Re: Exchange backup speed

[Storer, Raymond]

Tom,

I don't have a large on-premises Exchange environment.  I perform full backups 
daily and log backups hourly.  Things you could test to improve speed:
- test RESOURCEUTILIZATION option in dsm.opt to at least 5 (10 is max, I think) 
to see how it performs in your environment and adjust up or down as needed
- test dsm.opt settings TCPBUFFSIZE to 512, TCPWINDOWSIZE to 63, and 
TXNBYTELIMIT to 25600 and modify them to see what works best in your environment

You could test turning off error checking for the exchange backups.  If you do, 
I strongly recommend testing a restore "occasionally".
You don't need PowerShell to automate your Exchange backups.  You can, as it 
appears you already have, use batch files and tdpexcc.exe to do your backups.  
As someone else already pointed out, VSS will abort multiple simultaneous 
backups; so, stagger them by at least ten minutes (+/-)--it really depends on 
how long it takes for Windows to complete the snapshot in your environment.

Good luck!

Ray
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Alverson
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 6:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange backup speed

>
>
> We are trying to speed up our Exchange backups that are currently only
using about 15% of the network bandwidth.  Our servers are running Windows
2012R2 and Exchange 2013 CU15 with TSM 7.1.0.1 and TDPEXC 7.1.0.1.
Currently we are backing up 15 DAGS per Exchange server (we have multiple 
exchange servers) and we are only backing up on servers that are standby 
replicas.  Currently we are trying a 14 day schedule were we do a full backup 
of a different DAG per day, and incrementals on the rest.  Even doing this we 
are having trouble completing them in 24 hours (before the next day's backup is 
supposed to start).

I saw an old posting from Del saying to increase RESOURCEUTILIZATION on the 
DSMAGENT.  Does that mean the DSM.OPT in the BACLIENT folder?  It was set at 2. 
 Do either the buffers or buffrsize options make any difference?

Also if we want to "parallelize" the backups does that mean separate scheduler 
services for each one?  We currently use 14 different batch files (for the 14 
days of the cycle) with something like this:

[day1.bat]

tdpexcc.exe backup dag1 full
tdpexcc.exe backup dag2,dag3,dag4,dag5 incr tdpexcc.exe backup 
dag6,dag7,dag8,dag9 incr tdpexcc.exe backup dag10,dag11,dag12,dag13 incr 
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Re: Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a. how do you do it

[Storer, Raymond]

Zoltan, since these are Windows file servers, could Volume Shadow Copies work 
for you and your users?  You'd likely need more disk to store the periodic 
volume snapshots.  And, you'll have to train users how to use the "Previous 
Versions" feature in the Windows File Explorer.  Then, you only have "help 
desk" restore requests when users cannot find a "Previous Version".

That is how we handle our "self-service" restores.

Too bad you can't submit this as a project to your Computer Science department 
for the grad students to complete.  It sounds like a fun project. *smile*

Good luck, Zoltan!

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 2:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a. how do 
you do it

Thanks for the feedback.  I understand the answers of "you are screwed since 
IBM killed the part of the software you use - write your own" but Management 
isn't going to allow a home-brew system.

I was hoping for suggestions to re-engineer the whole backup/restore 
scenario/process.

Is anyone out there backing up DFS mounted storage/files?  How do you do it?  
What methodology do you use to backup and restore - in both corporate and 
non-corporate environments?

FWIW, over the years we have been doing this, I could sort-of see this disaster 
approaching as they kept adding more and more nodes/mounts/storage to the 
CIFS/DFS mounts and expanding to 3-physical servers to handle the load (which 
they don't since many of the backups run for close to 14-hours due to the 
millions of files to scan and no way to do anything like
journaling) but nobody could come up with an alternative based on the 
requirement of user-managed restores and the way we were doing it was working - 
mostly..

So now that there is no choice but to force a different approach, we are open 
to any and all suggestions...

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Stefan Folkerts 
wrote:

> I agree with Steven, the only solutions I can think of are build it or
> buy it (if it's available, I never heard of anything like this).
> I would design and build a low-level solution myself and test that
> with a few users, if that works try and find somebody that can
> actually create a pretty GUI around it and build it up from there.
> As long as you are still using the BA client below it all and you only
> use it for restores there isn't that much risk in it I think, I would
> go with Powershell since you are doing the backup on Windows and it's
> capable stuff and build something (that is very flexible) from there
> to later have somebody code a webgui for.
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Harris, Steven <
> steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> wrote:
>
> > I feel for you Zoltan
> >
> > My users are demanding, but at least the corporate management
> > structure means I have some measure of control over their demands.
> >
> > There is a TSM client REST API that came out at 7.1.3.  This can be
> > used to run backups and restores although the API guide explicitly
> > states that it is not supposed to be used for long-running tasks.  I
> > don’t know if later versions have lifted that restriction.
> >
> > Since you are a university, you might have some smart coders
> > available. I envisage a web-based service that at the back end runs
> > this API to select what to restore and then run it.  That could all
> > reside on the one box, with it effectively being a reverse proxy to your 
> > Windows backup servers.
> >
> > As you aren’t the only one in this particular bind, the result might
> > be commercially viable as a paid product.  If it gets that far I
> > claim 5%
> OK?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Steven Harris
> > TSM Admin/Consultant
> > Canberra Australia
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Zoltan Forray
> > Sent: Friday, 12 January 2018 7:39 AM
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a.
> > how do you do it
> >
> > With the demise of the B/A web-client in 7.1.8+, we are in desperate
> > need of an alternative solution to handling our DFS/ISILON backups.
> >
> > Being a university, the big issue is that everyone wants control
> > over backups to be able to perform restores by themselves!
> >
> > Our current (soon to be unusable) solution is 3-dedicated physical
> Windows
> > servers with 25-configurations/services (each) of the B/A client
> > (each
> with
> > unique ports for the web-client).  The backup schedules contain the
> > specific filesystem/mount it backs up.  So, department level folks
> > can
> use
> > a web browser to connect to the correct port on the backup ser

Re: TSM for VE - VMCLI

[Storer, Raymond]

Steven,

Sorry, I cannot help you with the vmcli commands.  However, you can easily use 
PowerShell or another scripting language to get vCenter to provide you a list 
of VMs and then sort, slice, dice, filter, and store them.  You could easily 
"roll your own" VM tagging structure for backups too--you don't need a later 
version of TSM for VE to do it if you plan to parse what vCenter gives you 
anyway.  Then, when you upgrade your TSM for VE at some future date you can 
migrate the tags you created to the ones the new version of TSM for VE uses.  
If running the script on the TSM for VE server, you could execute dsmc commands 
as your script spits them out.  If not, what options do you have for some sort 
of "job submission" to the TSM for VE server for it to execute the dsmc 
commands?

Ray

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Harris, Steven
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:11 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - VMCLI

Hi Guys

TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX,  TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64

This shop has issues with us using the vSphere plugin as it requires too many 
permissions. We cannot move to later VE clients with expanded facilities 
because of a dependency on vCenter 5.5

So far, we have been managing by editing the dsm.sys files, but that is getting 
to be unsustainable.  The docs describe a VMCLI interface that may suit when 
scripted.  The idea would be to write Powershell/python scripts to query vmware 
for a list of vms, apply some filters that would allow includes and excludes 
from a database or maybe json files and generate a list of VMs to backup 
invoked by vmcli.

Is anyone using vmcli this way?  Any war stories to tell? Maybe its working 
well for you.

Please let me know

Thanks

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant

Canberra Australia



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Re: tsm for ve and backup / restore of VMs as domain controlers

[Storer, Raymond]

Backup and recovery of a Domain Controller, VM or physical server, works pretty 
much the same.  The only real difference comes in restoring the VM or 
installing the OS from media.  Since Windows Server 2012 R2 installs so 
quickly, I prefer to simply install from media.  Purely preference though.

I found the below document very helpful in describing backup and recovery of 
Active Directory.  I do not know the author or the company.  I just thought it 
was useful.

http://www.edeconsulting.be/downloads/WindowsServer2012ADBackupandDisasterRecoveryProcedures_V1.2.pdf

Ray

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Gary
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 3:24 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve and backup / restore of VMs as domain controlers

We are in the process of revising our entire domain controller infrastructure.

The new DCs will be VMs and running at the 2008 functional level.

We use TSM for Ve to back up our VMs.
How are folks handling backup / restore of domain controlers in general, and 
especially those on VMs.

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Re: Backing up Active Directory server using TSM client

[Storer, Raymond]

I like using the built-in tools to perform system state backups to a remote 
location and then using the TSM client to backup those files to the TSM server.
For me, it meets two goals:
No third-party software on the domain controller
Guaranteed support from Microsoft (not "best effort") since I used their tools 
for backup and recovery
I do not suggest that TSM's system state backup of a domain controller doesn't 
work.  I just don't want even the possibility of a finger pointing contest when 
I need to recover Active Directory.

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Paul_Dudley
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 11:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Active Directory server using TSM client

Is there any point in backing up an Active Directory server using the TSM 
client? Would a restore of Active Directory work? I have read conflicting views 
on this - some say it would not work yet others say it has worked for them, 
while others say that they use another tool to backup Active Directory and then 
use TSM to backup those backup files.





Thanks & Regards

Paul





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Re: disadvantages / limitations to using Exchange restores from VE backup?

[Storer, Raymond]

Stefan, I do not use the application level backup included with TSM for VE.  If 
we can judge its use by the number of responses to this thread, it doesn't 
appear many others use it either.  I would strongly recommend you install it 
into a test environment for a month and see how both backups and recoveries 
work over time.  You can get trial keys for both Exchange and TSM for VE pretty 
readily to test with.  My typical restore scenarios revolved around recovering 
specific mail items and sometimes an entire mailbox.  I never had to recover an 
entire database in production (although, I practiced it just in case).  I 
performed normal VM backups with some excludes for the Exchange database 
partitions and offloaded Exchange backups on another server.  Your mileage may 
vary, but that configuration worked for me for several years.

Good luck, Stefan!

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 8:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] disadvantages / limitations to using Exchange restores 
from VE backup?

Nobody using this and willing to share some experiences?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Folkerts 
wrote:

> Thanks Lee but I would think those are more VE issues in general and
> not really specifically related to using VE backups for Exchange restores 
> right?
>
> I'm wondering what experiences people have with using VE data for
> Exchange restores via the "open .edb file" option in the Exchange TDP.
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Lee, Gary  wrote:
>
>> The major things I've run into are
>>
>> 1. if vmware is using nfs for its storage, after a vmotion, the next
>> backup of that vm will be a full, including unused disk space. CBT
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> 2. same as one, but occurs if disk volumes are added.  Same cause.
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
>> Of Stefan Folkerts
>> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 4:28 AM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: [ADSM-L] disadvantages / limitations to using Exchange
>> restores from VE backup?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking into using VE-based backups for Exchange restores via the TDP.
>> I've never used this before but it seems pretty great since you don't
>> have to do any full backups (VE incremental forever) or reserve the
>> space for a recovery mailstore to be restored on disk.
>>
>> Anybody using this that can give some practical tips or limitations
>> for implementing/using this?
>>
>> Or anybody that looked at this and decided not to go ahead with it
>> willen to share the reasons to not use it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>Stefan
>>
>
>



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Re: VM Reporting on newly created VMs using TDP for VE.

[Storer, Raymond]

I do not know of a way for TDP for VE to send you a report of this kind.  
However, you could use PowerShell to generate a list of newly created VMs and 
compare that to the list of VMs that TDP for VE backed up.

Ray Storer
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Ricky
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VM Reporting on newly created VMs using TDP for VE.

Hey Everyone,

Quick question, is there a way within TDP for VE to get a generated report 
emailed of newly created VMs and show that they are being backed up.

Problem is,  we have new VMs being created almost every day.  TDP for VMs 
supposedly picks them up automatically for backup. But,  how do you verify that 
it is actually being done when I don't know how many have been created or their 
names?

I appreciate the help.





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Re: VM backup question

[Storer, Raymond]

Robert, you might use the -vm parameter to exclude certain VMs in your DSM.OPT 
file.
DOMAIN.VMFULL VMHOSTCLUSTER=CLUSTER_NAME;-VM=VM_TO_EXCLUDE1,VM_TO_EXCLUDE2

Also, in your DSM.OPT file you can add INCLUDE.VMDISK options to specifically 
target VM disks you want (which excludes the other disks you do not 
specifically include).
INCLUDE.VMDISK EXACT VM NAME GOES HERE "Hard Disk 1"

Disk(s) not specifically included restore blank at their full size during a 
full VM restore.  I forget if a way exists to prevent the other disks from 
restoring in a full restore.

If you see issues with VM backups or restores, you might also consider adding
testflag VMBACKUP_UPDATE_UUID
to your DSM.OPT file to force the backup to save the UUID every time you 
perform a VM backup.

Good luck!

Ray Storer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Ouzen
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:31 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VM backup question

Hi to all

I have a VMware farm with around 300 VM machines and I try to figure the best  
way to configure the backup with TSM for VE V7.1.4 .


1.   Need to backup for all the machines the "Hard disk 1"

2.   Our structure don't let us to do it with VMfolder , think about 
domain.vmfull vmdatastore= data1.,data2, etc

3.   Need for some VM machines to backup all disks or at least more than 
"Hard disk 1" ,  and some machines not to back up at all

Any help will be appreciated 

Best Regards

Robert



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Re: SRM and TDP/VE?

[Storer, Raymond]

Mike, I finally found the document referencing TSM/VE vCenter manual install 
and remove commands.  I hope you find it useful.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21609665

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryder, 
Michael S
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 9:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] SRM and TDP/VE?

Folks

We use VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager), where we have 2 vCenters running
in an active-active failover scenario.

If I failover all my nodes from a source vCenter to another target vcenter,
now TDP for VE is "broken" because now the nodes are running under another
vCenter and the proxy relationships are not in place.

AND, even though I try to get a Datamover proxy relationship in place using
the source datamover and the target datacenter... the proxy relationship
won't stick even though the command doesn't return an error.

Has anyone got any tips & tricks for doing this?

Best regards,

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Re: How to cleanup removed VMs from Instant Restore in TDP for VE?

[Storer, Raymond]

If your data movers are using hotadd, please check them for attached disks from 
those deleted VMs.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of ?? 

Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] How to cleanup removed VMs from Instant Restore in TDP for VE?

I have several VMs which where deleted in vCenter before standard dismount 
procedure in TDP for VE 7.1, so they stuck on datamovers.

Does anyone knows the exact command to dismount and remove these VMs from TDP? 
Thank you in advance.



Pressing Dismount from web console completes with the following errors:

VM 'ftp_temp': Preparing...

VM 'ftp_temp': Starting Instant VM Access cleanup process

VM 'ftp_temp': Check the state of the ESX host 'vh3'

VM 'ftp_temp': Restoring VM configuration information for 'ftp'

VM 'ftp_temp': Check the state of the ESX host 'vh3'

VM 'ftp_temp': Disconnecting iSCSI devices from the ESX host.

VM 'ftp_temp': ** Unsuccessful **

VM 'ftp_temp': objects examined:1

VM 'ftp_temp': objects complete:0

VM 'ftp_temp': objects failed:1

VM 'ftp_temp': total bytes:0



As well as running “dsmc restore vm ftp -vmname=ftp_temp 
-VMRESToretype=VMFULLCLeanup -detail” from datamover:

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc restore vm ftp -vmname=ftp_temp 
-VMRESToretype=VMFULLCLeanup -detail

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface

  Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.3

  Client date/time: 07/31/2014 12:52:26

(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2014. All Rights Reserved.



Node Name: DM1

Session established with server SATURN: Windows

  Server Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.0

  Server date/time: 07/31/2014 12:52:27  Last access: 07/31/2014 12:51:51



Accessing as node: MYDC

Restore function invoked.







Restore VM command started.  Total number of virtual machines to process: 1





Restore of Virtual Machine 'ftp' started





Starting cleanup of VMware Virtual Machine 'ftp_temp' from snapshot of 'ftp' tar

get node name='MYDC', data mover node name='DM1'



Starting Instant VM Access cleanup process



Restoring VM configuration information for 'ftp'



Check the state of the ESX host 'vh3'



Disconnecting iSCSI devices from the ESX host.





** Unsuccessful **



ANS4910E Cleanup of VMware Virtual Machine 'ftp' failed. target node 
name='MYDC',

data mover node name='DM1'







Total number of objects restored: 0

Total number of objects failed:   1

Total number of bytes transferred:0  B

Data transfer time:0.00 sec

Network data transfer rate:0.00 KB/sec

Aggregate data transfer rate:  0.00 KB/sec

Elapsed processing time:   00:00:06

ANS1302E No objects on server match query



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Re: tsm for ve question

[Storer, Raymond]

I submitted an RFE related to this in May of 2013. You can see it here:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=34722


Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve question

Hi Keith,

FULLvm and FIle are only for VMware.
Details on what they do in a VMware environment can be found here:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_usingvcb.html


For Hyper-V, as of today, HYPERVFULL is the only option available for
VMBACKUPType.
This is a FULL VM VSS-based backup. Look here on the functions/features of
this:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_hyperv.html


Thank you,

Del



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 07/27/2014
11:00:16 AM:

> From: "Arbogast, Warren K" 
> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
> Date: 07/27/2014 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: tsm for ve question
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>
> Hi Gary and Del;
> The TSM 7.1 Backup Archive Guide for Windows includes HYPERVFULL,
> along with FIle and FUllvm, in the possible arguments for the
> VMBACKUPType option. The description says it is "Required for Hyper-
> V systems. Specified a full virtual machine backup of all virtual
> machines that are defined on the Hyper-V host machine."
>
> Del: Since this implies that hyper-v is already supported, at least
> in part, could you say more about what is and what is not supported
> for hyper-v backups?
>
> With many thanks,
> Keith Arbogast
> Indiana University
>



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Re: TDP for Exchange Failures

[Storer, Raymond]

Matthew, it looks like this may be a scheduling hiccup between TDP and VSS. The 
error indicates VSS is not done with what it was doing and TDP asked it to do 
another VSS operation. Interestingly enough, there is a hotfix available for 
the very VSS error you get on Server 2012 and VM backups.

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Leonard, Matthew
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange Failures

Hello All,



I've been getting numerous failures with our Exchange Backups that are being 
executed via a scheduled command as shown below.  Server Version: 6, Release 1, 
Level 4.5, TSM Client Version: 6.2.3.0, TDP Client Version: 6.1.3.0 all running 
on Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 3 and we are running from a 
replica mailbox server with the Proxynode option set for this Mailbox server 
with the passive copies of the databases.  We have had no problems for years 
and nothing has changed besides growth but lately we have been getting tons of 
failures such as:



Event Logs:

Failure Executing Schedule EXCHANGE2010_4, RC=450.

Failure Executing Schedule EXCHANGE2010_4, RC=418.

VSS processing encountered error 'VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS' in the Volume 
Shadow Copy API 'StartSnapshotSet'.



DSM Logs:

ACN0519E The VSS operation failed with rc = 450.

ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure

ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.



Again, The majority of our DB's backup but we get 3-6 failures a day and it's 
not the same ones every day.  One that was successful yesterday could fail 
tonight.  It's just very odd





Command Running:

tdpexcc backup " XDCExecStore1" full /BACKUPMETHOD=VSS /BACKUPDESTINATION=TSM 
/tsmoptfile=XDCCrewStore1.opt /logfile=C:\TSM\excsch_XDCCrewStore1.log >> 
C:\TSM\excfull_XDCCrewStore1.log



Options File:

NODenameXDCExecStore1

TCPServeraddress   sxdctsm01

SCHEDMODE  Prompted

CLUSTERnodeno

COMPRESSIon   no

PASSWORDAccess   Generate

COMMMethod TCPip

TCPPort1500

TCPWindowsize63

TCPBuffSize32

COMPRESSALWAYSno

RESOURCEUTILIZATION 2

ERRORLOGNAME C:\TSM\dsmerror_XDCExecStore1.log

SCHEDLOGNAME C:\TSM\dsmsched_XDCExecStore1.log

ERRORLOGRETENTION  7

SCHEDLOGRETENTION   7





Regards,



Matthew J. Leonard

Network Infrastructure Administrator

IT Network Operations

AtlasAir, Inc.

matthew.leon...@atlasair.com

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Re: Exchange backups

[Storer, Raymond]

Geoff, I'm not completely clear what is going on with your Exchange backup. 
However, I would strongly recommend you work with your Exchange admins and the 
TDP for Exchange client install and configuration document to confirm your 
backup nodes are configured correctly. You must use a proxy node configuration 
for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 backups. The TDP for Exchange has minimum 
version requirements depending on Exchange version and service pack release--I 
do not recall the specifics.

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff 
Gill
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange backups



 Looking for some Exchange knowledge. Last week admin ID's for nodes were being 
removed and it was discovered 2 days later that this broke the Exchange 
backups. Once they were put back backups started working again but what 
confuses me is when comparing 2 different sites things seems to work 
differently as it relates to Exchange.

I have no access to the client side, only the TSM server, so I can't relay 
anything except what I see here. At one site the nodes are set up just like any 
other node it looks like. Licensing shows 2 Exchange TDP in use but when 
looking at q no the platform shows WinNt. These nodes do NOT have an associated 
admin ID that I can find and backups work just fine. Why things report the way 
they do I don't understand.

The second site licensing shows 6 Exchange TDP in use and q no on these show 
the Platform as TDP MSExchg. These nodes are also configured with Proxynode 
Agents too whereas the first site is not. Why this I don't understand either. 
Since I don't know much about Exchange backups in general I would have assumed 
based on the first site this would be the normal way they would be set up.

This second site is the one that Exchange backups stopped working when the 
Admin ID's were deleted. I put everything back and backups work now but when 
looking at the admin ID's it seems as though only one of them shows Days Since 
Last Access 1 so I don't know if removing the others would break this again or 
not. Support told me these Admin ID's need to be there for Exchange to work but 
this doesn't  seem to be the case at the site that works where are no admin 
ID's there are not associated with an Exchange node.

Hopefully someone has some explanation for this.

Thank You
Geoff Gill




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Re: Exchange 2010 weird backup behavior

[Storer, Raymond]

Wanda, next time you see this check to see if Exchange is running an integrity 
check (eseutil in process list) on the database. I know you told it not to do 
it in your command line; but, perhaps, Exchange decides it should run it 
despite the backup client's instruction not to. If you do not see the eseutil 
in the process list, run a PowerShell command prompt "As Administrator" and run 
"get-process" to see a list of the running processes on the server. If you 
still don't see the eseutil, and you can, please share the process listing from 
the PowerShell command by sending it to a file "get-process > file.name" and 
attaching it to a reply.

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 1:58 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 weird backup behavior

I suspect this is more an Exchange 2010 issue than a TSM issue, but I'm hoping 
somebody has seen something similar before and can tell me where to look.

About 15% of the time, one of our Exchange servers gears down and the weekend 
full backup runs wa slower than it should, and I can't figure out why.  
It just happens.  No evidence.

TSM server 6.3.4.300
TSM for Exchange 6.4.
Exchange 2010 in a DAG configuration
10G Ethernet for TSM and Exchange.

2 local Exchange servers on same network segment as TSM server, those get 
backed up.
 3rd Exchange server at DR site (across WAN), no backups.

About 24 mail DB's + PF's, approx. 8 TB total, evenly divided between the 2 
local Exch servers.
Each of the local Exch servers has half active, half passive DB's.
DR Exch server has a third copy of the data, all those are passive and never 
backed up, no client installed.
Fulls run on Saturday, direct to LTO5 tape.
Both servers start backups around 10am, back up only their ACTIVE DB's.
On a "normal" Saturday, they run tickety boo and are finished in about 9 hours.

However, about twice a month, one (either one) of the local Exchange servers 
runs slow as dirt and can take 2-3-4 times as long as usual, up to 36 hours.

-They are on the same network segment as the TSM server -The TSM server NIC is 
underutilized during this time -Nothing else is happening on the server on Sat 
mornings except BACKUP STGPOOL.
-They run at the same time of day, so anything affecting one (regarding the TSM 
server or network) would have the same effect on the other, anyway -The problem 
is as likely to occur on one as the other.
-Only once has it happened to both on the same day.
-The next weekend, everything may be fine, it may occur again on the same 
server, or the problem may switch to the other server.
-The server isn't getting disconnected from the network, or doing a lot of send 
retries during this time.
-Nothing in the Exch server event logs
-The only oddity on the client end, is that the log that has these messages 
will be missing entries for some data bases, even though they did get backed 
up.  I don't know if this is related to the problem.
"04/21/2014 21:16:51 The following database is being backed up: 
'MYDOGHASFLEAS'. The data is being transferred to the Tivoli Storage Manager 
server."
-If I look at the NIC on the slowed-down server, it still says it is running 
10G.
-If I kill the backup and restart it, it's just as slow.
-Can't reproduce on demand.
-This is the command that is running, very vanilla:

tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=excsch.log /BACKUPMETHOD=VSS 
/EXCLUDEDB=TestDB /BACKUPDESTINATION=TSM /SKIPINTEGRITYCHECK /EXCLUDEDAGPASsive 
/MINimumbackupinterval=60 >> excfull.log

-Incrementals run during the week, but they are so short anyway that we've not 
investigated whether those run slow some days.
-The backups do eventually finish correctly, but having that tape drive tied up 
36 hours is problem, and it prevents us getting the Exchange backups copied and 
offsite when we should.

I have no idea where else to look at this point.

I'm ready to resort to goat entrails and that's gross, so if anybody can 
suggest where else to look I would appreciate it!

Wanda










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Re: POLL: Backing up Windows Systemstate

[Storer, Raymond]

Zoltan, I prefer to use the built-in Windows Backup for System State backups 
and then let TSM backup the files to tape during the normal file system 
backups. In this way, I know I have a Microsoft supported recovery mechanism if 
I need it.

Nowadays, with the advent of virtualization, there are very few instances where 
a server actually needs a system state backup. Off the top of my head, I would 
recommend it for a couple of scenarios for maximum support from Microsoft in 
case of a restore:
- Windows Domain Controller with global catalog
- Enterprise Windows Certificate Authority server

If you have Domain Controllers with a global catalog at several remote sites 
perhaps you'll decide you don't need a system state backup of any of your 
Domain Controllers. I do have them, and I still perform a system state backup 
of one of them. If you choose not to do system state backups you probably 
should consider a remote site for "delayed replication"--just in case you need 
your Active Directory to "go back in time".

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 1:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] POLL: Backing up Windows Systemstate

A question about backing up systemstate, which seems to give us numerous
headaches.

Do you backup systemsstate on your Windows servers and WHY?

My Windows folks constantly contact me about errors backup up and getting
failures related to the systemstate files/process or VSS.

For example, today's headache is a 2008 box failing with *"System Writers
'system writer'  do not exist * and yes, doing a "vssadmin list writers"
does not list "system writers".  They have been fighting this since
November, with no solution to fixing this problem.  All hits/suggested
solutions from Google searches have been tried, to no avail. I don't thing
the server owners are willing to do a complete rebuild.

The simple solution would be to NOT backups systemstate.   For a simple
2008 server, what do we lose by not backing up systemstate?

--
*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
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Re: Is it possible to encrypt a Hyper-V VM backup?

[Storer, Raymond]

Adrian, I don't know if any client-side encryption options for the standard TSM 
client work when doing Hyper-V backups or not. If they do, you can find 
information about them on page 359 of the TSM for Windows Backup Archive Client 
6.4 user's guide 
(http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/b_ba_guide_win.pdf).
 If that is not an option, you could try an IPsec tunnel between the client and 
the server.

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

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Adrian
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 6:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Is it possible to encrypt a Hyper-V VM backup?

Is it possible to encrypt a Hyper-V VM backup when backing up the VM from the 
host?

If so, how is this done?

Many Thanks,
   =Adrian=
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Re: TDP Exchange mailbox restore failure - can we go back?

[Storer, Raymond]

Steve, do you have SP3 installed in your Exchange 2010 environment? If not, you 
might try that too as the TDP for Exchange 6.4.1 client contained a bug fix for 
restoring individual mailboxes for the SP3 update of Exchange 2010.

Ray

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Stackwick, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange mailbox restore failure - can we go back?

We've had some problems restoring mailboxes at the TDP for Exchange 6.4.1 
level, which worked in the 6.4.0 level. We will certainly open a PMR, but would 
there be a problem going back to 6.4.0 in the meantime? That is, would we have 
a problem restoring 6.4.1 backups with the 6.4.0 client?

Steve

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Re: Scheduled backups not working on Hyper-V Hosts to backup VM'

[Storer, Raymond]

Assuming you are using client side schedules: Please confirm your scheduled job 
configuration. Specifically, check the "General" tab under "Security options" 
to confirm the job is configured to "Run whether user is logged on or not".

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457

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Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:14 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Scheduled backups not working on Hyper-V Hosts to backup VM'

TSM client 6.4 is installed on Hyper-V Hosts so we can back up guest VM's on 
each host.  Problem we are facing has to do with scheduled jobs.  Scheduled 
jobs are not starting.  Having to login to each host, fire up baclient, and 
backup VM's manually.

Anyone experience this issue?

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Re: TSM/VE multiple restores on the data mover

[Storer, Raymond]

Bill, are you running the data mover inside a VM or on standalone hardware?

Ray Storer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/VE multiple restores on the data mover

Windows 2008 R2 and TSM client V6.4.0.10. TSM Server V6.3.4



I start up a restore of a VM, but if I try to start DSM.EXE or DSMC.EXE again 
using a different datamover nodename, it pauses and the first restore gets 
terminated. The error says I/O error on the hot-add'd disk.



Any idea how to run multiple restores on the same data mover server?



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Re: TDP for Exchange 2010 DAG full database backup experiencing intermittent failures

[Storer, Raymond]

Steve, according to the link below parallel backups are supported; however, you 
should allow a minimum of ten minutes between backups.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/c_dpfcm_bup_vssplan_exc.html


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schaub, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:27 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange 2010 DAG full database backup experiencing 
intermittent failures

Exchange 2010 w/DAG
Tsm server 6.2.4
Tsm client 6.4.0.0
Tdp client 6.4.0.0

The script that runs our nightly full backups is having intermittent failures.  
Different servers, different databases each night, but all the failures have 
the same API error message.  The way the powershell script works on each server 
is to perform a full db backup of a different set of databases each night (so 
even though it runs nightly, they are actually weekly fulls).  The backups are 
run as Powershell jobs, in order to enable multiple backup concurrency 
(currently set to a max of 4 concurrent backup jobs).  The script waits 2 
minutes after each job is submitted before running the next job in order to 
give the snapshot time to complete.  Some nights everything works, some nights 
1 failure, some 2, 3, etc.  There are some VSS errors in the event log, but 
according to the TSM logs, the snapshot was successful?

Are there any issues with running concurrent TDP backups on 6.4.0.0?  Here are 
all the pertinent logs:

tdperror.log
07/22/2013 20:17:38 ANS1235E An unknown system error has occurred from which 
TSM cannot recover.
07/22/2013 20:23:48 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
07/22/2013 20:23:48 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'EXCHANGE2010_FULL' failed.  
Return code = 1.

BkupExchange2010_Full_Day22.log
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 4, Level 0.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2012. All rights reserved.
ACN5057I The c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\TDPExchange\tdpexc.log log file has 
been pruned successfully.
Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait...
Connecting to TSM Server as node 'BCMSG107_MAIL'...
Connecting to Local DSM Agent 'BCMSG107'...
Using backup node 'EXCHANGE2010'...
Starting component backup...
Beginning VSS backup of 'DB061' (DBCopy)...
Snapshot operation completed with return code = 0.
The following database is being backed up: 'DB061'. The data is being 
transferred to the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.

tdpexc.log
07/22/2013 20:17:18 Snapshot operation completed with return code = 0.
07/22/2013 20:17:19 The following database is being backed up: 'DB076'. The 
data is being transferred to the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
07/22/2013 20:17:43 ANS1235E (RC-1)   An unknown system error has occurred from 
which TSM cannot recover.
07/22/2013 20:17:43 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.


dsmerror.log
07/22/2013 20:04:05 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:04:05 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:05:06 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:05:06 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:07:06 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:07:06 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:07:27 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:07:27 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:08:27 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:08:27 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:08:32 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:08:32 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:12:37 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:12:37 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:17:18 ANS2055I The local snapshot manager could not be locked.
07/22/2013 20:17:18 ANS2056I Waiting maximal 600 seconds until the lock is 
released by the other application.
07/22/2013 20:17:35 ANS2054E Operating system error 13: Permission denied.
07/22/2013 20:17:35 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : CLocalPolicyManager::versionTSMRegisterBackup
   TSM function  : Failed to lock LSM repository.
   TSM return code   : 104
   TSM file  : ..\..\common\lpm\lpm.cpp (2223)
07/22/2013 20:17:35 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM

Re: TSM for VE for SQL machine

[Storer, Raymond]

Robert, I'm not familiar with the options you mention below. However, assuming 
you are using TDP for SQL (or something else to backup the SQL DB and LOG 
data), I'd recommend specific INCLUDE and/or EXCLUDE statements to effectively 
exclude the disks that have the DATA and LOGS on them. Then, for a restore, you 
would perform a VM restore and then a database restore. The VM restore will 
restore all disks in the VM including the EXCLUDED ones; the EXCLUDED disks 
will be blank.

So, in your DSM.OPT file you'd have something like this:
INCLUDE.VMDISK "vm_name_goes_here" "Hard Disk 1"
INCLUDE.VMDISK "vm_name_goes_here" "Hard Disk 2"
EXCLUDE.VMDISK  "vm_name_goes_here" "Hard Disk 3"
EXCLUDE.VMDISK  "vm_name_goes_here" "Hard Disk 4"

You can find specific information on these parameters in the TSM Baclient 6.4 
manual 
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/b_ba_guide_win.pdf.
 The Windows version had the information starting on about page 371. (my PDF 
reader said I was on page 395)

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Ouzen
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:42 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE for SQL machine

Hi to all

I want to ask if anybody already backup with TSM for VE 6.4.0.1 a VM with on it 
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 .What will be the best way to backup it and what 
commands to use.

Did I need to add those options  in the dsm.opt

APPLICATION PROTECTION TYPE:'TDP VSS'
'APPLICATION(S) PROTECTED:'MS SQL 2008'

INCLUDE.VMTSMVSSvmware1,vmware2,vmware3 ,

Best regards

Robert




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Re: TSM for VE sizing vs standard incremental forever

[Storer, Raymond]

Steve, we perform weekly full backups and nightly incremental backups to tape 
(LTO5). We are using version 6.4 of the baclient and TSM for VE, which allows 
incremental forever--we do not use that option. The highest daily change I see 
during the nightly incremental backups is about 25%. The average is around 
8-10%.

Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.


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Harris
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE sizing vs standard incremental forever

Hi All

I've been asked to do some ballpark sizing for a major rework of a TSM 
environment. Clients are linux and Windows under Vmware

This customer has been using standard BA client backups up until now, ie 
incremental forever, and the new env will be TSM for VE with the backend being 
tape rather than disk so no dedup possible.

Given that TSM for VE uses some funky differential backup technology on the 
changed blocks, how much data does your typical VE installation backup per day 
per protected TB?  Anyone with real world data out there?  Sorry it is such an 
open question but anything you can give me is better than a stab inthe dark.

Regards

Steve

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Incremental Hyper-V Backups Like VMware - RFE Vote Please

[Storer, Raymond]

I would appreciate as many votes and watches as possible in order to get this 
feature added. Thanks for your consideration.


ID:34722

Headline:  Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Submitted on:  10 May 2013, 02:27 PM Eastern Time (ET)

Brand: Tivoli

Product:   Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family



Link:  
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=34722


Ray Storer
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stor...@nibco.com
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Re: Restore VM problems at D/R

[Storer, Raymond]

Bill, did you ever get this working? If not, did you try both the GUI and 
command line?

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R

Nope. It was backed up with 6.3 and attempting to restore with 6.3. even went 
so far as try the latest 6.3.0.16 patch. Plus the error isn't that specific. 
The error returned by the VADP api is "A specified parameter is not correct".  
It would be nice if it actually said WHAT parameter was incorrect.

Bill

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TSM
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:54 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R

It look like that:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC79885

Amos

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Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:31 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R

I'm able to restore some, but most of them. especially from the same datacenter 
fail with a very specific error message:



" A specified parameter was not correct"



Windows 2008 R2 server with the TSM 6.3 client loaded trying to restore VM's at 
a hot site. I just batch tried 39 different VM's and they all failed with this 
error.



VMware vStorage API error.



TSM Function visdkWaitForTask

TSM File vmvisdk.cpp (3785)

API return code 60

API error message "A specified parameter was not correct"



And vCenter doesn't tell me any more than that, either!!



Anyone seen this error or figured out a way to "guess" what vCenter doesn't 
like



Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
(610) 927-4407
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Re: Windows Batch for Admin Jobs.

[Storer, Raymond]

Andy,

What would you have this "daily" backup job do exactly? e.g. backup of specific 
drives or files, image backups, reporting requirements?

Ray

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Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Batch for Admin Jobs.

I have looked with no luck, does any know where I can see examples of TSM daily 
jobs written in Windows batch?  We prefer to run our scheduled jobs through an 
enterprise scheduler and all of the batch stuff I have is for AIX and I have 
not done Windows batch in a long time.


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Re: resrtore file security issue

[Storer, Raymond]

Tim,

If you have applied Domain security groups to files and folders you must put 
the server in the Domain for those DACLs to resolve. If you've applied user 
created local security groups to the files and folders you will likely need to 
perform a system state restore to get them back (built-in groups should not be 
a problem).

So long as you used built-in and Domain security groups on the files and 
folders and the server is in the Domain your security should resolve just fine.

Ray

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Brown
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 8:52 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] resrtore file security issue

Have Windows cluster on nodes OFFICE1 and OFFICE2. The cluster node is OFFICE. 
The SAN that holds the cluster drive

appears hosed and is being worked on with hopes of recovering. In the meantime 
we need to get the files restored elsewhere.



I had to use a separate non domain server called OFFICE. I first restored the 
cluster drives via dirsonly and noticed that in the folder security settings 
the AD user/group entries were all the ?? names. That's probably because the 
server was not in the domain but the

dirsonly restore brought back all the settings.



I later decided to start over and restore all folders and files and now the 
security settings are the same as the local server and those ?? AD entries are 
not present. Will all my security be gone after restore.



If I start over, do full dirs only restore of all folders and then restore with 
just files will the security mentioned above with dirs only

still be there.



Can one maintain AD security for files acrosss restores and different servers.



Or wouild I have to restore the full OFFICE1 server and systemstate and then 
restore the cluster drives to maintain all my security



Assistance appreciated !!



Thanks,



Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Anr0104e error 2 deleting row from table "Expiring.Objects"

[Storer, Raymond]

Below is an error in our TSM 5.5 server logs during a TDP for VE 6.2 full vm 
backup. I changed the node name on the client and the backup completed without 
error.

What else would you recommend I do to resolve this error or prevent it from 
happening again?

Thanks

Ray

Begin forwarded message:
9/18/2011 1:12:18 PM ANR0104E imbkins.c(6415): Error 2 deleting row from table 
"Expiring.Objects".
Here’s the IBM write up on the error.
 Cause
There is an orphaned entry in the Expire.Objects table.
Diagnosing the problem
Review the dsmerror.log and the server activity log for the errors mentioned 
above.
Resolving the problem
The following error states there is an orphaned entry in the database:
ANR0104E imbkins.c(6415): Error 2 deleting row from table "Expiring.Objects".

There are a few ways to resolve this issue.
1. Create a new node and use it for future backups of this system

2. Delete or rename the filespace so the next systemstate backup will start 
fresh - new filespace for systemstate will be created

3. Contact IBM support for other possible resolutions.


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Re: Windows scripting for snapshots

[Storer, Raymond]

Yes, diskpart should do the trick.

Diskpart /s script.txt

[script.txt]
RESCAN
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK #
ONLINE
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="SOME LABEL" QUICK
ASSIGN LETTER=A-Z
EXIT


The above is merely an example. I have not tried it. You will want to try the 
disk add manually to see the exact sequence. Please note, diskpart is not 
forgiving at all--if you make a mistake you will likely lose data.

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 3:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows scripting for snapshots

I have a customer that has a server with a very large (10TB) volume allocated 
on an XIV system. They want to backup this volume to TSM. He would like to 
create a snapshot of the volume in the XIV and mount that on the TSM server and 
then do an IMAGE backup directly to tape. But they want a way to script this. 
We can figure out the XCLI commands to create and map the snapshot, but the 
Winders command to get it mounted and a drive letter assigned is proving to be 
an issue.



Has anyone done anything similar to automate Windows disk manager in this 
fashion? Believe we would use DISKPART?





Bill Boyer

"Everyday is a Holiday. Every Formation a Parade. Every Meal a feast.. And.
Every Village has their idiot.." - ?


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Re: TSM/VE column name containing DOMAIN.VMFULL ?

[Storer, Raymond]

Keith, I added a column to my vCenter for the TSM Node name, assigned a generic 
TSM Node name to each vm (I use 4 nodes), and then used PowerCli to write out 
four batch files to get my hosts backed up. In this way, it doesn't matter 
which host the vm lives on (or moves to), the TSM Node name will never 
change--and, I can know the TSM Node name for any vm from the vShere Client by 
adding my new column to the display. I also wrote a few reporting scripts to 
check what backed up etc.

Anyway, I guess I say all that to say I prefer the generic TSM Node name 
approach.

Good luck!

Ray

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Arbogast
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:59 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/VE column name containing DOMAIN.VMFULL ?

This question is about the TSM for Virtual Environments architecture.

Is a table and column available which contains the DOMAIN.VMFULL option for a 
backup instance? DOMAIN.VMFULL contains the name of the ESX host which is to be 
backed up by the backup instance. That would ease the management of backup 
instances.


Thank you,
Keith Arbogast


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TSM 6.2.3 VMware VM Restore to Different VMware Server - Does it Work?

[Storer, Raymond]

According to the below link, there may be issues restoring a VM to a cluster 
configured differently from my production cluster (e.g., a DR site).
Has anyone else experienced this?
If it is an outstanding issue, does anyone know of a workaround or a fix from 
IBM?

http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?23586-Issues-restoring-VM-s-in-TSM-6.2.3&s=f1ed064f2110222a0e5d39031a5257d9

Ray

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TDP for Virtual Environments (VMware) - Indepenent Disk Backups - When?

[Storer, Raymond]

The current TDP for VE does not currently support backups for VMs with 
Independent disks. I'm curious if anyone knows when that will change? Or, if it 
will not change, perhaps an explanation why?

Thanks.

Ray

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Re: TSM and Exchange 2010

[Storer, Raymond]

Pete, did you see the IBM provided (and not supported!) PowerShell script for 
this?

See this link
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21433016

I have not personally used it as I'm not ( yet ) running 2010. I did give it 
the "once over", and it looked pretty good. You'd run it once from each of your 
four servers mentioned below and it would backup the passive database on each 
of them. If it found a problem with the passive it would backup the active 
instead. You could, of course, modify to suit your needs for reporting etc.

Ray

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Sheridan, Peter T.
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:31 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM and Exchange 2010

I know that there has been much discussion about this topic but was wondering 
if anybody has a step-by-step guide or an IBM Redbook to reference for using 
TSM to backup/restore Exchange 2010. I have read the users guide and am still 
quite confused.

My main confusion deals with how NOT to get multiple backups of the same 
database that can reside on difficult physical machines in a DAG configuration. 
Do you have to define a separate schedule and node name for each DB in a DAG 
and only backup the passive (or active copy) ? So, if I have a four node DAG 
with four databases in the following
configuration:

S1S2   S3  S4
--
DB1 (A)   DB1 (P)DB2 (A) DB2 (P)
DB3 (P)   DB3 (A)DB4 (P) DB4 (A)


Do you create eight node names: S1, S2, S3, S4, DB1, DB2, DB3, and DB4.
To get only one copy of DB1 backed up, run one schedule on S1 to backup Passive 
copy of DB1 and similar schedule on S2 to backup passive copy of DB2. Each 
night you will run two attempts but only get the passive copy even though you 
do not know what physical server it resides. Was also wondering if you need to 
run the schedules at different times since you will be trying to backup the 
same TSM nodename from 2 different physical servers ?

Difficult to explain but hope it makes sense. My goal is to only backup the 
passive copy of a DB even though that DB can reside on either physical server 
S1 or S2. Plus, any instructions to setup TDP for exchange 2010.

Thanks Pete.

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Re: TSM 6.2.2 client install disables 5.5 server

[Storer, Raymond]

Wanda, what happens if you perform a "Repair" install of the server software 
after the client upgrade? Is that even an option? ( Sorry, I don't run TSM 
server on Windows. )

Ray

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Prather, Wanda
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:08 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 client install disables 5.5 server

Oh, this is too weird.
TSM 5.5.4.2 server on Win2k3.
Just upgraded the client on the same box from 5.5 to 6.2.2 so we can use 
SNAPDIFF to back up a Netapp.

Installing the 6.2.2 CLIENT disables the SERVER.
Yep. Didn't think it was possible.
DSMSERV message is ANR8591, "IBM GSKIT V7 must be installed".
Here's the link I found to the hit:
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21442260

But the link it gives for the GSKIT patch doesn't' have an option for a Win2K3 
version.

Commenting COMMETHOD HTTP out in the dsmserv.opt didn't help.
Uninstalling 6.2.2 client reenables the server.
Repeatable.

Anybody else run into this? What was the fix?

wanda, slinking off into stunned silence


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Re: TSM & VMWare - Vstorage Api

[Storer, Raymond]

Yudi, are you using TDP for VMware? What version of the TSM Client are you 
using?

Ray

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Darmadi
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM & VMWare - Vstorage Api

Hi all,

Do you have any material / recomendation on how to config Vstorage Api for 
Vmware backups, how does it work, what's the impact for datastore (caused by 
the snapshot failure), or what's should be considered for this?

Thanks in advance,
Yudi Darmadi
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Re: Backup DFS

[Storer, Raymond]

I don't know TSM specifics, but here are a couple of Microsoft articles on the 
subject:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776211(WS.10).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969382

If nothing else, you can make TSM work around these guidelines. I'm pretty 
certain I saw some info in the TSM manual about backup and recovery of DFS 
Namespaces. You might want to give that a read.

Ray

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Amtrup Sørensen
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 6:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup DFS

Hi

Anyone who has some good links to: How to backup a DFS with Tivoli Storage 
Manager?

Alex


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Re: Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

[Storer, Raymond]

Good call. And, defrag is much improved on Server 2008.

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Raibeck
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 3:05 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

I really don't know what Windows 2008 or more h/w would bring to the table, but 
for the file system performance itself, it might be worth running a defrag -- 
at least the analysis portion -- to see what the file system and MFT 
fragmentation looks like. Advanced defrag tools can also defrag the MFT, that 
might help speed up performance (by how much, I couldn't say...
75 million files is a lot no matter how you slice it).

Best regards,

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 2011-02-25
14:34:46:

> From: "Prather, Wanda" 
> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
> Date: 2011-02-25 14:38
> Subject: Re: Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>
> Thanks for the reply and the reference; I'll read that.
> It's a 32 bit system.
> Do you think adding RAM will help with the issues navigating the file
tree?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Storer, Raymond
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and
Win2K8...
>
> Wanda, is this a 32 or 64 bit system? An NTFS file system will support
> about 4 Billion files on a single volume http://
> technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx . If you are
> having performance issues with this and you can switch it to a 64bit
> platform and add loads of RAM, I would do it.
>
> Ray
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Prather, Wanda
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:03 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...
>
> I have a site with an application that generates kazillions of tiny
> files that are stored forever.
> I've already yelled about it, but it's a purchased, customer-facing
> black-box app that they really can't change.
> (Naturally, when it was bought umpty years ago, nobody thought about
> the problem reaching this size or what the ramifications would be.)
> Every day the app creates more files.
>
> They have multiple Win2K3 servers that already have multiple luns
> containing over 35M files each, one is over 75M files.
>
> We are using journaling to back them up successfully (most days).
> But it's a struggle just to expand the file tree with Windows
> explorer, and there are exposures on the days when the journal gets
> overrun (takes 72 hours for TSM to scan the filesystem and revalidate
> the journal).
>
> Looking for anything that might help save our bacon.
>
> Has anybody had experience with this issue and Win2K8?
> Does Win2K8 do any better than Win2K3 at handling huge numbers of
> files in 1 NTFS directory?
> Upgrading the OS is something application-independent we might be able
> to
do.
>
> Thanks for any insight!
> W
>
>
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Re: Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

[Storer, Raymond]

Wanda, please have your server admins perform some performance troubleshooting 
to see what might gain you the most improvements. Here is a link to help:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779038(WS.10).aspx

If you can't make heads or tails of this I'll try to help.
Also, there are some simple things that you'll want to check--e.g. indexing 
service(off), anti-virus(exclude directory with all those files). If possible, 
I would consider moving to a 64bit platform. While it will not solve any 
potential spindle problems, it will allow you to put more usable RAM on the 
system and hold more data in RAM for caching.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:35 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

Thanks for the reply and the reference; I'll read that.
It's a 32 bit system.
Do you think adding RAM will help with the issues navigating the file tree?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Storer, Raymond
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

Wanda, is this a 32 or 64 bit system? An NTFS file system will support about 4 
Billion files on a single volume 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx . If you are 
having performance issues with this and you can switch it to a 64bit platform 
and add loads of RAM, I would do it.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

I have a site with an application that generates kazillions of tiny files that 
are stored forever.
I've already yelled about it, but it's a purchased, customer-facing black-box 
app that they really can't change.
(Naturally, when it was bought umpty years ago, nobody thought about the 
problem reaching this size or what the ramifications would be.)  Every day the 
app creates more files.

They have multiple Win2K3 servers that already have multiple luns containing 
over 35M files each, one is over 75M files.

We are using journaling to back them up successfully (most days).
But it's a struggle just to expand the file tree with Windows explorer, and 
there are exposures on the days when the journal gets overrun (takes 72 hours 
for TSM to scan the filesystem and revalidate the journal).

Looking for anything that might help save our bacon.

Has anybody had experience with this issue and Win2K8?
Does Win2K8 do any better than Win2K3 at handling huge numbers of files in 1 
NTFS directory?
Upgrading the OS is something application-independent we might be able to do.

Thanks for any insight!
W


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wprat...@icfi.com<mailto:wprat...@icfi.com>  |  www.jasi.com 
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Re: Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

[Storer, Raymond]

Wanda, is this a 32 or 64 bit system? An NTFS file system will support about 4 
Billion files on a single volume 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx . If you are 
having performance issues with this and you can switch it to a 64bit platform 
and add loads of RAM, I would do it.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and Win2K8...

I have a site with an application that generates kazillions of tiny files that 
are stored forever.
I've already yelled about it, but it's a purchased, customer-facing black-box 
app that they really can't change.
(Naturally, when it was bought umpty years ago, nobody thought about the 
problem reaching this size or what the ramifications would be.)  Every day the 
app creates more files.

They have multiple Win2K3 servers that already have multiple luns containing 
over 35M files each, one is over 75M files.

We are using journaling to back them up successfully (most days).
But it's a struggle just to expand the file tree with Windows explorer, and 
there are exposures on the days when the journal gets overrun (takes 72 hours 
for TSM to scan the filesystem and revalidate the journal).

Looking for anything that might help save our bacon.

Has anybody had experience with this issue and Win2K8?
Does Win2K8 do any better than Win2K3 at handling huge numbers of files in 1 
NTFS directory?
Upgrading the OS is something application-independent we might be able to do.

Thanks for any insight!
W


Wanda Prather  |  Senior Technical Specialist  | 
wprat...@icfi.com  |  www.jasi.com 
ICF Jacob & Sundstrom  | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 
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Image Backup and Restore of Windows Basic and Dynamic Disks

[Storer, Raymond]

I currently perform image backups of a Windows "basic" disk that is 500GB in 
size (and about 25GB free). Would an image restore to a "dynamic" disk work? 
Or, would you recommend that I just convert the "basic" disk to "dynamic"? Does 
TSM image backup and restore work well with "dynamic" disks? If anyone has any 
experiences with this I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks.

Ray

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Re: VCB Incrementals: Is there a log of what is backed up?

[Storer, Raymond]

Danny, are you running the backups on a client-side schedule or a TSM server 
prompted schedule? If you are using a client side script, simply redirect the 
output from dsmc to a text file by using ">> full_path_and_file_name" at the 
end of the dsmc command line in the client side script.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Danny 
Schmanny
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VCB Incrementals: Is there a log of what is backed up?

Greetings All:

When a backup TSM agent is loaded on a backup client, we can see the results of 
an incremental backup in a log file that is stored on the client (i.e. 
dsmsched.log).

When we run a VCB incremental from the proxy server, there doesn't appear to be 
any log on the client of the files backed up (i.e. no dsmsched.log and no other 
pertinent log file that I can see).  There also does not appear to be any log 
on the proxy server of the VCB incremental files being backed on the clients.

How can we determine what is being backed up when VCB incrementals are run from 
the proxy server? We would like to determine if we need to exclude certain 
files/directories from being backed up.  Do we have to resort to using Windows 
Explorer on the VM to see what is there?  My supervisor does not like that as 
an answer and is thinking we are possibly missing a simpler solution.

Any ideas on what we have possibly overlooked would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Danny Schmanny


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Re: VM backup scheduling setup

[Storer, Raymond]

If you are using client-side scripts you can set an environment variable to 
tell it which dsm.opt file to use. On Windows that would like similar to this:
SET DSM_CONFIG=C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSMv5.5.0.6\baclient\dsm-friday.opt

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 8:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VM backup scheduling setup

Hello

We have nightly backup  vm incremental schedule (mon-thur) with a
dsm.opt  set up fro incremental backup.

We also have a schedule set up for a Full- VM backup for fridays only
with a seperates dsm.opt.

Question  - How do set it up so it will know that on Fridays the
schedule Automatically knows to use the full - vm dsm.opt and NOT the
incremental dsm.opt

I just want to make sure the Friday Full VM backup  starts/runs with the
correct dsm.opt file  and the Incremental backup schedule does not.


Thanks


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Re: BMR restore of Win 2008

[Storer, Raymond]

David, if you are not running these machines in a VM I'd recommend using 
Microsoft's built-in Backup and Recovery tools for Windows Server 2008. You can 
then use TSM to copy the resultant files to tape if you so desire.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
E Ehresman
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:35 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] BMR restore of Win 2008

With the loss of ASR for Win 2008, what are folks doing for BMR of these
machines?  Is the loss of ASR a TSM thing or a Microsoft thing?  What is
Microsoft recommending for BMR of 2008?

David


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Re: DR Plan for Virtual Exchange 2010 Servers

[Storer, Raymond]

Danny, you do not perform VMware snapshots of the drives that contain your 
Exchange databases do you? If so, I'd turn VMware snapshots off for those 
drives if at all possible. I would perform a standard VMware restore of your 
Exchange VMs. Then, I'd follow Microsoft's and Tivoli's recommendations for 
restoring your Exchange data stores. Also, are you backing up the Exchange logs 
between the incrementals? If not, you might consider it depending on your 
tolerance for email loss between the time the last incremental occurred and the 
time Exchange died.

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Danny 
Schmanny
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 11:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] DR Plan for Virtual Exchange 2010 Servers

Greetings to all:

In a nutshell: I need to test DR for Virtual Exchange 2010 servers hosted on 
VMWare VSphere version 4.0.

I have daily VCB backups of the mailbox servers and daily TSM/VSS incremental 
backups of the actual mailbox databases.

Is there any online documentation or DR checklist available to help me get 
started?
Should I be using a better TSM/VSS method of backups to simplify the DR process?
Am I in store for a lot of weeping and gnashing of my teeth?

Please see the results of 3 tdpexcc commands from one of our mailbox servers 
below.  Any push in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Danny Schmanny

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange>tdpexcc q tsm

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved.

ACN5057I The C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\tdpexc.log log file has 
been pruned successfully.

Tivoli Storage Manager Server Connection Information


Nodename ... EXMBX02_EXCH NetWork Host Name of 
Server  10.x.x.xx TSM API Version  Version 
6, Release 2, Level 1.0

Server Name  STORSERVER Server Type 
 Windows Server Version . 
Version 5, Release 5, Level 5.0 Compression Mode ... Client 
Determined Domain Name  EXCH-MAIL-STORE Active 
Policy Set .. STANDARD Default Management Class 
... STANDARD

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange>tdpexcc q tdp

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved.

Data Protection for Exchange Preferences


BACKUPDESTination... TSM BACKUPMETHod 
VSS DATEformat . 1 LANGuage ... 
ENU LOCALDSMAgentnode... EXMBX02 LOGFile 
 tdpexc.log LOGPrune ... 60 
MOUNTWait .. Yes NUMberformat ... 1 
REMOTEDSMAgentnode..
TEMPDBRestorepath...
TEMPLOGRestorepath..
TIMEformat . 1

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange>tdpexcc q exchange

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved.

Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait...

Microsoft Exchange Server Information
-

Server Name: EXMBX02
Domain Name: lgex.internal
Exchange Server Version: 14.0.702.1   (Exchange Server 2010)

Databases and Status


BERKSHIRE_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   BERKSHIRE_MAILBOX Online

CHARDON_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   CHARDON_MAILBOX   Online

KENSTON_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   KENSTON_MAILBOX   Online

LEDGEMONT_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   LEDGEMONT_MAILBOX Online

MADISON_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   MADISON_MAILBOX   Online

Mailbox Database 2039219976
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   Mailbox Database 2039219976   Online

MEDINA_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - False
   MEDINA_MAILBOXOnline

NEWBURY_MAILBOX
 Circular Logging - Disabled
 DAG Status - None
 Recovery - Fal

Re: Using TSM to restore a mailbox

[Storer, Raymond]

David,

Please give these two links a read. I believe you'll find them very instructive.

Cmd line
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997694(EXCHG.80).aspx

Gui
http://www.petri.co.il/using_rsg_in_exchange_2007.htm


Ray


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, 
David
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:35 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Using TSM to restore a mailbox

We are in the process of transitioning from Exchange
2000 to Exchange 2007. Our TSM server is at 5.5.4.1 (we are going to 6.x within 
6 months or so). We are currently doing legacy backups using the 5.x TDP for 
Exchange. We plan to start out doing legacy backups with the 6.x TDP on the new 
server and then switch over to VSS once we get the 6.x TSM server up and 
running.

Currently if a user "accidently" deletes something from their 
mailbox we use a product called Exchange Recovery Manager from a company called 
Quest. I do a TSM restore of an older Exchange backup into the Quest recovery 
manager and I can then bring back whatever the user lost. We have never used 
the Quest product as a part of our DR plan, we only use it for "accident" prone 
users.

At this point we are just learning about all the new features 
in Exchange 2007 and one of the items we are looking at is the Recovery Storage 
Group within Exchange 2007.

It appears that we can use that group to do essentially the 
same thing as the Quest product for our "accident" prone users. It looks like 
we can do a restore from backup into the Recovery Storage Group and then 
restore mailboxes and or emails.

Are we going down the right road or our we completely off base 
here?

Thanks





David Tyree
Interface Analyst
South Georgia Medical Center
229.333.1155

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Re: Windows 2008 Cluster Backup won't start

[Storer, Raymond]

I see your "exclude" statements below. I do not see any "include" statements. 
Do you include the directories for your SQL data? If you perform a backup 
command manually does it work as expected?

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:57 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows 2008 Cluster Backup won't start

  Hello all,

We have been having a issue with a Windows 2008 Cluster setup for about
5 nights. All the backups run except the cluster backup ("SSENT-B-CLUSTER")

no errors
the backups schedules without error
but the backup never kicks off. nothing happens
on the tsm server it looks like it creates a session and immediately
terminates it. nothing appears on the client.
The setup and logs are below can anyone give advice or comment on what
could possibly be wrong.

the cluster is on the E drive
E:\TSM\

dsmerror.log (nothing in there)
09/21/2010 10:09:01 ANS1577I The Windows console event handler received
a 'Shutdown' console event.
09/21/2010 10:09:01 ANS2820E An interrupt has occurred. The current
operation will end and the
client will shut down.
09/21/2010 10:33:04 ANS1577I The Windows console event handler received
a 'Shutdown' console event.
09/21/2010 10:33:04 ANS2820E An interrupt has occurred. The current
operation will end and the
client will shut down.


Shows it ready to start


09/21/2010 10:33:04 ANS1577I The Windows console event handler received
a 'Shutdown' console event.
09/21/2010 10:33:04 ANS2820E An interrupt has occurred. The current
operation will end and the
client will shut down.

09/21/2010 22:00:22 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN
09/21/2010 22:00:22 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END
09/21/2010 22:00:22 Next operation scheduled:
09/21/2010 22:00:22

09/21/2010 22:00:22 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT
09/21/2010 22:00:22 Action: Command
09/21/2010 22:00:22 Objects: c:\sqlfull.cmd
09/21/2010 22:00:22 Options:
09/21/2010 22:00:22 Server Window Start: 22:00:00 on 09/22/2010
09/21/2010 22:00:22

09/21/2010 22:00:22 Waiting to be contacted by the server.






NODename SSENT-B-SQL
CLUSTERnode YES
PASSWORDAccess Generate
errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql\dsmerror.log
SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql\dsmsched.log
errorlogretention 14
schedlogretention 7


COMMMethod TCPip
TCPServeraddress XX.XX.XX.XX
TCPPort 1500
TCPWindowsize 63
TCPBuffSize 32


*COMMMethod NAMEdpipe
*NAMedpipename \\.\pipe\tsmpipe


COMPRESSIon Yes
*COMPRESSAlways NO


SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
TCPCLIENTADDRESS XX.XX.XX.XX
TCPCLIENTPORT 1502



EXCLUDE "\...\Northwind\...\*"
EXCLUDE "\...\pubs\...\*"
EXCLUDE "\...\master\...\*"


Windows 6.2.0.0 client
Windows 2008 server

thanks


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Re: TSM Client for Windows 6.2 and Windows 7 Power Management - does the CAD dream of scheduled backups?

[Storer, Raymond]

If you can choose to have the client run the task instead of having the CAD run 
it, I'd setup a task on the client to run and "wake-up" the machine to run it 
if it is not running. If that is not an option, you might try some 
"wake-on-lan" option.

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Robert 
Talda
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Client for Windows 6.2 and Windows 7 Power Management - 
does the CAD dream of scheduled backups?

(Apologies to Philip Dick)

Folks:
  We are struggling here with the bewildering variety of power management 
options introduced in Windows 7.  In particular, we are trying to determine 
what settings enable a scheduled backup when said backup is managed by the TSM 
Client Acceptor service (CAD).

  Has anyone determined the {set of} Windows 7 power maangement settings that 
allow scheduled backups to work?

  Thanks in advance!


--
Robert (Bob) Talda
EZ-Backup Team
Cornell University
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Re: TDP for Exchange single mailbox restore failure

[Storer, Raymond]

Can you mount the database? If so, perhaps you could perform some queries on 
the database to confirm the mailbox is there. If it is there, see if you can 
convince Exchange to move/restore it to another database. I have not tried to 
restore an email account to a child domain. When backed up, does the email 
account reside in the parent or child domain?

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Stackwick, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange single mailbox restore failure

Like the post says, I'm trying to restore a single mailbox from an Exchange 
2007 server. Everything up-to-date: client 6.2.1, TDP 6.1.2. I'm pretty sure I 
got all the pre-reqs down for a restore, but here's the thing: I can restore a 
mailbox in my AD OU, but not in a child domain. TDP restores the proper mailbox 
database just fine (I can use other tools to extract the correct mailbox), but 
then complains that it can't find the mailbox in the database.

I've got a PMR open with Tivoli, but they seem to think it's a Microsoft 
problem. I admit, I'm no Windows admin, but this seems like it should work.

Steve

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Re: Backing up Exchange 2007 with TSM

[Storer, Raymond]

Eric, we use TDP for Exchange 5.5.x on our Exchange 2007 servers. We have about 
450GB spread over 10 databases that we perform a full backup on every night. 
During the day, we perform a standard TSM 5.5.x client backup of our logs every 
hour. The nightly fulls take about seven hours. My Exchange database is hosted 
on several LUNS over a 4Gb SAN.

Since our data fits into a backup window where users are not impacted by the 
full backup I did not implement TDP for Exchange on the passive node of our CCR 
cluster. TDP for Exchange does support that configuration if you need to take 
the backup load off your primary server.

Ray

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Vaughn
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Exchange 2007 with TSM

Hello,
Can anyone give me insight as to what products TSM has in conjunction with 
backing up Exchange 2007 with TSM? We have migrated off of groupwise and now 
have implemented Exchange. My concern with using the windows Baclient that we 
normally use with TSM will not back up exchange they way I would like. Since 
TSM would be backing up exchanges .edb files and transaction logs my concern is 
that the initial 700 gb backup will potentially grow out of control, even if I 
stager days. Does ibm offer a product that reads just the incremental changes 
of the database files as to limit the massive amount of space rather than 
backing up each .edb file each night, since tsm will see it as a new file and 
not a change (since TSM does incremental changes)? Or does anyone have any 
guidance as to what they have implemented? I also don't believe that a snapshot 
would be a solution either. Any help would be much appreciated.

Eric Vaughn
System Administrator
Stevenson University
44-334-2301


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Re: Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

[Storer, Raymond]

Tim, yes; you can use the VMware disk mount utility to mount a VMDK file to 
retrieve client files from it. When you do, Windows just sees the VMDK as 
another hard drive on the local system. You can then use Windows Explorer to 
copy whatever you want from the VMDK.

Ray

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Timothy Hughes
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:36 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

  Ray thanks, I think you really answered it  especially with the following 
lines.


If file level restore is something the application/data owner for a particular 
VM desires I'd strongly recommend using the TSM client inside that VM to 
perform backups as you would any other physical server.
Recovering client files from a VCB backup is a pain.

We were ask to  start doing Incremental/Full VM backups on a server that was 
backing up on a different TSM Server  than the VCB Proxy Machine.
Now normally we would just dissociate the node and it node to that TSM Server 
that the VCB proxy machine is on no problem. However this node (and two nodes 
others)  is also on a different network tier. So unable to use the  TSM client 
we get that tcpip communications failure between the client and server machine 
message"  when we try to use the GUI wizard to continue configuring the TSM 
client and the following

C:\Program Files\tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc I Node Name: SIJ409 ANS1017E Session 
rejected: TCP/IP connection failure


So when Recovering client files from a VCB without the TSM Client this tool 
would be used correct?

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/disk_mount_utility_5_5_driver_tools/JSp=iZGR0cGJkcCo=
)

Tim

On 8/5/2010 9:15 AM, Storer, Raymond wrote:
> Tim, I'm not certain what you are trying to achieve. So, I will state what I 
> understand you are trying to do and perhaps you can fill in my gaps of 
> understanding in your reply.
>
> You have a VMware ESX host (at least one) with one or more VMs on it in which 
> you wish to perform Full VM backups using TSM client and VCB on a  VCB Proxy 
> machine. So, you schedule a VCB backup of your VM(s) and VCBMOUNTER copies 
> the various VMDKs etc files to your VCB Proxy machine. Then, the TSM client 
> on the VCB Proxy machine sends those files to TSM. At a later date you 
> discover you'd like to restore either the entire VM or certain files within 
> the VM. So, you use TSM client on the VCB Proxy to retrieve the entire set of 
> VMDK and other files that comprise that VM and save them to your VCB Proxy 
> machine. If you are restoring the entire machine, you could use VMware's 
> converter or VCBRestore to send the restored VMDKs etc to the ESX host and 
> you are done. (You cannot just copy the restored files to ESX and expect them 
> to run, they will not.) If you are restoring a client file or multiple files 
> in the VM, you must use a tool (e.g. VMware's disk-mount - 
> http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/disk_mount_utility_5_5_driver_tools/JSpiZGR0cGJkcCo=
>  ) to mount the restored VMDKs on the VCB Proxy, peruse the newly mounted 
> drive, and copy the file(s) you want to the currently running VM.
>
> If file level restore is something the application/data owner for a 
> particular VM desires I'd strongly recommend using the TSM client inside that 
> VM to perform backups as you would any other physical server. Recovering 
> client files from a VCB backup is a pain.
>
> What am I missing, Tim?
>
> Ray
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Timothy Hughes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:56 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client
> installed
>
>Ray Thanks,
>
> Yes this helps, What about the "normal" TSM backup client files not
> the "VM\VCB" files will this work with restoring them even though no
> client is installed? (I hope this doesn't confuse you)
>
> I may be the one who is confused  I picture the vm/vcb  files being separate 
> from the normal TSM Client Backup files.
>
> thanks again!
>
>
> On 8/4/2010 3:12 PM, Storer, Raymond wrote:
>> Tim, do you mean you are performing VCB backups of guest machines and you 
>> want to restore a specific file from one of those backups? If so, you can 
>> mount the VMDK files once you restore them to your VCB proxy computer. I 
>> don't have the link, but you can search VMware's web site on VCB backup and 
>> restore.
>>
>> I also found this new tool (which I have *no* experience with):
>> http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/
>>
>> Ra

Re: Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

[Storer, Raymond]

Tim, I'm not certain what you are trying to achieve. So, I will state what I 
understand you are trying to do and perhaps you can fill in my gaps of 
understanding in your reply.

You have a VMware ESX host (at least one) with one or more VMs on it in which 
you wish to perform Full VM backups using TSM client and VCB on a  VCB Proxy 
machine. So, you schedule a VCB backup of your VM(s) and VCBMOUNTER copies the 
various VMDKs etc files to your VCB Proxy machine. Then, the TSM client on the 
VCB Proxy machine sends those files to TSM. At a later date you discover you'd 
like to restore either the entire VM or certain files within the VM. So, you 
use TSM client on the VCB Proxy to retrieve the entire set of VMDK and other 
files that comprise that VM and save them to your VCB Proxy machine. If you are 
restoring the entire machine, you could use VMware's converter or VCBRestore to 
send the restored VMDKs etc to the ESX host and you are done. (You cannot just 
copy the restored files to ESX and expect them to run, they will not.) If you 
are restoring a client file or multiple files in the VM, you must use a tool 
(e.g. VMware's disk-mount - 
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/disk_mount_utility_5_5_driver_tools/JSpiZGR0cGJkcCo=
 ) to mount the restored VMDKs on the VCB Proxy, peruse the newly mounted 
drive, and copy the file(s) you want to the currently running VM.

If file level restore is something the application/data owner for a particular 
VM desires I'd strongly recommend using the TSM client inside that VM to 
perform backups as you would any other physical server. Recovering client files 
from a VCB backup is a pain.

What am I missing, Tim?

Ray

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Timothy Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

  Ray Thanks,

Yes this helps, What about the "normal" TSM backup client files not the 
"VM\VCB" files will this work with restoring them even though no client is 
installed? (I hope this doesn't confuse you)

I may be the one who is confused  I picture the vm/vcb  files being separate 
from the normal TSM Client Backup files.

thanks again!


On 8/4/2010 3:12 PM, Storer, Raymond wrote:
> Tim, do you mean you are performing VCB backups of guest machines and you 
> want to restore a specific file from one of those backups? If so, you can 
> mount the VMDK files once you restore them to your VCB proxy computer. I 
> don't have the link, but you can search VMware's web site on VCB backup and 
> restore.
>
> I also found this new tool (which I have *no* experience with):
> http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/
>
> Ray
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Timothy Hughes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:30 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client
> installed
>
>Steve thanks,
>
> Do you know if there are any instructions/manuals on how to do this without 
> the Client installed?
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
>
> On 8/3/2010 3:32 PM, Schaub, Steve wrote:
>> No, but I'm using the Storserver for VCB Agent, which makes it pretty easy.
>>
>> Steve Schaub
>> Systems Engineer II, Windows
>> BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
>> Of Timothy Hughes
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 2:58 PM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client
>> installed
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Does anyone have any issues/problems  with doing file-level restores
>> without the TSM Client installed?
>>
>>
>> TSM version 6.2
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any comments in advance!
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Re: Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

[Storer, Raymond]

Tim, do you mean you are performing VCB backups of guest machines and you want 
to restore a specific file from one of those backups? If so, you can mount the 
VMDK files once you restore them to your VCB proxy computer. I don't have the 
link, but you can search VMware's web site on VCB backup and restore.

I also found this new tool (which I have *no* experience with):
http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/

Ray

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:30 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client installed

  Steve thanks,

Do you know if there are any instructions/manuals on how to do this without the 
Client installed?

Thanks
Tim


On 8/3/2010 3:32 PM, Schaub, Steve wrote:
> No, but I'm using the Storserver for VCB Agent, which makes it pretty easy.
>
> Steve Schaub
> Systems Engineer II, Windows
> BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
> Of Timothy Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 2:58 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Incremental and Full VM backups - no TSM client
> installed
>
>Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have any issues/problems  with doing file-level restores
> without the TSM Client installed?
>
>
> TSM version 6.2
>
>
> Thanks for any comments in advance!
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Re: MS Server 2003, cluster & running out of space...Compression & TSM baclient

[Storer, Raymond]

Lisa, my file server used to be clustered, have compressed drives, and used TSM 
baclient 5.5 for incremental and image backups and restores without issue. We 
have since virtualized it and it is no longer clustered. The drives are still 
compressed and we are still using TSM baclient 5.5 for both incremental and 
image backups and restore without issue.

I think the only thing I would caution you about is be weary of how much disk 
space you have left vs. how much you are trying to compress. I've seen drives 
fill during a compress operation because there is not enough free space to hold 
(temporarily) both the original and compressed version of the file(s) during 
the compress operation. You'll probably be fine; but, I just wanted to mention 
it.

Ray

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Laughlin, Lisa
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 8:09 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] MS Server 2003, cluster & running out of space...Compression 
& TSM baclient

Good Morning TSMers!

We are running really low on space on our clustered user drive.  I was thinking 
we could do the MS compression on the entire drive to get some space till we 
move to DFS on 2008.

One of my co-workers said that the reason that this hasn't already been tried 
is that there is some kind of issue with TSM-either the backups or the restores 
"don't work right".

I am unable to confirm/deny issue via Google... Anyone have anything definitive 
on this? Point me where to hunt for documentation??

I'm not coming across anything on IBM's Tivoli portal, and the issue doesn't 
ring any bells for me.



thanks!
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Re: VCB backups and systemstate

[Storer, Raymond]

If you are running Active Directory (a domain controller) in a VM and you want 
to backup AD you have two options:
 1. System state
 2. Turn off the VM and backup the entire set of VMDK files etc that 
comprise that VM.
Neither Microsoft nor VMware support snapshot backups (VCBs) of a running 
Active Directory VM.

I should mention, however, that without a system state backup it is impossible 
to perform an authoritative restore of your Active Directory. So, I would 
*strongly* recommend a system state backup of your Active Directory server. 
And, if your DNS is Active Directory integrated, I'd recommend exporting your 
DNS configuration, zones, etc. to files and backing that up too.

Ray

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Prather, Wanda
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:46 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VCB backups and systemstate

I'm glad you brought that up.  I asked a lot of people that question, discussed 
it at our local user group, and we've done some testing.  Other people may have 
different opinions, as the entire VMWare world is a very quickly evolving 
moving target, so I'd be glad of some discussion here.

First, VCB is going away.  It's available in VMWARE 3.x, and 4.0, but will be 
gone by VMWARE 4.1 (or 4.2, sorry don't remember which one), which is supposed 
to be out THIS year.   VMWare starting at 4.0 provides the VStorage API, which 
TSM 6.2 uses, so do all the 3rd party VMWare backup products.  So I assume you 
just mean "in a VMWARE environment".

There are 3 ways to back up VM's right now (in this context, meaning Virtual 
Windows machines running under a version of VMWARE).

A) you can put a TSM client on the VM and run it like you would on a physical 
machine.

In this case, the TSM client doesn't know it's on a VM.  Systemstate is backed 
up by default.  (You can always turn it off).
This is typically how folks have dealt with test and dev non-critical VM's.  
It's easy and doesn't require any retraining for folks.

I didn't know whether you actually COULD restore systemstate to a running VM, 
but we had a customer who needed to do it (because of a failure with their 
other VMWare backup software), so they did it.  It does work, although as I 
recall there was some slight registry tweak that was required afterwards.  It's 
not something you would normally do (read on).

B) You can use a 3rd party tool or the TSM client (and a proxy server) to run 
file-level backups of a VM

The way this works is by mounting the image of the virtual drives of the client 
to the "proxy" machine across the SAN, and backing them up with the TSM client 
(very similar to what happens if you use the TSM client to backup a network 
share that resides on another machine).  So you only get a backup of the 
drives, you don't get a backup of systemstate.

My customers haven't found this to be very useful yet; it's difficult and 
time-consuming to set up at the TSM 6.1 level; haven't worked with the 6.2 
client improvements yet.  The benefits of proxy backup is to offload the work 
from the VM, but TSM incremental-forever backups aren't usually that 
resource-consuming anyway.  VDR (the backup tool built into VSphere4 
Enterprise) does file-level backups and dedups them to a disk repository, which 
I think is where most of the 3rd party VM products are headed.  Again you don't 
get a backup of systemstate. (You don't need it, read on.)

C)  You use the TSM VCB client, the TSM 6.2.x client that comes out later this 
year, or a 3rd party product to do VM image-level backups.  (You can also just 
use VMWare to just snap copies of a virtual machine to disk, without ever 
moving those copies to your backup media.) There is no separate backup of 
systemstate, but it's part of the image.

This is what customers with VM's of production machines really want and need.
An image-level backup of a VM is essentially a copy of the .vmdk file 
containing the VM.  It's a wonderful thing to have because it's hardware 
independent.  Instead of having to go to a DR site and rebuild your Windows 
boxen with bare-metal restore and deal with the unlike-hardware issues, you 
just take that .vmdk file and plop it onto another ESX server.  No more dealing 
with unlike hardware.

A lot of VM admins routinely do snaps to disk of the VM's, say before they do a 
software upgrade on a VM.  If you have  a problem, instead of having to restore 
the machine, you just reload the VM.  The reload is not instantaneous by any 
means, but it's a lot faster than a restore.
If you lose a production VM, the appropriate thing to do (in my opinion) is to 
restore from the last vm image backup, and roll files forward from the 
incrementals.  Much faster and more likely to succeed than a bare-metal Windows 
restore.


Open questions:

Third-party image level backups are the way to go, IMHO, at least until we get 
a look at the TSM image backup projected for the 

Re: Large fileserver on VMware design questions

[Storer, Raymond]

Steven, if you are running in a Windows Server 2003 ( or greater ) functional 
level Windows Domain you might consider setting up several smaller file servers 
and implementing DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication too.

Ray

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Re: ESXi and ESX

[Storer, Raymond]

Tim, when it comes to VCB backups so long as your VCB Proxy can "see" the disk 
the VM is on you can perform a VCB backup of it. If not, you can't.

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ESXi and ESX

Question,

Is there any documentation on backing up a VM that's on a different TSM Server 
that the PROXY or the VCB server? Both the Proxy and the VCB server's are 
Windows boxes.

Tim





Prather, Wanda wrote:

>HI Alan.
>
>Most of my customers who are moving into VM for production systems
>need/want "full" VM backups as well as TSM-type  file-level backups.
>The "full" VM backup is an image backup of the .vmdk file containing
>the VM guest.
>
>The horror of running production apps on Windows is the dreaded DR
>situation.
>Since MS doesn't have a supported method for doing Bare-metal recovery
>to different hardware, recovery of a Windows system to different
>hardware at DR is a slow, multi-step process prone to complications.
>However, if you have a copy of the .vmdk, you can drop it back onto an
>ESX server at DR, in one step, and you DON"T have to deal with the move
>to unlike hardware and the universe of issues dealing with Windows
>system state.
>
>And you can't get those .vmdk images with the TSM client.  While it is
>possible to do file-by-file BMR for a VM guest, it's not something I'd
>recommend if .vmdk images are available.
>
>TSM file-level backups are still useful for versioning.  I have 2
>customers using TSM (installed on the guest in the normal way) for the
>VM file-level backups, and full VM's for DR.
>
>The problem with using VCB, is that doing those full VM's puts you back
>into the business of dumping LOTS of data every week.
>
>I much prefer the use of VDR, which is VM's replacement tool for
>backups in V4.  With VDR you get your fullvm's, but deduped into a disk
>repository.  Then you back up the repository using TSM subfile backup.
>Your first step then at DR, is to restore the repository from TSM tape.
>Etc.
>
>If you need more info, feel free to contact me directly.
>
>Wanda
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf
>Of Allen S. Rout
>Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:14 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ESXi and ESX
>
>
>
>>>On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:41:48 +0200, louw pretorius 
>>>
>>>
>said:
>
>
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>>1. VCB is still officially the "right" way for backing up VM's from
>>VMware's (and IBM's) perspective and TSM 6.2 has some nice
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>enhancements
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>>to get this done.
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>I'm aware that using VCB permits you to shift backup work from "the
>real server" to some proxy.  Is there any other reason to prefer VCB to
>simply managing your guests like any other machine?
>
>
>- Allen S. Rout
>
>


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Re: Backing up Light Speed compressed files

[Storer, Raymond]

If you are using compression (hardware or other), turn it off for this backup 
set.

Ray

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
Longo
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Light Speed compressed files

I have never been concerned with compressed files, never used  compression on 
TSM - except on my  LTO tapes.

Now, we have a new situation. We have had a client with SQL DB and the DBA's do 
the dumps to disk and I pick up.  (Can't use TDP SQL, long story.)  The dumps 
were lately (6) 200 GB files, total 1.2 TB and growing daily.  Took about 11 
hours to backup directly to LTO2 tapes.

DBA's just implemented using Quest's Light Speed using their Level 4 
compression - whatever that is.  The dumps are now (4) 62 GB files, so about a 
5 to 1 compression.

The TSM backup took much less time, but not as much less as expected.
When the offsite copy was made, LTO2 to LTO2, I found out why.
For a certain file size, it takes twice as long to back it up for a compressed 
file as an uncompressed file.

For more info, on the LTO2 tapes, before we would get just over 700 GB on them, 
now just over 200 GB.  (Using q vol stats).  I kinew it would be less obviously.

Anybody know why takes twice as long?  Is there a way to speed it up?

Thanks,
David Longo



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Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

[Storer, Raymond]

Can you RAR or tar/gzip the entire directory and then backup that one file? Is 
adding more RAM to the box an option?

Some file server optimizations ( not tested by me ):
http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp/archive/2009/04/24/windows-file-server-performance-optimization.aspx

Ray

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Gary D.
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Trouble backing up large directory tree

Tsm client 6.2, server v5.5.4.
Client os win 2003 server SUSe sles9 under vm 5.3.

I have a directory tree, don't know how large, tried a dir/s to get a file 
count, stopped it after 35 minutes.

Getting ans1030e  during backup.

Have already tried memoryefficientbackup yes in dsm.opt.

And, restructuring is out of the question.  This is a blackboard server and 
application created and managed.

Where do I go from here?

Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310



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Re: Restoring an server-image with BartPE

[Storer, Raymond]

I would use that same BartPE disk to determine if you can read the newly 
restored disk after the restore. If so, I would attempt to fix the boot sector 
as you mentioned below by booting a Windows Server 2008 R2 CD and running 
through the various options to fix the boot sector.

Good luck.

If you can, please share the BartPE batch files you used for setting up the TSM 
environment to run from BartPE. I'm very interested in trying TSM from BartPE 
myself.

Ray

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Stephan Boldt
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Restoring an server-image with BartPE

Hello everybody,

I tried restoring a windows 2008 R2 server image (c: partition) and ran into a 
problem. Here's what I did (according to the field guide "TSM Recovery 
Techniques using Win PE Environment"):

- Created Image Backup of c: partition with VSS (ESX vSphere 4.0 VM)
- Did daily incremental filesystem backups of the same host
- created a new VM with a disk larger than the source disk
- booted VM with BartPE CD (pressed F6 while starting and added VMware LSI 
driver)
- created partition with diskpart (full disk)
- set it the active partition
- assigned drive letter c: to that partition
- mapped network drive where the tsm installation files are located (TSM 6.2)
- run dsmc-pe.cmd to set up the TSM Client environment
- set up the dsm.opt with server and client name
- restored the image with "dsm restore image \\backupmachineneame\c$
c: -asrmode=yes -noprompt -incremental -deletefiles"

The restore of the image completed without errors. The incremental filesystem 
backups were also applied successfully. Next step in the field guide is to 
restart the server with the restored OS. But everything I see when rebooting is 
a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.
Has anyone of you any idea what could be the cause? Does the image restore also 
restore the bootsector? May that be the cause? Any Idea how to solve that?

Thanks in advance for any hint!

kind regards,
Stephan


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TSM Restore of Files on W2K3 x32 Server

[Storer, Raymond]

I perform weekly Image backups and nightly incrementals of a file server. 
During a recent restore test, the Image backup was said to be corrupt, and I 
had to perform a file restore of the system instead. (It wasn't really corrupt, 
we just wanted to test the scenario.) It seemed the file level restore assumed 
the Image restore had occurred and only restored the changes since the Image 
backup.

I used the TSM 5.5.0.6 client on Windows Server 2003, 32bit, with Service Pack 
2.

Command line:
dsmc.exe rest w:\*.* -subdir=yes -tapeprompt=no

Should I have added a -latest command line option?

Ray


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