Re: Upgrade 5.2.3 to 5.5 directly

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
> It has become a habit of mine, on any major upgrade of the TSM server,
> to start the TSM server in the foreground first and watch for unusual
> messages.  Then if everything comes up fine, halt it and start it
again
> in the background.

Excellent advice. Never assume that everything is both hunky and dorey
until you've seen the server start-up messages.
 
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Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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Re: Tape Drive Block Size

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Mochnaczewski
> Does anyone have any performance benchmarking procedures or utilities
that
> can be used to verify tape drive performance ? We are running TSM
5.3.5.2
> on AIX 5.3 ML4 using a SL8500 using ACSLS.

Real-world performance? Read your TSM activity log after a storage pool
backup or migration. See how long they take, and divide the time into
the amount of data moved. Check that against the maximum throughput that
the tape drive itself allows.

(Never did have much use for "theoretical" benchmarks. I don't do
theoretical backups or restores.)
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: TSM server 5.3.3.0->5.4.1.1...no problem?

[Stapleton, Mark]

Just Monday, I upgraded a customer's twin TSM servers from 5.3.2.2 to
5.4.2.0. Multiple instances of TSM existed on each physical server, and
the TSM installation process automatically upgraded all existing
databases. There were two 130GB databases, and the upgrade on each of
them took about 5 minutes each.

Device driver upgrades went similarly well, and everything was both
hunky and dorey.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Rhodes
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:46 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM server 5.3.3.0->5.4.1.1...no problem?
> 
> Before we perform a major upgrade on our TSM servers, we do a test
> upgrade.
> We do a backup to disk,  restore the backup to a test server (at the
> proper
> aix/tsm versions), then perform the upgrade.  Care must be taken not
to
> allow
> server-to-server communications (bogus ip addresses in the hosts
file),
> Of course, when you start the test instance it gets all kinds of
errors
> for
> all the missing pools/drives/etc, but it proves the upgrade process
and
> gives
> a good estimated time that theupgrade will take.  Plus, it's great
> practice!
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Anker Lerret
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >
To
>  Sent by: "ADSM:   ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>  Dist Stor
cc
>  Manager"
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
>  .EDU> TSM server
5.3.3.0->5.4.1.1...no
>problem?
> 
>  02/27/2008 03:50
>  PM
> 
> 
>  Please respond to
>  "ADSM: Dist Stor
>  Manager"
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>.EDU>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We're about to upgrade from TSM server 5.3.3.0 to 5.4.1.1 on 2 TSM
> servers.  I've read through the upgrade procedure.  It looks simple
> enough.  We're already running 5.4.1.1 on another TSM server with no
> problems, so I'm not too concerned about that.  I've looked through
the
> listserv archives and no-one seems to have had major problems with
this
> upgrade.  My problem?  I just found out that our TSM guru will be on
> vacation, so I'll be on my own.  This will be my first TSM upgrade
(though
> I'm quite familiar with AIX upgrades).  Should I worry?  Should I
> reschedule the upgrade?  Have I missed anything?
> 
> My motto: What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
> anker
> 
> 
> 
> Our configuration:
> 
> 9117-550 with 2 LPARSs, each running an instance of TSM server
> AIX 5.3, 5300-07-01-0748
> ACSLS 7.1.0
> Gresham EDT 8.0.0.0
> STK SL8500 library with 14 T10K encrypted drives
> 700 TSM clients
> just over a petabyte of data in the library (total of QUERY AUDITOCC)
> 
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Re: Anr8443e Tape can not be assigned a status of scratch

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Collins, Brenda
> I have another issue that I haven't run across previously.  I have
seen
> threads on it in the listserv but not with the resolution I need to
find.
> 
> ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume C01861 in library
>  3494LIB4 cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH.
> 
> This is a library that is managed by one server with two additional
> servers as library clients.
> 
> I checked the volhist on each server and the only one it shows up on
is
> the library manager. If I check this tape in as private, it shows one
of
> the library clients as the owner of the tape, yet there is no volhist
for
> it and the tape is not recognized on that TSM server.
> 
> It seems the only option left is to assume there is nothing on the
tape
> and label it with an overwrite.  Does anyone else know what to do with
a
> tape like this?  (Unfortunately, I seem to have about 30 tapes in this
> condition.)

I've seen that in the recent past. In library manager/client
environments, there is the occasional orphaned tape.

If you're certain there's no usable data on the tape, I'd physically
relabel it and do a LABEL LIBVOL with the overwrite=yes parameter and
put it back into production.

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Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
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Re: Orphaned DB2 data

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Collins, Brenda
> It was true that the backdelete was not set to yes.  I did change that
now
> but db2 does not recognize that old data. When there are deactivated
> backups that db2adutl does not seem to be able to delete.
> 
> Jacques -
> I can see hundreds of files out there for the specific node I am
looking
> at but in db2adutl, there is only a subset of these files.
> 
> I have opened up a call to support to see if they can give me any
ideas on
> how to get rid of this data.

You may be the victim of a little trick that DB2 dbas do occasionally.
If they have piles of data that they failed to expire (because they
turned expiration off), they likely just dropped the catalog, and then
brought it back. Voila! their problem is solved. Unfortunately, TSM is
stuck now with all that orphaned data.

You will have to delete that data manually. Support should be able to
help you with that.
 
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Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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Re: LVSA - open file support dilemma

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Rodolfich
> We have a WIndows 2003 server running the 5.4.0.2 TSM client. The
nightly
> scheduled backups have been failing due to the following error.
> 
> ANS1378E: The snapshot operation failed. The SNAPSHOTCACHELocation
does
> not contain enough space for this snapshot operation.

To uninstall it, you go to Utilities-->Setup Wizard. Check the checkbox
for LVSA support, and the next window should give you the choice of
modification or uninstalling it. If you uninstall it, you will have to
reboot the client in order for the change to take effect.

To *fix* the problem, go to Edit-->Preferences-->Image-Snapshot tab, and
the cache size from 1 (1% of available disk, which is the default
setting) to a higher number. I'd try 5 at first, and then inch it upward
if 5 proves to be inadequate.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: TSM server 5.3.3.0->5.4.1.1...no problem?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Anker Lerret
> We're about to upgrade from TSM server 5.3.3.0 to 5.4.1.1 on 2 TSM
> servers.

I would suggest you go all the way to 5.4.2.0. Going to a patch level is
rarely a best practice unless you're trying to fix a specific problem
that the patch solves. Always go to the latest maintenance level
instead.
 
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Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com 

Re: Archive Data

[Stapleton, Mark]

Query occupancy  stgp= type=archive
Query occupancy  stgp= type=backup

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CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Lepre, James
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archive Data
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
>Does anyone know a sql statement that would produce what type of
data
> is on the tapes?  I am trying to figure out which tapes have backup
data
> on them and which tapes have archive data on them.
> 
> TSM SERVER VERSION 5.4.1.1
> 
> Any help is always appreciated
> 
> Thank you
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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Re: W2003 backup hangs

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Longo
> I have a W2003 R2 Std. ED.- SP2 server.  This server went live about 3
> months
> ago.  Had TSM 5.2.x client on it.  (Server had been around a  while
before
> it went live.)
> Started backup and went fine for a month, then one night it just hung.

Sounds like a corrupted filesystem. Have you run CHKDSK on it?
 
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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Re: Trying to add a 3494

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sam Sheppard
> We believe we need to define a LAN host to the Library Manager, but
when
> we attempt to do an "Add LAN Host" at the library manager operator
> panel, we are not given the opportunity to add anything and just get
> back a window saying:
> 
> "The add LAN host to library operation failed"
> 
> Where are we going wrong here?

That sounds like your 3494 library has something going on with it. Time
for a service call from IBM.

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CDW Berbee
System engineer
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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Re: How are we doing?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
> Hi Dude..
> 
> How are the experiments on the NAS backups going?
> 
> When do you want to get together again?
> 
> I'm out of town next week, but I'm free Feb 26, 27, & 29...

Wanda, Wanda, Wanda. While this is a very gracious offer, I for one
can't make it out to the Johns Hopkins area anytime real soon. ;o)
 
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Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: Server ugrades and licensing

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
> We are runing a 5.3.4.0 TSM server under zLinux and are planning
> to upgrade to 5.4.2.0. We currently have licenses for some hundreds
> of processors. How will the existing licenses be converted to the
> new licensing scheme? In particular, will we get 100 value units for
> each processor licensed under the old rules? If at all possible, I
> would like a reference to an IBM document covering this issue.

Refer that question to your IBM rep, who should have those answers.
 
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CDW Berbee
System engineer
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com 

Re: TSM dream setup

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Johnny Lea
> I do have a question on something someone mentioned and that is de-
> deduplication.  Are many of you using it and do you consider it an
extra
> level on potential problems?  Just curious.

It's highly overrated with TSM, since TSM doesn't do absolute (full)
backups unless such are forced. If you want maximum bang for your buck
with dedupe, you need to run an app like IBM CommonStore for Email that
will enable SIS (single-instance store) on your email server's data. 

When a CEO sends a 4MB attachment to 100 different email addresses, it
makes mail administrators cry.

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Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: Find Management Class and copy group info per filespace

[Stapleton, Mark]

There is no one-to-one correspondence between filespaces (or nodes) and
management classes. There is a one-to-one correspondence between nodes
and policy domains, and a policy domain has one DEFAULT management
class, but can have many.

There is a one-to-one correspondence between individual files and
management classes, but the column entry in the TSM database is
"DEFAULT" unless a non-default management class is involved.
 
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CDW Berbee
System engineer
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Howard Coles
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:01 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Find Management Class and copy group info per
filespace
> 
> I have a question, as I've been challenged to provide this
information.
> 
> I need a way to query TSM and find out which Management Class each
file
> space is bound to.  We have some domains that were setup with no less
> than 5 Management Classes, each with copy groups that have vastly
> differing retention policies.  For the Oracle, Exchange, and SQL
server
> backups this is easy, there's a dedicated node and only a few Domains
> and MCs.  But for file spaces this gets more complicated.
> 
> So, if anyone knows of an easy (relatively speaking) SQL Query, or
> series of SQL Queries they have run in the past to do this it would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> See Ya'
> Howard Coles Jr.
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> 615-296-3416
> John 3:16!

Re: Upcoming TSM Beta Program Looking for Participants!

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Howard Coles
> Here's a question, other than better running software what does the
> person/company get for all this free testing work they provide IBM?

If you're a business partner or consultant, you get a big jump start on
new technology, which makes you look very good in front of your
customers.

There's not a company I've ever heard of that gives away or discounts
any major application for a beta tester.

 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: Archive ESX virtual machines

[Stapleton, Mark]

Search the ADSM-L archives for VMWare and virtualmountpoint
 
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Keith Arbogast
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:21 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archive ESX virtual machines
> 
> Armando,
> The last time I checked, vmfs file systems were not supported by TSM.
> 
> Keith Arbogast
> Indidna University

Re: Internal error TBUNDO012 question

[Stapleton, Mark]

>From searching the IBM site:

http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=ANR7837S&v=16&lang=en&cc=us&en=utf&Search=S
earch

See if any of the descriptions match your environment. You may have a
pinned recovery log.

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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Strand, Neil B.
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:18 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Internal error TBUNDO012 question
> 
> I have a TSM instance v5.3.4.0 running on AIX 5.3 ML4
> The TSM instance has crashed with the following:
> 
> 2/12/2008 10:15:21  ANR7838S Server operation terminated.
> 02/12/2008 10:15:21  ANR7837S Internal error TBUNDO012 detected.
> 
> I recovered the server yesterday and all appeared fine but this
morning
> it crashed again with the identical error.
> The TSM DB size is 195GB.
> 
> Has anyone run across this with TSM V5.3.4?  I have seen a few
> references with TSM V4.x and 3.x. but nothing more current.
> 
> Cheers,
> Neil Strand
> Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
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Re: ANR8963E & ANR1791W

[Stapleton, Mark]

A couple of things:
1. Delete all your path and drive definitions and rebuild them.
2. Make sure that your HBA drivers are up-to-date.
 
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Andy Huebner
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:57 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8963E & ANR1791W
> 
> We started seeing this error after we upgrade to 5.4.2.0
> ANR8963E Unable to find path to match the serial number defined for
> drive XX in library IBM3494
> This error causes the path to go off-line.  We update the path with
> AUTODETECT=YES and it fixes the path every time.  But the error will
> happen again and again... but to a random drive.
> 
> IBM asked us to turn on SAN Discovery to resolve the error which has
> generated this error:
> ANR1791W HBAAPI wrapper library /usr/lib/libHBAAPI.a(shr_64.o) failed
to
> load or is missing.
> 
> We are running AIX 5.3 and the correct version of the API is loaded.
> This whole thing is starting to drive us nuts with paths dropping
every
> day and with IBM not having a solution yet.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to these errors?  We are stuck and IBM is
> working on it.
> 
> AIX 5.3
> TSM 5.4.2.0
> IBM3494
> 3590-E drives
> A very static tape SAN
> 
> Andy Huebner
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Re: Windows Server 2003 native backup with LTO 3

[Stapleton, Mark]

Remember that 800GB is the *average* maximum amount. The amount of
compression you get on a given tape is entirely dependent upon the type
of data you back up. Text files compress more than binary files, and
database files compress depending upon how full the file is.

500GB is about the real-world average. You'll notice that you may even
get the occasional tape that gets more than 800GB.
 
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> wlodro
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:21 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Server 2003 native backup with LTO 3
> 
> Hi,
> I'm using MS WinServ2003 SP2 with HP LTO Gen3 400/800 GB SCSI Tape
Drive
> Ultrium-TD3 (cartridges 400/800 GB), firmware 69u2. Can't backup more
than
> 500 GB - when 501 limits is reached there is the message - tape is
full.
> Tape drive was replaced by new one. Hardware comperssion is active.
> Any suggestion is welcome,
> 
> Wlodzimierz Drozdz
> 
>
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Re: How to selectively delete export tapes from volhist

[Stapleton, Mark]

Roundabout way: create a second TSM instance, share your library out to
the new instance, run EXPORT NODE TOSERVER=, delete the
export volume history entries you want, then run EXPORT NODE
TOSERVER=.
 
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Roger Deschner
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] How to selectively delete export tapes from volhist
> 
> I've got an older export tape I want to keep. But I've got several
newer
> ones that are no longer needed, and I'm tight on scratch tapes so I
want
> them back. All the options I can think of on the DELETE VOLHIST
command
> would delete all of them. Is there any other way? (AIX TSM 5.5)
> 
> Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Academic Computing & Communications Center

Creating the TSM server service in Windows manually

[Stapleton, Mark]

A hypothetical question occurred to me one dark night: 

 

You normally create the Windows service called TSM Server 1 (or 2 or
whatever) through the TSM Management Console when you first set up a TSM
server. Does anyone know how you could create the service through an OS
command-line interface?

 

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763-592-5963

www.berbee.com  

 

 

Re: SV: TSM Windows Bare Metal Recovery options

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Christian Svensson
> But when you do a BMR with TSM only you don't have all the flexibility
> with Dissimilar Hardware and the speed that CBMR have to recovery the
OS.
> Of course you can do a Image backup with TSM but in that case you got
so
> much extra data backed up and with a site with 50 servers or more it
will
> be probably too much duplicated data.

First of all, you might want to make it a little more obvious to the
list readers here at ADSM-L, Christian, that you work for Christie,
which sells CBMR. You're not exactly a disinterested party to this
discussion.

Second, you CAN use TSM all by itself to restore a system to dissimilar
hardware. As I said earlier, it takes some up-front work to set up such
a process, but I've done it on many systems for customers. The relative
speeds with which you restore a system with or without CBMR doesn't make
that much difference, since the majority of the time is spent waiting
for data to move from tape to disk.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: TSM Windows Bare Metal Recovery options

[Stapleton, Mark]

TSM can be used as a BMR tool, but it does require some scripting,
particularly if you have clients aside from Windows 2000/2003.

The available BMR packages that I'm aware of either perform poorly, or
are rather expensive. Why buy additional software when TSM can do the
work, with a little before-DR work on the part of the administrator?
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Bradberry, Kenneth
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Windows Bare Metal Recovery options
> 
> Hello, we have been looking for an agent that can provide Windows BMR
> and that integrates nicely into TSM.  We have look at CBMR with some
> mixed results.  Can anyone provide some perspective on BMR software
> packages and any experiences deploying and maintaining these
> environments?  We need to make a selection and some of our techs want
to
> deploy BackupExec and back the backup with TSM, which I believe is a
bad
> idea.  Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
> 
> Kenneth L. Bradberry
> 
> Chief Technology Officer
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Re: GPFS file system backup problem

[Stapleton, Mark]

That was going to be MY suggestion. Similar nonsense happens with
corrupt Windows filesystems.
 
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Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Michael Green
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:44 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] GPFS file system backup problem
> 
> On Jan 30, 2008 2:03 PM, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Michael Green wrote:
> > > in dsmerror.log with regard to that file system these lines can be
> > > found:
> > > 01/30/08   00:42:53 TransErrno: Unexpected error from
> > > gpfs_fgetattrs, errno = 22
> > > 01/30/08   00:42:53 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=131 from
> > > fioGetDirEntries:  /srv  /projects
> > > ...
> >
> > Well, that's TSM relating the specifics of the problem.
> > I would go to www.ibm.com and enter the search operands:
> > +gpfs_fgetattrs +errno +22
> > for known causes.
> 
> Thanks Richard,
> 
> I've gone through all those articles earlier today. None of them seem
> to correspond to the right (my) combination of TSM/GPFS/OS versions.
> My feeling is that there must be something wrong with this file
> system. It has been backing up this FS for 3 years in a row. Had no
> trouble whatsoever.
> I've notified my users that the system will be taken down on Sunday
> briefly for offline fsck.
> 
> --
> Warm regards,
> Michael Green

Re: FW: Question about copypool storage pools

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Minns, Farren; Chichester
> Disk BACKUPPOOL migrating to 3592 TAPEPOOL with a 3590 COPYPOOL.
> 
> I needed to create a new 3592 COPYPOOL as the number of 3590 off-site
> tapes being sent each day was getting too large.
> 
> I marked the original TAPEPOOL as readonly and renamed it to
> TAPEPOOL_3592_OLD
> I then marked the original COPYPOOL as readonly and renamed that to
> COPYPOOL_3590_OLD
> Next I created a new sequential access 3592 TAPEPOOL and made sure
that it
> was the NEXT storage pool for the BACKUPPOOL
> I then created a new 3592 COPYPOOL.
> 
> My question is this...
> 
> Can I use the 'MOVE DATA' command to move data from volumes in the old
> TAPEPOOL_3592_OLD to the new 3592 TAPEPOOL?

Yes.

> If so, will this new data also need to be copied to the COPYPOOL
again?

Yes. Each copypool is independent of other copypools.
 
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Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
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Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: stgpool migrations between TSM instances

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
TSTLTDTD
> Try exporting and importing

Yes. In fact that's the only way you'll be able to do that. Be prepared
to tie up at least one tape drive for each pool for long periods of
time. I would suggest that you use the "filedata=allactive" flag to
minimize the amount of data sought and moved.

--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer

Re: NetWare Client full backups running when incremental is selected

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kevin P. Kinder
> Server:  TSM running on z/OS 1.7
>  Just upgraded to 5.5
> My NetWare clients are now running full backups instead of the
> incrementals which are specified. It looks as if every Netware server
> that I have is doing this. Obviously, this is killing my disk and tape
> storage space. This is happening on client versions from 5.2-5.4

Are your NetWare boxes running in a clustered environment? If so, you
may have a situation where NetWare changes a file attribute on every
file on every cluster disk that gets moved from one node to another.
When the attribute gets changed, TSM sees it as a changed file and backs
it up again.

I ran across this issue a year or so ago at a customer site. I don't
know the details (the NetWare admin was fiercely protective of his
environment and wasn't forthcoming with help). If this is the case, the
issue lay with NetWare, not TSM.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: Fw: Manual backup vs. GUI after resolving ANS1063E

[Stapleton, Mark]

>"Bell, Charles (Chip)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In the process of resolving ANS1063E for a couple of clients, I noted
>>something that seemed strange. There was one machine in particular,
that >>I've
>>been running manually, and it would back up a few 100 MB at a time. It
was
>>finally able to run a scheduled backup of the drive that it had been
>>unable
>>to do, and it has so far backed up 10+ GB. This may be an elementary
TSM
>>question, but why is there a discrepancy between the manual
incremental
>>backups I had been doing in the interim, and the scheduled backup that
is
>>running now?

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
John Underdown
> every time i've had this issue it turned out to be different
permissions
> between the user accounts running the backups.

Always and forever. Beware the Windows admin that likes to remove all
permissions for the "System" ID.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: Spanking my data.

[Stapleton, Mark]

Good rule of thumb: if you can't get inventory expiration done within 6
hours, you've got a degraded environment. You should seriously look at

1) a more robust disk environment for your database
2) the database should be "split" into multiple instances.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Rhodes
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:14 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Spanking my data.
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 01/16/2008
> 10:16:38 AM:
> 
> > But many times, overlap can't be avoided.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> - we run expiration around the clock.
> - If the disk pool fills, we've got migrations running along with
backups.
> - We run movedata/reclamation around the clock. (we coded our own
> move data script to handle reclamation since it is brain dead on
> picking
> tapes to process.)
> - Backups run mostly over night, but Oracle log backups that are
pushed
> to TSM occur around the clock.
> - Of course, the are probably restores in here somewhere.
> 
> Partly this was caused by letting a couple TSM servers to grow too big
> before
> we finally started bringing up more instances.  But, in general, TSM
> handles
> it VERY well.  We get an occasional deadlock condition, and movedata's
> often
> fail due to tape contention (and get retried in a couple hour). What
has
> NOT
> happened is any data corruption problems (db/log or backups/archives).
> 
> My experience:  Don't be afraid to push TSM.  But you will run into
> problem
> when you push too far (disk contention, tape/drive contention,
deadlocks,
> log pins).
> 
> Rick
> 
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Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: problems? plusses?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Just wanted to know if anyone's made the jump. We just got in a new
server
> and will be moving from v5.3.1.2 to either 5.4 or 5.5. Just wanted to
know
> what your thoughts were on migrating?

The upgrades from 5.3.X upward should go smoothly. Follow the
instructions in the relevant TSM server installation guide.

The first maintenance level for TSM server 5.5 has yet to appear, and I
NEVER install base code of anything in a production environment. 80% of
bugs are in base code. 

In a similar vein, I NEVER install a patch level of TSM in a production
environment unless I'm trying to fix a specific problem associated with
that patch. Patches are not nearly as thoroughly tested as maintenance
levels.

In other words, you should be installing 5.4.2.0 on your TSM server. TSM
server 5.3.X.X goes out of support on 30 April 2008.

Use and abuse.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> That sounds great! So to confirm, there are no technical gotchas that
are
> going to prevent data movement from one media type (LTO1/2) ton
another
> (LTO3/4)? Anyone else done this?

Well, yes there is.

An LTO4 tape drive will NOT be able to read any data from an LTO1 tape
cartridge.

The LTO specifications call for any LTO cartridge to be readable and
writeable for a drive one level up (LTO1 to LTO2, for instance), and for
any LTO cartridge to be readable ONLY for a drive two levels up (LTO1 to
LTO3, for instance.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: ANS1009W DRM error and "recommended fix"

[Stapleton, Mark]

Zoltan, read the IBM SWG note you pointed at below. It explained why the fix 
works.
 
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 8:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS1009W DRM error and "recommended fix"



This is mostly for Andy but any help is appreciated

We are having the "ANS1009W DRM FilesNotToBackup RC 13" error described in
the document:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243837


Unfortunately, some of the recommendations make absolute no sense to me or
my Windows experts.

HOW TO REPAIR THE REGISTRY KEY - METHOD 1
1. From the Windows desktop, click Start-->Run... In the Run dialog, type
regedit, then click OK. This will launch the registry editor.

2. Navigate to the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\
Control\
BackupRestore\
FilesNotToBackup

3. In the right-hand pane of the registry editor, locate DRM. Right-click
on DRM and select Modify from the pop-up menu (alternatively, double-click
on DRM). The Edit Multi-String dialog will appear. Below is an example of
this dialog: 

4. Do not change anything in the Value data window. Just click OK. Then
select the File-->Exit menu item to close regedit.

The last statement puzzles us.   Basically, once you navigate to this
registry key, DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ???

How exactly does this fix anything 

Re: DRM Question

[Stapleton, Mark]

Shove the tapes into the library directly.

Run

checkin libv  search=yes status=private checkl=barcode
update volume * wherestg= access=readwrite

The last line assumes you've put all copypool volumes into the library. 

There you go.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Copper, Steve
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:59 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] DRM Question
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a situation where previously my tape library was full (slot
free
> hell) and I was having to check out volumes that were in the
copystgpool
> so that I could make way for scratch tapes. Then the whole manual
> procedure of getting the tapes back to scratch once they had been
> recovered etc
> 
> Now we have brought an expansion unit for our library so I am now in
> slot free heaven. Question is, how can I check my checked out tapes
back
> into the library so that DRM knows that they are back in the library
and
> in the mountable state and not the vault state? Yes I can physically
> check the tapes in and assign them the status of private but this
> doesn't update the status within DRM.
> 
> If this can't be done, then I guess I will just have to wait until
they
> are recovered one by one via reclamation which isn't to much of a
> problem, I was just hoping that my tape monkey days were over!
> 
> Server running on AIX 5.3 TL4-CSP, TSM server version 5.3.2.0 with a
> ts3310 library attached.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Steve
> 
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Re: Vista oddness

[Stapleton, Mark]

That'll work...as long as the SYSTEMSTATE backup is less than 2GB, and
as long as Vista supports subfile backups.

Let us all know how that works.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Steven Harris
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:35 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vista oddness
> 
> yes, they will  be backed up every time,  but only the blocks that
have
> changed, thats why I specified subfile.
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 10/12/2007
> 03:03:53 PM:
> 
> > Might work...  if only I had time to work on such a thing and test
it
> > out...  Wouldn't the 1GB files be backed up everytime, since the
> > timestamp will have changed?
> >
> > At 07:40 PM 12/9/2007, you wrote:
> > >Well Paul  it looks like you need a low tech solution
> > >
> > >I assume Vista has some sort of NTBACKUP equivalent?
> > >
> > >Run your NTBACKUP of the systemstate as a precommand and put it
through
> the
> > >GNU split utility to give you files of say 1GB in size. do it as a
> script
> > >and add a sleep at the end to give VSS time to quiesce before the
TSM
> > >backup starts.
> > >
> > >Exclude systemstate from the TSM backup (or maybe put it in a class
> with
> > >freq of 14) , but turn on subfile backup for the split backup
files.
> > >
> > >Voila - poor man's dedup.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >Steve
> > >
> > >Steven Harris
> > >TSM Admin - Sydney Australia
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Paul Zarnowski
> > >  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >  >
> To
> > >  Sent by: "ADSM:   ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > >  Dist Stor
> cc
> > >  Manager"
> > >  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject
> > >  .EDU> Re: [ADSM-L] Vista oddness
> > >
> > >
> > >  08/12/2007 10:32
> > >  AM
> > >
> > >
> > >  Please respond to
> > >  "ADSM: Dist Stor
> > >  Manager"
> > >  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >.EDU>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Joanne,
> > >
> > >Thanks very much for the detailed response.  We really need relief
on
> > >this.  We have a couple of thousand Windows systems, and they will
> > >eventually be upgrading to Vista.  As they do so, they will uncover
> > >this huge problem;  A problem for them, in that their backups will
> > >run longer and they will be storing much more data than they need;
> > >and also a problem for the TSM server administrators as they put an
> > >increasingly huge load on the network and TSM server
infrastructure.
> > >
> > >This solution, as it is now, is virtually unworkable for us.  The
> > >clock is ticking, and we need relieve ASAP.  Waiting for the next
> > >major release is too long, IMHO.  It would have been nice if this
> > >were addressed with the initial support for Vista in TSM, but
that's
> > >water over the dam now.
> > >
> > >Thanks for listening.
> > >
> > >..Paul
> > >
> > >At 11:40 AM 12/7/2007, Joanne T Nguyen wrote:
> > > >David,
> > > >
> > > >You are seeing the correct behavior.  If you have the default
domain
> > > >backup, system state will be part of the backup.  On Vista,
system
> state
> > > >is in GB because we're backing up the windows\winsxs and
> > > >system32\driverstore folder.  Please see the link below where MS
> describes
> > > >in-box writers.  System state consists of all the bootable system
> state
> > >and
> > > >system services writers.  Though 8GB seems high.  Our testing
> > > >shows about 5GB.
> > > >
> > > >http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa819131.aspx
> > > >
> > > >For Windows 2003, TSM implements a way to back up the system
files
> > > >component of the system state only if something is changed.  So
it
> > > >is possible to backup only about 30-40 files the 2nd time and
> thereafter
> > >if
> > > >no fixes or SP were applied after the initial system state
backup.
> > > >During Vista development, we noticed some files were always
changed
> so
> > > >instead of spending the cycle to compare each file. which are
> > > >in 30,000-40,000 files now, we decided to backup all the time.
This
> is
> > >one
> > > >area we will revisit.
> > > >
> > > >If you have vshadow tool from the MS VSS SDK, you can do "vshadow
> -wm2" to
> > > >see all the files that should be part of the backup.  Please
> > > >let me know if you have further questions.
> > > >
> > > >Regards,
> > > >Joanne Nguyen
> > > >TSM Client Development
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  "Tyree, David"
> > > >  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >  .ORG>
> > >To
> > > >  Sent by: "ADSM:   ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > > >  Dist Stor
> > >cc
> > > >  Manager"
> > > >   

Re: import node 'incomplete'

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Geoff -  See if Technote 1246364 explains your occurrence.

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> I must be an idiot. I'm either in the wrong place or don't know how to
> perform a search, and as usual the IBM site is little help in finding
> it. Do you have a link Richard?

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21246364

Piece of cake, using the search text box in the upper right-hand corner
of the IBM home page.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511

Re: ANR8314E Library is Full Error

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Maura Adams
> Thanks for the info.  I just heard back from IBM support and because
our
> second frame to the library was added after our original install, TSM
> does not see it.  We need to take an outage and delete/define all
paths,
> library, drives and check all tapes back in.  A little bit ugly.

Not ugly at all, and no outage is required if you do this at night,
since tape drives are usually quiet during that time anyway. 

Write a batch file that does the following:

delete path (all tape drives)
delete path (for library)
delete drive (all tape drives)
delete library (library)
define library
define path (for library)
define drive (all tape drives)
define path (all tape drives)
checkin libv (library) search=yes status=scratch checkl=barcode
checkin libv (library) search=yes status=private checkl=barcode

Call the batch file "library_redo". Run the file as a macro.

This should all run within a minute or two. Do it while all tape drives
are quiet.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

Re: Administrative query command to get date/time file was backed up

[Stapleton, Mark]

By opening the TSM backup/archive client GUI, browse through the RESTORE
list to find the file in question. If you choose to "View
Active/Inactive", you can see all the different times the file has been
backed up.

There are security reasons why server and client functionalities are
separated.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Administrative query command to get date/time file
was
> backed up
> 
> Using the dsmadmc command "query content" I can get a list of files
> backed up in a storage pool along with the Node Name and some other
> limited information.  However, the date/time that the backup was
> performed is not provided (even with format=detailed).  How can I find
> out when a file was backed up?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> --
> Dan Sidorick
> UNIX Software Development
> 21st Century Software, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Phone: 866-891-4834
> FAX: 610-964-9072

Re: Another Licensing question

[Stapleton, Mark]

The page refers to a separate license *file*, which is normally only installed 
in the default directory for the first instance running. That file must be 
copied to every directory that acts as the configuration file for each instance 
running on the same physical server.
 
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Daad Ali
Sent: Fri 8/10/2007 1:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Another Licensing question



Thanks Mark,
  
  That was my understanding until I saw this note:
  
  Note:
  You need a separate license for each unique instance of the server in order 
to run additional servers

  in this IBM URL
  
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/anrai5330.htm
  
  
  And this URL specifically talks about "Running Multiple Servers on a Single 
Machine"
  
  
  
  thanks,
  Daad
"Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Licensing:

1 license per physical processor.

Different kinds of processors have varying costs. See your dealer.

--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Daad Ali
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:04 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Another Licensing question
>
> Any takers for this please?
>
>
> Thanks in Advance.
> regards,
> Daad A.
>
> Daad Ali wrote:
>
> Hello TSMers,
>
> I need some clarification on the following:
>
> If I run 2 instances on my TSM server (AIX 5.3 TSM 5.4) and I have 4
> CPUs on that server, will I be charged for 8 CPU licenses.
>
> I found this note:
> Note:
> You need a separate license for each unique instance of the server
in
> order to run additional servers.
>
> on
>
>
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/
co
> m.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/anrai5330.htm
>
>
> Initially, I was under the impression, that I will only be charged
for
> more licensing if I create another instance on another LPAR.
>
> Your input is always appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Daad
>
>
>
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Re: Another Licensing question

[Stapleton, Mark]

Licensing:

1 license per physical processor.

Different kinds of processors have varying costs. See your dealer.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Daad Ali
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:04 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Another Licensing question
> 
> Any takers for this please?
> 
> 
>   Thanks in Advance.
>   regards,
>   Daad A.
> 
> Daad Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>   Hello TSMers,
> 
>   I need some clarification on the following:
> 
>   If I run 2 instances on my TSM server (AIX 5.3 TSM 5.4) and I have 4
> CPUs on that server, will I be charged for 8 CPU licenses.
> 
>   I found this note:
>   Note:
>   You need a separate license for each unique instance of the server
in
> order to run additional servers.
> 
>   on
> 
>
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/
co
> m.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/anrai5330.htm
> 
> 
>   Initially, I was under the impression, that I will only be charged
for
> more licensing if I create another instance on another LPAR.
> 
>   Your input is always appreciated.
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Daad
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Questions about upgrading storage agents from 5.3 to 5.4.

[Stapleton, Mark]

Habits of use. I've had issues with storage agents, and Tivoli support's first 
response is "make 'em match!"
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Rhodes
Sent: Tue 8/7/2007 2:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Questions about upgrading storage agents from 5.3 to 5.4.



>Storage agent version, release, level, and sublevel must match the TSM
server's exactly.

I just asked this question of IBM support in relation to a planned TSM
upgrade (5.3.3 -> 5.4.1).
They pointed me to Technote  1193179.  IBM tests and supports  up to n-2
maintenance releases.

Rick


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Re: Oracle rman and tdp out of sync

[Stapleton, Mark]

Some of the issue depends on how the DBA did the "fix". If they started 
expiring the backups, TSM would automatically catch the expiration notices and 
handle them.
 
However, if the DBA just disconnected and then reconnected the catalog to get 
of the backups, you will have to manually delete the backed-up data.
 
I've had a couple of customers whose DBAs didn't want to wait for expirations 
("it's take too long!"), and I've seen terabytes of data orphaned.
 
Imagine my thrill...
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Shawn Geil
Sent: Tue 8/7/2007 12:05 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Oracle rman and tdp out of sync



I have found that my DBA was not deleting backups from TSM via RMAN when
removing the backup from the control file.  I now have that issue
corrected.  I am having some challenges getting the orphaned backups out
of TSM however.

Environment:
Oracle 9.2 on AIX 5.2
TSM 5.2 on AIX 5.1
TDP 5.2
no catalog using the control file

We have tried doing an RMAN crosscheck but it only finds the backups in
the control file not the ones only in TSM.  We do have delete obsolete
now working correctly to handle the backup in both the control file and TSM.

I have been reading about tdposync but that only looks to work if you
are using the RMAN catalog.  Is this correct and if so does anyone know
of another method to clear these up.  I have seen the delete object
information but would prefer not to use an unsupported undocumented command.

S
--

Shawn Geil, Senior Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information Systems and Services  phone number 785.670.1010.2305
Washburn University Topeka, Kansas 66621

Re: Questions about upgrading storage agents from 5.3 to 5.4.

[Stapleton, Mark]

Storage agent version, release, level, and sublevel must match the TSM server's 
exactly.
 
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Stefan Folkerts
Sent: Tue 8/7/2007 6:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Questions about upgrading storage agents from 5.3 to 5.4.



Hi,

I have tried to find the answers in the documentation from IBM but I
seem unable to locate the information I need.

I am about to upgrade an environment from 5.3 -> 5.4 (servers / clients
/ storage-agents).

Some questions

1 - when upgrading from 5.3 -> 5.4 do I still need to remove the paths
first and define them after the upgrade as needed when going from 5.2 ->
5.3 or can I just stop the agent and do a upgrade of the software with
smitty?

2 - do 5.3 storage agents work with the 5.4 server, this should be ok
but I can't find confirmation about this anywhere.

Regards,


   Stefan

Re: TSM performance very poor, Recovery log is being pinned

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Craig Ross
>TSM is installed on Solaris 10

This is something that popped right out for me. Do you have your storage pools 
located on raw logical volumes or mounted filesystems? If the latter, that 
might be your problem. Solaris has traditionally had incredibly poor throughput 
performance on mounted filesystems.

You might give thought to rebuilding those storage pools on raw logical 
volumes. Of course, that will require that you completely flush all data from 
your disk storage pools to tape storage pools first, so as not to lose client 
data.

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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks (a CDW company)

Re: 6 vs 8 character LTO2 volser - do I care ?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
> In reference to my previous posting, I am moving my 3583 LTO libraries
> from AIX ownership to Linux ownership (as well as the newest 5.4.1
server
> level).
> 
> I just checked in some scratch tapes to the Linux system and the tapes
> came up as 8-characters (09L2 vs 09).
> 
> Do I care ?  Is this going to cause any conflicts or other problems ?
Is
> this going to require relabeling ? Can I set it back to 6-characters ?
I
> read that LTO3 requires 8-chars but these are LTO2 only. No plans to
buy
> any more drives and we certainly wouldn't mix them if we did !

As long as you're not putting previously labeled tapes into the new
library, you should be good to go. If you're putting in previously
labeled tapes with no data on them (scratch tapes), you'll need to force
a relabel. If the tapes have data on them, you're in for a hell of a
time; you cannot force a relabel without rendering the data unreachable.

--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: renaming filespaces

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Whitlock, Brett
> I have a slightly different situation. I would like to replace a
server
> without causing a full backup. I want to replace server NAS1 with a
new
> box named SRV1. We have an (M:) drive on NAS1. We are removing that
LUN
> and presenting the (M:) drive to SRV1. How do I get TSM filespace
> \\NAS1\M$   to \\SRV1\M$   without
> causing a full backup?

Don't think that's possible, since you're going to receiving data from a
"new" TSM client, not just a new filespace on the same client.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: Sharing a 3583 library

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
> I have never shared a 3583 library and drives between multiple TSM
servers
> that will act as library managers/owners.  I have only done this with
my
> 3494.
> 
> Is there anything special about how I should configure a second TSM
server
> that I want to take control over a 3583 library ?  Is it basically the
> same process where the library is defined with unique category codes
and
> the drives are transfered to the new server and paths are changed to
use
> the library manager server as a client ?
> 
> Or can both TSM servers coexist and share the drives between them ?

If you set up a library manager/library client configuration, the
library will never know the difference, since all requests to the
library are sent by the library manager.

There are no category codes for the 358X library family. If you
physically share the library between multiple servers you would have to
dedicate drives to each server. If you do the library manager/library
client setup, you don't have that issue. The library manager decides
which drives are being used and transfers data and metadata to the
library client machine. Just follow the directions in the TSM
Administrator's Guide on how to set it up.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com

Re: upgrade of 200 GB DB

[Stapleton, Mark]

There is a lesson here: do not perform an upgrade to any code (TSM or 
otherwise) until there is at least one maintenance level available, unless 
there is a specific reason to use a patch level to fix a particular problem.
 
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Kathleen M Hallahan
Of greater concern is that the performance at the new code does not seem
to be as good, in a rather vague and intermittent way.  We are seeing
behavior that suggests that it's not always releasing network
communications properly, but not all the time and not for all
communications.  We have not seen this in either of the two much smaller
environments that it's been installed on.  So if you have a lot of
connections on a daily basis, you might start seeing some impact.  We've
opened a ticket to IBM

I would love to know if you (or anyone else) see any behavior differences
over time at 5.4.  I haven't seen much here in the way of complaint but I
don't know if that means it's really great stable code, or if there just
aren't many people using it yet.  Or both, and we're flukey.  :-)

Re: ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
> We had a password issue last night when one of our clients moved its
> backup
> to a different server last night. It was moved back this morning where
> the backup
> completed successfully.
> 
> 
> The DSM.OPT file which has the line "PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE". Is that
> the problem?
> 
> 07/13/2007 00:50:44 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but
> cannot prompt because the process is running in the background.
> 07/13/2007 00:50:44 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but
> cannot prompt  because the process is running in the background.
> 07/13/2007 00:50:44 ANS1029E Communication with the  TSM server is
lost.
> 07/13/2007 00:50:49 ANS1351E Session rejected: All server sessions are
> currently in use

Run a manual backup, input the password when prompted, and that should
fix it.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
Berbee, a CDW company
System engineer
www.berbee.com

Re: Dealing with defunct filespaces.

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Clark
>  a q node would show those clients that have not accessed the system
in
> some time.

Yes, but if only a subset of filespaces are stale, QUERY NODE won't
differentiate them.

A select statement is the best bet, and isn't that hard to set up as a
macro.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
System engineer
Berbee (a CDW company)
www.berbee.com

Re: HSM practical limit?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
> Speaking from experience running HSM on AIX JFS for many years:
> Applied to a file system, HSM turns it into the slowest you've ever
> experienced, even on the fastest RS/6000 and disk systems.

I just want to toss in my two cents on a procedural issue:

HSM is a legacy infrastructure that was originally implemented for
mainframe systems 50 years ago. It was built in a day when hard disk was
horrendously
expensive and required impressive physical resources to maintain. (Old
HDs were a big reason why raised floors were originally made from
preformed concrete.)

Anyway, in these days of decent cheap disk getting cheaper and more
decent all the time, HSM's day is pretty much past despite attempts to
implement it for Microsoft OSs (which is a lost cause). 

If you need more storage, buy it. If you need to move seldom-accessed
files to cheaper disk (which IS a legitimate goal), use something like
IBM's TPC for disk to ferret out such files and move 'em. Or (even
better) archive 'em with TSM with a long retention period.

Why would anyone want to implement an infrastructure that turns your
computer system to the cybernetic equivalent of the village idiot?

--
Mark Stapleton
System engineer
Berbee, a CDW company
www.berbee.com

Re: Can TSM use LDAP for admin authentication?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Loren Cain
>We are building a new TSM installation for a client and I have been
>asked if TSM can use LDAP to authenticate the admin userids. They
>don't want to have to maintain a separate userid/password mechanism
>just for the TSM servers if they can avoid it.
>
>I have never seen anything that leads me to believe this is possible,
>but I've also never seen anything that says it isn't. Unfortunately,
>searches for keywords like "ldap" in the list archives and support site
>results in many, many hits on how to back up ldap, but not on how
>or whether to use it.

At this time, TSM strictly uses its own authentication system and
nothing else.

At the IBM Storage Symposium this summer, it was announced that the TSM
development group was planning to allow for LDAP authentication to the
TSM server and clients "sometime in the future". As with all things IBM,
this may come about next week, or next year, or never.

Quite frankly, as a professional backup/recovery engineer, I don't want
others mucking about with *my* installations without my okey-dokey. That
way madness lies.

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

FW: Data Protection for SQL 5.2.1.03 - Adds SQL Server 2005 Support

[Stapleton, Mark]

(from the ADSM-L mailing list)
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Del Hoobler
>Subject: Data Protection for SQL 5.2.1.03 - Adds SQL Server 
>2005 Support
>
>Who:
>   Data Protection for SQL customers running
>   on Microsoft SQL Server 2005
>
>What:
>   Yesterday, Microsoft officially launched SQL Server 2005.
>   Data Protection for SQL can now be used to back up and
>   restore Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You will need to
>   obtain version 5.2.1.03 of Data Protection for SQL
>   in order to perform back up and restore operations with
>   Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
>
>Where:
>   FTP Site:
>  ftp.software.ibm.com
>   Directory:
>
>/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/tivoli-data-protecti
on/sql/v521/x32/
>   Files:
>  IP22699_3.exe- Self-extracting install file
>  IP22699_3_READSQL.TXT- Data Protection for SQL README File
>  IP22699_3_README.FTP - README File for download
>
>   Direct Link to installation package:
>ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/pa
tches/tivoli-data-protection/sql/v521/x32/
>
>
>Note: The above is for the 32-bit version. The IA64 version is not
>  working due to Microsoft bug#409794. We are waiting for the
>  hotfix to be created by Microsoft. Once we obtain the hotfix
>  and verify that it works, we will release that version along
>  with the information on obtaining the hotfix.
>
>
>Del Hoobler
>IBM Corporation
>

Re: Resource utilization on TSM server 5.3.2.0

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Henrik Wahlstedt
>I havent read anything about resource utilization on TSM server 5.3. My
>questions are. Will 5.3 use/need more memory,  CPU and/or I/O?
> 
>Most of the times when I upgrade my systems one or more HW components
>need to be upgraded as well...

Keep in mind that resourceutilization is a client function, not a server
function.

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

Re: Log pinned, filled, almost crashed

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Roger Deschner
>Short of a poison pill daemon that does a HALT at 95% log full, what do
>others do to positively protect the Log from filling up?

Off the top of my head, an incremental TSM backup to disk? Not sure if
that'll handle the pin; if not, a halt is about all there is.

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

Re: Restore question

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Farren Minns
>Is there a way to ascertain what tape volumes will be required for a
>file/dir restore before actually running it?

This has been discussed many times; see the mailing list archives.

The short answer is no. The workaround is to make all primary pool tapes
unavailable and see which tape is called. The problem is that you only
find out the first tape needed.

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

Re: Error accessing 7212 tape library within TSM

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of James Choate
>I have a small TSM server using a 7212-312 vxa tape library.  The
>library has one tape drive and 10 slots.  I am currently getting the
>following errors trying to communicate with the tape library 
>and can not
>for the life of me figure out the problem.  I currently have a PMR open
>with hardware support, and a PRM with TSM.  Hardware is saying it's a
>TSM problem, TSM support is saying it's a hardware problem.  I haven't
>been able to do backups for a week.  Any guidance is appreciated.
>I've opened a PMR with IBM.  The CE came out and said the hardware is
>fine, but TSM cannot communicate with it.  TSM support says we 
>needed to upgrade to TSM 5.2.6.3.  We were at TSM 5.2.4.5.  

What does

  lsdev -Cc tape

show? If the library shows defined but not available, then it's a
hardware or OS error. If it shows available, then we press on.

The TSM compatible device list
(http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Suppor
ted_Devices_for_AIXHPSUNWIN.html) shows both 5.2.4.5 and 5.3.1.2 as
required TSM levels. You might want to ask Tivoli support what that is
about.

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

Re: TSM client 2GB memory limitation?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Richard Sims
> From what I've read about 64-bit Windows, it boosts the process
>memory limit from 2 GB to 8 TB, which should take care of that
>issue.  Technology marches on.

...save for the fact that there is no 64-bit RDAC for Windows 2003, as
well as other interestingly missing bits of software. I have had several
customers have to roll back 64-bit Windows implementations for such
reasons.

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

Re: HOW TO SCRIPT TSM BACKUP VERIFICATION IN WINDOWS

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Laura Mastandrea
>Can someone share with me a Windows script that will verify files in a
>directory have been successfully backed up within TSM?

There is no easy way to do that. Queries against the BACKUPS table will
take a *very* *long* *time* to run. Queries concerning TSM client
activities are not easy to dig out from the TSM server.

You can confirm that individual files have been backed up by running
grep against the client's dsmsched.log file; that's probably the easiest
way to do it.

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

Re: [Win2003 - 5.3.2] Backupproblem with VSS

[Stapleton, Mark]

Have you taken a look at ANS1378E? It appears regularly in your posting.

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

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Maurice van 't Loo
>Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:49 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: [Win2003 - 5.3.2] Backupproblem with VSS
>
>Hi TSM'ers,
>
>With the new 5.3.2 client for Windows 2003, we have a lot of 
>errors about VSS (see below)
>Does anyone know what to do?
>
>Server = TSM 5.3.1.2 on AIX5
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Maurice van 't Loo
>
>*
>10/26/2005 00:00:58 ANS1959W Removing previous incomplete 
>group '\SYSSTATE' Id:0-62743095
>10/26/2005 00:01:06 ANS1959W Removing previous incomplete 
>group '\WMI' Id:0-62743367
>10/26/2005 00:01:07 ANS1959W Removing previous incomplete 
>group '\IIS' Id:0-62743376
>10/26/2005 00:01:07 ANS1959W Removing previous incomplete 
>group '\EVENTLOG' Id:0-62743373
>10/26/2005 00:24:00 ANS1327W The snapshot operation for 'D:' 
>failed with error code: 662.
>10/26/2005 00:24:01 ANS1399W The logical volume snapshot agent 
>(LVSA) is currently busy performing a snapshot on this same volume.
>
>10/26/2005 00:24:01 ANS1377W The client was unable to obtain a 
>snapshot of '\\kl1011xh\d$'. The operation will continue 
>without snapshot support.
>
>10/26/2005 00:24:10 ANS1327W The snapshot operation for 'E:' 
>failed with error code: 662.
>10/26/2005 00:24:10 ANS1399W The logical volume snapshot agent 
>(LVSA) is currently busy performing a snapshot on this same volume.
>
>10/26/2005 00:24:10 ANS1377W The client was unable to obtain a 
>snapshot of '\\kl1011xh\e$'. The operation will continue 
>without snapshot support.
>
>10/26/2005 00:34:00 ANS1228E Sending of object 'd:' failed
>10/26/2005 00:34:00 ANS1378E The snapshot operation failed. 
>The SNAPSHOTCACHELocation does not contain enough space for 
>this snapshot operation.
>
>10/26/2005 01:58:55 gtUpdateGroupAttr() server error 4 on 
>update SYSTEM STATE\\\TSM_TEMP_GROUP_LEADER\SYSSTATE
>10/26/2005 01:58:56 ANS1228E Sending of object 'SYSTEM STATE' failed
>10/26/2005 01:58:56 ANS1304W An active backup version could 
>not be found.
>
>10/26/2005 01:59:12 ANS1327W The snapshot operation for 'C:' 
>failed with error code: 114.
>10/26/2005 01:59:12 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\kl1011xh\c$' failed
>10/26/2005 01:59:12 ANS4034E Error processing '\\kl1011xh\c$': 
>unknown system error
>10/26/2005 01:59:12 ANS1377W The client was unable to obtain a 
>snapshot of '\\kl1011xh\c$'. The operation will continue 
>without snapshot support.
>
>10/26/2005 02:01:50 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_TIMEOUT
>10/26/2005 02:01:50 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f2]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:02:20 Handle VSS attempt: #1
>10/26/2005 02:03:21 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_RETRYABLE
>10/26/2005 02:03:21 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f3]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:04:23 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_TIMEOUT
>10/26/2005 02:04:23 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f2]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:04:53 Handle VSS attempt: #2
>10/26/2005 02:05:54 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_RETRYABLE
>10/26/2005 02:05:54 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f3]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:06:56 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_TIMEOUT
>10/26/2005 02:06:56 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f2]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:07:26 Handle VSS attempt: #3
>10/26/2005 02:08:27 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_RETRYABLE
>10/26/2005 02:08:27 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE failure for writer 'WMI 
>Writer'. Writer error code: [0x800423f3]
>, rc=4352
>10/26/2005 02:09:29 GatherWriterStatus(): 
>GatherWriterStatus(...pHrResultFailure ) failed with 
>hr=VSS_E_WRITERERROR_TIMEOUT
>10/26/2005 02:09:29 GatherWriterStatus(): GetWriterStatus() 
>returns VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_FREEZE

Re: Moving Domino from Windows to Solaris and old TDP backups

[Stapleton, Mark]

Well, you can't restore the old Windows files directly to the new
server. If the old Windows-based Domino server is still up and running,
you should be able to move restored files from the old server to the new
one--I think Domino has some administrative tools to do so.

Otherwise, ditch the old backups and reclaim your tapes.

--
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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
>Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:22 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Moving Domino from Windows to Solaris and old TDP backups
>
>We have successfully moved our Lotus Domino servers to the Solaris
>platform, from Windows.
>
>My question is, what about the old Domino TDP backups ?
>
>Once the Windows servers are decommissioned, are these backups any
>good/usable or have they become tapioca and might as well be deleted ?
>

Re: Which Copy Group is in use

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Scott Foley
>I have files available to be restored that, based on the backup copy
>group settings, should no longer be available for restoration.  If I
>assume that my expiration of files is up to date and that I understand
>the file expiration correctly in the copy group, how do I 
>track down why those files are listed for restoration?
>
>How can I tell what Policy Domain, Policy Set, Management Class and
>Backup Copy Group are associated with a backed up file?  In the GUI, I
>simply see the Default Management Class listed.  
>
>If I back up files, and then change the policy domain or set, and the
>management class associated with those files, will the new settings
>affect the previously backed up files?  

Please refer to previous discussions of these subjects in the mailing
list archive .

1. Find which domain a node belongs to by running 
  Query NODE 
If a file has been backed up using the default mgmtclass, look up the
retentions rules for by running
  Query COPY  active  standard
Those are the rules for that file. Remember that, unless you employ a
separate mgmtclass for DIRMC, directory entries (as opposed to file
entries) are always preserved under the rules that allow for the longest
retention, not the default mgmtclass.

2. You change the setting for all *active* backups. All *inactive*
backups (from files that have been deleted on the TSM client) are
unaffected by retention rule changes.

--
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 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627

Re: Audit Vol not working

[Stapleton, Mark]

Keep in mind that if you checkin in a tape with the CHECKL=NO or
CHECKL=BARCODE flags, the tape header is not checked.

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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:50 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: Audit Vol not working
>
>I don't believe that is the case, as I was able to check 
>in/out the tape
>yesterday. Thanks, though!
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of
>Gerald Michalak
>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:42 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Audit Vol not working
>
>Do a "q libv" on this volume and verify it's in the correct slot. Or
>just
>run an "audit libr  checkl=barcode" and see what happens.
>
>The tape may not be in the correct slot or heaven forbid, on the floor
>of
>the library.
>
>Gerald Michalak
>630-691-4819
>pager 800-759-8352 # 1076423
>AIX - Certified Support Technician
>
>
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 10/24/2005
>05:11:42 PM:
>
>> Has anyone ever had a problem where a tape has been marked
>unavailable,
>> will accept an update to readw or reado, but when attempting to mount
>> generates errors and goes back to unav? I am doing some cleaning up
>with
>> some of the tapes in the library (reado/unav tapes), and 
>this one is a
>> booger. Please help!
>>
>>
>>
>> Attempted 'audit vol a00328 fix=y'
>>
>>
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:36:37  ANR2312I Audit Volume (Repair) process started
>for
>> volume A00328 (process ID 1806). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:36:57  ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume
>A00328
>> in drive 3580_5 (/dev/rmt3). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR8381E LTO volume A00328 could not be mounted
>in
>> drive 3580_5 (/dev/rmt3). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR1402W Mount request denied for 
>volume A00328 -
>> volume unavailable. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR1410W Access mode for volume A00328 
>now set to
>> "unavailable". (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for
>volume
>> A00328 - storage media inaccessible. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>> 10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR0985I Process 1806 for AUDIT VOLUME (REPAIR)
>> running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at
>> 16:37:16. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>>
>>
>>
>> Other notes, 3584 library, server AIX 5.1, TSM 5.3.1.2
>>
>> Also attempted move data to no avail
>>
>> God bless you!!!
>>
>> Chip Bell
>> Network Engineer I
>> IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM 5.2)
>> Baptist Health Systems
>> Birmingham, AL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Confidentiality Notice:
>> The information contained in this email message is privileged and
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>

Re: Audit Vol not working

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
>That's weird because I run a 'label libvol' for all new tapes that go
>into the library. And yes, the vol belongs to a storage group. Here are
>the vitals...
>
>What to do, then?

You can run a LABEL LIBV with the OVERWRITE-YES, but you'll lose the
data on the volume.

You might want to run this one by Tivoli support.

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

Re: Audit Vol not working

[Stapleton, Mark]

This one is easy. You never ran a LABEL LIBV on A00328; the hint is in
the fact that the header is not readable per the error messages. The
volume doesn't belong to a storage group, does it?

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 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:12 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Audit Vol not working
>
>Has anyone ever had a problem where a tape has been marked unavailable,
>will accept an update to readw or reado, but when attempting to mount
>generates errors and goes back to unav? I am doing some 
>cleaning up with
>some of the tapes in the library (reado/unav tapes), and this one is a
>booger. Please help!
>
> 
>
>Attempted 'audit vol a00328 fix=y'
>
> 
>
>10/24/05   16:36:37  ANR2312I Audit Volume (Repair) process started for
>volume A00328 (process ID 1806). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:36:57  ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume A00328
>in drive 3580_5 (/dev/rmt3). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR8381E LTO volume A00328 could not be mounted in
>drive 3580_5 (/dev/rmt3). (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR1402W Mount request denied for volume A00328 -
>volume unavailable. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR1410W Access mode for volume A00328 now set to
>"unavailable". (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated 
>for volume
>A00328 - storage media inaccessible. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
>10/24/05   16:37:16  ANR0985I Process 1806 for AUDIT VOLUME (REPAIR)
>running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at
>16:37:16. (SESSION: 117836, PROCESS: 1806)
>
> 
>
>Other notes, 3584 library, server AIX 5.1, TSM 5.3.1.2
>
>Also attempted move data to no avail
>
>God bless you!!! 
>
>Chip Bell 
>Network Engineer I
>IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM 5.2)
>Baptist Health Systems 
>Birmingham, AL 
>
>
>
> 
>
>
>
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>The information contained in this email message is privileged 
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>the individual or entity named in the address.  If you are not 
>the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any 
>dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is 
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>error, please notify the sender and delete this information 
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Re: TSM backup mapped drive

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Gary Osullivan
>I am currently using tsm 5.1.6  client on a windows2000 machine.
> 
>Does anyone know how to code the "INCLUDE"  in the option file 
>when you want TSM to backup a mapped drive.
> 
>example of what I have tried with no success.
> 
>INCLUDE dbbckup on ' 172,29,116.34'(F:)  
> 
>INCLUDE "F:\...\*"  PRODUCTION

This topic has been batted around on this list many times; please check
the list archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/
for discussions.

A drive doesn't get mapped until someone logs into the box. If you use
the SYSTEM user ID to log onto the TSM scheduler service, SYSTEM can't
map any drives.

You will have to change the ID you use to log onto the TSM scheduler,
and that ID must be set to log onto the share during logon. (Also, when
that ID has its password changed, you'll have to modify the properties
of the TSM scheduler service accordingly--an administrative headache if
you have lots of clients.)

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

Re: TSM Show Commands

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Spearman, Wayne
>Does anyone have a list of the undocumented Show commands 
>available with TSM 5.3?

Please refer to Richard Sims' ADSM.QuickFacts web site at

http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts

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

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

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Helder Garcia
>I have TSM 5.3.2 running on AIX 5.3 and installed the old web admin
>interface. First I had problems receiving Page Not Found errors. I
>reloaded the aix.idl and it seems to work now.
>But when I click some menu link on the left side, what was supposed to
>appear at the right side of the page is being opened always on a new
>window. I'm using Firefox but I dont think this is browser related. I
>found some guys complaining about this issue but without resolution:
>
>http://my.adsm.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=in
dex&action=viewtopic&topic=5226&forum=21&2
>
>Anyone have good news for it? The customer really want to continue to
>use the old interface but this way is very bad.

You're likely out of luck. The old interface was not built for TSM 5.3,
and the process to get that interface to work with 5.3 is a jury-rigged
cluster at best.

Embrace the command-line (it's not that hard), or bite the bullet and
install the Administration Center.

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

Re: Backup error ----Email OK.

[Stapleton, Mark]

...and if that doesn't do it, you may have a funky date/time stamp on a
backup of one of the system state or system service files. One way to
fix it, per Tivoli support, is to completely remove the filesystems
containing those files followed by an immediate backup of same. That
seems to fix the problem most every time.


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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
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Office 262.521.5627

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Gianluca Mariani1
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 7:33 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: Backup error Email OK.
>
>You probably need to run a Cleanup Backupgroups process.
>
>
>Cordiali saluti
>Gianluca Mariani
>Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma
>Via Sciangai 53, Roma
> phones : +39(0)659664598
>   +393351270554 (mobile)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>---
>-
>Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
>Too ample in itself for human sight ?
>
>An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
>All, that we see, all colours of all shade
>
>By encroach of darkness made ?--
>
>Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
>And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
>A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?
>
>
>
>Fernando Bozza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>30/09/2005 09:04
>Please respond to
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>
>To
>ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>cc
>
>Subject
>Backup error Email  OK.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having some problems during the backup of windows servers. I've
>received the follwing message in the error logs.
>
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS1228E Sending of object
>'\\xxx\c$\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll' failed
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS0343E An invalid operation was 
>attempted on a group
>leader or group member.
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS1228E Sending of object 
>'\\xxx\c$\WINDOWS\WinSxS'
>failed
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS0343E An invalid operation was 
>attempted on a group
>leader or group member.
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS1228E Sending of object
>'\\xxx\c$\WINDOWS\WinSxS\InstallTemp' failed
>09/30/2005 00:07:41 ANS0343E An invalid operation was 
>attempted on a group
>leader or group member.
>
>Has anyone seen this problem before? This happened during the backup of
>systemstate. I tried to look on the ibm page, but I didn't 
>find anything
>that could help me really.
>
>PS. TSM client 5.2.4.4 and TSM server 5.2.4.4.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fernando
>

Re: Group collocation

[Stapleton, Mark]

I know about this because I got bitten by it. I realize it's working as 
designed, but I think the design bites. Intuition tells me that if you 
collocate by group, any node not in a group doesn't get collocated. But that's 
not the way it is.

--
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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
 Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
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Office 262.521.5627

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Kolbeinn Jósepsson
>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:22 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: Group collocation
>
>My apologizes, Mark you are correct!
>
>The best practise should be to use at least two seperate 
>storagepools, the 
>first with collocation=no (where all non-collocated nodes 
>belongs to) and 
>the second with collocation=group (where nodes in collocaton groups 
>belongs), you can then chose if you use the second pool also for 
>collocation by node (non grouped nodes) or if you add the 
>third stgpool 
>with collocation=node (and perhaps the fourth stgpool with 
>collocation=filespace if your environment is "large enough").
>
>Best regards,
>Kolbeinn
>
>
>
>
>"Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>14.10.2005 01:39
>Please respond to
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>
>
>To
>ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>cc
>
>Subject
>Re: Group collocation
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>If I take a storage pool and change it to GROUP from NO 
>>collocation, what
>>about the data for nodes that ARE NOT in collocation groups ? 
>>Does their
>>data get collocated or not ?  Will I all of a hsudden go from 
>1-2 daily
>>LTO2 mounts to 30 ?
>
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Kolbeinn Jósepsson
>>Only data from nodes in collocationgroup will be collocated, data from
>>other nodes in same stgpool will not be collocated.
>
>This is incorrect. My experience has been that, when setting a pool to 
>"collocation by group", that any node not belonging to a 
>collocation group 
>will get its data to that pool collocated.
>
>(from page 312 of the TSM 5.3 for Windows Administrators' Reference)
>
>GRoup 
>Specifies that collocation is enabled at the group level for 
>client nodes. 
>The server attempts to put data for nodes that belong to the same 
>collocation group on as few volumes as possible. If the nodes in the 
>collocation group have multiple file spaces, the server does 
>not attempt 
>to collocate those file spaces. 
>
>If you specify COLLOCATE=GROUP but do not define any groups, data is 
>collocated by node. Similarly, if you specify COLLOCATE=GROUP and you 
>define a group but do not add nodes to the group, data is 
>collocated by 
>node.
>===
>
>The workaround I found is to create collocation groups and 
>populate them, 
>then create one more collocation group that contains all other 
>nodes that 
>write to that storage pool that are *not* already in a group.
>
>--
>Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
> Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
>IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
>Berbee Information Networks
>Office 262.521.5627
>
> 
>

Re: Group collocation

[Stapleton, Mark]

Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>If I take a storage pool and change it to GROUP from NO 
>collocation, what
>about the data for nodes that ARE NOT in collocation groups ?  
>Does their
>data get collocated or not ?  Will I all of a sudden go from 1-2 daily
>LTO2 mounts to 30 ?

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Kolbeinn Jósepsson
>Only data from nodes in collocationgroup will be collocated, data from
>other nodes in same stgpool will not be collocated.

This is incorrect. My experience has been that, when setting a pool to 
"collocation by group", that any node not belonging to a collocation group will 
get its data to that pool collocated.

(from page 312 of the TSM 5.3 for Windows Administrators' Reference)

GRoup 
Specifies that collocation is enabled at the group level for client nodes. The 
server attempts to put data for nodes that belong to the same collocation group 
on as few volumes as possible. If the nodes in the collocation group have 
multiple file spaces, the server does not attempt to collocate those file 
spaces. 

If you specify COLLOCATE=GROUP but do not define any groups, data is collocated 
by node. Similarly, if you specify COLLOCATE=GROUP and you define a group but 
do not add nodes to the group, data is collocated by node.
===

The workaround I found is to create collocation groups and populate them, then 
create one more collocation group that contains all other nodes that write to 
that storage pool that are *not* already in a group.

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Re: TSM Database conversion

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Farren Minns
>It certainly looks like the only way forward would be to set 
>up a new TSM
>environment and keep the old one for restores until such a time as the
>remaining data on the clients can be exported/imported to the 
>new server.
>
>But this poses a question. If the clients are now all pointing 
>to the new
>server, how can they action restores from the old server?

Use the proper option in the command line:

  dsmc -tcpserver=

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Re: Slow/Failed Netware 6.5 backups

[Stapleton, Mark]

RC of -50 is a network connectivity issue. You may have mismatched
speed/duplex issues, bad NIC driver, poorly designed network, or some
such. This is not a TSM issue.


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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Cameron Ambrose
>Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 9:06 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Slow/Failed Netware 6.5 backups
>
>Hello,
>
>  Sorry resubmitting with a valid subject.
>
>  We're currently experiencing backup failures/extreme 
>slowness on a
>Netware 6.5 SP2  server
>
>TSM Client 5.3.0
>TSM Server 5.2.0
>TSA's up to date as recommended by Client Doco
>
>  Client Logs
>10/05/2005 14:43:19 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing
>session reopen procedure.
>10/05/2005 14:43:19 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing
>session reopen procedure.
>10/05/2005 14:44:15 sessRecvVerb: Error -50 from call to
>'readRtn'.
>10/05/2005 14:44:15 ANS1999E Incremental 
>processing of 'SYS:'
>stopped.
>
>10/05/2005 14:48:24 ANS1999E Incremental 
>processing of 'INF:'
>stopped.
>
>10/05/2005 14:48:25 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP
>connection failure
>
>
>  Server Logs
>
>10/05/05   14:39:53  ANR0481W Session 2177 for node
>SERVERNAME (NetWare)
>  terminated - client did not 
>respond within
>180 seconds.
>10/05/05   14:41:10  ANR0406I Session 2178 
>started for node
>SERVERNAME
>  (NetWare) (Tcp/Ip 
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(19578)).
>
>
>
>
>  Currently we have had a backup running for 24 hours and 
>all that has
>been transfered is 4.19 gig and 255,000 files scanned. Has anyone else
>experienced similar issue's
>
>  Any help on this would be appreciated
>  Regards Cameron
>

Re: TSM for ERP (SAP) - split mirror with EMC equipment?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Richard Rhodes
>Question:  Is it possible to use TSM for ERP/SAP/Oracle with 
>split-mirror
>backups
>with EMC disk systems if we code scripts to perform the
>split/import/mount/deport/re-sync
>stuff ourselves?  In other words, does TSM for ERP provide 
>hooks for our
>own scripts to support split-mirror with non-IBM disk systems?

Sounds like a job for pre- and postschedulecmd flags.

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Re: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy failed.

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Tim Brown
>Has anyone seen this error on a Windows 2003 client
>
>10/04/2005 20:33:58 VssQuerySystemWriters(): pAsync->QueryStatus()
>returns hr=E_UNEXPECTED
>10/04/2005 20:33:58 ANS1948E Query system components via Microsoft
>Volume Shadow Copy failed.

There has been repeated discussion on this list about the fact that
version 5.3.0 of the client (you didn't say what version you are using)
doesn't fully support open file backups of Windows 2003 clients; Windows
handles open file backups in some cases through use of the Volume Shadow
Copy service.

Per Microsoft's support site, try upgrading Windows 2003 to SP1. If that
doesn't work, try waiting for 5.3.1 of the Windows client, which is
supposed to fix the issue.

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Re: error client archive on HP-UX

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Mario Di Pede
>Do you see this error?:
>
>ANR0106E imarqry.c(4655): Unexpected error 2 fetching row in table
>"Archive.Objects"
>
>I' have tsm server versione 5.2.6 HP-UX
>
>When display retrieve date from client gui from client 5.2.4 
>on HP-UX I see this error

Please examine the mailing list archives at 
http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/

This topic was talked about in the last 7 days.

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Re: error client archive

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Mario Di Pede
>Do you see this error:
>
>ANR0106E imarqry.c(4655): Unexpected error 2 fetching row in table
>"Archive.Objects"
>
>I' have tsm server versione 5.2.6 HP-UX
>
>When display retrieve date from client guy from client 5.2.4 
>on HP-UX I see this error

This is a "not to worry" error. It happens during inventory expirations,
and indicates that a lock is not clearing in a timely manner.

The next time you do an expiration, the file(s) that couldn't be dealt
with during the previous expiration will be handled properly.

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Re: TSM Server Upgrade 5.1.6.1 to 5.1.10

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Horst Scherzer
>I have to upgrade ITSM Server from 5.1.6.1 (to 5.1.10) to add 
>3592 support,
>platform is AIX 5.2.3/32Bit.
>Due to license/migration issues we will stay at 5.1.
>
>Are there any hints/drawbacks in doing this migration?

Everything you need to know is in the READMEs that come with the 5.1.10
maintenance code.

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Re: TSM testing

[Stapleton, Mark]

Telnet, ftp, and ping all use their own TCP ports, as does ssh. You need
to talk to your network people to see if port 1500 (the default TSM
client-server communication port) is available between the two machines.


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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Aaron Becar
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 7:36 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: TSM testing
>
>Mark,
>
>I can remote into the box from the TSM server, I can ping the box from
>the TSM server, and can telnet the box from the TSM Server, 
>but I cannot
>ssh into the TSM server from the client, http to the TSM 
>server from the
>client, Administrate the TSM server from 1580 from the client, BUT...I
>can ping the TSM server from the client.  Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Aaron
>
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30 12:57 pm >>>
>[Please respond to the list.]
>
>Are you sure that TCP port 1500 open between the server and client?
>
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>
>
>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Aaron Becar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:24 PM
>>To: Stapleton, Mark
>>Subject: TSM testing
>>
>>Mark,
>>
>>Thanks, however, this is a new client on Windows 2003 and when
>>I first open the client it asks what would you like to do, and
>>i choose the first one, configure backup archive client.  It
>>then asks the name of the Node, and then the server, and the
>>port number.  When I click finish, it reports a TCP/IP error.
>>I can ping the server, but I cannot connect to the TSM server.
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Aaron
>>
>

Re: TSM testing

[Stapleton, Mark]

[Please respond to the list.]

Are you sure that TCP port 1500 open between the server and client?

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>-Original Message-
>From: Aaron Becar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:24 PM
>To: Stapleton, Mark
>Subject: TSM testing
>
>Mark, 
> 
>Thanks, however, this is a new client on Windows 2003 and when 
>I first open the client it asks what would you like to do, and 
>i choose the first one, configure backup archive client.  It 
>then asks the name of the Node, and then the server, and the 
>port number.  When I click finish, it reports a TCP/IP error.  
>I can ping the server, but I cannot connect to the TSM server. 
> Thanks! 
> 
>Aaron 
>

Re: Initial Testing and Node Registration

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Aaron Becar
>Currently running TSM 5.2 on Fedore Core 3
>
>The server starts up fine, and the server webclient works fine, only
>when working on the server itself.
>
>When I try to connect to the server from a Client Node, a Windows 2003
>Advanced Server, I get a TCP/IP error.
>I have configured the port to 1521 and I make sure to put that
>information in.

No, it is not a Windows problem. You have to make the TCPPORT match on
both the client and the server. Add

TCPPORT 1521

to the dsm.opt file on the client, and your situation should improve.

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Re: Invalid verb received causing rc=12

[Stapleton, Mark]

Please, please consult the IBM site when seeking answers.

Here's what you get when go to www.ibm.com and search for
"cuGetBackQryResp: Unknown objInfo header":

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC40841

It refers to a different level of TSM, but I suspect the problem is much
the same.

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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Levi, Ralph
>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:47 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: Invalid verb received causing rc=12
>
>I just upgraded the client to 5.3.015 and got the same error but with
>this additional info:
>
>ERROR: hl is empty in ExtractSlashHack!
>cuGetBackQryResp: Unknown objInfo header format:2,,FID1
>
>BTW. the client is Windows2003 (not w2k as I was originally told).
>> _ 
>> From:Levi, Ralph  
>> Sent:Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:10 AM
>> To:  'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
>> Subject: Invalid verb received  causing rc=12 
>> 
>> Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this error.  I don't
>> see anywhere what the object is that could be causing this problem or
>> and indication of some other issue on the system.
>> 
>> Client - w2k running 5.1.7 
>> Server - AIX 5.2 running 5.2.6 TSM
>> 
>> 
>> 09/29/2005 00:39:33 sessRecvVerb(): Invalid verb received.
>> 09/29/2005 00:39:33 sessRecvVerb(): length=0001, verb=00,magic=00
>> 09/29/2005 00:39:34 ANS1026E Session rejected: 
>Communications protocol
>> error
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ralph
>

Re: IBM 3582 and cleaning tapes

[Stapleton, Mark]

The 3582 handles its own cleaning. You need to insert the cleaning tape and 
then load the tape from the library's front panel, rather than checking it in 
with TSM.

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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Paul Dudley
>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:30 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: IBM 3582 and cleaning tapes
>
>We have TSM 5.2 with an IBM 3582 LTO2 tape library.
>
>I followed the instructions in the IBM 3582 manual to configure a
>cleaning slot and then configure autoclean for this unit.
>
>I then tried to checkin a cleaning tape using the command:
>
>checkin libvol lb1.1.0.2 CLNU31L1 status=Cleaner Cleanings=50
>
>Upon which I received the following errors:
>
>ANRD
>mmsscsi.c(8417): ThreadId<36> Element address mismatch; slotInfo.elem =
>4118, slotInv.addr = 0 Callchain: 10500D79 outTextf()+1529 <- 1036B851
>tsmInitializeServer()+364031 <- (SESSION: 1262, PROCESS: 45)
>ANR8310E
>An I/O error occurred while accessing library LB1.1.0.2. 
>(SESSION: 1262,
>PROCESS: 45)
>ANR8426E
>CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume CLNU31L1 in library LB1.1.0.2 failed.
>(SESSION: 1262, PROCESS: 45)
>
>Any idea what may have caused this? I am I going about this the right
>way? What I want to do is checkin or insert a cleaning tape and set up
>auto cleaning for this tape unit.
>
>Thanks
>Paul
>
> 
>Paul Dudley
>ANL IT Operations Dept.
>ANL Container Line
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: DB2 Redirect Restore

[Stapleton, Mark]

This all goes back to a general question about redirected restores of
databases. You have to allow time for the db application to format the
space where the restore will go.

We have had numerous threads here about this issue with MSSQL redirected
restores, and you have to up your timeout thresholds to allow for the
file formatting to complete.

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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Herrmann, Boris
>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:33 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: AW: [ADSM-L] DB2 Redirect Restore
>
>Hi..
>
>the problem is now resolved. Audit the tape shows no error. IBM take 3
>traces from TSM-Server, StorageAgent and API-Client. They 
>found that the
>default value for the option "resource timeout" was to small 
>(60 minutes).
>Commtimeout and Idletimeout are ok. The restore works fine 
>after changing
>the "resoure timeout" option on the server and storageagent to 
>120 minutes.
>
>Kind regards,
>Boris
>
>-Ursprungliche Nachricht-
>Von: Leigh Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2005 11:01
>An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] DB2 Redirect Restore
>
>
>Can you audit the primary volume that is erroring ?
>
>If you manually offsite your copy pool tapes, can you recall the copy
>pool tapes and try a restore with them.
>
>
>
>If you know the primary volume name that it is failing on, then enter
>the following
>
>
>
>   restore volume xx preview=yes (where xx is the volume
>name of the primary volume that is giving the error)
>
>
>
>The activity log will show you the list of copy pool volumes that the
>primary tape is over. If your DB2 db is fairly large then this 
>shouldn't
>be too many tapes.
>
>Checkin the copy pool tapes, mark the primary tape in error unavailable
>and submit the restore again.
>
>
>
>Do you have a fabric for your tape SAN ?
>
>If so, are you aware that when making changes to your fabric 
>(Zoning), a
>message called an RSCN (registered state change notification) is
>broadcasted throughout the SAN. This causes all traffic to be
>interrupted for a few milliseconds. SAN attached disk can 
>recover easily
>from this, however tape does not and any data that is being written at
>the time is corrupted and it is a 'silent' corruption. 
>Therefore, you do
>not see it until you come to do the restore. Single large files like
>db's are particularly prone to this as even a millisecond
>outage/corruption and the whole file is useless.
>
>
>
>One point, if your initial db backup was going straight to 
>tape when the
>corruption occurred, then the 'backup stg  tapepool copypool' will have
>replicated the error.
>
>If you have a fabric tape SAN, ensure all tape operation is quiesced
>when making any fabric changes.
>
>
>
>Before anybody shoots me down, there are now FC HBA's available that
>offer the ADISC/PDISC function, instead of PLOGI/FLOGI upon 
>receiving an
>RSCN and if your tape devices support FCP Tape, data transfer can
>recover from an RSCN. Personally, I still stop tape operation before
>making changes to the fabric.
>
>
>
>
>
>Leigh
>
>
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of
>Herrmann, Boris
>Sent: 22 September 2005 08:59
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: [ADSM-L] DB2 Redirect Restore
>
>
>
>Hello there!
>
>
>
>We are trying to restore a DB2 Database over SAN. The 
>StorageAgent mount
>a
>
>tape and the restore begins (creating the containers). After about 70
>
>minutes we got the following error : An I/O error -72 occured on media
>TSM.
>
>
>
>
>
>We've tried this a lot of times with the same result. Does anyone know
>why
>
>this happens?
>
>
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Boris Herrmann
>

Re: Select Question

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Spearman, Wayne
>I'm trying to see what Clients are using what management classes. For
>instance, server1 is using management class 1week and 1year. I can't
>seem to find the right tables or selects. Any help would be 
>appreciated.

This has been discussed repeatedly; check the list archives for other
aspects of this discussion.

Management classes are tied to files, not to nodes. That's why you can't
find anything. Depending on how the include statements are built, I
could back up files on any given client to a hundred (or more)
management classes.

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Re: TSM Server Migration from AIX to Solaris

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Survoy, Bernard J
>Looking for feedback on TSM server migrations from AIX to 
>Solaris (SPARC
>based).  Any issues, problems, special considerations?

About the same as almost any migration from one OS to another:

You cannot just move the db volumes from one OS to another OS. The file
structures between AIX (JFS or JFS2) is not recognized by Solaris.

The best way to move a TSM server's contents from AIX to Solaris is to:

1. Build the Solaris server and attach it to its own library.
2. Point all TSM client to the new server.
3. Keep the data on the old TSM server online so that file restores can
be done, and the data can expire over time.
4. When the old server's data has had time to significantly expire,
perform a series of EXPORT NODE commands to move what data is left to
the new server.

The longer the old server is allow to lose data due to expiration, the
shorter the export will be.

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Re: Move data for offsite volume

[Stapleton, Mark]

Because checking in a tape with CHECKIN that was checked out with MOVE
DRM still has "offsite" as its access. You need to run

  upd volume  access=reado

on every copy pool volume you check back in.

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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of William Boyer
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 8:27 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Move data for offsite volume
>
>TSM server 5.2.4.4 on AIX 5.2
>
>Due to a capacity "issue" with my libraries, some of my onsite 
>primary pool tapes are not resident in my library. So to reclaim my
>offsite tapes, I've been checking in tapes that have 90% 
>reclamable space and doing a move data on them. I've noticed a 
>couple times
>where the tape is in the library, ACC=READO, but when I issue 
>the MOVE DATA command against the tape, the tape is never mounted and
>the primary pool tapes (that are in the library) are used instead.
>
>The tapes were originally moved offsite with the MOVE DRMEDIA 
>command. I brought them back, checked them into the library made them
>ACC=READO. I don't understand why TSM isn't doing a tape-to-tape copy??
>
>Bill Boyer
>"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??
>

Re: TSM client wildcard

[Stapleton, Mark]

No guarantees, but you might try an asterisk "*" instead of a question
mark "?".

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>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Boileau, Chantal
>Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:04 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: TSM client wildcard
>
>I have to archive 4 servers that have data on same directory 
>but different disk letter.I would like to do only one schedule.
>
>I tried this object on a schedule define on TSM server. TSM 
>has an error with this wildcard, somebody did something like that ???
>
>
>Client schedules : ARCHIVE_EDD_WIN 
>
>Policy Domain Name 
>Schedule Name  ARCHIVE_EDD_WIN 
>DescriptionArchive pour EDD 2 ans  
>Action ARCHIVE 
>Options-deletefiles -archm=archive_2ans -subdir=yes
>Objects?:\saq\prd\ed\donnee\backup\*   
>Priority   5   
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Re: 5.1.9 to 5.3.1 migrate install - 5.3.0?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich
>Now I'm confused. We bought 5.1.0 from a reseller, and we do 
>have passport
>advantage. But I can't find 5.3.0 anywhere on the ftp site at 
>all. Are you
>saying it's on there somewhere? Or are you saying that 5.3.0 
>is going to cost us extra money?



Please, please, folks. When you choose the reseller from whom you buy
TSM (or any other major application), be sure to choose one that will
provide service after the sale. Alexander's reseller (as mentioned
above) should have ensured that Alexander was registered with IBM, told
him how to access the Passport site, and how it is different than the
IBM ftp site.

I can't tell you how many customers my company has picked up after the
customer discovers that "lowest bid" is often equivalent to "least
service".



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Re: generate full backup using backupsets

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of William Boyer
>I would very much like to use an ARCHIVE for this, but haven't 
>figured out how to make it do all drives without having to code them
>in a command script or in the OBJECT= for the schedule.

...and the problem with that is...?

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Re: generate full backup using backupsets

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Kurt Beyers
>Due to SLA agreements a full backup should be taken every 
>month that is stored offsite for a year. Of course this does 
>not match with the principles 'incremental forever' and the 
>versioning defined in the management classes.
>
>I guess that a full backup can be created from the backups 
>already residing in the primary storage pool using a backupset.
>
>Would such a setup be feasible for 75 clients (load on the TSM 
>server, required time to generate the backupsets, ...)? Can it 
>be used for backups from a TDP too? Any howto's for the 
>creation of a backupset?

A suggestion:

Run a full archive of 3 clients each day for a month, so that you can
spread out the 75 full backups. Set your archive management class to
keep any given archive for a year. Send those archives to a (small) disk
pool which in turn is migrated to an archive tape pool. Once a month
check those archive tapes out and vault them. After a full 12 months in
the vault, that month's tapes can come to the TSM server as scratch
tapes.

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Re: Question about DR TSM site

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Jon Evans
>Following on from this... If you had a failure of one of the libraries
>(say it burnt!) and the primary storage pool is lost, would it be
>possible to have a second TSM server (other than the one that owns the
>storage pool) take care of recreating the primary pool from the copy
>pool?.. in other words, take the processing required to recreate the
>primary storage pool away from the production TSM server, and 
>hand it to
>another server that's not so busy? I have read through the manual on
>virtual volumes, and it seems 
>That this is maybe possible, but I'm not sure.. can anyone confirm if
>this is the case?

No, that's exactly what you *can't* do with virtual volumes. Virtual
volume usage requires not only the server where the data physically
resides, but also the server that created the virtual volumes in the
first place. Otherwise there will be no access to the data.

Offhand, I can't think of any way to do what you're proposing. You could
use a TSM db backup to rebuild the TSM server on another box, attach the
library to it, and run TSM on the new server.

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Re: 5.1.9 to 5.3.1 migrate install - Cleanup Backupgroups?

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich
>Excellent Information, thanks Ruth. However, I do have one question: in
>both the install guide and the TSM server upgrade tech note (1177863),
>they say to run the command "Cleanup Backupgroups" on TSM 5.1 
>before the
>upgrade to 5.3, especially "if there are any Windows 2000 or higher
>clients that backup up to the TSM server". I can't find this command
>anywhere in TSM 5.1.9 server, and 75% of my clients are 2K or 
>higher, so
>I'm stuck wanting to run a command I don't have!?!?

How do you know you don't have it? Have you tried running it? (If you
run 'Help CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS', you won't see anything; there isn't a
help for it.)

Don't be alarmed if it takes awhile to run; if it has a lot of cleanup
it will take quite some time.

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  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
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Office 262.521.5627

FW: Novell backup performance

[Stapleton, Mark]

Yes.


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>-Original Message-
>From: Kevin Kinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:42 AM
>To: Stapleton, Mark
>Subject: Re: Novell backup performance
>
>Mark,
>
>Thanks for the reply. One final question. Can I use the same 
>strategy if I have just  one volume on the server? For example:
>
>DSM1.opt
>Exclude *:/.../*
>Include SYS:Apps/.../*
>
>DSM2.opt
>Exclude *:/.../*
>Include SYS:Data/.../*
>
>
>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/12/05 5:40 PM >>>
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Kevin Kinder
>>So, to follow up, should  RESOURCEUTILIZATION never be set 
>>higher than the number of NetWare volumes being backed up?
>>
>>And in the case of a server with a single NetWare volume being 
>>backed up, is there a way to establish multiple backup 
>>sessions to improve backup times? I've traversed the 
>>(seemingly) appropriate documentation and only succeeded in 
>>confusing myself. I think I know how to do it in Unix/Linux, 
>>but that obviously doesn't help here.
>
>Yes, you can multithread the backups in a different way. Create another
>nodename, a second dsm.opt file using that nodename, and include and
>exclude lines like (assuming there are two NetWare volumes sys: and
>vol1:
>
>dsm.opt copy1 
>nodename nwmachine-a
>exclude *:/.../*
>include sys:/.../*
>
>dsm.opt copy2
>nodename nwmachine-b
>exclude *:/.../*
>include vol1:/.../*
>
>This can be done with three or more volumes as well. You can 
>then easily
>create two threads for your backups (and your restores) without the use
>of resourceutilization, multiple mount points, etc.
>
>--
>Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
>  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
>IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
>Office 262.521.5627
>
> 
>
>

Re: Question about DR TSM site

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Aaron Durkee
>  We have TSM 5.3.1.4 running on a pseries, AIX 5.3 located in 
>the main data center with most of the servers and a 3584 tape 
>library, site a.
>  We want to install a new pseries running the same version of 
>aix and tsm with a spanking new 3854 at another data center site b.
>  The vision was to have the servers at site a backup to site 
>b, and the servers at site b to backup to site a, cross 
>backups so, when the backup completes in its nature its 
>already off site.  
>  Then we were gonna partition the libraries and generate the 
>copypool at original site for the data.
>  We also have all kinds of toys, like dark fiber, a fibre 
>channel long distance solution, brocade switches, emc clariion 
>at each site and the like.   There are plans to mirror tsm at 
>the aix logical volume level between the sites and share the 
>logically partitioned libraries, also between sites.
>  
>   Ok then,
>   
>What my Director wants to know if anybody out there, rather 
>then having the complexity of fiber channel is simply backing 
>up their clients twice, once to a tsm instance at each site?  
>What pitfalls are seen?  Also, there was an objection to 
>copypool for each instance (four copies of the data) is there 
>anyway to protect against media failure without copypool?

Done all the time.

The easiest way to do this is to make the libraries shared for both TSM
servers. In other words, you've got TSM server A with direct access to
library A and library B, and TSM server B with shared access to library
B and library A. (This assumes that you've got WAN connectivity among
both servers and both libraries.)

Your primary tape pool for each server should reside in whichever
library is local (within the same room or building). The BACKUP STG pool
command should point to a copy storage pool whose volumes reside in the
remote library. So you end up with the following setup:

TSM server A-->primary tape pool in library A
-->copy tape pool in library B
TSM server B-->primary tape pool in library B
-->copy tape pool in library A

There is a temptation to set up server-to-server communication instead
to do this, but if you do you have the added complexity of virtual
volumes to deal with, plus the fact that both TSM servers must be up for
virtual volumes to be of any use.

Shared libraries are easy to set up on the 3584, and (as you mentioned)
there is no tape shuffling required for DR purposes. This makes much
more sense than backing up each client twice (once to each server) and
wastes much less tape and fiber bandwidth.

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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

Re: Novell backup performance

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Kevin Kinder
>So, to follow up, should  RESOURCEUTILIZATION never be set 
>higher than the number of NetWare volumes being backed up?
>
>And in the case of a server with a single NetWare volume being 
>backed up, is there a way to establish multiple backup 
>sessions to improve backup times? I've traversed the 
>(seemingly) appropriate documentation and only succeeded in 
>confusing myself. I think I know how to do it in Unix/Linux, 
>but that obviously doesn't help here.

Yes, you can multithread the backups in a different way. Create another
nodename, a second dsm.opt file using that nodename, and include and
exclude lines like (assuming there are two NetWare volumes sys: and
vol1:

dsm.opt copy1 
nodename nwmachine-a
exclude *:/.../*
include sys:/.../*

dsm.opt copy2
nodename nwmachine-b
exclude *:/.../*
include vol1:/.../*

This can be done with three or more volumes as well. You can then easily
create two threads for your backups (and your restores) without the use
of resourceutilization, multiple mount points, etc.

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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

 

Re: Vitalization question

[Stapleton, Mark]

I have several customers who use it. It works very well at virtualizing
heterogenous storage systems so that what you get is one large "cloud"
of disk with the same manageable characteristics.

Highly recommended.

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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of David Browne
>Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:41 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Vitalization question
>
>We are considering IBM's SVC (SAN Volume Controller)  
>vitalization layer
>in our new TSM server configuration.
>Anyone currently using IBM's product?
>
>
>
>The information transmitted is intended only for the person or 
>entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL 
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>

Re: A quick question about stgpool.

[Stapleton, Mark]

This issue is discussed regularly, both within Tivoli and among Tivoli,
business partners, and users.

The largest technical issue with doing this is the issue of aggregates.
When TSM backs files up, it does so by aggregating files together and
sending those aggregates to storage pools. To be able to retain active
versions of files in one storage pool while sending inactive copies to
cheaper or less-available pools would require massively and regularly
tearing aggregates apart. This would just about negate the advantages of
aggregates altogther.

I don't know personally how large an impact that would have on overall
TSM response time, but I've been told by Tivoli developers that the
difference would be "orders of magnitude"; at that point, I said, "Oh.
Never mind." 

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IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

 

>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Matthew Glanville
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:56 PM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: A quick question about stgpool.
>
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 09/09/2005
>03:21:35 PM:
>
>> I was just mulling about the Idea to speed up large restores of small
>files,
>> without resorting to image backup, keeping everything on disk, or
>> collocating tapes. If I could keep just the active copy on 
>disk I could
>> speed up the restore considerably while keeping inactive 
>copies on tape.
>>
>
>This would be a great addition to TSM.
>
>Instead of spending extra $'s on 'flash copy' type 
>hardware/disk solutions
>and time consuming image backups we could accomplish the same thing
>through a simple TSM incremental and save the day on a large 
>restoration!
>
>Let us all request it and get it in TSM 5.4!
>
>Matt G.
>

Re: retrieve problem with GUI interface

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Thomas Denier
When we see this kind of problem at our site it is frequently the result
of using the wrong account. Under Unix, retrieving or even listing
archived files normally requires being either root or the owner of
the files. I think there are analogous rules for Windows, but I couldn't
find any discussion of this point in the Windows client manual.


 
I deal with the Lovecraftian intersection of TSM and Windows permissions 
regularly. Yes, there are such issues with Windows.
 
My favorite is the (default) use of the Windows SYSTEM system ID to run the TSM 
scheduler service, and the fact that there are a number of Windows 
administrators that normally strip SYSTEM of any permissions anywhere for 
anything. (Hint, guys: there are *no* security-based needs to do that.) Not 
only will a scheduled backup not back up any files that such stripping has been 
performed upon, TSM won't even know such files exist. Hence, they don't get 
backed up and no one notices that until an attempted restore occurs.
 
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Re: Command to list Copy pool mountable tapes

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Ray Louvier
>Does anyone have a select or query command to list copy pool tapes that
>are in the library only. 

  q drm * wherest=mountable 

(This will include any TSM db backups still in the library)

  q vol stgp= access=readwrite

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Re: veritas to tsm

[Stapleton, Mark]

No, there is no migration path for data from Veritas directly to TSM.
 
You will either have to keep your Veritas installation in place, or retrieve 
the files to a staging server and re-archive them into TSM.
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Otto Schakenbos
Sent: Wed 9/7/2005 09:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: veritas to tsm



We are planning a project to migrate from veritas netbackup on solaris
to tsm (on aix).

Does someone know if it is possible to import veritas tapes to
tsm-archives? Or to read veritas tapes directly into the tsm database
somehow.

I think we end up restoring and archiving again but some work around
would be great because we have a lot of veritas tapes with data on it
that needs to be kept "forever".

thnx

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