Re: Good Bye

[Rick Adamson]

Good Luck Zoltan !


-Rick Adamson

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Subject: [ADSM-L] Good Bye

Folks, It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, 
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Folks,



It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, frustrating,

exhausting (insert your adjective/adverb) learning adventure working with

DSF / ADSM / TSM / Spectrum Protect / whatever-the-new-name-is, for the

past 30+ years!



But, as they say, "*The Times They Are A-Changin*". After more than a year

of analysis, comparisons, discussions, demonstrations, meetings, etc, it

was decided to transition away from IBM/ISP to a new "Enterprise Data

Protection" solution.



The transition is well underway and we expect to (must) be completely off

ISP by the end of 2023.



Thank you for all the support I/we have received from this

mailing-list/forums contributors.  There are some truly stellar, gifted

individuals here!



SIGNING OFF



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*Zoltan Forray*

Enterprise Data Protection Administrator

VMware Systems Administrator

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Re: SQL query replnodes

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
Are you looking for something along these lines.?

select node_name,repl_state,repl_mode from nodes where repl_state='ENABLED' 
order by node_name


 -Rick Adamson

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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:04 AM
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Hey Eric,

Have a look in our data collector which is used to create our FREE IBM CSA 
Health Check report.

If you don't have a copy left, let me know and I'll share one. In the script 
are all the select statements we use.

Or just run a fresh collection and upload for me to create a new report.

Best Regards,

Oscar Kolsteren
Lead Storage Consultant, IBM Client Storage Assessment Team (UKI)

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Sent: 21 September 2022 09:16
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ADSM-L] SQL query replnodes

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to find a way to list replnode(s) through a SQL query, does anybody 
know where this information can be found? So something like QUERY RPELNODE 
, but than through a SQL query.
Thanks for any help in advance!

Kind regards,
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Re: Fastest way to "query backup"

[Rick Adamson]

Martin,
Assuming it is a scheduled backup you can query for exceptions from the server.
"query event  "

I actually generate a report every morning that lists any/all exceptions for 
the last 24 hours by wildcarding that query, for example:
"query event * * beginday=-1"

The above is full command syntax, but can be shortened to something along these 
ines:
"q ev * * begind=-1"

(without quotes)

The CLI has a great help system that details all options.
Hope that helps


 -Rick Adamson


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Subject: [ADSM-L] Fastest way to "query backup"

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Hello everyone,

it is my first time posting to this group, so I am sorry if this question is to 
trivial.

We are using mmbackup to backup our Spectrum Scale filesystems. Because of some 
bad experience in the past we do not trust the output of mmbackup.

Therefore we wrote our own scripts validating the backup state of our 
filesystems. Basically this is what we are doing:

We compare the output of a policy run by gpfs policy engine on the filesystem 
with the output of: `dsmc query backup -subdir=yes -quiet 
`

The policy engine listing all files is relatively fast. The `dsmc q ba` takes 
way longer. (3 hours for roughly 36_000_000 entries.)

Can you recommend me a faster way to list all files which are in backup?

Regards,

Martin







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Re: snapshot error

[Rick Adamson]

Nice !
Thanks Andrew.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Well don't I feel silly, I forgot the URL that I advised to bookmark. ;-)

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Andrew Raibeck
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 2021-02-26
12:49:55:

> From: Andrew Raibeck 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 2021-02-26 12:50
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: snapshot error Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor
> Manager" 
>
> A few more thoughts and comments:
>
> 1. In general, if VSS snapshots are not working, that is not good. Yet
> another case where IBM Spectrum Protect is the "canary in the coal
> mine" :-). These errors should be identified and corrected, very
> likely rooted in an OS issue (not specific to IBM code). That said,
> another possibility is if you have a hardware snapshot provider
> installed, then
try
> adding VSSUSESYSTEMPROVIDER YES to the dsm.opt file, and see if that
> corrects the issue. You can use the command VSSADMIN LIST PROVIDERS to
see
> what is installed (or run the DISKSHADOW command, then enter the LIST
> PROVIDERS command).
>
> 2. This issue looks related to system state backup processing, the ASR
> Writer in particular (which usually does not get along with hardware
> providers, see comment 1). Without the ASR Writer, you cannot have a
> good system state backup. As Marc pointed out, using
> VSSSNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS
NONE
> has no effect on this, as system state backups inherently require VSS.
>
> 3. Beginning with client version 8.1.8, the default
> VSSSNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS setting is changed to YES, since it is "best
> practice" to use snapshot backups. If you are not already familiar
> with it, this is a good URL too bookmark and refer to, regarding
> Windows backup and recovery, as it links to other important documents.
>
> 4. For help with problem isolation, here are my own "raw" notes on
> using DISKSHADOW to test snapshots. This test comes close to doing the
> same things that IBM Spectrum Protect does to create the snapshots:
>
> = BEGIN ANDY'S NOTES =
> See if diskshadow is able to take a snapshot of the system state. This
> technique does not actually produce a backup, but it does create a
> snapshot that is deleted at the end of the test.
>
> To use diskshadow, you will need to identify all the local disks on
> the volume.
> If the system also has an unmounted volume with BCD data on it, that
needs
> to be
> included too (in order to back up ASR data).
>
> The Windows mountvol command can be used to display local disks, and
> it will also show any unmounted volumes. The unmounted volume will
> appear as just
a
> GUID, with no drive letter. If such a volume appears, then you can use
> mountvol to temporarily mount it to a drive letter (let us say X:),
> and then issue dir x:\ /ad to see if a directory named Boot appears in
> the root of the file system. The presence of Boot suggests this is BCD
> data, and you would
want
> to
> include this volume's GUID in the snapshot. Use mountvol with the /d
> parameter to unmount the volume.
>
> Next, create a plain text file with this content. I call it script.ds
> in this example.
>
> Notes:
> You will need to customize the add volume commands according to the
> local drives on your system.
>
> In my example, I have drives C: and E, F:, G:, and an unmounted volume
with
> BCD
> information (this is the EFI system partition).
>
> Do not include floppy or CD drives.
>
> Note the names that appear after each alias keyword in the add volume
> statements. The names are slightly different, to align with the drive
> letters.
>
> The proivider GUID  parts of the add volume statements tell diskshadow
> to use the Windows system provider (same as using VSSUSESYSTEMPROVIDER
> YES in
the
> dsm.opt file).
>
> Here is the script example:
> --
> set metadata testshadow.cab
> set verbose on
> begin backup
> add volume c: provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5} alias
> testshadow_c add volume e: provider
> {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5} alias testshadow_e add volume

Re: Performance protect stgpool

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
While working on a support case with IBM on a totally unrelated issue, at the 
time my SP servers were at 8.1.9.300. 
The resolution was documented as either applying an efix or upgrade my server 
version to 8.1.10.0 at which point the support team strongly recommended that I 
instead go to version 8.1.10.100 because there were some serious problems with 
replication performance in version 8.1.10.0.

I am still at 8.1.10.100 and closely monitoring all apars addressed in new 
releases.
You may want to review and apply the .100 update to see if it helps.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Sent: Friday, February 5, 2021 7:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance protect stgpool

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Hi Rick,

I'm running both 8.1.10.0 as 8.1.11.0 servers. Thanks for your reply!

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

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Sent: woensdag 3 februari 2021 14:57
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Performance protect stgpool

Eric,
While working with IBM to resolve and unrelated issue this came up, what 
version of SP server are you running ?

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Hi everybody,

We are running 6 SP servers which are designed according to the Blueprints 
(Large server). All tests show that the storage and network performance is 
according to specs. The only thing I find rather disapointing is the PROTECT 
STGPOOL performance. I measure about 600 to 800 GB/hour, while I have 4 x 10GB 
link bandwidth between the two servers...
Has anybody seen this too or any tips on how to improve the PROTECT STGPOOL 
performance?
Thanks for your help in advance!

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

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Re: Performance protect stgpool

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
While working with IBM to resolve and unrelated issue this came up, what 
version of SP server are you running ?

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Loon, Eric 
van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Performance protect stgpool

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Hi everybody,

We are running 6 SP servers which are designed according to the Blueprints 
(Large server). All tests show that the storage and network performance is 
according to specs. The only thing I find rather disapointing is the PROTECT 
STGPOOL performance. I measure about 600 to 800 GB/hour, while I have 4 x 10GB 
link bandwidth between the two servers...
Has anybody seen this too or any tips on how to improve the PROTECT STGPOOL 
performance?
Thanks for your help in advance!

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

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Re: Change SMTP server - TSM v6.3

[Rick Adamson]

Paul,
TSM 6.3 was a challenging time for TSM reporting. Most likely TSM Operational 
Reporting v5.5 was used.
Version 6.3 had the Tivoli Monitoring component but was not well received by 
most admins.
Instead there was a documented process to modify the TSM Operational reporting 
from version 5.5 to work under version 6.3, it basically consisted on 
replacement of certain XML files.
Unfortunately I do not have the exact process, or xml files, perhaps someone 
else can assist if you need it.

However if you were already receiving the reports it should be installed and 
configured somewhere, you just need to find where.
You should have a server, most likely windows based that has the operational 
reporting installed, it was managed using the Microsoft Management Console 
(MMC).
Open the MMC, you should see the Operational Reporting in the management tree, 
if not you will need to add the snap-in using the menu option and configure it.

Assuming the MMC already has it configured, expand the tree to locate the 
backup server, bring up the server properties, and alter the configuration as 
needed.
It's been a long time so some of this is getting a little fuzzy, if it was me I 
would of course plan for an upgrade soon.
Hope this is helpful.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of DUDLEY Paul
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 2:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Change SMTP server - TSM v6.3

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We have a legacy TSM backup system - TSM v6.3. I need to change the SMTP server 
it uses to send emails such as the TSM Admin daily operational report. How do I 
do this?

Regards
Paul Dudley
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Re: Tighten client authorization

[Rick Adamson]

Not positive Eric but think that also applies to Oracle and DB2, can't say 
about Notes or SAP.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Hi all,

I read more and more about ransomware which is capable of encrypting data and 
at the same time deleting backup data. That's why I would like to set 
BACKDEL=NO on all nodes, wherever possible. I know the Data Protection for SQL 
client requires BACKDEL=YES to function properly, but are there any other Data 
Protection clients which require this parameter to be set to YES? We are using 
DP for SQL, Oracle, Lotus Notes and SAP (which uses ARCHDEL=YES).
Thanks for any help in advance!

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
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Re: Ideal storage solution for SP and SP+ ???

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
Really appreciate the response. I am very familiar with both blueprints and 
will definitely go back over them in detail. 
My recall was that they were understandably IBM-centric and didn't specify 
minimal/ideal IO and performance requirements. 

We are almost exclusively a Dell/EMC shop for storage but IBM is an attractive 
possibility, especially in combination with Spectrum Storage Suite software.
When we purchased the EMC Isilon there was more focus on being budget than 
performance minded.
It quickly became obvious that poor performing storage made a great data 
protection solution seem terrible.

For now my goal is to identify the best performing replacement(s). 

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Hi Rick,

Have a look at the latest IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints and the IBM Spectrum 
Protect Plus Blueprints. They are based on (of course) IBM hardware (v5100 
series) but the performance is good and you have the ability to benchmark your 
performance and compare it with the performance from the IBM lab. The price per 
TB is also very competitive, especially if your used to Data Domain prices. :-)

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Rick Adamson
Sent: donderdag 4 juni 2020 23:31
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Ideal storage solution for SP and SP+ ???

What storage solution is at the top of your list for Spectrum Protect and 
Spectrum Protect Plus?

I am a former a Data Domain abuser who (regretfully) moved to EMC Isilon and 
now looking for the best possible replacement.
Usable storage requirement of somewhere in the neighborhood of 500+ tb.

Operation protects roughly 2,100 clients. About 75% VMware VMs and SQL with a 
scattering of AIX hosting DB2 & Oracle.

Currently primarily protected using Spectrum Protect servers using BA, TDP, and 
SP4VE but looking to migrate all possible operations to Spectrum Protect Plus.

At this time the plan would be to retain only the most recent (active) data at 
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then using replicate inactive data to our DR facility to be offloaded to 
Spectrum Protect servers and/or cloud.

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Ideal storage solution for SP and SP+ ???

[Rick Adamson]

What storage solution is at the top of your list for Spectrum Protect and 
Spectrum Protect Plus?

I am a former a Data Domain abuser who (regretfully) moved to EMC Isilon and 
now looking for the best possible replacement.
Usable storage requirement of somewhere in the neighborhood of 500+ tb.

Operation protects roughly 2,100 clients. About 75% VMware VMs and SQL with a 
scattering of AIX hosting DB2 & Oracle.

Currently primarily protected using Spectrum Protect servers using BA, TDP, and 
SP4VE but looking to migrate all possible operations to Spectrum Protect Plus.

At this time the plan would be to retain only the most recent (active) data at 
our production facility on high performing storage to provide quick recovery 
then using replicate inactive data to our DR facility to be offloaded to 
Spectrum Protect servers and/or cloud.

All feedback and advice welcome. Thanks !

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Re: server interim fix level 8.1.9.300

[Rick Adamson]

My understanding is that it addresses the APAR in this article:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6150429?myns=swgtiv=OCSSEQVQ=E_sp=swgtiv-_-OCSSEQVQ-_-E


Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Christian 
Scheffczyk
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] server interim fix level 8.1.9.300

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Hello Bent,

thanks for the info! Do you have more details?
I'm using PROTECT STGPOOL on some instances but I don't see any errors?
O.k., I will schedule downtime.

Thanks and kind regards, Christian


Am 21.04.2020 um 12:27 schrieb Bent Christensen (BVC):
> If you are using PROTECT STGPOOL, either local or to another server, then: 
> Update!!!
>
>   - Bent
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
> Christian Scheffczyk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:54 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] server interim fix level 8.1.9.300
>
> Hello,
>
> yesterday I received emails from "IBM My Notifications" that server fix pack 
> 8.1.9.300 appeared, but I cannot find anywhere what changed?
> Document 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_support_pages_node_1275274=DwIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=x0AiM0UTlHOcoXM_eMvEL8EwIXpa5iV2N-3bEgpYmSc=iLx6N71czInbYFPf0mIzUIailIr7jsrjv21ECEBQNAg=hHBkIHJaAvorpcNgv-ecD4tjS4PdmjkTGKf-LKDtUVg=
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>   says "Interim fix 8.1.9.300 did not include APAR updates."
> So, what's new and is it important?
> Furthermore I have some of my servers running at level 8.1.9.100 which is 
> withdrawn from the ftp server, why?
> Is it save to run 8.1.9.100 or should I update asap?
> Could someone from IBM give a comment on this, thank you very much!
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SP for Virtual Environments and Win2019 Support

[Rick Adamson]

Looking for anyone who can provide info on this subject, does Spectrum Protect 
for Virtual Environments v.8.1.8 or 8.1.9 support Windows Server 2019 ?

The documentation (All requirements and passport advantage) appears to have 
conflicting information.
On the product knowledge center it refers to technote # 1505139 in which lists 
both versions 8.1.8 and 8.1.9  windows support for only 2012 and 2016, but 
information on the package download page from PA also lists 2019.

I have a Win2019 VM on VMware that has SQL and am trying to use application 
protection. I installed the VE datamover and data protection for databases but 
is not working and error messages have not helped so am looking first to be 
sure it is supported.


TIA


Rick Adamson


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Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

[Rick Adamson]

Appreciate it Del.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Del Hoobler
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

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Hi,

Yes, SQL Server 2019 support is scheduled for release soon.

SQL Server 2019 itself just official GA'd on November 4th.

IBM has been testing this with "pre-release" versions of SQL Server 2019, but 
needs to complete the full regression testing with the official GA version.

So, this is coming soon.


Del

=


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 11/13/2019
04:12:23 PM:

> From: Zoltan Forray 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 11/13/2019 04:14 PM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support Sent by: "ADSM: Dist
> Stor Manager" 
>
> Agreed.  But yes, my DBA asked me about it yesterday.  They just put
> up
a
> 2019 server and installed MS-SQL 2019 this morning.  They already have
> departments/users asking to migrate to it.  Not sure how they are
> going
to
> handle the backups without TDP.
>
> Is anyone from IBM still monitoring ADSM-L?  I cross-posted this
question
> to the forums on ADSM.ORG - nothing but "crickets" over there?
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:18 PM Rick Adamson
> 
> wrote:
>
> > Zoltan,
> > Yea, I do not recall seeing anything on 2019 either, fortunately my
DBA's
> > having asked (yet).
> > I do like the "all requirements" approach though, kind of provides a
> > one-stop for links to all the supported revisions. It beats the heck
out of
> > searching for each individual release.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -Rick Adamson
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
Zoltan
> > Forray
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:50 PM
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support
> >
> > * This email originated outside of the organization. Use caution
> > when opening attachments or clicking links. *
> >
> > 
> > --
> > Rick,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.  I guess I should have mentioned I did find
those
> > documents.  So I guess I am waiting for IBM to chime in as to when
they
> > expect to have backup support for MS-SQL 2019 out?  We tried
installing the
> > 8.1.8 TDP but it said it only supported as high as 2017!
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:16 PM Rick Adamson

> > wrote:
> >
> > > Zoltan,
> > >
> > > This doc provides links to the hardware and software requirements
for
> > > all versions of Spectrum Protect for Databases:
> > >
> > >
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_suppo
> > >
rt_pages_ibm-2Dspectrum-2Dprotect-25E2-2584-25A2-2Ddatabases-2Dall-2Dr
> > >
equirements-2Ddocuments=DwIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIs
> > >
PArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=2AIX79nEm0wt1xLKpSrUs70KgqrQHhmGOs
> > > YZ4_UVSjE=Gdv4aenarebftD4OKLKsEPQEOLLJolVHUNgoWSqLYU0=
> > >
> > > More specifically this is the link to that information as it
pertains
> > > to DP for SQL version 8.1.8
> > >
> > >
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_suppo
> > >
rt_pages_hardware-2Dand-2Dsoftware-2Drequirements-2Dversion-2D818-2Dib
> > >
m-2Dspectrum-2Dprotect-25E2-2584-25A2-2Dsnapshot-2Dsql-2Dserver-2D818-
> > >
2Ddata-2Dprotection-2Dmicrosoft-2Dsql-2Dserver=DwIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhx
> > >
SQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=2AIX79nEm0w
> > >
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> > > rJzIExss=
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > -Rick Adamson
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
> > > Zoltan Forray
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:55 AM
> > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > > Subject: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support
> > >
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> > >
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> > > First off, I am wondering if this listserv is active at all.  I
> > > have posted
> > >
> > &g

Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
Yea, I do not recall seeing anything on 2019 either, fortunately my DBA's 
having asked (yet).
I do like the "all requirements" approach though, kind of provides a one-stop 
for links to all the supported revisions. It beats the heck out of searching 
for each individual release.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

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Rick,

Thanks for the reply.  I guess I should have mentioned I did find those 
documents.  So I guess I am waiting for IBM to chime in as to when they expect 
to have backup support for MS-SQL 2019 out?  We tried installing the
8.1.8 TDP but it said it only supported as high as 2017!

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:16 PM Rick Adamson 
wrote:

> Zoltan,
>
> This doc provides links to the hardware and software requirements for
> all versions of Spectrum Protect for Databases:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_suppo
> rt_pages_ibm-2Dspectrum-2Dprotect-25E2-2584-25A2-2Ddatabases-2Dall-2Dr
> equirements-2Ddocuments=DwIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIs
> PArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=2AIX79nEm0wt1xLKpSrUs70KgqrQHhmGOs
> YZ4_UVSjE=Gdv4aenarebftD4OKLKsEPQEOLLJolVHUNgoWSqLYU0=
>
> More specifically this is the link to that information as it pertains
> to DP for SQL version 8.1.8
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_suppo
> rt_pages_hardware-2Dand-2Dsoftware-2Drequirements-2Dversion-2D818-2Dib
> m-2Dspectrum-2Dprotect-25E2-2584-25A2-2Dsnapshot-2Dsql-2Dserver-2D818-
> 2Ddata-2Dprotection-2Dmicrosoft-2Dsql-2Dserver=DwIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhx
> SQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=2AIX79nEm0w
> t1xLKpSrUs70KgqrQHhmGOsYZ4_UVSjE=NsEgukTBV95S1w8CFJQjQDZBJpHBqeG_D1e
> rJzIExss=
>
> Thank you,
> -Rick Adamson
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
> Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:55 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support
>
> * This email originated outside of the organization. Use caution when
> opening attachments or clicking links. *
>
> --
> First off, I am wondering if this listserv is active at all.  I have
> posted
>
> a couple of questions and received absolutely no responses and the
> amount
>
> of other posts is almost non-existent .  I see more activity on
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.adsm.org=DwI
> BaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJj
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> tGh-SK5nzpvboMQCBEkJOSNvOM=
>
> and it's link to ADSM-L Mailing lists posts/archives seem to have
> stopped
>
> in 2018?
>
>
>
> My question is, when/which level supports MS-SQL Server 2019?  I see
> that
>
> Windows server 2019 isn't officially supported until 8.1.4 and SQL
> 2017 was
>
> supported at 8.1.4 but nothing that say perhaps TDP 8.1.8 supports SQL
>
> 2019?  Also, we have been beta-testing 8.1.9 but don't see any
>
> references to SQL?
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Zoltan Forray*
>
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>
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>
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Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,

This doc provides links to the hardware and software requirements for all 
versions of Spectrum Protect for Databases:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect%E2%84%A2-databases-all-requirements-documents

More specifically this is the link to that information as it pertains to DP for 
SQL version 8.1.8
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hardware-and-software-requirements-version-818-ibm-spectrum-protect%E2%84%A2-snapshot-sql-server-818-data-protection-microsoft-sql-server

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

* This email originated outside of the organization. Use caution when opening 
attachments or clicking links. *

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First off, I am wondering if this listserv is active at all.  I have posted

a couple of questions and received absolutely no responses and the amount

of other posts is almost non-existent .  I see more activity on 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.adsm.org=DwIBaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=TqDfLZidvh-hk1hSH7cSL0F08tFMmKfSjNeyAiM_WhQ=5hIUMdugYogYiDUg2tGh-SK5nzpvboMQCBEkJOSNvOM=

and it's link to ADSM-L Mailing lists posts/archives seem to have stopped

in 2018?



My question is, when/which level supports MS-SQL Server 2019?  I see that

Windows server 2019 isn't officially supported until 8.1.4 and SQL 2017 was

supported at 8.1.4 but nothing that say perhaps TDP 8.1.8 supports SQL

2019?  Also, we have been beta-testing 8.1.9 but don't see any

references to SQL?



--

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Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator

VMware Administrator

Xymon Monitor Administrator

Virginia Commonwealth University

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Re: ISP server as a VM

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
As I understand it IBM does support virtual ISP servers but I recall seeing a 
document that stated they will not support their performance or scalability, so 
for a small application it is probably fine.

My management team requested that I move our operation virtual (VMware) roughly 
2 years ago and while it was an enormous struggle they perform adequately now.
I am now of the opinion for larger installations it is just not worth the 
trouble.
We now have three pairs of ISP backups servers, each consists of a source 
production server and a replication target server at our DR facility.
They maintain a variety of client backup including; ISP 4  VE, Windows, AIX, 
Linux, DB2, Oracle, and SQL, as well as many physical servers performing 
traditional file system backups.
A total of roughly 2,000 clients.

I strongly recommend following the IBM blueprints with a few modifications, 
mostly on VMware.
All of mine are currently running Windows 2012 R2 and now looking at possibly 
moving to 2016, they all use directory container pools, server side 
deduplication, and node replication.

There were many times that I thought of going back to physical servers but am 
kind of hard-headed and was determined to make these things work if it was at 
all  possible.

For me:
Clinging to the thought process of not wanting to put too many eggs in one 
basket I followed the blueprints for a medium sized server, at the time not 
knowing how they would scale.

It is my experience that these things are of the utmost importance if you want 
to minimize your headaches and have the servers run at an optimal level:
- As we hear over and over again; DO NOT skimp on the performance of disks for 
the ISP server database and logs. Mine are all on EMC Powermax. Each server has 
8 individual LUNS for the ISP database volumes and a dedicated LUN for each log 
(ACTIVE, ARCHIVE, ARCHFAILOVER).

- Dedicate ESX/ESXi hosts to the ISP Servers and pin them to the host and 
disable VMotion. It was my experience that if VMware moved an ISP Server  it 
would either crash or minimally all in progress sessions and processes would 
fail.

- By design the VMware host will attempt to throttle the ISP server's access to 
all datastores, this is done to assure that one VM does not deprive other VMs 
from access to resources, kind of load balancing. Since your datastores are 
dedicated to a single VM (your ISP server) disable all VMware storage IO 
control. This will increase system performance exponentially. I have heard that 
IBM now recommends using RAW volumes which may mitigate this requirement.

- Add additional SCSI controllers (up to 4) and change the default driver from 
LSI Logic driver to VMware Paravirtual for all disks except the operating 
system.


In the end the servers perform acceptably at a relatively lower cost  but are 
still no match for physical servers.

-Rick Adamson


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Hi Eric,



No inbound deduplication on the clients and right now for the existing 6

nodes there is a total of 2TB of occupancy and we do not expect much if any

growth.



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> Hi Zoltan,

>

> I don't know if it's supported by IBM, but I think it's all related to

> load. A VM will not provide the same I/O performance as dedicated hardware

> does. So if you are planning to install a server with inbound deduplication

> with container pools, I would stay away from virtualization.

>

> Kind regards,

> Eric van Loon

> Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

>

>

> -Original Message-

> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADS

Re: TSM server performance continuing

[Rick Adamson]

Arnaud,
Apologies for off topic question but what series nodes are you using in the 
Isilon?

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson

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Hi Eric,

Running 4 TSM servers at 8.1.6.1 (PowerLinux servers with 256 GB RAM), and 
making use of directory-container storage pools only.
No server performance or responsiveness  issues here anymore, since we changed 
our storage to make use of IBM Isilon.

Here my values :

vmstat 1
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- --cpu-
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   in   cs us sy id wa st
13  0 1420032 1152064 1429248 24384806400  7500  376600 24  3 
61 11  0
13  1 1420032 1046016 1428288 24394348800 61425680 22427 42342 50  
4 39  7  0
12  0 1420032 1144640 1426688 24386195200 542840 0 19109 33340 49  
2 43  6  0
12  4 1420032 883904 1427136 24413382400 577108 0 19777 34954 49  2 
44  6  0
12  1 1420032 936576 1425344 24407276800 613152   372 21110 37559 49  2 
43  6  0
11  5 1420032 1028096 1425600 24397734400 549024 0 24599 47296 48  
2 42  8  0
12  0 1420032 1028032 1424832 24398342400 56618016 21693 39976 49  
2 43  6  0


ipcs -l

-- Messages Limits 
max queues system wide = 250880
max size of message (bytes) = 65536
default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536

-- Shared Memory Limits 
max number of segments = 62720
max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 
18014397435740096 min seg size (bytes) = 1

-- Semaphore Limits 
max number of arrays = 62720
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 256000
max ops per semop call = 32
semaphore max value = 32767


Specific tuning done : disabling CPU virtualization (led to sever hangs when 
active)

ppc64_cpu --smt=off


Cheers.

Arnaud


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Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 5:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM server performance continuing

Hi guys,

A few weeks ago I already wrote about the severe performance issues we have 
with our TSM 7.1 servers. In the 'old days' we used to back up our clients to 
TSM 6.3 servers with Data Domains attached. Smaller clients backed up through 
the LAN, large ones through the SAN.
Our newer servers use LAN-only with directory containers and the performance of 
these servers really sucks. Setting up a session takes sometimes almost one 
minute and a q stg also takes 30 to 50 seconds. I noticed that performance is 
OK when there are no TDP for Oracle sessions running, but as soon as they are 
started the performance starts to drop drastically.
We are really lost on where to look for the cause. I sent numerous logs and 
traces to IBM, but I guess they are out of ideas too since I don't hear 
anything back from them lately. The only thing is that supports notices delays 
in DB2, but they don't know why...
What I noticed on my TSM server is that as soon as there is a load on the 
server, the blocked queue starts to rise. I would like to know if that's 
something to focus on or not.
Can some of you please run the "vmstat 1" command on their Linux server 
(preferably one with directory containers too) and let me know if you too s

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

[Rick Adamson]

Appreciate the input Del, thanks !

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Hi Eric and all,

We are aware of this situation and putting additional focus and attention on it.


Del



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 07/19/2019
09:35:37 AM:

> From: "Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM" 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 07/19/2019 09:36 AM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>
> Hi Rick and others!
>
> I replicated the data of the test TDP client to multiple servers,
> running 7.1.7, 7.1.9 and even 8.1.8: the performance sucks on all
servers.
> We do not use client replication as part of our server protection.
> We need a real time replication over the datacenter and thus we rely
> on host-based replication for all our servers. I tested with and
> without replication: there is no noticeable difference.
> As a work-around I will install a non-deduplicated file stgpool on
> the worst performing server next week. I expect the server to
> perform better as soon as all container pool objects are expired, in
> about 3 weeks from now.
> In the meantime I will keep on pursuing IBM until it is fixed or
> else we might need to replace the product altogether...
>
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage & Backup
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Rick Adamson
> Sent: vrijdag 19 juli 2019 14:45
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files
>
> Eric, Michael,
> I have been working through similar struggles and as I read your
> posts had to wonder, can you provide some details on your server and
> client versions?
> Basically I now have experience/exposure to every version/
> maintenance pack/patch SP has put out since 7.1.3.x
>
> My servers are now running on  8.1.8 (windows) and has seemed to
> have stabilized (for now).
> One thing that was causing me a lot of grief was using directory
> storage pools with client side deduplication enabled, particularly
> on data protection products (all of them).
> Afterwards there was a lot of cleanup; auditing containers,
> confirming that protect storage was completing successfully, and
> finally doing the same for replicate node processes.
>
> I found that understandably server performance takes a severe nose
> dive if you are trying to process (protect/replicate) damaged
> containers, and most likely restores will be compromised as well.
>
>
> Thank you,
> -Rick Adamson
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
Michael Prix
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 6:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] deletion performance of large deduplicated files
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> --
> Hello Eric,
>
>
>
>   welcome to my nightmares. Take a seat, wanna have a drink?
>
>
>
> I had the pleasure of performance and data corruption PMRs during the
last two
>
> years with TDP Oracle. Yes, at first the customer got blamed for not
adhering
>
> completely to to blueprints, but after some weeks it boild down to  ...
>
> silence.
>
> Data corruption was because of what ended in IT28096 - now fixed.
>
> Performance is interesting, but resembles to what you have written. We
work
>
> with MAXPIECESIZE settings on RMAN to keep the backup pieces small and
got
>
> some interesting values, pending further observation, but we might be on
a
>
> cheerful way. I'm talking about database sizes of 50TB here, warehouse
style.
>
>   In between we moved the big DBs to a dedicated server to prove that
the
>
> performance drop is because of the big DBs, and the remaining "small"
DBs  -
>
> size of 500MB up to 5TB - didn't put any measurable stress on the DB in
terms
>
> of expiration and protect stgpool. Even the big DBs on their dedicated
server
>
> performed better in terms of expiration and protect stgpool, which might
have
>
> been a coincidence of these DBs holding nearly the same data and having
the
>
>

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

[Rick Adamson]

Eric, Michael,
I have been working through similar struggles and as I read your posts had to 
wonder, can you provide some details on your server and client versions?
Basically I now have experience/exposure to every version/maintenance 
pack/patch SP has put out since 7.1.3.x

My servers are now running on  8.1.8 (windows) and has seemed to have 
stabilized (for now).
One thing that was causing me a lot of grief was using directory storage pools 
with client side deduplication enabled, particularly on data protection 
products (all of them).
Afterwards there was a lot of cleanup; auditing containers, confirming that 
protect storage was completing successfully, and finally doing the same for 
replicate node processes.

I found that understandably server performance takes a severe nose dive if you 
are trying to process (protect/replicate) damaged containers, and most likely 
restores will be compromised as well.


Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Hello Eric,



  welcome to my nightmares. Take a seat, wanna have a drink?



I had the pleasure of performance and data corruption PMRs during the last two

years with TDP Oracle. Yes, at first the customer got blamed for not adhering

completely to to blueprints, but after some weeks it boild down to  ...

silence.

Data corruption was because of what ended in IT28096 - now fixed.

Performance is interesting, but resembles to what you have written. We work

with MAXPIECESIZE settings on RMAN to keep the backup pieces small and got

some interesting values, pending further observation, but we might be on a

cheerful way. I'm talking about database sizes of 50TB here, warehouse style.

  In between we moved the big DBs to a dedicated server to prove that the

performance drop is because of the big DBs, and the remaining "small" DBs  -

size of 500MB up to 5TB - didn't put any measurable stress on the DB in terms

of expiration and protect stgpool. Even the big DBs on their dedicated server

performed better in terms of expiration and protect stgpool, which might have

been a coincidence of these DBs holding nearly the same data and having the

same retention period.



What I can't observe is a slowness of the DB. Queries are answered in the

normal time - depending on the query. a count(*) from backupobjects naturally

takes some time, considerably longer when you use dedup, but the daily queries

are answered in the "normal" timeframe.



What helped immediately was some tuning:

- More LUNS and filesystems for the TSM-DB

- smaller disks, but more of them, for each filesystem.

  changing the disks from 100GB to 2 x 50GB for each DB-filesystem got me a

performance boost of 200% in expiration and backup db. Unbelievable, but true.

Yes, I'm using SSD. And SVC. And multiple storage systems. Performance isn't

the problem, we are measuring 2ms respone time for write AND read.

- stripeset for each fileset





--

Michael Prix



On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 07:29 +, Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM wrote:

> Hi TSM/SP-ers,

>

> We are struggling with the performance of our TSM servers for months now. We

> are running several servers with hardware (Data Domain) dedup for years

> without any problems, but on our new servers with directory container pools

> performance is really, really bad.

> The servers and storage are designed according to the Blueprints and they

> are working fine as long as you do not add large database (Oracle and SAP)

> client to them. As soon as you do, the overall server performance becomes

> very bad: client and admin session initiation takes 20 to 40 seconds, SQL

> queries run for minutes where they should take a few seconds and q query

> stgpool sometimes takes more than a minute to respond!

> I have two cases open for this. In one case we focused a lot on the OS and

> disk performance, but during that process I noticed that the performance is

> most likely caused by the way TSM processes large (few hundred MB) files. I

> performed a large amount of tests and came to the conclusion that it takes

> TSM a huge amount of time to delete large deduplicated files, both in

> container pools as deduplicated file pools. As test I use an TDP for Oracle

> client which uses a backup piece size of 900 MB. The client contains about

> 5000 files. Deleting the files from a container pool takes more than an

> hour. When you run a delete object for the files individually I see that

> most files take more than a second(!) to delete. If I put that same data in

&g

Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
Just seen Andy's reply and learned something new. Thanks Andy.
Sorry for the misinfo.

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: Rick Adamson
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 7:59 AM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 
Subject: RE: How to make dsmc recognize drives

Eric,
My understanding is the substitute (subst) command is only defining an alias 
for the full path to a location on a drive not actually creating a new drive or 
file space. Think about it in the context of creating a share except using a 
drive letter versus an alpha-numeric string.
The data in both cases is backed under the full path, or actual location, and 
not as a separate file system.

The actual substitute definition is a part of the registry and captured as a 
part of the system-state.
It can be found at:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS 
Devices]



Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 5:37 AM
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Hi guys,

For some tests I want to create separate drives in Windows and back them up 
with SP. I create these drives with the subst command (subst D: c:\). The drives created are visible in the Windows GUI and accessible 
through the Windows command line, but the Spectrum Protect client does not 
recognize them.
Does anybody know how to make dsmc recognize them as a separate drive?
Thanks for any help in advance!

Kind regards,
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Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
My understanding is the substitute (subst) command is only defining an alias 
for the full path to a location on a drive not actually creating a new drive or 
file space. Think about it in the context of creating a share except using a 
drive letter versus an alpha-numeric string.
The data in both cases is backed under the full path, or actual location, and 
not as a separate file system.

The actual substitute definition is a part of the registry and captured as a 
part of the system-state.
It can be found at:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS 
Devices]



Thank you,
-Rick Adamson


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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 5:37 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
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Hi guys,

For some tests I want to create separate drives in Windows and back them up 
with SP. I create these drives with the subst command (subst D: c:\). The drives created are visible in the Windows GUI and accessible 
through the Windows command line, but the Spectrum Protect client does not 
recognize them.
Does anybody know how to make dsmc recognize them as a separate drive?
Thanks for any help in advance!

Kind regards,
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Re: Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

[Rick Adamson]

Stefan,
I understand it as Karel.
The replicate (or protect stg) process data is deduplicated at the source.
It would be inefficient to consume network bandwidth sending duplicate extents.

-Rick Adamson


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I don't think that's how it works Karel, the values are based on managed data 
and are normally around the same on the source and on the target.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:16 AM Karel Bos  wrote:

> As the target server only receives already dedupped data it makes
> sense their will be no or barely anything to be dedupped.
>
> Regards,
>
> Karel
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 08:16, Stefan Folkerts
> 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm seeing something very strange at a customer site that has two
> Spectrum
> > Protect servers.
> > One receives backups and is the replication source.
> > The other is the replication target for that single source and
> > doesn't receive any backup data.
> > All data goes into a single containerpool on each server.
> >
> > Check this out:
> >
> > Containerpool on source:
> >
> >  Deduplication Savings: 35,173 G (52.50%)
> >Compression Savings: 16,083 G (50.54%)
> >  Total Space Saved: 51,255 G (76.51%)
> >
> > Containerpool on target:
> >
> >  Deduplication Savings: 3,962 G (6.19%)
> >Compression Savings: 34,193 G (56.97%)
> >  Total Space Saved: 38,155 G (59.63%)
> >
> > Deduplication is all but completely failing on the target.
> > Everything is replicated (replicate node *) All filespaces and
> > occupancy stats are equal on both sides.
> > Has anybody seen this before.
> > Running 8.1.7
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stefan
> >
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Re: Question on switching server roles in replication

[Rick Adamson]

Bjoern,
If I understand your situation correctly on the server that you need to 
transfer data from you need to set the default replication server to the 
desired target then on selected nodes you remove them from their current 
replication role and update their replication mode.

There may be a better way but this worked for me:

Example:
(Assuming the two server are already defined to each other)
On the "new" target server set the default replication server to the new source 
server:
SET REPLSERVER source_server_name

Remove the node you wish to replicate from its current replication role:
REMOVE REPLNODE node_name

Update the note to its replication state/mode:
UPDATE NODE node_name REPLSTATE=ENABLED REPLMODE=SEND

Repeat the REMOVE REPLNODE and UPDATE NODE commands for the same node on the 
server that will receive the data so it is configured to receive instead of 
send data:
REMOVE REPLNODE node_name
UPDATE NODE node_name REPLSTATE=ENABLED REPLMODE=RECEIVE

Then use the node replication command to replicate the data.
When complete change the replication mode for each node back to their desired 
state.
SENDING node back to REPLMODE=SEND and receiving node back to REPLMODE=RECEIVE

-Rick Adamson


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Dear all,

I set up a new server for one of our customers and will use the old server and 
library as target for replication. First I tried to export the data, but this 
takes too long due to the amount of data. So my next approach is to set up 
replication from the existing server to the new one and afterwards switch the 
roles: the former source server becomes the target server and vice versa, later 
on I switch both rules and replicate from the new server to the old one.

Unfortunately some data was backed up to the "former source server" but not 
replicated to the "former target server" when switching the roles for some 
nodes.
So now some backups are already run to the "new source server" (former target) 
server and the "new" target server (former source server) holds some data, the 
"new source server does" not have.

What's the best way to get both servers synchronized?
Perhaps I do a wrong assumption: Will that "additional" data on the "new target 
server" be deleted if I start the replication or can I switch the roles as 
often I like and synchronize by replicating the data first in one direction and 
then vice versa?

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Re: Bogus "the operation was stopped by the user" message on TSM4VE

[Rick Adamson]

Tom
I have seen this message before when someone cancels the backup from the task 
list in the VMware vsphere admin client.
Take a look at the vm in the vsphere client, go to monitor/tasks & 
events/events and look for messages around the time of the ANS5053W cancel by 
user message.

Rick Adamson

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I have at least two TSM4VE servers (on windows 2008r2 running TSM4VE 7.1.2) 
where several servers per night are failing with the message below.  The IBM 
docs say this happens when someone presses Q twice which is impossible since 
these are running as a service.  Is there a fix for this?  A search for this 
error and for RC=6577 on Google came up empty (just one other person asking 
what RC=6577 with no answers)

10/19/2018 01:43:12 ANS1717E A VMware vStorage web service task failed.
10/19/2018 01:43:15 ANS4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 
'SERVER-AP0170' failed with RC=6577 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, 
target node name='SRV000VC11_000', data mover node 
name='SRV000VC11_SRV000VBSP01_DM1'
10/19/2018 01:43:15 ANS5053W The operation was stopped by the user.
10/19/2018 01:43:15 ANS1228E Sending of object 'SERVER-AP0170' failed.
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Re: user maintenance

[Rick Adamson]

Solomon
While it is never an acceptable best practice, users do sometimes use an 
individual account to automate tasks. It's possible that external tasks, jobs, 
scripts, etc. have been configured to use that account to authenticate with the 
server(s). However, anything created like schedules and associations would be 
unaffected.

Assuming you have at least one other account the has "System" privilege, I 
would just lock the User_X account and let the system cook for a few days to 
see if there is any negative impact.

If any issues arise you can address them accordingly and once there are no 
problems remove the account

To verify you have another account with system access: query admin
To lock account: lock admin user_x
To unlock the account: unlock admin user_x
To remove the account: remove admin user_x

Depending on you configuration you may need to repeat on all TSM servers.

-Rick Adamson


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User_X created various entities on tsm (schedules, associations, scripts  etc ).

User_X  leaves the company,

User_X  needs to be removed  from tsm.   (remove admin User_X)

Is there a concern / any side-effects you can think of.

Thank you.


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Re: CONTAINER pool experiences

[Rick Adamson]

I have to second Stefan's position, while they have a few minor shortcomings, 
for me most were only relevant to the initial build/migration. For me the 
upside compared to file device class storage is phenomenal.
Initially I had reservations but now cannot imagine going back.

-Rick Adamson


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Zoltan,

I'm not sure I understand your issues, we use directory containerpools for all 
but a few of our Spectrum Protect customers and it's miles ahead of what the 
fileclass-based storagepool bring in terms of performance, Spectrum Protect 
database impact (size wise). Yes, it isn't capable of certain, until then 
standard Spectrum Protect storagepool functions but for backup data on disk I 
think nothing beats it, maybe even in any product I've ever used.

Of course you can't write Spectrum Protect database backups to it, it doesn't 
even have a device class and it's most certainly not sequential in any way but 
normal database backups are very much able to land in the directory 
containerpool and you will enjoy enormous deduplication and compression 
benefits, much higher net savings then when using the filepool at any customer 
site I've implemented it.

So, could you please explain what you are trying to do that doesn't work?

Regards,
   Stefan


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:49 PM Zoltan Forray  wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments/suggestions and a somewhat consensus to
> avoid directory/containers.
>
> We decided to at least get our "feet wet" and play with
> directory/containers on our offsite replica-target server (which has
> the
> horsepower) only to realize everything we tried to use it for was
> not-allowed (DB backups from production servers and replication target
> storage pools) and everything we directed to it was redirected to the
> "next stgpool"?
>
> So we are confused - what can you use directory/containers for at the
> 7.1.7.400 server level?  Only real client backups?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM PAC Brion Arnaud <
> arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> wrote:
>
> > Zoltan,
> >
> > If I understood well, your storage is Isilon based : in this case do
> > not even think of using CONTAINER pools, as performance will be horrible.
> > Not much time to talk about this, but to make a very long story
> > short, we are about to dump/trash /resell the brand new Isilon
> > arrays we bought  8 months ago, and to replace them with direct
> > attached storage (Storwize),
> as
> > we never reached sufficient performance levels. Cases have been
> > opened
> with
> > IBM and EMC as well, to no result at all, beside a suspected block
> > size issue which would refrain the Isilons to work at expected speed.
> > If you plan to go for such a hardware configuration, my only advice is :
> > run away, as fast as you can !
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Zoltan Forray
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:37 PM
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> > Subject: CONTAINER pool experiences
> >
> > We are investigating using CONTAINER pools for our offsite replica
> > server vs the current FILE method which is killing us with the
> > constant dedup, reclaims, etc.
> >
> > So, what are the "gotchas' ?   We are still at V7.1.7.400 so I figure we
> > will have to do without any new features added in the V8 branch. But
> > is
> it
> > problematic enough at V7 to avoid it?
> >
> > Your thoughts?  Experiences?
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: nfstimeout on server ISILON storage

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
Here is the info on the LACP issue. I recently ran into it during a 
firmware/OneFS upgrade.
Be advised that there is a fix for it, it may be helpful to reference the topic 
in OneFS release notes. This example is 8.0.0.7: 
https://emcservice.force.com/CustomersPartners/kA5f100L0KCCA0  .

In OneFS 8.0.0.6, 8.0.1.2, 8.1.0.2, and 8.1.1.1, when some of the ports of a 
lagg interface in LACP mode go down with other ports still active, OneFS treats 
the lagg interface as down with No Carrier status.  If this lagg is the only 
interface for front end network, connection to the node from outside the 
cluster will be lost.

These are the possible options for this upgrade:

1.  Postpone the upgrade until the next Maintenance Release is available, which 
will resolve this issue.

2.  Remove LACP as an interim step and proceed with the scheduled upgrade. A 
patch will be made available in the near future at which time you can re-enable 
LACP.

3.   Proceed with the upgrade inclusive of LACP configuration, taking into 
consideration the potential connectivity issues, being aware of the risk of 
DU... not recommended.

I initially put the upgrade on hold and they recently notified me that code 
addressing the issue had been released, we completed the upgrade and so far 
there have been no issues.
If your Isilon is vulnerable to the issue it should surface in the pre-upgrade 
assessment.

Rick Adamson

Information Technology
Southeastern Grocers LLC


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Rick,

Thanks for the reply.  I passed your comments to my SAN guy and he said:

*Earth is connected to HHIsilon and it is running 8.1.0.4  **All the others are 
connected to ISPIsilon and it is running 8.0.0.4*

*I'm pretty sure all the Cisco switchports are LACP and Isilon networking is 
configured for LACP. Can that person elaborate on that bug?*

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:00 PM Rhodes, Richard L. < 
rrho...@firstenergycorp.com> wrote:

> We run our Isilon systems (OneFS 8.0.0.6) with active/passive failover.
> When we put them in OneFS had a bug with LACP and wouldn't work,
> forcing us to go active/passive.  Due to other problems, we just
> discussed with them converting from active/passive to LACP, but EMC
> said there is still a bug in LACP support.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of
> Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 9:03 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: nfstimeout on server ISILON storage
>
> A pair of 10G links bonded - CISCO switches.
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 7:54 PM Skylar Thompson  wrote:
>
> > Quick question - what's the data link protocol (Ethernet, IB, etc.)
> > and link rate that you're using?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 02:05:33PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > > We are still fighting issues with ISILON storage. Our current
> > > issue is
> > with
> > > NFS timeouts for the storage a server is using.  We see message
> > > like
> > these
> > > in the server /var/log
> > >
> > > Sep  4 13:21:49 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:21:49 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:21:49 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:21:49 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:22:14 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:22:15 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > > not responding, still trying
> > > Sep  4 13:22:16 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > OK
> > > Sep  4 13:22:16 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > OK
> > > Sep  4 13:22:16 earth kernel: nfs: server
> hhisilonnfs23.rams.adp.vcu.edu
> > OK
> > >
> > > OS folks say the NFS mount is setup as IBM recommends in various
> > documents.
> > > So they asked us to implement the nfstimeout option from this
> > > document
> (
> > >
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=

Re: cluster backup with CSV

[Rick Adamson]

Yea, we use the replication approach for many of our machines to an offsite DR  
facility too. 
But they had to learn the hard way that it may good for recovery it doesn't 
address their need for having historical options of recovery, so backups I was 
asked to reinitiate the backups.
For some people karma can be a valuable learning experience :)


Rick Adamson

Information Technology
Southeastern Grocers LLC 


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:00 PM
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Rick,

Thank you for the notes.  My company collapsed both cluster servers into a 
single VM that is replicated via some vSphere magic to out alternate data 
center for resurrection during a DR.  I currently have no cluster backups.  I 
was providing notes on my TSM v5 cluster backup configuration as a starting 
point.

Jim

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Adamson
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

Jim,
Have you tried to create a cluster resource for the shared disk? The scheduler 
service will then failover with the disk and you will not need to manually 
start it every time there is a change in cluster node ownership.

At a high level:
In addition to what you have already done.
Use Failover manager to create a new generic service resource.
Add all cluster nodes as possible owners.
Add the shared disk as a dependency.
Specify the scheduler service that you need to failover.
If you haven't done so open a command prompt and set the services password 
using dsmc.
Something like: dsmc incr -nodename= 
-password= -optfile= There will be a place to enter a registry key path where the 
scheduler service encrypted password is kept, I ignore it during setup of the 
resource. then:
Open registry editor and navigate to the scheduler service password location, 
it should be something like: 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\BackupClient\Nodes\
Export that reg key and import it on all other cluster nodes.
Open the properties page of the generic service resource you created above and 
add the path to registry key.

Notes:
I also edit the properties of the resource and disable its ability to cause 
failover, if the scheduler service happens to fail I don't want it to initiate 
a cluster failover.
The scheduler service now needs to be stopped or started using the 
clustering/failover interface and not the services app.

Hope that helps sorry if it's kind of vague I don't have access to my 
actual docs at the moment.


Rick Adamson
Information Technology
Southeastern Grocers LLC


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 4:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

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I created a TSM directory on the shared drive, added a dsm.opt file with a 
domain statement.  Registered a cluster name with TSM and created a scheduler 
service for it on each of the cluster nodes.  Only one node was active at a 
time, and I had to restart the cluster scheduler service every time the active 
node changed to a different server.  This was TSM 7.  Things may have changed. 
I don't know if this is best but it worked.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael P Hizny
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

We have just set up a Microsoft cluster with a Cluster shared volume.
After installing the TSM 8.1.4 client on both cluster nodes, we would like to 
back up the cluster shared volume but TSM does not see this volume from either 
node.  Is there a way to back this up with TSM or a special configuration so 
this disk is recognized?
Thanks,
Mike

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Re: cluster backup with CSV

[Rick Adamson]

Jim,
Have you tried to create a cluster resource for the shared disk? The scheduler 
service will then failover with the disk and you will not need to manually 
start it every time there is a change in cluster node ownership.

At a high level:
In addition to what you have already done.
Use Failover manager to create a new generic service resource.
Add all cluster nodes as possible owners.
Add the shared disk as a dependency.
Specify the scheduler service that you need to failover.
If you haven't done so open a command prompt and set the services password 
using dsmc.
Something like: dsmc incr -nodename= 
-password= -optfile=
There will be a place to enter a registry key path where the scheduler service 
encrypted password is kept, I ignore it during setup of the resource. then:
Open registry editor and navigate to the scheduler service password location, 
it should be something like: 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\BackupClient\Nodes\
Export that reg key and import it on all other cluster nodes.
Open the properties page of the generic service resource you created above and 
add the path to registry key.

Notes:
I also edit the properties of the resource and disable its ability to cause 
failover, if the scheduler service happens to fail I don't want it to initiate 
a cluster failover.
The scheduler service now needs to be stopped or started using the 
clustering/failover interface and not the services app.

Hope that helps sorry if it's kind of vague I don't have access to my 
actual docs at the moment.


Rick Adamson
Information Technology
Southeastern Grocers LLC


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 4:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

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I created a TSM directory on the shared drive, added a dsm.opt file with a 
domain statement.  Registered a cluster name with TSM and created a scheduler 
service for it on each of the cluster nodes.  Only one node was active at a 
time, and I had to restart the cluster scheduler service every time the active 
node changed to a different server.  This was TSM 7.  Things may have changed. 
I don't know if this is best but it worked.

Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael P Hizny
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

We have just set up a Microsoft cluster with a Cluster shared volume.
After installing the TSM 8.1.4 client on both cluster nodes, we would like to 
back up the cluster shared volume but TSM does not see this volume from either 
node.  Is there a way to back this up with TSM or a special configuration so 
this disk is recognized?
Thanks,
Mike

Michael Hizny
Binghamton University

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Re: VE backup failures after disk expansion

[Rick Adamson]

Steve,
Did you try using 999 ?

-VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS=999

Are you also using the vmskipmaxvirtualdisks option?

These references may help:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/client/r_opt_vmmaxvirtualdisks.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011779

-Rick Adamson


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Schaub, Steve
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 10:03 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VE backup failures after disk expansion

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Any help appreciated.

Started failing backups after drive was added or expanded to 2.5 TB.
On 6/25 the max drive size was increased from 2 to 7 via  VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS 7 
As of this the backups will only complete with non quiesced backup snapshots.
6/28 it was rebooted and still fails to quiesce.

Solution searches are not giving me much to go on.

Windows events :
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine 
IOCTL_DISK_SET_SNAPSHOT_INFO(\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2) fails with winerror 1168.  hr 
= 0x80070490, Element not found.


Dsmerror.log

6/25/2018 01:48:04 ANS2687W The virtual machine '' contains one or more 
disks that exceed the maximum size set by the VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS option. You can 
use the VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS option to change the maximum size or specify the 
'-VMSKIPMAXVIRTUALDISKS=yes' option to exclude these disks from the backup.
06/25/2018 01:48:04 ANS4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 
'' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target 
node name='', data mover node name=''
06/25/2018 01:48:04 ANS1228E Sending of object '' failed.
06/25/2018 01:48:04 ANS5226E The virtual machine backup operation failed.

06/25/2018 11:13:08 ANS9924W A full backup for the  virtual machine 
will be performed because of added disk capacity.
06/25/2018 11:13:29 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine 
''.
IBM Spectrum Protect function name : CreateSnapshot_USCORETask
IBM Spectrum Protect file  : ..\..\common\vm\vmvisdk.cpp (6704)
API return code   : 2094
API error message : An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See 
the virtual machine's event log for details.
06/25/2018 11:13:29 ANS2712W The virtual machine '' has a VMware Tools 
running, but VMware Tools is out of date.

06/25/2018 11:13:29 ANS4066I Snapshot operation attempt 1 of 3 for the guest 
virtual machine '' failed using "VMware Tools" snapshot.
Reattempting snapshot with "VMware Tools" snapshot.
06/25/2018 11:15:32 ANS9924W A full backup for the  virtual machine 
will be performed because of added disk capacity.
06/25/2018 11:15:42 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine 
''.
IBM Spectrum Protect function name : CreateSnapshot_USCORETask
IBM Spectrum Protect file  : ..\..\common\vm\vmvisdk.cpp (6704)
API return code   : 2094
API error message : An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See 
the virtual machine's event log for details.
06/25/2018 11:15:42 ANS2712W The virtual machine '' has a VMware Tools 
running, but VMware Tools is out of date.

06/25/2018 11:15:42 ANS4066I Snapshot operation attempt 2 of 3 for the guest 
virtual machine '' failed using "VMware Tools" snapshot.
Reattempting snapshot with "VMware Tools with file system quiescing and 
application quiescing (VSS) disabled" snapshot.
06/25/2018 11:17:18 ANS9924W A full backup for the  virtual machine 
will be performed because of added disk capacity.
06/25/2018 12:41:25 ANS9924W A full backup for the  virtual machine 
will be performed because of added disk capacity.
06/25/2018 12:41:41 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine 
''.
IBM Spectrum Protect function name : CreateSnapshot_USCORETask
IBM Spectrum Protect file  : ..\..\common\vm\vmvisdk.cpp (6704)
API return code   : 2094
API error message : An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See 
the virtual machine's event log for details.
06/25/2018 12:41:41 ANS2712W The virtual machine '' has a VMware Tools 
running, but VMware Tools is out of date.

06/25/2018 12:41:41 ANS4066I Snapshot operation attempt 1 of 3 for the guest 
virtual machine '' failed using "VMware Tools" snapshot.
Reattempting snapshot with "VMware Tools" snapshot.
06/25/2018 12:42:13 ANS9924W A full backup for the  virtual machine 
will be performed because of added disk capacity.
06/25/2018 12:42:23 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine 
''.
IBM Spectrum Protect function name : CreateSnapshot_USCORETask
IBM Spectrum Protect file  : ..\..\common\vm\v

Re: Change MAXNUMMP Value for Registering Nodes in OC

[Rick Adamson]

Stefan,
This isn't of much help but it has to be defined in the client add wizard of 
the operations center, if you define a node from the server CLI it defaults to 
1.
Adding a client using the OC you will notice on the console that it explicitly 
specifies 7 for the maxnummp parameter.

ANR2017I Administrator # issued command: REGISTER NODE TEST ?***?
USERID=NONE TYPE=CLIENT AUTHENTICATION=LOCAL DOMAIN=FILE_DOMAIN
DEDUPLICATION=SERVERONLY SSLREQUIRED=DEFAULT MAXNUMMP=7

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to change it but 
so far  have had no luck.

-Rick Adamson

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Hi all,

does anybody know if it is possible to change the default MAXNUMMP-Value which 
is used to register Nodes via Operations Center?
It always uses MAXNNUMMP=7, I'd like to change it to 8, if possible.
I know I can change it afterwards, but then I can do registering via command 
line anyway...

Best Regards,

Stefan Schulz
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Re: Delete STG pool Directory still active data

[Rick Adamson]

Robert,
Maybe the " Delay Period for Container Reuse " option on the storage pool ?

-Rick Adamson

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Hi to all

I tried today to delete a STG pool directory  , did it before few times without 
any problems.


1.   Audit container stg=v7000_D3 action=removedamaged

2.   Upd stgpooldirectory v7000_d3 directory_path acc=destroyed (for each 
directory path)

3.   Q stgpooldirectory stg=v7000_d3

Protect: ADSM2>q stgpooldirectory stg=v7000_d3

Storage Pool Name Directory   
Access

-   -   
  

V7000_D3  c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG1Destroyed

V7000_D3  c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG2Destroyed

V7000_D3  c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG3Destroyed

4.   The process took a bit long , almost all the containers was delete but 
still when: (I succeed to delete one stgpooldirectory  
c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG2)

Q stg v7000_D3 got

Protect: ADSM2>q stg v7000_d3(still active data)



Storage Pool nameDevice Class NameStorage Type Estimated Capacity   
  Pct Util PCTPct Migr High Low Next Storage Pool

-----   -   
  --  - -   
   ---  ---

V7000_D3   DIRECTORY  94.0 M
100.0



Protect: ADSM2>del stgpooldirectory v7000_d3 c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG1

ANR3646E DELETE STGPOOLDIRECTORY: Storage pool directory 
c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG1 has an access mode of DESTROYED and has active 
data.

ANS8001I Return code 27.



5.   Q container stg=v7000_d3

Protect: ADSM2>q container stg=v7000_d3



Container   
   Storage Pool  Name Container Type   State

-   
  - 
---

c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG1\16\1613.dcf  V7000_D3  
 DedupAvailable

c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG1\19\1965.dcf  V7000_D3  
 DedupAvailable

c:\mountpoints\V7000_D3\STG3\15\1543.dcf  V7000_D3  
 Dedup   Available



As I said b\efore I did exactly the same process in the past without any 
problem , suggestion 



TSM Server Version  8.1.1.0

TSM Client Version   8.1.0.2

O.S Windows 2012 64B



T.I.A Best Regards



Robert

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Re: include.vmsnapshotattempts statement

[Rick Adamson]

Gary
I use it as a Data Protection tag for SP for virtual environments on Linux and 
Windows clients.
More info here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/client/r_supported_tags.html#r_supported_tags__vmtag_snapattempts

-Rick Adamson

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in what tsm client and server versions is this statement supported?

Looked in the knowledge center, and its statement is "you can use this in all 
supported clients" not helpful.

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Re: Why is is dedup cache file not excluded by default ?

[Rick Adamson]

Erwann,
I have client option sets defined on the server that I use to globally exclude 
it from all file level backups.

-Rick Adamson

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Hi all,

I'm wondering why the dedup cache file (TSMDEDUPDB_servernamenodename.DB, 
located in the dedupcachepath directory) is not excluded by default ?
I generally exclude it because it causes somes retries and do think that 
there's no need to back it up. But I may be wrong.
So, must we really back it up ? And why ?

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Re: SQL STATEMENT

[Rick Adamson]

You'll need to query the Events table for this info. Modify the current time 
stamp as needed but I strongly suggest using it when querying the Events (and 
Backups) table.
Something along the lines of:

select node_name,status from events where (scheduled_start>=current_timestamp - 
24 hours)

-Rick Adamson

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Hey Everyone -

   I am looking for a sql select statement that show completions, missed, and 
failures of daily schedules.  This output should be similar to the q event 
command

Thank you in advance for the assistance



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Re: finding remaining replication workload

[Rick Adamson]

The information is in the REPLICATIONVIEW table.

Something like this:
select NODE_NAME, START_TIME, cast(TOTBYTES_TO_REPLICATE/1024/1024 as integer) 
from REPLICATIONVIEW where START_TIME>=(current_timestamp-24 hours) order by 
TOTBYTES_TO_REPLICATE desc

It will display date left to replicate largest to smallest amount in megabytes. 

-Rick Adamson

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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Rick,

Thanks a lot for the tip : I never paid attention to this, probably because my 
first experiences with the new O.C. were so disappointing ;-)

Note that I'm still taker for some SQL query that would allow me to build my 
homegrown reports ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Subject: Re: finding remaining replication workload

Arnaud,
Did you try looking in the operations center?
Select "Clients" from the menu, there is a column "Replication Workload" that 
provides the amount of data per node that has not been replicated.

-Rick Adamson


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Subject: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Team,

We are working on a new TSM environment (still experimenting),  where we 
entirely rely on TSM replication features to ensure disaster resiliency.
We therefore installed two Spectrum Protect servers (8.1.1.0), which are making 
exclusively use of directory based storage pools to store client data (one 
exception for NDMP based backups which are landing on file based stgpools). 
Both servers are configured to replicate each other.

Protect stgpool as well as replicate node operations are scheduled to be 
executed on a regular basis, but it appears that even after these have been 
executed,  the S.P. operation center still reports a certain workload of data 
to be replicated. Unfortunately, without any detail on which node might be the 
culprit.

I therefore would be interested to know if any of you succeeded in writing a 
query that would report the name of nodes, filespaces, and data amount still to 
be replicated !

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: finding remaining replication workload

[Rick Adamson]

Arnaud,
Did you try looking in the operations center?
Select "Clients" from the menu, there is a column "Replication Workload" that 
provides the amount of data per node that has not been replicated.

-Rick Adamson


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Subject: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Team,

We are working on a new TSM environment (still experimenting),  where we 
entirely rely on TSM replication features to ensure disaster resiliency.
We therefore installed two Spectrum Protect servers (8.1.1.0), which are making 
exclusively use of directory based storage pools to store client data (one 
exception for NDMP based backups which are landing on file based stgpools). 
Both servers are configured to replicate each other.

Protect stgpool as well as replicate node operations are scheduled to be 
executed on a regular basis, but it appears that even after these have been 
executed,  the S.P. operation center still reports a certain workload of data 
to be replicated. Unfortunately, without any detail on which node might be the 
culprit.

I therefore would be interested to know if any of you succeeded in writing a 
query that would report the name of nodes, filespaces, and data amount still to 
be replicated !

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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DP4VE on Spectrum Protect Server?

[Rick Adamson]

Just built a new source/target set of Spectrum servers to be used for DP4VE.
Is there any reason they can't coexist on the same system ?

The install guide implies the vStorage backup server and SP server be separate 
system's but doesn't seem to explicitly state one way or the other. (unless I 
missed it).
All feedback appreciated.

Thanks.
-Rick

Re: tsm ops center documentation

[Rick Adamson]

Check here Gary:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7-5F7.1.7_srv.common_r-5Fpdf-5Fsrv.html=DwIFAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=jsGOumNRa_CuD-X-ckz-NYfOxdGaWal8Vls3QBqH6dw=YweK4xJ8hhshKgdKE1krCn7qKbwBxnuazvG29QbkGGQ=
  

-Rick Adamson

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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 2:05 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm ops center documentation

Is the tsm operations center documentation available as a pdf?
Been all over the web sites, but find nothing?

I appreciate the help.
Prefer v7.1.7 as that is my server level at present.

Re: windows server 2016

[Rick Adamson]

Win2016 support started with client level 8.1, however there were a couple of 
issues with it like problems installing from a network share and  limits on 
nested directories that were addressed in 8.2 


-Rick Adamson


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Gary
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 1:18 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] windows server 2016

Just checking to see if I am reading correctly.

Does windows server 2016 require the v8 client? It appears so from the web 
pages.

Sometimes the screen reading software scrambles the tables.
Thanks for the help.

Re: VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

[Rick Adamson]

Tom,
Not much help but yes I am seeing it too with mostly Windows server 2016.  
I was just talking about it this morning with our windows developers but they 
were unable to provide any information yet.

It's always the System and WMI writers with a "writers missing" status.
When you list with VSSADMIN they do not show up until the associated services 
are restarted.

They will then backup successfully then at some random time the issue reappears.

-Rick Adamson


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Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:57 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

Is anyone else seeing a large increase in VSS problems (maybe since patch
night) primarily on WIndows 2008 non R2 servers?  The VSS errors are not fixed 
by our usual VSS fixer script or even rebooting.  Running VSSADMIN list writers 
will show the system writer as always missing on these servers, and this is 
causing the TSM backups to do a non VSS backup and log it as a failure.

Re: TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

[Rick Adamson]

To make sure it is persistent across reboots, you have to add it to 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-
The link I provided has an example, but I also have added it here: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cloudibee.com_static-2Droute-2Dlinux_=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=SHH3lJSlB61oRrjIodJ3SjLu-pR1rBHGieZ6hq8gZ_c=CnmKdYmLbonz8XeTW4P6JS9VwE3tPoo0-X4-P5VM8Bk=
  

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Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 6:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

Hi Michael!
Your assumptions are spot on. So in my case I should use the following command 
then: ip route add 2.2.2.2 via 10.0.0.1 dev eth1 I can't find if you are 
allowed to use a DNS name instead of an IP address for the destination 
(2.2.2.2). Do you know that?
Thanks again for your help!
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering


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Michael Prix
Sent: donderdag 31 augustus 2017 21:18
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

Eric,

  you didn't tell us anything about the network layout. Let's play with some
assumptions:


    -
| TSMClient  | |  TSM-Server | 
|| | |
| 1-GB (1.1.1.1)/24  |-(router)| x-GB (2.2.2.2)  |
||  |  | |
| 10-GB (1.1.1.2)/24 |--|   -
 

Depending on your default route, traffic not destined within your network
(1.1.1.x/24) will be routed via the adapter associated with the default route.

If you would like to send all traffic destined for the TSM-Server (2.2.2.2) 
should go via the 10-GB Adapter, you will have to add a host-route defining all 
traffic for 2.2.2.2 to go via 1.1.1.2 aka the 10-GB adapter and thus ignoring 
the default route.

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On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 14:46 +, Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I have tested in the past with 10 Gb attached Linux clients and 
> everything worked fine, but now we will add a 10 Gb card to a host 
> which is already connected to 1 Gb. So this host has two possible 
> paths to the server. How can I make sure the TSM client uses the 10 Gb 
> adapter only? I read something about the TCPClientAddress parameter, 
> but according to the manual that is only for the server to the client 
> (restore), not for the client to the server (backup).
> Thanks for your help in advance!
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
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Re: TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

[Rick Adamson]

Eric,
I agree with Michael.
I have the same setup on several Windows servers and to assure all backup 
traffic uses the 10g interface I add a "persistent" route to the client's 
routing table.
For Linux you can find info here: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cloudibee.com_static-2Droute-2Dlinux_=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=2TsnvYJhXJIMIFVlAnjJ9nlVVLExKd1iqaJd8yls98I=ypVqcOScvbWwOXURv-UVts5BMcu4nQpad9D_S0agkHE=
  

-Rick Adamson
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Prix
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 3:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

Eric,

  you didn't tell us anything about the network layout. Let's play with some
assumptions:


    -
| TSMClient  | |  TSM-Server | 
|| | |
| 1-GB (1.1.1.1)/24  |-(router)| x-GB (2.2.2.2)  |
||  |  | |
| 10-GB (1.1.1.2)/24 |--|   -
 

Depending on your default route, traffic not destined within your network
(1.1.1.x/24) will be routed via the adapter associated with the default route.

If you would like to send all traffic destined for the TSM-Server (2.2.2.2) 
should go via the 10-GB Adapter, you will have to add a host-route defining all 
traffic for 2.2.2.2 to go via 1.1.1.2 aka the 10-GB adapter and thus ignoring 
the default route.

--
Michael Prix


On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 14:46 +, Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I have tested in the past with 10 Gb attached Linux clients and everything
> worked fine, but now we will add a 10 Gb card to a host which is already
> connected to 1 Gb. So this host has two possible paths to the server. How
> can I make sure the TSM client uses the 10 Gb adapter only? I read something
> about the TCPClientAddress parameter, but according to the manual that is
> only for the server to the client (restore), not for the client to the
> server (backup).
> Thanks for your help in advance!
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
> 
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Re: Migrate from TSM Server 5.5.7 on Windows to TSM Server 7.1.7 on Linux - the unsupported way because exportdb --> insertdb did not work

[Rick Adamson]

Hi Dennis,
I suggest if possible upgrading your old server to a minimum of version 6.3 
then retry the migration, then both databases are full DB2.
Many people had issues going from 5.x straight to version 7 and had much more 
success by first upgrading the old server.

Also, if possible I would use the "new server network method". It eliminates 
the complexities that a tape library adds to the process.
Hope this helps....

-Rick Adamson
 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneck, Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2017 3:24 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Migrate from TSM Server 5.5.7 on Windows to TSM Server 7.1.7 
on Linux - the unsupported way because exportdb --> insertdb did not work

Hello,
how to migrate from TSM Server 5.5.x on Windows to TSM Server 7.1.7 on Linux ( 
only one tape library ) ?
because my way ( see 2nd ) is not supported


1st I tryed: ( exportdb --> insertdb )

VM1: TSM 5.5.7 on Windows and VM2: TSM 7.1.7 on Windows

VM1:
restore backup from productive System.
install UpgradeTool

VM2:
migrate on VM2 with dsmupgdx from VM1
then I had TSM 7.1.7 running.
Did a exportdb on TSM 7.1.7 on Windows

If "insertdb" on Linux TSM Server 7.1.7 got this error:

/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv insertdb manifest=/import/manifest.txt

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux/x86_64 Version 7, Release 1, Level 7.100 
...
"ANR1953E INSERTDB: Linux/x86_64 cannot be the target of a database upgrade 
from Windows."



2nd I tryed: ( local migrate )

Install TSM Server 5.5.7 on Linux ( SLES 12 SP2 ) + TSM Client 5.5.4.0 restore 
backup from productive System.
Install UpgradeTool

Upgrade to TSM 7.1.3 an run "dsmupgdx"
for migrate local Server (Network Method).
Then TSM Server 7.1.3 is running with Data from TSM Server 5.5.x Windows Then 
Update to 7.1.7.300

this works... but IBM support say by phonecall - " .. this is not supported " 
:-(



Any proposals for a supported way ?



Thanks
Dennis

Re: No space available in storage pool failure but there is plenty of space

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
Could it be that the amount of data that the backup is attempting to store 
exceeds the amount of available storage space in the pool?
Recall that before sending the data the backup validates with the server that 
there is sufficient space to store the data. If I recall correctly that number 
is before compression.

Also noted this in your storage pool details below?
Pct Logical: 99.9

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] No space available in storage pool failure but there is 
plenty of space

I should have mentioned that no, I do not set file size limits:

9:12:03 AM   PROCESSOR : q stg backuppool f=d
Storage Pool Name: BACKUPPOOL
Storage Pool Type: Primary
Device Class Name: DISK
 Storage Type: DEVCLASS
   Cloud Type:
Cloud URL:
   Cloud Identity:
   Cloud Location:
   Estimated Capacity: 8,800 G
   Space Trigger Util: 92.7
 Pct Util: 92.7
 Pct Migr: 92.7
  Pct Logical: 99.9
 High Mig Pct: 95
  Low Mig Pct: 90
  Migration Delay: 0
   Migration Continue: Yes
  Migration Processes: 2
Reclamation Processes:
Next Storage Pool: PRIMARY-ONSITE
 Reclaim Storage Pool:
 *  Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit*
   Access: Read/Write
  Description:
Overflow Location:
Cache Migrated Files?: No
   Collocate?:
Reclamation Threshold:
Offsite Reclamation Limit:
  Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed:
   Number of Scratch Volumes Used:
Delay Period for Volume Reuse:
   Migration in Progress?: No
 Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00
 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0
 Reclamation in Progress?:
   Last Update by (administrator): ZFORRAY
Last Update Date/Time: 07/08/2017 09:55:26
 Storage Pool Data Format: Native
 Copy Storage Pool(s):
  Active Data Pool(s):
  Continue Copy on Error?: Yes
 CRC Data: No
 Reclamation Type:
  Overwrite Data when Deleted:
Deduplicate Data?: No  Processes For Identifying Duplicates:
   Compressed:
Deduplication Savings:
  Compression Savings:
Total Space Saved:
   Auto-copy Mode: Client Contains Data Deduplicated by 
Client?: No
 Maximum Simultaneous Writers:
  Protection Storage Pool:
  Date of Last Protection:
 Deduplicate Requires Backup?:
Encrypted:
  Space Utilized (MB):


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Sasa Drnjevic <sasa.drnje...@srce.hr>
wrote:

> Could be a huge sparse file if you have Maximum Size Threshold set for 
> the pool?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Sasa Drnjevic
> www.srce.unizg.hr
>
>
>
>
> On 18.7.2017. 14:48, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > TSM Linux server 7.1.6.3.  Client is Linux 7.1.6.4.
> >
> > This morning at 6am is the second time I have had this "failure" 
> > when it isn't true.
> >
> > ANR0522W Transaction failed for session 19482 for node
> VCU-GS1.CHPC.VCU.EDU
> > (Linux x86-64) - no space available in storage pool BACKUPPOOL and 
> > all successor pools.
> >
> > But it isn't true.  The BACKUPPOOL pool is only 92% used (of 9TB) 
> > and the hi/low triggers are 95/90.  I checked activity logs and 
> > there haven't
> been
> > any recent migrations.
> >
> > The NEXTPOOL is tape and all 9-drives are free and the MAXSCRATCH 
> > count hasn't been hit.
> >
> > The backup only transferred 60GB (of 108TB examined) before dying 
> > due to this erroneous error.
> >
> > No other errors in the activity log. So, what gives?
> >
> > --
> > *Zoltan Forray*
> > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator 
> > Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia 
> > Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services 
> > www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing 
> > victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email 
> > to request 

Re: Increase resourcetimeout TSM 6.3

[Rick Adamson]

To set the RESOURCETIMEOUT option you need to proceed your command with the 
"setopt" command.
For example: SETOPT RESOURCETIMEOUT 120

Use the "help setopt" command from the TSM Admin CLI, or reference the Admin 
guide  for info.

-Rick Adamson
 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Paul_Dudley
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 8:31 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Increase resourcetimeout TSM 6.3

How do you increase the resourcetimeout value in TSM 6.3? From the TSM 
Administrative Command Line I have run the command "resourcetimeout 120" 
however this fails with an unknown command error.

I have checked the dsmserv.opt file on the server but there is no mention of a 
resourcetimeout parameter in the file.





Regards

Paul Dudley

IT Operations

ANL Container Line

pdud...@anl.com.au








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Re: scheduling a restore

[Rick Adamson]

Gary,
I was tasked to do this for over 1,000 servers in our DR facility, basically 
data is backed up in production and it need to be restored on an ongoing basis 
to stand-by servers at our DR site to minimize recovery time.

You can create a restore schedule in the same manner as a backup schedule, but 
for my needs there were limitations that made it unattractive, such as 
overwriting existing files, multiple filespaces, etc., etc.

In the end I went in another direction, creating a macro.   I tested the 
commands needed to accomplish my restore, copied them into a text file, named 
it with an extension of "mac", copied it to the client install directory. and 
whala , problem solved.

Then I defined a reoccurring client schedule that looks like this:

Policy Domain Name: FILE_DOMAIN
 Schedule Name: RESTORE2
   Description: DR/BCP restore schedule for LPAR-2.
Action: Macro
 Subaction:
   Options:
   Objects: restore-bcp.mac
  Priority: 5
   Start Date/Time: 05/23/2016 08:00:00
  Duration: 8 Hour(s)
Maximum Run Time (Minutes): 0
Schedule Style: Classic
Period: 1 Day(s)
   Day of Week: Any


My  commands in the macro are exactly as they would be typed at the command 
line, here's an example:
restore -replace=all -subdir=yes /home/ra/

You would obviously need to add a second file specification to the end of it 
for your restore destination.
I use the replace option to replace all the files, as well as restore any 
subdirectories and their files too.

Refer to documented syntax for the restore command for a list of the myriad of 
options available.
Possibilities are pretty much endless....


-Rick Adamson
Jacksonville, FL.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] scheduling a restore

Tsm client 6.3.2 for windows, server 7.1.7.1 running on RHEL 6.8.

Had some notes on this, but can't find them.
Trying to schedule a restore to an alternate destination and can't get it to 
work.
What am I missing.

Want to restore g:\*.*
To
F:\drive-g\

Essentially move all files from drive g: to f:\drive-g folder.

Thanks for the help.

Re: How to backup Billions of files ??

[Rick Adamson]

Bo
I suggest you provide a few more details about the data and you backup 
environment.
For example; what is this data, how frequently will it be accessed on average, 
what is its total space requirements, what is the source stored on?
Type of backup storage; tape, disk, cloud? (specifics)
Bandwidth/network speed between data and target backup server?

-Rick Adamson
 Jacksonville,Fl.
 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bo 
Nielsen
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 7:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] How to backup Billions of files ??

Hi TSM's

I have earlier asked for help with archiving of 80 Billion very small files, 
But now they want the files backed up. They expect an average change rate of 3 
percent/Month.

Anyone with experience of such an exercise, and will share it with me??

Regards

Bo


Bo Nielsen


IT Service



Technical University of Denmark

IT Service

Frederiksborgvej 399

Building 109

DK - 4000 Roskilde

Denmark

Mobil +45 2337 0271

boa...@dtu.dk<mailto:boa...@dtu.dk>

Re: Multiple NFS mounts to same DataDomain

[Rick Adamson]

Rick,
I cannot comment on NFS, but have used Data Domain for my primary storage for 
over 6 years now.
My servers run on windows and mount DD using CIFS.

My systems are configured like you describe below; in the backend DD is one 
large file system but each TSM instance (server) has multiple dedicated 
directories defined as individual device classes.

For example for TSM server 1 the Data Domain file system is laid out:
/backups/tsm/s1/aix
/backups/tsm/s1/ win
/backups/tsm/s1/sql
/backups/tsm/s1/db2

Then on TSM server 2:
/backups/tsm/s2/aix
/backups/tsm/s2/ win
/backups/tsm/s2/sql
/backups/tsm/s2/db2

Where s1, s2, etc. represents a particular TSM server instance.

Individual file device classes and storage pools are defined on each TSM server 
for each directory, even though in reality there is only one DD file system.

This has worked well for me, even when using hundreds and hundreds of mount 
points from backups, reclaims, migrations, etc.
The only thing I had to be careful of was flat-lining the CPU/memory limits of 
the DD system itself.

Hope this helps

-Rick Adamson



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:35 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Multiple NFS mounts to same DataDomain

Arnaud's discussion on the another thread is SO interesting (Availability for 
Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system).

It got me thinking of our problems . . . 

> NFS, whose performance is not that good on AIX systems

Agreed!!!  After getting DataDomain system and using NFS we were/are VERY 
unhappy with the NFS performance.  

Our Unix admins worked with IBM/AIX support, and finally got an admission that 
the problem is AIX/NFS using a single TCP socket for all writes.  The 
workaround was to use multiple mount point to the same NFS share and spread  
writes (somehow) across them.  He did this and got higher throughput.   

So now I'm wondering if we could use multiple NFS mounts to the same DD for our 
file device pools.

  aix:  /DD/tsm1/mnt1dd: /data/col1/tsm1/mnt1
/DD/tsm1/mnt2/data/col1/tsm1/mnt2
/DD/tsm1/mnt3/data/col1/tsm1/mnt2

Then use multiple dir's for the file device devclass:  
   define devclass DDFILEDEV devtype=file 
dir=/DD/tsm1/mnt1,/DD/tsm1/mnt2,/DD/tsm1/mnt3

According to the link to dsmISI again, TSM will roughly balance across the 
multiple mount points, hopefully giving better write throughput.  I've been 
VERY reluctant to try this since it appears once you add a dir to a file device 
devclass, it's there forever! 


I'm curious if anyone is doing this.

Rick



 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 5:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: *EXTERNAL* Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software 
for Linux on power system

Hi Zoltan,

Many reasons for it, which I'll try to shortly summarize :

1) Isilon makes use of NFS, whose performance is not that good on AIX systems. 
We are an AIX shop, and are forced to move to Power Linux machines to get 
sufficient performance to cover our backup needs.
Our first experience with Power Linux machines revealed serious lacks in the 
functionalities we are accustomed to : no easy HMC setup, thus lack of call 
home capabilities so far. In addition to this we needed to setup a RedHat 
satellite server to allow for installation on remote servers, and so far are 
unable to boot our machines from it ... This will probably work sooner or 
later, but requires lots of involvement and time from our sys-admins.

2) Isilon is not perfectly fitting in a big TSM environment. In order to get 
decent performance, a third party tool will be needed, whose name is dsmISI. 
See following : 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stefanradtke.blogspot.ch_2015_06_how-2Dto-2Doptimize-2Dtsm-2Doperations-2Dwith.html=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=ceqoly0N1xdMkzC6J2TGqdvDLzG9yKYM_kL2dEIbKXE=jsLuA3uyleSJqx2Oeqd7Ei16GvZUAg8ffr282jWfKPw=
  This means another layer of complexity in the setup, and another vendor to 
talk to, if facing performance issues. I had more than my lot of "ping-pong" 
games during my career as TSM administrator, between IBM and other vendors, to 
reject the responsibility on each other in case of issues. Having 3 parties 
involved in our setup will make such games even more frequent ...

3) User base for such a combination in Switzerland is inexistent, at least in 
the same order of size than ours. EMC has not been able to provide any customer 
reference in this country, with whom we could talk to about their setup. There 
must be a good reason for it ...

4) Compatibility issues : this was more kind of a guts feeling I had, but as 
usually, it reveal

Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[Rick Adamson]

Arnaud,

Thanks for the feedback, I just received delivery of two Isilons yesterday, one 
for our production DC and another for DR, hopefully I won't regret it.
All of my TSM/ISP servers run on MS Windows 2012 R2 so NFS won't be an issue.

For several years we have used Data Domain but it was reaching its end of 
service. One of my biggest concerns is if it will be able to handle the 
workload or become a performance bottleneck.

I'll post back more info as I get them deployed and up to speed

Can you expand on your model, number of nodes and network connectivity ?

Thanks again

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 5:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for 
Linux on power system

Hi Zoltan,

Many reasons for it, which I'll try to shortly summarize :

1) Isilon makes use of NFS, whose performance is not that good on AIX systems. 
We are an AIX shop, and are forced to move to Power Linux machines to get 
sufficient performance to cover our backup needs.
Our first experience with Power Linux machines revealed serious lacks in the 
functionalities we are accustomed to : no easy HMC setup, thus lack of call 
home capabilities so far. In addition to this we needed to setup a RedHat 
satellite server to allow for installation on remote servers, and so far are 
unable to boot our machines from it ... This will probably work sooner or 
later, but requires lots of involvement and time from our sys-admins.

2) Isilon is not perfectly fitting in a big TSM environment. In order to get 
decent performance, a third party tool will be needed, whose name is dsmISI. 
See following : 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stefanradtke.blogspot.ch_2015_06_how-2Dto-2Doptimize-2Dtsm-2Doperations-2Dwith.html=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=IvL1NDqYjCA6eIK2-Dzb4BB_fBbpaVFQ5qhxSny2G4I=kpqDyDb694uLBMIK6iSla9-xv73XJeNfOXU4XAwfyCI=
  This means another layer of complexity in the setup, and another vendor to 
talk to, if facing performance issues. I had more than my lot of "ping-pong" 
games during my career as TSM administrator, between IBM and other vendors, to 
reject the responsibility on each other in case of issues. Having 3 parties 
involved in our setup will make such games even more frequent ...

3) User base for such a combination in Switzerland is inexistent, at least in 
the same order of size than ours. EMC has not been able to provide any customer 
reference in this country, with whom we could talk to about their setup. There 
must be a good reason for it ...

4) Compatibility issues : this was more kind of a guts feeling I had, but as 
usually, it revealed to be true : see the problems I will now be facing with 
Little/Big endian versions of TSM/Spectrum Protect (without to mention that 
Spectrum Protect 8.1 is not even available for Power Linux so far). I'm 
currently facing another one : the Isilon we got is running OneFS 8, and 
there's so far no official statement that it is supported, whether by TSM or by 
dsmISI. A downgrade to OneFS 7.x revealed to be impossible, due to the fact 
that the 8 TB disks installed in the machine are not supporting it ...

5) Support by EMC : revealed to be less efficient than the one offered by IBM. 
Since EMC merged with Dell, it became even worse (for a non-native English 
speaking person, having a call with support based in India is a nightmare). 
Also our storage administrator informed me that from his experience, upgrade 
procedures on EMC devices where much more complicated than the ones for IBM 
hardware, and almost always required intervention of the vendor to be conducted 
properly (lots of dependencies in microcodes, switch versions and so on ...)

6) Costs ...

Of course, your mileage may vary, but in our case I'm pretty sure that 
management made the wrong choice (I would have gone IBM Spectrum Scale in 
conjunction with an AIX based server : one vendor, blueprints provided, and 
guaranteed performance).

Cheers.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 4:38 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

Arnaud,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud < arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> 
wrote:

> because our management (despite my warnings not to do so) decided that 
> the target storage for backups would be an EMC Isilon, that connects 
> to the TSM server using NFS mounts.


A little off topic for this thread but why do you feel it is a "bad idea"
to use EMC Isilon for TSM target storage for backups?  We are leaning in this 
direction and in fact have such a configuration for our off

Re: How to exclude bad Linux mountpoint

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
Would it be acceptable to just force an unmount of the ghost FS ?
I had a similar situation where a vendor was hired to perform some analytics on 
our 150 Linux servers, his removal process failed, leaving the mount points.
For me that was easier..

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 4:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to exclude bad Linux mountpoint

Thanks for the suggestions.  I forgot about the EXCLUDE.FS which seems to have 
done the trick since it is a filesystem (see df below).  Now to roll this out 
to all of my Linux servers.

[zforray@processor ~]$ df -m
Filesystem   1M-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_root
 200317123 11885  38% /
tmpfs48339   1 48339   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2  477 108   344  24% /boot
/dev/sdb1  100   1   100   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_home
 50269   10818 36891  23% /home
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_tsmarchlog
302380 480301901   1% /tsmdb2
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_tsmarchlog2
151190 348150843   1% /tsmarchlog2
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_tsmdb
403174  364843 38331  91% /tsmdb
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_tsmlog
129016  120165  2298  99% /tsmlog
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_pool-lv_tsmpool
  10133861 9618741   344 100% /tsmpool
/dev/mapper/vg_processr_sys-lv_var
 14991 878 13346   7% /var
/dev/sdd 2   0 2   0% /tmp/SECUPD
/dev/sde 2   0 2   0% /tmp/SECUPD


On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Andrew Raibeck <stor...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Zoltan,
>
> It could be the simple act of enumerating file systems or mount points 
> that causes a problem. What kinds of problems, specifically, are you seeing?
>
> A couple of thoughts (not sure these will help):
>
> - Does this show up as a separate file system, such as when you do df -m?
> If yes, you could try exclude.fs /tmp/SECUPD
>
> - Another possibility is to define it as a virtual mount point using 
> the VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT option, then using exclude.fs.
>
> Finally, a total "shot in the dark", but try searching the internet 
> for this directory name. One discussion I found indicates that 
> /tmp/SECUPD is causing other issues, too:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__en.community.dell.com_support-2Dforums_servers_f_956_t_19996605=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=dpyZFjUm5jdJEy7vIroIPKAZVkonlHvpInjN-PV6Njo=emQBeN08TImOrf5CKuScl7Pu2yElvurRtxPTdEAeZps=
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> 
> 
>
> Andrew Raibeck | IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 | stor...@us.ibm.com
>
> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links:
> Product support:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_support_entry_portal_product_tivoli_=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=dpyZFjUm5jdJEy7vIroIPKAZVkonlHvpInjN-PV6Njo=ECVSfVXW6qbUJh9K4NzdycKHtgKidb30DOkhhN3vnSg=
>  
> tivoli_storage_manager
>
> Online documentation:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7_=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=dpyZFjUm5jdJEy7vIroIPKAZVkonlHvpInjN-PV6Njo=YvaXmgbA-vSR09gHC1JzvaVMgvi9HcpCk8dhEP9YuxA=
>  
> landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html
>
> Product Wiki:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_developerworks_community_wikis_home_wiki_Tivoli-25=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=dpyZFjUm5jdJEy7vIroIPKAZVkonlHvpInjN-PV6Njo=i2qIxt6CveEAE0hGbd2V-kpyTFpNQgBj7tu6ei3GDZY=
>  
> 20Storage%20Manager
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2017-02-07
> 14:45:50:
>
> > From: Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu>
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Date: 2017-02-07 14:46
> > Subject: How to exclude bad Linux mountpoint Sent by: "ADSM: Dist 
> > Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> >
> > Ever since a certain Dell update, a ghost mountpoint of /tmp/SECUPD 
> > is
> left
> > hanging after iDRAC/OpenManage updates.  This is now causing 
> > heartburn
> for
> > TSM backups.
> >
> > I have tried pushing down via CLOPTSET to
> >
> > exclude.dir /tmp/SECUPD
> &g

Re: RFE: Node custom information user field

[Rick Adamson]

Got my vote, cannot count the number of times that I wished there was a 
description/note field for nodesthanks Conny.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Conny 
Landstedt
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 7:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RFE: Node custom information user field

Hi,

I've placed an RFE for what I in short call 'Node custom information user field'
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_developerworks_rfe_execute-3Fuse-5Fcase-3DviewRfe-26CR-5FID-3D98544=DwIFAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=bsxXh_GjJeXADnbavw4O0Ym6DNVRDg2bvWDq-nYdnSg=Yt9cbWj8_hyDLNz6y3Ljh1q8IWyPxH-Z6oMFoOgd8qs=
 

As described in the RFE:
A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in 
any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. 
Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.

The use cases are many, and as described in the RFE:
This could be used as a normal textfield or for for example a JSON string, or 
an XML string for easy integration with other systems. Sometimes we simply need 
somewhere to place some information for a particular node or for all nodes. For 
example to track who the end customer is for the node, agreement number for the 
node, or what system it belongs to. It's a free user 'custom information' field 
so the possibilities for it's use case is pretty much what we as end users can 
imagine using it for.

If you think this is a good idea please vote for it.

Best regards
Conny Landstedt

Re: DB2 back-up issues on Windows

[Rick Adamson]

I have found that most all of the "cannot find, or cannot read" I run into are 
ultimately permission related, especially with DB2.


-Rick 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Karel 
Bos
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 6:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] DB2 back-up issues on Windows

Hi,



Every day I have to restart DB2 (sometimes multiple times) due to backups stop 
working. The DB2 database is doing log file and normal backups to TSM and the 
backups stop working after the following couple of errors:



31.01.2017 10:48:04 instrStart: Unable to get write file lock or report file 
handler.

31.01.2017 10:48:16 ANS1035S Options file 'D:\TSM\client\dsm.opt' could not be 
found, or it cannot be read.

31.01.2017 10:48:31 instrStop: Unable to get write file lock or report file 
handler.



My idea is this has nothing to do with the dsm.opt itself but with the 
dsmopt.lock file and the handler stops working. This leads me to believe it has 
something to do with:



https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www-2D01.ibm.com_support_docview.wss-3Fuid-3Dswg21646969=DwICAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=NYVXmJstnwXOL1D-oICuOCJtMLO01UY9BP_P6Hazv40=ppbHkreaOeHpE_RvUd4NGYQUx08O5dTlezN0U_pVems=
 



but ofc its al directed to Unix as although IBM supports their products on 
Windows their support and documentation are mostly based on AIX installations.



Also note, this symptom should be fixed in TSM V7.1.4 but this environment is 
running BAclient V7.1.6.2 on Windows 2008R2 64b. Support ticket with IBM has 
been opened but sofar they are not really helpfull.



I wonder if someone is running into the same issues and if its only on windows 
or also still on AIX (as I have multiple AIX servers running DB2 without the 
option to restart them everytime the backup stops working which are about to be 
upgraded to this TSM client version).



Kind regards,



Karel

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

[Rick Adamson]

Bo,
What is the total space occupied by this data?

-Rick 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bo 
Nielsen
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 9:18 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

Hi all,

I need advice.
I must archive 80 billion small files, but that is not possible, as I see it.
since it will fill in the TSM's Database about 73 Tb.
The filespace is mounted on a Linux server.
Is there a way to pack/zip the files, so it's a smaller number of files.
anybody who has tried this ??

Regards,

Bo Nielsen


IT Service



Technical University of Denmark

IT Service

Frederiksborgvej 399

Building 109

DK - 4000 Roskilde

Denmark

Mobil +45 2337 0271

boa...@dtu.dk

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

[Rick Adamson]

This obviously is not intended as a criticism of Christie BMR, it is a great 
product. 
But in my opinion this a primary function that any backup/archive/recovery 
solution should provide, especially at top-tier application price points.

Again, how hard could it be?  Would be a great addition to the Operations 
Center :)

-Rick Adamson
 904.783.5264


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Alverson
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 6:48 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ISP 81 Discontinued functions

From reading about it on their web page, the product gives you a boot disk that 
other vendors include for free, plus they add scheduling, multiple restores and 
test restores.  Not worth $750 per server.  Someone mentioned
$500 so maybe that is a volume price but if you have a lot of clients we're 
talking about millions of dollars to purchase something that should be included.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Ron Delaware <ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> to piggyback on Michael's statement, it has been IBM's position for 
> over a decade,  to use Christie as its Bare Metal Restore Solution and 
> to put IBM's programming efforts towards other areas of Tivoli Storage 
> Manager (TSM), now IBM Spectrum Protect, product. Having worked with 
> this product for 16+ years now, I believe that it was a good decision. 
> The Christie product has matured to the point that it is an almost 
> seamless integration into the IBM Spectrum Protect software as well as 
> being a stand-alone product as well. I have designed and delivered 
> solutions where the TSM client was replace with a Christie client, and 
> the results were amazing and customer expectations and satisfaction were 
> exceeded.
>
> Yes there is the additional cost, but the capabilities and 
> functionality, the ease of use and administration of the solution is worth 
> the cost.
>
>
>
> _
> Ronald C. Delaware
> IBM IT Plus Certified Specialist - Expert IBM Corporation | System Lab 
> Services IBM Certified Solutions Advisor - Spectrum Storage IBM 
> Certified Spectrum Scale 4.1 & Spectrum Protect 7.1.3 IBM Certified 
> Cloud Object Storage (Cleversafe) Open Group IT Certified - Masters
> 916-458-5726 (Office)
> 925-457-9221 (cell phone)
> email: ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com
> Storage Services Offerings
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From:   "Ryder, Michael S" <michael_s.ry...@roche.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date:   12/14/2016 10:35 AM
> Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] ISP 81 Discontinued functions
> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
>
>
>
> Just piping in here to lend support to TBMR - this has come in very 
> handily, especially for the critical workstations we backup.  Pop in 
> the boot CD, answer a few prompts, and then off it goes, restoring 
> directly from TSM/SP back to the local harddrive, along with the 
> functionality to adjust for differing hardware/chipsets and 
> drive-configuration.
>
> It is *totally awesome* not having to rely on some hand-scripted 
> process, and like any backup solution, cheap insurance.
>
> When one of those critical workstations fails, we can consistently 
> bring it back to its identical state within 1-2 hours, with only 10-15 
> minutes interaction needed on the front and back end of that process.
>
> Cost of ~$500/client is well worth it, in relation to the total TSM/SP 
> equation and considering the costs of our downtime.  Of course that 
> has to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mike Ryder, x7942
> RMD IT Client Services
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Rick Adamson 
> <rickadam...@segrocers.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Whenever I have requested approval for Christie BMR the response was
> that
> > it was way too expensive.
> >
> > Every time the debate comes up on TSM/SP versus other solutions 
> > someone always targets this shortcoming. It makes it difficult to 
> > argue TSM/SP
> as a
> > world-class enterprise solution when your options to perform a bare
> metal
> > recovery are making a sizable purchase from a third-party, or work 
> > thru
> an
> > unnecessarily complicated process.
> >
> > Seeing as there's a defined process for the offline SS recovery, how 
> > difficult would it be for IBM to automate the function, have it 
> > prompt
> for
> > drivers,  and add the creation to the GUI/CLI ??
> >
> > Epic fail 
> >
> > -Rick Adamson
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Man

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

[Rick Adamson]

Whenever I have requested approval for Christie BMR the response was that it 
was way too expensive. 

Every time the debate comes up on TSM/SP versus other solutions someone always 
targets this shortcoming. It makes it difficult to argue TSM/SP as a 
world-class enterprise solution when your options to perform a bare metal 
recovery are making a sizable purchase from a third-party, or work thru an 
unnecessarily complicated process.

Seeing as there's a defined process for the offline SS recovery, how difficult 
would it be for IBM to automate the function, have it prompt for drivers,  and 
add the creation to the GUI/CLI ??

Epic fail 

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Alverson
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 10:03 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ISP 81 Discontinued functions

It looks like that product just gives you the features that are automatically 
included in the Symantec boot recovery disk.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> For those that do need more, take a look at Cristie TBMR. IBM resells it:
>
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cristie.com_re
> cover_tbmr_=DgIFaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mK
> vhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=MaBDnfu3IOl4KU7j66irgUXnzuj2QunRKvAwOKGl57c=
> YJlfO6xtNBnRSGWsCJCy4UsCvPHpyj734mOlG4yUo-A=
>
> From their doc:
>
> "TBMR allows you to perform a bare machine recovery of your system 
> direct from a TSM backup. Your critical systems are protected from the 
> consequences of physical damage, human error, or system failure. Users 
> can recover their protected servers to any point in time provided by 
> TSM as well as schedule simulated recoveries. TBMR is re-sold globally 
> by IBM and its channel partners as the recommended system recovery solution 
> for TSM.
> It’s currently available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating 
> systems."
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Del
>
> 
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 12/14/2016
> 02:18:03 AM:
>
> > From: Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folke...@gmail.com>
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Date: 12/14/2016 02:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor 
> > Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> >
> > I'm going to have to agree on this one from Tom, I also find it 
> > strange that IBM doesn't just offer a recovery disk or at least a 
> > good tool so
> you
> > only have to pick the correct B/A client and it will create it for you.
> >
> > Many of our clients are close to 100% virtualized but we also have
> around
> > 15-20% of our customers that will probably never virtualize for 
> > 100%,
> they
> > are running very specialized systems that require 100% of the CPU in 
> > the server or are transferring truly huge amounts of data that would 
> > impact
> the
> > other VM's if ran in VMware. So they run on physical hosts and have 
> > to
> deal
> > with the PE thing that is kind of hard to get over to be honest.
> >
> > But yes, I have made those disks and they work but the procedure for
> using
> > them isn't very simple so you need a windows administrator that 
> > knows
> his
> > stuff. Tt's not a fire and forget kind of procedure even if you have 
> > a working disk.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Tom Alverson 
> > <tom.alver...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The worst part about this is the extremely poor setup IBM has for
> doing an
> > > offline restore.  They give you the instructions to create your 
> > > own
> boot
> > > disk.  I read it over and could not believe IBM did not have a 
> > > nice pre-made recovery boot disk like Symantec, AVAMAR and Networker do.
> Are
> > > there any plans for IBM to do this?  Has anyone successfully made 
> > > one
> of
> > > these do it yourself recovery disks?
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim < 
> > > bull...@gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Del.
> > > >
> > > > Why no prior warning? This was news to me until the 8.1 GA. We 
> > > > have
> > > several
> > > > environments where BMR is based on online systemstate 
> > > > restore(which
> works
> > > > very well) and now these customers say that they a

Re: Backing up Active Directory server using TSM client

[Rick Adamson]

Paul,
In my opinion the answer to this question varies relative to the size of the 
forest/domain. 

For example; if you are dealing with an environment with a small number of DC's 
and a single site then the potential need for recovery could be higher than a 
larger environment that spans many sites in different  regional/national/global 
locations.
In these larger sites when a domain controller fails it is generally easier to 
stand up a new member server and promote it to a DC as a replacement than to 
recover the failed one.

However, in smaller installations where there is one, or a small number of 
domain controllers, the risk for restore is higher as there is less, or no, 
redundancy.

In most all situations it's probably easier to automate the backup of AD, using 
your tool of choice, to local storage and then assure that it is included in 
the backup. 
It provides you more flexible options to recover AD, should the need arise, 
independent of the domain controller.


-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Matthew McGeary
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 9:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Active Directory server using TSM client

I believe that TSM for VMWare is Active Directory aware and creates consistent 
snaps of virtualized DCs.

I've handed our AD guys VM backups of their DCs for a couple years now and they 
seem to be able to recover without much issue but I'm not an expert in AD or 
what their procedure is.

__
Matthew McGeary
Senior Technical Specialist - Infrastructure Management Services PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Paul_Dudley
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 10:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Active Directory server using TSM client

Is there any point in backing up an Active Directory server using the TSM 
client? Would a restore of Active Directory work? I have read conflicting views 
on this - some say it would not work yet others say it has worked for them, 
while others say that they use another tool to backup Active Directory and then 
use TSM to backup those backup files.





Thanks & Regards

Paul





Paul Dudley

IT Operations

ANL Container Line

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Re: Support for Windows Server 2016 / beta

[Rick Adamson]

I would say no, Microsoft just emailed me yesterday about its release to 
general availability. A webcast  is scheduled for noon today EDT, as per my MS 
rep.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Support for Windows Server 2016 / beta

One of my OS admins came to me about TSM support for W2K16 support since they 
are installing the server beta to test.

Is there a beta client release I can grab?  For now they were going to try the 
7.1.6.3 patch release but my guess is it won't like the server release level.

--
*Zoltan Forray*
Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor 
Administrator VMware Administrator (in training) Virginia Commonwealth 
University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 
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Re: Azure support for cloud-based storage pools?

[Rick Adamson]

Del,
How about Azure hosting the TSM server and using blob storage for backup data ?
We have presence there and would really like to get away from MS DPM.
I also would be really interested in participating

Thanks 
-Rick Adamson



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 8:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Azure support for cloud-based storage pools?

Hi Steve,

You are correct that it isn't currently supported. It is on the futures list, 
yes. 

If you are interested in this integration and plan to start sending backup data 
to Azure BLOB storage, please join the Spectrum Protect EAP/beta program. We 
would like to have some deeper level discussions with you around the 
requirements.


Del



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 10/04/2016
12:35:22 PM:

> From: "Stackwick, Stephen" <stephen.stackw...@icf.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 10/04/2016 12:37 PM
> Subject: Azure support for cloud-based storage pools?
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> 
> Didn't make it to EDGE this year, wondering if there is any word on 
> this. According to the DEFINE STGPOOL doc I'm reading, Azure doesn't 
> seem to be currently supported for cloud-based pools. Is this on the 
> futures list?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> 
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Re: Help with DFS backups

[Rick Adamson]

Hi Zoltan,
There's a section in the BA client user guide that talks about the options 
available for backing up Microsoft DFS, perhaps that will help it's a short 
read. I haven't used it in a few years so would be reluctant to be specific on 
usage.

(from page 180 on the 7.1 version of the BA guide)

There are the methods you should use to protect your Microsoft Dfs data:
1. Back up the Dfs link metadata and the actual data at the share 
target of each
link from the workstation hosting the Dfs root. This method simplifies 
back up
and restore by consolidating all of the Tivoli Storage Manager 
activities on a
single workstation. This method has the disadvantage of requiring an
additional network transfer during backup to access the data stored at 
link
targets.
2. Back up only the Dfs link metadata that is local to the workstation 
hosting the
Dfs root. Back up the data at the target of each link from the 
workstation(s)
which the data is local too. This method increases back up and restore
performance by eliminating the extra network transfer, but requires 
Tivoli
Storage Manager back up and restores to be coordinated among several
workstations.

Hope this helps..

-Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 3:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS backups

We were able to determine it was a rights issue on the Isilon system.  TSM 
needs root-level access.

However, our current problem is how TSM backs things up when using DFS mounts.  
Eventhough we specifically say to backup "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp 
administration\*", the only filesystem TSM sees and registers when it backs up 
is the highest level, that being "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa" - it ignores the "vp 
administration" sub-directory/folder.

Does anyone out there have experience with backing up DFS with TSM?  Is
this the way it is going to be?   This is back to each
department/group/area wanting total control over backup/restore of their 
"shares".

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Schneider, Jim <jschnei...@essendant.com>
wrote:

> Do you have the correct capitalization in the backup command?
>
> Jim Schneider
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 7:54 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS backups
>
> We are redesigning our storage systems, moving to Isilon and to DFS vs 
> CIFS.
>
> Unfortunately, we have not been able to get TSM to backup the first 
> test DFS mount.
>
> All efforts to run a backup the DFS fail with:
>
> Incremental backup of volume '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration'
> ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
> failed.
> *ANS4007E Error processing '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense=DQI
> BaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJj
> Ffxw=5PRblP2zIuEBKbqOWcmYmtDqOHrzrqJ4mnewDAB6qEg=rZoJajrq2_UeeiVpg
> -zB-efFopQrZGkd8a0nu0ICnbo= .> 
> proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rams.adp.vcu.edu_=DQIBaQ=
> MqzcmAKsw3j3xTQl5efyrz6ChwH9_xFQsqxq8hPjflw=oC06_8Fv3bsc_6MYFkLOVjvW
> vgE- JVnMc6qtesQ14R0=FGrnyJKGKidLaS1WgSPITHIybdYao96cpsMsRS6Ip-A=
> JpzTtoiZFZZag3Nn8eLnC77-XeRLd9tdS020hD2N7nA= >\vpa\VP Administration':
> access to the object is
> denied*
> ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
> finished with 1 failure(s)
>
> This is supposed to be the structure:
>
> Isilon - \\uccisilon.rams.adp.vcu.edu\VP Administration DFS - \\ 
> rams.adp.vcu.edu\VPA\VP Administration
>
> Normally the "access denied" would be an authorization/rights issue.
> However, everything has been checked and double-checked and supposedly 
> (I don't have anything to do with it) is correct.
>
> Backing up the Isilon mountpoint works. This command fails with the 
> "access denied" error:
>
> dsmc i -optfile=C:\tsmcifsnode\isilon-vpadmin\dsm-vpadmin.opt
> -subdir=yes  "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration"
>
> So, what are we missing?
>
>
> --
> *Zoltan Forray*
> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> Xymon Monitor Administrator
> VMware Administrator (in training)
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> UCC/Office of Technology Services
> www.ucc.vcu.edu
> zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
> Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations 
> will never use email to request that you reply with your passwor

Re: *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

[Rick Adamson]

Charles,
I am now dealing with the same issue you mentioned in bullet item 2 and have 
with an active PMR with IBM.

The container storage pool replicate and protect processes are failing with 
(ANR0522W) messages claiming the container storage pool is out of space but a 
quick query reports that it is roughly 38% utilized.
We have been able to identify that the free space in the container pool is 
allocated for "dedup data" and it is the space allocated for "non-dedup data" 
is full and ultimately causing the errors.
The space allocated/available for these data types can be queried by issuing 
the show sdpool command from the server administrative command line interface.

Now I would think that there would be a mechanism by which the storage pool 
would just re-allocate some of the available free space to the storage or the 
non-dedup data and keep right on working, but apparently that is not the case, 
or is not working as designed.

I am continuing to work with support on the issue and will update this thread 
when it is resolved/closed.

Unfortunately, for my problem upgrading to version 7.1.6 does not resolve the 
problem.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nixon, 
Charles D. (David)
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 8:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

We have a HDS G400 behind our new TSM servers FMD/Flash behind one container 
for our primary production database (11.5 TB with 16 versions  is fitting in 16.6TB) and the rest is in a giant nearline SAS pool.  
The flash also serves to back the logs/db and the SAS serves as a DBB/logarch 
location.

Other lessons learned from container pools...

1.  Make sure that your TSM server is big enough.  We have had to upgrade some 
old Power 750's to new boxes to handle the overhead of compression and dedupe.  
This offsets some of the finical savings from getting rid of purpose built 
appliances.

2.  In EVERY SINGLE VERSION that we have tried from 7.1.3.200, 7.1.4.x, to 
7.1.5.x we have run into container related bugs.  As such, we keep having to 
upgrade the TSM server, only to find new bugs introduced in the newer versions. 
 TSM used to be a set and forget application for us.  Now we are stuck in a 
horrible upgrade cycle for the last year and it doesn't seem to be letting up.  
Last week we were told that we may need to go to 7.1.6 since TSM thinks a 
container is full when it's not.


---
David Nixon
Storage Engineer II
Technology Services Group
Carilion Clinic
451 Kimball Ave.
Roanoke, VA 24015
Phone: 540-224-3903
cdni...@carilionclinic.org

Our mission: Improve the health of the communities we serve.




From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Rhodes, 
Richard L. [rrho...@firstenergycorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

I'm curious, what kind of storage system do ya'll use for your container pools?



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 8:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: *EXTERNAL* Re: deleing data from a containerpool

We are getting a 78% savings on a mixed workload (BA, Oracle, VM, Exchange, 
SQL) with about 350 nodes moving around 10TB of data a night.

David

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 8:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] deleing data from a containerpool

This inline deduplication and compression thing really is amazing;

excerpt from q stgpool f=d

Deduplication Savings: 153,840 G (90.83%)
  Compression Savings: 8,711 G (56.07%)
Total Space Saved: 162,550 G (95.97%)

So on top of the 90.83% deduplication saving (that dont' require any
reclaiming) this customer saves another 56.07% of the stored data due to 
compression making it a total of 95.97% space saved.
These figures require a lot of duplicate data of course but still, 
containerpools FTW!
We call it the "cool pool" btw. :-)



On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Minor correction.
>
> Inline compression for container pools was added in March in 7.1.5.
>
>
> IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.5 - Inline compression:
> - Performed in-line after deduplication to provide additional storage 
> savings
> - Negligible impact on resources - uses latest and most efficient 
> compression algorithms
> - Can potentially double (or more) your storage savings after 
> deduplication
>
>
> Del
>
> ---

Re: Windows Client Upgrades

[Rick Adamson]

Bob,
Thanks for the info, I had not ran across that tech note.

I could see where it may be a characteristic of the MS component install and 
not the SP client, but minimally during a manual install it would be nice to 
have a message box or something warning of the potential unprompted restart.

I am planning on deploying it where I can to address the Installshield 
vulnerability but certainly cannot have countless clients performing 
unscheduled restarts.
Guess I will have to see about having the prerequisite packages deployed prior 
to the SP client upgrade, perhaps along with the monthly MS Tuesday updates.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Talda
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 3:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades

Rick, et al:

  I’m going to wade in cautiously here, as in my experience, every situation is 
different.



  We’ve experienced the reboot issue here at Cornell when installing or 
upgrading the TSM client for Windows, but the reboots always seem to be 
associated with the redistributable library installers provided by Microsoft.  
These appeared in v6.3.1 (for us), and while the reboot issue was documented 
for silent installs:



https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7-5F6.3.0_com.ibm.itsm.client.doc_t-5Finst-5Fwinclient.html=DQIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=zfhvQqOljOX6I3IRnYjCcHBSr3IwiOZSzTLrAY5VobA=IsQLDWFhzE9cTTI9BsvdnIeEWCOW_DDthcKbmUcW_1Q=
 



we certainly missed it.  When the issue was highlighted in the next release of 
the client (v.6.4):



https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7-5F6.4.0_com.ibm.itsm.client.doc_c-5Finst-5Fwinclientreboot.html=DQIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=zfhvQqOljOX6I3IRnYjCcHBSr3IwiOZSzTLrAY5VobA=bRhtHNNpYKGVABxUVZRShZbR2qrD1GkXL3JEY2CPpeA=
 



we figured we weren’t the only ones.  We worked with the various support groups 
on campus to separate the update of the redistributable libraries from the 
install/update of the client itself; most such groups included the 
redistributable libraries in with security patches known to require a reboot, 
so there were no “surprise” reboots.



Flash foward to the current client (v 7.1.6.0) which we are evaluating for 
rollout to our users.  While the main install documentation has remained 
unchanged, cautioning about the possibility of reboot, there is an interesting 
update to the documentation in this tech note:



https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www-2D01.ibm.com_support_docview.wss-3Fuid-3Dswg27039350=DQIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=zfhvQqOljOX6I3IRnYjCcHBSr3IwiOZSzTLrAY5VobA=_wLgYVEc_dHI7sLMyyC9a4eWjHjiBdVftb38LZm-tqY=
 



In the section "Per APAR IT14776” there are examples of invocations of the 
redistributable library package (vcredist_x86.exe) with switches that appear to 
quash the restart.  I emphasize the “appear” - it hasn’t happened yet in our 
testing, but I am sharing this in the interest of learning what others 
experience.



Bob





Robert Talda

EZ-Backup Systems Engineer

Cornell University

+1 607-255-8280

r...@cornell.edu<mailto:r...@cornell.edu>





On Aug 19, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Rick Adamson 
<rickadam...@segrocers.com<mailto:rickadam...@segrocers.com>> wrote:



Roger,

Agree.  I should clarify the issue I mentioned happens even on new installs.



-Rick Adamson





-Original Message-

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner

Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 12:37 AM

To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu>

Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades



My experience has been that you can avoid the reboot IFF you stop all scheduler 
and/or Client Acceptor Daemon processes before you begin installing the new 
version. It also helps to remove schedulers and/or C.A.D., using the wizard in 
the old-version GUI client before upgrading.

Then put them back after the upgrade, so that they are guaranteed to be running 
on the new version, and you shouldn't have to reboot. This actually makes sense.



Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago 
rog...@uic.edu<mailto:rog...@uic.edu>

==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====





On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Rick Adamson wrote:



I have experienced random "unprompted" reboots performing manual

installs on Windows clients from 7.1.1.0 to 7.1.6.0 Haven't nailed down exactly 
why yet, still gathering info

On one machine MS updates had been applied and may not have been restarted, on 
another it seemed to happen after installing the first C++ prerequisite.



-Rick Adamson





-Original Message-

Re: Windows Client Upgrades

[Rick Adamson]

Roger, 
Agree.  I should clarify the issue I mentioned happens even on new installs.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 12:37 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades

My experience has been that you can avoid the reboot IFF you stop all scheduler 
and/or Client Acceptor Daemon processes before you begin installing the new 
version. It also helps to remove schedulers and/or C.A.D., using the wizard in 
the old-version GUI client before upgrading.
Then put them back after the upgrade, so that they are guaranteed to be running 
on the new version, and you shouldn't have to reboot. This actually makes sense.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=


On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Rick Adamson wrote:

>I have experienced random "unprompted" reboots performing manual 
>installs on Windows clients from 7.1.1.0 to 7.1.6.0 Haven't nailed down 
>exactly why yet, still gathering info
>On one machine MS updates had been applied and may not have been restarted, on 
>another it seemed to happen after installing the first C++ prerequisite.
>
>-Rick Adamson
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
>Of Kamp, Bruce (Ext)
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:40 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades
>
>If all prerequisites are already installed & all TSM processes are stopped you 
>shouldn't need to.
>
>>From what I have seen even if it asks to reboot basic functionality remains.
>
>
>
>Bruce Kamp
>GIS Backup & Recovery
>(817) 568-7331
>e-mail: mailto:bruce.k...@novartis.com
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
>Of David Ehresman
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 9:31 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades
>
>Can one upgrade a Windows 7.1.x client to a 7.1.somethinghigher client without 
>a reboot or do all Windows 7.1 upgrades require a reboot?
>
>David
>

Re: Windows Client Upgrades

[Rick Adamson]

I have experienced random "unprompted" reboots performing manual installs on 
Windows clients from 7.1.1.0 to 7.1.6.0
Haven't nailed down exactly why yet, still gathering info
On one machine MS updates had been applied and may not have been restarted, on 
another it seemed to happen after installing the first C++ prerequisite.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kamp, 
Bruce (Ext)
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades

If all prerequisites are already installed & all TSM processes are stopped you 
shouldn't need to.

>From what I have seen even if it asks to reboot basic functionality remains.



Bruce Kamp
GIS Backup & Recovery
(817) 568-7331
e-mail: mailto:bruce.k...@novartis.com

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 9:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Client Upgrades

Can one upgrade a Windows 7.1.x client to a 7.1.somethinghigher client without 
a reboot or do all Windows 7.1 upgrades require a reboot?

David

Re: TSM Replication

[Rick Adamson]

Ricky,
I know that on the source server there is a field (BKBYTES_REPLICATED) in the 
REPLCIATIONVIEW table. I have used it to query the amount of replicated data.
Perhaps someone can chime in from IBM but I did not find this information 
maintained on the target server; if fact I receive an error when attempting to 
query the REPLCIATIONVIEW or REPLTASK tables on it.

On another note I'm not sure it is necessary; when the "replicate" task starts 
the source server initiates sessions with the target server and begins sending 
data. I would think that there is some type of integrity check and 
acknowledgement performed by the target server and sent back to the source 
server, if there's any issues the task would complete with a failure state.
But again that's more of a logical assumption, I have to defer to gurus at IBM 
for clarification....

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, 
Ricky
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 7:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Replication

Happy Friday to everyone!

Can some tell me if there is a command, script or another way to find out the 
summary of how much data was replicated during the replication process on the 
TARGET server?

Once replication has completed, I can go into the logs on the TSM SOURCE server 
and find out how many files were deleted, and how much data was replicated, 
etc. but, I need to verify that on the TSM TARGET server  as well. 
Management wants to be able to verity that what the TSM SOURCE server states 
was replicated is the same as what the TSM TARGET server states.

Anyway of doing this?


I appreciate any help.




Ricky M. Plair
Storage Engineer
HealthPlan Services
Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273
Mobile: 813 357 9673



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Re: AIX Client Backup problem

[Rick Adamson]

Pam 

I also ran into these errors which in my case insufficient memory available on 
the client to meet the client's processing needs.
This also can be associated with the root user ulimits setting as was 
recommended here when it appears that you submitted the question back in April.

http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/ibm-tsm-13/tsm-client-upgrade-on-aix-130340/
 

Have you tried the suggestions they recommended?


-Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Pagnotta, Pamela (CONTR)
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1:09 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] AIX Client Backup problem

Hello,

We are seeing the following messages on a new AIX server with a TSM 7.1.4.4 
client.


07/19/16   09:50:10 calloc() failed: Size 31496 File ../mem/mempool.cpp Line 
1030

07/19/16   09:50:10 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '/' stopped.

This happens with and without  the Memoryefficientbackup and Diskcachemethod 
parameters.

If we exclude the '/' filesystem, the backup completes successfully.

I have opened a PMR, but thought I would ask you fine people if you have had 
any similar experiences.

Thank you,

Pam

Pam Pagnotta
Sr. System Engineer
Criterion Systems, Inc./ActioNet
Contractor to US. Department of Energy
Office of the CIO/IM-61
Office: 301-903-5508
Mobile: 301-335-8177

Re: "Compressed data grew" retries?

[Rick Adamson]

Ditto, I use a similar approach. 
I have them in a client option set on the backup server so they can be easily 
managed in one location.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Pagnotta, Pamela (CONTR)
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 9:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] "Compressed data grew" retries?

Good morning Tom,

We have, successfully, used the following in our dsm.opt/dsm.sys files for many 
years

EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.z"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.*_"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pst"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.gif"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.doc"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.ppt"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pps"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.psd"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.exe"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.jpg"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.jp2"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.sid"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.vsd"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pdf"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.wpd"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.wav"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.xls"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pfb"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.mov"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.xlk"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.wmv"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.cab"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.zip"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.jbf"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.rec"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.msg"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pub"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.bmp"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.png"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*.pot"
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Pam

Pam Pagnotta
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Alverson
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 8:58 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] "Compressed data grew" retries?

I have been watching an initial TSM backup running for a long time now over a 
WAN connection (100mbit/sec) and I keep seeing "compressed data grew"
followed  by a "Retry".  Does this mean that for every file that compression 
increased the size (even 1%) the whole transfer is discarded and it starts over 
again with the same file (presumably with compression disabled)?  If so that is 
probably hurting my backup speed much more than the compression ever improved 
it.  Is there any way to prevent this short of adding one of these options for 
every type of compressible file?

EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*:\...\*.jpg"
EXCLUDE.COMPRESSION "*:\...\*.zip"

Re: MSSQL 2012 SQL permissions

[Rick Adamson]

Stefan,
Can you provide more information, like
 -what version of SQLDP are you using
-are you using the legacy data protection or Flash Copy Manager (FCM)
-VSS or legacy backups

On older versions I ran my scheduler with an administrator account and also had 
TSM admins added to sysadmin role in SQL in order to be able to troubleshoot 
backup issues as well as perform restores.

On the releases the TSM admins still are added to the sysadmin role to provide 
support but I no longer install a scheduler service and use the scheduler 
internal to DP/FCM and don't use any elevated account.


-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] MSSQL 2012 SQL permissions

Hi all,

Can somebody help me with the MSSQL 2012 SQL permissions that are needed for 
the scheduler user?

I can find:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www-2D01.ibm.com_support_docview.wss-3Fuid-3Dswg21368503=CwIBaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=UtpsaRjR1lo3cxWy8yN9atqFIsgPAifd7bsFQPM5HHc=7QYYsEEwqwIBQyXRYO8Ulr-65aYw-NXOSOFPrINsjWs=
 

But that's for 2005 and it doesn't list the MSSQL permissions.

Regards,
   Stefan

Re: Proctect Stgpool

[Rick Adamson]

David,
I run the replicate command after the backup window which for me is 2-5am. The 
protect storage pool command is scheduled every 6 hours (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 
18:00) which may be overkill, I have been contemplating changing it to twice a 
day.
Regarding the reconcile; been running it manually but after finding that I was 
missing data target server have decided to schedule it as a weekly task.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 10:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Proctect Stgpool

If you are using container stgpools, how are you using the "protect stgpool" 
command?  Are you running it throughout the backup window or after backups have 
completed? When and how often do you run the "replicate node" command?  Are you 
using the forcereconcile option?  Why or why not?

I'm getting ready to set up container replication and trying to understand the 
implications of the various options.

David

Re: File affected in case of a damaged dcf

[Rick Adamson]

Haven't tried it but can you use the "REPLICATE NODE" with PREVIEW and LIST 
options ?

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, 
EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 9:27 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] File affected in case of a damaged dcf

Hi guys!
I'm doing some testing with a directory container storagepool. I deliberately 
damaged a dcf file and tested the audit function, everything seems to work as 
expected. When a tape is corrupted, the activity log shows which user file is 
affected by the detected corruption, however in case of a corrupted container 
file TSM does not tell you:

06/08/2016 14:30:09  ANR4891I AUDIT CONTAINER process 136 ended for the 
/tech/tsm/AMSE3/container12/00/002e.dcf container: 1162 data 
extents inspected, 1 data extents marked as damaged, 0 data extents previously 
marked as damaged reset to undamaged, and 0 data extents marked as orphaned.

Does anybody know how one can find which file is affected by the damaged extent?
Thanks for any reply in advance!
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering

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Re: Strange TSM for VE error

[Rick Adamson]

Tom,
I think you need to look for the cause in either vCenter or Veeam.
The message *"The method is disabled by XXX" refers to vCenter blocking 
backup tasks via the API, and vShield_SVM is specific to Veeam.

There are known issues where a task such as vMotion runs, which sets a flag in 
vCenter so other tasks don't cause conflicts, then when the vMotion task 
finishes the flag does not get removed properly. The result is other backup 
jobs are not able to run.

Referencing these VMware and Veeam threads will help understand:
https://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/storage-vmotion-fails-t1.html 

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US=displayKC=2008957
 

I know this doesn't provide you with a direct resolution, but hopefully will 
get you going down the right path.

Again, I would start with taking a look at vCenter and Veeam for additional 
information.

Hope this helps.
Let us know what you find.

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Alverson
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 6:49 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Strange TSM for VE error

I am running TSM for VE  7.1.4.1 on WIndows 2008 and it has been OK until about 
2 weeks ago.  Since then every night the backup job (should be over
100 VM's) just kind of aborts without logging success or failure.  The only 
errors in the logs are these (which don't appear in any Google searches)




*06/01/2016 18:15:51 ANS2345W The virtual machine named 'server1 
(2cc5bac1-e96f-4b08-ac8b-a7f36f27e6cd)-0' was found to have an old snapshot 
'TSM-VM Snapshot Wed Jun 01 18:02:40 2016'. A command was sent to the vCenter 
to remove it.*

*06/01/2016 18:16:05 ANS9387W An incremental backup for virtual machine
'server1 (2cc5bac1-e96f-4b08-ac8b-a7f36f27e6cd)-0' is not possible because 
changed block information cannot be obtained. A full VM backup is attempted
instead.*

*06/01/2016 18:16:14 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine
'server1 (2cc5bac1-e96f-4b08-ac8b-a7f36f27e6cd)-0'.*

*   TSM function name : ReconfigVM_USCORETask*

*   TSM file  : ..\..\common\vm\vmvisdk.cpp (6897)*

*   API return code   : 12*

*   API error message : SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode[no subcode]*

*"The method is disabled by 'vShield_SVM'"*

*Detail:*



*06/01/2016 18:28:12 ANS2345W The virtual machine named 'server2 
(17a6690f-9e77-4066-ba92-bcb947aa2216)' was found to have an old snapshot 
'TSM-VM Snapshot Wed Jun 01 18:15:43 2016'. A command was sent to the vCenter 
to remove it.*

*06/01/2016 18:28:19 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine
'server1 (2cc5bac1-e96f-4b08-ac8b-a7f36f27e6cd)-0'.*

*   TSM function name : ReconfigVM_USCORETask*

*   TSM file  : ..\..\common\vm\vmvisdk.cpp (6897)*

*   API return code   : 12*

*   API error message : SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode[no subcode]*

*"The method is disabled by 'vShield_SVM'"*

*Detail:*




Of course there is no detail.  I have asked our Vcenter people if they have 
made any changes but the odd thing is I have several other VBS servers talking 
to this vcenter and they are not having this problem.  The only change (made to 
all the VBS servers) recently was last month's Microsoft patches.

DR test and SP 7 Operations Center

[Rick Adamson]

Didn't find any discussion or documentation on this subject so I'm hoping for 
feedback/suggestions.

Recently implemented a two-site installation of SP 7.1.5 using container 
storage pools and node replication.
Both the source and target servers are VM's running on Windows 2012.
There are roughly 950 clients, all AIX 7.1, using BA client level 7.1.3

I have an upcoming DR test and began thinking about the Operations Center???
The OC is installed on my source server and has become an integral tool for my 
operators, so if it's not available for the test certainly someone will 
complain.

The DR simulation takes place over 3 days and we will obviously be isolated 
from the production data center, including the source server and ultimately the 
Operations Center.
My question is; how can I, or is it possible, to make the OC available in the 
test environment?

I would think that IBM has thought this through but I didn't find any 
documented direction.
Thoughts?

Thanks
-Rick Adamson

Re: Reg: tsm ba client autodeploy package 7.1.4.1

[Rick Adamson]

Agreed Neil !

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schofield, Neil (Storage & Middleware, Backup & Restore)
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 12:28 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reg: tsm ba client autodeploy package 7.1.4.1

Srikanth

I complained about the very same thing last month:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__adsm.org_lists_html_ADSM-2DL_2016-2D03_msg8.html=CwIFAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=a9Hro2QaPc6EZZX8R9Z8uzzfU8latkfezbR7j2ZVOYw=XCSMeZuTRcYn71vmKaOqZxzhVH6vntm2J9T7Ir9Lx0A=
 

I've since discovered that IBM have indeed made the decision to no longer 
supply exported packages for interim fixes. If you're using auto-deployment 
then you need to find another mechanism for pushing out interim fixes because 
it now only works for fix packs. (But then if you've got such a mechanism, why 
bother with TSM auto-deployment in the first place?)

I've not given up hope that IBM will see how perverse this approach is and 
reverse its decision. The current client fix pack (7.1.4) was released in 
November and was followed by a flash in February which described how data loss 
could occur and recommended 7.1.4.1 be installed on vulnerable systems. How 
exactly did they think large shops were supposed to push that update out to 
affected systems? Maybe customers should wait for the 7.1.5 client? No, hang on 
- they skipped that one so we're currently waiting on 7.1.6 with its associated 
.EXP files.

I agree that there are good reasons why customers should think carefully before 
auto-deploying interim fixes. For what it's worth I think IBM should tell them 
the reasons, publish the exported packages anyway and give them the *choice* of 
being able to perform tightly targeted deployments where there is a requirement 
to do so.

Regards
Neil



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Re: Spectrum Protect 7.1.5.100

[Rick Adamson]

Google is my friend :)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678116 

-Rick Adamson
 904.783.5264


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of J. 
Pohlmann
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 1:23 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Spectrum Protect 7.1.5.100

I just received My Notification for the new patch level. Could someone please 
tell me what's new/fixed in the patch level? Neither the My Notifications link 
nor the README on the ftp server tells me anything about the APARS fixed. The 
ftp site README leads to some search link only. The link from My Notifications 
only shows the fixes for 7.1.5.000.



Thanks.



Joerg Pohlmann

Re: Migration should preempt reclamation

[Rick Adamson]

Roger
Worth mentioning is that the issue is most likely compounded by the 
migration/reclamation process running during a backup, the performance hit  to 
the TSM server can be severe.
You may find a significant reduction in task processing times if you do isolate 
them.
In the past I have temporarily suspended (or limited) reclamation schedules 
until the initial backups are done and sent the backup data straight to my 
sequential storage pool bypassing the migration process.


-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Migration should preempt reclamation

I was under the impression that higher priority tasks could preempt lower 
priority tasks. That is, migration should be able to preempt reclamation. But 
it doesn't. A very careful reading of Administrator's Guide tells me that it 
does not.

We're having a problem with a large client backup that fails, due to a disk 
stgpool filling. (It's a new client, and this is its initial large
backup.) It fills up because the migration process can not get a tape drive, 
due to their all being used for reclamation. This also prevents the client 
backup from getting a tape drive directly. Does anybody have a way for 
migration to get resources (drives, volumes, etc) when a storage pool reaches 
its high migration threshold, and reclamation is using those resources? 
"Careful scheduling" is the usual answer, but you can't always schedule what 
client nodes do. Back on TSM 5.4 I built a Unix cron job to look for this 
condition and cancel reclamation processes, but it was a real Rube Goldberg 
contraption, so I'm reluctant to revive it now in the TSM 6+ era. Anybody have 
a better way?

BTW, I thought I'd give the 7.1.4 Information center a try to answer this. I 
searched on "preemption". 10 hits none of which were the answer.
So I went to the PDF of the old Administrator's Guide and found it right away. 
We need that book!

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=

Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

[Rick Adamson]

Well said Roger, I agree wholeheartedly !

-Rick Adamson



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 9:28 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

I'm glad that the last PDFs of this valuable book at Version 7.1.1 are being 
made more widely available. I have already downloaded that PDF to the USB thumb 
drive I carry around everywhere, for access regardless of the network 
condition. This could be in a disaster recovery scenario, or at a client node 
site where I might need to create a new account and password just to access the 
net and read the doc. The fact that it was deemed necessary to make this PDF 
more widely available, points out the problem.

If you are hinting that you are considering publishing an updated 7.1.5 
Administrator's Guide, that would be great! An important thing to update would 
be container storage pools. When to use them, how they compare to other types 
of storage pools (disk, file, tape, VTL...), and how to set them up and manage 
them. Perhaps include them in a new column in Table 5 on Page 77 of the 7.1.1 
Admin Guide. Another would be deduplication, which has a lot of new powerful 
features in 7.1.4, which will make it attractive to users who have not 
deduplicated before.

I rarely use the online Information Center. I find its hierarchical 
micro-partitioning of information to be way too narrowly focused, leading me to 
overlook obvious solutions to the problem at hand.
Especially new solutions such as container storage pools and the new features 
of deduplication. The Information Center is also especially poor in the client 
area. I always go to the PDFs first, even when online with fast network access. 
Therefore I can't give feedback in the way you suggest.

I tried the Custom PDF file creation facility, and I found it disappointing. 
The resulting PDF has only topics I could think of, and omits the ones I really 
need to solve a problem. It requires clairvoyance to make a useful PDF 
containing the answer to a problem that I haven't had yet, and it has no index.

So I am going to reiterate what I said before: Update the Administrator's Guide 
for 7.1.5, and keep it up-to-date going forward as a single book. This book is 
a key asset for the entire Spectrum Protect product, especially as existing 
customers seek to utilize features they haven't used before, and as new 
customers explore the incredible depth of features in the product.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=


On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Clare Byrne wrote:

>Following up on this thread, the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs are 
>now available in IBM Knowledge Center at 
>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_support
>_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7-5F7.1.1_com.ibm.itsm.tsm.doc_r-5Fpdfs-5Ftsm.htm
>l=CwIBAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsC
>lDPSJjFfxw=N2NEpd8Alld0R9yNPlapjW-iRGCnLf_ZbzjqAigwtPs=eRG_QsrPrsU4
>Og2MhxjyTnxWpXnSvGtzM0iFJGr8UZM=
>This is in addition to where they were available before, in the .zip 
>file and on the Tivoli Storage Manager wiki. We hope this makes it 
>easier to find and access the 7.1.1 guides.
>
>A reminder: We are still very much interested in hearing about what the 
>most important subjects from the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide are for us 
>to consider for updates. Knowing more specifics about your priorities 
>is very important to us to set priorities.
>
>One way to give such feedback privately: Go to any topic (in any 
>version) for Tivoli Storage Manager in IBM Knowledge Center and click 
>the Feedback link in the menu bar at the very bottom. If your comments 
>exceed the 1000-character limit in the feedback form, you can include 
>your email address in the feedback and ask us to contact you.
>
>Clare Byrne
>Information Development for IBM Spectrum Protect Tucson, AZ  US
>
>
>__
>
>Please be assured that we in IBM development are listening and are 
>discussing future actions regarding the Administrator's Guide content 
>since the feedback about the 7.1.3 release that did not include that book.
>I gave some information in a response to that earlier feedback:
>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.
>com_adsm-2Dl-40vm.marist.edu_msg99286.html=CwIBAg=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoF
>Cm29A=eqh5PzQPIsPArLoI_uV1mKvhIpcNP1MsClDPSJjFfxw=N2NEpd8Alld0R9yNP
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>8=
>
>We are working on a plan to publish a solution guide for the 
>disk-to-tape architecture next. This should fill in some gaps left by 
>the removal of the Administrator's Guide. Timing of the publication i

Re: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

[Rick Adamson]

John,
It may help it you provided a detailed listing of the storage pool and 
associated device class.
q stg dedup f=d
q devcl  f=d

-Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, 
John C.
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10:37 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

I tried reclamation but it fails since all volume in stgpool DEDUP show as 
full. An audit run to successful completion but volume stays as FULL. Even a 
MOVE DATA of a volume in DEDUP pool runs to successful completion but the 
status stays as FULL.
John


-Original Message-
From: Rettenberger Sabine [mailto:sabine.rettenber...@wolf-heiztechnik.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10:35 AM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Cc: Dury, John C.
Subject: AW: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

Hi John,

did you try a RECLAIM at the DEDUP-Pool to get the volumes free?
What says an AUDIT VOLUME of the empty volumes?
Are they really empty?

Best regards
Sabine

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Im Auftrag von Dury, 
John C.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2016 16:01
An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Betreff: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

We have 2 storage pools. A BACKUPPOOL and a DEDUP pool. All nightly backups 
come into the BACKUPPOOL and then migrate to the DEDUP pool for permanent 
storage. All volumes in the DEDUP pool are showing FULL although the pool is 
only 69% in use. I tried doing a move data on a volume in the DEDUP pool to the 
BACKUPPOOL just to free space so reclamation could run, and although it says it 
ran to successful completion, the volume still shows as FULL. So for whatever 
reason, all volumes in the DEDUP pool are never freeing up. I ran an audit on 
the same volume I tried to the MOVE DATA command on and it also ran to 
successful completion. No idea what is going on here but hopefully someone else 
has an idea. If our BACKUPPOOL fills up, we can't back anything up any more and 
we will have a catastrophe. The BACKUPPOOL is roughly 15T  and 15% full and I 
have no way to increase it.
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Re: VM Server for Monitoring/Reporting?

[Rick Adamson]

I have to agree with Stefan, make sure you allocate the recommended resources 
as per IBM best practices and virtualized ISP servers will serve you well.

All of my DR instances have been virtual for several years now, and in 
production I am preparing to virtual both backup and OC server(s).

An additional benefit for me is I create a VM template with all the Spectrum 
Protect software loaded, but not configured. When needed it only takes a few 
minutes to stand up a new or replacement ISP VM.

My only issue was after my virtual backup servers were built my VMWare admins 
went back and robbed them of CPU and memory resources claiming that the 
resources were excessive. When they came under full production performance was 
dismal.  As a part of agreeing to virtualize the production environment I made 
sure that management understood, and approved, the minimum system/instance 
requirements as documented in the IBM blueprints document. 


-Rick Adamson



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 3:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VM Server for Monitoring/Reporting?

I don't understand the need for real metal servers other than when you connect 
tape or need to do lan-free transport to tape (again, to have supported 
connection to tape).
Tape libraries connected to VMware vSphere are not supported (don't know the 
current state) but the rest is just software running on an OS, why would 
Spectrum Protect need to run on dedicated metal when other software doesn't?

In my lab setup I even run tape connected on VMware and that works fine since 
version 5.5 of VMware, but that isn't supported so don't try and do that, you 
can and probably will run into problems at some stage, I have seen purple 
screens of death and have seen entire vSphere hosts go down due to library 
issues on versions prior to 5.5 in my lab setup :-)

I have implemented Spectrum Protect servers virtualized, it's supported and it 
runs fine, just make sure you give it enough resources, you can't treat it like 
some small VM and I do give it dedicated storage (both for metadata and for 
data capacity and I mean controllers and storage, not just disks) but then it 
runs just fine.

The advantage is that you automatically have increased availability due to 
VMware HA and have super fast backups for the machines running on the same 
physical box.

When it comes to reporting/monitor software I wouldn't think twice about it if 
it isn't stated that it is unsupported.


On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Vandeventer, Harold [OITS] < 
harold.vandeven...@ks.gov> wrote:

> I fully understand the need for real metal for the TSM/Spectrum 
> Protect node-backup and Operation Center servers.
>
> Is anyone running something relatively benign like 7.1 
> Monitoring/Reporting on a VM?
>
> I've got an old physical box, but need to add RAM.
>
> My management is pushing the "why not VM" solution.
>
>
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Re: Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

[Rick Adamson]

I agree many times I have had to refer to one of the PDF's after IBM has 
made the decision to remove it from availability. 
They are a priceless resource when dealing with an issue on a version that is 
no longer supported and hence online doco has been removed.

-Rick Adamson
 904.783.5264

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 8:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

A great book is gone. The TSM Administrator's Guide has been obsoleted as of 
v7.1.3. Its priceless collection of how-to information has been scattered to 
the winds, which basically means it is lost. A pity, because this book had been 
a model of complete, well-organized, documentation.

The "Solution Guides" are suitable only for planning a new TSM installation, 
and do not address existing TSM sites. Furthermore, they are much too narrow, 
and do not cover real-world existing TSM customers.
For instance, we use a blended disk and tape solution (D2D2D2T) to create a 
good working compromise between faster restore and storage cost.

Following links to topics in the online Information Center is a haphazard 
process at best, which is never repeatable. There is no Index or Table of 
Contents for the online doc - so you cannot even see what information is there. 
Unless you actually log in, there is no way to even leave a "trail of 
breadcrumbs". Browser bookmarks are useless here, due to IBM's habit of 
changing URLs frequently. This is an extremely inefficient use of my time in 
finding out how to do something in TSM.

Search is not an acceptable replacement for good organization. Search is 
necessary, but it cannot stand alone.

Building a "collection" is not an answer to this requirement. It still lacks a 
coherent Index or Table of Contents, so once my collection gets sizeable, it is 
also unuseable. And with each successive version, I will be required to rebuild 
my collection from scratch all over again.

Despite the fact that it had become fairly large, I humbly ask that the 
Administrator's Guide be published again, as a single PDF, in v7.1.4.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=

Re: Reg: can we diable events for ANR0422W

[Rick Adamson]

Erwann,
Thanks for pointing it out. I use it for other receivers and remembered the 
"actlog" option was available, totally missing that tidbit.


-Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Erwann 
Simon
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 2:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reg: can we diable events for ANR0422W

Hi Rick,

Sorry, but this won't work for actlog.

The help for disable events command considering actlog receiver says :
You can disable only client events, not server events for the activity log. 


Le 7 octobre 2015 19:33:12 CEST, Rick Adamson <rickadam...@segrocers.com> a 
écrit :
>Try using "disable events". for example:  "disable events actlog 
>abcd,abcd,abcd"
>Where "abcd" is replaced with the 4-digit number preceeded by ANR.
>
>See help section 3.15.1
>
>-Rick Adamson
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Srikanth Kola23 <srkol...@in.ibm.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> recently we have moved servers to tsm/ve backups , but most of the 
>> clients we do not alter sys/opt files & do not kill scheduler service
>
>> hence we are getting below alerts as a bunch ( we do not have client
>> access)
>>
>> can we disable events for the particular msg number (ANR0422W) for
>act
>> log tracking for some nodes ( more than 1000)
>>
>> Oct 7, 2015, 12:08:40 AM ANR0422W Session 15971 for node POKCPSAPAP12
>
>> (Linux x86-64) refused - node name not registered. (SESSION: 15971)
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Srikanth kola
>> Backup & Recovery
>> IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
>> Mobile: +91 9885473450
>>

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Re: Reg: can we diable events for ANR0422W

[Rick Adamson]

Try using "disable events". for example:  "disable events actlog 
abcd,abcd,abcd"
Where "abcd" is replaced with the 4-digit number preceeded by ANR.

See help section 3.15.1 

-Rick Adamson


On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Srikanth Kola23 <srkol...@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> recently we have moved servers to tsm/ve backups , but most of the 
> clients we do not alter sys/opt files & do not kill scheduler service 
> hence we are getting below alerts as a bunch ( we do not have client 
> access)
>
> can we disable events for the particular msg number (ANR0422W) for act 
> log tracking for some nodes ( more than 1000)
>
> Oct 7, 2015, 12:08:40 AM ANR0422W Session 15971 for node POKCPSAPAP12 
> (Linux x86-64) refused - node name not registered. (SESSION: 15971)
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Srikanth kola
> Backup & Recovery
> IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
> Mobile: +91 9885473450
>

Re: TSM 7.1.3 documention

[Rick Adamson]

Yea, I noticed this too. So far I also noticed the recommendation of using 
individual admin schedules versus a maintenance script for scheduling 
day-to-day housekeeping tasks.
Would be nice if they confirmed things like this in the docs as a change in 
procedure rather than leaving us to wonder 
-Rick Adamson


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas 
Denier
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.3 documention

I have been looking over the documentation for TSM 7.1.3. Most of the material 
found in the "Administrator's Guide" in the documentation for earlier levels 
seems to be gone. For example, I have not been able to find any detailed 
information on using a recovery plan file to support a database restore. Am I 
missing something, or has the documentation really been hollowed out to the 
extent I suspect?

Thomas Denier
Thomas Jefferson University
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Re: TSM 7.1.3 and Directory-container storage pools

[Rick Adamson]

I may be wrong but from reading the 7.1.3 doco new container approach combined 
with the inline dedup eliminate the need for some of these processes. Also, 
where traditionally a "copy" storage pool was used they now refer to it as a 
"protect" storage pool which has the ability to be replicated to another 
"onsite" or "offsite" container storage pool.

Remember that with deduplicated data many of the processes you mentioned 
required that the data be rehydrated to be performed. An added benefit is if in 
fact these processes are no longer required it will free up system resources 
and as a result lower storage costs and increase scalability.

Fortunately, there are some good resources for additional information:
IBM you tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkjRNkO0AQNyQbWhS1tTzw 
IBM knowledge center for 7.1.3: 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/tsm/welcome.html 

I will be installing it on two systems today to begin testing, hopefully I'll 
be able to comment more soon..


-Rick Adamson
 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James 
Thorne
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 5:41 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.3 and Directory-container storage pools

Hi Karel.

That's the conclusion we came to too.

James.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Karel 
Bos
Sent: 16 September 2015 10:17
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.3 and Directory-container storage pools

Hi,

So we get a new type of storage pools, the directory-container storage pools. 
These enable TSM to do in flight dedup. But you cannot use any of the following 
functions with directory-container storage pools:

   - Migration
   - Reclamation
   - Aggregation
   - Collocation
   - Simultaneous-write
   - Storage pool backup
   - Virtual volumes

So having in flight dedupe removes any way of doing bck stg other than use node 
replication to get the data in a second place. Pretty bad limitation in my 
opinion or am I missing something?

Kind regards,

Karel

Re: Issues with Client Acceptor on 2012 server

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
Asking the obviousare you running the CLI as Administrator ?

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:01 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Issues with Client Acceptor on 2012 server

A Windows admin just installed the 7.1.2.0 client (fresh install, not an
upgrade) on a 2012 server and has this problem.

Upon Attempting to start the CIFS1-VCUCC TSM Client Acceptor she got this
error:

*Error message*

“Windows could not start the CIFS1-VCUCC TSM Client Acceptor service on
Local Computer.   Error 6712:  The requested propagation protocol was not
registered as a CRM.”



*Application Log – Event ID 4099*

“Error Opening/Creating Registry Path
‘Software\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\EnterpriseMgmtClients\Services”


She found an old document talking about similar issues with really old clients.


She continues with:



*I manually created the EnterpriseMgmtClients key but no luck.  I tried 
uninstalling 7.1.2.1 – removed all remnants of the registry and remaining 
folders after the uninstall.  I installed 7.1.1.4, however, the same issue 
exist.  I then repeated the uninstall process and installed 6.4.2.1 – no luck.  
So needless to say, I have uninstall, rebooted, deleted only to have the server 
back to TSM version 7.1.2.1. *



*I just realized 7.1.2.2 was available today (7/7).  I stopped the TSM service 
and installed this version.  However, the same Error 6712 message occurs*.


This is being done using the Administrator client.


Any thoughts/suggestions?
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Policy Domains and Config Management

[Rick Adamson]

Okay, either I am missing something or have possibly run up against a bug (most 
likely the former).
The scenario involves multiple 7.1.1 TSM Servers on Windows 2K8 R2 in regard to 
configuration management.

I have successfully set this up on systems in the past but this time I am 
having an issue even after reviewing the admin guide and following the example 
provided.
My goal was to use configuration management to manage my policy domains on the 
managed servers.

I added my SQL_DOMAIN to a profile. The domain originally existed on all of the 
managed servers. As expected, when I tried to manage them with the profile I 
received the following error:

ANR3350W Locally defined domain SQL_DOMAIN contains at least one node and 
cannot be replaced with a definition from the configuration manager.

As per the admin guide I perform these steps:

1.   Copy the domain.

2.   Move all clients assigned to the original domain to the copied domain.

3.   Trigger a configuration refresh.

4.   Activate the appropriate policy set in the new, managed policy domain.

5.   Move all clients back to the original domain, which is now managed.

I confirm that after the configuration refresh in step 3 above that the 
SQL_DOMAIN was updated successfully by $$CONFIG_MANAGER$$.

After activating the policy and moving the client back I attempt to refresh the 
policy domain again and receive the same error:
ANR3350W Locally defined domain SQL_DOMAIN contains at least one node and 
cannot be replaced with a definition from the configuration manager.

I even tried deleting the original domain on the managed server, same results.

All comments welcome.thks!

Rick Adamson

Re: Rebuild a lost volhist for a dbrestore

[Rick Adamson]

Bill,
As per IBM docs you must have a copy of the volume history file to recover the 
server.  
But before I threw in the towel I would try to recreate it.

Do you have the disaster recovery file? 
If so, open it in notepad and search for VOLUME.HISTORY.FILE 
The information contained in that portion of the DR file on my version 7.1.1 
servers is an exact replica of my volume history file.

Next copy ALL of the volume information to a blank text file. 
Search the DR file for VOLHIST where you will find what to name the file and 
where to save it, alternatively that info can also be found in the server 
options file.
The volume history file format should look something like this: 

*
* 
* Sequential Volume Usage History
*   Updated 06/05/2015 06:46:19
* 
*
** 
 Operation Date/Time:   2015/06/05 06:29:12
 
 Volume Type:  BACKUPFULL
* Location for volume \\xxx.xxx.xxx.x\BACKUP\TSM\DB\500150.DBV is: ''
 Volume Name:  \\xxx.xxx.xxx.x\BACKUP\TSM\DB\500150.DBV
 Backup Series:2764
 Backup Op:   0
 Volume Seq:1001
  Device Class Name:  DD-TSMDB
** 
 Operation Date/Time:   2015/06/05 06:29:12
 
 Volume Type:  BACKUPFULL
* Location for volume \\ xxx.xxx.xxx.x \BACKUP\TSM\DB\500544.DBV is: ''
 Volume Name:  \\ xxx.xxx.xxx.x \BACKUP\TSM\DB\500544.DBV
 Backup Series:2764
 Backup Op:   0
 Volume Seq:1002
  Device Class Name:  DD-TSMDB
** 


Once you have that completed attempt a recovery following the documented 
process which can be found here:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_6.3.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc/r_cmd_dsmserv_restore_db_current.html
 

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8TDQ_6.4.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_scen_srv_recover.html
 

Good luck !


-Rick Adamson
 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Rebuild a lost volhist for a dbrestore

TSM V6.3 on Windows



The volhist file copies were all lost but the .DBS files are still around.
Is there a way to know the  backup Series: and Volume Seq: so I can fudge up a 
simple volhist with a single BACKUPFULL entry. Or doesn't that matter on a 
restore? Or is that information compared to what's in the .DBS file?



Really could use some help on this.



Bill

Re: Moving nodes to a new policy

[Rick Adamson]

You could always use the COPY DOMAIN command to create the new domain, which 
would include all current policy sets, management classes, and copy groups. 
Then modify as needed.
May be easier than recreating the wheel ..

-Rick Adamson


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar 
Thompson
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 11:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving nodes to a new policy

I don't know that you have to restart the schedules after changing the node's 
policy domain, as long as you make sure to reset the schedule association.
Running QUERY ASSOCIATION when changing the domain is something I always 
remember to do the moment after hitting enter.

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:52:48PM +, Thomas Denier wrote:
 This should work fine. There will be some additional complications if you use 
 the TSM central scheduler to trigger backups for the affected nodes.

 You will need to copy schedule definitions from the old policy domain to the 
 new one, unless the new one already has suitable schedule definitions.

 You will need to execute define association commands.

 You may need to restart the schedule services (Windows) or processes 
 (Linux/Unix) on the affected nodes. My best guess is that this will be 
 necessary if prompt mode scheduling is used and will not be necessary if 
 polling mode scheduling is used.

 Thomas Denier
 Thomas Jefferson University

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 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Paul_Dudley
 Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 8:33 PM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving nodes to a new policy

 If I have nodes that are currently under a policy that keeps 5 backup 
 versions, can I move them to another policy which keeps only 2 backup 
 versions?

 Will TSM then start expiring all the older backup versions of files which are 
 no longer needed?

 We have two nodes which are taking up a lot of backup space in TSM and want 
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Re: OC device class state

[Rick Adamson]

If I remember correctly it has been historically listed as a known issue since 
v6.x.

But in version 7.1 this was released  on the warning status.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21696240 

-Rick Adamson
Jacksonville, FL.


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco 
Post
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:01 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] OC device class state

Hi All,

I’ve just recently upgraded my TSM configuration manager server to 7.1.1.100 
and installed and configured OC. One thing I noticed that out of the two TSM 
servers now at 7.1.1.100 and monitored by OC, two report an issue with a file 
device class that is only used for database backups. One server reports that 
device class with a status of ’warning’ and the other with a status of 
’critical’. I can’t figure out why the OC reports these device classes as not 
healthy. There are no events, and there is no indication of why OC thinks there 
is something wrong. At least, not that I can find. Anyone got any hints as to 
what could be ’wrong’?

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Re: tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

[Rick Adamson]

Coincidently I am testing this now. We have historically used Data Domain for 
TSM storage using a FILE class storage pool. For best results Data Domain 
prefers data uncompressed and unencrypted. If like us you have a capacity 
license this tends to significantly increase the reported TSM storage and 
ultimately license costs.

At least for the time being the data will still need to rest on Data Domain. 
Test objectives are; compare deduplication results of TSM versus DD,  
associated storage requirements, performance, and associated costs (additional 
memory, DB  Log space, etc.  

Will report back on the test results.
Feedback welcome

Rick Adamson

   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryder, 
Michael S
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 8:59 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

Hi Tim

We use native TSM deduplication (software).

It's generally accepted that you perform one or the other and not both.
This is because additional deduplication results in an additional latency and 
often results in zero or negligible improvements.  Deduplication functions as a 
result of finding repetitive patterns, and the result are blocks with little 
repetition.  Performing deduplication against disk or files that is already 
deduplicated (and now have few repeating patterns) is a waste of time and 
resources.

Best regards,

Mike Ryder
RMD IT Client Services

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote:

 Can anyone provide insight to how they use deduplication within TSM.

 TSM with SW based deduplication, no HW deduplication

 TSM with no SW based deduplication, using HW deduplication

 TSM with both SW and HW deduplication

 The only major restriction that I have read is that TSM file based 
 primary storage pools should not be deduplicated at both SW and HW 
 levels.

 Any insights appreciated!

 Thanks,

 Tim Brown
 Supervisor Computer Operations
 Central Hudson Gas  Electric

Re: tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

[Rick Adamson]

Tim
This only affects the Capacity license model, not the old PVU model.
In my case all de-duplication and compression is performed by Data Domain on 
the back-end and as such TSM is unaware of it.
All data is ingested by the TSM server, and thus reported, as raw data.
Without compression and deduplication the reported numbers for the capacity 
license are significantly larger and reflected in our license costs.

Considering the cost of Data Domain, combined with the elevated license costs, 
I am re-evaluating options.

Rick Adamson

   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim 
Brown
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

Since TSM licensing is based on TB's backed up, Will the TSM costs rise If all 
the data to TSM's perspective is not deduped?

Tim

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Thursday, 14 May, 2015 9:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

Coincidently I am testing this now. We have historically used Data Domain for 
TSM storage using a FILE class storage pool. For best results Data Domain 
prefers data uncompressed and unencrypted. If like us you have a capacity 
license this tends to significantly increase the reported TSM storage and 
ultimately license costs.

At least for the time being the data will still need to rest on Data Domain. 
Test objectives are; compare deduplication results of TSM versus DD,  
associated storage requirements, performance, and associated costs (additional 
memory, DB  Log space, etc.  

Will report back on the test results.
Feedback welcome

Rick Adamson

   

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryder, 
Michael S
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 8:59 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and dedup hardware or software or both

Hi Tim

We use native TSM deduplication (software).

It's generally accepted that you perform one or the other and not both.
This is because additional deduplication results in an additional latency and 
often results in zero or negligible improvements.  Deduplication functions as a 
result of finding repetitive patterns, and the result are blocks with little 
repetition.  Performing deduplication against disk or files that is already 
deduplicated (and now have few repeating patterns) is a waste of time and 
resources.

Best regards,

Mike Ryder
RMD IT Client Services

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote:

 Can anyone provide insight to how they use deduplication within TSM.

 TSM with SW based deduplication, no HW deduplication

 TSM with no SW based deduplication, using HW deduplication

 TSM with both SW and HW deduplication

 The only major restriction that I have read is that TSM file based 
 primary storage pools should not be deduplicated at both SW and HW 
 levels.

 Any insights appreciated!

 Thanks,

 Tim Brown
 Supervisor Computer Operations
 Central Hudson Gas  Electric

SUR Data Collection Interval

[Rick Adamson]

One of the many recent enhancements to TSM server and Operations center is the 
collection and display of information relative to the SUR capacity license 
model.
The data which is stored in the status table's fields labeled TOTALSUROCC_TB 
and SUROCC_DATE is by default collected at a 7 day interval.

Seeing as the stated role of the Operations Center is to provide a current 
snapshot of TSM health and status, and not as a historical information 
resource, it would nice to be able to collect this data more frequently, like 
say a daily basis.

Has anyone found where this interval is defined and how it can be managed?

TSM Server and Operation Center 7.1.1.0 0 / Win2008 .


Rick Adamson
System's Engineer III
Enterprise Storage Solutions
Bi-Lo Holdings, LLC

Re: Windows 2012R2 Deduplication

[Rick Adamson]

Arni,
I was confronted with this issue some time ago and the answer I received at 
that time was TSM was unable to perform optimized backups of deduplicated 
file systems on Win2012.
The data gets re-hydrated during backup and more importantly during restore, 
which may require additional disk space.
Support stated then that they were unaware on any plans on the table to address 
the issue.



Rick Adamson
   

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arni 
Snorri Eggertsson
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 9:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows 2012R2 Deduplication

Hi all,

I have a question about how you should handle backups when running File system 
de-duplication in Windows,

I have a customer who runs Hyper-V,  one guest in this HyperV setup is a file 
server,  with disks to big to handle with TSM for HyperV, so that is not an 
option (not that I think it should be used against file servers),

Now the customer has decided that to run data de-duplication inside Windows
to lower requirements for disk storage,   as far as I can tell TSM does not
have any API interface with Windows to handle this,  which means that files 
need to be hydrated during backup.

This is very time consuming, and I am worried what happens when we need to 
restore, (in time perspective)  as well as we need to have disk space for fully 
de-duplicated storage during the restore process.

Also after the customer decided to activate file system de-duplication TSM 
client assumed all the files had changed,  so right now we are taking a
full backup of the entire file server,   does anyone know what happens next
time we run incremental backups,  can I assume that TSM will take full backups 
every time or?


Does IBM have any plans for supporting this dedup feature in Windows?  it's 
been in Windows 2012R2 since it was released, so I would assume that there
are people using it out there,   or does the customer need to find
alternative ways to solve this.




Thanks in advance,

---
Arni

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

[Rick Adamson]

Thanks everyone for the feedback/ideas!
They reaffirm my initial thoughts that there was no single solution, but 
collectively it appears that I can marginalize the risk.
Ultimately as many have stated the DBA team will need to be held accountable, 
and they do insist they own their backups until there is a problem :)
I will make a mental note to update the thread once a direction has been 
determined in hopes others find it helpful.
  
~Rick   


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 5:19 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

Rick,
It's a problem, everywhere, no matter how you do it.

*   The simplistic answer to your question is yes; the external scheduler 
is running a list of tasks; after the last task it could call a 
perl/ksh/python/yourfavorite script that invokes dsmadmc and does a 
delete/define schedule with a start time of now.  One drawback, the client 
has to be running in prompted mode, and another drawback is that from your 
end, since the schedule gets deleted and redefined, you would have to be able 
to notice the *absence* of that schedule.  But see gotcha in bullet 3 below.

*   What might work better is to have the external scheduler's last task be 
to fire a script that writes a checkpoint/log file.  Have your TDP client 
schedule kick off the same time each night, add a preschedule cmd script that 
opens the checkpoint file and reads the timestamp, if it doesn't have todays' 
expected timestamp, close the file, sleep 10 minutes, rinse and repeat.

*   However, even if you get one of those methods to work, it won't solve 
the problem.  I don't know about DB2, but unless something has changed recently 
the only result you will get back from firing off the Oracle TDP with the TSM 
scheduler is whether RMAN started or not, it won't tell you whether the backup 
was successful or failed.  The DBA's actually have to check the results of the 
backup from RMAN, AFAIK.  (Once years ago I got a Unix wizard to poke around 
and write a script that parsed the actual RMAN output and sent email back to 
me, but it's not something that's commonly done and would probably require 
specific knowledge of that particular backup.)

*   If your manager trusts your DBA's, there's nothing wrong with 
distributed authority and making them responsible for their backup results, 
most of my large customers do that.  (Most good DBA's want that, anyway.)

*   I have had customers where the DBA's were proved untrustworthy, and I 
also resorted to perl/ksh/whatever scripts that did selects on the BACKUPS 
table and started firing off emails to managers if backups were missing.  (You 
can usually get info from the backups table without too much pain if you 
specify both the client node name and filespace name/id so the result table is 
fairly small and TSM can use indexing to find the stuff.)  I've even resorted 
to perl scripts that query the activity log for messages from those clients, 
and report those out via email.

*   FWIW, in the new Operations Center, Tivoli development has approached 
this by introducing the concept of at risk.  You specify in the TOC how often 
the clients should back up (daily, weekly, etc.) and if even the TDP clients go 
beyond that without a backup, they show up as at risk.  The 7.1.1 TOC has a 
minimal email report that does show the at-risk TDP's.  I haven't played with 
it yet for TDP's to know whether it can distinguish between time since last 
contact and time since a successful RMAN backup.  But you could look at it.


Wanda Prather
TSM Consultant
ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division





-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 12:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

I assume someone has dealt with this I would like to hear how they handled it.

The issue:
DB2 and/or Oracle database backups that are dependent on completion of external 
processes.

Currently our DBA's utilize a variety of methods to initiate DB2 and Oracle 
database backups (CRON, external schedulers, etc) which presents challenges to 
confirm that they are being completed as expected. As a start, I proposed 
creating a client schedule and using the TSM scheduler to trigger these events, 
which would minimally provide a completed/missed/failed status. Complemented by 
routine reporting of stored objects it would give me some assurance that TSM 
had what it needed to assure their recovery.

The DBA's are pushing back (surprise!) claiming that some backups have 
special requirements, such as not running during other tasks like payroll 
processing, runstats, etc. so they use the external scheduler to set 
conditions that are met before

DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

[Rick Adamson]

I assume someone has dealt with this I would like to hear how they handled it.

The issue:
DB2 and/or Oracle database backups that are dependent on completion of external 
processes.

Currently our DBA's utilize a variety of methods to initiate DB2 and Oracle 
database backups (CRON, external schedulers, etc) which presents challenges to 
confirm that they are being completed as expected. As a start, I proposed 
creating a client schedule and using the TSM scheduler to trigger these events, 
which would minimally provide a completed/missed/failed status. Complemented by 
routine reporting of stored objects it would give me some assurance that TSM 
had what it needed to assure their recovery.

The DBA's are pushing back (surprise!) claiming that some backups have 
special requirements, such as not running during other tasks like payroll 
processing, runstats, etc. so they use the external scheduler to set 
conditions that are met before the backup is initiated.

The question proposed to me is can a TSM schedule be triggered by the external 
scheduler once the conditions have been met?

I would be grateful to hear how others handle this, or if they use a different 
approach altogether to assure all DP database backups are completing on a 
timely basis.
TIA

~Rick

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

[Rick Adamson]

Rick,
This all began after a recent audit revealed many systems either had  missed 
backup schedules, excessive retention, or no backups at all, which led to the 
question of how we can better account for them on a day-to-day basis.  Of 
course then the usual finger pointing ensued and management asked what could be 
done to address it.

How do you assure your business, and auditors, that the expected data is 
available in the event a recovery is needed? 

~Rick 
   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 12:37 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

Our Oracle backups have three scenarios. 

1)  Home grown scripts are scheduled via cron on the Oracle server, 
copy/compress the db to local disk, then pushed the db backup to TSM via a dsmc 
backup of the backup disk area. 

2)  RMAN backups are scheduled via cron which push data to TSM via LanFree/SAN 
or Network.   

3)  Some RMAN backups run via cron and write direct to DataDomain via NFS. (no 
TSM involvement)

Note - archive logs are pushed to TSM via scripts and run around the clock.


Rick

 
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 12:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

I assume someone has dealt with this I would like to hear how they handled it.

The issue:
DB2 and/or Oracle database backups that are dependent on completion of external 
processes.

Currently our DBA's utilize a variety of methods to initiate DB2 and Oracle 
database backups (CRON, external schedulers, etc) which presents challenges to 
confirm that they are being completed as expected. As a start, I proposed 
creating a client schedule and using the TSM scheduler to trigger these events, 
which would minimally provide a completed/missed/failed status. Complemented by 
routine reporting of stored objects it would give me some assurance that TSM 
had what it needed to assure their recovery.

The DBA's are pushing back (surprise!) claiming that some backups have 
special requirements, such as not running during other tasks like payroll 
processing, runstats, etc. so they use the external scheduler to set 
conditions that are met before the backup is initiated.

The question proposed to me is can a TSM schedule be triggered by the external 
scheduler once the conditions have been met?

I would be grateful to hear how others handle this, or if they use a different 
approach altogether to assure all DP database backups are completing on a 
timely basis.
TIA

~Rick


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Re: Stopping a client backup

[Rick Adamson]

The re-established connections probably occur because the scheduled backup 
event is still active.
Take a look at the schedule duration and make sure that it expires before 
undesirable hours.

For example:
Let's say you have a schedule for 5:00am and a duration of 6 hours.
You notice it is still running at 8:30am and try to cancel it, since it is 
still in the defined 6 hour window, the schedule is still active, the process 
restarts.
If you lower the duration to 3 hours, and cancel it at 8:30, it is now beyond 
the defined window for the backup.
The event will be flagged as failed and when the client tries to re-establish 
the connection it will disconnect since there is no active schedule to 
execute.


Rick Adamson
   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Vandeventer, Harold [OITS]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 10:47 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Stopping a client backup

I've been fighting a scheduled backup issue for one node.  Probably a firewall 
issue.

But, to keep management happy, a successful TELNET ip portnumber will not 
suffice.

I need to cancel the backup due to bandwidth issues across the wire during 
daytime hours.  The normal schedule won't run until late in the evening.

I've tried cancelling sessions, but the node end is re-establishing sessions to 
keep the backup running.

So, the question: How can I start a scheduled backup, then, once I see it is 
working, cancel it?

Thanks.


Harold Vandeventer
Systems Programmer
State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S
910 SW Jackson
(785) 296-0631


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Re: Grant admin authority domains= requires refreshing for new nodes in domain?

[Rick Adamson]

I was referring to granting authority to complete tsm domain(s). For example my 
DBA admins, I use the grant authority command  for the domain for TDP versus 
individual nodes.
Then I use the same command in a admin schedule that runs once a month so they 
get access to any new systems.
grant authority admin_name cl=node domain=domain_name1,domain_name2 

Rick 

   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 3:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Grant admin authority domains= requires refreshing for 
new nodes in domain?

Of course that also means having to somehow keep track of which ones you used 
domains= vs simply lots of individual nodes, which we have both of, since I 
don't see in the admin details anything that indicated domains=
was used, as in the example below.  Hard to believe IBM doesn't have some kind 
of solution to this?


1:52:27 PM   MOON : q admin ABSHAFFER f=d
Administrator Name: ABSHAFFER
 Last Access Date/Time: 11/12/2014 20:26:01
Days Since Last Access: 76
Password Set Date/Time: 10/23/2014 13:57:48
   Days Since Password Set: 96
 Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
   Locked?: No
   Contact: Amber Shaffer
  System Privilege:
  Policy Privilege:
 Storage Privilege:
Operator Privilege:
   Client Access Privilege: ROSE-OTS LAVENDER-PHYTHERAPY DOGWOOD-CSC
 SAHPADFS-SAHPADMIN LAVENDER-CIE ROSE-PUBLICHEALTH
 ROSE-ADVANCE ROSE-PHARMTOX ROSE-SBHEALTH
 CARNATION-FMD CARNATION-OIE ROSE-HEALTHADMIN
 ROSE-BIOSTAT DOGWOOD-VIPBG DOGWOOD-ASSURANCE
 LAVENDER-CMS LAVENDER-CTE CARNATION-SOCIALWORK
 CARNATION-UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE DOGWOOD-UCCSOFTWARE
 DOGWOOD-AUXUCCAD LAVENDER-SURGERY CARNATION-CSV
 CARNATION-URDESIGN CARNATION-URDIGITAL
 CARNATION-URFILES LIBRARY-DIGITMASTER
 CARNATION-VPLSADMIN LIBRARY-ADMIN LAVENDER-HONORS
 LAVENDER-DCE LAVENDER-RRTC DOGWOOD-ATHLETICS
 CARNATION-STUDENTAFFAIRS
Client Owner Privilege:
Registration Date/Time: 05/14/2014 11:22:19  Registering Administrator: 
ZFORRAY
  Managing profile:
Password Expiration Period: 90 Day(s)


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Rick Adamson rickadam...@biloholdings.com
wrote:

 Zoltan,
 I have the same issue and found no way around it besides creating an 
 admin schedule that refreshes them occasionally :)

 Rick Adamson


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 Of Zoltan Forray
 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:58 PM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: [ADSM-L] Grant admin authority domains= requires refreshing 
 for new nodes in domain?

 We have lots of admins whose authority was assigned via 
 domains=CIFSSHARES

 Since these authorities were assigned, we have added new nodes to the 
 CIFSSHARES domain.

 When I do a q admin f=d, these new nodes don't appear?

 Do I need to go back and re-grant authority to the same domain to 
 pickup the changes or is there some other way to refresh?

 --
 *Zoltan Forray*
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Re: basic DR questions

[Rick Adamson]

Andrew,
Been there, done that. 
Here's how I handled it:

-Get the server operational. Like others have said it is advantageous to have 
several files from the TSM instance directory (volhist, devconfig, and 
optionally dsmserv.opt). On 5.x it is possible to recover without them, but the 
situation gets a bit more complicated. 
- Assure the system has access to the tape library, (real or virtual), and 
update the devconfig file to reflect any changes needed.
- Install the TSM server software and perform a minimal configuration. This can 
be done via the management console wizards.
- Place/replace the volhist, devconfig, and dsmserv files in the instance 
directory.
- Use the dsmserv restore db command to restore the latest data base copy. 
(If the library is physical tape you may have to manually load the tapes as 
requested.)
- Bring the TSM Server online and inspect for proper operation.
-Unless you determine it is needed I would forego the volume auditing, the time 
it takes per volume to complete is extensive. Be critically selective here.

If you perform a point-in-time database restore (versus a roll forward) I 
strongly recommend that once the server is up you review the original volhist 
file and resolve any potential issues, such as volumes created/deleted in 
between the time of the database backup used for the restore and the time the 
server crashed. 


Rick Adamson
Jacksonville,Fl.
   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Ferris
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] basic DR questions

Hello ADSM-ers,
 
Our ancient 5.5 (EOL I know) TSM server on windows just corrupted it's C: drive 
(so OS + Server Program Files) but everything else is fine - the diskpools, the 
logs, the db files, the library, etc. I even have copies of dsmserv.opt, 
devconfig.out, and volhist.out. I have a plan file but I would prefer to pull 
back as few tapes as possible from offsite.
 
What would be the quickest way to restore TSM given the large amount of 
non-destroyed material I have?
 
Sorry my DRM skills are so rusty.
 
thanks,
Andrew Ferris
Network  System Management
UBC Centre for Heart  Lung Innovation
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
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Re: Grant admin authority domains= requires refreshing for new nodes in domain?

[Rick Adamson]

Zoltan,
I have the same issue and found no way around it besides creating an admin 
schedule that refreshes them occasionally :)

Rick Adamson
   

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:58 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Grant admin authority domains= requires refreshing for new 
nodes in domain?

We have lots of admins whose authority was assigned via domains=CIFSSHARES

Since these authorities were assigned, we have added new nodes to the 
CIFSSHARES domain.

When I do a q admin f=d, these new nodes don't appear?

Do I need to go back and re-grant authority to the same domain to pickup the 
changes or is there some other way to refresh?

--
*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software  Hardware Administrator
BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
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Re: image backup support on older client

[Rick Adamson]

Gary,
Yes, according to the 5.3 manual I just so happen to have. (going to forward 
you a copy)

Rick Adamson

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 9:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] image backup support on older client

Tsm server 6.2.5, on rhel 6
Client 5.3.6.7 on windows 2000.

Does this old client version support image backups?

Can't come up with my manuals for this version.