Re: 3494 and tapes question.
Hi, If you can't expand your library capacity here are some tips for you: 1. Move your archive data offsite if possible.. Archive retention is based on time, not on versions like backups. You can organize the space reclamations better . 2. You don't have to put back a tape as soon as it needs to be reclaimed. Write a scipt that checks the reclaimable space on your offsite volumes, and move them onsite when you have more of them, or on a regular basis. 3. Organize your vault, especially if you have a lot of tapes offsite. At my site we mainly do archiving, so I have separate shelves for different retention time archives. 4. As for restores: either you check manually for required tapes when doing a restore, or you can set up some scripts to query the tsm server. In my case I wrote a small C code to let the TSM server log its messages to the standard Unix syslog service (I can send it for you, runs on AIX). Since we have a separate server for collection and analyzing syslogs, I just put a new rule into the syslog analyzer to send me (or the operators) a mail when a tape request arives from the TSM server (check out Logsurfer. Its free, and quite good.). A simple reply to the mail checkes in the media. (It needs to be put into the library first, of course. :) ) I hope this helps you, but again: you should avoid offsite volumes. It's just a pain in the lib. :) Imre Csatls Solaris TSM Admin Budapest Bank Rt, Hungary -Original Message- From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2003. janur 15. 17:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494 and tapes question. Hi TSMers I am looking at what to do in the next year or so when our tape library becomes full. Baring in mind that we don't do much in the way of restores (most backups are for DR), is it feasible to remove tapes from the library and just keep them on site in case they are requested for a restore, reclamation etc. Does anyone out there do this kind of thing and how does it work for you? Thanks all Farren Minns - John Wiley Sons Ltd
Re: 5.1.6 Fix
I had a core dump yesterday on a 5.1.6.0 TSM server (AIX). After reading this letter I tried to click on a node from the web browser, and the server produced a core dump for the first try. The query node from the command line client works ok. Imre Csatlos -Original Message- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2003. janur 15. 20:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.1.6 Fix My customer here encountered that. The only time we have seen it core dump was when an admin went in through the web browser, drilled down to nodes and clicked on a specific node. Again, IBM/Tivoli aren't following the strictest QA methodology in verifying stability of this product. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 5.1.6 Fix For those running 5.1.6.0 and are having the core dump problems I just heard that the release 5.1.6.1 is being pushed back to 2/14. I also heard support recommended pulling 5.1.6.0 off the ftp site due to these core dumps. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Re: 64 Bit Oracle TDP
Hi, There is a 64bit TDP for Oracle on Solaris , so I gues you can do that. (At least on a Solaris box) Imre Csatlos -Original Message- From: Tectrade Computers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2002. december 19. 10:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 64 Bit Oracle TDP Hi Could anyone tell me if it is possible to perform an incremental backup on the a 64 bit oracle database? Regards Alex
Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files
Hi, Is yout client backing up the whole file system or just specific files? Like 'dsmc inc /bla/bla/my*files.txt` Also you can try umount and fsck for those file system, but I suspect the problem is somewhere in the backup file specifications. If all the other files are backed up apart from those missing files, then the backup is successfull afterall. :) Regards, Imre Csatlos -Original Message- From: Alexander Verkooyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2002. december 19. 15:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client tries to backup non-existing files Hi all, I have a rather bizarre problem. One of our customers tries to backup a file system on a Solaris 5.8 system using a 4.1.2.0 TSM client. Our server is 4.2.3.1 on AIX 4.3.3.0 Every night the backup fails because the client is unable to backup hundreds of files. The log file is filled with messages like these: 12/19/02 04:43:43 ANS1228E Sending of object '/bla/bla/file' failed Every night the client complains about the same files. And now for the bizarre part: According to our customer these files have been removed from the client some time ago. They are no longer present on the disks of the system. And yet the client tries to backup them (and because they are not there any more it fails). I found one strange thing about these ghost files: Their names contain an * For example: my*file.txt Has anybody seen this before? I can't find anything in the FAQ or the archives about a similar problem. Regards, Alexander -- --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Re: TDP for Informix - management classes
Hi, Can someone with experience of TDP for Informix advise on an effective strategy for expiring old backups. As far as I know there is no neat way to expire logical logs, since every logical logs has its own unique name. It would be a good solution if you could delete backup files on the TSM server. Under srver version 5.1 there is a Backup Delete Allowed? property of the client nodes, that suggests this can be done,but I couldn't find how to. If someone knows how to do this, please tell me. :) perhaps someone could confirm if level 0 backups have unique names too or if the same name is used each time). No, they don't have unique names, so expiration works good for database chunks. It's surprising the TDP for Informix Installation and User's Guide doesn't discuss this. Or have I missed a really useful readme somewhere? No, you didn't miss anything. TDP for Informix is very poorly documentated. (I mean there is a lot of stuff on how to install, but there is almost nothing on how to use..) Sincerely, Imre Csatlos
Re: Is there a tsm client that will run on a sequent box DYNIX/pt x(R) V4.4.4
Dwight, We are running TSM client on our Dynix/ptx The TSM client is: Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.8 The DYNIX/ptx: 4.0 V4.4.8 Also there is version 4.1 and 4.1.1 available for download (Don't know the requirements): ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/cli ent/v4r1/NUMAQ-PTX/ It may be hard to get support for this product. Imre Csatlos
