AW: AW: 6.1 experience so far
Sorry, I do not have details about that problem any longer. I experienced it some weeks ago and gave up. After changing the default queries and my customized one's according to the tsm blog they work again :-) Thanks a lot Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Wanda Prather Gesendet: Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 20:16 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: 6.1 experience so far 1) When you say hang: if you enter q session, do you see a hung session for the admin id the reporter uses? 3) If you look at the actlog, is the last query the Daily Reporter issues before it hangs a SELECT against the EVENTS table? If so it may be a known bug querying the events table, I can send you more info to get around it... On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Stefan Holzwarth stefan.holzwa...@adac.dewrote: What changes did you made to tsm operational reporting ? In our environment most of the reports hang and gave no result. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Sam Sheppard Gesendet: Samstag, 12. Dezember 2009 01:44 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: 6.1 experience so far After viewing the experiences of others on the list (particularly Mr. Forray's) and fearing I would jinx myself, I hesitated to post this, but decided to go ahead and post our adventures so far. We had a visit from our Servergraph rep a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation discovered that we seemed to be alone, at least among their Southern California customers, in implementing TSM Version 6 in production. We began in September and started with Version 6.1.2. We are approaching completion of our project to migrate our existing TSM 5.5.3 servers, two on z/OS and one on Solaris, to TSM Version 6 on a new AIX 6.1 P-520 server. Our total database size for the three existing servers is about 120GB. We are sharing a 3494 ATL with 8 TS1120 drives between the Solaris box and the Version 6 server, with the Version 6 server acting as the library manager. So we may be somewhat on the small end of the average customer. Since we started on a fresh box, it looks like we have avoided many of the pitfalls associated with upgrading in place from version 5, but we did experience what in hindsight look like fairly minor problems: IC62978 - active logs fill up due to DB2 table reorg processes. Fix was to specify the undocumented ALLOWTABLEREORG NO option. IC63373 - while running a large image backup (around 600GB) and several other clients, received message ANS1316e and ANR0526W, indicating recovery log out of space, even though we have 30GB and it's not even close to full. Solution is to do the following to change a DB2 variable from its standard setting: 1. Use the following db2 command to determine the number of log volumes used: db2 get db cfg for TSMDB1 2. Multiply the value for the LOGPRIMARY parameter by 90%. This value should be reflected in NUM_LOG_SPAN. Update NUM_LOG_SPAN by issuing the following db2 command: db2 update db cfg for TSMDB1 using NUM_LOG_SPAN newValue You may need to restart the TSM server, which will restart the db2 database as well. IC63637 - We have a large (30-40TB) amount of archived data to move from our existing server(s) to version 6. The good news is that the large archived image backups exported server-to-server very fast, around 60MB/sec. The bad new is, the Version 6 library manager function periodically reclaims a tape drive being used by the library client, in our case, causing the large EXPORT/IMPORT process being run to fail and mark the file being exported at the time to be flagged, causing a copy pool tape to be requested if the process is restarted. The fix for this was to install version 6.1.2.1 and then replace the DSMSERV module with a fix version. Database backups suddenly failed for 5 days in a row, but then started working again when support requested various documentation. Looks like DB2 communicates with the TSM server with its own OPT file, specifying 'localhost' as the TCPSERVERADDRESS, which appeared to be failing even though all other functions in the TSM server were working fine. Waiting for reoccurence. Export Node function apparently does not copy the MAXNUMMP setting. A (relatively) long list of quirks in the ISC, which we forced ourselves to use while our Servergraph license was updated. Some of these were only related
AW: 6.1 experience so far
What changes did you made to tsm operational reporting ? In our environment most of the reports hang and gave no result. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Sam Sheppard Gesendet: Samstag, 12. Dezember 2009 01:44 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: 6.1 experience so far After viewing the experiences of others on the list (particularly Mr. Forray's) and fearing I would jinx myself, I hesitated to post this, but decided to go ahead and post our adventures so far. We had a visit from our Servergraph rep a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation discovered that we seemed to be alone, at least among their Southern California customers, in implementing TSM Version 6 in production. We began in September and started with Version 6.1.2. We are approaching completion of our project to migrate our existing TSM 5.5.3 servers, two on z/OS and one on Solaris, to TSM Version 6 on a new AIX 6.1 P-520 server. Our total database size for the three existing servers is about 120GB. We are sharing a 3494 ATL with 8 TS1120 drives between the Solaris box and the Version 6 server, with the Version 6 server acting as the library manager. So we may be somewhat on the small end of the average customer. Since we started on a fresh box, it looks like we have avoided many of the pitfalls associated with upgrading in place from version 5, but we did experience what in hindsight look like fairly minor problems: IC62978 - active logs fill up due to DB2 table reorg processes. Fix was to specify the undocumented ALLOWTABLEREORG NO option. IC63373 - while running a large image backup (around 600GB) and several other clients, received message ANS1316e and ANR0526W, indicating recovery log out of space, even though we have 30GB and it's not even close to full. Solution is to do the following to change a DB2 variable from its standard setting: 1. Use the following db2 command to determine the number of log volumes used: db2 get db cfg for TSMDB1 2. Multiply the value for the LOGPRIMARY parameter by 90%. This value should be reflected in NUM_LOG_SPAN. Update NUM_LOG_SPAN by issuing the following db2 command: db2 update db cfg for TSMDB1 using NUM_LOG_SPAN newValue You may need to restart the TSM server, which will restart the db2 database as well. IC63637 - We have a large (30-40TB) amount of archived data to move from our existing server(s) to version 6. The good news is that the large archived image backups exported server-to-server very fast, around 60MB/sec. The bad new is, the Version 6 library manager function periodically reclaims a tape drive being used by the library client, in our case, causing the large EXPORT/IMPORT process being run to fail and mark the file being exported at the time to be flagged, causing a copy pool tape to be requested if the process is restarted. The fix for this was to install version 6.1.2.1 and then replace the DSMSERV module with a fix version. Database backups suddenly failed for 5 days in a row, but then started working again when support requested various documentation. Looks like DB2 communicates with the TSM server with its own OPT file, specifying 'localhost' as the TCPSERVERADDRESS, which appeared to be failing even though all other functions in the TSM server were working fine. Waiting for reoccurence. Export Node function apparently does not copy the MAXNUMMP setting. A (relatively) long list of quirks in the ISC, which we forced ourselves to use while our Servergraph license was updated. Some of these were only related to Firefox 3.5.4. The worst was a Java problem that 'unchecked' the 3 'enable sessions' boxes in the 'Sessions' display of the Server Properties window when you left the display and then came back, causing all sessions to be disabled necessitating a server restart. Using IE, however, the ISC has become almost bearable and performs much better than previous versions. The Operational Reporter is not officially supported in Version 6, something we missed, but is easily modified to supply most of the info needed. We have not seen the dreaded huge increase in database size and after the setting of the ALLOWREORGTABLE option, we haven't had any log problems either. We are currently running full database backups on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with incrementals in between. Full DB backup of the 45GB database takes about 6 minutes to a TS1120 drive. As noted, the current size of our DB is around 45GB with about 2/3 of our 350 client having been moved. However, the largest of them, several Windows file/print servers containing in the neighborhood
Upgrade from 6.1.2 to 6.1.2.1
Just doing my first update of a tsm server with 6.1.2 on windows2008. The ibm documentation is not clear about post steps after install package. Do I have to run the dsmupgdx.exe utility in my usagecase or not? I tried to execute the utility local but it can not connect to the server (file and print for this reason activated, no firewall). So I decided to start the tsm instance without. Instance works, but does not show a upgrade db done as in 5.x times. Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: How big is your V6.1 server log file?
Have a look at IC62978 and its workaround ALLOWREORGTABLE NO for dsmserv.opt It helped a lot in our environment with uncontroled grow of active logspace. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 14:27 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: How big is your V6.1 server log file? Another failure with my V6.1.0.2 server. This morning the ONLY user (a total of 3-active nodes) of my V6.1.2.0 server reported his backups failing with his dsmerror.log showing: 10/26/2009 23:21:15 ANS1316E The server does not have enough recovery log space to continue the current operation The activelogsize is set to 6 and I run 3-FULL DB backups daily (followed by BACKUP VOLHIST). This mornings check shows the log at under 200MB used (a full DB backup had already run at 22:00:00). How big do I need to make this? Should I max it out at 128G? What are your experiences/settings for activelogsize, for folks running a V6 server in production?
AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB
We want also to go into production with 6.1.2. All setup is finished. But with about 20 nodes (all export/import) we continously have trouble with full active log and full archivelog. Our active log size is 16Gbyte and it seems to be enough for this small setup. But sometimes the log usage explodes and goes rapidly up to the limit. I opened my second PMR Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 15:15 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB Join the club. I am beginning to wonder if anyone is successfully using V6.1, trouble-free. Monday I decided to put my 6.1.2 server into production and am wondering if this was a really bad decision. I have had to bounce it 5-times due to it simply hanging/going non-responsive eventhough the only activity has been exporting a large node from another server. The primary active log has been expanded 3-times (from 20GB to 60GB) eventhough I run 3-full DB backups daily. I had to reserve 300GB for the archivelog space. The DB has grown to 65GB for 4-nodes eventhough the original server with 250-nodes is only 80GB used. The diagnostic information for DB/log errors is fairly useless. The book says to go to DB2 to get it to explain the SQL? errors, eventhough in other places the book says to not mess with DB2 (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..). I am having to become way more knowledgeable in DB2 than I ever wanted to be (Damn it, Jim.I am the backup/TSM administrator - not a DBA! - apologies to DeForest Kelley) Just got my 5th SQL error this week (10/2/2009 8:49:46 AM ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information: -1:22003:-413 ([IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/LINUXX8664] SQL0413N Overflow occurred during numeric data type conversion. SQLSTATE=22003) I have to run 3-full DB backups every day (along with the now added 3-BACKUP VOLHIST) just to try to keep ahead of what I consider normal, daily activity (never had to do this on V5.x - daily DB incrementals use to be more than enough - heaven help me if I get this server up to the size of my biggest V5 server which has a 150GB DB - I could never backup the DB fast enough to keep it from crashing). --- How about an informal poll. How many folks are running V6.1.2 servers in production? How big (occupancy? DB size? Number of active nodes?) What platform? From: Gill, Geoffrey L. geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/01/2009 08:12 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I'm finding that what I know about how the DB works in 5.5 doesn't really equal how it works in 6.1. On a Linux box I brought up to migrate clients to a 6.1 server I created a 20GB log and 100GB DB. There 'will be' about 150 nodes moved to this instance but currently about 20 are backing up. My 5.5 server, on AIX 5.3, has a 125GB DB about 50% used, a 11GB log and it backs up 500+ clients per day with no issues. Last nights backup on the new box is telling me there is no more space in the database so backups are failing. After backing up systems for 30 days? I find that way out of whack from how 5.5 works and it seems to be telling me I need more than 10 times the space to keep 6.1 up. I can't believe 20 computers have eaten up 100GB of DB space in such a short period of time. I have a case open with IBM to discuss but I'm wondering what others are finding that are using 6.1. Perhaps I'm missing something in my setup that is causing the problem (I hope) because if not I don't want to even think about how much disk I have to add to the current box so I can upgrade it and make it run with the 400+ systems that will stay on it. Anyone else seeing this or have an idea what I may have missed? Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
AW: AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB
Seem's to me I'm hit by IC63373 -despit eit should be fixed in 6.1.2. Will change the value and report results next week. Regards Stefan Holzwarth ERROR DESCRIPTION: If in the Tivoli Storage Manager server options file dsmserv.opt the size of the active log (ACTIIVELOGSIZE) is changed, the DB2 configuration parameter NUM_LOG_SPAN does not get updated correctly. The NUM_LOG_SPAN setting is used by Tivoli Storage Manager to manage how much of the active log a transaction can span. This value should represent 90% of the number of primary log files (LOGPRIMARY) which each is be default 512MB in size. So for the default Tivoli Storage Manager active log size of 2GB, 4 primary log volumes are used and Tivoli Storage Manager sets NUM_LOG_SPAN to 90% of this size (3 volumes). When the size of the active log (ACTIIVELOGSIZE) is increased in the dsmserv.opt file, the NUM_LOG_SPAN is not updated to represent 90% of the new log size in DB2. This can cause in the worst case a crash of the Tivoli Storage Manager server in case of a long running transaction which spans over more volumes than allowed by the NUM_LOG_SPAN value. LOCAL FIX: The work around is to manually calculate 90% of the log size and update the db2 database to correctly set NUM_LOG_SPAN. Calculate correct value of NUM_LOG_SPAN (each log size is fixed at 512MB): 1. Take the new value of activelogsize in dsmserv.opt in and divide that by 512MB. This value is the total number of log volumes reflected in db2 value LOGPRIMARY. 2. Multiple LOGPRIMARY by 90%. This value should be reflected in NUM_LOG_SPAN. (alternate method involving slightly less arithmetic) Calculate correct value of NUM_LOG_SPAN: 1. Use the following db2 command to determine the number of log volumes used: db2 get db cfg for TSMDB1 2. Multiply the value for the LOGPRIMARY parameter by 90%. This value should be reflected in NUM_LOG_SPAN. Update NUM_LOG_SPAN by issuing the following db2 command: db2 update db cfg for TSMDB1 using NUM_LOG_SPAN newValue You may need to restart the TSM server, which will restart the db2 database as well. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Kelly Lipp Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 17:50 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB That last paragraph made my head hurt! I had the opportunity to take a database class in college. Didn't want to know it then, don't want to know it now. I recall one of the design centers for the DB2 thing was to ensure that a TSM admin didn't need to become a DB2 admin. I don't even know the lingo! I'll echo Rick's comments: you pioneers, you go! Those arrows don't hurt that much. That which doesn't kill you makes you and all of us stronger. Kelly Lipp Chief Technical Officer www.storserver.com 719-266-8777 x7105 STORServer solves your data backup challenges. Once and for all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] AW: TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB I've been watching this discussion with great interest, and more than a little fear. We are going to implement the v6 ISC/SC shortly on a standalone Win server, but we aren't planning to upgrade the TSM servers until next year. A BIG thanks to all you bleeding edge types out there IBM has a interesting/hard problem - TSM is used to backup TSM. I assume the requirement for multiple backups before a archive log is deleted is to ensure that multiple backups occur for each archive log.They are effectively throwing disk space at the archive logs to ensure they have good over lapping backups of them. I wonder if IBM isn't eventually going to have to implement some process that will periodically backup archive logs, make a second copy of them on different media, generate a Vol_Hist
TSM 6.1.2 DB Archivelog handling
We just started our new TSM 6 environment and are having problems controlling amount of archived log files. I could not find any parameter for setting retention or number of logfiles in first and/or second archlog directory. Also full dbbackups do not remove any of that files. What do I miss? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: TSM 6.1.2 DB Archivelog handling
Thanks for that document - its a missing part in the log handling puzzle. What do you think triggers the deleting of the archive logs - backup db or backup volhist? I would guess backup volhist and sort the admin schedules accordingly. Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Erwann Simon Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. September 2009 11:30 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: TSM 6.1.2 DB Archivelog handling Hi, See also this technote : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21399352 It's been said that TSM also needs to sucessefully write its volhist?out (volhist.dat now !) file in order to allow deletion of archived logs, even if the DB backup was sucessfull. The volhist.dat file is now required for restoring the TSM DB. -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON Grigori Solonovitch a écrit : You need to run at least 2 full backups to clean the both log and arc Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: g.solonovi...@bkme.com Please consider the environment before printing this Email -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1.2 DB Archivelog handling We just started our new TSM 6 environment and are having problems controlling amount of archived log files. I could not find any parameter for setting retention or number of logfiles in first and/or second archlog directory. Also full dbbackups do not remove any of that files. What do I miss? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth Please consider the environment before printing this Email. This email message and any attachments transmitted with it may contain confidential and proprietary information, intended only for the named recipient(s). If you have received this message in error, or if you are not the named recipient(s), please delete this email after notifying the sender immediately. BKME cannot guarantee the integrity of this communication and accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments due to viruses, any other defects, interception or unauthorized modification. The information, views, opinions and comments of this message are those of the individual and not necessarily endorsed by BKME.
AW: Some advice about compression=yes to perform IMAGE backup
I'm a big fan of compression at the client side! Compression at the client could even give you better performance. It depends on the data and your environment. Some pro's for client side compression: Disk Storage pools at TSM server are more effective because there is more space Only option if you have no tapes with hardware compression Less IO at the TSM server (backup copypool, migration, reclamation) Most CPUs in physical servers are underutilized and very powerful Less network bandwidth needed (some of the possible bottlenecks) We have very good experience with SQL TDP compression rates Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Skylar Thompson Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. September 2009 06:25 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Some advice about compression=yes to perform IMAGE backup admbackup wrote: Hi. I am need some advice about using compression=yes for image backups I need to perform image backups of mulitple disks on a windows 2008 server. Most of them have like 1.45T of size. We are running out of tapes and I was thinking in using compression. I know that it is recommended to set compressalways=yes on the TSM server when using compression, but I am not using compression for all the backups. Is this parameter transparent for the client servers that dont use compression=yes? Also, how recommended is using compression for image backups?? I know that it is going to increasse the time that the backup takes but I have a lot of time windows to perform those image backups (All the weekend) What kind of tapes do you use? You should probably stick with hardware compression if you can. Remember to not only think of the amount of time the backup takes, but the amount of time the restore is going to take. Hardware compression is going to take buy you performance, but software compression is going to lose you performance. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S048, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
Returncode for a TDP CMD Script
Hi, we are using a Windows cmd Script for tdp Backups. At the TSM Server the schedule is defined as: tsm: TSMAq sched tdp sql23full_SERVER33 f=d Policy Domain Name: TDP Schedule Name: SQL23FULL_SERVER33 Description: FULL Backup SQL d...@23:00 Action: Command Options: Objects: c:\adsm32\tdpsql\sqlbackup.cmd /tdpmode:full Priority: 5 The tdpsql.exe returncode is stored in a variable %tdperror% within the script sqlbackup.cmd and used for sending an error email. The CMD Job ends with the line exit /b %tdperror% and should return the original error code to the tsm scheduler. Sometimes the backup gets an error and the error email is sent correctly. But from the tsm server sight the schedule is always successful. I don't have an idea where to look further. Instead of using exit /b I used a freeware tool errorlvl.exe to set the returncode manually - no change in behavior. Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
Extended or basic edition for TDP only setup
Hi, since TSM 6.1 brings deduplication only for extended edition I wonder whether it would help to split our tsm server (basic license) into a basic for standard backup and an extended one for tdp activity. As I remember do tdp agents cost the same regardless of the server-license. Is this a good idea? Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE
We backup 3 different Exchange Servers (DL380 G5) one after one - all with identical results over 1 GB ethernet nic - see example: TSM Server is also windows x86 using only disks. 01/18/2009 18:05:06 = 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Request : Backup 01/18/2009 18:05:06 SG List : * 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Backup Type : FULL 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Database Name : 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Buffers : 3 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Buffersize: 1024 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Exchange Server : VEX01003 01/18/2009 18:05:06 TSM Node Name : 01/18/2009 18:05:06 TSM Options File : c:\adsm32\TDPExchange\dsm_VEX01003EXCH.opt 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Mount Wait: Yes 01/18/2009 18:05:06 Quiet : No 01/18/2009 18:05:06 - 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Total storage groups requested for backup: 2 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Total storage groups backed up: 2 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Total storage groups expired: 52 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Total storage groups excluded: 0 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Throughput rate:52,493.79 Kb/Sec 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Total bytes transferred:240,195,943,048 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Elapsed processing time:4,468.46 Secs 01/18/2009 19:19:37 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END EXCHBACKUP 01/18/2009 19:19:37 Optfile used: NODename VEX01003EXCH CLUSTERnode YES COMMMethodTCPip TCPPort 1502 TCPServeraddress SDE14001-GB4 TCPWindowsize 256 TCPBuffSize 512 COMPRESSION OFF RESOURCEUTILIZATION 3 ... Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Schaub, Steve Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009 18:02 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE Howard, Can you share the Exchange server physical config (cpu/mem/disk) as well as the .cfg you use for these Exchange servers? Are they x86 Ex2003 or x64? Did it run this well out of the box or did you need to tweak it to reach this point? We have several Ex2003 servers, one of which has a total of 909gb in 4 SG's and is taking 16.5hrs to do a full backup (.857 gb/min). it is gig attached, and the tsm server is using a multi-gig trunked line. I just cant seem to squeeze any more speed out of this backup and I would love to find out how you are doing it. Thanks, Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, Windows BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee steve_sch...@bcbst.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE We have 4 Storage Groups per Node, and 3 nodes. However, 1 node is about 600 GB, the other two add up to about 600 GB. They all backup at the same time of the night, when they do a full backup on each box. We have other Exchange nodes that backup at various times but these three (being the largest) I have backing up at a time when they can have more bandwidth. We back them up via the LAN (1 GB NICS each) directly to disk. They all take about 4 (sometimes 5) hours each to backup unless the LAN is congested which means the total backup time for the 1.2 TB is around 4 to 4.5 hours, which is about 4.5 - 5 GB per Min. Which means we're pushing the TSM Server's NIC to about the edge. :-D The TSM server has 1, 1GB NIC (Teamed in Failover mode). Note: The 1 Largest node only takes 4 hours to do a full backup. We used to have them in a direct to SAN backup, but discovered that doesn't work much faster than doing the LAN backup, and has the added burden of tying up 1 or more Tape drives per node, which could be doing other things. Now, if I had a 1.2 TB single system, this would be a no brainer for Direct over SAN backup. But until it gets bigger than 8-9 hundred GB it really does work out to be equal either way. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE Howard, Can you give the list a little more details on the Exchange system backup of 1.2 TB in about 4 or so hours. How many exchange storage groups do you have and how many of them backup up in parallel? How large are they? Are you using multiple nics of 1gig each or a 10gig nic? Thanks len -Original Message- From: ADSM
TDP 5.5.2 and SQL2005 with SQL2008 Components
From Installation Update - DP SQL V5.5.2 PTF The following prerequisites are required and are installed during setup if they are not already installed. Prerequisites * Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 * Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects * Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client * Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types * Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 I'm a little bit concerned about installing sql 2008 components for sql server 2005 that seem to be required since 5.5.2. Does anyone had trouble doing this? Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: TDP 5.5.2 and SQL2005 with SQL2008 Components
Hi Del, that are good news. Thank you for your explanation. Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] Im Auftrag von Del Hoobler Gesendet: Montag, 26. Januar 2009 16:36 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: TDP 5.5.2 and SQL2005 with SQL2008 Components Hi Stefan, Just so you know... this was done under recommendation and guidance from Microsoft. Microsoft changed their SQL Server 2008 libraries in such a way that they would not allow you to connect to both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 with the same executable unless you used the SQL Server 2008 libraries. Microsoft instructed us (and other 3rd-party vendors) to prereq and redistribute these. They stated that they would not support upward compatibility of SQL Server 2005 libraries to connect to a SQL Server 2008 server. Yes, TSM could have shipped multiple DP/SQL executables, one for SQL Server 2005 and one for SQL Server 2008, but that would complicate things for many customers. In addition, these SQL Server 2008 components can coexist with the SQL Server 2005 components, so it should not affect your SQL Server 2005 server or any other applications still using SQL Server 2005 components at all. If you do see any problems, we certainly want to know... and we will work with you and Microsoft to find any issues. We do not expect it. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/26/2009 08:48:50 AM: [image removed] TDP 5.5.2 and SQL2005 with SQL2008 Components Stefan Holzwarth to: ADSM-L 01/26/2009 08:50 AM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager From Installation Update - DP SQL V5.5.2 PTF The following prerequisites are required and are installed during setup if they are not already installed. Prerequisites * Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 * Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects * Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client * Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types * Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 I'm a little bit concerned about installing sql 2008 components for sql server 2005 that seem to be required since 5.5.2. Does anyone had trouble doing this? Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Interesting problem in MS-Win restoer -- anyone seen something like this before?
In the past we had 2 times a similar problem: first time (tsm server on mvs) the ip sequence number did a wrap around and was not properly handled by mvs. (So large restores always stopped at different positions) sencond time (tsm server on nt) we realized that our network backbone did corrupt our ip pakets without crc errors! we could view the problem by adding crc tothe communication layer within tsm. The restore to that time (a exchange db) was no more possible since the backup data were not correct. The restore always stopped at the same position. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Kauffman, Tom Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2008 15:05 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Interesting problem in MS-Win restoer -- anyone seen something like this before? We've been trying to restore a 38 GB file to a Win2003 SP1 server; the restore comes to a near halt at 31.8 GB. At the TSM server side (5.5.0.0) we see 'sendw', and if we leave everything alone the restore continues at an incredibly slow pace (20 MB in 8 hours). On the client side - CPU utilization drops to between 1 and 3 percent, but task manager shows 'system idle process' using 99% of the cpu. The results have been the same with both the TSM 5.1.6 client and the 5.5 client, using both the GUI and the command line. The only errors that show up on either system occur when we kill the restore. And (FWIW) there is no anti-virus scanner running while the restore is running. I'm lost - any ideas/suggestions? TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
TDP SQL - cleanup of deleted databases
We are useing TDP SQL for MS SQL2005 and have setup our policies. One example: Policy Domain Name: TDP Policy Set Name: STANDARD Mgmt Class Name: SQLDBDATAOBJECTS Copy Group Name: STANDARD Copy Group Type: Backup Versions Data Exists: No Limit Versions Data Deleted: No Limit Retain Extra Versions: 30 Retain Only Version: 60 Copy Mode: Modified Copy Serialization: Shared Static I'm not clear about the following thing: If we delete a db withing the sql instance does it disappear after 60 days? (as files and directories do with baclient) Or - do we have to manually inactivate the last active backup of a database, that has been allready deleted from MS SQL. (we do our sql backups with target=*) Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Backing up PST files
We are using subfile for pst files since about 2 years and are happy with it. The fileserver has around 150 userhomes all with pst. Most user have pst between 1 and 2 gb, some above. We needed subfile because we did the daily backup over a 2 Mbit connection for about all together of 500 GByte data. Some problems so far: full subfile cache directory because tsm client did no proper housekeeping of this dir. (had to delete all files and start new after a year) Restores of pst files sometimes a little problematic if administrator has no ntfs access to that file. I think the size limit for cachdir can be overcome by using more logical nodes on that server - each one with his own cache dir. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Paul Zarnowski Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 20:03 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Backing up PST files At 12:33 PM 2/14/2008, Del Hoobler wrote: The earlier description on subfile backup is not correct. Thanks Del, Andy, Bill.. I thought I recalled something about this from one of the technical sessions I attended at SHARE or one of the Oxford Symposiums. What you said matches what I had originally thought. All of this confirms the fact that subfile backup doesn't work for files 2GB, which leaves me with my problem of how to manage and backup PST files, when they can (and will) grow 2GB. Bill, thanks for your comments on this. I'll pursue ez-extract and try to figure out how it would work in our environment. If anyone else has any ideas on how our users can keep their PST files below 2GB, or how effectively subfile backup works with 2GB PST files, I'd appreciate hearing of them. Thanks. ..Paul -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: AW: AW: NetApp backup takes too long
The actual tsm journaling agent watches for local disk io. So it has to be run on the system, that does the io - the nas device. Since EMC or Netapp do not open their appliances to run agents for watching io there is no way. Both provide an api (I believe its named content api) that provides external virus scanners with informations about what should be checked in realtime. If TSM journaling agent would support that api, it should work. You could even implement a kind of cdp (continuous data protection). Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Wanda Prather Gesendet: Samstag, 8. Dezember 2007 20:41 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: AW: NetApp backup takes too long Yes, but in this case the TSM backup client is actually running on a Windows host, yes? Can journaling be implemented in this case? On 12/7/07, Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netapp (or EMC NAS) devices do not allow to run journaling agents. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Steve Stackwick Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 16:41 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: NetApp backup takes too long You could also investigate journaling on the Windows server. If the number of files changing daily is small, journaling could cut down on the noodle through the filesystem delay that you're seeing. Steve On 12/6/07, Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a similiar setup and used 5 backupjobs for each volume at the same time. For every volume of the nas server we split the work logicaly. So batch 1 took all directories starting with a-e, bath 2 all from f to h, We could backup our nas device in about 12 hours with 11mio files. Regards Spex -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 14:55 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: NetApp backup takes too long Good morning, I could use some suggestions for improving the backup time for our Network Appliance. Below is the write up that my Sys Admin submitted describing the problem. Thanks for the help. Situation: We have a Network Appliance (NAS) hosting approximately 8 million Windows files (CIFS). Due to disk constraints, we are not able to use snapshots and due to some other customer induced limitations, we cannot use NDMP for backups. We have implemented a proxy/redirection server that backs up the CIFS files via a unc path name to a TSM 5.33 host running AIX. Our issue is in walking through 8 million files per night in a backup job. The nightly backup delta is approximately 40GB. However, just to access and check 8 million files to see if they meet the backup criteria is taking too much time. The CIFS backup is split into 3 separate batch jobs that run simultaneously. The longest job (about 3 million files) takes almost 20 hours to run. Would NIC teaming gain us any time savings during the backup? I feel the bottleneck may be our AIX system since the Windows server has to get the meta data for the CIFS file, check it against the TSM database, and determine if that file needs to be backed up. That is a lot of traffic between Windows host, TSM server, and Network Appliance for every single file. During the backup time, the CPU is at about 70% on the Windows host, and the NIC is rarely higher than 50%. TSM Server Information: We are running TSM 5.3.3 on AIX 5.3. The server is an IBM 7026-6H1, 4 processors and only 2 Gb Ram. The TSM database is almost 200 Gb with 300 clients. Windows Server Information: We are currently using the Windows TSM client version 5.33c under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition on an HP DL380 dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processor with 2.5 GB of RAM. We have three batch files running the DSMC command line utility scheduled by the Windows scheduler. We have a dual port HP NC7781 NIC card. We are using only one port connected at 1GB. Debbie Haberstroh -- Stephen Stackwick Jacob Sundstrom, Inc. 401 East Pratt St., Suite 2214 Baltimore, MD 21202-3003 (410) 539-1135 * (866) 539-1135 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: AW: NetApp backup takes too long
Netapp (or EMC NAS) devices do not allow to run journaling agents. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Steve Stackwick Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 16:41 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: NetApp backup takes too long You could also investigate journaling on the Windows server. If the number of files changing daily is small, journaling could cut down on the noodle through the filesystem delay that you're seeing. Steve On 12/6/07, Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a similiar setup and used 5 backupjobs for each volume at the same time. For every volume of the nas server we split the work logicaly. So batch 1 took all directories starting with a-e, bath 2 all from f to h, We could backup our nas device in about 12 hours with 11mio files. Regards Spex -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 14:55 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: NetApp backup takes too long Good morning, I could use some suggestions for improving the backup time for our Network Appliance. Below is the write up that my Sys Admin submitted describing the problem. Thanks for the help. Situation: We have a Network Appliance (NAS) hosting approximately 8 million Windows files (CIFS). Due to disk constraints, we are not able to use snapshots and due to some other customer induced limitations, we cannot use NDMP for backups. We have implemented a proxy/redirection server that backs up the CIFS files via a unc path name to a TSM 5.33 host running AIX. Our issue is in walking through 8 million files per night in a backup job. The nightly backup delta is approximately 40GB. However, just to access and check 8 million files to see if they meet the backup criteria is taking too much time. The CIFS backup is split into 3 separate batch jobs that run simultaneously. The longest job (about 3 million files) takes almost 20 hours to run. Would NIC teaming gain us any time savings during the backup? I feel the bottleneck may be our AIX system since the Windows server has to get the meta data for the CIFS file, check it against the TSM database, and determine if that file needs to be backed up. That is a lot of traffic between Windows host, TSM server, and Network Appliance for every single file. During the backup time, the CPU is at about 70% on the Windows host, and the NIC is rarely higher than 50%. TSM Server Information: We are running TSM 5.3.3 on AIX 5.3. The server is an IBM 7026-6H1, 4 processors and only 2 Gb Ram. The TSM database is almost 200 Gb with 300 clients. Windows Server Information: We are currently using the Windows TSM client version 5.33c under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition on an HP DL380 dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processor with 2.5 GB of RAM. We have three batch files running the DSMC command line utility scheduled by the Windows scheduler. We have a dual port HP NC7781 NIC card. We are using only one port connected at 1GB. Debbie Haberstroh -- Stephen Stackwick Jacob Sundstrom, Inc. 401 East Pratt St., Suite 2214 Baltimore, MD 21202-3003 (410) 539-1135 * (866) 539-1135 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: NetApp backup takes too long
We had a similiar setup and used 5 backupjobs for each volume at the same time. For every volume of the nas server we split the work logicaly. So batch 1 took all directories starting with a-e, bath 2 all from f to h, We could backup our nas device in about 12 hours with 11mio files. Regards Spex -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 14:55 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: NetApp backup takes too long Good morning, I could use some suggestions for improving the backup time for our Network Appliance. Below is the write up that my Sys Admin submitted describing the problem. Thanks for the help. Situation: We have a Network Appliance (NAS) hosting approximately 8 million Windows files (CIFS). Due to disk constraints, we are not able to use snapshots and due to some other customer induced limitations, we cannot use NDMP for backups. We have implemented a proxy/redirection server that backs up the CIFS files via a unc path name to a TSM 5.33 host running AIX. Our issue is in walking through 8 million files per night in a backup job. The nightly backup delta is approximately 40GB. However, just to access and check 8 million files to see if they meet the backup criteria is taking too much time. The CIFS backup is split into 3 separate batch jobs that run simultaneously. The longest job (about 3 million files) takes almost 20 hours to run. Would NIC teaming gain us any time savings during the backup? I feel the bottleneck may be our AIX system since the Windows server has to get the meta data for the CIFS file, check it against the TSM database, and determine if that file needs to be backed up. That is a lot of traffic between Windows host, TSM server, and Network Appliance for every single file. During the backup time, the CPU is at about 70% on the Windows host, and the NIC is rarely higher than 50%. TSM Server Information: We are running TSM 5.3.3 on AIX 5.3. The server is an IBM 7026-6H1, 4 processors and only 2 Gb Ram. The TSM database is almost 200 Gb with 300 clients. Windows Server Information: We are currently using the Windows TSM client version 5.33c under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition on an HP DL380 dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processor with 2.5 GB of RAM. We have three batch files running the DSMC command line utility scheduled by the Windows scheduler. We have a dual port HP NC7781 NIC card. We are using only one port connected at 1GB. Debbie Haberstroh
Preallocate Volumes in Storagepools
Since we got heavy fragmentation in our storagepools of type file we think about using predefined,preallocated volumes. What's your experience with preallocated vols of type file? I've read about some problems because TSM deletes the new defined volume before usage and let the new volume grow. See http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2004-12/msg00306.html Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Lost in TSM licensing
Some (dmz) servers have no ftp connection into our company network. And scripts at the clients are difficult to update. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von William Boyer Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2007 20:15 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Lost in TSM licensing Instead of having to restore each *.LOG file every day, why not just code a POSTSCHEDULECMD that FTP's all the *.LOG files to a central server as nodename.dsm*.log Bill Boyer Life isn't about how fast you run, or how high you climb but how well you bounce - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: AW: Lost in TSM licensing I do that every morning fully automated: Dsmsched.log of every tsm node is restored on a individual name at a central server for reporting of backup problems. It's not that difficult. But you are right - IBM should solve the problem by reporting the cpu count to the tsm server through the client. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gill, Geoffrey L. Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2007 18:30 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Lost in TSM licensing So what you are saying is I still have to manually restore hundreds of files from hundreds of systems to a location, and hopefully the file name is different on each one or it will overwrite it ever time I restore it, and then manually go through each file to get the info. Not to mention the fact it could be some folks may not even have the web interface up and I actually don't have access to restore the file. Sorry, for me, way too much work. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Warren Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Lost in TSM licensing Hmm, there is always a scheduled TSM command that send's it's output to a file you have rights to look at later? On occaision for small adhoc tasks I have used the TSM scheduler to initiate a command on a client, when I've needed to do the same thing across a lot of nodes. as TSM administrator, you could send the output to a file, let tsm back it up, and then restore it elsewhere to get at it, if you really really had to! Matt. http://tsmwiki.com/tsmwiki Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To ADSM-L Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc 27/06/2007 16:07 Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Lost in TSM licensing Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU M$ offers a tool named MSINFO32 that returns a lot of information about a server. You can gather information from a remote server - provided you have enough rights on the remote machine. Ahhh, the ol don't have rights issue. Which is why I keep saying the best way to get the info is to build it into the client so it can get and report it on the tsm server. Otherwise with hundreds, if not thousands of machines, I doubt any one person is going to have a simple way to get the info. It turns in to a multi day manual task which is absolutely stupid. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message and any attachments (the message) is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. - Ce message et toutes les pieces jointes (ci-apres le message) sont etablis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le detruire et d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer
Versions data deleted
Short question, because I'm not shure: Does versions data deleted=0 mean: If file is deleted its backup version is also immediately deleted during next backup/expiration - despite the duration-setting for retain only backup version? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: How do you backup your Celerra NAS ?
2 virtual machines W2k3 R2 x64 doing incr backup (with compression) each night of complete NAS (~8 mio files and ~ 4,5T Byte). Each vm has 5 TSM nodes defined, that backup a part of each filesystem e.g. first directories starting with a-f then second g-i, j-o, p-u, ... That gives very well balanced usage. We use celera only in for cifs shares. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 15:48 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: How do you backup your Celerra NAS ? Looking for feedback on how folks backup there EMC Celerra NAS ? Are you using NDMP ? Just regular backups via Windoze nodes ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Technology Services University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 804-828-4807
TSM Oper. Report for Missed Files
Hi, I like to report missed files filtered by domain using an modified query from operational reporter. Original query example: select nodename,substr(char(date_time), 1, 16) as TME,message from actlog where (msgno=4005 or msgno=4007 or msgno=4018 or msgno=4037 or msgno=4987) and (date_time between '2007-05-21 07:43:25' and '2007-05-22 07:43:24') order by nodename After playing around with that query I have 2 problems: 1) inserting into the where part: and nodename in (select nodename from nodes where domain_name='MAC') gives an error of an not allowed outer query (working with explicit node_names works, but isn't ideal) 2) since the original query above works with date strings I have to substitute that part with something like that being using in q actlog begind=-24:00 ... Do you have any ideas to solve that 2 problems?
AW: TSM Oper. Report for Missed Files
Hi Richard, you did it. My final query string is: select nodename,substr(char(date_time), 1, 16) as TME,message from actlog \ where (msgno=4005 or msgno=4007 or msgno=4018 or msgno=4037 or msgno=4987) \ and nodename in (select node_name from nodes where domain_name='MAC') \ and CAST((CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-DATE_TIME) HOURS AS INTEGER) 48 \ order by nodename Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Sims Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007 13:19 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: TSM Oper. Report for Missed Files On May 22, 2007, at 3:11 AM, Stefan Holzwarth wrote: and nodename in (select nodename from nodes where domain_name='MAC') ^^^ That should instead be:NODE_NAME Note well the unfortunate field name variations across tables. 2) since the original query above works with date strings I have to substitute that part with something like that being using in q actlog begind=-24:00 ... I think you mean begint=-24:00 The Select prototype would be: SELECT * From ACTLOG where - CAST((CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-DATE_TIME) HOURS AS INTEGER) 24 Richard Sims
AW: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup
Richard, I would say you can do it good (TSM) or better as suposed by Orville. I do not see any reason why TSM should not take advantage of the mirrored disk's for db reading. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Sims Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 17:49 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Orville Lantto wrote: Reads should be safe from mirrored volumes and are commonly done in operating systems to load balance. Not taking advantage of the available IO resource is wasteful and puts an unnecessarily unbalanced load on an already IO stressed system. It slows down db backups too. Then your issue is performance, rather than database voracity. This is addressed by the disk architecturing chosen for the TSM database, where raw logical volumes and RAID on top of high performance disks accomplishes that. Complementary volume striping largely addresses TSM's symmetrical mirror writing and singular reading. Whereas TSM's mirroring is an integrity measure rather then performance measure, you won't get full equivalence from that. Another approach, as seen in various customer postings, is to employ disk subsystem mirroring rather than TSM's application mirroring. In that way you get full duality, but sacrifice the protections and recoverability which TSM offers. Richard Sims
AW: WinTel Bare Metal Restore
I can confirm for HP servers, that the ASR recovery process works also with HP usb floppy drives. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Prather, Wanda Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2007 21:38 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: WinTel Bare Metal Restore I believe someone posted to the list a long time ago that an external/portable USB-connected floppy will work. But I haven't personally done it. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Len Boyle Sent: Mon 4/16/2007 10:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: WinTel Bare Metal Restore Wanda With ASR is there a work around for a client that does not have a floopy disk drive? len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] WinTel Bare Metal Restore For XP and 2003, see the TSM Client Manual for Windows instructions for ASR (Automated System Recovery). It's a MIcrosoft thing which TSM supports. Works, if you follow the instructions exactly. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Johnson, Milton Sent: Mon 4/16/2007 10:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: WinTel Bare Metal Restore Due to the lack of recent religious wars on this forum, I'm forced to ask: What is the best method to back-up and perform a reliable and successful Bare Metal Restore of a WinTel platform (Windows NT/Server 2000/2003/XP/etc.) using a TSM AIX server? Methods requiring a third party solution are acceptable. Solutions allowing a BMR to dis-similar hardware are preferable. Personally I view the need to do a BMR on a WinTel platform as an opportunity to bring up another AIX server, but that is yet another religious war. Thanks, Milton
AW: TSM on a virtual machine?
I do not see problems doing that - despite addressing tapelibraries out of an vm... The Cpu and RAM the TSM Server needs is most of the time during night. So a TSM server can easy help to grow your esx hardware base. We have a dedicated tsm server but are running tsm server for testing and smaller tasks also within an vm with rdm disks (ATA on cx700) as backup device. Never had any problems doing that... Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Keith Arbogast Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 18:07 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: TSM on a virtual machine? Is anyone running a production TSM server on a virtual machine? If so, what has been your experience, good and bad? We are analyzing that possibility, and will do extensive testing beforehand, but we would like to know what experience others have had so we don't go down too many wrong paths. We are running VMWare ESX 2.5.3 on HP DL585 servers. We would be backing up Windows and Redhat Linux virtual machines as well as AIX physical Web and App servers, and physical Oracle 10g databases. We would run the most current version of TSM. We know of the various options available to back up virtual machines. What we're asking is how does a virtual machine do as a TSM server? With my thanks, Keith Arbogast Indiana University
AW: inventory expiration time
4CPU, Windows2003, 4GB Ram, CX700 Disks Raid5 (shared, 10k), TSM 5.3.2 During the same time there is expiration from an other smaller instance on the same machine that lasts about an hour. Regards Stefan Holzwarth DB Speed Expiration ACTIVITY Date Examined Objects Examined Up/Hr EXPIRATION 2006-06-27 2430008 925200 EXPIRATION 2006-06-28 2404404 1083600 EXPIRATION 2006-06-29 2453121 993600 EXPIRATION 2006-06-30 2535449 928800 EXPIRATION 2006-07-01 2600885 835200 EXPIRATION 2006-07-02 2751620 1004400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-03 2913433 99 EXPIRATION 2006-07-04 2560030 946800 EXPIRATION 2006-07-05 2568634 1098000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-06 2619294 1198800 EXPIRATION 2006-07-07 2835640 1044000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-08 2922019 932400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-09 3152030 1177200 EXPIRATION 2006-07-10 3307528 1004400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-11 2942075 1036800 EXPIRATION 2006-07-12 2947009 1134000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-13 3077056 914400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-14 3003355 878400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-15 2888349 972000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-16 3059609 1245600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-17 3226511 117 EXPIRATION 2006-07-18 2994471 968400 EXPIRATION 2006-07-18 2653356 2469600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-19 2937517 1011600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-20 2874305 1137600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-20 2585014 2818800 EXPIRATION 2006-07-21 3125122 882000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-22 3130365 828000 EXPIRATION 2006-07-23 3262415 1245600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-24 3308901 1245600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-25 3038719 1227600 EXPIRATION 2006-07-26 2990903 943200 EXPIRATION 2006-07-27 2971022 1296000 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dirk Kastens Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 08:30 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: inventory expiration time Richard Hammersley schrieb: The machine is a new dual processor P520 with 4 gig of memory attached to an EMC cx300 san. We also have a p520, but with 12 GB of memory. We're running TSM 5.3.3 on AIX 5.3. Our inventory expiration runs once a week and takes more than 6 hours to complete: ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 4218 completed: examined 7907625 objects, deleting 1416779 backup objects, 191 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered. -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470
AW: Paramter missing in tdpsqlc restore command
As a working example we use: (restore goes also to another db serever) tdpsqlc restore ZP1 /tsmoptfile=dsm_restore.opt /tsmnode=s030sql /fromsqlserver=S030 /INTO=ZQ1 /strip=4 /replace /relocate=ZP1DATA1,ZP1DATA2,ZP1DATA3,ZP1DATA4,ZP1LOG1,ZP1LOG2 /to=J:\ZQ1DATA1\ZQ1DATA1.mdf,J:\ZQ1DATA2\ZQ1DATA2.mdf,J:\ZQ1DATA3\ZQ1DATA3.mdf,G:\ZQ1DATA4\ZQ1DATA4.mdf,I:\ZQ1LOG1\ZQ1LOG1.ldf,I:\ZQ1LOG2\ZQ1LOG2.ldf Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Paul Dudley Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 05:13 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Paramter missing in tdpsqlc restore command I am running the following tdpsqlc command and get a parameter missing error - possibly after /relocate - can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I may be missing? I am trying to restore a database from another server to a different location on this server tdpsqlc restore Sales2000 full /fromsqlserver=nt_sales2_database /relocate /to=n:\Database\MSSQL\Data\Sales2000_Data.mdf Regards Paul Paul Dudley ANL IT Operations Dept. ANL Container Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANL DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any file attached is confidential, and intended solely to the named addressees. Any unauthorised dissemination or use is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail from your system. Please do not copy, use or make reference to it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any person.
Image Backups
Hi, more and more I like the imagebackup feature of TSM. After doing several testing (with BartPE for DR and P2V Vmware) I have left some imagebackups at the TSM server. Now I want to clean up but I have no idea how to find that backups. (There is a sql-select to backup or contents table that needs to much time). Second problem is to selective delete that images from the server without touching incrementals. Any ideas? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Windows BMR/ASR over Network w/o DHCP ?
Hi Timothy, there is a tool called penetcfg (used in bartpe) that you can start from the commandline of the running recovery system. It does all for you if you can't use dhcp. But I don't know about licencing of that tool since we have no need. Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Timothy Lin Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2006 21:28 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Windows BMR/ASR over Network w/o DHCP ? Hi has anyone tried to get BMR/ASR working over the network w/o dhcp ? govt policy doesn't allow dhcp on certain network we have, and there are a few boxes we'd like to have BMR/ASR working but those only have a floppy drive and CD drive, so restore from local media is probably not a good idea ::winks:: any idea if I can somehow bypass the dhcp and setup the ip/mask manually while the ASR silent installs TSM and have it work ? I'd appreciate your inputs, Thanks!
AW: SAN Disk for TSM diskpool for backups ?
Roger, I think that' not total correct. The speed of raid 5 depends of several things. Two of them are how big and sequential that write io's are. There are hardware vendors that implement raid 5 in their san very tricky: If the incoming data are large and sequential they are buffered by the san system in write cache until a full stripe can be written to all disks in a raid 5 group (typical 4+1). In this way a raid 5 is faster than a raid 1 since the write penalty is only 20% and not 50% as in raid 1. hope this was clear regards Stefan Holzwarth Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager im Auftrag von Roger Deschner Gesendet: Do 20.04.2006 19:00 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: SAN Disk for TSM diskpool for backups ? You will experience slower client backups with ANY configuration that is RAID5 for your disk storage pools. The reason is that client backup is 100% writes in the disk storage pools, and RAID5 is very slow at writes. The throughput difference is significant - as much as 75% in our case. After much experimentation, I have found that RAID1 is best for disk storage pools. Not RAID5, not RAID10, but RAID1. RAID5 can save you a little bit of money in disk drives, but you really pay for it in performance of something that is 100% writes. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Justin Case wrote: Need comments please reply We are going to be testing Apple Xserver raid disks array as the disks for backing up the clients nightly backups to diskpool. Has any one tried or even is anyone using the Apple Xserver raid disks array for TSM server's diskpools for nightly backups ??? What raid is being used ? We are in the mind set to use RAID5 (5+1) with 1 spare safety net and have a spare disks on site. What issues have come up when using Apple Xserver raid disks array ?? Any experiences that other TSM Admin's have had please reply with any issues of success or problems ? Thanks Justin Case Duke University
AW: Random Access Disk Pools
Why don't you use random and sequential together? In our diskonly setup we use 3 types: 2% fibrechannel disk as primary pool with random access for daily backup sizelimit 2MByte 30% ATA disk as primary pool with random access volumes for backup no sizelimit migdelay=7days 68% ATA disk as primary pool with files device for migrationtarget of ATA Pool and for direct target of TDP agents and 100% ATA as copypool on remote site. (Copy is done as an extra step since we got very high CPU load) No problems since one year. Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Andrew Carlson Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. April 2006 19:15 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Random Access Disk Pools Rod, After spending 4 weeks using file device class disk pools, I would say use random access. Here is why: The speed of the random access disk pools is phenomenally better than the file device class - not sure why though The volumes (from the presentation I just read from the other email) are supposed to be picked based on filesystems with no volume mounted. What I found is the it selects them in collation order. This accessed the volumes on one raid group, giving the worst performance of all. After using a kludgy method to spread the data around, the performance was better, but did not approach random access Small files were a problem in some cases. Since I was collocating, if alot of small files were written to a volume (in this case, it was moving my dirmc pool), there can be alot of wasted space. Apparently, a block of 256K is written to disk no matter how much data is being written. If alot of small files are written to a volume, space can be wasted because the volume will fill before capacity is reached (we were using predefined volumes) It takes alot of time to predefine the volumes. We were finding it took about 19 hours to predefine 2TB. We were able to run 8 of those, so it ended up taking 19 hours to predefine 16TB, but that is still a long time. Some portion of space is taken up by volumes that are not yet full (with predefined volumes at least) in a file device class. This is not a worry with random access, but fragmented aggregates could be a worry. My plan is to move data off of random access volumes on the weekends to help prevent fragmentation. If you have any other questions, please let me know. --- Park, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me ask again because I didn't get much feedback. How do we find the thread limit, and can people weigh in on whether they use big disk pools (50TB-200TB). The advantages/disadvantages of big disk pools versus devclass=file any gotchas either way. We are looking at buy a lot more disk and creating big diskpools to land data on and be the primary pool instead of tape. Thank in advance. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools We found the limit. There are some posts in this forum from the first of the year about the problem we ran into. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Park, Rod Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools We use random access pools, how do you know what your thread limit iswe've never had any issues with ours but we're thinking about adding a lot more. What's the biggest reason you do/don't use devclass=file over disk storage poolsarguments either way? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools Be careful with how many disk pool volumes you create. Each volume uses 1 thread, add this to all of the other threads in use, our TSM server would die at around 1800 active threads. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Random Access Disk Pools I have heard in the past that random access disk pools can become fragmented and practically unusable after a while. I was wondering if anyone sees this in the real world? I posted the other day about managing predefined volumes in a file type devclass, and the only answer I got said they were using random access pools. I would MUCH rather have a random access pool, so if there is no problem with this, I will convert over to random access. Thanks
Using CRC error checking during backup
Hi, until November 2005 everything in my TSM world looked fine, until we needed a restore of our exchange db: We were not able to restore (had been tested in the past) what we needed. The restore always ended with failures regarding the data on the tsm server. I invoked IBM and we found, that the data at the TSM Server were bad. We were told to use CRC checking for our nodes. Doing CRC checking we found, that a lot of our successful backups where indeed bad! Especially the tdp agents that send large objects have problems with crc's since retries are time-consuming and you get easy new crc's. So we are looking now with a lot of efforts into our network environment, but I wonder - why it is necessary to use crc in TSM despite there is TCP/IP that should take care of that errors - how crc checking is been done within tsm (e.g. it seems for each full received backup object, differences data/protocol checking, number retries, ...) (CRC checksums for the storagepools are not used at the moment, there is no indication for that) Does anyone has information's or experience's with crc checking? Environment TSM Server Windows 2003 5.3.1.2 TSM Clients 5.2.3.11 Windows 2000/2003 Backup to Disk Clariion CX700 with ATA Drives GB Ethernet Backbone (4 Switches Nortel)
Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029
Hi, we use include c:\adsm.sys\...* special to assign a managent class to system objects. Is this (still) correct? I think include and exclude to the same directory isn't a good idea. Regards Stefan Holzwarth _ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Tue 29.11.2005 19:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: WMI backup failure - return code 3029 Is it safe to say that the C:\adsm.sys directory can be safely excluded from all Windows backups? Yes. What the exclude does is exclude it from the backup of your C: drive. But C:\adsm.sys is still backed up as a part of the system object or system state backup. Note that in version 5.3, TSM automatically excludes this directory. I believe that the 5.2.4 client uses exclude c:\adsm.sys\...\*, so the failures you see are probably on subdirectories of adsm.sys, not files. In 5.3, this has been changed to exclude.dir c:\adsm.sys. Run the dsmc query inclexcl command to see how the adsm.sys dir is currently excluded. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageMan ager.html http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageMa nager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-11-29 11:17:20: Question regarding this proposed solution: Is it safe to say that the C:\adsm.sys directory can be safely excluded from all Windows backups? I've had many repetitive failures of that directory in various clients (mainly Win2K3), but the directory exists in other windows versions. I just went ahead and added the exclusion to my windows cloptset and the failures have stopped. Thanks for your help. Sergio U. of Maryland Office of Information Technology Andrew Raibeck wrote: H Try doing the following: 1) Delete the existing c:\adsm.sys directory structure. 2) Add the following to the client options: exclude.dir c:\adsm.sys 3) Retry the system object backup. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.ibm http://www-306.ibm . com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-11-29 07:09:04: Hi *SMers, Client - TSM 5.2.4.4 on a W2K SP4 server. Server - TSM 5.2.4.5 on a W2K SP4 server. I'm experiencing a regular backup failure of the system objects and the information returned to me from TSM is not really directing me towards a cause. Dsmerror.log contains: 11/29/2005 13:34:08 ANS1487E Backing up WMI repository failed. No files will be backed up. 11/29/2005 13:34:14 Return code 3029 unknown 11/29/2005 13:34:14 Unknown system error Please check the TSM Error Log for any additional information Dsmsched.log has less.. Is there any documentation anywhere which brings some kind of meaning to Return code 3029 unknown. Any assistance greatly appreciated. Regards Matthew TSM Consultant ADMIN ITI Rabobank International 1 Queenhithe, London EC4V 3RL _ This email (including any attachments to it) is confidential, legally privileged, subject to copyright and is sent for the personal attention of the intended recipient only. If you have received this email in error, please advise us immediately and delete it. You are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, we cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the viruses in this email or attachments. We exclude any liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided in this email or its attachments, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. If this email contains an offer, that should be considered as an invitation to treat. _
Imagebackup questions
Hi, I want to use online imagebackup with BartPE or WinPE for fast recovery of important windows servers and already did some backup restore tests successfully. But I wonder whether it's possible to exclude the pagingfile from c: and to use compression. It seems that compression is ignored and no files are excluded from imagebackup. (Other solutions like ghost do compression and exclude paging file) Can someone help Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Platform change to Windows?
Hi Tab, we have a very similar environment. 200 Windows Nodes, EMC NAS Server (4TB), SQL Agents, Exchange Agents about 15 Tbyte on Primary (only Disk) and 15 Tbyte as Copypool. 2 TSM Server Instances: one for NT and one for NAS on the same Windows 2003 Server. DB is 20GByte 76%used and 20 GB 55% used. Every day about 500GB new data. Server has 4 CPU, 4 Gbyte RAM. CPU Usage low to medium. Performance is good. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Tab Trepagnier Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. November 2005 18:14 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Platform change to Windows? We are considering migrating our TSM systems from AIX to Windows 2003. I know that the experience of the forum participants is that AIX provides superior I/O performance, but where is that threshold? These are our system details. I'd like for anyone with experience with a system of similar size to share their experiences regarding Unix vs. Windows. We are currently running TSM 5.1.10 on a 2-way 6H1 with 4 GB RAM. We are considering running TSM 5.3.2 on a 2-way or 4-way 3.0 GHz Xeon with 4 GB RAM. All non-OS I/O would be via GigE network and redundant 2 Gbs fiber. TSM system details: DB: 32 GB @ 83% utilization Log:5 GB, roll-forward mode Primary data: 16 TB with one copypool (another 16 TB to manage) Nodes:175 backing up during a 10-hour window Average daily incoming data: ~ 200 GB; may be reduced via deployment of TDP Oracle Disk: 1 TB DAS, 3 TB SAN Tape: LTO-1, DLT8000, 3570XL, four SCSI drives each; libraries will be consolidated Daily copypool updates sent to vault Semi-annual exports in the 2-5 TB range Does that sound like a system that could reasonably be hosted on a modern Windows system? Is a 2-way adequate, or should we get a 4-way? Thanks in advance. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram, L.L.C.
AW: Working SATA Disk Pool Configuration
We use Clariion ATA for diskonly backup in the following configuration: 2 Clariions on different locations, each with 15 Raidgroups 4+1 in Raid 5. (Raid 5 because of disktype vols with random access) Each Raidgroup has 1188 Gbyte that are used as 2 LUN's with 594 GB each. Within each lun there are 2 directories: one for disk vols (4 Gbyte) and on for tapevols (4Gbyte) We use a small amout of FC Disk 30 GB on the clariion as primary disk pool with maxsize=50 Mbyte Migration next to ATA Disk Pool (2 Tbyte) with 10 days retension (most backup files should expire here) next to ATA Tapepool (~10 Tbyte) for long term. At the second site we have a large copypool with 4 GB sequential volumes. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Hart, Charles Gesendet: Freitag, 12. August 2005 14:30 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Working SATA Disk Pool Configuration Yep 594GB Vols, @ 1-4 Vols per pool, so we have 594GB to 2TB TSM Pools. Also I forgot to mention we are writing to 3592 Tape Drives connected to 2GBs SAN ports. Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Working SATA Disk Pool Configuration Thanks for the info, we have similar hardware and are thinking about finally moving TSM to the SAN. one question though on the last TSM section, did you mean to say, Defined 594~GB~ Disk Vols in TSM Storage Pool from 1-4 Vols per pool. Just looking at the math, I'm not sure you could (or would want to) make 594 individual volumes Thanks, Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Working SATA Disk Pool Configuration Someone had asked how we configured our Clarrion SATA Disk for TSM Disk Pools... With this cfg we see 168GB Per Hour Data Transfer per stream from Disk pool top Tape Pool Clariion: CX700 Drives: 320 GB SATA Raid Sets: Raid 3 (4+1) ((5 drives per set)) Number of Luns per Raid Set: 2 Approx Lun Size: 594GB Stripe Size: 128K AIX OS Cfg Created 594GB Volumes with 64K Stripes TSM Defined 594 Disk Vols in TSM Storage Pool from 1-4 Vols per pool
AW: Select for archive size
Richard, as you mention you have to take care of the expiration that archivecontents will have during their lifecycle. Therefore you have to query every accountiong period for the actual size of the archives. I do not see any possibility with perl since the commandline does not show estimate retrieve size (as the gui does). Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Sims Gesendet: Montag, 8. August 2005 16:56 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Select for archive size On Aug 8, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Stefan Holzwarth wrote: Hi *SM-ers, some time ago i setup a dedicated TSM node for archiving of all kind of data from different users. Each archive is generated with an (internal) unique ID in the description field under the same archive-node. Sometimes the different archives come from the same filespace because we use a central networkshare for collection of files to archive. Now our users should pay for their archives. So i started searching for an select statement that gives me the size of an single archive (as in the gui when you estimate retrieve size). The problem is that the archives table shows no size information and the dsmc.exe has no estimate retrieve for automation... Stefan - There is no inherent capability for listing stored file sizes from TSM server queries: what it shows, in the Contents table FILE_SIZE is the Aggregate size; and that equals the file size only if the file is as large as or larger than an Aggregate. You'll need to acquire sizes via client-side queries, as for example performed through a Perl script. The TSM accounting records could be used to charge for Archive and Retrieve, in that they record username; but there is no like accounting of deletion/expiration, to balance the books from that viewpoint. On a go-forward basis, it may be feasible in your environment to have all archiving occur through an interface script which would charge per observed file sizes involved in Archive, Retrieve, and Delete. Richard Sims
Select for archive size
Hi *SM-ers, some time ago i setup a dedicated TSM node for archiving of all kind of data from different users. Each archive is generated with an (internal) unique ID in the description field under the same archive-node. Sometimes the different archives come from the same filespace because we use a central networkshare for collection of files to archive. Now our users should pay for their archives. So i started searching for an select statement that gives me the size of an single archive (as in the gui when you estimate retrieve size). The problem is that the archives table shows no size information and the dsmc.exe has no estimate retrieve for automation... Any ideas? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: Backup taking too long
As i know resourceutil stays in the same filesystem and only starts a new thread if there is something big to transport to the tsm server. Searching for changed files isn't multithreaded. I devided backup of 4 large netapp volumes ~1TByte/4 Mio Files) with 5 nodes using the following include/exclude lists successfully: for each node i set up a dsm.opt like that: TCPBUFFSIZE 256 TCPWINDOWSIZE 63 TCPNODELAYYES COMPRESSION YES * Managementclass for NAS Backups for each volume INCLUDE \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\...\* DATAX INCLUDE \\sznas01\tsmdata2$\...\* DATAX ... * For each volume * for each node comment one range out * EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[A-E]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[F-J]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[K-O]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[P-T]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[U-Z0-9$]* ... The backup itself had a preschedcmd: create new snapshots for all volumes create new hidden shares to the root of the volumes start backup with all 5 nodes at the same time Netapp FS840 reached about 95 % CPU Util during backup With one DL380 G3 (1 GB Ethernet) i could do the backup for 12 mio files in about 20 hours Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Scott Foley Gesendet: Montag, 1. August 2005 18:19 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Backup taking too long I am backing up a large number of files and directories located on a Network Appliance. I am using a Windows 2000 client to do this. It is taking over 40 hours to do the backup. I also run out of memory at times (ANS1028S). Journaling worked great when the files were on a Windows system, but journaling works only on a local file system. I don't think I can use NDMP because the tape library is connected only to the Tivoli server. Most of the time (and memory) is spent determining what files should be backed up. There are over 1 million directories. Total number of objects inspected: 7,819,693 Total number of objects backed up: 260,984 Total number of bytes transferred:36.22 GB Data transfer time:4,579.15 sec Elapsed processing time: 40:10:58 There are about 36 root directories so I could configure the Network Appliance to have 36 shares and back up each separately if that would help. I think this would help with the memory problem. I would probably need to run multiple backups simultaneously though. I have added the following to the dsm.opt file RESOURceutilization 14 MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP yes Any suggestions on how to speed the backup up? Windows 2000 SP2 with 512 Meg of Memory Client Version 5, Release 1, Level 7.0 Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 9.0 Scott Foley
AW: asr and network card
Hi Karin, Have a look at nlite, a nice, small tool for preparing your our windows install cd, including drivers,... Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Karin Dambacher Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 12:02 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: asr and network card Hi all we want to asr a windows xp system, it was installed with dhcp and the network adapter was not installed automatically, driver had to be installed extra. At rebooting no network is available. Has anyone this problem and know what to do ? Is it possible to configure the windows startup cd with this extra driver ? Thanks, Karin
AW: Migration form Storagepool Disk to Storagepool Disk
Andy, it seems i did something wrong, since everything is working now as expected. I have only trouble to find my mistake... Thank you for help Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Andrew Raibeck Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Februar 2005 21:59 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Migration form Storagepool Disk to Storagepool Disk The only limitation of this kind is with regard to Centera pools. You cannot migrate data into, or out of, a Centera disk pool (this is mentioned in the Admin Guide). I did a simple test of disk - disk migration using my local workstation disk drives (SATA), and it worked fine. What do Q STG F=D show and Q PR show at the time migration is running? Did you examine the activity log for any related messages issued from the time migration started that might point to a problem? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2005-02-20 13:35:21: At the moment i try to install and configure our new TSM environment wth TSM 5.3, Windows 2003, FC and ATA Disk at 2 EMC Clariion - no tapes The storagepool hirarchy should be the following: 1) Fast small FC Disks (RAID 5) for daily small and medium Files next to 2) ATA Disk (RAID 5) with migdelay = 10 days (daily changed files should expire before migration to sequentail pool) next to 3) large ATA squential Pool as last part of the chain and for large, daily Files (TDP full ?) In my first tests i had trouble with migration from 1 to 2: mig process were starting, but doing nothing. The process could not be canceled. Everything else was ok (1-3, direct -2, 2-3) I am not sure whether it is possible to do migration from disk to disk. Anyone had the same experience, TSM bug? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth
Migration form Storagepool Disk to Storagepool Disk
At the moment i try to install and configure our new TSM environment wth TSM 5.3, Windows 2003, FC and ATA Disk at 2 EMC Clariion - no tapes The storagepool hirarchy should be the following: 1) Fast small FC Disks (RAID 5) for daily small and medium Files next to 2) ATA Disk (RAID 5) with migdelay = 10 days (daily changed files should expire before migration to sequentail pool) next to 3) large ATA squential Pool as last part of the chain and for large, daily Files (TDP full ?) In my first tests i had trouble with migration from 1 to 2: mig process were starting, but doing nothing. The process could not be canceled. Everything else was ok (1-3, direct -2, 2-3) I am not sure whether it is possible to do migration from disk to disk. Anyone had the same experience, TSM bug? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth
Backup Windows 2003 AD
Hi, since we moved our active directory environment from windows 2000 to windows 2003 we see a backup error with D:\windows\ntds\temp.edb. File is open and can not be saved The file is described somewhere in the web as a scratchpad for AD. I wonder if the file is needed for recovery. If not - why there is not standard tsm exclude? If yes - who should i backup the file? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
Reconstruction of aggregates
We plan to move TSM from MVS to Windows2003 using only disk storage at 2 CX700 storage systems. At the moment we discuss whether to use disk and/or file pools. Since disk is much easier to handle and to use we look for a mechanism to address the aggregates problem on disk only. The idea is to have a kind of reclamation pool of type file to handle the problem: Large Disk pool --- move vol Small File pool with immediate reclamation --- migration by high/lo watermark -- back to large disk pool The problem now is to have an idea of what disk volumes should be moved. I do not know any statistic that shows me which volumes should be reorganized. Any idea? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: ANS1950E Backup via Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy failed
Hi Karel, have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833167 Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bos, Karel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 09:31 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: ANS1950E Backup via Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy failed Hi, I am looking for the reason for getting this message in the error.log: 11/16/2004 09:23:17 CreateSnapshotSet(): pAsync-QueryStatus() returns hr=E_OUTOFMEMORY 11/16/2004 09:23:29 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '\\clusternode3\c$' stopped. 11/16/2004 09:23:29 ANS1950E Backup via Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy failed. See error log for more detail. I have 4 cluster Win2003 cluster nodes configured with the same dsm.opt and client version. Only one of them gives this message. All of them have the same amount of CPU power and memory. The one failing is the least used. One other thing, after a reboot the first back up will run fine. All thereafter fail. Any ideas? Regards, Karel Clientlevel 5.2.3.4 Serverlevel 5.2.3.4
AW: TSM and SATA Disk Pools
Thank you Charles, very good overview. I have one more thing to mention: (only my opinion) You should try to setup storagpool hirarchy within the SATA/FC Disk-Pools. As an idea: FC Diskpool for Daily Backup --- (S)ATA Diskpool for storing the files as long as the policy allows new versions (migdelay ~ versions+1) --- (S)ATA Sequential Pool for long term (small volumes and collocation per node to avoid a lot of reclamation after deleting nodes) --- Not neccessary a Tapepool as last chain Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Mark D. Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 23:50 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: TSM and SATA Disk Pools Charles, There are some other limiting factors you must consider. Although you have 300+ clients how many do you schedule to back up at the same time? Even if it is all of them what is your Maxsessions and MaxSchedsessions values? If I remember right you are running on a p630 that box can probably handle (depending on the amount of memory, # of NICs and # of processors) up to 200-300 concurrent sessions, but you probably have it set much lower. As with all things in life there are practical limitations, 1200 volumes might seem to be a lot but I have worked in large environments with several hundred volumes because that is what the environment needed! Another question are all of these clients going to one disk pool and/or are some going straight to tape? On another note that I did not address in my previous post, the original topic was about SATA drives and their viability in an ITSM disk pool. A couple things to consider here: 1. They are cheap so you can afford to have very large disk pools - Thats a good thing! 2. SATA drives are typically large capacity (250GB and above) when used by IBM, EMC, LSI etc. - This is not so good, see me previous post more dirves is better. 3. SATA drives are usually slower drives, 7200 or 10K rpm, FC drives can 15K rpm - Another performance hit. 4. The reliability, i.e. failure rate, is not as good, but this might not be as important in a ITSM server as it might be in a prodcution DB server. 5. In order to get good performance out of SATA you need to work a little harder and you probably want to go with RAID 10 or 50 to get the best performance/reliabilty. 6. If you have to move huge amounts of data on a daily basis with a minimal amount of time, i.e. you need the best possible performance, than SATA is not your answer! 7. But if you need large disk pools with reasonable performance at a great price than your going to love SATA. Good Luck and let us know how it turns out -- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. === MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE === Hart, Charles wrote: Fantastic Read Thank you very much for the info! Just one of our TSM server has 300+ Clients, currently using collocation and a client setting of Resource of 4 we could potentially have to create 1200 volumes on Disk? Regards, Charles -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark D. Rodriguez Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and SATA Disk Pools OK, so there seems to be some interest in how to layout disk pools on an AIX system using JFS2 instead of raw lv's. I will try to keep this as general as possible so please remember you must make some choices based on your particular environment. * In general I would rather have more small disks than a few large as you will see. However, this would not apply if the larger disk where 15K rpm vs. smaller disks of 10K rpm. * Creating your hdisks - there are several possibilities here depending on you environment. o Small environments with only a few disk should use JBOD. obviously you give up some safety over running RAID 1, 5 or 10 but small environments can't afford this anyway. o Mid size and above should use one of the following configs that fits there environment the best. If you will use RAID 5 then create several small arrays, 4 or 5 disks per array is good if you have lots of disk then you can go as high as 8 per array. If you have a very large number of disks than you can use either RAID 0 or 10, obviously RAID 10 will give you some disk failure protection but at the cost of 2 x
AW: Failed incremental backup for NT 2003.
Arnaud, Thank you very much for this valuable information. Since 5.2.2.x we see that error and where looking for the reason. There where some fixes in TSM but you know it was only the half of the whole thing. Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 11:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Failed incremental backup for NT 2003. Hoa, You'll find an article on Microsoft support web site (http://support.microsoft.com), which may solve your problem : do a search for 833167 and you'll be directed to an article about Time-out errors occur in Volume Shadow Copy service writers, and shadow copies are lost during backup and during times when there are high levels of input/output. There is an associated patch you should ask them and apply on your client. We did it and it solved the problem ! Cheers. Arnaud ** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoa V Nguyen Sent: Thursday, 28 October, 2004 18:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failed incremental backup for NT 2003. Hi gurus, Our NT guys have issues to backup NT 2003 with following errors messages: 10/24/2004 18:44:24 CreateSnapshotSet(): AddToSnapshotSet() returns hr=VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR 10/24/2004 18:44:26 ANS1950E Backup via Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy failed. See error log for more detail. I would appreciated you folks shed some light please. We have opened a PMR 60173,370 with IBM regarding the windows 2003 TSM client errors,but didn't hear any good news yet. Client version: 5.2.3 TSM 5.2.2.3 Thank you. Hoa.
AW: NAS Storage for Copypools
Jozef, thanks for that hint. Your are right, i forgot ... Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jozef Zatko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 08:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: NAS Storage for Copypools Stefan, check that user under which your TSM server is running can see and access your shared drive. If you run TSM under system user, this user by default does not have access to network shares. Hope this helps Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/18/2004 04:01 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject NAS Storage for Copypools Hi, i thought a simple question but Can you use networkshares for storagepools? I tried devclass file, but got an error about ANS8000I Server command: 'define devc FILEDEV1 devtype=FILE directory=Y:\ mountl=32 maxcap=25M' ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter. Y: is a networkshare on a large NAS Box (Sharerights and acl's are ok) I think about a configuration for copypools that use distributed non used space... Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth ForwardSourceID:NT00051F76
NAS Storage for Copypools
Hi, i thought a simple question but Can you use networkshares for storagepools? I tried devclass file, but got an error about ANS8000I Server command: 'define devc FILEDEV1 devtype=FILE directory=Y:\ mountl=32 maxcap=25M' ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter. Y: is a networkshare on a large NAS Box (Sharerights and acl's are ok) I think about a configuration for copypools that use distributed non used space... Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth
AW: MS-SQL TDP weirdness - more issues
Del, try relocating at the command line. GUI isn't supported for that task, (but offers it) Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 15:26 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: MS-SQL TDP weirdness - more issues My SQL guy sent me the following email about the restore: ok, got it to work finally. after upgrading the client, it still wouldn't restore to my SQL 7 instance. so i tried the SQL 2000 instance, and that gave me an error that the path was incorrect (it was trying to restore to the D drive, which is where it was stored on ADMNT30, but i didn't have a D drive on DSS7). so i tried to do a relocate files in the TDP client, but the files and paths aren't there! why? i don't know, they should be. so, on DSS7, i have a small seperate hard drive i had marked as E, i wiped it out, and renamed it D, and did the restore, and it seems to be working. what a pain in the ! Is there a workaround for this issue ? Does it always have to go back to the same drive-letter/path ? Del Hoobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/05/2004 02:06 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: MS-SQL TDP weirdness Zoltan, No... there were things added. (See README for details.) In addition, if you backed up with newer version, and tried restoring with an older version (like 2.2.1), there could be problems with meta data alignment, which might result in weird stripe values. Bottom line, make sure you are running with 5.2.1 on the restore machine and let us know what happens. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/05/2004 01:42:40 PM: We did check and everything is the default, which should be *1*. We checked and the TDP is V2.2.1. He is installing the 5.2.1 upgrade/update, although I thought it was simply a version realignment ?
AW: TSM Client 5.2.3 for XP Pro
Chris, Whats your server level? As i know for asr you need min 5.2.x Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christopher Zahorak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 17:34 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: TSM Client 5.2.3 for XP Pro Hello All, I'm starting to test the TSM ASR functionality of XP. When I use the Backup/Archive GUI (Ver5.2.3) client on an XP Pro workstation, I do not see the ASR (Automated System Recovery) entry on the tree list . I also cannot find any of the ASR related files (asr.sif,asrpnp.sif,tsmasr.cmd,waitforevent.exe,tsmasr.op) which should be in the c:\adsm.sys\ASR directory. The XP Pro workstation has the SP2 update. I can manually create an ASR diskette using the MS Backup utility, so I don't believe the problem is within MS. Any ideas? Chris.
AW: disk storage pools and windows compressed file systems
Hi Steve, i think ist better to use the client cpu for that task to save disk space and cpu at the tsm server. That also reduces networkload for backup and restore. We use compression at the client on all tsm clients including TDP for SQL for a long time. The load during backuptime is typical low, so we can use the cpu for that task without problems. We are quite satisfied with the performance of that solution. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Steve Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. September 2004 19:11 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: disk storage pools and windows compressed file systems Have any of you used disk primary storage pools which use windows compressed file systems? Comments on performance, etc? We are investigating use of a multi TB raid5 array to use as a buffer between our local primary disk pool and the tapepool. Have seen the posts regarding file vs disk device classes but what about compression? Good, bad, etc. Win 2000 sp4 with TSM server 5.2.3.2 -- Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section
AW: Expiration performance
Hi, our current performance. TSM 5.2.3.1 @ Z/OS 1.4 ~ 626 Mips 1 Gbyte Regionsize, Bufferpool 175.000 pages a 4K 34 Gbyte DB with 78% util - about 4.000.000 objets, 300.000 deleted each day 11 Gbyte Log 1 TByte Primary Diskpool All on heavily loaded EMC Symmetrix 5930 Raid 5 with SRDF sync Tape 8 * 3590B and 4 * 3490(!) ACTIVITY DateObjects Examined Up/Hr -- -- - EXPIRATION 2004-08-01298800 EXPIRATION 2004-08-02478800 EXPIRATION 2004-08-03471600 EXPIRATION 2004-08-04212400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-05342000 EXPIRATION 2004-08-06500400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-08320400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-09547200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-10504000 EXPIRATION 2004-08-11486000 EXPIRATION 2004-08-12410400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-13550800 EXPIRATION 2004-08-15367200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-16529200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-17525600 EXPIRATION 2004-08-18428400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-19259200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-20115200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-20342000 EXPIRATION 2004-08-22363600 EXPIRATION 2004-08-23525600 EXPIRATION 2004-08-23597600 EXPIRATION 2004-08-24583200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-25514800 EXPIRATION 2004-08-26331200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-27356400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-29356400 EXPIRATION 2004-08-30547200 EXPIRATION 2004-08-31478800 EXPIRATION 2004-09-01262800 EXPIRATION 2004-09-02208800 EXPIRATION 2004-09-03482400 EXPIRATION 2004-09-0536 EXPIRATION 2004-09-06597600 ACTIVITY DatePages backed Up/Hr -- -- - FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-07-17 4795200 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-07-24 5929200 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-07-29 1112400 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-07-31 720 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-07 5292000 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-14 4096800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-20 1969200 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-21 4953600 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-28 6922800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-09-03 5410800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-09-11 7722000 Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: goc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 13. September 2004 10:42 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Expiration performance ok, i have to shere mine ... look pretty messy ... LOL ... bu here you go ... specs: IBM p640 4GB RAM, 2 procs db 24GB and 80% utilized is on SSA disks on 5 volumes ... RAID5 - thats important ! Operation Results ACTIVITY Date Pages backedUp/Hr -- -- - FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-14 12888000 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-14 13060800 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-14 6843600 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-15 13975200 FULL_DBBACKUP 2004-08-15
AW: Restore from node to another node
I do exactly the same thing since 2 years (cifs shares). But now i have more and more (dmz) clients that have no cifs can not send by mail. At the moment every admin of that systems is responsible for giving me access to dsmsched.log for reporting services about the backups - one does this by ftp, one by mail and so one - not very efficent. (the information at the tsm server is not sufficent in my opinion) So i thought about using tsm that has all needed dsmsched.logs within the daily backups. Thank you for all your responses! Kind regards Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 21:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Restore from node to another node I know of a site that runs a copy of the dsmerror and dsmsched logs to a network share after each backup. Of course they appened the node name to the front of each one. They then have a script that looks at all the logs in that directory and produces some reports. I'm not sure how much better that is than the Operational repoerter but I thought I'd just let you know how I've seen it done. Also, that one share is backed up by one client so they effectly have one node with every dsmsched and dsmerror log backed up that can be restored somewhere later if needed. Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are asking for is not possible, at least not with a capability of being able to restore from a single system. Among other things, you can not use a single client to restore all sched logs since, for example, a Windows client can not restore data backed up by NetWare or Unix. Your best bet might be to try to automate some process where the client's dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log files are emailed to you, or copied to a shared network disk. Perhaps you can set up some kind of POSTSCHEDULECMD processing to handle this. Other members of this list with far more practical experience than I might have other suggestions to offer. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager wrote on 07/08/2004 08:30:18: Andy, since i want to collect and analyse the dsmsched.log of the done backups i like to do the following: - a daily second schedule for each node that does a backup of dsmsched.log - easy and e.g. no access problems for firewalled systems, no different access methods for different operating systems,... - restore of that logs from a central secure point for analysis and reporting - i would like to do this auotmated with as less effort as possible. (no set access for new nodes,...) so: can the admin logon with commandline be done full automated? Thanks a lot Stefan Holzwarth - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
AW: AW: Antwort: Restore from node to another node
Andy, since i want to collect and analyse the dsmsched.log of the done backups i like to do the following: - a daily second schedule for each node that does a backup of dsmsched.log - easy and e.g. no access problems for firewalled systems, no different access methods for different operating systems,... - restore of that logs from a central secure point for analysis and reporting - i would like to do this auotmated with as less effort as possible. (no set access for new nodes,...) so: can the admin logon with commandline be done full automated? Thanks a lot Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2004 18:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Antwort: Restore from node to another node If you use -VIRTUALNODENAME=nodename from the command line, then enter your admin ID and password when prompted for the user ID, you can access the node's data. Some considerations: 1) In general, most users do not (or should not) have admin IDs that can access another node's data. As a TSM administrator (as most ADSM-L subscribers are) you have this access, but if non-admin user A wants to share data with non-admin user B, the -VIRTUALNODENAME option won't work. 2) In general, I would hope that admins with the authority to access other node's data would not do so indiscriminately or without the user's knowledge. 3) My comments are for very general cases (which is why I say in general... quite a bit) since the original question was not very specific. Of course, depending on your exact circumstances, one method might be preferable to the other. But for the very general question of how can I access node A's data from node B?, my general answer is still to use SET ACCESS and -FROMNODE. The -VIRTUALNODENAME method is available only to TSM administrators (almost certainly the minority of your TSM user community) and -NODENAME should be used rarely, if ever, as I've already mentioned. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/07/2004 08:55:52: Within the gui i have another option to use my admin account at the tsm server for authentication. Can you do this from the commandline? Ist very comfortable and you have no password issues and no set access stories... Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2004 17:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Antwort: Restore from node to another node I do not recommend putting NODE1's node name in NODE2's options file. If PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is being used (which is the likely case) then this will cause NODE1's password to be encrypted on NODE2's machine. For example, if you came over to my machine and put your node name in my options file so we could restore one of your files to my machine, then once you enter the password, it will be encrypted on my machine, allowing me access to all your files whenever I want (or until the password is changed externally). Not only that, but I could change your password and thus deny you access to your own node data, at least until you can get the TSM admin to straighten out the situation. So except in specific cases where the behavior I describe is acceptable or desirable, I do not recommend using the NODENAME method. Instead, either use SET ACCESS to allow NODE2 to access NODE1's data, or else use -VIRTUALNODENAME=NODE1 if you want to come over to my machine and enter the password. With -VIRTUALNODENAME, the password will not be stored on my machine. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/07/2004 08:31:57: You can change the DSM.OPT/SYS and specify the NODENAME of the server you want to restore FROM. Or you can start the GUI with the -VIRTUALNODENAME= parameter. Another way is to grant access to the FROM nodes' data to the TO node. But you are still limited to restoring to the SAME operating system...Windows-Windows Unix-Unix and Novell-Novellno cross system restores. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christian Demnitz Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Restore from node
AW: Antwort: Restore from node to another node
Within the gui i have another option to use my admin account at the tsm server for authentication. Can you do this from the commandline? Ist very comfortable and you have no password issues and no set access stories... Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2004 17:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Antwort: Restore from node to another node I do not recommend putting NODE1's node name in NODE2's options file. If PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is being used (which is the likely case) then this will cause NODE1's password to be encrypted on NODE2's machine. For example, if you came over to my machine and put your node name in my options file so we could restore one of your files to my machine, then once you enter the password, it will be encrypted on my machine, allowing me access to all your files whenever I want (or until the password is changed externally). Not only that, but I could change your password and thus deny you access to your own node data, at least until you can get the TSM admin to straighten out the situation. So except in specific cases where the behavior I describe is acceptable or desirable, I do not recommend using the NODENAME method. Instead, either use SET ACCESS to allow NODE2 to access NODE1's data, or else use -VIRTUALNODENAME=NODE1 if you want to come over to my machine and enter the password. With -VIRTUALNODENAME, the password will not be stored on my machine. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/07/2004 08:31:57: You can change the DSM.OPT/SYS and specify the NODENAME of the server you want to restore FROM. Or you can start the GUI with the -VIRTUALNODENAME= parameter. Another way is to grant access to the FROM nodes' data to the TO node. But you are still limited to restoring to the SAME operating system...Windows-Windows Unix-Unix and Novell-Novellno cross system restores. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christian Demnitz Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Restore from node to another node yes, you have to modify the dsm.opt/sys entry with you restore node! Christian Demnitz CoC ADSM/TSM Sinius GmbH mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW - http://www.sinius.com Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07.07.2004 17:03 Bitte antworten an ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] An [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie Thema Restore from node to another node Hello, All Is it possible to restore a file from one Node to another Node using the GUI? Also Is it possible to restore a file on a Novell box to a Windows Box? Thanks in advance for all responses! TSM version 5.2.1.3 Running AIX 5.1
AW: Restore from Commandline with fromnode
Sorry no success for dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\adsm32\baclient\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup ANS1302E No objects on server match query And dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup ANS1302E No objects on server match query But C:\adsm32\baclientdsmc query file -fromnode=szent063 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.10 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2003. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: PC7802 Session established with server ADSM: MVS Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.1 Server date/time: 07/06/2004 16:32:21 Last access: 07/06/2004 16:31:59 Num Last Incr Date TypeFile Space Name --- -- --- 1 07/05/2004 22:56:24 NTFSSYSTEM OBJECT fsID: 7 2 07/05/2004 22:14:29 NTFS\\szent063\c$ fsID: 5 3 07/05/2004 22:53:26 NTFS\\szent063\d$ fsID: 6 4 06/24/2004 09:13:47 NTFS\\szent063\e$ fsID: 16 5 06/24/2004 09:13:47 NTFS\\szent063\f$ fsID: 15 Whats wrong? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 16:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Restore from Commandline with fromnode Stefan Try this: dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup\ Bill Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2004 15:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Restore from Commandline with fromnode Hi, I need your help, since i do not see the mistake/error. For daily backup reports I will try to restore dsmsched.log from a central node for all NT-clients. (Tsm Server 5.2.2.1 Client 5.2.2.10) I tried for example: dsmc restore -pick=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\* c:\nobackup\ Result: ANS1302E No objects on server match query Using TSM-Gui i have no problems doing cross-restores. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rajesh Oak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 15:48 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Where are the TSM API docs??? http://www.adsm.org Rajesh Oak - Original Message - From: P G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:13:13 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where are the TSM API docs??? I have the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager AIX 5.1 64-bit product and would like to use the client API to develop a client program, but I cannot find the documentation referenced in the README.api. The README.api references the Tivoli Storage Manager Using the API (SH26-4123) and Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients (SH26-4102) books. Will someone point me to where these docs are located or any place containing documenation as to how to utilize the API? Also, I am new to this mailing list. Is there a web address I can visit to search this mailing lists archives? Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp ?SRC=lycos10
AW: AW: Restore from Commandline with fromnode
Andi, you are right! In TSM GUI i used my admin account for authentication - so i missed the grant access thing for nodenames! Thanks a lot! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 16:48 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Restore from Commandline with fromnode If you run dsmc query access from the machine whose node is szent063, what is the output? Does it indicate that node pc7802 has been given access? Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/06/2004 07:36 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject AW: Restore from Commandline with fromnode Sorry no success for dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\adsm32\baclient\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup ANS1302E No objects on server match query And dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup ANS1302E No objects on server match query But C:\adsm32\baclientdsmc query file -fromnode=szent063 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.10 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2003. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: PC7802 Session established with server ADSM: MVS Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.1 Server date/time: 07/06/2004 16:32:21 Last access: 07/06/2004 16:31:59 Num Last Incr Date TypeFile Space Name --- -- --- 1 07/05/2004 22:56:24 NTFSSYSTEM OBJECT fsID: 7 2 07/05/2004 22:14:29 NTFS\\szent063\c$ fsID: 5 3 07/05/2004 22:53:26 NTFS\\szent063\d$ fsID: 6 4 06/24/2004 09:13:47 NTFS\\szent063\e$ fsID: 16 5 06/24/2004 09:13:47 NTFS\\szent063\f$ fsID: 15 Whats wrong? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 16:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Restore from Commandline with fromnode Stefan Try this: dsmc restore -pick=yes -subdir=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\dsmsched.log c:\nobackup\ Bill Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2004 15:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Restore from Commandline with fromnode Hi, I need your help, since i do not see the mistake/error. For daily backup reports I will try to restore dsmsched.log from a central node for all NT-clients. (Tsm Server 5.2.2.1 Client 5.2.2.10) I tried for example: dsmc restore -pick=yes -fromnode=szent063 \\szent063\c$\* c:\nobackup\ Result: ANS1302E No objects on server match query Using TSM-Gui i have no problems doing cross-restores. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rajesh Oak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 15:48 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Where are the TSM API docs??? http://www.adsm.org Rajesh Oak - Original Message - From: P G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:13:13 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where are the TSM API docs??? I have the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager AIX 5.1 64-bit product and would like to use the client API to develop a client program, but I cannot find the documentation referenced in the README.api. The README.api references the Tivoli Storage Manager Using the API (SH26-4123) and Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients (SH26-4102) books. Will someone point me to where these docs are located or any place containing documenation as to how to utilize the API? Also, I am new to this mailing list. Is there a web address I can visit to search this mailing lists archives? Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp ?SRC=lycos10
AW: AW: Command line equivalent for GUI
Andi, you have always to change your scripts if there are new directories on the NAS system... So the risk is high to miss one. Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 15:51 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Command line equivalent for GUI If I understand this correctly, include/exclude isn't really the issue since from the GUI you were picking the specific subdirectories that you wanted to process. Why not simply do the same thing from the CLI? For example, if from the GUI you were selecting directories C:\Some Dir, D:\MyDir, and D:\work\datafiles, then why not just do this? dsmc i c:\some dir\* d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes Note that the asterisk is required in the first example because the embedded space in the file specification necessitates using quotation marks. If you don't care why, then you can skip the rest of this. For those who want to know, it has to do with how the Windows command processor parses quotes, backslashes, and escape characters. If I had used a command like this, without the asterisk: dsmc i c:\some dir\ d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes Then the Windows command processor would have treated the ending slash-quote combination in c:\some dir\ as an embedded quotation mark rather than a delimiter, passing the following arguments to the TSM client: arg1: i arg2: c:\some dir d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes which would make the client think that arg2 was the entire file specifications, rather than three file specs and an option. What we really want to pass to the client is: arg1: i arg2: c:\some dir arg3: d:\mydir\ arg4: d:\work\datafiles\ arg5: -subdir=yes If this doesn't make sense, don't worry about it just use the asterisk as I showed above and it should work fine. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Hi, I'm backing up a NAS device with 1M+ files. As other posts indicate, the only way to get any performance in this setup is to split the file backups across multiple sessions. In my case I have two backup hosts, each running two backup streams. I can start each of the four backup streams using the GUI and selecting appropriate folders. A kind of load balancing is achieved by picking an appropriate mix of folders for each backup stream. Each backup runs in a few hours each stream processing a subset of the 1M files. My problem is I can't figure out how to accomplish the same thing using the command line and associated include/excludes. I'd like to schedule the four streams to run the same way, each with an appropriate set of folders/files to process. It would be wonderful if I could somehow see how this is accomplished via the GUI, as I can't seem to get the same behavior using commands. Each combination I have tried always results in each backup stream processing/scanning all of the 1M files! This takes way too many hours and doesn't provide the same parallel behavior I get when running the GUI. How can I limit each stream to processes only the files/folders I desire without scanning everything; the same way as the GUI seems to function? Thanks for your help, Rodney Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861
AW: Command line equivalent for GUI
Hi Rodney we use successfully the following since 2 years: (for each Volume at the NAS server sznas01 we have a construct like the example data1) Content of dsm_a.opt NODENAMESZNAS01_A * EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[A-E]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[F-J]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[K-O]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[P-T]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[U-Z0-9$]* Content of dsm_b.opt NODENAMESZNAS01_B EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[A-E]* *EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[F-J]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[K-O]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[P-T]* EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[U-Z0-9$]* so we have 5 TSM-nodes at one NT machine defined. The advantage is that you don't have that big volumes to backup and recover from one TSM-node. We are able do do a full incremental of all volumes of our filer within 24 hours to TSM 5.2 @ MVS. (8 M+ objects 3 TByte Size) Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: rh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 18:17 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Command line equivalent for GUI Hi, I'm backing up a NAS device with 1M+ files. As other posts indicate, the only way to get any performance in this setup is to split the file backups across multiple sessions. In my case I have two backup hosts, each running two backup streams. I can start each of the four backup streams using the GUI and selecting appropriate folders. A kind of load balancing is achieved by picking an appropriate mix of folders for each backup stream. Each backup runs in a few hours each stream processing a subset of the 1M files. My problem is I can't figure out how to accomplish the same thing using the command line and associated include/excludes. I'd like to schedule the four streams to run the same way, each with an appropriate set of folders/files to process. It would be wonderful if I could somehow see how this is accomplished via the GUI, as I can't seem to get the same behavior using commands. Each combination I have tried always results in each backup stream processing/scanning all of the 1M files! This takes way too many hours and doesn't provide the same parallel behavior I get when running the GUI. How can I limit each stream to processes only the files/folders I desire without scanning everything; the same way as the GUI seems to function? Thanks for your help, Rodney Hroblak ADP __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861
AW: ntuser.dat backup on Windows 2003
No way to do that with TSM at the moment. We use a presched-cmd for backup of that data with ntbackup Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Saturday, May 08, 2004 9:32 PM An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: ntuser.dat backup on Windows 2003 On Windows 2003 it appears that a user that is currently logged on does not have their ntuser.dat file backed up under adsm.sys like Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Was eliminating this done for a specific reason? Or is the profile data backed up differently on Windows 2003? - Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
AW: AW: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS
John, search for TSM Server performance degradation on MVS or use reference number 1155186 Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 10:47 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS Stefan/Zoltan, I would be interested in reading more on this. I cannot find any hits for pmr92547 on ibm website Have you got an apar reference thanks, John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **
Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS
Hi, 3 month ago i read about PMR92547, that describes performance-problems coming from a too small internal memorypool Since we had speedproblems we doubled that pool size and after 3 month i believe it was a good step forward. With show memu you can have a look at the current settings (should be done after some uptime) MAX initial storage 1073741824 (1024.0 MB) Freeheld bytes 45106900 (43.0 MB) - this is needed by the TSM Server MaxQuickFree bytes 52682955 (50.2 MB)- this should be always greater than freeheld 51 Page buffers of 25724 : 194 buffers of 3215. 26 Large buffers of 1607 : 153 XLarge buffers of 200. 18 buffers free: 257114 hiAlloc buffers: 70448 current buffers. 144822 units of 56 bytes hiAlloc: 58024 units of 56 bytes hiCur. 001 blocks, total 0002672, lgst 0002672 avg 0002672 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8E08. 001 blocks, total 136, lgst 136 avg 136 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8080. 001 blocks, total 0006652, lgst 0006652 avg 0006652 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8078. 007 blocks, total 0001232, lgst 176 avg 176 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8062. 669 blocks, total 0065147, lgst 285 avg 097 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+89DE. with Show Memu SET MAXQUICK 52682955 set the MaxQuickFree to about 50M All at your own risk! Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS
Matt, since Freeheld bytes touches MaxQuickFree bytes I would say you should increase that size Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth I was under the impression that if FREEHELD BYTES = MAXQUICKFREE BYTES things were O.K. I currently have mine set to 40MB. Are you saying I am still low? Matt MAX initial storage 536870912 (512.0 MB) Freeheld bytes 40959642 (39.1 MB) MaxQuickFree bytes 4096 (39.1 MB) 44 Page buffers of 12671 : 133 buffers of 1583. 62 Large buffers of 791 : 89 XLarge buffers of 98. 113360 buffers free: 221949 hiAlloc buffers: 41790 current buffers. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS Hi, 3 month ago i read about PMR92547, that describes performance-problems coming from a too small internal memorypool Since we had speedproblems we doubled that pool size and after 3 month i believe it was a good step forward. With show memu you can have a look at the current settings (should be done after some uptime) MAX initial storage 1073741824 (1024.0 MB) Freeheld bytes 45106900 (43.0 MB) - this is needed by the TSM Server MaxQuickFree bytes 52682955 (50.2 MB)- this should be always greater than freeheld 51 Page buffers of 25724 : 194 buffers of 3215. 26 Large buffers of 1607 : 153 XLarge buffers of 200. 18 buffers free: 257114 hiAlloc buffers: 70448 current buffers. 144822 units of 56 bytes hiAlloc: 58024 units of 56 bytes hiCur. 001 blocks, total 0002672, lgst 0002672 avg 0002672 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8E08. 001 blocks, total 136, lgst 136 avg 136 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8080. 001 blocks, total 0006652, lgst 0006652 avg 0006652 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8078. 007 blocks, total 0001232, lgst 176 avg 176 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+8062. 669 blocks, total 0065147, lgst 285 avg 097 by ¨0Cf?+ Ñ+89DE. with Show Memu SET MAXQUICK 52682955 set the MaxQuickFree to about 50M All at your own risk! Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- -- -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: BA client 5.2.2 and Server 2003
There are many problems - also that you described with the levels before 5.2.2.5 We use 5.2.2.9 and it seems that this version is quiet ok. For open userprofiles we use ntbackup per preschedcmd, since TSM does not support that at the moment on Windows 2003. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Mike Bantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 19. April 2004 16:36 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: BA client 5.2.2 and Server 2003 I've just installed the 5.2.2 baclient on a Server 2003 machine, trying to back up to a Version 5, Release 2, Level 0.2 TSM server. The dsm.opt file looks like this: PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE TCPSERVERADDRESS10.17.10.13 dirmc directory ERRORLOGRETENTION 5 D SCHEDLOGRETENTION 5 D This opt file backs up every local drive on any other machine we've got it on. I'd just like to back up the C$ and D$, default mgmt class. Problem is, the server will back up the C$, process the D$, then kick back an error ANS1950E, that Backup via Windows Shadow Copy failed. I cannot query the error on the server (no text found). I've tried explicity including the d:\temp directory, etc to no avail. This is something obvious, isn't it? :-) Mike Bantz Systems Administrator Research Systems, Inc
AW: OS/390 2.10 upgrade to TSM 5.2
We use TSM 5.2.2.1 on Z/OS 1.2 without problems since 4 weeks. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nancy R. Brizuela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 23:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: FW: OS/390 2.10 upgrade to TSM 5.2 Hello, We are thinking of upgrading from TSM 5.1.8 to TSM 5.2, running on OS/390 V2.10. We are also planning to upgrade to Z/os 4.1 this summer. Has anyone running TSM 5.2 on OS/390 or Z/os run into any problems not encountered in 5.1? I am aware that I need to run CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS before upgrading but didn't see any other conversation about this platform on the list. Thanks! Nancy Brizuela University of Wyoming IBM Systems Group Ivinson Room 238 (307)766-2958
AW: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts?
Hi, what about the option to start more then one define volume. Does the speed increase? Greetings Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 17:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts? I would create and format the volumes from within TSM. This will speed things up! Regard, Karel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Amar Vi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 19 februari 2004 17:25 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts? Greetings, We have serious performance issue for dsmfmt command. We are getting 45MB/sec write speed on AIX4.3.3 box connected to CX600 ATA RAID5 4+1 disk group.But when we use dsmfmt it gives 9 to 16 MB/sec. Which is very sluggish to format 16 TB storage for storage pools. Does anybody have information on how dsmfmt works? or how to speed up so that it will give better I/O on SAN storage? Thank you, Bandu Vibhute Technology Solutions Group EMC² Where Information Lives *Office: 484-322-1000 * Cell: 484-868-0599 *E-mail: vibhute_bandu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] @emc.com
AW: Bare Metal Restore Intel
Hello Christian and Phil, I also would be very interested in your procedures. Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Primary storage pool on disk
Hi, my approach: Design your primary pool on fast disks with a size that is enough for your daily backupvolume. If the daily backup volume is not to much and the main volume comes from daily changing files you can size your primary pool so that the files expire on primary before they migrate to the next pool. A second pool on cheaper ATA disk is good enough for the files that (never) change. A FastT with Raid 5 should be fast enough and can be mixed with fc and ata disks. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 2. Februar 2004 17:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Primary storage pool on disk My $0.02... GOOD storage doesn't get a whole lot cheaper than the FAStT. Of course you can use ATA disks, but I wouldn't recommend it. At 7TB, they have quite a bit of data. If they already have a FAStT, but some drawers with 143GB disks. RAID 5 is fine for this situation. If they want a cheaper solution, use tapes :). Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30-Jan-04 12:45:47 PM Hi, I have a customer who wants to put his primary storage pool on disk. This is now 3TB and can grown up to 7TB. Incremental backup is appr 300GB/night. But I have some questions? - What kind of disks should I use? (the customer has a FastT from IBM with fiber disks, but he wants a cheaper solution) - What kind of raid level as protection? Raid5, JBOD, Raild 0+1, ... ?? - Should I use a DISK type or FILE type storage pool? Thx. Stef
AW: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2)
In our company we have a lot of domain user accounts that are security designed for special tasks on the servers. Primary for common services as e.g. scheduler, but also for applications that best run under a customized service account as SAP, TDP 4 MSSQL, TWS, EMC Control Center, many others. Since all that applications store important informations within the profile it's not only a workstation problem. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2004 22:17 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2) Yes, that is true, at least on W2K pro and server, the profiles are not locked for inactive users and will back up OK. However, if you have any services running under accounts other than system (which you must do if you want the service to be able to access network resources), then they are always logged on/active. So you can hose yourself up an infinite number of ways~! . -Original Message- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2) From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] THANK YOU for this information, it is very important to us. It seems Tivoli has never been interested in marketing TSM for backing up workstations (which REQUIRES the ability to recover user profiles). Good point, Wanda. Most customers don't give a flip about restoring a server's user profiles, since most servers use the default user profile, which is rebuilt when you reinstall the OS. However, I will say that TSM is not the only backup/recovery system that has a hard time with user profiles. NetWorker suffers from the same problem. It seems to me with older TSM clients that the only user profile that doesn't backup is the one used by the logon(s) that is/are active during the backup. Does anyone still find this true? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AW: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2)
. . So, it is not recommended to use OFS for backing up locked Windows system files and the current version of OFS support in TSM v5.2.0 does not support Windows Server 2003. If customer desire, he could use it on his own risk. --- If I'm the only one that does miss his userprofiles I'm probably wrong. So I will do further testing and wait what the community's experiences. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 16:47 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2) Stefan: Do you have the APAR # for the documentation change for this? Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 13, 2004 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was Userprofile Backup wit h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2) OK, I'm confused. The 5.2.2 readme indicates that Open File Support is not supported for 2003. The manual seems to indicate this also. But I am able to install OFS agent with 5.2.2 client on 2003 and it allows me to backup locked files (ntuser.dat of a logged in user). Support has indicated below to use Open File Support on 2003. So can someone (Andy?) please clarify this? Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 13, 2004 9:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Userprofile Backup with Windows2003 and TSM 5.2 But Open File Support is not supported for Windows 2003 ... -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 13, 2004 6:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Userprofile Backup with Windows2003 and TSM 5.2 Hi all, during my recoverytests with Windows2003 and TSM 5.2 (client and server) i couldn't find a way to backup and restore NT userprofiles. The content in adsm.sys didn't show the files as usual and the ASR feature didn't restore the profiles. So i opened a PMR at IBM and got the follwing information after some see-saw mailing: The only way to save that information is to use the open file support. Since that fact isn't documented i opend an doc-apar. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- -- -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Userprofile Backup with Windows2003 and TSM 5.2
Hi all, during my recoverytests with Windows2003 and TSM 5.2 (client and server) i couldn't find a way to backup and restore NT userprofiles. The content in adsm.sys didn't show the files as usual and the ASR feature didn't restore the profiles. So i opened a PMR at IBM and got the follwing information after some see-saw mailing: The only way to save that information is to use the open file support. Since that fact isn't documented i opend an doc-apar. Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Userprofile Backup with 5.2 and Windows2003
Hi, i can't find any informatioon about userprofile backup under windows2003 und ITSM 5.2. After incr backup with domain ALL-LOCAL there are no entires in adsm.sys (except some xml files), as it had been under Windows2000 and NT4). Can someone help or explain? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth
ASR - problem with userprofiles
Hi, just tried the recovery of a Windows 2003 Server with ITSM Client 5.2.0.6 from MVS Server with 5.2.1.3. I was surprised, that nearly everything works as described. After an hour the Windows2003 Server was up again. 2 little things to mention - desktop.ini problem occured files are not restored with the hidden attribute - timeout of 10 minutes during tsmcli automatic installation. Seem that waitforsingnal command does not work correct and - user profiles that had been accessed during backup aren't restored. In the past you could copy the contents of adsm.sys to the profiledirectory (do not forget the default profile) any all where happy. But know i can not find the ntuser.dat files. Do i have to run open file support for the system volume? Kind regards Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large numb er of files
My little input to your miracle: Maybe switching to an domainuser alters the kind the tsm client uses to save the data. As an administrator he should use the backup api. As an domain usser he can only use cifs access. Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 21:02 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large numb er of files Michael, that's weird. I believe you, but I just had to say that it's weird. Mark, for AIX, since there's no journaled backups there, have you considered -incrbydate's during the week, then a regular incremental on the weekend? This greatly sped up the backup of one of our very large file systems on AIX. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -Original Message- From: Wheelock, Michael D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large numb er of files Hi, I will throw this out there, though it is a wintel solution and will not function as a solution under aix. We had a system with about 3 million files. The disk was SAN attached and quite speedy. The system was gig-ethernet attached and had no cpu/memory bottlencks. Journaling wasn't an option as this was a clustered system. The incremental backup (all 400MB of it) took around 10 hours for these 3 million files. I tried just about everything, but at various points, the backup would slow to a crawl (just from doing an analysis on the entries in the dsmsched.log (the timestampe -- ### files processed entries)). I eventually began trying off the wall stuff. The thing that fixed us up was running the scheduler as a domain user. The backup now takes 45 minutes. I have no idea why, but this may help someone else on a wintel platform deal with a very similar issue. Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental backups on file systems that contain a large number of files = On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:27:41 -0400, Mark Trancygier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We are currently having problems performing incremental backups on a file system that has a large amount of files. The daily changes to this file system are small so we are only sending approximately 5 - 10 gig per backup however, since there are around 3,000,000 files to examine, the backup takes about 10 - 13 hours to complete. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle incremental backups of file systems that contain a large number of I-nodes ? We've got several systems with lots of files, including 3 between 10 and 15 million files. Key thing is to figure out where your bottleneck is; if you're having problems with client disk contention, one set of things are useful. If you're having TSM database contention problems, another set is indicated. I'll talk about the different strategies we've phased through. We've got a large number of virtual mount points defined, so that our work is chopped up into chunks of approximately 700,000 files each. This lets us run a large number of parallel sessions (e.g. resourceutilization=10, or many heavyweight processes) at the same time. If you have disk contention problems on your client system, however, this will make your problem worse, not better. Our disk architecture is such that we weren't getting in our own way. On the client, that is. What we determined was that lots of actors interested in writing to the TSM DB simultaneously was our big problem. When we ran with a parallelism of four or five, an incremental took seven to 15 hours. When we ran with a parallelism of two, it completed in 4. Of course, for those 7-15 hours, it was also making life hell for anything else that wanted to update the database (Expiration anyone?) so we're currently backing those bits up in separate windows, with a server that's mostly otherwise quiet. - Allen S. Rout This e-mail may contain identifiable health information that is subject to protection under state and federal law. This information is intended to be for the use of the individual named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be punishable by law. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify us immediately by electronic mail (reply).
Findings with Migration and bad Reclamation behavior
Today I took a closer look at how often and how much data is reclaimed and migrated. Since upgrade of on of our primary stgpool to 700 GByte 2 month ago we could establish a migdelay of 8 days. Together with our standard policy (1 active + 3 inactive and 60 days keep for last deleted) we could reduce the migration amount from 100% to 30% of daily backup volume for that pool (120 small NT server): (All nodes with name NT% go to BACKUPPOOL) 'select sum(bytes)/(1024*1024*1024) as GBYTE from adsm.summary where activity = 'BACKUP' and entity like 'NT%' and end_time = current_timestamp - 14 days' Result: 2188 'select sum(bytes)/(1024*1024*1024) as GBYTE from adsm.summary where activity = 'MIGRATION' and entity = 'BACKUPPOOL' and end_time = current_timestamp - 14 days' Result: 593 In the past these 2 values where the same for each day My next hope was that the reclamation for the nt nodes should also significantly have been reduced. But I could not find a really significant decrease - maybe I have to wait a little longer for that process But what I found was the following: I have from time to time reclamation processes that move more than 3 times of the capacity of one 3590 tape !! i.e. 08/21/2003 11:43:21 ANR0986I Process 199 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND processed 1 items for a total of 33.007.866.134 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 11:43:21. The reclamation process put 1 large file spread over 4 tapes onto 4 new tapes and scratching the old ones. The reason seems to be the reaching of the reclamation threshold (80%) on one of the 4 tapes. Has anyone similar problems? How can I avoid that the reclamation process keeps 2 units for hours? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Microsoft.Net
I asked IBM about .NET support. Up to now i have only the response that it is supported since Windows 2003 with ITSM 5.2. If it is supported within Windows 2000 as addon is not clear, but when it seems only with ITSM 5.2. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003 15:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Microsoft.Net Just following up on a previous post to see if anyone has experienced this yet... Thanks, Matt Client: W2K or Win2003 server running Microsoft.net - B/A client version 5.1.5.9 or 5.1.6.0 TSM server: 5.1.6.2 on AIX 5.1 Has anyone else experienced problems backing up some files located in the directory C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\...\CONFIG\ on systems running Microsoft.Net? The files are semi-permanent cached files that NTFS permissions do not adhere. In other words, you can't look at the permissions of the file. From what I've been told, MS's unofficial position is that the \config directory does not need to be backed up. However, some of our developers feel that there are some files in that directory that are essential in the case of a bare metal recovery.TSM returns a code of rc=12 and reports the backup as failed. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and their thoughts on it. Regards, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte and Touche USA LLP This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.
AW: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups
I would try openfile support in 5.2 . First tests look quite good. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gordon Woodward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 04:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups We currently have over 160Gb of Notes mail databases that need to be backed up nightly. Due to incompatabilities with the Notes TDP, our version of TSM (v4.2.2.5) and the way compaction runs on our Notes servers, we have to use the normal Tivoli backup client to backup the mailboxes. It takes about 12 hours for all the databases to get backed up each night but the vast amount of this time seems to be spend trying and then retrying to send mailboxes to the TSM server. A typical schedule log looks like this: 28-07-2003 19:51:53 Retry # 2 Normal File-- 157,548,544 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\beggsa.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:52:28 Normal File--70,778,880 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bingleyj.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:54:05 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 349,437,952 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bignasck.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:55:10 Normal File-- 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf Changed 28-07-2003 19:56:58 Normal File-- 265,289,728 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bellm.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:58:08 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:00:46 Normal File-- 387,186,688 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKAD.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:03:52 Normal File-- 367,263,744 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BERNECKC.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:06:18 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 387,186,688 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKAD.NSF [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:10:11 Normal File-- 1,011,613,696 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\binneyk.nsf Changed 28-07-2003 20:11:52 Retry # 2 Normal File-- 953,942,016 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\andrewsj.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:12:01 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 367,263,744 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BERNECKC.NSF [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:12:05 Normal File--10,485,760 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bousran.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:13:40 Normal File-- 720,633,856 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKC.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:18:58 Retry # 3 Normal File-- 1,863,057,408 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\dbecna.nsf Changed Is there anything we can do reduce the window for this backup? Both the TSM server and our Notes server have dedicated 1Gb links so bandwidth isn't a problem. The Backup Copy Group for the Management Class the Notes data is allocated to has Copy Serialization set to 'Shared Static'. Would changing this to Dynamic be beneficial in reducing the amount of retries that occur and also setting CHANGERETRIES to a lower option help? Thanks in advance, Gordon Woodward Senior Support Analyst Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
AW: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups
Hi David, as i understood the openfile feature a snapshot is made for the whole filesystem. Therefore there should be no problem with db-consistency between db-files if they live all on the same volume. Since in my company our lotus db files have proofen some kind of robustness (we only have a small domino environment) i can not total agree with your absolute no to this topic. Domino uses an underlaying simple database that has to maintain some robustnes towards sudden failures like power off, lost connectivity to the db on a networkshare or some bluescreens. From the other side if an openfile agent waits (configurable) for seconds for inactivity there should not occur a cut through a write operation. I'm sure there are better and more saver ways doing backups of Domino, but most need more efforts or resources. Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 10:44 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups Stefan, Gordon, Urrgh - no! As soon as you try to restore any of these files which will have changed during the backup, even with open file support, you'll more than likely get a corrupt .nsf database! Notes .nsf files are pretty sensitive and any change somewhere in one part of the db will have repercussions elsewhere in the db and before you know it you won't be able to open up the .nsf at all, and will get 'b-tree structure invalid' or similar complaints from Notes. You need to have the Notes server process 'down' in order to quiece the databases and prevent them from being written to before backing them up. The *usual* way of handling Notes backups without using TDP is to use a 'backup' server - the concept works like this: You have a separate Notes server (i.e. a 'backup Notes server) which contains replicas of the databases on the live Notes servers. Using Notes replication, all changes to the live databases are replicated to the replicas on the backup server. At a time controlled by you, you take the Notes server process down on the backup server (as no users connect directly to the backup Notes server, there will be no outage) and then perform the backups of the now quiesced .nsf files using the normal TSM BA client. Once the backup is complete, bring up the Notes server on the backup server and begin replication with the live servers to the backup .nsf's up to date again. Depending upon hardware, you can have many live Notes server's worth of .nsf's contained on a single backup Notes server - just ensure you have enough time to replicate the data from live to backup server. In terms of recoveries, as the backup Notes server is down during backups, you might want to have an additional Notes partition somewhere on a backup server which you can use as a 'recovery server' - a Notes server which is *always* up, regardless of whether a backup is taking place. Users can connect to this directly and pull back any recovered .nsf databases, or even just documents from a .nsf. Hope this helps :o) David McClelland Global Management Systems Reuters Ltd -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2003 07:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups I would try openfile support in 5.2 . First tests look quite good. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gordon Woodward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 04:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups We currently have over 160Gb of Notes mail databases that need to be backed up nightly. Due to incompatabilities with the Notes TDP, our version of TSM (v4.2.2.5) and the way compaction runs on our Notes servers, we have to use the normal Tivoli backup client to backup the mailboxes. It takes about 12 hours for all the databases to get backed up each night but the vast amount of this time seems to be spend trying and then retrying to send mailboxes to the TSM server. A typical schedule log looks like this: 28-07-2003 19:51:53 Retry # 2 Normal File-- 157,548,544 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\beggsa.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:52:28 Normal File--70,778,880 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bingleyj.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:54:05 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 349,437,952 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bignasck.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:55:10 Normal File-- 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf Changed 28-07-2003 19:56:58 Normal File-- 265,289,728 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bellm.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:58:08 Retry # 1 Normal File-- 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:00:46 Normal File-- 387,186,688 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKAD.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:03:52 Normal File-- 367,263,744 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BERNECKC.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:06:18 Retry # 1 Normal File
AW: Multi session backup restore question
Hello, I'm not sure i understand that feature, therefore the following question: 1 Filespace with 100 GByte active data spread over 10 tapes and 10 tapedrives available. Can you restore this filespace from all 10 tapes at the same time or should the tapes belong to different filespaces? Kind Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2003 16:25 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Multi session backup restore question In order to have multi session simultaneous restore from tape pool then you must have this data in a pool that has collocation by filespace. If you have a big enough disk pool such that if you did a restore before migration had moved the data, then a multi session restore would use the disk pool and be multi session. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/17/03 09:48AM Hello all, I am trying to work in a multi session backup and be able to use a multi session restore. What I have found is that with the maxresourceutilization set to 8 that my 350GB 8 processor AIX client is using only 4 data sessions and 4 control sessions. The data all goes to the disk pool and then the migration will use only 1 tape drive for this data. I then assume a multi session restore is not going to work. 1) how can I get this backup to use more sessions for data transfer? 2) Am I correct in believing that the multi-session restore is out because of the actions of the migration process? MUST this go direct to tape to have multi session backup and RESTORE? Thanks in advance, Matt ## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ##
AW: Active Directory Problems
As i understood bmr recovery for windows2000 you must install to the same directory as before. If you restore from a temp running windows the systemobjects go to the wrong destination! Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christian Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 11:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Active Directory Problems When you installed Windows on the machine. Did you installed Windows in a Temp directory and then restore all data from TSM? Or did you installed Windows in there standard path and overwrite each file with TSM? If you did the last thing. I can understand way you got that problem. That is becuse you got a new SID and et c. Try to install Windows in a Temp Path and restore the data from TSM to there normal PATH. Reboot the server and boot up in Restore Directory Service mode and restore the System Object. Reboot the server again and remove the temp Windows installation. Now should it work fine. To do this much easyer. Buy a Disaster Recovery tool. Talk to IBM and they should give you some advice. Or can you download your own eval. copy from www.cristie.com Best Regard / Med vänlig hälsning Christian Svensson Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Cristie Nordic AB Box 2 Phone : +46-(0)8-718 43 30 SE-131 06 Nacka Mobil : +46-(0)70-325 15 77 SwedeneMail : Christian. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit : Gamla Värmdövägen 4, Plan 2 web : www.cristie.com Jacques Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .CO.ZA cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Active Directory Problems Dist Stor Manager ADSM- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-11 10:53 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Everyone. I've restore the system volume (c:) and all system objects (of which I have a consistent backup of) successfully. I can access Active Directory and see all resources. I can even see all the resources from another machine through a UNC path. It even prompts me for a username and and password. I type the domain name\username and the password and I can see all printers, etc. I however cannot log onto or join the domain. Did anyone else get this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile
Faster Desasterrecovery for Windows NT
Hello, yesterday i had a look at powerquests V2I Serverprotect Software. They restore their images from an Windows XP running entirely from CDROM (WindowsPE) I wonder whether we could do that with TSM... One problem is to restore the systemobject as files to the newly restored systemdrive. Like in ADSM Times, where you had to copy adsm.sys to winnt\system32\config ... But TSM does not offer to reroute systemobject restores to folders. Any ideas or suggestions? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: WIndows 2k server restore
One important thing is to install the special hardware dependent agents before doing the restore with TSM. I had trouble doing BMR without installing Compaq Agents with the same level. Also some information in pnp Database where e.g.. teamingconfig of networkadapters is stored gets lost. Despite of that it works good but with a lot of time and effort. Greetings Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Tae Kim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2003 18:10 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: WIndows 2k server restore Will be doing a full restore of a win2k box for DR testing tomorrow and was wondering if there are any gotchas... Here is the steps I will be taking 1. reinstall windows (setup the network driver and IP address etc.) 2. put in the service pack 3. install tsm client 4. restore c:\ 5. before reboot, restore system objects 6. reboot and restore the rest of the drives missed anything? Thanks for your input Tae
AW: Win2000 Restore
NTBACKUP doesn't care about userprofiles - maybe important for services running under a useraccount with a special environment/registry. (my experience until now is that you do not need ntbackup) Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Robertson, G Louis (BearingPoint) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. März 2003 16:04 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Win2000 Restore Jack, I have a presched .bat file that contains the following line: ntbackup backup systemstate /f C:\Systemstate.bkf /m copy This is the command line version of Microsoft Backup program usually found under Start:Programs:Accessories:System Tools:Backup . This command will start the MS Backup utility and only backup the systemstate (which contains all you registry information and associated files). I always overwrite the old file each time my incremental backup runs because of space limitations on my servers (the systemstate.bkf file is approximately 250 MB in size). For more information on the syntax of ntbackup type ntbackup /? at a command prompt. To restore I do the following: 1. Install temp windows (winnt directory) 2. Restore C drive (and other drives) 3. Restore system objects 4. Reboot 5. Start MS Backup (Start:Programs:Accessories:System Tools:Backup) and use the GUI to restore the system state from the systemstate.bkf file. If you need it I have a draft copy of our restore procedures that I can send you. Louis G Louis Robertson Senior Systems Analyst BearingPoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win2000 Restore Louis, Would you mind sharing the details of this step for some of us non-MS types? -Original Message- From: Robertson, G Louis (BearingPoint) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win2000 Restore Mike, I add an additional step to my backups and restore. As part of my backup I run a presched that does an ntbackup of the systemstate to a directory I know is backed up during archive and incremental backups. During a restore I add the additional step of restoring the systemstate via ntbackup after the last reboot. Louis ** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. **
AW: Win2000 Restore
Michael, before you restart after a restore of the systemobject you have manual to restore the userprofiles to their original places by copying C:\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\USER... to profilepath under c:\Documents and Settings\USERID ntuser.dat and ntuser.class.dat Don't forget the default user Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Anderson, Michael - HMIS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. März 2003 22:09 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Win2000 Restore I am trying to test the 5.1.5 Windows client. After I do the restore of the system objects and reboot, it creates me a new profile. I can see my icons but most of them won't work. I found a document about changing the registry, in which it does point to my user name with the name of our domain and 001. I try and change it back to my ID like it says and reboot, when I receive the error: windows\system32\config\systemd corrupt or missing. I figure I am doing something wrong, but just not sure where. Could someone please give me some advice. Server is Aix 4.3.3 TSM 4.2.3.3 I do the following steps: Install temp windows (winnt directory) restore C drive restore system objects reboot Thanks Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
AW: Ndmp Backup to primary Diskpool
I want to put the ndmp datastream on diskpools (type file or disk), but i don't know whether it's possible. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 17. Februar 2003 20:43 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Ndmp Backup to primary Diskpool Hi If u have filer .Then u should we using ndmpcopy utility on Filer.To copy between volumes on Filer or across filers. I did this recently. Thanks Balanand Pinni -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ndmp Backup to primary Diskpool I think about the following environment: TSM Server on Windows2000 with 5 * 2 TByte Primary diskpools on FC Raids (with IDE Disk internal - RAID 5) and 5 * 2 TByte Copy diskpools on FC Raids (with IDE Disk internal - RAID 5) TSM DB on lokal RAID 10 with total 8 disks Together with other NT Systems I want to backup our filer (4TB) over NDMP to that diskpools. Since i have no experience with NDMP (we have TSM on MVS) i wonder whether that config is possible. Does the datastream goe over FC or ip? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ndmp Backup to primary Diskpool
I think about the following environment: TSM Server on Windows2000 with 5 * 2 TByte Primary diskpools on FC Raids (with IDE Disk internal - RAID 5) and 5 * 2 TByte Copy diskpools on FC Raids (with IDE Disk internal - RAID 5) TSM DB on lokal RAID 10 with total 8 disks Together with other NT Systems I want to backup our filer (4TB) over NDMP to that diskpools. Since i have no experience with NDMP (we have TSM on MVS) i wonder whether that config is possible. Does the datastream goe over FC or ip? Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup eventlogs NT4
In the past i had 2 schedules for backup on NT4 and TSM V4: one for data and Registry and one for eventlogs. Since we use NT2000 and TSM V5 i was lucky since i had to use only one schedule for all. Now i want to use TSM V5 on NT4 and wonder, if there is no possibility (no pre script) to avoid the 2nd schedule. It seems, that everything has been as i had been in the past with V4. Why? Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Raminder Braich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2003 21:51 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: NT restore to different hardware revisited.. A few weeks ago I sent an email asking if anyone could give me some directions on how to restore WINNT on different hardware. Thanks to everyone who responded. I was able to accomplish the restore. It is a little tricky but not hard. If anyone else likes to know the process, please send me an email individually. Regards Raminder Braich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Stable 5.1.5 client
Since 2 days i use that level on 50 w2k server. Up to now without problems. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 23:35 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Stable 5.1.5 client Are we at a stable level on the NT clinet at 5.1.5.9? Has anyone used it extensively enought to buy off on it? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Problems with W2k Client 5.1.5.7
Since Upgrade from 5.1.5.4 to 5.1.5.7 for Windows2000 Client I can see sesssion at the tsm server in idle state. I believe they survive the scheduler start and query for next task. Does anyone has the same experience with the new fixlevel? Our Server is 4.2.3.0 on MVS 2.10 / 64 Bit mode Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: AW: Group by problem for Storagereports
Thanks for that trick - it works for me. I made 6 new Domains - for each servercategory. My Result: tsm: ADSMselect cast(sum (filespaces.capacity/1024) as decimal(8,2)) as Instal led GB ,cast(sum(filespaces.capacity*pct_util/102400) as decimal(8,2)) as Used GB , domains.description from nodes,filespaces,domains where nodes.node_name=f ilespaces.node_name and substr(nodes.contact,1,1)=domains.DOMAIN_name group by d omains.description Installed GBUsed GB DESCRIPTION -- -- 2395.261018.27 Appl 427.12 181.80 Database 1809.32 890.50 File 1659.71 379.36 Infrastruktur 821.53 266.20 Mail 354.38 135.46 SAP (in the Serverdescription i use a number as the first letter for each category - i.e. 4, Contact,... 4 means fileserver) Regards Stefan Holzwarth tsm: ADSM -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:acit;ATTGLOBAL.NET] Gesendet: Freitag, 15. November 2002 01:43 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Group by problem for Storagereports Look at my reply on thread SQL query - GROUP on derived value? from 25.09.2001. There is a workaround. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Stefan Holzwarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24.10.2002 18:13 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:AW: Group by problem for Storagereports Group by nodes.contact works, but groups by the whole string not the first letter. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Tomás Hrouda [mailto:throuda;HTD.CZ] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 16:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Group by problem for Storagereports Did you try to use group by nodes.contact? I tried you command (only without section filespace_name like '%\c$' - it didn't work) select substr(nodes.contact,1,1) as SERVERTYP,sum (filespaces.capacity),sum (filespaces.capacity*pct_util/100) from nodes,filespaces where nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by nodes.contact gives this report SERVERTYP: Unnamed[2]: 20024.3 Unnamed[3]: 16880.92 Is it OK? Hope this helps Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Group by problem for Storagereports Hello, i tried to realize some storage reports about out NT servers with the following select: select substr(nodes.contact,1,1) as SERVERTYP ,sum (filespaces.capacity), - sum (filespaces.capacity*pct_util/100) from nodes,filespaces where filespace_name like '%\c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP But: === ANR2940E The reference 'SERVERTYP' is an unknown SQL column name. | ..V c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP Any ideas who to group by the first letter of the description? (I use the first letter for asigning the Server to some goups like mail, application, file,.) Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 M|nchen, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:stefan.holzwarth;adac.de
AW: Error initializing TSM Api
We see the same error on our W2K machines with TSM 5.1.5 using CAD. No idea who to fix, but it seems to run fine. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL;SAIC.COM] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. November 2002 18:47 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Error initializing TSM Api I see this message on a node when the scheduler service starts: Error initializing TSM Api, unable to verify Registry Password, see dsierror.log. 1. There is no dsierror.log being created, I searched all the drives. 2. I tried updating the password dthrough the GUI and the dsmcutil but the error remains. 3. I've removed and reinstalled the schedule service but still see this error an still no dsierror.log Client WIN2K TSM V5.1.5.2 Server AIX 4.3.3 TSM V5.1.5.2 Anyone else seen this? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:gillg;saic.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
Group by problem for Storagereports
Hello, i tried to realize some storage reports about out NT servers with the following select: select substr(nodes.contact,1,1) as SERVERTYP ,sum (filespaces.capacity), - sum (filespaces.capacity*pct_util/100) from nodes,filespaces where filespace_name like '%\c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP But: === ANR2940E The reference 'SERVERTYP' is an unknown SQL column name. | ..V c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP Any ideas who to group by the first letter of the description? (I use the first letter for asigning the Server to some goups like mail, application, file,.) Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:stefan.holzwarth;adac.de
AW: Group by problem for Storagereports
Group by nodes.contact works, but groups by the whole string not the first letter. Regards, Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Tomás Hrouda [mailto:throuda;HTD.CZ] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 16:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Group by problem for Storagereports Did you try to use group by nodes.contact? I tried you command (only without section filespace_name like '%\c$' - it didn't work) select substr(nodes.contact,1,1) as SERVERTYP,sum (filespaces.capacity),sum (filespaces.capacity*pct_util/100) from nodes,filespaces where nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by nodes.contact gives this report SERVERTYP: Unnamed[2]: 20024.3 Unnamed[3]: 16880.92 Is it OK? Hope this helps Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Stefan Holzwarth Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Group by problem for Storagereports Hello, i tried to realize some storage reports about out NT servers with the following select: select substr(nodes.contact,1,1) as SERVERTYP ,sum (filespaces.capacity), - sum (filespaces.capacity*pct_util/100) from nodes,filespaces where filespace_name like '%\c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP But: === ANR2940E The reference 'SERVERTYP' is an unknown SQL column name. | ..V c$' and nodes.node_name=filespaces.node_name group by SERVERTYP Any ideas who to group by the first letter of the description? (I use the first letter for asigning the Server to some goups like mail, application, file,.) Kind regards, Stefan Holzwarth -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 M|nchen, Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:stefan.holzwarth;adac.de
AW: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours.
All schedules that run over midnight are counted twice: So your results are not correct. Regards Stefan Holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 12:52 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours. Or /* */ /* Query TSM to make a daily summary*/ /* */ set sqldatetimeformat i set sqldisplaymode w set sqlmathmode r commit select count(*) as Count, - case - when sum(bytes) 1073741824 then - cast(sum(bytes)/1073741824 as varchar(24))||' Gb' - when sum(bytes) 1048576 then - cast(sum(bytes)/1048576 as varchar(24))||' Mb' - when sum(bytes) 1024 then - cast(sum(bytes)/1024 as varchar(24))||' Kb' - else cast(sum(bytes) as varchar(24)) - end as Bytes, activity as Activity - from adsm.summary - where date(start_time) = current date - 1 day - or date(end_time) = current date - 1 day - group by activity commit -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: David E Ehresman [mailto:ISVILLE.deehre01@LOUEDU] Verzonden: vrijdag 27 september 2002 17:38 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24 hours. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to calculate how much data is being handled by TSM every day ?? Get a trial of Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com , and see if it does what you want (and a whole lot more). David Ehresman A satisfied customer
AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file
Deleting the .file does the job(in any case i think so). No need to clear the entire cache. But it seems that the trigger for the misbehavior still exists and the error occurs again after a view backups. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 03:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We see about 1 of these a month, out of 400 Win2K machines backing up daily with ALL files subject to subfile backups. It does kill the backup. I had not figured out what triggers it, so I'm glad to know. Can you get around the problem by deleting the .file? We've been blowing away the whole cache subdirectory. That lets the next backup complete OK (although it will not be a subfile backup). -Original Message- From: Stefan Holzwarth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/10/2002 3:41 AM Subject: AW: DELTA: Error generating the delta file We also see this error from time to time. With the error TSM leaves a .file in the cache directory, that causes new errors. I started a PMR at Tivoli. Regards Stefan holzwarth -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 9. September 2002 22:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: DELTA: Error generating the delta file All, Receiving this error DELTA: Error generating the delta file (reported to the DMSERROR.LOG). Has anyone else seen this error? I cannot find any documentation on this error. Bruce E. Lowrie Sr. Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Storage, Output, Legacy *E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Voice: (989) 496-6404 7 Fax: (989) 496-6437 *Post: 2200 W. Salzburg Rd. *Post: Mail: CO2111 *Post: Midland, MI 48686-0994 This e-mail transmission and any files that accompany it may contain sensitive information belonging to the sender. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Dow Corning's practice statement for digitally signed messages may be found at http://www.dowcorning.com/dcps. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the Security Administrator at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com
