Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info

2005-08-29 Thread Stephen Pole
A KIRBY or ELECTROLUX

:-)

Sorry could resist


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-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?

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  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
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-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







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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.


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-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

2002-06-12 Thread Stephen Pole

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])
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Certified AIX system engineer
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Re: 3590 pricing (used)

2002-06-12 Thread Stephen Pole

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



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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

2002-05-21 Thread Stephen Pole

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.





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61 Delonix Circle
Woodvale WA 6026 Australia

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-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

2002-05-15 Thread Stephen Pole

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
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-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



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Re: help dosn't work

2002-05-15 Thread Stephen Pole

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 ....

2002-04-30 Thread Stephen Pole

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.


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Woodvale WA 6026 Austalia

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-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


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Re: Recovering from a disaster ....

2002-04-30 Thread Stephen Pole

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

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Home Phone   +61 8 9409 3012
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-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


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Re: TSM network problem

2002-04-16 Thread Stephen Pole

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

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-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

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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?

2002-04-15 Thread Stephen Pole

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
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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.
Judd House
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Re: UNABLE TO DELETE FILESPACE

2002-04-10 Thread Stephen Pole

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

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Pole

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
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Re: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Pole

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


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- 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]


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Re: adsm 3.1 and stgpool reclaim threshold

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Pole

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]


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Re: More on 3590K tape quality issues

2001-05-13 Thread Stephen Pole

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

2001-05-11 Thread Stephen Pole

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

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IBM Centre 1060 Hay Street
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Indonesia

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-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. :