Hi,
> thank you all for taking time to answer my question. I was
> leaning towards 4.2.x as well, there seems to be too many
> issues with 5.x. -kane
We are running 5.1 on AIX 5.1 for more than half a year now
without any problems. We recently upgraded to 5.1.5.4.
Dirk Kastens
Camilo,
> I have a question, I am running out of physical space on my
> 3583 library, and I was wondering if there is a way of making
> the 12 slots on the I/O station (Bulk), part of the regular
> tape slots.
Yes, I've done this with our 3583. I can't tell you from the
top of my head what exactl
/etc
This will only backup your /etc directory.
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disks than you need without compression.
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. Let's wait and see :-)
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so many questions but the TSM manuals are a bit rare on this
topic.
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anges a full
backup after a defined number of days. So I only need one schedule with
the "backup node" command, TSM looks up the date of the last full backup
of each filesystem and handles the next full backup dependent on the
defined option.
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:
ANR0986I Process 326 for BACKUP NAS (DIFFERENTIAL) running in the
BACKGROUND processed 1 items for a total of 190,263,296 bytes with a
completion state of SUCCESS at 21:02:07. (SESSION: 5777, PROCESS: 326)
But I don't want to evaluate all those messages by hand every day ;-)
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good compression with database
backups (Exchange backups should also work well) but not with normal
user data, like homedirectories or web data.
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"diff full diff
diff" and on every second Sunday with "diff diff full diff" or "diff
diff diff full". So I have full backups every two weeks for each volume.
It works, but I think, TSM should come up with a better solution.
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Hi,
Andy Huebner wrote:
We are about to upgrade TSM from 5.2.2.4 to a version of 5.4 on AIX 5.3.
Is there a stable recommended version? Maybe 5.4.1.2?
We are running TSM 5.4.1.2 on AIX 5.3 for a few weeks now without any
problems.
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to migrate
the data to the new one (what will take some time
for 5 TB)?
What's the best way to keep the old data?
Thanks in advance,
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e the old server to TSM 5.3,
backup the database and then restore it to the new
server?
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ith:
# odmadd en.add
Control the success with the command:
# odmget -q"en_name=tapemail" errnotify
You can change the error class and type to cover your needs. The above
example sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever a
permanent hardware tape error occurs.
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create on big db volume on every disk or
several small volumes? Maybe
hdisk2: db1 + db2 + db3 (20 GB) + log1 (10 GB)
hdisk3: db4 + db5 + db6 (20 GB)
hdisk4: db7 + db8 + db9 (20 GB)
Any ideas are welcome.
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with only db volumes. Or will this layout
degrade performance too much?
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hdisk4: db3 (20GB) + log3 (4GB) -> mirror on hdisk7
or
hdisk2: db1 (20GB) + db2 (20GB) -> mirror on hdisk5
hdisk3: db3 (20GB) + db4 (20GB) -> mirror on hdisk6
hdisk4: log1 (4GB) + log2 (4GB) + log3 (4GB) -> mirror on hdisk7
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entry
field is shown as "8,184". I always received an error after pressing the
"OK" button, until I removed the "," from the number.
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ing volume /dev/rtsmlog3
I have to use the command line and create the mirror manually:
define logcopy /dev/rtsmlog1 /dev/rtsmlog3
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y too wide for my screen when
using Firefox. Everything works great and is sized correctly with IE.
Anyone else notice this yet?
Yes, same for me. I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 and some of the windows are
twice as wide as my screen. Using IE, everything is fine (but who wants
to use IE ;-)
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to get the number of files and the amount of data?
Or does it take too long? If the result is not null you know that the
pools are not in sync.
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ember correctly, that was all we have done. No data were lost.
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Andrew Raibeck schrieb:
Note: This workaround was tested and verified to work with Firefox version
1.07 and IE Tab version 1.0.6.4.
Great, this also works with the new Firefox 1.5 :-)
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Hi,
Paul Zarnowski schrieb:
TSM does not do round-robin allocation
of DB pages across it's volumes. It fills up one, then works on the
next.
Are you shure? I think this only applies to log volumes.
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tted three big volumes, each on a separate disk. If TSM only uses
the first volume until it is full, then I would not benefit from the
separate disk drives to get a higher performance.
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ditdb all three disks were
active at a time, but the read throughput of each disk was degraded to
250 kB/s, what makes 750 kB/s for the whole volume.
That means that the throughput was higher with separated volumes. Or did
I make a mistake?
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the first copy. After completion TSM synchronized
the copies, what took another hour or so.
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. Aus zeitlichen Gründen müssen wir auch das Update auf Version
5.3 verschieben.
Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.
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ool1 f=d" shows "CRC Data: Yes").
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execution:
Executing scheduled command now.
Any ideas?
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VICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE in the
dsm.sys file.
I only have "managedservices schedule" in my dsm.sys. Do I really need
the webclient option? As I said, the first backup always runs. But the
next, one day later, doesn't.
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when the next backup period arrives the tsm server says that
ANR8213W Session open with x.y.z.a timed out. (SESSION: 155)
When I restart dsmcad during this period, the backup immediately starts.
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stead, everything is fine.
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listening on port 47358. Could this be the problem? Do I have to specify
the webports option when I use the dsmcad?
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Herrmann, Boris schrieb:
After setting SCHEDMODE POLLING for this client everything run fine (HINT :
The default for "Queryschedperiod" is 12 hours. Set it to your requirement)
That's a good idea. I'll try setting the schedmode to polling and see if
the backup is running
ms to have solved my problem :-)
Thanks to everyone for their help.
After running the backups with "dsmc sched" and schedmode set to
prompted for years, I didn't know that I had to set the schedmode to
polling when I use dsmcad. The client manual isn't very clear on that topic.
a try.
Nevertheless, the section in the client manual regarding dsmcad is not
well described, IMO.
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nough)."
I'm missing a statement like: "If you use dsmcad to start the client
scheduler, you have to define the webports option on the client".
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to another. I first
deleted all disk storage pools on the old server, made a backup of the
database, restored the db on the new server, and finally I recreated the
disk pool volumes. There's a technote on this topic somewhere on the
Tivoli support side.
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I wrote:
> I first deleted all disk storage pools on the old server,
CAUTION!!! Of yourse, I only deleted the disk pool volumes, NOT the
storage pools themselves.
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thority for the client node to it, the client gui works.
The command line client works without defining an admin.
Is there a fix for that behavior?
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ol volumes before doing
the database backup. And I never had to checkin the libvolumes again,
because I used the volhist file from the old server.
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Windows clients. But I just found out that
the linux java client works, when I set "passwordaccess generate".
Without this option or with "passwordaccess prompt" the connection
always fails if there isn't an administrator id.
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w server. You will need the volume history file so that the
"dsmserv restore db" command will know what tapes to use. You can check
it with "dsmserv restore db todate=today preview=yes"
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Hi,
Can any one suggest what should be a recovery log and db size for the
135TB backup with retention of 90 days?
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have been done without
this step.
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-rmt5, and although I renamed the TSM drives from
DRIVE1-DRIVE6 to DRIVE0-DRIVE5, as soon as I restored the database on
the new server, TSM was running without problems. There were no tapes
missing and all backups and restores were running as if nothing happened.
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Hi,
just wondering if you when creating a new node do create an administrator
for that
node or use some/your admin account for every node ?
No, we do not create admins for the nodes (admin=none).
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Hi,
I've just installed this on a test machine and the Online Information
does not work - I can display the Readmes but when I try to display the
User Guide I get "The page cannot be displayed".
I've no problem with that using the Windows 5.3.3 client.
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Hi Farren,
Farren Minns schrieb:
Hi all
If I want to restore my database ( for example from yesterday), do I need
to re-format the existing dB/log volumes or does the restore do what ever
it needs to do in this regard?
The "restore db" command formats the volumes for you.
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achine the /dev files are included.
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Kevin,
Shouldn't the inactive files that were backed up on 3/2 and 3/16 be expired?
Did you run an "expire inventory" on the server?
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1000_full setting on AIX. Enter the command
"lsattr -R -l ent0 -a media_speed" and look at the values. The nic and
the switch should have the same settings.
Examine the output of the "netstat -v" command for any errors, like CRC
errors. Test the throughput with a tool like netperf
erver. The only
solution that I see is to write a restore script that hides the TSM
password from the users.
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his files to my home
directory. IS THIS A BUG OR DOES IT WORK AS DESIGNED?
I installed 5.3.3.0 clients on Linux.
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Bill Dourado schrieb:
Also how can I find out many cleaning cycles are left on the cleaning
tape ?
q libvol f=d
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ouldn't quite figure out how to do this,
since the inclexcl process will only match once per object
EXCLUDE /.../*
will exclude all files in all directories from the backup. The directory
structure will still be backed up.
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for 5 consecutive days.
The next
backup is taken 3 months later.
What happens to the inactive files?
The inactive files, that are older than 30 days will be deleted from the
backup storage the next time you run EXPIRE INVENTORY on your tsm server.
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plete:
ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 4218 completed: examined
7907625 objects, deleting 1416779 backup objects, 191 archive objects, 0
DB backup volumes, and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered.
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this syntax correct?
Have a look at the client's PREVIEW command. You can also select this
function from the client GUI. You will get a list of all files that
will be included and excluded and the management class to which they
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Hi,
schedmode prompted
If you use a firewall, your clients must use the option
SCHEDMODE POLLING
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and 5.4).
The Unix client manual also states that the GUID is stored in the
directory /etc/tivoli. That's wrong, because it is stored in the file
/etc/TIVGUID.
Where can I find the tivguid command on the client nodes?
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ver and less for any client was much more
accurate in my opinion.
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egistry,
> COM+ DB, Event Log, Registry, System Files and WMI.
Same on our W2k workstations. Users can only backup
their files after creating shares for the local
drives, like "drive_c$". Then these shares appear in
the client GUI and can be backed up. The solution
with the registry k
7;t
be able to recover the files.
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Hi,
> exclude.dir "a:\"
> exclude.dir "b:\"
> exclude.dir "c:\"
> exclude.dir "d:\"
> exclude.dir "f:\"
> include "c:\abc\abc.txt" mgtname
>
> with above nothing works .
Just read the Windows client manual, page 16, "Excluding
directories":
"TSM evaluates all exclude.dir statements first (regar
> That will be a diffícult solution... just use:
>
> exclude "c:\...\*"
> include "c:\abc\abc.txt" mgtname
>
> that will work
Yes, but this only excludes the files. The complete
directory structure of drive c: will be backed up.
Regards,
Dirk
the files in their
homedirectories themselves without doing backups or
creating archives. Networker always had different client
programs for backup and restore.
Regards,
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Hi,
> Well... you are starting a NEW thread without saying as much
> in your subject
> line;;; but, I'll answer anyway --- BUT the details will be left as an
> exercise for the student.
Well, I asked this questions years ago when I started using ADSM.
Now, when I read this topic, it came to my m
Hi,
> I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
> deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
> long'
> message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
> program*.
What about
find ./ -xdev -type f -name "program*" -exec rm {} \;
Hi,
> TCPWINDOWSIZE should be set to 63 on Win2k.
No, that's the recommendation for WinNT4. The maximum
value for Win2k is 64 (see the MS knowledge base article
Q224829).
After we set the values for TCPWINDOWSIZE to 64 and the
TCPBUFFSIZE to 512 the throughput of our Win2k clients
has been incre
Hi,
> I had a user trying to restore a database and found data
> unavailable to
> server. The restore was asking for a volume that was offsite.
> Why wouldn't
> it ask for the primary copy and how do I know what primary
> volume the data
> is on?
You can use an SQL statement, like
select distin
> node_name is not recognized.
>
> ANR2940E The reference 'NODE' is an unknown SQL column name.
>
> |
>
> .V.
> _name from volumeusage where node-name=ABC order by
> volume_name
Seems, that
Hi,
here is an excerpt of the knowledge base article
"Description of Windows 2000 TCP Features (Q224829)".
As I understand, the maximum value IS 64 UNLESS the
RFC1323 option is used. I'm not a network expert, but
why should I set the TCPWINDOWSIZE option to 63?
"The receive window size is determ
Hi,
> 3) Mount file system soft or hard soft
> >>> NEVER mount an NFS filesystem 'hard'... if the NFS client EVER
> looses contact with the NFS server, it will hang and it WILL take a
> reboot to recover.
> >>> By mounting 'soft', if the NFS clinet looses contact
> wi
e yesterday afternoon).
Do you have a separate management class for directories (see
the option DIRMC)? During a restore, TSM first recovers the
directory structure and then the files. If you don't have
a directory mangement class, TSM has to search through your
tapes twice.
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