Re: 3584 error code

[Len Boyle]

Slot get failure (slot will not release cartridge). See "identifying Device 
type" on page 260.
Note: A trailer record will contain information to identify the correct slot.

A worn Universal gripper cage could result in "get" errors. See "worn Universal 
gripper cage" on page 734. 

The pages could be different depending the age of your book. 

If you have already had the grippers replaced, you might look at other hardware 
issues. 

Check that library calibration has been performed after the last hardware 
changes. This is started from the front panel.

Check that the tape drives are tight and do not have front panel s loose.
Have them check that the frames are not out of alignment.
Other ...


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, 
Geoffrey L.
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 error code

Believe it or not I'm still fighting the issue from last week. 

I am not in a place to look this up and was hoping someone who knows can tell 
me what the error is. From the front panel, below.
I hear they are flying someone in to help but in the mean time I am trying to 
do what I can to verify what I can since I can't rely on them for much.

If anyone has seen this please let me know.
Thanks for the help.
Error B382

TwoThumbs BB..

Re: TS3500 firmware/hardware issues

[Len Boyle]

Hello Geoff, 

It looks like you might have a problem that we had this past month. 

Do you have at least one Ethernet connection to the library set up so that you 
can use the web interface. It sounds like you might. 

We had parts of the gripper replaced multiple times. We upgraded the firmware 
to see if would fix things, it did not. But it did have fixes for the 
hand/gripper.

We found that we had the hand set to no movement, then the backup servers could 
not do anything with the library. This showed as an error on the summary page. 
And the error showed up when viewing the library error logs. 
We also saw an error in fetching a tape cart before the stop motion. It turns 
out that this was part of the problem.

The ce's found that one of the tape drive was loose in its slot and when a tape 
cart was moved  from the slot next to the tape drive we had problems. They 
replaced the tape drive and things were better.

Let us know what you find.

len



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, 
Geoffrey L.
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TS3500 firmware/hardware issues

I've been having numerous problems lately with our 3584 and wondered if
those of you out there with  one would mind sharing your firmware level.
Ours is on 7270, with LTO2 drives at 73V1. I've been on this for some
time and don't believe it is related to the issues we're having but you
never know I guess.

 

I believe the issues I'm having are related to the company performing
maintenance these days. I say that because when IBM was on the hook I
never had an issue that wasn't resolved the same day they were called
and it never took more than one visit to get anything fixed, never.
These guys break cables and say they didn't do it, replace drives like
I've never seen before just because a tape was stuck in one, replace
drives with broken drives, replaced the wrong drive, and at the moment,
going on 2 weeks now, can't get the robot to work on either LPAR for
more than a few minutes. I'm disgusted with the support so I'm looking
for info from anyone who may have had similar robot issues in the past.
It's been difficult to say the least now that I don't have a single
source to troubleshoot these issues.

 

I get these on both systems, drives go offline, paths go offline,
nothing mounts, the robot can't find tapes, it can't dismount tapes from
drives. Seperate control path to a completely different set of drives.
I'm looking for anything anyone can pass on that I can take to these
guys to see if they've though about or replaced certain parts.

 

I can tell you one gripper went out about 3 weeks about and ever since
then the library has been a mess. They've replaced grippers and other
parts in the robot itself, all of which I don't have a list. When using
the web GUI to run an inventory I've gotten errors, y motor won't move,
x motion failure, excessive drift grippers errors when nothing was in
them, accessor degraded, among other things. Bottom line to me is I
never had these problems till they touched the robot and since I have no
training on that unit I was wondering if anyone out there may  have had
some interaction with a tech that knows what he's doing that might help
give some info that would help me communicate something worthwhile to
these guys. Any advice, besides the obvious of get IBM to fix it, is
welcome. I already tried that and didn't get anywhere.

 

TSM errors I believe are all related to the library issue and I don't
believe that either LPAR truly has an issue since they have separate
hardware, paths and drives. The only unit they have in common is the
robot itself.

 

6/29/2010 3:02:34 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:02:34 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00560 from drive
LTO_4 (/dev/rmt3) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:04:54 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:04:54 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T02343 from drive
LTO_8 (/dev/rmt7) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:07:14 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:07:14 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01268 from drive
LTO_6 (/dev/rmt5) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:09:34 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:09:34 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01037 from drive
LTO_10 (/dev/rmt9) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:11:54 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:11:54 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00458 from drive
LTO_1 (/dev/rmt0) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:14:14 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file
handle 11.

6/29/2010 3:14:14 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00543 from drive
LTO_11 (/dev/rmt10) in library 3584LIB failed.

6/29/2010 3:16:35 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/s

Re: Exchange 2010 tips

[Len Boyle]

The ese programs are exchange utils. This is a std part of the exchange backup. 
After the snapshot is taken this util makes sure that the data in the snapshot 
is good. In the pre vss backups this check was done by the online api.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven 
Harris
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 8:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 tips

Hi Robert

I don't know if this is  relevant under 2010 but under exchange 2007 VSS
backups to TSM automatically ran a consistency check using a program
with 'ese' in the name as the shapshot to TSM portion of the process
ran, and this check was single-threaded.

Perhaps there is something similar happening under 2010.  Sorry its so
fuzzy but my memories of this are a year old now.

Regards

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Paraparaumu, New Zealand





Robert Ouzen wrote:
> Hi to all
>
>
>
> Did anyone as tips to improve performance with  TDP for exchange 2010,  my 
> backup is lanfree my old fashion EXCHSRV01_DB took  03:28 for 413 GB , the 
> Exchange 2010 with VSS feature EXCHSRVB_DB took 02:01 for 184 GB.
>
>
>
> The backup is thru DE duplication Data Domain on VTL.
>
>
>
>
>
> Nodename
>
> Activity
>
> Data amount
>
> Elapse time
>
> Affected
>
> Failed
>
> Media wait
>
> EXCHSRV01_DB   Old Fashion
>
> BACKUP
>
> 413.1 GB
>
> 0 03:28:30
>
> 54
>
> 0
>
> 110
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> EXCHSRVB_DB (EXCHSRVB)   New Fashion
>
> BACKUP
>
> 184.7 GB
>
> 0 02:01:04
>
> 138
>
> 0
>
> 31
>
>
>
> My TDP opt file looks like:
>
>
>
> NODename  exchsrvb_db
>
> CLUSTERnode   no
>
> COMPRESSIon   Off
>
> PASSWORDAccessGenerate
>
> COMMMethodTCPip
>
> TCPPort   1500
>
> TCPServeraddress  132.74.XX.XXX
>
> TCPWindowsize 63
>
> TCPBuffSize   32
>
> DISKBUFFSIZE  32
>
>
>
> INCLUDE "exchsrvB\...\full" MGEXCHANGE
>
> INCLUDE "exchsrvB\...\incr" MGEXCHANGE
>
>
>
> Tsm server version: 5.5.2.0
>
> Tsm client version: 6.2.1.0
>
> TDP for exchange 2010:   6.1.2.0
>
> O.S: Winows 2008 64bit
>
>
>
> T.I.A Regards
>
> Robert Ouzen
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 9.0.829 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2947 - Release Date: 06/19/10 
> 06:35:00
>
>

Re: Virtualnodename and access, what m I missing?

[Len Boyle]

Hello Gary, 

Two thoughts. 

1) if you use the virtualnodename option, I do not think that you have to use 
the set access option.

2) I believe that you can use a global admin userid, a client admin userid or 
the by default the client nodename. See the text below in which just hitting 
enter would work.


 C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc -virtualnodename=rocky-1
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 5, Release 3, Level 4.0
  Client date/time: 06/18/2010 09:54:24
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2006. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: ROCKY-1
Please enter your user id :


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary D.
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:25 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Virtualnodename and access, what m I missing?

Trying to move a subtree from one linux box to another via tsm restore.

Server 5.5.4, clients 5.4.0.
I want to restore files from servera/sub1 to serverb/sub2

On server a, I got into the tsm command line client and entered

Set access b /sub1/* serverb *
Set access b /sub1/*/* serverb *

Got ans1148 completed messages for both commands.

Went to serverb, entered:
Dsmc -virtualnodename=servera
When asked for the user id, I put in root

As I was logged in as root.


Received ans1353e session rejected.

What have I missed?

Thanks for the help.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

Re: Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM client file system??

[Len Boyle]

Wanda 

That is very interesting. I thought that TSM only did dedup at the backend 
storage pool. 

Have you tried the source side dedupe?

Any thoughts on this feature?

Many Thanks len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on TSM 
client file system??

Dedup at the source now includes TSM 6.2!

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Schaub, Steve
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:19 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on
TSM client file system??

Any backup product would by definition have to backup "changes", even
inane ones like these.
However, one that dedupes at the source (e.g. Avamar, Syncsort) might
have the advantage here, in sending less actual data during the backup.

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, Windows
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

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Michael Green
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:45 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Any way to avoid full backup of data relocated on
TSM client file system??

I wondering if there is any other backup software that is designed and
actually capable of handling such situations.

I bet there is not.
--
Warm regards,
Michael Green
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Re: LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

[Len Boyle]

Howard did you update all the lto-2 carts to read/only?



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard 
Coles
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

We first replaced only 8 of the drives, so that I could see whether all the 
tapes would mount there.  I noted that LTO2s were mounting in the LTO4s 
readonly.  However, this was the first time I tried to move data from an LTO2 
pool since turning on encryption in the Library.  At first I thought that may 
have something to do with it, but the LTO3 pools are not encrypted, and they 
mount up just fine.

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
Sr. Systems Engineer
(615) 296-3416
John 3:16!



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims
Sent: Sun 5/16/2010 2:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives
 
Howard -

Presumably, you would have tested the ability to read the old LTO2
tapes at the OS level, before committing to TSM use, via tapeutil or
the like, so as to assure technology usability.  Did that work, or
turn up any anomalies?

Technote 1269453 indicates that LTO2 tapes should be usable in an LTO4
environment, providing that the stipulated actions are undertaken.
The technote doesn't say whether any path redefinition is needed to
make it work, however.  I'd use SHow LIBRary to do the most reveal on
what TSM thinks of the arrangement.  Beyond that, you may have to
contact TSM Support.

Richard Sims

Re: RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi tape drivers

[Len Boyle]

Hello John, 

I have not used tsm on Linux, but I have used ibm tape drives on linux. I used 
the ibm lintape driver. These tape drives were fc based. I am not sure if your 
tape drives are fc based. I am also not sure if the lintape driver supports 
scsi tape drives.

I do have a tsm server running on windows and they recommended that we use the 
ibm tape drivers and not the tsm drivers for the newer tape drives. 

So I am doing a bit of guessing here.

Since the tape driver is the piece between the os and the hardware I would 
expect that be the first part that needs looking at. It might be a change in 
the o/s api used by the tape driver.  

With the lintape driver you can test out the tape drive without tsm running. Do 
you have another box that you can test out the different tape drivers and tape 
drives? 

I just looked at the lintape readme and it appears that it only is supported 
with IBM devices.

Does HP supply drivers for use with their tape drives and Linux?

You might want to call IBM service for tsm and see what they might suggest.

-
I remember seeing this note on a past adsm-l mailing list entry.

"Re: Library unavailable
Michael Green
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:23:45 -0700

I don't know about 3583, but with 3584 one shouldn't use the TSM
supplied drivers. IBM provides a so called 'lintape' (ex IBMtape)
driver on their FTP."
--
len


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John 
D. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi 
tape drivers

Len,
Thanks for your reply.  No, we did not upgrade any of the TSM
software, including the tape drivers.  We were running the
TIVsm-tsmscsi-6.1.3-1.x86_64 version both before and after the RedHat
5.2 to 5.4 upgrade.
I have since found out that there is a 6.1.3-3 version of the
driver.  Since they are running the 6.1.3.3 version of TSM, they
probably should be running that version of the driver, too.  I don't
know why or why not, since that is before they became my customer.  The
previous TSM admins that set all this up are no longer working for this
company.
But I hesitate to recommend upgrading the drivers as a course of
action unless I can point to a concrete reason why.  I went through the
Release Notes and Readmes and could not find any hint of a driver
problem being addressed.  None of the tape driver APARs described since
6.1.3 in this Technote sound like they have anything to do with our
problem:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320763

Any insight would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
The Computer Coaching Community, LLC
Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226
Cell: (314) 750-8721



 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for
TSMscsi tape drivers
From: Len Boyle 
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 8:53 pm
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Did you upgrade the tape drivers?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
John D. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi
tape drivers

Greetings,
 I have a customer running TSM 6.1.3.3 under RedHat Linux 5.2. The
Library Master instance on this server has a HP ESL722 tape library with
LTO4 tape drives, and a HP VTL emulating a ESL tape library with LTO3
drives. They are running the TSMscsi drivers to talk to the drives,
version TIVsm-tsmscsi-6.1.3-1.x86_64. Any time they reboot the server,
they execute:

cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin
./autoconf -a

which loads the tsmscsi driver and configures the drives. This has been
working fine for months now. The output is:

**
* IBM TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER *
* Autoconf Utility Program for Linux *
**
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
 
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2009. All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.
 
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg35.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg36.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg37.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg38.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg39.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg40.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg41.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg42.
A

Re: RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi tape drivers

[Len Boyle]

Did you upgrade the tape drivers?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John 
D. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi tape 
drivers

Greetings,
I have a customer running TSM 6.1.3.3 under RedHat Linux 5.2.  The
Library Master instance on this server has a HP ESL722 tape library with
LTO4 tape drives, and a HP VTL emulating a ESL tape library with LTO3
drives.  They are running the TSMscsi drivers to talk to the drives,
version TIVsm-tsmscsi-6.1.3-1.x86_64.  Any time they reboot the server,
they execute:

cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin
./autoconf -a

which loads the tsmscsi driver and configures the drives.  This has been
working fine for months now.  The output is:

**
*   IBM TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER   *
*   Autoconf Utility Program for Linux   *
**
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
 
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2009. All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.
 
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg35.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg36.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg37.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg38.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg39.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg40.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg41.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg42.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg43.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg44.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg45.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg46.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg47.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg48.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg49.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg50.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg51.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg52.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg53.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg54.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg55.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg56.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg57.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg58.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg59.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg60.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg61.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg62.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg63.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg64.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg65.
Added the read and write permissions for all users to /dev/sg66.
 
Tivoli Tape Drives:
===
Index Minor Host CHN ID  LUN Type Vendor_ID Device_Serial_Number  
Product_ID   Rev.
000   035   001  000 000 000 001  HPMXP09210N5   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
001   036   001  000 001 000 001  HPHU18282JH5   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
002   037   001  000 002 000 001  HPHU17340A0J   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
003   038   001  000 003 000 001  HPMXP09210MC   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
004   040   003  000 001 000 001  HPHU18494CGF   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
005   041   003  000 002 000 001  HPMXP09190H5   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
006   042   003  000 003 000 001  HPHU19024M8Y   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
007   044   004  000 000 001 001  HP025qFkNO01   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
008   045   004  000 000 002 001  HP025qFkNO02   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
009   046   004  000 000 003 001  HP025qFkNO03   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
010   047   004  000 000 004 001  HP025qFkNO04   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
011   048   004  000 000 005 001  HP025qFkNO05   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
012   049   004  000 000 006 001  HP025qFkNO06   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
013   050   004  000 000 007 001  HP025qFkNO07   Ultrium
3-SCSI   R210
014   051   005  000 000 000 001  HPHU17430JKJ   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
015   052   005  000 001 000 001  HPMXP09190H4   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
016   053   005  000 002 000 001  HPHU18413JBJ   Ultrium
4-SCSI   H36W
017   054   005  000 003 000 001  HPMXP091

Re: Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

[Len Boyle]

I have not seen this error message before. 
I think that if you remove the following line from the opt file your errors 
will go away.

VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /

len

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of James 
Choate
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Linux Client failing with ANS1999E error

Has anyone seen this error?  I can't figure out whats going on and the messages 
guide isn't to helpful in resolving this error.   Below are the client OS, BA 
client version, Server version, dsm.sys from the client, error in the 
dsmsched.log, dsmerror.log and a snippet from the srvr actlog file.
Any help is appreciated.




I have a linux (Fedora 10) client running   Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 
2.0 

The client is new to this TSM server.  The TSM server Windows  2003 Enterprise 
R2
  Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 0.0

My dsm.sys file looks like:
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /
ERRORLOGRETENTION 7 D
SCHEDLOGRETENTION 7 D
MAXCMDRETRIES 4
QUERYSCHEDPERIOD 1
EXCLUDE "/.../*"
EXCLUDE.DIR "/tmp"
EXCLUDE.DIR "/var/log"
EXCLUDE.FILE "/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/*.log"
INCLUDE "/etc/*"
INCLUDE "/public/*"
INCLUDE "/pictometry/*"
INCLUDE "/opt/tivoli/tsm/*"
INCLUDE "/root/*"
PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
   COMMMethod TCPip
   TCPPort1500
   TCPServeraddress   MYTSMSRVR
   nodename   CLLINUX1


Running the backup.

#dsmc incr
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 2.0
  Client date/time: 04/16/2010 12:16:44
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Node Name: CLLINUX1
Session established with server MYTSMSRVR: Windows
  Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 0.0
  Server date/time: 04/16/2010 12:16:44  Last access: 04/16/2010 12:12:44
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
Incremental backup of volume '/'
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
Incremental backup of volume '/boot'
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
Incremental backup of volume '/public'
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
Incremental backup of volume '/pictometry'
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
Incremental backup of volume '/public/proval-old'
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1898I * Processed 9,500 files *
ANS1898I * Processed37,000 files *
ANS1898I * Processed74,500 files *
ANS1898I * Processed   108,500 files *
ANS1898I * Processed   124,500 files *
ANS1898I * Processed   165,500 files *
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will be backed up as a 
file system.
ANS1898I * Processed   167,500 files *
Successful incremental backup of '/public/proval-old'
ANS1999E Incremental processing of '/' stopped.

Total number of objects inspected:  167,621
Total number of objects backed up:0
Total number of objects updated:  0
Total number of objects rebound:  0
Total number of objects deleted:  0
Total number of objects expired:  0
Total number of objects failed:   0
Total number of bytes transferred:   0  B
Data transfer time:0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:0.00 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:  0.00 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:0%
Elapsed processing time:   00:00:11
ANS1028S An internal program error occurred.

dsmerror.log

04/16/2010 12:05:02 ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will 
be backed up as a file system.
04/16/2010 12:05:03 ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will 
be backed up as a file system.
04/16/2010 12:05:03 TransErrno: Unexpected error from GetFSInfo:stat, errno = 6
04/16/2010 12:05:03 TransErrno: Unexpected error from lstat, errno = 6
04/16/2010 12:05:03 ANS1278W Virtual mount point '/' is a file system. It will 
be backed up as a file system.
04/16/2010 12:05:03 TransErrno: Unexpected error from GetFSInfo:stat, errno = 6
04/16/2010 12:05:04 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '/public/proval-old' 
stopped.
04/1

Re: Open Solaris?

[Len Boyle]

You can think of open solaris relates to solaris as fedora is to red hat Linux. 
It is a test bed for the future releases of solaris. Open Solaris is both x86 
and sparc. 
Last year they were saying that most of a release of open solaris this year 
would become solaris 11. I am not sure if this roadmap will hold given the 
Oracle purchase of sun. 


See 

http://www.opensolaris.com/
and
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/

I was told that one could buy support from sun for a subset of the Open Solaris 
releases. 

len




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd 
Dieter
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Open Solaris?

I'm not a Solaris type, so I need to ask...is Open Solaris the same as Solaris 
x86?

Trying to find out if the Solaris x86 client will work on Open Solaris, or if 
is something different altogether.

Thanks,

-Lloyd

Re: TSM client checklist for backup.

[Len Boyle]

Are backupexec and tsm used for the same client at the same time. 
If so I believe that one problem, or at least is the reset of the archive bit 
by backupexec. I seem to remember that this would trigger a backup by tsm. 


In general I believe that tsm will backup a file if the file metadata/catalog 
data changes. I wonder if this is also the case with the use of the subfile 
feature. 

Please correct me if I am wrong this is old fuzzy memory as I have not check in 
the recent past. 



len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM client checklist for backup.

Is there a list of what the TSM client checks for on a file to determine if
the file needs to be backed up? I have a client that is running both
BackupExec and TSM on servers and he's telling me that TSM backs up way more
than backupExec and 'what the users have changes.' Using their words.

This customer also has TPC Data and is using the Files as Risk report to
estimate how much data needs to be backed up. But I think that just goes on
the archive bit and the last modification date/time of the files. Which is
only a fraction of what TSM uses to determine a file's eligibility for
backup.

TIA,
Bill Boyer

Re: Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584

[Len Boyle]

If the 3584 library is doing the cleanings, the backup software never sees the 
cleaning cart(s). 
But one might be able to do this an snmp get command.

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Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:45 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584

On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Clay Willoughby wrote:

> But there is a handy message displayed on the front console telling who ever 
> walks by to eject a used up cleaning tape,,, that's very handy

I don't have a SCSI library, but I should think it would be relatively easy to 
set up a simple monitor based upon dsmadmc -consolmode to watch for message 
ANR8915I, and over time to issue Query LIBVolumes Format=Detailed to look for 
"Cleanings Left" (or Select from LIBVOLUMES, to act on the CLEANINGS_LEFT 
field) to perform a Checkout when the time was right, accompanied by some 
message to the operator.

   Richard Sims

Re: Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584

[Len Boyle]

We have alms configured, so we let the library do the cleaning. 

If we have a semi-bad tape drive we can end up going thru a cleaning cart.
We have configured the ts3500 to send snmp traps to a server which handles the 
traps. 
One of them indicates that a cleaning cart has expired. The trap handler 
forwards this message to the operations folks who replace the cart. 

In you cannot set up the trap handler there is a work around.  if you have 
someone moving tapes in and out of your library, the library posts a message on 
the front panel that a cleaning tape has expired and needs replacing. It spells 
out which cleaning tape. 

len

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Post
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584

On 17 mrt 2010, at 19:45, Richard Sims wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Clay Willoughby wrote:
> 
>> But there is a handy message displayed on the front console telling who ever 
>> walks by to eject a used up cleaning tape,,, that's very handy
> 
> I don't have a SCSI library, but I should think it would be relatively easy 
> to set up a simple monitor based upon dsmadmc -consolmode to watch for 
> message ANR8915I, and over time to issue Query LIBVolumes Format=Detailed to 
> look for "Cleanings Left" (or Select from LIBVOLUMES, to act on the 
> CLEANINGS_LEFT field) to perform a Checkout when the time was right, 
> accompanied by some message to the operator.
> 

Richard,

unfortunately, in most cases the TS3500 will manage the cleaning, and the 
cleaners will not be visible to TSM. With ALMS, this is basically the only 
viable option. The only way to find out about worn out cleaners is via either 
the web interface or the operator panel on the lib itself. The most viable 
solution is to just put 10 or more in the lib, and check one every three months 
for any that need replacing, manually

>   Richard Sims

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
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+31 6 248 21 622

Re: ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for REMOVABLEFILE volume

[Len Boyle]

Steven, 

What is the filesystem type for the usb drive?

Do you have any messages in the  os logs?

Could the filesystem be running out of inodes?

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven 
Haigh
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for REMOVABLEFILE volume

On 07/02/2010, at 12:45 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:25:01 +1100, Steven Haigh  wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:33:57 -0500, Richard Sims  wrote:
>>> (file system), and that your Unix resource limit "filesize" is not
>>> restricting the size.  Also beware file size limits for a chosen file
>>> system type, which can be influenced by the block size chosen when the
>>> file system was initialized.
> 
> I should also mention that the following is set for ulimit:
> 
> # ulimit -a
> core file size  (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size   (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> scheduling priority (-e) 0
> file size   (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals (-i) 24575
> max locked memory   (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files  (-n) 1024
> pipe size(512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority  (-r) 0
> stack size  (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time   (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes  (-u) unlimited
> virtual memory  (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks  (-x) unlimited
> 
> These are all defaults. As such I didn't think about checking them before
> until I re-read your message.


Ok. I've got a bit of time at the moment so I thought I'd revisit this.

I'm in the middle of shifting data back from the USB drives to the main storage 
array and making that much bigger to accommodate the data. This test system 
only used a 40Gb pool on the main raid array - everything else gets shipped out 
to the USB drives via a migration.

To recap the issue, I've noticed is that when a drive is around 50-60% full I 
get an ANR8341I End-of-volume event in the logs and a new volume is asked for. 
While I would expect this for a full volume, I wouldn't expect it with a half 
full volume.

I have copied the most relevant information
below:

tsm: SERVER1>q devclass usbdrive f=d

Device Class Name: USBDRIVE
   Device Access Strategy: Sequential
   Storage Pool Count: 1
  Device Type: REMOVABLEFILE
   Format: DRIVE
Est/Max Capacity (MB): 100,000.0
  Mount Limit: DRIVES
 Mount Wait (min): 5,760
Mount Retention (min): 0
 Label Prefix:
  Library: USBDRIVES
Directory:
  Server Name:
 Retry Period:
   Retry Interval:
   Shared:
   High-level Address:
 Minimum Capacity:
 WORM: No
 Drive Encryption:
  Scaled Capacity:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
Last Update Date/Time: 01/21/2010 15:57:58

When the volume gets full, I get the following:
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8335I 003: Verifying label of REMOVABLEFILE
volume 5QD7CKPM in drive USBDRIVE (/mnt/usb). (PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8328I 003: REMOVABLEFILE volume 5QD7CKPM
mounted in drive USBDRIVE (/mnt/usb). (PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8340I REMOVABLEFILE volume 5QD7CKPM mounted.
(PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR0513I Process 5 opened output volume 5QD7CKPM.
(PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for REMOVABLEFILE
volume 5QD7CKPM. (PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR0515I Process 5 closed volume 5QD7CKPM.
(PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8468I REMOVABLEFILE volume 5QD7CKPM dismounted
from drive USBDRIVE (/mnt/usb) in library USBDRIVES. (PROCESS: 5)
01/24/2010 14:46:49  ANR8326I 004: Mount REMOVABLEFILE volume SCRTCH
R/W in drive USBDRIVE (/mnt/usb) of library USBDRIVES within 5760 minutes.
(PROCESS: 5)

When looking at the filesystem, I see:
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdk1 294G  180G   99G  65% /mnt/usb

# ls -l
total 188260336
-rw--- 1 root root 192590295715 Jan 21 18:26 5QD7CKPM
drwx-- 2 root root16384 Jan  7 12:54 lost+found

-- 
Steven Haigh

Email: net...@crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: why would volumes be unavailble?

[Len Boyle]

Tapes used to be made unavailable if you had a mount in process and the tsm 
proc that requested the tape was cancelled.
len

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Huebschman, George J.
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why would volumes be unavailble?

Unavailable tapes of any count would be distressing to me.  That is data
that can not be read.  If they are unavailble due to drives needing
cleaning, they are normally recoverable just by update vol access=reado
(or access=readw).  I used to have to do that...a lot.

If the tape drive can not read the internal label, read the data, or
write to the tape it can be marked unavailable.  That could be a drive
problem (dirty, broken, wearing out) or a media problem.  Check your
actlog for errors related to that tape, or other errors on the same
drive.

select cast(sta.server_name as char(10)) as TSM_SERVER,
date(act.date_time) AS DATE, TIME(ACT.DATE_TIME) AS TIME, message as
"MESSAGE  "
from actlog act, status sta where msgno in
(1163,1401,8300,8311,8359,8381,8778,8779,8792,8873,8943,8944,8963) and
date_time>current_timestamp -1 days

If you have volumes that are marked UNAVAILABLE you might also want to
check for "Volumes Made Private" to prevent reuse.

Courtesy of W:
select volume_name , status from libvolumes where status='Private' and
volume_name not in (select volume_name from volumes)  and volume_name
not in (select volume_name from volhistory where type not
in('STGNEW','STGREUSE','STGDELETE')  )

George Huebschman
Storage Support Team, Media Librarian
Legg Mason, LMTS
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Re: RMAN error allocating TDP channel....

[Len Boyle]

Good Day Mario, 

After the link was created did you bounce the oracle data base. I am not sure 
if it has changed, or different with the latest TSM client. But I was told that 
the Oracle data base loads the libobk.so when it starts up and unless you 
bounce Oracle it will not reload the file to pick up the tsm supplied copy. 
Also is this a 32bit or 64bit instance of the Oracle data base. 

A look on google seems to indicate that the problem may be a permissions 
problem with the tsm log files. 
One of the urls to look at is 
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2007/11/tsm-backups-most-misleading-error.html

Also look at 
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/ibm-tsm-13/tdpo-rman-problems-96107/

len

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario 
Behring
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RMAN error allocating TDP channel

Hi list,

Server is Solaris SunOS 5.8
TDP for Oracle is 5.2.2.0
TSM Server is 5.5.0.0
TSM BA Client is 5.5.2.0

The link was created using the root user


oraserver [root] /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7.3/lib> ls -la libobk.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root other 18 Jan 23 12:11 libobk.so -> 
/usr/lib/libobk.so

The password was set using tdpoconf and the showenv option runs normally:


IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases:
Data Protection for Oracle
Version 5, Release 2, Level 0.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1997, 2003. All rights reserved.


DATA PROTECTION FOR ORACLE INFORMATION
 Version:  5
 Release:  2
 Level:0
 Sublevel: 0
 Platform: 32bit TDP Oracle SUN

TSM SERVER INFORMATION
 Server Name:  TSMSERVER
 Server Address:   10.1.0.2
 Server Type:  Windows
 Server Port:  1500
 Communication Method: TCP/IP

SESSION INFORMATION
 Owner Name:   root
 Node Name:ORACLE
 Node Type:TDP Oracle SUN
 DSMI_DIR: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin
 DSMI_ORC_CONFIG:  /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/dsm.opt
 TDPO_OPTFILE: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt
 Password Directory:   /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin
 Compression:  FALSE


I have the error below when executing a RMAN script. What could be wrong?

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-00569: === ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===
RMAN-00571: ===
RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocate
RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel t1
RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19554: error allocating device, device 
type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-19557: device error, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27000: skgfqsbi: failed to initialize storage subsystem (SBT) layer
SVR4 Error: 106: Error 106
Additional information: 7011
ORA-19511: SBT error = 7011, er...


 
Any help is appreciated.


Mario





From: Wellington KMK 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Mon, January 18, 2010 3:22:20 AM
Subject: Re: RMAN error allocating TDP channel

After Creating the symbolic link... Please check the oracle user having read & 
write access on below files...

1) dsmerror.log
2) tdpoerror.log
3) TSM.PWD(tsm password file)

Test the connectivity from oracle user by issuing the below cmd...
Tdpoconf showenv -tdpo_optfile=

Regards,
Wellington

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Grigori Solonovitch
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:27 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RMAN error allocating TDP channel

I have no experience with Solaris, but in AIX after installing TDP (I hope you 
have installed 5.5.2 not 5.2.0) you need to link TDP library in 
$ORACLE_HOME/lib to TDP directory:



[LPAR05]>ls -ltr $ORACLE_HOME/lib/*obk*

lrwxrwxrwx1 oracle   dba  19 Jun 24 2007  
/home/oracle/product/10g/lib/libobk.a -> /usr/lib/libobk64.a

[LPAR05]>



Maybe you need to do the same.



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario 
Behring
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RMAN error allocating TDP channel



Hi list,



I´ve installed TDP for Oracle  5.2.0.0 on a Solaris 8 machine. The BA Client is 
5.5.2.0 and works fine.



I am getting an RMAN error when trying to execute a 

Re: Encryption

[Len Boyle]

We are working on setting up encryption with LTO4's and we are using multiple 
backup products so there are several different methods to control encryption. 

Several emails in the recent past talk about how to encrypt or not using the 
tools within TSM. 
If you are not using tsm's application encryption support you can control 
encryption with bar code rules if using a 3584 tape library. 
If you are using netbackup or networker you can use the volume pool id data 
written in the tape label for this control. 

For TS3310 tape libraries there is no bar code support that I have found. 

Len

PS The last time I checked hardware encryption in lto4's is at no extra cost. 
If going by the rule of a new lto tape drive every two years the lto5 tape 
drive should have been release in 2009. Rumor has it that they should be 
released in 2010. 

See the url www.lto.org for a little bit more info.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard 
Coles
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:59 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Encryption

Good question, I was about to ask that same thing.  

We're about to put in LTO4's at our main DC (wanted to go VTL or Disk,
but . . . ).  My boss has already spec'd and priced out getting the
Hardware encryption, but I'd like to know if that's the best route.  The
question is if we did that how would we create an unencrypted backupset
(for example if it had to be produced for a legal proceeding)?  I'm
thinking the encryption options would depend on TSM application
encryption, or did I miss some of that previous thread?

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!


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Scott Bellew
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Encryption

Hi Joni,
We use Application Managed Encryption, with IBM 3584 library and LTO4
drives. This only works for a storage pool with DRIVEENCRYPTION=ON. It
does not encrypt the db backup tape. TSM handles the keys. We use this
for off-site archive tapes.  Currently in the process of recalling all
LTO2 archive tapes and moving them to LTO4 tapes in this Encrypted
storage pool.
Not hard to set up.  Checkout this link:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&uid=swg27009625

---
Scott Bellew
Systems Programmer
Informatin Systems
Regional Health



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Moyer, Joni M
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Encryption

Hello everyone,

I am beginning the process of deciding upon a method of encryption.  I
was just wondering if anyone utilizes TSM to encrypt data?  It seems to
be quite a cumbersome method of encryption...

I was also wondering if anyone was using hardware encryption in their
environments?  And what type of set up do you have?

Thanks in advance

Joni Moyer
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Re: Checking my understanding on client option sets

[Len Boyle]

Hello Gary, 

I believe that you are correct in that TSM does not support more than one 
option set per client.

But you might be able to do what you want at the source level. 

You might have a file named general.options
And a file namedwebsrv.options.
Then at the os level you could create a new file with the merged contents of 
the above two files and use that file as the source for your option set.

len

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Gary D.
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Checking my understanding on client option sets

Tsm server v5.4.4 on Zlinux suse sles9; clients range from 5.1 throu 6.1.3.

If I have this correct, there is no way to stack option sets.
The idea is for a very general one, then a few more specific sets to cope with 
more special situations.

i.e.  Our general server set, then another set for web servers.which contains 
additional exclusions.

I hope I've made myself clear.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

Re: 3584 date off by 6 years

[Len Boyle]

Keith, 

I do not remember seeing differences between the Library Error Logs and the Web 
Specialist interface. But I have found that the time shown in the Web 
Specialist is not always correct. You can change the time in Library-->Date and 
Time 
Panel.

len

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Arbogast
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 7:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3584 date off by 6 years

Len:
I saw into the future using the Web Specialist interface, rather than
the Operator Panel. I would be interested to know if you have seen
differences between Library Error logs displayed by the two.

Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University

Re: 3584 date off by 6 years

[Len Boyle]

Keith did you check the date and time from the front panel or via the web 
interface?
Also the time zone setting?

len

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Arbogast
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 4:57 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 date off by 6 years

The first Call Home of the new year for our 3584 had a 2016/01/01
date stamp on it. It is on firmware level 9590. I don't know the
resolution for this yet. When I do I'll post again.

Keith Arbogast
Indiana University

Re: Alternative to TSM

[Len Boyle]

Hello Bob, 

A different look at your comment about channel attached tape support for Linux. 
I have not worked with Linux on Z, but I assume from you comment that Linux on 
Z supports fibre tape drives. 
If so then the fix to sharing tape drives between z/os and Linux on z should be 
doable with a small change. 
It turns out that the channel attached tapes drives are really open system 
fibre tape drives attached to an AIX box which translates the channel data 
stream to a scsi data stream. 
The solution to the sharing is to allow the aix box to share the tape drives 
with other open systems. 

The hard part would be to convince IBM that they should do it and that it 
should be a simple elegant (not fool proof) solution that does not cost two 
arms and a leg to purchase. 
I say this as I think at one time IBM offered a pc to set the time on the 
mainframe from a external reference source that was on the order of $25,000, 
when any *nix or pc system could just use the network. 


If you count IBM VM as a z system then there was a worm in the 80's. There was 
the xmas worm. It was passed in email which when the recipient ran the code put 
up a Christmas tree with blinking lights on the 3270 screen. It also sent a 
copy of itself to all the entries in the recipient's names file

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molerio
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:59 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Alternative to TSM

If you already have a mainframe in house I'd look into FDR.
It integrates easliy with DFSMS.The combination of FDR/Upstream and FDR on z/OS 
are a pretty tough combination to beat if you have z/OS FDR investment. You 
need both to get file-level dumps.I just find it idiotic that TSM doesn’t have 
any channel attached tape support on Linux — I mean, look at what’s already 
paid for in that environment. Buying new tape infrastructure that z/OS can’t 
even SEE, let alone use.


Thank you,     Bob Molerio
IBM System z™ - Used by 90% of Fortune 1000 Companies / Handling 70% of the 
World’s Corporate Data
 99.999% Availability / No Virus in 42 Years / Application Compatibility from 
1964 to Today

   

Re: alternatives to TSM due to license costs

[Len Boyle]

Hello Bryan, 

This is an interesting topic. Here are several thoughts and questions. 

Licensing for NetBackup is also based on the class of the server and the class 
of the clients. 
The pricing keeps changing as some things that used to have a separate optional 
cost are merged into the base cost. 
As Both IBM and Symantec like to use 3rd party sellers it might also be 
interesting to find the best price. 

EMC's Avamar and Symantec's Pure disk are a little bit more like TSM in that 
they only do incremental backups. They take this a bit further alone then TSM 
in that they do block or segment incremental backups. They are a little 
different in that the block/segment is single instance across all backup 
clients covered by a backup server.  I wonder if IBM is going to add this 
feature. Note this is not media or storage pool dedupe which Avamar, Pure disk 
and TSM support. 
They are also like TSM in that they require a data base to hold the meta-data. 
But different in that they hold the data blocks/segments also. This makes 
things interesting in that as far as I can tell a full backup of the backup 
server is not possible other than by replication. This make things interesting 
if one worries about backup server database corruption due to a software bug. 
I believe that comm vault also supports this backup model. But they are a 
little bit different in that they will move the data from the backup server to 
tape in the dedupe format, where the others reconstitute the deduped data 
before writing the data to tape. 

I am not sure if Syncsort and FDR also play in this game. 

In the Microsoft only world, Microsoft now sells a vss based product that works 
on windows and windows data base products including Exchange and Sharepoint. 
The last I heard they do not support other products such as Oracle DB and IBM 
DB/2. 

One could also look at hardware solutions from vendors such as data domain and 
netapp for many of one's backup needs. 

Not as full featured as the above products, has anyone been looking at the open 
sourced products?

len



 


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Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:11 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] alternatives to TSM due to license costs

Hello all,

I have been tasked with looking at alternatives to TSM due to recent Audit from 
IBM and the amount of money we just shelled out for the TSM License.  I am sure 
most of you have pertaken to this wonderful experience.  I don't really want to 
move away from TSM, but have to provide alternatives to management.  Could 
anyone direct me to where I can begin my search?  I have only used TSM my 
entire time here.  What is the industry leader?  Any info or documents or links 
doing a comparison would be helpful.  Also, is the license structure the same 
for other environments as well or is IBM way out of line?  I am going to start 
with EMC's Avamar/Networker.

Thanks much,
Bryan

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Re: ANR844E: UPDATE PATH: Library MSL5060 is currently unavailable

[Len Boyle]

We have seen this problem when the tape drive is powered off then back on. It 
appears that the tape driver is messed up after this power cycle.
It does not happen that often, so the fixing procedure has not been totally 
worked out. This is with the ibm tape drivers on windows. 
If in the changer does not seem to show up in the Device Manager app within the 
Computer Management app. Then reinstall the windows driver. The changer is 
defined, but as an unknown device. 
That does not always seem to fix TSM (in our case TSM is an old version). If 
tsm will not bring the path online, I have fixed that by deleting the path and 
defining it again. 

Len

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Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:07 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR844E: UPDATE PATH: Library MSL5060 is currently unavailab

All of a sudden our drives cannot get online. we have 3 drives where two of 
them say Path Online=No

Tried to update Online=yes without luck - getting the error in subject.

Any ideas what to do to get the drives back online?

tsm: SRV-BCK-HK1_SERVER1>q library f=d
Session established with server SRV-BCK-HK1_SERVER1: Windows
  Server Version 5, Release 4, Level 1.2
  Server date/time: 12/22/2009 17:05:10  Last access: 12/22/2009 16:07:22


  Library Name: MSL5060
  Library Type: SCSI
ACS Id:
  Private Category:
  Scratch Category:
 WORM Scratch Category:
  External Manager:
RSM Media Type:
Shared: No
   LanFree:
ObeyMountRetention:
   Primary Library Manager:
   WWN: 00900D2633661DA5
 Serial Number: 3G2CLBD99AVE
 AutoLabel: No
  Reset Drives: No
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 01/02/2008 14:17:02


tsm: SRV-BCK-HK1_SERVER1>q drive f=d

Library Name: MSL5060
  Drive Name: LTO2_1
 Device Type: LTO
 On-Line: Yes
Read Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
   Write Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
 Element: 480
 Drive State: UNKNOWN
 Volume Name:
Allocated to:
 WWN: 50060BC14E0C
   Serial Number: HUP6G016WN
  Last Update by (administrator): B4ADMIN
   Last Update Date/Time: 10/13/2009 16:52:05
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): ASNEEDED

Library Name: MSL5060
  Drive Name: LTO2_2
 Device Type: LTO
 On-Line: Yes
Read Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
   Write Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
 Element: 481
 Drive State: UNKNOWN
 Volume Name:
Allocated to:
 WWN: 50060B33C63D
   Serial Number: HUL5J02644
  Last Update by (administrator): B4ADMIN
   Last Update Date/Time: 10/13/2009 16:52:09
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): ASNEEDED

Library Name: MSL5060
  Drive Name: LTO2_3
 Device Type: LTO
 On-Line: Yes
Read Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
   Write Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTR-
   IUM
 Element: 482
 Drive State: UNKNOWN
 Volume Name:
Allocated to:
 WWN: 50060B5AFA45
   Serial Number: HUL5M02225
  Last Update by (administrator): B4ADMIN
   Last Update Date/Time: 12/10/2009 21:19:21
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): ASNEEDED

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Re: TSM 6.1 De-dupe + NDMP

[Len Boyle]

I am not sure how tsm does it. But if one is using another backup product to do 
the NDMP backups on a netapp filer, you have to reference a snapshot that 
already exists (ex hourly.0) or the backup product and ask for a snapshot to be 
created for the backup. We started using this other product long before the tsm 
folks started to support ndmp. 

But a snapshot should not stop a dedupe as the dedupe depending on design 
should be working at the block or segment level. 

If the data is encrypted that would hurt a dedupe. 

Of course you might not find much dedupe with the incremental backups are they 
are only the changes.
Depending on the data, I would suspect that you would not get much dedupe 
unless you are storing multiple full backups on the dedupe device. Unless you 
have duplicated data located across the backed up filesystems/directories. 



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P. Boyd
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 De-dupe + NDMP

I'm not completely sure if the Celerra compresses the data, but I know
that to play nicely with TSM I had to set up a
server_param server_2 -facility NDMP -modify snapsure -value 1  on the
Celerra's control station.

Which effectively told the Celerra to do a snapshot before sending the
data to TSM.

Now if that is the case, and it truly is a snapshot based off of
changed delta's but not the whole fileset, I could see that each
snapshot that is backed up is not able to deduplicate...

I don't have much experience with the way NetApp's do their backups
with NDMP but I'm wondering if it is the same way, and of course how
others are doing theirs and if it is indeed de-duplicating or not.

Thanks,
Brian

On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Kelly Lipp wrote:

> If it's true that the Celera compresses then it probably won't look
> like the previous version of the file so it won't deduplicate.  Then
> the question becomes: maybe don't compress but rather send all the
> bits and let it get deduplicated - will this result in better
> storage utilization?
>
> 
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
> Wanda Prather [wanda.prat...@jasi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:00 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 De-dupe + NDMP
>
> Is the NDMP backup going via TCP/IP and into the same storage pool
> as your
> other backup data?
> How can you tell it is not getting deduped?
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian P. Boyd 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Currently we are using TSM 6.1 to do NDMP backups of our EMC Celerra.
>> We are getting no de-duplication results from these backups.  I'm
>> wondering if it is because the celerra is already sending a
>> compressed
>> image snapshot file to TSM and TSM just doesn't de-dupe a file like
>> that.  We're thinking about going to a more traditional backup method
>> for NDMP backups (going with weekly incrementally, and monthly
>> fulls...etc) however it would be good to understand why this is
>> happening.  I find it a bit strange because we still do file-level
>> restores just fine...
>>
>> If someone could educate me a bit more that would be great for piece
>> of mind!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brian P. Boyd
>> Sr. SAN Admin
>> DUKE - OIT
>> boydbria (at) duke (dot) edu
>>

Re: mainframe backup in open TSM server

[Len Boyle]

Greetings Mehdi

The missing part is a client that understands the z/os file systems and also 
understands the TSM api. 
There is a client for the OEMVS filesystems that will work with an open TSM 
server, but not the other z/os file systems.

Regards len boyle

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Salehi
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] mainframe backup in open TSM server

Hi,
What is the technological limitation that prevents backing up z/OS data
(including DB2) into an open TSM server like AIX. The issue is not advanced
cases like LAN-free or any other scenario that requires awareness of Ficon
protocol or the layout of mainframe data sets by AIX. At least we have
TCP/IP in common between the two worlds, why not sending backup over TCP/IP?

Regards,
Mehdi Salehi

Re: JR- dsmc multilpe filesystem restore on 1 line

[Len Boyle]

JR 

Are you using any options or features of the dsmc command  that are not 
available with the dsm gui command. 

If I remember correctly the gui will allow multiple file systems to be selected 
and will optimize the tape mounts.

I wonder if one starts multiple dsmc restores at the same time will the system 
optimize the tape mounts?

len

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Trimark
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] JR- dsmc multilpe filesystem restore on 1 line

Jim,

The problem I am running into is that by using multiple dsmc commands, I
have to load/reload tapes for every file system I am restoring since I
only have a single tape drive and my data is on 2 tapes.

Any ideas?

Thanks
JR



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JR,

I can't.  The second file system name is the location to which the first
file system is restored.  I create a script with multiple dsmc commands,
each one restoring one file system.  Assuming your data is on separate
tapes or on disk, you have to run multiple commands to restore more than
one file system at a time.

Jim Schneider

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JR Trimark
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] JR- dsmc multilpe filesystem restore on 1 line

Can you restore mulitple file systems using the command line interface?

ex.

dsmc> restore -subdir=yes "/home/s05jtri/trg/*" "/home/s05jtri/trg1/*"


I am getting an error that the destination directory is wrong.

Thanks

Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning

[Len Boyle]

Gill, 

I suspect that the ce had the drive in service mode, either to swap the drive 
for another one, or to run diag tests. The ce would have to take it out of 
service mode. This can be done from the front panel of the library. 

Or some cable is not plugged into the drive unit. Of course I would assume if 
this is the case, there are library errors generated for this.

len

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Geoffrey L.
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning

I've looking at the TS3500 Tape Library web console and for some reason
that drive says it is offline. I recycled the drive from there but that
hasn't changed anything.

I don't see a selection to put this online through the TS3500 library
manager or from the front panel. Is this something that is supposed to
happen automatically when the drive is powered up or through some other
process? I don't see how there is some function from an AIX standpoint
that needs to be done but, again, having never seen this either not
sure.



Geoff Gill 
TSM Administrator 
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator 
SAIC M/S-B1P 
(858)826-4062 (office)
(858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com 

> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
Of
> Len Boyle
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:08 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning
> 
> If one is using the ibm 3584(aka TS3500) then the wwn does not changes
on
> a straight up swap-out. The wwn goes with the slot in the library used
to
> hold the tape drive and not the tape drive itself. And with lto-3 tape
> drives and better, Our IBM ce's have to update the new tape drive with
the
> old tape drive's serial number as the maint contract tracks
enablement by
> the original serial number. So neither the wwn or serial numbers
change.
> 
> len
> 
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> Richard Rhodes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:42 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning
> 
> If "replacing" the drive is truly a straight up swap-out, the the new
> drive
> will have a new wwn that will need to be zoned in the san switch.
Then in
> AIX it will show up as a new rmt device.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  "Gill, Geoffrey
>  L."
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
>  Please respond to
>  "ADSM: Dist Stor
>  Manager"
>  .EDU>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> This situation has never happened to me before so I'm a little unsure
of
> the steps and order to fix it. Running AIX 5.3 with a TSM instance at
> 5.5.1. LTO drives are zoned in through a switch to the TSM server, 2
> drives to each fibre card. Support for the IBM drives was not renewed
> with IBM so it looks like this new group has no idea how to 'fix'
drives
> and would rather replace them, something that 'never' happened with
IBM
> so I'm not quite sure exactly what needs to be done to get this drive
> back online.
> 
> 
> 
> I know the references in TSM need to be updated so I have removed the
> path and drive. When adding them back the path failed so it seems like
I
> need to get AIX to see the new drive and not sure if I also need to do
> anything on the switch. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I
typically
> have no issues so it's hard to gain and keep knowledge when 98% of the
> time I'm "watching" the system instead of "doing something" with it.
> Since I don't have a test system built similarly I can't play around
and
> create documents to refer to when the 'what did I do when that
happened'
> scenario comes up.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any advice you can provide.
> 
> 
> 
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
> SAIC M/S-B1P
> (858)826-4062 (office)
> 
> (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
> Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -
> The information contained in this m

Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning

[Len Boyle]

If one is using the ibm 3584(aka TS3500) then the wwn does not changes on a 
straight up swap-out. The wwn goes with the slot in the library used to hold 
the tape drive and not the tape drive itself. And with lto-3 tape drives and 
better, Our IBM ce's have to update the new tape drive with the old tape 
drive's serial number as the maint contract tracks  enablement by the original 
serial number. So neither the wwn or serial numbers change.

len

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Richard Rhodes
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:42 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning

If "replacing" the drive is truly a straight up swap-out, the the new drive
will have a new wwn that will need to be zoned in the san switch.  Then in
AIX it will show up as a new rmt device.






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Hi all,



This situation has never happened to me before so I'm a little unsure of
the steps and order to fix it. Running AIX 5.3 with a TSM instance at
5.5.1. LTO drives are zoned in through a switch to the TSM server, 2
drives to each fibre card. Support for the IBM drives was not renewed
with IBM so it looks like this new group has no idea how to 'fix' drives
and would rather replace them, something that 'never' happened with IBM
so I'm not quite sure exactly what needs to be done to get this drive
back online.



I know the references in TSM need to be updated so I have removed the
path and drive. When adding them back the path failed so it seems like I
need to get AIX to see the new drive and not sure if I also need to do
anything on the switch. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I typically
have no issues so it's hard to gain and keep knowledge when 98% of the
time I'm "watching" the system instead of "doing something" with it.
Since I don't have a test system built similarly I can't play around and
create documents to refer to when the 'what did I do when that happened'
scenario comes up.



Thanks for any advice you can provide.



Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
SAIC M/S-B1P
(858)826-4062 (office)

(858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com





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Re: ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

[Len Boyle]

Bill 

Can you tell us more about the CIMOM agent. 

Thanks len

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Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

Or use the latest firmware for the TS3500. If you want/need to go to a
version 8.x firmware you have to have ALMS. Version 7.x is the latest for
without ALSM. With the Version 8.x you get the builtin CIMOM agent if you
want to use the TPC to monitor/report on your TS3500(s).



Bill Boyer
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sun." -Unknown-



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Paul Zarnowski
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:14 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?

ALMS is required if you use the new high density frames.  These can provide
three times the tape density as the normal frames.  ALMS is needed to
automatically manage which tapes are located in which slots, keeping the
most frequently used tapes in the most readily accessible physical
slots.  Another advantage of the virtualization that ALMS provides.

..Paul

At 08:50 PM 8/17/2009, Alex Paschal wrote:
>Hi, David.
>
>TS3500 libraries do not require ALMS for LTO encryption as long as there
>are no non-encryption-capable LTO drives mixed in.

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>David Longo
>Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:58 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ALMS benefit to shared-library management ?
>
>As I understand it, ALMS IS required if you implement Encryption
>for LTO4 tapes/drives on a 3584 library, is that true?
>David Longo


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Re: Errno = 23, 1167 and stuck tapes

[Len Boyle]

Henrik, when we first installed lto-4 tape drives, we had a few problems with 
them. The IBM ce downloaded a dump of data from the tape drive and send that on 
to the higher level support folks. They asked to update the firmware, which was 
just release. This help us greatly. 

Our tape drives are installed in an IBM  3584 (aka TS3500) so the tape drive 
dump can be gathered either via the CE's laptop tools or via the IBM library 
web interface. 

If you are using IBM's drivers, you should be able to download the drive dump 
via a utility supplied with the driver code. In our case this was not an option 
as the tape drives were attached to an netapp box.

len

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Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Errno = 23, 1167 and stuck tapes

Henrik -

I don't have a direct answer for you; but my suspicion is that drive
microcode is involved, perhaps in conjunction with cartridge vs. drive
characteristics.  The IBM readme document S1003097 for LTO4 shows a
very large number of problems that have had to be corrected,
suggestive of more, ongoing.  The stuck tape situation may suggest a
problem managing the mechanics and/or timing of drive operations.
Given the mechanical malfunction which results, I'd have your CE
attend to the next event, to examine the conditions logged in the
drive's memory, to try to uncover the cause.  The inability of an OS
command to effect tape dismount indicates a serious problem.  If the
CE can't be gotten in time during the next event, see if you can have
the operator get at the drive to record any error codes on its panel.
Make sure the CE pores over the sense bytes you're getting from the
drive.

Richard Sims

Re: Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way")

[Len Boyle]

 You are correct in that the TS3500 (3584)'s drive WWN are tied to the Drive 
Cage. But the serial number goes with the drive. But the FE are supposed to 
move the old drive's serial number into the replacement drives for LT03 and 
higher.



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Charles A
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:14 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way")

Dumb ? - But I was under the impression that the TS3500 (3584)'s drive
Serial Numbers were tied to the Drive Cage (rail) so the SN and WWN were
static... Maybe I'm thinking 3494 w/ 3592 Drives.

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Baker, Jane
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:52 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a
better way")

 

We use LTO2 & LTO3 in a 3584 and the CE always sets the serial number to
match the old one so that we don't have this problem, same as Sean.

Regards,
Jane.



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Len Boyle
Sent: 08 July 2009 18:30
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a
better way")

In fact we found out that for lto-3 and lto-4 tape drives in an IBM 3584
library,  it is required that they change the serial number to match the
old tape drive. Because IBM tracks the drives by serial number for maint
contracts. This we found when the serial numbers that we send in for a
maint contract renewal were kicked out as field engineering  had not
been updating the serial numbers. But not for lto-2 tape drives.

len

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Sean English
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:47 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a
better way")

Zoltan,

The majority of our TSM servers are AIX and we do have a setup where we
share multiple library clients with one library.  When we have IBM CEs
come out and replace drives, they just change the serial number on the
new drive to match the old drive they are replacing.  Apparently there
is a way to do that on the drive itself.

Thanks,
Sean






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I need thoughts/suggestions/help on how to deal with SAN attached tape
drive replacements when a library is shared amongst 5-servers.

We just has a drive replaced, therefore giving us a new serial number
(3494ATL - TS1130).  All servers that use these drives/libraries are
RedHat Linux and use very current lin_tape drivers.

Currently, the method we use is to bounce each server so the system
rescans the SAN and gets the new serial number.

In the past, just stopping the TSM server and then restarting the
lin_tape driver would often be enough. Now with the latest lin_tape
drivers, I don't see the lin_taped daemon running any more.

Yes, I have tried updating the paths on the library manager server and
telling it to autodetect but that didn't help.

There has to be a better way!  If you have a similar configuration, how
do you handle this scenario?


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Re: Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way")

[Len Boyle]

In fact we found out that for lto-3 and lto-4 tape drives in an IBM 3584 
library,  it is required that they change the serial number to match the old 
tape drive. Because IBM tracks the drives by serial number for maint contracts. 
This we found when the serial numbers that we send in for a maint contract 
renewal were kicked out as field engineering  had not been updating the serial 
numbers. But not for lto-2 tape drives.

len

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English
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:47 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way")

Zoltan,

The majority of our TSM servers are AIX and we do have a setup where we
share multiple library clients with one library.  When we have IBM CEs
come out and replace drives, they just change the serial number on the new
drive to match the old drive they are replacing.  Apparently there is a
way to do that on the drive itself.

Thanks,
Sean






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I need thoughts/suggestions/help on how to deal with SAN attached tape
drive replacements when a library is shared amongst 5-servers.

We just has a drive replaced, therefore giving us a new serial number
(3494ATL - TS1130).  All servers that use these drives/libraries are
RedHat Linux and use very current lin_tape drivers.

Currently, the method we use is to bounce each server so the system
rescans the SAN and gets the new serial number.

In the past, just stopping the TSM server and then restarting the lin_tape
driver would often be enough. Now with the latest lin_tape drivers, I
don't see the lin_taped daemon running any more.

Yes, I have tried updating the paths on the library manager server and
telling it to autodetect but that didn't help.

There has to be a better way!  If you have a similar configuration, how do
you handle this scenario?

Re: Backing up nodes in a different Network Domain

[Len Boyle]

Hello Bill, 

As other have posted, TSM should handle the backups without problems related to 
the use of different network domains. 

But. You might want to look at why there are different domains. Might you 
expect that in the future that one or more of the 3 sister companies might be 
sold or split off totally. 
If so you might want to set up your tsm domains, storage pools etc, so that the 
sister companies do not share resources such as tapes. 

len

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william dourado
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:19 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up nodes in a different Network Domain

 


Hi all,
 
It's a possibility that our 3 sister companies on the same site currently 
sharing
the same LAN maybe split into 3 network domains using Vlans and firewalls.
 
 All 3 Domains will somehow, have access to central services like internet, 
accounting applications, etc.
 
We intend to retain the one TSM Server that we have. 
 
If the TSM Server is say in Domain A, is it possible to backup clients in 
domains B and C ?
 
Are there any drawbacks ?
 
TSM Server Windows V5.4.2.0
 
Many Thanks
 
Bill
 
 



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Re: Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

[Len Boyle]

Jim 

Which software are you using to print your tape labels?

len

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Zajkowski
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:24 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

All of my cleaning tapes are "CU" not "L1" (CLNU55CU).  I didn't realize
there was a specific cleaning tape per LTO generation.

We print our own labels and found that Xerox Phaser (thermal wax) output was
too shiny; the 3584 tolerates labels from our HP though.

--Jim


On 6/30/09 10:09 AM, "Bill Boyer"  wrote:

> Had that problem once with a 3583 library. The CE said to either take an
> eraser to the labels to dull them, or put a piece of scotch tape over them.
> 
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> Richard Sims
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:48 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges
> 
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Baker, Jane wrote:
> 
>> CLNU030L1
> 
> That's 9 characters - no good.
> Your TS3500 Introduction and Planning Guide manual details tape labels
> for that library.
> You can probably revert to the "shiny" labels, using a pencil eraser
> to "de-gloss" them.  I had to do this on some early 3590 labels, which
> fixed their similar issue.
> 
> Richard Sims
> 
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Re: Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

[Len Boyle]

Early on in the use of our first 3584 we had the problem and we had the ce 
talking about doing the eraser procedure. 
The interesting think was that the tapes in question and their labels were 
purchased from IBM. 
We found that a few firmware updates and slowing down the bar code scan rate 
seemed to have fixed the problem. I suspect that it was mostly the firmware 
updates. 



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Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:09 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

Had that problem once with a 3583 library. The CE said to either take an
eraser to the labels to dull them, or put a piece of scotch tape over them.

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Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Baker, Jane wrote:

> CLNU030L1

That's 9 characters - no good.
Your TS3500 Introduction and Planning Guide manual details tape labels
for that library.
You can probably revert to the "shiny" labels, using a pencil eraser
to "de-gloss" them.  I had to do this on some early 3590 labels, which
fixed their similar issue.

Richard Sims

Re: Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

[Len Boyle]

Hello Jane, 

We have not seen this problem, but we are using 6chars followed by the L1 chars 
for a total of 8 chars.

One thing you can check is if your library supports 10 char volsers. 
I remember seeing a note that a past firmware update for the 3584 was adding 
support for 10 char barcode labels. 

Also are you using library controlled cleaning or software controlled cleaning?

len



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Jane
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Query on ultrium cleaning cartridges

Library type: TS3500.
TSM: 5.4 Server & clients.
Cleaning cartridge part number:35L2086 for use with Ultrium 1,2,3 & 4
drives.



---

We have ordered some cleaning cartridges, they are IBM tapes but from a
business partner, the labels were very shiny and the scanner on our
TS3500 refused to acknowledge them in the I/O slot and check them in.

I found an IBM technote about shiny labels and sent this to our
procurement people and they got the labels swapped to less shiny
backing.

However, I've received them through today and they still won't scan,
does anybody know the exact barcode format that the labels should be,
for example one is labelled CLNU030L1, IBM notes say 8 characters should
be ok.  Does the L1 classify in this?

However, our previous labels which were CLNU00L1 read ok? should the
first section of the barcode starting CLNU match on both tapes if the
same format is used? I'm wondering if they haven't used the correct
barcode format for the barcodes as they look different between these two
tapes at the beginning of the barcode label.


Any ideas? Has anyone come across this, I'd be grateful for any info.

Cheers,
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Re: VMware image subfile backups

[Len Boyle]

We use the subfile feature but not for vm's.

And it does appear to still be limited to 2 gig.
Someone from dev posted a long time ago that it was a limit due to the ms api 
that tsm uses to map the files in memory.

I have never seen any message that they were going to lift this limit.
I had hope that tsm would support src depupe???

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Sent: Thu Jun 25 10:13:48 2009
Subject: [ADSM-L] VMware image subfile backups

We are exploring VMware backups here, and I ran across the following
recommendation in IBM Redbook, "Deployment Guide Series: IBM TSM V5.5",
which recommends using subfile backups to backup the VMware image files:

>Incidentally, we use selective backup as opposed to incremental backup
>with full
>Virtual Machine images. We do so because when we use subfile backup, all the
>subfile chunks can be retained for the same amount of time. full Virtual
>Machine
>backup works well with Tivoli Storage Manager adaptive differencing (subfile
>backup) technology, which eliminates much of the backup overhead of taking
>full
>images at the client side, before they ever make it to the Tivoli Storage
>Manager
>server. This process facilitates very efficient backups both from a
>client-processing perspective and from the perspective of overall storage
>utilization on the Tivoli Storage Manager server. Only changed blocks are
>transferred to the Tivoli Storage Manager server during subfile backup.

They are suggesting using adaptive subfile backup to backup the VMware
image files.  Is anyone really doing this?  Last I knew, subfile backups
were limited to files less than 2GB in size, which would seem to me to make
this recommendation of extremely limited usefulness.

Thanks for any light-shedding.


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Re: Backing up running VM's

[Len Boyle]

Hello Eric, 

If the windows folks are using DPM I suspect that they are using the Microsoft 
Hyper-V support and not vmware. I have not heard that TSM support Hyper-V 
client per say.

When DPM first came out they only supported backing up to disk. To move the 
disk backups to tape required another backup product like tsm to backup the DPM 
server. 

I know that Microsoft has added tape support to DPM, but the TSM tape support 
may still be better. 

You can always install a tsm client on each virtual machine, but I suspect that 
the windows folks would not like that. 

len

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EJ van - SPLXM
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up running VM's

Hi TSM-ers!
Our windows department is looking at different backup products for
backing up their server.
They have two major problems with TSM. One I cannot solve: the TSM
client license is processor based, so quite expensive for the majority
of small servers. I think we all agree that the TSM client license
should be capacity based, but IBM aint listening here...
The other problem is that they state TSM cannot backup running VM's.
They now use a product called DPM to make snapshot copies of running
VM's.
I'm not really familiar with Window server management, especially when
it comes to virtualization, but I know one thing: TSM is one of the
leading, cutting edge backup products, so I doubt TSM is not supporting
this feature.
Does anybody know whether it is possible to make snapshot backups with
TSM of running VM's?
Thank you very much in advance for any reply!!!
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Re: 6.1 ordering issues

[Len Boyle]

Normally for TSM clients you license to run the client but not a specific 
version. So one would not thing that you would be charged again. In the past 
one was able to connect a z/os client to a non-z/os server. 

The more interesting question is there a 6.1 z/os client. If not will there be 
one. 

len

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Norman
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] 6.1 ordering issues

I am license for TSM server on z/OS.  Since there is no 6.1 server
available, I can't see how to order just the 6.1 client piece on
shopzseries and not get charge again.

Re: ANS4018E Error

[Len Boyle]

Hello Michael, 

This is a semi wild guess, If this was windows I would suggest you look at the 
Unicode setting for the filespace. It has been a while since I have had a 
novell client so I am not sure if they support UNICODE or not and what is the 
max path and segment length for the novell client.

But if it is Unicode it might be counting the multiple bytes of a Unicode 
character as multiple characters instead of one Unicode character pushing you 
over a limit. 

See the sample values for UNICODE in the following output from a query 
filespace command:

 Node Name: FRISCO-1
Filespace Name: \\frisco-1\d$_OLD
Hexadecimal Filespace Name:
  FSID: 2
  Platform: WinNT
Filespace Type: NTFS
 Is Filespace Unicode?: No
 Capacity (MB): 138,701.8
  Pct Util: 43.3
   Last Backup Start Date/Time: 12/25/2001 23:00:32
Days Since Last Backup Started: 2,715
  Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 12/26/2001 05:07:00
  Days Since Last Backup Completed: 2,714
ast Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
ays Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

 Node Name: FRISCO-1
Filespace Name: \\frisco-1\d$
Hexadecimal Filespace Name: 5c5c66726973636f2d315c6424
  FSID: 5
  Platform: WinNT
Filespace Type: NTFS
ore...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

 Is Filespace Unicode?: Yes
 Capacity (MB): 511,997.0
  Pct Util: 38.5
   Last Backup Start Date/Time: 05/30/2009 23:43:19
Days Since Last Backup Started: 2
  Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 05/31/2009 20:59:17
  Days Since Last Backup Completed: 1
ast Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
ays Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

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Michael Green
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:02 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS4018E Error

I began backing up a new client today. It's SLES system running
iFolder (a file sharing product from Novell).
The product resides on NSS formatted volume.
Upon doing initial backup got this error:
ANS4018E Error processing
'/media/nss/NFVOL/iFolder/simias/data/simias/SimiasFiles/0a/a73fda04-34fd-4b1e-9073-21d0e813b2c2/NDrive/baruch/KNOWKEDGE
WIZARD/??? ת ש?? ??ע? ?? ??? ת ש?? ??ע? ?? ??? ת
ש?? ??ע? ?? ??? ת ש?? ??ע? ?? ??? ת ש?? ??ע? ??
??? ת ?': file name too long

The file name seems to be in hebrew (My terminal is incapable of
displaying the hebrew characters properly).
Other files using hebrew characters seem to be backed up ok.

Any insights what can be done about this problem (besides the obvious
"have the user rename his file")?

Client is at  version 5.5.2/Linux. So is the server.
 --
Warm regards,
Michael Green

Re: LTO for long term archiving

[Len Boyle]

Over ten years ago I was at a presentation by a MD that was proposing the 
creation of a xml standard for medical records to help with this. His personal 
stake was in making it easier to use historical medical records for medical 
research. 

Also along these lines I remember seeing a small article in a trade magazine 
that a company, I think Rockwell, was going to make a system for recording 
holograms on microfiche. There would be a machine that could read the 
microfiche and display remotely. In theory the microfiche can be used for over 
100 years, better than existing computer optical and magnetic media. 
Also because it was a hologram if the media was scratched or otherwise damaged, 
the data could still be retrieved. As far as I know this never was released to 
the public. 

Also along these lines I saw an article this past week that GE was working on 
new optical media, which I believe was on the order of 500 gig. This would be a 
large increase over existing dvd's but still smaller than existing tapes and 
disks.


len

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Lipp
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:04 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO for long term archiving

Here here.  I'll reiterate: the data must be stored in the lowest common 
denominator format.  No databases, no strange and wondrous binary formats.  
Simple text is the best.  That's why microfiche is still used!

I would be very concerned about medical data: it is in so many different 
formats and one has to wonder if our elected officials and their beaurocratic 
minions in the various regulatory agencies are aware of these facts and the 
problem they are going to have in the future.

Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com


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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO for long term archiving

Soapbox time.

The media is not important - any sane retention policy will require that the 
information be copied at least annually, with enough copies for redundancy.

BUT -

to be able to PROCESS the data 25 years from now imposes additional 
requirements.

First and formost -- the data will NOT be in any format except unloaded 
flat-file; ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16 encoding. You will NOT be able to process 
proprietary data formats 25 years from now.

Look at the Domesday Book - the version written on parchment or vellum in 1086 
is still readable. The BBC digitized it in 1986 and found it almost impossible 
to find systems to read the digitized version in 2002 - 16 years later. You're 
trying for 25 years.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Evans, Bill
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:34 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: LTO for long term archiving
>
> I truly doubt that archiving drives, servers and tapes for 25 years
> each
> time the technology updates  will let you read the tapes because the
> drive and server will probably not even boot up and run.
>
> You will have to update the data every two LTO cycles or so.  LTO will
> read two generations back and 25 years from now we will be on LTO14 or
> 15, so LTO4 is toast.   Or, more probably, we will be storing into some
> kind of flash drive at Petabyte capacities.
>
> I think that Blu-Ray DVD will meet your 25 year mark without having to
> retrieve and update to new media.  I know that my 1986 CD's (those not
> seriously scratched or warped from laying on the dash ) still work on
> today's systems.  Properly stored DVD's would need to have players
> stored also, but, these are mechanically simpler than LTO drives and
> servers and would most likely still run.  They are also much cheaper,
> so
> having a new DVD in storage every 5 years is no big expense.
>
> The bigger issue is where and how do you keep track of all of this?  I
> think TSM's HSM is probably capable, however, I'm not real comfortable
> recommending it.  We have had several years of problems running HSM on
> Solaris and have finally turned it off.
>
> What is needed is a good archiving tool that can keep an updated DB of
> content and storage location that users can browse.
>
> We recently restored a power point file written by Office version (?)
> on
> an OS 9 Mac.  This could NOT be read by Office XP, 2003, 2007 (PC) or
> Office 2004 or 2008 (Mac).  We had to find an old Mac OS/9 that still
> had a copy of Office 2000, read it, write it back to the 2000 version
> .ppt file before any 2004-2009 software could read it.  If it had been
> 18 years instead of 9 years, then we never would have been able to read
> it at all, that old OS 9 Mac would never have been saved.
>
> This will happen more and more as our progr

Re: LTO for long term archiving

[Len Boyle]

Here is a URL for a company selling 300g disks with a 50 year media archive 
life. I wonder if TSM will work with this media. 

http://www.inphase-technologies.com/products/default.asp?tnn=3

Here is the URL's for GE's story. Of course this is not a product yet. 

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/179205&art_pos=2

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1





-Original Message-----
From: Len Boyle 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:49 PM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Subject: RE: LTO for long term archiving

Over ten years ago I was at a presentation by a MD that was proposing the 
creation of a xml standard for medical records to help with this. His personal 
stake was in making it easier to use historical medical records for medical 
research. 

Also along these lines I remember seeing a small article in a trade magazine 
that a company, I think Rockwell, was going to make a system for recording 
holograms on microfiche. There would be a machine that could read the 
microfiche and display remotely. In theory the microfiche can be used for over 
100 years, better than existing computer optical and magnetic media. 
Also because it was a hologram if the media was scratched or otherwise damaged, 
the data could still be retrieved. As far as I know this never was released to 
the public. 

Also along these lines I saw an article this past week that GE was working on 
new optical media, which I believe was on the order of 500 gig. This would be a 
large increase over existing dvd's but still smaller than existing tapes and 
disks.


len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly 
Lipp
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:04 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO for long term archiving

Here here.  I'll reiterate: the data must be stored in the lowest common 
denominator format.  No databases, no strange and wondrous binary formats.  
Simple text is the best.  That's why microfiche is still used!

I would be very concerned about medical data: it is in so many different 
formats and one has to wonder if our elected officials and their beaurocratic 
minions in the various regulatory agencies are aware of these facts and the 
problem they are going to have in the future.

Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com


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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO for long term archiving

Soapbox time.

The media is not important - any sane retention policy will require that the 
information be copied at least annually, with enough copies for redundancy.

BUT -

to be able to PROCESS the data 25 years from now imposes additional 
requirements.

First and formost -- the data will NOT be in any format except unloaded 
flat-file; ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16 encoding. You will NOT be able to process 
proprietary data formats 25 years from now.

Look at the Domesday Book - the version written on parchment or vellum in 1086 
is still readable. The BBC digitized it in 1986 and found it almost impossible 
to find systems to read the digitized version in 2002 - 16 years later. You're 
trying for 25 years.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Evans, Bill
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:34 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: LTO for long term archiving
>
> I truly doubt that archiving drives, servers and tapes for 25 years
> each
> time the technology updates  will let you read the tapes because the
> drive and server will probably not even boot up and run.
>
> You will have to update the data every two LTO cycles or so.  LTO will
> read two generations back and 25 years from now we will be on LTO14 or
> 15, so LTO4 is toast.   Or, more probably, we will be storing into some
> kind of flash drive at Petabyte capacities.
>
> I think that Blu-Ray DVD will meet your 25 year mark without having to
> retrieve and update to new media.  I know that my 1986 CD's (those not
> seriously scratched or warped from laying on the dash ) still work on
> today's systems.  Properly stored DVD's would need to have players
> stored also, but, these are mechanically simpler than LTO drives and
> servers and would most likely still run.  They are also much cheaper,
> so
> having a new DVD in storage every 5 years is no big expense.
>
> The bigger issue is where and how do you keep track of all of this?  I
> think TSM's HSM is probably capable, however, I'm not real comfortable
> recommending it.  We have had several years of problems running

Re: Cloned Win servers and multiple backups

[Len Boyle]

Rick, 

If your hostnames are unique in of themselves, you can leave the nodename out 
of the dsm.opt file. TSM will use the hostname for the tsm nodename. 

If you have clients with the name of xyz.abc.com and xyz.qxr.com then you would 
have a problem with this scheme. 

len

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Richard Rhodes
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:12 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Cloned Win servers and multiple backups

This is a strange problem.

Once in a while, our Windows support team will clone a Windows server.  The
clone will have the exact same TSM setup as the source server.  I'm not
familiar with the Win BA client, but it seems it always has a nodename line
for the dsm.sys file, so the clone reports to TSM server that it's the same
node as the clone source.  They both appear to respond to the same
schedule.   This results in the new server performing good backups to the
exact same node as the server that is the clone source.   The end result
seems to be to two different servers happily  backing up the same TSM node.
Obviously what we get is a useless mess.  When they clone a system they are
supposed to use a source without a TSM setup, or,  clean out the TSM setup
right away, but sometimes this doesn't happen.  I've tried to find a way to
detect this from the TSM server, but I'm not coming up with anything
obvious.   I'm interested if anyone else has fought this problem and what
you've done.

Thanks!

Rick


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Re: I've got an interesting issue with ALMS

[Len Boyle]

Tom, 

Have you looked at the library logs via the library web interface to see if the 
cause of the problem is logged?

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] I've got an interesting issue with ALMS

No virtual I/O.

Assignment policy - gobi, volser ranges 444000-444999
  sahara, volser ranges 333000-333999
All others - "shared", whatever that means.

All cleaning tapes start as "CLN..."

And like I say, we only seem to have problems with 333026 and 333063.

Fascinating.

TK

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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Clark, Robert A
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:00 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: I've got an interesting issue with ALMS
>
> Are you using virtual I/O?
>
> What are you using for cartridge assignment policy strings?
>
> IIRC, CAP typically looks at the first 6 characters. Do these volsers
> conflict with cleaning tapes?
>
> [RC]
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of
> Kauffman, Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:33 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] I've got an interesting issue with ALMS
>
> Not enough of a problem to be worth reporting, but a bit of a
> curiosity,
> and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this.
>
> We have a 3584 logically partitioned by ALMS into two libraries: gobi,
> with 10 LTO-4 drives and around 150 LTO-4 tapes; and sahara, with 6
> LTO-2 drives and about 250 LTO-2 tapes.
>
> All the LTO-4 volsers start 444 and the LTO-2s start 333 - and we have
> ALMS set to do library auto-assign for the I/O door content based on
> the
> first three digits of the tape label.
>
> We have two tapes that NEVER auto-assign and always end up in the ALMS
> 'unassigned' logical library. But the ALMS I/O slot display shows the
> proper volser (333026L2 and 333063L2 are the trouble-makers). We just
> select them, use action assign, and run our normal checkin with no
> problem.
>
> I just find it a bit fascinating that the 3584 can scan the volser
> correctly, report it properly to ALMS, and ALMS can report it properly
> to TSM - but ALMS doesn't seem to recognise these two volsers for the
> auto-assign function. It doesn't matter how many tapes are in the I/O
> station, nor which I/O station these two are in (we have the
> four-station option on our 'D' modlue, and we have run in up to 96
> tapes
> at one time - with these being the only two unassigned).
>
> Jus an idle curiosity -
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
>
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Re: Processes pending

[Len Boyle]

Do a q req

Note the request number then do a 

Reply 

See help query request and help reply

len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario 
Behring
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Processes pending

Where do I see or answer this reply...or simply cancel it for that matter?

Mario






From: Adrian Compton 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:23:49 AM
Subject: Re: Processes pending

The checkin libvol can sometimes have a reply waiting on it.
That can cause it to "hang"

Regards



Adrian Compton
Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth
tel: +2741 4072855
Fax: +2741 453 7452
Cell: +27823204495
Email: acomp...@aspenpharma.com

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario 
Behring
Sent: 02 April 2009 18:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Processes pending

Hi list,

I have some processes with cancel pending status that never go away. One of 
them, for instance, is a CHECKIN LIBVOL. How can I kill these processes. It´s 
been days since the commands were issued.

Thanks

Mario

Re: Exchange TDP backup issue

[Len Boyle]

Good Afternoon, 

Can we assume as the this is a cluster, that you are backing up the passive 
node of the exchange cluster. 

We are using a different product for exchange backups, but there are at least 
two problems that can cause problems with the passive node backup. 
For one of them we see the snapshot for the first storage group does not work 
correctly  and the backup does not have a snapshot to backup. 


Can you relate what the ese event logs on the exchange server are reporting for 
this backup.
Also you should be able to find tsm logs with more detail. 

 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of TSM 
User
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:53 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange TDP backup issue

I'm trying to get the Exchange TDP 5.5.1.0 working on a Windows 2008 server
running Exchange 2007.  We're at the point now where we are getting the
below error running a script from the command line.  I'm neither a Windows
nor Exchange admin, but the admin I'm working with has verified that all
databases are in fact mounted.  The TDP is seeing the correct number of
storage groups, so we're getting to the Exchange server.  Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated; I'm beating my head against a wall at this
point.


Error log:

Current date is:
Thu 03/05/2009
Current time is:
12:40 PM

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
Version 5, Release 5, Level 1.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2008. All rights reserved.

ACN5057I The C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\excsch.log log file has
been pruned successfully.

Starting storage group backup...
Connecting to TSM Server as node 'EXLOYCMS'...


Total storage groups requested for backup:  7
Total storage groups backed up: 0
Total storage groups expired:   0
Total storage groups excluded:  0

Throughput rate:0.00 Kb/Sec
Total bytes transferred:0
Elapsed processing time:0.00 Secs

ACN5073E None of the storage groups entered are in a state to be backed up.


The script (minus comments) is:

@ECHO OFF

set exc_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange"

cd /d %exc_dir%

echo Current date is: >> excfull.sg1.log
date /t < NUL >> excfull.sg1.log
echo Current time is: >> excfull.sg1.log
time /t < NUL >> excfull.sg1.log

tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=C:\Progra~1\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\dsm.opt
/logfile=excsch.log /excserv=EXLOYCMS  >> excfull.sg1.log


The dsm.opt file is (also minus comments) is:

NODename  exloycms
CLUSTERnode   yes
COMPRESSIon   Off
PASSWORDAccessGenerate

COMMMethodTCPip
TCPPort   1500
TCPServeraddress  192.168.51.11
TCPWindowsize 63
TCPBuffSize   32

SCHEDMODE Polling
SCHEDLOGRetention 7
TCPCLIENTADDRESS  192.168.53.26

INCLUDE EXLOYCMS\SG*\...\* exchange_mc_7tdp

Re: RedHat GFS

[Len Boyle]

Christian

Does this support also include acl's.

Thanks len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Christian Svensson
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: RedHat GFS

Hi David,
TSM 5.x support any filesystem in Linux as long your kernel can mount the 
filesystem to an mounting point.
The only things TSM for Linux don't support is backing up RAW filesystems where 
an application write direct to a device node.

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
Skype: cristie.christian.svensson

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[deehr...@louisville.edu]
Skickat: den 17 februari 2009 16:35
Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Ämne: RedHat GFS

Does TSM support the RedHat Global File System (GFS)?  If so, what is the 
minimum version of server and client that is required.

Thanks,
David

Re: Backup of ownership and ACLs

[Len Boyle]

What happens if you are using subfilebackup. Will it just backup the acl's as 
the data blocks have not changed?

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:26 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup of ownership and ACLs

If all the ACLs are updated daily I guess thats not a problem, just
update them again after the restore :)

Or make a script that saves the ACLs before backup to a file and run as
a preschedulecmd.

Sounds like it could be worth it to avoid unnecessarily backing up 15 TB of
data every day.

-km

On 16/02, Mark Stapleton wrote:
> Perhaps. But what happens when you restore files without the latest ACLs? 
> They're set for a reason, and to not restore the entire file's contents 
> strikes me as rather worthless.
> 
> --
> Mark Stapleton
> System engineer, CDW
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rolf 
> Meyer
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:16 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup of ownership and ACLs
> 
> Hello
> 
> I think, there's an option called SKIPACLUPDATCHECK, which can be used
> to prevent incr backups just because of changing ACL-infos.
> 
> Give it a try.
> 
> Rolf Meyer
> Storage Consultant
> PROFI Engineering Systems AGAlexander Födisch schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > if we change the ownership (chmod/chgrp) or the ACLs of files/folders on
> > our GPFS-filesystem, all affected
> > data will be backed up again from TSM because the ctime was changed -
> > same behaviour on a XFS filesystem.
> > We often have to change recursively the ACLs of a 15TB-folder and so
> > this 15TB are backup up nearly daily...
> > I understand the necessity of backing up metadata as ownership or ACLs
> > :) But is there an other possibility?
> >
> > Can we backup just the metadata of changed files instead of all the
> > data? Depends this on the filesystem?
> 
> 
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Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

[Len Boyle]

Howard, 

Can you give the list a little more details on the Exchange system backup of 
1.2 TB in about 4 or so hours. 

How many exchange storage groups do you have and how many of them backup up in 
parallel?
How large are they?
Are you using multiple nics of 1gig each or a 10gig nic?

Thanks len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard 
Coles
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

Not necessarily.  You would think so, but in my experience your at about
the break even point.  Due to the SAN having to go to tape, as opposed
to being able to go to disk on a LAN backup.  I backup a few Exchange
systems via TDP that equal about 1.2 TB in about 4 or so hours.

However, a good strategy would be to do a full once a week or month and
do diffs or incremental each day for speed's sake.

See Ya'
Howard


> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Adrian C. Pardo
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:26 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE
> 
> Mark,
> The customer required to use the TDP, so, the way will be TDP via LAN,
> but
> 700 Gg in a Lan...will take longer than in a SAN..
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> -Mensaje original-
> De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] En nombre de
> Mark
> Stapleton
> Enviado el: Lunes, 26 de Enero de 2009 18:18
> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Asunto: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE
> 
> You'd be surprised on what little difference there can be between LAN
> and
> SAN backups. However...
> 
> Your next best bet is to do a dump of the database to a flat file, and
> then
> using the LAN-free storage agent to back that up across the SAN (to
> tape
> only, I'm afraid). If you don't have the storage agent license
> purchased,
> you'll need to do that in order to do SAN-based backups on that box.
> 
> --
> Mark Stapleton
> System engineer, CDW
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of
> Adrian C. Pardo
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:02 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE
> 
> Stef
> 
> Well, next question, how can we do a Lan Free backup of these SQL
> bases...
> Doing via LAN will take forever!!
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> -Mensaje original-
> De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] En nombre de
> Stef
> Coene
> Enviado el: Lunes, 26 de Enero de 2009 17:50
> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Asunto: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE
> 
> On Monday 26 January 2009, Adrian C. Pardo wrote:
> > We need to backup a SQL database Using TDP and Lan Free on a  VMware
> > machine (the database size is 700Gig Aprox)
> >
> > Any sugestion??
> Not possible.  The client can not access the hardware for SAN access.
> 
> 
> Stef
> 
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Re: piping commands in dsmadmc

[Len Boyle]

You can run the commands from a script external of tsm. 

Something like perl, rexx, A unix shell, or windows powershell. 
You can run the dsmc command from the script where the script process the 
output of the command, the script would then build one or more scripts to be 
run from within the script.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan 
Boldt
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:13 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] piping commands in dsmadmc

Hello,

is there any way to pipe use the output of one command as an input of
another? For example if I want to cancel a running space reclamation of a
certain storagepool. So I first have to get the process number and cancel
this process. What I'm looking for is something like this:

select process_num from processes where process='Space Reclamation' and
status like '%TAPE_FILESYSTEM%' | cancel process

Obviously this doesn't work, but is there another way to get this done?

kind regards,
Stephan

Re: 3584 web interface

[Len Boyle]

Good Morning Joe, 

We have been running into the same issue. We did not know about turning off and 
on the IP Port. 

We have been resetting the library to fix the problem. Luckily it does not 
happen all the time. 
IBM did tell us that they thought that things would improve if we upgraded to 
the latest level of the firmware on the 3584. 

Of course upgrading opened a new can of worms. In the past, if you forget 
anyone who has a library with DLT8000 support, there was only one track of 
firmware levels. 
Now there appears to be at least two, the 8160 and 7379 levels. 
Our CE is telling us that the 8160 is for 3592 tape drive only libraries and 
the 7379 is for libraries with lto tape drives. Of course the readme files on 
the IBM download site do not say this. They have the readme title of ALMS only 
for the 8160 level of code. No where does it appear that they talk about 3592 
only?

This two tracking of the code does not bode well.

Sigh len

PS IBM did give us one workaround. If you have a newer D frame, it has it's own 
Ethernet interface. If this is connected with a different ip name and ip 
address then this interface can be use for most of the web interface functions 
when the primary interface is down. 

len





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Joseph
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3584 web interface

Hello Steve.
We also have a 3584 and are having the same issue. We had to call IBM hardware
out to fix ours the last time this occurred. From what I understand there is no
way to remotely address this issue and that the IP port needs to be turned off
and then turned on again. I wish I could give you more information but that's al
I can remember.
 
JoeA



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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 web interface



Hi All

I have a 3584 library that I was using the web interface to communicate
with.  The web interface has stopped responding although the library itslef
continues to work.

Is there a way to restart the web server from the front panel?  Can it be
done remotely?

Thanks

Steve.


Steven Harris, TSM admin
Sydney Australia



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Re: Windows server patches screw things up (I know....what else is new....)

[Len Boyle]

Zoltan,


Can you give a little more detail about the disk subsystem. What is the make 
and model?
San or local?, raid?, special firmware features? Etc.?

What service pack is Windows 2003 at? Have you installed the vss patches from 
last 2007?

len

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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:37 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows server patches screw things up (I knowwhat else 
is new)

We are seeing new errors on various Windows 2003 servers, which we think
are related to recent M$ patches (so, what else is new).  The client
confirms that updates were applied on the same day the first failures
started.

The symptoms/error messages are:

08/15/2008 05:57:38 ANS1009W An error occurred processing the operating
system include/exclude statements.
The error was detected while processing:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup\DRM.
RC = 13.
08/18/2008 02:04:34 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : isVolumeSupported
   TSM function  : IsVolumeSupported() returned
'VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR' for volume 'c:\'
   TSM return code   : 4353
   TSM file  : vssreq.cpp (5491)
08/18/2008 02:04:35 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : vssCheckVolumeSupport
   TSM function  : isVolumeSupported() returned unexpected error for
volume '\\den3print\c$'
   TSM return code   : 4353
   TSM file  : vssback.cpp (3075)
08/18/2008 02:04:35 ANS5258E An error occurred initializing a VSS request.
For more information, see the TSM client error log.

Going back in the log for 2+ weeks does not show any of these errors.

This client is a 5.5.0.2 and I suggested upgrading to 5.5.1.1 as a
minimum.  I haven't been able to find anything definitive when searching
IBM.COM.


Any thoughts?

Re: Method to count tapes in I/O slots of IBM3584 library

[Len Boyle]

There is a least one alternative method of letting the Operators know that the 
i/o station is full and one method of not worrying about the i/o station being 
full in the numbers that you are using.

1) You can turn on snmp traps for the library. One of the traps that the 
library generates is that the i/o station has been in a full state for more 
than 5 mins. Your snmp trap handler can send the trap information to the 
Operators.

2) If you purchase the ALMS feature for the library (I am not sure if you can 
talk to IBM or their rep to reduce the price from the list value, this is a 
onetime feature for the library that virtualizes the slots and the i/o station. 
It allows you to define the virtual i/o station to be up to 255 slots. This 
means that at your current rate of 40-60 exports tapes a day, you are not going 
to fill the virtual i/o station.

len

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John
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:01 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Method to count tapes in I/O slots of IBM3584 library

Chip,
Thanks for your reply.
I am familiar with the 3584's GUI, and use it all the time.  My
script was meant to be an alert.  If I could count on the Operators to
remember every 30 minutes all day to go take a look at the 3584 GUI and
see if there are tapes to check out, then I wouldn't need an alert.
But our Operators are busy all day with other things, and need
to be reminded or it doesn't happen. And we have 40-60 tapes going out
every day, so if they don't empty it regularly, things back up behind
the checkout commands. The script as it is written today can count how
many tapes are in the slots, and alert when there are 24 or more, which
is better than waiting until it is totally full.


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Method to count tapes in I/O slots of IBM3584
library

Another way is to activate the 3584 GUI, and give them the link. That's
how I
enabled our operators to look at various things, such as how many slots
are
empty in the library, for those days when we get back from offsite more
tapes
than we have slots for. Ask your IBM tech. You can do all sorts of
things
with, such as update microcode/firmware, look at logs, run inventory,
send
emails, etc., etc.

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Steven Harris
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Method to count tapes in I/O slots of IBM3584
library

John,

If I'm reading it correctly, the SML-MIB_112.mib file describes
structures in the library that can be walked with SNMP.
physicalMediaTable might be the one to look at, I have no access to a
library just at present so I can't test.

Alternatively, define another control path and use it just to run your
tapeutil commands.

HTH

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Sydney Australia.

Schneider, John wrote:
> Greetings,
> We have an IBM3584 library.  We needed a script which would
> determine how many tapes were in the I/O doors of the library, and
then
> send an email to the Operators to empty the  I/O doors when the
library
> was mostly full.  We fill the I/O door several times a day in the
course
> of daily processing, so we need to notify the Operators regularly.
The
> way that seemed the best to do this was a script which issued:
>
> tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory -i > /tmp/tapeinventory.out
>
> The output file is easy to parse, and count how many slots contain
> media, and spit out the email accordingly.  We run the script every 30
> minutes.  But now that we have been running the script a couple weeks,
> several times we have gotten TSM errors like this:
>
>
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8965W  The server is unable to automatically
> determine
>the serial number for the device.  (SESSION:
> 21742)
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc1 with
file
> handle
>11. (SESSION: 21742)
>
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8848W Drive LTO4_F1_D08 of library SUN2079 is
>
>inaccessible; server has begun polling drive.
> (SESSION:
>21742)
>
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR1794W TSM SAN discovery is disabled by
options.
>
>(SESSION: 21742)
>
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8965W  The server is unable to automatically
> determine
>the serial number for the device.  (SESSION:
> 21742)
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc1 with
file
> handle
>11. (SESSION: 21742)
>
> 07/25/08 05:35:00 ANR8848W Drive LTO4_F1_D06 of 

Re: Tricky conversion problem

[Len Boyle]

Our mvs said that you can buy a used standalone 3590H drive for about $4k.
That might be the simplest way to move the data. After you finish you can sell 
it to someone else.

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McConaghy
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:09 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Tricky conversion problem

We are moving to a new TSM server on a Pseries box with an IBM 3592 tape
system from a very old mainframe based TSM server.  We had not planned on
moving any of the old data over to the new server as there was no requirement
for it.  However, we run into a single user who wants to have all of his
previous backups moved to the new server, even though most are no longer
usable (we are talking about old OS2 systems, etcevery PC he has ever
used in the last 20 years).  Since this user is our 2nd line manager, we have
no choice to try and figure something out.

The main problem is that the two servers are not compatible.  The old server
can only talk to 3590 tape drives, whose tapes are not usable in the new
3592s.  So, I can't just export the data to tape and then import into the
new server. (Ah if only life were that easy!).

On a hunch, I've tried creating a server connection between old and new
TSM server.  Then, I exported a filespace to a virtual volume
(devclass=server) on the new server.  It sits on a 3592 tape right now.
However, the new server will not allow me to import this tape, as it belongs
to a pool and it thinks it is in use.

Is there any way to make this work?  I'm at a loss for ideas at this point.
I could create a virtual volume on disk and move the old filespaces to it,
but then I'll have to keep the old server running "forever" or at least until
it will run no longer.

Anyone have any ideas?

Martha McConaghy
Strategic Planner/Project Manager
Marist College IT

Re: USS support

[Len Boyle]

It goes back at least this far.

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS296-261/index.html

we ordered the oe client against our vm adsm server way back in the 90's. It 
was not too hard to get the bits as we could order the feature code for a 3480 
cart.
Since that time we moved to an windows tsm server and it does not have feature 
codes for 3480 carts.
All the other clients can be ftp'ed over the internet. But with the oe client 
we could not do this.

len



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Laflamme
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] USS support

An internal customer has issued an RFI to several internal support
groups about how various components, including TSM, support Unix System
Services on z/OS.

The questionnaire has two questions about the history and market
penetration of  supporting USS that
aren't answered in the product documentation directly, so I will ask the
list:

When did ADSM (year? release?) first support USS? (And how does that
compare to the availability of USS?)

Also, have there been comments at the Symposium, SHARE, or other public
venues where IBM has alluded to the number of sites using TSM to support
USS clients? I know IBM considers data about product licensing to be
sensitive, but we'd love orders-of-magnitude sorts of numbers even.

Testimonials (or warnings) about actual experiences with TSM supporting
USS are welcome, but those two questions are what I'm really hoping for.
:-)

Thanks,
Nick

Re: how to tell how my DB is being backed up

[Len Boyle]

Hello Damon

You can use a command like this to find out when the backup command is running. 
Then run a query actl with a small delta of time less then the time reported 
and you should see the method used to issue the command. As the backup command 
can be shorted to BA you might have to vary the first query.


len

tsm: ADSMNT04>q actl begindate=today-1 search="backup db"

Date/TimeMessage
 --
04/01/2008 12:02:43  ANR2017I Administrator SNOLEN issued command: BACKUP DB
  type=full devc=borglto

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Subject: [ADSM-L] how to tell how my DB is being backed up


I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there is an easy way to tell how my
DB is being backed up.  I can tell that I am keeping 4 copies of it but I
don't know how it's being backed up.   I'm sure it's being done via a
script but I can't find out where it's at.  Any help would be greatly
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Re: filespace_type=raw on windows

[Len Boyle]

Hello Paul

I am taking a few guesses here.

A recovery partition.
A dual boot machine and it is an alt os partition

len

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Zarnowski
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:05 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] filespace_type=raw on windows

We have a few windows nodes here that have a filespace_type=raw
filesystem.  I've never noticed this before and am wondering what that
indicates on a Windows system.  Any ideas out there?


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Re: z/os file system backup support

[Len Boyle]

Hello Norman and Richard,

My problem is not if the client is still supported. It is that we had ordered 
the client license against a windows ADSM/TSM server. And the operating server 
for the backups is running on windows. The question is do they still support 
using a windows server.

In the past I would just go to the server ann letter and see if the client is 
still listed as a feature code.
I have not yet found that information.

Thanks len

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Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:10 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] z/os file system backup support

It is on my current serverpac order in ShopzSeries.  Go to ShopzSeries
and go to MVS: System Mgmt. and Security.

MVS: System Mgmt. and Security
Product  Description Version Language
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - Server   5.05.00 English
(US)
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - B/A Clnt 5.05.00 English
(US)
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - API  5.05.00 English (US)


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Len Boyle
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: z/os file system backup support

Good Morning,

We have been using an ADSM/TSM windows server to backup up several MVS
(aka z/os) open edition file systems for a number of years.
A reseller told me that IBM was no longer selling this option.

Is this no longer a supported option or do a just have an open system
guy who is confused.

Thanks len boyle

z/os file system backup support

[Len Boyle]

Good Morning,

We have been using an ADSM/TSM windows server to backup up several MVS (aka 
z/os) open edition file systems for a number of years.
A reseller told me that IBM was no longer selling this option.

Is this no longer a supported option or do a just have an open system guy who 
is confused.

Thanks len boyle

Re: Backing up PST files

[Len Boyle]

I believe there is a mistake here.

I believe that the cache is only used to cache the ccw's for blocks. The reason 
for the 2gig limit was given a long time ago on this list by a TSM dev, they 
use a windows api to map the file in virtual memory for i/o. The api they use 
has the 2 gig limit.

We use the sub file feature for windows servers located in remote offices, and 
it really does help. but it would be even better if it could handle file that 
are greater than 2gig.

I suspect if they come up with a general dedup feature, that this would replace 
the sub-file feature. And one would hope that it will do files of any size.

It will be interesting to see what it looks like.

len
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files

At 11:04 PM 2/13/2008, Wanda Prather wrote:
>Subfile backup was designed to work on laptops, not servers.

Yes, that is what we are trying to do.  Sam, on the other hand

>The "base" or initial backup copy of a file is stored in a cache directory
>on the client, which is also limited in size to 2 GB.

I didn't realize the cache directory was limited in size and that it held
complete copies of files.  Checking this, it seems you may be correct about
full copies of files being made in the cache directory.  The size of the
cache directory is only 1GB according to the Users Guide, and that is what
the EditPreferences GUI restricts you to as well  I don't understand
how subfile backup can work for files up to 2GB in size, if the
subfilecachesize is restricted to 1024 MB.

>In short, you can only manage a total of about 2 GB of files for subfile
>backup, and only files less than 2 GB in size are eligible.

Bummer.  Thanks Wanda.

..Paul


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Re: Any market for used tape media?

[Len Boyle]

The tape erase function is written up in the tape driver prog ref.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_Tape_Driver_PROGREF.pdf

But it does not talk of HIPPA.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, 
John
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:27 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Any market for used tape media?

Curtis,
3590 tapes are where IBM servo tracks were first invented
(unless it was 3570, I may be mistaken).  3592 and LTO are follow-on
technologies built from those first ones.
De-guassing shouldn't be the only way this could be done.  It
ought to be possible to write multiple passes of bit-patterns to a tape,
making the old data unreadable.
If you look at the "tapeutil" utility IBM provides with the
atape drivers, it includes an erase function.  It would be easy to write
a program to mount the tapes in a drive one at a time to erase them.
But I could not find any documentation online that really explained what
the erase function was doing, and if it was thorough enough to withstand
HIPAA requirements.

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO  63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Curtis Preston
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Any market for used tape media?


De-gaussing is the only practical way to erase a significant quantity of
tapes, and degaussing will render a number of modern tape formats
useless forever.  One of them is LTO.  Not sure about 3x9x.  (It's
because, in addition to removing the data, degaussing also removes the
servo tracks on the tape, and the drive won't recognize the tape.)

My opinion:  It's not worth the risk.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies

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Schneider, John
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:28 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Any market for used tape media?

Greetings,
We have thousands of 3590, 3592, and LTO tapes which are about
to be decommissioned when their tape libraries are replaced. Some of the
3592 and LTO tapes are only 1-2 years old. Is there any market for used
tape media? And if so, do any of you know of a way to sufficiently erase
them so that they can be sold without security concerns about releasing
data?


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO  63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

[Len Boyle]

Hello Nick,

I did not know that barcodes make the layout was any different than using the 
web interface or the front panel.
I thought that both the tape drives and the slots each had to be one sequence 
of drives or slots. And if you wanted to add or subtract, unless the change was 
to the bordering virtual library, you had to move all the intermediate units 
down or up.

But, if you purchase the ALMS feature for the library things become much 
easier. The assignment is done via the web interface and you can assign tape 
drives one by one to any virtual library, in any order.
Slots are not assigned by their physical location, but are just quotas.  The 
library can use any slot for any virtual library. Note ALMS is just a license 
key, the code is already built in.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick 
Laflamme
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

OK, I get to read about bar code labels and try to make this work for
us. It's nice that it's possible; if not so nice that the granularity on
how slots are assigned is a bit more coarse and that it'll be some work
putting labels and clips into place. Oh, well!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Tom.

Thanks,
Nick

Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> Unless things have changed in a more recent firmware than I'm running
> (always possible) there are three ways to partition a 3584; the web
> interface, the operator panel, and the barcode labels.
>
> The web interface and the front panel both work the same -- how many
> drives, starting with number 1, are in the first library; how many
> drives are in the second; until all drives are assigned to librarys. And
> the same with slots, starting with the first slot and working out.
>
> If you want to have a dis-continuous library, with something like drives
> 1,2,4,and 8 or slots in multiple groups you will need to use the barcode
> labels and magnetic clips that came with the library. IIRC, tape drives
> are individually assignable and slots are assigned by the column.
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
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Re: backup disk/backup tape

[Len Boyle]

Hello Tom

Interesting that the 3584 would load the tape in the gripper, you would think 
that it would know what is in the I/O door.
I do not believe that we have seen this problem. We have seen tapes stuck in 
the gripper, or gripper/hand hardware failures. But having a tape stuck in the 
gripper did not stop the library as it has a second gripper.

What level of 3584 firmware are you using and do you have the ALMS feature.

- The ALMS feature is very nice, but most likely should have been included with 
the base library. /*plug*/

- We did have a problem with an older level of firmware where the library would 
move tapes to the I/O door.
The operators would open the I/O door and remove the tapes. Then the operators 
would insert new tapes and close the door. If an inserted tape was removed in 
the past with this procedure, it would think that the tape was a duplicate 
because it did not register that the tapes had been removed from the I/O 
station unless the I/O door was closed and the empty slots inventoried by the 
library hand scanner.

This is something that they fixed.

len

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Tom
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:59 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] backup disk/backup tape

What type of library?

We've had instances with a 3584 under TSM 5.3.2.0 where the library
would start a tape move to the I/O door and find the door full -- and
the gripper just sits there with a tape in it's mouth until we pulled
some tapes from the I/O door. And with the gripper occupied, no other
tape mounts/dismounts occur.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: backup disk/backup tape

> Was their a pending move media or move drmedia request?  Perhaps
>somebody didn't reply to the checkout request yesterday.

I did notice that there was a message in the log because the I/O door
was full from ejects the night before and needed to be emptied but
Monday morning that happened also and things ran fine. In fact every
Monday morning it seems this is the case but this is the first time I
have seen any of the tasks fail altogether.

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Re: Backing up files with ilegal characters

[Len Boyle]

Hello Michael, 

I should add the comment that I do not know the correct answer to this 
question. 

But given that. If I read the following url correctly The Linux TSM client does 
not support unicode at this time. If the filenames are in unicode. If they are 
just using chars code over 128 then the doc in the following url lets you know 
how to support them.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=tsm+linux+unicode&uid=swg21249081&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en

Somebody with better IBM reading skills may give you a better answer. 

I suspect that using A NDMP backup of the netapp should support the Unicode 
chars and handle the filenames. 

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael 
Green
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 5:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up files with ilegal characters

Thanks for raising this topic!

I'm curious how one should go about  filenames in more than one language?

I work for an academic institution in Israel and besides hebrew we
have here researchers, students and support personnel  that speak all
kinds of languages: Russian, Arabic, German, Chinese, Japanese, you
name it..
Our Netapp system that I backup via NFS (on a Linux client) contains
UNIX home directories of all those fellows, locals and foreigners as
one. As you might expect I get tons of ANS4042E and ANS1228E errors
every night.
Frankly, I have no clue how to solve this problem. I've started
administering our Backup environment only recently and till now hadn't
had time to dig deeper into this problem. But as I saw somebody
raising this question here and now, I decided to step in.

Presently I deal with the problem in administrative, not technical
way: I simply warn users that if their data means anything to them, to
not give your files names in "barbarian" languages or I may not be
able to restore it. So far this approach "works" but I wouldn't call
it a good service.

If you have anything helpful on this matter I'd be happy to learn from you.


On 8/16/07, Ing. Fernando Villarreal - Silice S.A.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you, I'ww try tihs.
>
> Fernando.
>
> Rainer Tammer escribió:
> > Hello,
> > the Linux client is as far as I know not UNICODE enabled.
> > I had the same problem with the de_DE locale.
> >
> > I just used this LOCALE settings (TSM 5.3 client):
> >
> > export LANG=de_DE
> > export LC_CTYPE=de_DE
> > /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc
> >
> > Bye
> >   Rainer
> >
> >
> > Ing. Fernando Villarreal - Silice S.A. wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I'm working with TSM version 5.2 and my linux clients report this
> >> kind of errors
> >>
> >> ANE4042E (Session: 17393, Node: SRVDESARROLLO)  Object name
> >> '/opt/Projects/Intranet/WebUI/pngs/Sin tí­tulo-2.png' contains one or
> >> more unrecognized
> >> characters and is not valid. (SESSION: 17393)
> >>
> >> ANE4042E (Session: 17393, Node: SRVDESARROLLO)  Object name
> >> '/opt/Projects/Intranet/WebUI/pngs/ban_galería.png' contains one or
> >> more unrecognized
> >> characters and is not valid. (SESSION: 17393)
> >>
> >> We have a lot of files with spanish characters on the file name and we
> >> cannot change
> >> their names. I was googling for a while and there's no clue about how
> >> to solve this.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks you.
> >>
> >> Fernando Villarreal
> >>
> >>
> > Bye
> >   Rainer Tammer

-- 
Warm regards,
Michael Green

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

[Len Boyle]

I believe that you want cancel restore 1
Or if you want to cancel all restore sessions 
cancel restore all

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cancel a pending restartable restore session

Hello Len,
  Thanks for the pointer. Now I found the session, I would like to
cancel it . I am inside the node where the restartable pending restore
session is.  I tried to cancel the session but it says my syntax is
incorrect. Where did I goofed? Thanks.

tsm> q restore
--- Restartable Restore Information ---
Restartable Session: 1
Start date/time: 07/10/2007 10:37:36
  Owner: *
 Source:
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/MSEAS.eareaswas01/logs/PremAppSrv01/*
Destination: /tmp/logs.20070709/


>>-CANcel--RESTore--+-session_number-+-><
'-ALl'

=

Node Name: TRAVOX1
Session established with server TSM01: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 5, Release 3, Level 5.0
  Server date/time: 07/11/2007 14:35:03  Last access: 07/11/2007 14:28:13

tsm> cancel restore session 1
ANS1038S Invalid option specified
ANS1820E Command line options must be preceded by a '-'
tsm>


Avy Wong
Business Continuity Administrator
Mohegan Sun
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT 06382
ext 28164




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Hello Avy,

You can use the query restore command.

Also you should be able to set up the windows admin gui for an Linux TSM
server, unless they have changed something that I missed.

len

-help query restore -
tsm: ADSMNT04>help query restore
QUERY RESTORE

QUERY RESTORE (Query Restartable Restore Sessions)

Use this command to display information about the restartable restore
sessions.

Privilege Class

Any administrator can issue this command.

Syntax

>>-Query--RESTore--+---+--+-+--->
   '-node_name-'  '-file_space_name-'

   .-Format--=--Standard-.  .-NAMEType--=--SERVER--.
>--+-+--+--+---><
   '-Format--=--+-Standard-+-'  '-NAMEType--=--+-SERVER--+-'
'-Detailed-'   +-UNIcode-+
   '-FSID'


more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)


Parameters

node_name
 Specifies the client node to be queried. This parameter is optional.
If
 you do not specify a value, all client nodes with restartable restore
 sessions are displayed. You must specify a value for this parameter if
 you specify a file space name.
file_space_name
 Specifies the file space to be queried. This parameter is optional. If
 you do not specify a value, all file spaces are matched for the
 specified node.

 For a server that has clients with support for Unicode, you may need
to
 have the server convert the file space name that you enter. For
 example, you may need to have the server convert the name you enter
 from the server's code page to Unicode. See the NAMETYPE parameter for
 details.
Format
 Specifies how the information is displayed. This parameter is
optional.
 The default value is STANDARD. Possible values are:
 Standard
  Specifies that partial information is displayed.
more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Avy Wong
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:13 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] cancel a pending restartable restore session

hello,

  This is a Linux environment. I am learning as I go how to move around
in there.
  Can you tell me how I can track down where this pending restartable
restore session is? In the windows gui is easy to get rid of pending
restore but not sure how to get rid of that on Linux.


dsmerror.log
07/11/

Re: cancel a pending restartable restore session

[Len Boyle]

Hello Avy, 

You can use the query restore command. 

Also you should be able to set up the windows admin gui for an Linux TSM 
server, unless they have changed something that I missed. 

len

-help query restore -
tsm: ADSMNT04>help query restore
QUERY RESTORE

QUERY RESTORE (Query Restartable Restore Sessions)

Use this command to display information about the restartable restore
sessions.

Privilege Class

Any administrator can issue this command.

Syntax

>>-Query--RESTore--+---+--+-+--->
   '-node_name-'  '-file_space_name-'

   .-Format--=--Standard-.  .-NAMEType--=--SERVER--.
>--+-+--+--+---><
   '-Format--=--+-Standard-+-'  '-NAMEType--=--+-SERVER--+-'
'-Detailed-'   +-UNIcode-+
   '-FSID'


more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)


Parameters

node_name
 Specifies the client node to be queried. This parameter is optional. If
 you do not specify a value, all client nodes with restartable restore
 sessions are displayed. You must specify a value for this parameter if
 you specify a file space name.
file_space_name
 Specifies the file space to be queried. This parameter is optional. If
 you do not specify a value, all file spaces are matched for the
 specified node.

 For a server that has clients with support for Unicode, you may need to
 have the server convert the file space name that you enter. For
 example, you may need to have the server convert the name you enter
 from the server's code page to Unicode. See the NAMETYPE parameter for
 details.
Format
 Specifies how the information is displayed. This parameter is optional.
 The default value is STANDARD. Possible values are:
 Standard
  Specifies that partial information is displayed.
more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:13 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] cancel a pending restartable restore session

hello,

  This is a Linux environment. I am learning as I go how to move around
in there.
  Can you tell me how I can track down where this pending restartable
restore session is? In the windows gui is easy to get rid of pending
restore but not sure how to get rid of that on Linux.


dsmerror.log
07/11/2007 01:09:53 ANS1330S This node currently has a pending restartable
restore session.

The requested operation cannot complete until this session either
completes or is canceled.

07/11/2007 01:09:53 ANS1512E Scheduled event '0100_EAS' failed.  Return
code = 12.

Thanks for your help
Avy Wong
Business Continuity Administrator
Mohegan Sun
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT 06382
ext 28164
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Re: Dismount retry to TSM tape mounts

[Len Boyle]

Hello David, 

Try  the tsm server command 

dismount vol 

See Help dismount vol

len

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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:51 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Dismount retry to TSM tape mounts

If TSM issues a dismount of a tape volume and the dismount fails is there a
way to request TSM to retry the dismount?

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Re: tar with LTO2

[Len Boyle]

Michael, 

Look at the b option to increase your blocking size. Use man tar on your host 
to check for the fine print. If your tar program will let you do it, aim for 
256K block sizes. 

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael 
Green
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 10:47 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tar with LTO2

This post is a bit offtopic, but still I decided to send ti here
because it's probably one of the very few places where large amount
backup administrators that are invested in IBM equipment come
together.

My question is related to using old school tar with IBM LTO2 drives.

I was asked to archive a rather large directory (over 200GB) to tape
using tar and put it into vault for indefinite period of time.
My equipment is as following: Linux x64 (IBMtape driver), 3584 Libr
with IBM 3580 LTO2 FC-attached drives.

I've tried to load a tape into IBMtape0 drive using 3584 Library
Specialist WebGUI and IBMtapeutil
then I tried to write a small directory '/var/log' to the tape as following
tar cvpf /dev/IBMtape0  /var/log
and it seemed to work. I could also tar xvfp  /dev/IBMtape0 and read
the resulting files.

However, tar'ing the actual target directory revealed that the data is
flowing at extremely low rates - less than 100kb/sec.

Any ideas?
--
Warm regards,
Michael Green

Re: Lost in TSM licensing

[Len Boyle]

Yes the number of processors does include the ht processor count. This a dual 
3.60GHz Intel Xeon (Hyper- Threaded) machine. 

Here is part of the output of the set command:

C:\>set
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
OS=Windows_NT
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=EM64T Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0403

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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Lost in TSM licensing

On Jun 25, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Kauffman, Tom wrote:

> ...
> If someone does find a way to query MS-Windows for this information,
> we'd like to know as well.

Probably covered in past postings, but here's a brief from my Windows
QuickFacts:

Processors, number of   How to find out how many
processors are
 in the Wintel box:
  - Via "stupid Windows
trick": in the
cmd window, enter 'set
n', and get
back like:
"NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1".
Or maybe LOGICAL CPU
count on a
hyperthreading CPU.
  - Inspect the Registry key
hklm\system
\currentcontrolset\control
\session management
\environment
\number_of_processors

   Richard Sims

Re: tape loss need help

[Len Boyle]

Please note that if you have an IBM 3584 library with more then one frame, to 
have an inventory of the whole library using this method you would have to open 
and close all the doors. 

You can also start an phyiscal library scan using the library web interface. 
Go to Library then frames. From that screen you can inventory one frame or all 
the frames. 

After that process you can run an audit library from the tsm server. 
Then run commands to checkin libvol commands to checkin scratch and private 
tapes 

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Tom
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tape loss need help

Geoff --

Audit Library on a 3584 does NOT scan the tape barcodes -- it gets the
library manager catalog that was created the last time the library
initialized, with current updates from tape movement. If you want a
re-scan you will need to re-initialize the library (pause it, then open
and close a door).

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:37 AM
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Subject: tape loss need help

Today I moved my TSM server to a new server. Everything seemed to go
well, restored DB, brought back all drives and library, audit library
and my script showed tapes were available as scratch. Tonight after
things have kicked off I got a message no scratch tapes were available
to mount when this afternoon there were 85 after I got the system back
online. q libvol returns nothing private or scratch but q vol shows
tapes. Tonight I tan the 3584 audit library but was way to quick if you
ask me. I had decided to run it again and it looks like the devcnfg is
empty of tapes whereas the one earlier showed everything.

 

Now that nothing seems to be in the library according to TSM I'm at a
loss as to how to get things back when the audit library seemed to work,
but actually didn't. That think obviously isn't looking at barcodes or
it would have found everything in the library if it was truly scanning.
I'm pretty much dead in the water until I can get this fixed and would
sure appreciate some insight if anyone has a suggestion.

 

 

Geoff Gill 
TSM Administrator 
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator 
SAIC M/S-G1b 
(858)826-4062 
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Re: WinTel Bare Metal Restore

[Len Boyle]

Wanda 

With ASR is there a work around for a client that does not have a floopy disk 
drive? 

len 

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Wanda
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For XP and 2003, see the TSM Client Manual for Windows instructions for ASR 
(Automated System Recovery).
It's a MIcrosoft thing which TSM supports.
Works, if you follow the instructions exactly.
 



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Johnson, Milton
Sent: Mon 4/16/2007 10:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: WinTel Bare Metal Restore



Due to the lack of recent religious wars on this forum, I'm forced to
ask:

What is the best method to back-up and perform a reliable and successful Bare 
Metal Restore of a WinTel platform (Windows NT/Server
2000/2003/XP/etc.) using a TSM AIX server?  Methods requiring a third party 
solution are acceptable.  Solutions allowing a BMR to dis-similar hardware are 
preferable.

Personally I view the need to do a BMR on a WinTel platform as an opportunity 
to bring up another AIX server, but that is yet another religious war.

Thanks,
Milton

Re: LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

[Len Boyle]

Hello Kelly, 

We are not doing encryption with tape drives, but have been asking the 
questions. 
My understanding is that lto-3's do not do encryption, have you heard something 
different. 
The encryption of the lto-4's is listed on the web site www.lto.org.

http://www.lto.org/newsite/html/news_4_11_07.html

"For additional security, generation 4 supports 256-Bit AES-GCM encryption 
capabilities at the tape drive level that are designed to enable the writing of 
encrypted data to the LTO Ultrium tape cartridge, helping to protect the 
storage and transport of sensitive information. "

I do not know how true it is, but I heard that the lto-4's might use the same 
method's as the TS1120. 

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ADSM-L] LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

Folks,
 
I've looked at the Redbook highlighting TS1120 tape encryption to get the 
overall idea.
 
In the more general case of LTO3 and LTO4 drives, which can encrypt data, how 
are folks implementing this?
 
Thanks,
 
Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing & CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
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Re: ANS1809W

[Len Boyle]

 Hello Dinesh, 

Check the the server logs and see if you find the answer. I would guess that 
there is a timeout message. 

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pahari, 
Dinesh P
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:30 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS1809W

Hi All, 

Even though the backup was completed successfully, following errors were 
reported on the dsmerror.log file. 

4/04/2007 00:37:44 sessSendVerb: Error sending Verb, rc: -50
04/04/2007 00:37:44 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen 
procedure.
04/04/2007 00:37:44 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen 
procedure.
04/04/2007 00:37:59 ANS1810E TSM session has been reestablished.

I couldn't find any network issue (eg.duplicate ip addresses, NIC speed, route 
etc). Please advice me what could have caused the above issue. 

Regards, 

Dinesh Pahari

Re: What tape drivers to use with RH EL4 64-bit

[Len Boyle]

Xeon and Itanium are different, very different, hardware. I would try the 
x86_64.rpm.  

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Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:08 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] What tape drivers to use with RH EL4 64-bit

We just got our new server and are installing 64-Bit RedHat EL4.

Which drivers should/can I use with this OS, to 3592/LTO2 devices ?

I see the IA64 drivers say they are for Itanium II but the specs on this box 
are XEON WOODCREST processors. I don't know how to equate XEON vs.
Itanium ?

Or do I just use the IBMtape-3.0.5-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm.bin  driver and 
IBMtapeutil.1.3.8.x86_64.tar.bin ?

This is my first adventure into 64-bit land, so any how-to/gotchas is greatly 
appreciated !

Re: 3584 vs 3494

[Len Boyle]

Hello Steve, 

It would be nice if we had someone from IBM tape group that might shine some 
light on the details of the product. As the TSM folks have been known to do for 
TSM. 

But our local IBM tape person says of the 3584 "Yes, if you have 2 robots and 
one fails, the other robot takes over and does all the mounts until robot A is 
repaired".  And the 3584 does have dual grippers on the robot. 

The 3584 does not keep track of the functional use of the tapes, but with ALMS 
it does visualize the tape slot usage. That is the software is given a virtual 
slot number and not the real slot.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Roder
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:47 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3584 vs 3494

> This question is nominally directed to Richard Sims because it cites 
> his Quickfacts. But, other knowledgeable people are welcome and 
> encouraged to respond.
>
> In the '3584' entry in "ADSM/TSM Quickfacts" it is said that, "The
> 3584 is a "SCSI library": the host has to direct its actions. If 
> you're accustomed to the 3494 and its automated actions, don't expect 
> anything like that in the 3584. As one customer said: The 3584 is 
> pretty much an automatic tape mounter with bulk storage and no real 
> 'smarts'.
>
> In the 'SCSI Library' entry it is said that, "The TSM server must 
> physically manage its actions, and must keep track of volume 
> locations. ...the work they don't do they shift to the host, and so 
> TSM is burdened with a lot of intricate SCSI element details and 
> control issues."
>
> Do these entries describe current 3584 automation features, especially 
> vis-a-vis TSM?  If they do, how will TSM server performance and 
> administration change for the worse if we migrate from 3494 technology 
> to a 3584?

We have both a 3494 and a 3584 in our dual-server TSM configuration, soon to be 
4 servers.

Our 3494 is an HA config with dual grippers on each robot.  For this reason, 
all of our primary data is in the 3494, and the 3584 contains the copy, which 
is SAN attached about 5 miles away.  If our 4 server config uses a 3584 for 
primary data, unlike the 3494, it will have single points of failure that the 
3494 does not have.

To me, this is a step backwards.  Is there an HA option for the TS3500 yet that 
provides dual library managers and dual robotics along with a manual mode of 
operation?  I guess if it did it would be a scsi-3494, and the beginnings of an 
acceptable replacement for a 3494 with HA frames.

I much perfer the 3494's categories to scsi elements.  Sharing is simple vs. 
partitioning.


Steve Roder
University at Buffalo
([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564)

Re: STK Library L700 and ACSLS

[Len Boyle]

Matthias, 

Those firmware level are very old. You can look at the following IBM URL to 
track the latest levels available to the public. 

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=546&context=STCVQ6Z&dc=D420&uid=ssg1S443&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

This web page reports a LTO-1 level of 5AU1L1S or 5AU1L1F.
And for a LTO-2 67U1L2S or 67U1L2F. These were released in Jan 2006 and nov 
2006.  

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias 
Feyerabend
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:24 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] STK Library L700 and ACSLS

Firmware on IBM LTO1 is 4561, on IBM LTO2 4770. This is the latest firmware 
version STK provided us, maybe there are newer versions now available. I will 
check that with STK.

I know that we really dont need ACSLS to have only TSM on the library, even 
with several servers.
Discussing the "Wait for rewind failed" problems with STK, one of them 
mentioned we should move to ACSLS, what means investment of money and time.
I have some vague glance of hope, some error recovery in ACSLS is better and  
will stop getting these errors. ???

Matthias

Richard Sims wrote:

> This thread is dwelling on ACSLS, but is that actually a problem 
> solution?  What if the problem is that the library/drive is failing to 
> wait long enough for the rewind of a high-capacity tape, and considers 
> it "stuck in the drive" because it's not out of there in the allotted 
> time?  That kind of thing is fixed by drive firmware.
> So, see if your firmware is up to date.
>
>Richard Sims
>
> On Feb 2, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Matthias Feyerabend wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> to clarify:
>>
>> We are not yet using ACSLS, but considering to use it in future to 
>> overcome errors we get permanently , once twice  a week.
>> Our libraries are connected as SCSI libraries over the SAN with  TSM, 
>> one server is library manager, the other servers library clients.
>>
>> My question is, is there some hope or even own experience, that 
>> switching to ACSLS will overcome the errors we see at present ( FSC
>> x3e24 for example).
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós y Márquez wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Matthias,
>>>
>>> I am doing something similar... I am installing 3 TSM servers that 
>>> shares an SL8500 with ACSLS with LTO 3 drives...
>>>
>>> I have define 3 library clients to 1 library manager sharing an 
>>> ACSLS library... how did you define an scsi library client to to an 
>>> ACSLS libray manager ¿?
>>> Could you describe more your environment ¿? How many Library 
>>> managers did you have ¿? and library clients ¿? Connections ¿?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ibán.
>>>
>>> Matthias Feyerabend escribió:
>>>
 Hello,

 We are using two STK Libraries L700 attached to FC with IBM-LTO1 
 and IBM-LTO2.
 They are defined to TSM 5.3 Library Manager (Windows) and Library 
 clients as scsi Libraries.

 They are used from several library clients in Windows and Linux.
 Both libraries are heavily used and we are running more and more in 
 error situations (errors like 3e24 in fsc log) where libraries and 
 drives are no longer usable and only a full power cycle of the 
 library helps.

 Is there some experience that STK ACSLS software will help to 
 overcome this painfull errors ?

 As TSM has its own driver we dont really need ACSLS, but perhaps we 
 get better reliability.

 Any expertise ?

 Thank you.

 Matthias Feyerabend



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Re: SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

[Len Boyle]

Good Morning Christian, 

Can you give the mailing list URL's to the Documents that you wrote on this 
topic. 

Thanks len  

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian 
Svensson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

Hi Jim,
With the BMR tool from IBM/TSM you can do a migration from Physical to Virtual 
(P2V), Virtual to Physical (V2P) or Physical to Physical (P2P).
And you can pay for one time use if you don't want to keep the product.
There are some VMware documents I wrote together with VMware/IBM and Cristie 
about this how to Backup a Physical box and move it to VMware. Also how you BMR 
protection your VMware ESX box with TSM and there BMR tool.

Talk to your IBM rep and he will help you out on this.


Thanks
Christian


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Ämne: Tivoli Restore into VMware Instance

Hi All,

 

Has anyone tried restoring a "regular" Windows 2003 server into a VMware 
virtual instance with Tivoil?

 

We are kicking around some new DR procedures and this maybe sounded doable?

 

Jim Hatfield

Kings Daughters Medical Center

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Re: Emergency help:ANR1405W even w/ plenty of scratch tapes

[Len Boyle]

Hello John, 

Did you check if any of the scratch tapes are marked unav. 
Are any of the scratch tapes assigned to pools that you are not using at this 
time. 

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, 
John
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:59 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Emergency help:ANR1405W even w/ plenty of scratch tapes

Help!
Running TSM 5.2.7.1 under AIX 5.2.  Problem I have not seen before.
I am receiving:

01/15/07 08:09:15 ANR0984I Process 64 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the

   BACKGROUND at 08:09:15. (SESSION: 4439, PROCESS: 64)

01/15/07 08:09:15 ANR2280I Full database backup started as process 64.

   (SESSION: 4439, PROCESS: 64)

01/15/07 08:09:15 ANR0609I BACKUP DB started as process 64. (SESSION:
4439,
   PROCESS: 64)
01/15/07 08:09:31 ANR8945W Scratch volume mount failed . (SESSION: 4439,

   PROCESS: 64)

01/15/07 08:09:31 ANR1405W Scratch volume mount request denied - no
scratch
   volume available. (SESSION: 4439, PROCESS: 64)
01/15/07 08:09:34 ANR4578E Database backup/restore terminated - required

   volume was not mounted. (SESSION: 4439, PROCESS: 64)

01/15/07 08:09:34 ANR0985I Process 64 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the

   BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at

   08:09:34. (SESSION: 4439, PROCESS: 64)

Other processes like migrations, etc. are also failing.  But from a q libv I
can tell I have 16 scratch tapes.   My 3590 device class is set to
format=drives, so that isn't my problem.  Since this isn't a storage pool 
volume, Maxscratch does not apply, but it is set to 6000, and our tape storage 
pool has only 1500 tapes in it.

  I was having the problem yesterday, and rebooted the TSM server.  It came 
back up, and I was able to do a Backup DB at that time, and it also mounted a 
few scratch tapes in our primary tape pool.  It added the scratch tapes to the 
tape pool with no problem.  Then about an hour later (after I had gone to bed) 
it started getting the same problem.  It says I don't have scratch tapes, but I 
do.

  Can anyone give me any insite?  I am really stumped.

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Sr. System Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health System
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO.  63127
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Re: IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning

[Len Boyle]

Larry, 

If you use the ALMS feature of the 3584 library, then you are locked in to the 
library doing the cleaning. 
An ALMS is a pretty nice feature to be using. 

PS Can I ask why you have two single partition libraries instead of one with 2 
partitions. Unless they are  in different locations. And maybe a third 
partition for test use. 

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry 
Peifer
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:15 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning

Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on 
pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host library or 
the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server.  We are configuring  two 
3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries.  Our environment is TSM 5.3x server 
on AIX  5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2 tapes in the libraries with each library 
configured as it's own single partition.

Re: ADSMLICN.DLL cannot be loaded

[Len Boyle]

Angus, 

In the past the cdrom had a choice just to install the License information. So 
you should not have to uninstall what you have done. 

len 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus 
Macdonald
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:44 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ADSMLICN.DLL cannot be loaded

Are there any kind TSM 5.3.3 Win32 users out there that could spare a copy of 
ADSMLICN.DLL? I'd really, really hate to have to uninstall what I've done, just 
because IBM choose to list TSM 5.3.2 on the PA site for download.

Thanks
Angus

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Sent: 24 October 2006 13:19
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ADSMLICN.DLL cannot be loaded


On Oct 24, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Angus Macdonald wrote:

> I'm running 5.3.3 but the installation media (and therefore
> adsmlicn.dll) I had from IBM is 5.3.0. Would that do it?

Hello, Angus -

If the file existence resulted from a wholly fresh install of 5.3,
and then boosting of the whole to 5.3.3, then the file should be
compatible with the current server.  What I suspect is that the
install was performed over the trial version, somehow causing the
original file to be left in place, and that PTF maintenance carried
no replacement for that file.  Whereas this is not a problem that
other 5.3 customers have reported, I have to believe that your
circumstances are unique by virtue of pre-existence of the trial
software.  (Indeed, it may be that module which stops usage at the
end of the trial period. :-)  You may be able to physically extract
that module from the installation CD, or some kind 5.3.3 Windows
customer may send you a copy, or you may have to reinstall (this time
wiping out executables from the server directory).

Richard Sims

Re: Total newbie question about DB Backups

[Len Boyle]

Angus, 

Look at help query volhist

This will show you the db tapes and other special tapes

Query volhist type=dbb

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus 
Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:36 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Total newbie question about DB Backups

Okay, I may rely on mirroring then. If I do a DB backup every 4 hours it'll
cost 6 tapes a day and each one will only have a few MB of data.

For some reason, the tapes used for DB Backup aren't listed when I execute a
Q VOL. Something else to investigate.

Thanks again.

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Sent: 21 September 2006 16:28
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Total newbie question about DB Backups


Hi Angus !

You'll probably get somehow disapointed, but there's no way to do what
you're asking !
TSM wants a new tape for each DB backup, and the only way to spare your
precious scratch volumes would be to use some form of disk storage, thru
the mean of a sequential-on-disk device class ...

HTH.

Cheers

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Angus Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, 21 September, 2006 17:11
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Total newbie question about DB Backups

I'm just in the process of implementing TSM 5.3 for the first time in
our environment and I'm following the TSM Implementation Guide (June
2006
edition) redbook very closely ;-) Things are going pretty well so far
but I have a bit of an issue with my database backups. Every DB backup
seems to use another scratch tape so my 3582 is going to run out of
tapes very quickly. My backup command is

Backup DB type=full devc=lto2-dc

lifted directly from the redbook. How can I limit the number of tapes
used for DB backups? I tried limiting the backup to a particular tape
volume but the tape is apparently in use after the first backup and
cannot be reused.

Angus

Re: Total newbie question about DB Backups

[Len Boyle]

Angus, 

You can use the delete volhist command to move your older db backup tapes to 
scratch status. 
Look at help del volhist. There are various options to control which tapes 
handled. 

len 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus 
Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:11 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Total newbie question about DB Backups

I'm just in the process of implementing TSM 5.3 for the first time in our
environment and I'm following the TSM Implementation Guide (June 2006
edition) redbook very closely ;-) Things are going pretty well so far but I
have a bit of an issue with my database backups. Every DB backup seems to
use another scratch tape so my 3582 is going to run out of tapes very
quickly. My backup command is

Backup DB type=full devc=lto2-dc

lifted directly from the redbook. How can I limit the number of tapes used
for DB backups? I tried limiting the backup to a particular tape volume but
the tape is apparently in use after the first backup and cannot be reused.

Angus

Re: ZFS filesystems on Solaris

[Len Boyle]

 Hello Zoltan, 

I suspect that the TSM folks have not finished testing zfs, there may be 
boundary conditions that might have problems. 

One feature that you most likely are not using, and I suspect will not work, is 
to try backing up files with the new acl's (the same as nfs version 4) and see 
if they are backed up and can be restored).

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ZFS filesystems on Solaris

Is there any particular reason that normal, scheduled backup processing of
a Solaris system, completely ignores ZFS filesystems ?

The client is 5.3.3.0 and I have suggested to the owner of the system to
update to 5.3.4.4.

Searched on IBM result in nothing but references to zFS on USS/Unix.

Manually backing up the ZFS filesystem seems to work.

What are we missing ?

Re: Making TSM twin-center compliant

[Len Boyle]

Hello Eric,

You will only require scratch tapes in the primary pool  or that TSM can move 
into the primary pool to do backups. TSM really does not think of working with 
tape-sets, it thinks of working with data. If all your primary storage media is 
wiped out and you have your copypool data. Then all new backup data can go to 
new media. The new copypool data can append to the old copypool media and new 
media.

You can recreate the primary pool media from the copypool media as a background 
task. But it is not required for your operations. It is just required to enable 
you to handle a second disaster.

Several sites have posted on this list, that they make two copies of the 
primary storage pool data, To product against the loss of the primary and copy 
storage pools.

len

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van - SPLXM
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Making TSM twin-center compliant

Hi Allen!
Thank you very much for your reaction!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, you cannot backup to a
copypool. Am I wrong here?
I cannot wait for the restore storagepool to finish... This will take
days and I will have to be able to make client backups immediately.
If I was able to convert a copypool into a primary pool, I would be able
to backup clients right away. Ok, I would loose my copypool, but in case
of a disaster I can live with that for several days. In the meantime I
can have my vendor bring in (rental) stuff to rebuild the copypool.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: vrijdag 1 september 2006 16:00
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Making TSM twin-center compliant

>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:17:17 +0200, "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> We are about to implement a second (fallback) IT center on another
> location. The idea is to create a hot standby environment for TSM.
> We are already using a separate copypool which will be moved to the
> new remote location, so if the primary pool gets lost, we have all
> data (up until the last backup stgpool of course) on the remote
> location.  However, in case of a disaster, not only will we have to be

> able to recover clients (from this copypool), but we also need to
> continue backup here.

> This would be no problem if one could promote a TSM copypool to a
> primary pool. In this case one could just continue making (the forever
> incremental) backups, but TSM doesn't offer this function (yet).

Sure it does. In fact, you can do exactly as you describe; biggest
impact will be that the copy stgpools are usually (very) poorly
optimized for client restore.

Think of it carefully: Two TSM servers: PRIM, and COPY; COPY is housing
the offsites.

You lose PRIM, but, since you're good at these things you have the
database backed up offsite.  You restore the PRIM database on hardware
at the remote site.

Immediately at that point, you have access to the data in the copy
pools, and more importantly, you have the -database- that tells you what
you have and don't have.

The next incremental will only copy the data you didn't have as of the
database backup which you used to do the restore.

So, between the time you get PRIM restored at the remote site, and the
time when the first of your clients have gotten their acts together, you
can be RESTORE STGpool ing as fast as your little tape drives can
scurry; as you make progress there (according to your previously
determined list of priorities...) your replacement PRIM becomes better
and better suited to serve the client restores.


>From another perspective: Why "promote" a copystgpool to PRIMARY status?
You'll just need to re-organize the new PRIMARY pool and then make a
copy pool.  Less work to take the well-organized (for a copy
stgpool) existing copystgpool and make a new PRIMARY.


- Allen S. Rout
- There is no copy, there is no primary.  There is only data.


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Re: Reuse node name

[Len Boyle]

Hello Keith, 

You can use the TSM server "rename filespace" command to rename the data for 
the existing Windows 2000 server. If you rename them to patterns that will 
never exist on the new server the future backups will not change them. But the 
data will be available from the new cliet server for restores. 
At the end of the time period that you wish to keep the data, you can use the 
TSM "delete filespace" command to remove the data from the TSM server. If you 
are a belt and suspenders kind of person, you can create an export or backupset 
to save the data before deleting. 

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith 
Arbogast
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Reuse node name

A Windows sys-admin wishes to replace an existing Windows 2000 server
with a newly built Windows 2003 server, but using the old name for
the new server.  We have been backing up the old server for some
time.  He is adamant that he won't need to roll back to the old
server, or restore any files from its backups.

I'm wondering what problems might occur when we start backing up
files from the new client, for instance since the file systems on the
old and new servers will be somewhat different.

Would the best way to avoid problems be to do a RENAME NODE of the
old client?  Then, register the new server with the old name and TSM
won't have any records associated with that name to 'confuse' it.

If there is a simpler way, or if no intervention is required, I would
be glad to know that.

Our TSM servers are at version 5.3.0.2.

Thank you,
Keith Arbogast

Re: Detect whether L700 tape library unavailable

[Len Boyle]

Hello Robin, 

There is an undocumented command show library that has the online status.
 
See the archives for more info on undocumented commands.

Here is the partial output from the show library command and the query path 
command. 
Autolib is an stk 9710 which was not connected. But at least with a connected 
library the show library command will show the library as offline if it can not 
talk to it. 

You do get the following message in the tsm log for an unconnected library

08/09/2006 09:09:05  ANR8440E Initialization failed for SCSI library AUTOLIB;
  will retry in 2 minute(s). 

len

-
tsm: ADSMNT04>show library
MMSV->libList: head=03059FB8, tail=0305A5E0

Library AUTOLIB (type SCSI):
  reference count = 0, online = 0, borrowed drives = 0, update count = 0
   basicCfgBuilt = 1, libInfoBuild = 0, definingPathToLibrary = 0
   addLibPath = 0, driveListBusy = 0
  libvol_lock_id=0, libvolLock_count=0, SeqnBase=0
  library extension at 03053960
  autochanger list:
dev=lb0.0.0.3, busy=0, online=0

Drive detail and second library output deleted.
---
tsm: ADSMNT04>q path

Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line
NameType
--- --- --- --- ---
ADSMNT04SERVER  AUTOLIB LIBRARY Yes
ADSMNT04SERVER  TAPE1   DRIVE   Yes
ADSMNT04SERVER  TAPE2   DRIVE   Yes
ADSMNT04SERVER  BORGLIBRARY Yes
ADSMNT04SERVER  TAPEB1  DRIVE   Yes
ADSMNT04SERVER  TAPEB2  DRIVE   Yes



For others: Has anyone asked IBM to move the function of the show library 
command to a documented command. 

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin 
Sharpe
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:03 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Detect whether L700 tape library unavailable

The path definition is the only TSM reference I could find that has a
library status:  ONLINE=YES or NO.  Example:

ANS8000I Server command: 'q path'

  Source Name: TSM_WAYNE_LM
  Source Type: SERVER
 Destination Name: WATL26
 Destination Type: LIBRARY
  On-Line: Yes

I'm not sure if TSM will set it off line if there is a problem.  Another
approach is to use the lbtest utility that comes with TSM, but I don't know
if I'd want to be firing that up automatically it could interfere with
TSM activities.

BTW, we also have an L700.  Ours is attached to an HP rp7410, running HP-UX
11i.  We have 14 LTO2 drives, and 4 LTO3's on order.

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs



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We have a TSM server (5.2.2) running on a Solaris box with a SCSI
attached STK L700 tape library. TSM interfaces directly with the tape
library. Does anyone have any relatively simple method to detect whether
the tape library becomes unavailable? I was thinking of enabling some
events, have them directed to a log file & have a monitoring tool watch
for them, but it seems like it would be difficult to identify all of
them. Is there some simply way to achieve this? Perhaps "query drive" or
something on a regular basis would generate a particular error if the
library was down. I suppose a script could just see if "q drive" returns
valid response within some timeframe. Any thoughts or experience doing
this?

Roy J. Martin
Global Client Engineering GM  (BUR group)
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Re: Missing tape volumes

[Len Boyle]

Hello Paul, 

Check out the query volhist command, or look at the volhist file, and see if 
the tape is listed as one of the special use tapes. That is it was used as a 
database backup tape, or export tape, or

len 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dudley
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Missing tape volumes

Hi,

I have a couple of tape volumes which do not show up via the q vol
command but I cannot check them in as scratch tapes (see below).

Any ideas?

tsm: ANLTSM>q vol 915ACFL2
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

tsm: ANLTSM>checkin libvol lb1.1.0.2 915ACFL2 status=scratch
ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 915ACFL2 in library LB1.1.0.2 cannot
be assigned
a status of SCRATCH.
ANS8001I Return code 12.

tsm: ANLTSM>q vol 943ACFL2
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

tsm: ANLTSM>checkin libvol lb1.1.0.2 943ACFL2 status=scratch
ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 943ACFL2 in library LB1.1.0.2 cannot
be assigned
a status of SCRATCH.
ANS8001I Return code 12.


 
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Re: failed (return code 12)

[Len Boyle]

 Gill, 

What do you find in the dsmerror.log file found on the client machine. 

len

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Geoffrey L.
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] failed (return code 12)

We see this error once in a while and I'm wondering if anyone has any
particular insight as to the cause. Here is what I found in the TSM server
log that I'm guessing caused the report. The backup ran for 1:43 minutes
before this happened and did complete with the failure. If it is not maybe
someone has something specific to look for.



08/06/2006 21:43:28  ANR0440W Protocol error on session 44536 for node


  Node12(WinNT) - invalid verb header

  received.(SESSION: 44536)


08/06/2006 21:43:31  ANR0484W Session 44536 for node node12 (WinNT)

  terminated - protocol violation detected.(SESSION:
44536)



Thanks,



Geoff Gill

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PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

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Re: Backup of MVS data, leveraging TSM. (bus-tech producs?)

[Len Boyle]

Hello Allen, 

We did not use this solution. 

Our netapp sales person a little while ago proposed using the bus-tech solution 
with a netapp backend store. As Netapp sells this solution. But our MVS (z/os) 
folks did not want to look at this solution. 

len 

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Rout
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:49 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup of MVS data, leveraging TSM. (bus-tech producs?)

Howdy, all.

We've periodically talked about MVS backups, and how they just don't
mesh well with TSM's filesystem-oriented attitude.

Well, I've stumbled on something in the process of pursuing a
tape-abatement project which shows early signs of being a nice back
door into TSM treatment of MVS backups; I wanted to wave it around
here, and get a sense of whether anyone else had experimented with
it.

There's a company called 'bus-tech' which sells a gadget that talks
ESCON or FICON out one end, and FC-AL or SCSI out the other end.  It
pretends to be a flock of 3480s and 3490s to the mainframe, and writes
the tape images onto a normal EXT3 filesystem.

Here's the good part: Installing a TSM client on the appliance box
(SUSE) is a supported config.  So if you can keep enough disk around
for the backups you want to store, you can then do an incr of them,
and treat the resulting data stream as you would any other TSM data
stream.

This could be the solution to the "Make the MVS data into a by-god
bitstream, PLEASE!" problem.

We're at the early sales stage of this investigation, so for all I
know the ground could be littered with deal-breakers.  but the sales
engineer I chatted with said they had several other installations
using TSM on the appliance.  I though there was a good chance one of
those was listening here, and might give an opinion.

Anyone?


- Allen S. Rout

Re: TSM 5.2x & IBM 3584 Library

[Len Boyle]

Hello Kenny, 

It worked for us with the search=bulk option. The tapes are placed into the 
library, but they are not in the virtual library, but the virtual i/o station 
for the virtual library. 

len 

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Kenny
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.2x & IBM 3584 Library

You can turn on Virtual IO from the web console which will place all
tapes placed in the IO door into the library.  This worked great except
then we search=yes option did not work.  

We use scripts to checkin and eject drmedia and turned off Virtual IO.
The scripts also automatically replies. 

This has worked great for the last year.  

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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:38 PM
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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
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Re: Backing Up CIFS Share on Netapp

[Len Boyle]

The cifs share is mapped/mounted to your userid's session, not to all sessions 
on the box.

I am not up onto all the in and outs of all the possible ways to do this. But 
you have to map the network share in such a way, that the session which is the 
tsm scheduler service sees the share.

I have not tested this, but I believe that you could have a pre-backup command 
script which issues the net use command to mount the share.

Also I have been told that on netapp site, they have a tech note that gives a 
procedure that could be run  to mount shares before the normall services are 
run.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff White
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:10 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing Up CIFS Share on Netapp

Hi,

We have:
TSM Client 5.3.2 running on Windows 2003
TSM Server 5.2.4 running on AIX v5.3.01
FAS960 running data ontap 7.0.2

I know something similar has appeared here earlier and that Pete Tanenhaus
provided a response. But

Our DSM.OPT file contains
DOMAIN  ALL-LOCAL "\\FILER\SHARE\FLDR\*"

INCLUDE "\\FILER\SHARE\FLDR\*.*"

On the windows 2003 server, we map the above share to a drive (example Z:).
Using the DSMC command, i can back this up fine. Using the GUI, i can also
back this up fine. However, when using the scheduled service, it failed
with message ' ANS1071E Invalid domain name entered: '\\FILER\SHARE\FLDR\*'

Our Windows admin guy has changed the account under which the scheduled
service runs (from 'system') , to use an account which is a domain
administrator. But it still fails with the same error.



Any idea?

Thanks.



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Re: Files stuck in disk stgpool

[Len Boyle]

Roger

Would this be a good request for a design change to the TSM dev group. That is 
an client option to not send any files over a configured size. Then the disk 
and tape stg pools, would not require max size settings for this purpose. Of 
course there then should be a special client message that the file was skipped 
due to size limit issues. If the TSM folks ever increase the subfile support to 
include files greater then 2gig, maybe the option should have two sizes,one for 
a subfile and one otherwise.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:50 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Files stuck in disk stgpool

I'm looking for a strategy to attack a strange problem of stuck files
and failing migration.

In one heirarchy, I have a file size limit of 10g for the disk storage
pool, and also a limit of 10g for the tape pool it migrates to. The idea
is to prevent a client backup session from ever mounting a tape
directly, which is very inefficient.

We are using client compression.

There exists a client somewhere, who has a 9.99gb file that is of a type
that is already compressed (a jpeg photo, or a zip file, for instance).
The server compares its 9.99gb size to the 10gb limit, and says "OK,
back it up", and it comes down the wire into the disk storage pool.
However, when it arrives, it has grown by being recompressed, so that
now it is larger than 10gb.

Now it's stuck in the disk stgpool, and cannot be migrated to tape.
Migration processes repeatedly fail and are restarted. Things grind to a
halt.

This has now happened twice. My only fix is to temporarily raise the
tape pool's limit to get the stuck file migrated. However, this could
allow a client backup session to mount a tape.

Anybody got any better ideas?

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird request for schedule

[Len Boyle]

Thanks for the input. 

I will post more on Friday on our goals, To get feedback on how to word this. 

Another post talked about cps, I have not looked at this yet, Do you think that 
this might help. 

PS another post talked about cancelling sessions, and we have used that method, 
the problem is that if the backup is working on a 2 or 7 gig file that work is 
rolled back. 

Thanks again len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Raibeck
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule

Hi Len,

Some nifty ideas, but non-trivial to implement. And I cannot make any kind
of commitments in regard to adding new functionality. You (and others
interested in such a thing) should consider opening a requirement for this
type of functionality. If the demand is sufficiently high, that would
weigh in favor of such a feature. But at this time, I do not see it on the
horizon. (This is just my take.)

Best regards,

Andy

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 2006-06-01
13:39:46:

> Hello Joe,
>
> We have the same problem, just with a larger window. I do not know
> of a good solution from tsm, but if you hear of anything we would
> like to hear of it. We do not need for the backup to stop, but just
> to have almost no effect on a wan link during the day.
>
> Andy I assume that you are the best person to answer this question.
>
> Would it be possible to have an tsm server command that could do one
> of the following. This command could then be issued by hand, or via
> an scheduler.
>
> - Put the backup session to sleep and later with a different commandwake
up.
>
> - Put a governor on the data transfer rate of the client with a
> command from the tsm server. Either a fixed rate, such as 16kps or a
> relative rate based on the link speed and usage.
>
> - A interface to work with the networking gear and qos that could
> keep the tsm traffic to an background priority level.
>
> Thanks much len
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:21 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time
> window; from 10pm to 4am.
>
> That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if
> at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop and
> to be rescheduled for next backup cycle.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Joe Crnjanski
> Infinity Network Solutions Inc.
> Phone: 416-235-0931 x26
> Fax: 416-235-0265
> Web: www.infinitynetwork.com
>

Re: weird request for schedule

[Len Boyle]

Hello Joe, 

We have the same problem, just with a larger window. I do not know of a good 
solution from tsm, but if you hear of anything we would like to hear of it. We 
do not need for the backup to stop, but just to have almost no effect on a wan 
link during the day. 

Andy I assume that you are the best person to answer this question. 

Would it be possible to have an tsm server command that could do one of the 
following. This command could then be issued by hand, or via an scheduler. 

- Put the backup session to sleep and later with a different command wake up. 

- Put a governor on the data transfer rate of the client with a command from 
the tsm server. Either a fixed rate, such as 16kps or a relative rate based on 
the link speed and usage. 

- A interface to work with the networking gear and qos that could keep the tsm 
traffic to an background priority level. 

Thanks much len

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe 
Crnjanski
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:21 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule

Hello,

I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time
window; from 10pm to 4am.

That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if
at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop and
to be rescheduled for next backup cycle.

Any ideas appreciated.

Joe Crnjanski
Infinity Network Solutions Inc.
Phone: 416-235-0931 x26
Fax: 416-235-0265
Web: www.infinitynetwork.com
 

Re: Problem backing up foiles with foreign characters

[Len Boyle]

Hello Gary, 

Are your filespaces for the clients set for Unicode? On the server use the 
query filespace command to check it out. If the filespace is not enabled for 
Unicode then you can not store those characters. Note that if they are not and 
you change the filespace to be Unicode enabled, it will require a fresh full 
backup of the filespace. And you should also be on a late model of the client 
code, as there were problems with the early releases of the Unicode support. 

Len 

-

Q filespace rocky-1 f=d

  Node Name: ROCKY-1
 Filespace Name: \\rocky-1\d$
 Hexadecimal Filespace Name: 5c5c726f636b792d315c6424
   FSID: 5
more...   ( to continue, 'C' to cancel)

   Platform: WinNT
 Filespace Type: NTFS
  Is Filespace Unicode?: Yes
  Capacity (MB): 307,200.0
   Pct Util: 78.3
Last Backup Start Date/Time: 05/28/2006 16:35:52
 Days Since Last Backup Started: 2
   Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 05/28/2006 16:49:37
   Days Since Last Backup Completed: 2
Last Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
Days Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed: 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary 
D.
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Problem backing up foiles with foreign characters

Tsm server v5.2.7.2, running on solaris 2.8.
Client v5.2 and 5.3 running on linux86 kernel v2.4 and 2.6.

Getting the folllowing on many files.
05/29/06   20:02:07 fioScanDirEntry(): Object '/usr/lib/aspell/español' 
contains unrecognized symbols for current locale, skipping...

05/29/06   20:02:17 fioScanDirEntry(): Object 
'/usr/share/hangul_keyboard/µåº¸¶ô_µÎ¹ú½Ä.kbd' contains unrecognized symbols 
for current locale, skipping...

Is there any way around this, to force backup of these files?
I've only shown a few, but we have many non English speaking users, and this is 
now a problem.

Thanks for the help.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
 

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Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

[Len Boyle]

Hello Geoffrey,

If you purchase a feature call ALMS for the 3584 you get something called VIO, 
Virtual i/o station.
With this feature as the operator puts carts into the i/o station the library 
moves the carts two at a time into slots in the library. It assigns the tape 
carts to the virtual libraries based on bar code prefix rules.
This is up to 255 carts per virtual library. Or at least my reading of the doc 
says up to 255 per virtual library. I have not tested to make sure that it is 
255 per virtual library and not the sum for all virtual libraries. The 
application when it asks for the tapes from the i/o station the tapes are moved 
from the virtual i/o station to the virtual library. This is only a paper 
transaction as the tape are already in slots, unless the count exceed the max 
carts in the vio. Then the real i/o station gets in the action.

The same process happens on checkout. The first tapes checked out are moved to 
the real i/o station, after the i/o station fills the tapes are just moved to 
vio status. When the operator empties an i/o station and closes the door, the 
library moves up to an i/o station worth two at a time to the real i/o station.

I believe that IBM is trying to slowly move features of the 3494 to the 3584. I 
suspect, but do not know that not all features will move, and there may be new 
features.

I am thinking of asking for one new feature. With the existing web interface to 
the 3584, one can see which volsers are in the real i/o station (really two i/o 
stations in our box), but one can not see what is in the virtual i/o station. I 
think that they should add this.

I am thinking that they should add an otherwise rules for the bar code rules. 
At this time if the library can not assign a tape to a virtual library based on 
the bar code. It allows any virtual library to pull it. This can happen if one 
places a good barcoded tape in the i/o station with no matching barcode rule, 
or if the library for any reason can not read the barcode correctly. I would 
like some feature where the tape is kept in the i/o station until someone does 
something with it. Or may assign it to a dummy virtual library, which could be 
site defined. Maybe an snmp trap to wave a flag that there is a problem.

  len

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, 
Geoffrey L.
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 checkin/checkout

I'm wondering if I'm missing anything in our setup of the 3584 as it relates
to incoming and outgoing tapes. Currently the mainframe sends alerts to the
operators when the I/O port is full on the 3494 and needs emptying. Once
empty the checkout of tapes can continues. I was wondering how others manage
that on a 3584. Is there a way to send alerts when the port is full? I'd
hate to come in and find all the tapes were not ejected because the job
could not continue.



Second question relates to checking in tapes. On the 3494 you can insert
tapes to the I/O port and it automatically empties it and put tapes into
empty slots. I don't see this available with a 3584, but easily could have
missed it, so I'm wondering if there is a way to change a setting on the
library or automate this.



Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

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Re: Mainframe backups...

[Len Boyle]

Hello Allen, 

The only role for mvs that tsm can play, at least to my limited knowledge, is 
to back up the unix oe file system. And the tsm server does not have to be on 
the mainframe. 

len 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. 
Rout
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Mainframe backups...

Greetings, all.


I've gotten a request to update my opinions on ways that TSM can help the 
mainframe do backups.  What I'm recalling from previous discussions we've had 
here is that the MVS filesystem structure, and the files theron, are 
sufficiently different from the heirarchical structures of byte streams we're 
accustomed to, that much of TSM is inapplicable to MVS data.


So, for those of you in a mixed-mode shop, is TSM anywhere in the backup 
picture for your mainframe data?  How are you doing offsites for the mainframe? 
 Is it a VTS thing, or are there other methods you prefer?




- Allen S. Rout

Re: ? On LTO3 cleaning tapes for a 3584

[Len Boyle]

Aaron,

If you are using library controlled cleaning then you do not need a cleaning 
tape assigned to each logical library. As we are using the ALMS option we are 
using library cleaning. We also are using netapp ndmp backups and that also 
calls for library controlled cleaning.

len

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron 
Durkee
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:40 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ? On LTO3 cleaning tapes for a 3584

Ours is CLNI14L1, could be a left over hmmm...

But that leads me to ask do I need a cleaning tape assigned to each logical 
library?

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/06 01:07PM >>>
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, William Boyer wrote:

> We just upgraded the drives in our 3584 library to LTO3 from LTO1 and
> need to order some of the new Ultrium Universal cleaning cartridges with
> labels. The 3584 needs then to start with CLNI or CLNU, but the
> suffix...should it still he L1 or is there another suffix so the library
> can identify which drives this cleaning tape is compatible with?

Our universal tapes are labled CLNUxxCU, and we use TSM-based cleaning
(not automatic 3584 cleaning, we've found that it's unreliable at keeping
count of uses)

--Jim


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Re: 3584 library: problems with some trays

[Len Boyle]

We had a scanner fail a short time in the past. We found out that there are at 
least three different design levels for the hardware. 

len 

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We tested it out in our environment, and did not find the same
problem--all tapes were scanned appropriately.

I guess our barcode scanner is right-side-up.



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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:26:52AM +0100, Leigh Reed wrote:

> I raised a call with IBM and they have come back with the fact that it
> may be to do with a barcode scanner that has been installed upside down.

My call is still open. When a solution is available, I'll report back.

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Re: Update - Tape problem after moving TSM to new server

[Len Boyle]

Hello Roger

I have seen it happen. We have collocate turned on for the tape storage pools. 
We had several clients that had very little in the way of changing data, with 
this usage pattern, we can see a filling tape that is mostly expired holes and 
it will reclaim. It does not happen very offen, but it does happen. 

len 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update - Tape problem after moving TSM to new server

I have never seen reclamation take a Filling volume. I thought the Big
Idea ever since the product was called WDSF was to fill up the Filling
volumes until they are Full, let expiration gradually eat holes in them,
and then reclaim them. What's the point in reclaiming a tape that isn't
full yet? Even with collocation, I don't get it. If it isn't full yet,
the only thing you should be doing to it is writing more data to it.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]
= What if there were no rhetorical questions? ==



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Richard Sims wrote:

>On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:56 AM, Rainer Wolf wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Roger Deschner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 3. The Full tapes should reclaim themselves normally. However,
>>> reclamation will not select any tape that is still marked as
>>> Filling, so
>>> you've got to reclaim them manually yourself with MOVE DATA. Might
>>> take
>>> a while, which is OK as long as you don't run out of tapes.
>>
>> Is it true ?  I thought that reclamation can also affect
>> volumes in filling state - why not ?
>
>Reclamation operates on any usable volume, regardless of Full or
>Filling. Of course, when you get to the point of reclaiming Filling
>volumes, reclamation may not then be a productive thing to do.
>
>   Richard Sims
>