Hi to all
I had a new volume (ARCHIVE) on my Netware and upgrade fom novell 5 to
novell 6. My client version of TSM is 5.1.6.0 and my TSM server version is
5.1.7.0.
I load tsa600.nlm correctly but when my scheduler backup run I got this
message error:
ANS1076E Directory path not found
I of
Jeff,
Could you be a little more specific? Which levels of TSM Client API, TSM
Server, DB2 etc you are running? What is your hardware and disk setup on
the client etc. Has `topas` or the other perf tools given you an view of
whether you are processor, disk io bound etc? I'm sure we've plenty of
Hi,
I also run into this problem.
Thomas Rupp described why this happens.
I am considering to run periodically dsmc selective on this directories.
Maybe once a month, this will brind all files on one tape.
If you go this way as well, do not forget to check your backup management
class,
maybe you
Hi Joe!
Well, in that case full backups won't even help you. A backup once a month
to a different managementclass will cause all previous backups to be rebound
to this managementclass. The next day you run a standard backup, all
previous backups (including the yesterday backup!) are rebound again
Dear all
I will upgrade TSM4.2.1 on AIX4.3.3 next week. I want
suggestions from everybody about step upgrade.
Pls let me know how to upgrade it. and about patch of v5.1
Thank you so much
Natthakriss Mathanom
MIS System Operations
CRC.Ahold Company Limited
Tel
Running TSM 5.1.6.2 on Solaris 2.7 - SCSI Attached to an IBM 3494 library
with two 3590 H1A drives
Hi All
I have what is probably a very simply question, but then they all are when
you know the answers.
I have a need to back up a 50GB directory on one of our sun boxes to send
to our US office.
hi all,I meet a problem,my customer had changed the hostname of a node,now he want to
restore a file,how can I resolve it?
liming
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dsm(c) -virtualnodename=old nodename?
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Onderwerp: help:restore question
hi all,I meet a problem,my customer had changed the hostname of a node,now
he want to
1) If the client used the host name as the node name by default, then
(Bconfigure the NODENAME setting to match the old host name. For example, if
(Bthe original host name is HOSTA and the new name is HOSTB, then make sure
(Byou use NODENAME HOSTA.
(B
(B2) If this is a Windows client and the
Hi all,
yesterday I tried to label a 9940 tape, this failed for some reason. Now the
odd thing is that:
1- acsls has no lock on the volume
2- the volume is not in the libvols:
tsm: BASKETq libvol * 200825
ANR2034E QUERY LIBVOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.
3-
Alternatively you might consider running a move nodedata
once in a while to get all files on one (or a few) tapes.
It is just a thought...
-Marcel
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:10:14AM +0100, Salak Juraj wrote:
Hi,
I also run into this problem.
Thomas Rupp described why this happens.
I am
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:31:27 +
Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running TSM 5.1.6.2 on Solaris 2.7 - SCSI Attached to an IBM 3494 library
with two 3590 H1A drives
Hi All
I have what is probably a very simply question, but then they all are when
you know the answers.
I have a
That's wonderful. Just the kind of info I was after.
Many thanks indeed
Farren Minns
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Hi All!
I'm in a similar situation as Joe.
So, if I make backups from a client with different node names bounded to
different management classes, I can set different retension policies for the
same file. I'm right?
In this case, are there two record for this file in the Tivoli DB?
Can
If restoring user profiles is something you do frequently and restore time
is critical, you might consider backing them up to a disk storage pool
that does not migrate to tape.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew
Of course you are right, no delete is necesarry.
Still on the ASR subject, does it use DHCP? I cant find any IP config in
the sif-files.
//Henrik
Mike Dile
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We have what appeared to be a simple problem, we installed a new DB2
server and the backups (API) are slow, like 27 hours to backup a 100GB
database. We have been backing up this database for years from a
different server in less than two hours. The main difference between the
two servers? The
Hi Remco!
Just a thought: have you tried to checkout the volume on the library itself
and label it with search=bulk labels=barcode?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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From: Remco Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Thank you d=for the info. If I can add an pleasant experience we had with upgrading
from 4.1.6 to the D/L Maint pack of 5.1.7 from the TSM FTP site.
The point here is that in the readme (pasted below) is that we actually saw
Significant upgrade db performance. Example before 5.1.7 we
This function is supported only on 3590 and 3592 Fibre Channel tape
drives that are native attached. This function is not supported for
devices that are attached through an IBM San Data Gateway.
I saw this comment in the Atape manual also . . . . it explains the
confusion. The Data Gateway
tsm client is a sun solaris 8 running tsm 4.2.2.1 with tdp/r3 3.2.0.10
(yes, I'm behind on a few things... )
Initially running with
MAX_BACK_SESSIONS 15
BRBACKUPMGTCLASS A35_PR5_A A35_PR5_B A35_PR5_C A35_PR5_D
I saw session 1 use mgmtclass A35_PR5_A
session 2 use mgmtclass
Hi TSMer's,
Please could you assist me, we have been have continuous errors on our
library above and have update all microcode and firmware, but still no joy-
I get the following error:-
11/19/2003 15:11:39 ANR8300E I/O error on library IBM3583 (OP=8401C058,
CC=304,
Thanks, unfortunately the Reclamation Tips guide link is broken.
Milton Johnson
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From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tivoli Field Guides
A lesser-known information source for registered
Yes, we used to get I/O errors on our 3583, although not sure if it was the
same exact OP code. Our fix, we replaced our 3583 with a 3584 after trying
EVERYTHING else, hardware changes, microcode, firmware. We also had many
other errors/problems, along with many other list users to help build our
Dwight,
Why are you using several backup mgmtclasses? Different libraries?
I can't explain this behaviour. But if you want approximately the same amount sent to
each mgmtclass, you can try the following:
MAX_BACK_SESSIONS 15
.
SERVER TSM_1
SESSIONS4
Hi,
CC=304 = changer failure. Key=04 = hardware error. ASC=15 = Position
problem. Was it working before and did you change anything? Either you do
have a hardware problem or TSM isn't able to communicatie with the library.
Last time I had something like this, it was after upgrading TSM. Deleting
Thanks, unfortunately the Reclamation Tips guide link is broken.
I reported it to IBM yesterday morning, but obviously they haven't fixed
it yet. I did Sherlock Holmes work and found that the link is using the
wrong document number. The URL should be:
The TSM Messages manual lists common ASC/ASCQ error combinations.
We've seen change problems in many ways...a dropped tape within the library
that inhibits the robot...the tape is stuck in the slot, check the
tape...there was an upgrade to the actual tape slots themselves that caused
tapes to be
Hello
We are upgrading our TSM to 5.2 and we currently run SQL TDP 2.2..1.* and I
was wondering if there are any compatibility issues???
Thanks
Mike
Mike,
This should work... but be aware that Data Protection for SQL 2.2.1
is an unsupported version of the product. You should obtain
the latest version, 5.2.1. You can go here to get the 5.2.1 version:
Site: ftp.software.ibm.com
Dir:
Check your network interfaces especially if they are set to autonegoiate.
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From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slow DB2 backups and IBM says I'm too old for support.
We have what
This fix worked for me.
I got nailed by this on my servers.
Sessions intermittently slowing to a crawl. Noticed it first with our nt 4.0
clients, then I would see it in TDP for exchange clients and W2K clients.
But not always the same servers each day. Got lucky with the ITSM level 2
guy, he
Next week I will be upgrading my AIX TSM server to AIX 5.1 ML5 currently
running TSM 5.1.1.6 32bit. I also want to switch from 32 to 64bit. I know
that I need to uninstall tivoli.tsm.devices.aix43.rte. Also that I need to
install/upgrade TSM 64bit. To accomplish this do I need to unistall 32
Can anybody explain how to determine what tapes to send for temp onsite storage, how
to make sure you have enough scratch in the library and how you are monitoring for a
load request.
Our library is almost full with a new frame due in late December. Reading Tivoli's
documentation on Managing a
We've been pretty happy with running TSM 5.1.1.0 and also
5.1.5.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10.
That's where we have sat on our 8 TSM servers for about the last
12 months. We have some 'dsmserv' processes that have not needed to be
restarted in over 9 months (it sure makes the session
We were at 5.2.1.2 briefly...no problems during that time. Currently at
5.2.1.3 and seem to have a problem labeling ACSLS tapes...still early
in the investigation though.
DB change from 5.1.6.1 to 5.2.
At 10:01 AM 11/19/2003, you wrote:
Then a week or 2 after that I will be upgrading TSM. Is
Keep in mind, this system has been working flawlessly for at least two
years, which is why we don't touch it. We have enough headaches, we don't
need to create our own. :-)
At the time we noticed this problem we were doing tests before putting
this machine into production, a backup test is
Interesting. We've had no such problems.
One 3583 bought in April, another in July.
Maybe it's a later build; also, these 2 aren't terribly stressed.
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From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, as a matter of fact a DHCP server must be available during the ASR-based restore
process. If one is not available, the restore will fail. This information is in the
documentation.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-Original Message-
From: Henrik Wahlstedt
Lindy,
We are currently seeing a similar issue. Ours is actually with a 3584 LTO library.
A couple questions:
Do you see any errors recorded at the OS level?
In your TSM activity log, do you see tapes get marked unavailable, or read-only
right after the error in your tsm actlog?
What brand of
Server: AIX TSM 5.1.7
Client: Windows version 5.01, TSM client 5.2.1
I am having a very strange problem with a remote Windows box. It is set up
for a schedule, and when the schedule time comes around, the TSM server
attempts continuously to contact the client, but the client never responds.
I
Had this problem recently with a windows 2000box running client v5.1.6, talking to a
server solaris 2.8 v5.1.6.2.
Somehow the wrong tcp/ip address got associated with the client.
Filled in the tcp/ip address and got it resolved.
I'll try and dig up the diagnosis messages from support. Involved
This is exactly what I was thinking. The IP address is filled in on the
query node output, but I think the scheduler has an internal one? I looked
quickly at some of the database tables, but I could not find exactly where
the IP address the scheduler uses is kept..
thanks for the input.
bob
Hello everyone!
At our disaster recovery site we use all offsite tape volumes and do not
use any of the disk storage pools. Our company runs tsm on the mainframe
and does a full volume backup of all of the dasd every Sunday, which is
what they restore at disaster recovery. I was wondering, if
Sure you don't have 2 nodes configured with the same nodename? TSM will
remember the IP/port of the last scheduler task to make contact. Check the
IP address in the messages when TSM was trying to contact the client.
Also, does this client have multiple NIC's and IP addresses? You may want to
Be sure that the server in question is reporting its CORRECT IP address to
the TSM server. I've seen this behavior with servers with incorrect entries
in DNS.
Al
Alan Davenport
Senior Storage Administrator
Selective Insurance Co. of America
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This should work -- we do much the same with our TSM server on AIX for D/R.
When TSM fires up it marks all the disk pools off-line if they cannot be
accessed or are not properly formated.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
This looks like what I saw when a WINDOZE box was renamed in TSM and
DNS. Check the name in the SCHEDULE Service.
At 01:30 PM 11/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Be sure that the server in question is reporting its CORRECT IP address to
the TSM server. I've seen this behavior with servers with incorrect
You can also use the undocumented command show ASMounted.
Example:
tsm: TSM2.USWASH6show asm
Mounted (or mount in progress) volumes:
Volume 2C0469(146693) -- SessId=305, Mode=Output, Use=?, ClassId=2,
ClassName=3590,
IsScratch=True, VolSeqNum=1, Pool=(0), Allocated=False, NextSeqNum=0,
What about query mount?
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what tape is in a drive?
You can also use the undocumented command show ASMounted.
Example:
tsm:
I just spoke with an IBM guy about this topic yesterday. There
are several important steps you need to do before hand:
Pre-Migration Steps
1. Ensure that expiration processing has completed.
This can be done a couple of ways. The easiest I have found is
to run expiration
That's what the post below mine stated, I was just adding one
more option to the list. There is also show ASQueued to see what's in
the mount queue. Just a way to get more detail on what is happening on
the system
Michael French
Savvis Communications
IDS01 Santa Clara, CA
Also,
show library
and if it's in use by a client,
show session f=d
Bill Smoldt
STORServer, Inc.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
French, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what
When you setup the TDP for Domino, the normal configuration for running the
scheduler on win2k is to use the action=Command and run the dominc.cmd file.
As everyone knows this does not provide a return code for backup errrors to
the scheduler, the schedule will appear as completed as long as the
Hi *,
our TSM environment is very slow (backup from the clients and the backup
storage pool from the first to the second server).
So I would like to describe our environment once roughly:
We have 2 TSM server (Version 5.1.8) which runs both on AIX boxes with AIX
5.1. On the first server is an
Are you using RAW volumes or logical, file system mounted
volumes for DB, log, and disk pool? RAW volumes make a HUGE difference.
You should also have your client's NIC's forced to 100/Full (the ones
using fastethernet), don't let them auto negotiate, kill's backup
performance.
Michael
Hi *,
I use on both server logical volumes and jfs-filesystems. All (DB, log and
disk pool) are on jfs-filesystems.
Is it better when I change to RAW devices?
Best regards,
Frank Mueller
French, Michael
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I can't really speak to Aix performance with RAW volumes, maybe
someone else can. I use Solaris on all of my TSM servers and I can tell
a huge difference between RAW and logical. In basic benchmark testing,
it took 4-6 minutes to backup 1 500MB file from the local disk on the
TSM server
The tape driver does the switching from active to standby path. Tsm doesn't
know anything about the paths it just sees the device /dev/rmt*
I have 4 3590E driver with dual fiber attachments. Although you must be
using IBM SAN adapters to user this functionality or the aix server will see
an rmt
The Tuning guide recommends (for AIX servers) using raw LVs for db and log
vols only. They recommend using JFS for stgpool volumes.
..Paul
At 08:28 PM 11/19/2003 +0100, Frank Mueller wrote:
Hi *,
I use on both server logical volumes and jfs-filesystems. All (DB, log and
disk pool) are on
Make sure file system caching is off for JFS filesystems- and consider running
vmtune on aix. We have the following parameters that made a tremendous
difference. I would suggest testing in a test environment first if you have the
option:
vmtune64 -p 10 -P 20 -s1 -W16 -c8 -R256 -F512 -u25 -b2200
Hi Lindy
I'm not too sure if the situation was the same but I experienced
that error as well and it was just after I updated TSM to the latest
patches. The catch was I also updated the tape drive library drivers
within windows.
Do you see (on your 3583) the computer with a key icon in the
Hi,
We currently have an ATL library with dlt drives. We have decided to switch
our offsite storage vendor. Come to find out we need to put their barcode
on the dlt tapes. We would prefer not to replace what we currently use, but
due to needing to track both numbers for recall if we don't. So
John,
You should be able to modify the scripts so that the call to
DOMDSMC does not use the start /B command. So , for example,
... instead of this:
start /B domdsmc selective * /subdir=yes /logfile=domssch.log
domsel.log
... use this:
domdsmc selective * /subdir=yes /logfile=domssch.log
Just to stray a ~little~ off-topic
I'm interested in the vmtune64 command you are using. I recently
migrated a host to aix5.2 and am running it in 64-bit mode, but still
only have the vmtune command, not vmtune64...
root:# lslpp -w /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune
File
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ lslpp -w /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune
FileFileset Type
/usr/samples/kernel/vmtune bos.adt.samples File
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
We currently have an ATL library with dlt drives. We have decided to switch
our offsite storage vendor. Come to find out we need to put their barcode
on the dlt tapes. We would prefer not to replace what we currently use, but
due to needing to track both numbers for recall if we don't. So their
Guys (and gals),
Is there a way to migrate node information (backup data, backupsets etc)
between TSM servers? I have two identically configured TSM servers (4.2.3.0
on AIX) on the same network backing up around 1000 servers between them. As
some of my nodes are holding more data than others, I
Hey Graham,
For Backup and Archive data, yes, you can use EXPORT NODE - but because
you are on v4.x of TSM, you'll have to export it to a DEVCLASS and IMPORT
NODE on the other side. (That devclass can be a FILE devclass, so with
some NFS, you can do it via a file system.)
With TSM v5.x, you can
Look at the help on export node:
EXPORT NODE (Export Client Node Information)
Use this command to export client node definitions or file data to
sequential media.
Each client node definition includes information such as:
* User ID, password, and contact information
* Name of the
Graham,
Export/Import node might be your best bet for what you are trying to achieve.
I'm not sure if that method will carry the backupset information along with
it, but you have the option of using DEFine BACKUPSET to make the
backupsets available on the destination server.
From the online TSM
I'm at a DR exercise and have discovered that many of the files that we needed
recovered were in an unavailable primary storage pool. What seems to have happened
was that a few weeks prior to the exercise we reorganized into three storage pools;
one with a vaulted copy storage pool for servers
Joe,
Is the include statement correct? Is it possible that I've gotten
burned because (maybe) all the files haven't rebound?
Run the Q INCLEXCL on the client to see that it is getting the INCLEXCL
options that you have specified.
Also remember, that REBINDing, does NOT move data between
Hi
During a client restore I got errors to restore some files and the restore
freeze
The error is about the tape:
11/19/2003 12:41:43 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive SRV4
(/dev/mt6)
(OP=LOCATE, Error Number=5, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=11,
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