Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage
Kelly, How often should I refresh my ### Terabytes of longterm storage? Jeff -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage I believe the key to long term storage is the notion of data refreshment on the tapes. With reclamation, we get that. If archive data is mixed with backup data we get reclamation due to backup retention policies being much less (typically) than archive. Some will argue that moving this data around isn't efficient, but if ensuring that data can be read is the goal, moving it around occasionally is important. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seay, Paul Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage I would not put something I wanted to keep that long on doggies little toy or ate my momma. You get the picture. I do not think DLT and 8mm are reliable enough to be comfortable that they will be able to be restored that far out. This is a nasty problem for all of us. LTO is too new to bet on and we are limited by what we can do. In the mainframe world you archive the stuff and just keep some tape drives around. Open is different. The issue is the vendors have not stepped up to the fact that open has longterm data now, just like a mainframe. -Original Message- From: Haskins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup Sets for Long Term Storage Our TSM server has a 3494 library with 3590 tape drives. Now faced with meeting long term storage requirements (7+ years), I am looking at generating backup sets to accomplish this. Since backup sets can be used for stand-alone restores from a backup-archive client, I am thinking that a different media type would be better than 3590. There's not much chance that many of my nodes could have access to a 3590 drive. DLT or 8mm seem more appropriate. Any experiences or opinions would be appreciated. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Memory Limits for UNIX Client: What should they be?
Paul, This client has 4 Gigs memory and a 560 Meg maxdsize. HPUX 11.0 1. Count files per subdirectory to find where they concentrate. 2. Run backup, watch physical memory and ps -el | sort +9n to see if you hit kernal parameter or hardware limit. 3. Add memory .. tune maximum amount of physical memory allowed to a single process (maxdsize) on HP. Jeff _TMP IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims DEV_VPLTO 969,017 44,968.38 44,755.51 IMGSRV7 Bkup /de_ap DEV_TPOOL 3,925,999 141,804.5 141,205.7 6 3 IMGSRV7 Bkup /de_ap DEV_TPOOL-544,208 19,643.41 19,590.31 _TMP IMGSRV7 Bkup /de_ap DEV_VPLTO 4,470,207 161,509.1 160,796.0 6 5 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims1DEV_TPOOL 1,643,288 73,228.00 73,098.14 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims1DEV_TPOOL-393,932 17,110.02 17,078.86 _TMP IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims1DEV_VPLTO 2,037,220 90,338.02 90,177.00 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims2DEV_TPOOL 1,498,832 68,512.16 68,511.72 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims2DEV_TPOOL-517,028 20,946.98 20,946.98 _TMP IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims2DEV_VPLTO 2,015,860 89,459.14 89,458.70 more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims3DEV_TPOOL 1,733,347 77,761.00 77,761.00 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims3DEV_TPOOL-233,849 10,156.79 10,156.79 _TMP IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims3DEV_VPLTO 1,967,196 87,917.78 87,917.78 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims4DEV_TPOOL 403,766 17,885.21 17,885.21 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims4DEV_VPLTO 403,766 17,885.21 17,885.21 IMGSRV7 Bkup /claims5DEV_TPOOL 55,307 77,506.08 77,362.43 -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Memory Limits for UNIX Client: What should they be? We have an SGI client with 65/512. Trying to find out if these are kilobytes or megabytes. The backup fails because it runs out of memory. MemoryEfficientBackup does not help. -dirsonly does not help. What are people using on large UNIX filesystem clients for these numbers? There are probably 7 million files in this file system of about 1TB. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: restoring backupsets
What was the Novell Client configuration? How about a little server information? I would like Novell to get 3 Meg per second on restores. 10 Gigs per hour, but they currently bite. Jeff -Original Message- From: John Naylor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: restoring backupsets Switch on perform tracing on the client. This will break down where the time is being spent, so you can identify your bottleneck I was seeing circa 3 mb. sec restoring a netware client from 9840 across a network With a directly attached tape and an AIX client you ought to get better. John John Bremer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/07/2002 11:07:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: restoring backupsets *SMers, We're trying to restore a backupset from 9840 media. Our tape drive is attached to an AIX client and we are seeing only 1-2 MB/sec data transfer rates. Is there a reason why we don't see tape and/or disk speeds on this restore? The disk should run at 14-15 MB/sec and the SCSI 9840 at 10 MB/sec. THanks. John Bremer ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. ** ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: No Drives Available errors
Mike, I found the same issue. It can be reproduced on ADSM version 3 and 4.1. I do not think it is limited to 3590E drives though. Tivoli people, have you found a solution to this problem yet? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Mike Crawford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Drives Available errors Good morning, Since we upgraded our 3590B's to 3590E's, whenever all the drives in the library are full, we get these errors, under ADSM 3.1, AIX: 02/06/2002 11:13:43 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library MAGSTOR1. This causes restore/retrieves to fail, rather than queue, until a drive becomes available. We are still using the save devclass definitions from before, MOUNTLIMIT=5 (we have five drives in the 3494.) Is there some other setting that needs to change? Thanks, Mike ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS
Two works or three ... general I have two per system. 4 processors each and 2-4 Gigs of RAM. 4.5 disk arrays each. 250-300 clients. Bottleneck on designing around long transactions. Jeff -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Running two is possible and easy from what the book says I'm about to test that on our test environment I'll let you know how we make out. --Justin Richard Bleistein Bruce Lowrie b.e.lowrie@DOWCOTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RNING.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 02/05/2002 10:20 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, Presently running two AIX 4.3 TSM servers sharing a 3494 Library with 15 3590E drives (8 drives assign to one server and 7 to the other). Each server has 150+ clients and about a 25 GB database. Our Unix shop would like to move the servers to a single Sun Solaris box. My question is do I run two instances of TSM server on this single box or one instance? Anyone have experience running two TSM instances on a single box? Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Dow Corning's practice statement for digitally signed messages may be found at http://www.dowcorning.com/dcps. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the Security Administrator at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS
Reasons for seperate ADSM instances: All have to do with Database limitations 1. Limits to Database buffer pool allocations. (we run at 600 Meg to 1 Gig per instance and no one is recommending they be increased. the application cannot handle it well) 2. Limits to the recovery log size ( with high volume servers that can fill 100 Megs of recovery logs per minute in regular mode and large files on clients this is exploited) 3. ADSM database unable to deal with long transactions in the database. A 40 Gig file transfer at 3 Megs a second tacks 3.79 hours. After the server crashes, which client was it with 50 sessions running? 4. When the recovery log fills and the server crashes, the logs are replayed at about 5 Gigs per hour. With a 13 Gigs log, it would take TSM 2.5 hours to replay the logs. 5. ADSM application scales well across 4 processors. IBM / Tivoli has not been able to deal with any of these issues on our high volume servers. If you are running a couple hundred clients (250-300) and measure throughput in 100's of Gigs and Terabyte, and you have solutions, I am listening. Today, IBM / Tivoli have worked with us on SOP for ADSM in our environment based on product limitations. Please let me know if these product limitations do not exist anymore. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Having two of anything is more complicated than having one of anything. If you can do it, have only one. Why would you want/need two? TSM database too large is probably the only reason I can think of. With two 25 GB databases merged to one that is getting fairly large, but not unwieldy especially with your hardware configuration. Do you intend to export/import the data from the old servers into the new one (ones)? That makes your life somewhat more difficult. You perhaps learned that you can't simply restore the AIX TSM databases to the Solaris TSM servers. If possible, start from scratch by having your clients switch to the new server. The first backup will be a full. You can then keep the AIX servers around until the client data expires. If you have archive data for the clients on these servers you can export and import that data to the new servers. None of this is trivial, but with good planning it isn't hard either. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Bach Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Two works or three ... general I have two per system. 4 processors each and 2-4 Gigs of RAM. 4.5 disk arrays each. 250-300 clients. Bottleneck on designing around long transactions. Jeff -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Running two is possible and easy from what the book says I'm about to test that on our test environment I'll let you know how we make out. --Justin Richard Bleistein Bruce Lowrie b.e.lowrie@DOWCOTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RNING.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Moving TSM to new Server and OS Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 02/05/2002 10:20 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager All, Presently running two AIX 4.3 TSM servers sharing a 3494 Library with 15 3590E drives (8 drives assign to one server and 7 to the other). Each server has 150+ clients and about a 25 GB database. Our Unix shop would like to move the servers to a single Sun Solaris box. My question is do I run two instances of TSM server on this single box or one instance? Anyone have experience running two TSM instances on a single box? Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you
Re: backing up to tape/OS/390
I would put the data on disk for this temporary period of time. This will allow better client threading and elimnate the contention on tape. Generally, this is hard to do with filesystem incremental backups since, but since you are running a level 0, it would work. Then break up the restore and start. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backing up to tape/OS/390 COLLOCATE is the answer. -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backing up to tape/OS/390 Environment: System/390 device type: Cartridge/3590 TSM 4.1.3 Server TSM client 3.1.06 Scenario: I get notified in advance that I'll need to restore multiple clients (gigs worth of data) on a given weekend. I manually kick off a base backup to a spare TSM server on Friday night so when the call comes in (over the weekend) to restore the servers, I restore from a relatively quiet TSM server. I'm not contending with the production backup cycle. The problem: This backed up data gets migrated to tape prior to my restore. Invariably, multiple servers' data ends up on one tape. i.e. only one server can restore at a time. The question: Is there a way to direct the backup data of a particular server to a specific tape so I can run multiple restores from multiple tapes at the same time? This is killing me... Good suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Joe ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: FC/ SCSI
They are the same speed. I use client compression (and hardware). 13-15 Megs per second going from SCSI to SCSI, fiber to fiber, SCSI to fiber. Testes using move data commands. LTO tape drives are about the same. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Felix Muelbaier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC/ SCSI Hi everybody has anyone some experience with this environment. TSM Server Version 4.1.3 OS=AIX 4.3.3 ML8 3494 Library 4 Tapes 3590E 2 Tapes with SCSI 2 Tapes FC IBM says the 3590E a much more faster with the FC adapter. So we want to put one FC Card into our SP and test it. Then the TSM server should run with SCSI and FC tapes. Later will upgrade the next two drives and move the TSM SERVER to a new Hardware. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Felix Mülbaier bebit Informationstechnik GmbH Besselstraße 26 D-68219 Mannheim http://www.bebit.de mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Rebinding
Kelly, For active files, I have seen this is the case. I was not aware that after a file was marked inactive by the client that the inactive file was examined or changed by the client? What process on the server then would change the management class for inactive files? I am not indicating that it does or does not, but I would like to better understand this aspect or rebinding a management class. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebinding Yes. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gianni Garda Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rebinding Hello, I have a node associated to a policy domain named XXX with only one policy set(active),one Mgmclass and a backup copy group with verexist=5 and retextra=30. If I update my node to a new policy domain YYY with same configuration but with verexist=4 and retextra=90 and start a backup are my old backups rebound to new mgmclass or not ? Thanks in advance -- Gianni Garda ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Rebinding
Wow, now that is a great answer. Thanks. Jeff -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebinding Just tested this to be sure. Inactive versions are rebound when the active version is rebound. But in the case where there is NO active version, the inactive versions won't be rebound at all. (These would be inactive backup versions of files that have been deleted from the client.) -Original Message- From: Jack Musselman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebinding Jeff, I found an explanation for your question in the TSM Admin Guide for AIX, pages 244-250. In general, rebinding is done for backup versions if any of the following applies: 1. The user changes the management class specified in the include-exclude list and does a backup. 2. An admin activates a policy set in the same policy domain as the client node and the policy set does no contain a management class with the same name as the management class to which a file is currently bound. 3. An administrator assigns a client node to a different policy domain, and the active policy set in that policy domain does not have a management class with the same name. The inactive versions will be rebound to the associated management class of the next backup. Hope this helps. Jack Musselman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Bach Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebinding Kelly, For active files, I have seen this is the case. I was not aware that after a file was marked inactive by the client that the inactive file was examined or changed by the client? What process on the server then would change the management class for inactive files? I am not indicating that it does or does not, but I would like to better understand this aspect or rebinding a management class. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebinding Yes. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gianni Garda Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rebinding Hello, I have a node associated to a policy domain named XXX with only one policy set(active),one Mgmclass and a backup copy group with verexist=5 and retextra=30. If I update my node to a new policy domain YYY with same configuration but with verexist=4 and retextra=90 and start a backup are my old backups rebound to new mgmclass or not ? Thanks in advance -- Gianni Garda ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: On-Bar restore error.
What log is the error in? An error out of context has no meaning. The information below is good. The 3.1 client may not be able to authenticate with the 4.1 server. I know a 3.1.0.7 client in some instances cannot talk to a 4.1.4 server. Jeff -Original Message- From: Jason Morgan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. Hi George, Thanks for replying. I am actually a Sys Admin working in conjuction with a DBA. We are actually trying to restore a backup taken from another server to a new instance on another server. The source server is an RS/6000 running ADSM API 3.1.06 and ADSM 3.1 . The target server is RS/6000 AIX 4.2.1 TSM 4.1 and API 3.1.20.8 One question that the DBA mentioned was whether the DbSpace number ( Column 2 ) in the onstat -d report has any relevance. This is the only difference he can see at the moment. As part of the testing, we successfully manage to perform a full back up / restore of an empty instance. This suggest that API /TSM is correctly configured. Many thanks. Jason George Lesho [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 21/01/2002 15:37:53 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: On-Bar restore error. You didn't mention whether you were trying to restore a backup of the Informix instance to itself or the backup was coming from another server. If you are trying to restore a backup taken on a server to that server, I don't know if you are the sys admin or dba of that server as well as the storage admin. If you are only the storage admin, the 33rd dbspace may have been modified by adding a device (chunk). You also didn't mention the platform type but if it is a UNIX box, go to the /dev dir and see if a device has been added (check file date/time) since the backup was made. If a device has been added to support a new chunk for the dbspace 33, then you will need to rebuilt the instance to be the same as when the backup was made. If the backup was made on another machine / instance, check the devices on the donating machine to see if the number of chunks is consistant with the machine to be backed up to... use onstat -d as the instance owner... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/21/2002 08:42:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: On-Bar restore error. All, I have the following error when trying to restore an Informix using On-Bar Out-of-sequence errors. 32 DBSpaces restore ok but the process fails on the 33rd DbSpace. Regards Jason ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: versioning / expiring / multiple backups under same nodename
Run a local backup on M1, M2, and M3 that backs up the data that is not failed over. Run a shared1 and shared2 backup on all systems that backups up the data on the system it exists on. ie: M1 /usr /var / /opt M2 /usr /var / /opt M3 shared1 /u /shareddata run a script to determine if the disk is available and back it up to shared1 if it is same on shared2 Sched all local and shared scripts under the node M1,2,3 This buys 1. Data backs up always under the same nodename 2. Filesystem last backup stats can be used to determine backup success (to doubt check unreliable scheduler status) Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew James [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: versioning / expiring / multiple backups under same nodename Thanks, but, the mechanics of the failovers etc.. is fine. only 1 machine will be failed over at any one time. I'll try and clarify; M1 and M2 share some common filespace / dirpath names. M3 is failover machine. Normal; M1 backs up to tsm under node M1, M2 backs up to TSM under node M2, M3 backs up to TSM under nodename M3. if M1 fails over to M3, M3 will now capture M1's files form the shared disk unde hte nodename M3, M1 backs up, but cannot see the shared disk area, so TSM marks all the shared disk files under nodename M1 as inactive. That goes on for a couple of days. Then M1 fails back to M1. M3 backs up, all M1's shared disk files go inactive under nodename M3, and become active files again on M1 under nodename M1. ..Then(!) M2 fails over to M2. The above process is repeated, but is complicated bacause M3 shares filespace names with M1, so, any duplicate filenames will back up and increase the version count of that file under nodename M3; but the version count will be too high as it counts versions from both M1 and M2. This will cause the files to expire earlier than they would have done from M3 than if they had only ever been backed up under the original machine nodename. ..Does anyone follow this? :-/ basically (!) M1, M2 share dirpaths and filenames. The actual data is unique to each machine and is held on a slice of disk that only that machine has access to. M3 is a failover. When a machine is failed over to M3, that machines slice of disk is mounted on M3. The original machine still backs up, but can only see it's local O/S disk. M3 runs backups of all the disk it can see each evening, under the nodename M3. So, if M1 is failed over, its files are backed up under the nodename M3. ..So far, no problem. If you know what days you were failed over you can just get the files from the M3 nodename using -pitd / -pitt or -pick But, M1 fails back to M1, and then M2 fail over to M3. When M3 backs up, it will see M2's disk and save it under the nodename M3. PROBLEM! The shared filespace names between M2 and M1 will now cause TSM to mark files inactive, or back them up creating versions / expirations that should not be happening. Arg! Can anyone see what I'm getting at? -Original Message- From: Anderson F. Nobre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: versioning / expiring / multiple backups under same nodename Hi, I have a customer who wishes to assess the maximum risk he would incurr in the following situation; We have a copygroup for backup set for 31 day point-in-time recovery. We do not have nolimit for any copygoup parameters - we assume there will only be a single backup each day. The customer has a 5 node cluster. 1 - 4 are production machines, 5 is a failover machine. They would like to know the risk involved when, should a machine be failed over to 5, they back up the data now visible to 5 under the nodename of 5 instead of the original machines nodename, the original machine continues to run a backup as well (this would only see local disk, as a portion of the failed over machines disk is now visible to 5, and hence mark all the non-visible files as inactive) We have told them backups would become inconsistent within filespaces that have the same names across machines, and showed them how fiddly it would be to restore a machine if they had only had one failover occurr in a 31 day period. They would like to know exactly what the risks are if they have multiple failovers within a month, and have multiple machines backing up same-named files under a single nodename!! It depends how the cluster is configured. The TSM Client must be part of the resource group and inside of dsm.sys you must create several stanzas with the TCPPort and nodename forced to diferent numbers and names. And when you start the TSM Client Scheduler you must force the right dsm.opt with -optfile option. They won't take 'It won't work' as a answer
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
A console switch shows the console output as if local for UNIX. They work for NT also. Trouble shooting for NT: reboot, reboot, rebuild... come on ... am I wrong ? Jeff -Original Message- From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Tony Tony Tony... Do I long for the good ole days of VMS I use to love programming in DCL.. hehe Every time I hear people bragging about clustering (Microsoft or Novell) I can't help thinking back to VMS and laugh... now that was a cluster... -Original Message- From: MORGAN TONY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? I did VMS support for about 20 years... NT grows on you. You don't need a mouse - but it is a useful tool. Most of us in teckyland have high speed comms. Does unix have a worthy dial up telnet app included as standard?? Can you see the console output as if local? Long live comprehensive quality operating systems. W2K etc. make NT look like a cruddy first attempt. The TSM web I/F is processor/OS independant. ... Ooops! Have I started a fight?? -Original Message- From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 January 2002 17:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? NT easier to use? Surely you jest. How can something be easier to use when you can't administer it without a mouse, and you need a high speed connection and 3rd party software to administer it remotely at all? - Kai. Date:Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:23:04 -0500 From:Remeta, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark This e-mail and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. The content of this e-mail may have been changed without the consent of the originator. The information supplied must be viewed in this context. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify our Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 20-7444-8444. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Disaster Recovery...Has anyone really successfully done testi ng?
That is long restore ... 2 years. :) Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: James healy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Upgrade or new install??
You may need to also define a seperate scratch and private category for the new ADSM server. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Bazuin R. (Ronald) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade or new install?? Hendrik, So maybe you should upgrade first an then start an second TSM-server. Then migrate all your servers to the second one an finally delete the old tsm-server. Ronald Bazuin Fortis Insurrance NL -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02-01-02 16:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade or new install?? How to run multiple TSM Server on 1 machine: - create a new directory for the dsmserv.opt - copy and adjust the dsmserv.opt - format and initialize new db and log volumes - DSMSERV_DIR environment variable points to server executable directory - Make sure TCPPORT (1502) and HTTPPORT (1582) are unique on each server - Alter rc.adsmserv scripts to start each. Regards, Demetrius Malbrough UNIX/TSM Administrator -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade or new install?? Upgrade or new install depends on whether you need any of your old backup data or not. Typically when I do an ADSM to TSM upgrade (I am in the midst of one now for a customer) I do a combination of an upgrade and a new install. What I mean by that is that I save the ADSM/TSM database and recovery log, but uninstall the ADSM code and reinstall the new TSM code. I choose to do this because it changes the directory structure of the installation to the Tivoli paths instead of the old IBM paths. I then upgrade the database and am able to restore all of my customer's old data. Yet it is possible to run 2 or more TSM servers on 1 machine. Take a look at the quick start guide for a brief description on how to do this. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Henrik Hansson Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrade or new install?? Hello, Just need some advice to push me in the right direction. I am currently running ADSM 3.1 (stoneage I know) with a IBM3570 Magstar. We have bought TSM version 4.2 and IBM3583 that I will install. What would the advice be to upgrade the old version of ADSM or to make a complete new installation?? A second question is, is it possible to run 2 dsm servers on the same system at the same time?..would be just temporarely. We run this on a RS6000 with AIX 4.3 Med vänliga hälsningar / Best Regards Henrik Hansson Albany Door Systems AB Tel + 46 35 14 73 00 Fax + 46 35 14 73 99 Web; www.albanydoorsystems.com Mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***DISCLAIMER*** Deze e-mail is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen is niet toegestaan. Fortis sluit iedere aansprakelijkheid uit die voortvloeit uit electronische verzending. This e-mail is intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be passed on to, or made available for use by any person other than the addressee(s). Fortis rules out any and every liability resulting from any electronic transmission. 04** ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Restore Rights
On a UNIX client, if you give them permissions to run dsmc, the only files they have access to are their own. Or the files they normally have permissions too to on the client. They cannot pull back root access only files, etc. This is what I have experienced. I am not sure of any holes or the extent this works with Novell. Loggin as the user and test this out for Novell. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Bruce Kamp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restore Rights Is there a way to give a person rights to olny restore 1 directory on a file server? I'm running TSM 4.1.3 on AIX node is Netware 4.11. Thanks, --- Bruce D. Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System P:(954) 987-2020 x6008 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: ADSM/TMS client on NCR Unix 3.02
Not supported. Worked on 3.1.0.7 and 3.1.0.8 ADSM client code. Can also backup to 4.1.4 server. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Rosa Leung/Toronto/IBM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: ADSM/TMS client on NCR Unix 3.02 Does ADSM or TSM support NCR Unix 3.02? Please reply asap. Thanks. Rosa Leung Distributed Storage Services Tel: (416) 490-5151 Fax: (416) 490-5283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] BK02/245/TOR _ IBM Global Services ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts)
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/datenhaltung/adsm/link/tsm-v42-books/ref erence/anrar402.htm#HDRSEARCHMPQ http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/datenhaltung/adsm/link/tsm-v42-books/re ference/anrar402.htm#HDRSEARCHMPQ Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Remco Post [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts) In the Tivoli Administrators guide. Where is SEARCHMPQUEUE documented ? Karel Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/19/2001 03:48:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts) Put SEARCHMPQUEUE in de dsmserv.opt and the number of tapemount will reduce drasticly! -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008Fax. +31 20 668 3167 I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Incremental forever -- any problems?
Except when the time changes sometimes. (daylight savings time, etc.) :-) Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? ??? Wrong. TSM does not take full backups automatically. -Original Message- From: prakash mathur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Hi As per documents you can take 32 incremental backups only and if you keep on taking incremental after that 33rd backup is taken as full automatically. Even if you have not taken full backup it is taken by default. P.C.Mathur From: Jeff Bach Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:20:06 -0600 Once you have the basics covered (bare-metal, disaster recovery, make sure to keep the correct data) To restore faster, goals should be 1. Multiple threads (how can I use 5 tape drives restoring data at once) Solutions: two copies of all data, break up client restore, multithreaded API restore, increase amount of hardware, collocation by filespace 2. Minimize time WAITING for tape mounts and spinning through tapes. Solutions: collocation by node, full backups, separate data into separate storage pools 3. Eliminate database bottle necks Solutions: Increase database cache, spread across more spindles, create separate database instances, more paths to spindles 4. Push the throughput bottleneck down to the client Solution: cache data to disk, bigger server, Gigabit ethernet on server, switched network, multiple threads on restore Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? We have the opposite situation - we have fast robotics and use collocation. With collocation on fast tape, it doesn't matter whether you are doing 2 weeks or 2 years of data, a restore takes the same amount of time. Doing periodic fulls doesn't refresh anything, from TSM's point of view - the original backups are still in the TSM DB and still available, even if they are 5 years old. If you do periodic fulls, you have to retransmit everything over the network again, and you have to adjust your policies to make sure you allow those redundant versions to be kept; you increase the size of your DB and the amount of reclaims you have to do. Doing periodic fulls would do nothing whatever for us, except bog down the network. I suggest you try doing a large restore to test your own capabilities. If you can't restore in a timely fashion, FIRST figure out what your bottleneck is before you decide to fix it by doing full backups. Then if you find out you still can't do restores in a timely fashion, at least check out the use of BACKUPSETS. They give you all the client's active data on one tape, without retransmitting all the data, and without creating an extra zillion entries in your DB. -Original Message- From: Tim Melly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Adam, We were only doing incrementals and we had a situation where we had to restore a Novell server. The restore had to go through two years worth of incremental tapes to complete the restore. I would strongly recommend doing periodic fulls (and colocation) unless you have a SLA which allows for extremely long restores. Regards, Tim NAFTA IS Technical Operations (203) 812-3469 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam J Boyer
Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM
Andy, This is not actually the oldest session, but the oldest uncommitted transaction. See page 29 of the document this link goes to for a better explanation. This is the same as happens to a SQL database, or others. http://www.share.org/proceedings/sh97/data/S5726.PDF http://www.share.org/proceedings/sh97/data/S5726.PDF Thanks for the link Paul Seay Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Andy Carlson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM The other thing that has bitten us, is not the number of sessions, but the oldest session. We have had backup sessions running 10 hours or more, pinning log data. This pinned log data does not allow the log to shrink, even if you perform a database backup. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Malbrough, Demetrius wrote: One tip, John! Reset the LOGMAXUTILIZATION (RESet LOGMaxutilization) every day to monitor the maximun utilization vs. the current utilization. Set up a SCRIPT or ADMIN SCHEDULE to run a 'q session' 'q process' every 30 mins at night during your backup window to see what how many sessions/processes are running simultaneously. This is because the size of the recovery log depends on the # of concurrent client sessions the number of background processes executing on the server. Also, check the MAXSESSIONS option to make sure it is not set too high! Regards, Demetrius Malbrough UNIX/TSM administrator -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM Thanks to all who responded and helped get our server back up and running. Now comes the task of figuring out what caused the recovery log to fill up in the first place and prevent it from happening again. Does anyone have any tips and tricks on determining what/who is using recovery log space? TIA, John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Nancy Reeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM Here is what I do when the recovery log fills, also on AIX. My notes agree with the person who said that the Extend size has to be a multiple of 4 and 1 less than the DSMFMT size. (What the other person said about max size being 5G, might cause this to not work, though.) If server will not start because the recovery log is full: 1) Find a location for an extra recovery log file 2) DSMFMT -LOG fullfn size1 -- where size1 = 4x+1, where x = 2 3) DSMSERV EXTEND LOG fullfn size2 -- where size2 = size1-1 4) DSMSERV -- to start the server normally 5) Solve the problem that caused the recovery log to fill. 6) After the server is up, either create a mirror for this recovery log or preferably remove it from use. Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860 ** 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
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Information: Has anyone testing restoring data from a primary storage pool and copy storage pool using the same session? Steps: 1. backup data to storage pool 2. create copy storage pool (and copy data) 3. restore data from client. 4. Start another session asking for data on a tape in use in the primary storage pool 5. Does the session wait for the tape or just get it from the copy storage pool? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Incremental forever -- any problems?
Once you have the basics covered (bare-metal, disaster recovery, make sure to keep the correct data) To restore faster, goals should be 1. Multiple threads (how can I use 5 tape drives restoring data at once) Solutions: two copies of all data, break up client restore, multithreaded API restore, increase amount of hardware, collocation by filespace 2. Minimize time WAITING for tape mounts and spinning through tapes. Solutions: collocation by node, full backups, separate data into separate storage pools 3. Eliminate database bottle necks Solutions: Increase database cache, spread across more spindles, create separate database instances, more paths to spindles 4. Push the throughput bottleneck down to the client Solution: cache data to disk, bigger server, Gigabit ethernet on server, switched network, multiple threads on restore Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? We have the opposite situation - we have fast robotics and use collocation. With collocation on fast tape, it doesn't matter whether you are doing 2 weeks or 2 years of data, a restore takes the same amount of time. Doing periodic fulls doesn't refresh anything, from TSM's point of view - the original backups are still in the TSM DB and still available, even if they are 5 years old. If you do periodic fulls, you have to retransmit everything over the network again, and you have to adjust your policies to make sure you allow those redundant versions to be kept; you increase the size of your DB and the amount of reclaims you have to do. Doing periodic fulls would do nothing whatever for us, except bog down the network. I suggest you try doing a large restore to test your own capabilities. If you can't restore in a timely fashion, FIRST figure out what your bottleneck is before you decide to fix it by doing full backups. Then if you find out you still can't do restores in a timely fashion, at least check out the use of BACKUPSETS. They give you all the client's active data on one tape, without retransmitting all the data, and without creating an extra zillion entries in your DB. -Original Message- From: Tim Melly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Adam, We were only doing incrementals and we had a situation where we had to restore a Novell server. The restore had to go through two years worth of incremental tapes to complete the restore. I would strongly recommend doing periodic fulls (and colocation) unless you have a SLA which allows for extremely long restores. Regards, Tim NAFTA IS Technical Operations (203) 812-3469 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam J Boyer adam.j.boyerTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @FRB.GOVcc: Sent by: Subject: Incremental forever -- any problems? ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 12/17/2001 09:31 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hey, Our management is wondering if it's safe to just do incrementals forever, or whether we should try to do a forced full every few months to keep things fresh. Our experience has been that the incremental system works great-- we once restored a whole raid 5 array, with many files from years ago. But, nonetheless, I'd appreciate any stories or testaments to help build a case. Thanks much, adam ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible?
Our CE had to change a setting on the 3590E tape drives to allow them to write to the double length tapes. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? 3590E normal tapes long tapes ? ? ? are you referring to J tapes K tapes ? (that is all I know of...) J tapes are 3590-B1A tapes which may be written to by 3590-E1A tape drives (a reformat is performed) and K tapes are the 3590-E1A tapes from the start... If this is the case, yes, you can have both in an ATL that is loaded with 3590-E1A tape drives... OK, my ~technical~ term here... those little plastic do-ma-hickies that are blue on J tapes, white on cleaning tapes and green on K tapes have recesses in them that are in different locations and indicate to the tape drive which type of media is in the drive... You don't have to do anything special... Dwight -Original Message- From: Rooij, FC de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? In our library IBM-3494 are 3490E tape-units. This library will reach its limits for the number of cartridges. We think of replacing the 3490E normal tapes by long-tapes. Does TSM support a mix of different tapes? If so, is it necessary to make modification in e.i. hardware(3490E modification?) or in TSM-settings. Are there pitfalls? Kindest regards, Fred de Rooij ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Domains Question
I agree with most of what Paul says, except that multiple domains are required. His arguments are traditional, but you can also provide all functionality needed with a single domain. Separate data and definitions with management classes and client options sets. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Domains Question Actually, a domain has nothing specifically to do with a storage pool. The deal is the clients are using a default policy domain management class. This management class has a backup group associated with it which can only go to one primary storage pool, maybe a next pool, etc. Multiple management classes could be put under the current policy domain with a new management class (at least in V4 you can do this). But, this requires the dsm.opt file on each client to specify management classes, which is probably not what you want. If you change the policy domain of the clients to new ones with different storage pools you can move the data to the new storage pools and a rebind to the new management class will occur on the first backup. I recommend you setup a little test server to test out everything before you try this on a production server. Now for your real question. How many policy domains? Policy domains relate to your business objectives and need to separate data into default management classes easily. Some of the TDPs (Oracle, Exchange, SQL Server, DB2, etc) require/recommend separate policy domains from the client backup which you probably do not have implemented. I will give you an example. Say you have three areas of business: Office Automation Manufacturing Engineering These could have the same or different server platforms but are distinct business entities. It would probably be prudent to separate them into separate policy domains and storage pools for recovery purposes. You may want to break them down further. As technicians we think in server OS terms AIX, IRIX, Windows, Netware, Solaris, etc., but that is not necessarily the right business model because many times an environment crosses many platforms. The other example that may seem dumb is we use AIX/Windows TSM servers. We send them to their own storage pools just to isolate the restore tapes easily for disaster recovery reasons. Which ultimately, is how your policy organization may come out for your business. The technical reason for several policy domains is TSM administration security. You can segment who can touch what and do to what by policy domain. The TSM Administrator's guide makes a real good book to put you to sleep at night. You should use it for about a week. It will really help you get a handle on the reasons for policy domains and storage pools. In the end, your real question has to do with how many storage pools do you need. That is where you categorize your data by whether collocation makes sense, reclamation makes sense, etc. This is a balancing act. The more storage pools you have the more you have to manage. Pick the proper granularity. In my case I have about 5 primary disk pools, 15 primary tape pools, and 15 copy tape pools, but I have a 40TB, 250+ many platform server environment, with requirements to segregate customer data and all sorts of requirements. Some of my tape pools are the primary and there are no disk pools in the middle. We use a lot of SAN managed tape. -Original Message- From: Bill Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Domains Question Folks... ADSM 3.1 was implemented in my shop about 5 years ago (on a mainframe server). At the time, we had 5 Netware Clients, and about 7 AIX Clients, so it made sense to create two domains - one for each platform.As in most shops, we've experienced an Open Systems growth explosion, to the point where I now have approx 30 Netware clients, and 60 UNIX clients, still defined to the original two domains. My server is TSM 4.1, running on S/390. My storage pools for the two domains - from disk to copy pool to offsite tape storage have all grown huge. My feeling is that maintaining the entire environment within two domains is inefficient - backups, migrations
Re: One server, two ip-addresses
The ADSM server listens on a port, not a specific interface. Use any interface you want. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Wouter V [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: One server, two ip-addresses So, this method is really quite often used ? Great ! So you don't need any special configuration to let the TSM Server listen on all the NIC's in de machine ? Cool. Regards, Wouter Verschaeve. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Remco Post Verzonden: dinsdag 20 november 2001 14:04 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: One server, two ip-addresses Hoi, we have our TSM server running with 4 nic's without any problems. We don't have anything special configured... Hello, Does anybody know if a single TSM server can listen on different ip-adresses (on different nic's) ? Or do you need to run multiple instances on one machine ? TSM Server Config example : Listening for backup data on NIC1 : 192.168.10.10:1500 and on NIC2 : 10.10.10.10:1500 + other nic for normal lan traffic Just wondering if adding extra LAN cards in every client to increase the total bandwith, is a cheap alternative for SAN environments. For example : client config with 3 NIC's : NIC1 : regular client traffic NIC2 : for online database backup (scheduler 1) (backup lan 1) NIC3 : for backup of regular file (scheduler 2) (backup lan 2) 2 x 100 Mbit bandwith to backup Any remarks about this ? I agree, it isn't a good alternative, but I was just wondering if this is possible ? Thanks ! Wouter Verschaeve -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008Fax. +31 20 668 3167 I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: One server, two ip-addresses
What measurement tools do you use to determine this throughput number? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: One server, two ip-addresses We have one that uses three (3). Two fast ethernet one GB. You have to remember that your standard TCP/IP routing is what determines how these boxes talk ! Client traffic will go in which ever interface you point to and will return out to the client based on standard routing in the system (but will go back to the ip in the received packets). Back when we built our environments SAN wasn't really around so we built a sudo-SAN. Works great ! Our busiest S70 TSM server (just 2 processors 1 GB memory) seems to max out at about 60-ish GB/hr of inbound compressed client data (actually kind of hard to find enough clients to push more than that ;-) but I need to check recent #'s ) (so during DB backups, that is about 240 GB/hr of client file spaces being backed up) Is this good or bad ? ? ? It is just what we see and it serves our needs ! Dwight -Original Message- From: Wouter V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: One server, two ip-addresses Hello, Does anybody know if a single TSM server can listen on different ip-adresses (on different nic's) ? Or do you need to run multiple instances on one machine ? TSM Server Config example : Listening for backup data on NIC1 : 192.168.10.10:1500 and on NIC2 : 10.10.10.10:1500 + other nic for normal lan traffic Just wondering if adding extra LAN cards in every client to increase the total bandwith, is a cheap alternative for SAN environments. For example : client config with 3 NIC's : NIC1 : regular client traffic NIC2 : for online database backup (scheduler 1) (backup lan 1) NIC3 : for backup of regular file (scheduler 2) (backup lan 2) 2 x 100 Mbit bandwith to backup Any remarks about this ? I agree, it isn't a good alternative, but I was just wondering if this is possible ? Thanks ! Wouter Verschaeve ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Informix restore using TSM
Onbar -r will restore the Informix database to the last log that was backed up. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Informix restore using TSM Theresa, I do Informix restores all the time. You are correct about the old ADSM product... it did supply a shared library. TSM does not. The shared library is a generic library that onbar talks to to make its tape requests known to TSM. TSM merely keeps track of where the backups are that are to be restored and onbar does most of the work. Backups are done in several ways, depending on the arguements to the onbar command. Backups done with a -L specify a level and you can think of these as more or less incremental backups. I say that because Informix logical logs, which are probably being backed up to allow you to restore to a point in time. This point in time is specified in the onbar restore arguements (hope you have an Informix Onbar Backup and Restore Guide. The other way you can back up your system is using the whole_system argument in the backups. Then, you can do a whole_system restore. I think these work a tad better but either method will work. How do you backup the database? I would guess a script is used which calls the onbar script that Informix provides along with arguments. If you send me this info offline, we may be able to figure this out. Drop me a note at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Lesho AFC Enterprises Sarver, Theresa (Osky Unix Administrator) [EMAIL PROTECTED] @VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/20/2001 10:33:57 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Informix restore using TSM Hello; We are in a 3-tier environment: Server1 - Informix Database 7.24 UC5 and TSM 4.1.1 server Server2 - Baan IVb3 The TSM client on Server1 (that Informix connects with) is using an old [ADSM] version...3.8 - I believe? This was done because it was the only way Informix would connect to TSM without having to purchase TDP for Informix. (not my choice, nor was I part of that decision) Anyway... This morning Server1 crashed - we lost the I/O board. While I await IBM's arrival with the replacement part I am contemplating the worst...having to restore Informix. I am fairly new to this job and have never restored Informix (or anything else for that matter) with TSM. Three years ago when Informix and ADSM were brought online a full database restore was preformed and it was successful...but other than that I do not believe it has been done since. The person who was incharge of TSM and Informix abruptly left the firm and I got stuck administering them. ;) If anyone out there has ever preformed an Informix restore would you be so kind and to provide me with some steps. I'd welcome any help anyone has to offer at this point. Thank you; Theresa ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files
An include statement will associate a file or structure with a management class, but how do you make it archive rather than backup? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files Joel, Not sure what you mean by an onbar log. Are you talking about the Informix logical logs? If so, put them in an archive management class/copy group along with your database backups. Each logical log has a unique file name so efforts to expire them if you use backup type management class/copy groups can be frustrating. As an archive, they will expire in a finite number of days (pre copy group rules for the mgmt class). Since you didn't mention how you did your backups, I can't help you with how to pin the archive management class to the backup. I use SQL BackTrack for Informix and they do it when you build one of their backup pools (not to be confused with TSM stgpools). If you are not using BMC SBTI for a storage manager and are only using TSM, then you may be able to do it in an incl statement. Not sure how TDP for Informix does it... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Joel Fuhrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/19/2001 05:46:34 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files I'm looking for a script or method to expire onbar logs. If you have one, would you please share it. Back in January 1999, Christoph Martin shared a routine with the adsm list which would expire a file. I wrapped his routine in a perl script which selected the old log file. This worked great until Tivoli improved the backup library, added it to the TDP line and started charging the big bucks for it. Now Christoph's routine fails with the error: *** BSAInit failed: (12) An entry in the environment structure is invalid I've tried rebuilding it with the newest API but that didn't help. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Version 3.1 client on HPUX 10.2
3.1 is the latest version of ADSM to support 10.20 clients. The schedule function works good. Make sure you cycle the scheduler on the client if an issue occurs. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: James healy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: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 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Collocation - on or off
Limit the maxscratch to the number of tapes you want the collocated storage pool to use. Watch the PCT Utilization of the storage pool to determine if more tapes are needed. I like to keep it under 35%. Make sure you continue to reclaim the tapes as usual. When a tape is marked FULL, more data is not written to until it is reclaimed. Ie: A storage pool with 100 tapes 10% used and each is in FULL status can receive no more data. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Luke Dahl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Collocation - on or off Hi, We're trying to determine if we should use collocation on a system we plan to put into production shortly. My question is whether or not it's possible to turn collocation on and specify the number of nodes assigned to a tape. The reason I ask is because we expect the addition of approximately 2,500 nodes, with the majority being workstations. The media we will be using are extended tapes holding up to 70GB compressed. If we collocate and a individual tape is assigned to each workstation we will waste all of that space (assuming each node will have about 10GB aggregate over the expected subscription period) right? Will TSM allow for shared tapes if there aren't enough tapes for each node? YES What about if there aren't any scratch tapes in the library and a new node is added? YES Thanks in advance! Luke ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM Server locking
Does Tivoli analyze of root cause this problem for ANY of its customers? Or did they just reboot the UNIX systems or bounce the ADSM application? One root cause is the ADSM/TSM server not being able to recover from the failure of an OS call. This is specifically the case when waiting for library manager commands to return. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Subash, Chandra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM Server locking Try rebooting ur server . If it happens again apply a patch or contact tivoli -Original Message- From: Gabriel Wiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server locking Becky, I have experienced that before. What I found out was, I had 2 lmcpd daemons running. No library communication from TSM, I could see the Library from AIX. (TSM got confused and hung itself) That does not seem to be the case for you unless you shutdown the physical server? . ? When it came back up it started fresh daemons ?? I killed te daemon processes, then halted TSM and brought it back up. Worked for me. 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 Davidson, Becky [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 11/13/2001 06:14:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM Server locking I am running tsm server 4.1.2 aix 4.3.3 12 3590E1A in a 3494 TDP for R/3 3.2.06 This past weekend at 16:00 my backup started by backing up my archive logs to disk. It opened 10 of 11 threads and then did absolutely nothing else. Other processes started during the night and anything that did not require a tape drive ran and completed successfully (dr tape courier to vault, expiration, various admin commands) but anything that needed a drive opened and did nothing more. I discovered it Sunday morning around 11 by logging in, noticing the problem and doing a q dr. It never returned. I have had a similar situation before and my experience has said if you do a q dr and it doesn't return recycle the TSM Server. I did that and everything continued to normal but I have no idea why this happened. I am honestly not sure where to look. Is it TDP? Is it the TSM Server? Is it something to do with the tape drives? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions Becky Davidson Data Manager/AIX Administrator EDS/Sara Lee Bakery Group voice: 314-259-7589 fax: 314-877-8589 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Server Database Performance
I agree with Wanda and other comments. 1. Have EMC check on writes pending on the physical disk spindles that contain your database. A disk issue can hang you. 2. I would forget the load/unload. 3. Creating new database volumes and deleting the old will not reorg the database (which is what a load/unload does) 4. I would not go below 32 DB volumes (inside ADSM) with 300 clients) The bottom line is, if the database is slow (watch for client excessively in RUN state), make what is under it faster according to certain ADSM rules. Suggestions:1. Get off RAID5 2. More Spindles 3. Get some other load out of the path to your IO (Fiber Adapter, Host Adapter, spindle, cache) You are running a 21st century Database, so work around the problem with hardware. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Server Database Performance %tim_act certainly is a really bad thing and indicates a problem. If you have 88 DB volumes, I think that means TSM can in theory start up to 88 I/Os to the DB, which could certainly cause excessive head thrashing. The problem with the EMC box is that it's hard to tell how those I'O's map to physical disks. You may need to get EMC on site to figure out how to separate that I/O out in the box, or to determine if additional cache in the box will help.. Moving to 8 files of 10 GB in size will NOT do any compaction or reorg, but it has the advantage of reducing the number of I/Os that may occur concurrently, which in your case is probably a good thing. If you could (with EMC's help) make sure those 8 files are on physically separate disks, that should help, unless the problem is that some other host is causing the I/O thrashing in the box. ANother thing to check: q db f=d What is your DB cache hit ratio? You can have a case where the OS shows memory is NOT overcommitted, but still have your TSM buffer pool too small... -Original Message- From: Mubashir Farooqi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server Database Performance I have a TSM/AIX server v4.2.1.6 running under AIX 4.3.3 on an H70. TSM is the only application running on this box. I have about 300 Unix and NT clients backing up close to 500 GB of incremental everyday on this server. TSM server database size is 87.5 GB and 75% utilized. TSM server log size is 5 GB. Clients dump the data into staging area which is 450 GB in size. I have 6 3590E drives in a 3494 library connected to this TSM server. I have one 100 Mbits full duplex network connection. All the disks are EMC disks. For past few months we are seeing performance of TSM server going from bad to worse. Lately the backups have come to crawling halt. For example the NT cluster servers which use to take 6-8 hours to complete the backups now take 20-24 hours or more to complete the backups. All diagnostic and performance data points to problem with database. CPU and memory utilization never exceeds 40-50%. IOSTAT constantly shows %tm_act 100 with very little Kb_read/wrtn. Filemon data for physical volume of database shows seeks 10 times more than seeks for other volumes and init as 0. This TSM server was setup about two year ago. We have never unloaded/reloaded the database or run any form of compaction. Question I have are: what can I do to improve the performance? how long will it take to perform 65 GB database unload/reload? currently the database consists of 88 files each 1 GB in size. If add another set of 8 files 10 GB in size and use dbvol delete command, TSM will move the contents to new set of volumes. Will this process do any compaction and improve the database performance? Thanks in advance Mubashir Farooqi World Bank, HQ ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: equivalent of -virtualnodename for onbar
Arnaud, Disable the backup of logical logging on the system to be restored to. Change the dsm.sys file for the API. (ie:/usr/adsm/api/dsm.sys). Now do the restore. The data stored by ADSM does not change due to a restore. You could define 1000 clients as your HACMP Informix DB nodename and as long as you don't backup any data on them, the data stored by ADSM does not change. Even if you do backup Informix data accidentally, the backup of the data you are restoring from is still good becuase Informix on a restore will ask for specific objects. The data accidentally backed up under the wrong node name is most likely not retrievable by onbar though or very difficult. We do this all the time, with HACMP and Service Guard systems. If this does not help, please specify concerns. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: equivalent of -virtualnodename for onbar Hi *SM'ers, A still unresolved question : is there any way modyfiying onbar to have it restoring files created on a different node ? As far as I understood it, it seems onbar looks in dsm.sys file for finding the hostname it's going to use. I need a trick to bypass this, without having to modify my local dsm.sys file (cross restore from an HACMP'ed informix db, back to it's original place, but the backup node is hosting an other informix db that uses onbar too, so I can't modify dsm.sys). Any help appreciated TIA. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78/Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: configuring TSM with HACMP and informix : help needed
You don't. Run a level 0 backup after the fail over. Restore this to the secondary system. (You WILL in most every instance need to restore the Informix database on the secondary system. And this must be completed prior to the roll-over of the Informix logs to allow easy synchronization of the databases between primary and secondary. ADSM will give onbar back any object it asks for accociated with the nodename, filespace, and ADSM server requested. Onbar on the other hand will have difficulties pausing after half of the logical logs are restore, switching any one of these parameters and restarting the restore. You would need to be able to run an Informix restore to a certain log number, stop the restore(bring down onbar to re-read the dsm.sys file again), change the dsm.sys file and onconfig(engine bounce) then continue to roll forward of logs. I have not found that Informix can accomplish this. If you would like to pursue further, I would suggest verifying that Informix cannot continue a restore under the conditions above. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: configuring TSM with HACMP and informix : help needed Hi *'SM Gurus ! A probably easy question for anybody involved in this kind of installation : we are planing to install HACMP between two AIX boxes, let's call them A and B. The A box is hosting an informix db, wich is doing it's online backups thru onbar, using it's own dsm.sys with hostname A. The B box is also hosting an informix db, wich also has it's own online backup, using it's own dsm.sys, hostname B. Imagine the A box fails : machine B will automatically relay it, and temporarily host the A informix db. Problem is as follows : what about a restoration of my informix db back to sytem A ? Probably a full level 0 backup was made at the time the db was on server A, but all intermediary logs (logical logs) have been made as my informix db was hosted on system B : how do I do a restore of my db if part of the files belong hostname A and other part hostname B ? Do I need to install two different instances of tsm on each node, to be able to do my restore ? Lots of questions in fact, and absolutely no idea how to do it ! :-(( I'm not an informix specialist nor HACMP, so please, if you give me some infos, try to be as basical as possible ;-) Many many thanks in advance to any informix-hacmp god(esss) willing to help me ! Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78/Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: server is running, but cannot make any connections to it
try changing the local client to use a shared memory connection. Then try to login. To get root cause, kill -11 will create a core dump. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: server is running, but cannot make any connections to it Try waiting some arbitrary amount of time (10-20 min.) of inactivity and then all that is left to do is to kill the process. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles Anderson Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server is running, but cannot make any connections to it Folks, I have much bad problem.. We're running tsm server 4.1.4 on solaris 2.6. The dsmserv process is still running, but I can't make any client ( administrative or backup ) connections to it. I'm about to call support, but I was wondering if anyone on the list was perhaps awake already and had some experienced suggestions as to a relatively painless path to take to recover from this. Thanks, ed Ed Anderson Backup / Unix Systems Administrator Dept. of Information Systems University of Mississippi Medical Center + The information in this email is considered confidential information. In the event that you received this email by misdelivery/accident please delete it and disregard its contents. + ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: 3590 fiber/scsi
No issues with a library having SCSI and Fiber drivers. TSM has the issues you describe below. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3590 fiber/scsi Does anyone run their 3494 with a combination of scsi and fiber drives? If so do you see any issues with this? Tivoli tells me there are no issues. I have 4 SCSI and 2 newly installed fiber drives. I see there are times TSM reports a dismount failure, always on only those 2 drives. Sometimes the tape is still in the drive, yet TSM does not make the drive unavailable. The mounts seem to take much longer to accomplish on the fiber drives. Sometimes processes kick off and have mounts reserved waiting for the completion of mounting the tape but it just doesn't happen. Like this one, still waitingand it's the only thing happening. ANR8379I Mount point in device class 3590CLASS is waiting for the volume mount to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME. 2 Database Backup Full backup: 0 pages of 3745593 backed up. Waiting for mount of scratch volume (920 seconds). Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: 4.1.5.*
Joshua, We are currently at 4.1.4.4. Issues occur at this level involving library sharing and SAN attached devices. 4.1.5 written to fix. Just trying to find out if anyone is there yet and what they have seen. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 4.1.5.* Jeff, I only see 4.1.4.1 code out here, where did you see that the TSM servers were at 4.1.5? -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Bach Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4.1.5.* All, Is anyone running 4.1.5 TSM Server code? At all would be nice to know. Specifically on AIX would be ideal. Any issues? Good things? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM 4.2.1
The problem with database backups, migrations failing and not waiting for tape drives existed in 4.1.2.0 also. If TSM attempts to access a scratch tape and cannot read the label, the tape is marked private. I have seen this issue due to label libvol failures. What specific problem did they identify in the TSM code that was causing these issues? Or are they just suggesting to try our cew code? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:TSM 4.2.1 To all, I contacted Tivoli today regarding the PMR I have open. I don't know if this affects all platforms but on AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1 about every 3 days I can count of a core dump of TSM, last night was the latest. According to Tivoli they want me to change one parameter in the dsmserv.opt file, RESOURCETIMEOUT. Default is 10, they want me to change it to 20 to work around the problem for now. I will do that and see how it performs. They opened a APAR on it, IC31884 in case anyone is interested. Even if this does help I still have the annoying tape problem issue on the 3494. Again, I don't know if this affects those running TSM on NT or WIN2K with a 3494. On AIX I've had database backups fail because all the drives were busy, Migration and backup tape processes fail because all the drives were busy. Mount errors and failures, dismount failures yet the tape is dismounted anyway, mtlib showing all the tapes that were scratch now private and all the tapes private now scratch. DRM saying all the tapes were ejected yet some left in with a status of mountable, yet TSM asking for me to insert the tape. TSM reporting tapes unavailable or destroyed yet queried as available and in read write status. This fix, I was told, would be out Friday or Monday.we'll see. What a mess. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: SAN Info
Please list the specific hardware / OS being used in general. RS6000, Brocade, Connectrix, EMC, 3590, LTO, HP ? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SAN Info I have a few SAN configuration questions as it relates to my TSM server. I was wondering if someone who is very familiar with SAN and TSM could contact me either through email or by phone, I am also willing to call. We are in the process of setting one up from scratch. Parts are just arriving and I need to make sure I have all my thoughts together. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
4.1.5.*
All, Is anyone running 4.1.5 TSM Server code? At all would be nice to know. Specifically on AIX would be ideal. Any issues? Good things? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: ITO alarms and TSM error messages
Better: A port connection is a more reliable method of alerting and it is generally real time. Test this on a low impact Server first 1. Enable events tivoli severe 2. Enable events tivoli error 3. disable any events not wanted (this is hard to determine) cmd: disable event tivoli anr0001 (note: no letter on the end) 3. Configure tivoli to point to a local port (loop back and whatever port you want) 4. Write a simple program to monitor this port, receive the alert, change the format and send the error in the format the receiver wants (ITO, Netcool, etc.) 5. Bounce ADSM server to establish the connection. 6. To test connection: enable event tivoli anr2017 7. Run q actlog 8. Watch event receiver for event. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: ITO alarms and TSM error messages I have no idea what ITO is, and my background is AIX rather than Solaris But, look at the ENABLE command in the ADMIN GUIDE and ADMIN reference. You can issue the ENABLE command to cause TSM to forward error messages real time to a receiver such as a Netview/Openview monitoring server via SNMP. But there are other kinds of receivers as well. Instead of forwarding the error messages to the SNMP daemon, you can write them to a flat file, or send them to a user exit program that you create, where you could do anything you want with them. Ive never done the user exit myself, but I've done used SNMP and the flat file method, and they work fine (at least from an AIX TSM server). You can choose to have all messages forwarded by severity (ERROR, SEVERE, WARNING, INFORMATIONAL), or just select the ones you care about by number. Hope that helps.. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert -Original Message- From: Glass, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ITO alarms and TSM error messages We would like to setup an error message monitoring process that sends alarms to the Helpdesk for a select group of error messages, as they occur, in the Solaris TSM Server Activity Log. We normally use ITO for this kind of thing. How can we get a non-TSM error message monitor to listen in on the TSM Server for messages to report -- as they occur? Any ideas or advice would be most welcome! Thanks, in advance. Peter Glass Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company * 612-667-0086 * 866-407-5362 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: SAN Environment
Either. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Mauro Jr, Frank [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SAN Environment We currently point our backups to disk. If we go to a SAN environment can we still use disk or will we have to go to tape? Frank Mauro Backup and Recovery Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone Number: 603.245.3207 Beeper Number: 888.797.0806 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: 3590E1A vs IBM LTO
Data Transfer: Writing from LTO to LTO, LTO to 3590, 3590 to 3590 is all 12-13 megs/sec, DISK to LTO, DISK to 3590 (client compression) Measurements are taken on the Brocade switch (portperfshow) and all drives are fiber. Price: 3 LTO for 1 3590. Tape prices are similar per Gig. Robot cost lower for LTO, frame costs if figured per Terabyte much lower for LTO. Floor space and power costs per Terabyte much lower for LTO. LTO drives are replaced and 3590 are fixed. LTO costs lower anyway. LTO tape drives sold by many vendors. Competition is good. Capacity: client compression (with drive, LTO 2:1 and 3590 3:1) LTO 1 storage cabinet 40 Terabytes (400 tapes *100 Gigs each) 3590 library 6 frames 40 Terabytes approximately. Tapes are smaller and have more capacity for LTO Performance: LTO library robot, much faster, 2-3 times IBM says LTO backhitches more and slower recovery than 3590 (I have not seen) Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Bill Mansfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 3590E1A vs IBM LTO Another issue to be aware of is backhitch time. When your data stream is too slow, the drive has to stop, back up a bit, and continue writing. Magstar drives excel at this, which is why they are touted for HSM and VTS on the mainframe. LTO drives are much poorer at this. Most applications for LTO are write mostly, like straight backup. Also, Magstar drives are more versatile. They can be upgraded from one tape density to another (B to E), you can change their interface from SCSI to FC, etc. Then can also be used in mixed mainframe/open environments. LTO drives are generally locked into their original configuration (remains to be seen what happens when next generation density comes out). There is a performance paper out there somewhere on Magstar vs. LTO performance. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc 630 357 7744 x338 Zosimo Noriega To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] znoriega@ADNcc: OC.COM Subject: 3590E1A vs IBM LTO Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 10/21/2001 04:36 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We are planning to upgrade ADSM to TSM 4.1 and then currently we are using 3494 library with 4 3590B1A drives. Then, we are looking to upgrade or replace the drives into 3590E1A or IBM LTO. Anybody can share from the experience using these drives. and which is the best in terms of performance, availability, cost, data transfer rate, capacity, etc. thanks a lot in advance. reagrds, Zosi Noriega A D N O C IST-ITD DMSS Tel - 6024987 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: kernel extension problem???
If you are not using HSM, remove the filesets and reboot. To check if they need to be removed lslpp -l | grep -I hsm Swlist -l fileset | grep -I hsm If they do not show, reboot. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: kernel extension problem??? did you shut down HSM unmount the file system(s) which HSM runs against ? sounds like the HSM code didn't install because it was running. Dwight -Original Message- From: Jason Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: kernel extension problem??? has anyone encountered this message after upgrading client/server from 3.1 to 3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3 maint level 6??? ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel from the user program. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: recovery log is filling up so quickly
Separate the long transactions in the ADSM database (DB2 backup, HUGE files) from the database activity. Especially expires. A single object is still a single transaction of ADSM and pins the log. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Pothula S Paparao [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:recovery log is filling up so quickly Importance: High Hi floks, Strange problem. Recovery log fills up rapidly and causes server to crash. This only seems to occur when DB2 backup happening. I tried backing up Db2 database parellel with 4 session 8 buffers, but of no use. I also tried increasing the log , didnt click. any suggestions. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: LTO 3581 and ADSM 3.1
Functionally 3.1 or above will work with LTO. Just define it as generic tape. It is really just another SCSI device to ADSM. LTO libraries performing with ADSM as designed at any level is questionable. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Gerrit Van Zyl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:LTO 3581 and ADSM 3.1 Hi all TSM'ers I know that LTO is not supported under ADSM 3.1, however, I would like to know if anybody has installed this library and tape drive successfully under ADSM 3.1 and if yes, is the library and tape drive performing as designed or does it performs better with TSM 4.1 or 4.2? 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. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Recover from scratch without BRM
Build SUN server. Load LVM and licensing Restore specific configuration files reboot Restore user applications and data Re-license the applications if they were tied to hardware specific items. reboot Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Demaerel Miguel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Recover from scratch without BRM Hoi ADSM server 3.7 TSM client 3.1.08 on Solaris How can I recover a Solaris machine without the BRM option? I have a full backup of all file systems. I have try it this way, no success. Install Solaris on the new disk. Install the TSM agent (only the core feature) Configure the dsm files. Restore all filesystems with dsmc Core dumps :( Can some help me? Thanks in advance. Greetings Miguel (o o) ==oOO==(_)==OOo== Miguel DEMAEREL Sema Group Managed Services Raketstraat 98 - 1130 Brussel Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 724 93 17 Fax: +32 (0)2 724 92 92 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TXNBytelimit increased (was Re: LTO Tape Drive Performance)
Now that it has been 5.5 months since this problem was identified. Has IBM/Tivoli produced this documentation or are we still learning by osmosis? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TXNBytelimit increased (was Re: LTO Tape Drive Performance) I always thought that 25600 was the limit for txnbyte I looked in the 3.7 unix client manual on the tivoli web site and the limit is 25600. Then I looked in the same manual for 4.1 and sure enough, the limit is 2097152 (= 2 gig). So I have some questions for Tivoli. Did you annonce this change? How are we supposed to find out about it? The unix client manual for 4.1 does not have a summary of changes section. Are we supposed to do a page by page comparison of manuals between versions to find out what changes? This is the kind of info that should have made it into the Technical Guide redbook for the new release, but looks like it didn't. Development should provide a list of changes to the documentation folks, but apparently that isn't happening as thoroughly as it should. Such omissions are self-defeating in failing to promote all the competitive advantages in the new release. What's the story with Development management that so many things are being missed? Less golf - more management. ;-) Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Ignite-UX from L2000 to K series
An L box image will not work. Build the OS with a K box image of the same OS leve. Restore specific configuration files. Reboot. Restore user information. reboot. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Ignite-UX from L2000 to K series We are preparing for a disaster recovery test at a commercial hot site. For HP-UX systems we are hoping to use Ignite-UX to recreate the operating systems and then use TSM to restore application code and data. Two of our production systems run on L2000 systems. At the moment, our hot site vendor is offering us an assortment of K series systems as recovery systems for our test: a K400, two K570s, and a K580. Has anyone done a successful Ignite-UX recovery from an L2000 to one of the K series systems listed above? ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: migration to ONSITE and OFFSITE
Copy to offsite, then migrate to tape Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ISES-31 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:migration to ONSITE and OFFSITE HI, We have had several broken LTO tapes in the last months and so lost a lot of data. To avoid this we are changing our housekeeping scheme. My question is: Can the diskpool be emptied/migrated to two pools at the same time? OFFSITE and ONSITE tape pools. met vriendelijke groeten, regards et salutations, Finn Leijnse Central Data Storage Management Shell Services International bv. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Informix / TDP backups and restores
Can management class and node name options be sent from a database backup or API to ADSM? Such as:1. Onbar -r -fromnode=imports03 2. onbar -b -L 0 -mgmt=INF_BACKUP I do not think this is possible. If it is not, is it planned YET. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: VM TSM server, just some thoughts...
4.2.0.0 client : AIX 4.2.0.0 will NOT work to 3.1.2.90 ADSM server. Problem with authentication of password. HP 4.2.0.0 will work to 3.1.2.90 (and 3.1.2.50) The server is AIX 4.3.3 3.1.0.7 client HP, NCR, IBM also work to 4.1 Servers (just in case you wondered) Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Wayne T. Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: VM TSM server, just some thoughts... Dwight wrote, in part.. The new IBM Z series processors are being pushed as consolidation servers. rum VM with a whole bunch of virtual LINUX servers... The only TSM server for VM is functionally at 3.1.2 VM LINUX client is at 4.2 ( I don't know if 4.2 clients would talk to 3.1.2 server ?) They can, but at 3.1.2 server capability. That is, no backupsets, no image backups, no adaptive differencing, no system objects, no respect. I do see there is an OS/390 TSM 4.2 server Would a person have to run MVS under VM in order to have a TSM 4.2 server running in this sort of environment A foolish IBM salesman, if there were one, would salivate over this one. maybe I need to get with my Tivoli sales folks to find out what is to be available down the road maybe I just haven't looked in the right place yet... Maybe Tivoli has yet to find or accept the existence a market for S/390 and zSeries. Without exception, Tivoli personnel (I've listened to) have either avoided the subject or said the direction is to have no S/390 wrt TSM. anyone have any thoughts on any of this ?? :-) Next to not playing, the worst thing an athlete can have is indecision. I think that Tivoli has had indecision wrt S/390 servers for a long time. They (or IBM) drove customers away with indecision when customers were using ADSM V1 (few had migrated to a weak ADSM V2). Customers were unable to get long-term commitment for a VM backup server, but a Tivoli ADSM V3 server was produced. Unfortunately, it was late ... very late ... and many customers chose other solutions. The V3 product was a very good upgrade, but the indecision on providing the V3 product and continuing reluctance of Tivoli wrt S/390 sent more customers away. In a financial climate where earnings of 20% per year were expected, one might understand (what I believe was shortsighted). Now a new market is opening for S/390s and zSeries, but the critical backup piece is not available (there is now a Linux client, but not yet a server). Whereas a Linux server might be provided one day, will it be treated as the VM backup server was? Just as Dwight (perhaps) suggested it would be foolhardy to obtain zOS for a TSM server, I think over the years Tivoli may have wondered if people would obtain VM systems to license their VM server (customers won't do that). But are there existing and new VM systems to make a TSM VM server a viable product? I used to think so, but I'm no product manager and know neither the economics nor the company politics of the venture. It seems so long ago that IBM/Tivoli were bragging about how easy it was to port the mostly platform-independent *SM server. :-( cheers, wayne ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Recovery log space spikes
If you run a database backup, does the log go down? If it does not, you probably have a long transaction in the database. A certain client is pinning the log. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Recovery log space spikes Are you using roll forward recovery? From what you are saying it appears so. I would recommend turning it off and using a logmode=normal which will commit recovery log transactions to the DB as they complete instead of every time the DB fills up. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Browne. Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovery log space spikes The maximum size of the recovery log is 5.5GB, my recovery log is 4.5 GB now and I have just recently increased it 1GB from 3.5GB. It filled up again last night. My database is 59.5 GB. Could I have a problem that is causing my recovery log to fill up or is this normal for this size of database? I am running TSM 3.7.4 on OS390 R 2.10. I have been testing TSM 4.1.4 and am planning to go to the new release in the next few weeks, could this help the situation? Below shows the past three days monitoring. * October 4, 2001 * tsm: ADSM3q log Available Assigned MaximumMaximum Page Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity ExtensionReduction Size Usable PagesUtil Pct (MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- -- - - 4,620 4,620 0 4,264 4,096 1,182,208 89,762 7.6100.0 Available Assigned Maximum Maximum Page TotalUsed Pct Max. Space CapacityExtension Reduction Size UsablePagesUtil Pct (MB) (MB)(MB)(MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - ------- ---- 60,908 60,908 0 6,852 4,096 15,592,448 13,839,06688.888.8 tsm: ADSM3 October 3, 2001 ** tsm: ADSM3q log AvailableAssignedMaximum Maximum Page TotalUsed PctMax. Space Capacity Extension Reduction Size Usable PagesUtilPct (MB)(MB) (MB)(MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- - - - 4,6204,620 0 2,480 4,096 1,182,208 546,31346.2 88.6 tsm: ADSM3q db Available AssignedMaximum Maximum Page Total Used Pct Max. SpaceCapacity Extension Reduction Size Usable Pages Util Pct (MB)(MB)(MB) (MB) (bytes)Pages Util - -- - - ----- --- - - 60,908 60,908 0 7,208
Re: performance question
The FTP transfer rate is very useful ... even if the ADSM network data transfer rate has bugs ... I believe I understand what Andy is referring to, but Wanda is referring to FTP. If FTP is for instance 5 Megs per second or 20 seconds moving a 100 Meg file across the network, and ADSM is 1 Meg per second or 100 Seconds moving a 100 Meg file across the network, then obviously to most SysAdmin, it is not a network problem. If you get about the same, it is client disk, network or server disk 95% of the time. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: performance question The network transfer rate is not particularly useful (see APAR IC30767), so don't use that to judge your TSM performance. If you want a reasonable idea of what how fast your TSM client can push data, your best bet is to do a selective backup of a very large file (say, several hundred or more MB), and look at the aggregate data transfer rate. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Tivoli Systems Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/2001 09:35 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: performance question Try running FTP. Send a sizeable file (at least 100 MB) from your client machine to the TSM server, several times, and see if you can get a consistent MB/sec throughput rate. If it is about the same as your TSM backup throughput, then the problem is network related. If it is a lot faster, then look for something in TSM, or in the client file system. -Original Message- From: Rob Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: performance question I have turned compression off, but to no avail. The network card is not set to auto-negotiate, and all the settings are verified and correct. Both machines are well oversized with 512 MB of memory and dual processors that are not being used anything but marginally. Any other ideas? Rob Schroeder Famous Footwear PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 09/28/2001 06:14:52 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: performance question Rob look at this o/p.I have only 100mbs/sec NIC Card.We also have fast switches. It should atleast give u 8mbs/sec network xfer rate.I do with compression=yes on client side. Try to do backup at some other time and see the throughput. This is Unix client but of MIDRANGE. 09/28/01 09:59:17 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects inspected: 62,218 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects backed up: 361 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects updated: 0 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects rebound: 0 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects deleted: 0 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects expired: 81 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of objects failed: 0 09/28/01 09:59:17 Total number of bytes transferred: 293.13 MB 09/28/01 09:59:17 Data transfer time:3.15 sec 09/28/01 09:59:17 Network data transfer rate:95,162.04 KB/sec 09/28/01 09:59:17 Aggregate data transfer rate:763.10 KB/sec 09/28/01 09:59:17 Objects compressed by: 90% 09/28/01 09:59:17 Elapsed processing time: 00:06:33 -Original Message- From: Rob Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: performance question I am running TSM client 3.7.2 on a Win2000 server with Service pack 2. The TSM server is Win2000 SP2 and using TSM 4.1.3. I realize I need to upgrade the client, but I
Re: TWO TSM SERVERS
Yes. Use the SAN. Library 1 contains device class 1 and storage pool 1 .. library 2 contain copy storage pool of 1 and device class 2 . Guess where library 2 is located? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TWO TSM SERVERS Hi, would it not be possible to copy the primary pools from site A directly to a sequential pool in site B, by sharing robotics between A and B ? This would eliminate the need to establish server-to-server connections, René Lambelet Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 55, av. Nestlé CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) *+41'21'924'35'43 7+41'21'924'28'88 * K4-117 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. -Original Message- From: Kyle Payne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TWO TSM SERVERS There are a few different ways to do this. 1) If you have Site A and Site B then with the right high speed connection you could backup the servers from Site A directory to 1 TSM server at Site B. Of course this may not be feasible if you have more data to backup in a night then your window and the connection will allow. 2) If you truly want a copy at both sites then I would use a copy pool but by using virtual volumes. Your copy pool would use a server device class that is pointing to the other site's TSM server. Then when you run your storage pool backups they are put on the other TSM server. Note that when you do this, in a disaster you will need to DR the Site A (or first) server at Site B. This is because the server that stores the data only recognizes it as archived objects through virtual volumes and not as real node date. It is the DB from Server A that will distinguish this. Sure you could try something with exports and imports but you are right that doesn't make much sense. In reality the key to the Site A and Site B working is the connection you have between them. Kyle Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eduardo Martinez Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 19:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TWO TSM SERVERS I have two TSM Servers. Each one of them has a library attached. They are on two different locations (lets say A and B) I want to backup all my clients in server A, but I also want to keep a copy of those files on server B. This is intended for redundancy purposes, and it is also intended to avoid a courier carrying tapes among locations. Is it possible to do this? I've never worked with Virtual Volumes, and I dont know if they are the solution for this schema. I've also read about EXPORT and IMPORT data (also using Virtual Volumes), but I think by doing this could be a very heavy process on a daily basis, since Im going to export ALL data already backed up and not only the changes. I dont want to use Copy Storage Pools since I have to recreate first all the tapes that could be destroyed and then restore. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. = Do or Do Not, there is no try -Yoda. The Empire Strikes Back ___ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger: Comunicacisn instantanea gratis con tu gente - http://messenger.yahoo.es ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: FC Tape Drive Multi-Pathing?
Josh, 1. You can have 2 fiber connections per tape drive. Each with a separate device. The first cfgmgr will show one path and the second will show the second path. 2. I believe AIX can do this with multiple device path, but I am not sure of specifics. 3. I would make sure to use many tape drives and watch the switch with portperfshow to detect any bottom necks created with 36 tape drive on a SAN. Also to tell exactly the SAN device you are talking to lscfg -vl rmt1 What advantage do you hope to gain from multi-pathing? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Bassi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:FC Tape Drive Multi-Pathing? All, Does anybody know if there is any way to setup tape drives (Magstar in particular) for dynamic multi-pathing? I have a customer who is deploying 35 Magstar FC based drives in a SAN environment behind 2 Brocade 6400 switches. There will be 6 RS6K 4.3.3 TSM servers sharing the drives using tape library sharing. Each host will have at least 2 FC cards for tape and 2 for the disk environment. Multi-pathing the disk subsystem is easy, but I have never heard of a way to set it up for tape drives. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent IT Consultant IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Etherchannel and EBU backups.
The original question was what can you do and with what setup. HP client OS, Informix Database, 100 Base T on the client to four Gigabits autoport aggregated together on the server(4.3.3 AIX and 4.1.3 TSM) . The database backup is configured and runs 6 onbar processes at the same time for the backup. Client compression on. EMC client disk storage. 1 SSA array server with each session going to a separate disk drive. Results:131 Gigs per hour. (59 Gigs in 27 minutes) No server CPU, memory, or database constraint. I use 4 Gigabit ethernets on the server using autoport aggregation. I use Gigabit to be able to scale the number of clients. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Eric Winters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Etherchannel and EBU backups. I've had some feedback re my attached note explaining that whilst it will work, all four sessions would operate through a single interface on the client and a single interface at the TSM server end, not improving my throughput a jot. Forgetting Etherchannel for a moment, is there any way that an EBU/TDP for Oracle can direct individual parallel sessions to different TSM servers? I don't see how - as I understand it the entire database instance is sent with optionally multiple parallel sessions to a single TSM server. Of course I don't really want to backup to separate servers, but I do want to backup to 4 different IP addresses. Can I do this? Regards, Eric Winters I I'm interested in determining if etherchannel and EBU/TDP for Oracle, might be effective in reducing backup times. Client system: AIX 4.3.3, uses Oracle 7 and backs up using EBU via TDP for Oracle 2.1 Server system: AIX 4.3.3 and TSM Server 3.7 Network interfaces today are 100 MB ethernet, a single adapter in each system. Proposal is to speed up backups by using 4 ethernet adapters in both the client and the server and use Etherchannel. 4 parallel sessions would be set in the EBU script. A much larger database will be implemented shortly and etherchannel looks attractive, providing TDP for Oracle will use 4 concurrent sessions, which I think it should. Can anyone confirm that the above should be a workable solution? Is anyone doing this? Thanks people, Eric Winters ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: drive unavailable -Reply
Query the drive from the OS using this command: mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -f /dev/rmt2 -qD This should tell you the status of the drive. If it hangs, I would call a CE, or check the a SAN switch with a switchshow commmand. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Muthyam Reddy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: drive unavailable -Reply when check with lsdev -Cc tape showing rmt2 is available. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/01 01:52pm Is the drive available to the operating system? On occasion we've seen the drive as unavailable when we enter lsdev -Cc tape. At 01:36 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi * SMs, I have a drive(/dev/rmt2) proble showing drive unavailable since /09/23/01 09:09:27 I used update commad to make it online, but I could not do. we have total 8 drives in that third drive /dev/rmt2 is giving this problem.Remaining drives working properly. Please can anybody send probable causes and solutions. libraryname=3494LIB1 drivename=3590_2 device name=3590 device=/dev/rmt2 thanks in adv /muthyam ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Is there a way to delete all files that were backed up last n ight for certain clients
Solution: Purge virus.Rename filespaces or nodes to .old. Re-backup clients. They probably want make sure the virus is not restored. You have saved the data you have in case it is lost from the virus, and you have a clean backup on the systems that can safely be restored. Management has a purpose. Understand it. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Clarence Beukes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Is there a way to delete all files that were backed up last night for certain clients One option is to delete the volumes that were used for these backups. Clarence Beukes Advisory IT Specialist - Tivoli Certified Consultant Geomar SSO Mid Range and Application Support Discipline Location: IBM Park Sandton, IA2G Tel: +27 (0) 11 302-6622 Cell: +27 (0) 82 573 5665 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
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All, I need some quick help, I need the show command that shows all tapes that contain data for a particular node. Can anyone help? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX
Here is the link to element numbers http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/atab104.htm http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/atab104.htm What is element 256 used for? What happens when it is defined as rmt1? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Jorge Rodrmguez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX I know is late, but it can help. You need to install the ATAPE on the AIX before run cfgmgr. When you install Atape is necessary reboot the machine. Run the cfgmgr and run the command lsdev -Cc tape, you will see the library /dev/smc0 and the tapes /dev/rmt1, etc. In this moment the library is ready to use. Define the libray in TSM and the drives, the element of the drives begins in 257 for the first drive. Jorge Rodriguez Caracas, Venezuela. From: Klein, Robert (CIT) Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:31:18 -0400 We are trying to set up TSM on an AIX system and are having problems getting TSM to see the 3584 library. I have done a search on the adsm-l archives and did not see anything about defining a 3584 to TSM. The AIX system is not seeing the 3584 tape library, when any commands that try to configure or look at the device is issued, an error is returned $ mkdev -l 'lb0' Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd): 0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical device at the specified connection location cfgadsmdd[valid]: the device is NOT supported cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds cfgadsmdd[main]: error inquiry or building dds, rc=51 We need this device so we can continuing configuring the TSM server running on the system. Without configuring the tape library and drives, we can't configure TSM server. Part of the problem appears to be that the documenation does not describe the syntax for specifying a fiber channel device, which is the type of 3584 library we have. It only mentions a SCSI device. Has anyone successfully defined a fiber channel 3584 to TSM running on AIX? Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated. We have also submitted a problem ticket via our IBM support team, but have not heard anything back from them yet. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM and Extended format tapes.
I agree, Prelabeled taped do NOT make a difference. Make sure if you label your own tapes that you check and make sure the label libvol command is successful. I am using 3590 extended length cartridges that we not only labeled, but also barcoded. They work great. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM and Extended format tapes. How does TSM handles extended length cartridges. Our biggest concern is how does TSM track %full for recycle/reclaim processing? Nothing special - TSM treats them like any other tape, writing until it finally encounters the end of the tape. Perspective: Tapes are like snowflakes - no two tapes are exactly the same length...and even any one tape can vary in length over time. Pct Util is just a pure guess while Filling, and gets a true number only when Full. If we decide to use extended length cartridges on a NSM, It has been recommend we order them pre-labeled. So we absolutely do not want to mix extended length with standard length in the mainframe libraries. Whether you label them or the vendor labels them, the tapes are the same. I don't see the a priori logic of tape labels and mixing in a library. You can keep them separate in different Devclasses if you want, with dedicated drives; but there's no problem mixing them, as I think most of us do. As said above, tape length is utterly variable to begin with, so even in your pre-existing tape pool you in effect already are mixing tapes of varying lengths. That's the essential nature of tape: it's non-deterministic, unlike disk. Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX
Yes. I have setup. From the OS, the library manager device will show up when the correct driver is loaded, cfgmgr is run, and ATL device 1 is visible through the SAN (fiber) from the system. We use Brocade between the server and tape drives. When I configured, 3584 was considered a SCSI device inside ADSM no matter what you are connected with. Device /dev/smc0 will show up when you can talk to the library. Atape level and fiber driver level are below: root@hoadsm4:/users/root $ lslpp -l| grep -i fib 4.3.3.50 COMMITTED Fibre Channel RAID Device root@hoadsm4:/users/root $ lslpp -l Atape.driver Fileset Level State Description Path: /usr/lib/objrepos Atape.driver 6.1.4.0 COMMITTED IBM AIX Enhanced Tape and Medium Changer Device Driver Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: David Longo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Defining 3584 Library to TSM on AIX I have not done this yet, but - Have you installed the FC filesets on AIX that are required for support of FC? After doing this and connecting library and then run cfgmgr to have AIX pick up new device would be a few simple steps. (Probably need some FC config steps also). A quick thought to give you a start. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/01 11:31AM We are trying to set up TSM on an AIX system and are having problems getting TSM to see the 3584 library. I have done a search on the adsm-l archives and did not see anything about defining a 3584 to TSM. The AIX system is not seeing the 3584 tape library, when any commands that try to configure or look at the device is issued, an error is returned $ mkdev -l 'lb0' Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd): 0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical device at the specified connection location cfgadsmdd[valid]: the device is NOT supported cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds cfgadsmdd[main]: error inquiry or building dds, rc=51 We need this device so we can continuing configuring the TSM server running on the system. Without configuring the tape library and drives, we can't configure TSM server. Part of the problem appears to be that the documenation does not describe the syntax for specifying a fiber channel device, which is the type of 3584 library we have. It only mentions a SCSI device. Has anyone successfully defined a fiber channel 3584 to TSM running on AIX? Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated. We have also submitted a problem ticket via our IBM support team, but have not heard anything back from them yet. MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 09/10/01 13:34:41 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. == ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: New Server and Disk Pools
How many multi processor clients do you run on one server with this setup? -Original Message- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Importance: High Use RAID 1+0 FOR PERF AND AVILABILITY. -Original Message- From: Martin JF (DTI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Hi, We do RAID on our TSM server. RAID-5 for DiskPools, RAID-1 for DB et RECLOG. By using RAID, we don't mirror our database because this become redundant. JF Martin -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Cochran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 4-Sep-01 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Server and Disk Pools I'm specing out a new server, and I'm wondering about disk pools. How do you recover from a disk failure on a disk pool? Do people use RAID on their disk pools? This server is for a new project to back up distributed clients all around campus. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: New Server and Disk Pools
The two largest instances of ADSM I have backup 250 full size clients (N, L class HP, H80, M50, mulitple processor NT) I have never found a great way to compare database setups. # of clients is somewhat valid ... What limitation do you speak of? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Importance: High Sorry for that . Why this limitation? I have 40 clients. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools How many clients ... 300 ... 50 ... 100 will backup to this ADSM instance with a striped database setup? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Importance: Low S-80 IBM SYSTEMS -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools How many multi processor clients do you run on one server with this setup? -Original Message- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Importance: High Use RAID 1+0 FOR PERF AND AVILABILITY. -Original Message- From: Martin JF (DTI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Server and Disk Pools Hi, We do RAID on our TSM server. RAID-5 for DiskPools, RAID-1 for DB et RECLOG. By using RAID, we don't mirror our database because this become redundant. JF Martin -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Cochran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 4-Sep-01 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Server and Disk Pools I'm specing out a new server, and I'm wondering about disk pools. How do you recover from a disk failure on a disk pool? Do people use RAID on their disk pools? This server is for a new project to back up distributed clients all around campus. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Backup of EMC
IBM people, How does IBM/Tivoli plan to provide for this need in order to prevent customer from being required to implement hardware vendor solutions such as EDM to backup this data? The competition is direct fiber attaching to the data and backing it up. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Michael Bartl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Backup of EMC Mahesh, on NAS boxes like CLARiiON or NETAPP you won't find a backup/archive client that runs directly on the machine. To get your backup done just use another machine in your LAN that has enough network bandwith available to both the NAS box and the TSM server. On WinNT you can use the UNC-Name in dsm.opt: DOMAIN \\NASBOX\SHARE With Unix you have to define a mountpoint for the tree you want to backup. Then you put the mountpoint into your optionfile. Good luck, Michael Bartl Office of Technology, IT Germany/Austria Cable Wireless Deutschland GmbH. Landsberger Str. 155Tel.: +49 89 92699-806 80687 Muenchen Fax.: +49 89 92699-302 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de.cw.com Mahesh Tailor wrote: Hello, everyone. A group in our department just received an EMC CLARiiON system. On this system is a filesystem that I need to backup. How can this be done? I have never dealt with this beast. 3466 Network Storage Manager running TSM v3.7.4 and AIX 4.3.2. Thanks for any help and advice in advance. Mahesh Tailor WAN/NetView/TSM Administrator Carilion Health System Voice: 540-224-3929 Fax: 540-224-3954 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Floating Client License Period
What is that? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:AW: Floating Client License Period Another thought: when you buy a NSM (Network Storage Manager - 3466) 5000 clients are included. Kind regards Thomas Rupp Vorarlberger Illwerke AG MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:++43/5574/4991-251 FAX:++43/5574/4991-820-8251 -- Dieses eMail wurde auf Viren geprueft. Vorarlberger Illwerke AG -- ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Exclude List on AIX
On IBM use Exclude.dir /u/adsm Or Exclude.fs /tmp/working The excludes below will still process the files. This wasted money. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Christian Astuni [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Exclude List on AIX I have some problems when I want to exclude some filesystems. I use the follow sentences in the file dsm.sys but the backup doesn't read the lines and do incremental backup in all the server. exclude /.../* exclude /usr/.../* exclude /var/.../* exclude /tmp/.../* exclude /home/.../* exclude /spdata/.../* exclude /opt/.../* exclude /opt/Tivoli/.../* exclude /db/.../* exclude /log/.../* exclude /dsmstg1/.../* exclude /dsmstg2/.../* exclude /dsmstg3/.../* I try the differente formats, but anyone work fine. Thank you very much for your help. Regards Christiam ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Restore MS Exchange data to a different machine
Did you try setting up an isolated system with the same system name? Or hard coding the nodename in the dsm.opt file. Your system name may have to be the same, do you may have to isolate the environment (a test lab or something). Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Restore MS Exchange data to a different machine Is it possible to move MS Exchange data from one Exchange server to another? I want to try to restore Exchange data to another server same way it works with other TSM clients, by giving access from source node to target node and than by starting client on target node using -virtualnodename=sourceNodeName. I have checked TSM's Exchange Restore Help, and it has information about moving data to another server if original server is not available and by naming new server same as original and than restoring data to new server. I want to know if it is possible to restore data to a different machine while original one is still up and running. Yahya, No. This is not supported. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
expiration
Does anyone have any idea with my expiration appears to expire so much data. This would be at a 99.29% expiration. Am I missing something? Server AIX4.3.3 ADSM 4.1.2.0 Process Process Description Status Number - 890 Expiration Examined 290846 objects, deleting 288784 backup objects, 0 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, 0 recovery plan files; 0 errors encountered. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question
The ninth sessions goes to the ninth disk volume allocated in my environment. I have not had a need to test this situation. In my environment, I would have 36 volumes if I had 8 * 9 gigs drives. An SSA disk drive can write 30 meg per second (do a move data and see) Multiple clients can write to one disk at the same time. And if you have multiple volumes, the question does not come into play. Faster than a 3590 tape drive fiber attached can receive the data also. (12-13 Meg per second) You can just watch the Brocade switch and see the different speeds exactly, though you can't forget compression in most enviroments. (I compress on the client, so I can just about though) Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Lindsay Morris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question Jeff, clever! run iostat, then watch sessions start and land on different physical disks, on by one. Like the idea. But what happens when you run out of volumes? Say you have 8 disk volumes, and 9 sessions. Does the ninth session just hang, until one of the first 8 finishes? Or does the ninth session grab some busy volume, sharing it with another session? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Bach Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question 1. A single backups runs to a single volume as perceived by ADSM. The first session runs to the first volume allocated to the storage pool. The second session runs to the second logical volume allocated to the storage pool. The third sessions to the third volume. With THIS understanding, you can effectively stripe by allocating volume 1 from each drive first, then allocate the second volume from each drive. You can see the threads using show threads. Run one session, watch iostat, then start a second and third. You should be able to see what my understanding it easy enough (or at least tell me I am wrong) ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question
I see this on 4.1.3.0 Server code. It actually looks like one transaction per volume (as opposed to one file) , then go tot the next volume. I say this because for small files, it appears to not change volumes for each file. Anyone else? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM DB/Disk Pool - Disk tuning question = On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:56:48 -0400, Lindsay Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jeff, clever! run iostat, then watch sessions start and land on different physical disks, on by one. Like the idea. Note; the sessions do not grab and keep individual volumes; They appear to walk down the list of volumes, one file at a time. This is easiest to see if you can arrange to back up a big dir full of ~500M files. (CDROM ISOs or such) you can watch disk activity walk down the list of disks. But what happens when you run out of volumes? Say you have 8 disk volumes, and 9 sessions. Does the ninth session just hang, until one of the first 8 finishes? Or does the ninth session grab some busy volume, sharing it with another session? Going out on a limb, speaking from the perspectiove of a client service thread: - I've got a new file to write. - I get in line for a volume. - I walk up the queue. - I get priority on a volume - I write my file. - I wait for my remote client to be ready to give me another file. So, the volumes are instantaneously locked at the file granularity. Of course, I'm just making this up, so don't bank on it. But it matches the behavior I've seen so far. - Allen S. Rout ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors
They mean the tape drive was just cleaned. You will continue to get them
each time the tape drive is cleaned.
Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Kamp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:3590 Tape Drive Errors
Has anybody seen these errors before? IBM has been here many times
replaced the read/write heads loaded the latest micro code on the
drives
but I keep getting them.
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LABEL: SIM_MIM_RECORD_3590
IDENTIFIER: D1A1AE6F
Date/Time: Tue Aug 28 07:42:06
Sequence Number: 2770
Machine Id: 00012953A300
Node Id: tsmserv
Class: H
Type:INFO
Resource Name: rmt4
Resource Class: tape
Resource Type: 3590
Location:00-08-01-3,0
VPD:
ManufacturerIBM
Machine Type and Model..03590E1A
Serial Number...000F3420
Device Specific.(FW)E32E
Loadable Microcode LevelA0B00E26
Description
TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD
Probable Causes
TAPE DRIVE
Failure Causes
TAPE DRIVE
Recommended Actions
REFER TO PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Detail Data
DIAGNOSTIC EXPLANATION
3100 0044 6140 0130 3030 3030 3030 3233 3245 3537 3030 3941
3030 3030
3030
4646 4335 3539 4335 3539 3830 3030 4942 4D31 332D 3030 3030 3030
3046 3334
3230
3033 3539 3045 3141
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LABEL: TAPE_DRIVE_CLEANING
IDENTIFIER: E507DCF9
Date/Time: Tue Aug 28 07:39:03
Sequence Number: 2769
Machine Id: 00012953A300
Node Id: tsmserv
Class: H
Type:INFO
Resource Name: rmt4
Resource Class: tape
Resource Type: 3590
Location:00-08-01-3,0
VPD:
ManufacturerIBM
Machine Type and Model..03590E1A
Serial Number...000F3420
Device Specific.(FW)E32E
Loadable Microcode LevelA0B00E26
Description
TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING
Probable Causes
TAPE DRIVE
Failure Causes
TAPE DRIVE
Recommended Actions
CLEAN TAPE DRIVE
Detail Data
SENSE DATA
0603 1B00 0102 7000 0100
0058
0017 FF03 C94B 4033 0005 0140 1B00
8000 3332
4520
2020 2000
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Re: Server crashed on startup with error in dsmcperf.dll
3.1.2.90 is newer. -Original Message- From: Bandu Vibhute (GWB) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server crashed on startup with error in dsmcperf.dll Clemens, Normally if you extend recovery log by 10-20 %, ADSM starts, but you have to initiate Full db backup ASAP. If this doesn't work then you have to restore db from recent tape(s). You can't apply patches to ADSM code when DB needs recovery. Good luck, Bandu Vibhute, George Weston Bakeries Inc. Voice: 631-951-5212, Cell: 516-702-0323 -Original Message- From: Block, Clemens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server crashed on startup with error in dsmcperf.dll Hi Folk! I have an urgent problem with my ADSM Server 3.1.2.50 on a Windows NT System. Yes I know, it's quiet old. The new 4.1 x Server is also running on an nerw machine but unfor- tunaltely not all nodes are actually migrated. Murphy is everywhere. As I explained earlier the day, the Server was unable to perform a db backup on Satrurday. So at least the server crasched. My first action was to create a new logvolume with dsmfmt and extend the log db with the offline dsmserv extend db command. This works quiet well and I tried to restart the Server. Now the Server starts, but crashed after a few minutes with an Dr Watson in the modul dsmsvc.dbg an an entry in the eventlog, which announce an error in the perflib dsmcperf.dll. Any suggestions how to bring up server for the last few days. I don't know if the Release 1.2.50 is the latest 3.1.x release. So is there any later patch release? (maybe this can help) If yes - Where can I find it (there is nothing on the IBM Sites) Thanks in advance Clemens MMS Server baking.bestfoods.com made the following annotations on 08/20/2001 01:31:29 PM -- -- - The origin of this electronic mail message was the Internet. George Weston Bakeries Inc. cannot validate the authenticity of the sender and therefore cannot be held accountable for any content within. === MMS Server baking.bestfoods.com made the following annotations on 08/24/2001 10:44:45 AM -- --- This message may contain confidential and trade secret information of George Weston Bakeries Inc., and be subject to the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. For recipient's use only. If you have received this message in error, please delete immediately, and alert the sender. === ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Archive/Compression
elapsed processing time is from start to finish data transfer time is just when data is being sent Client compressions is probably a good thing to do. Your network data transfer rate is good. What are your no -a settings, and ADSM tuning settings. I have found the newer ADSM code is faster also. Jeff -Original Message- From: Bert Moonen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archive/Compression Hello guys, We are runnig an adsm 3.1.2.90 server on AIX 4.3.3 and we have AIX clients 4.3. The clients are connected with 100MB Ethernet Full Duplex to the server. The client in this example is an S70, 12 GB Memory and 8 processors. We archive a lot of oracle database files and some output is; Normal File-- 2,065,702,912 /oradata/xsb01/d0101f01/01.dbf [Sent] Archive processing of 01.dbf finished without failure. Total number of objects inspected: 1 Total number of objects archived: 1 Total number of objects updated: 0 Total number of objects rebound: 0 Total number of objects deleted: 0 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 723.58 MB Data transfer time:70.09 sec Network data transfer rate: 10,570.64 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate: 1,154.29 KB/sec Objects compressed by: 64% Elapsed processing time: 00:10:41 So we backup 2 GB files in about 10 minutes, I think this is slow. My question is: why is the difference between - the elapsed processing time and the data transfer time - so big We are compressing on the client as you see! Is there a problem with compressing the data? Are there some wrong settings in AIX or ADSM?? such as VMTUNE or the NO -a settings WHO can help me??? Greetings, Bert Moonen Storage Management ABP The Netherlands. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups
The APIs don't always mark files inactive. Active files never go away. Rename a filespace, back it up again and delete the old backup. Jeff -Original Message- From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups Hello Again, One of the things I forgot to mention was I do a FULL backup, (change the copymode to ABSOLUTE), of every node every two weeks. I don't do them all at the same time but because I do the fulls I would expect that I would not be finding backup files that are 120 days old and ACTIVE. I have only had TSM up since the beginning of the year and am very hesitant to start reclaimation procedures thinking that if everything worked the way I think they should (longest retention in any policy is 60 days) that I would see ALL the tapes go scratch less than 3 months. I am trying to prevent my lack of knowledge from putting in a procedure that will just start gathering junk and keeping it forever. The BMC TDP seems to have a very odd error. The AIX platform from where the BMC (Sybase) is running has deleted the data and looking from BMC it is gone. But when I look at the TSM server filespace I see many properly handled BMC files being handle correctly but little groups (by date) of files that are listed as ACTIVE but 4 and 5 months old. I do not have this problem with the MS-EXCHANGE or DB2 files. I would like to develop a procedure that I can use to cleanout the backup files that I know don't belong. Ones that are ACTIVE and many months old. I don't really understand how they can get into this situation. Even if someone where to do a SELECTIVE backup of something that is normally EXCLUDED the next INCREMENTAL should have those files marked as INACTIVE. Matt -Original Message- From: Maurice van 't Loo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups Matt, You can try to change the policyset that the TDP's and BMC uses if the TDP's don't know the existance of the files anymore. If tapes are only 5% used, why you don't run reclamaition? Update your stgpool with the reclamation on jl. 50% Maurice - Original Message - From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:29 PM Subject: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to get rid of OLD backups that were put in by BMC BACKTRACKS. We are running TSM 4.1.3 on OS390. I am trying to understand and cleanup a bunch of old backups that should not exist and are holding up the scratching of tapes. I know I can start a process to consolidate all these tapes that seem to have less than 5% used. I know I can honestly say that everything on these tapes are not needed and DISCARD the data and scratch the tape. I have already deleted all the filespaces that have not been backed up for more than 3 months. But I still have different files that are still listed as ACTIVE from months ago. The ones that come from the TDPs have a process that is run on the client to clean them out. The one for BACKTRACK used for Sybase works only some times. So I have active backups for a client that no longer has the data. It seems that there is a hole in that software. Is there a way to delete a backup file and not the whole filespace? I have this situation in a couple of instances. The BACKTRACK one is the most frequent though. Matt ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Deleting Log Volumes
Reduce the recovery log size to close to the minimum. delete a logv copy. mirror to the new volume as a copy. Delete the other old copy. Mirror to the second new volume as a copy. -Original Message- From: David Longo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Deleting Log Volumes 5GB is the limit! (I think some people actaully have 5.5GB) New TSM (4.2 I believe) allows 13GB limit. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/20/01 11:07AM HI, I hope someone out there can help. I am trying to move to new Recovery Log volumes. I've attempted to add a log volume and get the following msg: ANR2452E DEFINE LOGVOLUME: Maximum recovery log capacity exceeded. How do I now move to new volumes when I can't define new ones? The existing log is at the 5 GB limit. 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. MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 08/20/01 11:29:08 -- 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. == ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
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ADSM currently provides collocation by filespace and node. Are they working on collocation by object? It would be great to provide multi-threaded tapebase restores from tape. Jeff Bach ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
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Limit maxscratch. Each DBspace in Informix can be a seperate thread on a backup and restore. If each is on a seperate tape, you don't need a 2 Terabyte storage pool to multi-thread and Informix restore. And storing the data on disk may not work very well with the ADSM database either. I would think this would be easy to do and maybe not done so far because it seems crazy at first glance. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Robin Sharpe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: That would use an awful lot of tape! ;) Sorry, I couldn't resist Jeff Bach jdbach@WAL-M ART.COM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robin Sharpe/WA/USR/SHG) 08/20/01 Subject: 04:11 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM currently provides collocation by filespace and node. Are they working on collocation by object? It would be great to provide multi-threaded tapebase restores from tape. Jeff Bach ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Defining devicetype of LTO
LTO works all the way back to version3. It is just device. Define it as generic tape. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Bernard Ruelas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Defining devicetype of LTO Wouter, This is an interesting point... We recently purchased a Tivoli and LTO solution and planned to use this to backup multiple chambers across a firewall. It worked well in tests using TSM v3.7 because we could use client side polling. Now I'm a little concerned because we purchased LTO as a part of this solution... Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:32:33 +0200 From: wouter-v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Defining devicetype of LTO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need at least TSM V 4.1.3 to have support for LTO devices !! When your are sure about this you can use the command (for example) : def devclass tape_class devtype=lto format=drive library=ltolib Wouter Verschaeve = Original Message From ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Thanks but I've tried it from the command line too and still get the following: define devc lto library=lto3583 estcap=100g devt=lto format=drive ANR2020E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid parameter - LTO. Doing 'HELP DEFINE DEVCLASS' should show what devices your current software is capable of supporting, as the embedded help info is supposed to exactly match the software level. Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: how to EXPIRE UNIX files from unmounted/deleted file system
When you remove a filesystem, run delete fi nodename filespace name on the server. Filesytem exclude: exclude.fs /usr Or define which filesystems you backup. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:how to EXPIRE UNIX files from unmounted/deleted file system Hello all, In my seemingly never ending quest to get my tape retention clean, I have come across a UNIX CLIENT problem. There were some file systems that were created for doing a temporary move/copy procedures. While the File system existed, it was backed up. Now I have a tape that is 5 months old and has a bunch of data on it that worthless but does not want to change to a status of INACTIVE. I know I could take the tape and scratch it with a DISCARD DATA option, but I want to do this in a clean way and make it a part of the Stand Operating Procedure. Does anyone know the proper change to put into the include/exclude list so this UNIX client will have these files marked INACTIVE? Matt ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems
This sounds like a bad design. How about a Correction of the Design process? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Eliza Lau [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client scheduler problems I just got off the phone with TSM level 2 support. This is a known problem with the Windows 2000 4.2.0 client. It is a timing issue. The client can't get the password from the server and tries 3 times. A second later it gets it. The developers have no fixes for this, no APAR either. They may just document it as working as designed. Beside getting these erroneous errors in dsmerror.log and the event log, scheduled backup works just fine. Eliza I have the excact same experience - and have found no other solution than to go back to TSM v4.1 lev. 2.19. Then the problem was gone. Server: TSM v4.1 lev 1.0 on OS/390 Client: Windows NT 4.0, SP6 Henrik Bach Gravesen Jyske Bank A/S, Denmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] A user of mine is using the TSM Win2K 4.2.0 client acceptor service to manage the client scheduler. The acceptor service wakes the scheduler every 12 hours and starts the scheduled backup with no problems. All is well except that she is getting the error code 4099 in the application event log every time the scheduler wakes up (every 12 hours). In dsmerrorlog, SessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication (3 times) Password is set to generate. GUI, command line, and scheduled backups all run fine. The user is not prompted for the password. So there must not be any authenication problems and the password is stored in the registry. Has anyone seen this with their W2K 4.2.0 clients? Is this normal behavior? server - TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 client - Windows 2000 4.2.0 Thanks in advance, Eliza Lau Virginia Tech Computing Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 540-231-9399 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Exchange backup
All, I need to know if anyone has a solution for Exchange that can backup and restore a 70 Gig Exchange database in 1 hour. The solution would need to scale to 40 Exchange databases. I have lots of ideas and new technology to use, and I have tested SAN backup, but I do not prefer this solution because it requires dedicated tape drive and the NT clients to be rebooted to add more devices. I have SAN disks on the client, 100 base-T only through a switch, 4 Gigabit auto-port aggregated on the server, 8 disk arrays on the server, 6 CPUs, no memory constraint. Is anyone getting results like this using anything I am not? Is there specific code levels I should be using? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Delete Obsolete ORACLE backups when DB no longer available
Rename the filespace it is associated with rename filespace . Run a backup. Wait the number of days you need to be able to access the data from that filespace. Use delete fi to delete the data. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Andreas Wizemann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Delete Obsolete ORACLE backups when DB no longer available Hi, I have droped my oracle instance but forgott to delete the rman backups first. Now i can no longer run rman to delete the obsolete backups. Is there any other way to delete the entries from the rman catalog AND tell TSM to delete the files also ?? Thanks Andreas Wizemann ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: !!!Novell Client Stability!!!!
My definition of stable is that ADSM backups and restores up successfully and does not cause the Novell client to crash. What level of Novell and ADSM have you accomplished this with? On how many servers? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Juergen Heinrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: !!!Novell Client Stability Hi Scott, our costumers do have the same environment as you and the netware TSM clients are stable. At the beginning we had problems with the backup of the NDS volume. The costumers NDS volume is very big and with the proposed versions of the smdr.nlm, tsa500.nlm and tsands.nlm we had no success (the server has been crashed). After a look into the client readme file in chapter Novell NetWare Specific Known Problems we have decided to use newer modules. Currently we are sucessfull using the tsa5up6 package from the novell web site and the tsm clients are working well. There is only one exception! Do not use compression, because the backup time increases much more than you can expect. Sincerly Juergen Heinrich Verdi Information Consult GmbH Systemsmanagement Niederlassung Berlin Wittestraße 30K D-13509 Berlin ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TCP error 10053
Good steps. Support will indicate that you have a TCP/IP issue . To find the issue: run a client ADSM trace, client TCP/IP trace, sniffer on the client port, sniffer on the server port, server TCP/IP trace, and server ADSM trace. Run these all of once. TCP flush is an error sending data to from the client to the server. I have seen this problem 9 months ago on NT systems communicating with a UNIX server. It went away before we could find root cause. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: John Monahan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TCP error 10053 Could be some type of network problem. I would try checking the following: 1. Update the network card drivers on the client. 2. Check the speed/duplex settings on both the client and switch port and ensure they are set to the same. I do not rely on auto-negotiation. 3. Check the connection for CRC errors, buffer overruns or other network problems. I have seen these errors when adapter teaming has been improperly configured, specifically using Cisco Etherchannel. John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 26 Cell: 952-484-5435 http://www.compures.com djkory@MEDIAO NE.NET To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: TCP error 10053 Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 07/19/2001 10:28 AM Please respond to rdnoble Hi everyone - We have a Win2k client machine that receives these errors during scheduled backups. There are other Win2k machines that are backing up fine. Has anyone seen these errors or know what might be going on? 07/17/2001 22:28:05 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 940. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 940. 07/17/2001 22:28:05 cuConfirm: Received rc: -50 trying to receive ConfirmResp verb 07/17/2001 22:28:05 ANS1809E Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 07/17/2001 22:28:06 ANS1809E Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 07/17/2001 22:28:20 ANS1810E TSM session has been reestablished. 07/17/2001 22:41:32 TcpFlush: Error 10053 sending data on Tcp/Ip socket 920. 07/17/2001 22:41:32 sessSendVerb: Error sending Verb, rc: -50 Diana Noble ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: LARGE FILE BACKUPS THROUGH A FIREWALL.
Steve, Instead of a traditional firewall, have you proposed using either a Gigabit router with filter rules or a switch with filter rules restricting access between the ports. Other routers limit throughput to 100 Meg and firewalls may be even worse. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Mark Stapleton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: LARGE FILE BACKUPS THROUGH A FIREWALL. On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:14:35 -0500, you wrote: I'm running TSM Server, ver 4.1, on OS/390 and I'm having problems backing up large files from our Web Production NT/2000 servers through our IBM AIX Firewalls running Checkpoint. I got a 25 GB SQL DB that takes over 40-50 hours to backup. I've tested the same backup but bypassing the FW's and the backup took only about 1 hour! It is not only the SQL DB but any large file takes a tremendous amount of time to backup through the FW. I've called TSM support and they basically said it was a networking issue (no surprise there). I'm suspecting something like NAT is confusing TSM. Any Ideas? It's a larger issue than that. Backups through a firewall are not supported in TSM (officially). Two suggestions: 1. Use prompted scheduling, rather than polled. This allows you to specify the TCP port used for server-client communication. (The default for prompted schedules is 1500.) Keep in mind that if you set up multiple machines in this manner, and they are performing concurrent backups, they'll all be using the same port, thus impacting throughput. 2. Make sure that the proper TCP ports are open. The defaults are 1500 and 1501; they need to be open to traffic in both directions. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM server performance help
What is the state of the sessions most of the time? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Robert Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM server performance help I/O hotspot on hdisk4? Maybe spread the I/O out? What maintenance level is the OS at? [RC] On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:46:30PM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote: Server: M80 running AIX 4.3.3, 4GB RAM, 768MB ps DiskStoragePool, Rlog, Database on all on a SAN via fibre channel connection. TSM version:4.1 This is a newly configured system. We are conducting tests on it. When we tried to do a few backups by themselves, they seemed to get done pretty fast. However, when we had 4 migration processes and a couple of backups going at the same time, everything slowed down to a halt. According to my client, his backup transfer speed was about 100MB per minute. Can anyone give me some suggestions to improve the performance? I have attached the 'topas' reading of this server. TIA ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: cuSignOnResp
Have they provided a root cause and resolution to anyone on the cuSignOnResp issue or are we still just opening and closing PMRs? It is not very practical to manager security on 1,000 admin IDs. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: cuSignOnResp If you had problems getting resolution from Tivoli Support personnel all you have to do is ask to speak to the Duty Manager. Good point, Angela. For more details, see the Customer Support Handbook: http://www.tivoli.com/support/handbook/ Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: TSM and 3590E Tapes
Just setup at new storage tape pool and force the B tape storage pool to migrate to it by updating the nextpool, hi, and lo. Change the nextpool for any disk pool to point to the new storage pool. Are you going to double density tapes or double length also. If you are going to double length, make sure the tape drive itself is configured to allow it. For some reason, marking the old tapes read-only helps the process. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Fred Johanson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: TSM and 3590E Tapes When we did this on AIX, every 3590B cartridge became READ-ONLY. Depending on the size of your scratch pool, you can either let them migrate to 3590E via gradual reclamation, which you can speed along by setting a relatively low reclamation value, or by run MOVE DATA on every 3590B volume you have. At 10:42 AM 7/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: We are running TSM 3.7.3 on OS/390 2.8. We are getting ready to upgrade our tape drives from model B's to model E's. IBM says that the upgraded drives will read the old tapes just fine, but will write them at the new density. I am unable to determine what, if anything, I need to do to configure TSM for this change. The deviceclasses only define 3590 with no model information. The capacity information for the old density tapes will not be correct when it starts writing at the new density. Is this something that TSM will adjust automatically or do I need to reset it somehow? Are there any problems I'm not thinking of that might bite us with some tapes at the old density and some at the new, once TSM starts writing tapes with the upgraded drives? Anything, else I should be looking at. Thanks for any advice. --- - Louis J. Wiesemann 502-852-8952 --- - The Daily Word For Reflection is a free service and a non-discussion list intended primarily to allow personal reflection on the Word of God. SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE at: http://www.cin.org:81/guest/RemoteListSummary/dailywordtoday ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful
Yes, they would show up in a q libvol. Look in the actlog for a failed label libvol command. If you try to read or write an unlabeled tape, it will give an I/O error and a sense code possibly (00.00.00.77) ADSM support can determine what the sense code data means. 77 apparently means the volume was unlabeled. Try auditing a volume. Also try to determine if the internal label matches the barcode. Our IBM CE uses show mainframe tool to accomplish this. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Marc Levitan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful Yeah but would they show up in q libv if they were not labeled? It is not a shared library... Thanks, Marc Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 07/10/2001 01:02 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If i run a audit library tekwolf checklabel=barcode it completes successfully. It's when the audit actually mounts the volumes to check the labels that it fails. any ideas? Marc - If you're lucky, those are new volumes that were inserted without having been labeled. Otherwise they may be old volumes which, in the classic shared library scenario, were overwritten by the ogre you're sharing the library with. Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful
To fix this problem, I deleted all AIX devices and ADSM and then re-add each; cfgmgr on AIX then define drive in ADSM. We had this problem when SCSI drives were swapped also. A lscfg -vl rmt1 will show the serial number of the tape drive, and AIX expects this to be correct or you have got problems. You may also get errors in the actlog indicating that ADSM expected a certain tape to be mounted, but a different one was actually mount. You will usually get and AIX recovery logic initiated by device though I am not sure if this is always the case. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Chris Gibes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Library Audit Unsuccessful At 11:25 AM 7/10/01 -0400, you wrote: If i run a audit library tekwolf checklabel=barcode it completes successfully. It's when the audit actually mounts the volumes to check the labels that it fails. any ideas? I seem to remember a similar error happening to me. A vendor was in to do maintenance on the tape library and had inadvertently (!?) changed the scsi addresses of one of the drives. I've also seen this error when the element addresses of the drives was incorrect. Chris Chris Gibes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berbee- Milwaukee Branch N14 W23822 Stone Ridge Dr. Waukesha, WI 53188 (262) 521-5616 Berbee...putting the E in business ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: multiple netware client nodes
Setup a directory and a seperate dsm.opt, dsm.sys file for a weekly archive using the same nodename. Setup an archive management class on server and in the dsm.opt file associate all data with it. Run the archive every week through a scheduled script.(except a the end of the month) In the mgmt class, specify the retention period desired. Maybe a separate storage pool. Do the same for monthly.( run at the end of the month) I would actually find out what the customer is trying to accomplish. Usually, you can tell them a better way to accomplish this. To keep for a year, you could also set version to unlimited and retention to 365 days for the incremental. He is probably used to a tape backup solution and still thinking in that manner. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Steve Bennett [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:multiple netware client nodes I have a customer whose netware server is currently backing up to my Win2000 TSM 4.1.2 server with scheduled daily incrementals. He has indicated that he wants to start doing full weekly and monthly archives and keeping them for 1 and 5 years respectively. This wouldn't be a problem except that he cannot afford to pay for the amount of TSM storage that would require. I have thought about defining 2 additional nodes for this netware server and have one node do weekly incr and one do monthly incr. Is this workable given the following changes or is there a better way? 1) three opts files, one for each node 2) incl/excl in each opt file will point to different mgmt classes 3) he will need to run 3 schedule services for central scheduling (can three scheds be run under netware?) or initiate the backups from his end. Any suggestions or alternatives? -- Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 State of Alaska, Information Technology Group, Technical Services Section ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library
The fix is now available. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Jeff Bach Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:13 AM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject:RE: 3583 LTO Tape Library They are writing some code. No fix is available yet. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Mahesh Tailor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library zJeff, What did you do to fix the problem? TIA Mahesh Tailor WAN Administrator Carilion Health System Voice: 540-224-3929 Fax: 540-224-3954 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/01 08:38AM There is a problem with 1550. It effects the 3rd and 4th frame in the library. The robot spazes out. We found it last week ... I'd take credit. (Hey CE, Charles, is the robot supposed to do that??? Ya ... of course. ) the next day I got a call. I found a problem with the library microcode effecting the 3rd and 4th frames. It was good for a laugh. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Suad Musovich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 3583 LTO Tape Library The drives are the same as a standalone to a 3584. There have been problems with firmware levels One of the firmware levels gave me errors on a few tapes that did not go away. The drives ended up freezing on 3 and would not go away until they got power cycled. Check you firmware level (latest is 1550) http://ssddom01.storage.ibm.com/techsup/swtechsup.nsf/support/ultriumfmr_ftp http://ssddom01.storage.ibm.com/techsup/swtechsup.nsf/support/ultriumfmr_ft p Cheers, Suad -- On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:47:49PM -0500, Sam Schrage wrote: We purchased a IBM 3583 LTO in Jan, 2001. We've had 2 tape drives replaced already and a third one that is acting up occasionally. The last drive failure 'ate' a tape that I just spent 30 hours creating from an import. Any others 3583 LTO users having similar experiences? Sam Schrage TRW Systems 615-360-4716 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
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Help, I am running a 3.1.2.41 ADSM server on AIX 4.3.2. After trying to label a library volume with a label libvol command, the command hung. Now q pro, q libr, and other commands hang. Is there a solution other that bouncing the ADSM instance? (the application) Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: can't read tape label.
Also, check and make sure the labeling of the volume did not fail. An I/O error reading the label can just indicate that the label was not there. Get the sense code data and have ADSM support indicate what the message means. Also, look at OS errors at the same time. I got the same problem when label libvol commands failed and the tape was checked into the server. 6/20/01 19:54:01 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume H00554 in drive RMT5 (/dev/rmt5). Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: can't read tape label. ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 030171 in drive F5180 (/dev/rmt4). They have tried reading the tape in other drives but they still get the same error. However mtlib mounts the tape OK. Any ideas? Is there anyway they can recreate the tape label? Without this tape the customer has lost a lof of HSM data! Richard - The problems with your TSM disk and tape resources indicates that someone is really dorking with your system. You need to find that person and deal with him before he does more damage. The tape label problem is fatal. Attempting to recreate the label is not the real issue: the symptoms suggest that the tape in total was used for some non-TSM application. Is your library shared with some other facility? This is a common cause of this problem, with two chefs in the kitchen. I think your shop needs to call a halt for a while and take a thorough look at configuration and practices, as things are really amiss. In particular, look for recent changes (within the past month) that could be causing conflicts. Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Disk pool size vs large file
Stefan, How can I find out it this will effect me when converting using Informix and Exchange servers on AIX 4.1.3? ADSM SUPPORT PEOPLE, How do we find out about all of these FEATURES of design that cause ADSM to break? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: France, Don G (Pace) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Disk pool size vs large file Inspect your server activity log; there's probably better info, there -- like a tape mount request that didn't get satisfied within the mount wait time on the device class of the storage pool your management-class/copy-group points to. I've seen this happen where the max-scratch was set too low, or the TDP node name was trying to use multiple mount-points (when the node was registered for less than the request)... WAD. Also, most backup agents (via the API) have gotten smart enough to send the estimated glob size, which can easily be used to send the data to the nextstg pool (usually, tape). We set max-size on most disk pools, and we use scratch tapes in the tape library (maxscr=, rather than pre-defined volumes which cause mount request time-outs), so any file or glob greater than max-size goes to the nextstg pool. Don France EDS Infrastructure Engineering San Jose, CA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PACE - http://www.pacepros.com Bus-Ph: (408) 257-3037 -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 2:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Disk pool size vs large file We use TSM 3.7.3.8 @MVS with several 3590-tapes shared with OS390. Our biggest files are 30GB (Exchange) and normally went direct to tape by setting a sizelimit to the diskstorage pool. What happened last week was an incredible short backuptime of the exchange node without any error. Looking through the dsmsched.log I found : 06/21/2001 02:33:46 ANS1312E Server media mount not possible (due to no tape free at this moment?) The TSM Client skipped the file and finished with the following summary: 06/21/2001 02:33:46 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects inspected:8,565 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects backed up: 246 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects updated: 0 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects rebound: 0 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects deleted: 0 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects expired: 26 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of objects failed: 0 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Total number of bytes transferred: 138.73 MB 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Data transfer time: 74.62 sec 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Network data transfer rate:1,903.68 KB/sec 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Aggregate data transfer rate: 1,067.74 KB/sec 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Objects compressed by:0% 06/21/2001 02:33:46 Elapsed processing time: 00:02:13 06/21/2001 02:33:46 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END The eventlog shows no exception for this schedule. IBM's comment: Works as designed Now I consider to do the backup of large files to the primary storagepool on disk, because its very difficult to detect this error. (error.log shows no errors) With Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sam Schrage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2001 20:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Disk pool size vs large file I have a 56GB disk pool with the next pool to tape. I have a user, DB2 Admin, that wants to back up a 125GB DB2 backup. What's the best way to handle this one user? If he/she backs up the file will it crash the system because it's bigger that the diskpool, or will it go right to tape? Sam Schrage TRW Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: RAID5 Vs Mirroring
Do you mirror your tapes? If not, that is where I would start to increase my redundancy. The DISK storage pools ussually contain data for a short period of time. The tapes for a long period of time. RAID 5 is slow for writes. Depending on how much data you are moving through the storage pools, it may be fast enough. I would never use it. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Anuvinder Chauhan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 6:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RAID5 Vs Mirroring Hi All, Currently we are running AIX over RS/6000 with TSM on top of it.This is further integrated to the IBM 3494 library. In the current scenario we have mirroring implemented only for the TSM database .I want to built in more redundancy therefore planning to go for RAID 5 implementation.There is no redundancy for the data backed up by the storage pools.Size of the database is around 115GB. I would like to know does going in for RAID 5 is a wise decision and what are the implications involved. Regards Anuvinder Chauhan System Administrator ST Microelectronics Ltd. INDIA. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Recovery Log size
With database sizes on client systems increasing each day to 100s Gigs from tens of Gigs, if the log size only goes up by 2.5 times the current size limit, some piece has to get 4 times faster to maintain the current way things are working. If Tivoli is not going forward faster than its customers, it is not going forward. TSM either needs to be ported to use a 21st century database or at least copy what they are doing today. Multiple recovery log volumes, replication between servers for recundancy, the ability to actually use 2+ to 8 Gigs of database buffer memory. Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Nicholas Cassimatis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovery Log size With the current limit of 5.3GB, and the steps we've all taken to work within that limit, I don't think many people will be hitting the 13GB limit all that quick. An incremental database backup will still flush the log, and, with 13GB, I think we'll be OK if we don't change the way we are doing our business. Nick Cassimatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] An FYI - TSM 4.2 will increase the limit to 13GB. I think we're all wondering when the first voice will be heard asking when the 13 GB limit will be increased. And I think we're all wondering why the increase was little more than a doubling of the current limit - which customers are already straining to go beyond. As an Enterprise level product, I would expect TSM to be a lot more open-ended. Unless this boost was merely a stop-gap in advance of major architectural relief, it's not going to be enough to keep up with the demand. Richard Sims, BU ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
Re: Which version of TSM Win32 to install - 4.1.2.12, 14, 17, 18 ??
Explain what server version is unable to backup NT system object (the new one) The newest server I know is 4.1.3.0, but 4.1.4 is supposed to be out soon. Does 4.1.3 have any issue or what level does? Jeff Bach -Original Message- From: Wayne T. Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Which version of TSM Win32 to install - 4.1.2.12, 14, 17, 18 ?? Oops ... you missed 19. :-) Which version should we use for the Win32 client? The Tivoli support site once showed 4.1.2.12 / 14 / 17 and 18 ! Now it has only 4.1.2.12 ! Perhaps you are confusing the maintenance area of the FTP server with the patches area? The patches area has all of these; the maintenance area has only 12. Since a patch level doesn't normally make it to the maintenance area, we appear to be in particularly strange and distressing times. We connot upgrade every month or so, it is therefore important to all of us to get stabilized versions. I agree. I wish Tivoli had a commitment to do this. The availability of patches that correct problems is good, but it has been several months since a maintenance level has been produced, and, IMHO, *years* since a workable client has been produced for my environment. I'll admit to not understanding system objects and their backup and restore, but providing restore of only the most recent registry backup may eventually make us rethink *SM as one of our backup/recovery solutions. Oh yea, being apparently unable to *backup* system objects to the most recent and supported *SM VM server is even worse. Sorry for being such a stick-in-the-mud, Wayne T. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADSM Technical Coordinator - UNET University of Maine System ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **
