tape mount problem

Hi, While I am trying to restore database, tape stuck in the tape drive and later I unloaded tape and kept in some slot in the library. Now when I am trying to restore its updating tape to unavailable and restore fails. I am thinking TSM lost address of tape after I placed tape manually in the

Re: tape mount problem

Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muthyam Reddy Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: tape mount problem Hi, While I am trying to restore database, tape stuck in the tape drive and later I unloaded tape and kept in some slot in the library. Now

Re: tape mount problem

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muthyam Reddy Sent: March 10, 2005 12:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tape mount problem Thanks for your quick response. Is there any way we can find original place where it was. Yes I know auditing going to fix all these problems but its time

Re: tape mount problem

information. So, if the library doesn't know, TSM can't know. You may have to physically remove the tape from the library and then run a TSM checkin process. Regards Steve Steve Harris resting as the actors say Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Muthyam Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED

DISK POOL SIZE

** High Priority ** Hi, I am trying to take DB2 offline backup of size 620GB to DISK storage pool to reduce backup window time. I am going to creating DISK pool from SSA drives. Just I want to take a sdvice on what would be the correct size to create disk storage pool to fit 620GB

DB2 offline backups.

** High Priority ** Kind men, As I could not find in IBM docs, I am querying these questions to the experts, In my environment we have a production database size of 550Gb which takes 3hrs for online backup to tape storage pools which is fine for me. When I tried for offline backup on same

SLOW offline backups

** High Priority ** Kind men, As I could not find in IBM docs, I am querying these questions to the experts, In my environment we have a production database size of 550Gb which takes 3hrs for online backup to tape storage pools which is fine for me. When I tried for offline backup on same

DB2 offline backups

** High Priority ** Hi, We have DB2 database of size 530GB and it takes 3hrs time for online backup with 4 tsm drives. When tried with same TSM/DB2 parameters and drives for offline backup it taking 7hrs. I know it should take far less time for offline backups compare to online. I appreciate if

license costs

** High Priority ** Hi , present we are taking AIX/DB2 backups to tsm and whenever I add new AIX client I update server license . Soon we re planning to take NOVEL,NT client backups tsm. Do I need to buy extra license for other client backups, NOVEL and NT? How to check existing License term on

Re: license costs

you backup. If you are running TSM Enterprise Edition, you need IBM part number D51MFLL which lists for just under $500 per CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Muthyam Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/14/2004 12:37 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: tape migration

** High Priority ** Thank You David . muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2004 8:35:05 AM You could mark the Js as readonly, insert the Ks, and do MOVE DATA to move the data from Js to Ks. Actually, I probably wouldn't. I'd mark the Js readonly, insert the Ks and let normal processes take care

tape migration

** High Priority ** Hi , We are planning to migrate Few primary storage pools and all copy storage pools to K-ctridges from J's. Please can some one share best way to migrate J tapes to K tapes. thanks muthyam

Re: J's and K's in 3494

** High Priority ** Hi Steve, Thanks for ur response, I have no idea how much it costs for upgrade drives...but client decided to expand existing tape library. You mean explicitly assign tapes to particular storage pool ? Thank you. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/8/2004 6:14:40 PM Muthyam,

J's and K's in 3494

** High Priority ** Greetings ALL, Soon we are going to expand our tape library(3494) with more slots after we run out of space with existing J' cartridges. We have got some(600) new K' cartridges of high capacity to use along with J'cartridges. I have been asked to use K'cartridges for offsite(I

system refresh..Emergency

** High Priority ** Hi Guys, I have a problem with db2 system refresh from production to quality. I have done this couple of times successfully before in same system landscape. Now I am facing new problem with error message no full database backup image found (I could see from source system) when

Re: system refresh..Emergency

** High Priority ** Hi Steve, Thanks for ur quick response... I have connection to TSM server . db2adutl able to connect TSM but not able to find database full backup images. dsm.opt is just like source system. thank you. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2004 11:04:14 PM if db2adutl isnt

Re: disaster recovery test

** High Priority ** You should find one from volhistory file like 'dbbfull'. You can restore tsm db by two ways..one tape name and 2nd just with time, which is going to search in volhistory file after you set correct paths in dsmserv.opt. good luck muthyam I am currently at a disaster

Re: Simultaneous writes to primary and copy stgpools

** High Priority ** I would check for mounts and where that tapes belongs to when that job is running. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/11/2004 9:25:54 AM Hi, TSMers, My primary LTO tapepools have two copypools, on and offsite as COPYPOOL option for simultaneous writes when migrating data from

Re: Final Backup of Nodes to be deleted

** High Priority ** I think its not possible to delete node having/binding data to one management class(s) . First delete files spaces and then go forwd. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/11/2004 9:35:39 AM Hi All I have a TSM node to be deleted . So will it delete all data pertaining to this

Re: Simultaneous writes to primary and copy stgpools

** High Priority ** check for maximum scratch tapes in copy pool and increase if require also, check for copy pools list on 'copy storage Pool' column in primary storage pool. I am doing for couple of pools in same way. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/11/2004 11:21:13 AM I checked tape mounts

Re: 5.1.5.0 on AIX5.2

] On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Muthyam Reddy wrote: ** High Priority ** Hi, Is there any one running TSM server 5.1.5.0 on AIX 5.2 . I didn't get any problems with tsm clients 5.1.5.0 with version on AIX 5.2 . Please share your ideas on this matrix while I am upgrading to AIX 5.2. thanks muthyam

5.1.5.0 on AIX5.2

** High Priority ** Hi, Is there any one running TSM server 5.1.5.0 on AIX 5.2 . I didn't get any problems with tsm clients 5.1.5.0 with version on AIX 5.2 . Please share your ideas on this matrix while I am upgrading to AIX 5.2. thanks muthyam

Re: DB2 Restore Fails

** High Priority ** send an exact error message ... if you can, use db2adutl to list active version backups exits in TSM from db2 and You need to use same time stamp while restoring. Hope this helps. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/15/2004 9:57:07 AM At 03:36 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Hi

Re: Hi Experts.

** High Priority ** you want just archive or backup set ? just for archive, I think you can include these two filesystems backups in dsm.sys file to go specific management class which has archive copy groups... some thing like this .. include /t01/.../* mgmclass muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM Schedule

** High Priority ** have you checked client schedules 'query event' so that you know correct client associations or you can also check 'query association' . did yu check sched program running at ur client (ps -ef|grep dsm). muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/04 06:35PM do you have any nodes

Re: server out of data storage

** High Priority ** did you see actlog file... some times this happened if tsm tries to access half filled bad tape of same node.Try to trace Ur act logfile when this problem happens.Take that error code and get reasons. If necessary check tape device class matching on that particular storage

Re: increasing mount point

** High Priority ** I would suggest Yu to check LIB configuration again and also go through TSM manuals, message reference books for each error.. Thats what I do every timeinternet. muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/03 05:39PM Coyle, Pls see this messages.Is the drive having any

Re: Perl TSM daily reporting script.

** High Priority ** I would like to have one thanks and reagrds /muthyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/03 08:13AM I'm designing a TSM daily reporting script in perl and would like some feedback from anyone who has similar scripts or would like to use one. I've put up a sample of the report that it

Re: unable to start dsmserv

** High Priority ** stop all dsm process and start again.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/03 01:33PM Hello all, I am having a serious problem with tivoli. It is installed in solaris 8. when i start the dsmserv using ./dsmserv i get the following error. ANR7804I Unable to lock dsmserv.lock in this

Re: DB2 high speed SP switch backups dead slow

** High Priority ** Hi Travis, bunch of thanks for ur kind responce .Yesterday changed couple of parameter in sys file at client and I could finish my backup 3 hrs which is 14 before.i could'nt belive that. still I need tune few things in tcp/ip and high speed switch. thanks again. best

db2 logs for different management class

** High Priority ** Hi TSMers, present I am taking my db2 full backups and log backups to the same management class, copygroup. I am using inclexcl file to direct db2 full and log backups to specific management class. How do I take logs to different management class to store long period.

Re: DB2 high speed SP switch backups dead slow.

** High Priority ** thanks a lot for quick responce. we have AIX:4.3.3.0 PSSP version:3.1.1.0 OS kernel:64bit in all SP nodes TSM Tapedrives:IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium Changer. I have set css0 spoolsize,rpoolsize to 16777216 in both client and server. TSM server type:S80, 7017 SP switch

DB2 high speed SP switch backups dead slow.

** High Priority ** Hi TSMers, I hope someone got experiance on same before . This is problem about db2(7.1) backups on high speed switch to TSM .Present we are taking 430Gb of data to tsm which is taking 14 hrs to finish.recently I have changed couple of paramters on 'css' and 'no' to improve

Re: cleint passwd

, 23 Jul 2003, Muthyam Reddy wrote: ** High Priority ** Hi everyone, What is the recommended way to set a client's password after it is forgotten without turning off authentication? I can't seem to find this in any of the docs. when I set UPDATE NODE nodename password, sever scheduled backups

cleint passwd

** High Priority ** Hi everyone, What is the recommended way to set a client's password after it is forgotten without turning off authentication? I can't seem to find this in any of the docs. when I set UPDATE NODE nodename password, sever scheduled backups failing. FYI: in dsm.sys of every

no drives available

** High Priority ** Hi , have anybody got erros like ANR8447E no drives currently available in the library. My backups,background process are aborting because of this problem . but my 'q drives' 'q path' shows all drives are online . I could not find fixed answer in ADSM archive mails

Re: no drives available

Regards, Michael Swinhoe Storage Management Group Zurich Financial Services E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Muthyam Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OM cc: Sent

Re: Offsite Volumes

** High Priority ** we too facing same problem and recently we did manual volume inventory, recoverd 300tapes. please provide if anyone got solution. thanks /mani Marcel J.E. Mol [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/03 05:23PM We see the same thing. Last week we took all ofsite tapes for a disaster test

version 5.1.6.2

** High Priority ** kind men, We'r planning to upgrade TSM from 5.1.0 to 5.1.6.2 this weekend.Have anyone experiened problems with 5.1.6.2. please write ur experiences. thanks in adv regds /mani + This

Re: Undocumented TSM commands!!!

** High Priority ** Chandra.check these. mani [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/03 05:59AM Hi All, Can any one help me in finding complete set of undocumented TSM commands or share with me if you have it, I was searching for these commands for a long time. Thanks, C.R.Chandrasekhar. Systems

Re: total volumes usage in TSM.

-Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: total volumes usage in TSM. q vol only gives storage pool volumes not dbb volumes Muthyam Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/05/2003 10:16:25 PM

total volumes usage in TSM.

** High Priority ** Please this is emergency. Hi , Here I'm trying to count total volumes usage in tivoli by adding q vol+scratch tapes in library wich I got 450 tapes and these are defined in primary,copy storage pools. But in volume history shows 800 unique tapes used in different dates.

changing tape to disk storage pool

** High Priority ** Hi friends, We'r taking backup of DB2, 400Gb to TSM tape storage pools and its taking 14hrs, which is 6hrs more compare to INFORMIX with same setup in TSM. Yesterday I have changed 400Gb backup destination to disk storage pool of size 100Gb with unlimited filesize and

slow DB2 backups

** High Priority ** Hello...one and all subject:Slow DB2 backups on TSM. We have recently migrated our database to DB2 from Infromix on AIX 4.3 and TSM version level 5.1.0.0. Before migration.. Informix database use to take 7 -8 hrs for 400Gb database(RAW filesystems).Now same size of Database

Re: Error Message from Audit library -Reply

once I got same kind of problem. check drives status and paths 1)q drives 2)q path 3)check drives from OS end and its connectivity. rgds [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/02 12:56pm Try the audit again and see if it works o.k. If it still fails, then physically check what tape is in location

DB2 +INFORMIX--------TSM

Good morning, I need help in taking Informix and DB2 backups to TSM from a single node. I have few basic questions like... 1. How to configure sys opt files to accept both backups at a time. 2.Can I take DB2 32 bit instance backup to TSM(documentation shows it should be 64bit). 3.wich way

migrating to DB2

Hi , current :running TSM 5.1 with informix database on AIX 4.3.3 Soon we'r going to migrate database from Informix to DB2 , So need to plan new designs on TSM for DB2. I appreciate if anyone writes some documents and their experiance. thanks in advance. /muthyam

drives not working.

Hi , We got a problem with tapedrives in TSM 5.1 wich is on AIX.We have eight tape drives and all are online when I see from tsmq drive.And all drives are in available status from OS.But TSM is using only drives 1,6,7 from eight drives. Anybody knows why these drives are not functioning?

Re: drives not working. -Reply

there on they started working. BTW I am working on a 3583 L72, just for reference since you did not mentioned the library type model you have. Regards, Camilo Marrugo On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:43, Muthyam Reddy wrote: Hi , We got a problem with tapedrives in TSM 5.1 wich is on AIX.We have eight tape

disk pool size,and total number.

Hi SMers Can anybody write based what we have to decide i)diskpool size ii)number of disk pools. We need to take 500Gb data backup(full) every day and we are using Informix onbar.what size of diskpools makes better performance for 500Gb data. We are using max 4 onbar sessions at a time. we

Re: Tape Reclamation -Reply

Hi we got same problem in TSM client after upgrading. Scan thoroughly and compare dsm.sys,dsm.opt files with other clients. If you find everything normal comment inclexclude line in dsm.opt.Stop and start TSM process. If not check ur communication subsystem running or not. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AIX , TSM and Onbar -Reply

have you set env paths correct for DSMI* from OS end? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/16/02 02:21pm I currently have the following error when invoking the OnBar utility. exec():0509 - 036 Cannot load program onbar because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependant module

signon problem

Hi TSMrs, Problem regarding signon authentication error. When we are trying to take database backup from Informix Onbar on TSM 3.7 level 2.0 getting error in dsmerror.log file like 12/12/01 19:38:06 sessOpen: Error 137 from signon authentication. 12/12/01 19:38:06 ANS1029E

Onbar maping with /etc/aliases.

Hi TSM'rs We got a problem with /etc/aliases file, when we'r stying to start Onbar from client getting error dbm map Alias0 : unsafe map file /etc/aliases. Checked and compared aliases file with other clients, everything looking fine. anybody can give solution for this. we'r using TSM 3.7

drive unavailable

Hi * SMs, I have a drive(/dev/rmt2) proble showing drive unavailable since /09/23/01 09:09:27 I used update commad to make it online, but I could not do. we have total 8 drives in that third drive /dev/rmt2 is giving this problem.Remaining drives working properly. Please can anybody send

Re: drive unavailable -Reply

when check with lsdev -Cc tape showing rmt2 is available. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/01 01:52pm Is the drive available to the operating system? On occasion we've seen the drive as unavailable when we enter lsdev -Cc tape. At 01:36 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi * SMs, I have a

server thred terminated ANR7833S:segment voilation

Hi SMers This morning we got problem with storage manager.For every 15min it aborting the session . Its giving error like 08/27/2001 12:30:02 ANR7833S Server thread 46 terminated in response to program abort. 08/27/2001 13:34:09 ANR7834S Thread 45 (tid 2d40) terminating on signal 11 (Seg

need upgrade suggestions

Hi *Smers, We planning to upgrade TSM 3.7 level 2.0 to TSM 4.1. very soon. We have AIX 4.3.3 Informix DB. Can any body send i)what are the things We have to look for before and after upgrade . ii)Any reference manuals and advices. thanks in adv /muthyam

Tape drive error

Hi Can anybody explain about this problem. A PROBLEM WAS DETECTED ON Wed Jul 11 16:03:36 EDT 2001801014 The Service Request Number(s)/Probable Cause(s) (causes are listed in descending order of probability): 899-000: Medium error reported in sense data rmt0