Re: tape management
Joe, TSM usually does a pretty good job of tape management itself. We usually hav a query setup that we look at daily that tells us how many scratch tapes are available. We've been monitoring it over a period of time and have come to know just how many scratch tape we'll us daily. Joseph Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/22/2002 10:08:00 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: tape management Does anyone know of any tape management systems for tsm? Or how do most people track scratch tapes and how do you know how many scratch tapes will be needed??? Any help would be great Joe
Script to do housekeeping
Has anyone written a script with sequential dependant steps that does daily housekeeping? I have most of my daily housekeeping administrative schedules kiccking off by time of day schedules but there are too many variables that can cause them to get out of sync. Im looking for a script that will do something like this: check backup: check to see if daily client backup is done if yes run migration to tape, if no loop back to check backup check migration: check to see if migration is complete if yes backup tape: backup all tape pools to copy pools if no loop back to check migration Check backup tape: check to see if backup tape is completed if yes backup db: Check backup db if yes move drm if no loop back to check dbackup db
Re: RESTORE VOLUMES
you could try show voluse where is the nodename of the client you want to restore. this would however, tell you every tape that this client has data on. Which would be more then what you are looking for and it sounds like you are not using co-location so your list would be quite large. Gary Swanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/13/2002 04:01:39 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RESTORE VOLUMES use Hi All, I am quite new to all things TSM and I have a question to what I believe is an unrealistic situation. Presently if, during my role as the TSM administrator I am asked to perform a data restore, I have no idea of what volumes will be required for the data. I have a 30 slot library at my disposal, which I appreciate is quite small, however, if after I kick off a restore I should have some indication as to what volumes are required thereby allowing me to check the volumes into the library before the restore job commences. A recent example: I had to restore 80MB worth of data and it took over 3.5 hours and over 18 tape changes. The present situation is that after I start a restore I have to be glued to the console and wait for tape requests to appear in the activity log or via a pop-up. My research has shown that other people have been asking the same thing as far back as 1998 but no-one appears to have provided a solution. Tivoli have told me that it is possible with some pretty complex SQL statements. Great now I have to learn SQL queries as well. Does anybody have any ideas on this matter? It's not that hard surely..Oh yeah I'm running TSM Server 4.2.10 on a W2K platform with current clients running 4.2.1. Gary Swanton Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM Sendmail and AIX
I know this is not a TSM topic but what the hey. We currently use AIX sendmail to mail copies of our vault list generated from TSM to our off-site tape handler. With the recent rash of viruses being sent by email, this company will not accept email from a sender they can not do a reverse DNS lookup on. And they can't do a 'reverse DNS lookup on the mail they are getting from my TSM server. Our mail guys,( who are like me and don't know much about sendmail) tell me that there should be a way of supplying a from address that is more public in the mail we are automatically sending from my TSM AIX server. For the life of me I can't find this in any of the manuals I've searched. anyone have any ideas?
Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library
Does anyone know how to initiate the Library inventory via the command line such as the Mtlib command? Gabriel Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 10:04:43 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Inventory the Frame in which the tape resided in, if you know the home cell. To find the home cell go to the LM and query the DB for the volume in question. You should get a result like A 4 18 A = Frame 4 = Row 18 = Slot Run partial Inventory (Frame Specific) Run Full Inventory (Whole Library) Good Luck! Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza mobeenm [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/15/2002 10:33:42 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Hello All, I am running a 3494 Library with 3590 E1A tape drives. Recently i has an issue with the tape drive and the IBM CE who came on site physically removed a damaged volume from the library, how ever he doesn't know how to get this tape removed from the Inventory as he thinks thats a seperate issue. Now the following are the details of my problem 1. The tape S0 was deemed damaged by the IBM CE and was physically removed from the tape library. So there is no S0 in the library. 2. When i use mtlib command and query for this volume the following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -q V -VS0 Volume Data: volume state.Volume present in Library, but Inaccessible logical volume...No volume class.3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape volume type..HPCT 320m nominal length volser...S0 category.FF00 subsystem affinity...01 02 03 04 05 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3. I tried to change the CATEGORY for this volume from FF00 to FF10, FFFA and FFFB and failed. The following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FF10 Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 75, Library VOLSER Inaccessible. root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFA Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 27, Command Reject. Subcode - 23, root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFB Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 27, Command Reject. Subcode - 43, I would like to remove this volume from my inventory. Appreciate if any one can help me to determine what the problem is. I tried several postings in ADSM.ORG and when i try to do the same i get the errors show above. With warm regards Mobeen
Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library
Bill, The command you gave me returns a current inventory of the Library. I'm looking for a command that will re-inventory the library. Thanks, Jim Bill Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 12:15:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc James healy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 10:45 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Does anyone know how to initiate the Library inventory via the command line such as the Mtlib command? Gabriel Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 10:04:43 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Inventory the Frame in which the tape resided in, if you know the home cell. To find the home cell go to the LM and query the DB for the volume in question. You should get a result like A 4 18 A = Frame 4 = Row 18 = Slot Run partial Inventory (Frame Specific) Run Full Inventory (Whole Library) Good Luck! Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza mobeenm [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/15/2002 10:33:42 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Hello All, I am running a 3494 Library with 3590 E1A tape drives. Recently i has an issue with the tape drive and the IBM CE who came on site physically removed a damaged volume from the library, how ever he doesn't know how to get this tape removed from the Inventory as he thinks thats a seperate issue. Now the following are the details of my problem 1. The tape S0 was deemed damaged by the IBM CE and was physically removed from the tape library. So there is no S0 in the library. 2. When i use mtlib command and query for this volume the following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -q V -VS0 Volume Data: volume state.Volume present in Library, but Inaccessible logical volume...No volume class.3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape volume type..HPCT 320m nominal length volser...S0 category.FF00 subsystem affinity...01 02 03 04 05 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3. I tried to change the CATEGORY for this volume from FF00 to FF10, FFFA and FFFB and failed. The following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FF10 Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 75, Library VOLSER Inaccessible. root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFA Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 27, Command Reject. Subcode - 23, root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFB Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 27, Command Reject. Subcode - 43, I would like to remove this volume from my inventory. Appreciate if any one can help me to determine what the problem is. I tried several postings in ADSM.ORG and when i try to do the same i get the errors show above. With warm regards Mobeen
Re: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testing?
I've been successfully restoring at DR using TSM for two years. The TSM db recovery of your size should take only about 15 minutes. Check how long its taking to back it up, it should take just a little longer to recover if you have the same hardware. You really don't restore the tape storage pools just bring you copy storage pools to the test. I too see the same problems you see though. My clients are complaining that we have to vault so many tapes because we keep all the versions for DR also. I wish there was a way to tell DRM to only keep maybe 3 of the latest versions of my on-site pools. Its one of my projects this year to find a way to do Disaster Recovery using less tape. maybe backupsets is the answer. Cinda Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/14/2002 10:36:35 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testing? Good Morning All We are running TSM on OS/390 (Version 4.1.4). We have approximately 200 NT/UNIX/NETWARE servers and are backing our daily incremental stgpools to copypools for offsite storage. It appears the copypools don't just keep the active versions of data, they keep everythingwe currently have 190+ Storage Tek 9840s offsite for TSM. If we go to the hotsite to do Disaster Recovery Testing, how do we restore these storage pools in a reasonable amount of time? Has anyone successfully performed Disaster Recovery? Our TSM database is 10GB so, I'm also guessing it will take quite a while to get that restored??? Any ideas, thoughts? Is anyone using Backupsets instead of copypools for DR? Thanks!! Cinda Mullen Sr. Systems Programmer Ascension Health ISD [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: This e-mail message may contain information that may be privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure. It is intended for use only by the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please do not forward or use this information in any way, delete it immediately, and contact the sender as soon as possible by the reply option or by telephone at the telephone number listed (if available). Thank you.
Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media
I think I'll throw in my two cents here also, When we first got our second batch of K tapes it seemed like we were having a larger than normal amount of problems. Our first batch of tapes also had come from IBM directly and we had no apparent problems with them. The second batch came indirectly from Imation. According to my reseller and other sources, this was a time when the K tapes were in very high demand and Imation couldn't pump them out fast enough to meet the demand. So its possible that quality control suffered a bit. I also experienced a problem where Imation contacted me directly and asked me to send a batch of tapes back to them because they had a problem with quality control. I sent them back and really haven't experienced any problems. Richard L. Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/10/2002 04:02:10 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media We have several thousand 3590K tapes. In general we are very happy with them. Like you, we have experienced some problem with a few new tapes, but no where near your 10% rate - more like less than 1%. Once past the initial use, they are rock solid. We just received another shippment of tapes. THese tapes were purchased straight from IBM. THey were willing to beat (by a hair) the best price from any other vendor, and, deliver them several weeks faster. It will be interesting to see if these tapes have the same problems. One suggestion - I believe there is a diagnostic utility built into the 3590 drives. You can put a tape in and have the drive check the entire tape. You could check your tapes this way, although it would be a big job. Also, with new tapes you might want to increase the cleaning frequency on the drives until all the tapes have been used. Rick On 10 Jan 2002 at 11:20, PETER GRIFFIN wrote: We have recently installed two 3494 libraries utilising 3590 K media. I am experiencing media failures (I/O errors) for about 1 in 10 media when initializing with label libv. Some of the media does successfully initialize on the second or third attempt but this does not fill me with confidence.
Re: Urgent - Problem with importing node/policy
Be prepared for tivoli to tell you you are working with a version (3.7) that is no longer supported. Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/26/2001 04:54:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Urgent - Problem with importing node/policy Probably not. Call Tivoli to be sure. I have not tried 3.7 vs. 4.1, but at other server levels I have found it impossible to import into a down-level server. -Original Message- From: Robert Dowsett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Urgent - Problem with importing node/policy Hi everyone Is it possible to successfully import node / import policies into a version 3.7 TSM server when the nodes and policies were exported from a 4.1 server?? If it makes any difference the exporting client is 64 bit. We run into (invalid record format) errors when trying this . Thanks in advance for your help Robert Dowsett Norsk Hydro IS Partner
Re: AIX Client using SHMEM not backing up..
What is the last entry in your dsmsched.log, does it show that its waiting for the server to contact it or does it recognize that there is a schedule for it to execute? Etienne Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/21/2001 04:22:05 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: AIX Client using SHMEM not backing up.. I have TSM server 4.2.1 on AIX 4.3.3 and TSM client 4.2.1 all on the same machine (b80). Everytime the client scheduler starts an incremental backup I get numerous open/closed sessions on the TSM ACtlog but never any files being backed up. I have no error message in dsmerror.log or dsmsched.log, but the backup starts but never ends. a Q EVENT shows me this: Scheduled Start Actual Start Schedule Name Node Name Status - - - 12/21/01 03:00:0012/21/01 06:54:00INCR_ALL B80 (?) Now the schedule is supposed to set to start at 03:00 with a 4 hours window (this is a test environment) and a randomization of 25%. So the late start is a bit strange. But the important thing is I don't backup ANY files, yet I have no error message except for the session connecting/idling/disconnecting.. Am I missing something? Manual backups work fine. Thanks for the help
Re: Migration
There is an algorythm in backup that detects when the primary storage pool (disk) gets busy. if this pool is too busy the backup client will spill over to the next pool. tape Christoph Pilgram [EMAIL PROTECTED] @VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/21/2001 05:12:08 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Migration Hi all, today I have a question dealing with migration : I have one disk-storage-pool that is filled up during the night by several clients. When it reaches the High-Mig-Pct, the Migration starts with up to three jobs going to tape. Backups havent finished at that time and suddenly the backup-jobs wants a tape to be mounted, and this is just that tape, that is mounted by the migration-job (because of collocation on client). So the backup-job has to wait and wait. But the question is, why the backup of the client, that has as primary-pool only a disk-pool whis no maximum size threshhold transfers data direct to tape (while disk pool is migrating) and whow to stop this behaviour. Thanks for help Chris Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG IT Department Christoph Pilgram Tel. +49 7351 54 4051 Birkendorfer Str.65 Fax. +49 7351 83 4051 88397 Biberach Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany
Re: TSM Crashing
Did you try looking in the activity log and see whats happenning just before the server crashes? Anderson, Michael - HMIS [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/21/2001 09:49:20 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM Crashing Is there a known bug in TSM 4.1.0 (AIX) We have been running since February, but all of a sudden the last few days my TSM server keeps crashing. It has crashed the last three days and five of the last seven. It has come at different times of the day and I can't seem to find a common link. The TSM log just stops and the AIX error log says a core dump software abnormal termination. I figure if I call support, the first thing they will tell me is what I want to do, upgrade to the latest 4.1 ( I believe 4.1.4). However I have very little AIX knowledge and have to wait for our AIX people. If I can tell them that there are known bugs and that this should fix the problem, it may light a fire under them. Any ammo or help would be appreciated. Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
TSM moinitoring
Can anyone point me in the direction of manuals where a novice can read up on how to setup TSM SNMP alert monitoring using TNG? Or maybe any manual that talks about TSM SNMP monitoring? John Monahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/20/2001 06:11:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: script to total backups This will give you average backup stats for the last 14 days. SELECT entity as node, avg(end_time-start_time) as elapsed_time, avg(cast((bytes/1024/1024) as decimal(18,0))) as MB from summary WHERE activity='BACKUP' and examined0 and DAYS(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) -DAYS(start_time) 15 GROUP BY entity John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-484-5435 http://www.compures.com James healy Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/2001 12:51 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:script to total backups Does anyone have a query that will tell me the average time a backup took and the average amount of data transmitted?
Re: script to total backups
Thanks Steve and John for your assistance with the scripts, they're exactly what I was looking for. John Monahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/20/2001 06:11:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: script to total backups This will give you average backup stats for the last 14 days. SELECT entity as node, avg(end_time-start_time) as elapsed_time, avg(cast((bytes/1024/1024) as decimal(18,0))) as MB from summary WHERE activity='BACKUP' and examined0 and DAYS(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) -DAYS(start_time) 15 GROUP BY entity John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-484-5435 http://www.compures.com James healy Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/2001 12:51 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:script to total backups Does anyone have a query that will tell me the average time a backup took and the average amount of data transmitted?
script to total backups
Does anyone have a query that will tell me the average time a backup took and the average amount of data transmitted?
retries happenning with serialization=dynamic coded
I'm seeing a bizzare situation I can't explain on an NT client running a backup(I'm still hanging on to version 3.7) I have my policy for this client setup for copy serialization=dynamic which states that TSM should backup the file or directory on the firs attempt regardless of whether the file or directory is being backed up during backup processing Then why am i getting this in my dsmsched.log? Is there something else possible occurring causing TSM to retry? 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-1.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-1.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 1,297 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-14.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-14.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 683 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-15.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-15.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 883 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-2.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-2.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 823 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-3.utx [Sent]
Re: retries happenning with serialization=dynamic coded
Yes, its happenning over and over again with more than 1 file, but my question is if I have dynamic coded, why does it retry at all? Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/19/2001 03:43:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: retries happenning with serialization=dynamic coded They seem to be different files to me... *.utx *.xtu Unless, there is something that I am not seeing here! -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: retries happenning with serialization=dynamic coded I'm seeing a bizzare situation I can't explain on an NT client running a backup(I'm still hanging on to version 3.7) I have my policy for this client setup for copy serialization=dynamic which states that TSM should backup the file or directory on the firs attempt regardless of whether the file or directory is being backed up during backup processing Then why am i getting this in my dsmsched.log? Is there something else possible occurring causing TSM to retry? 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-1.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-1.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 1,297 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-14.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-14.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 683 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-15.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-15.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 883 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-2.utx [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 565 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-2.xtu [Sent] 12/19/2001 12:20:29 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 823 \\srny4lm01\d$\notes\8859-3.utx [Sent]
4.2.1.6 client for NT
Can anyone tell me where to download 4.2.1.6 NT client from? When I download ip23373.exe from the ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v4r2/Windows/WinNT/LATEST it gives me 4.2.1.0?
Re: 4.2.1.6 client for NT
Thanks to all who responded Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/18/2001 10:08:48 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: 4.2.1.6 client for NT -James- How about the latest patch for the NT client: ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v4r2/Wi ndows/WinNT/v421/ Thanks, Demetrius -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4.2.1.6 client for NT Can anyone tell me where to download 4.2.1.6 NT client from? When I download ip23373.exe from the ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ client/v4r2/Windows/WinNT/LATEST it gives me 4.2.1.0?
Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts)
That seems to be really slow 8 gb per hour. I'm running TSM server on a h70 with 100mb ethernet dedicated backbone to my NT clients. These clients are mostly compaq prolient 7000. I average about 14-17 GB per hour on my restores. I'm hoping that an upgrade coming soon to gigabit will increase these speeds. Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/18/2001 03:50:44 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts) Hi One of our customers is running a medium site with 180 servers, with about 10TB of storage. Their using an IBM 3584 Anaconda with 2 fibre attached drives. The machine is a IBM P-Series 640, with RAID 1+0. One of the largest servers is about 700GB. Its the fileserver running user data and home directories. Mount time, including search of files on the tape is about 2 min. When restoring 1GB, the total time is about 8 min. This means That a total restore of the server would take about 70 hours to complete. This formula is 2 mins to search and mount tape, 6 mins to restore data. The customers P-Series machine is equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet cards, and 1 IBM Token-Ring 100Mbs card. The test was on one of the ethernet cards. Today, the customer is using OTG DiskXtender. This is for two reasons; one to save primary diskspace, the other to minimize the amount of data that has to be restored in an event of disaster. The LTO drives can perform 15MB/s, or 30MB/s compressed. The P-Series machine is not the bottleneck. Usually, the network sends about 3000 packets with a peak at 7000. During backup, 27.000 packets is sent with a peak at 50.000. According to the communications guys, this is very high. The clients is Compaq Proliant machines with about 4GB of memory, two processors running at Xeon 750(i think). So, there shouldn't be a bottleneck. According to the communications guys, the maximum theoretical speed of 100Mbs ethernet is about 12.5MB/s, or running at full duplex, 25MB/s. The first problem with this is that this is a one way communication(server to client). With 12.5MB/s restore time, the total restore of 700GB would take 15 hours. Who has a primary fileserver that can be down for 15 hours? And, this is only theoretical. With 1GB ethernet, the theoretical capacity is about 30MB/s. And this is only theoretical. The restore would take about 7.5 hours. Whats if this happend in the morning? Would the users take vacation and come back the next day? Just some thoughts Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-12-18 11:06 PST Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? I agree with Wanda. Any kind of modern library and tape technology adds very little time to the restore. WELL, ok, the costly ones, anyway. My 1TB NT fileserver (I know, I know) lives on 99 primary pool tapes right now. Collocate=filespace, so I'll be doing 3 restores at the same time, assuming even distribution, and assuming every tape must be mounted during the restore, that's about 33 mounts per filespace, or, assuming a 60 second mount, an additional half hour due to mounts. I'm willing to bet that's not my bottleneck. STK 9840, STK Powderhorn 9310 (6000 slot library), ACSLS 6 (library manager), DTELM 6.1 (external library manager for TSM to talk to) I can really see no point in doing full backups except to give management a warm fuzzy and justify buying more network. How about the rest of you? What mount times are you seeing with your libraries and how many tapes does your largest box live on? SHOW VOLUMEUSAGE NODENAME is a quick way to eyeball it. It's an unsupported command, so I assume no liability if it brings your server down. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Hi Robin, We use STK 9840 drives in an STK9710 robot (forerunner of the L700, I think). Mount time for the 9840 is under 30 seconds; maybe 40 seconds to write for an append. Dismount is also very fast because they rewind to the middle of the tape instead of the beginning, I think. The faster drives make running collocation quite painless; even if you have to mount 10 tapes on a restore, that only adds 5 minutes total to the restore time. The 9840 is in the same class as the IBM 3590 drive; MUCH faster to mount and locate than DLT. (and yep, lots more $) We tried DLT drives in the 9710 first. Worked OK for
Re: Tivoli TSM 4.2.x PREScheduecmd
Yes you can do it with a .bat file executed by TSM EXample: net stop name of service Gent, Chad E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/14/2001 12:42:19 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Tivoli TSM 4.2.x PREScheduecmd Hello All, I need to stop a NT service before my scheduled backup starts. Can I accomplish this by using the PRESCHEDULECMD option. If so let me know how to do this. Do I write a batch file and have the PRE command run that. There are other ways to do this but I would like to keep everything in TSM. Also when the backup is done I need the service to start back up. Thanks Chad
Re: Deleting RMAN versions
Eric,
Thanks you very much the delete object command is exactly what I'm
looking for i'll use it in this script once I tweak it a little more to
strip out headers and spaces:
SELECT 'delete object 0', BACKUPS.OBJECT_ID FROM BACKUPS BACKUPS
WHERE (BACKUPS.NODE_NAME='EQPSP01_RMAN') AND (BACKUPS.BACKUP_DATE{ts '2000-11-12
00:00:00'})
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on
12/12/2001 04:36:53 AM
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Hi James!
No, you need to have 2.2 when you want to use the tdposync utility.
There is another way to get rid of them, but it requires a lot of manual
work and its uses non supported TSM commands.
Issue the following command through the admin commandline interface:
select * from backups where node_name='NODENAME' c:\Mydir\Myfile.txt
Replace the NODENAME by your clients node name. In caps!!!
This commands lists all files stored on the TSM server for NODENAME.
Have your Oracle Admin compare this list of files with thee catalog entries
and have them return the list of orphaned entries.
Each file is listed with the OBJECT_ID parameter. You can manually delete
entries by using the following command:
delete object 0 OBJECT_ID = replace this by the object id number.
Remember! This is a unsupported way of deleting backups and you do this on
your own risk!!!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Eric,
No I'm using version 2.1 is that utility available in 2.1?
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on
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Hi James!
What version of TDP are you using? If it's 2.2, you can use the tdposync
utility.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Subject: Deleting RMAN versions
Can anyone tell me how to delete orphaned RMAN backup versions from the TSM
database?
Our DBAs have deleted the catalog entries and now I'm left with these
orphaned versions that I can see with the show version command but I don't
know how to delete.
TIA,
Jim
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Deleting RMAN versions
Can anyone tell me how to delete orphaned RMAN backup versions from the TSM database? Our DBAs have deleted the catalog entries and now I'm left with these orphaned versions that I can see with the show version command but I don't know how to delete. TIA, Jim
Re: Deleting RMAN versions
Eric, No I'm using version 2.1 is that utility available in 2.1? Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/11/2001 10:54:16 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Deleting RMAN versions Hi James! What version of TDP are you using? If it's 2.2, you can use the tdposync utility. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 16:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting RMAN versions Can anyone tell me how to delete orphaned RMAN backup versions from the TSM database? Our DBAs have deleted the catalog entries and now I'm left with these orphaned versions that I can see with the show version command but I don't know how to delete. TIA, Jim ** This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Network Appliance
Can Anyone tell me where I can find information on Tivoli's stance on backing up Network Appliance. I know they say it will back it up using version 4 and NDMP but only full volume backups. What about futures? Is there anyone out there successfully backing up Network Appliances attached to NT?
WIN2k server losing the password
Has anyone seen a situation with a win2k server running v 3.7.3 where you define the TSM scheduler service and it works fine for running a scheduled backup. Then you go and run a restor thru the GUI. The next time the scheduler runs it seems like the password is lost form the registry. The client dsmsched.log has the following errors: 1/28/2001 22:24:13 Node Name: SCH1ACSFS02 11/28/2001 22:24:13 Please enter your user id SCH1ACSFS02: ANS1029E Communications have been dropped. 11/28/2001 22:24:13 Scheduler has been stopped. Any Ideas?
version 4 licensing
I'm a little confused about licensing: Should I have received licensing files for what I'm licensed for on CD's that Tivioli sends me? Those that mean if I pull down the latest version from the web that it won't have the proper licensing files when I install? So if I'm going from v 3.7 to 4.1 should I install base 4.1 from CD and then load the latest 4.1 from the version I pull down from the web? Thanks
Re: Library offline to host
Thanks all who responded to my post. it turned out to be a mal functioning LMCPD. Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/19/2001 06:57:56 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Library offline to host What level of the ATLDD code are you running? -Original Message- From: William Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Library offline to host Can you ping the library from that server? Also, have you checked the library manager log? You need to go into service mode, and then it's one of the menu choices. Can't remember which one and I'm at home so I can't check right now. The LM will do a reverse name lookup on the IP address and if it doesn't match what you've coded, the session is rejected. That will show up in the LM log. Maybe that server is now know differently via DNS? Or a different network adapter is now being used and that adapters IP address doesn't reverse lookup the same...? You may have to add it to the HOSTS file on the LM OS/2 box. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. There's no place like ~ - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James healy Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Library offline to host Can anyone suggest a place to look when I get a message: library offline to host. I've already recycled lmcpd. I checked my lan host options and they haven't changed. When I attempt to communicate with the 3494 library via MTLIB commands from my sun server I get this message. We made a microcode change to the library over the weekend and this one server(out of three) is now not communicating with the library. two other sun servers are not having any problems via mtlib or thru TSM.
backing up non clustered drive
Can anyone tell me why this schedule did not work and got the included error message: 11/20/2001 10:12:13 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Schedule Name: WEEKLYC 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Action:Incremental 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Objects: c:\* 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Options: -clusternode=no 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Server Window Start: 10:00:00 on 11/20/2001 11/20/2001 10:12:13 11/20/2001 10:12:13 Executing scheduled command now. 11/20/2001 10:12:13 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN WEEKLYC 11/20/2001 10:00:00 11/20/2001 10:12:17 Incremental backup of volume 'C:\*' 11/20/2001 10:12:18 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\sch1acsclb1n1\c$\*' failed 11/20/2001 10:12:18 ANS1151E Drive \\sch1acsclb1n1\c$: is not a cluster disk. Not valid for backup/archive when CLUSTERNODE option is YES. Shouldn't the option -clusternode=no, coded in the schedul have overridden what is in the client option file and allowd the non clustered drive c to be backed up?
Library offline to host
Can anyone suggest a place to look when I get a message: library offline to host. I've already recycled lmcpd. I checked my lan host options and they haven't changed. When I attempt to communicate with the 3494 library via MTLIB commands from my sun server I get this message. We made a microcode change to the library over the weekend and this one server(out of three) is now not communicating with the library. two other sun servers are not having any problems via mtlib or thru TSM.
Version 3.1 client on HPUX 10.2
Does anyone out there run TSM v 3.1 on an HPUX 10.2 client? We have to HPUX 10.2 boxes here that for some reason we can't upgrade to later versions. (the only version that will run is v 3.1) We can successfully run scheduled backups with one of them. But the other will not get contacted by the server when the schedule is supposed to run. I tried using polling and prompted on both servers but still no success. Can anyone shed any light
Re: Missed daily backups during 3 hour schedule
Have you looked into your dsmsched.log on the clients for additional inf as to why they come up with the status of Missed? Pucky, Todd M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/13/2001 11:07:42 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Missed daily backups during 3 hour schedule TSMer's Server: IBM 3466-C00 AIX 4.3.2 TSM Server Software 3.7.2 Clients: TSM 4.1.3 I am having a problem completing backups during a 3 hour backup schedule. I have 830 workstations (Win95/NT/2000) on scheduled backups and normally only 400-500 or fewer complete backups. The other have statuses of MISSED. I have MAXIMUM SESSIONS=400 and MAXIMUM SCHEDULE SESSIONS=320. The majority of these nodes backup less than 100 MB of data per day. My nightly server backups complete without any problems. Is there another setting that I can change to increase my number of backups? Is there a limitation on the TSM server that only allows a certain number of sessions on at once? Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Todd M. Pucky The Timken Company Global Information Systems Programmer/Analyst ** This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication to others; also please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete it from your system. The Timken Company **
driver for Gigabyte fiber adapter
Can anyone tell me what driver I need for my Rs6000 for a gigabyte fiber network adapter feature code 6227 and where I might be able to get it?
Re: Spill processing please help
Do a search through the activity log and key in on migration or the pool name ou suspect is migrating. Doherty, John (ANFIS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/26/2001 07:56:17 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Spill processing please help Hi folks I am back on the newsgroup because I desperately would like some information. We currently run TSM 3.1 on an MVS 390 mainframe. As you are aware definition of the disk storage pools contain an option to migrate to the next storage pool (in our case cartridge) if the disk pool exceeds a specified value. In our case we have these migration thresholds set at high 90% low 70% this means when the disk pool exceeds 90% migrate data until it reaches 70% and then stop. I believe this is different from a forced migration where you empty the storage pool in preparation for the next backup process. The question I have been asked is how do I know if we are spilling into this cartridge pool, i.e. how often is the disk pool exceeding 90% and forcing migration. This being the case we will incur extra processing and require to increase the size of the DASD pool. Can anyone tell me how to find out if this spill process is occurring. I.e. does anyone have a script, batch job etc. on how to determine when (if) this is happening. Even what I should be looking for to determine if this is happening would be helpful. Await your replies Thanks John John Doherty Technical Specialist Storage Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 141 275 7793 Fax: +44 (0) 141 275 9199 Email communications are not necessarily secure and may be intercepted or changed after they are sent. Abbey National Financial and Investment Services does not accept liability for any such changes. If you wish to confirm the origin or content of this communication, please contact the sender using an alternative means of communication. This communication does not create or modify any contract. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication you should destroy it without copying, disclosing or otherwise using its contents. Please notify the sender immediately of the error. ABBEY NATIONAL FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT SERVICES plc Registered Office Abbey National House 287 St Vincent Street Glasgow G2 5NB United Kingdom Registered in Scotland No 159852
Re: manually ejecting a tape from a 3494 library
mtlib -l libraryname -CVvolser -t FF10 Shawn Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/24/2001 01:49:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: manually ejecting a tape from a 3494 library I have some tapes inside our robot that are possibly miss-labeled. I would like to have the robot eject these tapes and I thought the mtlib command would be the answer. I cannot figure out how to do it though. Any suggestions? thanks, -shawn Shawn L. Bierman Unix Technical Support Analyst II Methodist Healthcare Information Systems (901) 516-0143 (office) (901) 516-0043 (fax)
Re: server media mount not possible
Just a thought : Is your primary disk pool set up properly with next storage pool to a tape pool that exists and has scratches available to it? Nancy Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/23/2001 10:54:19 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: server media mount not possible Can anyone point me to a fuller description or explanation of that error message (in the subject)? It has no message number, and is in the client's dsmerror.log and a pop up window. There are no error messages in the server activity log, and I know that all the drives in the robot/library are available and that there are scratch tapes in the robot/library. Server runs TSM for AIX 4.1.0.0. Client runs TSM 4.1.2.12 (WinNT 5), client is trying to back up a large file (2.1 G, which is larger than Maximum Size Threshold of the primary backup storage pool on disk). The Client Options Set has Tapeprompt=yes override=no, and the client has tapeprompt=no. The file should go straight to the secondary backup storage pool, which is a tape pool, and that appears to be what the server is trying to do, but something is going wrong. Any ideas? Thanks! Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860
Re: server media mount not possible
Nancy, Do you see anything in the Server activity log during the time the backup is occurring? Nancy Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/23/2001 01:12:56 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: server media mount not possible Yes. I'm sure of this because the migration from disk to tape works fine. Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860 Just a thought : Is your primary disk pool set up properly with next storage pool to a tape pool that exists and has scratches available to it? Nancy Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/23/2001 10:54:19 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: server media mount not possible Can anyone point me to a fuller description or explanation of that error message (in the subject)? It has no message number, and is in the client's dsmerror.log and a pop up window. There are no error messages in the server activity log, and I know that all the drives in the robot/library are available and that there are scratch tapes in the robot/library. Server runs TSM for AIX 4.1.0.0. Client runs TSM 4.1.2.12 (WinNT 5), client is trying to back up a large file (2.1 G, which is larger than Maximum Size Threshold of the primary backup storage pool on disk). The Client Options Set has Tapeprompt=yes override=no, and the client has tapeprompt=no. The file should go straight to the secondary backup storage pool, which is a tape pool, and that appears to be what the server is trying to do, but something is going wrong. Any ideas? Thanks! Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860
Re: Fw: FW: v4.2.1 TSM Clients
I disagree with you on this one, in prior versions TSm was reporting a success even if it failed on backup of thousands of files. I'd much rather see it as a failure if one file fails backup Stumpf, Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/18/2001 02:08:59 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Fw: FW: v4.2.1 TSM Clients I think it's true! I tested the new client on a W2k machine and I got the same RC you described below. If one file fails (e.g. it's in use by another proccess), the schedule returns with a result code of 4. I hope Tivoli works on a fix for that. We have some automatically checking for result code 0 (if there was a problem while backing up; and I think file in use... isn't a big problem) regards, Joachim Stumpf Datev eG Subash, Chandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2001, 06:41:31, MEST): i HAVE GOT THIS EMAIL FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS. GUYS WHAT DO YOU THINK IS IT TRUE ? Hi Guys According to Tivoli Support they have made an alteration to way client v4.2.1 reports Result code 4 to the server. Earlier version clients would allow for a certain number of files to fail during the backup and still report to the server that the Schedule was successful. However version 4.2.1 has been altered so that a result code of failed will be reported to the server even if 1 file fails during a backup. ntcmachine had been failing on some WINNT system files which I have added exceptions for under direction of Tivoli support and now backups of this machine seem to be successful. Bob from Tivoli suggested that if we are worried about seeing failed result codes on the daily report that there may be a way to generate a report listing statistics of how many files or how much data had been backed up from each machine to provide a more accurate picture as to whether the backups were successful. -- (See attached file: Unbekannt.txt) Unbekannt.txt
TSM query help
Can anyone help me with a TSM SQL query that would give me node names with server filespace capacity and %utilized totaled by server not by filespace? Jim Kirkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/04/2001 02:53:42 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSA folder in Netware Hello, This question should probably be directed to a Novell forum but. can anyone explain the relationship (if there is one) between the folder Sys:System\Tsa and the ADSM/TSM clients. What files are in there are all.00x extensions and seem empty but some cannot be purged. At least this is what I've gathered from our Netware admins. Any insight would be appreciated. -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
Re: Restores
My client is NT 4 and the server is AIX 4.3 Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 09/25/2001 04:33:38 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 ?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
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
SSA disk configurations
I know this isn't exactly a TSM Question but... Anyone have an idea where I can find documentation baout replaceing a failed drive in a SSA disk configuration. The documentation I've found tells you you need to logically remove the data adn drive first, unfortunately we've phjysically removed the drive and now the subsystem won't allow us to remove it logically. Thanks in advance Jim
hp-ux 10.2
Can anyone tell me is there is a a xsm client that works with HP-UX 10.2?
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Re: Cannot delete tape in empty status... media state is incorrec t
Robin, Did the volume checkout successfully before the checkin? Robin Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/30/2001 03:43:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Cannot delete tape in empty status... media state is incorrec t Seth, Already did that, see results below your reply Thanks anyway Forgosh, Seth sforgosh@TIAA To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -CREF.ORG cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) Subject: 08/30/01 02:58Re: Cannot delete tape in empty status... media state is incorrec PMt Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Try this: MOVE MEDIA volume STG=stgpool WHEREST=MOUNTABLEN That should make the tape a scratch. Seth Forgosh -Original Message- From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cannot delete tape in empty status... media state is incorrect Tried it... here's the result: 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR0984I Process 84 for MOVE MEDIA started in the BACKGROUND at 14:42:43. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR0609I MOVE MEDIA started as process 84. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR0610I MOVE MEDIA started by ADMIN as process 84. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR6682I MOVE MEDIA command ended: 0 volumes processed. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR6691E MOVE MEDIA: No match is found for this move. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR0611I MOVE MEDIA started by ADMIN as process 84 has ended. 08/30/01 14:42:43 ANR0985I Process 84 for MOVE MEDIA running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 14:42:43.
Re: Restoring to a different NT client
Can anyone tell me if -virtualnodename is a parameter used in version 3.7. I'm trying to use it with a client and getting one of those great error messages that says unknown system error look in the errorlog and the error log says unknow system error look in the error log Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/20/2001 01:14:08 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Restoring to a different NT client The simplest way is to start the client on the target system using -virtualnodename=oldnodename. You can do this by starting dsm from a DOS window: dsm -virtualnodename or you can modify the icon for the GUI to include it. You will be prompted for the password of the old node. What kind of problems are you seeing? -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring to a different NT client We are attempting to move some of our old NT 4 clients data to new Win2k clustered servers. When attempting to restor the data from one box to the new one we're seeing some wied problems. Can anyone tell me the method they would use to do this successfully?
Restoring to a different NT client
We are attempting to move some of our old NT 4 clients data to new Win2k clustered servers. When attempting to restor the data from one box to the new one we're seeing some wied problems. Can anyone tell me the method they would use to do this successfully?
Re: 3494 HELP!!!!
Richard, Did you check to see if LMCP is running? Dearman, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/07/2001 03:42:58 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 3494 HELP Is anyone familar with the following message using a 3494 library. For some reason I get these messages in my TSM actlog and I cann't access the library. I try from a aix prompt to run mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI and it errors. Which indicates the server isn't talking to the 3494. Is there any fix for this other than rebooting the 3494? I cann't figure out why it's losing connection the library and the server can ping each other. ANR8444E Internal Operation: Library UICMC3494 is currently unavailable. ***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.
How reclamation doesn't work
I just noticed something peculiar with the way reclamation works or doesn't work. With an administrative schedule I set a reclamation threshold for one of my tape pools low so reclamation begins at 11:30 (upd stg nttapeco rec=65) Then at 14:30 I set the reclamation threshold back to 100 so reclamation should stop right (upd stg nttapeco rec=100) Wrong. Reclamation continues to run until 02:30 the next am. I thought that TSM would recognize the change in threshold and maybe stop reclamation processing after its finished the current tape but it doesn't. It looks like it continues until all tapes in the pool are reclaimed? How should it work?
Re: How reclamation doesn't work
Richard, this was a copy storage pool that it was running on. But I cannot find anywhere in the manual that states copy storage pools perform differently when it comes to setting the threshold hi and discontinuing reclamation. Remata, I see where it reports on what volumes it will work on when the reclamation starts. What I'm trying to do is make this as simple a scheduled process as possible. But reclamation ran well into my backup cycle and used drives that I was expecting to have available to backup to. Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/07/2001 09:33:21 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: How reclamation doesn't work ...Then at 14:30 I set the reclamation threshold back to 100 so reclamation should stop right (upd stg nttapeco rec=100) Wrong. Reclamation continues to run until 02:30 the next am. ... Jim - What kind of storage pool was involved? The behavior you saw would be consistent with that for an offsite storage pool, as per the Admin Ref manual topic Choosing a Reclamation Threshold, Lowering the Migration Threshold. Richard Sims, BU
saving IP address
Can anyone tell me how to flush out old IP addresses TSM must be storing when it tries to contact a client for a scheduled event. I have a AIX server trying to contact an NT client but the IP address has cahnged recently and TSM is timing out trying to contact the client at its old address. TIA Jim
Re: saving IP address
I've had my admins both stop and start the scheduler service and login from the desktop and drill down in the backup screen but its still keeping theIP address. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 08/02/2001 11:50:31 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: saving IP address You can't actually delete it. In this case on the client at the new IP start the services and for good measure on the client do say a dsmc and then a q ses. This should give the server the new IP and it then stores it in it's list to use to contact to run schedule. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/01 11:41AM Can anyone tell me how to flush out old IP addresses TSM must be storing when it tries to contact a client for a scheduled event. I have a AIX server trying to contact an NT client but the IP address has cahnged recently and TSM is timing out trying to contact the client at its old address. TIA Jim MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 08/02/01 11:55:28 -- 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. ==
Re: 3575 - Twintail Connect
Twintiling is definitel supported by differential SCSI, don't know if you can do the rest Gerrit Van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/30/2001 09:12:34 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 3575 - Twintail Connect Hi, Can one connect a 3575 Library by means of a twintail connection between two H80 servers in a HACMP setup? Does twintail support differential SCSI? Thanks and regards ~~ Gerrit van Zyl Tel: +27 11 800 7400 Fax: +27 11 802 3814 Cell: +27 82 570 4266 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.faritec.co.za http://www.faritec.co.za/ ~~ ~~ This message may contain information which is confidential, private or privileged in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or file which is attached to this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter return and/or destroy the original message. Any views of this communication are those of the sender except where the sender specifically states them to be those of Faritec (Proprietary) Limited (Faritec) and/or Midrange Distribution Services (Pty) Ltd. Please note that the recipient must scan this e-mail and any attached files for viruses and the like. While we do everything possible to protect information from viruses, Faritec accepts no liability of whatever nature for any loss, liability, damage or expense resulting directly or indirectly from the access and/or downloading of any files which are attached to this e-mail message.
Re: Database volume move
Use Mirroring, Set up a mirror for the first volume of an original DB once the mirror is established delete the original. You've now moved the DB with no disruption. Hunley, Ike [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/24/2001 06:23:43 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Database volume move Due to problems with DSMFMT on EMC DASD, (OS/390 2.9, TSM 4.1.2), which required a ZAP to DSMFMT, I now must move database volumes. From what I've seen, it looks like I have to delete a Database volume in order to move it. I've started a FULL database backup. I'm now looking for a way to safely move a database volume by 1.) Copy each database volume dataset to an existing, preformatted database volume dataset. 2.) Point ADSM to the new database volume dataset. 3.) Run ADSM with the database volume dataset to make sure it functions properly. 4.) Delete the old database volume dataset. What's the best way to accomplish this in OS/390 2.9, TSM 4.1.2? Any hints? Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., and its subsidiary and affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this e-mail message. Any personal comments made in this e-mail do not reflect the views of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
Re: TSM tapes out of SYNC with Library manager
Again, Thanks to all who responded to my initial question. With all the info you all provided I'm getting closer to a solution. I've found out that some tapes are in the library but cannot be utilized by either TSM sharing the library because their Status is incorrect. Once I use the mtlib command to update their status they become usable to TSM again and I can check them in to their proper category. How I've gotten into this mess remains a mystery Thanks again. Jim Nicholas Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/24/2001 11:27:04 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM tapes out of Sink with Library manager Remember - you can't checkin a tape as scratch if TSM has records of data on it. IE, if the volume is in a storage pool, has an database backup on it, or other situation where TSM knows the tape is in use. You can, however, check it in a Private, then check it back out and have the library eject it. This makes sure that TSM knows where the tape is. With a vault (and an outside company maintaining it, and maybe another group handling tape management - I/O work, I recomend auditing your vault every 2 months, or more frequently, if possible. Nick Cassimatis Technical Team Lead Backup/Recovery Services - Universal Server Farm / e-Business 919-466-7443 T/L 223-8965 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.
TSM tapes out of Sink with Library manager
I was wondering if anyone has encountered this situation. Environment: two TSM servers running on RS6000 v 3.7.4 Sharing the Same 3494 library It appears that the library manager database is out of sync. I run a checkin scratch of a range of vol sers and TSM says it can't check in about ten because they are not scratches. When I attempt to use the mtlib command to eject the tapes library manager says they are not in the library? Does anyone have a way to get the inventory from the library and put it to a file so I can compare it with what TSM thinks it has in the library?
Re: TSM tapes out of Sync with Library manager
Can anyone help me with how to decipher the output of the mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI command or point me to where I can find the doc on its detail. Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/23/2001 09:48:41 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM tapes out of Sink with Library manager It appears that the library manager database is out of sync. James, I have run into a similar situation with my 3494 in that TSM says a tape is in the vault, offsite, and it's actually still in the library. The command that others have given you, mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI, shows the tape as FF00. But if I try to check it in it says it's not in the library. Yet I can go to the library and query for that tape and sure enough it's there. If I try and remove it with TSM it also says it's not there. Does anyone know how to remove a tape from the library by using the console that's attached? I haven't seen anything but that doesn't mean it can't be done. I wish I knew why this keeps happening..All I need is a disaster in the computer room with some offsite tapes still in the library. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614
Re: TSM tapes out of Sync with Library manager
Thanks again to all who responded to my questions. Can anyone tell me what the various categories mean such as 0190 019A 019C FF00 Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/23/2001 01:44:29 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM tapes out of Sync with Library manager Can anyone help me with how to decipher the output of the mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI command or point me to where I can find the doc on its detail. James - Full details are in IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device Drivers: Installation and User's Guide (GC35-0154). If you're unfamiliar with the quick output of the command, you can add the verbose (-v) option, as in doing: mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -vqI which identifies each element of the output. Richard
Re: IBM 3494 Library Sharing
We're doin that now and getting ready to expand the library to 18 frames: currently 3 sun servers and 1 aix server talking to it. Future 12 Mainframe Lpars in addition to existing hosts Are all the servers connected to the library? All servers talk to library manager Via ethernet connections What is the connection the TSM servers have to the library? TCP/IP or RS232? TCPIP What is the connection the servers have to the tape drives? SCSI right now future FC FC or SCSI? Are you happy with the library sharing solution? It works great right now Did you have to set a Library Manager Server and make the rest of the servers Library Clients? No Any documents I must read? There was a redbook can't remember the name of it Manuel J Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/20/2001 04:28:23 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: IBM 3494 Library Sharing We are considering to share an IBM 3494 tape library among 3 Tivoli servers, two of the servers are at TSM 4.1.2 and one is at 4.1.3. The library has six 3590 E1A tape drives. As today the three servers are connected to the library via RS232 serial connection, and SCSI to the tape drives. Some scripts have been written to allocate-deallocate tape drives to the servers depending on the time of the day. I would like to here from people that have one or more 3494 library shared among TSM servers. Particularly, Are all the servers connected to the library? What is the connection the TSM servers have to the library? TCP/IP or RS232? What is the connection the servers have to the tape drives? FC or SCSI? Are you happy with the library sharing solution? Did you have to set a Library Manager Server and make the rest of the servers Library Clients? Any documents I must read? Please give an explanation of the steps that were followed to share the library. Thanks, Manuel J. Sanchez Assurant Group (305) 252-7035 x32153 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install prob with adsm
what platform are you installing it on? Joseph Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/17/2001 01:48:31 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: install prob with adsm anyone ever install tsm 4.1 and have a problem logging in with the default id of admin and password of admin?? if you have please let me know how to get around it? thanks
Re: Tape/Drive problems
I've been seeing these exact problems for weeks with on og my remote site. I escalated the problem within IBM. They sent out their 3494 top Gun who did an extended PM on all the drives in this system(8). The problems cleard up for a week and now we're seeing them again. Ask you CS if you have the double clip retainer that holds the tape in the drive when its inserted. It seems like they've flip flopped on the issue of whether or not it should be removed. Ours are all removed now. We still have problems wih tapes sticking in drives where a reset of the drive and a power off do-not correct the problem. Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 07/12/2001 10:49:47 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Tape/Drive problems ... IBM says it sounds as if the tape that was in rmt4 sounds as if it's dragging so they removed it from the library. ... Hi, Geoff - Dragging? I've never heard that one before, in all the years I've been working with IBM 34xx/35xx tapes. In my experience, mechanical problems have always been due to drive problems or irregularities, and not the cartridges. I'm very suspicious of CEs who blame cartridges for drive problems. You didn't say what they did to fix the problem. If they didn't work on the drives and fix whatever their problems were, per diagnostic codes, then you didn't get a fix. Certainly, if this is not a new tape and has been mounted and used many times before, then there is little probability of the tape being the problem. Remember, there's 1 moving part in the tape, and a helluva lot more in the drive. We've had a bunch of problems with the upgraded 3590E drives. (Why, when the upgrade involved a whole pallet of boxes and parts, they didn't simply replace the drives with factory-certified units, is a big question for IBM, particularly given all the problems that customers have had with the field-upgraded units.) Our CEs have found a lot of problems with the vacuum subsystems, and have replaced some. With tapes stuck in drives, I've *always* been able to eject them either from the drive front panel or a power cycle of the drive, and once resolved get the drive back into service under ADSM, without restarting ADSM or otherwise affecting service with the remaining drives. The affected tapes went on to be used by ADSM, as is: no need to move the data. (It's not a tape problem.) Per the TSM Messages manual, ASC=15, ASCQ=01 is a mechanical positioning error; your ASC=5A, ASCQ=01 is operator media removal; ASC=3A, ASCQ=00 is medium not present. I doubt that the problem drives were properly reset for TSM to know of a state transition. Make sure that a Reset is done from the front panel, and a power cycle if needed, with a clean state reflected on the front panel afterward. Richard Sims, BU
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Re: Improving NT client throughput
Vint, Haev you tried running and incremental by date only? Vint Maggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 06/21/2001 10:29:03 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Improving NT client throughput I have a bunch of Windows 2000 clients (file servers) whose backups are really dragging. My server is TSM 3.7.3 on Solaris 2.7. The clients are running TSM v 4.1.2.12. They have 2 Xeon 700Mhz CPUs and 512 MB RAM, 100Mb NICs on a gigabit backbone. Each one of these clients has several hundred thousand files, one is in excess of 1 million files. TSM initiates the backup at midnight but it is not until 5 hours later that these clients really begin pumping data. I assume this is because it is taking so long to analyze the files. If I had my way they would repartion the drives on these clients so that all these files are not contained in a single filespace, but that isn't going to happen. Is there any way to improve performance here? We are considering the following options, please give me your opinions. On Clients: set changinretries to 1 set tcpbuffersize from 62 to 512 we have already confirmed the tcpnodelay, largecommbuffers, and memoryefficientbackup options are in our favor. On Server: resetting idletimeout from 60 to 15 (default) resetting commtimeout from 360 to 60 (default) Thanks, Vint
Network appliance drive
Can anyone tell me how they backup a network appliance type drive, since TSM doesn't see it as a norman NT type device?
Re: SV: DSMSERV UNLOADDB on S/390 running TSM 4.1.3
Is anyone else on the the list getting this message sent to them over and over? "Nilsson Niklas" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/10/2001 08:17:15 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: SV: DSMSERV UNLOADDB on S/390 running TSM 4.1.3 Hi! I did test both these parameters scratch=yes/no I have also tested 1-10 mount points.. One of the run i also specified 3 volumes (scratchtapes) but i got the same error... Here is my jcl: //TSM JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=128M,TIME=1440,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=H //SERVER EXEC PGM=ANRSERV,DYNAMNBR=300,TIME=NOLIMIT, // PARM='/UNLOADDB DEVCLASS=KASS SCRATCH=YES' //OPT DD DSN=TSM.ANRSERV.OPTIONS,DISP=MOD //STEPLIB DD DSN=TSM.V41.LINKLIB,DISP=SHR //DSMAMENG DD DSN=TSM.V41.SANRMSG(ANRMENU),DISP=SHR //HLPAMENG DD DSN=TSM.V41.SANRHLP(ANRHENU),DISP=SHR //IMAGES DD DSN=TSM.V41.SANRIMG(WEBSERV2),DISP=SHR //IDL DD DSN=TSM.V41.SANRIMG(ANRIDL),DISP=SHR //DSK DD DSN=TSM.DISKLOG,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTERM DD SYSOUT=* /* -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Chibois, Herve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 10 april 2001 14:16 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: DSMSERV UNLOADDB on S/390 running TSM 4.1.3 Hi Niklas, give me the command you typed for unloading your DB. Normally, if you specify scratch=yes, either with a tape devc or a file one, TSM will allocate one volume, then another... $ dsmserv unloaddb devc=DLTCLASS scratch=YES check how many mount points are available at the same time in your devc sned me your log offline if you want rv -Message d'origine- De : Nilsson Niklas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy : mardi 10 avril 2001 11:22 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : DSMSERV UNLOADDB on S/390 running TSM 4.1.3 Hi! Has anybody had problem doing a unloaddb on an S/390 system running 4.1.3??? We are trying to do a unload to tape but when the tape get full, the TSM don't mount next tape. Tried to do this to 3390-disc but got the same problem , when the disc get full , "he" unmounts the disc but never mounts the next one. There is no problem if you do an export to a deviceclass=file or tape when server is up and running. Regards Niklas
Re: Backup Problems when IP-Adresse changed
Logon to TSM from the desktop of the client having the problem "Winfried Heilmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 03/06/2001 09:25:22 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Backup Problems when IP-Adresse changed Hi, a NT-Server that was backuped via TSM, moved to a other site. It has now a new IP-Adresse. The client-schedule has been stopped/started and connected via the new IP-Adress to the TSM-server, but the server is still looking for the old-IP-Adress when he wants to start the backup. Scheduling mode ist prompted and I don't want to change it. How can I change the stored IP-Adresse in the TSM-DB? Regards winfried
Rman Bkups with copypool
Has anyone successfully restored RMAN/TDP data with copypool tapes? We gave it a try this weekend for the first time at a DR drill and had no success. It almost appears like rman holds the storage pool name and possibly the vol ser in its catalog and when it attempts to retrieve the data it can't because TSM has the primary copies marked as destroyed as designed. Jim
Re: Trying to define a 3494 Library
Eric, What tom is talking about is the "add lan host" option at the 3494 Library. One other question, how many nics do you have on the host system, if mor then one you should define both in the add lan host operation "Tom Melton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/20/2001 11:28:06 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Trying to define a 3494 Library Try talking to the library from outside ADSM. Use the mtlib command to query the library, to get some status info from it. That will verify the necessary serial/ethernet connectivity to the library. I see that you are talking ethernet to the library. Have you authorized your ADSM machine access in the library controller. I think you have to give the ip address of the ADSM server in the IP setup of the ATL. Tom Melton Emory HealthCare Emory University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/20/01 11:20AM Hi *SM-ers! I am trying to add a 3494 library to our TSM 3.7 server on AIX 4.3.3. I have performed the following steps: 1) I have installed Atape 5.4.4.0. 2) I have installed atldd 4.1.5.0. 3) I have defined the library in the /etc/ibmatl.conf file by adding the following line: 3494-L1 171.21.121.5 3494-L1 4) I used SMIT to configured the LMCP by using the "Add a Tape Drive" option. I selected the "atl library LAN/TTY Library Management Control Point". I selected the Library Name 3494-L1 which was retrieved from the /etc/ibmatl.conf file and it created a lmcp0 with the status defined: lmcp0 Defined LAN/TTY Library Management Control Point 5) I used the SMIT option "Configure a Defined Tape Drive" to make the drive available. It's now listed as: lmcp0 Available LAN/TTY Library Management Control Point 6) I ran CFGMGR which loaded the deamon. 7) I went to TSM to define the library by using the command: def libr 3494-L1 libt=349x device=/dev/lmcp0 This returns the following error: ANR8444E Internal Operation: Library 3494-L1 is currently unavailable. ANR8418E DEFINE LIBRARY: An I/O error occurred while accessing library 3494-L1. I'm stuck here. Can anybody help me by pointing me to the right place for more information? Am I forgetting something? Thanks in advance for any reply!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Formula to calculate # tapes required
Does any one out there have a formula they use to calculate the number of tapes they will use for an instance of TSM I've tried to start with 1) size of file systems to backup x 1 because you have at least 1 backup version of every file on the systems you'll back up(roughly) 2) estimate the percentage of data that changes in you environment daily, multiply that by the number of versions you'll keep add numbers 1 and two together to get a number that equals the amount of data you'll have in your backup system onsite. here's where it gets fuzzy. Somehow you have to calculate the amount of data you'll have co-located and non colocated. Find an average of the capacity your getting on your tapes. Then you'll have a number of what your on-site capacity should be. Now you can double that if you're using DRM and then somehow calculate in the factor of the re-use delay parameter for the storage pools?
Re: Formula to calculate # tapes required
George, Richard, Thanks for the responses. But I have 7 instances of TSM running, all implemented last year. A consulting team calculated how much capacity we would need and proposed it to management. Management cut that number in half, hired me and handed it over. I went to the well once already for more tapes for our largest site, I figured doubleing the size of 200 3590K tapes would be safe. Not a chance, we ate up the 200 new ones in 3 months. Now 5 of the sites need more tapes and if I go to the well again I only want to do it once. By the way I've been using the k tapes (1400) in the last year and have had 10 failures. "George Lesho" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/15/2001 03:55:57 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Formula to calculate # tapes required James... this is thorny issue considering the cost of these tapes. I use Magstar MP C-Format XL tapes and these guys cost about $75 a pop. Be conservative when ordering and get more than you think you will need. I have experimented with client compression vs drive compression and since I have a solid ETHERNET infrastructure, chose to rely on drive compression. Having said that, I snipped a portion of the result of a 'q vol' listing: 00E195 ARTPOOL23575DEVC16,340.1 56.9 Full 00E1A6 BKTPOOL23575DEVC16,809.4 84.6 Full 00E1AA ARTPOOL13575DEVC120,369.6 74.2 Full 00E1F2 BKTPOOL13575DEVC19,238.7 50.5 Full 00E208 BKTPOOL13575DEVC131,779.1 100.0 Full 00E20F ARTPOOL23575DEVC19,901.6 62.2 Full Note that the estimated capacity of the 7 volumes varies wildly from a low of about 8 gigs to over 31 gigs... It all depends on what type data you back up. Don't feel that any simple form would prove of much value unless it was able to compensate for the effect of compression on different types of data or you could find a site where the data types were similar to yours, have them multiply the estimated volume capacity for the separate volumes and then divide by the sum of the volumes to give you a gestimate number on the amount you could expect per volume... Other factors are finding an average amount of data backed up... once on a production basis with TSM, you could check the amount moved during the backup of the primary tape storage pool to the copy pool to get this number. Since I took this job over and have sorted out most of our requirements and schedules, we have gone from about 30 gigs per day (during the week-only backups are included in this number) to about 100 gigs per day. I guess what I am suggesting is to buy a supply of tapes, make the people with the money aware that you have not established a baseline for the tape purchase and then work with the limited supply of tapes for a few months to develop this baseline and then purchase what you really require plus some percentage for growth... Hope this helps... this is how I would have done this, if I had known what I know now ;-) George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises "James healy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/15/2001 02:34:02 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Formula to calculate # tapes required Does any one out there have a formula they use to calculate the number of tapes they will use for an instance of TSM I've tried to start with 1) size of file systems to backup x 1 because you have at least 1 backup version of every file on the systems you'll back up(roughly) 2) estimate the percentage of data that changes in you environment daily, multiply that by the number of versions you'll keep add numbers 1 and two together to get a number that equals the amount of data you'll have in your backup system onsite. here's where it gets fuzzy. Somehow you have to calculate the amount of data you'll have co-located and non colocated. Find an average of the capacity your getting on your tapes. Then you'll have a number of what your on-site capacity should be. Now you can double that if you're using DRM and then somehow calculate in the factor of the re-use delay parameter for the storage pools?
Re: TSM 4.1.2.0 on Sun Solaris 2.7
Tom. I recently upgraded one of my 3.7.3 servers to 3.7.4 at Tivoli's recomendation after the server wouldn't start do to a recovery log problem. I'm see similar symptoms. I'm getting nothing better than 1.2 gb per hour with the client and server both running on the same node within my E1. However after I booted this weekend I was able to get about 14 gb per hour, still slow but better. I currently have a sev 2 problem opened with tivoli. "Molloy, Tom" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/14/2001 09:10:56 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM 4.1.2.0 on Sun Solaris 2.7 Hi all, I am currently testing TSM 4.1.2.0 (new install) on a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 4GB of memory OS is Solaris 2.7. The performance is absolutely horrible (About 1 GB / hour), it appears that there is a memory leak in the server software. The only time I get ok performance (3 GB per hour) is when I reboot the box. After it gobbles up all the memory it slows right down. Is anyone else experiencing this or having any success? Thanks. Tom Molloy Textron Financial Corporation
Sun server/same client
Can anyone tell me how to verify that my tsm client that resides in the same sun box as the server is not going out to the netwok to establish a connection. This is a production box so it would be impossible to just totally disconnect it from the network. I'm seeing really slow through-put on this server (1.2 gbph) as compared to another(40gbph) that is configured in the same fashion. I've ftp'ed the same file I'm backing up from its location to the same dasd volume my db resides on, and it ftps in a matter of seconds as compared to the backup. This is what my opt file looks like tcpserveraddress 161.233.251.14 tcpclientaddress localhost tcpwindowsize 1024 txnbytelimit 25600 tcpnodelay yes resourceutilization4 amyone have any ideas?
Re: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing
Alex, What people have suggested in a few posts earlier works well for me. I just hav a script on each server that checks in a specific range of tape that are solely for that machine. i run this checkin script through a tsm admin schedule daily "Tectrade Computers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/08/2001 10:19:08 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM and 3494 Library Sharing Hi All I would like to know if anyone has got two TSM SUN servers sharing one 3494 library. Everything is working fine and the new Fibre attach drives are working very well. My question really relates to how I differentiate between the volumes in the library. I have 3 frames and need to split the columns equally between the servers. I have changed the categories at both libraries and now the other library does not see the volumes. The following is info about the site. TSM for Sun Solaris 4.1.2.0 X2 E220R ServersX2 3494 L12 D12 S10 X1 Fibre Attached 3590E X4 Any Info at all would be helpful. Regards Alex Fagioli Tectrade Computers Ltd Unit A1, Godalming Business Centre Woolsack Way Godalming Surrey GU7 1XW Tel : +44 (0)1483 861448 Fax : +44 (0)1483 861449 http://www.tectrade.co.uk This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that does not relate to the official business of Tectrade Computers Ltd shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them. If you have received this email in error, please notify the Tectrade Helpdesk on +44 (0)1483 861448 Ext. 505
Re: Sun server/same client
Thanks Richard, For the recomendation on the tcperserveraddres I'm trying it now. I thought(according to the manual) that tcpnodelay gets ignored on anything other than AIX? "Richard Sims" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 02/08/2001 02:42:52 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Sun server/same client tcpserveraddress 161.233.251.14 tcpclientaddress localhost Jim - You might want to try setting your TCPServeraddress to 127.0.0.1 (local system), and eliminate the TCPCLIENTAddress unless you found that it's really necessary. Also check your Solaris IP routing to make sure it's not going out to the network for nothing. Watch out for TCPNodelay Yes resulting in small Aggregates in your storage pools. Richard Sims, BU
Sun client does with multiple scheds
Anyone care to share how they run multiple schedules for a node? IE a daily, monthly and an annual. I like to set it up so each has a different management class and I'm trying to figure out how to do it without using a different nodename for each.
SUN tsm and 3494lib
Can anyone tell me how to verify that the proper drivers are loaded on a sun box ... I'm trying to do a new TSM Server install without much help from my Sun Admins and I have next ot no Solaris experience. I've defined the library and now I'm trying to define the drives. I've read the doc about doing the define drive. This is what the devices look like in my /dev/rmt directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 57 Nov 10 14:07 1stcn - ../../devices/sbu s@5d,0/QLGC,isp@0,1/IBMtape@0,0:stcn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 57 Nov 10 14:07 2stcn - ../../devices/sbu s@5d,0/QLGC,isp@0,1/IBMtape@2,0:stcn I issue the following command: DEFINE DRIVE 3494LIB rmt1 DEVICE=/dev/rmt/1stcn ONLINE=YES and I get the following response ANR8420E DEFINE DRIVE: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive RMT1 I've checked that the devices are physically attached properly. Am I missing something else?
Re: Sun Server problems -Reply
I haven't pulled down a fix in a while can someone tell me the best site to get it from? "Arturo Lopez" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/26/2001 07:01:49 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Sun Server problems -Reply James You may want to check for existing APAR. I had the same problem on my SUN Server. The problem was occuring when the recovery log was attempting to mount. There is a know problem with 3.7.3.0..I upgraded the server to 3.7.4 and the recovery log no longer hung when mounting. Arturo
Sun Server problems
Thanks for the help everyone.
Sun Server problems
I'm running my sun server3.7.36 on a sun e10k and I'm having what appears to be initializaion problems. Where can I start looking for the errors there doesn't appear to be any error logs in the Bin directrory and I don't see it pointing to any other place?
Re: Sun Server problems
Kelly, Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and the server seems to hang mounting the recovery log volume. I checked to see if the recovery log volume exists and it does. But how does TSM know where to look for the recovery log volume? Is there aything else I should look at? "Kelly J. Lipp" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/25/2001 12:58:16 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Sun Server problems Have you tried starting dsmserv from the command prompt rather than as a daemon? That will often yield the answer. Make sure the daemon isn't started. Then cd to the server director /tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory and type dsmserv. This will start the server in the foreground. This is probably easier than looking for error logs. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313 (719) 531-5926 Fax: (240) 539-7175 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James healy Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sun Server problems I'm running my sun server3.7.36 on a sun e10k and I'm having what appears to be initializaion problems. Where can I start looking for the errors there doesn't appear to be any error logs in the Bin directrory and I don't see it pointing to any other place?
Re: deleting rman data
How do I verify the state of the objects? "Michel Engels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/15/2001 08:51:28 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: deleting rman data You should verify the state of the objects. After the deletion of the files via RMAN the state should change from active to inactive. Be sure your RetO value is set to 0 otherwise the files will be kept for some time depending your settings in the managementclass. When the files become inactive, the retention is set to 0 and the expiration on the server has run the files should disappear. Hope this helps, Michel "James healy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/12/2001 10:49:32 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Michel Engels/BE/Devoteam) Subject: deleting rman data i have a question about verifying the deletion of rman data. i'd like to know how anyone verifies that old versions of rman files are getting deleted. My DBAs say they are running the commands to expire old versions but I don't see it happening Are there any commands that I could erify this with. I've checked q occ and the number of files does not decrease for that rman client.
Re: deleting rman data
Othonas thanks for your reply thats exactly what I was looking for but I guess I still have a problem. My DBAs run this command change backuppiece tag 'TRIB20001215' delete. and it says the files are deleted from ORacle . I run expiration, expiration completes and yet the files are still in TSM Can anyone see if I'm still missing something or have I encountered a bug? "Othonas Xixis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2001 11:59:15 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: deleting rman data *sm show versions nodename * Brgds, Othonas "James healy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2001 11:31:26 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: deleting rman data How do I verify the state of the objects? "Michel Engels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/15/2001 08:51:28 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: deleting rman data You should verify the state of the objects. After the deletion of the files via RMAN the state should change from active to inactive. Be sure your RetO value is set to 0 otherwise the files will be kept for some time depending your settings in the managementclass. When the files become inactive, the retention is set to 0 and the expiration on the server has run the files should disappear. Hope this helps, Michel "James healy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/12/2001 10:49:32 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Michel Engels/BE/Devoteam) Subject: deleting rman data i have a question about verifying the deletion of rman data. i'd like to know how anyone verifies that old versions of rman files are getting deleted. My DBAs say they are running the commands to expire old versions but I don't see it happening Are there any commands that I could erify this with. I've checked q occ and the number of files does not decrease for that rman client.
deleting rman data
i have a question about verifying the deletion of rman data. i'd like to know how anyone verifies that old versions of rman files are getting deleted. My DBAs say they are running the commands to expire old versions but I don't see it happening Are there any commands that I could erify this with. I've checked q occ and the number of files does not decrease for that rman client.
SQL query for events
Can anyone help with the sql query I could use to see events that occurred form yesterday to today?
Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch
Gavin, Could you share some more of the details re the sun bare metal restore with me also? Thanks, Jim
Monitoring Rman clients
Anyone care to share their procedures for monitoring Rman tdp backups? I'm trying to figure out a way to determine how much data gets backed up per session. Unfortunately( or maybe fortunately) our DBA's execute the scripts that kickoff rman so I reall can't figure a way to get daily stats.
Re: Monitoring Rman clients
Sean, Thanks for your response. I was hoping to find some info either in tsm client logs or smewhere at the tsm server, but can't find any. What do you script monitor? "Sean M English" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/13/2000 01:21:51 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Monitoring Rman clients James, In the environment that I am in, one way RMAN backups are monitored is by scripts that the DBAs create to let them, and myself, know when backups fail. A page is sent to us, as well as an email. Hope this helps. Regards, Sean M. English Distributed Storage Management/TSM IBM Global Services Service Delivery Center-South, Charlotte, NC Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance. "James healy" Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Monitoring Rman clients Anyone care to share their procedures for monitoring Rman tdp backups? I'm trying to figure out a way to determine how much data gets backed up per session. Unfortunately( or maybe fortunately) our DBA's execute the scripts that kickoff rman so I reall can't figure a way to get daily stats.
Re: LOG usage over 100% - backups failing
Vijay, Sounds like you have some other problem with the transactions not getting written to the database quick enough. Can you tell us more about your environment. Sounds like you've made some changes there recently? Whats your database backup trigger set at? What are you db adn recovery log buffer pool stats like? Jim "Vijay Havaralu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/11/2000 08:36:26 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: LOG usage over 100% - backups failing Hello every one, We are running tsm-server ver 3.7.20 on aix 4.3.2 with about 400 gb per day backup. Our adsm db-size is close to 100 gb and growing daily. Almost each day log is overflowing with 100%, all backups fails, and server recovers continues We are already using max 5.4 gb of log and can not increase any more on log volume. I appreciate, if anybody has any solutions this problem to reduce log usage or extend log beyond 5.4gb. Thanks, vijay.
Re: scripts repository
Kai, there used to be a repository on index.storsys.ibm.com but I don't know who maintained it.
Re: Restore Gb/hour
Shekhar, In a similar environment I'm seeing above 30 gb per hour except: my tsm server is an h70 and my library is a 3494 with 3590 e1a drives. restore will be slightly slower then the backup. "Shekhar Dhotre" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/08/2000 10:29:07 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Restore Gb/hour How much data (GB /hour) should be Backed up and restored with following configuration .. STK9710, 6 DLT7000 drives, AIX 4.3.3.0 on S7A, TSM 3.7.4, 10/100mbps full duplex. ACSLS 5.3.0 on Solaris 7. What are your experiences on backup and restore rate. ? Thanks in advance. shekhar
lost my Library
Can anyone shed any light on my situation Current environment: version 3.7.3 running on Solaris 2.6 with Solaris clients running 3.7.2 I have 4 tsm servers sharing the same 3494 that has 10 3590 drives in it. I recently added the last 2 of the 4 servers last week to the sharing. i must inject... my strong points are not UNIX. Anyway after configuring the library with only minor problems last friday all was well until soemtime saturday when DBAs doing tests encountered problems writing to tape. Now it appears that I cannot communicate with the Library and Solaris can/cannot see it. I can ping the IP address associated with the library from the solaris box I'm trying to run TSM from I kept getting I/o errors on the library when trying to run anything that utilized the library after saturday ie move data or direct writ to tape I checked the etc/ibmatl.conf and it still looks fine I checked the lan host definition at the library itself and it looks okay I checked by doing ps -f | grep lmcp and I have an lmcpd running. I ran a mtlib -l 3494lib -qL and it returns ---mtlib: Unable to open Library 3494lib: No such device All three othe TSM servers are seeing the library properly Am I missing something else? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
lost my library
Can any of the solaris experts tell me the relationship between the MTLIB commadn and the /etc/ibmatl.conf? Can the Ibmatl.conf be refreshed dynamicly - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
Re: Oracle/rman tdp failing
Thanks as usual, to all who responded. It turned out the DBA recycled the DB and all problems cleared up. He must have read that it was required after I pointed him to the TSM/RMAN documentation. Thanks again, Jim - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
Oracle/rman tdp failing
Can anyone help with the error messages I'm grtiing from my oracle dba's attempt to run Rman backups tiot tsm uping the TDP. ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="HRMP11292000HRMP.270.1.bkp", parms="" ORA-27006: sbtremove returned error Additional information: 4110 Additional information: 1 I had the dba open this as a problem to Oracle and this was their response: *** These types of errors deal with linking problems of the MML. Note:1062184.6 Circulation: PUBLISHED (EXTERNAL) Folder: server.Rdbms.Recovery.RMan Topic: Reference Articles Title: ORA-19506: FAILED TO CREATE SEQUENTIAL FILE, USING ADSM TO BACKUP TO TAPE. A search on metalink will retrieve some bulletins on some well known linking issues with various MML providers (Veritas, Legato, etc..), and those are typically useful but somewhat generic. Oracle Supports Rman's ability to successfully backup to disk. If there exists a problem backing up to tape the MML vendor should be contacted fot those issues. I called the ct to discuss the issue. They have been successfully backing up to tape for months. This machine is logically divided up into several different logical nodes and the target and catalog reside on different nodes. So, this may be a linking issue (as is typical in this situation). The ct states that his libobk is linked to the one provided byt the vendor. He can contact them to ensure that it is linked correctly etc... * So they're claiming its a TYM issue. I'm able to backup a normal TSM client no problem. So I insist to the DBA's its in the RMAN setup which I have no control over and he doesn't know very well. anyone? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
Re: So long all, and thanks for your assistance.
Best of Luck to you too Daniel. - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
Re: licensing of TSM
Shekhar, I posted a similar question and got no answer to it if ou get one please let me know. Jim - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
Licensing
I recently installed the try/buy server code for Sun 3.7.3 and now have the actual license files. I copied them to a dir on the sun box but yet when I try to register a license I don't get back any info except for it telling what licenses are registered. I've heard that there is an executable fiel that needs to be there also can anyone tell me what it is or what I'm doing wrong? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
Re: Stop/Starting TSM client scheduler
net stop "process name" (replace process name with actual process) net start "process name" - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
Re: Partition a 3494
T.Y, No Need to partition the 3494 all you need to do is make the appropriate drives withing the library only available to the specific TSM server and then check in the appropriate tapes to the proper server and you'll be fine - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
Re: ANR0440W- having problems with this error
I've seen similar error messages when running shared memory client on our sun box. We have large oracle DB's that chew up all available memory and we're still trying to trouble shoot them. There really isn't much documentation from TSM on the matter. - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
