Re: memory allocation error
you need to upgrade your TSM to the latest fix level go here and download it. ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/serv er/AIX/5.1.1.6/ This should clear out a lot of bugs. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Ursin Sent: 8. oktober 2002 14:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: memory allocation error Hi, I'm experiencing a memory allocation error on my tsm 5.1.1.0 system. I'm running aix 4.3.3 with 3GB memory and 6GB paging space. Running a restore of 16 mill. files on af 5.1 win. client, my dsmserv proc grows to a size of 2GB and a RES memory of 500MB when the client gets system error detected and the server +stops responding to tcpip. TSM comes with the error: anrd memory allocation error. Error allocating memory of 1609 bytes! aix is not reporting of any memory errors! my vmtune looks like vmtune: current values: -p -P-r -R -f -F -N-W minperm maxperm minpgahead maxpgahead minfree maxfree pd_npages maxrandwrt 157076 628304 2 8120 128 524288 0 -M -w -k -c-b -B -u-l -d maxpin npswarn npskill numclust numfsbufs hd_pbuf_cnt lvm_bufcnt lrubucket defps 629126 46336 11584 1 93289 9 131072 1 -s -n -S -L -g -h sync_release_ilock nokilluid v_pinshm lgpg_regions lgpg_size strict_maxperm 0 0 0 00 0 number of valid memory pages = 786407 maxperm=79.9% of real memory maximum pinable=80.0% of real memoryminperm=20.0% of real memory number of file memory pages = 633864numperm=80.6% of real memory ulimit -a is saying everything unlimited! -- Med venlig hilsen / Regards Henrik UrsinTlf./Phone +45 35878934 Fax+45 35878990 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: UNI-C DTU, bygning 304 DK-2800 Lyngby
Re: Event Report
No you dont understand me. Im not looking for the Status Column. Im looking for the Completed Column. The Accutal time when the job finished. :/ Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Stabler Sent: 4. oktober 2002 12:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Event Report I really hate doing this.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/02 06:55AM If you do a q event * * begind f=d [snip] Status: Completed [snip] i can see a status there called Completed. But when i run the command select * from events i cant see the column completed. [snip] STATUS: Completed [snip] Do anyone know where the column is? It's there. It's called STATUS. All caps may be why you're process is missing it. Give it a try again. It's there, even in the output in your email. -drs-
Re: tapes getting marked PRIVATE
Yes i have a workaround for you. dont use scratch=yes. Use only tapes that you want to use spesificly on db backup. I never use scratch=yes. i always have 2-4 db tapes marked as private and use them on db backup. Regarding your problem i dont know how to solve it, but this will prevent the library from taking up all the scratch tapes. pete out :-) Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theresa Whitney Sent: 20. september 2002 13:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tapes getting marked PRIVATE It looks to me that each time I run a db backup TSM will attempt to grab a tape, think it finds an I/O error on the label read, then marks the tape PRIVATE and then moves on to the next tape. That wouldn't be such a problem except that it will do this to almost every tape in my library. I have had the drive hardware checked in the library and had both drives replaced. Did not have the picker checked. This problem does not seem to be happening during a regular data backup - only during the DB backup. Anyone seen this before or have any ideas.? Theresa Whitney Technical Systems Admin Northside ISD ph: (210) 706-8837 fax: (210) 706-8877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: differences in between version 4 and 5 in the SQL database
hehe yes of course Zlatko, how could I have been so stupid :-/ sorry guys. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zlatko Krastev/ACIT Sent: 18. september 2002 16:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: differences in between version 4 and 5 in the SQL database Petur, check at which fix are you in v5.1. Maybe you missed it but there is a problem with summary table not filled. And you have to check why sum(summary.bytes) is more than 0 :-() Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:differences in between version 4 and 5 in the SQL database Hello there friends :-) This has been buggin me the last week. There have been some changes in the database since it became version 5 I have a script that shows the total amount of data sent over last night. the output is like this in version 4.x and 3.x NODE NAME DOMAIN PLATFORM MBYTES CONECTIONS -- -- - --- --- BAUG_CDB2 REKSTRAR DB2 12360.93 4 FINGRANDI REKSTRAR WinNT 8789.06 3 ok this is what happens when I run the command in version 5. NODE NAME DOMAIN PLATFORM MBYTES CONECTIONS -- -- - --- --- URDUR VIDWinNT 1909.65 1 PERLAN VIDWinNT 1446.82 1 there is something wrong with this picture, I have around 40 clients on this site and they either don't show up or they show only one connection to the database, when I know that there has been more connections. this is the script I am using for this task. select summary.entity as NODE NAME, nodes.domain_name as DOMAIN, nodes.platform_name as PLATFORM, cast((cast(sum(summary.bytes) as float) / 1024 / 1024) as decimal(10,2)) as MBYTES , count(*) as CONECTIONS from summary ,nodes where summary.entity=nodes.node_name and summary.activity='BACKUP' and start_time current_timestamp - 1 day group by entity, domain_name, platform_name order by MBytes desc here it is again: select summary.entity as NODE NAME, nodes.domain_name as DOMAIN, nodes.platform_name as PLATFORM, cast((cast(sum(summary.bytes) as float) / 1024 / 1024) as decimal(10,2)) as MBYTES , count(*) as CONECTIONS from summary ,nodes where summary.entity=nodes.node_name and summary.activity='BACKUP' and start_time current_timestamp - 1 day group by entity, domain_name, platform_name order by MBytes desc Ok I know there are some great SQL guys out there, like Paul Seay and other SQL gurus. Can someone tell me why I am getting this so wrong? Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is
Re: TSM 5.1.0.0 installation questions
4. I have done de-installed once, does this de-install corrupt registry? You need to use the management console to uninstall the TSM server instance, if you just uninstall the server the server instance is still in the registry and it is horror to manualy clean the registry. 3. If I do not using the wizard to initialize TSM server, what are the manual steps I can initialize the server, does this document any Doc.? I think this is all coverd in installing quick start guide for windows, you can download it from the tivoli web page. 2. the above error, does not really will stop the TSM server initialization, but there were 2 servers that have DB2 running, got time out during the TSM server initialization. I recomend you to use a dedicated, TSM Server. this could be a problem if you mix up tsm server and other applications on the same server. as it is in most cases with the reboot systems, if you know what i mean :) Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rosa Leung Sent: 16. september 2002 18:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 5.1.0.0 installation questions Hi, I am trying to install TSM 5.1.0.0 to about 6-9 NT and Win2000 servers for a client, Each server has single tape device, there is no ATL, I have done about 5, and I run into few problems, they are 1. during the TSM server configuration, just before TSM server initialization, I often got FM - code error pop out screen. 2. the above error, does not really will stop the TSM server initialization, but there were 2 servers that have DB2 running, got time out during the TSM server initialization. 3. If I do not using the wizard to initialize TSM server, what are the manual steps I can initialize the server, does this document any Doc.? 4. I have done de-installed once, does this de-install corrupt registry? Thanks. Rosa Leung
Re: TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ?
Hi William Im sorry but you cant make TSM read data that was made with TAR and CPIO from tape. it just cant be done. however there are 2 ways out of this for you. first of all you can use both TAR and CPIO just to archive to your hard drive, then you can backup or acrhive your data. But there is another way for you to make it work with a tape, you need to use the define recoverymedia command in TSM and let the TSM server know about the tape with your TAR CPIO data, then the TSM server knows that the tape is there and you can eaven define it into your library. Just remember TSM can never read the tape it self. you can only let the TSM Database know that it?s there. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William SO Ng Sent: 22. agust 2002 05:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ? Hello TSMers, I have a questions about TSM. Is TSM able to read data directly from tape that use TAR or CPIO to backup ? What I would like to do is: put a tape into tape drive and the tape contain data that I use tar or cpio. TSM will be able to read the data and put these data into storage pool directly. I think it can't be done and one has to restore it to temp. directory and backup using TSM, right ? It is because TAR CPIO was being used for backup before TSM but I want those data back and put it in TSM. Thanks Regards William
Re: LTO don't need clean up? WARNING!!!
Hi guys. You need to know this! DONT USE HP CLEANING TAPES ON IBM DRIVES. a LTO guru at IBM told me this. That they found out that ther is some other cemiclas on the cleaning tapes form HP than in the IBM tapes. therefore they say that you can destroy your drives by using HP cleaning tapes on IBM Lienar Tape Open drives. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tomas Hrouda Sent: 5. juni 2002 06:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up? Sure, my cleaning cartridge is labeled CLNI64L1 ... and it is in library inventory. My premise was using of TSM automated cleaning method with CLEANFREQ=ASNEEDED. This way I can track number of clenanings left on cartridge. In case of library-automated method (you mentioned Zlatko), can I track this parameter too? Will be CLENANINGSLEFT number lowered i my library volumes inventory? If not, can I use TSM-automated method anyway? Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zlatko Krastev/ACIT Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up? If you read carefully library maintenance manual you would find that library requires a cartridge with specific label (starting with CLNI, i.e. CLNI39 is the one I've used last week) and performs cleaning automatically. So set CLEANFREQ=NONE as Mark pointed. Those of you WITH 3584 may have overlooked that base frame is with 141-281 slots according to IBM Announcement but capacity is 14-28TB, not 14.1-28.1. This is again due to one slot occupied by cleaning cartridge for library automatic cleaning. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:LTO don't need clean up? Hi all, one of LTO 3583 (2 drives) we take care of still didn't clean drives. It is operate from january 2002 and there is about 10-20 GB daily data flow through each drive, 3-5 daily tape-mounts. Both drives are set to ASNEEDED cleaning frequency, but no clean occured from january (!!), no dirty drive signalized on display ... is it possible? LTO box is placed in climatized dust-free environment, but .??? Has anyone some similar experience with LTO clean frequency? Tom
Re: What to do with a volume that won't ITSM mount in a 3570library?
Dear mr Ken Sedlacek I reccomend you mak the tape destroyed. You can still try to get data from it. But the you can recreate the data on it whit the Restore Stg command. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Sedlacek Sent: 22. april 2002 21:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What to do with a volume that won't ITSM mount in a 3570library? Here is the SENSE data from the actlog when I try to do an audit volume fix=yes: 04/22/02 15:36:06 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt2) (OP=READ, Error Number=110, CC=0, KEY=03, ASC=11, ASCQ=00, SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.00.50.58.00.00.00.00.11.00.FE.0A.3- 6.3F.10.00.00.03.01.91.00.45.30.51.E5.8D.08.00.05.33.35- .00.80.33.35.40.88.33.3D.9E.0E.00.00.00.00.03.00.00.02.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.02.80.15.20.0- 0.34.36.36.20.20.20.20.00.C0.00.47.31.30.46.37.31.34.00- .00.00.00.00.00.00, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 04/22/02 15:36:06 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 10F714 in drive DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt2). I went into the 3570 Magstar maintenance manual and this decodes into: error number = 110, unrecoverable media read error key =03, medium error ASC/ASCQ = 11 00, unrecoverable read error I guess this means its a bad tape! Ken Sedlacek AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP PSSP 3 Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 David Longo David.Longo@HEALTH- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIRST.ORG cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: What to do with a volume that won't ITSM mount in a Stor Manager 3570library? [EMAIL PROTECTED] U 04/22/2002 11:57 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Look at the actlog at the time operation is attempted and see what error message is and tell us. If it is something like: ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt4, error number=46 then most likely tape is broken. Manually inspect tape - open access door on tape and see if tape is damaged there. I've had many cases of broken 3570 tapes, this is the error you get attempting to mount a broken tape. I've seen a couple of times where this error means something else, but most of the time - broke! David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/22/02 11:36AM ITSM'ers: Enviro: AIX 4.3.3.04 H70 TSM 4.2.1.10 server MP Magstar 3570-C12 library I have 1 tape that won't mount in the 3570 via ITSM. There is still data on it and I can't figure out how to get the data off the tape if it won't mount. I don't have the SENSE data error message, though. So, how do I get data off this volume if it won't mount in ITSM? Ken Sedlacek AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP PSSP 3 Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 04/22/02 12:11:53 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: a client could not backup?
what version of server do you have? what version of client are you using? on what platforms are the server and the client? Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julie Xu Sent: 23. april 2002 00:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: a client could not backup? There is a problem with one of our client. we have reinstalled the client and we could not find the problem. The following is the shedule error log in the client: 04/22/2002 14:58:37 TransWin32RC(): Win32 RC 123 from fioScanDirEntry(): getFileSecuritySize 04/22/2002 14:59:11 TransWin32RC(): Win32 RC 123 from fioScanDirEntry(): getFileSecuritySize 04/22/2002 16:51:03 ntConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event . 04/22/2002 16:51:03 ntConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached. 04/23/2002 03:25:31 TcpRead: Zero byte buffer read. 04/23/2002 03:25:31 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 04/23/2002 03:25:31 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 03:25:31 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 09:06:32 TcpRead: Zero byte buffer read. 04/23/2002 09:06:32 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 04/23/2002 09:06:32 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 09:06:32 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 09:46:47 TcpRead: Zero byte buffer read. 04/23/2002 09:46:47 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to 'readRtn'. 04/23/2002 09:46:47 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 09:46:47 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 04/23/2002 09:46:48 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'BACKUP' failed. Return code = 1. 04/23/2002 09:46:48 cuSignOnResp: Server rejected session; result code: 55 04/23/2002 09:46:48 sessOpen: Error 55 receiving SignOnResp verb from server 04/23/2002 09:46:53 ntConsoleEventHandler(): Caught Logoff console event . 04/23/2002 09:46:53 ntConsoleEventHandler(): Process Detached. This client has been retried to backup many times until I cancel the session on server. Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Unix/Network Administrator Information Technology Directorate University of Westen Sydney, Campbelltown Campbelltown NSW 2560 Phone: 61 02 4620-3098 Mobile: 0416 179 868 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSM ver 3 Tape Expiration
send us the output from this command q stg COPY_DBDAILY_POOL F=D POoltype=copy Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave JACKSON Sent: 9. april 2002 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADSM ver 3 Tape Expiration I am new to this list, but wanted some insight into a problem I've having. I'm also very very new to ADSMlearning as I go. It got threw into my lapthe boss said...here, learn this!. :o) I am no longer getting tapes to expire from the Vault. Bear with me here. The expiration is set to 14 days but I've got tapes in the vault that are from years ago. These volumes are assigned to the copy_dbdaily_pool storage pool.How can I get these volumes to expire? Can I manually expire them? Dave
Re: TSM 5.1 Pricing
if you are backing up clients you should not worry the price is 1/3 of the orginal price for desktop clients. from what i understand. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: 9. april 2002 15:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 5.1 Pricing Can someone explain this charge unit thing? I am hoping that the $2800 odd for a client charge unit is for more than one client, because if not, my 500 nodes would cost me $1,400,000 odd. Thanks for any info. Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html
Re: AIX Sys Backup
If your library supports partitoning (if you have IBM library 3584.) You can partition it so that the AIX has use of one drive and some tapes. thats one idea. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gene Greenberg Sent: 8. april 2002 15:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Sys Backup Does anyone have any other ideas other than sysback for an aix mksysb or savevg to tsm library? It's frustrating trying to automate all backups and put them in a single basket. Thanks for help, Gene
RE: don?t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM.
when i said that they have extremely valible data i am meaning that this genetic reasearch company has the medical records, detatild information on peoples relatives back to the middle ages and the DNA codes of every person in this country. now thats one jucy database. You guys can hopfully see now how ctritical this database is and how protection of it is essential. This is what i have understand of you guys so far. Encryption in TSM is always done on the TSM B/A-Client there do you put a 56bit encryption key on the data witch cannot be retreved without the key. So they need to come up with some sort of disaster Recovery plan, regarding the key retrival if the system admins are unavalible. If what you are saying Kyle Sparger is true then this 56bit key is probably not good enugh for them. I am no expert in Security and don?t know mutch about hacking. I don?t want to sound to paranoyed but then again who knows. This database is the brain, the hart and the lung of the company if it get exposed, every employ there can start lookin for new job the same day. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kyle Sparger Sent: 4. april 2002 19:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: don?t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM. (unless they can hack it, but then any encryption scheme is subject to hacking). And this is a very important point. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that TSM's encryption uses straight up DES, which uses a 56 bit key. It has been proven that very determined people can brute force 56 bit DES -- distributed.net, which utilizes idle time of thousands of computers, was able to do it in less than 24 hours. There are design specs available for theoretical computers which are supposed to be able to brute force 56 bit DES within minutes -- but the cost of these computers is generally considered prohibitively expensive. However: 1. Consider the following -- KaZaa, a fairly popular napster-alike, has been piggybacking programs for awhile now, one of which is designed to allow remote users to utilize idle cycles on the computers it's installed on. KaZaa is used by thousands of users. Also, how many thousands of computers out there have been broken into, or are waiting to be broken into? All of these are sources of computing power that could be used to crack DES keys. 2. 'Prohibitively expensive' is relative. I've heard estimates that put the price of building such a computer at a little over $1B USD. But then, consider how many billions of dollars countries have spent launching spy sattelites -- don't you think that they would spend just one more billion to be able to actually _use_ the encrypted information they intercepted? :) And if Moore's Law holds true, I seem to recall estimates that place 56-bit key cracking in under a week at 2020-2030. Will your data still need to be secret then? :) Basically, what I'm saying is, TSM's encryption is better than nothing, and is suitable for many purposes, but your original statement, They have extremly valible data witch may not get in the wrong hands. ... that indicates that this may not be suitable for your case :) If you _really_ need to make sure people can't get it, you need to use a lot more than 56 bits. 128 is the bare minimum these days, and even that is starting to come under fire :) -- Kyle Sparger
Re: don?t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM.
Hi justin. Personally, I can't imagine a use for it, but I'm not a biotech geek. =) They use this database for Gentetic Research, there is one good thing about genetic Research and Iceland and that here is so few people and we have documents about every birth since 1500 or so. this potential is extrimly good to recearch the relation betweeen inherited decise (like Alzimer, cancer) and the gene?s. so they can find the spesific genes that produce those decises. A few years ago the goverment approved this kined of research here for this firm, the press talked alot about this and there where alot of people who didn?t like this. basicly because they don?t like to have so mutch information about them in some database where they are gittypigs in a giant testlab. Enugh about that thing. I can not go into details about there current security (not that i know mutch about it) but for what i have seen there security is the best i have seen ever. Not even the natunal bank here has more security. you can only get into the server room if your eye is scaned by some x-ray machine and you have a spesific password. curently there are only 4 people who can get in there. i think. so thats not the problem the problem is to sell them TSM. they curently are using HP omniback they where asking alot of questions about encryption in TSM and I didn?t have all the answers for them. so that?s why this conversations began. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Derrick Sent: 5. april 2002 14:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: don?t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM. when i said that they have extremely valible data i am meaning that this genetic reasearch company has the medical records, detatild information on peoples relatives back to the middle ages and the DNA codes of every person in this country. Um, that's spooky. I suspect it's an exaggeration since DNA contains so much information - the human genome contains 3 billion base pairs - that's 3G per person, likely uncompressable due to it's pseudorandom nature. CIA World Fact Book has Iceland's population pegged at about 278,000 (July 2001). That's 834GB of data. Entirely possible, but still spooky. You guys can hopfully see now how ctritical this database is and how protection of it is essential. Personally, I can't imagine a use for it, but I'm not a biotech geek. =) This is what i have understand of you guys so far. Encryption in TSM is always done on the TSM B/A-Client there do you put a 56bit encryption key on the data witch cannot be retreved without the key. So they need to come up with some sort of disaster Recovery plan, regarding the key retrival if the system admins are unavalible. Availability of administrators is not the issue. You need to be able to recover any of the keys ever used for encrypting a backed up file. If what you are saying Kyle Sparger is true then this 56bit key is probably not good enugh for them. I am no expert in Security and don?t know mutch about hacking. I don?t want to sound to paranoyed but then again who knows. No, 56 bits is simply not enough. You need a more robust solution that integrates stronger encryption with the ability to encrypt the key used to encrypt the file, so that the key can be restored, if necessary, by the administrator. (Public key cryptography would be great for this - encrypt the key used to encrypt the data, and only the administrator's key can decrypt it. Keeping the administrator's key safe, now there's a challenge.) This database is the brain, the hart and the lung of the company if it get exposed, every employ there can start lookin for new job the same day. Then you should recommend spending a considerable amount of money on protecting it with more modern tools. Did I mention the fact that I'm a consultant, and would love to see Iceland? *grin* @;^) -JD. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kyle Sparger Sent: 4. april 2002 19:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: don?t aynone know anything about Encryption in TSM. (unless they can hack it, but then any encryption scheme is subject to hacking). And this is a very important point. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that TSM's encryption uses straight up DES, which uses a 56 bit key. It has been proven that very determined people can brute force 56 bit DES -- distributed.net, which utilizes idle time of thousands of computers, was able to do it in less than 24 hours. There are design specs available for theoretical computers which are supposed to be able to brute
Re: Education
Yes pleas read the IBM Redbook Tivoli Storage manager Consepts SG24-4877-02 This book is desinged for people who want to understand TSM, this is not a reference like the TSM administrator Guide You can read this book from the beginngt to the end. and then read this book Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager Implemetanion Guide SG24-5416-01 Excelent book if you are plaing to imlement TSM into your network. and a good book to understand the basic concepts. These books are a litle outdate. But they get the job done. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 21. mars 2002 13:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Education I was wondering if there were any suggestions for education for a beginner user with: 1. TSM 2. TSM on AIX 3. TSM with SAN And also, does anyone know any good links/mailing lists for TSM? Thanks so much!!! Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback?
hi Denis if you ask for my opinion i do not recomend lanfree backups, why thats spimle when you do a restore it dosn?t matter if your using san or not youre restore data always goes trough the lan. and that?s bad, then you have lost 75% of your reason to have lanfree backups, because what is here that relay matters. It is your restore time, and that will stay exacly the same. This bug will not be fixed until TSM V 5.1 comes out. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denis L'Huillier Sent: 4. mars 2002 20:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LANFREE Backups - Feedback? Hello, We are currently evaluating the implementation of lanfree backups in our environment. I understand the conceptual benefits of sending data across the SAN vs. the LAN/WAN but am concerned with compatibility issues with our IBM TSM Environment and EMC Connectrix Environment. Has anybody implemented LANFREE in a similar environment? Can anybody give some example or insight to real life advantages to implementing LANFREE backups? Are there any tape drive contention issues when a drive gets allocated to a 'LANFREE' backup? How does TSM manage 'LANFREE' tapes? Does it dedicate a tape to a client (like collocation) or will other clients have access to write data to the same volser? How about attaching a 3590 FC-AL to a EMC Connectrix Fabric? Any other tips would be greatly appreciated. TSM Environment: 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 2 Frames 4 Scsi Drives 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 2 Frames 4 Scsi Drives 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 5 Frames 6 Scsi Drives 1 H80, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1 - SSA Disk 3494 6 Frames 6 Scsi Drives SAN Environment: EMC Symmetrix ( 8730, 8830, 4 3930's, 3700 ) EMC Connectrix - 12 Switches Client/Server Environment: 600 + Servers (HPUX, Solaris, NT, Win2K) approx 200 EMC SAN attached. (No BCV's used or SRDF.. yet) Thanks in advance. Regards, Denis L. L'Huiller 973-360-7739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Storage Forms - http://admpwb01/misc/misc/storage_forms_main.html
Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback?
Zatko I was recently visited by a man from Tivoli who said this. I have not confirmed this information. He told me that this was the problem in current Tivoli Configuration, and it would be fixed in version 5. Tivoli has been known to say that this or that isn?t posible but when you often find things to work even though tivoli sais it?s not supported, like the newest version of Oracle isn?t supported by tivoli but it works because oracle uses the same rman. So i do not have any hard evidence to back up my statement, exept the words of a man from Tivoli. If someone has tested this please let us know. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jozef Zatko Sent: 5. mars 2002 09:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback? Petur, you say that restores with SAN agent go through LAN regardles of configuration. Is it true??? According to doc, restores should also go through SAN. Or is it something special with Connectrix? Or am I missing something? Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Petur Ey?orsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05.03.2002 09:42 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback? hi Denis if you ask for my opinion i do not recomend lanfree backups, why thats spimle when you do a restore it dosn?t matter if your using san or not youre restore data always goes trough the lan. and that?s bad, then you have lost 75% of your reason to have lanfree backups, because what is here that relay matters. It is your restore time, and that will stay exacly the same. This bug will not be fixed until TSM V 5.1 comes out. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denis L'Huillier Sent: 4. mars 2002 20:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LANFREE Backups - Feedback? Hello, We are currently evaluating the implementation of lanfree backups in our environment. I understand the conceptual benefits of sending data across the SAN vs. the LAN/WAN but am concerned with compatibility issues with our IBM TSM Environment and EMC Connectrix Environment. Has anybody implemented LANFREE in a similar environment? Can anybody give some example or insight to real life advantages to implementing LANFREE backups? Are there any tape drive contention issues when a drive gets allocated to a 'LANFREE' backup? How does TSM manage 'LANFREE' tapes? Does it dedicate a tape to a client (like collocation) or will other clients have access to write data to the same volser? How about attaching a 3590 FC-AL to a EMC Connectrix Fabric? Any other tips would be greatly appreciated. TSM Environment: 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 2 Frames 4 Scsi Drives 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 2 Frames 4 Scsi Drives 1 H50, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 3.7 - SSA Disk 3494 5 Frames 6 Scsi Drives 1 H80, AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1 - SSA Disk 3494 6 Frames 6 Scsi Drives SAN Environment: EMC Symmetrix ( 8730, 8830, 4 3930's, 3700 ) EMC Connectrix - 12 Switches Client/Server Environment: 600 + Servers (HPUX, Solaris, NT, Win2K) approx 200 EMC SAN attached. (No BCV's used or SRDF.. yet) Thanks in advance. Regards, Denis L. L'Huiller 973-360-7739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Storage Forms - http://admpwb01/misc/misc/storage_forms_main.html
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Hi You can do one thing however. You can backup MKSYSB your OS and then use the DEFINE REVOCERYMEDIA command to define the new mksysb volumes in TSM. Then associate one or more machines with your recovery media. example Define recmendachassociation %youre tape% %youre node name% If you move youre recoverymedia offsite you should use the update recoverymedia command to update its location. you can then define media that contain softcopy manualst that you would need during recovery, with the define revocerymedia command. Remember, the MKSYSB command will not work if both TSM and AIX are sharing the same drive or drives. To use the operating system?s native tape device drivers conjuction with a SCSI drive, the device must be configured to AIX first and then configured to TSM. See your AIX documentatnion regarding these native device drivers. Hope this helps. Pete out :) Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Longo Sent: 27. februar 2002 19:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No, the TSM backup is not the same as AIX mksysb. It can not be used to reload a crashed machine as mksysb, unless you also have some 3rd party software like Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group, and that requires some additional hardware (servers) etc. Same for other Unix machines - doesn't duplicate HP-UX ignite tape or SUN Jumpstart. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/02 02:10PM Hi ... folks !! I have a question. Is possible perform a backup whit TSM for the Unix clients as is the mksysb in AIX ? Thank you very much Regards MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 02/27/02 15:10:41 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: Free TSM Scripts
Nice, Thanks for being so kind to us Gerald,, :) Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann Sent: 23. februar 2002 19:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Free TSM Scripts I added some examples of output from running the daily stats script that I mentioned earlier if anyone wants to see what it looks like without installing the script first.. http://12.234.167.236/TSM/ Gerald Wichmann 650-625-0436
Re: ACSLS Library w/TSM 4.2.1.7 and database restore
You most likly need to install the Device Drivers found on FTP://serviec.boulder.ibm.com/storage/devdrv/solaris Example You need the Atape driver for the IBM 3583 LTO library works in AIX i suspect that you need something simmelar to the Atape drivers in AIX. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37105 Iceland URL:http://www.nyherji.is -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vint Maggs Sent: 14. januar 2002 18:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ACSLS Library w/TSM 4.2.1.7 and database restore Hello All, I am running TSM 4.2.1.7 on Solaris 8 and an STK 9310 Powderhorn ACSLS Controlled tape library. While attempting to restore a database I receive an error that indicates this type of library is not supported for this operation. The library.lic file is registered. Any ideas? Also, I observed during testing that the 4.2.1.2 download (no longer available on the ftp site ) includes the device package (TIVsmSdev) while the 4.2.1.7 version does not. I am planning an upgrade this week and am curious why Tivoli would not include the device package with the 4.2.1.7 release. Thanks, Vint
