Re: Recover from scratch without BRM
I'm an AIX guy, but one of our solaris admins has been itching to try Boot from CD nfs mount TSM client mount disk partition restore filesystem repeat for remaining partitions You'd then have to rebuild your boot sector or solaris equivalent and reboot. Let us know how you get on Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia - Original Message - From: Demaerel Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 17:54 Subject: Recover from scratch without BRM Hoi ADSM server 3.7 TSM client 3.1.08 on Solaris How can I recover a Solaris machine without the BRM option? I have a full backup of all file systems. I have try it this way, no success. Install Solaris on the new disk. Install the TSM agent (only the core feature) Configure the dsm files. Restore all filesystems with dsmc Core dumps :( Can some help me? Thanks in advance. Greetings Miguel (o o) ==oOO==(_)==OOo== Miguel DEMAEREL Sema Group Managed Services Raketstraat 98 - 1130 Brussel Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 724 93 17 Fax: +32 (0)2 724 92 92 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Re: copy pool
Sergio As I understand it, the server to server stuff is handled on the destination server at a volume level. Thus this data will not be freed on the destination server until the whole "sequential volume" of whatever size you specied is free. Try setting appropriate reclaim values on the storagepool on the source server. Steve Harris AIX and ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: Sergio Cherchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 28 December 2000 2:29 Subject: copy pool Hi all. I have two TSM servers installed in AIX 4.3 boxes with Sun libraries in different sites. In my HQ I take almost all the backups and I do a daily copy pool to the remote site. The local server (HQ) is TSM 3.7.2 and the remote one is 4.2.0. The problem is that my local backup pool has 2.7 TB of data while the remote pool has 3.7 TB. I expected a differential in the remote pool but 1TB (~30% more) seems to me too much for an overhead. Questions: How does TSM handle the expirations in a copy pool? It is normal the overhead that I'm seeing? If it is not, what can I do to reduce it? Thanks to all. Sergio R. Cherchyk Arquitectura Tecnolsgica - Midrange Banco Rmo de la Plata S.A. - Grupo BSCH Mire 480, 2do piso - 1036 Cap. Fed. Argentina Tel. (054)-11-4341-1643 Fax. (054)-11-4341-1264
Tape Vaulting
Hi All I'm trying to put a square peg into a round hole and wonder if you guys can help I'm trying to set up offsite vaulting on a TSM server, without DRM and I've been directed to use the same storage company that has been used in the past. This company only offers a "box" level service, ie they will take a box of tapes off-site for storage and bring it back on request. They will not open the box to retrieve a single volume, and every box movement is charged for. My first thought was to put one tape in each box G Other than that ... Lets assume that we keep boxes off site on a 60 day rotation DBB volumes will be ok, just delete them from volhist at 60 days. For copypool volumes, all I can think of is to check the date last written and run move data on any that are not empty or pending at 60 days-reusedelay. Also I'll set the reclaim level so that most tapes are reclaimed before they would need to have data moved How does everyone else handle this? Thanks Steve Harris AIX/TSM Admin Contractor Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
Re: Database Space???
Try looking at q filesystem from day to day to identify the culprit, then look at dsmsched.log or the output from the dsmc command that backed them up. When this has happened to me in the past it has been due to files with unique machine-generated names e.g. an app that created 5000 files a day with the name nul.dat. where was a number that incremented by one for each new file. Files with timestamps or pids in the name are other possibilities. Once identified, match them into a mgmtclass with short retention period to get rid of most of the existing ones. You can then exclude them permanently if that is desirable. Regards Steve Harris AIX/ADSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: Saad Al-Sakran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, 12 November 2000 18:40 Subject: Database Space??? Hi ever one My database size is increasing sharply and I do not do any changing if u have any possible causes please tell me what is the proper way to deal with this situation. Thanks for all best regards Saad Al-Sakran LAN Administrator
Re: Backup problem for Archivepool on disk to tape
Henrik This is correct. Your data has either been migrated to the tape primary storage pool, or perhaps the size of the archived file was greater than MAXSIZE for the disk primary storage pool and the archive went straight to tape. For this reason, you should run backup stg on all primary pools in a pool hierarchy . Regards Steve Harris AIX, TSM Administrator Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia -Original Message- From: Henrik Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 3 November 2000 21:37 Subject: Backup problem for Archivepool on disk to tape Hi all A question about backup an Archivepool on disk to a Archive copypool on tape. I issued the command below backup stg ARCHIVEPOOL 3570ARCP And got the the folloing message 11/03/2000 08:20:10 ANR2111W BACKUP STGPOOL: No data to process. The night before i did an archive. And from the ARCHIVEPOOL next stg pool is 3570AR Primary tapepool. I got data in my 3570AR pool. I did the command backup stg 3570AR 3570ARCP And that worked fine. Anyone got any idea why I can't do a backup of my pool on disk to my copypool on tapes. Thanx for the help Henrik Hansson TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)
Oracle Database Query
Hi All I've just taken over a somewhat badly organized site and have a query about Oracle databases on normal file systems. At my previous position the Oracle databases resided on AIX raw logical volumes, so I didn't have to exclude them from filesystem backups and on a restore (say to a replaced disk) I had to arrange for the logical volumes to be created prior to the restore process running. At the new site the databases reside on normal filesystems. Currently the database files aren't excluded and so they are backed up by the BA client. Worse, the application is up so if a checkpoint is taken Oracle touches every file and TSM has to resend the file currently being backed up. Assuming that we have appropriate RMAN backups and an RMAN catalog database, what happens when we try to restore an instance to a clean filesystem (again assume that the disk has been replaced). Will RMAN handle the creation of all the underlying files - pfiles, control files, log files, and tablespaces - or do I need to have some basic set of files already present on disk for RMAN to work? i.e. if I have only RMAN backups and exclude all tablespace, control and log files from the BA client backup can I restore the instance? Thanks for listening Steve Harris AIX, ADSM Contractor Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
