ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

[William Boyer]

Windows 2003 server, TSM client 5.3.2.0, TSM Server 5.3.2.0 on Windows.

The share in question is on a NAS type device called a SNAP! server. We have 
changed the TSM Scheduler service to use a domain logon
that has access to that share. For testing we logged on as that user and were 
able to map a drive to that share \\snap001\metafile.
I put this in the DOMAIN in the dsm.opt file and I get the ANS1076E path not 
found error. Having 2 C: command prompts open I had
DSMC running in one. I entered 'i \\snap01\metafile' and got the error. In the 
other at the C:> prompt I entered dir
\\snap001\metafile and got back the file listing. Now in the dsmc if I issue "i 
\\snap001\metafile\metafile\' and specifiy a
subdirectory of the share, then the backup runs. Don't know why I can access 
the share from DOS, but not from DSMC.

Any ideas?

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

[William Boyer]

I'm already logged in as a domain admin. From the same C: command prompt I 
issue:

Dir \\snap01\metafile

And get a directory listing. I then issue

Dsmc I \\snap01\metafile\

And get the ANR1076E message. Now if I pick a directory on the share and issue

Dsmc I \\snap01\metafile\images\

The backup runs. From Windows I can reference the share, from withint DSMC I 
can reference a directory on the share, but I can't
reference the share itself.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
Thorneycroft, Doug
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain

Try running dsmc from a domain admin account and see if it's a 
rights/permissions issue.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boyer
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain


Windows 2003 server, TSM client 5.3.2.0, TSM Server 5.3.2.0 on Windows.

The share in question is on a NAS type device called a SNAP! server. We have 
changed the TSM Scheduler service to use a domain logon
that has access to that share. For testing we logged on as that user and were 
able to map a drive to that share \\snap001\metafile.
I put this in the DOMAIN in the dsm.opt file and I get the ANS1076E path not 
found error. Having 2 C: command prompts open I had
DSMC running in one. I entered 'i \\snap01\metafile' and got the error. In the 
other at the C:> prompt I entered dir
\\snap001\metafile and got back the file listing. Now in the dsmc if I issue "i 
\\snap001\metafile\metafile\' and specifiy a
subdirectory of the share, then the backup runs. Don't know why I can access 
the share from DOS, but not from DSMC.

Any ideas?

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Question on client side encryption

[William Boyer]

I have a client that required certain directories on each file server to be 
encrypted. We made the changes to the DSM.OPT to enable
AES128 and the include.encrypt statemsents and did a selective always backup of 
those directories so that the active version was an
encrypted version and all the other inactive un-encrypted versions will roll 
off based on REtain Extra. Here is a question from the
client. Can anyone give some suggestions on how to prove that data is encrypted?

Is there a way that we can report on what's encrypted, maybe as part of the 
rules for backing up? The question is, if audited
internally, or externally, how do we prove data's encrypted.

More importantly, if we lose a tape, how could we prove it if asked if we need 
to disclose?


Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Re: Library manager still shows REMOTE

[William Boyer]

The volhist TYPE=REMOTE entries are created when a library client requests a 
scratch tape and the library manager changes it to
status=private and creates this REMOTE entry with LOCATION of the owning 
instance name. It doesn't have anything to do with MOVE
DRM. There is a TYPE=REMOTE for every volume in a library clients inventory in 
the library manager volhist. Whether checked in to
the library or not. This is what prevents you from bringing back a tape and 
checking it in as scratch.

I have found another way to create a REMOTE entry. If you make sure there is no 
REMOTE entry, check out the tape from the library
manager libv and then from the library client run an AUDIT LIBR CHECKL=B. This 
will create a REMOTE entry on the library manager.
Then you can check that tape back in.

You don't mention what you mean by "stuck" volumes. The only way to checkout a 
tape from a library client is via MOVE DRMEDIA or
MOVE MEDIA commands. They communicate with the library manager to eject the 
tape. Not create or modify this REMOTE entry in the
volhist. The full syntax of the del command is

del volhist type=remote volume=x tod=+0 force=yes

These are undocumented options to the command.

Bill Boyer

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Davis
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:30 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Library manager still shows REMOTE

I've seen a few hits where the only fix was to
DELETE VOLHIST TYPE=REMOTE FORCE=YES
but where it was never identified HOW the volumes got stuck.

I found one way at my customer site.

MOVE DRM notifies the library manager that the volume is TYPE=REMOTE.
The LOCATION is filled with the servername.

If you SET SERVERNAME on a library client AFTER it's already moved DRM volumes 
offsite, there is no way to refresh the LOCATION on
the library manager.

AUDIT LIBR doesn't work because it's not in the library.
UPD VOLHIST won't update location on a REMOTE volume, though it will say the 
command completed.

Preemptively deleting the volume history can be a problem too, so manual 
handling is the only way out.

I've got a PMR open to see if UPD VOLHIST can be enhanced with FORCE=YES also, 
or otherwise to allow REMOTE volumes to have location
updated.

-Josh-Daniel S. Davis
Certified TSM Implementor
CATE AIX/pLPAR

Re: open Access files

[William Boyer]

Yeah, but unless the Access application opens the database with exclusive use, 
you can get a backup of an open Access database. And
even Microsoft says that's a no-no. I use to have a link to a KB article at 
Microsoft that said even doing a COPY of an open MDB
file would leave the copy corrupt and unusable. Retrying 3-times (SHRSTATIC) is 
OK, but if the file doesn't change and is just open
during the backup, you got a backup that might not be any good.

That is unless Microsoft has changed the way Access operates in later releases. 
That KB article was a couple years old.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence 
Clark
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: open Access files

we just have TSM set to retry three times then pass on open files.
better no backup then false sense of security.

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/17/2007 5:00 PM >>>
I sent this the other day and saw no responses so I'm trying again in case it 
did not get through. If anyone has any info on this I
would appreciate feedback.
Thanks,



From: Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Thu 8/16/2007 6:35 PM
To: ADSM (ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU)
Subject: open Access files


Hello again all,
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how they deal with Microsoft Access 
(.mdb) files. If these files remain in an open state when
the backup runs are there any issues? Will they get backed up? Will they be in 
a usable state when restored if they do get backed up
while open? We know from past experience open Oracle files are not, which is 
why tools are available to back these up, but I'd like
to hear from anyone who has experience the .mdb's.

Thanks for the help.
Geoff Gill


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Re: How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool volume?

[William Boyer]

Just do a DEL VOL  DISCARD=YES

And the next time BA STG runs the files that were on that damanged tape will be 
re-copied to new copypool media.

Bill Boyer


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davis, 
Adrian
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool volume?

When I try to mark the volume as destroyed...

update volume lu0141 access=destroyed

...I get the following messages...

ANR2116E UPDATE VOLUME: Access mode for volume LU0141 cannot be changed to 
"destroyed" - volume does not belong to a primary storage
pool.
ANR2212I UPDATE VOLUME: No volumes updated.

Regards,
   =Adrian=

Adrian Davis * System Administrator * SunGard Vivista * (Unit 72) 1st Floor, 
Romer House, 132 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham,
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Brent
Sent: 20 August 2007 16:09
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool 
volume?

Mark the volume destroyed then run a backup stg. This will replace the files 
that no longer exist in the copy pool.

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Adrian
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:09 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool volume?


How do I restore damaged files on a Copy Storage Pool volume?

"restore volume" works from Copy to Primary only - How can I do this the other 
way?

Many Thanks,
   =Adrian=

Adrian Davis * System Administrator * SunGard Vivista * (Unit 72) 1st Floor, 
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Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

[William Boyer]

Only thing with doing a script to stop the services, dsmc incremental, and 
start the services is, you loose the successful with
skipped files for the event. An ACTION=COMMAND schedule either works (rc=0) or 
failes (rc>0). And in your script you have to make
allowances for DSMC INCREMENTAL returning 0 or 4 for a successful backup. But 
you can't end the script with RC=4 and expect
successful with skipped files.

Unless your pre/post scripts are complex it may be better to code the pre/post 
script files and just do an incremental schedule so
you get the full benefits of the event reporting.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence 
Clark
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

Tim,

It's defined just like your incremental sched, just set action=command (default 
is incremental), then objects=

a q sched  f=d would show:

Policy Domain Name: SPAIX
 Schedule Name: STATBKTRACK-FULL
   Description: The weekly full backup of selected tables on
 STATDBMS using SQL-BACKTRACK
Action: Command
   Options:
   Objects: /home/sybase/dump/dbbkup.s




>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/2007 11:44:15 AM >>>
Thanks Lawerence,

I  wasn't aware of that I had planned on  putting the  following commands in 
the dsm.opt file. I have never defined a script
schedule before I am going to have to figure out the correct syntax for this 
type of script.
feel free to give example

Tim

pre 'net stop "update service" '
post 'start " update service" '
pre 'net stop " World Wide Web Publishing  Service" '
post ' start " World Wide Web Publishing Service" '
LANG AMENG
DOMAINALL-LOCAL
TCPSERVERADDRESS spf64.oit.state.nj.us
PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPCLIENTADDRESS 10.37.20.54
NODENAME OITWSUS
subdir yes
replace prompt
tcpb 32
tcpw 63
SCHEDMODEPROMPTED
txnbytelimit 25600
errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log
SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log
errorlogretention 14
schedlogretention 7
tcpnodelay yes
resourceutilization  3
LARGECOMMbuffers  yes
CHANGINGRETRIES2
COMPRESSIon   Yes
BACKUPREG YES
MANAGEDSERVICESWEBCLIENT SCHEDULE





Lawrence Clark wrote:

>where it is in the dsm.opt shouldn't matter, but since you want to
stop
>multiple processes and can only use one -preschedulecmd="my script""
>you might want to think about defining a schedule that executes a
>script to stop your processes, does the incremental, then restarts
>them.
>
>
>Policy Domain Name: SPAIX
> Schedule Name: STATBKTRACK-FULL
>   Description: The weekly full backup of selected
>tables on
> STATDBMS using SQL-BACKTRACK
>Action: Command
>   Options:
>   Objects: /home/sybase/dump/dbbkup.s
>
>
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/2007 11:04:57 AM >>>


>Hello,
>
>I need to stop two services before the incremental backup runs then
>restart the services once the backup completes. I know about the
>prescheduled and postscheduled commands but have never used them. Where
>do I insert the commands in dsm.opt file for this to excute
>successfully? The following are the two services that need to be
>stopped then restarted once backup completes can someone tell me where
>I
would
>put in the dsm.opt file?
>The dsm.opt file is below also.
>
>
>1)Update Services
>2) World Wide Web Publishing Service
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>TSM 5.3
>TSM 5.3.4
>AIX 5.3
>
>
>
>LANG AMENG
>DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL
>TCPSERVERADDRESS .xxx.xx.xx
>PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
>TCPCLIENTADDRESS xx.xx.xx.xx
>NODENAME OFSWTUS1
>subdir yes
>replace prompt
>tcpb 32
>tcpw 63
>SCHEDMODE  PROMPTED
>txnbytelimit 25600
>errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log
>SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log
>errorlogretention 14
>schedlogretention 7
>tcpnodelay yes
>resourceutilization  3
>LARGECOMMbuffers  yes
>CHANGINGRETRIES2
>COMPRESSIon   Yes
>BACKUPREG YES
>MANAGEDSERVICESWEBCLIENT SCHEDULE
>
>
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Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

[William Boyer]

Maybe being an ex-programmer, but you have no condition code checking to make 
sure that the NET STOP/START commands completed
successfully. If you NET STOP's don't work, do you still want to run the 
backup? Now if the last NET STOP command fails, then the
preschedulecmd will return with a non-zero completion code and the backup will 
not run. Maybe something like this:

REM StartStuff.cmd

Set LASTCC=0
Set MAXCC=0
Set LOG_FILE=c:\some\path\StartStuff.log
Echo Script start at %date% %time% > %LOG_FILE%

Echo Net stop "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE%
Net stop "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE%
Set LASTCC=%ERRORLEVEL%
If %LASTCC% EQU 0 goto stop2
Set MAXCC=%LASTCC%
Echo Stop of the Update Services service failed with RC=%LASTCC% >> %LOG_FILE%
Goto endit

:stop2
Echo Net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service" >> %LOG_FILE%
Net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service" >> %LOG_FILE%
Set LASTCC=%ERRORLEVEL%
If %LASTCC% EQU 0 goto endit
Set MAXCC=%LASTCC%
Echo Stop of the World Wide Web Publishing Service failed with RC=%LASTCC% >> 
%LOG_FILE%
Echo Net start "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE%
Net start "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE%
:endit
Echo Script completed at %date% %time% with RC=%MAXCC% >> %LOG_FILE%
Exit %MAXCC%


Now the script will complete with an appropriate return code and give you all 
the messages in case you need to try and figure out
why it failed.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??




-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy 
Huebner
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

In the dsm.opt file add:
PRESCHEDULECMD "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\StopStuff.bat"
POSTSCHEDULECMD "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\StartStuff.bat"
 Or
PRESCHEDULECMD c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\StopStuff.bat
POSTSCHEDULECMD c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\StartStuff.bat



In the "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient" directory add:

StartStuff.bat
Net start "Update Services"
Net start "World Wide Web Publishing Service"

StopStuff.bat
Net stop "Update Services"
Net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service"

Run the backup normally.  The batch has 5 minutes to complete. (I think)

Test both batch files from the command line to make sure there are not any 
dependencies.

I know of no simpler way to stop and start services for a backup.

Andy Huebner

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence 
Clark
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] prescheduled postcheduled commands help

Tim,

It's defined just like your incremental sched, just set action=command (default 
is incremental), then objects=

a q sched  f=d would show:

Policy Domain Name: SPAIX
 Schedule Name: STATBKTRACK-FULL
   Description: The weekly full backup of selected tables on
 STATDBMS using SQL-BACKTRACK
Action: Command
   Options:
   Objects: /home/sybase/dump/dbbkup.s




>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/2007 11:44:15 AM >>>
Thanks Lawerence,

I  wasn't aware of that I had planned on  putting the  following commands in 
the dsm.opt file. I have never defined a script
schedule before I am going to have to figure out the correct syntax for this 
type of script.
feel free to give example

Tim

pre 'net stop "update service" '
post 'start " update service" '
pre 'net stop " World Wide Web Publishing  Service" '
post ' start " World Wide Web Publishing Service" '
LANG AMENG
DOMAINALL-LOCAL
TCPSERVERADDRESS spf64.oit.state.nj.us
PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPCLIENTADDRESS 10.37.20.54
NODENAME OITWSUS
subdir yes
replace prompt
tcpb 32
tcpw 63
SCHEDMODEPROMPTED
txnbytelimit 25600
errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log
SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log
errorlogretention 14
schedlogretention 7
tcpnodelay yes
resourceutilization  3
LARGECOMMbuffers  yes
CHANGINGRETRIES2
COMPRESSIon   Yes
BACKUPREG YES
MANAGEDSERVICESWEBCLIENT SCHEDULE





Lawrence Clark wrote:

>where it is in the dsm.opt shouldn't matter, but since you want to
stop
>multiple processes and can only use one -preschedulecmd="my script""
>you might want to think about defining a schedule that executes a
>script to stop your processes, does the incremental, then restarts
>them.
>
>
>Policy Domain Name: SPAIX
> Schedule Name: STATBKTRACK-FULL
>   Description: The weekly full backup of selected
>tables on
> STATDBMS using SQL-BACKTRACK
>Action: Command
>   Options:
>   Objects: /home/sybase/dump/dbbkup.s
>
>
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/2007 11:04:57 AM >>>

>>

Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

[William Boyer]

When the script exits the condition code (ERRORLEVEL) of the last command 
executed is used as the completion code for the script. In
your example, if the first net stop/start fails and the 2nd one worksthen 
the script will show zero completion...but it really
half-failed. You could always make this script complete successfully just by 
putting any command as the last command that will
always give an ERRORLEVEL of 0. Like ECHO. Then no matter what the rest of the 
script does, it will always show as completed
successfully.

The PRESCHEDULECMD is such that if the command returns with a non-zero 
condition code, TSM client does not perform the backup.

I think on the POSTSCHEDULECMD you need to check the condition code of the NET 
START's to alert you if they fail to start. You could
then be pro-active and get the services going before the users discover it for 
you.

This is a good place to start if you need to get it going now, but I really 
think you should look at condition code checking and
alerting on errors in the long run.

Bill Boyer
"A life? Cool! Where can I download one of those?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy 
Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:24 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: prescheduled postcheduled commands help

Thanks to all who responded I need and appreciate all of your help. I am going 
to try some if not all of your suggestions. Since I
am new at this  type of  scripting I am going to Start with the simplist form 
first.  Here are the two scripts that I placed  in the
C: \program files\tivoli tsm\baclient\

REM =
REM =
REM Tivoli storage manger 5.3.4
REM  COMMAND TO START SERVICES
REM 
@ECHO OFF

set tsm_dir=c:\Progra~1\TivoliTSM\BaClient
C:
cd %tsm_dir%

net start "Update Services"
net start "World Wide Web Publishing Service"


REM===
REMREM
REM  COMMAND TO STOP SERVICES
REM
@ECHO OFF


set tsm_dir=C:\Program files\tivoli\TSM\Baclient
C:
Cd %tsm_dir%

net stop "Update Services"
net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service"

The dsm.opt file looks like this


PRESCHEDULEDCMD "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\Stopstuff.bat"
POSTSCHEDULEDCMD "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\Startstuff.bat"
LANG AMENG
DOMAINALL-LOCAL
TCPSERVERADDRESS
PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPCLIENTADDRESS xx.xx.xx.xx
NODENAME  OFSWTUS1
subdir yes
replace prompt
tcpb 32
tcpw 63
SCHEDMODEPROMPTED
txnbytelimit 25600
errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log
SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log
errorlogretention 14
schedlogretention 7
tcpnodelay yes
resourceutilization  3
LARGECOMMbuffers  yes
CHANGINGRETRIES2
COMPRESSIon   Yes
BACKUPREG YES
MANAGEDSERVICESWEBCLIENT SCHEDULE


William,  I understand your logic and condition code checking and I read the 
Technote that Andrew pointed out. From what I have been
told if the commands don't work the backup will just fail with a condition 
code.  A couple of our backups are setup with presched
commands with ASR. If it does fail I will try your Condition Code Script.

 I am going to implement this for tonights backup hopefully it will work. If 
anyone cares to add anything or see any possible errors
feel free to let me know.

Again Thank you all very much.

Tim

William Boyer wrote:

>Maybe being an ex-programmer, but you have no condition code checking
>to make sure that the NET STOP/START commands completed successfully.
>If you NET STOP's don't work, do you still want to run the backup? Now if the 
>last NET STOP command fails, then the preschedulecmd
will return with a non-zero completion code and the backup will not run. Maybe 
something like this:
>
>REM StartStuff.cmd
>
>Set LASTCC=0
>Set MAXCC=0
>Set LOG_FILE=c:\some\path\StartStuff.log
>Echo Script start at %date% %time% > %LOG_FILE%
>
>Echo Net stop "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE% Net stop "Update
>Services" >> %LOG_FILE% Set LASTCC=%ERRORLEVEL% If %LASTCC% EQU 0 goto
>stop2 Set MAXCC=%LASTCC% Echo Stop of the Update Services service
>failed with RC=%LASTCC% >> %LOG_FILE% Goto endit
>
>:stop2
>Echo Net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service" >> %LOG_FILE% Net
>stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service" >> %LOG_FILE% Set
>LASTCC=%ERRORLEVEL% If %LASTCC% EQU 0 goto endit Set MAXCC=%LASTCC%
>Echo Stop of the World Wide Web Publishing Service failed with
>RC=%LASTCC% >> %LOG_FILE% Echo Net start "Update Services" >>
>%LOG_FILE% Net start "Update Services" >> %LOG_FILE% :endit Echo Script
>completed at %date% %time% with RC=%MAXCC% >> %LOG_FILE% Exit %MAXCC%
>

Messages ANS1228E and ANS4005E combination during backup

[William Boyer]

Windows2003, TSM client 5.4.1.0
TSM Server 5.3.4.0 on WIndows2003.

This one client continually gets combinations of:

08/12/2007 03:00:38 ANS1228E Sending of object 
'\\vmtntansa\c$\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}'
failed
08/12/2007 03:00:38 ANS4005E Error processing 
'\\vmtntansa\c$\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}':
 file
not found
08/12/2007 03:00:38 ANS1228E Sending of object
'\\vmtntansa\c$\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}\TimeStamp'
 failed
08/12/2007 03:00:38 ANS4005E Error processing
'\\vmtntansa\c$\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}\TimeStamp':
 file not found


Including:

08/12/2007 03:00:38 ANS4005E Error processing 'SYSTEM STATE': file not found


Some files on the C: drive backup, but probably most of them fail with these 2 
messages. This fails both from the TSM scheduler and
a domain admin logged on running the GUI. The backup completes with RC=0, but 
skipped files.

Any ideas on where to go next?

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Netware restore requirement question

[William Boyer]

We have a client with a couple old Netware 4.11 servers running TSM client 
4.2.3.0. These nodes will be "retired" and the hardware
will go away. But there is a requirement to keep the data for possible future 
restores. We were thinking of installing a newer
version of Netware as a VMware virtual machine using a newer supported client. 
The current 4.11 filespaces are all NTW:LONG. Can we
restore (using either FROMNODE or VIRTUALNODENAME) from the old 4.11 node's 
data to this new node? What are the compatibility, or
more specific the INcompatibilities in doing restores across Netware releases.

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

TS3310 slot inaccessible error.

[William Boyer]

I have a client with a TS3310 running the latest firmware (just did it a couple 
weeks ago) and SCSI LTO3 drives. This has now
happened 4 times in the past year were the I/O ports go inaccessible. During a 
checkin we get:

ANR8386W Slot 16 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.
ANR8386W Slot 17 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.
ANR8386W Slot 18 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.
ANR8386W Slot 19 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.
ANR8386W Slot 20 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.
ANR8386W Slot 21 of library TS3310 is inaccessible.

And it takes a complete power cycle of the libraray to resolve it.

If I access the  library via the web interface, in the system summary It shows 
me that I have 6 I/O slots and all 6 are full (which
they really are!). But if I click on the link for the I/O slots, the resulting 
status screen shows NO tapes in the I/O ports.

I plan on opening an issue with hardware support, but I really can't have the 
library out of commission like this for very long. Not
being able to vault and checkin tapes doesn't sit well with this client.

Bill Boyer>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Re: DR restore of a virtual volume

[William Boyer]

You would rebuild the ServerA instance with a blank database of the same size 
or larger as what ServerA had originally. Then you
would define the server-to-server communication to ServerB. Once that's done, 
shutdown ServerA. All the configuration information is
now in the DEVCONFIG file(s). Now you can run the

Dsmserv restore db devclass= volumes= commit=yes

Your DRM prepare plan should have all the information you need, if you're using 
DRM.

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:56 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: DR restore of a virtual volume

ServerA backups up the TSM DB to a virtual volume on ServerB.

ServerA is lost and the TSM DB on the virtual volume on ServerB is required to 
recreate it.

How is that virtual volume restored?

Re: creating a fresh TSM database instance

[William Boyer]

Windows or Unix?

Windows is easy...just use the TSM Management Console application, Right click 
on your computername under the Tivoli Storage Manager
and select Add a new TSM Server... Very wizard based to create another instance.

For the Unix's, there's a section in the Admin Guide for "Running multiple 
servers on a single machine".

Bill Boyer
"A life? Cool! Where can I download one of those?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: creating a fresh TSM database instance

The TSM Server in SiteA was lost and recovered to a server at SiteB.

Subsequently it was restored to SiteA.

Question: is there a method to generate a new TSM database instance

 without removing and reinstalling TSM at SiteB?

Re: Volumes Private

[William Boyer]

Search the activity log for the reason the tape is being put back to Private 
status. Things such as write-protected tape, tape not
labelled and you don't have AUTOLABEL=YES defined for the library, I/O error,...

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM User
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Volumes Private

The volumes released from a storage pool (Volume Type: STGDELETE) continue with 
status = private.

To fix "UPDate LIBVolume TS3200 AA0038L3 STATus = SCRatch", but was again put 
in Private

Thanks

Re: generating backupsets for Windows clients

[William Boyer]

If you have a stand-alone SCSI tape drive, attach that to the TSM server, 
define it and then generate the backupset to that
devclass.

Or what about creating a FILE devclass with the with a MAXCAPACITY of either 
the CD size or DVD if you're using that. Then FTP them
over to a Windows box to burn the CD/DVD. Just make sure to use BINary transfer 
mode. I've heard of people doing that.

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: generating backupsets for Windows clients

It does seem the only practical way to use the backupsets is when the server 
and client are on the same platform, or at least
windows server/windows client and unix server/unix client.

- Original Message -
From: "Richard van Denzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients


Hi Larry,

I know there is a problem with Unicode (Windows) and non-Unicode (AIX).
I've restored a Windows client on AIX and after that nothing could be done 
anymore with the AIX client, because it's type got
changed to Unicode.

So I think your conclusion might be right.

Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,

Richard van Denzel.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: 12 October 2007 13:09
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients

I've read the following comment in the TSM admin manual:

"Software for writing CDs may not work consistently across platforms."

I conclude that it is not practical to generate a backupset on an AIX server 
and use that CD on a windows client.

Anyone ever done that?

Re: Exchange 2007

[William Boyer]

>From the readme in the latest release (5.4.1) of the TDP Exchange x64 for 
>Exchange 2007:

This Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Exchange package 
(Version 5.4.1) addresses the following requirement:

* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Legacy Support - Support for Microsoft 
Exchange Server 2007 legacy (streaming) operations

  Note: TSM for Copy Services (VSS) operations for Microsoft Exchange 
Server 2007 are not supported with this release.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Verhelst, 
Luc
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Exchange 2007

Hi all,



We are currently testing the backup of an Exchange Cluster 2007 that is running 
on a Windows 2003 server R2.

In order to backup the Exchange we need to make sure that the  command 
is working and that is not the case.



Has anyone of you see this error:



C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft\VSSSDK72\TestApps\vshadow\bin\release-server>vshadow c:



VSHADOW.EXE 2.2 - Volume Shadow Copy sample client

Copyright (C) 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.





(Option: Create shadow copy set)

(Gathering writer metadata...)

(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

Error during the last asynchronous operation.

- Returned HRESULT = 0x80042318

- Error text: VSS_E_WRITER_INFRASTRUCTURE

- Please re-run VSHADOW.EXE with the /tracing option to get more details





It's the intention that in the future we will install TSM 5.5 that will backup 
Exchange 2007.  Release Q4 2007.







Regards,
Luc



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Re: Select statement for space occupied by type of file?

[William Boyer]

Maybe the easiest is to either from the original server or from another Windows 
box with the TSM client, start the client CLI and
run a QUERY BACKUP for *.PST files with -SUBDIR=YES. If you want all, the 
include the -INA flag to get the inactive version(s), too.
It's quick and easy. Pipe the output to a file and you might be able to import 
it in to Excel.

Sure beats trying to query the BACKUPS table! :-)

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thach, 
Kevin G
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Select statement for space occupied by type of file?

Hello-

I'm trying to determine the amount of space occupied by .pst files for a 
certain node.  I cannot figure out a good way to gather
this information.  The backups table doesn't have size information, and the 
occupancy table doesn't have file information.  Can
anyone offer up a select statement that would work?

Thanks so much!



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Re: Scheduling a full archive of data once/month

[William Boyer]

I do not believe that the DOMAIN option is valid for the ARCHIVE function. The 
description for DOMAIN is the drives to be included
for incremental backup processing. For ARCHIVE you have to specify what you 
want processed in the OBJECTS= parameter for the
schedule. ARCHIVE also does not process your systemobject, system services or 
system state objects. If you want to use a schedule
and ARCHIVE for everything, you'll need to specify each drive in a separate 
schedule for each node. OBJECT='C:\* D:\*'for example.
It is not dynamic in that if the admin adds a drive, you will need to adjust 
the schedule to include the new drive.

Bill Boyer
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." - Murphy



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Scheduling a full archive of data once/month

Something like:
1). def sched  monthlyarch act=archive scheds=enhanced week=first 
day=saturday options='-subdir=yes -domain="all-local"'
expiration=10/30/2014

2). associate your clients with the schedule

- Original Message -
From: "Joni Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: [ADSM-L] Scheduling a full archive of data once/month


> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just received the task of scheduling an archive of all data
> from several windows servers the first Saturday of every month for 7 years.
> What is the best method of accomplishing this?  I would like to do
> this from the TSM server which is an AIX 5.3 TSM 5.3.5.2 server.  Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated!
>
> 
> Joni Moyer
> Highmark
> Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
> Fax: (717) 302-9826
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: Scheduling a full archive of data once/month

[William Boyer]

WS
LETTERSPBkup  SYSTEM  1  COPY_WIND   9,048   1,901.26
1,901.26
   STATE  OWS
LETTERSPBkup  SYSTEM  1  WINDOWS11  30.81
30.81
   STATE
LETTERSPBkup  SYSTEM  2  CDLA_WIND 160 779.51
779.51
   SERVICES   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  SYSTEM  2  COPY_WIND 180 885.03
885.03
   SERVICES   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  SYSTEM  2  WINDOWS20 105.55
105.55
   SERVICES
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   3  CDLA_WIND 157,130  11,505.19
11,024.20
   p\d$   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   3  COPY_WIND 157,385  12,040.86
11,081.24
   p\d$   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   3  WINDOWS   255  57.00
57.00
   p\d$
LETTERSPBkup  ASR 4  CDLA_WIND  42   0.36
0.36
  OWS
LETTERSPBkup  ASR 4  COPY_WIND  47   0.40
0.40
  OWS
LETTERSPBkup  ASR 4  WINDOWS 5   0.05
0.05
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   5  CDLA_WIND  44,318   7,643.96
7,092.39
   p\c$   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   5  COPY_WIND  44,413   8,319.43
7,184.66
   p\c$   OWS
LETTERSPBkup  \\letters   5  WINDOWS95  92.22
92.22
   p\c$



Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
Fax: (717) 302-9826
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I do not believe that the DOMAIN option is valid for the ARCHIVE function.
The description for DOMAIN is the drives to be included for incremental backup 
processing. For ARCHIVE you have to specify what you
want processed in the OBJECTS= parameter for the schedule. ARCHIVE also does 
not process your systemobject, system services or
system state objects. If you want to use a schedule and ARCHIVE for everything, 
you'll need to specify each drive in a separate
schedule for each node. OBJECT='C:\* D:\*'for example.
It is not dynamic in that if the admin adds a drive, you will need to adjust 
the schedule to include the new drive.

Bill Boyer
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." - Murphy



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Scheduling a full archive of data once/month

Something like:
1). def sched  monthlyarch act=archive scheds=enhanced week=first 
day=saturday options='-subdir=yes -domain="all-local"'
expiration=10/30/2014

2). associate your clients with the schedule

- Original Message -
From: "Joni Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: [ADSM-L] Scheduling a full archive of data once/month


> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just received the task of scheduling an archive of all data
> from several windows servers the first Saturday of every month for 7
years.
> What is the best method of accomplishing this?  I would like to do
> this from the TSM server which is an AIX 5.3 TSM 5.3.5.2 server.  Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated!
>
> 
> Joni Moyer
> Highmark
> Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
> Fax: (717) 302-9826
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

[William Boyer]

The barcode labels came with the library and the clips for the tape slot 
columns. I don't remember how many different partitions you
can create from them as they are pre-labeled. I think 4. I'm not where I can go 
in a look at our 3584. The "clip" for the drives is
on the front of the drive. You just put the partition label at the top of the 
storage column(s) and drives and tell the library to
automatically partition. I believe then it creates a control point on the first 
drive in each partition. When you place the
clip/barcode on the top of the storage column I believe it also affects the 
corresponding storage column on the door.

Why the Datafort device and not LTO4/TS1120 drives? Just curious, not 
critisizing your decision. You need to make sure you have a
Datafort for your D/R site. I had a client looking in to this and Sungard said 
that they would have to purchase an 2nd Datafort to
keep at Sungard for D/R. Sungard wouldn't let them bring it in for an exercise. 
That pushed the cost for them over the budget and
now they're doing client-side encryption for those critical files.

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick 
Laflamme
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

OK, I get to read about bar code labels and try to make this work for us. It's 
nice that it's possible; if not so nice that the
granularity on how slots are assigned is a bit more coarse and that it'll be 
some work putting labels and clips into place. Oh,
well!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Tom.

Thanks,
Nick

Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> Unless things have changed in a more recent firmware than I'm running
> (always possible) there are three ways to partition a 3584; the web
> interface, the operator panel, and the barcode labels.
>
> The web interface and the front panel both work the same -- how many
> drives, starting with number 1, are in the first library; how many
> drives are in the second; until all drives are assigned to librarys.
> And the same with slots, starting with the first slot and working out.
>
> If you want to have a dis-continuous library, with something like
> drives 1,2,4,and 8 or slots in multiple groups you will need to use
> the barcode labels and magnetic clips that came with the library.
> IIRC, tape drives are individually assignable and slots are assigned by the 
> column.
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
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Re: Running dsmc incremental backup from client schedule versus from crontab

[William Boyer]

Also sounds like you are using POLLING. At least for that client. Then you get 
a start time randomized based on the DURATION of the
schedule and the SET RANDOMIZE value. If you seitch to PROMPTED for that 
client, you should see it pretty close to the starttime of
the schedule.

You can do it via crontab, but as it won't be scheduled you won't get the 
pre/postschedule processing. Plus you'll need to maage
your own condition checking and notification for failed backups.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:01 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Running dsmc incremental backup from client schedule versus from 
crontab

yep, you can use the crontab.
- Original Message -
From: "Lucia Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:16 PM
Subject: [ADSM-L] Running dsmc incremental backup from client schedule versus 
from crontab


Hello -

I currently run a backup from a client schedule in which the action is 
incremental and options include preschedulecmd and
postschedulecmd.
The preschedulecmd procedure performs application shutdown procedures and the 
postschedulecmd performs application startup
procedures.

The user community would like to have the backup start at the same time every 
day preferably at 00:30.
Currently, the client schedule is priority 2 with a four hour window beginning 
at 22:45. I could create a schedule with a priority
1, a start time of 00:30, and a smaller duration window. I could limit client 
schedule association to this one client node. But I am
not sure that there is a way within a client schedule to guarantee a specific 
start time. Should I do this as a crontab entry?
As a crontab entry, might I assume that the command "dsmc incremental"
captures the same files and directories as a client schedule with the action 
"incremental"?

Thanks,

Lucia


Lucia Burke
Senior Systems Analyst/ Programmer
Sharp HealthCare
3571 Corporate Court
San Diego, CA 92123
(858)627-5081
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a restore was performed for a TSM node.

[William Boyer]

As long as the last restore was within the retention you've set for the summary 
table. QUERY STATUS to find out the current valut.
SET SUMMARYRETENTION to set/change.

Same as for a previous suggestion for querying the actlog. The restore has to 
be within the ACTLOG retention value.

Only long term retention of this data is in the accounting data (SET ACCOUNTING 
ON). It doesn't say restore for the record, but you
could query that nodename and look at fields 18 and 19 for "retrieved backup 
objects".

Bill Boyer
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." - Murphy

 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ribeiro, 
Ricardo
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:25 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a restore was 
performed for a TSM node.

Just run this statement...
SELECT * FROM SUMMARY WHERE ACTIVITY='RESTORE' 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CAYE PIERRE
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:23 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a 
restore was performed for a TSM node.

Sorry I miss a word... It is for backup only, not restore 

> -Message d'origine-
> De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part 
> de Andrew Raibeck Envoyé : lundi 12 novembre 2007 16:05 À :
> ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out - 
> when was the last time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
> 
> I am sure I must be missing something obvious, else I am going to 
> learn a new trick... how do you determine from QUERY FILESPACE F=D 
> when a node last performed a restore?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead 
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: 
> http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoli
> StorageManager.html
> 
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 11/12/2007
> 07:49:17 AM:
> 
> > That did the trick. Thanks for the tip
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Kamran
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf
> > Of CAYE PIERRE
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 4:07 AM
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out - when was
> the last
> > time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
> > 
> > You can also query filespaces : q fi f=d
> > 
> > > -Message d'origine-
> > > De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la 
> > > part de Kamran Rao Envoyé : vendredi 9 novembre 2007 21:12 À :
> > > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] Is their a way to
> find out -
> > > when was the last time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Just curious to know if their a way to find out - when
> was the last
> > > time a restore was performed for a particular TSM node.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Kamran H. Rao
> > > 
> 

Re: Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a restore was performed for a TSM node.

[William Boyer]

Again, searching the actlog or the summary table for the restore information is 
fine as long as what you're looking for is within
the retention of the ACTLOGRETENTION and SUMMARYRETENTION values you've set. Or 
if you're saving the actlog on a regular basis you
can search it still. But if it's past those retention values, your kinda SOL. 
You can dig the information out of the accounting
records, but again only if you have accounting on.

I'm not sure if some of the OEM monitoring packages (TSMManager, ServerGraph) 
capture and retain this information or not. Might be
an option for you, too.

Bill Boyer
"My problem was caused my a loose screw at the keyboard" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rejean 
Larivee
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a restore was 
performed for a TSM node.

Hello,
and if you want more granularity, you can also use the "REPORTRETRIEVE YES"
server option. With this option, message ANR0411I will be logged in the TSM 
activity log when a file is restored. For example :

 ANR0411I Session 8 for administrator COLIND-TUC logged in as node 
COLIND-TUC
  restored or retrieved Backup object: node COLIND-TUC, filespace 
\\colind-tuc\c$, object\CODE\TESTDATA\ XXX.OUT

Rejean Larivee
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 11/12/2007
11:40:08 AM:

> As long as the last restore was within the retention you've set for 
> the summary table. QUERY STATUS to find out the current valut.
> SET SUMMARYRETENTION to set/change.
>
> Same as for a previous suggestion for querying the actlog. The restore 
> has to be within the ACTLOG retention value.
>
> Only long term retention of this data is in the accounting data (SET 
> ACCOUNTING ON). It doesn't say restore for the record, but you could 
> query that nodename and look at fields 18 and 19 for "retrieved backup 
> objects".
>
> Bill Boyer
> "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." - Murphy
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of Ribeiro, Ricardo
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:25 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Is their a way to find out - when was the last time a 
> restore was performed for a TSM node.
>
> Just run this statement...
> SELECT * FROM SUMMARY WHERE ACTIVITY='RESTORE'
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of CAYE PIERRE
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:23 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out - when was the last 
> time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
>
> Sorry I miss a word... It is for backup only, not restore
>
> > -Message d'origine-
> > De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la 
> > part de Andrew Raibeck Envoyé : lundi 12 novembre 2007 16:05 À :
> > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out 
> > - when was the last time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
> >
> > I am sure I must be missing something obvious, else I am going to 
> > learn a new trick... how do you determine from QUERY FILESPACE F=D 
> > when a node last performed a restore?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Andy Raibeck
> > IBM Software Group
> > Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead 
> > Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet
> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
> > http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoli
> > StorageManager.html
> >
> > The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> > The command line is your friend.
> > "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
> >
> > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 11/12/2007
> > 07:49:17 AM:
> >
> > > That did the trick. Thanks for the tip
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kamran
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf
> > > Of CAYE PIERRE
> > > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 4:07 AM
> > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Is their a way to find out - when was
> > the last
> > > time a restore was performed for a TSM node.
> > >
> > > You can also query filespaces : q fi f=d
> > >
> > > 

Re: scheduling

[William Boyer]

I would make it DURATION=59 DURUNITS=MINUTES. That way if the previous hourly 
backup ran longer, it would have an extra 59-minutes
before registered as a miss. Instead of only an extra 15-minutes.

Bill Boyer
"My problem was caused my a loose screw at the keyboard" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mcnutt, 
Larry E.
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: scheduling

Avy,

Something like the following is what you could do to change it to run hourly.  
This assumes that it can complete in less than an
hour, otherwise sometimes you will get a "missed" backup for those times that 
run longer than an hour.

Update schedule standard 2100_something duration=15 durunits=minutes 
perunits=hours

Larry McNutt


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:57 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: scheduling

Hello,

  Can you tell me how to update the schedule to run a backup every hour ? 
thanks for your help.

>From the client side:

Schedule name: 2100_somename
Description:
Schedule Style: Classic
Action: Incremental
Options: -subdir=yes
Objects:
Priority:5
Next Execution: 23 Hours and 17 Minutes ( <-- I would like this to change to 60 
minutes )
Duration: 1Hour
Period: 1 Day
Day of Week: Any
Month:
Day of Month:
Week of Month:
Expire: Never

>From the server side:

   Policy Domain Name: STANDARD
Schedule Name: 2100_somename
  Description:
   Action: Incremental
  Options: -subdir=yes
  Objects:
 Priority: 5
  Start Date/Time: 11/19/2007 14:39:41
 Duration: 1 Hour(s) ( <-- this is just the open window
allowed)
   Schedule Style: Classic
   Period: 1 Day(s)
  Day of Week: Any
Month:
 Day of Month:
Week of Month:
   Expiration:
ast Update by (administrator): WONGAV
Last Update Date/Time: 11/19/2007 14:50:35
 Associated Nodes: SomeNode
 Managing profile:

Avy Wong
Business Continuity Administrator
Mohegan Sun
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT 06382
(860)862-8164
(cell) (860)961-6976

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Anyone doing TSM Encryption on TS1120's in a 3494 tape library??

[William Boyer]

Looking for help...TSM 5.4.1.1 on WIndows2003 running the latest IBM tape 
driver. The library and drives are at the latest firmware
as of about 2-weeks ago. The drives have application encryption enabled. This 
was done through the CE interface on the back of the
drives. A query of the drive VPD data from the library console shows 
application encryption is enabled.

When we enable encryption in TSM  UPD DEVC 3592 DRIVEENCRYPTION=ON, we get 
ANR8985E message when mounting scratch tapes. Using the
NTUTIL command and specifying that you want 59: Get encryption State it shows:

Encryption capable: True
Encryption method: None (0)
Encryption state: Off (0)

We rebooted the TSM server after making the encryption changes to the drives.

Could really use some help on thiscalling IBM and trying to figure out 
where to start is it a TSM issue...driverhardware
configuraiton..???

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

ISC 6.0.1.1 Install on Linux

[William Boyer]

Redhat ES 4, ISC6.0.1.1 install. Just loaded the Redhat and nothing else is on 
it. The install goes through the 6.0.1 and then
proceeds to the 6.0.1.1 patch, gets to 99% and then hangs. Never goes any 
farther. This is the 2nd time I've gotten this condition.
Which is why I went back to a fresh install of Redhat.

Anyone have any ideas or similar results

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Re: MSSQL Server Backup

[William Boyer]

Had a client of mine have some backup "hangs" when he started loading servers 
on a new bladecenter. He opened a PMR and this is the
response from Level2Don't know if this is your problem...


I've reviewed it and the files that you sent in and this issue appears to be 
related to Known Issues with the Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack  (SNP) which is installed and enabled by 
default by Windows 2003 Service Pack 2..
For more information please refer to the following webpages:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/91
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936594/en-us

The issue also appears to be tied to gigabit ethernet NIC's with Broadcom 
*CHIPSETS*. Note that several different manufacturers are
using Broadcom Gig-E chipsets in their NICs. I've confirmed that you *are* 
using Broadcom BCM5708S NetXtreme II GigE NICs.

The approach that has addressed this issue for most of our customers has been 
to disable the SNP functionality in Windows and on
their NIC's driver settings dialog, after ensuring that the NIC's firmware and 
device drivers are the most current version available
from their vendor.

NOTE: For the record, I am *not* a Broadcom/HP/Microsoft support engineer and 
am passing you general information that has been
reported back by other customers seeing extremely similar symptoms/issues in 
their environment. The OEM or vendor for your
customer's environment should be contacted to confirm any changes external to 
TSM should you have any questions regarding them or
how to make them.

The following steps have worked for several of our customer to address this 
issue :
1. Confirm that the affected nodes all have Gig-E ethernet cards. (Since 
they're all the same type of Blade, they should have the
same BCM5708S NetXtreme II GigE NICs.)
2. Determine if the Gig-E NIC's have Broadcom chipsets. You might need to 
contact the vendor to confirm this. (I've already
confirmed this from you doc.)
3. Confirm that the Gig-E NIC's are at the most current firmware & driver 
levels.
4. Disable all the "advanced" features on the NIC that might be related to SNP. 
Note: Different models of NIC adapter will describe
the features differently. Any feature that contains the word "offload" should 
be disabled, as well as "Receive Side Scaling" or RSS.
Your settings might look like the attached "NIC_Settings.jpg" file.
5. Disable SNP in the OS via the Registry. NOTE: This process will require a 
REBOOT. Please see the attached "SNP_Registry.jpg"
A. Modify the registry to disable Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
3. If the EnableRSS registry entry does not exist, create it.
To do this, follow these steps
a.  On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
b.  In the New Value #1 box, type EnableRSS, and then press ENTER.
4. In the details pane, right-click EnableRSS, and then click Modify.
5. In the Value data box, type 0 (zero), and then click OK.
B. Modify the registry to disable TCPA support
1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
2. If the EnableTCPA registry entry does not exist, create it.
To do this, follow these steps
a.  On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
b.  In the New Value #1 box, type EnableTCPA, and then press ENTER.
3. In the details pane, right-click EnableTCPA, and then click Modify.
4. In the Value data box, type 0 (zero), and then click OK.
C. Modify the registry to disable TCP Chimney support  (TCP Offload)
1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
2. If the EnableTCPChimney registry entry does not exist, create it.
To do this, follow these steps
a.  On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
b.  In the New Value #1 box, type EnableTCPChimney, and then press 
ENTER.
3. In the details pane, right-click EnableTCPChimney, and then click 
Modify.
4. In the Value data box, type 0 (zero), and then click OK.
5. Exit Registry Editor.
6. Reboot.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred 
Johanson
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:46 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: MSSQL Server Backup

Mahesh,

This came up, in a slightly different fashion, last week.  As I noted then, the 
last thing in a trace on the TDP is a TCPFLUSH.  We
haven't tried a trace with the .BAK, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was 
similar.  A new NIC gave some relief, but Support has

Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

[William Boyer]

Just define up your new tape drives/devc/stgpools and then set the NEXTPOOL= on 
your LTO1/LTO2 stgpool(s) to the new LTO3 or LTO4
stgpools. Now just MIGRATE STGPOOL the LTO1/2 over to the LTO4 pool. No need to 
do individual MOVE DATA/NODEDATA. Just let migration
handle it all for you. Cancel it and restart it as you need.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, 
Charles (Chip)
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

Is it possible to run 'move data' or 'move nodedata' commands from either
LTO1 or LTO2 device class to LTO4? What about from LTO1/2 to LTO3? Has anyone 
done this?



God bless you!!!

Chip Bell
Network Engineer I
IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional

Baptist Health System
Birmingham, AL








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Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

[William Boyer]

Creating the "new" copypool on the LTO4 tapes is going to be a big hit at the 
beginning.

Another thing I would do is to rename your existing LTO1/2 stgpools to 
something else, and then when you create the new LTO4 stgpool
call them the same names. That way you don't have to change any of your scripts 
and procedures.

Bill Boyer
"A life? Cool! Where can I download one of those?" - ??


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Longo
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:50 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

That's correct, one of the real nice things about TSM.

This is basically the same as migrating from any kind of disk pool to any kind 
of tape pool, doesn't matter the media
type/technology.

You do need to remember though that after you have migrated ALL of your onsite 
tape pool and it's offsite copies have been made,
then you need to "delete volume" with discarddata option on the OLD offsite 
pool tapes, or else old tapes will still be there.

DL

>>> "Bell, Charles (Chip)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/9/2008 10:28 AM >>>
That sounds great! So to confirm, there are no technical gotchas that are going 
to prevent data movement from one media type
(LTO1/2) ton another (LTO3/4)? Anyone else done this?

Thanks, Bill!

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William 
Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:25 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

Just define up your new tape drives/devc/stgpools and then set the NEXTPOOL= on 
your LTO1/LTO2 stgpool(s) to the new LTO3 or LTO4
stgpools. Now just MIGRATE STGPOOL the LTO1/2 over to the LTO4 pool. No need to 
do individual MOVE DATA/NODEDATA. Just let migration
handle it all for you. Cancel it and restart it as you need.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


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Charles (Chip)
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO1/LTO2 to LTO4 migration?

Is it possible to run 'move data' or 'move nodedata' commands from either
LTO1 or LTO2 device class to LTO4? What about from LTO1/2 to LTO3? Has anyone 
done this?



God bless you!!!

Chip Bell
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OFS support/changes in 5.5 client

[William Boyer]

Trying to figure out OFS with the new 5.5. client. With previous releases you 
had to install the OFS support which installed the
LVSA agent. Then the FILELEVELTYPE=SNAPSHOT|DYMANIC was used to determine if 
you did OFS for locked files. That option isn't
available in 5.5. Now there's the SNAPSHOTPRIVIDER=LVSA|VSS. So if I want to 
use VSS for OFS support in 5.5, do I still need to
install the OFS (LVSA) feature of the client? Or do I just need to specify 
SNAPSHOTPROVIDER=VSS and I get OFS globally or specify on
the INCLUDE.FS to be selective.

The manual isn't very informative of the changes in 5.5 to OFS. The "draft" 
redboot for 5.4 and 5.5 Technical Guide doesn't even
address OFS "changes" in 5.5

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

OFS and LVSA

[William Boyer]

Does anyone know of a way to see if the OFS support was installed with the TSM 
client? I have a client that wants to inventory their
TSM nodes to see which have the OFS/LVSA support installed and which don't. 
Looking for a quick and dirty way just to see if it's
been installed.


Bill Boyer
Tell me again how lucky I am to be working here...I keep forgetting!

Re: OFS support/changes in 5.5 client

[William Boyer]

So with the 5.5 client, I would to a "Typical" install and specify 
"SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS"  in the DSM.OPT file to globally enable
OFS processing of ALL filespaces on that machine. If I wanted to NOT do OFS on 
a filesystem I would specify an include.fs with
SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS=NONE. Or the other way I wouldn't specify the global and use 
include.fs SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS=VSS for the
filesystem(s) I wanted to enable OFS on.

Correct? If so the section on enabling OFS support in the client manual needs 
to be overhauled.


What are the pros/cons of using one over the other? LVSA vs. VSS. Besides 
having to rely on Microsoft patches for VSS to work
consistantly. :-)

Bill Boyer
"Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters"


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Raibeck
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: OFS support/changes in 5.5 client

You only need to install the LVSA if you intend to use online image backup or 
open file support, AND you want to use the LVSA as the
snapshot provider.

If you do not intend to use online image backup or open file support, you do 
not need to install the LVSA.

If you intend to use online image backup or open file support, AND you want to 
use VSS exclusively as the snapshot provider, you do
not need to install the LVSA.

SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS can be specified globally or on an INCLUDE.FS line. By using 
it with INCLUDE.FS, you can tailor which volumes use
open file support, and even which ones use LVSA or VSS (you can use VSS for 
some volumes, LVSA for others, but in general I'd
recommend sticking with one or the other. :-)

SNAPSHOTPROVIDERIMAGE is for online image backup, and can be specified globally 
or on an INCLUDE.IMAGE line, similar to
SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS.

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal 
Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 02/11/2008
01:30:48 PM:

> Trying to figure out OFS with the new 5.5. client. With previous
> releases you had to install the OFS support which installed the LVSA
> agent. Then the FILELEVELTYPE=SNAPSHOT|DYMANIC was used to determine
> if you did OFS for locked files. That option isn't available in 5.5.
> Now there's the SNAPSHOTPRIVIDER=LVSA|VSS. So if I want to use VSS for
> OFS support in 5.5, do I still need to install the OFS (LVSA) feature
> of the client? Or do I just need to specify SNAPSHOTPROVIDER=VSS and I
> get OFS globally or specify on the INCLUDE.FS to be selective.
>
> The manual isn't very informative of the changes in 5.5 to OFS. The
> "draft" redboot for 5.4 and 5.5 Technical Guide doesn't even address
> OFS "changes" in 5.5
>
> Bill Boyer
> >Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
> 0 rows returned

Re: Internal error DBLOG666 (5.4.0.3 Win32-Server)

[William Boyer]

I know this won't help you now, but if you are running with LOGCOPY volumes 
I've been able to recover from a corrupted log file in
the past by renaming the primary log volumes in the filesystem and bringing up 
TSM. It will recognize that the primary log files
aren't there and use the copies. I've done this several times (all of the 
Windows..go figure!) in the past and been able to get the
server back up and running.

Then just rename them back and vary on to get them to re-sync.

Bill Boyer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael 
Bartl
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Internal error DBLOG666 (5.4.0.3 Win32-Server)

Hi all,
first of all, many thanks for the fast replies. You've been right, we had a 
corrupted Recovery Log.
We've opened a PMR with IBM service and had to make this decision:

A) Restore the DB (Point in Time)
B) Do a DUMPDB, FORMATLOAD, LOADDB, AUDITDB

A) is painful regarding data-loss, B) is painful regarding time-loss.
We've decided to go for B), the first 3 steps used 1/2 day, let's see how 
AUDITDB performs.

I hope this all will fix our problem, but I have no idea what could have caused 
the problem...


Best regards,
Michael Bartl

Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'

[William Boyer]

Yes, but then you need to specify the OBJECTS='' to tell the client WHAT to 
SELectively backup. Only Incremental backups work with
the DOMAIN, plus SEL doesn't do the SYSTEMobject/state/services.

Put this node in a domain where the mgmtclass is set for MODE=ABSOLUTE instead 
of the default of MODIFIED. Then your backups are
just incremental, use the DOMAIN, but will always backup.

Bill Boyer
Tell me again how lucky I am to be working here...I keep forgetting!


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
Dourado
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:09 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'

update schedule 'domain_name'  'schedule_name'  action=selective

Bill







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Hello All,

Thanks for your help!!

One of my Windows server admins wants to schedule an "always backup" so the 
system will backup everything but we could not find a
syntax diagram that included the option from the command line. Does anyone know 
where I can find this info or have a trick that we
could use to make this happen. The user's guide has a list of options to dsmc 
backup but there is not one for the "always backup"

Nicholas Rodolfich
Network Administrator (AIX)
East Jefferson General Hospital
504-883-6955 (office)
228-223-1187 (mobile)
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Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'

[William Boyer]

Active Data Pools? Or maybe IMAGE backups? IMAGE backup would probably be the 
faster restore/recovery and is only a single object to
TSM.

Bill Boyer
"An optomist is just a pessimist with no job experience" - Scott Adams


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orville 
Lantto
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:00 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'

Another good reason for 'Full' backups is to facilitate quick restores.  I do 
this for systems prior to Websphere updates and for
other 'fragile' systems.  Collocation is nice, but having the entire current 
system on disk, or on a single tape, is better.

Orville L. Lantto



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Nicholas Rodolfich
Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 11:33
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'



The Windows admin replaced the hardware and wanted to make sure that everything 
got backed up.

The node is on a schedule with 100 other nodes.

Thanks to Richard Sims who had several solutions. I used the rename filespace 
option on the server. When I can, I like to control
things from the server.

This should work well and allow us to keep the old and new data separate so we 
can remove the old data after a week or so. I had
thought that they imaged the box somehow to do the move but they actually 
renamed an existing server so all of the files would have
been "changed" anyway when TSM inspected them.

Thanks to everyone for all your help and brain power

Nicholas Rodolfich
Network Administrator (AIX)
East Jefferson General Hospital
504-883-6955 (office)
228-223-1187 (mobile)
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>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/2008 11:18 AM >>>
I agree with using MODE=ABSOLUTE to do this, rather than SELECTIVE.

Has the requester articulated the "why" behind this requirement? If not, I 
would question the rationale for the requirement. TSM's
incremental approach is one of its strengths. Backing up everything (presumably 
every day?), even if it hasn't changed, will:

- consume more storage pool, server database space, and other TSM server 
resources (like longer backup sessions, etc)

- cause more network traffic

- increase backup run-time

- impact the ability to restore older unique versions of files that are rolled 
off by duplicate backups versions (depends on how you
configure the version and retention settings)

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 2008-02-20
09:51:00:

> Yes, but then you need to specify the OBJECTS='' to tell the client
> WHAT to SELectively backup. Only Incremental backups work with the
> DOMAIN, plus SEL doesn't do the SYSTEMobject/state/services.
>
> Put this node in a domain where the mgmtclass is set for MODE=ABSOLUTE
> instead of the default of MODIFIED. Then your backups
are
> just incremental, use the DOMAIN, but will always backup.
>
> Bill Boyer
> Tell me again how lucky I am to be working here...I keep forgetting!
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Bill Dourado
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:09 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: How to schedule dsmc for "always backup'
>
> update schedule 'domain_name'  'schedule_name'  action=selective
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Nicholas Rodolfich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor
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>
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>
> Hello All,
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> One of my Windows server admins wants to schedule an "always backup"
> so the system will backup everything but we could not find a syntax
> diagram that included the option from the command line. Does anyone
> know where I can find this info or have a trick that we could use to
> make this happen. The user's guide has a list of options to dsmc
> backup but there is not one for the "always backup"
>
> Nicholas Rodolfich
> Network Administrator (AIX)
> East Jefferson General Hospital
> 504-883-6955 (office)
> 228-223-1187 (mobile)
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Re: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

[William Boyer]

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 & 5.5 Technical Guide
Revised: February, 15, 2008
More details are available at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247447.html?Open

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Post
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

Richard Sims wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:13 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
>
>> If only IBM could edit trustable/understandable manuals ... Would
>> avoid lots of headaches and time lost !
>
> Like in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 & 5.5 Technical
> Guide redbook chapter 10, which devotes the full chapter to the new
> NDMP capabilities?  ;-)
>

URL?

> Richard Sims


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Re: Archive Data

[William Boyer]

Might run for a while

Select distinct volume_name from contents where type='Arch'

Bill Boyer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lepre, 
James
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:53 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Archive Data

Yes that works, but know I need to find out which tapes have archive data

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, 
Mark
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:35 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archive Data

Query occupancy  stgp= type=archive Query occupancy 
 stgp= type=backup

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> -Original Message-
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Of
> Lepre, James
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archive Data
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
>Does anyone know a sql statement that would produce what type of
data
> is on the tapes?  I am trying to figure out which tapes have backup
data
> on them and which tapes have archive data on them.
>
> TSM SERVER VERSION 5.4.1.1
>
> Any help is always appreciated
>
> Thank you
>
> James
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TOR Limits?

[William Boyer]

Is there a limit to the number of TSM servers and/or reports that can be 
configured for TOR? I'm running 5.4.2.0 on a Windows2003
server, 7 TSM servers are defined with multiple reports/monitors for each. 
Nothing runs! The service is running, the
reports/monitors are activated, but I don't get any automated reports/monitors. 
I can right-click and run them manually, so the
userid/password is configured correctly. This used to run fine and I'm not sure 
at what point it stopped running. I have recently
added 2 new TSM servers.

Are there limits

Bill Boyer
>Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
0 rows returned

Re: TOR Limits?

[William Boyer]

How about the number of reports? I've split out the hourly monitor in to 
individual monitor reports so that the email notification
has the report title in the subject instead of the generic "Hourly Monitor" and 
the TSM server name. So I actually have about 9
monitor for each of those 7 TSM servers.

And I've stopped/started the service several times. I actually have a Windows 
scheduled task to do a NET STOP and NET START on the
report service daily. Used to have lots of memory leaks, crashes,hangs in the 
TOR.

Just right now I don't have any report OR monitor that runs automagically.

Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind...it's backed up on tape somewhere!" - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda 
Prather
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:11 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TOR Limits?

Hi Bill,

Don't know what the limit is, but it isn't 7 - I've gone to 8


On 2/27/08, Ochs, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Stop and start the service through the report services tab. I've had
> this hang up from time to time.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of William Boyer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: TOR Limits?
>
> Is there a limit to the number of TSM servers and/or reports that can
> be configured for TOR? I'm running 5.4.2.0 on a Windows2003 server, 7
> TSM servers are defined with multiple reports/monitors for each.
> Nothing runs! The service is running, the reports/monitors are
> activated, but I don't get any automated reports/monitors. I can
> right-click and run them manually, so the userid/password is
> configured correctly. This used to run fine and I'm not sure at what
> point it stopped running. I have recently added 2 new TSM servers.
>
> Are there limits
>
> Bill Boyer
> >Select * from USERS where CLUE>0
> 0 rows returned
>

Re: Getting rid of ghost REMOTE volumes

[William Boyer]

On the library manager instance..

Del volh t=remote tod=+0 force=yes volume=091007


Bill Boyer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Getting rid of ghost REMOTE volumes

How can I get rid of/delete/release volumes that were associated with a TSM 
server that no longer exists?

For example, here is the history of a volume.  The last use was to the server 
CAPELLA which has been decommissioned.  It also
happens to be a database backup for that now defunct server.

Can I just initialize it with extreme prejudice ?   Will it let me ?   A
simple delete volume doesnt work since this server doesn't own it eventhough it 
is the library owning server!

   DATE_TIME: 2008-01-20 03:31:41.00
 VOLUME_NAME: 091007
TYPE: STGNEW
DEVCLASS: 3583-LTO2-1
   BACKUP_SERIES:
BACKUP_OPERATION:
  VOLUME_SEQ:
LOCATION:
 COMMAND:

   DATE_TIME: 2008-01-22 09:14:20.00
 VOLUME_NAME: 091007
TYPE: STGDELETE
DEVCLASS: 3583-LTO2-1
   BACKUP_SERIES:
BACKUP_OPERATION:
  VOLUME_SEQ:
LOCATION:
 COMMAND:

   DATE_TIME: 2008-01-22 09:52:46.00
 VOLUME_NAME: 091007
TYPE: STGNEW
DEVCLASS: 3583-LTO2-1
   BACKUP_SERIES:
BACKUP_OPERATION:
  VOLUME_SEQ:
LOCATION:
 COMMAND:

   DATE_TIME: 2008-01-24 04:17:34.00
 VOLUME_NAME: 091007
TYPE: STGDELETE
DEVCLASS: 3583-LTO2-1
   BACKUP_SERIES:
BACKUP_OPERATION:
  VOLUME_SEQ:
LOCATION:
 COMMAND:

   DATE_TIME: 2008-01-24 17:24:02.00
 VOLUME_NAME: 091007
TYPE: REMOTE
DEVCLASS: 3583-LTO2-1
   BACKUP_SERIES:
BACKUP_OPERATION:
  VOLUME_SEQ:
LOCATION: TSM-CAPELLA
 COMMAND:

Re: Expiration

[William Boyer]

Nothing that I'm aware of, but you could always run a couple select statements 
before and after the expiration process to list the
total occupancy of the stgpool(s) defined in your VTL:

Select sum(physical_mb) from occupancy where stgpool_name in 
('stgpool1','stgpool2',...)

The list of stgpool(s) that are defined to your VTL in UPPERCASE.

This should give you a before and after occupancy picture.

Bill Boyer
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - ??
 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lepre, 
James
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Expiration

Hello All,

  Is there a SELECT Statement that would tell you how many files are expired 
and how much data this correlates to?  For example if
we expire 1,000,000 file that could be 500MB of actual data.  The reason for 
this request is because we need to know how much data
is actually coming off of our VTL from the expiration process.

Thank you in Advance

James

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans 
Christian Riksheim
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM has built-in encryption?

A lot of people opt for the transparent encryption scheme where the key is held 
in the TSM database and it seems that IBM is moving
in that direction with this feature being the only option in 5.5 for the 
BA-client. It seems that I am the only one who wants it the
other way around.
 
As I see it, client-key encryption offers far better security. OK, you must 
protect the key and store it on paper or other media on
more than one secure location in case of DR but isn't that the whole game with 
crypto anyways? No key? Sorry, no data for you!
Transparent encryption on the other hand is easier but security is poorer. 
 
I have thought on some security breach scenarios and compared the two schemes. 
Correct me if I am wrong on any of the
technicalities.
 
Tapping the lines between data center(customer) and backup site:
The is the same for both client-key encryption and transparent encryption. A 
snooper will in both cases only get DES56/AES128
garble. 
 
Lost/stolen tape media:
This depends. The data tapes alone are protected with both schemes. But if you 
also get hold of the DBbackup tapes(Hijack the truck
with DR tapes) you can restore the TSM-server with the keys if you are using 
transparent encryption. With client-key encryption the
data is safe from inspection because you do not have the keys.
 
Backup site breakin:
The data will be safe with client-key encryption. With transparent encryption 
the intruder will have full access to all data.
 
 
Backup-LAN:
Someone puts a client into your Backup-LAN or one client that is already there 
wants to snoop into another clients data. For example
if backup is outsourced different customers/competitors are sharing the same 
TSM infrastructure. With transparent encryption you can
access all the data on the TSM server IF you have an admin password for an 
account with system privilege. And a lot of admin
passwords are not that secret. Many places admin password are not changed for 
different reasons. In some setups with config manager
and library sharing it is seen as too cumbersome to change these passwords. 
Anyway, in this scenario transparent encryption offers
no security. Client-key encryption does.
 
 
Trusting the TSM administrator:
I'm not saying that TSM administrators are an untrustworthy lot. But with 
client-key encryption you don't have to trust the TSM
admin and it is a big difference. If I offer a TSM service, backup "through a 
hole in the wall" or what it is called, the customer
can set the encryption key himself and even if I wanted to, would have no 
chance of retrieving his data and giving it away. The
backup is as secure as the customers own standard for protecting the key. He 
does not have to rely on the supplier of the TSM
service.
 
 
I guess there are more examples and pros and cons but this sums it up for me: I 
want IBM to continue with client-key encryption for
the BA client, offer the same option for TDPO(though there are other means to 
the end in Oracle10/11) and likewise for
Exchange(where I'm not sure of which options exist in the application itself).
 
 
Best regards
 
Hans Chr. Riksheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager på vegne av Wanda Prather
Sendt: to 06.03.2008 17:03
Til: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Emne: Re: TSM has built-in encryption?



The TSM clients (including TDP's) can encrypt at AES 256.  You take a hit on 
performance for both backup and restore; you need to
also turn on compression on the client, as encrypted data can't be compressed 
by the tape drive.

If you want to encrypt using the backup client, I STRONGLY recommend you 
upgrade to 5.5, where the TSM server manages the keys for
you.  P

3494 and 3592 WORM media

[William Boyer]

I have a client that wants to start using WORM tapes for specific nodes/data. 
They are TSM 5.4.2.0 on Winders2003 SP2, 3494 library
and 3592 (TS1120) drives. Reading the manuals/redbooks it seems to activate 
this:

- Change WORMSCRATCHCATEGORY= on the library definition
- Create a DEVCLASS with WORM=YES
- Create my stgpool(s) to the new WORM devclass
- Checkin WORM media (JR, JW)

What just isn't connecting is how does TSM know a regular scratch tape from a 
WORM scratch tape? When I insert tapes in the 3494
they go in to the insertion category and then checkin "claims" those volumes 
for TSM. Does TSM and the checkin command recognize the
JR/JW and assigns them to the WORMSCRATCHCATEGORY?

And is there a way to identify which are WORM scratch tapes vs. regular scratch 
tapes? We have scripts in TOR that alert when the
scratch tape count drops below a minimum.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Experience is a comb nature gives us after we go bald." - ??

Re: 3494 and 3592 WORM media

[William Boyer]

That's kinda what I inferred from the (limited) documentation. Just wanted 
confirmation.

True, until you get to 5.4 release. The the developers decided that the 
MEDIATYPE column in the LIBVOLUMES table should be changed
from INTEGER to VARCHAR(16) and on my 5.4.1.0 system the Q LIBV F=D on my 
TS3310 with LTO3 drives shows 'Unknown' in that column.

But a big thanks Richard!!

Bill Boyer
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard 
Sims
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 and 3592 WORM media

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:24 AM, William Boyer wrote:

> ... What just isn't connecting is how does TSM know a regular scratch
> tape from a WORM scratch tape? ...

Good question.  The TSM manuals leave that unexplained.  The redbook 
"Implementing IBM Tape in Unix Systems" provides some
insight...

"Because Tivoli Storage Manager can distinguish between WORM and R/W cartridges 
(assigns "media type" of 412 for WORM cartridges and
411 for R/W cartridges at the time of check-in), you can have both WORM and R/W 
cartridges in a single logical library just by
defining device classes, one with WORM=yes and the other with WORM=no."

There are some things which TSM knows "under the covers".  Media type is 
revealed in the output of the Query LIBVolume command.

Richard Simsat Boston University

Re: 3494 and 3592 WORM media

[William Boyer]

Does drive APPLICATION level encryption work on WORM? So if I make my new worm 
devclass WORM=YES and DRIVEENCRYPTION=ON I'll get
encrypted WORM media.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard 
Sims
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 and 3592 WORM media

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:24 AM, William Boyer wrote:

> ... What just isn't connecting is how does TSM know a regular scratch
> tape from a WORM scratch tape? ...

Good question.  The TSM manuals leave that unexplained.  The redbook 
"Implementing IBM Tape in Unix Systems" provides some
insight...

"Because Tivoli Storage Manager can distinguish between WORM and R/W cartridges 
(assigns "media type" of 412 for WORM cartridges and
411 for R/W cartridges at the time of check-in), you can have both WORM and R/W 
cartridges in a single logical library just by
defining device classes, one with WORM=yes and the other with WORM=no."

There are some things which TSM knows "under the covers".  Media type is 
revealed in the output of the Query LIBVolume command.

Richard Simsat Boston University

Re: Reading client data from a storage pool tape.

[William Boyer]

And what about those "other" backup products that allow you to recreate the
database from the tapes. Re-cataloging a tape I think it's called. How
secure is that? Then all you need is a copy of the backup product and you
can restore anyone's tape/data...even if it's not yours! With TSM unless the
database "knows" about what's on that tape, you can't restore the files. If
you have sensitive data, then you should be looking at client-side
encryption. Physical tape security should also be a consideration.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:52 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Reading client data from a storage pool tape.

Frank, after responding to Orville's post, I think in retrospect I
misunderstood at least part of what you were asking, and therefore should
clarify:

While a tape utility would not be able to reconstruct a whole file system
from a given TSM tape, if the data on the tape is not encrypted, or at
least compressed by the client, you might be able to see the original data
as it existed on the client (interspersed with TSM control information and
other metadata). Plain text (source code, for example) probably has the
most exposure in this regard. For binary data, it will just appear as a
string of hex data, just as it would if you were to load the original file
on the client machine into a hex editor. There are no "sign posts" clearly
delimiting the end of one file and the beginning of the next, but if you
know what patterns you are looking for, at least some of the data would be
recognizable by reading the tape.

Unless you use client side encryption, or otherwise encrypt the files
before backing up or archiving them with TSM, the format of the data on
TSM should not be considered "secure".

In sum, while you would be very hard-pressed to reconstruct entire files
from the tape, bits and pieces of it (depending on the type of data) could
be recognizable just by examining the data on the tape with some tape
utility. Any statement such as the one you suggest below, does not exist,
and would not be true (not unless you've taken care to encrypt all your
data before sending it to the TSM server).

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 2005-02-18
14:34:40:

> The auditor would like a published statement from IBM TSM that says
> something like:
> The TSM data is written in a proprietary format which prevents a tape
> utility; such as 'ditto', 'Iebcopy', etc.,
> from being able to read any of the client information.
>
> Thank you for your help and patience.
>
> Frank McClean
> ITSB  SSU
> (916)795-1353
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Raibeck
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:16 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Reading client data from a storage pool tape.
>
>
> Please forgive my density, but I am still not clear on what kind of
> "statement" you are looking for. What is it *specifically* that the
> auditor wants to know? I would think the auditor would be asking for a
> statement of what we do, not what we don't do. I am not aware of any
> explicit statements like, "use of compression will obfuscate the data",
> but I would think that is a given for *any* compression scheme used by
> *any* product (but maybe I presume too much?).
>
> If the auditor wants to know whether the files can be readily retrieved
> in their original format by reading the tapes, then the answer is "no",
> per the section of the Admin Guide I quoted in my original response to
> your question.
>
> If the auditor wants to know whether the data can be retrieved *at all*
> by reading the tapes, then the answer is "theoretically, yes". Given
> enough resources (time, compute power, money, brain power), I'm not sure
> there yet exists any unhackable encryption scheme; it's all a matter of
> putting enough blocks in place to discourage. This would apply to any
> system, and is not specific to TSM. This is not explicitly documented
> anywhere, but could be intuited from other information in the doc and
> what we know today about data security.
>
> As for explicit encryption (which is really what we are talking about, I
> think), that is supported via the client side INCLUDE.ENCRYPT option.
> There is a statement in the description for that option (in the client
> manual, in the options reference info for "Include") that says the TSM
> does not encrypt the data without the use of this option.
>
> The TSM 5.3 client introduces a stronger encryption type. You can
> selected between DES56 (t

Error while installing ISC

[William Boyer]

I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes to
about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are
scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and
this error:



  [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring AdminControl;
exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException:
java.lang.NullPointerException



I searched on the IBM site for the WASX7318E message and found a couple
issues regarding firewalls installed on the box. This is a plain Win2003
server, but I did go in and uninstall the IE enhanced security "option". The
install still fails with this same message.



I've installed the ISC on several boxes.AIX..Win2k..as well as Win2003 with
no problems.until yesterday and this error. I have a PMR open with Tivoli
support that is being escalated.



Anyone seen this while installing the ISC before?? Doesn't look like it's
gotten too far.no services have been installed.no processes are running.



TIA,



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: Error while installing ISC

[William Boyer]

This is a Dell server, 4-way with 4GB of memory. The C: drive has over 9GB
of space available.

And actually it was a snowy, blustery Thursday afternoon in State College,
PA. These logs are scattered all over the place!

Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard van Denzel
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Error while installing ISC

Hi William,

I've seen these kind of errors mainly on systems which did not have 1GB
memory. The installation dies somewhere between 15-20% with no apperent
reason, and searching through the installation log of ISC is something you
only want to do on a rainy sunday afternoon.

Richard.





William Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
04-03-2005 14:44
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
cc:
Subject:Error while installing ISC


I'm trying to install the ISC on a Windows 2003 server. The install goes
to
about 15% when it dies. Searching through all the log files (that are
scattered all over the place!) I finally came on PortalBasicConfig.log and
this error:



  [wsadmin] WASX7318E: Received exception while declaring AdminControl;
exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException:
java.lang.NullPointerException



I searched on the IBM site for the WASX7318E message and found a couple
issues regarding firewalls installed on the box. This is a plain Win2003
server, but I did go in and uninstall the IE enhanced security "option".
The
install still fails with this same message.



I've installed the ISC on several boxes.AIX..Win2k..as well as Win2003
with
no problems.until yesterday and this error. I have a PMR open with Tivoli
support that is being escalated.



Anyone seen this while installing the ISC before?? Doesn't look like it's
gotten too far.no services have been installed.no processes are running.



TIA,



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: Directory path backed up again and again ...

[William Boyer]

I believe that TSM backs up the directory, too, if any files have changed in
that directory.

And unless you specify a DIRMC, TSM uses the management class with the
longest retention for DIRECTORY entries. This was a problem people saw
before IBM implemented the DIRMC option. For Unix servers, directory entries
are just entries in the TSM database and do not have any associated data.
Unlike Novell and Windows where you have "data" like the ACL's associated
with directories. Then you have space occupied in a storage pool.

We always create a DIRECTORY management class with the highest retention and
force the DIRMC option out with client option sets. The destination storage
pool for this is a DISK storage pool that doesn't migrate. Just gets backed
up to copypool tape. That way restores are quick as the data comes right
from disk.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAC
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:53 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Directory path backed up again and again ...

Hi *SM'ers,

I recently found that one (surely others too) of our AIX clients was
getting part of it's directory structure backed up everyday although it
did not change, but can't find the reason why.

As Andy says it in his excellent web page : A normal Incremental Backup
will *not* back up directories whose timestamp has changed since the
last backup.

We're performing incremental backups, copymode used for this client is
set to modified, so I can't understand what's happening ! The worse is
that the mgmt-class having the longest retention period (retonly 768) in
this domain is used for storing that data, so I end up with thousands
(probably more if other servers are affected !) entries in TSM DB which
are worthless.

This in an example of what I get, using "show version" (snippet of it)
on this server:

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/07/05 20:51:51, Deactivated 01/10/05 20:37:15
ObjId: 0.539953678, GroupMap , objType 0x01

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/10/05 20:37:15, Deactivated 01/12/05 20:37:32
ObjId: 0.541340571, GroupMap , objType 0x01

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/12/05 20:37:32, Deactivated 01/14/05 20:37:16
ObjId: 0.542636928, GroupMap , objType 0x01

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/14/05 20:37:16, Deactivated 01/15/05 20:38:31
ObjId: 0.544018035, GroupMap , objType 0x01

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/15/05 20:38:31, Deactivated 01/16/05 20:38:29
ObjId: 0.544640259, GroupMap , objType 0x01

/export/mksysb : / (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS)
Inactive, Inserted 01/16/05 20:38:29, Deactivated 01/17/05 20:38:53
ObjId: 0.545097616, GroupMap , objType 0x01

This is a NIM server, where "MKSYSB" files from other servers are stored
everyday, so the content of the directory is changing, but not it's
structure.

TSM server is at 5.2.2.1 on AIX 5.2, client is 5.2.3.1,on AIX  5.3

Could someone tell me what is happening here, and how to avoid this ?
TIA.


Arnaud


**
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Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone:  +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
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Re: Tape went back to private without reason (2)

[William Boyer]

I use the AUTOLABEL=YES on the library definition. Saves me the headache
when operations puts new tapes in without telling they got new tapes!

I did find that if a Storage Agent mounts a tape that isn't label'd it will
reject it even though AUTOLABEL=YES is turned on for the library.

It's still a good practice to LABEL LIBV new tapes, but AUTOLABEL=YES has
saved my bacon on a few occasions.

I also don't like OVERWRITE=YES. If there's a label on the tape I want to
know about it and check it myself. Even though TSM is doing that for
me...call me a control-freak, but all it takes is one little APAR where TSM
fails to check that the tape can be re-label'd and my data is gone. So far I
haven't opened an APAR on myself for that function. I use OVERWRITE=YES only
when I'm sure.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:49 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Tape went back to private without reason (2)

I agree that this should be done with NEW tapes, but I disagree with using
OVERWRITE=YES as a standard practice.

To review:

Tape libraries require bar code "labels" on the OUTSIDE of the tapes.
TSM ALSO requires an internal "label", written at the beginning of the tape.
The internal label must match the external bar code.

Every time TSM mounts a tape, it checks the internal label to make sure it
is using the correct tape.
It also checks its data base, to make sure that tape is SUPPOSED to be
written on.
This is MAJOR feature of TSM in safeguarding your data.

The purpose of the LABEL LIBV command, is to create the intenal label on the
tape.
So as Richard says, the FIRST TIME you use a NEW TAPE, you must run LABEL
LIBV to create the internal bar code.

You may also specify CHECKIN on the LABEL LIBV command, so that you don't
have to run a separate CHECKIN.

You only use LABEL LIBV the FIRST TIME.  
Once the tape has the internal label, you should NOT try to rewrite it. 
If there is data on a tape,  running LABEL LIBV on the tape with
OVERWRITE=YES will destroy the data.
OVERWRITE=YES is not needed, if the tape hasn't already been labelled.

You should NEVER have to run LABEL LIBV a second time, just to check in
scratch tapes.  (If so, there is something wrong with your procedures.)  And
if you specify OVERWRITE=YES, you disable TSM's ability to protect you from
overwriting good data.

The only time you need to use OVERWRITE=YES, is if for some reason you need
to change the barcode on the OUTSIDE of the tape.  Then you must use
OVERWRITE=YES and recreate the internal label so that it matches the new
barcode, AFTER you have removed all good data from the tape using RECLAIM or
MOVE DATA.

Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)


 
 



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard van Denzel
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:47 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Tape went back to private without reason (2)


Mark,

This is not the way to check in new scratch tapes, this should be done by 
using the command:

LABEL LIBV  SEARCH=YES LABELS=BAR CHECKIN=SCR OVERWRITE=YES

Richard.





Mark Strasheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
16-03-2005 11:46
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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
cc: 
Subject:Tape went back to private without reason (2)


Aloha

Sorry i forgot to say:
I checked the actlog, and took the error code ANR8355E, which i allso look 
up.
What is ment by prelabeled? I use barcode which are sticked onto the tape.
I check them in, with checkin libvolume with search=yes. I'm pretty sure,
that i check in the first tapes the same way.

 
>>i have put 10 new Tape into the Library. I marked them with scratch. 
After 2 days
>>they all went back to private, so i change them back to scratch ... this 
"game"
>>i am playing for one week now, and i am tried. I can't see any reason 
why this happens. 
>>Maybe anyone of you can make some sence of it. 


with regards

Mark Stasheim

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Re: Move Media & DR

[William Boyer]

Backupsets are not considered DRMEDIA by DRM. You can't use MOVE MEDIA on them 
either because they do not belong to a storage pool.
You would have to write your own scripts to look for the backupset tapes and 
then update the volhistory record for that tape with a
LOCATION= parameter.

You should be able to do a CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME on the newly created backupset 
tape. It's still part of the library inventory.

The only product I know of that can manage backupset volumes for vaulting is 
Autovault from http://www.coderelief.com

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D. 
Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Move Media & DR

Joni,

My first question is are you licensed for the "Extended Edition" of TSM,
because it includes DRM support which will make your life much easier
when it comes to managing off site tapes and doing DR testing.  In
particular you would be using "move drmedia" commands instead of "move
media" commands. The "move media" commands are more useful for handling
on site primary pool tapes that need to be moved out side of the library
for whatever reason.  Whereas the "move drmedia" commands are designed
to do exactly what you are trying to do.

I sent you an email earlier with my contact info in it.  If you would
like feel free to call me and we can discuss these issues over the phone.

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Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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Joni Moyer wrote:

>Hello Everyone!
>
>I have the volume N00043 that I have sent to the vault by using the move
>media command.  I will be having a DR test and will be taking the tape(s)
>to the DR site.  The volume is read-only and is mountable, but not in the
>library.  Will I have to do any updates to the tapes if I want to mount
>this tape at our DR site?  I was thinking no, but I just thought I would
>ask.  Thanks!
>
>Volume  State Location   Automated
>LibN
>Name ame
>
>-----
>---
>N00043  Mountable not in library  Vital Records, Inc.
>
>  Volume Name: N00043
> Storage Pool Name: TAPE_NDMP_OFFSITE
> Device Class Name: NASDEV
>   Estimated Capacity (MB): 515,035.1
>   Scaled Capacity Applied:
>  Pct Util: 99.9
> Volume Status: Filling
>Access: Read-Only
>Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.1
>   Scratch Volume?: Yes
>   In Error State?: No
>  Number of Writable Sides: 1
>   Number of Times Mounted: 36
> Write Pass Number: 1
> Approx. Date Last Written: 03/18/05 20:53:54
>Approx. Date Last Read: 03/17/05 12:55:14
>   Date Became Pending:
>Number of Write Errors: 0
> Number of Read Errors: 0
>   Volume Location: Vital Records, Inc.
>
>
>
>Joni Moyer
>Highmark
>Storage Systems
>Work:(717)302-6603
>Fax:(717)302-5974
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>

Re: ANR8963E - AGAIN

[William Boyer]

I've had issues with replacing LTO drives in a 3583 library. Unless I shutdown 
the Windows server, then power cycled the library and
brought Windows back up I would get error trying to define the drive. It would 
tell me that the ELEMENT= was not found.

Have you verified that the MTx.x.x.x device is still the correct one? I've had 
Winders recognize the replaced drive as a NEW drive
and created a different name.

Also verify that the correct device driver is loading for the drive. If this is 
Windows2000, make sure that the drive is being
controlled by the TSM device drive. For Windows2003, make sure that the tape is 
using the TSM device driver. I've also seen where
Windows thinks it's a new or replaced device, assigning the same device name, 
but not retaining or reloading the device driver for
it.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
Dourado
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: ANR8963E - AGAIN

Hello All,

An engineer swapped a faulty drive, two days ago.

When I tried to use it :-

"ANR8963E Unable to find path to match the serial number defined for drive
TAPE1"

UPDATE DRIVE OVERLAND TAPE1 SERIAL=HUP5B012ZB   fixed it for approx. 6
hours,
during this time 3 or 4 tapes were loaded & used on TAPE1,  then it
reverted to above
error message.

Next I deleted the path and drive successfully .  Redefined  drive :-

DEFINE DRIVE OVERLAND TAPE1 WWN=50060B1FDB1B SERIAL=AUTO ELEM=481

Q DRIVE  :-

Library Name Drive Name   Device Type On-Line
  --- ---
OVERLAND TAPE0LTO Yes
OVERLAND TAPE1UNKNOWN No
OVERLAND TAPE2LTO Yes
OVERLAND TAPE3LTO Yes

DEFINE PATH TSM1 TAPE1 SRCT=SERVER DESTTY=DRIVE LIBRAR=OVERLAND
DEV=mt2.0.0.4
produces error :-

ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive TAPE1.
ANS8001I Return code 15


Any help would be appreciated.

The engineer thinks it's a Windows issue, our Windows man thinks it a TSM
issue !

TSM Server 5.2.2.0 on Windows Server 2003

Tape drive is one of four  LTO-2s  in a NEO 4000 Library

Thanks

Bill

Experience with mixing LTO drives in a single library

[William Boyer]

I know it's supported, and the Admin Guide doesn't say very much about the 
actual mechanics and pros/cons of doing it, but I have a
client that has a 3853 with 3-LTO1 drives. They have a very specific 
application that requires large capacity, but a limited budget.
They are looking at adding a single LTO-3 drive to the existing library and an 
additional storage column. Searching the archives I
did run across a post about having to use the specific FORMAT=ULTRIUMx instead 
of FORMAT=DRIVE to create 2 separate device classes.
Then define a storage pool for the LTO-3 and direct this high capacity 
application to that stgpool.



Anyone willing to share real-world experiences on defining the environment and 
any problems encountered??



They are running 5.2.3.0 on AIX 5.2. I know I need to bring them up to 5.2.4.0 
for LTO-3 support plus upgrade the Atape drivers.



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Can I exclude he WinSxS folder on Windows2003 server?

[William Boyer]

I have a client with a Windows2003 server with Exchange 2003 on it. Lately he 
started seeing errors in his nightly non-Exchange
backups relating to a file in the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder. I've search the 
archives and came up dry. No hits on IBM either. I
Google search brought up some information on package assemblies.



Would it be safe to EXCLUDE.DIR the C:\WINDOWS\WINSXS directory? The error(s) 
the client is getting are:



03/28/2005 03:32:13 ANS1228E Sending of object
'\\hbgexchits1\c$\WINDOWS\WinSxS\Policies\x86_policy.5.2.Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible_6595b64144ccf1df_x-ww_92C6FB91\5.2.0.0.p
olicy' failed

03/28/2005 03:32:13 ANS4023E Error processing
'\\hbgexchits1\c$\WINDOWS\WinSxS\Policies\x86_policy.5.2.Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible_6595b64144ccf1df_x-ww_92C6FB91\5.2.0.0.p
olicy': file input/output error

03/28/2005 03:32:44 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'BD70330' failed.  Return code = 
12.





And the backup schedule indicates failed.



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

ENCRYPTKEY

[William Boyer]

I have a client that is trying to set up encryption for some files. TSM 5.3 
client:



ENCRYPTIONTYPE AES128

ENCRYPTKEYSAVE



The first time he used the GUI to backup the files he was prompted, but there 
was no indication that the INCLUDE.ENCRYPT files were
encrypted.



Is there a way to see from the backup (DSMSCHED.LOG with VERBOSE) that files 
were encrypted? This client is a bank and he needs to
"prove" to the auditors that files are being encrypted. After the Bank of 
America tape loss incident, they auditors are
understandably nervous.



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: lost volume configuration in my 3583

[William Boyer]

I've also found that after doing firmware on the library the "default" or 
"Extended" label option gets reset. That's whether you get
6 or 8 characters of the barcode reported by the library. Check to make sure 
that the library is configured for the correct option
for the TSM tapes. Otherwise TSM will think they are all new tapes (different 
volume name) and try to use them as scratch. But the
internal label won't match so you're safe there.

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAC Brion 
Arnaud
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: lost volume configuration in my 3583

Luc,

I believe the only way to do this is using "checkin libv" command.
Something like : 
1) checkin libvol  status=scratch search=yes checklabel=no
2) checkin libvol  status=private search=yes  checklabel=no

Note that you MUST issue those commands in sequence : scratch first, and then 
private. Not doing it that way will result in having
all of your tapes being private !
Hope this helped ...
Regards.

Arnaud 

**
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Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone:  +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc 
Beaudoin
Sent: Friday, 01 April, 2005 15:37
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: lost volume configuration in my 3583

Hi all

The IBM tech update my firmware on the 3583 ..
I was able to reconfigure the library path and drive path ...

Now I can't see my volumes 
How can I make TSM to re-learn the volumes

HELP

Luc Beaudoin
Administrateur Réseau / Network Administrator Hopital General Juif S.M.B.D.
Tel: (514) 340-8222 ext:4318

LAN-free and VMWare ESX server

[William Boyer]

We have several VMware ESX 2.5 servers running the TSM client to backup the 
virtual machine's .DSK file while the virtual machine is
down. Some of these are getting rather large and future VM's will be in excess 
of 60GB for a single .DSK file. The BA client works
fine for this, but takes quite a while. Does the storage agent LAN-free 
supported on this Linux-like box? We have fibre access as
most of these VM's boot from SAN disk.



Our TSM server right now is 5.2.3.5. I see LANfree for Linux, but no mention of 
the VMware ESX version.



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: Help me convincing IBM please!!!!

[William Boyer]

Good thing Eric asked " and send the output directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:" 
or the list would be swamped with the replies!
:-)

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian 
Armendariz
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Help me convincing IBM please

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07 4:57 AM >>>
Hi *SM-ers!
Please help me with this and take the time to read this request

We're having serious performance problems with our TSM database. Part of the
discussion with IBM is how expiration should perform.
A technical document on the TSM website stated that one should be able to
expire 3.8 million objects per hour. As soon as I referred to this document
("How to determine when disk tuning is needed") IBM removed it from their
site
Expiration runs at a speed of 140.000 objects per hour in my shop an I know
for sure that some of you are running at 3.8 million or more and I like to
prove this to IBM.

I'm begging for your help with this. I would like to ask you to issue the
following SQL statements on your TSM server(s) and send the output directly
to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

select activity, cast ((end_time) as date) as "Date" 
,(examined/cast((end_time-start_time) seconds as decimal(18,13)) *3600)
"Objects Examined Up/Hr" from summary where activity='EXPIRATION' and days 
(end_time)-days(start_time)=0

select pct_utilized, avail_space_mb from db

The first statement calculates your expiration performance (objects/hour)
and the second one lists your database size and utilization.
Thank you VERY much for sending me your statistics in advance, I REALLY
appreciate it!!!
Kindest regards,
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: 8 or 6 character

[William Boyer]

Just check the tapes in with CHECKLABEL=YES instead of CHECKLABEL=BARCODE. Then 
TSM/the library will ignore the barcodes and read
the internal label. Once they're checked in TSM only uses the element numbers 
to move tapes around.

Now if you have a lot of tapes to checkin, this could take a while.

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 8 or 6 character

We have found that if you check the tapes into a library that does not read the 
last 2 characters then you can not use them.  It is
a good idea to use the 6 character configuration.

As an example if you have a tape seen as A1L1 in an IBM library the TSM DB 
will know the tape as this.  When you check it into
an STK library as A1 TSM will not assume it is the same tape at the L1.

We have sites with both IBM 3583's and STK L40's at our hot site we have one of 
each as well for recovery. We did not make sure to
turn off the reading of the last two characters so now we can read our STK 
tapes in the IBM library but not the other way around.

Maybe if you were in a major pinch there would be a way to update the database 
with the help of support but there is no rename
volume command in TSM.

Otto Schakenbos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
today we became our new 3584 (to replace 2 x 7337) and we are of course
very happy. Now the initial adrenaline shock is over and we stopped
drooling I remembered something about 8 and 6 character labels. The
library currently uses 8 character labels, what happens if, in a
disaster recovery scenario for example, I need to use a library that
can only read 6 character label. (which is every non-ibm library if i
recall correctly?)
Am I able to read my volumes in such a library or is it a good idea to
switch to 6 character now for compatibility since it is still relatively
easy to do so at this point? (will need to re-label all my shiny new
volumes but that is ok)
I know it has been posted before but can't find it.

thnx

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IBM 3583 upgrade to mult-path

[William Boyer]

Anyone out there done an upgrade of an IBM 3583 library without the multi-path 
feature to the multi-path feature?



It is just a matter of pulling out the library module, loading the multi-path 
firmware and re-cabling the drives? This is SCSI
attached to a p550. The client is putting a fibre attached LTO-3 drive in this 
library with 3 other LTO-1 drives. Backups
specifically for a 1.2TB application.



Hopefully the MES upgrade will come with some documentation.



Bill Boyer

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: WEB admin console very slow

[William Boyer]

If this is IE, then make sure you do not have "Automatically detect settings" 
checked for your proxy settings. I've seen this cause
all kinds of problems with the web admin interface.

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc 
Beaudoin
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: WEB admin console very slow

Hi all

I'm trying to use the WEB admin console on my windows 2000 server (it's
the same from my workstation)

If I type in my browserhttp://myserver:1580   it takes 2 minutes
to get the login prompt ...  DNS is ok ...

Any idea ...

thanks

Luc

Re: IBM 3583 upgrade to mult-path

[William Boyer]

No, part of the upgrade is using a utility the CE has to download from an 
internal IBM site. As a customer I don't have access to
it. A utility called DLCONVERT.EXE. This utility loaded the multi-path 
firmware, converted from SCSI-ID to LUN mapping. Then just
re-cable to library like you would a regular multi-path library. We had to 
reboot the 3583 and the pServer before the /dev/smc0 was
recognized. The first reboot after loading the code...be patient!

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Zufelt
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM 3583 upgrade to mult-path

We've done this.  Essentially, yes it is just a matter of loading the firmware 
and re-cabling the drives.  However, this is not
something that you can do yourself--at least we couldn't at the time we 
purchased the upgrade.  The price of the upgrade included an
IBM field engineer coming on site to perform the upgrade.  Perhaps that's why 
it is so pricey?  Although I never confirmed it, I'm
guessing the requirement to have a field engineer come on-site was to protect 
the integrity of the code.

Matt Zufelt


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4/11/2005 12:26 PM:
> Anyone out there done an upgrade of an IBM 3583 library without the
> multi-path feature to the multi-path feature?
>
>
>
> It is just a matter of pulling out the library module, loading the
> multi-path firmware and re-cabling the drives? This is SCSI
> attached to a p550. The client is putting a fibre attached LTO-3 drive
> in this library with 3 other LTO-1 drives. Backups
> specifically for a 1.2TB application.
>
>
>
> Hopefully the MES upgrade will come with some documentation.
>
>
>
> Bill Boyer
>
> "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

FW: TSM 5.3 and the good-old WEBadmin good news

[William Boyer]

Forget it.helps if you create the WEBIMAGE directory instead of WEBIMAGES 
directory. Time for new glasses! :-)


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: William Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:10 PM
To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
Subject: RE: TSM 5.3 and the good-old WEBadmin good news

Someone got this to work on Windows2003? I have WIndows2003 server, TSM 5.3.1.0 
and when I run:

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\tsm\server1>..\server\dsmserv runfile 
..\server\windows.idl

I get:

ANR2000E Unknown command - DDELETE ALLOBJECTS




Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard 
van Denzel
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM 5.3 and the good-old WEBadmin good news

All,

You can download files from
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/tools (for unix 
(AIX, HP, Linux and Sun) and Windows) to enable the
good-old WEBadmin in TSM 5.3 (see the README on the FTP site for details). They 
state that it will work for at least 6 months or upt
March 2006.

Tears were running from my eyes ;-) when I saw the WEBadmin again working on a 
5.3 server..

Cheers,

Richard.

Re: Operational Hourly Monitors

[William Boyer]

If you go in and look at some of the queries already defined by Tivoli in the 
default hourly monitor it shows that the SQL WHERE
clause compares the date/times "BETWEEN '%s" and '%s'" . I've used this syntax 
in my own queries and it works fine. I've never found
any documentation on it, just a little reverse engineering. Since you can 
refresh the monitor on either the current time or the
scheduled time, I'm going to assume the the %s's are calculated as NOW-1hour 
and NOW.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael 
LaFrance
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Operational Hourly Monitors

I'm trying to set up an operational monitor that will alert our TSM operators 
that a tape is required from a "shelf" location. The
shelf is where the archive tapes are stored and they are required from time to 
time for collocation.

The hourly script will check the activity log for ANR8765I. My problem is 
setting the query to only search the last hour of the
activity log. I can make it check the previous day but am stumped by this "past 
hour" report.

Here is my TSQL script:
select msgno, message from actlog where msgno=8765 and 
date(date_time)=current_date - 1 day

I've tried to adjust this script to query just the last hour of the activity 
log but to no avail.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Mike LaFrance
Network Analyst
Prospera Credit Union
Tel 604-864-6638 Fax 604-850-3473
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Re: column width

[William Boyer]

Just put

SET SQLDISPLAYMODE WIDE

Before your select command.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:21 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: column width

Hello Everyone!

I have issued a command to find the error and warning messages and have emailed 
it to myself.  Here is the command:

select date_time,msgno,message from actlog where date_time>current_timestamp - 
1 day and severity in ('E', 'W')

Is there a way to make the message column wider so that it isn't several lines 
long?  Thank you!



 DATE_TIME   MSGNO MESSAGE
-- --- --
2005-05-112035 ANR2035E RUN:
   10:45:55.00  Administrator
PMSTORAGE is not
authorized to
issue this
command.
(SESSION: 320563)
2005-05-112035 ANR2035E RUN:
   10:45:55.00  Administrator
PMSTORAGE is not
authorized to
issue this
command.
(SESSION: 320563)
2005-05-111423 ANR1423W Scratch
   10:46:17.00  volume T00953 is
empty but will
not be deleted -
volume access
mode is "offsite-
".
2005-05-112035 ANR2035E RUN:
   10:49:28.00  Administrator
ADMQ is not
authorized to
issue this
command.
(SESSION: 320568)
2005-05-112035 ANR2035E RUN:
   10:49:28.00  Administrator
ADMQ is not
authorized to
issue this
command.
(SESSION: 320568)
2005-05-11 480 ANR0480W Session
   11:00:21.00  320586 for node
CS-NICE-STORAGE
(STORAGE_CENTER)
terminated -
connection with
client severed.
(SESSION: 320586)
2005-05-11 480 ANR0480W Session
   11:00:21.00  320588 for node
CS-NICE-STORAGE
(STORAGE_CENTER)
terminated -
connection with
client severed.
(SESSION: 320588)
2005-05-11 480 ANR0480W Session
   11:00:21.00  320590 for node
CS-NICE-STORAGE
(STORAGE_CENTER)
terminated -
connection with
client severed.
(SESSION: 320590)
2005-05-11 480 ANR0480W Session
   11:00:21.00  320592 for node
CS-NICE-STORAGE
(STORAGE_CENTER)
terminated -
connection with
client severed.
(SESSION: 320592)
2005-05-11 480 ANR0480W Session
   11:00:21.00  320594 for node
CS-NICE-STORAGE
(STORAGE_CENTER)
terminated -
connection with
client severed.
(SESSION: 320594)

Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
Work:(717)302-6603
Fax:(71

Re: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

[William Boyer]

Use the filesystem number format instead:

del fi afsdbms 3 nametype=fsid


With Winders and unicode you may be running into codepage issues. Just use the 
FSID insteadand make sure you type carefully!
Don't want to mistype the wrong number.

Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence 
Clark
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:00 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: DEL FILE on individual Windows file spaces

We have a mix of AIX and Windows.example below.
On deleting individual filespaces on AIX there is no problem, as:

del file aixadmin /usr

However, trying to delete individual Windows filespaces causes probems.
All files can be deleted but individula filespaces specified returns a not 
found error:

del file afsdbms *this works

def file afsdbms \\afsdbms\e$..does not work

AFSDBMS \\afsdbms\-1 WinNTNTFS No  8,665.1
32.9
 c$
AFSDBMS \\afsdbms\-2 WinNTNTFS No  4,297.4
19.1
 d$
AFSDBMS \\afsdbms\-3 WinNTNTFS No  8,604.0
20.8
 e$
AFSDBMS SYSTEM 4 WinNTSYSTEM   Yes 0.0
 0.0
 OBJECT
AIXADMIN/  1 AIX  JFS  No 64.0
34.3
AIXADMIN/usr   2 AIX  JFS  No  4,224.0
39.4
AIXADMIN/var   3 AIX  JFS  No 64.0
57.8
AIXADMIN/home  4 AIX  JFS  No 64.0
18.9
AIXADMIN/opt   5 AIX  JFS  No 64.0
18.9
AIXADMIN/workarea  8 AIX  JFS  No  6,400.0
23.1
AIXADMIN/usr/sys/i-   10 AIX  JFS  No 25,600.0
16.6

Re: archive in TDP for DBS

[William Boyer]

One problem I ran into at a client site was with the transaction logs. You can 
set up different nodenames to backup the once
weekly/monthly full backups, but a portion of that backup is a log file. When 
you do the restore, you do the physical first..the
full database and then replay the logs. But the daily logs are under a 
different nodename to TSM than the partial log that is under
the weekly/monthly nodename. So the logical restore will fail.

You should also not run the onmsync (?) utility! This will sync the sysutils 
file with the entries in TSM. If you run this under the
daily nodename, then the weekly/monthly backups will be purged from the 
sysutils table. And I don't believe you can restore if you
don't have an entry in the sysutils table.

Just my $.02.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marek 
Slusarski
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:25 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: archive in TDP for DBS

I'm currently running daily backups keeping 10 versions of Informix database 
(two weeks/daily backups). However, the Informix admin
requires a one daily backups  to be saved for a specified period of time (4 
weeks ) and one monthly  to be saved for one year. The
keyproblem is, that TDP for Informix ( not only for Informix) has no 
archive-feature (no  archive copy group).
I'm thinking about registering a second node for a second backup of the 
databases on Informix but I know that Informix traces its
backups by "emergency boot file" and inserts into sysutils database so I don't 
know if after backing up Informix database by two or
three different nodes I still be able to restore.
Does anyone have anything like this implemented?

Thanks!
Marek

Re: Domino Transaction Logs Archive

[William Boyer]

You're saying that every time I reboot my Domino server, ALL my databases will 
be assigned a new DBIID and I'll have a full backup
next time? I must admit I have not seen this behavior on a Domino server.

And even if every database gets a new DBIID when you reboot/restart Domino, 
this doesn't effect the ARCHIVELOGS command.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, 
Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Domino Transaction Logs Archive

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
Dourado
>Our Domino Server is rebooted automatically every Tuesday at 06:30
>hrs., to clear memory says our Notes Administrator.
>
>Transaction logging takes place every two hours, and anything between 4
>and 12 logs are archived, except  once after the reboot  every Tuesday
>where over 140 logs are archived at 08:00 hrs. (the next archive
schedule)
>
>Is this normal behaviour ?  Aren't  logs supposed to be archived once
>only?

Remember that this would reflect normal TSM for Databases (Domino) behavior. 
The Domino agent will back up only the logs for a given
database or mailbox unless the file in question has a new DBID. When a new DBID 
is issued, the agent backs up the entire file.
Domino files get a new DBID when:

1. the Domino service is stopped and restarted; or 2. the server is rebooted 
(see #1) 3. the file is reorg'd

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical 
Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627

TDP DOmino backup errors: File does not exist

[William Boyer]

CLient using Domino 5.12 on Windows2000 server. TSM 5.2 client. When running 
the daily incremental backups they have started
receiving the following errors:

05/24/2005 20:03:29 Backup of mail\bguerin.nsf failed.
05/24/2005 20:03:29 File does not exist
05/24/2005 20:06:50 Backup of mail\ckortzag.nsf failed.
05/24/2005 20:06:50 File does not exist
05/24/2005 20:32:00 Backup of mail\szunz.nsf failed.
05/24/2005 20:32:00 File does not exist


These files do not exist. The Domino admin says they used to belong to 
terminated employees and have been removed. Their question is
where/how does TDP get the list of databases to backup?

Bill Boyer
"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: When Good Tapes Go Bad

[William Boyer]

We use the TSM Operational Reporter to report on any tapealert messages( 
MSGNO=8948,8949,8950,8951) and and I/O errors
(MSGNO=1401,8943,8381) and analyse the errors. If it's a tape problem, normally 
we MOVE DATA and let it go ack to scratch. If we get
another errorout it goes! If it's a read error, MOVE DATA to clear it off 
(or as much as it can) restore any data that couldn't
be moved...and out it goes! Actually returned for warrenty replacement.

Now on our 3584 fibre attached library, we seem to see a lot more errors being 
generated from the drive that is also the library
control point. I saw some referenced on this list about this same thing and it 
was suggested that these were not "real" errors, but
would be fixed on the next firmware for the library. We still go through the 
above exercise anyway. Data is too important!!


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, 
Eric J
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: When Good Tapes Go Bad

What I generally do is watch for drive errors and the tapes that cause it.  If 
the same drive is causing errors I assume the drive
is going.
Each time I receive a tape error I document the date and tape, audit the tape, 
if errors exist I move the data off and make it a
scratch tape, otherwise I set the tape back to read/write.  After 3 occurances 
I move the data off and throw tape way.  It seems to
work well for us.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
Rozmiarek
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:26 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: When Good Tapes Go Bad

How do you go about determining that a tape is bad and needs to be thrown 
replaced? The way I do it is to keep track of any tapes
that have been set to read-only due to an error (q act msg=1411). When I see 
one, I mark it

read-write and keep track of it. When the same tape gets set to read-only due 
to an error a second time, I do a 'move data' if
there's anything on it and then eject it, delete the volume, and replace it 
with a new tape. I don't know that that tape is really
bad so I could be throwing tapes (and
money) in the garbage unnecessarily.
Is there a way to certify a tape like I can a disk?
How do you determine that a tape needs to be replaced?

-Bill

--
Bill Rozmiarek
http://GatheredTogether.org - Ministries Helping Ministries

Re: Image Backup with Journal based backups

[William Boyer]

I've impelemented just this at a client of mine. Daily incremental with the 
Journal and then a weekly IMAGE backup. They don't
conflict at all. This server currently is about 5.5 million files on 2 
different drives.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew 
Large
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Image Backup with Journal based backups

*SMers,

We are currently using image backups once a week to perform the full image, and 
daily normal incrementals to keep up with Jones'.
However, I'm trying to reduce the 5 hours TSM spends traversing the 5 million+ 
file in the filesystem each night.

I would like to assist the daily incrementals by using Journal Based backups to 
track changes made to the file system, so before I
start desiging a solution I was wondering if anyone out there had a similar 
situation and ended up with this solution.

Or any useful information.

Many Thanks,
Matthew



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Encryption devices

[William Boyer]

Anyone out there using an encryption device that sits between TSM and the tape 
drives? Like the DataFort from Decru and another I
found the Neoscale CryptoStor. We have some clients (bank and credit union) 
that are curious about employing encryption for their
offsite media. We are concidering just turning on encryption at the client 
level and these devices. Figure a single device is better
than having to configure a lot of clients and then keeping each password??? 
They both have their pros and cons, but I'm just
looking for any experience with the devices.


Thanks,
Bill Boyer
"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??

Re: SQL query behaviour - then

[William Boyer]

Don't put the space before and after the ">" in the SQL command, but DO put 
them before/after the redirection. I haven't read it
anywhere, but that's the behavior I've found


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren, 
Matthew (Retail)
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SQL query behaviour - then

I think you may be coming up against redirection issues with the '>'
symbol..

It looks like the shell is 'consuming' the >0 from the command line as it 
thinks you want to redrect info to a file called >0.  I'm
not sure in windows if it can be escaped or quoted to avoid the issue.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew 
Large
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: SQL query behaviour - then

Hi,

I seem to be having some trouble getting results from select statements issued 
from a batch script

Here're the results from TSM - it's quite happy..

tsm: TSML003A>select case  when sum(physical_mb) >0 then
sum(physical_mb)
else 0
 end from occupancy where stgpool_name='APPS_DISKPOOL'
0.00

But when this same command issued from a batch script

set id=largem
set pw=...
set login=c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmadmc -id=%id% -pa=%pw%

%login% select case when sum(physical_mb) >0 then sum(physical_mb) else 0 end 
from occupancy where stgpool_name='APPS_DISKPOOL' >
tsmdisk.log

I get a...

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2003. All Rights Reserved.

Session established with server TSML003A: Windows
  Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 0.0
  Server date/time: 15-06-2005 15:29:49  Last access: 15-06-2005
09:54:44

ANS8000I Server command: 'select case when sum(physical_mb) then
sum(physical_mb) else 0 end from occupancy where stgpool_name='APPS_DISKPOOL''
ANR2904E Unexpected SQL key word token - 'THEN'.

   |
 ..V
 select case when sum(physical_mb) then sum(physical_mb) else 0


Since queries which result in a decimal 0 often produce extraneous text, I've 
tried to convert the 'null' into an integer 0.

Is there any reason why my batch script fails like this?

Thanks
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Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

[William Boyer]

>From the movie "Blazing Saddles" ... You use your tongue better than a $20 
>...you-know-what. Couldn't have said it better. Heck, I
just wish I could have said it as good! Don't ever leave us!!! :-)

In the case of this 15M+ server, it was the imaging vender that architected 
this. I've gotten a lot of suggestions from the list
over the past days and I'll try some of them, but I will suggest that they 
split this 2TB filesystem into smaller parts based on the
G:\IMAGES\\. Put each region on its own drive. This is also on an EMC 
Symmetrix. Another upper management mis-decision they
have to contend with is that the mainframe and open systems must share the same 
technology. Hence the EMC Symmetrix and the 3494
with 3590E drives. Both technologies are somewhat limiting their open system 
options. I don't' mean to dis' the 3494...it's a good
box, but the 3590E capacity is hurting them. Plus the speed. Their daily backup 
is getting large enough that soon they may not be
able to meet the vaulting deadline.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard 
Sims
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup

All the anguish brought on by this kind of situation brings us back to the old 
issue of sites lacking guidance in the area of data
architecture, as should be promulgated by an IT department. What we are 
collectively seeing in all these companies is departments
buying the new, large (160 GB+) hard drives or disk arrays now on the market 
and implementing them as one, single, huge storage
area, with no thought to the realities involved in the decision. This is 
largely a problem in the Windows arena, where this often
derives from people having had basic experience with a personal computer and 
who simplistically extrapolate when outfitting larger
systems. This is in contrast to the Unix environment, where there is 
pre-existing conditioning to sanely subdivide disk space by
functional categorization and keep file systems manageable.

Do whatever you can to stem this poor practice... Feed back to the responsible 
department; bring it up at meetings; raise awareness
in company publications. Carving out multiple volumes allows for categorization 
and easier administration by their owner, and
certainly facilitates backup in terms of time schedule and parallelization 
opportunities. If necessary, analogize the issue:
does one implement a 15-foot high filing cabinet, or three 5-foot high 
cabinets? It's about practicalities. We TSM administrators
need to make ourselves conspicuous in decision making, not be willing victims 
of uninformed decisions. We safeguard our
organizations'
data, and can do that only if sane data architectures prevail.

 Richard Sims

Re: LTO1 to LTO3

[William Boyer]

Since LTO3 can read LTO1 media, why not just:

- In TSM, delete all your drives and paths
- Remove them from your OS
- Remove LTO-1 drives and replace with LTO-2 drives
- Allow your OS to recognize the new drives
- define the drives and paths to TSM
- Mark all your LTO-1 tapes as READONLY and just feed the library with LTO-3 
media from now on.

Since the devclass devtype is LTO no matter the flavor of LTO, you just need to 
make sure you specify the correct FORMAT= to be able
to read the ULTRIUM tapes and read/write the ULTRIUM3C tapes. FORMAT=DRIVE 
should handle that.

Now just let the LTO-1 tapes go away via expiration, reclamation or you can 
MOVE DATA them. Same storage pools and everything.

Same concept as was discussed on this list with upgrading 3590 drives to higher 
capacity drives. Like B's to E's.

Or am I on the wrong track here? But I don't see why it wouldn't work.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meadows, 
Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:09 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO1 to LTO3

Hello everyone again.
Current configuration:
TSM version 5.2.1.1
Library 3854
Drives Fibre attached LTO gen 1 (8)

The higher powers here have asked me to make up a plan to migrate from LTO Gen 
1 tapes to LTO Gen 3 tapes. I am putting a plan
together and was wondering if anyone has done this same move and if I am 
missing something in my plan.

1) Upgrade to TSM Server version 5.3
2) Hardware removal of 3 LTO Gen 1 drives, replaced with LTO Gen 3
3) New Dev Class for LTO Gen 3
4) New Stg pools for LTO Gen 3
5) Migrate data
6) Remove LTO Gen 1 drives remaining
7) Remove Old Storage pools.

I know this is a rather simplistic list here.
I also have a few questions will I have to change TSM to recognise the full 8 
character labels at this point as well?
Again if anyone has done this please reply, or if you see any fundemental flaw 
in my plan.
Thanks,
Andrew


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Re: LTO1 to LTO3

[William Boyer]

I believe you need to be at TSM server 5.2.4.0 to support LTO-3. Check the 
supported devices matrix to be sure.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Longo
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:43 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: LTO1 to LTO3

I am about to replace a few of my LTO1 drives with LTO3.
Have started looking at all this stuff.  You didn't mention the platform for 
TSM server.  Mine is AIX and one other thing to do is
make sure the Atape driver is updated for LTO3 and
LTO3 WORM if you are using that, I will be.

Whatever platform, there is probably some OS stuff to check on.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/22/05 1:24 PM >>>
Since LTO3 can read LTO1 media, why not just:

- In TSM, delete all your drives and paths
- Remove them from your OS
- Remove LTO-1 drives and replace with LTO-2 drives
- Allow your OS to recognize the new drives
- define the drives and paths to TSM
- Mark all your LTO-1 tapes as READONLY and just feed the library with LTO-3 
media from now on.

Since the devclass devtype is LTO no matter the flavor of LTO, you just need to 
make sure you specify the correct FORMAT= to be able
to read the ULTRIUM tapes and read/write the ULTRIUM3C tapes. FORMAT=DRIVE 
should handle that.

Now just let the LTO-1 tapes go away via expiration, reclamation or you can 
MOVE DATA them. Same storage pools and everything.

Same concept as was discussed on this list with upgrading 3590 drives to higher 
capacity drives. Like B's to E's.

Or am I on the wrong track here? But I don't see why it wouldn't work.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meadows, 
Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:09 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO1 to LTO3

Hello everyone again.
Current configuration:
TSM version 5.2.1.1
Library 3854
Drives Fibre attached LTO gen 1 (8)

The higher powers here have asked me to make up a plan to migrate from LTO Gen 
1 tapes to LTO Gen 3 tapes. I am putting a plan
together and was wondering if anyone has done this same move and if I am 
missing something in my plan.

1) Upgrade to TSM Server version 5.3
2) Hardware removal of 3 LTO Gen 1 drives, replaced with LTO Gen 3
3) New Dev Class for LTO Gen 3
4) New Stg pools for LTO Gen 3
5) Migrate data
6) Remove LTO Gen 1 drives remaining
7) Remove Old Storage pools.

I know this is a rather simplistic list here.
I also have a few questions will I have to change TSM to recognise the full 8 
character labels at this point as well?
Again if anyone has done this please reply, or if you see any fundemental flaw 
in my plan.
Thanks,
Andrew


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Re: Export node with TDP's ?

[William Boyer]

Del has suggested in the past that instead of using different nodenames for the 
daily and monthly backups, to run the monthly
backups using the COPY type of backup. "TDPEXCC BACKUP * COPY ..." and then in 
your dsm.opt file use an include for the COPY objects
to a management class with the correct retentions.

You would have a script file for your daily backups, and then one for your 
monthly backups...or you could put logic in the script to
decide when to run the FULL and when to run the COPY.


Also, ARCHIVE is not a function of the TDP agent.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, 
Mark
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Export node with TDP's ?

Archive the data, rather than backing it up. You can specify an ARCHMC when you 
do so.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical 
Expert (CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627



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>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of Pretorius Louw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:10 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Export node with TDP's ?
>
>1. Does anyone know if export node works with the Exchange TDP?
>(Win2k3 with Exchange2k3)
>
>2. Instead of running multiple Nodenames on our Cluster servers we are
>looking for ways of doing monthly backups and keep them for many years
>while still keeping our weekly backups for only 10 versions.
>Unfortunately it seems one cannot specify a ManagementClass on the
>commandline so we cannot use a different MC for this.  Any other
>thoughts?
>
>Regards
>
>Louw Pretorius
>
>___
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Re: tsm tape path problems

[William Boyer]

One thing I have found with Windows is after any type of hardware change, 
whether it is a replacement or just firmware updates,
Windows seems to not recognize it as the same device, and creates new ones for 
this same (upgraded) hardware. If you just give the
TSM server a few minutes to time out on trying to initialize the library, then 
you can update the library path to the new device=
and then update the drive paths to the new device=.

I've started stopping TSM, removing the library/drives from Device manager in 
Windows, doing the upgrade/replace and rebooting. I've
found that Windows assigns the same devices. Then I just restart TSM and verify 
that all is well.

I don't know if persistent mappings with the fibre adapter (if you are running 
fibre drives) would resolve this issue...


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander 
Lazarevich
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:21 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: tsm tape path problems

TSM 5.1.9.0 on win2K server. Overland Neo 4100 with 2 LTO-2 drives.

I've got a bad problem, and I'm stuck trying to read the manual for clues but 
I'm having trouble finding what I need to know and I
could really use a point in the right direction.

TSM has been running just fine since I set it up more than two years ago.
I used the TSM wizard to set everything up, and it was quite easy. Last week we 
had an LTO-2 drive failure, some bad cables, and an
intermittent library controller card. All those hardware issues have been fixed.

But somewhere in the mess of fixing all the hardware issues, the TSM /windows 
drivers for the devices got confused, and TSM is now
recognizing the library and the drives as different device names. Whereas TSM 
used to call the devices: lb6.0.0.3 (library),
mt1.0.0.3 (drive 1), and mt2.0.0.3 (drive 2); TSM is now calling those devices 
lb6.0.0.5, mt1.0.0.5, and mt2.0.0.5.

I've tried everything I know of to fix the path between the server and the 
"old" devices (lb6.0.0.3), but nothing I tried worked.
So, I then set out to try and define new path's for the "new" devices 
(lb6.0.0.5). I've done the following:

- Define the new library and drives, giving them the proper names
   and element ID's.
- Update the server's LTO Device Class, giving it the new library name
   lb6.0.0.5.
- Add the new path's for the drives and the library:
tsm: ITG-TSM>q path

Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line
 NameType
--- --- --- --- ---
ITG-TSM SERVER  LB6.0.0.5   LIBRARY Yes
ITG-TSM SERVER  MT1.0.0.5   DRIVE   Yes
ITG-TSM SERVER  MT2.0.0.5   DRIVE   Yes

But then I try to run an audit of the new library, and I get nothing:

ANR2017I Administrator ALAZAREV issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY lb6.0.0.5 
ANR0984I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in the
BACKGROUND at 21:42:02.
ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LB6.0.0.5 started as process 5.
ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LB6.0.0.5 completed successfully.
ANR0985I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with 
completion state SUCCESS at 21:42:02.

The audit did nothing, as it starts and completes within a second. The library 
didn't move an inch.

Obviously, I'm not setting up the paths properly, or the devices classes, or 
something. What I find odd is that when I run the
Device Configuration Wizard, TSM does not find any devices. That is different 
from when I first installed TSM, when it found all
devices automatically for me.

I'm going to read Chapter 4 of the admin guide tonight when I go home, but I've 
already looked at it, and I can't find the
information I need described in a clear manner. Any help anyone could provide, 
even just pointing me to some good documentation, I
would appreciate it.

Sorry to be a pest, but I'm in trouble, as our backups are down and I need a 
little help getting it back up.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Re: tsm tape path problems

[William Boyer]

If it wasn't "talking" to the library, then you would get errors. And audit 
compare TSM's LIBV inventory with the library inventory.
If the library inventory is up to date, then the library does not need to 
rescan the slots, but just returns the inventory to TSM.
Plus you would not be able to define the drives with the ELEMENT= if the 
library wasn't "talking" correctly. The ELEMENT= number is
verified with the library. To see what elements and such you can issue the SHOW 
SLOTS LB6.0.0.5 command. Another useful command is
SHOW LIBRARY LB6.0.0.5.

Have you tried to mount a tape and write to it? Or maybe even just a checkin?


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander 
Lazarevich
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:49 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: tsm tape path problems

William, et all,

Thanks for your great responses, I think I'm closer to getting it working, but 
I still need a little more help.

I understand what you are saying about updating the paths, but the problem is I 
already removed the old paths and devices
(xxx.0.0.3), and created the new devices and paths (xxx.0.0.5). So I think 
doing an update path is out of the question. I'm stuck
trying to associate the new devices with the old server, which should be 
possible right?

So, I've removed all devices and paths, rebooted, then added all devices and 
paths (for the xxx.0.0.5 devices), rebooted again, and
now TSM seems to think the devies and paths are correct:

tsm: ITG-TSM>q library
   Library Name: LB6.0.0.5
   Library Type: SCSI
 ACS Id:
   Private Category:
   Scratch Category:
   External Manager:
 RSM Media Type:
 Shared: No
LanFree:
ObeyMountRetention:

tsm: ITG-TSM>q drive
Library Name Drive Name   Device Type On-Line
  --- ---
LB6.0.0.5MT1.0.0.5LTO Yes
LB6.0.0.5MT2.0.0.5LTO Yes

tsm: ITG-TSM>q path
Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line
 NameType
--- --- --- --- ---
ITG-TSM SERVER  LB6.0.0.5   LIBRARY Yes
ITG-TSM SERVER  MT1.0.0.5   DRIVE   Yes
ITG-TSM SERVER  MT2.0.0.5   DRIVE   Yes

But something is still not right, because when I run an audit of the "new"
library, the process completes, but it does nothing to the library, the library 
doesn't move in inch, it is not talking to the
library correctly:

ANR2017I Administrator DUDE issued command: AUDIT LIBRARY lb6.0.0.5 
checklabel=yes ANR0984I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY started in
the BACKGROUND at 09:41:03.
ANR8457I AUDIT LIBRARY: Operation for library LB6.0.0.5 started as process 5.
ANR8461I AUDIT LIBRARY process for library LB6.0.0.5 completed successfully.
ANR0985I Process 5 for AUDIT LIBRARY running in the BACKGROUND completed with 
completion state SUCCESS at 09:41:03.

I'm wondering if my device class is not correct in some way?:

tsm: ITG-TSM>q dev

Device   DeviceStorageDevice   Format Est/MaxMount
ClassAccess   PoolType   CapacityLimit
Name StrategyCount   (MB)
-----------
DISK Random  3
LTOCLASS1Sequential      1    LTO  DRIVEDRIVES


Any other ideas?

Thanks!

Alex



On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, William Boyer wrote:

> One thing I have found with Windows is after any type of hardware
> change, whether it is a replacement or just firmware updates, Windows
> seems to not recognize it as the same device, and creates new ones for
> this same (upgraded) hardware. If you just give the TSM server a few minutes 
> to time out on trying to initialize the library, then
you can update the library path to the new device= and then update the drive 
paths to the new device=.
>
> I've started stopping TSM, removing the library/drives from Device
> manager in Windows, doing the upgrade/replace and rebooting. I've found that 
> Windows assigns the same devices. Then I just restart
TSM and verify that all is well.
>
> I don't know if persistent mappings with the fibre adapter (if you are 
> running fibre drives) would resolve this issue...
>
>
> Bill Boyer
> "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Alexander Lazarevich
> Sent: We

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

[William Boyer]

TO identify the volumes with the corrupted CM, just do a checkin with 
CHECKL=YES. This will then issue a tapealert message for a
tape that has a bad/corrupted CM. If it's a scratch tape, then the CM will be 
written as you write to the tape. For tapes with data
on them, you can MOVE DATA to another drive and let it go scratch, or use the 
tapeutil utility to mount the tape and forward to the
end of the tape. That causes the drive to re-write the CM index.

That is after you've identified the problem that is corrupting your CM chips. 
It could be firmware, but at one client site of mine,
it was a faulty drive.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rejean 
Larivee
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

Hello Robin,
the TSM server does not maintain the LTO memory cartridge and would therefore 
not be the source of the corruption. A corrupted
memory cartridge comes from defective media, faulty/dirty hardware/drive or 
firmware/microcode problem.
As others have already recommended, you should consider upgrading the firmware 
of the LTO drives to take care of past problems with
LTO CM.
It appears the latest firmware for the LTO GenII drives at this time is 53Y2, 
for fiber attached drives. You can verify the firmware
of your drives using "lscfg -vl rmt*".
For a list of what is fixed in 53Y2, see here :
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=ssg1S1002360

Have a great day !

Rejean Larivee
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support




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Sorry about the omission, Rich.
These restores were started via the Windows GUI.  I believe they just selected 
the C: drive and specified "Restore if newer" (an
option which I don't think is available via the command line!).  I believe this 
created a No-Query Restore, because it did create a
Restartable Restore AFAIK there is a one-to-one correspondence (right?)

In the meantime, I checked the Technote...  Then, I checked my Activity Log for 
the last 24 hours... and I found 33 LTO volumes that
presented the cartridge memory message!  So, now I have the smoking gun, and I 
suppose I could do "move data" against those volumes,
but I suspect there are many more, and I would like to know what's causing the 
corruption and how to
prevent it!   If I don't hear anything from the group, I'll open a call
with Tivoli.

Thanks very much for the information!

-Robin



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Please, everyone, when posting questions about restorals, give details about 
the manner in which the restoral was invoked so that we
can get a sense of what kind is involved (NQR, Classic) and what is involved.

Now...  Robin, have a look at IBM Technote 1209563, which I ran across in doing 
research yesterday.  I recall such long-duration-
restores in the past, and as I recall they have involved the factors noted in 
the Technote.  LTO is also known for backhitch delays,
so that's another contributor in positioning on tape.

Richard Sims

Re: Delete Backup - strange message - files not deleted

[William Boyer]

Maybe a restartable restore is pending?? Issue Q RESTORE on the server to see. 
Or maybe someone else was doing a restore at the same
time you were trying the delete?


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:02 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Delete Backup - strange message - files not deleted

Just installed the latest client (5.3.0.12) on a Solaris system. The TSM AIX 
server is at 5.2.3.5.

Trying to delete individual backups for this client.  Using the web-gui/java 
interface.

Went through the menus (utilities --> delete backup data...).  Chose the 
"Delete Inactive Objects" option and drilled down to the
appropriate file.

After selecting the file and clicking on the DELETE button, I get the
error:

ANS1395E  The destination filespace or drive letter is unavailable. The 
following object was not processed:
Filespace:'filespace-name'

Explanation:  The system is trying to restore or retrieve to a destination that 
cannot be reached. The specified filespace name or
drive letter is not valid, or does not exist, or you are specifying a local 
share name that cannot be resolved.

Considering that this message is totally inappropriate/wrong (what restore ?), 
how do I figure out what is wrong ?

I searched IBM.COM and google for the ANS1395E with no luck.

Re: LTO3 support

[William Boyer]

Look here for all your supported hardware levels:
 
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Supported_Devices_for_AIXHPSUNWIN.html

Good site to bookmark.



Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander 
Lazarevich
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO3 support

Just need to confirm something:

According to the README's, the first version of TSM server that has LTO3 
support is 5.2.4, but that is only for manual
drive/libraries. The first version that has general LTO3 support, including 
automated libraries/drives, is version 5.3.1. Is that
correct?

So, if we are running version 5.1.9, we will NOT be able to use an automated 
LTO3 library (Overland NEO 4100) until we upgrade to
5.3.1?

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Re: ANR2997W which log is 'server log'

[William Boyer]

Those are space triggers. In your DSMSERV.OPT check option LOGWARNFULLPERCENT. 
I believe the default is 80.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy 
Reeves
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: ANR2997W which log is 'server log'

> 2) Why am I getting these messages? I can't find any setting that says
> 80 is a magic number that makes sense for this message.

Well, because your processing is filling the Recovery Log.
See topic "Recovery Log filling" in ADSM QuickFacts for factors.
We all have to boost DB and Recovery Log space as our systems evolve and 
there's more going on in the TSM server each day.



I understand that the recovery log is filling because of processing that is 
going on. But what confuses me is that my recovery log
space trigger is 90, and my DB backup trigger is 85. Why do I start getting 
these messages at 80? Is that an undocumented threshold?
Should I move my space triggers, or my DB backup trigger below 80?

I read some of the ADSM QuickFacts file before posting, but I guess I missed 
the 80+ notation before.

Thanks.

Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  316-978-3860

Re: Swapping Tape Drive

[William Boyer]

Don't forget to update the drive definitions. Probably would be best to
delete the DRIVEs and re-define them. You could also do an UPD DRIVE to
force ADSM to re-query the drive for it's attributes and supported options.

Since you're AIX, probably would be best to delete the drives from ADSM,
then rmdev /d them from AIX then do a cfgmgr to re-aquire the drives to AIX,
then define them back in ADSM. That way both the AIX system and ADSM will be
current on the drives.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
ABDULSALAM ABDULLA
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Swapping Tape Drive


Hi Miles,
I did replaced the tape drive without much changes, I changed Recording
Format  to 3570C instead of what we had
which was 3570, till I got your e-mail made me wonder, Why it should be set
to 'drive' and not 3570C? we are using
the green tapes.  Another question, can we use mixture of red and green
tapes for backup/restore?
Appreciate your input,
Thanks, Salam

> -Original Message-
> From: Miles Purdy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:03 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: Swapping Tape Drive
>
> Hi Salam,
> make sure you set the capacity of the drive(s) to 'drive', if your going
> to be using the green (5gb) and red (7gb) tapes.
> Modify the '3570' device class and set format to 'drive' not '3570B' nor
> '3570C'.
>
> Note that the drives are not replaced, it is just a chip and firmware that
> get installed.
>
> Miles
>
> --
> -
> Miles Purdy
> System Manager
> Farm Income Programs Directorate
> Winnipeg, MB, CA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ph: (204) 984-1602 fax: (204) 983-7557
> --
> -
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27-Feb-01 6:02:55 AM >>>
> Salam, I don't think there is any problem swapping
> the drive, but let see what others have to say.
> This what we might be doing to in the near future,
>
> Any idea?
>
> Alyn
> --- ABDULSALAM ABDULLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > We are on ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3,
> > Release 1, Level 2.40
> > > we want to replace Magstar 3570B02 to 3570C02, do
> > we need to do any
> > > configuration change or any thing has to be done
> > > prior to swap.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Salam
> > >
> > > Salam R. Abdulla
> > > Project Leader
> > > Dubai Aluminum Company
> > > P. O. Box: 3627
> > > Dubai, UAE
> > >
> > >
>
>
> __
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

TSM 4.1 Performance Guide

[William Boyer]

I just received my TSM 4.1 CD's and was reading the README.SRV file. At the
very end was:

Performance Tuning for Tivoli Storage Manager

 The Tivoli Storage Manager V4.1 Performance Tuning Guide will be available
 on the home page. Point your web browser to this address:
 http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html



I've been looking all morning and can't find this document. I have the old
ADSM performance doc, but I would like to see what the recommend for TSM
4.1.

Anybody seen this document

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Re: Antwort: jcl to run admin client in batch

[William Boyer]

Works for me. You are thinking of the *SM server opening the options file
DISP=MOD, but that's usually if you do any kind of SETOPT command to make
the *SM server add that option to his DSMSERV options.

As far as I'm aware, the client doesn't open the options file for anything
other that read. I've even coded the DSCOPT file as '//DSCOPT DD *' to
specify my own options for testing.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Alan Davenport
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Antwort: jcl to run admin client in batch


This will work not work for the following reason: Be aware that *SM
opens the options file with DISP=MOD. If you submit this JCL in batch it
will wait on the options file dataset. *SM has a lock on it. You would
have to shut down *SM in order for this JCL to run but in that case the
query will fail because *SM is not up! Catch 22. ):

 Alan Davenport
 Selective Insurance
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:46:56 +0100
> Subject: Antwort: jcl to run admin client in batch
>
> Gary,
> try this =>
> //DSMADMC  EXEC PGM=DSMADMC,
> // PARM=('/-ID=&USER -PASSWORD=&PASSWORD -NOCONFIRM
> // -ERRORLOGNAME=''&ERRORLOG''')
> //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
> //DSCLANG  DD DSN=xxx,DISP=SHR
> //DSCOPT   DD DSN=yyy,DISP=SHR
> //SYSINDD *
> your query
> QUIT
> /*
> //
>
> where
> &USER is your TSM Admin
> &PASSWORD is your Password
> &ERRORLOG is the TSM Errorlog (Seq. Dataset) - I am not sure, if you need
this !
> xxx is your Language-Dataset (We have SYS1.DSM.SANSMSG(ANSMENU))
> yyy is your Optionfile (We have DSM.ANSADSM.OPTIONS)
> SYSPRINT is the Output
> SYSIN is your Query, Select or whatever
>
> You will need a Steplib if DSMADMC is not in a specific Systemlibrary
>
> Greetings
>
> Gerhard Wolkerstorfer
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee. Gary D.) am 20.03.2001 15:05:44
>
> Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> An:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kopie: (Blindkopie: Gerhard Wolkerstorfer/DEBIS/EDVG/AT)
> Thema:jcl to run admin client in batch
>
> tsm v3.7,
> os/390 v2.8
>
> I am trying to execute the admin client in a batch job to run various
> scripts for reporting and creation of a pull list and return list to/from
> our tape vaults.
>
> I have loked through the admin guide, admin reference and quick start but
no
> joy.  Anyone out there got a piece of jcl for accomplishing this?
>
> TIA.
>
> Gary Lee
> Senior Operating Systems Analyst
> Ball State University
> phone 765-285-1310

Re: jcl to run admin client in batch

[William Boyer]

I'm not sure about the -OUTFILE options, but redirecting an individual
command can be done to a specified DD statement in the JCL. Here's one I've
used before:

//DSMADMC  EXEC PGM=DSMADMC,
// PARM='-ID= -PASSWORD= -COMMA'
//DSCOPT   DD DSN=TECHSRV.PARMLIB(DSCOPT),DISP=SHR
//DSCLANG  DD DSN=SYS1.SANSMSG(ANSMENU),DISP=SHR
//STGVOLS  DD UNIT=VIO,DSN=&&STGVOLS,
// DISP=(,PASS),DATACLAS=DATAVBS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSINDD *
SELECT STGPOOL_NAME,COUNT(*) FROM VOLUMES -
   GROUP BY STGPOOL_NAME >  DD:STGVOLS

I then followed this up with a SAS program to run some stats against the
output.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Michel Engels
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: jcl to run admin client in batch


You can use a JCL like the one attached. Do not copy as it is for the
moment.
Adapt the jobcard and the datasetnames
as necessary for your environment. As you can see the second command does
execute a script which need a parameter.
Even this works.

I hope this helps you. If you have any more questions please feel free.

Michel

//JOBNAME JOB (00,SYST),'ENGELS M',MSGLEVEL=(1,1),CLASS=I,
//  MSGCLASS=T,NOTIFY=youruser
//*
//ADSMDEL  EXEC   PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=T
//SYSIN DD  *
 DELETE DFS.F00T240A.QSTGPOO1
 DELETE DFS.F00T240A.QSTGPOO2
/*
//ADSMADM  EXEC   PGM=IKJEFT01
//SYSTSPRT  DD  SYSOUT=T
//DSCLANG   DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=PYB.F00T240A.V3.HLPMSG(ANSMENU)
//DSCOPTDD  DISP=SHR,DSN=PYB.F00T240A.JCL(TSOOPT)
//SYSTSIN   DD  *
 DSMADMC / -ID=TSOADM -PA=TSO -OUT='DFS.F00T240A.QSTGPOO1' -
 Q STGPOOL BUMIGPOOL F=D
 DSMADMC / -ID=TSOADM -PA=TSO -OUT='DFS.F00T240A.QSCROUT' -
 RUN Q_OBJ_BU_NODE SERVT116
//





"Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/20/2001 03:30:14 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Michel Engels/BE/Devoteam)

Subject:  Re: jcl to run admin client in batch



Don't you have jcl to perform batch TSO session(s) ?
Just use that and have it issue a call to your  dsmadmc
argh... we moved off all our MVS adsm 3 or so years ago BUT I seem to recall
I was doing that...
Dwight

-Original Message-
From: Lee, Gary D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: jcl to run admin client in batch


tsm v3.7,
os/390 v2.8

I am trying to execute the admin client in a batch job to run various
scripts for reporting and creation of a pull list and return list to/from
our tape vaults.

I have loked through the admin guide, admin reference and quick start but no
joy.  Anyone out there got a piece of jcl for accomplishing this?

TIA.


Gary Lee
Senior Operating Systems Analyst
Ball State University
phone 765-285-1310

Re: SAP and 3494 performance.

[William Boyer]

Why not just set the MIGPROCESS=5 when you lower the migration threshold? Do
yo find the MOVE DATA more effecient than the MIGRATION processes?

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
bbullock
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SAP and 3494 performance.


Hmmm, an inventive way to get a large client to multi-thread the
migration to tape. Thanks for the idea, I'll have to look into writing a
script myself to do it on one of my TSM servers.

Thanks,

Ben Bullock
Unix system manager
Micron Technology Inc.


> -Original Message-
> From: Davidson, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SAP and 3494 performance.
>
>
> We ran into the same issue on the migration so our solution was do two
> things.  Our backups start at 4pm.  I let them run until
> about 8pm and then
> I lower the migration threshold.  At 10pm (backups finish
> around 10 or 11) I
> kick off a script that makes a list of all of my disk
> volumes, divides it
> into 4 scripts and then does move data's to my tape pool.
> This gives me 5
> sessions draining the disk pool and it generally finishes
> about 2am at which
> point I kick in my backup to copy pools.  This kept us going
> to disk so we
> can increase the number of threads yet let us drain in a
> timely fashion.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SAP and 3494 performance.
>
>
> Our client is a Sun E10K with ?24 processors? maybe more if that is
> possible... it has a bunch
> And we have other AIX & SUN...
>
> Tsm server is an S70 and runs less than 30% cpu util during
> the backups...
>
> Here is the poop on multiplexing...(check in your TDP for
> SAPR3 manual)
> mainly if you are going straight to tape 'cause each session
> will require a
> tape drive.
> By going to a diskpool, you aren't limited by the number of
> tape drives you
> have...
> BUT remember there will only be a single migration process
> for a single
> client's data within a diskpool no matter what your migration
> process limit
> is or how many tape drives you have... and a single migration going to
> 3590B1A (what I see) averages out to be just over 20 GB/hr...
> so I can load
> up my diskpool with 600 GB at 41 GB/hr  but can only empty it
> at 20 GB/hr
> :-(
> I'm looking into having the client use two management
> classes, direct it to
> two different diskpools (say 10 processes dumping into each
> diskpool) then
> their total rate into the tsm server will be 41 GB/hr, the
> limit of the fast
> ethernet card, AND I'll be able to bleed the data off to tape
> at 40 GB/hr (a
> migration process for each diskpool with each migration
> process moving 20
> GB/hr)  Now maybe if I'd upgrade the B1A's to E1A's I could
> get about 35
> GB/hr average on the migration but I don't know...
> Anyway, also if one of your multiplexed files goes bad then you have
> multiple .dbf files bad and makes a recovery a little
> harder...  just the
> way we do it.
>
> Dwight
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 7:23 AM
> To: Cook, Dwight E; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SAP and 3494 performance.
>
>
> Thanks for great info!
>
> q)  What kind of a client system are you using?
> - machine type
> - # of processors
>
> q)  When you say "> don't multiplex with tdp" I'm not sure what you
> mean.
> - Are you using TDP for SAP?
> - Why Not?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
>
>
> On 20 Mar 2001, at 10:59, Cook, Dwight E wrote:
>
> > alter to go to diskpool first
> > use tsm client compression
> > don't multiplex with tdp
> > run about 10-20 concurrent client sessions (based on
> processor ability)
> > you should see about 4/1 compression
> > you should see about 11.6 MB/sec data transfer (if things
> are really OK &
> > processor can keep up)
> > you should see your db backup in just over 2 hours...
> >
> > we have a 2.4 TB data base, use the above methods and push
> 600 GB (the
> > compressed size) in 16 hours...
> > we also have smaller ones we see the same rates with...
> such as a 200 GB
> > that compresses down to about 60 GB and runs in  under 2 hours
> >
> > hope this helps...
> > Dwight
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Francisco Molero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:35 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: SAP and 3494 performance.
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have a query about performance between a TDP for SAP
> > R/3 under HP-UX and TSM Server with a 3494 library.
> > The size of database is 350 GB and the connection is
> > via tcpip (ethernet 100). I used the brbackup -c -t
> > offline command and the bacukp is sent to tape pool in
> > the library 3494. I have a private

TSM Server didn't recognize time change

[William Boyer]

TSM 3.7.3.0 running on OS/390 2.9

This past weekend, the time on the mainframe was altered using the SET CLOCK
command instead of an IPL. I had the operators issue the ACCEPT DATE command
to TSM 'assuming' that the new time would take effect. WRONG!! Last night I
was checking the server and found that schedules were an hour behind and
that the activity log was also an hour behind. I ended up having the bounce
TSM to get it to accept the new time.

Is this normal behavior?

I also just received a voice-mail from another client that is runnint TSM
3.7.? on WindowsNT. He is having the same problem. NT adjusted the time, but
TSM doesn't seem to want to accept it. I'm going to tell him to stop/start
the TSM Server service.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)

[William Boyer]

AIX 4.3, TSM 3.7.2.0 and an IBM 3494 library L-14 and D12 with 4-drives.

After more than 3-years, the robot/gripper in our library died. We do not
have the dual robot feature. The library manager is now configured for
online manual mode, but even though TSM processes are showing as waiting for
tape mounts, the drive display doesn't show any tape volsers to be mounted.
A Q ACT on TSM doesn't show any messages about tapes expecting to be mounted
on drive. I did a SHOW LIBRARY and 2 of my drives show RESERVED with no
volser showing. I mounted 1 of the tapes the Q PRO says it's waiting for and
... nothingnada! The drive comes ready at mount point, but TSM never
recognizes that I've mounted a tape.

How can I operate the library in manual mode until IBM can get the needed
parts onsite??? That'll take a  few more hours and I"m already behind in my
storage pool backups.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Re: running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)

[William Boyer]

I have the manual mode console up and running, but nothing appears in it. I
F12'd out of the help text, and I occassionally hit refresh. Nothing.

Thanks,
Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Cook, Dwight E
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)


L14 ?
How close is that to an L12 ?
With L12 on the operator's console there will be a panel that displays the
manual mount requests...
will list the volser, its slot, & drive on which to mount it...
with 3590B1A drives, they will also flash the volser to be mounted...

Now when you first go into manual mode, in the panel/window within which you
will see your mount requests, there is a bunch of JUNK TEXT to read and then
hit PF12 to "cancel" out of the text and get to the window where you need to
be to do your tape mounts... could this be the case ? ? ? need to hit F12 ?

Dwight

-Original Message-
From: William Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)


AIX 4.3, TSM 3.7.2.0 and an IBM 3494 library L-14 and D12 with 4-drives.

After more than 3-years, the robot/gripper in our library died. We do not
have the dual robot feature. The library manager is now configured for
online manual mode, but even though TSM processes are showing as waiting for
tape mounts, the drive display doesn't show any tape volsers to be mounted.
A Q ACT on TSM doesn't show any messages about tapes expecting to be mounted
on drive. I did a SHOW LIBRARY and 2 of my drives show RESERVED with no
volser showing. I mounted 1 of the tapes the Q PRO says it's waiting for and
... nothingnada! The drive comes ready at mount point, but TSM never
recognizes that I've mounted a tape.

How can I operate the library in manual mode until IBM can get the needed
parts onsite??? That'll take a  few more hours and I"m already behind in my
storage pool backups.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Re: running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)

[William Boyer]

Turned out the robot worked its way out of alignment. It was cocked almost
1/8" to the right as you were looking at it. This was the last thing the
CE's checked. We basically have a brand new gripper assembly now.

It seems that we needed to let the library settle down in PAUSE mode first
before setting it in MANUAL mode. Once we did that, we started seeing the
mounts on the drive display and the Manual Mode Console window. The CE's
discovered this by accident. Pretty slick. It displays the volser as well as
the slot location where the tape resides. After the tape dismounts, you
should leave it outside the library. When you get it back in auto mode, just
insert the tapes in the I/O port and let the library put them away.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Kathleen M Hallahan
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: running 3494 in MANUAL mode - URGENT!! (Please?)


Have you been in touch with IBM support on this?  This happened to us once,
and
it turned out that the problem was not in the robot itself, but that a board
needed to be replaced.  I can't tell you exactly what was replaced because
I'd
been relieved by the time the fix was worked out.  I'd be interested in
knowing
what yours turns out to be (because it could happen to us if it hasn't
already... : }  )

Good luck!

Kathleen



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AIX 4.3, TSM 3.7.2.0 and an IBM 3494 library L-14 and D12 with 4-drives.

After more than 3-years, the robot/gripper in our library died. We do not
have the dual robot feature. The library manager is now configured for
online manual mode, but even though TSM processes are showing as waiting for
tape mounts, the drive display doesn't show any tape volsers to be mounted.
A Q ACT on TSM doesn't show any messages about tapes expecting to be mounted
on drive. I did a SHOW LIBRARY and 2 of my drives show RESERVED with no
volser showing. I mounted 1 of the tapes the Q PRO says it's waiting for and
... nothingnada! The drive comes ready at mount point, but TSM never
recognizes that I've mounted a tape.

How can I operate the library in manual mode until IBM can get the needed
parts onsite??? That'll take a  few more hours and I"m already behind in my
storage pool backups.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Wanted: Experiences with TDP Domino and Transaction Logging

[William Boyer]

Our shop is currently running Lotus Notes and for our remote WAN attached
Notes servers we had to go to using the TDP Agent and daily incremental
processing. This was because the amount of data to back up using the B/A
client and *.NSF files was too much to fit in the window and bandwidth. We
are now looking at moving to Domino. Our Notes admins have read some on the
transaction logging and don't like what they read. They say that the
hardware requirements to run logging are too much. Plus the fact that
certain database functions (compact with space reduction...) assign a new
DBIID to the database and the next TDP incremental would actually by another
full backup since the DBIID has changed.

I've been reading the TDP Domino manuals and archives and feel that since
the compactions are scheduled on weekends, this is not that big of an issue.
We would be doing full backups on weekends anyway. So I need some ammunition
to convince 'them' that we can still use the TDP Agent and not loose any
functionality.

Their solution is to create a central Domino server with LOTS of disk and
then replicate the databases back here and use TSM to back up this massive
server.

The main issue is the changing DBIID. THey are concerned that they would not
be able to recover a database when it could possibly have multiple DBIID's
associated with the same database within TSM.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Should LOADDB take this long?

[William Boyer]

TSM 3.7.3.0 running on OS/390 2.9

Last night our automated processes to shut the system down didn't take into
account that TSM would take a few extra minutes to halt due to reclamation
running. The automation script ended up taking TCPIP and CA-TLMS and
DFSMSRmm (in warn mode) down while TSM was still up and trying to close out
his tape processing. TSM ended up abending with a EC6. After our downtime,
TSM wouldn't come back up. It would sit there in a CPU loop with no I/O. The
last message in the joblog was "ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in
progress." WOuld come up any farther. I managed to get an DUMPDB to run and
it took only 1/2 hour and dumped over 78million database entries for a total
of 6.9MB. I then did a FORMAT for all the db/log volumes and started the
LOADDB last night at 20:15. It is still running and it is now 22 hours later
and has only processed 70million of those database entries.

I searched the archives, but there wasn't much on LOADDB. Should LOADDB take
this long when the DUMPDB only took 1/2hour? Good thing this is a holiday
weekend or the users and managers would be more upset than they
are. I tell them, Hey it wasn't my shutdown script that corrupted the
system!!!

Also, if anyone has any ideas on how I could have averted having to do the
DUMP/LOADDB processes I would be more than happy to hear them. I just
couldn't think of any way to bypass the recovery log processing during
startup, or to have the load cleared by itself.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

More LOADDB woes!!!

[William Boyer]

After running for almost 23-hours, the LOADDB process terminated with:

ANRD PVRNTP(2536): RC 0x0 Reading cartridge block 00026776 to ddname
SYS00040.
ANR0664E LOADDB: Media not accessible in accessing data storage.
ANR1364I Input volume M00750 closed.
ANR5209I Dismounting volume M00750 (read-only access).
ANRD DLLOAD(1249): Premature End of Dump - Missing Volumes ?
VCS0201E   DATA LOST - VCSS NOT OPERATIVE 
ANR4032I LOADDB: Copied 2236928 database records.
ANR4033I LOADDB: Copied 351 bit vectors.
ANR4035I LOADDB: Encountered 0 bad database records.
ANR4036I LOADDB: Copied 78859100 database entries.
ANR4037I LOADDB: 4919 Megabytes   copied.
ANR4005E LOADDB: Database load process terminated due to error (-1).
ANR2106I : Quiescing database update activity.
ANR2107I : Database update activity is now quiesced.

Ended up restoring from the day before's database backup. Gonna be some
upset people in the A.M.

Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

inc/excl for TDP Domino and TSM Client

[William Boyer]

We are working on a plan to upgrade from Notes to Domino and would like to
use the TDP DOmino agent. After reading the TDP User's Guide, we are a
little confused. No suprise there! :-)

In the 'Overview- Additional Considerations for Backup Strategy Selection'
on page 9, it states:

"There are many other files that are part of the Domino Server installation,
such as executable and configuration files. For example, database link files
have an NSF extension but are not considered databases and are not backed up
by TDP for Lotus Domino."

Ok, now how are we to know which .NSF files the TDP agent will and won't
back up?? For Notes, the TSM Client we exclude the Lotus\Data\...\*.NSF. The
above text seems to imply that if I do that for Domino, I may not be backing
up some files.

I'm already having a tough sell on the TDP agent to the Notes admins. They
seem to think that we can't use the Agent unless they turn on logging.

TIA,
Bill Boyer
"I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." - ???

Re: tsm, os/390 and rmm

[William Boyer]

We just started using RMM at Easter. Converted over from TLMS. Here's the
VRS definitions I use for my TSM tapes, both on and off-site. I basically
defined them like DFHSM tapes. There's a chapter in the RMM Installation and
Configuration manual on running RMM with DFHSM. The only change the TSM is
the DELETIONEXIT(EDGTVEXT) needs to be changed in your server options file.
The one thing I did add was the RELEASE(SCRATCHIMMEDIATE). There was no
reason for these tapes to go through the scratch pending state. This was
they are released immediately on the next inventory management run, or
scratch processing.

/**/
/*  ALL ADSM TAPES (ADSM AND ADSMTEST)*/
/**/
RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('ABEND') JOBNAME(ADSM) COUNT(9) CYCLES
RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('OPEN') JOBNAME(ADSM) COUNT(9) CYCLES
RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('ABEND') JOBNAME(ADSMTEST) COUNT(9) CYCLES
RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('OPEN') JOBNAME(ADSMTEST) COUNT(9) CYCLES
RMM ADDVRS DSN('ADSM*.**') +
   CYCLES  COUNT(9) DELAY( 0)  +
   OWNER(LBRARIAN ) DELETE(1999/365)   +
   DESC('ADSM/ADSMTEST TAPES') +
   RELEASE(SCRATCHIMMEDIATE) +
   LOCATION(HOME) STORENUM(9)
/**/
/*  OFFSITE MOVEMENT FOR ADSM */
/**/
RMM ADDVRS DSN('ADSM.OFF.**')  +
   CYCLES  COUNT(9)+
   OWNER(LBRARIAN ) DELETE(1999/365)   +
   RELEASE(SCRATCHIMMEDIATE) +
   DESC('ADSM OFFSITE TAPES') +
   LOCATION(ARCUS   ) STORENUM(9)

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Lee, Gary D.
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tsm, os/390 and rmm


Anyone out there using tsm v3.7 or 4.1 on os/390 using rmm as the tape
manager?  I would like to here your experiences, good or bad.  Thanks.


Gary Lee
Senior Operating Systems Analyst
Ball State University
phone 765-285-1310

HP-UX Client Performance - Tuning Tips anyone?

[William Boyer]

HP-UX 11.0
TSM Client 4.1 100MB-full duplex Ethernet.
TSM Server 4.1.3.0 on AIX 4.3 RS/6000 S80 with 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
configured as EtherChannel.

Could some one give us some tuning tips for not only the TSM client, but
HP-UX configuration settings to get optimum backup performance? We started
testing TSM on friday and this box is only giving about 200KB/sec throughput
while a Sun Solaris right next to it is getting over 4500KB/sec. The 'old'
ADSM performance guide really only lists server performance, not much on the
client. The Unix admins at this shop say that the HP box is a more powerful
server that the Sun box, but we can't seem to get it to move on backups.

Also, if anyone has tips for Sun Solaris...that would be appreciated just as
much!

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

P.S. I've searched the archives, but didn't find much. I'll keep trying with
different keywords, but thought I'd try the direct approach, too.

Re: Exclude not working

[William Boyer]

According to the TDP for Lotus Notes manual Your exclude should be:

Exclude ?:\$NOTESDIR\mailobj.nsf\*\*

Check out the secion Step 2D: Creating  an Include-Exclude list (Optional)
for all the rules.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Mogamat Gertse
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Exclude not working


 i think that you should create and inclexcl list.

 once you have created this list, you must exclude whatever you need to
 in this list. dont forget to include the inclexcl file in the dsm.opt
 list.


__ Reply Separator
_
Subject: Re: Exclude not working
Author:  Andrea.MacMurray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at MM
Date:17/05/2001 07:55 PM


No this is the only include/exclude statement in the dsm.opt and their is
nothing specified on the server either.

-Original Message-
From: Kleynerman, Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Exclude not working


Are there any other incl/excl statements defined (in dsm.opt file or client
option set on the server)?

-Original Message-
From: MacMurray, Andrea (CC-ETS Ent Storage Svcs)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Exclude not working


Hi everybody,

Maybe this question has been here more than once, but being relativley new
to the list as well as to Tivoli I dare to ask anyway. The following DSM.OPT
files runs on a NT service pac6 with TDP for Lotus Notes version 4.6.

*
* IBM Adstar Distributed Storage Manager
*
* tpomaha dsm.opt for ADSMConnect Agent for Lotus Notes on
* Windows NT using tcp/ip.
*
nodename tpomaha01_notes
commmethod   TCPIP
tcpport  1500
tcpserveraddress cagadsm3.conagra.cag
tcpbuffsize  31
tcpwindowsize24
COMPRESSION  NO
PASSWORDACCESS   Generate
VERBOSE  yes

exclude  d:\notes\data\mailobj.nsf

My problem is the exclude. It does not exclude the file. Does anybody out
there see why???

Thanks for your help

Andrea Mac Murray


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Re: Problem with interface TSM 4.130 and TLMS 5.5 in OS/390 environment

[William Boyer]

Is your ARCTVEXT available? Did you code DELETIONEXIT(ARCTVEXT) in your
server options? TLMS supplies it's own version of the ARCTVEXT that you need
to use, not the IBM supplied default.

Bill Boyer

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Paul Van de Vijver
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with interface TSM 4.130 and TLMS 5.5 in OS/390
environment


Hi, I wonder if someone can help me with next problem.

I did upgrade Server ADSM 3.1.2.40 to TSM 4.1.30 in our development LPAR and
now
I am running
some tests.
We are using TLMS 5.5  as Tape Management System where ADSM/TSM is defined
as
EDM (External Data Manager)

My problem :
whenever I create a new volume (cartridge) in TSM this volume remains in
'Scratch' status in TLMS
When I stop TSM - only then - the status in TLMS is changed from 'Scratch
YES'
to 'Scratch NO' and
all other fields are filled with the correct values (eg DSN=ADSM.BFS,
CJOB=ADSM,
OWNER=ADSM, ...)
The field CTIME gets the timestamp corresponding with the time that TSM was
stopped (and not the real creation time).

As long I do not stop TSM the volume status remains as 'Scratch YES' meaning
that any other (non TSM) job
can overwrite this volume because it is still free in TLMS

What am I doing wrong or am I forgetting something ?

Any help or hint welcome

Thanks,

Van de Vijver Paul
Honda Europe NV
Belgium