Upgrade from 4.2.1.7 to 4.2.1.9
All, I am about to upgrade an AIX cluster 4.2.1.7 server up to 4.2.1.9. Any gotchas that I might be aware of that have been experienced by others in the past? Just wanting to make sure I am not walking into a nightmare. Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Telstra Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Fax: (02) 9882 5987 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Estimating size of backup sets
TSMers, Is there anyway people know of to estimate how large a backupset is going to be? I have close to 700 nodes I want to generate backupsets for and I want to know what sort of space I will be using up with them. I am assuming it will be some sort of SQL statement looking at active files, but I can't figure it out past that. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Fax: (02) 9882 5993 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party.
Re: Estimating size of backup sets
Of those 700 Nodes, I am only backing up data directories (not the entire operating system). I currently have a script which generates the backupsets on a monthly basis, but the location where the backupsets are being generated on is only a certain size. I need to know how big my set of backupsets is going to be so I can only generate enough to fit into the volume. Filespace occupancy (I though) was both active and inactive files. I currently have a large value for inactive files (on the customers request), so this is why I need to find out in advance how large my backupset will be before I generate them. Thanks for the feedback. Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Fax: (02) 9882 5993 Mobile: 0409 654 434 |+-> || John Naylor| || | || Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor | || Manager" | || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | || | || | || 14/02/2003 08:58 PM| || Please respond to "ADSM: | || Dist Stor Manager" | || | |+-> >---| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Re: Estimating size of backup sets | >---| Graham, Your plan is extremely ambitious. Is this a one off or are are you planning to do this regularly. How are you goung to achieve this. Anyway you can get a reasonable idea from taking the filepace occupancy, unless you have major excludes from backup, this is going to be your active file size. John Graham Trigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/13/2003 10:35:24 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Estimating size of backup sets TSMers, Is there anyway people know of to estimate how large a backupset is going to be? I have close to 700 nodes I want to generate backupsets for and I want to know what sort of space I will be using up with them. I am assuming it will be some sort of SQL statement looking at active files, but I can't figure it out past that. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Fax: (02) 9882 5993 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party. ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Re: Estimating size of backup sets
Paul and co, The TSM server I am administering is not running any tape drives through the TSM component - all data which is backed up to this server is being sent straight to diskpools (to a whopping great SAN). On a monthly basis I generate backupsets for each node and send these to another volume in the SAN which is then backed up using third party backup tools (Omniback I think). This way there is close to instant retrieval of data for the last thirty days and I have monthly backups for archival purposes. This is different to any other TSM server I have administered, but as of today has been working without a problem. Thanks all for the input into my problem. I now have enough to go on with and get my estimates. Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Fax: (02) 9882 5993 Mobile: 0409 654 434 "Seay, Paul" cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: Estimating size of backup sets "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 14/02/2003 10:29 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" This will give you the filespace usage, which is the active backupset size except it includes excluded data. It should be good enough for an estimate. select node_name, cast(sum(capacity*pct_util/100) as decimal(10,3)) as "MB of Used" from filespaces group by node_name However, I am not sure how you are going to get this done. Are you creating these for faster recovery from the server or for standalone on a CD? If it is from the server, you may think about collocation by node. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 5:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Estimating size of backup sets I agree with John, this sounds very ambitious. If you are only interested in active files, there is the possibility of checking it on the actual client, how much data in each filespace (filesystem/drive/etc). A worst case (it gives all backup-data, active and inactive) could be "q occ t=b" Rgds, Geirr G. Halvorsen -Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14. februar 2003 10:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Estimating size of backup sets Graham, Your plan is extremely ambitious. Is this a one off or are are you planning to do this regularly. How are you goung to achieve this. Anyway you can get a reasonable idea from taking the filepace occupancy, unless you have major excludes from backup, this is going to be your active file size. John Graham Trigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/13/2003 10:35:24 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Estimating size of backup sets TSMers, Is there anyway people know of to estimate how large a backupset is going to be? I have close to 700 nodes I want to generate backupsets for and I want to know what sort of space I will be using up with them. I am assuming it will be some sort of SQL statement looking at active files, but I can't figure it out past that. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, ---- -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Fax: (02) 9882 5993 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party. ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclo
Adding TSM instances to MS Cluster environment
Fellow TSMers, I am setting up TSM 5.2.3 on a two node, W2K active/active cluster (no shared libraries as all backups are running to disk only). I have successfully created my first virtual server on both cluster nodes with no problems. I have successfully created the first half of the second virtual server with no problems. Creating the second half of the second virtual server is giving me grief. On the second cluster node I have run the Initial Configuration wizard to configure the new virtual server. The server initializes correctly then runs the Cluster Configuration Wizard. A screen is displayed asking "Do you want to configure TSM to manage tape failover for this group?" - the instructions tell me that there is nothing I can do here as the answer is retrieved from the first virtual server created. Clicking next give me the following error message: "The selected autochanger is not on a valid shared SCSI bus with the selected node". Looking at the greyed out options the checkbox for "Configure TSM to manage tape failover" is selected and I can't change it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 9201 9577 Mobile: 0409 654 434 "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"
DSMSCHED.LOG not showing file details
All, I have recently installed a W2K 5.2.2 server (to replace my ailing 4.2). I am moving the clients over to the new server in batches and have noticed the DSMSCHED.LOG file on the nodes which have been moved over no longer show the file level backup activity from scheduled jobs. Before the move the schedule file showed the job starting, which directories are to be backed up (from the schedule) and then all the files being processed (and possibly backed up). On the clients moved to the 5.2.2 server there is no file activity - there is only the schedule starting then the statistics of the job once it has completed (the job still seems to run correctly, just not showing any file detail) I cannot find any reference to a logging level for dsmsched.log, so is this a problem or am I missing something new in 5.2.2? Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 9201 9577 Mobile: 0409 654 434 "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"
Multiple SQL Instances through the TDP
Guys and gals, I have a Windows 2003 server running multiple instances of MSSQL (for some reason - I am not the DBA). I have configured a single MSSQL server backup through a TDP before, but never multiple instances. Has anyone done this before and can offer a hand? I am assuming I need a new set of CFG files, log files and scripts to kick off the backups, but will I need new versions of dsm.opt, multiple licenses etc. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 9201 9577 Mobile: 0409 654 434 "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"
Firmware upgrade on 3583 library
Guys and gals, I cannot find any definitive information regarding firmware revisions on 3583 libraries running on TSM 4.2.3.0 on AIX 3.4. Is there a particular revision of firmware which needs to be loaded, or can I load the latest firmware that I can lay my hands on (this is for the library and LTO1 drives)? If anyone can point me to the answer, I would be grateful. Regards, -- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party.
Migrating nodes between TSM servers
Guys (and gals), Is there a way to migrate node information (backup data, backupsets etc) between TSM servers? I have two identically configured TSM servers (4.2.3.0 on AIX) on the same network backing up around 1000 servers between them. As some of my nodes are holding more data than others, I have an uneven load on each TSM server and want to "migrate" nodes from one to the other. Registering the node on the other TSM server and pointing the node from one to the other is easy enough to do, but I won't retain backup history or backupset information. Any assistance would be helpful. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party.
Schedules not running
All, I am running TSM 5.1.8.0 on Solaris 8. My client is a Windows 2K server (client version 5.2.0.1). I have the node registered and it can perform manual backups without a problem. However, when it comes time to run a scheduled backup I get the following error: "01/20/2004 16:10:37 ANS1351E Session rejected: All server sessions are currently in use" I have 500 maximum backup sessions with 80% being used for scheduled sessions (to make sure it is not a max session problem). There are currently only 2 nodes registered on this server (the other is the server itself, and it doesn't backup on it's schedule either). The only thing I can see out of place is "Central Scheduler" on the server status is "disabled", and for the life of me I can't find where/how to enable it. Any informattion would be appreciated. Regards, ---------- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party.
Re: Schedules not running
Roger, That would do it! Last line of the dsmserv.opt - "DISABLESHEDS YES". Thanks for the help. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM:To Dist Stor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager" cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Subject Re: Schedules not running 22/01/2004 03:32 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Check your dsmserv.opt file to make sure that you do NOT have DISABLESCHEDS YES Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Graham Trigge wrote: >All, > >I am running TSM 5.1.8.0 on Solaris 8. My client is a Windows 2K server >(client version 5.2.0.1). > >I have the node registered and it can perform manual backups without a >problem. However, when it comes time to run a scheduled backup I get the >following error: > "01/20/2004 16:10:37 ANS1351E Session rejected: All server sessions >are currently in use" > >I have 500 maximum backup sessions with 80% being used for scheduled >sessions (to make sure it is not a max session problem). There are >currently only 2 nodes registered on this server (the other is the server >itself, and it doesn't backup on it's schedule either). The only thing I >can see out of place is "Central Scheduler" on the server status is >"disabled", and for the life of me I can't find where/how to enable it. > >Any informattion would be appreciated. > >Regards, > >-- > >Graham Trigge >IT Technical Specialist >Server Support >Telstra Australia > >Office: (02) 8272 8657 >Mobile: 0409 654 434 > > > > >The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: >(a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any >interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is >unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, >please delete it and notify the sender; >(b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the >Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to >collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the >ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or >forwarding or disclosing it to a third party. >
Help!! dsmserv.dsk not readable
Guys, I am running Windows 2K cluster, TSM 4.2. Early yesterday morning the server crashed and would not start (on either node of the cluster). When I try and start it manually I get: "ANR0212E. Unable to read disk definition file: dsmserv.dsk" I can see the DSK file, I can edit the file, I have tried running dsmserv.exe from inside the directory where the file exists, I have tried copying the file into the SERVER directory and running dsmserv - all to no avail. I tried editing the file with only a single line, pointing to the first database node, and this gave the same error. I did see a posting on adsm.org regarding the log file filling and crashing the server - I tried to do an expand of the log but I keep getting the same message. My first TSM instance on the cluster is still working correctly, and works correctly with either physical cluster node in charge. I have logged a job with IBM, but with the version being not supported I am not sure how far I can push the relationship. Any ideas/thoughts/prayers would be appreciated. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 "Remember, sometimes your the statue and sometimes your the pigeon" The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments to it: (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender; (b) may contain personal information of the sender as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given to the recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information for any reasonable purpose in the ordinary course of TES' business, such as responding to this email, or forwarding or disclosing it to a third party.
FIXED: Re: Help!! dsmserv.dsk not readable
All, Call me silly (and some of you will) but my problem was a combination of administrator oversights (mainly mine) and a full transaction log. Trap for new players - when running Windows 2K Clustering, and you want to launch the second instance of TSM (Server2) on the second node of the cluster, make sure you specify the second instance. When starting the server through "DSMSERV", it looks like it will try and launch the first instance it comes across in the registry, which in this case is instance #1 (Server1). The disk resources for Server1 will not be seen by the second node in the cluster, so funnily enough won't be able to see the dsmserv.dsk. Solution - run "DSMSERV -k Server2" to specify the second instance of TSM in the registry. Once I did this the server tried to start up but gave errors regarding the transaction log being full. I extended the log, restarted the server and all was well (after a full db backup). Just thought I would share the experience. Regards, ---------- Graham Trigge IT Technical Specialist Server Support Telstra Australia Office: (02) 8272 8657 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM:To Dist Stor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager" cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Subject Re: Help!! dsmserv.dsk not readable 14/02/2004 12:49 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> >I am running Windows 2K cluster, TSM 4.2. Early yesterday morning the >server crashed and would not start (on either node of the cluster). When I >try and start it manually I get: > "ANR0212E. Unable to read disk definition file: dsmserv.dsk" ... The reason for the crash may be spilling over into the reason you cannot restart. In many cases, a failing server will write a dsmserv.err (or similarly named error log) in its server directory, giving some indication of cause. I would check your system for general environmental health problems, such as full disk partitions or disk usability problems (which would include the server home directory, the db and recovery log volumes, and the stgpool disk volumes). We hope you were using TSM mirroring, to improve your chances of restarting without db recovery. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs
Re: dismiss dsmadmc header output
Michael, The only way I can think of getting only the information you require is through SQL queries straight to the TSM databases. This will give you precise information, and only the information you require. Regards, -- Graham Trigge Senior Administrator Telstra Enterprise Services Pty Ltd Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Fax: (02) 9882 5987 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Kindermann cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: dismiss dsmadmc header output Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] EDU> 22/10/2002 20:32 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hello, find this question once in the list, but didn't find any answer. Is there a way, something like a switch or an option, to influence the dsmadmc-output, to give only the interesting result and no overhead ? Trying to scripting some task in a shell-script. And iam a little anoyed, becaus it not very difficult to get some output from the dsmserver. But it is to reuse the information in the script. For example: I want to remove a Node, so i have first to delete the filespace. I also have to del the association. Iam afraid to use wildcards like 'del filespace node_name * ' in a script , so i need the filespacenames. I make an dsmadmc -id=... -pa=... q filespace node_name * or q select filspacename from filespaces. All i need is the name, but i get a lot of serverinformation: Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 4, Release 1, Level 2.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1999, All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 2.7 Server date/time: 10/22/2002 11:34:44 Last access: 10/22/2002 11:26:01 ANS8000I Server command: 'q node TSTW2K' Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked? Name Last Acce- Password ss Set - -- -- -- --- TSTW2KWinNTSTANDARD 277 278 No ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. Greetings Michael Kindermann Wuerzburg / Germany -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr f|r 1 ct/ Min. surfen!
Subfile file errors
TSMers, I received the following error message in my client's dsmerror.log file last night which makes little sense - has anyone seen this before: "11/21/2002 00:11:12 Invalid subfile recognition token encountered in transaction. Resending transaction using full file backup". If I look at the file which was being backed up at this time, it is an 8mb zip file and has ** Unsuccessful ** at the end of the entry. Does this mean the file was not backed up successfully at all, or just not successfully using subfile backup? I will be monitoring this backup tonight to see if it is a one off problem, or the file itself is corrupt somehow. Regards, ------ Graham Trigge Senior Administrator Telstra Enterprise Services Pty Ltd Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Fax: (02) 9882 5987 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup/restore philosophy for Exchange
Neil, Backup Exec (from at least v8.5) can backup individual mailboxes if the Exchange Backup Agent has been added. This allows either the Information Store to be backed up, or individual mailboxes, or both. As for the Exchange TDP, I have never seen an option to backup individual mailboxes. If we need to restore a mailbox, we restore the Exchange to separate hardware and restore from this new server. Regards, -- Graham Trigge Senior Administrator Telstra Enterprise Services Pty Ltd Phone: (02) 9882 5831 Mobile: 0409 654 434 Fax: (02) 9882 5987 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Dombrowski To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backup/restore philosophy for Exchange Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 22/11/2002 10:07 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Ok, I have TDP for Exchange v2.2 backing up the databases on Exchange5.5. We were using Backup-Exec previously, and the NT adminstrator tells me they backed up and restored mailboxes individually. I can't find anything about individual mailboxes in the redbook, does TDP have this option? If not, how would I restore one user's mailbox without wiping new mail off the server? Neil -- Neil Dombrowski IS Manager eBuilt Inc PH: 949-609-4757 Fax: 949-609-0001
