Fastback client 2TB LUN limit
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a client where we are implementing Fastback 6.1.1.0. They will use it for their Exchange backups only. Their Exchange data s about 1TB total but it is spread across 50 storage groups and 7 or so LUNS that are 2.7 and 2.8TB. The Fastback server aborts the snapshots on these volumes when they occur. I have opened a PMR and IBM Level 2 says that the abort is an action coded into the software based on IC 64414 Has anyone encountered this? Has anyone conquered this? Is there a work around other than resizing the LUNS (client refuses to do so)? Regards, Nicholas
Re: What is "Days between backups field" in Admin Center/ISC/TIP
Thanks for you help Rick, I normally see this set to 0. So does 0 mean no restrictions? (i.e - it can be backup up as many times in a day as wanted) You said "Say it is set to 1 day then those clients cannot perform backups more than once a day." This seems strange to me since this parameter refers to a management class, and a management class does not refer to clients, it refers to a specific file space or directory or file(s). How can it prevent a backup from occurring on a client? Maybe, the files that the management class binding calls out can only be backed up once a day? Thanks Again Rick! Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 12/02/2010 03:15:35 PM: > [image removed] > > Re: [ADSM-L] What is "Days between backups field" in Admin Center/ISC/TIP > > Rick Adamson > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 12/02/2010 03:16 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > It is a parameter the restricts how frequently backups of a client can > occur. Say it is set to 1 day then those cients cannot perform backups > more than once a day. I have used it to control a few backup happy > admins here that like to perform a backup after each step of a project > which at times equated up to 35 times in a 24 hour period. > > > ~Rick > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Nicholas Rodolfich > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:02 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] What is "Days between backups field" in Admin > Center/ISC/TIP > > Hello All, > > Thanks for your help. > > > I have never used the "Days between backups" parameter in the menu for > configuring management classes. I have been asked what is for and do not > know as I have never used it. I cannot seem to find anything in the TSM > documentation for it either. > > > Thanks > > Nicholas
What is "Days between backups field" in Admin Center/ISC/TIP
Hello All, Thanks for your help. I have never used the "Days between backups" parameter in the menu for configuring management classes. I have been asked what is for and do not know as I have never used it. I cannot seem to find anything in the TSM documentation for it either. Thanks Nicholas
single drive restore possibilities
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a client that selected TSM to replace their CA/Brightstore product. When we showed up for the kickoff meeting, the IT manager said that he wants to be able to create full backups of his mission critical servers when a hurricane enters the gulf and wants to be able to take a single drive with him to an alternate location to do his restores. He is adiment about not having to have his full offsite copy pool with him to restore his mission critical systems. We tried to explain how TSM prevented the need for second guessing disasters but he wouldn't bite. He stated that he is willing to have someone feed tapes into the single drive for however long it takes. I have always been with large organizations that plan on restoring their TSM server first and then all of the clients during DR testing for the real thing. I don't know of any way to do this with since TSM wants a drive to be assigned to a library. I thought of exports but that also requires a TSM server. 1. How would one use a single drive to restore the TSM server first and then the clients? Is this possible at all? 2. Is a backupset a viable restore option without a server? I have read up on backupsets but the doc is not clear as to what is required on the client. I suppose an adapter of some sort (scsi or fiber) a cable, a drive, an installed OS and TSM client and then restore directly from the backupset tape using the TSM b/a client. Any light shed on this situation would be appreciated Regards, Nicholas Rodolfich
How to drop DB2 database.
Hello All, Thanks for your help! I am installing TSM 6.2 on an AIX system, for a client. I got the code installed but the initial database creation got hosed up. I need to drop the existing DB2 database. Does anyone know how to do this in AIX? Regards, Nicholas
TSM 6.1.3 WIndows no log space how to restart server
Hello All, I have a client with a new TSM 6.1.3 server on Windows 2008. It crashed earlier because it is out of log space. How can I bring the sever back up. Regards, Nicholas
Re: Help with dsmcutil
What do you see when your run dsmcutil q /name:"" dsmcutil q /name:"" I don't understand why the UNC path is in the options file location! All of mine just use C: instead of \\EMAILTEST02\c$\progr. The TSM API error usually indicates that the options file cannot be found. It would be easier to use the setup wizard in the TSM client for base level CAD and scheduler configuration. Why kill yourself with dsmcutil in DOS if you are not configuring a cluster or something? You can also remove the buggered up ones with it. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 02/18/2010 11:33:57 AM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] Help with dsmcutil > > Lee, Gary D. > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 02/18/2010 11:33 AM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > tsm client 6.3 > os windows 2003 > > Trying to update and/or install services remotely for ba client and > exchange backup. > > Node name and password have been double checked. > > Any ideas? > Data below: > > > --- command executed -- > > "c:\Program files\TIVOLI\TSM\baclient\dsmcutil" update CAD / > name:"TSM Client Acceptor" /optfile:"c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM > \baclient\dsm.opt" /machine:emailtest02 /clientdir:"c:\Program Files > \Tivoli\TSM\baclient" /cadschedname:"TSM Client Scheduler" / > node:emailtest02 /password:emailtest02 /autostart:yes >>exchinst.log > > output from dsmcutil > > TSM Windows NT Client Service Configuration Utility > Command Line Interface - Version 6, Release 1, Level 3.0 > (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2009, All Rights Reserved. > Last Updated Nov 20 2009 > TSM Api Version 6.1.3 > > Command: Update TSM Client Service Parameters > Machine: EMAILTEST02 > > > Connecting to registry on remote machine EMAILTEST02 ... > > Opening Registry Keys ... > > Located service 'TSM Client Acceptor' . > > Updated registry value 'ImagePath' . > Updated registry value 'EventMessageFile' . > Updated registry value 'TypesSupported' . > Updated registry value 'OptionsFile' . > Updated registry value 'Start' . > Updated registry value 'ClientNodeName' . > Authenticating TSM password for node EMAILTEST02 ... > > Connecting to TSM Server via client options file '\\EMAILTEST02\c$ > \Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsm.opt' ... > > > > Error 6 establishing TSM API session: The client options file is > corrupt or invalid. > > > > Error 6 authenticating password: The client options file is corrupt > or invalid. > > Updated registry value 'CadSchedName' . > > > > dsm.opt starts here > > NODENAME EMAILTEST02 > TCPSERVERADDRESS spock.bsu.edu > SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS > schedmode prompted > passwordaccess generate > schedlogret 15 > erorlogret 15 > > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.*" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\EA DATA. SF" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\IBMBIO.COM" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\IBMDOS.COM" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\IO.SYS" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\config\...\*" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\dhcp\...\*" > INCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\dhcp\backup\...\*" > EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\dns\...\*" > INCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\system32\dns\backup\...\*" > > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.*" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\EA DATA. SF" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\IBMBIO.COM" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\IBMDOS.COM" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\IO.SYS" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\config\...\*" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\dhcp\...\*" > INCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\dhcp\backup\...\*" > EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\dns\...\*" > INCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\dns\backup\...\*" > > EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\System Volume Information" > EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\Temporary Internet Files" > EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\Recycled" > EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\Recycler" > EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\$Recycle.Bin" > EXCLUDE.DIR "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox > \EMAILTEST02-1" > EXCLUDE.DIR "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox > \First Storage Group" > > > > end of options file > > > Gary Lee > Senior System Programmer > Ball State University > phone: 765-285-1310 > >
TSM upgrade v5 --> v6 database storage question
Hello All, Thanks for your help! Upgrading a client on Windows 2003 TSM v5.5.3 to Windows 2008 TSM 6.1.3. I am planning the storage and was wondering if it is worth splitting the database between multiple file systems. The storage they have for the database is FCAL on an IBM DS4800. The client's current database is 65GB and will probably reduce to 55GB after the upgrade when we purge some old data. I was going to do the following e:\ database directory f:\ active log directory g:\ archive log directory. I could do this e:\ database directory f:\ database directory g:\ database directory h:\ active log directory i:\ archive log directory. The storage will be all be RAIDed on the DS4800 so I am wondering just how much if any performance gains I will see if I split the database up into more file systems. I would also like to solicit any opinions on the storage configuration (i.e. - RAID?, placement of logs, etc) Thanks, Nicholas
Re: TSM 6.1.3 Install
Hello ALL, Thanks for your help! I am about to upgrade a client from 5.5.2 to 6.1.x. The client just got an nSeries and they want to implement NDMP. Two questions arise form this thread. 1. Which 6.1.x version should I upgrade to? 2. What is the nature of the NDMP/TOC performance problems in 6.1.x? Thanks Again! Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/13/2010 03:54:54 PM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1.3 Install > > Sam Sheppard > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 01/13/2010 09:12 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > We have been running TSM server 6.1.2.1 on AIX 6.1 for a couple of > months and needed to upgrade to 6.1.3 for the fix for a severe NDMP/TOC > performance problem. > > Downloaded the 6.1.3 package, ran the upgrade procedure and lo and > behold, the performance problem was no better. At that time, I also > discovered that we were still running version 6.1.2.1 as shown by both > logging in with DSMADMC and the output of the Q STATUS command. > > At this point, I opened a problem with Tivoli support. They requested I > rerun the upgrade and send them screen shots and logs of the process as > well as a checksum output of the downloaded package. Again, all looked > normal except that this time it ran much quicker and I received a > message indicating DB2 9.5 had already been installed and would not be > re-installed. And, again, the version ended up being 6.1.2.1. > > Two weeks ago, the problem was forwarded to a different support group > who looked at it until Monday when I received a message saying they had > decided the best way to get 6.1.3 installed at this point was to run the > ./Uninstall_Tivoli_Storage_Manager program from the /opt/tivoli/tsm/_uninst > directory and then run the upgrade again. Did that today with the same > results with the additional problem of now having no B/A client on the > machine and no DSMADMC. > > My question is; has anyone successfully installed 6.1.3? Does the > output from a Q STATUS command show 6.1.3? > > Thanks > Sam Sheppard > San Diego Data Processing Corp. > (858)-581-9668
TSM write_errors on LTO3 tapes
Hello All, Thanks for sharing your knowledge!! It is appreciated! I have a client with a TS3200 less than 6 months old. They received a media attention indicators on their library last week. On investigation I found 2 volumes with write_errors. I moved the data off of them and retired them. The tapes were purchased when the library was implemented so they are relatively new as well. I manually cleaned the drives with the on board cleaning cartridge. Now today I see 6 more volume marked bad by the library interface and they too have write_errors in TSM. I guess I wonder Why this started all at once? Qhat the ramifications(other than the obvious ones) of these write/read errors are? When/how are these generated and when should action be taken? Regards, Nicholas
Re: TSM 6.1: Can I remove the log mirror?
Hi Wanda, I was told by TSM support when I was enjoying the NUMLOGSPAN episode that the log on/off is controlled by the entries in the opt file. You would add a log mirror the same way. They stated that if your storage for your logs is protected (RAID for instance) that there was no need to mirror the logs. Regards, Nicholas Rodolfich "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 10/28/2009 12:21:04 AM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1: Can I remove the log mirror? > > Wanda Prather > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 10/28/2009 01:59 AM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Can I remove the log mirror for my 6.1.0.2 (Windows) server? > Is it as simple as removing it from dsmserv.opt? > > (Can't find anything in the manual...)
TDP for Exchange on VM with LAN-FREE
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a client that uses the Exchange TDP and are using LAN-FREE. The data is several TB. They currently to a full on the weekends and incrementals daily. Their TSM server is on AIX. They would like to move their physical Exchange servers to couple of VMs. The issue is that none of our VCPs seem to think that an HBA can be assigned to a individual guest for exclusive use thereby facilitating the use of LAN-FREE. Has anyone out there seen a similar configuration, or know that this works or have any other ideas on how to accomplish the backup without LAN-FREE? Regards, Nicholas
TSM 6.1.0 --> 6.1.2 upgrade
Hello All, Thanks for your help! I need to upgrade a TSM 6.1 server to the 6.1.2 release on an AIX system to clear up some bugs. I cannot seem to find anything about this on the information center. Has anyone done this before? Any information will be appreciated. Regards, Nicholas
Re: Upgrading AIX under TSM
Not sure how helpful this is but I have installed TSM 5.5.3 on an existing AIX 6.1 server with no issues. Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/30/2009 01:14:29 PM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] Upgrading AIX under TSM > > Shawn Drew > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/30/2009 01:20 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > We are running TSM 5.5.3 on AIX 5.3 on half of our servers. The AIX admin > wants to being everyone up to the same level (6.1) > > I imagine we have to reinstall/upgrade the Atape driver, but can anyone > else suggest any other gotchas ? Would we have to do anything with the > tivoli devices package (drivers)? We only use the tivoli drivers for > library control. > > Regards, > Shawn > > Shawn Drew > > > This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for > the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, > please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord > with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, > is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the > integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) > not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain > functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP > Paribas RCC, Inc.
Re: TSM Fastback for Windows VM's....
Hi Wanda, I too have had little response to Fastback questions here. I implemented a Fastback server (our first) at a client site that had guest machines. We installed the Fastback client on each guest and are treating the clients as if they were physical machines. It is my understanding, from FileX folks, that there is no VMware integration per say at this point like VCB. I have successfully tested the BMR portion of Fastback in our lab and it works pretty good. There are some gotchas in the instructions as it relates to specific drivers on the physical host but did not run into any of them. I was skeptical that it would work at all in reality since the environment in the training class I took was pre-tested/staged. However, I worked through the instructions on a test client with no problems. The system did not have any "special" drivers such as RAID adapters like a production server might. I would encourage you to do some testing with the environment in question; I know that is no always possible. I couldn't come up with a VMware host to do it with! Please post if you learn anything. The product still has a lot of buzz but not many takers in the Southeast so far! Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/30/2009 12:41:07 PM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] TSM Fastback for Windows VM's > > Wanda Prather > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/30/2009 12:47 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Anybody implemented Fastback for Windows VMWare guests? > > Am I correct that it would eliminate the need to use VCB? If Fastback can > do full system restores (aka BMR on a physical machine) I wouldn't need to > create fullvm snapshots of the guests, right? > > Anybody tried a Fastback full system restore on a VMware guest? > > Is there a different forum for Fastback that would be better than ADSM-L, or > do we attribute the lack of Fastback chatter on this forum to slow adoption > of the product? > > Thanks > Wanda
TSM Fastback DR Hub Server
Greetings ADSMlings, Thanks for your help! I will be implementing TSM Fastback servers at 2 remote sites. These 2 servers will be protected by a TSM Fastback DR Hub Server back at the HQ. My issue is that the remote sites have T1 WAN capabilities while the sites have ~70GB and ~250GB of data respectively. My question is regarding what the instructor referred to as a "Full Data Shipment" used to get the initial snapshot from the remote locations to the DR Hub server where the DR server would be installed at the remote site, the fist snapshot created from the protected Fastback server and then trucked to the DR site. In this case we will NOT be able to do this since the client will be housing the DR Hub server on an existing server attached to an existing active SAN. Can I use some sort of transportable (maybe USB) drive to create the repository and then hand carry it to HQ and pull it into the DR Hub server? If so, what would be the process to accomplish this? Regards, Nicholas Rodolfich Senior TSM/AIX Architect CMA Technology Solutions Phone: (225) 927-9200 | Fax: (225) 761-2511 Cell: (225) 200-5391 Email: nrodolf...@cmaontheweb.com 8180 YMCA Plaza Baton Rouge, La 70810 US
ODBC with TSM 6.1 (DB2)
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! Prior to TSM 6.1 IBM supplied n ODBC driver that was quite useful using Excel as a front end. I am a UNIX guy but are found the Excel method very useful in TSM instance analysis. I need the same capabilities for TSM 6.1 but cannot seem to get it to work. The only instructions I can find for using the DB2 ODBC CLI are for Unix systems. I only wish there was a comparable UNIX to do this with. Can anyone shed any light on how to install and configure this to work with Excel? Regards, Nicholas
Re: Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way")
Sean, Not much help to offer here but, I have been involved in many LTO drive replacements in 3584s and have never changed any hardware serial number. The only serial number that needs to change is the one TSM is using in its drive definition which should automatically get picked up on the TSM drive redefine if your hardware firmware is operating properly. I would have CE run a full calibrate on your library and check your firmware levels on library and drives for currency. Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/09/2009 08:14:28 AM: > [image removed] > > Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way") > > Hart, Charles A > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/09/2009 08:16 AM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > 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. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > 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. > > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > 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 > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > 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 > > > > > > > Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 07/08/2009 11:30 AM > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or "there has to be a better way") > > > > > > > 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? > > > Please check that this email is addressed to you. If not, you should > delete it immediately as its contents may be confidential and its > disclosure, copying or distribution unlawful. > > C. & J. Clark International Limited takes steps to prevent the > transmission of electronic viruses but responsibility for screening > incoming messages and the risk of such transmission lies with the > recipient. > > C. & J. Clark International Limited Trading as Clarks Registered in > England number 141015. > Registered office 40 High Street, Street, Somerset. BA16 0EQ. England. > > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - > www.blackspider.com > > This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity > to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of thi
Re: Dirmc and cloptset questions
Should work! This is what TSM refers to as rebinding. Be sure to mark the override client settings in the cloptset option. Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/08/2009 01:46:01 PM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] Dirmc and cloptset questions > > Lee, Gary D. > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/08/2009 01:47 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Just ran into the dreaded invisible files in point-in-time restore > with tsm gui. > > Looks like some of the directories of some clients didn't get bound > to my dirsonly management class with retonly of 180 days. > > I would like to force all directories to rebind to this class. > > I propose adding the dirmc option to any cloptsets and then define > as apppropriate for all clients. > > I have such a set defined for solaris clients to exclude /etc/ > mnttab, and one for win2k clients with specific excludes. > > Anything wrong with this idea; and how best to implement. > Suggestions and criticisms welcome. > > Tsm server 5.4.4 clients rangeing from 3.7 through 6.1. > > > Gary Lee > Senior System Programmer > Ball State University > phone: 765-285-1310 > >
Re: VTL Tape Size
Andy, Just an opinion here. If you try to provide virtual sequential access mount points for each client session you may need during client processing, you will likely need much more system resources to complete nightly backups. Managing mount points need only be done during daily server maintenance processing. I would still be using a random access disk pool to provide staging space for client backups. The L in VTL stands for Library and it should be treated as such. For many years IBM has recommended that we back up to a staging area to enhance client performance and reduce resource needs. During server maintenance, data should be placed onto longer term storage devices (libraries) for daily expiration and reclamation processing.. I don't think that strategy changes with a VTL. On another not I have a client with a VTL running in a Windows environment with around 200 clients(not sure what you have). Their VTL vendor suggested a volume size of 20Gb. This eventually created ~15000 volumes. When the TSM server used the VTL, the overhead from mounting hoards of virtual volumes brought their server to its knees. I mean it would not even respond to session requests so it could not complete nightly client backups at all. Not to mention the headaches of managing 15000 volumes from the TSM interface (GUI or CLI). They too were trying to backup directly to the VTL during nightly client backups. We had to return there management class destinations back to a random access storage pool and process their data during daily sever maintenance as TSM is designed to do. We set up the VTL to emulate LTO2 (200GB volume size) and used the VTL like a library, migrating the nightly backup data to the VTL. Large Oracle backups do directly to the VTL but are limited in number. The client is fat and happy now, backing up ~1.5TB nightly with plenty of time left and the TSM server performance is stellar. Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/07/2009 11:18:26 AM: > [image removed] > > Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size > > John D. Schneider > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/07/2009 11:19 AM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Andy, >My experience may not map to the problem you are trying to solve, but > I chose a relatively small VTL tape size (50GB) and have not regretted > it. The trade-off is "total number of virtual tapes" vs "total number > of anticipated simultaneous tape mounts". >Say you have a 60TB VTL (usable), and you want to emulate LTO4 tapes. > If you went with the default size (400GB) you would have about 150 > virtual tapes in your pool. Say also that there are 300 TSM clients to > be backed up each night. Each one will need at least one virtual tape > during their backups, and some of them might need 4 or 8 for performance > reasons. You would have only 150 tapes for 300 clients? You could > spread out their schedules, of course, but that will still be > problematic. After a few weeks you might have a bunch of them full, but > not ready to reclaim, or waiting on reusedelay, and not have enough > available tapes for all the tape mounts you need. >With 50GB tapes, you would have over 1200 virtual tapes. Tapes would > fill up sooner, of course, but they could be reclaimed sooner, too, and > be returned to scratch. Your overall disk utilization will go up. >One thing to bear in mind is that if you have single files that are > bigger than your virtual tape size, the file will have to span multiple > virtual tapes. This is no problem for TSM, but it does mean that each > of the virtual tapes involved in that one file will not be mountable > until after that large file is finished backing up. We have seen the > unusual situation where a single 300GB Exchange database was backing up, > and happened to run over into our 'backup stgpool' window. The 'backup > stgpool' was waiting on a tape mount of a certain volume, but when we > checked we could see that the volume was not mounted or in use by > anybody else. After some digging we noticed that the virtual volume in > question had been mounted some hours earlier in a backup session for a > single large Exchange file, and that backup was still going on. As soon > as that file finished backing up, the virtual tapes mounted and the > 'backup stgpool' continued. > >Another thing to think about is, have you sized the virtual library > to have enough capacity for all your primary storage pool needs, or will > the primary pool have to migrate to real tape? If so, that is another > argument in favor of relatively small virtual tapes, because they won't > migrate until they are full. In our case, using the migration > threshhold to cause the migration to occur didn't work well because of > how TSM calculates percent full, so we ended up writing a script that > automatically migrates (using "move data") virtual tapes as they age, so > that we are sure we always have enough scratch
DRM database tape processing
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! When using DRM, tapes are moved from the mountable state to the vault state using the s=dbs option ,they remain in the Vault state until they are empty and the reuse delay on the storage pool has elapsed and DRM moves them into the "vault retrieve" state. My question is, do database tapes use the same strategy. Do they use any reuse delay or are they changed to the"vault retrieve" sate at the end of the DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS parameter? All snapshot backups are fulls done M-F. The reason I ask, I have a client who is finding 4 or so extra volumes every other week in his vault and it is driving him bonkers. He claims to be following exacting standards when it comes to managing his daily off site tape rotations. I have looked at his setup and short of doing his rotations for him for two weeks, I cannot see a problem. Any ideas? Regards, Nicholas
Re: Drive problem in AIX. I'm lost...
Confusing!! 1. In UNIX, special characters are reserved for special functions and special care must be taken to not have these characters interpreted during code execution. As a result, using UNIX specific device names as names for your TSM resources is asking for trouble! 2. Why aren't you using some mnemonic names that make sense to humans such as IBM3584, or DRIVE1, DRIVE2, etc.? 3. Why would you have written a script to do something that is done so infrequently? How many times a day do you rename you libraries and drives? Regards, Nicholas
Re: TSM vs Avamar
What does Avemar offer for DR purposes? I don't know any customers that are ready to totally rely on electrically powered disk drives as a DR solution. The recent CommVault topic inspired this one. Our EMC reps are doing a good marketing job for Avemar. While I'm not necessarily looking for ammo to shoot them down, I am having trouble finding the negatives of Avamar versusTSM. The main marketing claims that interested me: - Dedupe at the client. They also claim that since they can do it at the client, the ratio they can achieve is much higher than Falconstor or DataDomain backend deduplication. - They have some kind of directory tree hash marking. The claim for this is that if you have directories with millions of files, it will have hashes for each directory level. If one file changes, it can detect which directory has changed through these hashes and will prevent complete file system scanning for every backup. Sounds like it's an alternative for the TSM journaling feature. - They have some kind of Vmware appliance generation thing which they use to create long term archives assuming they won't fit on the million:1 deduped storage! As far as the negatives go, number one seems to be no analog to the independant adsm-l community. Which also seems to prevent finding more negatives. Also, the pre-sales engineer is a former TSM guy, which was a craft EMC move! Anyway, does anyone know any other negatives for Avamar vs TSM? I'd like to be able to ask more intelligent questions. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Regards, Nicholas
Re: Making sure clientactions start
You do understand that this depends on the TSM client code installed on the server right? Is your TSM client scheduler started? I have a clientaction defined for a node whose schedmode is set to prompted. However, I have now been waiting for 45 minutes for the action to take place. Is there a way to get the server to kick itself and prompt the client to perform the actions in a clientaction? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 Regards, Nicholas
TDP for Exchnage 6.1 mailbox restore
Hello All, Thanks for your help. I am implementing the TDP for Exchange. We have it installed and did a manual backup successfully. When we try to reetore a mailbox, it forces us to use a Recovery Storage Group in Exchange as the target. We chose a specific email in the filter section and were expecting a restre of what we were searching for. Instead, the restore seems to be building a whole new database, It wa sup to 14GB when we stopped it. It seem like nonsense to restore the whole storage group just to restore a single mail box. Is this required. Nicholas
Re: AIX 5.5.2 client install
In my experience, the 5.5.2 kit is not a complete install kit it is only a patch or a fixpack.. You must install 5.5.0 code to get the license files. When you uninstall the old code per instructions, it leaves the configuration files in place. If you manually deleted those directories then you might have lost some of the files needed that are included in the 5.5.0 code but not the 5.5.2 fix. According ot eh doc. You can install 5.5.2 right over 5.5.0. I have done it several times and it works (Windows and AIX) good. Regards, Nicholas
Re: SV: Install ISC and AD
If that is the case you already have the JRE installed! No need to install it again. Regards, Nicholas
Re: Install ISC and AD
Chris, Java is an interpreted language not a compiled one. The JRE is the interpreter. Without a JRE you cannot execute Java code which is the heart of the ISC. Regards, Nicholas
Does LANFREE work on VMware
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a client with 3 Exchange serves w/2.5TB of mail, running the TDP and they are using LAN-FREE. They want to vitrualize the three servers onto a new VMware farm. Will they be able to still use the LAN-FREE on the VM? I saw on the Info Center that a guest is not supported directly for LAN-FREE but that there was a way to do it using VCB. I can't find any good info. Does anyone have experience with this configuration? Any help or info would be appreciated! Regards, Nicholas
Fastback Mount
Hello Again all, I reinstalled the client again and this time the Fastback mount service is installed and running but I have the following messages in my event log. When I surf to the mount directory and try to run the exe. Nothing happens and it writes this message in the event log. The description for Event ID ( 5 ) in Source ( TSM FastBackMount ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: FBSM1102I Received STOP from service manager. -- Hello All, I am doing some testing on the new Fastback product. I have two blades that I am using; one is the Fastback server the other is the Fastback client. When I install the Fastback client, the Fastback Mount icon that is supposed to be installed in the task bar never shows up. The client code is enabled. I have ran and scheduled snapshots and done restores from it to the client successfully. I have reinstalled the client several times and when I run the setup program and choose modify, it shows the Mount code checked like it is installed but there is no icon or menu option to start it. Has anyone seen this before? Regards, Nicholas
Fastback mount
Hello All, I am doing some testing on the new Fastback product. I have two blades that I am using; one is the Fastback server the other is the Fastback client. When I install the Fastback client, the Fastback Mount icon that is supposed to be installed in the task bar never shows up. The client code is enabled. I have ran and scheduled snapshots and done restores from it to the client successfully. I have reinstalled the client several times and when I run the setup program and choose modify, it shows the Mount code checked like it is installed but there is no icon or menu option to start it. Has anyone seen this before? Regards, Nicholas
Generating a clientaction to send an email in Windows.
Hello All! Thanks for your help! I am an old UNIX guy currently working with TSM on WIndows. I am trying to generate a client action to email an operator at a certain point in my server maintenance script which I have done for years on UNIX with no problem. I am not finidng it so easy to do this from Windows though. WHat is the best way to do this in Windows? ThankYou! ThankYou! Regards, Nicholas
How to tie VOLSERs to specific storage pools.
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a customer with 2 basic storage pool hiearchies for 2 different business departments within the same library. There are 2 cartridge sets to match, The tape labels have been ordered to reflect each department.as below. With department A data on A0L3. tapes and department B data on BL3 labeled tapes. A1L3 - A00999L3 B1L3 - B00999L3 There is no library manager. Only 1 instance of TSM. TSM 5.4 server on WIndows; IBM 3584 library; 6 x LTO3 drives My questions are: Am I missing something? How do I manage specific tape serial numbers in specific storage pools? How do I manage scratch tapes? Thanks! Nicholas
Re: TSM FastBackup Exchange
Not knowing your architecture I can't commen ton the perofmance issues but the cause may be something else. I an no Fastback expert but it is my understanding that CDP should not be used on constantly open files like Exchange, otherwise the snapshot activity would be never ending. The snapshots should be setup on some period. In that way Exchange can flush its logs to disk before a "snapshot" of the CHANGED blocks can occur. This is also why you don't want to use CDP on system drives. Nicholas Are the VM's on the same physical machine? On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean < sabar.hasiho...@metrodata.co.id> wrote: > Dear All, > > > Has anyone tried to backup exchange 2007 using TSM Fastback? I'm backing up > Virtual Machine (Exchange) to Virtual Machine (TSM Fast Back Server), full > snapshot, CDP. I got only 0.33 MB/sec in average ... for data around 6.5 GB, > I think it's going to take very long time. I see the usage of > CPU,Memory,Disk,Network are not too high. Does anyone know what affecting > the backup performance on this scenario ? > > > BR, > > Martin P >
Windows laptop restore advice needed
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I am primarily a server guy with a UNIX background so I am light on the Windows platform as it relates to client backup/restore. Our organization has about 50 laptops (mostly XP pro) that we need to backup so that we can restore them during drive failure issues or laptop upgrades. We seem to be having more and more drive failure since the SATA drives have proliferated into the market. The majority of our laptop fleet is primarily remote to our office. I hope to be able to provide a solution where we can have users take a backup of their laptop when they are in the office every other week or so. That way when we do have a drive failure or someone gets a laptop refresh they don't have to totally recreate their laptop's working environments. Currently the windows guys are starting over completely using the recovery CDs supplied by the vendor (Lenovo) but just feeding the 6 CDs is a 4 hours deal. My question leans toward the whole backup/restore process. What is the easiest/best way to backup and restore these laptops. I was thinking of using the TSM image capabilities but reading up on it seems like there are several prerequisites to making it work. Maybe Christie BMR, or Fastback but Fastback requires the MS AIK, another server, etc.. I can and have read much doc on the subject but I would prefer some empirical knowledge from those who really know before I start banging my head against the wall. Any advice rendered would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Again!! Nicholas
Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data
Well, it turns out that the client has no downtime for this system so I don't think the image thing is an option. Not to mention one of the admins installed the LVSA code through the GUI setup wizard the night before and chose to reboot later and the system crashed with a bugcheck for TSMLVSA.sys yesterday. IBM had multiple tickets where this had occurred at other customers in their database. We are waiting on a reasonable explanation from IBM but the client is not too comfortable with the image idea at this point and is looking to use their old Backup Exec system where they have been successful doing this in the past (SHAME! SHAME!). I suggested the robocopy method to them but it is their decision/data. Thanks for all of your help!! Your are a great bunch of folks!! Nicholas If you assume a file create rate of about 100,000/hour then you are looking at a 20 hour restore if all else goes well. You might squeeze more file creates out of your new server, but who really knows? If you assume a 200 GB/hour transfer rate and use image instead, you can cut the restore time in half. You can't improve the file create rate by using multiple streams. In fact, that actually reduces the rate. I'm still advocating the image route. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data It is ~2,000,000 individual files after hours.
Re: Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data
It is ~2,000,000 individual files after hours.
Best way to use TSM to move 2Tb of data
Hello All, I have a client that needs to move a 2Tb volume on their Windows file server. Their TSM sever is also on Windows w/TSM v5.3.4. What is the fastest/best way to accomplish this. We tested an archive but it only got 340Gb overnight. They don't have enough disk based pool space to land it there so we will have to use tape. I suggest kicking up the resourceutilization parameter on the client to enable multiple sessions but I am hoping you guys/gals can teach me something. Thanks for all your help!! Nicholas
Re: Script that generates a macro? Or something like that....
In my 20 years experience it is quite common for network issues to mysteriously "fix themselves" Funny how that happens!! Nicholas
Re: Fastback has me stumped
Thanks Mark, I finally got the install to work. I am not sure what was causing me problems. My stupidity I bet. Anyway, I tried to install the client on the same system as the server and could not get that to work but I installed the client on a remote system and had had some success in doing my snapshots. Thanks for your responses. It will be a couple of days before I can attack it again. Nicholas
Fastback has me stumped
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I am trying to install the new Fastback product to familiarize myself with it before I have to implement it at a client site. After several install/reinstall I found out the default login by accident and now I can get into the product but not much further. I am using a blade that boots from a SAN and the disk I will be using for a repository is also a SAN LUN. I have the Fastback manager, Control Station, Mount and the Administrative client installed on a lab machine that will act as the Fastback server. This lab has no AD. I have installed the client code on a workstation for a test client and the only entry in the Fastback Client Configurator is basically the IP of the Fastback server. When I go back to the server I cannot see the Fastback client I just installed. According to the doc I should see it under the Storage Pool branch of the tree. Additionally when I try to do a manual snapshot there is no field for the client to be snapshotted only a group field. I have heard that this product is easy to configure but I am not seeing it yet. Is the product designed to work with AD only. Is there no notion of a client system on the server? What am I missing? Nicholas
Re: DB Mirroring - Poll and question
WOW, the 342 Million files is what is killing you but it still seems like an excessive amount of time. You mentioned Saturday as when it starts. You are running expiration daily aren't you? You should be able to run expiration and reclamation to completion each day or you need to look at another instance or configuration to meet your resource needs. If you don't complete expiration and reclamation daily, you will be queueing up unfinished work each day that will turn into a 24-48 hour expiration run(sounds like you are there). Expiration and reclamation go hand-in-hand. If your expiration doesn't complete then you reclamation can't either. As a result, you may have a good number of un-reclaimed and un-expired entries in your database. BTW, I have always been told, by my TSM mentors, that due to the database intensive nature of expiration, that it should always run by itself. Define LOTS? My specs are: 194GB DB 206TB Occupancy 342,194,690 files "Schneider, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/20/2008 01:58 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] DB Mirroring - Poll and question We need 4-6 hours for 90GB DB, ~100 clients. The servers have LOTS of files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Michael Green Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DB Mirroring - Poll and question 48 hours sounds like an awfully looong time to me. On my busiest Linux server (90gb DB, ~100 clients) expiration completes in 20-30 minutes. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 18:14 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] DB Mirroring - Poll and question On my big, 194GB production Linux server, an EXPIRE INVENTORY runs 40-48 hours. Granted, the server is very busy performing other tasks such as client backups, stgbackups and such. The DB buffers and such are configured identically to the production server. On my first test expire run on my new test server (to which I reloaded the 194GB production DB), the expire ran in 10-hours - 1/4 of the usual time.
Unexpected simultaneous writes to tape pool problem
Hello All! Thanks for your help!! I am implementing TSM 5.5.1 on Windows 2003. I have added a client at version 5.5.1 as well. The library is a TS3310 with 4xLTO4 drives The management class points to a DISKPOOL as it destination(info below). Diskpool has 10 volumes. But when I start a backup, the sever immediately mounts a volume and appears to write to both the DISKPOOL and the next storage pool (ONSITE). When it is all said and done, most of the files land in the DISKPOOL but some land in the next storage pool (see q occ output below). Additionally when the server is writing the data I get continuos open/close volume messages in the activity log (see below) while the server is writing the data. I have tried various things but none seem to solve this. Due to the limited number of drives they have I need the disk pool to work as it should otherwise we will never be able to service all of the clients during the backup window. Any clues? -- tsm: TSMOG>q stg diskpool f=d Storage Pool Name: DISKPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: DISK Estimated Capacity: 512 G Space Trigger Util: 0.3 Pct Util: 0.3 Pct Migr: 0.3 Pct Logical: 100.0 High Mig Pct: 90 Low Mig Pct: 70 Migration Delay: 0 Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: 2 Reclamation Processes: Next Storage Pool: ONSITE Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit Access: Read/Write Description: Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: No Collocate?: Reclamation Threshold: Offsite Reclamation Limit: Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: Number of Scratch Volumes Used: Delay Period for Volume Reuse: Migration in Progress?: No Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0 Reclamation in Progress?: Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 07/30/2008 13:54:30 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Active Data Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: Yes CRC Data: No Reclamation Type: Overwrite Data when Deleted: -- Node Name Type Filespace FSID Storage Number of Physical Logical Name Pool Name Files Space Space Occupied Occupied (MB) (MB) -- -- - -- - - - ITSVR1 Bkup \\itsvr1\c$ 5 DISKPOOL 11,116 1,632.27 1,632.27 ITSVR1 Bkup \\itsvr1\c$ 5 ONSITE 1,026 0.70 0.70 -- ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4. ANR0511I Session 24 opened output volume OG0004L4. ANR0514I Session 24 closed volume OG0004L4.
Weird duplicate device in Win2003 install
Hello All! Thanks for your help!! I am an old UNIX guy doing a Windows 2003 TSM 5.5.1 install. I have an x3650 system with a TS3310 library (4 x LTO4) and a DS4700 storage array. When I install the device driver for the library and boot the system, it comes back with 2 medium changers and 8 drives in the device manager rather than the 1 medium changer and 4 drives I really have. My SAN guy seems to think that this is OK but I have never seen it this way in UNIX land. Could it be that the zoning on the switch allows multiple paths to be seen by the system and therefore it is trying to identify the same drive twice. Should I leave it this way. If not what is the solution?
Fwd: Re: [ADSM-L] Bad volume rule of thumb
Sorry folks I forgot the technology we are using. We have an IBM 3584 library with LTO1 drives. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/11/2008 9:09 AM >>> Hi Nicholas You don't say what your tape technology is. I used to admin a site that had LTO1 and LTO3 drives. With the LTO1s I would run move data on any tape in error, and if that worked record the volser of the tape. After three errors, or if the move data didn't work I would discard the tape. For the LTO3s I discovered that any error tended to be permanent. I currently work a lot with LTO2s and they fail similarly to LTO1s, but more of them fail hard on the first error. Regards Steve. Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Nicholas Rodolfich wrote: > Hello All, > > Thanks for your help!! > > The volume inventory here is rather old here(2002). There tends to be > many read and write errors in the volume inventory. I was looking for a > rule of thumb regarding how many errors trigger disposal of these > volumes. > > I have been disposing of them at the first sign of either read or write > failures but I am seeing so many, I am beginning to wonder if some level > or read/write errors is acceptable. Any thoughts on this will be > appreciated. > > Nicholas > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.2.0/1493 - Release Date: 6/9/2008 5:25 PM > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Bad volume rule of thumb
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! The volume inventory here is rather old here(2002). There tends to be many read and write errors in the volume inventory. I was looking for a rule of thumb regarding how many errors trigger disposal of these volumes. I have been disposing of them at the first sign of either read or write failures but I am seeing so many, I am beginning to wonder if some level or read/write errors is acceptable. Any thoughts on this will be appreciated. Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support
Actually, IBM issued a reprieve for Windows 2000 until July 2010. The release a "special" versions of the client yesterday v5.3.6 that will be supported with 5.4. Title: TSM Version 5.3 EOS FAQs Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&uid=swg21298195 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/1/2008 4:20:07 PM >>> Hello: This may be the easiest question of the day... can anyone tell me whether or not TSM client 5.4.2.0 is supported on Windows 2000? I attempted to upgrade a Windows 2000 machine from 5.4.1.0 to 5.4.2.0... and received the following error: "The operating system is not adequate for running IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client" Thanks... Charles Welton This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering this to the addressee(s), you are notified that reading, copying or distributing this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: move nodedata functionality
Well it seems that you cannot do a 'move nodedata' from a copypool to the same copypool either no matter what state the volumes are in unless you bring the volumes back onsite and check them into the library. I can only get it to work on a primary pool which seems sorta useless to me. Well maybe not useless! I thought the purpose was to enhance DR abilities but it only seems useful for increasuing the eficiency of restores from onsite volumes. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/30/2008 1:55 PM >>> You cannot "move nodedata" from a primary stgpool to a copy stgpool; you use "backup stgpool" for that. You can only specify a tostgpool on move nodedata if from is a primary stgpool. You can not use move nodedata to move from one copy stgpool to another copy stgpool. And the tapes in question have to be either READO or READW; OFFSITE will not work. That said, what are you really trying to test in your DR test? If you want to know anything about how you might recover in a DISASTER RECOVERY situation, you need to take your copy stgpool the way it is. We don't get forewarning of disaster that allow us to make our copy pools better! If your copy stgpools are not in sufficient condition to do a DR, prove it to your management so that you can make the argument that they need to allocate enough resource to copy stgpool to make it a viable DR restore pool. David Ehresman >>> Nicholas Rodolfich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/30/2008 11:21 AM >>> Thanks for your help!! I am preparing for a DR test and I am trying to do some move nodedata commands on a couple of nodes. When I try to do a move nodedata from a secondary storage pool (copypool) it complains that the volumes are offsite. Well of course! I guess I though that TSM would pull the data from a it original primary storage pool to create the data set. Wrong! My question is: If I do the move nodedata from a primary storage pool to a secondary storage pool(copypool), will TSM expire the nodes data on the 85 secondary storage pool volumes as it aggregates the data onto new secondary storage pool volumes? If it doesn't it will not be of much help since the secondary storage pool volumes will go offsite for the DR exercise. This seems like the logical path to me but the doc is not clear on this point and I don't want to assume here. >>-MOVe NODEdata--+---node_name-+--+> '-COLLOCGroup--=--group_name-' >--FROMstgpool--=--source_pool_name-> >--+-+--> '-TOstgpool--=--destination_pool_name-' .-Type--=--ANY--. >--+---+> '-Type--=--+-ANY--+-' +-Backup---+ +-ARchive--+ '-SPacemanaged-' .-MAXPRocess--=--1-. .-Wait--=--No--. >--+--+--+--+---> '-MAXPRocess--=--num_processes-' '-Wait--=--+-No--+-' '-Yes-' >--++-->< '-RECONStruct--=--+-No--+' '-Yes-' IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
move nodedata functionality
Thanks for your help!! I am preparing for a DR test and I am trying to do some move nodedata commands on a couple of nodes. When I try to do a move nodedata from a secondary storage pool (copypool) it complains that the volumes are offsite. Well of course! I guess I though that TSM would pull the data from a it original primary storage pool to create the data set. Wrong! My question is: If I do the move nodedata from a primary storage pool to a secondary storage pool(copypool), will TSM expire the nodes data on the 85 secondary storage pool volumes as it aggregates the data onto new secondary storage pool volumes? If it doesn't it will not be of much help since the secondary storage pool volumes will go offsite for the DR exercise. This seems like the logical path to me but the doc is not clear on this point and I don't want to assume here. >>-MOVe NODEdata--+---node_name-+--+> '-COLLOCGroup--=--group_name-' >--FROMstgpool--=--source_pool_name-> >--+-+--> '-TOstgpool--=--destination_pool_name-' .-Type--=--ANY--. >--+---+> '-Type--=--+-ANY--+-' +-Backup---+ +-ARchive--+ '-SPacemanaged-' .-MAXPRocess--=--1-. .-Wait--=--No--. >--+--+--+--+---> '-MAXPRocess--=--num_processes-' '-Wait--=--+-No--+-' '-Yes-' >--++-->< '-RECONStruct--=--+-No--+' '-Yes-' IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: Backup Copygroup setting
You should be able to set the Retain Extra Versions to 60, Version Data Exists and the Versions Data Deleted to nolimit and the server will, defacto, allow TSM to keep versions based on their age. This is what you would do to enable point-in-time restores as well. Of course, this will mean more storage usage. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/22/2008 10:50 AM >>> I have a SQL user who creates a nightly backup with an older version of litespeed. They only want to retain 60 days. The problem is each nightly backup has a unique date/time stamp. Therefore TSM sees every file as an active version. Since each version is active I am just keeping everything. The files don't get deleted nor are they triggered to be inactive so I can't use the retain only or verdelete. How do I convince TSM, using the backup copygroup (not archive) to just keep a file 60 days? A newer version of litespeed allows SQL to use the archive copygroup. However if I can make this work with the backup copygroup this will defer testing and implementing. We are on TSM 5.3.3 windows server. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: TSM being abandoned?
An IBM TSM person told me that TSM v6 will have db2 for its database and they are shootng for an announcement in October. Yeehaw!! Regards, Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/16/2008 2:46 PM >>> It is slotted to be released Jan 2009. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandoned? Is Version 6 going to be released this Year or Next? regards Colwell, William F. wrote: >I have been configuring a new TSM server since last November. At first >I wanted a VTL. But when I learned from the Oxford symposium >presentations >that TSM would have its own dedup in version 6, >and considering the cost of the vtl, I ditched it and ordered a lot more >of SATA arrays for less money. > >I think in a few years after v6 is widely installed, VTL's won't look so >good >for TSM sites. Assuming it all works of course. > >your VTL vendor may just have been whistling past the graveyard. > >Bill Colwell > >-Original Message- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Paul Zarnowski >Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:08 PM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: TSM being abandoned? > >Deduplicating VTLs fit better into NBU sites. TSM's progressive >incremental methodology already reduces the data stream, making deduping >VTLs less of a "win", though it can still be beneficial. My point is >that >VTL vendors may not look as positively on TSM as they do on other >less-efficient backup solutions, because they don't sell as much VTL >product to them. IMHO. >..Paul > > > >>A VTL vendor said he is seeing a number of mid-sized businesses >>migrating from TSM to NBU (Symantec). Do you think this is true? My >>concern is that the pool of support techs will shrink and put us in a >>bind. >> >>Regards, >>Orin >> >>Orin Rehorst >>Port of Houston >> >> >> > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
LVSA - open file support dilemma
Hello All, Thanks for your hep!! We have a WIndows 2003 server running the 5.4.0.2 TSM client. The nightly scheduled backups have been failing due to the following error. ANS1378E: The snapshot operation failed. The SNAPSHOTCACHELocation does not contain enough space for this snapshot operation. The funny thing is that we are not using the LVSA on our clients. The admin claims he did not configure the LVSA during installation by doing a "Custom" install but there are directories on all of the volumes named X:\tsmlvsacache. I have not been able to find any information regarding enabling/disabling this "feature" in any configuration file, in fact TSM.QuickFacts states that this cannot be done. I have tried to uninstall/reinstall the whole client but when I try to delete one of the X:\tsmlvsacache directories on the f: volume Windows tells me that the file is in use, even after the TSM service is stopped. There is no service running for LVSA that I can find. I can't see any directories where it is installed. I went to the TSM client gui and under Utilities *> Setup Wizard when I select "Help me configure Online Image Support" the only option I have is to install the LVSA. The option to remove the LVSA is greyed out implying that it is not installed. How can I disable/uninstall the LVSA Gratefully, Confused Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'
The Windows admin replaced the hardware and wanted to make sure that everything got backed up. The node is on a schedule with 100 other nodes. Thanks to Richard Sims who had several solutions. I used the rename filespace option on the server. When I can, I like to control things from the server. This should work well and allow us to keep the old and new data separate so we can remove the old data after a week or so. I had thought that they imaged the box somehow to do the move but they actually renamed an existing server so all of the files would have been "changed" anyway when TSM inspected them. Thanks to everyone for all your help and brain power Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/2008 11:18 AM >>> I agree with using MODE=ABSOLUTE to do this, rather than SELECTIVE. Has the requester articulated the "why" behind this requirement? If not, I would question the rationale for the requirement. TSM's incremental approach is one of its strengths. Backing up everything (presumably every day?), even if it hasn't changed, will: - consume more storage pool, server database space, and other TSM server resources (like longer backup sessions, etc) - cause more network traffic - increase backup run-time - impact the ability to restore older unique versions of files that are rolled off by duplicate backups versions (depends on how you configure the version and retention settings) Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 2008-02-20 09:51:00: > Yes, but then you need to specify the OBJECTS='' to tell the client > WHAT to SELectively backup. Only Incremental backups work with > the DOMAIN, plus SEL doesn't do the SYSTEMobject/state/services. > > Put this node in a domain where the mgmtclass is set for > MODE=ABSOLUTE instead of the default of MODIFIED. Then your backups are > just incremental, use the DOMAIN, but will always backup. > > Bill Boyer > Tell me again how lucky I am to be working here...I keep forgetting! > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bill Dourado > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:09 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup' > > update schedule 'domain_name' 'schedule_name' action=selective > > Bill > > > > > > > > Nicholas Rodolfich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor > Manager" > 20/02/2008 15:58 > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > [ADSM-L] How to schedule dsmc for "always backup' > > > > > > > Hello All, > > Thanks for your help!! > > One of my Windows server admins wants to schedule an "always backup" > so the system will backup everything but we could not find a > syntax diagram that included the option from the command line. Does > anyone know where I can find this info or have a trick that we > could use to make this happen. The user's guide has a list of > options to dsmc backup but there is not one for the "always backup" > > Nicholas Rodolfich > Network Administrator (AIX) > East Jefferson General Hospital > 504-883-6955 (office) > 228-223-1187 (mobile) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are > from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the > addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other > confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are > obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re- > disclosure without additional > consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited > and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by > email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson > General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. > > > ** > This electronic mail message
How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! One of my Windows server admins wants to schedule an "always backup" so the system will backup everything but we could not find a syntax diagram that included the option from the command line. Does anyone know where I can find this info or have a trick that we could use to make this happen. The user's guide has a list of options to dsmc backup but there is not one for the "always backup" Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
Do you know if there is an eval program for Servergraph? Do you know what the cost is? Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/29/2008 3:56 PM >>> You should also look into Servergraph, which can send email alerts when things like this go wrong. I have benefited from those messages on more than one occasion. A problem we had recently with a few drives was that they would just lock up. The Library would think they were busy, but no data would go in or out, and eventually TSM would time out on the drive. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Mackereth Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting Hi Nicholas, The 3584 can send snmp traps, this is configured via the specialist gui. I wrote a few scripts to query TSM, ie number of drives offline, number of paths offline Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 7:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting Hello All, Thanks for your help!! We are running TSM 5.3.4 with a IBM 3584 library. Our library has not exactly been the Pinnacle of MTBF. All the drives have been replaced, some more than once and the medium changer has been replaced twice. All of this since April 2007. The medium changer died this past Friday night and no one caught it until the next day. Our DBA has made a big stink about monitoring TSM and alerting when something is wrong. The DBA and another admin think they can write some code to do this "alerting" on the 8493E message in the activity log. My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert you to any problems. Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! We are running TSM 5.3.4 with a IBM 3584 library. Our library has not exactly been the Pinnacle of MTBF. All the drives have been replaced, some more than once and the medium changer has been replaced twice. All of this since April 2007. The medium changer died this past Friday night and no one caught it until the next day. Our DBA has made a big stink about monitoring TSM and alerting when something is wrong. The DBA and another admin think they can write some code to do this "alerting" on the 8493E message in the activity log. My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert you to any problems. Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any "ideas" on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
How to map OS devices to element numbers/locations
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! We have TSM 5.3.5/AIX 5.3.5/ IBM pSeries 55a/IBM 3584 (8-LTO1 & 8- LTO2) drives. We have an IBM 2109 switch in the D32 cabinet and an IBM 2005-B16 switch in the L32 expansion cabinet. I recently had an adapter replaced and when the new AIX devices were recreated the AIX devices came back in a different order so the locations/element numbers changed. I supposed I expected the device assignments to come back the same since no physical changes were made to the drive or adapter location only the adapter itself. At any rate, I need a way to easily map the AIX devices (rmt0, rmt1, etc..) to the proper element numbers and thereby their location within the library for service issues. The 3584 GUI doesn't show it (only element numbers). Is there a way to do this readily? Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! Our TSM server resides on an LPAR with 2 processing units and 12Gb of RAM. We use an IBM 3584 library with an expansion cabinet and 16 drives (8-LTO1 and 8-LTO2) We have 16 LTO3 drive on order to upgrade our drives. Our database is at 80Gb so I think I am ready for a new instance. We have a HIPAA requirement to keep certain data for 3 years and other data for 7 years. What is the best storage solution for this type of requirement? I plan to manage the HIPAA data with multiple domains, management classes, etc but I am not sure what storage medium to use. It seem no matter which cartridge technology we use that it will end up being a bunch of work over the years following the tape technology curve. Should I be looking at something optical or electronic? Additionally, does it make sense to incarnate another TSM instance? Thanks for your patience and help!! Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Retention Policy Clarification
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a management class with the retention settings below. Versions Data Exists5 Versions Data Deleted 2 Retain Extra Versions NO LIMIT Retain Only Version180 What is the maximum time the file will be kept in the TSM database if the file still exists on the client? What is the maximum time the file will be kept in the TSM database if the file is deleted on the client? If the file still exists on the client will the server keep 2 versions indefinitely or 5? IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on it
I have the same issue with a few volumes. they are at 0.1 % utilized but a move data says there is no data on the volumes and a del vol says the volume can't be deleted because it conatins data. The discard=yes should delete it though. I haven't done that yet as I was trying to find a solution as well. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2007 2:55 PM >>> Hello TSM's, I have a copypool volume with nothing on it, meaning q content - no data. When I try to #delete volume xxx discarddata=yes - it returns - volume contains data. When I use move data - it returns - volume contains no data. DRM says it is in vault status. I would like to make this volume as scratch and put it back into the scratch pool. Any suggestions? Regards, Kamran H. Rao IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: How to reclaim "FILLING" volumes
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2007 2:40 PM >>> Nicholas Rodolfich wrote: > I have TSM server 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 with an IBM 3584 library with 16 > drives. In my offsite pool I have approximately 300 volumes with very > low utilization but they are in the FILLING state, I would expect them > to be in the FULL, EMPTY or PENDING state. Is there a way to target > these volumes with reclamation? I suppose I could do a move data on all > of them? > They certainly should be reclaimable even if they're in FILLING state if they're off-site. Did you use a command like MOVE DRMEDIA so TSM knows they're off-site? >>Yes, I validated that the volumes in question are access=offsite What happens if you try a manual RECLAIM STGPOOL against that storage pool? >>I started a manual earlier and it is running now Does it say it finished normally without writing any fresh new tapes? >> Not sure Do your reclamations work for that storage pool for FULL tapes that are off-site? >>Yes Sorry to have more questions than answers, Nick IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: How to reclaim "FILLING" volumes
>> Is true, my disk pool is only 400Gb and we do 500-700 /night and 1.1Tb -1.3Tb on weekends. I am waiting on some more storage now. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2007 2:45 PM >>> Are your disk pools large enough? If your diskpool fills, then your backups will write direct to tape. Check you activity log to see what is happening around the time that the extra filling tapes are defined to the storage pool. What process or session is first grabbing the tape, and what other processes and sessions are running at the same time. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How to reclaim "FILLING" volumes I ran into a similar issue and found a new STG was defined and the new default for collocate is "group". I changed that to none. Then did a move data on every volume in the "filling" state. I reviewed every STG for all 4 TSM servers and did not find that issue but did find a number of low utilized volumes. I'm still trying to figure out why. If anyone has any theories on why I have more than "normal" filling with low utilization I'd appreciate the input. Thanks, Duane -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: How to reclaim "FILLING" volumes Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSM server 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 with an IBM 3584 library with 16 drives. In my offsite pool I have approximately 300 volumes with very low utilization but they are in the FILLING state, I would expect them to be in the FULL, EMPTY or PENDING state. Is there a way to target these volumes with reclamation? I suppose I could do a move data on all of them? Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
How to reclaim "FILLING" volumes
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSM server 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 with an IBM 3584 library with 16 drives. In my offsite pool I have approximately 300 volumes with very low utilization but they are in the FILLING state, I would expect them to be in the FULL, EMPTY or PENDING state. Is there a way to target these volumes with reclamation? I suppose I could do a move data on all of them? Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
How to view Oracle TDP files from TSM server
Hello All, Thanks for your help!! Is there a way to verify or list of particular files from Oracle TDP backups on the server. I am caught in a chasm in DBA land. I don't fully understand the TDP and the DBA doesn't understand TSM or the TDP. Does anyone know any tricks or how I can find out more information than just the standard q occ? Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Insight into improving restores needed
Hello All, Thanks for your help! I work at a medical institution and there is a big push to get our DR procedures in order. We will be using a Sungard facility for our DR activities and we will have to restore 4-6 AIX servers (2 HA clusters 1 DB with 1Tb and one apps on another cluster) and 20-25 Wintel platforms with various applications, DBs, Novell, etc. We have a 3584 Library with 16 drives (8 LOT1 and 8 LTO2) and a 55A with 4CPUs and 12Gb RAM. Gb NICs and will have like equipment at the DR facility. Some tests have revieled an extended time to restore due to many volumes being loaded to perform a restore. I am looking for some empirical strategies, white papers, advice, etc. to help me improve this situation without loads of money of course! I am not ruling out any method including backup sets, archive schedules, collocation, etc.. I can't seem to find what I need from IBM websites regarding the gotcha's. I need the "fastest way" shy of a $10M hot site strategy so I am going to the mountain! I appreciate you help!! Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Best way to upgrade from LTO1 to LTO3 drives
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! We have a TSM 5.3.2 instance running on an LPAR on a p550 and are using a IBM 3584 Library with 1 expansion cabinet(590 volumes). We currently have 8- LTO1 and 8- LTO2 drives in the library with all LTO1 tapes. We are going to be upgrading to all LTO3 drives and tapes(I am pitching LTO4 now). I am looking for any information I can find on the best way to accomplaish this upgrade. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Info on TSM 5.3.2 to 5.4 upgrade -- REVISED
Sorry All, I made a typo. I am ugrading from TSM 5.3.2 to 5.4 Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I am planning an upgrade from TSM 5.3.2 to 5.3.4 in lieu of the 5.3.5 Fixpack. Does anyone know where a good source of info is on upgrades. I tried the IBM website and searched the ADSM-L archives and didn't find anything relevant. I know there are some issues with upgrades from/to different levels but I can't seem to find any info on this or the procedure. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Info on 5.3.2 to 5.3.4 upgrade
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I am planning an upgrade from TSM 5.3.2 to 5.3.4 in lieu of the 5.3.5 Fixpack. Does anyone know where a good source of info is on upgrades. I tried the IBM website and searched the ADSM-L archives and didn't find anything relevant. I know there are some issues with upgrades from/to different levels but I can't seem to find any info on this or the procedure. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: Extend library capacity
TSM is kind of funny when you mess with the library and/or definitions. I usually end up removing and recreating all paths, drives and libraries to resolve my issues. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/31/2007 10:45:00 AM >>> Hello, I've got the following setup: TSM server 5.4.0.3 on AIX5.3 TL5 (Extended Edition) Adic i2000 library The capacity of the library was extended from 500 to 600 slots by adding a license key. TSM was restarted afterwards and an audit of the ibrary was done , but TSM still only saw 500 instead of 600 slots. According to the following note, this is all that should be done: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?%20%20%20%20%20rs=663&context=S SGSG7&dc=D600&dc=DB520&dc=DB530&dc=D700&dc=DB500&dc=DB540&dc=DB510&dc=DB 550&q1=library+AND+change&uid=swg21203271&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en The library and TSM server were rebooted too, but TSM still only sees 500 slots instead of 600 slots. What else should be done so that TSM detects the new added library slots? Thanks in advance, Kurt *** Disclaimer *** Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep Auguste Reyerslaan 52, 1043 Brussel nv van publiek recht BTW BE 0244.142.664 RPR Brussel http://www.vrt.be/disclaimer IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: TSM DB backup question
Sorry for the confusion here all. I have sent out a reponse to this post earlier this AM, but it is taking a while to post. Looks like you responded to it below. I am not sure why this is not included in the post. I will try posting it again. FYI, the file system is a large file enabled JFS2 and filesize is set to unlimited. I created a file larger than 64Gb with AIX on the filesystem with no problems. IBM says this is a TSM limitation not an AIX one and they have an APAR associated with it (see link below) --- Again im sorry, this was my mistake, I miss understood what my colleague had told me. Indeed AIX its self will work with file spaces larger than 64g BUT As per the APAR I linked you... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC50581 The 64g is a known limitation of TSM on AIX systems. As such TSM will only recognize up to 64g of space on a FILE type space. I have found further information confirming this in another PMR. As shown on the bottom of the APAR, this problem will be fixed in a future release. Does this answer your question? is there anything else I can help you with? Phil --- Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/27/2007 9:45 AM >>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Nicholas Rodolfich wrote: > Well it seems that this is a TSM limitationnot a file system > limitation > per IBM. We still don't have pertinent details on this problem. What is your AIX operating system bitmode, and your file system type? Those factors may impose architectural limits on the file size you may utilize. Richard Sims IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: TSM DB backup question
Well it seems that this is a TSM limitationnot a file system limitation per IBM. --- >Again im sorry, this was my mistake, I miss understood what my colleague had told me. Indeed AIX its self will work with file spaces larger than 64g >BUT As per the APAR I linked you... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC50581 >The 64g is a known limitation of TSM on AIX systems. As such TSM will only recognize up to 64g of space on a FILE type space. I have found further >information confirming this in another PMR. As shown on the bottom of the APAR, this problem will be fixed in a future release. >Does this answer your question? is there anything else I can help you with? >Phil --- Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/26/2007 3:42 PM >>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Nicholas Rodolfich wrote: > File size is already set to unlimited. You need to provide more information than that. I'm not aware of any file system which allows a file of infinite size. A file system characteristically limits file size according to file system architecture and the current operating system instance bitmode. For example, JFS in a 32-bit AIX kernel limits file size to 64 MB. And, naturally, a smaller partition size will impose a lesser ceiling. You need to take a look at your OS/fs configuration there, as the TSM manual says. Richard Sims IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: TSM DB backup question
File size is already set to unlimited. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/26/2007 12:08 PM >>> Help on UPDATE DEVCLASS -- FILE says about MAXCAPacity: "The value specified should be less than or equal to the maximum supported size of a file on the target file system." Check whether this condition is met... Regards, Rama -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM DB backup question Hi All, Thanks for your help!! In my daily maintenance schedule I am doing a database backup to disk with the following call and using the following device class. When the backup runs it writes a second file apparently after it completes the DB backup. I wouldn't be concerned except the extra file shows up in my volume history as seen below (which I did not expect). Notice the entry for the second file has the same Backup Series as the first file. It looks like TSM is writing a second volume since the Volume Sequence is 2, but I dont know why! NOW I SEE IT! The Est/Max Capacity (MB): 61,440.0 is getting me. I created this device class and I don't remember putting a size on it but I guess I did. Anyway, when I try to change it to 8Mb TSM tells me: --- ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE DEVCLASS DBBTOFILE MOUNTL=20 DIRECTORY=/tsmdbb MAXCAPACITY=8M SHARED=NO ANR8366E UPDATE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for MAXCAPACITY parameter. --- I tried to schnge the mount limit to 1 instead of 20 and got the same thing --- ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE DEVCLASS DBBTOFILE MOUNTL=1 DIRECTORY=/tsmdbb MAXCAPACITY=8M SHARED=NO ANR8366E UPDATE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for MAXCAPACITY parameter. --- Anyone know why. I tried it from command line and the ISC ang get the same message in the ACTLOG. === ba db dev=dbbtofile t=f w=y - Device Class Name: DBBTOFILE Device Access Strategy: Sequential Storage Pool Count: 0 Device Type: FILE Format: DRIVE Est/Max Capacity (MB): 61,440.0 Mount Limit: 20 Mount Wait (min): Mount Retention (min): Label Prefix: Library: Directory: /tsmdbb Server Name: Retry Period: Retry Interval: Shared: High-level Address: Minimum Capacity: WORM: No Scaled Capacity: Last Update by (administrator): NICHOLAS Last Update Date/Time: 06/06/07 13:11:01 # ls -al -rw--- 1 root system 64424509440 Jul 25 11:17 85377768.dbb -rw--- 1 root system 2755842268 Jul 25 11:19 85380236.dbb --- tsm> q volh t=dbb Date/Time: 07/25/07 10:36:07 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 1,780 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 1 Device Class: DBBTOFILE Volume Name: /tsmdbb/85377768.DBB Volume Location: Command: Date/Time: 07/25/07 10:36:07 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 1,780 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 2 Device Class: DBBTOFILE Volume Name: /tsmdbb/85380236.DBB Volume Location: Command: ---- Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and if you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, do not use or share it and delet
TSM DB backup question
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! In my daily maintenance schedule I am doing a database backup to disk with the following call and using the following device class. When the backup runs it writes a second file apparently after it completes the DB backup. I wouldn't be concerned except the extra file shows up in my volume history as seen below (which I did not expect). Notice the entry for the second file has the same Backup Series as the first file. It looks like TSM is writing a second volume since the Volume Sequence is 2, but I dont know why! NOW I SEE IT! The Est/Max Capacity (MB): 61,440.0 is getting me. I created this device class and I don't remember putting a size on it but I guess I did. Anyway, when I try to change it to 8Mb TSM tells me: --- ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE DEVCLASS DBBTOFILE MOUNTL=20 DIRECTORY=/tsmdbb MAXCAPACITY=8M SHARED=NO ANR8366E UPDATE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for MAXCAPACITY parameter. --- I tried to schnge the mount limit to 1 instead of 20 and got the same thing --- ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: UPDATE DEVCLASS DBBTOFILE MOUNTL=1 DIRECTORY=/tsmdbb MAXCAPACITY=8M SHARED=NO ANR8366E UPDATE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for MAXCAPACITY parameter. --- Anyone know why. I tried it from command line and the ISC ang get the same message in the ACTLOG. === ba db dev=dbbtofile t=f w=y - Device Class Name: DBBTOFILE Device Access Strategy: Sequential Storage Pool Count: 0 Device Type: FILE Format: DRIVE Est/Max Capacity (MB): 61,440.0 Mount Limit: 20 Mount Wait (min): Mount Retention (min): Label Prefix: Library: Directory: /tsmdbb Server Name: Retry Period: Retry Interval: Shared: High-level Address: Minimum Capacity: WORM: No Scaled Capacity: Last Update by (administrator): NICHOLAS Last Update Date/Time: 06/06/07 13:11:01 # ls -al -rw--- 1 root system 64424509440 Jul 25 11:17 85377768.dbb -rw--- 1 root system 2755842268 Jul 25 11:19 85380236.dbb --- tsm> q volh t=dbb Date/Time: 07/25/07 10:36:07 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 1,780 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 1 Device Class: DBBTOFILE Volume Name: /tsmdbb/85377768.DBB Volume Location: Command: Date/Time: 07/25/07 10:36:07 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL Backup Series: 1,780 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 2 Device Class: DBBTOFILE Volume Name: /tsmdbb/85380236.DBB Volume Location: Command: ---- Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
How to use TSM library drive in AIX
Hello All, Thanks for your help! I need to use one of the drives in the TSM library to create a TAR image and send to a vendor. Can I use the drives in the library without hosing up the TSM drive paths for regular AIX commands. Do I take the drive and/or path offline? How do I load/unload the tape? Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: ANS1030E
Phil, The system only has 2Gb total and it would pop when it reached 800 or so Mb. You could see it growing and growing as the inspection took place until it finally let go. IBM support put us on the TSM 5.4.0.2 client and an option of: memoryefficientbackup=diskcachemethod This apparently uses a disk cache file instead of RAM for the inspection process. It kicked off at 20:00 last night, is still running and has backed up 120Gb so far on that client. This is mroe than we have been able to do by a long shot so I am optimistic at this point. I appreciate everyones review and/or assistance in resolving this. You folks are AWESOME!! >Hey Nicholas >What are the specs of the windows 2000 Server ? >What level is the TSM client >how much ram does the dsmc process use during the backup, if it is reaching 2gb, then try adding the /3gb switch to the boot.ini (only use if the client has 4gb or more of ram) Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
ANS1030E
Hi All, Many thanks for any assistance rendered!! I have a WIN2000 client that has about 1Tb of data on him. We keep getting the apparently infamous ANS1030E error as seen below. I had the admin try the 5/29/2007 21:40:22 ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request for memory allocation. 05/29/2007 21:40:22 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END WIN2000_NODE 05/29/2007 21:00:00 05/29/2007 21:40:22 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'WIN2000_NODE' failed. Return code = 12. We tried the MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP YES option and ran the backup manually. It got about 16Gb backed up and failed again. I found a bunch of stuff on the I about the error bu they all lead back to the mostly same place. Does anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to get this guy backed up. Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: Question for you
Did you company hire KPMG to do an audit? Did IBM hire KPMG to do an audit? Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Ho do I reclaim copypool volumes
Hello ALL, Thanks for your help! I am at a new job and the copy pool in the TSM instance here has been collocated previously. The admin thought it was collocated by group but each group only had one member so it is really collocated by node I think. The collocation has been turned off for a couple of weeks now. I am not sure if that is part of the problem. The IBM doc really doesn't have any practical examples of this that I can find. The issue is: There are 900 or so volumes in the offsite vault via DRM. Over half of these are less than 10% utilized. The scratch pool is dwindling and I need a way to reclaim some of these volumes. The company also has a DR test scheduled this summer and I would like to reduce the number of offsite volumes so the DR process won't be so cumbersome. What is the best way to consolidate this copypool onto less volumes. I know the pending ones will be returned at the end of the reuse delay on the pool and/or the DB backup expiration in DRM. I would think the that pending volumes would be the only ones that would have a 0% utilization but I have FULL and FILLING volumes with 0% utilization. EX: ( sample of the volumes) Volume STGPOOL % Util. StatusLast write Last read A00947 COPYPOOL0 EMPTY 5/29/2006 5/29/2006 A00509 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/10/2006 7/10/2006 A00248 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/15/2006 7/15/2006 A00200 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/16/2006 7/15/2006 A00259 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00264 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00265 COPYPOOL0 PENDING 7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00148 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/22/2006 7/21/2006 A00820 COPYPOOL0 FILLING 7/24/2006 7/22/2006 A00848 COPYPOOL0 FILLING 7/27/2006 7/27/2006 A00087 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/29/2006 7/29/2006 A01087 COPYPOOL0 FULL7/30/2006 7/29/2006 A00324 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/2/2006 8/2/2006 A00086 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/6/2006 8/5/2006 A00837 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/6/2006 8/6/2006 A00391 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/10/2006 8/10/2006 A00406 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/12/2006 8/12/2006 A00428 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/15/2006 8/15/2006 A00073 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/20/2006 8/19/2006 A00147 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/21/2006 8/20/2006 A00927 COPYPOOL0 FULL8/23/2006 8/22/2006 Nicholas . .. ... Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
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query adsm-l Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
