ith the library(/dev/smcX).
>This should mean that the Qlogic adapter can handle SCSI >> WWN
>translation.
I can confirm this in the Windows environment, as well. We have
connected Qlogic 2200F cards to a FAStT500 for customers without a
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t file. But you can't guarantee it.
As discussed back a month or two ago:
1. Load kill.exe from the appropriate Windows resource kit.
2. Create a preschedcommand line that runs
:\\kill.exe outlook.exe
3. Run the backup. The .pst file will be available for backup.
Those pesky users. How dare they keep Outlook open when they lock the
workstation for the night...
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>stop that, or get it to run in the background?
IIRC,
start /B tdpexcc full (and so on)
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Thus it seems folly to backup Exchange data with a preservation of
more than 3 days.
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event * * begind= endd=
If you want it in script form:
def script backup_check 'q event * * $1 $2 > /tmp/backup_check'
You run it by inputting
run backup_check 04/01/2002 04/03/2002
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that goes to the copy pool that night *has to be* an active
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ccomplish another major problem of technological
advancement--filesystem evolution. Restored data from old-style
filesystems, such as FAT, could be easily migrated to newer
filesystems like NTFS. Such migrated data should be easily moved back
onto fresh storage media.
Hey. Didn't I just d
ard is capable of filling all available
drives with new media. It still only labels one cartridge at a time,
but as soon as it finishes with one labelling, it starts spinning the
next one while the first cartridge rewinds, dismounts, gets put away,
and another cartridge is put into the empty drive.
tabase ID by Domino. (This
usually happens only when: 1) Domino is stopped and restarted, or 2) the
file is defragged or reorganized.)
If you have a legal need to do a monthly snapshot, your best bet is to shut
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into
your DR plans, hire a consultant to help you get it right.
And if your SLAs can't stand significant downtime (> 2-4 hours), then no
backup/restore software will do the job. As our Sister Wanda P. has preached
before, you need to be looking at clustering/real-time
mirroring/
from our Linux friends who had to
contend with the lack of support for ext3 and reiserfs. Set a
virtualmountpoint for each of your filesystems in the dsm.sys option file.
See if that will allow for XFS filesystem backups.
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in which you do your administrative stuff.
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systemobjects, look at
using commands such as BACKUP EVENTLOG, BACKUP REGISTRY, etc. You can find
help files on all these by running your command-line client, and typing the
word HELP at the tsm> prompt.
Others on this list have complained about backing up all the systemobjects
and associated
Afraid not. About the only alternative is to restore the files to a staging
Exchange server, modify the client option file to back things to your
preferred MC, and run a backup of the staging server.
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a more complex issue if you're dealing with Windows client boxes.
You'll have to look at a solution like OTG DiskXtender for non-UNIX clients.
HSM actually doesn't make a lot of sense, in these days where disk space is
not much more expensive than tape space.
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impossible with the thousands of drive/OS combinations possible!) It sounds
like a bug in the tape driver.
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he library
through the I/O station on the door of the library by using the MOVE MEDIA
command that you run from the front panel of the library. (Not to be
confused with TSM's MOVE MEDIA command.)
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> run stg-pool-backups in more than one session parallel..
Easy. Run
update stg migprocess=
All future migrations will be multi-threaded. (This assumes that the primary
pool is a disk pool.) If the primary pool is a tape pool, the backup command
is
backup stg maxpro=
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ide SCSI
cards.
Where did you hear this?
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ers, who could then make use of the library.
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> libv search=yes tries to load the cart into drive to read the label.
Whenever there is a slot in a tape library that is "reserved" for a cleaner
tape, you cannot use TSM to check it in. You will have to insert it per the
library's manual. RTM.
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on this.
Not true.
End of feedback. ;o)
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vels ;o), you can add
exclude /.../*
include.dir /.../*
to your TSM client option file. I know the .dir extension was available in
3.7; I think it works in 3.1 as well. Of course, as with all unsupported
levels, YMMV.
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answers are no and
yes. (If you're willing to bring the databases down for backup purposes,
then of course the answer to both is yes.)
I don't believe there's ever been a TDP or ADSM Connect Agent for Paradox.
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mes from primary volumes?.
Sure. Delete the offending copypool volume. The next time you back up the
primary pool to the copypool, the files that were deleted will be backed up
to the copypool again.
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ty slot is one reserved for a cleaner tape.
Check your hardware manual to see if there's a way to load a cleaner
cartridge through the front panel's I/O station. If there is, and you remove
the cleaner from its present slot and load it by using the library itself,
it'll go in
rom anyway? The error messages will show up, but do not affect the
backup of other files.
Don't waste cycles on it.
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ersion 5 license
files only come in single access. In other words, there is a mgsyslan.lic
file, but not a 5mgsyslan.lic or 10mgsyslan.lic anymore. If you want to
install, say 35 LAN-based client licenses, you run
reg lic file=mgsyslan.lic number=35
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a selected group of .nsf files, and then check the TSM
schedule logs the next morning. A good beer says they've been fully backed
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o (my current unfavorite). Don't back 'em up.
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or solutions are
1) Increase the size of your log (if possible)
2) Run more than one backup of your database each day (incremental or full)
3) Change your logmode to normal (if it's currently in rollforward mode)
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code?
>
>Does anybody know where to find this information?
>And reboot everything is my advise so far! I upgraded 3 3584 so far and no
>problems.
That's interesting. According to the 3584 docs, firmware upgrades must be
performed using software tools only available to IBM CEs. (T
IX) or ntutil (Windows) command to move the cleaner tape
from its slot to each drive. Don't forget to take the drive offline as far
as TSM is concerned before running the media move.
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Jacque Mergens
> Can someone poont me to the FAQ for this list?
As far as a true FAQ is concerned:
http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts
is hands down the best.
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post the includes and excludes you're
trying to use, and what your desired results are.
And, yes, includes/excludes work just fine on 5.1.0.0, 5.1.0.1, and 5.1.1.0.
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a way to restrict bandwidth
> consumption by TSM on Windows 2000 Clients without using router
> configuration.
TSM has no native bandwidth constriction abilities.
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as it 8Mb/sec?) is pretty darned good.
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ither AIX nor
> Sun because of budget constraint, I think. What would be the next best
> choice? I was thinking of Linux. Thanks.
Unfortunately, there is no TSM server for Linux (yet!). If you can't swing
Solaris or AIX because of budget, you've really got no choice but Windows.
option!)
>From the closing-the-barn-door-after-the-horse-gets-out department, did you
ever successflly run test restores on a periodic basis?
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e history references to database backups except
those that have been made in the last two days.
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ds like a job for
audit volume 000987 fix=yes
to me.
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u might consider outsourcing the
work to someone who knows what they're doing and has the equipment to do it;
data conversion of this sort, done by those less capable, would be a
nightmare to unravel later.
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if you regularly restore large numbers of files. However,
backups will be somewhat slower, because you will have to use tape volumes
dedicated to a particular OS's platforms.
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NDOWSIZE set to 64 (assuming 10 or 100Mb Ethernet).
I'm somewhat disturbed that a member of the Tivoli TSM Global Response Team
isn't aware of this.
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if it is physically in the library,
it may have gotten set to an incorrect status (thus the OFFSITE)
designation. Update its status to READWRITE, and you should be good to go.
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nse: See your system administrator.
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ting up RMON?
Sure. Shut down Oracle and back up the data as flat files.
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settings or flaky connections.
If speed and duplex settings are correct, and no other client suffers from
this problem, check your cabling and/or change switch ports.
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, I'd say you're not experiencing anything out of the
ordinary, particularly if you're restoring a TSM client that has been a
long-term client (1 year +). The longer the client has been backed up, the
more scattered the client's files will become.
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ignated for
DISKPOOL.
Run Q STG. Does your DISKPOOL stgpool have a NEXTSTGPOOL designated? What is
the size of DISKPOOL?
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f I had to break down the percentage of causes for screwed-up TSM sites by
the three items above, I'd say lack of #1 causes 33%, lack of #2 causes 25%,
and lack of #3 causes 40%. (The remaining 2% are caused by use of buggy/old
versions of TSM, misconfigured networks/hardware, and other miscell
one tried ? When it will be ?
It's hard to run certification trials on an OS that doesn't even exist in
beta yet. ;o)
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u stripe across the pool disks
for a larger number of read/write heads, but there's nothing but unnecessary
overhead when you RAID 5 it. The diskpool dies? You fix the pool, and you
back up the files again the next night.
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anything
resembling a real backup system. If you can't afford a real library, you
can't afford a real backup system. My experience with multiple environments
calls for a minimum of three drives--two drives for multitape operations,
and a spare in case one drive breaks down.
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cal* maximum. I've seen 35/70
DLT tapes get as much as 100Gb of data in them; I've never seen them get
less than 35GB.
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d I don't seem to be able
> to find a MIB anywhere.
How about adsmserv.mib, in your server subdirectory?
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ape volume "offsite" unless it's a member of a copy pool.
You can make a tape "unavailable", or you can physically check the tape out
of the library (which essentially does the same thing).
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tes that you can't browse through the
contents of a backupset.
I could go on. And probably will.
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s obviates the security risks in having a TSM server in the DMZ.
[I'd suggest using IPX only (instead of IP) for the private network comm
protocol (for additional security), but there seem to be some issues with
using IPX only on the TSM 5.1 server.]
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Mark Bertrand
> Also, one filespace per volume.
One small quibble: a backupset can contain all filesets for a client.
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TSM scheduler.
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n mind that we're supposed to see a true AS/400 client for TSM
sometime this year or early next.
(Never understood how you can build a TSM server for an OS and not have a
client for the same OS.)
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. The LTO's
> lifecycles are much shorter then 3950 and 9840.
If you're counting the number of mounts, keep in mind that an LTO tape can
hold 3 times (or more) the data of a 3590 tape. This results in fewer
mounts, though admittedly slower throughput.
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system objects from TSM, swap some files from point A to point B, and
reboot.
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me discarddata=yes
as long as you know you don't want ANY files contained in that volume. Also,
if you know the server and filespace the unwanted files belong to, you can
run
del filesp type=archive
Warning: this will get rid of all archives for that node's filespace.
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dd 'er up. It won't be exact, but it'll be close (assuming, of course,
that's there's been a recent backup of the node).
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t was the help I got.
Hope
> you'll have better luck.
...and just exactly what was not acceptable about the advice?
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ollowed by
upd stgpool reclaim=100
when you want it to stop. (It will stop sooner than the scheduled time if it
finishes first.)
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btabd.data40
>
> I know that we had some problems with our network in the last two weeks.
> I think that this error is a consequence of a new network-error,
> but I don´t want to be hasty.
A good beer says it was a network problem. Check your errpt output;
timestamps there will closely matc
Also, this doesn't give me a file
> count which is useful for creating unix file systems to get the correct
> number of i-nodes created.
Just a small quibble. Q FILESPACE shows the size of the entire filespace,
but also shows the percentage of that filespace that is occupied by files.
It will be available generally at some date later in
September.
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far as I can tell, there is no way
> to do this using the retention settings or via the TDP client. Any ideas
> other than restoring the data and backing it up again?
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nt to think about
dialing back the number of times a day you do your log backups. Four log
backups a day would reduce the number of restores in the above scenario from
130 to 22.
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x27;m going to avoid the entire issue of "stable" releases vs. "unstable"
releases in the FAQ. Inevitably, a recommended level will blow up on
someone, and we'll get this "*You* said this would work!" pissiness on the
list. It's best to avoid this, I think. Read the APAR
ing of both an OS/400 client and a Linux86 server
"sometime in 2002".
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d faster throughput are all benefits of such a
move.
4. Use the DIRMC option. Sending directory structures to a disk-based pool
makes restore somewhat faster. (How to do so is a lengthy discussion; Read
The Fine Manual.)
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eeling is that TSM 4.2.1 does not yet support this latest version of RH Linux.
Say rather that the Linux client doesn't support ext3 filesystem
formats (yet).
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And let me add that the state of the diskpool is not reported to the
server until after the migration is finished; thus, the client backup
isn't aware of the diskpool empty space until that point. One more
reason not to set the diskpool's low-water mark too low...
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er service), and then you take steps to make it
cluster-aware.
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onic offsiting? If there's a tape drive
or tape volume bottleneck in conjunction with the redo log backups,
there is probably a need to review the resources you currently have,
with a thought toward increasing those resources.
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e clients do their
first backup after the volume deletion, they will just back up the
missing files again. Your biggest window of vulnerability will be a
few hours.
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ersion retained for 7 more days or for 21 more days?
The retain only version's clock doesn't start running until it does
into effect. Hence, the answer is "21".
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window.
Here's a test to make sure. Have her open the command-line backup
client, and type "i" (without the quotes). She'll get the incremental
backup, not the full one.
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don't you publish that script for us here? The wait=yes should
guarantee that the dbs run should finish before it goes to the next
step in the batch file.
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rver and have available first thing
in the morning.
Warning warning. RTFM.
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ick-level")
restores. What non-TSM backup apps use to get around this is (usually)
the Exchange messaging API, which was *not* built for backups/restores
and which are incredibly slow and buggy when used for such.
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of running a monthly full backup of some clients, create
backupsets of them. This has the added advantage of not requiring
another data pull across the network.
2. Failing that, create a script that locks out the offending nodes
during the monthly backups. Timing may be a little tricky with this
e.
If business requirements are *not* set in concrete, then rethink your
prohibition on backupsets. They are quite a joy to create and use (as
long as you track them carefully).
I would bet a really good beer that none of your users will *ever*
need to retrieve a file that's more than a week old.
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:38:51 -0500, it was written:
>Where would I find the 4.2.1.15 client ? I looked in LATEST and the
>"latest" is IP22373 ! Is this the .15 version ?
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client
/v4r2/Windows/WinN
eel you can shut it down for
good.
Moving Notes files from one Notes server to another across OS
platforms is an exercise left to the student. ;o)
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oupwise app during archiving? If not, the fact
that Groupwise keeps a lot of its files open would cause multiple
retries on backups and archives.
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he resultant flat files
should back up just dandy with the b/a client.
(You don't really want to use the TDP agent for Notes anyway. The API
that Tivoli and other backup systems were given to use by Lotus was
*not* made for backups and restores; as a result, the TDPN app had a
very poor track record.)
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store logs, but instead have just what you note.
>Repeatedly
>pointing this out to IBM and Tivoli has resulted in no action,
>presumably
>because this has been determined to not affect revenue. Maybe in V5?
Easy.
system_prompt > dsmc i > //adhoc.log
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1:15.. and is still running at 8 in the morning..
>I usually have to stop it manually..
You can run resourceutilization at a setting greater than the default
(2) to get multiple backup threads running. That would speed things
up. If that's not an option, you need to consider more resource for
backing up data that needs more resource.
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;m curious; what kind of library was it?
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;re attempting to use TSM in a situation where you've
got *way* too few tape resouces for the amount of data you're
handling. I think it's presumptious to assume that TSM should be
called upon to handle a situation that shouldn't exist in a properly
configured and resourced system.
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