Re: Delayed Schedule Start
Only this schedule has a priority of 'one', it is for testing the backup of one specific filesystem. There were no other events scheduled to run at this time, however, since the backup of this filesystem takes 14 hours (4.2 million objects/ 108 Gb) I assigned it higher priority over events occurring later in the day. Randomization is probably the answer. I did not realize that randomization would be used when no other sessions/processes were active on the TSM Server and/or client. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-PROD-ZH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Delayed Schedule Start your sched has priority 1, does all the other scheds have the same priority? If yes, why? greets joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jon Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2002 17:27 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Delayed Schedule Start Perhaps a combination of the randomization, the backup window or the available sessions at the time of backup? If there are no sessions available, the backup will start anytime a session is available within that schedule window. Jon Adams Systems Engineer IT IPS, Premera Blue Cross -Original Message- From: Etienne Brodeur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Delayed Schedule Start What's your Schedule Randomization percentage and what is the backup window for this schedule? If I recall correctly randomization is for every schedule even if it only runs on one node. And the ramdomization starts from the moment the nodes connect to the server not from the start of the window. backup window is 4 hours. schedule starts at 1 AM randomization is set to 25% node connects at 230 AM schedules will start between 230 and 330 AM. Could this be it? Etienne Brodeur Martin, Jon R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/09/2002 01:33 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Delayed Schedule Start The below schedule was scheduled for 1 PM. The client scheduler is polling and at 1:05 PM it updated, and said the schedule would start in 33 minutes. What causes a schedule to execute a time later than scheduled? I am aware of staggered starts for scheduled events, but this is the only thing scheduled at this time and nothing else is running on the server. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Martin Policy Domain Name: SOLARIS Schedule Name: REBUILD_MR Description: Daily backup for Solaris Clients Action: Incremental Options: Objects: /rebuild_mr/ATX1/ Priority: 1 Start Date/Time: 05/16/01 13:00:00 Duration: 12 Hour(s) Period: 1 Day(s) Day of Week: Tuesday Expiration: Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 07/09/02 10:57:07 Managing profile: 07/09/02 13:05:12 07/09/02 13:05:12 Schedule Name: REBUILD_MR 07/09/02 13:05:12 Action:Incremental 07/09/02 13:05:12 Objects: /rebuild_mr/ATX1/ 07/09/02 13:05:12 Options: 07/09/02 13:05:12 Server Window Start: 13:00:00 on 07/09/02 07/09/02 13:05:12 07/09/02 13:05:12 Command will be executed in 33 minutes. 07/09/02 13:05:12
Delayed Schedule Start
The below schedule was scheduled for 1 PM. The client scheduler is polling and at 1:05 PM it updated, and said the schedule would start in 33 minutes. What causes a schedule to execute a time later than scheduled? I am aware of staggered starts for scheduled events, but this is the only thing scheduled at this time and nothing else is running on the server. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Martin Policy Domain Name: SOLARIS Schedule Name: REBUILD_MR Description: Daily backup for Solaris Clients Action: Incremental Options: Objects: /rebuild_mr/ATX1/ Priority: 1 Start Date/Time: 05/16/01 13:00:00 Duration: 12 Hour(s) Period: 1 Day(s) Day of Week: Tuesday Expiration: Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 07/09/02 10:57:07 Managing profile: 07/09/02 13:05:12 07/09/02 13:05:12 Schedule Name: REBUILD_MR 07/09/02 13:05:12 Action:Incremental 07/09/02 13:05:12 Objects: /rebuild_mr/ATX1/ 07/09/02 13:05:12 Options: 07/09/02 13:05:12 Server Window Start: 13:00:00 on 07/09/02 07/09/02 13:05:12 07/09/02 13:05:12 Command will be executed in 33 minutes. 07/09/02 13:05:12
Re: q libv problem
Q VOL shows information on tapes assigned to storage pools. Since scratch tapes are not assigned (yet) to any storage pools they do not show in the output of Q VOL. -Original Message- From: Taha, Hana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: q libv problem Hello All, I am hoping someone can shed some light on why I cannot change the status of one of my volumes from priv to scr. My update command returns 'updated' but my query shows its still priv. (See below). Why is this happening and how can I change it? I am having this problem on more than one tape. Also, when I do a 'q libv' it shows up as scratch, but when I do a q vol I don't see it at all. What's up with that? TIA tsm: MOEq libv lib02 0049 f=d Library Name: LIB02 Volume Name: 0049 Status: Private Owner: Last Use: Data Home Element: 27 Cleanings Left: tsm: MOEupd libv lib02 0049 stat=scr ANR8445I Volume 0049 in library LIB02 updated. tsm: MOEq libv lib02 0049 f=d Library Name: LIB02 Volume Name: 0049 Status: Private Owner: Last Use: Data Home Element: 27 Cleanings Left: tsm: MOEq libv Library Name Volume Name Status OwnerLast UseHome Element --- -- -- - LIB02 0001 Private 13 LIB02 0002 Private Data11 LIB02 0003 Private 19 LIB02 0004 Private 40 LIB02 0009 Private Data28 LIB02 0011 Private 38 LIB02 0012 Private 6 LIB02 0013 Private 10 LIB02 0017 Private Data2 LIB02 0023 Private 15 LIB02 0025 Private 29 LIB02 0027 Private Data31 LIB02 0029 Private 1 LIB02 0031 Private Data25 LIB02 0032 Private 4 LIB02 0036 Private Data21 LIB02 0038 Private Data7 LIB02 0041 Private 3 LIB02 0043 Private 24 LIB02 0044 Private 33 LIB02 0048 Private 8 LIB02 0049 Scratch 27 LIB02 0051 Private Data23 LIB02 0052 Private 18 LIB02 0053 Private Data26 LIB02 0054 Private Data12 LIB02 0055 Private 37 LIB02 0056 Private Data34 LIB02 0057 Private Data5 LIB02 0067 Private Data17 LIB02 0069 Private Data14 LIB02 0072 Private Data22 LIB02 0079 Private Data9 LIB02 0082 Private Data30 LIB02 0083 Private 39 LIB02 0085 Private Data32 LIB02 0087 Private Data16 LIB02 0089 Private 36 LIB02 0090 Private 20 LIB02 0099 Private 35 tsm: MOEq vol Volume Name Storage Device EstimatedPct Volume Pool NameClass Name Capacity Util Status (MB) --- -- - - /tsm/data1/data01 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data1/data02 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data1/data03 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data1/data04 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data1/data05 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data2/data01 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0 100.0 On-Line /tsm/data2/data02 BACKUPPOOL DISK 2,040.0
Re: filesystems and directories under the same name
George, Did a backup run between the time that the filesystem was removed and the new file system created? I believe that when /inbound/site was removed the data was lost. If a backup was run TSM would mark the data as inactive. Now when your are try to restore to the new filesystem you should be looking at inactive file not only inactive. Just a thought. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Hagopian, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filesystems and directories under the same name Good morning everyone I can across an problem with no idea of a resolution. AIX TSM server 4.2 I had a filesystem called say /inbound/site now they removed the filesystem but still needed the pathso they have a filesystem called /inbound and created a sub directory called site When you try to do a restore via the command line it only finds the filesystem data not the directory data If I try to restore via X window or web I have to go through the filesystem /inbound and to the subdirectory site How can I get the data off the filesystem /inbound/site and in the directory /inbound/site I can'd restore the data and then back it up again...too much data and not enough space on the server Sorry to hit everyone in the morning with this...but I was trying to figure this out all last night w/ no success Thanks George Hagopian AIX/TSM Administator ICT Group
mksysb or sysback to library volume
Hello, Possibly I am imaging this whole thing. However, I believe it is possible to backup the AIX operating system directly to a tape in the Library, not through TSM necessarily. What AIX device would I choose to backup to? rmt0 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive smc0 IBM Magstar MP 3575 Library Medium Changer rmt1 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive rmt2 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive rmt3 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive What if anything needs to be done to specify the tape cartridge(s) that will be used? If anyone is doing this, a little insight to get me started would be greatly appreciated. TSM version 3.7.2 Operating System: AIX 4.3.3 ML9 Server: IBM 7026-H50 Library: 3575-L32 Thank You, Jon Martin AIX/Tivoli/TSM/SAN Administrator
Re: copy pools question?
Have you looked at export node filedata=active? Using export has met my needs where backupsets have not. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: copy pools question? Ya I thought about that too but there is a potential media management nightmare lurking here.. suppose you have a few of these critical clients that you do this to. How often do you create backupsets? Daily? Are you then going to ship a complete set of tapes offsite and bring the old ones onsite daily (thus emulating having 1 copy of 'active' data offsite daily)? There are potential costs lurking here in how often you have the offsite vault bring tapes back I would guess.. Also you end up with 1 tape or set of tapes per server. So if you have an LTO tape that holds 100GB native and your critical client only has 3GB of OS data stored on it, your not using the total capacity of the tape. Though you may or may not care that you're wasting space this way.. The number of tapes you ultimately use for this system may be more then simply moving all data offsite (if you're trying to save on the # of tapes you have to ship offsite). All in all it might be a solution though it's not very eloquent and whether it does what you're ultimately trying to accomplish is questionable (i.e. saving on # of tapes you have to ship offsite?) Gerald Wichmann Sr. Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 w 408.836.9062 c -Original Message- From: Nici Albrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: copy pools question? Rob, You can do a generate backupset for the critical clients that you want to get active file copies for. This will copy active copies of files in primary storage pools. This backupset is self-describing, you can restore directly to the client whether or not the server is available, without having to transfer data across the network. Nici Albrecht MDR Consulting Education TSM Certified AIX Certified Rob Schroeder wrote: I want to create a set of backup tapes for disaster recovery that would only have the most recent versions of my files, I do not want all the extra versions. I thought I needed to do a move data but it looks like that will copy all my versions. Can anyone help? Rob Schroeder Famous Footwear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups
The only thing I have seen similar is when a NFS filespace is unmounted one night, and then remounted the next night. This will cause the filespace to expire the first night and then completely backup the next. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Jon Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unwanted, unscheduled FULL Backups Here's an interesting one for us: periodically, a client will decide to perform a full backup during a scheduled incremental, regardless of existing file spaces or status of the client files or options in any way, shape or form. Does anyone know of any setting or issue that would cause this to happen? It has happened about three times on three different clients in the last several months and the best we can come up with is a possible TSM database corruption. Any idea's would be greatly appreciated, as always. We're running TSM v4.1x on AIX v5.x with all flavors of Windows and AIX clients. _ Regards, Jon R. Adams IT IPS BST Infrastructure Premera Blue Cross 425-670-5770 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment: Notebook.jpg
Re: unix trigger for TSM Server processes?
Peter, I think I remember seeing where someone scheduled a job on the server to do this. The job would loop checking to see if a certain event had completed. Once the observed event is complete, the server job can perform the backup. Searching adsm.org might find more information. Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Glass, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unix trigger for TSM Server processes? What is the best way to have unix trigger a TSM backup storagepool process? We need to start this process immediately upon completion of a client's DB2 backup. We can't very well schedule this, because the completion time of the backup varies widely, from one backup to the next. We can afford to begin the tape copy process neither too soon, nor too late. One idea might be to have a DB2 script invoke unix to start something via /usr/bin/dsmadmc -id=admin -pass=password, et cetera, but this would mean hardcoding the password with the -pass= parameter, which would present a security exposure. Any suggestions on how we might accomplish this would be greatly appreciated (both the client and server platforms are AIX 4.3.3; TSM is at V4 R2). Thanks, in advance. Peter Glass Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company
Oracle 8 RMAN - TSM 3.7.2
Hello All, Database: Oracle7 ( Soon to be *) TSM Server: AIX 4.3.3 ML9 TSM: v3.7.2 Our Oracle database backups to TSM are currently managed by SQL-Backtrack. The databases are Oracle7 but will be migrated to Oracle8 in the near future. We are interested in using RMAN to manage the backups to TSM at that point. What products other than TDPO and SQL-Backtrack should I be evaluating? Thank You, Jon Martin
Re: don´t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM.
In Petur's defense, I think he is trying to say he could not find anywhere that specifically said data in a Seq. Access Storage Pool, that goes offsite will be encrypted. I can't see where he says he read a document that says it is not encrypted. Jon -Original Message- From: Jack Magill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: =?8859_1?B?ZG9utHQg?=aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM. Hi, I was just wondering where you found the information stating that the data was only protected on the way to the server, but not on the server. Encryption is done by the client using an encrytion key that it create and since the key is never passed from client to server, there is no way for the server to de-crypt the data before storage. Please let me know, as I would like to look at the documentation. Jack From: Pétur Eyþórsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/04/02 Tue AM 07:04:45 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: don´t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM. Hi i have posted this 2 times before here but havent receved a reply yet. thus led me to belive that knowlegde on this is wery limited. I have a big custemer who is considerating TSM for there backup system. However, they will be needing to take some of there backup offsite. They have extremly valible data witch may not get in the wrong hands. I have been reading up on Encryption in TSM and found it to be only desingd to protect the data on the way to the TSM server. I found no info on werther the data would be Encrypted in the storage pools. My question. Is it possible to make Backupset, and be sure no-one can use it if it gets in the wrong hands (Encrypt it somehow. How can a administrator be sure that no-one can restore his copy-storage-pools. is it posible to encrypt the data somehow. Is it possible to password protect the TSM Database, so that you can´t restore it without a password. what way can they take offsite backup and be sure that there data is safe, even if the bad guys get the tapes. Thanks in advance for any help. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is
Return code 195 unknown [ Sun Solaris 2.7 and higher ]
Hello, We are running TSM v3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ML-09. We periodically have scheduled backup failures with some of our Sun Solaris nodes. Consistently the entry in dsmerror.log is as follows. 03/21/02 20:14:06 cuPing: Out of sequence verb: verb: 61 03/21/02 20:14:06 sessOpen: Session state transition error, sessState: sSignedOn. 03/21/02 20:14:07 sessOpen: Transitioning: sSignedOn state === sTRANSERR state 03/21/02 20:14:08 Return code 195 unknown 03/21/02 20:14:08 Return code 195 unknown 03/21/02 20:14:08 Unknown system error Please check the TSM Error Log for any additional information A year ago we were experiencing a similar problem on our AIX nodes and applied 3.7.2.15 (IC26775), and that resolved the problem. I can not find any similar patch for the Sun Solaris platform. The nodes we have this problem with are all at 3.7.2.0 and Solaris 2.7 or 2.8. The temporary fix is to kill and restart the 'dsmc sched' process. Does anyone have information on correcting this problem, or suggestions on what to check. I have looked at the available patches but none mention this error. Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM?
Etienne, Here is something similar that I do on my AIX Server. It could probably be written differently (better) but it serves the purpose. It checks if any of three different messages are in the log and if so mails that information to me. Thanks, Jon Martin ## #!/usr/bin/ksh #This script reviews the TSM Activity log on a daily basis and forward information on tape volume and or tape drive failures during the previou s 24 hour #period. This output is then e-mail to account specified by the EMAIL variable. EMAIL='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' if [[ -f /tmp/tapefail_chk.out ]] then rm /tmp/tapefail_chk.out fi dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8359' /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] then dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8359' /tmp/tapefail_chk.out fi dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8302' /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] then dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8302' /tmp/tapefail_chk.out fi dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8778' /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] then dsmadmc -id= -password= 'q actlog begind=-1 msgno=8778' /tmp/tapefail_chk.out fi if [[ -f /tmp/tapefail_chk.out ]] then mail -s TSM Tape Error Report $EMAIL /tmp/tapefail_chk.out fi #33 -Original Message- From: Etienne Brodeur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is there a way to email notifications in TSM? Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to get the server to email alerts and failure and specific messages to admins within TSM or without another expen$ive software? My servers are running on Win2000 and AIX. Thanks Etienne
Re: script to see if TSM Server is down
If you have packaged IBM solution NSM it comes with a script named isitup. The script does advanced checking to see if the server is up. Otherwise, here is something simple for Unix ksh. # dsmadmc -id=xxx -pass=xxx 'quit' # Whether the server is up or down it will return you to the #prompt # Now test the return code if [ $? != 0 ] then mail -s TSM IS DOWN [EMAIL PROTECTED] fi # Note the id and password don't need to be the administrator id. You could use an id with not authority. It isn't foolproof but it solves the problem. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Taha, Hana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: script to see if TSM Server is down I am interested in a script that mails an alert if the TSM server goes down as well. Thank You, Hana Taha Systems Analyst Parker Drilling 1401 Enclave Suite 600 Houston, Texas 77077 281-406-2486 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: script to see if TSM Server is down Hi All - Does anyone have a script that will send out an email alert if the TSM server goes down. I am running AIX 4.3.0 TSM 3.7.4 Thanks! Marc Levitan Storage Manager PFPC Global Fund Services
Archive dates/details
Good Morning, When attempting to retrieve archive data through the GUI, a list/description of each available archive is shown. . Is there a way through dsmadmc to list the dates/descriptions of archives for each node? Thank You, Jon Martin
Re: schedmode polling and immediate client actions
Karel, Silly question perhaps. The start time for the schedule shows 16:32. I do not know your location but has that time of day come yet? Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: schedmode polling and immediate client actions Hi, We have changed our scheduling mode from prompted to polling. Scheduled back-ups run fine. The immediate client schedule won't run. The status of the immediate schedule turns to pending and will not function. Schedule Name @621 Description - Action INCREMENTAL Options - Objects - Priority 1 Start date 2002-03-13 Start time 16:32:17 Duration 1 Duration units DAYS Period - Period units ONETIME Day of Week ANY Expiration - Node Name: X Scheduled Start: 03/13/02 16:32:17 Actual Start: Completed: Status: Pending Result:
checkin volumes for import
Hello, I am on TSM v3.7.2 I am using the following export data. EXPORT NODE domains=solaris filedata=backupactive devclass=3570 scratch=yes usedvolumelist=/tmp/solexport.out My question is on checking the volumes in to restore this data at a later date. Would I use checkin libvolume search=bulk status=private checklabel=yes Then I would issue the 'import node' command specifying the volumes in the order they were used. Does that sound correct? Also, since the export contains data for 10 servers does the first volume act as table of contents? If I do an import node for a specific node will the server read only the necessary volumes, or will it need to read every single volume to find files matching the node/filespace desciption I requested? Thanks, Jon Martin
return export volume to scratch
Good Morning All, I have a tape volume that was used to export a node. I would like to check that volume back in as scratch. I'm having trouble finding the answer. Here is an excerpt from the actlog showing what I have tried. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: CHECKIN libvolume 3575lib 0ACFB3 status=scratch checklabel=yes ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 in library 3575LIB cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: LABEL libvolume 3575lib search=yes labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch ANR8816E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 in library 3575LIB cannot be labelled because it is currently defined in a storage pool or in the volume history file. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME 0ACFB3 discarddata=yes ANR2401E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 is not defined in a storage pool. Any tips? Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: return export volume to scratch
Thanks to all for the replies, The volhist information was the problem. Here is what I had to do del volhist todate=+1 type=export In this case the volume was automatically returned to scratch status once it was removed from volhist. Thanks Again, Jon -Original Message- From: Copper, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: return export volume to scratch Jon, You can not check the volume back in as scratch until the information in your volume history file has been deleted for that tape. Use the command TSM h q volhist to see more information on using the q volhist command. This can be used to identify the tape and then once all the parameters are correct to only bring back the tape in question, you can change the word query to delete to remove the entry from the volume history file. Once this has been done the tape can be checked back in as ascratch tape. HIH Steve Copper -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 March 2002 14:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: return export volume to scratch This email and any files transmitted have been checked by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service for the presence of computer viruses. Please exercise caution when receiving any attachment(s) from unknown sources. If in any doubt, do not open any attachment and delete the message immediately. Thank you for your co-operation. _ Good Morning All, I have a tape volume that was used to export a node. I would like to check that volume back in as scratch. I'm having trouble finding the answer. Here is an excerpt from the actlog showing what I have tried. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: CHECKIN libvolume 3575lib 0ACFB3 status=scratch checklabel=yes ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 in library 3575LIB cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: LABEL libvolume 3575lib search=yes labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch ANR8816E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 in library 3575LIB cannot be labelled because it is currently defined in a storage pool or in the volume history file. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME 0ACFB3 discarddata=yes ANR2401E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 0ACFB3 is not defined in a storage pool. Any tips? Thanks, Jon Martin _ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this message has been swept for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com
Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQ
Agreed, but I we have seen this same problem before. Someone offers a neat tool, and we have to wade through a few hundred Yes, me too messages. Unfortunately getting this to stop would be like making the ocean stand still. While we are on the subject there are other things I don't like; such as I do not like green eggs and ham I will not eat them Sam I am I will not eat them in a train I will not eat them in the rain I will not eat them i a house I will not eat them with a mouse I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am. ;) IMO, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thanks to All That Provided Input for the Share Session onSQ I would like to have a copy, too. I DON'T like to have a copy and I DON't wanne know who would like to have a copy.. Cheers, Henk (and I also DON'T like to know who is out of the office)
Re: AS/400 TSM
Henk, This past summer we added 4 AS/400s to our TSM environment. We are running TSM v 3.7.2 on AIX v4.3.3. Our Library is a SCSI connected 3575. There are redbooks out there with great information on setting up your management class, and tips for setting up BRMS on the AS/400. We found two limitations. 1 BRMS does all management and expiration of the files stored in TSM. - For us this meant trusting the AS/400 administrators were properly managing BRMS. If they were not it would have uncontrollable results on the TSM server for us. 2 The backup times were extremely slow. - I looked somewhat extensively but could not find any reasons for this. The backups were done through Gigabit Ethernet. I found some postings which indicating there were known performance problems, but nothing to indicate a solution. In the end we removed the AS/400's from our environment. Someday when we upgrade and have a 3494 library we try to add the AS/400s to TSM again, but this time backing up through Fibre. Try this link for good information. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/brms/adsmtips.htm Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AS/400 TSM Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400 backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance? Cheers, Henk ten Have (heard bad stories about BMRS and ADSM V3 API)
Re: my timesheet
I suppose working at Merrill Lynch explains the bankers hours ;) -Original Message- From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: my timesheet joseph_wholey_030102.xls Regards, Joe Wholey TGA Distributed Data Services Merrill Lynch Phone: 212-647-3018 Page: 888-637-7450 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backupset questions
Justin, Since a backupset is generated from what is on the TSM server, I would think the exclude list would play a role. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backupset questions Do backupsets ignore include exclude lists on the client? --Justin Richard Bleistein
More than one storage pool backing up to a single copypool.
All, Is it possible to have two storage pool's backup to the same copy storage pool? I don't see anything in the manuals saying yes or no. We currently have a 'TAPEPOOL' which is backed up to a 'COPYPOOL' . Then the 'COPYPOOL' tapes are sent offsite. The original intention of our TSM installation was for backup of 'server' data only. The 'TAPEPOOL' uses collocation. Recently a growing number of executives have asked to have their desktops installed as TSM clients. My problem is that right now each of these desktops will hog an entire volume because of the collocation. What I would like to do is create a 'TAPEPOOL_PC' which has collocation turned off and does a backup to the existing 'COPYPOOL'. Thank You, Jon Martin
Re: Error running Archive
Bill, There are several posts on www.adsm.org about shared memory. I believe one of the requirements to use shared memory is that you must be running you session as root to use it. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error running Archive Everything is running on AIX. The AIX box has both the client and server side of TSM. We are just trying to backup the information of this box. -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error running Archive Is the server on MVS??? -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error running Archive Hello all, I am receiving this error when I am trying to run an archive. I have received it two days in a row, with the archive failing both nights. Can anyone help me with this: 02/12/02 22:30:05 sessRecvVerb: Error -451 from call to 'readRtn'. 02/12/02 22:30:05 cuIdentifyResp: Error -451 reading IdentifyResp from server. 02/12/02 22:30:05 sessOpen: Error -451 receiving IdentifyResp verb from server 02/12/02 22:30:05 ANS1474E An error occurred using the Shared Memory protocol 02/12/02 22:30:06 sessRecvVerb: Error -451 from call to 'readRtn'. 02/12/02 22:30:06 checkSession(): optSendQuery(): reasoncode = -451 02/12/02 22:30:06 ANS1474E An error occurred using the Shared Memory protocol I took this information out of the dsmerror.log... TSM V 4.1.5.0 AIX V 4.3.3.0 Thanks, Bill Wheeler PDM Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated (734) 242-1444 x 6170
Re: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR Proc edure
All,
I think Kelly brings up a good point that, most of us don't get to
practice disaster recovery very often. I know that there are plenty of
courses for TSM installation, configuration, and administration. Does
anyone know of available training with a strict focus on disaster recovery
in theory and in practice? Unfortunately, I don't have a development or
test environment for doing this kind of training on my own.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Used to Be PC Magazine Article, morphed to NT/Novell BMR
Procedure
I'll put in a plug for my friend Wanda Prather. In the adsm.org archives
you should find a very nice procedure developed by Wanda. Perhaps she'll
post it here once more for those of us who missed it.
In general, the method is to install a bare bones OS from the distribution
CDs, configure it, install the TSM client, configure it, and restore the
backup on top of the new installation. This is an easy procedure to follow.
I'd like to see a side-by-side runoff between this and the BMR product to
get an idea of the time difference.
OK, don't like this idea? How about using Ghost to periodically snap an
image of your OS (or perhaps have a generic one with TSM installed ready to
go). Lose the disk? Ghost the image and do a restore from TSM to bring the
image up-to-date.
As for restoring your TSM server. That is very easy if you have three
things: a database backup, the devconfig.out file and the volhist.out file.
From these three items, I can restore your TSM server in four hours of less
(very dependent on the size of the database: for very small databases,
you're probably looking at less than an hour, start to finish). The problem
with this is most of us never practice it. In my job I have the fortune of
getting to do this periodically (monthly) so I've gotten pretty confident so
to me it's easy. I recommend doing it the first time when you don't have
to. When you have to do it, nerves take over and the process is much
harder.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Coats, Jack
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
W here's the Air Support?
Does anyone have a good recovery senario for NT and / or Novell?
I am going into a DR test soon and will be requrired to recover several
of each, including the TSM server! :(
Yep, it sounds like TSM did a fubar depending on a small vendor
to remain autonimous in the backup/restore/disaster recovery market.
Veritas has good products too. I have sold both TSM and Veritas
NetBackup. I still like TSM but it is a harder sell quite often.
-Original Message-
From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF
TSM!! W here's the Air Support?
I echo Kelly!
Another marketing slip?:
Tivoli used to provide Tivoli Data protection for workgroups (good for
bare
metal recovery for NT, windows, from
what I heard). This product went unsupportedTHEN the pitch for bare
metal recovery was to use/buy...
a pgm/product from The Kernel Group. From what I understand TKG was bought
out by Veritas.
SO, you have a Tivoli web site pitching a product that a competitor owns?
marketing slip
there's a void here that Tivoli should fill, and fast! BARE METAL RECOVERY
I sure would like to here what the marketing folks would have to say about
this one as well!!!
Thanks Tim Williams
-Original Message-
From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF TSM!!
Where's the Air Support?
http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470a=22041,00.asp
Why in the world would an article like this appear and not have a single
mention of TSM? Where is the crack marketing team? We need desperately
to
have air support on an issue like this. The IBM TSM folks who listen hear
should send this up the pipe to the marketing folks. It is very hard to
sell TSM when the only thing potential customers have heard about is full
backups!
This kept me up all night. Actually, it wasn't this it was some damn
library/TSM interaction that I was trying to invent. I eat, sleep and
breath TSM. Can I have some help please?
Thanks,
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or
Re: TSM Sendmail and AIX
James, You can cheat if you like.. Send the vault information to your local corporate e-mail account. Then if using Outlook you can set up an auto-forward rule. Otherwise.. my sendmail knowledge is limited and rusty but... The email they receive is probably coming from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. You can look into using /etc/aliases or editing the DM line in the /etc/sendmail.cf for masquerading. Then you can make the mail look like it is from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' One thing to keep in mind is that if you do get to a point where the TSM server is sending the mail out as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' then your exchange server is going to need to know who that really is, so it can deliver mail to that address. I will stop there because the only way I've ever made progress with sendmail issues is through trial and lots of error.I hope this at least gives you a starting point. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: James Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Sendmail and AIX I know this is not a TSM topic but what the hey. We currently use AIX sendmail to mail copies of our vault list generated from TSM to our off-site tape handler. With the recent rash of viruses being sent by email, this company will not accept email from a sender they can not do a reverse DNS lookup on. And they can't do a 'reverse DNS lookup on the mail they are getting from my TSM server. Our mail guys,( who are like me and don't know much about sendmail) tell me that there should be a way of supplying a from address that is more public in the mail we are automatically sending from my TSM AIX server. For the life of me I can't find this in any of the manuals I've searched. anyone have any ideas?
Re: Cart Error Message
Sean, What error is message is generated when you try to do this? What commands are you issuing? Can you show an output of q vol or q drmedia ? All of these things would be very helpful in trying to assist you. Thanks, Jon M -Original Message- From: Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cart Error Message Hi I have tried the move drmedia command but ADSM would not allow myself to change the status. Thks -Original Message- From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cart Error Message You may have to do a q drmedia volname to get the state that the volume is in and then issue a move drmedia volname wherest=xxx tost=onsiteret -Original Message- From: Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cart Error Message Hi ADSM would not allow me to change the volume mode from offsite and therefore when I try to run an Audit of the volume is complains to info me that the volume is in an offsite mode. How do I fix this problem? Thks -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cart Error Message Ah! The re-occuring segment references message! Do a AUDIT VOLUME RO0711 FIX=YES and it solved! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cart Error Message Hi Has anyone out there experienced the following error : ANRD asvol.c(2737): Volume RO0711 cannot be deleted to SCRATCH - it still has SEGMENT references. IF so could you please help Thanking you in advance. Sean Ramnarayan MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 02/06/2002 12:44:09 PM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. Thank you. == ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ** MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 02/06/2002 03:29:29 PM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. Thank you. == MMS caltex.com made the following annotations on 02/06/2002 04:02:36 PM -- DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and is intended only for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any information in this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message. Thank you.
Identifying client schedule mode.
Hello, this should be an easy one... The TSM Server has schedmode set to any. What can I run from the server to see what mode a client is using? I have been selecting from various tables but have not had any luck in finding the answer. Thanks, Jon
Re: Identifying client schedule mode.
Sias, What you are saying is accurate but if the client is using prompted, the server somehow needs to know that. The point being if you tell me to call you I would need to have a system for remembering that. If the client requests to be prompted then the server must also have a way of knowing/remembering that. Jon M -Original Message- From: Sias Dealy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Identifying client schedule mode. Jon, Bad news, you can not see what the schedmode for the client on the server. Because the parameter is set in the dsm.sys file (Unix) or the dsm.opt file (Windows). If you do not see the schedmode parameter in the file then the default is being used. I believe the default is polling. Sias Dealy --- Martin, Jon R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this should be an easy one... The TSM Server has schedmode set to any. What can I run from the server to see what mode a client is using? I have been selecting from various tables but have not had any luck in finding the answer. Thanks, Jon __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: ADSM-L Digest - 12 Jan 2002 to 13 Jan 2002 (#2002-14)
I haven't been following this thread closely but if it works fine connected to the SP2 Node serial port but not the serial port of the H50 I would compare serial port configurations between the SP2 and the H50. ( handshake; baud; login; initial program to run, etc...) Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Brecton Whitten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADSM-L Digest - 12 Jan 2002 to 13 Jan 2002 (#2002-14) No, we are using the same port on the 3494. When it is connected to the H50 it will not initialize. When it is connected to the SP2 node it initializes fine. Thanks for your suggestion, though. I meant to put that in my first post. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/02 03:19AM Are you using a different rs232 port on the 3494 for your h50? Does the IBM engineer need to initialise the rs232 port if it wasn't previously used before? Look on the System Summary window at Direct Attach Ports. You might be able to do it yourself if you have Service Mode access. Richard. Richard Bates Storage Specialist ITS - SB - Enterprise Consultancy Services == Voice : 01926 462298 (HICOM : 662298) (MOBEX : 270798) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automatic digest processor [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 14-01-2002 05:05:03 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipients of ADSM-L digests [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: ADSM-L Digest - 12 Jan 2002 to 13 Jan 2002 (#2002-14) There are 2 messages totalling 124 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. 3494,rs6000 and rs232 2. Oracle backup -- Date:Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:33:49 -0600 From:Brecton Whitten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494,rs6000 and rs232 TSM'ers, If anyone is using rs232 to communicate with a 3494, some help would be appreciated. We are currently running TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3 on a 604e High node ( MCA ) in an SP2 complex. 3590 drives SCSI attached in a 3494 using rs232 serial LM connection on a serial attached port extender. We are trying to move to an H50 ( PCI ) , still using AIX 4.3.3 and attempting to attach the LM to the serial ( S2 ) port. We have tried using a 25 / 9 pin converter, but still are unable to connect to the LM. We continue to get the 'Library is offline to host' message. We are using Atape 5.4.4and atldd 4.1.5. We have followed all doc about drivers. Adding atld through SMIT starts lmcp daemon correctly and ibmatl.conf is correctly configured. We have also tried a null / modem connection between the serial cable and 25 / 9 pin converter. There are a couple of threads about this type of thing but none of them address specifics about cable type or any extras that are needed for connection. If anyone has any suggestions or has made this work, we would appreciate hearing from you. TIA, Brec Whitten UAB Hospital -- Date:Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:36:53 -0700 From:Dylan Ryback [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oracle backup The reason I asked is because some people are still using older versions of this client (i.e., before it became TDP and was called a 'Connect Agent'). I'm sure someone in this group can give you a query to gather this info off the server, but you might want to check the TDP documentation at the following link: http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/DataProtectio nforOracle2.2.html I'm sure there's a log file for the client which, if you set the 'verbose' option for, will spit out all the files backed up on a particular backup. I'm a DBA, but we don't use TDP for Oracle for any of our instances. Sorry I can't be more help. Anyone else? - Original Message - From: Remeta, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: Re: Oracle backup Yes sir! (that's why I'm asking here) -Original Message- From: Dylan Ryback [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oracle backup Are you using the Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle agent? - Original Message - From: Remeta, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:48 AM Subject: Oracle backup Hi all, I'm not a dba so I am not that familiar with Oracle or RMAN but I was wondering if anyone had the correct commands that would list all the 'backup pieces' that were backed up to the TSM server... Thanks in advance, Mark Remeta Seligman Data Corp. 100 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or
Long-Term Storage
Good Afternoon, I am trying to identify the best solution for achieving long term storage requirements. However each option has pros and cons. Would anyone like to share their long-term storage solution and why they chose that way. My storage requirement is 7 years. Here are the options I have come up with so far Backup Sets: pros: Can be placed on CD ( lower media cost and easier to store ) Does not require addition client session cons: A backup set can only be restored in it's entirety. How to create backup sets for databases backed up with utilities like SQL-Backtrack or TDP? Archiving: pros: Possible to restore single files cons: I don't think it is possible to archive to CD-Rom. ( Correct me if I'm wrong ) Cost of tape cartridges to hold 7 years worth of data extremely expensive. Requires addition session with client Additionally one benefit to a backup set would be that if in X years if the TSM Server is replaced by another product only the TSM client would be needed to restore a backup set. Whereas to restore archived information the TSM server would be required. Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: Long-Term Storage
Dwight, I think that is what I will try. I have one question though. Testing this option as below I noticed it attempts to redefine client option sets when importing. Is there a way around that? export node jon filedata=backupactive preview=no devclass=backupset import node jon devclass=backupset filedata=backupactive preview=no volumenames=10518891.EXP Thanks, Jon -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Long-Term Storage for really long term storage... if you have any management class with long term retention you get screwed by all your directory info being stuck in it and I've learned the error in my ways with (10yrarch management classes ! ) Here is a best bet ! register a node with name blah_exp have the client (if uinx) set a server entry to connect to the tsm server using a NODE blah_EXP entry... have the client archive the data for long term retention, then do an export of the node blah_exp you could perform your export to a CD if you had the ability to burn CD's... I do export to tape, take them out of the ATL and send them offsite... just my 2 cents worth Dwight -Original Message- From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Long-Term Storage Depending on the form of archiving you are doing but we archive to cd's with no problem. Becky -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long-Term Storage Good Afternoon, I am trying to identify the best solution for achieving long term storage requirements. However each option has pros and cons. Would anyone like to share their long-term storage solution and why they chose that way. My storage requirement is 7 years. Here are the options I have come up with so far Backup Sets: pros: Can be placed on CD ( lower media cost and easier to store ) Does not require addition client session cons: A backup set can only be restored in it's entirety. How to create backup sets for databases backed up with utilities like SQL-Backtrack or TDP? Archiving: pros: Possible to restore single files cons: I don't think it is possible to archive to CD-Rom. ( Correct me if I'm wrong ) Cost of tape cartridges to hold 7 years worth of data extremely expensive. Requires addition session with client Additionally one benefit to a backup set would be that if in X years if the TSM Server is replaced by another product only the TSM client would be needed to restore a backup set. Whereas to restore archived information the TSM server would be required. Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: Memory Tuning For AIX
I think the wide range of answers as to what this output means is a good indication that IBM would do well to develop a more concise tool for reviewing resource utilization. As for my opinion I would start with 'vmtune' and then look at 'iostat'. Good Luck Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Denis L'Huillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Memory Tuning For AIX Hello- I am having a memory problem. I am runnning AIX 4.3.2 on a H50. TSM is the only application running on the server. When I run vmstat I get the following... kthr memory page faultscpu - --- --- r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa 0 0 136233 202 0 3 2 99 210 0 52 240 66 17 30 16 37 1 3 136234 342 0 38 11 3727 4204 0 1322 6136 4665 12 11 3 74 2 3 136236 160 0 44 12 3728 5326 0 1324 5844 4644 10 11 2 76 1 3 136237 295 0 17 19 4113 5725 0 1305 7174 5091 13 10 3 74 0 3 136237 629 0 19 9 4240 7442 0 1316 7200 5082 14 13 5 68 Does this look normal to anyone? From my limited understanding of vmstat it looks like: CPU utilization is maxed out I have blocked processes (the b column) The scan rate (sr) column is very high. The server has 1Gig of memory. I'm really not sure how to tell how much is allocated to the OS and how much is allocated to TSM. Does anyone have any ideas or pointers is tuning memory for AIX? Do I need a memory upgrade? I started checking this because my server response is horrible. Thanks. Denis
Re: FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME
Along thos same lines maybe if there are three file systems with the following naming conventions /work /work/data /work/data/martine Would TSM back up each of these filesystems separately thus giving you three different file names? Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Vo An Nguyen/Quebec/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME Hello Mike, In UNIX, a filespace for ADSM is a filesystem. So in this case, it looks like the /work is the filespace unless you have mapped a directory like /work/data as a nfs at the time of the backup or perhaps you have used the client option virtualmountpoint. Hope this helps. Regards, Vo An Nguyen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/02/2002 04:11:23 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: FILESPACE_NAME vs. HL_NAME Good Afternoon, A client is having trouble locating archived files using dsmc q ar. The problem seems to be that the filespace_name and hl_names differ between the files, even though they were archived from the same place. Server: AIX, ADSM v3.1 Client: SunOS, ADSM v3.1 An example: select filespace_name,hl_name,ll_name,archive_date from archives where node_name='HUBER' and ll_name='BS0266' FILESPACE_NAME: /WORK HL_NAME: /DATA/MARTINE/ LL_NAME: BS0266 ARCHIVE_DATE: 2001-12-22 10:46:30.00 FILESPACE_NAME: /WORK/DATA HL_NAME: /MARTINE/ LL_NAME: BS0266 ARCHIVE_DATE: 2001-12-22 10:41:24.00 FILESPACE_NAME: /WORK/DATA/MARTINE HL_NAME: / LL_NAME: BS0266 ARCHIVE_DATE: 2001-11-20 05:38:10.00 Depending on how the client specifies the request, they will get a different version of the file. The question is, how does ADSM determine which part of the path is considered filespace_name, and which is hl_name? Thanks, Mike
Re: Help! I need more space
Miles, One small improvement might be to decrease the tape delay reuse period. It might give you a few extra scratch tapes. -Original Message- From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help! I need more space Hi folks, I have a situation where our company has two backups systems, TSM being one of them. The 'other' backup system doesn't work for various reasons and we are planning to move the servers that backup to it to TSM. On the weekend that other system fell a part. Now I need to backup about 500GBs into a Magstar L32 that really doesn't have that much space. I'm in a tight spot and I need some creative ways to backup that much data. Here's what I've been trying: - turn collocation off, or from 'filespace' to 'on' - reviewing old nodes and the largest filespaces, but this didn't save to much - I don't think I can reduce any copies or the length of time that the copies are stored Here's what I do have: - I do have 8 x 36 GB disks that will be here soon - a ton of tapes, no room in the Magstar, but I must have 200-300 extra tapes - I also have 24 x 18.2 GB disks right now that are used for my disk pools and 4 x 9.1 GB disks that are used So I was thinking I that I could: 1. use the 36 GB disks for a primary pool. Still sending the data offsite (copy pool) because I have a lot of tapes, OR, 2. start taking tapes out of the Magstar and just setting them aside, when they are full I do have a LTO coming but not for 2-3 months. I could really use a creative idea to store a lot of data. I have the tapes just not the slots inside my Magstar. Thanks Miles -- Miles Purdy System Manager Farm Income Programs Directorate Winnipeg, MB, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557 If you hold a UNIX shell up to your ear, can you hear the C? -
Data Security/Encryption TSM v3.7
Hello, To support a disaster recovery initiative it is intended that all corporate servers are backed up to TSM. The administrator of our firewall resists this mainly for the fact that the client data is sent in clear text over the network. As the TSM administrator it has fallen to me to find common ground between the firewall administrator and the people driving the disaster recovery initiative. Reading the archives I found the following opinions and would like to hear what anyone else might have to add or what recent opinion are. 1. Set client compression and then the data is transferred in a compressed format. Is this a proprietary/undocumented compressed format? 2. Implement 'ssh' for secure connectivity between the server and client. Can anyone recommend a source for more information on doing this? 3. Using PRESCHED and POSTSCHED encrypt sensitive data to a temp directory on the client and then backup that data. Any recommendations on available products? 4. The data on a TSM cartridge can only be read with the database for that TSM Server. It would be extremely difficult and costly to retrieve this data from the tape alone. That seemed to be the consensus in the archives. Does it still hold true? 5. With the exception of an attack from within the company, if an intruder is in the position to capture internal network traffic would not that not mean that the firewall and other security measures have already been compromised? Thank You, Jon Martin
Re: dsmfmt question
In the Admin Reference for v3.7 it says... the allocated file size is always a multiple of 4MB plus an additional 1MB ofr overhead). Don't know how much that will help answer your question. Thanks, Jon -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dsmfmt question Hi *SM-ers! I will replace my 9 Gb. SSA disks in the very near future. The new disks (36 Gb. 10.000 rpm) will have to be added to the diskpool one by one. I remember from the last time that it was quite difficult to allocate a disk file which fills the disk completely. If you have, for instance, a 9 Gb. disk, you cannot create a 9 Gb. file by issuing a DSMFMT -G -DATA filename 9. This results in an error indicating the there isn't enough space available. Apparently the dsmfmt utility needs a little bit overhead space. Does anybody know how to calculate the maximum space one can specify to fill the disk to it's maximum? Thanks in advance for any reply!!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: BIG RESTORE
If you have access to a Unix Shell and are familiar with it, it should not be hard to write a script to do the following. 1. Execute Restore 2. Read the return code. 3. Exit is the return code is good 4. Start the restore again if it is bad -Original Message- From: Robert Fijan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 6:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIG RESTORE Hi folks. I've the following problem: I start a restore for a Fileserver with about 20 GB data to restore. We have a 16 MB TokenRing, so we make maybe 1 GB per hour. So the restore would take 20 Hours. Now my problem is: how can I automatically restart the restore when the session ends because of time-outs or other reasons? The TSM-Client is a NT-Fileserver, the TSM-Server is OS/390. with kind regards Mit freundlichen Grüßen Robert Fijan Sitz Stuttgart Tel. (0 7 11) 8 48-23 39 Fax. (0 7 11) 8 48 44-33 11 Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Long, long, long backup sessions
Zoltan, I would suggest the problem is nothing but the amount of files that need to be processed. I have one client with 3 million + files set that file system to do incrbydate instead of incremental. The results were definitely worth it. The only loophole I can see with this solution is as follows. If a file is added to the file system with a previous date then incrbydate will not pick it up. For example if you untar files into the filesystem the files will maintain their original date and not be backed up. To catch these exceptions you would need to do a regular incremental once a week or as you see fit. The only other option I have seen on this board is to tar the files up first and then backup them up. This however might require a large amount of disk space. As far as no data being transferred for the first eight hours I find that surprising. I would assume that the first file system to be looked at is / and there would definitely be files there that need to be backed up. The only explanation I can think of is if your backup is looking at the filesystem with the large number of files first. IMHO Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long, long, long backup sessions Looking for some guidance to improve backup session times. The time it takes to backup our e-mail servers (4-way processor H70 AIX 4.3.3 with 2GB RAM. TSM client is 4.1.2.0) is becoming unacceptable and unworkable. Currently, backup sessions are sometimes taking more than 16-hours (as I send this, one session that started yesterday evening is still running), yet the total amount of data backed up is only around 2.5-4GB. The current session stats shows the first data transfer wasn't until around 3:45 this morning, yet the backup session started around 6PM, YESTERDAY. Yes, I understand the LARGE amount of OBJECTS INSPECTED is an issue. But, the current data tells me it took over 8-hours from the start of the schedule to when it actually transfered any data from the client to the server (OS390 TSM 4.1.3). Here is a end-of-schedule snippet from a previous days run. Note, it started at 6PM and finished at 9AM the next day. When it actually did any work, it went pretty fast: 08/23/01 09:00:37 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects inspected: 8,521,197 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects backed up: 105,231 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects updated: 0 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects rebound: 0 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects deleted: 0 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects expired: 32,662 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of objects failed: 7 08/23/01 09:00:37 Total number of bytes transferred: 2.83 GB 08/23/01 09:00:37 Data transfer time:5,685.47 sec 08/23/01 09:00:37 Network data transfer rate: 522.69 KB/sec 08/23/01 09:00:37 Aggregate data transfer rate: 55.16 KB/sec 08/23/01 09:00:37 Objects compressed by: 51% 08/23/01 09:00:37 Elapsed processing time: 00:02:48 08/23/01 09:00:37 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 08/23/01 09:00:37 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END BACKUP.MAIL 08/22/01 18:00:00 The Elapsed processing time is confusing. Is it trying to tell me it only took 3-minutes to actually transfer the 2.83GB ?? What can we do to improve these times ? Is INCRBYDATE going to make that much of a different, considering we will still have to do some kinda full backup, anyway ? Any and all suggestions will be seriously considered ! === Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 804-828-4807
dsmadmc output?
Other than editing the output with shell commands ( grep, cut, head, tail, etc... ) does anyone have a recommendation for getting output from TSM without administrative information about the server also being returned? I thought I had once seen an dsmadmc option to restrict the output of this information but cannot identify it now. EXAMPLE: I am trying to loose everything except the answer to the query # dsmadmc -id=$ -pass=$ select DOMAIN_NAME,SCHEDULE_NAME from client_schedules where DAYOFWEEK = 'TUESDAY' Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.15 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1999, All Rights Reserved. Session established with server Server Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.0 Server date/time: 08/20/01 13:38:36 Last access: 08/20/01 13:38:08 ANS8000I Server command: 'select DOMAIN_NAME,SCHEDULE_NAME from client_schedules where DAYOFWEEK ='TUESDAY'' DOMAIN_NAME SCHEDULE_NAME -- -- AIX COMC-FULLHOT AIX TUESDAY STANDARDTUESDAY ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. Thank You, Jon Martin
Re: Server crashed on startup with error in dsmcperf.dll
Clemens, It is possible to extend the log without starting the server. Check out the dsmserv extend log and dsmfmt commands. There are several good solutions posted in the archives. www.adsm.org Jon -Original Message- From: Block, Clemens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server crashed on startup with error in dsmcperf.dll Hi Folk! I have an urgent problem with my ADSM Server 3.1.2.50 on a Windows NT System. Yes I know, it's quiet old. The new 4.1 x Server is also running on an nerw machine but unfor- tunaltely not all nodes are actually migrated. Murphy is everywhere. As I explained earlier the day, the Server was unable to perform a db backup on Satrurday. So at least the server crasched. My first action was to create a new logvolume with dsmfmt and extend the log db with the offline dsmserv extend db command. This works quiet well and I tried to restart the Server. Now the Server starts, but crashed after a few minutes with an Dr Watson in the modul dsmsvc.dbg an an entry in the eventlog, which announce an error in the perflib dsmcperf.dll. Any suggestions how to bring up server for the last few days. I don't know if the Release 1.2.50 is the latest 3.1.x release. So is there any later patch release? (maybe this can help) If yes - Where can I find it (there is nothing on the IBM Sites) Thanks in advance Clemens
TAPEPOOL Pending Volumes
Because of capacity we are having a hard time maintaining scratch tapes in our library. I thought of the following and would appreciate any feedback on it's pros and cons. Much like a copypool tape is kept offsite until it's Delay period for reuse has expired I was considering checking my TAPEPOOL pending volumes out of the library until they completed their reuse period. Currenltly our reuse period has been temporarily set to 3 days and even with that there are usually 10 slots in the library occupied by pending volumes. I realize that for this to work it would need to be done daily but the alternative problems are worse. Any thoughts? Jon Martin
Re: TAPEPOOL Pending Volumes
Read the manual That is a very interesting concept. :) Thanks for the pointer Richard. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TAPEPOOL Pending Volumes Because of capacity we are having a hard time maintaining scratch tapes in our library... Jon - Have you looked at the Admin Guide, Managing a Full Library? That's an established means of assuring library capacity. Richard Sims, BU
Re: SQL-BACKTRACK ORACLE
We do incremental on weekdays and full on weekends for our Oracle databases. I do find that both types of backup take about the same amount of time. As far as I know we never looked into backup of just redo during the week but I think we will now. -Original Message- From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SQL-BACKTRACK ORACLE We used to use SQL Backtrack and we did a hot full backup of a 1 TB database nightly in about 3-4 hours going to a 300GB disk pool with 16 threads. We then backed up the redo logs nightly. -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL-BACKTRACK ORACLE Hi: Our oracle DBA claims that 'hot' incremental backups of Oracle takes as long as 'hot' full backups using SQL-BACKTRACK. Instead he does weekly full 'hot' backups of the database and backups of the redo logs thru the week. Is that how others using SQL-BACKTRACK and ORACLE do thier backups? Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority (518)-471-4202 Certified: Aix 4.3 System Administration Aix 4.3 System Support Tivoli ADSM/TSM V 3 Consultant
Re: Transfer Rate
What is the file structure that you are backing up? Are there a LARGE amount of small files the client needs to process? What is the copy serialization set at for your copy groups. If you are backing up active files and the copy serialization is set to make multiple attempts on an active file, possibly that can add alot of time. Just some wild guesses. -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Transfer Rate The only client we have is where the server is located. We are running TSM to backup one RS/6000 F50 server. And backing up 70 GB in 8 hours doesn't seem right. Is there anything that I can do to speed this up. We run a Magstar 3570 connected to the F50 server through SCSI. TSM Version 4.1.2.0 AIX Version 4.3.3.0 -Original Message- From: Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Transfer Rate Aggregate uses wall-clock time; Network uses the intervals between when the client says I'm sending data now, to when the server actually receives it. It's perfectly normal to have aggregate be a lot slower than network. If you really want to speed up your backups, you need to look at the accounting log records (.../server/bin/dsmaccnt.log - see admin guide for layout) to see which of your clients suffer most from idle wait, media wait, or comm wait. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Wheeler Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Transfer Rate Hello All, I hope a few of the *SMer guru can help me out on this one. I don't know if you have had a problem like this before. The problem is our Aggregate Transfer Rate is allot lower then the Network Transfer Rate. Is there something that I can look at to see if I can get the data moved quicker?Here is a copy of the Activity log with the rates: ANE4961I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Total number of bytes transferred:69.33 GB07/31/01 06:51:30 ANE4963I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Data transfer time:11,858.22 sec 07/31/01 06:51:30 ANE4966I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Network data transfer rate:6,130.86 KB/sec07/31/01 06:51:30 ANE4967I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,462.14 KB/sec 07/31/01 06:51:30 ANE4968I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Objects compressed by:0% 07/31/01 06:51:30 ANE4964I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Elapsed processing time:08:12:07 Any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Bill Wheeler AIX Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup Strategy
Hello, Currently our backup strategy for the TSM Servers is as follows on a daily basis. 1. Backup 'diskpool' to 'copypool' 2. Backup 'tapepool' to 'copypool' 3. Full back up of DB From what I understand this is the most bullet proof method. However we are at edge of our tape libraries capacity and the 3 steps above are taking about 4 1/2 hours to complete each day. Is anyone using a strategy that would reduce both the amount of time and possibly the number of volumes needed for these administrative tasks. Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: Teaching others TSM
Francisco, I have been administering TSM for three months now. The previous administrator is my manager so I have had someone on hand to answer my questions. I feel I have a learned a lot with the sink or swim method and subscribing to this mail list has helped also. I first learned about the clients and how they worked, then scheduling, and then moved onto things like the DB, log, diskpools and tapepools etc... My opinion is that if you are not familiar with the material you won't get much from formal training. I've done ok learning it one layer at a time and reading the Administrator's Reference. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: Francisco Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Teaching others TSM What is the best way to teach someone how to use TSM? When I learnt it some time back it took me 3 months of setting up the server and clients and just trying different things to get all the concepts. When I came back to the company after 2 years I found the setup was in fairly bad shape even though of the two people that maintained it while I was gone one went to training. I think hand's on is the best training, but I don't think the two people I need to train can be made available full time just to learn TSM. What is the general consensus about the classes? Do they truly help new users?
Re: What would you think would happen..........
Zoltan, Interesting subject I was just talking about this possibility the other day. My question refers to part 1. When you say the node is not a TSM-client I am assuming that they have the TSM client installed they are just not registered with the server as a node? Otherwise how would they access the utilities to open the connection in the first place? Besides taking the safety precaution of locking the source node out has anyone experienced this situation before? Jon -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What would you think would happen.. if the following occured: 1. Client (lets call it ABC for this arguement since it is not a TSM client) signs into TSM using nodename XYZ to restore XYZ's files to another system 2. Restore is progressing. Large compress files take many hours to restore. 3. Node XYZ signs into TSM and does a BACKUP while ABC is still signed on as XYZ and is still restoring XYZ's files to another machine. === Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 804-828-4807
Re: How to make to inclexcl list to fit my needs???
David, I experienced a similar situation. I excluded the object in general. For the occasions when I wanted to back that object up I used include as an option to my backup command and specified the area in question. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: David Ruiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to make to inclexcl list to fit my needs??? Hi all TSMers, I am trying to build an include/exclude list for a HPUX box. I want to backup something sometimes and not to backup this same thing others, the problem is that if I put it on an exclude statement, I will never be able to backup it unless I include it again. I have this: /opt/tivoli /opt/OMImag /opt/netscape /opt/MC1 /opt/MC2 . . /opt/MC6 /opt/data /opt/development . . . /opt/lotsofdirs I want to backup the whole /opt filesystem but the MC1 and MC2...MC6 in the night and to backup only this MC* at in the day. I have already tryied to use two incl/excl lists but when I use the second one and some file that was included is now excluded it is automaticly deleted by an expiration process. I tryied to do the backup with a dsmc command but it becomes an never-ending line (too long). Hope you can give some advice. David. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Schedule DB Backup not executing.
We use the following schedule to do a daily full backup of the database. This is TSM 3.7 running on AIX 4.3.3. The past week I have noticed that this schedule does not appear to be executing at all. The only other process that is consistently running at this time is a storage pool backup. I can start the db backup manually with no problems using the same command listed in the schedule. This schedule has worked for a long time and I can not recall any changes we have made in the past month that could be a cause. Any ideas on this problem. tsm:q sched DBBACKUP_FULL type=admin f=d Schedule Name: DBBACKUP_FULL Description: Full db backup Command: backup db devclass=3570 type=full scratch=yes wait=yes Priority: 5 Start Date/Time: 10/08/99 08:00:00 Duration: 1 Hour(s) Period: 1 Day(s) Day of Week: Any Expiration: Active?: Yes Last Update by (administrator): x Last Update Date/Time: 07/12/01 15:52:42 Managing profile: Thanks, Jon Martin
Re: How to make to inclexcl list to fit my needs???
David, I found it a little easier to do setting up a schedule through the web interface. I didn't use command line on the client side because I do not have root access to the server that was having this problem. From the command line you can issue. dsmc i /dir/subdir/* This should back up the specified directory, it's subdirectories and files with disregard to the include exclude list. I can see how my first post was misleading. I hope this works for you Jon -Original Message- From: David Ruiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to make to inclexcl list to fit my needs??? Hi Jon, Thanks a lot or answering, I searched all aver my TSM documentation and I am not able yet to put a include option for the backup command (dsmc incremental) could you please tell me how you did it? Thanks again. David. --- Martin, Jon R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I experienced a similar situation. I excluded the object in general. For the occasions when I wanted to back that object up I used include as an option to my backup command and specified the area in question. Thanks, Jon Martin -Original Message- From: David Ruiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to make to inclexcl list to fit my needs??? Hi all TSMers, I am trying to build an include/exclude list for a HPUX box. I want to backup something sometimes and not to backup this same thing others, the problem is that if I put it on an exclude statement, I will never be able to backup it unless I include it again. I have this: /opt/tivoli /opt/OMImag /opt/netscape /opt/MC1 /opt/MC2 . . /opt/MC6 /opt/data /opt/development . . . /opt/lotsofdirs I want to backup the whole /opt filesystem but the MC1 and MC2...MC6 in the night and to backup only this MC* at in the day. I have already tryied to use two incl/excl lists but when I use the second one and some file that was included is now excluded it is automaticly deleted by an expiration process. I tryied to do the backup with a dsmc command but it becomes an never-ending line (too long). Hope you can give some advice. David. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: archives for this list
You can to go www.adsm.org to review archived postings. -Original Message- From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: archives for this list Hello, Would someone kindly show me how to look up archives for this list? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Restore on a different client machine?
When you run the dsm session. There is an option to change you login/connection from the menu bar ( FILE / LOGON ). On the server you want to restore to login to dsm as the server you want to restore from. From there on it is the same as usual. -Original Message- From: Yahya Ilyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restore on a different client machine? Is it possible to restore to a different client machine?I need to do a restore of a directory to a different client(node), both client machines are AIX 4.3.3. Please send me details. Thanks Yahya - Yahya Ilyas Systems Programmer Senior Systems Integration Management Information Technology Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (480) 965-4467
Re: Help, log space problem
This is from and old posting. I used it last week to bail me out of the same situation. You might need to choose a different directory I used /tmp instead of /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin - Check out page 715 of the Admin reference for AIX... Recovery Log Extension Command. What you need to do is... 1) DSMFMT an additional recovery log (shouldn't need to make it too big) dsmfmt -m -log /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/temprec.log 13 2) Use the DSMSERV EXTEND LOG command to do an emergeny recovery log extension dsmserv extend log /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/temprec.log 12 Once the recovery log extension finishes, you should be able to restart the ADSM server normally.. Good Luck -Original Message- From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help, log space problem Both my tech are out of pocket. ADSM 3.1 Server component won't start. Got ANRD adminit. C.982: insufficient log space to update table administrative.attributes. Your assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. TIA Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority
Re: Sun client problem
Eric, You are not alone. I am having the same problem with one Solaris Client. I also applied the same patch and observe the same output from dsmc. Since I am upgrading to 4.1 server in the near future I haven't put much effort into correcting it. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 4:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sun client problem Hi *SM-ers! I asked this question before, but I haven't received a reply yet. Maybe somebody from development can shed some light on this? One of my Sun TSM clients reports error 195 during backups. This seems to be related to APAR IC26775: CLIENT BACKUPS FAIL WITH RETURN CODE 195. I have downloaded IC26775.tar.Z and installed the 3.7.2.14 client which is supposed to fix this problem, but I still see the error. The strange thing is that I can see in the Sun installation logs that IC26775 has been installed, but when I start DSMC it still reports level 3.7.2. Now I'm confused. Shouldn't it report 3.7.2.14 or is the version number not updated in this fix level? Thanks in advance for any reply!!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
TSM db and log volumes / ESS
I am trying to create an additional db and log volume to implement TSM mirroring. If I use a logical volume created on an internal scsi or ssa attached drive I have no problem. However the goal is to create the logical volumes on a ESS vpath. When I try to dsmfmt these volumes I run into the following error. # dsmfmt -m -db /dbaa1vp0/db 7181 by AIX Server DSMFMT Extent/Volume Formatting Program Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 1997. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. Error writing file /dbaa1vp0/db, errno = 27 Has anyone had a similar experience. It is a standard logical volume with a mounted JFS. AIX 4.3.3 TSM Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.15 Jon Martin Unix Systems Administrator Kulicke Soffa Industries Inc. (215) 784-7913
Re: TSM db and log volumes / ESS
This is it exactly. I should have searched the archive before posting. Thanks for the reply -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM db and log volumes / ESS Error writing file /dbaa1vp0/db, errno = 27 Jon - From http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts : dsmfmt errno 27 (EFBIG - File too It may be that your Unix filesize large) limit prohibits writing a file that large. Do 'limit filesize' to check. If that value is too small, try 'unlimit filesize'. If that doesn't boost the value, you need to change the limit value that the operating system imposes upon you (in AIX, change /etc/security/limits). Another cause: the JFS file system not configured to allow large files (greater than 2 GB), per Large File Enabled. Do 'lsfs -q' and look for the bf value: if false, not in effect. Richard Sims, BU
Recovery Log Space
Good Morning, I am running TSM on AIX 4.3. Most of the suggestions I have seen for correcting a recovery log issue involve having access to TSM. Unfortunately I don't have any access. Does anyone have and suggestions? Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.15 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1999, All Rights Reserved. Enter your user id: x ANS1316E The server does not have enough recovery log space to continue the current operation ANS8023E Unable to establish session with server. ANS8002I Highest return code was 65. Thank You, Jon Martin Unix Systems Administrator Kulicke Soffa Industries Inc.
