Re: Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Arnaud, 

I posted a similar question a few months ago. Got no answers from the list, but 
after opening a PMR I got the "works as designed" answer.
Since we use a script to delete filespaces in our environment (to check last 
backup dates, customer IDs, etc.) we inserted some extra code to check if the 
node is involved in replication, and, if so, check which server is the 
replication partner in order to delete the correct filespace on the "target" 
server.

Please send me a private message if you need more details.


Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet,

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System Expert




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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: dinsdag 20 juni 2017 12:46
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

Hi all,

A question regarding replicated data , and how a deleted filespace should be 
treated by the process ...
First of all, the environment : two TSM servers 7.1.7.2, making use only of 
directory pools and configured to perform cross replication (A replicates to B, 
and B replicates to A).
I have the situation where I recently deleted a filespace from a node on its 
primary server.
Since this deletion, following processes took place on the primary server : 
protect stgpool, as well as replicate node and expire inventory.
However, I can still see the deleted filespace on the replication server for 
the involved replicated node.
Is this normal ?

Thanks for any advice !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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delete filespace on replicated node

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Spectrum Protect experts,

Anyone who has done a DEL FILESPACE on a replicated node? We are using PROTECT 
STG + REPLICATE NODE to protect some of our SP for VE nodes. We receive lots of 
requests from our customers to delete backups of VMs that were deleted, and 
today we ran (for the first time) a DEL FILESPACE (on the source server) for 
some VMs. The filespaces are however still present on the target server, after 
REPLICATE NODE FORCERECONCILE=YES and EXPIRE on both sides.

Any thoughts? If this is the expected behavior we will have to adapt our 
scripting in order to delete the filespaces on both servers.

Kind regards,
Paul van Dongen

Re: Script help

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Robert, 

Maybe something like this?

SELECT cast((entity) as char(36)) as "Node 
Adsm2",cast(substr(address,1,locate_in_string(address,':')-1) as char(20)) , 
DATE(start_time) as DATE, cast((activity) as char(15)) as OPERATION, 
cast(float(SUM(bytes))/1024/1024/1024 as DEC(8,1)) as GB FROM summary WHERE  
activity='RETRIEVE' OR activity='RESTORE' GROUP BY 
entity,substr(address,1,locate_in_string(address,':')-1),DATE(start_time),activity
 ORDER BY DATE


Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Paul van Dongen

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Ouzen
Sent: 24 September 2016 07:55
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Script help

Hi  to all


I have this script to receive information about restore and retrieve activity.

SELECT cast((entity) as char(36)) as "Node Adsm2" , DATE(start_time) as DATE, 
cast((activity) as char(15)) as OPERATION, 
cast(float(SUM(bytes))/1024/1024/1024 as DEC(8,1)) as GB FROM summary WHERE  
activity='RETRIEVE' OR activity='RESTORE' GROUP BY 
entity,DATE(start_time),activity ORDER BY DATE   ESC

I want to add ADDRESS  , field in summary table too.

But when I added it I got a lot of entries of each ADDRESS  even when I added 
ADDRESS to GROUP BY

Any idea to get for a single  ADDRESS ?

Best Regards

Robert

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

[Paul van Dongen]

tsmdb1 is the database name; the instance name should be the username under 
which the TSM server instance runs. When there are multiple TSM server 
instances on the same AIX box, all databases are named "tsmdb1", each under his 
own DB2 instance.


Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Paul van Dongen
System Expert


Vancis BV
Science Park 408
1098 XH Amsterdam
W: www.vancis.nl




-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: 14 September 2016 15:25
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive 
crash/recovery

Which leads me to ask.  Where (on AIX) does the tsmdb1 instance reside?

David

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive 
crash/recovery

Thanks!

I added the lines to /etc/services, and tried db2start, and db2 came up.


When I run db2iupdt I get:

  rssymapi2p:/home/root==>/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/instance/db2iupdt tsmdb1
  DBI1446I  The db2iupdt command is running.
  DB2 installation is being initialized.
  The specified instance "tsmdb1" does not exist. Specify an existing instance 
name.


Thanks!

Rick




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul 
van Dongen
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 8:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

Richard, 

I have recently moved several TSM servers between AIX systems (without 
restoring the DBs). Some points of attention:

On a system without TSM, you must first install TSM software. You will also 
need some tweaking of the DB registry.

1. correct hostname in /sqllib/db2nodes.cfg 2. /etc/services 
must contain:

DB2_  60016/tcp
DB2__160017/tcp
DB2__260018/tcp
DB2__END  60019/tcp

Ports can vary, but must be in sequence

3. Instance "update": /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/instance/db2iupdt  4. 
As instance owner: ~/sqllib/adm/db2set -g DB2SYSTEM= 5. dsm.sys for 
DBbackups has to be present (location depends on the TSM server version)

If you need more details please PM me.

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Paul van Dongen System Expert


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: 14 September 2016 13:48
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive 
crash/recovery

No, DB2 won't start at all.

rssymapi2p:/tsmdata/tsmoc/config==>db2start
SQL6031N  Error in the db2nodes.cfg file at line number "0".  Reason code "11".

I'm not sure how to state this, but I think there is some configuration in DB2 
(that would be in on the boot drive) that points to the TSM database TSMDB1.  I 
think that configuration is missing.

For example, I found out about this cmd fighting a db2 problem some time ago.  
Run on a working TSM system:
   ./db2ilist
   tsmuser  (our db2 owner)
Run on this recovered system:
   ./db2ilist(no output)


Rick




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

Was db2 running for sure? 
In previous installs I had to modify the startup script to do a db2start then 
sleep for 10 secs to get tsm to start correctly fron reboot of the system.  
This was under redhat linux 6.

That was the message I would get.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

Hello,

We have a TSM v7.1.4 instance called TSMOC.  Its sole purpose in life is to run 
Operations Center.  It runs on an AIX lpar that's used for some other things.

Last Friday the AIX rootvg was lost during a live migration to a new storage 
system.  We decided to recover by installing a mksysb from a partner lpar which 
had the same AIX version and application version, but NOT TSM.  So the lpar got 
back up and running quickly - only took an hour, but it's missing the TSM 
install.  All the TSM instance files (dsmserv.opt, etc) and DB2 filesystems 
(data, logs, sqllib, etc) exist with all their data.  They weren't lost since 
they were on a different lun and volume group.

We installed

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

[Paul van Dongen]

Richard, 

I have recently moved several TSM servers between AIX systems (without 
restoring the DBs). Some points of attention:

On a system without TSM, you must first install TSM software. You will also 
need some tweaking of the DB registry.

1. correct hostname in /sqllib/db2nodes.cfg 
2. /etc/services must contain:

DB2_  60016/tcp
DB2__160017/tcp
DB2__260018/tcp
DB2__END  60019/tcp

Ports can vary, but must be in sequence

3. Instance "update": /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/instance/db2iupdt 
4. As instance owner: ~/sqllib/adm/db2set -g DB2SYSTEM=
5. dsm.sys for DBbackups has to be present (location depends on the TSM server 
version)

If you need more details please PM me.

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Paul van Dongen
System Expert


Vancis BV
Science Park 408
1098 XH Amsterdam
W: www.vancis.nl

T:  020 560 6600
M:  06 4181 4446
E:  paul.vandon...@vancis.nl



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: 14 September 2016 13:48
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive 
crash/recovery

No, DB2 won't start at all.

rssymapi2p:/tsmdata/tsmoc/config==>db2start
SQL6031N  Error in the db2nodes.cfg file at line number "0".  Reason code "11".

I'm not sure how to state this, but I think there is some configuration in DB2 
(that would be in on the boot drive) that points to the TSM database TSMDB1.  I 
think that configuration is missing.

For example, I found out about this cmd fighting a db2 problem some time ago.  
Run on a working TSM system:
   ./db2ilist
   tsmuser  (our db2 owner)
Run on this recovered system:
   ./db2ilist(no output)


Rick




-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: *EXTERNAL* Re: tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

Was db2 running for sure? 
In previous installs I had to modify the startup script to do a db2start then 
sleep for 10 secs to get tsm to start correctly fron reboot of the system.  
This was under redhat linux 6.

That was the message I would get.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm/db2 won't start after boot drive crash/recovery

Hello,

We have a TSM v7.1.4 instance called TSMOC.  Its sole purpose in life is to run 
Operations Center.  It runs on an AIX lpar that's used for some other things.

Last Friday the AIX rootvg was lost during a live migration to a new storage 
system.  We decided to recover by installing a mksysb from a partner lpar which 
had the same AIX version and application version, but NOT TSM.  So the lpar got 
back up and running quickly - only took an hour, but it's missing the TSM 
install.  All the TSM instance files (dsmserv.opt, etc) and DB2 filesystems 
(data, logs, sqllib, etc) exist with all their data.  They weren't lost since 
they were on a different lun and volume group.

We installed TSM v7.1.4 and I then created the AIX db2 instance owner and 
group.  We then tried to start TSM.  We got msgs below.

ANR7801I Subsystem process ID is 16056324.
ANR0900I Processing options file /tsmdata/tsmoc/config/dsmserv.opt.
ANR7811I Using instance directory /tsmdata/tsmoc/config.
ANR4726I The ICC support module has been loaded.
ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0172I rdbinst.c(3942): Error encountered performing action UPDATE DBM CFG.
ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information:  -6031:**No State 
Information Available
(-2)**:-6031 (SQL6031N  Error in the db2nodes.cfg file at line number "0".  
Reason code "11".
).
ANR0171I dbiconn.c(1844): Error detected on 0:1, database in evaluation mode.
ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information:  -1:08001:-1032 
([IBM][CLI Driver] SQL1032N  No start database manager command was issued.  
SQLSTATE=57019


I think I've got to tell db2 about the database that exists on disk.
We are going to call support, but figured I'd ask here first!

Any thought/comments are appreciated!

Rick


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Re: ANS0400E License file could not be opened - TSM4VE

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Steve, 

Had the same issue here (with both the FTP site package and the Passport 
Advantage one). To investigate, we did a clean install of 7.1.1 on another 
machine. We saw a .lic file being created in a completely different location.
The admin of the production server copied the .lic file to the "new" location 
and it worked. It also seems to work with the .lic file in the baclient dir, we 
are still looking at it.
PMR was also opened.

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,

Paul van Dongen
System Expert


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Stackwick, Stephen
Sent: zaterdag 13 september 2014 00:30
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS0400E License file could not be opened - TSM4VE

Tried to upgrade to the 7.1.1 VE from the FTP site. Figured I didn't need a 
license because I already have one from the V7.1.0 install. Now, when I try to 
run an incremental:

ANS2888E Backup VM Full VM Incremental is unable to run.
A valid TSM for Virtual Environments license file (tdp4vmw.lic) cannot be 
locate d.
ANS1228E Sending of object 'QlikView' failed.
ANS0400E License file could not be opened.

Believe me, that file is there, in the same location as on my non-upgraded data 
mover.

Steve

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Re: TSM client vs Windows SFU

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Rick, 

Yes, we have it explicitly YES. If it is NO, TSM gives an error message. If it 
is YES, TSM backs up the first file of the conflicting "group" and logs a 
warning for the other ones (they are not backed up).

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,

Paul van Dongen


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Harderwijk
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 15:04
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM client vs Windows SFU

Paul,

CASESENSITIVEAWARE default value is NO (as per 
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fr_opt_casesensitiveaware.html
),
so the option should explicitly be set to YES, I understand from that document. 
Is the option explicitly set to YES in the dsm.opt ?

Kind regards,

Rick


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul van Dongen wrote:

> Hi TSMers,
>
> I am once more try to make use of your combined knowledge to answer a 
> question that I could not.
>
> We have a few new Windows Servers that are, amongst other things, used 
> to export NFS shares. The administrators of these servers have 
> activated a setting that allows Windows to create two files with 
> almost identical names differing only in case (the whole POSIX 
> stuff...). Now they want to backup these file servers with TSM, but 
> the client refuses to backup files whose name differs only in case. I 
> have already told them about the CASESENSITIVEAWARE option, but this 
> has only the effect of making TSM back up the first file with a 
> "conflicting" name. Of course the admins want to backup ALL files.
>
> Has any of you seen/used a better way to back up this kind of 
> configuration?
>
> BTW, the clients are Windows 2008R2 and they run TSM client 6.4.0.1
>
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Paul van Dongen System 
> Expert Cloud Strategy
>

TSM client vs Windows SFU

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi TSMers,

I am once more try to make use of your combined knowledge to answer a question 
that I could not.

We have a few new Windows Servers that are, amongst other things, used to 
export NFS shares. The administrators of these servers have activated a setting 
that allows Windows to create two files with almost identical names differing 
only in case (the whole POSIX stuff...). Now they want to backup these file 
servers with TSM, but the client refuses to backup files whose name differs 
only in case. I have already told them about the CASESENSITIVEAWARE option, but 
this has only the effect of making TSM back up the first file with a 
"conflicting" name. Of course the admins want to backup ALL files.

Has any of you seen/used a better way to back up this kind of configuration?

BTW, the clients are Windows 2008R2 and they run TSM client 6.4.0.1


Thank you all.

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Paul van Dongen
System Expert Cloud Strategy

FW: query occ vs select from occupancy

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi, 

Before someone tells me that used two different nodes, this was the result of a 
wrong replace action. I can assure that both commands were directed to the same 
node name

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,


Paul van Dongen





-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul 
van Dongen
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:18
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] query occ vs select from occupancy

Hi TSM people, 

I saw some uncommon output from a Q OCC command for a large node this morning 
and I would like to ask if any of you saw this before:

Server is 5.5.5.2 on AIX.

Query occupancy gives me:

tsm:>q occ X_FSX

Node Name  Type Filespace   FSID StorageNumber of  
Physical   Logical
Name Pool Name  Files   
  Space Space
   
Occupied  Occupied

   (MB)  (MB)
--  -- - -- - 
- -
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-COPY21,843,78 
3,968,123 3,888,302
8   
.35   .25
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-DISK7,181 
483,413.1 483,413.1

  2 2
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-TAPE21,849,19 
4,234,593 4,046,654
8   
.39   .60
X_FS8  Bkup /  2 FS-COPY  186,630 
18,717.17 16,554.75
X_FS8  Bkup /  2 FS-TAPE  186,732 
21,191.67 16,697.96
X_FS8  Bkup /boot  3 FS-COPY  234   
  50.10 49.97
X_FS8  Bkup /boot  3 FS-TAPE  234   
  78.27 49.97

So I conclude that my /homepool filesystem uses about 4TB logical storage in TSM

And a SELECT gives something else:

tsm: >select NODE_NAME,FILESPACE_NAME,STGPOOL_NAME,NUM_FILES,LOGICAL_MB 
from occupancy where node_name='X_FSX'

NODE_NAME  FILESPACE_NAME STGPOOL_NAME 
NUM_FILES   LOGICAL_MB
-- -- -- 
--- 
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-COPY   
21843788  46837975.20
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-DISK   
7181483413.11
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-TAPE   
21849198  46996327.55
X_FSX  /  FS-COPY 
186630 16554.74
X_FSX  /  FS-TAPE 
186732 16697.95
X_FSX  /boot  FS-COPY
23449.96
X_FSX  /boot  FS-TAPE
23449.96

And now I get 40+TB instead of 4?

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,


Paul van Dongen
  

query occ vs select from occupancy

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi TSM people, 

I saw some uncommon output from a Q OCC command for a large node this morning 
and I would like to ask if any of you saw this before:

Server is 5.5.5.2 on AIX.

Query occupancy gives me:

tsm:>q occ X_FSX

Node Name  Type Filespace   FSID StorageNumber of  
Physical   Logical
Name Pool Name  Files   
  Space Space
   
Occupied  Occupied

   (MB)  (MB)
--  -- - -- - 
- -
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-COPY21,843,78 
3,968,123 3,888,302
8   
.35   .25
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-DISK7,181 
483,413.1 483,413.1

  2 2
X_FS8  Bkup /homepool  1 FS-TAPE21,849,19 
4,234,593 4,046,654
8   
.39   .60
X_FS8  Bkup /  2 FS-COPY  186,630 
18,717.17 16,554.75
X_FS8  Bkup /  2 FS-TAPE  186,732 
21,191.67 16,697.96
X_FS8  Bkup /boot  3 FS-COPY  234   
  50.10 49.97
X_FS8  Bkup /boot  3 FS-TAPE  234   
  78.27 49.97

So I conclude that my /homepool filesystem uses about 4TB logical storage in TSM

And a SELECT gives something else:

tsm: >select NODE_NAME,FILESPACE_NAME,STGPOOL_NAME,NUM_FILES,LOGICAL_MB 
from occupancy where node_name='X_FSX'

NODE_NAME  FILESPACE_NAME STGPOOL_NAME 
NUM_FILES   LOGICAL_MB
-- -- -- 
--- 
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-COPY   
21843788  46837975.20
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-DISK   
7181483413.11
X_FSX  /homepool  FS-TAPE   
21849198  46996327.55
X_FSX  /  FS-COPY 
186630 16554.74
X_FSX  /  FS-TAPE 
186732 16697.95
X_FSX  /boot  FS-COPY
23449.96
X_FSX  /boot  FS-TAPE
23449.96

And now I get 40+TB instead of 4?

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,


Paul van Dongen
  

Re: Be Aware: TSM 6.2.3 & AIX 7 TL2 FP2 don't mix

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Oscar, 

Technote 1052220 states that AIX 7.1 is supported in combination with TSM 6.2.2 
and higher: 

" OR​
​
AIX 7.1 Service Pack 1 running in a 64-bit kernel environment (starting with 
Tivoli Storage Manager server V6.2.2.0 )​"

Best Regards, 
Paul

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Oscar 
Kolsteren
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 14:44
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Be Aware: TSM 6.2.3 & AIX 7 TL2 FP2 don't mix

Hi all,

 

This is just a warning; we had updated our AIX servers to TL6 FP6 and
had issues with our TSM server rebooting unexpectedly at random times.

Raised a call with IBM and they came back with the response that it had
to do with "APAR IV08112: POSSIBLE CRASH POSTING AIO/IOCP PACKET".

 

Solution was to upgrade AIX to TL7 hence I did.

 

Since then the TSM database backups are terrible slow so raised another
call for this.

 

Shockingly TSM support came back that AIX TL7 isn't supported for TSM
6.2 so they recommend either:

 

-  Upgrade AIX to v7 and TSM to 6.3

-  Roll back to AIX 6 TL2 

 

You can imagine how annoying this is so please be aware

 

Best Regards,

Oscar



 

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Re: Collocaton by group

[Paul van Dongen]

I think this is a case for automation instead of micro management. I use a 
small script for all new node definitions. This script calculates the size of 
the existing collocation groups and automatically inserts the new node in the 
group with least data. Additionally, if a collocgroup spans more than n tapes, 
a new one is created.

Paul

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans 
Christian Riksheim
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 21:11
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Collocaton by group

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Allen S. Rout  wrote:
> How many tapes do you have? Now envision _all_ of them being mounted
> for any restore, even a relatively small one.  That's the end state of
> colloc=no: to a first approximation, every node, every filespace,
> every directory, is smeared across a maximum number of tapes, with no
> tendency to re-group data which is predictably related

Mounting 1000 tapes to restore 20G would not be good. I agree.

> Collocation is about paying, in unused tape space, for efficient
> restores;  I'd suggest you view that as a bargain, not a burden.

Having our tapes extremely under utilized to achieve some kind of
acceptable performance is a burden.

I only see using disk as a solution here. At least for incrementals.
We don't have the time to do extensive micro management to reach a
compromise between unacceptable tape utilization and unacceptable
restore times.

Hans Chr.

Re: Exchange mailbox restore fails

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Del, 

Yes, my IDLETIMEOUT is 600 minutes :( 
The TSM server actlog only shows the (successful) full restore sessions.

I will further investigate the BAclient error logs.

Thanks, and I guess I will see you over 2 weeks in Dresden

Paul

Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] namens Del Hoobler 
[hoob...@us.ibm.com]
Verzonden: vrijdag 16 september 2011 15:00
Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange mailbox restore fails

Hi Paul,

It took about 5 hours 41 minutes to restore the full backup (113G).
That would mean you need at least an IDLETIMEOUT of 342 minutes.
Did you set it that high?

Check the TSM Server activity log for that session.
Also check the DSMERROR.LOG file in the "baclient" directory.

Thanks,

Del



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 09/16/2011
08:32:25 AM:

>> From: Paul van Dongen 
>> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
>> Date: 09/16/2011 08:34 AM
>> Subject: Exchange mailbox restore fails
>> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>>
>>  Hello TSM gurus,
>>
>> I am having trouble restoring an Exchange Mailbox on a Windows 2008
>> server. The full backup gets restored, and then it immediately get
>> a ANS1017E (session rejected) when it tries to restore the
incrementals.
>> I already increased the IDLETIMEOUT value so the server doesn' t
>> terminate the sessions.
>>
>> Anyone seen it before?
>>
>> The same procedure works fine on other server with the same
>> software versions.
>>
>> Software versions are:
>>
>>
>>   *   Windows 2008 R2
>>   *   BAclient 6.2.3.1
>>   *   TDP Exchange 6.1.3.1 (6.1.3.2 doesn' t work because it
>> searches for the mailbox only in the first Exchange Server in the AD)
>>   *   TSM Server 5.5.5.2
>>
>> Below an excerpt of the log:
>>
>>
=
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Request   : RESTORE MAILBOX
BEGIN
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox List  : 
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Destination   :
PST,R:\pst\xx.pst
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Time  : 09/05/2011 08:00:00
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Filters   :
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Exchange Server   : (Local Machine)
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 From Exchange Server  : (Local Machine)
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Temp DB Restore Path  : r:\db
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51 Temp Log Restore Path : r:\log
>> 09/14/2011 19:45:51
>>
-
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51
>>
=
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51 Request   : QUERY TSM ...
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51 Component List: *
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51 Query Type: ALL
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51 Database Name :
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51 Inactive Files?   : True
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:51
>>
-
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58
>> 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Request   : VSS RESTORE
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Component List:
>> 'Logs'(full, TSM), 'DB00'(full, TSM)
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Mount Wait: Yes
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58
>> 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58
>> 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Request   : VSS RESTORE
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Component List: 'Logs'(incr,
TSM)
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58 Mount Wait: Yes
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:58
>> 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59
>> 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59 Request   : VSS RESTORE
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59 Component List: 'Logs'(incr,
TSM)
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59 Mount Wait: Yes
>> 09/14/2011 20:12:59
>> -

Exchange mailbox restore fails

[Paul van Dongen]

 Hello TSM gurus,

I am having trouble restoring an Exchange Mailbox on a Windows 2008 server. The 
full backup gets restored, and then it immediately get a ANS1017E (session 
rejected) when it tries to restore the incrementals.
I already increased the IDLETIMEOUT value so the server doesn' t terminate the 
sessions.

Anyone seen it before?

The same procedure works fine on other server with the same software versions.

Software versions are:


  *   Windows 2008 R2
  *   BAclient 6.2.3.1
  *   TDP Exchange 6.1.3.1 (6.1.3.2 doesn' t work because it searches for the 
mailbox only in the first Exchange Server in the AD)
  *   TSM Server 5.5.5.2

Below an excerpt of the log:

=
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Request   : RESTORE MAILBOX BEGIN
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox List  : 
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Destination   : PST,R:\pst\xx.pst
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Time  : 09/05/2011 08:00:00
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Mailbox Restore Filters   :
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Exchange Server   : (Local Machine)
09/14/2011 19:45:51 From Exchange Server  : (Local Machine)
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Temp DB Restore Path  : r:\db
09/14/2011 19:45:51 Temp Log Restore Path : r:\log
09/14/2011 19:45:51 
-
09/14/2011 20:12:51 
=
09/14/2011 20:12:51 Request   : QUERY TSM ...
09/14/2011 20:12:51 Component List: *
09/14/2011 20:12:51 Query Type: ALL
09/14/2011 20:12:51 Database Name :
09/14/2011 20:12:51 Inactive Files?   : True
09/14/2011 20:12:51 
-
09/14/2011 20:12:58 
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Request   : VSS RESTORE
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Component List: 'Logs'(full, TSM), 
'DB00'(full, TSM)
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Mount Wait: Yes
09/14/2011 20:12:58 
09/14/2011 20:12:58 
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Request   : VSS RESTORE
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Component List: 'Logs'(incr, TSM)
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
09/14/2011 20:12:58 Mount Wait: Yes
09/14/2011 20:12:58 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Request   : VSS RESTORE
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Component List: 'Logs'(incr, TSM)
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Mount Wait: Yes
09/14/2011 20:12:59 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 
.
.
. < Several Log files to restore>
.
.
09/14/2011 20:12:59 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Request   : VSS RESTORE
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Component List: 'Logs'(incr, TSM)
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Local DSMAGENT Node   : 
09/14/2011 20:12:59 Mount Wait: Yes
09/14/2011 20:12:59 
09/14/2011 20:13:05 Backup(s) to be restored:
09/14/2011 20:13:05 
09/14/2011 20:13:05 
09/15/2011 01:54:02 VSS Restore operation completed with rc = 0
09/15/2011 01:54:02Files Examined   : 206
09/15/2011 01:54:02Files Completed  : 206
09/15/2011 01:54:02Files Failed : 0
09/15/2011 01:54:02Total Bytes  : 113516031212
09/15/2011 01:54:02 Backup(s) to be restored:
09/15/2011 01:54:02 
09/15/2011 01:54:02 ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP connection 
failure
09/15/2011 01:54:02 ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP connection 
failure
09/15/2011 01:54:05 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.
09/15/2011 01:57:08 
=
09/15/2011 01:57:08 Request : Restore Mailbox 
Results
09/15/2011 01:57:08 
-
09/15/2011 01:57:08 Total mailboxes requested for restore   : 1
09/15/2011 01:57:08 Total mailboxes restored: 0
09/15/2011 01:57:08 
-


Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello, 

I don't know the behavior on 5.5.5 (we went straight to 5.5.5.2 because of the 
SQL SELECT bug), but on 5.5.4 we had a lot of issues with logs being pinned due 
to IC65781.

Problems have disappeared since the upgrade.


Paul

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob 
Booth
Sent: zondag 17 april 2011 16:17
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Nancy L Leugemors wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We just upgraded our TSM Server this  from 5.5.4.0 to 5.5.5.0  to fix APAR
>  IC66116.   Since the server upgrade we have experienced  several recovery
> log pinning incidents from a few different database backup clients.   I
> haven't found any hits on new bugs related to our issue and I just opened
> up a case with support but was wondering if anyone had a similar issue
> with this level of server and client code or know of any APARS this might
> fit?   Our recovery log has always been set to 13GB so I can't expand it
> anymore. Running a database backup doesn't free any space while the
> client database backup is running either.   We run 1 full TSM database
> backup and multiple incrementals throughout the day.   The only difference
> is the upgrade to the latest code.   I'm not seeing any other errors, just
> showing different database clients pinning the log after issuing show log
> pinned command.   Sometimes the client backup finishes before hitting 80%
> and sometimes TSM server cancels the longest running backup that is
> pinning the log.

We are still at 5.5.4, and have seen more instances of log pins and database
lock conflicts, however, look to see if you have any of these factors:

Increased the size of your database, possibly to sub-optimal disks/controllers,
or RAID devices.

Longer running expirations, and or additions of systems that may have an
increased number of files (say in the millions).

Change in client levels on some nodes, due to compatibility problems (or some
other issue).  Mac's and TDP's come to mind. --

Our database is in an almost constant state of backup, as we use rollforward
recovery.  I would be most interested in anything that IBM support says, so
pass on the good word if you hear anything.  We are not quite ready for V6
yet, since we have to stand up new infrastructure, and get prepared for that
whole other set of problems.

The suggestion that you back your log off to 12GB is a good one, since you will 
very screwed if you fill up the log and fall over.

My questions for the list are this,

Would it help to get out of rollforward recovery mode and just to periodic
database backups at some standard hour?  I know the reason for rollforward, but
I'm willing to live with the losses if it fixes this problem.

Is there any way to stop the server from killing the oldest transaction?  It
never seems to be the one that is pinning the log, and all it does is force
the long running jobs to start over, usually making the issue worse.  We do
a lot of image backups which take several hours, and it would be nice to just
allow them to finish and get it over with.

Is there a fix for the error message about the log transaction delay?  I saw
an APAR that showed the 3ms text is bogus, and is actually 1s.   This should
have been fixed before my current level.

TSM: 5.5.4.0
AIX 5.3 - 11
TSM clients 5.5.X - 6.X
DB size 243GB
Log size 12GB

Good luck.

> example of error:
>   29857)
> 04/16/11   04:03:26  ANR0524W Transaction failed for session 24418 for
> node
>   DEVNODE_API (SQL-BACKTRACK) -  data transfer
> interrupted.
>   (SESSION: 24418)
> 04/16/11   04:03:26  ANR2997W The server log is 81 percent full. The
> server
>   will delay transactions by 3 milliseconds.
> (SESSION:
>   29846)
>
>
> TSM Background:
>
> TSM Server:  5.5.5.0
> TSM OS:  AIX 5300 -12
> TSM Clients:  5.5.2.0
> TSM Client OS:  AIX 5.3 (UDB-DB2 & SQL-Backtrack Sybase seen so far)

FW: [ADSM-L] Managing/deleting DBSNAPSHOTs

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Zoltan, 


I assume that you are using a device class with DEVTYPE=SERVER, is it so?

If so, have you looked at the DELgraceperiod option in the DEF SERVER command?

Regards, 
Paul

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: dinsdag 21 december 2010 16:18
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Managing/deleting DBSNAPSHOTs

We have setup a small, offsite TSM server to function as a repository of
across-the-wire DBSNAPSHOT database backups for our production TSM
servers.  We want each server to perform daily dbsnapshot backups to this
server.  Since the offsite server currently has limited disk space
(2-dbsnapshots for all servers), we need to expire/purge the previous
dbsnapshot-1 before we can perform another dbsnapshot.

I have everything configured and the dbsnapshots work as expected.

My problem is this.  How to I get the dbsnapshots to expire/go away on the
offsite server?  What controls the expiration of the dbsnapshots?  I have
run "delete volhist devclass todate=today-1 type=dbsnapshot" commands and
it says they are deleted but the space is not release on the offsite
server?  I have had to perform manual "delete filespace ... type=server"
on the offsite server but that deletes everything in the filespace.

What am I missing?
Zoltan Forray
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Re: partial VM images.

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello Steve, 

I did something like this some time ago. I had the Vmware admin set the 
database disks as "Independent", as this type of disk is not included in the 
VCB snapshots. 

I used a script to interface with vcbmounter but I think the BACKUP VM command 
would work as well.

Regards,

Paul

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steve 
Harris
Sent: woensdag 21 juli 2010 3:58
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] partial VM images.

Hi All

I have a VMware windows VM that I do daily VCB incrementals and Monthly
VCB fulls on.  It is thin-provisioned and now the real disk usage has
expanded to the point where it exceeds the capacity of my proxy server's
landing area.

This particular VM runs SQL Server which is backed-up by dump to disk, and
thence to TSM via VCB.  There is no point in backing up the disk containing
the databases, so I'm looking to exclude those disks from the monthly image
and just backup C: and the dump disk.

I can see no way to do this.  The BACKUP VM command has no option to
specify particular volumes.  I tried -DOMAIN.IMAGE but that option was
rejected.  6.2 has DOMAIN.VMFULL but that specifies which machines to back
up not which disks.

Does anyone know how it can be done?

TSM Server is 5.5.3.0 Solaris X86_64  client is Windows 2008 and TSM
6.1.3.0, but could go to 6.2.1.x if this will solve the problem.


Thanks

Steve

Steven Harris 
TSM Admin
Paraparaumu, New Zealand

Re: Large fileserver on VMware design questions

[Paul van Dongen]

Remco, 

According to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21053218 the 
client 6.2 is supported in a 5.5. server environment.

Mvg/regards,

Paul

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco 
Post
Sent: donderdag 24 juni 2010 7:54
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Large fileserver on VMware design questions


Yes, TSM client 6.2 is not supported with the 5.5 server ;-)

Re: Calculate total data backed up on tape

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi, 

This one could give you an approximate value, but we have to remember that 
tapes in the FILLING status have their %utilized obtained using an estimate 
(estcap_MB), and thus are not 100% correct.

select pct_utilized,est_capacity_mb,(cast(pct_utilized/100 as 
decimal(5,3))*est_capacity_mb) as MBUsed from volumes where volume_name like 
'T%'

Paul

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, 
Joni M
Sent: vrijdag 18 september 2009 14:15
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Calculate total data backed up on tape

Hi Everyone,

Would anyone know how to calculate the total amount of data that is stored on 
physical tape?  All of my physical tapes begin with a T* so I'm thinking this 
would be easy, but I have not found the correct syntax that works yet.  Any 
ideas?  Thanks in advance!

Joni Moyer
Storage Administrator III
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Re: delete or rename filespace of a wondows client

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi, 

Since it's a Windows filespace (names in unicode), I think you should use the 
NAMETYPE=UNICODE option.

Regards, 
Paul.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi 
Salehi
Sent: woensdag 16 september 2009 13:59
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] delete or rename filespace of a wondows client

This is what I did:
tsm>  q fil node1
NODE1\\node1\c$   2WinNT   NTFSYes
30,529.7 64.5
NODE1\\node1\d$   2WinNT   NTFSYes
274,713. 60.5

how to delete the filespace c$?
tsm> del fil node1 \\node1\c$
ANR0852E DELETE FILESPACE: No matching file spaces found for node MEHRGAN.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

RES: audit library problems

[Paul van Dongen]

Richard, 

I think something quick and dirty would be changing the port numbers on your 
library manager's dsmserv.opt file. No other client, STAgent or server would 
contact this instance, and you could prep a modified dsm.sys/opt to let you 
admin client work.

When finished, just return the correct port numbers.
___
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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2006, 2007 & 2008
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - ITWS 8.2
IBM Certified Storage Administrator - ITSM V5.4
IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Storage 2008
SNIA Certified Professional
ITIL Foundation Certified
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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] em Nome de Richard Rhodes 
[rrho...@firstenergycorp.com]
Enviado: segunda-feira, 22 de junho de 2009 12:02
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: audit library  problems

This past weekend we started the process of upgrading our TSM environment
from v5.4.1 to v.5.2.2.  We have 2 dedicated library managers (3584 libs)
and 7
tsm library client instances and a bunch of storage agents.
The first step was to upgrade _one_ of the library managers.

After we upgrade this library manager instance we  hit
APAR IC59453, where drives would drop to a UKNOWN
status and become unavailable.  The library manager would
start working, then quickly degrade till it quit
servicing mounts.  IBM support had us upgrade to
patch v.5.5.2.1 to fix.

When this problem occurred the library managers view
of the library got messed up (ANR8300E) and
required a AUDIT LIBR to clean up.  And there I hit
frustration!  Audit Libr cmd requires that the library be unused - no
processes/sessions have tape mounted.  It also requires
at least one drive be online.  If you issue the cmd before
any drives are online, it's process throws an error
saying there are not online drives.

When this problem occurred and need to do a Audit,
I would change all the
drives to online=no, halt/start the library manager,
bring _one_ drive . . . and INSTANTLY a mount would
occur for a library client instance!! I would then
issue the Audit Libr cmd (which waits for the drive
to become free) and work to get the process/session that
has the mount to end.  This is SO FRUSTRATING.  I had
to do this multiple time is working through this problem.

I asked IBM support if there was any way to tell a
dedicated library manager to STOP SERVICING client
requests, and he said there isn't.

QUESTION:  How can you effectively get a audit libr
cmd to run in a busy library sharing environment?

I came up with these ideas:

1)  Drop all paths for a drive except for the
the library manager itself - giving a dedicated drive
to the library manager.

2)  Change the password on the server-to-server setup.

(wishful thinking invoked)

3)  Get IBm to add a library client library online/offline function.

4)  Get IBM to add a library manager online/offline function for servicing
mount requests.

5)  Get IBM to allow audit libr to run without a online drive.  (WHY does
an Audit need a drive online anyway?  A audit is to the SMC device for the
library proper, not a RMT drive device).



rick

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TSM 6.1 dedup on SERVER devclass

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi all, 

I am already aware that TSM 6.1 dedup feature works when the data is stored in 
a FILE devclass, and is "re-built" when the data goes to tape. But I have a 
question: If the data is migrated from a FILE pool to a pool with a SERVER type 
devclass, would dedup still be in effect? 

And is dedup also valid for COPY pools (as long as they are defined on FILE or 
SERVER devclasses)?

Thanks,

___
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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2006, 2007 & 2008
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RES: Microsoft Cluster Server - Bare Metal Recovery

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Wellington, 

I used a procedure much like yours on several machines as per a customer's 
request. The only difference is that I used the ASR facility, meaning that 
during the Windows install, the system drive and system state get restored, and 
the result of the install is already "the server you had backed up".

Stangely, this procedure went fine for all non-cluster machines (14) I tested, 
but the last pair, a SQL Server cluster, would start issuing messages like 
"Could not join cluster. Will retry" every time one of the machines was booted, 
although everything worked fine.

The customer said they would try to fix this issue later, and in the meantime 
the procedure was approved by them as a "last resource".

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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] em Nome de Wellington KMK 
[wellington.kirubhaka...@wipro.com]
Enviado: sexta-feira, 3 de abril de 2009 1:06
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Microsoft Cluster Server - Bare Metal Recovery

Hi,



I need to plan BMR for two Microsoft Cluster Servers(Failover Cluster).
Is the below steps are enough or something need to add up for cluster
services..



Backup Plan

i) Backup all local drives

ii) Backup shared drives

iii) System State Backup



Restoration Plan

i) Install the OS & network drivers

ii) Install the TSM Client

iii) Restore the data (local drives & shared drives)

iv) Apply Systemstate backup

v) Restart the Server.



Please correct me if I miss anything...



TSM Server Details

Version 5.5

OS  AIX 5.3



Regards,

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RES: Storagepoool utilization 0.0%

[Paul van Dongen]

Hallo Eric, 

Are you using migration based on the HIGHMIG/LOWMIG values or by means of the 
MIGRATE STGPOOL command? If I remember correctly, the second option worked for 
me in this case.

Groeten uit Brazilië

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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] em Nome de Loon, EJ van - 
SPLXM [eric-van.l...@klm.com]
Enviado: sexta-feira, 3 de abril de 2009 8:59
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Storagepoool utilization 0.0%

Hi *SM-ers!
I'm trying to empty a primary storagepool to a new one by using
migration.
The problem is that migration isn't kicking in. This is probably caused
by the percentage utilized value for this storagepool. A Q STGPOOL shows
a Pct. Util  0.0, so TSM thinks there is nothing to migrate.
This storagepool is using a vritual tape library, so I already tried
updating the deviceclass and entering some value in the Est. Capacity
field, but that doesn't help either.
What am I missing here?
Thank you VERY much for your help in advance!!!
Kindest regards,
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RES: Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in filenames

[Paul van Dongen]

As Richard Sims nicely (as usual) explained in a previous reply, it is very 
likelly to be connected to a language/character set issue. 

I had this problem on two of my customers, where file names with accented 
characters (the clients were Linux file servers with Samba) created by the 
end-users would cause this.

Solutions for me was simple. For the scheduled backups (dsmcad, since I was 
using MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE), I created a smal shell containing 
just two lines:

export LANG=pt_BR# Since the problem was related to Brazilian Portuguese 
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad

And this shell would be started at system startup, instead of dsmcad.

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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] em Nome de Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU [zfor...@vcu.edu]
Enviado: terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009 14:41
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in filenames

There must be someone out here who can help with backing up systems that
contain filenames that are considered "illegal" such as with
parens/quotes/dquotes, not to mention foreigh character sets,  in the file
names.

I have more than 2-servers that report hundreds of "Object name contains
illegal characters" on a daily basis and I am getting tired of seeing
these errors and would like to resolve them.

ARISTOTLE3.VCU.EDU : ANE4042E Object name
'/usr/local/blackboard/content/vi/bb_bb60/courses/1/ENGL-303-904-2006Summer/db/_967754_1/blackboard_learning_systemT_(release_6).txt'
contains one or more unrecognized characters and is not valid. (SESSION:
43803)

How do you handle these?

These are Linux/Solaris systems and have fairly current clients.

lots of image backups

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all,

I am facing a challenge:

I have a situation where I must take backups (image backups) of some 4000 raw 
LVs on AIX. These LVs are mounted FlashCopy volumes, so I don have to worry 
about snapshots and so on.
They were being backed up to a disk storage pool (!) with a MAXSIZE of 900MB, 
so the LVs smaller than this size would goto disk, and the others to tape.
I am trying to reduce the disk usage, so I thought: let's send all of this to 
tape. I reused the exiting shells which:
1. split the LV list in 20 LVs chunks (one file per 20 LVs)
2. Spawns up to 8 dsmc processes at a time with command lines as: dsmc backup 
image `cat <20 LV list filename>`

I noticed, though, that for each of the LVs in the file, a new session gets 
opened on the server. Result: much slower backup than before.

Is there some way to make the client backup all the 20 LV images in one 
session? Any other thoughts?

More info:

TSM Server 5.5.1 on AIX 5.3 ML6
TSM client 5.5.1.
Client and server are on the same machine, that gets the FlashCopy LVs mounted
COMMMETHOD is TCPIP

Thanks in advance,
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Re: Windows GUI - unusably slow

[Paul van Dongen]

Maybe already discussed, but were some of the most recent patches relative to 
VSS? Since you tested with two versions of the client, I can guarantee, but I 
remember having such problems several months ago, when the client would query 
VSS on start, and each query took several minutes. After 5 to 10 minutes it 
would go to the next step (GUI appearing). When you selected files to backup, 
gues what? New query to VSS and new ten-minute wait.

A TRACE (can't remember the flags, unfortunately) revealed the problem, and 
talking to MS about the VSS patches cured the problem.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 14:58
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Windows GUI - unusably slow

We have come upon a strange issue with the Windows GUI client.

It takes 10+ minutes to transition from startup to each screen.

>From the time you click to start it up, it takes 10-minutes before you get
the login prompt.  Then is jumps in immediately.  If you go to the setup
wizard to configure the dsm.opt file, it takes another 10-minutes before
that process starts up.

We have completely deleted/ripped out the GUI/TSM client, twice.  The
server shows little to no activity. CPU and network I/O is nill.

Once it connects to the TSM server, the session simply goes into a wait.
Bytes transfered as also nill (< 1k)

We have tried killing all antivirus.rebooted.etc

We have tried the latest client (5.5.1.1) as well as going back to a 5.4
client.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Once more Windows vs. AIX server

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all, 

 

   I know this subject comes again from time to time, but I was faced
not with the dilemma, but with "how to say it":

 

 

I've got a customer (long time customer, since 4.1) who is planning
their upgrade. They are still at 5.2 level, and are going to 5.4.1. They
are a Windows shop, and Windows is their choice of TSM Server platform.

However, they faced some problems with it: 

 

First of all, their servers are  getting old (each server is a 2 x PIII
800MHz, connected to a bunch of EXP arrays with various combinations of
SCSI disks from 9GB to 36GB). This was good when they started using it,
with something like 200GB/day transfers from their client machines. But
now, with 900GB/day in a six-hour window, this setup is proving rather
slow. Not only to transfer the client data to disk, but migration is
also a pain at a 6MB/s average. Needless to say that their library (IBM
3584 with 5 LTO2 drives) is grossly underutilized performance-wise.

 

Second, despite being a Windows shop, they had once trouble when they
lost one of the servers, at a remote site,  due to a hard disk
controller failure. Counting everything from reinstalling the OS to
restoring TSM DB, they lost some 72 hours.

 

In conversations with the technical team, we talked about TSM Server on
AIX. While their original plan was to get a new Windows machine that
could handle their projected 1,4TB/day (in the next 3 years) average,
the idea of a AIX machine was well received. Especially when we had
about mksysb vs. Windows reinstall, raw devices, overall robustness of
the platform and (most important) I/O performance. AND the customer
technical team was willing to get through the painful process of
exporting/importing historical data into the new server.

 

Not being a pSeries specialist, I know that if you compare the two
worlds, a pSeries machine have a LOT more I/O capability than a xSeries
counterpart (considering comparable processor power. I don't want to
upset anyone here, including the ones who would say that such comparison
is absurd). 

Management had another opinion, however, mainly due to the price
difference between the two machines, and I was told to prepare a report
stating which would be the key advantages of a AIX machine as a TSM
server. 

I wrote a report including the points mentioned above and some more (I/O
performance, raw devices, quick etherchannel, easy expansion as they are
targeting a p520, mksysb, LPAR, dynamic reconfiguration) but would like
to hear from you if I forgot something really big that could be "the
point" in such a decision.

 

Thank you all 

 

 

________

Paul van Dongen

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RES: restore a single AD object

[Paul van Dongen]

I´ve seen a MS document explaining how to do individual OU restores. It started 
with a non-authoritative restore of the AD and then using NTDSUTIL to replace 
the desired OU. I did not test it, but this may be the way to go.
 
Paul van Dongen

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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager em nome de Luc Beaudoin 
Enviada: ter 5/22/07 11:15 
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Assunto: restore a single AD object



Hi all

I have a little prblem ...

Is there a fast way to restore a single user object from AD ?

TSM Server 5.3 on Windows 2000

Thanks

Luc Beaudoin
Administrateur Réseau / Network Administrator
Hopital General Juif S.M.B.D.
Tel: (514) 340-8222 ext:8254

Re: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup

[Paul van Dongen]

   If it was't a dream, I remember reading something about this issue. It 
stated that this behaviour was "by design", because reading blocks from both 
copies of a mirrored volume cancelled all gains obtained with controllers and 
disk subsistems read-ahead algorhythms.
   I even remember reading it was actually tested.
   
Paul

-Original Message-
From:   ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Orville Lantto
Sent:   Wed 4/25/07 16:22
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Cc: 
Subject:Re: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup

Performance is the issue.  As tapes get faster and faster, trying to get a db 
backup without "shoe-shining" the tape drive gets harder.  Using storage 
sub-system mirroring is an option, but not the recommended one for TSM.   
Perhaps there is a sound technical reason that db reads cannot be made from 
both sides of the mirror, but it could be that it was just programmer 
"convenience".  Either way, I will have to design around this "feature" to 
squeeze a bit more performance out of my storage.
 
Orville L. Lantto
Glasshouse Technologies, Inc.
 



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims
Sent: Wed 4/25/2007 10:49
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup



On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Orville Lantto wrote:

> Reads should be safe from mirrored volumes and are commonly done in
> operating systems to load  balance.  Not taking advantage of the
> available IO resource is wasteful and puts an unnecessarily
> unbalanced load on an already IO stressed system.  It slows down db
> backups too.

Then your issue is performance, rather than database voracity.
This is addressed by the disk architecturing chosen for the TSM
database, where raw logical volumes and RAID on top of high
performance disks accomplishes that.  Complementary volume striping
largely addresses TSM's symmetrical mirror writing and singular
reading.  Whereas TSM's mirroring is an integrity measure rather then
performance measure, you won't get full equivalence from that.
Another approach, as seen in various customer postings, is to employ
disk subsystem mirroring rather than TSM's application mirroring.  In
that way you get full duality, but sacrifice the protections and
recoverability which TSM offers.

Richard Sims

Mixed 3592Gen1 & Gen2

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all,
 
   Being more at home with LTOs, I am facing the following. We have a 3494 
library with some 3592Gen1 drives. Recently, additional drives were installed, 
and they are 3592Gen2. My question is: can TSM identify by any means that a 
particular volume was written in Gen2 format and try to read them only on Gen2 
drives? That means that I should (possible answers):
 
1) Partition the 3494 with one library with Gen1 drives and one with Gen2 drives
2) Use all drives with FORMAT=3592C in the devclass definition (No! No!)
3) Use FORMAT=Drive and let TSM decide what to do
 
To complicate further: TSM Server is 5.3.4 on AIX 5.3, but I still have some 
storage agents at 5.2.3 level, who don't "understand" what 3592-2 is.
 
Thanks for your advice, 
Paul van Dongen

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TSM on P5 LPAR

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all,
 
Is anybody using TSM server installed on a P5 LPAR with AIX? The question 
is: Are there any differences between installations on LPAR and "single-image" 
(non-partitioned)  machines? Environment soulhd be TSM 5.3.3 on AIX 5.3.
 
Thanks in advance, 
 
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TDP MSSQL on X86-64

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all, 

 

 

   Does somebody have any info about the release of a TDP for SQL Server
on x86_64? I know there is a version that runs on IA64 (Itanium), but we
are starting to get several requests from customers who are installing
W2K3 64bit/SQL Server 64bit  on their new Xeon Servers and naturally
want to back up their databases.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

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RES: Mirroring the TSM System

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello, 

   I've just been through something like that. Had a customer who wanted
a mirrored TSM across two sites, using disk (HDS) replication, 3584
libraries and HACMP (TSM on AIX)

   Please email me privately for more details.

 

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-Mensagem original-
De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de
Rofie, Abu Bakar
Enviada em: Monday, March 27, 2006 23:13
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Mirroring the TSM System

Hi there;



My client would like to setup online mirroring for the hardware and
system
on their site. The problem is the have one TSM system with STK
Powderhorn
library; all the diskspool in Hitachi Disk (SAN). It that possible for
us to
setup the mirroring for the TSM; as I believe we can mirror the SAN but
how
with the TSM and the library. Any idea ?



Thanks



Abu Bakar Bin Rofie

TSM System Administrator

Kulicke & Soffa (OHQ) Malaysia Sdn Bhd

602, Level 6, Uptown 2

2 Jalan SS21/37

Damansara Uptown

47400 Petaling Jaya

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Tel  : 603-7718 6684

Fax : 603-7728 5895

ASR woes part 2 - system state/services restore

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello TSMers,
 
 
   A few weeks ago, I posted a message describing the trouble I had using ASR 
on W2K3. I return here to say that after a long battle, which included 
embedding device drivers into the Windows install disk , the process is running 
almost OK now.
   
   I ran into a nasty problem, though, when I tried to ASR-restore an ISA 
server machine. This server has ISA server installed into drive D:, and this 
installation for some reason (I am not an expert in the newest ISA Server 
versions) includes ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode). The ADAM Database, 
adamntds.dit, is located in the "D:\Program Files\Microsoft ISA 
Server\ADAMData" folder. When I restored the server, one of the ISA services 
complained about a "file not found", which I pointed to the ADAM database.
   VERY luckily, this was still a drill, so I had the machine's original disks. 
I installed them and rebooted the machine. Looking at the TSM client backup 
window, I saw that the files the mentioned folder were automatically EXCLuded 
by the "Operating System Files" rule.
If this is true, I expect this files to being backed up in the 
systemstate/systemservices objects, but the ASR restore didn't restore them, 
even when I modified the ASR script to restore drive D: before restoring the 
systemstate/systemservices.
 
Does someone have a clue about ADAM being restored as systemstate/services, 
and if this is true, about any limitations on restoring system "objects" to a 
drive letter other than C:?
 
Thanks, 
 
Paul van Dongen

ASR woes

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello TSMers, or more precisely, the intersection between the TSMers and 
WINDOWSers
 
   I spent the last 24 hours struggling with the ASR bare metal recovery 
process with W2K3 and TSM. Got some good things, and some strange things which 
I would like to share/comment, and also seek for some answers. Here's the story:
 
   First of all, I used TSM client 5.3.2.2 to backup all disks on the servers, 
including System State/System Services. Open Files backup also working fine.
   First machine to be recovered was a test machine with one disk split in two 
partitions (C: and T:). Restore went file, and ASR recreated my two partitions 
and restored C:. The T: partition was left empty, but this is a minor problem.
 
   After this degree of success, we went for the restoration of a MS Cluster 
node running SQL Server, on a brand-new IBM xSeries 366. Here begins the real 
story
 
   Problem #1: This machine uses SAS disks and matching RAID controller, for 
which I had to provide the drivers. When I pressed F6 during text-mode setup, 
it prompted for the driver, an went on, but then it wouldn't accept the ASR 
diskette anymore. I finally solved it by integrating the RAID controller driver 
into the W2K3 CD.
   Problem #2: The network cards present on the machine (6 in total) are not 
recognized by the standard Windows setup. After a call to MS's support, I got 
the answer that "only local restores are supported". After many hours and 
iteractions of "burn CD-RW (15 min)/boot the server (20 min)" I could get 
Windows to accept a set of network drivers integrated as OEM drivers pointed by 
the "Unattended Install" mode. I had some dark thoughts because the ASR process 
uses its own kind of response file, and soon enough I was feced with the 
effects of this. After the device detection, Windows setup would simply freeze. 
After some 10 minutes, I gave up I went to reboot the machine. By chance I 
pressed Enter and... oops!! Setup resumed Not too good to document, I 
think. "If setup freezes, get a cup of coffee an try pressing Enter several 
times"
 
   After that, Windows finally came back, but it started complaining on every 
boot that the cluster service could not be started because the quorum disk 
could not be accessed (Quite right, since the other node has it). But after 60 
sec, cluster service restarts and the node joins the cluster normally. That is 
problem #3.
 
   The last problem# is by far the silliest The (standard) MS Sql server 
install placed in the registry the SHORT file names (intended for 16-bit 
programs that must use the old 8.3 naming convention). So, the directory named 
"Microsoft SQL Server" had a short name of MICROS~1 before the ASR process, and 
MICROS~2 after (because there was a "Microsoft MOM" directory which was 
restored earlier ad got MICROS~1). Obviously SQL Server wouldn't start, and I 
had to rename both directories to get it to work.
 
   I am currently trying (after some sleep) to solve these so I can get a 
decent automated process. If someone gets any light on these questions please 
let me know.
 
Thanks to all, 
Paul van Dongen

Re: DB & LOG Volume layout - new

[Paul van Dongen]

I had also such an experience. I was at a customer who had a 250 (!) GB TSM 
DB allocated on 8x34GB LUNs of a DMX box. Obviously the LUNs where part of RAID 
groups in the DMX that were shared with other applications (in this case, a 
production Oracle DB). While the access was random, things went fairly well, 
but when we needed more of the DB (expiration and especially dbbackup) things 
would go crazy. Full Dbbckups took in excess of 5 hours, and we saw plenty of 
"hot disks" during the process.
I wasn't a big fan of "striping all" myself, bu I decided to give it a try. 
The customer's storage admin told me simply "It won't work", but I went on.
I deleted the TSM DB and created eight striped RLVs, each of them using 4 
8,5GB "pieces" of each LUN. The RLVs had 32k stripe size (So the average 256k 
dbbackup IO would be satisfied using all four disks) and were allocated in a 
sort of round-robin way (first RLV from disks 1-2-3-4, second RLV from disks 
2-3-4-5 and so on).
   To cut it short, db backups are now made in 1h40m. And they have now time to 
do expirations and storage pool backups.
 
   Hope this helps,
 
Paul

-Original Message- 
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Rhodes 
Sent: Tue 1/24/06 18:26 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: DB & LOG Volume layout - new



I don't think you will ever get a definitive answer.  There are too many
ways to setup a disk
system, and different people have different philosophies.

For example, here's what we do . . . . kind of radical, so hang on . . .

For our Oracle databases (random I/O type transactions) we've  moved 
from
the standard "everything
on it's own spindle" to where now we   cross stripe - use disk stripping
(stripped meta vols on symm/dmx
and raid5 luns on clariion), then, stripe across that at the OS level.  
It
gives a complete
uniform workload across your spindles for RANDOM access jobs.   EMC is
amazed at how well
our DMX's and symms perform on our SAP systems.  They told us NOT to do
this . . . .now they
really like the idea . . .as does Oracle.

I have TSM setup the same way - It uses raid5 luns in Clariion storage -
one lun from each raidset, so
I've got a part of all spindles in the clariion, then, I have stripped 
AIX
logical volumes (32k) across
all the Clariion luns.  From what I can see, it flies   Yes, other
applications are on those
raidsets . . . that's life with 140gb  disk drives.

My storage pools are on a  different disk subsystem and are NOT cross
stripped, since their
access is mostly sequential.

In general for just about ANY system we set storage up for, we stripe as
far and wide as possible.
A disk drive in an expensive disk subsystem that isn't doing many I/O's 
is
a waste of money, and,
a lun confined to one or a couple spindles is not guaranteed bandwidth, 
but
rather a
guaranteed bandwidth limit.

So, there you have it . . . another way to set it up.




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I've been watching this thread with interest, as some of the posts
contradicted what I thought I knew.

Using nmon, I've watched a couple of systems (AIX, TSM 5.2) running
expiration and DBbackups that have the DB vols set up according to the
"one volume per spindle" premise that appeared to have spotty "hot" 
disks,
that is the I/O was not distributed evenly across the different volumes.
One drive would have a lot of I/O, then another, etc.

I've always striped them, in hardware if it was available, and using LVM
if it was not.  This gave fairly even I/O, but I admit that doesn't mean
that it was the fastest method.

I'd love to have a definitive answer here, because I've heard it both
ways, and when I've asked support, they didn't seem to know.

ISC/AC on Linux x86-64

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi all,
 
   I have a customer who is thinking about migrating their Windows TSM Server 
to a Linux x86-64 install. I have already checked the availability of the TSM 
server for this platform, but couldn't verify if the ISC/AC runs on it. I saw 
the ISC/AC for Linux x86, but saw nothing about 64bit.
   Customer said that 64bit is the driving force of this migration, so if they 
must use Linux x86-32, they will rather stay on Windows.
 
   Anyone saw something about it?
 
Thanks, 
 
Paul

Re: ISC and number format error

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello, 
 
   I got something like this today, only I had no way to correct the command. 
When I tried to cancel a process via ISC, it returned an error stating that I 
could not do "CANCEL PROCESS 4,189"
   Had to go to the old friend CLI instead.
 
Regards, 
 
Paul van Dongen

-Original Message- 
From: Dirk Kastens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thu 10/20/05 6:57 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Subject: ISC and number format error



Hi,

I was just using the ISC to extend the size of the recovery log. I
created new log volumes and when I selected the "Extend or Reduce..."
menu, the next table has been prefilled with the following information:
"Expand recovery log by up to 8,184 MB", and the number in the entry
field is shown as "8,184". I always received an error after pressing the
"OK" button, until I removed the "," from the number.
--
Regards,

Dirk Kastens
Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center)
Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

Re: TSM 5.3.2 and old Web Interface - Opening new window

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi all, 
 
 I got the same problem at a customer, but we decided to go straight to the 
Admin Center. After a week of fighting and cursing, things are quieter as 
everyone becomes used to it. Turned out to be better than expected.
 
Paul

-Original Message- 
From: Helder Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wed 10/19/05 13:49 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: TSM 5.3.2 and old Web Interface - Opening new window



First, sorry for not including the [ADSM-l] prefix in the subject, I
though it would be included automatically. :)
Yes, I mainly use command line too. But this is a customer asking. So
I guess I'll install Admin Center too and give them the option.

On 10/19/05, Stapleton, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Helder Garcia
> >I have TSM 5.3.2 running on AIX 5.3 and installed the old web admin
> >interface. First I had problems receiving Page Not Found errors. I
> >reloaded the aix.idl and it seems to work now.
> >But when I click some menu link on the left side, what was supposed 
to
> >appear at the right side of the page is being opened always on a new
> >window. I'm using Firefox but I dont think this is browser related. I
> >found some guys complaining about this issue but without resolution:
> >
> >http://my.adsm.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=in
> dex&action=viewtopic&topic=5226&forum=21&2
> >
> >Anyone have good news for it? The customer really want to continue to
> >use the old interface but this way is very bad.
>
> You're likely out of luck. The old interface was not built for TSM 
5.3,
> and the process to get that interface to work with 5.3 is a 
jury-rigged
> cluster at best.
>
> Embrace the command-line (it's not that hard), or bite the bullet and
> install the Administration Center.
>
> --
> Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
>  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
> IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
> Berbee Information Networks
> Office 262.521.5627
>


--
Helder Garcia

Two questions on 5.1.x --> 5.3.x

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all,
 
Sorry to bother you not with one, but three questions...
 
I am in the process of upgrading a customer's TSM Server from 5.1.6.4 to 
5.3.x. I am taking some precautonary measures due to the size of the DB 
(240GB). Here is what I thought of:
 
1) Backup DB and apply 5.1.10 fixpack (Scheduled for today)
2) Run CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS
3) Upgrade HP-UX (Now 11.0) to 11i and atdd
4) Backup DB and install 5.3.0.0
5) Install 5.3.2
 
So question one is: Is this path correct or should I think of installing 5.2.x 
in between? And would you recommend 5.3.2 or a more conservative 5.3.1.6?
 
 
For question 3, the following info:
 
The database was behaving VERY badly. It had been allocated as 240 (!) 
volumes 1GB each on 3 separate filesystems (EMC disks). I already changed it to 
8 33GB volumes on 8 filesystems. Performance became a little better (backup DB 
went from almost 4 hours to 2h50m), but it still suffers bad on expirations. It 
takes 3+ hours to expire a million objects, and by analysing actlog I found 
that it takes almost a month to expire twice the same node/filespace. At these 
moments, sar -d shows one of the DB volumes at nearly 100% util, but with a 
rather low number of operations (long seeks? DB fragmentation too bad?).
 
So question is: Should I leave the DB this way, or use the other disks 
given to me by the storage admin: 32 8GB slices on separate disks. Take this 
slices and make 8 33GB striped LVs (4 slices each), create the filesystems and 
put the DB volumes there?
 
Thanks a lot for your attention,
 
Paul van Dongen

RES: Admin Center installation

[Paul van Dongen]

Hallo Kurt, 


I don't know exactly the cause of this, since it happened only once with me 
in about 6 or 7 AC installs, but I solved it by copying all the .jar files that 
are in the base dir of the install package to a "shared" folder I created 
myself. Since you already created the folder, just copy (do not move) the files 
into it.


Cheers from Brazil/Groeten uit Brazilië


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional
   Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 
   Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br 
+55 81 3419-8094 


-Mensagem original-
De: Kurt Beyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 21 de setembro de 2005 08:25
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Admin Center installation

Hi,
 
I've got a TSM 5.3.1.5 server on a Win2003 server. 
 
I've installed the ISC console version 5.1 already and now I want to install 
the Adminstration Center plug-in into the ISC.
 
I've downloaded the package C84RRML.exe from the Passport Advantage site which 
contains the AC version 5.3.1.
 
I unpack it and run afterwards the SetupAC.exe file. 
 
The ISC console is running at the beginning of the installation, the install 
path to ISC is specified together with the password of iscadmin and then the 
installation begins.
 
It fails however with following messages in the ac_install.log file:
 
Starting a new install instance at [September 21, 2005 1:10:34 PM CEST] 



[September 21, 2005 1:10:34 PM CEST] *** Progress bar thread starting ***

[September 21, 2005 1:10:47 PM CEST]  Installation Begin 

[September 21, 2005 1:10:47 PM CEST] Completed step number: 0

[September 21, 2005 1:10:47 PM CEST] Stoping ISC...

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Successfully stopped service[September 21, 
2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Suceessfully stopped service[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 
PM CEST] Command Exit value is 0

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Completed step number: 1

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] File d:\Program 
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app/dsmhealthmon.jar does not exist.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] File d:\Program 
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app/dsmapi.jar does not exist.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] File d:\Program 
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app/jlog.jar does not exist.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] File d:\Program 
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app\dsm\reports/dsmhealthmon.xml does not 
exist.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] File d:\Program 
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app\dsm\reports/dsmreport.xsd does not exist.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Shared enviroment ready for installation.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Completed step number: 2

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Copy D:\ac\shared\dsmhealthmon.jar to 
d:\Program Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\shared\app\dsmhealthmon.jar

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] java.io.FileNotFoundException: 
D:\ac\shared\dsmhealthmon.jar (The system cannot find the path specified)

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] System RC = -1

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] ERROR: Unable to copy dsmhealthmon.jar

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] System RC = 3

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] ERROR: Unable to copy health monitor 
report files over.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Completed step number: 3

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] RC = 6

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] ERROR: Copy files failed.

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST]  Installation failed 

[September 21, 2005 1:10:56 PM CEST] Total install time: 0 minutes and 23 
seconds.

The files 'D:\ac\shared\dsmhealthmon.jar' that the log is mentioning do not 
exists indeed as they are located in D:\ac (the subdirectory where the 
C84RRML.exe file was extracted). The directory d:\ac\shared does not exist.

I've downloaded the package already again but the problem remains. Creating the 
'shared' subdirectory myself does not work either.

Does anybody knows what I'm missing over here?

thanks,

Kurt Beyers

 

RES: Include/exclude issue ?

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello Justin, 

   Exclude.dir statements take precedence over all includes and
includes, so you cannot include some files that reside on directories
excluded by a exclude.dir. Your options would be:

1) code all the individual exclude.dir statements, leaving alone the one
you want;
2) Use the virtualmountpoint statement in your configuration file,
therefore making the desired directory appear as a separate mount point
for backup purposes.   


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional
   Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 
   Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br 
+55 81 3419-8094 


-Mensagem original-
De: Justin Case [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 19 de setembro de 2005 15:38
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Include/exclude issue ?

I need to exclude oradata files from the OS incremental backup
"exclude.dir /exlibris1/oradat*" where they lice but I need to backup
(include some *.archive files in same path but in subdirectories)

I have included the archive path /exlibris2/oradata/aleph1/arch/ but it
still thinks that they are excluded with the inclexcl statements I have
listed below, Does any one see what would help us to exclude what we
need to but include what we need to backup in the sub-path ?


INCLEXCL file
exclude.dir /exlibris1/oradat*
exclude.dir /exlibris2/oradat*
include /exlibris2/oradata/aleph1/arch/
exclude.dir /var/run
exclude.dir /etc/mnttab
exclude.dir /proc
exclude.dir /backup


I am not seeing something
Thanks for any help.

Justin

RES: Slow backups after TSM Server upgrade

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi, 

   I got something like this some time ago. When I installed 5.2 (don't 
remember the exact level) 64bit on a 64bit AIX 5.1 kernel, things were going 
slow and CPU use was very high. Just for curiosity I uninstalled the server and 
installed the 32bit version, without changing anything on the OS. To my 
surprise, CPU util dropped sharply and everything (backups, expiration) ran 
much faster.
   This particular server is still runnning the 32bit code today.


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional
   Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 
   Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br 
+55 81 3419-8094 


-Mensagem original-
De: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: terça-feira, 13 de setembro de 2005 12:38
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Slow backups after TSM Server upgrade

Yesterday I upgraded my TSM server to 5.2.6.1 from 5.1.6.3. While the system 
was running on AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 5.1.6.3 backups were fairly quick and 
typically if I saw a backup running in the morning when I came in it pointed to 
a NIC/SWITCH mismatch. After upgrading AIX to 5.2, TSM still 5.1.6.3, the 
system seemed the same, and by the way I should mention the system was running 
64 bit mode but was NOT running 64 bit TSM code.



When I upgraded TSM yesterday I changed to the 64 bit code thinking things 
should be "at least as fast". As I watched backups last night things seemed 
quite slow. The database backups seem to have quadrupled in the time it takes 
to complete one. This morning I also see 7 backups still running.



So the question is have others seen a drop in performance after upgrading to
5.2 TSM?



Thanks for any insight you can provide,





Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

Email:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RES: compare between LTOPOOL and VAULTPOOL

[Paul van Dongen]

Sometimes I monitor my backup stgpool processes with:
 
select stgpool_name,sum(logical_mb)/1024 as GB from occupancy group by 
stgpool_name
 
Reasonably fair indication
 
Paul

-Mensagem original- 
De: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada: seg 7/4/05 16:01 
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Assunto: Re: compare between LTOPOOL and VAULTPOOL



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Luc Beaudoin
>Thansk for the answer
>Is there a way to see the total space used by a storage pool

query stg 

will give you a total capacity, and a percentage used.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

RES: Very slow DB backups

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello All, 
 
   Just to keep you updated on my quest :)
 
   I began to modify some settings, and have already reduced the number of log 
volumes from 10 to 2, and stgpool volumes from 108 to 6. Backups are a little 
bit faster now, but I expect the gain to be bigger when I re-create the DB 
volumes.
   I am very concerned about the expiration process. Analyzing the actlog, I 
found out that the expiration process (two daily runs with DURATION=240 each) 
is taking nearly a MONTH to process the same filespace again. I am not joking :(
   I also found out what might be the cause of the database size and expiration 
performance (in addition to the volume allocation). Just look at the output of 
a "select type,sum(num_files) as Files from occupancy group by type" command:
 
TYPE FILES
-- ---
Arch 384354353
Bkup  35759844

   It seems that someone likes archiving. I am now in the process of replacing 
the majority of these with backup operations.
 
   If there is interest, I can (maybe in private emails) post the results in 
terms of changed made vs. performance improvement.
 
Best regards, 
 
Paul

-Mensagem original- 
De: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada: sex 7/1/05 8:37 
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Assunto: Re: Very slow DB backups



Hi, Paul -

You have your work cut out for you with that train-wreck of a system.
I'd begin by questioning the need for all that DB content... There
may be abandoned filespaces which should go, obsolete retention
periods which no one has looked at in years, and perhaps even
Expirations which never run to completion.
As to performance, I'd begin by inspecting SCSI topology, to assure
no dumb stuff, like tape and disk on the same cable. Next I'd review
the LTO microcode levels, as older levels had serious problems (see
"LTO performance" in ADSM QuickFacts). The "sleep" may be the drive
struggling to load and position the tape. You might consider a tape
case study using the tapeutil command, or the like, to get some
baseline numbers on the performance of those drives and tapes for
comparison as improvements are pursued.

The disk layout certainly needs a lot of review, as it doesn't seem
to make sense, even if one is not familiar with EMC boxes.

Only as very last resort would I even consider db unload/reload:
that's ill-advised even in the best of circumstances, as proven
dangerous and often unproductive.

Richard Sims

Very slow DB backups

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello All,
 
I was called to examine a TSM server in order to make some suggestions to 
improve performance. Upon arrival, I found out a not-so-standard configuration:
 
TSM 5.1.6.4 on HP-UX 11
DB: 208 GB split on 208(!) volumes of 1GB each spread on 4 LUNs on an EMC box 
(95% in use)
Log: 10 volumes of 1GB each, all on the same EMC LUN
Diskpool: 101 volumes of 1GB each, all on the same EMC LUN
 
I know that splitting this server should be the best solution, and there are 
other factors contributing to this big DB size, but I will stay away from this 
for  while.
 
The first I noticed is that there are two full DB backups being executed each 
day. They go to a LTO device class, and are taking some 3 to 4 hours to 
complete, including a stange 5 to 10 minute "sleep" between the backup command 
being issued and the actual start of the process. I tried to minimize this by 
setting the log to rollforward and trying to take a incremental backup. To my 
surprise, the triggered incremental (log became 70% full) started, with the 
same delay described above, but began to crawl, at 8000 pages per MINUTE. It 
would give me almost 4 hours to copy the 7 or so GB!! Naturally, I went back to 
the fulls until I found out what could be the problem.
 
I am trying to talk to the admin of this server to upgrade to 5.2 or 5.3 and to 
review their disk config, but would like to hear from you if someone has been 
trough something alike, and of course the line of action that was taken.
 
Thanks to all,
 
Paul

Re: Migration -> Primary and Copy Pool

[Paul van Dongen]

Bruno, 
 
 From the TSM Help for the Define stgpool command:
 
The server can perform simultaneous write to copy storage pools for the
 following operations:
o Backup and archive operations by Tivoli Storage Manager
  backup-archive clients or application clients using the Tivoli
  Storage Manager API.
o HSM migration operations by Tivoli Storage Manager for Space
  Management (HSM) clients.
o Import operations that involve copying exported file data from
  external media to a primary storage pool associated with a copy
  storage pool list.

Simultaneous writing is NOT supported when migrating data between storage 
pools. You will have to rely on the Backup Stgpool command.
 
Regards, 
 
Paul van Dongen
MCSE
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - ITWS 8.2 e ITSM 5.2
Vanguard
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
 

-Original Message- 
From: Bruno Melo - Suporte InformÃtica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thu 5/5/05 16:24 
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 
Cc: 
Subject: Migration -> Primary and Copy Pool



Hi Fellows,

The environment:

TSM Server 5.1.9.5, AIX 4.3.3 ML 9
Two 3580 LTO1 SCSI tape drives (manual)
Both drives defined on the same library.

A small costumer used to backup their data directly to tape storage 
pools, primary and copy, simultaneously coping the data to both storage pools. 
Until that point nothing weird, just define the copystg option on the primary 
and everything works like a charm. The strange bahavior appeared when, for 
performance reasons, they decided to backup their data to disk and than migrate 
it to tape, the migration to tape works fine, but only goes to one of the 
storage pools (the primary). Since, nothing has changed on the tape storage 
pools what the hell is going on? It seems like some limitation for the 
migration process, but it should work.  At least this is what the manuals show.
I've checked the migprocess option to ensure that there was only one 
process, but nothing changed.
The backup stg command works fine.
Am I missing something?

Atenciosamente,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. .
BRUNO MELO
Suporte InformÃtica Ltda.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RES: TSM 5.3 and ISC install - won't

[Paul van Dongen]

I know this won't help too much... I got the same error trying to
install ISC on three different W2K server machines. Lots of RAM and free
space too. I am now a proud owner of a TSM server that has no GUI at
all... Long live dsmadmc...

(This is a lab server)


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2 
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br 
+55 81 3419-8094 



-Mensagem original-
De: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Thursday, 27 January, 2005 16:25
Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: TSM 5.3 and ISC install - won't


Speaking of the "topic of the day", I thought I would install the ISC,
just to see what the fuss is all about (I use TSMManager for pretty much
everything TSM wise).  Especially since I just upgraded my test TSM
server.

I have now tried *FOUR* times to install this wonderful product, only to
fail each time.

After wandering through the /Program Files/IBM/ISC/log.txt file (per the
error message) and then following the bouncing-ball to the
*:\...\Temp\ISCRuntimeInstall.log file (filled with Java jibberish), I
find the error message:

WizardException: (error code = 200; message="C:\Program
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\config\wpconfig.properties (The system cannot
find the path specified)"; exception = [ServiceException: (error code =
200; message = "C:\Program
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\config\wpconfig.properties (The system cannot
find the path specified)"; severity = 0; exception =
[java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program
Files\IBM\ISC\PortalServer\config\wpconfig.properties (The system cannot
find the path specified)])])
at
com.installshield.wizardx.ascii.ModifyFile.writeFile(ModifyFile.java:280
)
at
com.installshield.wizardx.actions.AsciiFileUpdateWizardAction.execute(As
ciiFileUpdateWizardAction.java:171)
at
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener.execute(StandardWizardLi
stener.java:123)
at
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener.currentBeanChanged(Stand
ardWizardListener.java:106)
at
com.installshield.wizard.Wizard$RunThread.run(Wizard.java:1564)

I installed the latest JAVA (after the first two failed attempts).

I have completely deleted the ISC and TEMP directories before each
attempt (after the first failure, the second attempt told me that ISC
was already installed, when it had not finished).

I have disabled all firewalls, blockers, etc.

The system is W2K. There is 8GB free disk space and 1GB of RAM !


So, can someone tell me how to resolve this ?

United Linux

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello everybody,
 
I have to answer a question of a possible customer who wants to use
TSM to backup some servers to a Intel machine running United Linux. The
clients will be United Linux on Intel, Netware 6.5, W2K and iSeries
running SLES 8 and RedHat AS 3.0. I've read the READMEs and found that
TSM will work with all of these. But the customer also wants Lan-free
for the United Linux machines, and I didn't find anything on the 5.2.3
storage agent being comptible with UnitedLinux 1.0.
Someone had this before?
 


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2 
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br   
+55 81 3419-8094 

 

RES: SQL Select

[Paul van Dongen]

Could try this one:

select v.volume_name,v.stgpool_name,v.pct_utilized,p.reclaim from
volumes as v,stgpools as p where v.stgpool_name=p.stgpool_name and
v.pct_utilized<100-p.reclaim

This one gets the reclaim% from the stgpool definition


Paul Gondim van Dongen
MCSE
IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
+55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: James Lepre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:03 PM
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Re: SQL Select


I am trying to find a statement that would allow me to see what tapes
need to be reclaimed.  Can this be done?

RES: LANFree backups in MSCS environment

[Paul van Dongen]

That is the way I usually configure it. Works fine.


Paul Gondim van Dongen
MCSE
IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
+55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:11 PM
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: LANFree backups in MSCS environment


Anyone out there using LANFree backups with clusters?

The environment is SQLServer in an ACTIVE-ACTIVE configuration. It's
already configured with the B/A client on each node and the TDP SQL
agent scheduler service as a cluster resource. If I add the storage
agent to each node, up and running not as a cluster resource.will
the TDP agent run LANfree using the storage agent on the node that it is
currently ACTIVE on??

Bill Boyer
"An Optimist is just a pessimist with no job experience."  - Scott Adams

RES: txnbytelimit & lto2

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all, 

   I usually don't use this number, since I have a lot of retries due to
changing files and so on, and I would have a huge amount of
re-transmitted files. However, I've been testing (with LTO1, but I will
do it again with LTO2) and found out that you should not set this to a
number less than the buffer size of the LTO drive. Doing so will produce
a buffer flush on the drive each time you commit the transaction in
TSM's database.
   Since I was working with IBM LTO drives (64MB buffer) I determined
that 65536 was the smallest number to use. I got my best results using
TXNBYTELIMIT 131072 (128MB).



Regards, 

Paul Gondim van Dongen
MCSE
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-Mensagem original-
De: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Monday, July 19, 2004 8:36 AM
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: txnbytelimit & lto2


Hey Everyone!

I have been looking into tuning client and server parameters for when I
move to an AIX 5.2 TSM server at 5.2.2.5.  I noticed that in an
environment with LTO2, the clients txnbytelimit should be 2097152.  Is
the TSM Performance and Tuning Guide correct?  Thanks!


Joni Moyer
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RES: Database and log format question.

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello All,

  I am not shure, but what I observed is that when you format the DB volumes on UNIX, 
this takes some time while the actual formatting is being done. On a Windows system, 
though, DB formats occur instantly, regardless of the size of the files. The actual 
formatting of the DB volumes on a Windows system seems to occur during the log mount 
phase.
  Using a small Windows system I formatted a 50GB database and a 100MB log (just to 
bring the server up) in 5 seconds! The log mount, however, lasted for about 90 
minutes. 

Regards, 

Paul Gondim van Dongen
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-Mensagem original-
De: Remco Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:19 AM
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Re: Database and log format question.


On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:52:58 +0200
Daniel Sparrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> My guess is that it's commiting log information. During DB restore, 
> the restore is sequential. However, when commiting the log 
> information, it is commiting the log on a per transaction basis. If 
> you're logs where highly used during your last db backup, this could 
> explain why it's taking so long for the TSM server to mount the log.
> 
> Remember, that during inital startup after a db restore, the TSM 
> server will do a recovery log roll-back, and commit all transactions 
> within the TSM log.
> 

Ok, now, Windows is different of course, but I just did about the same thing to an AIX 
server, TSM 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.2 in 64 bit mode.

Logformatting took us about 5 minutes for a 13GB log, the db volumes were not 
formatted.

Restoring my 27 000 000 pages of database took about 2:30 hours, up and running in 3. 
Now, I do have about the fastest disks money can buy for my TSM server (15k RPM, 2 
GB/s FC-AL), so you might expect a bit less performance on your windows system, but 
still, things should be about comparable.

Log mounting of a freshly formatted log should take about 0 seconds.

> Best Regards
> 
> Daniel Sparrman
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> 
> "Remeta, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2004-04-28 15:47
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> To
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> 
> Subject
> Re: Database and log format question.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ok the server specs are a quad 1.4ghz pentium 4, 4gb memory running 
> win2k advanced server. What I did was erase the old log and database 
> volumes, then do a dsmserv -k
> format with the log and database volume specs.
> It created the volumes and formatted the recovery log volumes rather
> quickly.
> After it format's the recovery log volumes it does a recovery log
> volume mount.
> This is what is taking so long.
> I've been monitoring the IO and it seems to be doing something to the
> database disk, perhaps formatting the database volumes too? I don't
> know. I've done this before but never with a database this large.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Database and log format question.
> 
> 
> 3 hours? Wow!. What's are the hardware specs of your tsm server? What 
> else is going on, on that system (topas, if AIX, or top)? I would 
> probably consider running either a database audit or re-org, then try 
> mounting it again. thanks!
> 
>   On more thing, are you starting the server up again in the
> foreground
> or background?. If your initially trying to start it up in
> the background, kill it and start it up in the foreground first then
> let it
> do all of it's redo log record and undo passes, as well as log mount.
> Then once it's up, and you get a tsm server prompt. Then halt the
> server and restart it in the background for production operation
> at that point. Just another thought.
> 
> --Justin Richard Bleistein
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Re: Integration to DiskXtender 5.4.102

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello, 
 
 This is an incomplete list, but check:
 
1. If you have passwordaccess PROMPT in dsm.opt. I know this is the default, but maybe 
DX2000 is looking for it.
2. If you node definition on the server has Allow Backup Delete set to Yes
 
Hope this helps
 
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-Original Message- 
From: sujay dinakar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Mon 2/2/2004 5:49 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Integration to DiskXtender 5.4.102



Hi!

Thank u for your reply,

yes ofcourse i created the dsm.opt in the DX home
directory, and i am able to create virtual media and
assin to the media folders, when i tried to migrate
files by copying the files to the media directory on
the extended drive, It is giving an error "INCORRECT
CONFIGURATION" in DX

the dsm.opt file details:


*===
* Note: This file was generated by a TSM client
configuration utility.
*
* Generated on Sat Jan 17 15:37:49 2004
*
* ADSM Administrator: Administrator @ TSMSERVER
*

*===


nodename backupserver

commmethod   TCPIP
tcpport  1500
tcpserveraddress 192.168.1.34


exclude *:\io.sys
exclude *:\msdos.sys
exclude *:\ibmbio.com
exclude *:\ibmdos.com
exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys
exclude *:\...\system32\config\*.*
exclude *:\...\system32\config\...\*
exclude *:\...\*.dsm

tcpwindowsize63
*tcpbufsize   32
txnbytelimit 25600
largecommbuffers no
commmethod   tcpip
compression  no
replace  prompt
subdir   yes
tapeprompt   no
language ameng

** EOF

can you  help me further!

Thank you very much
Dinakar .R


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RES: ITSM 5.2 with 3582 GEN2 drive

[Paul van Dongen]

Adesh, 

Some 3 weeks ago I and a colleague were faced with this setup, and
after 2 days we still could not make it work. After defining everything
(and updating everything: device drivers, library and drive firmware),
the first operation (normaly a LABEL LIBVOL) would put the library path
offline without further explanations.
As we had little or no time left, we tried to gather all information
that we could in order to open a PMR. So, we installed 5.1.7.3, and what
happens? Everything works fine!
After that, we upgraded to 5.2 and applied the 5.2.1.2 patch, and it
still worked.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you what happened next, since I was
moved to another project, not knowing if a PMR was opened, and the
result if it was. I know, though, that everything is working OK.

Best regards, 

Paul Gondim van Dongen
MCSE
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-Mensagem original-
De: Adesh Manjrekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Monday,24 November 2003 10:20
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: ITSM 5.2 with 3582 GEN2 drive


Dear all

Has anybody configured the IBM 3582 lib with ITSM 5.2ver? If yes then
what driver versions have to be followed? Thanx

Warm Regards
Adesh

Lan-free and ACSLS

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello list, 

Sorry to bother you with this simple question, but I needed a quick
response and thought some of you could have been through the same
situation:

We want to use TSM to do all of our backups. We have a STK 9310 library
with 9940B drives. The goal is to move this library to a SAN
environment, with a TSM server (on *NIX) controlling the library and a
number of lan-free clients doing their backups to the 9940 drives.
To accomplish this, is TSM's ACS support enough or is another solution
(Gresham's EDT) needed?


Thank you all in advance for your attention


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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353

MSSQL backup sequence

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all, 

 I am busy doing some SQL Server backups, and my goal is:

- Do full backups on sundays.
- Differential backups on the other days.
- Be able to restore any of the backups in a 30 days window

I defined a management class specifying Verexists=30 and RetExtra=30 and
made some tests:

1. When I run the full backup, I get an active version (OK)
2. When I run the differentials (3 of them), I get one active version
and two inactive versions. Still OK
3. When I run another full backup, what happens: I see (in the TSM foor
SQL restore GUI) two full backups (one active and one inactive), but I
see only the last differential made (marked inactive).

Looking in the BACKUPS table, I see that the two other differentials
still exist in the database, but with their inactivate date set as
follows:

 NODE_NAME: TRIUNFO-SQL
 FILESPACE_NAME: TRIUNFO\data\0001
   FILESPACE_ID: 6
  STATE: INACTIVE_VERSION
   TYPE: FILE
HL_NAME: \model\
LL_NAME: difffull
  OBJECT_ID: 35879
BACKUP_DATE: 2003-07-09 12:02:02.00
DEACTIVATE_DATE: 1900-01-01 00:00:00.00
  OWNER: 
 CLASS_NAME: MC-SQL


And I can't see them in the restore window. Any hints?

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RES: Registry backup on NT

[Paul van Dongen]

That's OK, but I think that in this case the manual should state that "A registry 
backup will be made when you take an incremental backup of your entire domain", and 
not "backupregistry  - Specifies whether to back up the Windows registry during domain 
incremental backup or backup which includes the Windows system drive. This option is 
for the Windows Me and NT clients only." - Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows 
Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide (GC32-0788-01) page 98.


Paul

-Mensagem original-
De: Ruddy STOUDER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:40
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Re: Registry backup on NT


Indeed, registry is backed up if you make a full incremental backup with 
domain=all-local. Once you give limitations to your domain (like with c:\*.¨*), you 
exclude the system objects.

Ruddy Stouder
Senior Technical Consultant
TSM Certified Consultant
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-----Original Message-
From: Paul van Dongen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: jeudi 6 mars 2003 13:25
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Registry backup on NT


Hello all, 


 I would like to ask you if someone has encountered the following
situation:


The Windows client manual states that if you have a line BACKUPREGISTRY YES in the 
dsm.opt of a NT 4 system, a registry backup will be taken at every incremental that 
includes the system drive.

My problem is: I defined a schedule for that machine as follows:

  Managing profile: 

Policy Domain Name: PD-XX
 Schedule Name: BKP-FILES-SO
   Description: Backup de SO
Action: Incremental
   Options: 
   Objects: C:\*
  Priority: 5
   Start Date/Time: 09/03/2002 15:00:00
  Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Period: 1 Week(s)
   Day of Week: Sunday
Expiration: 
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 09/04/2002 09:53:25
  Managing profile: 


 

Since my NT is installed on the C: drive, I assume that this is a backup that 
includes the system drive, and the registry would be backed up as well. But, it 
doesn't. The registry is only backed up if I remove the C:\* and make a full 
incremental backup of the machine. Is this correct and I misunderstood what the manual 
mentioned, or is it some kind of bug?

Further information:

   Client: Windows NT 4.o SP6A with TSM client 5.1.1.5
   Server: Windows 2000 SP2 with TSM server 5.1.1.4


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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353

Registry backup on NT

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all, 


 I would like to ask you if someone has encountered the following
situation:


The Windows client manual states that if you have a line
BACKUPREGISTRY YES in the dsm.opt of a NT 4 system, a registry backup
will be taken at every incremental that includes the system drive.

My problem is: I defined a schedule for that machine as follows:

  Managing profile: 

Policy Domain Name: PD-XX
 Schedule Name: BKP-FILES-SO
   Description: Backup de SO
Action: Incremental
   Options: 
   Objects: C:\*
  Priority: 5
   Start Date/Time: 09/03/2002 15:00:00
  Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Period: 1 Week(s)
   Day of Week: Sunday
Expiration: 
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
 Last Update Date/Time: 09/04/2002 09:53:25
  Managing profile: 


 

Since my NT is installed on the C: drive, I assume that this is a
backup that includes the system drive, and the registry would be backed
up as well. But, it doesn't. The registry is only backed up if I remove
the C:\* and make a full incremental backup of the machine. Is this
correct and I misunderstood what the manual mentioned, or is it some
kind of bug?

Further information:

   Client: Windows NT 4.o SP6A with TSM client 5.1.1.5
   Server: Windows 2000 SP2 with TSM server 5.1.1.4


-- 
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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353

RES: Converting I/O station into regular slots

[Paul van Dongen]

I've done this last week, only in the other way (storage to I/O). It
only worked after the TSM server was bounced.



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-Mensagem original-
De: Camilo A. Marrugo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:17
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Re: Converting I/O station into regular slots


Perfect, this did it. Now, here is another questions, I tried checking
the volumes that I placed on the I/O to be put in the libvol list but it
does not find anything new. Here is exactly what I have done:

-- Setup->Utils->Config-> I/O to storage
-- Reboot Library
-- Put library offline once its up and place cardtriges in the I/O
   (now   storage space slots) window
-- Run the following command:
checkin libvol lto3583.0 search=yes status=scratch
-- It finishes successfully but it does not checkin any of the new 12
   tapes placed on the library I/O window.

Thanks in Advance,
Camilo Marrugo


On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 06:10, Richard Sims wrote:
> > I have a question, I am running out of physical space on my 3583 
> > library, and I was wondering if there is a way of making the 12 
> > slots on the I/O station (Bulk), part of the regular tape slots.
>
> The manual, of all things, says you can...
> via Setup->Utils->Config.
>
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RES: dual-homed clients

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi Marcel, 

   Do you have a TCPCLIENTADDRESS line in your DSM.OPT? It tells the
server which address to contact in prompted scheduling mode.


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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353
 

-Mensagem original-
De: Marcel J.E. Mol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada em: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:31
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: dual-homed clients


Hi list,

We have a problem concerning dual-homed clients in our TSM environment:

  SERVER CLIENT
 ++ ++
 | AIX 5.1|172.20.1.10  | Win 2000   |
10.128.3.15
 | TSM server 5.1.5.4 |-| TSM client 5.1.5.9
|
 | Host: tsm1 | 172.20.1.15 | Host: nms5 |
 ++ ++


When the scheduler service on nms5 is started it correctly connects to
the tsm1 server and gets schedule info. This traffic must go via the
172.20 network as the 10.x net is not connected to the 172.20 net.
However, listing the node info on the server it shows the 10.x address
as client address:

tsm: TSM1>q node nms5 f=d

 Node Name: NMS5
  Platform: WinNT
   Client OS Level: 5.00
Client Version: Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.9
Policy Domain Name: FSNT
 Last Access Date/Time: 02/27/03   13:24:00
Days Since Last Access: <1
Password Set Date/Time: 02/26/03   14:13:41
   Days Since Password Set: 1
 Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
   Locked?: No
   Contact:
   Compression: Client
   Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
Backup Delete Allowed?: No
Registration Date/Time: 02/26/03   14:13:41
 Registering Administrator:
Last Communication Method Used:
   Bytes Received Last Session: 0
   Bytes Sent Last Session: 0
  Duration of Last Session: 0.00
   Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 0.00
  Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 0.00
  Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00
 Optionset: WIN_SERVER
   URL: http://nms5:1581
 Node Type: Client
Password Expiration Period:
 Keep Mount Point?: No
  Maximum Mount Points Allowed: 2
Auto Filespace Rename : No
 Validate Protocol: No
   TCP/IP Name: NMS5
TCP/IP Address: 10.128.3.15
Globally Unique ID:
1d.69.3d.a1.2c.6e.11.d7.8e.d1.00.02.55.67.75.b4


Now when the tsm1 server wants to contact the nms5 client to start the
backup it cannot reach it:

02/26/03   19:02:19  ANR8213W Session open with 10.128.3.15 timed
out.
02/26/03   19:02:19  ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to
contact
 client NMS5 using type 1 (10.128.3.15 1501).

When we disable the clients network interface on the 10.x network
everything works fine.

Also when directly initiating a backup from the client itself works
fine.

The dns entry for the NMS5 machine only reports the 172.20.1.15 address.

So what goes wrong here? The client initially connects to the server
using its 172.x interface and address but the server registers it with
the 10.x address. Why does tsm starts with a clients IP-address anyways,
while it knows the clients TCPNAME and hence should use that as a base
connection location?

Anybody else seen this behaviour and/or knows how to resolve this?

I have seen this behaviour on more dual-homed machines (AIX, Netware and
Windows) but in most cases the 'other' network is reachable via some
router so tsm can connect to those clients. Fortunately the real backup
data still goes via the 172.20 network (which is a 100Mb net as opposed
to a 16 Mb token ring for the other networks).

Any hints/tips?

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RES: AIX With 3 Network Adapters (Was: No Subject)

[Paul van Dongen]

Daniel, 

  Since it's not possible to have multiple default gateways, you could
probably define explicit routes to each of your subnets using the
appropriate ip address/gateway for each of the adapters


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-Mensagem original-
De: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Enviada em: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:29
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: 


Hi

Thanks for the respone.

Yes, all clients are located in different subnets. Some of the clients are
connected through the same IP subnet, but most of them are on different
subnets.

Running only the GB adapter wont be enough. There is approx. 150 TSM
clients, and they are located on 6 different subnets.

The problem is that if we use the default gateway on the GB adapter(or any
other adapter), the switch will flood. This is because the switch is using
"Spanning Tree". What it reallys means is, that if a client connects to the
TSM server on one of the two 100Mbs ethernet adapters, and the TSM server
responds on the GB adapter(which have the default gateway), the Cisco switch
wont like it, as it keeps track of the mac-address within the packet. When
the TSM server responds, it will respond with the mac-address of the GB
adapter, instead of the original mac-address from the 100Mbs Ethernet
adapter. This causes the switch to get schizofrenic, as it sends one packet
to one mac-address, but recieves a respone from another mac-address...

This is solved in AIX 5L, which have the possibility to have multiple
default gateways bound to different network interfaces. This means that if
you have three adapters, you can have 3 different default gateways, one for
each adapter.

The question was if somebody has been able to solve this on a lower level of
AIX, such as ML 4.3.3.09.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman


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DDS 3 or DDS4???

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello group, 

   I know that DDS is not the all-time best for doing backups, but... I have
a small system for testing purposes (Windows 2000) with an Archive Python
06408-XXX drive, which is supposed to be a DDS4. But, when (By chance) I
issued a SHOW LIBRARY command, this is what came back:


MMSV->libList: head=002274E0, tail=002274E0

Library DDSLIB1 (type MANUAL):
  reference count = 0, online = 1, borrowed drives = 0, update count = 0
   basicCfgBuilt = 1, libInfoBuild = 1, definingPathToLibrary = 0
   addLibPath = 0, driveListBusy = 0
  libvol_lock_id=0, libvolLock_count=0, SeqnBase=0
  library extension at 
  autochanger list:

  drive list:
DDSDRIVE1:
  Device Class = 4MM,
  RD Capabilities = 003F,
  (DDS3C,DDS3,DDS2C,DDS2,DDS1C,DDS1),
  WR Capabilities = 003F,
  (DDS3C,DDS3,DDS2C,DDS2,DDS1C,DDS1),
  Drive state: UNKNOWN, Drive Descriptor state = NO PENDING CHANGES,
  online = 1, polled = 0,
  Inquiry String = ,
  Device Type From Inquiry = ,
  update count = 0, checking = 0,
  offline time/date: 00:00:00 1900/00/00
  Clean Freq(GB)=-1, Bytes Proc(KB)=0, needsClean=0.
MANUAL-specific fields:
  None


If you look at RD Capabilities and WR Capabilities, it only goes to DDS3.
Should I expect something in the TSM device driver, or should I go to the
drive's salesman and ask for a real DDS4 drive?



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MCSE
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
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New Library

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello everybody,


We are in the process of switching from a SCSI-attached 3583 library
with 4 drives to a FC-attached 3584 with 8 drives. My question is: If I
check out all volumes from the 3583, replace it with the 3584, adjust device
names and so on, can I check the tapes back into the new library and use
them right away, or will I have to connect both libraries, define new device
classes/storage pools and copy all the contents of the 3583's tapes to the
3584's tapes?

Thank you all for your help

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Engenheiro de Sistemas
MCSE
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br 
Fone: 55 81 3225-0353

RES: Select statements syntax

[Paul van Dongen]

Try something like this:

Select cast(client_version as char(1)) || cast(client_level as char(1)) from
nodes


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Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviada em: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 15:13
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Select statements syntax


I need to create a select statement that concatenates numeric fields as text
-- I need to create a single text field from the four numeric fields in the
NODES table into a single text field.

Once I get the fields CAST as CHAR type, how do I concatenate them?

I tried SUBSTR but it pukes on too many arguments.

This works:

select substr(cast(client_version as char(1)),1,1) from nodes

This doesn't:

select substr(cast(client_version as char(1)),cast(client_release as
char(1)),1,1) from nodes

String concatenation is a basic function, I know it's there, I just can't
remember the function name.

RES: Client version stored in Database?

[Paul van Dongen]

Doug,

  maybe this one helps


select node_name,cast(client_version as char) || cast(client_release as
char) || cast(client_level as char) as Client from nodes




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MCSE
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
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Fone: 55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: Nelson, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviada em: Monday, December 02, 2002 14:01
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Client version stored in Database?


Can I issue a query to tell the version of TSM client software on each node?

Thanks, Doug

Douglas C. Nelson
Distributed Computing Consultant
Alltel Information Services
Chittenden Data Center
2 Burlington Square
Burlington, Vt. 05401
802-660-2336

RES: Tape History....

[Paul van Dongen]

David,


   I think you could easily work with SELECT * FROM SUMMARY WHERE
ACTIVITY='TAPE MOUNT'

   You can see in the results in which drive your tapes got mounted. If you
have a high number of mounts, maybe it should be better to limit the select
to a specific date/time, or specific volumes, to avoid a large number of
result being displayed.



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Paul Gondim van Dongen
Engenheiro de Sistemas
MCSE
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
Fone: 55 81 3225-0353


-Mensagem original-
De: David Stabler [mailto:dstabler@;MORRISONHOMES.COM]
Enviada em: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:03
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Tape History


Is there a nice easy way to tell where a tape has been?

I'm experiencing about a 15-20% failure rate, over time, in tapes in my 3584
LTO (Ultrium, not DLT).  The tapes that are failing are from varied vendors,
but all are non-IBM tapes.  I'm afraid that one of the drives is potentially
causing physical harm (tapes sent off for analysis have shown, in some
cases, damage after 150ft) but I don't want to have IBM just replace
everthing without having an idea of what I'm after.

What could I do to gather that information?  I could run a nightly script
watching tape activity, of course, and keep that data, but I'm wondering if
Tivoli keeps that conveniently.



David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE
Senior Systems Analyst

Re: All Time Record for Amount of data on one 3590 K Cartridge

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi everybody,

  I know the question was about 3590 K's, but I think this one (LTO) is
something nice to show:


 Operation Results




   Volume Name: XX
 Storage Pool Name: xxx
 Device Class Name: LTO01
   Estimated Capacity (MB): 1,034,163.3
  Pct Util: 89.0
 Volume Status: Full
Access: Read/Write
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 11.0
   Scratch Volume?: Yes
   In Error State?: No
  Number of Writable Sides: 1
   Number of Times Mounted: 16
 Write Pass Number: 1
 Approx. Date Last Written: 06/15/02 18:51:38
Approx. Date Last Read: 06/27/02 14:17:12
   Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
 Number of Read Errors: 0
   Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator):

Paul van Dongen



-Original Message-
From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 13:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: All Time Record for Amount of data on one 3590 K Cartridge


you win, ~sigh~... ;-(

The closest I came was this "under-achiever" ;-)


Volume Name   Storage  Device  EstimatedPct   Volume

  Pool NameClass Name   Capacity   Util   Status

(MB)
  ---  --  -  -

E02104OFFST_TAPE-  3590DEV 272,034.2  100.0Full


Ben

-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: All Time Record for Amount of data on one 3590 K Cartridge


Volume Name   Storage  Device  EstimatedPct   Volume
  Pool NameClass Name   Capacity   Util   Status
(MB)
  ---  --  -  -

422189TAPE_NNSORA  DC_ATL-2--  410,443.7   50.9Full
3590E1A

Has anyone else gotten 410GB on a cartridge?
That is 10:1 Compression.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180

Select problems in 5.1.1 ... again

[Paul van Dongen]

   Hello all,

   I have just finished (about ten days now) an upgrade of TSM 4.2 to 5.1.
Being aware of the zero bytes problem in the summary table, I upgraded to
5.1.1.2. Now, I don´t get zero bytes in my summary entries for backups, but
all my files (examined and affected) counters are being divided by 1000
Someone got this problem too?

   Here is an example:

Summary table:

   START_TIME: 2002-08-09 19:29:20.00
 END_TIME: 2002-08-09 19:47:19.00
 ACTIVITY: BACKUP
   NUMBER: 8015
   ENTITY: 
 COMMMETH: Tcp/Ip
  ADDRESS: 10.131.64.29:54333
SCHEDULE_NAME: 
 EXAMINED: 40
 AFFECTED: 39
   FAILED: 0
BYTES: 3857289012
 IDLE: 1076
   MEDIAW: 0
PROCESSES: 1
   SUCCESSFUL: YES
  VOLUME_NAME: 
   DRIVE_NAME: 
 LIBRARY_NAME: 
 LAST_USE: 



Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 1, Level
1.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2002 All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: XX
Session established with server YY: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 1.2
  Server date/time: 08/09/02   19:29:20  Last access: 08/09/02   18:59:46


Total number of objects inspected:   40,769
Total number of objects backed up:   39,934
Total number of objects updated:  0
Total number of objects rebound:  0
Total number of objects deleted:  0
Total number of objects expired:  0
Total number of objects failed:   0
Total number of bytes transferred: 3.59 GB
Data transfer time:  221.48 sec
Network data transfer rate:17,012.47 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:  3,492.59 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:0%
Elapsed processing time:   00:17:58


Thank you all for your help

Paul van Dongen

Re: replacing all 3590 with 3590 extended

[Paul van Dongen]

Eliza,

   You could explicitly define all your J volumes to your offsite pool, and
move them based on their STATUS (not EMPTY).

DEFINE VOLUME TAPEBACK j_tape_volume
.
.
.

BACKUP STG TAPEPOOL TAPEBACK

Q VOL STG=TAPEBACK STATUS=FULL,FILLING ACC=READWRITE


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Engenheiro de Sistemas
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
Fone: 55 81 3225-0353


-Original Message-
From: Eliza Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:57
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: replacing all 3590 with 3590 extended


Hi TSMers,

We are looking into replacing 1200 3590 J tapes with 600 3590 extended
length
K tapes to make room in the 3494.  While the state is cutting 9% of the
University's budget, it is a tremendous waste to throw away 1200 perfectly
fine tapes.  Now my boss wants to know if there is a way we can use the
J tapes for the offsite storage pool only.  I looked throught the Admin
Reference and there doesn't seem to be a way to do:

   backup stgpool tapepool tapeback scratch=no volumenames=file:listof3590

Any suggestions?

server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3
tape library: 3494


Thanks,
Eliza Lau
Virginia Tech Computing Center
1700 Pratt Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bad performance... again

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi everybody,


   I know this is a subject that comes very often, and that various answers
were already give, but, after searching through the list archives, I am
still not totally sure of what I should do:

   I have a TSM Server that does his backups not quite fast. First, I
thought of a network problem, but it is a dedicated backup network running
at 1Gb/s and I only get backups at 10GB/hour. And, the internal server
operations (reclamation, backup stgpool) are also slow. Right now, I am
looking at the console a backup stg process which is running for almost 2
hours and has backed up only 38GB. It is a new pool, so there is no time
spent searching the new files, and all the data came from one volume.

My setup is:

TSM Server 4.2.0.0  (Client wants to upgrade to 5.1)
AIX 4.3.3 ML9 on an F80 with 2 CPUs
ATAPE 5.4.2.0

Storage is:

IBM3584 with 6 IBM LTO drives. Microcode level is 16E0

The site belongs to a customer who doesn´t like very much applying patches.
Should I try to convince him to upgrade TSM/ATAPE/Microcode? Or is there
anther issue?



Thank you in advance for your attencion

Paul van Dongen

Different retentions for same file

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello all,

   I am planning a TSM implementation ata customer who has another backup
solution already in place. They want to slowly make TSM take over all backups,
but they don4t want to suddenly change the work done by the production people,
who take care of all tape movements. The present backup solution works using
different retention times for the backed up files: the daily backups are kept
for 20 days; the saturday ("weekly") files are kept for 40 days; the monthly
backup is kept for 100 days, and there is a "year" backup that is kept for 5
years.

   The question is: I could make this using backups for the daily processes,
and to use archives for the other ones. But there are TDP4s involved
(SQLServer, Exchange and DB2) who always do backups, and if I use something
like different management classes, I would get a lot of rebinding problems.

   Would backupsets be the answer? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated


Thank you all
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Engenheiro de Sistemas
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
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Tsm and TL891DLX in SAN

[Paul van Dongen]

Hi all,

We have the following SAN environment :

Server Compaq running Windows 2000 SP2
HBA LP8000
Compaq SAN Swhitches and Router
Library: 2 TL891DLX + Expansion Unit + Data Unit -> configured as one unit
with 4 dlt drives and 52 tape slots.
TSM 4.2.1 (IP22393)

When we try any op read,write,audit lib,label,etc we get this

Tsm event :

11/30/20018:19:24 AMADSMServerError
(8300)21N/A
LABCORREIOTSM Server Error: Server: LABCORREIO_SERVER1 ANR8300E
I/O error on library TL891SAN (OP=8401C058, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF,
ASCQ=FF,~SENSE=**NONE**,~Description=SCSI adapter failure).  Refer to Appendix
D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
11/30/20018:17:32 AMADSMServerError
(8300)21N/A
LABCORREIOTSM Server Error: Server: LABCORREIO_SERVER1 ANR8300E
I/O error on library TL891SAN (OP=8401C058, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF,
ASCQ=FF,~SENSE=**NONE**,~Description=SCSI adapter failure).  Refer to Appendix
D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
11/30/20018:15:41 AMADSMServerError
(8300)21N/A
LABCORREIOTSM Server Error: Server: LABCORREIO_SERVER1 ANR8300E
I/O error on library TL891SAN (OP=8401C058, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF,
ASCQ=FF,~SENSE=**NONE**,~Description=SCSI adapter failure).  Refer to Appendix
D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
5/29/20019:13:09 AMADSMServerError(8300)
21N/A
LABCORREIOTSM Server Error: Server: LABCORREIO_SERVER1 ANR8300E
I/O error on library TL891SAN (OP=8401C058, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF,
ASCQ=FF,~SENSE=**NONE**,~Description=SCSI adapter failure).  Refer to Appendix
D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.

Adsmscsi event :

Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
11/30/20018:17:32 AMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

 Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
11/30/20018:15:41 AMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

 Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
5/29/20019:13:09 AMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

 Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
5/28/20016:10:11 PMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

 Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
5/28/20014:15:36 AMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

 Dump Data: byte 0x2D=SRB Status, byte 0x2C=SCSI Status
5/28/20014:10:44 AMAdsmScsiErrorNone
1N/A
LABCORREIOA non check condition error has occured on device
\Device\lb0.0.1.3 during Move Medium with completion code
DD_SCSI_ADAPTER_FAILURE.

Compaq says that the HW is OK !
Does anyone know what is happening ? Any hint,similar environment working ? All
help is welcome. I know about APAR IC31466 but its not clear about the problem
(HW/Compaq or SW/Tivoli ?) and what are the solutions (patches,hw not
supported,etc).

Thanks in advance.

Paul Gondim van Dongen
Engenheiro de Sistemas
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Re: Defining devicetype of LTO

[Paul van Dongen]

I got this to work after upgrading to 4.1.3. After the upgrade, the web
interface showed me an new option "LTO Device Class"
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+55 81 3225-0353


Quoting Damon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hope someone can help or provide a little information. We're using TSM
> version 4.1 on AIX vs. 4.3... According to the TSM documentation you can
> define a Tape Device Class that uses a devide type of LTO. We have an LTO
> Library and are using LTO drives but I get an error message when attempting
> to define,,, We're having to use the GENERICTAPE definition now Does
> anyone have any advice?? Are there additional driver/devices that need to
> be
> installed???
>
> Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> _
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