Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
A KIRBY or ELECTROLUX :-) Sorry could resist Stephen Pole Mobile 040 376 4070 International +61 4 0376 4070 Member of the IBM Global Tivoli Users Council Chairman WA IBM Tivoli Users Group -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Log Containing Tape Drive Info I gotta ask: what kind of tape library uses a vacuum to pull the cartridges into the drives? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Bassler Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info The Operational Reporter shows all drives online. That's because the drive did not go offline. I had to manually take the drive, and path, offline. The error message is that the volume ** could not be mounted into drive ***. After the SE arrived, we found that the actual problem was that the pump, for the vacuum that sucks the tape in, had gone out. This is not the first time we've had a problem, and didn't know the tape drive was inaccessible. Last time it was over a weekend. I'll keep looking. Thanks for all the input, Debbie Stapleton, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 08/29/2005 10:35 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Log Containing Tape Drive Info There isn't, but if you use the hourly monitor facility from TSM's Operational Reporter, one of the statuses it looks for by default is offline drives. Since hourly monitor reports can be emailed, the balance of the task is easily left to the student. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Bassler Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Log Containing Tape Drive Info Our TSM server, 5.1, is on an AIX OS, 4.3.3. Does anyone know of a log containing information about the tape drives? One of our drives has been inaccessible since 3:20 this morning. I'd like to write a script to page me when this happens, but, I don't know if there is a log available to pull the information from. Thanks, Debbie
Re: Dell 130T library is full
Things always go better after a few beers :) (As it turns out I don't really have an answer for you) BUT.. I recall, the IBM 3494 has reserved slots for lost misplaced tapes - the homeless... This slot needs to be kept spare. Plus one for cleaning tapes, Customer Engineer Tapes etc .. It never worried me much as the 3494 we had, had 2700 + slots... but on a smaller Library I can see your getting anxious. Could the above apply to the DELL maybe? Regards -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dell 130T library is full From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TSM Admin We use a Dell 130T library with 2 DLT7000 drives and 30 slots. TSM only appears to see 29 of the 30 slots. When we try to checkin another tape, we get an error stating that the library is full. We can only see 29 tapes when we have autoclean disables on the library. With it enabled, we can only see 28 slots. Slot 7 is used for a cleaning tape. Has anyone else encountered this type of problem? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. A warm beer says that the empty slot is one reserved for a cleaner tape. Check your hardware manual to see if there's a way to load a cleaner cartridge through the front panel's I/O station. If there is, and you remove the cleaner from its present slot and load it by using the library itself, it'll go in that 30th slot. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MSCE
Re: 3590 pricing (used)
Hi, I can only let you know about 3590B1A's (10GB uncompressed) that we recently bought for our ATL - Ball park is US$9000 or so.. Shop around though.. Cheers Stephen Pole IBM RS6000/TSM/HACMP Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Australia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3590 pricing (used) = On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:06:10 -0400, Steve Schaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anyone purchased used 3590 equipment recently and would be willing to share a reasonable ballpark dollar amount? We are running out of room in our 3494 and would like to start converting our S/390 over from 3490 to 3590. What would be a good price for an A60 controller and four 3590E1A or B1a (escon) drives? Alternately, if I sacrificed my 4) 3590E1A drives from TSM to the Mainframe and bought a separate library for TSM, what would it take to replace what I have (277-J, 218-K of which 119-K are offsite)? Whatever you do, don't bother buying a new 3494. Just expand what you've got. If you think about it, there's no way you can possibly save cash that way. If you're willing to take the hit in seek time, then you could go for a dumber library: a 3584 with LTO drives will most definitely be fewer dollars per TB, fewer square feet of floor per TB, etc. and the LTO physical standard has absolutely tremendous upgrade paths. But if you're sticking with the 3590s for a bit longer (which was our call) then just toss the new drives in the existing 3494. The used market is pretty good. Lots of folks who don't need the access speed are going LTO, so some 3590s are hitting the market. It'll be wierd when my 3494 is my low-latency, low-capacity storage format. :) - Allen S. Rout
Re: 3570 drive
Hello, I've seen errors like this before on our 3494 - with 3590's. Most of the errors are soft errors that are reported to AIX by the firmware. To get a better idea of what is really happening try this command. errpt -a ... This may give you a little more diagnostic info. The errors I really get concerned about are PERM errors. These are permanent and need a closer look to see if it serious or not. Regards Stephen. Stephen Pole Operations Manager - IBM RS6000/TSM/HACMP Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Australia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burak Demircan Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3570 drive Hi, I have an old 3570 library with 2 drives. I am having following errors on AIX. There is no problem yet I see at the moment yet but I want to learn possible causes. Any help appreciated. Regards, Burak # errpt IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP T C RESOURCE_NAME DESCRIPTION 0F78A011 0521094202 T H rmt2 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE 0F78A011 0521092902 T H rmt1 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE A7AB4C8F 0521073102 I H rmt1 TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD 4865FA9B 0521073002 P H rmt1 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 4865FA9B 0521073002 P H rmt1 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 4865FA9B 0521072902 P H rmt0 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 4865FA9B 0521072902 P H rmt0 TAPE OPERATION ERROR 4865FA9B 0521072902 P H rmt0 TAPE OPERATION ERROR A7AB4C8F 0521072702 I H rmt1 TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD E507DCF9 0520224802 I H rmt1 TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING A7AB4C8F 0520224802 I H rmt1 TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD 0F78A011 0520211102 T H rmt2 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE 0F78A011 0520193202 T H rmt1 RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE
Re: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape
Yes I agree with Eric, First AUDIT VOL FIX=NO if all is OK then (I've have had a few problems with 3590E's going unavailable. Then Next MOVE DATA across to an empty volume, If the AUDIT was not good, fix using AUDIT VOLUME FIX=YES, and still MOVE the data you have across to another tape. Then seek help of the owners of the files. :) Stephen Pole Operations Manager - IBM RS6000/TSM/HACMP Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Australia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape Hi Mike! I would start an AUDIT VOLUME FIX=NO on the tape. This will tell you which files are damaged. Let's hope they are TSM backup files, not TDP backup files! Afterwards, you can run an AUDIT VOLUME FIX=YES. It will remove the damaged files from your database, so they will be backed up again during the next backup. Now you can run a MOVE DATA to empty the tape. If the tape is not readable at all, you will have to do a Q CONT to see what kind of backups are on that tape. You can then delete it with DISCARDDATA=YES. If the tape does contain damaged TDP files, it gets more complicated. When fi. you are using TDP for Oracle you will also have to tell the Oracle Recovery Catalog that the backup files are gone. I personally don't know how, but a Oracle Administrator should know. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Mike Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 08:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape Any suggestions for a worst case scenario, where it is a primary pool tape which has not yet had a backup made? Had this happen this morning. Wrote 33GB onto a 3590E. The tape then became unreadable, the server error being I/O error reading label for libvolume 101144 in drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt/6st). Has anyone used any data recovery services? Is it even possible in this sort of situation? Thanks, Mike If it is a primary pool tape you just do a RESTORE VOLUME command on the TSM Server. The current tape will get marked destroyed and the data will actually go to other tapes in the pool from your copypool. If it is a copy pool tape, just do a DELETE VOLUME DISCARDDATA=YES. The next time you run a BACKUP STG command to the pool it will recreate the data from the primary disk and tape pools involved. Yes, it is just that simple. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Al'shaebani, Bassam [mailto:Bassam.Al'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape Hello TSM'rs, Does anyone know the steps in recovering data on a damaged tape? I believe, we can recover the data from our onsite tape pool, i'm just not sure of the steps. Can anyone help? Thanks, -bassam ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: help dosn't work
Hello, Did you do this via smitty - upgrade all? - I never believe it!! Maybe I should! It is easy to unhighlight a package, or miss it all together. Can you check that you have the correct version of help? Or that the help was in fact installed? And that it exists in the right place. Make sure you reinstall the help files. I've struck this a few times, and as far as I can remember that is all I did. I'm sure others will be able to assist if this doesn't Good luck Stephen. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salvatore Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help dosn't work Hi , I'm having a problem after an upgrade of TSM 4222 server, from a prevously version 4210, on AIX 433. The help on line dosn't work, when i try to use a simple help command, for example HELP REG LIC, i receive an output that is on a 1 line whithout carriage return. Can anybody help me to fix this? Many thanks in advance.
Re: Recovering from a disaster ....
Hello, After working in a 365 x 24 operation for more than 5 years, and being obligated to ensure as safe and possible environment for data. Then you really have no choice by to copy each storage pool. Come up with a disaster recovery plan, and put this into action! I happen to believe it is worth the cost, at least in my business which is Oil and gas exploration. Big, expensive data sets that would cost 10's of millions to replace. Also, place a price on delayed delivery of data, what price do you (or the bean counters place on that?) The cost of lost opportunity. Here is my model .. We go from Disk Pool to - Tape Pool - then copy this to Offsite pool, then get tapes off site as soon as practical. No big deal Initially costs increase, but we have more than recovered the costs of 3590's by having a DISASTER PLAN IN OPERATION. If a tape gets wrecked in a tape drive (It does happen), or the media fails (this happens as well), then at least you can recover the data you've just lost. I know tape manufactures guarantee the tape. But only for the tape, not the data thereon. It goes without saying your consumables are going to increase, but that is a small price to pay for a pretty valuable asset, namely your data. Your costs can be managed by setting expiration etc I can honestly say, my butt has been saved many times by having using DRM. Once set up properly, it runs, and runs. Setting up is no big deal. Thinking about it is, but not acting is suicide. What price do you place on data? How much to replace? How much is a lots opportunity going to cost??? I guess it depends on how much went into collecting it and much the company sees lost opportunities.. Put a price on that, and there is its true worth. Ponder for a while... Cheers :) Regards Stephen. Stephen Pole Geophysicist - Data Management Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Austalia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cook, Dwight E Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovering from a disaster OK, I've been working with TSM (ADSM) for about 6 years now and you can call me cheap but I never (personally) though DRM was worth the money. We do operate in a unique environment here so I shouldn't say that DRM has no place in the market, it is just that I was doing DRM before DRM came out and once it did I couldn't justify the cost just to replace all that I had done over the years. We don't really run with copy storage pools... our TSM servers are located offsite to the production boxes that they backup so backups are effectively offsite as soon as they are created. We also deal with so much data across our 10 TSM servers on a daily basis that we would have to make them 20 if we were to copy all the data on a daily basis, and that just isn't going to happen. Now what sort of disaster am I protecting against ? Total loss of environment due to hardware failure. Not really counting fire, flood, water, etc... If my actual server goes dead, AS LONG AS I HAVE MY ATL, well at least the tapes, I'm OK. So to answer your question, almost yes. You need your db backup (from tape, disk, somewhere), you need definitions of your data base log files (I always allocate them the same size as they were), the device configuration file is nice (just about necessary). With that info you can get back your environment as long as you have your tapes. Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 -Original Message- From: Sandra Ghaoui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovering from a disaster Hello everybody, I have one more question ... is it possible to recover from a disaster just by having the TSM database backup and our data backup on tapes? I've been reading about the Disaster Recovery Manager and if I got it right, I would need to have copy storage pools to recover from disaster? thx for helping ... Sandra __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
Re: Recovering from a disaster ....
Sandra, Sorry, I am a bit late catching up on this tread. Short answer is YES, and you got it right.. (Now see my earlier post on this) To answer your question a little more fully ... It might be? Depends on the disaster. and the price your organization places on reacquisition, of the data. (This is bean counter accountant work - but we need to advise them of the risks. The database backup alone will certainly not save you. You need to get the data off-site, ie... a backup of backups. Lets say we are lucky enough to have the budget some companies have. They ask? What is the cost of reacquisition? What is the cost of lost opportunity, due to total or partial failure. As Data Management professionals we have to try and minimise these risks. My experience says to be totally sure. For data. DISK - TAPE STORAGE POOL - COPY STORAGE POOL (which then goes off site) Just in case of the following events:- a) Total disaster Fire, tempest, storm water etc,,, b) Partial loss due to tape failure, media failure This will cost you a bit to start, but remember you can minimise costs a bit by expiring and reclaiming etc ie. Manage the risk a bit. Likewise ..For the ADSM/TSM database - you need this You also have to backup the database, ie To TAPE ... which stays where it is, then make another copy for offsite. In the event of the any of the events above. This won't cost to much... But will save you heaps.. Databases are not that big really compare to the size and volume of data. Stephen Pole Operations Manager - IBM RS6000/TSM/HACMP Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Austalia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sandra Ghaoui Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovering from a disaster Hello everybody, I have one more question ... is it possible to recover from a disaster just by having the TSM database backup and our data backup on tapes? I've been reading about the Disaster Recovery Manager and if I got it right, I would need to have copy storage pools to recover from disaster? thx for helping ... Sandra __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
Re: TSM network problem
Hi Jim, All good responses so far. We have a similar situation at one of my sites I look after. Are you running in an HACMP environment as well? Not that it should make a difference mind you (The problem I struck was with HACMP not ADSM/TSM. All our worries disappeared after changing the Cisco routers to NOT to auto-negotiate but 100BT. Hope this helps, if not I'm sure you'll get back to us all :) Cheers Stephen Pole Project Operations Manager - Geophysicist IBM RS6000/TSM/HACMP Specialist 61 Delonix Circle Woodvale WA 6026 Austalia Office Phone +61 8 9409 3014 Home Phone +61 8 9409 3012 Mobile Phone +61 4 2121 0157 Time Zone : WAST - GMT + 08:00 hours -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seay, Paul Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Jim, We have found that sometimes the switches have to be set to 100 not auto negotiate as well as the server. It has to do with incompatibility issues with auto negotiate and windows. -Original Message- From: Jim Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM network problem Don Are you sure you're using CAT-5 cable? Definitely Cat-t You say the NIC's are forced at 100/full -- how about the switch ports? Switch ports are forced 100/full also Is there adjacent noise that might be emitting across the network? I don't know about adjacent noise, how do I look for that? Do you have old vs. current switch HW? Is it up to date, microcode? I'm having the network guys check the microcode VLAN's -- are you sure it's a point-to-point and not getting re-routed due to DNS mistakes (eg, any potential router involved, multiple DNS entries for the same hostname, local hosts file on the client, local routing table on the client)??? The clients only have one physical path to use to get to the TSM server thats the way we designed it, no routers involved either. Your msg got garbled when stating specifics of your client situation... is the problem only on one (of many) clients using the same switch? We are down to only 2 clients on the v-lan, they are both NT4 Finally, what OS platforms (and switch vendor model) are involved? its a cisco 5000 switch Both clients behave the same on this segment. Don France (TSMnews) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/15/2002 07:34:50 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM network problem Are you sure you're using CAT-5 cable? You say the NIC's are forced at 100/full -- how about the switch ports? Is there adjacent noise that might be emitting across the network? Do you have old vs. current switch HW? Is it up to date, microcode? VLAN's -- are you sure it's a point-to-point and not getting re-routed due to DNS mistakes (eg, any potential router involved, multiple DNS entries for the same hostname, local hosts file on the client, local routing table on the client)??? Your msg got garbled when stating specifics of your client situation... is the problem only on one (of many) clients using the same switch? Finally, what OS platforms (and switch vendor model) are involved? These are buggers to solve, unless you can find some consistency -- eg, one client fails but others run fine (typical, and helps reduce the focus to identify the delta between good client and failing client -- for Win2K, we've seen flaky OEM-NIC's cause this kind of problem; also, one switch vendor didn't work well with forced 100/full, simply insisted on auto-negotiate.) - Original Message - From: Jim Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:25 AM Subject: TSM network problem Can any of you network gurus help me out with a TSM problem? We currenty have an isolated 100mb ethernet network for TSM. We have three NICS in the TSM server, each attached to a seperate V-lan We spread the servers backing up across the three v-lans We are having on clients on one of the vlans that intermittently get session lost re-initializing messages in the dsmsched.log When we ping the clients from the TSM server we get no seesion or packet loss When we ping the TSM nic from the client we get intermittent packet losses We replaced the NIC in the TSM server We replaced the cable from the TSM server to the switch We replaced the cable from the client NIC to the switch We've ensured that both NICs are set to 100/full My network guys are out of ideas any body have any suggestions?
Re: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Roy,
I agree with Juraj Salak,
And would add you are playing with fire ! Not only that you are turning a
Rolls Royce solution
Tape problems should not be corrected with tickering, get back the DR
copies!! PLEASE You will not regret it in 2-3 years. We have more than
100,000 x 3590's on and off site, most are managed via ADSM/tivoli
Create a copy pool called DISASTER-RECOVER. We do not often use Disaster
Tapes, BUT we do!!! . All data is critical in my business. These go off
site, of course you can send your original pools offsite as well, but send
them to another, off site storage company, this eliminates double point of
failure.
If you want more advise, you can email me directly.
Stephen Pole
Operations Manager - Senior Geophysicist
Landmark Graphics Corporation (A Halliburton Company)
Level 4, IBM Centre
1060 Hay Street
WEST PERTH WA 6005
Phone : +61 (0)8 9320 9080
Direct : +61 (0)8 9320 9081
Mobile: +61 (0)4 2121 0157
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-Original Message-
From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 12 April 2002 5:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Roy,
I hesitate to answer your question,
because it would support you in a VERY BAD practise.
I find operation with only single copy of data simply irresponsible.
The costs for second copy are very low - only couple of tape media.
Do rethink this design, consider creating backup pool.
This makes it possible to keep tapes from primary pool
unloaded from library but still on-site,
thus eliminating your find-correct-tape problem.
regards
Juraj Salak
-Original Message-
From: Roy Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I know what tape/s my data is on?
Ok guys,
Here is a puzzler for you.
Lets say that I have a primary tape pool, but I DONT have a secondary
pool. (IE data ONLY goes to tape once with NO second copy). We then send
those tapes offsite. (This saves us valuable space in the tape
library).
One month later, a customer asks for an archive to be retrieved from
those tapes.
How do I know what tapes to retrieve? - These archives would have built
up over a period of time, so there may be more than 10 tapes offsite and
I dont want them all!!.
Is there a way that I can find out which set of tapes my archived data
is on? - Bearing in mind that if reclamation is also run of this pool,
then the data may possibly be moved around on a regular basis.
Any help would be greatfully recieved.
Kind Regards,
Roy Lake
RS/6000 TSM Systems Administration Team
Tibbett Britten European I.T.
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Re: UNABLE TO DELETE FILESPACE
Thanks Dan, YUP I did just that, then this last remaining filespace remained and will not go away. It's a real big one ... 2 TB Cheers Steve. -Original Message- From: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2002 1:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: UNABLE TO DELETE FILESPACE Hot Diggety! Stephen Pole was rumored to have written: Hello felloe ADSM/TSM'rs, We are trying DELETE FILESPACES belong to a NODE so that we can REMOVE the NODE. One way to delete filespaces indiscriminately if you're just going to remove the whole node, is to do: DELETE FILESPACES nodename * TYPE=ANY -Dan Foster IP Systems Engineering (IPSE) Global Crossing Telecommunications
UNABLE TO DELETE FILESPACE
Hello felloe ADSM/TSM'rs, We are trying DELETE FILESPACES belong to a NODE so that we can REMOVE the NODE. Until this last delete /filespace everything went as planned. Now we get ANR0984I Process started etc then ANR0800I DELETE FILESPACE: /filespace for node NODE nodename started.. ANR0859E Data Storage Object Failure, DELETE FILESPACE aborted. HELP ANR0859E refer us to previous messages but, there were no previous server messages prior to this one. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this so we can free up some space?? Many thank in anticipation Regards Stephen Pole Operations Manager - Senior Geophysicist Landmark Graphics Corporation (A Halliburton Company) Level 4, IBM Centre 1060 Hay Street WEST PERTH WA 6005 Phone : +61 (0)8 9320 9080 Direct : +61 (0)8 9320 9081 Mobile: +61 (0)4 2121 0157 Residence : +61 (0)8 9409 3012 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (private) NOTE : PERTH WA TIME is GMT + 8.00 hours
Re: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold
Hi Steve, I have not seen this behaviour unless you have an entry in adminstrative command schedules like the ones below:- To check this out do the following:- Log into the ADSM Web GUI Select Object View Automation Adminstrative Command Schedules This will bring up the Automated command schedules that run by themselves They will more than likely look like this:- Update storage pool STGPOOL_NAME low=30 high=70 This is timed to start at say 19:00 hours every day of the week. During the day you can raise/lower the high water mark, but at 19:00 hours the 70% mark will be reset by this schedule. For example, we like to have our data running to disk during the day, so we have a high water mark set as above. Now during the night (when there is less activity) another schedule lowers the high water mark and low water mark to 0, then another schedule at 06:00 resets this to low=30 and high=70. It looks like this:- update storage pool STGPOOL_NAME low=0 high=0 This is timed for 19:00 every day of the week. BTW, we also do this before shutdown of the server, that is, we flush all our pools to disk before a shutdown. Hope this helps Give us a call as I assume you are in Perth Western Australia. Stephen Pole Operations Manager - PetroBank Asia Pacific Level 4 IBM Centre 1060 Hay Street West Perth WA 6005 Phone +61 9 9320 9000 Mobile 040 247 9133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.petrobankonline.com What happens is that - Original Message - From: Steve de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold Hi, Can anyone tell me if there are any conditions which will cause a copystorage stgpool to have it's reclaim threshold percentage to change to 100% ??? We have no scripts which explicitly change it, and yet we find that it changes from 70 to 100 every day !! we have run into a problem in that this gets done every morning after bkserver finishes. Any cluses/answers would be much appreciated. cheers steve Steve de Souza Senior System Administrator Bunnings Building Supplies Perth, WA Phone : (08) 9365 1527 / 0409 383 943 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Bunnings Legal Disclaimer: 1) This document is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not read, copy, distribute or act in reliance on it. If you have received this document in error, please telephone us immediately on (08) 9365-1555. 2) All e-mails sent to and sent from Bunnings Building Supplies are scanned for content. Any material deemed to contain inappropriate subject matter will be reported to the e-mail administrator of all parties concerned. **
Re: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold
Yet another idea, It may well be if you have no admin command schedules there maybe another script or something in cron that maybe doing the update as well. I have a script is rc.shutdown that updates the storage pool levels prior to shutdown. The reason for this is that I have forgotten this ... and not made allowance in the startup scripts and have been caught with all 10 3590's drives being hit hard all day after a re-boot. Perhaps you may have something similar buzzing away in the background??? It could be of course a default !! so you would need to set up schedules as described earlier in Admin Schedules etc ... Feel free to call me Stephen Pole Operations Manager - PetroBank Asia Pacific Level 4 1060 Hay Street WEST PERTH Phone +61 8 9320 9000 - Original Message - From: Steve de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold Hi, Can anyone tell me if there are any conditions which will cause a copystorage stgpool to have it's reclaim threshold percentage to change to 100% ??? We have no scripts which explicitly change it, and yet we find that it changes from 70 to 100 every day !! we have run into a problem in that this gets done every morning after bkserver finishes. Any cluses/answers would be much appreciated. cheers steve Steve de Souza Senior System Administrator Bunnings Building Supplies Perth, WA Phone : (08) 9365 1527 / 0409 383 943 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Bunnings Legal Disclaimer: 1) This document is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not read, copy, distribute or act in reliance on it. If you have received this document in error, please telephone us immediately on (08) 9365-1555. 2) All e-mails sent to and sent from Bunnings Building Supplies are scanned for content. Any material deemed to contain inappropriate subject matter will be reported to the e-mail administrator of all parties concerned. **
Re: More on 3590K tape quality issues
This is not related to the 3590K drive issue but might be Especially since I am only using 3590B's or E's One site we have has the following 8 x 3590 B drives in 3494. Server uses ADSM version 3.1 (I know 3.1 is not supported anymore but we have to use due to an API issue). This site runs fine with not problems labelling. The other site has 3 x 3590E drives. It does have problems labelling 3590 (10Gb) tape. When labelling 3590 (10Gb) tapes, approx 33% of tapes labelled return a defective media result. It shows up in AIX error logs and ADSM error logs. Anyone heard of this ?? Has anyone heard of this? Will moving to AIX 4.3 and ADSM (TSM 3.7 or 4.1) Fix this?? I assume that ADSM version 3.1 knows nothing about 3590E drives. I know this is a total DU question .. but it's bugging me. IBM say that it will go away in 3.7 and 4.1. Make sense?? Your responses will always be appreciated Cheers Stephen Babcock's Law: If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 11:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: More on 3590K tape quality issues Postings from customers using 3590K tapes have, over the past months, noted problems which most conspicuously turn up when trying to label the tapes. I had the same problem of I/O errors on several tapes two months ago, in the labeling process. I persisted in performing the label operation on the problematic ones, and finally got them all labeled. Once labeled, no problems. Today I received a fresh shipment of 3590K tapes (IBM part number 05H3188) and labeled 70 of them. Three exhibited labeling problems, on different drives. I repeated the Label Libvolume on those three: two of them then successful, one failed. Repeated on the last tough one and it finally went through. Such is the current state of 3590K tape and drive harmony, at least at this site. Richard Sims, BU
Re: AIX lv and dbvol
It's been a while since I've been here ... so here is my two cents worth. On my site I have 4 lv's across 4 pdisks and these are split across our 4 SSA adaptors, split evenly across the two I/O buses of our system. I did the same thing for my disk storage pools as well as it saves a lot of disk I/O contention (I hope) I assume either AIX striping or SSA Raid Striping or whatever So ... My initial reaction is to create the 5 logical volumes across 5 physical disks (ideally spilt across a number of adaptors) define the 5 dbvols across the 5 lvs, (I assume they are striped?). We are about to re-look this ourselves with a new installation, I'd also welcome any thoughts on this. ... All in please ! Cheers Which is best for performance? Create one AIX logical volume with 5 disk, then define 5 dbvol located in the one lv. OR Create 5 AIX logical volume, 1 lv per disk, then define 5 dbvol - one per lv . Thanks for your help. I am creating a new ADSM server and I want to get it right this time. : Stephen Pole PetroBank Operations Manager - Asia Pacific Australia Level 4 IBM Centre 1060 Hay Street West Perth WA 6005 Australia Phone +61 8 9320 9000 Fax +61 8 9320 9090 Indonesia PetroBank Indonesia Wisma Pondok Indah, Level 12 Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda V TA Jakarta 12310 Indonesia Telephone +62 21 769 6038 Facsmile+62 21 769 8015 Mobile +61 41 239 4435 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Adress : http://www.petrobankonline.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Debbie Lane Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX lv and dbvol Which is best for performance? Create one AIX logical volume with 5 disk, then define 5 dbvol located in the one lv. OR Create 5 AIX logical volume, 1 lv per disk, then define 5 dbvol - one per lv . Thanks for your help. I am creating a new ADSM server and I want to get it right this time. :
