Re: reclamation no longer working
I had the same problem and offsitereclaimlimit=20 (or whatever you want to limit it to) worked for me. In my particular situation my server is 5.4.1.0 (I know, very old!) running on AIX 5.3 (5300-09-01-0847). I have a few (less than 5-10) tapes at a 99% reclaimable level in my offsite COPYPOOL01 tapes, but about 500 tapes that are 98% reclaimable. If I do NOT specify a offsitereclaimlimit number it seems to process tapes to reclaim at about 3 tapes per minute. So for 500 tapes it just sits there for about 3 HOURS before it even starts mounting tapes to start the reclamation. I stumbled onto how useful this particular option was about 3 or 4 months ago thanks to this forum, before that I didn't have a clue what it was supposed to be used for. Limiting it to 20 tapes lets it actually start mounting tapes and moving files in about 6 or 7 minutes. I also noted that in a recent posting in this forum, IBM has fixed the order in which tapes are reclaimed, and if you specify something like 90%, it will start with 99% first, then 98%, 97%, and so on until it finishes or runs out of time. This solves my biggest gripe about reclamation that I have had. I have two new servers that will soon be in production, and they are running the 6.2 TSM, so they should reclaim much faster. John John M. Ritter Systems Software Specialist Vanderbilt University Medical Center Email: john.rit...@vanderbilt.edu -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:46 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: reclamation no longer working I started a reclamation on that pool yesterday afternoon and it sat there for several hours before it finally started moving anything. I guess I got behind doing the reclamation. But that doesn't make any sense because the offsite pool and the onsite pool have the same settings and the same content. Only difference is that one goes off site. I use the same settings when I run reclamation on both pools but I run them at completely different times and the times don't overlap. When I run the onsite copypool script the process starts without delay. The same settings for the offsite copypool takes forever to actually kick off. I guess I'll need to keep a closer eye on things -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working >> On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, "Tyree, David" said: > I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up > to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have > plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for days. There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset. If you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed, you may have a large backlog. In that case, trying little nibbles is the only way to go. You could also approach this from the -OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes- side, limiting it to just a few at a time. - Allen S. Rout
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Re: Is there a simple way to test a tape drive?
I have a IBM3584 library with 6 LTO2 drives. Whenever I have a drive replaced (about once every 6 months over the past 4 years), I test it by doing the following: (Remember to delete/add the old and new drives first) Take four of the six drives offline. Do a move data on a storage pool tape. Watch for activity on the two drives. Once you see good activity, bring the other four drives back online. Either cancel the move data or let it finish. Doing the above test takes less than five minutes and is very reassuring, since you can do it before the IBM CEs leave. John -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Is there a simple way to test a tape drive? Sometimes I want to have TSM test out a tape drive. Something like . . . - pick a drive - pick a tape - have tsm mount the tape and read the label (or something) - tell me this succeeded or not Like yesterday . . . IBM repaired a tape drive. After fixing it, IBM tells us it's fixed. We put the drive online . . .and wait for TSM to use it. For this particular drive, it was several hours before TSM used it. We also get this after an upgrade, or adding a new drive. To get TSm to used any drive, let alone a particular drive, requires starting a migration, update stgpool, backup to tape, etc. All are large processes. Is there a simple way to get TSM to exercise a particular tape drive? Or, what do you do in these situations? We have 3590 drives in 3494 libraries, and 3592 drives in 3584 libraries. Thanks Rick - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
Re: ANS5020E Out of Archive Space?
I had a similar situation with this error. I contacted IBM support on this and they told me that this message can sometimes be encountered if you are using client compression and going to a disk pool. I don't remember the exact details, but the idea is that TSM estimates how much of the disk pool is needed and reserves that amount. Later in the session, TSM may revise its estimate of how much it needs and ask for additional reservation. If the unused and unreserved space in the diskpool is insufficient to honor the reservation, you get the message, even though you don't actually fill up the diskpool. In my case the solution was to increase the diskpool size by about 20%, from about 240GB to 311GB in size. I have not encountered the error since I did this. John Ritter -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Zajkowski Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANS5020E Out of Archive Space? Hi folks, I had a user try to send ~500GB to an archive. The disk pool for archive space is 123 GB, and there's plenty of free tape behind it. At about 218 GB into the operation, the client threw this error: > 11/05/2007 18:56:54 Server out of data storage space > 11/05/2007 18:56:55 Server out of data storage space > 11/05/2007 18:56:56 Server out of data storage space > 11/05/2007 18:56:57 Server out of data storage space > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANS5020E Server out of archive data storage space Googling for the error reveals the unhelpful "duh it ran out of space, call your admin." The server actlog for that time period on the server shows nothing unusual (TAR013 is a tape in the archivepool's migration destination. TAR013 has plenty of space as well). > 11/05/2007 18:54:49 ANR0514I Session 4493 closed volume > TAR013L2. (SESSION: > 4493) > 11/05/2007 18:54:51 ANR0511I Session 4493 opened output volume > TAR013L2. > (SESSION: 4493) > 11/05/2007 18:54:53 ANR0514I Session 4493 closed volume > TAR013L2. (SESSION: > 4493) > 11/05/2007 18:56:56 ANR0403I Session 4493 ended for node WATSON > (Linux86). > (SESSION: 4493) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4952I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects inspected: 18,253 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4953I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects archived:18,205 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4958I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects updated: 0 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4960I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects rebound: 0 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4957I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects deleted: 0 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4970I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects expired: 0 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4959I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > objects failed: 34 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4961I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Total number of > bytes transferred: 218.07 GB (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4963I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Data transfer > time:6,507.48 sec > (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4966I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Network data > transfer rate:35,138.79 KB/sec > (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4967I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Aggregate data > transfer rate: 17,066.03 KB/sec > (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4968I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Objects compressed > by:0% (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 18:56:58 ANE4964I (Session: 4492, Node: WATSON) > Elapsed processing > time:03:43:18 (SESSION: 4492) > 11/05/2007 19:12:12 ANR0482W Session 4492 for node WATSON > (Linux86) terminated > - idle for more than 15 minutes. (SESSION: > 4492) > 11/05/2007 19:54:53 ANR8325I Dismounting volume TAR013L2 - 60 > minute mount > retention expired. Why would an archive (or any?) operation throw a out-of-space error? And why would it happen about 80GB past the end of the archive pool space, which is even weirder. I could understand it throwing an error at exactly 123GB. Relevant versions: server is 5.3.4 Linux x86-64, client is 5.2.4 Linux i386. --Jim
Re: Simultaneous Write
I just did this on a TSM server at 5.4.1.0 level. It seems to work fine, but I found a couple of operational limitations. I normally have a TAPEPOOL01 and a COPYPOOL01 storage pools that I use for tape copies. DISKPOOL is set to go to TAPEPOOL01. I was going to just change the TAPEPOOL01 storage pool to use a COPY Storage Pool: COPYPOOL01 setting. (This is what gives you the simultaneous copy.) But then reading through the documentation, I discovered that this setting overrides the LANFREE settings of the storage agents that I use on several of my machines. In other words, if I changed the TAPEPOOL01 to do a simultaneous copy to the COPYPOOL01, then my LANFREE would be disabled, and the data would be sent over the network and copied simultaneously to a TAPOOL01 tape and a COPYPOOL01 tape. This is a real bummer, since we wanted to avoid the network traffic to begin with by using LANFREE. What I ended up doing was creating a TAPEPOOL02 storage pool that was set up with a COPY Storage Pool: COPYPOOL01 setting. (Remember, that this is in effect a "permanent" or global setting for the storage pool. It really isn't intended to be turned on and off.) I then set up a management class that I called tapepool02backup and did individual include statements of the filesystems I wanted to perform a simultaneous backup on. Here is an example of one of my lines in my include_exclude.list file: include /tp02bkup/.../* tapepool02backup In my particular case, I have EMC BCV disks that I swing over to the TSM server machine and mount the appropriate filesystems onto the TSM server. Then the backup is made to the locally attached (via fiber) tape library. No network or LANFREE is involved. Right now only one backup is going to the TAPEPOOL02 storage pool. I had hoped that I could have simply modified my normally used TAPEPOOL01 pool to use simultaneous copy to the COPYPOOL01, but I discovered from the documentation (and confirmed with IBM support), that would have killed my LANFREE backups. This approach seemed to be the simplest alternative that I could come up with, and IBM support did not have anything easier to suggest. I had thought about creating an administrative script that would modify the TAPEPOOL01 to add the COPY Storage Pool parameter, perform the backup, and then delete the parameter. The problem with that approach in my case would be that during the time that the backup was being performed, any LANFREE backups would be forced over the network and then to the TAPEPOOL01. I could not just delete the parameter right after I started the simultaneous copy backup, because there would be no guarantee that a second pair of tapes would be needed, and that would not get the benefit of the simultaneous copy to the COPYPOOL01 tape for the second tape involved. If anybody else has a better approach to this problem, I sure would like to hear it. It would have been nice if the LANFREE storage agents would support simultaneous copy via the Storage Agent locally attached tape drives, but I don't know if IBM has any plans to do this in the future. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ribeiro, Ricardo Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:44 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Simultaneous Write Hello, I would like to know if someone has experience using the "Simultaneous Write" feature of TSM 5.4? We are thinking about creating a copy_pool on a remote site tape library and enable this feature to see if we can create the copy tapes at a remote site directly. Has anybody done this? Thanks! Ricardo Ribeiro Sr. Storage Administrator Charles Schwab & Co., Inc Phone 602-977-4629 Cell 623-217-4139 Pager 877-478-7623
Re: CAD will not start due to pre/post jobs
I had a similar problem after I migrated from TSM server ver 5.2 to 5.4. The pre and post script programs contained the "-" as part of their name, which worked in 5.2 but broke in 5.4. I'm not sure about the "_" character, but you may want to rename the pre and post files to eliminate special characters and see if that helps. John John M. Ritter Systems Software Specialist Vanderbilt University Medical Center 3401 West End Ave., Ste. 500 Nashville, TN 37203-6865 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: CAD will not start due to pre/post jobs The validity of the PRE/POST command should not be of consequence to the CAD. I wonder what dsmwebcl.log or dsmerror.log has to say? Also, with the dsm.opt file that did not work for the CAD, does it work for the interactive clients? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/24/2007 06:24:15 AM: > Well, while I thought your syntax should work, you might try following one: > > preschedulecmd "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe /C c:\oraclexe\backup\shut_db.bat" > > best > Juraj > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von JR Trimark > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2007 14:59 > An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Betreff: JR- CAD will not start due to pre/post jobs > > I am using the TSM client 5.3 on a Windows 2003 server. When I put > in pre/post commands in the same format that I have used > successfully before, the TSM Client Acceptor tries to start then > stops. If I comment out the pre/post commands the TSM Client > Acceptor is able to start successfully. > No messages are written to any of the logs. The file path and batch > file are both correct. Any ideas? > dsm.opt (partial) > > preschedulecmd "c:\oraclexe\backup\shut_db.bat" > postchedulecmd "c:\oraclexe\backup\start_db.bat" > > Thanks > Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte > Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese > E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den > Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren > sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail > in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e- > mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the > material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
Adding a short delay in a server command script
I have a short server command script that changes the reclamation setting and then immediately resets it back, in order to start a reclamation process for any tapes that are over the threshold. When I run the two commands manually, there is enough time between them to allow a reclamation process to kick off. When I run them as part of a script, they run so quickly that there is no time for a reclamation process to start before it is reset back to 100. Here are the two lines in the script: update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87 update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100 What I need is the equivalent of the sleep command, so that I can delay a few seconds between the two update commands, something similar to: update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87 sleep 10 update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100 Any suggestions? I want to just have one script do the kickoff as well as resetting the recl back to 100. I need to run this at certain times of the day that I have available drives, so I thought a server command script would be appropriate. If anybody has alternate approaches, I would also be interested. The wait=yes option doesn't work for the update stg command, unfortunately. Thanks in advance for your help. John M. Ritter Systems Software Specialist Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 37232 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Offsite Mirror of TSM server
There are quite a few options you can look into. CNT builds protocol converters that you can use to convert FCP <-> IP <-> FCP (fiber channel protocol) and accomplish data mirroring via a WAN connection. Other DWDM / Dark Fiber options exist too, and can play well with the larger disk subsystem's software based copy services such as PPRC (IBM) and SDRF (EMC). Collectively, these are all high cost solutions, but offer lots of flexibility and HA type configurations. Other, less expensive methods/tools probably exist too-- >From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Offsite Mirror of TSM server >Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:02:44 -0400 > >Well, that is the issue/alternative/suggestion. > >Just exactly how do we mirror a "volume" across an IP link, since that is >going to be the most likely connection between the "source" and the >"target"/"mirror" ? What hardware/software would I need to be able to do >this and how would the TSM server feel about this processes (it is going >to be a lot slower to mirror across a 100mbs link that physical DASD !!). > > > > > > >Jim Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >04/19/2002 10:48 AM >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject:Re: Offsite Mirror of TSM server > > >Why not mirror the TSM logs/DBs to the hotsite, when the source server >fails bring up the target server pointing to the mirrored DB/logs? > > > > >"Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/17/2002 >01:46:11 PM > >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: > >Subject: Offsite Mirror of TSM server > > >Let me preface this with, I am not sure how to completely ask these >questions since I don't have all of the details but hopefully someone can >give me some idea of how TSM can/will handle this, if at all possible. > >Current configuration: TSM 4.1 on OS/390 using 3590B tape drives in a >3494 ATL > >Requirements as I understand them: Setup a off-location "hot site" backup >TSM server that will have copies of everything the main server and/or >other TSM server (we are working on splitting the TSM traffic/load onto >another TSM server) has. The "hot site" server will probably be an AIX >box with 3590E (possibly FC) drives. > >I have looked into the source/target server issue but am a little confused >since the "target" server will only see things that come from the "source" >server as archive objects. > >If the building with the "source" server burns down (and this same >building also houses a majority of the clients that are backed up !), how >would the "target" server be used to restore all of the client nodes ? > >How about the database backups that are sent to the "target" server ? What >use are they if you have to have the "source" server to identify what is >on the "target" server ? > >Should I/could I setup database mirror volumes on a remote (target ?) >server over simple IP connections or is this only possible with DASD using >XRC processesespecially since the current, main database is on OS390 ? > If this was moved to an AIX box, how would this be handled ? NFS ??? > >As you can tell, any and all guidance is greatly appreciated !!! > > >Zoltan Forray >Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4 _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: subdirectories
Patrick, I had encountered the same thing. I changed Z:\*.* to Z:*.* and then my subdirectories were included. John == John M. Clement | Data Processing Analyst III | PHONE: 309/438-7254 Illinois State University | 129 Julian Hall | FAX: 309/438-3027 3470 Administrative Computing | Normal IL 61790-3470 | MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Sheehan Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subdirectories I'm doing a selective scheduled backup with this as the settings for the drive Z:\*.* -su=yes Why doesn't it backup the files in the subdirectories? The include/exclude file has the default settings, I've added nothing. 05/21/2001 20:12:07 Selective Backup function invoked. 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\ [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Asis [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\asis2 [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\bkup [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\eds [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Lotus [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Nt40sp6a [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\ORANT [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\PB4NT [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Public [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\RECYCLER [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\RSTNOTES [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\temp [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z$\Asis\PB [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z $\Asis\PB\Asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File--> 2,377 \\daisy\z $\Asis\PB\Asisload\Asisload.ini [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Directory--> 0 \\daisy\z $\asis2\asisload [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File--> 275,456 \\daisy\z $\asis2\agenfunc.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File-->62,976 \\daisy\z $\asis2\amisc1.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:12 Normal File-->37,376 \\daisy\z $\asis2\anotes32.pbd [Sent] 05/21/2001 20:12:14 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects inspected: 86 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects backed up:0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects updated: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects rebound: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects deleted: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects expired: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of objects failed: 0 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Total number of bytes transferred: 373.70 KB 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Data transfer time:0.01 sec 05/21/2001 20:12:14 Network data transfer rate:23,356.75 KB/sec TIA Patrick
