Re: TSM 7.1 install on AIX problems
RE: Your poor DB backup performance - check this out: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21587513 ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM 7.1 install on AIX problems I just did the install last week and didn't see any issues with the install script or memory dumps. What version of AIX are you running? I'm on 6.1 TL 7 SP 6 (I updated from TL 7 SP 4 in order to do the TSM 7.1 install.) I am seeing abysmal speeds during backup db commands (about half the average speed I was getting before,) but that's neither here nor there. Sigh. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Kevin Kettner kkett...@doit.wisc.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/18/2014 12:19 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 install on AIX problems Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I'm attempting to install TSM 7.1 on an AIX box for the first time. Did anyone else notice that the install.sh script is missing a ! in the first line? It has #/bin/sh and it should have #!/bin/sh. It's an easy fix, but makes me wonder about the quality of the rest of the code. After working around that it's throwing memory errors (see below), which I have a PMR open on. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? I Googled for people reporting either of these issues and didn't find anything, which seems odd, especially the install script issue. I can't be the only one to try to install it on AIX. I'll post the fix when I figure it out or get it from IBM. Bonus points for beating IBM support to the punch. ;-) Thanks! -Kevin # ./install.sh ./install.sh[233]: 11993088 Memory fault(coredump) Unhandled exception Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x0004 J9Generic_Signal_Number=0004 Signal_Number=000b Error_Value= Signal_Code=0033 Handler1=F1324208 Handler2=F131BF1C R0=D336EDCC R1=3012FEF0 R2=F11C269C R3=F11C0450 R4= R5= R6= R7=0003 R8=0043 R9= R10=2FF22ABC R11=34E0 R12=03291A68 R13=30C4C400 R14=32040920 R15=F12891EC R16=0007 R17= R18=F1326388 R19=30C4C450 R20=32BAE460 R21=32040938 R22= R23=3BC8 R24=10010E04 R25=F131D130 R26=301365A4 R27=007E R28=CFA71C28 R29=F1325B7C R30=D3390410 R31=F11C0430 IAR=D33853A8 LR=D336EDE8 MSR=D032 CTR=D3631E70 CR=22004284 FPSCR=8200 XER=0005 TID= MQ= FPR0 32bc69000110 (f: 272.00, d: 2.697706e-64) FPR1 41e0 (f: 0.00, d: 2.147484e+09) FPR2 c1e0 (f: 0.00, d: -2.147484e+09) FPR3 433001e0 (f: 31457280.00, d: 4.503600e+15) FPR4 43300800 (f: 0.00, d: 4.512396e+15) FPR5 41338518 (f: 0.00, d: 1.279256e+06) FPR6 41338518 (f: 0.00, d: 1.279256e+06) FPR7 433008138518 (f: 1279256.00, d: 4.512396e+15) FPR8 0035002e00760032 (f: 7733298.00, d: 1.168203e-307) FPR9 0030003100330030 (f: 3342384.00, d: 8.900711e-308) FPR10 003700330030005f (f: 3145823.00, d: 1.279461e-307) FPR11 0031003700350034 (f: 3473460.00, d: 9.457031e-308) FPR12 3fe8 (f: 0.00, d: 7.50e-01) FPR13 4028 (f: 0.00, d: 1.20e+01) FPR14 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR15 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR16 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR17 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR18 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR19 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR20 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR21 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR22 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR23 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR24 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR25 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR26 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR27 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR28 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR29 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR30 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) FPR31 (f: 0.00, d: 0.00e+00) Target=2_40_20110203_074623 (AIX 7.1) CPU=ppc (16 logical CPUs) (0x7c000 RAM) --- Stack Backtrace --- (0xD336E81C) (0xD436CE48) (0xD436F698) (0xD4368D38) (0xD4368B24) (0xD369BBA0) (0xD436A058) (0xD436A200) (0xD491BD18) (0xD492236C) (0xD4926438) (0xD499BF48) (0xD4965780) (0xD4965A30) (0xD49E4BAC) (0xD49658E4) (0xD4965E24) (0xD496A6C4) (0x100013C0) (0xD04FED08) --- JVMDUMP006I Processing dump event gpf, detail - please wait. JVMDUMP032I JVM requested System dump using '/bl2ata01/core
Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls
I only had to do a one-time backup so I never did come up with something else. I'm going to ask about this at Edge. ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 3:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls OH, bimps. Glad to know that before I did all the work, you just saved me a lot of effort and I thank you. So when you got down that road, what did you end up doing instead? Only other thing I can think of is to install the BA client in the guest and do an incremental once a month? W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE and monthly fulls If you backup to a different nodename you will reset the CBT info. So you can do that monthly full backup to the different nodename, but when you switch back to the original, it will also require a full. So in essence you need to do 2 back to back fulls to get this done. I've been down this road. ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM for VE and monthly fulls Would like to know if anyone has solved the conundrum of TSM VE and customers who want monthly fulls in the vault for a year or more. Now I know that's a bad idea, and it doesn't play well with TSM incremental-forever. But still there are customers who insist, or have managers with ill-thought-out pseudo-requirements for it, or parent firms who insist on it. And I can work those issues with backupsets or exports or nodename-monthly node owners or sometimes even archives for other types of data. But I have not been able to do an export on deduped VE filespaces. It takes so long and puts on so many locks it has to be cancelled. So I'm pondering the idea of doing a true VM full, to a different datamover with a different filespace owner. But I don't really like that idea either because the full will have the snapshot outstanding for a long time, and the scheduling will be tricky so we don't overlap the incremental snapshots. SO, anybody else have insight into this particular can of worms? Thanks Wanda **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.commailto:wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.comhttp://www.icfi.com | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md |443-718-4900 (o)
Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls
I was told as long as I kept the mode as IFINCR it would not reset CBT info before I started, but it did. This was on TSM for VE 6.4, VMWare 5.1, and a 6.3.3 server. Perhaps there is another way that would work without resetting CBT. If so, please share. I did onetime IFINCR backups to a new datacenter nodename, new stgpool, using a new datamover during the day for a proof of concept. Since the data went to a new nodename it triggered a full backup. After switching back to their original datamover and datacenter node as part of the regular nightly schedule - that also triggered a full again for those VMs I was using for testing, with these messages: ANS9387W Incremental backup unsuccessful for virtual machine 'XXX'. Performing Full backup instead. ANS9384W Unable to get VMware Changed Block Tracking(CBT) data for virtual machine 'XX'. Full VM backup continues, and includes both used and unused areas of the disk. ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Edwards Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls John, In TSM 6.4 this behavior was changed so that we do not always reset the CBT on full backups. This was done, in part, to allow out of band full backups to be done to a different node / server without interrupting the incremental chain of the primary backup. Are you seeing this issue with 6.4? --- Rob Edwards TSM Development email: r...@us.ibm.com tieline: 938.2784, external: 720.396.2784 From: John Monahan john.mona...@us.logicalis.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 03/20/2014 01:48 AM Subject:Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu If you backup to a different nodename you will reset the CBT info. So you can do that monthly full backup to the different nodename, but when you switch back to the original, it will also require a full. So in essence you need to do 2 back to back fulls to get this done. I've been down this road. ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM for VE and monthly fulls Would like to know if anyone has solved the conundrum of TSM VE and customers who want monthly fulls in the vault for a year or more. Now I know that's a bad idea, and it doesn't play well with TSM incremental-forever. But still there are customers who insist, or have managers with ill-thought-out pseudo-requirements for it, or parent firms who insist on it. And I can work those issues with backupsets or exports or nodename-monthly node owners or sometimes even archives for other types of data. But I have not been able to do an export on deduped VE filespaces. It takes so long and puts on so many locks it has to be cancelled. So I'm pondering the idea of doing a true VM full, to a different datamover with a different filespace owner. But I don't really like that idea either because the full will have the snapshot outstanding for a long time, and the scheduling will be tricky so we don't overlap the incremental snapshots. SO, anybody else have insight into this particular can of worms? Thanks Wanda **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com mailto:wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.comhttp://www.icfi.com | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md |443-718-4900 (o)
Re: TSM for VE and monthly fulls
If you backup to a different nodename you will reset the CBT info. So you can do that monthly full backup to the different nodename, but when you switch back to the original, it will also require a full. So in essence you need to do 2 back to back fulls to get this done. I've been down this road. ___ John Monahan Professional Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM for VE and monthly fulls Would like to know if anyone has solved the conundrum of TSM VE and customers who want monthly fulls in the vault for a year or more. Now I know that's a bad idea, and it doesn't play well with TSM incremental-forever. But still there are customers who insist, or have managers with ill-thought-out pseudo-requirements for it, or parent firms who insist on it. And I can work those issues with backupsets or exports or nodename-monthly node owners or sometimes even archives for other types of data. But I have not been able to do an export on deduped VE filespaces. It takes so long and puts on so many locks it has to be cancelled. So I'm pondering the idea of doing a true VM full, to a different datamover with a different filespace owner. But I don't really like that idea either because the full will have the snapshot outstanding for a long time, and the scheduling will be tricky so we don't overlap the incremental snapshots. SO, anybody else have insight into this particular can of worms? Thanks Wanda **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.commailto:wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.comhttp://www.icfi.com | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md |443-718-4900 (o)
Re: TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock
Are you also doing dedupe? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81115 ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM 6.2.3 DB2 Deadlock I find my DB2 database in a deadlock condition. It's been deadlocked for about 40 hours. It's run fine for many, many months until this weekend. Running on Windows 2008 R2. During node backup, migration kicked in (as it does frequently). But, apparently, migration is trying to move a file that a node is backing up? Anyone have a suggestion? I've opened a PMR but don't have a response yet. I hesitate to halt/restart the TSM service without some guidance. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: RFE 17805
I believe TSM 6.3 node replication is one answer to your request. ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc. ___ Business and technology working as one This e-mail message is intended only for the confidential and privileged use of the addressee (or others authorized to receive for the addressee). If you are not an intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van - SPLXO Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: RFE 17805 Hi Remco! I totally agree! In our shop we had to create a dedicated server to enable backups in case of a disaster. It contains a standby primary pool with 500 tapes, just sitting there, costing money. This pool is located on the remote location and is readonly. When the primary pool is lost, we have to make this pool readwrite so backups can continue. In this case you can see that the primary focus of development is still on restore, while backing up became equally vital. Oracle database rely on a frequent backup of the archive logs. When they become full, Oracle simply stops. I voted for your RFE and request others to do the same. It takes just one minute of your time. Kind regards, Eric van Loon -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: woensdag 28 maart 2012 20:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RFE 17805 Hi all, I submitted a RFE for TSM regarding the behavior of copy pools. You can find the RFE via http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRFEs and search for RFE ID 17805. I'd like to invite all off you to vote on this RFE if you find it useful, so that development can get a good idea of how important this FRE would be to the customers. Below you find the input I submitted: Description:For one storage pool to be an exact replica of another pool and be equivalent in every way, to the extend that if one pool becomes unavailable all activity continues on the remaining pool, including write activity. This would also involve changing the behavior of commands like delete volume, migration, etc. Use case: In a dual-site setup with two tape libraries, one would want operations to continue as seamless as possible in case of a site disaster. Current copy storage pools can't be promoted to primary pools, so with the current technology one has to create new storage pools on the second site, even though a copy storage pool is already available. Business justification: there are many dual site setup with IBM and its customers. All data in a TSM server environment (disk) can be mirrored, but as soon as the primary tape storage pools become unavailable, there is a lot of manual intervention involved before normal operations can continue. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 248 21 622 For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286
Node replication DB sizing
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the new node replication and how it affects the TSM database size, both on the source and target sides. I'm unable to find any type of sizing guidance for the DB side of things. Thanks
Re: EXPORTING clients
FYI TSM 6.2.2.0 has been pulled from the FTP site because of so many problems. See here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server/v6r2/AIX/6.2.2.0/README.txt You can browse the list of issues fixed in the 6.2.2.X server patch levels here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21456937 ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc. john.mona...@us.logicalis.com www.us.logicalis.com ___ Business and technology working as one This e-mail message is intended only for the confidential and privileged use of the addressee (or others authorized to receive for the addressee). If you are not an intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes, Timothy Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: EXPORTING clients AIX 6.1.0 TSM SERVER 6.2.2.0 Regards -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: EXPORTING clients What V/R/M/OS are you running? Hughes, Timothy timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us wrote: Hi Zoltan, Thanks...I will take a look at those there on the IBM support site I assume correct? I tried looking for something about this issue before but could not find anything. I will try again must have missed something. Regards -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: EXPORTING clients IIRC, there are some server patches related to exports causing problems. Hughes, Timothy timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us wrote: I think you may be correct, I don't see those input wait times most of the time only once or twice since doing the exports. Still our main issue seems to be the suspend export command seems to hang and/or cause the destination TSM Server to crash. Also running more than one export seems to cause a hang sometimes currently running only 1 export (frustrating) cause this is going to take forever doing these exports. regards -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 2:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: EXPORTING clients Richard, Here is something to think about: What Timothy is doing is essentially tape-to-tape data movement for one node, with that node's data likely scattered to some degree across the input tape. This means that there will be some tape repositioning needed to read the input tape. If the output was to disk, it is likely that the input tape could stay pretty much in streaming mode. However, with the output being directed to tape, IMHO it is much more likely that between the input tape repositions and not being able to keep the output tape in streaming mode, the combination will likely result in an inordinate amount of backhitching. I don't think this is a hardware error, so much as a tape technology limitation. We get around this by using serial disk as an interim step, which allows the whole process to run more quickly (because there is less overall backhitching). ..Paul At 08:34 AM 7/8/2011, Richard Sims wrote: On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Hughes, Timothy wrote: Yes, We are doing Server-to-tape exports. I did notice a couple times long input tape mounts on the destination TSM SERVER one was around 6,000 seconds another around 14,000 seconds and another 17,000 seconds. Export/Import operations are, per the Admin Guide manual topic Preemption of client or server operations, high priority, which would pre-empt lower priority operations in order to get a tape mount started. If prompt allocation of tape drives is being reflected in your Activity Log, but then tape mount and positioning is taking an inordinate amount of time, that would suggest hardware issues with tapes or drives. If non-Export operations do not exhibit such delays, then something else is going on, where analysis of the Activity Log and operating system logs may reveal factors. If no cause is evident, contacting TSM Support would be in order. Richard Sims -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu
Re: undocumented ANR
DBDIAGLOGSIZE is a server option that defaults to 1024MB. Try putting it in your server options file with a lower size. ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: undocumented ANR Hi All, the more time I spend engeneering with TSM version 6, the more unpleasant surprises I get. To prevent one TSM server from filling up the home file system and crashing all TSM servers on that box, we had decided to create a saparate home filesystem for each TSM server on a box. The installation guide told us that each DB2 instance requires about 450 MB in the home filesystem, so we allocated space for that. Turns out that IBM forgot to print a 1 because during dsmserv format I got: ANR1547W The server failed to update the DBDIAGLOGSIZE server option due to insufficient available space. Required space: 1024 megabytes; available space: 174 megabytes. The current value:2 megabytes. I never asked for a diaglog of 1 GB! how do I tell TSM that really, 174 MB is more that enough? I really hope that nobody really needs 1 GB of diag log... The log should roll over after a few days, right? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post, PLCS
1024 DB2 database connection limit on AIX
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tcss=Newsletteruid=swg21428557 I'm wondering if anyone on the list has run into this issue or if someone from IBM can clarify or give examples to quantify slightly better than servers with large workloads. How large a DB? How many clients? How much backed up nightly? At least give something in the ballpark so TSM admins can make an educated decision if they need to consider this problem upfront. Putting in a large server and then crossing your fingers that you don't reach the limit isn't really a good customer support strategy. Thanks ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc.
Re: 1024 DB2 database connection limit on AIX
Thanks for the info. What is/was your maxsessions server setting? ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of deehr...@louisville.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 1024 DB2 database connection limit on AIX I hit this problem the first night of backups after converting to V6.2.2.0 from v5.5. I don't know but I'd guess the determining factor would be number of nodes backing up. We have between 400 -500 nodes backing up. They back up between 3-5 TB a night. My v6 db is about 140 GB (used). David Ehresman John Monahan john.mona...@us.logicalis.com 3/8/2011 11:11 AM http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tcss=Newsletteruid=swg21428557 I'm wondering if anyone on the list has run into this issue or if someone from IBM can clarify or give examples to quantify slightly better than servers with large workloads. How large a DB? How many clients? How much backed up nightly? At least give something in the ballpark so TSM admins can make an educated decision if they need to consider this problem upfront. Putting in a large server and then crossing your fingers that you don't reach the limit isn't really a good customer support strategy. Thanks ___ John Monahan Delivery Consultant Logicalis, Inc.
Monitoring and Reporting through firewall
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with the new Monitoring and Reporting accessing TSM servers running the monitoring agent through a firewall? I'm checking out the firewall section of the Tivoli Monitoring redbook but not sure if that info will exactly translate to the TSM monitoring and reporting.
Re: Virtual Volumes won't die!
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Virtual Volumes won't die! I recently migrated about 5TB of data off of a VirtualVolume/Server based pool to a normal tape pool. - TSM 5.5.4 on AIX - The Storage pools are all set to 0 days (for volume reuse) - expire inv's were run on both servers - The volumes aren't present on the source server anymore - Reconcile Volumes shows: 0 volumes inspected, 0 invalid volumes found - show virtvols show a lot of volumes, but all marked for deletion: VIRTUAL VOLUME: 3 HL=ADSM/TSM-WB_LM.BFS.237199152, LL=BFS.OBJ.1, objId=1326, firstObjId=1326 objSize=2166075833, numObjects=4, when: 06:25:53 on 03/16/09 Marked For Delete: TRUE, when: 12:45:45 on 03/26/10 - The occupancy of the source server is still 5TB at the target server: I've run into this problem before when I first set this up, but it turned out I just forgot to run expiration at the target server (since it was always a dedicated library manager) That's not the case this time. I can't find the reference, but if I remember right (which is always suspect) Virtual Volumes are stored using an archive copy group on the target server, but ignores the Retain Version of the copy group. The copy group for this is set to the default of 365 days, but I don't imagine it should affect virtual-volume data, right? Any other suggestions? The last resort is a del fi, but I'd really like to figure this out. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Try: q server f=d Check delgraceperiod parameter John Monahan
Re: VTL Tape Size
I typically use 50GB volume size if it works out well with the VTL limits. Like others have mentioned, be sure to check your VTL maximums for volumes/slots and mount points/virtual drives. __ John Monahan Infrastructure Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-226-2088 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-226-2081 john.mona...@us.logicalis.com http://www.us.logicalis.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: VTL Tape Size We are about to bring up new TSM servers and one of questions that has come up is how big to make the VTL tapes? We currently use 100GG and have tried 10GB with our test server. The question is what size it popular and why? Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: Making sure clientactions start
Is the status from the server side pending or started (or something else)? The client can only run one scheduled task at a time. Another possibility is it is still running something else. __ John Monahan Infrastructure Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-226-2088 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-226-2081 john.mona...@us.logicalis.com http://www.us.logicalis.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Making sure clientactions start Is the client running is schedule mode? If so stop and start the acceptor and wait 1 minute then check the log. If you are looking for reason, then check the server log, a quick search on the node name should help. Our most common problem is the server cannot contact the node due to an IP resolution problem. When the scheduler contacts the server IP resolution is not needed to start the job. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Making sure clientactions start I have a clientaction defined for a node whose schedmode is set to prompted. However, I have now been waiting for 45 minutes for the action to take place. Is there a way to get the server to kick itself and prompt the client to perform the actions in a clientaction? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: Making sure clientactions start
I think something is still wrong or unique in your environment. I deploy scripts that run immediate clientactions all the time at several of my customers and they always start within a minute or two unless there is a problem. __ John Monahan Infrastructure Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-226-2088 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-226-2081 john.mona...@us.logicalis.com http://www.us.logicalis.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Making sure clientactions start Status on server is pending. Communications is good, client backs up nightly as it is supposed to. We were testing an include option. I agree with Richard, there needs to be some way to specify when it should run. I checked the server log, and after two hours the scheduler had not attempted to contact the client. This is a recurring problem with clientactions, and needs to be addressed. Thank you all for your suggestions. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Making sure clientactions start Is the status from the server side pending or started (or something else)? The client can only run one scheduled task at a time. Another possibility is it is still running something else. __ John Monahan Infrastructure Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-226-2088 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-226-2081 john.mona...@us.logicalis.com http://www.us.logicalis.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Making sure clientactions start Is the client running is schedule mode? If so stop and start the acceptor and wait 1 minute then check the log. If you are looking for reason, then check the server log, a quick search on the node name should help. Our most common problem is the server cannot contact the node due to an IP resolution problem. When the scheduler contacts the server IP resolution is not needed to start the job. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Making sure clientactions start I have a clientaction defined for a node whose schedmode is set to prompted. However, I have now been waiting for 45 minutes for the action to take place. Is there a way to get the server to kick itself and prompt the client to perform the actions in a clientaction? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: best backup method for millions of small files?
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: best backup method for millions of small files? Hi Norman Your post worries me, as I'm just implementing an email archive solution that will depend on windows journalling to back up some huge repositories. The particular product fills up containers that once filled never change, so the change rate will be low there, but there are also index files that will change often. I'm way behind on my emails, but thought I would respond to this anyway. I have worked with some imaging/archiving solutions in the past with millions of small files. For the ones that fill up the containers/directories until full and then never change them again, I normally implement a combination of archives and backups. It can be a somewhat manual process, but may be preferable to some other options if the numbers of files are extremely large. In all cases where I have done this, the recovery time for archived images is often weeks so restore speed hasn't been a priority. 1. I archive the containers that are full one time to TSM with unlimited retention. 2. Once a container is archived, it is excluded from the backup process. 3. Incremental backups are scheduled every night, but should only backup/scan containers that are new since the last archive process. Most data should be excluded/not scanned. 4. Rerun the archive process once per month or a period that makes sense based on the number of containers that become full. Only archive full containers that haven't yet been archived. Make sure to add them to the backup excludes once successfully archived. __ John Monahan Infrastructure Services Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-226-2088 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-226-2081 john.mona...@us.logicalis.com http://www.us.logicalis.com
Re: ANR8314E Library is Full Error
A little late to help you out now, but there are instructions out there for expanding your library. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663uid=swg21203271 __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Maura Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 12/05/2007 09:04 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: ANR8314E Library is Full Error Thanks for the info. I just heard back from IBM support and because our second frame to the library was added after our original install, TSM does not see it. We need to take an outage and delete/define all paths, library, drives and check all tapes back in. A little bit ugly. Drats! Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: Sounds like time to do an audit of the library. We have these kinds of issue with our wonderful 3583 libraries and it is usually due to the TSM info/audit being out of sync with libraries info. We do audits all the time, especially after we have to power-recycle the libraries, which is at least once a week. Maura Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 12/05/2007 09:49 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] ANR8314E Library is Full Error I've never sent to the listserv before, so we'll so how this goes. In short we have a IBM 3584 library. Through the specialist interface, I can see that we have 399 slots available in the tape library. However, when running the checkin command on our weekly offsite tape returns, I receive the following. 23:49:57 ANR8314E Library 7OF9 is full. ANR0985I Process 4785 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 23:49:57 I have opened a PMR, but am wondering if anyone else has a seen this problem. Maura This email may contain confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: ANR8833E - Does 5.4.3 = 5.5 ?
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/27/2007 01:43:41 PM: We have been having an intermittant problem with ANR8833E errors, which are addressed in apar: IC54107: TSM ANR8833E DURING CHECKIN LIBVOL FOR SOME VOLUMES. However, the apar says: projected to be fixed in level 5.3.6.1, 5.3.7, and 5.4.3. Since I haven't seen anything higher than 5.4.1.2 and 5.5 server is out, can I assume the problem is fixed in 5.5 ? Is there a 5.4.2/5.4.3 release expected ? APARs fixed in 5.5 are listed here: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21288273 IC54107 is not on the list. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com This email may contain confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it and notify the sender.
Re: Windows clients Resourceutilization
I believe the performance tuning guide explains the resourceutilization parameter better. In short, you have to set it to at least 5 to get 2 backup sessions. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 09/19/2007 05:42 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Windows clients Resourceutilization I have used RESOURCEutilization on AIX clients for a long time and works fine. I have a Windows client I would like to use it on. TSM Server is 5.3.4.0 and Windows client is 5.2.2.5, W2K SP4. It is an IBM x345 (8670-61X), with 2x 2.8 Ghz Xeon CPU and 1 GB RAM. I set to Resourceutil 4 and it still just uses one backup session. There are multiple drives on this system and would like to use multiple sessions. I even looked at the manual for 5.4 clients and has no more info about this parameter. What is needed or what is the determining factor in actually using multiple backup sessions on Windows clients? (I use the basic Client scheduler - not Acceptor Daemon.) Thanks, David Longo # This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #
Re: netapp backup taking too long
I would upgrade your TSM server to 5.4 and use NDMP to backup the NetApp. With 5.4 you can do NDMP backups over the network much like a regular TSM client. I just did this for a customer with a million file CIFS backup taking 8 hours, down to 2.5 hours using NDMP over the network. No change in hardware. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 07/09/2007 03:14 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject netapp backup taking too long I have a netapp share that is being backed up through a Windows 2003 server and is taking 23-25 hours to run. It is on a gigabit network, processing approximately 3.9 million items. Does anyone have any suggestions how to accelerate this job? Max mount points=7, resourceutilization=7, memoryefficientbackup=no. All of the netapp shares back up through this one server but this is the only one that is this large. The sys admin setup several batch jobs that start separately so that more than one backup can run at one time. My TSM server is on AIX 5.3, TSM 5.3 with a 180Gb database, 87.2% utilized so I am hesitant to do anything that will further tax the server. Any ideas how I can back this up faster without stressing the server? Thanks. Debbie Haberstroh Server Administration Northrop Grumman Information Technology Commercial, State Local (CSL)
Re: netapp backup taking too long
Yes there are trade-offs. You will use more tape space similar to what you would with the TDP products, and you are limited to restoring to a NetApp instead of any old Windows server. In many cases, achieving 1/4 the restore time is worth it, especially in cases where you are already exceeding a 24 hour backup window. The shorter backup window also gives you the flexibility to do multiple differentials throughout the day. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 07/09/2007 05:17 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: netapp backup taking too long What about the Full-incr-incr-incr...FULL methodology of the NDMP protocol? Won't you find yourself backing up and keeping identical files over and over again? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: netapp backup taking too long I would upgrade your TSM server to 5.4 and use NDMP to backup the NetApp. With 5.4 you can do NDMP backups over the network much like a regular TSM client. I just did this for a customer with a million file CIFS backup taking 8 hours, down to 2.5 hours using NDMP over the network. No change in hardware. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 07/09/2007 03:14 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject netapp backup taking too long I have a netapp share that is being backed up through a Windows 2003 server and is taking 23-25 hours to run. It is on a gigabit network, processing approximately 3.9 million items. Does anyone have any suggestions how to accelerate this job? Max mount points=7, resourceutilization=7, memoryefficientbackup=no. All of the netapp shares back up through this one server but this is the only one that is this large. The sys admin setup several batch jobs that start separately so that more than one backup can run at one time. My TSM server is on AIX 5.3, TSM 5.3 with a 180Gb database, 87.2% utilized so I am hesitant to do anything that will further tax the server. Any ideas how I can back this up faster without stressing the server? Thanks. Debbie Haberstroh Server Administration Northrop Grumman Information Technology Commercial, State Local (CSL)
Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on?
My first thought after reading this goes back to what the main goal should be in any TSM environment: How are your restores affected? Will you still be able to meet your SLAs for restore times (especially a full restore)? That is an area that is often overlooked until it is too late. IMO, too much engineering time in many TSM environments is spent around backups, when a bulk of the time should be spent around engineering the fastest and most reliable restores possible. Just something to remember when considering the benefits/drawbacks of client compression. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Schneider, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/01/2007 05:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on? I am going to weigh in on this one. Client compression can work great, depending on the kind of problems you are trying to solve, and if you do it right. Here was our situation: I recently took on responsibility for a TSM environment with 1 shared library with 14 tape drives, 6 TSM AIX servers, and about 760 clients backed up per night. When I started working here, we were at the very edge of keeping up. Disk storage pools were filling up in the middle of the night so much that migration was running for hours in the middle of backups, and backup storage pools weren't completing in the timeframe we had during the day. So we were forced to cancel backup storage pools on some days just to get the offsite tapes off before 5PM. Then migration would run most of the time until the night's backups began. We only had a couple hours per day to run reclamation, because migration would need to kick off and use the tape drives. Things were a mess. I gradually rolled in client compression. Today we are backing up over 100 clients more than before, and about 1.5 TB per day more data. Migration never happens in the middle of the night (except for an extraordinary circumstance). Backup stgpools complete every day, and are finished by about noon. Migration runs until early evening, and we have 6-7 hours to run reclamation. While part of the improvement came from scheduling changes to keep all the tape drives busier, I credit client compression with a big part of it. The TSM servers are only having to absorb and write to disk about half as much data. So the network load is cut in half, the data to migrate is cut in half, backup stgpools are cut in half, and so on. As you know, a TSM server has to read and write the same data lots of times during the life of the data. Migration, backup stgpool, and who knows how many iterations of reclamation before the data finally expires will mean that the data has to be copied from disk or tape multiple times. When you are using compression on the tape drive, each time you have to copy the data, it is uncompressed, copied in it's original form into TSM's memory, and back out trough the FC switches, where it is recompressed back onto tape. But during the time it is going through the SAN, and TSM's memory and disk, it is in uncompressed form, and that means more load and slower performance. With client compression, the data is compressed once, and stays in it's most efficient size for the entire time TSM has to handle it, no matter how many times TSM has to copy it. I think that constitutes a significant improvement in efficiency. But everybody asks, Don't the clients take a lot longer to back up? Each individual client takes longer to back up, but you can compensate for that by starting more backups earlier in the evening. Since the clients are only going to send about half as much data, you can have twice as many simultaneous clients running without hurting anything. We found that most incremental backups ran about 50% longer. That sounds bad, but most of our client backups ran in 1-2 hours. So instead of starting them at 2am for instance, we start them at midnight instead, and they finish at the same time as before. What is the harm in that? Even the clients that take 4 hours might take only 5-6, but as long as we can start them early enough to all get done within the window, that is no problem. The only exceptions to this rule are very large clients that might take 10-12 hours already, or clients that are significantly CPU constrained, and don't have any CPU to throw at doing the compression. But those turned out to be a tiny fraction of the clients in our environment. Even our older and slower Windows servers were able to use client compression with no impact to the production application. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Sr. System Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South
Re: Error writing volume history file
You could also try more extensive testing using the backup volhist command on your own instead of waiting every one-two weeks for it to fail. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Cell: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 03/20/2007 03:26 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Error writing volume history file -Bill Kelly wrote: - Is it not possible that the /var filesystem *sometimes* has too little space available? After all, didn't you say that this only fails roughly every one to two weeks? Perhaps the failures coincide with some other activity (possibly unrelated to TSM) that temporarily eats up most/all of the available space in /var? Dumps? Logs? Something else? That scenario is essentially impossible to disprove conclusively, but it doesn't look very promising as an explanation. The Linux system is dedicated to running the TSM server and some monitoring and automation functions for the server. We have been able to check the free space in /var within an hour of most of the occurances of the write failure. Dumps or log files that filled up /var would probably have still been around when we checked free space. There are no cron jobs that clean up files in /var, and all the people who could have removed such files know I aminvestigating the write failures.
Re: DST change/TSM/Java/OS
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21254129 __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Cell: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/22/2007 04:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject DST change/TSM/Java/OS Has anyone seen anything as it relates to TSM and all the patching that is going on with operating systems and java? I haven't seen anything specific but just want to make sure there isn't something I've missed I need to do. I have to patch pretty much everything else I'm responsible for and should probably check now so I can make time for it if necessary. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Here is some very negative press about TSM
Like Mark, I didn't see it as that bad, but it wasn't flattering either. I do love the use of anonymous industry experts who are familiar with TSM though. One wonders what company they worked for. On the bright side, it appears the reporter couldn't find anyone critical to go on the record, thus the reliance on an anonymous expert. Perhaps that fact speaks louder than the intended message of the article. ***Please note new address, phone number, and email below*** __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Cell: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Kelly Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/08/2007 01:15 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Here is some very negative press about TSM Folks, http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci124 1036,00.html?track=sy60 Interesting. I would suggest a flood of email to her suggesting she is full of baloney. We questioned our folks at IBM about this and did get a response. They were very disappointed by the tone of this article but not surprised. Apparently this reporter is not a good friend. Duh. For IBM to respond, however, would have provided more traction to the story and nobody needed that. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices
It is best practice to put one initiator and one target in each zone. It may seem cumbersome but its really not that bad. You'll be happy you did it if you ever have SAN problems down the road. I have seen one device take out all other devices within the same zone before, more than once. Just pick a good naming convention for your zones so you can tell exactly what is in each zone just from the name. I also prefer to use aliases so when you replace a HBA or tape drive you just update the alias with the new PWWN instead of going in and changing 20 different zones. ***Please note new address, phone number, and email below*** __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 Cell: 952-221-6938 Fax: 952-833-0931 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Schneider, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/06/2007 05:05 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices Greetings, My habit in regards to zoning FC tape drives has always been to put one host HBA in a zone with all the tape drives it should see, and to have a separate zone for each host HBA. For example, in a situation with 2 host HBAs and 10 tape drives, I would have two zones, one with one host HBA and 5 tape drives, and the other with the other host HBA and 5 tape drives. Pretty simple. But an IBM consultant working here is telling me that the best practice is to have a separate zone for each HBA/tape drive pair. So in my example above, I would have 20 zones instead of two. His claim is that an individual tape drive can hang all the other drives if they are in the same zone, but not if they are in separate ones. Has anyone seen this in real life? This becomes important to me because I am about to put in new SAN switches, and he wants me to follow this recommendation. I have 2 TSM servers with 4 HBAs each, 4 NDMP nodes, and 14 tape drives. Using my scheme, I would have 12 zones, with his scheme I would have 56 zones. That seems like a lot of zones, and unnecessarily cumbersome. Is it really necessary to isolate each HBA/Tape drive into a separate zone? Do individual tape drives really hang other drives in their zone? Best Regards, John D. Schneider Sr. System Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO. 63127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 314-364-3150, Cell: 314-486-2359
Re: TSM Server Migration
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/11/2006 06:11:52 PM: Hi all, I am wondering if there are any issues folks can inform me as it relates to a migration of TSM to a new server. The one main question I have is this. If I attach the 3584 and LTO2 drives to a new server, install TSM at the same level currently and define the library and one drive, will TSM will automatically mount the tape I ask to be restored or do I need to manually insert the tape? Any other recommendations or issues I should be aware of? First you should have the library and drives attached and recognized properly by AIX before attempting anything related to TSM on the new server. When you restore the TSM DB on the new server, the existing tape library and drive definitions will be restored as well. The only thing you may need to do is update your paths if the tape/library device names are different on the new server. You should see all the tapes and TSM will mount them as needed. When you say define the library and one drive, are you talking about before you restore the TSM DB? I would use a file devclass to backup/restore the TSM DB if you have enough disk, otherwise you can transfer your old volhist and devconfig file over from the existing server (and possibly edit/update it) since that is what is used when restoring the TSM DB. I would suggest you use this as an opportunity to practice DR of your TSM server. That is essentially what you are doing anyway. You may want to read this: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21114874
Re: [Fwd: Volume Reclamation warning:]
First, your reclamation threshold should be set to 50 or higher so two tapes can be reclaimed to one. You might be running reclamation almost all the time with it set to 30 and just wasting tape cycles. You also need to have scratch tapes available for reclamation to be successful. If you post the activity log entries at the time the reclamation is failing, we might be able to tell you why. I tend to prefer setting the reclamation threshold to 100 and then scheduling when reclamation occurs by using an administrative schedule. In the admin schedule either lower the reclamation threshold or use the reclaim stgpool command. To see the tapes that are triggering that TOR alert, run this query: select volume_name, stgpool_name, pct_utilized, status, access, pct_reclaim from volumes where (status='FULL') AND (pct_utilized48) order by pct_reclaim desc __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 11/29/2006 09:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [Fwd: Volume Reclamation warning:] I have checked the log and seen a few failures on reclamation also I noticed that the failures are occurring on the the Primay pool volumes only. This morning reclamation failed without showing a reason in the TSM log. It started up again a couple minutes later. Sequential Access Storage Pools : H3592POOL Storage Pool Name H3592POOL Storage Pool Type PRIMARY Device Class Name 3592CLASS Estimated Capacity 352210838.0 Space Trigger Util - Pct Util 27.8 Pct Migr 36.6 Pct Logical 99.5 High Mig Pct 90 Low Mig Pct 70 Migration Processes 1 Next Storage Pool - Maximum Size Threshold - Access READWRITE Description Hub 3592 Tape Pool Overflow Location - Cache Migrated Files? - Collocate? NO Reclamation Threshold 30 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed 500 Number of Scratch Volumes Used 183 Delay Period for Volume Reuse 0 Migration in Progress? NO Amount Migrated (MB) 0.0 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds) 0 Reclamation in Progress? YES Last Update Date/Time 2006-11-29 07:10:13.00 Last Update by (administrator) Reclaim Storage Pool - Migration Delay 0 Migration Continue YES Storage Pool Data Format Native Copy Storage Pool(s) R3592POOL Continue Copy on Error? YES CRC Data NO Reclamation Processes 1 Offsite Reclamation Limit - Reclamation Type THRESHOLD Original Message Subject: Volume Reclamation warning: Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:19:03 -0500 From:Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Hello all, I noticed in TSM reporter that the Volume Reclamation warning is at 47. Reclamation is active on both Storage Pools (Local and Remote) I know the Reporters SQL query is means (pct_utilized48), But Reclamation has been working does anyone have any idea what could be the cause (s) of this warning? TSM 5.3.4 Thanks in Advance!
Re: Returning Volumes from Overflow
I assume you are using the move media command to check these volumes out of the library and update the overflow location. If so, then you want to use the move media command first to move the volumes from a mountablenotinlib state to a mountable state. Then you can check them in with the checkin command. Here is the relevant section from the move media command when you want to check volumes back into the library: MOUNTABLENotinlib Specifies that storage pool volumes are to change from the MOUNTABLENOTINLIB state back to the MOUNTABLEINLIB state. Volumes in the MOUNTABLENOTINLIB state may contain valid data and are in the overflow location. For empty scratch volumes, the MOVE MEDIA command deletes the volume records so that they can be used again. For private volumes, the MOVE MEDIA command resets the volume location to blank, changes the volumes's state to CHECKIN, and changes the last update date to the current date. For scratch volumes with data, the MOVE MEDIA command resets the volume location to blank, changes the volumes's state to CHECKIN, and changes the last update date to the current date. Note: Volumes in the CHECKIN state may contain valid data and need to be checked into the library. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com Dan Cyr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/30/2006 12:42 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Returning Volumes from Overflow I have been experimenting with using the Overflow location; I have been able to remove the media successfully. I seem to be having problems returning the media back into the library. We are running TSM 5.3.0 on a Win2K3 platform using an IBM4560 SLX. I was able to bring the media back to the library, however it is listed as private and I cannot change to scratch. I get the following message when trying to update the volume ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume LAM004 in library IBM4560 cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. The other issue is that I can't seem to remove the overflow location tag either, so when I am querying what volumes are out I am getting incorrect responses. Thank you Dan Cyr Network Specialist Information Technology and Telecommunications Department County of Lambton Tel: (519) 845-0801 ext 347 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or other action taken in reliance on its contents is strictly prohibited. Please delete the information from your system and notify the sender immediately. If you receive this email in error contact the County of Lambton at 519 845 0801 extension 405 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANR8984E error message
You have to enable encryption at the drive hardware level as well. See this: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27008595 __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com James Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/24/2006 01:00 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject ANR8984E error message We are receiving the following ANR message from TSM. I can't find any references to the message in the messages and problems guide. Nor the IBM web site. I even tried google :( with no responses. We get the message when we turn on migration from our disk storage pool to our newly defined 3592 encrypted storage pool. We are running TSM 5.3.4.0 on Aix 5.3 TL5. We have some new 3592 E05 drives. We'd like to encrypt everything whether it stays on-site in the primary tape stgpools or whether it goes off-site. We have defined a new devclass that has driveencryption = on. We have modified our next storage pool for our current disk storage pool (where our nightly backups land) to be the new storage pool with encryption turned on. When TSM trieds to migrate the data, we get the following ANR message. 10/24/06 10:16:35 ANR8984E The drive 3592DRIVE1 (/dev/rmt4) in library 3584LIB is incapable of performing any drive encryption operations. (PROCESS: 3) 10/24/06 10:17:20 ANR8984E The drive 3592DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt5) in library 3584LIB is incapable of performing any drive encryption operations. (PROCESS: 3) 10/24/06 10:18:05 ANR8984E The drive 3592DRIVE3 (/dev/rmt6) in library 3584LIB is incapable of performing any drive encryption operations. (PROCESS: 3) Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, ~james Here's a lil info on what things looks like Here is what the devclass, storage pool, library, and drive/path info look like. q devcla 3592edvcl f=d Device Class Name: 3592EDVCL Device Access Strategy: Sequential Storage Pool Count: 1 Device Type: 3592 Format: DRIVE Est/Max Capacity (MB): Mount Limit: DRIVES Mount Wait (min): 5 Mount Retention (min): 5 Label Prefix: ADSM Library: 3584LIB Directory: Server Name: Retry Period: Retry Interval: Shared: High-level Address: Minimum Capacity: WORM: No Drive Encryption: On Scaled Capacity: 100 q stgpool 3592e_stgpool f=d Storage Pool Name: 3592E_STGPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: 3592EDVCL Estimated Capacity: 0.0 M Space Trigger Util: Pct Util: 0.0 Pct Migr: 0.0 Pct Logical: 0.0 High Mig Pct: 90 Low Mig Pct: 70 Migration Delay: 0 Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: 1 Reclamation Processes: 1 Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit Access: Read/Write Description: Primary tape storage pool for on-site backups Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 100 Offsite Reclamation Limit: Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 60 Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 0 Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s) Migration in Progress?: No Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0 Reclamation in Progress?: No Last Update by (administrator): ME Last Update Date/Time: 10/24/06 09:51:38 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: CRC Data: No q libr 3584lib f=d Library Name: 3584LIB Library Type: SCSI ACS Id: Private Category: Scratch Category: WORM Scratch Category: External Manager: Shared: No LanFree: ObeyMountRetention: Primary Library Manager: WWN: 500507630F0AC601 Serial Number: 078A07440401
Re: Operational reports do not generate
When you open the TSM management console, directly beneath Tivoli Storage Manager, there should be your server connection. Right click on it and do properties. Make sure the TCPIP address is correct and also click on account - this is where you set the TSM account and password. Also check if the other items in your management console work like Command Line - try running a q proc using that command line. When you refresh a report you should see a session started and a bunch of select statements in the TSM activity log. It sounds like your OR isn't even getting to your TSM server. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com Angus Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/06/2006 03:44 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Operational reports do not generate Thanks for responding. The OR service was starting (successuflly) with the local system account. I've changed it to a domain admin account but there's no improvement. I've just tried the TSMREPT command both with and without OR running and the command just hangs, like the GUI does. It can be interrupted but shows no signs of finishing by itself. The activity log shows no OR related events. Should it? Angus -Original Message- From: John Monahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 October 2006 17:54 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Operational reports do not generate ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 10/05/2006 10:08:08 AM: I'm trying to fix a TSM 5.3 server that was incorrectly setup by a vendor. I've ironed out most of the issues but I have a problem with operational reporting. It was fine until a couple of weeks ago but reports no longer generate. The automated generation sends nothing by email. If I manually refresh a report from the MSC I get to look at the Working page for ever. I've rebooted the server, restarted the OM service and recreated the reports so far. What else should I be looking for? Thanks Angus Did you try updating the user account/password that OR uses? You might have an expired password. I would also check the TSM server activity log to see if it is logging any sessions or queries from OR. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com
Re: Off topic: Disk usage analysis tools
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 10/05/2006 08:44:54 AM: Off topic: Disk usage analysis tools Can anyone recommend a good disk space analysis/monitoring tool? I have several nodes that occasionally have 'spikes' where they will backup more data than expected. I have no way (other than trawling through the BAClient on the node that has 'spiked') to find out where the extra data has come from. I would like to use some software that can build up disk usage history so I can understand these spikes - Would also be useful if it could trigger alerts if certain thresholds are passed, for example, user 'x' generated more than 'x' new data or more than 'x' amount of data has been added/changed in directory 'x'. Thanks for any suggestions. Copperfield Adams IT Support Analyst http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/software/center/data/index.html __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com
Re: Operational reports do not generate
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 10/05/2006 10:08:08 AM: I'm trying to fix a TSM 5.3 server that was incorrectly setup by a vendor. I've ironed out most of the issues but I have a problem with operational reporting. It was fine until a couple of weeks ago but reports no longer generate. The automated generation sends nothing by email. If I manually refresh a report from the MSC I get to look at the Working page for ever. I've rebooted the server, restarted the OM service and recreated the reports so far. What else should I be looking for? Thanks Angus Did you try updating the user account/password that OR uses? You might have an expired password. I would also check the TSM server activity log to see if it is logging any sessions or queries from OR. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc., a Logicalis Company Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com http://us.logicalis.com
Re: MUMPS style database backup
Orville Lantto wrote: Does anyone have experience with backing up MUMPS style databases? In particular, I am interested in optimizing backups on InterSystems Cache. Orville L. Lantto Glasshouse Technologies, Inc I have a few customers who backup Cache DBs. In a couple of instances, the actual application vendor provides a script which freezes and thaws the DB so you can back it up online in a consistent state. Some use TSM and just back it up frozen, others use a SAN snapshot so the DB isn't frozen as long and then later backup the snap with TSM. Since I have seen some application vendors provide this ability, I would assume it would be available for all to exploit, it's just a matter of them providing it to you. Epic is one vendor that uses the freeze/thaw. I also know of one instance where they shut down Cache on Sunday for the backup and just backup all the data files, then they just backup journals throughout the week while Cache is running (there is a preschedulecmd that rotates journal files right before the backup).
Re: Newbie question 2!
One thing I've noticed is that if you run a script from the Admin Center the output is in a different format. SQLDISPLAYMODE doesn't make any difference. Here is a perfect example. Run from the command line and then run from inside Admin Center to see the difference. Then try playing with sqldisplaymode. select node_name from nodes where collocgroup_name is null __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 09/22/2006 09:22 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Newbie question 2! The -displaymode option is also a possibility. See the Admin Reference chapter about using the command line interface for details. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.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 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 09/22/2006 07:13:10 AM: Hey Angus, Are you talking about SQL statements appearing in a 'wide' format? If so, then 'set sqldisplaymode wide' will work for you http://192.168.1.10:2297/help/topic/com.ibm.itsmmsmunn.doc/anrsrf53400.h tm Otherwise, certainly from my experience, as long as my terminal display is wide enough (for example, easy to resize in PuTTY) the output from queries will make use of the whole terminal width. Hope that helps, Rgds, David McClelland Data Protection Specialist IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Consultant Reuters, London -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus Macdonald Sent: 22 September 2006 08:51 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Newbie question 2! How do I convince my console output to display in wide format, like in the redbooks? My course tutor did show me but that was 18 months before I touched Tivoli for real and it seemed so trivial I didn't make a note of it. Angus This email was sent to you by Reuters, the global news and information company. To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
Re: MOVE DRM fails when tapes are mounted but idle?
Add a sleep command after the backup db and before your move drmedia. The sleep time should be as long as your mount retention. Here is an example: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg22834.html __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Jim Zajkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 09/22/2006 10:06 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject MOVE DRM fails when tapes are mounted but idle? Hi folks, I created a script that does this: backup stgpool w=y backup db w=y move drm * wherest=mount tostate=coruier remove=bulk The problem is that the move drm fails with ANR8442E: volume is currently in use, even though the volumes are not It seems like the tapes must be dismounted before they can be checked out. Is that right? Has anyone come up with a good workaround that's not something like a perl script to do a query mount followed by a set of dismounts? I'm running TSM 5.3.3 on Linux x86, connected to a 3584. --Jim
Re: ISC installation problems
A couple of other suggestions. Make sure the machine where you are installing ISC has internet access and DNS working. Make sure you are totally removing everything before attempting a reinstall (follow the instructions in the readme). Also try re-exploding your downloaded exe or re-download the file again as I've pulled my hair out before because of a bad download. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gilbert, Guillaume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 09/08/2006 09:06 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject ISC installation problems Hello I am having problems installing ISC on Windows 2003 servers. I tried 3 times on a VMWare image with a fresh install of Win2K3. The image had 1024 Mbytres of RAM allocated. The 3 times the install stoped at 93%. The last entries in ISCRuntimeInstall.log are : (Sep 7, 2006 4:06:51 PM), Setup.product.install, com.ibm.isc.install.ismp.FailAndExitAction, wrn, ISCArchiveFixupFail_Exit (Sep 7, 2006 4:06:51 PM), Setup.product.install, com.ibm.isc.install.ismp.FailAndExitAction, wrn, (Sep 7, 2006 4:06:51 PM), Setup.product.install, com.ibm.isc.install.ismp.FailAndExitAction, msg2, status=FAILED,timestamp=Thu Sep 07 16:06:51 EDT 2006,progress=(unchanged) I then tried on another server, non-VMWare with 2 GB of ram with the same result. This is version 6.0.1 of ISC. The package name is TSM 6.0.1 Integrated Solutions Console 2005-10-19 C86PQML.exe, downloaded form Passport site. As the readme says, ISC must be installed before AC, but I read somewhere that you can install AC without ISC. Is this the case? Any help is appreciated Guillaume Gilbert Storage Architect Storage Group, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 514.866.8876 Office 514.290.6526 Cell
Re: Strange Admin Schedule/Script behavior
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 08/04/2006 10:05:54 AM: Hello, I have a Admin Schedule/Script that runs the following Housecleaning tasks, daily which has been working fine months. This morning though the BA STG Backuppool rmtpool process and the Migrate Stgpool process was ACTIVE at the same time! I checked the log an it shows nothing as to why this happened as you can see the the Migrate Process should WAIT UNTIL the BA STG backuppool process ends before starting which it has been doing. This could be just a isolated incident not sure has this ever happened to anyone else? Any guesses? serial BACKUP DB DEVCLASS=BKP TYPE=INCREMENTAL wait=yes serial BA STG backuppool rmpool maxpr=2 wait=yes serial migrate stgpool backuppool lowmig=0 wait=yes serial Ba STG LTpool RMpool maxpr=2 wait=yes serial expire inventory F.Y.I - Automatic Migration has been turned off for a while. Does the log indicate the migration was started by the script? What were processes 58 and 59? __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: FW: Tape Drive Choices: What, and why?
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 08/04/2006 11:34:00 AM: Hi Allen, I've been VERY pleased/surprised at how durable IBM LTOx drives have been overall. LTO2 gave less problems than LTO1, and I think LTO3 has had fewer problems than LTO2. For many sites they are an EXCELLENT value and totally appropriate for TSM use. On the other hand, I doubt there are many TSM installations running their LTO drives truly at a 100% duty cycle. In my experience, there is NO QUESTION that the 359x drives are tougher. I think most people are just willing to deal with occasional drive outages in return for lower initial cost. I agree. Many who go the LTO route save enough money where they can throw in an extra drive to help them cope with more frequent drive outages. I experienced roughly a 20% yearly failure rate with LTO1 overall. Mostly a mixture of low to medium-high usage TSM environments. So if you had 5 drives, one drive per year would be replaced. LTO2 was better. LTO3 is outstanding so far. I'm not aware of a single drive failure in any of my customers that have LTO3 and there are a few that hammer their drives pretty hard. Things that I have personally experienced: 1) When LTO drives fail, they don't get repaired. The CE just comes in and replaces them. They are essentially BIC drives - plastic parts, no refills. One of the items in the LTO spec that the 3 vendor LTO consortium created doesn't allow for field replaceable parts or piecemeal upgrades for the drives. The drives must be upgraded or replaced as an entire unit. Not quite sure why this was decided. That means when LTO encryption capable drives come out, it will be a whole new drive instead of a field upgrade like that for 3592.
Re: TSM 5.2x IBM 3584 Library
5.3 adds a waittime parameter to the checkin command. Just add waittime=0 to the end of your checkin command and it won't ask for a reply. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 08/02/2006 03:38 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: TSM 5.2x IBM 3584 Library TSM 5.3 Server I understand, removes the REPLY altogether. If that's true I wish someone would post how that works because I still have to reply. For checkouts the process continues after the I/O port is emptied. For checkin we have to reply. I hear there is a feature you can add to the library that will take care of emptying the door automatically but don't know how that would or would not affect the reply feature. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DRP file email help
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/21/2006 08:10:11 AM: Hi, Slightly off topic - I've just taken over a TSM 5.3 W2K3 system and am very slowly getting to grips with it and as part of it I want to copy off the DR files everyday. The only way to do this is via Email. I'm using blat to several emails with attachments every morning. Eg :- blat test.txt -subject test -server x -r -log send.txt -to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -attach c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\server1\devcnfg.out This is fine with the static named files like devcnfg.out but how do I select the latest DRP file as an attachment. I'm think of somehow using the date to get the start of the file then copying to a static file and sending that but vbscript etc is not my strongest point!! Anyone doing this already or have any idea? Here is an example of what I've done before: blat c:\tsmdata\scripts\drm.txt -s TSM Disaster Recovery Files -attach c:\tsmdata\drm\planexpl.vbs -attach c:\tsmdata\drm\2* -t %EMAILADDR1% The file drm.txt actually contains the DR restore instructions so everything needed to recover the TSM server is in the email. There is another script which deletes all DR plan files in the c:\tsmdata\drm\ directory once per week (del 2*), usually on Sunday. So on Friday's email, there are most likely 5 DRM plan files attached to the email (Mon-Fri plans), on Monday there would only be one, Tuesday 2, etc. Then a rule is setup on the destination email client to automatically delete these emails older than a certain number of days (like 2-3 weeks) to keep the mailbox from filling up. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: TSM diskpool on SATA
Thing is, even all SATA is not created equal. Before you decide you can put PRIMARY disk on SATA, ask about SUSTAINED throughput rates. If your data needs to go SOMEWHERE ELSE (like get copied or migrated to tape) from the SATA disk, think carefully. If you're talking a LOT of data, think VERY carefully. I've worked with some SATA disk that drop to as low as 8MB/second after you exceed the cache read ahead/flush capacity (and that's on READ I/O, not even writes!). Ouch. I think I can get better than that with an eMachines home computer. I hope that wasn't one of the top tier vendor's storage subsystems. The old addage of you get what you pay for applies to SATA disk as well. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: TSM diskpool on SATA
Bug your EMC rep for Backup to disk guide with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Though, you're already doing most of their recommended practices. They claim that Lab testing had shown that Solaris and AIX may perform slower than other operating systems, which is amusing / irritating. I did find and read that guide, although the information now seems a little dated (10/20/2003). It looks like it hasn't been updated since EMC came out with their own VTL, which would make sense if they are pushing people towards that solution for disk based backups. The whitepaper isn't available on Powerlink, but is available on a few other sites found by searching. If you are aware of a newer/updated version than the one I have, please let me know. I also read and recommend the engineering whitepaper EMC Clariion Best Practices for Fibre Channel Storage. How many striped lvs did you end up with? I have hesitated about making big striped LVs out of fear that I'll bottleneck my clients because I'll only have a few threads free to process data. Consequently, my striping has been in terms of defining N DISK volumes per stgpool, where N is the number of underlying RAIDs. But that is a pain in the patoot in many ways, especially for reorganization. I've considered making a bunch of striped LVs (as in, a hundred or so) and doing it that way, but I figured that would add up to thrashing the heads. I just made one large striped LV. I was leaning towards the multiple LUNs and multiple LVs route as well so I would have multiple queues, threads, etc. to the disk, however, the EMC recommendation is to use one very large LUN per RAID group for sequential based disk backups to SATA disks and I concur. I tested out performance with 4 LUNs on a single SATA RAID group and the performance was abysmal, and got worse as the night went on - I actually had to suffer through a night's backup with that configuration and backups were still running at 10am the next day. I think if you had one or two other LUNs on the same RAID group that were assigned to different hosts who were not all active at the same time, then it probably wouldn't be as much of a problem. If I had more RAID groups to work with, then I probably would have created more LVs, ie. 2 RAID groups per LV. Most likely that would only be possible where the disk is the permanent onsite storage for TSM and multiple terabytes are required, thus many more SATA drive heads would be needed and multiple RAID groups could then be configured. 2 4+1 RAID3 groups of 250GB SATA drives give you a usable capacity of roughly 3.6TB so you would need gobs of disk to get many RAID groups and LVs.
Re: TSM diskpool on SATA
Did you do any FILE devclass work? It sounds as though your miserable performance was head thrashing, which we'd get in multiple LV DISK devclasses, and also in FILE devclasses. Darn. :) No I was using a DISK devclass, but I'm almost positive it wouldn't have made any difference with FILE devclasses. Some of the LUNs were faster than others (first ones in the RAID group created) and as soon as I was writing to more than one at a time my performance would tank even further, which shouldn't be any different had I used FILE devclasses. I would have tried file devclasses with more time for performance reasons, but I had spent too much time on it already and the 150 MB/sec writes for my diskpool was adequate for my needs and outpaced the capabilities of my single Gigabit network connection to the TSM server, so I moved on. Hundreds of LVs with FILE devclasses on fibre disks would probably do exactly what you are looking for and provide excellent performance. SATA just isn't good enough at multiple, simultaneous I/Os to the same set of disks yet.
Re: TSM diskpool on SATA
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/20/2006 03:05:47 PM: John Monahan a écrit : Did you do any FILE devclass work? It sounds as though your miserable performance was head thrashing, which we'd get in multiple LV DISK devclasses, and also in FILE devclasses. Darn. :) No I was using a DISK devclass, but I'm almost positive it wouldn't have made any difference with FILE devclasses. Some of the LUNs were faster than others (first ones in the RAID group created) and as soon as I was writing to more than one at a time my performance would tank even further, which shouldn't be any different had I used FILE devclasses. I would have tried file devclasses with more time for performance reasons, but I had spent too much time on it already and the 150 MB/sec writes for my diskpool was adequate for my needs and outpaced the capabilities of my single Gigabit network connection to the TSM server, so I moved on. Hundreds of LVs with FILE devclasses on fibre disks would probably do exactly what you are looking for and provide excellent performance. SATA just isn't good enough at multiple, simultaneous I/Os to the same set of disks yet. I remember that it's some limitation with DISK devclass for restore purpose. It was a good IBM presentation about disk oriented backup with good advice but I don't succeed to find the URL (TapelessTSM). All the restores will be from tape. This is a traditional diskpool, that gets emptied out to tape each night so the data doesn't stay on disk for more than a few hours. This particular customer has over 1TB to backup nightly, and not that much fibre space available, so SATA it is.
TSM diskpool on SATA
I'll share my experiences with primary TSM diskpool on SATA drives for the list, since this subject is becoming more common lately. Environment: TSM 5.3.4.0, AIX 5300-04-03, 1 CPU 4GB RAM LPAR on a p570 2 HBAs for disk, 1 HBA for 2 LTO3 drives Backup is roughly 650GB nightly and will more than double very soon EMC Clariion CX500, Flare code 19, default cache settings - 8kb block size, etc. I originally had only 5 7200RPM 250GB SATA drives to work with That has now changed where I'm spread across 10 drives I first started by trying out RAID5 just to see what I could get. Not much. Roughly 25MB/sec writes to a single 4+1 RAID5 array. I next switched to a single 4+1 RAID3 array. After some JFS2 tuning I maxed out at 77MB/sec writes, 123MB/sec reads (migration). I was able to go beyond my 5 SATA disks and use 5 others as well. I went to 2 4+1 RAID3 arrays with a usable capacity of about 1823GB each. I carved up one 900GB LUN on each array and assigned it to TSM. Element size on each array was the default - 128 blocks, 64K Each 900GB LUN is owned by a different SP on the CX500. I experimented by creating a striped LV across both LUNs with various stripe sizes and then used define vol diskpool formatsize=xxx to create a diskpool volume. I used topas to monitor disk performance. Performance was rather equal until 8K or 4K stripe sizes, which resulted in slightly lower performance. I settled on a 64K stripe size for the striped LV. That resulted in the same 77MB/sec writes from each array for a total of 154MB/sec. I imagine getting another 5 drives and using another array to stripe across would be even better. I'm not sure at what point the SPs/subsystem would max out, but it was showing 60% utilization on one SP while I was running at max - there are also some mirrorview volumes and other production data on the fibre drives in this same CX500 so the entire subsystem is not dedicated to TSM. The plan was to use the remaining free space on those SATA arrays for clone LUNs, but we have yet to see if that is really feasible. If anyone has any other tuning tips I'd be happy to listen. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: Conferences
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/15/2006 02:56:45 PM: So is there a TSM conference, much like IBM's COMMON conference for their i5 systems? If so, is it worth it? Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com There are quite a few sessions on TSM at the IBM storage conference. (link probably wrapped) http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=pagec=a0006897sessionEventList=YeventFilterCat=Open+systems+software __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: Journal Based Backups
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/13/2006 09:42:38 PM: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, TSM_User might have said: Many windows 2003 servers now days can scan one to two million files per hour. We don't use journaling until we get over five million files. I've seen the deeper the directory structure the longer it takes to scan Basically if all one million files are at the root of a drive it will scan much faster then if one million files were in hundres of subdirectories. I don't think the time issues relate only to number of files. The amount of traffic between client and server about just which files to backup is my concern. That's why I have this other program. Mike I'm not sure there is all that much network traffic during the exchange of metadata, at least I haven't noticed it. If that was the case, then remote site backups over slow connections would take several hours to backup even if only .1% changed. I've done some slow link remote site backups before and the actual exchange of metadata seemed to be rather small and quite efficient, and I don't recall the times to scan the filesystems taking a whole lot longer than their local LAN counterparts. Then again that was a few years ago and my memory could be failing me. If anyone on the list is doing LANfree backups with any servers that have a somewhat large number of files, it would be interesting to see your LANfree vs LAN bytes sent summary at the end of your backup. That will be a true test of how much data is sent over the network during the process of deciding whether or not to backup a file. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: q vol and q libvol
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/14/2006 02:24:43 AM: Rather than going back and forth between the output of the q vol and q libvol commands is there a command that would give me the output from the q vol command but only for those tape volumes that show up in the q libvol command? You could also use the q media command with the wherestate=mountableinlib option. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: cmd file for archive
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/09/2006 12:04:02 PM: A question for those using a schedule to run a .cmd file. The scenario is a customer wants some data on a cluster node disk archived for 7 years. Typically I run this as a schedule from the server pointing to a .cmd file, but I've never had to do this on a cluster resource. Since the dsm.opt file is on the cluster disk would putting this file on the cluster disk and calling it from there produce the desired results of archiving the data? Yes. As long as you assign the schedule to the nodename referenced in that dsm.opt on the clustered disk. Also make sure to add the -optfile switch to your dsmc archive command to ensure the correct nodename is used for the archive. Does anyone have a different solution they use? Not me.
Re: Domino TDP restores for legal reasons
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 05/30/2006 09:43:50 AM: We are in the process of migrating our mail infrastructure from HP OpenMail to Lotus Domino. The legal department occasionally asks IS to restore every message TSM has in its inventory for a particular mail user. We have a tedious but well understood process for complying with such requests for OpenMail. I am trying to figure out how to handle similar requests for Domino accounts. We are using TDP for Domino. We are currently performing a full backup every night and are not backing up archive logs. How would we go about restoring the various versions of one account's database and consolidating all the messages recorded in those versions? We are hoping to start backing up archive logs in the near future. Roll forward recovery using archive logs will replay the creation of messages that were deleted soon after reception. Unfortunately, roll forward recovery will also replay the subsequent deletion. Is there a way to get roll forward recovery to generate copies of every message encountered? I don't know of any way to do this just using the TDP alone. We have done this for some of our customers by restoring a user's mail file as to what it looked like at the point of the daily full backup during the past X months and then writing a Domino agent that consolidates the different point-in-time restores of the user's mail file to a single master database removing all duplicates. The amount of disk space you have available for the restore will determine how many different days worth of restores you perform before running the consolidation and de-duplication process. What you end up with is basically every message that was in that user's mail file for the past X number of months at the time of the full backup each night. It can be a very tedious process depending upon how far you need to go back. The other thing to keep in mind is it is almost impossible to catch _every_ message that ever existed. It is possible to catch every message that existed for the past X months at X time of the day though. For example, if a user gets an email at 8:00am and then deletes that email at noon, your full backup at midnight won't reflect that message - it will be as if it never existed. The only way to ever catch these types of messages would be to replay the logs but ignore all the delete transactions in the log. Not sure if there is a way to do that or if it would compromise the integrity of the mail file. A better solution if you have these types of requirements is to purchase an email archiving solution along the likes of Commonstore for Domino where you can set policies to automatically archives messages older than a certain number of days, retain them as long as you need, and don't allow users to ever delete messages.
Re: Moving our TSM Server off MVS/ZOS to Win2003
IBM Technote 1153886 http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/NSAM/whitepapers/50ways.html __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Shannon Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/19/2006 11:56 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Moving our TSM Server off MVS/ZOS to Win2003 We recently received the okay to move our current TSM Server off the MVS/ZOS mainframe to a Windows server. Along with this, we will be getting an IBM 3584 Library with (6)TS1120 Jaguar tape drives ...this will be exclusive to TSM and may be located at an offsite location (still waiting for decision from above). And I'll have 800 GB's of disk from an IBM DS6800. I'll have to export/move the current date from a 3594 Magstar ATL and some older archived data on a VTL to the Jaguar. That will consist of moving date from 3590e carts with around 20 GB's of data to cartridges with a capacity of 300 GB's. Having always been a mainframer :~)... I am wondering if anyone else here has gone through this transition and wouldn't mind passing on some useful tips. I have been browsing on the Internet for a redbook or white paper... even a checklist of considerations, but haven't found much as yet. Any tips would be greatly appreciated...and feel free to email me directly. Thank you... Shannon Madison Gas Electric Co Operations Analyst -Data Center Services Information Management Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office 608-252-7260
Re: ANR9999D ANR0379W Lock messages occurring
I've seen this before with multiple scripts trying to run at the same time. Is this the only script running at the time? __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/18/2006 10:15 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject ANRD ANR0379W Lock messages occurring Hello All, I have a open PMR with IBM for the below errors that are occurring in our TSM Server log during a Daily script. These messages are not showing up every day but frequently enough, This is happening during the (migrate stgpool backuppool lowmig=0) and at times the Backup STGpool portion's of the script. The script process completes successfully. Yesterday the migrate portion of the script kept failing due to the ANR0379W message but would retry itself as migration should and finally ended successfully. Has anyone seen this before or had this occurred in there TSM environment? serial BACKUP DB DEVCLASS=BKP TYPE=INCREMENTAL wait=yes serial BA STG backuppool R359XPOOL maxpr=10 wait=yes serial migrate stgpool backuppool lowmig=0 wait=yes serial BA STG H359XPOOL R359XPOOL maxpr=10 wait=yes 05/14/06 14:43:16 ANRD tmlock.c(908): ThreadId75 Attempt to release unheld shared lock.(SESSION: 6574, PROCESS: 13) 05/14/06 14:43:16 ANRD ThreadId75 issued message from: -0x00010001c240 outDiagf -0x000100041770 tmUnlock -0x0001002575e8 SsUnlockVolName -0x00 01002f41a8 asFreeLeaseLockVol -0x00010033d6d0 CheckSetBackupOptimization -0x00010033f33c AfBackupPoolQueueThread -0x0001e9dc StartThread -0x093f52f8 _pthread_body 05/14/06 14:43:18 ANRD tmlock.c(908): ThreadId75 Attempt to release unheld shared lock. 05/14/06 14:43:18 ANRD ThreadId75 issued message from: -0x00010001c240 outDiagf -0x000100041770 tmUnlock -0x0001002575e8 SsUnlockVolName -0x00 01002f41a8 asFreeLeaseLockVol -0x00010033d6d0 CheckSetBackupOptimization -0x00010033f33c AfBackupPoolQueueThread -0x0001e9dc StartThread -0x093f52f8 _pthread_body 05/15/06 12:37:41 ANRD tmlock.c(908): ThreadId65 Attempt to release unheld shared lock.(SESSION: 24272, PROCESS: 54) 05/15/06 12:37:41 ANRD ThreadId65 issued message from: -0x00010001c240 outDiagf -0x000100041770 tmUnlock -0x0001002575e8 SsUnlockVolName -0x00 01002f41a8 asFreeLeaseLockVol -0x00010033d6d0 CheckSetBackupOptimization -0x00010033f33c AfBackupPoolQueueThread -0x0001e9dc StartThread -0x093f52f8 _pthread_body 05/17/06 11:03:54 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:04:00 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:04:06 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:04:12 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:04:17 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:04:23 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:14:33 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:19:41 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. 05/17/06 11:19:47 ANR0379W A server database deadlock situation has been encountered; the lock request for the af bitfile root lock, will be denied to resolve the deadlock. Thanks for any replies in advance! TSM 5.3.3 Aix 5.3
Re: 3584 checkin/checkout
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 05/04/2006 11:24:56 AM: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, Jim Zajkowski wrote: [scsi library] In 5.3, you can say checkin libv waitt=0 and it will not bother to generate a prompt, it will just do it. Handy. Yeah, but when you enter this command and the library door is NOT closed, all you library operations will hang until the door is closed. So you might want to require a manual action when kicking off this command. (The way I solved this is to check for the library requires manual attention error. If it occurs, scream loudly. :) ) -- The whole point of using scripts is so you don't have any manual tasks *unless* something is wrong. I would consider an open library door as something being wrong. Automation scripts also won't work if someone powers off the library. Seriously, you can't expect a TSM admin to write automation scripts to cover every possible instance of human error. Technology can't fix stupid.
Re: Verify policy used
If you go into the restore GUI for that node, one of the fields listed when you view the files you can restore is MGMT_CLASS. Look to make sure those files have the class MY_STANDARD listed and that will tell you it is working as expected. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Scott Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/27/2006 09:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Verify policy used I think I am retaining too much data on my backups. I want to know how to verify the retention period of the files that are backed up. I don't want to keep any changed or deleted data older than 35 days. All of the retention information is set to 35 days in the backup copy group called STANDARD. Versions Data Exists 35 Versions Data Deleted35 Retain Extra Versions35 Retain Only Version 35 I think this is correct, but I am not sure if the backup that is run actually uses this copy group. I am not using the scheduler, but am launching the backups using a script that calls dsmc i -optfile=backup.opt. In the backup.opt file I have domain \\server\docs\ include \\server\docs\ MY_STANDARD MY_STANDARD is the name of the Policy Domain and also the Policy Set and the Mgmt Class that the STANDARD copy group is in. This seems correct to me, although I honestly can say I don't really understand it. How can I verify that the backup used this copy group? Should all deleted and changed documents older than 35 days be removed using the 35 day entries listed above if this is the copy group being used? Thanks Scott
Re: IBM 4560
Are you using the TSM device driver for the library changer and the IBM Ultrium device drivers for the tape drives? If you've already done that, then you need to supply more information like how you did the define drive and define path commands and what type of errors you are seeing. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Marc Crombeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/25/2006 11:11 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject IBM 4560 Has anyone worked with the IBM 4560 Library? I have an Overland Fibre Card in it and am trying to get and LTO1 drive and an LTO2 drive to work. I see everything fine in Windows 2003 server Device Manager but TSM doesn see the LTO1 drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Marc DISCLAIMER: If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or other action taken in reliance on its contents is strictly prohibited. Please delete the information from your system and notify the sender immediately. If you receive this email in error contact the County of Lambton at 519 845 0801 extension 405 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot dismount tape
You have to cancel the process or session that is using that tape before you can dismount it. You can only dismount a tape whose status is IDLE. Since that tape is mounted read-only and it is waiting for a second tape to be mounted, a reclamation or move data process is probably running. Try: q proc cancel proc process# __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Marcelo Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/20/2006 03:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject cannot dismount tape Hi, I´m having a problem, almost everyday, when I execute q mount command, I receive something like that: ANR8330I DLT volume DYI514 is mounted R/O in drive MT-SCSI-ID-3 (/dev/rmt/3mt), status: IN USE. ANR8379I Mount point in device class DC-SUNL1000 is waiting for the volume mount to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME. ANR8334I 2 matches found. DYI514 is tape number, and not always is the same; but when I execute command DISMOUNT VOLUME dyi514, I received ANR8348E DISMOUNT VOLUME: Volume DYI514 is not Idle. It could spent many days in that state and I have to restart the server. What could be the problem? Thanks in advance. Marcelo.
Re: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?
I'm late on this one, but if you do install the Linux client on the service console, then you should use the TSM 5.2 level Linux client. Here are some relevant links: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21199155 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx_backup_guide.pdf __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Nancy L Backhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/18/2006 02:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM? TSM Background: TSM Version 5.3.2.2 OS AIX 5.3 Mod 3 ESX Version - 2.5 then eventually upgrade to 3 Is there a TSM agent(for windows) to backup the guest os files, and if yes where is it located on the ftp site? Nancy Backhaus Enterprise Systems HealthNow, NY 716-887-7979 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: Defining scripts in 5.3
The continuation character is a dash. Just put it at the end of the line in the script before the carriage return. Or you don't need the continuation characters if you take out your carriage returns and just have everything on one really long line. ie. do some stuff here in my script - continuing stuff from the line above or do some stuff here in my script continuing stuff from the line above More information on how you are copying these scripts and where you are getting the error might help more. Maybe you are missing a closed quote somewhere. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/12/2006 10:57 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Defining scripts in 5.3 I'm trying to create some scripts on a new server by copying them from a different server but having problems with their structure. I get the below message. These work find on the5.2 server but unfortunately knowing little about SQL I'm not sure where to break these up to get them created. Can anyone help me with some direction, possible samples, on where to put the continuation character? These scripts have multiple selects A command in the script contains a combination of double and single quotation characters. The command must be continued across multiple lines with a continuation character as the last character in the line. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install errors
Did you download the software from Passport and happen to expand these files on Windows (before moving them up to the AIX server)? Windows is not case sensitive so I have seen problems in the past where people use Winzip or another Windows tool to untar the files and a fileset with en_US will get overwritten with the same fileset with EN_US in the name. I believe you should see a en_US and a EN_US version of that fileset going off of memory here. If this is the case, wait to untar the download package until after you move it to AIX and it should work. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 04/06/2006 11:13 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Install errors Swell... Not having been delivered the CD's for AIX is it possible to download these files? Does anyone know the fileset name I need to look for? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Install errors This happened to me and I had to have my UNIX guy check on some part of the server language stuff that wasn't installed.I believe it was called something like ISO8559. I think someone else mentioned this as well. After he fixed the unix part..my install was fine. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Install errors Well you would think that because of the error that would be the case but it is not. The file is there. The question I have is, the message reports, tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server is missing, the file that was in the download is tivoli.tsm.msg.EN_US.server. So is it failing because of the name being different or is there something wrong with the file I wonder. If I change the name of the file and try to install then I get a new message: installp: APPLYING software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.3.0.0 0503-006 installp: Cannot change to directory /usr/lpp/tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server. Check path name and permissions. installp: CANCELLED software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.3.0.0 Filesets processed: 1 of 2 (Total time: 0 secs). installp: APPLYING software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices 5.3.0.0 0503-006 installp: Cannot change to directory /usr/lpp/tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices. Check path name and permissions. installp: CANCELLED software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices 5.3.0.0 Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Otto Chvosta Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: AW: [ADSM-L] Install errors Geoff, It seem's that en_US is missing in your AIX-Environment - see TSM Installation requirements (Installation Guide): United States English (ISO8559), the en_US Cultural convention and Language translation environment, is a required installation regardless of the language environment you are using. Regards, Otto -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gill, Geoffrey L. Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 01:26 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: [ADSM-L] Install errors I am installing as root the TSM 5.3 server on an AIX box running 5.3. Below are the errors I get. Anyone have info as to why the issue on a fresh install of AIX 5.3 with no other software installed? installp: APPLYING software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.3.0.0 restore: 0511-126 Cannot open /tmp/tsm/tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server: A file or directory in the path name does not exist. Mount volume 1 on /tmp/tsm/tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server. Press the Enter key to continue. 0503-405 installp: An error occurred while running the restore command. Use local problem reporting procedures. installp: CANCELLED software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server 5.3.0.0 Filesets processed: 3 of 7 (Total time: 31 secs). installp: APPLYING software for: tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices 5.3.0.0 0503-006 installp: Cannot change to directory /usr/lpp/tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices. Check path name and permissions. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems
Re: Daylight savings and tsm
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/03/2006 01:25:14 PM: I have never had a DST problem related to schedules. (There was some TSM problem with DST a few years back, I think around version 4.x, don't remember the specifics though.) If I remember correctly, I think that DST problem was when all clients proceeded to do a full backup after the time change. That was a nightmare.
Re: export nodes causes TSM server crash
Let me see if I understand you correctly. The export works fine when only 15 nodes are running, but after 2 hours when the second set of 15 nodes kicks in (while some from the first group of 15 are stilli running) that is when your server crashes? Or does your server crash with only 15 nodes running an export? __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kurt Beyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/27/2006 05:35 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject export nodes causes TSM server crash Hello everybody, I've got a TSM server 5.3.2.2 running on Windows2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 (7 GB RAM, Xeon 3,2 GHz CPU) that has about 100 TSM clients defined. Each month an export of each TSM node with the active backup data will be taken to disk (DS4100 with SATA disks of 250 GB). The disk storage pool that contains the backups is on the DS4100 too. I've scheduled the export of the TSM nodes past weekend with a few scripts. I first tried to launch just one script that took the export in blocks of 15 nodes using the PARALLEL and SERIAL commands. However as the export is started in the background, all of the 75 exporst were started immediately. This causes a TSM server crash. After restarting the TSM server, no error logs are found in the activity log. Except that no more than 16 commands can be started in one PARALLEL statement. The last normal message about the export is written in the log and then the next message are when the server is started again. I've split up then the export myself in a script where the export of 15 nodes was started and 4 administrative schedules were defined that triggered the export of 15 additional nodes every 2 hours later on. The TSM server crashed once more. Is this a know feature when the export of a lot of nodes is started? Am I overseeing some parameters here? Can the export be started in a better way using TSM scripting? An export server instead of an 'export node' for each TSM node is not an option as then the impot of one node would take too much time. thanks in advance, Kurt
Re: export nodes causes TSM server crash
I agree that the TSM server shouldn't ever crash, but just because it shouldn't crash doesn't necessarily mean you should try to run 75 or 100 or 1000 exports concurrently either. Until a fix is produced, I would just limit your concurrent exports to what you know works without committing a self-imposed denial of service attack on your TSM server. Here is what I would do with your scripts that have the exports separated into groups of 15 nodes each: 1. Kick off the first one as is. 2. Modify all the other scripts to first check for any export processes still running, and if there are, then have those scripts reschedule themselves. ie: select * from processes where upper(process)='EXPORT NODE' if (rc_ok) goto reschedule run next set of export node commands here exit :reschedule del sched thisschedname type=a def sched thisschedname type=a cmd=run thisscriptname active=yes startt=NOW+0:30 perunits=onetime exit __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kurt Beyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/27/2006 02:57 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: export nodes causes TSM server crash John, The export of just 15 nodes was tested earlier on. It contained the larger nodes already. At that time, the TSM server just was slowly (high CPU consumption and a lot of disk I/O which is normal of course). It worked fine. The export of all of the nodes at the same time causes an immediate crash of the TSM server. I did not mean to do the export at once but did not notice that the parallel/serial commands would not work as the exports are started in the background. So I changed the script to work in groups of 15 nodes. The export of the nodes in groups of 15 caused a new crash when the last group export was started. A few of the earlier exports were still running at that time, the nodes in the latest group export were rather small nodes. A support call was logged of course. The question is what causes the TSM server crash. Except the PK_EXCEPTION and PK_THREAD messages in the application log, nothing else is found. Just have to wait for some new from the labs at this time. And will contact them tomorrow again. regards, Kurt Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens John Monahan Verzonden: ma 2/27/2006 20:15 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] export nodes causes TSM server crash Let me see if I understand you correctly. The export works fine when only 15 nodes are running, but after 2 hours when the second set of 15 nodes kicks in (while some from the first group of 15 are stilli running) that is when your server crashes? Or does your server crash with only 15 nodes running an export? __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kurt Beyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/27/2006 05:35 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject export nodes causes TSM server crash Hello everybody, I've got a TSM server 5.3.2.2 running on Windows2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 (7 GB RAM, Xeon 3,2 GHz CPU) that has about 100 TSM clients defined. Each month an export of each TSM node with the active backup data will be taken to disk (DS4100 with SATA disks of 250 GB). The disk storage pool that contains the backups is on the DS4100 too. I've scheduled the export of the TSM nodes past weekend with a few scripts. I first tried to launch just one script that took the export in blocks of 15 nodes using the PARALLEL and SERIAL commands. However as the export is started in the background, all of the 75 exporst were started immediately. This causes a TSM server crash. After restarting the TSM server, no error logs are found in the activity log. Except that no more than 16 commands can be started in one PARALLEL statement. The last normal message about the export is written in the log and then the next message are when the server is started again. I've split up then the export myself in a script where the export of 15 nodes was started and 4 administrative schedules were defined that triggered the export of 15 additional nodes every 2 hours later on. The TSM server crashed once more. Is this a know feature when the export of a lot of nodes is started? Am I overseeing some parameters here? Can the export be started in a better way using TSM scripting? An export server instead of an 'export node' for each TSM node is not an option as then the impot of one node would take too much time. thanks in advance, Kurt
Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts
Instead of using wait=yes on the run commands, use that in the commands within the individual scripts. ie: run script1 run script2 run script3 run script4 If script1,2,3,4 all have TSM commands that run in the foreground either by design or using wait=yes, then those scripts will run serially like you desire - you can also look at using the new serial and parallel commands. It's easy to test out your individual scripts by just running them from the command line - if the script runs through and returns your prompt right away all the commands are running in the background. If the prompt doesn't come back until everything in the script is finished, then everything is running in the foreground like you want. This is where the new migrate stgpool and reclaim stgpool commands come in handy because they can be forced to run in the foreground now, which wasn't possible before. __ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Group Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/14/2006 08:05 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts Hello all, I set up a script to run every hour. with the following commands in the script. When I run the script I receive a invalid parameter error for the wait parameter. /* This script queries the backuppool stgpool then stops migration on the backuppool stgpool*/ run test_query_script wait=yes run stop_disk_mig_script wait=yes run test_query_script The wait parameter is invalid can this be used in this sequence? Thanks for any help! ANR2020E RUN: Invalid parameter - WAIT. ANR2020E RUN: Invalid parameter - WAIT. Storage DeviceEstimated Pct Pct High Low Next Pool Name Class Name CapacityUtilMigrMig Mig Storage Pct Pct Pool --- -- -- - - --- --- ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 63 G 0.0 0.0 9070 H3592POOL BACKUPPOOLDISK1,014 G67.667.6 7040 H3592POOL H3592POOL 3592CLASS 266,231 G25.831.4 9070 MIGPOOL DISK 84 G12.812.8 7550 H3592POOL R3592POOL 3592RCLASS270,464 G25.4 ANR1462I RUN: Command script TEST_QUERY_SCRIPT completed successfully. ANR1462I RUN: Command script GLOBAL_SCRIPT completed successfully. PAC Brion Arnaud wrote: Timothy, You should build an admin schedule, which initiates something like run Global_script, and then in this global_script, have all of your commands, like: run test_query_script wait=yes run stop_disk_migration wait=yes run test_query_script Hope this helped ! Cheers. Arnaud ** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Thursday, 09 February, 2006 16:34 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts Hello all, I ran this via the admin schedule but it just seem to execute the first part of the script (run test_query_script)? do I need a second admin schedule to kick off the next script and so on? If so how would the serial part of the command be incorporated into to that? I tried wait=yes and the server log showed Invalid parameter - WAIT thanks CHECK_STGPOOL Description TEST SCRIPT COMMAND Command run test_query_script serial run stop_disk_migration serial run test_query_script Priority 5 Start date 2006-02-08 Start time 08:13:00 Duration 15 Duration units MINUTES Period 1 Period units HOURS Day of Week ANY Expiration - Active? YES Last Update Date/Time 2006-02-09 08:11:40.00 Last Update by (administrator) Managing profile - Schedule Style CLASSIC Month - Day of Month - Week of Month - Bill Kelly wrote: I think that's correct; if you want the scripts to run in parallel, you'll need multiple admin schedules. If you want the scripts to run serially, you could kick off the first script via an admin schedule, then have that script run the second script, and so on... -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/08/06 9:04 AM Multiple scripts inside an admin schedule? I believe each schedule can contain one cmd/script... You may have to create multiple schedules, one for each server
Re: Database mirroring, again
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2 dbvols per physical volume. In every instance where TSM mirroring has saved my butt, it was from the mirroring of the log. In a hard server crash, it is the log that will most likely be corrupted, and having that 2nd copy has saved me at least a dozen times. I feel perfectly comfortable keeping a single copy of the DB out on RAID protected disk, but I still prefer to use TSM log mirroring whenever possible. Even if I only have a single SAN device/LUN available, I still try to stick 2 log copies on it.
Re: CLIENTACTION Command
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/25/2006 05:46:40 AM: Hi to all I am using the command DEFINE CLIENTACTION to schedule a client to process a command for a one-time action. The command i am giving is as follow: define clientaction BIZTALK-DAILY domain=BIZTALK_DAILY action=command object='C:\TSMUSER\PROD\WNA1BZT.bat' wait=yes On the client side i have the following settings about the tsm scheduler: Prompted - TCP/IP address:localhost - TCP/IP port: 1501 - session Init.:server only The above command is defined successfully but the job C:\TSMUSER\PROD\WNA1BZT.bat is not executed at once. Do i have to change something? After you define the clientaction, do a query sched * * from the server and look for a client schedule that starts with @ and numbers after it, like @045 for BIZTALK-DAILY. See what the status of the schedule is - repeat the command for a few minutes. Also, the clientaction isn't exactly immediate, it may take one or two minutes. If the clientaction actually runs, or says in process then the server is contacting the client correctly. From there, you'll have to check the dsmsched.log on the client and possibly dsmerror.log on the client to check for client side errors. If the server never contacts the client correctly then something is wrong in the setup of your client and/or scheduler service (ie the immediateaction stays in pending status until it times out). __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: CLIENTACTION Command
The command should be q event * *. Sorry about that. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com John Monahan/Computech 01/25/2006 11:01 AM To ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: CLIENTACTION Command ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/25/2006 05:46:40 AM: Hi to all I am using the command DEFINE CLIENTACTION to schedule a client to process a command for a one-time action. The command i am giving is as follow: define clientaction BIZTALK-DAILY domain=BIZTALK_DAILY action=command object='C:\TSMUSER\PROD\WNA1BZT.bat' wait=yes On the client side i have the following settings about the tsm scheduler: Prompted - TCP/IP address:localhost - TCP/IP port: 1501 - session Init.:server only The above command is defined successfully but the job C:\TSMUSER\PROD\WNA1BZT.bat is not executed at once. Do i have to change something? After you define the clientaction, do a query sched * * from the server and look for a client schedule that starts with @ and numbers after it, like @045 for BIZTALK-DAILY. See what the status of the schedule is - repeat the command for a few minutes. Also, the clientaction isn't exactly immediate, it may take one or two minutes. If the clientaction actually runs, or says in process then the server is contacting the client correctly. From there, you'll have to check the dsmsched.log on the client and possibly dsmerror.log on the client to check for client side errors. If the server never contacts the client correctly then something is wrong in the setup of your client and/or scheduler service (ie the immediateaction stays in pending status until it times out). __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule
The entire command should be surrounded in single quotes. I believe it will also help if you remove the space before backset.out like so: backset.out What interface are you using to create the sched - Admin Center, older web admin, or command line? __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gene Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/19/2006 02:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule Hi; I am creating a schedule that invokes a script which generates backupsets. The Action field is set to COMMAND and in the Object field I am trying to pass the string to execute the script. It is: nohup ./backupset/gen_backupset2.sh backset.out I believe it needs single or double quotes or something around either the whole line or part of the line. I have tried numerous permutations, but when I update it with TODAY and NOW to get it to run and test it out it just sits there. Any ideas? Gene Shaffer Software Systems Engineer Aurora Health Care Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it
Re: dbcopy, logcopy; Copy Status: Off-Line/Sync
If I understand correctly, I believe you are looking for the VARY ONLINE command. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Christiane Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/18/2006 11:38 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] dbcopy, logcopy; Copy Status: Off-Line/Sync Hallo, I have a question to the Status of dbcopy, logcopy: sync/off-line. I don`t find a command to get the status from off-line to sync (for example: update dbcopy.) The situation: I want to make a copy-synconisation of the db and log - Files (3 times) No problem: define dbcopy/logcopy works wonderful. The Server is a Windows 2003 with tsm 5.3.2.2 One Copy is on the disk D: the other 2 Copies are on a raid-system. Now the problem: If one disk has no connection to the system (hardware-error, net-problems...) the tsm-system works wonderful further with the disk, which is accessible for the system. And the non accessible disks changed the status from sync to off-line. To change the status from off-line to sync, we need two commands: delete dbvol ... and define dbcopy ... The same problem is with the log-files. I need the command update dbcopy/logcopy ... Can somebody help me by this wish? Christiane Kühn -- Institut für Informatik Christiane Kühn Tel.: 0228/73-4200 Römerstraße 164 Fax.: 0228/7360304 53117 Bonn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The max recovery log utilization is too high
Then reset the high water mark. Richard Sims HELP RESET will give you clue on how to do that if you need help.
Re: select statement for Archives
Try running this one (I can't remember if this is long running or not and I don't have TSM DB available to me right now): select distinct date (archive_date) as date, node_name, filespace_name, description from archives __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com De Keyser Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] L.BE To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU select statement for Archives 01/06/2006 02:10 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hi there, We're trying to get an overview of all the archives we've already taken, sorted on their annotation. When we try the select description from archives statement, we get one line per file within the archive... Since we've got archives with about 30.000 files, our server falls on timeouts and often no returns are given. Within the retrieve module of the Backup-Archive Gui, you can view a list of all available archives.. so it should be possible to generate this list with a select, no?? Does anybody have an idea?? Thanks This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal.
Re: Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day?
I'm thinking you're going to need to add tape drives before thinking of doing something like this. You are going to shorten your current daily maintenance window because you have to squeeze in a portion of it to do a second run. Could be done if you can shorten your current window enough, but I would think that would mean adding tape drives. Getting your reclaims done is going to be a problem as well with only single threaded reclamation processes - if you currently run until 8pm sometimes and you are going to need to shorten that - will be tough unless you break your data up into more pools. Sounds awfully ugly to me. I think the correct answer is yes it is technically possible, but do we REALLY need to do it this way. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day? 01/05/2006 08:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Like I said -- the questions are crawling out of the wood-work. Our management wants to reduce the possible data loss in the event of a disaster by taking copies off-site both in the early morning and again at the end of first shift. Is anyone else doing this? Will this be as painfull as I expect it to be? I know I'll have issues with reclaims -- I currently run expire inventory at noon, with reclaims kicking in shortly thereafter and sometimes running to 8:00 PM, so I'll have to implement a reclaim window. Electronic off-siting isn't an option -- I've seen us cut 400 MB Oracle redo logs for our SAP/R3 database at the rate of one every 2.5 minutes for extended time periods (and this is explicitly the data that has to go off-site). I'd need multiple T1 lines to cover the traffic, and the cost of a single T1 is considered to be too high. I'm currently running TSM 5.1.6.3, planning on upgrading to 5.3.current in the next two weeks. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO Inc
Re: Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day?
It will help once you get to TSM 5.3 as you can use the reclaim stgpool command with the duration parameter. It will cancel the reclamation process when the duration has expired, so you will just have to wait for that last aggregate to finish being moved instead of waiting for the entire volume to finish its reclaim. As long as your mount retention is low, everything should be done and out of the tape drives after 20 minutes or so beyond the reclamation duration. The reclaim window from 2am to 6am sounds like a good idea too. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day? 01/05/2006 10:31 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU We'll be adding 6 more drives in a few weeks -- to a total of 16. I have 6 off-site copy pools, one of which never goes through reclaim as it's a 21-day archive pool. I'm most concerned about the process for wrapping up an in-process reclaim and getting the tape out of the drive by the time the afternoon database backup finishes (I do full backups to LTO -- currently runs about 20 minutes). I figure I'll need to open a reclaim window in the 2 AM to 6 AM time frame in order to get everything done. And I'd REALLY like to spend the money and put in the telecom circuit instead. Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day? I'm thinking you're going to need to add tape drives before thinking of doing something like this. You are going to shorten your current daily maintenance window because you have to squeeze in a portion of it to do a second run. Could be done if you can shorten your current window enough, but I would think that would mean adding tape drives. Getting your reclaims done is going to be a problem as well with only single threaded reclamation processes - if you currently run until 8pm sometimes and you are going to need to shorten that - will be tough unless you break your data up into more pools. Sounds awfully ugly to me. I think the correct answer is yes it is technically possible, but do we REALLY need to do it this way. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Kauffman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Running tapes off-site multiple times in a day? 01/05/2006 08:54 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Like I said -- the questions are crawling out of the wood-work. Our management wants to reduce the possible data loss in the event of a disaster by taking copies off-site both in the early morning and again at the end of first shift. Is anyone else doing this? Will this be as painfull as I expect it to be? I know I'll have issues with reclaims -- I currently run expire inventory at noon, with reclaims kicking in shortly thereafter and sometimes running to 8:00 PM, so I'll have to implement a reclaim window. Electronic off-siting isn't an option -- I've seen us cut 400 MB Oracle redo logs for our SAP/R3 database at the rate of one every 2.5 minutes for extended time periods (and this is explicitly the data that has to go off-site). I'd need multiple T1 lines to cover the traffic, and the cost of a single T1 is considered to be too high. I'm currently running TSM 5.1.6.3, planning on upgrading to 5.3.current in the next two weeks. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO Inc
Re: Missed backups
I've noticed a dramatic increase in reliability/stability in letting the client acceptor daemon (CAD) control the scheduler. In many cases you don't have to restart services every time you make a options file change with this method either. The only time I notice missed backups nowadays is when the backup session abends somehow leaving the status in a hung state and the scheduler service still started. Normally, SOP is to go and restart the CAD on all clients whose backup status is reporting as failed or started (and the backup is no longer running) and that helps a lot as well. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Meadows, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Missed backups 01/04/2006 10:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I have a general question here. I have about 150 clients. Client info: Windows 2003 server Windows 2000 server Red Hat Linux 3 AS AIX 5.1 All running tsm client version 5 or later sending data to a tsm server on AIX running version 5.3 On a nightly basis I have at least 6 or 7 of these servers that miss their backups due to the service stopping. Is this common. Do other people experience these misses or is it something I need to look into on these servers. For the most part they are not the same server and I have the schedules spread from 7pm to 12 pm hourly. Just wanting to get a general guage of if there is something that I need to look into that I am doing wrong or if this is a normal and acceptable level of misses per night. Thanks, Andrew This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you.
Re: Silent Installation
The only thing I would add to this is to put this in a batch file where you can also: 1. Net stop the existing TSM services (if this is an upgrade install) before installing the new client 2. Net start the existing TSM services after the install/upgrade is finished. 3. Run the dsmc query sched command (if this is a brand new install) to prompt/save the TSM node password. 4. Create and start the services (if this is a brand new install) using the dsmcutil command. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Bruce Lowrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] RNING.COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Silent Installation 01/04/2006 10:23 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Patricia, Here is one that works for me using a UNC to a network drive, right from the book. msiexec /i \\servername\distribution\tsm\TSM53\IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client.msi RebootYesNo=No REBOOT=Suppress ALLUSERS=1 INSTALLDIR=c:\program files\tivoli\tsm ADDLOCAL=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,ApiRuntime,AdministrativeCmd,OFS TRANSFORMS=\\servername\distribution\tsm\TSM53\1033.mst /qn /l*v c:\log.txt Now just point yours to a location where you have an extracted copy of the client. This is the one for version 5.3 where I suppress the reboot but if you upgrading from an older version of the client say 5.1 and it's on a Windows 2000 server you need to run the windows installer upgrade (run instmsiw.exe)first which will need a reboot. Regards, Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Infrastructure Analyst Information Technology Services Storage Output SE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bVoice: (989) 496-6404 �� Fax: (989) 496-6437 (Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. 2Post: Mail: CO2111 MPost: Midland, MI 48686-0994 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Silent Installation Anyone have a silent install script that works on windows for installing TSM Backup client?
Re: _ MS CLUSTER with SQL DB
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/29/2005 12:49:17 PM: IS any body running a SQL DB backup on MS cluster using LAN - Free TSM client. We have two nodes each with local resources being backed up by B/A Cluster shared NON- SQL resources vi LAN-FREE , and SQL DB backup by SQL agent. All backups go to the tape directly. We get a lot of following errors: Yes, I've done this before. Please include your TSM client, server, and storage agent levels. 1? is it possible to send each local node backup directly to disk instead of tap, while SToragent sends shared resource vi LAN- Free to TAPE. any help on these errors. Yes this is possible. You should already have separate options files for the local resources, just remove the LANfree option in those local option files, and either change the domain of those local nodes to one with a default mgmt class that backs up to disk or use an include statement in the local options file to backup to a mgmt class with disk destination. Make sure to restart your local TSM services when done. 12/28/2005 21:11:07 ANS1312E Server media mount not possible You may have to check the server log at this same time as well for any corresponding messages. How many tape drives do you have an how many LANfree clients are backing up at the same time? 12/28/2005 21:55:45 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 12/28/2005 21:55:46 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. I have seen these messages in similar LANfree environments to what you describe. I haven't seen this message cause any issues though so I haven't worried about it.
Re: TSM macro imports
In my experience it is normally a (greater than) symbol that causes the problem and terminates the macro processing. Remove the space after the in your macro file and try it again. It could be some other special character that is causing a problem as well. It all depends on what line the macro processing terminates. Examine that particular script for any special characters. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Spearman, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] THEALTH.ORG To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU TSM macro imports 01/02/2006 05:03 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I have several new TSM servers I want to copy macros to. I have the macros in a file. I used the q script command with display format of Macro to get the commands needed to generate the new script. The problem comes in with the double quotes, single quotes, parens, etc embedded in some of the scripts. When I run a script that reads the file containing the macro commands I get errors such as mis-matched quotes, extraneous words, etc. I've tried several things with single quotes around double quotes, but can't seem to get the right combination. I've searched adsm.org, but didn't get an answer there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Wayne - This message and any included attachments are from NOVANT HEALTH INC. and are intended only for the addressee(s). The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe you are not authorized to receive it, please promptly delete this message and notify the sender by e-mail. If you believe that any information contained in this message is disparaging or harassing on the basis of gender, race, age, disability, religion, or national origin, please contact Novant Health, Inc. at 1-888-378-8250 or 1-800-350-0094 or forward the e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you.
Re: Sequential storage pool tape usage
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/03/2006 08:56:25 AM: Hi Everybody, I'm running TSM 5.1.6 and I have a sequential storage pool for my Exchange backup disk pool ( EXC_TAPE ). This morning, while checking the activity logs, I saw about 30 scratch tapes being brought into the EXC_TAPE pool. What would trigger these tapes to be brought into the pool ? No reclamation was going on at this time and I have no administrative jobs/scripts which would do this. Rich I think you need to closely examine the activity log during that period. How did you notice 30 scratch tapes being brought into the pool? Are you having any tape drive hardware problems or errors? Could someone else have manually defined those tapes into the pool? __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: TDP for mail exch question !
That was true with older TSM versions, but if your cmd file is written properly to do its own error checking and exit with a non-zero return code on an error, then the schedule should show as failed. I remember when this first started working (some time in version 5?). I have customers who run the TDP for SAP Oracle who do redo log backups every 2 hours or so and when there are no redo logs to backup, the brarchive script actually exits with a return code of 4 or something like that causing those schedules to suddenly start showing up as failed (erroneously in my mind, just because there are no redo logs to process shouldn't mean the command fails). Previously, all the cmd schedules would always show success because it successfully launched the cmd file. Now it should wait and get a return code back from the cmd script. Now, you will have problems if your original cmd script launches or calls other cmd scripts as those subscript return codes don't get passed back up the chain again. I believe the TDP for Domino or one of the TDPs example scripts are configured like that where they call subscripts. Perhaps that is something that affects your environment. It is very important that your original cmd file exit with a non-zero return code upon an error, which normally means you have to check the return code after every command within the script. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Ochs, Duane [EMAIL PROTECTED] M To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: TDP for mail exch question ! 12/28/2005 01:16 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Steve, Yes but not at the TSM server q schedule or the operational reporting. The schedule launches the cmd file. To TSM the schedule is then successful even though the backup is still running. We wrote our own reporting scripts that verify completion based on the TDP client log files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 12:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TDP for mail exch question ! Duane, I don't understand your reference to not getting accurate schedule based success or failure messages - we use the batch method, and as long as the errorlevel from the command line backup is captured and used as the exit code, you should see accurate returncode results. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-752-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for mail exch question ! Goran, There are many ways to perform it. I use a cmd file that is launched by TSM schedule and TSM scheduler service. The only issue is you don't get accurate schedule based success or failure messages. I know some others use windows scheduler to perform the task via a cmd file or bat file. There are also other products out there that allow scheduling with some reporting logic, I don't use any, but I have seen references on the adsm website. Duane -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of goc Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TDP for mail exch question ! Importance: High hi all, urgent :-) how to automate exchange backup via TDP ? is it enough to write an *.bat or *.cmd with commands ? or is there a way to do it via tsm central scheduler assuming that dsmcad is running on exchange server ? sorry for maybe stupid question but im a unix-tsm admin and my windows guys are looking at me rather funny :-) thanks for any idea goran vipnet tsm 5.3.1.5 on AIX several times Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
Re: storage agent / tapeutil question for HPUX
Check out technote 1191345.
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hi all,
after installing tapeutil and atdd for HPUX i must detect serial numbers
for
tape devices, after starting tapeutil and opening device /dev/rmt/1mnb
i get
Device /dev/rmt/1mnb opened.
INQUIRY rc 22 (Invalid argument)
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failure obtaining device PID
ioscan returns for one tape
tape 2 0/10/0/0.1.18.255.12.9.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE IBM
ULT3580-TD1
/dev/rmt/2m /dev/rmt/2mnb
/dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/2mb/dev/rmt/c28t9d0BEST
/dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/2mn/dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTb
i'm confused about STAPE parameter, on test platform which did ok i get
tape 1 0/5/0/0.5.17.255.12.12.0 atdd CLAIMED DEVICE IBM
ULT3580-TD1
/dev/rmt/1m /dev/rmt/1mnb
/dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/1mb/dev/rmt/c3t12d0BEST
/dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/1mn/dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTb
ATDD worked fine
during installation the production server hanged and we needed a reboot !
how to get rid of loaded STAPE driver (i asume it's a driver) and make it
use atdd (if installed correctly)
#dmesg returns among other stuff this ...
atdd: load() called
atdd: Class is tape
atdd: control init!
atdd: Load complete!
storage agent is version 5.3.1.5
server is 5.3.1.5
the communication works fine
here is a tapeutil tryout
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+---+
| IBM SCSI TAPE MEDIUM CHANGER UTILITY PROGRAM |
+--++
| GENERAL COMMANDS | SERVICE COMMANDS |
| 1: Open Device | 3: Query Serial Number |
| 2: Close Device| 4: Query Microcode Level |
| D: Device Type | 5: Force Dump|
| M: Menu Refresh| 6: Store Dump|
| Q: Quit Program| 7: Download Microcode|
| | 8: Query Driver Level|
+--++
|BASIC SCSI COMMANDS|
| 9: Test Unit Ready 10: Inquiry 11: Request Sense |
| 12: Log Sense Page13: Mode Page14: Reserve on close |
| 15: Release 16: Prevent/Allow Media Removal|
+--++
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 13
Device not opened.
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == d
Device not opened.
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 1
Enter device special file name (e.g., /dev/rmt/1mnb): /dev/rmt/9m
Select open mode (1=read-write, 2=read, 3=write, 4=append): 2
Device /dev/rmt/9m opened.
INQUIRY rc 22 (Invalid argument)
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failure obtaining device PID
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == d
Unable to verify device attachment: Invalid argument
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 3
IOC_INQUIRY_PAGE for page 0x80 failed.
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failure obtaining tape device serial number: Invalid argument
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 4
Cannot identify device type.
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 8
Failure obtaining the version of ATDD: Invalid argument
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 12
Enter Log Page code in hex: 80
Enter parameter code in hex or enter for all parameters:
IOC_LOG_SENSE_PAGE for page 0x80 failed.
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) == 13
Enter Mode Page code in hex: 80
IOC_MODE_SENSE for page 0x80 failed.
The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument
ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==
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i asume that atdd didn't after all install/load correctly, what do
Re: TCPWindowsize
Check out the TSM performance and tuning guide. It has specific recommendations for all of those types of values. TCPWindowsize should be set to 63 on Linux. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsmm.doc/sc32-9101-03.htm __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Geert De Pecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Subject TCPWindowsize 12/27/2005 10:00 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hi all, We were checking the throughput on our new tsm server (5.3 on suse sles9) and I encountered the following in the serveroptions: TCPWindowsize 64512 The manual states the maximum value is 2048 (which is 2mb). Should I set it to 2048 in my dsmserv.opt or leave it as is? Thanks, Geert PS: Basically, we were looking to find an answer to the intermittent disk writes, I would expect a streaming write instead of intermittent writes to disk.
Re: Authentication problems :^(
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/22/2005 11:53:11 AM: In a MSCS cluster, an admin of one of our higher profile client machines failed over from one machine (OLALPHA) back to other (OLBRAVO) after BRAVO crashed this morning. Since I've been having a devil of a time with a MSCS cluster resource that serves as the scheduler for the cluster drive on BRAVO not coming up. To begin with, it posted ANS1835E, ANS1025E, ANS1570E, all of which point to authentication problems. I updated the node password, issued a 'q ses -optfile...', and it would authenticate fine. When I try to bring the cluster resource back online, it stays up from a few seconds, fails, and when I check the registry, the passwords has disappeared! What in the world? It has also posted ANS1029E and ANS2050E since I've been playing around trying to get the cluster resource to work, and also the base client (to back up C/D/system state) has been issuing ANS1977E with the ccCreateTimerFile: Unable to create timer file and errno=13 error: Permission denied. It sounds like the services weren't setup properly from the start or the service password somehow got out of sync. When setting up the services in the cluster, it is very important to fully set them up on each node of the cluster and be sure they are working BEFORE setting up the service in the cluster manager. I think your only solution is to remove the service from the cluster configuration, then remove/resetup the services on one node, restart the service several times and make sure it works OK. Then failover to the other node and repeat. Once you are sure both work, add the service back in to the cluster, make sure you get the right registry key setup to replicate during failover. Fail back and forth a couple times to make sure all is working properly. The big drawback here is that you will need to do this during downtime when you can failover nodes quite a few times. That is why it is so important to ensure it is done right from the start. Every time I have seen the disappearing password in a cluster it was because the services weren't setup right initially or fully before configuring them in the cluster. In one rare case, special characters in the node password also caused a problem and the password wouldn't replicate properly. For this reason I always use only letters or numbers in cluster node passwords (no underscores, dashes, etc.).
Re: Authentication problems :^(
How many times have you failed over in those 2 years? It always works great if you never failover :-) __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Bell, Charles (Chip) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To .COM ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Authentication problems :^( .EDU 12/22/2005 12:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Well, I figure they were set up properly, because they have been working properly before this most recent failover. By the way... TSM server, AIX 5.2, TSM v5.3.1.2 TSM client v5.3.0, W2K I mean, if it was not done right from the start, why would it have worked this long (2+ years)? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Authentication problems :^( ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/22/2005 11:53:11 AM: In a MSCS cluster, an admin of one of our higher profile client machines failed over from one machine (OLALPHA) back to other (OLBRAVO) after BRAVO crashed this morning. Since I've been having a devil of a time with a MSCS cluster resource that serves as the scheduler for the cluster drive on BRAVO not coming up. To begin with, it posted ANS1835E, ANS1025E, ANS1570E, all of which point to authentication problems. I updated the node password, issued a 'q ses -optfile...', and it would authenticate fine. When I try to bring the cluster resource back online, it stays up from a few seconds, fails, and when I check the registry, the passwords has disappeared! What in the world? It has also posted ANS1029E and ANS2050E since I've been playing around trying to get the cluster resource to work, and also the base client (to back up C/D/system state) has been issuing ANS1977E with the ccCreateTimerFile: Unable to create timer file and errno=13 error: Permission denied. It sounds like the services weren't setup properly from the start or the service password somehow got out of sync. When setting up the services in the cluster, it is very important to fully set them up on each node of the cluster and be sure they are working BEFORE setting up the service in the cluster manager. I think your only solution is to remove the service from the cluster configuration, then remove/resetup the services on one node, restart the service several times and make sure it works OK. Then failover to the other node and repeat. Once you are sure both work, add the service back in to the cluster, make sure you get the right registry key setup to replicate during failover. Fail back and forth a couple times to make sure all is working properly. The big drawback here is that you will need to do this during downtime when you can failover nodes quite a few times. That is why it is so important to ensure it is done right from the start. Every time I have seen the disappearing password in a cluster it was because the services weren't setup right initially or fully before configuring them in the cluster. In one rare case, special characters in the node password also caused a problem and the password wouldn't replicate properly. For this reason I always use only letters or numbers in cluster node passwords (no underscores, dashes, etc.). - Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information.
Re: ISC Admin Center time outs
Your answer is in the ISC/Admin Center FAQ: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7q1=tsmadmincenteruid=swg21193419loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gee, Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .GOV To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU ISC Admin Center time outs 12/21/2005 09:12 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Is there a way to change the timeouts in the web gui to Admin Center. The 5.2 web gui will allow you to stay on for hours without reauthorization. ISC keeps on asking me for my userid and password if I stay idle for 30 minutes.
Re: copy pool architecture question
The initial hardware was a Cisco 5428-2(iscsi)/2109-F16(fc)/3592 tape combo over a 1Gb connection. We have a Cisco 9216i to replace the 5428/2109-F16 combo and are looking at etherchannel or maybe even a 10 Gb link in the next few months. I also agree with Wanda that having a directly accessible library or disk at the remote site is the optimal solution. The 9216i's are a great solution for FCIP. I haven't used them at distances of 200 miles either. I think the biggest factor in that distance would involve how many hops are involved and what is the latency. Also is the connection direct, shared, etc. What kind of ms response do you get on pings (at least 1500 bytes) between the 2 locations? There are a lot of buffer and performance settings to accommodate high latency networks on the 9216i but I would certainly want to try and test that distance before committing to it. I think if you find out your ping response ahead of time that will help. Another point I would make is that all of the FCIP implementations I've been involved with have dedicated links for the FCIP traffic (all 1Gb/sec or more). It is not shared with any other IP traffic so you don't have to muck around with QoS or any of that junk. In addition to bandwidth and latency, I think the biggest performance factor is MTU size. The 9216i is excellent when you can use jumbo frames, but then every single piece of network equipment in between the locations must support those larger MTUs. Not likely if it is a leased line. Here is a little snippet from a Cisco document on an example FCIP configuration regarding MTU size: !--- Note that Gig4/1 in the default state is configured with an MTU size of !--- 1500 bytes, if the network topology allows for larger end-to-end frame !--- sizes known as jumbo frames. !--- The default value may be changed to a higher value. A good value is !--- 3000 bytes, because this would avoid the fragmentation of full 2048 FC !--- frames into multiple TCP segments. Not all networking equipment can handle !--- jumbo frames, so the default value of 1500 bytes is a conservative !--- approach to avoid connectivity issues while bringing up the FCIP tunnel.
Re: Message ANS1568E
I had the unable to open timer file message before. All the hits on supports searches had to do with permissions or something wrong with the services configuration. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the TSM services, making sure that those reg entries are totally removed after your uninstall. My problem turned out to be a bug with the lanfree option and tcpclientaddress option enabled and that was fixed in the 5.3.2 client (IC44846). It might be worth a shot at the 5.3.2 client to see if that fixes it. You shouldn't have to hard code a tcpclientaddress unless your machine has multiple addresses and you want it to use a specific one (like in a cluster). __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Sam Sheppard [EMAIL PROTECTED] .GOV To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Message ANS1568E 12/21/2005 01:41 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I had a client call me and provided the following info from the error log after their scheduled backup stopped working: 12/19/2005 07:20:26 UseExternalTimer: Unable to open timer file '\s1u0.', errno=2,error:No such file or directory 12/19/2005 07:20:39 ANS1568E The CAD attempted to register it's tcpport and tcpip address without using the TCPCADADDRESS option. 12/19/2005 07:20:39 ANS1570E Registering this instance of the Cad with the server failed. Cad process continues. Looking up message ANS1568E says to do the following: Use TCPCADADDRESS in the client option file to indicate the proper TCP/IP address for this CAD. I had the client add this option and the error does not reoccur. He is asking if he will need to go into his DSM.OPT file and change this whenever his IP address is renewed. I told him to try his DNS entry. I then attempted to look up this option in the client doc and cannot find any documentation on this anywhere. I suspect some kind of corruption somewhere along the line, since this just happened out of the blue and also suggested he remove the client and reinstall. Client is 5.3.0.0, Server is 5.3.2.0. Anyone have any experience with this and any info on the TCPCADADDRESS option? Thanks Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668
Re: Message ANS1568E
Oops. Just reread that and realized your message dealt with TCPCADADDRESS and not TCPCLIENTADDRESS. Sorry. I would still try reinstalling the services and/or upgrading to the 5.3.2 client though. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com John Monahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] S.COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Message ANS1568E 12/21/2005 09:32 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I had the unable to open timer file message before. All the hits on supports searches had to do with permissions or something wrong with the services configuration. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the TSM services, making sure that those reg entries are totally removed after your uninstall. My problem turned out to be a bug with the lanfree option and tcpclientaddress option enabled and that was fixed in the 5.3.2 client (IC44846). It might be worth a shot at the 5.3.2 client to see if that fixes it. You shouldn't have to hard code a tcpclientaddress unless your machine has multiple addresses and you want it to use a specific one (like in a cluster). __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Sam Sheppard [EMAIL PROTECTED] .GOV To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Message ANS1568E 12/21/2005 01:41 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I had a client call me and provided the following info from the error log after their scheduled backup stopped working: 12/19/2005 07:20:26 UseExternalTimer: Unable to open timer file '\s1u0.', errno=2,error:No such file or directory 12/19/2005 07:20:39 ANS1568E The CAD attempted to register it's tcpport and tcpip address without using the TCPCADADDRESS option. 12/19/2005 07:20:39 ANS1570E Registering this instance of the Cad with the server failed. Cad process continues. Looking up message ANS1568E says to do the following: Use TCPCADADDRESS in the client option file to indicate the proper TCP/IP address for this CAD. I had the client add this option and the error does not reoccur. He is asking if he will need to go into his DSM.OPT file and change this whenever his IP address is renewed. I told him to try his DNS entry. I then attempted to look up this option in the client doc and cannot find any documentation on this anywhere. I suspect some kind of corruption somewhere along the line, since this just happened out of the blue and also suggested he remove the client and reinstall. Client is 5.3.0.0, Server is 5.3.2.0. Anyone have any experience with this and any info on the TCPCADADDRESS option? Thanks Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668
Re: ASR backup failed
Please share with the list if you find the solution for this. I've also seen this problem with one Win2K3 server. Played around with it for several hours before giving up. I never did open up a PMR with IBM because it wasn't all that important at the time. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To M.COMADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: ASR backup failed .EDU 12/16/2005 07:14 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hi Richard! Thank you very much for your reply! I deleted c:\adsm.sys, but the error remains. Even stranger is that when I run a backup ASR through the command line interface manually, it finishes without errors! The scheduled backup during the next evening fails again... Guess I will have to open a PMR here. Thanks again! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 13:56 To: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Subject: Re: ASR backup failed Hi, Eric - The List archives show only frustrated customers trying to deal with this error. Heck, the message is not even documented in the 5.3 Messages manual. (Try Help in your TSM 5.3 client to see if it's there.) My instinct on this would be to see if there's anything wrong with the C:\adsm.sys\ASR staging directory - maybe even a space issue. Maybe try deleting \adsm.sys entirely and see if a fresh backup works. Richard On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: Hi *SM-ers! On one of our nodes the ASR backup fails for several days now. The only errors logged in the dsmerror.log are: 12/03/2005 02:06:30 ANS1228E Sending of object 'C:' failed 12/03/2005 02:06:30 ANS1468E Backing up Automated System Recovery (ASR) files failed. No files will be backed up. I checked the IBM support page for ANS1468E, but I couldn't find anything... Does anybody know how to get more information out of the TSM client? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ** ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: lto2's and TSM 5.3
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 12/16/2005 11:07:42 AM: I'd like to ask those who are using the LTO2 drives with TSM 5.3 a few questions and some advice. I'm in the process of building a system to replace the one I have. It will run AIX5.3 and TSM 5.3. My plan is to keep the old system around and let the data expire off but lets talk about the new system. Because I have little experience with 5.3 maybe those that are using it can give me some advice. Because these tapes hold so much data, using collocation as it is on TSM 5.2 seems a bit much, one tape per node. I have heard a little about the way collocation has changed but for those using it on 5.3 would you relay your experiences and recommendations. Collocation by group is new with TSM 5.3. It works great. I've typically done my collocation groups based on recovery levels, so like Tier1, Tier2, and Tier3 groups, but it really depends on how many nodes. There are probably a 100 different ways to divide up your groups. You also have to think about the nodes you will be restoring first and how many at once you will be doing and think about tape contention. I've also done just 2 groups which works well. One group for the 20 or so very important high priority servers, and the other group for the rest - I've also done collocation by group for offsite storage using this method too. Disk pools and tape drives will not be an issue but with almost 300 nodes the system will be busy at times. Please relay your experience as to how you run schedules. Do you have any nodes/schedules that run direct to tape? I typically only do large TDP backups direct to tape. Say SQL, Exchange, SAP, etc. larger than 40-80GB or so, but it depends on how many of these large ones you have, how many tape drives you have, and how large your diskpool is. I prefer to send everything to disk unless they are so large it doesn't make sense or I want to take advantage of backing up to multiple drives at once when possible. As far as scheduling goes, I usually create one schedule for every hour or two throughout the night and then try to spread the nodes out across all the schedules the best I can. You always have some that need to backup at certain times so there are exceptions. I have had schedules before with more than 50 nodes assigned to it and everything works just fine. The network gets bombarded at backup time, but TSM handles the load easily if sized appropriately. Archives. Do you keep a second copy offsite or are they just sent offsite and recalled if needed for reclamation or retrieval of data? Depends on how important the archives are and how often you expect to do retrieves. In my experience archives are done mostly to satisfy some regulatory requirement or to make some PHB feel warm and fuzzy and they are never used for retrieves. In this case, I don't want to waste any more tapes than I have to and send archives to a dedicated tape archivepool, checkout the archive tapes, don't do reclamations, and only bring back those archive tapes when they are empty. Once the archives are done those tapes basically sit on the shelf for 5 years or whatever. Anything you would do differently if you had the chance to redo your system? I think the biggest issue is sizing appropriately. Most TSM headaches come from undersized servers, library, disk, tape, network, etc. Any other recommendations with TSM 5.3? Use the new migrate stgpool and reclaim stgpool commands in your daily scripts/schedules. They are awesome. I have a windows server already running TSM 5.3 just so I can take a look at it. No tape drives just a bit of disk to run a couple of desktop computers to as a test. It is also running the admin console and my plan is to leave it there and not install it on the TSM server. Thanks for the advice and help, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tivoli IBM 3600 w/ LTO drives
You need to send more information if you want to get help. What OS, what level of TSM, what steps are you doing and what error messages do you see? __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Ben McClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Subject tivoli IBM 3600 w/ LTO drives 12/13/2005 03:35 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Anyone seen this problem: Tivoli recognizes the 3600 library, but then wont recognize the LTO drives inside the library. It is set at the right elements (as it wont let me put in any purposefully wrong element IDs). They are the standard LTO drives that came with the library from IBM. Figured Tivoli should recognize IBM drives... -Ben
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/education/Z794338U26278J09.html __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: ANS1977E Dsmcad schedule invocation was unsuccessful
A couple of other things that I have seen related to this: 1. Something could be causing the scheduler service to crash when it tries to start. You will see dsmcrash.dmp/dsmcrash.log files in your baclient dir if this is the case. 2. Check the dsmerror.log file. There could be something wrong with the node password saved in the registry and this would be indicated in the dsmerror.log. You might have to go through the setup wizard and update the client services again if this is the case. 3. Someone has configured the scheduler service to run under a specific user other than system, and that user's password has been changed, or the user was deleted. Try to start the scheduler service manually and you will get the service could not start due to a logon failure message. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT.STATE.NJ.USTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU ANS1977E Dsmcad schedule invocation was unsuccessful 12/01/2005 09:48 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hello, Has anyone ever had trouble staring TSM services on a windows client and received the following message in the dsmwebcl.log and Dsmerror.log shows the following. ANS1977E Dsmcad schedule invocation was unsuccessful - will try again in 10 minutes. The next backup start time/date schedule never shows up I have tried several times and no luck. TSM 5.3.2.1 AIX 5.3 RS/6000 TSM Windows clients version 5.3 Platform windows 2000 I have read a couple of Threads on this but not much there. Thanks for any help!
Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session
Another option is to use the archive function for those Oracle files. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] OMTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session 11/29/2005 04:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Here are some options you can think about, or you can create your own variations. I'm sure there are other methods, too. * Consider using PRESCHEDULECMD and POSTSCHEDULECMD to stop and start Oracle 7 while the regularly scheduled incremental backup occurs. * If the regular incremental backup schedule conflicts with when you can back up Oracle, see if yuo can find a common timeframe that works for both. * Bind the Oracle files to a management class whose copy group FREQUENCY is set to some nonzero value (7, for example). This will prevent the regular incremental backup from trying to back the files up if they were backed up earlier in a separate backup process for Oracle. Then create a second schedule to back up Oracle, with PRE/POSTSCHEDULECMD options as mentioned above, and make the schedule a SELECTIVE operation against the directory/files that contain the Oracle files. * Create a second node that is just for backing up the Oracle files, with a schedule that targets just the Oracle directory/files. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.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 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-11-29 15:14:47: Thanks Andy, My situation is that I have Oracle 7 databases to backup, so no TDP and rman. The system is set so that the areas we store the Oracle datafiles in is ignored. Fine for the Unix backups, but I need to be able to at least shutdown the Oracle 7 databases and do a cold backup. At the same time I do not want to change the inclexcl file named in the dsm.sys, its no good backing up the database while its running (well I know there is the hot tablespace backup option, but lets ignore that for now). Also I need to back these files up to the same backup policy used for the Unix backup, not the one used for rman backups, because that policy is set to never automatically age out the files. Regards Pete -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: 29 November 2005 21:32 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Over-ride include exclude options in a dsmc session No, but your TSM administrator should be able to configure an include-exclude file in dsm.sys (see the INCLEXCL option in the client manual). Considering the ramifications of modifying Include-exclude options, these should be treated as semi-permanent and not changed unless you are looking to change the policy by which your files are managed. If this does not answer your question, then please clarify what you need to do. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorag eManager.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 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-11-29 14:11:30:
Re: New ISC/admin
Even though it says ISC 5320 on the FTP site for the ISC downloads, those are in fact ISC 6.0.1. I assume they must have named it 5320 on the FTP site because it was packaged along with the 5320 admin center version. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com TSM_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] OMTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: New ISC/admin 11/17/2005 08:10 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU The latest ISC is 6.0.1 which I don't see there. I got it through the IBM download center. Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zoltan...Thanks! Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: The same place as the rest of the TSM patches/releases/etc, but in the admincenter directory: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/admincenter/v5r3/5.3.2.0 Timothy Hughes Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 11/16/2005 09:34 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] New ISC/admin Hello, Does anyone know the IBM link to the new ISC/Admin? Thanks in advance! - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.
Re: Adding a short delay in a server command script
Another option is to create another script which calls the sleep command on your TSM server with an immediate action. You need to be in prompted schedule mode to use this method. Here is how I do it: DEFINE SCRIPT SLEEP DESC=Enter number of seconds to wait as a variable UPDATE SCRIPT SLEEP define clientaction TSMSERVERNAME action=command - UPDATE SCRIPT SLEEP objects='sleep $1' wait=yes Then in your other scripts where you need a pause you can have a line like so: RUN SLEEP 30 __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Ritter, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERBILT.EDUTo Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Adding a short delay in a server command script 11/17/2005 10:21 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 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: 5.3 - - Likes/dislikes
I agree that there are things in the new admin interface that now take 5 or 6 clicks to do what was very simple in the old web interface, but there are things that are better. I'm sure it will improve with time. For me, the benefits of 5.3 outweigh the added complexity of the new admin interface. Here are the things I like in the new interface: 1. The new admin interface gives you scratch tape count right there next to the library definition - much better than the old web interface. 2. The new admin interface will also give you the last run time, as well as duration of the administrative schedules - again much better than the old interface. 3. Sortable columns, etc. in the new interface are a plus. Also giving totals of the number of rows another plus - you don't have to do selects with a sum. 4. Easier to manage and get status on multiple servers. 5. Some of the wizards are good - much easier for TSM novices to define a library, drives, and paths, and create schedules, retention policies, etc. - probably not much benefit to TSM veterans. I bet I can define a library, drives, and paths faster in the new interface than with the old web one. Here are the things I like about 5.3 that make it worth going to: 1. Much more flexible scheduler 2. Group collocation 3. migrate stgpool command 4. reclaim stgpool command There are others I could probably come up with, but those are the big ones. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Gill, Geoffrey L. GEOFFREY.L.GILL@ To SAIC.COM ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5.3 - - Likes/dislikes .EDU 11/10/2005 11:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I've been playing around with 5.3 trying to get used to the changes, before I actually move it to production, and find that to me it is awful cumbersome to do things that used to be so easy. Is there anyone else out there that loves or hates the new software and can point me to why I should like it better than the old web interface? I feel like I have to have the command line interface open no matter what where as before I could do without a second window. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New ISC/Admin Center
Haven't seen anyone chatting about it here yet, but I did notice that the new 5.3.2 version of the Admin Center and the new ISC 6.0.1 are up on the FTP site. I upgraded my first AIX box today and everything went well. The new interface is a little different, I'm happy to see DRM is included now. Haven't had a whole lot of time to play around yet, but just wanted to say the install was very smooth. It was nice not to have to uninstall all the old stuff first. Good job. My only complaint is that the portlets are way too wide for my screen when using Firefox. Everything works great and is sized correctly with IE. Anyone else notice this yet? __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
Re: dsmcad - applet communication
Lookup the option webports in the client manual. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Ryan P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Subject dsmcad - applet communication 10/25/2005 02:29 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU I'm running the webclient on a server that is behind a firewall, of course only allowing specific traffic that is needed. Well I open 1581 so you can access the webclient page and of course that works. But then it loads the java applet and it seems to be wanting to connect to the server on various ports from the local machine - 58357, 58733, 35060. Does anyone know if in fact this is completely random or is there something I could configure to specify one or range of ports? - Note: This email is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Contact the sender if received in error.
Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives
First I would change your server options to these (the max values have increased in more recent TSM versions): movebatchsize 1000 movesizethresh 2048 Also, are you using a file devclass or a regular diskpool on the SATA drives? Is it raw space or JFS or JFS2? Earlier today someone sent out a link to the Top 10 TSM performance tips document. The second half of that pdf is about finding performance bottlenecks in your TSM environment. I suggest you check that out and run the instrumentation traces on the server during the migration and then tell us where the bottleneck is - should help narrow it down to disk or tape. There are examples in the presentation and one even talks about slow migration problems. __ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com Chet Osborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Subject Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives 10/20/2005 04:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Thanks for the replies, but no luck yet. The data being migrated all belonged to a single node, and only two tape mounts were involved. The drive firmware is up to date. I'll be damned if I can figure out how to determine what the 3584 library firmware level is or how to download it. The device driver (Atape) software is up to data as of a month o\r so ago. I've double-checked the zoning, and everything seems as it should be (server and disk in one zone and server and tape drives in another zone). At 02:23 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote: Another factor to consider: does the tape pool in question have collocation turned on? If so, then depending on the number of tapes in the pool, the type of collocation in effect and the number of client nodes or filespaces to be migrated, there could be a very large number of tape mounts occurring. With only two drives, and depending on the mount retention period specified on the device class, I could believe that an awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with tape mounts, idle drives, etc., and not actually writing data. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 It also wouldn't hurt to verify that your library and drive code (firmware) are up-to-date. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Skinner Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives I believe the first thing to check is the zoning of the fiber channel network. TSM server and disk in one zone and in a different zone put tsm server and tape. We had a similar problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/05 11:22 AM Hi, We're recently connected a 3584 with one L52 frame containing 2 LTO-2 fiber attached drives to our AIX server. We'll be using FAStT SATA disk as a primary storage pool and migrating from disk to tape. Can anyone with a similar setup provide any statistics on how this works in the real world, i.e. MB/sec or GB/hour from disk to tape. A test migration of 259 GB (152422 files) took 10.5 hours to complete. This seems like abysmally slow performance, or is it reasonable with a large numbers of small files? TSM version: 5.3.1 MoveBatchSize 500 MoveSizeThresh512 AIX version: 5.1 Chet Osborn Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jim Skinner The University of Kansas Hospital Westwood Campus Information Technology Systems 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 201/068 Westwood KS 66205-2005 913-588-4787 Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information.
