EMC has had the Centera platform around for many years, and they
always try to steer people away from trying to use the Centera for
purposes outside of it's intended design.
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ll it. It will configure the library
device and all the drives. It looks like you have used the correct
device names to configure the library path and drives. Once you get the
driver issue straightened out, it should work.
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Since you said you are going to restore an entire filespace, you can
issue the "query filespace" command to find out how large the filesystem
is, and the percent full, which will tell you the amount of data to be
restored.
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customers, I don't think asking about it in this forum is completely off
the subject.
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Anyone u
serves, you can get more restores going in parallel if
they are on smaller tapes.
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eck out tapes with a status of Full, and a high
pct_utilized, because they won't come up for reclamation for awhile.
I hope you can get an additional frame soon, because TSM is much
easier to manage if you have enough room in the library.
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nd products with good
hardware support capabilities. Consider the costs/benefits of what each
vendor offers, not just in price and performance, but in support.
Because one day your are going to need it.
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If
another client is sending zillions of files, but performing very slowly,
maybe that client is creating a lot more traffic to the database, and
that is where your bottle neck. In other words, different clients can
be used to show what part of the TSM server is the slowest performer.
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backup runs just as fast across the
LAN is it did directly to tape, so we will probably just leave it that
way.
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but
I don't think it should be the culprit for our problem with tape drives
going into Reserved status.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Urgent - Library Master mount queue breaking
down, tapes going into RESERVED status and never getting mounted
From
server was hung. We couldn't log in to it, but it wasn't down. Just
had a blank screen. So we rebooted it. But four hours later we were
back in the same position, with 80+ Reserved tape drives, and the
lan-free was not doing anything that we could tell.
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gun, yet.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Urgent - Library Master mount queue breaking
down, tapes going into RESERVED status an
.
If anybody has any advice on how to tune the Library Master to allow
it to support a greater number of requests at once, please let me know.
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ight to
6.2.1.1, I am happy to do that, but I would like to have some confidence
in the upgrade path before I make my recommendation.
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AR where
the default setting changed at some version of 5.5.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 PROBLEM
From: Richard Rhodes
would be worth checking to make sure that all the paths on the
LIbrary Clients point to the correct paths. I have some scripts to
automate this in AIX. If anyone thinks this will help them, I will make
them available offline.
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Of
and the Open
fails, it probably means you have selected the wrong Library Client, and
it is being stopped by the SCSI Reserve set by a different Client.
This has solved Reserve conflict problems for us in the past, and it is
far easier than deleting and recreating all the tape drives everywhere
decision about that, based on your workload.
If you are doing this in an AIX environment, I have some ksh scripts
I have written to rename the AIX logical devices to make it easier to
manage in a TSM library sharing environment. I can share those offline.
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Original Message
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN
From: "Bruce T. Harvey"
Date: Fri, May 28, 2010 11:25 am
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIS
Actually, Lindsay, we'd count 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110... :-)
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But it doesn't look like it includes a
driver, just diagnostic tools, which won't solve my problems, since
people have been telling me I need the driver.
If HP doesn't supply one for their own product, where am I supposed to
get one?
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I guess I can just write a script to monitor it and perform the
"backup db" when the filesystem gets close to full, but since this is
supposed to be an automatic feature, it seem like something is wrong
here.
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ny controls. We have seen it 98% full, and
gave up and performed the 'backup db' manually. Can anybody give me
more details than the manuals have about how this works and how to
control it?
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up and performed the 'backup db' manually. Can anybody give me
more details than the manuals have about how this works and how to
control it?
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we upgraded
RedHat from 5.2 to 5.4.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for
TSMscsi tape
have anything to do with our
problem:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320763
Any insight would be appreciated.
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seen a problem like this, and can give us some insight?
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one
directory. Is this going to become a problem as they add more and more
load to this instance? If TSM has lots of separate directories and they
are across multiple luns, does TSM do it's database I/O differently?
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Cell:
has often answered
how-to questions about configuration issues. So perhaps they are trying
to make up for the lack of good manuals.
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e pressing your window, you might have
justification for some engineering improvements.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] mediaw
at were in "Retry Dismount
Failed" state. After just a few minutes, the "Retry Dismount Failed"
state cleared up on the Library Master. Everything's been fine since.
Thanks a bunch!
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oing to delete all the paths and drives for these 5
drives, and redefine them (if I can). Then if that doesn't fix it, I
will post again.
What a pain this has become!
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serve still set. When I try to configure a
path for it now, it gives me:
ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive
EPC-LTO1-006.
How do you clear the SCSI reserve in a virtual tape drive? I may have
to reboot the whole EDL to do it.
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The
hat isn't working.
FYI, every once in a while, the 'Retry Dismount Failure' will change to
'Dismounting' for a few seconds, then goes back to 'Retry Dismount
Failure' again. So TSM is obviously trying to do something to clear it.
Can anyone suggest a procedure for
eline" for calculating what a "fair"
capacity-based license would be. This sounds like to me like everybody
will end up paying a different price for TSM, depending on their mix of
TSM clients when they establish their "baseline", and what kind of
negotiators they are.
B
st you could determine is the outside window of how many days they
might still be around, based on the number of days in the policy. But I
am still not sure why it is useful to run such a report?
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re going to replace it in the future.
Can you tell us why you think it is necessary to predict what files will
be expired, or when? Since new backup data will be coming in
continuously, is it really important to know?
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You can always use tapeutil to load the drive or library firmware. It
still has to be done one at a time, but is MUCH faster than the GUI
version; only a couple minutes per drive.
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tedious, however,
because upgrading them all at once via the Web interface is about the
speed of upgrading one.
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down to 18GB.
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Original Message
Subject: [ADSM-L] Archive completed but not big enough.
From: Timothy Hughes
Date: Tue, April 06, 2010 8
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Original Message
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] Using tapeutil to examine
cleaning tapes
From: Marcel Anthonijsz
Date: Fri,
them, but they
don't show slots that have cleaners. I suppose this is by design, but I
can't imagine why.
Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or
similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are
left?
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the logic in this?
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e cleaning tapes cost $50. But the data on the tapes might have cost
millions to produce. Why take such a risk?
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this correctly?
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Subject: [ADSM-L] 5.5 -> 6.2
From: Fred Johanson
Date: Thu, March 04, 2010 4:18 pm
To: ADS
eps aren't taken to touch each of those files to get the datestamps
right again, or restore them from MYCLIENT's last good backup to be
sure.
Which brings me back to, why use a production server for this sort
of testing? Wouldn't a test server be safer?
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anager, which
has a lot of features, but will jack up the price.
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Subject: [ADSM-L] alternatives to TSM due to license costs
From: woodbm
Date: Wed, December 30, 2009 1:11 pm
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Hello
I suspect this is going to be a boneheaded question, but that never
stopped me before, so here goes:
The online TSM 6.1 installation manual contains the following
statements:
Note: The Administration Center Version 6.1 is only compatible with the
Integrated Solutions Console Advanced Edition Vers
all day Thursday, until Jimmy's post on
Friday morning. Kind of odd, but isn't necessarily a problem unless the
administrators of the listserv confess to something.
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th 30-50GB databases the Expire Inventory and
Database backups are also 1-2 hours. If we let those Windows TSM
databases grow to 225GB they would not perform nearly so well, so we
have to watch how big they grow.
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en; I don't know.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.4 or 6.1
From: Mehdi Salehi
Date: Sat, October 10, 2009 10:09 am
will
choose proven and reliable any day.
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.4 or 6.1
From: Mehdi Salehi
Date: Sat, October 10, 2009
and 5.5 server, we still had TSM
5.2 and 5.3 legacy clients, and they still backed up (and more
importantly) restored OK until 6-9 months later when we finally got them
all upgraded.
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u can call from the product to find out what you are using.
Compliance would be easy.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Per ter
aller customer has no leverage for expecting special
pricing.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Per terabyte licensing
From:
t.
You could find out your whole TSM license footprint in 10 minutes. The
first time we had to it counting PVUs, it took us two months.
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place.
Ron Broucek
North America Tivoli Storage Software Sales Leader"
So if he says it is just a rumor, then how do you know IBM is offering
both? Do you have this from a reliable source within IBM?
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ng deleted. At first I thought that I was
misunderstanding the action for 'delete vohist type=rpfile', but I also
issued the same command from the target server mdctsm02, and I got the
same result. They are not being deleted.
Can anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong?
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ore data back to BEFORE the previous month's closing. Many customers
agree it is worthwhile insurance.
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site outage. To
that end, the Centera has built-in replication software so it can
replicate seamlessly to another Centera in another location. That is
the best way to provide a DR copy of the data.
We have Centeras at our company, and that is how we do it.
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email the secretary the output of 'q
drmedia wherestate=vaultretrieve' so she knew which offsite tapes were
to come back from the 'vault', and 'q drmedia wherestate=vault' so she
could verify which tapes were supposed to be offsite.
I hope this helps. If you need mo
awk '{print $2}'`
echo
return 0
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|re
up ~1700
clients, and about 15TB per day. If we wanted to turn client
compression off at this stage of the game, we would really have to beef
up the memory and I/O performance of our TSM servers, or they would be
totally buried.
*** RANT MODE OFF***
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further, but
not trouble the whole listserv with the particulars.
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will have to decide. If you are trying to build a
disk-only or disk-mostly backup environment, and have plenty of CPU and
memory, and consider disk space real-estate your big bottleneck, it may
well be worth the tradeoff.
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Of
multaneous tape mounts you can have problems and you may have to bump
up LIBSHRTIMEOUT in dsmserv.opt if you are using libarary sharing. But
in a file-type storage pool you don't have that concern.
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mail, etc.
Like you, we have mainly AIX TSM servers, but also a handful of
Windows ones as well. Cygwin has worked well for the scripts we needed
to write for the Windows servers.
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ld backups to expire before you retire the old backup
server.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Change TSM Platform
From:
ne if you have not done the firmware and
driver updates before, and need any assistance.
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Backu
David,
If you want to email me individually, I can give you a line on both
issues. We just retired a 3494, a 3584, and thousands of 3590 and 3592
cartridges about a year ago.
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product
to get to know just to support this one facet of their DR plan. I would
have trouble arguing it was the "best" solution, since there are at
least two other viable ways that have already been suggested that don't
cost anything, and use the tools already at Wanda's dis
esn't have speed or ease-of-use in mind.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries...
From
al flaws in this? It is a lot like your original
idea, but typing the mounts and unmounts on the faceplate of four
different TS3100's would drive me buggy. Hopefully this would be less
tedious.
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o it depends on the scale of problem
you are trying to solve.
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size
From: Nicholas Rodol
a") virtual tapes as they age, so
that we are sure we always have enough scratch tapes for our next
backups.
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nt of backups you
do each day.
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM vs Avamar
From: leontom
Date: Wed, June 24, 2009 6:01 pm
To: A
ts
today have a healthy paranoia about the reliability of hardware, and
protect themselves accordingly.
So when evaluating dedupe products, be sure to ask questions about these
sorts of features. Often times, the low end products don't.
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s away from the
impression they gave during this presentation.
These are isolated incidences, and things are not alway like this with
EMC. I am just saying, do your best to verify what you hear, or test it
for yourself.
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Office:
s going to be a
nightmare. Sometime in the third quarter when VMWare comes out with its
next version of VCB, it is supposed to be much better.
6) It is not an Archive solution, so if you have multi-year long-term
archive requirements, you will be needing a separage solution for those.
Best Re
nt action, even when the regular
client schedule was working. The fix was to restart the client service
one more time after the client action was scheduled.
Let me know if any of these ideas yield fruit.
(By the way, my nephew and his wife are both grad students at Ball
State. They say it is a
'schedmode polling' instead of 'prompted', you won't get anything in
the activity log, because the TSM server is content to wait until the
client happens to check to see if a new schedule has been created for
it.
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