restore windows files to mac
Hi all, One of our employees switched to a PowerBook from his windows laptop. He has a lot of documents (approx. 50GB) on that laptop that I want to restore to the new Mac. I installed the TSM client on both machines (5.2.3 on the windows XP (SP2) machine and 5.2.1 on the mac (OS X 10.3.9)). I have added the mac machine to the node access list on the windows TSM client. It only has a C:drive and I defined the following permission: Set Access Backup \\lap021\c$\*\* LAP029 Where lap021 is the windows machine and LAP029 is the powerbook. Now, if I try access another node from the Mac client it gives me the possibility to select the local filesystem of LAP021 but I cannot browse into the directories. I also noticed that it asks me for a username when I try to access the windows machine from the mac. However, no matter which username I enter (even non-existent names), it still gives me (limited) access to LAP021. Also, it never asks me for a password for those usernames. Where am I going wrong? Anyone who has experience in this matter? BTW: I could FTP the files from one machine to the other but then I'd lose all timestamps of the files. Thanks! Tim DISCLAIMER ** This e-mail and any attachments thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: Preparing a tape storage pool volume for reuse
Rob, I couldn't agree more with Mark. Please read the introduction to TSM. When I look at the name of your copy storage pool (3581_week2) it seems that you are still working in a full/incremental way. This is not how TSM works. This is about the 'progressive backup' in TSM and taken from the TSM Concepts Redbook: [Progressive backup] Saves time and disk space by backing up only new files and modified files. The progressive backup feature uses its own relational database to track data wherever it is stored, delivering direct one-step file restore. This eliminates the need for base-plus-incrementals tapes, commonly used for restore procedures in other storage management products. Furthermore, reclamation isn't something that 'fits' in your backup strategy. It is something that is part of TSM and should be used; it has nothing to do with your backup strategy. Again, please refer to the Redbooks provided by IBM... (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp) Regards, Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt Sent: maandag 28 maart 2005 19:12 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Preparing a tape storage pool volume for reuse Judging by one of your other emails, is reclaimation a process to merge partial tapes together? If so, that really doesn't interest us. It doesn't fit into our backup strategy. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com Mark D. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 03/25/2005 03:56 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Preparing a tape storage pool volume for reuse Rob, Again this is a fundamental concept in TSM as I stated in my previous post I think you will need to develop your skill set in the TSM area. No, you do not want to do DELete VOLume! What you should be doing on some regular basis is running reclamation on that storage pool. Reclamation will then empty the partially used tapes. Please refer to the admin guide where you will find several sections discussing managing storage pools and volumes. -- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. === MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE === Rob Berendt wrote: Unlike my previous post regarding a BACKUP DB volume, now I have a question about a Copy Storage Pool tape volume. After I used a tape volume for backup stg backuppool lto_3581_week2 I want to reuse it. Do I just: delete volume 12wk2 discarddata=yes wait=no Are there any other steps I need? If I am running TSM 5.2.2 on OS/400 V5R3 under PASE, do I need to INZTAP also? Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com
offsite archives?
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to move archives to an offsite location? We have several archives (varying in size from 10 to 250GB). Since this takes several tapes I was wondering if I could move those archives to tapes that I can take out of the library to make room for others? (TSM 5.2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3) Thank you in advance, Tim
file retention
Hi, I am relatively new to TSM so this might seem a stupid question... Our management requires us (for IP reasons) to have a copy of every file that has ever been created in our company. Of course, only user files (e.g. excel, word, ppt, etc) ; we do not have to include database backups etc. Now I could set RETONLY to NOLIMIT but this would mean a dramatic increase of storage requirements. To limit the size of the storage pools I was wondering if there would be any method to copy the files that have been deleted to tapes that we can keep offsite. After which of course, those deleted files should expire... Any ideas? Thanks! Tim
unable to define path
Hi, We have a 3583 library with two LTO2 drives. For some reason one drive became unavailable (TSM server running on Linux). Since a reboot of both the server and the library didn't help I deleted the path and the drive from TSM. I then tried to define a new drive with the following command: tsm: RADIOHEADdefine drive 3583TL LTO01 serial=autod online=yes element=256 ANR8404I Drive LTO01 defined in library 3583TL. So far so good it seems, but when I want to define a path, this is the result: tsm: RADIOHEADdefine path RADIOHEAD LTO01 srctype=server desttype=drive device=/dev/IBMTape0 library=3583TL online=yes ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive LTO01. ANS8001I Return code 15. Although it seems that the drive is online and properly connected to the server, so I think that I can exclude any hardware problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3580-TD2 Rev: 4772 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 01 Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3583-TL Rev: 5.22 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3580-TD2 Rev: 4772 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: RAID-5 Rev: 3A0L Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 I verified the element number of the drive but I am really sure that it is the same as before. I also ran IBMtapeconfig with the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# IBMtapeconfig Creating IBMtape special files major number: 254 Attached devices: 0 1 mknod -m 0666 /dev/IBMtape0 c 254 0 mknod -m 0666 /dev/IBMtape0n c 254 64 mknod -m 0666 /dev/IBMtape1 c 254 1 mknod -m 0666 /dev/IBMtape1n c 254 65 Creating IBMchanger special files major number: 254 Attached devices: 0 mknod -m 0666 /dev/IBMchanger0 c 254 128 I also ran some tests with IBMtapeutil but they all seemed to be successful. Several reboots of both the server and the library didn't help either. So I assume that there is an error somewhere inside TSM but I really can't find it. Anyone who has any ideas? Thank you! Tim System Administration Devgen NV Technologiepark 30 B -9052 Zwijnaarde Belgium Web: http://www.devgen.com DISCLAIMER ** This e-mail and any attachments thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation.
backup on LTO1 volumes
Hi, We have a 3583TL Library and have both LTO2 and LTO1 tapes. We want to use our LTO2 tapes for onsite backups. The LTO1 tapes only for offsite backups. There are two storage pools we want to have on an offsite copy, one on tape and one on disk. I take a daily copy storage pool of those two storage pools. Sometimes we have both LTO2 and LTO1 scratch volumes in the library (the copy storage pool and the other tape storage pool are in the same library). I want to avoid that TSM takes an LTO2 scratch volume to add to the copy storage pool. Is there a way to automatically 'disable' those scratch LTO2 volumes so that is only takes LTO1 scratch volumes to make the copy storage pool? I don't want to check out all the LTO2 volumes each day... Thanks for your help!
Re: backup on LTO1 volumes
Thanks! This was the command I was looking for -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 16 november 2004 16:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup on LTO1 volumes On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Tim Piqueur wrote: ... Is there a way to automatically 'disable' those scratch LTO2 volumes so that is only takes LTO1 scratch volumes to make the copy storage pool? Tim - The conventional way to accomplish this, without subdividing the library, is to perform Define Volume to assign LTO1 tapes to the offsite pool. Volumes defined to a storage pool are used before scratches. Richard Sims
