoft/hr751
Problem is, I have only archived about 1.3 gigs in 3 hours and I checked
the network and ethernet interfaces and there are no significant errors.
This performance is miserable... noticed while monitoring the session from
the server that there are very high idle times; nothing else going on on
the server (no processes). Any help/hints would be appreciated!
George Lesho
System/Storage Admin
AFC Enterprises
Re: sense errors
This sense code indicates a medium error where the format was corrupted. This error is usually associated with a TSM volume where someone did other than TSM recordings (dd, Veritas, tar, etc) George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Johnn D. Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L.EDU cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: ADSM: Subject: sense errors Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/18/02 03:31 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Does anyone have any ideas on the following errors that showed up in our TSM activity log? We have TSM 4.1.3 server running on AIX 4.3.3ML9, connected to a SpectraLogic HVD 64000/Gator (with Sony SDX-500C drives). We've sent the sense code info to Tivoli as well as SpectraLogic, but they point at each other or general SCSI problems. We've already swapped out the cables, the terminators, even one of the SCSI cards. We've cleaned the drives, changed the filters, re-connected the cables, etc. Even though all of the below are on DRIVE1, it actually happens to all six of our drives eventually. I checked the TSM Messages manual, and it's not that helpful. * I'm writing not so much to get a definitive answer (as that's obviously something specific to our site setup), but more for other clues or leads that I could investigate. Maybe Tivoli, SpectraLogic, and our own group have all been looking in the wrong direction. * By the way, we get these on a more-or-less regular basis, like one set of three (such as below) per week or every other week. Thanks for any leads. johnn 04/18/02 07:43:55 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0) (OP=READ, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=31, ASCQ=00, SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.80.00.14.00.00.00.00.31.00.00.00.CE- .00.00.00.00.B8.01.4D.20.50., Description=Drive or media failure). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 04/18/02 07:56:40 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0) (OP=READ, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=31, ASCQ=00, SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.80.00.14.00.00.00.00.31.00.00.00.CE- .00.00.00.00.EC.01.4C.60.70., Description=Drive or media failure). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 04/18/02 08:06:17 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0) (OP=READ, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=31, ASCQ=00, SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.80.00.14.00.00.00.00.31.00.00.00.CE- .00.00.00.01.24.01.46.68.00., Description=Drive or media failure). Refer to Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
Re: auditing tape libraries again
The audit library function needs to have most all the processes quiet. In addition, if you let it slap the tapes into drives to read the labels, it may never finish... I have NEVER gotten that little feature to work (3.7.2 or 4.1.4.5). I do audits using the barcode reader as in: audit library 3575lib1 checklabel=barcode. This will read the last scan the library did of its elements from memory and only mount a tape if the label is damaged. It will NOT move from slot to slot as one would expect. George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Marc Lowers Marc.R.Lowers@GSTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] K.COM cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: ADSM: Subject: auditing tape libraries again Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/09/02 10:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Does the size of a TSM database relate to the length in time that an AUDIT LIBRARY will take to complete? We have a TSM server running on Solaris software which is around 40GB in size and have left it running for 3 days and it still failed to complete! We had to cancel the process. Any ideas if this is the reason it should take so long? Marc.
Re: Migrate Install 3.7 to 4.2 any Notes?
I saved off all config files, the accounting log and a bunch of other things. I backed up the db and was ready for the worst. I needed nothing... it was very straightforward. The licesnse files need to be installed properly. I would highly recommend latest ATAPE driver and that is about it. I didn't need any of the stuff I had saved off... no config changes at all when upgrade was complete... only had to redo licensing. George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Craig Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: Migrate Install 3.7 to 4.2 any Notes? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/09/02 04:53 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On AIX 4.3.3. Any notes you have would be great. We are running an IBM 3494 Librairy with 3590 drivers. Craig -- Craig Simpson Jolliff, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: Re: Migrate Install 3.7 to 4.2 any Notes? Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 04/09/02 03:27 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager What OS? I just did some 3.7.4 to 4.2.x for AIX. It's pretty straightforward for the server code itself, but watch out for changes in the startup scripts if you use an externally managed library. -Original Message- From: Craig Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Migrate Install 3.7 to 4.2 any Notes? Doing a Migrate Install from 3.7 to 4.2.11. Do anyone have any notes on doing this? Any hang ups that they ran into? Anyone have issues with the following: Schedules Tuning New features that might be on by default How much configuration do we lose Lisenceing Thanks, Craig -- Craig Simpson
Re: Library does not perform barcode check during audit
As you are aware, your 3575 goes through initialize element status when the door is opened or it is powered on. This means that the library does a self audit and holds the info regarding which volsers relate to which elements (slots). When you do a checklabel=barcode during your audit, the info is stored on a chip in the library and TSM reads this. There is no flapping around of the robot at that time. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Michael Benjamin MBenjamin@BUNNIN To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GS.COM.AU cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Library does not perform barcode Dist Storcheck during audit Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 03/20/02 02:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi All, Why when I perform the following: audit library LIBRARYNAME checklabel=barcode, it does not appear to do an actual scan using the barcode reader at all. The only way I can get a true audit is to omit the checklabel, which forces tape mounts, which takes a long time to complete the audit as you'd imagine as it reads off each tape label. This occurs on both libraries. Command: audit library LIBRARYNAME checklabel=barcode Why is this so? Platform: AIX 4.3.3.0 Libraries: 3584 D34 and 3575-L18 TSM Version: Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2001, All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ADSM_BBS: AIX-RS/6000 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 Actlog fragment: (During this time no movement of the head occurred) 03/20/02 16:34:19 ANR2017I Administrator AUTOADMIN issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY LIBRARYNAME checklabel=barcode 03/20/02 16:34:19 ANR0984I Process 321 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in the BACKGROUND at 16:34:19. 03/20/02 16:34:19 ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LIBRARYNAME started as process 321. 03/20/02 16:34:21 ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LIBRARYNAME more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) completed successfully. 03/20/02 16:34:21 ANR0985I Process 321 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 16:34:21. ** Bunnings Legal Disclaimer: 1) This document is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not read, copy, distribute or act in reliance on it. If you have received this document in error, please telephone us immediately on (08) 9365-1555. 2) All e-mails sent to and sent from Bunnings Building Supplies are scanned for content. Any material deemed to contain inappropriate subject matter will be reported to the e-mail administrator of all parties concerned. **
Re: script to see if TSM Server is down
I wrote this one for the scheduler but you can modify the grep for the
server process...
#!/bin/ksh
#check to make sure TSM scheduler running
cd /usr/local/bin
SCHED=$(ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep -v tsmsched.scr | grep sched)
echo ${SCHED} | while read -r SCHEDULER_RUNNING
do
case ${SCHEDULER_RUNNING} in
)
echo TSM Scheduler not running at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
echo The TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
telinit a
echo TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date` | mail -s TSM
Scheduler quit! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;;
*)
;;
esac
done
George Lesho
System/Storage Admin
AFC Enterprises
Marc Levitan
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Sent by: Subject: script to see if TSM Server is
down
ADSM: Dist
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IST.EDU
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Please respond
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Stor Manager
Hi All -
Does anyone have a script that will send out an email alert if the TSM
server goes down.
I am running AIX 4.3.0
TSM 3.7.4
Thanks!
Marc Levitan
Storage Manager
PFPC Global Fund Services
Re: policy for reclamation of copy storage pool tapes
We reclaim on a daily basis for a finite period of time (in our admin day, it comes after expiration takes place). We do this by resetting the thresholds on the storage pools to 55 percent. When the period of reclamation is done, we reset the threshold to 100 percent. We do the reset using a script that we run from a tool called Maestro but it could also be done with a TSM admin schedule but Maestro allows for dependencies; in this case expiration completes sucessfully. George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Tim Brown tbrown@CENHUD To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .COMcc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: Subject: policy for reclamation of copy ADSM: Dist storage pool tapes Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 03/13/02 02:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager just checking on what policy some of you use for space reclamation on storage copy pool tapes Tim Brown Systems Specialist Information Systems Central Hudson Gas Electric tel: 845-486-5643 fax: 845-586-5921
Re: Informix API 3.7.1
Actually, the onbar debug file doesn't track the shared (XBSA) library stuff much. I think it would be preferable to turn on TSM tracing in the client's dsm.opt file with the following stanzas. The tracing wraps so the XBSA library which causes the session to bomb would very likely be caught since this activity will be what terminates the session. The stuff is also difficult to read and you would do well to bring Tivoli support and Informix support into the problem to interpret the trace. Since your version of Tivoli doesn't come with an XBSA library, you must have gotten it elsewhere. Check the sm_versions file; if you are using the Informix supplied shared library (ISM) it should be in the bar_versions table of the sysutils database as well as the sm_versions file. I don't know where you are keeping the library files but they should also be linked into /usr/lib. dsm.opt trace stuff: TRACEMAX 1 TRACEFILE /tmp/filename (((make sure permissions are set to allow writing to this file- your filename may differ))) TRACEFLAG service -policy George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Sarver, Theresa (OskyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Administrator) Subject: Re: Informix API 3.7.1 tsarver@CLOWV ALVE.COM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 03/12/02 07:53 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Doug; I don't know what TSM error 168 is...however, I have had the XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 before. In my case there was a problem with the sm_versions table. Anyway, here's a URL that might help you with the onbar-XBSA errors: http://www.geocities.com/maury.geo/onbar.html Also, you may want to turn on bar_debug (in your onconfig file) until this problem is resolved, as that is what actually helped me resolve my XBSA problems last time. Thanks; Theresa -Original Message- From: Doug McLauchlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Informix API 3.7.1 Hi all *SM's, I need some help please. We are running TSM Server 4.2.1.6 with TSM Client 4.2.1.0 and API 3.7.1.0 on aix 4.3.3.0. We have successfully been backup up the Informix Database (Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC7) until last Sunday when I received the message 10-03-2002 16:12:41 ANR0424W Session 3130 for node WW-DATAW-MONTHLY (AIX) refused - invalid password submitted. this backup is a monthly Level 0 backup of the database and is a separate node on the machine (I run 2 nodes on the same machine, 1 for monthly 1 for daily), On Monday night the Level 1 backup failed with this message from the bar.act.log 2002-03-11 18:37:26 255704 225818 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 1 -f /tmp/dwd485p.dbslist.250184.out 2002-03-11 18:38:04 255704 225818 Begin level 1 backup rootdbs. 2002-03-11 18:38:07 255704 225818 XBSA Error (BSAInit): Attempt to authorize root failed. 2002-03-11 18:38:10 255704 225818 Begin level 1 backup rootdbs. 2002-03-11 18:38:11 255704 225818 XBSA Error (BSAInit): Attempt to authorize root failed. 2002-03-11 18:38:14 255704 225818 Begin level 1 backup rootdbs. 2002-03-11 18:38:15 255704 225818 XBSA Error (BSAInit): Attempt to authorize root failed. and in the dsm error log I had the following messages 11-03-2002 18:38:07 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 11-03-2002 18:38:11 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 11-03-2002 18:38:15 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. I have reset the password on both nodes and now I receive the following errors 2002-03-12 15:55:27 275680 259688 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L0 rootdbs 2002-03-12 15:55:29 275680 259688 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs. 2002-03-12 15:55:30 275680 259688 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 2002-03-12 15:55:35 275680 259688 Begin backup logical log 1432. 2002-03-12 15:55:35 275680 259688 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 2002-03-12 15:55:40 275680 259688 Begin backup logical log 1432. 2002-03-12 15:55:41 275680 259688 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 2002-03-12 15:55:46 275680 259688 Begin backup logical log 1432. 2002-03-12 15:55:46 275680 259688 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 12-03-2002 15:55:30 sessOpen: Error 168 from signon authentication. 12-03-2002 15:55:35 sessOpen: Error 168 from signon authentication. 12-03-2002 15:55:41 sessOpen: Error 168 from signon authentication. 12-03-2002 15:55:46 sessOpen
Re: reporting on backup successes/failures
Depends on what O/S your TSM server is running on but for an AIX server, a script running out of cron which queries events for the past 24 hours seems to work for me (plus the script checks lots of other things)... George Lesho AFC Entprises Glass, Peter Peter.K.Glass@WELLS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FARGO.COM cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: ADSM: Dist Subject: reporting on backup Stor Manager successes/failures [EMAIL PROTECTED] U 03/05/02 10:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager What would be the best way to produce a report that shows the number of client backup successes vs. failures, for a given day? Peter Glass Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scheduling a client backup to NOT occur 1 day a month - how-to recommendations needed
The most effective way to not run a schedule on a certain recurring day is to build an admin schedule which runs a TSM script - The name of your scheduled backup will be different than mine which in this case is powkarpr2: tsm: AFCOPS2q sched updatemontly type=a f=d Schedule Name: UPDATEMONTHLY Description: Command: run updatemonthly Priority: 4 Start Date/Time: 03/31/01 10:00:00 Duration: 1 Hour(s) Period: 4 Week(s) Day of Week: Saturday Expiration: Active?: Yes Last Update by (administrator): GEORGE Last Update Date/Time: 03/23/01 13:17:34 Managing profile: It will run the TSM script updatemontly tsm: AFCOPS2q script updatemontly f=d Name: UPDATEMONTLY Line Number: 1 Command: upd sched satdomain powkarpr2 startd=+1 Last Update by (administrator): GEORGE Last Update Date/Time: 03/23/01 13:12:13 George Lesho AFC Enterprises Kent Monthei Kent.J.Monthe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Sent by: Subject: Scheduling a client backup to NOT ADSM: Dist occur 1 day a month - how-to Stor Manager recommendations needed [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 03/05/02 02:37 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We have an NT client that's associated with a Solaris TSM Server's daily backup schedule. On the 3rd of every month, an application process runs on the NT client that clashes badly with TSM's scheduled backup, so we've been asked to disable the TSM backup of this client on the 3rd of each month. There's no way to schedule this per-month exception using the Client Schedule parameters. Could someone recommend a tried/tested method for accomplishing this? -rsvp, thanks Kent Monthei GlaxoSmithKline
Re: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Backups
Well, If you are not having issues with the XBSA library and only with management classes, use only a management class with an archive copy group. The backups will be of the type archive. Set you retention up when building the copy group for the archive. There is no point in making backup type copy groups. The stuff will expire per your retention value in the archive copy group. I need to keep my database backups for a period for two of my 3 Informix databases... here is my copy group: tsm: AFCOPS2q co satdomain active 32day type=a f=d Policy Domain Name: SATDOMAIN Policy Set Name: ACTIVE Mgmt Class Name: 32DAY Copy Group Name: STANDARD Copy Group Type: Archive Retain Version: 32 Copy Serialization: Shared Static Copy Frequency: CMD Copy Mode: Absolute Copy Destination: ARDPOOL1 Last Update by (administrator): GEORGE Last Update Date/Time: 03/01/02 14:09:05 Managing profile: George Lesho AFC Enterprises Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SARamnarayan@C cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) ALTEX.COMSubject: Re: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Sent by: ADSM:Backups Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 03/04/02 01:01 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi George We are currently using the X/OPEN api to backup the Informix database. We are also using the onbar utility in conjunction with the X/OPEN api. My question is how to set up management classes for the backups and also the logs and how to expire these backups and logs. Thks Sean -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Backups Need more info Sean. In order for Onbar to play with TSM, a shared library is needed. Tivoli previously gave you one in ADSM Ver 3.1 but dropped the shared library for later distributions when it found it could sell a stand alone product (thus put some more coins in their pocket) called TDM for Informix which is basically a shared XBSA library. Informix does have one available that they got gratis from Legatto some time ago but it doesn't work well. The only other 3rd party product that provides a shared library is BMC SQL BackTrack for Informix which also allows you to pull database tables from the TSM backup tapes and stick them in a warm database (nice feature). My location uses SQL BackTrack for Informix. How do you plan on putting a shared library into use? The BMC product has you create backup pools which basically are the conduit to TSM by allowing you to bind a management class to a backup (the backup pools have nothing to do with actual tapes. I don't run onbar commands to do backups but use BMC commands which in turn call the onbar commands. I do all backups as TSM archive type because expiration doesn't work well with backup type backups. There isn't a true incremental capability withing TSM against these data bases anyway. There is an incremental capability within onbar (L0, L1, L2) but TSM doesn't care about this aspect of Onbar. Read the Onbar Backup and Restore Guide for your version of Informix and decide how you are going to come up with an XBSA shared library. Don't hesitate to shoot further questions. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 03/01/2002 02:42:11 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Backups Hi I would like to know if any has setup INFORMIX to backup to ADSM/TSM ? My question is how did you set up the management class for the Informix logical and physical logs to be backed up to ADSM using the onbar function. How does ADSM store the logs in the server ? How to delete the logs when inactive from ADSM/TSM. Thks Sean Ramnarayan MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 03/01/2002 10:42:11 AM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender
Re: how does TSM / sql backtrack use management classes?
Not familiar with SQL BT for Oracle but I use (unfortunately) SQL BackTrack for Informix. There is a $DTICATALOG directory (as database instance owner, echo $DTICATALOG). Within the DTI Catalog directory, there is a file called dtoptions. One stanza from this file shows how a BMQ SQ BT backup pool is bound to a TSM management class whether it is a backup or archive as well as the TSM filespace (remember that the backup_pool=V35003DM is a BMC reference: begin backup_pool=V35003DM obsi=adsm dsmi_config=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin/dsm.opt mount-wait=y filespace=/V35003DM management_class=32day storage-pool=archive end backup_pool This is the line in the backup script where the BMC -to option points the backup to a BMC backup_pool: dtibackup -whole_system -quiet -noprompt -to V35003DM -debug -debugfile /tmp/dbg.dmartbkup and to add a bit more to this mess, there is an instance directory within the $DTICATALOG path that contains the default for any backups make by this instance user in case a -to option is not specified. It contains defaults for all dbspaces plus a default for logical logs. The name of the instance directory is dbcci and there is another instance directory called psinf_73uc1. In the case of an Informix database, the place where the default BMC backup_pool is set is called onbarconfig: informix at afcprod1: /usr/bmc/IFX/data/dtcat $ ls dbccidtoptionsdtseqpsinf_73uc1 informix at afcprod1: /usr/bmc/IFX/data/dtcat $ cd dbcci informix at afcprod1: /usr/bmc/IFX/data/dtcat/dbcci $ ls exportconfig exporthistory onbarconfigonbarhistory profile schemahistory informix at afcprod1: /usr/bmc/IFX/data/dtcat/dbcci $ more onbarconfig begin object=@@default pool=V35003DM end object begin object=logical-log pool=V35003DM end object Hope all that mess helped... take this with a grain of salt as the BMC SQL BT for Oracle product may work differently... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Reichmuth, Michael R. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mrreich@NPPD. cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) COM Subject: how does TSM / sql backtrack use Sent by: management classes? ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 03/04/02 03:20 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We're using SQL backtrack to backup our oracle database. If two backtrack backup scripts are run using two different management classes against the same database, (ie.. management class one has 3 version, 30 days and management class two has 6 versions 60 days) how does TSM handle the backup? Will it in effect use the shortest management class. Or will it keep two sets of the database, one for 3/30 and the other for 6/60?
Re: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Backups
Need more info Sean. In order for Onbar to play with TSM, a shared library is needed. Tivoli previously gave you one in ADSM Ver 3.1 but dropped the shared library for later distributions when it found it could sell a stand alone product (thus put some more coins in their pocket) called TDM for Informix which is basically a shared XBSA library. Informix does have one available that they got gratis from Legatto some time ago but it doesn't work well. The only other 3rd party product that provides a shared library is BMC SQL BackTrack for Informix which also allows you to pull database tables from the TSM backup tapes and stick them in a warm database (nice feature). My location uses SQL BackTrack for Informix. How do you plan on putting a shared library into use? The BMC product has you create backup pools which basically are the conduit to TSM by allowing you to bind a management class to a backup (the backup pools have nothing to do with actual tapes. I don't run onbar commands to do backups but use BMC commands which in turn call the onbar commands. I do all backups as TSM archive type because expiration doesn't work well with backup type backups. There isn't a true incremental capability withing TSM against these data bases anyway. There is an incremental capability within onbar (L0, L1, L2) but TSM doesn't care about this aspect of Onbar. Read the Onbar Backup and Restore Guide for your version of Informix and decide how you are going to come up with an XBSA shared library. Don't hesitate to shoot further questions. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 03/01/2002 02:42:11 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: ADSM/TSM and INFORMIX online Backups Hi I would like to know if any has setup INFORMIX to backup to ADSM/TSM ? My question is how did you set up the management class for the Informix logical and physical logs to be backed up to ADSM using the onbar function. How does ADSM store the logs in the server ? How to delete the logs when inactive from ADSM/TSM. Thks Sean Ramnarayan MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 03/01/2002 10:42:11 AM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. Thank you. ==
was Re: TSM scheduler dies now HSM kills scheduler
Good tip! FYI... Noticed that I was getting the following error... I had
been getting this error since installing the new server code a few months
ago (went from 3.7.3.6 to 4.1.4.5):
02/25/02 22:00:04 ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel
from the user program.
Since the problem with the scheduler quitting had only been occuring during
the past week, I didn't immediatly associate this error with the scheduler
quitting but sure enough, the times did coincide. I had been getting this
error on and off since installing new server code months ago. Why the
problem (scheduler stopping) didn't pop up for months is a mystery. In any
case, I we don't run HSM so I just went to the /dev directory and removed a
file/device called fsn which is associated with this HSM stuff and the
problem of the scheduler stopping went away. This is strange because I had
deleted references to HSM in my rc.* files, had no HSM file systems nor
were any HSM processes running. I did not have any HSM licenses actuated
either... strange but the problem is now fixed Thanks to all who
responded!
George Lesho
AFC Enterprises
David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/26/2002
10:30:08 AM
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Subject: Re: TSM scheduler dies
Look in your dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log on this client and see if there
are any messages indicating problem. I have one AIX client that
occaisionally has a memory problem and that shows up in logs.
David Longo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/02 11:10AM
I have server AIX 433 running TSM 4.1.4.5 4.1.3 client. The TSM scheduler
runs out of /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin. Over the past week, the TSM
scheduler just quits.
example of scheduler process while running:
afcops2: /usr/local/bin # ps -aef | grep sched
root 11502 31266 1 14:46:24 pts/0 0:00 grep sched
root 22444 1 0 14:33:33 - 0:00 dsmc sched
-- I start the scheduler on system reboot via an entry in my
inittab:
adsmschd:a2:once:/etc/rc.adsmc /dev/null 21 #Start ADSM Sched
-- The inittab entry runs a script rc.adsmc:
#---
# Title : ADSM automatic dsmc scheduler startup
# Date : 09/08/1999
#
# Written by B/Johnson
#
# Function : To enable the CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON to be
#restarted automatically on reboot
#
# Actions : put the following line into /etc/inittab
#
# 1) adsm::once:/etc/rc.adsmc /dev/null 21 #ADSM Scheduler
#---
#
#set -x
BASEDIR=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
if [ -x ${BASEDIR}/dsmc ]
then
echo ...Starting ADSM CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON...
cd ${BASEDIR}
nohup dsmc sched 21 /dev/null
echo ...ADSM CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON STARTED...
echo ...Sending output to /dev/null...
else
echo ...Cannot start ADSM Client Scheduler...
echo ...${BASEDIR}/dsmc does not exist...
fi
exit 0
___Yesterday, I wrote a script to check the scheduler on
the hour (script runs via crontab) and
restart the scheduler, if
necessary... here is script:
#!/bin/ksh
#check to make sure TSM scheduler running
cd /usr/local/bin
SCHED=$(ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep -v tsmsched.scr | grep sched)
echo ${SCHED} | while read -r SCHEDULER_RUNNING
do
case ${SCHEDULER_RUNNING} in
)
echo TSM Scheduler not running at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
echo The TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
telinit a
echo TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date` | mail -s TSM
Scheduler quit! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;;
*)
echo TSM Scheduler running at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
;;
esac
done
__here is a copy of the log generated by the above script:
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 15:00:01 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 16:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 17:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 18:00:01 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 20:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 20:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 21:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 21:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 22:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 22:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 23:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 23:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler
Re: Idea for a TSM feature
Hope you folks don't have a disaster and lose your disks... How would DRM work with active files all held on disk? I guess you could copy the active files to your copy pool(s) to get the stuff offsite rather than migrate to a primary pool. I sure wouldn't want to tell the folks I work for that we only had copies of inactive files from which to perform a disaster recovery... George Lesho AFC Enterprises James Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/27/2002 11:50:42 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Idea for a TSM feature With current/future tape technology the most important thing for performance is to be able to stream data to and from the tape drive. Certain TSM operations stream data to tape really well (migration). Due to the granularity of TSM (file level) retreiving data from tape is normally not streamed. Any type you have to relocate with tape, your performance suffers. Generating backupsets can cause a lot of tape mounts with a lot of locates needed to get the active versions. Having this feature would eliminate tape performance issues with creating backupsets. Also file system restores would not have tape performance issues with the active versions. This would not break anything with TSM. It is really simple to get in a state where your disk pool has only active versions and your tape next storage pool has only inactive versions. Just migrate data to tape and run a selective backup of the filesystem. Voila, active versions on disk, only inactive on tape. The one issue I do see with this feature would be dealing with aggregates. A file aggregate could have both active and inactive. But theses types of development isses are not anything I would have to deal with. :) James Thompson -- I am sure others will reply, but why not use large cached primary disk pools? If you need to, define a separate pool for each important client, large enough to hold a full backup. That way, all the active files will usually be in the pool. (Exceptions will break this, eg a big file that changes every day may flush out an old active file) True? (See TSM Guide for disadvantages of cached pools...) While I suspect that having active/inactive be in different storage pools would break something in TSM, maybe we could get a move data node=xxx type=active command... -Original Message- From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Idea for a TSM feature Thought I would throw an idea I had for a TSM feature out on the listserv and get some thoughts no whether this would be useful or not. The feature that I would like to see is the ability to create a special disk storage pool, that would only migrate inactive versions of backup objects to the next storage pool. This would keep all the active versions on disk storage. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
TSM scheduler dies
I have server AIX 433 running TSM 4.1.4.5 4.1.3 client. The TSM scheduler
runs out of /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin. Over the past week, the TSM
scheduler just quits.
example of scheduler process while running:
afcops2: /usr/local/bin # ps -aef | grep sched
root 11502 31266 1 14:46:24 pts/0 0:00 grep sched
root 22444 1 0 14:33:33 - 0:00 dsmc sched
-- I start the scheduler on system reboot via an entry in my
inittab:
adsmschd:a2:once:/etc/rc.adsmc /dev/null 21 #Start ADSM Sched
-- The inittab entry runs a script rc.adsmc:
#---
# Title : ADSM automatic dsmc scheduler startup
# Date : 09/08/1999
#
# Written by B/Johnson
#
# Function : To enable the CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON to be
#restarted automatically on reboot
#
# Actions : put the following line into /etc/inittab
#
# 1) adsm::once:/etc/rc.adsmc /dev/null 21 #ADSM Scheduler
#---
#
#set -x
BASEDIR=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
if [ -x ${BASEDIR}/dsmc ]
then
echo ...Starting ADSM CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON...
cd ${BASEDIR}
nohup dsmc sched 21 /dev/null
echo ...ADSM CLIENT SCHEDULER DAEMON STARTED...
echo ...Sending output to /dev/null...
else
echo ...Cannot start ADSM Client Scheduler...
echo ...${BASEDIR}/dsmc does not exist...
fi
exit 0
___Yesterday, I wrote a script to check the scheduler on
the hour (script runs via crontab) and
restart the scheduler, if
necessary... here is script:
#!/bin/ksh
#check to make sure TSM scheduler running
cd /usr/local/bin
SCHED=$(ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep -v tsmsched.scr | grep sched)
echo ${SCHED} | while read -r SCHEDULER_RUNNING
do
case ${SCHEDULER_RUNNING} in
)
echo TSM Scheduler not running at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
echo The TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
telinit a
echo TSM Scheduler was restarted at `date` | mail -s TSM
Scheduler quit! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;;
*)
echo TSM Scheduler running at `date`
/tmp/tsmscheduler.log
;;
esac
done
__here is a copy of the log generated by the above script:
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 15:00:01 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 16:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 17:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Mon Feb 25 18:00:01 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 20:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 20:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 21:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 21:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 22:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 22:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Mon Feb 25 23:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Mon Feb 25 23:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler not running at Tue Feb 26 01:00:00 CST 2002
The TSM Scheduler was restarted at Tue Feb 26 01:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 02:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 03:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 04:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 05:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 06:00:01 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 07:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 08:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 09:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 10:00:00 CST 2002
TSM Scheduler running at Tue Feb 26 10:00:00 CST 2002
Any hints as to why the scheduler is now stopping for no
apparent reason... the rc.adsmc script had run without
a hitch since 1999... Thanks -
George Lesho
AFC Enterprises
Re: TSM scheduler dies
No... The scheduler had stopped and needed to be restarted two days ago. Fearing a problem, I added the script yesterday that I put in my original email which checks every hour to ensure that the scheduler is running and if not, restarts it by running the telinit a command which in turn runs the rc.adsmc script... other than that, no at or cron entries for the time affected. George Lesho Lindsey Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/26/2002 11:11:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM scheduler dies Hi *, Also, as this has been functioning correctly since 1999, has anyone recently modified any cron/at jobs??? HTH lt 512 823 6522
Re: Disaster Recovery Project
It would be easier to speak to this issue if you had mentioned your environment. I am in an AIX / TSM /DRM environment and we do mksysb tapes of our production servers and store them offsite. In addition, we allow TSM/DRM to decide which tapes are needed offsite in the event of a disaster. If a disaster occurred, we have contingency servers available at an offsite location (in case this location no longer exists) and we would ship copies of the DRM Prepare plan and associated recovery files along with all DRM (offsite tapes) to this location. We would then rebuild the servers (including the TSM Server) affected using mksysb tapes and then reapply production stuff (like Informix databases and critical apps) using the DRM media. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jane Bamberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/26/2002 11:27:41 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Disaster Recovery Project Hi, I work for a hospital, and was just given the project of gathering all the information I can about disaster recovery. I would appreciate it if I could get any sites, information from any of you that have already gone down this road. I also would like to here any horror stories, or bad reviews about any of the major players in DRM. Do any of you use Tivoli DRM, Autovault, or any other third party software? I am pretty new to the list - so if this has already been hashed over in detail - let me know - and I'll go searching! Thanks, Jane Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4784
Re: Disaster Recovery Project
Guess the first thing to do is to figure out which servers would need to be brought back in the event of a disaster. I back up several dozen servers but only a couple are needed in the event of a total meltdown in order to maintain company operational capability (the restore of these servers is mandated by contract). The next step is to figure out what is needed to bring each of the required servers back up to a running state quickly. In our case, the mksysb tapes are all that is required. In your case, there may be a mixed answer. The DRM part is pretty easy using TSM/DRM as TSM keeps track of which tapes are needed and also offers a Prepare file which has all the info needed to rebuild the TSM environement (along with a couple other files like the volume history and hardware stuff). George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jane Bamberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/26/2002 12:21:59 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project HI, Thanks - and sorry I did not give specific details. I am AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1.9 on and THIN SP2 node with a 3494 Tape library. We currently do not have DRM, and are using an offsite rotation to another building on our hospital campus. We have 2 Alpha ES40's, AIX sp frame with 7 nodes, 10 Netfinity servers, 23 NT servers, 1 linux, 2 proliants, 4 Solaris - as you can see - a real mixed bag - so any help would be appreciated. Jane Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4784 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Lesho Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery Project It would be easier to speak to this issue if you had mentioned your environment. I am in an AIX / TSM /DRM environment and we do mksysb tapes of our production servers and store them offsite. In addition, we allow TSM/DRM to decide which tapes are needed offsite in the event of a disaster. If a disaster occurred, we have contingency servers available at an offsite location (in case this location no longer exists) and we would ship copies of the DRM Prepare plan and associated recovery files along with all DRM (offsite tapes) to this location. We would then rebuild the servers (including the TSM Server) affected using mksysb tapes and then reapply production stuff (like Informix databases and critical apps) using the DRM media. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jane Bamberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/26/2002 11:27:41 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Disaster Recovery Project Hi, I work for a hospital, and was just given the project of gathering all the information I can about disaster recovery. I would appreciate it if I could get any sites, information from any of you that have already gone down this road. I also would like to here any horror stories, or bad reviews about any of the major players in DRM. Do any of you use Tivoli DRM, Autovault, or any other third party software? I am pretty new to the list - so if this has already been hashed over in detail - let me know - and I'll go searching! Thanks, Jane Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4784
Re: On-bar help required.
You would do well to do a whole_system backup / restore rather than the L 0. The level zero may not have access to backed up logical logs and the whole_system backup will include everything it needs for the restore. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/20/2002 07:37:47 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: On-bar help required. All, We have installed a new TSM 4.2.1 environment at our site. Our DBA has tried to run an onbar backup using the following command:- onbar -b -L 0 with the number of parallel backups set to two. Due to the default number of mount points being set to 1 for a client, this backup started giving errors and was aborted by the DBA. The maximun number of mount points was altered to 2 and another backup was kicked. This backup went through cleanly and no errors were encountered in the API log. The DBA has tried to run a restore. The bar_act.log say WARNING : Physical restore complete. Logical restore required before work can continue. The DBA issues onbar -r -l and the following error is displayed on the online.log DBSpace logspace1 not recovered fomr same archive as DBSpace rootbds. Has anyone encounetered this type of error before. The DBA has asked if the problem is due to multiple backups being on the same tape . Could this be the case ? Regards Jason
Re: On-bar help required.
By default, the whole_system backup is a level zero and thus the L0 argument is not required... should be onbar -b -w / onbar -r -w George Lesho AFC Enterprises thomas true [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/20/2002 08:20:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: On-bar help required. Hi Jason, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20.02.2002 14.37 Uhr Our DBA has tried to run an onbar backup using the following command:- onbar -b -L 0 with the number of parallel backups set to two. ... The bar_act.log say WARNING : Physical restore complete. Logical restore required before work can continue. The DBA issues onbar -r -l and the following error is displayed on the online.log DBSpace logspace1 not recovered fomr same archive as DBSpace rootbds. Has anyone encounetered this type of error before. I had the same problem (although using HP Omniback for backup). Your DBA has to use the command: onbar -b -w -L 0 . The parameter '-w' means 'whole database' and is necessary for a successfull restore. I don't know the exact explanation but I think it is somewhere in the backup and recovery manual. Bye, Thomas
Re: TSM Sample Scripts (was TSM Database Tables)
During the initial install on my Win2K server (4.1.4.5), a Server1 dir was created. Most of the server config files are now located there. In the original Server directory is a file which contains the sample scripts called scripts.smp. I will attach that file... George Lesho AFC Enterprises (See attached file: scripts.smp) Al Narzisi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/18/2002 05:24:31 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM Sample Scripts (was TSM Database Tables) I did a search on *.smp and no scripts.smp on my W2K server. Al - Original Message - From: Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: Re: TSM Sample Scripts (was TSM Database Tables) C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\Server\scripts.smp -Original Message- From: Al Narzisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Database Tables I can not find the sample scripts on my W2K Server. Does anyone know where I would find these samples for Windows servers. Al scripts.smp Description: Binary data
Re: Novell performance issue
Thanks for the tip but my cache hit percentage is in the low 99s for both my AIX and Win2K TSM servers. The issue is more likely related to the version of Novell and its components based on reading and comments from others... Here is where we are at: TSA5005.03 TSANDS5.25 SMDR 5.04 The Novell admins are hesitant to put on TSA5UP7 or TSA5UP8 because these are still beta but contain important fixes that apparantly TSM likes (speedwise) Any other hints/suggestion would be VERY appreciated. Backups are taking forever on these Novell 5 boxes... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Brandon Eckmann/NS/WSC [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/14/2002 11:21:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Novell performance issue On the TSM server side, run query db format=detail and check the Cache Hit Pct line. If it is under 98%, you need to increase the number of database buffers in the TSM server. Brandon Eckmann Network and Technology Services Wayne State College Wayne NE. |-+ | | George Lesho | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | Sent by: ADSM: | | | Dist Stor| | | Manager | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | .EDU| | || | || | | 02/13/2002 02:43 | | | PM | | | Please respond to| | | ADSM: Dist Stor | | | Manager | | || |-+ --| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Novell performance issue | --| I now have two Novell clients; one each hung off AIX 433 / TSM 4145 and Win2K / TSM 415 respectively. These clients are at Novell 5.0 SP5 with TSM client 413. I have compression turned off in the dsm.opt file. I get repreated indications in the activity logs from both TSM servers that such and such a file can't be backed up because it is not found. 02/08/02 16:14:40 ANE4005E (Session: 1271, Node: ADSM_PEACH1) Error processing 'DATA2:/PFC/BRAND/SJM/BRAND/B_REVIEW/BR1996/P- D_08_96/COMPMKTS.XLS': file not found Performance is terrible. I sure could use some help with this issue. Incremental backups are in the 8 hour range... George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Novell performance issue
I now have two Novell clients; one each hung off AIX 433 / TSM 4145 and Win2K / TSM 415 respectively. These clients are at Novell 5.0 SP5 with TSM client 413. I have compression turned off in the dsm.opt file. I get repreated indications in the activity logs from both TSM servers that such and such a file can't be backed up because it is not found. 02/08/02 16:14:40 ANE4005E (Session: 1271, Node: ADSM_PEACH1) Error processing 'DATA2:/PFC/BRAND/SJM/BRAND/B_REVIEW/BR1996/P- D_08_96/COMPMKTS.XLS': file not found Performance is terrible. I sure could use some help with this issue. Incremental backups are in the 8 hour range... George Lesho AFC Enterprises
HELP ME! My Netware backup moves like mud!
$SMers HELP ME PLEASE! Server Win2K TSM 4.1.4.5 - Client Netware 5.1 TSM 4.1.3 - I administer the TSM server remotely and am NOT the sys admin for the box. Same holds true for the client... The remote site previously used ArcServe and that server suddenly went belly up. Since the plan for the remote location was to migrate to TSM, the install of client code on a Netware box was pushed through yesterday. After fumbling with the password stuff, I kicked off an incremental backup of one volume. While this volume has a capacity of 142 gigs, it is hopefully not close to being fully utilized (the NW admin is at lunch or something and I have no way of checking) because although I kicked off the backup at 17:00 yesterday, it is still running and less than 12gigs have been moved. I have largecomm enabled and I am compressing on the client. Another Netware admin has told me that the TSM client compression for Netware is very slow so How does one turn on compression on the 3570 drives in my 3575L24 at the remote location (library attached to Win2K server via SCSI interface)??? Is there a config file or a registry hack that is needed??? I am a UNIX admin so please take pity and speak slowly ;-) Thanks in advance - George Lesho backup admin (hehehe) AFC Enterprises
TSM server opt SET AUTHENTICATION
The TSM Admin Guide says that the SET AUTHENTICATION option, as used in the server option file, is used to specify whether admins and client nodes need a password to access the server... the value is set to ON at install. I and one other person are the only admins. The servers typically back up via schedule and owners of the non- Unix (I am only admin) clients such as Netware and Windows are other admins who can kick off backups or restores but do not have TSM admin privilages; only client privilages. Is there any good reason to keep the SET AUTHENTICATION YES set? George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Netware 5.1 client opt file
I have only one Netware client and little experience setting up options. That boxes option file uses the NWUSER option as follows: NWUSERCN=ADSM_LONESTAR.OU=SAT-LONESTAR.O=AFC:password I noted in the 4.1 NW client guide that there is another option that might be used called: NWPWFILE YES Are these two options exclusive of each other? Do you use one and not the other? BTW: I have made the password in the NWUSER option the word password... this is not the actual password. If I use the NWPWFILE YES option, can/should I get rid of the NWUSER option??? TIA- George Lesho AFC Enterprises System/Storage Administrator Novell Neophyte
Re: Management Class Setup
Sean, Since you will be using onbar, you will be doing full backups (onbar Level Zero or whole_system) or Level One or Level Two backups. Look at an onbar backup / restore guide... they are available for download from the Informix web site... The Level One Two backups are roughly the same as doing incremental backups... Make all your backups archive type backups and this will give them finite expiration days... You CAN NOT do incremental backups using TSM... Make up a management class with copy groups of only the type archive and point your logical logs into the one that has the longest retention because none of your backups will be worth anything without the logical logs to bring a restore back to a point in time. Thus you will have copy groups (archive) with 32 day retention for your weekly, the daily backups will go in there as well and will be some combination of Level Zero (or whole_system) and L1s and L2s (read the onbar backup/restore guide) and your monthly and quarterly backups will be whole_system and you will put them into management class / copy group (archive) for the desired retention. I would suggest if you are serious about actually restoring the 2 year backups, you might consider having your DBA unload the tables to flat files and also back up the database schema to the same directory and then tar the mess to a tape. If your work site is anything like mine, you will be on a different version of TSM Informix in the next few months, let alone next couple years and if you change Informix versions, the TSM backup can likely be restored only to the same version of Informix... This means you have to have a spare server and the old software to be able to recreate the environment present when you did the backup. The DBA will then have to unload the db to flat files in order to be able to load it back to the production environment... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/05/2002 05:17:16 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Management Class Setup Hi I need assistance in setting up a management class for a Informix database on a AIX server. We are currently running ADSM server Version 3. The ADSM/API client installed on the server is version 3.1.20.7. We are using the Onbar utility to backup the Informix database to ADSM. The scheduled Informix backups needs to be kept for the following periods : 1) A full backup to run once a week to be kept for 32 days 2) A incremental backup to run daily excluding when the full backup runs to be kept for 32 days. 3) A full backup once a month to be kept for 2 years. 4) A full backup every 3 months to be kept for 1 year. Please take in consideration the Informix logs must also be backed up. I also need to use the same NODE name as well as the same Storage pool when defining the management class. Your help in the above will be greatly appreciated. Thks Sean Ramnarayan TSM Administrator EDS (South Africa) MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 02/05/2002 01:17:17 PM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. Thank you. ==
Re: Philippes ANS8015E problem
Philippe, Please Please Please use a subject line. With the many emails I receive each day, keeping track of threads is a nightmare when posts to the board come through with no subject line. In any case, you failed to mention which platform client was displaying the error, the TSM server or client version and other info that would help resolve the problem. The ANS8015E error indicates that there is an unknown problem in the client's option file. This may be due to the version the client and platform type. Please provide more information. I have experienced problems with my options files and server option file on Windows platforms using 4.1.4.5 client code due to TSM not parsing these files correctly. It has to due with the type of editor they were prepared on as there are special characters involved (such as tabs) that can not be seen. The local work around we came upon is to not use WordPad but then, this may not be your issue; it only applies to Windows machines. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Philippe ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/30/2002 07:34:38 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Dear listers I have a this message : ANS8015E File 'DD:DSCOPT', error code 109 from options processing. what's mean error code 109 ? Anybody can help me ? Thanks Cordialement P.ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01 44 93 21 66
Re: ANS8015E problem
I certainly am not an OS/390 expert but the error code ANS prefix indicates it is a client problem specifically with the client option file. I would figure out which client option file was causing the error and replace it. If it is a Windows client, save it as a DOS type text file and remove any tabs with Notepad. If it can be edited with VI, remove tabs/special characters using the :set list option in the editor. George Lesho Philippe ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/30/2002 10:46:55 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: ANS8015E problem Sorry for the subject line There is a TSM server on OS/390. When TSM start, there is the error ANS8015E with error code 109. I don't know why ! P.ZANNI -Message d'origine- De: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mercredi 30 janvier 2002 16:45 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: Philippes ANS8015E problem Philippe, Please Please Please use a subject line. With the many emails I receive each day, keeping track of threads is a nightmare when posts to the board come through with no subject line. In any case, you failed to mention which platform client was displaying the error, the TSM server or client version and other info that would help resolve the problem. The ANS8015E error indicates that there is an unknown problem in the client's option file. This may be due to the version the client and platform type. Please provide more information. I have experienced problems with my options files and server option file on Windows platforms using 4.1.4.5 client code due to TSM not parsing these files correctly. It has to due with the type of editor they were prepared on as there are special characters involved (such as tabs) that can not be seen. The local work around we came upon is to not use WordPad but then, this may not be your issue; it only applies to Windows machines. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Philippe ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/30/2002 07:34:38 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Dear listers I have a this message : ANS8015E File 'DD:DSCOPT', error code 109 from options processing. what's mean error code 109 ? Anybody can help me ? Thanks Cordialement P.ZANNI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01 44 93 21 66
Odd error in TSM errorlog
I have a TSM server (Win2K 4.1.5) and it also has a TSM client (4.1.3) installed. The error log looks great except for a recurring entry with no error code as follows: 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event . 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached. 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event . 01/23/2002 16:45:48 ConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached. Is the above information from my errorlog significant? What is causing it? George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: Need help with TSM process slowdowns
Ike, I don't know much about your environment but if there were no changes to TSM configuration, I would look at the client corresponding to the slow session. If your client is AIX, run entstat (actually entstat -d ent0) to check your network interface. If there are large error totals, you may have hardware problems. George Lesho AFC Enterprises -Original Message- From: Hunley, Ike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help with TSM process slowdowns HI, I need HELLLP!! TSM backup processes that last week took 51 minutes, now take 8 - 28 hours. We know of no changes to the TSM 4.2.1.9 Server running on OS/390 V2R9. It looks like the servers are ready to send data and TSM is ready to receive. The routers are indicate very low activity. We have a sniffer on now. If anyone out there has recovered from a similar experience please help? Thanks
Re: Incr failed with ANS1076E *** Directory path not found ***
Rene, This issue was hashed over in depth. The error you are seeing likely comes only from Windoze clients and not UNIX or Novel clients. Andy Railback explained the issue to me and it has been fixed in a later release of the client code... I kept Andy's note responding to my very same question: begin included post Archives are not considered successful unless every file in your file spec is backed up successfully. If one or more files fail, then the archive will be flagged as failed. The idea behind this is that archives are for long-term storage, and that if you are looking to store the files for an extended period of time, it is important that they *all* get archived. Thus anything other than 100% of the files being archived will result in the failed event. For the next release, we are planning on handling this a little differently: - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where all the files are processed successfully will have a status of Success and a return code of 0 (zero). If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '0' to the caller. - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where the *only* problems are skipped files will have a status of Success and a return code of 4. If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '4' to the caller. Thus the return code can be used to determine which events had skipped files (and thus require further investigation) and which did not. Standard caveat: This information is being provided on an informal basis, and does not constitute any formal announcement or commitment. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2002 14:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/29/2002 08:38:20 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Incr failed with ANS1076E *** Directory path not found *** Hi, on 2 of our 30 AIX clients (4.2.1.15), the incremental backup does its job but finish with RC=4. This with schedules or with manual incr. Error message ANS1076E *** Directory path not found *** is given right after start of the session. AIX is at 4.3.3-ML09 Our TSM server is 4.1.4.0, OS/390. The error is given by first incremental for the node too, after rename of old backups. Any cue ? René Lambelet Center Information System, Nestec Ltd tel + 41 21 924 3543 fax + 41 21 924 1369 visit the Nestle site: http://www.nestle.com root@ivev2104:/etc/adsm/ # dsmc i Tivoli Storage Manager *** Fixtest, Please see README file for more information *** Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.15 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2001, All Rights Reserved. Node Name: IVEV2104 Session established with server HQVTSM2P: MVS Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 Data compression forced on by the server Server date/time: 01/29/02 14:02:58 Last access: 01/29/02 14:02:49 ANS1076E *** Directory path not found *** ^C
Re: Using TDP with Informix on a 1TB fragmented database
Cheryl, I am also in an Informix environment but my largest instance is just over 60 gigabytes... I am not certain what a fragmented database is. Could you explain? Thanks, George Lesho AFC Enterprises Cheryl Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/29/2002 03:02:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Using TDP with Informix on a 1TB fragmented database Our company has just converted to TSM from Veritas NetBackup. We have our first TDP customers with Informix and Oracle to set up. These servers have multiple database instances on the same server. One of the Informix databases is 1TB and is fragmented. (The Oracle server, also has a 1TB database.) They want to backup only specific fragments at a time, probably around 300GB. We have a SAN and will attach them to the SAN in the near future, but at first we are going to be using a small development database on this server to test TDP. Can any of you please give me your advice on what worked best for you when setting up TDP? Thank you!! Cheryl Miller Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company Phone: 916-774-2073 Pager: 800-735-6114
Re: TSM error log question
No files in the lost+found directory at all... George Lesho Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/24/2002 11:48:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question Are there any files/dirs in the lost+found directory that may have names that begin with ?? -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM error log question I continue to get the following error on all my systems that have the /usr/bmc/lost+found directory/path: 01/23/02 00:47:15 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: /usr/bmc /lost+found I was pretty sure that the PrivIncrFileSpace was a permission issue message so I changed file permissions on the directory in question to 777 and still get the error during backups. The backup in question is kicked off by the owner informix not root.The copygroup governing this backup uses: Copy Serialization Shared Dynamic and I don't use the CHANGINGRETRIES option in the client option file to allow the default value of four checks of an in use file and then the file will be backed up regardless of state. current listing of the lost+found directory: drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 512 Jul 21 1999 lost+found any ideas??? George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: TSM error log question
Demetrius, We have SUBDIR YES set in the dsm.opt file on all our clients but DO NOT have the any NFSTIMEOUT option set anywhere. I am also not seeing the ANS1028S error message in my client's dsmerror.log... it does sound as if there may be a bit of substance to this theory though... I am going to make a subdir in the lost+found dir on one of the boxes where I have observed the problem and see what happens. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 01:15:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question -George- Are you also seeing ANS1028S error messages? If so you may be getting a bite of APAR IC32589... APAR= IC32589 SER=MS MSGANS1028S DSMSTAT ERROR BREAKS PARTIAL INCREMENTAL/SELECTIVE WITH ANS1028S WHEN USING OPTIONS SUBDIR=YES AND NFSTIMEOUT 0 Status: OPENClosed: Apar Information: RCOMP= 5698TSMCLTIVOLI STR MGR RREL= R42A FCOMP= PFREL= F TREL= T Return Codes: Applicable Component Level/SU: Error Description: Problem Description: When running partial incremental/selective backups, you may encounter ANS1028S error message. This will happen if you have specified the subdir option yes, and have specified a filespace that does not contain sub-directories. .. For example: When running the command dsmc i /etc -su=yes you will encounter the ANS1028S error message. During this command the client scans the root file system and tries to find etc objects. During this search it issues a number of stat/lstat (AIX system) calls against the scanned directory structure. If we use NFSTIMEOUT 0, our client uses dsmstat executables which are actually virtual stat calls. When we set NFSTIMEOUT = 0 the client uses native OS calls. .. A SERVICE trace taken during the backup has the following entries during the time of the failure. incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.cedit incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.ddd incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/Desktop aix/pserrno.cpp (220): TransErrno: Unexpected error from lstat, errno = 32 incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=131 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/help/root-murphy-0 ANS1028S Internal program error. Please see your service Local Fix: Setting NFSTimeout to 0 has provided a workaround for this problem. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question No files in the lost+found directory at all... George Lesho Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/24/2002 11:48:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question Are there any files/dirs in the lost+found directory that may have names that begin with ?? -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM error log question I continue to get the following error on all my systems that have the /usr/bmc/lost+found directory/path: 01/23/02 00:47:15 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: /usr/bmc /lost+found I was pretty sure that the PrivIncrFileSpace was a permission issue message so I changed file permissions on the directory in question to 777 and still get the error during backups. The backup in question is kicked off by the owner informix not root.The copygroup governing this backup uses: Copy Serialization Shared Dynamic and I don't use the CHANGINGRETRIES option in the client option file to allow the default value of four checks of an in use file and then the file will be backed up regardless of state. current listing of the lost+found directory: drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 512 Jul 21 1999 lost+found any ideas??? George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: TSM error log question
The rc=106 error message I am getting occurs on ALL clients where the /usr/bmc dir path exists. I have tried to eliminate this error by doing an exclude to no avail, I have changed permissions to no avail (which the rc=106 usually implies) and now I have put a subdir in one of the /usr/bmc/lost+found directories in hopes of eliminating the error... The only indication of the error is in the client error logs... George Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 02:40:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question At the time of that error message what is corresponding in the dsm/dsierror.log or dsmsched.log on that particular client? -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question Demetrius, We have SUBDIR YES set in the dsm.opt file on all our clients but DO NOT have the any NFSTIMEOUT option set anywhere. I am also not seeing the ANS1028S error message in my client's dsmerror.log... it does sound as if there may be a bit of substance to this theory though... I am going to make a subdir in the lost+found dir on one of the boxes where I have observed the problem and see what happens. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 01:15:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question -George- Are you also seeing ANS1028S error messages? If so you may be getting a bite of APAR IC32589... APAR= IC32589 SER=MS MSGANS1028S DSMSTAT ERROR BREAKS PARTIAL INCREMENTAL/SELECTIVE WITH ANS1028S WHEN USING OPTIONS SUBDIR=YES AND NFSTIMEOUT 0 Status: OPENClosed: Apar Information: RCOMP= 5698TSMCLTIVOLI STR MGR RREL= R42A FCOMP= PFREL= F TREL= T Return Codes: Applicable Component Level/SU: Error Description: Problem Description: When running partial incremental/selective backups, you may encounter ANS1028S error message. This will happen if you have specified the subdir option yes, and have specified a filespace that does not contain sub-directories. .. For example: When running the command dsmc i /etc -su=yes you will encounter the ANS1028S error message. During this command the client scans the root file system and tries to find etc objects. During this search it issues a number of stat/lstat (AIX system) calls against the scanned directory structure. If we use NFSTIMEOUT 0, our client uses dsmstat executables which are actually virtual stat calls. When we set NFSTIMEOUT = 0 the client uses native OS calls. .. A SERVICE trace taken during the backup has the following entries during the time of the failure. incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.cedit incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.ddd incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/Desktop aix/pserrno.cpp (220): TransErrno: Unexpected error from lstat, errno = 32 incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=131 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/help/root-murphy-0 ANS1028S Internal program error. Please see your service Local Fix: Setting NFSTimeout to 0 has provided a workaround for this problem. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question No files in the lost+found directory at all... George Lesho Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/24/2002 11:48:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question Are there any files/dirs in the lost+found directory that may have names that begin with ?? -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM error log question I continue to get the following error on all my systems that have the /usr/bmc/lost+found directory/path: 01/23/02 00:47:15 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: /usr/bmc /lost+found I was pretty sure that the PrivIncrFileSpace was a permission issue message so I changed file permissions on the directory in question to 777 and still get the error during backups. The backup in question
Re: TSM error log question
No shutdowns and this only occurs in the /usr/bmc path... no other lost+found directories behave the same way... no hidden files that I can see. George Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 02:56:52 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question George, was the system is shut down ungracefully lately? The lost+found directory where fsck links in lost files. It may be possible that there is a file in that directory that is not deleted but have no directory entry! -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question The rc=106 error message I am getting occurs on ALL clients where the /usr/bmc dir path exists. I have tried to eliminate this error by doing an exclude to no avail, I have changed permissions to no avail (which the rc=106 usually implies) and now I have put a subdir in one of the /usr/bmc/lost+found directories in hopes of eliminating the error... The only indication of the error is in the client error logs... George Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 02:40:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question At the time of that error message what is corresponding in the dsm/dsierror.log or dsmsched.log on that particular client? -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question Demetrius, We have SUBDIR YES set in the dsm.opt file on all our clients but DO NOT have the any NFSTIMEOUT option set anywhere. I am also not seeing the ANS1028S error message in my client's dsmerror.log... it does sound as if there may be a bit of substance to this theory though... I am going to make a subdir in the lost+found dir on one of the boxes where I have observed the problem and see what happens. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2002 01:15:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM error log question -George- Are you also seeing ANS1028S error messages? If so you may be getting a bite of APAR IC32589... APAR= IC32589 SER=MS MSGANS1028S DSMSTAT ERROR BREAKS PARTIAL INCREMENTAL/SELECTIVE WITH ANS1028S WHEN USING OPTIONS SUBDIR=YES AND NFSTIMEOUT 0 Status: OPENClosed: Apar Information: RCOMP= 5698TSMCLTIVOLI STR MGR RREL= R42A FCOMP= PFREL= F TREL= T Return Codes: Applicable Component Level/SU: Error Description: Problem Description: When running partial incremental/selective backups, you may encounter ANS1028S error message. This will happen if you have specified the subdir option yes, and have specified a filespace that does not contain sub-directories. .. For example: When running the command dsmc i /etc -su=yes you will encounter the ANS1028S error message. During this command the client scans the root file system and tries to find etc objects. During this search it issues a number of stat/lstat (AIX system) calls against the scanned directory structure. If we use NFSTIMEOUT 0, our client uses dsmstat executables which are actually virtual stat calls. When we set NFSTIMEOUT = 0 the client uses native OS calls. .. A SERVICE trace taken during the backup has the following entries during the time of the failure. incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.cedit incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.ddd incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/Desktop aix/pserrno.cpp (220): TransErrno: Unexpected error from lstat, errno = 32 incrdrv.cpp (5883): PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=131 from fioGetDirEntries: / /.dt/help/root-murphy-0 ANS1028S Internal program error. Please see your service Local Fix: Setting NFSTimeout to 0 has provided a workaround for this problem. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM error log question No files in the lost+found directory at all... George Lesho Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/24/2002 11:48:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent
TSM error log question
I continue to get the following error on all my systems that have the /usr/bmc/lost+found directory/path: 01/23/02 00:47:15 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=106 from fioGetDirEntries: /usr/bmc /lost+found I was pretty sure that the PrivIncrFileSpace was a permission issue message so I changed file permissions on the directory in question to 777 and still get the error during backups. The backup in question is kicked off by the owner informix not root.The copygroup governing this backup uses: Copy Serialization Shared Dynamic and I don't use the CHANGINGRETRIES option in the client option file to allow the default value of four checks of an in use file and then the file will be backed up regardless of state. current listing of the lost+found directory: drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 512 Jul 21 1999 lost+found any ideas??? George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: size of library
I posted this stuff a while back... might be useful: 1. q actl begindate=-30 search=ANR1214 add up the daily archive and backup copy from primary to copypool storage and divide by 30; now you have a per day average that is being backed up. Double the value because we have primary and copy storage pools. Call this value DailyAmt. For example the average copy from primary to copypool at my location is 83gig... double this to 166gig to be the DailyAmt 2. select stgpool_name as stgpool, cast(mean(est_capacity_MB/1024) as decimal(5,2)) as gb_per_FULL_vol from volumes where status='FULL' group by stgpool_name add the average of each storage pool and divide by the number of storage pools; this should give you an average capacity for a tape from all data types and using compression. call this value Cap 3. DailyAmt / Cap = TAPES TSM WANTS PER DAY! 4. q actl begindate=-30 search=ANR1341 This will give you the tapes that were deleted from your storagepools. Add these lines up and divide by 30 days. This will give you the number of tapes reclaimed a day. This method will likely work better for a longer sampling period. When I did it, I found that I am still about .5 tapes a day short of where I need to be. Therefor, another 180 tapes can be bought or I can figure out how to reduce my daily backup/archive by 1/2 the amount of 1 tape or about 6 gigs per day... In fact, the former seems more manageable than asking my boss for another $14K for tapes for the year (again);-) Hope this info makes some sense... If there are holes in my logic, let me know asap. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Kurt Beyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/24/2002 02:24:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: size of library Hello everybody, TSM does a pretty good job on the tape management by space reclamation and copying the primary pools to copy pools. But I'm wondering how I can estimate the size of the library (number of slots, type of drive) to reach this steady state of tape usage. Of course I've got the following information: - total amount of data to be backupped (GB) - the number of versions I keep of the files - space reclamation of tape occurs when there is 55% free space on the tape How can I estimate the number of tapes I'll be needing based on this info? Are there any rules of thumb to size the library? Do I still need additional info to calculate the library size? Any suggestions /hints are more than welcome. Thanks in advance, Kurt
Re: Problem with dsmcad in inittab
Jan, The telinit q command has the inittab run again. Whether your process will be brought back into a running state kind of depends on what you have on the line in the inittab... here is a sample line of the entry that starts our TSM server plus allows me to initialize the server without rebooting the box. The key to this is that I have placed the initialization into the b argument for initializing processes plus the 2 (init 2) for start ups. Thus if I want to restart the TSM server I type: telinit b. autosrvr:b2:once:/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/rc.adsmserv Hope that answers your question. George Lesho Storage / System Admin AFC Enterprises Jan McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/22/2002 12:32:43 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Problem with dsmcad in inittab We're having a problem with client software or with Aix box client is loaded on. I set an inittab entry to start the dsmcad process and it does not work. I am refreshing the inittab so that it see's the new entry (telinit q) :once: does not work, :wait: does not work. We know it is not a matter of the box not seeing its' inittab - fearing this, I set it to :respawn: and boy, did it respawn!
inclexcl help for windoze box
Since I am not able to master the inclexcl stuff in my AIX environment, I guess I am foolish to believe I can figure it out in my newly inherited Win2K client environment but here goes... Just started and have not yet put together a cloptset for these boxes but I have put some includes/excludes in the ba client's dsm.opt file: exclude f:\tsmdata\...\* exclude f:\pagefile.sys exclude e:\tsmdata\...\* exclude e:\pagefile.sys exclude c:\WINNT\system32\Perflib_Perfdata_358.dat exclude c:\Documents and Settings\* exclude c:\pagefile.sys exclude c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\ntuser.dat exclude c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\ntuser.dal.log exclude c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\local settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG exclude c:\winnt\system32\config\* include c:\winnt\system32\drivers\* This is from my error log relative to last night's incremental 01/21/2002 22:30:11 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\atlcorptsm\c$\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ATL-CORP-PDC\ntuser.dat.LOG' failed 01/21/2002 22:30:12 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\atlcorptsm\c$\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ATL-CORP-PDC\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' failed 01/21/2002 22:30:54 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\atlcorptsm\c$\*' finished with 2 failure What am I doing wrong? I would think these registry files would be excluded... TIA! George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises
Re: On-Bar restore error.
You didn't mention whether you were trying to restore a backup of the Informix instance to itself or the backup was coming from another server. If you are trying to restore a backup taken on a server to that server, I don't know if you are the sys admin or dba of that server as well as the storage admin. If you are only the storage admin, the 33rd dbspace may have been modified by adding a device (chunk). You also didn't mention the platform type but if it is a UNIX box, go to the /dev dir and see if a device has been added (check file date/time) since the backup was made. If a device has been added to support a new chunk for the dbspace 33, then you will need to rebuilt the instance to be the same as when the backup was made. If the backup was made on another machine / instance, check the devices on the donating machine to see if the number of chunks is consistant with the machine to be backed up to... use onstat -d as the instance owner... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 08:42:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: On-Bar restore error. All, I have the following error when trying to restore an Informix using On-Bar Out-of-sequence errors. 32 DBSpaces restore ok but the process fails on the 33rd DbSpace. Regards Jason
Re: On-Bar restore error.
Jeff, If he is able to restore 32 dbspaces and it fails on the 33rd, he is probably authenticating OK... Any errors reflecting a problem like this are likely to be in his onbar activity log and the Informix online log for the instance btw... George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Jeff Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 10:33:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. What log is the error in? An error out of context has no meaning. The information below is good. The 3.1 client may not be able to authenticate with the 4.1 server. I know a 3.1.0.7 client in some instances cannot talk to a 4.1.4 server. Jeff -Original Message- From: Jason Morgan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. Hi George, Thanks for replying. I am actually a Sys Admin working in conjuction with a DBA. We are actually trying to restore a backup taken from another server to a new instance on another server. The source server is an RS/6000 running ADSM API 3.1.06 and ADSM 3.1 . The target server is RS/6000 AIX 4.2.1 TSM 4.1 and API 3.1.20.8 One question that the DBA mentioned was whether the DbSpace number ( Column 2 ) in the onstat -d report has any relevance. This is the only difference he can see at the moment. As part of the testing, we successfully manage to perform a full back up / restore of an empty instance. This suggest that API /TSM is correctly configured. Many thanks. Jason George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 21/01/2002 15:37:53 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. You didn't mention whether you were trying to restore a backup of the Informix instance to itself or the backup was coming from another server. If you are trying to restore a backup taken on a server to that server, I don't know if you are the sys admin or dba of that server as well as the storage admin. If you are only the storage admin, the 33rd dbspace may have been modified by adding a device (chunk). You also didn't mention the platform type but if it is a UNIX box, go to the /dev dir and see if a device has been added (check file date/time) since the backup was made. If a device has been added to support a new chunk for the dbspace 33, then you will need to rebuilt the instance to be the same as when the backup was made. If the backup was made on another machine / instance, check the devices on the donating machine to see if the number of chunks is consistant with the machine to be backed up to... use onstat -d as the instance owner... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 08:42:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: On-Bar restore error. All, I have the following error when trying to restore an Informix using On-Bar Out-of-sequence errors. 32 DBSpaces restore ok but the process fails on the 33rd DbSpace. Regards Jason ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: On-Bar restore error.
At the end of your onstat -d command you will see something like this: 50903564 59 50 23200026969 PO- /dev/lrmdata01 5090365c 60 51 24800046337 PO- /dev/lvsdata01 50903754 61 52 250 491359PO- /dev/lpshistory 5090384c 62 53 26400063397 PO- /dev/lpsdata20 50903944 63 54 26400063397 PO- /dev/lpsdata18 63 active, 2047 maximum The important thing is the 63 active must be the same on both boxes. If not, the restore will bomb. the 63 active must be the same as that is the number of chunks in thedbspaces associated with the instance and these are supported by devices (as noted in the last column) which must be the same on both boxes Also your offset between dbspaces must be the same...Sounds like you are almost there except that your instances are somehow different. Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 10:14:43 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. Hi George, Thanks for replying. I am actually a Sys Admin working in conjuction with a DBA. We are actually trying to restore a backup taken from another server to a new instance on another server. The source server is an RS/6000 running ADSM API 3.1.06 and ADSM 3.1 . The target server is RS/6000 AIX 4.2.1 TSM 4.1 and API 3.1.20.8 One question that the DBA mentioned was whether the DbSpace number ( Column 2 ) in the onstat -d report has any relevance. This is the only difference he can see at the moment. As part of the testing, we successfully manage to perform a full back up / restore of an empty instance. This suggest that API /TSM is correctly configured. Many thanks. Jason George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 21/01/2002 15:37:53 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. You didn't mention whether you were trying to restore a backup of the Informix instance to itself or the backup was coming from another server. If you are trying to restore a backup taken on a server to that server, I don't know if you are the sys admin or dba of that server as well as the storage admin. If you are only the storage admin, the 33rd dbspace may have been modified by adding a device (chunk). You also didn't mention the platform type but if it is a UNIX box, go to the /dev dir and see if a device has been added (check file date/time) since the backup was made. If a device has been added to support a new chunk for the dbspace 33, then you will need to rebuilt the instance to be the same as when the backup was made. If the backup was made on another machine / instance, check the devices on the donating machine to see if the number of chunks is consistant with the machine to be backed up to... use onstat -d as the instance owner... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 08:42:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: On-Bar restore error. All, I have the following error when trying to restore an Informix using On-Bar Out-of-sequence errors. 32 DBSpaces restore ok but the process fails on the 33rd DbSpace. Regards Jason
Re: TSM server on NT - experiences
Oh Yes Sir... The installation is a snap except for NT / Win 2000 device support... I am the TSM Admin and Storage Admin at my place of business and am familiar with how to do devices on an AIX server. Unfortunately, I must rely on others with regard to Windows administration and the documentation for drivers; both library and drives is miserable to non-existant. Based on what I am being told, Tivoli doesn't have a lot of expertise with regard to Windows device drivers... I also asked for help with this problem on this board and recieved little to no help and I observe others struggling with this issue on a daily basis. Tivoli needs to get their act together with regard to the Windows market... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Brazner, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/17/2002 10:34:24 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: TSM server on NT - experiences Can anyone comment on good/bad experiences running TSM server on NT? All our experience to date has been on AIX 4.3, but now we're looking into a possible NT deployment. Bob Brazner Johnson Controls, Inc. (414) 524-2570
Re: Tape Drive Failures
Perhaps if y ou included some representitive samples of the errors so the SCSI error codes there is some hope of helping you with the problem. Pull some from your O/S errpt and TSM actl. Cheers George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Bill Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 10:20:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Tape Drive Failures Hello *SMers, Just a quick question out there for all of you. I am currently receiving tape drive failures when trying to check in and out tapes, also during our nightly archive. They have been increasing during the last few months. My environment is Magstar 3570, 2 drives. I am currently running TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3. I have been cleaning the drives regularly, but am not sure if I should be IBM involved or not. One of the main problems is that when the drive gets the error, the drive does not reset. It could be the tapes causing the problems, but the drives are still not resetting. Just yesterday someone was checking in tapes and loaded the wrong one, but the drive failed due wrong tape being mounted. Then the drive did not reset itself. Is there anything that I can do without calling IBM to see if I can get this fixed? Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap
I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 03:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup
Many thanks... I have passed this info to my Windows admin (I am also the Unix admin) as I have only noted this problem so far on Windows based archives. He will be installing the 4.2.1.15 client on one of our windows boxes and we will test for a few days. If there are no other negative issues, we will probably jump to 4.2.1.15 client. Again, many thanks! George Lesho AFC Enterprises Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 04:11:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backup Archives are not considered successful unless every file in your file spec is backed up successfully. If one or more files fail, then the archive will be flagged as failed. The idea behind this is that archives are for long-term storage, and that if you are looking to store the files for an extended period of time, it is important that they *all* get archived. Thus anything other than 100% of the files being archived will result in the failed event. For the next release, we are planning on handling this a little differently: - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where all the files are processed successfully will have a status of Success and a return code of 0 (zero). If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '0' to the caller. - Scheduled backup-archive client operations where the *only* problems are skipped files will have a status of Success and a return code of 4. If the operation was invoked from the command line (or script), dsmc will return '4' to the caller. Thus the return code can be used to determine which events had skipped files (and thus require further investigation) and which did not. Standard caveat: This information is being provided on an informal basis, and does not constitute any formal announcement or commitment. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2002 14:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap I have two TSM servers Win2K at 4.1.5 and AIX 433 at 4.1.4.5 with clients at 4.1.3 across the board. I get this error for the Windows clients consistantly but not the AIX clients. I have reported this to Tivoli but their first line support person is insisting that there is a comms loss which will be relfected in the tsm error log (but isn't). This error occurs when doing the FIRST incremental or an archive and doesn't appear to occur in subsequent incrementals. If anyone has an apar or reference that I can pass back to the Tivoli support person, I would appreciate it. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/09/2002 03:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Return code=4 on scheduled backap When I tested the 4.2.1.15 client, the bug was fixed. Are you sure it is not a real failed schedule? Any error messages in dsmerror.log or previously in dsmsched.log? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Return code=4 on scheduled backap Hello We just installed a 4.2.1.15 client on an NT box and now we get the bug in the event reporting : 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 2002-01-08 17:31:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END FEN_QUOT 2002-01-08 17:00:00 2002-01-08 17:31:06 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'FEN_QUOT' failed. Return code = 4. which reports to the server that the schedule has failed. I searched adsm.org and this bug was supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.15 but it clearly isn't. Is there a workaound to this bug or do I have to live with it until it is fixed? The server is at 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 Thanks for the help Guillaume Gilbert Storage administrator CGI Group Montreal
Win 2000 devices
Folks, I am a Unix admin / storage admin but I have recently been given the task of administering a remote TSM server. The O/S for this box is Win 2000 with SP2. Our remote server is at TSM 4.1.5. Our local NT admin and the remote NT admin (at the boxes location) spent most of the afternoon yesterday fumbling with a Tivoli support person who was unlucky enough to receive our trouble call. It seems there are a bunch of ways it might be possible to install scsi, tape and library drivers with multiple versions of some of these drivers on the install CD and other versions available from the IBM ftp site. The Tivoli support person who responded to the call knew less than our guys and all are now totally confused as to what/how to install the drivers. We now have all devices showing up in the O/S but they have yellow circles with exclamation marks for the library and drives. We have a Magstar 3575L24 with four 3570C drives. Are there install instructions out there that provide the necessary detail to to this right? If you have this or a similar set up, can you provide any tips on which Microsoft drivers vs which TSM drivers to use and which drivers you actually ARE using? Also provide the hardware microcode level used with your set up. I really need to get this set up and with the holidays looming, TSM support will probably not get better ;-) Thanks George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: total monthly backups
Actually, if you understand how to use MS EXCEL, to pull the data out of the dsmaccnt.log... I am not too good at it but the log is formatted (comma delimited) for this type of manipulation. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Kevin Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/06/2001 02:18:45 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: total monthly backups I like to use the Query Occupancy command. q occ will tell you the logical and physical filespaces as well as sort by node. Logical is actual space used and physical is the container (filespace). It would be easy to redirect that output from the dsmadmc into a script that awks and sums the columns for you. Kevin. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toni Banire Sent: December 6, 2001 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: total monthly backups Need help on this one Is there a way to extract a list of total backups over a monthly period. I currently have this SQL statement SELECT start_time, end_time, entity, bytes from summary where activity ='BACKUP' and end_time between 'start_date' and 'end_date' To get a list of backups run, I just total all entity values. The snag here is that if a TSM client has it resourceutilisation set to 1 I will get duplicate listings for any day during the backup period as it will list objects processed on each client and not just the client. Does anyone know if there is a better way to do this to get a list of total monthly backups by client and not object. TIA Toni
Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade-
Daniel, That is really good news but I think the question had to do with migration from 4.1.x or older to 4.2.1.7. Did you need to backup and then restore your TSM db? Did you need to hide any server configuration files and then reinstall them after the upgrade? Did you need reconfigure your devices into TSM? Did you have access to all your custom scripts? Did you have to checkout and checkin all tapes? Were there issues with licensing? These are the type of issues that I think that Dan Lee was interested in (I am too as I will need to go through this soon). Thanks George Lesho AFC Enterprises Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/03/2001 01:37:22 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade- Hi We're using 4.2.1.7 on the server, and 4.2.1.16 on the clients. It works perfect! The performance of the 4.2.1.16 client compared to the 4.2.1.0 client is awsome. And, if you're using the 4.2.0.0 client, don't use compression. According to Tivoli, you will not be able to perform all restores. The 4.2.1.7 is almost required. There are a lot of bugs both in 4.2.0.0 and 4.2.1.0. I've just tried installing both 4.2.0.0 and 4.2.1.0 at a customer, and it has been nothing but problems. When we upgraded to 4.2.1.7 on the server, we go rid of a lot of problems. But, when we upgraded the clients(about 150) we were happily surprised by the good performance of the 4.2.1.16 client. Its about 20-25% faster than the 4.2.1.0 client we used before. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman
Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade-
I think the readme for the install includes instructions to update the Atape and atldd (if applicable) to the newest version... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Kason Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/03/2001 03:00:26 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1.7 Upgrade- We upgraded from 3.7.3.6 to 4.2.1.7 on AIX last week. For the most part, the process was pretty straightforward. Back up the devconfig info, back up the volhist info, back up the dsmserv.opt file, and back up the dsmserv.dsk file. Do a full database backup, then tar up your existing TSM installation (undoing a 4.x migration involves reinstallation of the previous version and a reload of the database). Then do the install. 4.2.1.7 requires 4.2.1.0 to be in place, so be sure to download the patch that takes TSM to 4.2.1.0, as well as the 4.2.1.7 patch. The AIX migration procedure didn't copy in the tivoli.tsm.client.cert package (contains the TSM license files), so we had to install that just before we started relicensing TSM. Our only real problem was losing control of the tape drives afterwards. We have a MagStar library with 6 of 16 3590E drives allocated to Unix use, and it was, for lack of better way to phrase it, operating in a different reality. We eventually got past that problem by installing the most current drivers for the tape drives and the tape library, even though the drivers we had in there already surpassed the minimum version levels TSM called for. Apparently upgrading the drivers is strongly recommended when leapfrogging over as many versions as we did. Good luck. Kason Leung Systems Programmer II University of California Office of the President [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:47 PM 12/3/2001 -0600, you wrote: Looking for anyone who has upgradeed to 4.2.1.X or greater. We are upgrading this weekend and we would like any information that might make the process go smooth Thanks Dan Lee Associate Systems Programmer Mutual of Omaha I/S Midrange Services 402-351-8377
Re: Onbar maping with /etc/aliases.
Haven't a clue why the /etc/aliases file is a problem for onbar except if there is a conflict with the server aliases specifically named in the $ONCONFIG file for that instance. These aliases are associated with communications services via the association of the $ONCONFIG-sqlhosts-/etc/services file. Check that aliases used in your $ONCONFIG file are NOT named in your /etc/aliases file... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Muthyam Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/29/2001 05:20:02 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Onbar maping with /etc/aliases. Hi TSM'rs We got a problem with /etc/aliases file, when we'r stying to start Onbar from client getting error dbm map Alias0 : unsafe map file /etc/aliases. Checked and compared aliases file with other clients, everything looking fine. anybody can give solution for this. we'r using TSM 3.7 level 2.0. thanks in advance Muthyam
Problem with 4.1 server - FYI
Bonus feature of TSM 4.1... The datactr is my overflow location. I am running TSM 4.1.4.5 on AIX 4.3.3 ML8. I have a 3575L32 and the library is FULL plus there are approximately 100 tapes in the overflow location at any one time. (Need to figure out how to use less tape so there is less tape shuffle required)... Note that the volume 078A9F was being asked for for the purpose of reclamation. Note that this was pre-empted because the restore needed this volume and Request 243 (the call for the tape for reclaim) was cancelled. There was NO repeat NO subsequent call for the tape to be put into the library for the restore. Thus, the restore will hang forever unless someone notices the long wait time of the session at the TSM server! BUG??? George Lesho AFC Enterprises 11/28/01 14:36:56 ANR8765I 243: 3570 volume 078A9F in location datactr is required for use in library 3575LIB1; CHECKIN LIBVOLUME required within 107 minutes. 11/28/01 14:40:38 ANR0406I Session 6609 started for node AFCPROD2 (SQL-BACKTRACK) (Tcp/Ip 198.140.168.19(55110)). 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR1440I All drives in use. Process 1032 being preempted by higher priority operation. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR8342I Request 243 for volume 078A9F canceled by SYSTEM. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR8313E Volume 078A9F is not present in library 3575LIB1. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR1402W Mount request denied for volume 078A9F - volume unavailable. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR1410W Access mode for volume 078A9F now set to unavailable. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR0985I Process 1032 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 14:40:39. 11/28/01 14:40:39 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 078A9F - storage media inaccessible.
Re: informix backups ... not working with caching enabled ?
We have been backing up logical logs for years and never faced this problem; probably because we saw no need to cache files within our disk storagepools... George Lesho AFC Enterprises! PAC Brion Arnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/27/2001 10:21:40 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: informix backups ... not working with caching enabled ? Hi *SM'ers, Just wondering if somebody encountered this problem : we are doing informix backups on a TSM 4.1.1 server, using onbar utility. Informix logical logs are written to a primary disk pool that has caching enabled, and a next storage pool defined to allow migration on tape. It seems that once the disk has been filled, informix is unable to find free space to send his logs, and migration never happens, even with a very low high mig value. I believe this is due to caching on this stg pool : when the percent utilised value reaches 100 %, even if this data is only cached files, neither TSM or Informix are able to overwrite it, and I get a message like : 11/27/01 11:47:08 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 17528 for node SAP02 (TDP Infmx AIX42) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool SAP_LOGS_DISK. Once caching disabled, and cached files moved to the next storage pool, we never face this problem again. Did anybody already noticed this kind of strange behaviour before, and eventually found a solution to it ? TIA. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78/Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Which TSM client version is most stable
I just got done going through this (because of the support issue) and went from 3.7.3.6 to 4.1.4.5. It was a snap. Upgrade took about an hour. Nothing much needed to be done except install the new code from smitty and register the new licenses. I have never had a client related support issue (am at 3.7.2) so I am in no hurry. I have upgraded a couple of AIX boxes to 4.1.3 and have not had any issues, as well as an NT server as well as a Novell server. The Novell client upgrade has not been smooth and there have been issues with logins and such and these probably have to do with the dsm.opt file. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/21/2001 10:58:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Which TSM client version is most stable Hi fellow TSMers At present I am running a TSM 3.7.3.8 Server attached to 23 client (Solaris, OS/2 and NT). Most of the client are the 3.7.2.0 release. In the near future we will need to upgrade our server to be in compliance with support, but I figured it would be a good idea to upgrade the clients first. a) Does this sound like a good idea? b) What version of the client do people feel will be the most stable (i.e. the most tested). I am assuming that upgrading to the latest release will quite often mean a lot of teething problems. Thanks for your help in advance All the best Farren Minns :)
Re: Audit Library doesn´t complete
You didn't mention what type of audit you were doing... are you allowing the library to mount all volumes and read the labels or are you going off the barcodes? I had this problem in 3.7.3.6 and have not checked to see if the behavior is the same in 4.1.4.5 (migrated last week so I could take advantage of Tivoli's very expensive support which was cut OFF on 11/1). George Lesho AFC Enterprises Robin v/d Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/20/2001 06:10:58 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Audit Library doesn´t complete Hi fellow TSM admins/lovers/friends, We´ve scheduled an Audit Library to run every day on our TSM 4.2 for AIX with IBM LTO drives. The Audit starts succesfully but this process won´t complete. The day after we still see this Audit Library process as active and this disrupts our other schedules, like archives and migration because they both need acces to the drives. The only way we can free the drives for the other schedules is to Cancel the Audit Library process Since the Actlog doesn´t show errors on the Audit schedule we can´t figure out what the problem might be. Any help or tips would be of great use to us, Thanks in advance, Robin van der Vliet = Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde en kan vertrouwelijke informatie bevatten. Gebruik door derden of openbaarmaking van dit bericht zonder toestemming van DAS Rechtsbijstand of de geadresseerde is niet toegestaan en kan onrechtmatig zijn. Aansprakelijkheid voortvloeiende uit onvolledige of niet tijdige ontvangst van dit bericht is uitgesloten. Indien dit bericht u per ongeluk bereikt, verzoeken wij u vriendelijk ons daarvan direct in kennis te stellen en het bericht te wissen. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen zijn gescand op de ons bekende virussen. Wij adviseren u alle berichten en bijlagen op virussen te scannen voor ze te openen. =
Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files
Joel, Not sure what you mean by an onbar log. Are you talking about the Informix logical logs? If so, put them in an archive management class/copy group along with your database backups. Each logical log has a unique file name so efforts to expire them if you use backup type management class/copy groups can be frustrating. As an archive, they will expire in a finite number of days (pre copy group rules for the mgmt class). Since you didn't mention how you did your backups, I can't help you with how to pin the archive management class to the backup. I use SQL BackTrack for Informix and they do it when you build one of their backup pools (not to be confused with TSM stgpools). If you are not using BMC SBTI for a storage manager and are only using TSM, then you may be able to do it in an incl statement. Not sure how TDP for Informix does it... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Joel Fuhrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/19/2001 05:46:34 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files I'm looking for a script or method to expire onbar logs. If you have one, would you please share it. Back in January 1999, Christoph Martin shared a routine with the adsm list which would expire a file. I wrapped his routine in a perl script which selected the old log file. This worked great until Tivoli improved the backup library, added it to the TDP line and started charging the big bucks for it. Now Christoph's routine fails with the error: *** BSAInit failed: (12) An entry in the environment structure is invalid I've tried rebuilding it with the newest API but that didn't help.
Re: Informix restore using TSM
Theresa, I do Informix restores all the time. You are correct about the old ADSM product... it did supply a shared library. TSM does not. The shared library is a generic library that onbar talks to to make its tape requests known to TSM. TSM merely keeps track of where the backups are that are to be restored and onbar does most of the work. Backups are done in several ways, depending on the arguements to the onbar command. Backups done with a -L specify a level and you can think of these as more or less incremental backups. I say that because Informix logical logs, which are probably being backed up to allow you to restore to a point in time. This point in time is specified in the onbar restore arguements (hope you have an Informix Onbar Backup and Restore Guide. The other way you can back up your system is using the whole_system argument in the backups. Then, you can do a whole_system restore. I think these work a tad better but either method will work. How do you backup the database? I would guess a script is used which calls the onbar script that Informix provides along with arguments. If you send me this info offline, we may be able to figure this out. Drop me a note at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Lesho AFC Enterprises Sarver, Theresa (Osky Unix Administrator) [EMAIL PROTECTED] @VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/20/2001 10:33:57 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Informix restore using TSM Hello; We are in a 3-tier environment: Server1 - Informix Database 7.24 UC5 and TSM 4.1.1 server Server2 - Baan IVb3 The TSM client on Server1 (that Informix connects with) is using an old [ADSM] version...3.8 - I believe? This was done because it was the only way Informix would connect to TSM without having to purchase TDP for Informix. (not my choice, nor was I part of that decision) Anyway... This morning Server1 crashed - we lost the I/O board. While I await IBM's arrival with the replacement part I am contemplating the worst...having to restore Informix. I am fairly new to this job and have never restored Informix (or anything else for that matter) with TSM. Three years ago when Informix and ADSM were brought online a full database restore was preformed and it was successful...but other than that I do not believe it has been done since. The person who was incharge of TSM and Informix abruptly left the firm and I got stuck administering them. ;) If anyone out there has ever preformed an Informix restore would you be so kind and to provide me with some steps. I'd welcome any help anyone has to offer at this point. Thank you; Theresa
Re: BMC Agent for TSM
Are you talking about the software to monitor TSM or the BMC products which are roughly the same as the TDP products. We use BMC SQL-BackTrack for Informix and Sybase here where I work and have the license for the monitoring software but we are not currently using it... George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Scott Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/12/2001 10:50:57 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: BMC Agent for TSM Hi all, Has anyone had any experience with the BMC agent for TSM. I am looking for some feedback whether or not it is a good tool for TSM. Cheers Scott Thompson http://www.phoenixitgroup.com **Internet Email Confidentiality Footer*** Phoenix IT Group Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 3476115. Registered Office: Technology House, Hunsbury Hill Avenue, Northampton, NN4 8QS Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of our firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. No contracts may be concluded on behalf of our firm by means of email communications. Confidentiality: Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the recipient indicated (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not take any action based on it, nor should you copy or show this to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error to the sender, then delete the message from your system. Monitoring of Messages: Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and intercept emails sent and received on our network. Warning: Internet email is not 100% secure. We ask you to understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. We do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.
Re: More TSM AIX issues
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/12/2001 12:20:19 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: More TSM AIX issues This is not just an issue with the AIX clients... NT clients are also capable of this strange behaviour... 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4961I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Total number of bytes transferred: 4.68 GB 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4963I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Data transfer time:4,240.81 sec 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4966I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Network data transfer rate:1,158.41 KB/sec 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4967I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Aggregate data transfer rate: 1,059.34 KB/sec 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4968I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Objects compressed by:0% 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANE4964I (Session: 3975, Node: SAT-TEST-DB01) Elapsed processing time:01:17:17 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANR2579E Schedule OSPDARSTD in domain SATDOMAIN for node SAT-TEST-DB01 failed (return code 4). 11/11/01 16:47:21 ANR0403I Session 3975 ended for node SAT-TEST-DB01 (WinNT). from dsmerror.log: ((nothing else relative to this archive)) 11/11/2001 16:50:52 ANS1803E Archive processing of '\\sat-test-db01\e$\*' finished with failures. 11/11/2001 16:50:53 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OSPDARSTD' failed. Return code = 4. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Some more strangeness from clients that have been working, just fine. Client is 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 ! From the dsmerror.log: 11/11/01 17:55:15 sessRecvVerb(): Invalid verb received. 11/11/01 17:55:15 sessRecvVerb(): length=6d6b, verb=2f,magic=75 11/11/01 17:55:21 ANS1026E Session rejected: Communications protocol error 11/11/01 17:55:21 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'BACKUP.MAIL2INCR' failed. Return code = 4. From the dsmsched.log: Executing scheduled command now. 11/11/01 16:55:54 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN BACKUP.MAIL2INCR 11/11/01 16:55:00 11/11/01 17:55:21 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 11/11/01 17:55:21 Session established with server ADSM: MVS 11/11/01 17:55:21 Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 11/11/01 17:55:21 Data compression forced on by the server 11/11/01 17:55:21 Server date/time: 11/11/01 17:54:31 Last access: 11/11/01 16:55:08 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects inspected: 39,605 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects backed up:1,983 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects updated: 0 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects rebound: 0 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects deleted: 0 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects expired: 11 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of objects failed: 0 11/11/01 17:55:21 Total number of bytes transferred:60.48 MB 11/11/01 17:55:21 Data transfer time: 13.31 sec 11/11/01 17:55:21 Network data transfer rate:4,652.05 KB/sec 11/11/01 17:55:21 Aggregate data transfer rate: 17.36 KB/sec 11/11/01 17:55:21 Objects compressed by: 66% 11/11/01 17:55:21 Elapsed processing time: 00:59:26 11/11/01 17:55:21 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 11/11/01 17:55:21 ANS1026E Session rejected: Communications protocol error 11/11/01 17:55:21 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END BACKUP.MAIL2INCR 11/11/01 16:55:00 11/11/01 17:55:21 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'BACKUP.MAIL2INCR' failed. Return code = 4. Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: TSM annoyances
1.,The element numbers below 31 are associated with bulk load, I/O port and other functions on my IBM 3575L32 Magstar tape library. Not Tivoli's fault or responsibility how the element numbers are mapped. 2. I let TSM worry about where it sticks the data on the tapes 3. Speak to your library vendor and ask them why their device driver microcode doesn't work right. The IBM Magstar doesn't behave this way. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Johnn D. Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/02/2001 03:47:23 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: TSM annoyances I have a few annoyances with Tivoli -- not many, as it's a great product, just a handful. 1) We have TSM 4.1.3 server connected to SpectraLogic Gator/64000. Despite what Tivoli says on their website, the element number of Slot 1 in the library is not 1, but 30! This is very annoying! If I do a q libv lib1 and look up a volume's home element, I have to subtract 29 in order to really know what slot it's in on the library. Can this be corrected so that it is what Tivoli's website says it should be -- i.e., element 1 matches slot 1? 2) Is there a simple way to find out which volumes are associated to any other? For instance, let's say I have to do a move data on 000115. Right now, here's what I do: q content 000115 count=-1 f=d q content 000115 count=1 f=d If either one of these has a segment 1/1, then everything's great, as there is no associated volume. But if either or both have 1/2 (or 2/2) then I have to issue: audit v 000115 And find the associated volume. The catch is, if there are *two* associated volumes, you have to check one of them in first and update its status, before you can do another audit to find the other associated volume. Is there any way to find these associated volumes in one swift command?! 3) [I think this is more a SpectraLogic issue, but I'll gripe anyway ;).] When I want to bulk load a bunch of tapes into the Gator tape library, I have to make sure no tapes are mounted in the drives. Otherwise, the bulk load will just blindly put the new tapes into the slots of the tapes in the drive. Doesn't TSM talk to the tape library and tell it the home elements (or slots) of the tapes that are mounted in the drives, so that the robotic picker won't put tapes into those slots?? Thanks for any advice. johnn
Re: script: transferred bytes per node/day ????
THREE PART QUESTION for select gurus ;-) 1. Can someone tell me what the timespan for this summary is based on the: start_timetimestamp(current date - 1 day,'18:00:00') Does this mean for the last 18 hours? 2. Also, is there a way to sum the various sessions for a single node? Some of my servers, which have Informix databases, back up logical logs all day long and there are dozens of entries per server such as: AFCTEST10252976 AFCTEST10252976 AFCTEST10252976 AFCTEST10252976 AFCTEST10252976 AFCTEST10252976 (((plus a zillion more of these entries))) 3. and is there a way to place BACKUPS and ARCHIVES into this select statement and have separate columns for both backups and archives associated with a node on a row? Such as: NODE_NAME BYTES_XFRD(BACKUP) BYTES_XFRD(ARCHIVE) -- AFCPROD1 1234567890 1234567890 Thanks - George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Joe Cascanette [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/30/2001 08:28:27 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: script: transferred bytes per node/day select ENTITY as Node_Name, BYTES as Bytes_Transferred from summary where activity='BACKUP' and start_timetimestamp(current date - 1 day, '18:00:00')and bytes0 This was posted by another user, just added some fields. Joe Cascanette The Cumis Group Limited -Original Message- From: Winfried Heilmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: script: transferred bytes per node/day Hi I'm looking for a script to calculate the transferred bytes for each node per node and a total for the day. Can anybody help me? Regards Winfried
Re: Server-Server Virtual Volumes (philosophical)
Suad, Have you considered a strategy where you give the desktops access to network drives on a few servers that would be backed up incrementally? Trying to back up hundreds of desktops in a small window is a bunch more resource intensive from the TSM servers standpoint than backing up a few servers. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Suad Musovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/30/2001 07:33:17 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Server-Server Virtual Volumes (philosophical) Sorry, this got a bit long winded.. Our monolith TSM installation is suffering from client overload, specifically hundreds of desktops queueing to be backed up every morning (we only give a 4 hour window to desktops after servers have finished). Several times this month some glitches with our tape library(plus performance issues) have resulted in the disk stg pools filling up and sessions start queuing directly to tape. When this happens around the time the of the desktop backup window, we end up with dozens of media waits and the dreaded MAXSESSIONS gets reached (MAXSCHEDSESSIONS was set to 30%) Of all the options I considered, farming off the bulk of the desktops to another TSM server and using the Server-to-Server Virtual Volumes seems to be the most attractive. (Management have declined my BOFH proposals; desktops give us Brownie points and have been implemented since the year dot). I would appreciate any comments as I think this implementation may have been meant more for fringe deployments than dealing with rats'n'mice. The desktops (up to 300 of them) are only backing up the documents/data directories with an estimated average occupancy of 1GB and nightly backup about 30% of that (think it's more the System Object than data). They are also, mainly, in logical proximity to a sector switch, where the 2nd TSM server will be located. Info/questions: * The server we are looking at will be a dual CPU Windoze box (Linux server, where are you?), 2 NICs, local tape unit and have around 100GB of backuppool. * We can give them a full 12+ hour backup window and control the migration times to the virtual volumes (migrating the backuppool at apropriate times). * I don't think the database will get bigger than 20GB. * Total Occupancy should be somewhere between 400 and 600GB * I'm not sure how big the virtual volumes should be (600MB seems a good size for streaming off LTO tapes through 155ATM = allowing ~60seconds per volume). The main TSM server is RS6K-F80/AIX running TSM4.2.0 connecting to a 3584/LTO and an ESS via FC, I've set up a LANE ATM connection to the above sector switch reducing routing overheads for the back-end/private traffic. Does it sound Kosher?? Thanks, Suad -- Suad Musovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Unix Support, ITSS Operations University of Auckland
Re: Restores
Wanda, I am using 3.7.3.6 server and 4.1.3 client on AIX 4.3.3 and the proper sytax on the client is virtualnodename box where backup was made Don't use the equals sign in the api or ba client dsm.opt file! George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin _ Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 09/25/2001 03:33:38 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Restores ?Maybe depends on your client platform - works for me on 4.1.2 AIX client, 4.1 or 4.2 Windows client. What is your platform? -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Restores Wanda, When i try that I get the following error messages ans0267e invalid command line option/value -virtualnodename=srny3fs03 is this paramete version specific? I'm running a 4.2 client with a 3.7 server? Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 09/25/2001 02:52:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Restores Just start the TSM client on the target machine with the virtualnodename parm. dsm -virtualnodename=name_of_source_node You will be prompted for the password of the source machine (the one that backed up the files). You must also select a restore to destination, even if you are restoring a WIndows C: drive to a C: drive, (because the UNC names of the source target machine drives don't match.) That's about it... but remember if this is a WIndows machine, you can't restore the stuff in PROGRAM FILES unless you also restore the registry, which you normally can't do to a different host -Original Message- From: Mark Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restores Would like to know the best way to do a restore from one node to another. What we are trying to do , we want to do a complete ( active files only) restore from TSM to a new Server with a different node name...Any help would be great!! THanks
dsmserv.opt file documentation
Friends, Is there somewhere that I can find documentation on the various options that could be included in the dsmserv.opt file? I can't find anything in the admin reference. TIA - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin
Re: audit library failed - stupid software?
Cycle power on the library, then run the audit library command with no other processes running with a checklabel=barcode swtich. George Lesho Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 09/11/2001 08:13:26 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: audit library failed - stupid software? ANR8834E Library volume 04DB5C is still present in library 3570LIB drive DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt1), and must be removed manually. But drive is empty, and all cartridges are in their home-slots. Wojciech - If this is a solid problem (continues to persist) I would use the tapeutil command's general subcommands to acquire drive info in the same way that TSM is doing it, through the Atape driver, and see if that shows the phantom tape as being mounted. You might try power-cycling the drive to get it back in touch with reality. Richard Sims, BU
Re: Job Offer
Thanks for the offer but I am not interested in relocation. George Lesho Angelica Tulipano [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/29/2001 08:20:07 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Job Offer Hi! Someone that have knowledge in working with Tivoli Enterprise is interest to work at Panama, if you are interested please send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for working in a Multinational company. Thanks
HELP! 2nd try - TDP for Lotus Domino
I asked this on Friday but didn't see any responses... Our location is installing a Lotus Domino server which is on a Windows 2000 box. I suspect there will be about 1200 user accounts. I would like to have periodic backups; probably about once a month to retain for a year for legal purposes plus I would like to have restore capability for about 2 weeks on users Lotus Notes enviroment. I have never dealt with Lotus Domino or Notes before. If I want to back this up using TDP for Lotus Domino, what would my Versions of Data Exists, Versions of Data Deleted, Retain Extra Version and Retain only Version be for the monthly backups since I don't think the TDP for Informix product supports archiving which would be simpler? What would these same properties be for a two week retention. How often will I need to back this server up for the two week backups if archivelogging is turned on. How big a logging space needs to be set up for 1200 users? Any tips would be very much appreciated. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin
ANR8304E
%smers, Using TSM 3.7.3.6 (server) on AIX 433ML8 with Atape 6.1.6 TSM wants to mount a scratch tape (NEVER a private tape). The drive TSM selects gives a time out error. There NEVER is an actual tape mounted or I/O errors from a mount nor any VCR repair of a tape. This has happened 6 times in the last 24 hours. It has occurred on every one of my six drives (3575L32 with six 3750 drives). I loaded a new version of the Atape.driver about 2 weeks ago and the problem began occurring since that time. I clean my tape drives religously and there is no actual media involved in this problem. Example from actl: 08/20/01 12:14:03 ANR8304E Time out error on drive L1D3 (/dev/rmt8) in library 3575LIB1. 08/20/01 12:14:12 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. Problem initially appeared to be h/w as it is reported to my errpt but I have had the library checked out and full diags run. Also problem has occurred on different drives and then after the time out error, they go on working without being polled with no problems Anyone seen this or have any ideas? George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises
Re: restore to different node
If you are doing this from a command line, I can help... use the virtualnodename option in the command line. You can also set a virtualnodename in your dsm.opt file (on AIX client) and it will restore from the named box to the node you are running the command from. Same thing can be done from a GUI but I don't use them. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Jason Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/06/2001 02:43:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: restore to different node Can anyone tell me the options (client/server) that need to be set to allow me to restore files from a different node? Thanks, Jason
Re: ANR0104E
Kelli, It doesn't look like you got the ANR0104 from running audit library. It appears you audited the library as a result of the error deleting the row from the table noted. Once the audit completed, it looks like everything is fine with the audit likely resolving the issue in your table. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Kelli Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/01/2001 12:15:56 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: ANR0104E The following error was reported in the actlog while performing an audit (with the checklabel=barcode parm). We are on TSM V 3.7.4 running on AIX 4.3.2. Has anyone seen this before? We also found a tape (Magstar 3570 C Format) in another slot that was extremely damaged. You couldn't even see the tape when looking at the head. Our hardware CE is coming out to make sure the damage was not caused by the drives. Are these things related? Date/TimeMessage -- 08/01/2001 09:03:22 ANR0104E mmsscsi.c(5645): Error 132 deleting row from table MMS.Lib.Inventory. 08/01/2001 09:03:22 ANR8358E Audit operation is required for library 3575LIB. 08/01/2001 09:03:30 ANR8788W Unable to read the barcode of cartridge in slot-id 312 in library 3575LIB; loading in drive to read label. 08/01/2001 09:03:33 ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library 3575LIB completed successfully. 08/01/2001 09:03:33 ANR0985I Process 519 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 09:03:33. Kelli Jones Chesterfield County Va [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad IBM TAPE contact info
I am in the situation where I am a contactor working for IBM. There is a dedicated purchase person in Atlanta who handles our purchases and I need to touch base with her to find out if there is a toe to be stepped on. I have contacted Tivoli and asked them if there is the potential that the database is corrupt or there may be some other application related reason for the bunch of media errors and have not gotten very far. I have also contacted our IBM support CE and he talked it over with sources and decided that 21 tapes out of less than 500 failing in a year isn't excessive (almost 5 percent failure). Will just have to wait and see if my tape woes moderate. Much appreciate the info. George Lesho AFC Enterprises David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/01/2001 02:15:46 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: bad IBM TAPE contact info From a vendor. The first time or two we went through vendor for replacements. Then they said we could go directly to IBM and save a step, so we have. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 09:08PM Did you buy your tapes directly from IBM or from another vendor? -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bad IBM TAPE contact info Call (888) IBM-MEDIA. I have had many 3575 tapes replaced. medai errors or broken tapes. (Note: the last few times they have to get approval for total values over $1000 (about 10 tapes). I guess the economy is having it's effects). I have never gotten approval - never called/faxed back. Therefore I always request replacement of 9 tapes. They send you a Fax with RMA #, you send them the bad tapes. They generally send out good new tapes the same day you call. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 05:11PM %sm-ers... Some months ago, there was a discussion where point of contact info was given for a person or group within IBM where tape warranty issues could be resolved. I have misplaced this information and need it. TSM has recommended 21 tapes be removed from my tape library over the last year due to excessive media errors which could not be repaired. I need to speak with the IBM warranty person or group. If someone has this info, I would appreciate you reposting it! I have a 3575L32 and use Magstar MP Fast Access Linear Tape C-Foxmat XL 7GB tapes. I also hhave a few non-XL C-Format tapes... Many thanks. George Lesho AFC Enterprises MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 07/31/01 19:49:28 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. == MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 08/01/01 15:20:41 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: TDP for Lotus Domino Performance
While there are certainly performance differences between backup apps, the biggest differences are in your hardware and network. Generally, the slow point is the drive but other aspects of your data flow may be the slow point. Using ethernet? How fast? What kind of drives? How much competition for resources? George Lesho AFC Enterprises Joshua S. Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/01/2001 02:55:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: TDP for Lotus Domino Performance All, What type of performance can one expect to get when backing up a large Lotus Domino environment under NT using the TDP for Domino agent? My customer is running TSM 3.7 on an AIX server and is thinking about replacing the BackupExec Domino solution with TSM and would like to know what others out there are getting performance wise? Thank you, -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANR1163 / 1173
%smers: Early on, I learned that a bad tape in a primary storage pool had a big effect on a secondary pool so I became cautious when resolving problems with media. I have had problems with tapes used in my 3575L32. Over the past year, I have had 21 tapes with excessive media errors which have had to be removed from our inventory (out of approximately 500 tapes in the inventory). I now do a move data to get what I can and then bring back the copypool tape from vault storage (restore stgp) to fill out the remaining data that needs to be recopied into the primary tape pool to make it consistant with the copy tapepool. Having said that, I recently and all at once, received errors on 11 volumes in the vault; ANR1163 / 1173 indicating that there were files on the vault versions that were unique. After a year of operation, I had only had this problem once or twice and I had caused it by not restoring the storage pool after partially moving the data from a bad volume... My question: What could or would cause this spate of errors? Could the data base be corrupted? Many of the filesets are recent and do not correspond to a primary copypool tape that was taken out of service due to errors... any hints would be appreciated. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises
bad IBM TAPE contact info
%sm-ers... Some months ago, there was a discussion where point of contact info was given for a person or group within IBM where tape warranty issues could be resolved. I have misplaced this information and need it. TSM has recommended 21 tapes be removed from my tape library over the last year due to excessive media errors which could not be repaired. I need to speak with the IBM warranty person or group. If someone has this info, I would appreciate you reposting it! I have a 3575L32 and use Magstar MP Fast Access Linear Tape C-Foxmat XL 7GB tapes. I also hhave a few non-XL C-Format tapes... Many thanks. George Lesho AFC Enterprises
TDP for Lotus Notes on Win2K box
TSM Server AIX 4.3.2 TSM Ver 3.7.3.6 Clients 3.7.2 My employer is licensed for TDP for Lotus Notes but the product is not being used. I just found out that the Windows people are going to replace the current Lotus Notes server running on NT with a Windows 2000 server. Does TDP for Lotus Notes work with Windows 2000? Once they stick this Win2K box in, what will be the implications as far as my regular backups be? I currently backup all NT boxes incrementally and do a once per month full archive which is retained for a longer period. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises
Re: TCP error 10053
Definitely a TSM feature. There is a TSM pub called Trace Facility Guide Version 3 Release 7 which explains traces well. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Marc Levitan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/24/2001 06:33:08 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: TCP error 10053 Are traces a TSM function or outside the scope of TSM? Jeff Bach jdbach@WAL-MTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ART.COM cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: TCP error 10053 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 07/20/2001 08:50 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Good steps. Support will indicate that you have a TCP/IP issue . To find the issue: run a client ADSM trace, client TCP/IP trace, sniffer on the client port, sniffer on the server port, server TCP/IP trace, and server ADSM trace. Run these all of once. TCP flush is an error sending data to from the client to the server. I have seen this problem 9 months ago on NT systems communicating with a UNIX server. It went away before we could find root cause. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: John Monahan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TCP error 10053 Could be some type of network problem. I would try checking the following: 1. Update the network card drivers on the client. 2. Check the speed/duplex settings on both the client and switch port and ensure they are set to the same. I do not rely on auto-negotiation. 3. Check the connection for CRC errors, buffer overruns or other network problems. I have seen these errors when adapter teaming has been improperly configured, specifically using Cisco Etherchannel. John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 26 Cell: 952-484-5435 http://www.compures.com djkory@MEDIAO NE.NET To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: TCP error 10053 Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 07/19/2001 10:28 AM Please respond to rdnoble Hi everyone - We have a Win2k client machine that receives these errors during scheduled backups. There are other Win2k machines that are backing up fine. Has anyone seen these errors or know what might be going on? 07/17/2001 22:28:05 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 940. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 940. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 cuConfirm: Received rc: -50 trying to receive ConfirmResp verb 07/17/2001 22:28:05 ANS1809E Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 07/17/2001 22:28:06 ANS1809E Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 07/17/2001 22:28:20 ANS1810E TSM session has been reestablished. 07/17/2001 22:41:32 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 920. 07/17/2001 22:41:32 sessSendVerb: Error sending Verb, rc: -50 Diana Noble ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
EXCL in dsm.opt for a Novell 5 client
*sm'ers, Every time I back up one of my Novell 5.0 clients, I get a bunch of errors which indicate an exclude statement in the client's dsm.opt is not working properly... attached are some of the errors at the bottom of this note. I am using the exclude.dir option and it doesn't seem to be working properly. Can anyone tell me why? Syntax or order type thing? Any help would be most appreciated. George Lesho AFC Enterprises Server TSM V 3.7.3.6 (sever AIX 4.3.2) TSM Client 3.7.2 (client is Novell 5.0) dsm.opt file for client: * ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager * * client options file for TSM Novell NetWare client * edited by G.Lesho 7/19/2001 COMMMETHODTCPIP TCPSERVERADDRESS 198.140.168.1 TCPPORT1500 NODENAMEadsm_lonestar NWUSER lonestar\.adsm_lonestar.sat-lonestar.afc:adsum SCHEDMODE prompted EXCLUDE lonestar\*:/.../vol$log.err EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../tts$log.err EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../sys$log.err EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../events.log EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../secaudit.log EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../system.log EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../net$obj.sys EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../net$prop.sys EXCLUDE lonestar*:/.../net$val.sys EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/cmaster.dba EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/btrieve.trn EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/tsa/tsa$temp.* EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/tsa/err$log.* EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/tsa/skip$log.* EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:system/tsa/err$hst.* EXCLUDE lonestar\sys:_SWAP_.MEM EXCLUDE.DIR lonestar\data:/queues errors from TSM activity log: 07/23/01 05:39:47 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0110.QDR/Q_05FF.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:48 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0110.QDR/Q_05FF.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0410.QDR/Q_00F1.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0410.QDR/Q_00F1.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/040600C7.QDR/Q_0604.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/040600C7.QDR/Q_0604.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0510.QDR/Q_0846.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0510.QDR/Q_0846.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0610.QDR/Q_0827.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0610.QDR/Q_0827.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0710.QDR/Q_089E.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0710.QDR/Q_089E.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:49 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0A10.QDR/Q_076E.SYS': access 07/23/01 05:39:50 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0C10.QDR/Q_077E.SYS': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:50 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0C10.QDR/Q_077E.SRV': access to the object is denied 07/23/01 05:39:50 ANE4007E (Session: 6336, Node: ADSM_LONESTAR) Error processing 'DATA:/QUEUES/0D10.QDR/Q_0110
Re: Automated monitoring of backup
I run the following script from cron... Not very subtle but it does provide
almost all the info needed to know what to do first thing in the morning
regarding TSM... George Lesho AFC Enterprises
note - replace the id and password as they apply at your location:
30 07 * * * /usr/local/bin/tsmreport.scr
The tsmreport.scr file:
#!/bin/ksh
/tmp/tsminfo
/tmp/dbstatus
/tmp/loginfo
/tmp/tsmtapes
date=$(date +%d%m%y)
echo [${date}] TSM Status Report for yesterday /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
echo
*
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Active TSM Processes at 7:30 AM! | /tmp/tsminfo
echo -- /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q proc |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Number of scratch tapes in the 3575 tape library: | /tmp/tsminfo
echo --- /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=query -password=passwd -tabd run scratch |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Status of backups done yesterday | /tmp/tsminfo
echo -- /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
echoScheduled StartActual Start ScheduleNode
Name /tmp/tsminfo
echo---
- /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q eve \* \* begint=-24 |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Status of drives: | /tmp/tsminfo
echo --- /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q drive |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Status of TSM data base | /tmp/tsminfo
echo - /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q db |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/dbstatus
echo Available Space in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $1}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Assigned capacity in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $2}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum Extension in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $3}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum reduction in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $4}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Page size in bytes= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $5}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Total usable pages= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $6}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Used pages= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $7}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Percent Utilized= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $8}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum percentage of Utilization= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/dbstatus | awk '{print $9}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Status of rollfoward TSM log | /tmp/tsminfo
echo -- /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q log |
/usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/loginfo
echo Available space in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $1}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Assigned capacity in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $2}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum extension in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $3}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum reduction in MB= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $4}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Page size in bytes= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $5}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Total usable pages= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $6}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Used pages= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $7}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Percent utilized= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $8}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo Maximum percent utilized= /tmp/tsminfo
cat /tmp/loginfo | awk '{print $9}' /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Make access to these volumes readwrite | /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q vol access=reado
status=filling | /usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
-
/tmp/tsminfo
echo Put datactr tape in library | /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
echo /tmp/tsminfo
dsmadmc -id=userid -password=passwd -tabd q actl begint=-24 search
=\119 mi nutes\ | /usr/local/bin/cleanhdrs /tmp/tsminfo
echo
Re: restore/retrieve in different server ** URGENT **
Put the virtualnodename parameter into the command line of the restore command. example: machine1 is where backup was made machine2 is where restore to be performed machine2 dsmc restore virtualnodename=machine1/home/* /home/ Hope this helps... syntax of the file specifications kind of funny; the above copies all files from /home on machine1 to /home on machine2... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Luciano Ariceto [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/20/2001 12:31:58 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: restore/retrieve in different server ** URGENT ** Hi All I am current running TSM Version 4, Release 1, Level 1.0 with NT 4 and I would like to know how I should proceed to execute a restore or retrieve in a different server from whose the original backup was made. Thanks Luciano Ariceto
Re: cleaning 3575 drive
Stick a cleaning tape in the library. Use the front panel controls on the library to move the tape in. Use the front panel controls to clean a drive or all drives. TSM has nothing to do with cleaning or the cleaning tape. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Pothula S Paparao [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/16/2001 10:06:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: cleaning 3575 drive Hi , can anyone send me a procedure or instructions to clean the 3575 tape drive. regards sreekumar.
Re: Restore on a different client machine?
Take a look at Chapter 3. Backing up and Restoring Files (pg 35 onward) of the Using the Backup-Archive Clients (this is from Ver 3 Release 7) so since you didn't send any info on Version you are using, the location may vary. Use the -virtualnodename option as the syntax is tricky with the -fromnode option. Be sure to read the blurb on set access. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Yahya Ilyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/12/2001 03:17:35 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Restore on a different client machine? Is it possible to restore to a different client machine?I need to do a restore of a directory to a different client(node), both client machines are AIX 4.3.3. Please send me details. Thanks Yahya - Yahya Ilyas Systems Programmer Senior Systems Integration Management Information Technology Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (480) 965-4467
Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful
I have been at my present job for a year and the audit library command fails EVERY time when it tries to read the labels. It will read some and then, I suspect it can't keep up and fails in exactly the manner you noted. I am on a 3575L32 at 3.7.3.6. I spoke with Tivoli about it and they claimed I needed to upgrade to a higher code level. Haven't gotten around to doing it; I just have the library read the barcode labels. It actually reads them when it initializes and stores the info which is read by TSM when the command is issued. George Lesho Marc Levitan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/10/2001 10:25:51 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Library Audit Unsuccessful I've had this happen in the past but this time is different. I do NOT receive any errors except the following: ANR8460E AUDIT LIBRARY process for library TEKWOLF failed. ANR0985I Process 25 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 10:09:00. I printed a q libv list and physically compared it to the Library inventory, and it matches perfect. If i run a audit library tekwolf checklabel=barcode it completes successfully. It's when the audit actually mounts the volumes to check the labels that it fails. any ideas? Thanks, Marc Levitan
Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful
Richard, We (I) labeled all tapes in the library. They are NOT prelabeled. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/10/2001 01:08:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful I have been at my present job for a year and the audit library command fails EVERY time when it tries to read the labels. ... George - Were the tapes introduced as pre-labeled by the tape vendor, or did you run a labeling job; and if so, was the labeling done under the current release of the serer? I always wonder about the source of inconsistencies. (I never trust tapes to be properly pre-labeled for TSM use: I always label them, to avoid unpleasant surprises when I can't afford them.) Richard Sims, BU
Q ACTL / SEARCH question
%SMers, From the command line interface, using a search string bounded by quotation marks will allow you to input a search string with spaces: example: tsm: AFCOPS2q actl begint=-48 search=119 mi nutes Date/Time Message -- 07/01/01 14:03:07 ANR8765I 055: 3570 volume 074C18 in location datactr is required for use in library 3575LIB1; CHECKIN LIBVOLUME required within 119 mi nutes. The same command, from the command line produces an error using quotes to bound the search string. example: afcops2: /usr/local/bin # dsmadmc -id=userid -pass=passwd begint=-48 search=119 mi nutes Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1999, All Rights Reserved. Session established with server AFCOPS2: AIX-RS/6000 Server Version 3, Release 7, Level 3.6 Server date/time: 07/03/01 09:45:18 Last access: 07/03/01 09:33:02 ANS8000I Server command: 'begint=-48 search=119 mi nutes' ANS8001I Return code 3. ANS8002I Highest return code was 3. Is there anything that I can do to introduce search strings with spaces into a command line q actl. I removed the userid and password from the command line example below for security purposes. Thanks - George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin
Re: lift blocked 3575l12 33h checkin
I have an L32... The long ribbon cable that attaches to the picker is getting stuck. It can wrap around the picker and get damaged. IBM came up with a retrofit kit to fix this problem. The ribbon cable will get damaged if you don't install the retrofit kit which retains and reroutes the ribbon cable. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Koen A. Willems [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 06/27/2001 01:06:31 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: lift blocked 3575l12 33h checkin Dear Listers, I have a problem with a 3575 l12 TSM 4.1.3 Atape 5.0.4. AIX 4.3.0.0. When I want to run dsmadmc checkin libvol 3575lib stat=scr search=bulk q req gives me a reply number and place vol in io then the magstar moves his picker to the top i/o slot and then gives 33h lift blocked on his console. If anyone can give me a hint !! Best Regards, Koen Willems Touch The Progress bv Netherlands
Re: Cache Hit Pct.
Richard, Your cache hit percentage is too low at 95.6 percent and as you have pointed out, should be around 98 percent of above. To change the percentage of your cache hits, increase by doubling, the size of your BUFPOOL parameter in your dsmserv.opt file on your TSM server: entry from my dsmserv.opt file: BUFPOOLSIZE 16384 You should then wait a day or two and see what it rises to. Each time, you will need to reset the associated statistics with the reset bufpool. You can then check your cache hit percentage using the q db f=d command: tsm: AFCOPS2q db f=d Available Space (MB): 13,172 Assigned Capacity (MB): 11,420 Maximum Extension (MB): 1,752 Maximum Reduction (MB): 1,780 Page Size (bytes): 4,096 Total Usable Pages: 2,923,520 Used Pages: 1,441,070 Pct Util: 49.3 Max. Pct Util: 50.1 Physical Volumes: 3 Buffer Pool Pages: 4,096 Total Buffer Requests: 31,549,306 Cache Hit Pct.: 98.94 Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00 Backup in Progress?: Yes Type of Backup In Progress: Full Incrementals Since Last Full: 0 Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 0.52 Percentage Changed: 0.01 Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 06/20/01 12:02:59 Hope this is what you were looking for... I suspect your TSM server is running a tad slow... just don't overdo upping the bufpool size and wait for at least a day to let the new bufpool size have a chance to show a true value for the cache hit percentage George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises ) Dearman, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 06/21/2001 11:04:01 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Cache Hit Pct. Anyone know of a good way to raise Cache Hit Pct to above 98%. I continue to get 95.6% and I tried the performance tuning setting an still get cann't get it above 98%. Tivoli manuals state that Cache Hi Pct should remain above 98%. Thanks ***EMAIL DISCLAIMER** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management (312) 996-3941.
Re: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup
Ms. Prather, Have you made any attempt to make an explicit exclude of the system files during backup? There must be something about these files that TSM recognizes as changed for them to be picked up on your incremental. Any sense of what that might be? Hope they look at this quickly as our local Windoze shop is talking about converting their NT4 environment into Win2K Thanks - George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/01/2001 03:23:32 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup I have run into some ugly issues with the Win2K backup of the SYSTEM OBJECT. I'm throwing the information out here to warn other people what to expect, and hopefully to get the developers to reconsider the current implementation. The SYSTEM FILES component of the SYSTEM OBJECT on Win2K consists of over 1500 .dll and .exe and .obj files from (mostly) the WinNT/system32 directory. These files are backed up EVERY TIME an incremental is run, even though THE DATA HAS NOT CHANGED. We have converted over 200 NT desktops to WIn2K PRO. For each of our Win2K PRO systems, this adds 1586 files to the backup every night. This has had an enormous impact on the TSM server. The additional data is only about 20 GB per night, and that's not a big problem. But each of the SYSTEM FILES still has it's own entry in the TSM data base. You do the math: That's over 300,000 additional objects that get added AND deactivated each day, which for me means an additional 2.5 HOURS of EXPIRE INVENTORY time is needed DAILY. And all for data THAT HAS NOT CHANGED. TSM's strength has always been that it DOESNT back up unchanged data. Well, at least it didn't used to... My problem here is we have another 250 machines to convert from NT to WIn2K. They aren't about to buy me a second TSM server to handle the load, when the current one worked fine for backing up the same number of NT systems with the same amount of user data. Instead they are looking at some Windows-only software to back up the WIndows side of the house. It appears to me the current TSM implementation is flawed, and will inhibit other people's ability to support large Windows environments as well as ours. I put this information into the Requirements for the Oxford Symposium, hopefully it will give some additional visibility to the issue. Any suggestions welcome but don't suggest we give up our ability to do full bare-metal restores. Management will change the backup software first. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert
Re: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup
Ah! The education continues... I am not a Win2K person, but would it not be possible to rebuild a system from scratch using a CD and then restoring non-system files? Granted, there would be some configuration for local environment but... that is why we do a makesisbee tape and exclude the root volume groups when backing up our AIX boxes... George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/01/2001 03:46:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup No. By definition, the way TSM has implemented SYSTEM OBJECT backup, it backs up those files whether they are changed or not. Always. And we can't exclude them and retain the ability to do bare-metal restores. -Original Message- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup Ms. Prather, Have you made any attempt to make an explicit exclude of the system files during backup? There must be something about these files that TSM recognizes as changed for them to be picked up on your incremental. Any sense of what that might be? Hope they look at this quickly as our local Windoze shop is talking about converting their NT4 environment into Win2K Thanks - George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/01/2001 03:23:32 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Issues with Win2K SYSTEM OBJECT/SYSTEM FILES backup I have run into some ugly issues with the Win2K backup of the SYSTEM OBJECT. I'm throwing the information out here to warn other people what to expect, and hopefully to get the developers to reconsider the current implementation. The SYSTEM FILES component of the SYSTEM OBJECT on Win2K consists of over 1500 .dll and .exe and .obj files from (mostly) the WinNT/system32 directory. These files are backed up EVERY TIME an incremental is run, even though THE DATA HAS NOT CHANGED. We have converted over 200 NT desktops to WIn2K PRO. For each of our Win2K PRO systems, this adds 1586 files to the backup every night. This has had an enormous impact on the TSM server. The additional data is only about 20 GB per night, and that's not a big problem. But each of the SYSTEM FILES still has it's own entry in the TSM data base. You do the math: That's over 300,000 additional objects that get added AND deactivated each day, which for me means an additional 2.5 HOURS of EXPIRE INVENTORY time is needed DAILY. And all for data THAT HAS NOT CHANGED. TSM's strength has always been that it DOESNT back up unchanged data. Well, at least it didn't used to... My problem here is we have another 250 machines to convert from NT to WIn2K. They aren't about to buy me a second TSM server to handle the load, when the current one worked fine for backing up the same number of NT systems with the same amount of user data. Instead they are looking at some Windows-only software to back up the WIndows side of the house. It appears to me the current TSM implementation is flawed, and will inhibit other people's ability to support large Windows environments as well as ours. I put this information into the Requirements for the Oxford Symposium, hopefully it will give some additional visibility to the issue. Any suggestions welcome but don't suggest we give up our ability to do full bare-metal restores. Management will change the backup software first. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert
Re: Unable to backup Informix database using ON-Bar on AIX 4.3.3
Ganu, The shared library within /usr/lib that onbar and TSM expect to see is not there. Your old library (the .a one) will not work. I think there is a patch that upgrades this library. Call Tivoli Support and they can tell you where to get the patch. You may also have to put something like the following into your onconfig file for the instance: BAR_BSALIB_PATH /usr/bmc/IFX/ibacktrack/lib/bsashr10.o The shared library I am using is from BMC as I use BMC SQL BackTrack for Informix and they supplied it but you definitely need the BAR_BSALIB_PATH statement in the onconfig file and have $LIBPATH set up in the Informix environment pointing to the directory where the shared library resides... note that the actual file is pointed to in the onconfig file while the $LIBPATH points to the directory The Informix Backup and Restore Guide for Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.3 mentions which library they recommend and Tivoli may supply their own for TDP for Informix... George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Ganu Sachin, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/28/2001 04:00:50 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Unable to backup Informix database using ON-Bar on AIX 4.3.3 Hi We are using TSM 3.7.0 with TDP for Informix on AIX 4.3.3. Recently we have upgraded our Informix database from 7.24 UC3 to 7.31UC7XB. We are now unable to backup Informix database. We are getting following error in bar_act.log file of ON-Bar. 2001-05-28 13:55:29 32964 23172 onbar_d -b -w -L 0 2001-05-28 13:55:30 32964 23172 ERROR: An unexpected error occurred: 0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/lib/ibsad001.o. 0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number. . Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format. 2001-05-28 13:55:30 32964 23172 ERROR: Could not open XBSA library /usr/lib/ibsad001.o. 2001-05-28 13:55:30 32964 23172 ERROR: An unexpected error occurred: 0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/lib/ibsad001.o. 0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number. . Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format. 2001-05-28 13:55:30 32964 23172 ERROR: Could not open XBSA library /usr/lib/ib sad001.o. 2001-05-28 13:55:35 32964 23172 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs. 2001-05-28 13:55:35 32964 23172 ERROR: An unexpected error occurred: 0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/lib/ibsad001.o. 0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number. . Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format. 2001-05-28 13:55:35 32964 23172 ERROR: Could not open XBSA library /usr/lib/ibsad001.o. 2001-05-28 13:55:35 32964 23172 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA erro r has occurred: 133 For version 7.24 UC3, we had the XBSA library /usr/tivoli/tsm/informix/bin/libTDPinf.a Any clues ?
New Server?
*SMers... Currently use a RS6000 7013-590 for my TSM server. I have acquired a new RS6000 7025-F50 to replace it. I am using TSM V 3.7.3.6 on the server. What are the general steps I will need to take in order to implement TSM on the new server? Will there be license issues? Thanks in advance! George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises
Re: Excessive Read Errors on LTO
The SCSI Bench Reference by Jeffrey D. Stai is published by ENDL Publications ISBN 1-879936-07-0 Special Sales/Library Marketing ENDL Publications 14426 Black Walnut Court Saratoga, CA 95070 George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Lisa Cabanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/17/2001 01:52:40 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Re: Excessive Read Errors on LTO ew ew!! where did you get your handy SCSI bench reference? Sounds like something I'd like to put into my aresenal!! -lisa George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/2001 11:01 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Lisa Cabanas/SC/MODOT) Subject:Re: Excessive Read Errors on LTO My handy SCSI bench reference says there is a medium error (Key=03) and the sense data ASC=14 ASCQ=00 indicates recorded entity not found... think you might have bad media... George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Ruddy STOUDER [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/17/2001 10:38:44 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Excessive Read Errors on LTO Hello, My configuration is TSM Server 4.1.2, NT4.0 SP6, LTO 3583 with 2 tape drives 3580 connected via Adaptec 29160. Drivers are the IBM ones in version 1.1.7.3 Backups are running perfectly, restores are also running perfectly but during the week-end, when reclamation is running, I get the following error messages : 05/08/2001 16:39:04 ANR1417W Access mode for volume 265AADL1 now set to read-only due to excessive read error. 05/08/2001 16:39:37 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE2 (\\.\TAPE1) (OP=LOCATE, CC=0, KEY=03, ASC=14, ASCQ=00, SENSE=70.00.03.00.00.00.- 00.1C.00.00.00.00.14.00.06.00.21.80.FF.FF.00.02.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.19.00.01.35.A2.02.00, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 05/08/2001 16:39:37 ANR8359E Media fault detected on LTO volume 265AADL1 in drive DRIVE2 (\\.\TAPE1) of library LIB3583. Any idea ? Many thanks in advance, Ruddy Stouder System Engineer I.R.I.S. Rue du Bosquet 10 - Parc Scientifique de Louvain-La-Neuve B- 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.irislink.com Tel: +32 (0)10 48 75 10 - Fax: +32 (0)10 48 75 40
590 to F50
Let me try again... didn't get any responses from my first try TSM (V.3.7.3.6) server currently on a 590 (AIX 432) and have a new server (F50 / AIX 433) I wish to move the TSM server to. Is there a FAQ or documentation I can look at to see what general steps I need to take to make the transition without a lot of head aches? What are the license issues? Does anyone have any notes? I am fairly proficient with TSM but have not done this type of move... any hints would be much appreciated. Have seached the TSM/storage site and ADSM-L FAQs and have seen nothing that would help. George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises
Re: Excessive Read Errors on LTO
My handy SCSI bench reference says there is a medium error (Key=03) and the sense data ASC=14 ASCQ=00 indicates recorded entity not found... think you might have bad media... George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises Ruddy STOUDER [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/17/2001 10:38:44 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Excessive Read Errors on LTO Hello, My configuration is TSM Server 4.1.2, NT4.0 SP6, LTO 3583 with 2 tape drives 3580 connected via Adaptec 29160. Drivers are the IBM ones in version 1.1.7.3 Backups are running perfectly, restores are also running perfectly but during the week-end, when reclamation is running, I get the following error messages : 05/08/2001 16:39:04 ANR1417W Access mode for volume 265AADL1 now set to read-only due to excessive read error. 05/08/2001 16:39:37 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE2 (\\.\TAPE1) (OP=LOCATE, CC=0, KEY=03, ASC=14, ASCQ=00, SENSE=70.00.03.00.00.00.- 00.1C.00.00.00.00.14.00.06.00.21.80.FF.FF.00.02.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.19.00.01.35.A2.02.00, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 05/08/2001 16:39:37 ANR8359E Media fault detected on LTO volume 265AADL1 in drive DRIVE2 (\\.\TAPE1) of library LIB3583. Any idea ? Many thanks in advance, Ruddy Stouder System Engineer I.R.I.S. Rue du Bosquet 10 - Parc Scientifique de Louvain-La-Neuve B- 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.irislink.com Tel: +32 (0)10 48 75 10 - Fax: +32 (0)10 48 75 40
